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WOMAN'S H A P P I N E S S .

.It Can Only be Secured Throuffl ^Christian Usefulness.

«?*»« Only Roa<l *o Itapplneaa 1A a Contlnu t&n* Effort to Make Others Happy—Dr.

Talmafftt'* Seventh IHncourho in His Sorites of Nermon» to Women.

In the seventh of his series of "Sermon' JO the Women of America, with Importan Hints to Men," Rev. Dr, Talmage took fo his t e s t the following words: l ,She tha liveth in pleasure is'dead whilo she liveth.' H e said:

The editor of a Boston newspaper a fev days ago wrote, asking me these terse ques t ioas: "What is the road to happiness V aod "Ought happiness to be the chief ain Of life?" M y answer was this: "Tho roac to happiness is the oontinous effort to mak< others happy. The chief aim of life oughi to tie usefulness, not happiness, but happl wess always follows usefulness." This morning'* text in a strong way sets fortl the truth thata woman who seeks in worldlj advantage her chief enjoyment will come to disappointment and death. u She tha*

.. »iveth In pleasure is dead while she l i v e t h / My friends, you all want to be happy

You have had >a great many recipes bj wUieh it is proposed to give you satisfaction —•Olid satisfaction. At times you feel t thorough unrest. You know as well a* other people what i t is to be depressed. A* dark shadows sometimes fall upon the geo graphy of the school girl as on the page ol She spectacled philosopher. I have seen a* cloudy days in May as In November -There .are no dee-por s ighs breathed by

"the.grandmother than by the granddaugh iter. I oorrcot tho popular impression thai people are happier in childhood aud youth than they ever will be again. If wo live aright, the older the happier. Tho happiest woman that I ever knew was a Christian oc­togenarian : her hair white as white could be; the sunlight of heaven late in the after­noon gilding the peaks of snow. I have to say to a great many of the young people that the most miserable time you are ever to have is just now. As you advance in life, as you come out into the world and you have jrour head and hoart all full of good, honest, prifot&Ml Christian work, then you will i aww wfcajfc tt U to be happy. There are those'who would have u s believe that life is

. ohaslng thistle-down and grasping bubbles. We h£ve not found it so. To many of us it has boon discovering diamonds larger than the Kohinoor, and I think that our Joy will aontinuo to increase until nothing short of tht*T*erlasfrng jubilee of heaven wil l be able t o express it.

Horatio Greenough, at the close of the liardeat life a man ever lives—the life of an American artist—wrote: "I don't want to Leave this world until I give some sign that, bofB by the grace of God in this land, I have fottBdHCeto be a very cheerful thing, and s o t the dark and bitter thing with which my early-prospects were clouded."

Albert Barnes, the good Christian, known the world aver, stood in his pulpit in Phila-3el»b4a, a t seventy or eighty years of age, mud said: "This world i s so very attractive io me, I am very sorry I shall have to leave I t "

I know that Solomon said some very dolo­rous things about this world, and three times declared: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." £ e t t p o s e it was a reference to those times

r 'fta m(i career when his seven hundred wives *U»ost pestered the Uf© out of him. But I

•would rather turn to the description he gave -rafter his conversion when he says in another

place: "Her ways^we ways of pleasantness, and ali her paths are peace." - It is reasona-*le*» expect i t will be so. The longer the

- Jrult hangs on the tree, the riper and more - mellow it ought to grew. You plant one

jra in of corn and it wil l send up a stalk with two ears, each having nine hundred aadjofty grains, so that one grain planted wi l l produce nineteen hundred grains. A n d ought not the implantation of a grain of Christian principle in a youthful soul developrfinto a largo crop of gladness on earth and to a harvest of eter-< ualjcry i n heaven* Hear me, then, whi le I

-» discourse upon some of the mistakes which young people make in regard to happi-

.rt*ees, and point out to the young women what I consider to be the source of complete,

sat isfact ion. And, in the first place, I advise you not to

Sruild your happiness upon mere social po-Aiitkw. Persons at your age, looking off opon life, are apt to think that if, by some stroke of what is called good luck, you could arrive in an elevated and affluent position, a i i t t le higher than that in which God has eaSed you to live, you would be completely

- feappy. infinite mistake! The palace floor 3 * Ahasuerus is red with the blood of Vash-t£*s broken heart. There have been no more soaldiag tears wept than those which c u r s e d the eheeka of Josephine. If the sob

' »f unhappy womanhood in the groat cities aould break through tho tapestried wall,

- that sob would come along your streets to-3ay l ikathe simoon of the desert. Some-liatm'? have heard in the rustling of the rqbes on the city pavement the hiss of the adders that followed in the wake. Y o u have come out from your homo *nd ymi have looked up at the great

