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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1884)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. i It I. I, CAMI'ltl'.IJj. I'roprletor. EUGENE CITY, OREGON. FORTY YEARS AGO. reunion of Our 'ntlier. nil Tlilnji Tint Wrrt familiar. Sow Obso lete. Prentice Mttlfonl.l Fm-tv vpnrs atto tho lecturer iwiil lecture course lial not made their ap pcarame. Tlio villago debating society vu of regular winter occurrence, li etiKsinir "Which wan tlio greater mnn, (leorgo Washington or CliriMtojiliitr Hut u 11 iliiw?" or "Wlmt invention has been mot useful to mankind, tlio art of liriiitinir or tlio manner s compass? Tlio land wan fmo for all to Hhoot over. Hrooch-loadors and "shells" or "cartridges" were nnthought of. dun' ners cut their own wads, jionrcd tlio charge of powder into the inu.zlo, then a handful of shot, adjusted tne licrciw ion can and banired away. Hut if the fowlituMiioce was not improved, tho game of all descriptions was far more plentiful. Forty years ngo doer wore (till native to tho pine forests of Long Inland, and a yearly hunt for tuem was organized by tho Bjiorting eloment of mis country. . The trunk of tho period was covered with sealskin, the bristly liair outward, and studded with small brass nails. Tho baggage-smasher had barely boon do- eloK!d. Valises wero long and narrow, HodiUe-hairs were not out of (Into. City hotels called tho guests to moals liy tho eontr or dinner-boll, llio land lord sat at the head of tho table, and carved the break fust steak. The guests dined toguther all at tho sanfo hour. Dinner was servod with grent parado and formulitv. Tho waiters removed the covers from tho chafing dishes at a given signal, boro them aloft out of tlx room, then reappeared and carried on dishes to bo carved at sido tables. Tho oyster saloon of that time wan furnisliod with "stalls and curtained recesses, affording partios more seclu sion and quiet than thoso of to-day. It hung witlio it, a cloth-covered, balloon shaped sign, painted red, inside of which a candle was stuck at night. The bar of tho period was more dingy than that of tho present, but tho liquor was better. Itrandy was not obsolete. In the city drinks w ero three rents "bo foro tho screen" ami six conts behind it. Six-eiit drinks were deemed extrava gant and so were three-cent cigar.. Among old and prosperous families could lie found more cut-class decanters and port or Madeira either in tho closet or on the sideboard than to-day. Hun dreds of the smaller agricultural villages forty years ago maintainod one or two "taverns" where now there aro none. Tippling and intcmpcranco among our native population was farmoro general. Tho "solid men" of tho town belonged to ongino companies, and pumped faith fully at tiros. A villago lire often terminated in a subdued and respoeta ble drunk. Exhaustion justified un usual recourse to stimulants at unac customed hours, and the rest followed. Tho villago engine was always under repair after a lire and always broke down at one. Householders wero re quired by law to keep leathern buckets to be used at fires, , J.'hoy hung in the hallwav and hail lih, 0'vor's . im printed ou them in white letters, Inn't Hrlvcr Dnoujli. i At the Gentlemen' Driving park, wliero William II- Vanderbilt aud other owners of fust horses speed their teams I cavjo across a man who found delight in (something that had never struck mo, Vanderbilt was urging his best pair around tho course for tho first time since ho was overturned in tho snort by a collision. Tho gait was a slashing one, and I asked a spectator, who had timed a milo of it, how swift it was. " Two thirty-six, glory to Hod I" was tho unexpectedly fervid unswer. "Hut tliev caii do much better than that." I said. "Yes, and that's what mnkes me grin. They can do better, but Hill Vander bilt can't lnako 'em. Ho ain't driver enough for it, you know. If ho had a thousand millions instead of two hundred, them horses wouldn't go their liest clip for him. He has to hand tho ribbons over to .lohnny Murphy when ho wants to show thoir speed. Don't you a'poso he'd plank down a good- sized fortuno enough to kk if d it would buv skill that team? I'll but yon $10 on it." Vanderbilt is not singular in Wing unable to drive his horses for tho best that is in them. Homier, Work, Hocke feller all of these, owner of the fast est four teams iu the world aro com polled to put professional drivers into tho buggies when a remarkable per formance