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YAMHILL REPORTER. H. NSYUHK. Proprietor. How the Yankee < <cur <le Leon Hade Ke ply to the Haughty »south Caro linian. M c M innville . - - O regon RICH MORMON PROMISES. How th' People Eden. Proaelyt line Aaeuta Gei to Go to the Garden o (Denver Tribune.] The travelers in the car were con verts on their way to Mormoudoui, and were good apcciinens of the victims ol the proselyting agents who are no» working in every state of the union. “ Where are you going ?” asked tin reporter of a big, long haired fellow who was pulling at the stem of a very rank pipe. “Stranger,' with the broad accent or. the a, , “were goin’to the Garden ol Eden. »» ’ Can that be possible?” “Yes, sah. We’re goin’ to the land milk and honey ami breadfruit. We’re goin’ to live alongside the Jordan. We’re saints, we are.” “No?” “We are Latter Day Saints—that’s the right name, ain’t it, Minerva?” turn ing to a woman who was not entitled to the name so far as appearances went; “yes. Latter Day Saints. We’re tirod o’ toilin’ and sweatin’ and workin’ for nothin’ but a livin’. We’re goin’ to set tle down where the best tilings in the land will come in to us without effort.” “Mormons, eh? Where did you come from ?” “Oh, from the south. Most of us from Tennessee and Kentucky and Vir ginia.” “How were you converted to Mor monism?” “Oh, an apostle came along our way and taught us the tenets of the church, and told us of the good things that are waitin’ for us in L'tah. It’s the true church, and it’s located right in an earthly paradise, where there is little work to be done, and that mostly by the women.” “What did the Mormon missionaries promiso you?” “Oh, plenty of land and horses and cows, and lots of Scandinavian girls to choose wives from. We get everything for nothing and are sure of salvation when we die, they say.” “Is that all?” “Bless yer eyes, no. We are promised more'n that, but we must keep it se cret.” “ Have you joined the church yet “No, not exactly. We’ve made prom ises and vows and things of that sort, but we won't be anointed until we reach God’s chosen people—they’re in Salt Lake, where the gorgeous templéis, you know.” Twenty-Four Hour Watches. ' [New York Tribune.] The now time standard adopted on November 18 is being followed by the introduction of twenty-four hour watch dials. The American watch company of Waltham has issued a notice that it is manufacturing these dials in such shape as will permit of their being sub stituted for any of tho ordinarily divided watch dials on their watches. At Edwin A. Thrall’s, 1 Maiden Lane, one of the new dials may be seen. The hours from 12 to 24 are placed close to the outef circumference of the dial, the figures from 1 to 12 being within a smaller circumference. Thus just above the figure 1 is the figure 13; above the figure 2 the figure 14, and so on. The ordinary distinctions between day and night will sufficiently indicate to the observer, unless lie has been on a pro longed spree, whether the time indi cated is 1 o’clock in the morning or 18 o’clock, which would be equivalent to 1 p. m., according to the present method of registering time. Most of the orders for these new style watches have thus far come from railroad companies. “I regard them,” said Mr. Thrall “as the precursors of a more radical change that is not far dis tant. We shall soon have in general use watches with the hours marked from 1 to 24, in which tho hour hand makes only one complete revolution in twenty-four hours. In most watches the only change necessary to effect this will be a new dial and an alteration in the minute pinion and the hour wheel. Meanwhile these ‘compromise’ dials serve to make the change gradual and easy.” __________________ /< WEBSTER'S REPLY TO H a TNE [Bon: Perley Poore.] As the debate on the Foote resolu tion progressed, it revealed an evident intention to attack New England, and especially Massachusetts. This brought Mr. Webster into the arena, and he concluded a brief speech by declaring that as a true representative of the state which hud sent him to the s mate it was his duty, and a duty which he should fulfill, to place her history and and her conduct, her honor and charac ter, in their just and proper light. A few days later Mr. WebsterJ heard his state and himself mercilessly attacked by Gen. Hayne, of South Carolina, no mean antagonist. The son of a Revo lutionary hero who had fallen a victim to British cruelty, highly educated, with a slender, graceful form, fascinat ing deportment, and a well-trained, mellifluous voice, the haughty South Carolinian entered the lists of the po litical tournament, liito Saladin, to oppose the Yankee Coeur de Leon. When Mr. Webster went to the senate chamber to reply to Gen. Hayne, on