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iVATION AND PAIN Cured by Lydia 1. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Creston, Iowa.-" I was troubled for a long time with Inflammation, pain@ in my Bido nick :R!M! headaches antl ner vousness. Ihad ta ken so many muedi cines that I w a s - .discouraged and thought I would never get well. A Sfriend told of -Ltydia E. Pinkblami's egetable Com pound anI It re stored 1io to health. I havo no more pain, my nerves are stronger and I can do my own work. jvdia E. Plinkham's Vegetablo Comipou: q cured mo after everything else had failed, and I rec. ommend it, to other stffering women." --Mus. W. SiLs 005 W.1Howard St., Creston, Ion a. Thouamids of unsolicited and genii ine testimo:lais like the above provo the eflicieney of Lydia E. Pinikham's Ve etablo ('ompound, which is mado rxe.usively from roots and herbs. Women who suffer fron those dis tressing ills should not loso sight of these facts or doubt the ability of Lydia Eli. P1inkham's Vegetablo Compound to restore their health. If you want special advice write to Mrs. Pink ham, at Lynn, Mass. She will treat your letter as strictly confidential. For l(0 years she lias been helping sielc women In this way, free of cliarge. Don't iesitate-writo at once. Cured Splint "I have used Sloan's Liniment on a fine iare for splint andcuredher. This makes the third horse I've cured. Have recommended it to my neigh. bors for thrush anti they say it is fine. I find it the best Liniment I ever used. I keep on hand your Sure Colic Cure for myself and neigh bors, and I can certainly recom .mend It for Colic."-S. E. SmIT, McDonough, Ga. . Cured. Thrush. MR. I. W. PARISH, of Bristol Ind., R. No. 2, writ es:--"I have used lotsof your Linihient for horses and myself. It is thebest Liniment in -the world. I cured one of my horses of thrush. IHer feet were rotten; the frogs came out ; she luaUt down mhost of the time. I thuhtt wvould die, but I used the Li zI ient as directed and she 1uever liq down in the daytime now." should be in every stable and ap plied at the first sign of lameness. You don't need .to rub, it penetrates. W~ill kill a spavin, c'urb or splint, re i g duce wv i n d puffs and swollen joints, and is a sure and ,speedy remedy for f is t u1 a, sweeney, founder and thrush. Prico, 530o. and $1.00 sloan's book on hiorseng, cat Il, sheep 4& Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Poston, Mass., U. S. A. ~VHO ISWomen as well as men aro miado miserable by kidney and bladder trou ble. Dr. illmner's Swamp BLAMERoot the great kidney At druggists In fifty t'nt andl dollar sizes. ,You may have a sa'mple bottle by mal free, also pamphlet telling all about it. Address, Dr. Kdilmner & Ce., ninghamton, N. Y. SAVE YOUR MONEY.3u~ One box of Tutt's Pills save many dollars in doc tors' bills. Cure diseasbs of the liver or bowels, Por sick headachte, dyspepsia, malaria, consti.. patlon and biliousness,a anIllion people endorse 'Tuft'sP is Reaers higPader tised in Its columns shu aAupon having what they ask for, refusing all suh~btutes or imitations. KOD AKS HE Iatinn A es and Inaigan tins. tailed or ouo ra gie rmtats Politics-ai By STACY (Copydght. xgti. by Asso Andy Morgan bought a controlling i interest in the Arlington "Morning i Arrow," and realized a cherished am bition by settling down to the none too prosaic life of an editor. Arlington was a thriving little city of about 12,000 population. The "Ar row," under the old editorial manage ment, had long been a sluggish dis pirited sheet, with limited patronage and little voice in civic affairs. The town smileod broadly when Morgan fortifled himself behind this decadent timber. Before Andy Morgan had gone away to complete his college course he had been more than ordinarily in terested in pretty Priscilla Wilson. Ilis retura to the home town found Priscilla blossomed to as dainty a flower as ever he had hoped to see. Morgan's subjection was complete. Dan Wilson, father of Priscilla, was a politician of some note In the community. "Honest Dan'' was his sobriquet, and his "square" methods were matters of pride with his con stituents. Wilson was one of the first callers at the "Arrow" sanctum under the new control. "CongratulatIons," he said, as he entered the presence of the young editor. Morgan laughingly waved the older man to a seat. 