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THE HUMAN EYE. ' t PECULIARITIES OF NATURE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA. Dangers in Obtaining a Spectacle Pre 6cription ? All Persons Xced J Glasses Late in Life?Points About Nearsightedness. ' "It takes years of hard study for an ophthalmic surgeon to learn how to tit glasses," said an oculist to a Washington &iar reporter, w\l\u ihu yciov/oo v?vo are quite alike, and few patients have both eyes the same; in each ease a dozen different possible defects have to be looked out for and remodled by glasses ground in special ways if they exist. It is apt to take an hour or more for a skilled oculist to find out just what glasses you require, but the confident optician will call your attention to a few rows of different sized letters at the other end of the Bhop, ask you what rows you can read and sell you a pair of spectacles according, off hand. Of course it is always a more or less wild guess on the optician's part, infinitely more apt to be wrong than right, and if you will consider that every bit of error as to fit in the glasses means just so much continual strain upon the eyes of the wearer, you will see what an immense amount of harm must be done in this way. The thing to do, if you need glasses, is to go to the ophthalmic surgeon for the prescription, as you would go to any other physician if you had a pain, and then take the prescription to the optician, who is the eye-doctor's apothecary, as it were, to be filled. The glasses are prepared for you?if need be, specially ground?and you have the satisfaction of knowing that they are precisely what Iiott m/inirp V**VJ "Were people afflicted with near sightJ edness in ancient times?'' Inquired the L reporter. f "Oh, yes, was the reply, though probably not to the same extent. We read, write and study more than the ancients did, and for this reason near-sight is more common with us, for it is the excessive use of the eyes at the near point that propagates the troubles. In old times troubles with the eyes were regarded as afflictions sent by heaven, for which there no cure. Nero, who fiddled while Rome was burning, was so nearsighted that, although he had the very best seat in the amphitheater at the gladiator shows, he could not see what was going on. One day he discovered that a certain concave emerald in his collection of jewels aided his vision materially, and from time he always carried the iemerald about with him and, wheE. he . wanted to see anything at a distance, [looked through it. He regarded the ;stone as a talisman and supposed that its (properties were magical." "Is it true that every person needs spectacles at some period of life?" ! "Decidedly, if the person lives to be iforty-five years of age. At that age, or 'at any rate before fifty is reached, the . ^crystalline lens, which is of the consistency of jelly in childhood, has gradually hardened to the consistency of wax, so fthat the muscles wincii cnange rue iocus of tlie eye for various distances, by altering the shape of the lens, find it difficult to do their work. You will perceive (that after looking at an object across the street, to examine your finger attentively requires a distinct effort of the eye. You J have to exert the muscles that control the *" ehape of the lens in order to make the locus right for the near point. If the lens has got hard, through advancing age, a continuous effort of this sort, as in reading, becomes tiresome, and thus it is that the middleaged man or woman finds the first indication of what is ignorantly termed 'failing sight' in the blurring of the letters in the book or newspaper. Now, the fact is, of course, that the ocular organ is just as good as ever, save for the fact that it needs a little help in the way of a glass lens to make the focus right for reading and thus save the muscles work. The sight for distance, under such circumstances, still remains as good as ever, bccause the lens in its natural focus and shape is adapted to distant vision. But the middle-aged person, as a rule imag ines that the blurring of the letters signifies impaired sight. He or she is aware that glasses will make reading easy agaiu, but hesitation is felt in adopting them on account of the widespread saving that, once taken up, spectacles can never be done without again. The truth at the bottom of this lies in the fact that, when one's sight has once been restored by artificial means, one is not disposed to throw the help away again. Not realizing the middle-aged person keeps on straining the eyes until they become somewhat damaged, for want of artificial aid in reading or sewing, and finally the glasses are adopted?bought, in nine cases out of ten, from the ignorant opticians, to cause more trouble, very likely, later on. And all the distress might ^ have been saved by simply going to the oculist when the annoyance first began to be felt and procuring the proper glasses. This is what every person at forty-five years of age ought to do, for there is no one that arrives at the age of fifty, at the utmost, who docs not need assistance for ^ close vision." "Is it true that near-sighted eyes iin prove as' they grow older?" "Pah! That is another popular delusion. Near-sightedness may grow worse with age, but uot better. Likewise, it