The Idiot At Tho Breastfast Table, “1 hope you are satisfied with cur table, Mr. Idiot,” sald the landlady. ! “In the main, yes,” replied the diot. “But I really think I ought 0 register a comnlaint against yes« worday’s flsh-balls, madam.” “Why, I am sorry about that)” id the landlady, blushing. “Wea ather pride ourselves on our fish balls. What was the matter with them, sir?” the Idiot.—Harper's Week- y. | owns ” — — — Never Vary in Quality or Taste | Because the utmost care | is taken by Libby’s Chefs | toselectonlythechoicest materials and prepare | them in the same careful | manner every time. You are thus assured of uni-| form goodness, and this | is the reason that the use of Libby's gives such general satisfaction to! every housewife, Try Libby Dried Beef Mexican Tamales! HamLoaf Chili con Carne Vienna Sausage Evaporated Milk For luncheon, spreads or everyday meals they are just the thing. Keep a supply in the house. You never can tell when they will come in handy. Ask ===, for Libby's and p be sure you | get Libby’s, Libby, McNeill & Libby Chicago — § 7 4 ¥ v » a8 BRESNSAN& CO, La. “nee New Orleans, Woman's Wrongs. The ‘crimes giris in {fention y and the women atrocity Ld in Conditions vealed nost daily are } point rected from every of view, only by of justice 'e on the part ciety in general It is plain enough that people pre- sume too much upon the respect for womanhood which was once a na- tional trait Under cover of that assumption some of those having children in their care have become reckless, many of the young have grown bold, even daring, and vie- ious scoundrels who must be on the increase have not failed to take ad- vantage of ignorance, folly and help- lessness, In fifty years our industrial, coms mereial and social has been al. jmost revolutionized Hundreds of thousands of young girls are daily pxposed to perils which rarely be- set the home. A vast growth in pop- ulation has been accompanied by a more than proportionate increase of men and youths who are criminally inclined. There must be a greater protection of womanhood and there must be severer punishment for all those who craftily or savagely make war mapon it.-—N. Y. World. cCOr- minis by a greater parents and so- tration life furid Incidents at a funeral. Was supposed to of being buried alive: coffin was moved a knocking sound was heard within. When it wig opened it was found that a hammer about so as to cause the noise, There rw oe ee A weak, physical, or a! Sluggish mental conditions The food is highly nutritious A { is i ity’ 7 * * dl the stomach! The Present Demand for a Replenishment of the Churches with Masculine Virtues. the shifting conditions of mod life thoughtful minds are pon the best ways of adapting machinery to new problems. the features of the religious interest replenishment the masculine virtues, demand is not premature. The that in most of the de- the women outnumber men nearly two to one. The enough, In ern dering church One awakening of demand for a churches with The census shows present is the of the of nominations the Christian Scientists, n off the women: in that ymmunion expec te dad percentage of the Lutheran explained in hildren, aturally largest with percentage the lead of “mother” element migh to prevail. The highest men is found in some of divisions, which part by male and { the catechism it is doubtful may be the fact that all the ¢ male, are required to learn and be confirmed: but whether the proportion s in a al service of the church is larger among the Lutherans than a: : the other sects 18 of this dispro- portion of sex are offered. It is some imated the sented by the churche ted to the femi imes in that types of re are nine than to but if that were » mind «#411 » tad 1 a ii ue THES ionable 8 COns yO upon hat the fivity onder mn Is they more at. phil * 3 ! s heavy eT ggion in into iristian denominations of Andr ye church srhood St has t organization, 1 all the are rallying men for similar service: in great East and coming together envisage their tasks and shoulder responsibilities. Some of the most enthusiastic gatherings which have recently taken place in this country are these assemblies of men, stirred by the religious motive, and eager to find ways in which they may promote the work of the churches. For the most part their action has been entirely rational; they have not pro poged much new machinery; they have usually sought to know how they might apply their own power more efficiently to the machinery already in operation. now West, the men conventions, the