EUGENE CITY GUARD.
I. L. CAMPBKl-Ii, - ; r' FrOBrleUr.
EUGENE CITT. OREGON.
THE BANJO IN 1884.
cU la Ilrttrr Rutcxm Ttinn It Wan
Five Yearn A 80.
JJhw Yoru 8iin.
The dealor in musical instrument
was strumming on a profusely orna
mented banjo. We can g ve you a
more strictly professional on"," liu re
marked to his customer, "but this style
has the call lor parlor use. The dif
ference is that the stage ban'o is even
more heavily ornamented than this one
has more side screws and jewelry ; but
the tone is ihe same."
Vhv do the stage banjos sound
louder?"
".Because professionals pound thorn
with-a tLimblo which they wear upon
tboir right forefinger; that practice
would not be a good one while playing
for a small party."
The customer decided on the parlor
banjo, bought a bug tor it and extra
strings, and left $22.50 with the dealer.
"I'll carry it homo myself," he said as
lie took li s departure.
The dealor turned to the ret ortor
"Ten years ago," said ho, "you wouldn't
catch such a man carrying a banjo in
the daytime, but to-day this young
.11 T 1 4- ,1 Si r'l.
ICilow IS pruuu w uu ii. xjjo innwu-
ment is now in high favor, and to be
able to rattle off 'liabvlon is railing'
or the 'liattlo-Snake Jig', is just the
thing. Heveral fellows nave carried
buncos abroad in the past three years,
and Parisians take to thorn. Some of
our young ladies of society are very
fair players, and tho picture of an
American belle picking Ihe banjo for a
croup of fashionable listeners is bv no
niouus a caricaturo. This mall stylo of
instrument, which countrymen always
take for a boy's banjo, was gotten up
exprossly for ladies, though gentlemen
Tory often use them. It is the fact of
women playing banjos wincu lias so
largely increased tniir popularity.
They are the fashion. A trentleman
doesn't like to take his banjo to a party,
but when a lady produces oio lie
considers it a lino cppirtumty
to show his strength concerning the
'Suwanoe Iliver or 'Aicoucuius John
son.' If ladies had no banjo in tho
house theno chances would not occur,
Anothor reason for the popularity of
the instrument is that it makes fun ;
people get tire 1 of the stiff, technical,
Unishod piano-playing which ladies
Lave carried to such an extreme. It
bores thorn to make tho eil'urt to show
discriminative' appreciation of classical
musio. les, sir; the banjo fever has
been raging all through the winter, and
now that the serenading season is com
mencing, we are having another spurt
in the business. '1 here are many styles
and forma of banjos. I think there is
little real dillereuce in them, llin main
point ia to havo find strings of good
quality, and a good parciiinoni neaa,
stretched as tightly as it will bear. You
can make almost any properly-propor-tioiied
banjo take if the skin is tight
and hard. We can give you a very
good banjo for $7 as good as those sold
lor t'M.
"It is considered quite a nice thing
for a young man to make a small banjo
for his sweetheart, lie buys the ma'
terials and works them up to suit his
fanuv. In these cases the article is likely
to oust him about Mil. The latest idea
in gotting up a presentation banjo for a
Kirl is to buy one ready made and inlay
it with colored woods. There was a
good deal of this doue last winter, and
some oi the results were very pretty.
If you buy a $5 banjo, properly cou-
structod, and pegs and tail-piecos of
ivory, and do a little inlaying and earv
ing, you will have au instrument worth
from 21) to ;iu.
"The idea that tho banjo is a prime
favorite among our colored people is a
popular error. Tho colored man w ill
go around with a banjo for business
purposes, lie knows that people con
noct hint with tho instrument, and is
willing to give way to their notion. Hut
in his family the colored man plays
something else. We sell them ten
guitar r '.rings to one banjo string. It
is a curious consideration that the his
torio instrument of tho troubadour
should havo almost ceased to bo a
society musio-making machino, while
the once lowly banjo is hoard in the
drawing-rooms.
Toak , lu veutorjr.
