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; 1" For T -Ro. Fejj P. S. ROYSTI A NEED, JUST LIKE. .,LEEP. US th* Instinct of Ntar- ' :ith Dorn In 1Uanki". The most convei3:. , In proof of the existence in man o. tn .u:(inet of aatural death seems to mhe tLat report ed by Toxarsky In relation to an old Woman. In tie lifetime of Toxarsky I begged an acquaintance of his to ob ida for me the details of this most in *eresting case, of which I had found tut aAn Incomplete statement. Tox aisky unfortunately could add nothing 'to what he had published in his article. A believe, however, that I have found the source fron'.%vhich lils instance had teen taken. In his book upon the physiology of taste, which had its day of celebrity, 3Zrtilat-Savarin relates the foliowing: fi 'I bad a great-aunt, ninety-three years old, who was dying. Although f9pisowe 4Pm confined to her bed . had re 'jWed all her faculti,% and her coudi- i tia was only boteyed by her loss of -ypetite and*, he weakening of her *,.Efe. adalways shown af - - mens for me, and I was near her bed, $$etionatel.y ready to wait on her, which did not prevent my watchig I * er with the philosophc l eye I havea weer.had for the things 1i events sur- < tunding me. 'Ajre you there, neQphew?' I she esked, in a scarcely audible voice. t Yes, aunt; I am here at your service, c -and 1 think you wvould do well to take t ~ 'a little good old wine.' 'Give, mon i amt. One can always swallow~ liquid.' e I hastened. Iaising her gently, I mzade f her take half a glass of my best wine. x She brightened for a moment and, look liaig at me with eyes which luid once 'een very fine, 'Thank you,' she sald, ~or this last favor. If ever you reach 1my age you will flnd that d1ath be comes a need, just like sleep.' "These were her last words. IIalf an o.ur later she had fallen asle. p forev Sr. We unmistakably have here~ an in Staae of the instinct of natuni:l death. 160 instinct was shown at a rebitively early age in a person wiho ha~ icrtaln ed all her intellectual fatculties."- Pr - essor Elle Metchnikof? In hla-per's. POINTED PARAGRAPHS, peat a bAoy out of a dime andJ the rime will never outlaw. Comparison may not be a (1 ' nietion, tut It Is certainly a half' sistei The truth with unselnish , cplo is theiy are liable to brag about It. Where Is only one way in this world to get your own way-inslst upmon it. Almost any defense would be all rilght If you could malike pleI be leve it. It 1s just as dangerous to t(ell some beople a secret as it is to fool with a *eaded gun. When a man submits to a procession -wredding the other men look' at him t40 way boys look at a hay whose x40tIir makes him wear our; curIs. 'The man who has made a failure in bhy line of business never has a vecry o4opInion of the man who started ithe sdme line at the same time and dit4a success.-Atchlson Globe. Too Deep. hestory Is told of a lank, disconso po,loking farmer who one day dur -$~qp ora of a political meeting tin Oper l, tltute stood on the steps wluthe air of one who has been sur 3~t4with a feast of some sort. $I:on know who's talking In there d* t emanded a stranger brIskly, g or ?1 moment beside the dIs t argier, "or are you just go r PI'e just come out." said % n er decidedly. "Mr. EDvarts Is Ithoe," ~~ ~t abont?' asked thme stranger. ~ ~.. ~,he didn't say," thi farmer passing a knoLted hand head., S. standard -e made aterials. ie mark None it. orfolk, Va. A Certain Cure for Croup Uned for Teo Years Without ti F plitre Mr. W. (1. Bott, a Star City, Ind. hard w.-re merchant, is euthmasinatto r praise of Chainberlaiu'a Congot- 'uedy His children haV - Jk_knANt sibjt-et to croup ad 13 'dN used thi. remiedy for the p11t t en"% years, tld thotugh the nL 'flaredcl the croup, his wife and I' 'tlways felt safe upon re>liril)g when a botila of Chtmbt.rlain'w ContIh Remedy wun inl the house. Hi" obeewt> child wai aubject to severe atttcka of croup, but this rena.dy never failied to -etlet a specdy dure. He has recnuiuendel it to fronda and u.ighbori ande all whtu have uaed it. say that it is unuwqualied for er" -l .t mi whoopi:-g cough. For sale by Pickena Drug Co. A o id is tneht in e-- o tally ear 1 whe::t t I - howeis are op-. ti. htunnedy's L xt.t.v: Honey tand 'Fur oleil the bow et st<ct .r:yes the col out If thle system in y u w -r old. Sold by Pickens Drug Co. NOTICE. T'Eu . .n rilor wilf tjake au returns it ameeC this year except thoe. taken by r.m urica or tiaigtratet. -. .'li:'- people* . I ,d ok note.o retine'uet :'o be t..ksen b !'he e:n-. 