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gain! Journal cOUtCMLIH A MMOm, STEVENS POINT. WISCONSIN, THE CHECKERED APRON. Sbe put her checkered apron on, and tied it round her waist-Ho queen with jeweled diadem could be more fitly trritced. AnJ when Hho sauntered down the lane aud reached the Hmlcu troo, I thought I saw my coining lute, whose uauie was Kitty Lee. I had riot spoken much of lore, though often wo ha'l met-And yet she answered something, once, I vouM not well fowl; But site was fair and rosy, and I thought how oico 'twould be when she tied that apron on, the tie was mount for me.

The summer sun wns nestling down beyond the d'utunt bills, One voice ulone saluted us--the plaintive 1 spoke utiout my loneliness, of toils and cures that fret. And sho, with soothing; readiness, was glad I that we had met. One knows not how siieh little words proceed from SPSS to more, But, somehow, we oatue neartr than we ever stood before: And, when I BHW the meaning that her beaming face supplied. 1 found my iirm was resting where I saw that apron tied! And so I put the question that must happen soon or lute. And found that Love wui ready to obey the cull of Kuto.

Kitty IAMJ, I thank you--for when you that apron tied, You shaped a wondrous love-knot that won you for my bride. eiituii, ill Demurest's Monthly. A FINANCIAL FEAT. How a Simple Girl and a Lawyer Accomplished It. Effio Ford with U'nr-staineil facn sat amid a pile of formidable documents.

Shu was in deep mourning. Onlv one week bofore, sho had hud away the remains of her onlv surviving relative, in the shadow of the i-hurch over hill. It prospect lor a girl of seventeen, and one who was absolutely ignorant of business. The Vords. had ahvuya lived in luxury.

But on his death-bed, Mr. Ford called Effie to him; his artieulutioii was imperfect, but she caught: "Bad investments, mortgage bonds. Poor! Poor will tt-11 you." A few gasps and it was over. All day she had tried to bring order out of chaos. At la-t with a sigh she tossed the golden friug't- from her forehead, as if even their light weight was an oppression.

is useless," she murmured, make nothing of Then suddenly she remembered: "Barker will tell Tlie memory crime with a of relief. A servant answered the hell. "Take this to Mr. she or- idered, "and wait for fin answer." It came in less than an hour. Barker wa upon IFord Tit fiTC." She gifiueedut the clock.

It lacked five minutes of the hour. Barker was a lawver in the same town. She had alwajs known him. and fihe remembered that he had been with (her father frequently before she went 5to school for the last time. As he entered, Effie started.

She had thought him as ratluvr elderly, but the man stood before her was extremely "handsome, and perhaps double her seventeen years. are kind. Mr. Barker, to respond so promptly. I did not know to do, to whom to turn.

I can make nothing of papa's papers," she sighed weariedly. course. What can you know about law?" and together they turned to the perplexing pile. Barker ran kis eye over paper after paper, and a startled look came into iis eyes, keen lawyer's though they "Are these all?" ho "I believe so. Papa kept his papers 8n that secretary; and, Mr.

Barker, I know from what he said, that there "were losses--that I shall not be very off. I do not mind." she said quickly, "other people are poor, whv motl?" losses! Not as well off as she liadbeen!" He regarded her queorly. child! Did she know that house, lands, even the costly furniture was covered with mortgages? No, and he determined she rkpver should know. He tad no living relatives, and why should Jie not do for this helpless girl what ho vrould have liked some one to do for sister or wife of his? "There will be something left after the debts are paid, will there not?" The pathetic eves looked squarely into his. He could not answer this with "If you will trust to me, Miss Ford.

I will do my best. Your father trusted me upon several occasions." (He did not add, if that father had been guided by his judgment his daughter would not, now be penniless) "and I am confident I know more of the business than any one else." He waited her reply. "0, yes, and thank you, Mr. Baker." With a childish, trustful motion, she slipped her hand in his. Barker's experience witb women was bounded by aggressive little, widows, and soul-terrifying Sally Brasses', and there was a queer little flutter in his manner as he bid her good nirht.

