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Literary STYLE.

No man of power can do himself a
greater wrong than to make an attempt
to acquire the style of another man.
under the impression that that stvle
Will fit his thought. He might as well
have his clothes made to his neighbours
measure. There is not one chanca in a
thousand of fit, unless it be a fit of
disappointment or disgust The sensi-
tiveness of language to the impulses
and characteristics of the spirit that
sits behind and utters it, is one of the
marvels of the world. Its fexibility in
shaping itself to every variety of
thought and every form of imagination,
its power to transmit an atmosphere or
an aroma which no analysis of word or
expression betrays, and the ease with
which it is made either puerile or maies-
tic, in accordance with the spirit of its
maker, show that style, unborn of the
individual, is an utterly valueless at
tainment.
As a fair illustration of the absolute
impossibility of one man writing in the
style of another, take the two great DO
cts of England now living, and let
Browning and Tennyson undertake to
acquire each the style of the othGe. 1t
would absolutely ruin both. All writ
ers who are good for anything have a
style of their own. 1t can no more be
transmitted or 60 attained than the DOW
ers and qualities in which it had its
birth and man who is so strongly
impressed, or nagnetized, by the style
of another, that he finds himself irving
to work in his way, has his own weak
ness and lack of individuality demon
strated to him. It follows that most of
the criticisms of style are equally with
out common sense and common Justice
so far, at least, as they are made with
the idea that there is such thing as a
standard of style. There is abundant |
wealth of literary style in the world |
which has no characteristic similarity to |
fancy BnaB EneY musr shape their sbyie /
upon some approved or popular model, |
would do well to abandon the effort at
1nce. A good style is always the nat
1ral offspring Of good literary mind. |
It is polished and chastened by self
criticism, and is growth from the CEN
ter A style thus formed is the only
legitimate representative of literary
man. No lack of heart, or brains, or
culture, or marked and large individu-
atty, can be hidden by adopting an
other mans literary dress and present
ment. If man has no style of his
own, he has no literary calling what
aver-D5. Il q HOIIH5ld
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The range OF disorders which yield to the inhu;
ence of this medicine, and the numbei or defined
diseases which II never fails 70 cure are greater
than any other single medicine has hitherto been
even recommended for. by any other than the
DrOprietOrs of quack nOstrun. ines dis
eases are scrofuia and all eruptiVe diseases and
fumors, rheumatism. govt Neuralgia, ana spinal
complaints, and all iniammatory symptoms. VI
csrs all syphilitic diseases kidney aud bladder
diseases. dropsy. the whole train OF painful dis
ordel which so generally atlilct American women
and which carry annually thousands OF the u %
premature graves; dyspepsia. that universal curse
OF American manhood: heartburn. Pill =, consti-
patton. nervousness, inability 10 sleep and impure
blood.
This is a formidable list Of human ailments for
any single medicine to successfully attack. a u
Is not probable that any article be the pub
lie ma the power cure the quarter OF them OK
cepIfug the VEG II Laws the axe at the root
O =. he tree of disease by first el minattng every
inrurity from the blood promoting the secfetlOns
op ming the pores-the great escape valve OF the
system-invigoratin the liver TO its full and ma
turaI action. cleansing the stomach and strength
euing digestion. This much accomplished. the
speedy and the permanent cure Of not only thu
diseases we have enumerated. but likewise the
whole train or chronic ana constitutional dis
orders is certain 10 follow. This is precisely what
VFGFTTNF does and It does IL so quickly and so
easily, that IL is accomplished tact almost be-
fore the patient is aware Of IL himself.
UEGFTINF il sold by All druggists.
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Didn't Kiss Her.

A gentleman who has been recently
travelling in the lower counties of Texas
tells a San Antonio paper the following
amusing story: He was stopping over
night at house whore the partition
walls were particularly thin. The ad-
Joining DOM was occupied by mother
and her daughter. After retiring the
mother began to rebuke the daughter
for an alleged Partially to somebody
named John, which soft impeachment
the daughter denied vigorously.
But" said the mother, 81 saw him
kissing you at the cow-pen yesterday
morning, Amanda"
"No, ma, he wasn't kissing me at
all.
why did you have your head so
close up to his for? you deceivin'
.sWeIl, you see ma, I had been eating
pitallas (the fruit of species of cac-
tus), and you see. ma, ! got some of the
..;ekles in my Iips-and-and-"
I'D what, you wicked, wicked,
puldn't get them out myself.
T->1---, ->--al-- 2 = = - -
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Treating the wrong Disease.