IWall Street Jiowf.,
In January last a good old-fashioned
doaler in dry goods, groceries, hard
ware, and protty much everything else,
in the central portion of tho state, de
cided to take an inventory for the first
time in twenty-one years. About the
time it was completed a commercial
traveler for a house in this city hap
pened aloug and asked him how lie
came out.
"Well, it's kinder dubious," was the
replv.
"How?"
"Whv, I fell short of my estimate of
etock by about :i,t'UO."
"And you don't know how to make
your figures oome out even?"
"I confess 1 don't."
" Well, all you havo to do is to mark
cverythlug up 20 per cent."
"Ciineiul Jackson," gasped the old
man; "but I kicked around in bed for
three straight nights and never thought
of that. Thuts tho way, of course,
and up goes the price of caliker and
nut-irons."
IimMirr k'a Policy.
Intor Ocean.
It has been said of liutmarck that no
man's mind was ever more f roe from
cant than his. The story is told that
he won hi first decoration by rescuing
drowning soldier. When the drown
ing man clung to Lis rescuer in
such a way as to endanger the lives of
both, liisniarck held the terror
stricken man's head under the water
nntd he ceased to struggle, then carried
him to phore and rostorod him. This
was the Dismarckian method, and he
occasionally tries to choke the German
people into quietude now, that he may
carry out hi plans for making the
"unitr of the German nation like a
rock."
The Ilalfl-hended Man In Church.
Liverpool Courier. i,' ,
Old Mr. Collamore is very deaf. The
other Kunduy, in the midst of the ser
vices, Mr. llofl", who sits immediately
behind Mr. Collamoro, saw a spider
crawling over the lattor's bald head.
His first impulso was to nudge him and
tell him about it, but he remembered
that Mr. Collamore was deaf, so ho
lifted np his hand and brushed the
spider off. Hoff didn't aim quito high
enough, and, in his nervousness, he hit
old Collamore quite a severe blow. The
old gentleman turned around in a rage
to seo who hud dared to take such a
liberty with him, and Hoff began to ex
plain with gestures. Hut Collauiore,
in a loud voico, demanded what it
meant. It was very painful to Hoff.
Tho eyes of the congregation were upon
him, "and he grew red in tho faco.
"There was a spider on your head." "A
white place ou my head, hoy?. S'poso
thero is, what's that to you? You'll
know what it is to le bald-headed your
self some day." "It was a spider,"
shrieked Hoff, while tho perspiration
bogan to roll off his faco. "Certainly
it's wider," said Collamore, "and got
more in it than yours. Hut let it alone
do you mind ? You may let my hoad
alone in church." "Mr. Collamore,"
shrieked Iloff, " there was a spider on
your head, and I brushed him off this
way," and Hoff made another gesture at
Collamore's hoad. The old man thought
he was going to fight him thon and
there, and hurling a hymn book at
Hoff, he soized the kneeling stool on
the floor of the pew and was about to
bang Mr. Hoff, when the sexton inter
fered. An explanation was written on
the fly-leaf of tho hymn book, where
upon Mr. Collamore apologized in a
boisterous voice, and resumed his seat.
They think of asking Mr. Collamore to
worship elsewhere.
Wlike llooth'n Hide.
Washington Critic!
"What did Uooth ride?" a.skod the
reporter.
"Old Horrol Charley, tho best sad
dlor ever seen in this country. I doubt
if tho world ever produced his equal.
Of course he camo from Kentucky. All
groat saddlers do."
"Did Hooth buy him?"
"So, he hired him."
"And what became of him?"
"We nover heard."
"Was the hiro paid?"
"In the sense that Hooth had boon a
good customor only."
"What were Charley's points?"
"All that a saddler ever boasted, lie
wouldn't pull a pound, but a good rider
eould single-foot him down from Capi
tol hill to our stable with a full glass of
wator in euch hand and never spill a
drop, and at better than a four-minute
gait, too. Hooth knew him well, and
could ride him like a picture. I doubt
if he suffered even with his broken
limb as much as has been said."
"How far was the ride?"
