< of that ntil .an- the cers tiny hose ugh y 80 ring ude~ else- divid- ment can e like ,. ele- their rising ve of nbs a rough whole other. y few both 1d ob- ninent would ps in- se the nic of licious effect Philip- living ntana. edom. ec are n hos- om he highly 3 best. s, and » and ion is le, the hough ice of o bear » work stanc- 1 Am- 1ess to e, and eds of seback (nown, ested, monev pervis- ced to r other it. AL are all cv an- 0 ore 1gainst ational Sea. lt is a sed for explan- m Ack- impor- ISporta- ‘ranean sumed ic body 1 rocks, |. not be quired, > a part | cut off concen- yothesis s. Ac- 2 winds 1 would n proof portion e in the errane- For Those Who Read. 1. Do not read at random; select your books in advance. 2. Read intelligently and with fore- sight; make a scheme for the season, not too large to be worked out, says Hamilton W. Mable in The Ladies’ Home Journal. 3. .Read books that interest you; follow the ‘line of your taste unless your taste is wholly untrained; if it is, read good books in different fields until you find out what you care for most. : 4. Have a book always within reach and make the most of your spare minutes. 5. Read only good books and put your mind on them. To get the best out of books you must be able to re- member them. 6. Do not.make a task of reading; read for enjoyment. New Stationery. The conservative woman rarely changes the style of the paper and envelopes upon which she indites her notes and letters. Still there are those who like gach fancies as the stationeérs put temptingly forth. For those wom- en who are constantly seeking novel- ties the fashionable stationer this season has introduced several new styles. Ragged edged envelopes, look- ing as if they had been roughly torn, are among these. otted Swiss paper is another innovation. The surface of this resembles chiffon, and is sprinkled with large or small dots, according to the feminine fancy. Of course, white paper is always in the best of taste, but nevertheless colored stationery is being used. The newest color upon which short notes of acceptance and regrets are penned is that of topaz blue. Parchment paper in blue gray, with a mottled surface, is a decided movelty, and French grays and paper of a greenish hue are made up into writing materials. Proper Care of the Feet. Much attention should be paid to the daily care of the feet. Once a day, at least, they should be sponged and wiped thoroughly. This last must be done carefully, that the toes may be- come perfectly dry. : Some women are troubled, when tired from walking. or standing, with bloating and aching feet. In such cases cases it is an excellent plan to bathe the feet in hot water. A change of shoes will also accomplish wonders. Many women keep several pair of shoes for this very purpose, one pair for morning and another for afternoon being always advisable. Slippers are not always to be recommended, for, though they may give ease for the time being, if the feet and ankles are tired they will simply make them suf- fer more when shoes are put on, says The Housekeeper. If a woman is so unfortunate as to have corns, the first remedy is to get properly fitted shoes. ,A local applica- tion that is efficacious is one drachm of borate of sodium, one scruple of ex- tract of cannabis and one ounce of col- lodion. This should be mixed thor- oughly and applied at night, twice a week, until the soreness disappears. A good remedy for chilblains is one teaspoonful of powdered alum to one pint of water. The feet should be sponged daily in this, but should not be soaked, a quick wetting sufficing. Women Paner Designers. Women are taking to wall-paper de- signing in increasing numbers, for the work can be done at home. and, in some respects, they are specialy suited for it. In the matter of taste, eye for color and gracefulness, of idea, women designers are not infrequently more than a. match. for their. male competi- tors, their weakest . side being, per- haps in constructive ability, although there are women who have this, too, in a high degree. The faculty, which belongs to the architect ‘rather than the artist, gives the power to carry cut intricate designs in such a manner as will ‘make them lcok well when spread over a large surface, for a de- #ign which appears effective enough in a small piece may not do at all when repeated again and again on a wall. It ig, therefore, in friezes, for the manu- facturers usually keep a permanent staff of designers, and where there is the salt of originality in anything sub- mitted to them they are always glad to ray for it. This system gives the amateur a chance which he would not otherwise have; for, without going through a long course of study and practice, and rnuastering the technicalities of the art it is hardly possible to produce work which could be used just as it stands. Instruction in wall paper design- ing is given at most of the technical colleges, and the course extends over five years.