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 FlRsT IMPREssIoNs OF FlJl-Leaving Syd- ney in a whirl of balls and races, we once more took ship Ten days steam acccmplish- ed the great joke of our lives. and We found ourselves actually in Fiji, it's hundred and fifty isles surrounding us on every side, and looking in the distance very much like many other isles good deal nearer home Harris, Lewis, and Skye, for Instance-especially as seen on the day of our arrival, when thick mist alternated with .u h down pours of rain that we had to beat aUt,ut for a considerable time just z outside the~'coraf reef (which lies about a mile from the shore of Ovalan). actu- ally within sound of the church. bells, but see
 ing literally nothing till lull in thestorrli re- veaied the passage, .. z the opening in the barrier reef, through which we passed into the quiet harbor of Levuka. when a bright gleam of sunshine fell like ray of promise on the little town. with its background of richly wooded hills, and dark, craggy pinnacles far overhead, appearing above the white wreatlIs of floating mist. l cnfess that L.lvekagreatl ly exceeds our expectations We had i.nag- iued 1t was still tl,e rafsll haunt of up'oariOus planters and white men of the lowest type, described by visitors few years ago; instead of which we find most orderly and respect able community with strongly church-going tendencies. Besides the native chapels there are three we'll attended churches of the Epis
 copal, Wesleyan and R oman Catholic persua- sions. We are told that the reformation in the sobriety of the town is partly due to the Good Tcmplars, who here muster 8 very con- siderable brotherhood. Doubtlesstife work is greatly facilitated by the increased price of gin (which in former days flowed like water, at the modest price of ls per bnttle, which has now risen to five times that suml AS con- cerns shops, or, as they are here callrd stores, they are Iiiany and vari,fis. and fnot troubled with useless frontage of plate glass. they are ct least fully stacked with all things needful and there are several boartiing houses and hotels which, if not luxurinus, at least provide the necessaries of lite- Miss c. F. Gordon Cumming, in Good Words. . .-s.~s a-
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OuR STATE NAME. At a recent meeting of the Amerlcsh Antiquarian society in Wor- chester, Hon. Hamilton B. Staples read and interesting paper, discussing at length the orgin Of the names of several of the States The fologing is an abstract of some of his cou- clusions:
 New Hampshire gets it's name from Hamp- shire, Eugand. Massachusetts is derived from an Isiian name. first givensst the bay , sygnifyine '.near the great hills" Rhode Is land has an obscure origin; the Island of Rhodes, the ''Island of the Roads" and a Dutch orgin, "Red Island," were mentioned, the first seeming to have the best historical support. Connecticut is an Indian name, signifying Hand on 2 long tidal river New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland were passed over. Virginia. the Car olinas sud Gesrgia have a arpyal origin. 9M Maine was named from the fact that 1t was supposed to contain the ''mayne portion" of New Eag- land Vermont has no especial question, ex- cspt that it is claimed t0 have first been an slias-New COnneciic,it. alias Vermont, KeD- lucky popularly signifies either a ''dark and bloody ground" or ''bloOdy river" hut itsori- ain signifies .'the head of aTiver," oi 'the long river" Tennessee comes from it's river, the name being derived from the name of an ln- dian village on the sriver-'.Tanasee," Ohio is named after an Jndian name. signifyingS
 
 ''sometting great with an accent of admira. ton. Indiana comes from the name of an early land company. Illinois comes frOm the. Indian-the name of tribe. Michigan is claimed to mean flake country;" it probably came from the name of the lake, Great Lake" which bore this name before the land adjacent WAS named. Louisiana is from the French. Arkansas and Missouri are Indian. the former being doubtful the latter is claim ed to mean in it's original muddy water" which describes iheriver. Iowa is also In- dian, with doubtful meaning. Texas IS pop ularlv supposed to he Indian, but may he Spanish. Florida is Spanish. ''a fowery land" Oregon has acmjectnraA origin. It is proi.a- bly, Indian, but Spanish origin is claimed California canes frMusa Spanish romance of 1510. Nevada takes ;ts name from the moun- tains who get u ei sfron Iese nb,ance to t''e Nevades of South America. Minnesota is in- dian, .tsky tinted water" = Nebraska) is vari- ously rendered ''shallow water" and ''nat country" Kansas is from an Indian root. Raw, corrupted by the French Mississippi is "great water" or ''whole river" Alabama is Indian, the nane of fortress and tribe. signifyiug, asis claimed. ''here we rest"
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I'll < SYMPTOMS OF LIVER COMPLAINT

Iar~ uneasiness and pain fn the .ide-someti tho pain is iu he Ahouldrr,an IS n staken for rheumatism
 he t mach is .ff, cted with ln,- 8 : bowels, ill genera ting with lax thr Lead IS Il. -hssvs, sensatioiis 0nsid- ;sn, panled NiisA pal nful sem ) C something wh ell ought
 complaining of weakness,
 debility and low spirits
 Sometimes many of the
 above symptoms attend the
 disease,and at other times Se' 7 few If them, but the
 liver is generally the organ
 most ins olved i } CHREs THE LIVER with
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THE BEST REMEDY
 FOR Diseases of the Throat and Lungs.

