Stops Tickling All serious lung troubles bo gin with a tickling in the throat. You can stop this at first in a single night; a dose at bedtime puts the throat at complete rest. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral The cure is so easy now, it's Astonishing any one should run the risk of pneumonL and con sumption, isn't it ? For asthma, croup, whooping-cough, bron chitis, consumption, hard colds, and for coughs of all kinds, Aver's Cherry Pectoral has been the one great family medi cine for sixty years. Three sizes: 25c., SOc., $1.09. I* Tour druggist cannot supply yon, send us on® dollar Hiid we will express a large bottle to yoo, *ll chiirjes prepaid. Be sure you eWe ns ymir nearest express office. Address, J. C. Athr CO., Lowell, Mass. Dolby's Surf Fall. Some years ago, writes a correspond ent of the Daily Chronicle, Mr. Dolby who was Charles Dickens' manager and has just died "miserable and pen niless," in Fulham infirmary, was in a quite respectable position, but was fast drifting into a reckless, vagrant life. He was fond of recalling his as sociation with the novelist, but ncvei told any anecdotes about him. H> accompanied Dickens on his reading tours, and his services were greatly appreciated. On one occasion Dickens wrote from Liverpool, "Dolby would do anything to lighten the work, anc! does everything." In another lettoi from Glasgow, he described him as "an agreeable companion, an excellent manager, and a good fellow." Dolby wrote a book entitled "Charles Dick ens as I Knew Him," which Miss Dick ens considered "the best and truest picture of her father yet written." Senntor Cart or* h Opportunities The friends of Thomas Henry Car ter, United States senator from M v.- tana, are figuring upon securing fui him a professorship in the CatLol:. university of this city, but Mr. Caru i says he has not yet been defeate 1 112 re-election, and considers his ;ia :i e.<- very good, although the leg > i Montana, is largely Demo.. > T Carter waa a school teache ia b younger days and knows how to do t —Washington Letter. NERVOUS BB H JU£ U " VBOBkBFRS — WW %U0 BWBEmBm than the strongest man could endure, and it ia CURED BY I no wonder that women I __ __ show the effects of work art Greene's -vr"-., . H - Thousands of women H BfET'lO |JBBIO J% in officea > shops, and fac- P ■■ Etlffi w wvo/fIM tories break down in ——— _ health under the strain an£ j b ecomß weak, tired, 9 nervous, and debilitated, tortured with female complaints, or racked a by headache, neuralgia, backache, and kidney trouble. ■ Here lies the great strain upon the nervous systems of women, a They have little or no rest; their life is one continual round of workt ■ duties here, duties there, duties without number. What wonder that H such women goto bed at night fatigued, and wake tired and un refreshed in the morning I What women need is that great strengthener am. invigor- ||m ; a tor of womankind. Dr. Greene's *•»' WmPWIiC 9 Nervura blood and nerve remedy BUFD I MBBB9 A ' —that remedy which rebuilds mWKimm W health and strength, purifies and FOR THE BLOOD SNB 'i enriches the blood, givesstrength rW " * „ and vigor to the nerves, and the MEBwCSm strong vitality and energy to the system which will enable women 112 to do their work and yet beep strong and well. It ia this great medi* cine they need. Nothing else in the world can do its work. ; MRS. M. D. PERKINS, of 100 G St., So. Boston, Haas., says: " I was completely run down and could not eat, for the sight of food made ma sick. I did not slesp at night and was as tired in the morning as when I retired at nigtlt. My head and back ached all the tine. I was completely ex hausted if I tried to do my housework, and could not walk without being dizzy. I was excessively nervous and very weak. " Then I began to take Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and I cannot say enough in its praise. I have not felt so well for years as Ido at the present time, thanks to this splendid remedy. " I can now eat and sleep soundly, waking mornings strong and refreshed. I do my housework, which is now a pleasure instftsri or a burden as formsrly. My weight has in creased about twelve —BBWPHWqjPjta—WWW—W pounds in the last two months I would re- BBWyMMBHBHMBHHHMIMI commend any one af dieted as I have been to use this wonderful HHraJwDKr remedy." gKHMffiguBHHl The benefit of Qmßh pBMHW Dr.Oreene'sspecial I HV J 1 W VSm posal every sick- iMJaISMI ly woman, and it ia JHWBpgM well to write for it rl HMBrfftll PSvWBr or see Dr. Greene at his offlce, 35w.uthSt.,New ing so may shorten time required Mr for recovery full V strength, give <i Information whioh I, |I |Q fyjj 4 will guide aright in I 1 ufijiiyt Ha the