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WORM SPECIFIC
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VERMIFUGE. ]
symptoms df*toA>mvfs!
rPHE countenance pale an} lea^pn
■*• colored, with- occasional Bushes, or
a circumscribed spot or bo&
cheeks; .the eyes become aiift; the pu
pils dil|tte; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eye-lid; the nose is ir
ritated, swells, a j J
a swelling
headache, with humming or throbbing
of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; slimy or furred
▼ery foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes
*ith a gnawing sayqfßif ftfiießoml
ach, at others, emrfCTjgmff; flfeting
pains in the stomach; occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels ir
regular, at times cfstjve; j
not
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration
accompaniaS yjThZc«*h| *.£®gh
sometime £JmmJawLJc fwtfasy
and disturbed sleep, Vith grinding of
the teeth; temper variable, but gener
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. C. MCLANETS VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
m any form- it is an innocapt prepara-
V°n> dtt&JsUghtut
tn j ur y to tJu r most tender infant.
TV GENDER P|L VER
MIFUGE bears the signatures of C.
■™Utt3HaKS-1
the Bilious Cofl
mi Sick d ttWWf
AGUE AHBL FEvaaL ijl
">» or after taking Qnhiine.
As * simple purgathre they are unequal«L
•peUedjjjprereaUjt b^mypmynnatmfp
FROM TUB WAYSIDE,
»6'las Walifi one' day Rat In his of
fice reading a very interesting book. It
was a part of his business, this reading,*
for the book was of a science within the
scope ot his profession. He was compar
atively a young had the rej.u
latien ol being an excellent physician.
While he read some one rang at his office
eir i* 6 his boofrand wentio
the M>|,anl f hen tuf saw *&>* was
ufioii the stepping stone he was ludi"-
nant.
It was a ragged, boy,- known in
Ernsworth as 'llammer Jim'—ragged
and dirty, and with the vileness of the
slums upon him—a boy vicious and pro
fane, against whom every other boy was
warned—a tm who was called a thief
and a villain, whotW no efforts of the Ov
erseers had been able to reclaim, and
who seemed to care for nothiug but to
make people afraid of hua. llis true
name, as the OVersoere had ft, was James
Ammerton. About his father nobody in
Ernsworth had ever kuown. His
mother bad died an inmate ot the poor
house.
On the present occasion, Jim's faoe was
not 6n!y dirty, bnt bloody; and there was'
blood upon his grimed aud tattered gar-.
meptß.
'Please sir, won't you fix my bead ? I've
got a hurt,' V.U '/-Vv
• What kind ot a hurt?' asked the doc
tor.
'l'm afeared it's bad, sir,' gaty the boy#
sobbingly. 'One o' Mr. Dunn's men bit
me with a rock. Oh I'
•What did lie hit you tor?'
'I duno, sir.''
'Yes, yon do know. What did he throw
the stone at yon for?'
'Why, sir, I was a pick'n up an apple
under one of his trees,'
Dr. WaNh would not touch the boy's
head with his fingers. There was no need
of it. He could jee that there was only a
scalp wjmpd, and that the blood had ceas
" hoffie,' he said, Met yonr folks
wash vour head aud put on a clean bausj
i hain't got flo folks.'
- 'You stop somewhere, don't you?'
'I slop at the poor-'us when they don't
kiek me our.'
■'Wiß, boy, you are not going to die
ffotn (his. Go and get somebody to
wash your head, or, go and wash it your
self, and tie your handkerchief on.'
•Plea«!O r §ir, I hain't got no—'
He** bp, bosr. ' I haven't got time to
waste. You woji't suffer if you .go as
J>a.rtM "T r-.lfWprt
And with this Dft^ihw 'Walsh closed
t)fe dror'aii&Mat'iied to his book, lie
had not meant to be unkind; bnt really
be hal not thought there was any need
ott9K&^&£U£
his office.
Bat Dr. Walsh had not been alone
or the boW visit. There had
been a witness at an uppenyindow. The
oloaip Visjpa a* l ® beard. She
MAAvmriT lltw mW strong, and
resolute, aud dignified like her husband.
Her heart was not only tender, but it
was used to aching. She had no chil
drey liviyg; but wore two little
mounds in ibe churchyard which told her
of angels in Heaven that could call her
JfiedHfcdf«lt Sioh f^r as
Jpifio4jbyriM dipped
down, ard called the boy in, by the back
way, to the wash room. He came in.
rags, dirt and all. wondering what was
wanted. The sweet voice that had called
him bad not frightened him. He came
in and stood looking at Mary Walsh,
and as he looked his sobbing ceased.
•Sit down my boy.'
