Spring Medicine A Good Blood Purifier a Neces sity Now Hood's Sarsaparllla Unequalled for Making Rich, Rod (flood The necessity for taking a good Spring Medicine to purity tho blood and build up the system is basod upou natural and un avoidable causes. In cold weather thero has beon loss perspiration and impurities have not passed out of tho system as thoy should. Food has consisted largely of rloh, fatty substances, and thero has beon less opportunity for outdoor oxerciso. Tho rosult Is, tho blood is loaded with im purities and theso must bo promptly ex pelled or health will bo endangered. Hood's Barsaparilla is tho best Spring Medicine beoauso it is tho host blood puriQcrand tonic. It thoroughly puriQes tho blood and gives vigor and vitality. HOOd'S barilla Is America's Greatest Mod lei no. $1; six for $5. Mnnrl'c Pi lie nro tho favorite cathar nUUU S 8 IMb tic. All druggists. 153 cts. About 20,000 letters are addressed to Queen Victoria yearly from her sub jects. Those that are not stamped are not forwarded by the officials. The Queen's letters have precedence of all others, and are forwarded to Windsor by special messenger from the general postofflee. Tlint Settles It. With the bloom and beauty of tho season, Its balmy airs and delightful temperature, we feel like living with new life, and are therefore often very careless in taking care of ourselves. It is this forgetfulness that lays us liable to attacks of rheumatism, the more liable because we think there is little clanger of its eoming on. but rheuma tism is an easy thing to take and some times a hard thing to get rid of unless we take the advice of others and learn that the best way possible is to use St. Jacobs Oil. It has been used so long as a sure cure that this advice is given In good faith from the testimony of thousands. If all the cabs in London were placed In a lino there would be a total length of 44 miles. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascurots Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggtssis refund money. In time of war France can put 370 out of every 1,000 of her population in the field; Germany, 310; Russia, 210. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. s2trial bottle and treatise free.Dr.R.H.KLINE Ltd.,031 Arch Bt.Phila.,l , n. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reducing in flammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. Insanity in Prussia. There lias been a good deal of com ment of late upon the increase of iu eanlty in England. It seems, from si recent official report, that a similar if not a worse condition of affairs exists In Prussia, where the lunatic asylums find difficulty in providing accommoda tions for the crowds of applicants for admission. Iu 1871 the total number of lunatics in Prussia was 55,003, In 18S0 it hud risen to 06,345, while In 1890 it had gone up to 52,550. It is Interesting to note also that, while the growth of insanity Is general, it is more marked among men than among women. Of 100,000 Prussian males It seems 278 are found insane; but in a like number of women only 243. From figures given in the same return it appears that blind ness Is diminishing, while the number of deaf mutes is rather Increasing. Punishment for tho Ungodly, ■ The American Bible Society lias re ceived from Peru the cheering informa tion that four of the men who have been most active In obstructing evan gelical work have died wit lien twelve months. The poorer the lawyer "tlie fewer trials he lias. NO WOMAN IS EXEMPT. Regularity is a matter of importance in every woman's life. Much pain is, however, endured in the belief that it is necessary and not alarming, when in truth it is all wrong and indicates derangement th&v may cause serious trouble. Excessive monthly pain itself will unsettle tho nerves and make women old before their time. The foundation of woman's health is a perfectly normal and regular per formance of nature's function. The statement we print from Miss GER TRUDE SIKER, of Eldred, Pa., i 3 echoed in every city, town and liamlct in this country. Read what she cays; 44 DEAR Mas. PINE IIAM:—I feci like a new person since following your ad vice, and think it is ray duty to let tho public know tho good your remedies have done me My troubles were pain ful menstruation and lcucorrhoco, I was nervous and had spells of being confused. Before using your remedies I never had any faith in patent medi cines. I now wish to say that I never had anything