ONCE IN A WHILE.
Once In a whilo the sun shlneH out
Anil the aching skies are a perfect bluej
Once In a whilo 'mid clouds of doubt
Faith's fairest stars come peeping
through:
Our paths lead down by tho meadows fair,
\V>ere the sweetest blossoms nod *ud
smile.
And we lay aside our cross of care,
Once in a while.
Once in a whilo wit-hin our own
We feel th», hand of a steadfast f.iend:
Once i'- e while we feel the tone
Of luve, with tho heart's own voice to
blend;
Aaid thb ilenrest of all our dreams come
"ri'.e.
And on life's way is B«(?olden smile,
Each ti.irsting flower is kissed with dew
Once in u while.
Once in a while in the desert sand
We find a spot of tin* fairest green:
Once in a while from where we stand
The hills of Paradise are seen.
And a perfect joy in our hearts we hold,
A joy that the world cannot defile;
We trade earth's dross for the purest gold,
Once in a while.
—D. It. Summers.
' Found at Last. J
There is a dreary little shop in a
dirty little street. In the shop win
dow a curious medley of things, old
and new, worthless and valuable.
Into this shop one dull November
afternoon Duncan Collis found his
way. He had several times picked up
curious trifles there, and now, in a
corner of the window was a small
black frame that he fancied might be
suitable for a print he had lately
bought.
As a matter of course, the wizened
old man behind the counter asked
twice as much as the frame was worth,
though he knew his customer by sight,
and respected him.
After some protestations an offer
•was accepted. "Oh, I'll take it with
me," he continued, experience having
taught him that such purchases are
safer in one's own keeping.
Duncan noticed the old man change
color, and, glancing around to dis
cover the reason for such a marvel, he
found that an elderly woman had en
tered the shop.
"Then it's sold," she murmured
under her breath, as she looked at the
money lying on the counter.
"Was the frame yours V" Duncan
asked, with a disregard for the eti
quette of buyer and seller.
"Yes; at least, it belonged to a—a
friend. But there was a picture in
it."
"I shouldn't call it a picture," in
terrupted Stooks. And he was not al
together pleased when his customer
Raid: "Well,whatever it was, I should
like to see it."
From a drawer was taken a small
oil painting—the portrait of a fair
haired girl, with a bunch of white
lilies in her hand.
"It isn't much, and it wants a gilt
frame."
"No, it isn't much," repeated Dun
can, and he smiled. For once Stooks
was mistaken. Duncan Collis had
painted that picture, and an apprecia
tive public had taught him the value
of his own work.
Duncan bought the picture from
the old dealer put it back in its frame
•and then left the place.
Three doors oft' was a draper's,
where a stand of cheap mackintoshes
screened him from observation; and
lie stood there until the woman ap
peared, her lips compressed, a red
spot on either cheek. Stooks had evi
dently driven n hard bargain.
"I'm afraid you did not get a great
deal," said Duncan, as she reached
the door.
"Only $1.75. And I took the fram'e
there yesterday. He didn't have much
trouble."
"Now I want you to tell me where
yen got the picture."
"I can't do that, sir."
"Why not?"
"People don't like their affairs talked
about when "
"Taey are in difficulties. That I
understand perfectly. But when it's
a question of refusing help—substan
tial help—don't you think it niakts a
difference? Look here," —and he
opened a locket ho wore on his watch
chain —"you know the face?"
"Yes; it is Miss Marsh, sure
enough."
As he had suspected, the girl he
was seeking had put aside her own
' name,together with many other things
that had belonged to her past.
"Then tell ine where to find her.
There isn't a truer friend in the world
than I would be is she would let me."
And Duncan's tone and manner car
ried i onviction.
"Well, she's in need of a friend
now,and she'll be more in need of one
soon. Her brother's dying, though
she won't see it; and when lie's gone
Bhe'll have 110 one belonging to her.
Of course, she won't have to work so
Lard."
