DONT OVER-EXERCISE.
The Danger Which Confronts the Nov*
ice of the Wheel. 4
When Corbett, always rugged far
beyond his fellows, goes Into training,
no exacting exercise is undertaken at
the outset, so greatly do his mentors
fear the evil consequences of over-ex
ertion. The young men of the Yale and
Harvard crew, exercise gently all win
ter In the gymnasium before under
taking any severe work upon the
water, and even then the solicitous
"coach" permits 110 man to reach tho
limit of his endurance. Zimmerman,
king of the bicycle, as Hanlon was em
peror of oarsmen for so many years,
trains In precisely the same manner.
When out of form in consequence of
a long period of Inactivity, he resumes
work with tho utmost care, avoiding
all fatigue nud over-exertion. Every
few days his task is slightly increased
and in the course of time he is ready
for the starter with every muscle train
ed to Its utmost capacity, and a re
serve of strength up his sleeve, to uso
the expressive words coined by the
great cycler himself.
What a contrast there Is between
nil this and the reckless expenditure
of energy by the young woman and
the young man who have just become
enamored of the bicycle. With no pre
vious training of any kind, and no at
tention to diet beyond that involved in
consuming as much Ice water, cako
and Ice cream as possible, reeling off
miles by tens and twenties, and then
go home overstrained and almost in a
state of collapse to recuperate slowly
and repeat the folly when they have
sufficiently recovered to drive nature
to another dangerous test.
Considerate Patients.
Amusing if apocryphal stories arc
told of the extreme care for the feelings
of their physicians displayed by some
patients. One such tender-hearted man,
seeing his physician coming along the i
street, slipped into a doorway to avoid
him.
"Why did you do that?" inquired his
companion.
"Well," said the man, whose health
had been poor until within a year, "it's
so long now since I've been sick, that
I'm really ashamed to meet him."
An instance of still greater delicacy is
recorded of a man whose case had been ,
pronounced hopeless by his physician,
but who afterward regained perfect
health. He met the doctor on the street
some time after his recovery, and the
latter had difficulty in making his for
mer patient stop to speak with hi in.
"What's the matter?" inquired the
physician, bluntly.
"Why," returned the other, "you
said I was dying, and I'm ashamed to
have you see me alive anil well."
Such tenderness as this merits the
approval with which a quack is said
to have commended a conscientious
swallower of his medicines.
"All, my dear sir," he said, with
strong emotion, "you deserve to be ill!"
"Doctor Cureall."
One of the most remarkable develop
ments of the automatic machine is a
"Doctor Cureall," in Holland. It is a
wooden figure of a man, with compart
ments all over it, labeled with tho
names of various ailments. If you
have a pain, find its corresponding lo
cation on the figure, drop a coin into
the slot, and the proper pill or powder
will come out.
To Rave Wood.
If potato peels are placed over nighi
In the oven, so as to he baked quite
hard, dry and crisp by morning, tlioj
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and a great saving of wood. Peels sc
treated have no disagreeable odor.
Tobacco-Twistcd Norvos. '>•- -
Millions of men keep asking for stimulants
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destroys manhood and nerve power. It's
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A LOVE SONG.
I was as poor as tbo poorest, dear,
And tho world—it passed rao byi
But not that day
When you walked Love's way:
For heaven itself drew high,
Sweet heart!
For lieavou itself drew nigh. i
I was as lone as tho loneliest, love,
With novor a dream of bliss.
But not that day
When you walked Love's way
And loaned to my arms—my kiss,
Sweetheart!
And leaned to my arms—my kiss!
And dear to my Hfo is your love—your love,
And my soul has ceased to sigh;
For sorrow seems
Liko an echo of dreams,
And the stars are in life's sky,
Sweetheart!
The stars are in life's sky!
—Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
Tho Losing of Mrs, Pettit,
BY EDITH KKELEY BTOKELY.
ATURE, iu dosign
\ ig old Mr. Pettit's
1 face, had not en-
V\ ff flowed it with a sin
-11--V \vi ai '^ Q l n °w or
: j| jls\ V.| 1 ' wrinkle wherein a
|j n\a \j | 'J'vf) secret might hide.
