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EUGENE CIT. GUARD. I. IfeCAMrilKM Proprietor, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. A MAN'S SPHERES. Wben man's a babe snd has tn crawl, : What Is It that makes crazy all? Ilia lawL When he's a boy and full of fun, Wuat does be bit you with and rnnf Know bill. Wben lie's a youth what do he play To malm himself and comrades Ray llaxe-balL When a young man and fond of lrl, Wbat keeps loin op all night In wliirU? A ball. What (end a flutter to hit heart And flies In It Cupid's dart? Kye-balls. When fond of noker. dreM and noke. Wbat bulps blra out when be la "broke?" At er.ere, at his pa's ept-nae, What dooa be learn to abow bla sene Font-ball. . Vital ub.i lila mAnftv lvirv fll vllt. And makes blm sweur and drink and fin-lit? Dliiittru-uma. What doea his landlady, sedate, l'aea blm each morning on a plntn? Hull-balls. When tie t old and wisdom knows, Wbat la the prool of It he shows? lluitd ball d. And then, lust when he wants to stay, Wbat la It he must leave nlwuy? Terrenttiol null. It. C. Podge, in Chicago bun. A COLORADO PIONEER. XHfl Experience As a Professional Proepoctor. It Make Hint Tired" to Hear Tender, frwt-Talk About tlia llaslnesa A Letter That a Young Mao lo the East Wrote Hint. It founded like brans knuckle, that rap on the door lust evening; when, in response to a correspondingly vigorous come in," a stalwart, ploasant-iacca man, clad in a sllckenside canvas suit, ntorcd with resounding stop, sugges tive of robust health and hob-nailed boots, and In ringing tones Inquired: "Are you the mining sharp of this here paper? Yes; tako a seat and tell me all bout it" "Tell you all about what?" . "Why, your big striko, of course; how many thousand of dollars it runs and von onlv want a capitalist with a few hundred dollars nnd lots of grub to make it the biggest bonanza in 1 010 rado." Now, hold on, paid, you'ro dead off the trail th a shift; 1 only want to snow you a letter. Oh, that's It; your pard has struck K, and you want to sell an interest to go and join him andstakooff the whole oouniry. No. vou're on the wronz lead asaln I've got" a letter from a tenderfoot who wants to come out here and prospect lor mines." "Well, why don't you let him como at one of tho graim army oi prospec tors who swarm through tho gulches and elinib the rugged peaks of our mountain ranges?" 'You've caught on. that's the float, follow it up and you'll hit tho vein cronoiiiirriL'ht through the surface." lendorfoet make tho best kind of prospectors, don t they? Tard, now you're on the pay streak to a dead moral certainty, anil I'll do the assessment work for you free gratis for nothln' if you'll put it in tho paper In good shape, so that 1 cm send it to my darn fool fr.ond back in the Slates.'" "All right, lire away, and make it short" "Well, this chap wrltei that times is dull back I liar and they are cuttin' wagos down he's a cit ric In a dry goods store and so he says he'll ou t come out here, Iind a rich mine and go back thar and soil it." "What's wrong about thatP Ain't he as liable to Iind a good mine as any bodv?" "Now you're glttln' right down to bod-rock business It's all wrong, both in theory and in practice. Nobody linds a mine. It takes .money, and lots of it to change tho bot kind of a good prospect into a paying mine." Oh, your friend don't mean a mino he means a prospect" "P'raps he does, but it takes money to prospect and he's in luck if ho has niouey euough to pay his fure to len or." "lie's got more money than that or he would not think of coming so far to astrange country and au equally strango ominous." "Now, there's whar you're fooled. l)ta of fellers come out hero evory llcssod season, knowin nothin' about luinin' or prospect n nnd land with out scads enough to buy grub for a burro." "1 thought burros foraged and didn't require feeding." "That's so, but they don't grow with pack-saddles on and clinch ropes and sacks hang n' to 'cm. A feller can't mine with his lingers and liveon moun tin' scenery and trout in streams ten miles or more from whar he's got to look for prospects if he wants to find any." "All good tuning ground is not nee ftssar ly high tip on the mounta ns, and then ccita nly are good placer dig gings yet tJ be found along the streams