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THY VOICK tm A VOKmiST. I dwell amid the city, And hear the flow of poul* in aot and speech, For pomp or rade, for merry make or folly, 1 hear the confluence and sum of each, And that is inalor.eholv! Thy voice is a complaint, O crowned t-fty 1 The blue sky covering thee like Ood's great pltv. —-Vra. jl. g**Mroiminj: "SomTt Trmeiliatf." TODDLES. I felt like a lady that morning. I wan ji lady, I thought after all quite as much so as Mr*. .Tones, who lived in tho great upola house on the hill. Quite as mnrh of a lady, I said to myself, briskly, as 1 »fusted up my little shop, and arranged the sheeny ribbons and striped goods in the window. The window was hung with pretty lace curtains, and there was a globe of gold tish in it that sailed alout %a courteously and busilv as though they were getting their living as head clerks. It was a sweet soft autumn morning, the village street was grassy and quiet and I hummed a tune as glanced cheer ily out at little Toddles, tiitting about in her scarlet ribbons under the old willow outside. Bless her little rosy face! why MjouLdn't I be happy when I have her to ook after? I was happy, and I hummed again that snatch of a tune, and uodded «yiy Toddles, wondering vaguely to myself /hat was going to happen that I felt so Uncannily bright. Nothing sTtiuplv nothing things were done happening to uie long since. My way was straight and narrow, my dava quiet and unevent ful. As I sipped my coffee that morning I remembered that I held the cup up to the light, and 1 felt a certain sense of satisfaction in the traqtslucence of the rare bit of china, it is so pleasant to know that one's own election may keep one aloof from the ugliness and squalor ot poverty. It doesn't take much to keep one per son, ot course, and I dan't count Toddles for anything. It needs but the odds and ends of things—a bowl of bread and milk, a cup ot cotfee, with now and then a lively bit of ribbon—to keep the little one going famously. Yes, I always wanted to be a lady And as I sat in mv bright little room I half felt inclined to forgite Richard Gray for the heart break he gave me long »eo. And, oh God! it ions a heart-break. But if he had married me, perhaps he would have shut me up in some gloomy city house, to lie a lady after his fashion, to stifle for want of a bit of fresh air, to waik softly under a thousand petty con ventionalities, and to cc&se being mv own mistress. Ah that I never could endure. 8o it is, perhaps, as well that Ilichard left me and wen*, oft somewhere—God knows where. You see, I like it—my little shop. There's something so delightful in seeing the pretty girls ot the viilate, with now aud then a line lady, hanging over my dainty wares and trying the tints of scar let and blue and orange with many a laugh and manj a glance in the mirror. I call it my reception when they pour in of a holiday afternoon. I love colors I love grace and beauty «ud perhaps I might have been a bit of an artist, in my way, it' I'd ever had au opportunity. Richard used to say so. But ah! he said many a flattering thing and many a false thing in those old days And if I ever dreamed of any higher life than contents me now—well, I've given up dreaming. For there's Toddles. so rornd and sweet and soft and real. She leaves me little time for building air castles. You see, I lov the child as if she were my own. For she came to me one day about fours years ago a wee little baby tning, curled up in a heap on my door step when I went to open the shutters. Wherever she came from I never knew. I'.ddie9 never explaine 1: she just stretch ed up her little fat arms to me and gurg led Tod-od doddle," and that washer introluction. It was surmised tint the child had I*•• n dropped ov some traveling circus ts«ing through the town, and I had ex cellent neighborly advice alout putting tne treasure in the foundling hospital. Kit one seldom takes good advice, and I didn't. To tell the truth, I grew so attached to the child that I should even have leen wicked enough, I fear, to regret amy one's turning up to claim it. But that's not at all likely no more likely now, after so many years—no, not at ^11 likely no more likely than that Richard and should ever gieet again in this world. And that--tltat is among the things that can never happen. It was on this wis&our partifcg: Richard's mother was eld and feeble and misereiy. She'd spent a good deal of money on him—sent him to college, and expected, folks said, to make some thing of him."" She always expected to get her money's