"Down to Dr. Mudd's that night, full
twenty miles away. Sheridan's gallop
from Winchester, I'll bet, was a fool to
that ride. When I heard in the morn
ing what horso the assassin rode, I said:
'They who pursue will follow, and only
follow.'"
Copoanuta a Fond.
The Fiji Times, in speaking rocontly
of the value of the cocoanut as food
rations, htutos that a vessel left San
Francisco with 400 passenger for Syd
ney, and, in consequence of running
short of stores, put in at Samsa, where
a large quantity of cocoanuts were ob
taiuod. The weather became so severe
that the remainder of the passago con
sumed eighty days, so that men, women
and children wore reducod entirely to a
cocoanut diet, and woro obliged to bo
contented at last with one per diem for
each adult. " Notwithstanding this
diet," sat b tho report, "not a liie was
lost, and not a single cuso of sickness
occurred, all the passengers landing in
a healthy and well-nourished condition."
ConNUiiiptlvA Hird.
ICxchauge.
In a preliminary paper rond bofore a
recent meeting of the London Patho
logical society, Mr. Sutton and Dr.
Hencago Uibbes described an investi
gation now being made by them iuto
tuberculosis of birds. They find that
tho disease is very prevulent amoug
birds, and that it sometimes becomes
epidemic. The effects do not exactly
correspond to those produced in man
by consumption, but tho parasito
present in both cases seems to be the
same. The disease virus appears to be
introduced with the food, and the birds
most liable to bo affected are common
fowl, peacock, grouso, and othor grain
eaters.
Slara' Jloona.
ExcIimiik.
A remarkable feature of tho two
satellites of Mars, which were discov
ered about six years ago by 1'rof.
Asaph Hall, is the proximity of the
inner one to the planet, its distance
from the centre of the latter body being
about 0,000 miles; and from the surface
less than 4,000. "If," paid 1'rof. New
comb, " thero are any astronomers on
Mars with telescopes and eyes liko ours,
they can roadily find out whether this
satellite is inhabited, the distance being
less than one-sixtieth that of the moon
from us."
How Very Hold.
Exchange.
Miss Maria Tickallaw (talking behind
hor fan to her sister) Tho idea of Dolly
Debut's wearing that heliotrope dress 1
Mis Jane l'ickallaw Whv, it strikes
me as very becoming. Miss Maria
(snappishly) Becoming! Of course!
Did auybody say it wasn't? But don't
you know it takes a faultless complex
ion to wear that color, and for Dolly
Debut to appear in that dress ia as
much as to say she considers her com-
t lex ion perfect Miss Jane How very
old of hor, to be suro !
Whes They Vet Miffed.
Exchange.
When a Boston girl cots miffed at her
husband she says: "Base tyrant, I
shall leave thee and fly to my father."
When a western girl becomes similar!
affected she simply Bays: "Old man,
I'm going to get up and get, and if you
don't bke it you just climb up on your
eyebrows and see if you can stop mo."
A CORNER ON ICE.
Ringing thft Vnrloim Change on a
1'atl of Cold Water.
Detroit Free Frew. '
The first man to strike the corner
where the porter had thrown a pail of
water over the Hag-stones and produced
a glare of ice, was an insurance agent.
He slid to the right, clawe I to the left,
clutched at a sunbeam, and wont down
with the exclamation : "Hanged if I
don't 1" He rose up to jaw and threaten
and collect a crowd and almost lick
somebody, and ho wont awaystirrod up
for all day.
The noxt man was a tailor tall,
spare and solemn. His toes all of a
sudden turned out, his loft leg was
lifted, and he spun once and a half
around before he went down with the
romark: "I knew 'twould happen!"
He got up to hurry along out of sight,
and it was easy to see that he had cal
culated on about so many fulls for the
winter.
The next was a fleshy man with a
smiling face and an air of good nature. I
He didn t lose any time going down,
and when he struck he realized that ho
had hit something. And yet what he
said was: "Is it possible!" He got up
slowly, forcod a grin as the boys chaffed
him, and looked back three times tc
make sure that he hadn't made s
hole which would prove a man-trap for
other pedestrians.
