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Captain Courtney

Says: While on the coast of Africa had
three men sick with malarial fever cured
them with Sulphur Bitters. 1t is the great
est blood purifier | ever saw. | always
keep them in my medicine chest.-Ship,
Nasaiidus, Baltimore.
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RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA CURED.

Mr.. Geo. :. Bunker merchant. East sullivan Me
te-tihes tina, h. has sold hundreds If bottles of
CLARks RHECAATIC ELINIR ard has known IL
cure many severe cases of rhuemati-m AMI neu-
ralgia. That he his taken il himself for neural
gia in the face and head with complete success,
and would be without IL, IL IL cost ten dollars
bottle Be sure 20 ask for rlarke's Rheumatism
Elirir. Sold by druggists and medicine dealers
a q batlle six for Is. Iyr. ~
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Intelligence Of Ants.
< Mr. oc,rg, } Roman,-' larcr iu tho Nineteenth


highly remarkable facts Il ha> been SHOWN
Since thc nn>,r, atson, " Huber that all the
ants oi the same community recognize one
another as friends while an Amt introduced
from another Dc~f. even though it be- an ant
of the same species. Is known al once 10 De-
foreigner. ami i> u>uaiI, maltrrntrd or put
to DEATH Hllcr found Jhai when he rc-
moved an tu' from nest and kept il away
from n companions for period q four
months u wa> >u.l recognized i, Il friend,
ami o,rc>>el by is prr,lou, fellow citizens
ai'yr m, manner IN which ant. show friend
-hIP. VIZ by >trok.u- autcuur. SIR John
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u- .hc,r observations extended a. follow.
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separation h,snni tour months. and found
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Hunting the Bear.

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FOR SALE I!

k A small Brick House and seyenty-tv .
fSfW rods land in LauQine, formerly owned BY
ea0R ,,sphen Young. Wi,lbe sold at a bargain
HENRY WHITING.
ezkwarti. Oct II, fssi. 3mos4l'
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BenSon's CapCine
Porous PIaSterS
SEABuRT JoHksoA

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Hcstry.
After the Burial.

ny OLIVER wTNnFII HOLMES.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-09
UnwhOIesOme Wells.

The great trouble with wells is that
in the course Of years the ground
around the house and barn becomes so
impregnated with sewage and other
contaminations as to affect the water.
In the first report Of the Massachusetts,
BoardEof Health, DIR. Derby says
''As rule, a well receives drainage
from superficial circular area whose
diameter is from one to three times
the depth Of the well, varying with
the character Of the soil''. On this
principle, no well thirty feet deep
should have privy, pig pen, barn
yard, or cess-pool within fifty feet of
it in any direction, nor should any
Stops Of the house or refuse of any
kind be thrown upon the surface of
the ground within the area Of this
circle. How many farms are there on
which this principle is not violated!
It is not a sufficient reply to say that
the family have drank from such wells
with impunity for score or more of
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-09
Energy the True Mark of Genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in one of his.
lectures, describes with the clear sweep
Of painter the vital necessity Of en-
srgy and labor to even the most gifted.
In the present day of steam and punctu--
atty, the lazy man, no matter how ex-
traordinary his requirements, must al
ways fall behind in the race of human
life. He says:
"Genius unexerted is no more genius
than bushel of acorns is forest Of
oaks. There may be epics in mems
brains, just as there are oaks in acorns,
but the tree and the book must come
out before we can measure them. We
very naturally recall here that class of
grumblers and wishers who spend their
time in longing to be higher than they
are, while they should be employed in
advancing themselves. These bitterly
moralize upon the injustice of society.
: edo they want change? Let them
change prevents it? If you are as
high as your faculties will permit you to
rise in the scale of society, why should
you complain of men? It is God that
arranged the law of precedence. Implead
him or be silent. II you have capacity
for higher station, take it-what hinders-
you? How many men would love to go
to sleep and wake up Rothschilds OF
Astors
GLOW many men wouldfain go to bed
ounces and wake up Solomons You
reap what you have sown. Those who
SOW Ounce seed, vice seed, laziness seed,
usually geta crop. They that SOW wind
reap whirlwind. A man Of mere Ca
pacity undeveloped,' is only an organ
lied day dream with skin on it. A
flint and genius that will not strike
fire are no better than wet junk-wood.
We have scripture for it, that "A living
dog is better than dead ion.' If you
would be seen, shine.
eat the present day, eminent position
in any profession is the result of hard,
unwearied labor. Men can no longer
fly at one dash into eminent position
they have got to hammer it out by,
steady and rugged blows. The world is
no longer clay, but rather iron in the
hands of its workers."
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SHORT.