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Freedom at Home. If we could only get it into our heads for the regulating of our own natures, as well as in order to develop safely and happily those of our families, that it is the principle of action which we want to instill, and not the obedience to a specific rule, we would find that we made much greater progress our- ourselves and had far less fruitless toil over tho obedience of our sons and daughters. The demonstration of increased com- fort and happiness by unselfish regard to the wishes and privileges of others will often cause careless half-grown young folk to watch over their habits of neatness and punctuality, etc., in a surprising way, and little by little they discern that not only do they hold the! keys to many sources of the family enjoyment, but that their pride in their homes increases in proportion to the appearance it makes to their workd of comrades and schoolmates, and for which they ar in so large a degree responsible. “Your home is so lone- “ly!” touches the core of a young girl's sensituve heart. Not alone do the children and ser- vants come under the reign of law in many households, but the master (?), so-called, many and many a time seeks in his club, freedom which is denied in the drawing room or library of his small house, where any displacement | of furniture in order to approach fire or light,.any lack of care insdress, any slight to those conveniences which make and maintain grace of arrange- ment, and indicate knowledge of so- cial amenities brings reproach. “Sup- pose Some one should come in unex- pectedly?”’ has been used with the force of a mandate in how many homes? How many tired men have found refuge in a place where light is carefully prepared to give comfortable reading facilities, near big easy chairs, drawn at any chosen angle from their usual positions; where smoke is wel- come and attitude a matter of entire free will?—New York Evening Post. A Girl in Training. The popularity of basketball among young women is' increased largely by the fact that it can be practiced in or out of doors, and that it is played with a sphere bearing a marked resem- blance to football; for, though the ad- mirers of the latter game at first smiled pityingly on the milder sport, where the ball is passed with the hand, referring to the players derisively as “peanbaggers,” even they have come to realize that basket ball involves some lively scrimmages at times, and calls for hard practice and special qualifications for those who would ex- cel in it. The school championship in women’s basketball is held by the New York normal college team, which last year defeated Barnard, Adelphi, Erasmus and many high school teams and the lesser institutions. The students of Normal college play with men’s rules. They have a man coach, and go regu- larly into training at the opening of the basket-ball season. Interest in the game is widespread throughout the col- lege, and there are always 50 or 60 eager candidates for the ’varsity team. These are organized into scrub teams, and subjected to’ repeated trial games, till the best five have been selected to play for the college. These five are obliged to practice daily, to walk every afternoon, to drink milk or cocoa and eat only toast for breakfast, and—greatest and most trying ordeal of all—are solemnly pledged to abjure the thing dearest to the schoolgirl palate. For under no circumstances may the ’varsity team eat fudge. The enforcement of this regulation is the greatest difficulty which Miss Jeanette Engle, the pretty captain of the team, has to contend with; for, she declares, the other students, knowing of the ban, deliber- ately set snares, in the shape of layer cake with fudge filling, for the four Spartan young women. These cakes, passed at Normal ‘spreads,’ are so delicious that to resist them requires the most heroic, fortitude.—Illustrated Sporting News. * Fashion Notes. We shall wear soft satin girdles with our summer frocks. Even our hair must be done up in “early Victorian” modes. Wear your turnover collar right on the neckband of your blouse nowadays. Sky-blue veils on apple-green straws. It takes a pretty girl to wear a lingerie hat. There's no denying that some of the fashions are so popular as to amount to nuisances. Broad tucks for the tailored waist and clusters of tiny pin tucks for the lingerie blouse. : Red may be popular, but that doesn’t mean that women of artistic sense will wear "it ‘in July. There is no fabric nor scarcely any celor wherein the jaunty walking suit may not be made up. There is a new and most alluring mercerized canvas on show for the summer runabout. frock. A violet frock hand-embroidered in pale violets is one of the “creations” now tempting woman kind. The most devoted admirer of the Eton jacket is likely to get Ler fill of that garment this spring. Long face veils are gracefully draped over the hot and tied at one side. There is no disputing the becomingness of the fluffy bows under the chin. The fluffs of maline which are being used so extensively to finish the back stocks are found in all delicate shades among the neckwear attractions. Junior hats are diverse in shape and color, and all varieties of soft fibbon are in vogue for trimmings. Large rosettes and soft bows greatly increase the picturesqueness of these hats. i A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN INTERESTINC DISCOURSE BY THE REV. ROBERT MACKENZIE. Subject: “The Trials and Triumph of Life’’ —The Outside and the Inside Sources of Strength—The Weakness of This Pres- ent Day—Life a scene of Compensations BrooKLYN, N. Y.