MAJMXBK?L.aiJ flcoltla* tvw ty-alx; 111 ?Mi +m of ? ploy? I. tern. ?J2*.:s^?r3? ????that Mtw> hat bm aUttomnkall ttssta^ee, and that U Osftarrh. Hall-. only positive am m k OmbttoeaWparitlWMN Imr kamto th> aiileal tftimlty. Catarrh being a oo? stttatlonal dl*?aso. roqulrt* a ooostltatlonal treatment. Hail 's Catarrh Car? is take* infer nally. action dlrootly apoa the hihod ? d a? ooussurfaoee of the system, thereby dastroy Ingthafonnrtstion of th? disss ? w? ( d giving tbs patient strength by balldlag np the con stitution and aeelstlng nature la 4Mag tta work. The proprietors haTosa wash fS whin Ita mi rati vepo wore that they offer Oaa Hun dred Dollars for any caee that It (alls to earn, land lor Ust of teeilmonlal*. Ail ill ? F. J. Oum * Qo^ Toledo, a. Ljold by DranMi, 75c. BnlTsTamlly Pflls ? * Tenia* ??>?!? . Tha United Itttaa Slab Commission hu contracted the small boys' habit of tagging fisbes. Metal Uf* are fas tened to marina fishes, which are let loose la tbe ocean with the Idea of ides tlQr log tbem In caae they are caught at any future time. ' s | " lllliia ??smllysnied. We Us or neurons Mseafter first day's us* of Dr. Kline's Onat in i sBestorer.aitrlal bottlsaad trie tin tree Dr. R. H. KuTrx.Ltd.. Ml Aran*.. Fhlla.. Fa. Tbe Chinese still make tbe best indie ?ah. I. H. Oaaaa's Son, ot Atlanta. Ga.,are the only sneossstal Dropsy Spaolallsts In tbe rid. bee their Mbstal oflsrtn edve of this paper. An immense flower market is to be built in New York City. laamnrePlso'sOure focOoneumpUon saved my lite three yean ago.? Mas. Thomas Bos. nut, Maple tft.. Morwleh, M.Y.. Feb. 17, IMS Oar railways handls about $12,000,000 worth of grain a year. Itch cored in 90 minutss by WooTford's SanilarY Lotion; nevsrfsils. Sold by Drug gist*. Mail orders promptly fillrd by Dr. a. Detchon, Crawfordsrille, Ind. |1. The dressmakers' convention that convened In New York recently bss decided that gowns may be fastened either front or back, but none but ?lender women are to use tbe back faetentngs. No doubt tbe stout women will be grestly Incensed by this sug gestion. Surely they can't expect to advertise a belief la their own stout ness by parading these front fasten ings, says the Cleveland Platn-Deal*r. THKY PROFITED. "1 remember Schemer was a great chap for thinking out plana tor get ting rich. I suppose now he's wealth ier than any of his friends." "O, no; his friends used tbe plans while he wss dreaming over them."? Detroit Free Press. tvarji rw^fiss& *> n> nkt ft. ito doak nom ?t ?"?*"? ?? **? ??K.n 5B *^rt? nm?i >olD?n.?? Lfdto K. PlarNM M?4. Co., Vjmm. Mae* From th? W?thln?ion #o?t^ c OL. paui. BECKwrrrrs history of the sword, which was read before the An thropological Society stone of its recent meetings. has ?uuc* a popular coord in the mlnda of fenctri in the city, and while strict ly technical In treatment, baa yet been a tbeme of conversation anions the young swordsmen. It baa lent that now fashionable weapon a new mean ing. for with the dryer history of this, the earliest weapon of mankind. Col. Beckwitb has deftly interwoven a lot of romance fathered from history. In his talk. Col. Beckwitb said fhat to learn the history of the sword, one must study the history of man. for it is the oldest, has been the moat nnl ?eraal, and the only weapon that baa lived from the earlleat period of man to the preaent time, and ia aa popular now. In the day of many weapons. as in the past, when it stood alone as man's only artificial means of defense. "We read of the sword of God. or holy sword, the 'sword of the Lord of Gideon.' " said Col. Beckwitb. "It was the favorite weapon of the gods and deml-fods; a gift of magic sent down from heaven. By the ancients the sword was consecrated to the deities, and stood In the temples and churches. To It wss attributed superhuman pow ers; It was an object of affection, and its