Many times women call upon their family
physicians, one with dyspepsia, another with
palpitation. another with trouble of the breast,
another with pain here and there, and in this
way they all present alike to themselves and
their easy going and indifferent doctors, sep
arate and distinct diseases, for which he pre-
scribes his pills and potions, assuming them
to be such, when, in reality, they areeall symp-
toms caused by some uterine disorder; and
while they are thus only able perhaps to pal
late for a time, they ignorant of the cause,
and encourage their practice until large bills
are made, when the suffering patients are no
better il the end, but probably worse for the
delay, treatment, and other consultations
made. and which proper medicine Directed to
the ceUse would have entirely remdsed, there
by inztitutlng health and comfort instead of
prolonged misery.
From Miss LORNDA f. ST. CLAIR, Shade
Athens Co. o , Oct. IA, 1872:
8 DR.. r. V. Pierce. Buffalo, n. Your
Favorite Prescription is working almost like a
miracle on me. / am better already than |
have been for over two years"
From ELLA A SCHAFER, GAINESVILLE. Ind.
Aug. 3, 1872:
- Dr. Pierce-I received the medicine Won
sent me and began using it Immediately. As
a result OF the treatment feel better than l
have for three years"
From Mrs. JOHN K. HAMILIN. Odeu Ill
March 10, 1872:
DR.. Pierce The Favorite Prescription has
done me good, which L am very thankful for. {"
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TRoPiC MIDNIGHT.


The rain floats off the crescent moon
Holds ia its cup round of dusk,
Like pain-buds in the month of June
Just breaking through the yernal husk.
Night blooming agaves fill the sheaf,
To catch the light distilled in showers,
Till overlooking cup and leaf
It's cluster breaks in midnight flowers.
A sensuous stiffness north and south
And east and west, and just as sweet
As seeds Of pomegranate in the mouth,
Or kisses when Young lovers meet,
Breaks in a low, sweet under-tone.
Like brooks that breed in beds of fern,
As if by curve and pebble-stone
The moon had spilled her silver urn.
It's airy current fills and ripes
The flower and fruit to wanton use
II blows the rush's slender pipes,
And rounds the purple fig with juice
Like merchants breaking kids of nard,
Or jars OF olives, desert born,
Pine-apples lift their prickled shard,
And show the seeds CT fragrant corn.
Like Hebrew maids, the citrons hold
Their pitchers to the vapor spring,
And AL the hollow rinds of gold
With muslky midnight's havoring.
So once, think, earth knew her Lord,
In lands like these of palm and vine,
When midnight gave the sweet accord
That turned the water into wine.
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SPORTING NEWS.
some Ts--- Befina

some I's.--- - Boring.
The Buffalo Courier furnishes its
readers with the time made by the fast
horses at each of the trotting meetings
at the Buffalo track, showing the i'm
provement made every year in the speed
of horses. As matter of record, we
give table showing the number of
miles trotted, and the average time made
each year since the Buffalo meetings
were inauOurated
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Kansas GrasshOppers.

A Kansas letter says of the great
American rival to the Louisville cock
roach "They are rightly named hop
pers. for they are hard to fill, and eve
rything is grist that comes TO their mill.
Sorghum is the only thing that they
don't appear to know the use of, and
they let it alone. They will eat tobacco
and jimpson weed, and I have seen wal
nut trees as bare of leaves as In the mid
die OF winter. The same is true of all
the apple trees in their path. They
don't eat the apples or walnuts, and it
is an odd sight to see tree laden with
fruit, and not single green leaf to be
seen on its boughts. They don't meddle
much with peach leaves, but they eat
the peaches and leave the stones hang
ing on the trees. They ate all the leaves
off the grape vines the first few days
they were here, and now they are cut
ting the stems and letting the grapes
fall t9the ground. The man who can
invent process to exterminate them
from the country will more than double
discount st. Patrick as benefactor of
his race.
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though the whole department has been