and in the gulcliu of the biate." "(So ca-y, paid; that's jiiio truth, but lots of foolishness, in what you say. The biggest part of tho gold, i Ive'r, copper and lead mined In this country come oil' the mountains, not out of nice, smooth, level places. What soft snaps were l ing around looso I ke have al ready "been corrated by fellers who, through j oar of actual experience, learned tliex value; and now, as a rule, new giound means new ground, ami that's on the niouutalns, ami in out-of-tLo way places. " Hut that don't prevent tendorfeet from d scorerinjj them?" "(iuess "ou never saw tendurfect pro.'puctia'." "Tell mi how they do it?" "Can't only nient on them In a gen eral way. it would take so long; but commonly, the fellers who are staked by thoir "friend have a m'ghty good t mefoolin' around, and if they lfnd any thing It's by downright nigger luck. I've heard 'cm smv. lot of times, that they wouldn't climb that mountain fur all the wealth in it. lint if one isspiinkv, or tough enough to do it, he eouldiTt tell pay from county rock, 'cos he ain't had the experience. I showed a feller some of tho richest 'horn' I ever saw, and he looked disgusted like." "Yes, but these men do sometimes get hold of good claims." "They occasionally do, but their's the exceptions, and they catch on by trailing the old prospectors, getting float like theirs, and takin' their advice about locating." "Were you ever 'staked' by tender feet?" "Yes, In '80 two 'cute' chaps 'put up' for me to go to the Hico cxeitement and it would have been a good thing all around if they hadn't had r:o much money and went along." "Had too much money? What do you mean?" "Well, yon sec. one was a carpenter and the other a grocery clerk, and they wanted to do things in what they called systematic business style.' The car penter said a town would bo built if mines were goal, nnd so he took a full kit of tools and kegs of nails, bolts, ban of steel, vise, and a full black smith outfit, and loading 'cm in a wagon, while the grocery fellow took six months' grub for all iho workmen he thought we'd need for building a good part of the town, and for the miners on our mines. They said it was better to buy these necessary things where they were cheap, and so they bought about $1,600 worth of this kind of truck bes'des min ng tools and a hundred feet of ropo. I most died laughing in my sleeve, and I thought I had joined a frelghtin' outfit." "Well, how did it pan out?" "We hauled that cargo over to Gun nison, 'cos they said we must go that way, and it tickled me roost to death to see 'cm pay toll on that wagon and hire teamsters to double 'cm up the hills. It cost them more money for toll on that baggage-wagon than I would have wanted for my senson'i outfit" "What did you do when you got to Rico?" "We never got to Rico." "Why not?" '.'The main reason was that there wasn't no wagon road at that time, nnd I told 'em so before we left Denver, but they said ono would be built by tho time we got to Gunnison, or if not, we could cut our way through or else go to Gotlro. I kinder got stuck after thoso feller, thev was so liberal; spent their money freely and let me cook the grub, and so I just picknieked with them all summer, and lost the whole season." Hut what did they do when they found they could not gut through to Uico by Hint route?" "They acted like sensible fellors then, as tho romance was pretty well knocked out of 'cm by the trip over Marshall pass, and the tiiinn'son freighters and merchants lo:ight their stuff at less than Denver prices, freight oil", and they concluded their experience whs worth what it cost and didn't kick about it They didn't prospect aiy further." "You would discourage tendorfeet from entering upon mining prospect work, 1 infer?" "Now thoro you're o(T again, for I would encourage them, because I lic 1 eve minln' and prospeotin' properly attended to is tho best business a man can follow, but he has got to havo right notions nbout it" "Will you please give me some of those 'r.'Uions?' " "That's just what I como here for, nnd if you'll just tell this kid and other greenies liku him what I say, it 11 do em good, or leastwise ought to. To prospect right a man has got to regard it as a business he's got to learn, and if ho a'u't got tho scads to