Capsicum Vaseline Put up tn Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard or any Other plaster, and will notbllxte the most dellcato •kin. The pain ollayin? and curative qualities of this arti le are wonderful. It will stop the t othach* at once, and relieve headache ar.d sciatica. We recommend it ai the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for paius In the chest and stomach and nouralfflo and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to bs invaluable in tlis housohold. Many people say "It is the best of all your preparation*.** Price, 15 cents, at all druvffiat* or other deals/* er by sending this amount to us iu postage stamps we will send you a tube by meil. Mo article should be accepted by the public unless ihe same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CIIEUSEBROUGH MANUFACTURING C 0„ 17 St.t, Street] New York City. I was troubled with pains in my back, dizziness and burning in my stomach. I had no appetite, could not sleep. A sister of mine advised me to try Ripans Tabules. They have entirely cured me. I take one every night and morning and they just keep me right and regular. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet ts enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, lib cents, contains a supply for a year. nnnnn\/r. l!,i,: ' > in 30 T ° <"> hays. 11 Ml IN V y rite for particulars and 10 days' 1111111 1/ 1 Drop.y Med. Co., Atlanta, Oa. FELT THE SHOCK. Porto Rico Natives Terrorized by Mar tinique's Eruption. Miss Ida Daft, a former teacher In the McKeesport scho Is, writes to her father, Thomas Daft, of McKeesport, Pa., that she distinctly felt the shock of the eruption In Martinique at Por to Rico, where she I- employed as a teacher in the government schools. In her letter Miss Daft s:iys that, though she was 30U miles from the scene of the disaster, the shock of the eruption was distinctly felt. She stated fur ther that the natives of the island understood what the upheaval meant, and were In terror for fear U might be near enough to overwhelm them. Miss Daft was one of the school teach ers secured by the government to go to Porto Rico at the close of the Spanish-American War. A Pertinent Reminder. A beginner In newspaper work in a Southern town who occasionally "sent stuff to one of the New York dailies picked up last summer what seemed to him a "big story." Hurry ing to the telegraph oillce he "queried"' the telegraph editor: "Column story so and so. Shall I send?" The re ply was brief and prompt, but to the enthusiastic unsatisfactory "Send GOO words" was ail It said, "Can't be told in less than 1,200," he wired back. Before long the re ply came: "Story of creation of world told in GOO. Try if." Matrimonial Casualties of the War. The South African war has occa sioned an enormous number of mar. riages. Officers married hurriedly before they went out; some have es poused the fair enemy out there; many have succumbed to the charrnj of the plucky young military nurses; great numbers invalided home have been promptly wedded by their pa triotic and grateful feminine ootem , poraries. Mrs. Annie McKay, Chaplain Sons of Temperance, 326 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Cured of Severe Female Troubles by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PIKKHAM : Being a mother of five children I have had experience with the general troubles of my sex. I was lacerated when one of my children was born and from that hour I date all my afflictions. I found that within a few months my health was impaired, I had female weakness and serious inflammation and frequent flooding. I became weak and dizzy but kept on my feet, dragging through my work without life or pleasure. A neighbor who had been helped by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound insisted that I take at least one bottle. I did so and felt so much better that I kept on the treatment. For seven months I used the Compound faithfully and gladly do I say it, health and strength are mine once more. I know how to value it now when it was so nearly lost, and I appreciate how great a debt I owe you. The few dollars I spent for the medicine cannot begin to pay what it was worth to me Yours very truly, MRS. ANNA MCKAY, Chaplain Sons of Temperance." SSOOO FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE BETTER 18 NOT GENUINE, ' No other female medicine In the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. Refuse all substitutes. Mrs. Plnkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has gruided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Gray Hair " I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for over thirty years. It has kept my scalp free from dandruff and has prevented my hair from turn ing gray."—Mrs. F. A. Soule, Billings, Mont. There is this peculiar thing about Ayer's Hair Vigor—it is a hair food, not a dye. Your hair does not suddenly turn black, look dead and lifeless. But gradually the old cojor | comes back, —all the rich, i dark color it used to have. The hair stops falling, too. SI.M a bottle. All druggists. If your druggist cannot supply yon, send us ono dollar and we will express you a bottle. Bo sure andlplre the name of your nearest express office. Address, J. C. AYER CO., Lowell. Mass. —— mmamm wmm mammmmm w— One-third of the United States prop er is vacant land. jtfk Tour Dealer For Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder. It rests the foot. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Easo makes now or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 conts. Ao cept no substitute. Sample mailed Fane, Address Allen 8. Olmsted. Leßoy, N. Y. When marriage is a failure it isn't al ways due to financial stringency. M. L. Thompson & Co., Druggists, Con dcrsport, Pa., say Hall's Catarrh Cure is the best and only suro euro for catarrh thoy over told. Druggists sell It, 75c. The average value of all meat cattle In the country was, In 1900, $21.77. Mrs."Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, redueeslnflammue tlcn,allays palp,cures wind colic. 25c. abottL You can turn a crank down, but he al ways turns up again. FITS permanently cured. No fits ornorvous- Bess after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerveßestorer.s , 2trlal bottle and treatisefree Dr. 11. H. Klink, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila.,Pa. There are few things more brittle than reputations Plso's Cure for Consumption Is an Infallible modicino for coughs and oolds.—N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. A horse can carrv a pound on his back to an ounce on his toot. Mall Box Monopoly AbollshecL The commission of postal experts which has been investigating the question of letter boxes on rural free delivery routes has submitted Its ro port to tho Postmaster General. The commission recommends that after July 1 the public In all rural free de livery districts throughout the United States be allowed to use any box what ever, subject only to simple require ments regarding a standard of sizes, shape and materials. The only boxes now permitted by the government are those issued by 14 manufacturing es tablishments approved by the depart ment. Vesuvius' Death List v The tourist who ascends Vesuvius does so at the risk of his life. It is said that 11,000 tourists have be-en killed since it has become a fad to make the ascent of the volcano. For merly tho trip was made on foot or horseback, and these methods are still used to a certain extent The fact that the central cone of Vesuvius has collapsed, and that long and deep tracks have made their appearance, gives rise to reasonable belief that startling volcanic disturbances are imminent. Strange as it may seem, the region is very fertile, and wine growing is an important industry. THE EAELY CENSUS DATA OF INTEREST TO HISTORICAL .AND GENEALOCICAL STUDENTS. Itecoril. of Early Ceil - uses— Vol liable anil Interesting Material to Destroy VVhlcli Would lie Vandalism—Wo Took tire World's First National Census. On the shelves of the Interior De partment, at Washington, may be found a mass of matter of peculiar interest to the genealogist and the his torical student, which has recently been brought to a wider public notice through a friendly controversy be tween the two houses of Congress as to its disposal. It is the enumeration blanks of all the past censuses of the United States. If one desires to read the names of every householder in any town in this country during the ad ministration of George Washington, one can do It here. Similar informa tion by tiie ten-year periods down to the present time may also be found, but the older records are obviously the most valuable. The House of Rep resentatives decided to destroy all this old census matter and inserted a para graph In the Sundry Civil BUI for that purpose. Director Merriam and other census managers had recommended It, on the theory that the Census Office had sucked all the juice out of the enumeration schedules, and therefore that no purpose was served In lumber ing up the archives with the original data themselves. But the Senate Com mittee has adopted In Its draft of the same bill a very good compromise, wnicb It hopes the House will accept. It provides for the assembling and re tention of the first, second, third and eighth censuses, and the destruction, at the Secretary of the Interior's dis cretion, of all the rest The schedules of the census of 1790 are naturally tho most interesting. They take the space of only twenty six volumes, neatly written out and well bound. In those days enumerators asked only a few questions; they took the name of each householder, and in the lirst column wrote the number of free white males in the family of six teen years of age and upward. Includ ing the head of the family. In the sec ond column they entered the number of free white males under sixteen years of age. In the third column they entered all "free white females, including heads of families," the ob ject of the division at the age of six teen among the males evidently being for military purposes. In the fourth column they entered the number of "all other persons," and in the fifth, the number of slaves. The entire census of Massachusetts Is contained between the covers of one volume of 716 pages, each about thirty Inches square, and fairly bristles with names which havo since become his toric. Concord, for example, starts with George Allen, Job and Asa Brooks, Humphrey Barrett, Samuel Buttrlck and Timothy Hoar. The pop ulation of Concord then consisted of 415 males more than sixteen years of ago, 314 under that age, 832 women and girls, and 29 "other persons," which Is commonly understood to have meant apprentices. There were, of course, no slaves In Massachusetts. At the foot of each of these Concord columns, Aaron Brown, who took the census, wrote "Carried up," and at the head of the next column, "Brought up." Massachusetts, by the way, seems to have been the only State In the Union in which the enumerators regularly had printed blanks, and It is supposed that these must have been furnished by the Commonwealth. Practically everywhere else the enumerator wrote his own explanation at the top of the column of what It contained. The way these lists are bound shows the scarc ity of paper of that day, and perhaps a desire to "do something extra" in the way of ornamentation. Pieces of wall paper