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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE for March
opens with second paper on the ''Gulf
Coast" by Barton d. Jones, which is full
of interest and novel Information, while
the illustrations are among the best that
have ever appeared in the Magazine.
THE Burning of Columbia" by S. Fl. NJ.
Byers, who was prisoner at, that place
at the time of its capture by the Federal
forces, and who subsequently, carried
the news of Sherman's advance to Gen.
eral Grant, is a singularly vivid account
of the scenes which came under the
writer's observation. An article on
Some Curiosities of Superstition" is es-
pecially noticeable for the similarity
which it traces between modern sliritu-
alism and individual necromancy. There
are some capital stories in college Eat
ing Clubs" by Henry A. Beers. G. H.
Peirce comments on Manners, Foreign
and Domestic" in satirical vein
Bread or Stone" is frontier sketch
by Helen Campbell. There is long in
stalment of "Stephen Guthrie" a serial
which is attracting much attention by
its life-like pictures of social condition
peculiar to America. "a Fair, Confed-
crate Among the Pines" by Fanny Al
bert Doughty, is of course Southern
love story. "Demoiselle Daphne" by
Mary Mather, gives pleasant glimpses
of Norman peasant life; and "a Break
fast Stery," by w. H. Bliss, is very eff
fectively told. Two short poems by
VIM. Fl. Howells and Henrietta r. El-
liot, are sure to be widely copied. The
Monthly Gossip and Literary Notices"
complete list of contents which is un-
usually varied, and which includes
nothing that is not readable and enter
tanning. $50 5-..-... .....
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STATEME 7
J UNDER OATH!

THAVE been sffisr,ci tor 'renfy years with
L an obstinate ss.n CIs'ea-- ca'ied by some
M. D.'s Psoriasis. aE, srh - Iepfosy, com,
mencing- on my scalp. and IN spite OF all
could do, with the help of the most ski!lful
doctors, ii surely but slowly extended until q
wear ago this winter 1t covered my entire
person In form of dry scales. For the last
wears have been unable 10 do any labor, and
suffering intensely all the time; every mOrn~
ing there could be dustpaDful OF scales taken
from the sheet on my bed, some of them half
as large as the envelope containing this letter;
in the latter part of the winter my skin CONS
meneed cracking open; tried every thing al
most that could be thought Of without any
relief; the 18th of June started west. in hopes
L could reach the Hot Springs: reached De-
troit and was so low thought should have
to go-to The hopitais but finally got a. Tar as
Lansing, NJ ich Igan. where bad 8 sister living
one DR. = treated me about two weeks. but
did me D good. all thought that had but a
short time to live; i earnestly prayed 70 dlei
cracked th rough the skin all over my back,
across nv ribs arms, hands, limbs, feet padiy
SWOLLEN the nails came off finger nails dead
and hard as bone hair dead, dry and lifeless
as old straw :. Oh. my God! how did suferi
Nv sister, Mrs. &. H Davis had small part
OF a box Of fcuticura In the house she wouldn't
was applied on one hand and arm; Eureka!
there was relief; stopped the terrible burning
sensation FROM the word go; they 1mm mediately
got the Cutieura Resolvent (Dlood puriier)
and Cuticura and Cuticura Soap (the great
81 in cures). Il commeRced by taking one
TABLESPOON ful of Resolvent three times day.
after meals; had bath once day, water about
blood heat: used Cuticura Soap freely; applied
CIticura morning and evening. result, re~
turned to my home in just six week from the
time l left. anu my skin as smooth as this
sheet of paper HIRAM E. CARPENTER.
Henderson, Jefferson county. n. Y.
sworn to before me this 10th day of Jan. 80
- A NJ. .LEFFINGwELL, j. P.
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Reaennsield's Novels.

Perhaps the most impartial and strik-
ing estimate of Lord Beaconsfeld's life
and character that has yet appeared is
the exhaustive paper contributed by
James Bryce, NJ. p to the March Cen
tury. In it Disraeli's literary works are
characterized as follows:
His novels are toe valuable reyela-
tion of his mind to be passed over. but
in themselves they need not occupy us
long. They are brimful, nay, foaming
over, with cleverness; indeed, Vivian
Grey with all its youthful faults, gives
one greater impression of purely intel
lectual brilliance than anything else he
ever wrote or spoke. There is some va
riety in their subjects, -'Contarina Fle-
ming and sTancref are mere romantic
than the others, 'SybiF and 'Coningsby'
more political,-as well as in their mer-
its; the two latest, 'Lothair' and 'Endy-
mion,' works of his old age, being mark
edly inferior IN spirit and invention.
