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’ ,wzmiszm' m N " Law. A figmmsfi. ran-- M63! TAKING IT FOR. ' GRANTED. “- \Yith marks of a rough, stormy life all over hiin,a. man of about fifty years, gray and sunburnt, sat in my office. 1 found him there when I went in one morning not long ago. Ilia went home, and carrying himself 3 towards Augusta like an accepted lover. I After few years he found himself possessed of twelve thousand dollars,Ԥ and immediately went to work to spend ' it. He went abroad, to England and Rome and Egypt and Paris. and Ger- many and Sweden and Russia and 5‘. “ Here is somebody waiting for you, . Elwcllf’ said Mr. Bigelow. I looked around, and the man rose and held out his hand. “ Averillâ€"my name is Averill,” said be, looking sharply at me out of a pair of shrewd guy eyes. “ I am- an old friend of your mother ; but I have not met her for a matter of five and-twenty years. So I thought I’d call and ask after her and her family." “ I am glad to see you," said I. “Are you a relative of my mother 2” “No.” replied Mr. Averill. “ \Ve were of the same name, but not connect- edâ€"unless it may be very distantly. I used to know her and her folks, though, as well as I did my own sisters, and better, too. Let’s seeâ€"where is your Aunt Augusta now ?” “She is living with her children in Portlant ,” said I. “ Pretty well, is she, do you know ?’ asked Mr. Averill. “Very well when we heard last. Aunt Augusta has good children and a pleasant home, and seems quite happy.” “Umâ€"mâ€"m-m l That is nice,” said Mr. Averill,'fumbling at a rough nug- get of gold that hung as a charm from his watch-chain. I hadn’t much to do that day, so I talked off and on with my visitor till it was time to go home, and then took him along with me. I left him in the sitting-room and went to find mother. She- was mixing biscuits for supper, looking through her glasses and sing- ing a snatch of some cld, half-forgotten love-ditty of her youth. “ Mother 1” said I, breaking in upon her song. “ Come in the other room. An old friend of yours wants to see you." ., Mother looked up over her glasses. “An old friend? ’Tisn’t any of the Main folks, is it ’2” sheasked. Because, if it was so much as a dog . that had trotted across a corner of the State of Maine, on his four legs, mother would have run, with her arms out and a. smile of welcome, without stopping to even wash the dough off her hands. As it was, with only an indefinite thought of seeing “an old friend,” she went, with a dust of flour on her nose, and without her company cap. As soon as she had stepped inside the sittingâ€"room door, she stood and looked at her guest, and he stood and looked at her. ” It is anus, an (.1 iii; us you. HIS born in she said, at last. Then they both laughed, and then they both wiped their eyes, though they didn’t seem like that sort of people, especially Mr. Averill. I never knew mother to forget her housekeeping before, but this time she let the biscuit burn till they were black as my shoe ; and when she mixed some more she put in sugar. instead of salt, and left out the saleratus altogether. But her cheeks grew pink, and her cap strings flew, and she nor her guest seemed to know the difference. .“ 0h, honey i” cried my mother, hop- ping up from the tea-table as soon as she was seated. “ You haven’t lost your sweet tooth, have you, Ssm ’l” “ How you do remember i” returned S rm, admiringly. "I should think I ought to,” answer- ed my mother, with a girlish laugh. “The way you used to pick up walnuts to carry to the cross-roads store and trade for molasses and make candy of ! Speaking of the cross-roads store, I wonder if you know our old storekeep- er’s daughter, she that was Sarah Curly, has lost her husband l” “ No, has she? Strange I never heard of it,” replied Mr. Averill, appearing as astonished as though he had been hear- ing from his own neighbors every week. ", Yes,” said my mother. “ She mar" rind one of old Si Seaver’s boys, the oldest one, Jonathan, and he died sud- den,â€"all at once; well, it must be something like half-a-dozen years ago, and left his wife and so many children â€"-five children or else six, 1 don’t know which.” “ You don’t say I” ejaculated Mr. Averill, passing his honey plate for