worth oat of her tran -actions. Richard held her in a sort of awe somehow, though she was a little wizened oid woman that he could have lifted with his left hand. But I liked him for respecting his mother. One day we two were sitting at twl light talking of the future dreamily, as was our wont. "My little oLe," said Richard, putting his arms about mc "it half seemed too bright to ever be.'1 "Ever be!'' I echoed. Qeemed ta:rly to wipe out the little shop. ThL* was rather a different type from my usual custo uers, and I was a little shy of him. He hesitated, and seemed bewildered when I spoke to him—men never do get used to shopping—and it was some tme before I quite made out what he wanted. It was some scit ol woolen goods—a scarf or a kerchief, I think. These were not very salable stock ust now, and had put the box contain ing them out of sight somewhere rummaged about, the stranger stood lu the doorway, watching me in a way I did not like perhap® he wanted to steal oraething. He looked needy enough, and shabny enough. "Ob, here they are at lasV said I, eagerly, banding down the package from high and dusty shelf. The mau did not seem to hear me. He as like a you 4,Oii, other things to attend to.'1 Richard, il yon talk that way it will nc vtr be.'' Richard "iiuled, but his fase grew over cast. I felt that a storm was coming. "Well?" I queried, steing that he sat brooding and silent. '•Darling he «aid. soothingly, "I knew It would come hardly to you: but how can I go against my mother? Her poor old heart is bound up in me, Jeannette. and sbe will never hear to—to anything that"— '•That seems to lower you," I added, in a steely voice that seemod to cut its way out of my heart like a kefen, cold knife. "O, I am a coward—a poltroon!' cried Richsfrd, wringing his hands. "I wa9 born to bring trouble cn those I 1 )ve, Who. who shall lleave to suffer for me now. Jeannette?" "The one who will say least about it," answeied, hardily. My heart was lhr,b bing heavily, like the clock that ticks the hour of execution but I made no outcry and we parted in that final parting si lent'y. And I have lived silently ever since. One year af er that I beard that Rich ard's mother was dead, and then that he had married: who, I knew not—who, cared not. He had married another woman while my last words were yet ringing in his ears—right there, before the face of the living heaven, married another woman, and swore to love and cherish her, as he had often vowed to love and cherish me! But 1 did not seem to feel this bio lhad felt our parting. I just flung him out of my heart there and then, and my love and my silence vanished. I looked into the face of my misery w th a smile, and I took this little shop in the village! and worked early and late, and made it thrive. Then, two years later, came my I to feel as if bundled up in a lot of rage little ToddW to me, sitting like a lily I There wero so many that nights they on my doorstep, as if some angel of I made a heap on the floor two feet in peace had dropped her there. I have heiyht. natued her TNresa, but Toddles has always 1» a hir own pet name for her self, ana 1 like it because it is htra. The child has brougtit me peace. And tetl l« vengtacce again-1 any one now iuou u ivt uvsi otvui iuuetti "'^i iir i 3 looking at Toddles, darting about Lett with vcu," echoed the stranger. Aye, so I have heard. Left with you iy the wretched man, the outcast, the degraded, who knew none else on whoji to thrust his burden when his tinseled wife fell from the tight rope, and died there, groveling in the sawdust—knew The stranger stooped and looked Keen ly at me. *'Verily,said he, with a low, sardonic laugh, "he has reaped his re ward, it seems: lie is both dead and for gotten." lived it yet, alter all. Suddenly I remembereJ Toodks, and hastened to the door to look after her. My customer had disappeared the huge wiilow trunk hid the road from view but felt relieved for there was my little one swinging back and forth with the long pendants of the wil'ow. Only one instant I Then I know not whether I fainted or whether I screamed for hole I u 1 figure TeaCp out from 'mewh ?e iS and the next moment Toddles, half laughing, half crying, was nestling in my arms. The man whom I had sent from my door a few minutes since itood looking on us yearningly—the man who bad snatched my darliog from its fate. But something filled my heart jogtl\[? then, like the rush of a mighty river. llthe mighty looked back at my quiet life, myl bright little shop, the years of silence! and of sorrow. I felt Toodle's warml heart beating against mine. He bad I saved her. And I looked at Richard! Gray, and pnt my hand in hia. Since then I have tried what it is to bel a lady in the far West -a lady in a logl cabin, without China, or caipet, or neck-l ribbon, and Richard says I have succeed-1 ed.