A TALE FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
ffaere vn man in our cowl wasttaWagat
bim-lf woDdrott wis.
Said be. "What costly frnmparics ihm av
erage husband buys!
Now I'll cut out all the 'Household Hints'
and give them to my wife.
And shell furnish the house on nothing:
iit all. you better bet your life!"
Bo he bought some ancient newpaper files,
and his wite icot on her knees
And began to manufacture tUngs with
elegance and ease.
She gathered a lot of barrel stares and
made a window seat;
She thought of a new canary cage and a
hoopskirt was ber meat;
Bhe painted old shoes with liquid gilt and
bung them orer the wall;
She covered a keg with turkey red for a
batrark in the hall;
fine made some beautiful picture frames
of berbusband'a cast-off socks.
And built a table and sideboard out of an
empty dry gooda box.
Bhe hung the coal scuttle over the door
('twas lovely, so she said);
0he turned a hideous hen house Into a
handy folding bed;
Che cut new mantel draperies out of old
plaid underskirts;
She made some parlor lambrequins of her
husband'a flannel shirts;
Bhe planted a palm in his old silk hat and
tied up bis cane with bows,
Aad what she didn't finally do, the Lord
He only knowal
The husband puned and pined away and
iokly grew his soul.
As be saw ber making a standing lamp of
a pitcher and curtain pole.
And his step grew slow and bis cheek
grew wan as she hammered away
with force,
A-making a fancy Japanese screen of a
rickety old clothes horse.
One day she began on a chandelier, and
tbeu he went outside
And swallowed poison, cut his throat and
shot himself and died.
New York Press.
THE QUEEN'S PARDON.
On the heights of Portland the De
cember mists, still undispersed by sun
rise. buiiR thick, obliterating all traces
of the prisoii liuildings from the roads,
where several ships of the Channel
Squadron lay at anchor, and also from
the straggling row of houses at the
base of the northwest slope. In the
prison itself there was no light as yet
save In the corridors, np and down
which the ever-alert warders paced
monotonously to and fro. In most of
the cells the prisoners slept, tired out
with the previous day's hewing of stone
and uncongenial tasks; but in one the
occupant, a man of 35, good-looking in
spite of prison garb, close-cropped hair,
and the ravages of toil and despair, lay
on his bed awake.
A little more than ten years ago he
bad stood In the dock of a West of Eng
land city listening to a Judge with a
bard voice, though with kindly eyes,
pronouncing sentence of fifteen yenrs'
penal servitude. All that an eloquent
counsel could do had been done for
him, but to no avail. The evidence
seemed conclusively damnatory, and
the foreman of the jury, after an al
atence of half an hour, answered
"Guilty" to the usual question, with a
ring of conviction In bis voice. The
Judge's words to Thomas Harborde fell
on deaf ears. He stood stupidly gazing
at a young girl sitting at the back of the
court in the company of a sweet-faced
old hiily, as though be saw nothing. At
last a warder touched him on the shoul
der, and the same instant a piteous
cry of "O, Tom! Tom! They're going
i take you away from me!" rang out
In the court, over which the dusk of
Lite afternoon was creeping, gradually
blotting out the features of those who
sat at all In shadow. The prisoner
turned round as though about to say
something to the Judge on the bench,
and then, led by the warder, he van
ished down the dock stairs to the cells,
to be known no longer as Thomas Har
borde. but ly various cumbers; at Port
land Convict Prison as "Xo. 27."
The sense of innocence brought him
contrary to all preconceived notions of
writers of Action no meed of satisfac
tion; It merely filled him with desper
ate wrath and blackest despair. In the
carl; period of his solitary confinement
tie found bliceelf confronted day in and
day out with the crushing sense of the
legions of hours, minutes, and seconds
before he could hope to be a free man
If ever be were to be one agnln. By
food conduct against the very thought
of which he at first rebelled, refusing to
accept any boon at the hands of fate
be might reduce these years to two
thirds, maybe. What then? Millions
of second!, each one to him, a prisoner,
aji appreciable part of life; hundred of
thousands of laden-footed minutes,
each one filled with poignant despair,
must pass ere the time of release drew
near. At work, under the scorching
sun or In the keen air of winter, In the
quarries it was all the same. Tbeae
ktours and minutes became embodied In
the person of the wardens and fellow
(.risoners. In the presence of his chains.
From a possibly dangerous man he be
came almost an Inanimate machine, a
mere cogwheel in the round of daily
toll an.I poison discipline. At first he
attacked the stone as though he were
revenging bis wrongs upon human flesh
and blood, at last he tooled it with the
unthinking regularity cf an automaton.
It taken a year or two to trample the
buman element out of a man of Har
bordes typp; but the effect of atone
walls, silence, and brutalized compan
ions. If slow. Is none the less sure. Only
In his case he became an automaton In
stead of an animal.
Through the long December night,
while the uilit enshrouded Portland
sod restricted the range of the lights at
the Bill to half a mile or les, and whilst
h sirens sounded from the light-house
g tilery aliuont continuously, answered
faintly by others from vessels far out
fto sea or booming harshly from others
ear at hand. Harborde lay awake reck
fin, th week. dav. hour, and mio
Sweetness
Put a pill la tho pulpit if you want practical
preaching for tae physical man ; t'nea put the
pill in tha pillory it it docs not practise what it
proach. 7hro'3 a "whola gospel in Ayer'at
Buc&r Coated TiUa; ft "cospol of weotc
and lijht." Tooplj uod to value their phy.si.-t,
as they did their rclicion,-b7 its bittcrn-;si.
