A Towa Lat Frees,
TI had heard about the man in Kansas
who was giving away town lots fros,
and one day I left the traio at a small
station and hired a man to drive me
over to the site of the future greut city,
I found a sixtyv-acre farm stoked out
into lots twenty feet front by fifty deep,
but only one house and one parson was
in sight. Tle house was a far enbin,
sud the person was the owner of it and
the one 1 wanted to see
“Come for a lot?” Le asked as we
| Out of Sorts A laweuit about a copyright is not a
Doseribes a feeling peculiar to parsons of dys. | i Louk -cuse,
peptic temdency. or caused by change of climate, ee ? | —
Saason or life. The stomach is out of order, the | When aman pulls down the shade
headaches or does not fel right, | And jerks it off the rollec he gets a cur-
The Nerves | tain lecture,
seem strained to thelr utmost, the mind Is con-
fused and irritable, This condition finds an ex
cellent eorrective in Hood's Siv<ariila, whieh, “
vs ty i 3 5
by its regulationg and toning powers, soon re it tak # blacksmith to make a
a - 1"
stores harmony to the system, and gives | felloe tired.
strength of mind, nerves, and body. i
drove up {
’ : CoPyRILHT 1890"
“Yes, in case my information 13 cor Hood's Sarsaparilla :
tect, Do you give them away?” Sold by all drugeists. $1;six for $5. Prepared | of your money, if you get neither | hours a day.
*I do.” only by C. L. HOOD & CU., Lowell, Mass. benefit nor cure. Risky terms for |
“I had heard su,~ 100 Doses One Dollar, the doctor, but safe and sure for the |
"Go right out and select any one you m——————————— atient,. Eve thing to gain, noth-
like. Those selected are marked with | ing to lose. Theres Se ns BOLL
ved stakes: those not vet taken by black cine of its class that's sold on these |
ones. iti j
Sok = wilk woind. and de. s conditions -just one that cowld bo
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis-
selection, and he found the number,
snd said: covery. It’s a peculiar way to sell
“You want an abstract of title, of it—but it's a peculiar medicine,
course. Here it is, and the fos is $3." It's the guaranteed remedy for all | than be telis, thereare fifty who tell
When I had received it he hunted Blood, Skin and Scalp diseases, | Wore thas they know,
out a deed Rieudy Signed, and filled from a common blotch or eruption ion
my name in, called in the teamster and to the worst Scrofula. It cleanses, Who was the author of the saying,
purifies and enriches the blood, and | ‘There is always room at the top?”
bis wife for witnesses, and said:
“Here is your deed. 1'il have to . lm :
) 1» cures Salt-rheum, Tetter, Eczema, | he hotel clerk, I believe,
Erysipelas, and all manner of blood-
tcharge ®1 for tha
I paid the sum named, sud Le thed ———
got a Lig book, and said taints, from whatever cause. It | Earth has no joy like unto that of
costs you nothing if it doesn’t help | the woman who has made eighteen
you. The only question is, whether
“You want it recorded, of course. | Cll
| calls and 1ound everybody out.
you want to be helped. |
am the County Clerk.
cording is £3.” ————
I had it duly recorded, and just thed “i . . . | If all the people knew what they
Golden Medical Discovery ” is | were talking about there wouldn’t be
the cheapest blood - purifier sold, |
through druggists, Poriier you
dinher was ready. He invited me te
sit down, but when we were through, nearly #0 much said as there is now.
only pay for the good you get.
Can you ask more ?
be said:
My charge for dinner is 73 cents, It is sometimes safer fora man to
i complete a round of pleasure than it
The Discovery ” acts
well all the year round.
16 taxes on your lot will Ui due next
is for him to make things square af-
the World's Dispensary
week, aud you had Deiter leave the
money. The amount is $1.75, and my | terwards
Association, at 663 Main
Juffalo, N. Y.
Nothing Else Will Do It.
We have volumes of evidence to prove that S. 8S, 8
is the only permanent cure for contagious
Blood Taint.
