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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Seaside Sibyl - Or Leaves of Destiny, a fortune teller in verse - -Author: Anonymous - -Release Date: January 21, 2017 [EBook #54037] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SEASIDE SIBYL *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 1. - -BEWARE OF FRAUDS. - -The original and only genuine “ROUGH ON RATS” is manufactured by and has -the name of Ephraim S. Wells, Jersey City. N. J., on each box. We employ -no traveling Agents, nor Peddlers. “ROUGH ON RATS” is put up only in -Boxes.] - - Small Sample, 15c or Mouse Size. - - POISON! - - The thing desired found at last! - - SOMETHING RATS WILL EAT, ONCE - eaten Death sure. Rats are smart but Rough on Rats - beats them. It clears out a building in one application. - - ROUGH ON RATS. TRADE MARK. - - Rough on Rats sure death to Rats, Mice, Flies, - Vermin, Roaches, Water Bugs, Bed Bugs, &c. - - Made by EPHRAIM S. WELLS, Chemist, - JERSEY CITY, N. J. - - For sale by Druggists and Storekeepers - in 15 and 25c. boxes. - - LABEL REGISTERED. - - * * * * * - - Dwelling House Size, 25c. - - POISON! - - The thing desired found at last! - - _SOMETHING RATS WILL EAT._ - - Rats are smart but Rough on Rats beats them. - Clears out a building in one application. - - ROUGH ON RATS. TRADE MARK. - - SURE DEATH to RATS, MICE, FLIES, Vermin, Ants, - Insects, Roaches, Water Bugs, Bed Bugs, &c. - - Made only by EPHRAIM S. WELLS, Chemist, - JERSEY CITY, N. J. - - For sale by Druggists and Storekeepers - in 15 & 25c. boxes. - - LABEL REGISTERED. - - - - - Price FIRST EDITION. 5 Cents. - - THE - SEASIDE SIBYL; - OR, - LEAVES OF DESTINY - - A FORTUNE TELLER IN VERSE. - - AMERICAN EDITION - - COPYRIGHTED APRIL, 1882, BY E. S. WELLS, JERSEY CITY, N. J. - - - - -THE SIBYL’S CURE. - - - For love--be you sure - There is but one cure. - - Yourself, then, resign - To marry, or pine! - - This grave operation - Requires consultation. - - The Sugar and Spice - Will make the cure nice. - - The pain in the heart - Will quickly depart. - - I’d fain say the same - Of every pain - - That ruffles the temper - Or maddens the brain; - - That makes the eye dim - Or cripples a limb; - - That mars all your beauty, - And pleasure and duty. - - Why this should be so - Is a puzzle to know. - - If you take my advice, - You’ll be well in a thrice. - - Away with your lotions, - And villainous potions-- - - And, if you have sense, - Spend a very few pence - - To make your ills fewer - With “Wells’ Health Renewer.” - - - - -LEAVES OF DESTINY. - - -DIRECTIONS FOR CONSULTING THE SIBYL:--Draw for a number from slips -numbered from 1 to 100, and see corresponding number in Leaves of Destiny. - - 1. You’ll meet this year on Brighton Strand, - One destined for your heart and hand. - - 2. Choose one--if you are shrewd, - No safety lies in multitude. - - 3. Endless flirtation - Doth seem your vocation. - - 4. Bracing air and embracing arms, - Give Coney Island especial charms. - - 5. Young or Old? Love or Gold? - Hot or Cold? Given or Sold? - Toss odd or even--you’ll be told. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 2. - -BASE BALL SEASON.] - - * * * * * - -A man in Chester county, Pa., has paid $125 and costs of prosecution for -thrashing a lawyer in his office, but he says the amusement was worth -every cent of it. - -A malicious story is afloat to the effect that a Meriden girl went back -on her lover because he was so bow-legged she could not sit on his lap. - -Emma Abbott carries a dagger on the stage that is worth $16,500. This -dagger on the stage is exceeded only by the lie off the stage. - -It is said that figures won’t lie; but the figures of some women are very -deceptive, to say the least. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 3. - -WELLS’ HEALTH Renewer - -GOOD FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.] - - * * * * * - - 6. Some natures change on change of name, - But like the rose you’ll be the same. - - 7. For music and balls, - You’ll have nursery squalls. - - 8. The right one cometh from New York, - With heart and purse as light as cork. - - 9. Away with pride and cold disdain, - Or you’ll too long a maid remain. - - 10. Don’t have for motto--“Both best,”-- - But--“Choose one, look at the rest.” - - 11. ’Tis simply true, tho’ now you may laugh, - That you will worship a golden calf. - - 12. This year a lover will with pride, - Watch thee sporting in the tide. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 4. - -“THE FINISH.”--JEROME PARK.] - - * * * * * - -When a man dies suddenly “without the aid of a physician,” as an Irishman -once said, the coroner must be called in. If a man dies regularly after -being treated by a doctor, everybody knows why he died, and the coroner’s -inquest is not necessary. - -We have just received a sample copy of a new song, entitled “Put your -arms around me, dear.” Any lady who desires to try it, can do so by -calling at our office after business hours--we mean the song. - -“Union is not always strength,” as Sir Charles Napier said, when he saw -the purser mixing his rum and water. