TIip Oliinree Emppror Lm wtntionecl llio inimrilinlo liuild'tiir of a railway from r'lintiphni, pnspinir tlironfjh Sn rlinu nd Chin kinnu to Nnn-kicir, in ordrr to forestall the demand fur such line. Th T. . C. V. If wo tnkn up a moilern tlni nnd look over the mp ot tho United States, we see tho Irnerrips of rlwrs an I railroads no Inter twined a to be ronfnli!R. Rut mala atetns unit main tnama are plainly line). It Is very much like n chart of the human system, with nerves end arteries well iletlned, Par ticularly lio we sen the O, 8. N. (great Sciatic nerve) main stem, which ran varry to the acpinre Inch more pain than some r'ailronils nirry in froleht. A prominent liness man in a Mr city was attacked hy Potation. The pain was awful. Hehiirrle t home in fear that he would I cripple lhv it. In half an hour he was cured hv St. Jacobs Oil. He now takes hg stock in that famous remedy, and travels on the T. O. V. V. Hake (rood care ot yourself) plan, keeping a liottlo of the great pain cure always at hand. There have been, tt is said. 2S7 murders In the Indian Territory Within eight months. Ir. Kllmer'a Swamp. Koot euros 11 Kidney and Madder troubles, rnmphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Blnghamton. N. Y. An orsanlration of agricultural newspaper men has been formed at Chicago. Beware ef Olntmema Tnr Catarrh Tfcat t-'ontaln Mrrcarr. s merrury will surely destroy the senss of ,.emill ami enm itletelycleratiire the whole svtem when entermp it through the mucnus surfaces. Fuch articlraeliouM never be used except on prescriptions from reputable phvaician, a the Oanmco tlu-y will do is ten fold to t he good you 'can p issibiy derive from them. Hall's Catarrh ,1 lire manufactured tiy F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, (., contain no meroury, and Is taken Internally, artlni; directly llpon the blood an 1 mncoas surfaces ot the svstem. In buviiig Hull's Catarrh Cure be sure toeet the genuine. H Is taken internally, and is made In Toledo, Oi'ln, hy K. J. Cheney A Cn. Te.timnnlalsfree, tyso.d by Dnnnfista, price 75c. per bottle. la nidea Time People overlooked the importance of perma nently beneficial effects and were satisfied wjlh transient action, but now that it Is gener ally known that Syrupof Figs will permanent ly cure habitual constipation, well-informed people will not buy other laxatives, which act for a time, but finally Injure the system. Fighttei Tnoi'SAtsn Dollars is a great, deal nf money to pay for a novel, but that Is what Tht rnitury is said to have paid for the right to publish Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Sir Oeniye Treeariy." which begins in the No vember number of that magazine. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. iiAc.a bottle FITS stopped free by fB. Kline's OnrAT r.HVg Hfktuheh. No fits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and Ju'.nl trial l ot tie free. lr. Kline. Kll Arch St., I'hila., Pa. I could not get along without Plso's Cnre for Consumption. It always cures. Mrs. E. C. loULTON,Jeedham, Mass., Oct. 1HH. If afflicted with soreeyesuse Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle Gastric Dyspepsia And constipation troubled me for over a year. I grew worse and could hardly perform my household duties. I had severe pain? in my stomach, es pecially at night. I treated with out - .. ,. : i i months withoui It fvt)" K -'V "vail. I resorted tc & Wm&WiHiVl Hood's Sarsapa rilla, and having taken six bottles I am free from all distress in my stomach and am no longer troubled with dyspepsia." Mas. Mar oat Fr.NSEB, Indian Falls, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Onlv True Blood Purifier Prominently in the public eye. lj 6 for 5. Hood's piiiTnnXraf N Y S L-4N Airs. Humphry Ward, who wrote "Robert EUmere," is the author of Sir George Tressady," a great novel which will appear, In '96, exclusively in The CENTURY MAGAZINE. 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Tmca o-U. Urn LJt.t- 11 ,l ftt ALL tL.Sr iiU S t nine. -tn ti ilruk'tfiMit. ArrEATtAvrs op Tns comh. The comb is tbo index by whioh tho penernl health of the fowl may be gaupeJ. A bright red comb indicates good health in both ccxet. Its size incrpHBos a. the laying period ap proaches. Large rumba are indica tive of great oguj-prorhicinc; capacities. When tho comb in pale and shrivelled tonics- are necessary. In such cases the hatchet is often the best remedr, New York World. EFFECT OF IMPm salt on ntrrrEn. When (food butter, packed in good condition, and having no appearance of wliitp ppeokp, is found afterward to be speckled, tho cause is due to im pure salt. Some salt contains lime, cither iti form of gyp?nm or chloride, and when mixed with batter this in a phort time becomes decomposed, form ing lime soaps with the fat of the bnt