[San Francisco Exchanged
Hear the squealing of the shorts,
Alta shorts;
What world Of trouble now their caterwaul
imports, 'st
How they growl, growl, growl,
With snarl and howl,
And general condemnation
OF the sickening situation
OF the shorts, shorts, shorts,
OF the shorts.
Hear the swearing of the shorts,
Alta shorts;
Harken the discordancy of their injured
snorts,
How they saw that all the time,
From the morn to events chime,
Well they knew like book
Seth the Daniel, surnamed Cook;
But they didn't, hence the finch
Hence the sorry, sorry cfnch,
OF the shorts.
Dig deep grave for the shorts,
Saddened shorts;
Read with all the melancholy that its tone
imports
Some soft dirge, then in their tombs,
Far from Atlas treacherOus booms,
LIZ them low, with the song,
Pig that you were not long like a sport,
But were short, short, short,
Badly short.
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Two Men And A Door.

The stOrm-dOOrs around the Post
Office all open outwardly, This isn't
for fear that fire will occur and a
rush ensue, but it is arranged to make
man mad. A man will go singing
along the street, smiling all over, and
Dragging to himself how goOd-natured
he is, when he suddenly remembers
that he must mail letter. He is only
one man, but the other mentioned in
on the heading stands around to give
advice.
The first man ruSheS UP the steps
and gives the door push. 1t is solid
as rock, and his momentum gener-
ally carries his knees and nose against
the hard wood.
Push!'' yells the extra man.
The other steps, back and follows
the advice, but with no successful re-
suits. By this time his smile has faded,
his dyspepsia begins to work up, and
there is Indignation in his tones as he
turns and asks:
sis this blasted old Post-office closed
for the dayF'
ooh, no, sir. guess you will get in
if you push hard enough. 1 presume
the hinges are little rusty esSsZ
Then the man returns to the charge.
AS rule he puts his shoulder to. the
door, his feet slip back, and he comes
down in graceful heap, to be laughed
at by all the boys. When he gets up
he feels as if he could lick any seven
men, but before he has time to pick a
fight the other advances and says:
"Miphty curiOuS abOut that door
All! l see-Opens this way. You
might have pushed all day and not got
in"
The one who goes in is too mad to
post his letter. The one who stays
out shakes all over and keeps his eye
out for the neXt.-DetrOit Free Press.
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Two minutes after aheavy foot came
aft to the cabin stairs, and Mr.. Joseph,
with white face, entered.
knew what he had to tell. I knew
now-just as if I had seen it all-who
the tall man was whom l had seen
leaning against the line.
The captain looked at the second
mate.
':Chips is gone, sir" said the old
sailor, with sad tremor in his rough
voice; "Chips was knocked over by the
line, and we've gone four knots since
it parted. I've put her about and we
are running down again"
There was a dead silence. We all
knew the search was hopeless. No man
could swim in such sea; and we had
a thought. though no one spoke it, the
brave, strong Chips had been killed by
the line before he struck the water.
All night we beat about the place
where we thought it had occurred. The
wind and sea fell, and the moon came
out in great beauty to help in our sad
search. Every man on board staid on
deck till the sun rose, and then we all
looked far and vainly over the needless
| swell of the sea.
Chips was dead. The rough Portu-
| gueSe lads found it hard to believe that
the kind heart and strong hand of their
friend had gone forever. We all knew
that the best man in the ship was taken
away.
| Two years afterward, when l found
myself in Boston, took from my sa-
cred things letter, which I found in
Chips chest. 1t was addressed to a
woman, with the name and number of
a Cambridge street. I found the place
Ia small frame house, with lots of
Chips handiwork around it. His
mother met me at the door, an old,
white-haired woman. She seemed to
have been waiting and watching for
somebody. A few words told the hope.
less story. The letter was for her, and
she read it over-the letter of her only
boy, asking forgiveness for his one
great and only disobedience--and as
she read the white head bent lower and
lower, till it met the thin hands; and ]
turned and left the little room I had
darkened, with all it's poor ornaments
useless now, and, as I walked toward
Boston, could not help thinking that
Gods ways are often wofully far from
being our WayS.-JOhn Boyle O'Reitty.
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Hairy Japs.

