The great trouble in trying to sell what are called patent medicines is that so many claims have been made for them that people don't or won't believe what honest makers say. We have been telling our story sixty years. Did we ever deceive you once? If we make any statement that isn't so, we will stand the loss. Go to the druggist and get your money back. Here's an example. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is a good cure for a cough that comes from a cold. Your cough, if you have one, may not come from a cold; your doctor will tell you about that. It is a straight medicine with sixty years of cures back of it. There isn't a ghost of the ordi nary patent thing about it. J. C. AYER COMPANY, Practical Chemists, Lowell, Mat*. Ayer's Sarsaparilla Ayer's Hair Vigor Ayer's Pills Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Ayer's Ague Cure Ayer's Comatone The Brevity of Ballarat. It was in Ballarat that Mark Twain found the local language so puzzling at first, the good people of the place deeming life too short to dawdle in their talk. The mayor called on the American humorist and laconically said, "K'm." Then when Mark Twain gave him a cigar he simply said, "Q." Subsequent inquiry revealed that these terms were Ballaratese for "welcome" and "thank you."—London Chronicle. A Scottish congregation presented their minister with a sum of money, and sent him ofT to the continent for a holi day. A gentleman just back from the continent met a prominent member of the church, and said to him: "Oh, by the-bye, I met your minister in Germany. He is looking very well. He didn't look as if lie needed a rest." "No," said the church member, "it wasna him; it was the congregation that was ncedin' a rest." PURE BLOOD With glowing health all things are possible, small annoyances fado into nothingness and real troubles are battled with successfully. Women who are blessed with perfect health are a constant joy to themselves and all around them. The beauty which health alone can make permanent is a crown which raises a woman above other ffivr jjafofel; r> women. Such beauty is always accompanied kSf by a sweet disposition, for snappishness is a pi Ao'Ys.* '< sure sign of ill-health and leaves its mark quickly on the features. t tfirJ It seems to be the fashion for women to ignore health and sacrifice it to the little cvery-day trials, or offer it up on the altar of devotion to daily tasks. Then again - I'''V the nervous organization of women is con- / stantly attacked by woman's natural ex- \/EfilY periences, so that it is practically impoasi- #4f\ ]( ' ble for her to retain tho beauty which nature gave her, unless she has discrimi nating advice and right support. Dr. Greene's foi' the Blood and Nervosa Trials and troubles are easily overcome by o '' tho women whoso strength is tho genuine jsTRE&SOO/ °tS strength of perfect health. Dr. Grcene'3 Ner- 0 / Mi vura blood and nerve remedy, bridges the (^fe3LC]/ °/<(To jfe chasm that separates the sickly woman from o ° r happiness. It fills her veins with blood that is /KAI o ° pure and clean. % I MRS. WM. E. BOSSE, of 85 Farrington St., 0 °|| Flushing, L. 1., says: "In regard to myself, I havo suffered for years ,"r-\> 0 0 /"rfyJ $ with disease, having been troubled with great ner- vousness, female complaints, indigestion, and n \ & 0 • C/CT Ereat weakness and prostration. I did not rKrl YV> avo strength to do much of anything. Know- o 0 ing tho great value of health and strength &JT vfyi rjfV 7 oVyw I consulted doctors and took many modi- /£<*JTy clnes, but they all failed to cure me, ° Vfe'A P 9>SS^^ and I grew worse rather than better. I happened to soe in the papers how much good Dr. Greene's Nervura, LJX_' ( \ HI blood and nervo remedy, was doing in restoring to health everybody who took It, and I thought I would try a bottle. I used it and to my surprise I began to gain strength every day. lam so thankfnl that I tried it! It is certainly the mctft excellent tonic and strength giver. I recommend it very highly and wish that other people who ore troubled iu any way would.take warning and use it." TO PRESERVE WOMANLY BEAUTY At all the stages of a woman's life Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, is