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What Can Be Done With a Cent. A few years ago the Episcopal ohnroh of a small Maryland town was in want .1 of an alms basin. The oougregation was for the most part poor, and few in numbers. The minister in charge appointed a young girl a committee of one to collect subscriptions. The amount needed was ?5, for an alms basin costing that much had been heard of for sale by a more prosperons parish, that had outgrown the one with which it started in life. The young woman's first call was at the store of a well-to-do merchant. Asking something from him for her fund, she received the following roI plj, spoken in a very gruff voice: "I can give you nothing;" but as she turned to leave, lie added: "There, you may have that if it will do you any good," and suiting the action to the word, threw down on the counter a cent. Mortified and abashed, her first impulse was to leave it where he thrown it, but better judgment pre* vailing she pioked it up, thanked him and left. Without going further she returned homo and told her mother that she would not ask for anything more aud run the chauce of such treatment a second time. "Take the cent, my 1 dear," tho mother said, "and show what you can do with it." She followed this advice aud bought a small china doll, and, dressing it in some scraps which she had, sold it to a friend for her little daughter. Having increased her capital 400 per cent., she invested it in a spool of crochet- j ing cotton, with which she worked several small articles, and the sale of these brought lier in SI. 20. This was, in turn, used to purchase cotton material, out of which were made sevorul dresses for small children, that netted, iW.. J 1 1 ?l 'i- - nuuu ouiu, iuo urciiruu 3^, WLlttll LUO alms basin was duly bought. This story was told to a lady of Socialistic views, who was constantly complaining that she was not rich, and saying she could lay so little by it was not worth while to save; the answer was: "Yes, she got her but what a lot of work sho had to do." ? Kate Field's Washington. SilTer harden Tools. Ouo of the absurdities of the application of silver to all sorts of things is its use in trowels for the use of the oousorvatory. Silver is no bettor suited for trowels than some other and cheaper uonoorroding metals, since the used trowel, of whatever material, is always bright. An iron or steel trowel of the best material and workmanship costs $1.50, while the silver trowel costs from eight to twenty times as ranch.?Chicago Her Aid. ... ~ l: WE^" -=QIVE AWAY < Absolutely free of cost, for a LiniTED TinE ONLY, I Tin- People's Common Sense Medical Ad| vi-er, Hv K.V. Pierce, M. D.. Chief Consulting Physician to the Invalids' Hoit-1 and surgical [2 Institute. Huflalo, a book ol' over 1.000 large j pages ami 300 colored and othef illti-traj tions, in strum; paper cover.- to any one 2 ! sending 21 cents in one cent stump- for packing and postage onJ 1 Over oso.ooo copies of this complete l-'niitily l>octor Hook already sold in cloth himlitig at regular price of $1.50. Address: ( with stamps and 3 this Cou|>oii) Won 1.0 s DisiU'Tjsary Mf.pO 1-at- Assoc 1 a rio.\. No. 661 Main Street. U Buffalo n.y W.L. Douglas 13 THE BEST. VJOnVb riT FOR AKlW, CORDOVA^ ^ F FMKNCH JkCNAMCUXO CALF. FINE C/? if Siangan* - extra ^yB^/*2.*l7* BQYS'SCHOOUHQLl 2$2?' ?"3 * ^ ' BROCKTOtiMASJ. Orsr Om Million Peoplo wear tba W. L. Douglas $3 &$4 Shoes Alt our shoes aro equally satisfactory Tit :y (five the beet value tor tha money. Thov equal cuetom ahoes In style and fit. Tlijlr wearing qualities are unsurpassed. The prices are uniform.?stamped on sola. ( Prom $i to $3 saved over other makes. U your dealer cannot supply you wa can. How Consumption Is Now Cured! Pamphlet fulf> ilfHprihlnK fhp Treatmeat Mot Krfo tin upplicntlou to ROBERT HUNTER, M. D., 11? West 13th "I,, Nr\? Yiru. ^kr^) OMAMXWJ. ? 1 i II l.nstj nOO?-AATt 111 aedfi cured k&?s?!; .1 : B t It *V 'irvl l>y .in a-ntlri-lv m<?v **0 w MB pr,!, .?. Writ)1 in H K. Kl?vjrii, M. I> Pm 101, i, k? tlroi-u, f. 