"SKM/oaki certM^^fl
Hjwfryronght a WjjKjfft
then she brushed thehair^3from.
ittfiWHtaE
dirt, it was really a
b * WfiatTs your name, my boy T
tfl&mimecjiim vp'am; and sometimes
BaggedJjm.' TITO*! v *•
C-, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6 1879
4 1 mean, how were you cbistened?'
'' W'ich, 'ni?'
'Don't you knowwhat name yoar par
en Is gave yonr ''
'O-ye-es: It's down on (he 'seers'
books, mum, as Janes Ammerton.'
'Well. .Tames, the hnrt on your head is
net a bad one, and it you are careful not
to rub off the plaster, it will soou heal up.
Are you hungry ?'
'Please, ma'am, I haven't ent nothing
to-day.'
Mrs. Walsh bronglit out some bread
and butter, and a enp of milk, and al
lowed the boy to sit there in tho wash
room and eat. And while he ate she
watched hiin narrowly, scanning every
feature. Surely, if the science ot physi>
ognomy, which her husband slut ,s '"i so
much, and with such faith, was reliable,
this boy ought to have grand capacities.
Ouce more, shutting out tba rag* and the
filth, and only observing the
glossy and waving, from her dextgrops
manipulations, over a shapely bead/and
inaikiug fie face, with lustrous gra? eyes
and the perfect nose, and tbe mouth like
a Cupid's bow, and. the chin strong,
without being unseemly,—seeing this
without the dregs, the boy was hands
some. Mrs. Walsh, thinking of the little
mounds in the church-yard, prayed God
that she might be a happy mother; and it
a boy was to Bless her maternity, she
could net ask that he should be hand
somer than she believed she could make
this boy.
Jim finished eating, and stood up.
'James,' said tbe little woman—for sha
was a little woman, and a perfect picture
of a loving and lovable little. woman.
'James, when you are hungry, and have
nothing to eat, if yon will come to this
door, I will feed yoo. I don't want you
to go hungry.'
'I should like to come, ma'afn.'
•And, if I feed yon when you are hun
gry, will you not try to be good for my
sake?'
Tbe boy bang bis bead, and considers
9 ed. Some might bare wondered that be
s did answer at once, as a grateful boy
1 ought; bat Mrs. Walsh saw deeper tbau
f tbat. Tbe lad was considering bow he
answer and truthfully.
'if they'd let me be good, ma'am; bat
t they won't,' be said, at length.
•Will you try all yoa can?
s 'Yes, 'm—l'll try all I caff.'
> Mrs. Walsh gave the lad a small parcel
. of iood in a paper, and patted his early
head. Tbe boy bad not yet sbed a tear
since the pain of the wcaud had been as
> suaged. Some might have thought be
, was not gratetnl; bat the iitlle woman
could see tbe gratitude in the deeper
light of the eye. The old crust was not
brokeu enough yet for tears.
Afterward* Mrs. Walsh told her bus*
band what she bad dooe, and he laughed
at her.
•Do you tbihk, Mary, that yonr kind'
ness can hejpthat ragged waif?'
1 do not think it will hart biuo, Silas.'
It was net the first time that Mrs.
Wals'u had delivered answers to the eru
dite doctor which eflectuaUy stopped dis
cufsion.
After tbat Jim eame often to tbe wasb.
room door, and was fed; and be became
cleaner and more orderly with each suc
ceeding visit. At length Mrs, Walsh
was informed that a friend was going
away into.the far Western country to
take dp land, and make a frontier farm.
The thought occured to her that this
might be a good opportunitp for James
Ammerton. She saw her friend, and
brought Jiui to his notice, and tbe res
suit was, thst tbe boy went away with
the emigflNt adventurer. And she beard
I from her .iriend a year later that he liked
the boy very mncb. Two years later
tbe emigrant wrote tbat Jim was a treas
ure. And Mrs. Walsh showed tbe letter
to ber husband, and be smiled aod kissed
his little wife, and said he was so glad.
And he bad another source oi gladness.
Upon ber bosom bis little wile bore a ro
bust, healthy boy—their own SOD— who
gave promise ot life aad happiness in tbe
time to come.
The year* sped on, and James Ammer
ton dropped out from the life tbat Mary
Walsh knew. The last she heard was
fivo years after he went away from Erns
worth, aod Jim bad started out for tbe
golden mountains on his own account,
to commence in earnest bis own life bat
tle.