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 5. - -THEY MUST GO! - -Ask For ROUGH ON RATS - -Trade M’rk - -ASK DRUGGISTS FOR IT - -15 CTS PER BOX - -THEY MUST GO - -ROUGH ON RATS CLEARS OUT RATS MICE BED BUGS ETC. - -The thing desired found at last. Don’t die on the premises. Ask Druggists -for “ROUGH ON RATS.” It clears out Roaches, Bed-bugs, Rats, Mice, &c. 15 -and 25c. Boxes.] - - * * * * * - -LADIES, IT’S JUST LOVELY. - -Send 10 Cents to E. S. WELLS, Jersey City, N. J., and receive by return -mail a beautiful “ROUGH ON RATS” IRON HOLDER. It’s splendid. - -Also, 15 Cents for a New Chromo, in seven colors, 13 × 21 inches, elegant -for any room or office, entitled “HOUSEHOLD TROUBLES.” Best thing out. - -And 10 Cents for a set of large size SCRAP BOOK CARDS in colors; amusing, -instructive, beautiful. - -And 35 Cents for Song and Chorus of “ROUGH ON RATS.” This is immense. -Just out. Everybody crazy for it. - -And 5 Cents for “THE SEASIDE SIBYL; OR LEAVES OF DESTINY.” A fortune -teller in verse. Filled with comic illustrations. - -All together, 50 Cents. - - * * * * * - - 13. At Ocean Grove you’ll forsake worldly notions, - Drink nothing but tea and attend your devotions. - - 14. A heart and fortune you will gain, - In this summer’s grand campaign. - - 15. Before you go too far, - Be sure there’s not another side, - The brighter side to mar. - - 16. A life both long and wisely spent, - With children to your heart’s content. - - 17. Happy when single, but not content, - You’ll marry in haste and soon repent. - - 18. Lovers and books romantic-- - Music of the grand Atlantic-- - This year will make you nearly frantic. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 6. - -“THE ASCENT.”--CATSKILLS.] - - * * * * * - -They say when Bismarck greeted Grant, he smiled one of those fatherland -grins, held out his hand and exclaimed: “Vegates, sheneral? I vas -overcome mit gladness by myself to see you; sit mit yourself down. -Adolph, two beers, right away, quick, so helup you gracious!” - -It has cost $223,000,000 to look after the Indians during the past ten -years. The Indians may be poor, but so are several persons in New York -and other large cities. - -“What I’d like to know,” said a schoolboy, “Is how the mouths of rivers -can be so much larger than their heads.” The boy has evidently not yet -seen much of our congressmen. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 7. - -ALL this trouble might have been avoided by the use of one FIFTEEN CENT -BOX of “ROUGH ON RATS.” - -_Clears out Rats, Mice, Flies, Bed-Bugs, Ants, Roaches, Mosquitoes, &c._] - - The supper was laid on a table trim - When out comes, roaring, my young son, Jim, - “Oh! daddy, the rats! A dozen or two, - Are gobbling the supper, and baby too.” - My wife, with a scream, seized iron and broom, - I clutched a bottle, and made for the room. - Never was heard such a hullabaloo! - It woke up the cat, and terrier too. - The terrier thought we were hunting the cat, - Got a grip of her tail, as she went for the rat. - Jim, with his hatchet, tumbled over a pail, - And tried to hold terrier back by the tail. - I caught Jim by the wool, but rather too late-- - The table received such a bump from his pate - That teapot, plates, lamp, chairs, baby and all, - Were upset on the floor, ’mid crash and squall. - The people about shouted “Murder! Fire!” - And the Police rushed in the cause to inquire; - They’d listen to nothing we wanted to state, - But to the next station lugged me off straight. - Swore I was drunk--nearly murdered my wife, - And of my poor infant endangered the life, - Broke tables, chairs, and the crockery ware; - When the Justice said, “What a savage old bear,” - Not heeding a word my poor wife did swear. - Imprisoned and fined, I cursed my sad fate, - When lately I learned, but rather too late, - Instead of depending on traps, dogs or cats, - My only protection was “Rough on Rats.” - - * * * * * - - 19. The “Mighty Dollar” cannot buy - The love for which in vain you sigh. - - 20. Look in the glass and you will see - Your source of power and frailty. - - 21. A well known line you may transpose-- - “A thorn is always near a rose.” - - 22. You nobly strive to make it known - “’Tis bad for man to be alone.” - - 23. Before the present year is out, - Your wedding cards will be about. - - 24. Drifting away, day by day! - No one to say, “Stay! oh stay!” - - 25. A heartless flirt; you’ll penance do - For all the innocents you slew. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 8. - -“UPPER TEN.”