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Toni gb t, as I sat at my window, While the west was all agleam With th it strange and wonderful splendor That is fleeting as a dream, I thong it that the hinds ot angels Had thing heaven's gateways wide, And I caught some glimpse ot the glory From the hills on the o ther side. Is it not a comforting fancy, This s onset thought ot mine, That ah -ys the gates of heaven Swing open at day's decline That th jse whose work is all ended From onr earthly woes and ills, May pass to the peace md gladness That crown the beautiful hills? Perhaps while I sat there dreaming Of thc gateway in the west Some wt vary ones went homeward To a ling and endless rest Went in through the sunset gateway To thu city paved with gold, To dwell in the hills of beaven, And be no longer old! -Eben E. Roxford, in Saturday Night A Bide to Independence, BX PEARCES BZ3T DTT.TiTNGHAM. ELINDA came soft ly down the stairs and looked in at the front room where her sister was sewing. "I'm going ont for a little walk," ehe said in her gentle, half-apolo getic voice. Her sister looked up sharply. "Well, don't be gone long, and you'd better pnt on your jacket ; it's gettin' real kinder chilly." "Oh, I don't believe I need anything extra; I shan't be cold," Belinda re monstrated. "Yes, you will, too," Mw. Bascom aaid decidedly. "You go right up stairs and get your sack." And Belinda turned and went obed iently back to her room. "It's dreadfully eiily to have to put it on," ehe muttered, no?ding to her self in the glosp. "Seems aa though I was old mongh to know ;" and she sighed, neting the shadow of coming lines in her forehead and the sharper curve of her cheek. Bat she drew on the little jacket over her tight-fit ting black silk basque and smoothed it down carefully over the bright bine bow at her throat. Then shs went downstairs again, but paused a moment on the lowest step. "I wonder if I had better put on my rubber?," 6ha meditated. "I don't believe I need them," with a sudden guilty look nt the closed Fit ting-room door. Bat che opened it as she passed and said, "Good-bye, Sarah," very quickly, half fearing that if she waited her sensitive con science might compel her to mention the neglected rubbers. Sarah, at the window, watched her go down the street. "She's just as happy as ever," she said to herself, "lt's a good deal better I didn't let John Baker hang around here. She's one of those soft hearted creatures that'd marry any man that asked her, I do believe. But she wasn't goin' to marry John Baker if I could help it. I've had experi ence with 'men and I know them through and through." Mrs. % Bascom's married life had been brief and unhappy. "Why, they say that'John Baker smokes, and he don't attend no church regular, so far's I can make ont. That's just like Biles, exactly."' Silas was Mrs. Bascom's deceased husband. "She'll be mighty thankful some day that I saved her from a life of misery," and Mrs. Bascom sighed feelingly. .It's been more'n a year now, and she seems to be gettin' over ii nicely, though I mast say I'm thankful ho don't live in this town." And Mrs. Bascom's eyes returned to the village street down which Be linda had disappeared. "I wonder where Belinda was goin'. 'To call on Margaret Brown, I s'pose. It's str?nge Berlinda should take to Margaret so, such a lively young thing -though, as far's that goes, she ain't ina oh younger than Belinda," she add ed, hastily, with sisterly pride ; "but she's so up and comin'. It's lucky she only visits here a week or so, she might make Belinda jost like her. MIES Ware told me yesterday she rides a bicycle." And Mrs. Bascom's thoughts stopped in frightened con templation of such arrant boldness. Meantime Belinda had gone, as her sister predicted, to call on Margaret, who was visiting fond, old-fashioned relatives for a few weeks ia this se questered little village. Her friend was in the back yard with thebicyole, and caught sight of Belinda walking primly up the path to the front door. "Heigho I" she cried, merrily ; and Belinda came around the corner of the house and sat on the steps while Margaret rubbed np her wheel. There was a great contrast between the two girls not wholly due to the mere difference in their ages. Mar garet Brown had come to womanhood with many and absorbing interests in her busy, healthful career, while Be linda seemed to have little to make her life full and beautiful, and she un consciously felt this the more now that a new possibility had faded from her horizon with thia banished John Baker. There was, consequently, a resigned submission in Belinda's sweet face very different from tho fine, alert strength in Margaret's, and a ce: tain indecision in the droop of her shoul ders quite unlike Margaret'.) queenly carriage. There might easily have been five instead of two years between them. "Oh, I have had the most delight ful ride!" Margaret cried, rubbing vigorously at the handle-bar of her machine. Belinda sighed wistfully. "What fun it mast be?" she mar mnred. Margaret caught tho sadness in hor voice. "Ob, Belinda!"' she oried, dropping the rag with which she was polishing, "get on