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I gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 60c. W'ncen In thn livnmntlva flnnnHmnnl of the Kngllsh and Welsh railway llnea Inrrensert ft 9 . half year; and the coat of coal was augmented by 18 per cent. The Tlnltlmore and Ohio Ttallronil, at the request of numerous liiislrws or ganizations of Rnltlmore and I'hllniliM phla, has arranged for a ten days Ktnp over at each of those cities undi-r the usual procedure of the passenger dr posltlng the ticket with the ticket ten days Wop-ovors nt Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. W Wlnlnw'sPnrthlngPrrnn forrhllilren tvetl ig, nnitansthegtims.rv1urcHlnHnmmn no a. u8 pain, cures wind colics a outtlo. European Slant. Not from a letter Just received from av yiservlng American who no ticed thw signs on a trip from Liv erpool to Naples. In Liverpool a sign rcndli : "Shaving, Id.; shaving, with clet n ter, 2d." In the Anglo-Amer-lear bat, at the Grand Hotel, In Rome, the popular American drink thus masquerade on a sign: "Hnndsome Cooler, 1 lire." Travelers on a train from Paris to Rome were Informed by placard that "Travelers may not put the! hea and hands from the win dow In case of accident." To what straits a nation with no W In Its lan- gua,. Is reduced Is shown by theatri cal posters on the walls and fences about Naples which stare one In the face, reang: "Teatro Mercadante, Etc., Ek' Etc., Amletto, 6 attl., etc, tc, O. Bhnklspare." Shades of the depat'ed William ! New York Times. Sea Nvater for Street Sprinkling. The Merchants' Association of San Francisco, says the Popular 8clence Monthly, has been trying the experi ment of s;.. Inkling a street with sea water, and finds that such water binds the dirt together between the paving stones, so that when It Is dry no loose dust Is formed to be raised by the wind; that sea water does not dry so quickly as fresh water, so that It has been claimed when salt water has Veen used one load of It Is equal to three loads of fresh water. The salt water which is deposited on the street ab sorbs moisture from the air during the night, whereby the street Is thoroughly moist during the early morning and has the appearance of having been freshly sprinkled. BACKACHE is a symptom. S6mething makes the backache and that something requires attention or the backache can never be perma nently stopped. " I suffered for years with a long list of troubles," writes Mrs. C. Klenk, of Wells, Minn. (Box 151), to Mrs. Pinkham, "and I want to thank you for my complete re covery. LydiaE. Pinkham 's Vege table Compound is a wonderful medicine for women. " I had severe female complaints causing terrible backache and ner vous prostration ; was dizzy most of the time, had headache and such a tired feeling. I now have taken seven bottles of your Compound and have also ttsed the Sanative Wash and feel like a new woman. I must say I never had anything help me so much. I have better health than I ever had in my life. I sleep day without feeling tired. I frightened and sent for the doctor; and he said that it was for tunate for me that it came away. I got quite well after that and have your Compound alone to thank for my recovery." Multitudes of women suffer constantly with backache. Other grateful multitudes have been relieved of it by Mrs. Pinkham's advice andmedicine. "Clasnlineiis Nas Pride, ban Sensa Dictafss tha usa of APOLIO Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Font-Kane, A'powdar to shake Into your ahosat rests the feet. Cures Corns, bunion", Hwoll'n. Bore, Hot, Callous, Itching, Sweating Feel and Ingrowing Kails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all drug- Sifts and shoe stores, 75 ots. Ham pie mailed ltfcE. Adr's Allen 8. Olmstoad. Leltoy, M.Y. Late advices from the Niger says the deserters from the French regiments nre constantly arriving nt Ilo, Thty allege ns their rpnson for leaving the service that tliey got no pay. Rdneat Tonr Bowels With Cnsearar. Candy Cathartlo, core constipation forever. 10o,io. It G. O.O. fall, drugglata refund money The Wisconsin Legislature has for bidden the use of living rooms for manufacturing purposes. Ko-To-Bae for fifty Cents, Guaranteed toooetonablt cure, makes wenk men strong, blood pure. 600,11. AU druggists. TH3 'GUIDES'' OP INDIA. A Famous and Spleavded Corps Tn Regimental Spirit. Before 1896 our frontier post was Martian "Mardnn, where the Guldos are." Here, ever since its foundation, that famous and splendid corps has been quartered in tho Intervals of campaigns which have consistently added to the luster of Its record, says O. W. Steevens in the London Mall. The only corps in India, except the Gurkha battalion, which has pesma nent quarters, the Guides have made Mardan less of a station than a regi mental home. Here are Its family heirlooms the mess-walls covered with heads of buffalo and ibex, ante lope and mountain sheep, with ban nors taken from the enemy, and queer Greco-Buddhist statuary