ran TWENIY-ONE YEARS Catarrh Remedies and Doctors Failed —Pe-ru-na Cured. • Mil. A. E. KIDD. • • • ELGIN, ILL.—In a very recent commu nication from tliis place cornea the news that Mr. Arthur Ernest Kidd, a well known architect of that city, has made complete recovery frpm catarrh of the head, from which he had suffered for nearly a quarter of a century. Ho writes from 18 Hamilton ave.: "I am 42 years of age, and have had ca tarrh of the head for over half of my life, os a result of scarlet fever, followed by typhoid fever. I got so bad that I was al moat constantly coughing and clearing my throat. The catarrh greatly impaired my eyesight, and the hearing in one ear, and reduced my weight to 110 pounds. "I tried nearly every catarrh remedy ad vertised, besides a great many different physicians' treatments, all of which failed "I had heard and read of Peruna, and finally decided to try it two months ago. I have now taken seven bottles, and weigh 172 pounds. Never felt happier or merrier. Feel tip top."—A. E. KIDD. If you do not derive prompt and satis y factory results from the use of Peruna, r write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and ho will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. AskyourDruggistforafreßPs-ru-naAlmanac Curious Chinese Customs. Of all the quaint industries which furnish a livelihood for a corps of workers there is none more worthy o£ comment than the sacrod furnace of Mon-War, erected and supported by the religious fervor and reverential sentiment with which the Chinese re gard thoir letters and papers. In every Chinatown, however small, a building dedicated to Confucius can be found, and to every almond-eyed celestial that building is sacred. Sacred from the Jinscription over the door to the blue Asmoke that curls up and mingles with ' the fog, for It is the oven wherein are incinerated ail the letters, newspapers and old books of the Chinese quarter. Every scrap of paper upon which a Chinese character has been written or printed, when its purpose in the bus iness or social work has been accom plished, is burned in a perfumed blaze, and the ashes are disposed of with reverential care. That they may not become contaminated with the touch of human fingers, they are, with sacred shovels, scooped into sacks and are carried out to sea, where the tide runs swift, and there they are given into the care of old Neptune, who re spects equally the customs of all na tions. A German lawyer has left $50,000 for the foundation of a school of cookery. F Many women and doctors do not recognizo the real symptoms of derangement of the female I organs until too late. k " I had terrible pains along 1 my fcpinal cord for two years and suffered dreadfully. I was given different medicines, v wore plasters; none of these things helped me. Heading of tho cures that Lyclia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound has brought about, I somehow felt that it was what . I needed and bought a bcrttlo to take. llow glad I am that I did so: two bottles brought me immense re lief, and after using thnee bottles more I felt new life and blood surging through my veins. It seemed as though there had been a regular houso cloaning through my system, that all the sickness and poison had been taken out and new life given me instead. I have advised dozens of my friends to use Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound. Good health is indis pcnsiable to complete happiness, and J Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable C Compound has secured this to me." MRS. LAURA L. BREMER, Crown Point, Indiana, Secretary Ladies Relief Corps. SSOOO forfeit If original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. Every sick woman who does not understand her ailment should write Mrs. Pinkham, .Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. RIDING A LA MODE. When Lady Betty took the air In old-time London town, They tucked her in a quilted chair-- Self, pompadour and gown; And swinging on its gilded staves In silken poinp and pride, Betwixt two sturdy, liveried knaves My lady had her ride. Across the seas her daughter went, 'Mid mingled doubts and fears; And in Virginia she spont Some iifty happy years. But when she rode, with bow and smile, Along Colonial ways, T was in a coach of massive style, Behind two ambling bays. In turn her daughter left the nest, Tho chroniclers aver, And out into the rugged west A .husband fared with her. Now raging vale and mountain o'er Tho dauntless pair we find Together jogging—he before, She, pillion-perched, behind. To-day her daughter's daughter needs Not coach nor horse nor man; She hath no use for ambling steeds, Nor pillion nor sedan; But o'er the pave she smoothly glides, With whirl of silent wheel, As here and there she deftly guides Her nimble, swift 'mobile. —Edwin L. Sabin, in St. Nicholas. "WlrlEN " r JOHNWje "Dearie," said Johnnie Spearing's mamma, stepping out on the hack porch, where he was playing, "I wish PUZZLE OF THE MISSING TURKS. Tlierc are two more Turks watchlngthls dancer. you'd run over to the store aud order some things for supper for me." "Oh, mamma!" said Johnnie, shrug ging his shoulders in impatience, "can't Maggie go?" "No," said the mother quietly, "she cannot go now. and I wish you'd go for me. However, I don't command it this time, Johnnie; I only say I wisli you'd go." "Well, I