4 'One Year's Seeding,
Nine Years' Weeding
112 ®Cjcglected impurities in your blood <o>St
seeds of disease of which you may
never get rid. If your blood is evert ihe
least bit impure, do not delay, but take
Hood"s SarsapariUa at once. In so doing
there {' safety; in delay there is danger.
Be sure to get only Hood's, because
Perry'n Big Gum.
Commodore Perry had not yet
electrified a grateful nation with his
immortal message, "We have met the
enemy and they are ours." While
the battle was in progress the sound
of the guns was heard at Cleveland,
about sixty miles away in a direct
line over the water. The few settlers
there were expecting the battle and
listened with intense interest. Finally
the sounds ceased. They waited for
a renewal. None came; the lull was
painful. Then they knew the battle
was over; but the result, ah! that was
the point. One old fellow who had
beo lying flat with his ear to the
ground soon settled that point. Spring
ing up he clapped his hands and
«houted: "Thank God! they are
whipped! they are whipped!"
"How do you know?" the others in
quired.
"Heard the big guns last!"
Perry's guns were the heawest.—
The Buckeye.
Pain Conquered i Health Re
stored by Lydia E. Pink
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and all my pains have left me. I feel !
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and would recommend your Compound
to every suffering woman. I hope this
letter will help others to find a cure
for their troubles." MRS. DELLA i
JJEMICKER, RENSSELAER, IND.
The serious ills of women develop '
from neglect of early symptoms. Every
pain and ache has a cause, and the
warning they give should not be disre
garded.
Mrs. Pinkham understands these
troubles better than any local phy
sician and will give every woman free
advice who is puzzled about her
health. Mrs Pinkham's address is j
Lynn, Mass. Don't put off writing until
health Is completely broken down
Write at tho first indication of trouble.
Oar Delightful Language.
"Where did the dog bite the plain
tiff?"
"Just outside the planing mill."
"I asked you, sir, where the dog
bit—b-i-t—the plaintiff?"
"Oh! Ir the small of the back."
"Well, why didn't you say so in the
first place'?"
"I did Bay so."
"You claim you said 'small of the \
Jack' in the firsC) place?"
"No, I said lumbar region."—Cleve
l»ud Plain Dealer.
One Cure For Insomnia.
Sleeplessness from overwork, aud
especially from literary work, says
ihe Hospital, requires rest and change
of air and scene. Of the measures
which conduce to deep, matters of
diet and nursing, and what may be
called "management," one cannot be
too studious, for by their aid much
may be done to avoid the use of
drugs.
An Excellent Combination.
The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
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dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
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every objectionable quality and sub
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liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
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HOME.
Ah, home 1 when all elsewhere la dreary.
When we are most heartless and weary,
What place beside is half so elieery,
As home, sweet home !
There Inn'cent glee and childish prattle
Uagulle the hours with noisy tattle,
Forgetful half of life's rough battle,
We are at rest.
At night, when homo from work returning
We see afar a bright light burning,
In haste wo seek the shortest turning
To home, swoet home.
Where o'trr the frugal board presiding,
In hope and faith and love abiding,
The mother hears from lips eontlning,
The day's exploits.
And thus the moments so entrancing
Glide swift uway, when soine one glancing
lit the tall clock, sees near advancing
The midnight hour.
And while the bird of night Is brooding,
Oh, whore, beside, come dreams so soothing
As now from out our brows are smoothing
The lines of care?
Fancy in dreams her flight is winging,
In sweet low tuaes joy bells seem ringing,
\ psalm of peace night winds are singing
At home, sweet home.
—(M. E. J., in The Century.
j MISS ROSEANNA [
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'•Things are In the saddle aud ride man
kind."
Miss Roseanna Meggs lived in a
house of her own—a very commodious
aud comfortable one—on the coruer of
the principal street of Brambleville.
She had but oue companion, an anti
quated woman called Lizette.
