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r Pins are found among tbe mummies ?f Egypt and in prehistoric caves. Ad Important Difference. To make it apparent to thousands,who think 1 ihemeelves ill, that they are not affected with ? my disease, but that tbe system simply needs ? ?Jear.&ing, is to bring comfort home to their ] aear:c, as a costive condition is easily cured by jxinr Pvrup of Figs. Manufactured by th? DaliTcrjJa Fig Syrup Co. sb stat* or ohio, city cp toltdo, f 1 mi Lucas County. f ? i 29 Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the < (enior partner of the llrm of F. J. Cheney & , Rf Co.. dofnjt business in the City of ToJedo. ( In Dounty and State aforesaid, and that said firm H rvill pay the sum ot $1(0 for each and every ease of catarrh that cannot be cured by the KB 056 of Hall's Catarrh Cure. I Frank j. Chtstt. i " -* - V-* 3 WT? Foworn 10 oeiorc mc ?u? euuom? ?. f presence, this 6tli duy of December, A. D., ^88b. . ? ?. A. W. Gleason. J SEAL > ' ?,?? Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and lets directly on the blood and mucous surface? 1 6f the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. (ST" Sold by Druggists, 75c. I f r _____________ 0 There are a large number of hygenic rhysi> clans who claim tuat disease is always the re suit of a transgression of Nature's laws. The proprietors of Garfield Tea are both physicians and have devoted years to teaching the people how to avoid sickness by following Nature's laws. They give away with every package of Garfield Tea a little Dook, which they claim will enable all persons, if directions are followi d, to avoid sickness of all kinds and to have no need for Garfield Tea or any other medicine. ? - ' - .1^ 1 tn, warned.?owu traie reupie mj ouj uultlee of Forestine Bloo I Bitters of all dealers for 25c. Gives you Strength and Vigor with the Freshness of Youth. ( " 'Brown's Bronchial Troches* are excellent for the relief of Hoarsenessor Sore Throat. They are exceedingly effective."? Christian World, London, JSng. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.latao Thompson VEye-water. Drueelntswll at 25a. per bottle ??o? Mr. Harvey Heed ' Laceyville, 0. Catarrh, Heart Failure, Pa- , ralysis of the Throat " 1 Thank Ood and Hood's Sarsa- | parilla for Perfect Health." "Gentlemen: For the benefit of suffering humanity I wish to state a few facts: For several | "- o T /mm rotftrrh and heart I failure, getting so boil i could not work and Could Scarcely Walk I had a very bad spell of paralysis of the throat some time ago. My throat seemed closed and I could not swallow. The doctors said it was caused by heart failure, and gave medieine, which I took according to direction?. but it did not seem to do me any good. My wife urged me to try Hood's Sareaparilla, telling me of Mr. Joseph C. Smith, who had been At Death's Door but was entirely cured by Hood's Sareaparilla. Alter talking with Mr. Smith, I concluded to try Hood's Sareaparilla. When I had taken Hood's gx Cures two bottles I felt very much better. I have continued taking it, and am now feeling excellent. 1 thank God, and Hood's Sareaparilla and my wtfe for my restoration to perfect health." Harvey HgED, Laoeyville, 0. Hood's Pill* do not purge, pain or gripe, butact ' promptly, eaaiiy and efficiently. 23 centa Unlimri InrWoomonf VaiUQU IIIUUIOUIHUIII of Scott's | Emulsion is contained in letters from the medical profession speaking of its gratify. I ing results in their practice. ; Scott's Emulsion j of cod-liver oil with Hypo- i phosphites can be adminis- | tered when plain oil is out of the question. It is almost as palatable as milk?easier 1 to digest than milk. < Prepared by Scott k Bowne, N. T. AH dnifgittt. . MBS. MILLY FERGUSON, Troy, N. Y. The following tribute to DANA'S power over OLD CHRONIC COMPLAINTS, was sent us by Wm. Groom of the well-knoicn "GROOM'S PHARMACY," 129 Congress St., Troy, N. Y.: Gentlemen I have been troumea with LIVER t'OJIPLAIXT, CONSTIPATION and DYSPEPSIA for a long time. 1 employed the best Doctors in the city; they tola me k Old Chronic Complaints Iwen: UBIU IU CUIT- x urn' iikuiuw uiit me no good. I Btoppecl taking it and 1 bought a bottle of DANA'S SAKSAPARILLA. Before 1 had taken half of It I felt better. I have taken three bottles of DANA'S SARSAPARILLA! and am better than for years. IT HAS DONE WOKDEB8 FOR ME. I can eat anything I want and it does not distress me in the least. Yours truly. Troy, N. Y. MRS. MIT LY FERGUSON. DANA SARSAPARILLA CO., BELFAST, ME. TEMPERANCE. HOW riCTIMS ABE MADE. The way iu which persons often become the unconscious