(id* a Medal for Speed. Engineer William Tunkey, who jmllcil the Lake Shore's record-break ing train from Erie to Buffalo last October, has just been given an elab orate silver medal by W. K. Vander bilt andW. Seward Webb. Mr. Tun key's ability as an engineer caved this trial of spted from being a failure,for ■when I be (rain reached Erie it seemed irretrievably behind tho scheduled time, and Mr. Tunkey's quick work saved tho day. The medal given to Mr. Tunkey i« of solid silver, weighs ncnrlv two pounds, and is a work of art. —Scientific American. Hired Swains. A curious custom prevails in some provinces of Holland during the car nival season. Young women of the w irking class, especially domestic ser vants, who have no sweetheart of their own, are in the habit of hiring "fol lowers" for their Sunday out, or for the whole of the carnival period. These lovers are by no means to be had very cheap. Often two or three naids will club together and share a Jover among them if he comes too ex- I ensive for one girl. This temporary lover has many duties to perform. Of oourse, he must be good looking and well dressed, aud an efficient and indefatigable dancer, "fit to be seen with anywhere," he must likewise possess good conversational powers. Besides receiving a variety of valuable presents from his "girls," he is "found" by them in victuals and drink. If a young woman can afford to engage a "swain" all to herself, so much tlie better, for the*hireling often develops into a real lover and ulti mately into a husband. It can thus be said that, in some districts of Hol land, the girls do all the wooing. Bitch fur Alle. President Clements B. Markham, of ihe Royal Geographical Society, bat, probably risked his life oftener than uny other civilian in Great Britain. He is a great adventurer and was trained in the navy with McClintock, the illustrious Arctic explorer, as a comrade. Fro I, Frolic itii Habit Cured in 10 lllf lllflfl to 30 riayf. Nopay till rnred* VriUm PR. J.BTIPHEN9, Ltbanon.Ohio. DRY EARTH ON FERTILIZERS. A few inches of dry earth oyer a pile of fermenting manure will effectually prevent loss of ammonia. This is a muoh more common cause of loss where manure is piled than is leioh ing. We doubt whether during sum mer and until cold weather the piles of manure left out of doors get more rainfall than is good for them. This is especially true of horso manure, whioh will burn into ashes and lose most of its manurial value if kept where rain cannot reach it. The waste from leach ing of manure occurs mainly in winter and early spring, when tho melting of snows and heavy rainfalls drenoh the soil with water.—Farm, Field and Fireside. A SUCCESSFUL TENANT FARMER. I began on a run-down Vermont farm of 165 aares with thirteen oows, two yearlings, two shoats, ten hens and now have fifteen cows, three springers, six yearlings, fourteen hogs, eighty hens, and plenty of rough fod der to keep them, writes L. S. Glynn. This year I sowed five acres of fodder corn, planted eight acres of flint corn, began feeding green fodder August 10 and roots later on, and am now feed ing cured fodder and about seven pounds of grain (composed of equal parts cob meal, wheat bran and gluten meal) three times a day to each cow. Am milking thirteen oows, six of them farrow, and carry the milk to the Marshall creamery. Last year the hens brought in about SGO. Next year I eholl sow ten acres of Sanfoid com, haviug raised my own seed, and am working to keep forty cows on this place. lam in favor of tho silo but cannot afford one on a rented farm, go will run my fodder through a shredder. I think soiling is the only way to bring up a farm. I shall try sowing about four acres of oats to out green and make hay of, and shall ex periment -with muck, as wo have a large amount of it and adapted to its use. Tho great trouble with farmers here is, they are too apt to sell their stock if short of fodder. Now lam in favor of buying grain and keeping the stock, as more stock means more hay, and more hay means better farms. —American Agriculturist. THE EFFECT OF SALT OS MILK. Salt given tc cows has some effect on tho quality of tho milk. This is necessarily so, as the salt aids very much in the digestion of tho food, aud it is tho quantity of the food digested that regulates the quantity and quality of the milk. Salt is indispensable to the health of any animal that feeds on vegetable matter, and the milk is af fected greatly by tho health or oppo site condition of a cow. When salt is given to excess, it is injurious and causes an intense thirst, but this does not necessarily make the milk moro watery than usual. If the cow drinks more water than is enstomary there is no reason to believe that this excess of water dilutes the milk. The milk is not made in any such way as would make this possible. It is produced by the braalnng down of"tho glandular tissue of tho udder