shown to be efficient to ward off the results of nervousness, or over work, or impure blood. From early girlhood to advanced years, this world renowned medicine builds up the forces destroyed by disease, grief, or over exertion, and the effects of this great medicine are quickly felt and permanently retained. Let women guard well their health, and consult Dr. Greene freely. Nothing they can possibly do will so surely keep them strong and well, or re pair the exhaustion from acute illness, nothing will work so continually to the preservation of beauty as the great health giving Nervura. Dr. Greene's office is at 35 West 14th Street, New York City, where he may bo consulted either by personal call or by letter Women may write in perfect confidence, and get Dr. Greene's advice free. Farmers of Dubuque county. la., are banding together to protect what little game is left in that section. Owners of 7.000 acres have formed a compact with this end in view, and others are joining daily, all determined not to permit further violation of the game laws. Eaco package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYR colors more goods than any other dye uad colors them better too. Sold Ly all druggists The revenues of the street car com panies of Buenos Ayrcs in the month of April in this year amounted to $1,111,- 681.63. 1100 Reward. *IOO. The readers of this paper will he pleased to learn that there is at feast one dreaded disease thut science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu tional disease, requires a constitutional -refit ment. Hall's Catarrh < ure is taken i nternully, acting directly 011 the blood and mucous sur faces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the pa tient strength by building up the constitution and assisting naturo in doing its work. The proprietors have so much lalth in its curative powers that they otfer One Hundred Dollars for any case thai It falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHBNBT A Co., Toledo, 0. Fold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Snails, by means of an acid which they exude, contrive to bore holes in solid limestone. Best For the Bowels. No matter what alls you, headache to a •aucer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASOABKTB help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASGARBTS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tab lot has C.G.O, stamped on it. Beware of Imitations. The abandoned farms in Rhode Isl and number 349, according to the State's official catalogue. To Cnrei n Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABI.RTS. All druggists refund tho money If it fulls to euro. E. W. GROVE'S signature Is on each box. 25c. The report of the Registrar General shows crime in Ireland steadily on the decline. r do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for cough 9 and colds.— JOHN F. BOVKR, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 11)00. owner, who has been running it 33 years. A bachelor boarder remained at the hotel 25 years. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Croat Norve Restorer. $3 trial bottle and troatise tree. Dr.R.H.KhIXK.Lt<LU3I Arch bLPliiia.ru. The British succession duties brought a revenue of nearly £70,000,000 in the last fiscal year. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever la a bottle of CHOVK'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It Is Simply iron and quinine la a tameless form. No euro—llo pay. Price 800. Last year Germany imported 214,139 metric ton of potatoes and 1,370,850 of wheat The Btomnch lias to work hard, grinding tho food wo crowd into it. Make its work easy by chewing Beeinnn'u Fepsin Gum. Great Britain imported £317,190 worth of natural ice last year. A LIGHTHOUSE DOG. "•Sailor" Takes a Groat Interest in Nanll- • cal Matters. Sailor is tlie name of a wise dog that is assistant lighthouse keeper on Wood Island, off Biddleford Pool. Me. His master is Thomas 11. Orcutt, keep er of the Wood Island lighthouse, says the New York Journal. Having passed most of his nine years of life on rocky Wood Island, where the waves beat ceaselessly on the granite shore, and the passing ves