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Bulls The best remedy for Consumption. Cures &F he Coug Coughs, Colds, Grippe, Ss Y ¥ a Pr Brouchitis, Hoars e- Whooping- Stal Ll, or sure results. cure ph Trial, 20 for 5c. cough, Croup. re Bull's Pil WINTER SPORTS In Zurich When the Lake Is Frozen Over. Zurich (Switzerland) Cor. Chicago Record: Switzerland is usually con- sidered to be very cold by Americans in general. Chicago residents may be surprised to learn that their city is colder than any city in this country. The thermometer rarely touches zero (Fahrenheit) here. In most winters it does not reach that temperature at all, and when it gets below that the | tell | “‘oldest inhabitants” begin to stories of the past. For four winters no ice has been seen on the beautiful Lake Zurich. The lake is supposed to freeze every 50 years, and then King Carnival holds reign. Cabins are built forming streets like the Midway Plai- sance, and 1 aurants, carousels, mu- seums and bazaars are erected unon the glittering ice, while skating is to be had on smooth ice for miles, Places of business are closed in the afternoon and all the city moves to the lake. This century the lake was frozen in 1829, 1879 and partly in 1890. Indica- tions are that it may partially freeze again this year. Famous winter re- sorts in Grison, like St. Moritz, have a long winter. There is much snow, but the atmosphere is so dry that it is customary to wear straw hats through- out the winter on sunny days. The climate, otherwise, at the latter places is similar to that of Denver, and they are, like this city, the last hope of many poor mortals suffering of con- sumption. Boston's police made 39,760 arrests last year, as compared with 41,816 in 1808 The Is show a slight in- crease in t rimes in which violence is employed. FOR MIDDLE- AGED WOMEN. Two Letters from Women Helped Through the “Change of Life” by Lydia E.Pink- hawm’s Vegetable Compound. “DeAr Mrs. PINkuaAM :—When I first wrote to you I was in a very bad con- dition. I was passing through the change of life, and the doctors said I had bladder and liver trouble. I had suffered for nine years. Doctors failed to do me any good. Since Ihave taken Lydia E. Pinkbam’s Vegetable Com- much. I will gladly recommend your medicine to others and am sure that it will prove as great a blessing to them as it has to me.”—Mgs. Geo. H. JUNE, 901 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Relief Came Promptly “DEAR MRS. PinkaaM:—I had been | under treatment with the doctors for four years, and seemed to get no better, I thought I would try your medicine. My trouble was change of life, and I must say that I never had anything hélp me so much as Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. Relief came almost immediately. I have better health now than I ever had. I feel like a new woman, perfectly strong. I give Lydia E. Pinkham'’s Compound all the credit, and would not do without her medicine for any- thing. 1 have recommended it to sevetal of my friends. There is no need of women suffering so much for Mrs. Pinkham’s remedies are a sure cure.” — MAHALA BUTLER, Bridge- water, 111. Another Woman Helped “DEAR Mrs. Pikman :—I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound during change of life and derived great benefit from its use.” —MARY E. JAMES, 136 Coydon St., Bradford, Pa. What do the Children Drink 2 Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distrib- ute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about 1 as much, All grocers sell it. 15c¢. ana 25c. Try Crain-O! Insist that your gone giv es you GRAIN-O Accept no imitatio: Salzer’s Rape - Speltz— Elves] Rich, What is it? / A Catalog tells. ” Alene 5 Oc. to Sulzer. Reet HOW TO GET OFFIC the Government Oftice Write for Free Catal og of Home Instruction os ining School, W: HE ton, D. GC. Women El . Tositions is Permanent. ART ER S INK Is THE T Ink. NEW Nf NEW DISCOVERY; gives gives nick relief and cures worst RO P PSY days’ treatment DE d10 Dr. H. H. GREEN'S BONS, Box B, Atlants, Ga. Free. Hl ered vaa™ { Thompson's Eye Water | over Sunday,” After the clangor of battle, There comes a moment of rest, And the simple hopes and the simple joys And the simple thoughts are best. After the victor’s paan, After the thunder of gun, There comes that lull that must come to all Before the set of sun. Then what is the Iappiest memory? Is it the foe's defe Is it the splendid praise of a world That thunders by at your feet? Nav, 1 nay, to the life-worn spirit appiest thoughts are those That carry back to the simple joys And the sweetness of life’s repose. A