THE BIGGEST BUREAU. A GLANCE AT THE UNITED STATES PENSION OFFICE. of a Pension—The Claim Traced From Its First Entrance Into the Office Until Its Allowance or Rejection. There is a great deal in the newh impers about this tine about pensions and pensioners, but who that reads all that is written knows anything about the pension office? According to the estimates of the Sccietary of the Trea sury for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, pensions and the pension bureau will require an appropri ation of over $140,000,000, that is a sum of money that is almost incomprehensible ; to ordinary people. It is over $2 for even* person in the United States. The machinery that will make the disburse ments will require $5,000,000 to keep it running. The stall of the pension of fice consists of nearly 0,000 people. There arc the United States examining surgeons, who are scattered nil over tlrn ' United States and whose duties consist in making physical examinations of np- ' pliennts for pension. There are the pen- j sion agents, who pay out the money to ' the pensioners. There are special ex ! aminers, who travel about and investi- ( gate eases of unusual complication or in which fraud is suspected. The pension office proper, the huge ; building of red brick that Gen. Meigs put up in Judiciary Square, contains the ; bulk of the men who give out pensions j or refuse to give them out, as the case ; may he. It is larger than several of the ; departments and is toagrentextcnt a de partment by itself. There" arc fifteen j divisions in it and each one of them does j an amount of business that is quite; astonishing, for there is no loafing there. ' No matter how hard the clerks work it j is almost impossible for them to keep abreast of the increasing tide of applica tions for pensions that come pouring in. ] These applications are for every concciv- I able ailment. Before the enactment of the dependent pension law every claimaut who made what is known as an "original invalid" claim—that is, a claim on his ; own account for a disability that he had incurred in the war—had to prove a | number of very difficult things. He had i to make it clear that he was himself first. Always the government requires proof of identity, and yet some clever scoundrels have imposed on the pension office in j this matter. Another form of imposi- j tion is that practiced by the gentler sex. j According to the pension laws the pen sion of a widow ceases as soon as she | gets married. Of course this is a hard- j ship to a great extent, because at that time, if she marries a poor man, she j needs money more than ever before; but : Uncle Sam doesn't look at it in that light and thinks that her new husband . ought to support his wife. The consc i qucnce of this is easily foreseen. Some ; of the ladies, wishing a husband and a pension at the same time, get married and never give the pension office a i chance to congratulate them, but con- I tinue to lead a dual existence, posing as i poor forlorn widows before the govern- ; ment and leading pleasant married lives at home. The dependent pension law lias made many claims easy to prove. After the claimant has established his identity it must be proved that he served ninety days in the army or navy and was honor ably discharged, aud that he is suffering from "mental or physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of his own vicious habits, which incapaci tates him from the performance of manual labor in such a degree as to ren der him unable to earn a support." But any claimant who prefers to claim under the old law may do so, and in this ca'e he has to prove that he served in the war, that he got disabled while in servit e and in line of duty, and that his dis ability, if a disease, has existed to a pensionable degree each and every year since the close of the war up to the pres ent time. The question of line of duty has pro duced many singular cases and has puz zled the pension ofiice sorely. Was a man who bought a pie from a huckster in a certain southern city where his regi ment was quartered and was poisoned \ by it in the line of duty, and having died from the elTects of the pic, is his widow ] entitled to a pension? He had his regu lar rations; the government never ordered him to eat a pie; is it responsi- \ ble for his death? On the other hand j is there.any probability that he would j have eaten the poisonous pic if he had stayed at home? Isn't the government ! responsible for having put him in a situation where he would be exposed to temptation of eating bad pies? Then there is the question of bathing iu creeks or rivers during a march. Some times the soldiers were ordered to go in and if anything happeucd then of course it was the government's fault, but often the soldiers used to like to take a swim without authority for doing so, and when