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.
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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.
BEECHAM'S PILLS
(Vegetable)
What They Are For
Biliousness indigestion sallow skin
dyspepsia bad taste in the mouth pimples
sick headache foul breath torpid liver
bilious headache loss of appetite depression of spirits
when these conditions are caused by constipation ; and con
stipation is the most frequent cause of all of them.
One of the most important things for everybody to
learn is that constipation causes more than half the sick
ness in the world; and it can all be prevented. Go by
the book.
Write to B. F. Allen Company, 365 Canal street, New
York, for the little book on CONSTIPATION (its causes con
sequences and correction); sent free. If you are not within
reach of a druggist, the pills will be sent by mail, 25 cents.
"Better Work Wisely Than Work Hard." Great Efforts
are Unnecessary in Hsuse Gleaning if you Uso
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The practical value of a groat
man's friendship is illustrated by the
following anecdote: A gentleman
who had long been attached to Car
dinal Mazarln, and much esteemed
by that minister, but little assisted
in his tinan-cs by court favor, one
day told Ma/.arin of his many prom
ises and his dilatory performance.
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. Jr HKgra ach and 1 towels, and
BPH toning up and invigo
§BL hHH quickening its tardy
ralft HHHnction, ana you thero
cl n multitude of dis
tressing diseases, such ns headaches, indiges
tion, biliousness, skin diseases, lioils, carbun
cles, piles, fistulas and maladies too numerous
to mention.
If peoplo would pay moro attention to
properly regulating the notion of their bow
els, they would havo less frequent occasion
to call for their doctor's services to subduo
attacks of dangerous diseases.
That, of all known agents to accomplish
this purpose, Dr. Pierre's Pleasant Pellets
are unequalled, is proven by tho fact that
onco used, they aro always in favor. Their
secondary effect is to keep tho bowels open
and regular, not to further constipate, as is
tho caso with other pills. Hence, their great
popularity with sufferers from hubitual con
stipation. piles and indigestion.
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