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WILLAMETTE FA11MER: SALEM, OftEGON, JANUARY 18, 18-4. i -- 1 w . 1 I ) I : r4 l f h? I r ' i i. I ftttrrctif ttcrnlurc, IN Tlifc LAST PEW. She el'e, ii-iitoVrwith wrinkled fi.ee, 1'ocr and forlornly Ms no grace Smooths thu sharp angles o: her form, Long buffoto.I hy lifu'a slow storm, All else nrou d is fine aim fair; The) stained liflht f.ilis a colilen ujarc1, In teeming mockery on lior looie gray hair. The proiehor, faultlessly arrayed, Tells how r.nr hoirts nfarliavo strayed, And how all Kiuh should be content With thoie good b vsing G id his suit; And oao of all that self poi'ed throu; Hang' on his words iiurdoemi them lone, And humbly thinks only hor hotrt is wrong.' She meekly mumbles o'er tho hymn, HsToyiM with apt and twir-dr.ifw dim; What can their gay world hold for her This worn 'ami weary worship I? Now, rustling down tho aisles in pldc, Thoy tosi brght smiles on oery side: Kor docs the know the licirta such fair looks hide. And still she siti Kith to r-wit face, As loth to leave that (acred phcej The organ, wi h jniok thunders tiven, Lifts her aO, r?"i,',;!,g -""l t" He?vsn. Sue feels u hiiuu of iilieaitli rear,, Her bony hands across her breast She clasps and slowly sighs: "Uod knoweth best." One day, within some grander gate Wlicro kiuizsatnl ministers must wait, Whilo she hopes humbly )or low placo Far from tho d'ar Lonl' nliining tace, Above tho chant of Ileal only choir These words may a-jun-l with grccious fire; 'Well dono, good, ai'hful servant, come up higher!" Along the roadside, like the flowers of gold That tiwny lncas for thitr gardens wrought, Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod, And tho red pctnnus of tho cardinal flowers Hang motionless upon their upright staves. The sky is hot and hazy, and tho wind Wing-weary with his long lliglit frqm the south Unfelt; yet closely scinnod, yon mapln leaf With faintest mo ion, as one stirs in dreams, Confines it. The locust by tho way .Stabs tho noon silence with his shaip alarm. A single hay cart down tho dusty road Creaks hIowIv, with its diiver fast asleep Oa thu load is top. Against the neighboring hill, Huddled along the stono Hall's bhady side, The sheep show whitu as if a snowdrift still Defied tho do at ir. Through tho open dooi A drowsy smidl of Dowers gray hiliotrope, And whito sweet clover, end shy mingnuett Comu faintly in, and silent choius l&uila To the pervadinc symphony of peace. Wtitticr. My Second-Mand Man. It wits ii u.im) of necessity. I lind norcr done such n tiling U'foro in my lifo All the executive ability bolongcd to Harriett, whom I called tho senior mciiibor of the Gun, Ilor tnlont for lunmigoniont, for mnkinga small ineonio do largo duty, mnountort to positive, genius. My talent for milking poor bar gains, for upending money for useless tilings, for inability to make my account balance nt thu end of tho month, amounted to imbecility. Xovcrtlioless I wiw in no discredit as junior member of tlio domestic linn of Tall i it Sister-'. Hut wo found, when mother i.i-. sick, with every project that b1h h .iild lie in her bed all winter, that uiiotliurr-tovo must bo addo.l to our (.tuck of furniture. A room niut bo Jilted up fur tho invalid, that could bo kept at such n tempera tuie a her thin blood demanded and our full health rebelled nguint. n making our arrangements in tho fall we had not planned for fc.ickne.ss, and it came as the unexpected i apt to do. Some one eugire.-led trying a ecoud hand Htovo. Some one's fiiend had bought a stove which was really better than now, at an absurdly small price, Why could not we? We could. Wo would. The ways of fate are pa-t find ing out. Mraugely enough, it fell to im to undertako to make the purchase. Harriet, for some le.ison, could not attend to it, and 1 wahed the paint olT my lingers and turned away fiom a pic ture which was to ho tho very best 1 had ever painted and. was fu biing me a goodly sum, and stinted upon my errand, I had many misgivings itn to my suc cess. 1 tell unit my d el were not on my native heath, and for ,i few minutes the magnitude of the euteipri.so appalled mo, and I felt my weakness painfully. Uut tho morning was so delightful, the fimshiiiH so clear, the deliea'to tracery Of tho trees horo and there against the palo bluo-grny of the winter sky Voro so charming, so weird and vague, that in my keon enjoyment of it all' I forgot all situli things as second-hand stoves, and nil thu various and wise iiitti notion with which I had started, till .suddenly 1 found myself in front of tho building to which I had boon directed. 