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FROM CIIAS. 8. HOXSIE, L. +. y. Il. SHOPS, OMAHA

FROM CIIAs. 8. HONSIE, L. r. 4. Il. SHOPS OMAHA.
ON, ,lHl, Neb.. Marci, 25 lS'l.-Dr. ConnaUg|
ton, Davenport, ,la.-My Dear Doctor: II these
few ines arc Of service tn You, :' are at liberty
to publ st! them. lconsuit.-d y.'u 1T davenport
and ad pied your method of treatment for Ca
tarrh. After f" months Of home treatment, /
an, very happy to state, was entirely cured
consider your method OF treatment very mid
and nice, and most chcerfu!ly recommend it, to
all who are afflicted " til :hc loatIlSume disease
You will remember me as having consulted you
ut Davenport two years ago. in regard to Ca
tarrh. knowing us do that You are true gen
tleman, us We'll as Skilllul physician. Very
gratefully Yours. CHAS ). l.OxSIE.
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LETTER FROM A CLERGYMAN,

LETTER FROM CLERGYMAN.
From Rev. JOSEF ph Hart. pastor of the 9th St.
NJ. E. Church. hook Island:
DR.. COnnaughtOn-I have suffered with Ca
tarrh of the head for twelve years my sense of
smell was greatly impaired, ringing In my ears.
partial loss OF voice, stopping up Of one Or both
nOstrilS, and some headache occasionally. ] feel
safe Ia recommending you to all the afflicted:
j. HART.
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CHRONIC CATARRII WITH THREATENED CONsUMP-
TION SUCCESSFULLY TREATED IN TWO MONTHS

BY DIR. CONNAUGlTON.
Buffalo Coal Banks H., Feb. s lS79.-Dr. Con-
3iaugllton-Dear Sir: contracted a severe cold
III 1874, which gradually driftcd intoa bad case
Of catarrh with alarming sy mlluns OF consump-
ttOM. l tried several eminent physicians but
their remedies failed to stay the slcatlly march
Of my disease: l WAS greatly annoyed with
hawking, splitting, headache, noises in my ears,
pains III my chest and back, loss of appetite,
heart, and general nervousness. etc. Now, al
ter two months under your kind and iunlane
attention, am happy to advise You That have
derived the most crafty ing results from your
Aerian System for the irc; ;mcnt Of cat ,rr'l.--
Your excellent services fully appreciate, and
laSSurc YOU that have experience the most
fectly satisfied that will soon be restored to
perfect health. Your grateful patent.
JOHN SMITH.
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&& Is noH EeIng made faster than
tsS mia " ever BY these at work for U.S.
!, 80 $50 week in their OWN towns il
!Hey are wiling to work. No risk. * outfit
free. Anyone can rlll, the business Canitai NOT
required. All who engage prosper. No one
fails. Particulars free. Address, II. HAILEr1
& Co. Portland, Maine. 11.lv
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= SOD! Esxs1a
How Lost. How RESTORED!


ms !ust published. i i.:,; edition OF DR.
Gt~5 tULNEE"lLS S Gel EEEATED ESSAY Ou
the 'tatcai cure wi liout !net'ic;ne) ui SpEKMA-
TcEklEt or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary
SfmWaI Losses, iE!o en";. Mental and Physi-
cal incapacity, iNM ailments to marriage etc !:
aiS"' GNSCMI'II>N. EiIEISY and FITS induced
by self Indulgence or s,.x;.:,! extravacance. etc
The cr:t':a:e:: author, in this admirable
essay ct:t''y proves fcin thirty years success
t p::tcti''e tina; til: alarming consequences of
SeIf-ahuse may te radically c,ir::l ithOut the
danGernlS use OF Internal medicine or the appli-
cation of tie knife; pointing out q mode
OF cure at once simple, certain and cifcctual b:
means OF which every sufferer. no matter what
privately. and r0dicoiku
RJ-Ihis lecture should be i'll the hands Of evc-
ry youth in the land
Sent under seal, in plain envelope, to any ad-
dress post pau. on receipt OF six cents or two
postage stamps. WE HAVE ALSO SURE CURK
FOR TAPE WORM.
Address the publishers
TIE CULVER WE'LL MEDICAL CO..
II Ann st. New York !; Postoi1ice box 1856.
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DEAFNESS CURED-AN AG ED LADY CURED OF