the third time. No, evidently he had not lost his sweet tooth. '|Afte1‘ supper, mother washed up the dishes and talked, and Mr; Averill smoked his pipe and listened. It was the first time I ever allowed anybody to, smoke in my house, but I had noth- ing to say now. I even filled his pipe and lighted it for him. And then he toldthe story of his life, which had been full. of strange and interesting adven- tures. He was evidently a man who did not read much and who could not have written well, but he could talk; not always gramatically perhaps, but always with force and fascination. It seemed that years .and years ago, his father and my mother's father lived in a. town in the valley of the Kenne- bec. My mother’s father was n. large farmer and Mr. Averill’s father was a very small farmer with a very large family. So his youngest son Sam, came to- work for my grandfather. My mother and my aunt Augusta, were young girls â€"â€"thev were twins, and I suppose by the way they look now that they must have been pretty then. My mother was early engaged and married to my father; but there was Augusta and there was Sam; and where one was you might usually find the other near at hand. Sam never said anything, he was not of a. demonstrative kind, but he knew how he felt, and be supposed Augusta know too. So the years budded and blossomed and brought forth fruit, until at last Sam went down to Connecticut to take charge of a saw-mill for an uncle of his. He wrote to Aunt Augusta. and Aunt Augusta wrote to'him; and now and then he came to Maine on business, always gomg to my grandfather’s before everywhere. last it was with only fifty dollars in his . ‘then he came home at pocket. l‘lc next went out among the cppper mines of Lake Superior, and in time was again possessed of twelve thousand dollars. ” Now I will come home and marry August, and settle down,” said he to himself. But he didn’t say it to any- body else. It never occurred to him that was necessary. Meantime my Aunt Augusta had not steed like a rose in a pot, waiting for the gardner to come and pick it. She cast out her roots and threw up her branches and bloomed as though it was enough to fulfill the laws of being and beauty for their own sakes. In that simple neighborhood work was supposed to be the chief end of everybody. So Aunt Augusta learned vestmaking, and then she wont ioCoos, where her brother Nathan lived, and “meq-‘M _, A .__._ A...“ .,-.,,.-.._L.-. grew hotter and more impatient, kept - them back altogeth.’ - never allowed Aunt Au; sight or thought of himse... and still ; to loosâ€"e l l - l Thus the time passed, until Sam " Averill having made and lostund made again his twelve thousand dollars among the copper mines, 0:. ‘ home to “ marry 3’ Augusta and settle down.” Suddenly (med-av h:- appcarel before? my Uncle Nathan, iii-.1 rel-worn :uull brown and shaggy. My uncle received him with great cordiality. ' i i i “ Sam, I’m glad to see you i" said he. I “ How have you fared this great; lmw w ’ time i l “Fair to middling. ‘thre’s Angusâ€"i ta 1” returned Sam. “ Oh, Augusta 1 She is all right. You go to the tavern and fix up, and I’ll find Augusta. I will be around in an hour or so and call for you: Augusta will be proper glad to see you, and so’ll the rest of the folks. I don’t know when there has been such it surprise ini Coos before.” So Sam went- ofl‘ withhis honest heart he bla = and she wore a cap on her head. D gimp, H , ._ .. . . , of Oregon. I’rofesser Procter, the English astron- ' -~-â€"-â€"- I omer, treats largely upon the probabili- Professor Lo (lento, at a. recent ties of other worlds than this being in- “I have Come for you again, Au- . mgciiug of the California Academy ofihabiled, the conclusion being that, of “as”. Am I 100' 1310 um,- r‘lme?” “_.:nc.... stated that the great overflowlthc inner planets, Murcury, Venus, the cries) the impatient love,._ _’ ‘_ n” l-wa in the chst proceeded from Earth, and Mars, our planet only was The P0805 0mm, back U, Aunt A,‘,_:t_h” Cascade Mountains in ()regoul in condition to be inhabited by beings - l ck and bright as ever. But the The Lav primoses Were faded in her cheeks,; a Overflow y l t r 1 H ,. l ,_ ust’s checks, and the redhot arrow»: shot out of her (‘yes once more. “Bless