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
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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.
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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
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MAPE<Sr /AMS
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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