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TRAFFIC \EARTHE POLE. How the Trade With the Wily Eskimo Carried On. V arm Would bp Hrprlrd la KIKMI Vtlirr.- Thrlr 4.<IO<ln Ittt FMHwIllf Fr*m M<| la Il;uu1 Ihe Prodisrt* t Kusslu. KnglssMl. nil. I Asnrrlrs fuM prle In a t'uninoa Market. From the earliest times the reports of ex ulorers iu the Arctic /.one show that the Kskunos who inhibit these desolate regions were in the habit of traveling from place to place ilong the Arctic ocean for the pur pose of attending meetings at regular periods aud engaging iu trade. Krom Ihe early explorers we incidentally learn that there was a much larger popula tion along the Arctic coast of North America and in the interior along the bank of the great rivers than now exist. ( 'apt. Beechey, R. N., who spent the winter of 18*26 on the western coast of Alaska within the Arcti.: circle, reports that when he visi'-d the native village of Nuwuk, at Pom' Harrow, it had a population of ever J.'HKi Now it has decreased to less than 300. At Point Rope he counted -,.">IHI, where today the population is hardly one- tenth '.hat number. The deciinalnin of the native population has nol been confined to those points, but has extended over the entire known region lying within the Arctic circle, t'rossing Behnng straits snd ex- tending our researches along the northern shore of Siberia it has Iweu ascertained by the investigations of Prof. Nordenskjold that even in this bleak aud forbidding region people once lived, Tillages once dot ted the low-landed plains, and long journeys were made by the hardy hyperboreans for the purpose of trade with ontiguous tribes. In Dr. Richardson's account of his ex- ploration of Hie Arctic coast, from thr Mackenzie river eastward to Back's (ireat Kish river, he notes the fact that the natives had already in their possession knives and hatchets made in England, whicl, they claimed to have received from other cont natives still farther eastward, who in turn had obtained 'hem by barter with whalemen frequenting the waters of Bafh'n's bay and Smith's sound. With the small opportunities at hand and the limit ed lime at his command for making a thorough investigation of the sunject it is possible that Dr. Richardson was deceived by t he natives, and that the articles of Kngliab manufacture seen by him in their possession were really obtained by barter with the outlying poets of the Hudson Bay compsny on the Mackenzie river. But whatever )>e the truth of this matter it is certain that regular system of extending from the m river wsstwardlo I'omt Barrow, then south ward to Capo Prince of Wales and across Itohring straits to the Siberian side. After then declared that a misluku hail been made and that the blankets could be had at their v.ilne regardless of the " point" marks. But just here the shrewdness of the Indians unexpectedly asserted itself. They refused to trade for the blankets under any condi- tions, stating for a reason that if they al- lowed these fraudulent li'ankctH to be put into circulation the whole system of trade value, would be destroyed, and thereafter every blanket in possession of the Indians would he subject to the suspicion of being one of the fraudulent issue. The reruU of the matter was that the counterfeit blankeu were returned to headquarters and such " mistakes" were carefully avoided m the future. Now, it is a peculiar fact that among the Kakimos within the Arctic circle there is no established court of value. In spite of their proximity to some of the more southern tribes and their frequent intercourse with white traders their primitive methods of doing business have not been chauuod a par- tic'e. Except in the variety of arlicles o! which contact with civilization has taught them tin- use, barter among the Kskimos is carried on to-day exactly like it was loO years ago. Certain articles of trade goods, such as powder, caps, lew), flour, needles, und drilling, Live, it is true, an apparent tixed value, but that it is not a real value may be shown by a brief examination. For instance, two boxes of pooler, one box of cups and five pieces of lead may rep- resent the mm ket value of either a beaver or a lynx ski-i. But it does not follow from tins : hat inbarteringamong themselves ii heaver is worth .1 lynx skin or vice versa, Nor does it follow that because a bag of Hour will obtain a lynx skin it will also purchase a beaver. It may be well imagined that these incongruities of ax- change cause