United States Legation In Merlin. The United States government has been Inquiring through the proper channel as to the cost of purchasing or erecting Its own buildings for the em bassies and legations and several of th€ largo consulates-general In Europe. It may astonish many to learn that Ber lin was found the most expensive cap ital In the world, so far as the cost of real estate and of buildings was con cerned. The only really suitable build lug found there for the purpose would cost SBOO,OOO. The Itussian embassy building in Berlin, which Is located Unter den Linden, and which is, in deed, a veritable palace, so spacious and stately is it, would cost about $4,- j 000,000 to build to-day, ground and all. j But it Is, too, roomy and elegant enough j to have served repeatedly for traveling quarters for Russian Czars passing through Berlin. What a miserable con- 1 trast forms the excuse for an office which the United States embassy occu- 1 pies in Berlin, In Kronen strasse, a street of small shops. In the basement j of the building is a barber shop, on the ground floor a wine and schnapps shop, j and above the embassy offices reside a score of private persons. Possibly r.o man is as anxious to go j to war as be pretends to the reporters.- j Hip Disease Had Five Running Sores—Could Net Walk Without Crutches. "I suffered from hip disease and had Ave ruuulag sors on oue of my hips. I could not walk without crutohes. I was con- I flnod to my be I for weeks at a time. I began taking Hood's Barsuparillii uud 11 has accomplished a perfect cure. I ain now wo!l uud have no trouble from Impure blood." Annie Itobert, 49 Fourth Street, Fall River, Mass. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. Si; six for $5 Hood's Pills euro biliousness, indigestion. Try Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder to shake iu the shoos. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Al len's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet uud makes walking easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it to-day . Bold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. ¥. Mr?. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchildren 1 teething, sol tens the gums, reducing in- j (lamination, allays pain, cures wind colic. £>c. : a bottle. Fits permanently cured. No Ats or nervous- ! ru'fs alter Arst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, f2trial bottle and treatise j free Dr.R.H. KLINE Ltd..tttl Arch St.Phila.,Pa i After physicians had given me up, I was saved by Fiso's Cure.- RALPH £BUSO, Wil- ; Li ain sport, I'a., Nov. 18'JJ. A Michigan pastor recently surprised | his congregation with this announce ment: "Remember our quarterly meeting next Sunday. The Lord will be with us during the morning service and the presiding elder in the even ing." No-To-Uac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak e strong, blood pure. 50c, sl. All druggists. Vacant Land In the United States. The report of the Secretary of tne In terior shows that only a little more :han one-half of the public domain of the United States Is either reserved or appropriated. The area still remaining vacant amounts to 51)1,343,953 acres, without including Alaska, which is supposed to embrace nearly 400,000,000 acres more. The entire area of the United States Is placed at 1,535.017,G92 acres. Of this, 741,702,305 acres Is now owned by Individuals or by corpora tions or by states, or has passed out of the control of the general government. The amount reserved for schools, In dians, military and naval railroad grants, parks, forest reserva tions, etc., Including all territory re served from sale for any purpose what- j soever, amounts to 132,441,744 acres, so I that, taking the reserve land and the | vacant land together, only about one- | half of the area of the United States has actually passed out of control of the government, nnd if Alaska Is in cluded, the unoccupied area is larger by 300,< 00,000 acres than that which is jccuiiled.