us! if it isn’t Sum Averill, nose and all 3" she said, holding up her hands. From twenty iii-fifty is but as a watch in the night, when the ye. are past; and it is only when: an old lady nods triumphantly at {you from the looking-glass, saying, “.Here am, my dear l”or dear!" or when children that you have nursed in your arms come aroumlwith therights and duties of fullâ€"grown men and W0- men, that you remember one is no longer youngvat fifty. But the sight of Sam 'ikvei‘ill’l‘gi-ay hairs and wrin: klcs were as good as a looking-glass to remind Aunt Augusta. . “Sit down, Sam,” said she, "‘ and to find a razor and a wash bowl, and n1 yvuncle Nathan did a very mean thing. He went slraight to Abner Stanton. set up for herself. Coos was a little crumb of a town in those days , but it held up its head and had its stores and its mills, and its shops, and its great white meeting-houses ona hill, with galleries on three sides, and square pews and a high box pulpit. The first Sunday after Aunt Augusta went there, she climbed the hill, of course, and went in the front pew with Uncle Nathan and his wife. She was fashionably dressed in a black crape gown, a seaflet shawl and a white silk bonnet and pink roses inside. Her checks were as pinkas her roses, and her eyes were as black as her gowu. There was no need that Mr. Keelcr should point her out to the young men, but he took the pains to do it. Mr. Keeler, the minister, was a little lank man, as plain and gray as a dor-bug, and so afraid of the pomps and vanities that he wouldn’t wear buttons on his coat. No sooner had his eyes fell on Aunt Augusta, settling herself in the front pew like a variegated tulip, than he dropped the subject he had started upon for his serman. and he began to preach against conformity to the world. He was a sincere earnest nan, and he preached with all his might, emphasiz- ing and illustrating his words by pointâ€" ing with his blunt finger at the scarlet shawl and pink roses. So if anybody had negleted to look at them before, they looked then. Among those who Were obedient to the ministerial forefinger was Abner Stanton, the village blacksmith. V ‘Abner Stanton’s heart was a good deaTlilEé u but when it once had been hammered into a shape, there it was, fixed and steadfast. And to-day Aunt Augusta’s eyes went through it like red-hot arrows as he peered around at her from behind one of the pillars in the gallery. The next day he came to get a. vest made. The day after, he came to bring the buttons for it; and the day alter that he thought, as he was going by, he would call and see if she had every; thing she needed, and how soon the vest would be done. It was not two days more before he was there again to bring a letter. “I happened to see it at the post- office when I went for my paper, and so I brought it along. I could as well as not," said he. ' The letter was from Sam Averill, telling about the luck he had in mining, the weather, and the fact that he was well. Nothing more; nothing abdut the home he was building in his fancy, and the figure that was always central in his thoughts. “I hope,” said my uncle Nathan, “ you are not 3001i. 11 enough to set your mind upon such a rolling stone as Sum Averill. He has no continuity to him.” I “ If we are going to hunt for a man that has no faults in this world, we’ll have along road to it.” returned Aunt Augusta, bearing down the heavy pres- sing iron upon her seam as though try- ing to crush the life out of something. In less than a week Abner Stanton called again. He thought perhaps Miss Augusta didn’t know the swamp-pinks were out, and so he brought her a handâ€" ful that he got on the way over from Cowesett. Aunt Augusta. had a passion for flow- ersâ€"she and my mother are alike about thatâ€"and she put a cluster of the blos- 'soms in her hair at once, and another at her throat, while Abner Stanton looked at her with admiration in every hair of his head. “If you were a sister of mine, you should sit in a rocking chair and wear swamp pinks i” said he. “ Abner Stanton is a most excellent man,” quoth Uncle Nathan, when he had gone his way, “an esquiie and a head man in town. He’s all wheat and no chaff. He’ll make a firstâ€"rate hug- band, and the girl who gets him will get a