and this novel - con tains more than a normal quantity of water. The kidneys are charged with the removal of any excess of water from the blood, and this drain, or out let, if in good working condition, will always attend to its own business, and if it does not or cannot, for any reason, the milk glands cannot per form this function, but tho cow be oomes diseased at once. But is athis question that the careful farmer will never havo to consider, became he will always take care that such a sup posed mistake will never happen. It is only the careless farmer who runs risks of giving his cows, or permit ting them to get, too much salt,— Farm and Home. STRAWBERRY CULTURE. As to planting strawberries, about whioh we havo many inquiries, thero are several ways. Of course, tho ground must be dug a good depth, and pulverized carefully, having applied a liberal quantity of barnyard manure. The beds can be marked out three feet wide and made as long as may be de sired. Let the footpaths between the beds be eighteen incheg apart and re move from them all the runners as fast as they encroach. Set the plants firm ly but not too deeply in the ground, one foot apart each way. Get any of the following varieties : Captain Jack, Seth Boyden, the Great American, the Monarch of the West, or Triomphe de Gand, for private purposes. If a crop is wanted exclusively for marketing choose the Albany Seedling by ail means, ft will produce geuerally a greater quantity of fruit than any other and will bring in the most money. Strawberry beds can be planted out as early as the ground can be got in suitable condition. Many persons prefer the hill system of planting out strawberries, and with some very strong growing varieties it is probably the best. When this is adopted the plants should be set two feet apart each way. But from our own experience we prefer the broad cast planting. It has several advan tages. The plants keep the ground moister, it requires less labor to culti vate, and the beds last twice as long by producing now bearing plants every yenr. The disadvantage is, the weeds cannot be removed so easily, lu t ij <• hills the old plauts aro fruited yeat after year, aud its a consequeuce the berries yearly get smaller. One thing must be particularly borne in mind: The beds must, bit kept dear of weeds. Two weeks after the crop has beeu secured, say some time iu July, mow otf the vines, not so closely as to injure the crown, and let them remain as » mulch. Late in the autumn the beds should be covered with strnw or light manure ; andiutiie spring tho very coarsest portions should either bo removed or carefully placed about tho plants. Wheu thii is done, should the plants have been distiubii rjy the trust, cess over them a light roller, apply about an inch of fine soil to the whole bed. If any top-dressing is applied it should be in the spring, and then there is nothing better than a light coating of ground bones. —Germantown Tele graph, TO DRAIN A CELLAR. A cellar in wet soil must neoessarily bo drained so as to prevent the water from rising in it through the floor. It is not the surface water that settles down into it, but the subsoil water that is forced up by the pressure of the outside water sinking from the surfaoe. So that by laying a drain tile all around the cellar under the walls the drainage is not complete. Several drains should be laid, one all around olose to the foundation and some cross drains about six feet apart in the cellar floor and connecting with the main drain at the walls. These drains should be at least sixteen inches below the floor of the cellar. Some times water percolates through the wall, especially if it is of briok, and to prevent this and keep the walls quite dry the outside should be thor oughly saturated with hot tar to make them waterproof. This should be done with every cellar wall when a house is built, as it is a costly job to do afterward, but easily done at the right time. In laying a cement floor in a cellar it should be done in this manner: First, a layer of coarse gravel or broken stone is well rammed down and made level and smooth. Then the samo kind of material is wetted and mixed with one part of ce ment mortar to six of it, and this is laid at once in small quantities, as it is made, and smoothed and beaten down with a broad rammer to make it solid and firm. This material is mixed in small quantities as it can be laid, or it will harden prematurely. Tho finishing coat is made of a coat of the mortar, which is of ono part of the ce ment aud two of good, sharp sand, laid one inch thick. It is smoothed with a piece of board having a suitable sloping handle, which is rubbed back aud forth as the cement is wetted with water. This gives a nice, smooth finish.