The Columbian., June 06, 1884, Image 4

OUR BABY-BOY
Eagene J. Hall in Chicago Tribune.
With mirthful face, with curly hair,
With laughing lips and eyes,
He came to us as pure and fair
As cherub from the skies.
How glad we were to greet him here
With words of love and joy I
What gift from God could be more dear
Than our sweet baby-boy?
We watch him while he calmly lies
In cradle fast asleep;
We smile to see him when he tries
Across the floor to creep.
He gay ly prattles all the day ;
He gives us good employ;
He drives our household gloom away
This bouncing baby-boy.
Sometimes the stilly night he breaks
With cries that kill repose;
Sometimes at early morn he wakes,
And laughing kicks and crows:
He will not let us sleep or dream,
Or needed rest enjoy ;
But O. how still our house would seem
Without our baby-boy!
The little feet, in coming time,
May learn to bravely run
The rugged mountain top must climb
Ere honest fame be won.
May angels guide his little feet
From highways that destroy,
To manhood noble, pure, complete 1
God bless our baby -boy!"
Peculiarities or Alaska.
Montreal Star.
Mr. Francois Mercier has lately re
turned to Montreal from the most
northern district of Alaska, near Bea
ring straits. He Las there been em
ployed in the fur trade on the Yonkon
river for the last sixteen years, and was
the first American or Canadian to ar
rive there after the sale of Alaska by
Russia to the United States. Mr.
Mercier speaks the Esquimaux language
fluently, as also several other Indian
dialects used by the natives of the
Arctic regions, and relates several in
teresting items as to the country in
general. An idea of the cold experienced
I there may be formed from the following
' thermometrical observations : On the
1st of December, 1882, the mini
mum during the day wa3 50
degrees below (Fahrenheit; .and
the maximum 20 degrees below
zero. Taking the whole month to
gether, the minimum was 60 de
grees below zero and tho maximum 15
degrees. The winter lasts about eight
months, while the four summer months
are magnificent weather, the only draw
back being tho plague of musquit03S
that literally blacken the air daring the
long, .unbroken day, lasting, many
months.
Ducks, geese, swans, etc., begin to
arrive about the end of April, and lay
thousands of eggs on the banks and
islands in the rivers. These are much.
sought after by the natives and are ex."
cellent eating ; in fact, Mr. Mercier says
there is no lack of food of all sorts,'
while for sports there are reindeer,
moose, black and brown bear in the in
terior, and white bear on the c:ast, with
salmon in the larger rivers and trout
in the streams. The Esquimaux dogs,
which are the draught animals of the
country, are mostly fed on these fish
when dried. Mr. Mercier has not a
very high opinion of the noble red men
of the north, but considers them a lazy,
idle lot, most inveterate beggars, and
full of superstition.
As to his opinion of an expedition
ever reaching the north pole, he thinks
it never can be done without building
small stations en route, after quitting
the ship for the ice ; providing these
stations with food tfnd all necessaries,
and leaving them in charge of small
parties : by this means only will the ex
pedition be enabled to advance and re
tire when necessary, taking advantage
of some winter milder than usual, and
thus push on for the pole. " No ves3el
can proceed much farther than 7b de
grees latitude, and this leaves 11 de
grees to be got over of frozen snow and
ice. -
American Cooks and Cook Inc.
London News.
From the dreadful corned beef and
eabbage and the fish-balls of crude
American cookery, the family of Del
monico has by degrees led the Ameri
icau public to the consideration of
higher things. The favorite dishes of
the great republic have been conceu
trated in New lrork, and recent arrivals
are hospitably challenged to compare
anything in the Old World with them.