prizo.” Aunt Augusta. made some fierce clip- pings with her great tailor’s shears, but she said nothing, and pressntly went lip-stairs to answer Sam Averill’s last letter. ' The next day Abner Stanton called to see Uncle Nathan on business, and she sent her letter to the office by him. .So the months drifted along one after another like pictures in a magic-lantern. Abner Stanton came often on one ex- cause or another, or on none. He brought flowers and berries strung on grass, and sweet flagâ€"root- and birds’ eggs. He was never intrusive with lis love, but he made Aunt Augusta conâ€" scious of it every step she walked and with every breath she breathed. It was below her, above her, and all around her. He often brought her letters from Sam, and carriedhers for him to the office. All things are fair in love,” said he to himself. -So now and then he forgot to mail, or to deliver one, droppifigtit in the fire instead. At last, as his loin “ Abner,” said he, going into the smitby, out of breath, “ Sam Averill has come, and you must go right up and get Augusta‘to name the day. or you will lose her., I’ll keep him out of the way as long as I can.” Abner dropped his hammer without saying a word, and went up the street, rolling down his shirtsleev‘cs as he“ went. ‘An hour alter" Uncle Nat-hair came home home with Sun Averill, “Here an oldjfriend you willb'e'.‘ glad to see, Augusta,” said be, opening the door of my aunts workroom, where she sat sticking the pocket of a primrose- colored vest, and looked fresh as a hun- dred primroses herself. “It is Sam !” said she faintly, starting to her feet and dropping her work. It was Sam. Sam come at last, with his long-smouldering love and his tardy speaking. “ You are too late 1 An hour too late,” said my aunt Augusta, when he had told his e) rand East. “ I have just onâ€" gaged myself to another man.” “ You haven’t done right, Augusta,” said Sam. “You belong to me : you have always belonged to me, and you ought to have waited till I came.” “ You didn’tsay anything,” returned my aunt, with a little pride. " How was I to know what you meant l You never spoke a word.” “ I took it you knew my ,minc .” re- turned Sam. “ I never thought of anyâ€" body else. I never Should think of any- body elss, and it didn’t occur to me that you would. You must marry this person now you ,lrave prompsed him, of course. But it isn’t right . nd it never will be’right.” i M'r. Stanton is a worthy man i-{zst as good as gold, clear through" {the core. I have always liked 11in); ahd you never said anything," repeated my poor aunt Augusta; “ I will be your friend, though first the same." They said no more; there was noth- ing more to be said, and in a month Aunt Augusta and Abner Stanton were married. Sam Averill stayed till after the wedding, and then he went off, and had never been heard of agaih until to day by Aunt Augusta’s family. He went to California, throwing his whole life into work; his work pros- pered, and he had come back now with houses and lands and gold and minesâ€" â€"a rich man. He had come back to find Aunt Augusta, and learn how the world had fared with her. For in all these years of buying and selling and getting gain, he had kept the empty room in his heart that had once been filled by his love. Aunt Augusta’s married life had not been happy. A It is very dangerous for a man to take in a mean habittemporarily, for it will stick to him, and Abner Stanton’s character never recovered from the twist those intercepted letters gave it. I don’t know what, but some- thing wasalways going wrong between them. Even their children proved bar- riers instead of bonds. As he grew older his natural economy and thrift became stronger and stronger, until, as my mother said, “he got so clost he could sit, and seven more like him, on a, three-cent, piece.” Finally, one day, under some provcation, he told Aunt Augusta about the lost letters. “ You oughtn’t to have told me hat, Abner,” said she. “ You ought not to have told me. I can never forgive you.” She never did. Ever after, there seemed to be something separating them, cold and hard and transparent as ice, until at last they agreed to live apart. And so they did until the death of Mr. Stanton. New Aunt Augusta was liv- ing