Dot there was a joy and a pride in tbe
M .little woman's life which held its place
' and grew and strengthened. Ber bey
whom 'bsy called Philip, grew to be a
youth of great promise—a bright, kind
hearted, good bey, whom everybody
loved; And none loved him mors than
did Ids parents. In fis*t, they worshiped
him: or, at least, his mother did. At
tbeag; ot seventeen Phillip Walsh enter
ed oollege, and at the age of t*ent>*
one he graduated with honor; bat the
long and severa study had taxed his sys
tem, and he entered upon the stage of
manhood not quite so strong in body as
he should have been. Ills mother saw it
and was anxious, llis father saw it and
decided that be sixAild have recreation
and recuperation before he started into
active busnssss. Dr. Walsh was not pe
cuniarily able to send his son ofl on ex
pensive travel, but lie found opportuni
ty for his engagement upon the stuff of
an exploiing expedition, which wonld
combine heallhfnl recreation whh an
equally heaitnful occupation.
The expedition waa bound for the Wes
tern wilderness, aud we need not tell ol
the purtiug between the mother and her
beloved son. She kissed him and bless
ed him; and then hung upon his neck
with more kisses and then went away
to her chamber and cried.
Philip wrote hou.e oiten while on bis
way out; and lie wrote after he reached
the wilderness. ills accounts were
flowing, and his health improving,
three months of forest life, and forest
labor, of which Phillip wrote in a letter
that bad to be borne more than a hun
bred miles to the nearest post, and then
followed months of silence. Where waa
Philip? Why did be not wrilef
One day Dr. Walsh came borne pale and
taint, with a newspaper crumpled and
crushed in hia hand. Not Immediately
but by and by, he was forced to let hia
wife rend what he had seen in- the pa
per. She read, and fainted like one
mortally stricken. It was a paper from a
far western city, and it told the sad late
ot the exploring party under tbe ebarge
of Colonel John Beauebampe. how they
bad been attacked by an overpowering
partly of indians, and bow those not mas
sacred had been carried away cap,
live.
Poor little woman! Poor Dr. Walsh;
But the mother snltered most. Her head
already taking on its crown of silver,
was oowed in blinding agony,
heart was well nigh broken. The joy
was gone ont of ber life, aud thick dark
ness was round about her.
And so passed half a year. One day
tbe postman left a letter at the door.
Tbe hand of the superscription was fa
miliar. Mrs. Walsh tore it open, and
glanced her eves over the contents.
O, toy tO, rapture I her boy lived! was
welll and was ou his way borne to
her.
Wlien Dr. Welsh entered the room he
found his wife faiutiug, with the letter
clutcbed in her nervelesVgrasp.
By and by, when tbe flfst great surge
had passed, husband and sat down
and read the letter umleAUingly.
Thank God! 1 found a true friend, or,'
I should say, a true friend found tHf.'
wrote Phillip, after lie had told of his
safety, and of his whereabouts. 'Bat
for the comeing of this friend I should
have died ere this. lie beard of ine htfj
my name, and when he learned
was from Erusworth, and was tbe sonV
Oil as and Mary Walsh, be bent pll bW
energies tor my release. He snpartiSoue*
auds of dollars in enlisting and equip
ping men tor the work, and with his
own baud struck down my savage cap
tor, and took me thenceforth under hi#
care and protection. God bless him?
be you both ready, to bless him, for he
is coming ivfth me.
Upou their bended knees that night,
the rejoiceing parents thanked God for
all his goodness, aud called down bis
blessings upon the bead of the nuknown
preserver of their son.
And, in time, radiant and strong, their
Phillip eame home to them—came home
a bold and educated man, fit for the bat
tle of life —came home knowing enough
of life'* vicissitudes, aud prepared to ap
preciate its blessings.
And with PMllip came a man ot mid
dle sge—a strong, frank"faced, hsndcotnc
man, with grey eyes and curling hair.
•This,' said the An, when hie had been
released from his mother's rapturous em
brace, 'is my preserver. Do yon not
know him?;
The doctor looked and shook his bead.
He did not know.
Rut the little womsn observed more
keenly. C pon ber Lite light broke over*
poweringly. , , , ,
'ls it,'she whispered, potting forth
her hand*—*!• it—James Ammerton.'
'Yes* said the man—a stranger now no
more. 'I am James A Jitnertoti I And 1
(bank God Wbo bat given me opporto*
nity tbu* to abcrir bow gratefully I re
member all foor kindness to me, my
more thuuneilMr.'
And be beid ber bend*, and pressed
them to bis lips, aad blessed ber agaia
and again, tailing ber, with streaming
eyes, that she, ot all the world, had lift
ed him op' and MAWUMB.
That evening Mrs. Walsh, sitting by
ber husband's side and holding one of
bis bauds said to him.