anything befell them under such circum stances it was their own fault. Should the government he liable under these circumstances? Following the usual custom in such cases they are passed upon individually and the decision of the pension office is dependent largely upon the particular circumstances, but the tendency in late years has been toward liberal rather than strict decisions. Some of the claims that the pension office has on its files are curious ludeed. The writer once heard of a claim for the effects of the bite of a snake. The cluimant alleged that he went to sleep in hi 9 tent one day; that he was awakened by being stung; that he was sure it was a snake; that his heulth had been bad since. There was a man once who claimed pension for leprosy. When the examining surgeon examined him, he found white spots upon his skin caused by the loss of coloring matter in certain places, a harmless affection known in medicine a "veal skin." The claimant observing that he was spotted, as leop ards are, naturally supposed that he hui leprosy. It is n pity that there should be so many applications on file for pension from diseases that cannot be taken seri ously, because the claims interfere with the speedy adjudication of worthy claims. Let us briefly watch the course of a claim through the different divisions of the pension office. John Smith, us suppose, claimß pension for rheumatism contracted wl en he was serving in the swamps of Virginia. The declaration, or affidavit in which he sets forth the facts, is received by the mail division and stamped there. Then it is sent to the record division, where there are hundreds of enormous books in which the names of all applicants arc tran scribed, and where a number is given to the claim and where it is put up in a neat, tough paper jacket. From the record division it goes to one of the ad joining divisions. If it comes from a Penusylvanian or a Michigan man it goes to the Middle division; if from a New Yorker, to the Knstern division or to the Bouthcrn or Western division, as the oase may be. When it reaches the flies of one of the divisions it may be con sidered as having been launched on its career. An examiner is given charge of it, and it is his duty to call for all the evidence necessary to establish it as a good or bad claim. John Smith's rheu matism is investigated from every point of view, and the correctness of his testi mony is tested as well as it can be on a purely cx parte system. In the hands of the examiner the claim stays until it is completed. Sometimes it takes a few months only to reach a stage of comple tion, and sometimes, too ofteu in -fact, it takes years. There are plenty of claims still pending in the pension office that are ten years old, there are more that are live j*ears old, and there are even some that are a quarter of a century old. When the examiner has brought the j claim to a complete state lie briefs the papers in it and submits it to the Beard of Review for admission or rcjectior, as the ease may be. The Board of Review, if it thinks the claim requires more evi dence, returns it to the division from whence it came, where it undergoes more treatment from the Examiner, but if, on the other hand, the Board of Re view approves the findings of the Exam iner and allows the claim it goes to the certificate division, where a pension certificate is issued. If the claim is re jected it is sent to the rejected files of the adjudicating division from whence it emanated.—( Washington Star. OLDEST CHAIR IN AMERICA. Carved Out of One Block of Wood and Came from the Bahamas. The oldest chair in America is carved out of a single block of wood, and in full size is about thirty inches long. The front.is cut out in the shape of tlie "man-turtle;" the legs stand for the j clumsy limbs of the animal, and you sit 011 his back. The oldest piece of parlor furniture in America came from the Bahama Islands, the spot where Columbus first landed, and the natives did not have high backed chairs as we have. They rested and slept in hammocks, hamacas they called them, and we borrowed both the form and the name. You sit on this chair just as you lie in a hammock, for which it is in truth a wooden and elegant substitute. Your feet rest on the ground by the side of the turtle's forefeet, and your whole body lies along ou the hammock-chair, your head resting on the extreme end. 1 cannot tell you how happy I was the first time I reclined 011 this curious couch gazing up into the sky and think ing of the time when the voyagers of 1492 landed at Guanahani and saw the dusky savages sleeping in hammocks, says a writer. But I must tell you how I came to be so certain about the antiquity of my treasure. Well, I sunpose there is no doubt that Columbus landed first on the Bahamas. This very chair was found in a cave on the islands by an acquaintance