The next was a bank clerk with a
pencil ovor his ear ami a preoccupied
mind. He was swinging his right hund
and rushing ahead when he suddenly
saw billions of stars shining in the
morning sky. His first thought wes
that somebody was celebrating Fourth
of July ; his noxt was to scrabble up and
search for an asylum where he could
hunt up his collar button and splice his
suspenders. Not a word esctiped him
until he was a block away. Then he
romarkod : "At six per ceut. it would
be $854.17."
The next man was a strapping big
fellow with an ulster on and a red silk
haudkerchief hanging out of a pockot.
He began a short of shufllo as he struck
the spot, increased it in a minute to a
"breakdown,' and finally went down
with a whoop that was heard half a
block away. He was up iu a momeut.
Diagonally across the street he saw a
man in an "tpross wagon. The boys
called to him that he had lost his rod
handkorchief, and that his noso would
sadly miss it, but ho would not wait.
He strode across the street and up to
the wagon, and as he hauled off and hit
the driver a stinger ou tho car he
growled out :
"There, hang you! That's makes us
even!"
"What even!" shouted the victim as
he rose up and adjusted his cap, but
the othor was gone.
A Cheap John Utilise the Machin
ery of a Court of Juntiee.
San Francisco Post
When the defendant took the stand
his honor said !
"Prisoner, you are charged with hav
ing removed the goblet from the hand
of the Cogswell statue, substituting a
pair of two-bit suspenders, with a pla
card calling attention to your establish
moLt across the way."
" Well, shudgo," repliod tho offender
with au ingratiating smile, "of gorse I
vuuts to get along in peesuess."
"After whinh," continued the court,
sternly, "you substituted a lot of neck
ties for the Biispenders, and attached to
tho other hand a lot of bills referring
to your new stock of gum shoes and
hair oil."
"Dose hair oil is fust rate, your
honor," said tlw defendant. "I vould
like to sell you a pottle."
"And yesterday," continuod tho court,
consulting the indictment, "you ob
structed the thoroughfares and created
a disturbance by placing a paper collar
and a plu hat ou the statue in ques
tion." "Doso blug hat is cheap at $4,
shudge. Moses Levy sharges life und
a halef vor dem same kind," returned
the trader cheerfully; "I beats dose fel
lers ofory dimes."
"And at night," wont on his honor,
"at night it appears you placed in the
figure's hand a transparency containing
a further advertisement of your wares.
Now, tbis is most improper and repre
hensible." "Dot's right, shudge," said Mr. Solo
mons, delightedly. "Bitch into me off
you blcase. Spheak loudt, so dose
noosbaper vellers gan hear you," and
he smiled benignantly upon tho report
ers. "Groat heavens," thundcrod the court,
as a frightful idea struck him. "Is it
possible you havo the meudacity to use
the machinery of this court as an ad
vertising dodgo?"
"Dot's it, dot's it, shudge?" exclaimod
the Cheap John, rubbing his hands ex
ultantly. "I swore oud der gomplaiut
myself."
Hotter Than Water.
Detroit Free Tress.
"Understand that you had a fire at
your house vesterday," said a geuflo
man to his friend Col. Snagwell. .
"Yes, house caught fire."
"Suppose the liremou did effectivo
work?"
"No, they didn't get there in time."
"You throw water very promptly on
tho flames, eh?"
"No, didn't use any wator."
"How did vou put it out?"
"Went out!"
"That's singular."
"Not at all. The other day I bought
a load of kindling wood from a country
man. 1 had it cut up and stocked in
the kitchen. When I saw the fire burn
ing iu that direction I felt pretty safe,
and 1 was not disappointed, tor when it
reached the kindling wood it went
out."
The l.r-et Oleander.
Chicago Time.
Trobably the largest oleander tree in
the world is near Spauishtown, Fla. It
covers a space of ground thirty-six feet
in diameter; from the ground to the tip
of the topmost limb is twenty-five feet;
at the surface of the ground the trunk
ia divided into twenty or twenty-live
separato stem, the group being at least
live feet through, and oue single stem
is, by actual measurement, fourteen
inches thick.
An Antl-Chnrlty Horlety.
