11" When a cheerful, brave and light-hearted -woman is sud denly plunged into that perfection of misery, the blues, it is a sad picture. It is usually this way : She has been feeling out of sorts for some time, experi encing severe headache and backache; sleeps very poorly and is exceedingly nervous. Sometimes she is nearly overcome by faintness, dizzi ness, and palpitation of tho heart; then that bearing-down feeling is dreadfully wearing. Her husband says, "Now. don't get the blues ! You will be all right after you have taken the doctor's medicine." But she does not get ail right. She grows worse day by day, until all at once she realizes that a distressing female complaint is established. Her doctor has made a mistake. She loses faith ; hope vanishes ; then comes the morbid, melancholy, everlasting blues. She should have been told .just what the trouble was, but probably she withheld some information from the doctor, who, therefore, is unable to accurately locate her particular illness. Mrs. Pinkham has relieved thousands of women from rust this kind of trouble, and now retains their grateful letters in her library as proof of the great assistance she has rendered them. This same assistance awaits every sick woman in the land. Mrs " Wir " {red Allender's Letter. " DEA " MRS. PINKHAM:—I feel it my duty to write rnd tell you of the benefit I have received from your wonderful remedies. Before taking Lvdia E. P'ink ham's Vegetable Compound, 1 was a misery to my fljjlaSEy r self and every one around me. 1 suffered terrible flffiyajy P a ' n la my back, head, and right side, was very nervous, would cry for hours. Menses would appear VH \ ) sometimes in two weeks, then again not for three krgl / or four months. I was so tired and weak, could not "Ci / sleep nights, sharp pains would dart through my "J heart that would almost cause me to fall. "My mother coaxed me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I had no' faith in it, but to please her I did so. The first bottle helped me so much that I continued its use. lam now well and MRS.WiNIFRED AUENOtK weigh more than I ever did In my life."—MßS. =1 WINIFRED A I ,LENDER, Farmington.lll. SC3 OS, tvTk rjj £* ffi TO 3"5 l Owing to the fact that some ikenttcal feii 1111 "tWAIisI Pwß H H dtpcsifcdi wkh the National City CLSI vV*F testimonial is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the writer s special permission.—l 5,000 m^n. J jjfJY LH EWr "s 'TABASCO.' W. L. DOUGLAS S3 & $3.50 SHOES VKS2 Lw 1 Tho real worth of my gW.OO and p. 1.50 shoos oomparod with RN£Sf other makes Is j?4.no to My .00 <> 111 Kdge Lluo cannot bo t : 7 %]} any price. Bcs£ in tho world for men. t" PJ Take no *abtitiif'! Insist ori Jiaving W. L. 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"When I was a freshman in Williams college," said Garfield, "I looked out one night and saw in the window of my only competitor for first place in mathematics a light twinkling a few minutes longer than I was wont to keep mine burning. t then and there determined to invest a little more time in preparation for the next day's recitation. I did so, and passed above my rival. I smile today at the old rivalry, but I am thankful for the way my attention was called to the value of a little margin of time, well employed. I have since learned that it is just such a margin, whether of time or attention, or earnestness of power, that wins in every battle, great or small." Strange Capture of a Catfish. A farmer and his son, living near Jefferson City, Mo., were recently fish ing in the Moreau river. They were standing on the trunk of a big syca more tree that had fallen out over the stream and was partly submerged in the water, when a peculiar bumping noise that came from the inside of the log attracted their attention, and they began to investigate. They supposed at first that there was some sort of a wild animal in the hollow of the log, and on cutting it open were astounded to find that it was a 65-pound catfish. It had evidently made a dip into the hollow log during high water and did not attempt to get out until after the freshet had gone down, and then was stranded, as there was not sufficient water in the log to permit his exit. It was a blue channel cat and furnished choice steaks for the farmer's table for a week. Can Water I low UphillT That question may at once be an swered in the negative, for water, like everything else, is subject to the law of gravitation, and cannot, therefore, flow uphill. How is it then, it may be asked, that the Mississippi river pours its waters into the Quit of Mexico at a point that is three miles farther from the centre of the earth than its source? The earth, it must be remembered, is not a perfect sphere, but a spheroid; that is to say. it bulges at the equator, and is flattened at the poles. If it were all covered with water, therefore, the sur face of the water would have the form of a spheroid. That is the form that the surface of the ocean has, and the scientists call it a surface of equilibri um, because the water has no tendency, without some disturbing influence, to flow in any direction. If. therefore, the country through which the Missiissippi flows had the level that an ocean would have if one were there, it would not flow at all; but if an ocean were there, its surface at the point where the mouth of the river is would be three and one-half miles further from the centre of the earth than the point where the head of the river is. This we know, be cause that Is the determined curvature of the earth along that lino. But as the mouth of the river is only three miles farther from the centre of the earth than its source, it is half a mile below the regular curvature of the earth at that point, and it is this de pression that gives the river a fall of half a mile from its surface to Its mouth. It does not flow uphill, there fore, but down hill, in obedience to the law of gravitation.