loss mourned as the passing of near kindred. In ancient times, as in the battles of to-day. to surrender the fword means submission; to break It disgrace. It was the symbol of jus tice. as well as martyrdom and alike accompanied Its owner to the feast and to the grave. The sword raised the northern races upon the ruins of Important savagery, and has carried in her wake the progress of art and sciences. "Oaths were taken upon the sword, the point being thrust Into the ground; the hilt was crusiform and, therefore, sacred. The oath was always taken with the hand resting upon the liilt. Among the pagan Germans the blade of the sword was considered sacred. According to Ainnilanus Marcellinus. the Quadl, like the pagan Saxons, took oath upon a drawn sword. Even in the Middle Ages, the sword instead of the cross, was used in administering the oath, while the free jurors in the sa cred tribunals of Westphalia took their oaths with their hands resting upon the broad sword. In llolstein this mode of swearing was practiced to a later period than in any other coun try. MEANT FREEDOM. Of .".wordto*!! L',,ne" ",0 rre?,*rv?,s r?;fnT;" ,o ?'ve ?r .p^^uv^tr. a lented on their *re?t^.JJ'?J! repr** "word in the rhiht I JZ tfarin? the the seeptro ,"#tead ?f were tnm.ferrJ^ h? ?o?lnk>ii? ?worrt "r"fretTed bT mentis of the % ?"?"y for th. ,J& Wh? "d without this weapon r^^-rasjr? .?.,,h4'r ,K'?,, -?pik??i ,o wm of hl'/wTfe '"h''""'1 tad over ?h? life J?Ei,!srs vts?- s: T1.I. custom w?? ??t" ! '"?Megroom. r^SiTfiursrisi CUlUUWrt ? ndUL>5iXn uVn^rnolm S^CMftrSS co?ven,riVO<' ?' ,l,0'r "?"? <* enter ?' ?WORDS OF FAMOUS COMBAT UU ants. ?"??et"*e*?io"7?"f """"" "> "?To war WtV?M "CCllS ountlon of the kin? " i!- "' ror" ?" heroic ????? l ?*>?.. wh?!; Msves: Tnra' m' '*?> fr-?wsSS5 ??w=5:- 5 Tho RKyptinnn were nrohoht. *k Krpa^SMJS.'K 'S'itoSS mTnrtotherr7wiWf!W""" per, tcuiDcrpfi iiv _ cop {?taw been ?o?t Greeks preferred l,.ri nn'?o the T""? '^'T.^z k:r;, the present dar.' He'Kwwmen a lac made their iww^^Jbrotae, and mom hare been found jp'Ui* gravea of In termediate mtM aide with' bmn blade with iron ij The eartjr So man atktwd was tuck and abort. while thoee of the Qreeka were Ions and aarrow, with a square guard and a abort, thick wooden grip, which waj ? aometlmea inlafff with platea of gold, and the glides' tblff fllvea were often etched or enmtNi Following - the period of bronze fbr aworda waa that of iron, when wort in this material advanced to such an extent fa is shown by the tWordavfoad In otft' frwres. that Weapona Wrought from It gave fame to their makers. THE RAPlkfc BLADE. "In Germany award making from iron achieved fana. even the wildcat < of the Gerasan tribe*, .the vandals, I wboae ancceaa and dominion in Gaul. Spain, and Africa* ware marked with devastation, and the abapo of the im plement need by tham waa maintained throughout the Middle Area. "At the commencement of the six teenth century the eword waa reduced In else and received the form of the modern one-handed weapon. Probab ly thia change from a heavy blade used with both hands to a lighter one. took place In the reign of Maximilian I.. when the whole syetem of arms under went a change. "About this time the greatest event in the history of aword making took place, when the humble peasant on the ontsklrta of Toledo. Spain, de signed the long, slender rapier, which, after adoption by the Duke of Grena da. attained worldwide fnine. This slen der blade made It possible for one to make a clean thrust through the body. Which could not have been accom plished with the short, thick blade of former periods. "Right here Is where the era of fenc ing began. Before that time the vic tory In sword combats depended more upon the strength of the antagonist than upon actual skill. The broad sword. battle ax. and javelin left lit tle room for delicacy of touch, and | only such giants as Coeur ?le Lion could hope to achieve great reputation as swordsmen. The average Toledo blade , was about one inch wide at the hilt.