—Dr. Robert Mac- kenzie, pastor of the Rutgers Presbyterian Church. Manhattan, preached Sunday on “The Trials and Triumph of Life.” His text was found in Acts xx:22-24: “And now, behold I go bound in the spirit into Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there. Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither coupt my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy. and the ministry which have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.” Dr. Mackenzie said: Paul feels himself set to a definite pur- pose in life, something appointed of God and worthy of himself. He is determined to finish his course successfully. Lach of us is called of God to live some definite purpose. to add by our lives to the sum of :he good in this world. to do something and to be something for God. To accomplish this purpose Paul saw that he had to pass through many trials, temptations, difficul- ties. He is looking back upon those through which he has already come and forward to those he saw he must yet meet. He knew that bonds and afflictions await- od him if he pursued his present purpose further. He saw his life as a very stormy one. His friends sought to persuade him to change his course, to compromise a little with his purpose, to adapt himself more prudently to the ways of the world in which he found himself; to be less straight- forward, and so escape those bonds an afflictions that threatened. He was not indifferent either to the dangers of the way or to the kindly interes: of his friends; but he answers: “What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? For { am ready not to be bound only, but also to die for the name of the Lord Jesus.” Then the calm conclusion of our text: ‘None of these things move 1.e.” It is difficult to et up to the level of Paul, he is the most Se uncompromising straight-on man in this book of great characters. Yet there are ordinary human steps leading to this level; all who will can rise. “These: things’ of our text have not passed away with Paul. Trials are behind, ponds and afflictions are before every man that will make a worthy course across this life. When you build a -aip for the North Atlantic you must take storms and ice- bergs into account and build accordingly. When you would build a boy for business, for honor, for goodness, for Christian ser- vice in this community, you must take “these things’ into account. Last year’s icebergs have melted in summer seas, but new ones have formed and will meet the sailor of this year. ‘Che North Atlantic is ever the same—a scene of storm and ice. The particular trials that overiook Paul may not fall on any of us, but others will come, bearing other names, equally disturb- mg to our souls. This world is ever the same—a scene of many trials. Only a few are exempt, oniy a few are permitted to stand with their hands at their back and their backs to the fire looking out upon the storm. There are such people. We are glad when old people can do this, but the young people who can do 1t, or do do it, are not to be envied, but pitied. Most men must go out and meet the storm of “these things”’—opposition, competitions, disap- pointments, temptations—meet them and make their way through them, as best they can, and become men, and all the better men for meeting them. “These things” move some men mightily; they seek to edge their way out of the storm, they change their course, compro- mise with their original purpose, choose some less strenuous way through life. Some young men form a purpose to go to college, when the bonds of mathematics and atHictions of Cicero's orations come be- tween them and their purpose “these things” move them out of their course They compromise with their purpose and look for an easier way. Some men go fur- ther, they finish their preparation, face their profession, meet the difficulties inci- dent to any such beginning, complain, flinch, fall out discouraged, despairing, scarcely living, driftwood on the streets. Some men, like Paui, are unduly moved by these things. These are not spared the storm nor does the storm beat less hard upon them; yet they keep their faces to it, Leep to their purpose firmly, often bent like trees, but like trees well rooted, recover themseives; often like William Tell going through a pass of his native Alps on a narrow’ path cut in the face of the preci- pice, the mountain wind blowing a gale against him; unable to make progress against it, unable to stand against it, he lay down in the path, but he lay with his face to his goal and crawled to it. Men knowing their full share of the trials of life are yet able to say, each in his own measure, “None of these things moved me.” Most of you here belong to that number.” Your hfe in: youth was not cast in easy places; your present life is not spent in sheltered places. Most of you were cast as young men into this, or some similar stormy community to n own way. You have been met repeated] by the storm of “these things” in business, in home and in your Christian life; yet you are here to-day with your faces to your purpose, your purpose well in hand, able to say after as weil as before the storm, None of these things move me.” pr How is this explained? Take the life of