spend learn inir as a boss, ho wants to hire out as a hand and learn it that way." "Hut can a tenderfoot get a job as a mlnerP" Well, minln' men ain't slghin' to hire such a chap, but if he's got the tsttitV in him to make a good prospector ho will not ho discouraged, but will rustle till sotihi feller hires him. If he can't git a job in a in ning camp, he'd better give un all thoughts of being a prospector, for that takes grit, and moans hard work and lots of It The prospector, moro than any other man, rubs up against the biggctt kind of disappointments and sees money and labor wasted without any whining, be cause he tcgards his experience worth it. and so lie goes iroin one iauure io another till he does strike it rich. It is a study to understand ores and tho formations of different parts of the country so as to know where to look for mineral and ten its indications, anu then trace 'cm to where nature de- pos ted 'cm in bulk. Tho prospector oujiht also to uo amo to tesi in a gen eral way the lock no limls, to guess pretty close whether it will pay or not ana tuss no can i learn in a uay or in ono season, iius uio r.astern loners can't or won't understand, and some of those smart city clerks are as much out of place on a reh mineral mountain as 1 would tie ucniud a ury-good coun ter." "Yon regard prospecting, then, as ak'n to a prufest on? "ihat a thotckot, pant, and II the hoys w.ll bo oontent tirt tolearn some thing of the business they are to fol low, thoie won't bo such a grand army of prospectors, as you call it rnnnin' around do n' no good and spend n' money; but tho fower'follers w.ll make more and better discovories." . "IVot prospecting r.ct.inlly pay the men who follow it up persistently?" ' ion tH't it docs, in the long run: for most of our best mining camps nni mines havo b.-en found and locar by them." Why don't thov get rich and be come d st iiiui-hed. thenr"' Now, that's drawin'itdownmlrhtv fine, paid, but I'll tell you thj truth, tho' ) ou might leave that out of the paper. The f.ict is, wo old prospectors, after roiighin' it from snow to snow. foci J retty frisky when we get out of the mountain and if we've made a few hundred by sell'n' a eood proipect or f.vo, that mo.iey fairly burns o ir jcan u hen we hit a lively enmp, nJ we generally paint 'em red. 'cos we know right whar to pull out to next spring. If we ain't got no dust it's about the same, for our credit par, you hot, whar our cronies is. Some times we brace up and go slow to s uur up, but money's no use 'ccpt in towns and camps, and the winter gets nighty long in such places." "Hut do all old prospoctors spend their money as fast as they get it?'s "No; sum has famil cs, ami that keeps 'em down to hard pan, and when they git a good stake thev fixes the folks and generally qu't the mountains. These fellers make better bargains for piospects, nnd hold on and develop 'cm Into pay mines, and you would be astonished to know how many fellers have got goad ranches or are in good paying business all over the country that get their start from tho m'nes." "Sliall I tell your friend to come out to lenrn prospecting?" "Not much; if he has got folks dc- Fendin' on him he'd better ntay thar. d no more think of advisin' that than I'd take his advice to comeback Kast to make a livin' in a store or workin' on a farm. Won't go out to take su th in? Well, good-by, pard. I'd rather proflnect tLan bo newspnperin'." Den ver Tribune-Ilepublican. A WISE FATHER. Humor a Bad Thins;, Hut Candidacy For Coagress yulte Another. "3o you wo going to start a humor ous paper," said an old gcntloman to hit son. "Yes, sir. Have you any advice to offer?" "Don't start it" "Why?" "Oh, there are many reasons, somo of which, in a most serioui man nor, I shall give you. The quality of humor is inborn, but the employment of its finer foroes requires the most careful cultivation. The rough serai-vulgar sketch is not humor. It may create a laugh, but it is not humor. Do you re member what Addison says of humor?" "No. sir." "Have you ever read Addison?" "Very little." "What have you read?" "Oh, I don t know what t!L It would take mo somo time to enumer ate." "I don't think it would. How is your imagination very good?" "No, sir, I can t say that it is." "Ah, hnh. I suppose that you will attempt to mako people, laugh?" "Oh, yes sir." "A fatal error, young man. Fooplo can bo slyly drawn into mirth, but you can not shovo them into it We can persuade men to weep, but we can not force them. You no doubt have a good supply of original jokes." "Yes, sir, 1 think so." "Tell me a few?" "I can't tell them." "Well, sit down there and write mo one." The young man wrote tho .'ollowing: "Sebleson went to see h i girl tho oth er night Tho old man was at tho lodge. Sebleson enjoyed himself pret ty well. Tho girl brought in somo pie. The young fellow said it was first rate, and asked her If she made it Shesa'd yes. 