is desired. This employe is Usiulfy tlio trainer of the beasts, knows tho.r peculiarities perfectly, and is un derstood by them to be their complete muster. Sot ono of tho men 1 have -L-c'ied can drive his horses within ten seconds as fast as they will go for the trainer. The Nni nil Hoy. Hut do uot be bard en tho small boy. lie is a human and he loves the woods and all that there is if them and when he loves a thing he will work for it, Our teachers and parents might make a note f this. He loves tho pure air and the refreshing iniidlioles. At school with every door uud window closed, ho feds stupid ...and sick, llo cannot tell how many two times two are without counting his in. gers, and sometimes is not bright enough for that. Hut place him on a raft in a pond iu some lonely dell, or let him chaw the chipmunk tiirough tho thorn brush; he may neglect to make exact calculations ' as to dinner time, but ho will tell you exactly how many jumps the chipmunk made and bring home more observations on the phenomena of nature than tho best naturalihU can properly note in a week. The moral is that the "small boy needs nir, and not o much wind pudding. This is a suggestion made for the pa rents, and teachers also. THE MODERN 6INEVRA, Tint tho 3niinB.Lock Hid in Am btnh Thorn 'Didn't Fa.ton' II r Down Forever." Ii. fr.iit Fn Press. Tlie fair Iuihcim D'Eustis had b" tn the kiiL'htlV Koin HiirKliw. Tim eli-rifViiiitii li'i'l Iim-ii liuuliM ' in ciimi to on. for tH8 splicing, Hi" W(i wetv filling tlmin iu.1v.hi m with eiltllbll. Slid CVtMTtlllll'' wo slldlnz along as smoothly an a cider mill will inif down on a mirinir f resliet, when all at oneo the hriilo was niMnir. Her newly found bushuii'l looked wide the table, but she wait not there. Tlio guests 'araUHl to search. Rom lookeJ down tlie well other down cellar- others In tlio lien-coop and smoke-house and behind the ill.' pell. Illlozene. Then some said that she had lieenabducted, while others scoffud at the idea of a gtl weighing I'M pounds and' having a sen am which could be heard two mlli-s, being car ried ulf In broad daylight, and In a neighbor- bood where the DumocraU nod over two bun- dred majority. A detective tu called in. Ho looked at her old shawl, measured the length of Iter boos, and decided Mutt it was a mysterious affair, lie would take the case ir desireii, but would not promise any satisfactory solii' tlon under a year and a half. The fair Imogcue'i father hadn't lietroyed much excitement up to this point The wed' ding feast was the first square tiioal he bad tackled fur six months, and us wanted to nil un b 'fore el vim: way to emotion. He was now full. He turned around uixin the ex cited and distressed guests, comiuanilud them to bush their bullaballo, and disappeared up burs. Whon the coy Imognne slipped away from tli feast It won to see if her bimlmnd would miss and follow her. Hue slid up stain, mounted to the garret, and after brushing the cob wclis off her lie mi she advanced to the big blue chest iu the corner. The chest bad been made to bold ber lather s government bonds, and was hooped with iron and pro vided with a Miring lock, which never cost lens than a dollar. Hur mission was to hide in the chwt and sea if her huslxind would be soft enough to climb up there and throw up the lid and call iteek-a-lsio. As the reader knows, be wasn t the man to catch on. The old man D'F.iutis walkel up stairs anil made bis way to the garret through the same trap-door the bride bad used. lie thought she might be up there to take a last farewell look ut the bunches of cutnip, moldy schoul books and broken spinning-wheels. Ho could not see ber. He called aloud, but the whistle of tho tug eu tbo river was tho only answer. Ho turned to go, but something whistwred to him that icrhas bo might find a plug of to bacco or a In t tie of stomach bitters in the old chest. Ho advaucud with beating heart and throw up the lid. ' W hy, pop, in this you! cried the fair Imo- gene as she Kprung up and ripiod ber bridal ureas clear dowu the liaok. "Yes, this is me!" growled the old man and what the jlmcracksareyoudoing heruf, "Hiding from Sam." "I'm a Uirnal mind to box your ears, big as you are! Here you ve raised a regular city convention all over the house, vpuilt a dress which cost me ffU with the making, up set your mother, aud sort old Mi's. (Spigot into a fit! ' "Please, pop, 1 " "You git! Drop yourself through that trap-hole, skip down there aud fell the crowd that you don't know beuns