A GO-Cent Calendar For Six rent*. If you want one of the handsomest cal endars vou ever saw, send C cents postage to the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., Calendar Dept., 9 Murray St., New York. It is lOx 20 inches, printed in 12 colors, and a per fect beauty. There are lots of calendars •ojd for 50 cents nowhere near as pretty. It 19 difficult sometimes to draw the line between contentment and egotism. FlT3parniine.itlyoured.No fits or nervon fiessaf tor lirat day's use of Dr. Kline's GreV: f2trial bottlo nnd troafcisefrea j Er.B. H.KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Pfaila.,Pa. The musical composer is not the only fellow whose notes go to protest. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, r® Anoaa Inflamma tion, allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. abottlo The happiest people are those who are easily flattered. Deafness Cannot Tie Cured bv local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear.* There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by consti tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of tho mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is tho result, and unless tho inflam mation can bo taken out and this tubo re stored to its normal condition, hearing will l bo destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surface. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any / case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) thaC | cannot bo cured by ilaH's Catarrh Cure. Cir ■ cularssent free. F.J.OIIENEY& Co.,ToIedo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family-Pills are the best. Talcing the United States as a whole the census shows that one person in every forty ha 3 a teleobonn. Impoliteness of Railway. Patrick McCabe, lately a section band on the 'Frisco road at Wichita, Kan., is suing that corporation for damages for injuries received while in Its employ. Ills plea is that while working the foreman spoke to him "in a loud, profane and very boisterous manner, thereby causing this plaintiff to be nervous and excited and there by causing him to place himself In a position of great bodily danger, and to a greater degree than he otherwise would have done." The orders were given "In a very loud and boisterous manner, backed up by many oaths. . such as 'Be smart,' 'Bo quick,' and 0 'Move yourself,' etc." Kansas section hands seem to be sensitive plants.— Ex. An Animal Engineer. Animal instinct often gives a valua ble hint to human reason. The beav er docs not build his dam straight across tho stream, hut with an arch against the current, his instinct tell ing him that in this form it will better resist floods and the impact of float ing Ice. This hint from the little ani mal has been acted on in many cases lately, notably in the building of the Great Bear Valley dam in California. Engineers as a rule, build dams straight across the stream, chiefly, perhaps, to save material, but the arched dam is the more economical in tllG Inner run. There are plenty of people who have be come depressed and discouraged, because dry, hacking cough hangs to them Wcontinually. They have taken much medi cine, mostly of the advertised quack sort, nothing like Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea, the discovery of a then noted German phvsician GO years ago. We do not say that this will cure a case Where the Jungs are badly diseased, for it will not, end up to this date there is nothing that will cure under these conditions, hut on the other hand, if the lungs are not hard hit, the patient should take Dr. August Kocnig's Hamburg Breast Tea, a cup full every night on going to bed, have it hot, drink slowly, then every other night rub the throat and top portion of the lungs with St. Jacobs Oil. cover with oil silk, lot it remain an hour, then remove. Eat good, plain, nourishing food, live in tho open air a. much as possible. By all means Bleep as near out of doors as possible, that is, windows wide open, except in the very severe weather. Take a cold sponge bath every morning; then immediately rub the body vigorously with a coarse towel. Take Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Drops every othe • day according to directions. One can buy the three remedies for $1.25 of any reliable druggist. Begin the treatment ut once, and see how much better you will be within a week's time. Twenty years ago England imported 29,- \ 000 horses annually now the number is 324,000. In German universities about one-fourth of all the youug men study medicine. Jam sure I'lso's Curo for Consumption saved MY life throo years ago.