some confusion and unless great patience ia exercised the trader will end by breaking off negotiations in disgust. But the first esst-ntial to remember in dealing with the Eskimos is that tune is absolutely of no value to them, and, second, that the value set upon Ins goods bv the white trader has not the slightest influence on ihe native. RALPH THE ROVER. Aitvlrr .111 Mnrrlnitr. Probably few persons who read the brief newspaper reports of President Klliot's re- cent iiddross to young men at Harvard un the subject of marriage thought of it as any- thing of deeper significance '. hau lh adviue of a wise pedagogue to his pupils. Since ci> ih/.ation began young men have been urped to marry, but not in haste, and it s<-mii a ma*tor of course to give that ail- vice toany healthy young man at any tune. It is always cheap and wholesome. Vet the President of Harvard University spoke . . . , , IKMI, i luni iin*i, t- iDtaiiui m the past there existed a wit" degree of force and earnest ness tlmt 118-| ,,fy i Bt way WM t [ native trailing stations indicated his belief that the advice to ,.. tramp i ever MW he mouth of the Mackeii/ie choose a wife with care was particularly j on t , le mi \ tn ide him w appropriate at this time. There never was .1 tune, indeed, wlien the evil effects of the ill-assorted marriage in the I'mted States leaving ICast Cape the route of trade seems were more conspicuously m evidence. Hie at the time to have followed th meandering divorce lawyers arc doing a thriving biisi- of the Siberian coastas far wektward aa the ness, and the seusational newspapers in Lena delta. This fact i:i attested by native this month of March have had so many tradition and by the discovery of many i "tones to print of woes resulting from tnat Here, Ralph '. Ralph ! Hi, you scamp ' Come back here, sir ! There, he's gone ! Off for a two or three days' iramp again. Ueg pardon, sir. 1 didn't sec you. I was that busy callin' the dog, I leckon ! nearly walked over you. The matter, ir" Well, it's that dog, Ralph. You heard me call, linn, I daresay. A giander old fellow you could not find iu a day's travel, but he has one had habit. Most humans have more than that, and I ain't sure in my own mind that he ain't human. The habit ? Well it s just this. He will follow overy blessed old tramp as passes here, and keep followin' 'em, sometimes for two or three days He'sanucer one. Did you notice him just now T Didn't see him '.' Well, he keeps just far enough behind the fellows so they won't drive him back ; snillin', snith'n' along, and kind of castin' his ye hark to let me know he's hearin' me, hut not heodiu' me. .lust the same way ho acts every time he goes off. He'll be back .ill right when he dors come : aud he's been acini' that way ever since I've hail him. Stolen'' Why, sir, 1 don't believe the cue's livm' could steal him or fasten him up ever so tight he couldn't get back, ever since an' a right queer way I got him tao. " Is he mine ': Well, yes, in one way; an' then no, in another. It was a queer story anyway. 'Tell it, sir -. Well, if I had time I might. Ah, thank you, sir 1 A tine gen- tleman like you can a'fbrd to be generous. " Now, let me see I As near as I remem- ber, it was .lune, tw years Ago, as 1 came downstairs rather culy one morning to light the fire for my old woman. She warn't very strong then ; the youngster there was only a couple of months old, an' I was gettin' the things all handy for her 'o get breakfast. When she come down the fire was lightin' an' the kettle singin' for joy of serin' her. I'm thinkm'. " Mollie w.is always a great one for fresh air, so as soon as she saw everythin' was goin' right in the kitchen she walks to the trout dour, turns the key an' opens it. " Well, quick as a Mash she came riininn' hack to me with her face kind of white and scared. " ' Oh, Jim, Dome out hero to the door ! ijuick '" says she. " An' when I 'ollowed her blesfed it I don't see the riimmesl fight I ever did, an' there I stood, statin' like an ape. " You see, these seats on the porch are rather com'or'ble to sit on, an' with the vines hangm' over this w.y makes it 'most' as shut in and '(Uiellikean a bedroom : thru the posts lino and at the corner form ,"-. i rests for the back. Well, anyhow, good or bad, right here, a-leanin' back in the most the trampiest look- sound HI. e. II All' ith his head on th man 'slap, was lhe dandiest setter 1 ever ex- pect lose*. A vallybledog, sir, :oo, asl knew soon as 1 set eyes on him. I