of mine who was exploring for bats. He also recovered stone implements and other relics of Carib occupation, but these do not concern us uow. But how do I know that such things were used by the Columbus Indians? Might not this chair have been made hundreds of years afterward? The great discoverer and his followers de stroyed and removed all the savages of this region and substituted negro slaves: the African s are good carvers anci we often see pictures of chiefs sitting on stools carved from a single block of wood. True, and that is a fair question. This very objection puzzled me a long time until one day 1 was reading the account of Columbus's voyage by old Herrera, and popped on the following paragraph, which settled the matter finally: "When the ship was ready to sail the Spaniards returned on the sth of Novem ber with three of the native Indians, say ing they had traveled twenty-two leagues and found a village of lifty houses, anil that they contained about one thousand persons, because a whole generation lived in a house; and that the prime men came out to meet them, led them by the arms and lodged them in one of the new houses, causing them to sit down on seats made of a solid piece of wood in the shape of a beast with very short legs and the tail held up the head before with eyes and ears of gold." Now, what have you to say against my chair? I have some doubt about the eyes and ears of gold. They might have been of very brilliant shell, be cause all our Indians use mother-of pearl and other tests of mollusks for in laying. How Spiders Kill. Spiders kill their prey by the agency of a poisonous fluid, which is secreted in a gland, and which flows at will to the extremity of one of the fauces or jaws. Some writers have denied the existcuce of this poisonous substance; but the effects which a spider's bite have been known to have upon a human being prove undoubtedly that it is present. Persons who have been bitten by a very large South American spider, knows as the Myyale fuwa, have felt the effects in the recurrence of severe pains in the portion of the body attacked for as long as twelve or even twenty years after the infliction of the wound. The stories told of the disastrous effects of the bite 9 of the tar antula are, however, quite fabulous. Everybody has heard of the belief, held by the inhabitants of the district around Turantum, that if one chanced to be bit ten by a tarantula, he became subject to a dire disease which could only be cured by musical strains. The disease no doubt existed, and wa9 probably a form of hysteria, in the cure of which music may have proved beneficial, but to saddle an iunoceut spider with the odiutn of producing it was distinctly unfair. The destructive powers of spiders do not Btop short at killing insects, for some tropical species habitually catch and eat small birds. The accounts first given of these formidable creatures were for a long time looked upon as mere travelers' tales, but more recent observa tions have fully confirmed the statements made by those who originally described them. The birds are not caught in suares, for these spiders spin no webs. They conceal themselves in crevices or under leaves and from some such retreat pounce upon th: birds they have suc ceeded in approaching. A great deal of their hunting is done during the dark hours of night, when they are able to steal upon their prey without being per ceived. They ofteu rule the nests of humming birds, dragging out the young and devouring them, while the distracted parent birds nutter helplessly around.— [Longman's Magazine. Prehistoric Ruins in Kentucky, Quite a curiosity, which has caused considerable talk, has been discovered five miles from Russellville, Ky. On a high, cliffy, miniature mountain, so j thickly overgrown with cedars as to ren ' der the passage of human beings almost i impossible, was accidentally discovered what is supposed to have once been s city. Here and there for several hundred yards iu every direction were found the half-buried ruiiis of what were once the home of a people of whom we know nothing. A quarry close at hand showed evidence of having been worked in the long ago, and from its capacious bosom the material with which the houses had been constructed was taken. The most wonderful thing seen was the one build ing, which has stood the storms of ages and is still intact and good for centuries more. It is a square building about 30x40 feet, and is built of huge blocks of stone, which are fully ten feet long by five wide in the foundation, and grow smaller higher up, until at the top, thirty-five feet from the ground, the cap stones will measure about three feet square. The unanimous opinion of all who have visited the ruins is that this must have been built and used as a fort by the inhabitants of the town in the time of danger.