—Mas. THOMAS UOB INS,MupIo St., Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17,1900. It's because courtship is such a pose that marriage is often such a failure. Bronchitis j "I have kept Aver's Cherry Pec- jc toral in my house for a great many U years. It is the best medicine in H the world for coughs and colds." S 1 J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y. g i—- ■ ■ ' s All serious lungS troubles begin with a I tickling in the throat, j You can stop this at first in a single night with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Use it also for bronchitis, consumption, hard colds, and for coughs of ail kinds. Three sires: 25c., 56c., SI. All druggists. Conault your doctor. If he says take it, then (lo as fie bhvh. If ho tolls you not to talto it, thon don't take it. lie knows. Leave it with him. We are willing. J. C. AY Eli CO., Lowell, Mass. ■■IIIIIIU' —s'iiMgwrsm I" "nENSION U'u'h ntoii?n,'§ ■ Syrtt lu civil war. 15 adjudicating claims, atty since HD ADQV NEW DISCOVERY; RiT^e tiJf fp£ B B quick rolief and euros worst cases- Rook ot testimonial and 10 dnya* troattnont I Free. Dr. H- H. OBEEK'O BOMS, Boxß. Atlanta, Ga if Ift C * I ?<l I A J AI.'.MS ot ail sizes at low prices. If 11 ill 1N A Write to H. W. \v elsa, Myr. ■ iilUjlilfiuf ImmiiXftUon, Emporia. V a. Natural History Lesson. Said little Bessie, "Come and see This monstrous insect on the tree, With gauzy wings and goggle eyes; Come, eister, quick! before it flies. What is it? Tell me if you can." "How ignorant you are," said Nan; "Why. that's a darning-needle, Bess; We'd better run and hide, I guess. Because that awful bug, you know* Might get into our ears and sew Them un so very, very tight We couldn't hear a single mite." "Oh, now," said Bess, "I plainly so© The creature is a sewing bee; I've often heard them talked about, And this is one, I do not doubt." —Detroit Free Press. INGENIOUS SAWDTOWER TOYS. A gre.it deal of fun may be had by t little folks out of a cartload of sand and the home-made toys here de scribed; TITE INCLINED RAILWAY. To make an inclined railway take a stout sheet of cardboard four feet long and a foot and a half wide, and bend the lower end five inches from the bottom at a steep angle. Rest on books and fasten two strips of card board two feet long and an inch and a half high to its upper end. These will guide the cars directly under the sand hole, and enable them to start on their downward journey straight. The sand box is nine inches wide and three inches above the incline, and is held in position by little sticks run through it. Directly under the sand W Ay ~J''•• " 1 -■* MAPE<Sr /AMS - - F&WEB* IIOW TO HAVE FUN WITn SAND. Some suggestions as to home-made toys. holes cut largo holes In the Incline. Place spools on the front box supports, as shown In the illustration, and hold inposition half an inch above the in cline by thrusting pins through sup ports just under the spools. Make cars of half of a small pasteboard box. The wheels are pill-boxes, the back ones larger than the front, and are held on the axle by little gobs of sealing-wax placed on the axle at each side. The back of the car Is set higher than the front When the cars are finished tie a piece of thread to one of them, pass it around the spools—which should re volve easily, and then tie the other end of the thread to the second enr, so that when one enr rests against the spool at the top the other one will be upon the steep angle at the bottom. When one car is tilled with sand -it rushes down, and draws up the empty SAND-POWER ENGINE. With the exception of the large wooden spool cylinder the sand-power engine illustrated is made of card board. The fly-wheel is six inches in diameter. The support for the walk ing beam is ten inches high, the walk ing beam nine inches and a half long, and the piston seven inches and a quarter long. The base upon which the engine rests is a shoe-box cover. The axle of the fly-wheel is a hatpin, which runs through two upright curd board supports, each three inches and a half in height, placed three inches and a half apart. The pins for the different parts to work upon, after being set In position, are held in place by putting little gobs of sealing-wax on the pointed ends. Fasten to the axle between enrdboard uprights four pieces of paper two inches by an inch and a quarter, and turned about a quarter* of an Inch from each end, so as to hold the falling sand (see illus tration). BAND-POWER BOAT. The sand-power hoat illustrated is made of wood, and is fourteen Inches long, five Inches wide and one inch deep, and hollowed