Bxeciet, of Ullnd Croatnreft. Naturalists declare that there are 172 species of blind creatures known to science, but many hundreds of species of blind cave insect 3 have been dis covered in recent years. They are mostly white, either from lack of th) stimulus of light or from bleaching of the skin. Some species have small eyes, and some have none. There are, no doubt, many more species still to be discovered, as nearly every descrip tion of fish found in the sea at great depths, where the light cannot pene trate, is quite blind. To make up for the lack of sight they are provided with feelers most delicately construct ed. Blind insects, as well as ft h are found in the Mammoth Cave oi Ken tucky, and in fact, blind creatures a.e common In all situations not othcrwir. • hostile to the existence of animal life where light is absent. The want of sight in these creatures is believed to be the direct effect of the absence of the stimulus of light, for in most casc3 rudimentary eyes are found, proving the fact of degeneration.—New York Weekly ! cp'd Transit Preserves the Poaco. E-octrieity has brought us many blessings. Its latest benefit is found in t!;o falling off of applications f summonses in the City Court, which hitherto lias rejoiced in the settling of cases "arising out of street obstruc tions, and quarrels of cabmen, 'bus drivers and carters." The relief of the street traffic consequent upon the opening of the underground electric railways is given as the cause for this linppy state of affair*. —London Snherc. —AI things green have a liardy growth in England. The garden hedge there i- compact and beautiful more so than .n any windy country. PUTNAM FAOEI.ESR DYES do not spot, streak or give your goods an unevenly dyed appear ance. bold by all druggists. Andrew Carnegie believes in being gen erous while lie is alive, ami does not de fer the manifestation of his charity un til death lias parted him from hit wealth. Last year his gifts amounted to $3,000,000. In 1801) lie gave away 000,000. How's Thi We offer On Hundred P dlars Howard for any -RISO oi' Catarrh that cannot bo cured bv Hall's Catarrh Cure. i'\ J. CUKNEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Wc, the undersigned, have kn-.wn l-\ J. Che ney for the last 15 years and believe him pc r feotly honorable in all bu ineas trans'ieiiona and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. WES T SS TUUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WAI.DINO, KIN NAN FC MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of tho system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Bold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills nr.- the best. There were 295,752 marriages in France during the year 1899. \vai<-u iron Ruj Inli get Carter's and you will get the best every time."lnklings" free. Curler sink Co., Boston. The record running high jump is six feet live and three-quarters inches. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften thegums, re-luc m intlamuia tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25cabotUo The hairdresser feels no compunctions about dying an old maid. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure. .T. W. O'JP: i s !'i iiird Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. G, 1900. The unsuccessful man realizes that there is plenty of room at the bottom. Profmioual aiml I'coplo t If you would clear your head of pain and heaviness tako Garfield Hcadacko Powders, a remedy that acts quickly and surely, that iu not cathartic, that is genuinely good. In twenty years tho population of Los 'Angeles, Cal.. baa increased 100,009. THE DUTY OF MOTHERS. What suffering frequently results from a mother's ignorance; or more frequently from a mother's neglect to properly instruct her daughter 1 Tradition says "woman must suf fer," and young women are so taught. There is a little truth and a great deal of exaggeration in this. If a young woman suffers severely she nced9 treatment, and her mother should sco that she gets it. Many mothers hesitate to take their daughters to a physician for examina tion ; but no mother need hesitate to Trite freely about her daughter or herself to Mrs. Pinkham and secure the most efficient advice without charge. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass. 1 Mrs. August rfalzgraf, of South Byron, Wis., mother of the young lady whose portrait we here publish, wrot- Mrs. l'inkham in January, Is'JSi. saying her daughter had suffered for two years with irregular menstruation had headache all the time, and pain in her side, feet swell, and was generally miserable. Mrs. l'inkham promptly replied with advice, and under date of March. IH!