--[Globe-Democrat. KILLING MEN IN BATTLE. An Army Officer's Recollections of War Times. "When a man goes into a battle it is presumably with the intention of doing some killing," said an ex-army officer to a writer for the Washington Star. "And yet I never knew a soldier who liked to feel that he had himself with his own hands actually slain an individual foe. There is an intoxication in the melee of conflict, but no man likes to feel that his own pistol shot or bayonet thrust has taken away the life of a fellow being. "Perhaps ,1 should except from this general statement the typical sharpshoot er, who cultivates an instinct of warfare that approaches the murderous. I have never been able to see how a man could deliberately take up a station in a tree top or rifle pit and mark down for death, one after another, individuals whose lives were solely at the mercy of his scientific aim. Of course, war is always savagery, but there is an element of cer tainty iu the sharpshootingbusiness that, to my notion, approaches very near to murder. "I vividly recall to mind one experi- j encc of my own while with a skirmish ! party at the second battle of Bull Bun. The tight had just begun and a Con- 1 federate scout approached without knowing it very close to a clump of trees I behind which my little detachment was i concealed. Catching sight of us sud denly he wheeled his horse like a flash and was off. On the spur of the moment I tired my pistol right at him and a second later he wheeled in his saddle and fell out of it. The tight swept over in our direction and I saw 110 more for the time being of my victim; but, though I was in the thick of the fray for most of the time for the next few hours, I could not get out of my mind the hor ror of the idea that 1 had killed that man. Not only had I taken away his life, but very likely had I made his wife a widow, and his children fatherless. That night when we went into camp I had this oppressive feeling still on my mind, when, to my great delight, I saw the man that I had killed, evidently a prisoner, sitting on the stump of a tree with his arm in a sling. " 'My dear fellow,' I exclaimed, with much cordiality, approaching him, T trust that you are not seriously hurt.' " 'Naw,'replied the Confederate, dry ly. 'When you [fired at me my horse shied aud broke my arm against a tree. Your bullet didn't hit me at all.' "1 do assure you I never was more re lieved in all my life. "But the most painful experience that I met with during the war was at Chan celcrsville. I found one of our men, when the fire was pretty hot, skulking behind a log. " 'This'll never do, man!' T shouted in his ear. 'Get up there aud take your place iu the line.' "I took him by the scruff of the neck —for he was seized with a panic—and shoved him forward. As I did so, with my hand on his collar, a chance bullet struck him on the forehead and he fell dead without a cry. "The shock that incident gave me I have never entirely recovered from. I felt that I had killed that man. The fact that I was in a position of equal danger with himself did not affect my moral impression as to the occurrence. It seemed as if I had deliberately forced him into the path of the bullet, and that I was responsible for his death. Such, in one sense, was true, aud yet, of course, I was not in any just way re sponsible. But I shall never get over the haunting recollection." ▲ Celebrated Duel. Many duels have occurred, first and last, upou the field of Bladeusburg, near Washington, most of thern, perhaps, of later date than the two described, but owin<£ perhaps to the less prominent position of the parties scant record has been preserved. The celebrated encoun ter between the Hon. Henry Clay aud the Hon. John Randolph, in 1826, did not occur here, but took place just across the Potomac on the Virginia shore, a few miles above Georgetown. This grew out of the Presidential election in 1824, in which the candidates were Adams, Crawford, Jackson, and Clay. Jackson had received the highest number of electoral votes, but not having a ma jority, as required by the Constitution, the election was thrown into the House of Representatives, where, by a combina tion between the friends of Clay and Adams, the latter was chosen. The sup porters of Jackson were highly indig nant, and when Clay became the Secre tary of State under the new Administra tion they raised the cry of a "corrupt bargain and sale," though there never was the smallest particle of evidence in support of such charge. Randolph, a Senator in Congress from Virginia, in delivering a speech one day iu that body, referred to the affair as "a coalition be tween Blifil and Black George, the Puri tan aud the blackleg." The Kentucky statesman immediately challenged the eccentric Virginian, the oartel was promptly accepted, and they met. Clay shot a hole through his antagonist's coat, Randolph fired in the air, and the parties immediately became reconciled and remained warm friends ever after ward.