FROG FARMS. Raising the Delicacy for Market is Now a Thriving Industry. '•'You will be surprised," said he, "to learn that a new industry is growing up in the North, an industry which is en tirely devoted to frog culture. "There are large farms at St. Joseph, Saugatuck, New Haven, Grand Haven and Battle Creek, where the frogs we sell are raised. On mauy farms in the North west there are marshy places that are ut terly useless for agricultural purposes. Many of these spots are being reclaimed by their production of frogs. The animals require very little care and are very prolific. One man at St. Joseph has 200,000 pollywogs in his lake. They will soon be ready for the market, and at the price at which legs sell his profits will not be far from $5,000. It would take a big crop of grain and an enormous amount of work and worry into the bargain to yield that much. There are different breeds. The best and largest come from France. They are sent to this country by breeders over there who make a specialty of them. You may laugh when I tell you that it will not be long before frogs will have their place at country fairs and fat-stock shows. Why, even now, pedigrees are furnished importers, and there is a frog at St. Joseph named Sullivan. He is a big bull, and his voice is a caution. He was imported from France and cost SSO. An ordinary pair of breeders can be bought for $5." "Does it require much trouble to catch the hoppers?" "No; when they are large euougli for the market they are surprised in the night time while sitting on the banks of the pond. Men with lanterns can readily pick them up, for the light dazzles them. After being captured they ure killed, and the hinder parts are packed in ice for shipment here. Sometimes, late in the season, which extends from spring to winter, they are sent to us alive. We freeze them up, and in the spring tliey sell at a good price. The big ones ore worth about $1.25 per dozen at this time. They need no care from us when brought here alive. A frog will live six months without food, but during the period of growth care is necessary that the water they live in be pure. They thrive best in running water where there is plenty of grass and reeds. Such a habitat is neces sary for them to hide themselves in for protection. The farms are usually sur rounded by fences, so that the frogs can not migrate, and so that intruders can not molest them. "I think the time is coming when frog culture will be a permanent indus try. Farmers are becoming discouraged by the successive failures of crops of the last few years, and they must find some thing else to raise. I think this will be the result, that frog culture and other lines will increase, and the result will be a slight reaction 011 the staples, which are now at a low price. The raising of frogs is a pleasant occupation and u paying one. Chicago will eat all that can be produced in the Northwest. We have no trouble in disposing of all that are sent us. Sometimes our house alone sells 100 dozen in a day, and there are many others who sell about the same amount. The summer resorts take large quantities from the wholesale trade."—[Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Care of Rubber Plants. There is probably no more familiar house plant in America than the rubber plant, unless it is the calla. They are favorites for the same reason that many friends are favorites, because they will stand such an amount of abuse and be so lovely and perennially fresh. Rubber plants cost but a trifle if bought when young and tiny ; and fair care will keep them growing sturdily onward for years until they grow so big that no place in the house save the hall is tall enough for them. A rubber plant needs a good sized pot to begin with. One with some bits of charcoal and broken brick or pottery in the bottom to aid drainage and prevent the roots from becoming bound. As the plant grows tall it is recommended that the top leaf be pinched oil so that the plant may sprout and grow two branches instead of one. Every morning or every evening the earth in which the plant is growing should get a thorough drenching if the plant is in tho open window. Every week the leaves should have their faces washed to keep their pores clean. This treatment, with the addition, if possible, of a summer in the back-yard alone with nature is all that a rubber plant asks. The calla is scarcely more exacting. The dry root is planted in a pot anil watered well with warm water, the one idea being to keep the soil as much like what anyone would imagine the bank of a brook to be as possible. In a well drained pot thoroughly wetted every day with warm water, and all the sunshine possible, the golden-tongued lily will live and thrive to bless tho one who loves it —[New York World. Shetland Ponies for Children. Ponies, little and big, shaggy and