out. At four inches from the stern cut a hole through the boat three inches and a half wide and two inches long, and around this fasten a cardboard strip one inch wide. To the back of this strip fasten another piece an inch and three-quarters long, with a notch cut lu the top of It for the shaft to rest in. The power wheel Is of cardboard two inches and a half in diameter, with six pieces of paper one Inch by j one luch and a half, bent over at the end, fastened to It. Fasten this wheel to the head of a hatpin. Place a piece of straw two inches long in a hole through the stern; pass the hatpin through it, resting the head of it in the notched cardboard. The propeller blades are two triangular pieces of thiu wood (jne inch by one inch and a half, and fasten to the point of the shaft. The sand-box of pasteboard is fastened to two light uprights of wood, so that sand will fall on the paper-flanges. •< SEE 3AW. To make the seesaw which is illus trated take a strip of cardboard eight een inches in length and two in wid.'.!, and at three inches and a half fro-.n one end first cut a slip crosswise to within a quarter of an inch of each side, and then from each of this cut upward an inch and a quarter. Bend the piece of cardboard downward, and at such an angle thai sand will slide from it when the seesaw is lowered to the ground at that end. Paste strips of paper one inch In width at each end of the opening in the cardboard and beiul backward at an angle, as shown in the illustration given below. Thrust a hatpin through the exact centre of the cardboard see saw, and allow this to rest in the two •notclied cardboard supports, which should he five inches high, three inches apart, and fastened to a square of I cardboard. j Make cardboard figures—one slight ly heavier than the other—and attach these to the seesaw with sealing-wax, taking care to place the heavier figure at the farthest end from the sand-box. —Philadelphia Record, Flectrlc Fishing. i This is a very amusing game, espe cially for the little ones. Let lis first prepare our outfit. Take a stick of wood about two inches long, to serve as a pole, a piece of thread is the line, and the hook is made of a pin, as shown in the Illus tration. On the head of the pin a round piece of sealing-wax Is used as halt. Cut small fish out of thin paper and draw mouth, gills, etc.. with the help of a colored pencil. rinee the fish on a table and start to fish. Each one has his own hool! and line. He who gets the most fish gets a prize. Everybody knows that rubbing a g"~IT" - I ■ Uiirr —lianiiim r , 11.. I <SS=f "" i n 1 1 is piece of sealiug-wax with a woolen cloth electrifies it, and then that it will attract light articles, such as paper. If you want to win bo sure to so electrify your bait.—Now York Tri bune. Owns "Wealth to Accident. Joseph U. Rosenthal, a wealthy Mon tana pioneer, who died the other day, owed his riches to accident. In the early days he kept a miners' boarding house, and one of his hoarders, being unable to settle his bill, gave Mr. Ro senthal an interest in a claim he was working. Shortly afterward a pay lead was struck, and the mine became one of the most profitable in that re gion. Adopt tlio Rolo of Fi;U-ir*. In British India there have been dur ing the past thirty or forty years quite a number of Englishmen who, yielding to gome monomania, have adopted the role of fakir and have ended their days as hermits, subjecting themselves to all those dreadful forms of asceticism penance practiced by the Indian dervishes. < Form Topics p Ttrw-wrjj-srwwww-ww-w Proper Oar© of Milk. While milk absorbs odors !n the stable, yet the fact of cooling the milk does uot prevent the absorption of odors or gases. It Is well known that cold water absorbs gases, and milk Is no exception. After the milk from the cows has been cooled It must be kept in a cool place and the cans tightly closed. Saving Labor In tb Spring. A clean soil In the fall, and the weeds destroyed before they seed, will save one-half the labor in the spring. Seeds of weeds start off in growth very early, and the farmer cannot keep them out of the way. The time to destroy weeds is when they are just coming up through the ground, In spring, and by burning the refusoin the fall. I.can Pork Preferred. In the foreign markets lean pork Is preferred, and there is a growing de mand for more lean pork at home. Loan pork can be produced at less cost than may be supposed, and the hogs will grow faster and give heavier weights than when the pork is pro duced solely from corn. It. Is done by feeding, in addition to corn, skimmed milk, bran, shorts, linseed