The Nub* the Beat* It Is probable that ninety-nine out of every 100 farmers In this country have the habit of shelling off the up per. itly defective grains of tho butts and nubs of their seed corn, and plating only the full shaped grains from the middle of the car. Till re cently this p actlce has n#vcr been questioned hut actual experiments sometimes reveals errors in our moat cherished traditions and customs, and so It may be In the selection of corn to plant. An Intelligent writer In the American Cultivator has an "Agricultural Item" that saves the nubs and butts of the cars that for a couple of centuries have been cast aside as no good. "Most furmers, In selecting their seed corn," says tho wrl.er, "break off the tip ends of tho ears, especially those where tho grains are either Imperfect or mal formed. It is probably tiue that corn from tho imporlectly developed tips cannot produce strong, vigorous plants, But there are some kinds of corn which, In favoruble seasons, (111 to the.r tip end with sound, well de veloped grain. It Is really larger and heavier than the pinched grains from the middle of the ear, where size Is diminished so as to make the regular nuin her of rows. There aie large grulns also at the butt of tho ear. Here the cob is larger and the grains have greater room for development. We remember an interesting experi ment tried some years ago by Dr. E. L. Sturdevant, in which a long strip 1 of corn was plantod just as It grew on the car. The plants from the round, large grains at the tip were strongest when they canio up and maintained their leadership through the season. Those from tho butt, which were also large, were next best, and the middle part of the cob pro duced tho joorest plants. Vet we have often seen both the tip and butt broken oIT before shelling for seed, thus saving for planting what this experiment showed to be the poorest grain on the car for seed." sicca:- Platen i.umoep, Charles D. Ivubach, a machlnlsi who lives at 2858 Elliott street, Bal tlmore, has secured a patent on i machine which metal-plates lumber. Mr. Kubach claims that the metal plated wood has stood tho tests o: fire and will prevent the spread o flames In any structure where thi framework Is so protected. Thli metal protection Is a piece of shee: steel that Is drawn over the lumbe: like a glove, by means of machinery rendering the space between the woof and the covering porfectly airtight The thickness of this covering li about that of writing paper, and car be manufactured and placed on lum ber at less than 1 cent per squari foot. This metal-plated lumber li not only fireproof, the Inventoi claims, but -will bo Impervious ti water and defy the havoc of rats. A NO-TO-BAC MIRACLE. PliYsirxi, rr.itl'K< TION pkkvented HY THE IISE OF TOBACCO. An Old Timer of Twenty-three Yearn' To bnrro Cliewlne nod HinoUlng Cured, and CJninn Twenty Ponndn In Thirty l>nys. LAKE GENEVA, Wis., July 21— Special.— Tho ladies of our beautiful little town are miking nn Interesting find nxolting tlmo for j tobncoo-ulng husbands, slnoo tho Injurious ofTeots of tobacco nn 1 tho easo with whioh it can l>e cured by a preparation called No- To-I)ac, lmvo been so plainly demonstrated by the euro of Mr. P C. Walto. In n written statement ho says : "I smoked and chewed tobacco for twenty-three ysars, and I am sit re that my case win one of the worst in this pnrt of the country. Even after I went to he 1 at night, if I woke up I WOtlld want to chew or smoke. It wis not only killing mo but my wife was also ailing from tho in jurious effects. Two boxes of No-To-Bao cured me, and I have no more desire for to bacco than I have to jump out of tho win dow. I have gained twenty pounds in thirty days, my wife is well, and wo are Indeed both happy to say that No-To-Bao is truly 'worth Its weight in gold' to us." The cure and improvement in Mr. Walte's case Is looked upon as a miracle—in fact, It Is tho talk of the town an 1 county, and It is % estimated that over a thousand tobacco users will be using No-To-Bac within a few weeks. The peculiarity about No-To-Bac as a patent medicine Is that tho makers, the Sterling Remedy Company, No. 45 Randolph etreot, Chicago, absolutely guarantee tho use of throe boxes to cure or refund tho money, and tho cost, #2.50, is so trifling as compared with the expensive and unneces sary use of tobacco that tobacco-using hus bands have no good excuse to offer when their wives insist upon taking No-To-Bao and getting results in the way of pure, sweet breath, wonderful improvement in their mental and physical condition, with n prac tical revitalization of their nlcotized nerves. Can't Blame Iler One of the leading bankers of Basle, when visiting the Menagerie Planet after a particularly copious repast, was induced to purchase a young and vicious lion, of which transaction, however, ho failed subsequently to retain any remembrance. The ar rival of the lion iirst alarmed and | then Infuriated the banker's wife to such a dojree that a dispute ensued, which has now resulted in a suit foi divorce. In Hot Weather Something is needed to keep up the appetite, assist digestion and give good, healthful sleep. For these purposes Hood's Bursa pa rtita is peculiarly adapted. As a blood pur- Mood's Barsa -1 !