The great trouble in trying tv, sell what are called patent medicines is that so many claims have been made for them that people don't or won't believe what honest makers say. We have been telling our story sixty years. Did we ever deceive you once? If we make any statement that isn't so, we will stand the loss. Goto the druggist and get your money back. Here's an example. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is a good cure for a cough that comes from a cold. Y our cough, if you have one, may not come from a cold; your doctor will tell you about that. It is a straight medicine with sixty years of cures back cf it. There isn't a ghost of the ordi nary patent thing about it. J. C. AYER COMPANY, Practical Chemists, Lowell, Man. Ayer's Sarsaparilla Ayer's Hair Vigor Ayer'. Pills Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Ayer's Ague Cure Ayer's Comatone L(!g Saved l»y Tickling. Raymond Crane, aged live, while playing, got one leg so tirinly wedged Into a live-foot water pipe that a policeman and two brawny laborers Sould not get It out without danger of dismembering him. "Blow the pipe to pieces with dynamite!" said one. "Send for a doctor," said another, "Sue the city," a third. "Unscrew the lad," said a policeman, a new ar rival. "Tickle his foot with a straw and see if he won't pull his leg out himself," suggested Raymond's bright little sister. The plan worked well. Every time any one tickled Raymond's foot the boy would draw up his toes and wriggle his leg and draw it up a tittle out of the pipe. Finally lie gave a last wriggle and drew his leg out- Chicago Dispatch. Of the 1,070 miles of paved streets n Philadelphia, only 70 remain paved frith cobble and rubble. PURE BLOOD AND STRONG NERVES With glowing health ell things are possible, small annoyances fade in\ nothingness and real troubles are battled with successfully. Women who ai\ blescsd with perfect health are a constant joy ~ which health alone can make permanent is a crown which raise? a woman above other Bwj _l*Y3fc{aM* women. Such beauty is always accompanied t>y a sweet disposition, for snappishness is a jffipfj* lure sign of ill-health and leaves its mark It seems to be the fashion for women to ignore health and sacrifice it to the little /<oJi every-day trials, or offer it up on the altar 4 of devotion to daily tasks. Then again the nervous organization of women is con- /" fIMH stantly attacked by woman's natural ex- BK-jKbJM periences, so that it is practically impewsi- j/jf \Y CHSMH ble for her to retain the beauty which uif) f\j flEjßKfflj nature gave her, unless she has discrimi- jUBB-MH eating advice and right support. BPJo rvw Dr. Greene's Nervura for the Blood and Nerves• Trials and troubles are easily overcome by 0 jH the women whose strength is the genuine ® JL .-V**^Wla strength of perfect health. Dr. Greene's Ner- ESSHT' "J s\J SM ▼ura blood and nerve remedy, bridges the chasm that separates the sickly woman from jyVcS ° ©t^cS happiness. It fills her veins with blood that ia o MRS. WM. E. BOSSE, of 85 Farrington St., ° J "In regard to myself, I hare suffered for years 0 ifi with disease, having been troubled with great ner- « lin vousness, fernnlo complaints, indigestion, and o 1 ® 0 * cMB I groat weakness and prostration. 1 did not rVfl f / V> >jwill nave strength to do much of any thing.KKno- n I ing the great value of health and strength p'f yfy"i 0 c/"2r w?l I consulted doctors ami took many medi- / clnM, but they all failed to cure me, , •(/£ ° ro 2 r -U and I grew worse rather than better. jV I happened to see In the papers how '■V/ -/Y^ much good Dr. Greene's Nervura, I .4 J [ (\24 blood anil nerve remedy, was doing in a restoring to health everybody who took it, w " ' and I thought I would try a liottle. I used it and to my surprise I began to gain strength every day. lam so thaukfnl that I tried lt> It is certainly tne most excellent tonic and strength giver. I recommend it very highly and wish that other people who are troubled in any way would take warning and use it." TO PRESERVE WOMANLY BEAUTY At all the stages of a woman'a life Dr. Oreene'e Nervura blood and nerve remedy, is shown to lie efficient to ward off the results of uervousness, or over work, or impure blood. From early girlhood to advanced years, this world renowned medicine builds up the forces destroyed by disease, grief, or over exertion, and the effects of this great medicine are quickly felt and permanently retained. Let women guard well their health, and consult Dr. Greene freely. Nothing they can possibly do will so surely Weep them strong and well, or ne pair the exhaustion from acute Illness, nothing will work so continually to the