sels up and down tlie coast is the chief thlgg to break the monotony of life. Sailor naturally takes a great in terest in nautical matters. Early in life, when but a two-months old puppy, he was brought to the is land from a farm in Westbrook, Me. He was not a sailor then, for his family were farmers, being Scotch collies and slieep dogs. But Sailoi was not long In learning tlie ways of the sea. He took a' deep interest in whatever his master did and followed liim around the light station where ever he went. He noticed among other things that his master often pulled a rope that made a bell ring. The bell was a great heavy one, used j to warn vessels In a fog and to salute them in fair weather. It stood out side the lighthouse, a few feet above a wooden platform, and the rope at tached to Its tongue came down so near the platform that Sailor could easily reach It One day sailor thought he would have a try at ringing tlie bell. He j seized the rope in his mouth and j pulled. The bell rang clear and loud, j Sailor was delighted. He wagged his j bushy tail vigorously and pulled again, j Sailor after a time noticed that the ringing of tlie bell marked the pass ing of a vessel or steamer. His note of this fact resulted in his trying his ex periment. When he saw the next ves sel coining he anticipated Ills master j In ringing the bell. His master then ! dubbed Sailor "assistant light keener," 1 a title he has borne ever since. As the years have passed Sailor has kept J on ringing salutes to passing vessels j and steamers. Indeed, he feels hurt If j not permitted to give the customary ! salute to passing craft, while skippers whose course takes them often past Wood Island are accustomed to see j Sailor tugging vigorously at the great bell tongue. They reply with a will on tlieir ship's bell or horn and in ease of steamers i a hearty triple blast is sent back to | tlie canine watcher of Wood Island. { who gives a new meaning to the good j old sea term of "dog watch." Sailor is his master's constant companion I and delights In being made his mes senger. especially at dinner time, when he will come bounding from the | kitchen to announce that tlie meal is i ready. He will also carry letters, pa pers or small articles in his mouth. 1 He understands all that is said to hiin, and, although a sailor dog by adop- j tion, his breeding comes to the fore i when some one says "the sheep are in the field." An Agreeable Fortn of Death. Frofessor Helm, who is nil Austrian mountain cllmner, has been collecting j some statistics of a rather morbid yet j keenly Interesting kind. He now gives | tlieni to the world In a foreign review, j and those who "gather samphire dead- j iy trade" (to quote Shakespeare's pun gent reference) may feel assured that a chance misstep will land them In eternity with no pang of pain. He | who fnlls'from any great height, we can learn, has no suffering, no terror, | no thrills of despair. On the con- [ trary, he hears wonderful melodies, j and feels himself borne toward some ! heavenly bourne. A well-known Al pine climber, named Sigrist, who sur vived a dreadful fall, wrote thus to Professor Ileim: "When I fell from j a great height on the Karpfstoek, Can ton Glarus, 1 retained full conscious ness. I felt no fear, but had the sen-1 sation of floating downward, agree. I ably and safely. I was able to think ! calmly about my own position, and j hastily reckoned lip tlie means left i for my family to live on after my \ death. I did not loose my breath, as j ts commonly supposed to be the case \ 111 nil falls of this kind. When 1 j struck ground I became unconscious without tlie least sensation of pain. I cannot imagine a more agreeable form of death." Professor Ileim him self once fell 800 feet, and underwent! similar psychic results. It was lie, I however, who heard the wonderful music. In the brief time of Ills descent he found himself filled with a realization of ex quisite peace and rest. On re gaining consciousness, two hours later, lie recollected nothing of any caucus sive shock. All physical distress was . reserved for the dawdling and he crippled hours of his recovery.