always know a gond dog, being rather in the sporting line myself, an' this was a genuine tiur-lun " By George, sir ! you wouldn't believe it, 1 dare say, but I take my affydavy that dog looked up, sort of nadltke, and shook his head. " To make the story short though, all told, it was not so very long when we came downxtaiis the next morning Ralph lav mi the tloor giiardin' his master's stick, but his master wasn't nowhere round. "Tidl me the dog didn't know ! He knew a well as we did why it was done ; that the master he loved an* who loved him had left him, Imt he had been told to wat-h the stick, au' with the saddest eyes an' droopin' he lay there all day long. An I truly be- lieve if we hadn't gut the stick away from him an' burned it he d 'a' been watchin' it yet. " An' his master ! Yes sir ; gone clean gone. An we vc never heard a word of him nince. 1,'ngrateful T No, mi ; I don't take it so. I think he couldn't trust him- self with the dog he loved, when he was not himself, you see, an' so be left him wheie he knew he .1 be well taken care of. Yes, that's the way 1 sre it anyhow. An' then he got so far away before the dog would nut waujhin that the soent wss lost for poor Ralph. But be ain't never give up. Not a day, sir '. " Do ': Well, there's not a tramp comes past here an' the Torse looking they are the wilder .he is to get after them, sniHiiu' at their tracks, and then his tail will drop so disappointed like, yet he'll keep on an' follow em for a day, or maybe three days, till he gels sure he ain't connn' to his mas- ted when he'll come luick. Seems to me as if ne kind of thought they might know him. How does be find out they don't 7 Bless you, sir, don't ask me, but dogs know a heap inure than people think. " He ought 'a lieen named Rover, for he's been in more ditferent places round here than I have, an' always turns up all right when he has settled the matter. " Why, ain't that bun now, a-sml!iiu' along the other road? Of course it is. Well, now, how'd h gel over there, 1 wonder ; seems as if he was scentin 1 soincthin', don't " Hi, Ralph, Ralph ' Ah ' there he comes a-boiindin along towards us junt as he nurd to go for his master. Looks as if he tinman he could find him, sure. See, now ! Ain't he a U-auiy ' " Here, Ralph ' Hood old fellow ! I'mne here, sir ' Kb! What: Straight for you, sir, he's gone, without a look for tne ! All when I came out my legs were 111110*- I did not feel any bad results until .Inly as I have said. I gradually grew worse until I could scarely do anything. I kept on try- ing to work but it was a terrible struggle, and the way I suffered was something awful Kvery joint .11 my body was stiff and in- tensely painful. As lime passed on I grad- ually grew worse, and pains went into my '.iark and at tunes my agony was almost unbearable. I tried all home made remedies but without avail. I then consult- ed a doctor but Ins medicine hail un effect. At the time of the Smilhville fair a doctor was over here from tho States and 1 ron- nulled him. H said that my case was hopeless, and 1 need not expect anything but death to release me from my pain. As winter came on the pain got into my head and my -.ntlcrings were something terrible. Ahoiit dark the pain would *tart about my ear and woik up until it reached tho crown oi my head. As morning came on the pain iu my head would subside, but the pains in the lest of my body never left me, and at last I grew so had that when I would lie on my back I could not get up to save my life without assistance. Although I hail not lost my appetite I became weak, so bail that though I could walk around I could not stoop to lift pound. I became so weak in this way that I got discouraged and lost all hope of ever getting better. It was alxiut this lime that 1 heard of the \v underfill cures by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and Mr. Kastman, of Smith- ville, advised that they be given a trial: My brother got me a box and I took them but felt no good results. I took still another b.ix and still no per- ceptible benefit, iui.il felt so weak anil discouraged that I decided not to takeany more. At this lima a lady from Hamilton come t" VMII .it our place and she strongly ail vised me to . 