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THE KIDNEYS.

The kidneys are two in number, SIT
uated at the upper part of the ioln,
surrounded by fat, and consisting OF
three parts, viz: the anterior, the IN
terror, and the exterior.
The anterior absorbs the interior consists OF
tissues or veins which serve as deposit Tor the
urine and convey it to the exterior the exterior
is conductor also, terminating IN single tuhe,
and called the ureter; the ureters are connected
with the bladder.
The bladder is composed OF various
coverings or tissues divided into parts, viz the
upper, the lower. the nervous, and the mucous
The upper expels. the lower retains Many have
a desire to urinate without the ability Others u
rinate without the ability to retain. This fire.
quently occurs in children.
To cure these affections we must
bring into action the muscles. which are engaged
in their various functions If they are neglected
Gravel and Dropsy may ensue.
The reader must also be made aware
that. however slight may be the attack. it is sure
to affect his bodily health and mental powers, a;
flesh and blood are supported from these
sources.
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fire 5nsurante.
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Columbia Pa.

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terms-either on the mutual or cash principle
Special rates for the safer class of farm property
This is one of the oldest and best companies i,
country, and bears a reputation for promptnsss
and strict business integrity second to no other
in the State. s. J. ROW Agent
Dec %, 1865. Clearfeld. Pa
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Men, w omen& Children
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. %, 1857.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. %, 1857.
II. I. HELMBoLD, Druggist:
Dear ,Sir i have been suffer-
er, for upwards of twenty years, with
gravel, bladder, and kidney affections,
during which sine [ have used various medicinal
preparations, and been under the treatment of
the most eminent physicians, experiencing but
little relief
Having seen your preparations eX-
tensively advertised, L consulted with my famil ~
physician IN regard to using your Extract Buchu.
| did this because | used all kinds
of advertised remedies, and had found
them worthless and some quite injurious; in fact,
despaired of ever getting we'll, and determn-
ed to remedies unless | knew of the ingre-
dients 1t this that prompted me to use your
remedy As you advertised that it was compos
ed of BuCHU, cUBEBs, and JUMPER BERRIES it oc-
Cured TO me and my physician excellent
combination and, with his advice. after an exam
ination of the article, and consulting again with
the druggist, l concluded TO try it. / commeu-
ced its use about eight months ago, at which time
l was confined to my room. From the first bot
tie was astonished and gratifed at the henefi-
cla effect, and arter using it three weeks was a.
bic TO walk out. felt much like writing you
full statement of my at the time but tn ought
my Improvement mi ght only be temporary and
therefore concluded to defer and see if it would
effect perfect cure, knowing then it would be of
greater value to you end more satisfactory to me
am now able to report that a cure
is effected after using the remedy for
five months.
| have not used any now for three
months, and feel as we'll in all respects
as | ever did.
Your Buchu being devoid of any unpleasant
taste and odor, nice tonic and invigorator of the
system. do not mean TO be without it whe, ever
occasion may require its use in such affections
M. MCCORMICK
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ARFIELD, PA

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The Evansville journal., 1866-08-30
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The Evansville journal., 1866-08-30
Tnn and Brass Castings of Every

zgOIO EhmMAers in Steam Guages, Gum Betting,
brg s.fsRR4 3Ticks,) Wrought Iron Pipes, Bolting
Il Il .Ls6zzkahs &C, at Manufae aeturers' Prices.
The Evansville journal., 1866-08-30
OIL WORKS.
MACHINE OIL WORKS.

i MACHINE OH WORKS.. OF "a
UAvING ERECTED ONE OF THE
- most extensive works of this kind in
the Western country, and secured the SER
vices of one Of the most experienced Ma
chine Oil men, 1 am now able to furnish this
cheap and money-saving Oil, which has
been tried by some of our best engineers
and found fully equal to any ever used. il
Railroads, .Steamboa Foundries, Mills,
Woolen Miils-in fact, all machines, now
runnilngZcan rum be supplied promptly and
Orders Of wholesale dealers flled on hbe-
raj terms. z q
No charge for packing, and delivery free
of charge. 80 d
Coal Oil sold by the barrel; and the high
est prices paid for empty coal Oil barrels.
u iEp9HE ,aXaH iY PHILIP DECKER, = 4
Third street, bet. Sycamore and Vine.
may2 Ut Toi19i ~ t'gd 3 J9A4
The Evansville journal., 1866-08-30