sleek, are now so common up town, to dog carts or under the saddle, driven by ladies and children, or ridden by boys, that it is a wonder where they all come from, and a dealer,who has been import ing them for years, told a New York Times reporter: "The trade in Shetlands," he said, "has grown steadily for the last five years. They a-e plump, hardy little fel lows, and probably a thousand are im ported annually. They are taken on board the steamship at Dundee, Scotland, and, as a rule, stand the voyage well. They are from the Northern Islands, and they are generally three years old or younger. Many of them are sold by auction in Jer sey City, and they go all over the coun try. They are only imported between May and December, nnd the trade now is at its height. A good pony will bring from S4O to SSO, though some blooded stock is now being imported for breed ing purposes at much higher figures. A Michignn farmer has succeeded in breed ing ponies so small that they are only fit for children's playthings, some of them only forty inches high." A Theiapeutic Novelty. Some English physicians appear to adopt in their practice the honey found in such large quantities in the eucalyp tus trees of Tasmania, the product of a small, black wild bee peculiar to that country. The honey is a thick, homo geneous, somewhat transparent, sirupy liquid, of a deep orange color, having an odor suggestive at once of its containing eucalyptus principles, is very soluble in water, in milk aud in wine, but much less so in alcohol, and very difficult of fermentation. In round numbers, 1,000 parts contain 011 of invert sugar, 2 of ash, 215 of water and 17g of active prin ciples, including oucalyptol, eucalyptene, terpine, eymal, and odorous, resinous, and coloring matters; its taste very Eleasant. Taking a teaspoonful of the oney in a little tepid water or milk. after a few minutes one perceives a gentle, agreeable warmth taking possession of the whole person; at the end of half an hour, the elimination of the active prin ciples by the air passages having begun, the voice becomes clearer and the breath perfumed, the lungs also feeling more active, more supple. Thus far, experi ments show it to be a valuable aliment, an efficient and palatable substitute for cod liver oil, an anti-eatarrhal, an agent affecting the heart in a manner compar able to the action but free from the in convenient properties of digitalis, a feb rifuge, and an anti-parasitic in tubercular and scrofulous ailments. A FRIEND OF THE CROW. He Is a Mighty Cute Bird, and It Isn't Easy to Fool Him. Farmer Lucius S. Clark of North Ab ington township in Pennsylvania is a great friend of crows. He declares that the noisy big birds do a great deal more good than harm on his place, and he nev er allows his sons to rob their nests, or to shoot or trap them. Consequently all the crows that nest in Farmer Clark's woods every summer, and sail over his broad acres at all seasons of the year, are much tamer than those that flock on the farms of some of his neighbors. Even though he is kind to his big family of crows, Farmer Clark says that the black rascals have until this season been in the habit of scratching up lots of his corn as soon it was planted, and of milling up lota more shortly after it had become nicely sprouted. But the cutworms and other crawling things that the crows devoured more than paid for the damage they did to the corn, and that was why he cherish ed tin- glossy birds, he said. When corn-planting time came this spring Farmer Clark thought he would sec if he couldn't make the crows let the corn alone after it had been planted. He boiled a lot of tar in a large kettle, dumped his seed corn into it, and kept stir ring the mass until each kernel was com pletely covered with a coating of tnr, and after that lie rolled the corn iu pulverized lime till it was white. He planted it the same day, and the crows clawed a few hills of it up and were in a peck of trouble for several hours. The cunning fellows evidently couldn't make out what the stuff was, for they dropped the kernels as though they were red-hot bits of metal, and then flew away to another part of the field and tried other hills. The corn did not taste right to any of the crows, nnd after they had sampled hills here and there the whole flock met at a back cor ner of the lot and had a noisy discussion over the mystery. In the course of half an hour one of the crows sailed away, alighted on a hill, scratched into it and suddenly started back to where its com panions were sitting silently on the fence, yelling out the information oil the way that it was the same nasty stuff as the rest. Then the whole flock jawed as tight as they could for a minute or so, when another crow sailed forth to a different section of the field, tackled a hill, took a kernel in his bill, ejected it