THE WHITE HOUSE QUEENS.
WOHE5 WHO HAVE KEIONES I IT THB
XXECUTIVB MASSIOW.
Tbelr I laborious lntli Tlta Jrwth
itnd lcTolopnifii f KnclrU In
Unrnre in th ivrniiirnt.
The duties of the mistress of the
White House are quite laborious, and it
It probable that socioty feels as anxious
to know who it shall be nstho individual
herself to assume those duties, writes a
Washington correspondent. The long
hours of reception in which she must
atand and shake by the hand the rows
of nameless and unknown visitors; again,
those occasions on which she must sit at
state dinners and say pleasant nothings;
the weary worn appeals for oflico which
are made not alone to the President, but
to her by privileged friends as well ; the
annoyances which her public station in
volves, and the self-asserted privileges of
the press, all tend to make the position
an uncomfortable one.
Of course there are many pleasant fea
tures and many which gratify person
ally, and it is hardly po.ssiblo that any
who know the details of its duties and
pleasures would reject it or seek to do so
if it were offered. Yet there have been
those among Presidents' wives who re
gretted that their duties took them within
the Whito House.
Arthur is the fourth President who has
entered the AVhite House a widower.
His sister, Mrs. JIcElroy, has been the
acknowledged mistress of the White
House during his term, and is quite accom
plished in a social way. Very retiring in
her ways, and without ambition for pub
lie recognition, however, she has been
seen little by Washington generally and
has only been known personally to a cir
cle extremely limited. The women of
the "White House, tracing back to the be
ginning, form an interesting chapter or
series of chapters in the history of, cot
alone ! Washington society, but of the
. nation.
Under Garfield's administration the so
cial features had scarcely developed.
Under Hayes the White House was
open to all society, thousands attending
the receptions, and lunch-tables were
spread at the evening entertainments for
many hundreds.
Under General Grant the Whito House
wag gay, but there was not that democrat
ic freedom which marked the regime of
Mrs. Grant's successor as mistress of the
White House.
Another term back, Mrs. Johnson, wife
of Andrew Johnson, was mistress of the
White House. She was an invalid, and I
personally entertained little, receiving
her visitors in her chair. Her daughter,
Martha Patterson, wife of Senator Pat
terson, entertained in her stead, renovat- j
ing the war-stained, tattered habiliments j
of the mansion with rare taste upon the
small allowance of $30,000 which Con
gress made for that purpose.
Mrs. Lincoln, who preceded, was mis
tress of the White House in a time of
great turbulence and national tribulation,
and there is small wonder that the recol
lections of her time there are not agree
able ones to those who were there during
that period. An ambitious woman, with
little experience outside of a country
town when called there, deprived of the
counsel of her husband by the constant
attention to public affairs which his du
ties required, stricken with grief during
the years of her stay by the loss of her
favorite son, Willie, the painful expe
riences of her time in the White House
culminated with the assassin's shot,
which was heard around the world.
Preceding Mrs. Lincoln, Harriet Lane,
the adopted daughter of James Buchanan,
who was the only bachelor President,
gave to Washington society one of the
most brilliant social administrations it
has ever had.
Mrs. Pierce, her predecessor, was a
sensitive, shrinking women, who had
seen her son killed by a railroad acci
dent but a short time before her arrival
at the White House, and who, during her
stay there, attended to the social duties
only because they were duties.
The next in order, tracing back, is
Mrs. Fillmore, who was more strongly
marked as a literary woman than any
since Abigail Adams. It was her taste
for books which established the library
now in the White House, her husband
having, through her solicitation, asked
of Congress and obtained an appropria
tion of $30,000 for a White House li
brary. No sadder woman ever reigned mistress
of the White House than the wife of Presi
dent Taylor. She had accompanied her
husband in all his war experience, car
ing for him in camp and counseling
with him upon the field. During the
presidential contest she prayed daily for
Clay's election. "It is a plot," she said,
"to deprive me of the comforts of a
borne, which I had expected to enjoy
now that the war is ended." She came
to the White House only as a matter of
duty, her daughter, Betty Bliss, being
pushed to the front to bear the burden
as mistress of the establishment. When
her husband died within the walls of
the White House she was heart-broken,
and during the two remaining years of
her life never mentioned the White
House unless necessity compelled.
