Americans Are rlnt Uers. , ,,, been remarked tlint the Amer ,' neonle consume more paint, both n the SEKreRate and per capita, tbao in, other reople in tho world. In a Jointly published article on the sub S it was figured that our yearl nuniptlo" Is over 100,000,000 gallons 5 Saint, of all kinds, of which over one-half Is vel in the paintings of lThV reason for this great consump tion is twofold: a large proportion of nlir building, especially tn amall ,oWn and rurnl districts, are con tructed of wood, and we, as a people, re given to neatuess and cleanliness. For. take It all in all, there la nothing 10 cleanly or no snultary aa paint. Trnvel where we will throughout the country, everywhere we find the neat, dieerfiil pulnted dwelling, proclaiming ot once the prosperity and the aelf- respect 01 our popumuuu. Fifty yenra ago thla was not so: Minted dwellings, while common In the larger cities and towns, were the exception In the rurnl districts; be cnune, on the one hand, a large pro portion of those buildings were tem porary makeshift, and. on the other band, because pnint was then a luxury, expensive and difficult to obtain tn the out-of-the-way places, and requiring special knowledge and much prepara tion to fit It for use. The Introduction of ready mixed or prepared paints, about 1900, changed the entire aspect of affairs. As tbe .laok-of-oll-trades told the Walking Delegate in one of Octnvc Tbanet's stories "Any one can slather paint." The insurmountable difficulty "with our predecessors was to feet the paint reaily for "slathering." Thnt the coun try was ready for pnint In a convenient, popular form is shown by the Imme diate success of the industry and its phenomenal growth In fifty years from nothing to G0,0O0,0OO gallons tbe esti mated output for 1000. Some pretty severe things have been written about and said against this class of paints, especially by painters and manufacturers of certain kinds of paste paints. Doubles in many in stances these strict ires have been Jus tified and some fearfully and wonder fully constructed mixtures have in the past been worked off on the guileless consumer in the shape of prepared pnint. But such products have had their short day and quickly disap peared, and Jie ioo enterprising man ufacturers that produced them have come to grief in the bankruptcy courts or ht -e .'eitrne'. by costly ex perience that honesty is the best pol icy and Lave reformed their ways. The chief exceptions to this .ule are some mail order houses who sell direct to the country trade, at a very lew price frequently below the wholesale price of linseed oil. The buyer of such goods. ,ike the buyer of a "gold brick,"" has only himself io blame if he tin.'i his purchase worthless With gold selling at any bank or mint at a fixed price owners of gold do not sell it at a discount; and with Unseed oil quoted everywhere at fifty to seventy cents a gnllon. manufacturers do not sell a pure linseed oil puint at thirty or forty cents a gnllon. The composition of prepared paints differs because paint experts lave not yet agreed ns to tb- best pigmen:s and because the aallr results of tests on a largo seulo are constantly Im proving 't-e formulas of manufactur ers; but fill have come to the conclu sion that the essentials of good paint are pure linseed oil. fine grinding and thorough incorporation, and in these particulars nil the products of repu table manufacturers correspond; all first class prepared paints 'are thor oughly mixed and sround and the liq uid base Is almost exclusively pure linseed oil, the necessary volatile "thinners" and Japan dryers. The painter's opposition So such pro ducts Is bnsed largely on self-interest. He want, to mix the .mint himself and to be paid for doln it; raid to a certain class of painters it is no rec ommendation for a pnint to say that it will lust five or teu years. The longer a paint lasts the longer be will huvo to wait for the Job of repaintiug. The latter consideration has no weight with the consumer, and the former is a 'also idea of economy. Hand lnbor can never be as cheap or as eftlcieut as machine work, and every time tbe painter mixes paint, did he but know it, he is losing money, because he cau buy a better paint than he can mix at less than it costs liliu to mix it. Prepared paints have won, not only on their actual merits, but on their convenience