'Ouce noon a time a pebble was kick
ed about in the waste of sand. ▲ lapi-
dary saw If, and picked ft up, and when
ne had brnshed sway the dirt from its
surface, lie applied his chisel, and brbfce
through the crost, and behold—a dia
mond, pure and bright!' ' ' '
i«J(MTV FOB TUB 9ALtllf
Never say anything damaging to the
good name of a woman, it matters Hot
how poor-she may be or what her placa
iu society. They have a hard enough
time at best, and' God help the man that
would give them a kick down the hill.
We are all too tree with their names
talk too much about them and wedoveiy
wrong, The least little hint that there i»
something wrong, that 'she aiu't all
right,' whether spoken in jest or in ear
liest, is taken up and unlike the rolling
stone gathers moss as it goefc from place
to place aud at last comes home to the per
secuted with crushing weight. She has
done nothing bnt keep qniet while -Her
idle persecutors have pursued her, and
now she is kicked from door to door, and
is fiillen so low that none will do her
reverence. Give a dog a bad name and
you had as well kill b!fn_talk about a
good woman on the streets and across
barroom counters, and you bad at well'
set her down at once as'a social wreck.
No one wants to help her.' We don't
so much theoretical religion ; we
want a kind of blue jeans and homespun
pity that will do for the washtub and the
kitchen as well as the drawing room ami
parlor—a sort ot universal honesty that
will not think a woman a thief because
she happen to Wear a ran bonnet and
walk across tbe street with a string 1 ol
mackerel irf her haifd. There is nothing
wrong iu manual labor, and honest per
eity is a sure passport toheareu.
fODNfi BIN AND OLD,
A man is ordinarily said to be young,
even iii this country, Vhere we live pre
ternatualy fast, op to 36 or 40; to be raids
die nged from 40 to SO, and not bo posi
tively old; if be be of sonnd health and
well preserved, until be si at! have reacts
ed 60 or thereabout. This estimate Of
years wouM indicate the normal age ot
roan to be 100, fas Buflon declares it
should be) though his ayirage is scarcely
50, and 60. is much beyond it. What
reason is there, then 1 , tor speaking ot 35
to 40 as young, 40 to 50 as mlddletage?
None, unless we Consider that we begin
i practicle and useful existence, as we re
ally do, with the attainment of our legal
majority/and, as a rule people hare very
life-30 to 85years—after that, ft is
common to speak ot men, especially in
pnblie positions, of 60. as in their prime.
A very few appear to be so, notably iu
Europe; but they are not actually, since,
at 75, the public distrusts them merely
from their ago. The great majority
of own are buried and forgotten belore
they gain three score, and be who is in
his prime then, in a seeming sense, is ex
ceptional as he who lives 90 or 95. We
al) Hke tv delnde ourselves in respect to
life. When our neighbor is 60, be aps
pears to be rery old. When we are ot
that age, we are not young, to be sore
but we feel as young, we say as ever, iu
fact, we* are in our prime. While we
can creep around and are in possessiouof
our faculties, we Insist that we are not
very old; but our friends, Smith and
'Bfown. with not a year more than we,
ir tbe troth were known, make them
selves ridiculous by trying to appear
YOUllg.
I
PPOdd folks here and there in described
in the newspapers. Ro* bury, Masaachu-
an ecoynuio Inmp who Urea
in a cave doling the winter, and spends
the summer iqlseking begging excur*
sions to jttighboring towns. He never
lay* a word, anf his dress consists en
tirely of old bootleg* fastened together
with, leather strings.' A* small wagon
drawn bj two goat*, and containing a
helpless, shrivelled man, attracted attenv
tion in Hagerrtown, Maryland. He said
that he had traveled in that manner for
many years, and called himself the
"American Ton rut." He is entirely
helpless. His wife and four children
accompany him, and attend to his wants,
getting their living by the sale of tem
perance song and ether araaH articles.
Jefferson Stevens, wLo lives near Sal-
Cuf Springs, Kentucky, conclude that
is gifted with peculiar powers, of
which he lately gave a street exhibition.'
He held A forked dogwood switch, like
those used by wizzards, in his aiouth,
and told the crowd to aak a£y questions
they pleased, A pair of tramp* turned
op at Dee Moines, lowa—Peter Carlisle
sad witt,who "were on their way to Lead
ville from (he Pennsylvani\ooal regions.