% tapering down in length of about three and a quarter feet into a needle like point. The French improved upon this model, until. In the seventeenth cen tury. the blade was little larger than the fencing foil of to-day. and it was from this slender weapon that the French were called 'toad stickers' by their English neighbors.'* ARMOR PLATED BANKS. Mode of Ffoteetftag tlir Valuables la Wyotnlni'i Depositories. The First National Bank of launder Ik n little steel fortress. The counter is faced with solid metnl. and the teller does business from within a conning tower. When you go into the bank you cannot see anyone, and it is so arranged that a hand of hold-ups could be riddled from front and flank. One of the worst bandits that ever dls turbed Wyoming bankers used to be a small ranchman. A big cattle outfit had a mortgage on his herd. They claimed his cattle were irregularly obtained, and on a round-up they i "vended bis brand ." that Is. put a mark through it. to indicate that it no longer represented ownership. Then there was trouble about a horse. Discrepancies of brand are the begin* nlug of danger out there, and this man served three years. When he came out he robbed a good many banks in broad daylight, nt the point of a pistol. Yet for some reason hslf the sheriffs and most of the people were his friends. As one cowboy said to me. "The same companies that make war on the small owners sre the ones that used to pay five dollars for every maverick we could get under their branding irons. They taught us how to steal, and then prosecuted every man who did any of it on bis own account." Anyway they never got this particular bandit again, and the banks of the West are acquir ing the ftrmorplate habit. Beyond Lander the road runs for seventy miles across the Shoshone In dian recsrvatlon. Sixteen miles fror.i Lander Is Port Wn*hnkfe; where there are troops, and the agency, ond the post-trader's store, and Indian teepoes with stoves In then. Where sage brush is the principal firewood a stove Is a good thing.? From *In the Big Dry Country," by Frederic Irland, 1j Scrlbner's. Clremalocetlon Department. A correspondent at Kieff tells a story of the censor's department. Vassall Yaruishkln, a brilliant grr.duate of Moscow University, has just died there In poverty nt tho ego of fifty. Twenty-three years ajfo Yaruishkln wrote a work on physlolory, embody ing a number of remarkable discover ies he had made. His scientific friends pronounced it epoch-naklng. Tho manuscript went tc the censor In 1C83. It never catie back. Again and ncaln the au.hor Applied for permfs:io.i ta print, r.nd for the retrrn cf his nann scrlpt. He rtconriulnted a tfrnwful rf formal replies, saying that the matter would receive attention. Conr.-xl and disappointed, M. Yaruishkln never tvi dertook other work, and recently he died. On the morning of the frnernl a packet of MS. arrived at tho house where he died, with the stereotyped approval of the censor expressed In a formal note.? St. Jar es' Gazette. Wlty Mr n Hunt an<1 flili, It lias been snltt that every nlnn has within him something of the savage. Indicated by longings to return st times to primal conditions of life. Certainly to many there come Irresintl blo yearnings for the haunts of nature, for the searching of forest and stream for the dally food? depending oh one's prowess for his dinner. In the gruil flcntlon of this desire there Is a Best which makes of u vacation a rejuvena tion. If the appetlt" for this sort of thing he lacking or dormant, It should ' be cultivated or aroused.? Senator 1 Wm. P. Frye, In the Independent. t etafr to flaring |TOT( tat of the kMt, the nfconr? two yoBBg biii are MtTa. I* Napptr tad Mr. J. L