don't see how I can go now —unless you make me, mamma," said Johnnie, picking up his playthings and looking grumpy. "I was only just be ginning to have a good time." Now, what Johnnie really meant to do was to wait until his mother asked him again, and then ask her for a < c_~ penny for going. But his mother said no more; perhaps she had a reason for her silence. At all events she went back into the house again without speaking, and Johnnie forgot all about her request presently, and never thought of it again until Maggie called him to supper Just as It was growing dark. Johnnie's papa and grandpa and grandma and Auntie Belle were all away, as it happened, so the long table looked very big and empty when just Johnnie and x momma sat down to It. But that night It looked longer and more empty than ever. Johnnie saw why, presently. There wasn't n thing upon the table but a pitcher of milk, a plate of bread and some spoons and glasses. And Johnnie's mamma, after pouring out a glass for her little hoy and passing him the bread, placidly began to eat bread and milk herself. "What have we got for supper to night, mamma?" askccl Johnnie, think ing this a delicate way of beginning. "Nothing nt nil but what you see," said liis mam ma, cheerfully. "Plenty of good people have far less, my child." "Why " Johnnie was beginning, when he remembered. "I s'pose it's 'cause I didn't go to the store when you asked me." he said, blushing and hanging his head. His mother nodded quietly and passed him more bread. It tasted delicious, that bread and milk, and they had more bread and milk, with sugar in it, for desert. And yet somehow Johnnie didn't really en joy his supper. It made him ashamed to remember how ungracious aud rude he had been. "I'm—l'm sorry, mamma," he said, sharae-facedly, when It was time to say good-nlglit, "and—maybe—maybe, I'll remember to be nicer another time." And although his' mother forgave him readily—perhaps because she for gave him so readily—he really has been nicer and more obliging ever since.—Chicago Record-Herald. LITTLE MAN FRIDAY. " Like most boys' dogs, Friday was a mongrel. It would be much easier to say what lie was not than what he wns, for he was neither retriever, pointer, St. Bernard, Newfoundland, bull nor mastiff—nor anything else tlmt was well-bred or clearly defined; but he wns intelligence Itself. lie was never tired, never cross; he was always ready to eat or sleep. Ho wns of medium size, and ho had a yellow-brown cont of short stiff linlr marked by n darlt stripe running down his backbone. Nature had cnrelessly given him four misfit feet much too large for him. At first sight people were apt to pity him for having to carry about such lengtli and weight of caudal appendage as lie had, and declared he should have heen diverced from it in his earliest youth; but once they saw the very tempest of joy that lumpy long tnll could express—saw it like a liarp-string vibrnting with love and devotion—they felt there was not one inch too much of it. In his ridic ulous body he showed all the flighty activity of a fox-terrier, - while in his rare moments of quietude his face wore n truly mnstiff-like gravity.— Clara Morris, in St. Nicholns. ANCIENT CRADLES. In manuscripts of the ninth and tenth centuries there are pictures of cradles formed of parts of tree trunks dug out, with holes bored through the sides for the passage of straps intended to tie the baby down in his bed. The dug-out cradles are still common in modern Greece. In consulting the manuscripts and bas-reliefs of the fif teenth century It is noticed tlint the cradles are no longer mere baskets or beds on rockers, but little swinging bods between two pillars, nearly like the modern hammock. Ono Indian Family** Mean*. Thirty-four of the Choctaw ludkinß who arrived at Ardmore from Mer idian, Miss., are of one family. T. B. Griflln, eighty-four ywirs old, wns the father or grandfather t>f them all. Each one of them gets the equivalent of S3OOO, including 320 acres of land. Conversational Art. The art of conversation is not know ing what one ought to say, but what one ought not to say.—New York Press. TURRETS f-OR COAST DEFENSE. Plant for Their Construction Owns Its Being to the Spanish War. Tho Unitod States will shortly pos sess a plant capable of turning out for coast fortifications, and complete in every detail, the world-famed Gruson turret. Not only is the plant assured, but work has actually commenced on the erection of the necessary buildings, and to such an extent have the plans progressed that the costing of the plates for the intitial turret could, if required, be commenoed In six months hence. The ralsoa d'etre of the new industry is primarily tho recommenda tion of the Endicott Board of Ordin ance and Fortifications, calling for em placements of 22 turrets at coast points of the Unitod States; but in the main the now plant owes Its being to the conditions which confronted this coun try on tho breaking out of Wie war with Spain In 1898, and to existing condi tions which make Imperative tho adop tion of a system impregnable to gun attack. The new organization is called the Gruson Iron Works, and will carry on the manufacture of all de scriptions of chilled Iron work and heavy oastings requiring special strength and resistance for naval and marine work. The interests associat ed with the new company