I Asthma w——moot " "" —— ji "One of my daughters had a terrible case of asthma. We tried gj almost everything, but without re ilief. We then tried Ayer's Cherry I Pectoral and three and one-half bottles cured her." Emma Jane Entsminger, Langsville, O. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral certainlycures manycases of asthma. And it cures bronchitis, i hoarseness, weak lungs, ! whooping-cough, croup, winter coughs, night coughs, and hard colds. Throe sizes: 2.V., enough for an ordinary Cold; 6Uc.. just right for bronchitis, hoarse ness, hard colds, etc.; £l. most economical fl for olixonic cases nnl to keep on hand. ■ J. c. AYEH CO., Lowoll, Moss. I No Law on Island. There Is an Island down In Penob scot bay, a few miles from Penob scot, that Is In one respect one of the most peculiar islands on the surface of the globe, says a correspondent of the Pittsburg Gazette. It Is known on the charts as Rugged Is'nnd, but senti mental summer residents have named It Crie Haven In honor of old John Crie, a bearded Scotchman, who set tled here among the rocks more than half a century ago. The Island is un der no form of government and though it Is part of the state of Maine, the people pay no taxes and have no officers of any lnnd. There Is not a rat or mouse In all of Its mllo and a half of rocky length and its half mile of ledgy width. There are no bugs in the beds, no roaches in the pantries, no cats or dogs behind tho stoves, and no mosquitoes In the pools of fresh water. The Island has no church In which to worship and no minister to tell the people whether they are doing right or wrong. No lawyer ever re sided here and no sheriff or constable ever came to Issue summons or to serve processes. A kind old doctor who lives in Rockland Is the only physician who makes professional visits to the place, and he is told when to come by carrier pigeons. As soon as the doctor receives the call he lib erates a pigeon from his loft, which bears a message telling when he Is coming. The regular Inhabitants of tho Island now number 42, but in the summer there are often as many as 100 petsons living on the Island. There are eight cows and three horses there, but not a mile of road for them to travel in. The horses are used for hauling up boats. Everybody walks by well worn, foot paths, which are originally laid out by cows while seek ing feed among the 'huge boulders. T'ho only occupation of the residents Vis catching lobsters In pots covered by nets. Every person tries to cap ture enough every day to bring $3, which is easily done when lobsters are sold to the steamers for 15 cents a pound. Since Japan has gone to school in Europe and America her influence throughout the East has been steadily growing. In the interior of China where no European merchant has ever thought of going, the Japanese are lo cating themselves, and in Manchuria, where Russia is supposed to have su preme control, the Japanese tradesmen outnumber the Russians 50 to 5. an operation for Ovaritis, tells how she was cured by Lydia E. Pinkhatn's Vegetable Compound. 44 1 am so pleased with tho results I obtained from Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Coiipound that I feel it a duty and a privilege to write you about it. 44 1 suffered for over five years with ovarian troubles, causing an un pleasant discharge, a great weakness, ; and at times a faintness would come over me which no amount of medicine, J diet, or exercise seemed to correct. ! Your Vegetable Compound found the weak spot, however, within a few weeks and saved me from an operation all my troubles had dis appeared, and I found myself once more healthy and well. Words fail to describe the real, true grateful feeling that is in my heart, and I want to tell every sick and suffering sister. Don't dally with medicines you know noth ing about, but take Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, and take my word for it. you will be a different woman in a short time." MRS. LAURA EMMONS, Walkerville, Ont. SSOOO forfeit If original of above letter proving . genuineness cannot be produced. Don't hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkhaxn if there is anything about your case which you do not understand. She will treat you with kindness and lier ad vice is free. No woman ever re gretted writing her and she has helped thousands. Address is Lynn, Mass. THE LITTLE WOMAN'S BIQIITS. Her platform is only the cradle. Her speeches are funny and few— . A wise little head, But all that is said Is only a vague little "goo." But how baby's rights are respected! One ndtl of her aear, downy head, Whenever she thinks she's neglected, > And down to her feet we are led. 1 She lifts up her voice in a minute— Her protests are loud and are long! Each household affairs she is in it, To see there is nothing goes wrong. The right to twist limbs that are dimpled, In every extravagant way; To maul and to tease The eat at her ease— To crow and to creep all day. The right to love that is purest— The right to a mother's own love! The right to a guide that is surest To lead her wee footsteps above. Her sweet little mouth she upraises, As pure as a rose, dew impearled; The right to our kisses and praises— Oh, these are hey rights o er the world! Wearing alligators. Alligators move rapidly under the water and are hard to see, harder to hit, and the harpoon will penetrate only the least accessible portions of the body. Nor does the title to the hide necessarily pass with making fast the weapon. One afternoon in the