—Harper'# Weekly. KowHaletf Prm A correspondent of the New York Graphic. I wish to introduce to your notice a new style of dress invented partly and used by a young lady in New Yo.k. She is anxious that others of her sex should adopt it. Sbe has showed the entire dress, and explained its working and wearing. It cansists of three piece*. I mean three garments a, 1 do think women dn need some sort of dress they can get around in. Mow half a woman's strength is used up in carry ing clothes. I think thia invention should be made known to the world, and I have Nor do I rejoice that Richard's wife is I modestly done the best 1 could in describ •aid to have turned out ill, and spent the|ingit. It is not an easy subject for a wealth she brought him. lut I had forgotten the shop n all this reverie and reuiinifcenoe. There was a sharp twaug of the little bell, aud I ht-ard a heavy step in the dcorwav. I set down my cotfee-cup hastily, and urr«ed io to confront a icnt muscular fellow with a big b°ard and a slouched hat, whose presence young writer to handle. XOTHKH. The light, the spell word of the heait, Onr guiding star in weal or woe, Onr talisman—our earthy chart— That sweetest name that earth can know. We breathed it tirst with lisping tongue When cradled in her arms we lay. Fond memories round that name mo bung That will not, cannot pass away. We breathed it then, wc breathe it still. More dear than sifter, friend or brother The gentle power, the ma»ie thrill, Awakened at the name of mother. Fanny J. Crosby. WIT AND WISDOM. The linen duster is just beginning to While I get the laugh on the army overcoat. Waier that has stood over night in an open vessel should-not be used lor cook ing. N horse car coadicior is too bashful to ask a male passenger to nelp hiru lift the Cir on the track. A man's curiosity uever reaches the female standard until some one tells him b,s nlme i butterfly outside. Counsel to witness—"Rou're a nice sort of fellow, you axel" Witness—"I'd say the same of yon, s'r, only I'm on toy oath." Whotw child is that?" said he, ab uptly. It was an iiupudtnt question, anil I felt my blood flush up hotly for a mo ment But I reflected that this man looked wayworn and weary perhaps he had come a long journey, and left a little not made, child like this at home. "It is mv child." I said pUasantly. "Yours:" he repeated. '•Or at least," said I, "if not mine, it was left with me tj be cared for." ?esterd»'s P»P«- It is a positive fact that the poet who will coolly and deliberately make distress" rhyme with "mistress' is born, it made. This is an imitation of Mr. Norristown Williams: A medical exchange says seal skin caps are so warn1 that they cause the hair of the wearer to fall out. This is probably the reason most editors are baldh^aded. 'Oh, ma, if Jesus is God's 9on, where is God's witft?" asked a sweet little boy. God's wife? I—you—why, Charlvs— God's wife—" That boy wouldn't budge. "Yes, where is God's wife?' "God's none o*her of whom to seek the charity I wife, my son—he—God was a widower.' than the woman who had loved him I listened as one stupefied with opium What did this man know or guess con cerning me and mine? What object had be in view in lingering about the shop? But I said coolly, "That is a story that land in taunting the poor creatures as they needs to be proved." That satisfied him. A philosopher says that women do not like to remember. He is wrong. They ake exquisite delight in remembering where their husbands leave their slippers go rooting under the bed after the truant l'eet-coverings.—Rockland Cour it A handsome and witty Parisian lady, at her last reception, observed a journalist taking notes ot her bou mots, "Be care ful," she said, "those tilings are not to be I began to feel afraid ot this man, who I written down. Words are like birds seemed oent upon insulting or alarming I which pass while singing. If you try to me. I catch them they never come back again I^J'jou wm take awa, 1^4 The other da, a vrovtocM import* ,,kra"?'? worn over th« other a?.?*?8 u -Ctt rew. ,lle ..... .i i u ifor selling charms, such as the ace of For a moment after the great hulkiDg I i i .