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Cnrinp by Faith.

The knowledge that the faith cure
has risen to the dignity OF ''craze"
in Boston, the reputed center of occi-
dental civilization, is calculated to eX-
cite a smile throughout the country.
The whole idea seems at first incon-
gruous; we associate 1t inevitably with
the ignorance and superstition of
past age, with charlatanry, street
corner quacks, spirit heale1s, sacred
relies, and the working of miracles by
PRAYER. But Boston is not alone iii the
present enjoyment of this ''craZe." A
wave of healing faith seems TO be pass
ing over the whole country, and IN
England such wonderful cures are re-
ported to have been effected by the
Salvation Army people that there
actually has been talk in high circles
of at1iliating this fantastic organization
with the Established Church. Thou
sands have flocked into halls there to
be prayed for, and the lame, the para
lytie, the deaf, and sufferers from a
myriad other real or imagined diseases,
have gone away believing themselves
cured.
These displays of credulity are not,
perhaps, surprising. In one respect
thew are the natural outgrowth of the
Christian faith. Logically, there is no
reason why the man or woman who
believes in the divine interposition IN
response to prayer should stop short
of praying for relief from physical suf
fering, or hesitate to believe that the
relief will be given. The Church, in
deed, specifically encourages this
faith, for has it not formulated special
PRAYERS for the sick, and does it not
offer them up whenever the afflicted
CRY for help? The church, then, can
not carp if the afflicted rush in throngs
to some ill-regulated and over Jealous
man who announces that faith and
PRAYER are sufficient medicines for the
sick body.
Science, at any rate, is far from
soothing at all faith-eures. There are
diseases which u0 amount of faith Will
affect; there are Others in which faith
alone seems to he the needed medicine.
In all these endeavors there is, of
course, al enormous percentage of
failures, though they are temporarily
lost sight of il the excitement attend
ant upon the few real and fancied
cures. But that some of them are real
any physician can testify. They have
themselves often wrought them by
bread pills or colored water. The
fancy plays strange tricks with every
body. Sydney Smith tells how the
poet Rogers caught severe cold at a
dinner party by Imagining that great
sheet of plate-glas behind him was an
open window; and there is a story of
French criminal who died under the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-28

impression that he was being bled to
death, when the physicians were in
reality pricking his flesh and initiating
the sound of flowing blood. In other
cases people have been cured of ner-
vous ailments by sudden shocks like
an alarm of fire or from burglars; and
generally physicians maintain that
often one of the most difficult phases
of disease to combat is the patients
own lack of faith in his recovery.
Faith cures, then, are not only far
from impossible, but are based upon
one of the recognized laws of human
ity; and they are by no means de-
pendent upon religious ardor. Three
centuries ago, in fact, the quacks who
worked upon the imaginations of the
sick were as much trusted as regular
physicians, and the wise women,
the vendors of herbs and salves, were
in the time OF Henry III. protected by
law. That statute declared that
'divers honest people whom God hath
endued with the knowledge of the ma
ture, kind and operation of certain
herbs. roots and waters were to be
allowed to prescribe for sores, swell
ings, scalds, burns, ''the web and pin
in the eye" and more dangerous COM
plants. And even Lord Audley urged
Cecil to try the virtues of ''sow-pig,
nine days old, ? or hedgehog distill-
ed with various spices and wines, as a
remedy for fever. We have advanced
beyond that point now, happily, but
we are still far from the day when
man will so fully understand the laws
of his own being that the quack and
the faith healer will have no further
occupation st Louis Globe Democrat.
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AFTERWARD.
found my love enslaved and sold
To serve in fcfters hard and cold.