DEAFNESS CURED-AN AG ED LADY CURED OF
DEAFNESS.
of Mrs Augusta Brcyer, Residence
Numbert23 Ripley st., Davenport, IL.
Dr. Connaughton cured me in two days of
deafness and noise in the ears. OF many years
after I had considered myself hope
less. can and do most cheeIfully recommend
DR.. COnnaughtOn as 4 master of his profession
and advise the afflicted 10 employ his Skill when.
effected many astonishing cr,es in this city, and
has done an astonishing amount OF good.
Mrs. AUGUSTA BEEYER.
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From Hon. H. Murphy, Prominent Davenport,
shcenarc
te h. profession 1 gentleman
MUIIIY
From Edward RUSSELL
simesby
OF treat
ton ap,can 81 i
with this of
The above only few treated
Addresf O. Drawer 292
Dr. CoHHAueH1GhS OFFICES, 403 Brady St., Davenport Ia
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Collections.

make collections and pay taxes for non-rcs-
ldents. examine titles, attend to mortgage re.
closures, do c0nveyancing, take acknowledge
ments, iOr small pay. can make collections IN
any partOf the United States.
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BONDS.

buy and sell all municipal securities.
do not sell q school district or
other bond until you get my
terms. l c;.n pay more
than any one else.
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rlDy.H..Parylly
BROKER,
worthington, MINI.
LOANS.

I Negotiate Real Estate
Loans at straight 8 per cent.
interest. No commissions de-
Quoted. All the money
paid to borrower. Do not
borrow money until you
see me. l can make
better and cheaper
loans than any
one else can.
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St. PAIL. EIii:,:GaD0liS.

and the entire North and Northwest, and to the
Lumber Districts "f Northern Wisconsin,
AT st. PAUL" connexions are made with the
Eastern i,ivi>ion Of he Chicago. st. Paul, MIN
n'arl.lS (: Omaha III L. IL: Northnrn AMI Cen:
IRA Ni>cuhsill, and for Chicago aud all points
Fast. ana tie running of 1rHi';s is So arranged
tiat passengers frcm th" Wes' crn Division of
TINS Lane can have from one to one and one half
hours to attend to business matters in st. Paul
ifd,Sired
When You 20 South or Southwest, be sure and
go over this Line through the Seven Big Cities,
and when :nu 20 North, East Mort Invest a,
through ~ PAUL., THE GREAT RAILROAD
CENTRE OF the great 0rthwrSt.
Tw" passenger trains daily, st. Paul to Chi
cago, through l:lrGy and Madison, with Pullman
Palace Sleeping Cars on each t,ain.
Through Tickets *o, tS the and H1S' sSui N%rts'
are Oh sale at all principal stations. BE sure and
huy through ticket, US they are generally
cheaper: but If you cannot get the tickets YOU
desire or the information wanted abOu, rates
connect IONS etc, at your home station. write to
the undersgncd and your letter will receive
prompt attention. i. W. TEASD LIE,
r. t. OK KkE. General Agent
zen. IfaiIlc Manager. ST. PAUL, MlNN.
TIME TABLE.
Time OF departure of passenger trains from
Mankat0: ~
For Chicago and the East at $50 a. m. and :c5
y. III.
For the West at 7:o5 a. m.
j. B. CLOCK, Agent,
NlankatO, Mimi.
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E7E;;:|: PLE 10 E-sVE
3!Hny the !i,,- OF and near to The ST. PAUL &
SIO!X CITY RAILROAD and its vaIi-
GUS Branch Lines, nuw Il par, of the
Chicago, St. Paul. MINNEAPOLIS
and Omaha Line

know t!,'t this is the short aud quick line to all
N'ihiS in Ccn:Ial ard Western Missouri to all
iH'intS in klnS::s Nebraska. Colorado. 'rcx,s
ta}ifnlni:s. Arizona. New ar,i Old MtNic.,. and
that Tins IS the O$l.! LINE BETWEEN MINNESOTA
AMI TIL: SOIiTnWEST.
Ezz:ssI::rs SEVEN GREAT CITIES
OF tn" r"pul lis Missouri Valley, namely:
SIOUX CITY, COCNCEL BLITEs OMAHA, ST
JOSEPH, ATCl!lSoN, L!AvENWONTH
AMI Kansas lTY.
The st. Paul 4 SionN:'ity !;,ii oad ,,ow know,
as The Western D.v:>i ii OF the Chicago ST.
Fau:, Mli:litai' polls i bM"la Line. is IL so tin.
S!iOKT AND DIRECT LINE fri Central ;,::u
N">tern Minnesota. Western Iowa, Dakota,
Nebraska ana the Scuthwcst;o 10
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81 is the prclmit!,,;,ate cost Of the
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Further item must also be added to c0v-
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must do at least Il safe business we will
add, instead, for this item another 81,
making the total cost Of manufacture
aud handling the Is octave volumes Of
the Library Of Universal knowledge
$7.96.
Thus yon see that if we sell a copy of
this great encyclopaedia even at the net;
price ut $40, we still have q net profit of
over 81. rs we have already sold H.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-01
A Needed Rest.