'Wait until I've made good," he cautioned. "It isn't going to be the easiest thing in the world to steer the water-logged old craft into the current of present times and methods, and even when this is done, 110 one Will care to ship on her until sho has proven herself sea worthy." "Just so," agreed Wilson. "But I, for one, have conldenco in your ability to handle the tub. Just how, if tile question isn't prsonal, do you stand in politics?" Wilson stared straight at the young man. "I shall aililiato myself with no Iparty," came from Morgan. "The 'Arrow' Will be for the best man, a] ways." "Quito right," approved Wilson, with a keen glance analyzing the new editor. "But sooner or later, my boy, you will find that influence will be brought to bear upon you to bring you ~Y t - He Could Not Understand It. t to the edtitorial aidl of men not capa- . ble. I have a pretty keen insight into3 things, and I can see it comaing. YOU must remember your best mnan~ plait-r form {lhen." "T.lrust me," pr1omlised Alorgan, and "Ihonest D~an" left the oilee. Aridy Morgan called often upon pretty Priscilla Wilson. Tfih-i friendship sprling into* ani intimacy that bade fair to lead to matrimony. I The tall youth wvith his serious idleas. of life, and Ils strong affection for her too plainly seen in his eyes, was encouragedl by the trim little maid. I Priscilla Wilson, despite heri dainti- I nless andic littleness, was also of a serious trendl of mind. The "Arrowv," under its new man ager', prosper-ed from the start. Ad- I vertiser's increased their space and Morgan's fair methodls and the im-1 provedl appearance of the paper added< nlew subscribers. "Priscilla," began the ybuth one evenling, "it is now almost' a year1 since I took the 'Arrow,' I have suc ceeded, even beyond my expectations --and they were not modest. There is only one thing in the world now] that can make my happIness com plete." The gil blushed. It is mqre than possible that she surmised the ques tion to come. The feminine instinct is capable of much. "And that is she asked, bravely. "You!" PriscIlla's lips8 were silent, and the flush suddenly faded from her cheeks, leaving thenm strangely pale. After a little she spoke. "Yeul- wish to marry me?" she asked in a low1 voICe. "Priscilla," breathed the man hoarhely. "-Why do you ask? Yeou know I do." A little hand stopped his advance. ,You love me, then? Do you love id Priscilla E. BAKER lated Literary Press.) no well enough to do something fol no? To sacrifice something--for m3 iake?" "Ask me," cried Nlorgan. "Are you positive that you wilj grant me this favor?" "Dearest, Hiow can I help It?" "Then listen!" The girl's clei )yes Were on the youth. "You ar( 3hampioning Anderson Dorn for con ,ressman from this district, are yov "Yes, but-" "I want you to turn against him ind support David Kennedy, the can lidate on the other ticket." "You want me," exclaimed Mor 4an, hardly believing his own ears 'to 'knifo' the logical man for tht )fllce, and work for that-that scoun, Irel, Kennedy?" "Just so," answered the girl cold y, "but I already know what yout inswer will be. Your love for me is lot strong enough to allow you te Yrant me this slight favor." "Slight favor," repeated Morgan, ronically. "I would hardly call i hat, Priscilla. If I acceded- to your vishes, I would be put down as a lolitical sharper immediately, and all ny prestigo in the community, my lard-won reputation for honesty and iquaro dealing, and, above all, clean iolitics would be gone. I can't do it, Irl. I love you, and I will do any hing In the world within reason for 'ou, but I can't besmirch my own iame. I don't understand it. What )t such an idea into your head?" "All that is immaterial," came rom