when tlie bag's untied." And the bride got. And nor husliand was to mad that bo burned up a five railroud n o Chicago, and ber mother cried, aud her father went off down town to play poker, and, taken all iu all, the coy brido aud the old chest and the spring lock business didn't ay 10 cents ou the dollar. lie Agreed That It Would. III from, of a IV trolt butcher shop yester day a butcher sat cleaning a revolver. It wan a rusty old "liill" which had not been used for years and was to bo put in order and tradisl elf. A Khocniukcr came along di rectly and elmervisl: "Of course there'll lie an aecldenti" "Y-e-s, I presume so." "It isn't loaded, is Itf" , "Oh, no," "Hut It will go olT "It will." "I never saw a revolver without wanting to handle it I't me look at that wtaoi. Ah! I'm Kutixljed now tlmt it disWt contain any stray bullets. lo you suppose you could bit my foot at that distaius.it'' "Certainly I could. Now, if kbo w its loodtsl I'd take a divid sight like that and pull the trigger and" Tbo shoemaker juiiqieJ two feet and yelled like an Indian, aud w hen he camo dowu bu ilimcod and kiekisl mid gallocd around until jHHiple thought him crazy. It was only after crowd had coMocteand cornered him up the shop that lOiy ono found out tho trouble. The butcher bad put a bullet along the solo of his foot close enough to draw blood. "I toll you she'd go off:" howled tho shio maker, an be sat w ith bis boot iu bis band. "And didn't 1 Bj;reo with you.1" innocently rcsiKiiided the butclur. raralysluir a ilagiraunnnn. "Check my haggnge, sirf" exclaimed a not unmusical voice at the Central deHit yenter dn y morning. The toKser of iiei-Hona! prop erty reached out bis horny baud with the bit of brass in the same nonchalant wav that ho has done it a thousand times In-fore. Put his indifference was tliiclled when be iaw tho Voucher ilisiipvar iu the pocket of a gentle man's coat, which was Mretched over the skirt of a full length billy's dnsss. Lifting Ills astoiiiOusl even from the frills and rutlles of the ample lower garment be saw a well rounded chest clothed ill a neatdlttiiig waist- coat: next a shapely neck encircled with a No. ltl turn-dow n collar increased his wonder; theu a head w ith clow'ly-cropped Mack hair, surmounted by a jaunty lK'iby bat, filled bim with astonishment. Tlw mystery was ivm solved, for hi aiunrer to a few kind questions the one rolled in mystery declared that she was a girl; that ber name was Mis Uryant; that she hailed from Fulton, Oswego county, audwasiiota doctor nor a.diiaviple of Mary Walker or Miss ISloomcr. And t-lie likewise affirmed that she was not a reformer, uever knew of any one w ho bad adopUsl her uiodc of dress, and did not know as any one wouhL Her ibj.H-t was comfort and economy. Mie IhssIisI not the suppressed whisvr of tlio lii'li.si or tlie glaniv of askance of tlw gentle men, but tawed ln'1-self In an apparent it lme reverie over a little bouquet fas tened on the lapiH'l of ber ciot Pccldcd at l.t. A Texo ilflnting ivx-k-ty detntol the qiiestion, "VIi.mi a watermelon vine runs on to another miiu's himl, wlo owns tlie melon.." Tho n-feree decided tliat the c-'l r.sl msu who livd Umt a -Ho and a iulf from tb two farm, owned the melon. BOB TINKHAM'S LITTLE TADD1JL Why the Oid Lawyer Wlioveit Hack from the Talile and -IHdu't Ktel Mkc IMayln' Iirrrd." After the hand was played, and while theho'eniati and tho jtistico weio dis enssing as to whoso deal it was, the old lawyer ant wit:i elbows on tuo tame his chin resting on his hands. Ho seemed to be thinking Of something fur, far awav. Now ami tnon his heavy gray head nod led slightly and his parted litis moved as if ho wero saying some thinir awav down i:i his soul. Ho hud forirotten tlio iramo ; his mind was over whelmed with the past, ami tlio fond memories that flitted before his eves aided tho glistening drops that stood in them to shut out tho vision of tuo pros cut. "Thero's your hand." Tho words aroused tho old lawyer, and ho raisod his head, but his eyes held fast their gaze on the table top. "Hoys," said ho, roughly brushing tho tears from ins eyes, ana willing ins spoc tacles. "I s'poso it's awful foolitth like fur a big feller like me to sit hero a crvin'. but when I seen them marks there they 'inindo 1 me o' the day Hob Tinkham sot right hero where I do now an kep'. gamo there on the table. That was nigh twenty years ago, but aomohow I can t got it oft my mind iiaw Jlob sot bore a-latighiu' an' jokin', an bavin the best kind o time, an all at once, with out a bit o' warnin', how Jim Dempsey come carryin' Hob's little boy Taddie in, an said as how the palo little fellow had been run over by a hay rack and was dead. Hob was jest makin' that 'ere mark that's only half as long cs the rest when Jim kicked in the door and put tho boy on the floor right there by that ere winder. 