Money Conditioni the Only Canae, The present financial revulsion ig entirely exceptional in tfte history of our country. We have had panics and seasons of severe financial and in dustrial depression ; but they have al ways come from entirely different causes than are potent now. We have had revulsions logically following the inflation of values ; we have had re ulsions coming from inadequate money j we have had revulsions from failure of our chief products ; but the present revulsion comes from none of these causes. The people of the country are now more generally solvent than at any time in the past i our harvests have been bountiful ; our industries were generally employed until the money disturbance came, and there is abun dance of money in the country. With such favorable conditions, how , could the panic come? One cause, and one cause alone, has brought our pres ent disastrous depression, and that is the loss of confidence in the credit of the nation. National credit is the foundation of all individual and busi-n.-ss credit, and when public credit was impaired private credit could not escape the blow. It is purely and simply a money re vulsion. Commerce, industry and trade were all in the most favorable conditions, but we blindly degraded our money, sapped the vitals of pub lic credit, and finally the storm broke upon us. It began by foreign distrust of our insane silver policy that sent millions of American securities back upon us to drain our gold. There were logical reasons for halting new foreign investments in our securities in the severe liquidation resulting from the South American and Australian disasters j but the general distrust of our silver policy forced tens of millions of our securities home to be converted into gold. With distrust developed abroad and draining us of gold at the rate of a million a day, distrust steadily extend ed into every channel of our varied business affairs, money sought safety in hoarding, values were depressed until panic ruled, and we are now con fronted with the severest monetary de pression with the country solvent, its products bountiful and money abun dant, solely because there is general distrust of our financial policy. The one distinguishing feature of the present financial revulsion is in the fact that it can be remedied promptly by restoring public confidence in public credit. Other revulsions require years to recover from them. Broken credit must be restored ; deficient products must be supplied by new harvests ; but we now need only confidence in the financial system of the government to revive business and restore values. The source of the evil is exceptional ; it is easily remedied, and we should soon emerge from our present paraly sis into enduring prosperity. Times. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh, being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment.' Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mu cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the di sease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Testi monials. Address, F. J. Chenky & Co., Toledo, 0. ISSold by Druggists, 75c. im. Might as Well Have Been Closed. Krom the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The bride of a year was bemoaning her fate. Her husband did not seem to care for her as he did once. Be side, he drank too much whisky and spent his evenings away from home. The woman who listened to the com plaint was not very sympathetic. "You married him with your eyes open," said she. ' "Yes," sobbed the other, "b-b-but we always turned town the gas when we were courting." A Victim of the Glass. Krom the Detroit Free rress. The woman was vain, excessively vain, but she was pretty, and possibly felt in her own heart that would ex cuse her. Whether it would or not, she was at a reception one night and a stranger was there also. "My, that's a pretty woman," he said as she passed. "Yes," responded the person with him, "but she is the victim of the glass." "You don't mean to say she drinks? What a pity." 'Oh, no; I mean the looking glass." How She Knew. Krom Brooklyn Lite. . Klla. "What makes you think he loves you ? Did he say so ?" Ida. "No ; but he nuggeu me. niai is a roundabout way 01 letting me know it." flow the End Will Come. don't get scared thr earth's good f OR 10,000,000 YEARS VET. M. Camilie Flammarion says that in all probability our planet will die a natural death. That death will be the consequence of the extinction of the sun in twenty million years or more perhaps thirty since its condensation in a relatively moderate rate will give it on one hand 17,000,000 years of existence, while, on the other hand, the Inevitable fall of meteors into the sun may double this number. Even if you suppose the duration of the sun to be prolonged to forty million years, it is still incontestable that the radia tion from the sun cools it, and that the temperature of all bodies tends to an equilibrium. Then the