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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. GETTIXG RID OF AI7T3. Among other annoying insects ants of the various species are sometimes the most troublesome when they get into the house. For ants in the cupboard, writes a Delaware housewife, 1 sprinkle a very little sulphur on the shelves or tie up a little of it in bags and leave them around in places where they frequent. This Beems to keep them away. A few days ago I discovered a multitude of little red ants about the steps of the back door. I i_* j _ * A.i. i ../..I. -r if BpriuKicu a iew laoiespoomuis 01 gasuuuu on them and they quickly dispersed.? New York World. MEAT PIE AND SOUP. A rery good dinner may be prepared from a ten-cent soup bone a3 follows: Early in the morning place the soup bone in the pot and cook over a slow fire. About half-past 10 take from the pot and cut off slices of the lean meat to make a meat pie; return bones to pot. Mike a crust from one teacup sour cream, one teaspoon soda, a pinch of salt; toll half an inch thick, line the sides of a pan and lay the slices of meat in and cover well with soup from the pot. Some small pieces of dough may be cut off and added to the meat to make dumplings, season with a dash of cayenne pepper and salt to taste; cover with the dough and bake about one hour. When done take off the top crust, and if it has cooked nearly dry add more soup from the kettle. Then mix one tablespoon flour in a little cold water and add. When it boils take from oven, replace top crust and place on table. To soup in the pot may 4be added vegetables, noodles or whatever is liked.?Detroit Free Press. HOT PATTIES. Line some small molds with puff pastry. Make a mixture of one-quarter pound of raw real, three ounces of kidney fat, some lemon peel, chop very fine, and stir in spices,salt and pepper to taste, moistening the whole with good strong stock. Put a spoonful of this in the patty mold, covering it with some pastry very lightly to allow it to rise. Brush it over with the yoke of an egg and bake. Or: Beat to a cream one-quarter pound of fresh butter, add the yolk of an egg, one tsfclespoonful of flour and one of . 'milk, mix with this some remains of meat (veal or chicken preferred) chopped very fine, salt, pepper and nutmeg to -taste. * Make this into balls the size of a walnut, put them into patty-molds lined with pastry,and bake as above. Or: Line deep patty-molds as above, and prepare a mixture of fillets of game or chicken, a little sweetbread, and some chopped morsels; stew this in a sauce-pan with some melted butter, flour, a squeeze of demon,some pood stock,salt aad pepper to taste. Let thi3 cool when quite ready, fill your patties almost full aud bake for an hour, after having put ou the pastry cover.?New York Ltdger, MUSHROOMS?HOW TO PREPARE. Fried Mushrooms?Remove the stems and peel; roll in grated cracker meal, - and dip in beaten egg, then in cracker dust; sprinkle with salt and pepper, and fry in butter; garnish with Alices of lemon. Broiled Mushrooms?Peel large, firm mushrooms, remove the stems; put on a i gridiron over bright coals, turn, and aeacon with pepper and salt; lay m a dish of melted butter, and squeeze over the juice of a lemon. Jlushroom Stew?Wash and peel half ; gallon of fresh mushrooms; put them , in a sauce-pan without water, season with salt and pepper, add half a pound of butter rolled in flour; cover closely, and let simmer twenty minutes. Baked Mushrooms?Select fresh, large mushrooms, peel and set in a bakingpan ; season with salt and pepper, lemon juice and chopped parsley; cook ten i minutes; baste and butter; arrange on a j dish and pour the gravy over; serve with Maitre d'Hotel sauce in a gravy boat. A Pan of Mushrooms?Cut in pieces a quart of fresh mushrooms, soak in cold water in which a piece of lemon has been squeezed, drain and put in a saucepan with a tablespoonful of butter; when half cooked season with lemon juice, pepper and salt, and let simmer until done; strain and serve. Stuffed Mushrooms ? Chop up the gtalks of mushrooms with one-fourth the quantity of white onion and parsley; stir over the tire in a little buiter five minutes; have large mushrooms ready; fill them with the mixture, lay on a buttered dish, sprinkle with grated bread crumbs; bake ten minutes and serve. Scalloped Mushrooms?Cover the bofc torn of a baking dish with a layer oi Stale bread crumbs, sprinkle with, pepper and salt, and lay over bits of butter; moisten with cream; place a layer of mushrooms alternately with the bread until the dish is full; cover the top with butter, pour over a piDt of cream, cover the top with a pau and b;ike one hour; Tp.m-.yq theJoD andJeJLiirown. THE RECORD Of cures accomplished by Hood's