Include the largest manufacturers of chilled iron in America, and the works will be equipped with everything requisite for the manufacture of tho largest taiilled castings, to which tho particular plant for finishing Gruson turrets can be quickly added. The elte for the new works is on the banks of the Delaware nt the little town of Eddystone, and distant only a few miles from the city of Chester, Pa. This site was selected largely because of its tide-water facili ties, and with special reference to the needs which must arise Incident to the shipment of heavy turret equipmonL Ownership of Street Trees. Should street trees be owned and controlled by tho city or by tho abut ting property owners? The weight of opinion among those entitled to speak with some authority on the question is that municipal ownership of street trees Is necessary for the best results, and is besides the natural condition of things. Washington City is a famil iar oxample of a systematic and suc cessful development of street shade trees on all the thoroughfares where trees are desirable. Street trees through private ownership are neces sarily a thing of shreds and patches and subject to the caprice of unin structed owners and the barbarous butchery of tramp pruners. Neverthe less, there are under private ownership some good results ill wayside trees here and there, while public ownership is not always a success. City ownership and control of trees is the beet If that control is enlightened and sympathetic. The Population of China. Some doubt has been thrown by rec ent travelers upon the correctness of the accepted notion that China Is a land of teeming population. It has been asserted that the human hives along the seaboard and tho great rivers of China ought not to be taken as basis for estimates; that In those parts of tho empire, which lie off tho main routes of traffic (the natural and ar tificial watercourses) the population cf China Is comparatively thin. A cen suse recently taken by the Pekln gov ernment for the purpose of assesss lng taxes to meet the indemnity pay ments seems, however, to prove the ac curacy of tlie older estimates. The census shows that the 18 provinces of China proper contain 407,737,305 inhab itants; that Manchuria has 8,500,000, and Mongolia, Thibet and Chinese Turkestan a little over 10,000,000. The total poulation of the empire Is 42G,- 447,325, according to thl3 enumeration. The absolute reliability of Asiatic sta tistics is questioned; nevertheless, the agreement, of the results of the census with the accepted estimates Is so close as to invite confidence. The statement that the Chinese Empire contains one third of the human race will hereafter be regarded more than evor as an ap proximate truth. Sweden has 324 cb-operatlve socle ties, with a membership of over 8,000. HenaM of Ointments Vor Catarrh That Contain Meronrj, 03 mercury will surely dostroy tho sense ot Bmcll and completely dorungo tho whole sys. torn when entering It through tho mucous surfaces. Such urtiolesshould never he used except on proscriptions from roputablo phy sicians, as tho damage they will do is ton fold t/o the good you con posaihly, derive from thorn. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F, J. Chenoy ft Co., Tolodo, 0.. contains no mercury, and is taken intern ally, acting directly upon tho blood and muooussurfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure to got tho genuine. It is token in ternally, and Is made in Tolodo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney ft Co. Testimonials froe. £P°Sold by Druggists;, price, 75c. porbottlo. Hall's Family Fills are the best. It sometimes happen* that a fool girl will throw a millionaire overboard' for a man who can't borrow twenty cents. Mother Gray's Hweot Powders for Children Buoeoosfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in tho Children's Homo in New York. Cure Forcrishneso, 13'm1 Stomach, Toothing Disor ders, move and rogulste the llowols and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At nil druggists, 25A. Bamplo mallod FIIEIS. Address Allen 8. Olmstod, Lo Boy, N. Y. ''Brightening their intolloct" is a Bir mingham (England) euphemism for vio lent assaults on tho poliea. FITS permanently curod.No fits or nervous ness alter first day's use of Dr. Klino's Oroat NorvoKestoror. $2 trial bottloand troatiso froe Dr. 13. H. KLXXK, Ltd., 031 Arch St., riiila.,Fa. The man who sings popular songs knows the lay of the land. Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, reduces lnflamma tion,allays pain, euros wind polio. 250. abottlo Strange as it may seem, tho way to razo a house xs to take it down. FISO'B Cure for Coaaamption is an infallible mediclno for coughs and colds.—N. W. BAXXUKL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. The dreamer is often carried away by a train of thought. Any ono can dye with PUTNAM FADE LESS DYES; no cxperienco required. It doesn't do much good to lend a hand unless there is southing in it. My Lungs " An attack of la grippe left me j with a bad cough. Aly friends said i I had consumption. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and it cured me promptly." A. K. Randies, Nokomis, 111. i! You forgot to buy a bot- I tie of Ayer's Cherry Pec- fl toral when your cold first a came on, so you let it run 8 along. Even now, with a all your hard coughing, it g will not disappoint you. g There's a record of sixty | years to fall back on. • Three slice: 25c., 50c., sl. All druggists. 