--LONG BRANCH.] - - * * * * * - -A gentleman was examining an umbrella and commenting upon its fine -quality. “Yes,” said a person present, “he fancies everything he sees.” -“And,” added a third party, “is inclined to seize everything he fancies.” - -If there is anything in this world calculated to make a man forget that -he’s been to hear Moodey and Sankey on the previous evening, is to bounce -cheerily out of bed in the morning and light on the business end of a -tack. - -A New Jersey female institute contains thirty-four red-headed girls, and -the principal dispenses with gas and all other artificial light. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Facial Drawing Lessons. - -This man _believes_ in Patent Medicines, and has used “WELLS’ HEALTH -RENEWER” to advantage. - -Have you seen the Song and Chorus of “ROUGH ON RATS”? - -This man _don’t believe_ in Patent Medicines; rather go to his own -Doctor. Look at him!] - - * * * * * - - 26. To you, I’m afraid, it is useless to preach - About the temptations of Rockaway Beach. - - 27. Merry and free your revelry! - Soon tired you’ll be of devilry! - - 28. You’ll give up athletics; - And take to æsthetics. - - 29. On some fine day not very remote, - You’ll meet your match on a Rockaway boat. - - 30. Your head is hot, your heart is cold-- - I pity your lot when you grow old. - - 31. When you’re seized with fits æsthetic, - Take at once a strong emetic. - - 32. With throbbing heart and trembling hand - Soon at the altar you will stand. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 9. - -“CLAMS.”--ROCKAWAY.] - - * * * * * - -The Lady Habberton’s divided skirt for females is to be exhibited at -Kate Field’s co-operative dress association establishment in New York. -It won’t do. The only divided skirts in vogue are those worn by ballet -girls, which divide high, the upper quarter only being worn. - -A New York hotel proprietor, who thought of raising his rates, has wisely -concluded to retain his present prices--$5 and $5.50 a day. This will be -hailed with gratitude by clerks and others, who make only $8 or $10 a -week. - -The editor who said his mouth never uttered a lie, probably spoke through -his nose. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 10. - -You can’t tickle “ROUGH ON RATS” with a straw.] - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: WELLS’ THROAT AND LUNG BALSAM - -25c., 50c. and $1.00 Bottles.] - -Great Triumph.--The universal success of WELLS’ THROAT AND LUNG BALSAM, -in Consumption, Coughs, Bronchitis, Asthma and Pulmonary diseases, is -attracting notice throughout the country. It is without question a -remarkable preparation, and has given abundant evidences of peculiar -efficacy in controlling Pulmonary diseases. Cures of severest forms of -long standing throat and lung affections reported every day. Relief is -immediate and certain. - -_Cures Catarrhal Throat Affections._ - -To be Permanently Esteemed, a medicine must possess virtues so marked -as to be plainly apparent. The good name attained by WELLS’ THROAT AND -LUNG BALSAM is evidence of worth. It has proved a thoroughly reliable, -trustworthy family cough cure. Can never be given amiss. The best -possible remedy in any and all affections of Throat, Chest and Lungs. -Even if every other means fail this gives relief. The only remedy of any -service in whooping cough; being always reliable and safe, is such as one -friend can take pleasure in recommending to another. - -E. S. WELLS, JERSEY CITY, N. J. - - * * * * * - - 33. You’ll count amongst your future joys - Six little girls, six little boys. - - 34. Before you sip, take firm grip - You’ll have no slip ’tween cup and lip. - - 35. Your pace, I fear, is rather fast-- - Your love’s by far too hot to last! - - 36. The greatest blessing you will find - That Love should be completely blind. - - 37. Inconstant as the fickle wind, - From day to day you’ll change your mind. - - 38. Newport is the grand resort. - For those, like you, intent on sport. - - 39. A blow on the pier--a plunge in the brine - Is all that’s required to make you divine. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 11. - -“THE SPRINGS.”--SARATOGA.] - - * * * * * - -“Pa, I guess our man Ralph is a good Christian.” “How so, my boy?” “Why, -Pa, I read in the Bible that the wicked shall not live out half his days, -and Ralph says he has lived out ever since he was a little boy.” - -“What is that dog barking at,” asked a fop, whose boots were more -polished than his ideas. “Why,” said a by-stander, “he sees another puppy -in your boots.” - -A popular writer, speaking of the ocean telegraph, wonders whether the -news transmitted through the salt water will be fresh. - -Spanish women are great S’noras. - - * * * * * - -FALSE MODESTY. - -Every one of ordinary intelligence knows that Kidney Disease, Affections -of the Bladder and Urinary Complaints, are as legitimate and common to -both sexes (all classes of society), as those involving any other portion -of the economy. Therefore, a remedy possessing unprecedented virtues -in treatment of these diseases should have a respectful hearing. If -afflicted, you will have reason to rejoice over the day you commenced the -use of PROF. CHAPIN’S BUCHU-PAIBA (see other pages). $1.00 per bottle, at -Druggists. Sent to any address on receipt of price, $1; 6 bottles, $5. - -BUCHU-PAIBA. - -PROF. CHAPIN’S BUCHU-PAIBA.