UNKNOWN.
Boston Transcript
Oh, what can be the glory of that land
That lies beyond our ken,
By poet and by prophet vision scanned,
But baffling word and pen
Since here within these long, perfected days,
Which grace and beauty till.
Such cloi ds melt slowly in tho sun's warm
ray,
Such shadows clothe each hill?
How can we picture aught beyond more
fair
The fragrant breath of pine,
Incense from flowers that wave in Summer
air,
Lakes burdened with white lilies, half di
vine! Can there be other, grander skies unseen?
Khali there be no more sea,
With its wild sweep of waves, its changeful
sheen
And strange, weird melody?
Could we but break the silence and unvail
The world that lies so near,
Would not the present prove a weary tale
We would not pause to hear?
Ave, it is best, but still the asking soul
Vould fain send buoyant wings,
. To know what death and change unroll,
And whence such glory springs!
The very breezes murmur of some home,
Curtained from mortal view,
And round our pleasant Summer dwelling
roam,
uur longings u renew :
QUAINT JAPANESE FANS.
Severe and Classical Designs Gro
tesque and Original Patterns.
Chicago Journal
The outside of a closed fan is capable
of much ornamentation, and one was
shown where the white ivory had been
tinted with beautiful shadings of brown
and then covered with a most wonderful
traeing of leaves, flowers and graceful
vines.
Rare, exquisite, but almost too frail for
use, was a fan of pure white ivory, in
which were inlaid large flowers of mot her
of -pearl, the intricate work displayed
making it a choice specimen for a cabinet
of curiosities.
Another very quaint design, also in
black and white, had a portion cut out in
the shape of a new moon and made
transparent 'with a thin film of gauze.
Still another pattern was an exact imita
tion of an antique Japanese drapery, the
lower part of a solid color with fantastic
figures in gold, aud above were stripes of
color in the oddest of combinations.
Even in galleries among the severest
seen some Japanese trifle in the way of
bright hanging screens, fans, a grotesque
bronze or bit of pottery, w hich is ever
welcomed by tho tired art observer as
the listener to a long aud soul-stirring
symphony is relieved by the merry ring
of a bell.
In satisfying the rage for grotesque de
signs in brie-a-brae and even fancy arti
cles with a useful purpose, no people
have given more valuable aid than the
Japanese, whose original fancies gratify
still more and more the tastes of those
who shrink and draw back with a shud
der of disdain from anything that can
. be called common.
The next to attract attention was
called the "ball-room fan," extremely
light and airy, with' folds about three
inches in width and each of these wide
folds supported by the tiniest stick imag
inable the outside or longer ones being
laced upon the paper with gay silken
cords finished with little tassels.
The twin fan was a very opiginal de
sign, so modeled that it represented two
fans (one of gilt, the other of delicate
tints and gold flowers), one seemingly
laid upon the other. This fan resembled
the one just described in having large
folds, but instead of one had two delicate
supports to each fold, in this way carry
ing still further this ingenious deception.
In distinct contrast to these was a
delicate imitation of a Chinese fan and,
by the way, it seems that neither nation
scorns to copy from the other. This fan
was of a fine white rice paper with
shaded black figures, the narrow ja
panned sticks so near together that hardly
a breath could come between, and the
multitudinous folds so closely laid that
the fan could be opened hardly more
than a quarter of the usual width.
Th late importation in the way of
fans are of unusual interest this season,
and are well worthy of description.
i irst noticed, perhaps, would be a fan
which, when closed, is wide-spreading at
the ton. whilp the sticks lie verv closelv
L. j - - rf
together below. This fan, when opened,
has a peculiar curve fitting it toward the
right shoulder, then toward the left in a
very graceful manner. This is the
"court fan," used by the nobles and
their guests, as its name implies.
Rejected Manuscripts.
Chambers' Journal.
Thackeray himself has told us how his
"Vanity Fair" was hawked about from
publisher to publisher, and its failure
everywhere predicted. For a long period
Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" shared
the same fate. Again, Mr. Kinglake's
carefully composed "Eothen," the labor
of several years, was destined to go the
weary round of publishers in vain, and
it was only when its author induced one
of that cautious fraternity to accept the
classic little work a a present, that he
at length enjoyed the gratification of
seeing it in print.