The more Litter tho doso X'co bettor tho doctor.
We're cot over that. VTo take "suirax in ourj"
gospel or physio-now-ardaya. It's possible to
pleaae and to purge at the same time. There
saay be power ia a pises ant pia. That Is the
gesrpel of
Ayer's Cathartic Pills.
Umrm sill ssrtUalara la Aysrs Csiassafc. Ms swats,
.a irss. J C At Cs, lew.ll. Haw.
Mea which comprise the remaining two
years of his term. He bad but Just
dropped off into a half -sleeping condi
tion when bis cell door opened, and in
stead of the hard face of the warder
come to tell him to tidy op ba saw the
Governor and chaplain, with the ward
er In the background. ,
What could It mean? Be sprang np,
rubbing his eyes,' and almost before be
knew what was happening the ftovr.
nor had told him In a few words thati
- u receivea in queen's pardon,
and then proceeded to read the same.
What did It all mean? So other thought
germinated in bis dull brain. Tree!
Free to go where be wUled! Free to
walk out of the gaol sates. Never to
return within Jibe sfsue walla which
bad shut hi in In from the outside world,
as surely as though no world other
than that contained within them exist
ed. The prison bell clanged, startling
blm Icto a state of wakefulness. The
Governor bad finished reading the official-looking
paper, and with the con
clusion of the formal part of bis doty be
added a few words of congratulation.
Harborde seemed to bare no compre
hension of their meaning. He remain
ed standing in the center of the narrow
cell speechless. At last the chaplain
made him understand the Import of the
document which had Just been read
over to him.
"Free! Free! It is Impossible," be ex
claimed, and then he threw himself on
the bed in an agony of Joy. The clang
ing of the bell afresh, the slamming of
doors, the echoing of footsteps down
the resounding corridors recalled him
to a sense of his position. A warder
entered with a suit of clothes. With
trembling fingers he removed bis prison
garb; worn, soiled with weather and
labor, and intolerable. The trousers
felt chilly after the thick prison tight
fitting knlckerbockero. arl rough, thick,
worsted stockings. The coat seemed to
fit him nowhere. With one look around
his cell, on the walls or which he had
done innumerable calculations to keep
himself from Insanity bred by the ter
rible silence and sense of loneliness, "No.
27," now no longer a mere figure, a ma
chine, but a buman being, stepped Into
the corridor.
There was a breakfast for him such
as be had not tasted for nine long years,
but be had no appetite. The one idea
now possessing his mind was home,
escape whilst the Governor was wining
for him to depart. He swallowed a
few mouthfuls. drank a few gulps of
cocoa, and then with the allowance
money in his pocket burned to the gate
way.
He was free. Free" to go wherever he
liked. Free to start for home as fast
as steam would carry him. Free to
stretch out his arms to the placid gray
blue waters of Western Bay, now de
nuded of their mantle of fog and spark
ling In the sunshine. Free to breathe
the pure air uncontaminated by com
panions criminal and vicious. But the
waters, the hillside, the lovely stretch
of verdant country extended before his
eyes had no charm for him save that
they spelt freedom. Behind lilm lay
the prison bouse, the flagstaff, from
which no ensign of dread fluttered to
tell of his escape. Before him lay free
dom. He rushed down the road, waving his
arms with the reawakened Instincts of
a boy escaping from school, oblivious
alike of the sympathetic gaze of wo
men be passed and the half contemptu
ous remarks of the men. He dashed
into the bleak, shabby little railway
station, only to learn tliat there was no
train for an hour. Already his limbs,
unused to such riotous movement, and
still feeling the lag of the chain, had
begun to fail him, making the half
Jocular suggestion of the solitary por
ter that he should "take a little exer
cise and walk to Weymouth" out of the
; question.
"I'll have to wait," was all he could
; think of to say.
"Doin time ain't altogether exhilar
' alin nor strengtheniu' work," the por-
te'r remarked.'
! Harborde nodded his head, yet longed
j to tell him that be was an innocent
man. Tne porter, nowever, naa van
ished, to return in a few moments with
a paper.
"Here, mate," he exclaimed with
rough kindness. "You won't know all
yesterday's news, I'll go bail."
Harborde seized the paper. No, he
knew nothing of yesterday's news, nor
that of thousands of days which had
once been yesterday. He could see
nothing at first. The print swam in a
confused Jumble before bis eyes. When
bis sight clesred he commenced to read.
How strange it all was! He used to be
a great reader before he became "No.
27." And now he seemed to know noth
ing of the world. New names confront
ed him everywhere. Names of those
in authority, names of towns, names
even of countries. Where was Mashona
land and Matabeland? He was con
fused. He read on. This delicious new
found turmoil of the world, how good it
was after all.
