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4 TRUE LADY.

Beauty and style are not the purest
passports to respectability-some of the
noblest specimens of womanhood the
world has ever seen have presented the
plainest and most unprepossessing ap-
pearance. A woman's worth is to be
estimated by her real goodness Of heart,
and the purity and sweetness Of he1
character and such woman, with q
kindly disposition and well-balanced
mind and temper, is lovely and attract
i've Be her face ever so plain and hel
form ever so homely, she makes the best
of wives and the truest of mothers. She
has higher purpose in life than the
beautiful yet vain and superciliou:
woman, who has no higher ambition
than to crafty her inordinate vanity by
attracting fattery and praise from SO
ciety whose compliments are as hollow
as they are insincere.
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Titans and Men.

"Blessed are the meek" exclaims the voice OF
inspiration, but can q man be meek with the
consciousness that a dreadful monster is con-
Stunning his vitas. We are not race of Titans.
A Prometheus might stand chained to the tor
turing rock with vulture perpetually gnawing
his liver, and his face ever wear an expression
of heroic and even meek endurance. But Pro-
metheus has left no descendants. With vultures
(disease) consuming his liver, the modern man
makes himself and every one around him miser-
able. Fretful, gloomy, hypoohondriacal, he
sees the world and life all on the wrong side
the dark side-and whoever dares to assert that
there is sunny side he regards as an enemy,
or at best mocker of his imaginary woes. I'm
like the mythical Titan, the victim of disease is
not succorless. There is an arm to rescue-a
balm to cleanse and heal. AS remedies for this
most depressing of all diseases Liver Com
laints'-none are more efficient or popular than
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
Pleasant Purgative Pellets. The Pellets effectu-
ally remove the effete and poisonous matter,
while the Medical Discovery inparts strength
and health to the entire system. They are sold
by DRUGGISTS.
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FUNER

The Cost of Getting Under the Sod
The population of the world at the
close of the year 1876 is estimated at
,423, 917 900. Admitting that the aver
age duration of human life is 33 years,
the deaths will be 1886, 900 a year.
According to the most reliable data, it
costs about an average of 800 to defray
the expenses of Christian funeral. IF,
therefore, all the nations of the earth
were Christians, the funeral bills would
amount to s., 345, 506, 900 annually. The
question that will at an early day con-
front economists will be, Cannot some
way be devised to die cheaper? Evil
IDENTITY it costs too much to get directly
under the sod-too much for rosewood
collins, plumed hearses, monumental mar
BILE, fashionable cemetery lots and mourn
ing costumes. Fashion is too supreme
at funerals. The tickle goddess is to
potential in debating the fit and fabric
of shroud and winding sheet and the
style of silver plates and nails. Mourn
ing goods are manufactured to order
and graded first, second and third; every
sigh has its peculiar tint, until at last
the world observes that the days of sad
ness are past and tie "dear departed
are forgotten. The poor can hardly at
ford to die; a rude country coffin no
longer answers the purpose. The style
of burial case is a matter of deep con-
Germ, and in many cases the living are
robbed of the absolute necessaries of life
that the dead may have fashionable
funeral. Speculation in cemetery lots
is now feature in real estate transac-
tons, and there are aristocratic avenues
in the cities of the dead as we'll as in the
cities of the living. Pride erects its mon
uments on the grand thoroughfares, and
the gaping multitude discuss the former
Opulence of those who lie under sculp-
tured marble. The population of the
United States is estimated at $1,000, 600,
which will give, according to accepted
death rates, about ], 100000 deaths an
nually. Estimating the average cost of
a funeral at 800 we have a death tax of
about 1875, 100000 annually, or some
thing over So per capita for every man,
woman and child in the country Manifest
ly this sum is too large. Common sense
demands that it should be reduced.
The discussion will hardly be undertak-
en- by the undertakers, and the lively
stable men may regardi it somewhat hack
neyed, nevertheless the fact stands that
1t costs too much to die.
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-4naetta Planners Diary.