Tuesday, Jun. 20, 1830, lie felt himself master of the situation. Always care ful about his personal appearance when he w as to address an audience, he wore on that day the Whig uniform, which had been copied by the Revolutionary heroes a blue coat with bright buttons, a buff waistcoat, black trousers, and a high white cravat. Neither was he in sensible to the benefits to be derived from publicity, and he had sent a re quest to Mr. (¡ales, the editor of The National Intelligencer, to report what he was to say himself, rather than to send one of his stenographers. The most graphic account of the scene in the senate chamber during the delivery of the speech was subsequently written, virtually from Mr. Webster’s dictation. Perhaps, like Mr. Healey’s picture in Faneuil hall, it is high colored. Sheridan, after after his forty days’ preparation, did not commence his scathing impeachment of Warren Hast ings with more confidence than was displayed by Mr. Webster when he Stood up, in the pride of his manhood, and began to address the interested ma.>8 of talent, intelligence and beauty around him. A man of commanding presence, with a well-knit, sturdy frame, swarthy features, a broad, thoughtful forehead, courageous eyes gleaming from beneath shaggy eye brows. a quadrangular breadth of jaw bone and a mouth which bespoke strong will, he stood like a sturdy Roundhead sentinel on guard before the gates of the constitution. Holding in profound contempt what is termed spread-eagle oratory, his only gesticula tions were up-and-down motions of ¿iis arms, as if he was beating out with sledge hammers his forcible ideas. His peroration was sublime, and every loyal American heart lias since echoed the last words, “Liberty and Union—now and forever—one and inseparable!” Hanger from Sleeping Draughts. [Scientific American.] Recently the dangerous and lament able habits of promiscuously taking sleeping draughts has unfortunately be come very prevalent, entailing misery and ill-health to a terrible degree. Most persons addicted to this destruc tive practice erroneously think that it is better to take a sleeping draught than lie awake. A greater mistake could hardly exist. All opiates more or less occasion mischief, and even the state of stupefaction they induce utterly fails to bring about the revitalization resulting from natural sleep. The physiological effect of hyp notics, or sleeping draughts, upon the system is briefly as follows: (1) They paralyze the nerve centres and disorder the stomach, rendering it unfit for its duties; witness the sickness ami loss of appetite consequent upon a debauch. Chloral, chloroform, opium, etc., act upon the system much in the same way as inebriation. (2) One and all an- iesthetics introduced into tho body have life-destroying properties in a low de gree—proved by an overdose being fatal. (3) The condition they produce is not sleep, but a counterfeit state of unconsciousness. (4) They directly po son the blood, consequent upon the carbonization, resulting from their action. While speaking of sedatives, we cannot omit drawing special atten tion to chloral. This powerful drug is Wale*Taking <wo«»d Care of lllmarlf. popularly supposed to give a quiet [London Cor. Newark Journal.] night's rest without any of the after How long it w ill be ere Prince Vic effects (headache, etc.) produced by tor, should he live, will become king various preparations of morphia. Now, of England, of course, is beyond hu chloral is wlnit is termed cumulative man ken to determine. There are two in its action, which implies that even lives between him and the goal, one of the same dose persisted in for a certain them, though old, very tough, for 1 am length of time may cause death. Of told that the decadence of Victoria's all hypnotic.), chloral is by far the physical powers bears no proportion most deadly, and should never, under whatever to the rapid decay which any circumstances, be taken except seems to be setting down upon her under medical supervision. mental faculties. The prince of Wales, however, is not strong, though he is Advice to Young Malvinl. getting corpulent. Since his severe ill [Chicago News. | ness twelve years ago, he has had to be On the i are o. the hands columns very careful of himself. Many predict might lie written, but suffice it to re that he w ill never reach the throne, produce the letter which a l’rairie ave simply because his mother w ill outlive nue lailv, who is a great admirer of him. But that the prince intends to young Salvini. now with Margaret cheat these prophets if he can, is shown Mather, sent that handsome actor last in the trouble he takes to bundle him August. After the usual introductory self up as he emerges from the theatre remarks the letter ran: "You are too into the