i rtJKBLO SNAKE DANCE.
A CUHIOU3 ANNITATj CTTSTOM OF
NSW MEXICO INDIANS.
Ctfame of the Pariorr rfal.aj of
the Hito It l'rohl)lc Moaning
to the Worshippers.
"Writing about the aununl snnkc dances
of the isolated Pueblo Indians, of New
Mexico, a writer in thirties gnys: The
leader of the dnnco, or high priest, enr
ricd a buzzing-stich, which failed to
work properly, however, and was Boon
discarded. The antelope men, some ten
i,i number, came in first. They entered
in single tilo and marched around four
timts in an irregular circle, npproaching
the hut from the north. Then they took
up their positions on either side of tho
hut, facing out. Tho snake men, about
fifteen in number, then entered the court,
marchii g in the same direction as tho
others hud. As they passed the hut,
they scattered some wred meal and
stamped on a concealed board in front of
the door. This board i9 buried in the
ground immediately in front of the door
of the hut, and a hollow scooped out
under the middle of it. Each performer,
os he passes, scatters some sacred meal
(which is a form of prayer), and stamps
on this board, producing a loud, hollow
Bound. The object is to call the atten
tion of tho gods to the zeal of the per
former, that he mav be nrotierlv re
warded. By another version, if the '
dancer succeeds in breaking this board,
which is nearly two inches thick, any
wish that he may make for two succeed
ing years will be granted. As the same
board is used continuously until it wears
out, it must bo occasionally broken. It
is possible, however, that the man who
gave me this version invented it.
After thi3 stamping hud been repeated
four times, the snake men formed a line,
facing the antelopes, and about six feet
distant from them. The antelopes then
commenced a low chant, in which tho
snake men joined. Occasionally tho
measure was changed for a few moments,
and they made a gesture with the feather
wands which each man carried in his
right hand. The chant was kept up
without intermission during the entire
dance, and was accompanied by a pe
culiar rhythmical, swaying motion of the
body. AVhen the feather-shaking had
been repented four times, the snake men
broke their line, and grouped them
selves in front of the door of tho hut.
A moment later tho group parted,
and one of tho performers ap
peared, holding in his mouth a
snake. A companion (also a suake
man) joined him, passing his left arm
over the first man's shoulder; and the
pair passed around on the line previously
pursued, with the peculiar step, which,
for want of a better name, is called a
dance. The companion carried in his
right hand one of the feather wands be
fore referred to, consisting of two large
feathers (said to bo those of tho wild
turkey), mounted in a short wooden
handle, with a small red feather dangling
from the end. This wund was constantly
and very skillfully used by tho compan
ion to distract the attention of the snake
held in the mouth of tho other, and to
keep its head forward. The man who
carried the snake carried nothing in his
hands. I have been told that the men
who took this part kept their eyes
tightly closed during the whole per
formance. This, however, Idid not notice
myself, though these dancers were always
led back to the hut v'n n it was desired
to procure more sna'. s The snake is held
in the mouth betwten the lips, not be
tween the teeth; and the mouth is filled
with some substance, resembling meal in
appearance, to avoid biting the snake when
the dancer becomes excited. When a
snake becomes unmanageable, the dancer
simply opens his mouth, letting it fall
to the ground.
Each of tho couples described was fol
lowed by a single man or boy, whose duty
it was to pick up the snakes as they were
dropped. These also carried feather
wands. I shall hereafter refer to these
as collectors. As the snakes were dropped
haphazard, at any plaee, and at any time,
and as they manifested a lively disposi
tion to get out of tho way as soon as pos
sible, the position was hardly a sinecure.
This second figure of the dance occu
pied about twenty minutes; though, after
tho first round, the order became some
what broken, the collectors being
grouped in the centre, and dartiug here
and there after snakes, while the dancers
pranced around in an inegular circle.
Each performer, as he dropped his snake,
was led back to the hut by the companion
for a new one; and this continued until
the supply was exhausted. The low
chautof the antelopes, the dismal though
rhythmical clank of the tortoise-shell
rattles, the peculiar motion of the dan
cers, the breathless attention of the spec
tators, all gave this part of the perform
ance & weird character.
The latter part of the figure, when the
snakes had accumulated iu the hands of
the collectors, and the dancers became
. excited, was very interesting. One of
the collectors hud a dozen or more snakes
in his hands and arms. When the uum
ber became too gre.it for proper manage
mcnt, part of them were turned over to
the antelope men, who remained in lino
on either side of the hut, and were held
in their hands until the tinul figure.
The final figure was the most exciting.
One of the performers going a little to
one side, drew in sacred meal a circle
ii bout thirteen feet iu circumfeienco.
Two diameters at right anyles were
dntwn, and another line passing
obliquely through their intersection, rep
resenting the cardinal points and the
y.enith and nudir. Tho lutter are ex
pressed by the line drawn from North
west to Southeast.
The chant suddenly ceased and all
those holding snakes made a rush for
this circle i n 1 dropped tlicra into it.