%%%%% parilla Ifler it has no equal. and It is chiefly by its I Ul power to make pure blood that it has won <%%<%%* such fame as a cure for scrofula, salt rheum and other similar diseases. Get Hood's. flood's Pills cure headacho and Indigestion. " "plTlo ' WHEN THE HEART'S IN ITS PRIME The Sun's on his throne, and the Wind on his tour Like wandering minstrel o'er moadow and moor, The day and the season are both in their prime, And youth's at its sweetest and tenderest time. The buds are fa bloom and the birds sing their best, The trees are in lent and tho orchard is dressed With olustering fruits, for the year's In its prime, And youth's at its ripost and tenderest time. Too soon shall the clouds cover sunshiny sky, Tho voice of tho minstrel be hushed to a sigh; Too soon shall the day and the season de cline, And clustering fruit shall bo molted to wine. The potnls shall fall and tho songsters de part, The foliage fade like the youth of the heart ; For swift runs the current of pitiless time, Aud always the swiftest when life's in its prime. Tho birds and the blossoms and fruit shall appear, With summer's return and the turn of tho year, The breezes shall bo sweet and the sun be ns fair; Alas ! but the prime of my youth is not there. Each month of the year has its prime, but in truth There's only the prime in the season of youth, Though hearts lovo again, and shall love for nil time, There's only one love when the heart's in its prime. —Mary Berri Chapman, in tho Century. THE MAPLE SUGAR CAMP. BY AMY BANDOBrH. Ji DIAMOND, .Tack? A y-real diamond ! Oh, J fl I how bright it is, like jlf /II a spark of white lire ! Like a star, dropped '.JfT down out of the sky ! 'JjljrjWX \ I never saw a dia- Ml mond before ; and to think that it is mine ! De>r Jack, I t couldn't possib 1 y li i"— love you any more than I did before, but I do love you, oh, so much I" The little bit of love making took place under the frost bound apple trees of the Sack Orchard, where Esther Elmford was standing, with a white woolen hood wrapped tightly over her curls and a black and-scarlet plaid shawl enfolding her, mummy fashion. She was a tail, rosy-cheeked girl, with n complexion horn of moun tain breezes and eyes that shone with ruddy health—no ideal sylph, but rather a rosy, wholesome, dimpled human girl like Wordsworth's hero ine— "Not to sweet or good For human nature's daily food." And as she looked at the tiny, glitter ing stone, the sparkles under her eye lashes were a dead match for it. "But you must not wear it every day, Essie, yon know," said John Jef ferson. "Why not?" Her countenance fell. "You wanted our engagement kept a secret," you know." "Sol did. Anything but the gos sip of tho whole combined neighbor hood !" cried Esther, with a moue of distaste. Well, anyhow, I can put a black velvet ribbon through it and hang it around my nook !" "But you haven't paid me for it yet." "Paid yon, you mercenary fellow!" "One kisß, Eesie! I don't often get a chance to claim it, you know." She poised herself on tiptoe to ac cord tho demanded royalty, and then ran, laughing, away toward her home. "How generous he is! she kept re peating to herelf. "A real diamond!" When she got back to the kitchen of the roomy old farmhouse, whore Mrs. Elmford was frying crullers iu an atmosphere of fragrant blue smoke, that lady cast a discontented glance at her. "Seems to mo you've been n long timo gettin' that spotted calf into the barnyard," said she. "Was I long, mother? But ho got clear down the lane, and tho orchard gate was open," equivocated Miss Esther. "Tho Strikor gals stopped here for you. They was goin' up to the Ma ple Sugar Camp with a lot o' fresh baked bread and pies for Tom and Leonidas, and they waited for you till they was clear out o' patience," added Mrs. Elmford, fishing another tin skimmer full of crisp brown beauties out of the bubbling mass of fat and landing them in the bine stone jar, afterword to be liberally sprinkled with white sugar. "Oh, mother, can I go?" said Esth er, eagerly. "I'm sure I could over take them in five minutes." "I've no objection," said Mrs. Elm ford." And you might take a basket of these 'ere crulls to your Uncle Peter. He's