preservation of beauty as the great health-giving Nervura. Dr. Greene'a ofllce ia at 39 Weat Hth Street, Nsw York City, where he may be consulted either by pereonal call or by letter Women way write is perfect couttdeuce, and get Dr. Greene's advice free. A now regulator, just introduced In Swiss watches, works so accurately that timepieces furnished with it do not vary ten seconds in a month. Eaoe pnokaije of PUTNAM FADELESS DYE colors more goods than any other dye nnd colors thorn better too. Sold by all druggists The pena! code of the Chinese em pire is at least 2000 years old. and un der its provisions about 12,000 persons are annually executed. Rest For tha Bowels. i No matter wlmt alls you, headaahe to it cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCABITS help nature, cure you without a gripe or palu, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up In metal boxes, every tab let has C.C.C. stamped on It. Beware cf Imitations. Since 1891 the population of London is computed to have increased by 300,000. Tha Belt Prescription for CtillU and Fever TE a bottle of GHOVK'I TARTSI.IM CHILL TONIC. It Is Biniply irou and quinine In a lasieleß* form. No cure —no pay. Price Sue. There are nearly 4000 miles of inland navigation in England and Wales. Tourist Information, llatcs. Etc., South. Tickets are now on sale via the Southern Railway, to all prominent resorts of the Car ollnas, Georgia, Florida. Cuba, Mexico and ( alifornln. Dining and Sleeping I'arsonall trains. The route of the Washington <V i-outliwcs'ern Vestibnled Limited, New York & Florida Express, Washington <& t'hntta nooga Limited and the U. S. Fast Mail. Dur ing the winter season theNew York & Florida Limited, "The finest trnin in the world." De scriptive matter of t.he winter resort rates upon application to cither New York offices, 271 or 1185 Broadway. Berths In Sleeping < ars reserved in advance, and all information furnished. "No trouble to answer questions.' i all on or address Alex. S. Thweatt, Eastern Pass. Agont, 1185 Broadway, New York City. Modern machinery is fast finding its way to small farms in Cuba. «tO» lteivard. Stoo. The renders of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh 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 ( nre 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 anil assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have BO much laitii in its curative powers that they olT"r Gne Hundred Dollars for any esse that It fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo. O. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Pills arc the best. There are about 30,000 lepers in the Phil ippines. FITH nermanent.lvcured. No fltsor nervous ness after llrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer.s2 trial bott.lo and treat! sefree Dr. R. H. KLINE. Ltd..KU Arch St.. Phila.. Pa A German firm has built a locomotive on the American pattern. A Colonel in the British South African armv snys that Adams' Tutti Fruttl was a blessing to his men while marching. The United States lead all other nations in the matter of fruit growing. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal lor coughs and colds. -JOHN F. HOYEU, Trinity Springs, Ind.. Feb. 15, 1000. An English inventor proposes to build a boat that will cross the Atlantic in two days. NEVER SAID. If all *b« pity and love untold Could scatter abroad their coins of gold There would not be on the whole earth One hungry heart or one wretched hearth. But. oh, if the kind words never said Could bloom into flowers and spread and shod Their sweetness out on the common air The breath of heaven would bo every where. I HOG.'j | By Bourdon Wilson. | In January, 18D3, I followed the ad vice of Horace Greeley togo west, and I have since grown up with the coun try, but it was due to a hog that this growth was not ended terribly almost in its beginning. 1 went to Silver City, New Mexico, hoping to get work there, but was disappointed; and after Idling about until the latter part of Febru ary, I Joined a young fellow of about my own age, and started for the moun tains on a prospecting trip. I was a "tenderfoot," and knew noth ing of mining, but Billy, my partner, during several years spent about the mines had learned much of ore and "leads" and "prospects" and such things, and he promised to teach me all that I needed to know. Walking be hind and driving the two little burros upon whose backs our effects were packed, a three days' march carried us to the range of mountains where Billy meant to prospect for silver. The slopes of this range, and the surround ing country for hundreds of miles in every direction, are an all but water less desert; but