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The Eaton Democrat L 0. GOULD. FuMWim aUTUH. . 1 ' OHIO SADI, THE FORTUNE-SEEKER. la search of happiness onmarred, 8di, the, Wise, had wandered man ft TVtt To pankce at or and near, wiw beads vera orown bedecked and bo ttoms starred. And on the niRhway, In the lane, 'Monif r-cfc and poor, tn mansion and In hat. Through oflce shop nnd market, but His eacer quest, alasl proved all in Vain. Ad worn and weary of hi task, -Bent to the earth w tn sorrow and with ape, what wonder that at last the saa-e. Brown fainter in h s hope, should ask Is th s the b tter leson. then; Whon HI Its best estate the world appear os'y stales through unseen tears - There is no perfect fortune among Unenl" Oons'der'nv thus fn Somber mood The lot of BtnrtHls, he beheld one day An aneient-tsjitiple on his way Amidst cedar wood In solitude. And nv ne; reaohed the holy plat A rested on Its cool, mosaic door. Sunk in prostration to Implore . The grant of hit desire, of Allah's rraoe. Aad while he tarried in the halls And scanned with wondering- eye the build er's craft, , The vaulted arch, the stately shaft, The mystic symbols purtied on the walls A rainbow a-lenm his vision caught. , It came resplendent from a distant door whose paneled face this legend bore, , In curious rem and sparkling Jewel wrought: .' 'Behlnd this portal relgneth bliss; The home of happiness is this. Where cruel fortune fllnmi n darr - To o erce the soul, to wound the heart. e nears no sign, ana sees no tear, knows no arret, who enters hAr. Ami wBUBtn er a a wi-aom mocaea : Is to his quickened sense unlocked." - "Praise be, great Allah, to thy name!" Exclaimed the sage, "who in thy goodness hast. ' - Tn this most glorious hour, at last. Brought all my life's endeavor to its aim And freed my soul from doubtand gloom." And as the door he, trembling, open drew. What did the startled Sad I view? Beneath him, in a marble crypt a tomb. From the German, i Indianapolis Journal. QUATERMAIN'S SPORT. How the Brave Old Hunter Killed Four Lions. The story which is narrated in the follow- . Ingpaffea came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatercuain, or Hunter Qua ermain, as we need to call him In IJottth Africa. He told it to me one evening when I was stopping with hint at the place he bonght in Xorkjiid-e. . Shortly aft that, : the death of his only son so unsettled him that he immediately left England, accom- a panied by two companions, who were old felWw-voyagars of his, BiV Henry Curtis - nnd Captain Good, nnd has now utterly vanished into the dark heart of Africa. . He is persuaded that a white people, ef which he has .heard rumors all his life, exists somewhere on the highlands in the vast, still unexplored interior, and his great ambition is to find them before he dies. This is the wiM quest upon which he and his companions have departed, and from which I shrewdly suspect they never will return. One letter only have I received from the old gentleman, dated from a mission sta tion high up the Tana, a river on the east coast, about three hundred miles-north of Zanzibar; In it he says they have gone through, many hardships and adventures, but are alive -and well, and ha-o fnnnH traces which go far toward making him hope that the results of their wild quest . may be a "magnificent and unexampled discovery." - I greatly fear, however, that all he has discovered is death: for this let ter catne a long while ago, and nobody has feeard a single word of the 'party since. They have totally vanished. It was on the last evening of my stay at his house that he told the ensuing story to me and Captin Good, who was dining with una. He had eaten his dinner and drunk , two or three glasses of old port, just to help Good and myself to the end of the second . Dome, is was an unusual thing for him to do, for he was a most abstemious man, having conceived, as he used to say, a great horror of drink from observing its effects Upon the-class of men hunters, transnnrt riders, and others, among whom he had passed so many years of his life. Conse quently the good wine took more effect on faint than it would have done on most men, sending a little flush into his wrinkled cheeks, aad making him talk more freely utan usual. Dear old man! I can see him now. as ha went limping up and down the vestibule, with hie gray hair sticking up in scrubhing tnnsh fashion, his shrivelled yellow face, nd his large dark ayes, that were as keen M any hawk's, and yet soft as a buck's. The whole room was hung with trophies of ' his numerana hnntino- v naH i M'rtn va had some story about every one of them, if only yon could get him to tell them. Gen erally be would not, for he was not vers fond of narrating his own adventures, but to-night the port wine made him more com municative. "Ah, you brats I" he said, stopping; be neath an nnusuallv tare 'kull of a lion. . woica was axed just ow the mantelpiece, beneath a long row of guns, its jaws dis- mtuuou w tuou uxmosc wiatn. ad, you brnte! yon have given me a lot of trouble for the last dozen years, and will, I suppose, to my dying day." "Tell us the yarn, Quatermain," said ' Good. "Yon have often promised to tell ms, and you never have." . "You had better not ask me to," he answered, "for it is a longish one." "AU right," 1 said, "the evening is young, , and there is some more port." - - Thus adjured, be filled his pipe from a jar - of course ent Bnnrtnlumi that. ,l.v. standing on the mantel-piece, and still walking up and down the room, began : 'tit was, I think in the March of '69 that I was np In Sikuknni's country. It was just after old Sequati's time, and Sikukunihad sjo into power I forget how. Anyway, I was there. I had heard that the Bapedi people had got down an enormous quantity of ivory from the interior, and so I started with a wagon-load of goods, and came straight away from Kiddelburg to try and trade some of it - It was a risky thing to go into the country so early, on account of the fever; but I knew that there was one or two others after that lot of ivory, so I determined to have a try for it, and take ray chance of fever. I had got so tough from continual, knocking about that I did not set it down at much. Well, 1 got on all right for a while. It is a wonderfully beautiful piece of bush veldt, with great ranges of mountains running-through it, and round granite koppies starting up here and there, looking out like sentinels over the rolling waste of bush. But it is very , hot hot as a stew-pan and when I was there that March, which, of course, is autumn in that part of Africa, the whole place reeked of fever. Every morning as I trekked along down by the Oliphant river, 1 used to creep out of the wagon at dawn and look out. But there was no river to be seen only a long line of billows of what looked like the finest cotton wool tossed up lightly with a pitchfork. It was the fever mist. Out from among the scrub, too, came little spirals of vapor, as though there were hundreds of tiny fires alight in it reek rising from thousands of tons of rotting vegetation. It was a beautiful place, but I he beauty was the beauty of death; and all those lines and blots of vapor wrote one great word across the surface of the country, and that word was "fever." "It was a dreadful year of illness, that. I came, I remember, to one little kraal of - Knobnoses, and .went up to see if I could ret some rums (curdled buttermilk) and a few raalias. As I got near i was struck with taw silence of the place. No children began to chatter, and no dogs barked. , Nor could I see any native sheep or cattle. The place, though it had evidently been recently inhabited, was as still as the bush round it, and some guinea fowl got up out of the rriokly pear bushes right at the kraal gate, remember that I hesitated a little before going in, there was such an air of desolation about the spot. 