—San Francisco Argonaut. THE DUTY OF MOTHERS. Daughters Should be Carefully Guided in Early Womanhood. What suffering frequently results from a mother's ignorance; or more frequently from a mother's neglect to properly instruct her daughter I Tradition says "woman mustsuffer," and young women are so taught. There is a little truth aud a great deal of exaggeration in this. If a young woman suffers severely she needs treatment and her mother should see that she gets it. Many mothers hesitate to take their daughters to a physician for examina tion; but no mother need hesitate to write freely about her daughter or herself to Mrs. Pinkhara and secure the most efficient advice without charge. Mrs. Pinkhain's address is Lynn, Mass. The following letter from Miss MARIE F. JOHNSON, Centralia, Pa., shows what neglect will do, and tells how Mrs. Pinkham helped her: "My health became so poor that I had to leave school. I was tired all the time, and had dreadful pains in my sido and back. I was also troubled with irregularity of menses. I was very weak, and lost so much flesh that my friends became alarmed. My mother, who Is a firm believer in your remedies from experience, thought per haps they might benefit me, and wrote you for advice. I followed the advice you gave, and used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills as you directed, and am now as well as I ever was. I have gained flesh and have a good color. I am completely cured of Irregularity." Hitutoe? to Ccnnnsr. ho asking we >u our i.ltho •~\ graphed Carpet (Jura- f&l J log;uo, showing goods jrffiKWbv {a t'i lithographed colors. / A) V® Forsanaple&.ieudeight L *") corns AI.LCAKPKTS IRVVNO ' Cm 9) s E WED Fit EE. AN i > Vf Ca F R Ela H T RAID TO -KM A\ V® YOU It STATION. - C© fpsspgf 83.95 ®) f> tb^iS (® at.) . Our 113-ruxi' ®J C© iMI •) tortr-Ml: S &c , Is mailed to all (0 who ask for it. ©J § Bf*S A % RuysaMade-to-your-Measerc ttr w s ©) All-w 1 <h< Mot Suit. hX- Tiff PRESS PA ID TO YOU It j 7 (© STATION. Catalogue nnd */\i( U9 Samples Free. Address ITjJ —N 9) (exactly as below.) JJ | 9J (• JULIUS lIINES & SOS, C ©) Dept. 305. BALTIMORE, M 3. ®' ® (§ LIVING RENT FREE. Philadelphia Mail Who Went Brok. Because He Did Not Pay. A Philadelphia man has lived tea pears In a house tor which he paid no | rent and no taxes. It belonged to the gas company, and he haft paid rent reg ularly until the property of the conipa j ny was transferred to the city. lie say, himself: "I don't remember how long |lt Is since I stopped paying rent. It was when the gn3 office was on 7tli street. I went there one clay with my , rent and offered It to Mr. White, who i had charge of the gas company's real estate, but ho refused to take it, and lold me that It was to be paid at the | city treasurer's office in the future. I took It up there and a young man there said he could not take it, as he couldn't tlnd record of any such a house. lie told me that they would notify me when they were ready to take my money. I went back to Mr. White aud ho ndvlsed me to go home and wait un til I heard from them. Well, I waited." j Nobody came to collect money until re cently, when the city discovered Its | title and sent a man to collect. The ten- I ant got a day to consider and promptly skipped. But his experience with a free rent does not seem to he satis fac j tory.lf we may trust to his wife. "Yes'" | says she, resentfully, "ho thought It ■ was a snap, and look where he is now -no money, no business, looking for a I |ob, nnd a family to support. lie wouldn't take my advice and move to where business was good, but he hugged his snap nnd stuck here In that stagnant neighborhood and spent money on repairs for the house nnd didn't make any money."—Philadelphia Record. Misinformation til Australia. The following account of the proper way of reaching the Klondike Is taken from an Australian newspaper: "The real starting point for the Klondike Is Spokane. There the traveler takes a canoe, by which he voyages to Van couver, B. O. At the latter point he takes a sailing vessel direct to Dawson City." RAM'S HORN BLASTS. Warnlnc Notes Calling tho Wicked to Repentance. t,EAR and love are foes. Envy bites Its keeper. Op port unity may trip a giant. Hunger nnd ambition are hard to rock to sleep. U nbe 11 e f ' s morning star never rises. 1 1 A good name Is * S made, not be itowed. Public opinion Is never tongue-tied. The abuse of health Is veiled suicide. Every heart has a thorn and a throne. The man who thinks leads tho crowd. Carmel faith leads to Carmel victory. The grumbler blows out his own lamp. Small boats must keep near the ihore. If you can't be a sun, don't be a cloud. Heart wisdom Is ahead of book learn ing. Man never makes truth; he only dis covers It. Tho man above suspicion lives abovo the stars. Ignorance and witchcraft are fast friends. It Is hard for bad motives to drive good bargains. The farm and the garden arc the best gold diggings. Compared to eternity, this life Is as the last gasp of the dying. Discretion Is not cowardice, neither Is blntaut volubility courage. Exuberant patriotism Is often used is a cloak by knavish politicians. A prayer for guidance on election day is quite as appropriate as on Sunday. Weeds