'Hit lime using the Pink Pills She bad known Mr. Marshall at thai cily and Unew thai bis ease was bona tide. I thoiighl i' tiselen to continue, hut at the urgent solicitations of my friends did so, and by the tune I was through with the tlnr.l box I began lo feel a benefit front Ihrm. This gave me hope which did not again waver, as I found myself steadily growing better, and continued the use of the Pink Pills until now I am as well as ever I was in my life. I know that it was Pink Pills that saved me when all else had failed, and 1 have no objections whatever lo having the story of my cure being over you in a minute ! A tine gentleman like published, as u may lie the means of help- you ! What ! you, you, sir ! Rolwrt : t.ioat j imjsoire other sufferer back to health and Scott ' An' Ralph kiMW you ! Well, well ; j strength and gladness.' Mr. Merrilt ifs ol ancient villages now long deserted, tiresome and seemingly mcurab.e social nml'tdy called " incompatibility as to KVIN TO I-KTIK-.HI K.:. gi vc to their columns the undesirable effect n During the present century the route for ^ of sameness. The advantages of free du- ' tins trade has moved 10 th* southward af tor ' cation and all the enlightenment of the leaving the straits and after passing around Minelueulh century have not seemed to make people a bit more careful about choosing coin pnnions for litn. The impres- sionable reader of the daily newspaper must sometimes lie possessed by the idea .. \v e n, sir I suppose I mutt have said Mmethin . Wlth , ,,, f or , Wllke t| iem ' the western arm of the t Julf of Anadic push a steadily on toward the outposts of tho Russian frontinr, and so by gradual stages finally terminates at the great centre of th tur trade, St. Petersburg. Sums of this trade is deflected to the seacoast aud ulti- mately finds its way by ship to China, and up. Tho dog turned the solem'est eyes round to me, auk in' me not tomako so miioh an' the man, all rags an' tatters, yawned an set up. An' then, seein' Mollie right behind me, I'll bo shot, sir, if he didn't stand up, take oft his piece of a hat lo her, and begin to ippolergiso fur settin' on our doorstop. -Said he'd been ' overcome wilhfaUiek.' My eye? For tho manners of htm I could hardly believe he weren't a swell covu, dressed in tho latest fashion. that a large proportion of his fellow-brink's select a wife or accept a hiisbaud with far ^ % f u i|. Bowled stepper at the gale lest seriousness and expenditure of thought WMlm - for him. small portion of the snnii.il catch of furs than they would bestow upon the selection is obtained by American whalemen and of a hat or a box of cigars, or the accept- tr.ioVrs, but by far the greater portion of mice of a trinket oran invitation toa dance, the business still follows the old road which This preposterous carelessness about tl..- leads to the region of the white c/ar The most serious thing in life is illustrated in a study of this polar traffic conducted under i hideously-grotesque light when tho gay such difficulties and maintained without young wife of a sober-minded, imtaole interruption perhaps through centuries of | husband, of whose character she seems to ' ,| loe ,"i n ,tTef7 half of his fee! .mi. limn an' tune is a most interesting and fascinating ( have had no knowledge at all previous to I (ia jf m . Mt - u | |(1 ( . oll u 3Car oely take a step marriage, delilwra'.ely kills herself becaimr he will not permit her to go out into socie- ' I kn.iw I must have stared at him con- siderable, but, bless you, Molliu didn I spend no time A start D till she'd asked him - into the kitchen, an' when the breakfast was ed ready she gave '""' '"' '"" ''" '"" l good one. His feet were blistered with walkin in one. When and whurt) were the meetings held? What were the articles bartered. Aud, sbovo all, what means did these primitive people adopt to transact their business of exchange? Tints are the ques- tions which demand solution. It appears from the earliest accounts which we have of the Indians of ilia north- west coast of America that shell money was in common use among these people and was not disc.ui tinned until white people begsn to import large quantities of spurious shell into the country. The dvntalium entslis, a slender shell f jund on the western side of Van.-ouvir island, was the accepted substi- tute for currency and was known among the n. itives as allie-go-chik. The unit value was hy-a-.iua, or a string composed of *spnty-liv.. shells measuritg one fathom. Other anthoriti -n say the unit was a string of shells ar long as a n- in'- .-m. D:. Stearns who has made u stu .y o.' snell money, is disposed to d >i:b' '.h- v u: icy of .ho unit which makes '. '!