Don't worry overmuch about those sharp pains in your head. Seek their cause ► in your liver. One Ayer's Pill at night ror a few nights drives away morn f ing headaches. J. C. AYER COMPANY, Practical Chemists, Lowell, Mass. Ayer's Sarsaparilla I Ayer'9 Hair Vigor Ayer's Pills Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Ayer's Ague Cure j Ayer's Comutone Notes From tlae Paris Exposition* "The Singer Manufacturing Com pany, ol 149 Broadway, New York, show their usual American enterprise by having a very creditable exhibit located In Group XIII., Class 79, at the Paris International Exposition, where they show to great advantage the cel ebrated Singer Sewlng-Machine which is used In every country on the globe, both for family use and for manufac turing purposes. The writer was highly pleased with thhs display and observed with much satisfaction that it was favorably commented upon by visitors generally. The Grand Prize was awarded by the International Jury to Siuger Sew ing-Machiues for superior excellence in design, construction, efficiency and for remarkable development and adap tion to every stitching process used In either the family or the factory. Only One Grand Prize for sewing machines was awarded at Paris, and this distinction of absolutely superior merit confirms the previous action of the International Jury at the World's Columbian Exposition, in Chicago, where Singer Machines received fifty four distinct awards, being more than were received by all other kinds of sewing machines combined. Should it be possible that any of our readers are unfamiliar with the celebrated Singer Machine, we would respectfully advise that they call at any of the Singer salesrooms, which } can be found in all cities and most towns in the United States." Every year on June 30 the pension ers of the Civil War are counted. In June, 1898, the number 011 the lists was 993714- East year there were about 2.000 less, and this year also there arc fewer than in 1898. PUT3AM FADELESS DYE produces the fast est ami brightest colors of any known dye stuil. Sold by ali druggists. A landslide occurred recently in Sat tel, Switzerland. An inn and its gar den and outbuildings slid down the hill side a distance of 35 feet without being in the least injured. Two stately elms in the garden were also moved without injury. Cannot lie (lured by local applications, as they cannot roach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous liningof the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam mation can be taken out and this tube re . stored to its normal condition, Uuariun will lie 9 destroyed for.-vor. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which ain. cures Wind colic. 25c a bottle. Probably 100.000 people lost kindred in the Texas calamity. Th© B©st Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTBLKM CHILL TONIC. It Is simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c. There are more muscles in the tail -f 'ef a cat than in a human hand. PEARLS OF THOUCHT. The man who pardons easily courts Injury. To see what is right and not to do it, Is want of courage. Affliction tenches a wicked man to pray; prosperity never. The superior man has dignified east? without pride; the mean man has pride without dignified ease. See what a man does, mark his mo tive, examine in what he rests; how can a man conceal his character? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do no know n thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge. What Is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who meet men with smartness of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred. Teach more self-denial and make its practice pleasurable, find you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever Issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. A moral young man's characteris tics are honesty of speech, respectabi lity of carriage, industry of mind and consideration for others. With these a young man Is as "model" as it Is given for an earthly being to be. The most vindictive people are those who have brought upon themselves the Injury of which tbey complain. A drunkard who has exhausted the patience of his relatives during long years of indulgence, instead of re membering their innumerable kind nesses, turns upon them when they put him under restraint. CATS IN COLD STORACE. Six Month* In a Low Tcmpornture Mad© a Chance in Their Appearance* The effect of cold upon the capillary properties of certain animals was strikingly illustrated in New York some time ago. A warehouse man on Jane street was annoyed by the lav ages of hordes of mice. He had little trouble in the main part of his build ing where a couple of well-trained cats kept the place tolerably free from the pests, hut in the cold-storage por