At last bis eye caught a small para
graph stowed away at the bottom of
the third column on page six of the
paper. He read it and reread It over
and over again: "Her Majesty the
Queen has been graciously pleased to
pardon Thomas Harborde, who wna
convicted of forgery at the Westches
ter assizes some ten years ago and is
now completing his sentence of fifteen
years' penal servitude at Portland.
Harborde will be released this morn
ing. The step has been taken In conse
quence of the dying confession of a man
at Bristol." Nothing more! Now he
knew why be had been released. And
so death had taken Edward Tilwell
out of the hands of Justice. It was
hardly fair of death.
The porter came up whistling to tell
him the train would start In ten min
utes. He got up, thrust the paper Into
the mtfu's hands, pointing to the para
graph. "That's me."
"You Thomas HArborde?" exclaimed
tbs man. "Then all I've go In say it a
and Light.
a bancod shame the Queen didn't send
a ae-nd-alx for you. Let s have
yoar hand; man. to wish you good lack.
Got a missis? No? go much the bet
ter; poor soul. If you bad It would bavo
cut her np terrible."
"No." said Harborde, as though speak
ing to himself. "I was to have been
married; but that's years ago now. and
I'm an old man."
"Old!" interjected the porter, "you're
no more than nvehand-thlrty. I'll go
ball. Yen do losk older, to ba aw. But
wait till you're been out a bit. you'll
soon rub off them lines and look a bit
more uppish."
The engine at the end of a abort train
of carriages relegated to the Portland
line after becoming too thoroughly out
of date for even the Somerset and Dor
set local service between Weymouth
and Dorchester, . gave a thin, wintry
squeak, and Harborde. In a fever of ap
prehension lest It should start without
him, tumbled Into the first carriage
that came bandy, tlcketless.
The porter came to tne door. "You've
got no ticket Here, give me a shilling,
and I'll get It for you. Book to Wey
mouth?" "Yes." said Harborde. fumbling la
bis pocket for the money.
"Now, you're all right." the porter ex
claimed, returning a couple of minutes
later; "there's the ticket and the change.
No, thanks; you'U want all you're got.
Good-by, mate, and good-luck to yon."
With a bump and a groan the train
moved out of the station and ambled
along the line running at the back of
Shesil Beach at the rate of eight or ten
miles an hour. Harborde was one of
half a dozen passengers, but there was
no one else In his compartment. He
sat thinking of all that bad happened.
He bad beard nothing of those at home
for many months; they might all be
dead. How would he have the courage
to go to the door with this possibility?
What would he do If Jane told blm his
mother was dead? He covered his face i
In his hands at the thought, and sobbed
as only a strong man can sob In the
corner of a carriage. With a great Jerk
the train pulled up at the station, and
Harborde got out. His fellow travelers
regarded him with curiosity because
his friend the porter had told every one
of them who be was when be examined
their tickets, inveighing bitterly the
while against the caustic humor of par
doning an innocent man.
Harborde noticed nothing of this. He
Inquired of a porter the next train on to
the Junction for Applebury, and then
discovered that he was both hungry
and faint for want of food, ne went
out into the slippery, muddy street at
the back of the houses on the Parade
and at length found a quiet little eating
bouse, where he was served with a
meal by a girl, who had a pitying eye,
after consulting with her superior In
command. At 3 o'clock be was again
on his way In his train, in the company
this time of other fellow-creatures who
one and all regarded him with a feel
ing akin to that with which they would
have submitted to the company of a
dangerous animal. Harborde noticed
it after a time, and putting his hand to
his head suddenly made the discovery
that his hair was noticeably short.
After this he realized that he was a
marked man, and no longer wondered
why the lady opposite drew her warm
plaid dress away from his feet, and the
other lady with two children sidled as
far from him as possible and asked the
guard to find her seats In another car
riage at the next station. He was in
nocent, but how could he explain it to
them? If they could but know what be
had suffered surely they would weep.
He hadn't the paper with him; even if
he bad perhaps they would not believe
that be and Thomas Harborde men
tioned in the paragraph were one and
the same. Two men got in where the
lady with the children got out They
each of them threw a glance, shrugged
their shoulders, and then became im
mersed In their papers.
It was quite dark when Applebury
was reached, and Harborde, luggage
less, speedily passed out of the station
without being recognized. There seem
ed little alteration in the place. Sev
eral of the shops now gay with Christ
mas good and finery in the main street
now had large plate glass windows in
place of more countryfied fronts, but
were otherwise much as fifteen years
ago. For a moment he stood confused,
staring up and down the street, re
garded by the passers-by with curiosity.
Then ba remembered that he would
have to go along the street past the
grocer's whose window projected a
yard into the footpath, turn down the
by-street and then again turning take
the road leading to his home.
In ten minutes he reached the garden
gate. He had run part of the way, and
now he could not make up his mind to
go up the drive to the door. What if
they were all dead? He grew sick at
the very idea. There was a light In his
mother's room, which was at the front
of the house. What If she were 111
perhaps dying? At last nls legs carried
him up the drive, which swept round
the little front lawn In a seml-drcle.
He heard the bell tinkle shrilly at the
back of the house. The sound seemed
like home. AH at once he remembered
how. years ago, be had banged it with
a long-bandied broom till it Jangled
against its fellows on either side.
