hen You Buy e tor of Great fmportance. Do you get that which has the power to _ eradieate from your blood all poisopons taints and thus remove the essuse of dis : ease? Doyou buy HOOD'S Sarsaparilla and only Hood's ? If you do, you may take ft with the utmost confidence that it will | Remember | yon ona. 's Sarsaparilla erfea’s Greatest Medisne 8%: six for g% © fn ps nr A At A eB Bi Lon 3 ihdctin FrAranteed EE C Ga 's Pilig cure re Bliousmes. is indigestion. Ws ow. J ers er, ary goois editor of the New York Journ! of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, the prosent time there are 00.00 spin- [dies in the South running on that class of goods Known more particularly as C¥sl River goods. The South main tain that its progress so far in the | direction of fine goods in only an earn. emt of what it is able to do in the ¢ fs I found nowhere in the Rout finer than 60s nor weaving | ah 40¢ yarn. Taking the whole Bouth, which 1 visited, the average week will not be Jess than 68 hours SNS Bm on SR aS 4 Beauty is Blood Deep. Ciéan Sood means & clean skin. No beauty ‘without it. Cascarets, Candy Cuthartio clean | | Jum Blend anil keop 16 clean, hy stirriog ap | the lazy liver and ng all imparities the bed Bn to day to banish m hails, Loe hinck heads, and that Billions complesion by miking Cass beanty far 9 conta All ts, i a 5 IS We 44 AHA 8 TONING: This iz an off -year with the sea ser- | pent along the New England coast, competition of Ppanish war ships has driven him out of business, To Care sn Cold in One Dey. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablete. AN Droggists refund money if 1% falls to cure. Be. xr i EE There could not possibly be a whiter | city than Cadiz onless it were built of now. As you near the coast you see in front of vou & white mass which ap- pears 68 be floating upon thes water The first thought for a foreigner is that I “bets in sight of an feabers. Sn : Bdueste Yous Howels with Casearets, o. cure constisation forever Li which is superior to orange tl FTVITES DANCE, SPASMS sod all perv. ruggist. Shelbyville Todo gives the il. {un get Ee of teatimonial #very ope who takes it” Proc. : gigas: it Ll Mais pO TIEATENTY by the ne of $i a Great Nerve Kegonsr. 8 bow | ine. 14d. | Arch Street, Phila. Pa Some Hindoos wWeny pnuntaches and | beards, but all wear whiskers, which | [mre shaved off at once when an adult relation dien. The shaving off = whiskers is thus & sign of mourning. i Clergyman's Ksperiment. i landable attempt on the part of a ‘Notting Hil clergyman to practically rg the ————— class Jortion | Geman or his curate went, after dis pensing theological pabulum In the | | Share. and served the members with | Drax Mus, Pixguaay:—I take pleas writing you a few lines to 10- na of the good your Vegetabie ‘has done me. 1 canoot you stiough for what your medi- tis Toe ues 1% haw. tudeet, | ar i yun dover know how BE. a at Vegetable Com- in relieving every derangement 3 organs, demonstrates 0 be the ‘modern safeguard of wo. 1's happiness and bodily strength. rModioine is a Mat: XK recently de Hivered, at the rooms of the Merchants’ | Association, New York city, an address | Nditon Industry In the South” At i rat dregs roRgighe refuted moneys, | in Florida a wine is made from to- | ling and drainage. { been suceessfally undertaxen in some try? is the question raised by a mem- ber of the Leagne of American Whee! men. He says: “We have in this township assessed roughly at $350,000 same mizty miles of road. We cannot spend £10,000, | R1000 or even 8500 per mile on these roads. There is not enongh money nin the township, all told, to do #8, and | the law limits the bonded mdebted. | ness, must drive five or ten nuled to reach it, | i “Much better work might be done | | than we sre doing. but it remains | that many miles must be attended to | with few dollars. What most is need- : eonditions. { or 81500 on mxty miles of road, re- | serving 8200 or 8300 of that for the | winter's snows. Teach us serviceable | : Jossons for commanities of thin sort, | and do not expect asphalt, macadam | or steel until the fellows from town help to build them {and they havent baiit their own yat', { romd 1s to cost more than the entire | value of all the farms throngh which | | it passes. He appreciates good roals, ; but must remember hrs slim pocket. book. He Iaaghs a little, too, at the . big saving heavier loads would make : for him. | that time of year