MANNERS OF THE BRITONS.
Not as Nice an Tliey Are Represented—
Even the I*rinc©HHen anil Duchesne* Are
Rude as Compared to the Average Amer
ican I.ady.
>D HE other dav a pro
fessedly well-inform
ed lady said to me:
"In depicting the
styles of dross worn
by American women,
does it ever occur to
you that, although
{ we get most of oar
I costumes from Paris,
we take our aeoompa
f\ nying mannors from
"1 London?" She went
1 on to say that our
n best - behaved swells
reproduced the po
liteness of aristocrat
ic Britons. Well, I
have to-day consulted seriously with a
lady whose home is in New York, but who
has lived a great deal in London, and
who when there is an associate with the
aristocrats, even to the Queen's own co
terie.
"Polite Americans are always astonish
ed," she said, "on finding themselves in
the center of a fashionable throng at a
smart wedding, a state concert in the Al
bert Hall, or a grand gardeu fete. At any
of these functions ladies of high degree
may be seen elbowing their way, just like
the rude crowd at a country fair, and the
dismayed Yankees find themselves bruised
and trampled by the vigorous arms and
ruthless feet of dowager duchesses, who,
with the loftiest and most distin
guished air, will rend in shreds a
dozen mantles, or assault as many
of their less energetic sex, in the
wild endeavor to get the best for their
money. It is likewise characteristic of a
fashionable London assembly that, how
ever much its individual members may
jostle and scramble, and kick and elbow,
no word of apology or regret is ever heard.
Eaoh one assumes that the other is doing
likewise. All are making a supreme ef
fort to get foremost, and they perfectly
understand the manners of their set. The
oalm, imperturbable quiet which is popu
larly supposed to pervade, as Bui wer Lyt
ton said, the actions and habits of well
bred people is most decidedly not in
evidence l:ore. My lord is lighting as if
for liberty for bottles of champagne, and
my lady intercepts passing plates of lob
ster salad and oyster patties. Patrician
voices may be heard shrilly clamoring for
some special dainty that is fast vanishing
before the sight, and there are few sub
terfuges that a smart crowd will not
practice to secure a first entrance to the
comestibles. No, no. We may take our
clothes from Paris, but, for goodness'
sake, don't let's imitate London polite
ness."
There is among your acquaintances, no
loubt, the young girl who will not drink
ioffee because it makes her complexion
fellow, who eats stale bread, wheaten
grits, chopped rare meat, and abjures all
iweets ana starchy vegetables because
that regime is conducive to a lustrous
white skin and sparkling eyes. Society
is filled with girlß who are cranks on diet
and exercise, simply because they will
make any sort of a fight, and even sacri
fice their comfort, for a beautiful com
plexion. I have ofton wondered how far
this strict attention to one's self would
purify the skin texture. Now, I chanced
to run across an old friend of mine at
lunch time, and sat down with her and
her daughter, a young ladv of eighteen,
who is to make her social debut during
the present winter. The girl was one of
the fairest examples of perfect blonde
beauty I have ever seen. Her skin was
dazzling, it was so pure in its whiteness.
I will venture to say that the carefullest
examination in the strongest light would
not reveal a blemish on the lustrous,
healthy flesh. Her eyes also were as
brilliant as stars, the blue of them warm
and clear, the white like snow. The
fruity perleotion of this girl was so ex
traordinary that I was at once struck with
the fancy that if diet had anything to do
with producing a beautiful skin this
lovely creature must have been reared on
the dew from the honeysuckles. There
fore I was interested in what she chose
from the lunch card that the waiter
handed her. It can be imagined how
shocked I was when I heard the order.
Here it is: "A Wolsh rarebit, a bottle of
beer, and, afterwards, mince pie, cheese,
and a large cup of black coffee." The
mother who is one of those sweet ladies
with silvery hair and a face almost as
soft as a girl's, said that the waitor might
duplicate her daughter's order for her,
as it qnite suited her. I said nothing
about my thoughts, but my faith in the
iufluence of the diet on the comploxion
has been weak from that moment.— New
York correspondence Chicago Ledger.
AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION.
A New Iml wMry for Indigent Women.
