* Sure for Colds -J When the children get their feet wet and take cold give them a hot foot bath, a bowl of hot drink, a dose of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and put them to bed. They will be all right in the morning. Ayer 9 s „ Cherry Pectoral * will cure old coughs also; we mean the coughs of bronchitis, weak throats, and irritable lungs. Ever, the hard coughs of consumption are always made easy and are frequently cured. Three slics: 25c., 50c., $1.90. If your druggist cannot supply you send us one dollar and \re will express n large bottle to you, all charges prepaid. Be stiro and give us your LowelV £A P SS EB> ° MC °' AAARESS ' J - & AVER CO., A King's Fear of Woman's Beauty. Charles XII. of Sweden feared only one power in the world,, the power of beauty; only a handsome woman could boast of making him quail—she put him to flight. He said: "So many heroes have succumbed to the attrac tions of a beautiful face! Did not Alexander burn a town to please a ridiculous courtesan? I want my life d to be free from such weakness; his \ tory must not find such a stain upon it." He was told one day that a young girl had come to sue for justice on be half of a blind octogenarian father maltreated by soldiers. The first in clination of the king, a strict disciplin arian, was to rush straight to the plaintiff, to hear the details of *he misdemeanor for himself, but suddenly stopping, he asked, "Is she good-look ing?" And being assured that she was both very young and unusually lovely, he sent word that she must wear a veil, otherwise he would not listen to her. WHY MRS. PiNKHAM Is Able* to llolp Sick "Women When Doctors Fail. How gladly would men fly to wo man's aid did they but understand a woman's feelings, trials, sensibilities, and peculiar organic disturbances. Those things are known only to women, and the aid a man would give is not at his command. To treat a case properly it is neces sary to know all about it, and full information, many times, cannot be given by a woman to her family phy- MAA. G. H. CHAPPELL. cician. She cannot bring herself to tell everything, and the physician is at a constant disadvantage. This is why, for the past twenty-five years, thousands of women have been con fiding their troubles to Mrs. Pinkham, and whose advice has brought happi ness and health to countless women in the United States. Mrs. Chappell, of Grant Park, 111., whose portrait we publish, advises nil suffering women to seek Mrs. Pink ham's advice and use Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, as they cured her of inflammation of the ovaries and womb ; she, therefore, speaks from Ifnowledge, and her experience ought to give others confidence. Mrs. Pink ham's address is Lynn, Mass., and her advice is absolutely free. Compressed Air tor Canai Locks. On the Erie canal at Lockport, N. Y., a pneumatic balance lock is being sub f stituted for a flight of old-fashioned ' stone locks, says the Youth's Compan ion. The new lock consists of two steel chambers, one for ascending and the other for descending boats. Each chamber is divided into two parts, an upper one containing water to receive T the boats and a lower one containing compressed air on which the upper chamber floats. When a boat has been run into the upper chamber it is cither lowered or raised, as may be desired, by filling or exhausting the air chamber beneath it. Bilious Friend," said the doctor, "it is the best laxative mineral water known to medical science." EijSlmp r a o, lamadi Jancw will do more for a disordered stomach or a torpid liver than all the pills in the world. IT CURES CONSTIPATION AND BILIOUSNESS. Average Dose: One-half glassful on getting up in morning. Your druggist or grocer will get it for you. ■ Ask for the full name, "Hunyadl Jdnos." Blue label, red centre panel. I Imported by Firm of ANDREAS SAXLEHNER, 130 Fulton St., N. Y. English Races Lead in Politics. If we except the provinces of the Netherlands, the Swiss cantons and such tiny city states as Monaco and San Marino, which retain their ancient in stitutions. there is not a nation on earth, making any pretense to freedom and civilization, which had not a con-* stitution in great measure copied, within the present century, either from Eng land or from the United States. Thus, whether willingly or not, does the civil ized world confess the primacy of the English race in matters political.