• I clubs, to be worn in the heel ot a boot. figure disappeared through the doorway I .T, comDlains of this sen of my little shop I covered my face with It »v. n m, hands, and all the mat of my life rushed eutirel, oyer me, I had not out- enSe' beTt ,ln Pam wh" bls not A Pr,T saw "I I condemned to two years imprisonment h" fo,lcl"'- First friend lover a glass of beer)— |"Weel, John, tae tell the truth, my father lwiz a cosmopolitan, but am a misan Ithrope." Second ditto—"You're no' like line, man. My father wiz a collier, and am la collier too, although it's no' the best o' profession the neo." saw her in the sunlight—one instant, lis to write editorials, grind out poetry, Then came a rushing, tearing and tramp- Isoit manuscripts, keep a mighty big ing, a terrible sound in the air and a I waste basket, ste»l matter, fight other great bull, tossing his horns furiously, Ipeople's battles, take white beans and and with eves glaring madly before him, lapple sass for pay when he can get it, came snorting and bellowing up the Iwork nineteen houre out of twenty-four, street. The great willow was in his land be damned by everybodv.—Billings course, and, oh God 1 my little Tood'.esll i i What is an editor? An editor's bizness 1 a P011' add"*3111? a soldier—Are you con I Colonel. The Colonel—How do they the very pathwav ot the mad animal,I .. ,, .. ,, I—i. i ji T-,11 divide the rations? Does it not often hap pen that some of jwuget a large portion. ar^d others 8 small one? The soldier— Ifyo, Colonel all the portions are small. When, just ten rears ago, Ilector Ber lioz came back from St. Petersburg suf- terrible| fering severely from his disease, he went to Jielaton. "Both dead and forgotten," be said.l The great physician examined him, Oh Jeamette! Jeannette I do you not I asked, "Are you anything of aphil know j?" I osopher?" The rainbow ribbons ia the liitle shop I "Yes," said the patient. window spun dizzily round, and all I "Then you'd better get all the conso things grew dim before my eyes. For l| lation out of your philosophy that you knew that Richard Gray was come back I can—for you will never recover." to me. Poor and degraded and deserted,I If there is ever a time in the life of the perhaps, he had come back to me. I washerwoman when her heart is made to He lifted his hat, snd, stooping, kissedl beat with joy, it is when she finds a dia the little one, who did not resist him. I mond stud in the unwashed shirt of the "I brought you my motherless littlel young man who owes her a year's wash one years agone. A beggar and a sinner! bill. Then she laughs to herself and though I was, I dared to pray your char-1 gays: "He'll pay that bill before he gets ity tc my child, whom its mother flying! that back, as sure as my name is Matilda from her home would have left to perish! Jane.—Rome Sentinel* And the young among the gewgaws and clowns in whose|| man laughs and says to himself company she died. Yea, verily, my pun ishment has been bitter. And shall I leave you now, Jeannette, you and my child, and depart forever, hateful in your eyes for all years to come—hateful when not forgotten?" .. 'There's a $10 wash-bill paid with a 25 I cent diamond." A refractory Irishman in jail named Dennis McGinnis, refused to work. The keeper said to him: "McGinnis, you go the P"mP-" "Niver," replied Ir,'shn^- A 8econd time the keep er ordered McGinnis to work, but he re fused to budge an inch. "Now for the last time, McGinnis," exclaimed the keeper, "jou go to wo' k or to the pump Niver, sir," said McGinnis, straighten ing up to the lull dignity of a man. "Be 8,r' e first." A young lady was sitting with a gal lant captain in a charmingly decorated recess. On her knees was a diminutive niece, placed there jxrnr lea convermnce# In the adjoining room, with the door open,were the rest of the company. Says the liitle niece in a jealous and very au dible voice, "Auntie, kiss me too leave you to imagine what had just hap pened. "Ycu should say twice, Ethel dear two is not grammar was the im diate rejoinder. Clever giri, that. The storms which have lately raged in Germany demonstra'e in an unmistakable manner the superiority of She dresses in three pieces. mean that I subterranean to overhead telegraphs. Dur she has on three pieces when she is fully PnS heavy storms of 1870 telegraph dressed. The first or inside piere i"«I ic communication was frequently inter made of linen. It goes on something! rapted, sometimes for long period/", and like a man's trousers and jacket made in I immense inconveniece was thereby oc casioned. This winter, however, says 2 he Cologne Gazette, long reports of the debates in the Reichs'ag have been sent by the subterranean telegraph from