is nonsense to suppose, as is so commonly asserted, that the near-sighted eye is unusually strong. How should the abnormal egg-shaped eye be stronger than the spherical eye? The near-sighted eye is not necessarily weak, but it is a sick eye, in the sense that it usually belongs to a person who is imperfect constitutionally. The reverse of near-sight is oversight, which is occasioned by flatness of the erb of vision. It is the ease of nearly all cases of 'weak eyes,' and of nine out of every ten cases of 'squint.' Any child afflicted with either of these troubles should be taken at oncc to the oculist and have glasses prescribed for it. Thousands of neonle eo through life without half the use of their eyes,when the whole trouble is 6imply due to a slight malformation which proper convex glasses would remedy at once. In the case of a con?rmed squint it may be necessary to cut ihe shortened muscle of the squintfcig /eye, which removes the difficulty and set* the organ straight again. Let me add, while I think of it, that there is nothing against which the ignorant should be warned more carefully than ..V .the 'eye waters' sold at apothecaries' shops, whici* almost invariably contain !sugar of lead. This chemical applied to a core eye makes an opague deposit on the cornea, which may soon render the 'unfortunate purchaser quack eye rerne;diee permanently blind.'* WgaBPSElM^tffc???????? Uses to Old Shoes. It may be a surprise to some people to learn that the old shoes cast into the ash barrel are liable to reappear in the boudoir and parlor. An inquisitive reporter who saw a couplc of rag pickers quarreling over a lot of worn out and seemingly worthless foot gear interviewed one of the chiffouiers and found that j they sold them to the manufacturers of i wall paper. He followed up the clew, I and on questioning the foreman of one of j these establishments, elicited the follow i ing uns 01 juiuniiaiiuii. j "We buy," said the foreman, "all the i boots ami shoes that the scavengers can j bring us. We pay different prices for , the different qualities of leather. A pair ! of fine calfskin boots will bring as high ' as fifteen cents. AVe don't buy cow-hide I boots. The boots and shoes are first ! soaked in several waters to get the dirt i off from them. Then the nails and threads are removed, the leather is ground up into a fine pulp and is ready to use. <:The embossed leather paperings which have comc into fashion lately, and the stamped leather fire screens, are really nothing but thick paper cover with a layer of this pressed leather pulp. Tho finer the quality of the leather the better it takes the bronze and old gold and other expensive colors in the designs painted on them. Fashionable people think they are going away back to the mediaeval <tiir.es when they have the walls of their libraries and dining rooms covered with embossed leather. They don't know that the shoes and boots which their neighbors threw into the ash barrel a month before form the beautiful material on their walls and on the screens which protect their eyes from the fire. "We could buy the old shoes cheaper if it were not for the competition from carriage makers and bookbinders and picture frame makers. I don't know how many other trades use old shoes and boots, but the tops of carriages are largely made of them, ground up and pressed into sheets. Bookbinders use them in the cheaper forms of leather bindings, and the new style of leather frames with leather mats in them are entirely made of the castoff covering of our feet."?JYew York Herald. The Result of Inventions. Tn mittiiif* out clothinor and cloth caps *" O O ? with dies one worker does the work of three by old methods. In leather manufacture modern methods have reduced the necessary number of workers from five to fifty per cent. A carpet measuring and brushing machine with one operator will do the work of fifteen men by the old methods. In the manufacture of flour modern improvements save seventy-five per cent, of the manual labor that once was necessary. In making tin cans one man and a boy with modern appliances can do the work of ten workers by the old process. By the use of coal mining machines 1G0 miners in a mouth can mine as much coal in the same time as 500 miners by the old methods. One boy by machinery in turning woodwork and materials for musical in-A - ? X_ TT?AT?Tr Af ftPOnf-V j SU'ULllt'LUS pcnuiuia IUC nuia v> onvuvj five men by the old methods. The horse power of steam used in the United States on railways, steamers and in factories and mines was in 188S 12,000,000, against 1,610,000 in 1850. In the manufacture of brick improved devices save one-tenth of the labor, and in the manufacture of firebrick forty per cent, of the manual labor is displaced. In stave dressing twelve colaborers with a machine can dress 12,000 6taves in the same time that the same number of workers by hand could dress 2500 staves. In nailing on shoe heels one worker and a boy with machinery can heel 300 pairs of shoes per day. . It would require five workers to do the same by hand. In the manfacture of carriages it used to take one man thirty-five days to make a carriage. It is now made by the aid of machinery with the work of one man in twelve days. In the cotton mills in the United States the manual labor has