* 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
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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.
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New Zealand shares with Iceland the
distinction over other parts of the earth
in freedom from all forms of cattle dis
ease.
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We are the largest makers of men's 83
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; and sell more 83 mul 83.50 shoes than any
other two manufacturers in the U. S.
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