A REASON FOR SICKNESS. Healthy kidneys take from the blood every twenty-four hours BOO grains of impure, polsonous matter— more than enough to cause death. Weakened kidneys leaves this waste in the blood, and you are soon sick. To get well, cure the kidneys with Doan’s Kidney Pills, the great kidney speci- fic, Mrs. J. H. Bowles, of 118 Core street, Durham, N. C., says: “1 was sick and bed- fast for over nine months, and the doctor who attended me said unless | submitted to an operation for gravel 1 would never be well. 1 would not consent to that and so continued to suffer. My back wus so weak | could not stand or walk, and it ached con- stantly. The first day after 1 began using Doan's Kidney Pills lief, and in a short time I was up and around the same as ever, free from backache.” Mrs, part of the medicine which cured will be mailed to any United States. Address Foster-Mil- burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Soild by all dealers, price fifty cents per box, Still Jelieve in Witches The ameer of Afghanistan, alarmed by the finding of an effigy of himself “witches” employ, seems to hundreds of years ago. The of Gloucester in the fifteenth century was compelled to walk for three days through london to St. Paul's cathe dral robed only in a sheet and carry ing a lighted candle for having, as it was sald, made and bewitched a simi iar image of King Henry VL Buffalo (N ¥.} br stonebasons affect carpenters, a numbt have had to the delay in strike be laid the n if Hungary and Norway. The Sclara, of the genus Tipulx, a tiny wormlike creature which is found in the forests of Norway and Hungary during the month of July or early in August, gather in huge num bers preparatory to migrating in search of food or for a change of con ditions. When setting out on this journey they stick themselves togeth er by means of some glutinous mat. often reaching a length of between in thickness. As the sclara is only on an average of about three thirty appreciable breadth whatever, the number required to form a continuous line of the size above mentioned is in calculable. and upon meeting an obstacle, such as a stick or stone, they either writhe over or around it, sometimes break celebrated French naturalist gays that if the rear portion of this snakelike procession be brought into contact | with the front part the insects will hours, never seeming to realize that they are getting no further on thelr { Journey. If the portions be broken in | two the procession will unite in a | short time. When the peasant meets one of these processions he will lay some obstacle In front of it ir passes over it it ig a good omen. War Humor. “War bas its humorous side.” | Gen sald Nelson A. Miles, “though the hu | mor is always grim. “In one of my most perilous Indian {| campaigns | overheard a group of pri | vates saying good-night to one another { on the eve of an engagement. These youths were in different regiments. They knew the coming fight would be a hot one. They knew it was prob | able enough that they would never see one another again ‘And as they them said: " "Well, good-by, boys As the coons said when the dogs made after them, i "We'll all meet at the hatter's BO, separated, one of “Dear Mrs. Pivxpay: — doctors called Se surrounding parts, undermining the forces. If you had Pinkham’s “Vegetable Compound constitution, and sapping the life condition, and compared that wonder that I feel thankful to which restored me to new life and Windsor, Ont. with the ovaries, indicated heat and shooting eure itself, and a hospital operation, neglect. The slightest indication of trouble in in the side, accowapanied It will mot my life, and I cannot express my » “Before I wrote to you telling “] “1 will always recommend your these few lines may lead others Buch unquestionable ham’s Vegetable Compound Mrs. at Lynn, Mass., titude to you in words. ow 1 felt, 1 fod doctored for over medicine besides, but %al pein. I would daily have eadache, backache and much used your medicine and treatment me, and I have been ar ever ain 7 Paatgieen hotties, of nkham’s V ie Compound fiw Blood Purifier together, and am now restored to perfect health. Had it not been for you, I would have been in my grave, wonderful remedies, and hope that did to try your the power of Lydia E. Pinks of women. vil to are pri oped te pony Short Order. believe at kid Maude Mr Lebanon police bold attempt rated by Miss r-old daughter of Page, of that lisse Page was on her attacked mn a t back street by three ttempted to drag her } She shipped from then her home, where she { a faint, The men made then escape without being recognized Neighbors of the Page family assert that for several mights past strange men have been scen prowling around the house and peeping the A