The Shortest Way. The shortest way out of aa attack of Douralgiu is to use at. Jacobs Oil, which ! affords not only a sure relief, but a prompt cure. It 300thes, 9ubdues and ends the suffering. Birmingham turns out every week . 300,000,000 cut nails, 100,000,000 buttons, 4,000 miles of wire of different sizes, five tons of hairpins. 500 tons of nuts and 20,000 pairs of spectacles. To Cure A Cold In One Day. Tnk Laxative Hrorao Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money it it fails to cure. 260, The public entrance doors of the | great building of the Bank of England are so finely balanced that a clerk, by ! pressing a knob under his desk, can close them instantly. Dr.Scth Arnold's Cough Killer invaluable aa a cough remedy. Effort magical.— LlZZlE J. JU.NK, 448 West 25th fct.. K. V., Dec. 11, 1807. In case Canada becomes a part of the United States, a native Missourian proposes the state motto for greater , America: "United we stand, divided by Niagara Falls." To Care Constipation Forever, Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. lUc orCsc. tf C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money There are 118 schools for music in Berlin. " Out of Sight Out of Mind/* In other months we forget the harsh winds of Spring. 'But they have their use, as some say, to blow out the bad air accumulated after Winter storms and Spring thaws. There is far more important accumulation of badness in the veins and ar teries of humanity, which needs Hood's Sarsaparilla. This great Spring Medicine clarifies the blood as nothing else can. It cures scrofula, kidney disease, liver troubles, j rheumatism and kindred ailments. Thus it gives perfect health, strength and ap petite for months to come. Kidneys - "My kidneys troubled mo, and on advice took Hood's Sarsaparilla which gave prompt relief, better appetite. My sleep is refreshing. It cured my wife also." Michael Boyle, 3173 Denny Street, Pittsburg, Pa. Dyspepsia - 44 Complicated with liver and kidney trouble, I suffered for years with dyspepsia, with severe pains. Hood's Sarsaparilla made me strong and hearty." J. B. Emkutox, Main Street, Auburn, Kle. Hip Disease— 44 Five running sores on my hip caused me to use crutches. Was confined to bed every winter. Hood's Sar saparilla saved my life, as it cured me per fectly. Am strong and well." Annie Robert, 4'J Fourth St., Fall River, Mass. JfcodA Sdldafyg "liffq Hnod'H I'll I* cure liver ills, the iioa-irrtt?iTtiig :mi■<£> <**><&■<><&■s Unclose Ten Cents j And pet by mail trial bottles HoxsieV Croup ♦ ure and Iloxsio's Disks for v roup. Coughs, J Colds, Bronchit .v. A. P. Hoxsie, Buffalo, N. y. i Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervouiu I res-s offer first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat i Nerve Restorer. ?2 trial bottle and treatise Dee. Lr.K.li.Ki :n;:. Ltd. CU Arch St. I'nil.i. l'a ! MrsAVinslow's Soothing Syrup for children I teething, softens the gums,reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. After physicians had given me up, I was ! saved by Disc's Cure. Ral-pu Eiuku, Wil- Uamsport, Pa., Nov. 22,1833. i Jerusalem is now nothing but a j shadow of the magnificent city of 1 ancient times. It is about three miles I in circumference, and is situated on a rock mountain. Bounty Is Tllood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar i tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by ' stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to j banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. General Anrienkow, the builder of tho Trans-Caspian Railway, who died recently, had been disgraced and de prived of all his offices four years ago for peculations which were said to amount to 11,000.000 roubles. In the war against Turkey in IS7S lie was in charge of the transportation. From IDt'dil to l oot, For all aches, from head to foot, St. Jacobs Oil has curative qualities to reach tho pains and nches of tho human family, and to relieve and euro theiu promptly. "The thin red line" was formed by the Ninety-second Highlanders at 111- kernian: Kinglake's "Invasion of tie Crimea" describes it. Kinglake was the first to use the expression. Educate Tour Bowels Witt* -Jnncnrer*. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever, iuc, 25c. if C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money The annual report of Superintendent of Prisons ''ollins to the Legislature at Albany shows satisfactory progress in tho development of new industries in .the prisons. Sixteen industries have been established, giving employ ment to 1,546 men, an increase during the year of 402. The value of goods shipped from prisons for tho use of ; tho State and its various political , divisions was $401,720 15. Tlioy Never Sleep. There are several species of fish reptiles and insects which never sleep during their stay in this world. | Among fish it is now positively known ■ that pike, salmon and goldfish never sleep at all. Also that there are sev- I oral others of the fish family that ! never sleep more than a few minutes during a month. There are dozens of species of flies which never indulge in slumber, and from three to live spe cies of serpents which the naturalists have never yet been able to catch nap i ping. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Be liap[y and you can pose as being good. Women aren't, any more of a mys tery to a man than their clothes. The queerest thing is tbo new ideas a girl gets aboilmodesty after she is married. A woman is bound to have trouble; if it isn't servants or mumps she goes to house-cleaning. It isn't that widows know such a lot more, but they can make so much out of so little. There is no place where a woman can have such a good cry as sitting down ou the floor. It's discouraging the many ways a man can get scratched by the pins a woman wear* Half the time when a woman pre tends she is jealous about you it's be cause she is mad because you aren't jealous about her. There is one thing a woman can't forgive in her husband; it's to have him come homo on time when she has thought up a lot of heart-breaking re marks about his staying out late.— New York Press. Eyes Like Telescopes. It has often been remarked that civilized people tend to become short sighted. This is because in towns and cities their vision is mostly confined to short distauces. Savage races, on the other baud, are generally gifted with remarkably keen sight, and few tribes are more noteworthy in this re spect than the African Bushmen, whose eyes are veritable telescopes. This power is, says a writer, no doubt a wise provision of nature, for the Bushmen are a small race, and if they were not able to see danger a long way off they would soon be extermi nated by their various enemies, whether savages of other tribo3 or wild beasts. A traveler in South Africa relates that while walking one day in com pany with a friendly Bushman, the savage suddenly stopped, and, gazing across the plain, cried out that there was a lion jihead. The traveler gazed long and earnestly in the direction in dicated by the Bushman, but could see nothing. "Nonsense," he said, "there's nothing there." And he went forward again, with the Bushman fol lowing at his heels, trembling and un willing, and still asserting that he could see a lion. Presently the native came to a dead stop, and refused to budge another inch; for this time, he declared, ho could see a lioness with a number of cubs, a fact which made tbo animal more dangerous than ever. But the European, who could see no lioness, much less its cubs, pushed ahead, de ' claring the Bushman was dreaming. After walking a quarter of a mile, how ever, he could dimly make out an ob ject moving ucross the horizon. Still doubting that it could be the object ! which the Bushman said be had seen, he contiuued to advauce, and at last was able to distinguish a liouess, with her cubs around her, walkiug leisurely toward the woods.—Pall Mall Ga zette. Make* of Itare Hirtls. In these times, when such rarities as the egg of the extinct great auk are constantly chauging bauds, the prices running into the hundreds of pounds, it is interesting to learn that there is in Paris a man who makes an excel lent living by manufacturing the eggs of rare birds and selling them to pub lic institutions and amateurs of orni thology. He seems to be a workman of exceeding skill. A visitor actually saw him make a penguin's egg that could not bo distinguished from tlie genuine model displayed before him. The shell was made of plaster of pans, which after being cast was hardened by burning and then glazed. Another of his methods is to turn the eggs of a common species into those of a rarer one. For instance, the eggs of a com mon fly-catcher are almost worthless, but treated with chemicals they ac quire the bluish-green, shining color of the high-priced eggs of the silk tail. A common duck egg is stained a silvery green and is then passed oil as the egg of a falcon, which is worth from $8 to §lO. Pigeons' and wood pigous' eggs are also easily trans formed into the eggs of scarce birds. The ordinary lark's egg, colored a dusty brown, becomes the egg of the nightingale, which is difficult to pro cure and therefore very expensive. The Origin of Writing. The origin of writing is a subject tbat has much exercised the learned of late, and Professor Houimel, of Mun ich, lias communicated to the Society of Biblical Archaeology some further proofs of his theory that the Egyptian hieroglyphics were imported from Babylonia, where picture-writing is known to have preceded the cunei form. In the discussion which followed the reading of Professor Hommel's paper, the Rev. C. J. Ball, chaplain of Lincoln's Inn and a distinguished Babyloniau scholar, said that he had QO doubt that the ancient Babylonian picture-characters were the origin of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and of the Chinese characters as well. As these three scripts, the Babylonian, the Egyptian and the Chinese, are im measurably older than any other yet discovered—and Mr. Bull is generally held to have proved his case so far as Chinese is concerned—we may look upon the ; Babylonians as the first in ventors of the art of putting thoughts on paper.—Pall Mall Gazette. Honors to a Monkey. A lady of Sharon, Mass., buried her pet monkey several days ago in a coffin covered with blue silk and lined with white satin. A quilted robe of whito satin served as a shroud to the beloved dead. A silver plate on the coffin lid fcoTe the name "Peppo." A handsome monument will be erected later. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co. onl3 T , and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the CALI FORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. with the medi cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating 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, Col. LOUISVILLE. KY. uEW TORS* fr. Y. . "For six yearn J! whs a victim ol'dys peimin in its worst form, I could cat nothing nut milk toast, and at times my stomach would not retain and digest even that. Last March L began taking CASOAILETS and since then L have steadily improved, until I am as well as I ever was in my life." DAVID 11. MURPHY. Newark, O. Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Quod, Never Sic Ken. Weaken, or Gripe. lde, 25c, slia. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Sterling Rfmfrty Compnnj. I liirngo, Montreal. Nf York. 11l PJfl Ttfi Rflf* Hold and gunrenmed by all duig- IIU" I U"DAk> gists to CL'ICE Tobacco Habit. jjgf Salter'* Sods i.r-' \Lirrantcd t Produce. ife/V gul 10 DOLLARS WORTH FOR 10c. I too.OHO 1,1.! fotutoc"J&Sjr Spalding's Trade-Mark Means ■ "Standard of Quality" on Athletic Goods Insistupon Spalding's Handsome Catalogue Fr®i. A. G. bx ADDING Ji iiltOS., Ve v York. Chicago. Denver. > HEFIL THYSELF or Know Thyself Wlanurl. A fll.paire pamphlet by a Humanitarian ami c-uil nent medical author. This D a unique Vade Meoum of Medical Science for MEN ONLY, whether married, unmarried, or about to marry ; young, middle aged or old. Prleo fi) cents by mall, scaled ; sent free forfiOdavs. Ad dress The Peubody Medical Institute, No. 1 ftulflneh St., Huston, Mass. Chief Consulting Physician, graduate of Harvard Medical College, class lHf4. Lute Surgc-on f>t!i Mass. Ih g. Vols . (ho most cml- A nicrh-H, who ALWAYS <1 RES \\ here Others Fall. Consultation In person or by letter, from i to 6. Sundays 10 to I. The fame tho Pea body Medical Institute has at tained has subjected if to a lest which only a merit orious institution could undergo.—ltngton Journal. The Pealiody Medical Institute lias many Imita tors, but no equals.— Dos ton Hcruld. Bend Postal for P-e-n'nm List to the Dr. Beth Arnold Medical C. *. Vnonsoeket, R. IT WANTED- ase of bad health that. R-I-p-A-N-R > > will not bene lit Send f> els.to Itlpnus ■ 10-mlml Co., New York, for iu samples mul likHi tes'im mini #IOO Howard. #IOO. Tho readers of this paper will bo pleased to lenrn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease that science has been able to euro in all it.s stages, and that is Catarrh. Hull's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure how known to lie medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's < 'ntarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blond and mu cous surfaces ot the svstem. thereby destroy ing the foundation < f the disease, and giving tbe>atient strength by building up the con stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in it* curative powers that they offer One Hun dred Dollars l'r anv case that it fails to cure. Scud for list of teht monials. Address. F. J.' NKNEY &. Co., Toledo, O. Fold by Dragg'st*. "F-V-. , Hall's Family Pills are tho best. sOf?K;lo!^?foJ9K3f6&3lo{C£3((7iOf©(Ol©f©sCfo!ofOtol§ | r GOOD |R0 ADS NOTES, J Important Charge to a Jury. Judge Monks, of the Supreme Court of Indiana, Judge Wright, Su preme Court of Now York, and Judge Woodward, of Luzerne County, Penn sylvania, are said to ka\e concurred in the opinion that grand juries are legally able to indict Boad Commis sioners who fail to keep the roads of their districts in good and proper order. Judge Wright said, in charging a grand jury at Bome, N. Y., "Every Commissioner of Highways is answer able if he fails to perform his duties properly, and all who are guilty of criminal neglect should be punished. It is your—the grand jury's—duty to inquire into the conduct of public officers and bring bills against any guilty of criminal neglect. It will be your duty, gentlemen, wherever the old labor system prevails, to seo that the Commissioners do their duty faith fully." Continuing, he said that the people of Oswego County are helping to pay for their good roads in other counties of tho State which have taken advan tage of tho Higbie-Armstroug law. Fifty per cent, of the cost of the con struction of a road is paid by State taxation, thirty-five by the county in which the road is located, and fifteen per cent, by tho petitioners for the improvement. He then explained the Fuller law, which provides that a cer tain per centage of the cost of high way improvements in towns adopting the money system is paid by the State. In this country the residents of the several road districts work out their tax. Oswego County was paying its share for the improvements to roads in other counties of tho State that have adopted the system named, and a careful inquiry should be made to as certain if the Highway Commissioners and Fathmasters of Oswego County were honestly discharging their duties here.