Ny mother told me that it would be a
good way for me to make believe that I
am telling Miss Annetta Fourteen what
happens every day. I asked my mother,
''Wil she be I? Will Miss Annetta
Fourteen be the same I then that I am
now when I am Z ?"
"She said, "She will be the same [,
and she will not be the same L.
Then 1 asked my mother to tell me
how 1 could be the same [, and not be
the same I. She said, "You are the
same you that you were when you were
baby, and you are not the same you. -
She said that if I were the very same
you-no, the very same THAT I was
when was baby, / should want a rattle
to shake, and to be trotted, and to pat
cakes
That made me laugh out loud.
Then my mother asked me if I should
not like to read little cunning diary,
where Annetta Baby put down when she
learned how to pat-a-cake, and when she
jumped first time in a baby jumper, and
when she fell out of bed. And l said I
should.
l shall tell something now in
my diary about poor little Banty
White. She died this morning. She
had the pip. She was little beauty.
Oh, she was just as white as snow all
over. and everyone in the family loved
her very much. She would come when
we called her, and she knew her name.
She had four chickens once, and once
she had seven. They are sold
cried when my Banty died. She was
very cunning and very nice. My mother
does not think it is foolish to cry for
something like that. She thinks it is
foolish to cry when you can't have things
that you want, and when you cannot go
to the places that you want to. My
mother talks to me a great deal about
Banty White. The Plaguer talks some.
The Plaguer is my cousin Hiram. He
is Is. He is very tall. He likes to
plague us when we do not wish him to
do so. He says "Boor' in our ears
when we do not know he is there.
They counted four good things about
Banty. Kind-that was one of the good
things. My cat had three kittens, and
two died. My cat had fits. They were
running fits. And once she ran away.
That was the last one she had, for she
did not live much longer, and her little
kitty was left without any mother.
Banty White let the kitty come under
her wings, and did not push it out She
was kind to it great many days. When
she called her chickies to eat something,
she wanted that kitty to come too, and
she wanted the kitty to run under her
wings when the chickies came under :
and when the kitty did not come quick,
she kept saying "Cluck cluck cluck p
till somebody put it under there. Then
she kept still.
Not Guarrelsome. This makes two
good things. When any other Banty
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A Point on Which the Doctors Agree

Physicians who have tested Hoste:ter' 5
Stomach Bitters concur in representing it to be
an enaine,tly safe stinau'd,at, far preferable to
the ordinary liquors of commerce, not only
because it is indicated but because it is inf
nitely pure. Its alcoholic basis is the finest
old rye, and this is tempered and rendered
medicinal by the curative ingredients of bot
anic origin which it holds in solution. 1t has
often been initiated. but never rivaled, and
is to-day the leading tonic, diuretic and aperi-
ent of America. NTalarial fevers are prevented
and remedied by it, and it is a thoroughly re-
liable medicine in cases of dyspepsia, consti-
patton, liver complaint, rheumatism, gout merry
ousness urinary and uterine affections. 1t i'm
proves the appetite increases the bodily STAN
ina, checks premature decay, and as sustain
ing and comforting cordial for the aged and
infirln is unegualed.
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The favorite hymn, "The Ninety and
Nine" was written by Miss Elizabeth G.
Chaplain, daughter of a Scottish advo-
cate in the county of Fife. It was writ
ten when she was quite a young girl, on
the spur of the moment, for the Chill
dre,a's Hour, paper published by her
cousin in Edinburgh. To Mr.. Sankey
belongs the credit of introducing it to
the religious public. He saw it in an
old paper and seized it for evangelistic
D11rposes,
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L4DIES OF TIE WHITE HOUSE
ANGELICA SINGLETON

Hannah Hoes, the wife of Martin Van
Buren,, had died nearly twenty years be-
fore he was called to the Presidency.
after only thirty-five years of fortunate
and perfect life. The honors of the
White House were then rendered in the
most pleasant fashion by the bride of
her son, Angelica Singleton, a young
and dark-eyed South Carolinian of dis
tinguished family and connections. and
fine education. Serene and sunny wears
like those of Mrs. Abram Van Buren,
give but slight events to the chronicler
but everything in their course tended to
her qualification. In Europe she was
received in the kindest and most uncere-
monious fashion by the royal families
both of England and of France, and in
America the world was at her feet: for.
although she lived in time of bitter
ness and acriznony, all poisoned shafts
fell powerless before her sweetness and
grace.
MRS HARRISON.
Until the close OF MIR. Van Buren's
tenure Of the White House, the society
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Wheet6arrOtC-Ridi1t at Shanghai.

