LIGHT AT EVENTIDE.
The Jay had been, ob! so dreary,
With Its tempest—winds and rain;
I had lunged tor one ray of sunshine,
But all day long in vain;
And the night was closing round me
Lonely and cold and gray,
A 9 I sat by the window -yatehlng
Tho death of the dreary day.
I opened my mother's Bible,
And on its page I read
Wliiit one of the erand old prophets
In time of trouble said—
The sweet and comforting promise,
That bids us in faith abide,
When the day is dark with tempest—
"There'll be light at eventide."
Lo! as I read the chapter,
Dear to each trusting heart—
The clouds above the hilltops
Suddenly broke apart.
Bright with unearthly beauty
The valley stretched away.
And God's sunshine was all about me,
At the close of tho dreary day.
—Eben E. Ilex ford, in The Ledger.
Love or Lucre. J
"Of course I have not married him
because I was in love with him," said
May Harriott, with a light laugh.
She was sitting in a gold-and-dun
colored boudoir, hung with silken
'fluted draperies, aud carpeted in pale
Aubusson, bordered with scarlet.
The windows were filled full of flower
ing-plants,an exquisite statue of Hebe
occupied a marble pedestal in the
kniddle of the room, and the panels of
the walls, filled in with mirrors, re
flected the young bride's every motion
B score of times.
Mrs. Harriott was dressed in a Wat
teau -wrapper of rose-colored silk,
which fell around her in pink clouds,
pale Neapolitan corals, carved so
delicately that a maguifying-glass
would not have put them to the blush,
hung from her delicate ears, and
clasped the folds of tulle at her throat,
diamonds glittered on her fingers, and
the tiny handkerchief peeping from
her pocket was edged with lace that
Would have made a princess' ransom!
And May's face, all lilies and roses,
with the glory of gold hair floating
away from it, was a jewel well worth
all this expensive setting.
Flora Field, her old schoolmate, sat
opposite to her, secretly envious of
all this splendor, aud wondering that
May Haven, who had taught in the
Bame district school as herself, was
Hot more elated by this sudden pro
motion.
"Well, then," said she, "why did
you marry him?"
"Because I was poor and he was
rich. Because I was tired of teaching,
aud he offered me all this!"
And May glanced around upon the
luxuries that surrounded her.
"Nobody could be foolish enough to
suppose it was a love-match," said
ehe. "He's ever so much older than
I am, and not at all my ideal! But I
couldn't drudge on forever at my pro
fession, and I think I've made a lucky
exchange."
"May you are a heartless coquette!"
cried out Flora Field.
"No, I am not," said May, with a
shake of the lovely golden curls.
"You would do just the same thing
yourself, Flora Field, if you had the
chance; you ftrow you would."
And as May laughed out a sweet,
defiant chime, she did not know that
her silly words had had another auditor
than Flora Field—that the door lead
ing into the rich bauker's study was
ajar, and that he had heard every
ejllnble she spoke.
It was quite true that Frederick
Harriott was not a young man. He
had passed the Rubicon of middle age
fiefore he had allowed himself to fall
n love and marry—aud the flame
burned all the deeper and thore tender,
tu that the ~ ood was mellowed by age!
He had looked uj-.on May Haven as
little less than an augel, aud now
"I should have known this before,"
he said to himself, with ashen-pale
face and trembling limbs. "I should
have divined that S2)ring aud autumn
were unsnited. So—she married me
for my money?"
"May," he said that evening, "I
have tickets for the opera tonight.
Would you like togo?"
"No, I don't think I care about it,"
Baid May, listlessly.
"Then we will remain at home and
I will read you that new poem," sug
gested the husband.
"I am tired of poetry," pettishly
retorted May. "I do wish you would
leave me to enjoy myself in my own
way once in a while!"
"Do I bore you, May?" Frederick
Harriott asked with an inexplicable
quiver in his voice.
"Awfully! I'm just in the midst of
this delightful story, and I can't bear
to bo interrupted."