do me so much good for painful menstruation as Lydia E. Pink liam's Vegetable Compound; also would say that your Sanative Wash has cured me of leucorrhaea. I hope these few words may help suffering women." Tho present Mrs. Pinkham's experi ence in treating female ills is unparal leled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lj'dia E. Pinkham, and for sometime past has had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter as many as a hundred thousand ailing vomen during a single year. J All suffering women aro invited to rrite freely to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., for advice about their health* PATENTS Watson B.Coleman, Attorney-at-Law and Solioitot of Patents, 9i)'J F Bt., N. W. f Washington, I). C lilahwt rtfwnc— la all parts of the Qoaptry, OER BUDGET OF HUMOR. LAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. A Tragedy of the Day—The Antidote- After Marriage—The Editor'* Little Joke—lt Was Possible—A Remedy For Ilia Case—Sweet Charity, Ktc., lite. The year had gloomily begun For Willie Weeks, a poor man's BUN. He wa9 beset with bill anil dun. And he had very little MON. "This cash," said ho. "won't pay my dues, I've nothing hero but ones and TTJES." A bright thought struck him. and he said "The rich Miss Goldrock I will WED." But when he paid his oourt to her, She lisped, but firmly said "No, TllUIt!" "Alas!" said he, "then I must die!" His soul went where they say souls FRT. They found his gloves, and coat, and hut; The Coroner upon them SAT. -—Carolyn Wells, in Life. The Antidote. She—"ls there anything I can do to make you stop loving me?" He—"Yes; marry me." The Editor's Little Joke. Disappointed Joke-Writer—"Why don't you want this joke?" The Editor—"lt's been cracked." It Was l'ossiblp. Jones—"ls it possible for a train boy to become president of a road?" Smith—"Yes, if he doesn't reform." —Life. After Marriage. "Do Brush has become wedded to his art." "I thought so. He's getting aw fully careless iu his work lately."— Fuck. Sweet Cliarlty. He—"Don't you think Miss Plainly is the very imago of her mother?" She—"Yes, indoed; the resem blance is something awful."—Chicago News. A Remedy For His Case. Brown—"Jones strikes me as a man who is afraid to think for him self." Smith—"Why doesn't he get mar ried?" —Puck. Too Sharp Diet. Museum Manager "Tho sword swallower seems out of health." Keeper—"Yes; he quarreled with the fat lady, and she made him eat his own words."—Detroit Free Press. An Uncertain Future. He—"My darling, I always feel like taking off my shoes when I enter your sacred presence." "Well, I would rather you did it now than after* wo aro married."— Love and Folly. A Mystery. "While Miss Fitz was away George took her parrot." "Anything happen?" "I don't know; she keeps the par rot down cellar, aud the engagement is off."—Love and Folly. A Now Order. Uncle Frank—"Well, Willie, what did you see at tho circus to-day?" Willie (who was especially pleased with the Shetland ponies)—" Lots and lots of things; but the best were the condensed horses."—Judge. Settled. Nodd—"My wife told mo if I want ed peace with her I would have to re sign from my club." Todd—"And you are getting along all right now?" "Oh, yes. I'm living at the club." —Life. Changed Conditions. "Is it so that the Truers belong to one of the oldest and best families in the country?" "I believe that they had some such pretensions, but the old gentleman got on the wrong side of the wheat mar ket last fall." Too Much Progress. Mr. Chipps (looking up from tho paper)—" The doctors have discovered another new disease." Mrs. Chipps—"Well, I wish they'd stop looking for new diseases long enough to find a cure for my old rheu matism."—New Y'ork Weekly. He Knew. Sunday - school Superintendent— "Can any little boy in the class tell me anything about Tyre?" Little Boy—"Yes, sir; I can. Mine busted one day last summer when I was out on my bike and I had to hoof it home." —Detroit Free Press. Quick Distribution. "I'm proud of you," said the head of the firm. "I have letters from all over Kansas saying they that they have seen our samples. How in the world did you manage it?" and he patted the traveling man on the back. "Cyclone." Fnihed For Time. Englishman —"I say, ye knaw, what's the bookage to Boston?" Railroad Ticket Clerk—"The what age?" Englishman "The bookage, ye knaw—the tariff. What's th' tariff?" Ticket Clerk—"l haven't time to talk politics."