Joaquin Miller' letter.
I have boon implored, and with say
age pleasure I call attention to an Anti
Charity society iu Now York.. Could
any one believe that, as we stand upon
the verge of days which have been de
voted since the advent of Christ to uni
versal charity, that there is a great
society of that name, or rather that
naturo, iu New York? Well there is a
nourishing order of that kind here; and
it has just held a big meeting and was
presidod over ami addressed by big
men, rich men, influential men, federal
officeholders, professed Christians. One
is an ex-cabinet minister. They appeal
to the public to give no beggar a cent.
Of course these are honest men.
Thpy mean well. But 1 make a solemn
protest against suoli teachings. The
motive I do not question. Yet I cannot
Bee how any reasonable man or woman
can soe any good to come out of this
society's doings. And it is easy to see
how much heartlossnoss, inhumanity,
indeed, can and must naturally grow out
of it if it is permitted to flourish. And
I repeat that it seems impossible that
at this day and age such an association
could be thought of for an instant.
For God's cako, let those who have
anything to give and the good heart to
give it, be permitted to give unques
tioned. I do not think the beggars
will got any too much. If those rich
and groat men are sick of seeing beg
gars the streets, let them be pro
vided for as in l'aris so that their un
seemly corpses come not between the
swoot air and their lordships' lifted
noses. Of courso this association dis
claims being uncharitable. It simply
says, do not give until you investigate,
and thus get rid of beggars. And so
few investigate and fewer give. Oh,
my friend, some one richer, better than
these rich, influential men here in New
York, long since said that the poor shall
be with us always. And I reckon thut
no society that ever was or ever will be
could ever do away with that pitiful
fact,
Who are the beggars? Y'ou find as
a rule that thoy are those who have
been wounded in this battle of life. No,
not in the body but in the braiu. They
are very helpless. Lot them loan just
a little on you as they limp on toward
tho grave, only a few paces ahead. Look
ut any beggar you meet. Will he live
long? Ho or she will, nine cases out of
ten, not live the year out. Measure his
or her intollect with yours, liepulsive?
Of course, very repulsive. But Christ
never seemed to think them so. Ther
mar the beauty of the city a bit. Bat all
the beggars out of purgatory would
not and could not put so much shame
upon the city as does the existence of
one anti-charity society.
The Itook-Collcction Craze.
New York Times.
The craze of the book-collector per
vades Nuw York society more exten
sively than most people know. I am
acquainted with many business men
whoso sole recreation is to collect rare
books. There is Brayton Ives, for in
stance, who has a delightful museum
of rarities. He runs to old and scarce
books rather than tomorely costly ones.
He has many rare editious of old Eng
lish works Caxtons, Wynken de
Wordes, and so on to say nothing of
copies of early colonial , Ameri
can imprints, some of them worth their
weight in gold. Bobert Hoo, Jr., on
the other hand, oollocts beautiful and
curious books in wonderful bindings,
illuminated missals, early examples of
typographical art, aud wonders in book
plates. Charlos T. Congdon, tho well
known journalist, is a bibliomaniac. An
unsophisticated friend, examining one
of Congdon's latest extravagances, an
Elzevir, said : "I wonder how yon ever
get timo to read so many, books as you
buy?" '
"Bead 'em!" crie.l the book-buyer,
with disgust. ''D'ye suppose I read
them?"
' If not, what do you do with them?"
"Collect them," replied Congdon,
with an air of having bellied the ques
tion beyond any cavil.
A Cache of an Old-Time Hunter.
Western Excha i6.
An old-time cache was recently dis
covered by Fred Halleck, in Umatilla
county, Oregon, stowed away three feet
under ground, near the head of Dutton
canyon. He was hunting water at the
tiule, but instead found bread, or what
had been used as a substitute for bread.
One specimen is a section of portable
prairie dog sausage, about fifteen inches
long. The othor is a chunk of what
might be called preserved pudding. It
was apparently made from crushed
crickots, camas and cowse, cookoii into
which was a sweet decoction of sugar,
pine sap and grasshopper juice. Both
delicacies look as though they would
retain their freshness and flavor in any
climate. Old settlors say that years
ago they have seen bands of Indians go
through tho country with many pack
ponies loaded down with this kind of
sausage. It was mado up in strings a
thousand feet long, and was coiled com
pletely around a cay use, thus acting as
a self-fastening pack outfit.