and economy. They are comparatively cheap, and they are in comparably haudy. But when all Is said, the experienced painter is the proper persou to apply even a ready mixed puint. lie knows better than any one else the "when" and "how" and the difference between painting and "slathering" is much greater than It appears to a novice. Every ono to bis trade, and after all painting is the painter's trade and not the household er's. A bank note Just 100 years old nns wandered back to tne treasurer of the Cheshire Kauk. Ketue, N. II. It Is on tbe Cheshire Ua-k for ;. and i signed by the first president the kauU ever had. Itatt. vt Ohio, itt of S'oi.kdo, I l.Ul'AS. ( huntt. ( I7 RANK J. I'HKKKT HIKk8 OatU t llBt ll Is femur .Hruiei- ot tbe Arm ol i". J.I'hkmct -o., Uolun Ijuhiibvi in tlio City of Toledo, t.'ouuty and Htute aforesaid, and thnt said firm will pay the Bum ot oxk HCNnam doi,- lars tor each ami every case o( i athhk limt cannot bn cured Ijv tha use ot Hall's lATARRII C'flm. f'tLAXt J. OMKIIET. bwuru to before ma and nutwriboil 111 my ,rtfKiK'e, this 6tli day of Peceru- seal. her, A.D., ISM. A.W.(1i.kison, ' A'otor) Publir. Hail's CatarrU Care Is taken tuterually.and "Indirectly ou the blood aad mucous sur faces ol tlio system. Senator testimonial, lrw. K. J. (.'111N1 1 & Co., Toledo, 0. Hold by all DrucKlsts, 75e. Hull's family Tills are the best, Tbe University of Paris la said to be one of tbe most cosmopolitan iu the world. Of the 14,4(12 students lu the University, 1038, or more than a teuth, are forei;uers. They have discovered gold digging under Broadway in New York. rm.Rt. Vitas' Inee:Nerv on Ureases per. maneutly cured by Ji,. Kline's Oret Nerve n?.n,r.- t-a tri' bottle nud treatise frea. Un. 11. It. Kliwk, Id., Mai Arch aL.Pulla.. Pa. Bcrlir has no slums, owing to the Gov ernmental provisions tor t'ie poor. Mrs. Wlmlow's Soothing Byrnp tor Children !tbhi?,aoftenthoKUms,reducetnHamma. Uon, allays pain, on res wind colic, 'i6c a bottle , Women smoke in some tew ot the New Vork cafe. About S,SCO.00O people are on the ks tvy day in the year. Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Mtntiii-y I otion; never tails. Mid by Drug f,"t. Mail orders promptly filled by Or. t. Uetcojr,, Orawlordivifle. Ind. $1. There's irany a tru word spoken is dia- glut. Lite. People are always regretting today the things they did yesterday. There fore, the lasy man has the fewest re- TtS. COMMERCIAL R. G. Dun & Co. "Weekly Review of Trade" says: Buiness maintain wholesome pro gress and mercantile collections improve. The week's aggregate transactions show the effect of the holiday and seasonable quiet in certain lines, but a good gain U noted in comparison with the corres ponding period of any previous year. Uncertainty regarding the crops caused tinnsncl conservatism at the Northwest until this week when the outlook be came sufficiently encouraging to restore confidence. In many jobbing lines there is no profpect of vigorous activity until Fall, but whtJesale distributor! is now heavy and retail business is only retard ed at pointt where temporary weather condition are advert-. Little idle ma chinery is reported at manufacturing plants, except, in a few eases of labor disputes, and several substantial in creases in wages became, effective of June i. Railway earnings thus far re corded for May exceeded last year's by 1 1. 1 per cent. Aside from the strike of founders and moulders the iron and s,cel industry is in splendid condition. Footwear factories arc supplied with orders that will maintain full activity for two or three months and supplemen tary contracts for Fall delivery contin ually arrive from ralcsmcn or by mail. Bradstrcets says: Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending May ?l are 2,526739 bush els, against 4,334..17.1 la:t week, I.300. 223 this week last year, 1,937,208 in 1904 and 4.708.095 in lgo.3. Corn ex ports for the week are 614.915 bushels, against 818,097 last week, 457,914 a year ago, 327,166 in 1904 and 1,013,871 in 1903. WHOLESALE MARKETS. Baltimore. FLOUR Quiet and un changed; receipts, 13,289 barrels. WHEAT Weak; spot, contract, 83 8814; July, 82 asked; August, 8o'4 ask ed ; steamer No. 2 red, SoSo' ; re ceipts, 3,505 bushels. CORN Firmer; spot, SiViSSHl June 55!