'xires Fes .ru ary 29,19t7, ad erw ..h Iimoe a pe*nly 'of '5(1 peri e..d. vill d on3Ef( eneban every one. so come on and Imake your returns to bvoid penalty. E. F. Keith, Ex. Aud. Sore Nipples and Chapped Btands re quicky cured by pyinj cha ut erlair a FOLEY!3IIONEYTANTAR "M A KES 1 RHEKUMACIDE goE ali the germs and poisor -spots in the body and a Nature's way. Purelyvie most powerful of olean tinte regulates the liver up the entire system. I that cures rheumatism I MOST POWERP'UL I GORES DISEASE *RHEUMACIDE has other remedies and fa Percelie, of Sali , Va., dreds of dollarsor phys by half a dozen>bottle 2120 Ramsay atret, D man."* -Ors; S. A. Comb it cleans5ed her blood, ti fMtr Noted Doctors F3aled. CD.rast jScase cur ad by RHEUM wrtesr%mtkin s iBUMAC11DE standIn~ Case trerheumati j1 - e tDar m rvec hp geera rheun - ats ektWe ymurs spentsev foun hen e o ctureue t weige 140 pound a. 1owi weigh II II'" U GNES." "I e:tt iny ll:! ;iri." w\ rit.' t COIL Sldt elvit. " lr uto u l.<-h e; with ('<'tas t: la iy w.. s .:i. She can hOi;I(! 10 enti thi-t ill i e:li e aId W: ('1tly the butchei'': im (aile:i vith tl tt:: and t' h:i: -i'1 tli hh; (':np1loy( i-;i Imu :om i n: , Ita , 'l a ltihsI; h: t ai na00111' : of mtty littl 1 tl 01.itilll01 ' .i'('i' f Q:. 1111li ell auiion:; uii Ii Ibecur.l he- 81:gi i.mertily in thl' :.-min. 'D)id you t(k to thn bu':he l'c i ke1. 'N: miotlier, it i; sich a la ":ay, so aslI('d God I. :.ead i'or the dime. IHt it not Come ye1' iIsa:t o44I nl .ecuray, Pe'ish the thought that tle novelis or phay\wiight shouldthe tied'( down t historical alcc'lratcy' Lady I)oroth Neville (lioles aln illusing correspond once between Bulwer Lytton and lie brothel: My Dear Walpole-IHere I am at flat -bored to death. I am thinking of writ lag at ply about your great ancestor, SI Robert. 11nd he not a sister Lucy. an did she not marry a Jacobite? My brother promptly replied: My Dear Lytton- care little for m family and till less for Sir Robert, bu I know that he never had a sister Lucy so t:he could riot have married a Jacobite lowever. this mattered little to Lori Lytton. for his answer rln: My Dear Walpole- You are too late! S Robert had a sister Lucy. and she di( marry a Jacobite. So. In defiance of history, the play "Walpole" came to be written. Artiists as Si-n Paineras. It is surprising how many noted Eng" lish artists began life by painting Imi signs. Among them were Morland, Da. vid Cox, Herring and Sir William Beechey. Millais painted a George and Dragon sign for the George inn, Hayes common. Another George and Dragon, at Wargrave on Thames, has a double sided sign painted by two 1 A.'s. Gor Ing on Thames has a sign from the brush of Marcus Stone, R. A. There are signs by Walter Crane and Caton Woodville at Grayshott and Fittle worth. Hogarth painted a number of signs for fridndly publicans. In Cat lnson Gulch. ."What -becatie of that man you ar rested as a horse thief?" "Lynched." answered Piute Pete. "I suppose that ends the matter." "No. Some o' the boys had their doubts, so we're goin' to call some wit nesses an' glt evidence that he really were the guilty party."-Washington Star. Presence of Mind. It Is a mistake to think that it Is only the l nglishlman Who Iceepa his head in a crisis. When a passenger steamboat suddenly struck a rock off Hongkong the other day. a number of Chinese on board promptly started looting the plfsengers' trunks.--Puneb. The Attrnetion,. Nell-isn't she i iaeculiar girl'? She wouldn't look at him when he was rich, but now. after he's lost all h!s monley, she necepts him. Belle-- Well. you know how erazy every woman is to get aniyt)il at'.rNdug4ed It takes two to maike a marriage. bin only one i mar N meeft Cres Coughs, Colds, aLung Troubles. Pa Pickern Drug VOU WELL A s right to the seat of the d s out of the blood, cleans u; ets all the organs to work a getable, non-alcoholic, it 'is' si ng medicines. and at the tones up the stomach and UHEUMACIDE is the only r o stay cured. 3LOOD PURIFIER .,ii W4 BY REMOVING THE C coured thousands of cases a incus doctors had failed. spent $200 in medicines ar1 Ioians' fees, and at last he was a of Rheumacide. 