victims of alcohol is stated by the "Feuille de Hygiene et de Police Sanitaire," of Neafchatel, Switzerland, as follows: "The small doses frequently repeated, small glas3es of liquor regularlj taken every day, are whatmaseof an hones! citizen a victim of alcoholism without his having ever, perhaps, passed throuzh a stau of complete intoxication, and without hi.1 having suspected the danger to which h< was exposed." RUM'S BURDEN IS BELGIUM. The managers of a Brussels workingmen's union have printed a circular giving a sum norv nf the increase in the consumption of spirituous liquors and the simultaneous in* :rease of crime and poverty. Belgium, especially in the two western provinces, appears to be swarming with vagrants, and the taxes for the support of the poor have become an almost intolerable burden, yet that country permits 83,000 rum shops tc filch the wages of labor and multiply the sum of misery and disease. A WARNING. Look! See your boy as he turns intc these death-dealing places?the liquor sa loins on his way from work. Bee him as hi turn*- in again at night. See him as he turn' out at midnight, stupified, dazed, maddened ready for any crime, eager for violence,anc perhaps, before the sua rise?, bearing th< mark of Cain on bis brow. You stand with in the shadow of the gallows, and you sbud derasyou hear his last word?, "Liquo brought me here." What matters your or; of anguish, "My son! My son Would t God 1 could have died for you!"" You helpei to bring him there. You voted to keep th places open where he could bring his fearfu doom upon himself. You are a consentinj party. You were one of the signers of hi death-warrant. Christian patriots, fathers mothers, can't you see it? Won't you se how this applies to you.?Demorest's Famil Magazine. WOULD FRUHJBITIUJI rnuoiojir The Summary, a weekly published at th New York State Reformatory at Elmirc the work of the inmate?, asks in a recer issue editorially: "Would Prohibition Pr< hibit^' Prom its answer we quote the to lowing: j "Legislate against the Bale of liquor. VI know, or take it for granted, that law wi not prohibit. No prohibitory law ever die , It will not even do much good, at least a] [parently. to begin with. But we withdra from civilization the temptation continual 1 : placed before them, at every corner of th streets of our American cities, of liquc saloons open for young men, not there ir duiging them in a taste already acquired but developing this taste within him. Hoi many of those not addicted to drink do yo suppose would trouble themselves seekin for some hidden saloon were public salooi abolished by law? Very few, indeed. Ar lyet we hear it said, 'Prohibition does n< ; prohibit.' Of coarse it does not, if you d not give it time to, if you do not make sufficiently general to testify its action." INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS RETARDED. The industrial progress of many European ffatkw is materially retarded by tae drink ug habits of wage-earners. In England, Scotland and Ireland alone Professor Leone Levi has estimated that the wage-earning :iasses are spending $425,000,000 a year ii intoxicating drink. There has recently been a stron; temperance movement in Bel gium, where the working population cai bardly be regarded as models of sobriety As the opponents of the movement insistec that the evil had been greatly exaggerated a manufacturer made a curious and practi cai experiment by way of settling the ques tion so far as his own employes were eon cerned. He marked 700 five-franc coin with a punch and distributed them In equa numbers among his workmen when he pai them their wages. At the sam9 time Qert quested the keepers of the saloons adjicaa to his works to band over to him all th coins so marked that came into their possec aion- Two days after mora than three hun dred of his 6ilver pieces were returned t him by the saloon-keepers. Subsequea calculation showed that in less than tw days each workman had spent more tha half his salary at the saloon.?Chicago New Record. ALCOHOL IN SURGERT. Mr. Frederick Treves, the well-know surgeon of the London Hospital, in h ! "Manual of Operative Surgery," has sou , striking remarks -on the risks attendic ; operations on the bodies of drunkards. ? says: "A 6carcel 7 worse tubject for an op eration can be found than is provided by tb habitual drunkard. The coalition contri indicates any but the most necessary an urgent procedure?, such a; amputation fc severe crush, herniotomy aud the like. Tb mortality of these operations among alci holies is. it is needless to say, enormous Many individuals woo state that they'd