WOMEN AT THIRTY-FIVE.
Admitting That She KJver Gote There. That
Ie Her Most (.harming Age.
In reality, at 35 a woman Is still
pausing at the height of her personal
charm. She gained the height per
haps seven or eight years before, has
bad small experience of sorrow and
pain and apprehension, has not had
too hard work for mind or body, has
bad but little illness, has kept her
temper and spared herself worry, she
has not fairly begun the descent; or
If sne has, then there is a slightly
pathetic charm about her, says Har
per's ljazaar, as about the golden
tarnish of a rose that drops its ilrst
petal, but is still the rose.
For into the beauty of 20, gradually
unfolding and expanding up to 25
or 2(i, tho soul unfolding and ex
panding, too, has infiltrated a new
quality, one which is wanting to
youth except in extraordinary in
stances, and this beauty of spirit and
of intellect has been added to beauty
of flesh with ever-increasing power.
And then just as the contours begin
to yield and tho beauty of tho flesh
assumes a doubtful part, when diet
and exercise and massage and sleep,
and the right colors, and not too
much light, ail have to he carefully
considered, and a veil is needed to
hide the line times when in the sun—
and if Petty gives "tho cheek a touch
of red" and the hair a dust of gold
powder It is not our affair to know of
It, nor does it diminish the fascina
tion she unconsciously exerts —then,
if she improved the years, comes the
lecond stage-the stage of a superior
laptivation to that exercised by the
mere llesliy beauty. It is iu the years
it this period that unconsciously and
unwillingly women charm men much
roungcr than themselves, and always
men of rather extraordinary intel
lectual power, into proposals of mar
riage. At this time aw iinan un
derstands herself and knows how to
balance and counterbalance the cir
cumstances of the world about her.
She has probably read many books,
rhe has seen many people; if she
amounts to anything worth consid
ering she has tat t and skill and case
cf manner, she has learned some
thing of the intricacies of human na
ture and of the secrets of tho heart;
ihe has learned how to render not
only herself but her surroundings at
tractive; she is no longer exacting; she
makes people near her comfortableisho
puts them into conceit of themselves
that inexplicably pleasant mood.
And people seek her presently for
the sake of being comfortable, and
lor the delightful atmosphere that
her presence seems to create; men
admire her, women adore her, young
people follow her; she is a social
power; and is of more weight and
consequence than any young person
not upon a throne —for although she
live 11 threescore and ten, her throne
is upon men's hearts.
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and Stanley says the reptiles crawl
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Stamps for tnnking goods wero in use at
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incurable. For a great many yearn doctors pro
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THE BOBOLINK.
Out in the clover blowing free
A3 tho whito clouds roil nwny
in a mad-cap ripplo of ocstasy
He's pouring his merry lay.
Neath tbo bluo of the poacoful summer
skies,
Whore the boos round tho flowers throng,
His wake, as o'er the ilold ho ilio3 f
Is a bubbling trail of song.
Db, bobolinkurn, by fancy loJ,
What a happy fate to wing
O'er tho sea of clovor billowy rod,
With nothing to do but sing.
It. K. Muukittrick, in Harper's Bazar.
SHE ramp APPLES.
BY GEORGE W. SYMOND3.
t PPLES, oranges,
Jf\ \ nuts, Mul ag a
// \\ grapes and ii-u-o
1, \\ confectionery I"
/y —* \ It was the shrill,
/i, 7 1 \ yet, withal, niu
sical voico of the
I train-boy, calling
wares i that
Eben Hal
-1 rom the com
k doze that
bo was taking.
He started up
\ with an air which
said as plainly as
though lie had spoken, "I was not
asleep, ladies and gentlemen—just
thinking!" and ho took a quick sur
vey of the Pullman car, in whicb, af
ter an absence of eighteen years, he
was being whirled back to what his
fellow raueliers on the great plains of
Western Texas called tho ".States."
Thete were only u few through pas
sengers, and they did not interest
hiui.
The oncoming train-boy did, or at
least the pile of ruddy-cheeked apples
in one corner of tho basket bo carried
did.
"Iswow!" muttered Eben, rubbing
his eyes, "Those look like tho 'sheep
fold apples' that used to grow on the
old farm. llow little Annie Davis and
I-"
He stopped very suddenly, and his
bronzed face grew stern and grave.
It was the lirst time that name had
passed his lips in all the years of his
exile.
"Apples, sir?"
It was the train-boy who asked tho
question, for his quick eye had seen
whither tho burly passenger's glances
were directed, and lie held up a tempt
ing specimen of tho fruit.