'Nature never looks des olate when man has not yet laid his hand upon her breast; she is only lonely. But wnen man has Men, and has passed away, ' then she looks desolate. "I bad trekked from, dawn till eleven o'clock a long trek bnt I wanted to get on ; and then had the oxen turned out to graze, sending the voorloooer to look after them. moaning to inspan au;ain about six o'clock, and trek with the moqn till ten. Then I got into the wagon and had a good sleep till half-past two or so in the afternoon, when I got Up and cooked some meat and had mv dinner, washing it down with a . pannikin of black coffeefor it was difficult to get preserved milk in those days. Just as x nan nnisnea, ana tne anver. a man called Tom. was washing ud the things, in comes the young, scoundrel of a voorlooper nnving. one ox neiore mm. "'Where are the other oxent I asked. "'Koos!' he said, 'Koos! (chief) the other oxen nave gone away. - 1 turned my pack tor a minute ana wnen l looked rouna , again they were all. gone except Kaptein, here, who was- rubbing his. back against a tres.' Tom msah that von have been aaleeo. sad las chnit atrav.vott villain. I will ruh r-ar back against stick,' I answered, feel . Uf vsry ufrfi for it wm not sltasaat prospect to be stuck up in that fever trap lor a weak or so wdile we were hunting for cue exea, va you go, and you too, Tom, and ntiud you don't come back till you have f o. nd tueui. Tney have trekked back along the Middeiburg road, and are a dozan miles off by new, I'd be bound. Now, no words; tjs both of you.' . "Tom, the driver, swore aad caat tB,e lad a hearty kick, whirth he richlf feerred, and then, having tied did Kaptein up to the disselboom with 4 reim, they got their assegais .nd Sticks and started. I would have gone too, only I knew that somebody must look after the wagon, and I did not like to leave either of the boys with it at night. I was in a Very bad temper, indeed, although I was pretty well used to these sort of Occurrences, and soothed myself by taking a rifle and going to kill something. For a couple of hours I poked about with out seeing any thing that I Could get a shot at, but at last, just as I was. again Within soventy yards of the wagon, I put up an old Impala ram from behind a mimosa thorn. He ran straight for the wagon, and it was not till he was passing within a f e- feet of H that I could get a decent shot an him. Then I pulled, and caught tim half-way down the spine ofer he went, dead as a door-nail and a pretty shot it was, though I ought not to say it. This little incident put me into rather a better temper, espe cially as the buck had rolled over right against the after-part of the WagdU, so I had only to dress hiltt, fix A reim round his legs and haul him up. By the time I had done this the sun was down, and the full moon was up, and a beautiful moon it was. And then there came down that wonderful hush that sometimes falls over the African bush in the early hours of the high. No beast was moving, and no bird called. Not a breath of air stirred the quiet trees, and the shadows did not even quiver; they only rew. It was very oppressive and very lonely, f on there was not a sign of the cat tle or the boys. I waa o, liite thankful for the society of old Kaptein, who was lying down contentedly against the disselboom, chewing the cud with a good conscience. "Presently, however, Kaptein began to get restless. First he snorted, then he got up and snorted again. I could jlot make it out, so like a fool I got down off the Wagon box to have a look round, thinking it might be the lost Oxen Coming. "Nest instant I regretted it, for all of A sudden I heard an awful roar and saw something yellow flash past me and light on poor Kaptein. Then came a bellow of agony from the ox, and A Crunch as the lion put his teeth through the poor brute's neck, and I began to realize what had happened. My rifle was in the wagott, and my first thought Was to get hold of it, and 1 turned and made a bolt for it. I got my foot on the Wheel and flung mv bodv forward on to the wagtm, and there I stopped as if I were frozen., and Ud wonder, for as I was about to Spring up I heard the lion behind me, ahd next second I felt the brute, aye, as plainly as I can feel this table. 1 felt him, I say, sniffing at my left leg that was hanging down. . " "Mv word I I did eel qtleer; I don't think that I ever felt so queer before. I dared not move for the life of me, and the odd thing was that I seemed to lose power over my leg, which had an insane Sort of inclina tion to kick out of its own mere motion just as hysterical people want to laugh when they ought to be particularly solemn. Well, the lion sniffed and sniffed, beginning at my. ankle and slowly nosing away up to my thigh. -1 thought that he was going to get- hold then, but he did not. He only growled softly,-and went back to the ox. Shifting my head a little I got a full view of him. He was the biggest lion I ever saw, and I have seen a great many, and he had a most tremendous black mane. What his teeth were like you can see look there, pretty big ones, ain't theyf Altogether he was a magnificent animal, aud as 1 lay there sprawling on the fore-longue df the wagon, it occurred to me that lie would look Uncommonly well in a cage. He stood there by the carcass of poor Kaptein, and deliberately disembowelled him as 'neatly as a botcher could have done.. All this while I dare not move, for he kept lifting his head and keeping an eye on me as he licked his bloody chops. When he had cleaned Kaptein'out he opened his mouth and roared, and I am not exaggerating when I say that the sound shook the wafTon. In stantly there came back an answering roar. " 'Heavens 1' I thought, 'there is his mate.' "Hardly Was the thought out of my head when I caught sight in toe moonlight of the lioness bounding along through the long grass, and after her a couple of cubs about the size of mastiffs. Bhe stopped within a few feet Of my head, and stood and waved hef tail, and fixed me with her glowing yellow eyes; but just as I thought that it was all over she turned, and began to feed on Kaptein, and so did the cubs. There were the. four of them Within eight feet of me, growling ana quarreling, renciing ana tearing and crunching poor Kaptein's bones; and there I lay shaking with terror. and the cold perspiration pouring out of me ; feeling like another Daniel come to judgment in a new sense of the phrase. Presently the cubs had eaten their fill, and began to get restless, une went round to the back of the wagon, and pulled at the Impala buck that hung there, and the other came round my way ana oegan the snimug game at ray leg. Indeed, he did more than that, tot, my trousers being hitched up a little, he began to lick the bare skin with his rough tongue. The more he licked the more he liked it, to judge from his Increased vigor ana tne loua purring noise ne maae. Then I knew that the end had come, for in another second. his file-like tongue would have rasped