The door opened. A flood of light
streamed out on to the gravel. It was
a strange face and the fact sent an icy
shock to his heart. Far outside himself
be heard a voice he did not recognize as
his own asking if Dr. Harborde were
in. A year seemed to pass before the
servant said "No," adding, "Did you
wish to see blm particular?"
"Yes."
"He'U be in in half an hour."
"Is Is Mrs. Harborde In? Is she
alive?" said the man at the door, throw
ing the words at ber when once his
tongue had consented to frame them.
"Why, lor bless me, yes! Come, none
o' that!"
But It was no use. The man she nad
Just noticed nad suspiciously short halt
ini a strange, wild-looking face bad
pushed past her, thrown open the sitting-room
door, stumbled into It and
thrown bis arms around a sweet-faced
old lady, who rose In alarm at his sud
den entrance.
"My son! my son!" rang ont through
the house. "Mother! mother.
The girl stood rooted to the spot then
she ran to Jane, and the two of them
came out into the passage. In the sitting-room
with its pink-shaded lamp a
woman was seated kissing every line In
hnr son's face every line that the long
yenrs had written. And lie stroked the
l.air that still lay thick, though white.
In a coil nt the back of her head.
Suddenly the man started up.
"Jess?" he nsked. huskily.
Some one who had Iain, half -stunned
with Joy, in a wicker chair well out of
the range of the lamplight came Into bis
vision.
"Jess!" be cried, folding bar la bis
arms whilst the room swam round. "My
Jess!"
"Tom!" came tbs answer.
"But I am old," said be; Tso old."
"And I, also, with the sadness and
loneliness of waiting. But sow now
I am young again."
thesfleice after a memesfT "Per tbisj
my son. was dead aad Is anre again."
And they began to be marry. London
Black aad Walts.
Wlaawsl with tbe Whip.
As Aastre-Hsngsrlan, named PtskS)
lug. has created a sensation m Vienna
toy bis woadsrfml performances with a
iwbtp some of wbhm are described by
tho London Tit-Bits:
"The first thing he does Is to take a
losg-lashed. stout-bandied whip In eacl
band, and, with orchestral accompanl
stent, proceed to crack or snap them at
a terrific rate. The sound made by hit
whips In this manner is graduated from
a noise like a rifle report to the soft
click of a billiard bsJL It makes a curi
ous sort of music, and serves to show
bow ho can regulate the force of eack
stroke. .
"More interest Is evinced when bs
seises a vlcione-looking whip with an
abnormally long lash. It Is provided
with s very heavy handle of medium
length. This la bis favorite toy, and
what he can do with it Is really wonder
ful. He first gives an Idea of what fear
ful force may lie In a whlp-lash In the
bands of an expert
"A large frame, over which la stretch
ed a calf or sheep skin, is brought on
the stage. This la marked with dots
of red paint The man with the whip
steps up, and swinging the lash round
bis head lets fly at the calfskin. With
every blow be actually pulls a piece oul
of the leather, leaving a clean-cut hole.
These pieces are distributed among
the audience to show that there is no
trickery about the performance. After
this he takes a frame with three
shelves. On these there are a dozen or
more of medium-sized apples lying very
close together and provided with large
numbers. Any one In the audience may
designate which apple he wishes struck,
and the unerring lash snatches it out
like a flash.
"A still more difficult feat Is the snap
ping of coins from a narrow-necked bot
tle. A piece of stiver about the size of
a half-crown is put over the cork of the
bottle, which stands on the edge of a
table. The whip artist without appear
ing to take any sort of aim, sends the
long lash whizzing through the air and
picks off the coin without jarring the
bottle, much less breaking It."
SETT FROM ME AH. SPORT.
Btiss 8. Mollis Percr. the Well-Knows
Searsport Dressmaker, Gives Her
Experience or Her Life
long Suflerinz and
Cure.
From the Commercial, Bangor, Maine.
The following oommaolcailoa bas ju-t
been received from Miss 8. Mollis Percy, ol
Henrsport, Maine, where she la well and fa- i
vonibly known: j
"I was a sufferer from oonstant hrtailauha
oil , nru f.i.,i. BnAnR1n ... ,. j Jcst try a 10c box of Cascaret, csndy ra
all my life, frequently accompanied with j tharilo. ttneet hv and bowel reg-uiator made,
nausea and sick stomach, especially before ! , m -
aud during severe attacks. I am now thirty j Leaving out patients that were
vers obi, and as far back as I can rememoet j moribund at the time the injection
I was never free from those depressing an I I . , c Q . . ,
digressing attacks, and did not know what ! WM nQnde' 5'794 ca8eS f. Pb Iberia
it was to f-el well, until last winter, when, i treated in private practice in this
having seen so much written anJ heard so i
. .. ... . I ..... . T . 1 1 : i Ti : . 1 n 1 1 . ;
111 u ii ,h,qu nuuui vr. niiiiuuis rmK x 1 1 1 -
for Pale People, I made up my mind to se
If tbt'V would do me any gooi. I therefore
bought aomeof ihem and began tu take them
according to directions.
"I noun began to experience relief, and
have improved ever since. Iam still takin s
them, and shall continue so to do until I am
free of t be slightest symptom of my old ene
my. I am a Arm believer in the efficacy ol
I'iuk Pills, an t shall never be without them
as they have done me so tnuoh good.