*{ lAas I I '? " WftS 11 beautiful
I
itlx' ft r ' n "° ot w bite
\l| whiskers all uround
V . under the chin,
wide open, mild gray eyes aud ruddy
checks. Yet did a harmless deceit
| lodge there but for a moment tho
eyes laughed and twinkled, and all
but called aloud, "Hero it is"; nud
the next instant the secret was dis
lodged and scurrying oil' in plain sight
of everybody, and nobody more sur
prised than Mr. Pettit himself.
Consequently, when Mr. Pettit
stepped into tho kitchen upon a cer
tain Juno evening, aud hung his hat
upon the peg behind the door, Mrs.
Pettit, suspending the kettle liigli in
air from the operation of pouring
boiling water upon tho ten, saitl, iu a
touo of conviction : "Ephraiui, you've
got a letter from John."
"Well, now, I want to know I" said
Mr. Pettit, throwing an appealing
glauco around upon uu imaginary and
admiring audience, "If women don't
beat all! I was saying that letter till
after supper."
"Wo can just as well havo it with
our tea," said Mrs. Pettit, pulling the J
cosy over the teapot, and loading the I
way to tho supper table. "Johu must '
have something particular to say. We
had a letter from him this week."
Tho two snow crowned heads were
bowed for a moment in simple grace,
and thou, ns Mrs. Pettit poured tho
fragrant Hyson into tho old-fashioned
china cups, her husband proceeded to
open the letter.
Not very much, after all. Two
square yellow tickets aud ono of
those short notes that are always por
tentous :
CHICAGO, 111., Juno 10th, 1893.
Dear Father and Mother; I inclose you
two round-trip tickets for Chicago, which 1
expect you to make uso of right away. Our
boy is to I o christened ucxt week, and tho
christening can't go on without you. Your
loving soil, JOHN PETTIT.
P. B.—Telegraph me when you start.
J. P.
Mrs. Pettit dropped her hands into
her lap with a look of blank dismay.
"Why, Ephraim," she protested, "I
cau't go."
"John wouldn't liko it," said Mr.
Pettit, softly, confining his fgazo to
careful stirring of his tea. "It's our
first grandchild, you know."
Involuntarily Mrs. Pettit's gaze
wandered through the open window to
a tiny hillock, which, with its rnar
blo shaft showing dimly through the
twilight, told its own tale of*' Eleanor,
aged seveu."
"I liavo never left licr," sho said,
with troubled eyes,
"She would wish it,"said Ephraim,
gontly, "Johu knows all, and ho
wishes it. Sixteen years is a long
time for grieving, mother. Sho is a
grown woman in heaven by this
time."
Nothing more was said after this.
Tho soft darkness of u Juuo night be
gan to fall. Tho katydids called from
tho grasses; a huge Juuo bug boat it
self noisily against tho window screen ;
tho cow lowed from tho meadow with
out.
At last Mrs. Pettit pushed nsido her
untested food and said, with a pitiful
tremor iu her old voice : "We'll go,
Ephraim. It's wicked of mo to bo
staying at home grieving, and noglect
iug tho loved ones that need inc. Wo
will write to John to-night and tell
him so."
Thus it came to pass that a few days
later a certain train pulling out of
Wilson's Ferry carried with it a quaint
old couple with whom wo havo to do.
Tho old gentleman wore his whiskers
after a good old country style, anil
looked over his silver-bowed glasses
with tho most benignant eyes in the
world. As for tho old lady, fellow
passengers glauced idly upon her, aud
then turned to gazo again. Such a
sweet old fuce, seamod with addod
years and care, but beautiful withal
in it* frame of clustering gray curls.
No ono smiled at the old-fashioned
bonnet, tho long, slender-waistod
black dress, or neatly folded shoulder
shawl. No ono seemed to think of
the oddity of the black silk mitts with
their short lingers, although they hail
not been put on before since Eleanor's
funeral. Every ono seemed kindly
interested in the big brown basket
with a cover and two handles. Before
tho journey ended it had opened wido
its hospitable cover to soothe with
ginger cakes and tarts the cries of
more than half a dozen travel-worn
babes, and had won the earnest bless
ings of as many tired mothers.