excavated out of the neighboring hills. Here is the regimental cemetery full now and overflowing Into a new one and an arch and little garden tardily created by government to the mem ory of the handful of the corps who died at post round Cavagnarl In Ka bul. Also the little swimming bath In the officers' garden, the fort with sentries of mnny types here a Sikh, there an Afrldl, a Gurkha, a Rajput, a Dogra for "God's Own" Is composed of the pick of all the fighting racos of India. In enormous long white trousers Sepoys and Sowars walk placidly about their home and the home of their fathers; for the fight ing native puts down his young son for the Guides as you might at home for the Travelers. You come across a native officer of forty-two years' service straight away to before the mutiny a smiling little old gentle man, whose dyed beard only Just matches the mahogany of his skin. He regrets, politely, that the Guides were not able to appear at Omdurman, anil remarks, as an Incentive to my future efforts, that he himself saw a war correspondent killed at Landakat. Every officer or man you meet has the air of a gentleman taking his ease in his own house. Mardan Is the con crete epitome of the spirit that makes a regiment tho only satisfactory translation I ever met of the words esprit do corps. Bolldlned Spirits for Fuel. A new Idea In candles has been evolved by a German chemical manu facturer. It Is simply a mass of solid ified spirits pressed into cylindrical form and distributed in round tin boxes. The solid spirits burn readily and need no wick to make them appli cable for heating or cooking purposes. Tho flame can be extinguished like that of a chaflng-dlsh lamp, aftei which the little surface spirits, which became liquefied by the heat of the flame, resume their hard and waxy consistency In a few minutes. WEARINESS OF BACKACHE well at night, and can work all give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound all the credit, for I know it has cured me of all my troubles. I would not do without your reme dies for anything." Mrs. E. Furton, of Meade, Mich., writes: "Two years ago I was troubled with constant backache and headache and was very nerv ous. I resolved to try your medi cine and took two sq bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's V wsaJ Vegetable Com V T pound, and on taking ' I the third a tumor was I expelled. I was a little Dirt's Nae Konssty. Cora- I CHILDREN'S C0LUMNrj The Pirate foodie. Once there was aTlrate Pood In, And he sailed tha briny sees From the land of Tnnkne Doodle Houtliward to tha Cnrlbkeus, Ilo would boast with tales outlandish, Of his valor a-ad mnoivnt And his cmlnss ho would brandish With a tearful plrato frown. 80 ferocious was his mnnner ' All bis crew looked on, nghnil And his sable plrnte banner Floated from his pirate mast He reiterated proudly Naught had potter to make him qnnll; Yet when thuiulor roared too loudly He would turn a trllle pale. And he turned a trllle paler When there enmo a sudden squalli For this funny UMlo sailor Was ridiculously email. And whene'er s storm portendod He'd betake himself below. 80 much foar and color blondod Did a pirate ever show? Carolyn Wolls, in St. Kleholns. An Indoor Ontno. A very jolly game is the royal em bassador. The children sit in a circle, oue of them having been chosen as leader. The leader, having prepared some little "horns" of paper that can bo attached to tbe heads of the players, like waving pinnies, begins by address ing to the boy or girl stated on his left in the circle a speech, which all the players must Repeat after him, word for word, on pain of receiving tbe name of horned embassador instead of that of royal embassador, which all hold in right of the game. The speech is as follows: "Good morning, royal embassador always royal. I.tlie royal embNssa dor always royal come from his royal majesty always royal (indicat ing his right hand neighbor) to tell you that his eagle has a golden beak." The second and following players repeat this formula, and when any one fails a paper horn is pinned on his head for each blttuder, and in the fol lowing round, instead of saying, "I. the royal embassador always royal," be says, "I, the one (two or three, ac cording to the number of horns ho has received) horned embassador always horned, " etc. By the same rule, when speaking to the. wearer of any horn or horns, in stead of saying, "Oood day, royal em bassador always royal," it is neces sary to say, "Good day, one (or more) horned embassador always horned." At each f114wiug ronnd the leader adds and the others repeat after him n new quality, to that mentioned as possessed by the king's eagle such a, for instance, brazen claws, dia moud eyes, silver plumes, etc The last act of tins game is tho paying of forfeits in proportion to the number of horns that have been distributed. Treutou (N J.) American. Dorothy's Caller. Nobody wout to the door. Ilat-tnt-tat, rat-tat-tat, again atid again little