and try it-do. I'll hold it steady." Belinda shook her head in fright. "Ob, I couldn't 1 I really couldn't." "Oh, yee, yon could!" Margaret cried, turning the wheel ont into the garden path. ''Come qniok !" Belinda rose from her seat on the steps and came over to where Margaret stood. "Get on," Margaret said, "I'll hold you." Belinda gave a little cry. "Oh, Margaret! I'm afraid I could n't," "Yes, you can, too," Margaret said, determinedly; "get right on!" Belinda was so used to obeying that she pat one foot on the pedal ; then she withdrew it quickly and looked about. ..What ii as/un? (should nee mer | mu ehe whisper o J, but an excited girlish light was in her eyes. "There isn't a soul anywhere around," Margaret answered, prompt ly. "There, that's all right; there you are-hold on." There was little need to give Belinda this caution ; she held on like a vise, with a pale, frightened face. . This was Belinda's first experience with athletics in any form, and she grew so interested and excited that two little red spots came ont on either oheek, and she forgot to ask Margaret if she waa tired, bnt kept on so per sevenngly that Margaret herself had to suggest it was a long enough first lesson. "I never tried to learn anything in my life before," she \id, breathless with delight. "Do y really think i'll ever be able to rio ' "Of course," Marg 1 said, en couragingly. She was * going to tell Belinda what hard i -he found in holding her straight er erratic movements. But Belinda's face fell. "Of course I couldn't ride, even if I learned how," she said, confusedly. . "Why not?" asked Margaret. It would scarcely be polite to Mar garet to say that Sarah did not think, it ladylike, so Belinda invented the first excuso she could think of. *1 haven't got any bioycle." Margaret looked up with sudden in terest. "Do you know what I've been think ing, Belinda? I'm going to Europe this fall, and I wonld be perfectly de lighted to let you haye my wheel while I'm gone. I'll teach you how to ride and you'll get no end of pleasure out cf it" Belinda looked both frightened and delighted. "Oh!" she gasped, "what would Sarah say?" Margaret meditated. She well knew Mrs. Bascom was an important factor aud a zealous opponent of all innova tions. "She wouldn't core," she said reck lessly. And then more gravely : "Why do you say anything about it until you have learned? Then, when ehe finds yon ride beautifully and are enjoying it, she won't object." "But I don't think I ought to take your wheel," Belinda protested, re turning to the lesser but more polite abjection. "Now, Belinda, it would be a real comfort if you would take care of it for me. You can keep it right here at uncle's, and come and practice un til you want your sister to know about it. If I don't leave it with you, I shall have to lend it to some of my frierds in the city, who won't take half such good care of it." "Ob, but I might smash it up be cause I don't know how to ride," Be linda said anxiously, torn between de sire and doubt. Margaret laughed outright She might as well tell the truth. If ehe could only bring some sweetness and light into this dear little woman's life, she did not care if her wheel were left ic fragments. "Well, Belinda, you're just going to make me say it," with a tender quiver in her voice. "I want you to have a good time, and I want you to have my wheel, and I don't care if you do smash it all to pieces." What else could Belinda do, be twixt long habit of yielding and new desire for wheeling, bnt give way to Margaret's kindness? "How good you arel" sho. cried. "It would be beautiful if 1 could ride. I should like it better than anything I ever did." But on the way home another thought came to her. What would John Baker think if he should see her on a bioycle. To be sure, she had given him up because of her sister's insinuations and determined opposi tion, and ho might be married now for all Belinda knew ; j-et somehow in all of her decisions she thought of him and what his opinion would be. This seemed the most important step she had ever taken, and, since she could not turn to her sister, she longed with a great longing lor his advice on the matter. If it had not been for Margaret's determination that Belinda should learn to ride and her constant encour agement as a teaoher, it is to be feared that Belinda's hot desire for wheeling might have cooled. It is hard to be persistent when yon must struggle in to an uncertain saddle after repeated and painful efforts, only to find your steed careering directly into prickly blackberry vines or against a hard board fence, and this day after day behind the back of an opposition which is sure soon to be heaped upon your aching head. But there was a strata of perseverance underlying Belinda's gentle nature and a quick ness in her slender frame that at length brought her to a safe, slow ride around the yard. When she dis mounted in a sudden and rather as tonishing manner, and said to Marga ret with unusual enthusiasm, "I can ride now, can't I? Oh, I'm so glad you taught me-I'm oo glad !" Marga ret rejoiced and felt that her project for Belinda's happiness was firmly es tablished. But it