THE ANT AS AN ENGIN TER. “Very likely not, but neverthicless, what was it?" “A Bible,” ‘Just like him; and we had two fam- ily onus to begin with, not to speak of | the little ones you have in almost avers | room." “In the same way, Stephen, people gave us napkins enough for three gener ations, and silver mugs enough to serve all our friends. Uncle's Dibie was by no means an ordinary one." ** How not?" ‘It has bren in the Hawick household since A. D. 16186, nnd contains the fam- ily register for more than two hundred years, I am the last of our branch: uncle thouwht 1 would like to haveit. It is a queer old book with great brass clasps. I made uncle two solemn promises cver it.” “What were they?” “That I would never part with it under any circumstances, unless it was to give it back in his charge, and-- and" “Well, what else?” “I'hat when every other source of help and comfort failed me I would go to it—don't look so angry, Stephen.” ~ “I think 1 have good cause to be an- gry; it is like a phophesy of ill fortune. Why should he forespeak sorrow for you? And why should he suppose that you His directions ware all given; to his chiefs he | would need help or comfort I could g ve acal’; not give you? If he had given you a While he headed the procession as they | thousand poundsit would have been more hed « . { to the purpose.” Heiehod off up tue vail . ates Boke quickly up. She had Every ant thea se'zed his plaster, justa speck | var heard such a sentiment from Ste- and nothing more, { phen's lips before. Then she laughed And he climb d and taggod and carried till | gayly. he'd br ught it to the shore; : Tha pratry was delicious, and [ want Q it iny- wolf, Bo I put it in the pantry on tho very lowest shelf. And to keop it from the insects, thoso a: ts so red and small, A made a river round it of molasses, best of all. But the enemy approsched it, allas hungry as could be. And the captain with bis sid-de-camp just skirmishing round to see Whether they conld for { this river, or should try some other plan, 4nd toget er with his comrades he around the liguid ran. To his joy and satisfaction after traveling | around, The place where the molasses was narrowest he found; Then again he veconnoitered, ward and then back, Till he spied som» loosened mortar in the wall around a tack. rushing for- He divided theo his foreas, with 2 foreman for each squad, 4nd he marshaled the whole army, and be- fore him ea h anttrod; ] | money?” all marched over and all fell | ‘Buy and drain Druid’'s Moss, Mag- te." an hour ny After which the: to eating pie. der at the sight of Druid’s Moss, and with that touch of superstition always linger. ing in north-country minds, she half feared it had bewitched him; for he worked there through long days, until he cans hore too weary to speak to her or even notice ths children; while every wound he could get was hopelessly sung in its treacherous depths. It was pitiful, too, to see the bare up lands of the farm that were once white with mountain-sheep: and the great barns and byres nearly empty, that had once been full of Normandy farm horses and dewy-lipped Alderneys, But things got worse and worse, ard in the middle of a dreary winter, just before the birth of her third child, Uncle Joseph died. Fifty pounds to defray his funeral ex wnres was nearly all the money found; Put lic left Maggic his house and furni- ture, and with his last breath reminded her of the old Bible. “You'll be needing it soon, Maggie dear, I know: doc't forget me when you come to that day.” These were his last words, and Maggie pondered them that evening as she sat, silent, beside her sleeping children. It was hard to sell the dear old home, but Stephen would hear of nothing else; so the doctor's house went into the may ket; the quaint furniture was scattered all over the Dale snd the money went into Druid’s Moss, It only put off the evil day, Squire Thwaites abandoned his improvements; { he would throw no more money after bad, he said ; but Stephen, h a determination that many thought « «ind of madness, worked away And really, in the looked as if he would succeed. A por tion that had been finished produced such a crop as made the farmers round the craggy hills doubt their own eves, Stephen was jubilant: what be good fourth vear. if could Maggie drew her eyebrows together and looked wonderingly at Stephen, who had risen and was pacing the floor with AGGIES WEDDING GIFP. iid —--{8t. Nicholas, she said anxiously, “what is that worth" “A few leeches and wild : Maggie, but acres and acres of golden wish, | wheat and rich meadow.grass if it is | drained. I was talking to Thwaites abon® | it to-day. Both our uplaads are worn out; the Moss lies betweer us. | would give | five years of my life to own half of itand am not going to pretend I do.” | money sufficient to drain and cultivate ‘His ways are very good ways. No | itr one cau say wrong of Uncie Joseph, Ste- | «How much money would do, Ste oem.” | phen?” ‘“That is justit; they are too good. I “A thousand pounds. I could dmin rather think Iam old enough to know | part, and then save the proceeds to what I am doing, and what I want. [|]. the rest. But where could I get have a good farm, I don’t owe a penny, the money?” ” and I never mean to ask a favor except | «[ was thinking of Uncle Joseph of you, or of my own hands. If I palav- | Would you let me ask him?" ered over Joseph Hawick, he would be Nothing is so wonderful as the growth the very first to say I wanted the trifle of l of a master passion. In a few hours, the money he may have saved.” i for Maggie sighed, and then looked up | had strengthened itself so that Stephen into Stephen's handsome face and smiled, - Stephen, of course, was right: a man with such eyes and such a fizure could not, in love's sight, be wrong. ie BY AMELIA E. BARR, birds now, “A man’s hat in his hand never did | him any harm, Stephen, and. I dear, you had been a little more civil to Uncle Joseph.” “Nonsense, Maggie, darling. TI don't like Joseph Hawick and his ways, and 1 | Qesire be worth while to let his wife go borrow ing for him; and the longer be talked, : . the more cager he became; so that, at brave and confident, too, and had that | last, Mueggie felt hurt to see what a trifle way of assertion which only very cool he made of her feelings and of the risk and sensible people can resist. | Joseph Hawick would run. Uncle Joseph sighed, too, but it was 41 However, next day she went to see different sigh from Maggie S. He loved { the old man, and, as they sat together his niece with a wise and tender affec- | oo.0 their tea and erumpets, said: tion, and she had not chosen the husband “Uncle, Stephen wants to joln Squire that he would have chosen for her. | Thwaites in buving the Druid’s Moss" y vis (ray . 3 ¢ 4 wre sda Rg ' a} ng i h :. Btophe n Gray was indeed well te lo, ‘What To raise cranberries? and had a fair character, but the keen old “Uncle! Why they talk of great man saw radical defects in it, ! whent-flelds and meadows.” is v Tater $ / v x % Af a 4 ohhh ar i He listens to no-one but himself, and “It will need a sight of drainage, and 80 he hears no advice but a flatterer’s, that means a sight of money - § : o®a in > g. we is ¥ He Lo , : 23% “ : J - paid Joseph, ** besides, Maggie, he is so not think Stephen had idle Jrowd, that I am feared he's bouad to cient.” ave a tumble.” den “* But, uncle, he has a big heart. and | . 4 : i i : 8 big heart, and | Joseph's face clouded he's a good farmer, and even you can see | : I “Wonders never cease I that he is the handsomest man i: e lg ' ph Dales n : : an 1a, th { Stephen Gray would starve before he - i . J : ; : i would borrow or owe money.” “That is all true, girl, but God doe ] ; : y Bi, : WES 1 “Don't cast up the past, uncle. Ste. not measure men by inches.” ! hint fF 3 3 However, in spite of all disaffection. | Phen ’ tainks hut x = could Soret w 3 Maggie Hawick’s wedding with Stephen in bre 8 Pony . : . Wau . he r " ten Gray came off with great and widespread - d . Jona; pa i pie os, Tm hospitality. Joseph Haywick had been | You - nak you 3 Sin bin n Magoi for forty years the physician and friend | fork ol a A at 7 Jo ide " : apg, of all the Dale families, rich and poor, | reli Gent 13s \ n pre that makes . 