found my love enslaved and sold
To serve in letters hard and cold.
Rare-beautiful she was to me,
For alone had eyes to see
IntO her pure hearts privacy.
Oh. love. / cried, these chains so cold
" ere never forged apart to hold
Twin carts that leap to sweet embrace
AyOTal in thine eyes trace,
Thy heart makes answer in thy face.
Strong am /, love, thy chains to break;
One word and to my heart take,
For veal or woe for death or life,
Thy woman-wcalth, and name thee wife.
"Alas ~ she cried, 81 am named wife"
What's in a namel The birds that mate
FOR seasons only, rightly rate
The part 81 love; they love aud live,
Each giving all that each can give
She sighed; Thou hast all can givel"
Thou mast my heart; / cannot keep
The gift which from myself doth leap.
Thou hast my love, taou hast my prayer
That Heaven will keep thee in It's care.
But | am ,dded witt Despair.
Nay, shame not manhood with the thought
OF passing Joy with virtue bought
Law writhing tramplcd in the dust
While Love. with drunken leer of lust
Drains down deiirium's dregs, disgust.
And thou wilt seek some far retreat
And die for met Nay live, and beat
War-music out on iron fate.
Be leader in the good and great,
And bide the aft .rWard | wait
The alteTNa d of that calm elm
or Avalon, where waves Of time
Arc spurncd from off an island strand,
And mountainward the loye-lit land
Doth want our rowing, hand in hand.
Farewell, my love, Uncasped l turn
To where fc's bcck'ning beacOns burn:
And every hattlc-biow shall be
Dear as kiss tina, comes from thee,
Sweet sealing thy fond prophecy.
4 q. CheeertVlt, n, The Current.
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The pictorial press of London orig
mated with The Illustrated London
News in 1912. The protector and
founder of this popular paper was Mr..
Herbert Ingram. He was a news
agent at Nottingham. Occasionally,
to accentuate notable events, murders
particularly, the loca! press published
a picture. The engraving was as
crude as the printing of it was unsat-
isfactory, but success always attended
the special edition of the journal that
contained an illustration. The Not
tingham news-agent was of an inquir-
ing and observing turn of mind
Taking note of the great extra sale at
tending even the poorest kind of news
paper engraving, it occurred to him
TO speculate. upon the prospects of a
journal that should be full of pictures.
The idea of an illustrated newspa-
per thus sprang up IN his mind. and
he never rested until he started for
London and put it into shape. OF
course he was told that his scheme
was foolish-that it would never sue
ceed. The paper was not an immedi-
ate success. Mr.. Migrants capital
was limited. If he had entered upon
the business backed as men usually are
who start newspapers in these days, he
would never once have had cause to
be anxious. But he was spending his
own money, and for a time it disap-
peared like the material in Chatmoss
during the railway-making, and with
as little apparent result. The time,
came however, when 'foothold'' was
secured, and eventually Ingram stood
upon the new-made ground, master of
the situation. -JoSeph Hatt0n. IN CHI
ouua AoyrS
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Tippecanoe Not a GLutton.

Gen. Harrison was neither a gour-
mand nor glutton, but was delicate
in his tastes, and abstemious In his in
indulgence at the table. The writer
has frequently eaten at the generals
table, and he at the writer's table,
so that our knowledge of the demands
of his appetite are not merely hearsay.
Nor was Gen. Harrison's sickness,
which terminated in his death, brought
on by over eating large quantities of
indigestible food. He was always an
active, energetic man, and from boy
hood to the last week of his lite rose
early, and, when it was to be done,
engaged at the early dawn in necessary
outdoor work. And when there was
no such work, he usually took a long
walk before breakfast. This had be-
come part of his life, and when he
came to Washington he continued the
practice.
The week before his death, in pursu-
ance of the practice of his active life,
and his habit of early rising and exer-
else, the general took a walk, as he
frequently did, across the long bridge
to Georgetown. About the time he
started to return he discovered a show
er approaching, and FASTENED to reach
the White House before the rain. He
worked himself into perspiration,
and a heavy dash of rain wet him
thoroughly before he reached protec-
ton. The next day he was quite in
disposed, which was quickly followed
by pneumonia, or bilious pleurisy,
which baflled all medical skill, and
terminated his uSeful life after an ill
ness of eight days. These are facts,
and he was not killed by "Hoosier
cook" giving him his favorite "cab-
bage, cucumbers and pickle pork. y
IOnn State ReQLSter.
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The Late Commodore Garrison.