-dTU SIzITLslLl1 h4a ~ AIL1as1AM Ill y
.ssl Tmazd. .H0pair Boilers and Machinery. ~
90 All orders win receive our fndividu-
GHa1Sention, and win be promptly filled on
ms0st reasonable terms. s~.r~
a1nKce and Foundry on the Canal, corner
awN Eug1e Street. oct6-dly
The Evansville journal., 1866-08-30
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The Evansville journal., 1866-08-30

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Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-04-18

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-02

Four miles south Of the strong Greek city
of Sephoris, hidden away among gentle hills,
then covered from the base TO the crown with
VINEYARDS and fig trees, lay natural nest or
basin of rich red aud white earth, star like
In shaue bnt mile In width, and wondronsly
fertile. Along the SCARED and chalky slope
of the highest of these hills spread small
and lovely village, which in = land where ev-
cry stone seemed to have story, isremerka-
Bile as having had no public history, and no
distinguishabe name. No great road led up
to this sunny nook. No traffic came into it,
no legions marched through It. Trade, war,
adventure, pleasure, pomp, passed through
it. flowing from west to east, and from east 70
west, along the Roman road. But the mead
ows we're aglow with wheat and barley. Near
the low ground ran > belt OF gardens fenced
with stones in which myriads Of green hgs,
n IN The p. summer sun. Hixh up he sLayea,
which were lined and planted like TIE Rhine
at Bingen, hing vintages Of purple grapes:
In the plain, among the corr and beneath
the mulberry trees and 6ss, shoas daisies,
popies, tulips, lilies, and anemones, endless
in their profusion, brilliant in thor dyes.
Low down on the hillside spsanR . well d
water, bubbling, plentiful and sweDt; and
above this fountain of life, il : long street,
struggling from the fountain TO the syaAgogue,
rose the homesteads Of many. 6hophefds,
craftsmen, and vinedresssrsL Il uas : lovely
and humble place, Of which no Sslse, no his-
torisn Of Israel has ever yet taken notice.
No Rachel had been met and kissed into le1e
sheaves Of barley in the corn felds; no TOW,
er had bees haili ffof observation on thio
hight; no camp ha1 been pitched for battlj
in The - 1V,aN - - voa1A hornrk1
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TNDAY READING
Graveyard Philosophy.


icy have grave digger at Spring Grove
etery, Cincinnati, who is fast match
be grave digger in Hamlet. Here is an
unit of him:
ne gets some grim views of living Is we'll
dead humanity by visiting a show grave
such as this. There ia simple>mind-
good -hear,ed attache, by the name Of
-, am very fond of talking to. He
given me many lessons, not soon forgot
III little grief and good deal ofpride
makes EN- do it, sir. | don't mean to
cemetery, as well as anywhere. One af-
ted family putsup monument, and then
other afflicted family wants to out do it.
ID they generally does, eff it's done at onct.
it's put off little, they gets more ress.
able
Time cures all Ills"
at vault to stay till lot could be bought
d monument put up, and the grief was
,ep. You'd suppose there was no end TO
at grief, and no bottom either. Well, atthe
I'd of three months the company has had
ouble to get them to take out the party and
We il Christian burial
There are exceptions to that?'
"Ia course, any number of them. / can
row you graves here ten years old, and eve
! summer you'll find fresh flowers strewed
n EN-
"More flowers than monuments
"Can't say that. Real deep feelin' grief
elongs as much to the rich as the poor.
find il so. But dyin, is as mater
! as Twin, and in course people gets over it.
therefore, il is that monuments come up with
be first burst. Them graves that have flow
RS over EN- for more than year amt heal
by graves"
"W hat do you mean by that?'
~ mean that the mourners amt in their
lateral health or they d find their feelings di-
ected TO the care OF the iiyin'.n
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Immortality of Love.