mighty quick, and flew over to the fence with the same disgusting report. For two hours the crows took turns at invest igating finally came to the conclusion that they had been unmercifully fooled, and went cawing away to the woods on the hillside. Farmer. Clark had watched them all the time, and he declared that the crows let that field entirely alone from then on. In another patch the men planted two rows of corn that had not been coated with tar and lime. The rows were ten rods apart, and the cunning crows un earthed every hill in each row and gob bled up every kernel of corn, but they didn't touch a single hill of the interven ing rows, where the tarred corn was. Farmer Clark said that their eye-teeth had been cut in the former field, and the birds were too sharp to be led into the same painful experience again. Plain corn was planted in the two rows the second time, and the crows scratched it nil up the next day. Then the men put beans in the corn hills, and the beans were not disturbed by the black rascals. Another strange thing about tho be havior of Farmer Clark's flock of crows was noticed by the watchful farmer when the cultivate was run between the rows of corn for h first time. In the latter field dozen- . crows followed the culti vator, and picked up hundreds of cut worms. W hen the farm hand turned his horse about the flock rose up and flew to the fence, but as soon as he had got well started on his way to the other end of the lot they settled down a few rods be hind him and resumed theirwork. When the farmer's field was cultivated not a crow went near it, and Farmer Clark has had to fight cutworms by hand, to pay him, he says, for not having planted a row or two of plain corn in it for tho crows to scratch up undent.—[Mew York Bun. A Baptism in Heligoland. After the services on Sunday, when an infant is to be christened, a small silver basin is placed on the brass lid; there is 110 water in it, but presently the Heli goland children, babies of two or three years old, flock in, each carrying in its little hand a cup of water, which is emp tied into the basin, and the new-born is lander is baptised with the water brought for that purpose by his future playfellows. Behind the altar the light falls through purple window panes upon an old, old hour glass, placed in the dark ages be fore the inveution of clocks and watches before the clergyman when he began his sermon. It is a marvelous chur h, this holiest spot on "holy island," and 011 the day when Lord Salisbury's gift is finally handed over to Germany one of our most interesting historical monuments will be ours 110 more. The graveyard round the church is nearly full, and when the last corner in it has received its sleeper the difficult question will arise as to where the Heligolandcr of the future will find his last resting place. The soil in the present graveyard covers the rock six feet deep, but there is hardly another spot on the island where more than four feet of earth covers the stony foundation.—[Pall Mall Gazette. One Way to Tell a Happy Pair. There is nothing that the average bridegroom so much desires to avoid as a disclosure of the fact of his recent mar riage. Not that he is at all ashamed of it. Oh, no I But there is a shyness about him which induces him to conceal the fact. This is shown especially at the bridegroom's first visit to the hotel on his bridal tour. The other evening a young man walked briskly up to the desk in one of the hotels in this city, and, with a very badly as sumed air of nonchalance, registered "Mr. and Mrs. ." A room was assigned him. and when he was out of hearing the clerk leaned over the desk, and, confi dentially speaking to several acquaint ances standing there, said: "Just married." "How do you know?" was asked. "Oh, you never see an old married man register 'Mr. and Mrs.' It's always so-and-so and wife. You just notioe now if it isn't so." MAPS FOR THE BLIND. Interesting Facts about their Con struction and Use. A map for the blind is a curiosity. Blind people are fond of history, and as history cannot be properly learned, or, indeed, learned at ull without know ledge of geography, and to learn the lat- ; ter without a map is impossible, some thing of the kind was necessary, and so special maps were iuvented and manu factured for the eyeless. They are all of the kind known as the "dissected, maps," and are of wood—arc really carv ed blocks. All land stands in relief, the mountains in ridges, the rivers are long depressions, the state lines are ele vated. Each state is a separate block, and the pupil is taught to fit the blocks | together and thus prepare for himself a , map of the whole country. The name of each state is marked some times on the back sometimes on the front of the block, and the observer will notice, all over the surface of the blocks, small aggregations