ter. These Foaps are insoluble and caDnot be washed out of the hotter by any after treatment. Thn Inn erne bntter is kept, the Worse this defect uecomef, nniu in time the effect of the salt is to rroduee a bad flam in the butter, thus destroying its quality a wen as its appearance. Only the Verr best Of salt nbonl.l bn neaA i bntter or cheese making, for the same J M. Jit . umect Triii appear in cnecse thns salted. The cost of the salt is so small that it is mistaken economy to spoil the product to sot a few cents in a month. New York Times. jttnts Aiion BrrLnrsa srtos. Professor F. n. King, of the Wis consin Experiment Station. nr! mnm hints about the building of silos that re worm rememoering by tuoee who may have occasion to construct one of these storage repositories, namely: The Walls lunst ha trili',1 on.) n'fri.l in a wooden silo the lumber used must be of tome kind that will not readily decay, and which has little tandflnAv f n wawv. Va:iu.k X- . w u .. uu . , int. .iciturr Norway or Florida nine, nor (.nmmnn v,Am. lock, oak, or basswood are suitable 'Ot siio linings. hite pine is the best available material and this should be cut narrow, or not more than six inches wide. Silos should be deep, and not broad ond shallow, because the pressure needed for the preserva tion of the forage increases rapidly with depth, but on acoount of the great weight and pressure it is diffi cult to build a sqrare silo deeper than twenty to thirty feet. When the silos were first introduced they were rather shallow, and the forage was pressed by adding weights of plank, stone and earth, but it was soon discovered that with more depth the requisito press tire could be secured without aay con siderable additional weight. New York Sun. SALT TAB STOCK. The need for salt is greater at the fall of the year than at any other. The cattle and sheep are feeding on pasture in which there is about ninety per cent, of water. In addition to this they drink copiously, possibly somewhat more than the quantity in the grass they eat. The water lost by topions perspira tiou too, is greatly in excess of that at any other time of the year. The urine voided is in the same excess. Now, these excretions, both from the skin as well as from the kidneys, no; to mention the milk, contain a large quantity of salt, which must be sup plied in the food. Thus the sa'inseous matter exuded from the skin has thirty-seven parts of salt in each 1000 parts of it; while the aotual water perspiration has seven parts in 1000, and the urine has three per cent. The milk has some salt in it, and thus al together, at this season, when all these excretions are in the most active con dition and the cow is drinking a lar ger quantity of water than is usual at other times, the supply of salt must be proportionate to the loss of these ways. Doubtless disease is nsed by want of salt that is not supplied, and farmers should take note of these in sects for their guidance. A cow needs fully two ounces of salt daily, which is nearly a pound a week. .Southern Farmer. PEED FOB PIQPU Cows and hogs go woll together, writes A. Selle, of Wisconsin. Fol lowing after the cattlo and con suming the skimmilk produces an ani mal well adapted for breeding pur poses. The tendency of corn-fed hogs is towLrd a fineness of bone and weak nefcs of the muscular system. Milk and clover counteract thiB bad edect. By using the proper foods two litters a year can be had from ach sow. Wean the pias when six to eight weeks old, and feed middlings or cornmeal and skimmilk. Many farmers do not think it is profitable to ruite two lit ters a year, but if the pigs are fed milk in winter it is good practice. Of course a dry wbi'ui stable is necessary to get best rebults. While milk is the be3c single foal for hogs I preler to use it with other feed. Why favorable results are ob tained, I caunot say, uu'.ess it be that ordinury hog feed is too concentrated, and milk acting as 11 diluent increases its value. I have always fed my milk alter it bus clabbered, utthough other good feeders use it sweet. In buuimer it will curdle in thirty-eight to forty hours. In winter add warm water or place it near the stove. Clabbered milk if fed alone and too liberally forma lumps. This may ue prevented by stirring thoroughly before feeding, or pouring from one vessel to another. The Bufcst and mom profitable method is to mix tho milk with uuequal quan tity of middliugs or cornmeal. This will do away with th danger from lumps. If the pigs uru not being crowded for fattening, add some clover bar. Jogs to be raised profitably m'.isi be ready for butchering ui eight or tou mouths. If tha pigs have a goo I pasture after being weuQBL', and are kept in good condition by giving 250 to 300 pounds can easily be ob tained at the above-mentioned age. With young