MORNING TIREDNESS Is a serious compluiut. It's a warning that should bo heeded. It Is different from au lionost tired feeling. It is a sure sign of poor blood. You can euro'it by making your blood rich and pure with Hood's Sar saparilla. That is what other pooplo do— thousands of them. Take a few bottles Of this good medicine now and you will not only got rid of that weak, languid, ex hausted feeling, but It will make you feel well all through tho summer. Tired Feeli op—"For that tired and worn out feeling in the spring, and as a strength builder aud appetite creator, I huve found Hood's Hursnparilla without an equal." MRS. L. B. WOODAUIJ, 285 Ballou Street, Woonsocket, R. I. HOOd'S Sa paHUa Is America's Greatest Blood Medicine. Wiesbaden harbors a woman who has been a prompter in a theater for 50 years. Do Your Feet Ache mid Darn ? Shake into your shoe* Allen's Foot-Ease. a pow-lor for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, !-wollen. Hot, J*marling and Sweating Feet aud lugruwiug Nulls. Sold by all druggist* and shoe stores, 25 ets. Sumolo sent FREE. Address Allen s. Olmstead, LeJtoy, N. Y. Bremen received 1,045.635 bales of American cotton up to November 1, 1899. The Best Proscription for Chills and Fevor Is a bottle of ( MOVE'S TASTBLRBS CHII.L 'I ONIC. It Is simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No cute—no pay. I'rlce 600. Turkey bought $243,325 worth of American flour last year. Fits permanently cured. No flt or nervous ness alter first dav's use of I>r. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. §3 trial bottle and treatise tioo. Dr.iUl.Ki.iNU.LLd.Uai Arch SLl'hila.l'a. Spanish girls who make the famous fans of Valencia are paid about 25 cents a day. We will give SIOO reward for any rase of ca tarrh that can not be curnl with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY A Co., JTops., Toledo, O. Rats exterminated a colony of 48 prai rie dogs in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Ci.yvFi. Ni). N C.. Feb. G. IJTO. !• Ive years ago l purchased u bottle < f Fny'a Vermifuge. "J he Beat in the World." f-end me another boitle. Enclose 25e. W. J. Youso. A Lithuanian in Chicago bears the name of John Uppermost Short. Jcll-O, file Now Dessert, Pleases all tho family. Four flavors:— Lemon, Orange. Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 eta. England received $525,242 worth of shoes from the United States in 1899. M rs.Wlnslov's Sooth! ng Syr up for children teethinv, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. French Canadians almost entirely use I'.MIHC v'.niun •■> —■—m What do the Children Drink ? Don't give them tea or coffee. 1 Hnve you tried tho new food driuk | called GIIAIN-0 ? It is delicious and nourishing and takus tho placo of coffee. I Tho moro Grain-0 you give tho childrou the more health you distrib- 5 H uto through their systems, fl Grain-O is made of pure grains, jj and when properly prepared tastes ■ like tho choice grades of coffee but R costs übout as much. All grocers I sell it. 15c. and '2sc. jj Try Grain-O! N Insist thnf your grocer gives you GRAIN-O I Accept no imitation. Save ths Lab els I and write for list of premiums we oflter I HIRES : The favorite 1 I' summer | JNw drink 1 W. L. DOUGLAS $3 & 3.50 SHOES J *32AVorth S4 to $6 compared n \ with other makes. / -A JjCA] ' 1,000,00!) wearers, fr&i <ll M 1 JMf The genuine have W. L. [ / Yfi) ■ 1 /a Doughs' name and price [ W T4 J® stamped on bottom. '1 akelT 1 no substitute claimed to be Y~~ *"VV should keen them i fl extra for carriage.' Staie kind ot leather, - and width, plain or cap toe. Cat. free. aStivtiDS w - L DOWLAS SHOE CO., Btockton, Maw. WPh 9fl ESS* tA If you nave got the I*l LEB, S 9 W you havH not used DANIEL* r I I p Sritß PILE CUKE, or vou I fl Bu Sao would not bavu t.hetn NOW. The only Guaranteed Curo. No detention from buslnesH, no operation, no oulum or morphine. Vi Suppositories 500. or 24 and box of ointment s].oi, postpaid by mall. Send for book of valu able Information 011 Plies, Fit EE, whether you use our remedy or not. THE DANIELS SURE FILE CUKE CO., Ahylum St., Hartford, Conn. WALL PAPER. Edwin G. Diehl, 519 WOOD STREET, PITTSBI'RG. Agents wanted to pell from sample books. P. N. U. 2\ 'OO. DON'T STOP TOBACCO SUDDENLY BACO-GURO and notifies you when to stop. Sold with a guarantee that three boxes will cure any case DIPfl PIIDfI vegetable and liartniens. It has DAuU-bUnU cured thousand*, ft will cure you. At all druggists or by mail prepaid, 511 .