3 : iro : j others stoop for its conceit, aod not one of them missed an invitation. “Squire Thwaites said you had plenty u rors § PY Skat on t . A ! . x an " - The gentry feasted in the oak-raftered | of money in Kendal Bank." rior, "and the shepherds and cotters | ts i i ’ n the big barn. But all were merry and | 1f 1 had money I'd never trust it in full of good wishes for the pretty bride | any bank; but ] make no more than 1 and her handsome husband, ; Seed SOW 1 am getting an old man, The number of the bridal presents Maggie. Maggie received testified to it. Ste. ‘Stephen will be sorely disappointed. ” ben's sideboard ond buffet would be | = ‘‘He has no cause to be so. 1 told him right with silver tokens, and his pre«ses | YOu would have no fortune, and he quite full of snowy damask and fine-spun linen | 5corned at the thought of money with and blankets. But, upon the whole, it | ¥ou. He had his choice between yon rather mortified Lim. He could not feel | 8nd Kate Crofts, with the Crofts Manor the loving kindness that sanctified the | ot her will.” gifts, and the obligation was not pleasant The old man was quite gloomy after Yo the self-sutlicient young man, He | this talk; and Maggie was almost glad bad assured Uncle Joseph voluntarily, | 10 escape fpomn the silent hearthstone to snd with rather unnecessary pride, that | the bustle of her own busy farm and the he wanted nothing with Maggie, neither | n0isy welcome of her husband. gold nor gear nor land; and yet, for all Stephen took the refusal very proudly, that, he looked rather anxiously for the | but the idea had now become paramonut, old man’s offering. y and Joseph Hawick's refusal had only Joseph Hawick was believed, in spite | made him the more determined to carry of his eccentric attentions to poor pa- | out the project. He had a flerce struggle tients, to “have money,” and Stephen | with his pride and his independence, but felt that a handsome check on Keadall | the next day he went into Kendal and Bank or a few government beads would | made arrangements to raise the money by not be out of place; for he had been at | mortgage on the farm that had been some expense in refurnishing the old | unincumbered for six hundred years. farm-house, and he was very anxious to In a few weeks all arrangements had try some new scientific experiments with | been made, the Moss had been bought, his worn‘out land. surveyed and divided, and the partners But Maggie said nothing about her | in its drainage gent to work. It soon uncle's present, and Stephen was far too | proved itself a drainage of two kinds, proud to ask her, until nearly a year | After many hundreds of pounds had after their marriage. But one day he | been spent to very little purpose, more had a long talk with oid Squire Tw=ftes | experienced surveyors had to be sent for, about “high farming,” and then the vwo | and entirely pew means and machinery men drifted into the discussion of some | 1sed. Too much had been thrown into scheme for the draining of Druid's Moms, | the Moss to abandon the project, and yet Then Stephen, thinking it all over as he | the constant cry for “‘money” was fast smoked his pipe by the blazin ingle, | exhausting the patience and purses of saw untold wealth of harvest fon the | both Squire Thwaites and Stephen Gray, rch alluvial soil and fabulous wheat. Ids growing where men now caught es or shot wild fowl, : If he only had money! If he only had one thousand incash! Thwaites and he would buy and drain the Moss. Ho sat dreaming over the project and ecnnted the acres and bushels iver and over, until he began to look upon Druid’s Moss as the one thing upon the earth to be desired, aaggie,” he said, suddenly, to the little wife, sewing and gently posing herself beside him, Magiie, what Uncle Joseph give you a wedding presenti You never told