—At lantic Monthly. It has been estimated that the ap proximate total production of rubber is 57.500 tons. Of this amount 2*1.000' tons are taken by the United States and Canada: 21.000 by the United Kingdom, and 15,500 by the rest of Europe. The Amazon district produces 25,000 tons and East and West Africa 24,000 tons: parts of South America oth er than the Amazon district, 3,500 tons. The natural gas wells around lola, Kas., are reported to be rapidly falling. The Rockefeller and Standard Oil peo ple, it is said, will be heavy losers. Thoro is moro Catarrh in this section of the country than all othor tliseasus put together, and until the last few yoars was supposed tube Incurable. For a threat many years doctors pronounced it a local disoase ami prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced it In curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires j constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, | manufactured by F. .1. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the ' "!'\ rkot - It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops ton teaspoonful. It acts dircctlv on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, lney offer one hundred dollars for any case j it tails to cure. Send for circulars and testi monials. Address F.J. CHENKY& Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A woman has built a house with her own hands near Fountain Ferry Park, Ind. It is a one-story wooden struc ture of four rooms with a stone founda- Best For the Bowels, No matter what alls you, lieudaehe to a •ancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce eusy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. OASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up In metul boxes, every tab let has C'.C.O. stumped on it. Beware of imitations. Russia absolutely forbids the employ ment of children under 12 years of age in industrial establishments, whether conducted by the state or private indi - viduals. Headaches nnd Nervous Depression are quickly rellovod by using Garfield Head ache Powders,which are composed entirely of herbs and are harmless. The intemperate use of tea and cof fee produces results as real as those of drunkenness. Total blindness is often the result of excesive coffee drinking. Dyeing Is as simple us washing when you use PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, Bold by all druggists. Ohio's cities and towns gained 486,- 021 in population during the last 10 years, or 792 more than the increase in the rest of the entire State. Tour Storekeeper Can Sell You Carter's Ink or he can get it for you. Ask him. Try it. Cur loads are sent annually to every statu In the Union. Do you buy Carter's? Breakage of propeller shafts at sea costs an immense sum annually in sal vage. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after llrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. £2 trial bottle nnd treatise free. Dr. It. H.KLINE,Ltd. 181 Arch Bt.Philn.Pa. Korean paner is so strong and dense that it can be used to cover umbrellas. Frejr'a Vermifuge For Worm** v,„ W-'ll 5 " ' mltn <i't the genuine, made b| h. & fa. h HEY, BALTIMOKK, MD. Electricity is coming more and more into use in the tanner's business. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take I,AXATIVK BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All Jruegl-ts refund the money If It falls to cure, a. W. GHO v it's uftfuaturo Is on each box. iOc. One hundred yards has been run in 10 seconds, but 50 yards never covered in 5 seconds. The stomach has to work hard, grinding the food wo crowd Into ft. Make its work easy by chewing Beeman's Pepsin Gum. Champagne to the value of $3,307,000 was imported into this country last year. f do not believe Plso's Cure for Consumption hns an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F. BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Siik dresses were worn in China 4.500 years ago. Mrß-Winslow'sßnotningPyrap for children teeth in;% suitons the gums, reduces inftnmni.-- tion. allays pain, cures wind colic.2sc a bottle. Canada expects a population of 6,000.- oco in its census returns next year. For fatigne of mind and body take Gar field Headache Powders; tbey bring im mediate relief and no reaction follows their use; they are made from herbs. Exports of cotton piece goods from Great Britain last month decreased 59,- 391.400 yards from September. 1899. The Beat Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GHOVK'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It Is simply iron and quinine IN a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50a One gaslight gives olit as much car bonic acid gas as two sleeping persons. THE MUSKRAT AT HOME. How 110 BuiUla IUKI Live. nni] Masquer. ados as Terrapin. The muskrats have begun to build their winter houses and put on their winter coats. Among the waving flags thousands of coneshapcd musk rat houses are in course of construc tion. The family habitation is made of dry. coarse flags and grasses, small pieces of water-soaked wood and small stones, all cemented together by a pe culiar mortar which orjy