'k < .. i' . Beet Con# h Hyrup. Tiuttes Ogud. Use In timo. Hold by 'Iruglllftfc W HERB AND ROOT DIGGERS GATHERING NATURE'S REMEDIES FOR THE MEDICINE maithm j Wuy Many Tennessee Moonshiners Were Changed Into "Diggers"? Sursuparlllu In Wild Profusion. HUNDREDS of people are engaged in Tennessee, writes a correspondent froai Milan, (. in digging roots nud herbs and gathering leaves, barks, nuts and berries for the great pharmaceutical laboratories. They are known as the "diggers" of the State. The-mon and women engaged in the business know very little about pharmacy or the way science distils the secret juices of what they gather, but the business pays them. Nature hid thousands of her seorets in the flora of the South, and the distilled extracts or powdered forms of her roots, barks, leaves and herbs enter into many thousands of preparations in the big laboratories of the manufacturing pharmacists. The rank weeds, grasses,flowers and shrubr bery that grow wild in every county, I and that other men crash under their \ feet are worth much money to the I diggers, who can never hope to gather | a thousandth part of tho plants nature i has provided so lavishly, 'llie diggor ] is a pretty shrewd fellow about nature, i He was a weather prophet, a woodsj mau aad a natural astronomer from ' infancy, and the encouraging pay of I the pharmacists made hiui a mixture ! of business mau, herb doctor and botj anist. Diggers work in every part of i the State, iu the 'owlauds, iu tho i swamps, along the rivers, iu the big j woods, iu the mountains and in the I outskirts of the towns and cities. When they are away from home on a collecting expedition they are provided with tents?outdoor life is typpical bf the business?and they wear overalls and heavy shoes, tor most oi the work is in tho dirt. Generally tho i niggers oegiu ai, wio ueau 01 a small i river and move slowly down it until { they have gathered thousands of i bushels of roots and herbs and many pounds of bark. They use spades and trowels, and the use of the spade is a science with them. There are squads and compauics of them in the employ of the laboratories of Now York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and other big cities all the year round. Those who are not connected with the laboratories keep well informed about prices, the demands of the pharmacists, and those articles which can be collected in season. One thing they gather is sarsaparilla, which grows wild in profusion, and is used in great quantities by mediciue manufacturers. Alkauet root gives a tine red tinge to oils, fats, wax. turpentine, spirits and essences, and is also used to color pomade, ointments, huir oils and varnishes. The spirituous solution stains marble a dei?r> red ?nd wax tinned with alkanot and applied to warm marble leaves a beautiful flesh color. The roots of golden seal, yellow dock, aud gold thread are valuable to the chemist. The stalk of rhubarb makes excellent pies, and its root is used medicinally. The common plants that grow wild aud are used in medicinal preparations are manifold. Blue tlug grows by the brink of rivers, in swamps and meadows; burdock, used in blood medicines; sassafras, fennel, mullein, elderflowers, cotton root, all sorts of berries, buchu leaves, prickly ash, snake root, castor beans, ginseng, horehouud, sweet ferns, and mandrake are other herbs gathered. The trees drop berries, nuts and seeds, useful for oils aud extracts, and there is always a brisk demand for such things. The seods of the cones ' ? *? ui >uo ujunuiniu |Mllun mu nuill Lur n pound, and are gathered from the trees. Tho long bean of tho catnips troe is vory valuable for its seed, and a bushel of shellod seed brings as tuuch as $.">0. Tlio seods bring big prices in sections where shade trees are scarce, and the demand from Texas alone takes all that is gathered. Tho collectors in climbing tho trees of the pine und catalpa oftentimes finds rivals in the little squirrels that hasten to pick tho seed out of a cone or bean as soon as it ripons. Oauaigre, whioh grows wild, is a species of dock, valuable for the tannic acid contained in it. The diggers know how to treat barks, roots, leaves, berries, and herbs. The outer bark is never used, for they know that nature provides for getting rid of tho bark of trees as the trunk grows. Barks are proservod by hanging them in paper bags iu the dry and airy part of the herbarium. When i i _ -I I ^nvuuiuti! iUUb.l Hi U U inuuu VU T1U ol the dirt and part of tho mucous substance that would otherwise render them mouldy. Tho larger ones are cut, split, or peeled. They aro Hpread on siovos or hurdles and dried in a heat of about 120 degrees in a steam closet connected with tho herbarium, caro being taken to shako them occasionally to change tho surfaco exposed to