..tense and covet a life under those mrtefoes, when, perhaps, at that very moment, within that house, there may have been the wringing of hands, the start of horror, and dae very agony of hell. I knew such an one. Met feather's house was plain, most of the people-who came there wore plain; but, by a ehanoe'ln fortune such as sometimes comes, <% hand had been offered that led her into a brilliant sphere. All the neighbors oongrat olated her upon her grand pro3'i<vts; but »hat an exchange! On hot- side it was a' •ieert full of generous impulse ami affection. •Dtti his side it was a soul dry and withered a s the stubble of the field. On her side it :uNMh& father's house, where God was hon-&n& and the Sabbath light flooded the rooms with the very mirth of Heaven. On his side it was a gorgoous residence, and She coming of mighty men to be entertained

* ihere; but within it were revelry and god-stessness. Hardly had tho orange blossoms »s>f the marriage feast lost their fragrance, •vfcan the night of discontent begun to cast .<jea»«nd thore i ts shadow. Cruelties and

. jsnkindness changed all those splendid trap aings into a hollow mockery. The plotters .>f solid silver, tho caskets of pure gold, the •iKad-drccs of gloaming diamonds, were hare, but no God, no peace, no kind words,

->o Christian sympathy. Tho festal music uhat broke on the captive's ear turned out] 'JO be a dirge, and the wreath in the plush j -vas a reptile c >il, aud the upholstery that i *wayed in the wind was the wing of ; % destroying angel, and the bead-drops .-.MI the pitcher were the sweat, of ever-

1 lasting despair O, how many rivalries wid unhappinesH i« among t he- e who seek in -welal life their ebiel happiness' It matters aOt how fine you have uiimr-,, there are >fcher people who have u liner Talcing out ?our watch to toll the hour ol the >ia\ , some, one will correct your timepiece by pulling yaX. a watch more richly chased and jeweled iiiidft in a carriage that, cost you eight hun-ired dollars, and before you got around the #arkyou will meet one that cost two thou­sand dollars. Have on your wall a picture >y Copkty, and before night you will hoar

*f Bouio une who has a picture lre*,i !'" >••( i-he studio of Church or iiiorsttull

All that 1 his world can do for ,,im m stiver and gold, in AKimnsstor plunh, m llobolin uapealry, in wide halla, in lordly acquaint-^nooship, will not give you the ten thon-•andth pari of :i grain of solid satisfaction. Ilao English lord, moving in the very hi,'h-«»t sphere, was oue day found s-eatod with his chin on his hand and his elbow on tho v.vindow-sill, looking out and saving: "O, L wish 1 could vxchange places with that Jog!"

Mere social position will never give huppi .SOBS to a woman's soul. I have had wido uid continuous observation, and i tell tho winner wo'iittft Ujut Lhev who build on mere

social position their soul's immortal happi­ness are building on the sand. ' Simnnnfl that a vounc woman expends the brightness of her early life in this* unsatis­factory struggle, and omits the present op­portunity of usefulness in the home circle; what a mistake I

So surely as the years roll around, that home in which you now dwell will become extinct. The parent? will be gone, the prop­erty will go into other possession, you your­self wil l be in other relationship and that home which only a year ago was full of con­gratulation, will be extinguished.

When that period comes you will look 'back to see what you did or what you neg­lected to do in the w a y of making home happy. It will be too late to correct mis­takes. If you did not smooth the path of your parents toward the tomb; if you did not make their last days bright and happy; ,if you allowed the younger sisters of your family to come up without feeling that there had been a Christian example set on your part, there will be nothing but bitterness of lamentation. That bitterness will be in­creased by all the surroundings of that home; by every chair, by every picture, by the old-time mantel ornaments, by every thing you can think of as connected with that home. Ali these things will rouse up agonizing memories. Young women, have you any thing to do in the way of making your, father's home happyi Now is the time to attend to it, or leave it for­ever undone, Time is flying very quickly away. I suppose you notice the wrin­kles are gathering and L«umulating on those kindly faces that have so long looked upon you; thore is frost in the locks; the foot is not as firm in its step as it used to be; and they will soon be gone. The heavi­est clod that over falls on a parent's coffln-lid is the memory of an ungrateful daughter. O, make thoir last days bright and beauti­ful. Do not act as though they were in the way. ' Ask their counsel, seek thoir prayers, and, after long years have passed andiyou go out to see the grave where they sleep, you will find growing ali over the mound something lovelier than cypress, something sweeter thau tho rose, something chaster than the lily—the bright and beauti­ful memories of filial kindness performed ere the dying hand dropped on you a liene-diction, and you dosed the lids over the weary eyes of tho worn-out pilgrim. Bet­ter that, in the hour o* your birth, you had been struck with orphanage, and that you had been handed over into the cold arms of the world, rather than that you, should have been brought up under a father's care or a mother's tenderness, at last to sooff at their example and deride' their influence; and on the day when you followed them in long procession to the tomb, to find that you are followed by a still larger procession of unfilial deeds done and wrong words uttered. The one proces­sion will leavo its burden in the tomb and disband; but that longer procession of ghastly memories will forever march an^ forever wail. O, it is a good time for a young woman wheu she is in her father's house. How careful they are of her welfare. How watchful those parents aro of all her interests. Seated at the morning repast, father at one end of the table, children on either sidewind between; but the years wi l l roll on. and great changes will be effected, and one will be missed from one end of the table, and another will be missed from the other end of the table, God pity that young woman's soul who, in that dark hour, has nothing but regretful recollections.