the muskrat knows how to prepare by chewing clay and mud into a fine preparation. The old negro hunter declares that the ce menting is done with evenness and precision by the industrious little worker by means of its paws. Two or three holes or "leads" allow the rats to pass out or enter below the Ice. The houses are rough on the outside and are built from three to five feet high. Old hunters and close observers of the habits of the muskrat say that the little marsh dwellers know in ad vance how high the spring tides will rise. As verification of this claim it is observed that all beds in a given marsh are of the same height. The houses below the water line are bare, mud Inside, with a floor of sticks and grasses a few feet above the water. Upon this scaffold-like floor the rats are said to lie with their heads toward the "lead," ready at a moment's notice to dash out aud appear at the surface 200 yards away in deep water. The law passed by the last Legislature gives added pro tection to these, the most popular fur producers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland aud Delaware, which are caught by the hundred thousand each winter. The little animals are in many cases caught in steel traps secured by strong chains. As soon as the rat is trapped it plunges into the water weighed down by the trap, and is drowned. A muskrat au thority gives the interesting bit of in formation that, while a muskrat is compelled to breathe under water, it can travel for miles under the ice by a scientific air-producing process which enables it to remain under the icy covering for hours. In order to do this it must stop as often as once in twenty minutes and eject its breath into the water. This air rises to the surface, forming a big pale bubble. After it has been exposed to the water for a few minutes the bubble becomes oxygenated, when the rat inhales the globule and resumes its journey. Muskrats when served by the East ern Shore cook as "mock terrapin" will challenge the epicure to distinguish it from the real Chesapeake diamoud baclc. When properly skinned the musky taste and odor entirely disap pear and when properly cooked the almost black flesh is juicy, tender and sweet. The food of the rat is the roots of marsh grasses and shrubs which grow on the shores and no morsel of food is touched until it has been thor oughly washed.—Chestertown (Md.) Correspondence in the Baltimore Sun. CURIOUS FACTS. The report comes from Damascus that the remains of a valuable library that escaped destruction when Tamer lane sacked the city in 1401 have been discovered by one of the city officials. The Journal L'Apiculteur records a curious observation of a specialist, namely, that nightingales devour the drones of a hive and leave workers unmolested. As an experiment, twelve of the former and six of the latter were killed and placed by the hive; the twelve were eaten, the six not touched. The remains of an ancient gallery were recently found six feet below the surface at Tottenham marshes during the excavations for the new reservoirs of the East London Water Company. It is supposed to have belonged to the Danes, who were defeated in Leu Val ley by King Alfred in SU4 A. D. One of the skyscrapers in New York City has a daily population of 3100, and the mail sent out from it averages IS,OOO pieces a day. Every forty-five minutes a mail wagon from the Post office carries away from this building about seventy-flvo pounds of outgoing mail. Another New York office build ing sends out 35,000 pieces of mail every week day. A remarkable case of the death of a little girl from the bite of a fly comes from St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Lon don. The child complained that a fly had bitten iter on the nose. Her face soon began to swell, it was not long before she was delirious, and in spite of every effort she died. The hospital autopsy developed the fact that blood poisoning had resulted probably from poisonous microbes introduced into the system by the fly. Such cases are i not without precedent, but are rare. The village of Neodesba, Kan., was recently visited by a tornado, and at the end of the excitement a farmer living in the vicinity stuck his head i out of his cyclone cellar aud found ; that his choicest field was occupied by : a strange house of small dimensions, j lie could not identify the building as j belonging to any of his acquaintances, j nnd up to date all his efforts to do so have been unavailing. School Tencliers Hiivo Tlielr Worries. j The Pamunky Indian school is again without a teacher because the braves ! of the village insist on proposing mar riage to the school inarms. The last j teacher left after enduring the atten- ! tions as long as she could. The State j board of education is in a quandry over the matter.—rittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. A Desirable Shade For the Hall Door. A silk shade is a desirable finish to the hall door, as it permits the regula tion of the light in the hall. It is mounted on the usual shade roller, and should be finished at bottom and sides with a wide hem. Olive green, a deep yellow, or a rich, dark red is a good choice. The light of the hall, whether north or south, together with the col oring of wall and woodwork needs to be considered in choosing the color. Of course the shade is in addition tc the lace sash-curtain next the pane. Fashions in Gian. For those whose houses are fur nished in a heavy and substantial way nothing can be finer than the ruby red ' and white glass which is just being 1 brought out after the lapse of a gen -1 eration or so. It is solid to a degree, and looks as if it might have descended ; to the present day owner through a long line of ancestors. And the price? 1 One hundred and twenty dollars a ! dozen for finger-bowls. All of the gold -1 decorated glass is imported. But in cut glass, whether It be called that or ' called engraved or rock crystal, no ' finer is made than is manufactured in ' our own country. It is always well to avoid fantastic ' shapes in glassware. In the goblets • and various wineglasses there is very ' little danger of going far astray, as I the shapes of the different patterns are i all made to conform more or less to a I conventional plan. But in punch-cups • and liqueur-glasses,where there ismore I scope for individual taste, it is well to ! remember that first of all they are for ■ use and then for ornament. Indeed, the ■ liqueur-glasses may be as odd and fan i I tastic as the hostess desires, but care t must be taken not to provide the tiny ' ones from which It is so inconvenient i to drink. —Harper's Bazar. Tlio Care of DraHR Iledsteails. Old fashioned people who see the brilliant brass bedsteads and other brass furniture of the day, which re • quire no polish of rottenstone and chamois skin to keep them polished, are astonished until they learn that this is due to the surface of the metal being covered with lacquer, which . keeps it from tarnishing. The secret I of this lacquer we learned from the , Orientals, and the English seem to . have learned it better than we did. At ; all events, the lacquer on English . brass bedsteads lasts much longer 5 than that on American bedsteads. I This lacquered surface requires , some care. It should not be , scratched, and in damp weather it should be wiped off with a chamois or . dry flannel duster, as dampness is al- I ways injurious to lacquer. It is need less to say it should never be touched with a damp cloth. When brass fur niture is moved it should be very care fully covered with cheesecloth or some 1 soft cloths, as a lacquered surface of metal is as delicate as one of polished wood, and as easily injured by being i scratched. Lamps when lacquered soon become defaced and must be re lacqtiered. This is because of the heat , of the light. The re-lacquering of such small pieces does not cost much. Fine sets of brass which are continually i subject to heat must be scoured with rottenstone and chamois skin in the painstaking old fashioned way. as I these pieces will not bear lacauering any length of time. RECIPES: Twin-Mountain Muffins —Cream one third of a cupful of butter; add grad ually one-fourth of a cupful of sugar and one-fourth of a teaspoouful of salt; add one egg beaten light, three-fourths of a cupful of milk, two cupfuls of sift -1 ed flour and four level teaspoonfuls of ! baking powder. Bake in hot buttered ; gem pans about 25 minutes, j Cocoa Omelet (new) —Separate five i eggs. To the well-beaten yolks add four tablespoonfuls of cream, pinch I of salt, three teaspoonfuls of cocoa and one tablespoonful of sugar. Fold | in the beaten whites. Cook in spider | two minutes (or omelet pan), then | brown in the oven and serve imme diately. You will find this delicious, j Cucumber Fritters —Make a batter of 1 one-half coffecupfulof cold water, two beaten eggs, one coffeecupful of flour, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-half teaapoonful of yeast powder, one-half i coiTeecupful of grated cucumber, and lastly add the white, beaten stiff; drop the batter by the spoonful in hot fat and serve on cress leaves. Soft Gingerbread (new and excel ; lent) —Four tablespoonfuls of brown ! sugar, nine tablespoonfuls melted lard, one tablespoonful of ginger, one tea ; spoonful of salt, one cup common mo- ! ] lasses, one cup boiling water in which i is dissolved one teaspoonful of soda. I Add flour enough to make a thin bat- J | ter. Always Etop adding flour when ! : the batter seems a little too thin. Bake j in slow oven. I