animals a bushel of oorn will ordinarily produce an increase of eight to twelve pounds of pork. Even better results will be obtained if skim milk is fed at tho beginning of the fattening period, and the meat wilt have a more dolioate flavor. Among the wealthier classes there are many who are willing to pay an extra cent a ponnd for pork produced under the proper conditions and put up in an at tractive manner. It pays to cater to this demand. American Agriculturist, HYACINTHS. The bulb catalogues that come to ns by evety mail are gentle hints that summer is passing rapidly away, and we mut prepars not only for another spring's flowers, but for the window garden as Well. The Dutch bulbs are admirably Adapter) for this wcrk, as. with proper care, flowers from them can be had al most as soon as winter's hand has re moved the more hardy forms from our gardens. But to have the window garden we must do our part right early ( we must get ready now. If you want flowers from bulbs in your win dow this winter, got them now, and now don't mean this month, this week, or this autumn. It means the mo ment you have finished reading this article to sit down and write your or der for all yon want, and send by first mail. The question of soil is one that is sadly overrated j whilo it is true that the hyoointh prefers a sandy sou, made very rich for some previous crop, and a situation where the roots are always near the water, it is equally true that very fine flowers can be pro duced on heavy soils that are not rich. To produce a good bulb is a very different matter from flowering one already produced. When a bulb has perfected its growth under favorable circumstances, the development of its flower is a foregone conclusion. It must and will flower under any con dition of soil or olimr.te. Without soil of any kind, simply in glasses ot water and in the heaviest May, equally good results have been attained. The great cause of failure comes from overestimating their hardiness. They are classed in the catalogues as hardy, when in reality they are far from it. It is true they will most generally withstand the rigors of our winters, and flower fairly well, but for good success frost should never reach the bulbs, and in Holland, where our bulbs are chiefly produced, it never does touch them. There the beds, j many acres in extent, are mulched with reeds cut from the ditches, which are but a few rods apart in that coun try, to the depth of four to six inches, which thoroughly excludes all frost. This protection is necessary from the fact that much of the preparation for the flowers the bulbs make during the winter when seemingly at rest. If the ground is frozen this work cannot go on, the result being that when spring opens the flower spikes shoot forth in a weak state, whioh they would not have done had protection been afforded them. For the border we prefer the second or third sized bulbs, as theso ean re main undisturbed for two or three years. Large or what we call first- class bnlbs will give larger spikes or flowers, bnt they will be sure to break into small bulbs the first season, and they are of but little value after, while the small bulbs whioh proper care will be good for three years, and if the bed in which they are planted is to be used for annuals, which is the better way, they noed not be replaced until they have flowered three seasons. Kew England Farmer. FARM AND GABDEX NOTES. Keep the turkeys in full feed. Sunflower seed add lustre to tha plumage. Oats are one of the very best feeds for moulting hens. The Pekin ducks develop early anl are good market fowls. Geese thrive on plenty of good pas turage and plenty of water. Train the young poultry to roost in the poultry house from the start. Generally sheep can be wintered cheaper with grain than without it. To be certain of having fresh egg care must be taken to gather them daily. A pouud of copperas dissolved in two gallons of water makes a good dis infectant. A little lime-water applied to plants occasionally will kill the little worms in the soil. If ducklings are exposed to wet weather they are apt to take cramps iu their legs. Wheat and corn, half and half, was the best grain feed for hogs at the Il linois Experiment Station, wheat alone next, and corn alone third, all being fed dry. It is time that the chicks that are huddling together in the coop iu which they spent their early days were put in the houses they are to oc cupy this winter. A subscriber writes that he has fed silage successfully for four yeurs. In co'.d weather it is a warm, nourishing Iced. He has also fed shock iodder, cut on the sume machine used for cut ting eusilage. This feed, after being ruu through the muchiuo, will be eaten up clean. If some of the poor est parts are rejeoted, mix with them a little bran or