through the skin of mv leg which was luokily pretty tough and have got to the blood, and then there would be no chanoe for me. So I just lay there and thought of my sins, and prayed to the Almighty, and thought that after all life was a very enjoyame wing. , "And then all of a sudden I heard a crashing of bushes and the shouting and whistling of men, and there were the two boys coming back with the cattle which they had found trekking along all together. The lions lifted their heads and listened, and then without a sound bounded off and I fainted. "The lions came back no more that night, and by the next morning my nerves had got pretty straignt again; out l was rou or wrath when I thouehtof all that I had gone through, at the hands, or rather noses, of those four lions, ana oi tne fate of my after-ox Kaptein. He was a splendid ox, and I was very fond of him.. So wroth was I that like a fool I determined to go for the whole family oi tnem. it was worthy of a feenhorn out on his first hunting trip ; but did it nevertheless. Accordingly after breakfast, having rubbed some oil upon my leg. which was very sore from the cub's tongue, I took the driver, Tom, who did not half like the job, ana navmg armed myself with an ordinary double jmq. lgBmootbbore, the first breech-loader I ever had. I Btarted. I took the smoothbore because it shot a bullet very well; and my experience has been that a round bullet from a smoothbore is quite as effective against a lion as an express bullet. The lion is soft and not a difficult animal to finish if you hit him anywhere in the bodv. A buck takes far more killing. "Well. I started, and the first thing I set to work to do was to try to make out wnereaoouts tne orates lay up lor tne day. About three hundred yards from the wagon was the crest of a rise covered with single mimosa .trees, dotted about in a park-like fashion, and beyond this was a stretch of open plain running down to a dry pan, or water bole, which covered about an acre of ground, ana was densely clotnea witn reeds, now in the sere and yellow leaf. From the further edge of this pan the ground sloped up again to a great cleft, or nullah, which had been cut out by the action of water, and was pretty thickly sprinkled with bush, among which grew some large trees, l forget of waat sort. it at once struck me that the dry pan would be a likely place to find my friends in, as there is nothing lion is fonder of than lying np in reeds, through which he ram iMso buiugs wibuuut uvwk nnu diuisou. Accordingly thither I went and prospected. eiore i eos naii-wav rouna tne nan i found the remains of a blue vilderbeeste that had evidently been killed within the last three or four davs and nartiallv de voured by lions; and from other indica tions aoout 1 was soon assured that u tne family were not in the pan that day, they snent a good deal of their snare time there. But if there, the question was how to gat them out; for it was clearly impossible to think of going' in after them unless one was quite determined to commit suicide. Now there was a strong wind blowing from the direction of the wagon, across the reedy pah toward the bush-clad kloof or donga, and this first gave me the idea of firing the reeds, which, as I think I told you, were pretty dry. Accordingly Tom took some matches and began starting lit tle fires to the left, and I did the same to the right. But the reeds were still green at the bottom, and we should never have got them well alight had it not been for the wind, wbinn got stronger ana stronger as the sun got higher, and forced the fire into them. At last, after half an hour's trouble. the flames got a hold, and began to spread out like a fan, whereupon I got round to the further side of the pan to wait for the lions, standing well out in the open, as we stood at the copse today where you shot the woodcock. It was a rather risky thing to do, but I used to be so sure of my shoot ing in those days that I did not - so much mind the rixk. Scarcely had I got round when I heard the reeds parting before the onward rush of some animal. 'Now for it,' said I. On it came. I could see that was yellow, and prepared for action, when instead of a lion out- bounded a beautiful reit bok, which had been lying in the shelter of the pan. It must, by the way, have been a reit bok of a peculiarly confiding nature, to lay itself down with the lion like the lamb of prophecy, but I snopose that the reedt were tbiok, and that it kept a long way on, ' Wall. 1 let the rslt bok aa. and it went like the wind, and ksnt mv svss fixed noon tatrttdst TbtfirtwM hsralsg Ukt vw it naos now; the flames crackling and roaring as they bit into the reeds, sending spouts of fire twenty feet and more into thn air and making the hot air dance above it in a Way that was perfectly dalld. TJdb the reeds were still Bait freed add created ad enor mous quantity of . suipke. whicH came rr It in toward me lifts a curtain, lying very W.w on account of the -wind. Presently, above the crackling of the fire, I heard a startled roar, then another and another. So the lions were at home. "I was beginning to get excited now, for, as you fellows know, there is nothing inex perience to warm np your nerves like a lion at close quarters, unless it is a wounded buffalo ; and I got still more so when L mada out through the smoke that the lions Were an moving aoout .on tne extreme edge or. their heads out .like rabbits fronl a burrow, and, thed, catching sight 6 me standing about fifty yards out, draw, them back ftgaitt-1 knew that it must be getting pretty warm behind them, and that they could not keep the game up for long; anal was not mistaken, for suddenly alt four of them broke cover together, the old black-maned lion leading by a few yards. I never saw a more splendid sight in all my hunting ex perience than those four lions bounding across the Veldt, overshadowed by the dense pall of smoke and backed by the flery fur nace of the burning reeds; "I reckdned that they .would pass, od their road to the bushy kloof, within about five and twenty yards of me, so, taking a long breath, I got my guu Well dd to the lion's .shoulder-the black-maned one-rd as td allow for ad idch or two of mptidn. and catch him through the .heart. I was on, dead On, and. my- finger was just begin ning td tighten on the trigger, when sud denly I went blind a bit of reed-ash. had drifted into my right' eye. I danced and rubbed, and got it more or less clear just in time to see the tail of the last lion vanish ing round the bushes up the kloof. "If ever a man was mad I was that man. It was too bad; and such a shot in the open, too I However, I Was not , going to be !d, SO I jdst tdrned and tdarcUed fdr tant: Tom. the driver, begged and implored me not to go, but though as a general rule I never pretended to be brave (which I am not,) I was determined that I would either kill those lions or they should kill me. So I told Tdtd .that he need not fotHe unless Be liked, but I was. going; and being a pltlctV fellow, a Swazi by birth, he shrugged his shoulders, muttered that I Was mad or bewitched, and followed doggedly In mv tracks. "We soon got to the kloof, which was about three hundred yards in length and hnt snaraelv wooded, and then the real fun began: There might be a lion behind every bush there certainly were four lions somewnere ; tne aeucare question was, where. I peeped and poked and looked in every pusaiuie uuwuuu, winu utv