Driven From the Citade', The warmth of spring and summer may | do much to relax the muscular system and make many feel muck nore comfortab e, but thers is this about the old ehemy rheu matism, that when he once takes hold, he tries to hold the citadel at oll seasons of the year, But whether this arch enuiny lurks in the museies, joints, bones or the nerves, he fs such an ousmy to human happiness that he must be driven out of any stronghold. It was planned long ago to do thig, and St, Jacob's Oil as a knight in battle has scored wondarful victories. At all times he is ready to overcome and conquer this ftiead of pain, and does it ns surely aud certainly us knights of old extirpated the Barucen. Bo no one should be deceived by the mild weatuer of apring to trifle with {t either in chronic or transient form, Use the great remedy [od pain and get ri 1 of it once and for all, you and Harry loved at we quarreled on aequain- “You told sight.”' “Yes, tance.” me but When Traveling, Whether on pleasure bent, or business, ake on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it and effectually on the kidneys, liver praventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For and 21 bottles by all leading by the California acte most pleasantly and bowels, anle in 50 cent Truggists. Fig Syrup C Manufactured ompany only. abatement in United There appears to be little ropular feeling in Spain against * Spring Medicine ¥eour blood the in certain to be fall accumulation of the Dad veati'ation of sleeping rooms, impure air in dwell fogs, shops, overeatiag, heavy, ls, of the properly to do extra upon them, are the condition. It is that you Spring is almost of impurities--the winter moaths, factories aod impr fatlure Dar kidneys and liver work thus thrust prime causes of this of tho uimost yriance Purify YourBlood Now, as wi weoathe the tonic affect ol cold braciog thio, img necesanry img \Omes air ure | strength, ite, will ian warme is lood gone, your weak, will not furnish That tired open the way for serious diseass, ruined health, or and impurities. To blood Hood's equalled, I'wousands merits, Millions take It as Bpring Me: Get Hood's, Lecause Hood's Sarsaparilla ruggiaia $1 Maga, feeling, loss of appet breaking out of I make pure, red un- its their Sarsaparilla stands testify to iicine, Isthe OneT rue Binod Purifier. All Prepare! i aly by ( , Lowell, ara the only pills to take Hood's Sarsaparilia. witli Hooil’s Pills Mr. | charge the Chieazo 1 to pass a large portion « has general + contracts of Nowspa per com pelie urneying to aad frorin the interes ing says th him gines he Speak. Barry ' represents of Ripans Tabuales, Mr with his trips, rquainted with He ing always carried them in sntcheal on al their exes four or fy part MEUM dev » take one alter a hearly or, more & alter a hasty He Mir. Bacry does not spaoinily, meal, asver requires more than one, remember bow he was first induead to make trial of Ripans Tabules, bul now he buys them of the nearesi druggist whenever his supply is achausted, “They are specially convenient,” Barry a thing traveling, Mr, i, “abd a mighty nics just what 8 man neads when if he neads a medicine at all” Ripass Tabule: are sold by drazgale, if the prio: (30 conta 4 OX) Is 88 O) Chemical © No. W Spruce st, RBample vial « WALL PAPER FREE » Would be dearer than ALARASNTINE, which does not require to be taken off to renew, does not harbor germs, but destroys them. and any one can brush it on, Sold by all paint demlers. Write for card with samples. _ ALABASTINE C0., Grand Rapids, Mich, C « [B Sian on w by mai The Ripans rary, New York, HW eens DRUC- | = ELIXI R. CISTS, Congressman Hopktas Could Not See the Joker's Helut. Mr. Hopkins of Illinois Is not alto- gether lmaccessible to the subtlety of a but in the main the tawny haired statesman is disposed to be serious and gre Updegrafl is a dry joker, and Lacey of Iowa Is always bubbling over with the spirit of werrituent, Some time ago, while Hopking and Lacey were sinoking in the house cloakroom the conversation drifted to the subject of gladiators, and Hopkins, in his serious way, began to extol the martial achievements of one Spartacus, pot unknown to most readers, from fuveniles up grayv-haired statesmen, in connection with a poem beginning: “Ye call me