such men as Job, and Joseph and Daniel and I aul—men who have set before us ex- amples of how much the human heart can bear and not break, what bonds and af- flictions it can endure and not be unduly moved. Take the men and women of your own acquaintance and observation on whom these things have broken with full force and yet they are cheerful, sunny, sympathetic people, reaching a middie life of high honor and an old age of charity and faith and hope—people whom it is good to know, people who show into what rich coinage the rough ore of human nature can be minted. How is their triumph ac counted for? By the fact that if life h its scenes of trial, life has also it sources of strength in which to endure and triumph over the trials. After all, if you will think about it, this life Is a_scene of compensations. On the whole, ‘these things” are balanced by other -things. On the whole, life is not so Dt os we were taught to expect it; the S pessimism are not realized healthy men; our young fears were I: than the experienced facts. “Oh! Y said a colored woman, “I have had a 2 many troubles in my life, most of which never happened.” When they do happen we find that there have been compensating preparations in which to meet them. If nature smites the Norway and the Ore ron pine trees with its north winds it Tays the protecting moss on that side of the tree. If nature allures the animal to the Arctic it wraps and haps it in furs. Man is not neglected in this .distribution of compensation, no trial has overtaken vou more than is common to man, no trial is put upon you more than you are able to bear, with the trial there is some wav of escape, of compensation. Both God and nature lay burdens on us, for life is a dis- cipline for character in ourselves, for ser- vice for others; but neither God nor nature has any pleasure in seeing our shoulder timely. It is possible for us to hear these | things and not be moved. for God and na- | ture have ordained sufficient sources of ! strength to enable us to bear them. There are outside sources: The su the pain or misery under suffering will necessarily be even for Christ it was not so; but peace will come and strength will come, and res- stoop too soon, or our hearts break un-| at which God shall send, and though Hk slay spear of wheat beginning to grow in the bleak winds of November or March finds itself supported by a little barrel of flour in the grain out of which it springs. The young caterpillar waking up to begin its {ife finds itself providentially deposited by its winged moth which it can feed while y-. too weak to for- age for itself. Take your own children, vou can count up ‘these things” of trial that beset the child to an extent that would make you sigh with pity. They have come into a world fraught with pain, priv-fion, er on some green leaf on daugers to body and to mind. 1 re wrapt in no furs, furnished 0 weavons, provided with no stored up food in themselves. How can they bear “these things” and not be moved? How can they bear them and be happy? Yet they are happy. Scarcely is the tear dry on the little face when the wreathed smile of an angel comes there. For the child also draws its first strength from outside sources. “God hath set the solitary in families.” God lets down on the child in normal society the protection and pro- vision of home. This is the necessity and sanctity of the home; not only that it is Christian. law. not onlv that it is moral law. but simply that it is natural law. There are inside sources of. strensth. Neither God nor nature snoils the child. By 9 o'clock nature withdraws her morning dews leaving “he growing things to find new sources of strength in which to stand nnmoved in the sultry or th: stormy noon. Not now the ontside dew. but the inside sap. Nature giving the sprouting grain an outside supply for its first few days now leaves it to send its own roots into the earth, its green leaves into the air. and by its own inward activities iransmute them into life and growth. The first green leaf exhausted the caterpillar must now move off to find a new leaf for itself. From the children of men. too, God withdraws the early baptism. The youth must one day leave home and its protection and pro- vision and bv the exercise of his own pow- ers wring a living for bimself. 1f now he is to meet these things and nof be unduly moved. if he is to meet them like a true man with courage and strength and tri- umph he must develop the sources ot strength within himself. Here exactly is the weakness of this nres- ent day. Every age has its own strenzth and pre-eminence. The strength of onr day has been the discovery and apnolication of the forces of nature, bv art and science. to our daily living in all its branches. We have turned the bullock cart into the auto- mobile. the tardy sickle into the steam harvester, the postman going three miles an hour with letters into the telegraph an the telephone. Yet it is alwavs true that from the greatest strencth falls a shadow- ing weakness. Our fathers had but few outside forces on which to rely. Not long were they allowed to lie in the cradle, not long to play in the nnrserv. Nature was rugged and rough with them. The old farm house stood far from its neighbor, drifts of snow or swollen streams