merchant in sanie leges that on the attack on Miss g through unting Fremonicd awake a robbery Se Ciel pose to | yvinent the be €n 3 i ‘ us 8 What {to have Haping a 10-yea Henry city Wily dark man was ran I« mito win lo night of the dows cCaiity illeged the Page he saw the shutt his dav's receipts might in fea: 1 looks he was all of Pittshurg House-wives' for the pu some of the nuisand tes pet the Women of many eli their niles take nd clubs omestic help dependence it. The men Haire 1 5 on t agents, who care allie; whose mmteres constantly anger. fol to rescue ck from the snake and the hou child ther at i the Rene inter Mana; & for the Philade ing Considerable enlarged n ing seven As an e policy feparr Barre alread: was ret rk f railway at Iron purchased iden adonted y work of Lehigh & Wilkes. Coal npany's collieries ie being Pottsville It anne machine and ns unced the other subsidiary compani ; ales to he done the Patray fe shops Leedom, of Swarthmore s arrested and taken he was given 3 Magistrate Smit of theratening to to cut his wife s down the house sum of $500 for Ridgeway once wealthy wa to Chester, whe re belore € Iarge family, and to burn held the nn, on the poisor throat He was his ap in ware Criminal Court The tn gee ing the tall granite the park at Third and has been awarded to George F & Company, of Philadelpria, Board of Public Grounds. The same and County the granite wall Park, mciud tower In streets Payne by the Buildings and firm 1s building was the only bid- Work will begin contract for rround the Capitol cle { k Locust for the wall spring der next Steps will be taken at a congrega- tional meetng the Presbyterian Church at Doylestown, June 28 dissolve the pastoral relations of Rev Robert M. Labaree, who will go Persia to succeed his murdered broth. er, Rev. Benjamine W. Labaree, as missionary While carrying a keg of beer on his shoulder in Reading Elmer Kerchoff aged stumbled over a piece of wire, hat the jar dislocated his neck killing mm. Rev. Charles W, W. Bishop, pastor of the Marcus Hook Baptist Church for the past twenty-five years, ten. dered his resignation at the Sunday morning service. Rev. Mr, Bishop gave no reason for resigning. While returning from a festival in the village of White Horse, Salisbury Township, Jacob Trego met a number of mountameers, who were promis. cuously firing of revolvers. stray ball passed through Trego's neck. The injured man could not identify his assailant. The charred body of Mrs. Frank Morgan, aged 53, was found at her home in West Pittston by neighbors, The fact that the bare kitchen floor beneath the ody showed no trace of fire, and that blood was spattered in a side room Suggests foul play, A full investigation is to be made, it to { — — —— ‘ i COMMERCIAL REVIEW, Summarizing the commercial situa tion, R. G, Dun & Co. says: of ultra conservatism, from emanating the theory that ; scason of depression must come | parently | ten while the coincides | a presidential ele { other precedent, merchandise traffic is | raliway I tions tor ture hus | and less 1. | form of wages: wv! { capital to invest confine { tion to the highest cla: hold back for still i prices All these | produce a proportion | ment that YCars, tion furnish As a resuig i | of have been lessened, prepara curtailes ributed in the those IESE are 4 ney 18 dist ; having ii atten ses of bonds oy wer their lo factors have combined te reaction entir to the wis real nat readciust started by ab . 4 raw materials wre Other excessive costs of pre du results } that Retrenchment pre profit siderable i rule iccey Bress recognizing th ness are earnings thus showing a loss of compared with 1 3, i changes at New York week lost 25.4 per cent leading cities th IMCrease tions in the Bradstreet's Bradstreet’s tells main ments This 1s Winter cat, hary Says and in Calif Ris ormia x Progress MNES A : has beer making factory the weather growth WHOLESALE Baltim« Md I ard ree “ MARKETS. LOUR steady; unchanged FLOUR exports, 1: Out eat winter SOR patent Jism 4.00 4.10, winter low grades, 3.1803 RYE FLOUK choir JOM 4.8K; sa 60, CORNMEAL. Western, 1.30.12: city, 1.12 kiln dried, 295@'3.10, HAY Steady, shipping, 75 choice, gg, POTATOES Firm: new Southern 4.00@ 5.50; State and Western. sacks 325@3.50; Jersey sweets, per basket 1.280y1.3% HIDES--Steady; Galveston, 20, t 25 pounds, 18; California, 21 to 2 pounds, 19; Texas dry, 25 to 3 pounds, 14. : . : LARD- 7-10; June Receipts, 1 tBo barrels; wit 5.40 fing ure fier patents fi straight 4 Boda © ox MM £ 00d € IL. winiter Minnesota bakers EXE RS 3Bs@ Ne Quiet; fair choice 1c tc fancy, w Steady: yello ity { @1.1 good Western 7.10, continent, Firm: closed steamed ’ nommnai; re. hned stead 7.15; Sosth American, ; compound, $3 @<% PEANUTS — Firm; fancy hand picked, 6; other