I go further, and advise you not to deiiend for enjoyment upon mere personal attrac­tions, It would be sheer hypocrisy, be­cause w e may not have it ourselves, to de­spise, or affect to despise, beauty in others. When God gives it, he gives it as a blessing and as a means of usefulness. David and his army were coming down from the mountains to destroy Nabal and his flodfta and vineyards. The beautiful Abigail, the Wlf UTH TSPlflSatpft'SSt ou t to arrest him when he came down from the mountains, and she succeeded. Coming to the foot of the hill, she knelt. David with his army of sworn men came down over the cliffs, and when hesaw.J her kneeling at the foot of the hill, he cried | "Hait i" to his men, and the caves echoed it: "Halt! halt!" That one beautiful woman kneeling at the foot of the hill had arrested all those armed troops. A dew drop dashed back Niagara. The Bible sets before us the porT i traits of Sarah and Rebecca, and Abishag Absalom's sister, and Job's daughters, and j says: "They were fair to look upon." B y ! outdoor exercise, and by skillful arrange- J mentof apparel, let women make themselves | attractive. The sloven has one mission, and | that to excite our loathing and disgust. But t

alas! for those who depend upon personal charms for their happiness. Beauty is such a subtle thing, it does not seem to depend upon facial proportions, or upon the sparkle Of the eye, or upon the flush of the cheek. You sometime* find it among irregular feat­ures. It is the soul shining through the face that makes one beautiful. But alas! for those who depend upon mere personal charms. They will come to disappointment and to a great fret. There are so many different opin­ions about what are personal charms, and then sickness, and trouble, and age, do make such ravages. The poorest god that a woman ever worships is her own face. The saddest sight in all the world is a woman who has built every thing on good looks, when the charms begin to vanish. O, how they try to cover the wrinkles and hide the ravages of t ime! When time, wi th iron-shod feet, steps on a face, tho hoof-marks remain, and you can not hide them, It is silly to try to hide them. I think the most repulsive fool ' in all the world is an old fool. j

Why, my dear friends, should you be I ashamed to be getting old? It is a sign—it I is prima facie evidence that you have be- j haved tolerably well or you would not have I lived to .th'a time. The grandest thing, I ! think, is eternity, and that is made up of ' eountless years. When the Bible would set j forth the attractiveness of Jesus Christ, it says: "His hair was white as snow." B u t ' when the color goes f rem the cheek, and the luster from the eye, and the spring from the J step, and the gracefulness from the gait. ' alas! for those who have built their Jtime ' and their etornity upon good looks. But all the passage of years can not take o u t ' of one's face benignity, and kindness, and ' compassion, and faith. Culture your heart ' and you culture your face. The brightest ' glory that ever beamed from a womau'a face ' is the religion of Jesus Christ, In the las t ' war two hundred wounded soldiers came to ' Philadelphia one night, and came unherald­ed, and they had to oxtemporizo a hospital for them, and the Christian women of my ' church and of other churches went out that uight to take care of the poor wounded fel- \

lows. That night I saw a Christian woman go throu'/h the wards of the hospital, her , sleeves-, rolled up, ready for hard work, her ftmir disheveled in the excitement of the hour. Her face was plain, very plain; but after the wounds were washed and the new b an d age were put around the splin­tered liuil)", and the exhausted boy 'fell on into his first pleasant sleep, she put h.-r hand on his brow and he Started in his drenr^. and said' "O, I thought an angel t o u i ^ J m e : " There may have boeu no classic elegance in the features of Mrs. Harris, who came into the hospital after the "Seven Days' 'awful fight, as she sat down by a wounded drum­mer boy and heard him solioqui/i "A ball •through my body, and my poor mother will never again see her boy. What a pity it i s !"

