The Boers are losing many horses
from cold and lacjc oi food.
1100 Reward. 1100.
The renders of this paper will bo pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has boon ablo to cure in all
Its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requlros a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system, thoroby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, ana giving
the patient strength by building up tho con
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
Its curative powers that thdy offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Bend for list of testimonials. Address
F. .1. CriKNtfY & Co., Tolodo, O.
Bold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills aro the best.
More living fish arc sold in Berlin
than in any other market in the world.
If sarsaparilla and the other
vegetable ingredients that go
into the best are good as a
medicine, then Ayer's Sarsa
parilla is good. If not, we are
humbugs.
Your doctor will tell you
which, because he can have the
formula of Ayer's Sarsaparilla
any time for the asking.
If you are tired, half sick,
half well, if one day's work
causes six days' sickness, get a
bottle of the old Sarsaparilla.
Get Ayer's, and insist on Ayer's
when you want Sarsaparilla.
J. C. Ayer Company,
Practical Chemists, Lowell, Mass.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla I Ayer's Hair Vigor
Ayer's Pills Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
Ayer's Ague Cure | Ayer's Comatone
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why (lo yon pay SI to
W. v®\ss for shoes when you
[| TRIAL xfAcanbiiylV.l/.Douglas
|l will \eN>, shoes for $3 and
/ICOHVINCEVofevSW $3.50 which
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THE KFASOV more W. L. Pongian fa and
Sn CO shoes aro sold than any other mako is hf-cause
TIIKY ABE TIIK JIEBT FOIL MEN.
TMF Maileof the brst inmortfd nd
" IIL " American iMthers. The work- 1
mam-liip it unexcelled. The ityle
BEST BEST
torn made shoe*. They will out
-53.50 $3.00
SHOE.IBgiEHi^!|IsHOL
Your dealer should keep them 5 we give one dealer
exclusive tale in each town.
Take no Tntitt on having W. L.
Douglas shoes with name and price ttnmptd on bottom.
If your deulor will not get them for you. tend direct to
factory, encln.in* price nml 2.'.c. extra for enrrinpo.
Btatc kind of lcathei. nir.e, and width, plain or cap toe.
Our alioe* w>ll reach yon anywhere. Catalogue free.
W. L DOUGLAS SHOE f?., Brsckton, Mass.
LIBBY'S
SJJNCiWNS
§We aro meat cookers and canners. /"%
Our business is the largest of its kind
in America. We have tried to learn ABB
everything that anybody knows about WV
making cooked meat good. That ia /&'*
our business. We seal the product in
f v,ik key-opening cans. Turn a key and you frr*
WP find the meat exactly as it loft us. C-J
ffk We put up ia this way £gk
2S Polled flam, Ccaf and 2k
£5 Ox Tongue (whole)* A
Veal Loaf, 2
Deviled Ham, '
Brisket Beef, \ -
ray Sliced Smoked Beef, 10
and two dozen other specialtiea. It Is 09
impossible for anybody to make lunch- jjST
Your grocer should hare them.
i Lib by, McNeill fa* Libby, Chicago.
"How to Make Good Things to Eat" IS
will be seat free if you ask uv Am
Oon't Stop
Tobacco Suddenly!
L l tik'oK ru r r T .°.Zt" T iV;a.v° BAGO-CURO
and notifies you when to stop. Sold vrltli a giinr.
miter tbHt three hnxea will cure nay cue.
ninn nuan > 8 vegetable and harmless. It has
DAuU- UUn'J cured thousands, It will cure you.
At all druggists or by mail prepaid, SI.OO a box;
S lx" re, 52..)0. Booklet tree. Vrill IILIIEKA
CHEtlll AI. <)., I.a t'co-e. Wl..
DROPSYSS^
bZx Of testimonial" and 10 days' t. eatrae.it
Free. Dr. H. H. OIiEEM'B 8088, Box B. Atlanta, aa.
That Lltfls Bock For Ladies,
ALICE lIAHOh'. Uocukstkb. N. Y.
Ilcst Cough byrup. Tastes Good. Uso rjj
In time. Fold by druggist". Si
! u h ! Thompson's: Eye Water
poVSptiqU) HINTS
Fresh Air In tho Sick Room.