"Very well. The offense shall not
be repeated," said Mr. Harriott,
quietly. »
I After that a subtle and sudden
change came over his whole life. He
(R-as as courteous and attentive to his
young wife as ever, but May felt that
all the heart and soul were gone out
of the little courtesies, the scrupul
ously-rendered attentions,
j For a while she rather liked it. It
/was a relief to feel that his eye was
fiot always on her, his thoughts fol
owing her. She could go where she
f 'leased now, and he asked no qnes
ions. She could employ her time to
puit herself, and he had neither criti
cism nor comment to offer. But grad
ually she begnn to realize that she had
lost something which was not easily to
|>e replaced.
May Harriott had regarded her hus
band's love as one of the fixed polar
facts of her existence, and a cool chill
crept over her heart when she fully
perceived that it was somehow slipping
away from her.
"Frederick," she said one evening,
titting opposite to her husband, "have
I offended you?"
He glanced carelessly up from h's
hook.
"Offended me, May? Why, what a
ridiculous idea! Of course you havea't
offended me."
"I —I thought your manner some
what different of late," faltered the
young wife, bending her head closer
over her embroidery.
"One can't keep on the honeymoon
gloss forever," said the banker, indif
ferently.
Life is full of antitheses; and love
is the strangest complexity in life.
For, as May Harriott grew strength
ened in the idea that her husband was
ceasing to adore her after the old
idolatrous fashion, she began to fall
in love with the one she had married
for money.
Frederick Harriott was not young,
but he was in the prime of middle age.
He was not boyishly handsome like
the wax heads May had seen in the
barbers' shop windows, but he had the
port and mien of a prince. All women
are prone to hero worship, and our lit
tle May was no exception to the
ordinary rule. For the first time in
her life she was falling in love—and
with her own husband.
A few weeks only elapsed when a
crisis in the banking business rendered
it imperatively necessary that Mr.
Harriott should goto Vienna for two
or three months. Poor May looked
aghast as her husband mentioned his
intentions to her in the same cool,
matter-of-fact way in which he might
have criticised the weather.
"Going to Vienna!" she gasped.
"Oh, Frederick!"
"My dear child it is a mere baga
telle of a journey! One doesn't mind
travel nowadays. I shall not be later
than November in returning."
"But—l may go with you!"
"You? My dear, don't think of it.
My travel will necessarily be too rapid
to think of encumbering myself with
a companion. I must go and come
with the greatest speed!"
May said nothing more, but there
was a blur before her eyes, a sicken
ing sensation of despair at her heart.
He cared no more for the society which
had been dear to him once. Oh, what
had she done to forfeit the love that
had once been poured out so fondly on
her life?
It was a rainy June twilight when
the banker, wrapped in a deadnaught
coat, and with his traveling-cap pulled
down over his eyes,paced up and down
the deck of the steamer Galatea,heed
less of all the tumult of weighing
anchors. Through the misty dusk he
tried vainly to catch the ghostly out
lines of the city spires—the city that
held his young wife.
"She will be happy enough without
me," he told himself, bitterly. "She
has her mother and sister with her.
She bade me adieu without a tear, and
it may be that my continued absence
will teach her to think less coldly of
me. Dear little May—sweet spring
blossom—my prayers may reach you,
if my love cannot!"
And, as the steamer plowed her way
onward and the darkness deepened,
Frederick Harriott went below.
To his infinite surprise, the state
room he had engaged for his own be
half and use was not empty. A lady
sat there, with veiled face and droop
ing head. Frederick Harriott paused
in surprise—the figure rose up, and,
throwing aside its veil, revealed the
blue, starry eyes aud pale cheeks of
May herself!
"Oh, Frederick, pardon me!" she
sobbed, throwing herself into his
arms; "but I could not let you go
alone! I love you, Frederick. I can
not live without you! When I thought
of you being alone, perhaps ill, in a
strange land, I thought I should lose
my senses. Dear husband, tell me
that you are not angry with me?"
And she burst into a flood of tears.
"My own May—my wife—my lovel
Close,close to my heart for evermore!"