night air. and in that abstain handsome as a man and too promising iousness of diet which leads him to an actor to hurt your reputation by confine himself at the richest banquets such a pair of hands as yon showed in to the plainest food. ■Romeo' last evening, l'ir *, take off all your rings. If six or seven hot foot The Old Idneoln HonieMrail. baths per day do not take some of the [Int?r Ocean.) crimson out of your hands, buy a pair H Oldrovd. a special admirer of tlie of medicated gauntlets to sleep in, and late I’resilient Lincoln, has leased the during the day wear, its much as possi old Lincoln homestead at Springfield ble, cold cream and kid gloves ent off fora term of years, and. while prepar at the fingers. Let your nails grow ing it for his personal occupancy, has long and tapering, as that will tend to been fitting it up with the view of pre diminish the apparent width of yottr serving it as nearly as possible just as hands. If you can remember to keep Mr. Lincoln left it when he went to them off of the star's black dresses, coat Washington. A room has been set your hands back and palm with face apart for the storage and display of wash or any thick, white liquid for the Mr. Oldroyd’s private collection of complexion. You may sue me for Lincoln mementoes, gathered during a damages if any of these tr nients do period of nearly twenty years. not improve you, after a two wrecks' trial. But if you have any repugnance The elmny tree grows to I k » fifteen about following my advice any minicure feet in circumference. The outer wood who understands her business will reno is pure white, tho heart only being per vate vour only unattractive feature for fectly black. $5. ' THE CALD A Eh! FJCTOÄK PROCESSES ABE MADE KITCHEN. ('HACKERS W hat English t oaka Know sad W l'r- EXTENSIVE SCALE Tlie.v Know Xot---Hospitality of th« BY WHICH ON AN IN AN ENGLISH —MIXING, KNEADING AND STAMPING. II otiseliol il. Chicago Times. [Prentice Mulford in Sau Francisco Chrou A reporter recently inspected the workings of the largest cracker bakery Their mince pies are pigmies co u in New York. Jf this factory is a fair pared w’ith ours; only a dab of crust, sample of what is to be seen in other with a few mouthfuls inside. I never bakeries, there is no cause for the most found sauce accompanying the puddings. fastidious housewife to fear that the Indian corn they call “maize” and all crackers she sets before her guests are grains by the general name of "corn. not clean and wholesome. On the Ask for Indian or corn meal and they second floor of the building there are will offer you hominy. Crabs and lob- five “reel,” or cylinder ovens. These | sters are retailed at 50 and 75 cents ovens, about twenty feet in diameter, each. Clams are not native to the soil. have the tires at the bottom, and above I The cockle is the nearest approach to the tires is a large w heel or cylinder. it and looks like a little pot-bellied hard On the outer frame of this wheel are ! dam. The cod is the king of English t(‘ii swinging trays. On these trays the I salt water fish, and seldom goes into the crackers, as they are turned out from poor man’s mouth. The Yarmouth the stamping machine close by, are bloater” at its best is an evanescent placed, and the wheel revolves slowly, edible and at that stage impossible to lowering the next tray into position. i transplant to America. Forty-eight Thus the w heel is kept in constant mo hours is the average duration of its tion, the biscuit being removed from most delicate flavor. That occurs when the trays after making one revolution : it has touched the incipient stage of of the cylinder. The mixing of tjie ’ decay. The sole is the favorito favorite of the dough, the rolling and the stumping are London fish kitchens. It resemblo as done by machines. | small sized Bounder. The mixing-machine is on the second Their oysters they call “natives.” door of the building. One shoot lead Their shells sometimes suggest a rough ing into the mixer, which is a large scollop and are often red tinted. The wooden cylinder, supplies the proper dealers keep them exposed in shallow portion of Hour, another supplies the trays covered with fresh water. The milk, another the sugar, another the few I tasted suggested verdigris. They water, etc. In the mixer there are are eaten raw or in pats. The oyster three spoons, or bars, revolving alter saloon is not an English institution. nately, which thoroughly mix the Neither is the stew, tho fry, the roast or dough. It is then taken to the Hoor the broil. Nor do they know’ pork and above, where a row’ of boxes is placed, beans, buckwheat cakes, codfish-balls, in one of which the dough is put to pumpkin pie or green pie. Succotash “rise.” When ready for baking it is is sometimes held to