been reduced about fifty per cent. Now one weaver manages from two to ten looms, where one loom was formerly tended by one worker. A Dangerous Load. A Denver gentleman, who had been on a camping-tour through the mountains, recently returned, and relates an incident which testifies to the statement that even the most dangerous callings become ordinary every-day affairs to the men engaged in them, the element of danger being apparently lost sight of. He was driving his team across a mountain road when, coming to a narrow place, another team was met. In this latter were the driver and his wife, and, as the passage was narrow and rough, there being many bowlders on the side where the turning out had to be made, his wife got out of the wagon. This was to be expected, but when the Denver tourist saw her run somewhat speedily and hide herself behind a large rock, it somewhat astonished him. "I say," he asked, "what makes your wife act that way?" "Oh, I don't know exactly, but Iguess she may be a little scared." "But what is she scared about?" "Oh, I have got some stuff in my wagon which she does not like to see r\rrnr? +Vlficn m/?lf " onfl VlO AAaIItT ",v-i V proceeded to head his team over the bowlders. "Say, what have you got in your wagon?'' "You see those three boxes?well, they are full of giant powder." "3Iy goodness, man, you don't intend to drive over these rocks with all that explosive matter?" "Yes, I do. Why not? I have been teaming giant-powder for ten years." "But it might explode and blow us, horses and all, to the dickens." "Wlia* of it? we would never know what hurt us, would we?" And it was with difficulty that he was persuaded to wait and carry it about fifty leet.?Denver News. You Always Knew Them. Englishmen coming to 2sew York have an amusing idea that they cannot be distinguished from native inhabitants, whereas it is a fact well known to close observers that the greater number of Englishmen do not lose their distinctive characteristics even after many years residence in this country. This is peculiarly true of Englishmen of the upper and lower middle classes, to ose their own classifica-1 tions. If you see a fantastically dressed j man, pipe in mouth, rushing along indif- j ferent to all about him, ten to one he'* an Englishman. The Britoa especially re-1 sents the American convention that frowns on the pipe j.n the street, ?? Chicagc i A NOTED DIVINE. ! SKETCH OP THE REV. DR. TALe MAGE'S CAREER. I His Home Iiifeand Manifold Duties? Where and How He Composes His Sermons?His Correspondcnce. k Rev. T. De Witt Talmagc was born ' near Bound Brook, New Jersey, on the , 7th of January, 1S32, and was the son of David Talmage, a respected citizen and at one time Sheriff of Somerset County. He was educated at the University of the City of New York, and at the the Seminary at New Brunswick,New Jersey,where he continued his studies until he was twenty-four years old. Then he was ordained, and after three years at a country church, in 1859 he was called to the Second Reformed Church of Philadelphia. So successful was his ministry, and so popular his preaching, that he had many i opportunities of advancement to more ; important posts. In 1869 he accepted a j call from the Central Presbyterian j Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., of which he i has now been pastor for twenty years. | Soon after his arrival in Brooklye, his j congregation became too large for the | church, and in 1870 a new building was 1 erected on Schennerhorn street, and ! called the Tabernacle. This was de1 stroyed by fire in 1872. The following I vear a third and still more capacious edi lice was completed, which has been crowded at every service since the opening. A New York editor thus describes the doctor's study in his home in Brooklyn. "There is no evidence here of luxury, or even comfort. The floor is of hard, polished wood. The walls are plain whitfe. Drawn up to a big window is a table.. It is littered with letters, newspapers, books, magazines, pens, ink bottles, pencils and writing paper. A stiff backed chair, without a cushion, is before the table. It is a typical literary man's den. Book shelves are ranged around the walls. Books are piled in corners, and even in the middle of the floor. A score or more of the leading daily newspapers of the country are filed away in one corner." Here it is that Dr. Talmage composes his sermons, his lectures, and his "Friday night talks." These he ditates to a stenographer after carefully thinking them out in his mind. Easy and fluent aa his delivery is, avast amount of labor is needed to evolve, as he has done for mora than twenty years, a constant succession of new and striking ideas. It may be doubted whether any other public speakei has said so much, and maintained so surprising a freshness of thought and ex pression. Here, too, he attends to the letters thai come to him from all over the country, many from friends, but more from total strangers, who ask his advice undei every conceivable emergency. In an article about Dr. Talmage's home life, printeo some months since in a New York daily, there w-is given an interesting account ol the contents of a morning's mail, deliv. ered by the postman at the home of th< noted preacher: "A young minister writes to say that his congregation is leaving