Miss Roseauua's ancestors were 1
people of quality, and her house con
tained many valuable relics indicative
of bv-goue grandeur; indeed Lizette
herself was little more than a relic, I
for as she was very old aud very deaf ,
aud rather cross tempered, Miss Rose- 1
auua had no excuse for keeping her ,
except that she had served all her life
in the Meggs family.
But the inanimate heirlooms, the
mahogany table and writing desk, the
cherry clock, the brass candlesticks,
the pewter plate aud flowing blue
china, these were almost as dear as
life itself to Miss Ro>t an >a's heart.
Especially was the tali clo k prized ;
not ouly because it was olid cherry :
aud a hundred years old, 11 a day, but
because of a rumor that had come
down with it, to wit, that General
Washington had sat for a few moments
in a great, great nude's parlor while
the tall clock prized, not only because
it was solid had beeu brought to
Roseauna's home by a maiden aunt ,
who had grumbled at Roseauna's
board aud growled at her bed during
five years of invalidism, aud died at
last, leaving behind a cleau record for
unamiability, but not a farthing in
money—only the tall clock and some
old clothes by way of compensation.
The fact Miss Roseanna never com
plained or so much as hinted that her
departed aunt's disposition was not
altogether angelic, is evidence of the
ttore she set by the tall clock.
It is not strange that she was quite
ove whelmed with sorrow aud chag
rin, when, rummaging through a
jhest of old letters one .Juue day, she
chanced to find a little slip of paper,
neatly folded and innocent looking as
a school girl's note, but, alas, how
deceiving are appoarances! The note
ran:
''When I am gone (which I am convinced
W >ii't be long, seein' I'm situated as I bo),
wii"n I'm gone 1 want the cherry clock that
WHS Uncle Daniel's, and that has the honor
nf being ticked in G. Washington's heiiriu',
I want togo to Sarah Maud Pitkins, and I
nobody else. And to this will aud testa- I
ment I hereby set my haad and seal under 1
heaven this day.
"Jane Ann Meggs."
The slip dropped from Roseauna's
hand, but she did not move or cry.
Through the open winnow she felt the
breath of the pleasant Juue breeze
and saw her log cabin aud goose chase
and coverlets fluttering on the line,
and wondered in a dazed way, if she
could be identical with the light
hearted woman who hung them there
an hour ago.
"Oh, I would rather part with any
thing else in the house—anything
else!" she mourned at last. "And
that it should goto Sarah Maud, Sarah
Maud Pitkins of all people! If it had
been any of the other cousins "
Roseanna's breast heaved and she
burst out crying.
Now every neighbor's child in
Brambleville could have told you that
there had been a fe.nl of many years
standing betweea the two cousins,
Roseanna Meggs aud Sarah Maud,
who married a Pitkins. But though
| everybody knew of the rupture, very
I few pretended to know anything of
the cause, aud the stories of those
who made such preteusious were so
contrary that no one could be be
lieved.
Some said that Ro. eanua had con
sidertil Lein Pi.kins beneath the
family dignity, and quite unfit for her
first cousin's companion; others de
clared that Roseanna was jealous;
that she had wanted Lem Pitkins her
self, that was where the shoe pinched,
while a large faction said that the
whole trouble had come from Rose
auua having said In Sarah Maud's
presence that "she would never marry
a man with such a one-sided, shamby
pamby gait as Lem Pitkins had,"
whereupon Sarah Maud had fired like
u fuse aud goue off in a rage that had
never cooled since.
But whatever the cause, the fact of
the feud remained. Seven years had
passed sinco the cousins who had
been liko sisters in girlhood—had
passed a pleasant word. Roseanna
had never seen Sarah Maud's youngest
child, though she was now past three,
aud as for the others she barely knew
them by sisht.