the summit is a broad, level tableland which lias an elevation so great that it catches the few clouds which drift that way, and thus obtains such a rainfall that it is covered with a growth of juicy grass and splendid pities. The summit is now the range of large herds of cattle, but in the time of which I am writing the periodic raids of Apache Indians made it a dangerous place for cattlemen. There being no water elsewhere, we climbed to the summit and had begun making our camp when we heard a crashing of dry branches in a thicket not far away, and a loud "Woof! woof! woof!" Dropping everything, we seized our rifles. The next moment, to our amazement, a black hog of medium size, gaunt and long-legged, galloped toward us, grunting and "wooling" as he came. Instantly we lowered our rifles—we had nothing to fear from this familiar friend of the barn-yard. The hog ran toward us, frisking, capering, grunting and "talking" to us incessantly, showing in every way pos sible that lie was wildly delighted to see us. We responded by scratching his back and talking to him, and after a while he contentedly lay down, still grunting with delight We were glad to have him with us; he gave the camp a homelike air. and it occurred to us that our slender store of provisions might give out. Hut 1 soon became so attached to him that I could not have eaten a piece of his flesh had I been starving. llow a hog, and such a gentle one, came to be in that wild place, we could not imagine; his actions showed that there were no other hugs on the moun tain. that he was lonesome, and that he had been used ton gard m n as friends. Later we learned that while a pig he was carried to the mountain by h's owner, a cattleman, who made a pet of him, U'HI who, becoming alarmed by reports of an Apaelie outbreak, moved his herd away In so great a hurry that the shoat was forgotten. We called him Dick. Seeming to un derstand that we were going to stay at that (amp for some time, he rooted a hole beside a log, and tilling it with leaves, made himself a comfortable bed. But it was plain that he lived in 'constant dread of being again left alone 'on the mountain. lie would follow at our heels, goin with us to and from our work, never letting us get out of his sight for an Instant; and at night the slightest noise would bring him galloping Into camp, grunting Inquiringly, to see If we were getting ready to leave. Thus he dis turbed our sleep so often that I sug gested building a brush fence round our camp to keep Dick out, but llllly would not listen to the proposal, lie looked upon Dick's making friends with us as an omen of good luck, and insisted that were we to restrict his freedom in any way the charm would be broken. "You can't bring us good luck if we don't let you come in, can you old bug gy'/" Billy said, scratching the ani mal's back with one hand, and pulling his ear with the other. "No, no. of course you can't; and you are g«>ln' to bring us the very best kind of luck, aren't you?" To this Dick responded with a series of chuckling grunts that llllly Inter preted to mean, "Sure thing! I don't 'pardner' with any outfit without bring ing it good luck.' And so the fence was not built. Hut day after day passed by without a trace of silver l»elng found; our pro visions ran low, and I proposed that We give up and go back to Silver City, llllly laughed at me; his faith In Dick was as strong as ever, and we con tinued pecking away on the mountulu tlde. Near the end of March we were awakened before daybreak by a savage grunting and snapping; and opening our eyes, we utw a small baud of In dians standing lu bright moonlight but a few yards awa?. Between them ana us was Dick, the bristles of his back standing fiercely on end, and his jaws snapping viciously at our visitors. The Indians were armed, and their faces were smeared with red paint. Not understanding the ominous mean ing of this, we welcomed them unsus piciously, and driving Dick away in vited them to scats around our fire. They were surly at first and ill at ease, but when we had given them a good breakfast and some tobacco, their humor changed; drawing close about the fire and lighting their cigarettes, they entered into a good-natured con versation with us in Spanish. They left when the sun rose, each shaking hands with us, and saying, "Adios amingo." (Good-bye, my friend.) As soon as they were out of sight, Billy said to me, "Pardner, we've got to get out of this; those bucks are lip to mischief of some kind. When I asked them who they were and where they lived, they made out they couldn't un derstand, although they understood everything else. And did you notice how queerly they looked at Dick?