the girl crisply. "It is suf. ,ienst for you to know that I asked aid you refused-a favor. I want 'ou to believe ine when I say that I vill never ask anything more from 'ou. From now on, we are stran ,ers." "Priscilla, you can't mean It!" "0 but I do On second thought, towever, I will give you a chance. ,will allow you until Saturday to hink it over. If you decide to do as ask, come to me and--and I will ove you forever, otherwise-" AMorgan took his hat and plodded lismally from the house. lie could iot understand it. To his knowledge 'lonest Dan" Wilson and this Ken iedy, a crook politician of the worst ype, could have nothing in common vith each other. The next day Wilson called at the 'Arrow" office. "My daughter," the )olitician began bluntly, "asked a avor of .you last' evening. Don't you hink it .would be wise for you tc Trant, i? "I (10 not," 'came 'from' Morgari 3hortly. "Nor do I care to talk about he matter." "ionest Dan" bowed curtly and left ho ofilee. "Nowi," ruminated Andy, s he watched tihe oide~r man .stride last the windoew, "I have tuutag mnized him. Well, he inay as wveli :now how I standl." On Saturday evening a disconsolate t~ndy mlled at the WVilson home. 3riscilla glancedl at tihe visitor keenly. "WVell?" she interroegatedi. Theuy vere alone .in tihe parlor.I "I have come to ,say good-hy," an Louncedl the youth sadly. "I can't o as you wish me to* do, Priscilla. wouldln't be fair to myself, if I did." The gi came swiftly across the OOmf, and1( to the astoinishmuenlt of ior'gan, lher fair head sudd~enly benit v'er his, shoulder., "Nor. didl I be' leve you would, you big boy," she0 lied exultinigly. "Fath6eY is so skep ieal In reference -to p)olitical honesty hat I-I wanlted to show him that 'ou couiln't be bribed, and -andl 'ou couldn't."' Two arms .were suddenly thrown r'ound tile y9uth's neck gnd a (Ilushedl ace hid itself fr'om his 1happy)3 eyes, Men Are Poor Hosts, "Did you have a good -lime?" quer ed tha friend~ of the girl wh'lo had. at .ended a studio tea, "000(1 time!" echoed the other *cor'nfully. "Aldn dlon't krlow tihe first hiug .about. entertaining, and after is I'mi going to avoidi their oild par' ios. HeI gr'eetotd me charmingly and coined so glad I had conme, but, d1o 'ou know, that et'eaturo never' intro luced a man to me, and he has met oads of girls at my house. HeT show td me all his newest pictures, but lever offered me a thing to eat or irink, though there was a big bowl of minch and piles of cake and sand. ,v iches. Absent-mindedness, of course, )ut that's just the difference between i man and a woman, However great i genius a woman may be, when she ntertains she knows what to do for hier guests, and usually a man doesn't N4o more men's parties for me! Where i the nearest soda fountain?" Expecting Too Much, "The Count has promised that h( will never beat or kick me if I wil muarry him," said the beautiful heiress "Bunt has he promised to work fot you?" her father asked, "Oh! papa, don't be unreasonable.' ..Contrary Way. "Didn't Julia makce up her' mind ver suddenly to go to Florida for the win ter?"' "Yes, very suddenly; but then shi always takes a summary way of Win tering." AT 7W' / T TIhERE is a romantic flavor about the word badger that be longs to no other of the names of animals found in Britain. I suppose it is because this is their only large carnivorous, genuine ly wild animal; the fox, the only other wild beast of any size, is in many, perhaps I ought to sayimost, districts so carefully preserved that it owes its existence to man, instead of, like the badger, existing in spite of man. Then, too, "the brock" is hardly ever seen alive and free, but conies and goes mysteriously in the dead of night, leaving but few traces behind it un less somebody notices a large dog like track in the mud, or where a wasps' nest has been dug out, for it revels in the dainty meal of wasp grubs. Many'a time have I tracked one from the scene of its night's ,work through muddy gateways and down damp woodland rides, noting how the heavy