not, Hrinlr ' inri nhn olthnncrh T>?rhnT>cnevp drunk, are jet always taking a little stirm lant in the form of 'nips' ana an 'occasions glass,' are often as baa subjects for surgica treatment as are the acknowledged drunk ards. Of the secret drinkers.continues Mr Treves, "the surgeon has to be indeed aware In his account of 'Calamities of Surgery, Sir James Paget mentions the case of a per eon who was a drunkard oa tne sly, and yo not so much on the sly but that it was we] known to his most intimate friends. Hi habits were not asked after, and one of hi fingers were removed because joint diseas had spoiled it He diei in a week or tei days with spreading cellular inflammation, such as was far from unlikely to occur in ai habitual drunkard. Even abstinsnce fron alcohol for a weat or two before an operation does not seem to greatly modify th result." Dwelling on the immense import ance to ^n operator of cultivating "a sur gicul hand," the same writer points out tnai "a shaky hand" may ba develops! by irregular modes of liviu/, by the mo Jerace use ol ilcohol, and by s:uo<un.j.?Journal of ineb riety. TEHVUKANCK NEWS AJTD NOTK8. The devil's masterpiece is a drunkard's home. Don't attempt to drown your sorrow it irink;you will find that sorrow can swim In Victoria one out of every sixty o the population is arrested for drunkenness Mr. Moody secured 4 30 subscribers to thi pledge in one meeting recently in Dublin. Tho number of ail kinds oC (Jistillerie opened last year in the United States wa 3106. Lady Henry Somerset has just opened ? lodging bouse for men at one o? tbe Londoi docks. The consumption of beer in Bavarii reaches the enormous quantity of 230 quart a year for each inhabitaot. On Guard, the organ of the Army Temper anca Association, says that there are 13,02! abstainers in the British army in India. "No member will be permitted to drinl tbe white man's grog," is the pertinent regu lation of the newly formed Zulu caurch li Africa. At Lintorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, is th( oldest inebriate asylum in Europe, fouadet in 1851 for the retention and protection o released prisoners whose intemperance lei to their imprisonment. A leading chemist, Professor Gilber Wbeeler, of Chicago, is authority for th statement that beer has almost no nutritivi fiHolifiaa tnnpa f rAnnanflTT Inf.PAflnAa ^UCM1II1C9| UUV iUU* W 41 b^usuuij *uvk wtauvw into the system disease-producing elements In the last five years the saloons In Chi cago have increased eighty-Ave per cent., while the population has increased fifty pei cent. Th ire is now in Chicago one salooi lor every 178 people, including men, womei and children. And this under hign license Did you ever hear a saloon-keeper saying to a would-be customer in the shape of i poor, wretched tot: "No, I cannot tak< your money. You have too much liquoi now. TaKe your money an J go buy soon bread with it lor your starving wife an< children:'' Out of 2747 ministers whose names wer on the official year-boolc of the Congrega tional Union of EJngland and Wales then are 2034 abstainers. Of the 336 stu Jents be Ing trained for t&e ministry, or as missionaries in the theological colleges, 35S are tota abstainers. If the workingmen of this country should suddenly say: "The money we have hithsrto spent for intoxicating liquors shall Qencerorth be expended for useful articles,' ind if. for a single week, they should turn it loose upon cotton goods, bow much monej Jo you suppose would be directed into the cotton trade in one week? Net less thai three million dollars. RELIGIOUS READING. | resignation. I I cannot think but God must know ) About tbe tbe things I long for bo; j I know he is so good, so kind. I cannot think but he will find r Some way to help, some way to show ; Me to the thing I long for so. j I stretch my hand?it lies so near; 3 It looks so sweet, it looks so dear. j "Dear Lord." I pray, ''oh, let rae know II"it is wrong to want it so!" He only smiles?he does not speak; Mv heart grows weaker and more weak V/ith looking at the thing so dear "Which lies eo far, and yet so near. Now, Lord, I leave at tbv loved feet This thing which looks so near, so sweet* 1 will not seek, I will not long? I almost fear I have been wrong. I I'll go and work the harder, Lord, ? And wait till by some loud, clear word ' Tbou callest me to thy loved feet J To take this thing so dear, so sweet. } ? [Saxe Holm. CONQl'ER SELF. ' Did you ever think of this, that there is a danger in simple indulgence; that there is a risk in saying to myself, "I want this gratification. and therefore I will have it?" j Very bad spiritual