A Foe to Matrimony. A crusty old bachelor declares "at the graphophone was the needed to make the state of eingle blessedness far preferable to the cares and doubtful joys of matrimony. “I admit,” he says, ‘‘that on a stormy night, when one does rot feel one tires of %ooks, and longs for companionship. That is to say, I used to feel in this way at times, before 1 i could be had for my money. Now I amused all the evening. 1 from voices, and a repertory that is in- music when I am tired of the old. If I have a cold, T can put my feet in hot water and take a hot punch, and be entertained as well as if I had a wife hold or any danger of the sweet voice becoming fretful or complaining misogynist, ‘‘I can always shat it up when I want to. kind!” Vegetable Down. The fur or vegetable down of cat-tail is not so valuable or useful as eider down, but it approaches it elose- ly. A great many persons are tod \y using articles covered with cat-tail products who have no idea where the material come from, although the work of gathering and transporting the down and then weaving it into the many forms it must take before be- coming salable, constitutes a consider. able industry. One of the most elab- orate uses to which the material is put is that of covering sofas. Very many of the supposed plush-covered divans are really covered with a fabric of cat tail. It wears better than the plush and is infinitely cheaper. The family albam which graces the centretable in the parlor of so many farmhouses is also in many instances adorned wiih cat-tail covers, although the house- wife cannot are not plush. Itis becoming a pre- valent custom to use cat-tail on the back of hand mirrors and brushes, which have heretofore backed with plush. Some say that the snb- stitute is really proving better than the original. The head rest, too, seen on the easy chair, is often of cat-tail and it is none the comfortable for that. far FUT been less eR Like a Small Torpedo A curious has recently been discoyered growing wild in Batavia It appears to of bean, resembling a cigar both in form and eslor, though 3 mut an inch in length. Bat it has ¢ peculiar charae- teristic which renders it a jue und interesting object, and this is the manner in which fruit species ery uni ] exceedingly energetic it seatters its If one of these little fruits be thr into a basin of water 1t will rest quietly on the for from two to will explode most of its ¢ t i noise and splash for a'l the wor & small torpedo. It is sary to say that this phe caused by the pressure of substance of its interior o: the resistance of its hard onter ghell. The curious property of explosion given the plant for the dissemination of its seeds, which otherwise would stand a poor chance of propagating its species. seeds, wn Toon ing ercomin is Dandelion Leaves Some one who has tried it says that if two or three dandelion leaves be chewed before going to bed they will or worried one may be. Poisoned Biood Malaria irom decaying breathed into the blood taking Hood's ie danger 7 Liese sme from joi- arising low marshy EOnoOtE miasm from and and egetable matter, which tho ison Reey Sarsaparilla and there will be lit from malaria. The millions take Sarsa- Hood’s parilla The best—in fact the One Tras Riond Purifier, Nood’s Pills the best family cathartic easy to operat -— lunge, enter and j the blood pure by PHYSICIANS BAFFLED, of Nataral Bclence In Harteville College, Cured of a Severe Illness by Dr. Will. fams’ Pink Pills for Pale People After Physi. cians Falleda, From me Republican, Columbus, Ina. Prof. R. 8. Bowman, the able instructor “4 natural science in the famous Hartsville (Ind.) College, is well and favorably known, not only as an educator, but also as a min. ister of the gospel, of as for a number of yoars hn was pastor the United Brethren » betore coming to Hartsville, FROF. n BOWMAY, Some time ago a severo illness which was cured miraculousiy. A reporter hearing of this, interviewed him regarding his experience. Prof Bowman was in the midst of his when the re to} rier called, but he Avy ear ago last fall “1 broke down Judicions Expeaditures Cause Big Returns To the merchant who is b wppy if he can sell his goods at an increase of ten the cost, how almost incredible must it seem that machines and bieyeles, which cost from abont sixteen to twenty-five dollars to manufacture, e for $100-—or even £30 over each? What machines are more universally the sewing machine? How hard the merchant struggles for his ten per cent. profit while the typewriting machine and bicycle sell at a price which is from four to six times the cost of mannfacture. Judieions and continous advertising has made this possible. Fine clothes do not make the wom they sometimes break the husband. I —. Some people think they need health, hwne erally they only need energy, bave been using Ayer's Pills for thir- teen years, and find that nothing them for indigestion. They are the only relief 1 have found in all these years for the suffering of dyspepsia and indigestion, Mrs, MATTIE 8B. MITCHELL Glad Hill, Va., Feb. 21, 185%. “1 have been using Ayer's Pills for years for bilious~ ness and constipation. I find them very effective, and mild in action. They suit my system in every respect.” Jonny F. Asn LEY, Pelican, La., July 19, 1505, WEIGHTY WORDS FOR LJ REY. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. Hogs ™arfece Harmony nna md Discord That Was Made by Sin—The Time is the World Wil Again Heavenly Harmonies, Coming When Resound te Text: “Who Ia!d the cornerst when the morning stars Job 88 6, 7. ne thereof sang togethe We have all seen the Ing of the cornerstone of church, navium or Masonie temple, Into the hollow of the scrolls of history and im portant documents, to he tive if, 100 or 200 years after the building should be by fire or down, We re member the silver trowel or iron that smote the sanctity, Wao man who preside e trowel or hammer, Wer r also the music as the choir stood « 1 the seattore of the ny at the lay carem SUR ea torn square remo 1ifen iber some venerable The Pa tf the tuttered in the wind and ware with a great rustling. | how the bass. bariton pran many progr for aweil ay beasts and write Bgura is th boar srpent, far ix i CRYERRE Anh the other pianetis with the and call it Mars, after the we give to the eighth + the name of the scorpion is chiefly celebrated for But, after all, these symi of the way nation feels cord wide the segs i Buppose you have noticed how warmly In love dry goods stores are with other dry goods stores, and how highly grocery think of the sugars of the gro the same street, and in what a way "allopathic and home pathic do speak of each other and how sometimes put ministers on cooking instrument whieh ¢ & spit-—an iron roller with spikes on it and turned by a crank before a hot fir and then, if the minister be ing roasted cries out against it, the men who are turning him ay, “Hush, my brother; we are turning this spit Yor the glory of God and the good of your soul, and you must be quiet, while We close the g-»viva with ‘Blest bo the tie that binda ‘Our hearts in Christian love.” deadly VE AS express toward nation dis sting ive as the eulogistie tora ministers will that t ®t ragiish call autiful = The earth is dismotered and cireumfer. enced with discord, and the musie that was rendered al the laying of the world's ear nerstone when the morning =lars sang to- gether is not beard now. and though hers and there from this and that part of so ciety and from this and that part of the parti thers comes up a thrilling solo of love, or a warbie of worship, or a sweet duet of patience, they are drowned out by & discord that shakes the earth. Pani says, “The whole ereation groan eth.” And while the nightingale, and the woodlark, and the canary, and the plover Bometimes sing so sweetly that their notes have been written out in musieal notation, and it is found that the euekoo singe in the key of D and that the cormorans is a basso in the winged choir, yet sportsman's gun and the autumnal blagt often leave them rufflad and bleeding or dead in meadow or forest. Paul was right. for the groan in nature drowns out the prima donnas of the sky. Tartini, the great musical composer, dreamed one night that he made a contract with satan. the latter to be ever in the | composer's servies, But one night he handed to satan a violin, on which Diabo- lus played such sweet musia that the com. poser was awakened by the emotion and tried to reproduce the sounds, and there. from was written Tartini's most famous piece, “The Devil's Sonata,” a dream in- genious, but faulty, for all melody de. scends from heaven and only digeords ns. ecend from hell, All hatreds, feuds, con- troversies, backbitings and FevEngoes mre the devil's sonata, are diabolic fugue, are demonine phantasy. are grand march of doom, are allegro of perdition, But if in this world things in general are to frail ear, how much beings angelic and deifie! It our 80 to takes disagr ind. Many have no ca. to detect a defect of musical exXecy- tion, and though thers were in one bar as many offens against harmony as conld crowd in betwren the lower F of the bass the higher G of the soprano it would no discomfort, while on the fore lucated artist beads of per. ould stand out as n r it of the While an amate ament of sd give then vd iIrntion w of the wing dissonanos wrlforming t1 1 wr ord and righteous us get out of the one usher in the and all jslands continents, and all of ali nations the organs that ever sorrow sound oniy a and all the bells that juickls ine, and all lod requiem of grand march of joy, aver hurled death forth eternal vie over all acclaim of earth and heaven there will be heard sweeter and mightier than fanv a volee ones full of of triumph, the ¥ { aipha and omega, the ean that wross the n und tory A One voles inman or angelic voice tears, but now full « Chris saving, I am Then, at the world's inal of the inyving of the top history, the same l2 mora- ng stars sang together,’ CAUCHT A CHILD ON THE rLY. Saved by & Bystander, The most fortunate cateh ever witnessad in Elizabeth, N. J., was made a few after. noons ago, bya Young man who relases to give his ame,” we 2 2, John Conard, of Elizabeth avenue. was out defving with his three-year-old child, The horse took fright and ran away, In trying to stop the animal Mr. Conard was thrown out. fra was out and bruised but not seriously, The child remalged in the buggy until the horse erashed into a lamp- post. The shook brought the runaway 2 a standstill and shot the child ints tha alr as though thrown from a catapult, The little one was but a few feet from the win- dows of Hornlag's drug, and was thrown straight at them, but, while in the air, a young man who had been standing in front of the store, caught the ehild. The force with which the ohild was moving threw the young man against the window, but did not break it. The child, was badly scared but unburt, wu i i Servants Who Will Not Take Tips. The servants in a well ordered Ja- ential beings alive. bring you a cup of tea or come to move a dish at dinner or breakfast, they will kneel and bow until foreheads touch the floor, any of them accept a fee, re- Nor will The other Japanese gentleman where been taking dinner, one piloted us through the gate, and I attempted to give him a small coin. When 1 offered it, he clasped his hands t very low bow, keeping his head down: until the carriage started, Known tu we had grounds to the Ww, Water al No-To.Uae for Fifty Cents, (nx ire guaran URE GG cg LL ® Ric Kix: we CANN BEBE SAVED. ¢ information mailed free NE 1S WHAT? Fema ' 5 x te oid water EALERS EVE YWHKERE wing 12 desirable 1 ne voir k ue FREE A ALAD2ZSTINE “- © A“ Lid tfree Tr Grano Rarios, Mic Heep Well-Drink\ IS JUST ABCOOD FOR ADULTS WARRANTED. PRICE 50 ects. 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