"I have recommended theae pills t
others, among them C. Q. Cobarn, who Is ill
of heart trouble.
(Signed) "9. M. Pibct."
Witnesi: Mas. J. E. Nichols.
Dr. Williams.' Pink Pills for Pale People
are a apeciflo for troubles peculiar to fe
male, sui'h as suppressions, Irregularities
and all forms of weakness. They build up
the blood, and restore the glow of health to
pale and sallow obeeks. In men I bey effect
a radical cure in all cases arising from men
tal worry, overwork or excesses of whatever
nnture. They are manufactured by the Dr.
Williams' M d cine Company, Schenectady.
N. and are sold by all druggists at 60
cents a box or six boxes for ea.to.
A Woman Reporter's Nerve.
Poor Mrs. Augie Belmont had a mosl
wretched day at Sheepsbead Bay tbtj
other day.
Not only did she endure the grievou
disappointment of seeing her hus
band's $37,000 horse defeated in thd
Futurity, but she was pestered al mot
to madness by the newspaper report
ers who asked the names of Mrs. Bel
mont's box friends, with description:
of the gowns they wore.
Mrs. Belmont was naturally in a bi
of a temper and remained obdurate t
all sorts of entreaties for "informal
tion."
Finally one newspaper woman acl
tually Invaded the box and said:
"Oh, Mrs. Belmont won't you pleas
give me the names of your friends?"
"I don't know their names," replied
Mrs. Augie In a manner that wouln
have frozen the torrid zone.
The newspaper woman looked at he
a moment and then said, in a hlgl
voice that rasped like a file:
"How very, very pretty you artH
and how rude!"
Then she whisked out of the boa
leaving Mrs. Augie gasping with ad
tonishment New Tork Recorder.
Gen. tree's Courtesy.
A hitherto unpublished incident
the life of Gen. Robert E. Lee is beint
told by a lady now living at War
Springs, who knew Gen. Lee well. T1
Incident occurred shortly after the wa
when sectional feeling was running
very high. At this resort were quar
tered while Gen. Lee was here a North
ern general and his daughters, who, by
reason of their Northern affinities, maA
aged to have a very dull time of it T(f
lady narrator, noticing this, mentlonoj
It In the next conversation bad with
Gen. Lee. Looking up in surprise, the
latter said: ' I am glad you told me ol
It I shall see to It at once that they
find it more pleasant" With the cour
teous dignity which was essentially bit
he kept bis promise. The Northern
geceral and bis daughters were charm
ed by the attention be bestowed upon
them. As Gen. Lee had set the fash)
ion, the young ladles were soon among
the most popular at the hotel, and be
fore the season closed the two old sob
diers were warm friends. Richmond
Dispatch.
A Comedian's HI.
A comedian in a French theater
once made a great hit out of a painful
accident One day while Indulging la
a bit of horseplay while on the stags
he bit his head violently, entirely by !
accident against occ of the pillars of j
the scene on the stage. On bearing the
thud everybody uttered a cry. "No i
great harm done." said the comedian.
"Just hand me a napkin, a glass of)
water and a salt cellar." These were 1
brought d he sat down, folded the.
napkin in the form of a bandage, dip
ped It In the glass and emptied Use salt,
cellar oa the wet part Having thus;
prepared a compress accofwlng to pre,
acrtpdoa. and waen every oae ezpecb
ed be would apply It to nla farthest)
he gravely roaa and tied It round tba
pfllar. The effect of his action was
sack that wvary ea sat aim down at
SPRAIR1S?
youh. find ct lAnORfi OIL
out what was vowwavw -
Is when you put the crutches away, completely
Comas et-dal Travelers' Home.
The commercial travelers are great
people. Not to appreciate the Importance
of their labors Is to acknowledge one's
ignorance of the methods of trade.
They are the most intrepid nomads
that are left on the earth. They lire in
sleeping-cars and hotels, brave the per
ils of the rau, the lunch counter, and
the hotel bed; live single or apart from
their families, endure all weathers and
any company that offers and all that
the affinity between good goods and
solvent buyers may be discerned and
triumph. The attention paid to them
during the bite campaign attested theitf
Importance in the community. Great
pains were taken, especially- In Chi.
cago, to equip them with sound fiscal
and political sentiments, so that they
might scatter good seed wherever they
went Their national organisation is
building a home at BInghamton, N. Y,
for worthy indigent commercial trav
elers and their dependent families. It
is to complete this building that the
Commercial Travelers' Fair is being
held In the Madison Square Garden.
It began on the 15th and closes on the
28th. and through it the travelers
aspire to raise $150,000. It Is a great
fair, full of novel shows and managed
by people of enterprise. No doubt it
will meet with the success that it de
serves. Harper's Weekly.
How's This
Ws oCsr One Hundred Dollars Reward tot
Sir cam of Catarrh that cannot ba cured by
all's Catarrh Cure.
F J. tHDir A Co., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned. Lave known F. J. Cii
Bey for the last U years, and believe him pel
fectly honorable in all buineae transection
and linanciallv able to carry out any eblitfi
tion made by their Arm.
Wsmt A TauAX, Wholesale Druggists, To'.euo,
Ohio.
