‘My wife had a deep-seatgd cough
for three years. I purchased two
bottles of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
large size, and it cured her com-
pletely.”
J. H. Burge, Macon, Col.

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cough medicines that re-
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The medicine that has §
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deep coughs for sixty §
years is Ayer’s Cherry §
Pectoral. ;
Three sizes: 25c., 50c., $1. All druggists.
Consult your doctor. If he says take it,
then do as he says. If he tells you not
to take it, then don’t take it. He knows.
Leave it with him. We are willing. a
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A Mistake.
A certain shopwalker in one of the
large drapery establishments in the
west end of Landon was noted for his
peverity to those under him.
One day he approached a junior as-
fistass, whose counter a lady had just
t.
“You let that lady go without mak-
Ing a purchase?” he asked, severely.
“Yes, sir, I—"
“And she was at your counter fully
ten minutes?”
“Doubtless; but then, you see—"
“Exactly. I saw that, in spite of all
the questions she put.to you, you rarely
atiswered her, and never attempted to
get what she wanted.”
“Well, but—"
“ You need not make any excuse. I
shall report you for carelessness.”
“Well. I hadn't what she wanted.”
“What was that?”
“Six shillings. She’s a book canvas-
ger, selling “The Life of Napoleon the
Great!”
The shopwalker retired crestfallen,
amid ‘the audible titters of all the assist-
fits in the department, who greatly en-
bored his discomfiture.

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When You Order
Baker’s Chocolate or Baker's Cocoa
examine the package you receive and
make sure that it bears the well known
trade-mark oi the chocolate girl. There
are many imitations of these choice
goods on the market. A copy of Miss
Parloa’s choice recipes will be sent
free to any housekeeper. Address
Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., Dorchester,
Mase. .
The discovery in Palestine of valua-
ble mineral treasures making it prob.
able that there will soon be an indus:
trial awakening of the Holy Land.
In India a box of 720 safety matches
imported from Sweden or Belgium can
be bought for three cents.
Shattered Traditions.
“You young scroundel!” exclaimed
the unwilling father-in-law, when the
eloping couple presented themselves for
parental forgiveness and place to live.
“You conscienceless scamp! You stole
my daughter away and disregarded all
the conventionalities of society. And yet
you ask forgiveness!”
“ou old scroundrel, what did you do?"
retorted the new son-in-law. “What did
you do? You let us elope, and did not
pursue us on horseback with a shot-
gun. You have shattered all the tra-
ditions of elopements and have blasted
he affair for us. We
Vrried to the
rumty-tum-tu church organ,
and let you pay You haen’t a
spark of apppciation in your maka-up!”
Crushed My the merited criticism, the
father irilaw invited them in to supper,
for-4hey were rather hungry.—Baltimore
merican.
You Cannot Drown an Ant.
It is a singular fact, recently demon-
strated by experiments made by French
scientists, that you cannot drown an
ant. The purpose of the experiments
was to determine how long the insects
would be able to resist asphyxiation af-
ter they had been submerged in water.
An ant immersed-in water doubles it-
self up and becom:s absolutely inert,
but upon being resz red to the air
comes to life in a pitiod varying with
the length of its immersion. After a
ducking of six or eight hours it re-
quires half an hour to come to and
three-quarters to an hour to recover
when the submersion has been continu-
ous for twenty-four hours.
How the Storm Ended.
“Woman,” said she bitterly, “is unap-
preciated in this world.”
Here certainly was a chance for him
to even up many old scores, but it so
happened that he was not looking for
trouble. ;
“True,” he replied. “Unfortunately,
man is incapable of appreciating perfec-
tion.”
Thus he secured at least two of his
favorite dishes for dinner: and yet there
are people who think that man is lack-
ing in the more subtle arts of diplomacy.
—Chicago Post.
Sure Cure for Fatigue.
A stalwart Boston laborer, in seeking
work from a farmer; gave the assurance
that he never got tired. The man was
acordingly engaged ; but when the farm-
er went to the field where the man had
been put to work he found him lazily
lying on his back beneath a tree.
“Hallo!” cried the farmer, in surprise.
“I thought you told me you never got
tired ?”
“No more I don’t!” replied the una-
bashed laborer. “But I precious soon
should be, master, if I didn’t do a jolly
lot of resting!”
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LATEST HAPPENINGS
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Condensed Special Dispatches Boiled
j Down for Rapid Reading.