Sarsaparilla has ?ever been surpassed In tho history of medicine" And the constant stream of letters from people who were almost in despair, but were cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla to very gratifying. Became of these we urge all Who suffer from 8?rofuU, Salt Rheum, or any other disease caused by impure blood or low state of the System, to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. K. E.?If you decide to take Hood's Sarsaparilla do Dot be Induced to buy any other. ; Hood's Pill*? Invigorate the liver, regulate the bowels. Effect-ve, but irentle. Price 25c. Sheridan's Condition Powders *?. II yon can't set It send to us. We mail cuereu-lc 35c. Iivefl. At 1-1 lb. can f 1.1.0. 6Ix, 13. Ex. paid. Pouitry Raining Ovide. free, with SI orders. | [a. JOHNSON OO.. !H Onsfoin House St.. Sostou, Mass. TAKE Tuffs Pills j The farst do*e often astonishes \'he invalid, giving elasticity of mind, bonyancy of body, GOOD DIGESTION. Mffalax' bowels and solid doth. Price, 26c, J AGRICULTURAL. I i TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE a TO FARM AND GARDEN. g VAT.CE OP ASHES ON GARDEN GROUND. A garden cannot be made sufficiently , fertile by the use of ashes alone. They are exceedingly useful as far as they go, but this is not far enough. Plants need ? all the elements that are contained in the ashes, but these are only the mineral elements of the plants, and the indispensable nitrogen is wanting. If this is ? supplied in the form of some good ferti- ^ lizer, the mixture will be a complete manure. A good way to supply the nitrogen would be as nitrate of soda, of ^ which, for a garden, 200 pounds to the f acre would not be too much.?New York Timc3. fc WOOD ASHES AS A FERTILIZER. ^ The use of wood ashes as a fertilizer r should be more generally understood, p Hard-wood ashes are much richer in r potash than soft-wood ashes and are relatively more valuable. Leached wood p ashes are hardly worth more than the a labor of spreading on the land as a rule, a but on a light 6andy soil they have a y tendency to compact, which is an aid to t] its physical condition, but it does not 3 act as a manure. Unbleached wood t] ashes is almost a special fertilizer for all fruit crops 3nd only needs the addition g] of a little nitrogenous material to make t( it complete. They should never be t] mixed with such nitrogenous manures as e, hen manure and other animal excrements ^ for they start chemical action in conse- a quence, the nitrogen is thrown off in the c, form of ammonia and is wasted. Un- ^ bleached ashes form often a cheap source a of potash.?New York World. f, ii AMOUNT OP CHEESE IN MILK. p The amount of cheese which can be tl made from milk will vary somewhat ac- c cording to the breed of cattle; quality of si food, ana metnoa ot nanaiing tne mus. o In other -words, it will vary with the amount of solid matter in the milk, tl The old rule for estimating used to be n about nine pounds of milk to one pound n of cheese as it came from the press, and v this would shrink in curing at least ten o per cent., so that ninety pounds of milk fi would give ten pounds of cheese at the ai press, which would be nine pounds when tl fit to send to market, and 8$ pounds f< when old and well ripened. Probably t< this is a fair estimate of the average a: product when the milk comes up to the a; standard of thirteen per cent, solids. ^ With cheese, as with butter, it usually n requires more pounds of milk to the pound of product when the cows are fresh in milk, or when giving a fresh yield upon good grass feed, than when they are giving less milk. A very wet j] season and rank growing grass also reduces the per centage of solids in the milk.?Botton Cultivator. WEIGHT AND YIELD OP EGOS. S Geese, four to the pound, twenty per annum. tl Bantams, sixteen to the pound, sixty per annum. ^ Houduns, eight to the pound, fifty per annum. a Guineas, eleven to the pound, sixty tl per annum. Turkeys, five to the pound, thirty to 6ixty per annum. ^ Ducks, five to six per pound, thirty to sixty per annum. Polish, nine to the pound, 150 per " annum. . * Plymouth Rocks, eight to the pound, 100 per annum. e< Dark Brahmas, eight to the pound,and b about seventy per annum. La FIcche, seven to the pound, 130 g per annum. o Cr?verf?urs. seven to the nound. 150 - - r J ? per annum. j Hamburgs, nine to the pound, 150 per ? annum. , Game fowls, nine to the pound, 130 per annum. ^ Dominiques, nine to the pound, 130 ei per annum. Biack Spanish, seven to the pound, ^ 130 per annum. ^ Leghorns, nine to the pound, 160 to 200 per annum. ti Black, white and buff Cochins, eight a to the pound, 100 or less per annu"v. The eggs of the modern, improved C( breeds of fowls have gained one-third in ]( weight, as compared with egg3 formerly had. u Light Brahmas and partridge Cochins' ^ eggs, seven to the pound. They lay eighty to 100 per annum, or even more, according to the treatment and keeping. " ?Fancier!? Journal. 