>9, the mother writes Spain that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her daughter of all pains and irregularity. Nothing in the world equals Mrs. Pinkham's great medicine for regu lating woman's peculiar monthly troubles. JH. If I MSLM A Delicious Salad. A delicious salad may bo made of tho turkey meat. Cut the meat into dice and mix with it an equal quantity of celery. Season with salt, paprika, on ion juice and capers, and servo 0:1 let tuce leaves with a mayonnaise dress ing, to which some whipped cream has been added. Both white and dark meat may be used, and if tho supply is small very tender veal will not detract from the flavor. / A Compote or eir.nm, For a compote of quinces peel, quar ter and core six that are ripe and sound and boil them in water enough to keep tnem from burning until they are tender. Remove the pieces of fruit and make a syrup of one-half cupful of water and one-half cupful of sugar. Then add the fruit and boil for five minutes! Remove the quinces to a glass dish and boil the syrup until it it. thick. When it 13 cool pour it over the quinces. Fricassee or I.amb. A delicious fricassee of iamb may ne made by cutting the neck and shoul der into small pieces, dredging it with flour which has been seasoned with salt and pepper, and sauteing it in but ter until it is brown. The next step is to add to it hot water to more than cover it, and cook slowly until tho meat falls from the bones. Remove the bones, return the meat to the stew pan, add a slice of onion, a small to mato and cook for half an hour. Re move the onion, put the meat in the centre of the platter anil arrange dumplings around it. Serve the sauce, of which there should be plenty, in a gravy boat, separately. Spring; Cltioken witli Oysters. Singe and draw a small, tender chicken of about two pounds; wipe it, inside and out, with a wet towel; cut tile neck close to the breast, leave the skin over tjhe breast long to envelop tho breast; cut tho legs close to the body, and cut them in two; cut the body ill six pieces. I-cavc the breast and wings in one piece. Put one and a half tablespoons of butter in an earth en cocotte, put it on the chafing dish; stand directly over the flame. When the butter has melted put in first all tho dark meat and the carcass; six minutes after put in the breast. Sea son with one-level teaspoon of salt, one level saltspoon of pepper; cook 20 min utes uncovered, not too fast, and talc ing care to turn and baste each piece, so that every one shall become of a golden brown. Meanwhile prepare one quart of oysters, drain off the liquor, put them in boiling water one minute; dry them well with a towel, remove the tendons, trim, and after the chick en lias cooked 20 minutes add them to it. Make room in the cocotte, so that the oysters will go to the bottom; cook three minutes after putting in the oys ters. With the fork arrange nicely all the pieces, putting the breast on the top with some of the nicest oysters over it. Serve from the cocotte. If not at band, the cliafling msh could be used instead, allowing four minutes less for the cooking.—Harper's Bazar. notMftliohl Hints. Tomato soup is improved by a few slices of oranges just before serving. A thick felt under the table cloth avoids noise and saves wear on the cloth. Onions are particularly healthful, and should be indulged in more fre quently than tlicy are. To make tough meats tender put a spoonful of vinegar into the water in which they are boiling. To remove grease spots from silk moisten the spots with chloroform and rub with a clotli till dry. Excellent dishcloths may be made from old white Holland curtains after tho stiffening has been boiled out. Newspapers moistened and torn into hits and strewn over a matting cov ered floor will aid greatly In the sweep ing. Soiled white fur can be cleaned by rubbing it in successive changes of flour and then hanging it for a time in tho open air. Black silk and black satin are great ly improved by wiping them with spir its of wine diluted with a little water, and wipe it on the right side. In a room flooded with sunshine it Is wisest to use wall paper In which green predominates. With so much light repose and toning are needed. A small novelty in table furnishing is tho cold meat platter, which is per fectly flat like a bureau tray, but with a similar but slighter upright rim. Currant jeliy and turnips are the natural accompaniments of mutton. A pretty way to serve the turnips is to cut them In two after tlicy are cooked, scoop them into cup shapes and fill with green peas. If the point or end of the breast bone next the vent of any fowl, game bird, etc., bends easily to pressure, you can safely say the bird is young. If the bird bo broken or doctored, then nip the flesh across bh.tt of wings or neck, between finger and 'humb. when the fingers will sink into tho flesh of the bird if it is young. Fnmilinr Exaiiiplpn. "Mention some familiar examples of successive layers." "Yes, sir. Hens and jelly cakes, sir." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. BEST WAY TO FIND A MAN. Uitually a Letter-currier Can Trace Him* If Any One Can. "I used to think that the letter car rier was one public official who had no perquisites attached to his job," said a New Orleans lawyer, "and I sympathized with him accordingly. But recently," he continued, "I dis covered that 1 was in error. One day, a few weeks ago, the carrier dropped in at my office with the usual batch of mail, and, as he was going out, asked whether I knew any such a man as John Soandso—l've forgotten the name ho mentioned —living on the block. T don't recall such a person,' I replied; 'have you a letter for him?' 