creature had slipped and slid, and the spots where it had turned asid6 to scratch and root among the moss and dead leaves, then on- to the streamside-the badgers al ways ford the.little brook I am speak ing of at the same place-and through "Grumbles." hedges and across fields, once more to plunge into big w'oodlands, in the heart of which is the gr eat earth .wherein many generations have been bred. In these par ticular holes the badgers are fairly safe. Trho tunnels are bored in a layer of sand lying between strata of clay and rock, and run in every di rection for hundreds of feet. There are only two visible entrances, which are inconspicuous holes, without even a heap of soil to distinghmish them from surrounding rabbit burrows; for being situated at the top of one of the sides of a very steep and deep val ley, or 'dingle,- as they are locally called, the soil all rolls down to the stream below, wvhere it is washed away. In fact, the Bole intimations of badgers are the pathways 'formed by their always taking the same road in their nightly wanderings, and which lead up to the tiro entrances. Some two or three years ago, a fox, hard pressed by hounds, took refuge in this earth, and the master and whip, not knowing th9 place, sent for spades and terriers and commenced opera' tions to get him out. To cut a long story short, they dug till late at night, and .finally hounds wyere taken home; but orders had been left with men of the district to finish the job next day. These men dug steadily for three days; they re moved many tons of soil, but the further they got into the cliff the more tunnels there were. In some holes they found neat beds of grass and fern. It had. to be given up, for the work was Herculean; it would have required weeks to. reach the extremi ties of the various holes. A short time ago I visited the place, and ap parently the badgers are still there, for it shews all the signs of being used., In the part of Bhropshire hunted by the Wheatland hondn badges are B Ir C ta b b V nlot SO Much so as In bygone times;d that Is to say, if the tatles one hears atre to be trusted. Perhaps ai better Indication Is that there are places niamed Brock holes and similar namies f where no badgers are found today. Yellow or sable badgers with pink eyes have occurred In this part, and s~ome years ago an old femiale thus t colored, together with her twN.o babies, name Into my possession. The young ones were the ordinary gray and white, but charming little creatures, t utterly unlike their savage mother, who sulkily resented captivity. As soon as they were weaned they werej given bread and milk to eat; occasion-t 9lly hits of dog biscuit and other scraps were added. In the end we parted with them, as the "higher au thorities" thought they were not safe pets. They may not have been; but IV tried their temper In every way, ta king the two for walks dreigged along ' by a collar and chain, and carried 10 themi about, one under' each arm, that 11 ls to say, until they got too big and t hieavy, but they never .seemed to mind. a Anoter pt bager as hlf gownI thnIaqie t;tepo hn ha encuh na rp n t e waiahrbdyhutiA.kee aruh tt e koigta a las iligt gv ahm to 'an sta nml s- oki, e twl -1hvSee a n nmlta aol~a omc-ndddtebs 1ol2o t rmlefr oi a 3hitnd a ops oetea aae;bumayhusWresen in hn ltswstdbfr b 6anda~ hrc~rsi itrs o thSagrto oiteeti h r taez~l owl, ldentr, tho 'apehs nogt sof tuhs casa il byn titmend atc i onyi the tableos. on he ren tohe truse. wasrhasd a bettr odcton eing tn. ther Woode placeot tlaed offr.in hodler ad siiar,.ame Ytlogh or soule badvers witm pgink buts avoucthred months at somd noehbors gopane odfemle tuste colorwd, ther buibh herntwo bite, turf were tein ocrdinary gra and t hien. ut chparmin theytwerepatres t utterly unliketr savagcue mnotheir' gardens thech were wened bymving in bread and relkcn tet ocson-r. The net ondog biscui ad other berep wrwn ad. all the endb had diateared. thm basge wasgeentu-' thoritie" thogh they welret o aei a-dytdasn Ite may not have benput I