—[Magazine of American History. A Prize for the Ideal Couple. The "Dunmow Flitch" was a prize offered by Robert de Fitzwalter, at Dun mow, Essex, England, in the year 1224. It was established on the following con ditions: " That whatever married couple will go to the priory, and kneeling on two sharp pointed stones will swear they have not quarreled nor repented of their marriage within a year and a day after its celebration, shall receive a flitch of bacon." The prize was claimed for the first time two hundred years after it had been institu.ed, that is to say in 1445. From that date until 1751 only five per sous called for it; and after 1751 the flitch was left unclaimed till 1855. The tenth occasion of awarding this prize was j.a 1876. —[Courier-Journal. A peculiar fact with refer ence to Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is, that, unlike sarsaparillas and other blood medicines, which are, said to be good for the blood in March, April and May, the " Discovery" works equally well all the year round, and in all cases of blood-taints or humors, no matter what their name or nature. It's the cheapest blood purifier sold through drug gists. i Why ? Because it's sold on a peculiar plan , and you only pay for the good you get. Can you ask more? " Golden Medical Discov ery " is a concentrated vege table extract, put up in large bottles; contains no alcohol to inebriate, no syrup or sugar to derange digestion; is pleasant to the taste, and equally good for adults or children. The " Discovery " cures all 1 Skin, Scalp and Scrofulous j affections, as Eczema, Tetter, Salt-rheum, Fever-sores, White j Swellings, Hip - joint disease and kindred ailments. S4 Children | ( ~t -5a always j Enjoy ^_SOc] --pgCHAM'S PAINLESS. PILLS EFFECTUAL*^ \ WC WORTH A GUINEA A BOX. "*1 < For BILIOUS & NERVOUS DISORDERS S^ H ? Sick Headache, Weak Stomach, Impaired I < Digestion, Constipation, Disordered Liver, etc., ? < ACTINQ LIKE MAOIC on the vital organs, strengthening the ( < muscular system, and arousing with the rosebud of health L ? The Whole Physical Energy of the Human Frame. \ C Beecham's Pills, taken as directed, will quickly RESTORE ( < FEMALES to complete health. S < SOLD BY ALL DRUCGISTS. ) S Price, 25 cents per Box. ? S Prepared only by THOS. BEECHAM, St. Helena, Lancashire, England. / > JJ, J ALL EX CO., Sole Agents for TTnlttdL State*, 30S At 367 Cannl St., New ) \ York, who (If your druflffhit does not keep them) will mail Jb-rrham'a Cilia on \ f receipt of TANNING BY ELECTRICITY. A Queer Industrial Wrinkle Reported front France. For some time past reports have Leon current as to the perfection in France of a method of tanning by electricity, and the matter lias excited great curiosity I throughout the country. This country is, as America is, one of the largest leather producing countries in the world, and has no fewer than 3,000 or 4,000 tanning establishments. Within the present month the process lias ac tually been experimented with in America, and the results are now excit ing no small amount of discussion and controversy in leather circles. The pro cess, which is the invention of Worms & Bale, of Paris, has been under trial abroad since 1887, in a tannery in Paris and another large tannery has been started for the same purpose at Long Jumeau." A third plant has been es tablished in Bermondscy, the great [ leather district iu London. In this method the tanning is expedited in two i ways; first, by the agitation of the skins liu contact with the tanning liquor, and secondly by the passage of the electric current through the body of the liquid. To attain thece two ends a circular i drum is employed and as the drum ro tates current is passed through it by means of a wire brought to contacts at its side. The skins to undergo this process are prepared in the ordinary way, the hair being taken off by lime, and they are then put into the drum with the tanning solution. The current to which they are subjected averaged about 70 to 100 volts, and the direction of the current is changed every twelve hours, so as to act equally on the skins, which constitute the electrodes. During the operation the liberation of gas is in significant, so that the hides may be considered to act in the same way as the plates of an accumulator. Goat and sheep skins require forty-eight hours. Cow, steer and horse hides require from seventy-two to ninety-six hours, accord ing to their texture. The leather pro- i duced in this way has been examined by | experts and is said to bo of excellent j quality. Nine hundred and nineteen pounds of hide treated in this electrical manner at Newark gave 1,278 pounds of leather in four days, while 1,042 pounds of hidos, subjected to the action