was long before Belinda oould be tempted outside the garden gate. She was very much afraid that some body might see her, and, what is a much more common fear to a novioe, declared she would run into a team. But at length she was persuaded into a lonely road behind the house, and there she practiced, riding back and forth, with Margaret trotting oblig ingly by her side, until she declared she would go all alone, and off she went, and back she came in triumph. When it was ?ime for Margaret to leave the little village a perceptible change was coming over Belinda. Her cheeks had more color. Her figure was more erect. She no longer asked her sister what she should wear and where she might go each time she went out; and Mrs. Bascom actually saw her go down the street one day in her black silk waist when (?he bad ex pressly told her to put on her green poplin. It gave Belinda a strange feeling of authority to have gained control over so unzuly a steed, and a new spirit of independence to have made and persevered in a decision without her sister's peremptory assis tance. One day, soon after Margaret had left, Belinda was going down the gar den path on her way to her second ab solutely independent ride, when Mrs. Bascom called from the window. "Belinda," ehe cried, "oome right back and ohange your dress ! I de clare you ain't going out lookin' that way, are yon?" Belinda turned and walked toward the house, partly from force of obedient habit, partly because ehe knew her sister wonld shout after her until she did. She came into the front room with a sudden pink color in her cheeks. "I declare to goodness," Mrs. Bas com exolaimed, "you ain't a-goin' out this raw day with that thin waist and old skirt on, I hope." Belinda bad dressed io ju*t this wa/ j for bieyoling purposes, and an un usual, determined light came into her. eyes. . .'Now, Sarah," she said, "I've put on just the kind of things I want to wear, and I'm going to wear them. Seems to me when I'm most thirty years old I onght to know how to dress." Sarah stared at her with wide-open eyes. "Well, of all independence!" she said. "But don't yon think I onght to bc independent if I'm ever going to be 2" Sarah took np her sewing and turned away. Belinda took a little step forward. "I ain't never considered the ques tion," she said, grimly. Then Belinda did an unheard-of t.nd unexpected thing; she went over to her sister and kissed her?, and then went quickly out of the front door. Sarah looked after her to be sure it was Belinda. "Well, I never," she declared. "Pr'aps I have been too domineer ing." Belinda started on her ride'along a quiet road away from the village. It was not quite so hard to assert herself as she liad supposed; she almost wished she had told Sarah about her bicycling then and there." "I'll tell her to-night," Belinda said, as she rode on, and she sighed as .she thought of her long deferred declara tion cf independence ; a year ago ii might have made muoh more difference in two lives. It was a beautiful day, but Belinda did not once look at the clear sky and autumn woods as she rode along, for she was not a enffloiently expert rider to view the scenery and keep to her straight course ; eo she did not see the bare blue back trees that cast a gentle', dark haze over the later autumn colors of rnsset brown and dull rea. She did not even dare to steal a glanoe at the long piebald line of leaves that lay curled by the fences. She kept ber eye on the wheel and her hand on the brake, and a pretty picture she herself made-prettier than any wooded slope, this bit of dainty womanhood^ whose fashion of by-gone days seemed (.o harmonize with the au til ran time. She had on the little tight fitting blaok silk basque with the* crocheted buttons down the front, and there waa* a bright blue bow at the throat, a lit tle overshadowed by the black velvet bonnet strings, for Belinda had worn a bonnet ever since she was twenty one. She was going on well, and feeling happier and more confident every mo ment, when Ehe came to a slight hill,; down whioh the wheel began to de scend a little more rapidly ; but she had her little blaok-mitted hand on the brake, and all would have been . well if the barge had not turned into. the road. Now a barge, being a large two-horse conveyance, was a very for midable thing for this inexperienced bicyclist to pass, and Belinda's breath came fast and her cheeks grew very red in her determination not to loee her self-control. She had almost passed the dreadful threatener, when ehe chanced to glance np- at the vehicle. , There was but one passenger in the barge, and that passenger was-John j Baker. Belinder saw his face looking, down on her in genuine surprise, and then she felt her wheel turn and filip,*, and a pain ran through her wrist. ! . The driver stopped his horses and j climbed down from his peroh, but be- ! fore he could reach Belinda, John was holding her up and tenderly wiping ' the dust from her face, while Belinda moved not at all, only looked at"him*" through tears of mingled -joy aud pain. "The bioyole ain't broke," said the driver; but neither Belinda nor John heard him. "Why, your wrist is