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Arc recommended only for those diseases aud
accompanying symptoms for which their ingre'
dlentS are everywhere recognized aS thorough,
standard specifics. In quoting properties from
Medical Certificates, there must DO repititions Of
language. Diseases and symptoms follow, but
symptoms should not be mistaken for distinct
diseases. This Is mentioned from the fact that
many might say that they proposed to cure eve.
rytblng. Additional evidence, also, which fully
sustains all that is claimed for them, is found in
the medical works Of tho day, recomme ID tions
from prominent Chemists, Druggists, &c, who
have been personally acquainted with the pro-
prietor for many years, as well as certificates in
unlimited numbers.
, 1869-04-30

]. H Grovesteen, founder of the old and
favorably known house of Grovesteen
& Co.
, 1869-04-30

Are true medicine, placed in thehands of the peo-
pie for their relief, and no person can take them,
according to directions, and remain long IN we'll.
They are perfect Renovator of the System as they
carry off every particle Of poisonous matter. Every
family should have q bottle of Vinegar Bitters at
hand. No sailor, soldier, mechanic, farmer, profess
sional man, or traveller should ever be without it.
Its timely application may often be the means of
vin lifa
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ComnanF Manners.

There Is no greater education into Yul-
garity than home earelessness. A man
or woman brought up under such a sys-
tenn is ruined for all the reality of re-
Gnement in after years. The sarliness,
too, often allowed at home, where chill
dren are permitted to be snappish to
each other, disobliging and diseOurteous,
ruins the manners as much as 1t hurts
the mind. Hence we come to company
manners, to a siekly sweetness put on
simply for the occasion, to a fOrmality Of
speech and sn oppEessiyeness of atten-
tons. to an exaggerated politeness that
is so terribly afraid Of transgressing In
to liberties as to be absolute bondage,
and to ali the silly little affections be-
longing to the condition. We never
know any one whom we have not lived
with. and even them not always. To be
admitted into the temple does not in
elude entrance into the adutum; aud we
NAV remain for weeks in a house where
master and mistress and maids are all re-
ticent alike, and may know nothing Of
the reality underlying the surface. Peo-
pie of whom l once knew something,
and who were nOtOriously Unmatched,
but marvelously polite, could keep their
house full of company, and yet allow
none of their guests to find out that the
husband aad wife were not on speaking
terms. All communication between
them that was absolutely necessary was
carried on By writiag Personally, these
two. dispensing smiles and civilities to
all around. held no direct intercourse.
Yet shey managed so well that no one
saw through the screen. With company
manners and company dress, there Is also
COMPANY voice. Who does net know
that false voice of society Mnclng or
thrown boldly forward, hung into the
chest or pitched mp into the head, it is
ali tbs same--the company voice, accent,
ebo;ce of words and register-all arti-
sc;aJ alike. And there are company
GESTURES. People sit and stand and walk,
and use their hands according to the diff
fsrent degrees Of familiarity in which
they stand towards their society. There
is a vast deal of company make-beheye
among US; and if We would only give
half the time we nov bestOw on look
ing pretty" and behaving pretty IN
society. to being sweet tempered, ami
able and careful of pleasing at home, 1t
wonla he ALI the better for ourselves and
our families, and gain in this way OF
trua civiIization.-AH ths Year Roal'a,
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The Prime of Life.y