HE newest industry for
indigent gontlowomon is
surely gaining ground with
_ § us. It is, moreover, an
American institution, so to
B oak, and quite unlike the
English which failed to
footing here in the
> P erson °' a woman who
came over from London to
t&A} do tho family spauking for
I our four hundred. We can
w our own B P an king, but
' onr mending, our
7 buttons and button-holes,
our laces and silk stockings need look
ing after. At least they did previous to
the formation of tho new industry I am
going to tell about. It was started by
a highly respectable widow of a clergy
man, who, being loft in straitened
circumstances, and having been all
her life too much occupied with do
mestic and parochial work to acquire
any money-making accomplishment of
the usual sort, turned her facility with
the needle into the means of a livelihood.
She began by going to the houses of her
personal friends for a day's visit and in
forming the lady of tho mansion that she
had brought her thimble, offered to sew
on buttons, repair frayed button-holes'
and the like while they chatted. She
plied her needle so effectively that her
services were soon sought for by over
taxed, or indolent, or philauthropically
iuclined matrons. It was not long beforo
she had all that she could do, later on
more than she could do, and litter still
she brought several assistants—women:
situated as she had been—into the work,
and now has a systematic and lucrative
business. You may ofton see her, or one
of her corps of assistants, on her way to
the day's mending and repairing, but you
will see nothing less thau a well-dressed
gentlewoman, looking as if she were
goiug to spend the day with a friend.
You would never imagine that tho but
tons and strings, the frills and laces, the
stockings and gloves of a hundred fam
ilies depend on her for their beautiful ,
completeness, but such is the case, She
can repair a lace Uounce which has suf
fered from a masculiue foot as no lady's!
maid that was ever born can do. I saw'
one, where her needle had thrown an ex
quisite fern leaf over the darn, that the 1
owner declared was the prettiest figure
iu the whole fabric. Of course work like
that command H a price, and her ploasant
rooms, the air of plenty and refinement
about everything, indicato that sho gets
it. When asked how she ever thought of
the unique scheme for earning her living,
she said: ,
"Many years ago, whon my childron
wore small, and my husband's salary not
tho largest, my burdens were often light
ened by a dear old lady iu tho parish
who made it a practice of coming to tho
parsonage once a month for a day of
mending and repairing. It was a love
offering from her to hor minister and hit
family. Wlieu I was loft alone, with
plouty of time and no money, it occurred
to me that I might turn an honest penny
by Bervina others, who could afford to
pay lor tne service, lu a similar way.
And yon see I have succeeded, both for
myself and for them, for no family that I
have once put on my list of patrons has
ever dropped out."— New York letter to
Chicago Ledger.
LETTERS FROM THE CORNERS.
NEOK-OR-NOTHIN' HALL, I
Kn.LKENNT R Cosmos, f
fur Susan Jane's.
She lived about 49
V an a 4 frum
John Jones, but es
'n lied to go in a
wargin all the way
an we'd hev to oamp
< out 1 nite, the wid
der was tickled to deth with the idee
of campin.
"It'll be jest like gipses or injuns,"
ses she. John James hed intended to
take us, but he want hardly able arfter
his tussel with the bees, so he got a
man to drive the teem fur us, an he
tole us the way, sose we coodnt possa
bly miss it, an we stnrted.
"O, deer!" ses the widdor; "ef I'd
only a thunk to arsk John Jim ef this
feller was a maryed man," an' thare
she wurrited over et till we stopped
fur dinner, an' then when we went to
lode up agin she got in to the sete
with him, an' ses she: "It's a buteful
kintry we're a passin threw; jest see
the lark thet sores above our hed's, an'
then sinks to rest into them huge trees
thet grows oil yander grassy nole."
"Humph! them'ud make fust class
posts," ses he, a squirtin' tobaccer
juoe.
"O, yes, indeed!" ses the widder;
■"an then only think how nice them
post'ses wood look a surroundin' sum
vine kivered cottage, whare a young
cupple dwells in love an contentment,
with flowers in frunt an' along the
grean brordered path, an' a vegetable
patch on tho back, whare the voung
wife cood go to fetch vegetables to
prepare fur the dinner of the one man
in the world she so fondly loved. OI
what a picture of love and piece thet
simple word posts'es bring to my
mind," an'she leaned a leetle closter
to him an' sitliod.
