(|||||) " If you send me anything 'just as good as Aycr's,' I shall send it right back. " I might afford to experi ment with shoe polish, but I can't and won't experiment * with the medicine which means sickness or health to me." J. C. AYER COMPANY, Practical Chcmisto, Lowell, Mass. X Ayer'6 Sarsapariila I Aycr'a I lair Vigor Ayer'c Pills J Ayer*a Cherry Pectoral Aycr's Ague Cure J Aycr's Comatone p|oß njjJcS SIM I The Chicago school board has sued the five elevated railroad companies for Best For the Boxvcls, No matter what nils you, headache to % eauoor, you wili never gut well until your bowels nru put right. CABCAUISTS help nature, euro you without n gripe or pain, Iroduce easy natural movements, cost you ust 10 cents to start getting your health >aek. OABCAKKTH Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tab lot has C.O.C. stumped on it. Beware o 1 imitations. Out of 40,000 vessels entering Chinese ports every year 20.000 arc British. Frcjr'e Vermifuge Saves tho llvos of children. 'Sin. Druggists and country stares, or by mail. 10. Si 8. I unv, H AI/i'i.MOKK, AID. Russia's Advance on china. For nearly 30 years the boundary be tween China and Russia remained as agreed upon in tlie treaties of 1858 and iB6O. But already the commercial and ► political activity of the Russians was overstepping it. They had established themselves in large numbers in the cities of Chinese Manchuria —in Kiakh ta, Mukden. Kirin and Tsitsiliar, the residence of the Mandarin Governor. The navigation <>f the Ossuri and the Sungari rivers fell wholly into their hands. The steamships of the Amur Company put Russia in rapid commun ication with Japan and San Francisco. "Scientific Missions traversed China in all directions. At Peking the Rus san colony acquired a continually great or importance and the ambassador of the czar wielded more inlhiencc at court than the representatives of any other lertainmcnts.—lnternational Monthly. Liverpool has the largest dockage in Britain. WOMEN MUST SLEEP. Avoid Nervous Prostration. If you are dangerously sick what is the first, duty of your physician? He \ quiets the nervous system, he deadens the pain, and you sleep well. Friends ask, "what is the cause?" and the answer comes in pitying tones, nervous prostration. Jt came upon you so quietly in the beginning, that you wore not alarmed, and when sleep* deserted you night after night until your eyes fairly burned in tho darkness, then you tossed in nervous agony praying for sleep. Mas. A. HAKTLEY. You ought to have known that wlfttn you ceased to be regular in your 3oursos, and you grew irritable with out cause, that there was serious trouble somewhere. Yon ought to know that indigestion, exhaust i on. womb displacements, fainting, dize.ines-s headache, and backache send the nerves wild with affright. and you cannot sleep. Mrs. Hartley, of \V. Congress St., Chicago. 111., whose portrait pub lish. suffered all these agonies, and was entirely cured by Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound : her case should be a warning to others, and her cure carry conviction to the minds | of every suffering woman of tho un failing efficiency of T.vdiaE. Pinkhaw'a Vegetable Compound. Dr. By IPs Cough Cures a cough or cold at once. Conquers croup, bronchitis, g I I g_i |i grippe and consumption. 35c. ./ I PATENTS Sir A ■ 311LO B. STEVENS <3c CO., l£s*Vo. 18*4 L ▼ Dir. r, 817-Mth streot, WASHINGTON, 1). C. , . Bruuuh offices: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. Attractive lied Covering*. ! The new showings in bed cover-1 | Ings never were more attractive or I varied. The Anatolians are special?y I pleasing this season, and from the great ease with which they may be ; laundered recommended themselves to ! many. Pique or dimity trimmed with ; white bail fringe is a new idea in bed | spreads that is very pretty and quite la mode. Then the old reliable Mar I seilles, with its weight and launder i lug diflicu fides, but lasting qualities, I is to be had in very new and novel ! designs, many different in effect from ; those ever offered before. Water For Washing Woolen*. | Many people sincerely believe that ; it is impossible to wash all-wool un : dergarments without their shrinking. I This is a popular error. With an