•> And she leaned over him and said "Shall I be your mother?" And he looked up and said- "Yes, I'll try to think she'-, here. Please write n long letter to her aril tell her all about it, and send her a lock ol m> hair ami eoml'orl her But 1 would like i„ h ire you tell her lniW much i suffered - jes , 1 would like \.ni to do that for she would feel so for me Hold my hand while i die." There mav have been no classic elecanee in her feature-,, but all the hospitals of Harrison's Landing and Fortress Monroe 'would have -le.-red that she was beautiful, and if any rough man in all that ward had •intuited her. some wounded soldier would have leaped from his couch, on his best foot, and struck him dead with a crutch.

A/jrain 1 advise vou not to deoend for

.happiness ui>on the flatteries ot men. i* is a poor compliment to your sex that so many tnen feel obliged in vour presence to offer unmeaning compliments. Men capable of elegant and elaborate conversation else­where, sometimes feel called upon at the door of tho drawing-room to drop their common sense and to dole out sickening flatteries. They say things about your drees and your appearance that you know, and they know, are false. They say you are an angel. You know you are not. Deter­mined to tell the truth in office and shop, they consider it honorable to lie to a woman. The same thing that they told you on this side of the drawing-room, three minutes ago they said to some one on the other side of the drawing-room. O, let no one trample on your self-respect I The meanest thing on which a woman can build her happiness is the flatteries of men.

Again: I charge you not to depend for happiness upon the discipleship of worldli-ness. I have seen men as vain of their old-fashioned and their eccentric hat as your brainless fop is proud of his dangling fool­eries. Fashion sometimes makes a reason­able demand of us and then we ought to yield to it. The daisies of the field have their fashion of color and leaf; the honeysuckles have their fashion of ear-drf%; and the snowflakes flung out of the winter heavens have their fashion of exquislteness. After the summer shower the sky weds the earth with ring of rainbow. And I do not think w e have a right to despise the elegancies and fashions of this world, especially i f they make reasonable demands upon us;-but the discipleship and worship of fashion is death to the body and death to the soul. I am glad the world is Improving. Look at the fashion plates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and you will find that , the world is not so extravagant and extra­ordinary now as it was then, and all the marvelous things tliat the granddaughter, wil l do will never equal that done by the^ grandmother. Go still farther back, to tha Bible time, and you will And that in those times fashion wielded a more terrible scep­ter. You have only to turn to the third dhapter of Isaiah, a portion of the Scriptures from which I once breached to you a ser­mon, to read: "Because the daughters«of/ Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. In that day the Lord wi l l take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chain, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the head­bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, the rings, and the nose-jewels, the changeable suits of apparel, and the man­tles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils ." Only think of a, woman having all that on! I am glad that the world is getting better, and that fashion which has dominated in the world so ruin­ously in other days has for a little time, for a little degree at any rate, relaxed its ener­gies. All the splendors and the extrava­ganza of this world dyed into your robe and flung over your »houidor can not wrap peace around your heart for a single mo-' ment. The gayest wardrobe will utter no voice of condolence in the day of trouble and darkness. That woman is grandly dressed, and only she, who is wrapped in the robe of a Saviour's righteousness. Tho home may be very humble, the hat may be very plain, the frock may be very coarse; but the halo of Heaven set­tle's in the room when she wears it, and the faintest touch of the resurrection angel will change that garment into raiment ex­ceeding white, so as no fuller on earth could whiten it. I come to you, young women, to-day, to say that this world oan not make you happy. I know it is a bright world, with glorious sunshine, and golden rivers, and fire-worked sunset, and bird orchestra; aud the darkest cave has its crystals, and the wrathiest wave i t s foam-wreath, and the coldest midnight Its flaming aurora; but God will put out all these lights with the blast of His own nos­trils, and the glories of this world will per ish in the flnul conflagration. You will never be happy until you get your sins for­g iven, and allow Christ Jesus to take full possession of your soul. He will be your friend in every perplexity. He will be your comfort in every T^jkl. He will be your de­fender in every strarl. I do not ask you to bring, like Mary, the spices to the sepulcher of a dead Christ, but to bring your all to the feet of a living Jesus. His word is peace. His look is love. His hand is help. His touch is life. His smile is heaven. O, come,' then, in flocks and groups. Come, like the the south wind over banks of myrrh. Come,! like the morning light tripping over the mountains. Wreathe all your affections on Christ's brow, set all your gems in Christ's coronet, pour all your voices into Christ's song, and let this Sabbath air rustle wi th the wings of rejoicing angels and the, towers of God ring out the news of souls saved.

"This world Its fancied pearl may crave, 'Tis not -he pearl for me;

'Twill dim Its luster In the grave, 'Twill perish in the sea.