Mrs. Polk, who preceded Mrs. Taylor,
still lives in the city of Nashville. She
is the only woman who has ever held the
position of private secretary to the Presi
dent, she having filled that position
through choice during her husband's
term. She was a woman of great ability,
quite as familiar with the affairs of State
as har husband, and even more bo as to
details. ''Sarah knows where it is,"
was President Polk's customary remark
when any document or book wanted.
She did not ever neglect her social duties,
and was spoken of by an English lady as
not being surpassed in beauty, style or
dignity by any of three queens whom
she had seen.
Under Tyler the White House had two
mistresses. His first wife died there
during the early part of his administra
tion, and her successor, Miss Garner, of
New York, afterward became known as
the bride of the White House, being
married to President Tyler in the presi
dential mansion.
Mrs. Harrison never occupied the
White House as its mistress, her health
having prevented her from coming here
with her husband, whose death followed
a month later, bafore her arrival.
Van Buren was a widower when he
entered the White House ; his daughter
was its mistress.
Jackson wns also a widower when he 1
entered the White House, having become !
so but a few months previous, and under (
the most painful circumstances. His
wife, who was a beautiful, centlo and
trustful woman, married in her early
years injudiciously and had been di
vorced, afterward marrying Jackson.
During his campaign the tongues of par
tisan malice did not spare even Mrs.
Jackson, but her husband had spared
her, keeping from her the newspapers
which contained these attacks. After
his election, however, sitting in her room
in a hotel at Nashville, whither she had
pone to prepare for her journey to Wash
ington, she overheard in an adjoining
room the tongues of gossipers detailing
the slanders which the press had pub
lishod regarding herself. The agitation
brought upon her by this caused an at
tack of heart disease, and in a few hours
sho was a corpse.
Mrs. John (.jumpy Adams, the wife of
Jackson's predecessor, gave to Washing
ton a more brilliant social reign than it
had ever known, provoking Mr. John
Agg, the first short-hand reporter ever
in Washington, to the production of his
famous poem, a couplet of which runs
thus:
Belles and matrons, maids and madams,
All are gone to Mrs. Adams'.
Her reign was quite in contrast with
that of her predecessor, Mrs. Monroe,
who was the daughter of a British olli
cer, and little given to social enjoyments.
Her predecessor, Mrs. Madison, is spo
ken of as the only woman of social
genius ever occupying the White House.
Her reign there was, of course, brilliant.
Jefferson, who preceded Madison, was a
widower when ne entered the Whito
House. He was not a believer in social
life as it then existed, and gave few
levees or entertainments. His daughter
presided at those few which he did give,
and Mrs. Madisson, the wife of his secre
tary of State, occupied the place of chief
lady at the White House at the state
dinners.
Abigail Adams, wife of President
Adams, who preceded Jefferson, was
the first mistress of the White House.
She dried her clothes in the great east
room on wash day, but was, for all that,
a remarkable woman.
rostolllce Figures.
The forthcoming annual report of the
postmaster general will, says a Washing
ton letter, show an increase of 12,000,
000 in the number of postage stamps sold
during the past year over the sales of the
preceding year. This will bring the
total number of postage stamps sold
during the year up to about 1,215,000,
000, or an average of twenty-four each
for the population of the country
during the vcar. There were, in
addition to "this, about 220,000,000
stamped envelopes, bringing the total
up to nearly 1.500,000,000. Add
ing 375,000,000 postal cards, which will
be shown to be about the number used
during the year, will bring the total
mail communications of the year up to
1,800,000,000 in. round numbers, or an
average of about thirty five letters or
postals each during the year for the
whole nation.
Probably the estimate of thirty-five ii
too high, for it is based upon the figure
of the last census, which make the popu
lation 50,000,000, to which should now
be added 6,000,000 or 8,000,000, so that
the average in the number of letter,
would probably dro" to thirty-three, or
something in that i. .uity.
The annual statement of the Dead
Letter Branch will contain the usual in
teresting facts regarding the work of
absent-minded people and bad writers of
the country. The number of these
amount to four and a half millions. Of
these about twelve thousand were mailed
without any address and nearly two hun
dred thousand without stamps. Half a
million are from other countries whose
owners cannot be found. Foreign dead
letters are returned to the countries from
which they come. Those originating in
our country, and whose owners are not
found, are opened.