A clever Idea for changing and fresh
ening the air in a sielc room and at
the same time affording a mild spectac
ular entertainment for a patient un
able to move is the following: Put a
teaspoonful of the whole coffee berries
in a saucer and set where the invalid
can see it. Fill It up with toilet water —
eau do cologne or perfumery—and set
fire to it. if this is done when the
room is dark the effect will be found
especially pretty and the change of air
most refreshing.
To Clean Tapestry.
Tapestry and cretonne may be
cleaned and revived by this process:
Cut up some soap into shreds, allowing
four ounces of soap to each quart of
water, and boil to a jelly. Have ready
two tubs of pretty hot water. Add to
this enough boiled soap to make a
good lather. Add two handfuls of bran
to prevent the colors running. Wash
quickly with little rubbing, first In one,
and then in the other tub, and then
rinse out in either salt and water or
vinegar and water. Shake well to get
rid of the bran, and dry at once.
Starch in a tliin boiled starch, roll
tightly in a clean cloth, mangle, and
then Iron with a moderately hot iron.
For My Lady's Ilonrioir.
For one's own room fi pretty device
Is to take a yard of broad satin ribbon
and prepare a handsome bow for each
end. Take a number of photographs
and paste a strip of strong paper to
tlie back of each, leaving an uupasted
space at the center through which the
ribbon may pass. Hun the ribbon band
through the openings so that the row
of photographs stand face outward
mounted on the strip. Sew the bows
to the end of the ribbon and taek the
bows to the wall. A vertical row of
photograghs can be made by running
the strips of paper across the backs
of the photographs and only tacking
the upper bow to the wall, or prefer
ably putting no bow at all below.
The Fashion in Tablecloths.
Tablecloths to which up-to-date
women accord the highest homage are
of plain French damask, hemstitched
and worked with inagnilieient sprays
of lilled-in embroidery. Those sprays
are varied in shape. Some tablecloths
have two, starting at opposite corners
and swinging their way along the ends
and up the opposite side for a short
distance others have bands across the
ends, while still others have great,
bunchy effects. The important thing
about these sprays is, of course, that
they must not interfere with the plac
ing of the plates.
When the filled-in embroidery covers
the sides of the tablecloth pretty
thoroughly no monograms are used.
Hut ordinarily a tablecloth Is embroid
ered with four, one at each corner,
24 Inches from the end and 12 inches
on each side of the centre. This ar
rangement places them so that they re
main uncovered during the entire nKal.
For more ordinary use tablecloths
are still of French damask, with wide
hemstitch. The patterns vary; some
are large, others small, and generally
a woman chooses them to suit her
fancy. Yet there seems to be a ten
dency to select the small, plain pat
terns, rather than those more elabo
rate. For instance, a popular design
is merely striped damask, with a fancy
square woven in the centre. Fringed
table linen rarely now is used.
j|| A RSCjfPsS
Spiced Gooseberries —For five pounds
of fruit allow three pounds of
sugar, one pint of vinegar and one
tablespoonful each of ground cinna
mon and cloves. Mix all together,
cook until thick, stirring occasionally,
and seal in gluss Jars.
Spanish Sweet Pepper—Parboil for
1(1 minutes three green peppers; halve
them, dip In oil and fry for 10 minutes;
when cool shred fine, mix with an
equal weight of cold cooked fresh fish
finked; sift in a cup of shredded young
lettuce; pour over a mayonnaise and
serve on lettuce nests.
Krehutyne, or Bohemian Doughnuts
—Two eggs, three tahlespoonfuls of
water. Mix with flour into a stiff
dough, ndding a sultsponful of salt.
Roll out as' thin ns a soda cracker.
Cut Into fancy shnpos, fry in hot lard.
Another way of making this Is to
sweeten with a tablesponful of sugar.
Servo cold.
Biscuit—One pint of sour cream; dis
solve a scant teaspoonful of soda In a
tahlcspoonful of hot water; stir It into
the cream, beating until it foams over
the cup; add a soltspoonful of salt
and flour enough to mnke n soft
dough; pat over with the hands to the
thickness of an inch; cut with small
cutter and hake.