"Git up, Daxter," ses he, a-squirtin
more tobaccer juce. The widder looked
et him kindy curus like, an Willam
Henery he started to snigger rite out,
but I tromped on his corn, an thet
changed his tune. "Uol ram it! Hes
ter Ann, if yure feat air so big you
kain't keep from trompin on a feller,
I'll let mine hang out; an he put em
onto the outside o' the wargin-box, an
by the time I hed him pencilled it wer
lime to camp fur the nite, which we
dun by a-putting up a pole, with sum
9le quilts an things outo it thet Mariar
hod giv us to make a tent out of. Well,
we et our supper thet Mariar hed sent
along—a ham bono an sum cole beens
an ros'n years. The widder an me wus
a-goin to sleap in the tent, an Willam
Henery an the man that wus a-drivin
us, into the wargin.
Well, we all went to bed jest like
gipses, so Holly Bed, au there coodu't
a ben a more romantik spot, I don't be
loave.
I went to sleap rite off, fur I wus
tired es I oood be. I don't think I hed
ben to sleap over a hnf a nour —it mite
hev ben 35 minnits, but not more then
tliet,, when the widder begin to holler:
"I'msnaikbit! I'msnaikbit! Send fur
the doctor! Take him off! he's a bitin'
me!" an' other like things, an' she out
o' the tent an'threw the brcsh an'grass
like a crazy caf; au' et wus a plumb 4
hour afore Willain Henery an' me an'
the other man cood run her down an'
tind what wus the matter.
"Owl I'll dye of the rabbys," she
hollered, a rubbin' her shin; an' I look
ed, an' instid o' ttndin' a snaik a-hang
iu' to her, it wan't notliin' only a pinoh
bug, er stag heatle, es some call 'em.
"You'd better go a-campin' agin," ses
Willam Henery. But she made a slap
at him with her slipper, an' hit him
betwixt the shoulders, but didn't do no
serus dam midge, so we all went back
to bed agin.
Your Trew Frend,
HESTER ANN SCOOPER.
THE PRESERVATION OF BEAUTY
According to tlio Lwn of Health.
fHE care and pres
male beauty has
been a study from
earliest history.
Even in the Bi
ble we read of
the arts that
women have em
ployed to enhance
their beauty, and
history and tra
dition have pre
sented us some strange things to be
lieve. Noted beauties have been men
tioned as having taken baths of wine,
of aßses' milk, of milk and honey, and
many other things to preserve their
charms.
It is said by historians that some of
the renowned beauties bathed in dew,
collected by slaves, and others again
in rain water, and so on through all tho
possible things in creation. It is even
related of one great beauty that she
was bathed every day in fresh bul
lock's blood while it was yet w arm.
It would occupy tho wliole LEDOER
to recount the stories current of the
ridiculous ideas held by the aucieuts as
to different means to preserve or re
store their charms, and few of them
would be of service in the light of sci
ence.
The most of the so-called cosmetics,
from the very beginning of the use of
them, were based upon poisonous sub
stances, just as they are to-day, and
we read in a book on Egypt that a
paste made of an araenical preparation
was used over four thousand years
ago, and from that time to the present
day women have been using all kinds
of preparations offered for sale by
conscienceless persons, the most of
them made of most dangerous min
erals.
It would be a curious study to show
in what beauty consists, according to
different ideas, in different countries,
though, according to their lights, the
women in each do the most they can to
render themselves attractive, and in
all countries women havo, and always
will, rely upon the use of cosmetics
of one kind or another to enhance
their charms or conceal the ravages of
time.
To impress upon those who may read
this so ides of articles the fact that they
are taking their lives, oven, into their
hands, to sav nothing of eventually
ruining whatever good looks tlioy had
in the beginning, wo shall toll them
something of the materials which enter
I iuto tho compounding of tho various
preparations now in ttie market, ana
which are said (by the makers) to be
entirely harmless."
All of the so-called creams, and lily
balms, and such like liquids, are of ne
cessity based upon white lead, and are,
beyond measure, injurious to health
and beauty. The commonest kind of
flake white is generally used in their
manufacture, and what is iuone bottle,
for which the buyer pays from 75 cents
to $2, costs but the fraction of a penny.
Bose-water, diluted with pure water,
fills the rest of the bottle. The bottle
must be well shaken before using, as
the lead settles to the bottom, and the
water then takes the appearance of
cream, which is applied to the face
with a sponge, which is exactly the
same thing as painting a door or a wall,
in effect, and a dead white is the ro
sult, which is unnatural and ugly.