(Scribe's Ntrusgle as a Dramatist.
Longman's Magazine.
Scribe once said in my hearing that
he began his career as a dramatist by
seeing thirteen of his pieces fail oue
after another, and, oa the first night of
the fourteenth (doomed to a similar
fate), felt so discouraged, that he said
to his colaborateur : "I give it up ; and,
when we have got through the half
dozen more that we have on hand, I
will nover write another line -.uckily,"
he added, "the fifteenth essay was more
successful, and I bought a fresh packet
of pens on the strength of it" Since
then this extraordinarily prolific writer
ninst have enriched the French stage
with at least 800 or 1)01) productions of
more or loss merit, while his son-in-law,
Bayard, following his example, has
contributed no less than 230.
President Arthur is credited with the
statement that since his accession to
the presidency he has endeavored to
make it an indexible rule to preserve
his temper under all circumstances.
The Current: There are probably
not over OiKJ Americans in China to
day, while there are not less than 130,
(Ml Chinamen in the United States.
BEAUTY IN HOMESPUN.
What Koothern Women Wore Daring
: the Wr.-.CuriouMakehlfU Km
ployed In Contriving Coatnmea.
Mary W. Early In Philadelphia Times.
Several histories and numberless
sketches have been written describing
the military straits to which our mon
were brought during the late war, but
I do not know of any chronicler who has
depicted the straits for clothes to which
the women and girls of the southern
Confederacy were reduced during the
blockade. Our dry goods merchants
had a pretty good stock on hand at the
opening of the war, and this, with the
supply we had ourselves, enabled us to
pet on without pressing iueonvenionce
for the first year of the war. Then we
resurrected from old chests and closets
all the heirlooms we could find in the
shape of ancient garments belonging to
our mothers and our grandmothers,
in which we looked very much
like a set of grown-up "Kate Groona
way" figures. We began also to resort
freely to the dver, feeling the force of
Goldsmith's line, slightly altered:
"Tho only refuge is to dye." Fortunate
ly there was a woolen factory in Bich
niond during the war (the Crenshaw
. mills) that turned out very soft, good
woolen cloth. There was also one, I
believe, at Scottsville, a little town
seventy miles from Bichmond, on the
James river and Kanawha canal, and
one at Bousack's, in southeastern ir
pinia. These two latter factories,
though they by no means furnished
dainty fabrics, w ere still of great assist
ance in clothing the people of Virginia.
There were several cotton cloth facto
ries in operation in North Carolina
during the war, and from these we
drew a large part of the cotton cloth
used in Virginia then.
In the country we had to resort to the
loom, w hich on all old Virginia planta
tions was used for supplying the negroes
partially, if not entirely with clothiug.
Elderly negro women were set apart to
spin and weave for the others. They
carried on their work generally in a
cellar, their wild, sweet, mournful
hymns mingling with the sound of the
shuttle or the monotonous hum of the
w heel. It was not musio of so high an
order as Schubert's or Gounod's "Spinning-wheel
Song,"jbut it had a distinctive
character and charm of its own, and
was filled with a weird and plaintive
sweetness, the liko of which I have
never heard except in the singing of to
bacco factory hands. During the war
homespun dresses were a good
deal used by the Virginia country
ladies for every-day wear, and I have
seen some of these dresss that looked
really pretty and jaunty on fresh young
girls. The dyes (as well as the cloth)
were a home production. Ivy leaves,
set with alum, made a pretty gray;
sumao leaves and chinquapin bark made
black ; maple bark made a bright pur
ple, and beech bark made a green dye.
Speaking of homespun reminds me of
a homespun ball given by one ot tne
Bichmond belles, not during the war,
as some might reasonably suppose, but
a year or two before, and said to be one
of the most charming and successful
entertainments ever given in Bichmond.