She thought bitterly of All this sit
ting there by the old trunk, in the
light of the fair June day. She
thought, too, of the martyrdom she
had endured in earing for Aunt Jane
Ann, and that Sarah Maud, during all
that trying time, had never so much
as stirred her a dish of corn-gruel—■
that gruel that she always ordered to
be made "a little thicker'n than milk,
but not near so thick as gravy." Sarah
Maud had no time for crippled and
insolent maiden aunts. Aud now the
precious old clock would staud in
Sarah Maud's house! Surely this was
the unkindest cut of fortune's lash
that Boseanna had ever felt.
But after all what use was there in
fussing and fretting! There lay the
"will and testament," and downstairs
in a jog in the hall—where it fitted so
nicely—stood the old clock. There
was only one course open to a woman
of honor. Boseanna asked herself, iu
bitter scorn, if she, Boseanna Meggs,
was possessed either of honor or com
mon sense? Then, summoning all
her dignity, she closed the old trunk
with a bang, and walked with stately
measured steps down the stairs and
through the dim hall. Hardly glanc
ing iu the direction of the old clock,
she opened the mahogany writingdesk
and penned a short, curt note. In
cold, clear-cut English, without au
unnecessary word, she explained the
situation to her cousin. '"his done,
she put on her garden h t and went
out to Hud the man who u..l odd jobs
for the villagers of Brambleville. He
came in less than an hour, aud the old
clock, together with the note, was
then sent to Sarah Maud Pitkius.
Boseanna's fortitude was admirable
during the carrying out and packing
of her treasure, but when the wagon
was well out of sight she broke down
utterly,aud dropping into a chair cried
her heart out, with the soft breeze
fanning cheek and brow and catching
gentl_v at the fold of her print dress.
Old Lizette, understanding nothing,
grew nearly distracted at her mistress'
grief. Her own troubles were quite
forgotten for the time—those frightful
grievances that she never wearied of
conjuring.
"Sakes alive, mum, don't take on
so! You'll be sick, sure as can be.
Sakes alive, don't please,mum, fur my
sake, don't!" she kept repeating,
while she inarched back and forth,
like a sentry, before Boseanut'»
chair.
Boseauna's sleep was troubled and
uuvefreshing that night. Her head
ached wildly,aud when at last she fell
into a heavy drowse, a bevy of tall
clocks came marching around her bed i
and begau screwing up their faces and
talking among themselves in thin,
ticktockety voices.
"She's worse than Aaron with his
golden (alf about that cherry clock.
Why, she'd sell her soul for it—aud a
Methodist, too! Now, if the old
thing had been handsome like me
there would have been some excuse,"
a pompons old clock was saying when
Boseanna woke with a start aud found
it was broad day.
Having overslept so long it was
quite late when she breakfasted, aud
the dishes were not all cleared away
when some oue drove up to the front
gate. Boseajiua's eyes were so blurred
aud weak from weeping that slie could
see but indistinctly, but she was not
for a moment puzzled; the man
slianibliu.; out of the wagon was no
other than Lem Pitkius—uobody else
in Christendom ever walked with such
a graceless gait—and the woman ho
was helping out must be Sarah Maud.
Iu her Hurry Boseanna did not notice
something long like a coffin covered
with a blanket in the back of the
soring wagon. A moment and Sarah
Ma ml knocked at the door. Bose
auna's heart leaped aud thumped
wildly, but she managed to reach *he
door; Sarah Maud stood before her.
"How do you do, Boseanna?" she
asked thrusting forward her hand "\s
if she was uncertain about its being
clasped. But it was, though weakly.
"How do you do?" Boseanna re
turned.
"I got your note aud the clock yes
terday," Sarah Maud began. Her
voice was strained, and she was lather
out of breath. "And I thought we'd
drive right over this morning and tell
you that I don't feel right in keepiu'
the old clock, and so we've brought it
back. You took care of Aunt Jane
Ann, aud you ought to have it. It
was just oue of her mean freaks a
writin' that note."