churches are ther The Ignorant Unbeliever. The late Neil Burgess used to clinch, with an anecdote, his claim that atheists wers always ignorant. ‘A coarse, swaggering fellow,” he would begin, “declared in a barber “I don’t belleve in no hereafter You live and die, and that's the end of ve “‘Why, you must be a Unitarian, Goorve. the barber sald, "Huh. not me!’ was the reply. I'm ton fond o° meat for that! “Minne avolin Journal, Dead Swell, a young girl, incorrigibly givea to lang, went with her mother to the funeral of an aunt. The dead woman had been strikingly handsome in life, and her features retained all their attractiveness. “How do you think Avnt Blanche looked?” asked the mother, when they had viewed the corpse. Enthusiastically the child revlizd, “Dead swell, didn’t she, moth. er? # | | | | i Almost Regretted Tt, General Jackson had woa the bat-, of New Orleans, “Just as likely as not,” he reflect- ed, "it will turn out that I've com- mitted 8 monumental blunder. 1 ought to have let Packenham have his way, and take the whole Mis elssippl River, It would have been cheaper. Now this country will have to Improve the blamed wold tio Years afterward, however, the changed his mind and decided that it was best for the victors to do the spoiling Chicago Tribune. 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I have no more trouble.” ; ; Remember the name--Doan’s, For! sale by all dealers. 50 cents & vox | Foster<Milburn Co., Buffalo, N, Y. COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade and Market Reports. Bradstrest's says: able weather, the indefinite crop out. merchandise all tending to retard distributive demand, both at whole. sale and retall, Trade reports from the West note a quiet to fair trade at retall, while Jobbing business has been largely confined to fill-in ordeis, and fall trade {8 reported backward, though, perhans, eaual to a year ago at this date, Except in the lower Missis- gippli Valley, Southern trade reports are of fair to good trade for the sea~ gon of the year, Retail trade in the inst is only and wholesale trade is disappointing Among the Industries, one of the t circumstanced lines is building, ch shows a next to largest month- expenditure for April, second, in- only to May, 198098, and allied all show good conditions. In » fron and steel trade, furnace pro. is still being decreased, and reports from the finished lower quotations being cotton goods the raw advanced sharply, while distribution has retarded y the un- certainty as to future values, induc. ing buying only f« als wants, In other textile lines quiet rules, but is significant that ifacturers this week have bought more of at fair, of In has as material immed may freely raw wool concesslio: a lang tine Collec! Wholesale Markets New York, — Wheat red, a: f Poultry turkevs, Dire frozen chiecl & 1% «8c , turkeys 164 20 Philadelnhin, —Wheatew\" er; contract grade, ome la Ow; low brolline 14 EF 15 Baltimore, — W1 TT" . & § Vogt ™m. goon No 2 red Th a elas apot, 0a nal Corn Jule Onts— White Nn. 2. E047 40%. No. 2. ar 474% @ AR No. 4 as to 44% @ 45 % Mized No 2 §7%e.: No 2) 48@ 460% Hay We quote, per ton: thy---No. 1. $20.50: No. 2. 26: No. 3. 3174018 Clover Choon, 2104 No. 1, @19: No. 2. $18.50 17.50 No. 1, 8184019; 17.5« Butter Steady demand for de. sirable stock We quote, per Ih: Creamery -—Faney, 28 6229 choice, 2T@ ER; pgood, 25626: imitation, 21/23; print, 206 20 Cheese Wa quote, Jobbing prices, per Ib, 15M 216 Egan‘ We quote, per dozen: Maryland, Pennsvivania and nearby firata 0p - Wagtorn Adele 20: Waoet Virginia firsts. 20; Southern firsts, 18 Guinen eggs, 108011. Live Poultry — Old hens firmer: Spot and 871% bid : f= May, ge to weight, wol-ht, welirht, 470 to Timo- $19 504 Mixed g1¢ En Clover No. 2, 818.500 18.50: Chickens Old bene. heavy, 17¢.; small to medinm, 17: old roos- tere. 104 11: winter. as to size, 25 28: spring. 1M Ibs. and over; ABE 38: small, 30 » 3% Ducke... Large, 136 14c.: small, 13: Muscovy and mongrel, 13614. Chicago~~Cattle—Market steady to lower; steers, $3.25 8.70: cows, $4.85 @ 6.75; heifers, $4.25 6 7.45¢ bulls, $566.75; calves, $3& 7.75: Sheep Market strong; sheep, $6.35 @ 7.50; yearlings, $7.50 @ %° ania, $7.65@9; spring lambs, $9 11. Kansas Oity~~Catt]e-—Market steady to 10c. lower; cholee export and dressed beef steers §7.3069 8.25; fair to good, $6 @ 7.50: Western steers, $5. 