But the general characteristics are the
same in ala lively fancy, a knaek of
hitting people off in few lines, consid-
cradle power of describing the super
ticial aspects of society," a swift nara
tive, sprightly dialogue, a keen insight
into the selfshness of men and the van
tiles of women, with incessant flashes
of wit lighting up the whole stage. But
it is always a stage. The light is .arti-
fetal light, not opsn-air sunshine. Moth
ing is really like nature. There is not
one of the characters whom we feel We
might have met and known; nor any
whom we should like to know. Heroes
and heroines are theatrical figures; their
pathOs rings false, their love, though
described as passionate, seems superfc-
ial; it does not spring from the inmost
recesses of the soul. The studies of men
of the world, and particularly of heart
less ones, are the most llfe-like; yet,
even here, any one who wants to feel
the difference between the great painter
and the clever sketcher need only COM
pare Thackeray's Marquis of Steyne
with Disraeli's Marquis of Monmouth,
both of them suggested by the same or
iginal. There is, in short, an absence Of
real dramatic. power in these stories,
just as there, is in his play of 'Alarcos :
and if we read them with pleasure it is
not for the sake either. of plot or of
char acter, but because they contain 50
many sparkling wittieisms and refec-
tions, setting in a strong light, yet not
always an unkindly light, the seamy side
of politics and human nature. The SLOW
enliness of their style, which is often
pompous, but seldom pure or correct,
makes them appear to have been writ
ten hastily Fan limpression heightened
by the undoubted fertility of invention
in the earlier ones, where we feel that
the sketches the author gives are, so to
speak, only a few out of large port
folio. .-'' 't'"
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Heroines of HoWeIls, Novels.

In the Century Magazine for March
Mr.. T. S. Perry talks interestingly of
Mr.. Howells' heroines. He says:
Women have no cause to be indignant
with Mr.. HowelPs kind comprehension
of them; what he feels for them is not
the eXultation of man who has found
them out, or the pity of superior being
for attractive interiors, but the sympa-
thy of a man who understands them,
and what we are all hungry for is not
so much that We may be loved. as that
we may be understood. Possibly, at
times, we are oyerhasty in assuming
that if we were understood we should
be loved. There can be no dark doubt
of this kind, however, in the case of Mr.
Howells' girlish heroines. Take them
in succession, and see their naturalness
and consequent charm. The heroine of
"a Chance Acquaintance is not the same
person as Lydia, the heroine of The
Lady of the Aroostook,' or that of Or.
Breen's Practice Yet they are alike in
their fearlessness before others and
timidity before themselves, ia their
gracious innocence and generosity. No
one has drawn such uncontaminated
souls more delicately than Mr.. HOwells,
because no one has drawn them more
exactly. In the great whirl of life, they
would have but little show by the side
of intenser people, more practiced plot
tiers, and the victims of fiercer emotions; /;
their kingdom, so to speak, is just out of
the busy world, in some quiet corner,
whence fancy and poetry are banished.
Fend, as Mr.. Howells is of these inde-
pendent girls with their romance await
ing them, he has also written another
sort of heroine, the full-blown coquette,
the mature fiirt, and he has made a most
thorough study of her antics. The CO.
quettes whom We meet in novels have
commonly but one trick. although, to be
sure, this is generally Irresistible, or said
to be irresistible; he has shown US ac-
complished experts in the gay science,
who are not simply arch, or misehievous'
or appealing, but much more, for at
times they are frank. The art with
which he draws his coquettes is most
admirable, because here, as everywhere,
Mr.. Howells describes what he sees, and
his eyes are exceedingly sharp. They
see not only the grim, decrepit New
England village in the brief season
when .boarders' assemble, but also the
perturbing fiirt, the unworthy cause of
tragedies, who is not condemned or
apologized for, but is simply put before
US. 49, .s.r
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The great Government bridge at Rock
Island, Ill, solid stone aud iron strac
ture, was partly blown down by the
high winds.