I abundance of soft water, keeping ; every water through which the flan i nels pass at the same temperature, | with pure white soap and careful dry ing, there need he no shrinkage. To ; soften the hard water obtained from the rivers and springs from which ; most cities get their water supply use ; a tablespoonful of household amnio* | nin to a gallon of water. If the wa | tor is exceptionally hard more amino • nia will be required. Having ready i the softened water, licat as hot as the hand can bear comfortably and pour I into two tubs. Make one with a strong soapsuds, using a borax soap—never { a resinous brown soap. Washing Colored Cultcoca. Colored calicoes should be washed in warm, not hot, water. Blues and I greens are strengthened by the use of vinegar in the rinsing or bluing water, allowing one tablespoon of vin | egar to a quart of water. With other 1 calicoes or cambrics salt may he used ; to set the color. Miss Parlos declares ! that the ideal way to treat delicate ! colors, dark sateens or mourning i goods is not to use soap at all, but the i following starch mixture, which j cleanses and stiffens at the same timer j For two dresses make one gallon of I starch by mixing one cupful of Hour with one pint of cold wa or. Stir un ! til all the lumps are dissolved and I pour over it: three aud one-half quarts of boiling water. Cook until clear and | smooth, then strain through cheese i cloth. Pour half the mixture in a • tub containing four gallons of warm . water. Wash one of the dresses in j this, rubbing the fabric the same as if soap were used. Itinsc in two cleat waters#ind hang out to dry, when they ' will be found to be about as stiff as ; when new. Sprinkle only an hour or so before ironing. Calicoes should all be Ironed on the wrong side.—Wash ington Star. RECIPES: T : Spongo Sandwiches—Mnko cottage | cheese in the usual way, but after it I has drained mince thoroughly in clear, j cold water to remove the acid; put iin n cheesecloth aud squeeze dry. To J a cup of the dry, sweet curd add one j fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of paprika, if liked and half a cup of | sweet cream. Spread thickly between j thin slices of sponge cake, i Cabbage Salad—Boil one-half cupful j of vinegar, the yoke of four eggs, two J tablespoon fills of sugar, one teaspoon [ ful of mustard and a level tablespoon fill of butter until the mixture is lira i pid. Season with celery salt, and When it is cold add one cupful of cream that has been whipped. I'our over the shredded or chopped cabbage and garnish with stoned olives and hard boiled eggs. Cheese Souffle—Melt three tablespoon fuls of butter; when bubbling blend in three tablespoonfuls of flour; stir i in gradually one-half pint of scalding milk aud cook slowly for five minutes, stirring constantly; add one cupful of grated cheese, pepper and salt to [ taste, and the beaten yolks of three j eggs, then fold In lightly the beaten ! whites, turn into a buttered dish and ! hake in a hot oven for about twenty ' minutes. Serve immediately, j liavioli of Spinach—Use ten table j spoonfuls of seasoned, mashed and whipped potntoes; add six (ahlespoon | fuls of flour and half as much but ter; mix well, then lay the mass upon a floured board and roll out an inch thick; cut in circles the size of a sau cer aud moisten the edges with the yolk of an egg; place a tablespoonful | of cooked spinach on and fold turn over style; brush the top with the white of an egg and hake (ill a nice brown, then arrange ground the fish platter with a heaping teaspoonful of whipped cream On each. Spinach ac quires a mellowness of flavor by re peatedly warming over. Confection Cake—Cream two cups of sugar wtth two-tliirds of butter, add M cup of sweet milk, two and a half cups of flour, two rounding spoonfuls of baking powder, (he whites of six eggs l,eaten very stiff and haifa teaspoonful of flavoring ex tract. Bake in four layers. Boil two cups of sugar with half a cup of water till like thick honey, pour gradually on the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, heat till cold. In half of it put candled cherries, figs aud raisins chopped fine, with 11 few hickorynut and almond meats, also chopped, and flavor. Spread between the layers. Use the other half