In diseases of the pull 1nonary organs a safe and reliable remedy is invaluable. AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL is such a remedy, and no otliersoeminently mer- its riie confidence of the public. It is a sci. entific combination of tile medicinal princi- ples and curative vir- tues of the finest drugs, chemically united, of such power as to insure the greatest possible efficiency and uniform ity of results. It strikes af <f,o foundation of all
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pulmonary diseases, affording prompt relief and rapid cures, and is adapted 10 patients Of any age or either sex. Being very palatable, the youngest children take it readily. In Bronchitis, Influenza, Clergyman's Sore Throat, Asthma, Group, and Ca- tarrh, the effects of AYERS CHERRY PEG ToRAL are magical, and multitudes are an- nually preserved from serious illness by it's timely and faithful use. It should be kept at hand in every household for the pro- lection it affords in sudden attacks. In there is no other remedy so etficaclouss sseofhing, and isheipful. B mW4Fa 4 Low prices are Inducements. to try some of the many miytiireS, Orsyfup pS, made ofeheap and ineffective ingredients, now offered, which. as they contain no curative qualities, can afford only temporary relief, and are sure to deceive and disappoinr the patient. Diseases of tue throate and slungs demand active and effective treat menf; and 1t is dan gerous experimenting with unknown and cheap medicines, from the great liability that these diseases may, while so trit1ed with, become deeply seated or incurable. Use AYERS CHERRY PECToRAL, and you may confidently expect the best results. It IS standard medical preparation, of known and acknowledged curative power, and Is as cheap as it's careful preparation and fine ingredients will allow. Eminent physicians. knowing it's composition prescribe it in their practice The test of half century has proven its absolute certainty to cure all pull monary complaints not already beyond the reach of human aid.
 . Prepared by Dr.. j.. c. Aver & Co.,,
 Practical and Analytical Chemists.
 Lowell, Mass. r.,
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Agents wanted for the sale of the Indian Blood Syrup in every town or village, in which have no Agent. Particulars given on application -~ .--- --~ n r-~y-.--,
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SHOA WEEK. sl2 day at home easily made Costly Outht free. Address TRUE & Co.,. Augusta. Maine. .fE@G I}9@l9 45-lSr-
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 SIMM 1Es

.s- of ..ppetitc aud s ci cos i've, sometimes 4lterns troubled with iain and q | erable toss Of m mory ssscs -ation ofsh4ving left unds to have been done o,fen
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} DEuGG!STs SELL IT. 9eC

Laboratory. 77 West 3-d St., New York City.
 24 fly.
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Malaria Is the perfect pet of the I,essin,isls, 'tls SD dlann.icaiIy bad. 1t is the principle ot evil in active operation in other words 'ts tue dcyiL 43i A~1& j. 1 s~~~
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Tg. Preston, New London Co.,. Conn.