ucci u m mv month, and was at last rewarded bv catching a glimpse df somethid yellow moving Demna a Dusn. ad tne same mo ment, from another bush opposite me out burst one of the cubs and galloped back toward the burnt out nan. I whinDed round and let drive a snap shot that tipped him neaa over neeis, Dressing ms oacx within two inches .of the root of the tail, and there he lay helpless but glaring. Tom afterward killed him .with his assegai.. I opened the breech "of the gun and hurriedly pulled out the old case, which, to judge from what ensued, must, I suppose, have burst and left a portion of its fabric sticking to the barrel. At any rate, when I tried to get in the new case it would not enter half way; and would you believe it this was the moment that the lioness, attracted no doubt by the outcry of her cub, chose to f ut in an appearance-. There she stood, wenty paces or so from me, lashing ' her tail and looking just as Wicked as it is Eossibie to conceive, niowiy x sreppea ackward, trying to push in the new case, and as I did so she moved on in little runs, dropping down after each run. The danger was imminent, and the case would not go in. At the moment I oddly enough thought of the cartridge-maker, whose name I will not mention, and earnestly hoped that if the lion got me some condign punishment would overtake him. It Would not go in, sd I. tried to pull it out. It would notcdirie out Hither, and my gun was Useless if I could not shut it to use the other barrel. I might as Well have had no gun. Meanwhile I was walking backward, keeping my eye on the lioness, who was creeping forward on. her. Deny without a sound, Due lasning ner tan and keeping her eye on me ; and in it I saw that she was coming in a few seconds more. I dashed my wrist and the palm of my hand against the brass rim of the cartridge till tne Diooapoureairom taem iook, mere are the scars Of it to this day I" Herd uuatermain held up his right hand to the light and showed us seven or eight white cicatrices gust Where tne wrist is set into the hand. "But it was not of the slightest use," he went on : "the cartridge would not move. I Only hope that no other man will ever be put id such Sn awful position. The lioness gathered herself together, and I g ave my self up for lost, when suddenly Tom shouted out from somewhere in my rear: " 'You are walking on to the wounded cub; turn to the right.' "1 had cne sense, aazea as l was, to rase L ; .. I ..i : .1 : U . 1 but still keeping my eyes on the. lioness, I continued mv backward walk. 'To my intense relief, with a low growl she straightened herself, turned ana bounded off further up the kloof. " 'Come on. Inkoos.' said Tom, 'let's Ret Dacx to cne wagon.' "'All right, Tom,' I answered. 1 will when I have killed those three other lions. for bv this time I was bent on shooting them as I never remember being bent on any tning Derore or since. x ou can go u you line, or you can get up a tree.' "He considered the position a little, and then he very wisely got up a tree. X wish that I had done the same. "Meanwhile I had got out mf knife. which had an extractor in it, and succeeded after some difficulty in hauling out the case which had so nearly been the cause of my death, and removing the obstruction in the barrel. It was. very little thicker than a postage-stamp; "certainly not thicker than a Diece of writing-Daper. This done I loaded the gun, bound my handkerchief rouna my wrist ana nana to stauncn tne nowing er the Diooa ana started on again. "I had noticed that the lioness went into a thick green bush, or rather cluster of Dushes, growing near tne water, for mere waa B ukii Buvaui I uiuiiug uvwu vud kiwi, about fifty yards higher up, and for this I made. When I got there, however, I could see nothing, so I took up a big stone and threw it into the bushes. I believe that it hit the other cub, for out it cami with a rush, giving me a Droaoside snot oi wmcn I promptly availed myself, knocking it over dead. Out. too', came the lioness like a flash of light, but quick as she went I managed to put the other bullet into her riDs, so that sue roiled over three times like a shot rabbit. I instantly got two more cartridges into the gun, and as I did so the uone&s got up again anu came crawuue toward me on her forepaws, roaring ana groaning, and with such an expression of aiaDoiicai iury on ner countenance as x had not often seen. 1 shot her again through the chest, and she fell over on to her side quite dead. "That was the first and last time that I ever killed a brace of lions right and left, and, what is mora, x never beard of any body else doing it. Naturally I was con siderably pleased with myself, and having again loaded up. went on to look for the black-maned beauty who had killed Kap tein. Miowiy and witu tne greatest care x Kroceedod up the kloof, searching every ush and tuft of grass as I went. It was wonderfully exciting work, for X never was sure from one moment to another but that he wonld be on me. I took comfort, how ever, from the reflection that a lion rarely attacks a man rarely, I say ; sometimes he does, as you will see unless he is cornered or wounded. I must have been nearly an honr hunting after the -lion. Once I thought I saw something move in a clump of tambouki grass, but I could not be sura, and when I trod out the grass I could not nna mm. "At last I got UDto the head of the kloof. It was formed of a wall of rock about fifty feet high. Down this rock trickled a little waterfall, and in front of it, some seventy feet from its face, was a great piled-up mass of bowlders, in the crevices and on the top of which grew ferns and grass and stunted bushes. This mass was about twenty-nve feet high. The sid)s of the kloof here were also very steep. Well. I got up to the top of the nullah and looked all rouna. no signs of the lion. Evidently I had either overlooked him further down, or he had es caped right away. It was very vexatious; but still three lions were not a bad bag for one gun before dinner, and I was fain to-be content. Accordingly I departed back again, making mv way round the isolated Sillar of bowlders, and beginning to feel lat I was pretty well done up with excite ment and fatigue, and should be more so before x naa skinned those three lions. When I had got. as nearly as I could ludge. about eighteen yards past the pillar or mass of bowlders, I turned to have another look round. I have a pretty sharp eye, but oould see nothing at all. "Then, on a sudden, I saw something sumcientiy alarming, un tne top of the mass of bowlders, opposite to me, standing out clear against the rock bevond, was the huge black-maned lion. He had been crouching there, and now arose as though bv magic. There he stood, lashing his tail. just like a statue of the animal on the gateway.of Northumberland House that have seen a picture of. But he did not stand long. Before I could fire before could do more than get the gun to my shoulder he sprang straight up and out from the rock, and driven by the impetus f that one mighty bound came hurtling thrnngh the air toward ma. "Heavens! hew grand he looked, and how awful I High into the air he flew, describ ing a great arch. Just as he touched the ihMlpUilhii iprlBg X ftr4, I AM not dare to wait, for I saw that ha would clear Vi whole space and land right upon me. Without a sight, almost w.t iout alni) urea, as one wduld fire a eriap shot ai snide:. The bulldt foUd. for I distinctly