—Oswego Daily Palladium. Clcnu Koad Metal. A principle learned from Mac Adam was that "broken stone, p~?.sed and j compacted, would cohere together and, ! by the mutual friction of its parts, : bear and distribute heavy pressures i as well as if it actually were the smooth and solid slab it seems." But when I earth is mixed with the stone the fric- I tiou is reduced by nearly one-half, tho | material is less compact and firm and I is much less capable of bearing heavy loads. Moisture affects the volume of ' clay. Roads in which it is used rut badly in wet weather, even though they are very thick, while thinner roads in which it is not used, but in which the stones are pressed together by their own augles through adequate rolling, remain firm and smooth. Road metal should he clean, and free from clay. The use of clay is attractive, because, with it, light rolling seems to give a good smooth surface, hut this is only temporary and is unsatis factory and expensive in the end.— L. A. W. Bulletin. A Good Example. An enterprising paper iu an Illinois city offers to donate SIOOO to tho cause of road improvement "in order to se cure hard roads for the benefit ot the farmers" of the county and for the city in which it is published. Tho sum of SIOO will he given on the com pletion of one mile of gravel road on each of ten roads, on the following terms: "This amount of SIOO shall be due and payable to the Commissioners of Highways of the township in which said one mile of road is located for the particular purpose above mentioned when one mile has been completed from the city limits of the city on each road respectively. Tho one mile on each read must be built in a sub stantial manner, of good material, • under the supervision of competent engineers, and must be completed within three years from January 1, 1899, and under specifications agreed on by three practical Lard road au thorities." Improving Now Jersey Highway*. The annual report of tho Commis sioner of Public Roads in New Jersey shows a gratifying continuance of the good work of improving tho high ways. Since the passage of the State aid law there have been built 325 miles of road at a cost of $505,820. Tho economy to the farmer in hauling products to railway or market is clear ly demonstrated, and tho profit to the community at large of this investment of public money may bo studied to ad vantage by the Legislatures of other States. The report directs especial attention to the experiment that is to be made of laying steel roads for heavy traffic, as suggested by Secretary Wil son, of tho Department of Agriculture. The progress of New Jersey in road building has earned in particular the approval and appreciation of bicyclists, who can now wheel with comfort from New York to Philadelphia. Tlie Crusade In llrief. Use clean road material. Undertake road improvement sys tematically. Appoint a supervisor who will have charge of all the road work. MaKe road improvements iu such a way that they will bo perinaueut. Classify roads nccordiug to the na ture and evtent of the traffic over them. Do not scatter money in making trifling repairs ou temporary struc tures. Make road beats five miles in length; choose the best men as path masters, and keep them in office. Roads, culverts and bridges will al ways be required; their construction in' the most durable manner is most economical. AN EXCELLENT COMBINATION. I SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE BASED ON MERITS. The Importance of lniormlng the Public ol tlie Value of an Art.cle Through lite Leurilng; Newspapers. The few remedies which have attained to wide-world fame, as truly beneficial iu ef fect and giving sutiafactlou to millions of people everywhere, tire the products of the knowledge of the most eminent phy sicians, and presented in the form most acceptable to the human system by the skiil of the world's great chemists: and one of tho most successful examples is the Syrup or Figs manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Svrup Co. Unlike' a host of imitations and cheap substitutes, Syrup of Figs is permanently benetioial in its effects, and therefore lives and promotes good health, while inferior preparations are be ing cast aside ana forgotten. Iu olden times if a remedy gave temporary relief to Individuals here and there, it was thought good, but liow-n-dnys a laxative reni" Pink Pills for Pale People, which induced me to try them. I was anxious JfS to get rid of the terrible disease and bought two boxes of the pills, I began Vlf f[AS using them about March. 1897. After I hu l taken two boxes I was com- Jw4 1 (il plotely cured, and the pain has never returned. I think it is the best medi- aW (Jf cine I have ever taken, and am willing ut any time to testify to its good \VL rj| mcriu."— Bluffs eulnmug. Gregory's -oed insure rhi j most successful ending. Get tiio book now K'siroa. James J. H. Gregory a boa. Jil&rbiGbead. hlasj. WALL PAPER BY MAIL. C'loiee of many faetori-s. Samples I mailed fiee. I'riee, 8 cents to $3.00 a roll. Agents I wanted in every town. A. FA Al AH ISS, :57, bH and •tl North Seventh Btzeot. Philadelphia. iu. P. N. U. 11 '99 DROP cases. Book ef tMimoumlf and 10 riuys' u ntjic riti i ree. Dr. E. H. QUEEN'S SONS. Bo* D. Atlanta, G*. R I'EUMATISV! w'ui VSKf ■•ALEXANiJun BEMKDX Co.. 24ti Greenwich St..N.V. •: Thompson's Eye Watsr WIRES WHfcHE ALL ELSE FAILS. IxXl Best t ough Syrup. Tasica Good. Use H I'jd I a time. Sold by druggists. BR