"Do you mean to say she keeps
iiim?"
"She's done that for a year and
iuore."
"Good heavens, woman, can't you
understand that you're torturing me?"
And possibly she did understand,
for she turned and walked on quickly,
till they reached the door of a house
in a neighboring street. Here she
paused.
"It's on the third floor. Will you
■wait?"
To Duncan it seemed as if they
wore an hour mounting those stairs,
and when at last they came to the
third floor and a door of the back room
was opened, a mist seemed to dim his
eyes.
"Duncan," said an unsteady voice—
and with an effort he recovered him
self— "Duncan, you here?"
"Yes; but I ought to have been
here long ago. AVhy didn't you send
tor me?"
Rupert Warren turned his head on
the pillow and looked fixedly at the
wall.
"Eldfc would not hear of it. She
wanted to keep my secret. As if
secrets matter when one's dying."
"Oh, don't be downhearted, old man!
Perhaps, if you tell me all about
it "
"I fancied you might be looking
for us and prayed you would come in
time, but I hadn't the strength to
write. Do you know why we left
Lansale?"
"No."
"I—borrowed some money belong
ing to the firm, and it was found out.
Elsa paid half, and they promised not
to prosecute. Then we came up to
London, took another name, and she
wrote to you to break off the engage
ment. Since that time I've learned
very little. Nothing for a year."
"And what has Elsa done?"
"Typewriting. It hasn't provided
us with mauy luxuries. It isn't a
cheerful story."
"No!" assented Duncan, and it
cost him an effort to limit his answer
to that monosyllable.
"I suppose you don't think any the
worse of Elsa?"
"I think as I have always thought
—that Elsa's love is a gift beyond the
merits of any man on earth."
"Thauk you. It is pleasant to be
so remembered!" And a soft hand
was laid on his shoulder.
Could it possibly be Elsa—his Elsa?
This girl in the shabby frock and rusty
black hat! This girl with the thin
hands, haggurd face and tired eyes!
"Have you forgotten me all this
time?" he asked at length.
"I never forget my friends."
"We were something more than—
friends."
"It was to save you pain."
"Pain!" And he laughed a little
bitterly. "Child, did you suppose
there was any pain in this world like
that of knowing you were in hiding
without"— nnd he glanced around the
bare room—"without necessaries?
Do you believe anything could hurt
me as it hurts me to recall what you
were, and see what you are?"
"I have told her that a hundred
times. She should have left me to
myself."
"Hush,dear!" And Elsa stooped to
kiss her brother's cheek. "Are you
tired?"
"Not more so than usual. Elsa,you
didn't let Mrs. Walsh sell the pic
ture?"
A crimson flush colored the girl's
pale face.
"You don't want to look at pictures
when I'm here."
"No, I suppose not," he answered,
divining the meaning of her words.
"Duncan!" And there was a glad
ring in his voice as he saw the little
painting replaced in its frame and
hung on a nail opposite his bed,
though he was too far on his way to
ward the shadowy beyond to feel sur
prised that it had been brought back.
—Forget-Me-Not.
A TREE CROWINC UPSIDE DOWN.
Old Apple Tree With I.imhn in the Ground
and ltootM in the Air.
John Meiuer's distillery in Milwau
kee has not been in operation for nine
years. It is an old landmark, and is
surrounded with the interest that
every old building in Milwaukee awak
ens in the historian. The grounds
about it are covered with grand old
trees and rustic benches, and form a
little by-way nook whose existence
one would not suspect from the road
outside the fence at the south.
But the object of greatest interest in
this unique place is an old apple tree
that was planted 28 years ago, with
its limbs in the ground and its roots
in the air, and which still lives to bear
fruit and sprout branches whore roots
should be and roots where twigs and
leaves should be, a curiosity to be
holders.
Mr. Meiners wns induced to make
the trial through an old German le
gend.