have little to do for | ; self or team and are not crowded with what they have to market, rather make two trips than one, as he and the horses both need the exer cise.” The tendency in such cases as this is to underestimate the beneficial of. fects of hard roads and to assume that | they are of valine only daring the win- ter. They are of enormous valas then, | and of equally great value in sammer and the busy seasons, when the possi- ; bit of hauling big loads is money 1 pocket, i the past, the farmer han been left too much to his own resourses in the eare of the highways. Now, howaver, State nid is rapidly being acknowledged a8 the proper means of promoting the good work, and the States are slowly | bat surely falling into lice in adopting #6 Until it is generally in force, there . may be time for much good work to | be done, and the first steps toward | real iniprovement can be taken by se . curing careful grading, thorouvgh draia- . age and the adoption of wide tires. In this connection the experiences of of two southern counties is right to the | point. In one, the loads average 2466 pounds and the tax is ten cents a hun- dred. In the other the loads are but! | 800 han , the road tax ome half, and greatly im- | proved § the roads, i _This county owns grader, plows, earts, implements and six males, and '. superintendent and five men are kept at work on the roads. The wark coosts $55.17 a mile and though the i rosds are only plain “dirt,” they are ands and tho tax twenty cents a | kept in such good condition that three . times as much cau be hanled as on ‘ roads cared for in the old way. Here, surely, is a cheap and easy way to be- n.--Is A. W, Bulletin, Inexpensive Road Repair, A correspondent suggests that thas system of coutinnal sa sion and | repair of road-beds used by the rail ways would not be practicable on the highways, becanse the railway section | foremen depend for their positions on : the thoroughness of their work, have £ i 3 ¥ | gin can make themselves thoroughly fami- liar with them, while highway eo missioners frequently know and care nothing about roads, sad have long stretches with which Yay have little time or opportunity to become ac- guainted. As long a8 present conditions ob. i tain, and highway commissioners are chosen for political reasons, and de- vote little time and attention to the roads, not much in the way of un. provement isto be expected. [tis the systema which must be changed, and {it will be when the people realize the to travel. It is not necessary to al ways build expensive roads costing, perhaps, from one dollars a mile, bat present roads can be vastly bettered by giving them con- stant care, together with Tr grad- Thais work has quarters and good results obtained, {as in the case referred to last week, in {which the expense was so small that the road tax had been redmced, while | the roads had been improved. Aaloug as present methods prevail, living off the main roads should be interested in some way in looking af jterjthe roads that pass theirlown doors, so that they would remove | stones, ll up holes and see that all | water ran off quickly, and suggested {that they could pay s small part of their road tax in labor in this way, under the control of the road commis- low that something of this kind would measar« convinced of the importance | of the step, A Problem in Road Improvement, The entrance to the beautiful val: | ley of the Ramapo is at Buffern, N. Y. The county in which the town lies has many natural advantages, but | is unable to obtain benefit from them | ———— nd. a because of the roads through which He people “still founder im the RA LAB CA THA A, What is to be dove ander conditions | that obtain in many parts of the coun | | To select & few miles of the principal highway is not jast to the | poor fellow who helps pay for it and ed in earefnl consideration of existing ; “how best to spend $1200 No wonder the rastie kicks if the Nine ont of ten of him at He would | Improved methods reduced | | only short distances to care for, and imporiance to the community of hav | ing bard sud smooth roads on which | to ten thousand | “pr thinks that the farmers, and those | sioner. The old plan of “working” {out road taxes has beens completa | © failure, but it does not necessarily fol- not work in some districts, especially | if the people first become iu some mire.” How easy it would be for them, am many other counties sim. ways