WJI.DINO, KiKHAi at Marvix, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hail's Catarrh Care It taken internally, act
Ins directly upon the blood end tnucou eur
(jcm of the ytrm. Testimonials seut free.
Price, 7 c. per bottle. Soli! by all Druga-isla.
Hall's Family Fills are the best.
Carbon monoxide is deadly, being
composed of one atom of carbon and
one atom of oxygen; Une-ball per
cent, in the air will cause poiwmous
pymptons, and more than one or two
per cent, may be fatal.
Careful experimenting has shown
that through a certain depth of water,
where only 50 per cent of the red rays
passed through there were 60 per cent
Of oranae; yellow.
80; green, 90; m-
digo, 9
country by the antitoxin method gave
a mortality of only 8.8 per cent.
Mrs. Wlnelow't Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces Inflamma
tion, allays pain, enres wind colic 26c. a bottle
Baroness Hirech has given $250,000
to endow a home for Jewish consump
tives in England.
FITS stopped free and permanently mrefl. ?lo
fib alter first day's uie of UK. Kline's Great
N erve KEsToar.a. Free ti trial bottle and treat
be Bend to tr. Kline. Vil Arch St. Fnila fa.
Some Old Superstitions.
It Is curious to observe how many
Ktrange ideas and superstitions haro
been handed down to us from our great
grandmothers, many of which are still
believed In In remote country places,
particularly by the peasantry In the
North of England. It was proverbial
with our grandmothers that:
A maiden should never be married in
colors if she wishes to be happy, the
v.
lady and a back seat for a gentleman,
who steers. The power is derived from
a small petroleum motor, of the kind
used In horseless carriages. It gives
2 horse power, and the tricycle runs
at several different speeds varying
from five to thirty miles sn hour. The
vehicle only weighs 400 pounds, with
a supply of petroleum sufficient for a
journey of seventy-two miles.
Quito AppiOpriats.
He I wonder what the meaning of
that picture U? The youth and the
maiden are in a tender attitude.
She Oh, don't you see? He bas Just
asked ber to marry him, and she has
accepted him.
"Ah! how appropriate the title."
"I don't see it"
"Why, this card at tha bottom says
'Sold.' " Tit-Bits.
Ike Difference.
"Professor Glacier's lecture lasted
ont'.l midnight"
"That's the time mine usually com
meuces." Cleveland flaln Dealer.
A man who has a silk
much to keep him busy a
who has a baby.
hat has as
s a woman
Cornl docs not grow deeper than
forty fathoms. Placed deeper, it dies.
The Hoentjen Rays have a new
sphere of usefulness. By their aid
chalk can be detected in flour, brick
dust in Cayenne pepper, sand in spices
and many other eimiiiar sopbiitica
lions. Tbe highest melerological sution in
the world is located upon the side of
Cbacbani Mountain 19,800 feet high
near Arequipa, Peru, on a plateau
covered by eternal snow, at a height of
1.60 teak
Youll find out what I
ttacy surs wnso you-.
crowBss.
Prentice's Advice.
Once when George D. Prentice, of tb
Louisville Journal, was coming out of
a public baUdlng in Louisville, be was
about to pass through a double door
which opened both ways. He started
to push at the door on his right A
young man coming from the opposite
direction was pushing at the same door,
beiux his own left Prentice lost pa
tience, and throwing himself against
the door, it new open, and the young
man went sprawling on the floor. As
sisting the youth to rise. Prentice re
marked: "Take my advice, my aon,
keep to the right In your way through
life, and you'll never run against any
body but a blamed fool, and you needn't
apologise to blm.'
PERMANENTLY CURES.
Ho Return of Eciama Sine Onral br
Hood's Saraaparilla.
Hood's Hanaparilla is peculiar in the
cures it accomplishes. When once tne
impurities have been eradicated from
the system by Hood's Barsaparilla,
there is no return of the blood diseases
which they cause. The following is an
illustration of the permanency f the
cures by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Under
date of April 21, 1893, Mr. J. M.
Staggers, of Bristoria, Pa., wrote at
follows:
-My little boy having suffered for
over three years with eczema, and hav
ing doctored with two of our leading
physicians almost continuously during
this time without I enefit, I
CONCLUDED TO TRY HOC d's
Sarsaparilla. After using two bottles I
feel under obligation lo say that lie is
entirely well. It is now three years
since be was cured by Hood's Saisapa
rilla, and there has not been any sign
of a return of the disease." J. M.
fcTAUGKRS.
A letter dated September 28, 189G,
is ss follows:
"My former statement in regard to
the marvelous cure of my boy I hereby
verify, as there baa been no return of
the disease since be ws cured by
Hood's Sarsaparilla." J. M. Staggkks.
An Insurmountable Obstacle.
Mrs. Flatly No, I'm sure I could
never ride a bicycle.
Mr. Flatly Nonsense; you could easy
enough If you really tried.
Mrs. Flatly Yes, but John, how could
I ever tell whether my hat was on
straight or not? Brooklyn Life.
Rockins Cradle.
Kocklng cradles for babies were used
by the Egyptians many centuries be
fore the Christian era. The human
race, In fact, may be said to be found
cd on a rock. Boston Transcript
Cartridges, tested by tbe Roentgen
rays to determine if they have been
carefully loaded, are offered for sa'e
by a London gunsmith.