—New York Times. THE ORCHARD. Many of tho orchards of otir coun try aro shamefully neglected, and it would naturally appear from obvious inference, that the farmer is unwilling to give lii 3 fruit trees even as little care as is ordinarily expended upon crops of corn or potatoes. An estab lished orchard, consisting of standard market varieties of fruits, is one of tho best paying properties the farmer can maintain. It should bo borne in mind, however, that something can never come from nothing. Fruit can not bo produced, except the soil con tain the proper materials for tho form ation of the samo. A continual taking away will surely tend to emptiness in the end; and that soil, that has pro duced mauv crops of apples or other fruits, must soon become sterile and unproductive, unless a restoration of plant food is regularly made. Why not feed the orchard every year as well as market garden crops? As a fertilizer for fruits, nothing surpasses a mixture of hard wood ashes and ground bone. This produces sound, large, richly colored fruit of a firm texture, that brings the highest mar ket price. Let an annual application of from one4ialf to a whole ton of ashes, and from two hundred to fivo hundred pounds of ground bone bo made on each acre of orchard area. The winter season affords excellent opportunity to make this dressing, as it may be broadcast on tho surfaoo of the snow, which will materially aid in rendering it soluble and available as plant food. If a tough old sod has formed iu the orohard, break it up by plowing shallow furrows, or by scari fying the surface with a sharp cutaway hurrow. The idea is, of oourse, sim ply to loosen and mellow tho surfaoo soil without disturbing many roots of the trees. Every orehardist needs to give some attention to pruning. The time for this work is during the in fancy of the tree, when undesirable and unnecessary shoots may be re moved with thumb and finger. After a tree has attained fiaaturity, it should not be, required: to sever any large branches, but .merely to cut out any dead wood or shoots, that iuterlook or render the head of the tree too denso and oompact. It should be remem bered that a treo with a rather low head is much more handy for pioking apples from than a high, rangy growth. —New York Observer.' (Jotham's Army ot Bicyclers. Talk about bioyole inventions—it is claimed there are now about 400 dif ferent kiuds of wheels now on the lo cal market, and at least 200,000 riders in the oily. Nearly every great wheel manufacturing house in the oountry has an agency in the metropolis and the bnsmess has grown to an immense volume. Branch houses and agencies have sprung np-all oyer the city and all are doing a wonderful business. One year ago there were but 3500 members of the New York division of tho League of American Wheelmen, while now that number has increased to 10,000. New York has become the headquarters for the sale of bicycles. —New York Advertiser. Antelope Fast Disappearing. Sioux Indiaus aro slaughtering deer aud antelope oy the hundred along the North and South Moreau Rivers and among tho Slim Buttes and Cave ifills, in South Dakota, according to j the stockmen in that region. It is reported that more than 400 hides of antelope were seen in one Indian camp recently, and the whole region is scat | tered over with carcasses of deer antX ' antelope, the Indians killing the ani mals solely for tho hides. The stock : men say that these animals will soon oe exterminated iu that region if the | Indians are permitted to continue thtir ' ruthless slaughter. COULD ONLY EAT PEPTONOIDB BUT"PINK FILM MADE IT FOHIBII TO EAT ANYTHING. Get Tour nitoitlon Kl«hi and Ton* Health Will Take Care of ItMlf. From the Star, Wathinjton, D. C. "Dr. Williams' Pi alt Pills miraculously oured me of two diseases and have othei wise done me a vast amount of good," said Mrs. E. A. Meeker, of No. 207 Third street, South east Washington, D. 0., to a Star reporter to-day. "For many years I was a sufferer from muscular rheumatism in its worst form, and in addition had stomach trouble to such an extent that for a long time I could eat noth ing stronger than beef peptonolds. The rheumatism commenced in my baok and not only extended into my left arm, almost para lyzing It from the shoulder to the elbow, but attacked my hips and limbs with such ve hemence that it was impossible for me togo out on the street without being supported by an attendant. "I was attended by four different physi cians—not all at one time—of both the allo pathic and homeopathic schools, and there were times when I was ooverod from my neok to mv feet with porous or some other kind of plasters, lor I tried everything of the sort that was recommended by my friends. "During the greater part of this time my husband and son were urging me to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills but I steadily refused to do so. "About two years or two and a half years ago, the physician who was then attending mo, and I have had none slnoe, said to me, 'Mrs. Meeker there