—Col lier's Weekly. Parrots as Sentinels, A certain distinguished officer on the Northwest frontier, having ap parently rend of the employment of dogs In the German army, collected a bobbery pnok which made nlglit hide ous with their barking. To him en ters one morning the brigadier gen eral, who Inquires as to the meaning of tills new departure. "There have been thieves nbout, of late," was the reply, "and these dogs are very use ful. No one can come near by my i tent at night without their giving an ; alarm." The general was equal to , tlie occasion: "Alii well, mon. If you just get half a dozen parrots and teach j them to cry out 'Halt! Who goes i there?' you will lie completely equlppit."—Allahabad Pioneer. i BATTLES IN PLANT LIFE. Some Curious Trails Whicli Follow Close ly Human instincts. A struggle for existence, and conse quent survival of the fittest, has been going on through countless ages of seriution among the plants just as among the animals and men; and in this struggle a keen war has been pro ceeding among the different sections of them—a real war, in which the ob ject of one side has been to damage the other, either by elbowing it out of its territory, shelling it as in the case of the thistle when tlie wind blows its down into a field of meadow grass, or by engaging with it in gladiatorial combat. Tlie first instinct of plants is clean-jumping and land-grabbing, and neither Uussia, Great Britain nor any other nation is keener on annex ing land which offers opportunities than these plants. Now, It Is an extraordinary tiling that leaves and weapons should be so strikingly suggestive of each other; but note the names which botanists give to the former, and the meaning of these names. For instance, there is "clarate," signifying club-shaped; I "gladiate," sword-shaped; "dolabri fot'in," axe-shaped; "lanceolate," lance sliaped; "sagrittatte," arrow-shaped, and "clyplate," buckler-shaped. Professor Max Muller once referred to the Australian boomerang, the in vention of the natives, as tlie most re markable weapon in history; yet the plant warriors have had their boom erangs for ages, for the leaves from the eucalyptus, or Australian gum tree, which are sickle-like, with sharp edges behave, when projected for ward liy the hand or by a gust of wind, in precisely the same way, de scribing an arc of a large circle, and then falling to wltliln two feet of the point of projection. Moreover, other varieties of a do mestic and peace loving nation are favored with means of defence to such onslaughts as these. There is the case of grass, as an example, agas of experiences of the little ways of the enemy having taught the leaves to assume a flat, bhule-like form, which Is well adopted for compact growth and for presenting a united resistance to the foe. Moreover, the botanical world has Its navy. The seeds of the double cocoaiiut of the Seychelles go abroad in boat-shaped capsules, and go on maritime expeditions in search of now Islands which tliey may war with— herbally—and capture. It is declared even that the war vessels of the world, from the savages' canoes to the iron cladS of the Powers, have been modelled originally on certain leaf structures. Mankind has not got a monopoly of torpedo boats. The vegetable war riors had such things, or something remarkably like them, long before us. These are tlie leaves of what is known as the "pepper-tree," which is very plentiful in California. If you pluck one of these leaves fresh from the tree and place it quickly in a basin of water with a perfectly still sur face, you will find the leaf propelled forward in quick, spasmodic jerks by the sap. How the vegetable world Is In some (Places fortified to resist the incur sions of animals and men we all know, and there is at least one case where some of their most formidable war riors have been drifted into our own military service and used as barriers for tlie production of forts. This is one of the islands at tlie west en trance to Hong Kong harbor, where there are two large forts surrounded i with a thickly-planted mass of yuc cas and Spanish bayonets, the latter being a very spiny species of prickly pear. These form a perfect protec tion. Owing to their very succulent nature, these plants are impervious to fire, anil in ease nn attacking enemy should go for them with such weapons as scythe and cutlass, the riflemen on tlie ramparts would have plenty of time to stop the little game. What with one thing and another, tlie armies of botany are in a great ' state of efficiency, and campaigns as important to them as this ill tlie Transvaal Is to us nre matters of the commonest occurrence.