Sarah Maud paused. Boseanna
stood dumb like a sheep bofore her
shearers. Her face was bloodless and
her eyes dim and dazed. Then she
made a rush forward aud fell weeping
on Sarah Maud's neck.
And in that hour the hateful breach
was healed forever.—Waverley.
Alligator* Foncl of Ruble*.
Contrary to popular belief, 110 alli
-1 gator will attack a man of his own
j volition either iu the water or out < 112
it. It is, however, passionately fond
of pigs, dogs aud babies, particularly
, black babies. All the loss of human
' life from alligators in Lousiana has
been confined to negro infants. The
| saurian is sometimes trapped by tyinfl
\ dog to a treo near the bank of a lake
at night. The howls of the animal,
! which knows very well the perilous
duty it is on, will bring nu alligator
] oat of the water inside of au hour,
i It is then surrounded by men witli
torches, peppered with muskets loaded
with buckshot aud Anally beateu to
death with clubs aud axes. Not in
frequently a broken leg or two results
from the flail-like blows of its mighty
tail. A good many alligators are
killed in the latter part of February
; when they are just breaking from the
mudbanks in which they have been
! incased all the winter. At this time
they are stiff, not more than hall
awake, almost wholly blind and could
! not damage a child.—New York Sun.
IFOR FARM AMD GARDEN.!
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Decay and Preservation of Fruit.
Professor Caldwell of Cornell uni
versity read au interesting paper upon
the decay and preservation of fruit be
fore a recent meeting of the western
New York horticultural society. He
said in part as follows: The fungi
spores attacking green fruit are car
ried sometimes by flies and wasps
from au unsound specimen to those
perfect. Carefully conducted experi
ments have shown that the fungus
does not cause a ferment, but that it
makes a poison that causes a breaking
down of the cells called rot. The
spraying of plums with bordeaux mix
ture has shown good results, but the
spraying of apples has so far been of
little use. The decayed fallen fruit
should, as a remedial measure, be
picked up aud destroyed, as also
should the mummy plums be picked
from the trees. A member reported
that the rottiug of grapes had with
him fouud a complete cure in the
spraying with carbonate of copper.
For Feeding the Soil.
There are only three ingredients of
plant food which have to be consid
ered in feeding the soil. These are
phosphoric acid, potash aud nitrogen.
The last-named can be furnished by
clover or peas, while the other two
can be purchased cheaply on the mar
ket in the form of acid phosphate or
boue for phosphoric acid, and muriate
of potash or sulphare of potash for
potash. These materials should be
applied directly to the land to be
sowu to clover or peas, so as to in
sure a heavier growth and thereby a
larger absorption of nitrogen. There
is nothing complicated in the matter
of fertilizing land. All that is needed
is careful observation aud some little
study of the principles involved.
Common Error in Growing Annuals.
The commonest error in . growing
annuals is to plant them in flower
beds. This mistake is frequently
made with other plants, but never so
persistently and disastrously as with
phloxes, zinnias, marigolds and ! 4h9ir
like. If a strictly geometrical scheme
is intended, or if the garden is one of
the old Italian style, with a high wall
about it, tbeu flower beds will fit the
place. But in the free aud natural
dooryard gardening,the whole picture
is sadly disfigured when it is cut full
of holes to receive strange, detuched
bunches of unwilling flowers in varied
assortment. There they uncomfort
ably staud about through the sum
mer, each bunch of flowers jealous of
its neighbors, all appearing to be
afraid of overstepping the circumscrib
ing bricks, stones or oyster shells
which hem them in, all chafing at the
restraiut, and all wishiug they were
safely away in the woods, where they
might clamber down the banks or
revel in the grass the way flowers
were meant to do.
A Site for the Poultry Farm.
The first thing to be considered in
starting a poultry farm is the site.