Some of them have a drop or two of
cochineal added, which gives a so-called
flesh tint, which is as glaring as the
white in its uunaturalness.— Emma
Vilo in Chicago Ledger.
A Treacherous Memory.
Mr. Brown, of Detroit, has a very
treacherous memory. If Brown were
addicted to borrowing money it would
be a very bad thing for his friends, for
he would never remember his indebt
edness, even though he were liouest
enough to pay. Perhaps that is the
reason Brown never borrows anything
if he can help it. He knows his weak
ness and doesn't take any chances.
The other day Brown wns at a well
known restaurant in the city of Detroit,
and he got away with a thirty-cent din
ner. He pulled out a $lO bill and
offered it to the cashier at the desk.
The cashior looked over the change anil
finally said that she could not chango
the bill, and remarked that it did not
matter; he could pay the thirty cents
the next time he was in, for Brown was
a regular frequenter of that restaurant.
Next day he came and next, and next,
and next, but never thought of pay
ing the bill. The oashier, who was
a modest young lady, hated to ask him
for the thirty cents, thinking he would
suggest the thing himself, but he did
not do it. Finally she spoke to the
proprietor of the restaurant.
"Mr. Brown," she said, "owes thirty
cents for a lunch he had here the other
day, and he has not offered to pay it.
Hail I better remind him of it?"
"Well," said tho proprietor, "you
must do it rather carefully, you know;
he might tuke offense. A man never
likes to be reminded of a debt that he
owes. Perhaps I had better speak to
him about it."
Then the young ladvjoalled the wai
ter who generally attended on Mr.
Brown, anil said:
"Did that gentleman, who has just
gone out, pay you for a dinner that ho
had here the other day ?"
"No," answered the waiter, "he did
not."
"Well, he owes us thirty cents, and
I don't know whether to speak to him
or not."
"Why, I should speak to him at
once," said the waiter, "if I were you.
I'll speak to him, if you like."
"Well, we had better wait and see
what the proprietor says first."
Next day when Brown came in and
went to pay his bill tho cashier said in
a hesitating voice:
"You remember, Mr. Brown, that
there was thirty cents due for lunch
the other day."
"Bless my soul," said Brown, sur
prised, "so there was. I didn't pay
that, did I?"
"No," she answered, "you did not.
"Well, well, take it out of this," and
Brown paid his bill.
The next day the proprietor met
Brown coming away from the cashier's
desk. He looked to see if he were
going to pay the thirty cents, and
noticing that he did not, he tapped
him on tho shoulder as he was going
out.
"I am sorry to interrupt you, Mr.
Brown, but you owe us thirty cents for
a lunch that you had hero the other
day."
"Oh, that's all right," said Brown. "I
had forgotten entirely about it. Well,
here you are, a quarter and a nickel,
that'll make it square, won't it ?"
"That'll be all right, Mr. Brown,"
said the proprietor, as he pocketed
the cash.
The day following Mr. Brown took
his lunch at his usual table, and the
waiter, seeing it was a good oppor
tunity, and having noticed that lie did
not pay his thirty cents at the cashier's
desk the day before, said:
"Mr. Brown, you remembor tho
thirty-cent check you owed two or three
days ago?"
"No," said Brown, "I don't. What
about it ?"
Well," said the waiter, "you didn't
have the money to pay it that day."
"Hadn't I?" said Brown. "Well, I
will jiay it to you now, and that will
make us all right, won't it ?"
"Certainly," said tho waiter, and
Brown for the third time forked over
the thirty cents.
As Brown was paying his check that
day the waiter plaukeil down the
thirty cents which he had just oolleeted
and said:
"That's for Mr. Brown's lunch the
other day."
" What other day ?" said the proprie
tor, who stood there.
"Why, Mr. Brown owed us thirty
cents, you know."
"Why, he paid that to me," said the
cashier.
"Yes, but he paid it to me, too," said
the proprietor.
And so, ar Brown frequented au hon
est restaurant, he got sixty cents back,
whereas his poor memory might have
cost him that sum of money.— Detroit
Eree Erexx.
A Oood Substitute.
"Ladies and gentlemen," said the
professor, "I find that I cannot per
form tho oxperimentof inflation, as the
wind machine is out of order."
There wns n great groan of disap
pointment.
"However," added tho professor,
suddenly, "I may be ablo to provide a
substitute. Is tliero a gentleman from
Chicago in the audience ?"
She Oot Rid or One of Her Followers.