hei ica mua aoove tne, rustling souua caused oy the passage of the lion through the air. Next second I was swept to the ground (luckily I fell into a low creeoer-clad bnsh. which broke the shock. and the lion was on the top of me, and the next those great white teeth of his had met in my thigh I heard them grate against the bone. 1 elled out in agony, fori did not feel in the east oenumDea ana nappy, like Dr. Livingston who, by the way, 1 knew very Well and gave myself Up for dead. But suddenly, as Idid so, the lion's grip dn my thigh lddsened, and he stodd over me, sWa- he roared. To and fro he swung, and suddenly the great head dropped on ms, knocking all the breath from my body, and he was dead. Mv bullet had entered In the center of his chest and passed out on the right side of tne spine about halt-way down tne oacx. "The pain of my wound kept me from fainting, and as soon As I got my breath I managed to drag myself from under him. Thank he'aven, his ' great teeth had, not crushed my thigh bone: but I Was losing a great deal of blood, and had it not been for the timely arrival of Tom, With whose aid I got the handkerchief off mv wrist add tied it rddnd my leg, twisting it tight with a stick.! think I should have bled to death. . "Well; it was a lust reward for mv folly in trying to tackle a family of lions single- handed, i he odds were too long, x nave been lame'ever since, and shall oe to my dying day; in the month of March the wound always troubles me a great aeai, and every three years it breaks out raw. I need scarcely add that I never traded the lot of ivory at Sikuknni's. Another man got it a German and made five hundred pounds out of it, after paying expenses. I spent the next month on the broad of my back, and was a cripple for six months after that. And now I've told you the yarn, so I will have a drop of Hollands and go to Macmillan. FASHION NOTES. Spring Styles Sanctioned by the Leaders of New York Society. I Moutorineux is the new terra for bod- rettegddds: Clustered stripes are a feature in all spring goods. Correct mourning jewelry is of Eng lish crape stone. All sorts of straws will be worn in hats and bonnets this spring. Even new pongees come in bourette or boutonneux and corded stripes. The Kussia blouse frock is worn by little girls and small boys under live. The latest novelty in fancy slippers are those embroidered with garnet beads. Low shoes wont with paste or Rhine stone buckles, are choice for house' wear. New spring hats are tall and are trimmed high in the back, the front, or on one siae. All bonnets hare high crowns and brims small, but a little larger than those of last year. The latest fancy in splashers are large fans spread against the wall be bind the was D stand. Very large and deep collars of em broidery are a feature in little girls1 and small boys1 spring dress. The embroidered harlequin shoe, with harlequin stocking to match, is a late English hosiery fancy. Urowns, tans, creams, and nasturti uni reas preponderate over grays in new woolens for spring wear. Borders for entire skirts for side and back panels and for parts of frocks are the feature in spring styjes. The brims of new spring, nats are neither wide nor eccentric. They are narrower in the back than in .front. Black, dark green and brown form (he largest proportion of dresses worn in tne streets ny JNew xoris women. Even the new cheviots come in bou tonneux, boucle and corded stripes and borders to be combined with plain chev iot; Very wide and half -inch to a ouartar of an Inch white Hercules braid is the popular trimming for little girls' French frocks. Kabyle or Berber iewelry of silver is a lately introduced novelty in England. It comes from the borders of the desert of Sahara. Elbow and three-quarter length sleeves will be almost universally worn by fashionable women this spring, with street as well as house dresses. Some of the new Paris bonnets have perfectly square crowns, with bat little brim to speak of, but the profuse trim mings hide the shape of the bonnet. Birds for ball dress trimming come among special fancy novelties. They are feathers and silk chenille with wings of frosted metal in all colors. The use of plash and velvet in stripes and borders on etamine or canvas grounds, in two or more colors and snaaes, is a xeatore in spring wool anu silk goods. Only a few brocades in set figures appear among spring silk or woolen stuffs, and in those few the designs are small or medium sized, not. large or pronounced. Stable clothes," that is to say, tailor-made suits, jackets and new- markets, will be the style for making up the new woolen and wool mixtures of the incoming season. Little girls' frocks now have regular waists but no belts, a sash from under the arm to tie in the back, and a V bodice in ' the laced-up Gretchen or peasant style that was introduced last year. Only French frocks for little girls are made with sacqae or gabriella waists, and they are now made shorter with a deep long . V in front and a sailor or Dauphin collar in the back, terminating in long revera in front turning DacK from the V-shaped waistcoat. Bonnets have i auction, JNormandv, and cap crowns, and brims of various kinds, converting the bonnet into a capote, with close, flaring, cleft irregu lar, or regular brim at pleasure, while the trimmings are so arranged as to give a conical or pyramidal effect to the whole. The skirts of little girls' French frocks are made very full, either pleated oi? gathered on a long sacque. bodice, finished at the line of juncture with a pretty scarf sash of one of the materials or of .very wide Hereules braid formed into a bow on one side of the front breadth. Among novelties in embroidery are borders or flounces forty inches, wide enough to form the entire skirt below. the hip yoke of a nainsook, swiss, mull or canvas dress. These embroideries- in white French nainsook are used for! the full-pleated skirts .of little girls' Gretchen dresses. For ladies who do not like to wear stiff bustle or tournure. the best sub-it i tute is a cambric petticoat with flounces all the way from the waist line to the, bottom on the back breadth, which the' laundress should be instructed to starch, very stiff and smooth with her hands, but not iron, so as to retain all the starch. St Hpes and blocks of variously woven ituftV, :rre surrounded and outlined in, some tK the spring woolens with Strips of drawn open work, just like art, drawn work done by hand, while the wonders that can be accomplished bv the loom are further illustrated by the blocks-and stripes thus separated, being of two or more dinerent weaves, sav. for instance, checks in one block, and diagonals or stripes in the next, boucle in the third, and bourette or bouton neux effects in the fourth, and all this accomplished by the loom. N. T. Sun. m Pretty bureau covers are made white momie cloth and ornamented with outline embroidery. The edge finished with antique laoe two inches Wide, This lace is also used to border a square of satin on which some deli oate flower design has been painted, and make a very bandsom tidy, FARM AND FIRESIDE. of eweet milk; twp jabiespoorifdll of baking powder and whites of eight eggs, t lavor with almond extract. 