 This is to certify that Dr.. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup is the best medicine ever used recommend it's use ta suffering humanity DAVID BALDWIN
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613 Chapel St.. New Haven, Ct.
 I take pleasure in saying Dr. Clerk John. son's Indian Blood Syrnp has been of great value to ,ue, for Liver Complaint and Bilious ness. H. w. LESSEY.
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He came home late the other night, an his wife woke up and found him with burning match. trying to light the faucet over tue mar be basin in his dressing-ruom James" she said, ''that is not the gas-hurner." Il know tInow. my love, he replied unsteadly, fact is, 1've been overwurktd, and that's the iea- son made mistake" Yes, you look as if you had been lifting a good dea,' she quietly an- swered, as she returned to her pillow.
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"You appear to have constitutional antip- athy to water," said an unspotled IuuiantarI- an to a run, rosy tramp s'No," returned, the latter. ''IL isn't constitutional. it's accident al 7 Strange! How did you come to have such an aversion to water?" Easy enough i; 1 have two sons drowned in it."
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"Why do wecommence dinner with soup?" asked medical journal. Because the lanG- lady seuds it the first thing. and there's no show to: the meats until the soup is gone. That's the explanation of the mystery ot our houae; we d .il't know how you're fixed.
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Lebanon, New London Co.,, Ct. This is to certify that have used Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup tor Dyspepsla and Indigestion, with very beneficial results. v HORACE D. STANTON.
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Although early in the season, we announce. at the req lest ut Mr 4Veiinur liat durlug tle Coming winner "aer Viii as usual freeze with
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A young clergyman in Ohio recently mar ried a couple in the following brief manner: ."Do you want one annther!" Both replied, ".es. "Wcli, ltlet, have one another"
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In the studio: '.Ah, good morning, Ben. l Just the man want to see. Tell me what's
 the matter with E.y Italian sunset. Too much
 color2 Not enough ?" ,e.a. .fa ;
 ''The tints are about right, Eugene, but 1 there's something -t--+ ''
 'I knew it. 1 knew it. Now what is it ?"
 "Well, Eugene, all you want to do is 10 | move e sun from the northeast corner of
 your picture due west. That'll set the pie
 ture right and set the sun right, too" Gave
 him points -ot the compass. 1'z r. .4 { 1 ''Ill be blowed, P said New Haven bride groom as he begun dressing for the ceremony.
 that confonndeti Goose, the tailor. has sent ine the wrong suit"
 l B '.l lahould say so," rejoined his best man. rThat suit is big enough for David Davis.
 You cant wear it; and there is only half an hours time" s z somehow. Great heavens, if was only mar
 ried now I'd give my wife bit of work to | do." 1s .s..e, '.Take it up! You're bountito look like a 1 guy in it anyhow. Wear your old clothes.
 and after the wedding go down and shoot the 1 iak,r. That's the hest way" And the bride groom marched tfthe altar with three slls-.. bender Bnttons missing and d real pretty bacr- elors darn on the left knee of his pan,aloons l q FRoMl THE DAsBggr sEwss [ H. N. says Mercury is a he. WiLsted people are. starting their next years Ifdiaries. ! 95 .tsi. : v. ;, 'i1 v !. :. Cadet Whitaker is managing a concert company. Can that mans ear by. depended upon?
 In Gunwali they helieve the world is corning tn an end on the 7th of December and don't
 want to ay butlhaf pfIcefor cider Two or ihree inches of snowi fell in Li,cil- field last week. This is what Liichffed calls spitting on it's hands prepartory to real work .bssg At sncial gathering in Bridgeport there was prayer. q banjo duett and hymn. There was n0 dancing and no collection. b!saa5l Whyis Daubury called beantown? fns1M A VISITOR Beause it is the American birthplace of the castor. TT 2 1 M a u q K i I The top of telegraph pole is hardly the nlaceitn have fit. but a Mpriden man did it, and made gratifying success of it.
