PJs the basis of good health, ure steady nerves, mental, pliys- Rlnnrl iP "' anJ di eustlvo strength. DIOOQ if y OU are nervous, enrich and purify your blood with Hood's Snrsa pariliu. If you are weak, have no appetite and del-ire to bo strong, heultby and vigor ous, take Hood's Karsaparilla, which will tone ypjVr stomach, create an appetite and build you up. Get only Hood's because Hood's s S' la Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hood's Pills tl p^;,s sy ig, bay - Summer Care of Blankets. Blnfikets after the winter use are never eleau, and should not bo put away without being washed. Muuy housekeepers in view of the shrinking and discoloring caused by washing, satisfy themselves witli airing and shaking their blankets, but this is a great mistake, for if the work is prop erly done the soft appearance and white ness t may be retained for years. The most important consideration in washing blankets is to have plenty of soft water and good soap. An inferior cheap soap is really the eauso of the injury done woolen goods in washing, as it hardens and yellows the fibre. When ready to begin the work, shake the blankets free of dust, fill a tub nearly full of soft hot water, and dis solve u third of a eako of Ivory soap in it. Put one blanket in at a time and dip up and down, gently washing with the bauds. Neyer rub soap on blaukets, or wash ou the washboard. After the blankets are f lean, rinse them in warm water until Iree of suds. Add a little bluing to the last water. Shake and squeeze rather than wring, and hang on the line until dry. Then fold and pack away in a box securely to cxcJUhlh tin: moth. Blankets washed in this way will keep their original freshness and wear very much longer than if put away soiled yeur after yeur. ELIZA It. Pamcku. A stone wall almost a mile in length with an average height of IH feet, has been built nloug Second Ave., in Pittsburg, by the Bal timore ,V Ohio Bailroad Company. This is part of the half million dollur improvement that the Coin puny is making ut that point, Naval Tank. The new naval experiment tank at the Washington yard, in which minia ture war ships will be tested, will be 800 feet long and 150 fent acros, and Inside the water space will bo 475 by 41! feet. Its depth will be II feet. Running across, close to the water, will be a carriage upon which there will bo attached a dynamomoter to register the resistance due to towing n model through the basin. Models, varying In size from ten to twenty feet, of every new ship to be built will be attached to tills machinery and drawn through the water. Tile wave motion will be observed and the resistance It offers will be calculated. The Mexican Herald says of a recent fatal panic at a bull light: "The young lady was frightened to death, but be haved with much courage and self-pos session.'' This, we believe, Is thorough ly characteristic of American corpses. 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Write.WATSON K.COLKMAN, Attorney at Law and Solicitor of Patents, Washing ton Loan und Trust Building, Washington, L> C. DRUNK Full information (in plain wrupper) mailed lroe. | S/LOS HOW TO BUILD ASK WILLIAMS MFG. CO.. KALAMAZOO. MICH. y N u 25 07 KEPT IN COLD STORAGE. POULTRY AND CAME JUST AS COOD AS EVER AFTER SIX MONTHS. Boom* in Which a Film or Frost Covers Kverytliiiiff in Sight—Whore the Big (Initio is Kept, in Piles—Content* of a Big Ice Plant Kept Fresh ami Pure. Progress in the art of cold storage lias made it possible for those people who can afford to pay for the luxury to have their table supplied with any thing in the way of game at any time of the year. it is often a matter of wonder to the patrons of large restaurants how cer tain food articles are procured in large quantities out of season, hut u visit, to one of the cold storage places where the preservation of such articles is the chief business will explain the matter. One of the most, complete plants for the preservation of poultry and game is connected with an establishment in West. Washington Market. To those who look at the place from the street it is nothing more than an ordinary poultry shop; hut investigation, especially 011 a warm day, will reveal its extraordinary points. Barrels and boxes of poultry of all kinds from little Philadelphia broilers to great, extra-size Thanksgiving turkeys and Christmas geese may he seen on the floor of the shipping-room, where they are repacked and made ready for ship ment. Kacli piece is wrapped in white parchment paper, which when removed shows the fowl covered with a thin Aim of frost. The