dreadful partial to fried cakes, and he thinks there are ain't none like them I make arter Mother Elmford's receipt." Esther was right. In less than the specified five minutes she had man aged to overtake Alice and Jessamine Striker, with their baskets of fresh provisions to the dwellers in Maple Sugar Camp, on Giant Hill, where the supreme process of "sugaring off" was just then in full blast. But in the two minutes during which she put on her fur-bordered hood and fieece lined mittens upstairs, she had slyly slipped the diamond ring on the first linger of her left hand. "I shall be wearing it," she said to herself, "and no one be any tho wiser." Tho Striker girls welcomed her joy ously. "It's so nice to have you," said Alice. " Jessamine declared you would not go, but—" "Why shouldn't 1 go?" said Esther. "Don't I go up every year wheu they are sugaring off?*' Jessamine Striker began to giggle. "Yes," said she, "but our Leonidas has never been there until this season, and Mr. Jefferson has never been so particular in his attentions to you be fore." Esther crimsoned to the roots of her hair. "What ridiculous nonsense!" said she. "Ob, is it, though?" retorted Jessa mine. "When all the world knows that Jack Jefferson is as jealous as Othello." Esther walked on, with silent dig nity. In her secret heart she was be ginning to regret that she had put her self out to accompany these silly girls. "Don't miud Jess, dear," said good humored Alice Striker, slipping her hand through Esther's arm. "She will giggle at everything—it's her na ture. Isn't this a charming morning? I heard a blue-bird in the swamp down by the river, and there's a lot of yel low jonquils in bloom in Anne Rebec ca's window-box. The snow is thaw ing in the sunshine, but the walking is good yet, and Leon ssys the maple trees have never given a better yield." Up at the Hugar camp, all was life and animation. Blue threads of smoke wound upward to the sky from the chimneys of the two or three board shanties, thatched with strips of bark and trusses of straw, whore the •'hands" kept house in a gypsy fash ion. The groat kettles where the sirup was boiling down to the requisite solidity were watched by select de putations, lest the fires should slacken or the saccharine masses scorch, while others were attending to the im promptu stone chimney in tho open air, while the carcass of a wild turkey was whirling around and around in front of the blaze, impolled by a most ingenious rotary spit, and a nest of potatoes was baking in tho hot ashes below. The girls were joyfully wel comed. Uucle Peter chuckled aloud at the sight oi the crullers made after his mother's time-honored recipe. The two young Strikers extended a hospi table invitation to their meal, even now in process of preparation. "Leon shot the turkey yesterday by Lone Lake," said Tom. "And it's a prime one, you bet. Rather nicer than the salt cod-fish we had reckoned on." But Esther declined to say. "I'll just take a look at the sugar kettles," said she, "and then hurry back to mother. We're going to have the parson's folks to tea, and there's a deal to do." Leonidas Striker escorted her to the largest kettle of all, ordinarily called "Big Bon," and gave her the mounter stick to stir the bubbling waves of sweetness. "There," said he, "you can say you've helped to sugar off this year. Isn't it a splendid yield? And maple sugar's going to be high this season ! Oh, you'd better stay, Esther, there's a lot of young folks coming up this afternoon, and Darky Jones is to bo hero with his fiddle!" "Oh, I couldn't, possibly!" said Esther. Iu truth aud in fact she had not been quite at her ease since Jessa mine's unlucky allusion to Othello in conjunction with Mr. Jefferson ; and she diil not breathe freely again until she had reached home, where her mother was just clearing away the dinner dishes. "Has any one been hero?" said "Who should be here?" counter questioned Mrs. Elmford. "I don't expect Elder Morris's folks until four o'clock." As Esther took off her things in the littlo chamber upstairs, whore the Bhinglcd roof sloped down to the eaves, Bho glanced down at the en gagement finger. Terror of terrors, the sparkling little ring was gone! It was past four o'clock. Mrs. Morris was droning away in the sit ting-room about the last missionary box which had been sent out to the Hongara Indian Reservation; Miss Adelgitha Morris was admiring her hostess's most recent crazy patchwork ; the two little Morrises were playing checkers, aud the good elder himself was laying down tomes of theological law to Farmer Elmford; while Esther, with tear-swollen eyes, was mixing a batch of biscuits for tea in the kitchen. All of a sudden she caught sight of John Jefferson