At the postoflice is a museum made up
of the articles found in these letters, and
it is a curious one. It contains every
thing from money down to a pair of dirty
socks. The money amounts to nearly
$40,000 for the year, while the drafts,
checks, notes, etc., amount to $1,500,
000. The number of these dead letters
containing photographs runs up to thirty
five or forty thousand a year, and those
containing articles of value of various
sorts amount to nearly 800,000 yearly.
A Natural Soap Mine.
On Smith's Creek, in Elko county,
Nev., there is a most remarkable
stratum of steatite resting horizontally in
a steep bluff of volcanic matter which
flanks the eastern side of Smith's Creek
Valley. The stratum of steatite is from
three to ten feet in diameter. It is easily
worked and is a veritable soap mino. In
fact, the farmers, cattle men and sheep
herders in that region all use the natural
article for washing purposes. Chemi
cally considered, this peculiar clay is a
hydrated silicate of alumina, magnesia,
potash and lime. AVheu the steatite is
tirst dug from the stratum it looks pre
cisely like immense masses of candle
soap, the mottling element being a small
percentage of iron oxide. Professor
Stewart has received a sample of this
natural soap prepared by a firm in Elko
who have undertaken to introduce it into
the market. It is similar in appearance
to the Castile soap sold in large bars.
Nothing is added to the mineral but a
trifle more alkali and some scenting ex
tracts. Its detersive qualities are as
powerful as those of any manufactured
soap.
The Two Nymphs.
Two nymphs named Luck and Ill-luck,
who lived in a wood, wished to knov
which of them was more beautiful than
the other. They went to a fox in the
wood and asked him for his opinion. He
turned to them and said: ''I can give no
opinion unless you walk to and fro for a
while. So they did. Quoth the fox to
Luck, "Madam, you are indeed charm
ing when you come in." Quoth he to
Ill-luck, "'Madam, your gracefulness is
simply inimitable when you go out."
War is, fortunately for humanity, a
very expensive matter. A real, live.
Whitehead torpedo costs in England
about $1,800 and torpedo practice at
$1,800 a shot is something almost too
costly for even long-puised nations lilts
England,
MONEY LOST ON VESSELS.
TUB OWKER IS XV X.TJCX WHOtB
SHIP rOUSDBRS.
A Neir York Ship-owner Who Take
n Uloomv VlfW of ih Iliielneaa)
l'rotil unit i;irnr.
A distinguishing characteristic of
South strett is the appearance of (ho
signs over tho oflices of the ship brokers
and merchants. New York signs are in
themselves a curious study, ranging as
they do from an expensive panorama in
a Broadway window to a thrce-and-a-quarter
hash placard in a cheap restaur
ant, each conveying an impress of artis
tic finish in its execution and of comfort
in its promiso for the person for
whom it is intended. The sign
of the ship merchant is neither
artistic nor expensive. It is simply old,
so very old in some cases, that the paint
has been worn off by the wind and
B'orm, leaving only a faint outline of the
letters in black or gold on a coffee-brown
background, which might once have
been either whito or black, for all a pass
ing inspection will tell. Tho old signs
which once read "Howland & Aspin
wall," and "Grinnell, Minturn & Co.,
have been wholly obliterated. Like wine,
or like a choice meerschaum pipe, the
old signs gain value with increased age.
To remove them would give pain to
scores of gray-haired shipmasters, who
first saw them as cabin boys, fresh from
some coast or inland village.
In these shipping ollices the visitor
will usually find in the room marked
"private" a genial old gentleman who
can name the products of every country
on the globe, can tell the cost, the de
mand for, and the value of each, and
the number of ships engaged in the
tratlic. With this information, the visi
tor is pretty sure to be told of the prof
its once made by shipowners, and that
never, since ships began to sail tho sea,
have profits been so small as now.
"Ships must pay some profit to ship
owners, or else the shipyards would be
idlo," suggested a young man to one of
the pleasant old brokers.
"Some ships pay, of course, but at
best the profits are not large."
"What freight will a good East India
ship receive now?"
"The chief East India cargo is kero
sene oil ten -gallon cases, which weigh
eighty-four pounds each. A large ship
will carry, say 75,000 cases. The largest
cargo on record was carried by the iron
ship Lord Wolseley. She took 101,000
cases out. The great majority of ships
carry about half as much as that. We
sent out a bark with 40,000 cases not
long ago. She got 2CJ- cents, or $10,000
gross. If she is lucky she will get jute
or sugar back at say $7. She will bring
1,500 tons or $10,500 gross, and she
will cam it in a year.