Ber lin to Cologne, and, in spite of snow and storm, not the slightest interruption has the' way down inIeTer taken place In th service. one piece, only it is not quite so long Th# second consists of an inside sort of thai is to say—a soit of woolen skirt whick reaches up to the shoulders. The third, last and outside is a Bort of dress ing gown which looks very much lilt? a dreaa, and button* all front. I A ton ot Maine who went West in early these in I youth and had attained wealth and an one-third the time required by the old I honorable position, returned last sum style. Then she showed how many sepa-1 mer to visit his old home. At the village rate pieces she used to wear before she I store he saw an old man whom be had reformed in dress. She said she used I known in his younger days. He accosted h'm, but was not recognized. So you don't remember mc," he said "I am John ." "You are?'' exclaimed the old man, "You don't rotas* tj tell me 'hat you are John It- "I certainly am," said the visitor, shaking him by tho hand, and I'm very glad to ate jou again.Well." persisted the old man, I never did. To think this is you. Tuey tell me you've grown awlul rich, John." John admitted that he had "saved some thing." "And they say you're the Prea ident of a railroad and gut a big salary." Again John bad to admit that rumor spoke the truth. "I'm glad on it, John) ~'m glad on it, my i»oy' It beats all what circumstances and cheek will do for man." Origin ot Kissing. The correspondent of an Indiana news paper gives the following account of the origin of the oseulatory process: Same Trojans with their wives escaped by sea Irom Troy when it was taken and backed. The wives being horribly sea sick, when they landed with their husbands, in order that the latter rci^ht, by bunting, provide provisions for the lemainder of their ourney, to avoid again going to sea and at the instigation of a lady named Roma, burned the ships. The husbands on their rtturn being fiercely anerv, to stay the torrent cf abuse heaped upon them, their wives pressed their lips to theirs, and clung about them. These lip pressings were the first kisses, and the novelty was successfully employed that the husbands left ©if scolding and fell to kiss ing, until they were kissed by their wives into good humor and complete forgive ness." This account may be the true one, although it appears to have escaped the notice of the learned Burton, who makes no mention of it in his "Love Melancholy." Ben Johnson evidently approved of kiss ing, although he may not nave known it* origin, as stated ab^ve. tie says: First give a hundred, Then a thousand, then another Hundred, then unto the other Add a thousand and no more. If kissihg was Jnvented by the Trojans, and not by Adam and Eve, as commonly reported, tt is no wonder that our first parents found the Garden of Eden a slow place, or that Eve galiavanted with the serpent to while away the time. The "Vibrator 1 hrMhle( Machine. For upwards ot forty years Messrc. Nichols, Shepard& Co. of Battle Creek, Mich., have been prominent manufactur ers of farm implements and machinery, steam engines, mill machinery, ctc., dur ing which period their ware3 have be come well known and highly valued thioughout the country. Over twenty years ago, tbey made a foitunate bit by originating the celebrated "Vibrator" Thresher, a machine which has so rap idly gained favor with farmers, that, from the manufacture of only ten the first year, their sales now largely exceed those of any other thresher factory in the world. And this popularity is founded upon merit, for the machine (which is said to be undoubtedly the original and only genuine Vibrator,") probably com prises all possible improvements for threshing snd separating grain in the imost expeditious and perfect manner. As bow offered to the public, the machine tho result ot loujj aud careful experi menting l»y persons of genius and skill, with tte aid of liberal xpeadiiure, and hence it is not surprising that the "Vib rator t-hould far excel all the old-fashioned threshers in every essential requisite. In great value and success of the "Vibrator" which long ago achieved a national reputation—renders it worthy the atlen tion of all grain and seed growers and threshermen. whether located in the East or Wejt. North or South. Aft»r many •rials and tribulations—during which its iirm friends fought fierce foes—the sig nal triumph of this machine is a notable instance of the "suivival of tbe fittest," and the result must be as gratifying to the manufacturers as it is beneficial to the