■cats or Ohio, cttt or Tolbdo, i LtfOAS COUNTT. \ Fbahk J. Cheney makes oath that he laths asmler partner of the lirm of F. J. Crenst A Co.. doing business In the City of Toledcx County and state aforesaid, and that said ■rm will pay the sum of one hundred dol lars for each and every case of cataiikh ■mtcannot be cured by the use of Hall's Qatarrh Cure. Frank J.Cheney. ■worn to before me and subscribed In my ( i presenoe, this dth day or December, ■j iial y A. D. 18Su. A. W. G LEA son, (—v—- i Notary Public. I Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and note directly on tho blood and mucous surf noes of the system. Sond for testimonials, free. j F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, a Bold by DnurKi*t. 75c. Hall's Family Pill* are the best. There is a steady demand for eighl cars of beer a week in Manila. —The largest library of small books in the world belongs to a Frenchman, who boasts that he can pack 700 of his pocket editions in a single portmanteau. Yjtality low, debilitated or exhausted cured i by Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Free SI Sal bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. Dr. Kl<na,' ~ ©3l Arch St., Philadelphia. Founded 187 L —At Bellville, Kan., a circus changed its line of parade in order that two sick boys might look out of the window and see the procession go by. Mrs.Winslew'ftSor. thine By rap for eh ild re ij teething, sottens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic.2sc a bottle. —The Congo region exports about 3,000,000 walking stocks a year. After six years' suffering I was cured by Pl so's Care.-Mary Thomson, 29# Ohio Ave., Alleghany, Pa., March 19, 1891. DISHES THAT GROW. Plate with Carious Growth Upon It Sold the Other Day for SI,OOO. The other day there was sold *t (Manchester, for no less than SI,OOO, an old-fashioned china plate of the ex tremedy rare kind which is known to the collectors aa "growing crockery," though no explanation of this strange phenomenon was given In the news paper reports. From the plate itself had sprung, to a height of more than a thini of an inch, a sort of eruption of beautiful crystals, that seemed to take the form of elegant trees and minia ture pagodas. The growing crystals were gradually rising higher and high er, and they had brought up with them the enamel surface of the plate at every point where they had sprung from the body of the latter. Such plates are a chemical manifestation of the rarest possible kind,* and only a very few yearfc ago a tea pot, the prop erty of a lady in London, that had be come covered with beautiful crystals in this way, was sold to a collector for $5,000. The clay of which such china is made contains alumina and mag nesia, and in certain cases these are so acted upon by the presence of sul phuric acid as to produce fibrous crys tals, that are In reality very much of the character of Epsom salts or crys tals of alum. The plate sold the other day had belonged to a poor person, who had never attached much value to it. —Stray Stories. "Proof of the 'Pudding Is in the Eating." It is not luhat <we say, but <what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, that tells the story. Thousands of people give the proof by telling of remarkable cures by Hood's Sar saparilla of Scrofula, Sail Rheum, Dys pepsia, Catarrh, Rheumatism, and all other blood diseases and debility. IJOOK AGENTS IVANTEH FOR , the graudest and fastest-selling hook ever publiahed, * Pulpit Echoes OR LIVING TBIIT$ FOR HEAD AND HEART. Containing Mr. MOffllY'* bent Sermon*, with 600 Thrilling Stories, Incident* Personal Finrrlenccs.etc., a* told By I). L. Moody hmmlf. 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CARTER'S INK Has the endorsement of the ►- U. S. Government and all tho Leading Railroads. DR. ARNOLD'S COUGH Cure* Coughs and Colds. I# 11 I CD .Prevents Consumption. ■ 111 Pn All Druggists, 25c- Iwllmfcifciii I RURAL MAIL DELIVERY. 1 ffe ' gf p TLlc Marvelous Growth and Popularity || of the Systern. ||j C77P tho present ' o Ifti lsl me ier ° ias rl ft! keen nothing iu h®l jfijj tho history of tlio o.\/ l Jos^ service of Jsr y/'QLz? the United States," says the fy/T anuual report of r I aßS * Btall t / fjrJ postmaster-gen fcjH Ay era ' "so remark ) MM able as the growth ji 4/ of the rural free r?*- delivery system." The daily delivery of mail at the far mer's door, by the Federal Govern ment, is no longer an experiment. In the words of the report, the system lias now "to be dealt with as an estab lished agency progress, awaiting only the action of the. Congress to de termine how rapidly it shall be de veloped." 