'No, sir,' said the carrier, 'I was just trying to locate him for a real estate agent up town. If I find the right ad dress I get a $.lO dollar bill.' That ex cited my curiosity, and in response to my questions the carrier made the matter plain. " 'lt's like this,' he said. 'The real estate agent is settling up some estate and lias lost track of one of the heirs. He thinks he's in town, but he doesn't know where to look for him, so he came to the delivery department of the pcstoffice as the best place to get a tip. It turned out that none of the boys had such a man on their routes, and he then asked us to make inquiries and hung up this S2O reward for the first information. It is perfectly legitimate, and there's nothing about it that inter feres with our work, so everybody's trying to nail the twenty for a pres ent.' "The story interested me, and I asked him whether they were called on often for data of that character. 'Why yes,' he replied, 'pretty frequently. As fa ras addresses ar econcerned, the carrier department is far and away the best information bureau in town. You see, we not only keep track of the res idents, but we are pretty well posted as to tho transients, also. Anybody who remains here for a week or longer Is tolerably certain to receive mail of some kind, and the majority of it goes to a particular street and number in stead of the general delivery. That gives us a line on them which couldn't be obtained through any other chan nel. Then, again, the people who live here are continually moving and may have changed their address two or three times since the last issue of tho directory. We keep track of all that, and even when they go out of town temporarily we are likely to know where they are, in order to forward stray mail. " Taken altogether, we are quite apt to locate anybody desired, and when we make special inquiries, as I am do ing in this case, it is next door to a sure thing.' I asked him what class of people applied to the carriers as a rule. •Lawyers principally,' ho said, 'who are working up evidence in different cases and want to find witnesses.'"— New Orleans Times-Democrat. Underground I.abor In Kugland. The last half of the 19th century should form a red-letter period in the memory of the British coal miner. Not only lia3 it brought him to such finan cial prosperity that he can afford to "take holiday" for nearly half his working time, but the improvements effected below ground have greatly diminished the former risk to health and life. At a meeting of the Midland Institute of the Mining Engineers, the president showed from trustworthy statistics that the number of fatali ies consequent on colliery explosions amounts to only 9 percent of the average between 1851 and 1855. There is consequently a saving of 91 percent in human life through the lessened frequency of explosions. It is much the same with all other underground accidents; in every instance, they are far fewer and less destructive than they formerly were. Such as do occur, too. are largely the result of the men's own recklessness; they persis tently break rules expressly intended to save them from harm. The chief cause' of accidents at present is the falling of roofs and sides, entirely ow ing to their not being properly tim bered. But no amount of reasoning will convince the average pitman that he owes it to himself and his family to see that the requisite support Is af forded. Pit-owners are always most anxious to have this done, but defects are rarely brought to their knowledge until too late for remedy. In the mat ter of ventilation, so great is the im provement that, apart from accidents, underground labor has become a3 healthy as overground.—London Globe. A Itcinnrknhlc Sight. One of the most remarkable sights ever witnessed hy man was that do scribed by Captain Pendleton, a Brit ish whaler. He was following his profession around Deception Island in the Antartic waters when he sighted an iceberg that had just fallen from an ice cliff 800 feet high. The berg appeared to be about 100 feet deep and two-thirds of a mile in length. The eaptain, wishing to ob serve the cliff or face of the ice from which this berg had dropped, sailed near it and saw high above the top masts, at least 280 feet above the level of the sea, the body of a largo whale perfect, save for the head, which had broken off and gone with the berg. A portion of this whale was secured by the whaler, who took eight or 10 barrels of cil from it, while the rest afforded food for the sea birds. This whale was embedded nearly in the centre of the cliff, 520 foot from the tcp, and the question is how did tho whale get there and how long had it been there? It was a sulphur bot tom and was between 00 and 70 feet in length. Iltom' Proepect of Freedom. Howard Gregg, of San Francisco, who spent several years In Johannes- I burg, says that the Boer is not fight ! lng for a hopelessly lost cause. By that, he continued, I do not mean that he will again occupy the position he 1 did prior to the commencement of hos i tilitieo, but I am inclined to the opln j ion that