earth and all the other planets of our system will cease to be the abode of life. They will be erased from the great book and will revolve, black cemeteries, around an extinguished sun. Will these planets continue to exist even then? Yes, probably, in the rase of Jupiter and perhaps Saturn. No, beyond a doubt, for the small bodies such as the earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury and the moon. Already the moon appears to have preceded us to wards the final desert. Mars is much further advanced than the earth to ward the same destiny. Venus young er than us, will doubtless survive us. These little worlds lose their elements of vitality much faster than the sun loses its heat, From century to cen tury, from year to year, from day to day, from hour to hour, the surface of the earth is transformid. On the one hand the continents are crumbling away and being covered by the sea, which insensibly and by slow degrees tends to invade and submerge the entire globe ; on the other hand the amount of water on the surface of the globe is diminishing. A careful and reason able calculation shows that by the act ion of ciasure alone all the laud on our planet will be covered by water in 10,000,000 years. For the complexion use Ayer's Sar saparilla. It brings blooming health to wan cheeks. Mid-Summer Novelties in Ladies' Hats. Plain or elaborate, a toilette can hardly become a success without an accompanying hat which will harmon ize and add to it the indispensable finishing touch. But the selection of the latter is a problem of considerable study, for one must bear in mind the circumstances for which a costume is intended and accordingly choose the most appropriate head-ge.-.r. One must also consult the possibilities of one's purse, and mqst important of all, one is compelled to remain mean while within the proper boundaries ot the latest styles. When we come to the latter, however, what a bewilder ing embarrassment of riches confront us 1 For the choice may extend from the p'ain tailor toque to the complica ted garden hat made of some sheer material, in other words, it may in clude the whole range of the milliners' creations : delicate tinted straws ; poems of lace and flowers or of mater ial similar to that of the costume; ten nis and yachting caps ; Casino bonnets and the infinite variety of bridal hats. One of the characteristic features of the McDowell Fashion Journals is that they generally represent a hat of the latest fashion with each costume, for the double purpose of giving millinery novelties and of illustrating the intim ate relation between a toilette and the head-gear. The most popular of these Fashion Magazines are : "La Mode de Paris,1' "Paris Album of Fashion," "The French Dressmaker" and "La Mode." The former two cost $3.50 each, a year, or 35 cents a copy. "The French Dressmaker" is $3.00 per an num, or 30 cents a copy. "La Mode" costs only $1.50 a year, or 15 cents a copy, and is intended to become the home fashion journal par excellence, If you are unable to procure any of these magazines at your newsdealer, do not accept any substitue, but apply directly to Messrs. A. McDowell & Co., 4 West 14th Street, New York. Catarrh in New England. . Ely's Cream Balm gives satisfaction to every one using it for catarrhal troubles. G. K. Mellor, Druggist, Worcester, Mass. I believe Ely's Cream Balm is the best article for catarrh ever offered the public. Bush & Co., Druggists, Worcester, Mass. An article of real merit. C. P. Al den, Druggist, Springfield, Mass. Those who use it speak highly of it. Geo. A. Hill, Druggist, Springfield, Mass. Cream Balm has given satisfactory results. W. P. Draper, Druggist, Springfield, Mass. Dead Broke. Collector. "Have you been to the World's Fair ?" Doctor. "Yes, sir ; just got back." Collector. "Good day." Pleasure. "Did the Hichtones cive vou a nleas- ant reception when you visited them ?" "Well, I should say so. ine tner mometer stood ninety in the 6hade and the whole family was as frigid as an iceberg." That Wicked Offloe Boy. " HE MANAGED TO SETTLE UP AV OLD SCORE WITH THE TYPEWRITER. From the Balt imore Herald. The office bov and the blonde type writer had quarreled. It was over a trivial matter, to be sure, but never theless they were on the outs. Both seemed spitefully revengeful, and when one day the office boy play ed off sick and went to the base ball game the typewriter made known to the employer the youth's sporting pro clivities. This, as might be expected, caused trouble, and the wrath of the office boy against the young lady with nimble fingers increased more and more. Days passed, and the lad plan ned and dreamed of schemes to "get back" at his fair tormentor, who stood so well in the graces of the employer. Now on every typewriter there is a small gong which rings when the end of the line is reached. The office boy knew this, and as he watched the prettily tapered fingers throw back the carriage at each tap of the bell he