though the whole department has been
at T EOss story or s. Seemed so - BILE to me
that 1 took the next OPT ATTY of ask
ing another detective Z" Yes, :"
the biggest things insdon. We
can't get at the ring-leaders yet, but
we're laying our plans for grand haul.
1t may take two or three years to ma
ture them, for it is an exceedingly big
thing but we must thoroughly mature
our plans"
Good heavens p L exclaimed, "is
it possible you allow people in London
to be robbed like this for two years be-
fore you break up the gang of swind-
lers ?"
Eyes :" said he, "London is a big
town, and such things go slow, but, 1
think, in about two years we shall
mature our plans and make grand
bauI -
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ONE of the busiest places in the coun-
Try is the factory of the Narrsgansett Collar
Company. From eighty to one hundred young
ladies are constantly employed folding aud
boxing ElmwoOd Collars. 1t looks like a bee
hive and all queens"
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Education in Alabama.

The commonwealth labors under q
dreadful burden of ignorance the Hit
eracy in some sections is appalling.
With a population of little more than
a million, Alabama has more than three
hundred and eighty thousand persons
who can neither read nor write and of
these nearly one hundred thousand are
whites. There are also large classes
who can both read and write, but whose
education goes no farther. Among the
one hundred and seventy-fve thousand
voters in the state, there is a Il, wspaper
circulation of forty thousand only. The
negro does not seem TO care for the pa
pers. A good public school system was
inaugurated in Alabama in 1854, and
three years later nearly ninety thousand
children were attending school ip,A
state: but the advent of the vz..s~1 H.
ed the progress already me- -
reconstruction education; !
been somewhat embroli i - = 5
dnct of tho eel,oels, 4, - -. ,551sE
of what IS known as thf - +
education, composed of - ;5
intendent and two membersS - h
congressional district. This
full legislative powers, the Legislature
being only revisory of its acts. The
school fund receives from half million
to 5000, 600 annually from the state, one
third of it being interest on the fund
bestowed by the general government,
and the remainder being made up of
one-fifth of the commemorative general
revenue-all the poll tax, the licenses,
and the tax on insurance companies.
This fund is nominally apportioned i'm
partially to the whites and blacks in
each county, and the trustees in each
township are informed what their share
is. Under this system, the average at
tendance at the various schools opened
throughout the state, was one hundred
and fifty thousand but in 1873 the
schools were all closed (save those in
the large cities, on account of the in
ability of the state to pay teachers
This cessation has been productive of
much harm and disorganization. Ell
forts have, however, been made to re,
suscitate the state university at Tusca-
Ioosa, which is not in n hOurishing con-
dition. and a normal college, for teach
ers of both sexes, has been started at
Florence, il the northern part of the
state. In western Alabama, a colored
university and normal college has been
established at Marion, and n colOred
normal school is opened at Huntsville.
The American missionary society also
maintains college for colored people
at palladega. -Scribner'S
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FeII From a RniIronh Car and nea,