Six hours of rumble and noise and
j dust, glimpses of waving green fields
and distant towns, a fleeting acquaint
ance with strange faces and other
lives, gootl-bys 'mid youth and laugh
ter and silent good-bys with tears,
and the train steamed slowly into Chi
cago.
It seemed to bo tho final destination
of all humanity. Such crowds of peo
ple, such noiso and bnstlo ! But for
tunately the trend of humanity
seemed in a general direction.
"Maybe you ought to havo tele
graphed, John, as ho said to," re
marked Mrs. Pettit, iu a dubious
voice. "Ho would have been horo to
meet us."
"f know tho way. We've got to
take tho suburban train," said Mr.
Pettit, grasping tho big carpotsack
with one hand, and parcels, bags and
the umbrella with tho other. "You
just keep close to me, Lucy. That
suburban train doesn't wait more
than five minutes."
Through the big iron gates and up
tho wido stairs, everybody mooting
and greeting everybody else, boys
khouting and cabmen crying their
faros, aud at last open air. That is,
not open air liko tho broad meadows
and sunny garden plots of Wilson's
Ferry, but open air much liko gazing
up from tho bottom of a gootl old
fashioned chimney, so tall were tho
buildings on either side, and so very
little of tho blue sky visible overhead.
It was all very now and very strange
to Mrs. Pettit; yet, notwithstanding
her bewilderment, sho faithfully fol
lowed tho guiding carpotsack, hurry
ing onward iu its wake, until they
were well out on tho streets and slio
was quito breathless with tho brisk
walk.
Then, us tho carpotsack eh if tod its
position for a moment to tho pave
ment, nud its owner turned to mop
his brow, Mrs. Pettit saw, to her utter
dismay, that, while his hair was gray,
and from tho back he presented an ap
pearance not unlike that of Ephraim,
this man sho had been religiously fol
lowing was, iu fact, an utter strauger,
aud that she herself, Mrs. Pettit, was
lost!
Quito unconscious of tho mischief
ho had wrought, the stranger shortly
resumed his carpetbag and his pace
togother, and joined tho great merry
go-ioundof peoplo ; while the old lady,
liko a bit of flotsam stayed for a mo
ment in its course, clinging helplessly
to the brown basket, stood looking
about in bewilderment, while people
whirled and eddied and divided about
her.
"I guess yor lost, ain't you?" said a
big, kindly voice at her side.
Mrs. Pettit smiled into tho honest
face of the man, who wore a bluo suit
1 with brass buttons, and a star upon
his breast.
"I don't know," sho said, a littlo
tremulously, "but perhaps I am; that
is, if you don't know where my son,
Johu Pettit, lives."
"Pettit—Johu Pettit. I don't soem
to place him just now," said tho police
niuu, placing his hand upon his chiu,
iu a thoughtful aud reassuring man
ner. "You don't happen to know his
street or number, now?"
"No," said the old lady ; "Ephraim
always directs his letters, and ho has
his address on a card iu his pocket.
But I know they've put a new wing to
tho house lately, uutl it's painted
brown and has bow windows."
Tho old lady waited anxiously,
while the officer in tho kiudnessof his
heart appeared to rumiuate tleoply.
"I don't seem to remember such a
place," ho said presently; "but wo,
can find it. If you'll just step down
to tho station with mo—it ain't far—
whore lost peoplo stay, I'll ring up
tho central police."
Mrs. Pettit relinquished tho brown
basket into Officer Melton's hands,
and walked oheertully along by his
side. "J. hopo your family are all
well," bho said, politely.
"Well, tol'rublo, thauk'oe," said tho
officer, with rather a new sonsation.
"The baby worries some o' nights.
She's only two mouths old, you know,
and colicky like."
"Well, now, lin so glad I brought
it," said Mrs. Pettit, reaching for tho
basket. "Such a big buuch of catnip,
too, just iutlie bloom; twico as much
as John's baby will need. It's a suro
relief for colic. And hero's somo
young verbena plants I dug this
morning with plenty of earth around
them. Maybe your wife would liko
them."