When Mr. Meiners planted his 25
apple trees they showed 110 signs of
life for a long time. Finally the one
still remaining showed a leaf,softened
by summer rains and expanded by the
sun, and with a great deal of care it
was nursed to a sturdy life. It grew
very slowly, and has not grown more
than two feet in height since it was
planted. It is now about four feet
high, with a trunk 15 inches in diam
eter. The roots had a tendeucy to
droop, and it was found necessary to
prop them up with a trellis. Instead
of growing vertically, they have ex
tended horizontally in long, slender
arms. There are about 20 of these,
radiating in all directions. Each year,
as they grew longer, additional props
were put underneath, and they have
extended along the trellis flat, straight
as a ceiling, with little slender shoots
running at right angles and intertwin
ing with one another so closely that
tlipy afford some protection from the
rain to one who may stand under
neath. The topis circular in form,and
about 50 feet in diameter. The tree
has born fruit for about 20 years. The
fruit is of good quality, but the vari
ety is not known by Mrs. Adolpli
Meyer, daughter of Mr. Meiners, who
now occupies the old homestead with
her husband and family.—Meehau's
Monthly.
Fifty-three Fay I>ay» in 1898.
It may be interesting to note that in
18!>8 there will be fifty-three Saturdays,
as the year both begins and ends on
Saturday. Those who are concerned
with the payment of weekly incomes
on that day may view the fact with
diil'erent feelings. To recipients the
circumstance may be of no conse
queuce, as they really receive nothing
more, but in the case of large firms
employing a vast amount of labor
tifty-three pay days instead of fifty
two may not be without importance
when accounts for the whole year coma
to lie made up.—London News.
THE*
, Qjpli^f£ EN
Shrunken Wheat Tor Poultry.
There is probably 110 better nor
cheaper food for fowls than shrunken
wheat. It is bettor for them than the
plump grain, as it contains all the
gluten and mineral nutriment that the
plump grain does, the difference be
ing that the latter has more starch
which poultry has no use for except
to make fat. Shrunken wheat free
from weed seeds ought to be the main
feed for laying hens. It makes con
densed nutriment almost equal to the
fresh bone which should be used as
its supplement, and which serve not
only as food, but to help digest what
ever else besides itself is in the fowl's
gizzard.
Variation in Kiiftilage.
It is too commonly supposed that
ensilage made from fodder corn must
be uniform in its nutritive value.
This is by no means the fact. The
ensilage put up the last few years is
much better than that which was
made at first, when a large quantity
rather than quality was what was
mainly sought for. All corn ensilage
requires that some supplementary
food be given with it, for corn is not
a well-balanced ration. But some
corn ensilage requires more of other
food as its supplement. It is possible
to ensilage corn when it has reached
the earing stage, cutting up the ear
with the stalk. This is worth twice
or thrice as much for the same bulk as
corn fodder sown or drilled too thick
ly to allow it to form ears, and cut as
soon as it got into tassel.
Winter Feeding.
In most winter feeding operations
the cattle have now been brought
gradually to full feed and are receiv
ing all that they have the capacity to
utilize. Experienced feeders tell us
that the feeding hours should be very
regular and the troughs always kept
clean. That close attention must be
given and whenever a little grain is
left in the trough the cause must be
investigated. Sometimes a little tilth
will cause a little bunch of grain to be
refused, which must be cleaned out
thoroughly and that portion of the
trough cleansed. If, however, the
refusal results from overfeeding, then
the allowance must be diminished at
once, for a stalled animal gets "off its
feed" and is bound fc> lose flesh for a
time, and these little losses so often
get away with all the profits. It de
mands the closest attention, coupled
with good judgment to feed an auimal
to its full capacity without letting it
have at times more than is good for
it. Hundreds of men are doing that
very thing this winter, not with one
animal, but with a hundred, while
others are continually getting their
fatlings "out of tune" through care
lessness and inattention to details.