—Philadelphia Rec ord. I'ollstcß, tlse I'aper Mnker. Hiding in some crevice about your house or the school building there is probably a wasp which naturalists call Po-lls-tes. Sho has been there ever I since the cold weather came. In the spring you may see her tearing oTf pieces of wood from some unpainted building or weather-worn fence. Let us see what she is going to do. This wasp is the founder of a colony. The first thing she does is to select a place for her home. Then she makes a few cells —only a few for she has no help. When you find her nost you will see how the comb is fastened to the roof or a tree or to the under side of a stone. As soon as the cells are completed the mother lays an egg in each. From these eggs the larvae are hatched. They are fed by the mother until they become pupae. The cells are sealed ' over while the wasps are in the pupa j state. They have to break open the seals before they can come out. All of the first brood are workers. As .oon as they are hatched the mother has nothing to do but to provide eggs. They clean out the cells in which they passed their early days; they make ad ditions to the nests; they take care of the young. Do you remember how tho Vespa workers prepared food for the larvae in their colony and what they fofi them? The young Polistes are cared for in tho same way. You may see the workers flying about in your garden this summer, j getting the sweets from the flowers I that you have planted. You will know why they are so busy through the lng I tunny days. You will think of the hungry little wasps waiting for their dinner. You will wonder whether they put their heads out of the cells when the workers feed them. —Cornell, Junior Naturalist Monthly. A Spltler'a Home. "What ails our new clock?" said papa one day as he came home from his work and found mamma just put ting on the potato kettle in order to get dinner. "It is 12 o'clock now, and our clock lacks a whole half-hour of the right time." "I don't know," said mamma: "It has always kept very good time until now." Jußt then Elsa came running in from school, saying, "O mamma, I was late at school this morning, and Miss Prentiss was so sorry because sho had been teaching the children a new song that I missed!" Papa moved both hands of the clock around until both pointed straight up. Now Elsa knew what time it was, and guesed why she had been late that morning. "Now, Elsa," said papa, "run over to Aunt Jennie's to see if we can borrow her watch for a day. If our clock keeps on telling the wrong time, we might be late again tomorrow without the watch." Elsa skipped away, pleased to help papa, and pleased to think that Aunt Jennie might slip the watch-chain around her neck and the pretty watch into her apron pockei, so that she could wear it all way home. When she came back the watcli was hung up on a nail beside the clock. The next morning, when papa looked, he found that the clock was slower than ever; but he again set is right with the watch. It would not keep up, but grew slower and slower, until finally it stopped altogether. "Now," said papa, "I will open the door that has always been tightly closed, to see if I can find out the trouble with our new clock." Elsa and mamma peeped over his shoulder; and what do you suppose they saw? Why, somebody's home, all fixed up there among the pretty wheels, with curtains, draperies and other silken things. The one who made .11 this was scampering way as fast as his six little legs could carry him. "That's right," said papa, "hurry away, for you have just tied our clock up with so much spinning that it can not go at all. Y"ou and the clock are both such busy workers; but you can not work together, so you had better fix up a home somewhere else." Papa brushed the spider's work all away, when the wheels commenced turning, and the pendulum said its I soft "tick-toek" again. Baby waved bis tiny hand to show how the clock goes; for he had been watching, too. Papa set the hands again with Aunt Jennie's witch, and the next morning both were telling the right time. The watch was now carried home to Aunt Jennie, and after this the clock told papa just when to get up, mamma just when to get breakfast, Elsa just when to get ready for school, and nobody need be late any more on account of | not knowing the right time. —The : Child's Garden. Color. of tlio O.vHtpr Shell. Of all the delicate and wonderful in struments invented by scientists there is hardly one that is not duplicated in nature. However ingenious it may seem and however original, Mother Na [ ture generally has its counterpart hid j away somewhere. When the astron omers began to analyze sunlight they j found that it was made up of many dlf- J ferent colors. A plain bar of white ! light passing through a prism was broken up into a very rainbow, each separate color of which was found tc represent a chemical element —iron, sodium, or some other ingredient of which the sun is composed. But prisms did not seem to divide light finely enough to suit the astronomers, so they went to work and made something bet ! ter. Upon a plate of metal they I scratched an infinite number of invisi i bio lines—scratched then in a marvel j ous machine which they invented for i the purpose, 20,000 of them to a single inch—and called the metal plate a | "diffraction grating." With this in j strument and a long scries of calcula tions and experiments they were able to arrive at very correct ideas of the sun's chemistry, and later they found that the light of a star could be taken to pieces in the same way. It was a great discovery and the astronomers | took a great deal of pride in it. But, 10, Mother Nature had been us ing the same principle for ages, the countless changing tints of an oyster shell were so beautiful of themselves that most people had been content to enjoy them withoutseekingtlieircause. But everything has a cause —usually a j most interesting one —and the irides cent mother of pearl resembled the as j tronomers' diffraction grating so close ly that they decided to look Into the matter. Everything lipon our little world obtains