The Bnakes formed a writhing masH,
nc irly filling the circle longitudinally
a:id about six inches in height, as nearly
us could be distinguished, as the whole
figure lasted but a few second. The
snake men then literally threw them
selves into tho circle. Each man seized
us many of the replies as ho could ami
made o!f with them at full speed,
through the pitSMige by which the pro
cessinu entered and through the other
opening, and the public part of the per
formance was fiiii-hfcl. The smites
thus carried off wt rc taken down to the
fiot of the mesa, ami there released.
Theobjcitof this part of tho cere
mony, as nearly as could bo made out
fioui the various descriptions which we
received, was this: The snakes were I
released at tho four quarters of tho !
earth in order that they might find ft I
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rain-puu wuwc lurm is uint, ui a kijjhu
tic serpent), whorcver he might be. and
tell him of tho honor which his children
had done him, and of tho urgent need of
roiu among them. This is symbolized in
the circle and cross lines before men
tioned. The part of the heavens from
which rain enme indicated the region
where the god was at the time that he re
ceived the message. This helps some
what to explain the reverence, we might
almost say londness.which the Moki feels
for the snakes. The released snakes net
not only ns messengers, but also as am
bassadors, to tho rain-god; and a snake
which has been well treated would pro
sent tho Moki's prayer much more forci
bly than one which had been roughly
handled.
Snakes of all varieties procurable were
used, including tho rattlesnake, about 20
per cent, of the latter. Many of them
were numbed from long confinementand
frequent handling, though when given a
chance to escape, ns they were dropped
on tho ground, they showed decided
signs of life.
Fish In tho TacHlc'
The excitement about the Canadian
fisheries gives a hint as to the prospective
value of one of the undeveloped re
sources of the Northwest. The shore
fisliing of the Provinces, on the Atlantic
side, is of sufficient importance to bring
the United States and its neighbors to
the verge of a quarrel, but it is a small
matter compaowl with the oppTirtunitLss
open in the Nv?lhwettfra waters on this
side of the continent. The mackerel
fishing, which is the present matter of
dispute, is of less importance than the
Banks codtishing, yet the whole extent
of tho Newfoundland Banks is only
about 70,000 square miles, while in tho
Pacific and Okhotsk we have 300,000
square miles, in Bchring Sea almost as
much more, and around tho Choumagin
Islands 80,000; altogether nearly ten
times the area of the Atlantic Banks.
The total money value per annum of tho
fisheries on the Banks and off the east
coast of tho British North American
Provinces is in the neighborhood of
$25,000,000, which embraces the catch
of the vesels of all nations resorting there.
When the fisheries of the North Pacific
are developed to anything like tho extent
of those ot the North Atlantic they will
form one of the great industries of this
coast. San Francisco Call.
Growinir Old.
It is the solemn thought connected
with middle life that life's last business is
begun in earnest: and it is then, midday
between the cradle and the grave, that a
man begins to marvel that he let the days
of youth go by so half enjoyed. It is the
pensive autumn feeling; it is the sensa
tion of half sadness that we experience
when the longest day of tho year is past,
and everyday that follows is shorter, and
the light fainter, and the feebler shadows
tell that Nature is hastening with gigan
tic footsteps to her winter grave. So
does man look back upon his youth.
When tho first gray hairs becomo visible,
when tho unwelcome truth fastens itself
upon the mind that a man is no longer
going up-hill, but down, and that the sun
is always westering, ho looks back on
things behind. When wtvere children
we thought as children. But now there
lies before us manhood, with its earnest
work, and then old age, and then the
grave, and then home. There is a second
youth for man, better and holier than his
"first, if he will look on, and not look
back. F. W. Robertson.
Mintito Writing.
It was thought a wonderful achieve
ment, when Paris was beseiged by the
Germans, to photograph one side of a
newspaper on tissue paper small enough
to be enclosed in a tiny quill. A carrier
fiigeon conveyed the quill out of the be
eaguered city to those who read its con
tents through a magnifying glass. But
neither photography nor the microscope
was known in the days of Cicero, jet
he mentions that the whole of Homer's
Iliad had been written on a piece of
parchment so small as to be enclosed in a
nut-shell. A Frenchman, after years of
practising, wrote the four canonical pi av
ers of the Roman Church . on one of his
linger nails. He was proud of his ex
ploit, but a poet is mentioned by Pliny,
who excelled him in the art of minute
penmanship. He wrote a couplet in let
tcisof gold, but so minute was tho writ
ing that the bit of paper on which it was
inscribed was enclosed in the husk of a
grain of wheat. Paper Wvrld.
Ha iny.
Many amusing stories are told of the 1
sayings and doings of tho astonished
backwoodsmen when the first lines of
railroad bean operations in America.
When the first Maine railroad was built
the conductor, Mr. Pitman, left Water
ville on his morning train. It was ruin
ing hard.
When he arrived at North Belgrade, a
flag-station, not seeing any Hag, he ran
by the fetation. As the train passed tho
red Hag was hurrjeUyjouUjn
Mr. Pitman atoppeohis liu.it, and
backing up to tho stution, called out to
tho iigi-nt:
"Why didn't you put up the flag
sooner."