thrive best la richest soil. This applies to churches as well as to fields and gardens. Lot not only "pitched his tent toward Sodom," but he was found living right down town when destruction came. "Consistency, thou art a Jewel." Im agine a saloon keeper horrified at the desolation wrought by Spain In Cuba. Through the cloud of Imminent war, "a prudent mn.n Corseeth the evil," but that docs not hinder him from doing his dutv. Dont's In Fench Culture- Don't set peach trees on heavy moist soil. High dry, sandy or sandy loam soil is necessary for success with this fruit. Don't select varieties because they are said to bear large specimens of frnit, but rather look out for a vig orous healthy stock budded from bear ing trees, true to name and in good health. Don't try to grow anything in the peach orchard; give the trees undisputed possession of the land from the beginning. Don't cultivate occa sionally, but let the cultivation bo frequent and thorough. Don't fertilize peach orchards with any fertilizer you may happen to have in hand. Manure liberally each year and use annually commercial fertili zers that are rich in potash and phos phoric acid, but weak in nitrogen; apply broadcast. Don't let the trees grow as they will, but head them low and prune close for the first four or five years. Dou't let the yellows get the start of you. Make it a business to look for the disease each week and if discovered pull up and burn each infected tree. Don't expect a big crop of big peaches. There is more money in a three-quarters crop of first class fruit, therefore thin accordingly. Cure For White Grubs. There has been much discussion iu the papers devoted to farming and gardening, about the white grubs so often seen in the soil. It was at first supposed that all these grubs were harmful to vegeta tion, but it has been demonstrated that one variety is absolutely harmless, while the other one does enough damage for both. It is not hard to distinguish the two kinds if one examines them closely. The harm less one ia round, plump and of a pearly white color, has very short legs, and is slow moving. The other is more active, with longer legs, less transparent body aud is usu ally a little larger in size. The latter is the great pest of the strawberry grower. It eats the roots from the plants, aud then, when tho leaves curl, the grower takes hold of them to see what the trouble is, and tho plants come up entirely rootless, and too much weakened to be able to put out new ones. The harmless type, sometimes called muck worms, are often found in great numbers in rotten manure, and also among plants that have been enriched with that kiud of fertilizer. So far as is known they have never injured plant life, only feeding on de cayed vegetable matter. All sorts of remedies have been sug gested and tried for ridding the soil of these root-eating pests, but I know of but one that has proved a perfect suc cess, and it is this: Take a sufficient quantity of bran and spread it in a thin layer on a shed floor or in a large box. Then sprinkle it with a solu tion of molasses and water, enough molasses being used to color thewnter xnd make it smell quite sweet; the bran should be simply moistened, not wet. Sprinklo dry Paris groen over it, mixing thoroughly, using enough so color the mixture slightly. Let it stand for a few hours, and just before evening sprinkle the mixture broad east over the place where the grubs seem most plenty. They feed during the night, and in the morning dead ones will be found bn the surface, and, by digging a lit tle, one can see many dead ones in the soil. It is well to repeat the opera tion in a week, and the two applica tions will usually suffice for a season. It means a great saving to all who grow strawberries, as well as to those who raise garden truck of any kind. The grubs are the larva> of tiie true May bug or May beetle, such large numbers of which are seen in early summer.