>. hells equal six feet in length, hsc*>ivc I ...... would necessi- tate each shell Iwing o -three inches long, while as a matter of ',-. t the denialiuin is seldom over two and IK OS-quarter inches in length. Tho shell money woike ' its way into the intcrio> of Alaska ana -v -1 used to some extent JL* a medium of exchange, but more generally as trimming tur fill? clothing. It could not supersede the beaver akn, which anem* to nave been the nnitof value in uw; ni":i,', all the tribes of interior na.ivu* from the sources of th-j Yukon no; th . .-.r.i W the arctic .-trcte. Farther east among the natives of the Mackenzie river and (Jroat Slave lake re- gion and southward along the coast south- east Alaska wealth is now esti nated by the number of blankets of which a native is tho possessor. Tho blanket system was intro- duced by the Hudson Bay company, whom stations were planted all over the country- The blankets were of several different i|iiali. ties, ranging from a very poor we, worth in tiade about il, toa very good one, worth as much as (l<>. The quality of t he blanket was shown by the number of " points" or marks woven into one edge of the fabric. Ity common consent the "three point" blanket, worth abot-.t f\.M, was reco,n, v .ed as the unit of value. TUB KKAI I>rl>N'T WORK. A peculiar instance of the native ideas of tin. nice was onoetold me by Knink Mercier, an old l-'rench voyagjur and Indian tnidcr, whose life had been spent in this country between Montreal ml Fort St. Michaels. It happened at one of tho isolated posts of the II idson K.i>. company a lot of blanke'.s had been markud by agreater number of "points' % -hn their real i^ualily wanted. The agent ty as much a* she wants to. There used to be a theory that any suicide was necessari- ly more or less insane, but law does not countenance that theory, and the known facts about many recent suicides do not credit it. The ill-assorted marriage in the Stntes bus lately been a prolific ciuse of self destruction, and it is, indeed, natural enough for a man or woman who will marry olT-liand, as it were, to blow nut his or her brains in ihe same easy and reckless manner. Modern civilization is infinitely better in some respects than any oihcr cml,, MI ID.I that ever was : it alfords liberty to all, and places educational advantages within reach of the masses. It fosters art and letters and the spread of knowledge. Vet. after all, there- may ! something lacking in it that was not lacking in simpler times, when the people hail to no content with little. The training school, tho uni- versity, the printing press, the free library, the higher education of women, all will avail but littln if they do not combine to strengt'r in-l keep pure that one in..tiiu- tion which is the foundation of all civil- ization the family. The link.- ef HI iiioi .i 1 lie. Duke of Bedford, who. lied on Thurs- day, tho -.'<. I i:>'. , had enjoyed bis great title only .'"'' tw> y)in, he fa'.hcr having comi" i i ' su'-.-id* while suf.'ari :g from ten .;,... melancholia in ianu try, H!H. Thoold 1 IK- hail the i pu tation nf being a cold-hearU-d skin- flint, aud the soil is reported never to have said a vise thing or performed a notable action. Truly the great house of Russell is running out. The lt Puke was barn in IH.VJ, was graduated at Balliol College, Ox ford, in 1S74, and was a member of Parlia- ment for Bedfordshire from April, 1*7:., to November, IHS.'i. He married the daughter of Karl Somors, hut as he had no children he will be succeeded in title and estates by his brother, Lord Hi'i-hrand Arthur Russell, who served in the Kgyptian campaign in the Grenadier (.iiiards and wan an aida- do-camp to Lord Uuffcrin whon tho latter was Vn < - roy of India. The now Duko of Bedford will inherit IIS acres of land ill London, including that on which stand Covent <-ar <li'n Market, C'nvent (iardcn TheaUir, and l>rury Lane Theater, buide S4.4-J4 acres scattered through tho middle and west of Kngiand, the entire estate being valued at 110,11110,000. The purple .loth worn bytha Komati em- perors was dyed with an extract from a shell- fish, now extinct, which was found M vi j ui Uiu Mediterranean. we made him stay with us a day or no till they got heller : bul hecoiildn t beam, an' the only reason, I think, was that be w.is afraid of burdenm' u>. lint, l.i.id' Hn did as much for tin as -.re did for him, I'll ' bound. He tilled the yard with kindlin's, an' I believe he'd 'a' chopped all the wood in the village if Mollie hadn't >een hid hands all blistered an' bleedin'. That give bun away, sure. ' A gentleman born,' says I to myself when I see those hands. 