Chicken Snlad—Two large fowls
boiled; two large heads of celery. Cut
the tnent and celery into small pieces.
For dressing—The chicken gravy and
one-half pint of vinegar, a small piece
of butter, one tablespoonful of must
urd, a small tablespoonful of cayenne,
one tablespoonful of salt; stir in the
yoke of eight eggs just before taking
from the stove; when cold stir In one
cup or more of thick cream. Mix to
gether with a fork.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Though traffic in the Baltic-North
sea canal has not come up to expecta
tion, the Germnus ure pleased at tho
discovery that the herring is uning the
canal as a spawning ground.
A medical paper says that in rail
way collisions nearly all the passen
gers who are asleep escape the bad ef
fects of shaking and concussions, na
turn's own anaesthetic preserving
them.
A New Orleans man Is said to have
invented a sugarcane planter, in the
form of a wagon, that with three men
and four mules will do the work here
tofore done by nine men and nine
mules.
A novel theory of cancer Is being
worked upon by Dr. Lambert Lack of
London, who contends that the disease
is not due to genus, hut to specific In
jury of the mucous membranes and
allied structures.
A wild coffee of the island of Re
union, in the Indian ocean, is stated to
he free from caffein but to have
much of the odor and stimulating ef
fect of ordinary coffee. It is suggest
ed that Improved by cultivation, this
coffee should he made a valuable prod
uct in Cuba and the Philippines.
The old theory that the apparent
enlargement of sun and moon near the
horizon is due to comparison with
terrestrial objects has long been un
satisfactory. It is now explained as
a result of some peculiarity of the eye,
which accounts also for the late de
termination that the shape of the sky
is a horizontally widened convexity,
with 11 singular depression In the
zenith.
A fertilizer company has been organ
ized in the state of Washington which
proposes to utilize the waste and offal
of the salmon canneries. This refuse
has been allowed to go to waste for
years past The new company finds
in this a means for the creation of by
products, which will be of consider
able value, ns a fair sort of oil can
be produced and the fertilizer is well
adapted to many soils in the far west
A Frenchman has constructed a tri
cycle for traveling on the water. The
wheels have immense rubber tires,
nearly four feet in diameter, which,
when inflated, buoy the machine up
so that, when the rider Is in position,
the bottom of the wheels dip hardly
more than a foot beneath the surface.
Projections on the sides of the rear
tires serve ns paddles to propel the ma
chine. As it weighs less than 70
pounds, It can, when necessary, be
ridden on land.
ADVANCE IN FOOD PRESERVATION.
Great Stride, from Sumlrled Fruits to
Air-tiglit Cases.
In early times the only methods of
saving perishable pabulum for any
considerable length of time was l>y
drying it in the sun or at a fire, or by
smoking or salting it. The Indians
"jerked" their venison; they dried the
flesh of the buffaloes, reduced it to
powder, mixed it with meal and then
baked It for keeping. The Peruvians
gave us the word "jerked" (in this
meaning) from their word "charqui"
which signifies prepared dried meat.
The buccaneers derived their name
from a peculiar method of curing
beef, which was termed "buchanning."
There was a regular trade between
tho native coast tribes of America
and those of the interior in desiccated
oysters, clams and other shellfish.
Savages and barbarians of all coun
tries have liinl similar customs, and
some still maintain them. The gener
al fashion in our rural regions of dry
ing apples, peaches, and other fruits
is familiar, ns well ns the smoking
of bacon nml hams, the pickling of
mcnts anil the salting and smoking
of fish. A method of preserving vege
tables that lin-s long been extensively
used In America is by boiling them
for a proper time, and transferring
thein to cans or bottles, and sealing
immediately.