Politeness prevents such comparisons,
which would hardly bo in favor of
either hemisphere. In fish and game,
despite its wide area of river and prairie,
Anieric- can in no way compare with
the raw products of this country. But
it lias its specialties. The oysters of
Blue Point and Shrewsbury river may
not be denied auy more than tue canvas
back nourished on the marshes of the
Potomac, the terrapin captured on the
shore of the Delaware, the snapping
turtle from the we3t, the gumbo-soup
of New Orleans, or the pompano-fish
which rejoiceth the Mexican gulf. What
the Delmomcos have done is to bring
the enjoyments of the two hemispheres
into combination. They have known
how to make the clams, the oysters, the
sheepshead, and other strange fishes
familiar to the great army of gastron
omists who reach Manhattan island.
Ulaalns Abroad.
Electrical Review.
Electric lighting in Europe is ad
vancing more rapidly than the Ameri
can public seem to realize. Gas is
usually far poorer in quality than here,
and modern improvements in making it
are slowly adopted. The Bon Marche,
at Paris, where 1,500 clerks are em
ployed, tried -100 electric lamps, and
has now increased the order to 2,000.
The St. Lazare railway station tried a
few lamps in the vestibule, and will
now extend the system to the whole
vast establishment, covering some
twelve or fifteen acres. The Grand
opera house, at Paris, with its 1,100
permanent employes, has a gas bill of
$00,000 a year, and it has been experi
menting for the last two years with
almost every known system of electric
lighting, American or otherwise. In
Milan-tl:e Mauzoni theatre is lighted by
electricity, and the Tast Theatre La
Scalane has a complete equipment of
engines, boilers, and dynamo machines
from New York, adequate to 10,000
lamps, in position under the shadow of
the great cathedral, without so much
as a wire or a puff of steam in sight
from the cathedral itself.
It is about time that justice was done in
fiction to our rich men. They have fared
rather badly in our literature until the advent
of the new school who would have us believe
that only the weak and mean things in com
mon life are fit to be noted as foils for the calm
sweet life that floats above it in the mystic
realm where millions are no more than
pennies to the poor. There has been a
strange propensity on the part 'of the
American novelist heretofore to almost make
v'tr on the very richest rich of our land. He
In Australia, where a great many
hundred miles of railroads are in suc
cessful operation, the anomalous gauge
of five feet and three inches has been
adopted.
SWALLOW-TAILS.
To Be Cut In IHaconala. lavlnx
Broadcloth to the Walters.
New York Sun.
"The best-dressed men were the
waiters," said a young man to a Broad
way tailor, speaking of a dinner he had
attended the night before. The tailor
smiled and said :
"That is all going to be changed.
You are not the first man who has been
crushed by the swell clothing of the
man who filled your glar s."
"How are you going to help it ?"
"By changing the material of which
the dress suits of gentlemen are made.
Broadcloth has been the only cloth
since the memory of man for gentle
men and for waiters. The elderly gen
tlemen and other conservatives stick
to the broadcloth, but the thing to get
for your next dress suit is a diagonal
or a basket pattern in black. Coat,
waistcoat and trousers are all made
from the same piece. These goods are
lined with silk and bound with a narrow
braid. The . cuffs are bound around
about four inches from the end of the
sleeve, and underneath two imitation
button-holes are worked and two but
tons sewed on. The coats are cut
closer to tho figure than they used to
be."
"Is there any reason for this ?"
"Yes. It is because we can do it.
The diagonals are an easier, more elas
tic kind of goods. They give with the
motions of the body. This enables us
to fit the form better, .nd at the same
time-leaves the wearer as easy as if ho
was dressed in a business suit."
"What becomes of the white
Marseilles waistcoats?"
"They hold their own. Full evening
dress where ladies are to form part of
the company is not complete without a
white waistcoat, and never will be. The
cnt of this garment differs from the old
style a little. It exposes more of the
shirt front."
"How about the coming cut of
trousers?"
"Trousers are not quite so tight, bat
they follow the shape of the legs."
"Is it possible to revive the old silk
hose and knee-breeches?"
. "Not here. Possibly it could be done
among a class in the old country, who
devote no time to business. The use of
knickerbockers in Scotch cheviots, with
blouses, for gentlemen who are going
into the country is increasing. They
are very comfortable to tramp in. The
line is drawn at the city limits."