From the New York Tribune
The end of q few years saw him cap.
tain of steamboat called the Convoy.
One day, while selling tickets in the
office of the boat, he became involved
in quarrel with peculiarly choleric
individual, who finally enforced his re-
marks by presenting q pistol through
the window full at the Captains head.
1t was one of the old-fashioned affairs,
looking like Calling gun in miniature,
containing six barrels in one, all of
which turned round in cooking like the
chambers of a modern revolver. twas
before the days of cartridges, and the
barrels terminated at the breach in
nippels, the charge being exploded by
a percussion cap. The Captain
had not time to move before
the man with a murderous
mind snapped his pistol. The cap
missed fire. He tried again, and again
there was no discharge. Captain
Garrison's pistol lay near at hand,
but he made no movement in
that direction. Keeping an unfinch
ing eye upon the discomftted marks
man, he cody opened drawer, and TAX
ing out of it box of percussion caps,
pushed it through the window. saying:
TRY some new caps; yours don't
seem to be good"
The audacity of the performance
completely unnerved the irrate passen-
ger. Instead of accepting the caps, he
begged pardon for his folly, was given
hearty hand-shake, and for years
afterwards was one of the fearless cap
ta1n's warmest friends and admirers.
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The Teeth of immigrants.

The Teeth OF immigrants.
The immigrant train on the Central
this morning was half an hour late,
and consisted of one solitary car, in
which were forty-seyen passengers.
Come with me and take a walk
through the immigrant-car | would
like to show you the difference between
foreign and domestic teeth. The
speaker, addressing the surgeon, was
an old and well-known dental surgeon
of this city Il have come down here
for the express purpose of noting for
myself the teeth of our newlv-arrived
cousins" said the DENTIST as he led
the way to the tram, which was just
pulling INTO the yard.
In the car were Germans, English,
Swedes. two Danes and four Polish
Jews. '.Look at that fellow in the
third seat there getting away with
that bacon; see those beautiful grind
ders," said the knight of the forceps as
he intently watched a sturdy German
who with huge jack-knife, was cut
ting alternate slices of schwarz- brod
and bacon, which he was putting under
his vest with marvellous rapidity. His
teeth were indeed magnificent spec
linens of sound grinders, milky white
evenly grown and regularly set. Pass
ing two seats further on were a mother
and two children. The woman was
English, and, when spoken to, dis
played very beautiful worries. In an
swer to a question of the dentist as to
whether she had ever had any trouble
with her teeth, she laughed and said:
mo, l dom know what toothache is, "
Behind her was a group of several
persons chatting together, and while
talking they all displayed perfect
teeth.
Chow do you account for these peo-
pie having such handsome teeth?" was
asked of the dentist. After speaking
of the difference between the thick
and musty odor within the car and
pure ozone outside, he said; "The
whole difference is in the food that is
eaten. These people at home were
wont to eat the coarsest kind of food;
they never touch sweetmeats or deli
cacies of any kind, and consequently
the acids which are in all fancy tidbts
do not touch their teeth. Therefore,
decayed teeth are something utterly
unknown to them. | have not the
least doubt that some of these people
never saw a tooth brush. They don't
think of their teeth at all, and, yet
they look as pearly and round as if a
dentist examined them every day
Utica Observer.
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counterfeiting Proves Superiority.

Although counterfeiting is one of the
greatest crimes against the business of
an country, and in many cases
obstructive of health and life!"
at proves beyond doubt the"
Superiority
OF the article counterfeited;
As no inferior article is ever counter
feited.
Proof of this is found in the great
number in
Australia, England, France,
Germany, India, Belgium, Canada
and the U. s.
OF counterfeits Of the great remedy,
"Hop Bitters,"
Whose name and merits are so we'll
known the world over that it is
Shining mark and favorite prey
For Counterfeitersi !"
Beware of all that does not have a
green cluster of hops on the white label.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-28
The Bantam Grandmother.

