A TERRIBLE CONDITION. Tortured by Sharp Twinges, Shooting Tains and Dizziness. Hiram Center, 618 South Oak street, Lake City, Minn., says: "I was bo bad with kidney trouble that I could not straighten up af ter stooping without im. JF "rougu bad dizzy spells, was nervous and my eye sight affected. The . kidney secretions were irregular and too freauent. I was In a terrible condition, but Doan'a Kidney Pills have cured me and I have enjoyed perfect health since." Bold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. - How Toothless Saws Work. An explanation of the manner In which a soft steel disk revolving at a high velocity cuts hard steel has rec ently been sought with the aid of mi croscopic inspection. The result cor roborates the view hitherto held that the material acted upon Is heated at the place of contact to the fusing and brushed away. The high temperature appears to be confined very narrowly to the point of contact, so that a thin gash Is cut. The temperature of the re volving disk does not rise so high, because of the large surface area of the disk. The part of the disk in contact Is continually changing, while the frictional energy is concentrated on a very 6mall area of the material subjected to Its action. Youth's Com panion. 31 Mrs. Winslow'g Soothing Syrup for Children, teething, softens thogums, reduceatnflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 26c a bottle WHEN MEN WORE SHAWL3 President Lincoln's Partiality to His Big Scotch Plaid. On very rare occasions you now see some old lady wearing a shawl, but generally speaking this once uni versal garment has become obsolete. Those children that are, say, 40 years old or more can probably re member when even men wore shawls, Instead of overcoats. For about 10 years they were considered Just the thing. This was the decade begin ning with about 1860. President Lin. coin was very partial .to his big Scotch shawl, which according to the vogue, he wore, not folded diagonally in feminine fashion, but folded lengthwise, says The Pathfinder. This folded shawl was passed over the shoulders and around In front, where it was either held by the hands or pinnedby a huge shawl pin. Thi3 case of the shawl is about the only one where the men have appropriated an article of wear from the women's wardrobe though the instances where the reverse has happened are legion. Even then, the shawl was originally not a woman's garment exclusively, for the Scotch Highlander has his tartan plaid, and the men of northern Italy still wear a cloak which is very little more .than a shawl. There can be no question that the shawl Is mare useful and more picturesque as an article of attire than the close fitting coats both men and women now wear. The shawl could, in case of emergency, be used to protect two persons, or to wrap a child in, or as an extra bed covering; Its fashion did not change every three months, and It could be used and passed down in the family until it was worn out. Clock With Single Wheel. A clock with but a single wheel Is described-in Work. It was con structed by a Los Angeles clock maker', and Its single wheel is more correctly described as a perforated disc, which is kept under rotary ten sion by two weights. In place of a pendulum and gearing, SI U-inch steel balls are used, which operate consecutively. When the timepiece is set, one of the metal balls Is caused to descend, In zigzag fashion, on two pivoted plates, one placed above the other. After the ball has descended to the lower plate, its course Is di rected In such a way that it enters one of the holes at the lower end of the perforated disc, releasing the disc and then proceeding in its rotary mo tion the space of one hole. The 'lime consumed by this disc is pierced with 60 holes for one hour's time. The forward motion and stopping is effect ed by the unlocking and locking of a spring. HEALTH AND INCOME. Both Kept Up o Scientific Food. Good sturdy health helps one a lot to make money. With the loss of health one's In come Is liable to shrink, if not en tirely dwindle away. When a young lady has to make her own living, good health is her best asset. "3Lam alone in the world," writes a Chicago girl, "dependent on my own efforts for my living. I am a clerk, and about two years ago through close ap plication to work and a boarding house diet, I became a nervous In valid, and got so bad off it was almost impossible for me to stay in the office a halt day at a time. "A friend suggested to me the idea of trying Grape-Nuti, which I did, making this food a large part .of at least two meals a day. "To-day I am free from brain-tire, dyspepsia and all the Ills of an over worked and improperly nourished brain and body. To Grape-Nuts I owe the recovery of my health, and the ability to retain my position and Income." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new Be appear from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest. r i A WW NIGHT REFUGES IN PARIS. Last Resource of tle Stranded American R Charity of Which He Can Avail Hirnself When Everything Else Fails Graft of Cer tain American Beggars The Story of a Man Who Got a Fresh Start. :-. :-: If you have ever been In Paris and have passed many idle hours in front of the Cafe de la Palx you cannot have failed to make the acquaintance of the stranded American, writes the Paris correspondent of the New York Sun. He haunts the big hotels, the restaurants and the boulevards, ever on the alert for the unwary. He has reduced the spotting of his prey to a science." He recognizes a possible victim In the bluff, genial gentleman who loudly proclaims to bystanders In the hotel lobby the fact that no bartender in Paris can make cocktails like those to be had on the coast and that the show at the Moulin Rogue is disheartening to those ac customed to entertainments offered by the Orpheum circuit, in short that America is the only country to be con sidered anyway. The stranded Amer ican knows that it will be the fault of his oratory only if. the Westerner doesn't give soma substantial evi dence of sympathy after listening to his well planned tale of overdue re mittances. If this benefactor were to return the following year he would probably encounter the Identical petitioner, perhaps a trifle more shabbily dressed, plying his trade along the Avenue de l'Opera or the Champs Elysees. And the Westerner would then realize that this business of fleecing the unsuspecting is an estab lished occupation for many. Long ago these men exhausted all official and charitable resources. Then finding that playing upon the credulity of the public pays better than any employment they could fill they regularly Join the Society for the Subjection of Easy Marks. They seem to find their profession in the main advantageous, although, seasons of prosperity may be followed by times of . woeful depression. And when these adverse times come, what hap pens? The stranded American gives up his comfortable lodgings and moves to some attic in Montmartre. Then if hard luck continues he ceases to have any addresB at all until the goddess of fortune smiles on him once more. During these off seasons he sleeps on the uninviting benches of the parks until he is asked to move on, or he foregathers with the scum of Parisian humanity along the quays. An infinitesimal minority of these ex iled waifs turn their steps toward the "Aslles de nult," free night refuges for the homeless and penniless of all the lands, the last resort for the foot sore and heart sore. They who enter the severe portals, topped with the protective three col ored flag and "Liberty, Equality, Fra ternity," must leave all vestige of pride behind. Those grim institu tions are no respecters of rank or person. Pickpockets and cutthroats sleep side by side with clerks, pro fessional men and day laborers whose only offense is that they have come down in the world. The American whom unkind cir cumstances have led to one of these homes finds that he must wait in a bare hall, its only furniture benches and a giant crucifix, until an officer takes down the names and the one time occupation of all present. He will then receive a piece of coarse bread and a mug of water. Then all will be ushered into the basement and told to prepare for the compulsory shower bath. After they have donned the nightshirts supplied by the institution their own clothing is sewed up in separate sacks and put through a process of purification by steam. Then in a dormitory fitted up in monastic simplicity with iron cots, each labelled with the name of the donor, all forget the nightmares of the day In the kindly oblivion of sleep. By 8 in the morning each guest of a night the refuge's hospitality is limited to three nights for each vis itor has gone, and the dormitories are subjected to the regenerative in fluences of sunshine, fresh air, soap and water. "The Americans who have Blept under our roof?" The Baron de Livois, president of the aslles, re peated the Sun correspondent's ques tion. "Yes, certainly there have been a few from time to time, though we have more South Americans. Of the 68,000 who registered here this year, forty-six were Americans, and I should say that only ten or at the most fifteen were citizens of the United States. "You will understand that the American must have sunk pretty low, must have exhausted the patience of his fellow countrymen, before com ing here. The tourist from across the seas doesn't usually consider a night's sojourn under our roofs as a necessary part of h)s sightseeing pro gram," be added with a smile. - "The citizens of the republic who honor us with a brief visit are gener ally derelicts who have lingered so long in Paris, ever descending the social ladder, that they have reached the state where distinctions of na tionality mean very little to them. I remember one or two cases which don't quite come under