$ asked; July 5555!4; Septem ber, 54?8(P55!"g; steamer mixed, 5'4 51; receipts, 17.627 bushels. OATS Firm; No. 3 white, 40(540; No. 3 white, 39j4(aMO; No. 2 mixed, 3W139. RYE Dull; No. 2 Western, 66(a66 export; ofnyi domestic; receipts, 3,003. BUTTER Firm and unchanged; fan cy imitation, l-ra.18; fancy creamer)', 2' 22 fancy ladle, 15(a'6; store-packed 13(5? 14. EC.CS Steady and unchanged; 16H. CH EESE Strong and unchanged ; large, lofi'li; medium, W; small, ' "SUGAR Steady ' and unchanged ; coarse granulated, 4.80: fine, 4.80. New Vork. RYE Easy. No. 2 Western, 67! f. o. b. New York. WHEAT Spot barely steady. No. 2 red, 94 nominal elevator; No. 2 red, 95 nominal f. o. b. afloat ; No. I Northern Duluth, 906 nominal f. o. b. afloat. CORN Spot firm. No. 2, 58 nom inal elevator and 58J3 nominal f. 0. b. afloat; No. 2 yellow, 59 nominal No. 2 white. 59 J4 nominal. OATS Spot steady. Mixed oats, 26 to 32 pounds, 39! ; nntural white. 30 to 33 pounds, 40f(Ti40'3 ; clipped white, 38 to 40 pounds, 4IJ2H. BUTTER Easy. Street price, extra creamery, 20(0201 :. official prices, cream ery, common to extra, 14720; rcnovattd, common to extra, 1216. EGGS Firm. State, Pennsylvania, and near-by, fan;y. selected, white, 22; do., choice, 20ff-2i ; do., mixed extra, l!(n2o; Western firsts, 17; seconds, d(a dV2 Southerns, 1416. POULTRY Alive steady; Western broilers, ' 25x 26; fowls. 13'$ ; turkeys,. Il(frl2; dressed easy; Western broilers, 22(3-26; .urkeys, 14; fowls', ni2. BCEF Easy; family, it-oort is.oe; mess, 8.509-oo; city extra India mess, 16.5017.00. LARD Easy; Western prime, 8.75 8.80; nominal; refined easy; continent, 9.20. SUGAR Raw firm; fair refining, 2 15-16(5231-32; centrifugal, 96 ttst. 315 323; molasses sugar, 2 1 1-16(32 23 32; refined firm. POTATOES Irregular; Bermuda per barrel, 3.507.00; Southern, 2.005.50; State and Western, per bag, 2.75(W3.oo; Maine and Eastern, 2.50(2300; Euro pean, 2.503.75. Uv Stock. New York. BEEVES Steers slow and a shade lower; bulls steady; cows steady to firm. Common to prime steers, 4-'5535; bulls, 3-6o4-35; cows, 2.15 4-25. CALVES Veals 25c higher; butter milks nominal. Veals, 4.5o(i7.oo; choice and extra, 7.iaj4(5-7.25; dressed calves steady; city dressed .-eals, jMriilo'jc. per pound; country dressed, 6;4(T9;jC SHEEP and LAMBS Sheep steady; lambs 25c. lower ; yearlings 25oc. low er. Sheep, 3.505.60; prime yearlings, 7.00; lambs, 7-75 o.jo. HOGS Market a trifle easier; heavy and medium hogs quoted at 6.8o((?7-x ; mixed Western, 6.30. Chicago. CATTLE Market best steady; others dull. Common to prime Steers, 4.00(0.10; cows, 3.00 ftlM-.W heifers, 2.75 5-to; bulls, 3-254-'5; calves, 2.757-25- HOGS Market weak. Choice to prime "heavy, 6.5o6.55; medium to good heavy, 6.45(56.50; butchers' weights, 6.47 6-55; good to choice heavy mixed, 6.45 S&6.50; packing, 6.oo(5'.6.47H- SHEEP Market steady. Sheep, 5.00 6.25 ; yearlings, 5.906.35 ; shorn lambs 5.2Ktt'6-6a Accornmg to the last census tnerc are 185 female blacksmiths, mostly in New York, Pennsylvania and Missouri. Over $1,503,000 was paid in sick and death benefits last year by unions affili ated with the American Federation of Labor. The farmers of the Montreal and Quebec (Canada) country sold $30,000, 000 worth of butter and cheese during the last season. Plans for establishing the open shop in the iron manufacturing industry in Chicago, 111., were discussed recently at a convention of the leading foundrymen of the country. Boston, Mass., new Wire Workers' Union is endeavoring to secure the bosses' signature to a yearly wage and hour agreement. Seven hundred and seventy-seven new members were initiated into the Order of Railroad Telegraphers during the month of March. One of the features of the German student statictics is that men are drop-i ping medicine while women are turning' to it as a profession. American Foundrynien's League has issued a list of open and nonunion foun dries in the United States. The total, number of 501. 