of the revolving drum, but without the current turned on, gave only 1,210 pounds of poorly tanned hides. Hence there ap pear to bo economics additional to those involved in the saving of time. As far as the electrical process goes, it may bo said that it is based upon thoroughly sound theoretical considerations, which have been tested and proved by some of the best known electricians in Franco and England. A Fact. (From an interview, N. Y. Wnr'd). In an interview with a leading drug-honse tlio JV. T*. Word , Nov. 0. ISM, gives the follow ing comment on the propiotorsof reliable pat ent medicines: "He is a specialist, and should know more of ihc disease ho actually treats than the ordin ary physician; for while the latter may como across says fifty cases in a year of the par tic ular disease which this medicine combats, its manufacturer investigates thousands. Don't you suppose his prescription, which yc u buy ready made up for 50 cents, is likely to do more good than that of the ordinary physi cian, who charges you anywhere fro • J2ti $M for giving it,and leaves you to pay the co \ of having it prepared? "The patent medicine man, ton, usually has the gooa sense to confine himself lo ordinary, every-day disease. He leaves to the physician cases in which there is immediate danger to liie, sack as violent fevers. He does this be cause, in the treatment of such cases, there : are other elements of importance besides | medicine, such as proper dieting, good nurs- I ing, a knowledge or lie patient's strength and soon. \N here t here is no absolute clanger to . dfe,where the disease is on* which the patient . can diagnose for i imself or w>iiehs.nte phy-d- j inn has already determined, the patent med- ; icine maker says fear.essly: '1 have a prep aration which is better tha > any other known j .ml which will cuto you.' In nine coses out j < C ten his statement is true." This isabs lately true as regards the great r. inedy for pain, St. Jacob's 01. It eau assert without fear o contradiction, that it is a •roiupt and permanent cure of pain. It can diow proofs of cures of chronic c ases of 20, 30 iml nteula of a single bottle. It is therefore the best. Miss Mary Gnrrett, of Baltimore, lios n hath in her home lined with Mexican onyx tho.t cost S6.t)UO. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, T LUCAS COUNTY, I FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the C.ty of Toledo, ouaty and Mate aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundre Dollars for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'SCATAURH CURE. r HANK .1. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this oth day of December, A. I)., 1880. . —A— . A. NY. GI.EASON, ' , > Notary Hall's Catarrh Cure is takon internally and acts directly on the blood and inuc us sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. XW Sold by Druggists, 75c. Strawberries fetch 15 cents a box at Po mona. Cal. U5 OIL 1* CURBS SURELY. *4| SPRAINS! BRUISES. OhlodkMiM.RallwfT. „ , . , Offlc. Prddent and '<6 Dolphin Street, General Manager, Baltimore. Md„ Cincinnati, Ohio ~ J IMft "My foot suddenly " WM bruised bed turued and gave me ly in hip and aide by a vry severely a fall and suffered se- ITpfu< Jacobs Oil resulted at completely cured once in a relief from me ." Ws. C. HARDEN, P *W.W. Pc*or.r, Mcmbe / ° r f Prcst. it Qen'l M.n'yr Leglnlature. THI CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. GaMauta. H. PATENTS ■ I K■ WI ■ W SK.M) FOR CIRCULAR. TACOMI CSI" KSSirKS \'ZSS??T. 1001 TMI IS. TACORA ISTESTRS.IT CO., TIWLLA, WASM.^ 13 afflicted with noreeycn use Dr. Isaac Thoinp- IM'I Fjo-water. Drug" iste sell at 23c. per bottle. A stingy man is the Inst man in the world to (iud out that he is one. Oklahoma G ulde Book a nd .Man sent any where on receipt of 50cts.Tyier ou is the tru li, and nothing but tho iruth; something well to remember! The Failure Of the kidneys and liver to properly removo the 1 lactic or urle acid from the system result* lu This acid accumulates In the fibrous tissues, particu larly in the joints, and causes inflammation and the terrible pains and aches, which ore more agonizing every time a movement Is made. Rheumatism Is to purify the blood. And to do this take the best blood purifier. Hood's Rarsaparllta. Hosts of friends testify to cures of rheumuUsm it has effected. Try it. Hood's Sarsaoarilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Ixtwell, Mass. 100 Doses Ono Dollar "German Syrup" For children a medi- J A Cough c j ne should be abso andCroup resl^ e * inotner must be able to Medicine, pin her faith to it as to her Bible. It must contain nothing violent, uncertain, or dangerous. It must be standard in material and manufacture. It must be plain and simple to admin ister; easy and pleasant to take. The child must like it. It must be prompt in action, giving