Ortnnn Population Slnllslic. The official rctnms r.f the Gerinnn quinquennial rromis lmve jnst been juiblislieil and (bow a rcmnrknblo in ciTRFe in the population for the past five jenta. The totnl opulntion wj fonnd to bo G2,27!t,!l01, Against 4'. 428,470 five venrs ago. Tho increase of 2,8.r,l,4ni is mnde rtp of ), 430,418 males and 1,421,013 fern ales One linmlred atil tevcnty-Eevcn million esllons of Uritish beer fire drank every year in London. liars Powrr. The horso hu wonderful muscular power. but will milTor it grsnt deal at limes with nervous attacks if not properly groomed and stabled. This Illustrates that n great deal of nearnlala In ennsed by Imprudence and re sulis from shock from cold to the nervous rgnnloin in parts most exposed to the col. I. Hodco, neuralgia If so oftcu an nffliclion of t tin head. ftiCH and m k, as they are fre quently badly protected nRnir.st Intense cold. The use of war mill as an antidote is appar ent, and the warmth to the afflleiei pnit Im parted by the use of Ht. Jacobs Oil, together with the soot hi nit and strengthening Inllii ence of the remedy, lull the nln and quickly restore a good hoiltliful condition of the nerves, curing even the worst cases. . Cold storngo stocks of New York Catnwbas and Concotds are scarcely yet exhausted and ore selling freely. No-To-llac fir Fifty Cents. Over 400,nx cure 1. Why not let Ki-To-Tl.ic regnlste or remove your drsire for tobacco? tvivM money, mtke health and manhoo l. I'ure gnnriintced. M cents and $1.M. at all druiJ5ts. The wheat and oat crops In Chile, now be ing harvested, are reported generally satis factory. JltFT try a 1(V. In of 'a'cnret, the finest livr and bowel regulator ever made. Hood' arsnparllla now and expel from your blood the 'Impurities which have accumulated during winter. Thus prevent humors, boils, lmples, eruption, and serious illness, such as fevers, malaria, and debility of the system. Hood's8?., a Is the best in fact the OneTrne Blood Turlfler. bold by all drnsiiists. $1, six for t-". Hood's Pills act harmoniously with Hood! barsaparllla. A Strnnfro Occurrence. That a pigeon should have strength enongh or weight enough while flying to break the heavy glass of a locomo tive headlight seems etrnngo, but bucu case oceurred on the Iron Mountain Railroad in Missouri. When the train pulled into Bismarck it was discov ered that the headlight was broken, and inside was found perched a pigeon. When the train left the previous station the glass was nubroketi so that the pigeon nint have flown against it or been struck by it while flying, and broke it. The strange occurrence hap pened in broad daylight, so that tbe bird was not attracted by tbe light, as it might have been bad it been night. Detriot Free Press. Largest Diplomatic Salary. Sixty thousand dollars a year, the salary drawn by tbe French Embassa dor in London, is the largest sum paid to any diplomntist in the world. A Wonderful Statement "ram Mr. McGillas to Mrs. Pinkham. I think it my duty, dear Mrs. Pink bam, to tell you what your wonderful Compound has done for me. I was dreadfully ill the doctors said tliev could cure me nf&WffiBE to do teWi'ftt'3K eoi i VKSt iNv,- I gave in despai ana toon to t 'I yTif'V my oea. i . , . r - Mir,. It. t PV-M? - . i f J K, JW- neart, Ja-Fi fainting- M.-.fe.. spells, aparki fore my my" eyes J1 l and some' tiroes I would get so blind, I could not see for several minutes. I could not stand very long without feeling sick and vomiting-. I could not breathe a long breath without scream ing, my heart pained so. I also had female weakness, inflam mation of ovaries, painful menstrua tion, displacement of tho womb, itch ing of the external parts, and ulcera tion of the womb. I have had all these complaints. The pains I had to Mand were some thing dreadful. My husband told mo to try a bottle of I,ydia 12. I'ickham's medicine, which I did, and after taking it for a while, was cured. No other kind of medicine for me as long as vou make Compound. I hope every woman who suffers will take your Compound nd be cured. Mrs. .1. S. McCillas. 113 Kilburn avenue. lUiekfonl. 