"Why," was the reply, "be you a-goin'
to run trains in ruiny weather?"
"( )f courge."
"I didn't reckon so."
The Mho mid the Cat.
A number of Mice once held a conven
tion for tho purpose of adopting means of
defense against a Cut that was making
herself very pervasive in the neighbor
hood, und finally decided to put a bill on
tha monster. A committee appointed
for the purpose straightway put a bras
bell on the Cut while she was taking an
evening imp. But thereafter the sound
of the bell was so terrifying that no mouse
could bleep when the cut was anywhere
in tho vicinity, even when there was no
real danger; and, finally, tho alarm be
cama so general that the neighborhood
was entirely cleared of mice, und the
Cat held possession of the field.
Moral This Fable teaches that an in
ventor in devising a new kind of cannon,
should make ullowunce for recoil and
back-action. Life.
Cyclone insurance is almost as common
as fire insurance in the West.
ROMANCE OF THE GLOVE,
THH PAltT IT HAS PLAYED IN THB
WORLD'S HIBTOBV.
Worn 100,000 Years Agro and Up to
the Llbovr A ncient Customs ltd
alive to Its Vse.
The glove as ft portion of our costume
is so ancient that its inventor is not now
known, but it seems quite certain from
the records that gloves came into use as
soon as shoes. In those 'rude and primi
tive times called pre-historic,when lovers
did their wooing with a club, and a
young gentleman wanting a wife went
cut and knocked one down, he put on
his gloves first. That is what some emi
nent scientists think. They say the cave
men wore gloves, and tho cave men aro
supposed to have lived some 100,000
years ago. Professor Hawkins, in his
work entitled "Early Man in Britain,"
says the cave men and women wore
gloves, not only of ordinary size, but
reaching even to tho elbows, thus
anticipating by untold ages the fashion
able multi-button gloves of our era. The
belle of the ball-room in twenty-buttoned
kids is hardly aware that she is only
copying after some pre-historic maid or
matron who was wooed and won ages
and ages ago, but our learned geologists
tell us such is tho fact.
To come to later times, concerning
which all is not guess work there seems
to have been no time whe gloves were
not worn. They are mentioned in tho
Bible, and in the oldest literature that
has come down to is. Tho were first
used as a protection from tho cold, and
were thought to be a mark of effemi
nacy. Some of the early Christian fathers
inveighed strongly against people in per
fect health clothing their hands in soft
coverings, but it availed nothing agninst
fashion. But in time the bjshops and
other clergy got to wearing gloves them
selves, and tho monks wero among the
earliest glovo makers in Europe. The
glove also bore a part in regal and mar
tial ceremonies. At the coronation of
the kings of Franco the newly crowned
monarch received from tho hands of the
officiating bishops a pair of gloves, pre
viously blessed by tho Church. In Eng
land a new sovereign receives a right
hand glove, and with it tho scepter of
the kingdom, i
Gloves were at one time a favorite
form of New Year's gift and wedding
gift, and to make the present more valu
able money was sometimes given in the
glove. Sir Thomas More, when Lord
lligh Chancellor of England, was pre
sented with n pair, filled with gold coin,
by a grateful suitor in his court in whoso
favor ho had decided. The gloves he
accepted, but "their lining you will be
pleased to otherwise bestow," he wrote
to the giver.-The English judges were
not allowed to wear gloves on the bench,
'but there is probably no custom in Eng
land more widely known than that of
the presentation of a white pair of gloves
to a judge upon the occasion of a maiden
assize, as it is called ; that is a holding
.of court where no criminal has been con
demned to death. Gloves wero also
given by a lover to his betrothed as a
symbolical form of binding the bargain,
and at weddings lavish gifts of gloves
were made to clergyman and guests, but
this custom has long been abandoned.
But it is still maintained at funerals, and
on important occasions the undertaker's
bill for gloves is a considerable item,
particularly when the Government has
to pay. Kings and nobles were buried
with their gloves on in the old times,
and a remnant of the custom may still be
observed among us. when a cavalry sol
dier is buried. His gloves, with his
sword and hat, are placed upon tho
cotlin.
The use of tho glovo as a symbol of
defiance, or challenge to combat, comes
to us from immemorial times, and though
in this workaday modern world, the cus
tom is practically unknown, yet it is as
sociated with so much that is full of ro
mantic interest that it still gives a pic
turesque and lively simile to the language
of antagonism. Particularly is it in uso
to express challenges bv party orators,
and the Congressional arena is a frequent
witness of a gantlet being cast down or
picked up, metaphorically, by some exci
ted partisan. But these worthy legisla
tors of ours, when they use the language
of chivalry, have no idea of adventuring
the justice of their cause or their integ
rity of purpose on an appeal to urnn.