This should be, if possible, on a nice
slope; if the ground is level it should
be drained. The question of soil is
au important one and should be con
sidered. Some people think, "any
kind of land will do." There is a lit
tle truth iu this, but not the whole
truth. Grass land is the best, pro
viding there is sufficient drainage, so
that it will not remain damp after rain.
The best soils are gravel or sand; saud
is the best, and it keeps clean longer.
Sandy soil after every shower looks
clean, through the rain washing the
droppings into the sand. On clayey
or sticky soils the droppings remain
on the top aud are damp for several
days after lain. With stiff, clayey
toil poultry culture is a difficult task;
with saudy soil we are more likely to
be successful, for after a fall of raiu
all impurities are carried off and the
yard seldom becomes foul.
If the poultry breeder raises his
stock on stiff, clayey soil he will be
compelled to dig aud turu over his
yards every season; ou the other haud,
sandy soils will not require to be
turned over so often. If the yards or
peus have a good coating of grass aud
the rainfall be fair most of the drop
pings will be used up by tho grass
after the raiu has dissolved it and
washed it down to the roots of the
grasp.
As to the amount of land needed, it
is just that area that cftu be taken ia>e
of and no more. In beginning a poul
try farm it is always best to own the
laud or make arrangements for a long
lease. It is a mistake to rent a farm
from month to mouth or quarter to
quarter, for 110 pe son cares to erect
buildings, pens, yards, etc., on the
laud that he might l;e asked to leave
just when he had got everything into
■working order. —Fai.n, Field aud
Fireside.
The Averaore Dairy Herd.
It is unmistakably true now that
the owner of a small herd of good
dairy cows kept well in hand has a
better chance of making a profit than
one who tries to manage a large, un
wieldy number, none of which seem
to come quite up to tho standard. Tho
tendency is to return to the smaller
lverds, aud bring theai up to a paying
point. This is not always au easy
tesson to learn, for wo always like to
count on numbers. But it is better
*.i» reduce the numbe s to the point
where proper attention can be be
stowed upon each individual. Any
thing above this is a waste of time aud
labor, aud a misuse of iuvestod cap
ital.
The average farmer should keep
from ten to twelve cows 011 every lfiO
acres; but a farmer who devotes all of
his attention tj dairying, and is strictlv
a dairy farmer, should average about
one cow to every three acres. If one
has the necessary business to conduct
his farm economically, this portion of
cows to the acre will be about right.
It is possible to make as much profit
from butter selling today at twenty
live cents a pound as it was wheu it
sold for thirty-live and forty cents.
The reason for this is that we observe
different methods today, aud get more
both from the cows and the soil. How
to do this, however, is a problem that
each must face aud solve.
The farm separator is essent : al for
future success in dairyiag. The sep
arator has passed beyond the experi
mental stage, audit has come to stay.
With a good farm separator in use,
teu good average cows—not scrubs—
should produce 8450 in butter money,
taking the prices as they are today.
This would pay, whether the cows
were kept on an ordinary farm or dairy
farm.
On poor land the number of cows
must be reduced. Never attempt to
raise more thau the land will actually
support. It is better to begiu on a
small scale aud work up. Thus a far
mer friend of the writer's took a farm
of 160 acres, aud started in dairying
with a dozen cows—all the land would
support at the time—and by judicious
methods he worked his herd up to
forty. That is the number of cows
he can feed off his former j oor farm.
He not only kept in view the quef-tion
of maintaining the standard of his
herd, but he had to improve his soil
year by year. Such a thing is pos
sible, and when it is accomplished it
deserves mentioning. There are
plenty who fail to hold their owp in
this respect, and let both cows and
land degeuerate year after year. The
products of the dairy should never be
raised aud sold at the expense of the
laud. Sooner or later the accounting
time must come.—American Culti
vator.
Sinutn of Small Crninft.
Smuts cause a great loss each year
throughout the grain growing sections.