11 Then not hin' would do but Molly must do'-tor and bandage them up for him. An' while she was doin' it she heatl a sound like a child tryin' not to cry, an' he just bunds down and kisses her band, an then hu says, kind of lowund i linked like, more like a groan than words. ' <>h, mother !' ' An' the wny lhe little kid tooK to him was a caution. A unto like ho was no sense at ail : only pin kmed up Ins face and cried when I went near him. He'd smile up in Robert's face (that was what ho told us to call him) an' hold on to his finger like he was his nurse. " Now, to ho sure, sir, three days don't neem much in a life, unl you'll mayix- think it foolish the store we set by man an' dog before that time was passed. Ralph would lay down Imsido* the bab>'s cradle, an' ii'ithm would move him till hie master left the room ; and then he'd get up and shake himself, it was time lo go, a-i' he was " Molly said he was human, an' if ever a soul get* into an animal's Inidy I hear i folks iu thin* so -thcie was a good soul insule of Ralph. Y.-s, we all liked Ralph, and Robert even more. The fact is, he was n real gentleman, that was plain enough, brought down as low as lie WAS hy Lord only knows what. Itut a true gentleman, an' I know the right kind when I see them. He never Int on for one moment, though, n single woid about hiinni'it hut once, in that was the last evening he was hero. "The dog was sittin' beside him, with his homl restm on Kolieri's knee, when I says, kind of siidrinnhke : " 'I bet Ralph's a very vullyble dog, Robert.' "'Yos, yes,' he says, sort of slow, 'too vallyble,' stroking Ralph's head with a lovin' band, while the dog looked at him with just as much love. Twas tho human- ost eyes you would over sec, sir. " ' He's worth a great deal of money, he said agnin, after a moment's thinkm . '1 am \erysorryforit sometimes. I've been in many hard uttaits :it times, and I've Iwmi afraid ay, afraid of myself that I'd bo temptod to si-ll him. Not while I was my- self, old fellow, you understand, but hen I was the brute 1 sometimes am." Ralph kiMW yo I give in. Dogs is human '." A LINCOLN COUNTY MiBACLE. The Terrible Expsrmnoj of a Well-to-do Farmer Ur. K/rn Urn-Ill -itrfcr. I nilil ixosir l ..l.l in a rin ieiin Hi .1 unlr llralh i ..ii.l l n.l Hi- suiTrrlns:* llu br *r- iir- i ill- it. i i- i m r iiii Inxlasis thai lllhrr Muiulil Hi mm by Hi- I i prrlrsire ll'iw often we hear the expression " Hills are green far afar " aa a term of disparag m. nt. So it m*y I* with in mv of our readers when limy hear of anylhing occur- ring at a distance from home, bordering on the wonderful. They may place little con- fidence in it, and evini 11 they do believe it allow tho matter to pass from their minds without leaving any permanent impression. Nut so with local ntTuirs. When anything startling occurs in our midst, affecting i eopl whom we all know well, every ono is interested, and all are anxious and evrn eager for tho most minute details. For some months past there have been publish- in the columns of the Independent fiom tune to tune, accounts of remarkable cures made by that uo-.v justly famous medicine -Dr. Williams' Pink Pil' for Pale People. Pombly some of our readers have looked upon some of these .counts as de- scribing cnre highly improbable., it not im- possible. And yet this .sh mid not he the a*e, for they are all vouched for by re- spectable newspapers, who could have no 'ii'ie.t in stating other than tho facts, and who would be discredited by their own readers were they to do so. However, see- ing is believing, and Mr. K/.ra Merritt, of South l.riinsby. "lands forth to-day as liv- ing testimony to the wonderful curative powers of this not at all over-estimated medicme-Dr. Williams' Pink 1'ills. Hav- ing heard that a most rem:irkah!e cure had lieen effected in the case of Mi. Merritt, the editor ot the Independent, with thai dcire possessed hy most news|iaper men for veri- fying things coming under Iheir notice, reolved to invesligata the casu and nalixt'y himself iw to the. truth of tho story. Some days agn ho drove over to Smithville, and at once called upon Mi. l>. W. Kastman, druggist, a straightforward business mun whose word is as good as his bond with all who know him. Mi- Kastman slated that he knew of the case of Mr. Merritt, ami considered it a most reiuarkale one. Mr. Palmer Mnrritt had oomo to him one day and asked him if he could give him onything that would help his brother, K/ra Merritt who was sufferiiu untold agony in all h s joints, bis back .ind his head. Nit. Men .!! .