Rice, Milannise Fashion—Heat two ! | tablespoons of butter nnd cook in it i j without browning one-half a medium-, sized onion, chopped, add one-half cup j of rice, thoroughly washed, and one | quart of white stock or water. Cook | ! until the rice is tender and the liquid j ; absorbed; add two tablespoons of | I grated cheese, one teaspoon of salt [ | and stir gently with a fork. Turn into 1 a serving dish, sprinkle the top with ' one tablespoon more of the cheese and I serve either with or without a brown I sauce. Rev. Henry Langford entirely cured of Harvous Pros* traiion by Dr. Greene's Kervura Riood RKV. HENRY LANGFORD. Rev. Ilenry Langford, the eminent Baptist divine, of "Weston, W. Va., has just es caped utter nervous and physical prostration. He is pastor of four churches. ' 4 For ten years," he said, "I have been nervous and growing worse all these years. During the last four or five yours I became so nervous I could scarcely sign my name so it could bo read. I was so nervous that I could not read my own sermon notes after they had beeu laid aside awhile. "I was unable to hold my head steady in the pulpit, nor could I hold or handle my books and papers without embarrassment, owing to the trembling ami weakness of my hands and arms. I was so nervous that I could scarcely feed myself. In fact, my nervous system was wrecked. 44 1 tried many remedies recommended by physicians, but found no permanent relief. 44 One day I was in the store of R. S. Ogclen, at Sardis, W. Va., and he said to me: 4 You take two bottles of Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and if you say it don't help you, you need not pay for it.' 44 1 took two bottles of this medicine and found so much relief that I bought two mor# bottles, and now lam wonderfullv improved in health and in strength. Dr. Greene's Ner vura blood and nerve remedy did it. I can heartily and truthfully recommend it to the •ick. Too much cannot be said in praise of this splendid medicine. I say this for the good of other sufferers from nervous and prostrating diseases who can be cured by this remedy. For myself, I am thankful to God that I found Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerva remedy, and for what it lias done for me." DR. GREENE'S OFFER OF FREE ADVICE. Dr. Greene, Nervura's discoverer, will give his counsel free to all who write or call upon him at his office. 35 West 14th Street, New York City. His advice la from his great skill and experience and will shorten the road to health. Thousands come to him and write to him constantly. Do not put oft getting the right advice, if you are 11L , ™ —^ Edited by Joe Mitchell Chappie, /}]As*aJUA<JL v °ur r,oc ' teaches us on or before January 1, 1001. Think what this means I It places the cleverest, bright /u "*■ est and most up-to-date magazine in your hands every month for a year for 17Z ——— half the regular price! fit/ ' * —much less than it costs to publish it. The "NATIONAL" is thoroughly American, now in its 13th volume, full of j ust (| ie reac jing you want from cover to cover. . Timely Topics. Washington Affairs, Bright Stories, Clever Illustrations. ™" Over 100 paces each month. President MoKinlev has subscribed for Tbla Isaspeclal ■ and read the "NATIONAL" for years. Send your 60 c. to-dnv—while limited oner to the you think of It. Subscription price SI.OO a year after Jan. 1. Address readers of tlii* paper The National Magazine, ill Bedford St., Boston. u A large Dublin manufacturer has a room entirely furnished with Irish peat. The carpets on the floor, the curtains at the windows and paper on the wall are made from this substance. For years he has experimented with the ma terial. which is now very largely ex ported as fuel, and he has discovered that from it it is possible to procure al most any kind of fabric. There are 1,100 Chinese pupils in Queens College, Hongkong, varying in age from 9 up to 23, and many of them have family cares in the shape of a wife and children at home. Each year sees a decrease in the proportion of married schoolboys, and the average age becomes less every year. •0000*0#0*000e000e0 0 • • 0 ] Tied Up | ? When the muscles feel drawn and 0 j tied up and the flesh tender, that • • tension is 0 0 • 0 O 5 Soreness I 0 aud • • Stiffoess • 0 0 from cold or over exercise. It • lasts but a short time after 0 1 St. Jacobs Oil I • 0 0 is applied. The cure # • is prompt and sure. n 2 • 0 Dr. Bull's Cough Cures a cough or cold at once. g% Conquers croup, bronchitis. grippe and consumption. 25c. J ■ New Zealand shares with Iceland the distinction over other parts of the earth in freedom from all forms of cattle dis ease. IW M UNION MjAD£_2_ The real worth of W. X" 'V 1.. Douglas 83.00 niul J&. 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