him. How shall he get his people back? An old sailor scrawls on a piece of yellow paper that he is bound for the China Seas, and he wants a copy of each of Dr. Talmage's sermons sent to his old wife in New Bedford while he is gone. Here is n Irtf it* o cr?V?rvnlrrirl'a Viarirl TlflC had a quarrel with her first lover, and he has left her in a huff. How can she get him back? The next letter is from the driver of a horse car. He has been discharged. His children go to Dr. Talmage's Sunday-school. Is that not enough to show that the father is reliable and steady, and will not the preacher go at once to the superintendent of the car line and have him reinstated? There are invitations to go here and there and to speak in various cities. Young men write foe advice. One, with the commercial instinct strongly developed, wants to know if the ministry pays? Still another letter is from a patent medicine house, asking if the preacher will not write an indorsement of a new cure for rheumatism. Other writers take the preacher to task for some utterance in the pulpit that does not please them. A young man wants to get married and writes to know what it will cost to tie the knot." Such assistance as the preacher can give is given, as it is also to the throng of applicants who come in person. It is not strange that Dr. Talmage should be sought out in this way, when we consider the enormous number ol those whose choscn preacher he is. This does not mean the audiences who actually hear his sermons delivered. Indeed, the six thousand worshipers who throng every seat and aisle of the Tabernacle are as it were a mere drop in the ocean over which his words are carried by the printing press. His discourses are published in many hundreds of periodicals, not only in this country but all over tho civilized world, and it has been calculated that 1- A ? Al T.x .Ml! iiiey reacn uou icss luuu uiguteen miiiiuns of readers every week.?The Argoty. A Railway Tie Nursery. A queer phase of railway industry is a railroad tie nursery near the town of Earlington, Kan., in the southern part of the State. It is the largest artificial plantation of forest trees in North America and is owned by the Southern Pacific. The different sections have been planted, respectively, two, four and six years. One-fourth is planted with the ailantus, the rest with catalpas and a few white ash. Those first planted are about twenty-five feet in height, the last about twelve. Some of the taller are about seven inches through the stem. There arc in all about 8,000,000 trees in full vigor on these plantations. Out of these trees will come the railway ties of the future. Bni-flnrc liwn Shnrlr. ''People need rarely be afraid of men who come to the door begging for something to eat," says Chief O'Neill, of the St. Louis detectivc force, to a Star-Sayings' reporter. "Such men are usually common tramps, who haveu't grit enough to attempt any violation of the law. Burglars and thieves would never tliink of visiting a house and allowing the inmates to see them if they contemplated robbing the house. Yet women are always frightened to death, almost, when a poor, broken-down tramp comes to the door for soraething to eat, being seized with the fear tha* he must be some bold and villainous burglar who has come to find out the lay of the J and before he, .out to rob the place.*' The World's Tallest Chimneys. The tallest chimney in the United States, says the Boston Globe, is claimed by Kearney, near Newark, N. J., it being 335 feet high, 28 feet in diameter at the base, and containing no less than 1,697,000 bricks. Enormous as some of the American smoke shafts arc, they arc but pigmies beside those in the "old country." Scotch and English chimneys, it seems, are famous for their cloud-i caching peculiarities. At the Dobson & Barlow mills, Bolton, England, there is an octagon stack, 369? feet in height and ; over 33 feet in diameter at the base, j Glasgow, Scotland, is famous for its tall chimneys: Tennant & Co. have one I ^srt fnn4- O linen nf >v XIIV>U 1UUO up iwi) H11U M'WV v* 30 feet, while the great Townshend stack, in the same city, towers 4G8 leet into the air from the foundation, with a big base measuring 32 feet in diameter. This is generally spoken of as the tallest chimney in the world, although tlic men of Paisley declare that they have one 500 feet high. In Halifax, England, there is an octagon tower rising 381 feet, with a base of 30 feet and weighing 10,000 tons. In Bradford there is a stone shaft rising 300 feet above the ground, being nine feet at the summit. At the shell foundry of Woolwich Arsenal there is a chimney 223 feet above the ground and 16 feet below it, with a Portland stone cap weighing seventeen tons. At the Edinburgh Gas "Works there is one risiDg 341 feet into the air, and Haddersficld hffi a cirular shaft of 321 fcee. In France the vallest smokestacks are built of iron, the most notable being two at the Crusot works, one being 197 feet high, and the other 279 feet. Liverpool, too, has one cloud toucher in the shape of a chimney at Musprat's works 406 feet high. Taken by themselves, these altitudes do not, perhaps, convey any very striking idea to the reader, but when placed in ] comparison with the height of other structures it will been 6cen that they rank among the highest