Where the self-feeder is used, the
chief danger lies in getting the stock
foundered before it is thoroughly sea
soned. An animal turned to the self
feeder too soon will founder as quickly
as though it were turned to the corn
bin and allowed to help itself. An
other point at which some feeders
miss it, is in attempting to feed with
out plenty of pure water. —The Epit
omist.
Good C'iieefte.
Good cheese will stand up square
and have an even colored, not mot
tled, rind. A cheese with a soft por
ous interior will sometimes have this
outward appearance, so that the flavor
cannot be altogether determined by
outside examination. To quote the
Prairie Farmer, the moment you be
gin to press the rind with your linger
tips you cau begiu to judge af the in
terior of the cheese. If it yields
readily under the pressure of the lin
gers, and the rind breaks or does not
spring back readily when the pressure
is withdrawn, you may conclude that
cheese is a soft article, caused by iu
sulllcient cooking of the curd, a want
of acid, or both. At best it will have
an insipid flavor, which, as the cheese
becomes older, will become "off."
A cheese which feels so hard you
cannot pre:n the rind is either sour,
salted too heavily, cooked too much,
skimmed, or is suffering from a touch
of all these complaints combined.
There is nothing more satisfactory to
a dairy enthusiast than to examine a
good cheese. To the touch it will be
mellow, yet firm; its rind will be of
even hue, elastic and free from puffi
ness, and a sample will show firm,
close-grained, meaty cheese, buttery
and of a nutty flavor. In testing the
quality of clieaso many experts do not
employ the sense of taste, but simply
that of smell. In many cases it is
beet to use both taste and smeU, as
the taste will often reveal characteris
tics of flavor which cannot be detected
by the smell.—Dairy World.
Tomatoes in Winter.
The winter grower of tomatoes finds
it difficult to ripen the beautiful fruit
of this warmth-loving plant during the
cold, dark days of midwinter. If he
overfeeds his charges they reward
him by a luxurious growth of leaves,
but set few fruits, while unless he
keeps them vigorous and healthy thev
succumb to the artificial conditions of
forcing house life. The problem he
must solve is to check growth suffi
ciently to cause early setting and rip
ening of fruit without lessening the
vigor necessary for a full crop.
Different methods of training and
benching used to accomplish this pur
pose have been tested at the New
York agricultural experiment station
and the results are announced in
Bulletin No. 125. During two win
ters plants were grown upon the
benches or were checked in growth by
leaving them in the transplanting pots
which were plunged in the earth of
the benches; and plants under each
method of benching were trained upon
the single-stem system and upon the
three-stem system. A good degree
of success attended all the experiments
and the bulletin gives the detailed
account of the ingredients and
methods used in preparing the soil,
fertilizers applied, planting and trans
planting, pollination of the flowers
and general mauagemeut of the house
by which the satisfactory growth wa?
obtained.
The variety Lorillard was used and
the results prove that, for this lati
tude and this variety at least, the sin
gle-stem systom is the best. The
fruits on the single-stem plants are
heavier and greater in number for
equal areas so that the total yield per
square feet of bench surface is decid
edly larger. It was found also that
the amount of fruit ripened during
the first six weeks of fruiting is much
greater for the single-stem plants:
although in many instances the first
fruits ripened were upon the tliree
r.tem plants.—New Yovk Tribune.
Well Ripriicd Honey.
I believe I am beginning to enjoy
Extracted honey more than I ever did
before. The kind we have now at
our house is white mountain sage. It
is very thick to start on; but we pour
it out into pitchers, and let it stand a
month or so in a dry room before
using. At the end of that time it be
comes so thick that it will hardly pour
out; and when the pitcher is inverted,
the honey rolls out iu one great
stream, and piles up in a dish like a
coil of rope. Then comes the fun of
cutting oil'the stream. The size of
the rope keeps getting mnall«r and
smaller, after the pitcher is righted,
until the lilument is less than the size
of a common hair. This is cut off
with a spoon; but the honey in the
dish is so thick that, when the dish is
inverted, it will take a little time for
it to run out. On dipping the spoon
into its beqptiful crystalline surface,
it will dent clear down to the bottom
of the dish before the honey will fold
over the spoon. About this time, or
when the spoon is sufficiently weil
covered, it finds its way to my mouth,
but not till the spoon has been twisted
over and over to break off the fila
ment. The honey is so waxy that it
requires almost chewing iu order to
get it in condition to swallow, remind
ing* one very much of maple syrup
boiled down and dropped 011 to snow.