Clieerhowltzkec River I harpooned a large' alligator which towed me up and down the stream for an hour or two and then sulked In its deepest part. I pulled on the line until the boat was directly over him and stirred him up with tho harpoon pole, no rolled himself up on the line in the manner peculiar to sharks and alligators, and banged the boat suggestively. We rowed to Che bank, and, making fast to some bushes The Disappearing Rafohits. Cuii you iind two rabbits that she has caused to disappear? hauled on tho line until we succeeded In worrying him nearly to the boat, when he rose to the surface and at tacked us with open mouth. We re pelled the attack with harpoon pole and ttfle. The former was promptly bitten In three places, but the latter ap parently finished him. It was so near ly dark that wo decided to carry him In the skill a mile down the river to where our sloop was anchored, and to skin him the next morning. We broke tho seats out of the boat, and together managed to lift the head of the alliga tor aboard and tie it- We then tried the other end, when the reptile came to life and landed a blow with his tail which lifted me out of the skiff Into the saw grass, with tho breath knocked out of my body and hands and face badly cut by the grass. Boat and boatmen were capsized. As my rifle had fortunately been left upon tho hank I was able to kill the alligator ngaln. We socuredi him by floating tho boat under him and then hailing it out. Tho alligator completely filled the boat, so that my companion and I sat upon his back as we paddled down the river with gunwales unpleasantly near the water. It was growing very dark and the water around us was becoming alTvo with alligators. While we were re flecting upon our overloaded condition the alligator came to life again and shifted ballast until tho water poured over the gunwale. We quickly bal anced the boat, only to see It again dis turbed and to ship more water. A scramble for the shore followed, which we reached without capsizing, and whore we left our victim for the night, after again killing him. In the morn ing our buzzard friend from the Hermo sassa River, surrouuded by his family, was sitting above him lu a tree, wait ing for us to attend to our carving du ties. There are drawbacks to hunting In tho Great Cypress Swamp. Even na tives have been lost and have died In its recesses. It is bounded on the east by tho Everglades and on the west by n series of imppnetratnble mangrove thickets, alternating with deep chan nels. If lost, one should turn his face firmly to the north, and, as a guide re marked to me, "he ought to get some where in three or four days."—Country Life in America. THE MATCH PUZZLE. Split slightly the end of one match, then cut slanting the end of a second one, which is to be inserted in the divided end of the first, forming an acute angle. Place them on the table, the summit of the angle at the top, leaning against a third match, as rep resented in the illustration. These are all the preparations needed. Give a fourth match to any one present, asking him to lift by the aid of it the first three matches which form the angle. This is the problem which is to be solved, and the figure held by the hand in the illustration shows the solution to it. It is only necessary to press the fourth match slightly against the first /V sE Hb two in order to allow the third to fnll on the one you hold, also to lower the hand so that this third one may drop into the hollow of the angle formed by the first two. Then lift the match that you hold in your hand, on which rests the combination of the throe matches. —New York World. AN ALLITERATION GAME. Provide each player with pencil and paper, and every two minutes give out a letter. During the two minutes eacli player is to write a sensible sentence, each word ot which begins with the letter given out. If S Is given out, some one might write, "Simple Susan sat sewing skilfully," or the like. When as many letters have been given out as there are players, each player must read one sentence. Any one with a sentence longer than the one read aloud marks his sentence, beginning with the same letter as the one read, plus, with a shorter sentence, minus. The one with the most plus marks is the win ner.—New York Tribuno. TIIE EDUCATED CAT. Frcpare a colorless ink by dissolving sulphate of iron in water and write something of interest to the audience on a sheet of white paper. Introduce a cat or a little dog to the audience, re marking that the animal is well edu cated and able to write as well as any body in the room. To prove It, take the sheet of paper that you have prepared "before the performance, and some tinc ture of gallnuts, which you declare is ink. Dip the animal's paw into the fluid and go quickly over the paper to make the prepared writing appear, and to the delight of the audience the ani mal will be found to be so well trained that it has acquired your own band writing.—New York Tribune. Of wheat the United States produce about twenty-live per cent, of the world's crop. One of the essentials of the happy homes of to-d£7 is a fund of information as to right living and the best methods of promoting health and happiness. With proper knowledge, each hour of kPSiI recreation, of enjoyment and of effort may be made to contribute J Sj^jf to that end and are of not less value than the using of the most i IT wholesome foods and the selecting of the best medicinal agents // when needed. 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