future. Abso- I" lute ooafidence is I observed in all con- 1/7 ablutions, and BO V W Hiis Kiit M annrscrare. Fine kid is treated with a mixture of fine flour and yokes of eggs. One fac tory In London uses ten sacks of flour and 2000 eggs a week for the purpose. Expenses of the Illinois public schools in 1900 were $18.95 per pupil enrolled. Try Ornin-O ! Try Rrain-D! Ask your grocor to-day to dhow vou a pack, age of Obaih-O. the new food drink that takes the place of coffoo. The children mav drink it without injury an well as the adult. All who try it. like it. Grain-0 has that rich Heal brown of Mocha or Java, but it in made from pure (Trains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. the price of coffee. 15 and 25c. per packago. Sold by all grocers, Germany and Switzerland produce over 2,000,000 glass eyes in a year, and a Pnris manufacturer, with a reputa tion for finer work, some 300,000. There are about 30,000,000 acres of unoccupied public land yet remaining In Montana. Cnurhinir l.cade to Conanmptlon. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Goto your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles, 00 at once, delays are dangerous. About 5000 horses are annually killed in Spain in bull flglits. At these con tests from 1000 to 1200 bulls are an nually sacrificed. There are only about 100 negroes in Paris, which has a population of about 2,500,000. Iloxslc'a ' roup Cure. The life paver cf children. Cures and pre vents Membraneous Croup, Pneumonia and Diphtheria. SOcts. A. P. Hoxsie, Buffalo, N. Y. When a fellow is just cut out for a tailor he has a fitting occupation. The Best Prescription for Chill* and Fever la a bottle of Grotb'b Tastilkss C'hii.l. Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine in a tasieless form. No cure—no pay. Price SOc. The burglar believes in taking matters into his own hands. If you want "good digestion to wait up on your appetite" you should always chew a bar of Adams' Pepsin Tuttl Fruttl. When a man lets drop a remark he doesn't necessarily break his word. Frcy'n Vermifuge Curea. Children relieved and absolutely cured. Reputation of 00 yrs. 25c. At Druggists. The girl who cherishes an ideal is apt to remain un old maid. 1 am sure Plso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—M its. 'I iios. Kon uins. Maple St., Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 190 J. An Odd Effect of the Sun. The effect of strong and continual sunshine on the features is, it seems, most damaging. A writer in the Syd ney Bulletin points out that the women in some parts of Queensland are con tracting a lifted upper lip. Tills he at tributes to the fierce Queensland sun light, which causes one to contract the facial muscles near the eyes In order to avoid the glare. The rest of the face Is, of course, affected by these muscles. SCRAMBLE FOR DIAMONDS. Oeuu Thrown Avar by mn Absent- Minded Dealer. Q "Have you got any of those dia monds?" is the question of the hour in Birmingham. Some 800 precious stones have been shared out by lucky prospectors in Vittoria street, and the search still continues, says the London Express. It happened in this wise: In a fit of abstraction John Davis, member of a firm of diamond' mer chants, while walking down Vittoria -treet an a recent morning, pulled an old envelope out of his pocket and commenced to tear it up. When he reached the last section the terrible dawned upon him that It was the envelope in which were some 1,600 small diamonds, valued at £IOO, and that he had been s"wing these broad cast over a public thoroughfare. The news spread with lightning-like rapid ity. Shopkeepers locked up and came to the more lucrative occupation of picking up diamonds, while for a mile around an errand boy at his ordinary work was a phenomenon. Such a scraping of the street with knives and sticks had never been seen. As it happened, most of the lost stones went down the cellar gratings of a jeweler's shop. Ingenious youths fished foi them with a piece of soap attached to a stick and reeled in three prizes at a time. Others sat in the gutter sort ing an anxiously guarded handful ol dirt. Still the crowd grew. At one period over 1.500 lads were to be seen hard at work. From noon to seven o'clock the street was nearly blocked. When night fell candles, lamps and lanterns were 'brought to aid the inde fatigable hunters for treasure trove, and the scene presented could only have 'been done Justice by Hogarth. About half the diamonds have found their way back to fheir rightful owner. Some were sold to a shopkeeper and the rest, like the graves of a house hold, are scattered far and wide. Dia mond pins will shortly be fashionable in Birmingham. THE