CATARRH OF LUNGS. A Prominent Chicago Lady Cured by Pe-ru-na. Mina Maggie Welch, Secretary of the Betsey Koss Educational and Benevolent Society, writes from 328 North State street, Chicago, 111., the following glowing wordi concerning Peruna: "Last fall I caught the most severe cold I ever had in my life. I coughed night and day, and my lungs and throat became so ▼ that I Wftf in All cough Miss Maggie Welch. > remedies nauseated me, and nothing af forded rae relief until my doctor said x rather in a joke, 'I guess Peruna is the only medicine that will cure you.' "I told him that I woula certainly try it, and immediately sent for a bottle. I found that relief came the first day, and as I kept taking it faithfully the cough grad ually diminished and the soreness left me. It is fine."—Maggie Welch. Address the Peruna Medicine Co., Co lumbu*.Ohio, for free literature on catarrh. The Regulation of Clocks. The remarkable pendulum experi ment In the Pantheon at Paris to prove the rotation of the earth, strik ingly illustrates the majestic uses of the familiar clock-maker's device It soems almost impossible of belief, fn an age of well-regulated watches, that the clocks of Galileo's time could not be kept going at a uniform speed. Clocks went by means of a dragging weight, but the pendulum 4 had not been thought of as a regu lator. It occurred to Galileo to make a clock with the pendulum only, but of course, the work of tunning the wheels stopped It. It was left to Huygens, in 1656, 14 (years after the great astronomer's death, to com bine the pendulum with the dragging weight and thus solve the problem of reckoning astronomical time with exactitude. It is proposed to cut a railway tun nel through the mountain known as the Faucille, in the Jura Alps, and so shorten the journey between Paris and Switzerland by two and a half hours. The Gorman government has ap propriated $50,000 to provide motor cars for use in the coming army maneuvers. Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Drops. as a blood purifier, strength and health restor f er and a specific for all atomaoh, liver and kidney troubles leads all other similar med icines in its wonderful sales and marvelous confidence of the people, especially our vast German population. It is not a new and* untried product, but was made and •old more than sixty years ago. The Bmall boy who makes fun of his sis ter and her beau ought to be punished for contempt of court. Thore is more Catarrh in this seotlon of the country than ali other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be inonrablo. For a groat many years doctors lironounced it a local disease and proscribed ocal remedies, and by constantly failing to euro with local treatment, pronouncod it in curable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Choncy k Co., Toledo, 0., istho only constitutional cure on the market. It Is taken Internally in doses from JO drops to a teaspoonful. It acts direot ly on the blood and mucous surfaoes of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Bend for circulars ANI testimonials. Address F. J. CU.LNEX A Co., Toledo, O. j Bold by Druggists, 750. Hall's Family Tills are the best. Every man has his price, and it's goner* ally a good deal less than he marks it up. FlT3oermnuently euro I.No fits or nervous* nasaf tor first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat Narveßestorer. Atrial bottle and treatlsofret Dr.lt. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Piiila., Pa. The girl with the big hat seems to be all head until you begin to talk with her. Mrs.Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for children teetliing,soften the guins, roduoea inflamma tion,allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle The Czar of Russia has established • |eu-hour working day. All creameries use butter color. Why not do as they do use JUNE TINT BUT fSR Color. The anthracite field is limited to a space Of 8300 square miles. Z'lao't Cure Is the best modiclne we ever used for all affections of throat and lungs.