domestic, 346% CABBAGES. Steady; Southern, barrel-crate, 1.00@1.50. Live Stock. New York, — BEEVES -- Dressed beef steady at B@oVic. CALVES-~Receipts, trading; ieehng steady. veals steady at 6@oc. SHEEP AND LAMBS--Receipts sheep and yearlings steady: prime to choice lambs firm: others steady. Cemmon to prime sheep sold ¥ ~ 5 £8 18 head; no City dressed i i i i yearlings at 6.00; lambs at 7.25@R 00; * car of fancy at B50; dressed mutton unchanged at 7V@roc.; dressed lambs in good demand at 11@4'%ec.; dressed svearlings at o@iic. Chicago, CATTLE—~Goot to prime steers, 0.25@0.50; poor to medium, 4.75@6.00; stockers and feeders, 300 @4.70; cows, 1754.50; heifers, 2.50 5.25. canners, 1.75@375; bulls, 2.50 4.30; calves, 3.00@s 50. + WORLD OF LABOR The Brotherhood of Painters is over 75000 strong. The average Hindoo workingman in India gets about $¢ # year. il A branch of the American Federa- tion of Labor has been organized at Biloxi, Miss. Bay City (Mich) Street Railwa ny has voluntairily incre the wages of its employes. Machinists on the northeast coast of England have made a demand for an increase in wages of 25, a week, eGrey. £3 qt £) A Well Known Canadian Lady Sends Letter of Endorsement to Pe-ru-na. Miss Mary Burns, 28 Spring Road, Halifax, N. 8., writes: “Having used Peruna for indigestion and stomach trouble and to build ug broken down Eysiem wilh the very Dest results, | am pleased to state my experience this excelient medicine. | bad been troubled with stomsch trouble and poor digestion for some years, and although | tried many remedies and dieting, nothing seemed to restore my bealth until | used Peruna In three months 1 had entirely recov ered my health and urns ——————— Garden wits GYRervOUs. e's Great trent ise free pays fladies Cap Wear Shes One size smaller aller Allen's Fase a powder. It makes tight or CnRKT Cures swollen, hot, awe rhing fet, ingrowing corns and bunions, At i 4d shoes stores 25 Don't ae I'rinl package Free by 8. Olmsted. LoRoy NY For new shoe sting Ladle ITRIIAN CYDrOes Dine { against all ¢ states ix ripe Le Mrs. Winslow's B teething soften the gums os tS WOR. BBYE DIE Cures withid ething wel at wim courtshiy ution o ot believe Piso's Cure for Consu ighe and colds Prinity Bprings, Ind. Feb, I! tion bas anequal foro F.Boren Salted whale meat 1 a Japanese deli Narrow Streets In Japan. Most of the Japanese cities are very ald are too narrow for treet railways. To rebuild the the of the street not am easy matter, and thelr streets « streets for use railways is Erare oy Omic, Crry or Tore, | Levcas Corry { ee Fpaxx J. Caxzny make oath that be is penjor partner of the firm of F. J, ( nay Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid firms will pay the sum of OXE BUNDRED DOL- tans for each and every case { women Kervousness is very common amoung. This condition # due Lo anaemic | nerve centers The nerve centers are ‘the reservoir for nerve vitality. These | centers bloodless for the want of | proper nutritio. This condition especially noticeable | during the warm season Every sum- | mer an army of inv; produced as ia direct result of weak vervous systems { This could cas be overcome by the {use of Peruna Peruna strikes at the jroot of the by corrceting the | digestion. Perfect digestion furnishes in | ereased nutrition for the nerve centres | Perfectly digested [ood gives these reser | voirs of life a vitality which creates strong, | steady nerves, and in this manner fortibes and nourishes hfe Miss Blanche | sociely woman of i recent jetier { writes: “To a » becom in ide ure irouhle Grey, a prominent young Memphis, Tenn., in a 174 A wireet, we whose per | vous force taxed to utmost { from lack f and irregular reals, | T know of nothing which (sof so much benefit as Preruna. iI took it & few { months ago when 1 felt my strength giv | mg way it moon made itsel] man Lifest in giving me new strength and | health. 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Jede by forthe ben & fing up Tonic ard Blood Punficr ever ir makes new, rach Mood imparts renewed vi tality, and possesses simest miraculous healing properties. Write for Book of Won- dertul Cures, sen! free on appticstion, If pot kept by your local drugpmt, send $1.00 fora large bottle, or $e six bostles and medicine will be scat, freight paid, by BLOOD EALM CO., Atlanta, Ga. LS HED 000.0 00d INSOMNIA **] have been ueing © which | bave been a1 snd J ean say they Co Weakne 3 offered 10 the world we for arete for Jremmein, with “i: fury over twenty Years urets brve given me mors ef thar any other remedy | have over tried. | hall certain y recommend them two uy friends ae being all they are represented Thos. Gillard, Elgin, IIL Best For The Bowels Carannn Cons "Bax J. Caeser am [Eeuenss, this 6th day of Decem-