is no use for me to come and see you any more, you have muscular rheumatism, a disease incident to old age, and you cannot bo cured. I will give you gome iron for your blood, and when this prescription runs out you can get it renewed. If you get much worso you can send for me, but I will not again call until I am sum moned.' "Of course I was muoh discouraged, but still I tried a noted massage treatment thor oughly, but without the slightest effect. At last mv husbund persuaded me to try the Pinlt Pills. "I want to say that when I began taking tho Pink Pills it was without the least faith In their efllcacy tor good or belief that they would benefit me, but simply to please my husband and son by taking something. How ever, I took them lis directed by the makers, and about the end of the month I found, to my great surprise, that my stomaoh was so much batter that I had no longer to subsist on beef peptonolds, but could begin to in dulge in more solid food. "3o I told my husband that as the Pink Pills were evidently doing me good, I would try them for another month. "I continued to use them as dlreoted and during the seoond month my cyosight, whioh had been very bad for a loug time began to improve, and it was much more pleasant for me togo on the streot, though I still had to be attended on account of m.v weak limbs. "How many boxes of the Pink Pills I took in all X could not begin to tell as there were periods when I would stop using thorn for a week at a time. But from the timo I com menced until I felt I oould safely cease taking them was about fifteen months. "Sometime after my eyesight began to grow better, my memory, which had been defective and caused me much trouble for a long time, returned and became ns good as when I was many years younger. Dur ing the period to which t refer I had great difficulty in remembering where I had put anything, but. as I said before, this trouble entirely disappeared and has never returned, While my eyosigbt also continues excellent. "My long cottinued illness had reduced my weight from between 130 and 1-10 pounds to 112 pounds, but while I was taking the Pink Pills I gained 30 pounds, and I now weigh 138 pounds. "Some of my friends freely asserted that my flesh, as they noticed my increasing weight, was not solid and predicted tlli.t I would speedily lose if. Such, however, has not been the case, although I have not taken any of the pills since last December. All my rhoumatism having by that timodisappaarod, since which time I have bad no return of the dread complaint. 1 have been told that the disease will visit me again, but if it does, I shall again resort to the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. "With my experience with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I have not hesitated to recom mend them to others who were afflicted. My nieco, who lives near Hillsboro, Londouu County, Va., suffered for a long time with a peculiar disease of the hips and limbs. I be lieved the medicine whioh did me so muoh good would cure her also, and I bought three boxes of them and sent to her. She took them and was cured completely of her com plaint." Dr. Williams' Pink Piils contain all the elements necessary to givo now llfo and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerve?. They are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred) nt 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or directly by mall from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Schenec tady. N. Y. " Hall-Hanged Maprsrle." A curious instance of tho hangman's rope failing to perform its fatal work gave to Margaret. Dickson, an English woman of a century and a half ago, the nickname of "Half-Hanged Mag gie," a name by which she was known throughout the British Isles. Maggie had been convioted of some capital of fense (there were several such offenses catalogued in the English statutes at that time), und was finally taken to the gallows on the hill nt Edinburgh. After the drop fell she was allowed to hang several hours before friends claimed the remains and started with them in a cart for Musselburg, six miles away. On the way some drunk en apprentices rudely halted the oart and opend the coflin in order to see the woman who had been hanged. This let in fresh air, and the air and jolting of the cart combined to revive the suppossd dead woman long before tho home of the relatives was reaohed. Arriving there she was carried into the house, alive, but very faint and barely conscious. A minister was called to pray for her, but she soon recovered sufficiently to demand that the preaoher be dispatched for a doc tor. The physician soon arrived and Maggie quickly recovered, but was never again iried or even arrested for her crime. Later on she married and becamo'the mother of several children. She lived to bo quite old, but thoniok name of "Half-Hanged Maggie" stayed even