Aud that was all he said.
May Haven had married for money;
May Harriott had learned the secret
of love.
Ideas of the Arabian*.
Their general opinion of an English
traveler is, that he is either a lunatic
or a magician; a lunatic, if, on closely
watching his movements, they discover
he pays little attention to things
around him; a confirmed lunatic, if he
goes out sketching, and spends his
time in spoiling good paper with
scratches and hieroglyphics, and a
magician, when inquisitive about
ruins, and given to picking up stones
and shells, gathering sticks
and leaves of bushes, or buy
ing up old bits of copper, iron,
and silver. In theso cases, he is sup
posed, by aid of his magical powers,
to convert stones and shells into
diamonds of immense price; and tl<e
leaves and sticks are charms, by look
ing at which he can bestow comforts
upon his friends, and snakes and pes
tilence upon his luckless enemies. If
a traveler pick upastrae aud examine
it carefully, he will be sure to have at
his tail a host of malapert little boys
deriding him, Enough keeping at a
very respeotful distance, in deference
to his magical powers. Should he in
deed turn round suddenly and pursue
them a few steps, they fly in an agony
of fear, the very veins in their littl«s
legs almost bursting, and they never
stop to look back till they have got
well among the crowd again, where,
panting for breath, they recount to
their auditors the dreadful look that
terrible Frank gave them, making fire
come out of his eyes and adders out
of his mouth.
Quick "Work.
A sample of cloth one inch square
was recently sent to the Androscoggin
mill in Lewiston, Me., to be copied.
In a week the looms were turning, it
out by the yard. The little sample is
placed under a glass and magnified.
The artists study it aud then set the
machines to make it. The finest
cloth is dissected before it is copied,
and only men of rare mechanical skill
can do it.
FARM^pgai,
Itepot Too Oflen.
Amateurs, as a rule, repot too often
and keep their plants in too large
pots, says an authority on the window
culture of plants. It is of no use to
give a plant fresh soil until its roots
have pretty well occupied the old.
There is a proper time to repot, and
this is when the boll of earth is well
surrounded by roots, a state that can
be determined by tipping the plant
out of the pot.
Gravel for Fowls.
Now that there is so much snow
upon the ground a good supply of
gravel in the henhouse is most im
portant. Without some gravel in their
crops with which to grind their food
hens will often become crop boned
and die. A good supply of gravel is
necessary to enable fowls to make the
most of the nutrition in their food.
Lack of it is more often the cause of
soft egg shells than any other.
Potash Salt* or the Manure Heap.
When it is suggested that potash is
good for manure heaps, most people
think of the effect of wood ashes, which
contain potash in its caustic form,and
which touching any manure causes
immediately the loss of some of its
ammonia. But potash salts are not
at all caustic, aud if they were applied
with the aslies they would absorb the
ammonia as fast as the caustic potash
could liberate it. Even the caustic
potash in wood ashes is soon made
into a nitrate by combination with
ammonia. This is very soluble in
water, so that neither ashes nor potash
salts should be applied to manure
heaps until just before the manure is
ready to be applied to growing crops.
Once in the soil, there is no danger
that manure will waste.
ICxpennive Kxperiment A.
It obviously is much more laborious
and expensive to grow a great many
varieties of grain or grass or vege
tables on one acre of ground, keep
each apart from the others from start
to finish and report results accurately,
than to grow several acres of a single
variety in the usual way. For this
reason it would be foolish in any in
dividual farmer to think of experi
menting on anything like the exten
sive scale followed at the stations,
where the expense is liberally pro
vided for by the government. Some
farmers experiment too much for their
own good, financially, others not
enough. It requires the best of judg
ment to enable the farmer to enter
very far into the experimental field
and yet make money. The chances
are against him. Still, farmers have
found that they can not rely wholly
upon station reports, but must make
many tests in order to prove or dis
prove the correctness of station re
sults as applied to their own farms.