this hopeless category stories of men who weren't nondescript wretches without ties of home or country, but were merely temporary victims of an unkind destiny. "We Frenchmen are wont to stand aghast at the adaptability of Amer icans, amazed at their conquest of ob stacles that, would seem overwhelm ing to us. The train hand who be comes a railroad president, the call boy who eventually owns his own theatre these taleB astound our European conservatism. "Well, one case In point which I recollect Is a good example of your transatlantic elasticity. A ball was given for the benefit of one of our refuges in one of the big hotels. "During the evening a substantial looking man, clean shaven an Amer ican, I knew at first glance came up to me and sajd he had once visited our head refuge. I said that I had probably not had the pleasure of showing him around. He answered, 'No, hardly,' that he had not come to Inspect the premises, but to beg a night's lodging. Then he told me his story. "It appears that some years be fore he was a buyer for an American firm, coming to Paris twice every twelve months. He took to drinking heavily and once when over here he made some big business blunder and his firm discharged him. "Instead of going home and seek ing another position he stayed on, wasting his time in cafes, going from bad to worse. At last he took to begging. After several successive bad days when he had been turned out of one wine shop after another, he fell In with day laborer also out of n Job. This laborer proposed that they both spend the night at One of the refuges. "The next morning the American awoke soberer than he had been for many a week. No doubt his close contact with the dregs of Paris had made him feel how much of an out cast he had become. "In Uils repentant mood a man who had formerly known him in the States ran across him and consented to give him work. Soon the ex-buyer re turned to America and eventually se cured a good position. After a lapse of years he came to Paris again, and hearing that there was to be a ball for the benefit of the aslles he pur chased a ticket they cost i and thus amply cancelled his debt of hos pitality. "Another time an American artist stayed one night here. I think he came more in search of impressions than charity. Later he painted a scene representing the men eating their rations before retiring. I for get his name, but he is now illustrat ing for one of the French political weeklies. The picture was exhibited In the Salon and he sent us a framed copy. "That gift was acceptable enough. But you should see some of the things offered by well meaning but im practicable benefactors and bene factresses." The Baron led the way across the sun flooded court of the principal refuge, which accommodates nightly 300 homeless soldiers of fortune. The court was lined with tubs of flower ing plants, a wltnes to the French man's infallible instinct for alleviat ing the sordid by the artistic. He unlocked the door to a huge storeroom in the basement. There, among other things, were a richly in laid but dust covered chest of draw ers, a shabby dress suit and a Psyche glass, an exile from some Louis Qulnze boudoir. "Yes," the president smiled in an swer to his visitor's amazement,. "the course of charity doesn't always run smooth. In that chest of drawers are a clown's costume, a pair of gilt slip pers and several discarded decollete gowns. "Still such gifts are fortunately rare, and ordinarily we cannot com plain of the public's lack of generos ity. These Asiles and there are four in Paris accommodating in all 1500 persons a night are maintained by charity, although they enjoy the protection of the State. We have re ceived donations from all nationali ties. Lady Wallace, widow of the well known English art collector, left us large sums, and an American woman, Mrs. Maxwell Heddle, be queathed more than 1,000,000 francs. So you see America need not feel that she is getting something for nothing when her homeless citizens are our guests for a night." Mischief in Comic Pictures. A small boy of my acquaintance be came highly interested not long ago in the adventures of a naughty youth, presented in the comic supplement of a well-known newspaper. The youth in the newspaper shampooed his sis ter's hair and anointed the poodle with a mixture of ink, glue and the family hair tonic, leaving the remain der of the compound in the bottle for the use of his father and mother. The results as plctorially set forth were so intensely amusing that the small observer Immediately took steps to repeat them in real life. Much mis chief is suggested tn such ways as this, and the suggestions come from artists who have little sympathy with children. "Child Lover," in the New York Times. Borne people would never get men tioned at all if they were not talked about behind their backs. Hf Farm Topics. H SHOEING THE MULE. The mule's hoof, being smaller and tougher than that