There is a certain vagueness about
this expression, for We hear it applied
equally TO men Of thirty-fve, or there
about. and to men who may be in their
sixties, though they manage to look
Younger. Somebody has well said that
"a man is no older than he feels, woman
than she looks" Fer persons Of joyous
temperament and good physique, then,
the prime of life may last to a late
period. A writer in CasselFs Naya-ins
speaks of DIR. o. W. Holmes, at the age
Of ffty-nine, as being in the prime Of
life. and SO he Is, being mentally and
physically as sound as ever. Dickens, at
iftE-seven. is in the prime Of life, WELD
ing the pen as vigorously as he did
thirty years ago, and walking his twenty
miles before dinner whenever the humor
takes him. 1t might have been said Of
the late Lord PalmerstOn that ne was
ia the prime of life when past seventy,
so yigGrons was he then in frame, IN in
tellect so clear. And so Of the late
Lord Broughazs, E.hO could 90 through
vast amount of asassl and bodily
fatigue when close upon his e,ghtieIn
year. What the prime of ifr. Part0S >
Coming Man" is to be, the tine has
hardly yet arrived for discussing. If
he really is to abjure the matutinal
cock tail, though, and decline to muddle
himself with bad tobacco, he may re-
main in his prime long enough to solve the
problem Of the philosophers stone, or,
perhanee. to square the circle. Women
are apt to think that a man must be
past his prime when his hair turns gray.
Yet we have known many a man vener-
able as to his locks and beard, who vas
very much in his prime, indeed, and
quite able TO wallop the rash babbler
who should doubt it. The prime Of life
is earlier with some persons, later, with
others. We have known women who
were past their prime at thirty, and
others Who, with grandchildren around
them, we're yet in the nOon-tide Of their
prime. Constitution has much to do
with the question, and so have the habits
and accident of life.
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The Bulk Of the Worlds Gold.

The New York Mercantile Journal,
in discussing the folly of attempting to
conduct the future business of the
world upon a gold basis, makes the fol
lowing statements
All gold that exists in the United
States to-day, could be placed in a
square box of less than fifteen feet in
length, width and depth.
A room one hundred feet long, one
hundred feet wide and ten feet high,
would hold eight times the total amount
of gold in the known world.
The Golden Calf, worshipped by
the would-be statesmen of our day. who
desire an accumulation of coin to the
extent of S250,000,000 in our National
Treasury, as a basis upon which to re-
sumo specie payments, if melted down
would not Gil square box measuring
nine feet each way.
How puerile, then, to clog the wheels
of finance and commerce by blind sub
serviency to the ridiculous tenets of the
dark ages. Coal and iron are infinitely
more valuable TO commerce than this
boasted metal.
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The Girls Of the Present.
Fr0n BE Londoa QaarlerIy Rerlsr.l

From the London Quarterly Reviewl
1t is terribly significant Of the pres
ent state Of things when men are free to
write as they do Of the women Of their
own nation. Every word Of censure
flung against them is two-edged, and
wounds those who condemn as much as
those who are condemned; for surely it
need hardly be said that men hold moth
ing 50 dear as the honor Of their women,
and that not one living would willingly
lower the repute of his mother or sisters.
1t is only when these have placed them
selves beyond the pale Of masculine re-
speet that such things are written; when
they become again what they were once,
they will gather around them the lOye,
homage and chivalrous devotion which
we're then an English woman's natural
inheritance The marvel In the present
fashion Of life among women is how It
holds its ground IN spite Of the disap-
propation of men 1t used 10 be an old
time notion that the sexes were made for
each other, and to set themselves out for
that end But the girl Of this period
does not please men She pleases them
as little as she elevates them, and how
little she does that, the class Of women
she has taken as her models, Of itself,
testifes.
All men whose opinion are worth hav-
ing prefer the simple and generous girl
of the past. with their tender little ways
and pretty bashful modesties, to this loud
and rampant modernization, With her
false red hair and painted skin, talking
slang as glibly as a man, and By prefer
| euce leading the conversation to doubt
ful subjects. She thinks she is prudent
and exciting when she thus makes her
self the bad copy Of worse original,
and she viii not see that, though men
laugh at her, they do net respect her;
though they Airt with her, they do not
marry her. She will not believe that she
Is not the kind Of thing they want, and
that she is acting against nature and her
own interests when she disregards their
advice and offends their taste. We do
not see how she makes out her account,
viewing her life from any side; but ali
we can do is to wait patiently until the
national madness has passed, and our
women have come back again TO the old
English ideal, Oace the most beautiful,
the most modest, the most essentially
wOmanly, in the world.
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Concerning the Dog.