1 suffered for five years with the |I then commenced taking Bwitvs
worst form of blood poison, during | Bpecific (8.8.8), and in a few mons 1
whieh time I was at. was entirely cured and
tended by the best phy to this great medicine
sialans I could find, and ’ S do I attribute my re
tried numbers of proprie. { Peer, covery. ‘This was over
tary medicines without S 0 two years ago, aod I
Is as near infallible as it is
possible for a medicine io be
in the cure of Blood poisen
co
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“Speaking of work,” sald Bloggs,
————————
The watch is no longer an emblem of |’
A prompt return | modern labor, It works twenty-four
—————————
any beacficial results. 1 have bad no returns or
oentinued to grow worse any effects of the dis.
all this time, until my ease since, and
skin is oday as hi |
whole system was de.
stroyed by the vile dis. us anybody's. — Willisgs
eases, my tongue and Bowers, Covington, 0,
throat having great holes caused by it. | 9 Books o= Bleed sad kin Diseases fres,
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ca.
Whenever two peorle fin it neces-
sary toagiee on their rights, there’s
| going to be trouble,
NAME OLD STRUGGLE -* Now, John,”
said the je s3imist’s wite, who had per-
uaded him to go to the circus, “1do
hope you will try to throw aside all
care and enjoy yourself.”
‘I have, Maria,” he peplied as he
gazed at the contortionist; “but there
it is again, the sume old struggle to
make both ends meet.”
Sst Ap——
BASEBALL NOTE. —“There is more
growing done by that pine than by
uny other.”
“What nive is that?”
“The canine,”’
so ———————
The story that comes from St. Jo-
seph, Mo., abouta J-months-old baby
with a beard 18 inches long is not exact.
ly a bare-faced le, but it would be if it
were shaved.
mean
Lydia Pinkham's warning to mothers should
be heeded by all, and “Guide to Health and
Etiquette * heeded by every Mother and Daugh-
ter in the elvilized world.
{ Itisonly when he brings In his bill
{that the physician dec ares himself in
| favor of high heals,
For every man who knows more
1
The fee for re
“ sonnei A, Wp
The Caspian Sea is the lowest body
of water.
Re
Pia
equally
Made by
Medical |
Street,
Your health
is a citadel
The winter's
storms are the
cominission for receipting will ‘be 25
cents.”
I paid Lim the sum named, and wa# When you decide to take Hood's Sarsaparilla
| do not be induced to buy some substitute prep.
sbout to get iuto the wagon when he |
Faid : | aration, which clerks may claim is “as good as
—— As,
It Is surprising how many good things
| & man reads in the course of an even-
i ing that should teach a lesson to his
neighbors,
Tha yee
:
“The charge fot bringing you over | Hood's.” lar merit of Hood's SBarsa-
and taking you back is $2. Half be
longs to me, as I own the wagon, One
dollar, please.”
“Can you think of anything further?”
1 asked as I bauded him the dollar,
"Well, you'll have to stop at
junction about four hours before the
Eastern train comes along.
testaurant there,
can.”
I'lease eat all
Therefore insist
Diz s'eamships use 466 pounds of coal
Catarrh Can't Be Cared
APPLICATIONS as they cannot
f Lhe dinsuse and in to
LOCAL
order
“paid you $13.75 for a lot you sdvertiee
to give away free. How munch de
call this land worth and acre?”
“All of six dollars, sir,
fered five and wouldn't take it.”
“Then I've paid you more than
va
tnongh to bury a couple of cows on!
“Exactly, sir—exactly, and I cons
gratnlate yon on your barbain.”
“Then you don’t call it a swindle?”
“No, sir! No, sir!
West for less than $14 isn't straight,
and, Mr. Tompkios, 1'd advise you te
keep an eve on him going back, and sce
and Lilk you out of your dollar I~ New
York Sur
HFPut Your in His Vince."
experience of them. A Boston
ter, one who presides
flourishing church, and “lends a hand”
in all good enterprises, was to
in Providence, und spent the night be
fore with a friend In & village
mi distant, walking to Provide:
Sunday morning.