Thereupou a paper bag and a paste
boar box changed hands.
"I thiink'eo kindly, ma'am," said
tho policeman, touching his cap.
"The cntuip wo get at the drugstoro
ain't much better thau dust, and my
wife ain't owned a flower since she's
been married." In his secrot mind
he was wondering whore ho could got
enough dirt to fill a flower pot to
plant them iu.
Tho Detention Station was a large,
high-ceilod room, with rows of long,
hard benches along it* walls, a little
window behind which sat a inau at a
desk, and numberless policemen pass
ing in and out, some accompanied,
Homo alone. Tho man at tho dosk
gave to each newcomer brought in, a
check beuriug a number, and made a
corresponding entry in a largo book.
Mrs. Pettit found herself suddenly 58.
"You'll bo called for," said Officer
Mellon, touching his hat; "and it's
much obliged I am for your kindness,
ma'am." To himself ho addod as he
turned ifVay; "It's a shamo for the
likes of her to bo put iu this place."
There woro dozens of peoplo seatod
on tho benches—men, women and
children—some with lioails bowed in
dejection, misery, sickness or despair,
others upright and defiant, many
grown old iu ways of sin, others but
beginning to tasto of temptation.
Into this company Mrs. Pettit walked,
with her dear old face and guileless
eyes.
"Such a lot of people lost!" Bho
thought in wonder. "It's <v mercy if
they nil find their friends before
night."
She touched a man upon the arm
who sat huddled up bcsido lier. "Arc j
you sick?" sho inquired, anxiously. j
The man raised a reddened, bloated .
faced, and gazed unsteadily at her.
"Yes," ho said huskily, "sick of life."
A mist gathered in the old lady's
eyes. "I was onco so, too," she said,
sympathetically, "when my Eleanor
was taken; but with tho Lord's help
I'm living it down. Maybe some
body's dead bolongiug to you."
"I'm dead to them," said tho man,
bitterly, sinking into his old position.
Mrs. Pettit was mystified ; but this
was plainly a trouble that catnip can
not reach—a trouble of the heart.
"I'm sorry for you," sho said,
quaveringly, laying her quaintly
gloved hand upon bis arm; "but
whatever your trouble is, with tho
Lord's help you can livo it down."
"102," said an officer, touching tho
man on the shoulder.
Tho man rose to follow, hesitated,
then held out a trembling hand.
"With tho Lord's help, when I got
out of this I'll try to livo it down," he
said, huskily. Ho looked at tho
withered hand within liis own a mo
ment with twitching lips, then gently
laid it down and left the room.
Down the rows of poor humanity
moved Mrs. Pettit. Ginger cookies
caused baby eyes to shiuc, aud kindly
words dropped liko rain upon arid
hearts. Tho brown basket brought
forth buuehes of fragrant Juno pinks,
clusters of elder blossoms and pack
ages of marigold scods. A bottle of
homo made cordial and a dozeu fresh
eggs wero put into the hands of a
young woman with hectic clioeks and
a hollow cough, who held a wayward
brother's hand anxiously in her own.
"Tkero won't bo much left for Johu's
wife," thought Mrs. Pettit, rogrot
fully; "but dear knows theso poor
creutures ncod it."
Two hours later tho doors swung
violeutly in, and an exoiied group en
tered. An old gentleman with a fringe
of white whiskers under his chin, a
tall young gentleman looking very rod
aud oxcited, aud two officors. A mo
ment's conversation at tho dosk, and
58 was called.
But "58," close in conversation with
two littlo vagrants, tho baby girl in
hor lap aud the boy at her side, with
traces of tears still upon hor old
cheoks, had forgotten that she had
over been given a number.
"You will novcr be hungry again,"
sho was saying, solemnly, "aevor
beaten, never forsaken. You shall go
homo with me, and Tony shall own tho
dog, whilo tho white kitten that will
drink nothing but cream shall beloug
to the baby sister."
"Mother !" said a voico at hor side
—a voice in which there wore both joy
aud tears, aud iu a moment a pair of
strong arms had her in their embrace.