constructions of the world. In fact, there are but two or three of the remarkable columns^ monuments, towers, etc., that lift their heads above the highest of these tall chimneys. The Washington Monument is only 55 feet higher than the Paisley chimney, and only one pyramid, that of Cheops, is higher than the Townshend smokestack in Glasgow. The Bartholdi statue, which is 329 feet high, is 11 feet shorter than the chimney of the Edinburgh gas works, while the'towera of Notre Dame, Paris, the porcelain tower, China; the spire of Trinity Church, New York, and the lofty tower of St. Botolph'n Church, Boston, England, are all exceeded in height by the Bradford stone shaft. The City Hall tower, Philadelphia, is only thirtyseven feet higher than th3 Paisley smoke stack, wliile Dobson & Barlow's chimney is nearly twice as high as the leaning tower of Pisa, and is eighty feet higher than the dome of the Capitol al; "Washington. Millionaire Jay Gonltl. . Everything about the hundred millionaire, Jay Gould, is of public interest, says a writer in the New York Press. You will hear him talked about in groups of men of all classes. Even his personal habits arc topics of conversation. Not long since one of his intimate acquaintances and business associates told me that Mr. Gould has within a short time made a new rule about his letters. They are all opened by his confidential private secretary. Those which relate to business affairs in which he is "* * "? ' *3 t- J 1. All .iL | related arc iaia upon ms uess. au oiui ere of whatever nature are consigned to | the waste basket. His mail is enormous, j It consists of begging letters, propositions to enter new business lines, threatening letters and a great many others, which, under his rule, arc destroyed. His legitimate mail is still enormous, and would task an ordinary man to answer it. I am told, however, that he is never in a hurry, which shows that he must have extraordinary working power. He has come to limit his reception of callers to much the same lines as his correspondj cncc. "I don't want to sec you, sir," he j said recently to a man who had pushed his way into his presence. "I have no interest whatever in the matter you wish ' tvin+allr nlinut on^i rmii mncf " | When the gentleman said that he sought ! to interest Mr. Gould the latter quietly but firmly responded: "But, my dear sir, that is just what I do not want you to do. I don't want to be interested in anything more than I am now interested I in." Secret Agents of Foreign Nations. . It is a fact not generally known that a j number of foreign governments keep at the American capital secret representatives, themselves Americans, whose duty it is not only to watch the American Government but to keep an eye upon the i ministers and legations sent here by their employers. These secret Agents arc usually men who have held high official positions under the United States Government, giving them a great advantage j in procuring information. The diploI matic representative of a government is expected to attend to all official matters; the sccrct agent keeps his employer informed concerning the latest gossip, sor>inl dinlomatifi. militarv. nn val, in which that government may have interest. Scvellon Brown, formerly Chief Clerk of the State Department, is the secret representative of France in "Washington. John W. Foster, formerly United States Minister to 3Iexico and Russia, represents both these countries here, Mexico as an attorney, with an annual salary of $25,000, and Russia as a secret agent, with a salary said to be $10,000 a year. Spain, Germany, China and Chili are other countries which hire bright Americans to help watch their interests in this capital.?Philadelphia Ne ics. The Curvature of a Baseball. Century Magazine has a very interesting illustrated article on baseball. Speak ing of the curving of balls in the air, the writer says: "The most logical explanation of the curvature of a ball depends upon the supposition of the compression of the air just in front of the ball and a corresponding rarefatiou immediately behind it, so that the ball by its friction is deflected from its true course." This was the theory held by the lifte Professor Proctor, who gave great attention to the phenomena of the motions of a ball after it had left the hand of the pitoher. The professor wrote an article for an English magazine on the subject of the curvature of the thrown ball. This article was shown by the writer of these paragraphs to a noted pitcher of the League, and he pronounced the theory of the Professor and the theory advanced in the Century Magazine unmitigated noneeniser?Detroit Free Press. Are Your Pulleta Laying? The late ones, as late as July and August, can be brought forward so as to pay well, . while eggs bring good prices. Strictly fresh ; eggs will probably retail as high as 50 cents per dozen, in Boston and New York markets before January 1st. Mrs. L. J. Wilson, of ; Northboro, Mass., says: "In past years when ( my pullets laid at all, they would lay a litter j and then mope around for weeks doing no l laying. Last fall and winter there was no in! terraption of their laying. The results were the best I ever saw in an experience of eighteen years. My thirty pullets were all six i months old. In just eight weeks they laid ' 