Lungry, be stopped at al
ide, rang the bell
motheriy-looking woman
mits
0s
iwuse by t
and
who
ways
“Well,” she an
you can; but it doer
soem as thongh a big, stout man like
yon wight earn a living by work and
not beg for it,” He has Leen very con
giderate of tramps cver since
—
and a slice of bread,
swered, *1 suppose
A STRANGE C:*8E.—~Young Doctor
I was just going around to see your
Lrother. How is he this morning?
Patron - He 1s no better,
Young Doctor - What? No better?
That is certainly very strange! The pre
scription I gave him contained over
forty things .
CRUSHED AGAIN.-Editor-Who wrote
ths article,
Reporter —1 iadited
day.
Editor—Oh, did you? Well, it’s bad
enough to have Leen indicted six mouths
ago. Good morni g.
it, sir, yester-
Ga 1
Syrup’
House, Lewiston, and the Tontine
Hotel, Brunswick, Me. Hotel men
meet the world as it comes and goes,
and are not slow in sizing people
and things up for what they are
worth. He says that he has lost a
father and several brothers and sis-
ters from Pulmonary Consumption,
and is himself frequently troubled
with colds, and he
Hereditary often coughs enough
to make him sick at
Consumptionhis stomach. When-
ever he has taken a
cold of this kind he uses Boschee's
German Syne: and it cures him
every time. ere is a man who
knows the full danger of lung trou-
bles, and would therefore be most
articular as to the medicine he used.
What is his opinion? Listen! ‘1
use nothing but Boschee's German
Syrup, and have advised, I presume,
more than a hundred different per.
sons to take it. They agree with
me that it is the best cough syrip
in the market.”
Sold by druggists
A scan
New York has 3543
miblic
Cann’s Kidney Cure for
Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, Bright's,
Heart, Urinary or Liver Diseases, Nerve
Kc. Cure guaranteed.
street, Philad’a, $1 a bottle, 6
for $5, or druggist. 1000 certificates of
cures, Try it.
831
A Ho sins
There are 2700 tiesin a mile on a
i
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“Feels Ten Times Better Than Eyer.”
18,
TRG
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Women are ticket clerks on
roads,
PTU
cured
sc——
Feb. 0th, "91-8 rpople do
RE. nol wileve | are oan
% an as | was iy ruptured
ars and Dr. J. B. Mayer Arch St
trely cured me 5 years ag
gives treatment at the of
Pa, oo the 2nd Satu
Kn it
Go,
Aer also .
‘enn. Reading,
Ca month
wel
rday of
There's a big
Maine coast,
FITS: opp |
EE ———
nackerel
rn on
All Tita miopped free uy Dr. Kitne's Gres
Nerve Hestorer, No Fitsalter ra day's ass. Mar.
Selous cares, ‘Treatise and #40 (nal bostie free to
Monte Carlo robs its victims of $0.
000 000 annually.
Wu 'tEye-water. Drugyists sell at 350, per bottle
Through tne Earth's Crust.
An eight-inch well which is being
sunk near this city by the Wheeler Im-
provement Company in a search for oil
or gas has reached, after several
months o! boring, a depth of 4,100 feet.
Both oil and gas his been struck
throughout in paying quantities.
has gone through revera
quartz, iron and other
minerals,
Prof. J. C. White, State Geologist,
who has watched the drilling elcsely,
has succeeded in getting the (Govern-
ment interested in it. The result is
that after the well has been sunk to the
numerous
take up the work and, under the direc-
tion of two expert officers of the
Geologieal Barvey, drill into the earth
as far as human skill can penetrate,
The temperatire aud magnetic con-
ditions will be observed ss far as possi-
ble, sad by menus of an instrument
constru for the purpose a complete
record of the drilliog and all dicover:es
made will be kept. This record will
be placed in the Geological Barvey’s
exhibit at the W.rid's Fur, and after.