8 SAVING SEEDS. ti The average farmer and gardener had tl better pay twice what the seeds now -"iost him than to save his own, and yet with n proper care a better article than can be p bought may be secured, and this at little cost. Every man want3 the be;t, and e, that is the best which suits him the best, g There is a great diversity of taste; no two agree as to which is the best, as the . same seed grown under different circuin- 3 stances will produce different results. c< Some prefer one form, color, or flavor; ( another quite the reverse. This is an individual matter, and cannot be settled ! ^ by argument. We all have our pref* S( erences as to species or types, whether in ^ vegetable, fruit or flower; and we want the best of a chosen type This can only f( be had by selection of the plant that pro- d duces just such flowers or vegetables as sj we prefer, and save the seeds from such for future use. It requires great care 0; end no little skill to make selections valu- t} able. Q. After a choice of plants has beet made f{ the Erst flowers should not be allowed to seed,as they are never so pcrfect as tho3e that come later; so that it is difficult to. ? establish the type. If the second are all ? thac is desired,if they are improvements i over those of previous years, do not let others on the same plant ripen seed, but carefully remove all buds except the one a' saved, and let that have all the vigor of 111 the plant until the seeds are ripe. Then ei if the plant proJuces more flowers, it is ^ well enough, but the contents of one capsule will be sufficient to keep up the h stock, and the seeds will be the best di that can be produced. The same is true b with vegetables. Do not, save the first tt squash, cucumber or tomato that forms; bi the plant does not produce its best fruit bi early. Cut it away, and if the second is satisfactory let it have the full strength tl of the plant. This is the manner in oi which types are improved and new va- ri rieties produced, Whenever flowers or a vegetables show the slightest improve- cj ment or change it is a sure indication of vi ? new, perhaps a distinct variety, From tc .. . his save the best specimen of vegetable ir flower, and do not allow another to ipen seed. This means improvement, nd adds to the pleasure and profits of ;ardening.?American Agriculturist. HINTS -ABOUT HOUSE PLANTS. "When do you want your plauts to >loom? It is a question you will need to lecide at the outset, for while most ilants with a fair chance will bloom in he summer season, special treatment is lecessary and unremitting care if you pouid have the cheery, bright blossoms ome to you when winter winds are moanog dirges over the "dead past" of outloor plant life. Is the location of the windows to which our plants must be confined during the old weather such that they will have the enefit of the morning or- mid-day sunhiae? If not, your chances for winter lossoms are quite diminutive, and you rould better encourage your plunts to do heir best for you while they respond so eadily to your care, aua ior me wintei slants content yourself with the beautiul greenery of those named as being the est all-the-year-round, general-purpose lants, and for variety place them among few of the hardier varieties of such as re admired for their foliage alone. Or ou may add a few plants, which from heir natures, are less dependent upon irect sun-rays for the development of ieir flowers. Plants intended for winter blooming tiould be brought early into winter quarjrs, and if possible, placed just where aey are to remain. And when I say arly, I do not mean that one may wait ill there are threats of frost. The chill tmosphere that precedes and warns of omine frost may work dire results to the uds of promise with which the plants re freighted, and they will blight and ill away ere the time for fulfilment, le&vlg you to wonder that the carefully kept lants do not bioom, though you are sure aey were not touched by the frost. A hill to the buds is as a nip of frost to the | ialk, and after either you must wait for lossoms. And now if you will go back and read lat item again, and think, you can take a fair guess at one of the principal ;asons that so few plants bloom in the 'inter. The variable temperature of an rdinary room, even though it never ills to the point of frost, works ruin mong the buds, and that, too, where lere is no perceptible effect on the )liage of the plants. In a room whose ;mperature in the day time is kept high, 3 most. Ol us erruucuuaij ivcs^j uui iuvuu, ad -which is allowed at night to fall 'ithin ten degrees of freezing, there will ot be a very satisfactory floral display. - Cottage Hearth. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The cleaner the land the easier to grow. le crop. Trees will grow -where other things rill not. Less ground and more product is a ood rule. Memos do not bear so many lambs as le coarser breeds. ? L.11 - ~ / me japan onowuau iu u mvurue rherever introduced. Six cr more cows that turn no profit rc not as valuable for the dairy as on( aat does. If crops are grown in the orchard i orresponding amount of manure should e applied. Skimming the 4'last wrung drop" of it from the milk injuies the quality of he butter. The land is the only permanent posjssion, and that we can occupy only s ttle while. Sheep fed for mutton make a greater ain in weight than steers for the amount f grain fed. A sheep can be fattened well in sixty ays; but it takes twice that long to jttea a steer. Land well cultivated and kept clean ear after year has fewer weeds and is asier to cultivate. Every man makes mistakes. The dif;rence is that some men learn by them, rhile others do not. Modern "improvements" in agriculire are due largely to the invention ol mchinery and tools. Thorough harrowing after planting ora keep3 down the weeds and prepares )ote soil for a mulch. The Society of American Florists is iking active steps toward making a fine isplay at the World's Fair. Take pains to dwrtroy all the caterpilirs' nests you see, whether on your owr rounds or by the roadside. Remember to use only well-ripened po itoes for seed. This is of more important aan the cutting of the seed. The facts brought out by the txperi lent stations ought to be given to the ublic in clear and terse English. It is a curious fact that the great woo sporting countries lie south o? the fteenth degree of south latitude. There is no trouble about propagating lrubs by cutting3 providing one has a aid frame, suitable soil and the right )rt of cuttings. It is at the holidays that the large, eavy turkey Bells the best; at other :asons a medium-weight will bring the est prices per pound. One ounce of sulphide of potash to >ur gallons of water will destroy all milews on plants if they are thoroughly prayed with the liquid. Many of the so-called "improvements" f the day have no more intrinsic value lan the change of the cut of your garlents in accordance with the dictates of ishion. The raspberry-blackberry hybrids rown on the Rural New Yorkers rounds, up to the present season, do not ive reason to hope for improved fruits irough such crosses. After the leaves have dropped in the Jtumn is a safe time to transplant aliost any garden plants of the hardy permial kinds. They should be well cut ack a few weeks before moving them. Vick tells that for outdoor culture yacinths should be planted in the garen in September, October or Nove:n- : ur; though from the last of September j ) the middle of October is' probably the ; est time, as the ground can generally , a put into better condition then. It is told in the American Agriculturist i jat Lovett's Early is, without doubt, ae of the mo3t promising of new vaeties of strawberry, while Kirkwood is very desirable late variety. Gaudy is , tiled the best late strawberry in culti- j ition, furnishing^abundant pickings up ) and after July i, ^ j I WORDS OP WISDOM. A good character shines by its own : light. He that lacks time to mourn lacks | time to mf:nd. If you feel angry, beware lest you be-1 come revengeful. j The frown of a friend is better than the smile of a fool. Want of care does more damage than want of knowldge. He hath a good judgment that relieth not wholly on his own. A man is little the better for liking himself, if nobody likes him. Denial is based on iifnorance. To the informed mind possibilities are unlimited. It is well to be dethroned before one has done anything to deserve dethronement. Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak, and to speak well are two things. There is a brand of humility more offensive than the arrogance it usually accompanies. Avoid circumlocution in language. Words, like cannon balls, should go straight to their mark. Enough discomfort may be gotten out of almost any proposition to meet the absolute necessities of life. Tears alleged to flow from material causes occasion no discomfortable surprise among the materialists. The verb "to be happy" has neither present, past nor future. It should be conjugated in the conditional. As birds traverse the air and noets speak in rhyme and rhythm, so nature perforins her daily acts in miracles. The silent man may be a reservoir of experienced knowledge, but the world will be no wiser for having him in its midst. Profanity never did any man the least good. No man is richer, happier