ground feed, and they will be eateu also. Feeding linseed oil to fattening steers is the novel suggestion made because oil is go oheap. .Or. Voelcker experimented with this oil, giving t to j pint daily to each bullock, but thu animals made tin gain. Wliea given enough more Jiuseid cake to aiipply an extra J pint of oil, they numed nearly two poundsdaily. Moral : Feed linseed meal as freely ad the aui- HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. SHIRT BOSOM POLISH. A polish for shirt bosoms is made by melting together one ounce of white wax and two ounces of sper maceti. Heat gently and turn into clean shallow pan when cold out of break into pieoes about the site of A hazel nut and put in a box or bottle for use. When making boilod staroh add a little of the wax in tho propor tion of one hazel nut to twelve bos oms. When ironing smooth first tho lio'ora very carefully, then placo a clean cloth over it and iron lightly, remove the cloth and with a clean, smooth, pretty hot iron, iron rapidly, When about ironed dry, take a cloth wrnnr dry in cold WBter and rnb lightly over the bosom, following With tho hot iron immediately, Buffalo Commercial. FACTS FOR ROt'SEEEErSRS, It is well to know Grease may be removed from wool en goods by sponging same with strong cold coffee. Black silk may be renovated by a thorough sponging with staid bner plaoed between newspapers and pressed with hot iron. Two parts of crude oil and ono pari of turpentine removes white spots from furniture and makes as good a polish as one oan desire to have. Fine laces may be oleaned by being packed in wheat flour and allowed to J remain twenty-four hours. I Food may be kept hot by covermi and setting in a pan of hot water. A little kerosene mixed with staroh gives a gloss to oollars and ouflV. Lobsters should always be boiled at home. New York World. CARE OF STUFFED FPRNimRH. The flat willow abomination known as a furniture whip, should never be allowed to touoh stuffed furniture, no matter how cheap the covering, for the only result of its use is irreparable in jury. The dust wnicli sifts through the covering settles in the stuffing, and the sole action of the whip is to bring this dust to the surface in ridges, which all future dusting o,tbe outside fails to remove. Furniture which has been treated in this way on examination will be found to bear dark marks corresponding to the stroke of the whip and delicate colors, especially in brooatelle, lose their freshness and beauty very soon, not from usage, but a mistaken idea of their care. All furniture should be protected from the dust as much as possible. When a room is swept, all the lighter articles should be removed, and the heavier ones covered closely. A whisk broom and soft cloth should be then employed to remove the particles in the coverings. First a good brushing with the broom, then a thorough wip ing with the cloth, which may be dampened if the fabric will stand it The woodwork is best cleaned with a paint brush, followed by adampoloth. The dust which sifts through to the stuffing and springs never shows itself, and while some superfine housekeep ers may object that to leave it undis turbed is uncleanly and unhealthy, yet all tha whipping in the world would not remove but a tithe of what is inside, besides marking the cover ing forever. Detroit Free Press, KECirES. Tomato Toast Ono cup of cold cooked tomatoes, any bits of cold beef (finely minced), put on slices of but tered toast. Set in oven and brown. Graham Gems One pint sour milk, two tablespoonfuls molasses, one tea spoonful soda. Thicken with graham flour,drop in psu with spoon half the Bize you want them when baked. Ham Patties Chop bits of boilod ham very fine (those unfit for slicing). To this add- for one pint of meat one cup of bread crumbs, one tea spoonful white pepper, one saltspoon ful celery salt, one-halt cud of milk. Mix, fill patty pans and bake twenty minutes. Oyster Loaf One quirt solid meat oysters, three eggs, one-half cup fine ly chopped celery, one Baltspoonful white pepper, two shoes minced salt pork. Enough toasted bread crumbs to mold this into oblong loaf. Dot this with bits of butter and bake in slow oven one hour. Luncheon Totatoes Six large-sized potatoes : bake until nearly done ; re move from oven. Cut in half, remove oenter with a spoon and add to it one hard-boiled egg, a drop or two of onion juice, one teaspoonful mixed mustard. Fill skins with this mix ture, return to the oven and cook un til the tops are brown. Broiled Sardines American canned sardines will answer very nioely for this and are much less rxnenuive. Place the fish on broiler (drained of all oil,) broil quickly over hot fire. Have toasted bread ready, cut as near ly the size of fish us possible. Lay fish on this with half-slice of lemon to