Mr. Ford's afl'airs were, in a hopeless tangle. Ruin was inevitable. Baker's verdict after a of the Ford papers. "Poor little thing!" he, whispered to himself; "sho shall never know if I can help it." i Out of those, deeds and mortgages soemcd to start the vision of a homc- JSden, where ccrt-iin eyes looked into his with bewildering love.

Bah! What fcave sentimental love-dreams in common with an austere, lawyer's office? A puzzled face appeared at the office of Barker Hawkins one day, not long after. "I am sorry to worry you; but see EiRo produced a slip of paper she held toward him. It stated the existence of a note, covering ten thousand dollars, principal and interest, held by one Isaacs Tobias, brokers in a neighboring city. "When did you receive this?" He avoided looking at the captivating face as much as possible. Mr.

Barker, it must paid. The ten thousand you saved for me will just cover it. Will you do it for me?" "Yes, Miss Ford. It is fortunate, however, that I changed the investment. By the new arrangement it has doubled.

You can pay this bill and retain the same amount." "I- can? How nice! I thought I would have to go out as nurse-mwd or --something. Mr. Barker, when is your client coming, who owns the; 7,000,000. housef I feel if I were an intruder, tsmehow." 4 Yon are not The favor in to him. I have his word for it." She still lingered.

"Mr. Barker, yon have been so kind and good. I wish I could dp something for you. If I can ever, will you let me?" "Yes, Miss Ford." Effie left the office with a queer dissatisfied feeling at her heart. Down the drowsing street, filled with lazy shadows, she strolled.

As she turned a corner she collided with a rakish- looking youth. He recovered himself with an apology. There was such a frank look in his bright, blue eyes, that Effie took to him at once. He accompanied her as far as the gate, opened it, and, with a bow, turned toward the open plaza. "What it very, very nice, accommodating boy," was mental comment.

She met the "very nice boy' frequently siftor this. He was eighteen, and quite idle. He obtained a conventional introduction--Bert Gwynne was his name--and he constituted himself Efliie's veritable double. On the street, at church, Mr. Bert Gwynne was always present, and he assumed the attitude with such an of-course-it-is-agreeable-to-you air, that EHie became incensed, and determined to give him a piece of her mind.

One day he commenced to poke fun at "old Gabe Barker." Then the dvnamite exploded. not old," she flashed. "Forty if lie's an insisted the provoking. "I lie is not," declared the frank little lady. "Any how he's not a presuming boy;" great acrimony in the last words.

"He'll make you marry him after a whfle; now you see. He bought up every one of those the badly- conducted. Tell me!" Effie was aflame. "Your father's. Who you suppose paid the debts? Why, Gabe Barker, out of his own pocket.

This very house is his," continued he. "You area wicked pcixn, andl don't believe one word you sav," burst out Eflie. "It isn't such a mighty thing after all. I'd do ever so much more, Effie, if you'd let me. But you called me presuming, and it made me angry." "So you are.

I hate you, and I'm going this minute to Mr. Barker." She flung on her hat. wouldn't. Let it alone. He's well able to do it if he wishes." Bert thought he had never seen Efiie so desirable, as with that angry pout and the mfiditc air of scorn with which she regarded him.

"Mr. Barker, is it so? Tell me. I will know;" with tear-flnshed face she raided in on him. "They say that papa died--insolvent, and--and you bought up his no-otc-'. she implored "Ellie.

don't! you will be ill. Who told you puch cruel tjunirs?" He shuffled his papers in agitation. "Bert Gwynne. He sajs it is the talk of the place, and Heavens! What said: i rt i ij-' ii He marry her! such an insignificant nobody. "Eflie, listen: I am not going to deny what I have "Then you did! oh!" She went down by the stiff old client's chair in a heap, and hid her face in her hands.

"Child, what could I do? The creditors threatened. There was nothing to pay them, and you looked so little and helpless. Besides, it is only discharging an oM obligation. Your father was very kind to me when I was a poor lad. Effie, don't be angry." (Sob, sob from thu rounds of the chair).