ANOA, Dwarf Cattle of Celebes Are No Longei Than Ordinary Sheep. Celebes has the distinction of beinj: the home of the smallest living repre sentative of the wild cattle, or, in deed, of the wild cattle of any period of the earth's history, for no grout appears to be known to science. Ar idea of three extremely diminutive pro portions of the anoa, or sapi-utan, as the animal in question is respectively called by the inhabitants of Celebes and the Malays, may be gained when it is stated that its height at the shoul der is only about 3 feet 3 inches whereas that of the great Indian wild ox, or guar, is at least 6 feet 4 inches and may, according to some writers reach as much as 7 feet. In fact, the anoa is really not much, if at all larger than a well-grown South Down sheep and scarcely exceeds in this re spect the little domesticated Braminf cattle shown a few years ago at the Indian exhibition held at Earl's Court The anoa has many of the character? of the large Indian buffalo, but its horns are relatively shorter, less curved and more upright. In this, as well as in certain other respects, it is more like the young than the adult of the last-named species, and as young animals frequently are gradual ly lost as maturity is approached it would be a natural supposition that the anoa is a primitive type of buffalo. —From Knowledge. Th«rc IN fl Cla«S of People Who nre injured by the usenf coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GBAIN-0, made ot pure grain*, that takes the placo of coffee. I'ho most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over }( as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and '25 cts per package. Try it. Ask for GIIAIN-O. The Island of Formosa, now a Jap anese possession, will soon have a new railway lint' of great importance. It will be built by a syndicate of Japan ese capitalists. Many of the Italian railroads are to be shortly transformed to the electric system. J/aiie's Family medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50 cents. So poor is the spelling in some of the Chicago schools that a return to the spelling methods of the country school 3 of two decades ago is earnestly advo cated in that city. The Icelander believes that whistling is as sinful as profanity. Each package of POTNAM FADELESS DYR colore eithor Silk, Wool or Cotton porfeotly at one boiling. Bold by all druggists. When lightning strikes a tree it oc sionally converts the sap into steam, which explodes and scatters the wood in all directions. To Core a Cold In One Day. Take LAXATITB BROHO QCININB TABLETS. All li-UKKUtft refund thu money If it falls to cure. E. W. GKOTB'B signature la on each box. 25c. The impecunious man doesn't need a magnifying glass to make a dollar look pretty big. Best For the Bowel*. No matter what alls you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCABETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, firoduoe easy natural movomenta, cost you ust 10 cunts to start getting your health iaok. CASCABETS Candy Oathartlo, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tab let has O.C.C. stamped on It. Deware cf Imitations. Yon can't convince a man that there is nothing new under the sun when he has neuralgia. The best is the cheapest. Carter'* Ink Is the best, 7«t It i-ust* no tuure than the puoreet. Even the professional animal trainet shudders when he meets the gaze of a lit erary lion. THE REALM OF FASHION. New York City.—Military styles have taken an acknowledged place and are in great demand, both for house and street wear. The glint of gold, the MILITARY SHIRT WAIST. straight standing collar, the strappings and the brass buttons are all dear to the feminine heart. The chic May Manton waist illustrated includes all the essential features, and can be re lied upon to give ample satisfaction. As shown, it Is of dark red silk flan nel, combined with black velvet, and trimmed with gold braid and buttons, but can be varied again and again. The foundation is a fitted lining that closes at the centre front. On it nre nrranged the plain back, the vest and fronts. The vest, which tapers grace fully, Is attached permanently to the right side and hooked into place at the left, and is finished at the neck with a standing collar portion that meets that of the waist. The fronts are plain at the shoulders, but gathered at the waist and are finished with applied bands of the material. The shoulder seams are covered with pointed straps, and the neck is finished with a regula tion military collar that closes at the left side, where it hooks over invisibly onto the front portion. A pocket is in serted in the left front that finishes with a flap, but both it and the