—Lewiston Journal. Hard Luck. Casey—"What's the matter with Dooliu? He looks as if he was in hard luck?" Murphy—"He is that. The kind hearted, rich man who has been sup porting him for the last two months has got a job for him and he has got to work."—New York Journal. An Artl.t"'in HI. Line. "What are you waiting for, dear?" •sked Bmithly of his wife, as she I lingered in the cafe after they had eaten. "I would like to interview the chef and get his recipe for making that clam chowder without using any clams."—Detroit Free Press. Sot So High. Lady enters barber shop with Skya terrier. "Mr. Earber, caa you cut my dog gie's hair?" "No, I can't—or rather I won't!" "Indeed, you seem to hold your self pretty high for one in your po sition." "Perhaps I do; but I'm no skyo scraper."—Truth. The Prudent Course. "Upilyke is an exceedingly quick witted chap." "So?" "Yes. For instance, last night, at Jammer's party, he unfortunately stepped on Miss Quiokfire's dress and ripped in the neighborhood of three miles of ruffle oft' it." "I see. He immediately mollified her by some exceedingly witty apol cgy." "Not much! He immediately dis appeared." A Fatal Oversight. "I should like to know," began the city editor, as he stepped among his subordinates with lire iu each eye, "why A noticeable shudder of fear passed through the entire staff. "the man who wrote up the dog show never once said that society was going to the bow-wows." From an adjoining room came the sound of a pistol shot and a heavy fall. The culprit had chosen not to sur vive his disgrace.—Pack. WORDS OF WISDOM. Truth is moral dynamite. Faculty measures ability. Error i 3 self-propagating. Doing is an antidote for doubling. Friendship is the crutch of sorrow. Ideas aro the molds of public op&i ion. Faith never outruns our understand ing. Self-conceit makes some men wiser than God. A good occupation prevents mental dissipation. Finding repays for searching—get ting for waiting. Some great men have won their fame by doing little things. We must be divorced from error bo fore wo can be married to truth. A big error shrinks into nonentity when placed beside a small truth. Beware of the tyranny of custom; time gives every crab a hard shell. Tho greatest kings were men so un selfish that they could refuso a crown. It is not right to sacrifice your principles to save another's feelings. It is the duty of the preacher to im press tho truth as well as to expect it. Repentance is the shortest road out of sin, but the last which most people take. The world's greatest men and host reformers were light weight when weighed in the scales of bigotry. Don't try to raise too large a crop of religion on too small a plot of ground. Increase your territory as you in crease your seed. The reason some folks "lose their mind" must be that they have given others "a piece of their mind" so often, they have none left for themselves.— Barn's Horn. 8110 I.ikeast, her admirers crowded around her Fresh financial disasters having over taken her husband, Mme. Recamier sought refuge in the Abbayo mix Bols, where her salon became more cele brated than ever. The Abbaye nux llols was the home of a religious com munity. During the somber days of the revolution this property had served as a prison. Under the restoration tho nuns of the community had made It a refuge for women of the world, who withdrew there to taste of the pleas ures of solitude without at the same time renouncing those of society. The nuns ceded to her the right for life of a magnificent apartment, and there she surrounded herself with objects that recalled her princely existence of other days. The friends of former times Hocked to see her and the most noted Parisians defiled through the salons of tho Abbaye aux Bois. A writer of this time says of her: "She never held such a place In the world as when she lived in this humble retreat at one end of Paris. It was there that her gentle genius, disengaged from too vehement complications, made Itself more and more felt. It may be said that she per fected the art of friendship and caused It to take 011 new charms. This lovely woman was gracious and captivating even In her old age. Tho day she com prehended that her beauty was wan ing, because the little chimney sweeps no longer t urtied to look upon her when she passed, she determined to conse crate the remaining years of her life to the duties of religion and to the culti vation of friendship." She died in 1840. Her life was blame less, but her salon was the scene of