 Theef0d leather Mar,,a that peculiar crea-s ture who clothes himself in old boo.s, has re- appeared near Plymouth. He is undoubtedly insane. .although he knows to stay in Litchfeld county where one pair of boots makes him. al full slaik.4Sfod ..oo : Ggss&2 r .t s12sa .ssalN
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How the late Mir. Methuselah, when iu his eigiA .hundred and seventy eighth year, must have enjoyed sitllng down at the corner gro cery and lying about the cold weather of 42 B. C..
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''What can do for you to induce you to go to bed BOW !' asked a Lowell manlua of her five yea.s-old boy Monday evening. ''You can let me sit up little longer," was the youngsters response.
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Wiliiau,sA. Branunn is goingto California to pass the winter. In California a u,an doesn't have to dig 50 deep for augle-worms n the cold season. sS ETE#Ef 1E
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We notice iD many an esteemed contemp- orarys column an article entitled: Bank Directors Duies." We should sa, contrary to our general free trade principles, that these duties should be not.'for revenue only" but for "protection" as we'll
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Most modest of men is the plumber, No rival has he save the druinber;
 Through the world OCT neligns, ~ r# Yet he neve repigns. 1 And lhriveth iu winter and sumber. Give him bu an order to plumb, A,d his bill straightway reaches sumb That depletes your exchequer-
 Would equip three-deauer- -,r.,-s. And makes you most awfuly glumb.
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Clergyman: ''No, my dear, it is impossible 10 preach any kind of sermon to such con- gregation of asses" Smart Young Lady: And is thatswhy you call them Dearly be- loved brethren P"
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You are the worst boy ever saw ]" ex- claimed Brown to his son. ''Why will you go on as you do? l should think you would have some respect for your father" "How can l. dad, have any respect for man with such a rascally ?" asked the young repro hate
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One thing is certain-Parnell will pay no rent for the abode he at present occupies. <. The coroner always gnes inquest for a body as 4 matter of cOrse a A-R sas ass @~@s 's4, ~
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-02-17
Owen LOvejoy's Eloquence.

Hon. I. NJ. Arnold, before the Illinois Bar Asso-
Loveioy always suggested to me a
Roundhead of the days of Cromwell
He was thoroughly in earnest, almost
if not quite fanatical in his politics.
His courage was unfinching, and he
would have died for his principles.
He had blunt, masculine eloquence
rarely equaled, and on the slavery ques-
ton, as stump-speaker, it would be
difficult to name his superior. *af =
In February, 1859, at the, Capitol in
Washington, speaking Of the acts
which led to this trial (for harboring
a fugitive slave), there is one Of the
boldest and most effectual bursts Of ell
oquence from Loveioy to be found in
all the literature Of anti-slavery dis
cussion. He had been taunted and re-
preached on the floor of Congress, and
stigmatized as onewho, i'll aiding slaves
to escape, had violated the laws and
Constitution of his country. He had
been denounced as '''nigger-stealer,"
threatened by the Shareholders, and
they attempted to intimidate and 81
lence him. They little knew the man,
and his reply siienced them. and ex-
torted the admiration of friend and foe
He closed one Of the most r4dial and
lmpassioned anti-slavery speeches ever
made in Congress, by unfinchingiy de-
claring: Il do assist fugitive slaves
Proclaim it, then, upon the house-tops;
write it on every leaf that trembles i'll
the forest; make it blaze from the sun
at high noon, and shine forth in the
milder radiance of every star that be-
decks the armament of God; let it
echo through all the arches Of heaven,
and reverberate and below along all
the deep gorges of hell, where slave
catchers will be very likely to hear it.
Owen Lovejoy lives at Princeton, Hi
nois, three-quarters of mile east of
the village; and he aids every fugitive
that comes to his door and asks it.
Thou invisible demon of Slavery, dost
thou think to cross my humble thres-
hold, and forbid me to give bread to
the hungry and shelter to the home
less? | bid you defiance in the name
of Godw
l heard Lovejoy declare, that after
the death of his brother, he went to the
graveyard at Alton, and kneeling upon
the sod which covered the remains Of
that brother, he there, before God,
swore eternal war and vengeance upon
slavery. He kept his oath.