its color by dissecting white sunlight in its own peculiar fash ion, and when the oyster shell was put I under a microscope it was seem to be simply a diffraction grating, nothing more. Its apparently smooth surface was made up of thousands of minute ' lines and it got its rainbow tints by j dividing the sunlight into its original | elements. The wings of iridescent lu | sects- —beetles, for example- -were ruled in the same way. and an impression of them in white sealing wax gave oft I tho same colors. So the astronomers, who were not in the least jealous, dc j cided that If any patents rights were due on the invention they belonged to Mother Nature by priority of discovery. —Chicago Record. In Tripoli barley constitutes the bulk jof the food of the people. The area | under this crop constitutes about three | fourths of the cultivated land, and the annua! crop is from 1,400,000 to 2,000,- I 000 bushels. A FORTUNATE KICK. Vnceremoniotiftly Quitted From Train. It Made Thin Mail Wealthy. During a recent conclave of rail road magnates in New Orleans some thing reminded a well known general manager of a whimsical story, says the Times-Democrat of that city. "I am afraid there is no particular moral to this yarn," he said; "but it happens to be true, and I'll give it to you for what the newspaper boys call 'human interest.' Not long ago the million aire president of a big manufacturing concern up in Ohio made a speech at a banquet, and to illustrate how seem ing misfortunes may prove blessings in disguise he said that he got his start in life through being kicked off of an accommodation train in the dead of winter, it was during the hard times of the 'Bos, he went on to relate, and although a skilful mechanic and some thing of an engineer, he found it im possible to procure work of any kind, even manual labor. Things went from bad to worse, and at last he found himself stranded somewhere in south ern Ohio. He was stone broke and desperate, and wanted to get to Day ton, where he had heard vaguely there was something doing in his trade. So one bitter cold evening he slipped on board an accommodation train, hop ing to be able to talk the conductor into carrying him, but he failed igno miniously. He begged and pleaded, and told his story with all the elo quence of despair, but tue ticket punch er refused to melt- On the contrary, he pulled the bell rope when they came to the next station, grabbed the un happy young mechanic and propelled him off the car with a series of swift kicks. He landed in a snow bank and slept in a freight shed, but next day his chance came. A span suddenly gave way in a new iron bridge over a big creek at the edge of the town, and the whole structure threatened to go down before experts could arrive from the builders' foundry. At that critical juncture the stranger jumped into the breach, built a temporary supporting trestle out of logs and crosstles, and saved something like $20,000 worth of work. Of course the bridge people were delighted, and when they saw what a really scientific job he had done they offered the shabby engineer a handsome position in their establish ment. From that on his rise was rap id, and, in concluding the 'little tale, he laid special stress on the apparent hopelessness of his position the night he was ejected from the train and made the point that one should never give way to despair. "If that con ductor had carried me on instead of kicking me off," he said, "I would have missed the great chance of my life, and might be working now at the bench. I am really indebted to him for my start in the world, and I have often wished that I could meet him and tell him about it" Might and Might Not. It was consoling to a well known East End resident a short time ago when he called a physician to go into consultation with the family doctor and diagnose a case. A little son was seriously ill, and the father wanted everything done that was known in materia medica. After the two physi cians had been in consultation for some time the father asked of the con sulting physician what they thought of the case. "Well," said the physician who had been called, "your son may get well and he may not." "Can that be possible?" said the father. "I ought to have called a mo torman. I've made a mistake." "About what?" asked the physician. "In calling you. A motorman could have told me the same thing, and I knew my little boy would either get well or he wouldn't before I sent for you" Now the physician wants the father to pay $5 consultation fee, and the father swears he never will. The child recovered. —Louisville (Ky.) Commer cial. Ho Returned It. Wit has often saved an offender from punishment in military as well as in civil life. Not long since a non-commissioned officer entering a barrack gate in Dub lin was mistaken by the "fresh one ' on sentry, who immediately "came to the shoulder." The noncom., unaware that his colo nel was just behind, returned the sa lute—a thing not permissible in the circumstances. Arrived at his quar ters, he shortly received an order to attend before the colonel. On presenting himself he was asked how he came to return the salute, knowing full well he was not entitled to it. Not in the least embarrassed, he promptly answered: "Sir, I always return everything I am not entitled to." His ready wit pleased the colonel, who laughingly dismissed him.—Lon don Spare Moments. Observations. A gentleman is told by his deeds, a parvenue by his "breaks." By refusing to listen to secrets one is saved unlimited trouble. The sweetheart of a poor man de lights in little social sacrifices—if she is a sweetheart. To be beautiful and wise is not com mon, but to be neat and loyal is pos sible to all women. A man of the world may treat his equal cavalierly, but ho never will those dependent upon him. Courtesy is to man what daintiness is to woman—a beautiful thing to he known by. When a woman is popular with men she is astounded to find any who lack | polish and gallantry toward her—Phil adelphia Record.