The first chapter of "The Dairy of a
Late Physician was offered successively
to the conductors of the three leading
London magazines, and rejected as "un
suitable to their pages," and "not likely
to interest the public," until Mr. Warren,
then a young man of 23, and a law stu
dent, bethought himself of Blackwood.
"I remember taking my packet," he
says, "to Air. Cadell's, in the Strand,
with a sad suspicion that I should never
" see or hear anything more of it; but
shortly after I received a letter from
Mr. Blackwood informing me that he
had inserted the chapter, and begging
me to make arrangements for imme
diately proceeding regularly with the
series. He expressed his cordial ap
proval of that portion, and predicted
that I was likely to produce a series of
papers well suited to his magazine, and
calculated to interest the public."
Peculiarities of Pigeon.
Chicago News.
Pigeons are very txtruliar in thpir habits,
one characteristic being that they take up
with strange pigeons and will fly away, one
or two at a time, with the stranger, until the
whole flock has moved to new quarters and
new masters. Another ijtfuliarity is that
the male bird will sit on the eggs the same as
the female, ami furnishes half of the food for
the yoiuig. The common pigeon is undoubt
edly what was known to the ancients, and is
the biblical dove which was sent out from
ihe ark and returned with the olive branch.
An interesting fact concerning pigeons is
that they drink like cattle with long con
tinuous ilraughti without raising their
head. Another thing Ls, they feed their
young with the white curd-like contents of
the crop, the male being even letlcr supplied
with this tender food than the female.
The Current: Daily newspapers would
find it profitable in more ways than one
if their correspondents wero allowed to
sign their names in full to their work.
WAITING FOR THE TRAIN.
Why a Woman Is Late A. Wife's De
laysLady In the Country.
TNew York Commercial Advertiser.
Few married women who live in the
country ten or twenty miles from the
city in which their husbands have busi
ness, ever take the railroad train to the
city which they mean to take. It makes
no difference whether they live five min
utes' walk from tho depot or twenty,
the time they arrive at the depot aver
ages as nearly as possible three minutes
after the train has left. Of
course they are on time for the
next train, which will leave in half an
hour. Why a woman is always late in
taking a train is inexplicable. A ticket
agent who lived with his family right
over a depot, once observed that his
wife never took the train that she ex
pected to take. When her train arrived
she generally had one boot on and was
looking out of the window, with one eye
on the train and the other eye looking
for her second boot. A married man,
when he first goes to reside in the coun
try, generally misses from six to a dozen
trains in the first few months by waiting
in the morning for his wife to take the
train with him to the city. After this ho
pays no more attention when his wife
says she will go in the train with him
than on her informing him when" tho
church strawberry festival is to come off.
He knows the strawberry festival is
bound to come off, some time, and he
knows his wife will go to the city; but
she will not go on the train with him, or
on the one one she expects to go on.
If you reside ten minutes' walk from
the depot, your wife, after keeping you
waiting at the house until live minutes
before the train leaves, will inform you
she is ready; and when you tell her it is
impossible to catch that train and you
must take the next one, she will inform
you that she has walked to the depot
from the house in five m&utes a dozen
tinie. You know you cannot do it.
About ten minutes before the next train
leaves you set out with your wife for
the depot. ISefore you have gone thirty
yards she returns to the house for her
pocket book, and to tell Jane not to let
the baby fall down the Ixiek stoop, and
that she will be back in the 4:80 train.
Your wife, having used up about two
minutes of the ten in running back,
although she can walk to the depot in
five minutes, asks you when you are
half way to the depot, if you want to
walk the clothes off her back, and at the
same time informs you ssie never felt so
hot in her life, and that you have plenty
of time and your watch must be wrong,
and that that train is always late, and
when you reply that it is always on time
she wants to know how about two years
ago last January, when you had to wait
an hour for that train. She refers to
the day of the big snow-storm, when all
the trains were late, and tries to play it
off on you for a day in June, with the
thermometer at 85 in the shade.