tion the mice held full sway. They, nibbled into packages and boxes, and destroyed such quantities of fruits that heroic measures were necessary. It seemed rather a cruel experiment, but the nuisance became so unbear able that he decided at last to install a cat in the cold-storage warehouse. Provision to a certain extent was made for her comfort, and she was left to her own devices and the mice. Pussy seemed to flourish, notwith standing the cold, anil In the course of about a week became the mother of a fine litter of six kittens. After a time three of the latter were removed, but the old cat and her remaining progeny were left in their arctic quarters. When allowed out it was noticed that she grew weak and list less. She tottered about in an aim less way, as though all energy and in terest in life were lost As soon, how ever, as she was returned to her cold quarters, she recovered her vigor and became as bright and active as usual. A curious feature was soon observed In the kittens. They grew to an im mense size, their coats became long and shaggy, and the fur much coarser than that of on ordinary cat; it had also a peculiar tendency to curl. The feelers, or whiskers, too, grew to nearly double length, so that when they were placed beside the members of their own Immediate family the difference was so marked that tlicy might have easily passed for an entirely different breed. The change took place within three months, giving a curious example of how suddenly and completely nature will adapt itself to the exigencies of climate with the young.—Washington Star. A Four-footed Policeman. Joe belonged to a firm ID Leltb; but he resolved to be a policeman. He was sent back several times to his owners, but returned soporslstentlytothe force that finally he was allowed to join them. He had no ambition to rise In bis profession. The sergeants treated liim well, hut he took little notice of them. He ordained to go oil-duty with constables only, and his particular heat was the east end of Princes street, with an occasional inspection of Kose street. He walked at a measured dignified pace, or ensconced himself at the base of an Island lamppost opposite the Reg ister House, watching and observant. Like Spot at Waverley, hustle anil noise pleased him. His tail was run over by a lorry once, and when any of Ills bluecoated friends inquired about It lie rose to show them the Injured point People In civilian dress he did not encourage to speak to him. Tram way Inspectors or postmen he per mitted to commend him, but the con stables alone were allowed to pat liim. He never shirked Ills self-imposed work, for It was uot only when the sun shone he acted as official watch- Jog. 111 foul or fair weather Joe was on duty superintending the regulation of trnlfie or parading his heat He fared sumptuously, for the nelghltorlng ho tels kept their scraps for him. He was given a collar and a coat and for six years he wns in the force; but walking along Princes streets In August, ISII7, he fell dead at the heels of his biped comrnde-guurdian of the pence. He Is buried near to the scene of his con stant though unpaid labor In St An drew Square Gardens. Joe, having placed himself under the eye of the lnw, could afford to wink at the tax collector.—Chambers's Journal. HER PRECIOUS LITTLE PURSE. Not much sold did she disburse. Yet wuli she siient each gulden minute. She hail a precious little purse Aud there was precious little in it. That was before she started ouL She meant to shop; her means wer. ample— - When site got back that purse was stout. For it was stuffed with many a sam ple. —Chicago Record. HUMOROUS. "Pa, why do they call it 'cold cash'?' "Because people have a habit of freez ing to it, 1 guess." "My wife," boasted the happy young Benedict "Is an open book to me." "Mine, too," declared the old married man. "I can't shut her up." Amicus—So you have another baby at your house. Whut Is he like? Eminent Critic—Well, he Is not very interesting, but be is mighty convinc ing. "Didn't the quiet In the country be come monotonous to you?" "Quiet? We bud to turn out übout seven times every nigbt und chase cows off the porch." "I wonder why they don't name one of the new ships the Mayflower?" "What for?" "Why, so that future generations can say their ancestors came over on It" "Little .Tim, bow can you rush around and pluy so hard in hot weath er?" "Aw, ma, 'taint hot at all; me an' Tommy Tilths has bin a-playin' camp-out in a blizzard." The meanest man up to date Is Sniftklns. He sold Jones a half in terest in a cow, aud then refused to divide the milk, maintaining that Jones owned the front end. Nodd—Are you going to take your servants with you camping out? Todd —lf I can gut them to. I want to get even with tliein for all the discom forts they have caused