One thing the Epitomist would like to
see become much more general is the
sending of seeds of tha more promis
ing sorts tested at the state stations
into every county, to be there tested
alongside the best known sorts for
the respective localities by intelligent
practical farmers, somewhat after the
plan of the "experimental unions" of
Ontnrio. Conditions are so varied
that lessons drawn from the most
careful and elaborate tests at the cen
tral station are often practically worth
less in distant sections of the state.—
Agricultural Epitomist.
The Cyclamen Kulb.
"I have a very beautiful cyclamen
plant that lias been in bloom more
than a month. It looks to be good
for two or three weeks more, but I am
already wondering what I ought to do
with it when it is out of flower. Will
it be any good next year,and can I in
crease my stock of it?"
Thus questions a correspondent,
who adds that the first thing she
reads in The Household page is the
"flower column." In reply, we have
to say that the cyclamen should be
ripened off like any other bulb, by
gradually withholding water wheu
the foliage begins to decay. The
bulb ripens more slowly than most,
probably on account of the larger
amount of foliage. When settled
weather comes, plunge the pot in
some shaded border, away from drip,
and don't bother with it at all till
about the first of next October. (By
"plunging" is meant to set the pot in
earth, level with the top.) Then the
bulb should be repotted, giving en
tirely fresh soil. Take care not to
injure the roots, but remove any that
seem to be dead or diseased. Give
entirely fresh soil, and put the bulb
into the same-sized pot in which it
was grown, shifting into a larger oue
as necessary. In shifting,disturb the
roots as little as possible. The best
way is to turn the ball of roots and
earth into the hand, sot it upon fresh
soil aud fill iu the sides. Allen, who
is regarded as an authority on bulb
culture,says cyclamen growers should
remember that the plants do best with
their bulbs set entirely above the soil.
The only practicable way of increas
ing the cyclamen is by growing it from
•eed. This is really work the ama
teur cau haidly manage, as the seed is
sown in December, the young plante
carried through the summer in the
greenhouse, and kept growing so
thriftily that by October after the seed
is sown the bulbs should be an inch
and a half in diameter and ready to
produce their pretty, odd flowers,
which, if the bulb is well nourished,
are often large as well as numerous.
The young plants must never receive
a check from the time the leaves ap
pear till they are in flower, and it will
readily be seen this caunot be man
aged in ordinary window gardening.
Our correspondent then will best in
crease her stock by the purchase of
the matured plants.—Ebeh E. Rex
ford, in Detroit Free Press.
Ducks.
On many farms ducks can readily
be made more profitable than chicks.
Like other fowls and stock kept on
the farm, in nearly all cases it will
pay to start with one of the better
breeds, Pekiu, Aylesbury, Rouen or
Call.
The Pekin is a large white breed,
and when it is considered that a con
siderable income can be derived from
the feathers and that good white duck
feathers sell next in price to good
geese feathers this is quite an item.
But start with one of the better
breeds. The small difference in the
cost between these and the common
puddle ducks will be more than made
up the first .season.
Ducks must have dry, comfortable
quarters in which to roost; as they
roost upon the ground there is 110 ne
cessity in huving the house high. It
is best to have a good supply of dry
straw to scatter over the floor for
them to roost upon; this bedding must
be changed sufficiently often to pre
vent becoming too foul.
Ducks kept in a good thrifty condi
tion will usually commence laying the
latter part of January or early in Feb
ruary.
As they rarely lay in nests but drop
their eggs almost anywhere and as
they usually lay during the after part
of the night or reasonably early in the
morning it will save much loss of eggs
if after they commence to lay care is
taken to pen up every night and keep
up until after they have laid. They
are easy to drive and a little care taken
to drive them into their quarters foi
three or four nights will soon teach
them their place and they will hunt it
up every night.
In feeding, ducks require rather
more bulky food than either chickens
or turkeys. Feed less corn or corn
tneal and give steamed clover hay,
with turnips or potatoes, mashed and
mixed up with bran.
The eggs may be hatched in an in
cubator or under hens during the lat
ter part of the winter or early spring,
and the later laid eggs the hen ducks
may be allowed to hatch.