The lady who resides in the country
goes through the same oeration in re
turning from the city. She expects to
return on the 4:o0 train (this is her hus
ban's usual train) and misses it ujoii her
own calculation by one minute (a woman
always misses a train by one minute);
but when she looks at the railroad clock
she finds that it is the 5 o'clock train she
has missed instead of the 4:30 and by tho
railroad time she has missed that train by
five minutes. She is on hand for the
5:30 train, however. The twenty-five
minutes she has to remain in the depot
she spends in talking with any of her
lady friends as she happens to meet who
have done just as she did, and informs
them she don't believe the railroad clock
Ls right, and it must be too fast, for
when she was in Macy's waiting for her
change it was only 4 o'clock, and she
only stopped twice coining down from
there. She then produces her watch t
show that the railroad clock is ten min
utes too fast; then she walks up to tho
ticket receiver and inquires whether ho
doesn't think the railroad clock is too
fast; he guesses not; then she informs
tho ticket-taker she is certain it is, and
shows her watch, and he says "May be."
When she f rally arrives at home she ex
plains to the whole family how she
missed the 4:30 train, and a stranger
would suppose it was the first train she
had ever mLied in her life.
He Didn't Like It.
Chicago Herald "Train Talk."
What are we waiting for, conductor?"
inquired an impatient, clerical-looking
traveler, as our "train stood on a side track
between Albany and Saratoga. 'I thought
this was the fast train, and yet here we
have been for half an hour. "What's the
matter?" "We're waiting for a special to
catch up with us and pass, " replied the
conductor. "Some big-bugs on board, I
believe. " A few minutes later the special
appeared, running like mad. There were
only two cars, neither of them passenger
coaches. Through their open doors could
be seen the hind legs and the tails of a
couple of high-toned horses; in the middle
of the car sat a hostler with one eye on
each animal; on the sides of each coach
were painted the words "Special Horse
Car. "
With a snort and a rattle and a munch
ing of oats in luxury at fifty miles an hour
the special whizzed by. As the piissenger
train started out, an hour behind time, the
impatient traveler fumed: "It's simply dis
graceful. There ought to be a law against
it. Making passengers wait for those race
horses to pass! I am going to write a let
ter aliout it to The Independent. I never
felt so insulted and outraged iu my life.
And I'll be late. I know I shall. Oh!"
The impatient man looked as if he wauted
to swear. But he didn't. He was a min
ister of the gospel from Albany en route to
a country town to deliver an address at a
college warning the students against the
vice of sporting, gaming and horse-racing.
Religious Dogs.
Atlanta Constitution.
The famous St. Bernard dogs are very
carefully trained. A traveler who vis
ited some of the monasteries of tho
monks of St. Bernard, a fww years ago,
found the monks teaching their dogs
from the earliest stages of puppy hood.
Not only is physical and mental training
included in this teaching, but spiritual
culture is by no means neglected. At
meal time the dogs sit in a row, each
with a tin dish before him, containing
his repast. Grace is said by one of the
monks, the dogs sitting motionless with
bowed heads. Not one of them stirs un
til "amen" is spoken. If a frisky puppy
attempts to sample his meal before grace
ia over, one of the older dogs growls and
gently tugs his car. The intelligence
displayed by these animals in rescuing
unfortunate travelers among the moun
tains is absolutely wonderful. Many a
man who has lain down in a snow
drift owes his life to the sagacity of the
St. Bernard dogs.
Feeding; the motor
Burlington llawkeye.
Considerable excitement was caused in
Philadelphia, one day last week, by a rumor
that the Keely motor was able to stand
alone. Investigation, however, revealed the
reassuring fact that it was leaning up
against the wall in the coruer, while the
great inventor was feeding it stoek out of a
large, strong basket.
To the North Polo in a Balloon.
Fred Barnaby in Fortnightly Review.
Much has been said as to the possibili
of reaching the north pole in a balloon,
and the present writer has received num
erous letters from people who declare
that they can direct an aerostat. His
reply to such communications is that he
will be very glad to make tho gentlemen
in question a present of 100 pounds ster
ling if they will select two places, twenty
miles apart, go in a free aerostat from one
spot to another, and return, without
anchoring th balloon or recharging it
with gas, provided that they, on failing
to do this, will give him 5 pounds
sterling to assist a charity. Any person
who subscribes to a scheme for reaching
the north pole in a baloon, with our
present knowledge of aerostatics, can
not be practically" acquainted with the
matter.