often lay between. When the wintry night closed in there was no public place of amusement, no stirring procession of multitudes under the electric lights of the streets. but moon- licht and shadows on the lonely country road. If the family would pass a genial evening they must develop the inside sources of the home. of the hearthstone in the loz cabin. and find the comedies and tragedies of life on the stage of their own minds and hearts. No newspaper or mag: azine allured them out of themselves. There. in their own little world. at their own fireside, they thought out their poli- tics, their literature and their theology. In education the schools were poorly fur- nished. the teacher but noorly trained, the text books but few and serving the suc- cessive members of the family in turn. If they were to be educated thev must find their education by the painful development of their own powers of memory .and reflec tion. You have seen pictures of the poor school house in which Daniel Wester or Henry Clay was trained, or, going a gen- eration further back. we may think of the simple school in which George Washington or Patrick Henrv was educated: yet out of such school houses came leaders who founded States, wrote constitutions, built a republic, grappled with the diplomacy of Furope; out of them came orators whose eloquence. though dead on the printed paze, still thrill the reading soul. Gather them out of this primitive school house, ¢'oset them in the Colonial Congress in Philadelphia to fashion out of their own minds. their own destinies and that of their own nation and what was the re sult? . ? In religion the churches of yesterday were bare and cold, no fresco on the wall, no inward’ vision of spiritual things: na organ rolled its music to lead their praise: no gifted voices in a selected choir lifted them ont of themselyes on the waxen wings of Icarus; no grace of rhetoric made theology easv. They were left to the de: velonment of their own inward sources of praise. of prayer and of thought. And what Homeric characters they were! Jona. than Edwards in barren Stockbridge made himself the first philosopher of his age. Tt may well be feared that the church of to-day is doing for thé young people just what the schools-are doing. for them, sur- rounding them with ever increasing outside religious props and stays—societies, clubs, brotherhoods, guilds, and -now, to add to this, comes the threatening addition of a “scientific pedagogy” for the simpligity of the’ Sunday-school. Some of you were brought up in a Sunday-school where there were just two outside sources to help, the Bible and a question hook without an : 08 NILLouL i swers. You learned to kndw Your Bible, you came out of that school into the chur¢h and into a Christian service that has filled the world with Christian philan: thropy. The Sunday-schools of our chil- ave furnished with a Yallombrosa of 1 Ieaves—primary, intermediate, quar: and the teachers with a variety of 18 ready made expositions, to_be famil- iarized in the hour between breakfast and Sunday-school. Ask the average scholar ts turn fo the second chapter of Zephaniah or of Titud, and see the vain turning over of unfamili ‘hag can you eéx- terly, ages. pect? How sholild they cultivate the in- ward sources of mémory and reflection when you have excused them by supplying them with all conceivable outside suj ports that make memory and reflection super: fluous. Do you .remember that solemn parable of the seed falling on stony ground, quickly growing on the shallow soil and as ickly withering before the heat and the ht of the growing day? because hav: exhausted the supply of the outside 0 *it had no root in itself.” As Christian men, let us lean less and less on these temporary and childish outside sup- ports and develop these inward sources of thought, of reflection, of conscience, of high duty with which God has endowed us, that amid all “these things” of task and of trial we may rise as the sea gull rises against drowning wave, blinding spray, baffling wind. rises into the calm of the upper by n of its gwn well disci- plined wings. Yhen We Return to God. You have seen the heavens gray with dull and leaden colored clouds, ‘you have seen the earth chilly and comfortles: un- der its drifts of unmelting snow; but let the sun shine, and then how rapidly dces the sky resume its radient blue, and the fields laugh with green grass and vernal flower. So will it be even with a withered and a wasted life when we return to God and er Him to send His bright beams of ight upon our heart. I do not mean that .hich we are removed— vation will come, and hope will come— 1 we shall f el able to bear anything hall seek Him, and even if the \ loud of anguish scems to shroud His rom us, even on that cloud shall yw shine.—F. W. Farrar. Care of the Bathroom. To insure perfect safety from dis- ease germs, every part of the bath- rosm must be well looked after, a dai- ly cleaning and a weekly scrubbing will usually prove sufficient to keep it in a sanitary condition and free from disease germs. The waste-pipe running from the bow! and tub will become choked with lint, unless it is removed often, and it is easily re- moved by using a small nook or bent hairpin. Two tablespoonfuls of borax to a, gallon of water makes an excel lent wash to pour down waste-pipes, and the bowl and tub should be scrubbed at least once a week with hot suds. If plenty of hot water is used in the bathroom for scalding the pipes and for washing the tub and floor, there can be no deadly mi- crobe left to furnish a starting point for disease, for hot water is one of the best-known disinfectants.