WheeJ6arrotc Riding at Shanghai.
You all enjoy riding in a carriage, or
a wagon, or on a sled, I know, and
America has a great many fine carriages
and buggies to ride in. The Chinese
also like to ride, and, now that foreigners
have come here, we often see natives
with horses and carriages riding about
in Shanghai. But horses and carriages
cost SO much that the poor people cannot
afford to own them or hire them. Still
they want to ride, and how do you think
they manage to get ride without pay
ing much money? In Shanghai there
are great many Cinnamon who buy
wheelbarrows, and then go about in the
streets just as men with omnibuses and
hacks do at home, and sing out,
C7to-tz! chO-tz !'' which means Gear
rage, carriage. Here is one saying
"Carriage for the Little East Gate" an
other goes to the North Gate, and SO ON
for all parts of Shanghai, outside of the
walls, for inside the streets are too mar
row for a wheelbarrow.
These wheelbarrows are larger than
those used at home, and are arranged
with seat on each side of the large
wheel. A rack is built over the wheel
to keep the clothes from being rubbed;
a cushion is placed on each seat, and q
piece of rope hangs down like stirrup
to put the foot in for support. Ladies
and gentlemen are to be seen at any
time of the day out riding on these
wheelbarrows, and they are much used
by laboring men and wemen, in going
to work or returning home I have rid
den on them, and think them quite COM
Portable. 1 said they are cheap. A
Chinaman pays about IS cash, or one
cent and half, to ride mile. A for
eigner must pay a little more, about 2
cents.
The wheelbarrows are also used for
wheeling burdens, and it is quite won
derful how heavy burden one of these
wheelbarrow-men can take on his car
riage. -Chitdre'a's Work for Children.
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What is so rare as a day in June ?
Then, If ever, come perfect days. I be-
heve some great poet has said the same
thing. But, bless you ! the birds have
sung it every summer since the world
began; so it is doubly true and doubly
new-for the very truest and newest
thing in the universe is the glad note of
a bird when summer comes.
There is something that your Jack
loves nearly as well, though, and that is
the laugh of happy young heart
So laugh out, my children-laugh and
be happy, IN these sweet, warm DAYS;
and when the flowers nod brightly to
you, as they viii, and the grass whis-
pers softly, and the whole earth seems to
smile and sing, remember Jacks words:
Be glad, glad, glad-and keep your
hearts in tune !-Jack-in-the-P Pulpit.
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ran to get the same crumble that she
was going after, she did not iiv at that
other one.
Not pick out the best. This makes
down corn, or crumbs, or bugs-my
father picked off squash-bugs to give to
| the hens-she did not try to pick for the
biggest one, and she did not either try
to keep the best place for herself. The
best hen-place is close to the back door.
Banty White was tied to a stake there,
but she was willing the other ones should
have that good place, too.
Not proud. Four good things. The
| Plaguer told me of this one. He said
some hens are so proud when they lay
eggs that they go around cacking very
loud, Just as much as to say, "See
what I've done I've done I" He said
Banty White never made very loud
cackling. My mother said that she heard
the boys cackle," one day, when they
had brought in some large sticks of wood.
That made us laugh. Then she said
she heard little girl 4" cackle, one day,
when she had picked more huckleberries
than the others did 1 know what little
girl she meant. Me.
One day, my father and my mother
and myself went to see my aunt, and we
stayed there all night, and Hiram put
my Banty under barrel to make her
not want to sit, and he forgot she was
under there, and she starved almost to
death, because she had no food to eat.
One day, when our great Shanghai
hen wanted to sit, the Jimmyiohns went
way into corner of the hen-house and
tried to get hold of her legs to pull her
off, and she pecked them. Most every
body knows about the Jimmies now,
think, for they are only our two little
twin boys who look just alike. One OF
the Jimmies held out stick for her to
bite, and so she did little while; but
she stopped biting that stick when he be-
gan to put out his other hand to take
hold of her legs with, and pecked thai
hand. Then he threw sand in her face
SO she could not see his hand; but she
could. Then he threw some pine-need
les that were on the ground in the hen
house; but they did not stop her from
pecking that hand he was taking hold O.
her legs with. Then he put his straw
hat on her head, SO that she had tt
knock her head on the inside of it, an(
then they both took hold of her legs an6
pulled her off. This is very funn.
story. They could not get out. The,
let her go back again. The button OF
the door of the hen-house turns itsel
! around, and they had to stay shut up il
there almost two hours. They holleret
just as loud as they could, and then the,
cried, and then they pounded, and thel
they kicked the door, and then they die
all these same things over again. Whel
Hiram put the COW in the barn, he hearc
them pounding, and heard Snip barking
Snip was lying down outside, and some
time he got up and barked. One day
the Jimmyjohns went off in boat, ant
it was bad weather, and they almost go
drowned. This almost makes me cry
for then we could never, never see GU
little Jimmies any more Oh wha
should We do without our dear it'll
Jimmies abbey Morton Diaz in 81
Nicholas for June.
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W1HoFT's ToN1ci-ASArr SrRE AND