me. She —Of course, you have heard of the theory that Bacon wrote Shakes peare's playV Choliy—Aw—yes aw— tin- idea is that Shakespeare was Ba con's nom de plume, is it not? "Now," sold the new reporter, handing in his copy, "what shall I write about?" "I think," said the editor, after glancing at the stuff, you had better right about face, march!" Miss Johnson—Did he take it hard when yo' refused him? Miss Juxik \son—Yo' bet he took it bard! He started n row an' 1 hit him wlf a flat-iron, a stove-lifter an' a rollin'-pin. "You've given up swimming, haven't you?" "Yes. I dou't mean to culti vate a talent that will put me in a position some time where the drown ing fellow wbo can't swim will be sure to drug me under." "Pa, why do they formally notify a man that he is nominated for presid ent?' "Well, mainly, I think, so that lie can't get up after he fails to lie elected in November and vow be wasn't in politics ut all." She (after discharging the new servant)—l wonder why they call the place where these girls come from an "intelligence oflice?" There doesn't seem to b any there. He—There must be some there, for none ever comes out of it Stox —Do you believe in women hay ing the same rights as men? Sluggs— Yes, I do. There was one stood In front of where I sat in n car today and tramped all over my feet, and if she'd been u man I would have hit her one, sure. "You told me to come and begin work today," said the new hoy. "Oh, yes," replied the drugglsL "you may begin by catching flies and putting them ou these sheets of 'Sure Catch Flypaper,' we're displaying in the window." "Well that's great." "What's great?" "Our Chinese luundrymnn lias put his prices up on account of the war in China." "How's that?" "Why, he says he has to be paid for the time he waists telling people what he thinks of it." "The hostess is a lovely woman and she gave us a line dinner. But why did she seem in such a nervous hurry? Really, it was the swiftest feed 1 ever Bat down to." "Then you didn't know her before she married Bixhy?" "No." "She used to be a waitress In a quick service dairy lunch." Observing the manager of the drug department the woman accosted hiin. In a spirit of badinage. "1 bare klepto mania," sL'. said. "What would you advise me to take?" "The elevator, by nil means!" said the manager wit tily. "And not something just as good?" exclaimed the woman affect ing great surprise. Where Women Are Never Imprisoned. Austria Is the one country in the world which never puts a woman In prison. lustead of giving n female criminal so many months In Jail she Is sent, no matter how terrible Is her record, to one or other of the convents devoted for the purpose and kept there during tie time for which she Is sen tenced. The convent is not a ID6T I pri®. on In disguise, for Its courtyard stands open all day long, the only bar to egress being a mm who acts as portress, Just as in other convents. France's Fortrenae*. France has on the German frontier three first-class fortresses—Belfort, Verdun nnd Brlnncon; on the Belgian frontier, Lille, Duukiark, Arras and Donaz; on the Italian, Lyon, Grenoble and Besancon, and on the Atlantic coast Rochefoit, I-orient and BresL SCIENCE NOTES. The mean density of the sun Is only about one-fourth that of the earth. This tow density is one of the several reasons for believing that the sun's mass Is gaseous throughout. As destroyers of many of our most pestiferous night-flying insects, like mosquitoes, the but Is almost our sole dependence, nnd, as be is known to hunt insects afoot as well as on the wing, he is also of lome value for larvae that do not fly. So says one of the scientists, who nlso credits the bat with destroying coddling moths. According to M. Slgiiste of the French Academy of Sciences, the only thoroughly scientific shutter for in stantaneous photography consists of a slit moving rapidly across the sen sitive plate. But to obtain good re sults, the space between the plate and the shutter should not exceed ono tenth of a millimetre, and the edges of the silt must be sharp aud euro fully beveled to exclude reflection. A remarkable effect of the great hurricane of 1808 In the West India Islands was the complete disappear ance from the island of St. Vincent of a species of humming-bird, which, previous to the storm, had been one of the commonest aud tamest birds that Inhabited the island. Other species of humming-birds, of a larger size, survived the tempest, and are yet to ho seen In St. Vincent, but the little bronze-green birds'with erected crests, which formerly attracted much ud miration, are nil gone. The brilliant "photosphere" of the sun Is now held to be n shell of clouds, within the sun's gaseous muss, hilt at nn altitude—or distance from the cen tre—such that the temperature is low enough for the