or wifer for it. It commends no one to society; it is disgusting to refined people and abomniable to the good. There is nothing which helps us to feel that our lives have been worth living so much as the humble but grateful consciousness that we have helped Eome other soul to fill its destiny. Surprising Results In a Prune Orchard. Colonel A. E. Cochran, e San Diego (Cal.) lawyer, owns a prune orchard in Sonoma County, near Healdsburg, which has astonished him. He told about it at the Palace Hotel: 'I have discovered that by cutting prune trees back in a new and rather peculiar way it is possible to get a tree which will live twice as loDg as an ordinary tree and bear heavily every year. I learned th5a secret from a gardener who had been employed during most of his Hfe in the best prune district in the old vorld,and who was here only for a visit. I have eleven acres on my ranch which ihow well how the experiment succeds. Drdinarily, of course, prune trees bear h the third year. But these were not permitted to produce fruit at all until ihe fourth year, and then only a small quantity. This is the fifth year, and off ihe tree3 on the eleven acres I take more :han twenty tons of prunes. But this is nothing to what I expect next year, for if the season is a good one those trees will yield not less than sixty tons. "The secret is all in cutting back to get a large trunk. The trunks on the prune trees on that eleven acres of land lire all half again as large as one would expect. The object is to give the tree body and power so that it will not die easily, and will be capable of supporting an enormous yield. The cutting is done from the centre, the large limbs being cut off close to the trunk. The tree is I ? JS -x .11 iL. J. J - l.'iil. not ciippeu at au on me top, auu a iuwe on the sides. I am convinced that if the prune raisers of this 8tate would use the method the prune crop of California would soon be doubled on the present acreage.?San Francisco Chronicle. No More Artificial Teeth. Old age is robbed of half it* horrors and much of its deformity by the brilliant discovery of a Moscow dentist. Dr. Zuamensky, who, according to a possibly over sanguine Russian contemporary, has delighted the civilized world by bis skill in making teeth grow in toothless gums. After experimenting on dogs he tried the effects of his method in human beings, and the success was complete. The teeth are made of gutta percha, porcelain or metal, as may be desired. The root of the false tooth has some holes bored in it. Holes are now bored into the jaw, and into the hole the fa'sc tooth is stuck as is a nail m wood. In a short time a tender growth starts up the cavity of the false tooth, and this growth hardening, the tooth becomes fixed in position. These new teeth can, according to the inventor, be placed in tne aiveoius 01 a natural tooth, and thus, when a diseased tooth is pulled out a metal or porcelain substitute can be inserted in its place, without incurring any risk of transferring disease, as happened in Hunter's days, when the apparently sound teeth of poor persons when transplanted, not infreI quently conveyed disease. There are I several minor inconsistencies in this | statement, but it would be ungracious to look such a noble gift in the mouth, cs- i pecially as, according to dentists of authority, our race is destined eventually 1 to become edentulous.?Medical Preu. i i Queen Victoria's Old Cook. One of Queen Victoria's most lovable traits of character is her kindness to her servants. Among those who visited Her Majesty during her stay in Frauce last spring wasM. Trasteur, who for a quarter of a century tilled the post of head cook at Windsor Castle. About twelve years ago he resigned his office and withdrew j to Colle, a little viliage in the vicinity of Grasse. A few days after the queen's arrival at the latter place he called at her hotei. Being informed of his presence Her Majesty summoned him to her apartments and received him with the utmost kindness, going so far as to even insist on his sitting down by her side? an honor rarely conferred upon the highest nobles and dignitaries of her empire ?while she chatted with him at considerable length, referring several times to his long and honorable career in her service. M. Trasteur is in receipt of a handsome pension from the royal civil list?a pension amounting to more than twice the amount of that granted to genera, 8, admirals or literary celebrities far distinguished services vto the Crown. In Mental Eats. "The monotony of certain lines of business and slight use of the mental faculties consequent upon a familiarity with a simple, unvarying routine," said an observant gentleman, "soon pives a stolid, apathetic, half idiotic cast in the human