On this occasion all the young ladies
appeared iu costumes of homespun,
made up hi a hundred pretty, fanciful
and picturesque stylos. ,
The men of the Confederacy, those in
the army, at leant, fared much better
with respect to clothes than tlie women
did, the government providing them
with uniforms imported from abroad
through the blockade. Occasionally
too, a w omen would get a prize in the
shape of a trunk or a box of new
clothes smuggled through the blockade,
iu which case her toilet would be tho
envy and admiration of all her feminine
friends, l'ersons who had friends or
relatives in Baltimore, Philadelphia or
other northern cities would sometimes
be favored with a box of "store clothes."
I remember such a box being sent from
Philadelphia to acquaintances of mine
in Bichmond, who' became, iu conse
quence, "the glass of fashion and the
mould of form." A plaid ribbon in
this box was lent by turns to various
friends, who looked on it as a rare and
dainty ornament, something almost
equal to the ribbon of the order of tho
garter. Ihe writer wore it to an ele
gant entertainment in Bichmond the
last winter of the war.
OVER-WORKED BUSINESS MEN.
As a restorer of exhausted nerve force,
it has been largely shown during the past
thirteen years that tne fiew vitalizing
Treatment dispensed by Dra. Starkcv &
I'alen, 1100 Girard street. Philadelphia,
Pa., is the most prompt and efficient agent
yet discovered by the medical protession.
Its use bv over-worked business and pro
fessional men would save many hundreds
of lives every year, and to give to thous
ands more the ability to work without the
: I . ; i : I
weariness, eMinusuou, mm ucrn mui-n
now attend them. A pamphlet contain
ing full particulars in regard to the na
ture and action of this remarkable Treat
ment will bo mailed free. Write for it.
All orders for the Compound Oxygen
Home Treatment directed to 11. E. Math
ews, GOtl Montgomery Street, San Fran
cisco, will be filled on the same terms as if
sent directly to us in Philadelphia.
It's a queer coincidence but nearly all
defaulters are "fly" fellows.
The second largest source of revenue to
the U. S. Government from any one
branch of business, is derived from the
production and manufacture of tolacco.
Blackwcll's Durham Tobacco Co., of Dur
ham, X. C, claims to lie the largest manu
facturer of Smoking Tobacco in the world.
The reputation of Blackwell's Genuine
Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco is too
firmly established to need any commend
ation at our hands. In another column
our readers will notice their new an
nouncement which is of Interest to all
lovers of the weed. The company are
perfectly responsible, and when they an
nounce that they will give away $11,1150 in
cash, it is an assured fact that they mean
just what they say. Smokers will find an
opportunity of combining business with
pleasure by reading their announcement-
CATARRH A New Treatment whereby
a permanent cure is effected In from one to
three applications. Particulars and trea
tise free on receipt of stamp. A. II. Djxon
& Son, 305 King street west, Toronto, Can.
A CA B D. To all who are suffering from er
rors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak
new, early decay, lum of manhood, etc., I mil
wnd a recipe that will cure you. FUKK OF
t'HAUGE. This Rreat remedy aa discovered
by a missionary in r-outh Amcru-a. Send self
addrawrd envelope to Hkv. Jm-tl H T. LnmaN,
cflaUon I), New York.
THE DOCTOR'S ENDORSEMENT. '
Dr. W. I). Wright. Cincinnati. O . u,nj. .i.
subjoined professional endorsement, "I have
prcscriDea un. vvai. HALL'S BALSAM FOR
THE LUNGS In a if rent number of
always with success. One cane In particular
waa given up ny several pnysiclani who had
been called In for consultation with
The patient had all the symptoms of coullrmed
uonBumpuon com nigm sweats, hectic fever
barnuwina- couicha. etc. He comnieiKwd Imn.
diatcly to get butter and was soon restored to
ms usual iieaun. i louna imu vvai. HALL'S
BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS the most valu.
ble expectorant for breaking up distressing
coughs am colds."