According to the Ohio experimental sta
tion, in a recent bulletin, the loose and
stinking smuts of wheat alone cause an
annual loss of §400,000 in Ohio. The
losses from the oat smut were equal
to or even greater than this. These
losses cau be prevented if the seed is
properly treated. For the loose smut
of wheat the hot water treatment is
recommended. Soak the seed graiu
for four hours in cold water, allowing
it to stand for four hours more in wet
sacks, then immerse for live minutes
iu water held at a temperature of 133
degrees Fahrenheit. Spread at once
on a smut-free surface to dry and then
sow. Some germs may be injured by
the treatment, so the station recom
mends that one-half more seed b«
sown than is ordiuarily recommended.
If the wheat is affected by stiuking
smut or bunt, it is probably best to
immerse the grain in cold water, stir
ring thoroughly, then skim off the
smut balls which will rise to the sur
face. After this has been done either
of the following treatments may be
employed: If the hot water method is
chosen, immerse for teu minutes in a
vessel containing water heated to a
temperature of 130 degrees Fahren
heit. Then cool quickly l>y thoroughly
stirring or immersing in cold water.
The water must bo heated to exactly
the temperatuie stated, and for this
purpose a thermometer must always
be used. Immersion longer thau ten
minutes may injure the grain. If the
hot water method does not seem prac
ticable 11 solution of copper sulphate
or bluestone will answer. Make the
solution by dissolving two pounds ol
sulphate to ten gallous of water. In
this immerse the wheat seed freed
from smut balls as already described,
and allow to remain for teu minutes.
Allow it to staud ten minutes longer
iu the sack, then spread and dry with
unslacked lime, shoveling very fre
quently. Or the above solution may
be sprinkled over the grain in a heap,
using oue gallon to every bushel of
graiu. Sprinkle at intervals from five
to ten minutes. Stir so that the whole
will be thoroughly wetted, and at the
end of an hour shovel over and dry
with lime. Treatment with a solution
of formalin in the same manner has
beeu found quite satisfactory. Use
one pound of formalin to about fifty
gallons of water aud immerse the
wheat in this solution for about thirty
minutes or sprinkle as iu the case of
sulphate.
For oats, the hot water treatmout
in open vessels is very satisfactory.
Immerse the seed for ten minutes,
keeping the water at 130 degrees or
for seven minutes keep it at 130 de
grees Fahrenheit. Empty out at once
upon a clean floor aud dry by stirring.
The formalin solution may also be
used, applying as in the case of wheat,
the only difference being that if the
seed is immersed, allow it to remain
two hours instead of thirty minutes.
If the solution is sprinkled over the
heap, allow the heap to remain two or
more hours before drying. Consider
able success has been had by soaking
the oat Fead twenty-four hours iu
three-quarter per cent solution of
potassium sulphide. This solution is
prepared by dissolving one and one
half pounds of sulphide i:i twenty
five gallons of water.—American Agri
culturist.
Tl»e Forgetful Professor.
A Cambridge p<ofessor, whose iitfl
of mental aberration were as frequent
as they were amusing, was one day
out in a heavy rain, with his umbrella
held high over his head, wheu he met
a friend, who stopped him and ex
claimed: "Dear me, Professor M.,why
don't you put up your umbrella? You
will be drenched." "Put up my
umbrella," said the professor; "it is
up." "Yes, it is; but it isn't open."
For half an hour, more or less, the
professor had been walking the streets
with a clow 1 umbrella raised high
• hove his
Virtual of Salt.Water Baths.