is plainly shown by the Suffern Independent. an expenditgre of 82500 per mile on indettsdnens samonnt ‘them wonld create an of R150.000. Suppose this {was borrowed on bonds pavable in from one to fifteen years at four per ‘rent. By paying the annual interest and six per cent. on the principal, the Cwhale amonnt ronld be paid in twelve years and the romds kept in order, withont a greater annnal sdpenditure | than the 814 600 now required for re- pairing worthless roads, The pesess. i mop! of the sonuty “ie in round num- bard 8230 000 000 of which R150 (WW) |» | three quarters of one per cent. Now, taking the average assesment of the taxpayer to be BION, hus proportion i of the antire debt would be 87.58, and | has assnsment for each year for this purpose wonld be seventy-five conte” Figured down this way, there seams i nothing wanting fo sacnring better | highways but the will to make the i stare, An YToromplete Faiimnate, In the following estimate of the sont of laying stone roads some im- | portant items have ben omitted, i The Indiaxs Farmer says that “the ccost of broken stone for buibling {roads is not so great ax many sapposs. It ean be bought at the crushers for forty cents per solid yard, and the ratiroad will freight it forty miles or i less, at sbomt fifty cents por enbie | yard, making a total of ninsty cents | bat snppose we call it 31. Then if the rond-bed is nine fest wile and the stone is piled on a foot deep, a cubic yard will cover three feet linear at a cost of $1, making one mils (1780 yards) cost as many dolinre. Bat as only abont nine inches are necessary, Lone-fourth of this amount, or $8440, should be dedneted, making the ex act amoant only $1320, whieh ix chewy enough for a firsteclass road, the ma terial for which must be brought forty miles by mil” Sahstantial roads can be built at » thickness of nine incher, bnt the stone nsed is by no means the only item of expense. The Ialior of hand. hing, placing and rolling it must be considered and, more important still, careful grading and thorough drain. are must be secured. Hard roads car be built mueh mora clieaply than formerly, but & ““Bret-claw’™ one san. uot yet be laid at such low figures, Narrow Versus Whis Waren Tires. Serentife over two years have been made nnder the anspioes of the Stadehaker Broth. ers, the widely known wagon builders, to determine the relative gualities of wide and narrow-wheel tires. The The results are too extensive to give in fail. Every kind of rond was nasd to test the question. Tt was found that on macadem roads the narrow tires ware far inferior to the wide, and they required much greater effort te (draw a giveulond, Ina deeply rutted : olay romd, the narrow tires running ie ! the rats and the wide tires on top, the | narrow tires ware far more efficient { This was also the case with wet mnd. Bat as soon as the mad began to dry the wide tires showed a vastsuperior ity, In general, the only jastification for narrow tires proved to be thor. oaghly bad romds —Yosth's Com | panion. The Crassde Against Rate. Never allow pools of water to stand on aroml. If a road is not properly drained it cannot long remain good. It requires longer time and more power to banl light losis over had on good roads, Anything that facilitates intercourse between people tends to civilize then Nothing helps so much toward this end as perfect highways. land, Ohio, on scoount of the depth of the mad, which prevenied the en ines from reaching them in time, Common roads may be vastly im. proved by being properly crowned and thoroughly drained, and the work of making and keeping thein good will be simplified if the traffic on them is | on wide tires, i subject in being taken ap seriously. good ones ought not to bs neglected, Nature 15 not a road -boilder she never prepares artificial means of liv. ing. Bat she furnishes ample ma- terial for every need, and science long | since learned to utilize what she offers plex civilization. | iliary situated, to improve their high- ters are receiving some attention, and “Yours Traly™ The habits of people in signing let : Interesting conclusions are drawn from There are sigty milen of road, and sible and essentially practical persons | is ! Dos’ 't Tobaeoo Sitand Smoke Your Life Away | per as they do in conversation girl, who is quoted by the Journal, experinnents extending (a study of the different ways writers | curt! The “Yours traly” are found submeribe