- and at us when I asked them to come to the fire? I wonder if they aren't some of the Chirlkahwas slipped back up here?" We knew that the (shirikahwa Apaches were "hostiles" aud off their reservation. "Surely not," I answered; "if they are Chirlkahwas, why didn't they kill us?" "That's all right," Hilly said, "but Indians aren't white folks, and at any minute they may change their minds and come back after us—you can't guess what an Indian will do. We'd better start right away, for we're goin to take Dick with us, aud we'll have togo slow so he can keep up with us," he concluded, going to where Dick was rooting for a breakfast. "We're goin to pull up stakes, old fellow," he said to the hog, bending over and scratching his back, "but we're not going to leave you behind; you haven't brought us any luck yet, but —" lie stopped abruptly and sank to his knees, looking intently at the ground. Presently lie gave a whoop of delight, then cried excitedly, "Come here, pard ner, quick! I told you the old hoggy would bring us luck—he's found a lead that will go four hundred to the ton, or I'm much mistaken!" And in fact the rock held a vein of ore in which even my unpractised eyes distinguished faint threads of silver. "It just beats all!" Billy exclaimed. "Here we've been walking over this ledge every day for a month, never once dreaming that a rich vein was propping out right at grass roots! We're rich, pardner, and it all comes of our treating Dick on the square. Oh, you're a mascot, aren't you. old hoggy?" he cried, affectionately slapping Dick's face first on one side, then 011 the other. And Dick grunted back that he thought he was—at least so Hilly understood him to say. Itunninrf' back to the tire, I brought a big batch of biscuit that we had just cooked, and gave them to Dick; and while he ate them, we gave him such a petting and back-scratching as per haps 110 other hog lias ever had. Next, we carefully examined the ledge, clearing off the (llrt, exposing the vein for several feet, and found that the ore grew richer the deeper we dug. Satisfied that we had "struck it rich," we broke off several specimens to take with us. Then we covered up the vein, ami hurriedly packing our burros, set out for Silver City. Owing to Dick's Inability to travel far without stopping to rest, it took us six days to reach our destination; and then we found 1110 town in great excite ment. A band of Chirikahwa warriors had sneaked past the soldiers guarding the Mexican boundary, and had swept across Arizona and Into New Mexico, murdering and burning as they went, slid passing within a few miles of Sil ver City. The Indians we had entertained at our camp were a part of tills band, and it set us shivering to think how easily they could have killed us. Why they did not do so, we could not imagine. Hut 11 few years later, after we had sold our mine for a good price, I met one of these Indians 011 the Sail Carlos reservation, and first softening his heart by a gift of tobacco and money, I asked him to tell uie why they spared us. lie answered readily that It was be cause of the "medicine" hog. Apachi a look upon all hogs as being "mcdcine," that is, magical or supernatural, and therefore will not cat their flesh; and Dick's standing guard over us like a (log. something they had never seen be fore, made them think that lie was peculiarly powerful "medicine." So they had not dared to harm us. And as the Indian offered to trade me two ponies and one of his wives for tin 1 se cret of this "medicine," I believe that he told me the truth.—Youth's Com panion, Quntl TUIHI'II find I'lintum Wtlit. Early in the summer l found a quad's nest at Tr.von, Oklahoma, con taining Hi eggs, which 1 put under a bantam hen, and every egg hatched. The quail are now full grown and as tame as chickens, and do not wander fur from the barnyard. I tut what seems very strange to me Is that they roost with some chickens in the top of a black tree about fci t above th • ground. Another strung" feature Is that while these quail remain tame, the bantam hen that raised th -in hits taken up with a covey of wild quad and re mains With tllem out 111 the fields Hiitl wood lot nnd Is as wild ns they. W. S. Chenowtth. M. D., In Foruat and Stream. Now York City.