ordinary poultry is plucked before it is placed in the re frigerators, hut the game goes into the cold storage, feathers and all, and a snow-like covering lies on the matted feathers when the hoxes in which they come from the salesroom or refrigera tors are opened. A large ice plant keeps a number of rooms at a temperature of about ten de grees Fahrenheit, and in these rooms the poultry and game are placed and remain there until called for. Some times, when Hales are nearly equal to receipts, the birds are kept only a few weeks, hut more often they remain in the ice-rooms for months, and fre quently a year passes between receipt from the producer and delivery to the consumer. The remarkable feature about the process is that the frozen arti cles do not deteriorate, and many epi cures prefer the frozen to the fresh fowl and game. The cold storage office-rooms are en circled with pipes covered thickly with frost, and the temperature is never higher than twelve degrees above zero. For some articles it is allowed to drop to the zero point. Some of the rooms in which only the boxed goods are kept show no signs of the articles which are stored there. Boxes containing squabs, quail, reed birds, rail birds, snipe and many other specimens of feathered small game are piled high 011 all sides of the room, and are taken out and shipped when called for. Aside from these there are rooms where unboxed birds are kept. There may be seen great piles of feathered game, golden plover, partridges, mallard and red head ducks and Guinea hens, etc., look ing as fresh as on the day when they came from the woods where they were shot, hut they are frozen into hard masses and waiting to bo taken to mar ket. There are other rooms which are still more interesting than those where the birds are kept. Probably the most at tractive—and the coldest—is the one where the larger game is stored. There are no boxes or barrels in the apartment, but against the sides and iu uneven pyramids in various parts of the frigid place there are great piles of venison, rabbits, grewsome stacks of calves' beads, oxtails piled up like stacks of serpents, and near these a twisted mass, which, on examination, proves to be a lot of beef tongues. There also are stacks of canvas-back and teal ducks, Canadian ptarmigans, English pheasants and suckling pigs, all frozen stiff and rigid, and all coat ed with white and glistening frost. There are some small boxes in an ad joining room which are uncovered. These contain sweetbreads, lamb fries, calves' brains, etc., all stiff' with cold. In speaking of the frozen luxuries, one of the proprietors of the place said: "Formerly we had to sell every day what we received, but now we put away what remains unsold, and we know that it will be just as good in six months us on the day when it reaches us. We manage to get most of onr stock out within six months, but if it remains longer than that time, it is none the worse for it. Here are some chickens," he said, taking one frozen specimen from a barrel, "for which we received ten cents a pound fresh, and now, months afterward, we sell from the same lot frozen at thirteen cents a pound." Barrels of broilers were brought out that looked fresh enough to suit any eook, although they had been frozen many months; great handsome rabbits and pheasants, taken from their perches in the. cold rooms for inspection, were found to be as good in every particular as tliey were last December, when they joined the frozen colony. ClitHMlfied Her Young Man. A clerk in a Chicago book store was surprised not long ago when a young lady came into the store and said to him: "I want to buy a present of a book for a young man." "Yes, miss," said he. "What kind of a hook do you want?" "Why, a book for a young man." "Well—but. what kind of ti young man?" "Oh, he's tall and lias light hair, and he always wears blue neckties!" Bible* Worn With Kiue*. It has just been discovered that each of the two Testaments in use in the city ofc.Lpndoil courW is kissed 30,du0 a year. Both books'are very ancient. They are falling to pieces, being litej | ally kissed away. - -Boston Globe. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS A Pretty Custom. The practice of putting little flags for purpose of identification in the var ious plat3B of sandwiches served at teal and receptions is an American adapta tion of a long-prevailing London cus tom. Over there, as here, sandwiches have multiplied to the point of confu sion, and a card is used and is really necessary to label the various combi nations. At a simple day "at home" in New York usually only two kinds of sandwiches are served, the maid offer ing a choice between a sweet and a salt trifle of bread and tilling. Ant. uiul Antidote. Under the suggestive headline, "Ant and Antidote," the Prudential Review, of Newark, says: "House keepers in warm climates or elsewhere, whose provisions are raided by the small but persistent red ant, may be glad to learn of a very efficient pre ventive. Pieces of ordinary tape are dipped in a little corrosive sublimate, dried, and tied around the bottoms of cake-boxes or the legs of tables or re frigerators, which it is desired to guard. No nut, whether wise or fool ish, will cross such a barrier, and eat ables or sweets so protected are abso lutely sufe. Of course, care must be taken not to put the tape or any boxes so protected within the reach of chil dren, as the corrosive sublimate on the tape is a poison." The cure is too dangerous to bo risked where there are children. Barrel*. They really are the most useful arti cles in the household repertoire. Among fifty ways of utilizing them, here is one: Fasten in the lower barrel-head securely. Take out the upper one to allow a shelf to be fastened in the mid dle, which should follow the line of barrel, excepting on one side, where Hie circle must be squared. When this shelf is securely set in, fasten the second barrel-head back again, and tighten all the hoops. Now saw out a generous-sized door in the centre of the barrel. When it opens, the shelf with its square side should stand across the middle of the opening. Put hinges on the door, and then you have a com fortable little pantry for cottage use, or. if wash-stumls are not. plentiful, this invention will serve admirably as one if draped/so that the barrel shape alone is visible. A Turkish towel, or, better yet. towelling cut in a circle, will cover the barrel-top nicely, and protect the drapery below.-—Harper's Bazar. Now lor Tallow Soap. As this is the time of year that many farmer women make soap of the tallow scraps and rinds of pork that have ac cumulated through the winter, I would like them to have } the benefit of my soap recipe. It. is composed of six pounds sal soda, three pounds of stone lime and seven pounds clear grease. That is, tine grease must be free of bones and meat; but I have made it of scraps and rinds by adding a little more than seven pounds strain ing the soap, while hot, after it is made. Put the limciand soda in six gallons soft water ami let it boil up good, then pour it alhinto a tub and let set tle over night. In the morning poui all the clear liquid back into the ket tle, being careful not to get any of the sediment in. Now add the grease and boil until it is about as thick as strained honey. I always try it by cooling a little in a dish. If it be comes solid enough to turn out in a cake, it is ready to turn back into your tub, but first be sure your tub is perfectly cleaned from the lime and soda. Let stand over night again, where it. will not freeze, then cut out iu good sized cakes and put to di;y. This soap made from clear mutton tallow iH very nice for people to use who are troubled with cracked 01 chapped hands, and it makes nice toilet soap by adding some perfumery just, before it lias boiled enough. This recipe' was given to me by a friend several years ago whose fathei is a physician. She told me that il there was any of the soap in the house made with mutton tallow, he used to always put a piece in his pocket when he was called on to attend a child birth, to wash the newborn babe with. It is some trouble to make this soap, but we have very few good things in this world without a little trouble to get them.—New England Homestead. Reelppii. Hoosier Gems—Two cups of graham flour, oiiehalf teaspoouful salt and one and one-half cupfuls of water. Beat hard for five minutes and bake in well buttered iron gem pans iu a hot oven. Plain, but very good. Bice Pudding—One quart milk, two level tablespoonfuls rice, and two oi sugar and a small handful of raisins. Bake, covered, slowly for two hours. When it will be of a creamy consisten cy, uncover to brown. Serve cold. Beef Rissoles—Minee bits of lean beef very fine, roll crumbs and allow three-fourths pound to pound of meat. Add one or two eggs, a dust of herbs and grated lemon peel. Mix and shape into balls fry a rich brown, make nice gravy. I Velvet Balls—To"a pound of finely ground beef add one-half cupful milk, one-half teaspoouful salt, one-fourth of pepper and one-fourth of sage. Mix thoroughly and make into small cakes. Dip into flour and fry in beef drippings or butter. Junket—Dissolve one junket tablet in a tftblespoonful of cold water. Stir barely enough to mix yi three cups vf lukewarm .inilk, • sweetened with two tabLespoonfuls </f sugar and seasoned with nutmeg. Let stand in a warm room until thickened, when it may be carefully removed to a cool placd. Stirring or shaking this mass causes whey to form. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Fruiting Currant ISIIKIIPH. It ia very bard to keep currant buahen thrifty and productive when anywhere from aix to ten or a dozen sprouts are allowed to grow in each hill. These conditions are just right for the cur rant worm to do a great deal of injury before he can he found and killed with hellebore. We always cut out all but three or four shoots. Though many advise training the bushes in tree form, only one in a place, two, three, or even four shoots will bear enough more to pay for the extra trouble. For Flies on Cattle. Take coal tar two parts and coal oil and grease one part each and mix with a small amount, of carbolic acid. Ap ply with u cloth by moistening the Iniir and liornsof the animals with the liquid. In the applications include feet and legs, and it will drive every fly away, and one application will lust ten days or more in dry weather. Apply as of ten as necessary, and your cows will bo entirely secure from flies of all kinds. Any kind of old lard or grease cau be used. Coal tar is the base of this remedy, and when too thick to spread well use more coal oil: when too thin to adhere well use more coal tar. Carbolic acid will cost about fifty or sixty cents in crystals by the pound, mid every farmer should always keep it on hand, as it, in its many uses, is indispensable.—Home and Garden. Country lloiirift. For one hundred years or more news paper philosophers and political econo mists have vainly tried to convince the tillers of soil that they, more than any other class of people, were directly, vitally and pecuniarily interested in making and maintaining country high ways over which heavy loads and light ones could be drawn without the ex penditure of an unnecessary amount of costly strength. The farmers studied tax rates and either would not hear or would not heed any statistics whose bearing was less immediate, though not less obvi ous. The vast majority of rural roads continued to he stretches of dirt, made into dust by the sun, into mud by the rain, and always enforcing the truth that the distance between a farm and a market depemLs more on the nature of the road connecting {hem than on the number of miles separating Uiem. — Wheeling Register. Bib-Grass or Narrow-Leaved I'lnnluln. 1). 15. D. Hhlsted, of the New Jer sey Experiment Station, writes: One of the worst of meadow and pasture weeds is Plantngo lanceolate, popularly known as joint weed. it seeds abun dantly and the seed is of just the right size and weight to go with clover seed, and is the weed seed nowadays most frequently mixed with that of clover. A person who is looking for it in clover seed will at once recognize the pest by the oval shape of tiie brown seed. It is longer than a clover seed and has a mark upon one side that reminds one of a miniature boat with a single per- HOII in the centre. This weed takes a firm grip upon the soil by a mass of roots springing from a large crown. This plant lives on from year to year, sending up new, long, lance-shaped leaves each season. The crown stores up much nourishment and when the land containing the plantain is plowed these crowns are like so many bulbs that remain alive for a long time. In short, the plant is easy to introduce into a soil and hard to eradicate from it. Thorough culture with some hoed crop is the most effective method of clearing the land of this rib-grass. The English plantain is so named because it came to us from across the sea. It has been introduced in some places as a forage plant, the seed be ing sown for pasturage for sbeep. This was a serious mistake, as many farm ers have fully learned by sad experi ence. Look well to the clover and grass seed and if already in the grass hind get it out by cultivator and hoe, of course not letting the pest form any seed. Keep More Bees. To one who goes about the country and notices the farms he passes it is al ways a matter of surprise that so few bees are kept in the West. In a good many sections of the East two or three or more bee hives will be seen near al most every farm house, and the fami lies living in these houses have honey the year round, while among the farm ers in the West it is almost an unknown luxury in