riding past on his gray pony, with averted face. In an iustant she caught down the shawl that hung on the peg back of the buttery door, and muffling it around her head and shoulders, darted across the snowy back-yard where sho could intercept her lover at the curvo of the road. "Jack! Jack 1" she cried, piteously. "I've lost it I Your ring! Oh, Jack, do say something to comfort me I I am so unhappy. " Mr. Jefferson drew up his steed and faced Esther with a scornful light in l\is eyes whioh she had never seen be fore. "Yes," said he, calmly; "I knew you had lost it. I know how you lost it. I know to whom you have given it." Essie stood dumb before the cruel emphasis of his words. "I was at the Sugar Camp an hour ago," said he. "Some one told me you had gone there, and I was going to bring you home. And I saw your ring on Leonidas Striker's watch guard. Wasn't that rather soon to transfer your last lover's gift to your old swain? Would it not have been better taste of him to display your pledge a little less publicly ?" "Jack, Jack!" pleaded Essie, hold ing lip her hands, as if every word were a blow. "X need detain von no longer," he said, as he bowed frigidly and touched the neck of his horse with his whip lash, and the next minute he was gone. Poor Essie dragged herself back to the house, the toars freezing on her cheek and her heart colder still. Was she the victim of enchantment ? What did all this mean? Tea was over at least, but Esther Elmford did not know whether she had eaten hot biscuit or cold, hasty pudding. She had listened, with a vague, unmeaning smile, to Mrs. Mor ris's prolonged account of little Tommy's last siege of diphtheria and Miss Adelgitha's proposed visit to New York. It was almost as if brain nnd nerve were benumbed, when Jessa mine Striker's clear, sweet voice 6truck across the current of her hopeless apnthy and she found herself in a con fidential corner of the best bedroom upstairs, with Jessamine eagerly har anguing her. "The strangest thing!" cried Jessa mine. "Ho found it in the maple sugar kettle. Alice had made some flannel cakes, and ho dipped out a dipperful of the hot sirup for us to eat with it, and Leon came within one of swallowing the ring. 'Whoso is it?' said he. 'Why, Essie Elmford's, of course,' said I. 'Didn't I see the sparkle of it when 8110 took off her mitten to unfasten the lid of the bas ket thut held Uncle Peter'a crullers? And it must have slipped oil her finger,' said he, 'when she went to stir the sugar in the kettle.' So he hung it on his watch-chain for safekeeping until we came home, and here it is." Esther murmured a word or two of thanks. "I was very careless," said she. But even after Jessamino was gone, she sat Btaring at the pretty trinket which had so nearly been boiled down into maple sugar. What was the use of it now? What was the use of any thing?" "Esther! Esther!" her father called up the narrow wooden stairway. "Here's Mr. Jefferson wants to speak to you!" How strangely all these things seemed to succued one another, like the dull lapses of a dream. She knew not how, but she was standing, with Jack's arm around her, her troubled eyes looking up into his. "My own darling," he whispered, "can you ever forgive me for being such a brute? I have just seen that Striker follow. He's not such a bad lot, after all, aud everything is ex; plained. Sweetheart, say that you forgive me I I never shall forgive myself." And all the horrid nightmare feel ing was over, aud the engagement was a secret no longer, and poor little Esther Elmford was happy again. "But I don't think,"said she, "that I shall ever want to taste maple sugar again. Not just yet, at all events!" —Now York Ledger. A Smokeless Locomotive. Recently in Austria a most success ful and satisfactory trial was mndo of a smoke-consuming apparatus to loco motives and doubtless suitable for all other steam engines. A number of practical and scientific guests made the trip between Vienna and Zuaim, a distance of about Bixty-two miles, be hind an absolutely smokeless locomo tive. Open cars were used and even at a speed of over forty-five miles por hour, nothing but clear-water stoam was emitted, and no smoke, sparks or cinders, nnd even the guests riding on the locomotive, found at the end of the journey that their coats, linen and hands were as clean as when they started. This apparatus is an auto matic device, attached to the outside of the boiler, which supplies the lire with just enough air to consume the smoke and gas. Over the fire a steam veil whirls and mixes the air and gas, and this burned gas is forced against tho boiler and every particle of heat is utilized. It is claimod that a sav ing of from ten to twenty-five per cent, is effected in heat-giving ma terial. This device has been in con stant use for over two years aud has been found entirely satisfactory. The invention is astonishingly simple in construction and operation and soon saves its cost. A Bpecial advantage of the apparatus is that it can bo readily attached to any locomotivo or station ary boiler without tho slightest alter ation of the general system used in either.