1'lie Caterer. j Remedy for leaking teats: If a flat India-rubber ring is put high up around the udder of a cow that drops ner milk, lest after milking, and kept there for a week, or longer, if necessary, it is a "sure cure." I have fonnd it to be so a nndibc? of time& IndidiUimlis SetM hel. Fowls as weil its chirks- become auarrelsomo if fed on raw meat. Again, cooking makes meat more nutritions. When raw it is ratner narsn ana cruue compared with the more natural diet of worms and grubs, which are for the most part soft and easily digested. Western Rural. When a stump is burned piling around it soma sod, which will become heated throughout. Changes them to a valuable manure'. In some parts' Of England it Is a cotnulon practioe to gatnor sods frdni waste places, whidh; after thoroughly drying; are burned and the ashes and charred earth spread on cultived fields. Chicago Times. Bread griddle cakes are excellent and may may be made of stale bread. Soak a small bowl of bread over night in milk. In the morning mix hall a cup of flour, into which is put one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, with one .quart of milk, . three well beaten eggs and a littlo salt.. Beat np the bread with this batter until it is verv light and fry a delicate brown. The batter" should be thick, Boston BurirpJ, To make snowball Custard: Add the whites of 'three eggs, well beaten, to one pint of boiling milk, dipping, them into the milk in tablespoonfuls. As they rise, turn them, and when done put them into a pudding dish; then put the beaten yelks, sweetened to taste, into the milk; stir it until it thickens, remove from the fire and flavor with lemon. Turn this custard into a glass dish and lay the whites on top. It is delicious. The Household. For domestic fruit cake, take one pint of dried apples; soak over night in cold water, then chop till as small as raisins. Put to this one and a half cupfuls of molasses, and stew until all the molasses is absorbed by the apples. To this add one pound of chopped rais ins, one cupful of 'brown sugar, one enpful of butter, one cupful of sour milk, two beaten eggs, one teaspoonf ul of soda, spice of all kinds, or to taste. Mix tolerably stiff. Add the fruit last, roiled in flour. Bake a long time. Exchange. HORSES AGES. Reliable Rules Which Can Safely Be Applied to All Enquiries. : The ' full-grown horse possesses fwAnt.v.fmir hnMr taAt.h. thftt ta SIT in each side of each jaw; these are called molars or grinders. He has twelve front teeth, that is, six in each jaw. Mares have no tushes. The foal has either at his birth, ot shortly afterwards, eight milk teeth, that is, four, in each jaw; at about twelve months two more milk teeth come in each jaw. These remain un changed until he is three years old. The mouth of the yearling and two years old can not be confounded. The yearling mouth shows no sign of use, and tne corner teem are sneiis oniy; at two years old these teeth are strong and well grown, anu tne corner teem filled up. A little before three years old the two center teeth of each jaw fall out, and are replaced by permanent teeth. A little before four, the two teeth on each side of the center teeth are re- E laced by permanent ones. A little efore five the two remaining teeth are shed, and in their place come perma nent ones. The upper milk teeth usually fall out first Thus the mouth is complete as to its front teeth; the corner tooth, however, is but imperfectly developed, being at present a shell only; this shell at six years old has filled up. and is a com- Elete tooth. This is the difference etween a five and a six-year-old. - The tushes appear between three and a half years and four years old, and they take nearly two years to arrive at their full growth. These teeth, as the horse grows older, get blunter and shorter, and so to an experienced judge are a sure indication of age. Up to six years old 'the mouth is in a distinct and periodical state .of structural change. There is no difficulty in determining the age up to that date. After tha' the age must be judged by the shape of the mouth and the appearance of th teeth called the mark. At six years oi 'age the cups leave two center teeth above, at seven the next two above. and at eight the outer or corner teeth above. At nine the two center teeth below lose the cups, at ten the next two below, and at eleven the outer or corner teeth below. After a little practice the close observer can scarcely make a mistake. The changes tha occur are the same in all horses, or nearly so. Sportsman. . NON-CORROSIVE IRON. Iron Lamps Worth Almost their Weight in Glittering Gold. a "You didn't know that iron was precious metal, eh?" said the charge (faffairs of the second floor of a big metal worker's establishment yester day. "Well, that pair of iron lamps worth eighty dollars. . - "Antiques?" "No, not antiques at all; made and exhibited last year at Nuremberg." ' x he lamps in question were or coiorea glass, . mounted in staffs ab:mt four feet in height. Thev looked like those which illuminate . tne entrance to the seigneur's hall in an illustrated edition of a mediaeval novel. "We bought all the exhibit of that particular make at last year's Nurem berg fair," continued the charge, "and most of it is sold already. Those lamps are for a vestibule or hall." "Won't the iron rust?" "No, that is a specialty in the manu facture. They could stand out-doors for a century without corroding." Then he took the visitors upstairs and offered him his choice- between Louis Quatorze silver and a gold chan delier with Minerva busts and cut-glass pendant for a moderate French drawing-room for five hundred dollars. Philadelphia Press. Protection Against Dogs. of is The Mayor of Cannes has adopted very simple-plan for ascertaining what dogs have owners and have had a license taken out for them.' ' In the first place, any dog found in the streets without collar bearing the name and address of the owner is at onoe captured and, if not claimed within forty-eight L-hours, killed. Moreover, every person taking out a license is provided with small medal plate, which has to be at tached to the collar, and if a dog found without this plate on' his collar the address of his owner is taken and in quiry made as to whether a license was taken out for the dog, in which case fi'esU plate is provided. The scale :eense varies, too, according as v,j"ther the dog is kept in the town In til ' suburbs as a watch-dog. The consei ience of all this is that Cannes is almost free from the nuisance stray dogs and there has not, it Is be lieved, been a case of rabies for several yeeri. 