At Waverly, Neb., two young men
quarreled about the spelling of a word.
After coming to blows, one drew pls-
tol and shot the other dead. The muir
derer is safe in jail, although mob had
a rope around his neck.
Miss Kate Stork, an employe of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, at
Toledo, died Thursday, from what the
physicians pronounced blood poison.
| IRON an liberated tooth which had been
filed with composition
The great clock in the tower of the
City Hall, Pittsburgh, is being regulated
/ bv the Superintendent of the Fire De
partmemt. 1t will take six months to
finish the job The pendulum weighs 175
pounds, and 5000 has been paid for a
new dial.
1t is said that Congress will probably
pass bill opening up the bounty claim
business, which, like the Arrears OF
Pension Bill, will take millions out OF
the Treasury for no other purpose than
to go into the pockets of lobbyists and
claim agents" H1f1. ~-s.r
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Among the Rihe-Pits.

Fifty yards in front OF the abatlS the
pickets were stationed. When first the
siege began, picketing was dangerous
business. Both armies were bent on
fight, and picketing meant simply sharp
shooting. As consequence, at first the
pickets were posted only at night, so
that from midnight to midnight the
poor fellows lay in their rifle-pits under
a broiling July sun, with no protection
from the intolerable heat, excepting the
scanty shade of little pine-brush erect
ell overhead, or in front of the pit as a
screen. There the picket lay, fiat on his
face, picking off the enemy's men when
ever he could catch sight of head or
even so much as hand; and right glad
would he be if, when the long-awaited
relief came at length, he had no wounds
to show.
But later on, as the siege progressed,
this murderous state of affairs gradually
disappeared. Neither side found it
pleasant, nor profitable, and nothing was
gained by it. 1t decided nething, and
only wasted powder and ball. And SO,
gradually, the pickets on both sides be-
gan to be on quite friendly terms. 1t
was no unusual thing to see Johnny
picket-who would be posted scarcely
hundred yards away, so near were the
lines-lay down his gun, waive a piece
of white paper as signal of truce, walk
out into the netral ground between the
picket-lines, and meet one of our own
pickets, who, also dropping his gun,
would go out to inquire what Johnny
might want to-day.
"Well, Yank. want some coffee, and
I'll trade tobacco for it."
"Has any of you fellows back there
some coffee to trade for tobaccop John
ny Picket here, wants some coffee"
Or, maybe he wanted te trade papers,
a Richmond Enquirer for a New York
Herald or Tribune, seven up and no
Odds" Or, he only wanted to talk about
the news of the day-how "we'uns whip
ped you 'uns up the valley the
other day." or how, "if we had Stone
wall Jackson yet, we'd be in Washington
before winter" or may be only wished
to have a friendly game of cards!
There was a certain chiyalrous eti-
quette developed through this social in
tercourse of deadly foemen, and it was
really admirable. Seldom was there
breach of confidence or either side. 1t
would have gone hard with the comrade
who should have ventured to shoot
down man in gray who had left his
gun and come out of his pit under the
sacred protection of piece of white pa
per. If disagreement ever occurred in |
bartering, or high words arose in discus |
sion. shots were never fired until due
notice had been given. And find men,
toned in one of my old army letters that |
general fire along our entire front /
grew out of some disagreement on the |
picket line about trading coffee for to-
bacco. The two pickets couldn't agree,
jumped into their pits. and began firing,
the one calling out: Look out, Yank,
here comes your tobacco" Bangl
And the other replying: "AIl right,
Johnny, here comes your coffee" Bangl
-fFrom Harry M. Kieffer's "Recollec-
lions of Drum ner-boy," in March st.
Nicholas.
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Trains run on Baltimore time east Ohio riyer
WEST RoUND.-Chicago Fast Line Daily,
Chicago; Chicago Express daily Through
sleepers from Baltimore to Chicago daily.
Chicago Ma runs daily on Main Line and {.
o. Division: on other Divisions daily, except
Sunday. Other trains daily except sunday.