bleeding," John said, and he tried to fasten his handkerchief about it, but, either, beoanse Belinda looked at him so hard or because he wished to prolong so pleaaant a task, it took him many minutes. "Better git in, Miss Belindy," in vited the driver, lifting the bioyole to the front seat ; "you can't ride home if you've hurt your wrist." "Oh, it isn't much," Belinda pro- ? tested. But John helped her into the barge and, perhaps because of an almost imperceptible motion of hers, perhaps because of the look he had seen in her eyes, he sat down just be side her. "Perhaps I'd better not sit down here," he ventured. "Oh, yes!" Belinda said. "I'm glad we ran into eaoh other," he whispered, aciding, gallantly, "but I'd rather we'd been the ones to be hurt." "Oh, no!" Berlinda cried, lifting frightened eyes to his; and John moved a little nearer. "I didn't known you was ridin' a bicycle, Miss Belindy," said the driver from the front seat. "I've got one, too," John said. Belinda turned to him with a sud den radiant smile, then hot face clouded a little. "Sarah doesn't know about my riding," she whispered. John looked at her in amazement. "You're braver than you used to be, Belinda." There was a Bad significance in his voioe, and Belinda looked down. "Yes," she answered tremulously, then added, brightening: "I'vegrown a good deal braver since I learned to ' ride. I-I was going to tell her about it to-night," she ventured, after a lit tle pause. It was impossible for John to move any oloser, but instead ho bent over to whisper : "Suppose we tell her together." The driver had just looked baok to ask Belinda how muoh she paid for her wheel, but he turned quiokly to the front again with a low whistle of sur prise, though he was undoubtedly a gentleman, as his broad baok thereaf ter testified. "Suppose we tell her something else, too." John whispered ; and Belinda heaved a sigh of content. ' 'But what will Sarah say ?" she asked a little after, when they had come to the village, and must sit further apart, and could only surreptitiously hold eaoh other's hand. "I don't care what she says now," John answered, gay ly ; "do you, Be linda?" Belinda looked up at him thought fully, and then answered his happy smile. "Well, no; I don't know as I do," she said, bravely.-New York Ledger. A flew Horse Swindle. Some residents of Brandon, Yt., were swindled in a horse trade recent ly to the extent of more than 32309. Similiar swindles were, it is said, per petrated in several New England towns. A French coach stallion ot re puted fit -?t blood was bought by a stock company for $2500. The horse was sold last week for $115. The swindlers were exceptionally clever, and backed up their fraud ia a way that deceived some very smart New Englander. TWO 13 COMPANY, T7o met together, Love and I, When honey-bees were hamming} I laughed at him, and passed him by, And floated at his coming; And when he spread his wings to fly, ; let him go without a sigh. We met together, Wealth and r, When Autumn's leaves were falling; I called to Love with eager cry, Sat naught availed my calling, I long for Love, he comes not nigh We wander loveless, Wealth and I. -Ufo ?ITH AND POINT. Bars in mn sic a I parlance are quite different from saloon bars.-Texas Sifter. Manager-"What is your name?" Applicant-"3am." Manager-"What is'vonr foll name ?" Applicant- "Sama when I'm full." "Neither rhyme nor reason. Now, what could that be, I wonder?" "Why, poetry, of course, you stupid!" -Indianapolis Journal. "So, Johnson, you call the baby George Washington. Is there any re semblance?" "No, sah, 'cept in the names."-Hamper's Bazar. She-"Why don't yon talk to me as if you loved me?" He (absent-mind ed)-"Pm so horribly out of prac tice!"-Detroit Free Press. Employer-"You say you would like to go to your grandmother's fun eral this afternoon. James?" James -'?Yes, sir, il! it doesn't rain."-Tit Bits. "That was a powerful interest in' de bate at the littery sooiety last night." *?What waa it about?" "Whether the microbe is more injurious than the cy cl one. "-Peck. Father-"Why did you permit young Mashman to kiss you in the parlor last night?" Daughter-"Be cause I was afraid he'd catch cold in the halL"-Harlem Life. . Dootor-"What you noed, young mun, is change." Patient -"Then there's no hope for me, doctor. It will take all my change to pay your bill."-Detroit Free Press. He-"Well, what do you propose?" She-"Come to think of it, that is my prerogative this year. Will you make me the happiest woman in the world ? WiU you be mine?-Boston Tran script. .Managing Editor (looking at his paper basket)-"I wish I had lived in ancient Babylon, where manuscripts were written on bricks. What a superb villa I might have built."-Fliegende Blaetter. Bosche-"But yon haven't got a word of praise for any one. I should tike to know whom you would con sider a finished writer?" Criticas "A dead one, my boy-a dead one!" -Funoh. Absent-Minded Party-"Why, how do you do, Barker ? Ho W'B your wife ?" Barker-"My wife? Why, my dear dootor, I never married." Absent Minded Party - "Beally ! Congratu late her for me. "-Harper's Bazar. "What questions do the ignoramuses ask you the oftenest?" inquired the lounger, putting his feet up on the table of the answers to queries man. 