Whew bilious or costive, eat a Caeraret,
randy cathartic; cure ifuax&uteej; lUc., sue.
In Germany and France twenty Wiie
per cent, of the suicides are women;
in Japan tbe proportion is thirty
e'ght per cent.
Plso's Cure cured me of a Throat and Lung
trouble of tbree yean- stand Ins. 1L Cauv,
UatmgioD Ind.. Nor. l- 18V4
Coral found below forty fathoms in
dicates that either the bottom has gone
down or it has fallen from the forty
fathom depth.
Core Guaranteed bv DR. J. H. MttER 1013
AKCH ST.. PHILa.. PA. Ease at once: no
operation or delay Irrnn busmen. Consultation
Itee. Endorsements of phvticians ladies and
prominent ciiuens. Send for circular. Office
hours t A. H. laiV.U
One on tbe Professor.
Two or tbree West Pointers who were
spending a part of their graduation
leave in Europe, found themselves one
evening in a Paris hotel.
While they were at dinner a man
came to tbe door and asked:
"Does anyone here speak English?"
An attendant engaged tbe inquirer
in conversation, and one of the lieuten
ants said to the other:
"I wish we could see bis face. The
voice sounds very familiar."
"That's what I was thinking,'' replied
the other.
In a moment or two the new arrival
came In, and there stood the West
Pointers' French professor. Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph.
God's grace Is as much beyond our
needs as the air we breathe.
Don't try to be an assistant book
keeper to the. recording angel.
Tbe revival must begin in the end of
tbe church that contains the pulpit.
In wishing for bis neighbor's posses
sions, tbe covetous man loses bis own.
When we are doing our prayerful best
let us remember that it is all God ex
pects. -
It is only by giving with the heart
that any man can know what It means
to be, rich.
Strength Is not a blessing when it la
used to take advantage of a brother's
weakness.
There Is nothing like tbe word of God
for changing a dark prospect into a
bright one.
If we do not make a good use of what
we have, It is a pwf that we nave been
given too much.
The artist gets a gUmpse vt heaven
In the meadow, where tbe farmer sees
only so much bay.
It will do no good to ask God to send
fire, unless tbe broken down altar has
first been built up.
It ia biassed to have God s mark upon
oa, even though It may be made with
tha point of a thorn.
Christ came to show tbe world God
in tha flesh, and had to go to tbe cross
to coorplett the work.
One way to avoid having stereotype
prayara Is to make a new one wbenerer
we hare a new need.
rasl didn't say tfcat be coaM do all
things through Christ, until after bo
had tba tbora is bis Hosh.
AU things work together for jood to
them that lore God, because lore is al
ways the gatacr by being tested.
Aa long as the devil can keep the sa
loon going, be will conclude that the
thousand years he Is to be abut np are
a long way off.
I I a ttm, SotoVsreMMaa. I r
. - . nsVT "V. m ftyd.
Southern railroads bare a reputation
for stow travel, and in some casos it la
well merited. A western trareUng man
a great deal or muuj
particular failing, but up to the time
T .. - i inniilant hit had enjoy-
ofthe following incident be bad enjoy
It ruruK tbe con
ductors, trainmen or any pnon hay
ing to do with the roads about their
rapid transit He was traveling one
afternoon on an exceptionally slow
train, which came to a stop every now
and then without any apparent cause.
After expressing bur-elf very audibly
to the passengers be resigned himself
to tbe Inevitable and dosed eCt into
abort naps, which were interrupted by
tbe sundry Jerks of the train, at which
w.ni.iiuut The nassengers show
ed their annoyance at these complaints J
. i k. Th onediiftsr aad ex- i
oy ausrj auuv. -
cused tbe engineer In every possible
way. Tbe last apology had been that
cattle obstructed tbe track. Tbe train
had started again and proceeded abont
ten minutes when It baited with a Jerk.
Vp waked tbe Impatient traveler and
petulantly remarked: "Dear dear! I
suppose, conductor, this worse than
alow train bas struck snother herd of
cattle." "Struck another one! Not
much," replied the conductor. "We've
simply caught up again with the first
herd we ran into; that's all." The trav
eler subsided and the conductor was
left In peace. Harper's Hound Table.
Each Mao's Indebtedness.
Every man who knows more or
thinks more deeply than another man
with whom he comes into contact owes
him a debt by virtue of that very fact.
Of course, he needs patience, forbear
ance, and tact. He must not attempt
the Impossible, or expect any large re
turns for small outlays, but be content
to sow good seed as he finds opportu
nity, in conversation. In sympathy, in
aid, in valuable hints, iu lending or reo
omending books, sometimes, when it
is welcome, in definite instruction.
if ha ba of a generous and sympa
thetic nature, he will soon find out
tnetic uTure,
what interests a uwiuei. uu, uiS i,ii
as a basis, can often lead his miud to
clearer and stronger thought and more
accurate juugmrui. .
A Druid Rel.c.