'Ah,' repl ed tho young man, 'anybody who can make such pio ought to mako a good wife.' Then they both lmighod. 'Did you ever make any pie?' she asked. 'No,' sa d he, 'but I linve killed a sight of it.'" "Is that all?" a-ked the old gentle man when the humorist had, with elo cutionary eflect, read the production "Yes, but I could make it longer." "Don't do it." "Father, I am afraid you don't like humor." "I am afraid so.' "You didn't smile, but will yon lend mo f-'.O.lO?" t "What, do you want topay people to lau'h?" "Oh, no, I want to buy material." "Why, you hit -nd to print tho paper, ch?" "Of oourso." "Oh, no, I can not let you havo the money." "I tell what I thought, father. You have been suggest d as a suitable can didate for Congress. Well, nothing more than a good joke helps a man po litically. I thought that yon might get off several gcod jokes about yourself and that 1 could print them. Of course everything from you would be interest ing. You hare a great imagination, and have read Addison you" "Two thousand dollars, yon say? Hand mo that ohot-k-booK, plcaso. Of course I do not expect to be a candidate b'lt say, if I were elected, I could make the country laugh, couldn't l?'' Arkansas Traveler. The Aesthetic Element in Education. Dr. J. D. Anderson, in arccout num ber of Edma ion, cons dors tho ii'stiiet io clemeut in rdueat on. He holds it to bo an essential duty for tho teacher to ineulcato an apprco'ation of the beautiful by both precept and example. Ho enlarges upon tho good influence of attractive surroundings and insists that tho u'sthctio spirit tdiould pervade everything in and about the school room. Among f o no of the praot cat ugjji tionn ho makes is tho following: "A teacher is not goinij out of the way of h's duty if ho cor rects a boy for earning to school with unwished hands or unkempt ha r; or if he should draw attention to soiuedo ftct in his dieting or doling; if he shou'J refer to an uubrushe i jacket o a s'ioyo i)y- ut-on t o. All this (Mines witha Ins jurisd ct on, and ho must ad iudieate upon tho delin piencies with all tho soberness and grav ty t'jat such o.'lenses deserve." Hut this rdjtid ca tion, it may bo add:d, should l under taken only by a toucher Lo io cn dowird with very sound judgment, ex q'lisllo discrvton nnd a err warn) heart. 1 hildivn may be made alt gither too prim, and ne.itnes; too so vore.'y enforced di;cs cot alayi con d.ictj to cheerfulness in tho school room. Current. A STRANGE STORY. U Itearit Llka Oni of the Morels of AJci. Iomis, the Kldor. Last week Herr Pes.l, postmaster of Neuzciig, a small locality in the district of Linz, bad to take a sum of 4,000 florins, together with some papers of value, to the town of Steyr. In the train he entered into conversation with a respectably dressed Individual, who gavo himrelf out to be an insurance broker, and was evidently well ac quainted with Steyr and the surround ing country. They traveled together as far as Lin 7., when the stranger, an nouncing his intention of putting up at tha same hotel as his companion, sug gested that they should drive thither from the station together. To this tho postmaster agreed, and accordingly they both got into a two-horse closed conveyance that was waiting outside. Shorlly after starting the pseudo-insurance broker offereif the unsuspecting postmaster his snuff-box, but no sooner had Herr I'eszl partaken of its contents than he lost consciousness. When he began to recover his senses he was being driven tt a furious speed across the open country. W hile still in a confused state Herr Peszel aked his companion whither they were bound, but instead of replying the latter applied