Mistress (to new girl)—By tho by,
Bridget, I forgot whether I told you
or not when yon came, but I do not
allow my kitchen girls to have any fol
lowers.
Bridget—Yez tould me when I came,
Mrs. Chucksley, an' I haven't forgot.
I dlirove Mr. Chucksley out av the
kitchen laslit night wid a dipperful of
bilin' watlier, mum."
A VEGETABLE flannel is made in Ger
many of flue leaves, which are woven
into undergarments anil clothing of
various kinds. One great advantage is
no vermin will lodge in clothes mads
from the material.
FASHIONS FOB GENTLEMEN.
Some Suggest ions lor Heavy Swells.
# invisible dark
shades will be
a color per
manently seen
in mixed suit
ings and
spring over
coatings. The
designers of
line cloth fab
rics seem to
have made a
concerted
inovo io give
these rich and
subdued color
ings an oppor
tunity to over
some the prejudice which has heretofore
existed against them.
In diagonals and in wide wale goods
for Epring topcoats the dark-green shad
ings are quietly effective to a quite irre
listible degree.
The double-breasted long sack reefing
jacket, made to fit loosely, is the bright
particular hit of this season in the cloth
ing business.
Well-made trousers are seen at their
best under the present accepted vogue as
to measurements. The tendency toward
the absurd balloon revival has been hap
pily oheoked. The correct trousers are
now cut reasonably snug about the hips
with a straight fall and a slight sharp
taper toward a point at the bottom.
Aside from the crush hat, the tall silk
stovepipe is the only appropriate head
gear to be worn with evening dress.
Swelldom will welcome the opera hut
back again when the proper time arrives,
for the silk hat is, upon occasions, vory
much in the way and decidedly incon
venient to manage.
Some of the ultra swells will wear
white waistcoats when the thermometor
is down near freezing point. The nio
terial is washable, but infinitely warmer
than tho summer textures.
The figured waistcoat is the one sop
cast by the relentless fashion-molders
this season to the small army of men
with ready money to spend in costume,
and possessing a well-defined penchant
for the natty and picturesque in dress.
In the variety of style and beauty of
workmanship the American manufac
turers of caues and umbrellas long since
distanced European competitors. These
articles come forth in wondrous multi
plicity of design at this period of the
year, and for serviceability those of the
best qunlity may be warranted to stand
all of the tests in contest with the best
example on which duty was ever paid.
As if to deprecate and discountenance
the wearing of tho high hat with the
sack dress *coat, some of tho leading
swells have taken to wearing brown and
light-colored Derbys with the garment.
This attitude makes tho association of
the high hat and swallowtail even more
distinctively correct, and furthermore
acts ns a foil to any suggestion of en
croachment upon the realm of the skirt
coat of full evening dress.
How the Infants Shoot.
A charming young public school
teaclior, with a very lively set of young
charges, is responsible for tho follow
ing tales, which appear in the Wash
ington Post. She told the youngsters
to write compositions on "Good Man
ners." This was the most unique, by
an eight-year-old:
"Good manners is keeping your fresh
mouth out of other people's business."
The teacher drew a picture on the
blackboard of a boy wading in the
water holding a crab in the net. Little
Jules Gamier wrote:
"The crab we see on the board is not
a deviled crab, but a salt water crab."
Is the dime novel disappearing from
the hands of innocence? It looks
that way. Tho teacher read her pupils
a short Indian story. They listened
with open-mouthed interest.
" —'and tomahawk flew by the boy's
head and buried itself in a tree.' Now,
children, how many of you know what
a tomahawk is?"
No reponse.
"Come, any boy who knows what a
tomahawk is may hold up his right
hand."
One timid hand went up.
"Well, Johnny, what is a toma
hawk ?"
"A tomahawk, Miss Mamie, is some
kind of a bird, I believe 1"
"Why do you think it is a bird?"
"Because it is a hawk, and you said it
flew by the boy's head."
Innocence forever, and down with tho
"Boy Scout of Dead Man's Gulch!"
Cornfield Philosophy.
The hen that lays tho golden egg
will not make a pot-pie any better
than tho old rooster that lays no egg
at all. Kill the rooster.
Tho railroad iM a good institution
until it runs across your own farm.
Don't try to light a match by
scratching it on ice.
"Try, try again," is a motto that will
hardly apply with good results to in
vesting in lottery tickets.