Miss Bird, an English lady, describes
in a book on Japan, and especially on
the Amos, how she was ferried across
a river by one Aino, completely COW
cred by hair, which on his shoulder was
wavy like that of retriever, and rem
dered clothing quite needless, either for
covering or warmth ;" and how in another
place she met with second cd man,
whom she emphaically describes as
"the missing link" His face was
vacant and apathetic, his arms and legs
unnaturnlly long and thin, he squatted
with his knees tucked into his arm-pits,
and his whole body was covered with
black hai, "more than an inch long, -
and slightly curled On the shoulders.
He had. however, bare patch on each
side, probably marking the parts ON
which he rested when asleep, pecul-
iarity found in the gorilla, who has a
bare spot on his back where he leans
against trees.
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One of Mr.. Moody's Stories.

A man came into one of our meetings
in the East, called me aside, and said :
81 want to be Christian, but L am
defaulter. I have taken 81 500 from my
employers, and I have less than 81 900.
What shall l do? Hadn't / better take
what 1 have and 60 into business, and
try to make enough to pay what owe ?"
"No, sir" I, said "you haven't any
more right to that money than if you
had taken it out Of my pocket. GO and
return all you have, even if you leave
your family penniless. The Lord will
not receive you while you have stolen
money in your hands," The man came
night after night, but found no peace
until he brought all the money he had
(S980) and gave it to me to give to his
employers. I took it to them. They
forgave him. They helped him, and he
soon found peace in Jesus"
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Something Good in the Fellow"

An eminent public man WHO shall be
namelsss-a man of great intellectual
power, Of real goodness of heart at bot
tom, but sadly broken and demoralized
by long-continued course of wrong
living and much wrong-doing-was
once told by boon companion how a
certain other public man had been abus-
ing him.
Never mind" said our eminent
friend, whose soul was really above the
level Of petty scandal and malice. "The
fellow is only a dirty BLACKBOARD, and
I care not to know what he says of
me-"
"But, my dear sir, if he is allowed to
60 on in that way he will ruin your char
acter he will destroy your credit and,
perhaps, mjure your prospects in the
future"
"Tut, tut Ny character-what
there is Of it's too tough for such a
man to injure it; my credit is phan-
tom, at best /; and as for my prospects
in the future, T doubt if he can make
them more dubious than they now aie. -
"Well," persisted the friend, after a
little pause, chow do you like the idea
Of his making free with the name ofyour
wife p
The man was aroused on the instant.
"He Does he dare ?"
eyes. He declares that your wife is
altogether too good for YOU"
"What? Does he say that ?"
Yes, he has said it repeatedly"
"Well, wel-there's something good
in the fellow after all. Bless him for the
truth he tells-for, my dear fellow, that
is true-as true as gospel"
The great man sat for many minutes,
with his head bowed down upon his
hand, and when he next looked up, his
face had grown wondrously soft and pa
thetic.
"Yes-he told the truth I think I'll
go home and have a chat with that
woman. Who know but that she may
lelp me- soZounds I have not
thought Of her. Bless the rascal for re-
nindisg me! Yes, sir He told the
truth hGe %
And IL worker for the nation-the
politician, work and weary-set forth to
find the ons being of earth in whom,
when all else should have failed him, he
felt he could trust.
Jonah in the Whale's Belly.
Two hundred years ago DR.. Zachary
Boyd wrote the following quaint descrip-
ron Of Jonah in the whales belly. He
was minister of the barony parish
Of Glasgow, and Rector Of its Uni
versity:
What house is this, where's neither coal candle,
Where nothing but CUTS Of fshes handle?
and my table are both within,
Where day meier dawned, where sun did never shine.
The like Of this on earth man never saw,
4 living man within monsters NAV,
Buried under mountains which are high and steep,
Plunged under waters hundreds fathoms Deep
Not 20 with Noah, from his house of tree,
Por through window he light did see;
He sailed above the highest waves-a wonder;
1 and my boat all the waters under;
He, in his arke, might goe, and also come,
Bat s;t still in such straitened roome
Az rs most uncouthe, head and feet together,
Among such grease thousand smother.
I End no way now for my shrinking hence,
But here lye, and die for mine ofense,
Blight prisoners were in Noah's hulk together;
Comfortable they were, each one to the ot1sc,
In all the earth Like unto me is none:
Far from alihvfng, here I've tIoNe.
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THE SERENADE.
indianapolis Journal