But the method of senling cooked
provisions in alr-tiglit metallic cases,
which is now so largely in vogue, is
of comparatively recent invention, and
has been brought into use during the
present century. In 1810 Augustus de
Heine took out a patent In Great Brit
ain for preserving food in tin and
other metal eases by simply exhaust
ing the air by means of an air pump,
hut It was unsuccessful. It was fol
lowed by a number of other efforts
by various persons, all of which were
more or less failures until Werthen
ner's patents, which were three in
number, from 1839 to 1841. By his
plan, the provisions of whatever kind
are put Into metal eases and closely
packed, and the Interstices filled in
with water or other appropriate liquid,
such ns gravy In the case of flesh
food. The lids are then soldered on
very securely; two small perforations
arc made in each lid, and the cases
set in a water bath in which muriate
of lime is dissolved; then heat Is ap
plied until the whole bolls and the air
Is expelled through the small openings
In the lids of the eases. When this Is
complete the small holes are quickly
soldered up.—Self-Culture.
Ifor Explanation.
"Mr. Blggsley seems to run things
Just about as he chooses," said the
gossipy man.
"Yes," answered Miss Cayenne,
"once in a while you find a person so
stupid that people will let him have
his own way, rather than argue with
him."—Washington Star.
Bakers in the Middle Age 9.
An article in an English technical
journal gives some curious details in re
gard to bread and bakers in the Middle
Ages. Bakers were subject to rigid
laws and close government supervision.
In London only farthing and half-penny
loaves were allowed to be made. If the
baker retailed his own bread he was not
allowed to sell it in his own house, be
fore it, or before the oven in which it
was baked. He was obliged to dispose
of it in the market on Tuesdays and
Saturdays only, and sometimes on Sun
days. A baker of white bread-was not
allowed to make bread of unbolted
flour, and bakers of the latter were not
permitted to have a bolting sieve in their
possession. They were not allowed to
neat their own ovens with fern, stubble
or straw or to bake at night. They were
not allowed to take back bread from
hucksters when once it had become
cold. Hotels and keepers of lodging
houses were not permitted to bake
bread. Private individuals who had no
oven of their own were in the habit of
sending their Hour to be kneaded by
their own servants at the moulding
boards belonging to the bakers; the
loaves being baked in their ovens. The
profits of bakers were strictly defined.
The quality of bread made was in de
gree indicative of the rank of people
who ate it. The finest and whitest was
called "simnel bread" and was only con
sumed by the most luxurious persons
occupying high rank and in afiluent cir
cumstances. The wealthy middle class
used "waste bread," which is supposed
to have resembled what we know as the
French "gateau." Poorer middle class
people bought bread of an inferior qual
ity called "cocket." A still lower grade
was "tourte" made of unbolted meal.
It was so called because the loaves had
a twisted form. Tourte wa3 used by the
humbler classes and the inmates of
monasteries. Three other inferior
grades of bread were made; by whom
consumed it is not stated.
Thirty minutes Is nil thotlme roquiredto
dyo with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Bold by
nil druggists.
More steel is used in the manufacture
of pens than in all the sword and gun
factories in the world. A ton of steel
produces about 10,000 gross of pens.
l'hfl Beat Prescription for Chills
and Fover is a bottle of GitOVK's TASTKLPSS
Cliii.L TONIO. It is simply iron ami quinine In
a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Piles too
Everything points to one of the larg
est apple crops this season in the his
tory of Nova Scotia.
Worms eradicated. Children made well and
mothers happy by Frey's Vermifuge, 25c.
Druggists and country stores.
Octopus is largely eaten in the Isle of
Jersey.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous-
Sees after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
erve Restorer. $3 triul bottle and treatise
tree. Dr.li.Ii.KLiKE.Ltd.KlI Arch St.Pkila.Pfc
Forty-two inventions relating to cy
cles were taken out last year by women.
Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
as N cough cure.— J. W. O'BKIKN, 322 Third
Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. G, 1909.
A Jersey City justice was recently
paid a marriage fee of 10 cents.
Throw rnyslo to tne dogs—ll you aon
rant the aogs; but if you want good diges
tion chew Leeman's Pepsin Gum.
Germany is largely strengthening her
navy and army in the Far East.
To Cnro m Cold In One Day.
Take I-AXATIVK BROMO QVINIKB TABLKTS. All
druggist-) refund tho money If it fulls to euro.
E. W. GitOVK's signature Is on eack box. 250.
Two-thirds of the teachers in the pub
lic schools of Chile are women.