1 ve soon a good many pretty solemn-like things, but that was tho Holomnist thing I ever soon. Little Taddie warn't dead, but jest as Jim put him on the floor lie oponod them pretty little blue eyes o' his'n an' said: "Oh, papa." Then to see Hob Tinkham great, big, husky man as 'e was git down on 'is knees an' cry lilto 'is heart 'd break, it was enough to make tho meanest man in the world boo-hoo right out. An' then little Taddio said: "Oh, papa; it's gittin so dark oh oh papa, don't let littlo Ta.ldio die. Tell Dod not to let littlo ' and Taddio broke off what he was sayin' jest as bis pa had broke oft makin that mark right in the middle, an' he novor said another word iu the world. An' Hob Tinkham, as ho nover prayed since ho como to Oxford in '37, put his hands towards the roof an' told Uod ho didn t know nothing about pravin', but he'd give anything lie had if , Taddio'd jost open his eyes once more and only say pupa jost onoe. An' then he prayed liko I never heard no body pray before sence I was born; an' I said to myself 'tain't big fine words that gits up to heaven, but it's foelin's jest liko Hob Tinkham's. An', boys, sure as you live, I'vo been sorry ov'ry sonco tliet I couldn't a laid down thore an' died an' lot little Taddie live. Jest think, an old critter like nie with roomatiz all over mo so's I can't do nothin' worth anything for anybody 1 kin live along furevor, but a little boy like Taddio, jost when he's havin' nil the fun there is in life hits to up an dio and leave everybody that loves 'im an' wants 'im to live. I toll yethev kin sny what they're a mind to 'bout there bein' no other world after this 'un, but et there ain't then things ain't built ou the foundation of justice, that's all. Hay, boys, I . don't feel like playin' koerds no more to-day. And tho old lawyer pushed back from tho table and sat a long, long time with his elbows on his knees, and his faco ou bis hand looking ut tho floor. Military llrldze Ilulldluz- Aniong tho military maneuvers in Europe this season ha been bridgo building at l'resburg by a battalion of Austrian pionoers (engineers), assisted by liilS reservists. At tho plnoo chosen tho Dunubo is 3(59 metres broad, with maximum depths of seven metres, aud the velocity of tho current is nioro than four miles an hour. Hridges of differ- rut kinds, formed both by pontoons or boats and rafts, wero thrown across on succeeding days. Openings wero made ou some occasions for ships to pass, and closed again in the usual way by swing ing a part of tlio bridgo unck again to its place. Slight bridges were con struct a for light t radio and stronger for heavier carriages. Sometimes tho bridgo whs made iu the common way, by add ng pontoon to pontoon; some times rafts wero first constructed, then swung into their places aud fixed there. On one occasion tho bridgo was partly built with tho ordinary military means and partly with material found on tho spot. The time occupied varied from an hour and a half to an hour aiidthree- ltiartes. The opening for ships to pass was made in two minutes and a half and closed in three minutes aud a half. Creiiiallou In 1'orlugnl. The cremationlsts havo won a decided victory in Portugal. After a long and bitter fight hctwocn the advocates of the plan, led by physicians and scientists generally, and the opponents, who were fhielly priests, tho government has lecidtd to make cremation optional with tho people generally, and com- misery in all eases of death occurring in districts infected with the plague. Tho government is said to favor a general compulsory cremation law, but is restrained from making so radical a liango out of fear of tho church. A NUMpIrlon Kurgiral liutt rnmeut. "I thought," said tho senior Haggles, as no priKiuced a suspicious-looking black bottle from his son's valise, "that there was nothing but vour surgical in struments in this bag." ''That's w hat I said, dad." "Then, sir, what do vou call this ?