"A ship like that costs $50,000, and
21,000 is a small gross income. Out of
this sum of $21,000 she has sundry ex
penses which will astonish yon, perhaps.
For a crew, she carries a captain, two
mates, a cook, and fourteen men. The
captain gots $30 a month and five per cent,
of the gross freight money, or $1,415 for
the year. The tirst mate will get $000,
Ihe second mate $420, the cook, $480,
and the fourteen men will get $3,360;
or a total of $0,275 for wages. To feed
them will cost $9 a day, or $3,285 for
the year. It pays to feed them well, but
it could be done for less, of course.
Then out of the freight money comes
It cents a case for stowing the oil, and
thirty-five cents a ton for discharging the
return cargo a total of $1,225. The brok
erage on the cargo out is five per cent, and
back seven per cent, or $1,205. Port
Dharges at Shanghai are three cents a
case, or $1,200. Pilot fees will amount
to $200. Then we have insurance at five
percent., $2,500: annual deterioration,
five per cent., $2,500; tonnage tax at
ihirty cents a ton, $300; and interest on
investment at four per cent, $2,000."
"Is that all?"
"There are a few small incidentals.
Oh, I forgot the ship chandler's bill. It
was $2,000. That's all that's worth
counting."
The young man had jotted down the
urns. They aggregated for the vear
$23,550.
"That's just about it," said the broker
with a faint smile. "You cannot make
a more favorable showing, because you
have estimated the insurance at a low
rate, and the return cargo is always a
matter of somo doubt. Beside, a year
is a good round trip. You see, the
owner is $2,500 or $2,600 out of
pocket."
"Why does he build new ships,
then?"
"Give it up."
"Do all these ships sail at a loss?"
"That one was only of 1,000 tons
register. Take a ship registering 2,200
tons, and sho will carry 75.000 cases of
oil out, and will bring back 3,000 tons of
cargo. Her freight will amount to
about $40,000, while her expenses over
those of the bark of 1,000 tons will be
about $15,000, leaving a clear profit of
$4,000 on an investment of $110,000,
provided she has ordinary good luck.
The best luck that could happen to the
owners of the bark would be wreck when
(he was fully insured."
The Western Idea of a Live Town.
"Well, Dodge City may have been a
rough place. I reckon it was. But it
nevercamo up to Newton. Why, New
ton had as many as half a dozen first
class murders in one night. The man
that didn't curry a pistol was of no ac
count in those days. I recollect once
sleeping in a room with thirteen beds,
two men to each bed, and a pistol under
a vest or a pair of pants placed beneath
the pillow every time. That was when
the cattle drove to Newton. Most every
building in the town was full of bullet
holes. My father bought a dance-house
building and moved it down to Hutch
inson for other purposes, and people used
to walk round it and look at it and ad
mire the round holes in the window
panes. There wasn't a whole light in
the house. Then when Newton ceased
to be a great cattle-shipping point the
rough business came along to Dodge
City. It missed Hutchinson for the
reason that it was a temperance town.
But there's saloons enough in Dodge
City. Why, the mayor is a saloon
keeper, his bar-tender is city clerk, the
two marshals are ex -dance-house men,
and the school directors are some of them
in about the same fix." t. Lout (JLobe-Democrat.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The sawdust and refuse of the sawdust
is now mado to yield fourteen gallons I
of turpentine, three to four gallons of I
resin, and a quantity of tar per cord. j
Dr. Roller says that if silk tissues are
impregnated wun eliminate or copper
and then exposed to tho direct sun
shine, various shinies of brown may be
obtained, and the fabrio is rendered
waterproof.
W. J. Knowles has exhibited to thrj
London Anthropological Institute a
chipped flint implement which he found
in undisturbed boulder clay In Ireland,
and which ho therefore regards as evi
dence of tho existence of man in tho
glacial period.
Clover does not seed in New Zealand
because there are no humblo bees to fer
tilize the (lowers. Various attempts which
have been made to introduco tho insects
have proven futile, but Mr. J. C. Firth
has succeeded at length in getting a con
signment of humble bees, which were
transported in a torpid state in a chilled
room. If successful in acclimatizing
them, Mr. Firth expects them to save
him $0,000 a year in clover seed, all sup
plies having now to bo imported.
