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, Maia. Ayer'B 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 Ballaratcse for "welcome" and "thank you."—London Chronicle. A Scottish congregation presented their minister with a sum of money, and sent him off to the continent for a holi day. A gentleman just hack 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. lie didn't look as if he needed a rest." "No," said the church member, "it wasna him; it was the congregation that was necdin' a rest." ASSO STRONGNB With glowing health all things are possible, small annoyances fade 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 alono can make permanent is a > " ' . "• " ' crown which raises a woman above other raffiy women. Such beauty is always accompanied by a sweet disposition, for snappishncss is a suro sign of ill-health and leaves its mark ' quickly on tho features. j It seems to be the fashion for women to jffakf/ ignore health and sacrifice it to the little every-day trials, or offer it up ou the altar of devotion to daily tasks. Then again -.,1*^* w'' i the nervous organization of women is con stantly attacked by woman's natural cx perienccs, so that it is practically impossi- Mu Klv/'* ble for her to retain tho beauty which \/({ (\j nature gavo her, unless she has discrhni- T nation advice and right support. lEH°'> J9%7 DPm Gr®on& 9 ® for tho Btocrf and Norvesm Trials and troubles are easily overcome by 0 * : : tho women whose strength is the genuine ° ' ! strength of perfect health. Dr. Greene's Ner- i y\jff vura blood and nerve remedy, bridges the ° 0 jfc* chasm that separates the sickly woman from O VCv|j| happiness. It fills her veins with blood that is to?;'- -M . y ft'vl o ° pure and clean. P wlOyo ° \ £ MRS. WM. E. BOSSE, of 85 Farrington St., Q & Flushing, L. 1., says: ° TKt"3B 41 In regard to myself, I have suffered for years X>>o > ° 0 AiJj R with disease, having been troubled with great ner- CJ a * ▼ousnoss, female complaints, indigestion, and Q 1 o 0 0 \ c£s great weakness and prostration. I did not tKd rV> nave strength to do much of any thing. Know ing tho great value of health and strength &Jr J^K I consulted doctors and took many modi- yjT r^\ Clnes, but they all failed to euro me, ° b So^V^ and I grew worse rather than better. O'• -*'' J jf-'-R/ xywKll I happened to seo in the papers how < ele^7 much good Dr. Greene's Ner vura, Px l\l / /\ and I thought I would try a bottle. I used it and to ray surprise I began to gain strength every day. lam so thankfnl that I tried it I It i 9 certainly tne moit excellent tonic and strength giver. I recommend it very highly and wish that other people who aro troubled in any way would take warning and use it." TO PRESERVE WOMANLY BEAUTY At all the stages of a woman's life Dr. Greene's Ncrvura blood and nerve remed}', is shown to be efficient to ward oil tho 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 tho 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 be 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., arc banding together to protect what little game is left in that section. Owners of 7.0u0 acres have formed a compact with this end in view, and others are joining daily, all determined not to permit further violation cf the game laws. Bnco package of Tdtnatj Fadeless Dyr colors indro goods than any other dye and colors them better too. Sold Ly all druggists The revenues of the street car com panies of Buenos Ayres in the month of April in this year amounted to $1,111,• 681.63. *IOO Reward. *IOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that 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 tho iutilcnl fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu tional disease, requires a constitutional -reat ment. Hall's Catarrh 1 ure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and raucous sur faces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the discaso, and giving the pa tient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors have so much laith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Chbnht A Co., Toledo, a Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are tho best. Snails, by means of an acid which they exude, contrive to bore holes in solid limestone. Best For tho Bowels, No matter what Alls you, headache to • tancer, you wilt never get well until your bowels are put right. CAUL-ABETS help nature, euro you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health baok. Oascarbts Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up In raetul boxes, every tab let bus C.C.O. stumped on it. Beware of Imitations. The abandoned farms in Rhode Isl and number 349, according to the State's official catalogue. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take Laxative llrouo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund tho money if it fnlls in euro. E. W. Ukovm's signature Is on each box. 125 c. The report of the Registrar General shows crime in Ireland steadily on the decline. I do not bellove Plso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.— .John F. Boyek, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. owner, who has been running it 33 years. A bachelor boarder remained at the hotel 25 years. Fits permanently enred. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat Nerve Restorer. S3 trial bottle and treatise lico. Dr.ii.li.KLi2tg.Ltd.U3l Arch tti.Philo.Po. The British succession duties brought a revenue of nearly £70,000,000 in the last fiscal year. Tho Rest Prescription for Chills and Fever Is a bottle of GKOVR'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIO. It Is Simply iron and quiulue in a tacit)less form. No cure—no pay. Pilce fiOo. Last year Germany imported 214,139 metric ton of potatoes and 1,370,850 of wheat. The stomach baa to work hard, grinding the food wo crowd Into it. Make Its work easy by chewing Booinun's Pepsin Gum. Great Britain imported £317,190 worth of natural ice last year. A LIOHTHOUSE DOC. •Bailor** Takes a (irel. Interest In Nantl enl Matters. Sailor is tlie name of a wise dog that is assistant lighthouse keeper on Wood Island, oft" Biddleford Pool. Me. j 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 wares beat ceaselessly on the granite shore, and the passing ves sels up and down the coast is the chief thing to break Ihe monotony of life. Sailor naturally hikes a great in terest in nautical matters. Early ill 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 sheep dogs. But Sniloi was not long in learning the ways of the sea. He took a deep interest in whatever his master did and followed him around tlie 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 to warn vessels in a fog and to salute them in fair wentlier. It stood out side tho lighthouse, a few feet above a wooden platform, and tlie 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 the bell. He seized tho rope in his mouth and pulled. The bell rang clear and loud. Sailor was delighted. He wagged his bushy tail vigorously and pulled again, j Sailor after a time noticed that the j ringing of the bell marked the pass- j ing of a vessel or steamer. His note of j this fact resulted in his trying his ex periment. When he saw the next ves sel coming lie anticipated ids master ; in ringing the boll. His master then ! dubbed Sailor "assistant light keeper," } a title he has borne ever since. As the years have passed Sailor has kept on ringing salutes to passing vessels | and steamers. Indeed, he feels hurt if j not permitted to give the customary j salute to passing craft, while skippers ! whose course takes them often past ■ Wood Island are accustomed to see Sailor tugging vigorously at the great bell tongue. They reply with a will on their ship's bell or born and in ease of steamers \ a hearty triple blast is sent back to I the canine watcher of Wood Island. I who gives a new meaning to the good old sea term of "dog watch." Sailor! is his master's constant companion and delights in being made his mes senger, especially at dinner time, when he will come bounding from the I kitchen to announce that the meal is ready. He will also carry letters, pa pers or small articles in his month, j He understands all that is said to him, and, although a sailor dog by adop- j tion, his breeding comes to the fore when some one says "tlie sheep are In the field." An Agrcenblo Form of Doath. Professor Helm, who is an Austrian mountain climber, has been collecting some statistics of a rather morbid yet I keenly Interesting kind. He now gives them to tlie world in a foreign review, j and those who "gather samphire dead- ] ly trade" (to quote Shakespeare's pun-! gent reference) may feel assured that J a chance misstep will land them in eternity with no pang of pain. He who falls from any great height, we can learn, has no suffering, 110 terror, 110 thrills of despair. On the con trnry, lie hears wonderful melodies, and feels himself borne toward some j heavenly bourne. A well-known Al-1 pine climber, named Sigrist, who sur-; vived a dreadful fall, wrote thus to Professor lleim: "When I fell from \ n great height on the liarpfstock, Can- j ton Glarus, I retained full conscious- j ness. I felt no fear, but had the sen-! sation of floating downward, ague, j ably and safely. I was able 'to think calmly about my own position, and hastily reckoned up the means left 1 for my family to live 011 after my j death. I did not loose my breath, as j Is commonly supposed to be the case In al! falls of this kind. When I | struck ground I became unconscious 1 without tlie least sensation of pain. I cannot imagine a more agreeable ] form of death." Professor lleim him- J self once fell 800 feet, and underwent I similar psychic results. It was he. I however, who heard tlie wonderful! music. In the brief time of his descent lie found himself filled with a realization of ex quisite peace and rest. On re-1 gaining consciousness, two hours inter, j he recollected nothing of any concus- ! sivo shock. All physical distress was j reserved for the dawdling and he crippled hours of ids recovery.