logic, by the way! Did | you ever read that singular story tipon wnich Balzac has founded one of his tales, that story of the raa;<ic skin that invested '' its wearer with a certain power to obtain ? whatever be wished, but which with every ' new gratification shrank in dimensions un? til by and by it crushed him to death? That " magic skin is selfishness. You get your ?. wealth, but you shrivel: you gratifyyoui " desires, but there is an atrophy takes place > id your moral and spiritual faculties. Your eye gets blind to the vision of anything be yono your material interests, and your hand "l gets paralyzed as to reaching out blessings to ' other souls, and your heart gets too narrow to understand or sympathize or love. What selfishness is in the church of God! Just think of our houses and lands and ie equipages, our libraries and works of i, art, our personal decorations, our it ornaments and jewelry, the furniture and > garniture of our homes, and then think that 1- one thousand millions of the human race are yet without even the knowledge of God, and e eight hundred and fiftv millions ihat never II heardthat Jesus Christ died for men.?[Dr. [. A. T. Pierson. > w COME TO T1IE LIGHT. ' Skepticism is simply not believing. It is denial, negation, darkness. There is only . one cure for darkness, an. 1 thac is coming to l" the light. If you will persist in putting your ^ eyes out, or in barring God's daylight out, ' tnere is no help for you; you must die in the dark. Sin has made your soul nick, and if ? you will not even try some of Christ's medi[Cj cine, then the blood-poisoning of infidelity )t will run its fatal course. If you will produce lo a better rule of life than my Bible (perhaps your mother's Bible also); if you will find a holier pattern of living than Jesus Christ and a surer Saviour than he is. I will forswear my religion for yours. But what is your "I do not believe" in comparsion with 1 my positive "I know whom I have believed?" What is your denial in comparison with my ' personal experience with Christ? Skepti' ci6in never won a victory, never slew a sin, [ never healed a heartache, never produced J a ray of sunshine, never saved an immortal soul. It is foredoomed defeat. Do not'risk " vour eternity on that spider's web'?[Rev. T. L. Cuyier, D. D. i i god's sight mt safety, p That delightful passage in Exodus came flashing up to my mind just now, when the s Israelite sprinkled the blood on the lintel 1 and the two side-posts. Then he shut the i door. He was inside; he did'not see the ). blood any more. The blood was outside upon the post, and he could not see it himself, e but was he safe? Yes, because it is written, K "When I see the blood I will pass over you." ! it ? lioa'a sight or tne djoou 01 nis aear son o that is tbe everlasting safeguard of all who t are in Christ. Though it fs most precious o and sweet to me to look at that "blood once a shed for many for the remission of sins," and a I do look at it, yet if ever there should come a dark night to me in which I cannot see it still God will see it and I am safe. I am saved because it is written not "when you rD see it," but "when I see the blood I will pass is over vou." It is not your perfection of sight ie which is your safeguard. It is not the abig sence of blemish from your faith that mnkes [e you to be "accepted in the beloved."? >- [Word and Work. ie i* ,d LOOKING BACK. >r A life devoted to the service of God is the 'e only life worth living and the only life af> fording a pleasing prospect, when, as itini. evitably will, in old age it comes up for reo view. When Walter Scott, the "Wizard of !r tbe North," w?b lyiug on what proved hib i- deathbed, he called for his son-in-law. il When he ^tood by his bedside, ''Lockhart," d said be, "I may have but a minute to sneak to you. My dear, be a good man; be virtuous, be religious, be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here." And Paul, looking hack upon his life, found s priceless joy in being t able to say : "I fought a good tight. I have !l finished my course, I have kept the faith." s Sooner or later our lives will come before s us for self-inspection and then it will not be 0 bow cunning, or shrewd, or far-6eeing, or a overreaching we have been, but how near, 1 through the operation of his grace, wq have J jived to God, that will comfort us. I give under my handwriting a testimony . of Christ and bis Cross, that they are a ; sweet couple and that Christ has never yet [ been set in his due choir of honor among us j all. Ob, I know not where to set Him! Oh for a high seat to that royal, princely one! Ob that my poor soul hadoncea running-over flood of that love, to put sap into my dry root, and that that flood would spring I out to the tongue and the pen, to utter great things to thehigh and due commendation of such a fair one! Oh holy, holy, holy One! Alas! there are too many dumb tongues in 1 the world and dry heart*, seeiug there is emc ployment in Christ for all, end ten thousand * worlds ot angels and men more to set on hiirh e and exalt the greatest Princc of the kings of the earth.?