TVTrs.Wlnslow'sftootningHyr.ip farchildr*>o
teethin?, softens the gums, reduces inflammo
tion. allays pain, cures wind 001ic.250 a bottle.
The population of Zululand is 150,000,
of whom only 500 are Europeans.
r . ~No matter how pleasant your surrounding;!,
Q p health, good health, is the foundation for en
(J) joyment. Bowel trouble causes more aches and
rfgSf pains than all other diseases together, and when
||' y°u get a good dose of bilious bile coursing
f x Jp through the blood life's a hell on earth. Millions
Y t P eo P' c are doctoring for chronic ailments that
y —l O started with bad bowels, and they will never
/ - 'J) \\ get better till the bowels are right. You know
I I ri/\ t j i how it is—you neglect—get irregular—first
' \ T-J / f suffer with a slight headache—bad taste in the
\ )1/ \\ \ Vjl mouth mornings, and general "all gone" feeling
1 \/ I \/| \ I j J during the day—keep on going from bad to
.f | I , J jV„ ill /I 11 ~r _ worse untill the suffering becomes awful, life
\ 1/ \ if {J j~H loses its charms, and there is many a one that
Jj \j \A ~jU \ has been driven to suicidal relief. Educate your
VI V-rj- "1/ IK bowels with CASCARETS. Don't neglect the
ll I I "vL\ /^-— slightest irregularity. See that you have one
/ \ni* 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—
lDEAL
CATHARTIC
25c. DRUGGISTS
To any needy mortal suffering from bowel t-oublcs and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address
Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. tit
Every mother possesses information of vital value to her
young daughter. That daughter is a precious legacy, and
the responsibility for her future is largely in the hands of the
mother. The mysterious change that develops the thought
less girl into the thoughtful woman should And the motker
on the watch day and night. As she cares for the phvsical
well-being of her daughter, so will the woman bo, and her
i children also.
When the young girl's thoughts become sluggish, when 8
she experiences headaches, dizziness, faintness, and exhibits I
an abnormal disposition to sleep, pains in the back and lower 1
limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude, and a dislike for the
society of other girls, when she is a mystery to herself and
friends, then the mother should go to her aid promptly. A.t
such a time the greatest aid to nature is Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound. It prepares the young
system for the coming change, and Is the surest reliance in
this hour of trial.
The following letters from Miss Good are practical proof
of Mrs. Pinkham's efficient advice to young women.
Miss Good ask 9 Mrs. Pinkham for Help.
, IT . „ _ . June 12th, 1899.
♦ • Ru MRS. PIXKHAM -I HAVE been rery much bothered for some
time with my monthly periods being irregular. I will tell you all about
it, and put myself in your care, for I have heard so much of you. Ea.h
month menstruation would beoome less and less, until it entirely stopped
for six months, and now it has stopped again. I have become very ner
vous and of a very bad color. lam a young girl and have always had to
la work very hard. I would be very much pleasod if
I Y°" would tell me what to do."—Miss PEARL GOOD,
jratLJotfipW. ">*■ 29th Avenue and Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash.
The Happy Result.
'TiSr3 _ February 10th, 1900.
Wj - jt> DEAR MRS. PIXKIIAM I cannot praise Lydia
\ji p) . Finkham s Vegetable Compound enough. It is
\ J made in me. I feel like another person. My
* work is now a pleasure to me, while before using
\ your medicine it was a burden. To-duy I am a
heal . th y an( l happy girl. I think if more women
y ll would use your Vegetable Compound there would be
j ess suffering in the world. I cannot express the
frx M Vf * i A?\ relief I havo experienced by using Lydia E. Pink-
MISS PEARL GOOO ham's Vegetable Compound."—Miss PEARL GOOD,
| Cor. 29th Avenue and Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash.
SRFINN HFWABID
H B [J M H >4 BLEM VW ATUKJFILAJ the Knuinene*sc.f the testimonial letters
' 1 I || IS | deposited with the National* Cily
IR IB IB IN wmch will be paid to any person who can show that the above
writer S special permission.— LYClA £. PINKHAM MBDICINB CO.' 11 *