The poor man has few of the luxu
ries of this life, but then he is not com
pelled to lie to the tax assessor.
It will not hurt you for some one to
sav that you are a liar and a thief. It
istnly when he proves his charges that
you lose caste with your neighbors.
Perhaps the reason that your neigh
bor prays so long on a Sunday, after
cheating you during the week, is that
he feels down in his heart that he
needs lots of prayer to save him.—
Chioaao Ledaer.
STATH or OHIO, CITY or TOLEDO, I M
LUCAS COUNTY, | W '
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he Is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. CUENky &
Co., doing busino s in t o City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay iho sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot
be cured by the uee of HALL'S CATARRH CURB.
FRANK J. CIIENKY.
Sworn to before rao and subscribed in illy
presence, this Oth day of December, A. D., 1880.
j j A. W. GLF.ASON.
1 SEAL >• Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly upon tho blood and mucous sur
faces o Uio system. Send for testimonials,
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
.Sold by Druggists, 7 c.
—Kissing mutches don't come by the box.
Tlie Excitement Not Over.
lhe rush on the druggists still continues and
daily scores of people call for a bottle of
Kemp's Balsam for tho Throat and Lungs for
the euro of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis
and Consumption. Kemp's Balsam, tho stan
dard family remedy,la sold on a guarantee and
never falls to give entire satisfaction. Price
fiOo and $L Trial size free.
—Life's so short that n man's stupid who
wastes one hour of it.
What it Costs
Uust be carefully coMldereil by tbo great majority
people before buying an article which ecema
jbsolutcly necessary. Hood's Sarsaparllla com
mentis ltsolt with special forco to tho great middle
"lass", because It combines positive economy with
ircat medicinal power. It la tho only medicine of
which can truly be eald "lJ Doses Ono Dollar,"
and a bottlo of Hood". Sorsoparllla token according
redirection, will avorago Io last a month, whllo
othor medicine, last hut half or quarter as long,
Try Hood's Sarsaparllla aud see for yourself.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Bold by all drdjglsts. sl| six for $3. Prepared only
by 0.1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, ilosi.
100 Doses One Dollar
Getting the Wrong Horse.
TVhile on the survey of one of the
Texas railroads we had with us one of
the meanest horses u man ever saw. lie
was fair to look upon, but he hail traits
which caused a threat to shoot him every
hour in the day. The man who ap
proached that horse when he was feeding
put his life in peril. One day when we
were in temporary camp "Old Satan," as
we called the horse, wandered away from
the other animals to richer pasture. He !
was feeding at a distance of about forty
rods and in grass knee-high, when one of
our men who had climbed a tree to get a
look at the country called down to us in
a low voice: ''Boys, there's fun ahead.
A Comanche is working his way through
the grass to steal Old Satan. Don't make
a move, but wait for results."
We waited. The Indian had come out
of a dry ditch a mile long on purpose to
steal one of our horses and have some
thing to boast of. lie must have
chuckled with delight when the best
looking horse in all the lot walked right
down to him and asked to be run off. In
about five minutes the dusky thief was
near enough for his purpose. Perhaps
Hie horse saw him—perhaps not. The
I first thing we saw, however, was an In
dian on horseback. He uttered a yell of
triumph and tried to start the horse off,
but Old Satan stood straight up and
shook him loose, and the fellow had
scarcely touched the earth before he was
seized, flung hither and thither, and
walked all over.
We ran to the spot and drove the
horse away, to find the Indian uncon
scions. He was a sad sight to look upon
resembling a man who had been run
through a threshing machine, and it was
all of half an hour before he opened his
eyes. We gave him whiskey, signed to
him that he might go if he could, and he
rose up with a great effort and sneaked.
—[New York Sun.
The Old, Old Bcoryw
A little cough: a fooling ill;
A headaohe oft; a daily dull:
A slower walk: a quickened breath;
frequent talk of coming death.
No strength to rise from <hvy to dayi
From loving oyea ho fades away.
No# lifts no m re the weary head.
The atrugjrlo's o'er; tho man is dead.
Such is tho lßtal progress of consumption.
How often is repeated the d&me old. old pfory.
Yet not half so often as it was before the
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Ureal disease c mid be arrested in Its early
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! 3'40 North Fifteenth Hi,, Philadelphia, Pa., fog
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Inipotency and kindred diseases, no matter of how
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