111. l.llrJK tiin.i. A.I Iia ttiK I Best Cough byrup. T&m?6 jJ. Gael in n ni p. 7"un n? anicirtcts. rg--i?ri ir hK-M;StM s be- f , WUm a3 Pill Clothes. The good pill has a good coat. Tho pill coat serves two purposes; ii protects the pill, en abling it to retaia all its remedial value, and it disguises the taste for the pnlata. Some pill coats are too heavy; they will not dissolve in the Etomacli, and tho pills they cover' pass through the system as harmless a3 a bread pellet. Other coats are too light, and permit the) speedy deterioration of the pill. After 30 years exposure, Ayer's Sugar Coated Pills have beeu found &s effective a3 if just fresh from tho labor atory. It's a good pill 'with a eod coat. Ask your druggist for Ayer's Cathartic Pills. CO Mor j-111 particular la Ayer's Cu reboot, 100 pages, bent free. J. C. Aycr Co., Lowell, Man. Draws a H Air Lino. Franco's Senate, whioh sits in the Ijnxembourg Palace, has struck against having any more stantes of bald headed poets sot np in the Luxem bourg gardens. It draws the line at tho hairless Paul Verlaine the last poets honored, Theodoro do Banvillo, Henri Mnrger and Leconto do Lisle, being also bald. There are more theatres in Itnly in proportion to population than in any other country. Canal of Ancient Origin. The Dismal Swamp Canal is one of the oldest artificial waterways in the United States. It was planned by George Washington, and was chartered by the Legislatures of Virginia and Xorth Carolina in 1787 110 years ago. The charter powers of the original company are such as no Legislature would now grant, the franchiso and privileges being perpetnal and irrevoc able. Ten years was allowed for the construction, but the time was twioe extended, in 1810 and in 1816. The need of an island ronte of communica tion was serionsly felt by the United States Government during the block ade of the Southern ports in 1814, and Congress appropriated $250,000 for the completion of the canal. It was opened for tramc in 1824, and almost immediately became a paying institution. From 1840 to the break ing ont of the Civil War it was the principal inland route for transporta tion between the North and tbe South. In 1850 it paid a dividend of eight per cent, on a capitalization of $481,000. But at tbe beginning of the war trans portation ceased, and after the capture of Roanoke Island in 1802 General Henry A. Wise, who made his escape through the Dismal Hwamp Canal, demolished three of its locks to head off pursuit. It was then seized by tho Government, partially repaired and used for transport purposes. In 18G5 tbe property was returned to its owners in a dilapidated condition, and boa been practically moribund ever since. Some years after the war General li. F. Butler and certain New England capitalists conceived the idea of pur chasing tbe canal property and build ing a railroad on the towpath. But tho engineers sent ont to make the preliminary survey came back with an unfavorable report, and the scheme was abandoned. There has been talk in Congress of enlarging this canal, and of making it a part of the inter coastal waterway from Boston to New Orleans. This ambitions schemo prob ably had its origin in the brain of John C. Calhoun, and that statesman was its chief advocate for many years. Bnt the intcrcoaslal canal is still an unac complished dream of naval officers and members of Congress.- New Orleans Picayune. Gold In Siberia. As tbe opening np of Siberia draws near, it may be interesting to point ont the laws and regulations that govern gold hunting in that far-away country that will be within easy reach of civilization in three or fonr years. According to a recent nkase, "taye shulks" (prospectors) are quite wel come to the White Czar's domains, provided the local authorities of the district approve of tbeir character, Hebrews alone being exclnded. The local authorities will issne a permit ol prospectors, and once a gold hnntei has fonnd yellow raetifl he is at liberty to stake off a claim. This, however, mast not be more than three miles and a half in length and from COO to 1000 feet in breadth. All olaims are regis tered and forfeited to the crown if not constantly worked. Advices from Bnssia say that thou sands of abandoued claims are at the disposal of new comers, the crown be ing only too willing to give them np. Tbe reasou for the wholesale abandon ment of claims is tha np to the present time Siberian gold -rioters pursue the work of mining in the most primitive manner, there being little or no un derground work. There are said to be splendid