--A quick, complete cure for all Urinary, -Kidney, Bladder and Genital Diseases, in male or female, as Paralysis, -Diabetes, Gravel, Difficulty of holding or passing Urine, Gleet, -Turbid Urine, Brick Dust and other Deposits, Stricture, Irritation, -Inflammation, Inaction, Whites, Impure or Diseased Discharges, Contagious -Diseases, Pains in the Back and Thighs, Dragging Down, Dripping, -Ulcers, Tumors, Dropsy, Enlargement of Prostate, Bloody or Puss-Matter -discharges, &c. $1.00. - -CHAPIN’S INJECTION FLEUR is to be used with BUCHU-PAIBA in cases -of Impure or Diseased Discharges. Price (with Syringe), $1. His -“CONSTITUTION BITTER SYRUP,” drives all traces from the blood. Price, $1. - -Either Remedy to be had of druggists, or a bottle by express, to any -address, on receipt of $1.00; 6 bottles of one kind, or assorted, $5.00. -ADDRESS, - -E. S. WELLS, 22 Summit Ave., Jersey City, N. J. - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 12. A FINE HAND - -WELLS THROAT AND LUNG BALSAM - -BUCHU-PAIBA FOR KIDNEY TROUBLE - -_WELLS HEALTH RENEWER_ - -_WELLS MAY APPLE PILLS_ - -_ROUGH ON RATS_] - -A MISTAKE.--It is a mistake when medicines recommended for Kidney Bladder -and Urinary Complaints are all classed as remedies exclusively for -diseases of a questionable nature. Prof. Chapin’s Buchu-paiba, whilst it -is a specific for such diseases is the most remarkably successful remedy -extant, in complete, quick cure of _all forms_ of Kidney, Bladder and -Urinary Diseases; and, if afflicted, you make a _great mistake_ in not -trying it. $1, Druggists. Sent to any address on receipt of price, $1 per -bottle; six bottles $5, by express--can’t be sent by mail. - - * * * * * - - 40. Lovers come, and quickly go - When they find your heart like dough. - - 41. The slightest rebuff makes you ready to die, - So fatal the kick from a gay butterfly. - - 42. Like Wilde, and such æsthetic guys, - You ape an angel in disguise. - - 43. When weary of sands and the wild waves’ play - To the glorious White Mountains fly away. - - 44. So rich but sad; suppose you try - The Tonics of Adversity. - - 45. Ever dreaming--never doing, - You’ll gain nought by seaside wooing. - - 46. Unless you resolve more social to be - You must stop at home, like the Heathen Chinee. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 13. - -ASBURY PARK.--“AH!”] - - * * * * * - -What is the difference between a tube and a foolish Dutchman? One is a -hollow cylinder, and the other is a silly Hollander. - -A man may forget his business, his family, and all the sacred obligations -of life, but he always remembers where he got that counterfeit bill. - -The furniture recently sold at the Astor House in New York, was rich with -historical reminiscences and insects. - -A Washington man who was treated to a “25-center,” slipped back to the -cigar store, the other day, and economically exchanged it for “three for -a quarter.” - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 14. - -OWNERS OF VESSELS, TENEMENT HOUSES, FARMERS, &c. Save Hundreds of Dollars -by Using “ROUGH ON RATS.” - -An entirely new discovery. Clears out (don’t die in the house) Rats, -Mice, Crows, Ants, Bed-bugs, Roaches, Musk-rats, Skunks, &c.] - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 15. - -WELLS’ MAY APPLE PILLS. - -10c. PACKAGES. - -25c. BOXES. - -MAY APPLE PLANT. - -(Sometimes called Mandrake or Podophyllum.) - -The extract from this plant is the chief ingredient in WELLS’ MAY APPLE -PILLS. These Pills contain no minerals; are harmless, operate easily, -yet effectively, having special tendency to the Liver and removal of -a bilious condition. If you try them you will never use any other. At -Druggists or by mail. - -E. S. WELLS, JERSEY CITY.] - - * * * * * - - 47. You will love and run away-- - And live to love another day. - - 48. You’ll have good cause to bless the day - Your eyes beheld the famed Cape May. - - 49. You shall have a busy Summer, - Flirting hard with each new comer. - - 50. Be merry now; no more you’ll laugh - When you have found your _bitter_-half. - - 51. Your sorrow may endure a night, - But joy will come with morning’s light. - - 52. The darling of your heart’s devotion - Is on the broad Atlantic Ocean. - - 53. Cheer up! cheer up! I plainly see - Bright golden days in store for thee. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 16. - -“FOR THE IRON PIER--DIRECT.”] - - * * * * * - -A paper watch, in good running order, has been exhibited by a Dresden -watch-maker. Made, we suppose, from promissory notes which had been -running on forever. - -“Every Little helps,” said old man Little, when he called his wife and -two daughters out to assist him split up a cord of hickory wood. - -In Alaska you can buy whisky for 14 cents a quart; and murder and -villainy are correspondingly cheap. - -“Belles” call a great many people to church. - -What’s in a name? D. Seaver drives a St. Louis milk wagon. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 17. - -ROUGH ON RATS! - -15c. per Box. Large Size, 25c. - -An Economical and Complete Fly, Insect, Bug, Roach, Ant _Bed-Bug_, _Rat_, -_Mouse_ AND MOSQUITO KILLER. - -A 15 cent box of “ROUGH ON RATS,” used as directed, will keep a house -free from flies and mosquitoes the entire season. - -SOLD BY DRUGGISTS.] - - * * * * * - -WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWER. - -_Greatest Remedy on Earth!_ - -CURES - - HEADACHE, - DYSPEPSIA, - NERVOUSNESS, - DECLINE, - - SOUR STOMACH, - AGUE, - NIGHT SWEATS, - MALARIA, - - JAUNDICE, - WIND ON STOMACH, - HEARTBURN, - FEMALE WEAKNESS, - - NERVOUS WEAKNESS, - DEBILITY, - LIVER COMPLAINT, - IMPOTENCE, - - INDIGESTION, - CONSTIPATION, - WEIGHT in STOMACH, - PILES, - - RESTLESSNESS, - SEXUAL DEBILITY, - FORGETFULNESS, - CHILLS, - - WEAKNESS OF THE GENERATIVE FUNCTIONS. - - * * * * * - - 54. You’ll go back, when the weather cools, - To taffy-pulling and singing schools. - - 55. Like the flow and ebb of tide - Your spirits rise and soon subside. - - 56. Bright visions rise, as this year falls, - Of concerts, theatres and balls. - - 57. At Saratoga’s famous springs - An era bright for you begins. - - 58. Sing when you’re sad - And soon you’ll feel glad. - - 59. When summer’s heat and sport are o’er - In Florida you’ll seek for more. - - 60. Avoid all that sin and cruel temptation - Which assail all young folk in the summer vacation. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 18. - -RURAL SPORTS.] - - * * * * * - -A Leeds paper says that a young widow in that city, who writes well, is -training herself for an editor. Who is the editor? - -Did you ever know a country town that hadn’t the best brass band in the -State? - -It is difficult to tell how much a fish will weigh by looking at the -scales. - -A statistician estimates that courtships average three tons of coal each. - -The easiest way to pay a gas bill is to burn kerosene. - -Lament of the sidewalk: “Everybody is down on me.” - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 19. - -Our Occupations Gone! “ROUGH ON RATS” did it.] - - * * * * * - - 61. You’re building castles in the air, - To end in grief and dark despair. - - 62. On Sea Girt beach entranced you’ll be - By charms more rare than scenery. - - 63. Sunflower, lily and daffodil - An empty purse will never fill. - - 64. Blue and white--your sole delight; - Yellow and black are put to flight. - - 65. You lack the courage to say “No,” - Hence all your troubles here below. - - 66. Lawn Tennis is the pastime sweet - Where a life partner you will meet. - - 67. Enjoy the sunshine while you may-- - Too soon the chance will pass away. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 20. - -“POLO.”--NEWPORT.] - - * * * * * - -A Texas Judge is credited with the following decision: “The fact is, -Jones, the jail is an old, rickety affair, as cold as an iron wedge. You -applied to this court for a release on bail, giving it as your opinion -that you would freeze to death there. The weather has not moderated, and -to keep you from freezing, I will direct the sheriff to hang you at four -o’clock this afternoon.” - -“Remember,” said a trading Quaker to his son, “in making thy way in the -world, a spoonful of oil will go further than a quart of vinegar.” - -The most effective way for a boy to learn a bee sees--by just putting his -finger into the hive. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 21. - -WELLS’ THROAT & LUNG BALSAM - -25c., 50c. and $1.00 Bottles. - -The success with which WELLS’ THROAT AND LUNG BALSAM has met proves it -the most remarkable medicine of the past or present. Its effects are -so evident and well attested that it is attracting attention from all -classes of society. It is without question the most reliable remedy for -troublesome coughs that has yet appeared. - -E. S. WELLS, PROPRIETOR, JERSEY CITY, N. J.] - - * * * * * - -WELLS’ MAY APPLE LIVER PILLS - -For Biliousness, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia and Constipation. - -The Original and Genuine are only made by - -EPHRAIM S. WELLS, Chemist, Cor. Monticello & Harrison Aves. Jersey City. - -These are the ones you want. You do not have to take a handful to get the -effect. They act pleasantly, properly, no griping, no calomel, no injury -in any weather or climate. Reliable, healthful, a pleasant Family Pill, a -great improvement, equally good for children or adults. The best, purest -and safest, for Headache, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Fullness, Biliousness, -Liver Disease, &c. Purely, Strictly Vegetable, made from juices of fresh -herbs. - -THEY PURIFY THE BLOOD by removing inert and effete matter from the -system, and giving activity and health to the Liver and Stomach. - -CURE HEADACHE, Dullness and Depression, Want of Appetite, &c., by -relieving the overloaded Stomach