never saw a man who did not believe in
the Immortality of love when following the
body of loved one TO the grave. | have
seen men under other circumstances that did
not believe it, but never saw a man that
when he stood looking upon the form of one
he really loved, stretched out for burial, did
not revolt from saying, at has all come to
that the hours of sweet companionship, the
wondrous interlacings OF tropical souls, the
iovs the hopes; the trusts; the unutterable
yearnings-there they all lie No man can
stand aud look into coffin, upon the body Of
a fellow creature, and remember the flaming
intelligence, the blossoming love, the whole
range of divine faculties which SO lately illu-
minated that cold clay, and say, These have
here all collapsed and gone" No person
can witness the last sad ceremonials which
are performed over the remains of human
beipg-the sealing down OF an unopenable
lid; the following of the rambling procession
to the place of burial: the letting do&n of
dust into dust; the falling of the earth upon
the hollow coffin, with those sounds that are
worse than thunder; and the placing of the
green sod over the grave-no person, unless
he be beast, can witness these things, and
then turn away and say, II have buried my
wife; have buried my child; have buried
my sister, my brother, my love"
God forbid that we should bury anything.
There is no earth that can touch him. There
is no earth that can touch my child. would
fight my little breath and strength away be
fore would permit any clod to touch them.
The Jewel is not in the ground The jewel
has dropped out of the casket, and have
buried the casket, not the jewel. And you
may reason. you may say what you please
YOU may carry the case before the supreme
court OF my understanding. All that is in
me revolts at the decision, and says, "Yor
must try heart csses before the heart We
will not believe but there is life somewhere
else: we will not believe that life is buriet
here; and the soul goes out and cries, like {
child lost in the woods, to find itself iii THU
strange world, saying, "Where am /, and xht
shall guide me, that long and yearn and reacl
upward2 --Beecher's Royal Truths.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-02