"Lucy," said another voico, which
sounded liko Ephraim's muffled with a
feather bolster, "I'll never forgive
myself for losing you—never,"
"Why, John," said Mrs. Pettit,
"aud Ephraim, too! I'm glad you've
come. There is so much trouble iu
world, and here I've been sitting to
home shutting my oars to it. Ephra
im, I know you won't care. You've
never opposed mo iu anything iu my
life. I'm going to take theso children
home with mo aud keep them. There's
nobody iu tho wide world to look af
ter or do for them."
"But, mother, such a chargo at
your ago—" began her sou.
"Johu," said Mrs. Pettit, with tho
solemnity of conviction, "it's the !
Lord's call. They're sweet, haudsomo
littlo things, and such a life as they've
led? Ephraim, you don't object? Wo
will cull tho baby ELcauor, iu memory
of our own."
For answer Mr. Pettit stooped au l
lifted tho baby girl in his arms.
"I guess we've got money enough to
hire a nurse if thoy aro a chargo," ho
said, triumphantly. "John, you'ro a
lawyor ; you can fix up tho papers as
soou as you like."
And so tho losing of Mrs. Pettit,
liko tho wauderiug of a clear brook
over parched meadows, leaving fresh
and grateful all behind, carried also
ou its bosom to a harbor of safety two
tonder human souls.—Now York Inde
pendent-.
A Brewing Industry,
The other day tho Postoffieo author
ities at Washington had their atten
tion called to the circular seut through
tho mails to students iu schools and
colleges offering to furnish them with
essays and speeches for so much per
hundred words.
Many heads of schools and colleges
urged tho department to rule theso
circulars out of the mails, but after
due consideration the authorities de
cided that thoy could not exclude
them.
In ono shapo or another this busi
ness has been going on for miuy
years. It is dishonest for a pupil to
buy an essay or a speech and palm it
off as his own, but there will always
bo youngsters who will do it at any
risk. The temptation is hard to re
sist in some cases. Take, for instance,
a bright boy who is gifted with mathe
maticul talent. His teachers take it
for granted that he cau write passably
well and thoy demand good composi
tions aud speeches. But this is tho
ono thing iu which tho pupil is defi
cient. Ho has a head for ligurcs, but
110 has 110 command ,of language.
When such a boy ii pushed to the wall
ho is tempted to borrow or buy tho
productions of others. He does it to
maintain his standing at school. With
him it is a case of necessity.
There is ouo good thing about this
ready-made speech industry. It eu
ablea some very clever meu and wo
men to earn many extra dollars which
thoy could not make iu auy other way.
It helps one class though it may in
jure another. The ruling of tho Post
office Department is on the right line,
but tho business is a bad one and there
should be some way to put a stop to
it.—Atlanta Constitution.
f'onth western Dnst Storms.
The dust storms of Colorado, New
Mexicc, Arizona—the whole desert
Bcctiou in whatever State aro im
portant factors in tho chauoes for
comfort and success of the new set
tler.
The signs of a coming dust storm
are many. The air is electric, a feath
er will cling to the lingers, tho sky is
oft-times gray an I streaked, tho chil
dren in the schools, even tho prima
ries, uro norvous. Suddouly the bits
of paper in the street bogin to whirl;
Boon you will see tho dust coming liko
a rolling storm cloud; the sky is ob
scured; everything out of doors is
"on tho fly;" tho slim branches of
the scant cottonwool* slash tho air,
and if you aro unfortuuate enough to
bo out of doors, your eyes, uo3e an I
mouth will be filled *vith alkali dust,
while you are striving to make head
way against a whirlwind. If you aro
under cover, you will hasten to drop
windows aud shades; but the dust is
so line it will penetrate whatever air
cau. Tho pattern of tho carpet may
bo obliterated, aud in some of tho
worst onos in New Mexico an eye wit
ness has said that drifts have been
formed 011 the floor from one to two
inchos in depth.
"How long does a storm last."