surrounded by her children and grandchildren, happy and comfortable. Mother brought ' down thus the story of Aunt Augusta’s life, while Mr. Averill listened eager and ex cited. When she had finished he knocked the ashes from his pipe and starting up, began to walk the floor. “I will start forPortland to-morrow morning and see what Augusta will have to say topic. I am of the same mind I always Was. .I’ve never han- kered for a moment after any other woman, and I am as ready to marry her to-day as ever I was.” So' the next day I saw him on the Portland train, gray with years, but youthful.with'expectations. This time he did 'not waste his op- portunity by waiting to make himself him, but . 'th the grime and dust of' travel upofiiim, he went directly'to the house ' Aunt Augusta’s daugh- ter, with whom she is living. “Where is Mrs. Stanton ? I want to see her right away,” said he, as soon as .thedoor was opened. “You will find her here; walk in, if you please,” replied the housemaid, throwing open the door of the sitting- room. I ,1 Mr. Agerill stepped quickly for- ward. 5, there she sat, stitching [away'asibefore on semeTIkind of prim- ‘rosoooolafibd stufl‘, with her eyes as l 3.! :nv let me look atyou. It seems like the real old times 1.0 see you once more. You look wonderful natural, butdcar me. how you have changed! You’v grown old as well as myself,” . But Mr. Averill was not to be diâ€" verted by any side issues. , ' “Augusta,” he said, earnestly, “I made a serious mistake once. It was not amistake about my own mind, however; that remains the same it always was. Every woman I’ve ever seen seemed like a (allow candle be- side the sun when I think of you. I ,lievemma‘dc ymyfo,_i'tuno, and all I want new: issyoudoleemc'andsharo 'it‘ “IO. always was.” Maybe Aunt Augusta’s heart throb- bed a little with the old yearning to- ward the love of her youth, but she shook her head‘ with unhesitating de cision, as she put out her hand to stir the cradle where her youngest grand- child lay asleep. “It can never be, Sam,” said she. “I won’t deny that it was all a ‘Inis- take my marrying Stanton. He didn‘t turn out to be the man I took him for. Ho proved contrary and ornery, and besides he wrote letters in disguise. it is you, or nobody, just as it ; uhieh were of themselves one vast i mass of lava. From this point the lava loverflowed a great portion of Oregon lVVashington Territory, all of Northern California, and vast sections of Nevada, Montana and Idaho. The lava floor cowred an area of at least two hun- dred thousand square miles, as far as explored, and it would probably be found to extend over a surface of three hundred thousand square miles, as its limit northwest had never been detcr~ mined. ‘The depth of the lava crust varied from upwards of three thousand feet in the Cascade and Blue Mountain region Ito one and two hundrec feet and less at remote points on t I“, or edge of the overflow. VVhegf-‘the tremeir dons gorge of the Columbia river cut through'the lava bod, it had a depth of three 'thousand (five hundred feet. The eruption was comparatively recent, belonging to the latter part of the mic- cene period, extending’perhaps into the post tertiary.~â€"â€"Sciem_'fic ’Anfc'firuh. r 'vâ€"yo. Gar Ocuplingj..{§aii‘§érs . .ax r, p . 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Whenever you see a large number of broken drawheads around the car repair Shops, you can be assured that some- body has been in a hurry.-Srz'enl?;fic Americnn. . 0.-....“ o %__,_...... AND POlt’l‘i’i ii l .l}“. Methuselah. Aunt Augusta had made Lam h and be Health , . in. , ,; , , up her mind and an earthquake could g y S “I E 5‘. iii? M E: g "If? immmem mm.er five yeam, “1.01m ,‘ and Retail. 3 no shake it. _ , ‘ t k avifi'Agents wanted in every Town and Ceiuity. ) So Mr. Averill The physiological benefit of laughter again went away is Explained by Dr. E. Aeckar, in the - a i a,” .z, . _. , v 1 alone. p” v 0 ,Arc/li-v fur 1’sychiarbie: The comic- 8 0 I L 45% “‘3‘ * lfiolwg’fl‘li & SOP??? m .