"Is the honse yours too?" "By heavens, Effie, if you ask mo any thing more I'll deny every thing," desperately. "Is it. I sav?" tempestuously. "Yes." Gabrielle Barker was as abashed as if he had been confronted with selling illegal whisky. "Do you hold those notes?" thutmeddlesome Gwynne boy: I'll thrash him to morrow, if I lire).

Yes, Effie, but they are yours. I have left them to you in my will. Here they are," laying a bundle in her lap. them away. I will not have them." she said excitedly.

"Unless-Mr. Barker--you tell me you. if I tell you, Effie?" He opened his arms, and she crept close to his heart, whispering: "Yes. Gabriel." "How could you aftord it? Didn't it take quantities of money?" "You remember an uncle who died in California a year ago? He left me a hundred thousand dollars. I have saved twenty-five thousand and the house; so you won't be quite destitute, sweetheart." "Destitute? Sheba's queen was not as wealthy.

She didn't own my Gabriel." They were married in the morning. That evening, as they sat together in the library (for they took no wedding journey), he leanecl toward his white- robed treasure. "Effie, will you burn those notes for me?" He kindled a bright blaze on the wide hearth, and Effie took the fat bundle aud commenced, woman-like, to untie it. "No, no!" he objected, "burn it so." "But it will burn quicker;" the willful little fingers tugged at the strings. "I desire you not to open it.

Effie." "But, Gabriel. I will." Out dropped a sealed letter, directed to "Miss Effie Ford." Underneath was scrawled: "To be delivered in case of my death." The despoiling fingers closed upon it grccdilv. "No," Effie," he pleaded. "Gabriel," solemnly, "listen, and believe me; I shall never be really happy unless I read this letter." "Eve thought the same." "Hush about Eve! I never ate any kiterdicted apples," and the nineteenth century Eve deliberately seated herself to enjoy her forbidden fruit. It was a 'letter of impassioned love, but just at its close was the elapse he did not wish her to see.

It showed a jealous pang at her preference for Bert Gwynne. But that one sentence of renunciation bound her to him more closely than a' world of protestations. "My true love, how could you imagine such a thing! That stupid boy! I should never have loved you as well, Gabriel, if I hadn't rcud this, for it shows you a noble Tid-Eits. --A recent report on the elevated railroads of New York gays that "during the first j'ear the roads carried 170,000 persons, and during the past year nearly 100,000,000. The first year's earnings were last year nearly FARM AND FIRESIDE.

--A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says there is nothing like' overfeeding hens for stopping the supply of eggs. Very fat heus are too lazy to lay. --An Ohio correspondent in Practical Farmer says that he has fed com and cob meal for the last four years to cattle and horses and never yet saw any ill effects from it. --Roasted or boiled meats if of good quality are generally bettur sliced cold than warmed over, but if the latter plan is decided upon do it as quickly as possible. As soon as the meat is thoroughly heated through remove it from the Housdiold.

--A queen bee lays from two to three thousand egg 1 in four hours. It is not- necessary to ask ''How doth the little busy bee?" She doeth well and should be a shining example to the lazy hen that can only be induced to lay one egg in twenty-four hours, aud then only when eggs are cheap. --The potato is a valuable agent for clarifying fat of any kind and absorbing unpleasant odors. Put thin slices in the fat and fry till crisp and brown, then strain the fat and it will be ready for use. A few slices in each kettleful will keep the odor of doughnuts, from penetrating the house and prevent the fat from Tiiiies.

--Ten cents' worth of oxalic acid dissolved in a pint of hot water will remove paint spots from the windows. Pour a into a cup and apply to the spots with a swab, but be sure not to allow the acid to touch the hands. Brass may be quickly cleaned with it. Great care must be exercised in labeling the bottle and putting it out of the reach of the children, as it is deadly Y- Times. --Apples, Crumbs and Eggs: Peel and pare twelve apples, and stew them as for apple sauce: and after they are 'cooked, sweeten with one quarter of a 'pound of powdered sugar; when cold add four well beaten eggs.