of what to him are meaning less dots. These are the names of rivers, towns, and cities. Cities are designated by pin or tack heads, and the size and shape of these show the approximate number of population. In one map cit ies of les9 than 10,000 inhabitants were were indicated by pin heads fiat on top, and those of 10,000 to 20,000 by hemis pherical. Flat tack heads showed the localities of cities having 20,000 to 50,000, rounded tack heads from 50,000 to 100,- 000. Tack heads flat and squaro indic ated cities between 100,000 and 200,000, tack heads round but with depression on | the top Bhowed cities of greater size. "Bounding" the States is an easy mat ter to the pupil. Taking Missouri, for example, child requested to do the work began by placing the hand fiat on the block, to get a general idea of its postion; then the forefinger found the northwest corner, ran rapidly along the lowa line, followed and passed to Helena, where a pause was made, the name read, and the mistake discovered, returned, found the line, traced it to the west, along the south ern limits of Pemiscot and Dunklin coun ties, missed it again at the St. Francis River, recovered it, went north, found the line at Butler county, ran it to the cor ner of McDonald county, thence along the western boundary to the starting point, and then gave the whole result or ally without a moment's hesitation. By means of these dissected maps a fair idea is also gained by the pupils of the respective size of various countries and States. When asked to compare Ohio with Texas, the boy laid the Ohio block on the Texas map, measured it off, turned it this way, that way, carefully keeping the count with his fingers on the space alroady covered, and fiually an nounced that Texas, according to his idea, was about five times as large as Ohio, a calculation close enough to the truth to excite wonder at the accuracy rather than the crticism of its lack of exactness. Dis sected maps of every continent are pro- I vided, and a large globe, made on the | principles which underlie the construction ' of the maps, enables the pupils to gain a fair general idea of the shape and geo graphical features of our planet. Geo graphy, in most schools, is used as an aid to the study of history, and is studied, not as a collection of meaningless names, but as a subject which throws indispensable light on the deeds and words of mankind. —[Globe-Democrat. Dog-Infested Denver. The stranger visiting Denver, Col., is at once struck with tne enormous num ber of dogs which everywhere abound. In respect to its canines the queen city is the Constantinople of America so far as their census is concerned. There are dogs of all ages, all sizes, all breeds and curs of all degrees. The streets are full of them, and when you see a front yard, and nearly every residence in Denver possesses one, it is a sure thing that a "dawg" is in it, and the odds are equally as great as there will be a mate in the back yard. Were the dog laws here car ried out as strictly as they are in eastern cities the dog tax would almost equal the revenue from real estate, for the statutes require dog owners to pay $2 a year for eachfuiale pup and $5 for each female, but he law is virtually a dead letter. Unlike the scavengers of the capital of Turkey, however, the quadrupeds of Denver are notable for the vast number of aristocrats among them. Fine setters and spaniels that make a sportsmuu feel wickedly covetous meet one on every street, and I venture to say there are more greyhounds in Arapahoe county than in any other county in the world. Lithe, slender, sharp-muzzled creatures, keen-eyed, graceful and fleet as the an telope, trot unconcernedly along as you pause and admire their beauty and re alize that beneath the sleek coat there is more endurance and power and unfalter ing determination than there is in all the rest of a canine aristocracy put together. There is a reason for their existence in such numbers, and that reason has four legs, a pair of ears that are predominant, an apology for a caudal extremity, and a vast amount of sprinting power con cealed about its person.