of the icing to cover the top of the cake. This is a deli cious cuke. CUTTING WITH RED HOT TOOLS. ! '.Economics Resulting From n New Hard ening Process. If a machine of any kind can be made to do twice as much work as before, or more than twice as much, the capacity of the shop will be en- ! liirged # without adding to the struc- j ture itself, or putting in any new ap- j paratus. And that is what has ' recently been accomplished at the works of the Bethlehem (Penn.) Steel j Company. A large part of the instill- ; la lion there consists of lathes. When . a lathe is used to reduce the dimen sions of a mass of steel (like a steam- \ ship shaft) very hard tools must be j employed, and they can cut only to a certain depth without overheating. Overheating, it is needless to say, 1 usually ruins any steel tool. But, as the result of a recent in- i veution, it has been made possible to work the lathes at Bethlehem as never before. The cut has been deepened, on the average, 30 per cent., the feed (or sideways travel of the tool) has i I been increased 24 per cent., and the | cutting speed, or rotational speed of i the object in the lathe, has been raised j IS3 per cent. It is estimated that the amount of material cut away, in turn ing, averages 137.3 pounds an hour, | where formerly it was only 31.18. j i Here, is an apparent gain of 340 per ! [ cent, in the efficiency of the machines, j j This wonderful change results from i I the invention of a process of harden- ! | ing the steel of which the tools are composed. P. W. Taylor and Maunscl White originated it. The means em i ployed in it are still a secret. But the ! effects are certainly very clear. Re j ferring to this matter, Cassier's Maga zine says: The underlying value of the Tayior- Wliite process is that it gives to the steel the exceptional property of re taining a high degree of hardness, even when healed to a visible red ; heat, and it is thus possible with one j 1 of these tools to cut steel at a speed ! so great as to heat up the point of the i | tool to redness and have it continue i to cut for several minutes at this speed i and still leave a comparatively smooth | finish on the work. But cutting metal ( I in it lathe with a tool at red heat is something which the sceptic must see in order to believe. Opportunity for this, however, luis been given, and is daily available, at the Bethlehem worlcs. Copper)!reel mto Deadly* Poison from the bite of a copperhead is deadly. The smallest quantity of the poison produces a local irritation. In serious cases the whole mass of the blood is infected in the course of a few seconds or minutes, according to the severity of the case. The poison produces paralysis of the nerve cen tres, and when it is once carried through the system death ir; certain. No antidote is known capable of counteracting or neutralizing the action of copperhead poison. Fayrer has demonstrated that injections of ammonia or liquid permanganate of potassium are useless after the poison has entered the system. In solution, however, permanganate of potassium destroys the deadly properties of the poison. Gunther. in his "Reptiles of British India," has suggested mechanical means for preventing the poison from entering the stem. Circulation, if possible, should he cut off, by binding the injured extremity above the bite. The wound should be enlarged by deep incisions, or should be cut entirely off. The poisoned blood should then, so far as possible, be sucked from the wound. The wound should be cauter ized or rubbed either with ammonia or permanganate cf potassium. Stimu lants should be taken freely at. short Intervals, in order to strengthen the action of the heart. To Acquire Japane.se. Six thousand ideographs are enough for even the most learned Japanese; for persons of ordinary education, 3000 to 4000 suffice; but 3000 are perhaps as ptany as the European student can manage to assimilate. A knowledge of the ideograph is, however, not sufficient. Tlicy more often represent vocables rather than words, and two monosyllabic vocables are joined to form the jukuji, or compounds, of the usual written style and of common speech, and very often the meaning of the compound can scarcely be guessed from the meaning of the components Nor is this the only difficulty. Most ideographs may be pronounced in two ways at least; thus we have "mei" or "myo," "sel" or "sai," "jin" or "nin," and so on, both being Japanese pro nunciations of the original Chinese sounds, as the ideographs were im ported from Go (Chinese Wu) in Southern, or Kan (Chinese Han) in Northern China, respectively.