—Answers. Origin of Ghetto. Ghetto, the name of the Jewish quarters In oriental and European cities, according to Theodore ICllze, the German Shakespeare scholar, is de rived from tlie historical fact that the Jewish traders In tlie republic of Ven ice, who, by a law enacted in the j fourteenth century, were only allowed J to reside in the little town of Mestre, I received in 1510 permission again to | settle in Venice upon two isles where the government's foundries (ghettos) were situated. The "ghetto" of Rome was probably not known by that name before 1550, when it was established by Pope Paul IV. Similar separate Jewish quarters later on existed in Prague, Frankfort-on-the-Main, May enee and other cities under the same designation. Still In Inf.n—. In Germany, the question of gentle women earning their own living is still in Its Infancy. A girl of the up per classes rarely leaves lier home for that purpose, unless forced tostringent j measures by absolute poverty; where as in England girls strike out hide- | pendently, sometimes merely on ac count of sinypathetie surroundings. However, the great question has be gun to seethe in Germany, and the signs of approaching changes In tin world of women are to be found in German contemporary lit rature. j R; How shall a mother who is weak and sick with some ' female trouble bear healthy children ? How anxious women ought to be to give their children the blessing of a good constitution 1 Many women long for a child to bless their home, but be cause of some debility or displacement of the female organs, they are barren. Preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by Eydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound more suc cessfully than by any other medicine, because it gives tone and strength to the parts, curing all displacements and in flammation. t ' . Actual sterility in women is very rare. If any woman thinks she is sterile, let her write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., whose advice is given free to all expectant r would be mothers. Mrs. A. D. Jar ret, Belmont, Ohio, writes: "DEAR Mns. PINKHAM : —I must write and toll you what your Vege table Compound baa done for me. Before taking your medicine I was unaoia to carry babe to maturity, baring lost two—one at six months and one at seven. The doctor said next time I would die. but thanks to Lvdia E. 1 inkham's Vegetable Compound, I did not die. but am the proud I mother of a six months old girl oaby. She weighs nineteen pounds an has never seen a sick day In her life. She is the delight of our homo." Mrs. Whitney's Gratitude. "DEAR MR. PINKHAM : —From the time I was sixteen years old till I was twenty-three I was troubled with weakness of the kidneys end terrible pains when my monthly periods came on. 1 made up my mind to try your 1 KSS^v<2!!itW'i4!i.'' "*1 Ve ß et able Compound, and was soon relieved. Tl,e d . octor said ' "ever would be able to go my "fTln -' ? iH hmo and hare a living child, as I was con etitutionolly weak. I hud lost a baby at set en fjglßr months and half. The next time 1 continued EZpW to te ke your Compound : and I said then, if I BPrSd r* V M /czz in went my full time and my baby lived to be jyk'-et i 0 throe months old, X should Bond a letter to you. ET'A it b& by i now seven montlis old. and is as Ji .rf nSw. healtl, y and hearty as any one could wish. I • ■i3k {-annot express my gratitute to you. I was so J/Jrt? (if haa that I did not dare to go away from home /7//iifu V' s .*®y any length of time. Praise God for B i v>\jr —r L_k_jE Lydiit E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- MiiS.L.Z.WHIi N£Vc^~BABY pound; and may others who are suffering mfneTiM hof 1 ? re iu aß 't and ma y ma "y homes be brightened as mine has been."