broke his neck. Pat picked him up, rubbed him
with Mexican Mustang Liniment, and sen him on
by the next train. Falls, bruises, cuts eontusions
lameness and such accidents are constantly occur
ing. There is nothing so sure, safe, cheap and
convenient as the celebrated Mustang Liniment. It
costs but so cents and 81 90 per bottle and Fam
lily or owner Of Horses should be without it. There
is no flesh, bone or muscle ailmeRt upon man or
animal like rheumatism, Bruises, SPAWN and
Ianeness, which it will not alleviate or cure. Why
viii you suffer? Beware Of counterfeits. 1t is
wrapped in a steel-plate engraving, signed " G.. w.
WestbroOk Chemist"
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DID you ever see a child that did not
have holes through the toes of its shoes? II
you did they were protected by SILVER TIPS.
They never wear through at the toe. Try
them.
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III 81 W dAhth > AdalltlUlA ' III
egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from tie ma
tive herbs fOuno on the lower ranges Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains OF Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties Of which
are extracted therefrOm without the use
Of Alcohol The question Is almost
daily asked, What is the cause Of tho
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERsP Our answer is, that they remove
the cause Of disease. and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the GIN
blood purifier and liie-giving princir.a,
a perfect Renovator and Invigoratoi
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities Of VINESAR BITTgRs in healing the
sick Of every disease man is heir 70. They
are gentle PuI gative as well as a Tonic,
relieving Congo lion or Inflammation Of
the Liver and Niscerd Organs, ia Bilious
Diseases.
The properties Of DIR. WAIKER'7|
VINEGAR BITrERs are Apericnt, Diaphoretic,S
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, BiureticnI
Sedative, COunterlr rtant Sudorihc. Alters
cfto. s.stt <a4s-z 7r,ff'.sssr|
II. II. Nfc DONkrstS e CO.
Druggists and trcu A ris. san frHucisco California.
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THE japanese, who are an initiative
people, have planned within few years
dss 4tEffts fbffaahTc;fiTessG=F6e nGreaf Learn
ing" which includes eight univer-
sites; the middle Learning" which
includes the provincial colleges; and the
''Small Learning, which is for the mass
of the people. The system has been
based upon the result of observations
in the United States, where the mass of
the people have small learning
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MAN, says a moralist, is pendulum
between a smile and a tear-with a
strong leaning for smiles"
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On EverybOdy,s TOngue.-EuIogiums of
the great National Regeneration of Health, PLANTA-
TON BTTrERs, are on everybody's tongue. This
gratuious Uiua Uoce advertising is better than all
the pad-for putting TO which the owners of bogus
b'tters obliged to resort. 1t has a spontaneous
heartinesS about it which carries conviction to the
M O he auditor.
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hood, of which Is full - E<ow or
trouble can rob them. GfV,rGem their
rosy youth. Nor need this involve
wild license. The judicious parent will
not mistake the meaning. If you have
ever met the man. or woman, whose
eyes have suddenly filed when little
child has crept tr1stingly to its moth
er's area t, you nav have seen one in
whose childhood home dignity and Sc
verify stood whe,e love and pity should
have been. Toomuch indulgence has
ruined thousands of children; too much
love not One.-Ea,a,a, Eir.n.
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Rev. Z. II. HOPKINS, of jackson Cen
tire, Shelby Co, O., says: My wife had the
consumption for ten years, and had been con-
fined to her bed for some time. Iheard of DIR.
L. Q. G.. Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial. and
after using four bottles, she was able to do the
work for her family. Com.
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The Rice Divorce Sutt for fra.

The Rice Divorce Suit for fraud in age
is causing great excitement in Boston. It should
warn young men not TO marry haste. Rice is
but p; his bride 81. He swears that she made HIM
believe she was but his age by using Magnolia
Balm upon Ter face, neck and hands. Poor youth +!
he probably found her elbows weren't quite so soft
and pretty. Ought Hagan to be indicted2 We
know Of many similar cases. This Balm gives a
most wonderful pearly and natural cod plexion, to
which we don't object We like pretty Anen. To
finish the picture they should use Lyons Kathairon
upon the hair. With pearly chin, rosy cheeks and
soft, luxurious tresses they become Irresistible.
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No Sewing Machine Received a Higher Prize
A FEW GOOD ItEAsONss