So far as tho solution of the problem
how to navigate the air is concerned, we
believe that balloons have done more
harm than good. The attention of in
inventors has been diverted from
what is probably the only feas
ible way to obtain tho desired
end namely, the construction of a ma
chine which, itself heavier than the at
mosphere will be able to strike or blow
on the air in excess of its own weight.
Machinery worked by steam i much too
heavy for this purpose; electricity some
day, perhaps will be available.
An engineer who has made electricity
his study recently informed an assembly
of gentlemen that in the course of ten
years he believed it would be possible to
compress enough electricity in a sub
stance the size of an eggshell to drive an
express train from London to Liverpool.
Science has not arrived at this point yet,
but who can tell, after tho telephouo,
the phonograph, and the other marvel
ous discoveries of Edison what it may do
in the future? Inventors should never
forget that a bird is heavier than the air,
and that the bird Hies because its
strength enables it to overcome the dif
ference between its weight and that of
the atmosphere it displaces. To put the
case in a nutshell, aerial navigation is a
mere question of lightness and force.
The Fatalist's Terrible Test.
San Francisco News-Letter.
The world is full of fatalists. It is an
easy and comfortable belief. I have
been told a peculiar anecdote on this
subject. At a frontier post the officers
mess was engaged in an ardent discus-!
sion. Wine had been freely partaken of,!
and, with one of the strange caprices of
intoxication, there was philosophy at
the bottom of the glasses. The Moham-j
inedan religion was the subject of argu-f
ment. Mussulmans believe in fatei
For them a man's destiny is written
above, the time of his death is set, and
nothing can advance it. Every one had
something to advance or relate in pro or
con argument. ' J
In answer to one of the officers, who
demanded to know of what use and to
what purpose was reason and its con
trolling power if he were born with the
tag of our destiny attached, another-a
new-comer arose and said: "Gentle
men, what is the use of discussion?
Make a practical test of the question.
Take me as the subject. Can a man will
fully dispose of his life, or is the fatal
moment chosen by a higher power? Try
the question on me. Who will conduct
the experiment?'' No one answered.
Then some one proposed a wager.
"Done," was the answer. The subject
drew a pistol, showed that it was
loaded, and held it to his temple.
"Twenty dollars, I believe. Who will
pay if I lose?" He pulled the trigger
and the pistol missed fire. "A joke,"
cried the crowd. The fatalist smiled.
He reeoeked the pistol and, with a
steady hand, aimed at a clock on the
wall. He fired and the bullet went right
through the center of the dial. "Apol
ogize now," said he. "I; have won the
bet. I always did believe in fate." j
The Elder Duck. i
Blackwood's Magazine.
The eider duck, after the wild swan, is
probably the finest bird that frequents
the Atlantic seaboard. They nest all
about the island, especially among the
long heather and reedy inlets on the
eastern coast. The great precipices on
which the Atlantic breaks are too steep
and perilous, and the young birds, new
from the nest, could hardly weather that
tempestuous sea. From their earliest
days, it is true, they are splendid sailors.
When thejr grow older they grow some
what unwieldy, and are not difficult to
shoot on the water; but the half-Hedged
bird is splendidly supple, and seems to
dive witn the flash. In clear, shallow
bays we can see the little, downy mor
sels oaring themselves swiftly a foot or
two under water, and when forced to
the surface showing only the tips of
their bills. At this season the family is
under the maternal wing the drake,
till well on in autumn, leaving his con
sort to her own resources. Meantime
the male birds keep together, and are
found quite on the other side of the
island, iu parties of a dozen or a score.
Why they should manifest such selfish
unconcern for their offspring, at a sea
son when one would fancy their services
were most required, we do not know,
but the fact is undoubted.
A Western Scientist.
San Francisco Argonaut.