Ordinarily a new born chicken will
follow any hen, aud any hen will cluck
and scratch for any newborn chick
if not over a day or two old. but not
so with i've little bantams recently
Matched in Justice Poe's hennerv. His
little boy, Harry, possessed very
beautiful little bantam hen, which was
priced for its beauty and gracefulness,
but no sooner had she served her time
on the nest, and came struttIng forth
with the five little beauties, than her
worldly existence came to an end.
In this dilemma Harry tried to get
another hen to be tender and true to
the little orphans, but it remained for
the grandmother of the orphans to as
sumo this responsibility. The grand
mother was herself on a nest ami try
ing to raise another brood, but readily
gave up the prospects and began TO
care for grandchildren and shows I'M
usual affection and sympathy for the
orphans. atlanta Consultation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-28

How often is the light of the household cloud
ed by signs of melancholy or irritability on tho
parto the ladies' Yet they are not to be blamed,
Tor they are the result of all ailments peculiar
to that sex, which men know not of. But the
cause NAV be removed and JOY restored by the
use of DR. Pierces 'tFavorite Prescription.
which, as a tonic and nervine for debilitated
women is certain, safe and pleasant 1t is be-
yond all compare, the great healer of women.
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Wished He was a Cow.

.'Why do you ill yourself so full of
whisky" said Johnnie Mailer to an
acquaintance who was taking his
fourth drink inside of five minutes,
ian animal would not do that"
"Waz ger mazzer wiz hog" re-
piled the inebriated individual.
eWell, " said John, Il don't wish to
call you hog, but | do wish you
were COW so far as drinking is con-
cerned.
"A how IL that"
well, a COW is satifed with two
horns. but you are not "-Car1 PretzeF 5
Weekly.
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The Times scribe had an interview with
W. c. Parker, of Windfall, last week. Mr..
Parker held one fifth ticket in the Louisiana
State Lottery, No 59O75, which drew
$4,000, one-fifth of the first capital prize of
SIS, 0O0 L. Perry held a half interest in the
ticket purchased by Mr.. Parker The two
named gentlemen, in company with their
attorney, r. B. Beauchamp, went to New
Orleans to draw the money. When they
arrived there, they had no trouble at all in
procuring the $4,000 They speak very
highly of the company and say the people Of
New Orleans say that it is an honest, fair and
reliable institution 1t is recommended by
the State Legislature, and that it's check is
good for million dollars Upton, Ind,
Times, May Z.
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Consumption Cure

would be truthful name to give to DIR.
Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" the most
eficacious medicine yet discovered for arrest
ing the early development of pulmonary dis
ease But Consumption cure" would not
sufficiently indicate the scope of its influence
and usefulness In all the many diseases
which spring from arrangement of the liver
and blood the discovery" is a safe and sure
specific. Of all druggists.
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His "DoWdv" Wife.

One of the many romances associated
with the English peerage began in a
gambling debt. The Earl of Cadogan
had won large sum of money from
the Duke of Richmond, but offered to
cancel the debt, if the duke would con-
sent to the marriage of his son to the
earls daughter.
The offer was accepted. The Earl
of March, the son, was called home
from school and the young lady from
her nursery. When they arrived, a
clergyman was in attendance, and they
were told that they were Immediately to
become man and wife.
"Surely, you are not going to marry
me to that dowdyw exclaimed the
boy, but the young lady uttered not a
word.
AS soon as the ceremony was over, q
post chaise carried Lord March off, with
his tutor, to make the tour of Europe,
while his young wife was sent back to the
nursery.
The groom spent some years abroad.
On his return to London, instead of
seeking his bride, he went to the opera.
While amusing himself with surveying
the company through his glass, he was
struck with the beauty of young
woman in one of the boxes. Turnin z
to gentleman beside him, he asked
who she was.
"You must be stranger in London, F"
replied the gentleman, mot to know
the belle of the town, the beautiful
Lady march,"
The earl, agreeably surprised, went
to the box, announced himself, and
claimed as his bride the dowdy from
whom he had turned years before.
The strangely united, couple lived SO
happily together that the wife died of a
broken heart within year of the death
of her husband.
Anew Orleans paper refers editorially to the
wonderful restoration to health of Mr.. L.
Posey, druggist, 225 Canal street, that city,
who some time ago was Frustrated by an ox-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-28