many homes. It would he almost impossible to keep bees enough in this country to utilize the nectar in the flowers that blooni every year, and 011 every farm two or three colonies could be kept without trouble enough to make any difference in the ordinary duties. Except in a few districts bees can bo kept with a moderate degree of success by the most unskilled, and the honey tliey would gather would be all clear profit. Where clover is grown; where white clover, basswood or sumac abounds, or where alsike clover, golden rod, rasp berry bushes or the purple asters of autumn are to he found, there is honey for the gathering, and to let it waste is entirely unnecessary. The average yield of honey from a colony is probably not far from fifty pounds a year, and if two or three col onies are kept, enough will be made to supply the family to the extent of its appetite aery day in the year, and children fed 011 honey sweets are being given nature's own medicine in a most welcome shape. The keeping of bees is delightful work for women and they soon become skilled operators, and in parts of this country a good many women make pin money easily by rearing bees and sell ing honey, for which the market never fuils.— The Silver Knight. One truth in the life is better than a hundred im the memory. I TO 81-LOW LAND. My little dears, the star-lamps Are lighted overhead To guide ail sleepy children From the land of (10-to-Jied, On a most delightful journey; Oh, you'll all be glud to go To that pleasant, pleasant countrv Whero the dream-flowers grow You'll And a good steed waiting, .So mount and give command. And trot away, and trot away To By-Low La ad. You can go by Sleepy Hollow, _ That's the shortest route to'tako On the journey you are going. From the plains of Wideawake. You'll be there before you know It; Shut your drowsy eyes, and 10l You are in the pleasant country Where the dream-flowers grow. Your good steed's waiting for you, So mount and give command, And trot away, and trot away To By-Low Lund. 'F.re you'At'orrupoifyou r'jou rney, , Mother wants a hug and kiss From each drowsy little darling, And she softly tells you this She'll be lonesome when you've left her Though she's glad to have you go To that pleasant, pleasant country Where the dream-flowers grow. Your good steed's tired of waiting. So mount and give command. And trot away, and trot awuv To Bv-Low Land. •-Washington Homo Magazine. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Always used up—A sky-rocket.— Life. Weather-beaten—The Signal Servico forecasts. "This is surely a cribbed joke." "Yes; but it must be in its second childhood."—Yale Record. Mack—"What is your idea of a per fect woman?" Wyld—"One who acknowledges her faults."—Puck. "I hear young Nollekins has gone into the sculpterin' business." "Yes; but he don't cut much of a flgger. " Mack—"Why are the Bijou Flats in such demand?" Wyld—"There isn't a room large enough to get a piano iu." -—Puck. Teacher—"Plato, what is a farm?" Plato—"A farm, sir, is u body of laud entirely surrounded by a fence."— J lulge. Barber—"What will yon have on your face, sir?" .Customer (faintly)— "Erysipelas. I think; it feels that way."—Judge. "What cowards these men are! Here I am forty years old, and no one has had the courage to propose tome!" —Fliegende Blaetter. The Cannibal "Yon are sweet enough to eat." His Wife—"But the doctor Haid you must not cat sweet things."—Texas Siftiugs. ."Don't yon think your son a little fast, Mrs. Sweetly?" "Far from it. He is so slow that we can never get him to breakfast before noon." —Detroit Free Press. City Nephew—"l've got a conple o tiekets for to-morrow night; hut all the orchestra seats had been sold." Uncle Josh—"Do tell! Will the orchestra have to stand up?"— Puck. Cripple—"Exeuse me, sir, hut 1 have lost both my legs—" Passer-by (passing by)—"So sorry. Haven't seen anything of them. Try at police headquarters."—Standard. Mother—"Dear me! The baby has swallowed that piece of worsted." Father—"That's nothing to the yarns she'll hnve to swallow if she lives to grow up."—London Tit-Bits. "Maria," said John, "you must he going to have a fearfully big bird on your bonnet." "Why?" asked Maria. "I jndged from the size of the hill," said John, quietly.—Harper's Bazar. "Old Gotrox said he got rich by saving what other people threw away." "Oh, yes. Did he also statethat any thing not nailed down he considered as thrown away?"