openings far hardy adven turers carrying other machinery and implements besides a shovel and a pick. New York Journal. Remarkable Friendship. One of the severest tests of friend ship recorded in the annals of history has just come to light in Pasadena in the conrse ot tbe trial of a Mexican who stuck his knife twice into the abdomen of a loving chum. The in jured man has arisen from his bed to explain to tbe Court that the attempt oi his friend to engage in a little sportive vivisection has not altered tbe sentiment of affectionate regard existing between them. The spirit of the carver was said to be altogether amicable, and the mutual attachment of former days has not been impaired. After all, the Shakespearean critics may have been guilty of a malicious hoax in leading au unsuspecting publio to believe that Sbylock entertained in his heart any thing but an undying affection for the Merchant of Venice wbeu he demanded hia pound of flesh. Los Angeles (CuL) Times. TlSF.ATMFNT OP PAMAOF.D TttKKS. There was a vast deal of damage done to shade, forest and frnit trees in tho Northwest tho latter part of November by a slcct storm that loaded tbe limbs with a heavy coating of ice, breaking tho limbs olf in many cases to an extent that seemed to bo fatal to tho tree. Hut as a mat lor of fact a tree can stand very hard usage iu this respect and not only survive, but rapidly recover all its loss, aud in omo instances such discipline seems to prove an advautnge. Where a limb is broken it should be cut off olose to the trunk, late in tho winter, or be fore tbe sap starts, making a smooth, clean job of it, and cover tho wound with grafting wax, or a thiok applica tion of white lead and oil. Axlo grease is sometimes recommended, and so is coal or pine tar, but nothing is so good as the two first named ; we would not use tar in any event. If a tree is badly stripped of limbs it may be well to cut off tho top of the trunk with a viow to a more shapely tree hereafter. Tbe root system of the tree is not injurod, and if a chance Is given it will force a new growth of limts npon tbe old trunk that will be surprising. There is no way to get new trees eo quickly as by utilizing the trunks of the injured ones. mrrrs and flowers. A German writer says the nutrition of plauts is diminished in a constantly moist atmosphere, because iu such case tbe plants cease to transpire. It is by the stream of transpiration that the food materials from the soil are brought to the plant, remaining be hind in the plant when the plant gives off the water in vapor, and thereby makes room for a like quantity of new food material from the soil. Experi ments show that in a very moist at mosphere loss of mineral matter is brought into the plant from the soil, bnt tho formation of starch grains from carbon dioxide aud water is not hindered. Hire. Allen, Germantown, says: Py retbrnm rowdjr, the insccticido most used by housekeepers, is one of the best to use with house plants. A very lit tle of it in water and difused by an atomizer as recommended a long time ago by Profcsor Riley, is one of tho best ways for using it. Another way is to wet the leaves of the plant, and blow the powder upon them from an inscot gun." Out of doors, if used, dry, it should be iu the evening or early in tho morning, when tho mois ture on the leaves from the dew will cause it to stick. If iu water a little glycerine or molasses or soap may be put in to make it stick. "This insec ticide is made from the flowers of the pyrethinm cinerariaefolinrn. These are gathered before they are quite open, and dried under cover and without artificial heat. When dried they are pulverized and the powder sifted, then put into air-tight recep tacles. The powder will not injure cither the foliage or tho flowers." One of tbe bett of the New England peach farms is managed on the partly turf system, a strip of sol being left about the trees, the space in tho mid dle of the rows being cultivated. The fertilizer is applied on the sod and the grass is mowed and left us a mulch. Tbe sod, it is said, helps protect the roots from freezing and thawing, and tbe wood being of slower growth is better matured. The ideal location for an apple orchard, Mies Cutler told the Boston farmers at their recent meeting, is on a hill. The advantage in this over a plain being that the trees