countenance. Take the average elevated railway ticket agent or gatsman, or park official, or theatre doorkeeper, or anybody else who has little or no variety in his daily life, and in a short time his face is as blank as a piece of putty. A wooden impassiveness of feature takes the place of what we term expression, anu lue imcucutuai Jjuncio relapse into that dormant state that characterizes alike the savage and the idiotic. You will see the same thing in the idle, listless man about town, who is too lazy to work or think, and hasn't enough energy or even inclination to be bad. It is irritating to talk to 6uch people. The restless, nervous man of keen intellectual edge who comes in contact with them chafes inwardly and sometimes outwardly. Half the trouble and friction that arises between individual members of the great, active, hustling public and officials of various lower grades is from this very fact. Neither the offender nor the offended understands the seat of the difficulty in dealing with each otl er. There are theatrical officials in the box office and at the door whom the average man of intelligence can scarcely address without the itching desire to club. The hotel clerk generally arouses the same animosity."? New York Herald. The Story of Dresden China. The first hard porcelain made in Europe?for majolica, Palissy ware, and others of the sort are pottery, and not porcelain?was the lovely Dresden ware; ana in tnat nne noiamg aas ever ueeu made to exceed its beauty. Its flowers, its ribbons and ornaments, are perfection in design and color; there is a rumor that real lace is put into the clay before firing for the parts representing lace, but how that may be we do not know. It owes its existence to an accident. The chemist, who had been imprisoned by the Elector in order to find the secret of making gold and of the elixir of life, having come across some substance resembling porcelain in the bottom of a crucible, was unable to get it of a pure tint, till a rider one day found a peculiar white clay on his horse's hoof3, which he had dried and sifted and sold for hairpowder, and the unfortunate chemist, using it and observing its weight, experimented with it, and straightway the Dresden ware?or Meissen, as it is more correctly called?became a success, the first sculptors and colorists of the day lending their art to its perfection. Cruelty, or rather ty-anny, has often attended on Dresden china; for Freder ck the Great, having sent great quanti ies of this white earth to Berlin, took captive the best workers in the Meissen and sent them after it, never allowing tnem to see home again; and presently he obliged the Jews in his dominion to buy the china* he thus manufactured by refusing them marriage licenses till they had procured a service, thus gaining an immense annual revenue.?Harper's Bazar. Causes of Fires. What causes the fires? "Probably the ! work of an incendiary," say the reporters. But statistics say the losses by fire during the past five years have averaged J $110,000,000 annually. The principal reported causes of fire, and the numbers of fires from each cause last year were as follows: Incendiarism, 1928; defective flues, 1300; sparks (not locomotive; 715; matches, 636; explosions of lamps aud lanterns, 430; stoves, 429; lightning, 369; spontaneous combustion, 326; forest and prairie fires, 280; cigar and cigarette stumps, 203; lamp and lantern accidents, 238; locomotive sparks, 211; friction, 179; gas jets, 176; engines and boilers. 150; furnaces, 135; fire-crack ers, 105. There were 4356 fires classified as "not reported," and 2672 as "unknown."?Buffalo Commercial. The salmon fishing by nets in most of the Scotch saitnon rivers is just ended, and has been the most successful for many years. This was particularly the case in the Tay. ^^ELF I bottles of ST. JAG cured me. No return in 5 ye "ALL RIGHT! ST. OONALD KENNEDY, Of Roxbury, Mass., says Kennedy's Medical Discovery cures Horrid Old Sores, DeepSeated Ulcers ot 40 years' 3tanding, Inward Tumors, and every disease of the skin, except Thunder Humor, and Cancer that has taken root. Price, $1.50. Sold by every Druggist in the United States and Canada. Rim bend at once for our Catalogue. 200 testt- ; monials. C. N. Newcoinb, Davenport, low? ! O A I KSMAN WANTED. : usury mm rxpeuM" i A ?? paJil. BROWN BROS. CO. Rochester, N.Y .N Y > L?t-j J jpiSO'fs JSiiMI?D\ FOB CA' figg t'o'c! :n ilie Heau it Has no equal. QB It is an Ointment, oi which a nostrils, i'nce. oOc. Sold by dr ? Address. is iK CHICHESTER'S ENQLlct. , mk rtNUNRO) - W . ^.rHr ORIGINAL AND CCNUINC -7 Y)r I^ale*. uk Droijlit for CMciuur'l Jk / W Mxai mM ?1U blae rlkben. TaJce > J* MK . *u PM? 