- "That ? Oh, that's my eye opener, dad; very useful instrument; cry useful; indisjH'Usable, I assure you. Under the sceptre of the czar of Kussia live thirty-eight different nation alities, each siieakimr its own laricunL'o. which ii foreign to all others. Dow Henry Irving ' Dcjan. "Know Irving?" said Frederick Muc cabe the comedian. "Let me tell you wlleu I Urst knew him. It was twenty years ago in .Manchester, England, that Irving, a number of other actors, and myself belonged to a social club called the 'Titans.' We met every Tuesday evening for intellectual intercourse, ami wo all had funny uamiw. I, for instance, was named Othello on account of my gentle nature, and Irving was called Apollo bocausi he was not considered handsome. The Davenport mediums were then a reigning sensation, and l'hillip Day and myself, after three months' study, suc ceodo.l in mastering their ropes, tricks, etc., aud gave seances in imitation of thein, exposing all their methods. We played for charitable purposes, and oil that sort of thing, and created quite a sensation. Irving was with us, playing the part of Dr. Ferguson, an individual who did the talking for the Davenports. I wrote a few funny Hues for him at the time, and he elaborated the effort into a humorous speech worthy of Mark Twain. Al though we uever gave one of those seances for nionoy, we consented to ap pear at Irving's benefit before he went to London, and we performed all the operations of untying the ropes, etc, in the light instead of in the dark cabinet, as the Davenports did. The benefit realized 300. Irving went to London, and his career of success has nover stopped since." A I'oint on 1'c rury. On one occasion, says Oakey Hall in his reminiscences, a witness, to all moral ' conclusions, perjured himself, and yet ho seemed cool and natural. Presently the recorder of the court turned in his peculiar, affable way, aud 9aid : "My friend, the room is not hot, the day is cold, and yet yon are in a perspiration, are you not?" There were no signs of this, but the witness instantly caucrht ud his handkerchief and began to mechanically wipe bis forehead: "Are vou ill; you look so pale?" He responded by turning pale and gulping down some water. Here the counsel for the defense showed signs of wishing to interfere, being afraid of his witness breaking down ; but tho recorder interposed with: Sorry to havo agitated von, but my duty is like yours" (tho recorder had an impressive voice), " to ascertain nothing but tho truth and the wholo truth." Then tho witness turned and said: "Please let me go; lam indeed ill." His testimony was withdrawn by consent. At tho conclusion of the case the recorder said tome: "I knew be was committing perjury, for he had a peculiar tremor of the eyelids, which, for my nearness to a witness, I can always see. And this tremor may gen erally be noticed in men aud women who aro lying. An r-nknown Hero. What a small world we live in, after all ! And how round it is, too I Here on the heights, alone, save for the many beautiful babies born to him since he sat down under bis oaks, built his houso, and planted his vino and fig tree many vines and many fig trees, in fact I find a dear old sailor, a follow wotld builder of the far west. A dozen years ago or so ho found this spot with the encircled city below, the Potomac far away; yet in his very dooryard, with many Bhips, the old Roman arena before him, aye, the very wild beasts devouring Chris tians over yonder at the capitol finding all this before him, I say, he sat down here, would go no more away, but gave up his commission and has been hero ever since, planting grapes, growing figs, looking down into tho president's dooryard. And this silent little man, too modest to let me mention his name, is the very man, the humane and gal lant soldier who weut out unarmed, all alono, some fiftoen years ago, and brought iu more than a thousand armed Apache Indians, a feat that startled tho country at tho time, I re member. From I'arU to Nt. I'eternburj. The carriage of the fast train which is to run from Paris to St. Petersburg will lie supplied w-itli adjustable wheels. which will enable them to travel on va rious gauges. From Paris to the Hus- siun frontier the sanio gauge is used, but there it changes, and at tho frontier stations, Eydt Kidmen and Wurballan, tho wheels will have to be readjusted. Travelers will thus bo able to go the wholo distance without the incotiveu ienco of having to change carriages. The speed of the train will be ono not hitherto attempted on the continent. It is to be ninety kilometers, or fifty-six miles (without stopping) au hour. It is announced that tho trains are on "tho American pattern," including