NEW LIST OF PENSIONS GRANTED.
Pittsburg Prisoner's Death Sentence Commuted
—Pardon Granted a Lackawanna County
Convict—Another Street Car at Scranton
Badly Damaged by Dynamite—Forty Labor-
ers Aroused From Sleep by Flames.
These pensions were granted Pennsyl-
vanians: Godfrey K. Biber, Allegheny,
$8; Theodore J. Ballantine, Pittsburg,
$12; John K. Kelsey, Allegheny, $12;
John C. Mark, New Alexander, $12;
Theodore Robison, Mercersburg, $10;
Maurice Dunbar, Phoenixville, $10; Car-
oline Foy, Homestead, $28; Martha Mc-
Farland, Tateville, $8; Catherine I. Fer-
ris, Rochester, $8; Elizabeth J. Cherry,
Bellwood, $¢< Elizabeth Crim, Shay, $8;
Mary Reddick, Allegheny, $8; Georgetta
Shotts, Irwin, $8. ‘
The world’s furnace production rec-
ord was broken last week in Rankin
when stack No. 3 of the Carrie group
of the Carnegie Stecl Company com-
pleted a twenty-four hour run with a
total of 790 tons of iron. Until within
a-few years the average production of a
furnace was not over 300 tons of iron
in twenty-four hours. The rapid in-
crease in demand for iron caused a gen-
eral rebuilding of all furnaces on
a larger scale. ~&
Controller-elect George S. McLean
has announced his appointments as fol-
lows: George S. Shiffer, of Plains, chief
deputy; George P. Dreyer, of Wilkes-
Barre, chief clerk; John C. O'Donnell,
of Hazleton, second clerk and Attor-
ney W. S. Gibbons, of this city, law
clerk.
Benjamin, the 15-year-old son of Ben-
jamin Evans, in attempting to move a
loaded shotgun from behind a trunk at
his home in Bedford caught the hammer
and the gun was discharged, the load
striking him under the chin, wounding
him so badly that he died.
The limited express train on the Penn-
sylvania Railroad struck two men who
were walking through Rheem's Cut,
three miles west of Mt. Joy, and both
were instantly killed. Their bodies
were hurled fifty feet.
Mrs. Esther Hall, living near Burg-
hill, was carrying a lighted lamp when
she tripped over a dog. The lamp ex-
ploded, setting her clothing on fire, and
she was burned so badly that she died.
Robert M. Simmers, pure food agent,
lodged information with District Attor-
ney Harman against eleven Columbia
County merchants, charging them with
violation of the pure food laws.
Rev. Aden B. MacIntosh, of Spring
City, Chester County, has accepted the
call tendered him by Grace Lutheran
Church, Bethlehem, to take effect on
January 1, 1902.
Homer Gangewere was accidentally
shot at Bethlehem by James Mease, who
was examining a revolver. The bullet
was imbedded in Gangewere's left
shoulder.
John McCrane was killed in the No.
9 Colliery at Sugar Notch, by a fall of
coal. His father and only brother were
also killed in the same mine some years
ago.
Pennsylvania — Winfield S. Birch,
Pittsburg, $12; Norman G. Bundy, Dagus
Mines, $6; Michael Fitzer, Runville, $10;
Charles Richardson, Pittsburg, $8;
‘Sarah E. Miller, Pitsburg, $8; Amanda
E. Crable, Uniontown, $12; Emeline
{ Pierce, East Smithfield, $12.
‘Judge Edwards of Scranton, specially
presiding, decided that the school board
istown has power to raise $5000

He Had
Judge Crouse, Ind¥ ®¢ White
River, Arizona, in a letter recently to L.
J. Rice, related a story told him at the
fort. Some time ago an officer stationed
there accidentally shot and killed a
friendly Apache. The officer regretted
the occurrence as deeply as if the victim
had been a whité man. A human being
was a human being to him, whatever his
color. Besides, he feared that the In-
diang might not regard the shooting as
an accident and serious trouble might
ensue.
The Indian had a brother, who came
around the fort threatening an outbreak.
He refused to accept the accident theory,
and intimated the United States had put
its foot in it through the action of its
military representative, and had canceled
all the friendly relations which had ex-
isted between the republic and the
Apaches. He hinted at the war path and
the desolated homes of white men.