"They are delicious eating, sir—the
most delicious of ilavors —can recom
mend them. Two for live cents."
"Recommend them, do you?" said
Eben, quizzically.
"Yes, 3irree!"
"Eat 'em yourself?"
"I might say that I was rained ou
those apples, sir. They grow ou our
place. 1 live a mile from Talbot, tho
next station beyond—get off there and
take tho west-bound express back to
Clinton. Have tome, sir?"
"They look nice," said Eben, medi
tatively. "What variety are they?"
"We call 'cm tho shcopfold ap
ples?"
"What?"
The exclamation camo with such
suddenness that the boy started back
and glanced at his prospective custom
er apprehensively.
Ebon had sprung from his scat, and
his sinewy fingers were clutched about
the lad's arm in a vise like grip.
"Say that again !" ho cried, "Not
bheepi'old apples?"
"That's what I said," answered tho
boy, recovering liis courage after one
glance at the Texan's good-natured
face. "Only please don't grip my arm
so tight. It hurK"
"Oh—ah—forgivo mo! I forgot
myself," stammered Eben; and be
sank back in the seat again. "Rut
that name and the siglit of those ap
ples carried mo back a great mauy
years, to people and a place that I—"
He did not liuish tho sentence, for
there was a sudden jar, a grinding
wrench that seemed to twist the long,
straight car to a spiral, ami Eben, the
train-boy, tho basket of fruit and con
fectionery, the car seats, Ebon's two
valises and a confused mas 3 of broken
timbers and bent rods and girders
were crushed together in an indistin
guishable mass of wreckage.
The New York and Chicago Limited
had jumped the track, owing to a de
fective rail, aud the six cars compos
ing the train had "tumbled over ft
steep bank, ami lay a wreck in the
rocky ravine at its base.
Eben Hallctt was momentarily
stunned by the shock, but bo speedily
recovered himself, wormed his way
out from under tho debris that was
piled upon him, and crawled through
a shattered window of tho car,
"That was a close shave!" ho ex
claimed, recovering his wonted cool
ness as soon as he discovered that,
with the exception of' a few scratches
and a slight cut on the back of his
hand, ho was uninjured. "Gracious
me—tho apple boy !"
With the instinctive chivalry of a
bravo man, lie had leaped down upon
the car ugaiu, upon finding that he
was unhurt, eager to render assistance
to his less fortunate fellow-passengers,
who were moaning with puinor shout
iug with terror under tho hoap of
wreckage.
Tho first sight that met his eyes as
lie peered through tho window was tho
lace of the train-boy, buif hidden
among the debris.
It was whito as death, and Eben's
heart throbbed sympathetically and
eorrowl'ullv.
"Those seats pin him down," he
muttered. "I'll soou havo him out.
Hope he isn't dead."
He seized hold upon the wreckage,
and exerting his giant strength, soon
bad enough of it removed to be able to
lit'i tho boy in his arms.
Tiglilly clutched iuiono of tho lad's
hands was a shcopfold 1 apple.
Pushing tho body through tho win
dow, Elieu crawled out, and taking up
his burden again, earried it to the side
of tho ravine, where thoro iwas a pile
of dead leaves.
He noticed that tho boyfs right log
hung limp and distorted, f and ho laid
him down very tenderly.;
For a moment ho bentfover tho boy
and straightened out thotbroken limb.
A feeble moan issucd'froin the white
lips.
"Thank the fates ! lie lives!" cried
Eben; and he to tho work
of rescue.
Tho newspaper accounts of tho ac
cident paid glowing tributo to "tho
courage and gallantry of/ one of the
Pullman passengers, Ebcnlllallet, Esq.,
a Texas cattle baron, whosoinoblo work
of rescue was instrumental. in saving
many lives."
It was tho truth, for bnforn all the
wounded were removed* tho wreck
caught fire, and the few ' whoso lives
and limbs, like El>eu's had been mi
raculously spared, would never have
been able to have gotten lout their le3S
fortunate fellow-travolore, but for tho
burly Texan's herculean dabor3.
Skirting the ravino wluero tho wrock
lay was a woodland, and/ beyond that
a succession of fortile Ofir-o farms.
To the nearest house , ran a brake
man for assistance. •
Soon the whole neighborhood was
aroused, and farmerslin their wagons,
filled with straw, caniu flocking to tho
BXJOt.