1 Consult your doctor. If. lie says take It, I then do as he says. If £0 toll's you not X to take It. then don't take it. llo'knows. I Leave it with him. W* are willing. i i J. C. AYEIi CO., Lowell, Mass. ITMMUPWMi US' BHBBI T" MEfIEMK TTVT WHOM DROP oases. Book of teatimonia's and IO dnys' trentraen Vree. Dr. IX. XI. OBFIENB BOMB. BOX B, Atlanta, (Ja- Ancient and Modern Ideas on the Subject. Time and Disease the Effacing Agents of Beauty. What Has Science Dono to Restore the Lily and the Rose? Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny, Plato a privilege of nature, Theocritus a delightful prejudice, Theophrastus a silent cheat, Carneades a solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious gift of nature, Ovid a favor of the gods. Aristotle alilrmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recom mendation in the world, and yet none of these distinguished authorities has left us even a hint of how beauty is to be perpetuated, or the ravages of ago and disease defied. Time soon blends the lily and the rose into the pallor of age, disease dots the fair face with cutuneous disfigurations and crimsons the Roman nose with unsightly flushes, moth, if not rust, corrupts the glory of eyes, teeth, aud lips yet beautiful by defacing the complexion, and fills tho sensitive soul with agony unspeakable. If ench be the unhappy condition of oue alfllctcd with slight skin blemishes, what must be the feelings of. those in whom torturing humors linvo for years run riot, covering the sklu with scales and sores and charging the blood with poisonous elemeuts to become a part of the system until death? It is vain to attempt to por tray such suffering. Death in many cases might be oonsidered a blessing. The blood and fluids seem to be im pregnated with a fiery element which, when discharged through the pores upon the surface of the body, inflames and burns until, in his efforts for relief, tho patient tears the skin with his nails, and not until the blood flows does sufficient relief come to cause him to desist. Thus do complexlonal defects merge into torturing disease, and piqued van ity give place to real suffering. A little wart on the nose or cheek grows to the all-devouring lupus, a patch of tetter on the palm of the hand or on the limbs suddenly envelops the body in Its fiery embrace, a bruise on the leg expands into a gnawing ulcer, which reaches oat its fangs to the sufferer's heart in every paroxysm of pain, a small kernel in the neck multiplies into a dozen, which eat away the vitality, great pearl-like scales grow from little rash-like inflammations in such abun dance as to pass credulity; and so on may we depict the sufferings to which poor human nature is subject, all of which involve great mental distress because of personal disfigurations. If there were not another external disease known, eczema alone would be a sufficient infliction on mankind. It pervades all classes, and descends Im partially through generations. While some are constantly enveloped In it, others have it confined to small patches in tho ears, on the scalp, on tho breast, on the palms of the hands, on the limbs, etc., but everywhere its distinctive feature is a small wutery blister, which discharges an acrid fluid, causing heat, inflammation, and intense itching. Ring-worm, tetter, scalled head, dandruff, belong to this scaly and itching order of diseases. Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with its mother-of-pearl scale, situated on a reddened base, which bleeds upon the removal of the scale, is to be dreaded and avoided, as of old. Ira- 1 pctigo, barber's itch, erysipelas, and a score of minor disorders make up in part the catalogue of external diseases of the skin. Thus far we have made no allusion to those afflictions which are manifestly impurities of the blood, viz.: swelling of the glands of the throat, ulcers on the neck and limbs, tumors, abscesses, and mercurial poisons, with loss of hair, because the whole list can bo comprehended in the one word scrofula. It is in the treatment of torturing, disfiguring humors and affections of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of bair, that the Cuticura remedies have achieved their greatest success. Orig inal in composition, scientifically com pounded, absolutely pure,unchangeable in any cllmato, alway H ready, and agree able to the roost delicate and sensitive, they present to young and old the most successful curative of modern times. This will be conside ed strong language by those acquainted with the character and obstinacy of blood aud skin humors but it is justified by innumerable suc cesses jvbore all the remedies and meth ods in vogue have failed to euro, and, in many cases, to relieve, even. The Cuticura treatment is at once agreeable, speedy, economical, and comprehensive. Batlio the affected parts freely with hot water and Cuti cura soap, to cleanse the sur ace of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle. Dry, without hard rubbing, and apply Cuticura Oiii tment Capsicum Vaseline PIT UP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES. A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard or any other plaster, and v. ill not blister the most delicate skin. The pain allaying and curative qualities of tuis article are wonderful. It will stop the tooth ache at once and relieve hoodnrhe and sciatica. We recommend it as tho beat and mfeet external counter-irritant known, also * an external remedy for pains in the cheat und stomach and all rheu matic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will Prove what wo claim for it. and it will bo found to be invaluable in the household. Many people say "It is the best of all your pre? orations." Price, li> cents, ut all drugglats, or other donlers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send yon h tube by mail. No article should l>e accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is nol genuine. CfalsrouililiifatiiriiigCo. 