The officer proceeded in the right way
to restore a cordiale entente. Of course
a brother could not be called back out of
the arms of death, but there were other
things in this world which would take
the wire edge off grief; for instance,
ponies and guns. The bereft brother be-
.came ‘interested, and a settlement was
sooni reached which had for its basis a
horse and saddle, a rifle, and a lot of
blankets. The Indian returned later to
receive the property. It was turned over
to him according to the terms of peace
treaty. The officer threw in besides a
great lot of things the mourning rela-
tive had not asked for. The Indian pack-
ed the unexpected gifts and the blank-
ets on the horse, and, mounting, turned
to the officer and said: “Me got another
brother ;” which the officer understood
to mean not mere casual information
about the extent of the family, but that
the price of brothers would not be raised
in the case of another accidental and fa-
tal shot.—Arizona Republican.
Length of a Dream.
How long does a dream last? To the
dreamer they sometimes seem to endure
for hours, and the general impression is
that they continue for minutes at least,
while the fact is that the longest dream
appears to be confined within a solitary
second, even though the events of it may
impress the dreamer for days.
Three physicians were discussing the
matter in Bellevue Hospital (New York)
a day or two ago, when one of them re-
lated a strange experience.
“Yesterday afternoon,” he said, “I
called to see a patient, and much to my
satisfaction I found him sleeping sound-
ly. I sat by his bed, felt of his pulse
without disturbing him and waited for
him to awaken. After a few minutes a
junk dealer's cart with discordant ring-
ing bells turned into the street, and as
their first tones reached us my patient
opened his eyes.
“ ‘Doctor,’ he said, ‘I'm glad to see
you, and awfully glad that you woke me,
for I have been tortured by a most dis-
tressing dream, that must have lasted
ior several hours. I dreamed that T was
sick, as I am, and that my boy caine ino
the room with a string of mest horribly
sounding sleigh bells and rang them in
my cars, while I hadn't power to move
or speak to him. I suffered tortures for
what appeared to be an interminable
time. I am so glad you awoke me.’
“The ringing of those bells for one-
second had caused all of that dream, and
just at the waking moment.”—New York
Herald.
3 Blessed Be Hot Water.
Hot water tipplers are convinced that
they have found a cure-all for the aver-
age ills. When tired, drink it as a tonic.
\When hot and thirsty, dring it as a
cooler, for it never disappoints, and dear
me how cheap it is and how good when
one has formed the habit.
Headache almost always yield to the
simultaneous application of het water to
the feet and back of the neck.
A towel folded, dipped in hot water,
quickly wrung out, and applied quick]
the seat of pain willeip gg

Worth Knowing About.
No need of cutting off a woman’s breast or
a man’s cheek or nose in a vain attempt to
cure cancer. No need to apply burning plas-
ters to the flesh and torturing those already
weak from suffering. Botanic Blood Baim
(B. B. B.) gives a safe, speedy and certain
cure. The most horrible forms of cancer of
the face, breast,womb, mouth, stomach, large
tumors, ugly caucers, eating, festerin sores,
persistent pimples,blood poison, catarrh, rheu-
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Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). Druggists,
#1. Sample of medicine sent free, also many
testimonials, by describing your trouble and
writing Blood Balm Co., 12 Mitchell Street,
Atlanta, Ga.
. The largest needle factory in the world
is at Redditch, Worcestshire, England.
Over 70,000,000 needles are made weekly.
The first fire engine used in the United
States was brought from England to
New York City in 1731.
PurNAx FApELEss DYES do not spot, sireak
or give your goods an unevenly dyed appear-
ance. - Sold by all druggists. -
The “heart wood” of a tree has ceased
to take any part in the vegetative econ-
omy of the tree. Its use is to strengthen
the trunk.
Ar How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cures
F. J. Cuexey & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
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perfectly honorable in all business transac-
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obligation made by their firm.
Wests Truax Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
WaLpiNG, KINNAN & MArvIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act-
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur-
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75¢c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
The longest State is California, 770
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The sign painter, at least, can always
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ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
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Some people regard their friends simply
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Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma-
tion,allays pain, cures wind colic. 23¢ a bottla
The fact that one good turn deserves an-
other is what keeps things going.
I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump-
tion has anequal for coughs and colds, —~Jor~x
F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900.
You can’t always tell a polished ma
by his shoes. Tw
Bad Men.
“Philadelphia politicians,
very corrupt?