kitchen, dining saloon, reading nnd drawing rooms, and all tho other com fortable arrangements essential to mod era traveling. Tnkuij Walking I.exHonn. "I would liko to know," said a white man to a colored gentleman, "why you are skulking around my premises?" " "What docs vcr moan by si;ulkin", boss?" "Walking around here iu this man ner." "How does yer 'speck a man ter walk, boss? Sorry I can't w alk ter suit yer. "Speck I'll hafter go away au' take a few lessons.' ''I am not talking about your actual manner of walking. I mean that I w ant to know w hat business vou have here?" "Oh, dafs it ? Glad dat yer ain't got ' no fault ter find wid my walk. Ueckou I'll let tho lessons go den." I.ravctle' Tonih. Gen. Lafayette'. remains lie neg lected and almost forgotten in the old Piopus ccmetry, on the outskirts of Parts. Very few tourists ever nsk tobo shown then, and when they do make tho re piest re .'use to go on being told that they would be compelled to drive through narrow, crooked streets,entirelv deserted save for the few solemn anil gloomy-looking convents which hue t!io w av. . ZFK Lifo! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must art; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me'i a scci-et yet, , Hut this I know, when thou art fhil, Where'er they lay tbe limlis, this bead, No clod so valueless shall be, As all that then remains of me. O, whither, whither dost thou fly, Where liend unseen thy trackless course, And in this strange divorce, Ah, tell where I must seek this compound If To the vast ooan of empyreal flame, From whence thy emetic came, Dost thou thy flight pursue, when freed From matter's lui.se encuuilwring wood! Or dost thou, hid from sigiit, Wait, like some spell-bound knight, Through blank, oblivious years the appointed hour To break thy trance and resume thy power! Yet cau'st thou, without thought or feeling be 0, say, what art thou, when no more thou'rt thee T,lfe! we've been long together, through pleasant aud through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear Perhais 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Bay not good night but in some brighter clime Bid me good morning. SHIPPING DRESSED MEA TS. THE ItEFHIOEBATOB' WHICH IS IK C8E THE WORLD'S MARKET. We'iearn from a foreign journal that the first consignment of dead meat to England from this country was made about October, 1875. Since that tiinn the trade has steadily increased until now it reaches an aggregate value of mora than $10,000,000 annually. At first the meat was preserved during the Atlantic voyage by a draught of cold air blown over blocks of ice. llns sys tem, however, made the meat moist, and it has been superceded by refrigerators, in which a draught of cold air keeps the meat at a temperature as littlo as nossible below freezing point. The Boll-Colemau refrigerator, which is in common use for this purpose, is based upon the principle of compressed air being thoroughly cooled aud then allowed to expand. In the act of ex pansion it becomes cold enough to freeze water. To accomplish ibis the air is taken by air pumps from the meat chamber and then compressed, after which it is cooled by jets of water aud passed through a system of tubes. Af ter passing through the expanding aiv parattis the air is discharged at the rate of 40,000 cubio feet an hour into the meat chamber. 1 he air is drier and this system works better than was com mon iu the first experiments of pre serving meat during a long voyage by means of blocks of ice. In this manner salmon has been kept frozen for six mouths, and tons of English fisti have been conveyed to Australia in the same way. During the Egyptian campaign supplies of frozen meat wero sent for the use of the JJritisn troops m t-gvpt, and that which was left in the cool chamber of the ship was returned to England and sold iu the London mar kets. The prejudice which for a long time existed w ith regard to frozen meats is wearing away. In many countries, notably iu Russia and Canada, there are frozen meat markets during tho cold season, the supply consisting of meat, fish and game from remote parts of the world. Iu Sydney, Australia, the entire meat supply is frozen in au immense re frigerating apparatus, the air sometimes falling to a temperature of 137 degrees belo.v tl.o freezing point. The general good henlth of t.ie people who eat this frozen food attests the wholoiomeness of such a diet. Meanwhile the expor tation of frozen meat from the United States is increasing with