JrsrrcE.-In this Gods world. with its
wild whirling eddies and mad foam oceans
where men and nations perish as if without
law and judgment, for an unjust thing isstern
ly delayed, dost thou think that there is
therefore no justice? 1t is what the fool has
said in his heart. 1t is what the wise in all
times were wise because they denied and
knew forever not to be. l tell thee again
there is nothing else but Justice, one strong
thing find here below-the just thing. the
true thing. My friend, if thou hsdst all the
artillery Of Woolwich marching at thy back
IN supper, Of an unjust thing, and infinite
bon6res visibly awaiting ahead of thee, to
blaze centuries to come for thy victory on be-
half OF it, would advise thee to call Halt,
TO fling down thy baton and say, "ln God 9
name no - What viii thy success amount 70?
If the thing is unjust, thou hast no, succeed
ed, though boniires blazed from north to
south, and bells rang, and editors wrote lead
ing articles, and the Just thing lay trampied
out Of sight to all mortal eyes, an abolished
and annihilated thing.-Thomas Carlyle.
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4 4 Rf6IaAL NaTtCk re anxn.. jane. II x,.
" kiskin r Sord BrtdEet Ayers Elizabeth Mar
vsil, Amsuta l. Hughes. james Love T. a.t-e Ac Jo9
timer, - b W Ford, Japes Watson Lander
Hxrtnr. John Mzx~rii A Chit,end,u 4 Co D q
Leigh, VIM Theu'pson Co. 4 Du ny d c Morrison 1
Co, las Reeves. Henry tesfe. H-sry Tovier Thor a.
Darts. sto4dafd. q 3nc ki,s han. Chss Parsons
nssssan, Hrhatd Pyle Mari smith. 1 O wyhon Geo n
Smith kost Rsston hstr BslIstnn. Henry smith ard
n ISaiax dsfendsst- Yos hsrehy nothed Ia I
there isn,s h~. 10 the Clerks o-- of the b3sarca
opsrs Of Les eeanty Iowa at K-st ak petition In
equity 81 Hiram Barney, claiming Judgement asain.s
YDu, g Hnehes I'D James Hixcn the snr a
s6sS hun4Yrd, Aay-aipe mud 100 Collar,
upsn -, n-nt Of faI-s nats BY plsutn BY virtus
Interpretations u your mortszxr. made Charles NJ
upon tot one II two t2l three ts1 hiyck Is3
std lots o q H. and IA bIrek 2oi The city of 90
XXX io~a In sAAstson 20 judgmrnt rrndsr- la said
court st the st+csi Nav 1851 TN THE st Of .aid
plaintiff rerfss Haghsa. and James Hixvn. for the
q sffuo fAoa~snd toar hanAreA and t~eiss and
- feodo.ars and aisxt 81 s&id d~ rndAnts atovs
ans a. alec praying for OF said o,s "a
pay d sums and the extuKuishmsnt "a al tile 10
tsrrst shi and e1aty Of redemption upon ,nch saie
and sos q neral rssf &c. Sow yos ssch spprss
and answer raid psfttyn by ~ tbs .econd &aY al
cf-sii court be held the 6rxf Soa
dsy Of februsr-, 1857 judgment and decree vii h
had shrrsia - pfa ri fpr
IL B-v STAMP. % essJ II. SCOTT HOW Ill,
dDel Psf Att.
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nKGINAL NcTIcs-To Edward a roote. Jso. y.
~ kaskin Geo 3. khbourne. n X. kiibourne, d ".
AisSsre4 AnsA fiaA.iA Chs Huboie essss ssiapsen
and Hsttts etsnpeon, BY Hamb1sson sxecutors Of "
ttimpson, deceased O Moses, Moses WIN Moses,
Garrett Davis, A.tsha sec.., wn Chsaneld, L
Eaton 0ertruds Eaton, oren Sage, wyco6, iona
than yesn geo v SJe, Ed~srd SsyAssA, Andrsv X
Cegg. " II cleEg, wn rtesi, trustees, y Sage =
sas., ko.rsy, L.cy uar.y Conoahie Smith, D
snhosy Go, SOL fletcher, Henry ldsn, Chas
BoltSood, August etsfne. August Craft, Edv j. gar
aksa - nasasd sssl wa Tsonp.os Z o.. Q
Hale. " Tucker and Perry I New tor, and Inward
Aiibourne Defendants. You hereby Dolned that
tAsss = 49, ~ In The Clerks scs Of the Distsct
nnsnt q Lee c,ahty, Iowa, = Keoknk rstfftyn 81
Hiram harney claiming Judgment against yoa I'd
wne4 4 Boota. ~ tbs sam Of s~o shous.
and dollars upon yonr desd Of trust, made 70 b
kiibourne, upon this following dsscrit,ed premises
tc~iE Ailcf b,ock hundred .Bd thirty one {i3i
sos fsos ~ 6v@ ~ and six ~ IN block tA5 ostynvr;
and lots .ad ~ block q TO hsbdres sad No. 10
tes city o. Ksckns Iowa md axAtnst You AL pras ng
Eur M avri s0rs of said deed trust aals 81 40
heed Of al interests ~ sid II same
pay - said dehs tbs ~ I'll EQUITY o
reasnption ard Tor general relief Nov e.rh n ycr
0ssepP~as and answer said p~titsen by noon u the
secefd DAY " the next term Of ssd Court ~ held
on ths hrst AoadAy u February 1907 o. Judgment
siii es bad therein - prsysd for BY d-fanit
~ Rev stAmpt II. sCu1r HOWELL
So 49, asA
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-02