"Will there be any change in business
suits?"
"No. The sack coat will have the
run. Many brokers down here -will
wear four-button cutaway coats in diag
onals, with striped trousers. That is
really the most elegant business suit.
A man is ready in such a suit to go any
where except to the opera or to a re
ception. Some prefer Prince Albert
coats, bat the majority fancy the sack
coat, and the majority set the fashion."
"I occasionally see a gentleman with
figured waistcoat of a rather loud
color."
"Yes. I wish a few, not many, would
display a taste like that. I have a
quantity of stuff that I would like to
selL It was left from three years ago."
A Cold Day Flab Story.
Detroit Free Press.
"So you never heard of keeping a
fish alive for a month out of water i ell,
it's a fact all the same, 'cause I've done
it myself. Frank, a well known fish'
erman who drags his living out of the
Mississippi not many miles above St.
, Louis, was talking to a reporter about
his experience on the river.
They were both in a resort
much frequented by men of his craft,
and Frank was contentedly sucking
his pipe and toasting his shins before a
red-hot stove. "When old Peter told
me that such a thing could bo, done I
laughed at him, and was just about to
call him a liar, but he looked danger
ous like, and I did not do it. We were
taking lunch, and I offered to bet him
two cans of oysters to one that he
couldn't keep a fish alive out of water
for a day. It was very cold and he
took me up. The next morning he
caught a good sized buffalo, and
almost before he had him well out of
the water there was a skin of
ice over him, and in a little while he
was frozen hard as a rock. I was hav
ing lots of fun laughing at him, but the
next morning he slapped him in the
water. It took the fish a little while to
thaw, but just as soon as he began to
warm up he began to move,
and in an hour he was as lively
as any of them. I ve kept a fish frozen
for eight days this winter and then
brought him to life again in water.
I've done it many a time, but it has to
be cold enough to . freeze him quick,
and you must not let him freeze him
self." Prince Bismarck' Obesity Cured.
St. James Gazette. .
Stout people would no doubt be glad
to have further information as to the
method by which Priuce Bismarck has
at last got rid of his superfluous flesh.
For a dozen years the man of blood
and iron has been afflicted with all
sorts of maladies, more or less directly
traceable to his excessive corpulence.
He passed sleepless nights, and could
hardly walk a couple of hundred yards
without fatigue. Doctor after doctor
was called in ; but "physicians were in
vain." At last, however, he has found
his savior. Count William Bismarck,
the prince's second son, was, like his
father, long troubled by obesity. One
happy day a literary friend introduced
to him a certain Dr. Schwenninger, a
Bavarian, who claimed to have hit upon
a regimen which was an infalliblo cure
for fatness.
Count William placed himself unre
servedly in the hands of the herb
doctor, and in a few weeks had lost his
superfluous bulk. Thereupon Dr.
Schweninger was summoned to the
chancellor, whom he undertook to care,
as he had cured his son. At the end of
seven or eight weeks Prince Bismarck
weighed sixty pounds less, and he now
looks upon himself as cured. He sleeps
long and tranquilly; he is at his desk at
7 in the morning; he takes long walks
which would fatigue a young man, and
after ten years' absence from the saddle,
he is now able to ride. All this is pro
digious ; but what is Dr. Schwenninger's
mysterious regimen ?
Speculator and Camblera.
French Wit.
At the stock exchange:
"My dear boy, the business world is divided
Into camps, the gamblers and the specula
tors." "I don't exactly see the difference."
"It's very simple. The speculator Is the
one who gains. When a man loses be Is
only a gambler 1"
Little Johnny's Cat.
Mose, which Is our cat, wen you rub him
the rong way in the dark he strikes fire like
he was flint. Billy he ast my father if Moses
sparks was lecktricity, and my father he Bed:
"I goss so, Billy, cos I have obserfed that
wen you tred on his tail he is lightnLn!"
THE TASTE FOR ROMANCE.
Old People Who Are Anxious to
Know How the Story "Will Come
Out."