Lu|ft>r4, who pUrt is tbalr ouat, tba BrlghloB, lot Witt Australia 4 arias thia weak. The object of tke voyaga la to reack tba eearl fisheries at Broome, in H. W. Australia, cheaply, with a craft ready for tka work there. The adventurous pair propose to travel 16,000 miles in a fourteen-ton boat. Two of the most ingenious devices to bo carried aboard Cor tka sake of safety are a dlofby and a floating arckor, both the iaveatioDs and patenta of Napper himself. Tho dlngkjr haa been constructed with a flat bottom to enable it' to be earrioil standing flat on the deck, and thereby dispensing wltk tka cumbersome dav its. Tba floe ting deep-sea anchor Is constructed wltk a apar 15 feet long, attached to which Is a triangular shaped canvas sail weighted at the bottom with shot. This contrivance la made especially for outriding an? storms which may be met wltk in mid ckannel, wken the water la too deep to allow tka ordinary anckor to be low ered. The deep sea anchor la let out at tka stern of tho craft, and the ac tion of the water on it while la this position holds tho boat practically mo ttoaleee. The route to be taken, start ing from Brighton, la through the Bay of Biscay and tke Atlantic ocean io Capetown, and tkon a run of 6,000 mOae without touching land will kave to be made from tke Gape to Premaw tie. ? Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury. A Newark, N. J., man woke up to flnd tkat his home kad been entered by a freight train and that one car kad fallen through Into the cellar. A "poo tola" loaded with coal stopped outside in the street, however. Such Is the perversity of fate sometimes, remsrks the Boeton Transcript. A dude preacher generally produces dead sermons. So. 48. ?'?WHACKS* At* Wfc?t TH?y Mm?. When Old Molber Xaturo sires yon ? "whack" remember "there's a rea son so try and say "thank yon" then set about finding what you .have doue to demand the rebuke, und trv and get back into line, for that's the hamiy place after nil. Curious how man, highly or-aoized people fail to appreciate and heed the first little, gentle "whack*" of the good old Dame. but go rig|? ,lIong will, tUlf habit whatever it may he. ihat causes Ler disapproval. Whiskej Tobacco. Coffee. Tea or other unnatural treat ment of the body, until serious illness acta in or some chronic disease. Some people seem to get on very well with those things for awhile and Mother Nature apparently can* but , little what they do. Perhaps she has no particular plans for them and thinks it little use to waste time in their training. There are people, however, who seem to be selected by Nature to do tbiugs " The Old Mother expects them to carr* out some department of her great work. ? portion of these selected ones oft and again seek to stimulate aud then deaden the tool (the body* by ?omc one or more of the drugs-Wbls. key. Tobacco. Coffee. Tea. Morpblue. You know all of these throw down the same class of alkaloids in Chemical analyais. They stimulate and then de They take from man or woman the power to do hi* or her hpst-work. After these people bare drugged for a time, they get a hint, or mild 'whack" to remind them that they have work to do. a mission to perform, and should be about the business, but are loafing along the wayside and become unfitted for the fame and fortune that waita for them If they but stick to the course and keep tiie body clear of obstructions ?o it can carry out the behests of the mind. / Sickness is a call to "come np high* er." Theae hints come in various forma, it may be atomach trouble or lK>wela. heart, eyes, kidneys or general nervoua prostration. You may depend upon It when a "whack" romes It's a warning to quit some abuse and do the right and fair tiring with the body. Perhapa it ia Coffee drinking that offends. That is *one of the greatest causes of human disorder among Americans. Now then If