'uainL Ulrds, when perched, i:n tree ot bushes, are natural ' went liercocks. as they Invariably roost with tbeJr bends to the wind. The British parccli-post carries pack nges for twenty-four cents up to three pounds, forty-eight cents', throe to seven pounds: seventy-two cents, seven to cleveu pounds. A rather unique act wns that of John Folsoni, of Shawnee. Kim., who hint week legally adopted Ilnncl Lwiip, Sn! lie ClnUitn. Mary Magdalene and Willie .Tunnltn Miller, his four stepdaughters, lli' says that he expects to give all of the girls 0 good education. Have you ever noted the absence of green In the genuine Turkish rugs? This Is because gioen Is a sncred color among the Mohammedans, and they would not allow It to be deuced by stopping v.pon It, saj s Town nud Coun try. A London dentist made n novel pro posal of marriage. lie fell lu love with mi elderly patient who ordered n set of false teeth from blm. When the teeth were delivered t lie woman found a neat littlo proposal engraved on the pi which held the teeth. Joseph Pitchfinld, of Trevtortcn. Tn., sixty-five years old. grew frightened when ho could not rend by the aid of spectacles which he had worn many years. A doctor examined hiin and gave hi 111 n newspaper, which he rend clearly without glasses. Ho had gained his second sight. In Araoln th'c higher classes use su gar in tea and coffee lu their bouses, MH tn ice coffee shops lu the bazaar, where hundreds of people gather lu tho evening to talk and drink coffee, a cheaper grade of coffee Is generally coiiMimed, mnde of coffee husKs prin cipally, and in this drink giitfiir is sel dom us?d. Olc Jnnson, for whom the town of Olsburg, Kim., was nnliied, hns asked the district court of Pottawatomie County to cLange his name to Ole. John son. His name when be came to Amer ica wns Johnson, but when ho took out his naturalization papers the clerk un derstood hltii to say Jnnson. nnd Jnn son hns been hi", legal name, If not his actual name, ever since he became a citizen. "Humble" is a word thnt has gone out of fashion during the lifetime of many of us. An Australian paper that is reproducing extracts from its files of fifty years ago prints this advertise ment of lS.-(': "Young woman wants home lu an humble family." Nobody sees an advertisement of that sort in the papers nowadays, except iu the weekly journals of the Irish rurul dis tricts, where snob announcements us "Wanted, au humble girl," still occa sionally appear. CAMPHOR CROWNC SCARCE World1! Snpply Is Hteadlly Decreminj Kch Your. According to an official of the De partment of Commerce and Labor, the world's supply of camphor Is steadily decreasing each year. The greater part comes from Japan and its colony, For mosa. Of lute years the demand has begun to exceed the supply, and the question has arisen how the hitter can bo maintained. One of the reasons why camphor is becoming scarcer and dearer is said to be that it Is extensively used iu the lnnnufncturo of celluloid. At present camphor ic mainly produced from tho so-called camphor tree, which attains n gigantic size in Jiipau, one specimen rorontlv measured being 115 feet tail. and having a trunk over fourteen and a half feet in diameter. The tree Is common in China, but as yet the production of camphor In thnt couutry Is very limited. The enmphortree Is a member of -the laurel family, and Is related iu genus to tbe clunnmou tree. It Is snid that camphor can be produced from other species of trees, but this statement litis never been verified. In Borneo u most aromatic camphor is obtained f'om the natural deposits of gum in the trunks or a species of tree Indigenous to that Islaud and Sumatra. Borneo camphor is rare and very cosily. ' Glad to r! Altve. Tho editor is back home, after a Ave months' absence, health seeking. Doc tors at home, Minot, St. Taul and Min neapolis nil agreed ours was practically a hopeless case of diabetes, so they In formed Mrs. Hall at nil times. To us the real condition was not kuown. On returning from Europe, having im proved so much, I wus let into their secrets. We now reallzo that we wero nearer passing to "where 110 one re turns" than we care to be until the final dissolution. As to the future, we have tbe promise of specialists from both sides of the Atlantic that if I will refrain from office work, excitement and worry, at nil times dlct-nud that means to use uo starchy flour, lliiuor. sugar, or sweetened arttcles-wo mny live for vears, or even ninny yenrs; but fatal' is It to ho who violates the nbovo rules. Wo we down 011 n diet list that, if supplied to tho ordinary mortal, would be frowned at, but wo are glad to uiu It. and also glad we nro alive. To have so many cull at our otllce congratulating on our return, apparently improved in health, nieain much to us, and highly appreclated. Mohall (X. D.) News. ttolrieat of Edltots. The