farming community. The "Vibrator" is confidently claimed to be "the head and front of the thresher family," and to possess and combine such qualities that it saves all the grain and cleans perfectly, makes no waste or littering, threshes flax, timothy, and all seeds, has no beat ers, picsers or raddles, is fperfect in wet grain simple, light-runniDg, durable, easily kept in order, and always reliable, A machine which does "all this must surely possess Buch intrinsic merit as to challenge competition. The Mounted Horse Powers and Steam Thresher EA gines which Messrs. Nichols, Shf.pard & Co. manufacture at their celebrated Agricultural Works have also acquired a high reputation, and are worthy of com mendation to all interested. Those of our readers detiring specific information in regard to the machines named, should address the manufacturer^ as above, for illustrated pamphlet containing full par ticulars. S'lmuiKteii ih« MlugnrtHli KMtnryi. In addition to its tonic and cathartic prop erties, ITostetter's Stomach Bitters exercise beneficial influence upon the kidneys and bladder, when they are inactive, by stimulat in them to renewed exertloo, thus reopen Ing, as it were, a sluice for the escape of im purities whose regular channel of exit is the organs of urination. Among these are certain abnormal and inflammatory elements, pro ductive of irreparable injury to the system if not entirely expelled. 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The Gosiel of Jov, A book of great beauty, belatr in effect "The Gospel in Book," full of good texts, with the B«st of new hymns and melodies made for them. In press acd nearly ready. Wait lor It. iSScent*.) The Shining River, Pinafore The Musical Record PERKINS, LYONS & Co, SUCCESSORS TO Peabody, Lyons & Co., 96 East 3d Street., St. Paul, Minn. IM. OUTKUS AND DEALElii HOME lurtllinsr htsfo y o' our oun-' ik he *rent in. try make-i this the fast«8t-neiliag k ever published. •tIcbs reduced .'3 per cent, it is the most complete Hl.itor« of the I1. 8. o\t*r pu'ilNtind. bend for e\ir» term* to.aifentH, and e why It snlW po verv funt. \d'rs NATION 4.L, fUliLimilNU CO «'hica*0. 111. A« »STS B'ASTKI) rUH "BACK FROM the MOUTH of HELL" By one who has been there! RISE and FALL of tho MOUSTACHE" Bj the i-urltniton Hawkeye Humorist. 9AMANTHA AS A P. A. VND P. I. By Josi&h Allen's wlte. IN Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars, C'ullt'orn rtluc« and ItrHiidin, Sootch Ale, Dublin & London Porter. H. 11 —Particular at *ntioQ paid to o dsn br maU. for Family and Medicinal purpeet»s. NEW Kingsbury & Draper, HARDWARE I BUlLDEKd HARDWARE, HOUSE. MECHANICS TOOLS, And House Furnishing Goods. Bulltk'r9 aad Mechanics will find U to thalradranfc age, as regards quality and price, to correspond with before ordoriiw. 83 tt. »1 St., St. Paul, Jliiiu I tUMMOIVil iUfjUlli/UuU) U'holroale FRUITS A 1'ltODl'CE, 14 Jack.sou St., 8t. Paul. JAGGAR We shall be pleased to receive your orders for ApytPM. 1 Uraufcm, Lswonii, Clarillrd ClUer, Onions, Dried Afpln, Clover and Timothy Seed, Seed Oats. Any thing la the Produce lion la lta season. you send us some Bat tor, Krn.OrslB. Potaioe* and ntber Produce IM IRli A i\ ItS BIG KENNY A MILLER, Dnvdss, mnn^nta. CURED FREE! ie »::d unexcelled remedy for Kits 1 rlpiiepny or Falling Stick 2 w a a n e o e e ^.et-dy and PKKS.ASB S -A frfe Bottle" of my re 9 r.iwnwl specific and valuable Treat li- seut to any sutferar senulng bis Po8t-oific» and express addrrss. OB, u. e. KilOT, 183 Pearl St.. X«w York QME rnrnrn! & OPIUM S A N 1 A K SCALES OF ALL KINDS! Fairbanks Horse A Co., t, Enst Third S*mef. Ht, Psnl, Minn. CORN JEf-LETT & CO., Wholesale Dealers in AN COB*,OATS,(lliOUND FEED4SKAN. MILL STUFFS, 40. Our iots & Specialty. 120 East Third Street. 8T. FAUL. MINN. OATS. REiministers, DK (, tiaTe you Dt-ea h-imbugge I by retl ed uar ahle doctors itnd irs» pre ription-, to careull pilvate i:enses? If go. i would tkeiohave you trv Dr E. B. Ha liday's remedies. If on w, i :1 on or address ma, I will take your caa \nd warrant a ours. Iconoicara wba' yon havo pot In t-e bnpe of a private (ttgoaae. 