are more open to the light and air, giving bet ter color and iiavor to the fruit, bet ter natural drainage and freedom from frosts. Whitewash or dusting with pow dered lime when tho limbi and twigs are damp with fog, or after a rain, will destroy any moss that may be on them. TUB VALUE OF CLT BONES. Did you ever think about how much material it takes to make an egg ? If you think about it once yon would readily see that a single egg contuins all the elements necessary to animal life, for at the end of the period of incubation out steps a chick, equipped with bono and muscle, a little fat perhaps, and feathers a-sprontiug, in short, every thing that goes to make a fowl, was contained inside the egg shell. How did they get there? The hen that laid that egg did not evolve its elements from'her "internal arrange ments;" there was no spontaneous growth about it. "Nothing cornea from - nothiug," a3 Bhadespeare said long ago. That egg was fed into the hen. It is requiring "bricks without straw," when we demand that our hens shall lay eggs and give them nothing with which to manufacture them. The w hole secret of egg production is after you have a healthy ben a properly balanced ration. As long as the hen e food lacks one or more of the elements necessary to egg pro duction, it is silly to expect a well filled ega basket. In the past few years poultrymen have been greatly lavored in having an ideal egg food plaoed at their dis posal at a very small cost. 1 refer to green cut. bone. liy analysis and ex perience green bones have been found tocor.tuin every element that is found in an egg, and in such proportions as can be used to the best advantage. It is unfortunate that so many farmers are neglecting this most valuable ad junct to tho chicken yard. Green bones can be obtuiued for tho hauling of them away ; but even if purchased they are cheaper than grain, and worked into a grain ration, the bone makes tho grain go so much iarther, Kothut it ih a suviug all around. A given weight of bone will more than displace tho same umount of grain in the ration. Now that a good bone cutter, which is practically "a lust forever," can be purchased so cheaply, it is certain that more barnyard lowls will be made happy and profitable by an addition of green cnt bones to their diot. A writer to tho National Stockman calls attention to the advantage of tho bone cutter in that it keeps the flock healthy and enables tho farmer to double or treble his tlocks at will. Ho says: "I speak from experience, as I am keeping in perfect health over 1200 layers and breeders by the uso and aid of fresh cut bono. No condi tion powdeisor medicine are necessary, l)ut the cut bone is supplying nature's cravings and reducing tho feod bill, and it is only a matter of a little timo and practical observation when a good bone ontter will be to tho poultry de partment what tbe mowing machine is to the bay field. Not only is cut bone a healthy feed, but it is one of the greatest egg feeds known, for health means eggs. Try it and be convinced that green cut bone is not only a luxury, but a necessity to the poultry keeper." Farm News. FARM AND GARDEN NOTKS. Don't try to make silage do as a eompleto ration. A little grain and hay are needed with it Your hogs ought to have roots now. If yon haven't any lay the lesson to heart and provide some next season. At this time of year one of the best tonics that can be given a flock of hens is to place a rusty nail, or spike, in the drinking fountain. It is about time to niato fowls for early spring business. Winter is not over bnt the fowls want to got familiar with eaoh other, to insure the right sort of eggs for hatching, and two or three weeks will settle the matter. Food alone does not and cannot control the quality of milk. This statement, however, does not imply that proper feoding is nit necessary. But no amount of feed will transform a naturally inferior cow into a first class dairy animal. An Indiana farmer says he has tried corrosive sublimate for preventing soab on potatoes, with gratifying re sult. The sublimate is poison and should be handled by careful persons. It does not injure the hands, but is deadly when it enters the stomaoh. The Michigan experiment station has conducted experiments to deter mine whether bees injure grape). Ex perimenter Taylor conoludes that not