shoul- GIRL'S COSTUME der straps can be omitted, when pre ferred. The sleeves are in bishop style, finished with narrow, pointed cuffs. At the waist is worn a belt of black velvGt ribbon held by :i gold clasp. To make this waist for a woman of medium size three and three-quarter yards of material twenty-one inches wide, three and a half yards twenty seven inches wide, three yards thirty two Inches wide, or one and three quarter yards forty-four Inches wide, will be required, with five-eights yard for plastron, collar and wrist bands. Glrl'e Costume. Little girls are never more charming than when gowned in plaid materials showing bright, vivid colors. The very pretty little May Manton cos tume illustrated in the large cut is made from camel's hair cheviot woven with much red and lines of black, green and yellow, and Is trimmed with bauds of black velvet ribbon that serve as an admirable foil. At the neck is a V-shaped shield of heavy cream lace over plain red, finished by a simple standing collar. The skirt is circular, with a single seam at the centre back. The upper portion fits snugly and smoothly, but below the hips it falls in soft, undulat ing folds that mean ample freedom and flare. The fulness at the back Is laid in an inverted pleat or can be gathered, If preferred. The waist is made over a fitted lin ing and, with the skirt, closes at the centre back. The V-shaped portions are faced onto the lining and the waist proper is arranged over it. The backs are plain across the shoulders and drawn down in gathers at the waist line. The front Is laid In two back ward-turning tucks at each shoulder, which provides soft, full folds below, and also is gathered a* the waist line. The sleeves are snug, but not over tight, and are finished with roll over euffii. To make this costume for a girl of eight years of age four and three quarter yards twenty-one inches wide, or two and a half yards forty-four inches wide, will be required, with one-half yard for V-shaped shield and ten yards of velvet ribbon to trim as illustrated. The Smart Thing. If yo r visiting costume io of pastel gray or a tender almond-faun set !t off with one or two things. Do not dream of purchasing a hat to match. You will present a much smarter ap pearance If you choose either a black hat, a mass of quilled chiffon ar range*] in waves, or a charming tur quoise blue felt "plateau." Trim it with ribbon to match or with feathers the tint of your dres3, and do not omit the correct touch of a few roses or rose buds at one side under the brim or in troduced between the superimposed folds of a double brim. Embroidered Shoes. Evening shoes and stockings are em- I broidered in gold. White slippers have designs done on the toes in seed pearls and gold threads. The white silk stockings that are worn with these have gold threads, in very delicate patterns of embroidery, running up over the instep. A Woman's Waist. Fancy waists that include a waist coat effect are exceedingly smart and much liked, both for the odd bodices and costumes made of one material. Silk, lace, chiffon and velvet nre all combined, and rightly handled give a most satisfactory result. The chic May Manton design illustrated is one of the latest from the other side, and will be found desirable in every way. The model is made from satin Alglon in pastel pink with revers of cream guipure over white, soft, full front of white chiffon, and simulated waistcoat of pink panne with band of white or namented with small jeweled buttons. The foundation is a fitted lining that closes at the centre front. The back proper is seamless, but is joined to the fronts by means of under-seam gores. The fronts are plain and turned back to form revers. The full front, or plas tron, Is attached to the right side of the lining and is hooked over onto the left, and the simulated vest is stitched to position beneath the revers. The sleeves, as shown, are tucked above and below the elbows and wrists, where they are finished with bands of lace, but, If jweferred, they can be made plain. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size four and a quarter yards of material twenty-one inches wide, or two and a quarter yards forty-four inches wide, with three-quarter yard of chiffon for full front and five eighths yard for simulated waistcoat, will be required when tucked sleeves are used; three and three-quarter FANCY WAIST. yards twenty-one laches wide, or one and three-quarter yard forty-four Inches wide, when plain sleeves ure iiiwL PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Envy la a kind of praise.—Gay. Everything yields to Industry.— A.ntlphanes. It is worse to apprehend than to Buffer.—Bruyere. Better goto bed supperless than rise in debt.