be the name of an taken again to the Hoor below’, unless it American western city. Why not use is to be used in making soft crackers. it for one ? Oranges in London are Here it is placed on large trays, and as cheaper than apples. There is not half the workmen knead it they slice off the variety of vegetables at their green large pieces of the dough and place it grocers’ that may be seen at the door in a rolling machine. It is rolled four of any New’ York grocer. But their or five times until it becomes of the cabbage is more tender and succulent proper thickness, and is then placed on than ours and their turnips of better the cracker-making machine. Before flavor. The great moisture of the reaching the die it is passed beneath English climate favors a rapid and ten another roller, and at either side of the der growth of vegetables. tray on which it is placed are knives, In the snug family cottages the which trim it to the proper shape. kitchen grate holds about two quarts of From the roller the sheet of dough coal and suggests a baby-house. These runs under the die, which cuts out the grates have on one side an oven and on crackers and at the same time stamps the other a boiler. Their study is to the name, or other device, and makes utilize all the heat possible. Some use the “pin-holes.” In stamping square a cone-shaped tin vessel terminating in crackers, such as soda biscuits, there is a sharp point, with a handle at the but little w aste, but in cutting out other brim, and this, when hot water is de shapes fully one-half of the dough is sired and the fire is nearly out, they not used. The finished shapes and thrust tilled with cold water into the w aste material are passed upon a cloth hot ashes, whereby the fluid is soon roller, an iron bar with a toothed edge warmed. It is a trivial affair, but a being f-o set, at a short distance from very useful one where a grate is used. the die. that as they pass upon another You will rarely visit an English cloth band the crackers are pushed household with whom you are on down upon the original roller, being friendly terms but you are asked to par thence carried to the end of the ma take of some refreshment—a glass of chine, where they fall upon the trays, wine and a biscuit, or if in the after which, as soon as they are full, are put noon, a cup of tea. With an humbler upon the swinging shelves in the “reel” class it may be ale or spirits. To the oven. The “trimmings” are taken up American newly arrived it seems at and again passed through the machine. first as if the Englishman held to an This same plan is pursued in making impression that he is in a chronic state all hard crackers, the quantity and ' of starvation. kinds of ingredients, together with the Relative Siase of States. flavoring used, varying according to the [Chicago News.] special variety to be made from the The figures commonly employed to dough. On the third floor the soft crackers, indicate the area of the several states such as maccaroons, lady-fingers, but of the union have been found to be in ter-scotch, honey-cake, etc., are made. | correct, and the census bureau has is Four mixers for the dough of which I sued an extra bulletin correcting the these are made are placed on this floor. prevalent errors so far as it is possible These goods are baked in square ovens. , to do so from the data at hand. Accord Some of the finer varieties of crackers ing to the old estimate the area of the are made by hand, but others even of United States, exclusive of Alaska, is these are made by ingeniously-contrived * 3,026,494 square miles; according to machinery. The reporter stood by and 1 the new* estimate it is 3,025,600, of saw the method of making “cocoanut- | which 17,200 are coa.st water of bays, drop cape.” A tray placed in a machine I gulfs, sounds, etc ; 14,500 are made up moved under an upright receptacle i of the areas of rivers and smaller filled with the soft dough forming the streams, and 23,900 of the areas of lakes body of the cake. This was fed through and ponds. There remains a total land five or six holes, slowly dropping upon surface of about 2,970,000 square miles. the pan. Another man then took the Virginia in the old estimate has a total pan, and, turning it upside down, area of 38,348 square miles, in tho new pressed the soft cakes upon a surface of 42,450, including a total water surface dessicated cocoanut spread on a sheet of 2,*325 square miles. It is of interest resting upon water in a tank. The to observe the wide contrast in area be cakes were then placed in one of the , tween, for example, California, with her square ovens, ami in less than five . 