A story is told of a Scotch dog which
whenever a penny was given him, used
to 60 at once to baker with the coin in
his mouth, when, on dropping it, the
baker would give him a penny roll. On
one occasion the baker cheated him,
taking his penny but only giving him
half-penny ROLAND then the dog went
aud fetched a policeman 1t should be
remembered, however, that it was a
Scotch dog. Another case of canine
instinct may be given. A lady in Lon
don had favorite poodle, which carried
her letters from the postman to a couch
in the lady's parlor. On one occasion
the lady, to her astonishment, observed
the favorite dog putting the only letter
ii carried into the fire, instead Of put.
ting it on the couch. Amazed, she
rushed forward and rescued the letter,
although half burned and, 10 and be-
hold, it was dog tax schedule
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What Railroads do for Farmers.

To haul forty bushels of corn dfty
miles on a wagon costs, says the Agrioat-
tlrist, at least S12 for team, driver and
expenses. A railrord would transport
it for 81 at most. Allowing an average
of 40 bushels per acre, the crop would be
worth IS more per acre, or per cent
on S100. As the relative advantage is
about the same for other crops, it is
clear that railroad passing through a
town would add 800 per acre to the
value Of the farms. A town ten miles
square contains $4,000 acres. An iu-
crease of s100 per acre is equal to S6,-
400. 900, OF enough TO build two hun
dred miles of railroad, even if it cost
$4,000 per mile. But two hundred
miles Of road would extend through
twenty towns ten miles square, and cost
but $40 per acre if taxed upon the land.
These figures are given merely as =
illustration. IF the farmers had taxed
themselves to build all the railroads IN
this country, and given them away 70
auy companies that would stock and
run them. the present increase value Of
their lapd woaid have well repaid all
the outlay.
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Origin Of Champagne.

Notwithstanding its great celebrity,
champagne is the youngest as well as the
liyeliest Of wines As you journey from
Strasbourg to Paris you pass within a
mile of Rheims. the little village Of
Hautvillers standing above the yine-clad
banks Of the Marne. Here there is an
ancient monastery, in which lived joy
Gus monk, Dom PerignOm by name, who
a hundred and fifty years ago, gave the
world the invention of champagne. On
account Of his many virtues, in which an
accurate taste and a clear head were con
spicuOus. he took charge Of the broad
sunny vineyards of the abbey, and
had control of the cellars Even as
blind old man his taste distinguished be-
tween different kind Of grapes, and ac
cOrding to an old chronicle, he would
give wise instructions concerning them,
saying shat the wine of one grape must
be married to the wine of another"
His powerful mind also conceived the
happy idea that the insertion of cork
in bottle might more effeetually answer
the purposes which had been hitherto
attained by the primitive stopper of
bunch Of fax soaked in oil. He had
already raised the vinous renown of his
monastery to a great height, when by
lucky chance he hit upon the invention
of the effervescing wine known as cham
payne. The jovial monks kept the Sc
cret as long as they could, but at length
it transpired, and the new wine in due
course adorned the supper of the regent
and Louis Quintz.
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Growing Trees.

The great lifting power of growing
trees, it is reported, is illustrated by a
specimen of the force of nature in the
cemetery at Old Cambridge, Massaehu-
sets. At this spot small tree, which
has apparently sprung from seed in
CLOSED in heavy stone tomb, has grown
through a ehink between two stones,
lifted the heavy superintendent masses
of Stone some inches, and pushed stout
iron railing of the perpendicular by the
force of its growth. This circumstance
does not throw discredit upon, but
rather adds strength to the recent ae-
count of a flbert tree, which, growing
up through the hole of a milestone, has
filed it and raised the stone off the
ground. The milestone is FIVE and a
half feet in diameter and seven inches
thick, and presents the strange appear
anee of rufle at the base of the tree.
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a Good Word for the Dutch.