'St, Sam' Qutto INTERESTING FACTS. Some of Peculiarities of the Government of the United States. Here are' some curious facts df hv terest; perhaps; to" the student of" 6irf Government: The States of Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Nevada, Oregpn, Rhode Island and Vermont have lesS than one-half the population of Illinois, but have the same number of represent atives in Congress twenty-two. Eighty five years ago North Carolina had as faiany ftepresehthtives in Congress as New lork. .North Carolina now has bihe, ox one-less than she had in 1B00, while New Ytirk ha thirty-louf . The State of Nevada, which has two Sena tors and one Representative in Coil- fress, has not so large a population by 17 souls aa the city of New Haven, Conn. The five States of Delaware, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Oregon combined have not so great a popula tion by about 100,000 souls as the city of New fork. Yet New York City has only eight Representatives in Congress, while tbo five States have, sisteen be sides. their ten Senators. Virginia now has the same number of Congressmen she had in 1790, when there were only sixty-five members of the House. The thirteen States of Arkansas, California, Colorado. Connecticut. Delaware, Flor ida, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hamp shire, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia, with an aggregate population which does not exceed that of Xfew York, alone, have twenty-six United States Senators to New York's two. From the five States of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio the Government derives one half of all its po-ital revenues. More than one-half of the internal revenue receipts of the Government ' come from the four States of Illinois, New York, Ohio and Kentucky. California, with less than half the population of Indiana, pays to the Government more money ior postal service. jy. i. i rxoune. i CoNoaassM&N Baglbt, of Michigan, say Bed Star Cough Cure is simple and effica cious. n-u t, i a. T 1 I,, v says St. Jacobs Oil is a specific for every pain. War is a dirty man cause he shrinks from Ledger. like flannel t Be- washing. Chicago As a toilet luxury, Hall's Hair Renewef never fails to five satisf actkm. Sufferers from Bronchitis will find speedy reues oy fanng &yer-a ussrry rwtonu. We may be sure that our consciences are rebellious when they are mute in us (mutinous). - Throw Away Trasses when our new method is guaranteed to nermanentlv cure the worst cases ot rupt ure, without the use of the knife. Bend 10 oents in stamps for pamphlet and refer ences. World's. Dispensary Medical Asso ciation, oos Alain street, cunaio, n. x. EvxBY bonnet has Citizen. ub" to it Lowell . Aa Good m ttm-w.-' are the words used bv a ladv. who was at one time given up by the most eminent physicians, and left to die. Reduced to mere skeleton, pals and haggard, notable to leave ner Deo, from all tnoe? distressing diseases peculiar to suffering; fauales. sue! as displacement, leucorrhoea, inflamma tion, etc.. etc She began takine Or. riofce'i u Favorite Prescription," and also using the local treatments recommended b him. and is now, she says, "as good as new." Price reauoea to one aoiiar. oj aruggists. The traitor who Is exp-cted to be loyal to both sides The arbitrator. JIT. T. Led ger. , Oeit. John A. Logan will begin a series of articles on "Reminiscences of the War" in the National Tribune of Washington. D. C in the issue of April 2. Subscribe at once to secure the first number. aLOO per year. Ir silence is golden what a valuable mis- tortune lockjaw must oe. Bronchitis is cured by frequent small aoses oi riso s (jure ior consumption. A eaowrao evil Your next door neigh bor's squalling baby. Somerville Journal. If afflicted with Sore Eyes useDr.Isnaa Thompson'sEye Water. Druggists sellit. 2uc. The lawyer's advertisement flive ms trial. THE MARKETS. CINCINNATI, March 22. LIVE STOCK Cattle Commonf 2 M 2 75 holce Butchers .... 8 HS HOGS Common 840 Good Packers 4 00 SHEEP Good to choice?..... 8 76 l-LODIt-Family 4 00 611AIN Wheat-Longberry red No. 8 red Cora No- 8. mixed Oats No. 3 mixed Rie No S HAY Timotbv No. 1 ..12 00 rOBACCO Common Lugs B 00 Good Mediums 10 00 PROVISIONS Pork Mess 10 00 Lard Prime steam 4 0 & 8 80 ti So 4 50 t4 25 94 & 91 & 37 & 324 9 i 12 50 & 8 75 (Bill 75 felO 12 BUT l'ER Choice Dairy Ohio Creamery APPLES-Prime POTATOES per bushel IS 80 1 50 65 a i s & 28 1 85 0 Tf NEW YORK. FLOUR State and Western... $2 90 GRAIN-Wheat No. 8 Chicago No. 8 red Corn No. 8 mixed.. 43 8 40 95H & 47V Outs mixed T!VO 9 87510 25 FORK Moss LAKD Western steam & 6 23 CHICAGO. FLOUR State and Western... S4 50 & 4 ( 3KA1N Wheat No 2 red 85 a 8ft No. 2 Chicago Sprint; 78Jir, W Corn .No. 2 i'4 Mi! Outs No 2 27V 28 Rve 1 61H POHK Mess.... v iai i9w LAUD Steam 5 97!4 BALTIMORE. is VT-OTTIt Famllv...- S4 58 $8 5 00 Blt AIN Wheat No. 3 OO'e IB Corn Mixed Oats mixed u .fi PROVISIONS Fork Mess 10 ST. fell Lard-Keflned 7 CATTLE First quality 4 no 4 Xi HOGS W 6 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 3 red Corn mixed S a Oats mixed B LOUISVILLE. Flour A No. 1 4 00 GRAIN Wheat No. 2red.... Torn mixel Oats mixed. .a 4 50 MS PORK mess 10 75 5 II UU LA It LI toain a a a a is a of to oi oi Flowers Tkat Bloom In the Spring will be here before yon know H, yon should be prepared to enjoy the moat delightful season of the year. To escape the depressing, debili tating effects of the changing season you shonld pari fy your blood, and keep up a good appetite nnd good digestion by taking Hood's Samparllls. A single for this reliable medicine now may .are you A good deal of money later in the year. Take it now. " When I bought Hood's Sarsnpaiilla I made a good Investment of one dollar In medicine for the time. It has driven off rheumatism and Improved appetite so much that my boarding mistress says must keep it locked up or she will be obliged to raise my hoard with every other boarder that takes Hood's SarseparUla." Tsokas Bukbsu. S Tlllary Street, Brooklyn, N. T. Hood'sBarsaparlllawas a God-send to me, for eared me of dyspepsia and llvercomplaint with which 1 bad suffered 3) years." J. B." Boknbick, South Fall.burg, N. T. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists, el; six forts. Prepared C- I. HOOD CO, Apothecarlea, Lowell. Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar TORCOUCHS, CROUP AN CONSUMPTION USE OF SWEET GUM AXD MULLEIN. Tbe iem Otne from a tree f ttot eeme name I n n n nn -seam "It Knocks the Spots." and everything in the nature of eruptions, blotches, pimples, ulcers, scrofulous humors, and incipient consumption, which is noth ing more nor less ian scrofula of the lungs, completely Out of the system. It stimulates and invigorates tie liver, tonesup the stom ach, regulates the bowels, purifies the llood, and builds up the weak places of the body. It is a purely Vegetable compound, and will do more than is claimed for it. We refer to AT. ftoree's " Golden. Medical Diteovery." Silescb may be golden, but a dentist has never yet been able to fill teeth with it N. T. Journal. . ' : An Avaricious Man. Why is an avaricious man like one with A tnnrt mflmnrvi fit, in siwav o iui-kcvu.uk. 18 tpe wise parema ior-e,wr " W i Mullein, the croup preventive, andcougji and consumption cure. Ask your druggist. . . . ' . liil n. A n.i.mT ,tr has Deen ionwun introduced into Japani Arkansas Traveitr. Splendid Chanoes for Investment In Northeast Nebraska. For illustrated pamphlet describing the country and its aavantages ior """'SKiK?',"? x. to reach there, address T. W. Teasdale, Gen. Pass, Agent. 86. Paul, Uinn. nr hanbail with stiver." as ths looking glass said. Stockton Maverick. Pi He's Toothache Drops cure IB 1 minute, 85o Glenn's SuJp?iur.Soapals and beautifies. 