meal, beans, peas, clover and other nitrogenous foods, which not only promote growth, but also increase the weight. Making a Cement Floor. To make a cement floor fill in with four Inches of broken stone or coarse gravel and pound It down well. Mix one barrel cement with eight barrels coarse sand, and then with water, so it is quite thin. Let this fill all the open ings and cover the stones to a depth of one Inch. After it sets and before It dries, put on a coat one-quarter to one half inch thick, made with one part Portland eement to three parts of good sand. Trowel this down perfectly smooth, and sprinkle it occasionally with water so It does not dry too quickly. An R Recti ve Drag. The best drag I ever saw Is made as follows: Take four pieces of hard wood, B, four by four Inches, six feet long. Set these with one of the corners down and parallel to each other about eighteen inches apart. Mortice them on top at A, and fasten cross pieces 4#=:.=> J/i-e f with holts. If the bar from an old mower knife is screwed to the lower edge of the first bar it will improve the cutting power. This is far superior to the solid drag or float, as it crushes and levels at the same time and will never clog up.—Chas. Bridwell, in The EpitomisL Advice on Feeding. Ninety per cent, of the failures with poultry may be traced to a wrong sys tem of feeding. Tht kinds of food may be right, but the way and time of feeding may be all wrong. The diges tive organs of the fowls are disar ranged and It requires weeks, and even months, to get them back to their nor mal condition. Man's years are lengthened by care ful dieting, and his days of usefulness made many. So with the hen—by a systematic way of serving her food she Is kept in continual heal 111 and is profitable to her owner. Oats, corn, wheat, barley, in fact all the cereals, are good food for laying hens, but they j must be fed with a system, not in a random, careless way. | A variety stimulates the .appetite and I helps to keep the hens healthy; still j there is more than health to bo sought. The hens must be kept in condition to lay, and this can only he done by sup plying those foods which contain the properties of the egg. There is much to learn about feeding, and each flock will demand a different way, so that experience alone should be our guide.— Home and Farm. Tnbrecdlntc Corn? The effects of growing corn where only the pollen from the tassel of the stalk was applied to the silk on the same stalk, and the use of pollen from other stalks has been tested, with the result that even where the pollen was furnished in abundance and applied with care from the same stall:, the yield was about half the number of ears, and onc-tliird the weight of grain produced that resulted from cross-fer tilization with pollen from ether stalks. This seems to he an almost universal law of nature, and there are so few exceptions that they are not worthy of ennmerntlug. Many have noticed that a stalk of corn standing alone seldom produces perfect oars, if it produces any, no matter how rich the soil. Some even go so far as even to object to the old-fashioned method of pulling off the stickers, more because they think the pollen from them is needed than because of the weakening of the plant, but as the suckers seem to he chiefly caused by root pruning when the ground is worked too deep between the rows, and as the custom now Is to cultivate shallow and often, there are not as many suckers as used to be. Gross-fertilization of corn may go on at quite a distance in a dry and windy day, lmviug been known to take place a quarter of a mile away, under fa vorable conditions, ami one who de sires to grow a pure seed should re member this.—The Cultivator. TeTU. S. MINISTER TO ENGLAND Commends Peruna to All Catarrh Sufferers. JjewtJ lion. Lewis E. Johnson is the son of the late Revcrdy Johnson, who was United States Senator from Maryland, also Attorney-General under President Johnson and United States Minister to Euglaud, and who was regarded as the greatest constitu tional lawyer that ever lived. in a recent letter from 1000 F Street, N. W., Mr. Johnson says: "No one should longer suffer from catarrh when Peruna is accessible. To tii j/ knowledge it has caused relief to so many of my friends and ac quaintances, that it Inhumanity to commend its use to all persons suffer ing with thlsdlstressingdisorderof thchum:msystem. , '-Lewis E. Johnson. Catarrb Poison*. Catarrh is capable ot changing all the life-giving secretions of the body into scalding fluids, which destroy and lnilanie every part they come in contact with. Ap plications to the tdaees