The yule log in England is a relic of
Druidlsm; its name is believed to be
a pnrriintion of the wheel loz. a wheel
in Druldical symbolism typifying the
march of the sun. me ngnting or tne
yule fire Is reminiscent of the sacred
fires kindled by the Druids in mid-
. ..... a ..
winter at the round towers which yet
remain in many parts of Great Britain.
Ireland, France and ispain.
Teachers in Japan.
According to tbe official reports of i
the Japanese Uoveruuient tbe iulanil
empire contains 05,50 teachers.
When a woman has a beau youno
than she la, she booses him iinmcr
fully.
Ito.Ta.Bae for Fifty Cents.
Onr4UU.0U0curel. Why not let N.To-B ic
regulate or remove rur rb sire for tobcc i
Dives money, mke hiultli and mHiibool.
Cure guaranteed. SO cents and $1.00, at all
druggists.
Melba has $100,000 invested in
gown, it is eaid, one of them having
cost 115,000.
Case abets stimulate liver, kidneys and
eweis. Never sicken, weaken or grip;; lUc.
Bora Who Became Famous.
Nearly all boys and girls show in
some way at some time what they are
to become when they grow into man
hood and womanhood.
A Swedish boy fell out of a window
and was severely hurt, but with clench
ed Hps be kept back the cry of pain.
The King Gustavus Adolphus, who
saw the fall, prophesied that that boy
would make a man for an emergency;
and so be did, for he became tbe fam
ous Gen. Bauer.
A woman fell off the dock in Italy.
She was fat and frightened. No one
of the crowd of men dared to Jump in
after her; but a boy struck the water
almost as soon as she, and managed
to keep her up until stronger arms got
hold of ber. Everybody said the boy
was very daring, very kind, very
quick, but also very reckless, for be
might have been drowned. The boy
was Garibaldi, and if you wjll read his
life you will find these were Just his
traits all through that be was so alert
that nobody could tell when be would
make an attack with his red-ehlrted sol
diers; so Indiscreet sometimes as to
make bis fellow-patriots wish he was
in Guinea, but also so brave and mag
nanimous that all the world, except ty
rants, loved to hear and talk about
him.
MaTIWMWinnrWWaTaraTyWWMW WWli;
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20 SECOND PRIZES. EACH OF $100 PIERCE
SPECIAL BICYCLES 2.000
40 THIRD PRIZES. EACH OF $25 COLD WATCHES. 1 .000
CASH AND PRIZES GIVEN EACH MONTH. .
TOTAL CIVEN DURING 12 MONTHS 1897
No. of
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Nams or DisTstcr.
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The 1 competitor who sends In the Largest NuMteit of coupons from the district in which he or
she resides will receive $ 100 Cash. The S competitors who tend in the Next Larcbst Nu uncus
ol coupons from the district in which they reside will Each receive at winner's option a lady s
or eenneman a f ibrcs mciai, bicycle, pnee
Largest numbers oi coupons irom ine aistnct in wnit-nmeyresia? win each receive at winner a
option a lady sor fentteman sGoid Watch, price 25. 2 The competitions will Close the Last Day
or Fach Month during 1 897. Coupons received too hta for one month's competition will be cut
into the next. 3. Competitors who tuin wrappers trrrn ursotd soap in dealer's stack will be dis-
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4. A printed List of Winners In Competitor s ditn.t wiii oe Krwardei t? Competitors In about 21
days after each competition closes. 5. Lever Brothers. Ltd.. will endeavor to award the prizes
Uiriy to the best of their ability and ludirnscnt. but it is u'vi-rtood that all who compete atrree to 2
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The Bicycles are the celebrated Pierce Special, 1 67 Pattern, mTd by Ceo. N Pierce ft Co , 3
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IT SHAPES THE DESTINIES OF MEN
AND NATIONS.
Men Ar at DUadTantacc aad
I in.i. - Womma Can Cndaratmad & W
"Only a Woman Can Understand a We,
i's Ills."
Woman's beauty, love and devotion,
rule tbe world. Grand women ; strong
mentally, morally and physically,
whose ambi --w tion and mag
netic influ Op "S3L ence urge
men to deeds of grandeur
and heroism. J Such women
avre all-power Is 'f Weakly,
Ickly,
ailluf
women
have little ambition i
their own troubles oo
eunv their thouchts. bn
their one object is to get well.
They have no confidence in them
selves, .tiwJ only too often lose faith ia
their physicians.
All irregularities, whites, bearing
down pains, nervousness, headache,
backache, blues," distaste for society,
sounds in ears, palpitation, emacia
tion, heavy eyes, " all gone" feeling,
dread of impending' evil, sleeplessness,
etc., bhould at ouce be removed and
vigorous health assured.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has for twenty years saved
women from all this. Hear this wo-
" 1 wish to publish what Lydia E.
i j-iuKnams M-g-uiaoie tuiupuunu ana
, sanative asii iiuvecioneiorme. 1 had
falline; of the womb and leucorrhuea,
and tiiey have cured me of both. I am
a wen womau. i sunereu ureaaiuny
, with such dratrifiu pains in the lower
i i irii ii T TminR in 1 )i - lira.
r- r-, r-, 1 - - - ..
part of the back and extending around
tne ooiiy, imiauou or uie biaoaer,
pain when walkiti'f.arid painful men-
btruation ; I weakened terribly. I had
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