simple love and a simpler trust And a simple duty done Are truer torches to lizht to death Than a whole world’s victories won. BDABAOADLD AD 85.8850 3) Temporary Brchanes, > BY JAMES BUCKHAM b COO CT VOY pV VN T WAS 8 o'clock of a Saturday morning in February when Mr. and Mrs. Stone their farmyard and took the road northward. the highway, packed and polished by weeks of good sleighing, creaked under the runners of their ‘‘cutter,” and the sun was shining gloriously over the wooded hills to the east- ward. The Stones were going to spend Sunday with ‘“‘Cousia Maria,” second cousin, and the object of Mrs, Stone’s admiration and envy. She declared that there was no house like Cousin Maria's, and no domestic con- veniences and advantages like those she enjoyed; that nobody wore such 1 eautiful clothes, or had such good things to eat, or commanded such re- sources to ‘‘do with’’as Cousin Maria. In short, Mrs. Amasa Stone, who had not been a great while married, and who had one of the nicest little farm- houses in the country, as well as one of the best and most devoted husbands in the world, was somehow a vietim of that most disagreeable and distress- ing malady envious discontent; and the immediate occasion of it Cousin Maria. If she could only ex- change places (perhaps not husbands, but everything else) with Cousin Maria, how happy she would be! Curiously enongh—Dby that strange irony of fate which we often see crop- ping out in human life —Cousin Maria felt the same way toward Mrs. Stone. She secretely, but sincerely, envied the little woman with the big devoted loverlike husband and the model farm house overlogking one of the most beautiful and productive valley farms in New England. “If I could only keep house like Cousin Ella!” she would sometimes say to her husband; and then she would add to herself, ‘Perhaps I might if I had as nice a house and the things to do with that she has.” Sincere and cordial envy does not make people dislike each other, by any means; andit was natural enough that Mrs. Stone and her eousin, Mus. Holmes, should enjoy visiting each other and thereby adding fresh fuel to their mutual admiration, They traveled back and forth on these social exchanges a good deal, and their hus- bands, who liked each other (and each others fare, by the way), were never | averse to ‘driving over” for a day's outing. The two farms lay some 20 miles apart, in different townships, and about midway between them was a village, where the Stones and the Holmeses each had a special friend, with whom it was convenient and pleasant to stop for dinner while going a-visiting. The sleigh bells rang cheerily and the miles rapidly fell away behind the Stones’ cutter this February morning, as they drove along toward Hydeville, the half way village. ‘‘I hope nothing will happen to the stock or the hens, said Mr. Stone. “Oh, don’t worry about that!” ex- claimed his wife. ‘“You spoke to Leonard, as usual, didn’t you?” ‘“Yes, I asked him to fodder once a day and attend to the milking. But he lives quite a little piece away, and if it should come on to storm” — “Storm! Look at the sky!” ex- claimed Mrs. Stone, with a scornful laugh. “I declare, if you aren't the greatest man to worry over nothing.” It was still gloriously pleasant when they reached Hydeville, at 11 o'clock, and they stopped there two full hours. As they again took the road,at 1 o’clock, they noticed that the sky had become slightly filmy, but as it frequently does cloud over thus to- ward the close of a fine winter day they were neither surprised nor dis- turbed. At 3 o’clock, however the wind began to rise, the sky grew more overcast,and before long was spitting sharply out of the northeast. “What do you think about a storm now?’ asked Mr. Stone. “Drive along and get there as quick | as you can,’”’was his wife's only reply, as she gathered the buffalo robe more tightly about her. When they reachel the Holmes farm, at about 4 o'clock, the wind was | howling and the snow the landscape in sheets. Mrs, Stone got out at the side entrance and plunged shiveringly against the door, but turned at once to her husband with a look of surprise and consterna- tion. The door was locked! So were the front door and the kitchen door, as they syeedi'y discovered. “They’re away from home,” nounced Mr. Stone. “They’ve gone visiting,” groaned his wife. “Oh dear! do you suppose it’s possible they've gone to visit us?” ‘‘Shouldn’t wonder a bit,” replied Mr. Stone. “Come to think of it, I heard a man’s laugh when I went over to the store in Hydeville that sounded like John Holmes's. But I couldn’t tell where it came from, and couldn’t driving across an- 2 see anybody that looked like him, so gave it up.” “Goose!” cried Mrs. Stone. ‘He was probably over at Jason Soper’s, where they always stop - out in the barn, like as not. tioned it! Well, we must just make the best of a bad job. I know where Maria puts the kitchen key when she’s { away, and we might as w ell go in and take possession—-as they will have to do at our house, I reckon.’’ The key was found on a nail under the stoop, and Mrs Stone proceeded to take possession, while her husband stabled his horse. When Mr. Stone eame in he found the lamps all lighted and his wife in a high state of excite- ment and delight at the prospect of ‘using Cousin’ Maria’s nice things for a while! I guess it's all for the best,” she announced, with unexpected cheerfulness, ‘For once in our lives we will have a taste of keeping house with modern conveniences!” It was a tremendous snowstorm thal swept New England during Feb- | Mr.and Mrs. Stone | ruary 25 and 26. were snowbound for Holmes hous? and Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, asit happened, were similarly fmprisoned i theirs oads were drove out of | The crisp snow of | Stone’s | was— | If you'd only men- | a week in the | faring. In the meantime My. Stone took care of Holmes’s stock, and Mr. Hoimes took care of his, while their wives revelled to their hearts’ content in the supposed domestic advantages and improvements for which they had envied each other so long. At last the two families were able to get word to one another, and a day was set for the mutual evacuation of each other’s premises and a meeting at Hydeville on the way. Both parties were in- vited to dine at Jason Soper’s that memorable day,and the reader may be sure it was uot one of those dinner par- ties that languish for lack of conver- sation. Late in the afternoon,as the Stones came in sight of their own pleasant farmhouse, Mr. Stone said, hesitat- ingly, ‘“John and I had some talk of exchanging farms while we were har- nessing up. We thought, if’— | “Stop right there, Amasa Stone!” | cried his wife, with a sudden uncalled | for burst of tears. ‘If you ever men- tion such a thing again’ —— “Why!” exclaimed Mr. Stone, in glad astonishment, ‘I thought youn were crazy for Cousin Maria’s modern conveniences, and John said that | Maria made life a burden to him by hankering after yours. So we thought we’d please both of you by swapping farms.’ “Well, you'll neither of yon ever hear anything more on the subject from Maria or me,’’sobbed Mrs. Stone. | “We were both of us so homesick and | so ashamed that we Lurst out crying when we were up in the front chamber at Mrs. Soper’s, and confessed what focls we had been. I guess neither of us will ever quarrel with her own things again—Ileast of all, with her own husband.”’—American Agricul- turist. THE NEW WOMAN'S BABY. rings Him Up According to Rules Laid Down in the Books. “But haven’t you any more books on the subject?’asked the woman, ap- | pealingly, much as if the person she was consulting had large installments of books hidden away, only forthcom- ing when his heart should soften. ‘“Not in, now,’’ and the young man | at the circulating library turned to a newer comer. “Why don’t you take something else?” advised her companion. ‘‘Because I do not come here to get any books. I just want books that will give me information about caring for baby. Ever since he was a wee little thing I have been reading every- | thing I could cet on the subject. I think,”’ she said, crushingly, turning to the yonng man in charge, “I will not take any book today.’ Then as she started away her tone changed to one of pity. ‘‘How was it,” she said to the other | woman, ‘“‘that babies used to struggle up, when there were no magazines or books about how they should be trained? Every one of my friends who | has a baby does just as IT do and gets evey article she can upon their physi- ‘al or mental or moral well being. And one does get such help. Just the other day I was reading somewhere: ‘No mother should be without a baby’s diary. Jot down all the sayings of the little one,’and so I’ve started with such a pretty book, leather bound, you know, and I mean to keep 1t up.” | ““That must be awfully interesting, | said the other woman, ‘‘isa’t it?” | ““This last book, the one I had | given back when I met you, gave me fine directions for caring for baby’s teeth, especially the second teeth. I shall do exactly as it says, and take him to the dentist in time. In that way, you knuw, you avoid all trouble about teeth coming in crooked and all that. Kindergarten methods ave fine, too, and I've been reading up about | them, for I want him to have the ad- | vantage of the latest ideas.” “How old is he now?” asked the listener suddenly. | “‘Three months old,” said the proud mother, loodly. —New York Sun. PEARLS OF THOUGHT, She the » To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.