—Wm. O. ENDSLET. Vanburen. Ind.. Fob. 10, 1000. ) Gen. Joubert's silver-fitted jaunt- Ing car, which wns captured in South [ ' Africa, is now at Woolwich arsenal. Th'.lwt holiday glftaaretho Every homo should have a good Dictionary, flwa yenr why " """'WEBSTER'S International Dictionary of EN6LISH, Biography, Geography, Fiction, etc. The One Great Standard Authority. The New Edition hna 2J.0U0 new word*. Udt pa WWlliiytr-afnn-. New yiatea throturhmit. Lat Send You !TR FF "A Teitin Pronunciation" * Affords fdensnnt and inatritel'vw anfwtatnmcnt. UuOUlvtrations. Stse *ilos 25-S Inchon. A •■prr'-elisM i.n qu* l AU> ►'Hff™ " * G. 4 C*'SERBIA* CO., Pubs., Springfield, Mart. |>n/% QCV NEW DISCOVERY; U ff% | CB ■ quiok rollnf nd curon worst iiirT Book of tostimonin a and 10 dnyn* treatment Vrre. Dr. H- H. QREEBB BOMB, Boxß, Atlanta, Gs- Thompson's Eyo Water * Farm Topics f Keeping rotntoea. A little air-slaked lime, dusted over the potatoes as they are put in bins, barrels, boxes or In heaps on the cellar floor, will prevent decay. The lime has a purifying effect, absorbing the moisture, and keeping them sweet, dry and fresh. Five cents' worth of lime will be sufficient for twenty bushels. Simple Winter Feeding. To feed mash to ehlekens requires a great amount of time, and leaving this important item out of the question I can get more eggs with dry gralu. In a self-feeding feed box I keep n constant supply of wheat, oats and whole corn in about equal parts, in cold weather, leaving out corn In warm weather. Buckwheat and bar ley may be added to advantage if not too expensive. Keep on hand a con stant supply of oyster shells, grit and fresh water, also one or more cab bages, suspended with a string from ceiling just within reach. Some form of meat must be provided in moderate quantities two or three times a week. Clover, if of good quality, might he substituted for the cabbage. A liberal supply of dust In a large flat box is Important for biddy's health, also a good clean litter to scratch in.—Fred It. Trask, In American Agriculturist. Coop For lien, and Chicks. For several years I lost many young chicks from drowning during heavy showers, and the absence of good coops was to blame for It. The coop here il lustrated is In my estimation almost perfect. It is sixteen feet long, thirty ij PROTECTION FROM RAIN AND SUN. Inches wide, thirty inches high in front and eighteen inches in rear. It is pan titioned so as to accommodate ten hens. Each coop Is accessible from a round hole cut in the back and closed by a cover. On the same s)de near the bot tom is a removable board for cleaning the coop. The front has a hinged cover eighteen Inches wide to close down at night and during rainy weather. The whole rests on five two by fours.—H. Pfaender, in New England Homestead. Grado For Irrigation Dltcliea. A good rule is to get as much grade as possible consistent with preserva tion of the ditches. In no ease must the velocity be sufficient to cause de structive erosion. Some soils being te nacious Will withstand much more water pressure than others. This must ho carefully considered when the amount of water needed for a special tract of land is being figured on. Dif ferent forms of ditches and varying grades adapted to the various soils are possible. For example, two and a half cubic feet of water a second is deliv ered by a ditch three feet wide on top. two at bottom, one foot deep, with a grade of four feet to the mile. The same amount Is carried by n diteli four and a half feet wide at top, three at bottom, one and a half feet deep and with a grade of six Inches to the mile. In a soil which washes easily the latter is the kind to build. Paroling! tig; Dairy Com. It is safe to say that no farmer can buy a cow without risk of loss, as she may be of spiteful disposition, may bring disease on the farm, may yield hilt little or give inferior milk and may prove unprofitable from several causes. To sell her may lie but to get another no better. The presence of two or throe inferior cows in a herd affects the average profit of the whole. No dairyman can buy a cow and know what she Is worth until lie Ims tested her. It is impossible for him to know liow long she will keep up her flow of milk, even If she is apparently a good animal. Such cows will fall off before tliey are eight months in milk ing, and when one becomes dry an other must he procured In her place. When a heifer is raised and her sire and dam are known, the dairyman can depend upon It. If she is from good stock, that she will prove better than the best unknown cow that can he purchased, as it is seldom that the best cows are offered for sale. Suc cess in the dairying can only lie guar anteed when the dairyman pays some attention to breeds. time and Plaster. Dime dissolves best in cold water. It should be on t lie ground when the winter snows melt and at the time of the spring rains. If spread in winter it interferes with other farm work liut little. Lime does the most good on moist, clayey land. It is a substi tute to some extent for draining, for its action on wet, spongy pastures that incline to mass Is to make the surface lighter and more porous. It benefits most soils, hut the action of lime on sand is less apparent. As clover is a lime plant, it is applied with grcnt profit to land just before seeding down. It Is doubtful whether more thau fifty bushels to the acre Is distinctly bene ficial, though many farmers apply one hundred. Plaster is as useful as lime, hut it acts in a different way and witli less regularity. A top-dressing of pias ter on clover in the spring when it Is three or four Inches high has on thou sands of farms been found a great help. The use and profit of sowing plaster Is a question that each farmer must settle for himself by trial.