Well, this is what I call well ripened
honey; and any one who has eaten it,
when reduced to the consistency I
have described, feels very loath to eat
anything else iu the way of extracted
houev that is not as thick.
If you have any one at your house
who does not like honey, set some of
the kind I have been describing before
him.
Ido not claim that mountain sage
is the only honey that will taste good
when so treated. Any honey, if of
good flavor, when allowed to stand in
an open vessel in a dry room, will be
come thick and waxy if given time
enough.—Gleanings in Bee Culture.
Farm and Garden Note*.
Clean out the feed troughs daily.
A quart of feed for twelve hens is a
good measurement.
Split the carrots in halves and let
the hens pick at them at will.
The ducks intended for winter and
spring layers should not be made too
fat.
In spite of the work performed by
the patriotic American hen,the United
States imported one million dozen of
eggs last year.
Of two shipments of apples of same
quality to England last fall, 0110 went
in the ordinary way, the other in cold
storage. Of the former a consider
able per cent, showed wet on arrnal,
while the latter were unaffected and
sold for more than twice as much as
the former.
At a recent horticultural meeting in
California one speaker claimed to have
secured excellent results in killing the
peach tree borer with bisulphide of
carbon. Placing the drug in the
ground around the roots, lie found
thirty-eight dead borers in one tree.
Some, however, have killed the trees
by letting the bisulphide come in con
tact with the bark. Care should be
taken to not use too much about the
roots.
Are the young trees protected from
the rabbits that are hopping about
these nights? One of our exchanges
suggests to bank the earth up around
the trees, another to smear with some
greasy substance. The first obviously
cau not be applied when the ground
is frozen, besides it is too much work
at any time, the latter we think is not
the best for the trees, and on the
whole wo prefer to wrap with paper
or a bit of screen wire.
LUCK IN DISGUISE.
111-Guarded Speech Le<l onto the Oper
ator's Fortune.
It isn't easy to tell when fate means
well by a man. Some of her appar
ently hardest knocks are all for the
victim's good.
He was a telegraph operator, and »
good one, but he wasn't in favor with
the chief. In fact, the chief doesn't
possess many friends among the
boys. He was disposed to be sharp
and quick with them, and telegraph
operators are a sensitive lot.
There was a vacant room that hadn't
been occupied for a long time and the
chief one day took possession of it as
a sort of private office. The operator
whose story we are telling didn't know
about this change, and that very day
when he happened to be in the wash
room with one of the boys he opened
upon the chief in a particularly sav
age fashion. The washroom was sep
arated by the thinnest kind of parti
tion and every word could be heard
distinctly on the other side. The oper
ator dipped his his face over the wash
basin and as he sputtered and
splashed he blessed the chief in a
shockingly left-handed way. The man
with him tried to stop the tirade, but
he couldn't catch his eye, nor oould lie
get near enough to him in time to
shake him. Finally the other man ex
hausted himself and turned around
with a towel in his hands. Then he
saw the look of horror on his com
panion's face. He knew that he was
doomed.
As he stepped from the washroom
with a jaunty air he met the chief.
"I suppose," saiil the latter, "yon
are ready to express your personal
opinions in public as well as behind
your victim's back ?"
The operator never wavered a hair's
breadth.
"I am," he said, smilingly; "and I
can add a little to what I have already
said." And with that he expressed his
opinion of the chief in still more vig
orous language, took his hat and
stalked out.