a damp cloth to Herr Peszl's face, which caused the postmaster to relapse into his former unconscioun condition. lie has no recollection of what oc curred for some time afterward, but in the morning1 he once more revived and fouod himself in a small open trap, seated next to a man ho had never seen before. Another man, in peasant's dress, was leading the horse. Herr Peszl at ones remarked that his bag of valu ables had disappeared, together with his fur coat, which had been replaced by a thinner one made of a kind of Tyrolcse homespun cloth. They were driving along a valley unknown to Herr Peszl. In the course of half an hour they stopped in front of a dilapidated pcatant house, built of rough, gray stone. The postmaster was bidden to alight and was conducted to a largo, bare room on the ground floor, where he was kept prisoner for four days. Food was brought to hlra by the man dressed as a peasant Last Tuesdav, toward three o'clock in the morning, Horr Peszl was aroused from his sleep by the same individual, and after dressing himself, was led about two hundred paces from the house, where a sledge was waiting for them. It was snowing hard, and almost pitch dark. As they drove along Herr Fes.l pres'oJ his jailer with questions; but all the answer he could get was that hn was bsing driven home. About an hour and a half from the time of their start they pulled up within forty yards of a small railway station. On alighting Herr Peszl found himself faco to faco with the man who had traveled with him to Linz. That mysterious indi vidual handed to Herr Peszl his fur coat and money bag, together with a ticket for Steyr. whither he urged him to re turn at once, as he was wanted by the police. All this was tho work of a couple of minutes; the train was in tho station, and Herr Peszl had only just time to take his scat without asking further questions. On examining his money bag ho found it empty, which can not have caused him much surprise. On reaching1 home ho was shown the following telegram received at the Neuzoug poatoflice during his Hbsenco: "Thank God! I am alive, and hope to return in two days. Let them know in Steyr. A thousand greetings. Signed, Peszl." The hero of this extraordinary adventure is a man of such excellent character that, so far, his narrative do:s not seem to have excited any suspicion on the part of the local authorities Cor. Vienna Loudon Daily Tekgraph. A GOOD IDEA. How Farm IIouncs Mar He Suppllcd.Wlth Hath Itooma, Not many fann-Jious.'s have a conven ient bath-room, nor is it convenient to arrange one in many old houses without more expense than the owner or tenant Is willing to expend. Shall I tell you how ono house is nrranged, not far from where I am writing? The house was so small for the family that there was no room to spare for a bath-room, but it fortunately had a good large kitchen. Upon one side of this kitchen stands the bath-tub, cased in with pine boards. Above this casing is a mova ble board six or eight inches wide, nnd the whole is covered by a smoothly planed hard-wood board or boards, Iiiing by hinges against the wall. When the board is let down over the tub it forms a kitchen table about seven feet long and nbout four feet wide, and those not in the secret would not sus pect what is beneath it When the tablo is turned up and the movable boards taken out the bathing-tub is of convenient height A lead pipe carries the water off through the same channel that takes it from the kitchen sink. Here, by the kitchen tire, the members of the family can take their bath before retiring for "the night and the delight of the younger children at a tub in which they can lio down and splash to their heart's content is, as their mother assures me. something worth witness ing, and after the children are off to bed the older members pay their tribute to cleanliness. The same lady assures me that the great kitchen table is as handy as two smaller ones would be. Of ourse, tlra is not as convenient as tho regular bath-room, where the latter can bo kept at a comfortable tempera ture, but we can not all have new houses with all tho modern improvements, and if we can afford to make our 'old ones more convenient for those who havo to do the work therein, let us do so. The making of the house comfortable for