in trigues, religious and political, that have come in for severe criticism. Burial Money In China. , A kind of Chinese money which Is largely manufactured and sold is wor thy of mention, although the traveler need not trouble himself with It except as a curiosity. This Is prepared for the especial purpose of burning at the graves of deceased relatives as an offer lug to the dead. The denizens of the other world are supposed to requlro and to be capable of receiving money in this way; but the Chinaman is far too practical a person to part In such a fashion with the currency of the em pire. Instead lie buys for a few "cash" a large supply of silvered and gilded pieces of paper, or of Imitation coins blocked out of cnrtlboard. Although these have no purchasing [lower on earth, they are supposed to count for much In tho transactions oi the spirit world. By this practice one Is reminded of an old story of a miser who left his belongings to his son on condition that a certain sura of money should be burled In the cotfin with him. The son was, however, a chip of the old block, and carried out Ills father's wishes by placing In the coffin a cross oil chock for the required amount, as sured that it had little chance of being presented nt his banker's.—Chambers' Journal. _ Peaches Once Poison. The peach was originally a polson nlmond. Its fruity parts were used to poison arrows, nnd for that purpose were Introduced into Persia. Trans plantation and cultivation have not only removed its poisonous qualities, but turned It Into the delicious fruit we now o' ' - A large ... . much evi 'dence of brains as a paper collar is u: a shirt. aratlons manufactured from chalks, clays, whiting, etc., are stuck on the wall with decaying animal glue. Alabostine la a ce ment, which goes through a pxocess of sot ting, hardens with age, can be re-coated hnd re-decorated from time to time with out having to wash and scrape off its old coats before renewing. MUCH SICKNESS Particularly throat and lung difficulties wrongly attributed to other causes, is the result of unsanitary conditions of walls and ceilings. Think of having bedrooms COT TToiren>nrrrwwv-'ww -to; - -ft* gagsEagßEEi VItEK .11 mention of Oil. JmbllcuOou. TEE Ult. WHITEiIAI,V'"iEUIOMiN™ I c>£.%?i^ " Belter Work Wisely Than Work Hard." Creat Efforts are Unnecessary in llcuaecleaninz if You Use SAPOLIO ered with layers of molding Hour paste to food vermin, with paper to hide them and to absorb tlio moisture of respiration, and an animal gluo oulturo ground on Its face for disease germs; this having strong oolort added, like a colored shirt, to hide the dirt; thou think of "the nasty practice" of repeating this papering, without remov ing the oUI, and a number of times, at that, an many do. Then tlilpk of a room coated ( with'pure, porous, permanent Alahustlne ' which is retinted with but little trouble or I expense, and is purifying and sweet-smell- I lag and Plla cracks. Wall paper free Nearly every young man had the B mag netic. lull of life, r-rte and vigor, take No-To- Bac, the wonder-* ur.cer, that makes weak men strong. All teed. Booklet and snmr'e free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., or How York. Vultures ran not dlsc"-"r a carcass by the sense of smell. They rely en tirely upon the r Fight In quest of food. Pieo'sCrre for Consumption h is no equal its N Cough MO 'I-'nc. K. ISI. AIIUOTT, :W.I st,. Buffalo, N.\ .. May lH. WAGOft] s-' A better Scale for FREIGHT RAID. less money than has AD E DR!'S E S PD ° flerea ' O |P P JDSEK2 rca A BICYCLE Ulffh Urada 'iB Madela, >l4 t S4O. CRF ATCLIARI &V °o'enrr l p m-rcle" and mk SPECIAL '1 ll 1 8 W i:PU-(0hi! t,F, .HEAD CYCLE COAIPANY, Chicago. PENSIONS, I 3 CLAIMS* JOHNW MORRIS WASHINGTON. DA *ite Principal Exauiluer J. S Pension Bureau. i vrj. m lust war, ljadjuaicaun* claims, alt r uoa SJBEN AND WOMEN WANTED KYI TO TH A V KL for old ectabllahed honee Per sia manent poMMon. %4 IT month and ail es pouse*. PAN .Zlx-uLLII a CO., Re Locuai ol.,l'hila. OPiy^iMlis rsc li ■!>. would be dearer than Alabnetlna 11 oet el ruuiovlug paper la considered. TO DKAI.EKS. P o not buy a law suit or an Injunction with cheap kalnominea, which are all luit tatious of Alabastlne. Dealers ass time tho risk of u suit for (lainages ty selling an tn | fringeraeut. Alahaatlne Company own the ■ right, covered by letters pateut. to make ami sell wall coatings adapted to be mixed I with cold water. Alubustiue Co. Grand llapids, Mlcii.