Only three persons Jiad liccn killed,
but more than two-scone were wounded,
and it taxed tho capiucity of tho big
wagons to the utmostitoaccommoduto
the suffer era.
Tho locomotive, forbunntely, had
kept the track, soon as the na
ture of the wreck Itecame known, the
engineer put on all isteani and dashed
on to Talbot for assistance.
Having helpod to rennove the last of
the wounded from tho, wreck, Ebon
Hallet returned to his fyoung friend,
the train-boy.
The la.l was still in a swoon, but
Eben laved the whito face with water
brought iu his doubled hands from a
near-by pond, atud forced a swallow
between the boy'sicolorless lips.
Theso ministrations causod him to
open his blue eyes w<onderingly, and
Then close them again with a mouu of
pain.
"You'ro nil right," said Ebon,
soothingly. "Your log is broken, but
it will soon hoal. Lay perfectly quiet*
and trust to me."
The boy raised histhaml ; it was the '
one in which hoistill' clutched tho ap-J
l>lo.
At siglit of itllio smiled feebly.
"J remember now," hoiwhispercd,
faintly. "We were talking) about/the
sheopfoldrf. What happened?"
"Train jumpedithc track," answered
Eben.
Aud ho would have explained all
about the wreck had not a couple of
farmers come forward'witlqa stretcher
to carry tho wounded boyf to one of
the wagons.
"Lord bless us!" said the foremost
man. "It's Gale Giveus'slittle Billy."
"Hullo, Mr. Stetson !" saiilitho.boy.
"Take 1110 home to mother."
Then turning to Eben lie asked:
"Won't you come with me, sir? You
shall havo all the shoopfolds yo.u can
eat."'
"Reckon I will," answered f Eben,
grimly.
And he took .a scat ill lho#wagonibc
side the wounded boy.
The faruior drove slowly, and not a
word was spoken duringthu journey.
Ebeu Hullet, busy with bis
thoughts, saw only a sweet-facodjgirl,
who laughingly caught tho/rosy
checked apples he\tossed dowufto her l
from tk'jßproading\braucke3 of fa great
tree that overhung a shoepiold onithat
rugged Now Engbiud farm ho hadlioft/
so many years before.
"hJho married Calo Givens," ho<
mused; "but I thought they 'werot
still iu Naumkeag. But then 1 haven't
heard from thero since Belinda Wil
kins wrote mo that Am—
to got married. AmMliis is her boy. I
Well, well, time brings about strange.
things. I wonder if she'll know'me,
and what she'll say, and whether'—"
His meditations wore broken injup
on by the stopping of the wagon.
lie glanced up quickly. They/were
opposite a comfortable /looking 'farm
houso that stood back ujshort distance
from the road.
"Hero we be." said the farmer..
"Audthere comes Miss Annie."
Eben's heart gave abound as hosaw
coming toward him a sweet-Sacod
woman—the Annie of other days ma
tured.
"What is it, Mr. Stetson?"shoasked.
And the tones of her voice mused a
thrill to shoot through Ebcn Hallot's
body.
Before tbo former could answer, he
stepped forward and raised hisfhat.
"There is 110 cause for lalarm,
madam," he said. "Your little son—.
William, I think he is called—hasi
met—"
He stopped short, for another noiso i
broke in upon him, and another wo
man, with Annie's features, butf older
and more careworn, bounded j down I
the garden path toward thorn.
"My boy—my Willie!" sho cried,!
and would have leaped into the wagon,
had Eben not interposed and restrained i
her.
Briefly he explained about the acci
dent and quieted the fears of thetwo
women.
Both ran back to the house to pre
pare a bed for the wounded boy. and
Ebon assisted Farmer Stetson to carry 1
the lad in.
"Sho don't recognize me," he j
thought.
But after Willie had been undressed
and placed in bed, and be was about
to take his departure with a few civil
words of sympathy, the boy spoke up.
"Aunt Annie," he said, "this gen-
tleman was very kind to mo. He was
about buying some of tko Hkeepfolds
when the train jumpedtho track."
It must have been tho picture of
long ago that that name conjurod up
which caused Eben Hallet to start
and his swarthy face to flush.
The wounded lad's aunt glanced at
him nharply and then uttered a low
cry.
"Ebenllallet!" she gasped. "You?"
She hold out her hands, and there
was something in tho expression of
her faco that caused tho Texan to seizo
them in a firm grasp and lead her
from the room.
It was under an applo trco similar
to tho ono on tho old Massachusetts
farm—in fact, it had been grafted
with a scion from tho parent stem
that tho two halted.