<H> a box; 3 boxes, 51*2.50. booklet free. Write EULKKA CHEMICAL CO.. lot Crua.se. Wis "THE MYSTERY." Startling Discovery Concerning a Man With No Visible Means f Support. "Tliera was a mail living in a pri vate bouse in the same block with us whom we called 'the mystery,' as 110 one knew how he made his money," ex claimed a well known New Yorker to a party of friends who were passing away the time by relating yarns. "He lived in style, his children were fash ionably dressed and attended a pri vate school, and his wife had a serv ant to help her with the housewoik. Every morning, as regular as clock work, he would leave the house about six and return soon after dark. He always carried a caue and a medium sized black bag. Ho had a slight limp iu his walk and was uot altogether a bad looking fellow. "He lived in the neighborhood for years. In all that time no one had ever been invited to the house and advances from neighbors for social intercourse were discouraged. Vari ous theories were presented as to what this fellow's business was, and now, when we all know how he got his money, they all appear ridiculous. The very simplicity of the method possibly accounts why uo one could guess what it was. "Once or twice some very inquisi tive person tried to follow 'the mys tery' when he left the house iu the morning; but as lie was shadowing the mau with the limp walk he would disappear so suddenly as if 110 had dropped thiough the sidewalk. Of course, as the story was circulated around, that only heightened the in terest in him and resulted iu the soubriquet by which he was best kuowu. "It is doubtful whether nnyone would ever have learned his busiuess had I not a particularly bright sister in-law. Oue day while out shoppiug she chauced to pass a beggar and was struck by the pitiful condition he ap peared to bo iu. He was miuus au arm, one of his legs was shorter thau it really used to be, his eyes were fixed in such a mauuer as to convey the im pression that if he was not blind ho was not far from his being so, and his whole general appearance was of such a character as to excite even the sym pathy of the most cold-blooded per son imaginable. A placard which he had in front of him stated that he had a family to support, and that was no lie. "While my sister-in-law dropped a coin in the tin mug he had for that purpose, she thought she saw some thing familiar about his appearance. His make-up did not seem to be real, but a very clever disguise. There was a suspicious lump under his coat where au arm ought to ho, and other details gave her the impression that he was a tir3t-3lass fake. But that re semblauce to some ouo she had seen somewhere. Of course the mystery was so far out of her miud that she did uot couuect him with the beggar. "At dinner thai night my sister-in law told what she had seen that after noon as an amusing ineideut in a I day's shopping. While wo were laughing over her recital nil idea possessed me. 'By Jove,' I remarked, 'supposo the beggar should bo "the mystery," ' aud instautly a discussion begau which almost made us forget our dinner. Here was a real mystery, so we thought, and the upshot of the matter, being as were human, was that wo decided to solve it for our selves. Accordingly we hired two private detectives, told them all we knew about the fellow and left the case to their own good judgment. We did not waut any bungling through our own amateurish detective work. "Well, his method was simple enough. When our detectives report ed the result of their investigations we learned that the mystery left his house early iu the morning, went to a place situated in a poor quarter of the city, taking extreme care to cover up his tracks, which explained why the j person who had followed him lost the trail. When he emerged au hour or so later he was disguised as a beggar, aud betook himself off to the crowded fashionable thoroughfares where he sat in some conspicuous place. He must have takeu iu from teu to thirty dollars a day, aud certainly he se cured enough mouey for his wife to live iu style aud for his children to go to private schools. "What became of him? Well, ho was such a humbug, aud tho story was too good to keep, so the authori ties finally learned who he was. We did not make auy charge, the news just spread as such news will. Ho was arrested oue day aud his life story was made public. Tho family moved away suddenly