—The comfort and convenience of the basque that can be worn with or without an additional wrap requires no urging. The admii-a- TIGHT FITTING BASQUE. ble May Manton model here illustrated includes all the latest features, and is well adapted to all the season's cloths, cheviots and the like; but as shown is of camel's hair zibeline in a deep warm tan. The fronts are curved to give a graceful rounded figure and are fitted with single darts. The backs include side-backs and under arm gores, and can be trusted to give the desired | ' PIUNCESd GOVfli. tapering effect to the figure. The neck is finished with a regulation turn-over collar that forms notches with the fronts, which roll back to form lapels in coat style. The sleeves are two seamed, finished only with stitching at cuff depth. The basque is closed at the front with small tailor buttons and buttonholes. To cut this basque for a woman of medium size four and one-eighth yards of material twenty-one inches wide, two yards forty-four inches wide, or one and five-eighth yards fifty inches wide, will be required. Lntllfft' Prince** Gown. No other gown takes the place of the well fitted princess that becomes sim ple or elaborate as the material is sim ple or costly. The admirable May Manton model Illustrated In the large engraving is of cashmere 111 the new rich red known as dahlia, with trim ming of black applique and small but tons, but Henrietta In any color. French flannel, challle and a host of other materials can be substituted. The fronts are fitted with single darts, hiddcu beneath the trimming, but curve to give a graceful outline. The back includes both side-backs and uuder-a.'m gores that tit to a nicety without being over-tight, llelow Mo wn Ist line is an inverted pleat that allows of additional fulness iu '.lie skirt and adds greatly to the stylish effect. The sleeves are two seamed 111 correct style, the lower edges being lengthened, faced and turned back to form slightly flaring cuffs. At the neck Is a high collar with turn-over portions attached. To cut this gown for a woman of medium size nine and a half yard* of material, twenty one inches wide, six and a half yards twenty »even Inches wide, or four and three quarter yards forty-four Inches wide, will be re quired. l-'ur m €• Irl of T**ltr. A I girl wears a frock of Scotch tartan In dark green aud deep blue and black. It Is made up on the straight, not ou the hem, where » scanty flounce |M set on like a "cut skirl." A band «112 black velvet cover* the Join, The IHMIICC button* up the back, lu front It Is bloUm-d considerably. About the shoulders it is cut out to show a deep yoke and collar of taffeta silk, light blue la color. This is bordered with black velvet, and it continues down to the belt. The sleeve terminates in a caff, with two bands of black velvet on it. What Little Girls Wear. Little girls wear a groat deal of serge when they discard wash frocks as tlio season advances. There is little change in tbfj style of making up such a gown. The old-time sailor collar blouse with its shield divides custom with the serge suit which has plain jackets aud skirt. This last requires a shirt waist. These are the usual models for school suits. Flounced Wlilte Petticoats. French women have always been very partial to white petticoats, trimmed witn much liouncing and many yard" of lace, and once more they are becom ing fashionable, and are ousting the silk ones from the popularity they have so loug enjoyed. A Favorite Fur. Black fox showing a few white hairs is reported as one of the favorite furs for boas. Clilld'B Apron. The apron that is attractive at the same time that it protects the gown is a necessity to every well dressed little girl. The pretty May Manton model here shown is essentially useful at tin: same time that it is dainty and smart, and includes the bolero sugges tion that is a feature of the season and so becoming to childish figures. As shown, the material is nainsook, wi'.li trimming ot' beading, through which rilihon is run, the arm's-eyes being flu ished with sleeve frills of needlework, but dimity, lawn and all the range of familiar war", stuffs are equally ap propriate. The apron is shaped with front and back portions and is litted by menus of shoulder and uuder arm seams. At the upper edge are laid tiny tucks*, which give the bolero efTcct and below which the fulness falls in soft tolds to the hem or the skirt. The trimming is applied over the upper edge and the base of the tucks. Tho apron is closed at the back with buttons and button holes. At the lower edge is a deep liem that can lie hemstitched or sim ply trimmed, as preferred. At tho arm's-eyes, forming an epaulette like finish, are graduated frills that are wider at the shoulder and uarow be neath the arms. To cut this apron for ?t girl of six years of age two and a quarter yards of material thirty six Inches wide will be required, with two yards of bead iHlLtl'ii Al'UOk. lug, one and me eight yard of needle work four luche* wide, and three and a half yards ot velvet r'Sbou to trim a* Illustrated.
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