after deoth, being engraved on the sandstone slab that marked her grave. —St. Louis Republio. The Ijnrßfst Bicycle. What is said to be the largest bicycle in the world has been made by a bioyole compony in Providence, R. I. It is madn to carry six persons. Its length over all is 156 inches, aud its wheel base is 125 inches. The diameter of the wheels is thirty inches, the tires are 2 J inches in diameter, the gear is compounded to 153, aud the maohine weighs 137} pounds. A Hog Sold lor SBOO. lowa's prize hog, "King Medium," belonging to a famous Poland-China herd on .T. A. Bonson's "Norwood" farm it O'Brien County, of that Stato, was sold this week for SBOO, probably the largest price ever paid in this country for a hog. The rest of the herd averaged 870 a piece.—Washing ton Pathfinder. The first theatre in the United States was opened in Virginia in the year 1762. HOUSEHOLD A.FIAIB9. gWBMTUM POLISH. Hera is a reoipe for making a good fnrnitnre polish. Take equal propor tions of linseed oil. turpentine, vino gar and spirits of wine. Mix well together. When used shake tho mix* tare andrab the fnrnitnre with a pieee of linen. Then polish with a olean soft oloth.—■New York World. LAUNDERING EMBROIDERY. bee that the silk handerohiefs, scarfs, etc., are washed by themselves and not plaocct* with linen articles to be laundered, no uistter how fine and dainty the articles may be, with their delicate embroidery. Soak the silk articles in Inkewarm water for a cciplo of honrs. After soaking squeeze lightly with the hands, and if still soiled soak in warm water in which a little good soap has been dissolved. If it oan be avoided do not rub soap on the silk, no matter what the quality. After a second washing and rinsing give a third rinsing in Inkewarm water, in whioh a little common salt has been dissolved. The salt will help to set the colors in the silk and in the em broidery, giving the whole a brighter appearance than if simply rinsed in clear water. Press the handkerchiefs with a warm iron before they are per fectly dry. SOUPS MADE EASILY. Sonps add much to a dinner, and in volve neither the time nor the expense that young housekeepers imagine. A soup kettle will take many bits that cannot otherwise be made use of, and a common stook is a foundation for many sauces, soups and gravies. A soup stook should be cooled quickly, and left unoovered until perfectly cold. Cream soups are made with and without stock, and have come into great favor, largely taking the place of clear soups. To make green pea soup without stook: Turn a oan of peas into a large saucepan and cover them with hot water. Add a small onion sliced and let them boil until the peas aro soft. Mash them and add a pint of water. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter and stir into it one spoonful of flour. Stir until smooth and add to the cooked peas with two cupful? of rich milk. Season with salt and a little cayenne pepper. Let the soup boil up once after the milk is added; then rub through a course sieve and serve with tiny squares ot friod bread. To mako croutons, or fried bread, for soups: Cut bread into slices a quarter of an inch thick, remove the crust, and cut tho bread into cubes and fry them in smoking hot melted butter until they are crisp and golden brown in color. To make a thick tomato soup : Put into a saucepan a quart of cannod to matoes and add a pint of water, one bay leaf, some piecos of celery, and a teaspoonful of sugar. Cook slowly until the tomatoos are soft. In an other saucepan put a tablespoonful of butffer, and when it isjhot add a sliced onion and fry to a light brown. Stir into this a tablespoonful of flour and a little of the juice of the tomato. Add this to the cooked tomatoes. Season with talt and a dash of cayenne pep per. Rub the whole through a siove and reheat before serving. For cream of celery soup : Wash a bunch of celery and cut it into pieces and boil it in a pint and a half of water forty minutes. In another sauoepan heat to boiling a slice of onion and a small piece of maco in ono pint of milk; mix ono tablespoonful of floor with one of butter and moisten with two tablespoonfuls of cold milk and add to the boiling milk. Cook ten minutes. Add tho cooked oelery and water Jin the cooked; milk and season with salt and pepper. Strain and serve. A cup of whipped croam added after straining makes tho soup much richer. To make oream or barley soup: Fat in a granite kettle three pints of white stock, an onion sliced, a small piece eaoh of cinnamon and mace, and one teacnp of barley. Allow these to cook very slowly four hours, then rub through a sieve and add one pint of boiling milk and half a pint of cream. Season with salt and cayenne pepper. The yolks of two eggs beaten light with two spoonfuls of cream and added to the boiling milk just before the soup is taken from the fire make it very much richer. To make