Sometimes au hour, sometimes three
days —corniug with great violence at
intervals. We have known one tha'
coutiuued a week, with the exception
of ouo day for a recess. The effect
upon a nervous temperament is dis
tressing ; there is a desire to hide tho
head like au ostrich; to creep into
some hole, to cover the fao so as not
to seo the wild turmoil of whirliu *
things. Tho irritability is so groit
with some persons as to ouliuiu ito in
fits of weeping. This is followed by
exhaustion.
It is not improbable that Raul
storms had an influoucj in the build
ing of tho "cliffdwellings."
A dust storm may occur at any time
of tho year, but the spring is especial
ly prolific. When tho "kamsiu," tin
wind from the desert, "blows in," bj
it summer or whiter, tho wor d kind
of a storui may ride 011 its wings.
Tho huge, cone-shaped mounds of
ossiticd structure, which stretch for
miles horo aud there on the plains,
testify to tho whirling wiu I ; tint over
a thousand loaguos of desert hive hi I
their mad sweep lor centuries.
By some, dust storms are const 1
ered scaveugerHome think the air
seeuis purer just after one, an I so it
does, ou the principle tint the tooth
feels better when it lint do 10 ashing.
Sonio thiuk tho:n koathful, as dry
earth is a disinfectant, but the iujury
to the throat au I to tho nerves, ati I
tho disastroui edoot 0:1 vegetation
300 m to overbalance this considera
tion.—Hartford Times.
Bogus Visiting Cards.
Few of my readers have any idea o"
tho large trade that is carrio I ou in
Europe and especially in Loudon in
bogus visiting cards. I hoar that
Lord Denbigh, pa:ssiug iti front of the
windows of one of tho big st itiouor>
in the west end of London, happauo I
to see a visiting card bearing bis name
aud title exhibited as a sample of the
tirm's work.
Thoroughly aware that he ha I never
had auy cards engraved at that shop,
aud anxious to know what possible
olqoct tho man could have in printing
such elaborate copperplate speci
mens, ho entered the store an 1 with
out mentioning his na ne, inquired of
the shopkooper whether Lord Don
high was one of his customers.
Quito fraukly tho sUtiouor informed
tho poor that 110 had never had any
communication with Lord Denbigh iu
his life, but that tho car Is in question
wero engraved by tho lirai along with
those of a number of other peers and
promiuent persons in response to a
popular demand 011 the part of the
people who bought them solely for the
purpose of putting tlieni in their card
baskets and salvers with tho objoct of
convoying tho impression that the
people whoso names wero 011 the paste
boards were visitors at their houses.
—Chicago Itocord.
Growth ol the Paper-Making lulu si 17.
None of tho great industries of the
country has shown a more remarkable
growth than that of paper-making.
In 1881) tho total daily capacity of all
tho paper mills of the. country was
6,869,889 pounds, while in 1895 it is
placed at tho enormous iiguro of I i,
102,580 pouuds. Tho largest factor
in causing this tromeu lou.s growth
was tho development of processes for
making chemical fibre and woo 1 pulp,
enabling tho substitution of these
materials for rags, with a consequent
largo reduction in the cost of making
paper. It is estimated that if tho use
of wood pulp shall continue to increase
at tho rate of growth maintained in
the last fifteen years, live years hencj
the consumption of spruce woo l fo
this purpose will equal the present
cut of spruce logs for lumber in all
New England and New York. Tii
growth of paper-makiug is one of tli *
most significant facts 111 the in lustrial
progress of tho tini \ —Buffalo Com
mercial.
A lVruliar Mnliuly.
According to the Gartonlauim, an
especially painful iuflauimatiou is
caused by hairs of caterpillars enter
ing tho eye —an event not as rare as
might be supposed. The inflammation
is always of long duration, au l often
aud seriously impairs si kt perma
nently. Within a few years, in one
dispensary at Bonn, six cases of this
peculiar malady were treated. As is
well known, some species of caterpillar
use their hairs as a means of defense,
firing them off at will. Cases are ou
record, however, where caterpillar
hairs entered an eye wlieu caterpillars
were thrown into faces in mischievous
lun,
QUEEN OF THE WEST.
Cnllfornla, Where the Sun Gives Undo
Sum u (io'od-Niglit Kiss.