1 entered, and in tho auayof ml and delected looking furniture of all duxes, kinds', and descriptions, my mental tempera ture fell us mercury t ill down, down, down. I was conscious chielly of a mi promo aversion for the whole collection of di-uHnleivd eluirs, table, sofa, dressing-case : and tlu few mt Ivies that scorned to be in any state of preserva tion were so conspicuously shiny, so ng groulvely now, that they iuspiied a feeling of strong suspicion. I stated to tho grimy-looking being who adduced mo that 1 wahteil n stove, a wood-heater. Yw, ma'am," and with tho eye of an expert he looked at me nud evidently put me In the category of unsophistica ted und unprotected fomalcs. Then from among tin stove" that stood in a grim and stately row I selected one that to my cycj looked very respect able and trustworthy. With his asur nnco that it should cotno to tho house in an hour, that it should be set up for me, that with it should como ont? length of pipe,-I paid him bis price, which was so fabulously low as I had been led to exjioct, and departed, fueling that I had dono myself credit. To bo sure there was nohenrth visible, but ho had Said it was "mislaid nr something," and that lie would send oric there wcro plenty around tho store, and I assured myself on the way homo that ho lookod liko an exticniely honest and conscientious per son, and would undoubtedly do just as said. I felt a little ashamed of myself that for a moment I allowed the demon of doubt to obtain n lodgment in my breast. Uut result" proved thnt mydouht did tho man no injustice. When tho short daylight passed and no stovo appeared, my faith ebbed slowly away and I wns prepared for anything. When nt the dusk two burly men drove up and lifted from a wagon laden with whatsecinod to mo must bo tlio wreck of all things the stovo that in. tho morning hftd about it an air of honesty and ability tho fcJir.- that my back v..w not i.ttcd to its buidon camo upon me with over whelming force. Thoro it was, dumped down in tho room, three legs of ono pattern, one that was a stranger and an alien, between whom and the first tluce no harmony existed or ever could exist. Tho hearth was n piece of sheet-iron cut with tho intention of fitting, but failing when it camo to practice. Iho door liung by ono hinge, and tho pipe which was to como camo not. In vain I insisted that it was to bo set up 'for me. With a smile born of their own greater knowl edge of the world and of contempt for my simplicity, they turned and loft me, tho vanquished possessor of the field otherwise the stove. Harriet looked at tho stove, then nt me. It is no exaggeration to say that at that moment I was in thodust of disappoint ment and humiliation. Such bravo statements as I had made in regard to my puichivo! Such now credit as I had hoped to win by my sudden develop ment of business ability; and this was the end. Ifaniot looked, and for h moment I was conscious of a vaguo desire to run and hide from the infiuito scorn of her jjiio. l'hiully, I said: 'There's no use in going into heroics over this. Probably I'm not tho first who has found out that tho second-hnnd man is addicted to ways that arc dark." "How could you bo so foolish?" she replied. "Did you ask if there wore any legs to shis thing if theio was any hearth?' "To bo sure, and ho said that ho'd sec that it came over in good shape; and ho lied that's about all there is to it. I didn't want to go' on this wrctehed busi ness; it's out of my line. Ono may write fine poems or thrilling romances, sing like a seraph or paint liken