They prove their knightly truth mid
honor by other modes not quite so dan
gerous. One of tho most amusing scenes in
Henry V. turns upon tho exchange of
gloves as a challenge between the king,
incognito, and Williams, one of his brave
common 6oldiers. Tho King afterward
gives the glove ho recived from Williams
to Fluellen. tho choleric Welch captain,
and when Williams meets him with tho
glove in his cap he gives him, with right
good will, a box on the ears. Tho King
comes up, the quarrel is explained and
adjusted, and Williams is presented with
a glove full of crowns. The glove was
sometimes also worn iu the cap as a me
morial of love or friendship, and it was
a knightly practice to carry a glove in
the helmet as a mark of devotion to some
fail Ihwi-An old chronicJer relates that
at tho battle of Agineourt the knights
bore among their head gear "tho gloves
of their darlings." Chicago Herald.
There are two markets opposite each
other in Gibraltar, tho Spanish market
and the Moorish market, for nothing of
any account is produced in Gibraltar. In
the Moorish market are all kinds of
fruits, chickens and eggs, brought over
from Morocco. Tho eggs come in large
hampers made of grass and willow, and
holding 3,000. Eggs sell about one hun
dred for from five to six francs. One
can buy 500 juicy oranges for $2.50. The
sellers sit in their narrow stalls in front of
thousands of live chickens that keep up
a continual clatter.
A pickerel was caught in a cornfield in
the Hock River (111.) bottoms while en
gaged in husking corn. The water of
the river has covered the bottoms for
eight months, and much of last year's
corn remains ungathered. The fish swim
into tho fields and nibble tho grains of
corn out of the husks.
J. W. iJunkin, of Aubuin, Neb., owns
colt with two legs und five feet Tho
hind legs ure normal. In front there ara
no legs, but under the breast is iU lump
from which grow three feet. Th4 colt
thiivej.
Three years ago woodchucks became
so abundant and so destructive in La
Porte County, Indiana, that the authori
ties offered a bounty of twenty cents for
each woodchuck scalp. Tho first ycf.r
2,875 scalps wero presented; the second,
5,040; the third. 7,371, a total of 15,K8tj
scalps, on which was paid fa.177.CO.
Some men make a regular business of
hunting woodchucks.
A little boy, who was to pass the after
noon with a neighbor's little daughter,
was given two pieces of candy. When
he returned his mother asked if he gave
the larger piece to the little girl. "No,
mamma, I didn't. You told me always
to give tho biggest piece to company,
and I was company over there."
Mrs. Garfield's yearly income is placod
at fully 20,000.
Bowen'i Itudgrt, Fort Plain, N. T., for March,
lRHcl, saya: In the multiplicity of medicines
placed upon the market, it is aometttnes did),
cult tii distinguish between the meritorious and
the worthless. There are at least two excel
lent remedies widely used, the efficiency of
which are unquestioned. We refer to Ja
cobs Oil and Red Star Congh Cure.
A Chicago Jeweler has invented a self-wind-ini
watrh. Hy an arrangement something like
the carefully balanced leverof a pednmeter.the
watch is wound by the motion of the wearer
w hen walking. A walk of seven minutes will
wind the watch to go for forty-two hours.
Solicitor of Patents, K. O. McCleary. of
Washington, D. C, says the only thing that
did him any good, when suffering with a severe
cough of several weeks' standing, was Ked
HStar Cough Cure, which is purely vegetable
and free from opiates and poison.
The average London inhabitant eats thirtr
two times as much fish as the Berlin person,
and Paris, with a population of 2,2U0,0U), uses
more fish thau all Uermany, with a population
of 47,0OJ,00O.
Where Are Yon tioingf
If you have pain in the back, pale and sallow
complexion, bilious or hick headache, eruptions
on the skin, enated tongue, sluggish circula
tion, or a harking cough, you are going into
your grave if you do not take steps to enro
yourself. If you are wise you will do this by
the use of Dr. Pierce's ''Golden Medical Dis
covery," compounded of the most efllcacious
ingredients known to medical science for giv
ing health and strength to the system through
the medium of the liver and blood.
Owino to the drought, the corn crop of Lou
isiana will be fifty percent, less than last year,
and the oat crop seventy-live per cent. less. .
Life seems hardly worth the living to-day to
many a tired, unhappy, discouraged woman
who is suffering from chronic female weak
ness for which she has been able to And no re
lief. But there is a certain cure for all the
painful complaints to which the weaker sex Is
liable. We refer to Dr. Pierce's "Favorite
Prescription," to the virtues of which thou
sands of women can testify. As a tonio and
nervine it is unsurpassed. All druggists.
A HiSToniAN of California sums up the qual
ities of that country as: "All in all, it is aland
of solid roulities and glittering frauds."
Sick and bilious headache, and all derange
ments of stomach and bowels, cured hy Dr.
Pierce's "Pellets" or anti-bilious granules.
25 1 ents a vial. No cheap boxes to allow waste
of virtues. By druggists.
A poll-tax of $"i0 a head is imposed on all
Chinamen entering South Australia.
Cnn Consumption be Cored f
We have so often seen fatal results follow
the declaration that it can be cured, that w
have unconsciously settled down in the belief
that this disease must necessarily prove fatal.