What they said to each other does
not interest tho reader.
A great mistake had been made years
before because of tho idle and malic
ious gossip of the girl who had written
Eben that letter from his old home,
which had hardened his heart against
all women.
"I -I—somehow thought that wo
should meet agaiu, Ehcu!" said Annie
Davis, when, holding her in his strong
arms, ho told her of tho love that even
belief in her periidy had never driven
out of his heart; "and—and—l'm so
happy!"
"And so am I!" cried Eben, kissing
her. "I'm tho happiest man in Amer
ica, and when we're married and I
tako you back to my ranch in Texas,
' we'll carry along a whole box of scions,
and I'll graft every applo treo on my
place with sheepfolds."—Saturday
: Night.
How Desert Plants Live.
I F. V. Covillo, Botanist to tho United
States Department of Agriculture, in
his admirable "Flora of the Death
Valley Expedition," dwells on a point
I incidentally treated 011 by other au
l thors, that apparently herbaceous
I plants in our "American deserts" have
I really underground trunks, often going
!to great depths into tho earth. In
j this way plants can live through long
I droughts with very little loss of mois
l ttire, Mr. Covillo also remarks on tho
comparatively small foliage surface of
tho plants of these regions, large-leaved
plants being very rare. Out of forty
one species of woody plants, tho leaves
of which wore measured, only four had
leaves of over tho fifth a square
inch. Plants which in other parts of
tho world liavo berried or pulpy fruits,
have allied representatives here bear
ing dry fruits. How theso desert plants
become co-related to tho circum
stances is a great question. Some con
tend that they gradually changed
through tho influence of many years
of environment, while others contend
1 that the geological and geographical
conditions, known under tho •general
term environment, wore not of grad
ual but of somewhat sudden introduc
tions, and that plants unsuited to these
sudden changes would all havo died
before the change in their constitu
tions could havo been effected. Tho
great question of tho origin of this pe
culiar desert flora will possibly be set
tled wheu moro facts are brought to
bear on tho generalizations. —New
York Independent.
f To Build a Tunnel for Moving a Library.
It is known to only a few that a
tunnel is to be constructed in Wash
ington from tho crypt of the Capitol
under the earst park to tho vaults of
tho great building for the Congres
sional Library, now in course of con
struction. The plans for tho tuuncl
have been completed and work upon
it will soon bo begun, that it may bo
finished in season to be used for tho
transportation of the nearly 1,000,00:)
books and pamphlets which make up
the vast bulk of the library from the
old rooms to tho new. It is probable
that a temporary railway will be laid
in tho tunnel that cars may bo em
ployed to carry a largo quantity of
books at once.
One of tho most remarkable trans
'fers of tho kind in tho history of
| libraries was that in Borliu some years
ago, when a regiment of soldiers wore
put to the work, received their bur
dens, ami marched and counter
marched under perfect discipline,
accomplishing in a short time the vast
labor of removal.
It is possible that when tho now
Jbuiiding is occupied a pneumatic tubo
may be laid through the tunnel that
Congressmen may immediately receive
books which they desire to consult
without tho trouble and loss of time
which would be entailed in goiug to
tho library in person or awaiting a
trip by a messenger. It is not ex
pected that the work of removal will
begin before the spriug ol' 1896.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Sleeper.
A sleeper is one who sloops. A
sleeper is that in which the sleeper
, sleeps. A sleeper is that on which the
i sleeper ruus whilo the sleeper sleeps.
Therefore, whilo the sleeper sleeps iu
the sleeper the sleeper carries the
sleeper over the sleeper under the
sleeper until the sleeper which carries
the sleeper jumps tho sleeper and
wakes the sleeper in tho sleeper, by
striking tho sleoper under tho sleeper,
on the sleeper, and there is no longer
any sleeper sleeping in tho sleeper.—
Atlanta Constitution.
An Extraordinary Insect.
| Tho "raft spider," found in Terra
1 del Fuogo, is a most extraordinary in
sect. It derives its name from the
fact that it constructs a raft of matted
leaves and pieces of wool, which it
uses to pursue its prey on tho water.
Haft spiders travel in fours. They
make their oars out of twigs and
generally row a thirty-two stroke,
although they have been known at
times to increaso tho speed to thirty
six.—Chicago Herald.
SELECT SlFTims.
A piano contains nearly a rail© ol
wire.
In China when a pupil is reciting
nis lesson he turns his bjck to his
teacher.
The earliest book in which copper
plate engravings wore used was issued
in 1170.