master; but when it comes to dealing with tho artist who deals in old rags and iron, broken stoves and enst off garments, she may be a dead failtuo, I own to being a failure in this bpecial branch of busi ness, and I'm not very sorry that I am. Everything has its use." "Jean Talbott" and Ilaniet looked at me with avoir stem oxpiesion about the mouth, and a curiously tender look in the eyes. "Don't allow yourself to make a inistike. A woman wants to bo very sine that she is a genius before she can afford to dispenso with common sense, and more over tho absence of common sense is no proof of tlie pros ence of gonius. I had some hopes of von last night when you came homo so Lite, but with this befoie mo" and she wnved her hand tragically tow.ud the abject-looking ium object befoie us "comes back to my old and coirect esti mate of your ability. But, never mind ; in tho morning I will intoivicw tho gvn tlenian who pie.-idcs over the aggrega tion of cast-aside ware, and we will see what we will see." And wo did. Con-ciou- of her ability to scenic her tights, she sitllied forth in the. morning. 1 accompanied her, W found the Mine -honest-faced mau, but how changed weie his features and ex pression to me. 1 would have sworn that fraud and duplicity had marked him for their own. 1 tan id began. -This lady," pointing to me, "Umght a stoe heie yeterdav. and a it does not Jill tho contract, I'c come over to see about it." "Ah' au thing wiong about the stove?" "It has but tlncolegs.it has no health, it has no pipe, it has no hinge? to the door, or but one that's all, 1 believe," "That's bad. I told tho man to see that it was in good unlet, and propeily set up." "And thov Mid that they obeyed aiders when they they dumped the stove down and ran away and left it," remarked Ilaniet seeiely. Just theucameon tho .-cone so. homely a man n it had so far ewi Urn my for tune to meet. And to fuither detract fiom theeyinmetiy which is essential to beauty, iion ono side of his face was a large protubtrancu .which, midway be tween eyo and nose, ghvn him a curi ouly ono-slded and at tho s.uuo time belligerent and ro-ckless look. He wu tho proprietor. Heietoforo it seemed I had dealt wilh the fiiiploxe, A few word between the two followed after which Harriet renwrkod, "If you have any other burner in tho sioroth.it will answer my purpose, I will bo glad to e.sebaugo ; if you have not ( ami will not take back the wreck that is now in tny hoiio, and refund tho money, I will he obliged ii you if yon will Nnd and take it away, a it is ucls to me, and in n way.'' "Xow, nia'aiii,'' aid the newly si lived proprietor, v'l set what we can do, l'e been in this buinei fifteen years, and though they do say that second-hand men aiv tho- meanest top of tho earth, 1 1 guess I never did any very fdiabby thing by a woman that ever tried to buy jof me. Thnt there stovo was no account and I wouldn't have had it. 'Why I'd ha' known better. When I jegan in this hero lino I'd as good a head o' hair as any man could wish ; now see horo," and ho raised his cap, disclosing a bold crown. "You see, ma'am, ' I want to keep what little I havo left;'' and he smilod, und the great rod knob between his noso and eyo glowed with his earn estness. My dignified sister, who on ordinary occasions frowned upon faco tiousness from such sources, looked a smiling amazement." Ye's know I'd ha' known IKtor than to have sent that stovo in that condition to any woman. I've had too many experiences of that sort, and I'm ono of that sort who can profit by experience. I can. Meantime liow-as lending us about, looking now nt this coal heater now at that wood burner. With astounding honesty ho exposed the faults of each one, till finally ho camo to ono that ho pronounced "a daisy." Wo looked our incredulity. "I tell j'ou, ma'am, she's a daisy ; -seo here; all the legs nro here, and hero's a dum per, and horo a gnddlo on tho top. Nice for a sick room ; heat n litlln water R.i liiiio, vco and tue nearui is norcaii right, and it has a good draught, and it won't consumo but very little wood, and its as sound