It is true that occasionally a community has
witnessed an isolated case of what may ap
propriately be termed spontaneous recovery,
but to what combination of favorable, circum
stances this remit was due none have hitherto
been found able to determine.
We have now the gratifying fact to announce
that the process by which nature effeots this
wonderful change is no longer a mystery to
the medical profession, and that the changes
brought about In tho system under favorable
circumstances by intrinsic causes may be made
as certainty and more expeditiously by the us
of the proper remedy. In other words, nature
is imitated and assisted.
Tuberculous matter is nothing more or less
thau nourishment imperfectly organized.
Now, if wo can procure the organization of
this food material so that through the process
of elective affinity It may take its placo in the
system, we can cure the dlseasa. This is Just
what Piso's Cure for Consumption does. It
arrests at once the progress of the disease by
preventing the further supply of tuberculoui
matter, for while the system is under its in
fluence all nourishment is organized and as
similated. It thus controls cough, expectora
tion, night-sweats, hectic fever, and all other
characteristic symptoms of Consumption.
Many physicians are now using this medi
cine, and all write that it conies fully up to its
recommendations and make Consumption one
of the diseases they ran readily cure.
The forming stage of a disease is always the
most auspicious for treatment. This fact should
Induce persons to resort to the use of Piso's Cure
when the cough is first noticed, whether it hat
a consumptive diathesis for its cause or not,
for this remedy cures all kinds of coughs with
unequalled facility and promptness. In coughs
from a simple cold, two or three do-es of the
medicine have been found sudicient to remove
the trouble. So in all diseases of the throat
and lungs, with symptoms simulating those
of Consumption, Piso's Cure is tho only infal
lible remedy.
The following letter recommending Piso's
Cure for Consumption, is a fair sample of the
certificates received daily by the proprietor ot
this medicine:
At.niow, N. Y., Dec. S, lf5.
I had a terrible Cough, and two physicians
aid I would never get well. I then went to a
drugstore and asked for ii good cough medicine.
The druggist gave me Piso's Cure, and it has
dune me more good than any thing I ever used.
Ido not believe 1 could live without it.
LKOXOKA VKUMILYEA.
Nothing Like It.
No medicine has ever been known so effec
tual in the cure of all those diseases arising
from an impure condition of the blood as Hco
vii.i.'b Sauhai'auii.i.a, on Buiod and Livf.h
Svkup. the universal remedy for the cure of
Strofula, White Swellings, lti.euinaiUm, Pim
ples, Blotches, Eruptions, Venereal Sores and
Diseases, Consumption, Uroitre, Boils, Cancers,
and all kindred diseases. There is no better
means of securing a beautiful complexion tlmn
by using Kcovii.l's Saksapaiuixa, ok Blooo
and Liven Sykup, which cleanses the blood
and gives permanent beauty to the skin.
For dyspepsia, in diobstion, depression of
spirits, general debility.in their various forms,
also as a preventive against teverand agueand
other Intermittent fevers, the "Kerro-Phosphor-ated
Klixir of Calisaya." made hy Caswell, littss
ard & Co., New Vork.und sold by all Druggists,
is the best tonic; and for patients recovering
from fever or other sickness it has no equal.
A Most 'Liberal Oltert
The Voltaic Welt Co., Aim shall, Mich.,
offer to send their Celebrated Voltaic Belts
and Electric Appliances on thirty days' trial
toany man afflicted with Nervous Debility,
lxss of Vitality, .Manhood, Ac, Illustrated
pamphlet in sealed envelope with full particu
lars, mailed free. Wrile them at once.
No lady should live in penwtual fear, and
suffer from the more Keiions troubles that ho
often appear, when Dr. Kilmer's Comi'I.kte
KtMAiK liEMKiiY is certain to prevent and cure
Tumor hik Cancer there.
Ym' ret more comfort for 2-1 i ts. in Lyon's
Heel Stitleners than in any other article.
Best, easiest to use and cheapekt. Piso's
Remedy lor Catarrh. By druggist.
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As a hair dressing. Hall's TTsIr Tlenewer has
no equal. Ask your druggist for it.
The only warranted cure for ohllls and fever
Is Ayer's Ague Cure.
Ho Words of Ours
Can tell you the benefit you will derive from Hood's
BAnuiparllla. If you are In need of a good medicine.
It will i train all Impnrltles from the Moot, rouse
the torpid liver, Invigorate the digestive organs, sad
Impart new life to every function of the body. We
only ask yon to try a single bottle to prove the posi
tive merlti of Hood's Bsniaparllla as an honest and
relfahle medicine.
"My daughter received much benefit from the me
of Hood's Sarssparllla as an excellent tonic after a
protracted attack of bronchial pneumonia." F. H.
Adams, New Hartford, Conn.
"I cannot And words strong enough to express my
feeling In favor of Hood's Sarsapirlllt. It has done
everything; for me, curing me or dysprpsla with
which I had suffered for many years." Mrs. 8. X.
Bkedk, Marblehead, Mass.