Beports to tho Paris Academy of
Science on the lightning-strokes in France
during 1883 show that such accidents
were largely confined to tho months of
June and July, the number reported for
July Deing 14J. resulting in thirteen
deaths. Most of the persons struck oc
cupied positions near a tree, a chimney
or a houso on an elevated site with trees
around it: but there were cases of doath
in open fields and on a roadway. Soveral
accidents from lightning happened to
persons carrying umbrellas.
The manufacture of artificial human
milk is growing into quite an industry in
England. It is mado from pure cow's
milk, which is first boiled to destroy all
germs, then treated with a digestive fer
ment called pancreatine, by which arti
ficial digostion is produced, and is finally
brought to the constitution as human
milk by the use of diluto acids for pre
cipitating the excess of albumen. Sick
children in hospitals have been fed on
this product, and gained most rapidly in
health and weight.
In the Savings Bank.
"Gimme a book, Mister ?"
The affable and polite cashier of the
Dime Savings Bank handed out a book,
after entering the naruo of the possessor
and one dime upon the pages. The book
numbered up into the thousands.
"Say, Mister, what's th' intust on a
dime fur wun year ?"
"Four mills," answered Mr. Woolfon
den. "Gosh! Say, Mister, be they saw
mills ?"
Such chaff as this is grist to the serene
and business-like place where dollars and
dimes are constantly exchanging owner
ship. "How many baby depositors are there
here ?" inquired a representative of the
Free Press.
"Several hundreds. You can look at
their names."
It is a curious study. They seemed to
range in age all the way from three days
to threescore. Carrie, Dollie, Dimple,
Brownie; the youngest on the list was
six hours old, when the distracted father
rushed in, hatless and coatless, and made
a baby banker of his boy. There are
three little boys in one family who. have
each a book and a small hoard out at 4
per cent. Detroit Free Press.
No. 150,000.
This is the number actually reached
this week by tho Mason & Hamlin Organ
and Piano company in the regular num
bering of their world-renowned cabinet
organs. Having commenced business in
1854, the average number of organs pro
duced per annum has been 5,000, which
is 100 per week for the entire 1,500
weeks of their business career. The
Mason & Hamlin organs have been sent
to every civilized country, and their sale
never was greater than at the present
time, averaging from 10,000 to 15,000
organs per annum. Boston Journal.
"God Save the Queen" was originally
"God Save the King." It was written
In honor of Louis XIV of France, but
Handel brought it to England and dedi
cated it to George HI. Well, might
Voltaire remark: "What is originality
but judicious plagiarism?"
"I do not like thee, Dr. Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell."
It has often been wondered at, the bad
odor this ofUjuottxl doctor was in. 'Twhh
probably because ha, being one of the old
school doctors, mailn up pills as large as bul
lets, which nothing but an ostrich could bolt
without nausea. Hcncs the dislike. Dr. K.
V. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative PellU-1 are
sugar-coati and no larger than bird-shot,
and are quick to do their work. For all de
rangements of the liver, bowels and stomach
they are sjiocifle.
Italy imports yearly ninety jer cent, of
the eggs from which her silk crop is obtained.
Physicians pre-ri!e Lydia E. Piiikham's
Vegetable Compound.
No less than 15,fi'.KJ persens are locked up in
the jails and prisons of Kew York.
French Uraiie Brandy, distilled Extract of
Water Pepper or Hmarl-Weed, Jamaica Ciin
ger and Camphor Water, as combined in Dr.
Pi tree's Compound lixtrart of Smart-Weed,
is the lst possible remedy for colic, cholera
morbus, diarrhea, dysentury or Moody-flux;
als , to break up colds, fevers, and inflamma
tory at: acks. 50ets. Keep it on baud. Good
for man or beast.
NTWU--3
Thk first complete sewing machine was pat
ented by Elias Howe, Jr., in lh-M.
Rupture, pilo tumors, fistulas
and all diseases of lower bowel lexcept can
cer), radically cured. Address, World's Dis
pensary Medical Association, buffalo, N. Y.,
and enclose two (3ct.) stamps for book.
The first steam engine on this continent was
brought from England in 17o.'5.