But there's a pearl of price untold. Which never oan be bought with gold;

0, that's the paarl for me." The snow was very deep, and it was still

falling rapidly, when, in the first year of my ministry, I hastened to see a young woman die. It was a very humble home. She was an orphan, her father had been shipwrecked on the banks of Newfoundland. She had earned her own living. As I entered the room I saw nothing attractive. No tapestry. Not even a cushioned chair. The snow on the window casement was not whiter than the cheek of that dying girl. It was a face never to be forgotten. Sweotness and majes­ty of soul, and faith in God had given her a matchless beauty, and the sculptor who could have caught the outlines of those features and frozen them into stone would have made

himself immortal. With her large brown eyes she looked calmly into the great eter­nity. I sat down by her bedside and said: "Now tell me all your troubles and sorrows and struggles and doubts," She replied: "I have uo doubts or struggles. It is all plain to me. Jesus has smoothed the way for my feet. I wish when you go to your pulpit next Sunday, you would tell the young peo­ple that religion will make them happy. 'O, death, where is thy sting?' Mr, Talmago, I wonder if this is not the bliss of dying?" I said: "Yes, I think it must be." I lingered around the couch. The sun was setting, and her sister lighted a candle. She lighted the caudle for me. The dying girl, the dawn of heaven in her face, needed no candle. I rose to go, and she said: "I thank you for coming, Goodnight! When we meet again it will be in hoaven—in heaven ! Good night! good night"' For her it was good night to tears, good uight to poverty, good night to death; but when the sun arose again it was good morning. The light of another day had burst in upon her soul, (rood morning' The angels were singing her welcome home, and the hand of Christ was patting upon her brow a gar­land, (rood morning! Her sun rising. Her palm waving. Her spirit exultinu before the throne of<iod <rot)d morning! good morning' The while lily of poor Margai*-at's cheek had blushed into the rose of health immortal, and the snows through which we carried her to the country grave-yard were swnboU of that, robe which she wears, so white that no fuller on earth could whiten it.

My sister, my daughter, may youi last end be like hers!

SAVE Y O U I T H A N D S .

r r e i i i i i l i o n - i W h i i - l i S h o u l d Ho \ i l o p t e d j l»y A l l Hoiim«k«««MUTH. 1 Women who have done housework a long

' ' mees troubled by cu­ts of the hHirers and is broughl on by the

hands to the extremes of

the very worst dishes, ana the nanus naraiy bo wet. Another of theso mops can be profitable utilized in cleaning lamp chim­neys. With a self-wringing mop a floor can be washed without wetting the hands; a model housekeeper of my acquaintance uses one, and says that with but half the labor it is as effective as a common mop.

A pair of mittens should be kept express­ly for wear when hanging out clothes; they are best knit, but two thicknesses of old flan­nel make quite serviceable ones. Another pair of mittens should be kept for out-door wear, for making beds in coM rooms, or any work which chills the hands and can be done in mittens.

Wearing an old pair of thick gloves, or better yet. loose1 mittens made from an old robber blanket, when blacking stoves, does away with the neoessity of washing the hands after the operation. A little whisk broom is useful in cleaning windows; the glass can be washed and rinsed with i t , and for the corners it i s especially nice.

In rinsing clothes a stick can be used to press the suds fram the articles in the tub and lift them to the surface, whore only the tips of the fingers need be used in feeding them to the wringer.

Apples or vegotables to be pared in win­ter should bo brought from the collar in sea­son to allow of their surfaces being warmed before being handled.

Clothes taken from the line in cold weather should either be handled in mit­tens or allowed to stand awhile in a warm room before being fplded or sprinkled; for the latter operation warm water should be used. A tin box wi th a perforated cover, such as pepper and sjploe are sold In, makes a good sprinkler.

It may be thought too much trouble to do work in this way, and doubtless it wil l take more time at first; btatit wil l be found after a fair trial to be in reality superior to the old method. At all events it will pay in the end. "An ounce of prevention i s worth a pound of cure."

If any one is alre|wiy afflicted with en­larged joiuts, such precautions will greatly retard the progress otf the disease—in some cases arrest it, and one instance is known to me of a partial cure being effected.—Cor. Farm and Home.