158,360 square miles, and Rhode Island minutes the reporter had positive with 1,250; or between Massachusetts, know ledge that a cocoanut-drop cake is , with 8,315 square miles, and Texas with 265,780. Arizona has 11.3,000 a delicious morsel. The reporter then asked what the square miles of surface, Colorado has favorite varieties were, and learned that 103,925, Dakota 149.100, Montana 146,- of strictly fancy crackers the Albert 080, Nevada 110,700, New Mexico biscuits are probably the favorites; but 122,.580, Delaware has 2,150, and the there is a heavy demand all the time for District of Columbia 70. New’ York, the “Medley,” “Zoological,” “Fish,” which has 49,170. is not as large as and soft varieties. The greatest favorite North Carolina, which has 52,250, and at this time is the “Sea Foam,” a light, lacks nearly 10,000 square miles of crisp, and most toothsome soda cracker. Georgia. _________________ These are made so thin and light that A Xovei Memorial Arch. the name stamped on the cracker could [“Gath’s” Enquirer Letter.] be read through them by holding them Here is an idea for western rich men in the light. From 700 to 800 cases of to ornament their towns. A Roman these goods are made each day. memorial arch lias just been completed There is apparently no end of mak in the town of Tilton. N. H., through ing new' designs for crackers; some of tho munificence of the Hon. Charles E. these designs “take” well and have a Tilton. When in Rome in 1881, Mr. long run; the demand for others soon Tilton conceived the idea of ornament falls oil, and others still are total fail ing his native town with ornaments ures. “Alphabets” have about had which should symbolize the victories of their run, as have “Dominoes,” a name peace rather than those of war. and the sufficiently suggestive. “Medallions,” arch of Titus seeming to him the embod made to represent the faces of Gen. iment of the ideas which he wished ex Grant, Peter Cooper, Ben Butler, and pressed, he resolved on erecting a similar other noted persons, were much in de- I structure on the site of the old Indian mand at one time. The “imperial fort in Tilton. The arch is entirely of dot,” the smallest cracker made—th»' ' Concord granite, and rest.s upon a foun purchaser of a pound getting 1,41X1 dation forty by seventy feet, by seven crackers—is a great favorite. Other feet in depth, constructed of stone and favorites are the different mixed • cement, making one solid block. Upon crackers — “ Snow flake, ” “ (>sw ego, ’’ • this rises a platform of hewn granite, and maccaroons. Many of the finer ; approached on all sides by five courses varieties have icing or chocolate of steps of the same material. From this coating. Others again, of tho hard va- • table rise the two columns upon which rieties, have w hite or colored icing laid rests the arch, reaching a perpendicular on in fanciful designs. These designs 1 elevation over all of fifty-five feet. The are made by a peculiar bellow s, the | arch itself describes a semi-circle, the fuunci of which is shaped according to , keystone being of the height of thirty the required designs. feet from the platform beneath. T/fA' FIRST ORNER* Boston Budget. Thales, of Miletus, is irreverently said to have made the first corner on record. Judging by certain signs that the olive crop was to be heavy one season, he en gaged all the oil-presses in Miletus and Chios for his own use, paying down the earnest-money, and enriched himself by the prices which he obtained for them. tv odd test . “Live” ostrich feathers repel sand, and the dealers’ test is to rub the feath er over loose sand, which clings to the feather if it lie plucked from a dead or from a tame bird. His Genealogy. Mr. George Augustus Sala says :i “The esteemed squaw, mv great grand mamma camo from Brazil ami married a Portuguese per- n. whose daughter, married at Rio Janeiro, married a Pole who had emigrated to Demarara; and on the paternal side my ancestors were ancient Romans." Iler Finer Rraln. SO.VS Ol-' THE HONORED DEAD. Boston Courier. . . . What a singular position is that of the secretary of war? His father is almost as historic as Casar ami nearly as remote. And yet Bobert Linedn is a voting man whose hair is not yet gi ay. It is ns odd as if Octavius were alive— a* if the Sphnix had a son moving around to-dav in a Prince Albert frock. A grandson " of John C. Calhoun is a farmer in Mississippi. Ho is a man of great executive ability and great wealth (all made bv himself), and the leading planter of the state. One would think that bv such achievement a man might attain to an individuality. But jio ; he is never spoken of as John C . t alhouu (his own lianiei, but as the grandson of John C. Calhoun. Taking all these things into consideration it is no won der that Fletcher Webster of our own state, a genial gentleman of large ami various abilities, said what lie did. All his life, no uiatti r w hat he attempted to do. he was invariably put down by com parison with the "(.oil-like Daniel, his father. This fetish pursued him, dwarfed and minified him everywhere. Finally, when elected as colonel of the Twelfth Massachusetts,he cried out, us it were, in a jubilation of emancipation, “Thunk God, my father was never the colonel of a regiment.’’ He hadattained to an individuality. Heart affection«, kidnev »..7/ * I.I ph t nearly one-haj <ff Inlver Y et how many Iieedlew|y "•“kind. Hhortened life k I v I iik in><-ttrp ? .'.hr”<«h. plaintH which eaiKe th.. Iiiunan/11'!*™® «real diatrenH. Dona >1)Ur lX“'!llDuel1 lently from . lie li iwt exeiteniemV.. -*1 ’“>• lltaof dizziiii KHf linen vour la^l your bowela countipaled( Th“ J»Ar, are the first warniiign. |),.|.,v i "PUnn. Be wiae in time. Regain uaing Brown'n Iron Bitted. f 1 In “R ough on C ohns .” i'x. . . Complete eure, hard or »oft com. ,or «• bunion». •urn,, \\ lien we see a mcdiclnu ...i eure a half-dozen or mon- “> easi-H, we conclude that R i!*?? * Ami having noticed that the nrohri'1,11"'’’- Ammen » ( ough Syrup only ,ulv'"'1’’"’! claims it good for coughs, complaints, we were ¡minced to tn?1. now take pleasnre In recouunetnil, t’“d our readers. “«mg it to ------ - R('v. D. F. Manly, Tampico, Tenn . Browns iron Bitters relieve,| digestion ami nervousness after 11 physicians had failed.” U’r Boston’s death rate last mouth ». , . per 1,000 people. 11 w“»Hî If the blood be impoverished, M ».„i feeted by pimples, eruptions, uleetTwiJ’ nniK sores, scrofulous tumors sw.iii,, general debility, take Dr R V P?»* “Golden Medical Discovery.” Soljb^ saHsVtZ? honor2,8On,‘!tiln«M< Tile Horne Hunt <■<». A St. Louis inventor claims to have com pleted a piston movement like that of t he steam engine, to which, however, electricity, instead of steam, is to be applied. It has four magnets, which act alternately in attracting ami repelling the piston. It is proposed to apply it to cabs, street cars, yachts, etc. it will have a storage battery capable of run ning it twenty-four horn’s. The great desid eratum in locomotion now is a small, cheap, convenient motor for vehicles in cities. Horse power in its literal, not its mechanical, sense is behind the age. There is no more reason why the carts, carriages and cars of a paved city should be drawn by so expensive and awkward a power as hoi’ses than why ware house elevators should be hoisted and lowered by man power, or saw mills bo operated by horses. A small, neat motor stowed com pactly away under the vehicle would be as progressive a mechanical device as the sew ing machine. For in health and cleanliness alone it would be a blessing. Nearly the whole of tho mud and dust in city streets is the result of using horses; and their shoes pound and tear the pavements to pieces quite as much as the wheels of vehicles. The day will conie, perhaps, when even the present generation will see all vehicles in large towns and cities propelled by electricity, and a horse be only an object of luxury or curi osity. Calorie Vita Oil, therenowned heal« „ wholesale. Hodge, iAavis&Co., Porthui The combination of ingredients used I. making Brown s Bronchial Troches i.! as to give the liest possible effect «S sah-ty. They are the best remedy in£ for ( oughs, ( olds and Throat Diseases. “Dr. Pierce’s Magnetic Elastic Truss” i. advertised m another column of this nt I,'1’'!!“ «»'«blislinient is well known« the Pacific t oast as reliable ami s.|u»rn„ all its dealings. 1 heir goods hav g-iinJl an enviable reputation. !i‘c’ Conyers, Ga., WV8- Browns Iron Bitters is a good median and many are using it in this place." HTo /,/> ri iunj). Atlanta Constitution. Born and bred in the south we have yet to catch even a fleeting glimp.se of the “lordly manors” and “vast ancestral piles” so freely alluded to in the trash 2F»2XITSr. which passes for southern literature. CURES But the northern people believe that Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago. Backache. Headache. Toothache, every southern man was the possessor N Npi-ainn. of a lordly manor, and the owner of More Th Ruma. Froat Hilea, multitudes of negroes. As a matter of AND ALL (»TIIKII IIODlLY I’Al.YS AND A11IE& hix I Dealer«uver» where. Fifty C»nu»bolUa course the belief does no harm, and no Boidby DruggiNtH Direction* in 11 Language!. body cares anything about it, but it is THE < H YKI.EH A. VOGELEIl CO. OuooeMor* I. A VuuELEll A CO.) Baltimore, Md., C.S.L worth alluding to. If the whites borrowed their dialect from the blacks, how does it happen that the basis of the dialect of the blacks is the identical old English which Chaucer found so useful? If one Iodide of PotaMlum is one of the strongest of the use in inedicii.e, and has produced much Dif