only do bees not injure gropes, but that by gathering the juioe of cracked one thoy prevent deoay and consequent destruction of sound ones. An Illinois farmer living in Jewell County, has disoovered that seed corn soaked in coal oil renders tho growing corn chinch bug proof. He plowed np his wheat and planted the ground with corn. The seed of five acres was soaked in coal oil and tbe other forty was not. The bugs ate np the forty acres aud never touched the five acres. It is worth a million if trne. On almost every farm there is a shed that is fairly dry all through the winter. In this shed throw dry leaves or cut straw to the depth of tea or twelves inches. Nail a board at the front of the shed, so as to keep the leaves or straw from being scratched ont, and in this litter soitter the whole graiu you intend to feed your chickens. They will scratch for it the whole day long, and, in this way, secure exeroise while getting their feed. Profeseor Massey, of the North Carolina experiment station, says that sawdust would have to be rotted to the state of perfeotly black mold and then be composted with lime before he would use it for any manurial purposes. Better burn it, if practicable, and put the ashes on the land. The evolution of organio acids from the sawdust, he says, would do more harm than the mulch would do good. Sawdust is of no value whatever on land till com pletely decomposed, and then acted upon by lime. Coal ashes are often scattered over garden and field in winter under the impression that they are a valuable fertilize!. As a matter of fact, about their only effect upon the soil is a me chanical one, having a tendonoy to looseu heavy soils, rendering them more friable, while their effect npon soils already light and dry may be wholly detrimental. However, nn leached wood ashes, are a valuable fertilizer for the orchard and all soils deficient in potash. They have been used on orchards and grass lands with very gratifying results. Tattooed Ejes. The latest discovery of scientific medical men is that the human eye may be tattooed any color. It is now quite within the bounds of possibility for dootors to tattoo a man's eye bright scarlet or green. Of course, eyes are only tattooed iu cases where one of tbem is blind, and has assumed in con sequence a, peculiar dead and ghastly appearance. An eye in this condition will entirely disfigure a face; but a uoJern oculist may color one of these "dead eyes, and restore it to its natural appearance, so that uothing but the closest scrutiny can deteot the difference between it and its fellow. The operation of tattooing is per formed by first treating the eye with cocaine, until it becomes absolutely senseless to pain. When all is ready the part to be operated upon is cov ered thiokly with India inlc of the re quired color. Tbe tattooing is then performed by means of a little elec trical machlue, which operates a speci ally made needle. How Pens Are Made. Pens are made by machines whioh seem almost to think. The steel is out ioto ribbons as wide as tbe length ot one pen, and tutse are fed to ma chines, which out out the blanks, thon fashion, stamp them, split the points and pluoe the maker's name on the bauks. Tbe pens are now complete, save tbe annealing, and this forms a separate operation. After being an nealed they are counted and placed in boxes. A machine has been inveuted for performing both these operations. TEMPERANCE, . BACcnCS DUTBSflSED. This sotwr onp Of which we sup, A thousand llmos surpasses Th niibly bowl That stains the soul Anl spnso-di.prlvlnir Rtnssflu With wnnton smilo, It won't bflffiillH Its most (Invotnd lovrs Nor li-avo him ink- DeRrnclml A ru u k- Ills&mso to iwover. With ns thon sup, Dlsdnln tho onp, Whe.