—Vick's Monthly. Pre paring: For Corn Planting, In warm, well-prepared and moist, but not wet soil, we have known corn planted dry to be up in four days tfter the seed was dropped aud cov sred. In five, or at the most, six lays, the cultivator could be mn through it oue way, and by the time this was done the corn was big enough to allow the cultivator to cross the rows and cultivate the other way. This was an extreme case, as all farm ers will understand. The corn was planted the second of June, the weather was just right, and so much bf the cultivation was dono in the warm sunlight that a good deal of sur face warmth was doubtless cultivated into the soil, and only slowly rose np ward, warming the entire seed bed, and causing whatever organic material the soil had to begin to rot, and thus furnish still more heat. There is a point here not often thought of. The philosophy of culti vating the soil shallow or deep, and whether preferably in hot and dry or in cool weather, is not enough consid ered. Late in the summer we have sometimes got up at daylight and cnl-- tivated the corn or hoed the cabbage in the garden whilfi tho dew was on tho leaves, and every agitation of them deposited this nmmoniated water on the surface to be turned > under by the cultivator or the, hoe. In this way fertility was directly added to the soil. Dew - has enough ammonia and carbonic aoid in it to make it an ex cellent 'stimulant when it is placed where the roots can get at it. But in early spring, and whenever the surface soil is cold, wet aud compact, tc break it up, letting warm air in, is always the best thing that can be done. It is especially important for corn, which always wants hot weather to grow in and plenty of ammouiated fertilizers to feed on. Both of these are furnished by the most thorough early cultivation. The spring tooth and disk harrows, which churn up the soil, are an immense improve ment over tho straight-tooth harrow which we used to fit corn ground with when a boy. Even the smoothing harrow, good though it be for fining the surface and fitting it for small seeds, has no place in the corn field. It presses down and compacts the sur face too much. The only instrument used in cultivating shonld, we think, be built on the spring-tooth pattern. If harrowing the whole surface be needed, it should be with the large weeders, with teeth more like the spring-tooth rake, and taking two to three rows at a time. They can be set shallow enough so as to merely scratch the surface, and will not up root any corn to speak of. But ns soon as possible the regular culti vator with or without spring teeth should be run between the rows. This will leave tho surface more uneven, aud therofore, more exposed to warm ing and drying atmospheric influ ences. Farm nnil Garden Notes. Fuchsias love a cool, moist ntmos phere. In winter an cast wiudow suits them; in summer a north one. Young plants of the fuchsiu should have the tops pinched out from time to time, to insure a sufficiency ol branches, of the pyramid shape is desired. For peach borers one of the most common remedies is an alkaline wash consisting of soft soap and washing soda mixed to a consistency of paint with enough carbolic acid to give an odor. Apply the wash with a stifl brush at various times during the season. Young fuscliias require a rich, sandy loam, which should be strengthened as the plant grows older. The best soil for the fuchsia is old woods earth. Tho compost from old, decayed stumps, with one-fourth sand, isagood porous soil; one that willfnever bake, but will require a little more water. A few sheep, a few good cows, n few pigs, some fowls, and a few turkey, on a small farm, well cared for will bring better net results than large flocks, big herds and big droves. It is not the number so much as the quality and the care given that combine the net results—some men think they must have a big lot to be making anything —such men often make out of pockets. A housekeeper says that when your fiugwn are stained with berries or vegetables the fumes from an old fashioned lucifer match, held under the stained fingers, will remove the color, if used before the hands are washed with soap. A little vinegar or lemon juice rubbed on the hands will restore the color nnd condition after washing, or washing dishes. A now method for preserving cut flowers comes from Japan. A mission ary from there says she has frequently kept chrysanthemums fresh for six weeks by charring the end of the stem with a splint of lighted wood—not a match, however, as the sulphur would be injurious to the flower—aud then keeping the water in which tho blos som stands frequently changed. The Japanese explain the philosophy of this by saying that the charring pro cess draws the water into the flower. The l*se of Corn Pith. To-day no American fighting craft is deemed complete without its belt or cofferdam of corn-pith cellulose. The pith of the stock is cut out nnd ground into a coarse, mealy mass, and then under pressure molded into blocks or briquettes. In this form it is packed into the cells made for it against the sides of the ship and about the region of the water line. Tho stuff weighs only n fractional part of a similar bulk of water. Now when an enemy's shot goes tearing through the outside plat ing nnd pierces the cellulose, if water be admitted by the rolling of the ves sel the cellulose at once swells auto matically and plugs tho liolo in itself as well as in the plating, thus prevent ing a dangerous admission of water iu the ticklish region of the water line. A curious virtue of this stuff is that it does not exert a damaging pressure as corn would do under like circum stances, but rests content simply with plugging the hole. Of course, this material would be scattered by ex plosive shell fire, but even then, being fire-proofed, it will not burn.