WEHoFT's Tonic "A SAFE, SURE, AND
SCIENTIFIC CURE The unprecedented sale of
this world-renowned medicine proves incon-
testbly that no remedy has superseded the use
OF this reliable Tonic. No spleen has been
found SO hard as not to yield to its softening
influence. and no liver SO hypertrophied as not
to give up its long-retained bilious secretions,
and no Chill or Fever has yet refused to fall
into Line. Ct. r. FrNLAY & Co., Projectors,
New Orleans.
For SALE ny ALI. DRI1GGIsrs
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Rheumatism Quickly Cured.

"Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the great
Internal Medicine will positively cure any case
of rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price,
81 a bottle, six bottles SIS. Sold by all drug
gists. Send for circular to Helphenstine d
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THE Black sea is remarkable BODY OF

THE Black sea is a remarkable body of
water. 1t is about 700 miles long in its
longest direction, and has an extreme
width of about $50 miles, being three
fourths longer than Lake Superior and
more than twice as wide. Its depth is
from four to forty-eight fathoms near
shore, but in the middle no soundings
have been found at 100 fathoms The
greatest depth of Lake Superior is 200
fathoms.
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IT is SAID by those who know that
DooLEY & BROTHER, the manufacturers OF the
Justly celebrated and well-known Yeast Powder
which bears their name, have the largest and
most complete establishment of the kind in the
world. The ca pacity of their mammoth fac
tory is simply marvellous. reaching the immense
quantity of five millions of pounds annually
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AFTER an experience of over twenty

AFTER an experience of over twenty
five years, many leading physicians aeknowl-
Cat7tolicon is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject The
Graefenbeyg Vegetable Pills, the most popular
remedy of the day for bilicusness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases of digestion Sold
by all druggists. Send for almanacs. Graefen-
berg Co., New York.
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SEND 81. and fifteen cents for postage,
and get the Chicago Ledger for one year. Inc
ledger is the most successful, III fact the only
successful, literary paper ever published In the
West The above price is merely nominal for
such valuable paper. Address The Ledge,
Chicago Ill.
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INFORMATION worth thousands TO those
out of health. Self-help for weak and nervous
sufferers Facts for those who have been doseo-
drugged, and quacked- The neS Health jour
nal teaches all Copies free Address, Etectf4c
Quarterly, Cincinnati, o.
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AsrHMA.-Thousands of the worst
cases of asthma have been relieved Ds n7iiio
JONAS WH1rcoAHs REMEDY. In no case Of
purely asthmatic character has 1t failed 10 give
relief,
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For SALE lsY ALL DRuGGIsTs.

PONDS EXTRACT. The Household
Remedy for Pain Cuts, Burns, Bruises, etc. Al
ways reliable. 1t never fails. Give it trial
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NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO.,
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.