ward preserved at Washington. Prof,
White and the Government officers say
this will be of one of the most novel
and important exhibits at the Fair, and
will attract the attention of the scien-
tists of the world.— Wheeling Intelli-
gencer,
Fifteen years ago thers were no oranges
shipped from California, whils last year
over three thousand carlonds were ex-
ported,
A lhminous buoy has been invented,
the light of which is produced by phos
phuret of calc'um, and is visible two and
# half miles away,
It tak:s shout three Steonis tor a
message to go from one ¢ the
lantic eable to the other. This is about
seven hundred miles a second,
NSO ENT
1810 ]
Por internal and External Use,
Stops Pat Cramem, InBammation In body or Bmb,
Bie maggie i: sp. Asid ida, Oatarrh, Chod
ars Mobi, Diareh ha fur ¥
back, Bf Jolnte and Strain
eta poatpadd. LL 8 JOUN Boston, Meek,
SENT FREE
THIS MONTH TO
MOTHERS
SEND A POSTAL TO-DAY
AND SY RETURN MAIL RECEIVE OUR
v
TWO PRIMERS
Conraming Pasrre Pigrunse
1 by loving
reared
Neural
fo rt ben hare
NA OO,
& Pal
Of beautiful Be
» have
mothers wh
INFANTS AN INVALIDS
DYSPEPTICS CONVALESCENTS
MORE CHILDREN ARE SUCCESSFULLY
REARED ON RIDGE'S FOOD THAN
ALL OTHERS COMBINED
Jie sold throughout the civilised world as
ean be secured al the drugstore where you trade
ADVERT IB ING WOOLRICH & CO,
PEPART MENT PALMER, MASS,
Whea writing pleas mention this paper,
ADORE ES
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ily | me
rrigelom J
DONALD KENNEDY
0f Roxbury, Mass., says
Horrid Old Sores, Deep-
Seated Ulcers of 40 years’
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“T'hat’s what relief from an
tramp
and got a
i call
for a nickel
twenty-five-cent plece,
Cler'eus: After all, honesty is the
best policy.
Cynicus: And, like the others, you
can’t collect on it until you are dead.
1t takes a tramp a long, long Lime
to break up a cord of wood; but it
doesn’t takes long for a cord of wood
to break up a tramp.
make
an allowance.
many
A married man should always
has Lo masse a good
——
He Well, it is growing late; I fear
1 must go,
She—Oh, stay a little longer
and see
remarked
the fence
the young
“My youth has flown.”
the gid after witnessing
Jumping contest between
man and her pas bul dog.
————
Wife—~John, you often think
your birdie during business
of
bours,
i
Husband —1 did today, A
came off my vest.
First Stodent—Y ou
marvelous manuscript
button
sald you
and then
had a
show
i
3
Second Stadent— Well,
mary ¢i?
isn't that a
—
“The policemen are getting so they
“What have they done now?"
“Why, one of them pulled in a fire
alarm this morning."
That “all gone’ or faint feeling so prevalent
with our best female population, quickly sue.
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Thunder Humor,
| Cancer that has taken
| Price, $1.50.
| cept
and Canada.
FOR FIFTY YEARS!
MRS. WINSLOW'S
SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used by mothers for their children
while Teething for over Fifty Years, It
soothes the o iid, softens the nd, Allare
all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best
remedy for disrrhoms,
enty«five Cents n Bottle,
i -
HAY FEVE
& ASTHMA
SHY ann
EL pres Care
rein bast war 15 adi ndieating claims, Stly aloes
PERRI Fi rues sop mmm.
. Write for A. yr
anmineron, D. Cicer mans,
CURED TO STAY CURED,
We want the name and ad-
dress of every sufferer inthe
U.S and Canada. Address
P. Barold Ropes, KD, Buffnle, 5.1
Bowe,
A
A yellow hen with a blue ail is the
suljet of an interesting lawsuit in an
Alabama court.
The receipts of the French Treasury
ars larger than those of any other civil-
ized country,
An Italian has invented a new fuel
prepared from lignite, It has been sat-
istactorily used for running locomo-
tives,
Czar of Russia (just out of bed)
What Jas Jocome of Mhderput?