It was the first time that he bad
been an idler since he was a boy. He
felt a little dazed. Then he resolved
on a bold stroke. He would go straight
to New York.
That night he was on hi* way. With
in a week ho h.id secured an excellent
situation. Today he commands a sul
ary of at least $(>000.
"And I owe it all," he said not long
ago to a Cleveland friend, "to the fact
that I fired myself out of the old oper
ator's room."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
QUAINT AND CURiOUS.
In 1897 Ohio furnished almost 37,-
000 tons of grindstones.
The common pond frog's natural
lifetime is 12 to 15 years.
The coinage of a sovereign (about
So) costs the English mint 3-4 d (about
1 1-2 cents).
There are parts of the Ganges val
ley in India where the population
averages 1200 to the square mile.
The fastest flowing river in the world
is the ttutlej, in British India,
with a descent of 12,000 feet in 180
miles.
Iceland's geysers never shoot theit
water higher than 100 feet, while some
of our Yellowstone geysers go more
than three times as high.
The only surviving daughter of John
Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame, is
living in a small town in California,
in nearly destitute circumstances. Hhe
is a temperance advocate.
France has set up about three hun
dred monuments to more or less dis
tinguished Frenchmen during the last
twenty-five years, and there are now
127 committees collecting money for
more.
Wales is the richest part of Great
Britain in mineral wealth. England
produces annually about SlO to each
acre, Scotlaud a little less than §lO,
the product of Wales amounts to over
S2O per acre.
A fibrous preparation of steel,made
in the same manner as the so-called
"mineral wool," by passing an air
blast through molten steel, is coming
into use for cleansing, polishing, etc.,
instead of sandpaper.
In 1525, the year of the plague, so
great was the gloom in England that
it has become known as "the still
Christmas." "The Christinas of the
Great Frost" took place in 1739. The
Thames was frozen from bank to bank
and barbecues were held upon the ice.
The earliest mention of "liveries"
made in history is in the reign of
King Pepin of France. This king
flourished about the year 750 A. I).,
and because of his diminutive size Imj
had bestowed upon him the rather dis
respectful appellation of "Pepin the
Short."
A chewing apparatus for people who
have lost their teeth and do not care
to wear false ones has just been in
vented by a Frenchman. The food to
be chewed is placed between the blades,
which are opened and closed three or
four times, and the food is thus re
duced to a state of pulp.
A Plant'* Curioiiß Ilnbit.
A curious fact is the tobacco plant's
habit of erecting its leaves at sundown
and dropping them at sunrise. Of
course it is only possible while the
plant is immature —while '.'>e upper
leaves are not more than two-thirds
developed—but it is so marked as to
make a wide difference in the looks of
a field at evening and 12 hours later.
And the results are so beneficent as
to make it seem the result of reason,
for if the dewfall is heavy it all runs
down to the stalk, trickles down to
the root and thus fortifies it against
tho blazing sun; while, if the leaves
remaiued in pendulous spread, the
moisture would either drop from their
points beyond reach or else evaporate
iu the morning sun.
How Army Elephftnti Are Fed,
Elephants in the Indian army are
fed twice a day. When meal-time ar
rives they are drawn up in line before
a row of piles of food. Each animal's
breakfast includes ten pounds of raw
rice, done up in five two-pound pack
ages. The rice is wrapped in leaves,
and then tied with grass. At the com
mand, "Attention!" each elephant
raises his trunk, nnd a package is
thrown into its capacious mouth. By
this method of feeding not a single
grain of rice is wasted.
Knocked Ont.
It knocks out all calculations of attend
ing to business In the right way for a day
when wa wake up In the morning sora and
stifT. The disappointment lies ingoing to
bed all right and waking up all wrong.
There Is a short and sure wav out of It. Go
to bod after a good rub with" St. Jacobs Oil
and you wake up all right; soreness and
stiffness all gone. So sure is this that men
much exposed in changeful weather keep a
bottle of it on the mantel for use at night
to make sure of going to work in good fix
Last year the figure of Germany's mer
chant marine tonnago exceeded a million
by 34,000.