After they once commence to lay
they will continue to lay very regular
ly until hot weather sets in.
It is best not to pluck the feathers
while they are laying, but after that
they >?nn be plucked every six weeks
and a considerable income be derived
in this way.
A trio of ducks will give a good
start although five or six ducks may
be kept for every drake.—N. J. Shep
herd, in Farm, Field and Fireside.
Hint» for the Poultry-Yard.
Introduce new blood every year or
two.
Don't buy culls for breeding or
eggs.
Make fowls exercise to keep them
healthy.
Brown leghorns lay when four to
five months old.
Cook wheat and vegetables together
for the morning meal.
One cock to twelve hens, none to
be over two years old.
A clean and well-ventilated house is
a necessity if you want eggs.
For broilers cross a brown Leghorn
cock with some heavier breed.
Wash roosts and nests once a week
in summer and once a month in win
ter, and whitewash thoroughly.
Keep plenty of fresh water, fine
grit and oyster shells always within
reach. Ground bone is good, but
green cut bone is far better. Clover
pays as a poultry food, even if it must
be bought.
Remove the droppings every day,
and each time sprinkle them with
land plaster or kainit, preferably the
latter, because it contains potash, in
which poultry manures are deficient.
Put on enough so that there will be
no odor of ammonia wheu the pile is
stirred.
ISiKKPBt flrapevlne In the World.
The mammoth grapevine growing
near Carpinttiria, Cal., is the largest
in the world. The massive trunk of
the vine is seven feet eight inches in
circumference, its size and appearance
suggesting an oak rather than a grape
vine. Its branches rest on a stalwart
frame, covering a space one-third of
an acre. It is of the Mission variety
and produces annually about ten tons
of grapes. It was planted in 1842.
Beneath the thick leaves of the vine
800 persons could find protection at
the same time from the summer heat.
Thirty years ago the vine formed a
roof over so large a space that it was
used os an election booth. The first
election in Santa Barbara county
under American rule was held beneath
its brauches of rireningstraDes.
QUEER AMERICAN RIVERS.
3ne Florida Stream That Heemt Unde
cided What to Do,
F. H. Spearman tells of "Queer
American Kivers"in St. Nicholas. The
author says:
Every variety of river in the world
seems to have a cousin in our collec
tion. What other country on tha
face of the globe affords such an as
sortment of streams for fishing and
boating and swimming and skating—
besides having any number of streams
on which you can do none of these
things? One can hardly imagine
rivers like that; but we have them,
plenty of them, as yon shall see.
As for fishing, the American boy
may cast his flies for salmon in the
Arctic circle,or angle for sharks under
a tropical sun in Florida, without
leaving the domain of the American
flag. But the fishing rivers are not
the most curious, nor the most in
structive as to diversity of climate,
soil, and that sort of thing—physical
geography, the teacher calls it.
For instance, if you want to get a
good idea of what tropical heat and
moisture will do for a country, 'slip
your canoe from a Florida steamer
into the Ocklawaha river. It is as
odd as its name, and appears to be
hopelessly undecided as to whether it
had better continue in the fish and al
ligator and drainnge business, or de
vote itself to raising live oak and cy
press trees, with Spanish moss for
matresses as a side product.
In this fickle-minded state it does a
little of all these things, so that when
you are really on the river you think
you are lost in the woods, and when
you actually get lost in the woods,you
are quite confident your canoe is at
last on the river. This confusion is
due to the low, flat country, and the
luxuriance of a tropical vegetation.
To say that such a river overflows
its banks would hardly be correct; for
that would imply that it was not behav
ing itself; besides, it hasn't any bnnks
—or, at least, very few! The fact is,
those peaceful Florida rivers seem to
wander pretty much where they like
over the pretty peninsula without
giving offense; but if Jack Frost takes
such a liberty—presto! you should
see how the people get after him with
weather bulletins and danger signals
and formidable smudges. So the Ock
lawaha river and a score of its kiud
roam through the woods—or maybe
it is the woods that roam through
them—and the moss sways from the
liveoaks, and the cypress trees stick
iheir knees up through the water in
the oddest way imaginable.