"1 have used Hood's Sarsapartlla for a blood puri
fier In my faintly several years, and cannot speak
too highly of It." J, E. Coujss, Plqua, O.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold hy ntl druggists. 1; six for ts. Prepared only
by C. L HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Kass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
ASK FOR THE
W. L. DOUGLAS
Beit msterlsl, perfect fit, eqnsls any ts or shoe,
every pslr warranted. Take none unless stamped
" W. L, Douglss' S3 00 Shoo, Warranted." Congress.
nuiino nu jusca. xtovs IDS
for the W. I Douglas'
'4.00 Shoe, Unu styles s
the Sa.OC Shoe. If yon cannot
get these shoes from deal-
ers.send address on DOStal
card to W. L. Iougll
llrockton, Mass.
and tell us what vou
want. B. w. PAYNE ft BONH. Drawer 1859. Emia
N. Y.. or New York Cltv. Eastern l.nn Uir. '..
C'larkk ft Co., Boiton, Mass. Our patented Vertlos I
Holler will not prime. No darner of burning Sues.
Ladles! Thosodull
tired looks nnd fueling
speak volumes I This
Jtemody corrects nil con
ditions, restores vigor
and vitality nnd Lrings
back youthful bloom
nnd licauty. Jni(mixls,
lYepsred at I)r. Kilmer bdis-
-Xs rsNSAiiv, olnrnamun, N, Y.
Guide to Iloalth(SeutKree),
A STEP IN ADVANCE
OF ALL OTHERS.
BrrrcR instruments,
lower PRICES.
EasierTerms
WRITE,
Plan.
INCLOSI
BEST
STAMrTO!
Full particular
BEIN BROS. & CO
NEWARK, N.J
ERMAN
BICTIOMY i
034. IA.GI3H
FOR ONE DOLLAR.
A first class rilrtlonary gotten out at small
prloe to encourage the atudy of the tterinsn
It elves Knatish worda with th
German equivalents, and Oerman words with Rajdlas
definitions. A verv cheap hook. Send 91.00 M
HOOK FIJH. HOI Mil, 134 Leonard J
V. t'ltyi wtrtJJLjXlitoiMjmlubrjntmiaMl
BOOK AGENTS WANTED for
PLATFORM ECHOES
r 1.1 VINU TKCTII9 FOIt HEAD AND IIEAKT,
By John B. GougU,
HI last nd crown loir Hfo work, brim fall of thHlllnp Inter
Ht, btimor fcnd ptho. Bright, pun, mnd good, full of
' Uuphter and lrt." it W at s.jAt to mO To tt U tddrd
th Lifean1 Dtath of Mr. Uoueh, T Kev. LYMAN AB
BOTT. lOOO Agenti Wanted, M a and Women. $100
to tttOO month made. bJfHatanc no a.ndrane ai wa
gift K'tr 7Vrm and PuvFreighti, Write Jot clrcvlara 9
A. 1. WUUTU1AUTON CO., llartlwrd, ;.
1'tinplon. Blotched, Scaly or Oily 8kln.
IIIei.ilHr.ea and nil hkln Dlnfiaaes Cured
and Complexion Beautified by
Beeson's Aromatic Alum Sulphur Soap.
Sold by Drugfrist or sent by mall on receipt of
accents by V), 1KE VDOPPF.L, Manu
facturer) U0S North Front St., Philadelphia, Pa I
No Ropa lo Cut Off Horsss' Manes.
Ueleurv I Kl' 1.1 I'SE II ALT Kit
ana mil IM.K Combined, cannot
be su inta or auy tiorse. Hampw
Halter to any uart of U. S. free, on
nirjwarttiri narniMi ueaiors.
Special dli 'ount to the irado.
Sena ror 1'riue Ll-t
j. i.KJiipirorsK,
It och enter, S. Y.
WANTEH-AOENTS, male ff"9mTt
anil feniale.to sell prettiest II 111 Id I J
p.eture 01 thl century, en- arlMSall K9
tilled "l.ht'e Sweetheart.:" le mx'Ji. Over oua
hundred thuiisund sold in London, England. In ons
day. Sow ready for America. Kveryli uly wilt want
one. Lots of money to he made dur nv autnuier
month . Kor particulars write uhaham ft Mii.lak, Art
ruullshera, HiU'entie.M,, Ho No. T. ew Voracity.
Salary and Expenses!
rSPKiRN Htlt f AKI.R FOKCK IM It pulaotit Area, washes
wnieoiiM, win it own, fUL. uplink If lawn, irfei, jmnlena.
If ill butn, iiM4'tit In plttnt, vine, tree, bajl out boats,
whUiMVftthmheii-hnutM". Tlirowa lr 60 iwt (12 ralloui
a nimuut.if iit-tMli-st). Price, To .nlroduct it will mui!
for!. ibrAhMiNTKU on N.liirr ami in. hanv
plelitrvtoMyentsv. A. 1. JSI'KlKa, North S imlJuini, Maine,
5
5 TON
WAGON SCALES,
Lva LtTtn, ScmI H.trUn, trasa
Tin & u4 kh
S
Jo.s s a par lb. S.li .i-fef fna
PHra Lbl anLlns IhU Ht'
J"- JONES Of IINCHAMJOIt,
illugaaiulea, IS. as
, A loll
mm
I 0,000 PER CENT PROFIT
NO IU MHL'li. KKND 1.0t).