—Chicago Chronicle. Troublesome Cuban Insects. There ar6 two insects in Cuba which are unknown around New York. One is the tick, and the other is the chigo. The former simply bites and irritates the skin, while the latter burrows under it or else digs little holes in it in which it lays its eggs. Both are extremely unpleasant, often very pain ful aud sometimes dangerous. Any strong disinfectant will kill them, and if sprinkled upon the clothing will prevent their attacking the wenrer.— * T ew'York Mail and Express. "" HOUSEHOLD ' AFFAIRS.'" 1 A Pretty Pen Wiper. , - A pretty little pen wiper is-made of old blue kid or flue leather, seven and a half inches long by three and one half inohes wide,pinked out all around the edge. Underneath this should be placed two pieces of chamois, seven by three inohes; these should be pinked out about the edges. These should all be fastened together by means of a pretty bit of Dresden ribbon half an inch wide, by tying across the center so that it looks like a butterfly. Meat of Nuts in Cooking. The use of the meat of nuts in cook ing is not altogether new in this country. In some respeots it is a re vival of customs created through necessity in the early days of New England, New Amsterdam aud the Carolinas. In the seventeenth cen tury the housewives were able to make various dishes from chestnuts, acorns, liiokory nuts, walnuts, butternuts, nnd even the humble peanut. Instead of using a mill for comminuting the meat they employed a mortar and pestle and where these were not convenient, they resorted to the rolling pin and even to two boards and a mallet. As there seems to have been no comment upon the dish prepared from any of these substances, it is fair to assume that they were not bad aud possibly that they were as good as tho average bread at that time.—New York Mail and Express. Dliiinff-Itoom Soda-Fountoln. The dining-room soda-fountain was seen more or less often last summer. It is again put forward with the spring housefurnishings. It is a plain oaken box that might be anything until it is opened and its interior displayed. Within an ice-chest the supply of soda water is held, aud small bottles of var ious fruit syrups are also a part of the outfit. A more simple arrangement, where soda water is wanted at the country house which is often not only miles from the traditional lemon, but equally removed from the esteemed effervescenco dispenser, is the use of the home-made syrups with a siphon of plain soda. The fruit syrups—straw berry, pineapple, orange, raspberry, currant nnd lemon—are easily made. The wish of a small boy for a soda fountain right in the wall of his room is practically, if not to the letter, ac complished.—New York Tost. Mutting Instead of Wall Paper. Wall paper is probably not doomed —it would take something of a revolu tion in house decoration ideas to bring that about—but it has a rival in the affec tions of people who want something unique in the rooms of their new houses. This rival is matting, especially Chi nese mattings, nnd the idea is to cover a wall from floor to ceiling with them. Nothing of this sort has ever been sug gested by the decorators before, though strips of matting have often been used as friezoe and even as dados. To cover every inch of the four walls of a room with matting is a distinct novelty in the beautifying of rooms, however, nnd where it has been tried it has been hailed as a great success. A special grade and special designs of mattings nre, of course, used, as the ordinary variety would present no at tractiveness on a wall. In every case patterns that show extremely largo flgures are the thing. Diamonds and stars are high in favor, and squares and blocks made to imitate carpet de signs have hardly less popularity. Iu all there nre a dozen or more new and fresh patterns peculiarly adapted to nailing up on walls. Eed and white and green aud white are the colors that are used. The blue and white mntting has not coma into vogue yet for wail decoration, though it may appear at any time. These mattings are laid on in strips cross the walls, not up and down. It should be remembered that the ordin ary floor mattings would not be at all the thing on walls, and that only the special varieties mentioned above should ever be used. With tho proper matting laid on skillfully there is nn admirable blackground for nuy sort of pictures, and a room is made that will seem delightfully cool iu the hottest sort of weather. For a matting-walled room window shades of matting of the same kind, or at least of an harmonious pattern, should bo used.