sooner or later a peace will ! be declared, In which greater or lees freedom and independence to the Boers as a nation will bo guaranteed. Cer ! talnly Edward Vll.'s proclamation naming Milner as a paramount lord of tho Transvaal would seem to point in this direction. If England doesn't compromise with the Boers they will make her tenure of tho country a dis -1 agreeable and expensive thing. I bc lievo they can keep up the guerilla sys j torn of warfare they have embarked on for years, and so long as any of i them are left in the field bearing arms England will be forced to maintain a j heavy military establishment in South ; Africa, so heavy indeed, that It will | soon prove a heart-breaking strain to j tho taxpayers. A single workman can cut by baud I G.OOO watch glasses a day. TToxalr's Crnp Cnrn la the only remedy in tho world thnt enrea nnd j prevents Croup, Pneumonia nnd Diphtheria I No opium and 110 nausea. 60 cents. A man seldom enjoys good health while i he has it. Garfield Kcadnche Fowders are made from j herbs thnt many peoplo use every day, and ! other products known to be effective in coring Headache, Nervousness and Neuralgia. They j contain no opium, bromides or narcotics; they ' aro not cathartic; they euro quickly. In Foul h Australia there arc only eighty \ five women for every 100 men. Women use seventeen times as many gloves as men. Throw physic to tho dogs—if you don't want the dogs ; but if you want good diges tion chew Beoman's Pepsin Gum. The value of all Kansas products for 1900, including animals slaughtered, is placed at $187,796,400. Frcy'e Vcriiiifii^c ' Eradicates worms. It cures. 25c. Druggists or by mail. K. <fc S. FBEY, BAI/TIMOIUE, MD. j About 7000 people in Paris are employed j in the preparation of human hair for the j market. IQHIFOR STUEStGTH! i Weak Nsrves, Tired, Exiiausled Bodies. ! Tie Complaint of Thousands upon Thousands. Health and Strength are Within Your Grasp. Cr. Greene's Nervura Makes You Strong and Well. It is tho Great Restorative of Brain and Nerves. Oh, those nerves of ours, how they do bother us! Weak, tired, and ner vous is the complaint everywhere. We overwork, dissipate, weaken our bodies, ruin our health, and finally break down. Sleeplessness and indl j gestion are early symptoms, for the nerves are too exhausted and Irritable to permit rest, and tho stomach too weak to digest food. It is nerve and brain exhaustion which makes the brain tired, and tho arm nerveless, the limbs trembling, the muscles weak, and the whole body without strength, energy or ambition. It is loss of nerve and vital power which is slowly but surely sapping the very llfo itself, and unless help Is sought from the right source, the end will bo shattered nerves, insanity with softening of the brain, nervous pros tration, heart failure, paralysis or pre mature death. Bewaro of such symptoms! A well known druggist, Charles W. Eggles ton, 329 Park Avenue, Worcester, Mass., suffered from nervous prostra tion and all Its terrible symptoms. He writes tho following letter telling what he knows Is the best way to get well. "Somo time ago I was taken with nervous prostration, I suffered terribly with my nerves and could get no sleep at all. I became fearfully exhausted, my stomach was in terrible condition from dyspepsia, and 1 could eat hardly anything. "I used several medicines but with out benefit. Being in the drug busi ness myself, and having had many customers speak in the highest terms of Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, I determined to try It. After taking only one-half bottle I be gan to feel much better. "I slept soundly at night, and my appetite was splendid. After taking three bottles. I ate three square meals a day. and had not the slightest dis tress. My nerves were perfectly strong and I felt like a new man, being com pletely cured of all my troubles. "Out of the respect I bear the rnanu facturersof Dr.Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and my desire to have the sick and suffering made well and strong. I unhesitatingly say that this medicine is tho best and most j wonderful remedy known todav. "It does just what Is said of It, It I cures disease. Don't hesitate to use It,, sufferers, for you will never regret it. You will he made well and strong." As this letter Is from a dealer in medicine, his word is authority on such matters. Everybody knows that Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy is the great leading medicine of the age. Take It and you will bo made strong, healthy and vigorous. Doctors recommend It because it Is the prescription of a physician, and because they know It cures. Dr. Greene, the most successful spe cialist in curing nervous and chronic diseases, discovered it. He can bo consulted free, personally or bv letter, St. his office. 35 W. 14th St . New York Citv. Nottingham is the righest town In Ecglnnd. It has established the only university college maintained by the municipality. Dr. Bull's Cough Cures a cough or cold at once. Conquers croup, bronchitis, j y ril 11 grippe and conhumptiou. 25c. J 1"^ THE GENUINE. 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