1 will cure you or refund the mor^y. v iw. 7,000 ACUE8 cbo:ce Farm Lancia, early selections convenient to railroad ata tlanh, primo wheat lands or natura mearli v s yon may prvfer, in tracts of 160 to WJ acres in Kundiyo&i. hiyp«wa, Pope and Stevens counties for sain by LEONARD B. IIODGES, St Paul. Mine. BOISDS WANTED We will purchase School, County and Town Bonds ot Minnesota, Dako a, Iowa aud Nebraska. Bend us full de criplion nnd price. IVINGSTOS' WFTF.ELER. St. Paul, Mion. GANGERS BOSTON permanent y cured A PRACTl^Ai. XKKAI16E ON NESVOUS DEBILITY, In Youn^, Mi(l(lie-Aged and Old Men. Wiat it ie what causes It, and what its symptoms are. Explaining many vague, singular,dieaeiecable and often alarming rms futferlng arising from Nervous ExJtaustioti which render so many es mis erable, and which have never before been sati facto rily accounted for. tiiving fill! I'refcripUoni una di rections how to obt:\in a Radical nre tv an en tirely Ncio Method of S*lf Trmtm- lit, thorotvcnlj' test e.l In an experietice "t twenty yar*. a,id ba-?ed fn phyisioloey, science and common eestse, at small ex pense an 1 without hindrance from bn^.tiess. vluf !rated fey Anat&mieal Plaits. Sent in piain wrapper to any address on rece pt. of 25 cents in currency or •temp*. Ho Fe« Atldr« Iil. T. WailASS, 435 East Writer St., Milwaukee. Wis. NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO. Battle Creole, Mich. ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE VIBRATOR" THRESHING MACHINERY. f|VHE Matchless Grain-SaTinsr. Time-Scrtaf, A and Money-Savin? Threshers of this day and (enen tlon. Bornnd all rivilrr for Rapid Wort, Pcrfcot ClMoioc, and for Saving Grain from TTastage. STEAM reason is sim rower Threshers a Specialty. Special sizes of Separators inaile expressly for Stewn Fow^r. OUR I'nrivaled Steam Thresher Engines, h.Mh Portable aud Tramion. with V»lu«Me ImproTS mcrii^, f:\r b'-yoaA any cthor lunke or Kind. THE F.XTIRK Tlireshine Expenses (an* ofle* three to tivo timoa that amount) can be mad* by tfc# Bxtr^ Grain ^ATI'.D by these Improved Machines. #*R AIX Rnlwrs ttIII not submit to the enOP wnnngoof (imln and the inferior work do&t by all other raacbines, when once p-«ted on tho difference. NOT Only Vastly Superior for Wheat, Oats Unrh'T, Rye, anil like Crxlm, but tb« OKLT Sqcc»»« ful Thrvslior In Klai, Timothy, Millet, Clorer. *nd Ilk* Seoil-i. Require no "attachments" or "rtbuMlng" to ohdii^e from Grain to Peedf. IN44 Thorough Workmanship. Elegant Flntah, of Parts. Completeness of Kquipment, etc., %ar VnuuTOR" Thrceber Outfit.-* Incora^rabte. m\:RVELOUS is one of th* best, pur est and SWMlMtof Hun AcNk) Kxamine it. ay School 8mc Booka, (tt Gsms of English Song, t, one of Hooks of noble llOMR MuSJOitL l.lUHAliY, whiol sh contains mi s i all ihe sood flioet inuiic ever published. Ftill of iti besteoncs. SMptc**. W.50boards 8.00sloth. (i ooal copy complete 75 cents for lustra- •lent il arrangement. TH It MOKCKUK, also Hmpintt». is (Miuaily good at dame price. Weekly Musical l'aper,($2.00 per year)6 cent* for llnglo opy, containing SO cents worth of musto. OLIVER DITSON & CO.,* Boston. O. H. Ultsoa A G*., 9, X. Dttsom A (Jo. B43 D'dway, New York. [Chestnut St.PhlU Slots $1000 for Simplicity of Tarts, usiiup th^n onr-half the usual HeU? and Gaar«. Mak«« C»v»:» V it with no l,ittcrin?» or Sc^att^rinp*. FiUlI^ix Sizes of Separators Made, Ranging from U' T«»r»ve-i loroe auu two of iiounV •il IIor?«» Voters to match. POK rarticulars. Call on our Dealers or write to ua (or Illustrated Circular, which ws mail frss. For Konnty of Polish, Savin* I.nbor, Cleaullness Durability and Obeantiess. rnedualt d. etura, Caaton, Haas. An Address ilA.M! k if I don't do ail 1 say I wi l, show me up in this psper, ar I will pay for the advert sfme-t Call on or address 8. BLa.OKFOBD, 146 W. Third street, 8t Paul, Minn. dj a new method. »'i0 cav«s 'reated .. ithout a failure, t'oneh pondencesolicited. Ad's J. A.Steele,M.D.,Mince spoils. Prtc* I'lolhlne store, Minneapolis The 1 rsest Clothiers. Tailors. Furnishers and Hatters in the Stat*. t/r'i? 4 y°o w^nt any good O iaxAxl VT f\» Fanning land, write to orlnouirwof LKONARl'B. HODGfrS, St. Paul. Minn. A T5rPTQrTl'C! MATERIALS, iiHIiOl O etc. a.H ABBOTTAC"..Chicago.Shades,Ooods.Wax PURE ^iNMESOTA Grown K..c»a». Southern twim seed gives a larger lield. im ia iliaii Tor terms, etc.. address IhHIM IMPERIAL PIANOS! Tluifaui Kareala 1 tb« Kve-y I Ua U arraatrd far Vivs Vnn 1 Ten Dollars per Month Will ol« of ibe^e fine inst'amenti, with all nude ii improveiii.sflt'i acd 8t ool acd !orer iiitlud PRICEonly$275,orforCash $260 CATALOGUES FREE! DYER & HOWARD, Kaat Third Htreei, i Paul. .Uinst. (ft'T a month and inen»e* ncaranteed to QJ I i Outfit f,-oe. :-. iwv Co. Ai CQQHHA YEAR. How ouhta, Main* to Make It. few tDOOUUMt. COB U. iMta, 1U Ykab snd expenses to agents. Outfit 9m Add res i P.O.VIUKERV. (re*. Auausta. Maioe. OWERFUI, TELEPHONE MA*.NETS, 25 cent*, i'lapfaragms.KJc. T£l..MAO.Co..Merchac vUle.S.J. PAY.