For more than century the Dutch
were the laughing stock Of polite Eu-
rope. They were butter irkins, swillers
Of beer and schnapps, and their rrours
from whom Holbein painted the all but
loyeliest of Madonnas, Rembrandt, the
graceful girl who sits immortal on his
knee in Dresden, and Bubeus his abound
ing goddesses, were the synonymes Of
clumsy yulgarity Even so late as Iry-
ing the ships of the greatest nayigntors
in the world were represented as sailing
equally stern foremost. That the aristo-
cratic Nenetiaus should have
~Rveted with gigantic piles
Through the center their new-eatchsd miles, y
was heroic. But the far more marvellous
achievement Of the Dutch in the same
kind was ludicrous even TO republican
MARVEL. Meanwhile, during that very
century Of scorn, they were the best ar
fists, sailors, merchants, bankers, print
ers, scholars, jurisconsults and states
men Of Europe, and the genius of Mot
lev has revealed them to Us, earning a
right TO themselves by the most heroic
struggle in human annals. But, alas
they were not merely simple burghers
who had fairly made themselves High
Miehtinesses. and could treat on equal
terms with annointed kings, out their
commonwealth carried in its bosom the
germs Of Democracy They even un-
muzzled. at least after dark, that dreadful
mastiff, the press, whose scent Is, Of
ought 10 be so keen for wolves in sheep
clothing and for certain other animals IL
lions skins They made fun Of Sacred
Majesty, and, what was worse, managed
uncommonly well without it. In an ag'
when periwigs made so large a part o
the natural dignity of man, people viii
such turn Of mind were dangerous
How could they seem other than yulga
and hateful p Atlaatic Monthly.
THE bell that was taken at Sebastopo
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Historical Secret.

Another terrible state secret has been
unearthed from the dust of three centu-
ries. Juana, the mother Of the En-
peror Charles V, was the legitimate
Queen of Spain. The historians say
that she went mad in consequence of the
sudden death of her husband Philip ;
but. in reality, she was not mad at all,
but was kept cruelty imprisoned, first, by
her father, Ferdinand, and then by her
son, the German Emperor Charles ',
for ffty long years. The prosecutions
of which she was made a victim were
commenced by her mother, Isabella, be-
cause Juana uttered heretieal views
about the prosecutions of hereties burn
ing at the stake, etc.) After Isabella 5
death, her father, Ferdinand, continued
to maltreat the poor woman, in order
to reign in her place. Finally her own
son, Charles V, confined her in a dun
geon, and permitted himself to abuse
and torture her when she refused to
take part in the divine service held in
the prison. These facts have been
brought to light by German historian,
NJ. Bergenroih, who derived them from
the autograph letters of Charles Y,
hitherto kept secret in the archives OF
Simaneas, and published them in Sy6ets
Historical Journal, November 4, 1868.
A FRENCH court has refused damages
to man who was injured when the rail
road train was blown down an embank-
mani
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EST TABLISHED A 1910.
For the Sunday Appeal
NCnNSIDERATE AGE.

INCONsIDEEATE AGE.
The silver frosts Of Iife's hoar age
Had bleuchsd his locks OF sable;
Zach day bis bright eye lost its gle2m,
His step grew more unstable.
one eve he tottered through the lawn
Where life seemed not so dreary,
And crushed the flowers Ae could not see,
Meath foOtstep weak and weary
with mellow rays % Autumn's sun
Tae russet sward was gIloedi
And gold and purple leaves had draPs"
The nests the blrds bad buiided.
A sheen OF golden gloTles afcheo
High Ger The aged conner
A,5 r,aInt.d in the shining lake
c1oud crowned dream Of Summer
Weird autumn sraOke-wresths grit the hills
and tsslned soft, hszy fingers
About the m 0untaiu's shaggy locks
ynere Summers green Yet fingers.
The azsd form h-d paused awhile,
And. on a strong star leaning,
with faded eye slow swept tae scene,
AsIfIis beauties cleaning.
Atrapsient flush Of youth quick spread
His cheek, as sunlight, streaming
Revealed TO snxious eyes the trees,
And flowers. and lslHe, all cleaning.
Twas but fash, vet that brief glance
Recalled his bOyhOOd' 5 hours;
Aud youthful pleasures once more danced
Amid those Autumn flowers
life trlpped, in hittIng shadows, fas;
Throz 1nemory's crumbling palace;
youtu once recalled, the fading mind
Grasped its last fading solace.
He saw his youths fust rosy bloom,
It's moment OF heeting pleasures
he saw-his hardest l0t-ihe!r DOOM
Then. manhoOd's richer treasures.
He saw q few stray silver threads,
Grim Tines first solemn warning
The thrill. the plunge In Pleasures whiri'
rTls ret LIES early morning
He saw Tines pencil trace the lines
inst tell OF Lies keen sOrrnw-
The startled pause the quick return
To the still bright tomorrow
Then came hoar Age with winiry clouds,
Which psls the cheeks o. Pieasuie;
When gloomy Fstes stsre a their prey,
And Lies thIead steInly measure.
Then Ioomed before his wasted mind
The doom taught by thess changes;
Fen now he felt the chilling touch
which life from clay eatrangss.
Sweet lie is gone" the old man said,
It's Pol, en- sands I've wasted
Forzetful OF the coming night
To Pleasures goal hasted.
In youth I cullei from mystic book
RrIat1t hopes OF future Heaven;
But age and toll dispel.ed those dreams,
And fancy lost is leaven!
I long now for the quiet grave
It's stu and Pesceful slumberi
The long array OF silent ears.
Which Time alone can number.
lesuuIlght, bursting thTO' the leaves,
mumed his head so hoary:
He raised his weary eyes aud capght
The sunsets golden g.Cry.
Bat for an instant those yOrug dreams
Burned in his heart benighted,
Then q e ont with the suuset's ray
WHlch their slight spark had lighted.
No warning voice esn reach the quick
OF Lifs's last frozen feeling;
And Cons nee dies a blghted thing,
As axe comes slowly stealing
That night The old man b-eathed his last
Let Charity bestov Il,
A kindly tear FOR his calm end
His future, who can know IL &.
MEMPHIS, January =, lsea
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Vigorous Woman.