SIGNS OF INJUSTICE. Circumstances Under Which They Are

Moat Readily Xottced. There is no time when a man has a keen­

er eye for signs of injustice than when he has himself outraged justice, and is realis­ing a measure of i ts penalties. Years ago a prominent American railroad president betrayed his trust, raised money on a fraudulent issue of stock, embezsled funds by the half million dollars and then fled the country, taking more or less of h is spoils with him. During the investigation of his criminal transactions, it was sup­posed that among other sums he had mis­appropriated a few hundred dollars which were not to be found; and accordingly that item was included in the published state* ment of his stealing*. B u t just here there happened to be a mistake; and the ab­sconded swindler wrote from Europe to one ,o f the N e w York dailies, protesting against the gross injustice which was done him in this suspicion. He seemed, in fact, to be less disturbed over his crime and its exposure than over the slight­est exaggeration of, or error in, its minor details as passed upon by the public. And his state of mind illustrates the feeling ot many a man as to the duty of others to be-strictly just toward him when he has prac­tically made himself an outlaw. So long as an evil-doer, or a foolish-doer, can go un­hindered in his chosen course of wrong or folly, he seems to forget that there is such a thing as justice; but when he finds himself on the public pillory, he scans every missile thrown at him, and if ono of these be larger than what he now supposes to be the regu­lation size, ho is disposed to grieve over this harsh world's cruel injustice. A sense of justice is a desirable trait in any man; but it is better that a man should exercise that trait in looking at his own duty to be just toward others, than in looking at the con­duct of others when justice is being meted out to him for his violations of the right.— 6'. *'. Time*.

—It does seem to be true that honesty counts for more than formerly in the esti­mation in which public men are now held in this country. "He makes mistakes, but is honest,'' i s said of one man with a tone of kindness; -he is cautious and tricky, but very smart," is said of another in a tone that indicates disgust. This is a sign of progress.—< 'hrkt'au *\(hn>ra1e.

—The way to economize time is to stick to regular hours of work. One need not be a clock, but by following one closely be may understand the secret of its accom­plishment.— Standard.

—The start is already made; if w e have gone wrong so much has been lost and oan never bo recovered. The wasted hour or moment is forever beyond our recalL— Unittd PrenbyUfrian

—Rumors are among the best things in the world to let alone.

How TagillHU Are Poisoned. There is a peculiar incident connected

with the career of Ben Hogan, tho reformed pugilist, that in not generally known. When he was training to fight Tom Allen he noticed that despite his training, ctiro mi j his peculiar dk»t he was growing woa'ter aud more nervous, so that he was unable to sleep. H e w a 3 treated by the physicians tor ma­laria, but it afterward developed that he had been poisoned by the oook who furnished him with tea, the leaves of which were satu­rated with copperas. Green blotches ap­peared upon tho surface of his ski:), and the medical men treated him then with arsenic to counteract tho effect of the copperas. It is a singular fact that Heenan when he fought Bayres was dosed in a similar manner so that Bayers could win,—Cincinnati Commercial

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PRACTICAL

1'iano and Organ Tim­er. WithGLKHauford & Co., Opera housemu-aic store.

T E L E G R A P H

United lines Telegraph and Central New York

ORNAMENTAL IRON WOKKS. J. C. WILSON,

Manufacturer of door-yard and cemetery fences roof cresting, weathervaues, stable fixtures, fountains and vaae.., iron grates and stairs, Are proof shutters, &c , 29 Araenal street.

TICKETS; T. C. CHITTENDEN.

Tobaecds, Cigars Pipea, Guns, A>. munition an.l Fishing Tackle. 5 Pad-dock Arcade.

PLASTER, MOR PATRICK

has opened a mortar cads-sc.. next to the Ti band Plaster, Mortar, aud sell* the same in takes contracts for plas number of men who do PHYSICIAlT 0 0 RDON P. SPENCER,

Phvslclan raid Surgeon. OfflVeJn tbe Iron hlock,

A T T O R N E Y .

BRADLEY WINSLOW.

Attorney and Counsel­lor at law. Office over No. 7, Arcade street, Watertown, N. "

B . A . J P I E L O ,

and counsellor at law; *)eo uotary.Genprat law business. No. 7, Amer­ican arcade.

T A R C E M E N T ^ PMJNKJET and plaster house o» Ar-mea office, and keeps on Cement and *ewer pipe, quantities desired. Be taring houses and has a _yorkj?n short notice. JOB PRINTrKTG of every description ex­ecuted neatly, prompt ly and at reasonable rates, at the

OFFICE-PHOTOGRAPH

GALLERY

Marble block, Washing­ton st. Will Hart's the place .for tine photo graphic »ork.

W E SAVE YOU S5to310

On a Watch. S T A N D A R D T I M E - K E E P E R S . !

Watches. Clocks & Jewelry. A L L W O R K W A R R A N T E D .

RUP3P & ANDREWS. » 2 COURT STREET. %%

Great Special Sale OF

CLOAKS! This month. Thev muat and will be sold

IffiGARUHSofCOST

HANDKERCHIEFS! of every description.