and disappeared from view. Tho house iu the poor section was the rendezvous of a baud of such fellows who were professional beggars. The band, of course, was broken up, the fakirs dispersed, but there are others in tho great city of New York." V rti'v Indeed. A surgeon who is often absent minded was dining at the house of a friend. "Doctor," said the lady of the house, "as yon are so clever with the knife, wo must ask you to carve the leg of mutton." "With pleusure," was the reply. And setting to work, he made a deep incision in the joint of meat. Then (whatever was he thinking ibout?) he drew from his pocket a bundle of lint, together with several linen bandages, and began to bind up tho "wound" iu due form. The guests were stricken dumb at the sight. But he, still deeply ab sorbed in thought, suddenly looked up aud remarked, triumphantly: "With rest and care he will soon bo better!"—Tid-Bits. The whole German cavalry was thrice remounted during the Frauco-Prus ■ iau war. THE ARMORED TRAIN. In &)atoi-y, Mechanism and Field of Use fulnegß. The armored train is one of the in struments of war that has received a severe test in South Africa, and the reconnoitring pertormed by these en gines of modern warfare has served to call more than passing attention to tho subject. Credit has been given to Admiral Fisher, of the British navy, for the first use of the armored train in actual war, when, in 1882, he covered a locomotive with boilerplate and equipped cars, similarly protect ed, with field guns and put them to effective practical use. But the germ of this idea goes back further thau 1882. Wheu the Ger mans closed their vise-like grip upon Paris the French made frequent sor ties from the oity, aud iu many of these attacks they were assisted by Held guns mounted on wagons anil carriages. Lator they were mounted on railroad cars, which were protect ed in their vital points against tho enemy's guns. They could hardly be called armored trains such as have been used iu South Africa, aud whether Admiral Fisher got hisuotion of an armored train from the be siegod Parisians is, therefore, au open question. Since 1882 most of the military Powers of Europe have been experi menting with armored trains. Great, Britaiu, as if anxious to sustain her reputation of first having invented the new instrument, has steadfastly kept the lead, and has now probably the most complete and efficient armored trains in the world. The best that the British army possesses is the en gine and train of the First Sussex Artillery Volunteers, aud this is far superior to the hastily constructed trains that have previously been iu service. The model train was made from special designs for war pur poses. The protected engine carries a Maxim gnu, aud the protected cars have heavy field guns operated by machinery, so that any part of the surrounding country can quickly be covered. Arrangements are made to compensate for the recoil, and also to give steadiness aud stability to the cars. This latter is accomplished by au arrangement for clamping the truck to the rails by strong screw clips whenever the gun is fired. There are also several steel plated vans accompanying the train in which horses aud soldiers can be safely con veyed. The armored train, it has been stated, was never intended to be used except in conjunction with cavalry,; and it was due to lack of support of mounted troops that several of the disasters to the hastily constructed trains iu South Africa ocourred. In co-operation with a strong force of cavalry the armored train is a formid able weapon, but without tho help of mounted troops a small quantity of dynamite might be used to destroy the roadbed m the rear and wreck the train. In spite of tho lack of all cavalry support, however, this type of movable fortress performed notable achievements in South Africa, and iu the sorties from Lady-smith and Kim berley it <vis the chief implement that forced the Boers back. With ma chine guns aud field pieces the mov ing train becomes a valuable offensive apparatus, being able to move up close to the enemy's lines or retreat to a point beyond the range of small arms. The rapidity with which the train can change its base of action renders it a difficult object for the batteries of au enemy to hit, and al most the only way to defeat its opera tions is to wreck or derail it; then it becomes a helpless target for long range guns. The question of armored motor cars which