Apropos of traveling Britishers, I am
reminded of an incident which occurred
when Professor Tyndall was lecturing
in New York in 1872. A number of
statesmen went down on the train from
Washington to witness his first appear
ance in this country, and next day,
with numbers of prominent New York
ers, called on the learned philosopher at
his rooms in the St. Nicholas. During
the reception Professor Tyndall sidled
over in his peculiar fashion to a friend,
and, pointing over to a gentleman who
was busily conversing at the other end
of the room, whispered: "Who is that
extr'onary person?" "That one? Oh,
he's the senator from California." "Most
extr'onary most extr'onary," exclaimed
the scientist. "Why, what's the matter
with him? What's he been doing?" "Oh,
nothing of auy consequence. Only ho
asked whether I didn't think tho sun
was inhabited."
As Though a Vassar f.Irl Would I'lirt
New York Graphic.
There is a rumor that one of the re
cent Vassar graduates llirted for a month
with a scarecrow before she discovered
tho mistake. This shows how little a
Vassar education really amounts to.
Paxil Pkfneer:
St. Paxil Pioneer: lho state need.-
citizens, but she needs, above all, self-
Supjorting citizens. And that system
of education is politic and most perfect
which best meets and fulfills the highoi
requirement.
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wonderful curative qualities of St. JacObs
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Iowa, says, 'I used it for general ill health
and found it a great help." Rev. Jas. Mc
Carty, Fort Stevenson, Dakota, says, "It
cured me of severe dyspepsia, and in
creased my weight twenty-five pounds."
The Rev. Mr. Offey, New Bern, N. C, says
he has taken it, and considers it one of the
best medicines known. The Rev. Mr.
Whitney, Ilingham. Wis., says, "After a
long sickness from lung fever, I used
Brown's Iron Bitters and gained strength."
So throughout the States with hundreds
and hundreds of other clergymen.
Rush to the poles early and pick your
hops.
HOW TO SAVE MONEY,
And we might also say time and pain as
well, in our advice to erood housekeepers
and ladies geneJally. 1-ie great necessity
existing always to have a perfectly safe
remedy convenient for the relief and
prompt cure of the ailments peculiar to
woman functional irregularity, constant
pains, and all the symptoms attendant
upon uterine disorders induces us to rec
ommend strongly and unqualifiedly, Dr.
Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" wo
man's best friend. It will save money, j
Marry in haste and repent at your father-in-law's,
j
faTFARMERS. WHEN YOU VISIT SAX
Franciaco remember that the American Ex
cliaiixc Hotel continues to be the farmers' head
quarters; under the experienced management
of Charles Montgomery, the traveling public
are assured of fair, honorable treatment; board
and room per day. $1, $1.25 and $1.0; nice single
rooms, ,t0 cents per night; this hotel stands at
the head of the list for respectability, and con
sequently is doing an extensive family business;
it is strictly a temperance hotel, having no con
nection directly or indirectly with a saloon that
is next door in the same building; Montgomery's
Temperance Hotel on Second street was the first
temperance hotel ever started in San Francisco
(It years ago) and has the largest number of
steady patrons of any hotel in tha State; board
and room, St to $o p-r week, or 75 cents to ft per
day; single rooms. 25 to SO cents per night; when
you visit the city don't forget to try either the
American Exchange or Montgomery's Hotel;
both hotels have free coaches to and from all
steamers and trains. ;
CHARLES MONTGOMERY, Proprietor.
Try Geu.mea for Breakfast.
THE
BEST TONIC. ;
This medicine, combining Iron with pure
vegetable tonics, quickly and completely
('urea Dynpepsla, Indigestion, Wrnltnena,
Impure Blood, .llalor in, t'bills and Fevers,
and Neuralgia.
It is an unfailing remedy for Diseases of tho
Kidneys and Uver.
It is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to
Women, and all who lead sedentary lives. I ,
It does not injure the teeth, cause hcadache.or
produce constipation oit Iron medicines do.
It enriches and purifies the blood, stimulates
the appetite, aids the assimilation of food, re
lieves Heartburn and Belching, and strength
ens the muscles and nerves.
For Intermittent Fevers, Lassitude, Lack of
Energy, &c, it has no equal. j
The genuine has above trade: mark and
crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other.
Wrf !.!? HHOIVN CHEMICAL 0.. BALTIMORE, MO.