indianapolis Journal.
Tinkle on, o sweet guitar,
Let the dancing fingers
Loiter where the low notes are
Blended with the singers;
Let the midnight pour the moons
Mellow wine of glory
Down upon him through the tunes
Old romantic story
am listening, my love,
Through the slanted lattice,
Wondering why the stars above
All are blinking at us;
Wondering if his eyes from there
Catch the moonbeam's simmer
AS it lights the robe wear
With ghostly glimmer.
Lit thy song, and lutte away
In the widest fashion!
Pour thy ripping roundelay
O'er the heights of passion!
Flash it down the fretted strings
Till thy mad lips, missing
All but smothered whiperings,
Press the rose I'm kissing.
James ". Riley
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What a Coroner's Jury Is Composed Of.

Confederate Bunker arose to a ques-
ton Of privilege in the club. He was
working in the eastern part of the city
with man who was fatally injured. He
saw the whole transaction and knew all
the particulars, and yet when the Coro-
ners jury was made up he was ignored
because Of his color. He felt sighted
and indignant, and he hoped the club
would not overlook the insult.
"Brudder Bunker, you didn't lose
nothin'," replied the President. cit
was a compliment to yer intelligence to
ignore you. De average Coroner's Jury
am composed Of two loafers, three old
buns and fule, and dey would have
insisted dat you war de fule. You
haven't got any case, sab, an de meet
in will now be declared split up. "-Mem
York Mercury..
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-09

years. 1t must be remembered that
when the wells were first dug the
water was pure, but the ground has
been gradually impregnated with foul
matter, which, if it has not already
permeated to the water, will finally
reach and contaminate it. After a
fatal case of typhoid fever it viii be
too late to resort to crystal spring.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-09

ONE day, Louis Philippe, whose stingi-
ness was notorious, presented flag to
the Marie of small French commune.
The flag weighed ponderously, the Marie
was old. Monsieur le Mare" said
Louis Philippe, edo not take the trouble
to carry it yourself, you will over fatigue
yourself" "Sire," replied the Mare,
"what your Majesty gives is never
heayy!"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-09

A MODERN philosopher, having in mind
the motion Of the earth on its axis at
seventeen miles a second, says, that if
you lift your hat in the street to bow to
a friend, you 60 seventeen miles bare
headed without taking cold.
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WOMAN'S WORK.

Darning little stockings
For restless little feet; h
Washing little faces
To keep them clean and sweet;
Hearing Bible lessons, "
Teaching catechism;
Praying for salvation
From heresy and schism-
Woman's work.
Sewing on the buttons;
Overseeing rations;
Soothing with a kind word
Other lamentations;
Guiding clumsy Bridgets
And coaxing sullen cooks;
Entertaining company
And reading recent books
Woman's work.
Burying out of sight
Her own unhealing smarts;
Letting in the sunshine
On other clouded hearts;
Binding up the wounded,
And healing of the sick;
Bravely marching onward
Through dangers dark and thick.
Woman's work.
Leading little children,
And blessing manhood years;
Showing to the sinful
How Gods forgiveness cheers;
Scattering sweet roses
Along another's path;
Smiling by the wayside
Content with what she hath
Woman's work.
Letting fall her own tears,
Where only God can sec;
Wiping of another's
With tender sympathy;
Learning by experience;
Teaching by example;
Yearning for the gateway
Golden, pearly, ample
Woman's work.
Lastly cOmeth silence,
a day of sweet repOse-
Her locks smoothly braided,
Upon her breast rose;
Lashes resting gently
Upon the marble cheek;
A look of blessed peace
Upon the forehead meek!
Pale hands softly folded,
The kindly pulses still;
The lips know no smiling,
The noble heart no thrill;
Her couch needs no smoothing,
She crayeth for no care;
Loves tenderest entreaty
Wake no responses there.
Fresh grave in the valley
Tears, bitter sobs, regret;
One more solemn lesson
That life may not regret;
Face forever hidden,
Race forever run
'Dust to dustn voice saith,
And woman's work is done.