He was man of powerful physique,
intense feeling and great magnetism as
a speaker, and he now went forth like
Peter the Hermit, with heart Of fire,
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-02-17
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and tongue of lightning, preaching
his crusade against slavery.
In the log school houses, in the meet
ing houses and places OF worship, and
in the open air, he preached and lee
tured against slavery with vehemence
and passionate energy which carried
the people with him. The martyrdom
of his brother was sufficient excuse
for his violence, and the name OF Love-
Joy, the martyr, like the name OF Rob
Roy or Douglass, in Scotch history, be-
came name to ''conjure" with. Some
idea of his dramatic power may be OBJ
tanned from a sermon preached at
Princeton, in January, 1912, on the
death of his brother. After describing
his murder by a cruel mob. because he
would not surrender the freedom OF
the press, he declared solemnly, that
for himself, ''come life or death, will
devote the residue of my life to the
anti-slavery cause" "The slavehold-
ers and their sympathizers, said he,
'have murdered my brother, and if an
other victim is needed, | am ready
His aged and widowed mother was
present in the church. Pausing and
turning to her, he said: Mother, you
have given one son, your elder, to lib.
erty, are you willing to give another?"
And the heroic mother replied; "Yes,
my son,-you can not die in better
causer' He lived to see slavery die
amid the flames Of war which itself
had kindled, e4 g
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-02-17

in bed, but he is safe enough by this
time in the police-office; so you had
better just tell us all about it.
At this, Mrs. Weevil entirely broke
down, and confessed all. 1t is unnec-
essary to repeat at length what the
reader can guess in great measure for
himself; but the sum Of her story was
this. The mother, equally with her
son, hated Miss Roupel for despising
his addresses, and took the means we
have seen in order to drive each sue
cessive tenant out of her house. She
also admitted that after the sudden
death of Mrs. Roupel, it was they who
had spread the stories charging foul
play against the daughter. In answer
to question from Mr.. Burrowes, she
confessed that it was she who had
played the ghost on the previous even
ing; but she had never before shown
herself to any one who did not at once
flee and quit the house. My attempt
to get hold of her, therefore, had so
alarmed her that she had great diff
Guilty in escaping; and next morning
had gone to her son, and told him she
burst not play the part Of ghost any
longer, as the present tenant was like
ly to stand her ground, and they would
in that way be found out. They were
both enraged at thus being at last baf-
fled in their long-cherished course of
malicious practices against Miss Rou-
pei; and her son determined to take
out his revenge upon me that night by
first frightening me and then robbing
the house, after which they were re-
solved to take. the first opportunity Of
quitting that part of the country.
Their cupidity had been aroused by
the sight of some trinkets in Indian
jewellery which possessed; hence the
design to rob me. In order to cover
their purpose, the old hag was sent to
me with the story Of her son being i'll !;
and as he had secret means of access
to the house, he readily effected an en-
trance after he, supposed the family
asleep. 1t was her son who had first
put her upon these evil practices-bad
brought the old surplice from Lord
BIS house. in which either Of them,
as occasion offered, was in the habit of
terrifying the inmates, and thus de-
priving the innocent object of their
hatred of her chief means Of liveli-
hood. 81
Mr.. Burrowes did not trouble to ap-
prehend the old woman at that time;
but he took care that she should not
leave the country till after the trial of
her son for housebreaking and felony.
when she had to appear against him
Us witness. He was found guilty.
nd sent to penal settlement Mr..
Weevil, ashamed to show her face in
she neighborhood, departed no one
knew whittier.
As for the ghost story, as soon as its
salient points were known in the neigh
borhood, the house not only lost its
bad character, but | became for the
time quite kind Of heroine, every
body praising my courage and sagaci-
ty. [ had the pleasure, some weeks
later, Of entertaining in the house
Mrs. Richard Egerton, the. former
Miss Roupel, whom the neighborhood,
conscious of unjust condemnation, re-
ceived with open arms. After the
term Of my tenancy expired, the charm
ing house let for more suitable rent:
and ever since, | believe, it has formed
an adequate source Of income to its
worthy owners.