—Atlanta Constitution. lias a Peculiar Malady. Tko fourteen year old son of a man named Emory, at Buffalo, Xud., is af fleeted with a peculiar malady. Al though apparently otherwise possessed of ordinary intelligence, he has always had a mania for snakes and wants to catch and play with them whenever and wherever found. Lost Thursday he was bitten by a viper and, although his life was snved by prompt medical attention, he is frequently seized with spasms in which he has tho exact char acteristics of a reptile, darting out his tongue, snapping at people, and worm' ing his shoulders about in imitation of a crawling snake, until three men are unable to hold him.—Ohioago Times. The World is Washing Away. Au interesting calculation has re cently been made public through tho French Academy of Soiences. It is to the effect that taking into considera tion the wear and tear on the solid land by ocean lashing, river erosion and wind and weather, to aay nothing of probable voleauio action, the world will, by the end of the year 4,500,000, be completely washed away, and the ocean will roll over the present foun dations of the great continents.—New York Telegram. ITS ORIGIN. There was a poet who would sing Iu light, bewitching rhyme, Of any man or anything, At any place or time; And when au editor ono day Had caught him unawares, He wrote a verse about the way He Went Down Stairs. And ever since that time, tho bard, When Inspirations flow Is said to find it very hard To keop from writing so , And every poet, young or gray, His tribute fondly bears, To blm who wrote about the way He Went Down Btalrs. —Washington Slur. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Love is a charming hostoss, but an oxaoting guest. Lofty idealists arc usually men who aro too lazy to work.—Puck. Truth is mighty; but it will not prevail in a horse trade. —Puck. People do a great deal of talking about tho lost art of conversation.— Puck. The great beauty of adversity as a medicine is that it is not sugar coated. Puck. Vokes—"ls Miss Crnmmer emanci pated?" Carson—"Well, she Bhavcs. —Truth. Exeoutive ability is the fnculty of gotting some one else to do your work.—Puck. The bost way for some pcoplo to fcrge to the front is for them tp take a back sent. —Dallas News. When a man makes a blunder he can't blame on somebody else, he decides to say nothing about it.-- Atchison Globe. The Kentucky six-footer whoso bride is only three feet high is no doubt very proud of his better half.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Talk about your mosquito const!" said the muu as he tenderly rubbed tho shining surface on his bald head. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Lady—"How is this insect powder to be applied?" Assistant (absent mindedly)—"Give 'em a teaspoonful after each meal." —Tit-Hits. He—"l've bought you a pet mon key to amuse you, darling." She "Ob, how kind of you! Now I shan't miss you when you are away."—Tit- Bits. "I wish you would give us some thing more on current topics." "Here's the very thiug; an article on the overhead trolley."—Washington Star. Good intent is but added exaspera tion when its consequences are disas trous. The man killed accidentally is just as dead as tho man murdered. Truth. Mr. Flitty—"l had all the conceit taken out of me yesterday." Miss Victor—"Really ? How did they carry it off? On a lreight train."—Detroit Freo Press. Professor (to class in political econ omy)—"Whnt is tho hardest tax to raise?" Student (whoso mother is houßecleaning) —' 'Curpot tacks."—De troit Free Press. "Tho teacher says your Freddie wastes a great deal of his timo at school." Mother—"Well, I'm glad to hear it, for I was afraid lie didn't go half the time." —Chicago lutor-Oceau. Servant "Ploase, mum, Mrs. Next doo wants you to loud her somo read ing suitable for a sick person." Mistress " Certainly. Give her those medical almanacs."—Now York Weekly. Wife—"How people gaze at my now dress! I presume they wonder if I've been shopping in Paris." Hus baud —"More likely they wonder if I've been robbing a bank." —Now York Weekly. "Don't you consider Miss Bondby rather dull?" said one society man. "Well," replied another, "after tho manner in which she out you this morniug I can't say that I do."