of the average horse, does not need shoeing unless worked on hard roads a great deal. K is better not to have them shod if cm n fined to work on the farm, unless used to haul heavy loads on frozen ground. BOYS FOR THE BEEF INDUSTRY. Dairying is no easy task and re quires considerable labor at best. A great many boys on the farm have no taste for the work. Such boys seldom prove to be good dairy farmers. They would probably find beef stock-raising and fattening to be more' con genial and under favorable conditions as profitable. Weekly Witness. TEST THE HERD. Apropos of tuberculosis Hoard's Dairyman advises: Let every farmer tuberculin test his herd, then thoroughly disinfect hla stalls and yards, using lime white wash plentifully; then never take an animal Into the herd that has not a clean bill of health. Then use a farm separator and feed no skim milk that does not come from that farm. . PROTECT THE BIRDS. The president of the National Au dubon Society makes the following Important and significant statement: "Eight hundred million dollars' worth of agricultural and horticul tural crops are destroyed by insects every year, the destruction being di rectly traceable to the rapid decrease In the number of insectivorous birds. It is time for the horticultural and agricultural interests to wake up, now that the truth is out, and ally them selves with the game protective asso ciations and other instrumentalities with a view to putting a stop, if pos sible, to the wholesale slaughter of the best friends of the tillers of the soli." OAT BY-PRODUCTS. There is a class of by-products from the cereal mills of Iowa that merit greater attention on the part of our feeders. In this class are the oat feeds, flours, middlings, shorts, and possibly the bran, too, may be used. These feeds are well up in protein and have appreciable percent ages of fat, which render them par ticularly desirable as hog feeds, and possibly their use may with profit be extended to horses. This is specially true of the flour, middlings and shorts. The bran, however, has too high a content of crude fiber to give it a very great value as a flesh pro ducer or to render It palatable to the feeding animal. These are compara tively new feeds, and their practical worth has not been definitely estab lished, but from their chemical com position it seems evident that experi mentation - with practical feeding tests will fully demonstrate their ranking well with similar wheat prod ucts, if not outclassing them. Louis G. Michael. LIVE STOCK AND THE SOIL. The Palouse valley, in Washington, has long been noted for its wheat productions. But there, as here, they find that wheat grown constantly without the rotation of crops, ex hausts fertility, and are turning more attention to live stock farming to keep up-the soil. One of the Wash ington agricultural college professors says that with every ton of wheat shipped from the farm $8 worth of plant food leaves the farm, all of which could be saved and returned to the soil by feeding the products chief ly to live stock. He believes that the best returns from land idle in summer-fallow could be secured from peas, rape or alfalfa, which could be fed to hogs at great profit, as well as being of great value in returning to the soil those properties which had been taken out by the continued growing of wheat. He said the im poverishment of the soil took place despite the intervening summer-fallow. This Is Just as applicable here as in the State of Washington, and our farmers are coming more and more to understand these things. Indiana Farmer. PURE BREEDS ARE BEST. Even a mongrel flock deserves good care and will pay for it, but no one should be satisfied with such a flock. The farmer is the last one to realize the greater possibilities of standard-bred stock. It does not cost any more to keep pure-bred stock than it does to keep mongrels or scrubs, and the returns are much the largest from the good stock. Do not be deceived into believing that practical qualities and fancy points cannot be bred in the same fowl. Indeed, there is absolutely no excuse for keeping poor stock. The well-to-do poultryman-farmer can af ford the best and the one with less money cannot afford to breed poor stock, as there is more profit in the pure breeds. The best breed of fowls deponds considerably upon who is behind it. Some people do not seem to be able to make a success with any breed, while good poultrymen can make a success with any breed in existence. Remember that feed is more import ant than breed in most cases. Com bine breed and feed and good man agement, and you have all the ele ments that are necessary to make poultry profitable. Epltomist. The Thumb Marriage Service, A young couple, natives of Ceylon, appeared recently before a magistrate In Ohio and asked to be married. All the forms required by the state were complied with, but before the law of ficer could perform the ceremony a