smiled with fiendish glee. It was late in the afternoon. The young lady was industriously tapping the keys to finish the firm's correspon dence, She had reached the last let ter, and remarked to the office boy that her best young man was going to take her to the theatre that evening. Hence her hurry. This only made the office boy smile all the more, for he knew that his time had conic, rlis eyes seemed to say, "Revenge is sweet." The young lady slipped the piere of paper into the machine and began at a lightning speed to write from her notes. The youth watched the carriage sliding to and fro. He took from his pocket a rusty nail and, as the type writer wrote on unconsciously, he tap ped the bell lightly with the nail. The young lady, never thinking, pushed the paper up another line and went on. Again the boy tapped the bell and again the young lady turned the mach ine. This was kept up until the maid en had written all there was to write. A small figure had sneaked easily out of the door. The blonde with drew the sheet from the machine. She looked at it and looked again and saw before her a letter written something alter the fashion of the latter-day step ladder poetry. Not a single line was properly written. The girl grew thoughtful. She seemed to remember that the bell had rung a trifle oftener than usual. She looked about the room and then she remembered that the office boy had once upon a time gone to a base ball game and had re marked subsequently that he would get even. Whether Pasteur and Koch's pecu liar modes of treatement will ultimate ly prevail or not, their theory of blood contamination is the correct one, though not original. It was on this theory that Dr. J. C. Ayer, of Lowell, Mass., nearly fifty years ago, formula ted Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Advice to Pretty Girls. Here is some good advice for our charming eldest daughter. If I were you, my dear I wouldn't turn my head to look 'after fine dresses or impertinent men. I wouldn t forget to sew the braid around the bottom of my skirt or the button on my shoe. I wouldn't conclude that every man who said something pleasant to me had fallen in love with me. I would not, when I could only have one dress, choose a conspicuous one. I would not, because I was tired and nervous, give snappy, ill-natured replies to questions asked me by those who really cared for me. I would not permit any girl friend to complain to ine of her mother ; it is like listening to blasphemy. . I would not tell my private affairs to my most intimate girl friend. I would not grow weary in well doing indeed, I would keep on en couraging myself by trying to live up to my ideal of a woman ; and the very fact of my Uying so hard would make me achieve that which I wished. Mrs. S H. Conklin writes from Mt. Carmel, Conn. "Enclosed please find check for bills of May 2d and 12th. I repeat the gratification I expressed before as to the convenience, the economy and the real artistic beauty the National Lead Company's Pure White Lead Tinting Colors have proved to me in using them. It would seem as if the old way of trying to produce the de sired shade o.f color by mixing many colors together with much labor and guess-work must be abandoned in favor of your economical, sure and easy method. My painters wish to in troduce their use in an adjoining town, and want a couple of your books as guides." Ancestral Timber Leaves Its Mark. Krom uoou Now. Little Boy. "My first name is awful ugly ; but you has got a real pretty name, hasn't you ?" Little Girl. "Yes ; I think it is." Little Boy. (meditatively.) "I guess you didn't have any rich ole bachelor aunts, did you ?" $20, $rg and for $8.5.0 7 HNcw York clothing maker was hard up for cask We bought all his Men's Suits (made to sell for $20, $15 and $12) at a price that enables us to offer them at $8.50 per Suit. We are selling Boys' $5.00 Knee Pant Suits for $2.50. Hundreds to pick from. This was another clean-out. BROWNING, KING & CO. 910-912 Chestnut Street WARREN A. REED. To Be Buried Alive. MIND READER SEYMOUR TO SPEND OVER THREE MONTHS UNDER GROUND. Seymour, the mind reader, accom panied by his son, Arthur, is on his way to Chicago, where he is to attempt a test that will, if successful, make him famous the world over. He per formed some wonderful feats in the streets of Williamsport a few months ago. For example, he found a knife hidden in a cell at the police station by a Sun reporter, driving to the building b indfolded. At Chicago he is to be buried alive, after the alleged manner of the East Indians, who say ihcy can suspend animation for any period by swallowing their tongues and controlling the heart and mind. "My coffin has gone on ahead," said Mr. Seymour. "It was made in Syra cuse and is a fac simile of the one in which Geneial Grant's remains now lie. It cost $3,000. It is made in three sections, one fitting inside the other. I will be buried six feet deep in the coffin. Signals will be