Butter a baking dish, and strew it thickly with bread crumbs, covering the bottom and sides. Pour in the mixture, strew the top with bread crumbs and bake. When done turn out on a dish and sprinkle with Budget. --Capital omelets may be made thus: Soak a slice of bread in milk until perfectly soft. Beat it up with a fork and put a little salt.

Beat up two eggs and pour upon the bread 1 see that there are no lumps, and after putting a piece pf butter the size of a butternut into the frving pan, pour in the batter and cook till brown. Fold it together and slip oil" upon a hot dish. omelet will not 'fail, like most. A little chopped ham or a few chopped oysters spread on before folding will suit some Pudding: Heat a sen- crous pint of milk to boiling point. Stir into the milk one tabhspoonful of corn starr-h which hns been smoothly mixed with a little cold milk, two well beaten eggs, a teaspoonful of butter and sugar to taste: essence of lemon pleasant as flavoring.

Let all thi-s liiil up and add one cupful of stewed prunes that have been seeded. Pour the mixture into a buttered baking dish and bake for twenty minutes. Serve with creain or sauce. --The Cnlerer. --For a useful button bag cut a round piece about twenty-four inches in diameter, of silesia, cretonne, or any similar material on hand.

Make a three-quarter inch hem around the edge, leaving an opening in the hem on opposite sides: run a tape or narrow ribbon in this hem, long enough to allow the bag -when opened to be spread out entirely flat. This is very convenient, because all the buttons may be seen without taking one out of the bag, and with a single motion of the hands the whole is drawn up Butletin. ABOUT CORK. A CHECKERED CAREER. Jtorjr Man Who Had Adreot- uroiu and Thrilling History.

iMnrebfield (Wis.) There resides at the little Tillage of Auburndale, near this city, a man who possesses a history so interesting, varied and thrilling as to be worthy of the pen of a novelist. His name is Fred. Grube. He was born in Hanover, Prussia, June 15, 1826, and till the age of twenty yearsvwas a laborer. About 1846 the Holstein war broke out between Germany and Denmark.

Grube was pressed into the service, and served as private twenty months. Being ef. a naturally high-spirited nature, Grube could not endure the insolence of a certain superior, aud during an altercation be nearly killed the officer. He was tried by a court-martial and sentenced to be shot. On the night previous to the day set for his execution he managed to escape, and after numberless trials and adventures reached England, where heat once enlisted in the English legion of London under the assumed name of Herman Grader.

He was at once sent with the regiment to the seat of the Crimean war, then raging between England and Russia, and passed through all the battles of the peninsula, including the storming of Sebastopol. After this battle Grube, in company with twenty comrades, was sent on a scouting expedition into Holland, but were surprised by the enemy, and all were killed in the fight or hanged afterward except Grube. He finally reached England, when he was at once sent with the legion to the seat of war then brewing between England and Holland. While in Holland he was sent out as a spy, bnt was eaptured and again sentenced to death, but by eluding one guard and killing another he again escaped. Ha again reached England, where he remained a time, aud then caine to America, arriving in New York in 1S54.

Upon the breaking out of the civil war he at once enlisted, and served three years, participating in twenty-three battles. He was finally taken prisoner, and confined in Anderson ville prison for eleven months, when he was exchanged and sent North. Although still hale and hearty Grube's body bears the marks of his many adventures and hardships. He has been wounded in twenty-seven different places by bullets and had a saber thrust through his body at the Crimea and was left for dead on the field. Although severely wounded in the late war he refuses to apply for a pension.

At present Hr. Grube is engaged in farming. BY THE WAY. Expanded by Profesaor--To contract expand is to enlarge. Cold heat expands.

The operations can not go on at the same time in the thing. If Pupil--Beg pardon, professor. There are some things the more you contract the more flicy enlarge. "Ah. indeed! Name some of them." "Debts, Call.