as a nut, and plenty of pipe that goes with it, and tho man that brought it bore said ho felt it was liko parting with one of tho family whon lie sold it. And now ma'am, I'll black that stove up till it shines so you can see your pretty fate on it, and send it over. No, I'll bring it over, and set it up, and tako back the other, and call it square. Now, how's that; and this one is a daisy and ho mistake." He paused to take breath, and Har riet said it would be all right, and we wont homo feeling that victory perched upon our banner. It came, and tho marvellous man camo also. When ho saw tho previous purchase he declnred with emphasis that the man -vho sold us that stove ought to bo kicked, ho had so." Then ho proceeded to set it up in position. Meantime he talked, talked, talked. Just what there was about us that so set the fountain of his confidence allow, I do not know ; but certain it was that ho felt impelled to unbosom himself. Tho fact that there seomed to bo no man about tho establishment perhaps had its weight for he stated several times that ho didn't liko to see women who hndn't any man to "stand up for 'cm" imposed upon. Tho pipo displayed tlio inherent contrariness for which stove-pipes havo aciucveu a woriu-wido reputation, and tho judgment and exceeding ability which Harriet exhibited, horovident ac quaintance with tho peculiarities of that class of ifinmongery, and her oxccllout suggestions, evidently impressed him greatly, and when on his inquiring if wo had such a thing as a small nail about the house, meanwhile looking on tho mantel and desk as though ho thought there might bo a stray nail in sight, she wont out and returned with a nail-box, fitted up with nails of all sizes, tack hammer, and nil that goes to make a per fectly equipped box of that sort, ho looked at her with ill-disguised admira tion. 'Well, jiow," said he, "that there's a mighty sensible thing for a woman to own ; didn't know that women ever had any such; thought they just had their knittin' and crochet, and such ; mighty sensible." 'Why not " said I ; "men sometimes have thiead and needles and thimble, and know how to us-e them, tco; and whv should not a woman know how to drive a nail, especially as it is often nec essary for her to do it." "That's so; only it don't seem just tho thing for you to do. Uut as for sewing on buttons and sewing up rips, wiiy, ma'am, I've dono that for six years. Did von notice that little boy in my office, the one that stood by the desk? lies my boy, and bis mother well, I ve had the care of that bo since he was a vear old, that is, mosth, for though ho and I Hm; with his grandpitiento I kept a roof, over tho old folks' head -l'o had the care of him mostly, dressed him and undressed him, ond fed him, and u-ed to sing hint to shep. lesni. I could sing a pretty tune or two in my young days, and 1 taught him his lctteis, and when ho was a little fellow, on Summer morn ings und on Sundays 1'used to put him in his little wagon and draw him out on tho avenue to give him the air." Here he waited, exidently expecting some ex pression of .syuip.itbv , so not to disap point him, I said "You certainly have had your own cures und trials, as every one has." "Yes'in, I've had my share. .This is a haul kind of a world -haid in spots, you know; then, again, eeiything looks fair and smooth and pleasant. The sun shines, and you imagine it's always going to shine, and then, fust thing you know, n cloud comes up. Maybe you don't mind it much, and if you do, yuu don't think it's going to amount to much , and then in a minute the storm breaks over your head, and all the woild is dark nil your world, at any rate, for you see. we each ono live in a little world of our own that the big woild around Us has nothing at all t") do with. i ycarsago, iim'.im, I wasn't such a bad looking fellow, and I'll look a sight bottoi now when this big swelling goesdown." I was growiug in terested. Harriet hud grown impatient, and gone out to attend to other duties, and lie stood detrouly twisting some whv when1 he said it wi needed. My cousin and I sat