—The Athenaeum. It Tried lie:- Faith. They were sitting on the sandy beach, and no word had been spokou by either for a full minute. "You doubt me!" he at length ex claimed. "Have I not told you ever and over again that I love you, and you only; and did I ever tell you an untruth, Katlicrine?" "I would that 1 could have an ab solute faith In you," she replied, sti lling a sob; "but I heard you toll uncle that you once caught a brook trout that weighed three pounds and six ounces." And the tears liowed down her fair young face, while lie tapped the sand with ids foot and solemnly gazed o'er the wide blue sea.—London Answers. ltnsalau oil IVells. The average depth of Russian petro leum wells is a little over 1)00 feet. The chief obstacle encountered is salt water, similar to the water of the Cas pian Ben. Which comes in through the loose and sandy soil. Bcmanco ol Tall Suildings. I Or course all these men in the tall i building.-, whether possessed of crcat- j ive genius or of intelligence enough only i jto run one of the elevators, arc alike ! i philistines to those persons who find j | nothing romantic or interesting in our modern, much maligned skyscrapers, i which have also been called "monu ! mcnts of modern materialism," and cv j cn worse names, no doubt, because they i arc unpreccdent and unacadcmic, prob ably, as much as because ugly and unre- j ! strained, says a writer in Scribner's. | To many of us, however, shameless as ! it may be to confess it, these downtown 1 streets arc fascinating enough for what j they are to-day, even if they had no I past to make them all the more charm ; ing: and these erect, jubilant young j buildings, whether beautiful or not, ■ seem quite interesting—from their i bright tops, where, far above the tur ' moil anc! confusion, Mrs. Janitor sits sewing in the sun while the children ! play hide-and-seek behind water-butts j and air-shafts (there is no danger of i falling off, it is a relief to know, because J the roof is walled in like a garden) j down to the dark bottom where are the | safe deposit vaults, and the trusty old : watchmen and the oblong boxes with : great fortunes in them, alongside of wills , that may cause family fights a few years ; later, and add to the affluence of ccr | tain lawyers in the offices overhead. ! Deep down, 30 or 40 feet under the j crowded sidewalk, the stokers shovel j coal under the big boilers all day, and ' electricians do interesting tricks with j switchboards, somewhat as in the hold ,of a modern battleship. In the many 1 tiers of floors overhead are the men with the minds that make these high buildings necessary and make downtown j what it is. with their dreams and schemes, their courage and imagination, ; their trust and distrust in the knowledge | and ignorance of other human beings, j which are means by which they bring I about great successes and great fail ures, and have all the fun of playing a j game, with the peace of conscience and self-satisiaction which come from hard work and manly sweat. PUTNAM FADELESS DYF.S are fast to sun light, washing aud rubbing, fciold by all ; druggists. ; Alabama has a fine old capitol, set ; on a hill and rich in historical associa i tions, but it has 110 governor's mansion i and is beginning to think it needs one. | "100 per cent, yearly dividends from a 1 gold mine is not uncommon." -New York ] Herald. Fifty gold mines that havo paid i -ir20.000.000 in dividends followed the same I plan as we work upon. Send for our pros -1 pectus. Golden Tree Mining and Milling | Co., 32 Broadway, New York. I Some 2,000.000 pounds of camphor i are consumed in the United States year ly. STATE OP OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, I IJUOAS COUNTY. 1 FRANK J. CHUNKY makes onth that lie Isthe nior partner of the firm of F. J. < h KNKY SC ' 'o., doing businessntliet 'iiyofToledo,County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay j the sum of ONR IIUMIUIII) i>oi,i,/jts for each ! and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HALT'S CATARRH I THE. FRANK J. ( HENEY. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in ray ;— ~) presence, this dth day of December. 1 \ BEAU> A. D. 133 l). A. \V. (ILKAKON, I I r-") Nuiam Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, anrl uctsdirectly on the blood and mucous surfaces ; of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. .1. * HENEY 6c co. t Toledo, O. | Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills ure the best. A burglar stole S6OO from a resident of St. Paul, Minn. The next day he re turned that sum and $250 to boot. I am sure Fiao's Cure for Consumption saved my life three ye.r neo.— Mus. Tuos RUB BISH. Maple St.. Norwich. N. I'.. Feb. 17.1900, Taxon: "Do you have an alarm clock at your house?" Paxon: "We don't have to have; we've got twins." To Cure n Cold In On© Day. Take LAXATIVE RROMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggltß refund the in uiey If it falls in euro. K. W. (1 MOVE'S siguaturo is on each box. Uso. The present season is reported to have been the finest for rose-growing in England for many years. Novel London Restaurant. There is a famous site in London where once stood the palace of Crom well, Earl of Essex, and afterward the hall of the Drapers' Company. Here will be opened in a few days one of the most remarkable and magnificent res taurants in London, the Throgmorton. It is the nineteenth century develop ment of the old catinghouses of the citv, in which you dived down a few steps, into a musty apartment, where very plain food, but good wine, was procur able. At the Throgmorton the proprie tors have dived to some purpose. They have dived and tunneled, and have con structed a restaurant of three floors un derground which apparently consists chiefly of long galleries all luxuriously fitted and furnished. The kitchens are a dream of culinary resourcefulness. The cellars are such that the wines can be kept at the exact temperature good for their health, an 1 the grill-room is something to make one look back with disdain to the old days when the hungry city man used to personally select his chop or steak at Bannister's, the butcher, and hurry off with it in paper to one of the places where he might have it grilled for a penny, with bread and condiments ex tra.—Cardiff Western Mail. In the last presidential election Mc- Kinicy received 142.500 more votes than all his competitors collectively. Me Kin ley's plurality in 1896 205.072; McKinlcy's apparent plurality in 1900, 293.55.T Just or. • populist vuic was cast L Sa vannah, Ga„ at the recent State election. DON'T RUIN YOUR STOMACH WITH iMEDICINE. Siinyadi J&nos ijTSw IS A NATURAL LAXATIVE MINERAL WATER. Endorsed and used by the most prominent physicians V\~f V * n !^ie world as the best and snfest remedy lor uis- ordered stomach, biliousness, liver troubles, gout and y Cures Constipation! IglßHfr Take one-half glassful on arising in t he morning and rarafflflHlu you will feel the. remarkable effects in half an hour. Hi v ASK- I LOOKS-.Ww 1 "llunyadi Jano."| IV Centre Panel. \ Sole Exporter, Firm of Andreas Sax!chner, 130 Pulton St.,N.Y. Three greet and cerapSsfe cures effasted by Sr. Grass's fiervura Btaed and Klerve Remedy, lui fjHHI llfr k BAILEY Mrs. J. A. Fcrre, who resides near 90S Alain Street, Hartford, Conn., says: "My daughter I.uln became very ill with St. Vitus dance over a year ago. She became so bad thatshclobtthcu.se of'her right arm and side, and we thought at 011 c time she would lose her speech. Her tongue was almost paralyzed. t>he was so bad she could not feed herself, and at night she would get so nervous I had to sit and hold her. I tried several doctors, but thev did not do her any good. I did not lind anything that would help her until I tried Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. She is now, by the use of this medicine, entirely cured." C. li. Bailey, Esq., of Waterbury, Vt., writes; "T am more than glad to write about my little daughter. Until a short time ago she had al ways been a very delicate child and subject to sick spells lasting weeks at a time, she was very nervous, and our family doctor said we would never raise her, she