'a p?iubo?rd boxet, pink wr?p L V nf rJr for P*r*leol?r?, VMkwaUi' > *?ld fcy all Lwil tfr?alitt ; _ A Roadbed in the Biver. A section of the levee, 210 feet In length, at a point between the Mobine Lumber Mill and the box factorj in South Helena, Ark., suddenly gave away thr> nflipr nftprnnnn nnd Slink to a denth of about ten feet. At the point in question the levee is used by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad as a roadbed. The theory of the civil engineer is that a bed of quicksand lies some fortj feet below the surface and i that the action of the water upon it and |j the running of heavy trains over it gradually caused the quicksand to wash out that in course of time and that the levee collapsed. A similar cave or collapse occurred in the levee about two . years ago.?New Orleans Picayune. j < J. A. Johnson, Medina, N. Y., says: "Hall's ( Catarrh Cure cured me." Sold by Druggists, j 75c. There are nearly 5000 grocers in Philadelphia, Penn: _ ] Tried and Not Found Wanting. Bangor, Me. < Dr. Tobias?For some time mst I have been subject to severe attacks of Rheumatism. I have tried every remedy 1 ever heard of, but | failed to get relief, until a friend suggested your Venetian Liniment. I acted on nls advice and sent for a large bottle: my leg was so bad that 1 could hardly Btand on it: with little faith, I commenced to apply it. In two minutes I was relieved; this gave me courage. 1 mnilfi a vigorous and thorough aDullcatlon and went to bed, sleeping all night; on waking in the morning I found myself transformed from a cripple to a happy man, able to jump a five rail fence or danco a polka. I write you this letter to express my gratification in finding so valuable a medicine, i xhall never be without it. D. E. W. Stone, Agent Grand Trunk R. R., Canada The Mother's Delight. A remedy that will cure croup in a few moments, prevents pneumonia and diphtheria lite Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure. No opium. Sold by druggists or mailed for 50 ct*. Address A. P. Hoxeie, Buffalo, N. Y. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and ?2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water.Druggists sell at 26c.per bottle. OKA ENJOYS O-it it xl J 1. . -- J3UUI idiu uictiiuu auu icouiio nuou Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and act* gently yet promptly on the Kidney^ liver and Bowels, cleanses thesy* tern effectually, dispels colds, headachts and fevers and cares habitual constipation. Svrup of Figs is tht only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste ana ao ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and trulv beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substance* its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known, Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading drug* gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. 8AN FRAHQI8C0. CAU i.iiMifKt Jru ticus wnma m WWFfiiBf HIV w Ely's Cream Balml I QUICK.LV CURES COLD" HEAD - tB Apply Balm Into each nortrll. tLY BROS.. 56 Warren St, X. Y. Py^rMf] A|| A HOLT East Tennessee's FINB HI I CLIMATE and Great Resources is II1 KNOXVILLE SENTINEL; dally. 1 mo, m * ??.10c.: Weekly, 1 year, SI i samples. 5 c. PBNSZOITa-Dne all IOLDI?BS: X disabled. K fee for Increase, 26 years experience. Write for Laws. A.W. Mccormick 8OKB. Wj>?niNQTOK D C- <fc Ciyrrw*-^' lessT^*] Chicago, 111. 9 i confined to bed; could not H om lame back; suffered 5 I ; doctors did not help; 2 fn IOBS Oil. I :ars. FRANCIS MAURER. | JACOBS OIL DID IT." | GRATEFUL?COMFORTING. EPPSS COCOA BREAKFAST. "By a thorough knowledge ol the natural law? wnicn govern me operau >nn 01 uigtiMiuu auu uuu?- i i ti m, and by a i-areiul ap(>11c atlon of the flue proper- I ties of weli-s. k'Cte l Cocoa, Mr. Kptis has provided i our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured bar* | erage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. Itlsuy thejudlcloui use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gr dually oullt up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are tloatlng around us ready to attack wherever there is a weaJc point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping our? J Reives well fortified with pure blood o-dt properly nourished frame."?"Civil Serviot Gazette.'' Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold onlv in half-pound tin*, uy Grocer*, labelled thus: JAMES EPFS & CO.. Homoeopathic Chemists, London, England. r. TrnnTnmiiv.e FACIAL BOAP. For the Skin, Scalp anil Complexion. Keeult ol 20 yr-" experience. Fors*!# / JMh at Di'uggistr or by nintl. Mr. Sample / Cake and 12S f. boo* on Uennatology ^ Wffa and Beamy, llliniO; on skin. Scalp, 9 SL HHNmou- aan Blood du?eaj?e anil tneir j <i??T) treatment, x-nt sealed for 10?.