—Col-! lier's Weekly. Parrot* n* Sentinel*. A certain distinguished officer on The Northwest frontier, having ap parently rend of tho employment of dogs in the German nrmy, collected a bobbery pack which made night hide ous with their harking. To him en ters one morning the brigadier gen oral, who Inquires as to the meaning of this new departure. "There have been thieves about, of late," was the reply, "and these dogs are very use ful. No one can come near by my tent at night without their giving an alarm." The general was equal to the occasion: "Ah! well, mon. If you just gPt half a dozen parrots and teaeli them to cry out 'Halt! Who goes there?' you will lie completely equippit."—Allahabad Pioneer. BATTLES IN PLANT LIFE, ] Some Cnriona Traits Which Follow Close ly Human Instinct!. A struggle for existence, and conse- I quent survival of the fittest, has been ; going on through countless ages of j seriutiou among the plants just as | among the animals and men; and in ; this struggle a keep war lias been pro- ! ceeding among the different sections i of them—a real mar, in which the ob- j jeet of one side hbs been to damage ! the other, either by elbowing it out of its territory, shelling it as in the case of the thistle when the wind blows its down into a field of meadow grass, or by engaging with it in gladiatorial combat. The first instinct of plants is clean-jumping and land-grabbing, and neither Russia, Great Britain nor any other nation is keener on annex ing land which offers opportunities than these plants. Now, it is an extraordinary thing that leaves and weapons should lie so strikingly suggestive of each other; but note tlie names which botanists give to the former, and the meaning of these names. For instance, there is "clarate," signifying club-shaped; "gladlate," sword-shaped; "dolabri form," axe-sliaped; "lanceolate," lance shaped; "sagrittatte," arrow-shaped, and "clypiate," buckler-shaped. Professor Max Muller once referred to the Australian boomerang, the in vention of tlie natives, as the 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 by 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 within 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, agos of experiences of the little ways of the enemy having taught tho leaves to assume a flat, blade-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 cocoanut of the Seychelles go abroad in boat-shaped capsules, and go on maritime expeditions in search of new Islands which they may war with— lierbally—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 011 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 the 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. llow the vegetable world is in some 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 the west en trance to Ilong Kong harbor, where there are two large forts surrounded with a tliickly-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, i and in case an attacking enemy should j go for them with such weapons as scythe and cutlass, the riflemen 011 the ramparts would have plenty of time to stop the little game. What with one thing and another, the armies of botany are in a great state of efficiency, and campaigns as : important to them as this in the Transvaal is to us are matters of the commonest occurrence.—Answers. Orifjln of dhntto. Ghetto, the name of the Jewish j quarters in oriental and European I cities, according to Theodore Elizc, the German Shakespeare scholar, is de rived from the historical fact that the Jewish traders in the republic of Ven ice, who, by a law enacted in the fourteenth century, were only allowed j to reside in the little town of Mestre, I received In 1510 permission again to I 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 Tope Paul IV. Similar separate Jewish quarters later on existed in Prague, Frankfort-on-tlie-Main, May mice and other cities under the same designation. Still n InNn^r. 