editor of the Grindstone (S. D ) Heo evidently hns not an ax to grind. He writes thus: "Miss Fowler, tjie accomplished cook nt the Fowler Inn, bad quite on accident lust week. Bhe baked n bntcu of biscuits which weighed less than a pound each." Japan is said to have a deficit of '50,000,000. L and , DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? Care ! KMncjrs anil the Pain Will WYr Return, Only one way to cure an aching back. Cure the cause, tbe kidneys. Thousands tell of cure mnde by Doan's Kidney Tills. John C. Coleman, a prominent merchant of Swalns boro, Gn., says: "For several years my kid ueys were affected, and ray bnck ached day end night. I was languid, nervous and lame In the morning. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right away, and the great relief that followed hns been per manent." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Bnffnlo, N. T. TUB PASSING OP MATRIMONY. It is woman's retinal to marry, and woman's rcstivciiess in marriage for the immense majority of our divorces arc asked for by the wife which so alarm us today. For both these farts there is the same explanation; the character of our women is changing faster than the character of matrimony. The women of the p;ist were as children compared with the women of today. Some few great names there always were to show what was possible to the sex ; but the majority were ignorant, weak, and absolutely iso lated. Toilay in America our women are as well educated as 'men in "many casrs, often even more so; and then wide read ing and general acquaintance with facts of life, past and present, together with rapidly increasing organization among them, gives them a character and cour age previously unknown. This change is not, as some thinkers claim, a morbid demand for mactiliuc power and privilege. It has nothing to do with sex. It is the development of the humanncss in woman. Charlotte Per kins Gilman, in Harper's Bazar. A HIST FOR ATLAS. The party of mythological tourists rnmcs upon Atlas snppnrtins the earth. Before he has a chance to begin talking about what a hard task is his, one of the tourists inquires, blandly: "And what are you doing, my good man ':" "I am holding up the earth, and it is a mighty hard " "To be sure; but why Ho you do it?" "If I didn't, it would drop." "All very well, hut where would it drop to if it should drop?" Shrugging his shoulders, the tourists pass on in search of Hercules, to find a few flaws in his records if possible. Chi cago Post. BROAD-GAUGE VF.VET ARIAS ISM. In the present condition of doubt re garding meat products, what we want is an opportunity to practice broad-gauge vegetarianism, that is to say, a vegetar ianism that will be practical and en joyable. Why docs not some enterpris ing person start a number of restaur ants where one will not be restricted to Battle creek diet and sham coffee, but get all sorts of puddings, pies, egg and milk dishes, fruits, and salads, besides all kinds of p:ilatahlc and apjietizing drinks? St. Louis Post-Dispatch. UP TO IlllR. "I hear you arc contemplating matri mony, old man," said Green. "How about it?'' "It's a fact," replied Brown, "hut the outcome of my contemplation depends on the widow's might." "How's that?" queried Green. "She might decide to marry mc, and then on the other hand she might not," answered Brown. Chicago News. TOUGH LUCK. The pedestrian had just staggered to his feet after being knocked down by a runaway horse. "It's just my nicasily luck," he growl ed, "to be run over by a horse when there are so many automobiles in town." And he limped slowly and sadly away. Columbus Dispatch, PACTS IS THE CASE. Oldbach They tell mc Wcdderly lead's a dog's life. Singleton That's a fact. I saw him going down street yesterday in the ca pacity of peacemaker to his wife's pet canine. Columbus Dispatch. THE IS HAVE IT. "Nature is greater than I," says Al fred Austin. Not in all respects. Na ture, with all her powers, could never achieve some of Mr. Austin's poetry. Louisville Courier-Journal. ROUCH OS RECCY. Tommy What is the "height of follv," pa? Ta Your sister's beau, my son. He is six feet two. Columbus Dispatch KNOWS NOW Ooctor V!om Fooled by Ills Own CM Fui a Time. It's easy to understand how ordinary people gpt fooled by coffee when doc tors themselves sometimes forget tbe facts. . A physician speaks of bis own experi