How It Is Obtained, Prepared and Converted Into Merchantable Ware. "How many processes does this interesting article pass through from the it leaves the parental tree until, with a sharp report, it emerges from a soda bottle in an aerial flight toward the ceilings'' asked a reporter of a cork manufacturer. As you doubtless know," he answered, "the cork oak grows in Spain and Portugal, which countries supply the world with cork. The tree is successfully cultivated for its bark, and grows from twenty to forty feet in height. The outer bark--the external layers of spongy cellular tissue--which is stripped off for market year or two before it would crack from distension and be thrown oil' naturally in large flakes, is what is used, and this, having mainly lost its true vitality, is a burden to the tree, so that its proper removal is beneficial.

The trees at the age of from three to five years have a fungus appearance, on account of the rough and cracked condition of the dark surfaces of trunk and branch. The bark of younp; trees is useless or of inferior quality after the third peeling it i suitable. It is removed at intervals of six or eight years, and the trees continue to yield cork for upward of one hundred and fifty years. "The bark is taken off by making incisions upward and transversely and 'by using a two-handled circular knife- Then the slabs are soaked, heated on convex side to remove the natural curvature, pressed flat, and superficially charred to remove decayed parts and conceal blemishes. Next they are packed for market.

The slabs come in of from to inches, and are sometimes 4 by 2 feet in size. "The older the "tree the bettor and finer the quality of the cork, its cost ranging from five to twenty-five cents per pound. The slabs arc softened by being steamed for a short time in boxes, and arc then cut into different- sized strips from which innumerable sizes of corks are cut, from a quarter of an inch in diameter at the top to the largest flat cork. Druggists require corks of fine quality. Some sheets from old trees are "thin and close- grained and arc used mostly for flat corks and for druggists' vials.

The 'sizes are mainly standard, and there is no end to them. Corks were formerly cut entirely by hand, the knives being 'frequently sharpened, because of the fact that the soft bark dulls a tool more rapidly than metals. The corks are now cntout by hollow revolving knives and tapered by hand. Cork 'is expensive, but the waste is small, as ithe unused parts can be utilized jmaking Spanish black, burnt-cork jpaste for minstrels, etc. There are 'two cork factories in Chicago and wholesalers, while the manufacture is extensive in the East, saying nothing about cork legs, floats, "--Chicago News, The Gender.

Stockton School Teacher-- Don't you kaow that "postage stamp" is in the neuter gender? Boy-- No, HI 'am. Teacher What gender do you suppose it's in? Boy-- The femiuine. Teacher What causes you to think so? Boy-- 'Cause it's a fee Pacific Jester. FOB eight years Col. C.

J. Williamson, Quarter-Master, U. S. A. and er-U.

S. Consul at Callao, was crippled with rheumatism. He got no relief until he used 8t Jacobs Oil, which cured him. U. S.

Marshal Kerns, Philadelphia, says Red Star Cough Cure cured his family. 25 cents. IF you desire to take an extended pleasure trip, get a bicycle and go to Wheeling. Heroiil. To eradicate dandruff, and keep the scalp moist and clean, use Hall's Hair Renewer.

The lives of many children have been saved bv the timely use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. "WHAT is your name, little girl?" "Minnie." "Minnie what?" ''Minnie don't, mamma calls T. Independent. Items TVhose Pemsal Will Make Life's Burden Easier. THERE is a negress living in Atlanta, who says she was born in 1767.

As escaped circus bear at Greensburg, ate T. Barret's thirteen pigs. A BLACKSXAKE killed near Hoxavrottamie, was found to have swallowed a small rat-tail nle. J. M.

Fixcnns, Newton Factory, has a baby girl two years old thai knows the alphabet perfectly. THEKE is on the plantation Captain John L. Martin, near Washington. a pine tree that bears acorns and pine burrs with great impartiality. A COLUMTSCS (Ga.) eft has taken possession of last-, year's bird's nest on top of a thick elm tree in that city, and the nest now contains SYC young kitteua.