Dorrit heard it. Hhe began to feel the "Hdgets" creeping up the spine of her back, she told Tuvtoiae. But what did Tortoise care? Tbe fidgets might ci eop up little Dorrit's back and clear down again, and Tortoise would only lie on tha soft, fur rug ami purr suoozily. Bat-(at-tut! It sonndetl distinct and imperative. It must be at the back kitchen door. Nora must be asleep or gone ofY somewhere. "Oh, my sttzl If I could only go to the door!" fretted little Dorothy, "Somebody's there a-tryiug to come in and make a call, and they'll think my mother isn't polite. Idon't know," she shook her fluff of gold-ooloredhair a little severely, "I dou't know as it's auy politer to stand at folks's doors and keep a-knockiug and a kuocking, when it makes the fidgets creep on folks's spines. tioem's if that isn't polito, too." liut-tat-tut. Again I "Oh, my! doesn't she want to get in dre-adfullyl Maybe she s'poses we're the doctor. Tortoise blinked sleepily on tho nig. Little Dorrit that was what papa called Dorothy lay back in her in valid chair, dospairing. Her little crutches were out of reach and Tor toise was nothing but a lazy cat. She must wait for mamma hark! "Mamma! O mamma!" she called. Yes, mamma was coming downstairs, "Well, then, Dorothy?" "O mamma, there's somebody knocking like everything. She's beon doiug it most forever. I con hear her jnst as plain through tho crook of my window. Do go quick and let her in!" Mamma listened, too, and pretty soon a little smile curled her lips up. Hut Bhe only said, "I'll go and see about it, dear." When she got back again, the smile bad grown into oue of mamma's big cheery laughs. "She didu't wont to come in, after all, little Dorrit," she said. "I in vited her and invited her. But she is only Mrs. Woodpecker out doing a little marketing for dianer." How little Dorrit laughed) "But I guess the butcher keeps his door locked, mamma," she said, " 'oordiug to the way she keeps knock ing at it. "Youth's Companion. Tha Wide World. There is one little mouse who does not live behiud the pantry door or in a dark corner of the kitoheu. He has the whole wido world fur a home, and the tops of wheat straw is the spot lie usually seleots to build his bouse. This bouse of the field mouse is a dainty ball, woven of grasses and made soft inside. The inside is filled with lots of baby mice. There is oue small hole where the little master con trives to get lu aud ouand the w hole establishment is fastened firmly among the heads of a few wheat straws a pleasant, airy home for these mites in the summer. These pretty creatures don't look like the little brown mice which live in our houses. They have a reddish back and a soft, white breast. And they have a very, very loug, curly tall which helps them in climbing an nnd among the wheat quite as much as one of their legs. Perhaps the farmer does not think this little mouse so pretty, for it eats the farmer's wheat, and although a meal for such a small creature takes very little food, still when the mouse families are numerous the farmer dis covers that mnny littles make a good deal, aud that his wheat crop is the smnllor for the number of these little red atoms that live among it. In the fall, when the wheat is all harvested and the angry farmer has killed as many of these rogues as he can get hold of, there are still many left. What does Mr. Harvest Mouse do then? Well ho and his grown np children dig s snug little house nuder the gronnd. It is a spacious mansion for the little fellows. It has one large pot ior, with long passages leading to it, and cozy little corners all about, where tho entire family con go to sleep in warm beds of the hay or straw which they have stoleu from the long suffering farmer. There they lie, with their eyes shut tight, nntil the warm sun shines again and the spring comes nronud. Aud on some balmy, sun shiny day, pretty soon now, we can fancy Mr. Harvest Mouse taking a peep out of his front door aud squeak iug to his pretty little wife. "My dear, just open your eyes and look out! It seems to me that old Mr. Brown is over in that field plowing. It is such a short distance; lotus hope he is goiug to plant wheat." Brook lyn Eagle. Mrs. gpnrrow and Mrs. gwallow. "I'll tell you what it is, Mrs. Spar row. I'm glad the winter is over and we can begin our nsst building." "So am I, Mrs. Swallow. My old nest nuder the eaves is getting rather shaky. Those March winds nearly shook our whole colouy out of their aucestral home." "Dear me, it seems to me yon use big words. What is an ancextral home? I don't see but your uest looks just like other nests." "Why, you know very well that our folks huve lived here for many years, and then date Buck to good old days when we wore English sparrows.while you are nothing but a common chim ney swallow. You haven't any pedi gree, while I pride myself, as I have a rifjit to, on my ancestry. My fathers and mothers came from Eugluud iu the good old days." "Ves, aud I heard Former Brown sav lie wished