ence: "I had used coffee for yenrs nnd really did not exactly believe it was iU' juring me, although I hud palpitatiou of the heart every duy. "Finally one day a severe nnd almost fatal attack of heart trouble frightened me nnd I gave up both ten nnd coffee, using Postum Instead, nnd since that time I have hud absolutely no heart palpitation except 011 one or two occa sions when I tried a small quantity of coffee which caused severe irritntiou nnd proved to me I must let It alone. "When we began using Postum it seemed weak that wns because we did not make it according to directions but now we put a -little bit of butter In the pot when boiling nnd nliow the Postum to boll full 15 minutes, which gives it tbe proper rich flavor and tbe deep browu color. "I have advised a great many of my friends and patients to leave off coffee and drink Postum, in fact, I dally give this advice." Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Many thousands of physieinna nse Dostum tn place of tea and cofjee In their own home and prescribe it to patients. 'There's a reason." A remarkable little book, "Tbe Bond I to Wcllvllle," nn be found tn pkgs. AN EMBARRASSING ORDER. A man entered a well-known restau rant in New York the other day and beckoned to a waiter. "Bring me," he said, "two fried eggs one fried on one side and one on the other." , The waiter looked slightly puzzled, but answered, "Yes, sir," and disappeared toward the kitchen. Ten minutes later he returned, looking decidedly worried. "Would you wind repeating that or der, sir?" he asked. "I want two fried eggs," said the diner; one fried on one side and one on the other." The waiter again disappeared in the direction of the kitchen. After a longer wait than before he returned, his clothes disheveled, and his face bruised and scratched. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said, "but would you mind having boiled eggs? I've had words with the cook." Har per's Weekly. GETTING USED TO BILLS. "Soft" money has been tried in San Francisco since the disaster, and,, appar ently to the surprise of the people, found to answer every purpose of the gold and silver they formerly handled. If the re constitute one of the radical differences between the old San Francisco and the new. Heretofore paper money in that city has been used only at the banks and hotels. In the ordinary channels of cir culation there was none of it. The wage earner received his pay in coin; with it paid his living expenses, and so seldom saw a bank note that he hard.'y realized the existence ci such a medium; while the small shopkeeper refused paper mon ey when tendered by a stranger on the plea that he was so unfamiliar with it that he, could not tell the real from coun terfeit. Philadelphia Public Ledger. ALSO OTHER KINDS OF GRAFT ERS. President Roosevelt may have noted that a prospective jail sentence is much more likely to keep a guilty rchatcr awake nights than a prospective fine. Chicago News. . WHAT IS WANTED. Just at present the whole wisdom of the situation compresses itself into the President's words: "Inspect fmm hoof to can." Nothing less will satisfy the public and save a great industry from disaster. New York Evening Mail. m Mm 1 f WhatJ 9 as with Joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play when In health and how conducive to health the -games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injuri ous or objectionable nature, and if at anytime a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used ; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate . of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, because they know It is wholesome, simple and gentle In its action. We Inform all reputa ble physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an original method, from certain plants known to them to act most beneficially and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste ; therefore it is not a secret remedy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor Indiscriminate self-medication. Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup ot figs always has the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup Cc plainly printed on the front of every package and that It Is for sale In bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as It is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, 1 whenever a laxative remedy is required. I'laoe the curlonity of it wnmun be fore the camera uinl the renult will be a picture of Home mtin. No man with a HtretiuoiiH mother-in-law Ih troubled with a swelled head. DISFIGURING SKIN HUMOR. Iinpolble to Get Employment, aa Facs and lludy Wore Covered With Sores Cured by Cntlevra. "Since the year 1894 I have been trou- ' bled with a very bad case of eczema which I have spent hundreds of dollars trying to tire, and I went to the hospital, but they failed to cure me, and it was getting worse all the time. Five wscks ago my wife bought a box of Cnticura Ointment and one cake ot Cuticura tiosp, and I am pleased to say that I am now completely cured and well. It was impossible lot mt to get employment, as my face, bead and body were covered with it. The eczema tint appeared on the top of my head, and it had worked all the way around down the back of my neck and around to my throat, down my body and around tbe hips. It itched eo I would, be obliged to scratch it, and the flesh was raw. J am now all well, and I will be pleased to rec ommend the Cuticura Kemcdies to all per sons who wuh a speedy and permanent cure of akin diseases. Thomas M. Rossi ter, 290 l'sospect Street, Kost Orange, N. J. Mar. 30, IMS." If, aa tha poet aays, a room hung with plcturea is a room hung with thought", what is a board fence with circus posters? lr. Hlggers Hucklaberry Cordial When taken at the beginning of Btoinaob Trouble never (alia to cure Diarrhoea, l)ya entery, Flint, Children Teething, eto. At Druggists 2&0 and 60o per bottle. Is not the cook who prepares a good dinner greator than the man who makes tha after-dinner speech? INTERESTING LETTER WRITTEN BYA NOTABLEWOMAN Mrs. Sarah Kelloggr of Denver, Oolor Bearer or tbe Woman's Belief Corps, Benda Thanks to Mrs. Plnkbam. The following let ter was written by Mrs. Kellogg;, of 1628 Lincoln, Ao., Denver, Col., to Mrs. Pink ham.LvDn.Mass.: bear Mrs Plnkbam: " For live years I was troubled with a tumor, which kept gmwing.ratiring me iutenae asonv and great mental depression. I was unable to at' tund to my hotue work, and life became a bur den to me. I was confined for days to my bed, lost my appetite, my courage and all bo). " I could not benr to tbluk of an operation, and in my dintrew I tried every remedy w hich 1 thought would be of any use to tne, and' reading of the value of Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable ConuKiund to nick rfomeii decided to give It a trial. 1 felt diixonrnped that I had little hope of recovery, and when 1 brpan to feel tietter. after the aecond week, thought it. only meant temporary relief: but to my great sui-prixc I found tliat 1 kept gaining, while tbe tumor lesrened tn sire. " The Compound continued to build up my general health and the tumor neimed to be abeorlied, until, in seven montht,, the tumor was entirely cone and I a well woman. 1 am so thankful for my recovery tliat I atk vou to puhliah my letter in newspapers, so otlier women may know of the wonderful curative Ciwers of Lydia . l'inkham's Vegetable ompound." When women are troubled with irreg ular or painful periods, weakness, dis placement or ulceration of the female organs, that bearing-down feeling, in flammation, backache, flatulence, gen eral debility, indigestion or nervous prostration, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Plnkhum's Vegetable Com pound at once removes such troubles No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unquali fied endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female ills. Mrs. Pinkbnm Invites all sick women to write her for advice. She isdaughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five years under her direction and since her decease has been advising sick women free of charge. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Remember thut it is Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound that is cur ing women, and don't allow any drugg-ist to sell you anything else in its place. Art. Sara oyThey f VERY It Is almost as easy for a clock to run down us it Is for a woman to run up a bill at a dry goods store. H. H. (iFEx'Sk,SrNs,of AtianU,Ga.,sr the only successful Dropsy Specialists in tbe ' world. See their liberal offer in advertise ment in another column of this paper. 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