Glowing words of praise were ut
tered by Rev. E. D. Dille, of San Fran
cisco, when he described California to
the Christian Endeavorers at Boston.
Said he:
"Were It not that Californlans are all
as modest as violets, outblusliing the
strawberries that grow there the year
round—blushing like their world-fam
ed fruits at praise of their own loveli
ness—l would tell you something of
California—though had I the tongues
of men, and even of real estate agents,
you would still say when you come to
us, 'The half has uot been told!' We
have a wonderful empire out there;
We have arable land enough to support
a population of 80,000,000, and then
our population would be less dense
than that of Europe; an empire of our
own, as large as Spaiu—larger than the
nine States of Delaware, Maine, Mary
laud, Massachusetts, Now York, Now
Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and
Rhode Island coiubiued. Then the
salubrity of our climate makes Califor
nia the sanitarium, the fairer Italy of
the world; Its scenery Is grander than
any beneath European skies, and its
variety of productions and climate is so
wonderful as to defy even the Cnllfor
nlan genius for exaggeration. The
Sierras, those snowy bulwarks of our
State, though their lower slopes are
rich In gold us their crests at eve with
the gold of sunset, and their farther
slopes are lined with silver like those
great crests at noon, yet hoard no such
wealth as the soil yields in Its billow
ing wheat fields, its clustered vine
yards, its orchards and orange groves
bending with fruit moro golden than
that of the Ilesperides. Yonder the
star of the empire stops in its west
ward course and stands still over our
young State."
Even South Africa Has the Craze
There seems to be an extraordinary |
craze for cycling in South Africa. A
Johannesburg paper states that cycles
arc moro generally used in that towr.
than probably any other town of sim
liar size in the world. There are, ii
adds, some 4,000 machines in use by al
classes, from the head of the mining in
dustry down to clerks and shop assist
ants. One firm has sold GOO in the last
two years. Ladies are taking to cycling
freely, ami so are educated Kaffirs
When Kaffirs that are not educated
follow suit, what a splendid market
for wheels In South Africa there wil
be!
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest (J. S. Gov't Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Beware of Ointment* for Cutarrh That
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely durante the wholesy stein
who i entering it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never bo used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, us the
damage they will do is ton fold to t lie good you
can possibly derive from them. Hall's CM tar rli
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, 0., contains no mercury and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine.
It is taken internally, and is msdo In Toledo,
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
yif oold by Druggists, price 76c. per bottle.
The True Imxntlve Principle
Of the plants used in manufacturing the pleas*
ant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has a permanently
beneficial effect on the human system, while
the cheap vegetable extracts and mineral solu
tions, usually sold as medicines, are perma
nently injurious. Being well informed, you
will use the true remedy only. Manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
FITS stopped free by Hit. Ki. INK'S (in EAT
NI.KVK KKMTOKKH. NO lit after first day's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and trial 1 ini
tio free. Dr. Kline, IKll Arcli St., Pliila., Fa.
Wlnnipiseogeo is tho "Beautiful Lake of
the Highland. 11
Ir. Kilmer's SWAMP-KOOT cures
nil Kidney and Bladder troubles.
I'amphlct and consultation free.
Laboratory Biughampton, N.Y.
Chicknhomtny is tho Indian word moaning
''Turkey Lick. 11
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflami
tion. allays pain, cures wind colic.3sc. a buttle
If afflicted with eoreeyesuse I)r. Isaac Thump
sou's Eye- water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
A self-propelling bicycle is a Swedish in
vention. It is run by a little gasoline motor.
The Onward March
stopped short by I)r.
Although bj' many
believed to be incur
V ud evidence of hundreds
we 'l'ud ieve *'l u iVy TM
- "per cent, are cured
by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
even after the disease has progressed so
far as to induce repeated bleedings from
the lungs, severe lingering cough with
copious expectoration (including tubercu
lar matter), great loss of ilcsb and extreme
emaciation and weakness.
Do You Know That Their is a Science in Neatness.
Be Wise and Use
SAPOLiO
A FAIL!LYTIC CURED.
Ills Grandfather, n Revolutionary Sol
dier, unit Hie Father Both l>ie<l of
i'aralyeie, Yet the Third Gener
ation In Cured—Tito Method.