'That one," wearily responded the in formation editor.-Chicago Tribune. "lean overlook his past," sighed the grieved ancl mortified young wo man, after a careful inspection of the ring she had just received from her lover, "but I own I am bitterly disap pointed With, his present" The dia mond was paste.-Chicago Tribune. "I was very much disappointed to day/' said Mrs. Northside, when her husband came home from the office. "What about?" "It was a fine after noon, ind I thought I'd return Mrs. Tawk's call." "And she was out, was she? That was too bad." "No; she was in."-Pittsburg ChronicU-Tele* graph. Tho Lonely Earco Shepherds. Shepherds in the interior of South ?frica frequently experience great difficulty in securing from the home station their regalar weekly supplies of rations, and are often compelled to exist on short allowance, owing chief ly to their over-indulgence when in the midst of plenty. On a certain sheep-station in the in terior, a wily old shepherd-known as Sandy-thought he would, at all events, guard himself against a short supply of damper (a large oake, baked in hot embers) by marking off on its surface the size of the slice to be eaten each day from Sunday, which was tho time devoted to baking operations. On one occasion a Johannesburg prospector accidentally met Sandy tending his flocks on tho lonely karoc, and was thereaway invited to dine with the shepherd. Tba goldseeker gladly accepted the invitation, and everything passed off satisfactorily until the marked dam per was handed to the guest, who, hav ing a keen appetite, helped himself to a rather large supply. In fact, it quite amazed poor Sandy, who ex claimed : "Well, well, man ! I had no idea you would eat so much when I asked you in I Why, you have cut my dam per into Thursday, and hero it is only Tuesday in tho week, with not an other pinch of flour in the oabinl" Ne ir York Mail and Express. After-EIIects of Grippe. No one has, up to date, been able satisfactorily to diagnose the after effects of this remarkable epidemic. An eminent authoiity, in comment ing on its peculiarities, says that fresh air is the bett tonio and restorer. Among the most serious symptoms of apparent convalescence is the extreme depression to which the patient is liable. In this state a suicidal tend ency is often developed, and hysteria is not uncommon. This is specially noted in oases where there has been a great deal of pain in the head. Pleas ant and absorbing occupation is one of the best helps to recovery. Nour ishing food, not too concentrated, a reasonable amount of exeroise, stop ping far short of the point of weari ness, are also advantageous. Above all, indulgence in depression should be avoided, as' this may develop into a ohronio melancholia, and end in a mental disease of a serious oharacter. As a summary of treatment, take plenty of fresh air, simple tonics, nourishing food and laugh and enjoy everything that comes in the way. Comfort fur Children. Muoh of the outory against oandy is the result of wrong methods of use. It can often safely be taken at meal time with good results. Scientists say that the food value of sugar is very great. A pound of sugar contains much more energy and power to sup port animal life than a pound of meat. If candy is taken under such condi tions that it will not derange the di gestive apparatus it is perfectly wise and rational to be a candy cater.-- I Detroit Fr?? P?ese? ! SCARLET FEVER SETTLED IN THE B?CK. AN OPERATION WAS UNSUCCESSFUL Ii Y PERFORMED. The Patient Wu Final'y Restored* After Eighteen Years. From the Evening Newa, Newark, N.J. About eighteen years ago, when Mn. Annie Dalo, of 88 Braco street, waa a bright, merry school girl, she was taken ill with scarlet fever. She recovered, bat she wai a very different girl from a physical standpoint. She was oared of the scarlet fever, bnt it left her with an affec tion of the back. As she crew older the pain seemed to increase. Her sufferings wera inten sified by her household duties, bat t-he never complain d, nnd with ona hand pressed tightly to h>r back she dil her work about her cozy home. "I wai. fourteen years old when I was at tacked with scarlet fever, and have now Buffered with my b ick for eighteen years. "Night and day I sneered. It really see.ned as if I most succumb to the pain, and then to make mattera worse, my head ached so badly that I could scarcely see, at times. Finally I went to St. tficbael's Hospital, at the corner of High i-tree and Central avenue, and there the surgeons performed a difficult operation on my back, bnt it did no good; it was like everything else, I was told at the hospital to return for another operation, bat the finit lud left me so weak I could not go back. Then again I had become discourage 1 and my three children needed my attention and caro at home. The pain became harder to stand and my back was almost broken, it 'seemed. I thought I wonld never know what it would bo like io be well again when I was told to try Dr. Williams' Fink Pills. With many doubts, a flint heart and an aching back I went to gae tho pills, and little dreaming that they would prove the elixor of a new lifo to me, I began to take them Only a short timo elapsed before I be gan to improve. Could it be poss, ble that Dr. Williams1 Pink Pills wcro do ng what every thing else had failed to accompli b? I a?kcd myself tho qnrstion many times and before long I was ( nab.ed by my improved condition to answer the question with an aliphatic 'res.' Now the pain of almost twenty years is cured ?y these Pink Tills in a few months. I bare no pain of any kind now, bat I h >ve got some of Dr. Wilhams' Pink Pills for Pao People and wailo I do not think it will ever be necessa ry to usa them again, I Khali certainly never be without them in the house." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain,' in a con densed form, all the elements ne eKsary to give new life and richness to the blood an i restore shattered nerves- They are aleo a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppres sions, irregularities and all forms of weakness They build up the blood, ami res:orj tho glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, ow work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink P Ila are sold in boxe< (never in looes balle) ai 53 oe ts a box or fix boxes for $3.50, and may bo had of all dmx Sists, or direct by mad from Dr. William*! [edicine Company, Schenectady, N. T. INTERES TINGS PACTS. The five lake cities, Chicago, De troit, Mil wfiukee, C?e veland nnd Buffalo, have a death rate of bnt 15.56 per thous and, as compared with a rate of 19.88 per thousand in the remaining large cities of the United States. It is estimated that since the govern ment began patting paper money into the hands of the peoule it has made a profit of no less than $30,000,000 as a result of bills being mutilated, wasted, burled, lost or burned. Army surgeons tay that the expres sion of the faces of soldiers killed in battle reveals the canses of death. Those who have perished from sword wounds have a look of repose, while there is au expression of pain on the countenances of those slain by bullets. The little Italian republia of San Marino, with its thirty-three rqnare miles of territory and its population of six thousand, lies up in the eastern spurs of the Apennins mountains. It ia governed by a grand council of six ty, who are elected for lifo, and two presidents; one of whom is appointed by the council, the other elected by the people. The little republic has an army of 950 men, who are employed only as policemen. San Marino is the only country in the world that prohib its the introduction of the printing press. The oity of San Marino, with a population of 1,700, is one of the queerest old towns in the world. It has undergone no change in five ' .un dred years. This republic began in 1631. It is remarkable what slight varia tion there is in the temperature of the healthy hnman body. The normal temperature is 96.6. The great pecu liarity about the temperature in men is its evenness under all conditions. Heat or cold causes but slight varia tion, and in man less than in any other animal. In extremes that wonld be fatal to many animals man can endnre and enjoy good health. We read of Arctic voyagers enduring a tempera ture ranging from 80 degrees to 90 de grees, and even 120 degrees below zero, while, on the other hand, in the tropics, daring the greater part of the year, the temperature ranges from 106 degrees to 110 degrees above, and yet men enjoy good health in such vary ing temperature, and the heat of the blood varies very little. Senatorial Extravagance. There are ninety senators. They have 353 employes to wait upon them at a oost of about $482,000 a year. That is to say each senator, besides his sal ary of $5,000 a year, must have attend ance costing $5,355 a year. There are 121 clerks to committees, etc, ina body numboring only ninety persons. There are fifty-two laborers, though nobody can imagine what labor they perform. There are fifteen po licemen, though the senate end of the capitol is fully guarded by the capitol police. SeDator Chandler has rendered a public service by calling attention to this monstrous extravagance. It is an abuse of large proportions, and it is made worse by the fact that most of tbe money is paid to-persons near to tho senators themselves for purely nominal services. In other words,the senators are quartering their families and dependents upon the country at an annual expense Of nearly half a million dollars to the taxpayers. The exposurrt onght to compel a reform. New York World. Know Their Business. "Isn't it a pity that foreign noble men are not brought up to some pro fession or business." "They are tbe best business men in the world. Did you ever hear of any other man who could make a fortune in one season the way they d>?" Harper's Bazar. Prto vin IN CB, R. I. MB. J. T. BHUPTRIKB, Savannah, Qa. Dear Sir :-"Pleas? send half-a-dozen boxes of your TETTERINE, C. O. D. This make? one and one half dozen I hive ordered from you. Some I have used myself, the remainder I dis tn' uted among friends requiring it. It has effected a cure in every rase where tried. Some of them have been doctoring with oar bo-t physician?, both here and in Boston, for years without any benefit. Some raid it could not be eared, as lt was inherited, bat one box of TETTER i NE effected a complete cure. I shall always keep a supply on hand, as I know myself what lt Is worth. Gratefully yours," P. O. HARLOW, Sliver Spring Bleaching Co. 1 box by '-o ?or ro .. tn ?'ump". ?'ITSMV. ....... i's GREAT NERVE RRUTUIICK. ilisaftor flrstday's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial hol de free. Dr. Kline. 