‘ “Well, Amelia. Augusta wouldn‘t like tickling_canses a reflex action of ADELAIDE SPREET- ' ' rm‘ONJ-Qi have a word to say to me,” said he the sympathetic nerve, by which tic ""“’ ~ ANS, Mafia -- Swimmefl-‘g‘g‘ “i “235 walking in u)on mother and me as caliber of the vascular ortions of the . - . .. ' 1 ’ P ~§AW Minna we sat at supperafew evenings after, “not a word,” “ I wan’t to know if that is sol” cried mother, fluttering up after an- other plate and knife. tea with us. she got her mind fixed. She wouldn’t keep you waiting long for your an- VVell, it is likely it is swer, either. for the best, we will hope so,” pur sued mother, reaching over to put an extra lump of sugar in Mr. Averill’s cup, as though to sweeten life if pos- sible for him. ‘* It serves me right in taking itfor granted that Augusta understood my intentions. -I must have been a selfâ€" conceited, inconsiderate fool. But it seems hard that a body can’t work his way out ofa blunder in a whole lifetime. Mother looked full of symathy, and dropped another lump ofsugar in Mr. Averili’s cup. he he seemed to relish it the better, as if life were growing sweeter and sweeter. Mother and Mr. Averill sat up late that night; so late that as I had had a hard day, I went off to bed and left them talking over old times and pur- ring like a cupplc of cuts by the kitchen fire. After breakfast next . morning, mother followed me into the hall when I started for the office. “ I want to speak with you Elwell just a minute,” said she, stroking my coatslceve, trcmulously; “ What should you say to my going back to California along with Mr. Averill?” “You, mother 1” I cried, feeling as though the world had tumbled off its axis. “ Why, it is Aunt} Augusta he wants. ‘It is Augusta, or nobody l’ ” “Yes, so it was,” returned mot-her, humbly, “ but Sam says I seem more like Augusta, as she used to be, than she does herself. «I tell you the truth, lulwell,” continued mother, humbler still, “I suppose it wouldn’t have tak- en much to turn me toward Sam in my young days; but he seemed to take rather more to Augusta. She was nineteen to the dozen, and I never could hold my own against her. And then your father, he came along, and I never was sorry it happened as it did. But now you don’t need me, and Sam and I have about concluded to make ar‘angements, only I told him I must have a talk with you first and get your advice.“ , . Get my advice! Dear little mother! I was not idiotic enough to ofi’ervit, if I had any advice to give. 80 she and Mr. Averill went on and “made arâ€" rangemcnts.” Which arrangements were that lhat day two weeks, after a quiet weddingat the minister‘s, they start- ed oli for California to begin. life anew on each others account, as blithe and joyous as two birds on the wingâ€"The Aldinefor February. saw-o.â€" A bright-eyec Italian boy stopped with his organ efore a dairy window, _ and after playing for a while, examined the rotary churn which was there in operation. “My churn is the best,” he said, at last. “ It makes bread and butter; your: only makes butter." “Lay your overcoat right off and have a cup of Augusta always was deâ€" cided, and you couldn’t/turn her after To my astonishment system is diminished, and their ner- vous power increased. The average pressure of the cerebral vessels on the brain substance is thus decreased, and this is compensated for by the forced expiration of laughter, and the larger amount of blood thus called to the lungs. \Ve always feel good when we laugh, but until now we never knew the scientific reason why. BRONC HITIS AND CONSUMP- TION. LETTER FLOM na. CRANE. HALIFAX, N. S. J arms I. FELLOWS, ESQâ€"DEAR SIR : from a general knowledge of the pro- minent ingredients of your Compound Syrup of Hyphphosphites, I formed such a favorable opinion as to be in- duced to recommend it to my patients as PREFERABLE and more convenient than my own prescriptions of the Hy- pophosphites. For several years I have continued to prescribe it, in many 031593 with very beneficial results. .Since, upon solicitation, you kindly af- forded me a more intimate knowledge of the conniosition of your Compound Syrup of Hopophosphites, I have used it freely in my practice, both in diseases of the Chest, as Consumption and Bron- chitis, etc, and in infantile disc-sea of the prima rim, or Stomach and Bowels with eminent success, considering it superior to any similar preparation yet offered to the public. Thanking you for your kind information, I ‘ I