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HsGERANTS."
A Curious Adjunct or the Partisan News
paper

A Curious Adjunct OF the ParIsIan News
paper
An editor or his gerant, usually man
of straw, is fined from 500 to 1000
francs. If there is any imprisonment
with the penalty, it is taken by poor
devil who receives five francs per week
for taking the risks. and a support for
himself and family while in prison for
articles he did not write, and which he
never read. This system OF having sub
stitutes is a very convenient one for
journalists; it is a penuriOus system in
so far as the administration of justice is
concerned. A friend of mine employs
his concierge to act as gerant for his jour
nal, paws him 81 per week when all goes
we'll: $50 per week when in prison.
This man is capable of reading news
paper, but he could not write a single
line correctly, and has no more idea OF
orthopraphy than a child. The other
day he had to answer for brilliant
article in his journal. Accused" said
the Judge to the humble, cringing in
dividuaf before him "you recognize
YOUR guilt; yeu confess to your respon-
sibility fer this article ?" The accused
replied that he did. He regretted the
form of the article that he had published,
but he was the only person responsible
for it. Unfortunately" said the judge,
strongly emphasizing the word. 'unfor-
tunateiy, the law compels me to accept
this fiction. You are only straw man."
"Oui, monsieur lie president" he re-
sponded, humbly, 'Ije suis homme de
paile, mais je suis lie seul responsible"
He had learned his lesson, and repeated
it in court the court was bound by the
terms of the code to submit to this
fiction, openly characterized as such, and
openly confessed. This system is the
result, anomalous as the idea may ap-
pear, of the journalistic practice OF duel
ing. Some years ago the IeadlDg journal,
lists of Paris found themselves involved
in so many "afiaiTs" that their business
was interrupted. Often they got coup
d'epee which laid them up for weeks.
One day witty journalist hit upon the
famous plan of employing the best 1encing
master of Paris to sign his articles. When
challenges came, they were referred 10
the responsible party, who always pun,
ished his man, and who soon settled all
the difficulties of his journal. Others
followed his example, and took into their
employ Young men with fighting quail
ties or ex-army officers. who knew how
to handle a sword, if not pen. In the
end the journalists found that the sys-
tenn could be just as well applied to their
little disputes with Dame Justice. The
law required responsible signature to
each journal, and hence recognized the
signer as respon' ible. From this 10 em
ploying an ignorant and needy individual
to sign these was but step, and the
system of gerants now prevailing was IN
| euourated In a majority of cases it Is
the paid gerant who goes to prison, while
the paper pays the fines and expenses.
! The real authors of incriminated ar
ticles are seldom reached. Puts Cor. ~
! y. Times.
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Central Africa.

Those who have attained maturity
NAV recollect seeing upon maps OF Africa
a Ialge blank space in the centre, indica-
ting a land unexplored and unknow3.
Otiate years explorers have pierced its
mysteries. and ascertained that this re-
zion of great equatorial lakes is one OF
the most populous and fertile OF the
earth. and that an immense plateau,
among mountains crowned with eternal
snow, is watered by great streams pro,
ceeding from them, and offers climates OF
various degrees of temperature. This
inviting land is, however, the abode OF
savages, who are at perpetual war with
each other, and who mutually cause
destruction ofhuman life computed at
hundreds Of thousands a year. At least
40 900 slaves annually captured there,
for use upon the continent, or for
shipment elsewhere. The international
African association, headed by the King
of the Belgians, desired TO commence the
civilization of the country by establish
ing stations for scientific observations
and for the use and Protectioniof travel
ers; and branches of the association have
been formed in several European coun-
triaa
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The Fight Of Delibaba.

have had the opportunity of seeing
private and public dispatches from Deli
baba and Erzeroum detailing the COM
mencement and progress of the fight at
Delibaba. The Ottomans fought with
stubborn valor. They stood to be liter
ally moved down by the Russian guns.
They remained to be slaughtered by the
cavalry. Attacked on the flank when
they were hotly pressed in front, the
stubbornness of the defense was the valor
of despair. Officers and men fought with
equal bravery, and Mehemed Pasha died
sword in hand at the head of his troops
The Russians had modelled their plan of
attack on the German system, and they
fought with unexcelled bravery, return
ing again and again to the point selected
to be broken. The closing cavalry
charges were brilliant efforts, and a troop
of Cossacks were detached 10 capture
Gen. Kimball, an English officer who was
watching the battle on the Turkish side.
The general only escaped by the fleet
ness of his horse. The Russians thought
he was in command of the enemy, but he
was simply at headquarters, Just as
American and English officers were al
lowed to move with both the belligerent
armies in the France-German war,-N.
Y. Tines.
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AMERICAN MEDICINE GO.
Aliens Liver Pills.

Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated. For the
OF all disorders of the Stomach, Liver Bowels,
Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases Headache,
Constipation, CostiveneSs, Indigestion, Dyspepsia,
and all Bilious Diseases such Constipation, In
ward Piles, Ful,nvss of Blood to the Head, Acidity
of the stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for
Food. FullneSS or Weight in the Stomach, Sour
Eructations, Sinking klutering at the Pit of the
Stomach, Swimming OF the Head, Hurried and DIFF
fcult Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart. Choking
or SuffOCating SensaI ions when in lying posture.
Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs before the Sight,
Fever or dull pain in the Head, Difficulty of Per-
spir9ton, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes Pain in
the Side, Chest, Limbs, and Sudden FluShes sf
Heat Burning of the Flesh etc.
Aliens LirPI. Pills may always be relied
on AS a safe and efectual remedy, and may be taken
nv both sexes AT ali times with beneficial results
Ry their use the weak made strong Distress
after eating, inward Weakness, Languor, Want Of
Appetite, at once removed by dose or two OF
these Pills. Thousands of persons who have used
these Pills have yet to hear the nrst plant
from one who has tried them. They always give
reli
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Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.

Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
pain in the right side, under the edge
of the ribs, increases on pressure !;
sometimes the pain is in the left side !;
the patientisrarelya etolie onthe left
side; sometimes the pain is felt under
the shoulder-blade, and it frequently
extends to the top of the shoulder, and
is sometimes mistaken for a rheuma-
tism in the arm. The stomach is affect
ed with loss of appetite and sickness; /;
the bowels in general are costive;
sometimes alternative with lax; the
head is troubled with pain, accompan-
led with dull, heavy sensation III the
back part. There is generally a con-
siderable loss of memory, accompan-
led with a painful sensation of having
left undone something which ought to
have been done. a slight, dry cough
is sometimes an attendant. . The pa
tient complains Of WEAKNESS and de.
bility he is easily startled, his feet are
cold or burning, and he complains of a
prickly sensation ofthe skin; his spir-
its are low: and although he is salts.
fed that exercise would be beneficial
to him, yet he can scarcely summon
UP fortitude enough to try it. In fact
he distrusts everyremedy. Several oi
the above esymptoms attendthed disease,
but cases have occurred where few of
them existed, yet examination of the
body, after death, has shown the LIVER
to have been extensively deranged.
AGUE AND YER G
DIR. G. MCLANE's LIVER PILLS, IN
CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them A FAIR TRIAL.
For all Bilious arrangements and as
asinple purgative they are eunequaled.
BEWARE OF IMETAFIGNS. q
The genuine DIR. c. MCLANE's
LIVER PILLS are never sugar coated.
Every box has red wax seal on
the lid, with the impression DR..
MCLANE's LIVER PILLS.
The genuine Nc LANE S LIVER PILLS
bear the signatures of c. MCLANE.
and FLEMING Bros. on the wrappers.
EInsist on your druggist or store
keeper giving you the genuine Dr:C.
MCLANE's LIVER PILLS, prepared
by Fleming Bros, Pittsburgh, Pa. .
NSold by all respectable druggists
and country storekeepers generally.
Tothose wishing to give DR.. C. .McLANE's LIVER
pills trial, will mail post paid to iny part Of
the United States, box Of Pills for twenty five
cents FLEMING BROS, Pttsburg, Pa.
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Twins.

One of the most singular cases ever
brought before the courts has just come
ND in this city. A man died, leaving his
property, one-third to his wife, one-third
to his child, and the ether third to a
child then unborn. The unborn party,
however, proved to be twins, and the
executoris sorely perplexed as TO whether
he shall divide the third, giving each OF
the twins one-sixth of the estate, or
whether he shall carry out the testatOr's
purpose to serve all the children alike,
by giving them and the widow one
fourth; or whether, again, he shall give
the widow her tbird and divide the other
two-thirds among the three children.
The case being wholly without precedent
in this state, the court gives the executor
no advice, and the conundrum IS to be In
some way brought before the probate su'
preme court.-Springfeld Mass.) DeS
] patch.
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The Great Wall OF China.

KaIgan commands one of the passes
through the great wall Of China. 1t Is
there built of large stone, cemented to-
gether with mortar. 1t tapers toward the
Ton being twenty-one feet high and
tTeeSnty.eight eS feet wide at the foundation.
At the most important points, less than
a mile apart, square towers are erected,
built of bricks. 1t winds over the crest
of the mountains, crossing the valleys at
right angels, blocking them with iortiti-
cations. The Chinese estimate its length
to be about $500 miles, but in parts
more remote from PelSin the wall is OF
inferior construction. There is nothing
but diiapidated mud rampant, as Col
onel Prejevalsky saw it on the borders OF
Ala-shan and Kansu. 1t is said to have
been built upward of two centuries before
Christ to protect the empire against the
inroads of the neighboring Nomads, but
the periodical irruptions of the barbarians
were never checked by this artificial bar
rier,
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A nrnc thnt Cnres BashfnIness.