could travel over an or dinary road or level stretch of coun try has also received some attention in the South African conflict. Several ears were extemporized hurriedly for this purpose, but they proved of little use iu a rough country, and, as com manders do uot alwas choose a level space for their battles, the armored motor car is still a war machine of doubtful efficiency. In the moun tainous regions of South Africa it is hopelessly inadequate for effective service, aud, with the exception of a few isolated instances, they were uever seriously taken up. Stomach of Left* Importance Nowadays. Largo portions of the stomach muy bo excised, or even tho whole may be removed, with uo very great mortality, and iu successful cases with wonder fully littio effect ou the patient's di gestion. The stomach hardly occu pies iu our present opinion so im portant a place in digestion as it formerly held. Wo know that it is rather a preparer for the exorcise of the digestive powers of the pancreas than au active digestive agent itself and that oue of its functions is to ren der iuocuous many of the micro organisms which enter with the food. So that we can understand to some extent the small amount of interfer ence with digestion produced by even considerable resections of the stom ach.—The Lancet. Feathered Ventriloquists. Many birds form their sounds with out opening their bills. The pigeon is a well-known instance of this. Its oooiug can bo distinctly heard, al though it does not open its bill. The call is formed internally in tho throat and chest, aud is only rendered au dible by rssouanoe. Similar ways may be observed iu many birds aud other auimals. Tho clear, loud call of tile euckoo, according to oue naturalist, is the resouance of a note formed in the bird. The whirring of the snipe which betrays the approach of the bird to the hunter, is an act of ven triloquism. Even tho uiglitingale has certain notes which are produced in ternally, aud which are audible while the bill is closed. The Pmksksm For disorders of the fominine organs have gained their great renown and enormous sale be cause of the permanent good they have done and are doing for the women of this country, If all ailing or suffer ing women could he made to understand how ab solutely true are tho statements about Lydia Em Pinkham's Vegetable Compoundtheir suffer ings would end, Mrs, Plnkham counsels women free of charge, Bier address is Lynn, Mass• The advice she gives is practical and honest. You can write freely to her; she is a wo man. Of all the blunders made by some farmers the greatest is the habit of cutting and slashing fruit trees. What SJinlJ Wo Have For Deiaert? This question arises in the family daily. Let us answer it to-day. Try Joll-O, a delicious and healthful dessert. Prepared in 2 tnin. No boiling! no hiking! Simply add a little hot water & sot to cool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange, llaepborry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c. London pawnshops do a business amounting to nearly a million dollars weekly. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago —Mas. THUS. HOB BINS, Maple St., Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17,19U0 French Canadians almost entirely use home-grown tobacco. To Cnre n Cold In One I>ny. Take LAXATIVE RROMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggets refund the money if it falls to cure, a. w. OHOVB'S sliraaturo is on ouch box. 25c, PREACHED IN SHIRTSLEEVES. Ivontncklaii fbought the Kplscoiml Pre late I'iaiii MUII. >ot long ago Bishop Dudley of iven- Cucky went to preach in a little town in the western part of the state, where there are no Episcopal churches, and only one, in fact, of any other denomi nation. The people are unfamiliar with an}' but the plainest and most simple church service and entirely un accustomed to the vestments which the Episcopal clergy wear. The pastor of the "onlychurch,"a good,conscientious, narrow minded man, hearing that the bishop was coming on a certain Sun day to preach at the courthouse, told some of the "pillars" of his congrega tion that he hoped they would not de sert their own church to hear tho Episcopal service. On the appointed Sunday what was the pastor's surprise to notice half of his flock absent, and upon inquiry he learned that the court house was thronged with the villag ers. The next day he met one of his chief supporters, whose accustomed seat had been vacant