-MRS. L. Z. WHITNEY, 4 Flint St., Somerville, Mass." The medicine that cures the ills of women ia lysSSa Em Pinkham's W&gotable Gom§iss33tetm Young wife—"l knew you would like the slippers. Harry, if for no oilier rea son, because I made them." Husband — "You don't mean this is all your work? Why, what a talented little wife I have, to be sure." Young wife—"Yes, all my work. Of course, I bought the up pers, and Mary sewed them together, and I got a man to sole them; but I put the bows on and did them up in the box. And do you know, Harry, I'm proud of myself. I didn't think I'could ever do such things." Vegetables are usually sold in piles in Buenos Avres, so that you have to measure quantity as well as quality by the eye; and butchers sell their meat by the chunk rather than by weight. Mrs.Winsloiv'sSoottilnKflytnp for children tectum?, softens the gums, reducesinflanmuv tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a buttle. Until the middle of the last century Great Britain imported two-thirds of the iron she used. The use of coal for smelting was then only beginning. ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ iANO S BIEAWS ! o There is one flavor in pork and J ♦ beans that all people like. It was % ♦ devised in the rural homes of New ♦ J England. It has made Boston the x synonym of beans. J J In our kitchen we get exactly J i that flavor. Our beans are cooked * ♦ by an expert. We put them up in ♦ J key-opening cans. Your grocer { ♦ will supply you. % X Plenty of other canned beans, but J ♦ 'hat flavor comes only in Libby's. % X LICBT, McNHLL . LIBBT 2 ♦ Chicago , ♦ Send a postal lor our booklet, "How to £ ♦ Make Good Things to Eat." | I *♦♦♦♦< OAOOOOC <>♦♦* Dr. Bull's -M&ssns ' sv 1 r* tronhlrs.Peopleprai.se Cough Syrup Refuse substitutes. Get Dr. Bull's Coujth byi up! T X. TT A- 'OA DROPSY XL7 £X, C .°J BooS of t<■timonislb and 1 () tin ▼*' trastms..* lTrHfr* lit. m. a. CKEBtTB IOMI, Box B. Atlanta, BS. , S My neighbor's child was given S . np, the family concluded it / \ would beiiHilese to lnukc fur? hei ; I A efforts to save It, but on being [i -v I persuaded, they administered ■IF PREY'S VERMIFUGE, 1 ~ \ and over lint worms were ex sXQ <* \ J pel led. The child recovered.—• ' / U / l!.u,Kii HITCHCOCK,NenrZnnos j\ *■ / ville, Ohio. 80 cools at Drug [ I X , ■/"* gi-ts, country storesor by mail. * A perfect tonic for children. 1 i:. A- S. i uKV, Haliimorc, did. ij lOaxx'-fc Stop 1 Tobacco Suddenly! . It injures nervous system to do so. Dipf) PUD ft ; is the only cure that If rail v Cures OfluU'uUnU > ami notifies you when to stop. Swld with n guar* nulce Ihnl llirce boxes will cure iiuy oop. DApn Plinn '•* vegetable nnd harmless. It liaa t DfIUU-UUnu cured thousands, it will cure you. At nil drujrifists or by mail j.repaid, * I .<M> a box* i B boxes, !s2.ro. booklet free. Writ* MI KI KA Cliii.UlCAL. CO., i.a tro.ee, W is. r W i* -V UNION MADE TIo real worth of W. /f" N. ? I L. Douglas 83.00 and wk 83.10 shoes compared ! with other makes l.s RUfISESv 81.00 to 8.1.00. VM Ourf>4(.ill Edge I.ine r. &fX fill j cannot be <>|iulled at Is Rtty price. Over 1,000,- f 000 tnitisfleil wearers. 2 MX EYELETc \V%X. will positively outwear u \V\f \ two pairs of ordinary a ™ the hrmat mukers of men's 83 nnd 83.50 Khow in tlio world. We make and sell more 83 and 83.80 shoes t ban any other two manufacturers in tlio U. a. RCQT D° 1 u K ,,i s"d IB n so°.h(^.'for' nrcT LLOB style, comfort, and wenris known BEul I . _ ""vwhere throughout the world. OJQ nil A"®7 have to give better aatiifo- epn nn 4>0.0U tion oth r makes becuuue v^u.ulJ SHOE. aKKKHrE 1 ? SHOE. than they can pet <!,ewhero. *■ than any other make in because 'l'll |* V" i there fwei' 1 ' >""■ 'lMlrr should keep I ', We R |Vu °"° - ,, oier exclusive sale in each town, i nn^h^K MO •" ••♦t'tutet Insist on having W. L. Doughs1 ihoee wit.i name ur.d price stamped on bottom If your dealer will net yet thorn f r vou. s. n l direct hi | fnctorr. encloth* ,mce end ;, r a for carrian I f)u U .ho..°i.n? ti ' , ' r, 4lze ' 0,, • | wu,lh - M"ln or cr.p t£ imr shoes will rsuci you anytvli re. Ctitaln-iv* r IV. Uouulw £ho<* Co. liisicktou,' Alliu,' p ".'t i'ouh Syrup* 1 \ Thompson's Ey^Watei
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