They, any of their regular authorized Dealers II
nsh Illustrated Pamphlets and PTiceL Lists, and full r,
ticulars, free, application
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Hofmann's Hop Pills cure the Aqpe at ono,
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MRS. HARRISoT

Until the close OF MIR. Van Buren's
tenure Of the White House. the society
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Real Estate In New Orleans.

Real estate owners in New Orleans
have been patiently waiting for the prom.
ised increase in value Of their property
on the restoration Of paSsably good gov.
eminent, but, according TO the local jour
mails, they have been waiting 10 vain.
However, it would appear that while
there has been no actual appreciation Of
values, the decline has been fully arrest
ed, and in some quarters they "actualIy
tone up" a. the New Orleans Times ex-
presses it. "No piece of property" says
The Tines, "conld be bought in this city
now for less than it commanded a year
ago, while much real estate can be and is
sold at somewhat better figures than then
obtained" In regard to property owners
and rents, consequent on this condition
Of affairs, our contemporary says: "With
enough money invested in property 10
give them luxurious income, Il loaned
out, they(real estate owners) can hardly
keep their heads above water. They are
really, substantially, eflectualIy poor. For
while the price Of property has not sensi-
bly, enhanced, the attempt to advance
rents, based upon the triumph Of reform,
has failed. This is the saddest part OF the
whole business. The rental Of almost
every house in town was marked up, and
so persistent was the belief the millennium
had come that the advanced figures were
fondly chung to until the result proved
that q disastrous mistake had been made.
Putting houses that had commanded eight
hundred a year up to thousand, and
holding them at that until seven hundred
could not be obtained, Ia the way 1t work.
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aSlgus OF the Tlmes.n

CnIlltIln Union.
The withdrawal of Prof. Milliken, Of
Columbus, Ohio, from the Presbytery, and
the refusal Of a Congregational Council
at Springfield, Mass, TO install Mr.. James
I. Merriam, both reported In our reliRi.
GUS news columns, are important "a signs
oil the times. In neither case Is tue piety
or the aptness 10 teach questioned, In
neither case does the individual use his
peculiar views to harry and yex his
brethren, neither is disturber OF the
peace. But Prof. Milliken, with neither
indifference 10 religious truth nor decay
Of religious feeling" withdraw from the
Presbytery because he no longer holds the
standards Of the church "ior substance Of
doctrine;" and Mr.. Merriam il denied
standing in the church because he holds
that, while the Bible teaches the TACT OF
future punishment, il teaches nothing de.
finitely or decisiyely respecting It's dura.
ton. Evidently before lCog the Christian
church must decide which It cares most
to retaiu; its Oldest standards or its new.
eat men, c'eeds 9th seventeenth century
or heads and hearts that think and beat In
the nineteenth. The action OF the minor.
ity in Mr.. Merriam's case ia more signifl.
cant than the action of the Council itself
for it is fair indication that an increas.
ing proportion Of ministers in the Con-
gregational denomination are ready 10
bid God speed TO any disciple OF Christ
who desires 10 preach Jesus Christ a. a
divine Savior from ain, though his views
Of the nature and extent Of punishment
may not agree with the old standard.
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Obstruetins Nature,

Instead Of aiding her efforts to recupeIate
Is Obviously not the way to get well when
one Is sick. Yet this Is precisely the course
purSued-of course uhWittingly-by per-
sons who are continually dosing themselves
with powerful mineral drugs for some mala-
dy with which they are afflicted. Such
baleiul medicaments rather tend TO retaTtl
recovery than to hasten II. How much
more sensible are they who employ the
gently acting but thoroughly efficient re-
StoTatiye, HoStettsrs Stomach Bit.ers,
which, unlike the drugs referred to, Is emf.
nently wholesome and safe; and, instead
Of injuring, improves the tone Of the stom.
ach and re-createS health and yigOr In the
broken down system. Indigestion, liver
complaint, constipation, kidney aud blAd.
der ailments, and rheumatism yield to Its
corrective influence, and II Ia the remedy
aud preventive par excellence for inter.
mittent and remittent ievers and other dis.
orders bred by miaSma tainted ar and
water. It is, moreover, aSuperb appetizer.
cod