Eo our
blacksmiths rR bs fresh rivels In
t,
Tired, but not weary—A wheel,
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, It never falls,
One stamp collection is valued at
£100 000,
Two-thirds of New York live in ten.
ements,
ONE ENJOYS
Both the ssetiod aad saucy whet
0 en;
and irabig io the taste, a
Eve and Bowie, coats thesge
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CoO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
NEW YORK, N, ¥.
coming enemy. You know that this enemy will sit
down for five long months outside this citadel, and do its
best to break in and destroy. Is this citadel garrisoned
and provisioned? The garrison is your constitution. Is
it vigorous or depleted? How long can it fight without
help? Have you made provision for thg garrison by fur-
nishing a supply of SCOTT'S EMULSION of
pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites of
Lime and Soda? It lagging energies, in-
creases the resisting powers against d 2, cures Con-
sumption, Scrofula, General Debility, and all Anamic and
Wasting Diseases (especially in Children), keeps coughs
and colds out, and so enables the constitution to hold the
fort of health. Palatable as Milk.
ig prescribe
nd
restores the f
oy i Li i $n
SC .
15Ca
A Say
NE CRAYON PORTRAIT
Portrait Companies for free Ea buy
it $n pr it $3.50, 6.in
f licg a lree
2
"Ae f ee Ur t
not ive you a § LYON ¢x% you buy a iframe from
us, but ou mes are 1h tual price. Pfeiflfer's r"ortrait and Art store,
100 and 111 NN, Ninth St, Philadelphia, Pa,
ll neeroe Mmarrje®
e ]
| nd Y© ontrefuseall:
dr Advice
to use SAPOLIO: risa?
"solid cake of scouring soap,
used for cleaning purposes
I asked a majd if she would wed,
And in my home her brightness shed;
She faintly smiled and murmured low,
“If I can have SAPOLIO.”
—
In Church, — Ethel— How harmo- |
nious the color of everything is.
Margarat—Y er, excepting the sexton
Why doesn’t he wear stained glasses.
£
Sa ay e No.a
A Skin of Beaty is a Joy Forever
DR.T, FELIX GOURAUDS
{al Cream, or Magical beautifler
Removes
Tan, rimp-
les, Free
ies, Moth
Pat hes
Bash a
rin dis
cases, aod
eYery ble.
mish |
beauty and
defies de
tection. It
Bas stood
the test of
40 years
noother has,
ar and is so
: n harmiesy
we faste I to be sure it properly
made. Accept no counterfeit of similar name.
The distinguished Dr, 1. A. Sa
lady 2 he BAPYTON {a :
you ia Ww use them, recom tend
‘Gonrand’'s Cream’ as the least harmful of all
the kin preparations.” Also Poudre Bu btile
removes superfivous hair without inary to the
skin.
FRRD. T. HOPKINS. Proprietor, © Great
Jones Street, New York. - 5
For sale by ali dl sis and Faney G
Brsic throughout U.S. Canada
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No
Excited lady--Whs don’t you Inter
fere to stop that dog fight,
Bystander-~1 was jast a goin’ to,
mum; but you kin caim v’r fears now.
My dog i» on top ut last, mum.
swe Besutifies
the skin.
otiwer cosine.
Purifiesas well
tie will de it
Hungry Higzins--Say, boss, I haven't
had a bite Lo eat for four days.
Mudge (hurrying by)—-And I bave
had to decline seven invitations to dig-
ner lo the same period of time. Funny
bow thiugs average up; isa’t 18,
CHEAP DOCTORING, —— Anxious Mam.
ma-~-Litte Dick Is upstairs, erying
with the toothache,
Practical Papa-—Take him around to
the dentist's.
*I haven’t any money."
“You won't need any monev. The
toothache will stop before you get ther."
His LAST CROKE ~-**1 hope you will
cut me down as soon as convenient af-
ter the job is done,” sald the culprit to
the hangman.
“Why, what differencs can it make to
you a'ter you are dead?"
“Ah! my friend, you must remenber
that suspense 1s worse than death."
destroyer
inlist, who is 1n demand for halls
churches whose acoustic
The
spec
and
are He remedies the die ?
gure Suis .s u'ty
echo 18s a New York
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