Hemi-s t i tcked, Embroider Comer , F a n c y Border, T u c k Border,

Embroidered, and

B l a c k Border, Embroidered, Scal loped Corner,

Good Linen Corded, E tc .

SILK - HANDKERCHIEFS AND •

NECK SCARFS!

Muffs and Furs! 3HSSES' PLUSH

M u f f s <fc B o a s Gaps and Toques I

Whole Counters Ptted With

Dress Flannels! AJfD

Worsted Goods ! Sellling at one-half their value.

BUSH.BULUROTH The greatest Bargain House in Northern N Y.

DENTAL CARD. Persona who need full mta of Artificial teeth, v*

desire a partial aet WITHOUT PLATE, or TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, or treatment of any dential or facial disease, are Invited to call at No. 31 Paddocks Arcade

ROBINSON * DENNY Dental Surgeons,

Wateftowa, N. Y.

ft Leave your appointments, and call early, and have your teeth to wear home the same day.

NOW IS THE TIME Q E T YOUR

WATCHES

Q.ET YOUR

SILVERWARE

Q.ET YOUR

CLOCKS & JEWELRY —

QKT YOUR

- SPECS & EYE GLASSES —

Q.ET YOUR

KNIVES, FORKS & SPOONS

S . I*. GHESORGE,

22 Court St., Watertown.

STEAM DYE HOUSEt

F. KLINE,

Fine Printing! T*mWJ

l r » 3 a M WATSKTOWM Haa*un haa In oo«sectioa i

Jobb^jk department, with facllltlea far it on abort notice

Peatere* C a r d * Bal l T i c k e t * Letter HeMa* Bill H*«4»i

EaTet«t»e*, We4<t!»« la^ltatt.oaa, Or anything a Hrta* man may want, la a neat, artiattc and aMUrol manner, our prlcea are from 10 to » pec eent lower loan any noose In the county. SaiiafacUon guaranteed. Try na and be* convinced,

LUAMINK ta« new ptau of Ufa laeumnee »> £j Skeperd Homani, tor }* year* Actuary «f Uto KataaLfiie of New York. Adopted b> ana •farad

' tyT*** Provident having LlfoXMQraace 8e-- York. Coaaper Than ' "

AeGtoodaa the Beat KuU expianatlom af the Old and Naur plan by 3. 0. X£WI*, General Agent, Herald odke. No. 19 Wavblngtoa Street, Water-

C4BRIA&E WORKS !

Huggie* and Cutters made to order at prices to ault customers.

Repairing Done on Short Notice. ~ iggiea Painted for

ittera Painted for

geaalng aa* ReyaMag Qm* 0 * b i a « 7 " j 8

Clothe. Cleaned and Reptintdt M O M lew** *aa evert CM •* ******

No. 83 Factory Street. AjadexuriaatHUBfiat.

A Word to Peeple.

LOTEUXD PIDD0C1 eae Jart reeetred a oeataeata tea «f

Paints, Oils and Colors, •^-wwrtawssr*-

'Buffgiee Fainted tor #6.<ti..JEt

I will warrant the Pancela of crack open tmd grin at ita maker, and at the

500 Cards of Wood Wanted !

Z . L A N E , S O U T H R U T L A N D , N E W Y O R K

Medicines, Fancy Soaps AJSTB TOILET ARTICLES,

Prescriptions a Specialty.

ftp. 6 Washington S t

We ceU year attention ietaafaettaatemi

PINK OF PERFECTI01

CIGARS Araa^maltyaelaMvladfMgadtahathaBMI- I

10-CENT CI6AR8 lata* market. And Oat we have l ift t*trod«ae*» I

MwktMdTwkteli** i a a a

Dewey's Capital Clothing House, U the place to B*T« money. Hake as mistake, tor Dwfefat ft. fiavaj mvrmr aH«w» hi» nompetiton to get ahead el aim, uauatttr, rtrie orprfes SMBL e S L ^ a S J nwi* or made to order. «^«j

PftRLOR FURNITURE STORE. A Complete Line of Parlor Furniture.

Turkish Work a Specialty. Balr Uattreseee made te erdei Repairing oeaUy done. Work guaranteed

to be flm-claa*.

1iui hivfu ment of tt hand*. Thistr exposure UXpOhUri' (il l i lt' U;U1U*» l " win U \ H I - - I I . « J » U I tompmduiv , and o.spei'inlly by putting tiHMii in tint and i-oUl w.iU-r, and lotting rold air roiiit- in contact with them after having h:id ihom hi water. This* may be avoided in several ways whieh I will m o ­tion

A l.tmdVd <!.,>.-ii>..n «'an heusedfor nil but

The parcel uos.t in England i* very popu­lar. Noarly 1:10,000 par w i s are handled by it every day.