they had stayed there." '"Well, well, birds, like'folks, have to bear ill will, but I'm sure no bird ever deserved it less than the spar row. We ouly ask for a chance to make a good living. If we were al ways foraging iu the coi n fields, pick ing out the corn as soon 11 s it is dropped in the Held, like Mr. Crow, or tearing open the wrappers of the young coin to get tho'sweot kernels, as does tho blackbird, it would be different." "I suppose nil birds have their trials," replied Mrs. Swallow. "Just as we get nicely settled in a good com fortable chimney, even when we have waited patieutly for warm May weather, some shivery grandma thinks it is cold, and the grandchildren make a fire in the grate, and then whore are we? Why, smoked ont. It's never quite safe iu this climate to nest in chimneys." And Mrs. Swallow solemnly shook her head. "Theu why don't you build as we do, under eaves?" "We have our ancestral customs as well as you," said Mrs, Swallow. "If our fathers aud mothers didu't come from England, they did teach us where to build our nests. Besides, but yesterday I saw Mr. Brown's hired man knock dowii a whole neighbor hood of sparrows from the caves of the barn. Ho you're not much better oirjbii $e." "1 hat's Some so. I toll yon what, Mrs. Swallow, I would like to turn iuto a hired man, or oven a little boy, for just one summer, to teach bird maunors, which, as you know, are much better than those shown us by boys and men, especially the hired men. They seem to be our bitter eueuiios. " "Well, good morning, Mrs. Spar row. I thiuk I'll risk building in Mr. Smith's parlor chimney. I hoard Mrs, Smith toll her muid she wasn't going to have a fire in her parlor this sum mer because the chimney smoked." "And I'll away to neighbor John son's barn. I bolieve we'll move our family aud begin a new colouy. We're getting pretty thick nuder the eaveB where , my grout-great-great-grand-parents' lived." And tbe two birds were soon busy, each in her own place aud way, while Jack Thompson, who overheard their talk, weut on his way to school and told this story to his teacher, who luckily chancel to be myself. That is how I came to hove tie story to tell my readers." Christian at Work. An Englishman's Orewtonii Joke. An Englishman, who had a splendid bouse about a dozen miles out of London, had a pructicol joke which he was fond of playing at the expenso of visitors. Iu a dark room over one of his stables he kept a full-sized Peru vian mummy sitting bolt upright on a beuch. When he had showu a party of visitors his house, his pioture-gl-lery.his horses and lps dogs.he would lead theiu iuto this dark loft and chuckle with delight at their discom fiture when suddenly oonfioutod with I this mummy from an auoient tomb iu 1 Peru. Some persons say they are never influenced by an advertisement. It is not expected that any one will buy Ivory Soap solely because it is suggested by an advertisement, but if you have never used Ivory Soap, you may be induced to ask some friend about it; should you find as you probably will that she is enthusiastic in its praise, then yon may try it. Millions of people use Ivory Soap: they use it because they like it. You too will like it. There is a difference in soaps. ' ooersiONt isas ar thc noons a oamili 00. omoinimti LARGEST KITCHEN IN WORLD. Dnllt by Oaorgs IT at Windsor Caitla In 1838. The last of the works of the much maligned George IV. to be mentioned here is the enlarged and impreved royal kitchen (at Windsor castle). It stands perhaps the largest single kitchen in the world on ground where royal kitchens have stood from time Immemorial. George IV. It was who In 1828 gave It Its lofty roof and top-light ventilators, its splendid clock let into the stone walls, and its generally me dieval appearance. At the other end of the kitchen is fixed an Immense and venerable smokestack, whose or igin is lost In the mists of antiquity. One of these annually has the honor of roasting her majesty's baron of beef. Tbe hot-plate table in the center of the kitchen measures no less than 14. feet by nine feet The batterle do cuisine, !n its brilliant array of glittering cop per, is large enough to cheer the hearts of a small army of gourmands; and to show Its office Is no sinecure, one may mention that it has to make an annual visit to the manufacturer for restora tion and repair. Lady Bloomfleld says of this kitchen in 1842: "The Ore was more like Nebuchadnezzar's 'burning llery furnace' than anything else I can think of now; and though there Is now no company at Windsor, there were at least 15 or 20 large Joints of meat roasting. Charles Murray (comptrol ler of the household) told me that last year they fed at dinner 113,000 people." Pall Mall Magazine. There wos nothing Napoleon wos so fond of as boiled mutton with onion lauce, and he frequently Indulged his taste to such an extent as to make himself lib Dl't Tobacce Spit and gawk Toar Ufa AVir. 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