—New York Herald. Fried Apple—Tare and quarter tart apples. Flaco in a frying pan, pour over them one cup sugar, three table spoonfuls of water, three pieces of butter the size of a walnut, cover closely allow ing them to steam brown. Excellent. Toast—Warm cold "flalud" white fish or canned salmon iu a little hot butter. Brown the toast neatly, dip quickly in "very hot" salted water, and rapidly and lavishly butter. Then placo two or three spoons of the fish iu the centre of each slice. Baked Indian Pudding—Two quarts of milk, fourteen tablespooufuls of suet, two coffee cupfuls of molasses, one coffee cupful of raisins,'two sliced sweet apples. Have tho milk scalding hot when the meal is put in. Bake four or five hours. Teach Custard Pie—Use one crust; peel and split peaches and lay them in the crust, the hollow side upward, and sweeten. Beat one egg, one table spoonful of sugar and a little salt; add milk enough to cover the peaches. Pour over the perches and bake. Canned peaches may be used. Jellied Peaches—Soak one-half a box of gelatine in one-half cup of cold water, until soft. Dissolve with one cup of boiliug water. Strain, add one pint of peach syrup, tho juice of one lemon and one cup of sugar. Stir un til it begins to thicken, than put in the peaches. Tour into a mopld. Serve with whipped cream pr soft cus tard. A Fatality Avoided. I i From the Democrat, Ooehen, Tnd. inheo neuralgia is accompanied by a dull, heavy pain near tbo heart, frequently be coming inton3o, It generally terminates ffitully. Mrs. Nuncy Flynn, who lives neai Goshen, Indiana, survived 9tich an attack i and'her advice is worth hood lug. "In the fall of '92," she said, "I began ty have troublo with my heart. There \va* a sharp pain in my breast which became rapidly worse. The doctor w.i 3 puzzlcJ ahd put mo-under the influence of opiates. These sharp attacks followed one another at fA'tervnfs nud I became weal: and had a haggard look. I was constantly in pain, seldom slept and hail no appetite. ' '*At the end of two years I was confined to my couch most of the time and the doe- VBni agreed that my death was only a mat ter, of a short time. TffiOv about ti . fM&S/T e woman hav ——sVY- AjF Ins been n iiyC3- cured oi I I I neuralgia ot T"" 1 " ■*=!- the heart by Dr - Will ———| y*—lams' Pink \ Fllh for a eluded to A Serious Time. try thl)m "When I had finished one box I noticed an Improvement in my condition, and when I had taken twelve boxes I was completely cured. 'Those pills havo done for yon what wo could not do,' said one of my physicians, 'they have save 1 your life.' "Tbnt was two years ago and my heart has not troubled me sines I believe I owe my life to I)r. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, und I take pleasure in telliug oth ers about them." Among the many forms of neuralgia nro headache, nervousuess, paralysis, apoplexy and locomotor ataxia. Some of these were considered incurable until Dr. Williams' Tink Pills for Palo People were formu lated. To-day thousands testify to having been cured of such dtoeases by these pills. Doctors frequently prescribe them and i all druggists sell them. TELEPHONING AT SEA. How Commanders Communicate by Wire from Ship to Ship, / Telephones may supersede the o!l Bystem of flag signals ns a means of communication between ships at sea. ! Successful experiments have been made by Commander It. G. O. Tupper | of tho British navy which seem to j prove that the system Is adapted for the purpose. Commander Tupper used \ a kite In his experiments, and this j seems to be the only feasible means, j The kite nsed was an ordinary one thai differed but slightly from those used by J American boys In tho spring and fall, except that It had no tail. The kite was j six feet long and three wide at Its broadest part Two lines were nb | tached to the kite where the tail would ; ordinarily have been. One of these I lines was retained on board of the Dar I ing, the torpedo boat destroyer under ! Commander Tupper'a command, from whicj the experiments were conducted. It was found that with the wind be- i tween the two lines It was easy to drop letters or even a hawser on another iblp, and in this way to establish com munication. When this experiment had proved successful Commander Tupper made use of a wire. The end of the wire which the kite bore away from the iblp was dropped upou the deck of 11. 