ackid etmper in eery wgay, gae liy a colle and hain, aund cino a kenneo say, unilthy gte tobi owner ofv, u theyue naeve seme to mind th badger I acqine iet;i the pacin and beeought brock otrp and his laeg this rsathe' baly hrt. fit keepero b iteg, ee nowin that my poor tokeep willin o Mye hoe t tatny and y aImsal soTb too itobdtai wel ml ae neeroar nhaimlmha. aolrmeng souch-a now did the best of ahrited had inthe stilbefsoe the therIa bure man hous awoter sant cubs, fora ite asttyled the Iob acries. aof thetrcative pites, whoe ordrt noisesterest the rtn taeiol, Old hor co, on thea slonclke a ntebaby.oAs. In adbe fore, the badger ws rele caseInltnce. cegorsopinedo their"ovrain mseil tr were bein crmbchng gupn whach sometims appeeded they epatrned noa lare nbrt of crocue nthi Lodn, Engil adon yrmoig nA blub anda rplacin he amanpgets" bhn "rawn" and l teblbta 4 BUFFERED 23 YEARS onstant Sufferer From Chron' lo Catarrh olIeved by Peruna. Mrs. 3. '.L ourland, San* aba, Texas, 'rites: "For twen r-three years was a con ant sufferer ,om chronlo. atarrh. I had severe mis ry and burn ig in the top f my head. 'here was al iost a con Inual d r o p 4ng of mucus tto my throat, rhich caused requent ex e to ration. ly entire sys 3m gradually ecame In olved, and iy condition Mrs. J. H. Bourland. rew worse. I ad an incessant cough and frequent ttacks of bilious colic, from which it eemed I could not recover. My bowels iso became affected, causing alarming ttacks of hemorrhages. I tried many emedies, which gave only temporary elief or no relief at all. I at last tried leruna, and In three days I was re eved of the bowel derangement. After sing five bottles I was entirely cured. most cheerfully recommend the use of 'eruna to any one similarly afilicted." When the fight begins within him elf, a man's worth something. Irowning. A cup of Garfield Tea before retiring rill insure that all-imiportant measure, the aily cleaning of the system. A Way of Getting Even. Hewitt-When I asked tho old man or his daughter's hand he walked all ver me. Jewett-Can't you have him arrest d for violation of tho traillc regula ions? A Cautious Answer. "Now Johnny," said the geography eacher, "what -s the capital of Portu "I dun'no', Miss Flanders," said ohnny, "but from what I hearn tell of he extravagance of the late king they ,in't much left."-Harper's Weekly. Fighting Tuberculosis in Hungary. The anti-tuberculosis imovment ras started in 1894, anil in 18 there rere five institutions for fth1aatr - sent of consumption. Today the cam !ign is encouraged and financed by lie government, and over 200 different gencies are engaged in the fight. A ermanent tuberculosis i'nuseumi has eon'established at Tludlapest and a arefully conducted campaign' of edu ation is being carried on. Give a Woman a' Chance. Compulsory military service- for sen, urges a German female advocate '. women's right, shopid be offset by ompulsory domestic service for wom n. On tho''theory that lIfe in bar ack and' drill in the manual of arms tave benefitted German manhood, she ,ks, why will not life 'in. the' kitchen nd exercise in the use of .pots. 4nd Ians similarly raise German wvoman Lood?' If Germany ever'.organizds a stand ng army of cols it..play afgrce .glI Durope to f~iollowits lead. Oulinary onlseriptioh is a 'Beeb21elbuke but vben eriforced.:ijn1:.G'ermanyi :gther'ia ions. might bes expeteel 40 ,9dopt' it. ['here wouldl be. more ireas'oi in 'doling o than in followinW.'Germamvy'lead n militarism. -There . l.-.. mnore -.reial teed of cooks the world over than of oldiers. It is posible to 'gct along vithout fighting, 'but not without, eat ng. Tlhe 'Taste. Test Post Toasties Have a dainty, sweet flavgur that pleases tihe palate 'and satisfies particular folks. The Fact .that each year increasing thousands use this delicious food is good evidence of its popularity. Post Toasties are ready to serve direct from the pkg. with cream or milk-a con venient, wholesome breakfast dish. "The Memory Lingers" POSTUM CEREAL CO., Ltd., nDute Cree. miob