immedi ate relief, as childrens' troubles come quick, grow fast, and end fatally or otherwise in a very short ! time. It must not only relieve quick ! but bring them around quick, as j children chafe aud fret and spoil their constitutions under long con- | finement. It must do its work in moderate doses. A large quantity of medicine in a child it not desira ble. It must not interfere with the child's spirits, appetite or general health. These things suit old as well as young folks, and make Bo schee's German Syrup the favorite family medicine. ® Best Truss Ever Used. Will hold the worst CHHO with Q-aiASt 10-li T RPa J JB mall everywhere. Send for descriptive catalogue and testimonial* to \ M U.V, llenae Mff.C'n. VF V y 744 Brand way, New York City. jCpU HChfseys# ho be done ? -"^Sf JSggT *—"Oughh stands for nothing! 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Rtftut Substitutions and/mnatumt. v I kff , All pills In pasteboard boxes, pink wrappers, are danjaerova counterfeit*- At DrafftsU, or Bend * V *©* *9 ,N U,N P" for particular!, testimonials, and "Keller far Indira," In t'ttrr, by return Mali. _A V If 10,000 TcaUmonlala. Sams Payor. CHICHKOTC* CHIMICAL CO.. MftdUnn KQ.AN, *\ Bold b T mU Locad f 5 \ /'JONES\ /TON SCALES \ ( OF \ RA —* ° H S6O BIHBHAMTON AWWiS VEwm Box Tars Beam J Y*?. N. Y. a. J IS! ON® ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it ia pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on theKidneyg, 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 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 sale in 60c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it ou hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. MVIBVIUC. KV. N£W YORK. N Y. P CONDITION POWDER ITlglilv concentrated. Dope small. In quantity costs ICSH than one-tenth cent a day per hen. Prevent* and cures all diseases. If you can't get it. we send by mail post-paid. One pack. 25c. Five sl. 2 141b. can $1.20/ 6 cans $5. Express paid. Testimonials free. Send stamps ct cash. Farmers' Poultry Ciui.le pi iec free with fI.OC orders or more. I. S. JOHNSON &. co.. Boston. Mass. 20O.; best, 25c. LEMABWB SILK MILL, Little Ferry N.J. A D - TAFT'B iSTRMAbWrn CURED::;:; THEIR.TAFTIRIS. W.CI..RICHESTER.M.T.T 9\ £• EI ■ DfTiiC STUDY. Book-fceeplag. Bustneiart>rm, pyjllnlk Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-ham#eta, 61 thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars Hrrant'■ College. -137 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y nippy |/li CCP POSITIVELY REMEDIED. DAUU I rVNttO Greely I'ant Stretcher. Adapted by students sit Harvard. Amherst, and other Colleges, also, bv professional and business men every where. II not for sale in your town send sc. to B. J. CiItEELY. 715 Washington Street, Boston. rre aiipg AXLE I e tlMfe bill AQC ! BBfiT 1W THE WOltLfi BSsImRSE 19 Get tho UenuliM. Sakl i>ery where. | Q R ATE FUL—COMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. j "By a thorough knowledge of the natural lawe ; wh ch govern the operatl >ns of digestion aud nutri- I ti >n, and by n careful applic ntion of tlie fine j roper j ties of uel-M leetel C.K-o.i, Mr. !:-■ s bus provided our breakfast tables with a delicately ilarourcd bev erage wiiioh may save us many heatv doctors' bills. It Is oy the JuJlcJoiu use of such articles of diet that n constitution may b gr oually built up until strong enough to rasist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies art Boating around us ready to attack wherever there Is a weak point. We may escnpe inauy a fatal shaft by keeping our selves well fortlrte.l with pure blooil a d a properly nourished frame."— "Civil Servioe 'rosette. " Made simply with boiling water or mfl'c. Fold only lu half-pound tins, y Groc r*. labelled thus-. JAMES EI'M &Coopathlo Chemtet* PURELY VEGETABLE. ") 25 CENTS PER BOX. THOROUGHLY RELIABLE. [ ABSOLUTELY SAFE. J age free, on receipt OI price. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. DR. J. H. SCHEUCK & SON, PHILADELPHIA, PA. -VASELINE FOR A ON K-DO 1.1,A It HI 1.1, sent us by mall i we will dellvi r, free oi all charges, to any person In ; the Uult d States, alt of the follow lug articles, care j fully packet: One two-ounoe bottle of Pure Vaseline, - . lOeta, One two-our.ee Udtle of Vaseline Pomade, - 15 44 One Jar of Vaseline Cold Cream, 15 44 One C'l ke of Vaseline Camphor Ice, • • • • 10 14 One Cake of Vaseline Soap, unacented, - * 10 44 One Cake of Vaseline Soap, exquisitely scented,2s " One two-ounce bott.e of White Vaselluis - - JO 14 11-10 Or for postage stamp* any single article at the prtos named. On no account he persuaded to accept from your druggist any Vaseline or preparation therefrom unless labelled with our name, because you wUI cer tainty receive on imitation which has Httle or no ralue Chmkrsugb Wfg. €?•., J4 Hui St., N. Y.