tho air. Thick and juicy roots liko rhubarb or briony aro cut in slices and strung up on threads to dry. Squills are scaled, threaded, and dried in the hot closet. Leaves are dried as quickly as posssiblo by putting them between layers of absorbing paper. Home small plants with roots and leaves entire, ere removed .from tho soil with a garden trowel, and after washing are packed in small boxes al j most airtight. It ia impossible to remove some of the larger plaats ia oae pieoe, and in suoli oases all the parts? j roots, stems, leaves, flowers, ar.d fruit j ?are seoured. Sometimes the ends 1 cut are sealed with wax uutil they . reach the laboratories, tu the herbariums are many rare botanical i ipecimens which have no intrinsic ' value other than to sell to colleges and ! scientific institutions. The largest herbarium operated by ! the diggers is near Hickory Flat Min| erul Springs in Hendcrsou County, j Teuu., and is the headquarters for j more than a hundred meu employed iu this business, w ho prospect from ?a? -.11 41?.. 1.:? ?- - I bUUlC k U bCUbC VJYUI (til IUO Mfl'lilOU UO' tween tho Tenuessee and Mississippi Rivers. In the mountain regions there are large herbariums, from which collectors are sent out also. Many hundreds of men and women are employed in the business all over the State, and for a backwoodsman who has studied nature it is tho best-paying business he can engage in. The ordinary diggerH receive from SI to $3 a day, and men Who have beon in the business a long time and have become proficient botanists get as uiucb as S1'2 a day. Tbey are paid according to their knowledge of common things, and espociallv of what tho market demand may be. ?New York Sun. The Cut ling ol the Log Never Finished. A gruesome sight it Strickland's Ferry, a few foot lrom the railroad station, is 11 nutty and battered circular saw, standing uncovered outside i? small mill. The saw was stopped when partly through a log that it was cutting. The log is stili on the earriage; with the saw set in the wood. A large piece has been broken from the saw's disk. It was here that a erne! accident occurred a year or so ago, when a workman was sawn in twain by this saw. Tho machine has been left just as it was when the accident occurred, ?Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Thk liefloit in tho English postal telegraph service for tho Qscal year will reach $2,700, #00. A YOUNG GIRL'S TRIALS. KEUYOU8 TKOIIBLEH END IN ST. VITUS' DANCE. #li]rtlcl?ii* Powerless?The Story Told l?y the Chihl's Mother. (From the lieportrr, Somerset, Ky.) Among tho foot hills of the Cumberland Mountains, near tho town of Flat Book, la the happy home of James McPherron. Four months ago the daughter of the family, a happy girl of sixteen, was stricken with St. Vitus'<ianoo. The loading phymotaas were consulted, but without avail. She grew pale and thin under tho terrible nervous strain and was fast losing her mental powers. [u fact the thought of placing her in au asylum was seriously considered. Her case has been so widely taked about that the report of her cure was like modernising a miracle of old. To a reporter who visited the home the mother said: "Yes, the reports of my daughter'ssickness and cure are true as you hear them. Her affliction grew into St. Vitus' dance froua an aggravated form of weakness and j> srvous trouble peculiar to her sex. Every source of help was followed to the end. but it seemed that physicians ami mod:dine were powerless. Day by day she grew worse until wo desnaired of her life. At nimnut wont into convulsions. She got oo that wo had to watch her to keep h&r from wandering away, and you can imagine the care she was. "About this time, when our misery was greatest and all hope had Hod, I road of another case, almost similar, that had been cured by a medicino known as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Almost in desperation I secured some of the pills and from that day on the wonderful work of restoration commonced; the nervousness left, her cheeks grew bright with the color of health, she gained flesh and grew strong both mentally and physically tmtil to-day she is the very pictura of good health and happiness. "It is no wonder that I apeak in glowing terms of Pink Pills to every ailing j>erson I meet. They saved my daughter's life and I am grateful." The foregoing is but one et many wonderful cures that have been credited to Dr. Willlams' Pink Pills for Pale People. In many cases the reported euros have been investigated by the leading nowimapcra and verified in every possible manner. Their fame has spread to the far ends of civilization and there is hardly a drug store in this country or abroad where thoy cannot t?o found. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are now given to the public as an unfailinor r blood builder and nerve restorer, curing al7 fornix of weakness arising from a watery condition of tho blood <?r .shattered nerves. The pills aro sold by all dealers, or will bo oont pout paid on px'oipt of price (50 cents a box, or six boxes for #2.50? tliey are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams' Modicum Gompauy, Schenectady. N. Y. Fnt.i.r 1.000,000 acres of the best land in Oklahoma will be open for settlement this spring. Tint good effects of anti-toxino in Now York City am shown iu the reduced mortality from diphtheria. nearness Caansc bs Oared or local application*, as they cannot reach the dlm-ased portion of the sar. Thero U only one way to cure Deafn.'-ss, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness la caused by an in flamed condi lion of the mucous lining of the Kustachian Tube. When this tube gets inilaiued you have a rumbling sonnd or imperfect hearing, and when if fs entirely closed Deafness is tho result, and unless the in flam matloncan be taken out and thin tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are caused by catarrh, which is noticing bnt an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Wo will give One Hundred Dollars for any rase of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Ciramrr ? Co., Toledo, O. fWSoid by Druggists, TJc. . ? - i k Highest of all in Leavening Pow Royal Ivs'SS ABSOLUT To ('loan Clothes. f According to tlio American Analyst the proper way of restoring old clothes ? ih as follows: Take, for instance, a whiuy old coat, vest or pair of trousers of broadcloth, eassimero or diagonal. The scourer makes a strong, warui soapsuds, and plunges the garment iuto it, souses it up and down, rubs the dirty places, and if necessary, puts it through a second time ; then rinses it through several waters and hangs it up to dry on the line. When nearly dry he takes it in, rolls it up for an hour or two, and then presses it. An old cottou cloth is laid on the outside of the coat and tlio irou passed over that until the wrinkles are out; but the irou iH reniovod bofore the steam ceases to rise from the goods, else they would bo shiuy. Wrinkles that are obstinate are removed by laying u wet eloth over them aud passiug the irou over that. If any shiuy places are seen, they are treatod as the wrinkles are?the iron is lifted while the full cloud of steam rises and brings the nap with it. Oloths should 111 whys nave a onus made specially tor them, as ia that which has beeu used for white cotton or woolen cloths lint will bo left in the water and will cling to the cloth. In this manuer we havo known the same coat and trousers to bo renewed timo and time again, and have all the look and feel of new garments. (.too J broadcloth nud its fellow cloths will bear rnauy washings, and look better every time because of them. Recruits Commit Suicide. There appears to be an epidemic o) homo-sickness in Breton. Eight hundred young Breton recruits were incorporated to the I62d French infantry regiment last week. On Monday last eight of them liauged themselves in fits of despaii brought on by their enforced absence from their native vil- 1 lagos. The young rocruits are being carefully watched to prevent further suicide. ?Chicago Herald. Sport and slaughter are nowhere . more synonymous terms thau in < Austria. During the last six seasons Prince Camillo shot with his own gnu r\r? ltia nufafao i t? A n !.> 1 U..-1? vovwvwo iu auouin lUi/J IJUUU aud 529 doeu. Lee's Prepared Agricu TITIfl superior crop grower and land Imprc years, and pronounced by the best farmi the Standard Fertilizers on the market, and on the market and offered to farmers for gro all kinds of Vegetables, for which it is admi pounds of material that is beneficial to tho i filters. ?^"3end for certificates of farmer Building Lime, Cement, Land a <3 T1 and Calcined Plaaterlar aale. A HAVE YOUFfyFO 1 It SO a "Baby" Cream Hen jfAol you every year. Why a ^ttMCX^r another year at so great only profitable feature of X /HaJV ducted it always pays wel m JEM. need a Separator, and j "Baby." All styles and lH?r\? upward. 