often did service for covers. Old newspapers were also used; and the blanks for Kdenton, N. C., are enclosed In a newspaper containing on the front page un article by Dr. Franklin on "The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams." The figures concerning the slaves in most of the States ore Inter esting. Predericktown, ill Dutchess County, New York, for example, then contained 54 men, 51 boys, 92. free whites of the opposite sex, one "other person," and 17 slaves. No one will object to tlie proposal to destroy the census blanks of the pres ent and the preceding census, HK most of their material that is worth any thing has been tuken out lu the process of electrical tabulation, and published. Moreover, this is au age of abundant records. Hut the very old censuses, supplying us they do Information that can be obtained nowhere else, It wculd clearly be a great mistake to destroy. Up to and including the count of IS4O, census work was very simple. The data gathered were the same as In 17' JO. Since that was the iirst National cen sus ever taken In the world, and formed an essential basis of our polit ical system, it would be a sad piece of vandalism to destroy its original ma terial. The Government does a brisk ousl ness in answering questions for peo ple from the census records. Three clerks are steadily employed in this work The Secretary of the Interior has proposed that Congress authorize the department to charge a fee for such searches; but, as most of them are made at the Instance of Congressmen for their constituents, the proposal has never found rnucn favor. An Interest ing feature of the early censuses is the obiter dicta which the enumerators have here and there incorporated. They on occasions tell the number of grist mills in their town, or give other explanatory facts in which they sui>- pose the general Government might be Interested, It was not until the census of 1820 that the original population schedules reached seventy-four vol umes. The census of 1890 gave a sep arate schedule or sheet of paper for each family, making nearly 13,000,000 schedules, which would fill 13,000 vol umes of a thousand pages each. No at tempt, however, has ever been made to bind them, and the packages are pilled away in storehouses.—New York Tost. THE EYE AND THE EAR. llow Science Deals Nature in These Two Organs, The eye and the ear have long been regarded as marvels of mechanism, quite the most wonderful tilings in the world. But compared with the itu pjlemeuts of a present day laboratory, the sensitiveness of all human organs seems gross enough, says Harper's Magazine. A photographic plate, coupled with a telescope, will reveal the presence of millions of stars whose light does not affect the retina in the least. The microscope, too, with its revelations of the world of the infinite ly small, tells us how crude, after all, is this most delicate of the senses. Indeed, we may liken it to a plane, where only a single octave, towards the middle, sounds. From the ultra violet to the lowest reaches of the spectrum Is a range of some nine oc taves of light variations, of which, save for our new mechanical senses, we should have never been conscious of but one. The ear hears little of what is going on around us. By means of a micro phone, the tread of a Hy sounds like the tramp of cavalry. Our heat sense is very vague; we need a variation of at least one-fifth of a degree on a thermometer to realize any difference In temperature. Professor Langley's little bolometer will note the differ ence of a millionth of a degree. It it 200,003 times as sensitive as our skin WISE WORDS. Poison Is not autidotcd by a golden cup. Men want hands more than hand outs. The darkness tnake3 its prize the dawn. It takes a great man to lead a small army. Success needs not to apologize foi itself. The greatest realities arc the un realities. It's an ill wind that speaks well of no one. It takes a very small fool to commit great folly. It is hard to find a truth without an error in Its shadow. The powers we use as toys are un fitted for use as tools. We do not defer to-day' 3 punishment by to-morrow's promises. The top wave of excitement, always has a bottom of tlepression. The world needs kindness of heart more than keenness of head. A man has never failed utterly so long as lie has friends left him. Wickedness Is a plant that Is most likely to die if we cease to water it Common sense Is a sort of sixth attri bute which will mistrust all the others. Look out for the honesty of the man who talks a great deal about his honor. A man Is not thirsting for knowledge Just because he asks curious ques tions. The worst cowardice is that of the man who docs wrong for fear of being called a coward. The fool who buries his head in the dust has usually the impudence to de clare that there can be nothing di vine.—Ram's Horn. He tVIH Not Guillotined. Most people believe that the Inventor cf the guillotine perished by means of his own invention. As a matter of fact. Dr. Joseph Ignatius Guillotin, a medical member of the Tiers-IStat, who had adopted an English instrument (the Halifax Maiden) as a means of making the death penalty equal for all, died peacefully In Paris in 1814, at the age of seventy-six. The common blunder was probabiy caused hy an entry In tho annual register on tills day In 1704, to the effect that J. B. V. Guillotine, M. D., of Lyons, was exe cuted lately. "It Is an extraordinary thing that he should die hy an instru ment of his own invention. He died with great reluctance, and declared that when he produced his instrument to the world it was from motives of humanity alone." This alleged motive was founded on fact, hut the date of his death and its manner were as im aginary as the Initials prefixed to his name.