THE smallest, man in Pennsylvania is Ellis Eeinhart, Goldsboro. He is twenty- eight years old, thirty-three inches high, and weighs sixty-four pounds. Ax sesthetic Worcester will tear any cheap blanket that may be thrown over it into shreds, but seems immensely pleased when covered with one that is costly and beautiful. FRANK GATCH, of Hampton County, jiectintly found a peculiarly deformed pig in his lot. It had two bodies and eight legs to one head, and after "being cut open was found to have a twin heart.

A srMBEK of Chinese pheasants were set 'free in Oregon a few years ago. This has caused the appearance of a new species of bird, with the head of a pheasant and the wing and tail feathers of a grouse. A BOX of pills that -were administered by a sort of hypodermic injection process by a Western farmer, who was out of shot, and used the pills as a handy substitute in his gun, killed one robber and seriously wounded an accomplice. HAD a bilious attack and one of those indescribable cases of constant weariness. Took quinine and other remedies without relief.

Took Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic; am strong and well. ASA THOMPSON, Locan, Ohio. THE headquarters of ignorance--An intelligence office. -I WAS daily growing worse with rheumatism, and the doctors thought it might require tha amputation of my leg.

I began taking Athlophoros and in two days was able to be at my store. M. P. Shrock, 672 West Lake Illinois. A WOMAN'S glory is her hair.

Now, it is different with Sun. PIKE'S TOOTHACHE DROPS cure in 1 minute, Zoo Glenn's Sulphur Snap heals and beautifies. 25c. GEBJIAJX Cony EE.MOVEB kills Corns Bunions. THE mariner is not liable to censure if he leads a wreckless life.

ISX'T an attempt to prove an alibi self- Y. Journal. A SLIDE DOW THE BANISTEES. THE MARKETS. YORK, April 13 LIVE STOCK-Cattlc 1340 6 1 0 Sheep 600 7 STIi 493 5 10 FLOUK-Good to Choice 3 25 5 40 I'atents 4 7 5 5 00 WHEAT--So.

2 Red 91 No 2 Spring 91 91 CORN 4f5ia 47tf OATS--Mixed Western 38 43 RYE 65 66 PORK--Mess 950 75 LARD--Steam 25 6 2 7 CHEESE WOOL--Domestic 27 36 CHICAGO. BEEVES-Extra 8600 6 0 5 Choice 5 30 5 4 0 Good 4 5 00 Medium 430 4 8 0 Butchers' Stock 325 4 23 Interior Cuttle 200 3 SO HOGS--Live--Good t6 380 4 45 SHEEP 300 6 30 BUTTER--Creamery 24 30 Good to Choice Dairy IS 20 EGGS-Fresh 107i FLOUR-Wmtor 450 4 R5 Spring 350 (Si 4 25 Patents 450 5 00 GRAlN-Wheut, JSo.2 74 WA Corn SB 3 Sni Hurley. No. 2 65 65S4 BROOM rOKS- Self-Workinfj 12 Carpet anil Hurl 12 Crooked 6 8 POTATOES (bu.) 35 56 PORK--Mess 915 0 20 LARD--Steam 590 WVi LUMBER-Common Dressed 50 (3i22 00 Flooring 3300 (Tr-B 00 Common Boards 1300 fjil4 OJ Fencing 1100 (fcVi 50 Lath I 2 55 Shmglps 235 2 60 EAST LIBERTY. S3 00 Iff.

Fair to Good 425 (A 4 75 HOOP--Yorkers 450 (ft 4 70 Pliilaflelphias 4 SO (A 4 90 SHEEP--Best 625 (Jr. (i 50 Common 325 4 0 0 BALTIMORE. CATTLE--Best So (10 Sliding down the banisters, though a swift and delightful way of getting down stairs, is not a popular method of desceni except among boys of thehobbledehoy age. When, therefore, Mr. Dolph Hotchkiss, a solid citizen of Peoria, 111., adopted that style of coming down from his room recently it augured that something out of the usual line had happened to him.

Such was indeed the case. ilr. Hotchkiss explains as follows why he preferred the rail- i ing to the EtaS's: was last winter, during the month oi December. One evening after getting home from, the store I was taken with a severe paia in rny ankle. It felt at first aa ii I had sprained it.