1437 eggs, which I ascribed to the use of ' Sheridan's Condition I owder, to make hens lay." I. S. Johnson &Co., 22 Custom House ; street, Boston, Mass., (the only manufacturers of Sheridan's Powder), will send postpaid for j 25 cents in stamps, two 25 cent packs of SheriI dan's Powder and a Poultry Guide for (50 cents, five packs for $1. A large 2% pound can of the Powder foy $1.20 and the Guide; six cans $5, express prepaid; testimonials sent free. For 5 cents a copy of the best Poultry paper sent postpaid. The paper one year and a can of Powder for $1.50. A Boy Hnnlcr, A buck had been seen several times going with a herd of Mr. W. F. Sowell's j cattle, says the Sylvania (Ga.) Telephone, I and several efforts had been made to kill him by the hunters of the "fork," but I without success. On Wednesday, however. as the children were on their way i | from school in the afternoon, they saw the deer with the cattle, and Mr. I Jenkins's son went home for the gun to shoot it. When he got home he found j he had no buckshot so taking a piece of lead he cut it into large slugs, loaded his gun and returned to the place where the ! deer had been seen, and took a stand by which the cows had to p.'iss in going home. Very soon they appeared, and I the buck among them. Our young hunter ! took unerring aim, fired and the buck fell dead. Being some distance from home, he was in a quandary as to how to get it home, but remembering that he had a small pet ox and a block wheel wagon he asked the children to guard his game while he went home to get his little ox and wagon. As he was getting the ox in shape to go for his booty, Mr. W. F. Sowell came along and helped him to get it home, hauling it with the yearling and block -wagon, and dressed it, and soon each of his little school mates were seen trudging home with a piecc of vension. Coin in the Coniitry. There is considerable coin in our favored country, according to the report of the Director of the Mint, although so many Americans journey in the old J ' ' i ?a i ii tarn worici as 10 exnausi not less uiautp/v/,000,000 of gold a year to pay for their extravagances. This year the travelers' drafts on their bonkers will go rather above that sum. However, we have left in round numbers $64,000,000 gold bullion held by the Treasury as security for its equivalent in paper certificates. The bullion is, of course, uncoined; in addition we have geld coin $617,000,000, $310,000,000 in silver dollars, $76,000,000 in smaller silver change. If our population is 65,000,000, that would give each of us, great and small, $16 apiece in hard money. Leaving out the babies, and the speculators who do business on wind, that would be as good as $50 apicce for the rest.?Detroit Free Press. A Sensible Man Would use Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lun^s. It is curing more cases of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Cr. up and all Throat and Lung Troubles, than any other medicine. The proprietor i.as authorized any drnggist to give you a Sample Bottle Free to convince you of the merit of this great remedy. Large Bottles 50c. and $1. There are over 100 COO miles of sub-marine cable in operation. Did you ever go within a mile of a soap factory? If so you know what material they make soap of. Dobbins's Electric Soap factory s as free from odor as a chair factory. Try it once. Ask your grocer for it. Take no imitation. Congress makes an approp iation of $50,000 annually for the support of frte schools in Alaska. Consumption, Scrofuln, Gencrnl Debility, Wasting Diseases of Chiidrev, Chronic Coughs and Bronchitis, can be cured by the use of Scott's Emu; sion of Pure Cod Tiivfip Oil with Hvnonbosthites. Prominent I physicians use it. and testify to its great value. I Please read the following: "1 used Scott's i Emulsion for an obstinate Cough with Hemor! rhage, Loss of Appetite, Emaciation, Slccples-ness, &c All these have now left, and I | believe your Emulsion lia< saved a case of well developed Consumption."?T. J. Findley, M. D., Lone Star. Texas. Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers. Mild, equable climat. , csrtain and abundant crops. Bi.'&t fruit, grain, grass and stock coun: try iu the world. Full information free. AdI dress Oregon Im'igrat'n Board. Portland, Ore. j If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle No strancer should visit the city without smoking "Tansill s Punch" ae. Cigar. a m m m After ALL others Dr Lobb ^siirst. I I# I tUMWj PHILA., PA. Twenty years' continuous practice in the treatment and cure of the awful effects of early ! Tice, destroying both mind and body. Medicine and treatment for one month. Five Dollars, sent i securely 6ealcd from observation to any address. Book on Special Diseases free. B 1 prescribe ana folly en. ffiflirifcpTIOkI i?nrcQ PIrr i 1 n? f.hft Onlv ^mrCanwla ^58 specific forthc certain cure JBtiiy 110 & DATS. ^3 of this dispose. ggWQuutDUri not O. H. INURA IT AM, M. D., PI caw Stridors. Amsterdam, N. Y. E9 urioJtj'ij th? Wc have sold Big G (or many years, and It bas WSSlBi fa tl best of fiatl8' O^0D. R.DYCHE 4 COj..