—Loudon Daily News. Dlicourncod, "Yes. I am slightly disfigured, moth er," said ten-year-old Tommy Blank, as he turned toward his mother his bruised and battered face, "but the disfigurement Is nothing to my disap pointment." While tils fond mother gazed in lior ror at her son's swollen eyes and bruised face, he continued: "You see, 1 wanted to lead a strenuous life aud be a reformer. I detected Jolmny Green cheating at marbles, and 1 ex- IKised him to tho othoi fellows. He blacked one of uiy eyes. Then Billy Black stole another fellow's ball, and we pint him on trial. I acted as judge and sentenced him to oe tied to a tree for fifteen minutes. When he was let loose lit gave me this other black eye and punched my face. Now I am done with reform. There Is nothing in he lug a reformer. You only get hit all around."—New York Sun. A JUDGE'S WIFE mtm JV-RS. JCDOB JVZ/fLUSTB/^ Wo would caution all peoplo against ac cepting substitutes for Peruna. Insist upon baring Peruna. There is no other inter nal remedy tor catarrh that will take tho place of Peruna. Allow no one to persuade you to the contrary. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at onco to Dr. llartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. llartman, President of Tho Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus, O. And every Distressing Irritation of Skin and Scalp Instantly Relieved by a Bath with And a single anointing with CUTICURA, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. This treatment, when fol lowed in- severe cases by mild doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS, to coof and cleanse the blood, is the most speedy, permanent, and economical cure for torturing, disfiguring, aching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humours, with loss of hair, ever compounded. T TSH CUTICURA SOAP, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, for preserving;, purifying-, and beautifying the skin, for cleans ing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, foe softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings, and chafings, in the form of batfis for annoying irritations and inflammations, or too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and many sanative, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women and mothers, and for all the pur poses of the toilet, bath, and nursery. CUTICURA SOAP com bines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odcurs. It unites in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, the BEST skin and complexii.i soap, and the BEST toilet and baby soap in the world. COMPLETE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL TREATMENT FOR EVERY HUMOUR, j q Consisting of CDTICUHA SOAP, 20C., to elennso tho skin of cruets SH¥ aml KCAlc ' B aml the tuiekened cuticle; CCTICUIIA Oiirr- O MFNT 50c Instantly nlluy Itching, Inflammation, nnd irritation, and eootho and heal; ami COTICUHA RESOLVENT PILLS, 25C., to THF* PB C ° ol UIkI c,caTiac lhc blood. A SINOLI: SET is orten Buflielcrrt to ■ B VI cure the most torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, nnd scaly ■kin, ecaljt, and blood humours, with loss of hair, when nil dec fails. Sold throughout the world. Riltlsh DojM>t: t. hurtorhouso Sq., London. French Depot: 6 Rue do la Palx, Parle. POTTKK Dnuo AXD CHRM. CORP., Sole Props., Roston, U. S. A. ,K°u IC y R / A R^ s<>i ' s ; b i mt Pp'-® Coated) oro a now, tasteless, odourless, economical I i for ,he Col ?, bn ! to< ; i ! l . qu,d Cuntruiu REWLTE::T, P* wcllns for all othor blood purifier* anil humour cure* Knch pill 1J equivalent to cno tcasponnfu. o. liquid RRSOLVE.NT. Put up In KTVV, cap pook.-t via e. containing 00 doses, price, 250. CL-TICURA Pru.9 are altcntlve, antiseptic, tonic,,HO<ll digestive, and beyond question the purest, sweetest, most succeosful and economical blood and skin purifiers, humour cures, and tonic-digestives yet compounded. Bennlne stamped C C C. Never sold In bulk. Bewuro of the dealer who tries to sell "something jost as good." P. N. U. 28, 'O2, Kffi'.V'ir.i Thompsan's Rye Witor She Suffered for Years and Felt Her Case Was Hope less—Cured by Pe-ru-na. Mrs. McAllister writes from 1217 West 33d bl., Minneapolis, Minn., as fo 1A lows: "7 suffered for yearn with, a pain in the small of my back and right side. It interfered often with my domestic arid social duties and I never supposed that. 1 would be cured, as the doctor's medicine did not seem to help mc any. Fortunately a memhf>r of our Order advised mo to try Jvnnifl and gave it such high praise that J de cided to try it. Although I started in with little faith, i felt so much better in a week that 1 Jelt encour aged. '•1 took it faithfully for seven weeks and am happy indeed to be able to say that 1 am entirely cured. tVords fail to express my gratitude. Perfect health once more is the best thing 1 could wish for, and thanks to Perura I enjoy that now."— Minnie E. McAllister. The great popularity of Peruna as a ca tarrh remedy has tempted many people* to imitate Peruna. A great many so-called catarrh remedies and catarrhal tonics are to be found in many drug stores. These remedies can be procured by the druggist much cheaper than Peruna. Peruna can only be obtained at a uniform price, and no druggist can get it a cent cheaper. Thus it is that druggists are tempted to substitute the cheap imitations of Perunr for Peruna. It is done every day without a doubt. ! SEND FOR OUR FREE J '8 CATALOGUE OF FISH- I K J ING TACKLE, BICYCLE®. KODAKS AND BPPINQ 3 KX AND BUMMER SPORT ! IJ 1 . . RFWIC KJN ING OOODQ. 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