partial condensation of those substances which are the most Intractable to boat. This theory is well illustrated by steam issuing from the nozzle of a tea kettle. Steam Is an invisible gus; but as soon as It becomes cooled below a certain point from contact with the outer ult - it condenses into a visible vapor, form ing clouds. The droplets which form the solar clouds are probably mainly of carbon, although condensed to the liquid, or possibly the solid form, they are still hot enough to be intensely in candescent. Within a few years scientists have paid particular attention to the collec tion of skulls which hour wounds, anil especially the weapon, nnd In our museums and those of Europe many remarkable and Interesting examples are known. In the French cavern of the Sordes, which may date back no.ouo years, more or less, a woman's skeleton was found, the skull of which hud been beaten in with a flint weapon, a gap lag and terrible wxiund showing In tile right side. Some attempts have been made at surgery, as pieces of the broken bone laid been removed nnd the wound had begun to heal when death ensued. In the Stone Age caves of France many interesting specimens have been found, pointing to the . method of death by these crude but telling weapons. SOUARI NUTS IN CHICACO. Oilil Produrta of Itriliali (Inlann Finding Fnvor In Our Fruit Mnrketa. Souria or Su-war-row nuts from Brit ish Guiana mmle their flrst appear ance in the Chicago market during the last week and promise henceforth to become a regular contribution from South America to the commerce of tlie North American continent The Souari nut is very plentiful In parts of British Guiana, but so far us known is not found in any other country on the face of the earth. It is quite pal atable, but the shell is of uuusual thickness aud strength, and for tills reason the nuts have never been high ly prized by the not over-industrious natives. In Chicago, however, the nut is finding considerable favor nnd the Importations In this direction promise to reach fully as large pro portions as those of any other tropical or semi-tropical nut. Its shape and appearance Is quite odd. The color Is about the same as that of a cocoa nut, but the exterior, instead of bring hairy, is hard and warty and the nut Is about treble the size of an ordinary Brazil nut after it has been extracted from the "pod" or covering in which it is grown. Imagine a dark colored lady's purse, well filled and cut off squarely with a pair of scissors Just above the contents, the upper sides re maining pressed together Just as they were when the scissors began cutting them, and you have the nearest ap proach to the Souari nut. Fully two thirds of Its bulk Is shell nnd consider able power must be exerted to release the kerneL The latter, however. Is well worth the extra trouble. The Souurl Is classed by tiotnnists as bf the Cnryocan nuclferum, or tea family, nnd Is also presumed by them to be Indigenous to British Guiana. According to the bo tan 1b ts nlso It is related to the butternut family, though It resembles Its North American rel ative In nothing except perhaps the color which the lntter's covering as sumes nfter It has lieen darkened by frost and exposure. The name Su wnr-row Is that by which It is com monly known In South America and is n corruption of the proper name. Coast traders and others familiar with It have known It for years as the South American butternut Tills, too, Is presumed to have be® because of Its scientific classification.—Chicago Tlmes-llerald. A gorgeous costume flashed "beneath the brilliant lights of a ball room. The queen of society is radiant to-night. ! The nervous hands of a weak woman have toiled day and night, the weary form and aching head have known no. rest, for the dress must be finished in time. To that queen of society and her dressmaker we would say a word. One through hothouse culture, luxury and social excitement, and the other through the toil of necessity, may some day find their ailments a common cause. Nervous prostration, excitability, fainting spells, dizzi ness, sleeplessness, loss of appetite and strength, all indicate serious trouble, which has been promoted by an over-taxed system. For the society queen and the dressmaker alike, there is nothing so reliable as Eydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore strength, vigor, and happiness. Mrs. Lizzie Anderson, 49 Union St., Salem, N. J., writes : j.l " DKAB MRS. PINKHAM : —I feel it is my duty to write and 1.11 you hoe. M grateful I am to you for what your medicine lias done fori::;-. At fit i time I suffered everything- a woman could. I hod inflamxn: on cf the ovaries, falling of the woinb, and leucorrhcea. At timet* oould not hold a A needle to sew. 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