—E. M. llcss, lu The Epitomist. If we could see ourselves as others see us, some of us might wish wc were blind. is Why Because. j |||| H rWI ■ I/l QL Its component parts are all wholesome. HH 1 JmJ yJI VI " I 1 It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects, fell tt /' f * IS ~ - It is wholly free from objectionable substances. HI thfrbest femily laaative- Itcontaimthetotll>rimiplesofp ,„ t! . ralj || It contains the carminative principles of plants. 1 j ||j j| jj ; s p Ure> It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are i 1: pSj If agreeable and refreshing to the taste. |g| re It is gentle. £4) ljf .. ; , .. All are pure. fell H ,S eaSttD " All are delicately blended. j \ Ea| M It is efficacious. All are skillfully and scientifically compounded. \j H It is not expensive, y Its value is due to our method of manufacture and to ' | II I It is good for children.\ the orginality and simplicity of the combination. ,j | | I |jA It is excellent for ladies) To get its beneficial effects buy the genuine. i ! !,j!| p| j|j It is perfectly safe under all circumstances. ___ w X* ;; J <1 It is used by millions of families the world over. ml I IfAHNI A I V fi® if i |J It stands highest, as a laxative, with physicians. I IA J l\Ur |||. jl ' If you use it you have the best laxative the world Fra.ncleco Cal 'i ill! |jl produces. Louisville. ra-nC EC °' New York. N. Y. ||| 'i- j| FOB SALE BY ALL LEADING VRUOOIST3. Oregon's Vigorous Old Man. A well-known citizen of 77 years, who had been out in the country, and had a large paper sack of mushrooms in his hand, which he had gathered himself, was standing at the corner of Fifth and Morrison streets-, Satur day afternoon, waiting for a car. An other old-timo citizen, who will be 80 in a few months, came to the same cor ner to wait for the same car. The man with the mushrooms exhibited them proudly, and said that they were to be put up in glass, adding that he had bought about 100 pounds In tho market, which was al ready put up, but it was dlfll cut to find really fresh ones. He then asked his friend of 79%: "Where have you been lately? I haven't seen you for a week or so." "I have been busy for a week," was the answer. "I had 12 cords of wood to put in, and it was so hard to find anyone to do it, I concluded to put it in myself." "Did you wheel it in in a wheelbarrow?" asked 77. "No, indeed; I had to carry it up a flight of 11 steps, two or three sticks at a time. I got in six cords in three days and finished tho other six this afternoon, and so had the after noon to come down town." As they boarded the car which came up a stranger, who had owerheard their conversation, remarked; "By Jingo! they raise pretty husky old men here In Oregon." Japanese Ingenuity. Here is a good instance of Japan ese ingenuity: diolcs-a was epi, demic at Fuknoka, and a well was suspected of spreading infection. A little boiler was constructed, the necessary tubes sunk, and all the water drawn for drinking purposes is now being boiled, thus checking the further spread of the disease. Haule, o! Edgerton, Wis., tells how she was cured of irregulari ties and uterine trouble, terrible pains and backache by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 41 A while ago my health began to fail because of female troubles. The doctor did not help mc. I remembered that my mother had used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound on many occasions for irregularities and uterine troubles, and I felt sure that it could not harm me at any rate to give it a trial. 41 1 was certainly glad to find that within a week I felt much better, the terrible pains in my back and side were beginning to cease, and at the time of menstruation I did not have nearly as serious a time a6 hereto fore, so I continued its use for two months, and at the end of that time I was like a new woman. I really have never felt better in my life, have not had a sick headache since, and weigh 20 pounds more than I ever did, so I unhesitatingly recommend Vegetable Compound." MRS. MAY HAULS. Ed- Serton, Wis., President Household Iconomics Club. SSOOO forfeit If original of mbove letter irovl./g genuineness cannot be produced. Women should remember there is one tried nnd true remedy for till female Ills, Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. Re fuse