chief. And ye do well to {call him chief who for twelve long | years,” ete. | “You can talk about gladiators in tones of contempt,” sald Hopkins, “but | Spartacus was a great Updegrafl was half asleep, stretched { out on the lounge within ear shot. He ht Hopkins’ remark and drawled : joke, AVe, LO general” i eaug i put: “You're mistaken kins. That wasn't but Cantharides.” “Oh, no,” sald | Spartacus.” { “I tell you it was Cantharides | sisted Updegraff, provokingly: what I'm talking about” Updegraff and Lacey soon after left cloakroom ayd took thelr seats. Updegraff knew Hopkins was right. | But It amused him to Le perverse. So far as Cantharides was concerned, it was the first word that popped iuto his nind. The two had occupled their seats but a liitle while when Hopkins marched down the aisle with Anthon's Jassical dictionary He ba it lown on Updegrafls desk and pointed to the history of Spar about that, Spartacus Hop- at all, “ig Hopkins; was " in. “1 know # [ie ¥ nged wus for verifica tion of his assertion Updegrafl looked kins, and in very “That's right, sponsible for that is cock and There It sumed, while Hopkins, that kind of Hopkins in blank amazement f human perversit in dis and stalked Washington Post. I — WHY HE TOOK THE BEAT. you, COUN author looked at gust A Touching Scene New ¥ Witnessed ork Car. on ® A pathetic Incident occu Br adway bl cently. Chambers shouldered one familiar letes would ball player, tional : Jost] was arly Tt aeater in the evening crowd Was noving. At 14th two young gtront the woinen go handsom dressed ar a general take a ¥ ancl pie “ CARLO. “ n the maw anid saa laid a strong hai had just firm “Exc for ti seated nself and Yoice use me, sir, 1 that lady It looked omi gleam The man addressed sald hastily “1 beg your pardon Even as he was rise, but f he fell in fey § ' himinu meant those wh of nous to 0 EA the in the eye the pugilist Excuse me. trying front pugilist his face, am Lie spoke tr as he did i manner. The of y into then cangl yt ly, and to th seat, saving T' ‘« all vi old man; bye d ug! Dut pushed is in you keeg he turned to iy to Then and said quiet “You'll have poor chap's blind.” une, the young womar Blanche, the York Trib stand, -New Officer—What did you want, sir? Citizen—Somebody has stolen my watch, and I want you to hunt the ras- eal up and give him the key to It. It raises the mischief with a watch to let it run down, you know.—Boston Tran- A E——— Gotrox~1 think young Cheekly is foreign nobleman In disguise. Wig. wag--What makes you think so? Got- Well, he has succeeded In borrow and now he wants to marry my daughter. For Skin and Blood Diseases the springtime of the year 1 always take your Sarsapariila as 1 find the biood requires it, ang as a blood purifier it is unequalled. Your pills are the best in the world. 1 used to beannoyed with... ...." % Poets Break Out in the springtime. And a season in the same way. The difference is that the ic people It's natural. while more of the body. break out in various parts work to the surface. It is the time, therefore, to & This testimonial will be found in full in Ayer's “Curebook,” witha NOTES AND COMMENTS, nll the letters which the of the written by and sent to people iglish Two-thirds of pass through postoliic world are who spenk Ki George BE per of Un a leading whent says that ship Faw, Hfornia, n single rain storm that occurred recently was worth alinas Valley alone “T'his,” “should aging to the would-be rain R2,000,000 to the 8 farmers and ranchmen remnrks a contemporary, prove encour '" nnkers forwnrd with by liv extra Another the ing properly m attain of The theorists of this class Is that the beauties of thelr rally talk themselves having even reached the and ten COCs man pleasant theory that people the ay ripe age “00 years trouble with in exploit belief to de ing they Rene fore vouthful ime of three score he trical Engineer, has Ieeland, It laying a line be Akureyri, at It Is nan to the Fle fooling in according telephone got a is sald that an Awerican Is and ep (x2. dween Revkyavik a cost of 100,000 Ki an Bug Althing 1 able in Shetland reports i nt ai 1 LINO isl has submitted for a teleg Ieeland and proposal lee I'sSes nobility ar taped estates consul at =i more Liss JiMLiNS Hr entire va « lened by of money ad Jie] S02 Tan