down, and 1 lookinl en couragingly and smilingly at him, so that he Mt at liberty to proootd with hi-story; besides, 1 laid been siillVring to know just how flint huge ecres'ence came to adorn his face. In spite of my dreamy, indolent nature, I took stningo inter st in my 'ellow-mortals, and had what my dignified sister thought a ilelc- ian curioMty, but which I firmly asserted to ho a wid sympathy that took in the brother of low degree ns well - him of high degree, and I had grown interested in my second-hand man's story, and wanted to hear the rest of it. "Did you meet with an accident?" I asked. "You bet I did, and I'm most glad of it, for though I was laid up three weeks. I drew twenty-five dollars from the In surance Company ; and when a man hns carried a policy in an accidental com pany .tor ten yenrs, it sort, o seems as though ho ought to get toino of it back, it lie lias to break a leg to do it. 1 slipped oil' from a chair whilo I-wns put ting up a slove, and it mado mo sick, be sides making a boauty of me; but hand somo is that handsome does. The girl I married oight years ago was pretty as a picture ; a little blue-eyed, dainty crea ture, slim and straight, with flossy, curly hair, and a look about her that just made a man want to tako every loucn thing outon her path, and I tried to tho good .Lord knows that J tried to. I fixed up three just as pretty rooms as anybody could want, had a great lot of plants, and somo pictures with great nice gilt frames, and a bird, and a lot of pretty gimracks that women like, and men like too, for that matter ; and I used to think when I camo homo at night from my dusty, forlorn looking stores for I Know as well as anybody tliat a sec ond-hnnd shop is about tho forlornest looking placo on top o' earth, with its odds and ends of everybody's housekeep ing I used to think when I got into those rooms, and got all cleanendup and sat down by the bright fire, that it was just about as nigh heaven as I was ever likely to get, and for that matter I wa'n't in the least hurry to get any further. There's a great deal of talk about a woman's longin' for a home, and I s'posc thoy do, and no doubt they're worse off without a homo than a man is; but if anybody supposes that men aflon't have just that same hungry kind of feeling for a spot that is" just tho one spot they have a right to, where they can just rest themselves, soul and body, why that person's made an awful mis take, and that's all there is about it; he ha, for a fact. And I read a piece of poetry that some fellow wrote, and he suid that if you wanted to appreciato heaven you wanted a few minutes of hell, of something like thnt; that's all true, but after you've had kcaven for a spoil woll it goes hard to bo set right into tho other place without a bit o' warning." ' Harriet enme to tho door and sent several glances in my direction, but I intended to hear the rest of the story, though sho scolded me half a day for it. Tho man stood by that time making no pretence of anything he had dono everything possible to the woik in hand but he stood a Very picture of rough but genuine sorrow, and the knob on his face had grown from a ridiculous object to something very pathetic in my eyes. "Is your wife dead?" ' I asked, He steadied himself by the back of a chair, but he answered, "Yes'in, she died died the living death that wonen do sometimes. I thought she was happy, but lie came to see us her sort o' second cousin came when I was there, and when I wasn't, and we all liked him I did, I confess, though he had none of our ways, being gny and fashion able and all that and I don't know only, one driy I came home and she was gone, and the boy was asleep in the cradle, and ho, the cousin, had gone with her, und that's all thoie was to it ma'am."' This was said with an indescribable sim plicity and sadness. "Did you never hear anvtbing more of her?" "I was going to tell you, I did get a nolo from her saying that there was no use trying to find her, thnt she repented of her madness, for she said she was wild to listen to any word ugninst me, and