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If you enter such a city by a waterway through an arched gate in the wall you see many pleasure-craft,called “play-pidgin‘ boats,” of glass and lacquer and gilt work, and wherever there is a stone bridge will be seen a streetâ€"of the dead walls of dwellings that show no windows or no long rows of shops. wholly open, or disclose a little fanciful railing ending with a carved lion's head, to separate the public from the shopkeepers. The shopping streets are best worth a visit. Every shop has its signs hung across the , street or perpendicularly before it. The number of shops for the sale of seals, made of wood or white meta1,brass or jade-stone, surprises a stranger. The impressof a seal is as important there as a written signature is v here. The number of tea-shops,wl:ich corres- pondto our bar-rooms,is also prodigious, but they and barbers at work while the customers drink. The display of vegetables isgandy, and the cooking of cakes almost PERFUMES ENTIRE CITIES. In the stores for the sale of silks or cloth- ing or cotton goods one sees the stock on shelves, but in most shops very little is displayed. Customers must ask for what they want. And the worst goods are al- ways shown firstâ€"either because they bring the greater profit or because it is de- sired to get rid of them. One needs great patience to get at what a merchant has to sell. Sometimes he shows his best stock only after many visits to his shop. The jewelry stores are splendid repositories oi beautiful things, but the best one I saw in China displayed nothing but a counter and a few score boxes. There are almost as many places for women’s hair as there are seal-shops. The fan-shops and the lantern shops are as strange to the eye as they are attractive. In the shops the merchants generally keep themselves in the background, beside an ink-slab and brush or a cup of steaming tea. The clerks do the work, as you see when ou notice the long curled-up finger nails of t e master and the heavy jade-stone ring , pon his right thumb. Thus men cripple, )‘their right hands to give proof that they do not need to work. Itis fun to l01ter in adrug-storo to watch 5 the making up of prescriptions, for they are i apt to call for dead beetles, dried snakes, toads stretched on frames, eyes of insects, and everything that can be suggested by the ignorance of the most backward pro- fession in China. Yankee clocks and lamps are sold in many shops, and so is kerosene oil. Coffins are the basis of a tremendous trade, and there are plenty of shops given up to the sale of red candles and tinsel- paper money for use at prayers in the temples. All the shops display braziers kept supplied with live charcoal tor the use of smokers, who light wisps of paper at the coals. 'l hese braziers are of a thousand shapes and sizes, and where one is missing there is sure to be a coil of smoking punk. The furniture shops are in use is teak, and weighs like lead. These shops are either- show nothing but tables and chairs r selling ornaments for' mmseii. And With no prospect of help be- fore him he began to feel that life was a burden and he had no desire to live. Twc physicians attended him,but after exhaust‘ ing their powers Mr. Elliott was told that ' “if he had anything he wanted settled he had . better attend to it at once,” the last doctor telling him he could not be cured. To an Argus representative Mr. Elliott gave the above facts and said that after having suf- fered a great deal of pain, and notwithstand- ing he was told he was incurable, he deter- , mined to try Pink Pill treatment, and purchased a dozen boxes of the renowned 'Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, Inside of three weeks he began to feel the effects of the pills and now most emphati- cally declares that they have made him as well as he is to-day. When he started taking them he was not able tohelp himself in any way, but during the past fall he took up the potatoes in his garden, and can now do all the chores around his house. This is a wonderful change in a man who spent l months in a chair unable to help himself or I even to lie down and who was told by phy- zsicians that his case was hopeless, and it is another trophy added to the many victories of Ur. Williams' Pink Pills over disease. Dr. VVilliams' Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood, and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neural- ‘ gia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe; palpitation of the heart, nervous prostration, all diseases depending upon vitiated humors in the blood, such as sorofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles eculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. in men they erl'ect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are manufactur- ed by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Brockville, Ont., and Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing their trade mark and wrapper printed in red ink, at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Com- pany from either address. l irresistible to strangers,until they discover that the wood The beds are like the four posters of our grand- Worth Securing. The Dr. Williams Medicine 00., of Brock- ville, Ont., have the reputation of issuing the handsomest pamphlets put out by any proprietary medicme house in Canada, and one Just issued under the title ” Four Gen- erations