A live-ponlid eel was found in the
water tank of a locomotive at Boston
the other day.
At Botterdam poor people who can
no* pay a fee must marry on Wednes
day before noon.
A Hungarian inventor claims to bo
able to make from wood pulp a fabric
suitable for durable clothing.
The Scots Guards Kegiuieut. has one
company averaging six feet 21 ; the
tallest six feet seven, none uudor six
feet.
A cottou shower, lookiug exactly
like a snow storui, is a common sight
iu tho cotton-wood groves in Col
orado.
A man iu Lexington, Ivy., has sued
a neighbor for $2500 damages sus
tained to a suit ol' clothes through a
dog's ferocity.
The Sierra Nevada range ol moun
tains iu California is nearly 500 miles
long, seventy wide, aud from 7000 to
nearly 15,000 feet high.
The tallest man of whom there are
authenticated measurement* was Fun
nani, of Scotland, elevcu feet and a
little more than six inches.
Long ear lobes are deemou very
beautiful by some nations, in tho
Burmeso statues of Gautama his cars
come down below his waist.
At a depth of 1000 feet from the sur
face of Ithaca, N. Y. there is a solid
stratum of rock salt n f an excellent
quality, nearly 000 feet thick.
The fattest man was Daniel Lam
bert. A few days before his death, in
his fortieth year, he was weighed and
turned the balauce at 700 pounds.
Birds and boes frequently light
pitched battles over honey stored in
trees. Sometimes one side and some
times tho other comes out victorious.
The leaf of the cocoauut tree is
nearly thirty feet long. A single leaf
of the parasol magnolia of Ceylon af
fords shade for lifteen or twenty per
sons.
Tho earliest Greek inscription to
which a date can be given is tbat at
Abu Suiebcl cut in a statue guarding
the Greek temple. The dato is about
600 B. C.
Mark L. Gilbert, who began follow
ing the sea with his father at the age
of is now, at the ago of seven
teen, master of tho schooner Adclio
Wessels, running between Rockland,
Me., an I Now York, aud is probably
tho youngest sea captaiu in the mer
chant service.
Fish hawks get their entire food
supply from the water. Their eye--
are so constructed that even at great
heights they can see fisli that swim
near tho surface, and then dive with
lightning speed. The fish is caught
in the claws ami taken to the nest of
tho bird before being eaten.
The throe Winter brothers, ol
Berks, Peun. whoso combined ages
make 270 years are outdone in this
respect by three sisters, Mrs. Margaret
Ewiug, aged ninety-two; Mrs. Eliza
beth Zell, ninety-four, and Mrs. Mal
tha Morrisou, ninety-seven, who live
at Laucaster, in the same State. Tlicii
combines ages amount to thirteen
years more than the aggregate of the
Winter brothers' agos.
An Unpleasant Experience.
You can say what you please about
the English compartment ears," said
T. M. Harper, "but I don't want any
further experience with them. I rode
from London to Liverpool. My only
companion was auold man who looked
like a retired professional man. He
was neatly attired, but was pale as
though suffering from disease. Wo
were locked up in tho coach, and ROOII
ufter tho train started my companion
arose and began to feel my head naming
the bumps as ho proceeded. 'Not a
valuuble life,' lie muttered, and then
proceeded to make a further cxv.nii i
tiou. 'I must note it carefully,' ho
said. I can't understand the com
bination. I must get it and then see
if it is tho sanie on the inside. Now
is my time to prove the truth of my
science. He pulled a murderous look
ing knife from his pockot and ran his
linger along tho edge. 1 was too par
alyzed with fear to make any resist
ance, and felt that my time had come
to join the silent majority. Just then
the train stopped, tho door opened
and I jumped out, leaving tho insane
phrenologist alone. I don't want to
ever travel in an Euglish railway car
riage again."—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Cooked 110111')'.
On alarm near New Windsor, Ml.,
is an elm tree supposed to be hun
dreds of years old. Its trunk is thir
ty feet in length to tho lower limbs,
and measures twenty-eight feet nine
inches iu circumference. The limbs
that remain are as large as ordinary
forest trees. Nearly fifty yoars ago
some of theso limbs had fallen and the
broken stumps decayed and became
hollow. A swarm of bees took posses
sion of one of these hollow places and
deposited a largo amount of honey,
which was not removed. On July 5
the tree was struck by lightning, btlt
apparently not damaged very much.