wilder to go with any man that would speak such words : she said, too, that I must think as gently for her as I could; she said that she was alone and should try to live an honost lifo and earn an honest living, but she knew that there was no happiness in the woild fur her anv more, and she wauled me to tell tho child that his mother was dead, and to tiy to bring him up right;" and heie ho choked down his emotion, and said, "I don't know, ma'ma, why I como to tell you all this; I haven't told the story to any one for a lone, long time, but some how there's something in your face that made mo dare to talk to you si. un tiling that made me think of lur ii'id brought everything up before nu I lieg your pardon for being so Wild, 1 nt after" nil, trouble is tho one thing the rich and the poor, the high and flu low havo a common sluue in." 'You need not apologise," I said, "you are quite rich in things that I cm sym pathize with you--I do I am truly sorry for you, but soirier for the woman who made your wife so hard and painful a thing. It seems to me she should have come back to you und her boy. Hae you never tried to lind her ?'' "Tried' there's nothing I hue nut done. I've adxertised, l'o looked in many and many a shop-giil's face and sewing women's, I've looked in the even ing in many a painted face, afraid that i siiouui see nor, inn i vo nuu no sum in all those years, and there has m.or un u moment when I would not havo ojiened my aims to her and forgi en her, for her soul wns white, and it wu- somo devlish lie that nude her so fnlse to herself for she was a good git! i good girl, and our loy is a good Imy, mil and strong and mnsrt, and if I could fee her if she-could see him hut 1 think she must le dtad. I would haw found her, 1 know, oi she would have made some. sign j a womun max- foraet herhiibund, I s'jMe, but a mother don't of tin forget her child. I beg your lurduii atrain. I don't look much like a man with a heartache, but thereV no ue in iud 'in-' by tho outside. . Many as rouirh iookiiiir fellow as I am has a soft s.pot in his heart ; it man dont always nenl broad cloth and a silk hat to know what sorrow is. Kveu a second-hand man, nud they do say they nro the meanest men top of earth, may have ii grief in his heart, and be all broken up, as it were, over it." It was vory comical, this mixture of sentiment aid philosophy and slang, hut the man was in earnest, nnd If I smiled it was from no lack of -sympathy. "Well," he said, "I guess I've done all I can to that stove, and she's a daisy 'and no mistake. Good-morning, ma'am," find then as ho turned, there appeared in tho door that opened" into the next room which had been open all the time the slight, graceful figure of tho girl who had been sewing for mo for ten days. I heard a low cry, "O John. John!" and his quick, "My tied, Uossie," and then the dust-begrimed arhis of the mau clasped the little woman in a tender embrace, and then I went.inro the next room and closed tho door. Half an hour later they enmc to the room. "It's all Bight, nia'am,"'ho said, "and I am going out of your house the happiest man in America; it's all righ' ; some day, perhaps, sho will tell you about it, but now, I own, I'm too happy to talk; but I will say, ma'am," that though you ain't much at a bargain', I'm glad you're not for if it haden't Von that my clerk tried to cheat the eye teeth out of vott 1 shouldn't ha' como over here, and shouldn't have told you nllthis story of mine, and shotildn t have found my little wife again, ion see your sister is a mighty smart kind o' a wo man, business to the ends of her fingers, but somehow, after all, not the kind a fellow feels like telling ins trouble to. But I'm sure you'll like thai stove she's a daisy sure." I never knew all the story but enough to know that the wife had been more weak than wicked, and was a true, clean woman in heart and life all the years of her absence and silence. She had kept silence because of a self- reproach a w'oman less honest would not have felt. And they took up their life again, gladly and happily, having found