(Gertrude Garrison.
I asked Mr. Bonner if ho had never
found it necessary to make any new
departures in consequence of the
changes in literary taste ; if the same
order of stories thatj pleased when peo
ple had read less and had less to read
pleased now ? He said . he had in no
way altered his original ideas on the
subject of editing. He believed human
nature to be always the same in any
age yesterday, to-aay and forever.
The Ledger's enormous constituency
is an index of a taste common to all
mankind the taste for romance. All
the world likes to read stories. The
prosier and more uneventful the lives
of the readers, the greater their de
light in the exciting fortunes of the
heroes and heroines of the novel. Ro
mance rests them. It lifts them out
of the dullness of everyday life, opens
wide the gate which leads in the
fair field of fancy and bids them walk
therein and refresh their faded
souls. Existence is so sad and com
forties for many that to escape from it
for a little while, even in imagination,
by means of a serial that puts it3
heroine in contmued jeopardy and only
extricates her from a complicated series
of misfortunes after the villain has met
his just doom and her lover has in
herited a large fortune, is a luxury not
to be despised. I ot only do all man
kind like romance, but the majority
like it strong, extravagant; yes, even
impossible.
It is a mistake to suppose that only
the young care for fiction. I have seen
old, old men and women, hovering dan
gerously near the grave, who were tho
most confirmed and absorbed of novel
readers, partisularly Ledger readers.
Having relied on it for romantic food
many years, they no more thought of
giving it up than they thought of going
barefooted couldn't have done so with
out sufferin&r.
Mr. Bonner told me of a good old
man, pious and proper, who lived in a
Connecticut village and was the mam-
stay of one of the godliest of churches,
who tottered down to the postoffice
regularly every week to get his .Ledger
A relative, of anti-novel prejudices, who
was visiting his family, expressed her
astonishment that he would read "nov
els." "Oh, my dear, this only a bit of
a'newspaper story," said the honest old
man, and went on with his Bturdy fore
finger under the lines, chasing a black
eyed heroine through a page and a half
of sorrow and tribulation.
As' another instance of an elderly
person s fondness for stones', Mr,
Bonner told this: When foreman of
The Mirror office he took his proofs
home to read at nights. A serial by
Charles F. Briggs, called the "Trip
pings of Tom Pepper," was being
published. It was biographical in
character, and related the nps and
downs of Mr. Pepper's eventful career
very graphically, beginning with his
early childhood. Mr. Bonner's mother
read each chapter in the proof, and
grew quite impatient at the delay be
tween installments. When her son
laughed at her interest in the protracted
"fib," she said, "Why, Robert, I want
to see how the little fellow came out.
And so they all want to see how the
characters they grow interested in
come out. '
Where the Toys Are Made.
London Graphic.
If The North German Gazette wants
to pick another quarrel with France, it
may find a pretext for doing so in an
article which lately appeared m a
Parisian paper recommending that
toys of German make should be
boycotted. Large quantities of the
cheap toys sold in France are manufac
tured in Germany, but why the French
should not be able to undersell tho lm
porters of these wares is not explained.
It is complimentary to this country that
.the journalist who proposes tho boy
cotting does not object to English toys,
for he admits toy engines, and steam
boats like those made in England. It
would seem, indeed, that each country
has its specialty in the fabrication of
playthings, so that all Europe must be
laid under contribution to stock a good
toy-shop.
England excels not only in the arti
cles which we have just mentioned,
but m playthings made from India rub
ber, in balls of everv kind, to say noth
ing of the instruments required for our
national games. A hundred years ago,
when tennis was the favorite pastime
of French noblemen, it was thought
that a racquet to be good must have the
mark of Blois upon it ; nowadays such
a thing as a French-made racquet is
not to be found ; and though croquet
was adopted in France as soon as it was
discarded here, the French are still
obliged to get all their croquet-boxes
from England. They surpass us, how
ever, in the making of dolls and dolls
dresses, in fashioning animals out of
cardboard, and m all mechanical toys,
that i3, toys that are worked by some
simple contrivance other than steam.