—-[Washington Star. A Cure for Headache. I wonder how many women really appreciate the value of "a laying on of hauds" in cases of nervous headaches. There is a budding physician in nearly every household who could be a minister ing angel to mother and sisters if she were conscious of the latent power within her and had any desire for the part. All that is necessary is sympathy, patience and personal magnetism—of which there is a good deal more than the possessors usually suppose. The patient should be stretched out at length on a comfortable sofa or bed and her head placed in an easy position. The ministering angel should take her stand behind the patient and place her hands on the latter's forehead, with her fingers tips touching in the centre. The hands must then be drawn back to the sufferer's temples with an even, regular, soothing motion, which should be continued ton or twelve minutes without intermission. If the palms grow too warm they may be dipped in water, but should be thorough ly dried before the massage treatment is resumed. It is wonderful what a soothing, com forting effect this has. Some people possess the magnetism, or whatever it may be called, in a much greater degree than others, and the writer knows ot half a dozen women who can cure a serious case of nervous headache in fifteen or twenty minutes. The patient usually goes peacefully to sleep, and awakens to nnd the pain gone and life again worth living. The plan is at least worth try —[New York World. Effects of Coca Leaves. The incroase of one's power of endur ance by the use of coca leaves, especially in the higher altitudes, is something mar, velous. Aside from relieving sirroche the distressing difficulty of breathing in cideut to exercise in the thin air of the Andes, it is said to completely abolish all I sense of hunger and fatigue. It is an I undoubted fact that an Indian, when well supplied with coca, will travel from fifty | to seventy-five miles a day, carrying on j his back the load of a llama, almost witli j out food for days together. Indeed he considers food as of secondary importance, I or rather third on the list of necessities, j diluted alcohol coming next to coca. All I the Aymaras and Quichuas, of Bolivia, I male and female, use incredible quantities of both alcohol and coca, while their allowance of food is very small, the menu befhg limited to but two or three edibles from one year's end to another. That the women consume even more than the men is perhaps no more than fair, , since the former do all the hardest work and earn most all the money.—[ Washing ton Star. Rats and Cats. Here is a story about cats, the last chapter of which is connected with the recent demolition of the old Halle aux Bles in Paris. About twenty years ago this cat colony was founded in the most natural way in the world. One tine day the millers became aware of the fact that an innumerable army of rats was en camped in the Italic. The invaders tore the sacks and helped themselves freely to the contents. With the view of put ting an end to this bad state of affairs the millers placed rat traps in all the corners of the old building, but this turned out to be useless. Then they had recourse to the naturul enemies of rats, I and a few cats were installed in the Halle, j For some time everything went on very i well. The cats created such havoc and I increased and multiplied so rapidly that j in a short time the place became uuten i able for rats and the siege was raised. I But in a few more years the cats became : so numerous that they in turn were an intolerable nuisance. The directors of the Halle then purchased about half a dozen bulldogs, specially trained to kill cats; but, as the French say, the ex pedient didn't have any suites, because the cats took refuge in inaccessible places and looked down upon the dogs with contempt. Then the directors un | dertook to starve them out, but that J plan didn't work either, because all tlyj j old women in the neighborhood began jto feed them. And so they went on still j increasing. In despair the directors sent | to the police hcadquurters a formal com plaint against the cats; and when all the formalities were duly complied with an officer was scut out with a package of poison from the municipal laboratory, and the poison, it was expected, would in a few hours destroy the whole colony. ! But here again disappointment was cre ! ated, for the cunning things refused to ■ fulfil the conditions of the tempting pro j gramme. In other words, they left the j poisoned meat for the dogs. The latter, i less wise, devoured it and died, while I the Toms and Tabbys enjoyed themselves at the feasts which the old women guve I them. Then war was declared in dead ; earnest. Under the command of M. | Mouqin an army of commissioned in i spectors supplied themselves with Flo j bert carbines, advanced upon the llulle, opened tire upon the cats, and brought j them down to a reasonable number. A ! great number of fugitives, however, that had escuped from the slaughter, en- I camped in the ruins of the old building, , but, now that these ruins are removed, the cats that got away are reduced to the condition of tramps. Hard Riding. During the last century when long jour neys, called riding posts, were much in vogue in Europe among the aristocracy and wealthy and sporting men, a match was made between Mr. Shafts and Mr. > May well for 1,000 guineas, Mr. Shafts to find a man who would ride 100 miles per day for twenty consecutive days. There was a great deal of mofiy bet on this thing, principally