IER PENN) remains Bank, « nnke loans to st nearls if R50. (0, and 1% advanced Kuang When is usually in a hing, pubic hie wenlnn rds along 1 » road to prevent intruders sacred person. He lives io a surrounded by a wall, through which nobady but the officers ever penetrates without spect He put clusion throughout his youth, the Dowager Empress acting as Hegent, He had yard models of men-of-war, a train nermission wag Kept in the strict in his palace miniature of cars which was an exact model of the first railroad train run in China, and every toy that science could invent or money procure. But he has never seen one of his own men-of-war or ridden in a real steam car. He learns as much that fit to tell him. The youthful Emperor is of frail physique and in very delicate health, The city of Worcester, Mass, has a poor farm, which, according to the Spy, is well managed both for the inmates taxpayers. The leading feat- ure ig the raising of swine on city gar- Over two thousand animals are kept, and about one thousand feet in pasture, the feeding grounds being changed from time to the and plough- od in. About eight hundred of the hogs are butchered in the fall, and their | sales make the scavenger department | self-supporting to within $700, Wor cester clatms to have set the pace for other American cities in the disposal of | sewage and of garbage. There has al- | s0 been gome profit from the sales of | surplus farm produce. The leading products have been: 1256 bushels pota- toes, 400 of onions, 310 of beets, 206 of beans, 75 of peas, 76 of tomatoes, 17 of Lima beans, 80 of currants, 101 of | pears, 475 of apples, 1200 baskets field bage. 1002 dozen sweet corn, Hz2o6 cn 400 melons, 711 pounds rhu BGS quarts strawberries, 14 tons 40 barb, squash, 500 bunches celery, cab bage, 38 dozen eggs Ind. Is one of the mt places west and south where the of ell phone Company nnd powerful rivals Mie Ihvy ies, rates IB on between the and its The Shelbyville thus far, Cone new lors Com pany is winning perhaps enuse it was shrewdly elven iis 0 mutual company with a great numbes of Mop kholders It fifty ye from the and both it has a ars franchise city, fn the old company are renting telephones at 1 per month, which is thought to Ix enjoyed by Oue nate tows 10 Mpest r any result is of telephone ted country, in ber demand » the fold, 1 fit the cheay i | to the num is in Lier for hones rate ttle country Owns near ted farms nnd three men, 11% t1 the isoln ith enough he neighin nterestied in the far worful and clean HOWeOn them bwean two Pail #101 found in these places made and carried to re unable to ildren 1. and thx 0 ¥ rows BR 8 { i i the ol a bout 5 os, and cleanes MWe ping PIrOreRSes the neighboring rooms most ignorant persons ar yele, obi gation for comforts developed and ap n a sense of gratify and slowly sluin sisters an with the lives minister, tha their success is almost Fully seventy per cent. of all approached in this way reform and are persuaded © undertake a new and better life." —<New York Times. preciated appears, The in touch they 80 thoroughly of those to whom assured, Believes Dreams Come Truss. Otto Riehle, a locksmith of Terr Ind, is almost persuaded tha “dreams come true.” He spent three days of the past week trying to npen ¢ safe, the combihmtion lock of whicl wis ott of order, and was about to give up the job Friday night. That night he dreamed that a small serew had work ed out aufficiently to interfere with the tumblers of the lock. He saw the screw plainly, and also that if he would work the knob until the indicator touched & certain number on the combination plate, and then give it a quick turn f« the left the tumbler would be forced past the troublesome screw head When Riehle rose the next morning he hurried to the safe and told of his He turned the knob in the manner revealed in the dream, the tumbler moved past the point where it had hitherto stopped and | the heavy door of the safe was open The covering was removed from the lock and she protruding screw wal found to be as seen in the dream. HOW A STORM IS BORN, Its Parent is the Sun, While Rain and Snow Are Only its Companions, How storms are born and they start on thelr journeys, IRONS weather she how is something fow JH besides anything rps n bout wergennt and “Far Dunn