From the New York Advertiser.
Physically, our American women to-
day present a striking contrast to those
years ago. Wasp-like waists have disap-
peared. Delicate limbs languid eOuntenan-
ces and frail constitutions generally have
ceased To be premium, and in their place
we have strong limbs, ruddy cheeks and
robust constitutions. The English woman
is yearly becoming more the modei.With-
ont becoming strong minded in-the cOm-
mon acceptation of the term, our wives,
daughters and sisters are becoming
stronger physically We do not allude
of course, to those whose lives are
devoted to round Of fashionable gaiety
and dissipation. This encouraging
change is, to a considerable extent, due to
the outdoor pastimes inaUgurated
among the women Horse back riding,
ten-pins, eroquet, billiards, skating and
walking have ceased to be confined to
the sterner sex. Women eagerly en-
brace the amusements, and seemingly
derive all the enjoyment which they are
carable of yielding.
he English girl, who thinks nothing
Of doing a FIVE miles walk before break
fast now finds a competitor in her
American cousin. Many of the most
devoted and skillful disciples of the
curling art belong to the other sex.
Women WELD their eroquet mallets,
pocket billiard balls, and make ten
strikes with all the enthusiasm and elan
Of the male sex. A fondness and taste
for these pastimes should be fostered
and developed, instead of being repress-
ed and checked through fear of their max
ing women unwomanly. Marriage, says
Michalet 'is the chief end Of women.
If such be the case, she can attain it in
no quicker way then by presenting a
robust physique, overhowing with animal
life and spirits, in contrast to a weak,
puny constitution, bending before any
adverse winds.
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The official stamp of the Gold
smiths Company, London, By which
English jewelry buyers are supposed to
be protected against imposition, has
been degraded during the past few years
under new law allowing it to be placed
on articles of nine, twelve, and fifteen
carat gold The stamp was formerly
confined to eighteen carat and should
be so still. Gold Of nine carat is in
reality, copper alloyed with gold. Even
twelve carat is only half gold, and half
ALLOW. The 'hall-mark, as it is called,
has become entirely worthless, therefore,
as security against fraud. Gold chain
makers have a way of cheating which
could hardly be avoided, even under a
good system. They send chain to re-
eeive the mark on every link. These
are then separated, and each link is
placed on a chain of inferior quality.
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ENGLAND has coined 10000, 900 gold
sovereigns and $4,000, 600 gold half SOW
ereigns during the past ten ysars-about
s225, 100000
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THE bell that was taken at Sebastopol
by the English troops has been hung in
the keep Of Windsor Castle,
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MAKRIRD FLIRTS.

BY NELLIE MARSHALL, or KENTUCKY.