A FEW GOOD REAsONss
IA Men InUenfioii THOEoUGHLY TESTED aud
secured by Letters Patent.
2.-Makes a perfect LOCK STITCH, alike on both
sides, GH kinds Of goods.
3.-RUSs LIeHT. SMOOTH ,NoIsELEss and RAPID
best combination Of qualities.
4.-DURABLE-Runs FOR Years without Repairs.
s. VIII do al Va fcfy or Work and Fancy Stitch
ing In a superior manner.
6-Is Most Easly Managed by the operator.
Length OF stitch may be altered while running,
and machine can be threaded without passing
thread through holes
7.-Design Simple, Ingenious. Eego'a, forming
the stitch Without the use OF Cog wheel Gears,
Rotary Cams Lever Arms. Has the automatic
Drop Feed. which flnTes UNIFORM length Of Ffifch
at any speed. Has our new Thread Controller,
which allows easy movement Of needle-bar and
preueHts injury N thread
S.-CoNsTRUCrIoS most cdrcriH and FISIsHE
II is manufactured by the most stfitrtd and eTDss
enced mechanics. a. the celebrated RemingtOf
ArmOry, Hon, ~. y. New York Omce
No. Madison square, (kurtz's BUILD,
lingo BRANCH OFFICES; $50 state 10
Chicago, Ills 27O Superior ST., Cievelan
OhiO.i Isl Fourth ST., Cincinnati. O.s 4ON
Main St, Buffalo, n. VI 332 Washington
ST., Boston, mnss.g $40 Chestnut ST.,
Philadelphia Pa 10 sixth ST., Pitts
burgh, PA.
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into his crops, kill his fruit trees.
&Sge his farm, and SOW his fields
d oats and thistles. 1t will take
off his buildings, break the
g OF the windows, aud fill them
vi 1t will take the gloss from
hi ssxothes and polish from his manners.
his reason, arouse his passions
bring sorrow and disgrace upon his
family, and topple him into drunkard's
grave. 1t will do this to the artisan
and the capitalist, the matron and the
as we'll as to the farmer: for
its IN deadly enmity to the human race,
acohol is no respecter of persons.
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The Yesper Bell.

- Tya tina fr4Fola- -, Ss1-T.l% -----i -
striking Of the vespec bell exercises a
potent charm. AS the usage requires
- one to halt, no matter where he
pc, at the first stroke of the bell,
brrupt his conversation, no matter
Important, and listen without stir
he conclusion of the chime, the
ty of a whole population sur
a moment as it comes and
Y I'D in a state Of petrifcation,
Ialyzed as if by an encounter,
imagined. On every side you
50 stures interrupted, mouths half
O pr the arrested remarks, smiles
e or passing into an expression
a You would fancy them a ma
It'd statues. A town in South
AIN at the ADgelus, resembles the
cit Ze "Arabian Nights, whose in
haOSSfits were turned into stones. The
magician here is the bell ringer. But
hardly has the vibration ceased when
universal m1rmur arises from these
thousands of oppressed lungs. Hand
meets hand, questions seek answer, con-
versations resume their course; horses
feel the loosened bride, and paw the
ground; dogs bark, and babies cry; the
mothers chatter. The accidental turns
thus given to conversation are many.
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The Taha cen Crop.

According to the Louisville Courier
Journal, which has reports from fifty
counties in Kentucky, the tobacco crop
IN that state viii not exceed thirteen
per cent. of last wears weld. Late es-
Inmates of the crop are that at the close
of the planting sesson it may be eonsid-
cred a settled fat tIat the acreage I'M
der cultivation in Tannessee and south
ern Indiana is not INA to one-fourth
of an average. N;esouri is roughly es-
tlmated at two-thads and late Virginia
put the a,eaae in this state at
one half an average It is thought, &C
cordlng to presenfinformation, it would
be liberal estim,.aA ~ count on one
third of an averaos ,,.o,, in the United
states, and takiusslleo = census year as an
average year for 80, n,,-so,5uction, we shall
have about IS, Goa aoa ,,onpds of tobac-
cox G ooo 6 Sf the crop, instead sd o.
the crop of this Tear fall shert two
thirds. A
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The following letter from REV. f. :. BEST. Pal-
tor M L. Church. Natick, Mass, will be read with
interest by many physicians. Also those suffering
from the same disease as afflicted the son OF the
Rev. E S. Best. No person can doubt this iesti-
nony. and there is no doubt about the curative
noNvers of NEaETINE.
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LAST March a man named Emory
Prattle, mechanic in the employ of
the Michigan car company, made bet
with another man as to which could lon
ger hold out the handles of an electric
battery which travelling nuisance had
on the Campus Martius. PrattIe won
the bet, but at heavy cost. His system
received such shock that up to this
time &s not been able TO do a DAYS
work. pas fallen away from pow
erful man to a skeleton almost.
and ysician cannot say that he
will ze restored to health.
In POLLS women are relating lit
tie SCIENCES of how they used to
rom Henry Ward Beecher. ssB ut,
sir ene1sdd, " I was very youngl"