thoso who spend their days in it should be a part of our every-day work, as much as the fixing up of barns and other buildings. Cor. DoMon lleraUL The money value of our lumber in terests is very "great nnd if wo do not wish to witness the decay of a great industry, certainly within the term of a single generation, the most effective measures should be taken to regulate the cutting of pine timber and pre serve the growth of young trees to per petuato the 8upply.6't faul Pioneer COUNTERFEITING. . Tlia Methods Resorted to by an Expert to ImfUte the (ireenbaok of the Republic, j United States Detective W. G. Dauer, recently returned from Memphis, an-, nouncing the conviction of the cele-l brated counterfeiter Martin Ogle. Ai reporter this afternoon found Detective! H.tuer in bis room surrounded by piles. of counterfeit bills, and looking over: the tools with wh'ch the counterfeiteri accomplished his work. To a reporter! he explained the processes, which ccr-; tainly display a wonderful amount ofj ingenuity and delicate workmanship. Ogle had procured a genuine ten-dol-; lar bill and spilt this in halves, this, being in itself a remarkable operation.. The two sheets thus made were so thin, that they were transparent. Ho made aj plate of copper and brass, a little larger; than the bill, and spa-ad one of the uuita nn ton nf it With a steel tra-i cing pencil of his own manufacture hej engraved tnrougn tne sncei us exm-i,, counterpart on the plate. The otherj half was engraved on a different platej In n oimilar manner, and then he was ready for printing his spurious money. , This method of workmanship looks very; simple, but it is the first time it has, been done by a counteneiier, as u is ai-; most impossible to spilt the bill. ; Tho method always before used is as. follows : The workman took, say a ten-: dollar bill, and spread over it a piece ofj transparent gelatine paper, and traced,' the figures of the former on the latter, i The metal plate was next put in use, and was coated with a solution of shel-j lac. On this the gelatine paper was; pasted, and, when torn off, it left onj the shellac tne outline oi lis ngures. By following these in the solution thcyi were also traced in delicate lines on thei plate. The shellac then being washed) off tho latter they could be cut to thei right depth, and the counterfeiter was ready f r his work. Ogle's method ob- j viated these three or four methods, andj rendered tho engraving on the plate fan more accurate, as the correctness of the, lines was necessarily lost through so( many transfers. This man thus accomplished a piece, of work alone and unaided, with tools; of his own manufacture, when tho Na-; tional Government paid over $100,000 for) a steam machine to do the same thing.; Detective Bauer showed Ogle's tools,: which were fitted to rough wooJen handles, but possessed points as sharpi as steel. He also displayed tho genuino bill split in two sheets, and perfectly: transparent. He had on a table several: packages of bills of Ogle's manufacture, amounting in all to $30,000, in tens, and twenties. They were all on the Third National Bank of Cincinnati, but the new plates were intended for the Queen City Hank. 1 "Ogle,' said D.!te?!ive Bauer, "isthe first man who has isuied any spurlousj money during the last six years, and he, has shown an almost unexampled skill and astuteness. H's brother, who has been returned to the Pennsylvania peni-1 tentiary, knew nothing about this work-! matiship, but was merely a kind of head; enrvnnt. tn Martin. Thn latter did all1 his work on a Hatboat, and scattered! the money chieflv at river points, lie, turned over to "me in all $180,000 of about the best counterfeiting I -ever saw." Louisville Font. GENERAL McCLELLAN. How Mttle Mae Disposed of Recalcitrant; Quartermaster. General McClellan was indefatigablej in reorganizing the army routed at Bull! Run, and he used every day to rido or walk through the camps about Wash-j ington in citizen's dress, looking out fori abuses to be remedied. Ono day as he; was strolling through the rear of a regw mental encampment he saw a pail oft some dark-looking mixture standing byl a fire, and asked what it was. "It's! cotl'ee," said tho soldier who was! officiating as cook. "To me," replied' McClellan, "it looks more like slops."1 "O," said the soldier, "it is not fit to, drink, but we havo to put up with it; and our other food is not a bit better."