—lndianapolis Jour nal. Lightlove—"At last, dear Sophia, wo are alone and I can tell you that I lo- -" Sophia—"Oh, please, no Mr. Lightlove, don't tell me here." Light love— "Why not? There are 110 wit nesses." Sophia—"That's just it!" Chips. , Wife (hysterically)—"l am sure 1 cannot he mistaken. Four times iu his sleep he has cried out that he put it iu the corner pocket. Can it lie that he lost it afterward, or is he intention ally deceiving me in his sleep?"— Judge. "There are men," said the cactus philosopher, "so enterprising that they do business in a dead calm. Now J know a man who advertised for intend ing suicides, so that he could get them to buy pistols from his hardware store.- Washington Times. Mrs. Seldom Singell—"Thanks, Jack; hut it wouldn't look well for me to dauce. I lost my husband to-day." Jack—"Divorce?" Mrs. Seldom Sing ell—"No; a real, genuine death. That's honest. I have the undertaker's cer tificate in my pocket."—Judge. One day a malicious person said to Alexander Dumas tils: "Yon father was a mulatto, was lie not?" Dumas re plied: "Yes, sir, my father was a mu latto, my grandfather an African and my great-grandfather a monkey. My genealogy begins where yours ends." —Standard. "So you say," began the moderately new boarder, "that, he speculated on a large scale exclusively. May I inquire what was the use of the large scale?" "Glad to answer you," replied the Cheerful Idiot. "He had to have it for weighing the consequences."—ln dianapolis Journal. "Help! help!" oriod the drowning man, "I am drowning!" "Jove! What an opportunity!" cried the re porter. "Quick! tell me your sensa tions, and I'll give you a sendotf iu next Sunday's paper." But it was too late; the man had gone down for the third time.—Harper's Bazar. They who wait to do great things never do anything. Keep the Mouth Shut. If you would avoid colds, keep the i mouth shut when com log out of an over-heat(Ml room, especially late at night, and breathe through the nose. Chills arc apt to ensue when people talk freely while out of doors just after j leaving a room full of hot air, and theater-goers who discuss and laugh . over the play on their way home are ! inviting illness. It is, In fact, during j youth tli.it the greater number of man- | kind contract habits of inflammation j which make their whole life a tissue of | disorders. Shake Tnto Your Slioci Allen's Fool-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet, and in- | Btautly takes the sting out of corns and bun ions. It's the greatest couifort discovery of the use. Allen's Foot-Muse makes tighl>>flt- j ting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain 1 cure l.r sweating, callous and hot, tired, ach ing feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists , and shoe stores. By mail for 'M C. In stamps. ; Trial package Fit EE. Address, Allen S. Olm sted, Le ltoy, N. Y, Piso's Cure for Consumption Ims saved me J many a doctor's bill. S. F. IIAIIOV, Hopkins . I'lacc. Haltiinore. .\M.. Ik < . U'.ti. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's F, ve-water. IM uggists sell ata6c.per bottle. I THE HEAT PLAGUE_OF AUGUST, 1896. Mrs. Pinkham'a Explanation of tho Unusual Number of Deaths and Prostrations Among Women. The great neat plague of August, 1896, was not without its lesson. One could to notice in the long Constipation, capricious appetite, restlessness, I'inkham's Vegetable Compound lms spe- /^jl tlian to commence a course of this grand ' > * medicine. Bv the neglect of first symptoms you will see by tho following letter what terrible suffering cams- to Mrs. Craig, and liow she was cured : ' nave taken Lydia K. i'inkham's Vegetable Com pound and tliinlc it is tlie best medicine for women in the wor.d. I was so weak and nervous that.l thought 1 not livc from one day to the next. I had pro -1 lapsus uteri and leucorrhoea and thought I was go 'C&F' * in k r into consumption. 1 would get so faint I thought -t \ 1 would die. I had dragging pains in ray back, burn sensation down to my feet, and so many miserable y MVA^^'^\ lt ' oli,l £ s ' People suid that I looked like a dead %v w woman. Doctors tried to cure me, but failed. 1 had £ iven U P when 1 heard of the Pinkham medicines I ffl a t>°ttle. I did not have much faith in it, but thought I would try it, and it made a new woman of me. I wish I could get every lady in the land to try it, for it did for me what doctors could not do." —MRS. HALLIE CRAIG, Baker's Lauding* l J a. %jl VWH STANDARD OF THE WORLD. Renown SIQQ™^ ® n the 1897 Columbia models a J feature of special inportance is the double fork crown—a special con <ssßl struction which we have tried and 1 "11 found to be the strongest. 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