{ also i r^.. rjur Dlhrt^ni remt ntj. lUe BIKT1I MAKES, .C7 Mole*. ^art#. India Ink and Powder Markr, S<ar?. Httlngi-, Rednew of Not*. WWJ.. * Superfluone Hair. I Implea, ?< ., removed. I JOIIS M. WulltmrKY, DF.It*atoloouAL I ISSTITCTF., ISS West ?.'n M., 5. V. City. Consultation | fn?, at office or by letter. Atrcni wanted In each place. HOW TO SAVE AO ier ct. or more .n CASH ona get trees, planw, etc., with trtfluu eflort Fit EE. Agents wanted. for cataloeuc with valuable Information, address J. HAMMOND. NrnytKYMAX. Geneva, N. Y. rAiLRo^-atsu ~ . small particle Is applieu U) the n| ' ugjjjjisfc^or sent oy mall. ^ Red Cnosi> Diamond Brand l\ (Mi * r\\i\is A . Tbe.nly Snee. and riUablt Plil for 3a.'a \W < ftteft Diamond Brand in K*d ud Gold metallic \y | taer alao. Jtyutt .'hUttiiuHom ana Imitation*. V ""terfeit*. a i Drsffifta. or tend ? I, aid KeUef far Ladles." <n l*ttrr, bT retina Mail 1 CNiCHuru ? i _ i ^ ' ji It goes back ?all the money jou've spent far it?if there's neither benefit nor sure. That's what ought to be said -i af every medicine. It would be? if the medicine were good enough. Bnt it is said of only one medicine of its kind?Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It's the guaranteed blood-purifier. Not only-in March, April and May, when the J; Barsaparillas claim to ao good, bat J in every season and in eveir case ; ; it cures all diseases arising from a torpid liver or from impure blood. For all Scrofulous, Skin and Scalp Diseases, Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Biliousness, it is a positive remedy. Nothing else is as cheap, no mat* ter how many hundred doses are offered for a dollar. With this, you pay only for the good you get. And nothing else is " just as good." It may be "better"?for the ^ dealer ; but you are the one that's * to be helped. NY N 0?42 "August | Flower" I had V-^en troubled five months with Dyspepsia. The doctors told me it was chronic. I had a fullness after eating and a heavy load in the pit of my stomach. I suffered fre- jj quently from a Water Brash of clear matter. Sometimes a deathly Sickness at the Stomach' would overtake $ me. Then again I would have the ; terrible pains of Wind Colic. At such times I would try to belch and could not. I was working then for Thomas McHenry, Druggist, Cor,, Irwin and Western Ave., Allegheny '% City, Pa., in whose employ I had: v been for seven years. Finally I used. ; August Flower, and after using just one'ootue ior twu wccjls, entirely relieved of all the trouble. L can now eat things I dared not touch j before. I would like to refer you to 1 Mr. McHenry, for whom I worked, who knows all about my condition, ' and from whom I bought the medicine. I live with my wife and family at 39 James St, Allegheny City,PaSigned, John D. Cox. & ,|jj G. G. GREEN Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, New Jersey. U. S. A.. "SSIiiisI'l M W a* . fcLBjUMf GARFIELD TEA1 ofMd ??Uii(|carM Sick He?dMh?| rcatorecComplexlon; caret Constipation* (JONraiEli =0 FUliliY WARRANTED?= 5 Ton Scales $60FreightBud ! D...MV ! "elqftts^ diukham i un.11.1. | HAY FFVFR furad to Stay Cutd. I Ifl I I LVkll WE want the name and a^dreaa &. ,, _ of every ?utTerer In the U. S. and j-H A \TU M A Can ad ft. Address 1'. Harold HO I 1117IM Hnye*. M. D., Buffalo. K. Y. HCIUCI/1MjOHN W.DIOBBI& ntlvdlUll Wanhinstoc, I> cT #Successfully Prosecutes Claim*. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Buremic 3.viaiu}uat war. l^u^judlcatiiigcluixiui, atty stuoCh W^^YSALARYi?iral meti or it oitm. wokk Steady. big PAY for part tlrrv. Outfit Fret. Experience not needed. J. Eugene Whltnev, Rorhrster, X. Y. fllAII Weak. Xkiivocs, Wiiktched mortal* get %||.|K well ami keep well. Health Hrlftr <? w! VII tells bow. .'ifcts. a year. Sample copy free. Dr. J.H.DVE, Kdtor, Buffalo. X. Y. nUIIITAIinilA HOME READING CIRWnAU I AUyllA t'LE. American Year. Write ?? to Chnutwmmn OCIce, Druwer 191, Buffalo, X. Y. pi nwfa cpe ik '''RF.E. Tulip* 30c. Dose. rLUWCn JCCU J H. ?. BURT. Taunton, Mut VENTILATED x i x CLOTHINP! X X INTER-AIR-SPACE X X l| Adapted to all cllmatcs and variation* of tern-** perature. Sold by Loading merchant* la principal] cities. Illustrated cntalomre mMl-vl tree ou applw cat on 10 Hardcrfold Fabric Co., Troy, K. x_^ ''A woman b[ ^'est undei^a nds a woman's ills." This is why thousands of women have been benefited hv Mrs. Pinkham's advice, and cured by her remedies after all other treatment had failed. This is also why Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound "insbeen more successful in curingjgmaleComplaints than any remedy thl^orld las ever known. All f)ni?gi?ti tell it, or tent by mill. In form of PtfU 9%- , i?ozenfe?, on rtrelpt of tll.OO. LW?r Pilli. SSe. Corrnpondeiire ft?l? arnwerod. Addrcai In eonfldene* LYDIA E. FlNKUAU MED. CO., LYNN, MAS*