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 •■>
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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
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The favorite 1
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$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
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1 no substitute claimed to be Y~~ *"VV
should keen them i
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"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,
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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.
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