11. S. Dauntless, where It was secured ; by the electrician of tho ship and at tached to a telephone apparatus in waiting. The other end, which had re , TELEPHONING FROM SHIP TO SHIP. mained aboard the Daring, was also attached to a telephone, and as soon as the task had been completed tho com munication between the two Ships was perfect. Secured by the two lines, the kite remained suspended for four hours, during which time communication be- j tween the two ship 3 was uninterrupted. Commander Tupper has made a report of his experiments with the kite tele phone and declares that it moans that the present method of signaling with flags will become obsolete. If telephone wires can be employed, he sees no rea son why telegraphic communication should not be made In a similar man ner, and the ships of a fleet be placed in communication with each other. Among contracts recently placed by the Government were several amount ing to 2.10,000 hessian bags, to be used for fortillcation purposes. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away. To qui t. tobacco easily and forever, be m i.-- ! notic.full of life, nerve and vivor. tik N -To- 1 Hne, the wonderworker. that make* wo ik men Ftrong. All drugiri-ts or sl. Cure j euflrauteed. Booklet and simple free. Address : Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York. The number of asteroids known to astronomers Is 423. Some of them have not been observed since their discovery and are practically lost. i To Care Constipation Forever# . 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The managers of the telephone com pany operating the system at Ver sailles, France, hold that the expres "H Ilo!" usi d in nbj nse to a • all is impolite. The operators hav® been instructed to ask the subscriber who rings up the central office: "What do you want?" To Cure a Cold in One Pay. Take Laxative Biomo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it l'aiie to care. 25c. A cabinetmaker at Franlcenberg, in Saxony, now 84 years of age, boasts that he helped build Goethe's coffin in 1832, and saw the poet's body laid away in it. Educate Your lioweh With Casrareti Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever 10c, 25c. if (J. U. C. fail, druggists refund money Fifty years ago the population of Europe was about 250,000,000; it is to day considerably over 360,000,000. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS i is due not only to the originality and j simplicity of the combination, but also | to the care and skill with which it is I manufactured by scientific processes I known to the California Fio Syrup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon j all the importance of purchasing the ! true and original remedy. As the : genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured j by the California Fio Syrup Co. i only, a knowledge of that fact will | assist one in avoiding the worthless l imitations manufactured by other par ' ties. The high standing of the Cali ! fohnia Fig Syrup Co. with the mcdi j cal profession, and the satisfaction ■ which the genuine Sj*rup of Figs has i given to millions of families, makes I the name of the Company a guaranty j of the excellence of its remedy. It is j far in advance of all other laxatives, | as it acts on the kidneys, liver and j bowels without irrituting or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. I.oriSVILI.E, Ky. NEW TORE, N.f. Biliousness "1 havo nsod your valuable CASCA RETS and tlnil them perfect. Couldn't do without them. I have used them for some time for indigestion and biliousness und um now com pletely cured. Recommend them, to every one. Oneo tried, you will never be without tlicm In the family." Edw. A. Marx, Albany, N. Y. candy §S JS CATHARTIC PM :.UR RK I Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. R© ■ Good, Never Sicken. \\ oaken, or Gripe. 10c. £sc. 50c. Ip(i p( ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... HO-TO-BAG SAWW _ . Bcvel-Gcar iChain less Eicyclos MAKE HIL CLIMBING EASY. Columbia . „, „ _ Chain Wheels, $75 A*.X vIOR Hartfords, . . 50 Vedettes, S4O & 35 P N 0 25 'Ji. r ADIFS rnn earn HMnlln-s tiwl.lr at horn©; ex- JpHrifnee untie. t— try; reply -n- • 1 j*• f.-r wimp!® und particulars. Mxojuca, Third Ave.. N Y.City. } Thompson's EyeWater
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