! "Well, whose fault is it?" ho asked.i '(), our quartermaster is drunk most of' the time, nnd when bo is not he m studying how to cheat" McClellan, passed on, and seeing more evidence of; tho dirty and slovenly manner in which the quartermaster conducted the opera-! lions in his tent he accosted him with the remark that the men were com-; plaining of bad treatment from him. i The quartermaster flew into a passion.; and swore it was none of his business, and he had better not come sneaking' around trying to make mischief. Me-! Clellan answered him, telling him he' had better be cautious how ho talked, i Quartermaster replied: "Who are you, that you assume so much apparent an-' thori'ty?" "I am George B. McClellan,; and you can pack up your traps and leave." The oinrtcrraaster was struck! dumb, nnd McClellan turned and left' him. That evening the quartermaster! left to the tune of the "Rogue's March, "i played by some of the bovs who had! got wind of it. Jen. I'crlcif Poore. , Made Himself Felt. When a well-known member of this i community, now dead, was State Sen-; ator from this city, he was engaged in 1 some very radical measures which sorely cut into many peoplo whom ho thought ' were in need of reform. They abused him very thoroughly, but in his' honesty; he maintained the light stronglv. A friend of his from the city visited him! in Sacramento while the measures were' pending. "Well, what do they say of me in San. Francisco?" "They don't speak very well of yon." ; "What do thev say about me? That's! what I want to know." "Well, they sav very rough things' about you. I don't care to " "Speak it out Tell me how they. talk1 J; "They call you a liar, a scoundrel, aj thief, an ignoramus, an idiot every-) thing they can think of that is bad." "Ah," said the Senator, rubbing his hands in glee and chuckling in perfect1 enjoyment "they feel me, my boy, they feel mc!" San Francisco Chronicle. If the WHter in your Washing is hard or alkali, use the Standard Soap Co.'s Petroleum Bleaching Socp. Its eflect will lurprke jor. "It HAS M&DE A HiW MAN 07 HIM." So writes the wife of the Rev. Dr. Sta ples, of New Cansan, Conn., in a commu nication to the Methodist Proteatunt, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Staples says : "My hunband has for the last year and a half been afflicted with that troublesome disease Malaria, attended also with Ca tarrh, which was rapidly growing upon him. He was to fteblt at the aeusion of our last 'Conference' that he thougkta week or two previous he would not be able to attend. He commenced inhaling Compound Oxygen, and put himself fully under the Treatment at my earnest re curat, the week before 'Conference ' and it it astonishing to see its vitalizing effects. It was almost immediately mani test in an increase of appetite, which bad been scarce sutlicient to sustain him. He is gradually increasing in strength ami vitality. In fact it has made a new man of him." Our "Treaiiie on Compound Oxygn, containing a history of the discovery aad mode of action of this remarkable cura tive agent and a large record of surprising cures Tn Consumption. Catarrh. Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Asthma, etc., andawiderangu of chronic diseases, will be sent free. Ad dreas Drs. Starkrv & Palen, 1109 and 1111 Girard street Philadelphia.) All orders for the Compound Oxygen Home Treatment directed to 11. E. Math ews, e00 Montgomery Street San Fran cisco, will be filled on the same terms as if sent directly to us in Philadelphia. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Courses of lectures on the tariff and 1 1 ler i socialism are to be given in Amherst College. -Tne will of the late Annie M. Wood man, of Cambridge. Mass., gives $20, 1.H) to Dartmouth College for the bene fit of the Chandler scientific depart ment. There is a blind Baptist preacher in Rabun County, Georgia, who recently finished his 101 st year. He is unable to out of his house, but his congrega tion gather around his bed every Sun day, and he preaches to . them. tiisnop a. 0. Coxe, oi tne rpisoopai Diocese of Western New York, declined the proposed gift of a pastoral stall' on the twentieth anniversary of his conse cration, and suggests that the money bo used in paying the salaries of the mis sionaries of the diocese. Buffalo Et press. The first English Bible printed la the United States was undertaken by Robert Aitken at his own private ex pense. The proof sheet of it was read by Bishop White, and it received the special approbation of Congress, which passed a formal resolution that is of much Interest in its bearing on the question of tho recognition of religion bv Congress. tf. Y. Times. PILE TUM0ES When neglected or improperly treated often degenerate into cancer. By oar new and improved treatment without knife, caustic or salve, we cure the worst rates in ten to thirty days. Pamphlet, refer ences and terms, three letter stamps. World's Dif peiibHry Medical Association, 603 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Twelve miners were killed by an explo sion In acoal mine at McAllster.lndianl er. FILES! PILES! FILES! A SURE CURE FOUND AT LAST NO ONE NEED 8U7FEB. A lure cure for Blind, Bltedlig, Ilchlrt ind V)trt tied Pile tins been tfiiruvmd If l)T. W iilipm (an In dian lttn.wljrl called Hr. William Indian I-ile Oint ment. A aiugla box baa cured tbe nt.iat 1.M ni raeea of 26 or 90 jeftTR ataodiiii. lio onenreO uffcr five nun utea after applying thia wondeihil- eotL-g imdhino. Lotiona. UiRtrunwrtaand electuarieado moiebamt tban good. William'a Indian File Otntount alioiLa tbe lu mora, allara the inteuae itching l artltulailir at night after getting warm in bed), acta ftl a poulUce, glira in aunt relief, and la prepared only for YUea, tubing of tbe private parta, aim fur nothing elra. Krad what the lien. J. M Ci.ftinberrr, of Cleveland, aaya about Dr. WUIIam'a Indian Pile Oiniment: "1 havo tued icorea of file Curea, and It affordf me pleasure to aay that 1 have never found anything which viva tueb Immediate and permanent relief aa Dr. Wllliam'a In dian Ointment." Kor Hale hy all druygiMa and Dialled on receipt uf price, tl. O F. Rlchaida A Co., 427 aud i2 Swiaumo atreet, comer Olay, Ban F ran Cisco Prince Orion, a Russian diplomat, is dead. IT SHOULD BE GENEBALLY KNOWN That tbe multitude cf diseases of a scrof ulous nature generally proceed from a torpid condition of the liver. The blood becomes impure because I he liver doea not act properly and work off the poison from the system, and tbe certaia result are blotches, pimples, eruptions, swell ings, tumors, ulcers, and kindred affec tions, or settling upon the limes and poisoning Heir delicate tiFsties, until ulcetation, breaking down, and conmnip tion is establiHlied. Dr. Pierce's ' Golrit n Medical Discovery " will, by acting upon the liver and purifying the blood, cure all these diseases. Jefferson Davis is reported seriously 111. His recovery is doubtful. CATARRH A New Treatment has been dis covered whereby a permanent cure is dl'i cted in from one to three applications. 1'uriitiilorH and treatise free on receipt of stamp. A. H. Dixon & Son, 305 KinK St- went, Toronto) Canada. Wnen Baby was sick, we rare her CASTOSIA, When she m a Child, she cried for CASTORIA, When she became Ulaa, she clang to CASTORIA, When she had Children, tho gavo them C ASTORIA The Throats" Brown's Bronchial Troches" net directly oa.the organ of the voice. They have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the Throat. Speakers and Sinners And tbe Troches useful. Sold only in boxes. Geu. Anson Stager is dead. Don't hawk, and blow, and spit, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. A sweet place to visit The candy shop. Try Gekmea for breakfast. - Wanted A man of good address and business ability to represent sn Eastern Company that produces the fnest Por traits by tbe Aw Air Divsh protest. Good pay. Territory pnsraiiteed. Ad dress T. J. O'Brien, 19 Sixth siriet, San Francisco. The kidneys act m purloin of tha blood, and aluo their func tions an Interfered with through weak- eaa, they neid ton ing. They bconna healthfully actlre by tha nee of Bnetetkr's Stomach Hitter', b n foiling ahort of relief from otixr aauma. Thlaacperb llmalati ag l nio aimpneinu and ar reMa heir and ague, conipailoD. liter ftmplftint, dyrp p-i. rtn umi lm ainl ulLrt a 1 1 m e n I a link with rrtu'arOy For nla I j all lmjrtWa ud ijealara gi rail. HP 1