Tt takes every year 1,000,000 horses' tails to koep a Pawtuckot (R. I.) luiireloth factory In running order,

It is said that thore am moro millionaires in Buenos Ayrus than in any other city of its ', size in the world, '

An Anglican curate performed the mar- | riage ceremony for a child 11 yeart old in j Kensington, England, recurly. |

The opera is said to lie having a hard time | all ovtr tha world; hut twenty-five new ones ! were produced in Germany last year and thirly--Q\e in Italy.

Dr. Slerrinmn, of North Adams Mass., is riding this winter in a sleigh that is W> years

i old. It was made in IWM for his great-great-I grandfather, and has been in the family ever ( since. 1 A petition for the suppression of bull ! fighting in the Federal district of Mexico, j including the City of Mexico, w receiving 1 the signatures of thousands of the capital's 1 citizens. j Mr. and Mrs. James O. Robinson are solid 1 citizens of CharWtowu, Ma-*-.. Th-y h a w

been married fifty years. Mr. Robin>on weighs 'X'S pounds, Mrs. RoLu^on weighs 225, and of their seven living children nono weiahs loss than 200 wounds.

1 A railroad engineer of Erie, Pa., tell vio­lently on tho ice, striking on tho back of his head. l ie is recovering, but finds when btamling erect he is wholly blind, though he can >.eo a» well as ever wh<*n lying down.

The people of Exeter, X II , are going to , cel»'lii...e m June next the 2o(Jth animer&ary

settlement of their town, and have all •angenieivts now made. These include

•ctivioii" of calling it by the name of quarter irdleunial."

Tnero a n no fewer than y,01t5 general oiiioers in he Brrnh army, to which may bo ridded 1,071! gr--.ier.il.* who have retired. Nearly ,100 gen -lis .uv paid for making after din er ape lies about tho "British" army alw,,;, n doing its duty

MILL ft JESS* CBMFOBn J A M E S E . S M I T H ' S *rt08*S$ae??ai ^ ' N o . 7 Commerc ia l B lock .

5-CENT CIGARS Wa, at u y other d m . rrar lehadeoei la

HILL & JESS, tON. § M ^ J I J l N s ^ B t ^

n «ea Wonders exists in thoiiiands of Jlattnf.trais1 hut are ^m-pussed hv the mar-' UOCjIh'el-. >>f invent on. Those -.vim ;uv in

J U''ed of ni-otltunin work that can 1M- done 1 while liviner at in.>me .should .it o n o seud their addrvsi i<> •[ illett A Co, Portland Maine, and reeeivf free, full intoimaliou how 1-it her sex, of all ages, eftn e rn from i?> 10 5i"i \»T dav and up- > warl* \\hi're\-'i'i.iev U^-. Yon ar-started fre» Capital not req-i rv\[. Sonic li v.- nude over #,> m a siu.de d.i\ at 1 his wui-s\ All sue. eed

P A C K A R D ' S S C R O F U L A R B M B O Y

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CROWNER HOUSE, W f f i B B T H f a . If c o m i n g to W a t e r t o w n to tarry awhi le , In tending to s top , and wish to begui le . In pleasant place , the hours a w a y , I n n Keepers Wi lder , w e write t'< say. In tend thoir beds and Table best, Inc lud ing social cheer and zest, Invi te y o u there to rest and feast, Indeed they charge their guests the least.

CROWNER HOUSE, WJLDJEM BROS., Prup'ra.,

WATBRTOWKT, 1A Heated by S team throughout , and is the City H o m e of our Country People ,

& - F R E E B U S TO A N D FROM A L L T R A I N S . ^

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hUl^ HSl^OS .fTjig sg , _ SM*3 « § The Picture represents |"r tff | *B 3 . 1 is "Si theFace of Louisa 5 ? » I g - ! 0 e £ f i g I Thayer, asItanteara ^ | g • _ rfS* .^ J after cure by the ttae a e u ' J ? j H ' S S r i s of Packard's Scrofula P - "3 -3 3 « E«medy By Druggists , t» & B~ ©• g-S 2 2 3 £ 3 Send tor CfrcuIaF. See - \ £ g g.8 I ono 3 Sfi4« testimonials on bottle, ^ B * « o. G. C. P A C K A R D , S Y R A C U S E , N . Y.]

Fur ,. „ 1 i 1 iu .A; i l , .u i | . 1 i J i - i i i ) vs 1 i . , WnU'1 t o w n , N. Y.

J. M. FAIRBANKS, ~,)V!1_ ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR,

S )•% Waaliiantoa Place,

Waumnrn, ST, T. Office: 14 Factory Street . Manufactory : 37 Mill S tree t .

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