—Johnson. A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. —Bul- er. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. — Cecil, The noontide sun is dark, and music discord, when the heart is low.— | Young. Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him —Bayard Taylor, If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. —Plato. Who hath not known ill- fortune, never knew himself, or his own girtue. — Mallet. Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. — Richter. | Of all the paths that lead to a wom- | an’s love, pity is the straightest,— | Beaumont, Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and Onbeconing Torwardiesy oftener proceeds from ignorance than impu- dence. —Greville, Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best | resolves, —Feltham. Those who never retract their opin- ions love themselves more than they love truth.-—Joubert. There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. —Rochefoucauld. Be just and fear not; letall the ends | thon aimest at be thy country’s, thy | God and truths. —Shakespeare. | Most persons would succeed in | small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. —Longfellow. The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year. —Volitaire. There is no policy like politeness, | since a good manner often succeeds | where the best tongue has failed. — | Magoon. Oldest Church in the World. The oldest building in the world that has been uninterruptedly used for church purposes is St. Martin's Cathedral at Canterbury. The build- ing was originally erected for a church, and has been regularly used as a place for religious gatherings for more than 1500 years. —Tit-Bits. " Scavenger Wagon Bells, Hereafter bells that can be heard a distance of 500 feet must be attached to all private scavenger wagons in Chicago, and these bells must be rung continuously while the wagons are in service, which may be between sunset and sunrise. Norfolk, Va., boasts of a traffic in i garden truck that amounts to $7,000,- 00¢ a year. Senate. THIRTY-FIFTH DAY. The financial debate in the Senate has reached its climax. Two speeches, one in favor of the pending Senate sub sti- tute measure and the other in opposi- tion to it, were delivered. The first was delivered by Mr. Allison, of Iowa. the ranking member of the Se com- mittee. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, made CONGRESS THIRTY-FIFTH DAY. Throughout its session the Senate had the financial bill under discussion. After 2 o'clock the debate proceeded under the 10-minute rule, and at times became spirited. Late in the afternoon a test vote, dicating approximately the majority on the passage of the bill, was taken. Mr. Chandler “offered an amendment, to au- thorize the president to appoint com- missioners to any international bimetal- lic conference that might be called, and it was defeated by a vote of 45 to The Senate Committee on Pensions reported the pension appropriation bill. he committe increased the total ap- propriation as made by the House bill to the extent of only $15, 000. and struck out the House proviso making it dis- cretionary with the Commissioner of Pensions to refuse to pay the fees of attorneys in pension cases The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations authorized a favorable report on the bill providing for the punishment of violations of the treaty rights of aliens. in- THIRTY-SIXTH DAY. The Senate substitute for the House currency bill passed the House by the decisive majority of 46 to 29. Prior to the final passage of the bill amendments were considered under the ten-minutc rule. Only two of these were adopted, viz.: One offered by finance committee, keeping the open to international bimetallism, one by Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, viding for national banks with $23 the door and amendments | capital in towns of not more than 4,000 | inhabitants. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs decided to report adversely the bill introduced by Senator Turner, giv- ing travel pay and commutation of sub- sistence to officers and soldiers of the volunteer army who served in the ippines beyond the termination of Spanish war and afterward were ported to the United States and tered out in this country. The mittee was informed that about 200, 000 would be required to make the pay ments proxided for by the £4 iil Tl NTI the trans- mus- om Phil- | | pose. Love Affairs of Famous People Farnish Pleasant Keading Today. Although many men and women ot celebrity have been unfor fairs of the hes the bad different stories to tel men deserve, but wom such an I. O. U. as that whic gave his wife. “I never was anything rest, until I knew you, and I ha been a better, happier and more pros perous mar ince. Lay the truth in lavender, st, and remind me of it when General Gerdon gaid he never married because he nev- er found a woman prepared to accom- few de pany him to the ends of the earth. Buch a woman Sir Henry Lawrence did find. She went with him into nearly every place in India brought him, however dangerous or difficult. On August 22, 1620, Oliver Cromwell married Elizabeth Boucher, daughter of a knight and wealthy Lon- don merchant. Mrs. Cromwell not have had much character. but her husband never ceased to love her, and thirty years after their marriage he wrote to her (the day after Dun- bar): “Truly, if I love you not too well, where his work may | [ think I err not on the other hand too . much, any Thou creature; art dearer to me than let that suffice.” For | forty-three years the great lawyer and | gitator, Daniel O'Connell, his heart to his wife like a schoolboy In love for the first time. His first thoughts were always of her; and nei- ther the lapse of years nor the tre- mendous pressure of his professional and political engagements seems ever poured out | to have prevented his writing regular- | ly to her—letters which in later years | he used to cail the ‘love letters of your old husband.” cal composer as well as in his composi- tions. There was no discordant note | in the matrimonial duet which Mozart and his wife played together. It is pleasant to find | harmony in the house of a great musi- | | | | | | | years she was an invalid, and he used | | to write by her bedside while she slept. When he went out in the morning for a ride he would steal softly into her | room and leave a tender note to greet her waking. wish you good morning, wife. I hope you have slept well, and that nothing has disturbed your re- Be careful not to take cold, not | to rise too quickly, not to stoop, not to IRTY-SEVEN DAY Ww IY the House session bay an- nouncement of the receipt oi the cur rency bill from the Senate wa : and by unanimous consent the ate amendments were disagreed to. The speaker appointed Messrs. Overstreet | (Pop., Ind.), Brosius (Rep., Pa.) and Cox (Dem., Tenn.) conferees. The House Commitee on election of i president and vice president submitted | a report in favor of a for a constitutional qualifying joint resolution aniendment polygamists for election as dis- Senators or Representatives in Con- gress, and prohibiting polygamy and famous association between the sexes. The report. says this amend- ment to the Constitution is designed to remove all doubtful constructions of the and to effectually provide a means tirpating the evils of polygamy by king it unlawful in any place. The House indulged in its annual joke of striking from the legislative appropriation bill the provision for the civil service commission. Republican Senators claim that the colony measures are too urgent to be i by the Quay case. Senator in a lengthy speech, advocates administration policy as it follows ap laid down by the carlier expan- sionists, who vastly increased the na- tional wealth, Houw. The House Committee on Commerce decided, by a vote of eight to one, to report a Pacific cable bill along the lines of the Sherman bill, defeating the Cor- liss proposition for government owner- ship. The Sherman bill authorizes the ostr American cable company for the pa ment by the United States of not to ex ceed $400,000 per year for the transmission of government mes- sages from the Pacific coast to Hono- lulu, Guam, Manila, such points in Japan as the contractor, with the approval of the government of Japan, may select. The House Committee on Affairs completed the army appropria- tion bill. It carries $111,700,364, against $80,080,104 in the bill for the current year. In the Clark case McDermott testi- fied that he spent $22,000 on the legis- lature and senatorial elections, for le- gitimate expenses, most of the money being received from Clark’s son, and after the election Clark gave him $5,000 for his ser CYCLING NOTES. The English Goverment is experi- menting with motor cycles in modern warfare. The chainless type of wheels came in for a great share of attention. The most