I was tip stairs when the trouble first caine on and I wanted to go down. The pain, however, had increased so that I found that it was impossible to walk down the steps, and so I slid down the railing. From that night I began to grow worse, the pain became more severe, and my ankle gradually swelled up until it seemed as if the flesh would burst. It was almost impossible for me to lie in bed, and the least noise or attempt to move me would cause me the greatest agony. "Alter being in bed a month I could not stay there any longer, I felt that I must have some kind of a change, and so I was moved into an easy ohair, where I lay loi two months, suffering more than words can express.

My trouble was rheumatism. The doctors could do nothing for me. I used about every medicine I had ever heard of for rheumatism, and many different remedies recommended by my friends and neighbors, but nothing afforded me any relief. A lady friend living in Chicago, hearing of my affliction, wrote me, saying; Try Athlophoros. It cured "I was very glad to try any thiup.

Ihad tried many different sorts of medicines, bu' this wns new to me. I sent at once and bought a bottle and began using it. I hao a terrible buzzing in my head at first, but as it was said in the directions I would have this if the medicine took hold of the disease I stuck to it. The buzzing wag nothing with my sufferings. I think it was on a Monday evening I first began with the Athlophoros.

By the following Saturday the pain was nearly all gone, the swelling; was very much reduced, and with the aid of a pnir of crutches I went out for the first time in three months. "I continued taking the Athlophoros until I had used four bottles. Mypainand swelling had then all gone, and I had no further use for crutches. I have not felt any rheumatism since. Athlophoros is a very valuable medicine.

I recommend it whenever I have a chance, and never want to be without some Athlophoros in the house in case I should ever again be so afflicted." Jlr. Hotchkiss' residence in Peoria is at No. 610 Hancock street. Greatly as he regrets the loss of three months' valuable time, not to speak of all the suffering and mental anguish he endured, he ieelsthat there is some slight compensation in the fact that he was made acquainted with a medicine which can cure rheumatism and rob that disease of all its terrors. Mr.

Kotchkiss. it is almost needless to state, has never Tiad occasion to repeat his ride on the railing. If vqucan not get ATHLOFHOUOS of your druggist, we will send it express paid, on receipt of regular price--onp dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy ft from your druprgigt, but If ho hasn't it, do not be persuaded to try (something else, but order ut once from us, as directed. AiiiLOruOROS 112 Wall Street, New York.

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SIOHTIXCALE, Quincy, Mass. TTallace Buck, of Korth Bloom field, T. suffered eleven years with a terrible nicer on his leg. TO bad that he had to Klve up business. lie was entirely cured of the ulcer, and also of catarrh, by Hood's Sarsaparilia.

Purifies the Blood "Taen I bought Hood's Sarsaparllla I made a good Inveswicnt of one dollar In medicine for the flrsc time. It has driven off rheumatism and improved my appetite so much that my boarding mistress says I must keep It locked up or she will be obliged to Wise my board with every other boarder that takes Hood'i Sarsaparilia THOMAS BCEBSLL, 99 Hilary Street, Brooklyn, N. T. A GREAT many people shoot off their mouths simply to hear the report. A Perfect Flood of Sunshine" will fill the heart of eyery suffering woman if she -will only persist in the use of Dr.

Pierce's "Favorite Prescription." It will cure the most excruciating periodical pains, and relieve you of all irregularities and give healthy action. It-will positively cure internal inflammation and ulceration. misplacement and all kindred disorders. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists.

BITTERS ma with rout TOXICS, tiiekir uc JMI1CKXS BUKMK tfce action of the IJTTrtaJKMMjt. cwaclcxioi. tajm the tttth, raw OTHER IRON HEHCHB M. MM. D.

HOTT, Xinfe. T.I. Iron Bitten Blood wtk Uht tat moMc, and recwJcwd it." MB, Wit. HianncH, St Louis, Died Brown's Iron Bitten to pariff fcwoa with MB. EKSEST HCSDEHSOX.