'I/ie current month finds rural free delivery of mail iu success ful operation from 3815 distributing points radiating over forty States and one Territory, while other districts from Maine to Texas are anxiously waiting for those regular visits from Uncle Sam which mean so much iu a variety of ways. RUEATj rAHItIF.It, BOWLING GREEN, OHIO. (Twenty degrees below zero.) This conntry is learning that ethical considerations like these are most in tensely practical, and that a study of such problems is what the country needs for a truly larger growth. But figures are deduced iu the report to convince those to whom figures are the only tangible evidence. So the report sets forth that whenever the system has been started properly, it has been followed by these results: Increased postal receipts. More letters are written and received. More newspapers and magazines are sub scribed for. So marked is this ad vancenient that mauy rural routes al ready pay for themselves by the addi tional business they bring. Enhancement of the value of farm lands reaohed by rural free delivery. This increase in value has been esti mated at aH high aH $5 an acre in some States. A;moderate estimate is from 82 to $3 au acre. MAIL To SUGAR PLANTERS IN .LOUISIANA. .DtLIVERINC MAIL IN ARIZONA jrJ \ A general improvement of the con dition of the roads traversed by the rural carrier. In the Western States especially the construction of good roads has been a prerequisite to the establishment of rural free delivery servioe. In one county in Indiana a special agent reports that the farmers spent over S2GOO to grade and gravel a road to obtain ru -al fre s delivery. Better prices obtained for farm products, the producers being brought into daily touch with the state of the markets, and thus being enabled to take advantage of information hereto fore unattainable. In the communities where it has been tried free delivery is considered the greatest boon that the Govern ment ever has conferred on them. One Missouri farmer has calculated A SCENE NEAH LAFAYETTE, IND. that in the last fifteen years he has driven 12,000 miles going to and from tbepostofliee to get his mail —all travel that is saved to him by the free de livery system. In the last report of the First As sistant Postmaster-General there are some striking illustrations. There is, for example, a scene at a couDtry store, twelve miles from Lafayette, Ind., from which point three rural letter carriers start daily, each making a circuitous drive of twenty-five miles or more, without passing over the same load twice. At the particular point photographed four cross loads meet, and twenty or more families, most of them living half a mile from the store, have each put up an individual letter box of galvanized iron, lettered with the name of the person for whom it is in tended. RURAL DELIVERY MAIL BOXES IN VIC TORIA, ILL. Into this box the carrier, whose hour of arrival is known, and scarcely varies ten minutes, winter or summer, drops the letters and daily papers for each family, and collects in return their mails which are deposited in a Government collection box, placed in position at the same spot. The farm er's children, or such idle hands as he can spare, gather up the mail and carry it to the house, and the farmer is thus spared a drive of twelve miles to the postoffice, which he would hardly feel justified in undertaking iu the most favorable weather more than twice a week, and then at much per sonal iucouvenienco aud pecuniary loss. Under the rural free delivery I system he gets his mail and his paper daily without cost of time or money. and lie is gratified—properly HO —lot the recognition which the Govern* ment has given him in bringing the mails so near to his door. Rural free delivery carriers, as a rule, "put on frills" in Indiana, which State, next to Ohio, has the lion's share of the existing experimental ser vice. Most of them provide them selves with regulation uniforms, at their own cost, and furnish special wagons, with pigeon holes and other postal appliances—all for S4OO a year, horse hire included. Out in Arizona, where in the genial summer sunshine the temperature oc casionally rises to 110 degrees and stays there, the rural carrier rarely wears any insignia of his dignity, ex cept his badge, which is a nickel plated arrangement made to fit any kind of hat. Instead of