-l'cd that his brother had tiled everything, and could find nothing to help him V!' 4 ''". the doctors could give him no ease: One doctor from the I'mted States had told Inn- positively that there was no help for I- m, ind that death only could set him free from his aaony. Mr. Merrill further told Mi. Kastmun that his brother wished to try Ur. Williams' Pink Pills and ted him if ho thought it would be any use. Mr. Kaattnan advised him to try them, as wo.iderful cures had lieen worked by their use. Mr. Men-it t acted on his advice and continued the use of Pink Pills until he is now it well man and sound as ever. The editor then drove over to see Mr. Merrill, and found that gentleman sound .in.l hearty, looking over his cuttle in his farmyard. Mr. K/.ra Merritt isawell-;.>- do farmer owni.j{ two line farms about SJ miles west of Smithville, in the township of South (irimsby. When the newspaper- man told the objeol,of his visit Mr. Nlmiiti expressed his willingnnss to give tho fullest particulars of his case, and we cannot do better than give it in his own words : "The first time I was troubled," said Mr. Metritt, "was on .luly first, 1801. Wo commenced haying on that day and I felt sore and stiff in all my joints. 1 row believe the trouble originated through my washing tome sheep in cold water the precdxdmg April, when I went into the water and stayed so long that further s%ul that lie had now nu fear ot i bard day's work, and has not had the slightest return of the pains or the stiffness in the joints. Iteiiiining lo Smithulle the editor again called upon Mi. Kaslman and was inform- ed liy that gentleman that bis sales of Pink Pills were aoinrtliiiig enormous, Mr Mer rut's euro having something in do with tin- incrruse in salts lately. There are other cases also in this vicinity little leu than marvellous of which we may speak later on. l)r Williams' Pink Pills are a perfect blood builder and nerve restorer, -unng such disrases as rheumatism, neiiral/ia, I.UM.I! paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' d.ui,, nervous proatraliou and the lired fueling therefrom, Ihe after effects of la grippe, influenza and severe cold, diseases depending on humor* in the blood, such as scrofula, nlmum -erysipelas, etc. Pink I'i'.ls give a hoalthy gl.-.w to pale and sillow com- plexions, and are a sue -itic for the troubles pi-i uliar to the femalo systnm, aud in the case of men they otfecl a radical eure in all oases arising from mental worry, over- work or excesses of any nature. T'ice Pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medicmu Company. Hrwkville. Out . and Scheuectady, N. V., aud are sold only in boxes bearing the linns' trade mark and wrapper, al "HJ i is a IKHC or six twxes) for I-J..VI. Bear in mind that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are never sold in bulk, or by the do/en or hundred, nor in any form except in packages hearing the company's trade mark and any dealer who offers substitute* in any other form is trying to defraud you and should lie avoided Ur. Williams Pink I'tlls may bo h%d of all dritiiguu or direct by mail from Dr. Will- iams' Medicine Company from either ad- dress. The price at which these pills ara sold makes a course of treatment compara- tively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment. Vllffnrtl A Boston Boy's Eyesight Saved Perhaps His Life By Hood's S,,rwprllln. Bloosl 1'oU Minr<l hy i uike, Head the fo.kmuiK ( ""n .1 ^i.itelul mother: ." My lltlie lin> had Scarlet KI-MT when 4 year* 'old, mill it led him >en vseik iu.f-A.ili Mood with cissiker. flu '>- lieeams) il that hi* suite-rings were intense, aud for seven weeks he, Could Not Open His Eyes. I took him twii ?. iliirniK Hi.it tune to the Kys) an. 1 I u Iniiiin.ir) .in I'll. n'< . -Meet, lint their reiin'illes lulled to do him ilv- t :nnie-.t shadow of good. I eoiiiiii.'ni e,l t-ivini; him HIHH|'< Sarsaparilla and it soon cured him. I have never ilnuhtcd Hint it wrl ki >iki, errn if ! ttim vrrr life. Yon IIIHV use tins tes- tiniiiiu.il in :my .iv MIII h.io-e. I .mi always reaUy in sounQ tbe pnrtMai Hood's Sarsaparilla because of the wonderful nood It iliil my MIH." AIHIIK P. Hl.AiKH.VM, 2888 Washington SL. Boston, Mass. tin HOOD'S PlLLS are hun.l inwl*. and are v*s feel iu . ,'iue. .J1U..U. oropoiUou aud ,