every vear, nnd the English hopo to still further augment their supply by cargoes from Australia. New Zealand and Tasmauiu. THE TALL SYCAMORE OF THE WABASH. The special correspondent of the In dinaiolis (Ind.) Journal emliodied in a re cent communication the following from Hon. Daniel W. Voorhces: I consider St. Jacobs Oil a splendid remedy. I sull'cred from nn affection of the back aud kidneys, with some rheumatism in fact it was rheumatism of the hack. I used St. Jacobs Oil and found ft very elllcacinus. It gave me instantaneous relief, and finally curea me completely. New York, Hoston, Providence, Hart ford nnd New Haven have started tramp w ood-sawing yards. Nothing liettcr for nsthtnu than Plso's Cure for Consumption. Twenty-live cents per bottle. After hanging one hour, O'Donnell's head was found to be completely separated from the spine. ADVICE TO CONSUMPTIVES, On the appearance of the first symptoms as general debility, Ions of appetite, pal lor, chilly sensations, followed by night sweats and cough prompt measures of re lief should lie taken. Consumption is scrofulous disease of the lungs; therefore, use the great anti-scrofulous or blood puri fier nnu strength restorer. Dr. Pierce's "tiolden Medical Discovery." Superior to cod liver oil as a nutritive, and misurpassed as a pectoral. For weak lungs, spitting of blood nnd kindred affections it has no equal. Sold by druggists. For Dr. Pierce's Treatise on Consumption send two stomps, World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. The directors of the Louisville Exposi tion have decided to give another show ucxt year. ' Pure blood means perfect health. Use Samaritan Nervine and the result is cer tain i. e., health. Dujanlin's Life Essence cures neuralgia and nervous headache. "Oh. HIV b;U'k?" Is Jl rninmnn pvpliimi. tion and expresses a world of misery aud suffering. It is singular this p'ain arises from such various causes. Kidney disease, liver complaint, wasting affections colds, rhcumat ism, dyspepsia, overwork anil ner vous debility are the chief causes. When thus ailing, seek prompt relief. It can lie found best in Brown a Iron Hitters. It builds ut from the foundation by making the blood rich and pure. Leading phvsi ciaus and ministers use and recommend it. It has cured many aud if you are a sufferer try it. Dujanlin's Life Essence positively cures Hysteria,, aud all nervous alfectiuus. Did any scientific physician know tho formula from which Ammcu's Cough Syrup is prepared, he would not only rec ommend, but jirescribe It to his patients troubled with a cough or cold, or any dis ease of the throat and lungs. Try it. It has no equal. For tho benefit of those who would say "another humbug," a trial 15 cent size is prepared. Ask your druKgist to get it for you. In bottles at 15 cents, 50 cents and fcl. "Hiviiu-Paiha." Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney and urinary dis eases, fjtl. Strength for the weary Dujardln's Life Essence. A fire at Candelaria, New, on the 18th destroyed sixteen buildings at a loss of fcllW.Utio. , Young and middle-aged men suffering from nervous debility and kindred affec tions, as loss of memory ami hypochindria, should enclose three stamps for Part VII of World's Dispensary Dime Series of pamphlets. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. . The Keely Motor Company recently paid Pennsylvania $1,150 in taxes on stock. 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Wllam, HOnC.S.i. UNFAILING n INFAMJIII R in crmxa Epileptie Fitt, Spatma, Failing Sickness, Convul sions, St. Vitus Dance, Alcoholism, Opium Eating, Scrofula, and all . Nervous and Blood Diseases. t3?To Clergymen, Lawyers, Literary Men, Merchants, Bunkers, Ladies and all whose sedentary employment causes Nervous Pros tration, Irrecului-itics of tlie blood, stomach, bowels or Kidneys, or who require a aerve tonic, sppet izeror stimulnnt, Sanuiritrm Xrrv ine is invulualile. CzTThousands proclaim it the most wonderful Invlgor ant that eversustiiin Cil a sinking system. TKEJCREATj r-syl.alpernottle. TheDR.StA.R IICHMONO MEDICLCO.,SolcPro- CCQNQUER03.) Drietora. St. Joseph. Mo. For tenrtmoniult ami circular send staiiin. SKOLMIIUM CO., Agents, baa Franclico. E Wf PMHd DT fell ffruwirlatM. i-hit As an invlimrnnf. Hosteller's Stom ach Hitters hits re ceived the most positive inilimuv nient from eminent physicians nnd has lonKoceupiedafore most rank among Btundard iirnnrieUf kjry remedies. 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