comfortably rilling in a specially constrncted'postal wagon, lie as often as not mounts 1 bucking bronco, or diives him to t buckboaril, with only an .umbrella foi shade. But he makes thirty odd milei a day, nevertheless and the Depart ment has just issued orders to cut down this particular route from Tempe, five or ten miles a day, chiefly out oi consideration for the bronco, becaust A CARRIER AT CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND the carrier can probably sleep as com* j fortably ill bis saddle as auywhera ( else. The hardships sometimes encount- I ered by the rural carriers are showu in the photograph of a rural carrier iu Northern Ohio returning from a trip when the thermometer was forty de grees below zero. Yet, though the First Assistant Postmaster-General reports that there are several girls acting as bonded rural carriers, few : instances are recorded of their failing to make their daily trips, either in the coldest storms of winter or the blazing heat of summer. One question which has received grave consideration by the Depart ment is the insecurity and improper character of the mail boxes put up. On this subject the First Assistant Postmaster-General says: Iu the early days of the service, when neither Congress nor the Post office Department, as then organized, held out any hope that rural free de livery would prove more than a tran sitory experiment, extreme careless ness was manifested as to the kind of receptacles put up as rural free de livery boxes. Tomato cans, cigar boxes, drainage pipes up euded, soap boxes and even sections of discarded stove pipes were used as mail boxes, and were frequently placed in hedge rows or other inconvenient spots out of reach of the carrier. The Department has entered uprn a systematic effort to correct this co.u dition of things, and a recommenda tion is made that the Government pro vide uniform boxes and maintain them, charging a moderate rental. Kaiser*!* Great King; of State. Wheu6ver the Emperor of Germany is engaged in au important function, either imperial or royal, those near him notice that should he by any chance take the glove off hi 3 left hand he wears on the middle linger a large ring—a square, dark-colored stone set in massive gold. The story is that the ring is an old heirloom iu the Ilohenzollern family, dating from the time when the ances tors of the Kaiser—the Margrafs of Nuremberg—followed their leaders to the capture of the Holy Sepulchre from the Moslems. Margraf, of Ulricb, who lived in the thirteenth century, was an adventur ous prince, aud it is believed that the ring which the Kaiser now wears came into Ulrich's possession after a hard fought battle under the walls of Jerusa lem. It belonged to one of Saladin's successors, and in some unexplained manner it found its way on to the lin ger of the German Knight. Some one of the Nuremberg Mar grafs obliterated the sentence from the Koran which originally adorned it and engraved a Latin cross in its place. A Hard Tli i nt; to UiidorHtuiid. One of the hardest things to under- I stand in this workaday world is how so many incompetent men get such ' desirable jobs.—l'uck. Due* All th Talking lleraulf. ; A clever woman cau always give a i alow man the impression that he has said a lot of bright things himself.— | Chicago Becerd. IVORY SOAP PASTE. In fifteen minutes, with only a cake of Ivory Soap and water, you can make a better cleansing paste than you can buy. Ivory Soap Paste will take spots from clothing; and will clear, carpets, rugs, kid gloves, slippers, patent, enamel, russet leather and canvas shoes, leather belts, painted wood-work and furniture. The special value of Ivory Soap in this form arises from the fact that it can be used with a damp sponge or cloth to cleanse many articles that cannot be washed because they will not stand the free applica tion of water. DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING.- ~o one pint of bo 11 hip water add one and one-half ounce, (one-quarter of the small sire cake) of Ivory Soap cut into shavings, boil five minutes after the soap Is thoroughly dissolved. Remove from the re and cool in convenient dishes (not tin). It will keep •"ell In an air-tight glass jar. QQPYRIQHT , A9E U y THE RROOTER a GAMBLE 00. CINOINNATI Fighting a Shark. A lively experience with a twelve foot striped shark came to Boatmen Harry Johnson and Bob Barnard, re lates the San Francisco Chroaicle. Tney were fishing between Mission Rock and Goat Island when they saw the shark. It followed them persist ently, and once when it came boldly up to the boat the boatmen set upon it with oars, stretcher and gaff. A blow from the big brute's tail came near capsizing the Whitehall. Barnard barely escaped being drawn into the sea through sinking the gaff into the body of the shark, which set off at a terrible speed, pulling the boat after him. It was so weak from the blows and from loss of blood that it was finally conquered. In the fight the boatmen broke one oar and a stretcher. KlephanMne Minoliler. Five of the elephants attached to the circus of Lord George Sanger escaped from the large tent in which they had been hobbled for the night at Dart ford, England. They were found de vouring the contents of a baker's shop, having smashed a large plate-glass window in the shop front and eaten all the bread and pastry they could find and then beginning to destroy some bags of flour. Four of the elephants— Charlie, Edgar, H. R. H. and Mary— were escorted back to the tent, but Minnie could not be found anywhere. She subsequently was discovered a mile and a half away, quietly sleeping near a conservatory in a market garden. She had amused herself by smashing the windows of the conservatory, de stroying a quantity of valuable flowers and eaiing a big lot of vegetables. wmmmammmmmmmmmmmm mm 11 m mmm Keeps JMy Hair Soft ' "I hjve used your Hair Vigor for five years and am greatly pleased with it. It cer tainly restores the original color to gray hair. It keeps my hair soft and smooth. It quickly cured me of some kind of humor of the scalp. My mother used your Hair Vigor for some twenty years and liked it very much.' —Mrs. Helen Kilkenny, New Portland, Me., Jan. 4, '99. Used Twenty Years We do not know of any other hair preparation that has been used ia one family for twenty years, do you ? But Ayer's Hair Vigor has been restoring color to gray hair for fifty years, and it never fails to do this work, cither. 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Likewise, every time you inhale the scent of any flower you are in reality gulping down mouthful after mouthful of some ter rible disease. There Is no way of dis infecting flowers, as they are actually composed of microbes, and if you take the latter away no flower is left. Switzerland cxnorts regularly to other countries 17 different kinds of cheese. Dr.BulTs COUCH SYRUP Cures Croup and Whooping-Cough Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives quick, sure results. Refuse substitutes. Dr. Bull's Pills cure Biliousness. Trial , 20 /or sc. Try Crain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show I you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of j coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that I rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and j the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. \ the price of coffee. 15 cents and 25 cents per package, Sold by all grocers. Tastes like Coffee Looks like Coffee . Insist that your grocer gives you GRAIN-O Acccpi uo imitation. J| OVELY SC.OO 4 LAMPS J Wjß All hand-painted. No ijV handsomer lamp made* Bold at manufacturer's a most accepta- Heaiitlf 111 colored cat. - nlouue of hand-painted PA K LORor 1* ANQ UKT Every Lamp Guar an- ST Manufactured by Pittsburg Glass Co., DIRECT. PlttibU: g, Pa. ""CENTS! tain thi.year 200^0# A Pkg.Rarl'st tmorald Cucuinberl6c 2 f! \: i " La Crosse Market Lettuce. 16c X ' 1 ceifta. sl.iO 2 2 est earlfestTomato Giant on earth. *. fb-* 2 Z join A. HAI//.KK SKEU CO., I.A CROSSE, WIS. Z P. N. U. 2 'OD DROPSY S=S V 1 ; c*as Book of to.tin.onial.nnd lO.laiV tm l Freo. Dr. 12. H. OBEEN'S BOMB. Box B. A uantt 0.,. E~~ inMrt st Cough Byrup. Taut ■ ; > 1 WOMAN'S WAY. When her duty's manifold, And her hours of ease are few Will a change come o'er the spirit Of the woman who is "new?" When she's drawn upon a jury, Or is drafted for the war, Will slw like her freedom better Thau the "chains" she now abhors? When she's running for an office And gets "left" and has the blues, Won't she wish that she was back in The "oppressod" old woman's shoes? When,the Ship of State is steering 'Mid a storm of mad abuse, Won't she wish that forfhe ballot She'd ne'er thought she had a use? When she finds that she is treated "Liken man." O, tho' she's longed For just that, won't she be tempted Oftentimes to think she's wronged? When no man e'er gives his seat up In a car, or deigns to hold Her umbrella when it's raining, Won't she wish that she was "old?" Won't she thibk the men "just horrid,' Left to hustle for herself, Where she's looked on as a rival In the race for power and pelf? When the man's revorence no longer Is accorded as her due, When he treats her as a brother, She'll be sorry that she's new. —Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "Ah," sai<l the doctor. "Cable car, evidently." "No," replied the ambu lance man. "Football."