I). H. JOIIN l.cncoi-U. I.HiK Hater Co.. Pa.
rintje Hotels, Stores, Mills. AH kinds of Heal
lAiirrlO KM etc for Mile or KxcualiRe. Kudos,
st nip for ll-n. W.S. Ilolrhalll.fr lirni & Kxchanx.
A'ucy, IH.S'UIMM TuN, N. V. Mention this paper
a. toSoldlera&Uelrs Sendsraraa
tfftMfflfiW for Olroular. COL. L. illi.
sT Ullviwllia 11AM. Att'y, WaMutngtua. 1. 0.
Dl aS' BHit Great English Gout and
Diet!! 5 rlllSi Rheumatic Remedy.
ijtul iSox fel.uui round! HO elm.
1 P.V n y'K'lt fsr rr.r. Mood.'s Ktw tlls.ttslM
51j.l I' Uot oq lir.M ukiu. N.s- lloimta, ana Mantis
c muu, t is. Assaii sail Ids a. i. Prf.aooU!,tisslaaui,U.
Fftr lart r urn-ll ftm all alMt, The iti-oiifcii ihotlff
eccunvr gitarAnteed, autl tbe oaly svbaeluUly mm rifle ea to
DAMaAItl) OALLERt. SPORTING AND TARCKT
Nime rnL.iue unlea!
Don't wsu your montr on a
-IsMUl's'! WKtl lite 4lhVt
THAI) MaRI.
U i ENGINES fiL
" BOILERS
f sv. ., .V , of all sizks. His-.' . Jl.'t
s',r..sw,i Write for circular LW 1 i- '-3
W Jt "mm rm
gaia-wi.VT' .'' rt, , .1r BEST IN THE
Wsksta. ... ,,. , ...rml;; . - l.SJ ,JV WORLD.
is aiHvuiuieiy vurr and irtii- moor, ana win fcep you arv in tha iiardtfkt aturm
Ask. luf tha "KlhH BltANU" ai.it ke and take no other. If vour atort krriMr du.-
ii.BL
Relief
Tn from one to twenrv minutes, never fll to re
lieve PAIN with one thorough application. Nomsl
terhow violent oreircnielatln the pain, the Rheu
matic, Pertrldden, Infirm, t'rlppled, Nervoua, Man
ralitlc. or prostrated with dlsse mav suffer. RAIL
WAY'S READY itkLIEK will aHord luaUuat saaa.
BOWEL COIIPLAIIiTS,
DYSENTERY,
Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus.
It will. In a few minutes, wh taken Internslly.
acconlin, t directions, cure t'ramns, spasms, Sour
Stomach. Heartburn. Sick Headache. SUMMER
COMPLAINT, Ularrhiea. Dysentery, UoUo. Wind la
the Bowels, and all Internal palna.
THE TRUE RELIEF.
RAPWAY'S PRAPT RFT.IKF Is the only remedial
event in vofrtie that will Instantly stop pain. It In
stantly relieves and soon cureB Headache, whether
sick or nervous. Toothache, Neuralgia, Nervousnes.
and Sleeplessness. ILhoumsttm, Lumlmro. I'aln.
and Weakness In th Pack, Spine or K dnevs, Pain,
around tho Liver, Pleurisy, Swelling of the Joints,
Sprains, Hrulses. Pltes of Insocts, and Pains of all
kinds, RADWAY'S READY RELIEF will afford Im
mediate ease, and Its continued us. for a few dayi
effect a perment cure.
MALARIA IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS.
FEVER AND AGUE.
There Is not a remedial airent In the world that will
cure Fever and Atrtie and nil other Malarious. Dil
lons. Scarlet and other Fevers (aided bv RAD WAY'S
PILLS) ao quick a RADWAY'S READY RELIEF.
Price Fifty Cent.. Mold by l)rnlat.
DR. RADWAY'S
(The Only Genuine)
SIRSIFIRILUIN RESOIMT!
The Great Blood Purifier,
For cure of all chronic diseases, Scrofula, Woo.
Taints, RyphllltleComplalnts, Consumption, Gland
ular Disease, Vloers, chronle Roeumatlsm. Erysip
elas, Kidney, Illnilder and Liver Complaints, Iiys-
fc psln. Affections of the I. un its and Throat, purine,
he Ulood, restoring health and vlgoa .
THE SKIN, .
After ft ffw rtavn' use of the SarnnportlUajTfoinftfi
clear and beautiful. Plmplea. Blotohoa, blurt Ppot
tmtift skin Kruptlona arc removed j Korea nnd i;.rr
noon cured. l emoni ititTertnn from Bcmftiia, Kmp
tlve D.HPfl-cs of the eyes, mouth, enrn, legs, throi
And gland, that have accumulated ana Rpread,
either from uncured dlneasen or mercury, may rely
upon a euro if the fcursaoaiilHftn ta continued m
sufficient time to make its lmpreuilon on th system.