Hi go I'rireil Huller.
Dairymen often wonder how their more fav
ored comietitors get such high prices for their
butter the year round. It is by always hav
ing a uniform gilt-edged article. To put the
'gilt-edge" on, when the pastures do not do it.
they use Wells, Kichurdson &, Co's. Improved
Butter Color. Every butter maker can do
the same. Sold everywhere and warranted
as harmless as salt, and jierfect in Oieraiion.
Hay-Fever. One und one-half Inittlos of
Ely's Cream Balm entirely cured me of Hay
Fever of ten years' standing. Have hail uo
trai-eofit for two years. AlU-rt A. Perry,
8iiiithboro, N. Y. Price 50 rents.
Hay-Fever. I was severely nttlicted with
Hay-Fever for twenty-Hvo years. . I tried
Ely's Cream lialm, and theeltWt was marvel
ous. It is a iei'fect cure. William T. Carr,
Presbyterian pastor, ElijiUit h, N . J . Price 60o.
Night Nweuta.
Headache, fever diiils malaria, dyspepsia,
curwi by "Weils' HeeUU. Renewer." $1.
A Remedy far I.tmaj Plseasee.
Ir. Itolxvrt Newton, late president of th
Eclootlo oollege, of the city of New York,
and formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, used Dr.
Wm. nail's Balsam very eitonslvely is
hto practice, ai many of his patient, now
living and restored to health by tho use o
this Invaluable mrxllclnn, can amply testify.
He always said that so Rood a remedy ought
not to be considered merely as a patent tned
icine, but that it ought to be prescribed fire
Jy by every physician as a sovereign remodj
In all oases of lung disrate. Jt cures oou
sumption, and all pectoral complaints,
('arhn-ltiic.
Full oft we feel the surge of tears,
Yet joy has light for all the years.
To all whose hair is getting thin,
Our Carltolino will keep it in.
'Hough on Pnln."
Cures colic, cramps, diarrlnea; externally
for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia,
rheumatism. For man or InmisI. U5 and M)
U.1 ("Kill
Will buy a Trkatisk on thk Hohsr ani Hm
DisKAsits Book of 100 pa;es, valuable to
every owner of horses. Postage stAini taken.
Sent postpaid. Nkw York Horsk Book Co.,
134 Leonard Street. New York city.
"Knnahon I'eln" IMeslrr.
Porous ami strengthening, improved, the
lest for bnckochn, jmins in chest or side.rheu
niat isni, neuralgia. LW. Druggista or mail,
Yoiiiin Mcn t-Tteini Thlii
Tub Voltaic Hki.t Co., of Marshall,
Mich., offer to send their celebrated Ki.kctho
Voi.taic! Hki.t and other Elkctkiu Apn.i
ancks on trial for thirty days, to men (young
or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss of
vitality and mnnhiMxlndall kindred troubles.
Also lor rheumatism, lii'iirnlgin, paralysis, and
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Write them at once lor illustrated pamphlet
free.
The llnpr orihe Nnlloa.
Cliildren.slo w in developnirnt.puny.serawny
and delicate, use "Wells' Health Kenewer."
The increasing sales of Piso's Cure attests
its claim as the best cough remedy.
Twenty States and Territories have adopt
ed compulsory education.
Salt Rheum
Ii on of the moat disagreeable dluuu caused b Im
purity of the blood- Th akin becomes Art and hot,
grows red and rough, and ottan braaka into painful
craoka, whlla small watery pimples appear In great
numbers, diachaiylnii a Ana stloky fluid. The power
which Hood's Samaparllla haa ovar tbia. aa over all
blood dlseasea, la really wonderful. It puriflea tha
blood aud expels the humor, and the akin heals with
out a scar.
Mrs. Mary O. Woe, Nawfana, Vt suffered from
childhood with aalt rheum, with interne Itching and
burning. She took Hood'a Saraaparllla and liood'a
Olive Ointment and waa cured.
"I have been a great sufferer for 30 years with the
alt rheum on my hands. Each winter they were
nearly raw, full of cracki and chaps, to that I could
not work. After tnkinc one bottle of Hood's Baraapa
rilla my bands are (reel Oh, what happlnessl" Mrs .
A. Hart, Uolden, Me.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druffciite. 91; sti for V Prepared only
by O. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecariea, Lowell, Maaa.