— Washington Star Lord do Void (to Miss Budd, whom he meets traveling on tho contincut) —"I thought once that all the pwotty Amerwioan girls came abwoad, but when I went to New York I decided that they all stayed at home."— Judge, Miss Skrnmehns—"l was so digest ed to seo people take up their ear of corn in their fingers. 1 always use a knife to detach the corn from the ear." Mrs. Homespnn—"Well, I suppose a knife answers right well where one has no teeth."—Boston Transcript. Edith—"What a quick turn for repnrteo Harry Prinoe has I" Mabel "But ho never says anything to wound one's feelings." Edith—"And then he's so gallant 1 You should think the world of him. Ho was so prompt in your defence tho other day I Somebody remarked, 'Thero aro no frills on Mabel Stone,' and Harry replied, 'On the contrary, she is distinctly plain.' "—Boston Tran script. A Wellesley College girl tells of a bright saying of one of their numbor. Tho class was selecting a motto, and "To tby own self be true," was sug gested, after a number of others had been disapproved of, and mat with quite a favorable reception till a young lady arose, and said she hardly thought that appropriate for a young ladies' seminary—"For it shall fol low, as tho night the day, thou wilt not then be false to any man." Amidst great applause they discarded that motto.—Housekeeper. | The Best Things § | to Eat | Arc made with ROYAL BAKING POWDER— f? j|j bread, biscuit, cake, rolls, muffins, crusts, and the va rious pastries requiring a leavening or raising agent. Risen with ROYAL BAKING POWDER, all these W things arc superlatively light, s*/cet, tender, delicious and wholesome. te, % ROYAL BAKING POWDER is the greatest of time and labor savers to the pastry cook. Besides, it p economizes flour, butter and eggs, and, best of all, makes & the food more digestible and healthful. & 1! r ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WALL 8T„ NEW-YORK. Comogglo, in spito of tho greatness of his' works,lived and died in almost pitiful pover ty. Dr. Kilmer's RWAMP-ROOT euros all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Labratory Bingham pton.N.Y. Tliero is a twin crystal of emerald in St Petersburg 7 inches long, 4 broad and weigh ing pounds. The I.(idles. Tho pleasant effect and perfect safety with which indies may use the California liquid lax ative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions j makes it their favorito remedy. To get the truo and genuine article, look for the name of tho California Fig Syrup Co., printed noar tho bottom of tho package. Cantarini was poisoned by a jealous pro-! fesslonal rival whom ho had injured in busi- ; ness. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Trieo 75c. Karl's Clover Root, the great blood purifier, gives freshness ami clearness to tho complex ion and cures const ipntion, 25 cts.. 50 cts., 81. If afflicted with MU'CI'VCNIISU Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle. ' The Voice. The man with a husky voice It never fanguine. He is a pessimist, and gazes with unexpected eyes ai tho progress of events. Quick, sharp ly define 1 tones denote the energetic man, the originator of projects. Thej characterize the "man of the world,* the man of action, not of thought The slow and hesitating speaker it rarely quick in action. Ills mental processes are tardy, though the prod ucts may be of permanent value. In decision is his chief defect, and h< is never guilty of energetic resolve. The man of great intellect and good heart has usually a rich and pleasing voice. In ordinary conversation It Is low tonod, serene, and distinct. In tho heat of friendly debate it rolls forth in loud but harmonious vibra tions. No Rorhors Thero. Among the Ainu tribe, in Japan, a beard is considered so necessary to beauty that the women tattoo their faces to make up for their beardless- ! ness. 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The cardinal, who had a great regard for tho man and was unwilling to lose his friendship, patiently ex plained to him the many demands made upon a person in his situation as minister, and which It would be politic to satisfy previous to other re quests, as they were founded on services done to tho state. "My Lord," replied his companion, "all the favor I expect at your hands Is this, that whenever we meet in pub lic you will do me the honor to tap me ou the shoulder in an unreserved manner." In two or three years tho friend of the became a wealthy man on tho credit of the minister's attentions to him; and Mazarln used to laugh, together with his confidant, at the folly of tho world in granting their protection to persons on such slight security. gA ASSIST NATURE ft littlo now and then, removing offending matter from the stom ggs. 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