Several days afterward smoke was
seen issuing from ono of tho broken
limbs, and the tree was discovered to
be on fire. The tree burned verv
slowly on account, of the honey and
honey comb in the tree. It burned
for three weeks and caused some of
limbs to fall off. The tiro was subse
quently extinguise.l by a heavy rain.
—New York Sun.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report
Powder
ABSO&UTEEV P&JISE
liow Helena Started.
The mines which built the city ot
Helena, in Montana, were discovered
by a party of four prospectors who
were on their way to a well-known
tamp in the Kootenai country.
Learning that the diggings in that
quarter had failed, they turned aside
to prospect in another direction, and
for some time wandered about, dig
ging holes here and there, hut (hid
ing nothing that they considered
worth working. About noon of the
15th day of July, isfii, they arrived
oh the site ot tho city of Helena,
halted for dinner and to rest their
horses. Dinner over, their horses I
were saddled, when one of their num
ber walked down to the stream to <
get a drink before mounting. Prom
mere force of habit he began mechan
ically scratching tho gravel with his
hands, when to his astonishment lie
drew out a nugget as big as a gold dol
lar. A hundred dollars' worth ot
gold was taken out in about twenty
minutes. The men then immediately
settled down and located claims. In
a short time news of their success
spread abroad. Hundreds of other
miners Hocked to the spot, and a
mining camp of unpre cdente l rich
ness was established. Tho city of
Helena grew up on the spot, and it is
said that one of the banks of that
city is situated on a portion of tho
first claim located by the lucky quar
tet.
Real Hcuuty.
A reply which was at once wise
and w.ttv is said to have been made
by a gentleman to whose decision in
regard to a certain mutter two pretty
young girls appealed.
They were discussing the question
as to what constitutes beauty in a
hand, and differed greatly in opin
ion. At last they referred the mat
ter to the old uutn. of whom they
were both very l'ond.
"My dears," said the old gentle
man, with a kindly smile, "the ques
tion is too hard a one for mo to de
cide. Itut ask the poor, and they will
tell you that the most beautiful hand
in the world is tho baud that gives
the most freely."
And Now Magnetize Them.
A late invention is a scheme to il
luminate keyholes.
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Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by moro promptly
adapting the world's best prod-jots to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in tho
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is duo to its presenting
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ant to the taste, tho refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
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every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 500 and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, .Syrup of Figs,
and being wel! informed, you will not
accept any substitute if ottered.
p N u :;o >94
(gf\ Let the men wash,
if they won't get you Pearline. Let them
tryit <0! tllemselvcs and see if they don't
C -vr u \ say that washing with soap is too hard
) f )J)/ y \ for any woman.
/A ]T~' \ ' ' l ' 3 . ' ,urt i work that Pearline
sL s J saves isn't the whole matter; it saves
mone y- to ° money that's thrown
> -3/ MHTI away in clothes needlessly worn out
~ , ivy | and, rubbed to pieces when you wash
' I{J f 1 hat appeals—where is the man who
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T"> _ J! eddle . ,s and seme unscrupulous grocers will tell you.
rP 1 ' i 1 aa C°?. d *1 or the u Pearline." IT'S
V/ I* ALSK rearline is never peddled; if your trrocer sends
Vtm tin imitation, he honest— send it back. JAMES PYLE, New York.
"Don't Elide Year Light Dndsr a Bushel." That's Just
Why we Talk About
SA POLIO
When to Stop.
Tho following answers were re
ceived by an English paper in re
sponse to a request for opinions as to
when to stop advertising:
When the population ceases to
multiply and the generations that
crowd on after you and never heard
of you stop coming on.
When you have convinced every
body whose life will touch yours that
you have better goods and lower
prices than Ibcy can get anywhere
else.
When you perceive It to be the
rule that men who never advertise
are outstripping their neighbors In
the same line of business.
When men stop making fortunes
right in your sight solely through
the direct use of the mighty agent.
AVlien you can forget the words of
the shrewdest and most successful
business men concerning tho main
cause of their prosperity.
THt OLE-FASHIONED STYLE
"f pill gives you a
at feeling of horror
gV when you ego it and
when you feel it. Like
Jb tho "blunderbuss" of a
I vfc /aaWIBKm# former decade, it is big
i Qn( * ''iLLiTisy, but not ei
fective. Iu this century
of enlightenment, you
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Sick and Bilious IPvul- I mfc JRI \
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! Mr. SAMnr.n Baker, uf&XA
j Sr., of A"". Mil Sum wit
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ant Pel let 9, as Liver MR ' UAKER hR -
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any other medicine I havo ever taken."
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