against it beiug done. It was well known, however, that distances of 800 to 1,200 or even 1,500 miles had frequently bceu covered at the rate of from 100 to 120 or even 150 miles per diem, but the knowing ones thought that the enormous distance of 2,700 miles at 100 per day would be like ly to break any horseman down. Never theless Mr. John Shafts performed the feat without any extra fatigue or punish ment. He used thirty horses, and rode three or four of them each day. In Turkey the Sultan's mails and des patches from outlying provinces used to be carried by Tartars riding post, with relays of horses changed every twenty or thirty miles, and are now in some parts of the country where telegraphs have not been established. The same man in cliargo went the whole distance: these couriers would often perform great feats of en durance. From Bagdad to Constant!- j nople is 1,000 miles, not over a level or rolling prairie, but frequently crossing mountain ranges, along precipices, across torrents, Ac., and there is not u mile of made road the whole way, yet the ; ordinary time the Tartars took to perforin the distance was a fortnight, and on ur- j gent occasions it has been done in twelve I days, and even in eleven days. There is no doubt whatever about this, because this route through Asia Minor, from the Persian Gulf, was, in former days, before the Red Sea route was es tablished, often used by officers and others who did not mind rough travel and were in a hurry to get home or to get out to ludia, and they often rode with the Tartars from end to end, besides which the British resident at Bugdad, or, rather the residency, was for more than a century in the habit of transmit ting despatches from India to Constanti nople and Europe by these same carriers. As much as 150 miles per day has often been done for eight or ten days by the Tartars. They only rested four hours out of the twenty-four, and pushed on the rest of the time at a rate of six to ten miles au hour.—[Galveston News. Water and Watches. In the recent disaster at Lake Pepin in Northern Minnesota, when a steamer and a barge were overturned by a storm, causing loss of life, it was noticed that the watch of Mr. Peterson, one of the victims, went for about three hours in the water. I asked one of the intelli gent gentlemen who preside at the watch counter of Tiffany & Co. about this, and he said: "Water does not stop a watch until it reaches the escapement. Water might be in the works— that would not stop it necessarily, until, as 1 have said, it comes in contact with the vital parts. I have seen heavy silver watches running very well day after day in a glass of wa ter, placed there for the purpose of show ing that they are air-tight and water tight. Of course an air-tight watch keeps out the dust, which is essential, but which docs not, of course, prevent the oil in the works from drying up. When the oil dries up, the watch must be looked after, oven if dust has not got into it. Of course,, the other theory about the watoh on Lake Pepin is that it was not going at all at the time of the disaster (about half past eight) but that it happened to be set at half past eleven. '' —[Epoch 1 PADDY'S POI CABB. Mo Plnatoua for Pol Bolter*. Geu. 8., a one-armed veteran of the war, was sitting in his office one day when there came a timid rap at his door. "Corner called out the officer in his prompt and military way. The door opened and disclosed the figure of an Irishman, shabby and ill at ease, his clothes fitting him like a yard of can vas on a picket-fence. The visitor made an awkward at tempt at a military salute, and twirling his slouch hat sat gingerly down on the j edge of a chair. " What can I do for you, my man ?" asked the General kindly, as his eye ' fell upon the army blue. "Bedad, it ain't for mesilf Oi'm axin' it?" "For a friend?" "Oxactly, sor! Yez see, it was a pe culiar kess, sor, an' it's a pinsion Oi'm afther!" i " Whose pension ?" "A pinsion for the widdy of Paddy Maginnis— pace to his sowl 1" "What is the trouble about getting the widow a pension?" | "Well, sor, some sez that Paddy's disability was 'not incurred in the loin av juty,' sor!" | "State your case, and I can advise you better afterwards." "Yia, sor; thank }*e, Oiuerl. Here goes, sor! It was this way: It was whin we was layin' aroun' Frederioks burg, sor, wid moity slim rations, sor, that we med oop our moinds that we mus' git soom eatables soom place or 'nuther, an' Paddy Maginnis, he sez t' me, sez 'e, 'Mikey, Oi'm that impty that Oi could walk t'rough a crack wiclout techin' ayther side,' sez 'e. Paddy was a gret b'y for his joke— was Paddy. Will, sez Oi, let's skirmish aroun' 011 \he outskirts, sez Oi, an' mebbe we kin strike a bonanzy, sez Oi. Will, sor, we did. Just outside av camp we mit an i 010 crather sellin' w'at she called swate i petafcy