of the Royal House of England” 1 bears out this well earned reputation. The louver is a Work of art, and gives well exe- cuted portraits of Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, and the infant, Prince Edward of York. The con. tents will also be found interesting from cover to cover. A copy of this hanilsmm pamphlet will be mailed free to any of cm readers who Will send their address (plaiiil) written) on a post card to the Dr. William: mothers, with the sidés nearly all encclosed and carved, and backed by silk. wherebn men, women, and children are at work,\or are sleeping or eating. There are floal‘ting shops for the sale of fish and beskets’end vegetables, rice, nutsâ€"every- thing. ll'bere are the famous flower-boats, all gilt and satin behind their carved exteriors 'with their showing of painted and powdered girls and divans and drink and pipes. The population is like that Of an antâ€"hill, or the hold of an emigrant steamer. Over the tops of the boats on one side are seen the city well, and its edging of grass dotted with huts of mud and bam- boo, and with graves that roughen the surface like the mounds of prairieâ€"dogs. On the other side are the shops of the outer city, all open to the waterway, at the tops of stone stairways, given over to crowds of men, eatin2,drinking tea, shopping,selling, buying, idling, or rushing about. ‘ '5treeu min Five to Mac Feet Wideâ€"No Carrlgére Roads and No Carriagesâ€" Ncm‘ly Evertbody Vanks. To imagine a Chinese city you must try to fancy both city and country walled in ogether; dense city and green fields and groves side by side Within a long, gray bat- tle men ted wall. You must fancy the enclos- ure dissected by canals as well as streets, and the streetsmust bepictnred as only from five to nine feet wide, says a writer in Harper’s Weekly. Astherearenocarriageroads,there are no carriages. The rich ride in Sedan chairs, high above your head, on poles laid on the shoulders of coolies. The ordinary folk ride on wheelbarrows, if at all, and nearly everybody walks. lhe travel out- side the cities is by boat, therefore there is nearly always a good-sized city at each point where a waterway joins the moat that surrounds the walL The jam, the awful crush, at one of these gate cities (if it is beside a large city) is beyond de- scription. Boats are there as thick as cut trees on alogging stream. Juuks, flats, chop-boats, express-boats, kickaway boats, eampans, and flower-boats all lie in a seemingly endless huddle, with just a narrow, shifting thread of a passage through the mass. The shouting, the clatter, the dim of yelling, distract atten- 'on from the delicate steering your men In st do to work their way through the ma 5. In the thick of the flotilla are Been The young lady who is unequal to conversation is only safe when she confines herself to yes and no. Thus for, she may not be especially interesting, but, she at least, keeps out of trouble. One such girl. who seemed to be interested in naming “ in the heavens above or the ea.th beneabh," was one day left alone with a gentleman, who found the greatesbdif’ficulty in keeping up the conversation to what he considered a desinbbe level. 4 A TYPICAL CHINESE CITY. He thought, helplessly of that other \FLOATING HOUSES AND SHOPS, So Interested Our readers will remember that over two years ago while Mr. Gideon Elliott, James street, St. Mary’s, was teaming ashes he was thrown from a load and received such severe injuries to his spine that he was un- able to walk or lie down in bed. He suf- fered great pain in his back. For long months he lived night and day in a chair, not able to do the slightest thing to help himself. And with no prospect of help be- fore him he began to feel that life was a burden and he had no desire to live. Two physicians attended him,but after exhaust- ing their powers Mr. Elliott was told that l “if he had anything he wanted settled he had better attend to it at once,” the last doctor telling him he could not be cured. To an Argus representative Mr. Elliott gave the above facts and said that after having suf- {ered a great deal of pain, and notwithstand- ing he was told he was incurable, he deter , mined to try Pink Pill treatment, and 5 purchased a dozen boxes of the renowned 'Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, Inside of three weeks he began to feel the effects of the pills and now most emphati- cally declares that they have made him as well as he is to-day. When he started taking them he was not able tohelp himself 1 in any way, but during the past fall he took up the potatoes in his garden, and can now ‘ do all the chores around his house. This is a wonderful change in a man who spent l months in a chair unable to help himself or I even to lie down and who was told by phy- isicians that his case was hopeless, and it is I another trophy added to the many victories I of Ur. Williams' Pink Pills over disease. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood, and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neural- ' gin, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la. grippe; palpitation of the heart, nervous prostration, all diseases depending upon vitisted humors in the blood, such as sorofuls, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles r eculisr to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, und all forms of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. in men they eifect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. The Dr. Williams Medicine 00., of Brock- ville, Ont., have the reputation of issuing the handsomest pamphlets put out by any proprietary medicine house in Canada, and one Just issued under the title “ Four Gen- erations of the Royal House of England” bears out this well earned reputation. The cover is a work of art, and gives well exe- cuted portraits of Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, and the infant, Prince Edward of York. The con- tents will also be found interesting from cover to caver. A copy of this handsome pamphlet will be mailed free to any of our readers who will send their address (plainly written) on a post card to the Dr. Williams Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are manufactur- ed by Lhe Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Brockville, Onb.. and Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing their There was a noble way, in former times, of saying things simply,and yet. saying them proudly.â€"Irvmg. l “ 1.3 it, tru1y 2” she asked, with enthusiasm. “ How very glad I am to see it I" How different are the feelings that take possession of one as they read the particu- lars of some great railway or steamship disaster where scores of lives with whom we have no acquaintance have been lost, and reading the particulars of the runaway of a span of horses attached to a carriage from which one of our acquaintances has been thrown and killed. In the former case, although the lost of life has been great, you say " Isn't it terrible '2” but in a law days the affair has probably passed from mind, while in the latter instance months after you could recount the minutâ€" est particulars of the runaway. And so it is when we read the particulars of cures really remarkable, but because we are not interested in the person restored the facts are soon forgotten. But when a case can be submitted right at home, with which a large number of our readers are familiar, it will, we are sure, be of special interest and carry conviction. sustainer of a forlorn conversational hope, who tried one subject. after another, with no result. The other man could not talk, but afteradomu topics had been vainly broached, he brightened, and said, “ Try me on leather !" What. in this present case. could the young lady's “ leather” be ? Where did her interests lie? At length the discouraged man had recourse to nonsense. A stufi‘ed bird was set up in one corner of the room, and he mentally clutched at; it, for inspiration. “ Do you know what. kind of a bird that is 2" ha asked. “ No,” she said. “ I fancy it's an albatross !" “ Really ?" “ Yes ; and very likely the one that was shot by the ‘ Ancient Mariner.’ ” The young lady leaned forward with a pretgy semblance of interest. Observe. Fora delightfully refreshing beverage, and aquick cure for sick headache, and derangemencs of the Stomach and Liyerâ€" “ Dunn’s Fruit SHine" IS USRIVALLED. It; An Accident at St. Mary’s with Al- most Fatal Results. The Victim Sufl'ered For Monlhs During which Tlme he was Fol-Md to Sit In a Chairâ€"Ills Case Finally Pronounced Ilopt’le‘ssâ€"IIOW Ills Restoranon was Brought About. (From the St. Mary's Argus.) especially keeps the 'l‘nrOat; clean and healthy. Doctors recommend it. because u. xs a PURE PRODUCT of Salts of Frmt, Soda and Potash. Through a“ chemists and stores. Whham G. Dunn dz Co., Worksâ€"Croydon, London. A CALAMI‘I‘Y AVERTED. GANANQGUE DRY EARTH CLOSET . . . Hood’s Cured Bcrofula In the Neck-Bunches All Gone Now. Dernlqnen t'ly {311qu $15 39% El E $5543“ w: 2‘ a; éi'rcutars'. "THE LINTEN'iNSTITUTE " C. I. Hood 6; 00., Lowell. Mass.: "Gemlemenzâ€"I feel that I cannot say enough In favor of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. For five year: I have been troubled with scrolula. in my nect |nd throat. Several klnds of medicines which I tried did not do me any good, and when I com- menced to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla there wen large bunches on my neck so sore that I could Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy ; sfi'ectation a. part of the chosen trappings of folly.â€"-Johnson. Get Rid of Neuralgla, There is no use in fooling with neuralgia. It is s disease that gives way only to the most powerful remedies. No remedy yet discovered has given the grand results that invariably attends the employment of Pol- son's Nerviline. Nerviline is a positive specific for all nerve pains, and ought to be kept on hand in every family. Sold every where, 25 cents a bottle. Charlatans and Quaeks Have long plied their vocation on the suf- fering pedals of the people. The knife has pared to the quick ; caustic applications have tormented the victim of coma until the conviction shaped itselfâ€"there’s no cure. Putnam’s Painless Corn Extractor proves on whatslender basis public opinion often rests. If you suffer from cows get the Extractor end you will be satisfied. Sold everywhere. “not bear the slightest touch. When I had taken one bottle of this medicine, the soreness had gone. and before I had finished the second the bunches had entirely disappeared." Bmcnn A'rwoon, Sangervilie, Maine. As soon as we have discovered the need for our joy or sorrow we are no longer its serfs, but. its lordmâ€"Lowell. N. B. If you decide to take Hood’s Sarsapa- r1113, do not be induced to buy any other. 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