831 Arch St.. Pulla.. P.u Get Hinderen?!? and Use it If you want to know tho comfort of no corns. It takes them out perfectly. 13c. at druggists. For Whooping Cough, Pho's Cure is a suc cessful remedy.-M. P. DIETER, 6T Threop AVw" Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. l*. TM. ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE. Some Samples of Nowsprper Adver t?s mo nts. "Annual sale now on. Don't go elsewhere to be oheated. Gome in here." "A lady wants to sell her piano, as she is going abroad, in a short iron frame." "Famished apartments suitable .'or gentlemen with folding doors." "Wanted, a room, by two- gentlmen abont 30 feet long and 20 feet broad." "Lost a collie dog by a man on Sat urday answering to Jim with a brass collar round his neck and a muzzle." "Wanted, by a respectable girl, her passage to New York, willing to take caro of children and a good sailor." "For sale-a pianoforte, the proper ty of a musician with oarved legs." "Mr. Brown, furrier, begs to an nounce that he will make up gowns, capes, etc., for ladies out of their own skin." "A boy wanted who can open oysters with a reference." "Bulldog for sale; will eat anything; very fond of children." "Wanted-an organist and a boy to blow the same." "Wanted-a boy to be partly outside and partly behind the counter." "Wanted for the summer, a cottage for a small family with good drain age." "Lost, near Highgate archway, an umbrella belonging to a gentleman with a bent rib and a bone handle." "To be disposed of,a small phaeton, the property of a gentleman with a movable Locdpiece as good as new," Dr. J. W. Blosser, (a minister of the Gospel) who has been treating Catarrh. Bronchitis and Asthma for 20 y ears,has perfected a rem edy that "(roes to the spot''and makes a lasting care. It is smoked in a pipe, but contains no tobacco. He will mail a trial sample free to convince any sufferer who will address him at No. 63 W. Cain St., Atlanta, Ga. The Reviving- Powers of Parker's C inger Tonic make it the need of every home. Stom ach troubles, colds and all distress yield to it. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teer ni nc. softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain.cures wind colic 25c. a bo ci le. Gladness Comes With a? octter understanding of the transient nature of the many phys? ical ills which vanish before proper ef forts-gent?o efforts-pleasant efforts rightly directed. There is comfort in tho knowledge that so many forms of sickness aro not due to any actual dis aase, but simply to a constipated condi tion of thc system, which the pleasant iamily laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt ly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of families, andu everywhere esteemed so highly by all who valuo good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness, without debilitating, the organs on which it acts. 11 is therefore all important, in order to get its bene ficial eifects, to .noto when you pur chase, that you havo the genuine article, which is manufactured by tl: o California Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep utable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, then laxa tives or other remedies aro not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to tho most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, then one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction. NATURE'S WAY: There is no reason why the period preced ing childbirth should he full of discomfort. There is no reason why childbirth itself should bring a feeling of dread to the mother. 1 Nature does nothing wrong. It ls the abuse of nature hy wrong livia/, lack of exercise, ill-fitting rlothes, that brings about the tor tures of childbirth. Perfectly healthy women no through tho ordeal with comparative ease. Nature in tended it that way. Women approaching motherin c 1 have really but one thing to do get strength generally and locally. MoELREE'S WINE OF CARDUI is the best medicine and tonio to do this. It prepares the generative organs for the coming trial, shortens labor, lessens pain and robs confinement of its danger. One Dollar a Bottle. SOLD BI ALL DRUGGISTS. OSBORNE'S udme?d Qtya/^ae ABD V Sohool of Slaorthiand Al?; l .STA. OA. No text bootu need. Actual baaioMt (rora J ir mterinc. Basion** pupers college curr -nj/ ? 11 roods u-od. Send for handsomely illustr?t? 1 am logue. Board cboaper than io any s >atbern city. nl&h ia? work and teach you fr*? pr work tn the locality where von n . send us roar i d drr.? and we will npiri J the buslni? fully; r?mem<*r we guar* antee a clear pros: o: $3 lor every ajr'j work; absolutely nil*: write at ..