is a person of philological tastes, he minerals fering in the world. Taken for a lon$ time and in large cannot spend an hour more profitably doees, it dries up tho gastric juices, impairs digestion, the stomach refuses food, and tho patient dscliuM in than in searching Chaucer s poems for health and weight. Persons with Blood or Skin Di»- the words that puzzle him in the dialect eases should bo careful how they take these mineral poisons, as in most instahevs the effect of them iiJoni- of the blacks. We promise him that he most permanently impair the constitution. To take the place of these poisons we offer you a safe, sure, prompt will not fail to find them there. and perman« nt relief from your troubles. Swift l Spe CERMK mö I POTASI / />// \ /. s in rm-: n/noi r. To remove fish-bones from the throat Prof. Vololini, at Breslau, recommends a gargle composed of muriatic acid, 4 parts; nitric acid, 1 part, and water,210 parts. The teeth have to be protected by lard or oil. The fish-bones become flexible, and they disappear entirely if. er a short time. cific is entirely a vegetable preparation, and ltiaeasy to convince you of its merit. I have cured permanently Blood Taint in the thud generation by the use of Swift’s Specific, after inau most signally failed with Mercury and Potasu. F. A. T oomkr . M. D, Pern. Ga A young man requests me to thank you for his cure of Blood Poison by the use of your Specific after all other treatment hail failed. - Jos. J acobs , Druggists, Athens, ba Our Treatise on Blood and «Skin Diseases mailed free UapplieM,«. $20.000 GONE! S an F rancisco , C al .—The Chronicle publishes in substance the following mar vel: Captain W. F. Swasey, the oldest pioneer of the coast, makes a statement- of the intense suffering of his friend Colonel D. J. Williamson, an army officer of dis tinction and an ex-United States Consul, who was attacked in the winter of 1861 2 with violent rheumatism. So great was his agony in after years, he became a help less cripple, and after trying numberless remedies, the baths of other countries and spending a fortune of $20,000, the disease seemed to assume a more virulent type. Finally, he was persuaded to try St. Jacobs Oil, the great conqueror of pain. It worked a miracle of cure. In a letter to the Chron icle he confirms Captain Swasey’s state ment and adds: “I cheerfully give my un qualified [attestation to the truthfulness of the statement, because I feel perfectly certain that a knowledge of my cure by St. Jacobs Oil will prove the means of reliev ing hundreds of sufferers.” TUE swirr SPECIFIC CO Drawer 3. Atlanta. Ga N. Y. Office; 113 W. 23<1 St., bet. Gtk and 7 th Avenu* iOS’« a wholesome toni'’ Hostetter's Stein»« Bitters To all. » purity and efficiency as a remedy and pre ventive of disease»®- nieud it. It check» il- » cipient rheumaua and malarial symp toms. relieves court- patina, dyfliepm* »“ biliousness, »rre,M premature decayjw the physical enerpe». niitigaU. the in«™: I tie. <4 »S' •“ ha«ten< coniti'» cence. For ml' all l>ru««l><t Dealers generala \ ery few women art* employed upon London newspapers, either as writers or compositors. M hat ails you? If it is a cough, take Fiso’s Cure. Sold by druggists. 25 cents. ------------- ---- -------- — The motto for Congress—“Down with taxation.” TENNYSON 8 MAY QUEEN.” Who knows if the beautiful girl who died so young had been blessed with Dr Pierce's "Favorite Prescription” she might have reigned on many another bright May day. The “Favorite Prescription” is a cer tain cure for all those disorders to which females are liable. By druggists. Ex-Governor Hall, of Delaware, owns in terests in thirty-five vessels. .3 I 8 u u S o ® 8 Jâ r- ® ü fi Q E m 8- 3 >» a s Z j o “Ronin on C oughs .” 15 c , 25 c , 50 c , at Druggists. Complete cure Coughs, Hoarse ness, bore Throat. -----------—_ lor a cough or a cold there is no remedy equal to Ammen’s Cough Syrup. “Lord" Alfred Tennyson doo« not sound bad. OCR PROGRESS As Stage« are quickly abandoned with the completion of railroads, so the huge drastic, earthartie pills, composed of crude" and bulky medicines, are quickly alian- doned with the introduction of Dr. Pierce’s "I leasant Purgative Pellets." which are sugar-coated, and little larger than mus tard seeds, but composed of highly concen trated vegetable extracts. By druggist« [Rockland Courier-Gazette.] A man's brain weighs three and a half ¿y.*11’ 111 ** hanR«’d! " says the window pounds. A woman's is somewhat lighter, curtain. but of finer quality. That is what ena bles her to taste lard in her neighbor's *11 Quick, complete cure, eases «°iying kdney and 'binary dis- pastry. NAGLEE BRANDI The paresi ana dosi in the world. mended by all Physicians. 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