"RotHiH on Coughs." 15c, 23c, 80c, at
Drugpists. Complete cure Coughs, Hoarse
ness. Sore Throat. ,
Offensive Breath, Bad taste in Mouth,
Coated Tongue, show torpid liver and dis
ordered stomach. Allen's Bilious Physic,
vegetable remedy, quickly relieves all.
25 cents. At all Druggists. Bedington,
Woodard & Co., Portland, Oregon.
"BuchO-PAiBA." Quick, complete cure,
all annoying kidney and urinary dis
eases. $1.
"fXocoH on Corns." 15c. Ask for it
Complete cure, hard or soft corns, warts,
bunions.
We take pleasure in referring thepub
lic of the merits of Papillon Catarrh Cure.
It will cure Chronic Catarrh, Cold iu the
Head, Kose-cold, and for Hay Fever no
remedy is as effective. It has cured hun
dreds oi cases.
Treatment for SuNBURN.-amelline
for the complexion will afford relief in all
cases.
Dr. Hrnltf Celery, Beef and Iron Is
the best Nerve Tonic ever discovered.
No remedy equals Papillon Skill Cure
for Eczema or Scrofula, curing the most
obstinate cases.
1 1 11 THE GREAT
ULllMAN rei
FOR -AJCIST.
CURES , .
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica,
Lumbago, Backache, Headache, Toothache,
More Throat. Nwrlllnvi, Hpralns, Bralam,
Itui-na. Mraldit, ro( Hllra,
AND ILL OTHF.a BODILY PAIXS AND ACMKS.
Bold bj DrugfUU nn1 !rlr, trrrtwtirra. Fifty CeoU bottlt.
IHreetinn. In II l.ftDKiiirM.
THE Oil Wil.K A. VOOKI.KR CO.
i u A. roiKI.Mt IMIUIHM. mn v. a. m
HOW
Fortlfr the tjmteni.
All who have eiperi
need and wltnuaed
tn effect of Hiatet
ter't Stomach Bitten
upon the weak, brok
en down, desponding
victims of dyapepeis,
liter eompLunt ferer
and ague rheuma
tism, nenrous debili
ty, or premature de
cay, kliow that in
this supreme tonic
sud alterative there
exists a specitto prin
ciple which reaches
the very source of the
trouble, and effects
an absolute and per
msnent cure. Vor
sale by all Druggists
and Dealers gener
ally. iTTEftS
IN CASH
GIVEN AWAY
To the SMOKERS of
Blackwell's Genuine
Bull Durham Smok
ing Tobacco.
The genuine has picture of
BULL on every package.
For particulars see our next
announcement.
LOST M akHOGl KIIUTT r"'l"
CIVUUS MSHIBIAt, A3SSC7. 160 Tnltw St., HwlBI.
Tm asva GOOD HEALTH the 11VFR fcTta lHm
INVIGORATOR
ri. CINFORD'S LIVER INVICORATOR
Just what its urns Implies: a Vegetable laver
or torpid condition of thtLiver; such ss Biliousness,
i'ostivsnees. Jsundios, Dyspepsia, Mslsria, Bica
Hesdach. Bbeumatiara. eto. An inrslusble tsm-
Medicine. end for diseases resulting mm a aermngeu
beumatisra. eto. si urvsiosDie s sm
Vor full Information aend lour ad-
ily Med win
dreea on a nostsl eard for luo psge bonk on tne
Lir endltaniaesses," to DILb AB i'OEU, M
Puane Brreot, New York.
All Dai W.1ST w ILL TKLL TOW ITS (irCTATIOX.
OflNfflG Mfm
fr-ctlv harmless
II rrrparatinnputnphrTIIK MAKBLK
Kf MASl KAtTI Iti CO.. Weston.
Vu It also toatrhens tender feet, and will
relievo distrew occasioned by exposure and
wearing tiRht boots. Inrlnoe $1 for a piu kace
and full particulars. Addrea I. C. Mill
ltLK. Sole Afrrnt, Portland. Oregon.
.ti Organ
quKMiyctiird byUM-liWALkMbltiua Adopted in sll
tW HOSPITALS OK TRAK. rTompl return of VWOR
Simple .a:llo as. Beveraon. ' l lit rirW'"
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