The best leaden soldiers come from
Saxony, the best humming-tops from
Holland; rnorth Italy makes squeaking
punches and drumming rabbits ; while
Switzerland, the Ithenish provinces, and
J? rancoma, but especiallv .Nuremberg,
have a practical monopoly of animals
carved out of wood. So cheaply are'
these made that animals about five
inches in height, and very artistically
if roughly-carved, are now add in
London at a penny apiece. Many of
them are made in prisons. Ihe result
of all this is that little people have now
a far greater variety of choice in the
toys than the youngsters of former gen
erations, and this accounts for the dis
use of many playthings that once de
lighted boy 8 and girls who are now
grown up. The battledore and shuttle
cock, the cup and ball, the big wooden
humming-top, the pop-gun and the
wooden sword are almost out of de
mand.
Uettlnz Hungry.
Oil City Blizzard.
At one of our churches yesterday a
little girl patiently listened for a long
time to the B3rmon, and finally, becom
ing very hungry, whispered to her
mother : "Ma, can we go home to din
ner when he gets through telling this
story?" '
It is probably not generally known
that rain or dew from the vapir- pro
duced by the evaporation of sea or salt
water invariably contains salt, although
Dr. Tetzhold, of the university at Dor
pat, Russia, states that chemists have
long been aware of the fact.
Arkansaw Traveler: I neb2r seed a
man yit whut I thought had a 'scuce
fur bein' proud, fur ef he will only turn
ter de simplest thing in natnr' it won t
take five minits study ter 'vise him dat
he's er fool,
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Treatment as will enable you to judge f or
Sourself whether it promises to give relief
l your particular case. ,
All orders for the Compound Oxygen
Home Treatment directed to H. E. Math
ews, 606 Montgomery Street, San Fran
cisco, will be filled on the same terms as if
sent directly to us in Philadelphia.
The new plugs of solid whisky will have
a clove attachment with each bite.
"THE THIRD HOUSE."
Its Oood and Mad aiembers-The Re
markable Experiences of a Close
Observer of Its Workings
Inrlng a Liong Residence
at Washington.
(Correspondence Rochester Democrat.)
No city upon the American "continent
has a larger floating population than
Washington. It is estimated that during
the sessions of congress twenty-five
thousand people, whose homes are in va
rious parts of this and other eountries,
make this city their place of residence.
Some come here, attracted by the advant
ages the city offers for making the ac
quaintance of public men; others have va
rious claims which they wish to present,
while the great majority gather nere, as
the crows nock to the carrion, for the sole
purpose of getting a morsel at the public
crib. The latter class, as a general thin?,
originate the many schemes which termi
nate in vicious bills, all of which are
neither directed at the public treasury, or
toward that revenue which the black
mailing of corporations or private enter
prises may bring.
While walking down Penasylvania ave
nue the other day I met Mr. William M.
Ashley, formerly of your city, whose lonjr
residence here has made him umisuallv
well acquainted with the operations of
tho lobby.
Having made my wants in this particu
lar direction known, in answer to an in
terroerative, Mr. Ashley said:
"Yes, during my residence here I have
become well acquainted with the workings
of the Third House,' as it is termed, and
could tell you of numerous jobs, which,
like the 'Heathem Chinee,' are peculiar."
"You do not regard the lobby, as a body,
vicious, do you?"
"Not necessarily so. There are good and
bad men comprising that body; yet there
have been times when it must be admit
ted that the combined power of the 'Third
House' has overridden the will of the peo
ple. The bad influence of the lobby can be
seen in the numerous blood-bills that are
introduced every session."
-"But how can these be discovered?"
"Easily enough, to the person who has
made the thing a study. I can detect them
at a glance.
"Tell me. to what bills do you refer?"