themselves “Yours” and not only in business jetters, bot fn por: gush, and who think that “Yours troly™ or “sincerely” means about all they wish to convey. Opposed 10 these son | Is that class of writers muds ap gsnal Iy of young and enthusiasrie individ unix, as a rule of the gentle sex. who throw words nhont as carelessly on pa The use of the word love by such people is a distressing wign of emotional weak press, or careliwsness, or of insincerity, | and possibly arises from the same im. pulse that prompts women to kiss each | me Boston haw taken hee awn stand in the matter. and at ihe risk of being considerad “pold™ and “thorodglily Boston” she sticks to it. In ber childhood she was taught to sign “affactionately yours” to her far | away greataunts and second consins sore of whom «he had never seen, bot all of whom she tried to like, because of the ~laims of kindred, snd the word “affectionately” came to mean to her nothing at all except polite and neces sary fiction So she signs “affaction ately” to people she [8 supposed to be conventionally fond of and when she says anyihiog more she nieans it. She | thoroughly approves of “Cordially | yours,” and this, by the way, Ix seen more and more frequently now in potes between acquaintances who are on distinctly {riendiy or cordial terms After all “Your friend.” when it can be peed truthfuily. is a simple and satis factory way of ending friendly letters. | Rome people have the babii of not pre facing thelr names with any set form of words at the end of letters, They stop when they got through and write their signatures without any frijls.— other indiscriminately Worcester (Mass i Gazette, RAS SAI Expensive Mirth, *Cheory words cost nothing" “wriats where vou are way off. 1} said two cheery words yesterday and | they cost me $177 “How did that happen?’ “Well I siappesd a Big man on fue back, and said, ‘Hello, Fauy” ” “That was nid right” “No, It wasn't: Ee turned out to be a man 1 4kin't know, so we koovked each other down and gol nto court’ — Roster lTanrnael A New York paper says that “He eox- | pactation that electricity wonld destroy surfaces than to move twice as much Two buildings were lately destroyed | by fire in an outlying ward of Cleve: the demand for horses has not yet been realized.” Why, of courses pot; it is im PosEe 10 elt a0 slortric battery, FIAtOnIe ove 18 3 sort of prologue Wo the real thing Now Relief Cama From Cole County Democral, Lferson Oily, Wa, When ia grippe visited this seating shone Seow ago, Herman WH. Eveler of 811 Ww. Mais Ar. Jefferson Mo, was soe of the wictisne, and Bas sines bees trsabled with tha afi sp-rfoats of the dissass He fs a weil-Epown contractor and baibier a basi. nea roquiriag mach mental aud physieni work, A year sgo als health began to fail aiarmiuvgly, and that he Uves to-day is ai mont a miracls He as “1 was tronbled with Sort ann of beastly, a x gf the Beart and a genersi do fry wonderfully relfeved asd was satisfied thar the ware putting me on the road ta recovery. I bought two more boxes and . sontinued taking them. is aflioted with sbortness of breath, pals The Governor of Massachusetts has recommended a wide tire law and the | i Sach a simple and effective means of improving poor romds and maintaining © phronin erysipelas, catarrh, rhonmatism to meet the necessities of our com. y New York have donated twelve hun- | dred tons of stone, picked from around | { their farms, for road iraprovement purposes, aud a neighboring stone | | crusher has been reated to properly | | prepare the material for ase. concentrate in bag cities can be coun teracted by making eountry life at communication + and any ant, shen Novel Flea Far ws Bill af has ' Mra. Rizley, and it's surprising toe | Before he was married he was one of | the noistest young men [ ever loew, | How 43d you break him of ft” The ever-increasing tendency to | tractive. But country life cannot be | permanently attractive to city residents unless good highways alord iater. | | emae In the course of a speech in support | “foxscalp” bill in the Kentucky | 3 Legislatare Representative Hatfield, | i of Pike County, said: I ask for the | passage of this bill in the interests of religion and morals, If you pay nol | bounty for fox scalps no one will kill | the foxes; if no one will kill them! they will kill the chickens, and what | you have no chickens you bave no ' preachers, and whar you have no | preachers you kave no religion