notable improvement in the chain- less is the decrease in weight over last season. An automatic bicycle whistle, instead of the ordinary bell, is a device that novelty hunters should find fad enough. It has been brought out by a western firm. A feature of a late wheel is the ar- rangements by which the gears may be adjusted externally. By removing the cap at the rear bevels the gears can be adjusted with the fingers. There is always something new being introduced in the line of foot rests and brakes. One English inventor has im- proved the ordinary pair of foot rests by adding arms or rods carrying brake pads, and controlled by small springs. : An invisible brake for bicycles is formed of linked rods connecting the grips inside the handle bar, with a re- volving disk set at the junction of the bar and head, which connects with a rod to depress the brake shoe when the grips are twiste ‘The most important and prominent facts of change in the wheels of this year are the decrease in weight along with an increase in the rapidity of the frame, and the refinement in construc- tion of the nuts, bolts, cones and bear- ings, so that they are all more easy to understand and to manipulate. here are ructions being England just now because a man who paused to watch’ a would-be record- breaker as he passed along a stretch of rural road discovered a cord connecting the record rider with his pacing ma- chine. The cord was hurriedly dropped when the observer was detec ted. 1 experience of little “Jimmy” Michael, which by the way is not his real name, ought to be a lesson to other athletes. Michael was the wonder of modern bicycle riders, but he neglected his health, and to-day he is forgotten. The little fellow is now in New Orleans trying to learn how to become a jock yr. A cycle dealer said recently: “The women who cycle in winter should have it impressed upon them that they should rig their wheels for winter work as well as themselves. Those who ordinarily pedal an eighty-gear should put on one of, say seventy, and those who use 2 seventy should drop to sixty-three.” raised in You Cannot Drink Without Injury. A man is like a thermometer. His spir- its are equable—neither joyous nor sad. He takes a drink. It fills him with joy. When he recovers from its effects the re- action carries him just as far in the other direction. You cannot take a drink of whisky without an injury, either mental or physical. Let it alone.—New York Journal, There are 5,400 square miles of coal- ! fields in Great Britain. reach for anything, not to be angry with the servant. Take care also not to fall upon the threshold in passing from one room to ancther. Keep all domestic troubles till I come, which ill be soon.” AVOID STEPPING UPON CRACKS | Pecullarity of Many People When Walk- ster General to contract with an | 20 years for Hong Kong, and | Military | ing Along the Pavements, From the Philadelphia Record: “I wonder why it is aid a quick ob- server the other day, ‘‘that nine peo- ple out of every ten in walking along the sidewaik invariably try to avoid Here is one of them: “I | my dear little For |! stepping upon the cracks or divisions | in between the flagging? Now, for in- stance, if the divisions are made so that an ordinary man’s stép would measure about two-thirds of the width | af one section of the flagging, he would | =aturally take about three steps in >rossing two of them. But instead of “naking the three steps of the same length and setting one foot down upon the seam, you will find that he will | invariably take a step either a little longer or a little shorter than is really most convenient, just to enable him to avoid stepping upon the crack or seam. It seems to be done almost un- consciously, and yet if on the next square the size of the division in the pavement is changed, you will notice that almost invariably the pedestrian adapts his steps to the new arrange- ment, and still cracks. Children used to play a game called ‘poison’ cn their way to school. The game consisted entirely in care- fully avoiding stepping upon a stone or some other material selected by the ieader to be designated as ‘poison,’ to set foot upon which was supposed to be followed by direful consequences. Whether the habit of ‘looking where you step’ thus acquired is continued by those who now try to avoid cracks I cannot say, but if you notice you will find that many people who walk are addicted to the habit here de- geribed.’t. SE Justice Brewer as a Story Teller. Asscciate Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme court, is one of the best anecdote relaters in Wash- ington, and