to buy any other medicine, you need the best. The Original Carlbs. Very mysterious Is the origin of the fierce savage, now almost extinct, who were in possession of the Caribs, the smaller West Indian islands, when the white man discovered them. They showed a distinct Mongolian character and it would be hard to distinguish a Carlb Infant from a Chinese child. Twenty years ago a Chinaman who had drifted to Dominica declared the Carlbs to bo his own people and married a pure-bred Carlb woman. The resultant child Bhowed no deviation from the native type. The Caribs have dropped their man-eating ways; but in the sixteenth century they scoured the Spanish main In search of human food and from Porto Rico alone are said to have taken more than 5,000 men to be eaten. Though Spaniards, French men, Dutchmen, negroes or Arrowalts were all meat to them, the Caribs seem to have shown an Interesting preference for certain nationalities. Davis says in his "History of the Ca ribby Isands," that "the Carlbbeans have tasted of all the nations that fre quented them, and affirm that the French are the most delicate and the Spaniards are hardest of digestion." Laborde in one of his jaunts in St. Vin cent overtook on the road a communi cative Carlb who was beguiling the tedium of his journey by gnawing at tho remains of a boiled human foot. This man ate Arrowaks only. "Chris tians," he said, "gave him indiges tion." Traveling Libraries In Ohio. Ohio clubwomen, already famous for traveling libraries, are congratulating themselves that SIO,OOO has been ap propriated for tho furtherance of work the coming year. This encouraging re port will be made at the state conven tion at Cleveland this month, in addi tion to the announcement that no less than 900 traveling libraries are now in circulation. This splendid record is largely due to tho first chairman of the library extension committee of the Ohio Federation, Mrs. Edward L. Duchwalter, of Springfield. Through the activities of this committee the state library commission was organ ized, tho two co-operating at every step. Two-thirds of the resulting 900 traveling libraries are used in the women's clubs throughout Ohio. These books a club may keep for one year, if it wishes, and In several instances the commission has consulted individ ual clubs as to the new books which will best serve their purposes. Now that clubwomen's interests are so care fully consulted, and the appropriation has been increased, through their de mands to the present magnificent sum. the Ohio clubwomen have another as piration. It is to push the traveling library into the country districts, and to this end they would have opened on Sunday every Bchoolhouse, with its rows of books. In ths way the lttle traveling library might develop into a large and permanent library at the crossroads. In the Stone Age. Near Marlow, England, has been discovered a quarry whence men of the stone age got flints to make their knives and weapons. In it was found, among other relics of the old workers, a pick of stag's antlers, used liy the prehistoric miner in making his gal lery. The site was called locally "Grimes's graves," and consisted of a number of holes or pits sunk in the ground. It was found that theso Norfolk pits were made by miners in search of clear and large flints, the ready-made material for cutlery chip ped from stone. These ancient workers had quite as keen an instinct for find ing the best bed of flint as a modern prospector has for a bed of gold-bear ing- quartz. and somehow found out that about thirty feet below the surface there was a bed of the largest sillclous pebbles in England. They therefore sunk tho "gravos" and ran galleries from them. In these galler ies were found not only tho flints they had dug but rough lamps, cut in chalk, for them to see by and the picks which they had used to work with. The imple ments were all made of deer's horn, and it was noted that these old antler tools are exactly the same shape as the picks of wood and iron used in the flint quarries of England to-day. The expenses of the city of New York for the first three months or this year amounted t<? $11,99(1,253. POLICE DOGS IN GHENT. Trained Collies Supplant Officers and Chase Burglars. The distinction of the bloodhound of the Southern and Western states as being the ony dog policemen in tho world is gone. The city of Ghent has recently supplemented its regular po lice force in the suburbs by a corps of trained collies, whose duty it is to run down burglars and other evil-doers who might prove too swift for capture by the human custodians of the peace. The step has been taken by the Ghent commissioners of police as the result of an alarming increase in burglary, robbery, with