-o'tM- you ohsnre to find It, That offers Mis To llioso wlio kiss, Tut leaves a sling bull I ml It. Plmll we In lavs Old Dttcehns pnilso Aal join his noisy rovol Which hrlnirs wit down Till, Willi the clown Tho wl-o man's on a lovol? Ah n , my boy-, For purvr Joys Fair torn pi-rnncn shall brln us, WhrtsH Jnys r(im I Nn'or Ion vo behind An atter-ilioiiKh to stlnit us. With ns thon sup, Dlst'.nin the cup, Whore're you chance to flu.l It, That oftors bliss To thoso who kiss, Eu'. scatters denth behind It. THE ORB AT DFSinoTRB. Prntikonai-si Is still s cj n nou that 0.1 PHslonnlly tompnrn-ins worra fool Inolln id to dnspnir. It miy bs wirth whllo to irlanos t thu history of our drinking customs, foi without some knnwlnlge ot c mios we can not taopn to romovo uiTets. It would h a poor explanation of a tre3 that said notliuiK o.' Its rona. Dniukann -s Is a dually true with many roots, doop anl old. Hiarttnir with tho onrly British Inhabi tant o: this country (F.airlnn 1), ws find tlioy know bow to ma'a ttaroo forms of stromt drink (1) motheitlin, or mnd, which is niad j from honey; (2) alo, which- Is ma le from Kralo; (3) oldor, whleh Is made of nppl -s. An oltl historian, Dio lorus, says of l lime Brltonsi 'Tiioir ordinary drink wai water. Upon xtniordiuiry occasions they drank a kin 1 of fermeutol liquor ma le ot b.irloy, honor or apples, aud when lutoxt ented nevor fnile I to quarrel." Tho Hritls'i had houses. In whioh travelers mlKht find shelter for themselves and their horses. Thes t wore really luns. Tbe ltomnns entered Urltain In 43 an) re mained about 350 years. They IntroJuoeJ wine to the natives, nn I the uso of the slgn bonr.l, which was a bush. After the Romans wlthdrow, the Saxons conquered n Kroat part of tho Isian.i They were great drinkers, nnd often got drunk upon mea l, which nu old poet describes as "a friend to tho lips aud a foe to the life." We cau scarcely understand now tho sv,i, coare-j brutality of those Saxons. On one occasion they proposed to make a treaty of peace with Vortlirern. by a feast. The Saxons ma le their British truests druuk, and each drew his knife and killed his man. Three .trnmlre t British nchlen nre snld to hava beon slnln In a statu of Intoxication ou that occasion. The Danes ma le inroads next upon the Saxons. The Han-s were. If possible, more terrilde drunkard than tho H:txons them selvee. We know from various sources to what a dreadful sta'a tho country was reduced by drunkenness. Iu 5G9 a synod was hell by the bishop, St. David, to enaot new canons, so ns to repress drunkenness. These ou nous morn than thirteen hundred years ngo spoke in no uncertain way. They decreed; "He who forces another to get drunk out of hospitality must do pennnce, as If he had got druuk himself; but he who, out of hatred or wickedness, In order to dlsgraoe or mock others, tones them to get drunk, must do ponnncs as a murderer ot souls." About four hundred years Inter tbe great Dunstan found time to devise the prg-tao-karJ, In order to stop diunkenness aud quitr rleinir. But It failed. This brings us practically to the time of William the Conqueror, an l hero we may pause. Clearly drunkenness Is no new thing. It Is not only as old as EnRlund, but It U a part of Eogllsh custom and character. It got possession of our f Drefotbcrs, when their choioe of beverages was very small, and when sclent I do knowledge of food and drink bad not come to them. Tbis scourge of drunkenness arose from man's need of something to drink, and It spread by his carelessness and Ignorance, till It became the Riant custom which carriel destruction everywhere. Our great lesson from this very brief out llno is that drunkenness must be fought by these homely menus which provides for man's wants nnd change our social customs, no less than by moral enthusiasm and religious faith. Kov. Dennis Bird. TO TBI MODXaiTC DBIXKIB. Presuming that you believe vou are not destitute of some influence in the world, we would urge upon you a brief appeal. It may be you regard yourself in no dnuger from the power of appetite which has vanquished thousands before you. Perhaps vou have thus fur passed unharmed by that foe whioh has blasted the hopes and happiness of so many of your fellows. But have you never thought that watchful eyes are fixed upon your example Perhaps you are a young man. Are there none among your acquaint ances In whom your example Is subverting moral principle and lending the way to the drunkard's grave? Perhaps you area father. Is the eye of your littlo one oast toward you as you quaff your daily or occasional dinner glass' Are you aware that forthat ohlld you may bo laying a foundation for a miserable life and death' Do you love your family? Is your love evinced by Introducing a prin ciple whioh may result in temporal Infamy aud final ruin to themembersof that family? May you not live to see your folly perpetra ted in those who bear your Image, and see it, too, rioting In their destruction? If you ''sow to tbe wind," oan you complain if you "reap the whirlwind'" National Tooiper auoo Advocate. TBieiS or TUK TBAUK. The Manchester (England) City Ne.vs has publishel some startling revelatioos, show ing the trick; to which brewers and publi cans r.