IOO Doses One Dollar
Catarrh
IIAYFKVER.
I bar baan a treat
uffararfrom Hay-FfT
for 11 faart. I rud of
tha wondrous curva o'
Kty't Craim Balm an I
thought I would try
oncw mnra, Aftar ona
application I il won.
derfully helpad. Two
rki aa;o I cotnmmood
ma it and now I fl
ontirtOy currd. It it tha
raatait rineovary
known. -nuhamal Ultrk
barmr, ln. Mum.
4 ' renin II n I in a
ramMty fnunrtod on a
correct diAffiioiiiB of tint
diaanna ami can ba d
Pntlat upon. 6im. at
dniKiBta; h). by mail
Ham pi bultlo by mail
licW "HEAD,
HAY-FEVER
lw. IXtBrus.. Drums;s, Uwogo. If. Y
Walnut l.eat Hair ICealorer.
It la entirely dlffnrrnt from allnthora, and aa lUnatna
ndifata : a Drfct VcfrMable Hair iWtorar. It will
immediately fift the hnad .mm all dandruff, reatoretfrmy
bnir to its natural color, and produce a new crowta
wtiHi-e tt hu fallen off. it d.mn not affect tha health,
wtuoh aulphur.iiiffftrof lead and nitrate of ailrer prepar
ations have done. It will chang Iwlit or faded hair in a
f-w day to a beautiful aloeny brown. Ask your druafftik
font. Kat-h bottle it warranted. Smith, Kline A To.,
Wholesale Ag'ti. Phila..Fa.. and C.N.OriUeniun.N.Y.
NO AGEOTSgPfr
8a?a Agents' Fronts. ftrff--4M-?
new machines
for S20.
Guaranteed Doaltivnlv new
and thoroughly ftrst-elasB in
every particular. Warrant
fd for & yra. Can be rut irned
at ourexfeiiMt if not aa repm- M
aentnd. Frenrhtfl paid to all v
pomta. KNittblialied 187H '
A.C.JOHKSON,37Nor.h Pearl St., Albany.N.Y.
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..I 'iirl.. f..rl.k. 57 .V. I't-irlM .ilbur. K.T,
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mm
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W B S?P tm 1 Hfod stamp fur our Nnw Rook oa
VFi I hlJ I X Pstfnia. I. BINGHAM. PU
I lall Wul Lawyer. WxhlunUm, D. U
T rp-p-arrric; I 'I'Uoe. P. Simpson, Washington.
X AXJUXt 1 il i 1). I . Kon .y axkrd Inr paleut
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mm
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I 4 laH)rMJa fcajmupa 1 beaten atMsd. ft a
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mmmm
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la aurlu ;
Kidney ft Liver'
Bright1. J.'-
Troubles,
ease, Jelne lrr
the Back, Lotas
Bladder, TSrlnarj
and Urer Stseaaea, '
or Bldaa, Betau
klcro or Hos-
Dropsy, Orareland
aetontlra.of
Urine.
Diabetes.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. '
It eurea Biliousness, Headache, Jaundloa, Oour
' Stomach, Dyspepsia, Constipation and Piles.
it worksTpromptly
and ourea Intemperance, Xrerroua Dlsss.es,
General Debility, Xaoeaees and '
Female Wr-akneee.
USE ITATONCE.
ft restores the KIDNHTB, 1JVFR and T;
XIS, to a healthy action and CUBES -other
medicines fall. Hundreds have b:
who have been given up to die by ftien
physlolans.
J'rloefl.as. Bend An riluatreted Paraphs.
HUNT'S ItKMKDT CO., rrorluVnca, It. .
HOLD BY A IX lKUlasT".
HITNT'M U IHntt Hit. I l.lni' If U l I tlT
ancouraaes slm'p, crfat'-s an aitpntit", lira. ., , th
mj .win, ruu n-UKwrni iit-ttitn ii. tut, rt-n i
.N 1 M O-tt
JTT e. LYDIA C. PINK.HAM'8 . .
&? irncTietr nnMDrii!.'"
ItULIHDkt uuisirvviiu-
. is a rosrnvK cvaz fob .