0. Dieti aitimore, says it has "made es 114 S. Glmor street, Bait soIt away her pains, and' mac like a new woman." Yoi and recommends Rheuma CURES AFTER orSample bottle and b frpostage to Bobbitt Chemical START TOOl yster rtilizei have been the because they ai from honest m: See that the tra< is on every bag, genuine without 3R GUANO CO., N( Friendslip With Wild Life. If a fairy had ever offered to grant me three wishes, "the full confidence )f wild animals" would surely have been one of them and probably the' lrst. If we seek opportunities to be 'riend wild creatures and take advan age of them, we shall often find, as I iave done, that there is jo lack of re ponse on the part of le animals. I, ce walked up to a pine siskin, ap/he was feeding on the ground and. ]icked aim up In my hand. He di "not seem t bit alarmed, and wheqW a few min ites later I set him ii he continued als search for !o01"within a few inches f my feet. -Ch another occasion a yei. ow thrpgfed vireo allowed me to lift ter. rom her nest when I wished to !unt her eggs and nestled down com 'ortably on her treasures the moxueut I )ut her back. With a forefinger I once itroked the back of a red breasted nut tatch as he was busy feeding on a ree.-Ernest Harold Buynes in St. Jicholas. A Pet Tiger. Out of a river bed where it had tum-. led when its dam was put to flight orne hunters in India fished a tiger ub. In two days it was as tame as a :itten aud grewv up the playmate of he camp terriers. It was very fond I *t them and the terriers worshiped the Igress. To allay the fears of a woman isitor the tigress was one night chain d up. Negxt morning the animal was ound with~ a man unsder her. Shje had ot hurt him.4 Hie was a thief and, not flowing of her existence, had come vithin the area which her length of hain enabled her to command. She prang upon him, lay on him and kept im prisoner until guards cam~e to re ease him. A F'amous Tenow. Apart from its wide range, the nat-. ural beauty and sweetnees of the voice >t Sims Reeves held his audiences pellbound and fully entitled him t.o be ermed the fInest English tenor of his lay. Hie especially excelled in era orio parts, while in opera his success was scarcely less pronounced. Per aaps it was as a singer of English bal ads that Sims Reeves appealed to the najority, and it will purobably be many long (lay before we shall hear a more izquisite rendering of "Sally In Our Alley" than that of which this great enor was capable.-London Mai., Negleed~ Rluin. Visiting Br'itisher - But you have nothing to see over haere-nothing, I mean, in the way of grand 01(d things that have long sinco faillen into din ise. Gothuaite -We haven't, eh ? Wait till you get a copy of the cit: yrdinances.-Life. Comparing NOten. Bleeker--My wife got the best of me n1 an argument this morning. Meeker -My wife never got the best of me but once. lBleeker-Whaen was that? SIeeker-When she married me.-Chi ~ago News. she Wasn Careful. Spats -That old maid, Miss Van Shelf, is the most eareful and method ical boarding mistress I have ever had liaturbing my den. SocratOot8-Yes: [ can imagine when she goes to heaven she will want in summer time to lay pway her wings in camphor bal. _____ Optlimistie View. Tom (proudly---Miss Pinkleigh has promised to be my wife. Jack (consol ngly)--Oh, don't let that worry you. Wofnen frequently break their pro1n. ses,-Chicago News. Znquire of the young people; they new evtting, e,<\ ctable Prep?ara;tioc, t t f'tStmachs;andBowels or I r fromtotes Dig(-stion.Cheerrfuf ness andIRest.Contains neltker' Opitun,Mtorphiine nior Mineral. non Sou St .3ch,Dia . J" ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ' ''jtfUdb.1/UiLf7/d1 Wormis,ConvidIsonfls,Feverigh -ness an d L'oss of SL.EEtt Fqc Simta signature or NEW YORg." EXACT coPY( WrP. Where dou Afind Shieli1 tpeisc a safe lace to tra theyare by1d . Weuria eoerYwhere. eset Kiser s King for men, and you will rononey's worth. - Mal styles and all the,pa Leathers, Patent olt, Gun Metal, Box Calf, . C rise Compas for xn, and ORGwi C rou,yLa G rAthMa eve tlsumnia all thes Com aPthes, Pakens Po -t Gunse Mweta,s xaf all the plague-e Crout Lthiee stm, alte ,lge builds smedy )RLD. Austin d hun i cured 'ich, of him anew . more, says ie her "feel ir druggist sells olde. ALL OTHERS FA sokIet free if you senld five q Company, Proprietors, at ST WJLLTOD2 masemim 1 S $1 Ai vays Bogh Bears the ;# Signature of - Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA o* . vyu epww yow. Uw YoRU v Irand Shoes de, because e .merchants D ask for .50; Shoe. et your e;i 37. tc Pat. Colt THE OIGINAL 4 LAXATIVE H ONEY and TAR L'hroat in the nption YELLOW PACKAGE4 acey, Liberty. -ul1 L/ Vi+ci, 8tL1.3?R. }