We should haadly expect to find in
the materia medica cure for bashtul-
ness, says the journal Of Chemistry, but
coca (or cuca, az some prefer TO call it),
which has lately attracted considerable
attention in professional circles, is said
to answer this purpose, According to
DIR. w. Tanner, whatever may have been
said from time TO time about the effects
of cuca on the human system, this much
is certain, that it causes timid people,
who are usually i'll at ease in society, and
particularly so before strangers, to aP-
bear to good advantage under these cir
cumstances. In other words, it cures
bashfulness. Its effects on depression OF
spirits, he says, are what might be ex-
pected from a drug whose action is
"energy giving and bashfulness curing.
He has not seen any corresponding
mental or physical depression attending
its after effects. Its action may be largely
increased by combining it with an alkali.
1t may be that the alkali dissolves some
of its active principles that otherwise
would remain undissOlved.
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THE &" "AGER.''
Once upon an evening bleary,
While / sat me dreamy, dreary,

Once upon an evening bleary,
While sat me dreamy, dreary,
In the sunshine thinking over
Things that passed In days of yore
While nodded, nearly sleeping,
Gently came a something creeping
Up my back like water Ieaping-
Leaping upward from the floor;
otis cooling BREATH" muttered,
" From the regions meath the floor
Only this and nothing mOrel'
All distinctly remember
1t was in that wet September,
. When the earth and every member
OF creation that it bore
Had for days and nights been soaking
In tha meanest, most provoking
FoGgy rains that, without joking,
We had ever seen before;
So knew it must be very
Cold and damp beneath thu floor
Very cold beneath the floor
So sat me nearly mapping
In the sunshine, stretching, gaping,
Craving water. but delighted
With the breeze from meath the floor;
Till 1 found me waiting colder,
And the stretching growing bolder,
And myself growing older
Older than felt before;
Feeling that my joints were sitter
Than they were in days of yore-
Suffer than they'd been before
All along my back the creeping
Soon gave place to rushing, leaping,
As If countless frozen demons
Had concluded to explore
All the cavities-"the varmints"-
'Twixt me and my neither garments,
Up into my hair and downward
Through my boots into the floor;
Then found myself a-shaking,
Gently first, but more and more
Every moment more and more.
Twas the agerw and it shook me
In my very clothes, and took me
Shaking to the kitchefi- every
Place where there was warmth in store;
shaking till the dishes c altered,
Shaking till the tea was spattered,
Shaking, and with all my warming
Feeling colder than before;
Shaking till it had exhausted
All its powers to shake nae more
Till Ii could no. shake me more
Then It rested till the morrow,
Then resumed with all the horror
That it had the face to borrow,
Shaking, shaking as before;
And from that day in September
Day that 1 shall long remember
1t has made diurnal visits,
Shaking, shaking on so sorel
Shaking off my boots, and shaking
Me to bed, if nothing more
Fully this and nothing more!
And to-day the swallows fitting
Round my cottage see me sitting
Moodily within the sunshine
Just inside my silent door
Waiting for the lager" seeming
Like a man forever dreaming;
And the sunlight on me streaming
Throws no shadow on the floor
For / am too thin and ssllow
To make shadows on the floor
Nary shadow any more
Bottom Gazette.
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my hand fervently, and said certain
words that shall not easily forget.
The viaduct was quickly rebuilt.
But the station-master at Ammering
does not forget the race of steam versus
water on the Vigilant locomotive. Nor
do /.
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ALIENS LIVER PILLS

Regulate the organs of the system, restoring func
tional harmony and securing the secretion OF the
proper constituents of each organ. BY their action
the liver secretes its allotted proportion of bie-the
lungs car bon, the skin sweat, the kidneys urine,
etc. and are always reliable purgaJive
The aged, and persons subjected 10 Constipation,
Paralysis, and weakness Of the Bowels, Kidneys
and Bladder, etc, that have resort 10 Injections
by taking two three Of Allen't Liver Pills will
enjoy natural discharges and by the occasional use
of them have regular operations In thee cases
their strengthening and nutritious principles are
exhibited every dose will add strength TO the
Bowels. Liver, Kidneys, etc, that may be worn or
depleted by age.
In these Pills, a want that science has ever failed
TO supply is secured, and this is thorough purga-
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f,vers as Smallpox, Erysipelas, Yellow Fever,
scarlet and Typhoid Fevers. When the Mucous
Membrane becomes liberated, these Pills act thor
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They are made from ext acts-frOm new ingredients
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Price 25 cents box or six boxes for S1.25 If
your druggist or store-keeper does not have them,
we viii forward half dozen boxes to any address
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Aliens Strengthening Cordial

Is the great blood purifier Syphilis, and re-
moves Fimples and HumOrs the face
Reason should teach that a blOtchy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause, and outward application can ever cure the
defect.
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ALIENS 'S?IlE OINTMENT,
TIE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE
PREPARATION.