Z Iaek tint b. iks we'll. It'd nakisleale e. g.
phe1is must have kpeva 5 IL vilIane, ~ -
h&4i4 waek sett 6eokf@he1 BY IT, Z
s@beD. = ths&lk, in tls TaleuA AHs
Winnings Of Josephos, We search IN VAN 1of
any record of this sacred place. Like I'D
happy neighbors, Nam and Endor, it was the
abode of hnsbandmsn aud iidrsseess, whose
lives were spent in the synagogue and olive
grove, away from the bright Greek cities and
the busy Roman roads, No doubt it had
once been possessed of 9ther On Anal. n {
E6ebtsk nahe, but n do lot know IT, 4a4e
except in IL Hellenic f6rm. Tbs Creeks
called the town Nazaret or Nazareth ~
Holy Land, BY W. Hspeotfh Diron.
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the City II Keohuk, Iesa-
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s. ~ III ia \ u 49, :" S.as'
In Js9srson County. Iowa, the following: =. ~ =
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md sfsw:N Zee g, 81, Range q; 3 I. u
In Dallas co.sty, Io~a, this following. H.HN.EL
20 - At 1ssssIass., y 4: ); = II 81 (
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IS R.ss. 80; Is s.. ., Town. %. xasss %
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tsrn q stdosfrirt Court, 20 commence tho Arsl
,oa md - - . = = i ssss.aias Z
ths psasss fssiA petition.
~ s0.R ~ cnJ Anys for Ristnt8.
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case n - vsss 0TDoeo eas ~ sooA cs@pssss Z
Ca 4 - 800 vteis 10 ncsoceo, snd hoOk... q
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These renedies. By the single box are ssnt
any part Of the country, By naii o. srprsss, nss
charge, on reretst OF the prize. Aacr~~
~ HU1PHkEfJ EEECff7C
HOAR0FA rIfIf MEDICINE COMPANY
once and Dept NJ. 80 B. oad~sy Nsx.Yoft.
For -. By every Medeins p~aie.
Or HUMPHREYS IL consulted esiiy at hi -fhes =
sonaIls b. tsttsr above. for ali forms Of dss
tan1idly
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Flowers are tia bright stArs Of man ! exist
ence. They are ever called q hi aid, and
their placeis everywbere. They serve to
form the bridal chaplet, and are laid upon the
caskets Of loved and loving ones. Thus they
| are associated with him in all the scenes Of
life.
What is more pleasing TO tie sick than q
bunch Of flowers cullsd 81 the hand Of souae
dear friend, and sent to Beguiie the tedious
hours? He constantly asks to have them
brought near to him that he may inhale their
sweee pssfsms, ssd, = It, wsrA gstA9 new
strength to bear the sickness sent BY that
Hand that woundeth but in love.
They serve to lift our thoughts tfrom ma
tare - 10 nasafS's Go4 - for ~ eaauot look
upon things 20 beautiful without the thought
that they we're formed by other than human
wisdom. Many are the lessons that We may
learn from these types Of angelic beauty.
The glory Of all earthly kings cannot compete
with them, for even Solomon, the wisest and
wealthiest of monarchs, as orr Savior tells US,
was not arrayed like the lily of the valley,
one of the least among flowers. Though its
outward robe may not be so gaudy as that Of
others, yet it is, and shall be through all fu-
ture syes, the emblem of purity. And can
we wonder that He, whose whole life was one
of unsullied purity, should thus speak Of this
humble fower7
Flowers, like all things else of earthly type,
remain but for short time. They open
their petals TO the influence of the sun and
air, and having received new life and beauty,
ere long they droop and diel Let ", then,
as we see that upon all around us is written,
in characters too plsin to be mistaken, "pas
sing away" remember that we too bear the
same impress-and also, that each moment
as il ID launched into the broad ocean Of eter>
nifty, bears upon its bosom the record Of ev-
cry deed done in the body, for which We
must give account in the day of Judgment.
Then shall those things which We now sup
pose only known to ourselves and our Maker,
Ebe made manifest to all men-a solemn
thought Let it teach us to be watchful over
our every action in life, knowing that for
every idle word, God will bring US to judg
ment.