—Franklin. History is the essence of innumer able biographies.— Carlyle. To be proud of learning is the great est ignorance.—Jeremy Taylor. Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you aro in doubt.— Pliny. Of all the evil spirits abroad in tho world insincerity is the most danger ous.—Froude. He who buys what he can't want will ere long want what he can't buy.— Josh Billings. The gratitude of place expectants is a lively sense of future favors. —Sir Robert Walpole. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.—Shakespeare. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.— Karr. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is a love of the universal and eternal beauty.—Emerson. We would often be ashamed of our noblest actions if the world were ac quainted with the motives that im pelled them. —La Rochefoucauld. LABOR IN CHINA. It Yarlea in Kftlcleacy According to l'luc* and < Ultimo. Labor in China varies in efficiency according to place, and, curiously un like Europe, seems to vary inversely with the temperature of the climate. At Tien-Tsin and the northern ports It takos much longer to load and un load cargo than at the ports of the Yang-Tse, and the husbandry of the soil shows less care in the northern provinces than it does lower down. In fact, the northern seem inclined to hibernate, and allow the rigor of the winter to unman them instead of spurring them to activity. Still, after watching gangs of coolies working in many places, it may safe ly be asserted that the average zest and genuineness of their labor are su perior to those of any nation, with perhaps the exception of our own. From this it does not follow that the Chinaman, like the London "docker," Joes not know how to play "ca canny" when he chooses. I had the experi ence of being aboard one of the last of the China merchants' steamships to leave Tongku before the Pei-Ho was closed by ice to water traffic, and the coolies employed happened to be in receipt of monthly wages. It was neither their object nor their desire to shut down for the winter too quickly, so they resolved to take full time and something more in getting the cargo aboard, both from the wharf at Tong ku and outside the Taku bar from lighters. It chanced that this cargo mainly consisted of peanuts for Canton packed in matted bags of the rough est make. Each bag was passed to the comprador's clerk, who stuck a tally into the sack, and it was then hooked on by a row of coolies into the ship's hold. Not only was it possible to make all this a very slow process, but the lingering could be turned to a practical purpose. The hook, if judi ciously inserted, caused a constant stream of peanuts to fall out, and these were instantly stored in hand kerchiefs and taken as "perks" by the hungry workmen. It may be Imagined how easily 24 hours were consumed in this pleasant pastime. When, however, it lb a question of piece work, either directly or indirect ly through the labor contractor or gang master, who plays so large a part ■n the industrial organization of the Celestial Empire, the hours are mirac llously shortened, and the ships sel dom exhaust the given time in port before they are ready togo to sea or up river, as the case may be. —London Telegraph. A Professional I'allbonrer. There is an usher at one of the down town theatres who is a profes sional pallbearer during the day."l get," he says. *2.50 for every pallbear- Ing engagement, and 1 like the work. It is, you see, such a complete and pleasant change from my theatrical employment. I must wear a gala smile at the theatre at all times, and the gayety there, the mirth and light hearted ness prove very monotonous. I long for something different. Igo to a funeral in gloomy black, with a look of gloom in my eyes, and the sobs I hear, the groans, the lamentations and the lugubrious music are very sooth ing to me after the eternal heartless Jollity of the playhouse. The two kinds of work diversify my life; 1 touch on two extremes; I make, be sides, a good deal of money. I have made *3O a week as a pallbcarner. At the theatre my salary is only $7.50. There aro certain perquisites at the theatre, however; perquisites won through seating people, which materi ally increase my income. It is not an uncommon thing among us theatro ushers to be pallbearers during the day." —Philadelphia Record. CordtMllT ln»lt«Ml l« a H»ntln*. Sheriff Meyers has been overrun with people who want tickets of ad mission. Those he has Issued read: "You are cordially Invited to bo pres ent to witness the execution of John Owen. Friday, Dec. 21, at 1 p. m."— Louisville Courier-Journal.
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