.-s NJ COLE, G A., Baltimore.
G & LORD, G A, Baltimore.
W REPPERT Passenger Agent. Columbus.
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At Paducah, KY, tlatboat containing
five'persons was carried into the cur
rent of the river, where the wind and
waves were high, and the occupants
were drowned. A boy, attracted by the
cries of the party, put out from the
shore in skiff to. their rescue. hut his
boat was also overturned and the brave
boy went down.
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49,. t(Frem the Courier.) 1sl..if- .s-t. ID
Mrs. Schoonmaker, of Creek Locks, Ulster
Co, N. Y, had the misfortune to entirely lose
the sight of one of her eyes. through an accf-
dent, and endured painful inflammatery ae-
ton therein for two long years; the other eye
finally becoming sympath etical1y affected, her
general health seriously suffer ing; indeed she
was mere wreck, a walking Skeleton. In
this terrible strait she consulted DIR. David
Kennedy, of Rondout, N. Y, who told her at
once that the injured eye must be removed.
She quietly but firmly said: "All right. Doctor
but don't give me Chloroform- Let my huss
band sit by my side during the operation, and
l will neither cry out or stfr.'' The work was
done. and the poor woman kept her werd
Talk OF soldierly couragel This showed greater
pluck than 1t takes to face a hundred guns.
TO restore her general health and give tone
and strength to the system, DIR. Kennedy thsn
gave the "Fayorite Remedy which clean sed
The blood and impaired new. life to the long
suffering woman. She rapidly gained health
and strenf1th. and is now well. The "Favor-
tie Remedy is a priceless blessing to women
No family should be without it. Your drugs
gist has it.. If not send to DR.. David Kennedy,
Rondout, New York. lli- Ilt
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ers, one sloop and sixty-one men. Eigh-
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was chased thirty-five miles before
brought TO.
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P0ETRY.
ALONE IN THE CITY.
BY HOWARD GLyNDoN.

Out of this tangled whirl;
Ont of this nest of noises,
These vapors that twist and curl
Like souls that have lost their polses
Out of this somber riot
That rules in the gas-lit street.
This surging of life unquiet,
This waxing of glare and neat;
Can a sound that is thin and small,
Can a auive1ing cry go upwardr
The pleading, passionate call
Of lips that turn not cupWard;
OF the mouth that leathes the Drin'
The taste of the braught and ali'
That shudders and shrinks AT Ine rlm
As from pain beyond recall!
Only little sound
So little and lone and sad,
IT. must sure be wholly drowned
In this carnival loud and mad,
OF deperate city cries,
That are so sinewy-throated
That soft moan, frightened, dies
Or fiutters about unnoted.
From the place where it hath its birth
little cry goes up;
From the loneliest heart on earth,
From the lips that refuse the cup;
From the city's deepest deep,
Out of a little room;
Though the tired and careless sleep
One heart must ache in the gloom!
q the babe lies soft and warm
On the breast that its weight delights
And the lips of love can charm
The bushes of icy nights;
And the touch of clinging hand
And the flash of a parting smile
Nav brighten the dim night-land
And company US awhilel
But ahi for the heart that goes
Unbenisened to its restl
And ahl for the bird that knows
No mate in its lonely nest;
Not even the kindly anttering
BY night of passing wing,
Only the winds low muttering
And no other neighborly thing.
So, encompassed about
By the city's worry and din,
By its wine and wassail and stout,
Like lenely isle shut In
By the heart of storm, yet strange
To that tempest, as isles can be,
And midst silence that cannot change
For the clamors of sky and sea,
Live the lonely heart OF me,
That STILES its passionate cry;
For if am bound or free,
For if l shall live or die,
What is that to the great,
Unrestful soul of tho city?
1t walls me in with my fate,
But it has no space for pity.
Shall sicken of faring apart?
Shall die of keeping alone,
And of bruising my living heart
On the cold, unanswering stoner
The city seems so amiss,
As shivering sit and mute;
In a soil as barren as this
Can my life take any root?
There is little rift
OF blue above the roofs,
And away in its peaceful lift
There are stars that shine like proofs
That shall not miss the folding
OF Gods arms warm about
The lone life he is holding
Safe, in the dark of Doubt
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