me.” Was Cor? 2 OT cash " “He wants to borrow it. The former more able to bear his loss, became, after two years’ labor, quite in. different, talked of the affair as Je Fog f was half angry with Stephen for like despera- persisting. But somethin tion animated the young iy, for he : home aad es oe Coa ar one aden heir redemption was if {he Moss filed him, ” oor Maggie, two babies to care for, strove to help him by done for two acres could be done for two { hundred. He had proved his position, i and was mote enthusiastic than ever over | his idea, i But Maggie was almost hopeicss. Sue { was beginning to suffer for very necessi ties: strange, hard men came with aa | thority her home, and Stephen { looked so ill and haggard and was so ir about i ritable that her cup was full of s Oue gloomy afternoon, when it rai heavily ventured to try to reason with and com fort the gloomy man, looking dolefully across the empty farm 3 arid toward the dreary Moss, VOT, that work was impossible, she great, flat { soon be my dear aie.” he said ‘To-morrow | am into Kendal, to get another five hun { pounds, if I can, upon the farm plenish ing and the rempant of the stock, 1 am sure, if I get it, to put the whole Moss under wheat this year, and that will | practically save If 1don't,1 have { lost my estate and all these years’ labor and we shall leave this place, within a month. You know now, Maggie.’ The next day, amid the she watched her husband make inst | desperate effort She taroed and looked { upon the plensant room, with her three children playing unconsciously about it; | then she fled upstairs, and, fa ling down | upon her knees, poured out all her heart in passionate, pleading prayer As rose, with sireamiog eyes, Uncle Joseph's last flashed across her mind Somehow, they held a new meaning for | her. She unlocked her drawer, and lifted { the old brass-bound b carefully and tenderly out “It mothers for many a gene: “] will see wh And she unclasped it i pray . “s ‘1 was i { helped me.’ They were good words, and she the whole psalm thro } leaf b for | hundred pounds feil } feet lifted it as though it had fallen | heaven, and commenced to turn. | eager, trembling fingers, the well-worn | pages. One after another, bills fluttered {into her lap until, from between the | boards of Uncle Joseph's wedding gift, | she had takea eight thousand eight han. dred pounds. Can any one guess how see prayed again, and with what a radivmit face she met the cross, wretched man that, haif- drowned with the storm, walked. about sundown, up to the hearthstone! “Stephen! Stephen!” she cried joy: ously. ‘‘Never look sad again! Uncle Joseph's wedding-gift has saved us'™ And she spread the money before him, Maggie was right; the money saved Stephen every way. He bought Thwaites out; he paid off all claims on his home; he restocked his farm, and trium hantly finished the draining of Druid’s Moss, Maggie's fortune was oddly given, but the eccentric old man did not judge far amis. His wedding gift was blessed as he intended it should be—in two ways— for Maggie and Stephen learned to love it, not only for the material help it had brought them in their extremity, but alse for the promise of the far more exceed- ing and abundant riches which it prom- ises and provides for. [The Ledger. The Cat in Thibet, The cat is treated by Thibetans with the most marked attention and forbear- ance. Even when it spills milk, breaks or destroys any valuable object, or kills some pet bird, it is never whipped or beaten in any way, but merely chidden and driven away by the voice: while were a dog or a child to commit these offences, would be soundly thrashed, Buch very mild and considerate treat- ment might lead one to suppose that the cat is esteemed holy. But such is not the ease. It is, indeed, regarded as a useful animal, to the extent that it eon- tributes to the preservation of sacred pic- tures, robes, books, sacrificial food, and the like, by WMiling the rats and mice which consume and dest otherwise the cat is considered the most sinful being on earth, on account of ite constant desire for aking, life, even Mag 1s Dery Lie driving storm, his she words wok wis comforted my fathers tion. softly, wiih a wind He read urned the one She from with i i ! | i i they when THE JOKERS’ BUDGET. JEST AND YARN BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, A Hard Lot-A Matter of Cholee—A Great Improvement —~Kte., Kies “Goodness me, Johnay! What you crying about now?’ Hause Tommy dreamed pie last night and § didn’t.” lis Journal, are about eatin’ { Indianapo- 5 MATTER OF CHOICE, “To. think that my Ethel should have spoken so impertinent to papa at dinner, she never hears mamma talk that way to him." Ethel (stoutly) him and | didn’t, Well, but you choosed [Tit Bits. A GREAT IMPROVEMENT. Tailor -Checks I sec are not to be us this Spring. Customer Well, that ways liked credit far Iater-Ocean, uits me: I al- better A PREDICAMENT dason—I'll be hanged if I know whether it's safer to address that strange lady as “Miss” or “Madame Argo--Why, what difference make? Jason will -Well. vou see, if #0 old that she must be married, if 1 her ‘Miss think I've spotted her as an old maid who couldn’s {Chicago News Record, i 8 enll she'll get married A GOUD REASON. “1 wis anid Hobbie, “Why ‘Then I could h 1 was a twin, f "asked his father Rene th id iso she “Yes. 1 “Hoes she love him?’ £ going to marry “It is impossible to tell MUCH TO LIVE von uved her more than tongue cou at least more than for he had bet i. stil his tongue could Tf n telling her of it {i praile r circumstance Y et many winters such iisien that love keeping than a cloak he had some doubts about the cold better serving for food and raiment she knew m tical stand point out and Sparcriis and sealekizs, were We com fortable from a prac Yet she loved io It’s a we iisten to this lovers ikness women have even he whis. her } ii for,’ WOK in i ~ face trust. vou did, George,’ scales, “Birdie,” he murmured. and her, —| Detroit Free Press THE SAD RLEYATOR Boy day? Elevator Boy Yes'm “1s it the motion of going down 1” ‘ No'm. ‘ The motion of going up 1 No'm “The stopping ? *‘ No'm. “What is it then | “The questions. Good News BURR TO FAN Bilkins—=Y our friend ” work when you need a new man? Boomer--No use, A man who can't succeed as a novelist hasn't imagination enough for the real estate business, —IN. Y. Weekly. : HONEST, He—Don't you think you could love me just a little? She (decidedly)~No: I'm one of those impulsive creatures who never do things by halves. — {New York Press. VASITON® Pom "03, Wife—Isn't it lovely? It was so de lightfuily antique I could not resist the temptation to buy it, Husband Well, I'll be dinged! Here I've just been elected President of the Swear Off Temperance Society, and you go out and Purchase an old-fashioned punch bowl as big as a tals, “We needn't use it for dear.” “What can we do with it?” “I was thinking we might Keep it in the library. We can fill it with water, you know, and alongside of it have a sponge on a pretty Japanese plate,” “What for?” “For wetting stan, Weekly, punch, my Columbia postage of course.” [New York A JUDICIAL OPINION, Daughter flookhug up from her novel) ~=Papa, in time of trial what do you suppose brings the most comfort to a man? Papa (who is District Judge)—An ne- ical, I should think. [Brooklyn LN . COMPANION PIRCES, GildersleovomA Philadel o Hldaralonyene Indelphia man has HER FAVORITE ATTITUDS. In the Street Car: Gentleman {enter- { ing)-~-Will you kindly get up ani give me your seat Lady—What do you mean by address- | ing me in that manner, sir? | Gentleman—-W hen 1 offered you a seat { last evening you said you preferred to i stand. As | take you for a lady of your | word, 1 will accommodate you by oecu- pring your seat while you assume your fuvorite attitude, —{ Boston Transcript. HAD His EYES OPBXED ~Thers was a time when I thought I knew everything. Brown--Yies, And you ferently now ? (3.~1 do. B.—-What opinion { G.~~Well, the fact is I am courting a widow.