arranged so that if things don't go right I can communicate with the soldiers on the outside who will guard the grave. "Directly after I am buried a crop of barley will be sowed over the grave. I will remain buried until the germs sprout, grow, ripen and are harvested. Then the'disinterment will take place. I will not come back to earth until Sept. 24 I am possitive that I can do it ami the scientific men who are assisting me to conduct the experi ment are beginning to think so too." What a Pig Will Dc From the Denver City Sun. "Even a pig will turn up its nose at tobacco," says a writer in a woman's journal. True enough, and, by the same token, a pig has no use for ice cream, and it does not like music, and it would rather have a bundle of straw in its pen than a picture from the brush of Rembrandt. People cannot be expected to regulate their likes and dislikes in accordance with the tastes of pigs. Tobacco is harmful in the shape of cigarettes or candidates1 ci gars, but the ladies must use better arguments than the above if they would have its use discontinued. The Hand of Pate. From the Chicago Tribune. "Mary Jane," exclaimed the editor of the Bluegrass Vindicator, rushing hurriedly into the house, "put me up a little lunch as quick as you can I Where's my valise ?" "In mercy's name, what is the mat ter, Tared ?" "Matter?" he shouted diving into the bureau drawer for clean shirts and other things necessary for a journey, "nothing's the matter, only I wrote last night that 'we noticed Colonel Allgore riding about the city this morn at a comfortable jog,' and it came out in the paper this morning 'comfortable jag V I start for the World's Fair, Mary Jane, in ten minutes if I'm still alive I" Hubby How is it that everything is so unusually dirty about the house to day ? Wifev Why, this is washing day JV. r. Jferalil' You iiave noticed that tome houses always item to need repainting ; they look dingy, rusted, faded. Other always look bright, clean, fresh. The owner of the first "economizes" with "cheap" mixed paints, etc.; the second paints with Strictly Pure White Lead The first spends three times as much for paint in five years, and his build ing! never look as well. Almost everybody knows that good paint can only be had by using strictly Jiure White Lead. The difficulty is ack of care in selecting it. The John T. Lewis & Bros. brand is strictly pure White Lead. "Old Dutch" process; it is standard and well known established by the test of years. For any color (other than white) tint the Strictly Pure White Lead with National Lead Company's Pure White Lead Tinting Colors, and you will have the best paint that it is possible to put on a building. For ! by the molt reliable dealers Id painta avarywhere. If you ara going to paint, It will pay you to tend to ua Tor a book containing informa tion that may aava you many a dollar i It will only coat you a poitat card to do ao. JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS. CO., Philadelphia. $12 Suits Opposite Port Office, Philadelphia Fine PHOTO GRAPHS and CRAYONS at McKillip Bros., Bloomsjjurg. The best are the cheapest. JTI raUhaiitar'a Fnttlah IM.monrt Rrnol rs, buwbjb miatDifj. ,(), mi rrualit for rhichtr ttnaluh Via , mond 9rwnd Id tsd and Gold mot! ha ght)is). t-svixl wlib htiw ribbon. 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The most healthful and popular drink of the age. The proper drink for both table and fireside now within the reach of all. livery thrifty hoimewlfe can provide for her home, Krape, or. unj(), peur, cherry, upple.ianuna and pineapple clderti at the small expense of rtrteeu cents pur ifiillon. Keep your husband and sons at home by pivpiiilinj for them those, delightful and hitruileHH diloks ; thereby saving Ilia money that might possibly ilud Its way Into I lie Hit loous. Ytonly lakes ten minutes M make any one of these delightful drinks. Unclose 10 cents for one, or Ml ceuts for seven of t he "Krult rider Heelpes". Address MINIS NOVELTY CO. SIM callmot Ave., cLIuuko, iu7 o-lii-tf. Em m ill I r I a MAKING OLEO. How Cncle Ram Wntchee II and Bow It la Made. Hidden away In a dark snd cobwebby corner brnentli the roof of the treasury nt Washington is a room filled with s uiyatcrlouft assemblag'o of queer-look-inf? nnparatus which has the aspect of an nlchemlst's laboratory. Yet the work done there ham to do not with the inakinp; of gold or a vital elixir, bpt with the analysis of food and drink, nays the Kansas City Journal. It is the chemical division of tb internal revenue burean, snd one of the mat ters it baa in charge is the detection of fraud in the sale of oleomargarine for butter. It seems startling to learn that the consumption of oleomurfrarlno in this country has doubled in the lant fle years. The people of the United States cat four million pounds of it every month, or twenty-four thousand tons annually. Nearly all of it is put up by the great meat packers of Chicago, Cincinnati. New York, Providence