at the weekly service, and the pastor questioned him as to his whereabouts on Sunday. The man replied tlmt he had gone to hear Bishop Dudley. "What!" replied the clergyman. "Desert me to hear that pompous prelate!" "You're mistaken in the man," answered the culprit. "Bishop Dudley is no pompous pre late. He preached in his shirtsleeves." —Louisville Courier-Journal. liliml People. to far as the most recent statistics go, the known proportion of blind peo ple is about one in lifteen hundred, which would give a total of one mil lion blind in the world. The largest proportion is found in Russia, which has in Europe 200,000 blind in a popu lation of 9G;000,000, or one in 480. Most of these are found in the north ern provinces of Finland, and the principal causes is ophthalmia, due to bad ventilation of the huts of the peas antry and the inadequate facilities for treatment. There is a great deal of blindness in Egypt, due to glowing sand. Lonn-nxlreil and Short-Haired. The following story is told by Dr. Pentecost. The incident is said to have taken place in the Boston taber nacle. An usher came in and said: "7>ere is a man without who wishes to see you." "Well," said Moody, "I have no time to see htm now." "But," replied the usher, "he says he must see you on important business." "What kind of a man is he?" "Oh, he Is a tall, thin man, with long hair." "That set tles it," said Moody; "I don't want to see any long haired men or short haired women." lie Could APTord To. Guest (trying to be agreeable)— What an enormous number of maga zines you must read. Mr. Millions! I notice your library table is piled high with them. Millions (testily)— Must, my dear friend—must? I hope you'll admit I can afford to subscribe to every magazine that is published without being obliged to read one of them. | are large. j —Pn.umiOlomgon with No. i \ I S 111 II _| n .. : wheels, full (mil-bearing axles, Butioy body s? We Save You these Pro i st fjr Rill springs, broad cloth trim mines, lamps, cur* 1 wtt,u "■ . retells for 7S n,ore than our price. Our jVJ kjfc/t totns, sun-shade, pole or shafts! urn. as re- ! t price, complete with high bend a6afts.ei Our price*'*? h(C moro tha " our prlco ' ! aro the largest manufactnr [ erß 0 f Vehicles and Harness in the world selling to the consumer For 27 years we have conducted business on this plan. Wo give you better quality for the same money, or the same quality for less money than the dealer, jobber or supply agent. |We Anywhere^For I\o. Joy.— .Extension Top surrey with ♦ shows every Vehicle and Hart' go, sot—Fancy Buggy with figured double fenders, lumps, curtains, storm * noqq wo m-iko fiiul rivpq nrirpq 2 plush trimmings. Is complete In every way apron,polo or shafts; Is as fine as retails for ♦ ULBS WO Illd-AO &*vea prices. # and us fine as retails for mor. than our h£LJ s3omore than our price. Our price. sjfcSO. J IT'S |T7'7T? J price. Our price, with shaft*. £55, yw Elkhart Carriage and Harness Manufacturing Go. II ELKHART, INDIANA. 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You know I /-yy. | \ [ how it is—you neglect—get irregular —first I \, \ Lj / ( suffer with a slight headache—bad taste in the \l )T> —I \'\ \fy\ I\IJ | mouth mornings, and general "all gone" feeling \'i I"T \/ll 111 1 during the day—keep on going from bad to II I I '] i' 'I 1 . ill J||| _ worse untill the suffering becomes awful, life \ 1 1 W \ i jJJ—JTJ loses its charms, and there is many a one that -/ \J \\" \ I Civ h as teen driven to suicidal relief. Educate your \| i V—A—- j/i \ V^Cr - / bowels with CASCARETS. Don't neglect the itl t =XJ \ / slightest irregularity. See that you have one _——J; \ RETS tone the bowels —make them strong— Q vA* and after you have used them once you will wonder why it is that you have ever been without them. You will find all your other disorders commence to get better at once, and soon you will be well by taking— THE II)EAL LAXATIVE 25c. SOc^ 1 B H*! I Birif^^^^^^^DßUGGlSTS To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a bos free. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. 421 SYOUR COW'S PRODUCTION UDODQ V NEW DISCOVERY;i„, oil r alii m hiu m Crr alif 8e na m tore an if 5"" s u p- r hwiato n x®r 8 a, sf,vrw?py 1 r "- Er - s """ 8a,u "*-j frt'inht. 10 tlM.vrt trial Catal>KUo ? ' iu BuV'l bv (lniMlsbl HH Co. <iiboiil>t s. i; a".o"- s ,.„. rt mi,. , with| Thompson's Eye Water
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