Salzcr'B Gratua and Clovers
Are warranted. They produce! We are the
largest growers in America. Lowest prices.
Seed Potatoes only $1.50 per barrel. Big
farm seed catalogue with clover and grain
samples (worth SIO.OO to get a start) sent
you by the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis., upon receipt of 10c postage.
A. c. 1
The money invested in British home
railways exceed the national debt by SGOO -
000,000.
i:eware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange tne whole svstein
when entering It through the mucous surface?,
ouch articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the good you
tan possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh
Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Hall's ('atarrh ( ure be sure to get the genuine.
It is taken internally, and is made iu Toledo,
Ohio, by F. J.< 'honey <te Co. Testimonials free.
fW~Sold by Druggists: price, "Sc.. per bottle.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
The German custom of having Christmas
trees was not introduced iu Vienna till
1817.
'Conservative Investors
Can largely increase their income by placing
their accounts in my hands. Twenty years of
Wall Street experience, in addition to reliable
INSIDE INFORMATION, enables me to advise
you most successfully. Write for particulars,
which are interestlnif to those having money
to invest. CHARLES HUGHES, Invest
ment Broker, 63 Wall Street, New Vora
city. _
For over 300 years Nuremberg, Bavaria,
has made most of the toys used throughout
the world.
Florida.
Florida literature secured free upon appli
cation to.I. J. Farnsworth, East'u Pass. A.g'l.
Plant System, 3>>l Broadway, N. V.
Detroit Single Club has compiled list
of 70,000 vacant lost.
Care A G«ld LA OB* Day.
TakVLaxativ# Brorao Qulntn* Tablets. All
Drm**i»te refund money if it fails to cure. ,2to.
Boston's Merchants' Association dorn^ml?
that ilre insurance rates be reduced.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for cUIH
teething, softens the gums, reduceslnllnmui.
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, iic.AbottlV
Sixty languages are spoken in tile em
pi re governed by the Czar of Russia.
Chew Star Tobacco—The Best.
Smoke Sledge Cigarettes.
A horse will live twenty-live Jays with
out food, merely drinking water.
I cannot speak too highly of Piso's Cure fo
Consumption. Mrs. FKANK Mo BBS, 215 W.;.:.'
St., New York, Oct. 1894.
T t is said that a diet of garlic is a won
derful aid to tlw complexion.
Rain in the Side
Could Not Do Hard Work Unti
Hood's Sarsaparilla Cured.
"1 had a severe pain in my left side an
could not do any hard work. My husban.
got me a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla an
I began taking it and soon I was able to d
my work. I was also troubled with scroful
sore throat, but Hood's Sarsaparilla ha
cured this." MRS. EMMA PEPI'EI:, Nort
Hudson, N. V. Remembt
HOOd'S B pa 8 r"U
is the best—ln fact the One True Blood Purifie
Hood's Pills cure sick headache. 25c.
Two Potential Mayors.
The Lord Mayor of London
sides over only a small section
about .the centre of London, en
ing principally the financial part
only 238,000 inhabitants, yet he it
rounded by a pomp and state, e
to the potentates of some coun'.
Mayor Van Wyck, although he
sides over 3,787,798 subjects, s:
his plain roll-top desk, with no u
formed attendant save a policema
Tbcre are virtually 50,000 employi
under him and he controls a salar
patronage of nearly $75,000,000 an
nearly $30,000,000 will be expende
under him during his four years c
office.—Success.
The Chinese dress iu white at ft
nerals and in black at weddings, an
old women always serve as bridef
maids.
Goto your grocer to-da)
|k and get a 15c. package o
I Grain-C
IR, It takes the place of col
Wr fee at \ the cost.
Made from pure grains
is nourishing and healt
JWM Insist that yonr grocer glres you GRAIN
J|jx\ Accept no iautatica. rv _