witness who came with the couple bound the thumbs of the contracting parties together. They explained that In their country the act of fastening a man to a woman by the thumb was a sufficient marriage ceremony. In answer to comment which was made as to the queer custom the young man, who had been educated in Eng land, said: "The thumb used to play an important part with Europeans also, and no oath, I read, was so bind ing, once upon a time, as that which was taken by pressing the thumb on the sword blade. Your English word pollicitation, which means to promise, came from the word pollex, which means thumb." The magistrate kiss ed the bride without further argument. FITS, St.Vitus' Dance, Nervous Diseases per manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr.U.R. Kline, Ld.,031 Arch St.,l,hila.,Pa. Some of His Meat. T. B. Curran, formerly a member of parliament, said that a South Sea islander, whom a travelef had brought home with him as a Bervant, In a local tavern was prasing up the British constitution when one of his hearers said to him: "What do you know about it? You're not nn Eng lishman. . You haven't a drop of English blood In your veins." "Don't you be so sure about that," ""replied the black; "my grandfather helped to eat Captain Cook." Reynold's Newspaper. CUTICURA CURED FOUR. Southern Woman Suffered With Itch Ing, Burning Hash Three Littlo Babies Had Skin Troubles Calls Cntlcnra Her Old Stand-by. "My baby had a running sore on his neck and nothing that I did for it took effect until I used Cuticura. My face was nearly full of tetter or some similar skin disease. It would itch and burn so that I could hardly stand it. Two cakes of Cuti cura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment cured me. Two years after it broke out on my hands and wrist. Sometimes I would go nearly crazy for it itched so badly. I went back to my old stand-by, that had never failed me one set of Cuticura Rem edies did the work. One set also cured my uncle's baby, whose head was a cake of sores, and another baby who was in the same fix. Mrs. Lillie Wilcher, 770 Elev enth St., Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. lO.-W. Ever Its Portion. The dingy one-story house in which Franz Schubert was' born has Just been bought by the municipal govern ment of his native Vienna for $22,000, and will be preserved as a shrine for music-loving pilgrims. Schubert liv ing would have been glad to receive the one-thousandth part of that sum for one of his Immortal songs. The Irony of fate is ever the portion of genius. Philadelphia Record.. , Ladles Can Wear Shoes One size sm&ller after using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes ee ..v. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, arhing feet. Ingrowing nulls, corns and bunions. At alldrciggistsannsliOJRtores, 25c. Don't ac cept any substitute. Trial package Fhkk hy moil. Address Alien 8. Olmsted, LoRoy.N.Y. A Bargain. A Paris shopkeeper wrote to one of his customers as follows: "I am able to offer you cloth like the inclosed sample at nine francs the meter. In case I do not hear from you I shall conclude that you wish to pay only eight -francs. In order to lose no time, I . accept 'the last-mentioned price." Democratic Telegram. Good Place for Poets. India would seem to be a pleasant land for minor poets, since the rajah of Rampur recently sent out Invita tions to nil the poets of India to a gathering In his state. About 200 poets accepted. Truth and Quality appeal to tho Well-Inlormcd in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accor ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is tho only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves tho internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objection able substancea. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug gists. . . - WIDOWS'"1"1" NEW LAW obtained nnvcmva T JOHN W. MORRIS), PENSIONS Waahlngmn. 0 0. Don't keep your feet in a SKSEEMER ehoee. 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I Buffered from female troubles, and last March my physician decided that an operation was necessary. ' My husband objected, and urged me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and to-day I am well and strong." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, mada from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands ot 1. . 1. 1 I 1 1 1 !.L vvoiiiuii wiiuuuve iieeii irouuieu wiia 'displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, and backache. Mrs. Pinkham Invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. . TOILET ANTISEPTIC Keeps the breath, teeth, mouth and body antiseptically clean and free from un healthy germ-life and disagreeable odors, which water, soap and tooth preparation alone cannot do. A germicidal, disin fecting and deodor izing toilet requisite of exceptional ex cellence and econ omy. 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