17 State Street. New York City. | Sal i cj^Jnp^ I SEEM KZVE3 FAIL!\& j^f.0O§0OO desire, l.v July Ist, iiHtj^oco'mom'and^bcnco for BOc. m to allay Itching, irritation, and inflam mation, and soothe and heal, and, lastly, take Cuticura Resolvent, to cool and cleanse the blood. Tills treatment af fords instant relief, permits rest and sleep in the severest forms of eczema and other itching, burning, and scaty humors, and points to a speedy, perma nent, and economical cure of torturing, disfiguring humors, eczemas, rashes, and inflammations, from infancy to age, when all other remedies and the best physicians fail. The remedies con stituting the Cuticura system will repay an individual scrutiny of their remark able properties. Cuticura Soap contains in a modified form the medicinal properties of Cuti cura Ointment, the great skin cure and purest and sweetest of emollients, com bined with the most delicate and re freshing of flower odors. It purifies and invigorates the pores of the skin, and imparts activity to the oil glands and tubes, thus furnishing an outlet for unwholesome matter, which if re tained would cause pimples, black heads, rashes, oily, mothy skin, and other complexlonal disfigurations, as well as scalp affections and irritations, falling hair, and baby rashes. Its gen tle and continuous action on the natural lubricators of the skin keeps the latter transparent, soft, flexible, and healthy. Hence its constant use, assisted by an occasional use of Cuticura Ointment, realizes the fairest complexion, the softest, whitest hands, and the most luxuriant, glossy hair within the do main of the most advanced scientific knowledge to supply. Cuticura Ointment is the most suc cessful external curative for torturing, disfiguring humors of the skin and scalp, including loss of hair, in proof of which a single anointing with it, preceded by a hot bath with Cuticura Soap, and followed in the severer cases by a ftill dose of Cuticura Resolvent, is sufficient to afford immediate relief in the most distressing forms of itching, burning, and scaly humors, permit rest and sleep, and point to a speedy euro when all other remedies fail. It is espe cially so in the treatment of infants and children, cleansing, soothing, and healing the most distressing of infan tile humors, and preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, and hair. I Cuticnra Ointment possesses, at the same time, the charm of satisfying the simple wants of the toilet of all ages, in caring for the skin, scalp, hair, and hands far more effectually, agreeably, and economically than the most expensive of toilet emollients, while free from every ingredient of a doubtful or dangerous character. Its 41 One Night Treatment of the Hands," or 44 Single Treatment of the Hair," or use after athletics, cycling, golf, ten nis, riding, sparring, or any sport, each in connection with the use of Cuticura Soap, is sufficient evidence of this. Of all remedies for the purification of the blood and circulating fluids, none approaches in specific medical action Cuticura Resolvent. It neutralizes and resolves away (hence its name) scrofu lous, inherited, and other humors in 1 the blood, which give rise to swellings of the glands, pains in the bones, and torturing, disfiguring eruptions of the skin and scalp, with loss of hair. Cuticura Resolvent extends its puri fying influence by means of the pores to the surface of the skin, allaying irritation, inflammation, itching, and burning, and soothing and healing. Hence its success in the treatment of distressing humors of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of hair, which fail to bo permanently cured by external remedies alone. The grandest testimonial that can be offered Cuticura remedies is their world-wide sale, due to the personal recommendations of those who have used them. It is difficult to realize the mighty growth of the business done under this name. From a small begin ning in the simplest form, against prej udice and opposition, against monied hosts, countless rivals, and trade in difference, Cuticura remedies have be come the greatest curatives of their llino, and, In fact, of oil time, for no where in the history of medicine is to be found another approaching them in popularity and sale. In every clime and with every people they have met with the same reception. The confines of the earth are the only limits to their growth. They have cououered the world. To the test of popular judgment all things mundane must finally come. The civilized world has rendered its verdict in favor of Cuticura.
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