There is one patient worker who
does not expect and is not expec
ted to take vacation. The house
mothers needs are forgotten. 1t
has often been pointed outflow to
the men comes a change of scene in
going out to business; how they get
at least an hour or more Of fresh
air every day, and lubricate the ma
chinery of life by contact with
friends and acquaintance while the
women suffer from the very quiet of
their home life, not to mention its
nerve wearing anxieties, cares and
labors. The wife mother should be
gently forced out of the home ruts.
Because she thinks she doesn't
want to go is no sign that she does
not need to go. A tread mill is one
Of the hardest things to get out of
gear, and the patient plodding there
in at last come to think that there
is no other round for her in the.
great world. Therefore, husbansd,
sons and daughters, take our admo-
milton, aud help mother off. Enter
INTO an smiable conspiracy to con-
7ince her that she can ge. Per
'uade her that home is not the best
place to travel in, not the best place
or some kinds of rest. And don't
yait too long, nor mistake resigna-
ion for contentment. Minister to
Ter while you have the chance.
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The Valley of Death.

Eureka Letter.)

The Valley Of Death, a spot al
most as terrible as the prophet
valley of dry bones, lies just north
of the old Mormon road to Califor-
mia, in Utah-a region thirty miles
long by thirty wide, and surrounded,
except at two points by inaccessible
mountains. 1t is totally devoid of
water and vegetation, and the
shadow of bird or wild beast never
darkened its white glaring sands.
The Kansas d Pacific Railroad en-
gineers discovered it, and some pa
pers which told the fate of the ''lost
Montgomery train" which came
south from Salt Lake in 1850, guided
by a Mormon. When near Death
Valley some of them came to the
conclusion that the Mormon knew
about the country, so they
one of their number as
leader and broke off from their party.
The leader turned due west, so with
the people and wagons and the
aocks he travelled three days, and
then descended into the broad val
ley, whose treacherous mirage prom
ised water. They reached the center,
but only the white sands bounded
by scorching peaks met their gaze.
And around the valley they wan
Tered, and one by one the men died
md the painting focks stretched
themselves in death under the hot
sun. The children, crying for water,
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Talmass on the Pistol.

The gifted Talmage has said
many good things in his brilliant
sermons but none more timely and
applicable to an abominable exist
ing evil than the following:
Another practical use Of this
great national calamity is that it
has disguised more than ever the
people with free use of firearms
On the frontier, or if it is your bust
ness as an officer of the law to make
an arrest OF desperado, you had
better be armed; but it is high time
that all respectable citizens snap in
two their sword canes and unload
their deadly weapons. If you move
in respectable society in Brooklyn
or New York, or Washington, or
London, you have no need of any
more weapons than God gave you
two honest fists, and they are very
easily loaded If you feel the need
of having a pistol in your pocket
you are a miserable coward. If
you are afraid to go down the street
you had better get your
grandmother with her knitting nee
dies TO go with you. A pistol is the
meanest and most internal weapon
ever invented. 1t is the weapon of
a sneak. l would as soon carry a
toad in my vest pocket,
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Asheville Citizen. The article was
copied by Vermont paper, and at
tracted the notice of Robert Fetch
er, prominent citizen of that
state. Flether soon after visited
Asheville, sought the editor of the
Citizen, and together they went to
Miss Burt's house. The hermit did
not recognize the Vermonter, but
she soon learned that he was her
old lover. A mistake had kept
them apart for half a century, but
when Fletcher left Asheville a few
days later, Mary Burt Howe, for
that was the hermit full name, &C
companied him as his wife. When
Miss Howe and Fletcher were
young they were engaged to be mar
ried. The woman fancied here low
er was attached to another girl,
however, and suddenly left her home
in Maine. Going to Boston she
shipped as stewardess on a ship
bound for Liverpool. The vessel
was wrecked on the North Carroll
ma coast, and, after many adven-
lures at sea in an open boat and
among friendly Indians on land,
Miss Howe found her way to civil
ization. Robert Fletcher traced ibis
runaway sweetheart to the ship on
which she sailed, and hearing of the
loss of the vessel, always mourned
her as dead until the North Carroll
ma papers gave him q happy sur
prise.-BostOn Herald.
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both are apt pretty soon to forget
all about it.
But let the same fellow kiss the
same girl when nobody is looking
and the situation is as different as
possible. That sort of a kiss, fired
off in hurry behind door, or in a
conservatory, is like an elertric
shock, and is as sweet as cream.
The taste of it sort of holds on, and
constantly suggests the propriety-
or improperly, as the case may be
of trying it again. And the
laughing and blushing are exactly
reversed. The fellow laughs with
out spelling the romance a bit and
the girl bushes like a pink carna-
ton. 1t is queer that the very
same thing should, under slightly
altered circumstances, be so entire
ly different, nor is any the less
queer because the difference has ex-
listed from the earliest ages OF the
world
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LADIES' COLUMN.
The Egutist.