From Ih " lit raid, /Jos(on, Mass.
Like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, a
| stroke of paralysis came to Mr. Frank T.
Ware, the well known Boston auctioneer and
appraiser, at 235 Washington street. He
: went to bed one night about six years ago
( seemingly iu robust health. When ho awoke
. his left side was stiffened by tho deadening
j of tho nerves.
i The interviewer sought out Mr. Ware to
get tho facts. Ho gave the interesting par
ticulars iu his own way:
"The first shock cuine very suddenly whilo
I was asleep, but it was not lasting if its ef
fects, and in a few weeks I was able to bo
about. A few months after, when exhausted
by work and drenched with rain, I went homo
:in a very nervous state. The result was a
I second and more severe shock, after which
' my left arm and leg were practically helpless.
"My grandfather, who WHS a soldier in tho
Revolutionary War, and lost an arm in tho
struggle for American independence, died
finally of paralysis. My father also died of
paralysis, although it was complicated with
I other troubles, and sol had some knowledge
1 of the fatal character of the disease which is
hereditary iu our family. After the second
1 shock I took warning, for, in all probability,
a third would carry me off.
| "Almost everything under the sun was
roe mi mended to mo and 1 tried all the reme
dies thai seemed likely to do any good,
electricity, massage and specialists, but to
j no effect.
I "The only thing i found that helped mo
was Dr. Williams' Pink l'ills, and I verilv be
lieve that if it hadn't been for those pills I
j would have been dead years ago.
! "Yes, I still have a slight reminder of the
j last attack six years ago. My left arm is not
: as strong as the other and my loft foot drags
a little, a; the paralysis had the effect of
deadening the nerves. lJut I can still walk
I a good distance, talk as easliy as ever, and
jmy general health is splendid. lam really
j over seventy years old, although I am gener
; ally taken to be twenty years younger than
; that.
1 "The Piiik Pills kept my blood in good
condition and I believe that is why 1 am so
well, although cheerfulness may help.
| "1 have thought of it n great many times
and I honestly believe that the Pink Pills
have saved my life."
I Mr. Ware has every appearance of a per
; feet I y Healthy man, ami arrives at his office
promptly at eight o'clock every morning,
although he lias reached an ago when many
I retire from active life. His experience is
well known to a great many people in bos
ton, where his constant cheerfulness has won
him hosts of friends. He saya that in his
opinion both his father and bis grandfather
could have boon saved if Pink Pills hud boon
obtainable at that time.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Pooplo
contain all the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to the blood and re
store shattered nerves. They may be hud of
all druggists or direct by mail from the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Schenectady. N. Y.,
aiso cents per box. or six boxes for $2.50.
Keeps You Poor.
Tndfgesffon keens men n > r. It muddles tT\-v
dourest brain. You think it is something else,
but —ninetimes in ten the trouble i< in the
digestive tract. One It Spans Tabulo gives
relief, an.l t heir occasional use keeps you right.
Ask your druggist for thctu.
The Greatest Hedlcal Discover;
of the Age.
KENNEDY'S
Medical Discovery.
lOfiALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS.,
■as discovered in one of our eommom
pasture woods a remedy that cures every
kind cf Humor, from tho worst Scrofula
down to a common pimple,
Do line tried it in over eleven hundred
pnsos, and never failed except in two oases
(both thuuder humor), 110 has now In
J his possession over two hundred certltl*
catos of Its value, all within twenty miles
of Boston. Bond postal enrd for book.
A benefit is always experienced from the
first bottle, and a perfect euro is warranted
when the right quantity is taken.
When the lungs are affected It causes
•hooting pains, like needles passing
I through thorn ; tho eamo with the Liver
1 or Bowels. This is cause Iby the ducts
being Btoppod,aad always disappears in a
Wook after taking it. Head tho laboL
If the stomach Is foul or bilious it will
eause squeamish feelings at llrst
No chuugo of diet ever uooessary. Eat
tho best you can got, and enough of lk
Dose, one tablcspoouful in water at bed
time. Bold by all Drrurrrtsta
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