was so delicate and feeble. We tried many remedies without the least good. We felt much anxiety about Ire: , especially as no doctors could benefit her. and had great tear for her future beaming of the wonders being done by Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, 1 determined to give it to her. She soon commenced to improve under its use, and rapidly gained in every respect. She eats and sleeps well, and her nerves are strong The medicine lias done wonder's for her and it is the best we ever kticw. I recommend Dr. Grceue's Nervura, blood and nerve remedy, to everybody." Mrs. J. Learmontli, of 776 Broadway, South Boston, Mass., says: "At ten years of age rny daughter became affected with a nervous condition which soon de veloped into St. Vitus' dance. It was pronounced by the attending physician to be a very severe attack. The mouth would be drawn spasmodically far to one side, the hands aud arms were rest less and constantly twitching. Her limbs also were weak; her ankles bent under her so that it was almost impossible to walk. She was so nervous that she would scream almost like u maniac aud then have fits of crying. After two months' treatment without a cure, I concluded to try Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. Three bottles entirely cured her. bhe is now thirteen years old, aud has been well ever since, and to-day is a picture of health." Remains of an Anciont Galley. The remains of an ancient galley have been found six feet below the surface at Tottenham Marshes, during the excava tions for the new reservoirs of the Ease London Water Company. The vessel is 50 feet long, and nasa beam of 26 i feet. Its timbers are of oak and elm. land, from the form of the rivets used, it is supposed to have belonged to tile Danes who were defeated in Lea Valley by King Alfred in 804 A. D. An an tique sword and some bones of animals now extinct in England were also dug up, and have been sent to the British M "seitni. There arc 120 firms in Germany cn jgaged in the acetylene industry. Most |of the burners are made at Nuremberg. There are no fewer than twenty-six small towns in Germany lighted by ace tylene gas. The first plant of this kind for lighting stnall towns in Germany v as erected at Hassfurt. a town of 2.500 ' inhabitants. j There is only one sudden death among women t< eight among men. 00-&O 0 0 OM 000 00 I Beware of Them | X There are two afflictions whicl* V X perhaps give the most paiu V X trouble, viz: V Sciatica Lumbago X Both disable and cripple, I but § | St. Jacobs Oil 5 X is their best cure. § | U Q POOOOOOOOOOCt 0-b I Indian widows in Sitka go into mourning by painting the upper part of [their faces black down to their mouths. A dyspeptic ip never cii gord term* with himself. Something ii always wrong. Get it right Ly chewing Ketrnun'a Teppin Gum. To prevent obstruction to traffic in the main streets of Boston in the day time, all the repairs arc made at night. There is no other iuk "just ns good" n* Carter's Ink. lm-re is only one ink that in host of ail ami that is Carter's luk. Use it. Including Formosa, the mikado rule - over .j0.000.0c0 subjects. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GKOVB'S TASTBi.Esa Ciin.L TONIC. It Is simply iron ami quinine In a tasieless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c. One hundred thousand tons 01' apples arc raised on British soil yearly. Fits pormniient.ly cured. No fit,* or nervous, aess after llrst day's use or Dr. Kline's Groat Norvo Restorer. $:. trial bottle ami treatise free. Dr.Ii.II.KUNE.LUi.a3I Arch bt.Phi.u.l'a. The nmnber of persons cremated in Germany from 1870 to ißoy was .Mio. Mrs Wlnslow'sßoothingPyr.i?) forrhihirm leethin;*. sol tens the gums. reduces infinnim, - tion. allays ialu. cures wind colie.lJfx, a butt le. About 7.000 of the inhabitants of Nor way die every year of consumption. The real worth of W. I L. Douglas !f>U.CO and wb flkl.ftO lioes compared ... sjl with other makes is 84.00 to I*7 V 7% Ourßl:i- iVc'.v rxirhiMvo .. 1c i>i ... ; ; & iili" sahMtliiite ~ 0.1 hnvm. 3.. I)oiicli •h.-'L-n with iiiinic n.l rr-.rc fttanqwl <•:. II yt U> 1 1 r 1 | Our abitcd will jn.i h v..n nivv. ii-ro.' Cttfult> . : W. JL* Etroel* ton, MWH,' b ROPirarssi crises- Bouk of testiuioiilsU n