sunshine nfter so much shadow. When my sister. reproves mo for my lack of business ability, I point to this reunited family as an illustration of my theory that all things have their use in life even to business incapacity. Dom estic Monthly. Words Fail--"- II U II UU I ft I Li ta(ie(.. eaj.s Wr, Selbv Carter, of Nashville, Tenn., "for th benefits derived from Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Having been Afflicted all my life -with Scrof ula, my system seemed saturated wilh It. It camo oat in Blotches, Ulcer, and Mattery Sores, all over.my bod;." Sir. Carter etatet that he tras entirely cured by the we of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and since discon tinuing Us use, eight months ago, he has had no return of the scrofulous symptoms. ' All baneful Infections of the, blood r promptly remoTed'iy this unequalled alter. tire. PREPARED BT Dr. J.C.Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists; 1, lzbottles for 90. DK. MINTIE, irrlIUI and (iraduatr. "VTO 11 KE ARN V STREET. San Francisco. Cal . 1 TrrHl all S'Uronlr, Special nndrrMalr uiiranck wiiu lionueriiu succen. THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY. Is a certain Cire for Xmv. om DlMLlTY, LIIKT MAX- HlXIII. PltuBTtTORIHIttA. aril all the trill ttJt ol loutMul follies & exiesses. lilt. JIINTIF. "ho Is lUClLAIt llllnlCHN.Gl.An. I'ate or nib. I'MTSRSirr ur rcWMLVAMA. 1U fierce to forfeit 1300 for a case of this kind that fe tITAL HENTOHATHK, (under Ills f pecla! nut Ize and treat nient)uill not cu-e Price $J a bjtt'e; Four t mes the tuntif, 10. Sent to any address, confident! 11 , id private adtlre.a if doirril, by A. r.. .MiMir., ai.ii , ii nearr at , a. i-., I'ai IT'Se ii for pamphlet and li.t of tpitFtlons. kaupi.s: iioiilk i ns.r. Will he sent to nu one appljlni; by letter, stating symptom, st an I n,'e. Strut stcmy In regard to all butinefcii trinm.tiiis. jinltf Dli. LIEBIU'S WONDERFUL German Invigorator. THE OLDEST, (1REATEST. and UEST KEMEliV for lh cute of Xi n. ous ami Phj.ical Delil'ltj, Vital k hauition, WidkiK-tv, Lou Minl.ocd. Fail r,: Mtmcri, and RtleU and Effceblcd ionditltn. c( the Oenito Crifisri ort'ani. Impulriiry Eiriv Dcn, Loss of Vi.cr, aEMINAL ttEAKNEas, and all the sad tltu of onthful follies and aliuw: and K.CK'- 01" MATl'K. ITV. II perniannilly pirtrnl all Unnatural Lou Iron, the teiu, & thiUNirid can attitt wno lui? u(d the romedl in the ltt u'larter el a ctiitury which it lm Uni before the punuc. II It laderd a Wonderful Rrmril.) toninj the i.mtt and itreiKtheniny the muscles, ihecMm; the ua.tt, lmijTatii.ic the whole .temand rtt'otinir the affiuttd to HELT1I and HAPPINESS. The Itoelor olllayree to forfeit fl.Mia for a cae uni.rtalcn. unr .urtd. The resl ii fn mam r.n m.t ...t rir,l . wriKntM ana tno asove ilweattt Is ewi'ir to a coinpli cstion, tailed PR0STATOKT.I1E4,, tinkh rniuins iperUl trttmnL liR. LIEBIG's I.NVIOORATORXo S it the onlt cute Mr lKorroRRHa. H.v it JlAMiot.k I. re.to-t'd and ll.e hand cl tine motei bvk Irani axe to ou lu frier or ellker lutiKuraltir, kl. Va e f six Ult.es, sll, bent to any aduitn, col c red lecjreh fremoUeriatinu. Ur. Llrbls A 'u. trea' mcectullv I llcmuro-Rl,Jir.'-A, ''" '' M'ECIAL, I'll I r.VTE or C1JK0MC u .j-r"noul"",cur 'ou.s tiros!, llxitall tv is drair.td from the ld: rr.ii.utui tlueues tidlow that baffle crdiiarj me ileal treatment. It allc&cd to con'.inne, the unnit irl Itn tau.e O. n,uxp:icu, l. b'tts, ErisM's He, 1 .aniy.tte; Cute, luaran ttea. IhmamiM the r"iito-uiiuij or.-ant, Udntj., hies and bl ddcr .pcUll treateiL DlsEAsKa uF WOSIE.S "lEEDILVlTKKt.i. slaallfird and Krpallilr.-.-Ir. Lltbi.-ACo. from Lt Kt.lt, ae caniltd In icuplUrn with Call lornu. Mtf leal La. Ii pltma p-rxarnd It regular (Olle.-e eJueittrn tai ait no n their nineteenth tear Of aptl!! yr.flict, Mr-t p.wer'al elettrw Mn free to patlr.ts TorK.ur THnvf,aMLl'.i; .., ik I.WICOK ATOH a . Hums lm t,k jtxr r HEE. Contctation tree and priwt PK.MEeios W'ONI.ERFl'C. OErjUX IXVlSOh. ATOn u ireecttd by vep.i rijrhl t rem Tatent rtct of l M'ert Mat's got n-ment. Eenareel imruitatirra. l'il(iuJ,s MUSIC llltr.M.lEl. , W1 Oca-y Mrttt.