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IN CASH
VEW AWAY
rrrwlnmt
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300
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$1550
$200
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$150
$12A
$100
$5K)
$80
$70
$00
$.10
$40
$30
$20
$10
Smokers of Blarkwell's Genuino
BuU Durham Smoking Tobaoco will
reccire Premiums m follow on
terms and conditions bere specified:
StPREMmMiS5,000
2d " S2,000
3d " $1,000
28 other Premiums m bere shown.
The 3T premiums will be swarded
December 23. laH. 1st Premium
Koex to the person from whom we re
ceive the larpreet number of our empty
tobaoco batra prior to De. 15. 2d will
be tri ven for the next latyeet number
and thus, in tho order of the number
of empty burs received from each,
to tiie twenty-flve suceewful con
testants. Kach basr must bear otir
oriirinal Bull Durham label. U. S.
Revenue stamp, and Caution Notice.
Biurs must be done up securely In a
package, with name and a4dress of
fender, and number of basra contain
ed, plainly marked on the outside,
and must be wnt. rhanres prepaid, to
Blarkwell'H Durhaiu Tobacco
Co., Durham, N.C Every genuine
parkaw has picture of B'Ul.
Sue our next announcement.
THt
BEST
TONIC
AND
Nervine
KNOWN. M
CONQUERS
Dyspepsia
OlVtS
REFRESHING
SLEEP.
MAKES THE
Weak
Strong
AND THt
Despondent
HOPEFUL.
FOR SALS
BY ALL
EllCIOUSftVif- HiTlflUS.&Sj
ORUOOISTS
AND
DEALERS.
Tli! Yalnable Discovery is Mng extensively
nsc'd and ih p-rf-inning many ar.touishing cures. As a
.Nervine and Ton ir it in unsurpassed. Celery, Beef
nnd Iron possesses wonderful iower to build up broken
down constitutions, and restoro vigor to both mind
ami body. It I n Sure Hemetfy in cases of !eii
eial Debility. Nervous Kxhaiuttinn, Kleenlessnesa. Neu
ralgia, Dysiiepsia, Loss of l'liyicl and Mental I'ower,
i'rinarv Dilticuitii-s, and all Derails lucntft of
llenllll where a Tonic and ervlne is required.
Beware of imitations, as a woi tliless aud spurious arti
cle iiibcinir sold, purporting tolnj Celery, Beef and iron.
ti i mix. cox v o .
537 lay SI reel, - - - San FrancUco.
C. X. AY
KU'cfru; licit.
1 I AVINd INVKNTF.Il
II a number of Ki.kc-
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ito the world my ' 'New Im
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There Is no mistake about
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Royal Baking 1'owdkr Co., lotJ Wall street, N. V.
Krom 619 Post 8t.
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Pacific Coast Farm and Fireside Journal,
CLOSING, MARCH 1st, 1885,
or as soon as the first series of 2.J.000 subscribers in filled. Due notice of which
will be given iu tho Pacific Coast Farm and Fire aide Journal. The proprietors
announce a magnificent list of rewards for correct answers to the following Bible
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THE BIBLE QUESTIONS:
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a. Is Sapphire spoken or In tbe lilble? If so, slate Urtt rtTerenre.
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500 FIRST REWARDS, $3,750.00.
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2 One ;-nts' Uold Hunting Case
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4 - One Ladies Fine liold Hunting
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5 One Handsome Parlor Set Wal
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IS to 11 Five Heavy ltluck Silk lhwi
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12 to 17 -Fivot'abinct Sewing .Machines..
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"I have Suffered!"
With every disease imaginable for the
last three years. Our
Druggist, T. J. Anderson, recommending:"
"Hop Bitters" to me,
I used two bottles 1
Am entirely cured, and heartily recom
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Walker, Buckner, Mo.
I write this as a
Token of the great appreciation I have
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Good!!!
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to-day as ever I wa. I hope
"You may have abundant success"
"In this great and"
Valuable medicine:
Anyone! wishing to know more
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Can learn by addressing me, r jni.
Williams, lKCi Kith street, Washington,
I). C.
-1 consider your
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For Indigestion, kidney
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