^ Sold by Druggist* DR. K0EI1LE1 for all domestic animals, wl ulent or spasmodic. Rarely stlpate, rather seta as a lasi In more than SCKX) cases, oui treated promptly. F.xpi when needed, and perhaj clcse 50 cents for sample ba Mixture" right elong\cith st the beet colic medicine I haw Brooklyn, A' aWBTi scouring s for al l cl ear ( he l&undr What will SAPOLIO five the floors, tables and ishes and off the pots ai and make the tin things greasy kitchen sink will b< lyill prove all we say. Be ; 'there is \> ."J . . Hark, the sound of many voices Jubilant in glad est s ne\ And fuUm?ny a heart rejoices As the chorus floats along: "Hail the Favori e Prescription." How the happy voices blend. " Wonderful beyond descriptionWoman's best and truest friend." Well may it be called woman's best friend, since it does for her whnt no other remedy has been ?ble to d<>. It cures all those delicato derangements and weaknesses peculiar to females. Cures them, understand. Other preparations may afford temporary relief, but Dr. Pierce s Favorite Prescription effects a permanent cure. It is guaranteed tr> do this, or the money paid for it will be promptly refunded. It is the great remedy of the age. The worst Nasal Catarrh, no matter of how long standing, is permanently cured by Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. oiuufcuvia w"u use i.uuiu;uu 111 itnjf lurmttio denied admission to the University of the Pacific, San Jose, Cal. " Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or wa ; But to act that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day." The sentiment so aptly expressed by the poet onght to sound like a trnrapet to every si ggish soul, and animate them to new and vigorous efforts to improve their condition. To all those who have thi desire to press forward, but who are not sure of the way, we say, write to B. F. Johnson & Co., i.ichmoud, Va., and they will be of service 10 you. Malaria Is believed to be caused by poisonous miasms arising from low, marshy land, or from decaying vegetable matter, and which, breathed Into the longs, enter and poison the blood. If a healthy condition of tho blood Is maintained by taking Hood's Sarsaparllla, one is much less liable to malaria, and Hood's Sarsaparllla has cured many severe cases of this distressing affection. N. B.?If you decide to take Hood's Sarsaparllla do not be Induced to buy any other. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. f 1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar KYU U-4'2 Ely's Gream Balm Is the best rempilv for ch ilrfrr suffering'from I I COLD IN HEAD^bierJ/JJI CATARRH. L^|<1 Apply Balm Into each nostril. ELY BROS., 86 Warren St., S. V.^JgyTnc] AOEMTSfr^H F. B. TJtEAT'8 Catalogue ct Send Torjyjrj. cwbookw. ftbota at Su ndry SSS'SSK^C fWW ? J/n |l|>tt i'?\. Also, Mother, rlfll rw^raHBIwi Homo & Hearm, 14/1 jl 400beMauthor* E ilea i9iooo" sCol^ler a oo?? Carlo?UIe?ofBlblc$3.ByMafl.E.B.TREAT,N.Y. OPIUM HABIT. A. Valuable Treatise Olvins full Information of an Easy and Speedy cure free to the afflicted. Dr. J. C. Hoffman, Jefferson, Wisconsin. A lMPGD uflliuOIlABALTIO, mvoHi As applied at the Holland Medical and Cancer Institute, Bmffalo, N. Y., removes Cancer without pain or use of knife, scores of patients speak in unquaunea terms or praise 01 the success of this treatment Write tor circular. HOLLAND MEDICINE CO., Buflalo,N.Y fag&a HARNESS ATA BARGAIN f Xft Are you alive to your lnterV V est and wish to save money, \ /A?don't fall to send 6 cents In \*l |)T: jl stamps for our Great Bar* nil U'ils< Bain we offer to one person JUUdC1 at each postoffice. UNION MACHINE COMPANY, WALNPT ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. tFor Dairy, Farm & Household. Fnak'ii Amrrteaa Wonder Hteblna awarded highest medal-. Approved or and found OK by the highest dairy faculties. A child can use it Always produces firstclass butter from sweet mUk or cream in 2 minutes. Works from one pint up to the largest quantity. Makes more butter. Clear profit 80 to 120 per ct BuUermllk remains perfectly sweet for coffee, etc. Is also recommended by children's physicians as test baby food. Machine also makes finest ice cream In < minutes. 9 qts_ S&60: " its., $10, tO qts., S23, etc. Bend for testimonial- and circulars to F. A FRANK A CO., Patentees and Sole Hlrs., 318 East 82a St. New York, Kellabl agents wanted. CAUTION f le be as good, on which dealers make more profit-?but e what you want. State kind, button, congress or lace price with order. Prompt delivery and satisfaction W. L. DOUCLAS $3 A J Both Ladies' Shoes are made in sizes from 1 to 7, incli STYLES OF L.? "The Frcnch Opera," "The Spanish Arc J "The Mediain Common Sense." All made in Opera in Front Lace, oil S3 Shoe only. e D C r* I A I W. L. DOUGLAS' S3 O Or Cwlnbi tnp sole and strictly waterprc JOSEPH H. HUN Ijl Best Cough Medicine. Bee LJ Cures where all else fails. Pie h| taste. Children take it withou I'S FAVORITE COLIC MIXTURE II cure ?9 out of every 100 cases of colic, whether flatmore than 1 or 2 doses necessary. It does not conatlve and Is entirely harmless. After 20 years of trial r guarantee Is worth something. Colic inuet be end a few cents and you have a cure on hand, ready is pave a valuable hone. If not at your druggist's, enttle, sent prepaid. OE1ILER & CO., Bethlehem, Pa. orltc Colic We cheerfully recommend Vr. KoeJiler's iccess. It is "Favorite Colic Mixture." Would not be i ever seen, icithout it at long as toe have horses. Dealer, ISAAC HOSES & BRO., ew York. Sale and Exchange Stables, Easton, P ;olid h&ndso soap which h 15 vi rf r\ i i nh A C IJL llg fJ M.I / To use it* is 1 do ? Why, it will clean paint, i shelves a new appearance. It id pans. You can scour the shine brightly. The wash-bas ; as clean as a new pin if you u i clever little housekeeper and tr O. ENOCH MOBGAITI3 QTjACOBSQ}f w trade mark^i Remedyi^AMJ XT CONQUERS PA1H. Believe* and cures HEADACHE. EHEUMATISM, Toothache, Sprains, NEURALGIA, BROSES, Sciatica, Lumbago. Burns and Scalds. At Druggists and Dealers, THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore. M& WIDE-AWAKE TRADESMEN ?