frequently tells stories on himself. Here is an amusing one: ‘When he was studying law in New York city he evinced some interest in the municipal campaign then on and was invited to make a speech on a certain occasion, He accepted and carefully fortifying himself with in- formation on the subject and other- wise preparing for his part of the pro- gram he appeared on the platform in ample time. When he got up he made an eloquent depiction of the virtues of his party; he made deep draughts on simile and metaphor; his sentences were exquisitely rounded and it was a masterly example of a class-day ora- tion. The audience sat unmoved, an occasional man alone greeting what he said. The next speaker was an un- kempt individual, careless of grammar, who committed a wholesale slaughter of the English language. But he made several geod points in a crude way that appealed to the crowd, and when he ended the applause was deafening. As the then would-be lawyer with the fine periods passed out a man behind, not recognizing him, whispered in his ear: “I like that second feller better; he talks s An Insinuation. From the Detroit Free Press: Hus- band—That tramp I met at the gate told me he weighed 250 pounds. Wife -——What a story teller! Why, he told me when I fed him that he only weighed a hundred. Husband—Yes, my dear, but that was befor¢ he had saten those biscuits of yours. We think pis £0's Cure for Consumption is the only medicine for Congin: — JENNIE PINCK- ARD, Springli old, 1lls., Oct. 1, 1894. Tin Devonshire le has been ap- plied to butter mak A man sits on his bicycle, pedals, and by means of a chain turns the churn. Mrs. Winslow cthing Syrap forchildren teething, Softens thegums, reduc famma- tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25¢ a bottle. who have with the Africa is re- number of Irishmen prominently associated and the war in South The Jell-O, the New Dessert, Pleases all the family. Four flavors: — Lemon, Orange, Tnephe rry and Strawberry. At your groc 10 cts Episcopal raise $600,000 thank offering The African an } Methodist hurch will endeavor to for its frente century ary i, 19ol. The Best Prccerintion for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. 1t 1s simply iron and quinine = a tasteless form No ¢ cure-—no pay. Price More har 38,000 capics of the Gos- pels and Psalters have been distributed as gifts from the Bible Society among regiments sailing for South Afiica. continues to avoid the | Has what? Those beat peare panels given away in “Redd Cros and laundry starch, and greatest inv ns. it up unaser “Red C Foos” trade mark brands is gen t manufacturer with twe South BROMO QuiNmg, TABLETS. All da gist fund the tc cure, EW. Grov: E'S signa Be. celebrated Boer ponies have the f the Basuto pony in them, and | uo pony > >d Scotch “He is not even a half « How’s This? Youories One in ¢ ata lred Doll r: Reward for annot be bh > T& Yi RUAX, WW oo sale Digpteis s, Toledo, NG, KiNvax Wholesale Foledo, a aken internally, 20% upon the blood. and Ps 5 Sold & MARVIN, 2 bottle, I'e stimonials' frec. Pills are the be ns former military camp at Montauk which months ago alive with American soldiers, is a wild waste. a ew fo, wow only 2, 1900 There is every good reason why St. Jacobs Oil | should cure RAEUMATISM NEURALGIA LUMBAGO SCIATICA for the rest of the ce: Shy, amount reason is—it does SURELY AND PROMPTLY One par- = Ne Mortality. One of the counties of the state of Connecticut once boasted of a judge who, though poorly furnished with those little refinements usually met with in polished society, was an ener- getic, shrewd man, and a promising lawyer. A neighbor of his was about to give away his daughter in marriage, and having a deep-rocted dislike to the clerical profession, and being de- termined, as he said, “to have no par- didates for the connubial yoke taking their places before him, he addressed the bride: “You swear you will marry this man?” “Yes, sir,” was the reply. “And you (addressing the bridegroom) swear you will marry this woman?” “Well, I do,” said the groom. “Then,” said the judge, “I swear you're mar- ried!” The Worst Way. regularly on this line, do they? —Not very. Are you in a hurry? Stranger—Yes, I am. I want to get down to the ferry the worst way. Na- tive—O! you do? Well, this is the way you want to go.—Philadelphia Press. Acquisition and Escape. Jones—Has the New Year treated you well so far? Brown—Yes, indeed; my employer gave me a raise and my family, so far has not given me an- other enlarged photograph of myself.— Indianapolis Journal. 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