756 8: stockers and feed @ 7.795; gouthern cows, $3.45 @ 5.75: native cows, $4@ 6.75; native helf- ors, $4.65 7.40; bulls, $4.50@ 6.25; salves, $3.50@ 7.75. Hops — Market § to 10c. lower: 9.40; heavy, $9.25 9.45; packiars and butchers’, $9.30@9.40; lighn 10.2" m9.40; pigs, $8500 9. : gh “ Mui? okt sin Bo be Te i The Only Dry Place. A stingy angler was fishing on # There Was A Limit, An Irish politician had just re- met him and inquired: He had been consoling himself fro “pid you have a fine time, Mike?" | is flask and forgetting his gill ’ “Of course | did.” Presently he asked the gillie if there “Did you visit the was a dry place in the boat on which ' Paris?" > strike a match. “Sure I say all the plays” “You might try my throat ’ 3] He pDIiays i . Ye x ti 031g oh “And did you goto the cafes?” | the gine, : It's dry enousn “Bure, I was in ail of ‘em.” | Fishing Gazette, “Well, tell me, Mike, and did ye | The Bee any of the pommes de terre?” | opened “No. 1 had the wife with me all | 4 Albany Argus. theaters In | sald o" Transandine on the Chilian side : The opening on the J side will occur this month, Rallway was April Argenting on — ———————— os oh —— a a —————————— A and reliable proof es of female ills, w i i % é i ay onciude that the same 1 ¥ 'OUsS Ca ty 14} sis CATT $y his ng with the same tre 3 ciency of Lydia Fitchville, Ohlo.~* My daughter was all run “down, suffered from pains in her side, head and climbs, © could walk but a short distance ata time, she came very near having nervous prostration, had begun to cough a good deal, 7 {and secmed melancholy by spells, She tried {Pwo doctors but got little help. Since taking «ydia EE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Biood Purifier and Liver Pills she has im- 7 proved so much that she feels and looks like another girl” — Mrs. C. Cole, Fitchville, Ohio. Irasburg, Vermont. —“I feel it my duty to gay a few words in praise of your medicine. When I began taking it I had been very sick with kidney and bladder trou bles and nervous prostration. [ am now taking the sixth bots tle of Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and find myself greatly improved. By friends who call to see me have noticed a great change,” — Mrs. A. H. Sanborn, Irasburg, Vermont. We will pay a ha: prove to us that these letters are not genuine and truthful —or that either of these women were paid in any way for I 1al lished without m each did fl i eA SAAS ie reward to any person who will their testi é. » their permissi not « 1 WwW For 50 rears Lydia FE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female Lis. No sick woman does justice to Lharsall who will not try this famous medicine, sade exclusively from roots and herbs, and winds of cures to its credit. invites all siek women for advice. She has to health free of charge. rs = Flim vy ¥ res lias £1 rd. Pinkham » write hor in 4 2 “4 . so a win nye Believe This? ih For HEADACHE Micke CAPUDINR on fhe # { fens — Xe 1 " " oe : ‘ 5 § “ ¥ * POR. : take mee a BL drag any ser i= cured One a | B ROR ise is thoroughly y Dr, Pleasant Pellets avalivey cathartic. ‘ussore and satin tumes replace velvetl Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething soltensthegums reduces inflammie tion, allays pain enres wind solic 25 a bottle area is only 35.000 “Barre AX» Liberia's : square miles benefit reported to be derived py farmers from their co-operative | societies in continental countries. es pecially Denmark, has stimulated the iormation like societies in the Buy “Barrie AXE” SHogzs. 24 The population of Japan is incredgy ing at the rate of 500,000 a year, B. N. UU. 21. of — lence! The instinct of modesty natural to every woman is often a great hindrance to the cure of womanly diseases. Women shrink {rom the personal questions of the local physician which seem indelicate. The thought of examination is ab- horrent to them, and so they endure in silence & condition of disease which surely progresses from bad to worse. It has been Dr. Pierce's privilege to cure a gireat many women who have fovnd a refuge for modesty in his offer of FREE comsuitas tion by letter. AH correspondence is held as sacredly confidential, Address Dr. R. ¥. Pierce, Buttalo, N. ¥. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription restores and regulates the womanly functions, abolishes pain and builds up end puts the finishing touch of health on every weak womaa who gives it a fair trial, It Makes Weak Women Strong, Sick Women Well. You can’t afford to accept a secret nostrom es « substitute for this noncalooholic medicine oF ENOWN rav seve ran | PEALE EAL, Ee Cr ATENTS Sint oc: i CT SAAB CNR RAR A Sa AANA,
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