> ?? inm?il hr r*r)?rience that the onlv waterproof coat they can self to a cowboy or hunter it the I Pommel Slicker with the 14Fiih Brand" Trade c Mark ou it They are the best waterproof saddle I coats ever made. They keep the saddle, the j horse's back, and the rider thoroughly dry and , I warm. No saddle sores from the galling of a wet saddle. When used as a walking coat, the exI tension front buttons back, and the Slklcer U changed at once to an ordinary coat Just try one, they cost but little and will prevent colds, fevers, rheumatism, and other results to.exposure to the weather. Beware of worthless imitations, every garment stamped with " Fish Brand " Trade Mark. Don't accept any inferior coat when you can have the "Fish brand Slicker" delivered without extra cost. Particulars and illustrated catalogue free. A. J. TOWER, - Boston, Mass. $30 PORTRAIT FREE While introducing our fine work, it you send US a photograph of yourself or ono member of yotur family, we will make yon a full life-size Crayon Portrnit'Free of Charge. The only consideration imposed upon you will be that you exhibit It to your frieuds as a sample of our work, and assist us in securing orders; also, that you promise to have It framed suitably, so that the work will show to advantage. Write your full name and address oa back of photo to secure its safety. We guarimteo its return. Our offer is good for a few days only, and the sample portrait is woth $00, being aa fine as can be made. Address AMERICAN PORTRAIT CO., 120 West 23d St.. NEW YORK CITY. Largest Life-Size Portrait House in the World. IXAKir STUDY. Book-keeping,Business E^Fms NVIHE Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand,etc. thoroughly taught by HAIL. Circulars free. Bryant's College, 457 Main 8t, Buflfalo, V. 7 Dior DAI I Chadwiek'sManual DAM SENT FREE THEODORE HOLLAND, P. O. Box lgO.'PlUIa., Pa. prOW TO GET AN OFFICE BY MERIT. n A Pamnhlfit on CHvIl Service WymtnnMnti* Full Information. 25 ccnts. Also "The Civil Service Law: a Defense" 81. Pamphlet free. Address W. H. CT ARKE, P. O. Box 2645, Kew York Otty. ?95 AN HOUR TIie Vfctf MEDICAL. CO., Richmond. Yi, nmiltl HABIT. Only Certain as4 llrlllM ensy CURB In the World. Dr. UI IU Ifl J. L. STEPHENS, Lebanon, 0 riniio Do you want to bny or sell ? IjynC rflKMN If so send stamp for cfrcl'r to fcWIU? i n 11 III U Curtis <& Buffett, 233 Broadway, N. Y. FRAZlR? BEST TIf THE WORLD U ljLMW If |y Get the Pennine. BoldBmxwliCTt. i mumassmt MM" gJg-SJjR. M.WOOLLBTYJK.D. At'on'X' O*. ri^rf ftM, Whitehall fit, PEEBUS? n?ta F. L. DOUGITAS^nameanBtteprfee&reauannBd i the bottom of all Shoes advertised by him btfors aving his factory; this protects the wearers Sgainjt igb prices and inferior roods. Take none tin as so stamped, nor be deceived by others claimed to end direct to factory, and receive by re torn mall , wide or narrow toe, size and width, and encloss guaranteed. Address W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mum. V. L. DOUGLAS 3 SHOE gentlemen. nr claims for thin shoe over 93 all other es advertised are: t contains better material. t in more stylish, better fitting and da ruble, t gives better general satisfaction. l saves more money for the consumer, is great snccesa is duo to merit. t cannot bo duplicated by any ether manufacturer. t is the best in the world, and has a larger demand tbnn any other S3 shoe advertised. I nnnw"">0 paid to any person Who will prors >)UUU the above statements to be untrue* le following line of shoes will be found to be of the le high standard of excellence: 5.00 GENUINE HAND-SEWED SHOE. 4.00 HAND-HEWED WELT SHOE. 3.50 POLICE AND FARMERS' SHOE. 2.50 EXTRA VA LCE CALF SHOE. 2.25 WORKINGMAN'S SHOE. 2.00 GOOD.WEAR SHOE. 2.00 and SI.75 BOYS' SCHOOL SHOES. All made In Congress, Button andLaoe. $2 SHOES FOR LADIES. half sizes, and B, C, D, Eand EE width*. iDIk?s SHOES. i Opera," "The American Common Sense," Button in tlio Latest Styles. Also French RAIN SHOE (laced) for Gentlemen, with heavy x>f, Is Just out. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton. Mass. m-m-k ATTnnvF.v. \v t Q i trx?Tnw. I Pi FT. ? Cm \vij,l ?et your -* PEXEIOX without DELAY ommended by Physicians, KS asant and agreeable to'the t objection. By druggists. Efl JONES HE PAYS TjHJE FREIGHT. ft Ten Worn s>cale?? IroaLcven. Steel Bearing^ Braa* Tare Beam and Beam But for seo. Everv plto ScaJo. For too p?v*/tot mtntoQ this paper uit addxew JONES OF BINGHAMTON, BIXOHAMTOtt, V. Y. ' me c&ke of ias no equal s except-in to value ihnake oil-cloths bright, and will take the grease off tha l*nmno in A fnrlra wifh it AUIITVAJ H1IV4I ?V* <?t# If in, the bath-tub, even the ise SAPOLIO. One cake y it Beware of Imitations, Bom 00,, NEW YOBE,