each. Serve with lettuce and vinegar. Rissoles When pastry is left from pies, etc., set away in cold place and it will keep a long time. Roll out very thin ; cut about the size of a cracker ; in the center put one table spoonful cold chopped soup meat or any oold meat seasoned with salt, pep per and sage; roll, and fry a delicate brown in very hot drippings, like a doughnut. Serve on a napkin with parsley. Tomato Preserves -Select sound, yellow, pear-shaped tomatoes; wash and prick with a needle to prevent their bursting. Put their weight in sugar over them. Let stand over night. Next morning add enough water to cover them. Boil slowly until the fruit is clear aud sirup is almost cundied. Before taking up add to eneii pound one sliced lemon, rind and all, and one small bit of ginger-root. The Only tiold Toilet Met. The only complete gold toilet ser vice in tue world belongs to the Khe dive of Egypt. It was made in Lon don and consists of twenty-eight pieoes. Each piece bears the monogram of the Khedive in diamonds, tho same being surrounded by a fillet in iuiitatian of that of the Grand Turk. Upwards of 0U1IO diamonds aud over 1200 rubies were used iu decorating these golden toilet articles. The body of each piece is of ttigbteun-carat gold, and all are iuulodtjd Iu a dmwvud-JU(.'tUi,tv4 ebony TEMPERANCE. Tns SALOOff AND THK BOMS. Thfl saloon devours tha money on whose wise eTwnillture mnnti of the Kapplnem of the home depends. If the wife has toiled at the wanh tilh till every muscle aches and her whole being Is weary, It is almply exaspera ting to hare her husliand leave her and go to spend In one hour irt thesaloon the money Hist wnuld have paid needed help. Clot hea wear out. No amount of washing or mending ean keep thlnirs forever neati Iherairs will eome, and when they come those who wear them will look shabby. Not even eleanllnesa ean be fully maintained when there Is a Inok of ehaniree and a laek of towels, and these eost money. Tho salooa euts oft tho supply. Fuel and light eost money, A smouldering fire and a dim lamp ean not make a elieerv room. Thn saloon puts the fire that should be In the grate Into the man's stomach. The rations grow short. Tha children worry, and thewlfe is spiritless from exhaustion. The mnn looks over the bare table and grumbles, "There's no eo n fort at home." Then he elalms he is driven to the saloon because It is so bright and his home so wretched, nnd authors, moralists and divines support lilm In thn claim. This is putting effect for cause. The fact is, that if we could put out tha saloon lights and fl res every one empty the barrels, smash the crockery, and make the saloon dark as the traffic is, those homes would soon (trow brutht.;ilckens represents one of his wretched characters showing a cup of foul water to a visitor, and saytn: "If you had such water. Wouldn't you drink gin?" Very touching! Hut If that mnn had been willing to pay for Water the price of his gin, he eould have had the clearest lee wnter to drink. The saloon becomes bright by making Ihe home dark. Science tells us that when you light your (Ire of wood or eoal, and the ruddy flame springs up and fills the room with its glow, you are simply backing In the impris oned sunlight of long ago. Ho, when the saloon throws its light across the highway, a blare of splendor, you simply see concentra ted Into one dazzling focus the light that It has stolen from scores Jof darkened homes. Yet thn more of every good it sucks out of a man's life, and the more hopelessly wretched he becomes, the fairer the saloon seems by oontrast, till he grows to esteeming his de stroyer his only rufuge and hope. The lower the saloon easts him down, the more neces sary the saloon beoomea to htm. Hut his wife and children ean not flee to Its glare and oblivion. Our civlllr.atlon will not yet tolerate that. They must stay la thn deso late home. Now If this were honest poverty, forced upon them by hard necessity, which the man was doing all he eould to share and brighten, a true wife would rally ail "tho beauty and truth of woman's devotion" to bear up and sustain her husband amid it all. But when shn knows that the husband who brought her to It has deserted her in the midst of it for a selfish and swinish delight which will sluk him and them lower yet, how con she endure it? Sacred lloart 11 0 view. WHAT WRISET COSTS. A writer who has studied thn statistical side of the question furnishes the following figures, truly alarming in their proportions, of what whisky costs this country every year. The annual drink eost in the United Ktates, he says, estimated upon no certain data, is to-day hut little, if nt all, under the enor mous sum of 1,500.000,000. The eeonomla view of intemperance is the lowest that ean be taken of the question. Yet, how much It Involves