—With btencll oatnu, What oosls ots. sells rapidly for 50 eta. Catalogue true. M. Hpkkofk 112 Wasb'n St. "Boston. Masa. ODA FOUNTAINS-MS. »«. «.-i «w. rt-auT for use, For catalogue, &c., rhapmaa A Co., Midisoo, !nd3*18 VXMO^i {r O ftA i'iuN AliKN l"^ »V A .S KlJ n 1 flllbcstselUu articles in the World one bam S'* Ole frroi. A 1r'«.T«» Bronson.Ietrolt, Mlot oi.lif. Ull 1 HI, iUI.UMI null I'r. Health ^lonttily.oDe year (MK cbrayHill Pub.(,o i«9 K. Ht "ew York HatUl and bkin Diseases. Thousand cared. Lowest prloea. Do not fall to write. V:. F. £. Maish, Qalncy, Mich. nvestea 1a Wail h' Stocks make rf3»«« «*ery month. Book seal aini? e verythiEK. n^kers. 17 Wall St.. N. Y. I^earc TtlBRraohy and earn $40 to YOUNG !¥iEN month. Hv*rf iriartint^di a ation Acidre^ K Valeni-ut Jar.grille,W SurerefleriornijM. KIDDER'S PASTlllES^^rS ILSiartestowa MoM. \V AlKl/ i i k A S n a JLU.'/'M 1 r-outheru and Wewern Statea for the Grandei! Triumph o. tLe Aje. $1U« per Month ana Eipecs^F. $3 Outfit free. AG's Bureau,I onl Tille, K* K K A K K V I K o a K NEY 1 1SEASE8. A sare remedy failare us. known. Send for circular. Noyeo Bros, i itier, lit, Pau1 Lori, Htoutberit Co ,Chicago: A. rtnsith. Lon don W. Ma-jdox, Hlpley,Ohio il.Carv, Dee Moines Stearns.Detroit. The most popular medicine of the day 0 By B. M. WOOLLET.Atlanta, via. Reli able f-v dence Kirea, and retereaoe to cared patients and Pbjslcians. PIUM Send for my book on T. e Habit andila Habit Cure. xiionth and e Tvui p.iy a fcalary of |luu or hlloff a lar.'e cernmiosiou. to iW seil our new ... .. .. :nnt x*?v, Saro* pie free. Address CO.. Marshall, MicU TRUTH IS MIGHTY! Profawr Haniftaa. tea fr«u "y vnolcest in the world—Importers' torn I R\ —Largest company in America— btapie I L"Vi article—pleases everybody—Trade oon tinunlly increasing—Agents wsnted evfrywhere—best nduc -don't waste time—-aJ ri.'i:oolar. K »'ELLS. 1H Vesev N. V. P. O. i»o* tsn. MCttEirS WGOD-liVER Oil la xwrf. -tly pure., cat medical an'.honxse.-' ent by the h":p:i Given nights award at 1 'Z World's Expositions, and at i ar:3,18/4 Sold by Drusnasta. \V.IL.achieff« !in & C'QMS.V MI HAMLlfi UBlSEllKliANS Demonstrated best by HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL WORED'8 EXPOSITIONS FuR TWELVE YEARS rlz: at I'abis, 1867 VIMFSX. 1?7S: Santiago,I?75 PAIJJ adklphia, 1H76, Pakis, 1!78. and Grand Swkedibh GOLI' Mkdal, 187e'. Only American Orgnnsever awarC edsnch. Sold for cash or installments IU-CTTKatrdi OATALOGTTES and Circulars with new i-tyles and prle«» ent free. MASON A HAMLIN CO., BOSTON NEW SOliK orCHKlAGO TEAS! A llK A U ALLTHI. Time. The rory be*1 "roods di rect ft lie importers at half tb5 usual cw Best plan ever offered to Club genta and large burera aT.T. EXPRESS CHAKOESPAU). Sew tar!£3 FuKV The Great American Tea Coipany SI and S3 Vesej Street. Xfw York. O. Box 4335. THE NEW YORK SUN. DAI 3.V". 4 y^Kes, SSeta. a Tc:n:i 90.S0 j"o-vr Spagee, #1.30are»r. WKH4LT ppages, SSlayear. TOK ?V Si has thp i irgest circulation and cheapest and most lnutrestlnc paper la PTsti*» I la ui« Oaliod TBI WKKKLTSCXTIMMATRSURTKL POS ola's family paper. I. W. ENGLAND. Pnbllabar. H. T. ON». MILITARY and Band rrfomi^ l.v Pfv, 'adder and Uilcsry Coiivni-nm#, right's IJisfasp.Grrarel or (ireneiai liebility, tate HIST*RFWKOY Retecion of Urice.Diabetes, I'ain I I in the Side, Back aid Loins, Ea- I I cetSM"«, and Intemperance are I Irr !bv I I 'N itt'usMY. A U. kl BM diseases of the Kiineys, Bladder, and I nr .i y i.trgans are cured by *T\«* RKHK I»V, Family physician-use ilVXT'S It I'.ti K DY. Send lor namp" let to \S"M. E CLARKE, ProrHence.R. f. WASHER BRO'S CORSETS i-1 stiFfm n.o iiicii. vi »ii-i pau IS EXPOSITION I.FXIIII.E IIIP C'ORSE'T IMPROVED HEALTH CORSET -*.» *1111 111.! ...u.i'i.o i'Utl. wet A WARN EI. 1 Kroad^* 1IW TO CITTHEM ff the tun'. «5.oo«.oo«r aetef r.-R S.I.". l«.r IWt* TT "Kanttfl# I'actfic Horor. attad," .uiar««i K J. tiilmore. Laud om r. WE WANT ata to all ash Buyers Western country tbat i M* shoes la th established a Cash House in Chicago, their especial accommodation, wbere made an inducement toa ICaahParcba BUEL, CcOK & SKIXAS, *11 nnil tin nsdlssn Street. Chirac*. «ar-N" i.l!d Goods. Stock entirely new and •batted for Cash. m, P. #. v |3^*Wben wTitinK to advertlaers least p# oa saw the advertisement in this paper The Richmond Pink Prints- printed on strong cloth. In absolutely fast colors. They will aot fad* by light or waahlas. The only C«|,. aanlal Medal for Pink* was giren to ti aae coods. Afta thirty years' teat they are afaiUifl PINK HADE. If yon want HONBST QOOD8, MM)* Ihla aad BUT THSX. Mk#P