and Bowels, and producing a healthy flow -of bile, stimulating the secretions and restoring the clogged up system -to healthful activity. - -IF YOU ARE BILIOUS, tongue coated, bad breath, head hot, dull or -aching, stomach heavy or sour, if bowels inactive and passages hard and -occasional looseness, if your sleep is broken (tossing about in bed), if -you get up unrefreshed, if your skin is sallow, eyes yellow, if heavy, -dull pains in back and limbs, if you are drowsy, indisposed to talk or -act, if any one or more of these symptoms, take a dose of WELLS’ MAY -APPLE PILLS, and follow it up with WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWER, the greatest -tonic on the face of the globe. Pills, 25 cents. Renewer, $1.00. - -Of all the organs the Liver is most commonly out of sorts, and when it is -so everything else goes wrong. The Liver is the great regulator. - -The coppery taste in the mouth, the greasy feeling about the throat and -stomach, the sour stomach, the _bilious_ feeling in general, radically -relieved by these pills. Safe in any weather or climate, always -effective. They search every corner of Liver, Stomach and Bowels. If you -want a thorough Pill, use them. 25 cents per box. Then invigorate and -tone up the system with WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWER. $1.00 at Druggists. - - * * * * * - - 68. Avoid whate’er your spirit vexes-- - Despise “old women” of both sexes. - - 69. Smiles and tears--hopes and fears, - The rainbow hues of early years! - - 70. Sweet and bright as the month of May, - Your life shall seem a holiday. - - 71. You once extolled the “Age of Reason”-- - Your mind will change this very season. - - 72. You prized too much, as you’ll confess, - A life of single blessedness. - - 73. You’ll break the heartless law of fashion, - And own at last the tender passion. - - 74. Like Oscar, and his crew, - You are “too utterly too too.” - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 22. - -“A NIBBLE.”--GLEN ISLAND.] - - * * * * * - -The story is told of a New Bedford clergyman, now dead, who was asked by -an Irishman to marry him. “Why, Pat,” said the clergyman, “what have you -come to me for? Why don’t you go to the Catholic priest?” “I’ve been to -him, yer honor,” said Pat, “and he told me to go to the devil, and I’ve -come.” - -They are shipping apples from Grand Rapids to Rotterdam, Holland. They -pack them so that they won’t Rotterdam bit on the way. - -A Kentucky judge has decided that a man has no right to harness his wife -to a plow, no, not even with a mule. And yet women complain that they -have no rights. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: DRAWING LESSON NO. 23. - -MRS. HASH--“True! I did agree to board you for ten dollars a week, but I -didn’t know you were going to take ‘WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWER’ before every -meal.” - -“Well, madame, if you will purchase a box of ‘ROUGH ON RATS’ and clear -out all the rats, mice, flies, mosquitoes, roaches and bedbugs I will pay -two dollars per week extra--but I can’t think, for a moment, of giving up -the ‘RENEWER.’”] - - * * * * * - - 75. Your sole recreation-- - To cause a sensation! - - 76. Your photo-book will change this year, - And former fav’rites disappear. - - 77. To keep single, you’ll contrive, - Up to prudent twenty-five. - - 78. Your destiny is hard to fix, - Bitter and sweet so freely mix. - - 79. Love requited--vows well plighted! - Hearts and hands for aye united! - - 80. This year a treasure you’ll discover-- - A brownstone house and brimstone lover. - - 81. The wedding bells soon merrily - Shall ring a chime to gladden thee. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 24. - -“OFF FOR A SAIL.”] - - * * * * * - -John Smith was born, baptised, arrested, shot, buried, married and -sentenced to the penitentiary for life, all in one week, recently, in -Omaha. This did not prevent his having his tooth pulled, and stopping his -paper on the following Monday, either. - -Indian corn in North Germany often assumes a place among the household -plants. It is regarded there as tropical. In our country it becomes -tropical only under the name of Bourbon, and then it warms a man up so -that he feels as if he were under the tropic of Capricorn. - -To do business a man must have dollars and sense. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 25.] - -BRAIN-NERVE. - -Nervousness is the sense of feebleness, or lack of stability of the -nervous system as distinguished from the rest of the body. The number -of those in the middle or higher classes of society who, without being -ever actually sick, never know what full, rejoicing health really is--who -live constantly in a lower plane of being than is normal in man, who are -weak all over, though not specially and constantly weak in any one organ, -and who, though they may never experience piercing and grinding pain, -yet suffer at times, if not always, that profound exhaustion which in -many respects is far worse than pain--is very large, and is or has been -apparently increasing. - -For this condition there is no remedy or treatment so admirably adapted -as WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWER. The evidence, daily adduced, from the thousands -who have and are using it, bear testimony to its remarkable powers as a -brain, nerve, vital and physical rejuvenator. - -It may be had through all druggists at $1.00 per bottle, or a bottle sent -by express to any address on receipt of $1.00; 6 bottles $5.00. - -THE EXCESSES OF YOUTH - -Are drafts upon old age, payable with interest. The victims, therefore, -should lose no time in availing themselves of the remarkable restorative -properties of WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWER. It is specially designed for just -these cases and for those older who are lacking in animal vitality and -vigor. It enables the system to recuperate rapidly and supply the drain -thereon. Don’t fail to try it. It produces a complete restoration to -full power, giving to the aged or early wrecked of either sex the vigor, -buoyancy and freshness of youth. $1.00 bottle at druggists. - -NIGHT SWEATS are a sign of Weakness, Decline, Wasting, _Debility_ in some -form; may arise from excesses, too much drinking, tendency to CONSUMPTION -or over-mental or physical exertion, &c. Whatever the cause they are -dangerous, a sure sign of utter breaking down. - -WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWER - -Will stop and break up night sweats in two to four days, often sooner, -and strengthen the entire organism against disease and premature decline. -The “RENEWER” is not a quack medicine, but an unequalled TONIC OF TRUE -MERIT. - - * * * * * - - 82. Sighing and dying and wretchedly trying - To look jolly and pleased when you’d like to be crying. - - 83. When you go out to sea to fish, - You’ll catch the very thing you wish. - - 84. To Asbury Park you will repair, - Where men may smoke and drink--the air. - - 85. You soon must solve the problem grave-- - “An old one’s pet, or young one’s slave”? - - 86. If they are blest, whose quiver’s full, - Your lot shall be right joyful. - - 87. Some dress to live: but you, I guess, - Like many, only live to dress. - - 88. A sphere in life you will ensure, - Where men are true and women pure. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 26. - -THE “SEASIDE SIBYL” ON THE BEACH.] - -An Indianapolis cat got to playing with a small turtle the other day, and -was having a nice time tumbling it around, when suddenly the turtle’s -jaws closed on the cat’s tail. There was some very lively tumbling -then on the part of the cat, to an accompaniment of her own selection. -Two hours after she was seen examining that tail tenderly, evidently -wondering if the piece would grow out again. - -“What are the churches doing for humanity?” asked Brother Talmage. Funny -he does not know; they’re getting up fairs. - -Tailor measuring fat customer--“Would you hold the end, sir, while I go -around!” - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 27. - -LECTURE ON “ROUGH ON RATS.”--“This is what killed your poor father. -Shun it. Avoid anything containing it throughout your future useful(?) -careers. We older heads object to its especial ‘Rough’ ness.”] - - * * * * * - - 89. Tennis, polo, bathing, boating-- - Picnic, music, flirting, doting-- - These your pastimes best worth noting! - - 90. When vanities bring weariness, - You’ll seek a rural wilderness-- - Meet penance for your wickedness! - - 91. Unless you’re a Mormon, or Turk, - Contented you’ll be with this year’s work. - - 92. Your seaside dreams of love and money - Will end in country milk and honey. - - 93. How sweet to thee is love’s young dream - When gliding down the placid stream. - - 94. Dear captive feet are now set free - To skip and dance right merrily, - As winter stealeth o’er the sea. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 28. - -“THE BATH.”--OSPREY BEACH.] - -“There’s a letter in the candle,” is the title of a new song. It’s a -pretty production, but yet we can’t help thinking that if the letter -stays there long it’s going to get scorched so that no one can read it. - -Noisy little boys in Cincinnati are told that right in the centre of the -hind hoofs of every live mule there is a little lump of gold, which can -be easily dug out with a penknife. - -There’s one pleasant thing about house cleaning. A man can straddle -himself out in the parlor for a day or two and spit on the floor without -spoiling a Brussels carpet. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 29.] - - * * * * * - - 95. You’ll meet many cranks at the seaside this year-- - It must be the Comet that made them so queer. - - 96. You’ll have in place of dance hall skips - Holy greetings from brethren’s lips-- - Prayer meetings: good fellowships. - - 97. The happy day is drawing nigh-- - To all your pains and cares good-bye! - - 98. The summer dies, and birds of prey - To city haunts now fly away. - - 99. You’re leaving now to meet no more - The only one you could adore. - - 100. To young and old I bid farewell, - And will next year their fortunes tell. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 30. - -“THE PLACE WHERE THE GOOD FOLKS GO.”--OCEAN GROVE.] - - * * * * * - -The time for a man to stand firmly by Job’s example is when he washes his -face with home-made soap and begins to paw around over the chairs with -his eyes shut, inquiring for a towel, quick, and is told that the towel -is in the drawer, but the keys are lost. - -A Mexican girl living at Tusceolo has three well developed arms. She can -do up her hair without cramming her mouth full of hairpins. - -Nothing does a doctor so much good as to prescribe an ocean voyage for -a sick man who can’t raise enough money to pay his street car fare down -town. - - * * * * * - -IMPORTANT. - -LAWS OF HEALTH. - -_Patients are expected to observe the following selections from Laws of -Health._ - -COMMIT no excesses of any kind at any time. - -KEEP regular hours; get 8 to 9 hours’ sleep, or more, in 24 hours. - -EAT regularly, sparingly, and only of easily digested food, using no -highly spiced dishes, pies, pickles, little or no pork, nor ham, and no -mince pies; eat slowly, and masticate food thoroughly, and never eat a -full meal on going to bed. - -THE BOWELS should move at least once in 24 hours; to secure this, use -“WELLS’ MAY APPLE PILLS.” - -USE NO TOBACCO whilst under treatment. - -KEEP FEET dry, and warm, and head cool. - -DRINK NO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS, ale or beer. - -AVOID EXCESSIVE sexual excitement, or irregularity. - -GET ALL the out-door exercise possible. - -BATHE the entire person, cleansing and rubbing well, surely not less than -once a week; use warm, hot, or cold water, as best agrees with you. - -CLEANSE the mouth and teeth after each meal. - -BE AS JOYFUL and mirthful as possible, but avoid low minded, lewd or -vulgar companions. - -PERSONS WRITING FOR ADVICE - -Should enclose $5.00 for special medicines. - -SPECIAL MEDICINES. - -If necessary (as is sometimes the case) where disease is complicated, -special medicines will be prepared here at laboratory, and sufficient -sent, on receipt of $5.00, to last a month. - -E. S. WELLS, 22 Summit Ave., Jersey City. - -NO GOODS SENT C. O. D. - -Money should be sent by Post Office Money Order, Registered Letter or -Express. Write your name and address plainly. - - * * * * * - -(NEW STYLE LABEL ADOPTED FEB’Y, 1882.) - -WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWER - -Greatest of all Remedies for Impotence, Debility, OR WASTING, LIVER AND -KIDNEY DISEASES. - -AN INCOMPARABLE BRAIN FOOD, Alterative and Tonic. - -SKINNY MEN. - -If it’s Liver Trouble, Constipation, Dyspepsia, Piles, Night Sweats, -Decline, Consumption, Palpitation, WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWER will cure you. -If lacking flesh, vital, brain DYSPEPSIA or nerve force, use “WELLS’ -HEALTH RENEWER,” greatest remedy on earth for Impotence, Leanness, -Sexual Debility. Absolute cure for Nervous Debility and Weakness of the -Generative Functions. Clears Cloudy Urine, stops losses and escapes. The -great Reliable Tonic for General Debility or Special Weakness of any -function. - -WEAKNESS - -A complete Rejuvenator for Exhaustion, Faintness, Excesses, Advancing -Age, Ague, Chills, Female Weakness, &c. - -Price $1.00. - -E. S. WELLS, Chemist, Sole Manufacturer & Proprietor. - -OFFICE AND LABORATORY: Library Hall, 22 Summit Ave. Jersey City, N. J. - -DEPOT IN NEW YORK, 115 FULTON ST. - -LABEL RECORDED. - - * * * * * - -DON’T PAY MORE.--Ten cents will buy a package “WELLS’ MAY APPLE PILLS”; -best anti-bilious, cathartic, liver pills. Large packages, 25c. - - * * * * * - -[NEW STYLE LABEL.] - -CHAPIN’S TRADE MARK. - -BUCHU-PAIBA - -Kidney _and_ Urinary Cure - -BUCHU-PAIBA - -Catarrh _of the_ Bladder - -CHAPIN’S BUCHU-PAIBA.--A quick, complete cure for Catarrh of the Bladder, -Urinary, Kidney and Bladder Diseases, in male or female, Paralysis, -Diabetes, Gravel, Difficulty of holding or passing Urine, Gleet, Brick -Dust, Gonorrhœa, Inaction, Turbid Urine, Milky and other deposits, -Stricture, Stinging, Smarting, Irritation, Inflammation, Whites, Impure -or Diseased Discharges, Pains in the Back and Thighs, Dragging Down, -Dripping, Ulcers, Tumors, &c. - -Price, $1.00 Per Bottle, by express, prepaid, $1.25. - -CHAPIN’S INJECTION FLEUR is to be used with Buchu-paiba, in cases of -Impure or Diseased Discharges. With Syringe, $1, at druggists, sent by -express, prepaid, for $1.25. Both by express prepaid, on receipt of $2.25. - -E. S. WELLS, Prop’r, Jersey City, New Jersey, U. S. A. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: Drawing Lesson No. 31. - -ASK FOR ROUGH ON RATS - -15 CENT & 25 CENT BOXES.] - - * * * * * - -EVENING JOURNAL PRINT, JERSEY CITY, N. 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