for the conntrj-! The entire sum raised by taxes of all kinds, National, Htate, county, oily, town and school district, is not more than 80n.0.K).000. It all the church property in the United State were destroyed by Are, less than six months' abstinence would replaoe It. Thn London Economist estimates the coot of all the great wars of the world, for twenty-five years, from 1813 to 1877, Ineludtngttie Franco-Oerman War and our own Civil War, at 20,ooo,000,000. The cost of intoxicants in the United Ktates for the same period was, at least, tl5,000,00v 0jO. Aleohol Is neither a food nor a mediolne- more, it is the chief cause of disease. Plr Andrew Clark says: "I do not desire to make out a strong case. I am speaking solemnly and carefully in the presence of truth, and I tv II you that I am considerably within the mark when I say to you that, going the round of my hospital wards to day, seven out of every ten there owed their ill-health to alcohol." ' Doctor Higglnbottom sayst "I consider I shall do more in curing disease and preventing disease in one year by prescribing total aUftiueuce than 1 could do in the ordinary course of an xtensiva practice of a hundred years." The declara tions of prominent physicians the world over eould be cited, all going to show thnt, in health or disease, in old or voung. In al! climates, the human system Is injured by the taking of alcohol, and the amount of in jury done is proportionate to the quantity of liquor taken. A BRAVt LITTLC JAPANESE. A little Japanese lad was engaged on the occasion of a special ceremony in the army to pour out the wine, and on being asked at the close by tha QeneraMn-Cliief to take a drink htmsulr. as he must be tired aud lu need of something refreshing, tha little fol low said he didn't care for any. The Gen eral thought this strange, and urged him to take some any way, as it would be good fcr his health, even though he disliked it. But the temperanea youth persisted that be didn't waut any. This somewhat vexed the offiaer, to find auvone guilty ot disobeying orders, and he said rather roughly to the laa, "wen 11 you won t do as I say, you never can become a soldier in the army." One of the lower officers, whn wa stand ing by and heard the eon venation, laughed, and came up to the boy, and aike 1 hiru why he was so dlsi-HspHotful to the General, threatening that it he persisted in such in subordination he would out him down with his sword. (This was iu old feudal days.) The brave little fellow, with tears in his eyes, said be oould not drink, even it he hai to disobey the General's order, and, in fa it, he did not think It was neceswary tor a sol dier to obey buc.Ii orders. His own (the boy's) father, he said, had lost his life through drinking "sake," and when he left home he solemnly promised his mother that he would never taste "sake," aud he felt that he must keep his word. The ottWr ami General were so filled with admiration at the boy's simple firmness, that they from that time showed lum speuinl kludness, and it is said that Ihe boy became one of the most trusted officers in the army. STIMULANTS IX THK FAB NOBTQ. Tha experience of two Arotlo explorers U valuable testimony to total abstinence. Cap taiu Wiggins has navigated the stormy Siberian Heas without the aid of alcohol ami has returned in safety. The Norwegian ex plorer, Dr. Nansen, crossed Greenland, ami says: "My experlenoe leads me totake a decided stand against the use of stimultauts aud nar cotics of all kinds, from tea aud coffee on the one baud, and tobacco and a'cohol on the other. Tne idea that one gains by stimulat ing body and mind by artilidal means be trays, iu my opinion, not only ignorance of the simplest physiological laws, but also want ot experience, or perhaps want of capacity to learn from experience and by observation." PBrNKABDs' BXTBEATS. " Drunkards 'retreats have now been In ex istence in England for fifteen years. The principle on which they are conducted is to make the patients stop drinking at once aud to make them abstain entirely for a lung period, twelve months when possible, keep ing them busy during that time. The pa tients always come iu an aivaucea stuge 01 alcoholism. It has been found, as the Lan cet reports, that no harm, but good, is done by the sudden and complete disuse of alco hol lu such caaes; that a large number of the cases are permanently cured, and that habitual drunkenness in worueu is by no means a hopeless disease. HE JUST OIT. A navigator of rlne" years and rare skill was discharged by his employers for drunk enness. He had u-ml liquor for more thau thirty years, tut he began a new life. "What! aaeerel an old-time companion, "won't take a driuk? Haven't aworu off. have you?" "No," was the answer; "I've just quit." To "swear off" is to begin a dreary struggle. To "just quit" is to win a quick, sure victory. Munday-souool limes. TEHPEBANCI MEWS AND NOTES. Sims Kevvea ! tributes the marvellous preservation of ill voice in old age to the lact that be Is a total abstainer. He holds that the use of stimulants will break a voice sooner or later. A (Jucer rroposftf. An aristocratio young lady of Magdeburg, Germany, bad spent some time at tho country stat of her nnole, and a yonng oavalior from Berlin had beon paying much attention to her. Everybody thought it would bo a good match for both, and affairs wont on swimmingly, until tho day drew near when tho yonng lady was to return home Tho nearer the day enrao the more disappointed were H10 young miss and her mother at tho failure of the young man to ask tho all-important question. Finally, they loft thoir relative's houso in great dismay, and just boforo loaviag tho young lady ro marked to her nnolo that it probably was an well for both, a her mother had not much use for snob a "chicken heartod son-in-law." They left on a train on the narrow gauge railroad, connecting tho valley with the nearest town. After they had gone tho young mail questioned tho nnolo why the young lady had gone away so angry and hardly noticed him when bidding good-by, Tho uncle, a blunt ex soldier, repented the remark niado by his niece when leaving to the young man, who was touched to the quick by the insinuation of cowardice oontained therein, lie wan very much in love with the lady, and had abstained from broaching tho subject on aocount of not considering it proper to propose anywhere but at tho young lady s home, which he intended visiting bo foro long. This remark, however, aroused ma senso of honor, and, without saying another word, ho mounted his horse, which happened to stand ready for an outing, and gnllopod after tho train, which had loft a quarter of an hour before. Ow'ng to benign Providence and the management of this country railroad, ho caught tho train before it had reached the next station, Kraow. He spied the yonng lody at the window of a first class compartment, and, riding up to the train bofore it camo to a full stop, almost shoutod, hearth- lessly, "My dear Miss , I ask for your hand. Yes or no?" In the station of iraow, jubi as 1110 train arrived, a "Yes" was joyfully given by tho young miss, and tearfully approved by her mamma. Now York News, There ia a movement in England to have publio school children taught to swim. Highest of all in Leavening Tower Latest U. S. Govt .Report ABSOLUTELY PURE SAD WAY PILLS, Always Reliable, Parely Yegetablo, Perfec'lytatv:M,MPKiititlvpoMM1roulit', imrlfy, i-Uaime ami treiiKlheu. HADWAX'H i'UXS tor tt.t cure of all itlAri r of tha Stomach, HowHa, KM ney, HI Ml. If r. Nor full Ulivaaet, UUtluva. Vertigo, Coitlveni, Pllea, SICK HEADACHE, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, BILIOUSNESS, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, AND All Disorders of the LIVER. Ohwveth follow-in t ayinptom, rultlna from diM'tise or tin t1U.-llvt trt.ann: Cousllpatlon, In ward 'He, lulin fit ' Ii(hm1 In the taril, .-imy of tho loniac:i, iuiuea, uftiriburn, tliKUst of fo l, I'ullm-iMiot wt'lKht of tht Ktomai'h, mur t'ructtitloti", ninkinit tT fluticrlim of the Iv an, choklun o. aufto cat In stiUntloiii whu In a lying polure, l1ntifi ui vml in, ttom or wh lnfor-- tnu tuhr, tpvor anl dull pan lit ihe In. if nVlency of perspiration, ! low lit- of the nklu and eyt", paiu In Ihe Mt. rhtt, ilmbi.aud u ldi'urtutt!itif beat.uurulUK lu the He ah. A few d ntn nr KAl WAY'S PII.I.S will freo the tim of alt of tne aUve-uaiud disorder. Price 43 clw. ?r box. Sold by dru.-tctsu or en, by mall. Kt'nd to I) It. IS A II WAV X (., lock box tt New York, f-r Imni of Adv.re. S3 A daysorl-s In ike i a div , al oliiif j nurvi we lur-lii-U III. W.iik and it-at-b you lrt) Joi M,...tr in Iti l.v,. In. m.I.m ...... 11 W tnl nayour aditrexMantl we will plain' (,3 tne bukliifaa rully; mnambrr we- irur If autMe a clear profit 01 9.1 or evvrv t a; 'a 9. T. IDKutl, Martwr. Ua Lf, Ul.TUOIT, aUtHIUtv I ill Timely Warning. The great success of the chocolate preparations of the house of Walter Baker & Co. (established in 1780) has led many misleading of their name, Baker & Co, are the oldest and largest manu facturers of pure and high-grade Cocoas and Chocolates on this continent. No chemicals are used in their manufactures. Consumers should ask for, and be sure that they get, the genuine Walter Baker &, Co.'s goods. WALTER BAKER & CO., Limited, DORCHESTER, MASS. You Will Realize that "They Live We I Who Live Cleanly," if You Use SAPOLIO nothing lost Scott's Emulsion makes thine: to If p lea sure, 1 011 ach knows nothing; about it it does not trouble you there. You feel it iirst in the strength that it brings : it shows in the color of the