They had pushed a handcart all the way,
containing their, baby girl and a few
household utensils. Carson Oair of
Hoodie, Cel., frill-on no aeeount walk a
step, but always Tens, no matter if the
distance is only a few feet; whQe Mrs.
because she thinks her legs will drop off
if pbe stirs tfcatfk The story Comes from
Pittsfield, Mpn, of *he Jjssiiitej of »i
cannibal, who Jor years has lhred near J
that city. He says tha* early i* lite ha
ran away from home and went to aaa»
He was early shipwrecked on one of the
South 8&L Islands, ew here esnaibahsm
waa practised and idolatry waa the woe
ship of the nntivea. How long be iw
mained there he doe* not know, but he
learned to enter into their lavage rltea
with a good deal of seat, and confesses to
have acquired a teste fur cannibal- j
iui.
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lii 18C77 Jacksonville, Fin., liad lfflo
no* his 14,000. '
Thfe #on of the hrte Gen. Gtdeota J.
Pillow is writing Us; father's biegrs-
MtU .-i-dfe .
-m dUHdi I" Abfcc
vfl»e, 8. C„ gmte 41,200 last year" lor
charftsbtepeVpojes. •
There ia aotbiug that » refines tie *
.lice ud nnnd-a» -the pretence ef rood
though te. . , 4
f , There ere few doota through which
liberality, joined with good humor, can
not find itS Way.
It is easy' to pict botes in oilier people*# '
work, -bet far more profitable to do bit
tor wosk yeavself. -» m»
As loog as hearts beat as long us life
exists, in ahatevey age, iron or golden,
jrou will find lo*e. , ,
Madame Gorster. the soprano, m-*
oeives only S2OO a night' for her sing
ing.
In the Miaauetppi penitentiary there
are over 200 eoavicta who ass iatpriaon
ed for life,
• St, Louia manufactures ax hundred
thousand barrels of beer a joy and the
consumption there is two handred thous
and.
.... . , Jg •%i H A « '* J if* if*
Lond talking is a sore sign oj vulgari
ty; bnt whispering is the lo+est sort of
talking any one can do.— Richmond
State*
A handsome, sweetly-dressed, refined
and altogether captivating yoneg asa,
who baa been dansiag with half the
belles of New Orleans, tons oat to ha a
cook.
. ass«H ,
Laura D. Fair, the California mur«
deress, who never bad a baby herself,
has invented a baby carriage and sold
the patent Jftr #14,€00. t -** T lT> «•*-*»
Mr. Henry Smart, who wrote thai
hymn "From Greenland's ley Moun
tains," baa received a pension of SSOO
from the British government.
The hay crop of the United States, at'
a valuation of five dollars per toe, ia
three tisses that of cotton, times
that of wool and twice that oC wheat.
A 'Fr^heh 1 oewnSnr' &
had the following beaming in itepotW"
intelligence: "Suicide of two'periMtt; '
statement of the AM Umt survived.'*' ™
Chief Joaties Chase's grtye aft Oak*
Hill, near Washington, is marked jasle t
fift: i ■
following his n*m*. Tbertr eonldhirdlf
be a plainer monnmsat nor One in '
better taste. .
"George,'* said she to the perspiring
yonng map, «I l ? ve von juat the sama *
not as our city relatives are co>mu£ next
"totter thinks ffu ji*d 'tetter stay
swsy, becanae yoar long hair aad Ihxfks
led £aee might make them think one ee~ t
quaiotanca weren't very higUtoaed/
The young man is staying.
The Emperor William sleeps on a bed» -
bard enough to Have soiled the Duke of .
Wellington, does n6i smoke or ose
m fotod-of ffowers and especially
of fiesh sir, drinks one glasa of fefir
gnndy a day, rises early and fiares fifti*
gtlly. He is eighty-two" years old and •>
can ride horseback like a trooper.
What mt fine report this ii from Ice
land.
Iceland the region ef intense natural
cold, ia full of religions warmth. The
Word of God text book at Mte pea
pie. Every home has its Bible, not juat
as an ornamedt, not ae the well kept
cherished marriage nor because of
soma unAsfined superstitious feeling of
reverence, bat for dnflynee. In Iceland
the Bibls is constantly read. A* a "eon
seqoeaee, Iceland ia without a theatre or
priaoa. There ia no sedtoffioe as shers
iC H|j awn no tsaarm, aad military
drill is an unknown ssiaaoa.
London la spaced over' 7,000 square
stiles. There is one death there eve*y
six minutes, sad a birth every four.
The gmrtiatfMt# fafMaftfori &£
rate of 75,000 a year/or 305 each day.
Hm total length of the streets in London
Is aboat 1,000 mile*; there are built
every year aboat 9yooo new booses, by
which the length ol the streets is increas
ed by twenty weight ailsa Ia the jails
there is aa average of 75,000 prisoner*
The foreign hoot raqiib ats of
number about 10Q,0OQ; bnt thirty-seven
MUTUAL TOU»ATK>S.— That house
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