He is an uncomfortable bore, and
yet you must listen to the exploits
of EGreat p or else appear uncivil.
1t never occurs to him that you may
not find his talk interesting. Moth
ing surprises people Of this kind
more than to show them you are
ignorant of what may have befallen
them, and that you have not turned
over and learned by heart the last
uninteresting little chapter of their
small lives. The trifing incidents of
their household comprise every
thing which is worth knowing
to them land your ignorance Of such
incidents is looked upon as per-
sonal affront and the sign Of almost
criminal indifference. If these
Worshipers Of "Great p have any
specialty-say they are artists, mu
sicians, authors, actors and what
not-they assure you there never
was such a triumph known as that
which they have just achieved.
Their experience is absolutely phe-
nomenal. Even their charities are
done out of their supreme selfhood.
1 helped him; 1 was his salvation in
the day of need; he came TO me for
advice and L pulled him through.
How often we hear these phrases
from the snowy, self-complacent
folk who think their smallest deeds
are worthy Of being trumpeted forth
to mankind as the finest heroism Of
the noblest men! Where the soil is
poorest for humanity, there is it the
richest for egotism- The root of
the Great T. are in US all, more or
less, but we prefer the less to the
more; and, if we must have excess,
would rather by far it was an excess
of thought for others than of
thought for us.
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Gnndnass.

Nothing makes a man so in love
with purity as purity. Many a
man has been lifted out Of debasing
sins against which he was vainly
struggling by coming to know and
love pure sweet woman.
1t is the sight of embodied good
ness that makes us wantIto be good.
Many a mother by the quiet useful
ness of her life fills her children
with a desire to be like her that
makes them, in their turn, unselfish.
There are obscure men and wo
men who hardly in their lives ut
tered a word of conscious teaching,
who by their example to make peo-
pie around them gentle and truth
full and christian like than any
preacher can do. 1t is not those
who talk about goodness but those
who are good that are the light of
the world.
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died at their mothers breast, and
with swollen tongues and burning
vitals the mothers followed. Wagon
after wagon was abandoned, and
strong men tottered and rayed and
died. After weeks wandering, a
dozen survivors found some water
in the hollow Of a mountain. 1t
lasted but a short time when all
persisted but two, who escaped out
of the valley and followed the trail
of their former companions. Eigh-
ty-seven families, with hundreds of
animals persisted there, and now,
after thirty one years, the wagons
stands still complete, the iron works
and tires are bright, and the shriv-
skeletons lie side by side.
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Trust in Yourself.

A great deal of our most useful
knowledge must be buffeted into us,
and that is the chief good you will
reap from mixing with society. A
great fault in young men is to trust
too implicitly to the opinion of
others-quite the reverse of what
people generally suppose. Trust
your own judgment where you have
reason to think you possess any, and
a man need never be at any loss in
settling this point. 1 mean exactly
what 1 say. You may ask another
for information, because another
may be better informed upon a given
matter than you; but to ask advice
is to imply that you have no iudg-
ment OF your own to rely upon; and
if you lack the Judgment requisite
for an undertaking, do not attempt it.
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Farm and Heme.
Grass is King.