affected by catarrh can do little good save to soothe or quiet disagreeable symptoms. Hence it is that gargles, sprays, atomizers and inhalants only serve as temporary relief. So long as the irritating secretions of catarrh con tinue to be formed so long will the mem branes continue to be inflamed, no matter what treatment is used. There is but one remedy that has the dc- A PLANET'S MOUNTAINS. Great Elevations on Venus Have Been Discovered by an Astronomer. The star gazers are continually see ing new wonders in the worlds that surround this one. Of course the great mass of the public, having no rceatis of verifying or disputing successfully the statements of the men of science are obliged to accept them as true. With Mars and its intricate system of canals, if not its actual inhabitants, thanks to the delicate investigations of late years, everybody is pretty well acquainted. Now Herr Arendt, who Is a German and therefore not a trifler, announces the discovery of mountains on Venus. To observers hitherto the planet has seemed wrapped in an im penetrable envelope of cloud, which, when near the earth, is the cause of its astonishing brilliancy, but Herr Arendt, who has had the instruments of the Urania observatory at Berlin to work with, considers that he has detected markings on Venus which in dicate the presence of great elevations scon from time to time through the clouds surrounding It. Novel as the suggestion is, it is but a revival of an old idea. Long ago Sehroter fancied he saw evidence of mountains on Venus in the raggedness of the termi nator—that is. the line where the light and shade meet, such as the inner line of the crescent moon. He went so far as to measure them and announced that they were 25 miles high. But then no one had believed him. No Place for a Lazy Cat. In the wine cellars at Limehouse in London are 20 mile 3 of lanes, lined on each side by hugo casks of wine. They are a paradise for rats and the only way in which the pests are kept within reasonable limits as to numbers is by employing a small army of 300 cats. These cats must catch rats or starve and the result Is that they are probably the most skilled force of rat catchers in the world. As soon as a cat becomes old and lazy she Is re placed by a young and aclivo one, so that the morale of the force never suffers from bad example. Capsicum Vaseline PUT UP IN COLLAPSIBLE TU3ES. A Sul stitnte for nn<l Superior to Mustard or any plfi-t. r, and will n..t Hi.-.tor the most delicate Hkin. in© l ain ullnylnvnml cura'ivo qualities ot tliJsartifloaiH wGiidonul. It will atop tlio toofh fki ii" a" oiigg and r.'lii© li-a.{;•.<•!: ami s.-iv it-:i. e roconiniondit u.-t lli© best and nfcßt external eouu.er-irntum known, also n>, an external remedy for nains in the el,.*; and stomach and all ihou inu.ic, ueuraliric and p-outy comi'lainta. A trial will prove what \vo eluiili fur it, and it will be found to l><> invaluably in tno household. Many i>eoi le suy •It is the best cl all your ] reparations." ir.ee, cents, at ull druL'KU'tß. or otlior dealers, & to —• i'stagiffliiifactiiCo. 17 State Street, New York City. Genuine stomped CC C. Never sold in tuik. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "Something just an good." sirable effect, and that remedy is Peruna. This remedy strikes at once to the roots of catarrh by restoring to the capillary ves sels their healthy elasticity. Peruna is not a temporary palliative, but a radical cure. ISend for Dr. Hartman's latest book, sent free for a short time. Address The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co., Colum bus, Ohio. If you do not derive prompt and satisfac tory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. llartmati, giving a full state ment of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. liartman, President of The Hartmaii Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. -TT—7-r— — 'ii" "rrmiwl After I would eat a meal 1 would ! be suddenly taken with such terrible ; cramps that I would have to walk bent over, and 1 would Lave to loosen my elotbes. It would be a couple of hours before I would ob tain relief. One day 1 beard about lUpans Tabules, and sin.ee I have taken a couple of the 5-eeut boxes I bare not bad a single attack. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply lor a year. Earn SSO per iaw Handwriting Expert? are paid f'-om Sfifl to Sloo j.o* day iu court canes. Wa teach "Ornnholotry." the Hrionce ot Handing Cham, tor fr>mi Handwriting, by mail. Booklet free. !v A I'ill* l,U< V I'L'H. CO., Fifth Ave., New York.
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