"Katlng Like a HOMP."
At the campfire held recently under
the auspices of General Hancock post,
G. A. R., a couple of war stories were
told by Captain T. P. Gere which
probably have never been printed.
During a part of the time that Gen
eral A. J. Smith was up the Red river
with his command the entire army
was without rations other than shelled
Mm, such as was intended for feeding
the horses, and this condition lasted
ibout eight days. Captain Gere was
at the office of the adjutaut-general of
the command one day wheu an Irish
soldier came to headquarters and in
quired:
"Giueral, could I borry the loan of
m auger?"
He was asked what in the world he
wanted with a tool of that kind,and he
replied:
"Well, we've been atin' this shelled
aorn for so long that I supposed we'd
be after gettiu' hay for rations pijrty
Boon, and I wanted to build meself a
nice little hay-rack, so I could ate it
comfortable loike."
In the course o* a few days, Captain
Gere narrated, the command received
regular rations and WHS once again
happy. The same soldier again ap
peared at headquarters and asked per
mission to buy a peck of shelled corn.
He was asked what he wauted with
corn now that the regular rations
were being issued. His explanation
was this:
"A few days ago, gineral, I borried
a peck of corn from a mule when he
wasn't lookin', and I want to return it
to him." —Sioux City Journal.
Wild Dogs In Arizona.
John Bargeman, under sheriff of
Navajo county, Arizona, has returned
to Holbrook from an extended trip
through the mountains along the
border of Arizona and New Mexico,
bringing a tale that wild dogs of a
peculiar kiud are creating havoc in
that region among cattle and sheep.
The dogs have been known for only
three years, first making their appear
ance in a small band in American val
ley, in western New Mexico. They
have increased wonderfully, and are
now found over a broad stretch of
country, despite the efforts of the
cattlemen to exterminate them. They
are especially numerous around
Nnrtrioso. In size the dogs average
about 100 pounds in weight. They
have the head and shoulders of a bull
dog, but the build of a timber wolf,
and wolfish characteristics. In color
they are ashy gray, with long black
hairs interspersed. Like coyotes,
they are a little afraid of man, and
wili follow horsemen for miles through
the timber, not hesitating to attack
footmen. Thomas Alger, a resident
of Nutrioso, is responsible for the
statemeet that animals bitten by the
wild dogs, if not killed by them on
the spot, die within a few days with
all the symptoms of strychnine
poisoning. St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat. _
Clawing Backward*.
Miss Thirtysmith (meaningly)— Ad
Italian proverb says that "honest I'-ac
marry soon," and—
Jack Swift (solemnly)—l cannol
sonceal it any longer. I live in deadly
fear of being at any moment arrested
for embezzlement! —Puck
Cranberries are not injured by freez
ing. They are often sent as far as Mani
toba in open bo* cars. When they
arrive they are frozen into solid blocks
of ice. The sides of the cases are
knocked off and the berries are ex
posed in a solid mass, like cakes of
ice.
The steam craft of the United States
last year carried 650,000,000 passeu
gers with a loss of forty-sis passen
gers, and 137 men belonging to the
crews.
How People Sleep.
In England the old four-poster bed
stead is still the pride of the nation
but the iron and brass bedstead is
beating out of the field. The English
beds are the largest beds iu the world
A peculiarity of the German bed is its
shortness; besides that, it consists fre
quently in part of a large down pillow
or upper mattress which spreads over
the person and usually answers the
purpose of all the other ordinary bed
clothing combined. In the tropics
men sleep in hammocks or upon mats
or grass. The East Indian unrolls his
light, portable charpoy or mattress,
which in the morning is again rolled
together and carried away by him.
The Japanese lie upon matting, with a
stiff, uncomfortable,wooden neck-rest.
The Chinese use low bedsteads, often
elaborately carved, and supporting
only mats or coverlids. The ancient
Greeks and Romans had their beds
supported on frames, but not flat like
ours. The Egyptians had a couch of
a peculiar shape, more like an old
fashioned easy chair, with hollow back
and seat.