8und for new II IHt DE LAVAL ! 1L0IW. ILL. 7< Webstcr's Inte Invaluable ijv Office. School. or Horn New from cover to cover. It is tlio Standard flovctnment Printing (! J It ? wsrinly cowuienita SRHnH A College Preside UraH ZtiUiX ? ?T? Dnda tki? word so IwHH Ief^St] feetlve methods In i LWoB comprehensive fttote yjud V\/ ' a* ?working dlclinsi My other single volu J G. A C. Me Spring MBns^Haud for free pamphlet! jar Do not buy cheap photot lArioYni^ m-mn w WM When you are in a low state of illness, ihcro is no nourishment Scott's E to restore strength. Scott's Ei 1 eufl? I)roni?h'S j n?M*? enriches Loss of Flesb, Tl wijlpE'S all conditions Send for pamphl Scott & Bowne, N. Y. All Dri 'cr.? Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking , Powder ELY PURE Riding Without a Horse. An ingenious man has invented A saddle machine for the acquirement of a perfect seat and self-confidence as an equestrienne within one's own home. It is said that many Indies are overcoming timidity by means of this home practice as a prelude "to learning how to ride" the voritablo equine hack. By a skillful mechanical arrangement the movements of a horse itt. walking, trotting, cantering or galloping are imparted to a saddle, upon which a lady or gentlemen may sit with perfect comfort and safety, i blandly confident that, although they are enjoying to the full all the pleasure and health-giving motion of riding on horseback, there is no fear ,.f i ' w? cuon uiv/uuii re?riug, or Dotting, or kicking, or jibbing or behaving liko the famous trick horse from the circus. The motion obtained from the saddle, as in actual horse riding, is vertical, aud produced by the rider rising on the stirrups or footboards as if seated upon a horse, and under all tho conditions, whether the motion bo gentle or that of a trot or gallop, tho rider is perfectly secure in his or her seat, so that all the advantages of real horse exercise can be enjoyed with nono ol its inevitable risks.?Chicago Mail. Large Bequests for Public Uses. Within a week two wills have been probated in this city, containing largo legacies to our local benevolent and other public institutions. Few realize how vast is the sum yearly bequeathed or given to charitable uses in this country in the course of a year. During the las!: year the enormous sum of 519,987,116 was given by well-to-do people aud others to churches, colleges, museums, art galleries, libraries aud other educational and helpful institutions. The Chicago Tribune hao diligently kept the record from year to year which it felicitously oalls its "white record." In 1893 these froo gifts to the public reached still more colossal figures?$33,319,806. No sums less than $1000 appear ia the Tribune's list. There are many public bequests made in all parts of the country of less amounts than $1000.? Philadelphia Ledger. Itural Lime... >vor having lw?en in use for the last twenty era equal, ami ill some cases superior, to sold at about half what they cost, is still wtngCotton, Corn, Peanuts, Tobacco, and rah1'" adapted. Every ton contains a,ooo crops and the lauds. We use no useless s who have used it. Address: j BE & SON, Richmond, Va. R MORE COWS ? arator will earn lis post for ontinuo an inferior system t lorn? Dairying Is now the |b?A Igriculturo. Properlyoon- g-drWl 1. und must, rnv vmi. Vr?n SU^aBn. ou need ii?o MR8T,?the I capacities. Prices, |7o. II *96 Catalogue. IhQ 1) SEPARATOR CO., Gsnersl Offices: ' CORTLANOT ST., HEW YORK. ? relational Dictionary 11 I of the U. S. Supreme Court, of the U. S. J > litre, and of nearly all of the Schoolbooks. <| J by every State Superintendent of Schools. j? nt write* : " For ?a*e with which the J tight, for accuracy of definition, for ef- j , Mlcttlhf pronunciation, for terae yet! ?| itcat* of facta, and for practical uoe 1 [ try,' Webster'a Interamtlomml' excels ! > mo." , >| iTiam Co., l*at?lialienK $ rfleld. Mam*., VJeAeJU | xxiteininc peetaien purea,tllustr?ttMi?,?tc. "T graphic rtpnnla of the Webster of 1M7. \ ortified? lioftltli, and on the verge of in the world like mulsion Yinlainn r?Atirlol?/?a M\/UA 19UVP| OL-JL UU^Ul" tlio making of solid 1 the blood and tones up \ item. 3ol(ls, Soro Throat, Bronchitis, insumption, Scrofula, Anaimia, lin Babies, Weak Children, and of Wasting. genuine! It has our traden-colored wrapper, rt on Srott's Emulsion. PRJ\E. igglsts. 50 cents and $1.