remain, yours truly, CHANDELER CRANE, Md). A Dunn's HEAD AND Csosssouns ought to be the trade mark of every dealer in Rum Bitters. But no ; to proclaim their real mission, would ruin them, so they sail under false colors, and do their deadly work surrepti- tiously. Fortunately their triumphs over oredulity are nearly at an end. Ever since the introduction of DR. VVALKER’S CALIFORNIA VINEGAR Bir- TERs the sale of all the burning fluids advertised as “ ton'ics " has been rapidly declining. They are still the unwholeâ€" some Solace of individuals who wish to satisfy the morbid appetite for strong drink, without compromising their re- spectibility; but the sick are everyâ€" where discarding them and adopting the VINEGARBITTERS. The success of this wonderful vegetable remedy astonishcs Dr. Walker himself. He believed, when he gave it to the world, that it was an unequalled tonic, free from the objections urged against the medicated fire-waters, and dilutions of strychnine, quinine and other powerful alkaloids ‘ employed in modern practico ; but he scarcely expected th if. it wouid prove a , specific- for chronic dyspepsia, livoini complaint, incipient consumption, con~l firmed rlieui'natism,. gout, scrofula, norâ€"l vous affections. general dcbility, and ull,‘ diseases that disorder, without (liesâ€"l troying the vital machinery. Yet this,i unless thousands of witnesses have conspired to deceive the public, is actually the case. l . l /A-0hir0podist announces on hisl cards that he has “remOVcd corns from several of the crowned heads of Europe." '3 in 0 It s ill-P o w s: u. i2 :5 20 A. Qt 8‘ h «u ll at u n 343 Hamilton, April 15, i."‘"3. Two flighest Medals at Vienna THE CELEBRATED .LlTItE iiZER! 3 .- The light-running and far-famed} if“; WA N ZER, A9 ; M’edals of Merit at Vienna. 'WVVorked by hand or foot on Patent Stand For Agents’ terms a fly to R. M. ANZER k (.70., Hamilton, Out 270 THE OLD ’ESTABLISHED llundas illlllldll l: inglu limit THGS' WELSCI‘? d5 MANI‘FAC‘I‘URERS fii‘ areas; assumes. senses. W MACE} N Eli-‘1‘. (39-. 1 AND ALL KINDS DUND A. E - . . - - 0133 T. THOMAS WILSON, \VA LTER BASTA BI. E. July l2, 1873. tax. unsung, (wow M‘F‘ABLANE. (115 A M if. iii CAN fill? E i. RENO STREET \‘VEST 1-5”. W BREEAH.RK.£§.N- ‘t‘ll OPBIETOR. ‘. Giéil‘i'i‘lRAi; STAGE OFFICE H A I!" 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Number of Gifts, 7,500 1 Tickets lithitcd'fo 75,006 / mAGENTS WANTED to sell Tickets. to whom Liberal Premiums will be paid. Sin 0 Tickets $51; Six Tickets $55; Twelve Tickets $10; ‘wenty-fivc $20, _ Circulars containing a full list of prizes, a descripâ€" tion of the manner of drawing, and other information in reference to the Distribution, will be sent to on) one ordering them. All letters must be nddresd to MAIN OFFICE, I}. D. SIRE, Box 80. 101 W Fifth St. Gin tutti O. has , my Paint, 1"07' Diseases 0,! the Tliroal and Lungs, sit/L as Cong/m, Colds, ll’hwpa‘ng Cough, Bronl’litis, Asthma and Consumption. Tu n {cw eoan-sltlons which have WI? the coni’l deuce of muriimd and be ,come houchold words among not only One hu- many natOns, _must have 'cxtmordiim‘y Virtuaa. Per- haps nqeue ever secured B 5;, Wm; a. reputation, or mainwned it so long, as Aymv Climnv PECTOllAL. 1t ha; been known to the “by: about forty years, w along continued series ., of nuiwelous cures, that has won for its confidence ' i ' tlicr medicine. in its Virtues never equalleflh} MW“). , It still makés the most cfiwuml (fugue, Cows, CONSUMPTION, thrith be 11» e .2 .rc in.“ skill. Indeed the Cm:er murmur. has rca-llyri‘otbcjad these dangerous diseases o’fllc‘u' “firm”. i0 a stator- tent and given a. feeling 0' immunity from bulk; {and effects, that is well founded. if the $91,110:}? , e-lu 3nd” season. Every family shm‘ul have it in .cir (.5: 1mâ€" thc ready and prompt rciei 0! lfznlc’tlgilil‘emhegmgpgz, suffering, and even life .‘8 savet y if, d“ .- ' " t shmld not neglect ,ha-n e 159 ifflI-nofleligdlgiiiby you for the protection It affords by its timely use in suldcn tritium. (2 b PREPARE!) BY 1 I J C. Ayer 85 00., Lowell,”iass. PRACTICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS. (f; Lyman, Newcctlc, General Agents. V £38014 by all Drulzgisti and Deniersm Tatiana. Arm-ll :5, ism ‘“ Northrup