“Oh, yes! Tammany Hall could go
over there and run a reform movement.”
—From Puck.
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““WHAR DEW | GUM IN?
(Being the Soliloquy of a Farmer on the Free Raw Sugar Question)
“Thar's a mighty lot er talkin’ about farmers ’n thar rights,
" *N the wonderful prosperity thet beet growin’ invites.
Thar’s a heap er foolish crowin’ ’n the ‘“‘beats” begin ter shout
.'@ moller fer the l'ariff ter keep free raw sugar out !
Bat I notis thet the beet-producin’ farms are very few,
An’ the farmers through the country aint get much ef it ter dew. _
The hull land aint a-raisin’ beets, 'n aint goin’ ter begin,
Beet growin’s right fer sum, I guess—but, whar dew I cum in 2
The farmer gits four dollars now fer every ton o’ beets—
A handsom price, I must allow—but hidin’ sum deceits.
Beet sugar manyfacterers admit es they hev found
Thet “granylated” costs ’em sumthin’ like tew cents a pound.
In fact thet leaves a profit on which they'd greatly thrive—
And—if it kin: be sold fer three, why should we pay ’em FIVE 2
It seems ter mie es thet’'s a game thet's mighty like a skin—
But—if thar's any benefit—waal,—whar dew I cum in ?
When Uncle Sam’s in want o’ cash we're glad ter help him ont,
'N we'll stand all the taxes thet are needed, never doubt.
But when his pocket-book’s well lined an’ nary cent he lacks,
Et seems ter me his duty’s ter repeal thet sugar tax. - :
Them fellers wot is interested sez its to protect
The beet-producin’ farmer thet the duty they collect,
But I guess thet explanation es a little bit too thin—
The sugar maker,—he’s all right;—but—whar dew we cum in 2
Take off raw sugar duty an’ the price Wsll quickly fall,
To everybody's benefit, fer sugar’s used by all.
The poor will bless the Government thet placed it in thar reach—
('n millions of our citizens free sugar now beseech)
The dealer °ll be delighted—less expenditure fer him--
More demahd ’n bigger profits—which at present are but sli
An’ the farmer ’lIl be as well paid as he ever yet hes ben— ~~
But he'll buy: his sugar cheaper—thet’s whar he an’ I'll cum in,
Now, whar’s the sense er reason of the sugar tax to-day,
When our treasury’s a-bulgin’ an’ we hev no debts ter pay 7
The duty on raw sugar’s Fifty million every year—
An’ the people’s got ter pay it—thet’'s a fact thet's very clear.
Fifty million! Great Jerusha! Ter protect beet magnates, too,
Why should they tax ALL the people—just ter help a scattered FEW 2
And the FEW ? Beet-sugar MAKERS ! Don’t it really a sin
Thus ter help an’ fill thar coffers ? Whar dew you an’ I cum in ?
seein
The farmer growin’ beets hes got a contract price fer years—
Free raw sugar wouldn't hurt him, an’ of it he hes no fears.
But mebbe, like myself—he's also growing fruit so nice—
Ter preserve it—at a profit—he needs sugar—at a price!
The repealing of the duty, surely cuts the price in two—
Thet’ll make a mighty difference, neighbor, both ter me an’ you !
Let the sugar manyfacterer make such profits as he kin—
Ter him it may seem right enuff—but whar dew I cum in ?
An’ I aint agoin’ ter swaller all the argyments they shout
Thet the farmers need protection—an’ must bar raw sugar out,
Common sense is plainly showin’ that the people in the land
Want raw sugar free in future—an’ its freedom will demand.
Tis a tax no longer needed—hateful to the public view, —
Taxing millions of our people to enrich a favored few.
They can’t blind me any longer with the foolish yarns they spin,—
While they’re busy making money—whar dew you an’ I come in ?
I'm agoin’ ter keep on hustlin’, talkin’, pleadin’ with my frends,—
Aint no sense in lettin’ others gain thar selfish privet ends. >
I'm agoin’ ter write termorrer to my Congressman ’'nd say
Thet he oughter do his best ter kill that tax without delay !
Feller-farmers, do your utmost—whether you grow beets or not
To repeal the tax on sugar—yqu can but improve your lot !
Cheaper sugar helps your pocket, greater blessings you can win—
When we've three-cent granylated—that’s whar you an’ I cum in!”
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