Mother Natnre la geutle with you and only givea light, little "whacks" at first lo attract attention, don t abuse her consideration, or ahe will soon bit you harder, sure. And you may also he sure she will hit you very, very hard If you insist on following the way you buve been go lug. II *i?riti8 bnrd work to give np a hab it. and we try all sorts of plans to charge our ill feeliugs to some other cause tbsn the real one. Coffee drinkers when III will attrlb? ute the trouble to bud food, malaria, overwork and what not. hut they keep on being sick and gradually getting worse until Ibey ure tluslly forced to Quit entirely. e\ n the "only one cup a dny." Then they begin to get better, and unless they have gone long enough to set up some Uxed organic disesne, they generally get entirely well. It Is easy to unit coffee at once and for all. by having well made l*oslum. Willi ita rich. deep, sesl brown color which comes to the beautiful golden brown when good cream Is added, and the crisp snap of good, mild .lava Is there If the I'ost inn liun been bolle<* long enough to hi lug it out It pays to be well and hupp) for good old Mother No tore then cemls OS her blessing* of umtij mid vurious kinds and helps us u? gain faiue and fortnno. Slrlp off tke handicaps. Irare on! the deadening habits, heed Mother Na lures hints. <1 n It being a lo*er nod he come a winner iUm uiiaing *l baltm, ur?|on. num FKOM THE 1Z-Q0TS&I0S OF MlMftl PERUNA is known from tho Atlantic to the Pacific. Letters of congratulation ud com dm a da t ion testify ins to the Morits of Peruna as a catarrh remedy are pooringin from every State of the Union. Dr. Hartman is receiving hundreds of Mali letters daily. All classes writs these Isttsm, from ths highest to the lowest. The outdoor laborer, the indoor artisan, tho clerk, the editor, the ststeaman, the preacher? all acres that Peruna is ths ca tarrh remedy of the ago. Ths stage and rostrum, recognizing ca tarrh as their greatest enemy, are espe cially enthusiastic in their praise aad test tfanoay. Any man who wiahes perfect health must be entirely free from cstarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. Peruna is the only absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh of its victims. Fstmhs nxlonly oiirrscatarrk, but ?retwnfw if. JPrery houmehnld mhrnultt M aupplitui with 1Mb grsst remedy /sr ooii^ss, oelds ssd oo forth. Ths ex-Uoveraor of Oregon is an srdent admirer of Peruna. lie keeps it contin ually in the house. In ? letter to Ibe Penrn* Medicine bt Mjr*: Stat* or Oexoo*, I Executive Departueat? t The Pernna Medicine Co., Columbia, O. ttrmr- Slrm?i h im hmtl oc- mm (? ??'* ?o?r Peritna wrdiotiM in my J m mil if fbr cotetM.mnd II jtrovrd Co W an erc> M?e not had ocmmIun C?? mob KST FOR TIE MWEU OANDY OATH AIIT19 Moopi? ,hao ?? oth*r dlaraaaa together. it CASCARETA today for ??u .1? .. mattar what all* you, at art taking rtfht Taka aur adHca itirtwlth ij Bt*/ w#" un,n ^ Ket y?ur boweto taoniy JSCilSi t^y aajyy abaolata Cuarantaa to euro or WLDOUGIAS W. L. Douffmm mmkmm tmd mmllm morm mmn'm 08. BQ moo? ittftn any o thmr ntmnuf mcturmr tn thm world. The reneon W. L. Honeta* ?*.M> ahoe* are the irreateat ;ell?T? tn the world lj heranae of their c*ret Innt alyle. reay nt tins nmi miKriiit wf.iilu|i)iwllllf*. If I eotild flmw imi ihn illlTpfi'nrf liflv.ccn tlio ahoea mnae of other nnikea ? nd t I' 'i' ,T ! hlfr Lhui ? atand why W. L. ln.iiBlnd *..m> "hop* coat trmro to nmkr, why they hold their ahiiiie, lit ?>#?> tiny. un.. why tb? nlfd for the ritr nutlni .Itily I. n*H, ^cre #inK hla name and price on the bottom. Look for IV? Uk? no auiiatlinto. K'.ltl by ahoe dealcra every where. SUPERIOR m FIT, OOMFORT AMD WEAR. ?*/ irftm W. L $3 r/> ihofs far (V to it Itcelrf yenrt with al>$o1ut * ba'lEl* %BHtVnt?Tt Vjti?tCr r'm'J" " 'niil'fi oono?d?d to W. L. OOUQLA9. Brooklyn, Mi