"Well, take the annual gas bills, for In
stance. They are introduced for the pur
pose of bleeding the Washington Gas-light
uompany. iney usually result in an in
vestigating committee which never
amounts to anything more than a draft
upon the public treasury for the expenses
of the investigation. Another squeeze is
tne aoattoir diijs, as tney are caned.
These, of course, are foucrhtby the butch
ers and market-men. The first attempt to
force a bill of this description was in 1877,
when a prominent Washington politician
offered a fabulous sum for the franchise."
"Anything else in this line that you
think of, Mr. Ashley?"
"Yes, there's the job to reclaim the Po
tomac flats, which, had it become a law.
would have resulted in an enormous steal.
The work is now beinar done bv the Gov
ernment itself, and will rid the place of
that malarial atmosphere of which we
hear so much outside the city."
"During your residence here have you
experienced the bad results of living in
uiis ruiavu:i
"Well while I have not at all times en
joyed good health, I am certain that the
difficulty which laid me up so long was
not malarial. It was something that had
troubled me for years. A shooting, sting
intr pain that at times attacked different
parts of my body. One day my right arm
and lee would torture me with pain, there
would be great redness, heat and swelling
of the parts: and perhaps the next day the
left arm and leg would be similarly afreet
ed. men again it would locate m some
particular part of my body and produce a
tenderness wmcn would well mgn drive
mexrantic. mere would be weeks at i
time that I would be afflicted with an in
termittent kind of pain that would come
on every afternoon and leave me compar
atively free from suffering during the bal
ance oi tne twenty-iour nours. Then 1
would nave terriDie paroxysms or pain
coming on at any time during the day or
nignt wnen l would ne obliged to he upon
mv back for hours and keeD as motionless
as possible. Every time I attempted to
move a chilly sensation would pass over
my body, or l would iaint from hot flashes
I suffered from a spasmodic contraction
of the muscles and a soreness of the back
and bowels, and even my eyeballs become
sore and distressed me greatly whenever
1 wiped my race, i became ill-tempered,
peevish, fretful, irritable and desperately
despondent.
"Of course you com suited the doctors re
crardins the difficulty."
"Consulted them? well I should say I
did. Some told me I had neuraltda: oth
ers that I had inflammatory rheumatism.
for which there was no cure, that I would
be afflicted all my life, and that time alone
would mitigate my sufferings.
"But didn't thevtry to relieve your mis'
eries?"
"Voa ViAir vAmifarl artil wV -waS tA -rvtA
a Vsf? MIVJ V V1U VVM OiUU 1 T OlVVU
blistered and bled me, plastered and oiled
me, sweat, steamed and everythiniz but
"Hut now did you nnallv recover?
"I had a friend living in Michigan who
had been afflicted in a similar way and
had been cured. He wrote me regarding
his recovery and advised me to try tae
remedy wnicn cured him. l procured a
bottle and commenced its use, taking a
tablespoonful after each meal and at bed
time. I had used it about a week when
noticed a decrease of the soreness of the
joints and a general feeling of relief. I
persevered in its use and nnaiiy got so l
could move around without limping, when
i told my mends tnat t was Warners
Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put me on
my feet.
"And do you regard your cure as perma
nent!
"Certainly: I haven t been so well in
years as I am now, and although I have
been subjected to frequent and severe
changes of weather this winter, I have not
felt the first intimation of the return of
mv rheumatic trouble. '
"Do you object to the publication of this
interview, Mr. Ashleyr -
"Not at all, sir. I look upon it as a duty
I owe my fellow creatures to alleviate their
sufferings so far as I am able, and any
communication regarding my symptoms
and cure that may be sent to me at 500
Maine avenue will receive prompt and
careful attention." .
"Judging from your recital, Mr. Ashley.
there must be wonderful curative proper
ties about this medicine.
"Indeed, there is. sir. for no man suffer-
ed more nor longer than I did before this
remedy gave mo relief.
"To go back to the original subject, Mr.
Ashley. I suppose you see the same famil
iar faces about the lobby session after
session?"
"No. not so much as you might think.