Aagtii. un "I oned Brwn'airoa Bitters fcr witliniMh benefit. Can also racummiuid it took." MM. C. D.

CoLtHAS. Jeffuraon. IOITE, up: wu troubled with sentry. I uwd Bran n'ti Iron Kit- tore wkh much beaalit and ctu trutUfully (Mod it MB. GEO.

0. VAHJTR, with HORTX. T. B. Bnl Detroit, "loaed Broim'iirwiBiv.

fanfarirapun blood Genuine has above Tnde Marie and errand nd liaol oa wrapper. Take BO other. ilMteoaJfliy BKOWS CHEMICAL BALTIMORE, WO. THERE is an unwritten law that gives the Texas steer the right of Post. THE longest pole knocks the persimmons, and Bigelow's Positive Cure knocks all coughs, colds, croup, hoarseness, bronchitis, asthma, influenza and consumption.

Pleasant for children. Safe and speedy. 50 cents. A LITTLE boy who wanted a kite wanted it made of "the best kind of fly-paper." BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh.

By druggists. 50c. ELY'S Cleanses.lthe Head. Allays Inflammation. Heals the Sores.

Restores the Senses of Taste, Smell, Hearing. A QuiciTRelief. A Positive Cure. A particle Is applied into each nostril; is agreeable to use. Price Sendfor circular.

ELY BROTHEKS. UrutcgistB, Owetto. X. T. I am now 49 years old, and nave suffered the flfteenyeurswitiialungtroablc.

I have Bands of dollars to arrest the march of this bat temporary relief -vras oil tliat I obtained. I unfit for any manual letoorlor several years. Af rtetttf strongly recommended the use of Swift's Specific S. claiming that he himself had been greatly beneated by its use in some lung troubles. I resolTed.

totrvlt Tie result? arc remarkable. My cough has left me, my strength has returned, and 1 weigh sixty pounds more than I ever 'lid In. my life. It has beca three years since I stopped the use of the medicine, but I hav had no re turn, of he disease, and there aro no pains or weakness felt In my lungs. I do the hardest kind of work.

T.J.HOLT. Montfomery, June 23,1885. Swift's Speclflc Is entirely vegetable, Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Drawer 3, Atlanta, or 1ST W.23u Street, Y. Absolutely Free from Opiates, JSmeiica and SAFE.

SURE. PROMPT. AT DRUGGISTS ASD DUL THE CHARLES A. YOflEf.ER Hood's Sarsaparilia Soldbf droRgto. slxfom 3.

J. HOOD 6 Apothecaries. Lowell. MMS, 100 Doses One Sold by drnctfsts. tl; for IS.

Prepirsd Sy C. I. HOOD Apothecaries, Lowell, 100 Doses One Dollar For Pain Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bftrkftehe, Hcadarljc, ToUbaeho, PKJCE. FFFTY CENTS. I AT DRUGGISTS AND DKALEHS.

TUB CHAKLES A. TOUl'LER PENSIONS. To TVhom PensiontAre Paid. EVERY S9LDIER of the United States, gets a pension. The loss of a linger, or the use of a finffer, or any gun-shot wound or oih- crmlarr, elves pension.

A rupt- nre. If but silent, will elve a pension. Kuptured veins, or diseases of the lungs. If yoa are entitled to a pension don't delay it. and Xeelected Clalmi a Specialty.

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EPILEf ST or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long stndy. remedy to euro the worst cases Because others hava failed is no reason for not now receiving a care. Sendit enco for a treatise- and Fred Bottle of my remedy. Glvo fixpress and Post Oce. 1C CUBU 703 Botolae for a trial, and I will ore yon.

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BIWHSOS, IttTMtt, JIlCK. A A Al without Writeforpamphlet. A. N. 1073 KST Off DISEASES AI.WATS CUBABUE BY USiKGI MEXICAN MUSTANG OP JTHMiJf FIBSH.

Rheumatism, Barns and Sticcs and Bites, Cms and Ppraics it Contracted Stiff Joiiu, Backache, or Asmu. Scratch Spavin. Foot KM, All, lam.