*?. IOTA I. HA.nTACTVM.16 COHm?. Bes LB, D.lr.ll. ?.'?. OPIUM and WEISET babita cared. Book seat raia, Dr. B. I. rr oom; i. ATLAJTA, fia. M. 0. ..T lirfwi '9?. Tc required Pcarli clean it two. Use time and r\ find i Vi b ca best with Pearline. It saves i I Unlucky in health Her? are emblems a BROWN'S II OUAIW P?rchese Money refunded should Browns's J person suffering with Dyspepsia, Malaria Chills i nea, Female Infirmities, Impure Blood, .Weak Neuralgia. Mora than 4,000,99. Mld-sn IDtkU, _ _ . WK? DEAB MBS. PINEHAM: ' ' I cannot begin to tell you what y oui remedies have done forme. I suffered 1'or years with falling and neuralgia of the womb, kidney trouble and leucorrhoea in its worst form. There were times that I could not stand, was sick all over and in despair. I had not known a real well day for 13 years. I knew I must do something at once. I had tried physicians without receiv ing any lasting benefit I began the use of Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound. Kow, I have used ?? bot tles ; my weight has increased 25 lt?. I tell every one to whom and what I owe my recovery, and there are 15 of my friends taking the Compound after seeing what it has done for me. Oh, if I had known of it sooner, and saved all these years of misery. I can recommend it to every woman." KATE YODEB, 408 W. 9th St, Cincin nati, 0. Should advice be required, write to Mrs. Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass., who has the utterVconfidence of all in telligent American women. She will promptly tell what to do, free of charge. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound, which is easily ob tained at any druggist's, will restore any ailing woman to her normal con dition quickly and permanently.' JH7. William T. Clime, a grocer doing business at 1823 Morris St., Philadelphia, recently made the following statement concerning Blpaas Tabales: "I had what tbs doctors called Nervous Indigestion, from which I suffered day and ni g it. I tried several doctors, took electric treatment, patent medicines, and, In fact, everything that I could hear of, but nothing done me any good and I made np my mind there was no help for me, only to grin and bear it, bat one day I wai passing a drag store and stopped to look at the dis play in the window ?nd I happened to see a card with 'hipan3 Tabales' on it aad I thought, wei', here's another straw for a drowning man so I'll throw sc nao more money away, so I went in and bongbt a box, and, seems to me, the first doso took effect I have been taking them ever since and they have surely worked wonders with mo. When I look back on tho past and then on my present condition, seems to mel am a new maa. I am enjoying elegaat Leal'h now, aad I feel that I owe many thanks lo Blpan? Tabales. I bare recommended them to several of my friends who say they are wonderful, ' and I must say they ore a God send to any one suffering from a disorder Iof thia nature." Ripeas Tabales aro sold br draj{lat*, or b? maa lt th* prto? (3o oonu a ' ox) ls sent ta Ti.? Jaaaa* Chemical Company, Ko. 10 SpruoJ st, :>?ir TOCK, Sample rial, 10 cents. Poor soil and . exhausted fields were once productive can again be made rrofitably fertile by a proper rotation of crops and by the intellig?nt use of fertilizers containing high per centages of Potash. Strikingly profitable results have been obtained by follow ing this plan. Our pamphlets are not advertising; circulais boom ing; special fertilizers, but are practical works, contain, ing latest researches on the subject of fertilization, and are really helpful to farmers. They are kent fret fot the asking. GERMAN KALI WORKS, rn Nassau St . V?w VnrV TILES AND GRATES. OIL STOVES. Send for Prices. ATLANTA, G \. EGGS! ! Strawberries Fragj Brnwn Lrghoms, the great .Kt lijar? ; P ymouttj Kooks, the bj?ine ? nen. IS Sus iront either tl.es and IVA* SJ plant? Early Mitchell Strawberry, Kiri itu asa Best ; setting of b Ah $1 *i, 66 niants fr?*. If roa ?az? to im: rove your poultry fl ?ls and garden .nd kn?w ?lg chicke ? paj better than re? s sud how tttswbemes sat? dnotor's bl I?, oar free) I Ini trated a! singue Ul I. uniqi* 'sett. K-i!H<-..T.vr Fnrc, Box 191. Mari.tu. Georgia. WE HAVE! N? AGENTS. ? ? 1 " ? but?elI direct-to thecon?aj> .r at wholesale prices. Sh s anywhere for ?liminait*? before sale. ?TBrrthiag wir ral) ted. loo styles ofCar? risses, 90 styles of Hal* ness ,41 styles Kiding 3ail dies. Write fer catzvjgn*. ELKHART Carriage a Harness Mfg Cs. W. B. PBATT, Seer Elkhart, lad. > find the time to clean your house with ne, take the time required to last with soap, and divide by Pearline, and save half your half your labor-then you can time to do something else esides work. Pearline will clean your rpets without taking them up. It will clean everything. Tom the kitchen floor to the daintiest bric-a-brac, there's Dthing in sight that isn't cleaned rubbing. r of g;ood luck; an<* ION BITTERS. kNTEE ron Bittert taken as directed fail to benefit any ind Fever, Kidney and liver Troubl?e, Bllioua aeas, Nervous Troubles, Chronic Headache oe d only 92.00 asked for, and refunded^ WK OHBMIOAL Wi, Bai/naoa*, Ki* ,