poi! an' Paddy guv her a dollar j shin plaster for a oooplel Well, sor, | tha# night Paddy Maginnis was took j thr'„ sick wid his stomich that Oi niver ; seen the bate av it; an' Oiwas moighty j sick mesilf, bedad; an' by the toitn ! Paddy had lived till mornin' he was as dead as a sardyne! Well, sor, Paddy had a big family an' nobody but their | Jore little sickly mother t' work for ihim 1 But whiniver Oi sav anything about Paddy's kess, iverybody begins t' snioker. Wan sez, 'Thiol Southern pois kilt more than the intire Southern musketry!' or 'Come off wid yer poi pinsion kess!' or 'Old man, how much tolc do ye git out o' thim pois?' "Ginerl, Oi tell you, sor, that no man kin foight on an impty stomach iny more than he kin work on it! An' Oi insist, sor, that in thim instances poi is just as much in the loin av duty as rifles is, sor! an' Oi hope, sor, that you'll oxcuse me for sayin that there is seoh a thing ez bein' too—too—too— ! ad—adjective funny in pinsion mathers! (Oi niver ouss in the prisince ov me superiors, sor!") "Have you proof positive of all this?" , "Oi have, sor!" "The pies were poisoned to kill off the hungry soldiers?" "They was, sor!" "Well, Mr.—Mr. • "Murphy, soi l" "Well, Mr. Murphy, I think your case is meritorious." "Yis, sor; does that mane it's O. K. ?" i "Yes, my man! And I think it will ■ be properly adjudicated. Have you been to the Commissioner?" "Now, sor, they sid in Hardscrabble that uo poi boiter would iver draw nd pinsion!" "I'll see to this matter," said the General, the corner of his mouth twitcliiug. He did, and poor Paddy Maginnis's honest, hard-working little widow not her iust rights. An Extravagant Queen. The only queen of to-day who can match the Empress Eugenie's extrav agance of former days is the Queen of Portugal, who spends money in the same reckless manner and buys by the wholesale. Bhe does not wait to ex amine and make her selection before fiurch&sing. She buys all the styles of he day direct from Paris, giving orders for the leading houses to send anything that is new and beautiful, wears what pleases her and casts aside the rest. She has good taste, and when one of these collections of dresses, mantles, hats, gloves, boots, laces, etc., arrives from Paris, she makes a long study of each article, trying on many things, studying the combination with the lines of her figure, the color of her hair, until j she gets a harmony perfect in all its ! details. She is generous and loves to j imake costly and eccentric gifts, but in j jfchat way no one has surpassed the beautiful Queen of Hollaud. On her husband's recent birthday she presented him with an enormous boquet of flow ers, so heavy that it required several serving men to carry it. As it was brought close to the throne the old King stooped forward to examine it, when amidst the flowers the head of his little infant daughter penned out. The turning point in woman's life brings peculiar weaknesses and ailments. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription brings relief and cure. It is a powerful, invigorating, restorative tonic and nervine. It imparts strength to the whole system in general, and to the uterine organs and appendages in particular. (t Run-down," debilitated and duii cate women need it. It's a legiti mate medicine purely vegetable, . perfectly harmless. It's guaranteed to give satisfaction in every case, or money refunded. Nothing else does as much. You only pay for the good you get. Can you ask more? As a regulator and promoter of functional action, at that critical period of change from girlhood to womanhood, " Favorite Prescrip tion " is a perfectly safe remedial agent, and can produce only good results. It is equally efficacious and valuable in its effects when taken for those disorders and derange ments incident to that later and most critical period, known " The Change of Life." JAn Unprofitable Job. Houuekeeper—Why don't you go to work ? Tramp—l've got a job, mum. I'm treasurer of the Chicago World's Fair fund, mum. "Huh? You? Why, you're in rags und tatters." "Yes'm. There ain't enough come in yet to cit me a suit of clothes." — New York' Weekly, FITS stopped free by DR. KUNHI GREAI NERVE: RESTORER. NO fru after first dav'i use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and %i ma. bottle free. Dr. Kline. ll Arch St., PhUa.. Pa Good fortune seldom comos p urp an( j single, unattended by some troublesome or unexpected circumstance. BKKCHAH'S Pillßcure Bilious and Nervous Ills In art, oratory, music, mere loudness or demonstration is not a sign of strength; it is rather proof of weakness. , W. H. Griffln, Jackson, Mich., writes: "Suf- i fared with Catarrh for fifteen years, Hall's Ca- I tarrh Cure cured me." Sold by Druggists, 75c. We may concede any man a right without j ; doing any man a wrong, hut we can favor no one without injuring