If when you call for Hop Bitters (see
green cluster of Hops on the white label
the druggist hands out any stuff called
G. d. Warmers German Hop Bltters or
with other Hop" name, refuse it and
shun that druggistas you would viper:
and if he has taken your money for the
stuff, indiet him for the fraud, and sue
him for damages for the swindle, and we
will reward you literally for the con-
viction.
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With every disease imaginable for the
last three years. Our
Druggist, L. j. Anderson, recommend
ing
Hop Bitters" to me,
fused two bottlesl
Am entirely cured and heartily recon-
mend Hop Bitters to every one.
J. d. Walker, Buckner, Mo.
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An Extended Popularity. Browns BRoN-
CHIAL TRocHEs have been before the public
many years. For relieving Coughs and Throat
troubles they are superior to all other articles
Sold only in boxes.
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The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oil in
tho world, manufactured from fresh, healthy
liYers, upon the sea shore. tits absolutely pure
and sweet Patients who have once takeni t
prefer it to all others Physicians have decided
it superior to any of the other oils in market.
Made by CAswELI4, HAZARD & Co, New York.
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On the 18th inst, Rudolph w. Krey, Of Wa
coma, was fishing and using Albert Blu randi 8
boat without his authority. The latter order
G him to come ashore, and the former not
complying, Burandt picked up, stone ana m
threw ii At Krey. hitting him on the head He
rode ashore and a Chaska doctor found Sc
vere fracture Of the skull. He advised trepan-
mig Immediately, but .hls was not done at that
lime The doctor was recalled upon the pa
tents becoming worse and performed the OPP
Grafton: hut krey died Immediately after
Bg4gandt was arrested and brought before jus
tie., Miller of Waconia, who bound him over N
5000 10 appear before the grand jury upon
fbe charge of murder
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The Quebec provincial government has mott
debtedness Of between SOS, 900 and 20, 900 is not
paid at once they viii take out q writ of seizure
and place the town under the charge of the
sheriff
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No disease can show such quick results as
Heart Disease; do not delay DR. Graves
Heart Regulator is specific. $1.OO per bottle
at druggists Free pamphlet of T. E, Ingalls,,
Cambridge, Mass.
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Texas has grown in few years to

Texas has grown in few years to b
one of the great States Of the American
Union. In 1880 it was eleventh on the
roll, ranking by population. OF it's
million and a half Of population nearly
nine hundred thousand were born in
the state, and yet last week there v as
buried in New Orleans "the first white
man born in Texas" Within the span
of his life great Commonwealth has
been created and the State peopled.
The population is still very small
though in proportion to the extent OF
habital ground. It is not much of an
cxaggeration to say that the whole popu-
lation of the United States could move
to Texas and still leave it no more
crowded than some parts of Europe.
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If when you call for Hop Bitters tsee green
cluster of hops ON the white LABEL the druggist
hands out any stun called C. d. Warmers Ger
man Hop Bitters or With othor "Hop" name,
refuse it and shun that druggist as You would
Il viper: and if he has taken your money for
tic stuff, iudict him for the fraud and sue him
for damages for the swindle, and we Will re-
ward you literally for the conviction.
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Rupture. breach or Hernia

permanently cured or no pay. The worst cases
guaranteed! Pamphlet and references, two
three cent stamps. Worlds Dispensary Medi-
cal Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, n T.
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81 Wish / could find something that would
cure gals and prevent the hair coming in
white is an expression frequently heard.
Veterinary Carbolsalve will always do it, Sold
by Druggists