held forth most afternoon on this subject blowing at the to elghty miles an hour know Elins ingly B. thie The iXty mer” interest other of # wind wai rate through the streets, and, it seemed, with even g ide the tows building bluest sort of sks and cold, and whistling and i hav er force up outs Manhattan Life was the wits or inp BOVE sharp crackling wind it would been a perfect tor's day neving over suck the wa Can of grow to al where it surface post and Opposed to a nks 1s iavd gh pressure, ba 5 : t . ; st » which condense the they cote in contact witli they will condense unless the area of Jon ton imnder ig too strong and condit pressure we at ons 1 done favorable This is gre battle taking awny with, that air above us The hig ef upon 1h is constantls place in the foreing pressure, pressure areas keep i i wae of low their currents of cold.dry air | to Inden ole it onward Mving a the €y clone, tetirlency dissipate and destrey moisture yids of the wr to drive “Tornadoes different sort of They are formed on the south or southeast gquadn of an area of low pressure in the warmest part of the day, and in some instances are caused by warm. moist air from the south clashing with currents of cold, dry air. These two currents are fre are Aa storms Ants, or portions, perature apart. Their ciashing causes instant displacement of the tie then is ten terrible iat ie bai wi Ween its eflevin the 10T brief while o in This conflict of the nado. Its conflicting winds mav be likened to an enocuions gerew with its point resting upon fhe earth and moving alolg at an enormous rate of speed.” CHITeHIR IR mtn and He Proved the Omen, “Speaking of sailors’ superstitions,” remarked the veteran lighthouse keep er. Josh Reeves of Sea Isle City, “re. minds me of an incident that happenea diction, based on an omen, resulted fatally to the prephet himself, “A bright winter morning had cansed the crew of the lightship to row a short distance away in a small boat in search of codfish, which are very abundant off the capes in winter time, A few hours” fishing resulted in a goodly eat*h and a return was made to ihe lightslp. The fish were cleaned sha | the refuse thrown overboard, bit 6 ] with of alr ‘0 caused the to drift in Toward noon flock of geese ( in sight the Hghitship's very menced feed, Thu ind to enlim sen, not a breath disturb it, refuse 1 eirele around the ship nie ttied under CO it0 vi hil sing close ind pre wi board said that NOUrs He nme ax wenty-four to wiefn, it pending GIN Paniohs aid then « grove Decne 80 Vien bow or falling of in board, Cromwell's {ie Out a heavy vard or S MADE uioig, Ce Patience, and Needed, Hed untra ween dri in the ned eve v ance i # of being About the " Stopper. an is a slog marked a ficer to a Stax I r a few his class trouble. If he the law, annot easily “and he and mount of id Ios A only n" In riher explanation he ‘A s#lopper i= a man who through the garbage cans in in the of hotels, boardingbouses amd private houses, Some only search for spoons knives and forks, that thrown the receptacles by careless ser vants, for it a fact that there are more silver spoons and knives and forks thrown away with the garbage | than is stolen by servants, though the contrary is generally believed. The slop per is generally an bour or so ahead of the garbage collector, and he is often more regular and careful in his rounds than the garbage man ‘By industry we thrive,” as the line n the copy books used to contain, and industry on a good West End route, inlly one which takes in a number arding houses or hotels, a slopper can find enouzh table ware to pay the | expenses of his tour, Often be makes a | tieh find, Very frequently be has per | mission to ‘slop’ the can from the owne ers of the houses themselves for he tells them he is on the lookout for stray pieces of meat, ote, which be sells to those who have dogs to feed, Some sgloppers are honest enough to return any silver ware they may find for the dog meat privilege, but it i= a terrible temptation to many, and one they can. not. or do not, at times withstand," Washington Star, we 4 searches the alleys rear the are into garbage is Eh ge gn of i» In one season the rice yield In Rangoon Province of India has ceeded 1,000,000 tons.
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