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PERSONAL. 
Ex President McMahon, of France, is 
going on 80 and is hale and hearty. He lives 
on his estates, engages in out-door sports, and 
doesn’t care a rush for politico. 
Julian Hawthorne, who has a large fami¬ 
ly to support, thinks of giving up literature 
and taking up trade. He has tried once or 
twice to make literature a trade—always with 
unfortunate results. 
Frances Z. Fisher, the novelist, who uses 
the pen-name of “Christian Reid,” was mar¬ 
ried last week at New Orleans to James N. 
Tiernan, a mining expert. During the last 15 
years she has given the public many very fine 
pictures of Southern life. 
Mary Anderson (Our Mary) having, ac¬ 
cording to advertising reports, refused a duke, 
an earl and several other members of the Brit¬ 
ish aristocracy and gentry, is now, according 
to gossip, engaged to young George Beckwith 
who runs a large dry-goods store in London. 
The two Miss Drapers, of Auburndale, 
Mass., about 18 miles from Boston, taught 
school two or three years ago, but having be¬ 
come owners of a farm they gave up school 
teaching and took up farming. They began 
by raising chickens, and to prove that the 
eggs were fresh, each egg is stamped with 
the date of its “birth,” and on such a guaran¬ 
tee customers pay double prices for the “hen 
fruit.” They work hard, early and late, and 
everything they raise is of the best and set off 
to the best advantage. 
The Pope has just been celebrating the ju¬ 
bilee of his ordination as a priest 50 years 
ago. The value of the jubilee gifts made 
to him is estimated at *20.000,000. They came 
from all classes, from Emperor to beggar, all 
the world over. He refused to receive any 
from the King and Quein of Italy who had 
prepared some costly ones; and they indig¬ 
nantly asked all their relatives and retainers 
not to send any. President Cleveland sent a 
splendidly gotten up copy of the American 
Constitution. There have been grand cere¬ 
monials at Rome, and the Catholic Church 
throughout the world has been magnificently 
celebrating the event. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is now being 
read by a wide circle of readers. We consider 
it a useful book, though it belongs to the 
“horrible” class of novels. It is weird, terri¬ 
ble, improbable; and yet it teaches a lesson 
of such high moral purpose that the effect 
upon the mind is not harmful. Briefly stated, 
the story deals with a man who discovered a 
liquid which enabled him to change his indi¬ 
viduality. His purpose was to separate 
all the evil in his nature from the good. 
He found that he could only do this 
by living two distinct lives—one thoroughly 
evil, the other thoroughly good. His secret 
liquid enabled him to change from one 
form to the other. One day he could pass 
as the lovable, mild-tempered Dr. Jekyll, the 
next as the horrible, brutal Hyde—a ruffian 
and murderer. The story describes how these 
lives were kept up. At least Dr. Jekyll made 
the terrible discovery that the liquid was los¬ 
ing its power. 1 he tendency was to pass 
into the character of Hyde when he least ex¬ 
pected or desired the change. By passing into 
a state in which the worst parts of his Dature 
were allowed perfect freedom, he gave 
strength to his evil tendencies until they 
passed completely beyond his control. It was 
by restraining his evil desires that his good 
qualities were strengthened. By dividing 
them the good remained passive, while the 
evil was magnified without restraint. The 
point is made clear that every time we allow 
ourselves to do wrong without an effort to 
restrain ourselves, the next wrongdoing is 
made easier to smooth over and find excuses 
for. It is a powerful story which will do 
good if thoughtfully read. 
Talks to Young Men, by Robert Coll- 
yer, is one of the best works we know of to 
place in the hands of a young man. The au¬ 
thor is one of the rare young old men who 
lead in mature thought, and yet never forget 
that boys and young men have peculiar ways 
of looking at things. Too many people who 
attempt to advise young men forget all about 
the 50 years that lie between themselves and 
their audience. There is no such fault in this 
book. It is simple, true and manly. A help¬ 
ful volume. Published by Lee & Shepard, 
Boston. 
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A Universal Epidemic Caused. How It May 
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Typhoid fever rages everywhere. 
Wherever cities are dependent upon rivers 
or streams for their drinking water, the fever 
rages violently. Throughout the entire South¬ 
west and North-west the wells are low; the 
water is of very poor quality; and here also the 
fever rages. 
The authorities of Albany, New York, Chi¬ 
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other large cities are warning the people not 
to drink the water without first boiling it to 
kill the malarial and typhoid germs. 
Surely a winter of malaria and typhoid will 
ill prepare our people to encounter a summer 
of cholera. 
Cholera and typhoid and malarial fevers 
can all be prevented by simple rules of life, 
and these rules should be studied by every 
one. These diseases are symptoms of a low 
state of the system, produced by the vitiated 
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This blood is made impure because of the 
impurities in the drinking water, these im¬ 
purities being deadly poisons which paralyze 
the nerve action of the kidneys and liver. 
When these blood-purifying organs are para¬ 
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uric acid—accumulates in the blood, and fever 
cannot be prevented until this excess of uric 
acid has been removed. 
The greatest necessity of everyday life is 
pure water. Two-thirds of one’s body is made 
up of water. If the water we drink is impure, 
then how can we hope to escape diseased con¬ 
ditions? 
It is impossible. The stomach, liver and 
kidneys cannot purify polluted water. 
Some cautious people resort to the filter for 
purifying this water, but even the filter does 
not remove this poison, for water of the most 
deadly character may pass through this filter 
and become clear, yet the poison, disguised, is 
there. 
They who use filters know that they must 
become renewed at regular periods, for even 
though they do not take out all the impurity, 
they soon become foul. 
Now in a like manner the human kidneys 
act as a filter for the blood, and if they are 
filled up with impurities and become foul like 
the filter, all the blood in the system coursing 
through them becomes bad, for it is now a 
conceded fact that the kidneys are the chief 
means whereby the blood is purified. These 
organs are filled with thousands of hair-like 
tubes, which drain the impurities from the 
blood, as the sewer pipes drain impurities 
from our houses. 
If a sewer pipe break under the house, the 
sewage escapes into the earth and fills the 
house with poisonous gas; so if any of the 
thousand and one little hair-like sewer tubes 
of the kidneys break down, the entire body is 
affected by this awful poison. 
It is a scientific fact that the kidneys have 
few nerves of sensation: and, consequently, 
disease may exist in these organs for a long 
time and not be suspected by the individual. 
It is impossible to filter or take the death out 
of the blood when the least derangement ex¬ 
ists in these organs, and if the blood is not 
filtered then the uric acid or kidney poison, 
removable only by Warner’s safe cure, accu¬ 
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producing nine out of ten ailments, just as 
sewer gas and bad drainage produce so many 
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Kidney disease may be known to exist if 
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and it should be understood by all that the 
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that great specific, Warner’s safe cure, a rem¬ 
edy that has received the highest recognition 
by scientific men, who have thoroughly in¬ 
vestigated the character of kidney derange¬ 
ments. 
The liver, when deranged, immediately an¬ 
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bowels, coated tongue and headaches; but the 
kidney when diseased struggles on for a long 
time, and the fact of its disease can only be dis¬ 
covered by the aid of the micoroscope or by the 
physician who is skillful enough to trace the 
most indirect effects in the system to the de¬ 
rangement of these organs as the prime cause. 
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CAUTION to the PUBLIC! 
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