-stn ln.nd-.-o, il. Priiate ettrincr (Wll.uo rrett, four Uooit up Ctrr tttnl frcm Kearny, 11 tin t nuance tl rcurh Dipeutry I'ru.- Mere. l.Jwisil MICEP SCOPES .1j&2i; Inulatuf.mrOirj.ia. PkllmJrlnkl.- I'.' Know That Brown's Iron Bitters will .cure the worst case of dyspepsia. Will insurea hearty appetite and increased digestion.' Cures general debility, and gives a new lease of life. Dispels nervous depression and low spirits. . Restoras an exhausted nurs ing mother to full strength and gives abundant sus tenance for her child. Strengthens thi muscles and ncrvcs,cnr hcs the blood. Overcomes 'veakness, wake fulness.aiid lack ofenergy Keeps off all chills, fevers, and other malarial poison. Will infuse with new life the weakest invalid. 37 Walker St., Baltimore, Dee. rStr. For six years 1 have been a great sufferer from Blood Disease, Dys pepsia .and Constipat!on.andbccamo so debilitated that I could notrttaln anything on my stomach, In fact, life haa almost become a burden. Finally, when hope had almost left me, my husband seeing Brown's Iron Bitters advertised in the faper, induced me to give It a trial, am now taking the third bottle and have not felt so well In six years as I do at the present time. Wrj.L.F. Grurroc. Brown's Iron Bitters will have a better tonic effect upon any one who needs "bracing up," than any medicine made. DK. JATNE'S AGUE MIXTURE. A CERTAIN AND EFFECTUAL REMEDY FOB Fever and Ague) Intermittent ami Remittent Fevers, dJe. This cla of diseases so common in all parti of the World, and especially pretalcnt in ma larious districts nnd vicinage of water-courses, are almost invariably accompanied by mora or less derangement uf the liter, and frequently by a defective action of the digestlie organs. The mere breaking of the Chill is but a step towards completing a radical cure; the various organs of the body, especially the stomach and lirer, muit be brought to a healthy and vigor ous condition before a permanent cure can be established, and this fict Las been specially kept in view by Dr. Jayne In bis tieatment of these complaints. The nse of Jayoe's Aguo Mixture, in conjunction with Jayne's Sanative Pills, as prescribed In the Directions which accompany each bottle, will not only BREAK UP THE CHILLS, but restore the system, more particularly tho liver and stomach, to a sound condition, and so prevent a relapse of Feier and Ague by thor oughly ERADICATING THE DISEASE, and the left evidence of this if the invariable success which hns always followed the admin istration of these remedies, as attested by the certificates pnbliihed annually In Dr. Jayne's Almanac, and the wide-spread popularity of the Ague Mixture in those districts of the Vnited States, where tLe discuses, for which it it adapted, icoit t rcvall. , , For sale by Hodge, Davis & Co,, Agents. Dr. Allen's rBIVATE DISrEKsUBY, 2J Kearny Street, smus Fraarlar. Cal. The E pert Bwclalll, lr. Allen, Is a regular 1,-raduatid l'hj.idin from the L'uhersity r.f llichl' (ran. He has deiot d a lifetime to the study of Special diseases. lI.Mi ME X And VIPDLE-AOLD MEN, tho arc s fferins: from the effects of Youthful In iactetion or Excesses In maturtr j.ars.NEF.VOUS and PHYSICAL DEBILITY, LOST MAMIOOIl. te.. remember that, bv a combina tion of remedies cf (Teat curative potter, the Doctor has so arranged hit treatment that It fill not only tftord lumiulute relief, butiiennancnt cure. my nusrir-ii, ExrcKiesrE (Hat liu; been surgeon in -harre of t to Itadini; hospitals) erub'.i t me to treat all pr.vate tioull.s wilh excellent remit. I tl.tlm to be a salllful Phiilcian and Surcton THD.tCUCHl.Yinf ruled in mysp cla'.ti , . IIIEAE til' MAX. Ail 1 rcceitemy beneat opinion of their cemplsints vo experirnentini,-, Ccusaltatlciis rrtti and strictly pritat Char.es reasonable. Call o- address: JK. ALLEN', WJ Kearny fet. San Francisco, Cal. Offlce Iicur., v to i At ly, J to k ettn'ntf. ljarS4-ll MOORE'S REMEDY .. .FOR POISON OAKr THE OXLY PREVENTATIVE And certain cure. 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