Messenger: America is surely a
blessed land. Without counting any
of the multitude Of other causes for
which she has to be thankful, we
can find in a single gift of nature
sufficient cause for rejoicing. An
exchange says: In its direct money
value, and in its collateral and in
direct benefits, grass is worth more
to the world than all the other cereal
crops combined. Its direct is moth
ing in comparison to indirect value
in the influence it has in preserving
the fertility of our farms by its
manurial wealth in all forms. No
man can thrive on a farm-no farm
can be self-supporting -where grass
is wholly neglected, or advantage is
not taken Of stock raised on the
grass farms. The old Belgian
proverb is true-"No grass, no cat
tie; no manure, no CROP. 1t is
supposed by many that only such
soil as is not fit for cultivation in
the cereals or roots should be de
voted to grass. This is a mistake.
We can afford to take our best soils
for the production of this crop, and
this is the real plan for bringing
them up to the highest point of
fertility.
In grass the whole west finds its
friend. Without the rich and
abundant grasses of the plains, the
hundreds of thousands of cattle
upon which so many people depend
for living and which go to feed so
many thousands Of people in this
and other countries would have
never had existence. The hay crop
alone is said to surpass in money
value any other single crop in the
land, and the value of the live stock
which depends upon hay and grass
for food is very nearly equal to the
value of the cereals. And yet the
grass Of this country is by no means
used to the best advantage, and |
millions of acres of land, which |
might easily be made good pasture !
OF rich meadow, are suffered TO lie |
in a state Of nature, covered with a
scant growth ofwild grasses of com
paratiYe little value, or with washy |
growth of sour swamp grass. Even |
waere the grass is good the owners
fail TO make good use of it, but by |
want of thought suffer much of the |
best crop Of their land to be wasted. |
Grass requires little labor, and can
be made to pay literally.
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The Successful Farmer.

The good farmer cultivates fore
thought. His plans are not made
for a single year. He looks over
his farm, divides the arabic lands
into six equal parts, Onehalf of
which is devoted to grass and the
other to the pillow, as each shall
take its turn. Every year he raises
about so many acres of wheat, so he
goes through all his crops. He
keeps just about the same amount
of stock, and of each about the same,
whether it be cattle, sheep, horses
or hogs. Steadily he pursues the
even tenor ofhis way. Having once
laid his plans with care and fore
thought, he closely pursues with
systematic order the plan adopted.
No matter whether wheat brings
70 cents a bushel or $1.75. No
matter whether wool brings thirty
one or fifty cents per pound. No
matter whether cheese brings six or
thirteen cents at wholesale. No
matter whether live hogs bring three
or eight cents per pound. Thus he
continues year after year, all the
time studying to improve the pro-
auctions of his farm, and thus in
creases in capacity to produce lit
tie more Of each of the different
articles he raises for sale. But no
single one is dropped from the list
that he may raise more of some
thing else without long considera-
ton and sufficient reason. If any
thing he may have for sale is low
in price he knows at once that the
great pendulum Of equilibrium has
swung away from it. He also knows
that it will surely swing back again
sooner than he can change his rota-
ton, even if he wanted to, which he
does not.
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Coincidercs,

Some days ago a gentleman from
Pennsylvania, attracted by the adj
vertisement of Tennessee lands,
sent out by Commissioner Hawkins,
came to this city and visited the cap
itol. While there he was told by
one of the officials of lady resid-
ing in this city who owned a farm
in Marshall county she wished to
dispose of. The Pennsylvania
visited her, and was told the farm
was now rented, but that he could
go out and inspect it. He went,
and, in the wife of the man living
on the farm, recognized a sister he
had not seen in twenty years. He
knew that she was living in the
south somewhere, but had no idea
of meeting her when he came to this
state World.
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An Iowa farmer put up 20 one
year old hogs, and for the first rs
days fed them on dry shelled corn
of which they ate 81 bushels and
gained S37fbs.-over 101bs. to the
bushel of corn. He then fed the
same hogs for IA days on dry corn
meal, during which time they con-
sumed AZ bushels,and gained 553fbs.,
or 114fbs. to the bushel. The same
hogs were then fed IA day, on corn
meal and water mixed, consumed
554 bushels of corn and gained 731
pounds, Ii 1-6fbs. to the bushel of
corn. He fed them IA days on corn
meal cooked, and after consuming
45 bushels of the cooked meal they
had gained 799 ID, or very nearly
10 lbs. to the bushel of meal.
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The business Of gambling in fu-
lures is becoming great curse to
this country, says a contemporary.
1t is deranging the value of pro
duce and robbing the producer in
many instances of his just reward.
Congress will be forced eventually
to take notice of this offence
against the commerce of the coun-
try. The states cannot reach the
evil, except by cooperation, and if
it is done Congress will have it to do.