The mines of the world produea
every year 540,000,000 tons of ore and
coal.
Oil, Wluit Splendid Colter.
Mr. Goodman, Williams Co., 111., writes:
"From one package Salzer's German Coffee
Berry costing 15c I grew 300 lbs. of better
coffee than I can buy in stores at 30 cents a
lb." A. C 1
A package ot this coffee and big seed and
plant catalogue is sent you by John A.
Haider Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., upon re
ceipt of IS cents stamps and tilts notice.
To wash a glass which has hold milk
plunge it first into cold water before put
ting ft into warm.
Western North Carolina'* Glorious Climate
"THE LAND OP THE SKY."
If you have not decided where to spend the
month of March, a more delightful spot can
not be found than in the mountains of west
ern North Carolina at Ashevillc or Hot
Springs. These delightful resorts are situated
amidst beautiful mountain scenery and afford
a delightful and beneficial retreat for persons
seeking rest and recuperation. The bracing
mountain air, blue-skied spring and dry at
mosphere restore and bring new life, make
western North Carolina the grandest natural
health resort on the American continent.
The train service from New York is most per
fect. Leaving New York In tho afternoon at
4.20 p. m.. via Pennsylvania and Southern
Railway, in a through Pullman drawing room
sleeping cor, you are iu Ashevllle next after
noon at 2.2.) and Hot Springs at 3.52. For full
particulars call on or address Alex.S. Thweatt.
Eastern Passenger Agent, 271 Broadway,
There are 110 mountains in Colorado
whose peaks are over 12,000 feet above the
ocean level.
There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseefces put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it In
curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
v .institutional treatment. Hail's Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney A- Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. It is internally In doses from
10 drops to a tcaspoonful. It acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any cart
it falls to cure. Send for circulars and testi
monials. AildressF.J. CHENEV& Co., Toledo, U.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hairs Family Pills are the best.
The speed of our fastest ocean steamers
is now greater than that of express trains
on Italian railways.
Fits pormanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of I)r. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. S2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dit. R. H. Ki.isk. LU1..H31 Arch St.,Phila.,Po.
There are 10,800 teachers in the diminu
tive Kingdom of Belgium.
Chew Star Tobacco—The Best.
Smoke Sladge Cigarettes.
Mushrooms are native to all temperate
countries in short grass.
To Care A Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money If it falls to cure. 25e.
Over 60,000 oil wells have been sunk in
the United States.
Mrs. NVinslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the eumi, reduces Inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2oc.a bottle.
Glass brushes are used by the artists who
decorate china.
Piso's Cure cured me of a Throat and Lung
trouble of three years' standlng.-E. CADV.
Huntington, Ind.. Nov. 13. ISttt.
London has had an underground railway
ever since 1860.
Every trace is obliterated of salt rheum, itch,
&c„ bv Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Of druggists.
Hill's hair &Whlsker Dve. black or brown.soc.
England's new the Implaca
ble, will cost $5,000,000-
Blood Humors
Spring is the Cleansing Season-
Don't Neglect Your Health
You Need to Take Hood's Sar»a*
parllla Now
Spring Is the season for cleansing and
renewing. Everywhere accumulations of
waste are being removed and preparations
for the new life of another season are being
made. This Is the time for cleansing your
blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Winter
has left the blood impure. Spring
Humors. Bolls, pimples, eruptions, and
that tired feeling are the results. Hood's
Sarsaparilla expels all Impurities from the
blood and makes it rleh and nourishing.
It builds up tho nervous system, creates an
appetite, gives sweet, refreshing sleep and
renewed energy and vigor. It cures all
spring humors, boils, pimples, eruption.'.
Hood's parilla
Is America's Greatest Medicine. $1; six for s■">•
Prepared by C. 1. Hood & Co.. Lowell, Mass.
Unnrl'c Pillc »re the only Pills to take
nOUU & rills Hood's Sarsaparilla.