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Johnny—"Pa!" Pa—"Yes." Johnny —"ls an Indian reservation a place where the Indians are allowed to livo until the white ipeii want it?"— Puck. "Oh, what a tangled web wo weave When llrst wo pructlse to deceive;" And ere we get expert, perhaps, Our memories begin to lapse. —lndianapolis Journal. Husband—"Why, I thought you were goiug to pay these bills out of your allowance." Wife—"Cut I didn't buy these things until I had spent it." —Brooklyn Life. Jones—"There comes Small. How jjisurd for a big, burly man like him to have a name like that." Bowlder —"Well, you see, he was little when they named him." School Examiner—"What is the meaning of false doctrine?" "School boy—"Please, sir, it's when the doc tor gives the wrong stuff to the peo ple who are sick." "I guess " . "Oh, don't guess. You Americans always guess, you know." "No, I don't know. You English * always know, don't you know."—Chicago Tribune. Teacher—"How dare yon laugh at me, you youug rascals?" Chorus of Pupils—"But we're not laughing at you, sir." Teacher—"Well, then, I don't know what else there is to laugh at." Stranger—"Do you alwnys have this kind of weather here in spring?" Native —"Do you mean the weather we are having at this moment or the kind we had live minutes ago?"—Ynn kers Statesman. Mr. W ickwire—"What is that womau across the road trying to sing?" Mrs. Wickwire—"My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon." Mr. Wickwire—"Well, if he doesn't hear her it isn't her fault."—Tit-Bits. "I shall never apeak to him again," she said. "Why not?" "Well, we were alone iujjtho drawing room last night when tho gas suddenly went out." "And what did he do?" "Noth ing."—Stray Stories. His Wife—"lt's just 1 o'clock. I'm goiug to my milliner's to try on my new hat aud I'll bo back in ten minutes," He—"All right, but re member that we have dinner at 8 o'olock."—Chicago Tribune. Merchant—"And Jwhy wouldn't tho customer buy that tiger skin?" Office Boy—"He said it wasn't genuine." Merchant—"Aud didn't you make it appear plausible to him that it was genuiuo?" Office Boy—"Why, of course. I even told him that I shot the tiger myself."—Fliegcude Blatter. -"Young man," said the old gentle man, "my daughter is too young to marry. A girl of her ago cannot be ■lire of her own mind iu a matter of such importance." "I fully realize that," replied the young man, who had just secured the fair oue's con sent. "That's why I don't waut to wait."—Chicago Evening Post. Steamers on African I.altes. The lakes of Central South Africa are no lenger sacred to native canoes and the roughly constructed sailing vessels rvhich have formed so impoi t ant a part in the trade with the in* t ior of Africa. Lake Tanganyika is lie latest point to be invuded with in iron steamer. Her name is ( il Bhodes. '"v She was shipped from Lone . • Chinde to be transported in s>. iocs through the mountains on the if this lake, which is tho ceutr< he chain of lakes of which aria Nyanza is the northeast link. The importation of this ass of steamers will, it is thought, iicilitutu the trade with the natives of Masai land aud other countries which the lakes traverse, and will prove far su perior to the previously used tyooden vessels because of their speed aud durability. The experiment wii I t watched with interest hi v. and it sucoesftful, will revolutionize the methods of trade now in vogue in Central Africa. A Novel of Sentiment. She was explaining the plot of a novel of Bentiment. "Yon see," she sai l, "she's in love with him, and i thin ira she isn't. And he isn't in love r, and thiuks ho is. Aud she thinks lie's in love with her, of | course, while he thinks she isn't in love with Uim at all. Then they get married, aud ho liuds out that she really is iu love with him, and he gets , to love her, you know. But she lias ' found out that he isn't in love with her, and so she doesn't love him any more. That's as far as I've read. I It's a splendid idea, isn't it?"— New York Commercial Advertiser. v. . '
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