bisque of tomato: Putin a sauoepan one quart of tomatoes and an onion sliced. Place them over the fire and let them stew fifteen minutes. Meanwhile put over the fire in a dou ble boiler one quart of milk. Cream together two tablespoonfuls ol flour with the same quantity of butter and add to the milk when boiling and stir constantly until it thiokens. Bub the tomatoes through a sieve and return them to the fire. Add a teaspoonful of sugar and salt and pepper to taste. When it is time to serve add holf a teaspoonful of soda to the tomatoes and then the boiling milk. Stir quickly and serve at once. The soup must not stand after the ingredients are put together. Serve croutons in the soup. Any one who lines onions will enjoy the following simple soup, which is quiokly made: Slice two or three good sized onions and fry them in a little butter until they are soft, then add three tablespoonfuls of flour and stir until it is a little cooked, but not brown. To this gradually add a pint of boiling water, or Btook if you have it, stirring all the time so it shall be smooth. Boil and mash three good sized potatoes and stir in them one quart of boiling milk. Stir the two mixtures together and season well. When very hot pour through a collon der into a tureen. Sprinkle over the top a tablespoonful of parsley, chopped fine, and a little fried bread. For egg balls to put into soups: Boil four eggs until hard. Drop them in cold wator, and when cool remove the yolks and mash them to a paste. Season with a little salt and pepper and mix the paste with the white of one raw egg. Form the paste into balls the size of a hazel nut, roll them in flour and fry to a light brown in hot butter.—New York Sun. To Prevent Cold Feet. Plunge the feet into oold water, ruV briskly and quiokly, put on your stockings and shoes, is a formula which it followed will insure you against cold extremities when you go out. Earlleat Vegetmble*, Always Far, Chat's so, the editor hears Mr, Mftrlcot Gardner My, Well, why don't you have them? Simply because you don't plant Salzer's Northern grown seeds. His vegeta bles are bred to earliness and they never dis appoint you. Balzer is the largest grower of vegetables, farm seeds, grasses, clovers, po tatoes, etc, IR YOU WILL CUT IBIS OUT AND SEND IT TO the John A. Salzer Seed Co., LaCrosse, Wis., with 10c. postage, you will get sample paok age of Early Bird Radish (ready in 16 days) and their great catalogue. Catalogue alone, Bc. postage (A.) HoW* Tkl. I We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward foi any case cf Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHUNKY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, tlio undersigned, have known F. J. Che. ney for the lost 15 yeavd. and believe him per. fectl)- honorable in all business transactions ;r.l financially abU to carry out any obliga tion irade by their firm. WEST & ."«UAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo Ohio. WALDIXO, KIN. "AN & MAHVIN, Wholesale Druggists, l'o'edo, Ohio. HaTs Catarrh Cure l* takon internally, act ing directly upon the bioo land mucous sur faces ot tho system. Price, 7.V. per bottle. Bold by all Druggists. Tnstlnonlals free. tLOBIUA FACTS. February and March are two of the best months to vi9lt Florida. The climate is hue and the Fecial features at their height of interest. When you have mado up your mind togo, you naturally want to get tnere as soon as possible and in the most comfortable man ner. if you live in New York, Boston or Buffalo, you can take one of the Magnificent Trains or the "Big Four Route" lrom any one of these cities to Cincinnati, and with only one change of cars continue your journey to Jacksonville. Direct connection made In Cen tral Union Station, Cincinnati, with through trains of all lines to Florida. Address E. O. MoCormick, Passenger Traffic Manager, or D. 11. Martin, General Paasenner and Ticket Agent Big Four Route. Cincinnati, Ohio. A Good Dog Is Worth Looking After. If you own a dog and think any thing of him, you should be able to treat him intelligently when ill and understand him sufficiently to detect symptoms of illness. The dog doctor book written by 11. Clay Glover, D. V. S., spe cialist in canine diseases to the principal ken nel clubs, will furnish this information. Jt is a cloth bound, handsomely illustrated book, and will be sent postpaid by the Book Publish ing House, 131 Leonard ht., N. Y. City, on receipt of 40 cts. in postage stamps. I can recommend Piso's Cure for Consump tion to sufferers from Asthma.—E. D. TOWN SEND, Ft. Howard, Wis., May 4. IWM. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething', softens the gums, reduces inflamma lion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle ASK YOUR DEALER FOR W. L. Douglas ®3. SHOE " e WoM.D™ e If you pay 84 to 80 for shoes, ex- amine the W. 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