-- [New York Press, Green think dif- made you change your SELLY CONTROL, Teacher—What is the meaning of self- control? Boy-—It's we'sn a teacher gets mad, { and feels liks giving a boy a black mark, and doesn’t, i A GREAT EFFORT, Wee Miss Mamma You should body, my dear, Wee Miss Well, if 1 musn’t hate her, { I'll try not to, but 1 guess It'll make my | head ache, —{ Good News, I hate that little girl! not hate any. A BIG BOOM, Mr section? Western Friend booming Why, | where 1 live, they | Streets down Gotham -—How’s business in your Booming, sir, just a sir, in Dugout City, are opening up new whole town is (N. Y. Weekly, 50 fast with SURURE. AN AERIAL Mr. vin this mornis Mager see you're | late ag ve vou moved out of town? Skylight—Yes, sir. M anager How {ari rht—"The twenty-first oo Inter-Ocean, DEFINITE EROUGH. then? Some time in the Juck—1 may | Perdita (blushingly) futur 58 You Jack. # When? Jack (e rer y Perdita— Day before to-mon ME. JONES TELLS A STORY. Mrs. Jones [Hlustrates It by Frequent Remarks, I know the best story about Simp Mr. Jones, as he set on to-day, aid “You've sect that fur coat of hi it was “Wait till I get my sewing, Jeptha” aid Mrs, Jones, “There now begin." w the outside of the cost is me Maria-—well, y Simpsons,” “40h, ves (20 On. “And it isn't to besnecuxd “Oh, dear, where's my thimble? run and get it. There, | What was it Simpson sneezed at?” Who said anything about Simpson sneezing? woman,” ried Jones, a if you thin you cau | sit still for five minutes I'll y ou with | the story. He made a bet WN ho made a - “ Simpson did-—that nobody could tell what the ined with" I ** Waen't it furlinedi™ i If you know story better than I do perhaps you will tell it,” suggested Mr. Jones, * The boys all guessed — + ** What boys?” : i 1 he fel we---the cro i “Just let me getthis needle threaded.” said Mrs. Jones, as she tried thread the point of a crambic needle: ““1can | listen better when I'm sewing, Goon.” “We were all in it, 50 we guessed cat- skige="" “Jeptha'! that reminds me, I haven't | seen old Tom to-day.” i **Confound old Tom! ! Maria, or—" { “Wait till the scissors roll by. There! | I'm all ready. Was that the door-bell? | Now for the story.” t “We guessed the skin of every animal {in the catalogue.’ “What catalogue?” “Heavens, Maria, you'll drive me mad! Siriipeon won the bet, and" “What bet?" “About the lining. It was" “Then it wasn't cat?” “No! no! It was calf —when he was tin it | ha! ha! Sect” { *“‘Rather fur-fetched, wasn't it” Mrs, Jones, yawning, {| Then Jones rose to offer a few feeble | remarks about telling a story to a wo- { man, and expecting her to see the point, | ete., ete.—[Detroit Free Press, at" Just el me now, & A 1148 iid v nat just lixe bet ' ye? vd —" to Will vou listen, said i A A Sex! and scrape the hair off and clean (in the ordinary way. Fill the carcass | with small or sliced up sweet potatoes | and sew up with a few stitches of twine | or coarse thread. Scoop out a hole in | the ground large enough to hold your | ‘possum, wrap him well in green corn shucks, or, if they cannot be had, old shucks thoroughly wetted will do. Cover with one and a half to two inches of dirt, build a good wood fire on him and let the fire burn down to coals. In a half hour your "possum, together with the Sweet potatoes, will be on. Itis a vlan to cook a ‘possum this wa aight and let it tama In the groun until next morning, when you can serve it for breakfast. When cooked in this manner the flesh isso tender that it just drops from the bone like a thoroughly stewed spring chicken. All the fine aroma of the meat is retained, which, with the delicate flavor imparted by the sweet potatoes, makes a dish that is ab. solutely delicious. While in Arkansas we also cooked A grodt many fish in this way. Indeed, itis the best that 1 have ever found to cook fish, ot fowl. The cowboys often roast a ealf’s head in this manner whou out in camp, once owned, inghpnghust—3¥ ho hus the hack Wash Sdn i, Fi, p. shucks. HR SSSI On Which Slide to Sleep, Will you take the experienss of an old man, instead of learning of old writers?” asked the novelist Trollope, when called on for his opinion in a recent discussion in Notes and Quer- tes. ‘1 sleep equally well on the right side, on the left side, or on the back, like the bad shepherd, who, we know, ‘dormit supinous.’ Ido pot think 1 ever tried the only remaining posis tion-—face downward. 1 take it Mr. Agnus hits the nail on the head when he speaks of the inexpealency of sleeps ing on the right side after a late din- ner or supper; only 1 should say on the right side or in any other posi tion. The fact is, I take it, that the middle of the day, or from 1 to 2 o'clock, is the best time for feeding, and the most comfortable to the gens eral operations of the organism. I suppose it would be well to make is the only time, which,I am convinced, most of us could do with perfect coms fort after a little — suy a month’s— practice. But if you will dine, as we call it, or sup, as our fathers called it, at 7 or 8 in the evening, you ought not togotobed till 2 or 3 in tie morning. 1, being threatened with gout, was told on high authority that the surest way to avoid it was to dines ~%ihat is. make my principal meal— at 1 o'clock, and take very little after it 1Iobeyed, and have never had any symptoms of gout since. If you want to ‘sleep like a babe’ when be- tween eighty and ninety, dine early, eat no supper-—a cup of tea or coffees and a bit of toast wiil do no harms aod never trouble your head about putting your stomach “iu the position of an inverted bottle: as Mr. Agnus Jars abstain from putting any othes ottles in that position.” EE ——————— The Poultry Ealsers’ Rule of Ten. Ten hens in a bouse that is tea feet square, with yards ten times the size of the house, is a rule to follow. Ten hens with one male is the correct inating, and ten eggs under a setting hen in winter, are enough. Ten weeks is long enough to keep a broller before it goes to market, and a pair of ducks or fowls should weigh not over ten pounds. Ten cents per pound is the average price for fowls in market, and 10 cents should feed a ben ore month. ; —————— — It takes a fool a life time to find out what Deafness Can't be Carved appiications, as they cannot reach the portion of the ear. There is only one Way to cure deafness, and that is oonstitn. tional remedies. Deafness is o by an in. flamed condition of the mucous ining of the When this tube gots n. YOu haves rumbling sound or ampere and when i entirely closed, the result, and unless the infiam. stored 1o its normal condition wil. be on by satearrh, which is notoing but an fo. We will give One Hundred Doliars for any case of deafness caused Uy cstarrh) we taking ‘s Oatarrh Cure. free. F. J. Caxxey & Qo. Toledo, Sold by Druggists 750. > The mother tongue is probably guage of Mars, Brown's Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Mala. ria, Biliousness and General Debility,’ Gives | strength. aids. Divest 01, tones the NET VE {| creates nppetite. The best tonic for Nursing Mothers, weak women and children. the lan Prades never has to be cosxed » sing. ~ $3 Worth of Hood's Salt Rheum Bohsoriasis-Severs Kingsley, lows, *In 187 1 had an eruption appear on my eft leg and arm. Sometimes it would uloerate and on account of it 1 was unable to work a great deal of the time. | had seven 4: ctors ex. amine and treat me without success. Some called it psorasis, sme ecpema, some sali rheum and one knowing onc called it prairie lich. All the doctors in the county had a trial but nome did me a particle of good. 1 spent all my spare money trying to get relief. Finally I was persuaded to try Hood's After using one and a hal! botiles I saw the benefit. Lhave now used the third bottle and HOOD'S Sarsaparil a Hood's sarsaparilla than from the hundreds of dollars paid for advice and other mudicine, Any one suffering from skin trouble will surely get re. lief in Hood's Sarsaparilian” N. J. McCoux, We Know Thisto Be T “We know Mr. N. J. MeCoun; pn tog taking
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