—New York American. The Modern Closet. City apartments, and even flats, as well as houses, show closets.that are quite as perfect in arrangement as any other room in the house, even though they are small. In one corner of the modern closet is a basin with hot and cold water faucets, and over the basin an electric light button. The walls are quite as daintily tinted as those of the drawing room, and the woodwork is usually enameled. If there is room for a chest of arawers, it is white like the woodwork, and has brass knobs and trimmings. Not an inch of space is wasted in the modern closet. Om the side which is devoted to clothing is a shallow shoe box with a lix. This is built in the wall and runs the length of the closet. It, too, is painted white, and has brass hinges. Several enameled boards are placed along the wall, the lower one being at a convenient heigmts .or hooks to be inserted for clothing. These shelves are useful for hat boxes and other odds and encs of the ward- robe. This arrangement of the shoe box and shelves makes a little ward- robe by itself, and it is quite the fad to keep the dust away from -the gowns by hanging dainty curtains be fore the lower shelf, nl Choosing a Cat. Choose your cat by his nose, his cheeks and the bump between his ears and you will not go far wrong on his disposition, says the Indianapolis News. Cat character can be read from the face as surely as can human nature. If you would have a house- hold pet who will be a joy forever, choose one with a round stubby nose, full fat cheeks and upper lip and a well-developed bump on the top of his head between his ears. As sure as he has these points he will be gentle, playful and affectionate, although he may not be a good mouser. If you are looking for a good mouser study eyes and choose a cat with large, quick, full, expressive ones. A cat with a thin, sharp nose and twitching ears may be a very good mouser, but it will be a pestilence in every: other way. Cats are subject to colds, and the best remedy, directly a running from the nose is seen, is cne drop of aco- nite in warm milk three times a day. Give plenty of warm milk, but no meat until the cold is getting better. If there is any cough add one drop of bryonia to the aconite dose. Keep aa en > the cat warm “and away from draughts. Canker, evidenced by the cat frequently scratening its ear, may be relieved by mixing ounce of glycerin and a half a drachm carbolic acid, and applying with soft rag, which must be afterward burned— Pitsburg Despatch. NTE ——— 8 twe,, Recipes. : re np ap .% Orange Custard Beat the volks of five eggs, strain them. then put to them one spoonful of brandy, the peel of an orange boiled and beat to a paste, sugar to the taste, beat these together; -stir this into a full pint of cream that has been boiled, and is cold; scald all together over the fire, stirring it: take it off. stir it till cold, put it into cups, set them into an earthen dish; pour hot water into it; when they are set, stick citron into them. Omelet Soufflle—Beat the whites of three eggs very stiffly, beat the yolks until thick, add them to the whites, then add cone and one-half tablespoon- fuls of powdered sugar and the juice of half a lemon; put these ingredients together very carefully and heap by the spoonful into a buttered dish or buttered paper cases; sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake in a moder- ate oven a golden brown, about 12 minutes; serve as soon as removed from the oven. Potato Mutton Chons—Cut some nice chops of steak from the best part of the neck of mutton. The loin will be better still. Trim off all the fat, but leave a small part of the bone vis- ible, nicely scraped. Season with pep- per and salt and fry in drippings. Have ready plenty of mashed potato, with which cover the chops separate- Iy, so that they will be completely wrapped in the potato. Glaze “with beaten egg and brown with a salaman- der, or, lacking the salamander, brown lightly in the oven. 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The Trans-Siberian railway is nearly six thousand miles long, and cost, in rough figures, £100,000,000. The first sod was turned in 1895, and in nine years 3,375 miles were laid, including 30 miles of bridges. Electric Lighting. The use of electric lighting in New York State alone has increased over 2000 per cent. in ten years, and the use of electricity for power bas in- creased in the decade almost 1200 per cent. : STATE oF OHIO, City oF TOLEDO, | 24 Lucas COUNTY. re Frank J. CEENEy make oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL= LARS for each and every case Of CATARRR that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE. FrANk J. CHENEY. Sworn to | 2fore me and subscribed in my —~+—, presence, this 6th day of Pecems= {eras t per, A. D., 1886. A.W.GLEASON, arya Notary Public. 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