The reputation of this Medicine is now we'll es-
profession throughout the Union recommend it 10
their patients the very best Of all remedies for
Piles. Hundreds of the most painful of Piles
have been cured by its use in very short time.
No medicine has obtained higher more
deserving reputation than Aliens Pile Ointment.
Aliens Pile Ointment is a remedy of universal
usefulness whenever oil cerate salve ointment or
embrocaton is required, in cases of Burns, Scalds
Blisters Sprains, Bruises, AbTasiOns, Cuts Ulcers
Salt Rheum, letter, Eczema, Ring Worm, BARRIERS
Itch, Frosted Limbs, Chilblains, Chapped Skin,
Fever Bisters, Bed So es, Sore Feet, Bunions,
Vegetable Poisoning, Bites Of Insects, etc.
There is no known remedy that gives such lasting
relief as Aliens Pile Ointment. 1t is a new, de-
lightful and wonderful remedy, designed and war
Tanted to supersede all other Ointments yet dis
Aliens Pile Ointment is entirely different from
cOvere..
any other Ointment in the whole world perfectly
harmless for the infant aged it is cooling and
grateful to the burning brow, thrObbing temples and
-parched system il will haniSh pain and allay
Inflammation more rapidly than any curative COM
pound in this or in any other country.
Price so cents box six boxes for 50 90. If
your druggist or StOrekeeper dOe' not have il, we
will forward half dozen TO any address on receipt
of price,
Prepared only by
AMERICAN MEDICINE CO.,
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.
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Tumors, Ulcers, or Old Sores

Are caused by an impure state of the blood cleanse
the blood thoroughly with Aliens Strength
9IliIlD Cordial and the complaints will disap-
pear.
Aliens Strengthening Cordial cures
Constipation, Dyspepsia, Faintness Of stomach 1t
is stimulating 5itters which Creates fictitious
appetite, but gentle Tonic which assists nature to
restore the stomach 10 a healthy action. No person
suffering with Sour Stomach, Headache COstiveness,
Paipitation of the Heart Indigestion, Low Spirits,
etc, can take three doses without relief.
Aliens strengthening Cordial cures
Female weakness il acts directly upon the of
these complaints, invigOrates and strengthens the
whole system, acts upon the secreive organs and
allays Inflammation.
Aliens strengthening Cordial has
failed to mercuris diseases, pain in the
bones, it removes from the system the producing
cause. Salt Rheum and Scald Head readily yield 10
the great Alternative effects Of this medicine
Aliens STRENGTHENING C'a1S1ivSH has
never been known to Iail in giving Immediate relief
in sll diseases of the Kidneys md Urinary organs.
This medicine challenges the most profound atten-
tiOn of the medical faculty, many of whom pre-
scribing 1t to their patients.
Aliens StrengthemIIIg Cordial acts
as delightfully."- the tender babe, the delicate
lad y, and infrm old age, as on the ong man i'm
parting health and ylgOr to the nerves and brain,
blOOd-vessels, heart and liver. When taken you
feel its lie-giving power course through every
artery, destroying all diseases in the blood and Civ
ing health, elasticity and strength to the whole
ganizatiOn.
Aliens Strength eHing Cordial is
knGwledged by all classes of people to be the best
and most reliable blood purifier in the world 1t is
a never failing remedy and can be relied upon HHw
many thousands upon thousands have been snatched
il from the brink of the grave 81 Its miracu-
lOus power. Who wll suffer from Liver mpGints,
Dyspepsia, Disease OF ths Stomach, Kidneys Bowels,
or Bladder when suCh great remedy is within reach
Volumes might be filed with proof from all parts
OF the civilized world to preve that remedy has
ever been discovered in the whole history OF medi
cine that acts promptly. Even I'm the worst cases
OF Scroiula a good appetite, complete digestion
strength and disposition for exercise sure to
follow its If the bowels costive head
ache accompanies the disease the of Aliens
Liver Pills will remove it. Over eight years expert
ence and the increasing popularity of Aliens medi-
Cines conclusive proof.
Price 81 90 per bottle, six bottles for S5 90. II
your druggist store keeper does not have it, we
will forward half dozen to any address on receipt
of the price
Prepared only by
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo.
For sale by all Druggists.
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Artificial flowers are psed in button
hole boquets in New York. They are
perfumed.
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