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 her home for that purpose, unless forced to stringent measures by absolute poverty; where as in England girls strike out inde pendently, sometimes merely on ac- j count of smypnthctie surroundings. However, the groat question has be gun to seethe in Germany, and the ! signs of approaching changes in the I world of women are to he found in I German contemporary lit rnture. j Owing to the fact that I; tel " B ' special per- p rmnfS.K Kf-\ ll, > 3B > on - —Lydia E. tj ] [How shall a mother who is weak and sick with some ' female trouble bear healthy children ? How anxious women ought to be to givo their children the blessing of a good constitution ! Many women long for a child to bless their home, but be causo of some debility or displacement of the female organs, they are barren. Preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by Lydia 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. Actual sterility in women is very rare. If any woman i thinks she is sterile, let her write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., whose advice is given free to ail expectant r would be mothers. s Mrs. A. D. Jarret, Belmont, Ohio, writes: " Hear Mrs. Pineeaii : —I most write and tell you what your Hcg9- table Compound has done for me. Before tailing your medicine I was unable to oarry babe to maturity, hawing lost two—one at sir months and ono at seven. The doctor Baid next time I would die. but thanks to Lydia L. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, 1 did not die. but am the proud mother of a six months old girl baby. She weighs nineteen pounds and ha 3 never Been a sick day in her life. She is the delight of our home." Mrs. Whitney's Gratitude, i "Dear Mr. Ptnsham : —From the time I was sixteen years old 1 'III was twenty-three I was troubled with weakness of the kidneys end terrible paing when my monthly periods came on. I made up my mind to try your V-". "-VO3 Vrgetablo Compound, and was eoou relieved. The doctor said I never would be able to go my Brrff ■* full tim * anJ liav ® a iivia S child, ae I was con- HlSa Etitutionnlly weak. 1 had lost a babv at seven g® months and half. The next time I continued kS'S to take your Compound : and I said then, if I SpfMt .r 1 s-~\r went oa J r full time and my Imby lived to bo £s% fj ® *® fc- three months old, I should send a letter to vou. pfeijV jSa V M bcb T ' 3 aow seven months old. and Is hb S 'if _Y, vk healthy and hearty as any one could wish. X §<*%. F annot ex P l 'c. s ® my gratitute to you. I was bo cHSKSx.e I.hfi A that I aid not dare to go cwav from homo /T/AAj t° ata y an 7 length of time. Praise God for I \.r 'i '" 1\ S? Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Corn- MRS.L.Z.WHITNE.Y6> a BASY pound: and may others who are Buffering ; .i f ■ do us ] did and find relief. "Wishing you suc- F?™, future as in the past, and mnv many homes be brightened as mine lias been. —Mrs. L. Z. Whitney, 4 Flint St., Somerville, Mass." The medicine that cures tho ills of women is lysßia E* Pinktoasn's W®g®fsati3ffe Gom^Qsand^ Young wife —"I knew you would like the slippers. Harry, if for no other 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 Avrcs. 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.tVtnslow'sPooihtnßPvr.in forohlMron I teething, softens thetfuuis, reduces inflammr~ tioii. allays jmin. cures wind oolic.;0c obuttle. j Until the middle of the last century { Great Britain imported two-thirds of the iron she used. The use of coal for j smelting was then only beginning. M%> U A % j z o t AND O t ESEEANS I j J There is one flavor in pork and J ♦ beans that all people like. It was £ j ♦ devised in the rural homes of New ♦ 5 England. It has made Boston the J O synonym of beans. J j J In our kitchen we get exactly ? ♦ that flavor. Our beans are cooked + ♦ by aft expert. We put them up in ♦ J key-opening cans. Your grocer f I ♦ will supply you. J 5 Plenty of other canned beans, but J , that flavor comes only in Libby's. S ♦ USSY, MCNEILL & LIBIIY £ ♦ Chicago Send a postal lor our booklet, "How to ♦ Make Good Things to Eat." A I Dr.Bu S I's Sft&arinis 1 fy g c* troub.es. reopie praise Cough Syrup Refuse substitutes. Get Dr. liuii's Coujch Syrup! V. TT y until. g- - A perfect tonic for children. . I ; 1-1. A MCK\ , Hull iumre, did. SOara't; 1 I obacco Suddenly! . It injures nevvous system to do so. Dip ft Pt|fft ' is t lie only cure that ltcnllv Cures OAUU-UuilU I and notifies you when to stop. Said with u Rtinr. nntcr llint three boxen will cure any caie, RAPH Plinn >" vegetable and harm lees. It hua DAU J-UU.il/ ,-ured thousands, it will cure vou. At all dnuririats or by mail prepaid, SI.(1(1 n box* i 5i boxes, s■<2.s(l. booklet free. Writ'. EL'itEiiA OUMIUAIi CO., La Croaae, Wis. The real worth of W. , L. Douglas 03.(10 HIHI I U.'l.fiO hboeH ftomiinrcd v*• j with other makci is f'igjt. jr3 I 84.00 to $5.00. £7 YN OurS4C.iltEdßcl.ine P.J)A p)J ! cannot lo equalled at any price. 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