sad ne morals,” : | | ; "ws | though sume spacies have The farmers along a road in Central =a “After taking four boxes of Dr. Williame' On Dangerc.is Ground, Dick--1 soa convinced now that the woman can't anderstand a joke, Too Why., what's Bappened? Iek sonal notes as well, for there are plenty | Posed 10 ber. of correspondents who don't belleva in ; Tom--Yesl I called on Mrs Durtleigh— | | that sprightly lrtle widow, you know | | last night aud just in a Joking way pro | D7 FIRE Blo pure. 3 $a ] funny men are right when they say a | pouty Born beautifully | i i Ick Well, 1t looks now as if T win | have to furnish a very elaborate dia. i gram ts gel ber to see Brough it Cleveland Leader. it tober enelly gud famiver, He pag. | 4 of fe nerve art Viger take Ne-T ow i the weandaroenrker, men Strung. Al Pinte Fomranteond. Booklet snd ansinis ove, meen Bemndy Cha. £8 ean Har New York Aw that makers wes | oor 3 Oure | AAA wag [ teathing softens | Aamisustion, silayy pads, cures wind oalic. Artificial eps and arms were in se in Egypt da enrly 38 HB ©. 108 were rade hy the priests, Wie were the physicians of that sarily time They i i A hanting-hom at t a mie In Londen fetched 6.300 guineas, It iu an ordinary enamebed suhijecty depicted being hunting a. It is about 2 years old. Xo To- Bar for Fifty Cents. finara steed tobacco babii vnre makes weal Alldrageinta The ni fro Hebrew C harithen of New Y i went last year 11530 000 (nn benevos jon wrk. Fits prrmianen “tly cured, Ni Senor mess ater Are day's nee of oR " ne rms « Sirent Nerve Hestorer Ee ordal wat Iovate froe Dr BB Kiaxe {ad 88 Arch hen Sent free, Klondike Mup Pram Gold § nmisddon’s offied ne uy drew Oneduer & Co, Colorsde clorado 8 rin GAs. WM Winsteo “uy Soothing Syrup forsuild res the yoms redacing Be a ORT Fir Whoemd com! TEE Broukisn, x i. wr Congh, Prac’ ure te s me MP Dimren, © Throop Ave, Ror. 4. MY, Sa A 5H BB SA Among peopl: where the practice of economy is a necessity, the buying of soap is an important yearly item. The grocer who has an eve to larger profits, may not suggest Ivory Soup. if he is conscientious. through He will recommend nothing else Ivory Soap 1s a pure soap, all hat makes it the most economical and best. A perfect soap for the toilet and laundry. IT FLOATS. A WORD OF WARNING. ~ There sre many white saps. each represented 16 be ~ just an good uv the * Tvory”.” they ARE NOT. bet Glee ai counterfeits. lack the peculiar and remariabie qualities of the genuine. Ask for” Iwsey 7 Sopp snd invist opoe getting it. Capron HL tw Ton Prior 3 Sumit On. Comment We can fill all orders at eme® from stock. We are sure can please you in quality and price with a Pink Pils for Puls People | am restored to ome sod health and fool ka a Dew man. am now pspable of teansasting my business with increased ambition. “Pr. Willams’ Pink Plils for Pale People platen of the hear! nervous prostestion dablitty. will And that these are the specific. Huawas H. Everen . Sabwortied and sworn to bafore me a ? Notary Pubile, this 3th dav of May, 1597, Anan Povraaowa, Notary Public, Mr. Eveier wii! wviadiy answer any ia. quiry regarding this if stamp 8 anciosed, Dr. Williams Pink Pills cure people troubled with the aftereffeots of the grippe becacse they act directly sa the impure blood. They ars also & apestfe tor and ail dlsmases due to 3 Tapa or apo Mont spiders ave waht OY ee Rie anly six. To Care Canstipation Foraver. Take Cascarsta Candy Cathartic 10 or 3c. HO OC fall taonurs, desggists reland mokey A A NI SN SS AB He Tiptoes Now, "What a quiet man your husband is “1 didn't break him of It. The baby did it. It didat take him long to learn the value of silence after little Alfred hefling. He That must be a very !cierest'ng book you are nding. She—Oh, i's awfully exciting! The heroine changes her gown six times in { the first chapter. A Boston petactier: arrested for drun- keunes, was summarily discharged when he said that he was the father of | twenty four children. And be had Deen gone an hour before the court remem. bered that the prisoner had testified that be was 30 years oid, Y dealer and ds your own Tan ae peaadbdy De msde To badd. FE SEND OR SAMPLE Loran fron your load dealers je ada miliing The mery snd yay wa ni Sane Hash and 4 & i= wie genio Gow mined with ¢ Rt ot CA ca Fou im Aloe way of Sow Hover Sie oa oF Gripe We. Be 2 "ee "CURE CONSTIPATION, see ny se Te — o
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