For » band bath (a bath given t(
the body by use of the hands only, 01
by sponge or cloth) place a handfu
of salt in a basin as ordinarily filled
for washing. Allow the salt to dis
solve, or hasten the action by stirrini
it with the hand. The water should
be as cold as you have vitality tc
withstand. Use no soap. Bathe the
entire body. Do not negleot the face
and neck in the free use of salt
water. This bath has an exhilarating
influence, tones the entire system,
and gives to the skin a healthful con
dition that amply repays for the time
»nd trouble involved. If used in the
winter it will be an excellent preven
tive of colds, besides being a substi
tute for face cosmetics. No chapping,
no roughness of the skin and no clog
ging of the cores will trouble the per
son who systematically and regularly
takes a bath of this sort. Ordinary
cable salt or rock salt will do, but
will not do so well. The sea-salt con
tains medicinal properties not found
in the others. Whether one exercise
or not, the body should receive a daily
hand bath of cold or cool water, espec
ially in the summer, either upon rising
or before retiring.—Ladies' Home
Journal.
Saw an Iceberg Seventy-fire Mile* Long.
The presence of ioebergs in 'the
Straits of Belle Isle has given rise to
« rnmor that steamships would leave
this shorter rout 3 to travel through
the south channel only. The presence
of these icebergs at this time of the
year is indeed extraordinary.
When first navigation opens in
May, and up to the early part of July,
or the end of June at least, all ships
come through the channel south of
the island. But in July the Strait oi
Belle Isle is usually free from the ice.
This year, however, has been an en
ception, and on its inward journey the
Parisian encountered several icebergs,
one of which was over seventy-fiv«
miles in length. This ice was not io
the Strait proper, but well on its waj
to the ocean, or some 160 miles east
of Belle Isle.
Captain Brown has had many ex
periences with icebergs. He has seen
all kinds, but none to equal the one
which met the Parisian on its way
through the northern channel to
Montreal. This one, the captain
claimed, was seventy-five miles long,
ind rose several hundred feet above
the water.—Montreal Herald.
De Y»»ir feet Ache and Bnrn •
Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot Ease
a powder for the feet. It makes Tight o«
New Shoes feel Easy. Cure 9 Corns, Bun,
ions, Swollen, Hot, Callous. Aching an I
Sweating Feet. Sold by all Druggists,
Grocers and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent
FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy,
s. y.
Professional etiquette prevents French
lodges and judicial ofilcials from riding in
omnibuses.
Beauty la Blood Deer.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
itirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by takinp
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
gilts, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
The blood of live races flows in the veins
of the Boer.
• 100 Hcwardi tioo.
The readers of this paper will bo pleased t.o
learn that there isatleastonedreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's t atarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu
tional disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall's Catarrh ( ure is taken internally,
acting directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much fa th in its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
tor any case that It fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall'sFamlly Pills are the best.
There are only 350 miles of railroad in
China.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Yosr Mfe Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netlo, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak meg
strong. Ail druggists, 50c or 11. Cureguaraa
teed. Booklet and sample free. Addresi
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
There were about 35,000 Japanese in
Hawaii In 1898.
Ever Have a Dog Bother Ton
When riding a wheel, making you wondei
for a few minutes wheiher or not you are t<
get a fall and a broken neck? Wouldn't you
nave giveu a small farm Just then for sonn
means of driving off the beast? A few drop)
of ammonia shot from a Liquid Pistol would
do It etfeciually and still not permanently
injure the animal. t<uch pistols sent postpaid
for fifty cents in stamps by New York Union
Supply Co., lafi Leonard St., New YorkLity,
Every bioyclist at times wishes he had one,
London's city directory weighs eleven
And one-halt pounds.
Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves th«
most obstinate coughs.—Rev. D. BITCUMUEL/
LEU, Lcxington.Mo.. February 24, 1594.
Only one person in four in London earni
more than ¥5 a week.
To Care Constipation Forever#
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 100 or (So.
ll C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
I In 1793 Ell Whitney Invented the cottoa
gin.
Pits!
Does your head ache? Pain back of
your eyes ? Bad taste in your mouth ?
It's your liver! Ayer's Pills are
liver pills. They cure constipation,
headache, dyspepsia, and all liver
complaints. 25c, All druggists.
Want your mouiucht or beard a beautiful
brown or rich black? Then ua«
Buckingham's dye cn&&»
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