-sort to encourage the Sunday trade. It says: "Munday Is the great day for pushing the drink business. Hwoets, oranges, cakes, ap ples, etc., are given to childreu. Cigars are given to adults. Threepenny-bits are placed In a certain number of the pots ot liquor. 'An extra pull at the beer pumps, amounting often to fifty per cent, more liquor than Is asked or paid for,' Is another inducement. 'At some places all the pint pots are rellilod free, while at other places a gallon or two gallons are contribute 1 by tbe bartender for tbeoompany In which to drink bU health.' " Tbe truth of those statements may be as sumed, as they have never been denied. Tiie City News roundly charges the brewers with being responsible for tuus-j grave moral and legal offences. A TBL'C GINTLEMiM. "I was In England one time." says Mr. Moody, "and was Invited out to dinner. Tho host nsUed me to drink one and nnuther ol his seven kinds ot liquors. I refused again and again, until dually I saw Ibe youug la ly sitting next to me beginning to get oon fused and thick iu her words, owing to tne lutluunee of liquor, una I said, 'This Is no place for me,' and asiilug to be excused. I went upstair. The host was very ludig mint, and followed mo to flud out what was the matter. 1 llnnlly told him aud be said, 'You're no gentle nan." " 'Well, 1 dou't want to be if I have to get druuk la order to bu one.' " ALCOHOL HHoHTKXU LIFK. People who drink the ta:i 'ar t moderate dose of alcohol in whisky, w U4 or beer, tak ing It twicj daily, are never truu Iruin alcohol, it requires iwen y h-urs for A moderate dose of liquor to bo eliminated from the system. From the tu-ur.tuce stand point, coutiuu m Dr. I,. K. Keeluv. alcohol "shortens li(o" if ilruui la nay quantity whatever. The daily use of a moderate quantity has a grea'.er eai t to slionou life than the periodical use of ai exceas-ve quantliy. TKMl'EUANeE NEWS AND MOTES. The beer consumed iu thu United Stale, last year would llll u caual tun f.et rteep, fitly feet wide uu I fifty in le luu,'. A Had Case Quickly Curort. From th Commercial, Jlnnrnr, Mf, Wo publish Ihe letter ot Mr. It. J. Crnn dleirdro, In full. Just as It came In, a It Is Interesting. Drar Wi-s; I send this solely that others mny know what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did for me nnd my kidneys, and to make It ot more efToct I sond It In affidavit formi Stat or Maihk, 1 " CortHTT or WAsniwriTow. ) H. J. Crnndlumlre, of Vancoboro, Maine, being duly sworn deposes snd says; "Two years or mor ago I was attacked with kldnny trouble whtoti gave me violent pain, and necessitated my urinating every few minutes. Then I had time of no oontrol over my water, and Mils made things unbear able. The pain at these times was Inde scribable, and nothing gave me any relief nntll I was led to try Dr. Williams' Pln't Pills. The first box helped me, and by the time I had taken my second I was absolutely and completely cured. This was two years ngo, nnd since then I have had no return of the trouble, nnd I havo no hesitation or doubt in expressing flint I owe my recovery to Pink Pills. (Signed) "IT. J. CmKm.rMiiin." Personally appeared before me this ISIh ilny of August, IHOfl, II. J. Crandlemlre, and made oath that the nhove statement was true. Et.tsHA T. HomnooR, Aofnry I'uMie. Dr. Williams' Tlnk Pills contain, In a con densed form, all the elements necessary to give now life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also a spealfla for troubles peoullnrto females, such ss suppressions. Irregularities and all forms 3l weakness. They build up the blood, nnd restore the glow of health to pale nnd sallow cheeks. In men they affect a radical ours In all case arising from mental worry, over work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold In boxes (never In loose bulk) at ISO cents a box or six boxes for 1.50, and may be had of all drugirlsts, or direct by mall from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady. N. V. A Great Singer's Umldity. 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