Hold by DrugirWtn. 81 per Bottle.
DR. RADWAY'S PILLS
Tho Great Liver and Stomach Remtdy
For the ritre of all disorder, of the Stomach, T,lvr.
Bowels, Kldneva, Bladder. Nervous Diseanea. Loss of
Apietitft, leadache, Ooativeneaa, Indication, Bil
iousness, Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, Pile,
and all derangements of the luternal Vlacera. Pure
ly vegetable, containing no mercury, mineral, or
deleterious drugs.
Price cents per box. 8old by all druggist..
t"Send a letteratamp to I)Tt. Tt ADWAY cfc
CO.. No. Warren Street, Mew York, for
"False and True."
VBF. NUKE TO MET RADWAY'S,
N Y N TJ-ST
25
cts. BUYS A HORSE
Bonk telling yon how toDKTKCTaaa
CUKK UISKASK In this valuable aat.
Do not run the risk of losing vour Morse fot
want of knowledge to cure him. when Wc wtl I pat
for a Treatise. Buy one and Inform yonrMif.
Remedies for all florae Diseases. Plate, .hewing,
bow to Tell the Ag. of Iiortee. Cent postpaid fot
IS cent) In fUunpa.
M. Y. HOR8B BOOK CO.,
18 Leonard BU, N. Y. City.
consumption;"
tOfMhsrwIta. YAI UABI.KTRIATlBasa tkls.li
WaolsurT.rsr. llrs exproas and P. O. sd.r.as.
PH. T. A. eLOOUat, lit r.arist., hssr Trk.
CURIS WHIM All tUt f AILS.
Beat Oough Hyun. Taste gtMid. Use j I
in time. roiti ny qrntgisw. f 9
i? rrs i ,7, 5 : : r r- o : i
Rrinrl your own Bon.
u,,l,u Meal. y.tr Shell.
f
holla.
ORAHAM Flour ass Cora
in the SJiiJ IIAU -M rijU
(F. Wilson's Patent). v10O per
past, more m&ritt In keamtnr io ,1 1-
try.V Alto roWF.H 1 U.I.N and 1'AKH
FETa MILL. Circulars and Testltnonlala sent
eu application. VVIUOA Bit Ok)., Knatas lsv.
JAMS rA? ,.r- J ELLY
lnegnr, t'ntaiif, Preserves, ('Baaing aaa
Kfuul-iiinking tor farmers' wives, inalleu rree
with every dime p-ck of Kali Turnip Seed luny kind.)
UT PAPER Of WINTtK PKt'lM THllOwN IN.
J A MKfi II AMI.K V. Seed uruwer, Madison, Ark.
FRAZERGAHfL
BEST IX TIIK WORLD wSiiEsHOIw
trOel the Oon'ilno. Sil I Erervwhere.
riORPHIHE
HABIT CURED.
A IVKYV nir:Tiii
DR. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wlsconsia
I f nOI.I.AItS each for Nnv and
I J VerrKtWISU II A I'll INKS.
I Warranuitlivavasr.. g.nloa trial if da.
I stssalrrd. Huv dlrart snd asra $15 II-1 IS.
Oriraur'vn s praniiwrns. Wrila tor KKKKclr.
cellar wils UK tsillinenial r.oia .varv s'ala.
aU. fAYhK A CO. 4i H . BaarM !M I slra.
FACt, HANDS, FEET,
sad all Ib.lr Imparlacllaal, lacladlse KaHal,
Uavalopamrat, KiiaardMul iislr, Blrli Marks,
Molaa, Warn, stalk, Fnrklw, Had Ana.,
Bls. k HaaK.. s., pmlnv and lh.lt traaimaaaj
Dr. JOHN H. WOODHURVf
37 . raorlSU IIW,.,, S.V. F.ilVd 1I0. Kasd ISM. for Watu
TBURSTON'SSTOOTHPOWDER
Keeping Teeth PciTcrt and t.uin. Healthy.
a w as r mm r Obtained. Rend stamp for
I A I b 1 1 I O Inventor's Guide. U Brno-
hah, rateut Lawyer, wasniuyion, u. u.
O hai taktn th let la
tlicf.lf u that clii ot
emcdica, and h& gie
lnioit yaivetifil in(c-
MURPHY nROS.,
Fvii, T
Ghat wen the Uvor mi
the public and now ruli
imonjf live leading McaU
stoi ii.e oiuicm.
a. L. hMi nr.
Dradlord. Pa,
Rnivur'ViiiUfr, M ftKAkMrM. Aid
W bKIll 1.1TT WviMil r.MaMP 11 Hi AT.
Alifaaxfnrvea. ft.ukrk.aie .Dd qsick tnrmm. Trial paaa
4a. 8anA busu.a fr M.ictl pau-ucuiara. Addrte,
Dr. WARD & CO., lotlsiAJiA, s.
rifle mtvtla,
Pi"-f I.
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