All tliosa painful Complaint
and n eakni'asra SO ccrssjno" -
a a a to "r I"' a a
, FEN Al.E rori'LATIOtf.
rrUs 1 la llqald, pill sr Iomb. f -
a rtf pvrpoM s aof'llf fr fas Ifjrffimnfs
rfienue anil fas rWi of jviia, and that If a
it claimitodo, flnusiinrfsnfailtrsran v'mffu (
e It will euro entirely nil Orarlen troulilrs, In'
tlonand Ulceration, Falling ami Iilnplacemi'n
Consequent Hplnal Wraknr-se, and fa part' '
adapted to the chango of life. . e m e e e m .
e Hr-emnvea KaintnrH, Klatiilrnr-y.di'ntroTeell ith-i
for stimulants, anil relioTt-s Wcakni'fsof tlieHl"ii'
I cures lllostlng, Hi-ivlachns, N'-rrous Prosti-ai
General IMiiIIit, rlle.'il.'ne. IM-pr-mudou and li
geitlon. That fWlliig of Ixtaring d-'wn, naiming pit
am! hM-kftche. Is alwftTA rHtrinanmllr cured Iit itn
e Hinil stamp to Lynn, Mats., for pumphlt-t. Ilu-im .
Inquiry eunduentially anwcred. 'ur sole af dr-ayo!" -
T,ri"sjjf. , .''.si.t
THE
SURE
FOB
cun
KIDNEY DISEASES;
LIVER COMPLAINTS,
CONSTIPATION. PILEb,
AND BLOOD DISEASES.
PHYSICIANS ENDORSE IT HEARTILY.
''Kidney-Wort la tha moat auoocsnful wmH "
Xrruacd." Dr. P. O. Uallou, Monkion, Vt.
"Kidney-Wort la always reliabla."
Dr. B. N. Clark. So. Hero, Vt,
Kldney-Wort haa cured my w tfa aflor two ytr ;
tiuflaruifg. Dr. C. M. SummerUn, Bun ILUi. J. j
IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
it haa ourad where all tlaa had fkllad. Itlantld, f
butsiflolent, I K .MAIN I 11 ACTION, but '
barmleaa In all oaaaa. I
t It eleanaea tha Blood and ftti-eaftheat a4
tlvca IN aw 14fa to all tha important oreaoa of ,
tha body. The natural action of tho XJdneya ia ;
reaiorea.) 'i na lAvmt ia oioanaaa oi aii anease,
and tho Bowela niova freely aud hos. 1th fully.
In thia way tha worst dieeaaoe ara aawdiCMsted
from tha aystom. m
WO ft 00 LIQUID OB DET, BOLD BT PBCOQ1BTS.
IDry oan bo aant by mail.
WElXHrEICII ARDNOTT A CO. Rarllarlaa Vt.
-
DO THE RIGHT Tilli'if
Ceruuiea Hanae Talk to IIIIIaMa 1'eopla. CiK
Teatiiuenj ol a Wlmeea
Albsmt, Vt. T.
Dr. David JTnnsiv, Rotulout, N. Y.:
Dbak Sin: -About eight yers a-o I began to an
fer from a Liver diftlcnlty. Kuril. g tbe attack! I c
periencad sever pain, accompanied by what I c
not deacrlba tettiT than by calling It a dravin
aenaatlon. Tha ai(ny of It was almost beyond
durance. None of the ninal medicines employ
each casei had any effect upon me. From tii.
time I wsi laid op and enable to attend to any I
ocsa. This covered a period of a year.
Finally, Mr. Lloyd, a drucqlst of this city, su;
ted ynnr FAVORITE REMEDY n ei
lent thing for the Liver. 1 had out taken tho who.
of tbe flrat bottle before I found moat deciiU-d relit :,
Ihe pain passed away, and to my delight I regained
the power to enjoy and diost my food without lue
former distress. Nature seemed to be set going
(gain. I cannot belter express my appreciation of
fir. David Kennedys FAVORITE HEME
PY than by leilinu you iliat s.nco my pewonai
knowledge of Its virtues I havii ret-ommi'iidi-d it tu
s great many of my friends aud acquauitancee.
" Voura Uuly.S. lHJmoH.
Vtt Aleiarder Arenue.
Mr. Pepson is one of Albany's old and respected
residents, and conenta to the publication of la.
Itiove letter.
l)T. Hand Kennedy, Thysician aud Sargeoa, Hou
lotit, N. Y. , .
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