cheek, the rounding of the ang;les, the smoothing; of the wrinkles. It is cod-liver oil digested for you, slipping; as easily into the blood and losing itself there as rain-drops lose themselves in the ocean. What a satisfactory thing this isto hide the odious taste of cod-liver oil, evade the tax on the stomach, take health by surprise. There i.s no secret of wjit it is made of the fish-fat taste is lost, but nothing is lost but the taste. Ptrhy you, druggist kjt a ,ubMl for i' F.wuhion. hu I I be tj,:.l.,rJ all other fry , ,,(J, h,,( Jor ,0 ,0 buJ f So tenti mni $,.o0 All Drui.t, SCOTT & UOWNE Chemist . . m ywfk A MARVEL ItRMARKAIII.K AND ATONIni!a Ct'KR nr AN KXTUEM F CASK . Or ST. VITIIV DANCK. j How a Yonng I.adr Itegalneri the Vie of Her Arms, l.lmhs and Speech In Threa Week. From th Stnmlard-Union, Jlrool lyn, JV, 1'. Too much hard study at school brought on Rt. Vitus' danon. Such was thn common ex perience of Miss Olendora llivers, daughter of Mrs. Amelia Rivers, of B9 By erson street, Brooklyn. Thn dlscasn grew worso every month, until the young lady's entire right side became paralysed 1 but, now that a mnrvolous and permanent cure has been wrought, It will he interesting to real her own version of the efficacy of Dr. Will lams' rink Tills. "For more than a year," said Miss Rivers, "doctors attended mn without effecting th' slightest chnngn iu my condition. If any thing, I grew worse under their treatment, until February of this year, when my condi tion became critical, "I had lost the complete tiso of my arms and limbs and speech. I could only swallow liquids, nnd theso only as they fed mnwlth a spoon, when they could get my mouth open. I wnnted to sleep all the time. The stupor I laid In was something like a trnnoe, nnd no doubt I would havo died If they had not wnked mo up at Intervals. "The first week in March my mother, who Is a sick nurse, was advised by a neighbor to try Dr. Williams' rink Til's in my cne. Kim got some of the pills a box from Nellson'n drug store, at the corner of Myrtle svenuo and Hnll street . Before I had tnken one. half the contents of the box a remarkable) change was noticed In my condition. "Gradually I regal lie I the use of my nrmsand llnbs and speech, and by the (line, (he pills were gene I was up and about thn house almost welt. But my mother thought It wise to get another box of the pills, and this she did, and here you see me stand bo fore you with more strength and more am bition than I ever had. "Some nf our near neighlirs attribute my regained body and health to some miracu lous or supernatural agency, but my mother and most Intimate friends know that the cure was effected by Dr. Williams' link rills. "Throe weeks from the day I swallowed the first dose of the pills 1 was as well as you see me in-day." Dr. Williams' rink Bills for Talo Peopln nre a speoltlo for troubles peculiar to fe males, surh as suppressions, irregularities and all forms of weakness. They build tip the blood an I restore the glow of health to pa'e nnd sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure lu all cases arising from men tal worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. Thev nre manufacture! by Ihe Dt. Will lams' 'Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold by all druggists at 50 cents a box or six boxes for '2.50. fawaer TheOreatest nedlcal Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S Medical Discovery, OONALO KENNEDY, OF R0X8URY, MASS., lias dlsoorered In one of oar common pasture woeds remedy that dim erery kind of Humor, from tbe worst Bcrofula down to a common pimple. lie baa trim! It In over eleyen hundred easrs, and never fai led exeept In two oaaea (botb tbunder humor), lie has now In his possession over two hundred certifi cates ot lta value, all within twenty mile of Boston. Send postal card tor book. A benent la always experlenoed from tbe Brat bottle, and a perfect oure 1 warranted when the right quantity I taken. When the lungs are affected It nausea (hooting pains. Ilka neodlef passing tbrougb them 1 the aame with the I.lvwr or Bowels, This Is cause I by tbe duett being (topped, and always disappears In a week after taking It. bead the label. If the etomaou Is foal or bilious It will cause squeamish feeling at flrvU Mo change of diet ever neoeesary. Eat the best you ean get, and enough of it. Dose, one tablenpoonful In water at bed time. Hold by ail Drugtflsts. Lvfc ASTHMA MA& POPHAM'S ASTHMA SPECIFIC St iZr- lltvBuriH.f tn tPl minute, liond JjtCllol'i rKtK trial tiarkaira. Bold by urujrmftia. una nm prn j""F",u pi OI nix " thus, rurnaai, ruiia. r to the placing on the market and unscrupulous imitations labels, and wrappers, Walter cotl-livei oil takintr next t..' l ti nanny taste it. ihe stom-
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