250. GebMAS Cobk Remover kills Corns a Bunions. A soft Job Shaving a voting for ths first time. Fall River Advance. I a a 5H 74 free from Opiate, Emetbt) and foitOrt. SAFE. SURE. PROMPT. THK CHARLES A. TOttKtZH CO BALTiaUKB, nn. T JACOBS PiisarrTHtir5t EiiV snjaa s ri as papirT ULIllt.UN I.E., C f"a e" Cures RheoirtmJIswalgis, VI Mill AT BRl'OOISTS ASO DKALSBS. nUCUASLKS A. TOUIAa CO. BALT1MOKX, Mil. ELY'S rA-AnnU nnnu nil n "Aa iwnn bnCARI DALRI whe applied into the ; OMtiila, Will be absorb i ed, eCectamlly clean Ing the head of catarrh al vlnia, caoaina; heal thy secret. ona. It 1 lavt inflammation, pro rHAVFF HAYFEVER tects the membrane of tne nasal passasea Trom additional colds, com pletely heals the sores and restores sense af taste and smell. MOTaUQUIBor SRUTT. few applications re- liere. A thorough treat ment tcitf cure. HAY-FEVER A particle Is applied into each nostril; Is agreeable to se. Price 50 cents br mail or at Druinrists. benaior circular. ELY BROTHERS, DrngKlsis, Owego, S. I. BEST ORGANS m mm OS tne SABT rAIMENT FLAK, m Mason &hamliN Tfow ten their unrivaled Organs on the asy hip avaiem. payments at the rate ot SS.fe5 per Ma-atlt, an. ItH) atvlAL 12 fd Mill Kai.i1 1.tr C.mtMlmrum wil Xnl! particular, mailed free. Also tha Moion atr Hamlin Tmr-frvsei Vm right Plamo. new method of stringing. MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO., BOSTON. NEW YORK, CHICAGO. eyii the finest ftrni.it nwat dnvehle. m the world, warren tod to auod in any Climate, ass your nearest dealer for them. Illustrated catalogues malted tree by the manufacturers. LYON A. H EALV.162 State ST. chicaoo, IU. nhl u'.wn iT(v-!k,,m.. I oLhir fail. A trtaleonvineealkMmotitksvtieiU. Price 60cnrjd ill ah.oj. urogviE'B or d v mail. Bsmpie t r.t I for Samp. iSaTB. 6CHTFFMAN. Rt. Paul. 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Bent W" n n?" nf" by the Culon Pub a nni ana ewark,N.J, Bend .tarn pa tor poet's. mnmmmmmmmnmmmmmmmmnmmmmmmmnmnmmmwnmmimmmmnmmfmmnmMmwmwmmnnmMmmnwmm . TA0f7 MARK. . on VMM crunXsSamaireTeraiilglve Mi.'(fnni .ivnrKtmMi).lniimn(infanV i r II h I f"'r! VnZli tSSEBSIS&g&tS:. or ivapiu . PI '-THE 5 nreTTr"E a iMt Cores 6 yspeswia Id i Ha forma. Hlirttan, e,i"e'A?iM iS. Lotea the . and alda Q ambulation of too. Mr Wm. 1. n-MTEn. 1114 uwwrniii v. i villi, Kv . aa,a anr-l raua Waa lint MM j: - i van ttoodk Trrm Kit,. t, cmtmI mT W- Sb.wb ali i nf Areola, lnd sara: " I waa o anrety fcWiotyl wlU tnditrastinn lllxt I oonld ant nothlnit wttlwa diataanv . Brown's Iron Bitten ha onmplatal emadSkv" 0mrliTahaa abora Trade at arfc and iniawidr law - on wrapper. Take no atb. Madoonlroy. BROWN CHEMICAL. CO. BALTIMOBK, MB. HI. EI1QET, J3. G GO. MANUFACTURERS OF V 'EEPllCSFO. guaranteed - IREZW ND't'rn.F. PUT ON BY ANYBODY! W. . BURCESS, Aftt., ' 8 and 9 PtiMio Uadinfl, - CINCINNATI, a STAQPfflQ OHQI E3 Banc fally awanj at a raMfitanai eta nattw a' Uu la Vana. re aava aiwaa Cewaa vleto Owtstanniiinn roiTomaes aw Pattern en Van tbonaaeictt HirwaaTtaiih Maeaae.f Sena, Fartil in. aen, tan deLSwewkerrin, Oeilhai eC aeaekFaUenajCrTriat Ext- iffi!teJS aarWkialVihM I n4fa-nan I Fatcnt iWBralbie .ronies ana nunamfiM ELtr. uJSSSi flittex aSliiUiMMl. ! tot .W 4 anient, feibfaaa Embroidery. Chtailia m 5orrrt Colon 'Wi ths ettflgfteH mw Demjtlem wt Md tn mbtvitit ffi hem SftftU&f a Ctssplct Ottftt Ifast mmm W hi it VrUL. f oV llX iHTKoO- f . totrejd-. FAJU4 AxTT unrTaCuriT.n eke. im 111 nes t It1ii-lifl Mgnwisi irrrtTTl 1r tlw lottrwts of I b eoantry borne) aad hawhftU, w will eme lee oeualry aaa aad aia.iel4, wa wui . emle,ie a veMeele, to e.j arfr w fOT e-.btpUlot.Menee, tlnfU v-t l-, i, .A wuthM MaJakw. Via tftMMOntfi.S Mooer chenfnl r sow lented 1b 0Br.li ( tfa N. Y N. H. eauaiaoarJana fcrfca: n,eelie farttke lie N. T N. H. A H. K. aad lhea.ieniw.al aara-lliiala Dffloa Id cor frctorr, wa are aew ptepand SU an M ihftatAfftan) In nr furim-v. 1 eromptir a. tail tutlte satkfectlea ef ear aeDMnaere. eeeraa, form and Household. H&rtfoia. Peso. CLUES Used by the twtmenofaottrrers ana mecuann-B m - Fullman Fal tee Car Co. . Maaon A Hamlin Orxad Fiano Co., Ac., or oJIHnis . At the New Orleans Exposi tion, Joint Tiade with it en dured a testing strain or over 1600 Pounds TO A B(CAB INCH. TWO QQLD MEDALS. ZtmtUm. 1B83. Ifete Orltwu, 1883. trvrenriMlArrinlinntkM1.U BUS&1A CEMENT CO, fltemeetttr. CONTAGIOUS I t aa snatlre of Enstand, and while I was la that Bonn try I contracted a terrible blood poison, and far two years wi under treatment as aa out-door palliiul at Nottingham Eoenltal. England, but waa not corea I suffered the most agonizing pelns in my Donee, eaa wsscorered with sores all orer my boar And Umbe, Finally 1 completely lost all hope is tkat eomrtry. sad sailed tor America, and waa treated at Booaerea la this city, aa a-ell as by s prominent physician In Sew Tork haying noconnectlon with the hospitals. " I saw the idvertleement of Swift's Bpeeiflo, aad I determined 10 give It A trial. I took elk bottles and I can say wltb great Joy that they have tared at en tlrejy. I am aa wand'-.d jgr?. Mew York City, Jobs iXVtss. - Treatise on Blood and Skin Wseaees mailed fasa. Tn BwTT-r Braomo Co, PrsweV t, atlsirsa. 6 N. Y. 107 W. 23d Street. - Bu)h wltaaat irrltJ price Dill are NEW. FREE. Fralta. aiii tisna. Let THrSTORRS PAUlSEiSVaXXK, LAKE COV, OHIO. LAUDS Wisconsin ooo,t DO ACRES or onoioa innniiw Xianna ior asai le on XAHT TSKMS to .CTOAL tlETTI.KKa. E. TS.A O aXTTN AVR7 tn ucementa offerad. MO DROUGHTS n.- CY ucements oiFered. CLONES i fitU Paxticu- awa s nan aa as spa. KILWADEH, Wla. er w. v. m n- w ARTISTS' MmmALS.ko. Mil srl'ls I coiora. kepuase Wort Waa Flower Snpollea. Send for onr Tartoys caiuitogaea. Mali orderaioll. IteU. HUFFSCAVKBi aSstOM.. A.N.K.-E. 10T p Jjr- ' P. PSl m i mm imma m m . EBsnss sa liUl 11 111 IJ iSI 11 Mat in w,ta.uj IDT I jJJMJJl f I IJIXaHUjMAA-' ' ' ' aBnaMBnTaSBnTnV riics. W i3 NjniM InsNforowr Catalsow. Ornr rinlBKTITlON. and BeSwAT PUKdCrJiI, RFI.IAI.Mt. CnAinmmet laValaaMe tn aJl. ai7l MH amaraa. lawlndlnsT PlnnU. tprtro ItM. wWa-JAW Vllnetrn. u hear f rant yaw. BwiHli lly. & HARRIs 88Vi and MARCH, APRIL, MAY Are the three srrhes of a nrtdee which bind the season of Ice to that of rose. irarSS le) A. TRTIXO TIME for Invalids. At tills time you should seek to eleansa and purify your ayatein from humors. If you are vexed wish tndlneetle-n, keauLaehe. want of appetite. (Unordered liver and kMncyn conmlpatlon, or teveaUh skin, take it. AtixixvUir'a fatomtk kMeiix to . PURIFY THE BLOOD without an hour's delav. It Is mild, antdt sad nextrat In action. Keen It In the noosa Kartltoia!SBSS . when you are st home, for the blood, and take It with yon on Journeys. Too will find It s -Ji.thm- thn irle,ta anA ma nlMMtnl UltntA a ttw. sand of a frUtntL. To women wha suffer from any of the Ills peculiar to the sex. nbiinbH w TWT AT1B BV DR. ZXaWXTJ FAVORITE HEM EOT proveaa real blessing. i t 3 -ST, B.OPTDOTJT, XT. TtT. first my I It by LIVE STOCK CUTS. We "will ftumlaH dapllcats of Xaixvaa jstoo: OXJI'S oraaT other Cut Bhown in any Spec imen Book, at or below Quoted prloes for same. Eleetntypera and J g sv. Stereotypeis, aaai ."jfii 177 & 179 ElmlSlreet. ttfl t'I.ClJiXATI. GEN. LOGAN'S oo!(. A BONANZA For good Agents. Wrlie AX OSCX for territory. A. It. HART&CO Pi... lnh.-ra. Iti Murrny Street, Niw Y ork (Jit if. CANCER Treated and cured without the knife. Book on treatmentsent free. Address F.L-roND.M.D, Aurora, Kane Co.,111. o-j-jJ FINE Blooded Cattle, Bheop, Hogs. xSySk. pod Urv. dotrs lorf-nio Cfttoloiraon with IfSO eu:i ttviiufi free X. r. Iwyer A Co- Cweiesvtlle, Pa HAIR Wlem, Btifs and Waves sent O. O. TO. any. wnerc. noic. "-muiin-i ,v' U. ( Slral Cil?( n tbHB-sveidea(ai eaosTAne SuMval of the Fittest A FAMJ1T HEDIcnn TB4T Ul HULED MaUOHS DCBIHS SS TUBS! JtAXM FOB EVERT WOTJSTl OF 1U1I Ain BAViT I The Oldest & Best Liniment EVEB MA TIE In AJtBSICA. SALES LARGER THAN EVEB. The Mexican Mustang IJniment baa been knows for more than thirty-live years as the best of all Llnlmenta. for Man find Beam. Its sales today nrr . - - ibvum wnen ai others fail, and penetrates skin, tendon and muscle, to Uie Tery bone. Solo .vcrywuius,