New faces are constantly seen and old ones
disappear. The strain upon lobbyists is.
necessarily very great, and wnen you add
to this the demoralizing effect of late hours
and intemperate habits and the fact that
they are after found out in their steals,
their disappearance can easily be account
ed for."
"What DroDortion of these blood-bills
are successful?"
"A verv small nercentage. sir. Notwith
standing the power and the influence of
the lobby, but few of these vicious meas
ures pass. Were they successful it would
be a sad commentary unon our system of
government, and would virtually annihil
ate one branch of it. The great majority
of them are either reported adversely or
smothered in committee by the watchful
ness or loyalty of our congressmen."
i. a. u.
FOB MANY TEARS.
During all of the numerous financial
crises which.have affected this city and
coast, it Is encouraging, to note that one
banking institution, at all events, stood
firm, and proved to the world at large
what good management and sound busi
ness policy could do, when commerce" and
credit were shaken to their centers. We
allude to the old Pacific Bank, at the cor
ner of Pine and Sansome streets, San
Francisco, Cal., which for tho last twenty
one years has held through storm and suu
shine to'the even tenor of its wayand bids
fair to be a friend to the industrial and
commercial classes of this coast for many
a year to come under the careful and
prudent management of its worthy Presi
dent, Dr. R. H. McDonald.
THE SECRET OF LIVING.
Scoviixb's Sarbaparilla, '.on Blood and
Liver Syrup, will cure Scrofulous Taint,
Rheumatism, White Swelling, Gout, Goitre,
Consumption, Bronchitis, Nervous Debility,
Malaria, and all diseases arising from an im
pure condition of the Jblood. Certificates can
be presented from many leading physicians,
ministers, and heads of families throughout the
land, endorsing it in the highest terms. Weare
constantly in receipt of certificates of cures
from the most reliable sources, and we recom
mend it as the best known remedy for the cure
of the above diseases. ,
"Rough on Coughs." 15c, 25c, 50c, at
Druggists. Complete cure Coughs, Hoarse
ness, Sore Throat. .
A plug of Star tobacco weighs sixteen
ounces. Nearly all other brands are a
fourteen-ounce swindle.
Those complaining of Sore Throat or
Hoarseness should use Brown's Bronchial
Troches. The effect is extraordinary, per
ticularly when used bjr singers and speak
ers for clearing the voice.
"Rough on Corns." 15c. Ask for it.
Complete cure, hard or soft corns, warts,
bunions. j
Veni, Vidi, Vicl I came, I saw, I con
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Physic. It quickly relieves Constipation,
Piles, SiGk Headache, etc., 25 cents. At
all Druggists. Redington Woodard ; 8c
Co., Portland, Oregon. j
"Bucho-Paiba." Quick, complete cure,
all annoying kidney and urinary dis
eases. $1.
CATARRH A New Treatment whereby
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was discovered by a missionery in South America.
Send self-addressed envelope to Rsv. Job Era T. ln
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Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica,
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AKD ALL OTHER BODILY PAINS AKD ACHES.
Sold by Druf (Uta nd Dralen everywhere. Fifty Cent a bottle.
Direction in 11 L&nRuuss.
THE CnARLK! A. VOCELER CO.
(Imwin t A. VotiELEK CO.) fUltimorr, U, C. 8. A,
Regeneration for
enfeebled systems.
suffering from a gen
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Its usual concomit
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and stimuli of appe
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The best evidence in the world of the
purity and excellence of Blackwell's Bull
Durham Smoking Tobaoco Is found in the
fact that the fame of this tobacco increases
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or had any dubious or dangerous Ingre
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all nationalities, surely some one would
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unpalatable. For 18 years this tobacco has
been acknowledged to be the awl in ihm
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brand grows more popular, the demand for
It wider, and smokers
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Ask your dealer for it
Get the genuine trade
mark of the Bull.
There is no mischief done where
Blackwell's Bull Durham
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Ye ksve GOOI HTALTH the irVTB snart fce lent ' rir.