violence, and other crimes committed by night in the su burbs. The vigilance of the police proved unequal to cope with the evil, although their numbers were consider ably augmented. The police dogs are of the breed of Swiss-Belgian sheep dogs, and are trained most carefully. They accompany the policemen on their nightly rounds, and not only pro tect them from being attacked by sur prise, but by the quickness of their instinet in scenting the presence of men they make it impossible for any evil-doer to lurk in tire darkest corner undetected. Great precaution, how ever, is taken that the dogs may do as little harm as possible, and to this end their management and diet is cnrefully regulated. They are kept in kennels which are cleaned daily and disinfected weekly, and they are frequently ex amined by a veterinary surgeon. That tho pangs of hunger may not tempt them to take a slice out of any of their victims, they are given two good meals a day, one at 12:30 and the other at 7 o'clock, each consisting of bread, rice and meat, and at midnight they are given a biscuit for supper. When on duty each dog is armed with a spiked collar, and bears a medal with a number to show its identity. The sheets of steel for pen-making are, in their original condition, eight feet long and three feet wide. From these strips are cut wide enough to permit of tho cutting of three or four pens. Asthma Will I I I II ■ 111 111 II ■■ "One of my daughters had a terrible case of asthma. We tried almost everything, but without re lief. We then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and three and one-half j bottles cured her."—Emma Jane 9 Entsminger, Langsville, O. y Ayer's Cherry Pectoral I certainlycuresmanycases I of asthma. 1 And it cures bronchitis, hoarseness, weak lungs, whooping-cough, croup, winter coughs, night ; coughs, and hard colds. ! Thrco sizes: enough for sn ordinary cold; for bronchitis. hearse- j lor chronic cases nnd to heep on hand. I J. C. AYIaR CO., Lowell, Mass. ' I iwrr. l T.". i • 1 "" -: fmhXCSXHBtV— Genuine stamped CCC. Never sold In bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." Portabl® [Sa^rJAills The city of Philadelphia has in its treasury more than $75,000 belong ing to persons -who never called for it when their bonds, registered and non-registered, matured and became payable, or who left uncollected cou pons on their bonds. Near Leeds, England, is a summer house made wholly of buttons of every imaginable kind, and in the same county is a room, the walls of which are adorned entirely by the ribbons of cigars, nearly 20,000 of these being represented. The shoe manufacturers have made and sold for the first half of this year 175,000 cases more than last. 0 ■ ■ ..n INo pn!n-cure of any" .nd has ever succeeded 1 • In competing with ST. JACOBS OIL. Its virtues 1 • have been proclaimed by millions of restored ' • sufferers, who have been cured of RHEUMA- 1 1 TISM, NEURALGIA. SCIATICA and many ' * other painful diseases by its use. It has been 'J aptly termed the great conqueror of pain. 1 ' From Its use despair gives way to Joy. It heals ' ' quickly and surely. It 13 simply marvelous. ' ' 25c. and 50c. sues. ' ' ITS GREAT PENETRATING POWEB 1 1 BEACHES THE CAUSE OP PAIN. 1 ' ESTABLISHED FIFTY YEARS. A A \ J I PMM ii j... ■ ■ ■ * §-§ - ■ a 7 ITTTttttttttttttttt V vmptTß For four years I had been troubled with constipation, which brought on piles. I was induced to try Ripans Tabules. The results were better than I expected. As a regulator of the bowels I believe Ripans are without an equal, and I am never without them now. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a -uipnlv tor a vpar. Capsicum Vaseline PliT IP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES. A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard can* of). r i U-t'T, n.l will n<>t 1 lint, r tin- most cliente ekin. The j.nin nilnytfiran 1 ninth <p illti hof tiii- article ore wnnderiul. It will s j> the tooth ache at ones and reli v.-h <udarlie m l s-ntlca. We recommend it as 1h" Us' and ales' external counter-Irritant ltnowp, also s i.n xternal retnedv lor '.ftiiie in the e'ugt and a oinaeli a d all rheu matic u-uralirii and trouty cum, lal.if- A trial will i rovo w hat we rial >i for it. nod It will U- t<>niid to ])• invaluable in the hous••hold. Manv people say 'lf is the Ust ot all your pre rti- ns." Iri , 13 cents, at ell dru<r.-is s, t o h-r dealers, or by b. diiuf this a aount o> us in pos.ago stamps we will send you u tul>e by mail No article snonld he accented by *h- public unls the same carries our label, us otherwise it is not GisedniiiglliteluiiiGo. 17 Stat; Street, New York City,
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