and Kannas City. The manufacture of it is lawful, but it is not permitted to masquerade as butter in the market. Suspected samples are pounced upon by revenue agents and submitted to chemical tests. Three-fourths of the hotels and nearly all of the restaurants and boardinghou.ies in the United States te oleomargarine. For their purposes this artificial prod net is exoeUently adupted. Whereas butter quickly spoils, oleomargarine always looks nice and remains fresh indefinitely. Homo of it which has been kept at the treasury for three years is as good as ever p-day. It is better in flavor than any except first-rate butter. Peo ple who buy rancid butter for cooking would do much better to purchase oleo margarine. The best of the latter is not cheap, costing as much as twenty five -cents a pound, thus approaching ordinury grades of butter in price. The peculiar flavor of butter is due to the presence of forty-five per cent, of fatty acid. These acids are volatile and rapidly decompose, hence the rapidity with the substance spoils. Oleomargarine contains very little of such destructible material. It is made from beef iUt, which is removed from the animal in the process of slaughter ing, washed and placed in a cold-water bath. Next the fat is cut into small pieces by machine and cooked until the liquid portion has separated from the tissues. The liquid fat is settled until per fectly clear. Then it is pressed to ex tract the stearine, leaving a pnre "oleo oil," which, churned together with milk and butter, becomes oleo margarine. The fat being almost tasteless, butter is put in to give the requisite flavor, the best oleomargarine having twenty per cent of the finest butter. PIGEONS ON BOARD SHIP. Carried Oat of Sight of Land, They Become Tame Feta. On the return of the training ship Portsmouth to the Brooklyn navy yard from a voyage to the Mediter ranean she had a large number of pigeons aboard. The birds were of the common variety and lived in a coop on the hurricane deck near the forecastle. The boys had procured them at some port while- the vessel was still cruising about. One day at sea, when all traces of land were lost, the birds were re leased from their prison. The crew gathered on deck to see what they would do. Some thought they would not leave the ship; others expected to see them take their bearings and then, like carrier pigeons, fly landward. All! were mistaken, says the Youth's Com panion, for after a Joyous sail over the blue ocean they returned to their cage .and settled down to everyday lifi They became tame at once and (and of the sea men and boys, who fed them from their hands. They constantly i flitted about the decks, at times even . causing annoyance by walking about 'the gangway under the busy sailors' 'feet. At other times they wuld perch in the rigging seemingly content with their nautical lives. In port they would I fly ashore, but always returned at night to roost in their eoop. When at last the orders were given to hoist an chors for home many of the pigeons were out on their daily fly. The sails '-were spread and the big ship was wafted away. The boys and sailors all felt very sorry for the disappointment the birds would meet that evening 'when they returned and found the ship had sailed. But before night, when the land like a tiny green speck faded from sight in the twilight, there .was suddenly a flutter In the rigging and the missing birds dropped down and entered their cage. The hearts of 11 the homeward bound ship's com pany rejoiced. Upon their arrival in Brooklyn the pigeons showed them selves as much at home in the air around the great bridge and over New York oity as in any foreign port. The Thirteen Superetl tlon. j i, It is said this strango superstition ,' extends away bock to the time of King , ' Arthur. When the good British king ; 1 founded the famous Round Table, hi requested Merlin, the enchanter, to ar 1 range the seats. Merlin arranged on set to represent the apostles; twelvi ' were for the faithful adherents of Jesui Christ and the thirteenth f or the traito ; Judas. The first were never oceupie j save by the knights distinguished fo , their achievements, and when a deatl : ,, occurred among them the seat rcmaine ' ' vacant until a knight, surpassing hlr! in horoic and war-like attainment) ! should be considered worthy to fill th j I' place. If an unworthy knight soug? ' the vacant chair he was repelled 1 some magic power. The thirteen ' seat was never occupied but once. '. j story goes that a haughty and insole ', Saracen knight sat down upon it at f ; was immediately swallowed up by tr '' earth. Ever after it was known as ","! "perilous seut," and, brave as the ce. , brated knights of the Hound Table said to have been, not one ever hod :s-:' ir.fc couratre to sit on the thirteenth clu and the superstition agbinst It still m:, f:.v It is: V 1 I I' : ? i I r . , . i . , r 7 i Si M i c vivos.
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