IMMATf
Ti. SANFORD'S LIVER INVICOHATQR
tut. . h . t n.mn tmnli..! v V.mitAhM IdVef
Medioine.and for diseases resulting from a deranged
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Headache, henmatinm. etc An invaluable fam
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- Liver and Its Diseases," to DR. BAHFOED, 4
Dasne Street, New York. .
Jl( DUtUUldT WILL TKLL TOO ITS EEPCTATlO.l.
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n rTLT- - "flavor. Superior to the finest im
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Ioan and Dlscounta . ...
Real EMtat-stonk'r hense
Other Keal Kalate ,.
Vov. bonds, b'nk Stks &o
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Money on liaud
Total Assets
Liabilities.
Capital Stork
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Total liabilities
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150,000 OO
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2,17,S207
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P-D.ILi.IL
TORPID DOVELS,
DISORDERED LIVER
and MALARIA.
From these sources arise tiree-fourths ot
Cio diseases of the human race. These
eymptma Indicate their exLstence : Is mt
Appetite Bowels costive blest Head
svelte, fullness after eatlnff aversion to
exertion, of body err mind Eructation
of food Irritability of temper tow
spirits A feeling of having negleetee,
some dntr Jlziness,FluttrinB: at tna
Heart. Dots before the eves, blanlr col
ored ferine, CONSTIPATION, nd d
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PIXJS have no equal. Their actio on the
Kidneys and Skin is also prompt ; removing
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tlte, sound digestion, regular BlajScleat
8 kiXanda vigorous body. 1CTTS prL.ia
cause no nausea or griping nor interfere
with dally work and are a perfect
ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.
Bold everywhere, 35e. Oillr.44 Murrny 8t.,N.Y.
TUTTS VIM DYE.
Ghat Hair ok Whiskers changed in.
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plication of this DTK. Bold by Druggists,
ox sent by express on receipt of
Office, 44 Murray Street, New Yerric-
T3sTS MANUAL CF DSEFUL RECEIPTS FEEL
PAPILLON SKIN CURE.
A positive cure for Salt Rheum, Eczema, Erysipe
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allayed at once by bathing the parts. For Piles,
Cuts, Ulcers or Sores, no remedy is so prompt ia
soothing and healing. It does not smart er burn.
Is absolutely vegetable, therefor perfectly harmless.
Directions in ten languages accompany every bottle.
PAPILLON CATARRH CURE
Cures all diseases of the nasal organs, by insuffla
tion, injection or by spraying, cleanses the nostrils
and permits natural breathing. It is a specific
cure for Cold in the Mead, fenuttles, Sneezing, wat
ery Eyes, and Pain in the Head, Bronchial Catarrh,
Acute or Chronic Catarrh. Rose Cold and Hay
Fever, this remedy will permanently cure, as many
testimonials certify. The application is soothing,
not irritating. It does not smart. Directions in
ten languages accompany every bottle.
.PAPILLON COUGH CURE
can be administered to infants without the slightest
danger. It is a harmless vegetable syrup, very
delicious to the taste, that relieves and positively
cures Whooping Cough at once. It is a permanent
cure for Bronchial or Winter Cough, Bronchitis
and Pulmonary Catarrh. " The many testimonials
received by us, almost permit us to warrant a cure.
It is wonderful how promptly it relieves a hack
ing cough in children or adults. Directions in tea
languages accompany every botde.'
PAPILLON BLOOD CURE.
A specific cure for all diseases of the Blood, Liver,
Stomach, Bowels and Kidneys. It is the prescrip
tion of an eminent physician, who has used it In
his practice for thirty years. ' For all diseases ol
the blood.as Anzmia,Sick Headache, Nervousness,
Female Weaknesses, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia.
Jaundice, Biliousness, and Kidney Diseases, this
medicine is absolutely sure. I Restores the blood to
a healthy condition, and prevents disease. Direc
' tions in tea languages accompany every bottle.
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Tho Best Blood Purifier and ToMc Alterative in
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