some one. ' You don't have to take, our x cord for the good i quality of iiobhias's Electric Soap. Just Kl .t one, bar of your grocer, let it tell you tisoum story next Monday and be governed by tlmt, > OO'.d or bad. lie mom bar Dobbin*' * Electric. Emperor William will give no more jewelry to those whom he wislieN to honor. Instead, ho presents them with a photograph of him self, hearing his autograph ami set in a silver frame. U 84 ON® ENJOYS Both the method and results when Byrup of Figsistaken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts I gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- ' tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most j healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for Bale in 500 Md 31 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept *ny substitute. CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. OAL. HBOisriui. sr. new FORK. N.F. iPATEWTS^'S nPPUADn""'! VINK YARDS in Florida and UnUnAnU Virginia cheap. Send for circular. ! C. It. CD I, I, I N, >l.l, I N7 C'olcNt., i>lnron,Ga AtllOinilO OLU HETTLBU | PtNolUNo. .I! NDKR NEW LAW. ■ l'"lvliw Soldiers. Widows, Parents, BEAD for blank applications ana Information. PATRICK (I'KITUIL, Pension Agent, Washington. D. C. nnilltl HAniT. Only Ctnala ant IIHIIIM easy CURB In the World. Dr. VII IWIYV J. 1.. STEPHENS. Lebanon. 0 ; i DCIICinMC r i rcliOlUliaamsrSfS? . ' plication. Employ the old reliable flrra, I J. 11. CRA LLF. A: CO., Washington, D. C. CANNABIS INDICA, The Great Bast India Remedy. I I Imported by CHADDOCK A CO., 1083 Race street, ■ | Philadelphia, Pa. Is warranted to cure Consumption.Bronchitis, Asthma and Nasal Catarrh. | And will break up a fresh cold In 24 hours. Bkeptlo. usk your druggist for It. One bottle will satisfy vou ■■ its merits. s2.fo per pita bottle, or tlirec hi tties | to. Hi nd for circular. WALL PAPER BARGAINS! I We will guarantee all these clean new goods Just made, and full length—B yards to the roll. ' An 8-yd, roll Wlilte bnck Paper, 3 to oc. | An 8-yl. roll Gilt Paper. 5 to 10c. V ii N-yd. roll Embossed € Silt Pnper, 8 to 13c. Gill Borders, 1 to 18 Inches wide, *2 and 3c. per yard. Borders without Gilt. 2 to 9 Inches 10. per yard. 1 Son I 4c. In stamps for samples of the best and great, st bargains in the country. F. 11. CA.DY, 303 HIGH STREET, , I Mention this paper. Providence. R. I. | rear WATERPROOF COLLAR ' CUFF ' THAT CAN BE RELIED ON BE UP Not to erpllt; THE MARK Not tO DlSOOlOri ——J BEARS THIS MARK. i^feFliuLOlD MARK. REEDS NO LAUNDERING. OAN RE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. rfhe greyest-burden* 6^?^t^esaen! BURDEN Ibis b.so!id coJieof-scoui-infieo&p e jjs ed Jx>r cleejiir\£ purposes^- What would you give for a Friend who would take half your hard work off your shoulders and do it without a murmur ? What would you give to find an assistant in your housework that would keep your floors and walls clean, and your kitchen bright, and yet never grow ugly over the matter of hard work ? Sapolio is just such a friend and can be bought at all grocers. Pure Blood Is Essential to Health. To Have Pure Blood Take Hood's Sarsaparilla Dcuoinuc ® reat PENSION Bill rCPIOIUnO is Passed. titled to •19 u mo. Fee 111) when you gel'l'our money! blanks free. JOSEPH H. Ill.vmi, Auj, Wa.blo,tu, u , D. L FRAZERg^fM BMT IN Tilß WOKL9 II ft CM O C ; Qot the Genuine, Sold Everywhere. 7"1.> to 8"l„ interest 100 anil tipw.ril. Semrit.es anil In tereet guaranteed. References furnished on appli cation. Correspondence solicited Address. FIRST STATE BANK, BaoimtS, NEB. FIENSIONAVf, <3l£jms. Svrsin last war. 15 adjudicating i Joints. attv uui WNI. FITCH & CO., 102 Corcoran building, Washington, D. C. PENSION ATTORNEYS of over 23 years' experience. Successfully prose cute pensions and claims of all kinds In shortest possible time. BJfNu !• KK unless SUCCESSFUL. nrucmuc new LAW CLAIMS. rln oIU n 0 Ap s ,y Kilo B. Stevens &Ca 1 Attorneys, 1419 P St., Washington, B.C. llranch OIBc, Cleveland. Detroit.Chicago* CALIFORNIA KXt'I'KHIONH Weekly. Lowest rates and Ifcst accommodation* to all points West. I..M.WALTI;KSA<'< ).,:M7 I'.r 1.1 \ IV. N- wYoikCity ■ Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Is the |H Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. ■ Sold bv druggists or sent by mail. 50c. K. T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa. I NO ONE NEED SUFFER. J Dr, Tobias' Celebrated Venetian Liniment acts like a charm for Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, Dysentery-, Colic, Cramps, Nausea, Sick Headache, Sc. Warranted perfectly harmless. (See OA Til AC COMPANYING each bottie, also directions FOK USK.) Its SOOTHING and i'ENKTK Vi'lNU qual ities are felt Immediately. Try it and be con vinced. Price 35 and 50 cents, sold by all drug gist*. Depot. 4" Murray St., N. Y. t | EWIS' 98