[8. Itutherford. c f BJHOr LA TROSE i tells a touching scene he saw in the ? leper hospital at the Cape of Good Jlope, which is under the charge of the Moravian a brethern: "On one conch lies a leper whose I hands are gone and before him an open Bible; he has reached the bottom of the page, but cannot turn it over; be looks around and j one who can walk, but is also without hands, takes another who has lost hit* feet on his back and carries him to the first to turn over theltaf.? [Apostolic Guide. There was a grand thought in that saying | of a believer of the primitive stamp: t "I do not want to possess a faith; I want a i faith that possesses me." The safest strength of the heart is the feeliug of complete det pendente.?[Huntington. e 9 3 "For Jesus Christ's sake Do all the good you can, In all the wav9 you can, At all the times you can, J. To all the people you ean, As lonir as ever you can." A ? I . Be such a man, live such a life, thnt if j every man were such as you. and every , life like yours, the earth would be God's r paradise.? fI'llillips Brook*. a i _ AN ENORMOUS WASTE. 3 The Rockford Monitor says that to get an . Intelligent idea of the vastness of the drink . bill of the United (States for 1892, tl.SOO,I 000,000, we must make a few comparisons: The net earnings of all the railroads of the i United States amount to less than one.third of our drink bill. The loss of property by fire in 1891 was only one-ninth , of the liquor bill. The entire expenses of the United States Government are only r about one-half what we pay for intoxicant". The aggregate capital of all our National ' banks is about $70(5.000,000, or but little more than one-half the amount squandered on | drink each year. SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR. MARCH 12. Lespon Text: "Esther Bcfire the King," tether iv., 10-17 v., 1 >3?Golden Text: Proberb xxxi., 9 ? Commentary. One lesson only has been assigned to n? from this most marvelous book of the nrovidence of God, a book in which, in the English text, the name cf God is not found, but which nevertheless is full of God from beginning to end. "Oh, blessed is he to whom is given the instinct that can tell that God is on the field when He is most invisible" (Faber) The whole book tells how the people of uoa were aejiverea irom aeatn Dy "a mediator of the highest rank, who undertakes the greatest danger for them and is mysteriously one of them. It is thought by some that Abasuerus is suggestive of the great king, Vashtiof Israel. Esther of the church, Mordecai of Jesus, and Haman of sataD, and that the whole book is a historical and prophetic picture of the kingdom of God, illustrating tne grace of God. 10,11. "There isonelaw of histoput him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out tlie golden scepter that he may live." Because of Haman's hatred of Mordecai be had cause i a decree to go forth the whole empire that on a certain day all the people of Mordecai?that is. all the Jews ?should be slain. Because of this decree Mordecai went through the city, and even to the king's gate, clothed in sickclotb, crying with a loud and bitter cry. Esther's maids told her of it. Then she was grieved, for Mcrdecai was her own cousiD, who had cared for her, her own father and mother being dead (chapter ii., 7), and aent Hatach to find out wh<st it was and why it was (iv., 5). Mordecai then told Hatach the whole matter, and sent a request on behalf of har people. Esther senas word back to her cousin, who had been a father to her, that she could not approach the king uncalled, except at the risk of her life. 12, IS. "Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews." The decree included all Jews, both young and old, 1ittle children and women, and the comiusnd was to destroy, to kill and to cause to per?> (lii., 13) so that there was no hope for Queen Esther any more than for the poorest Jew or Jewess in the kingdom. In the nlan of salvation wa are reminded of the fact that, as to being sinners and needing a Saviour, "There is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. iii,, 28). This is illustrated in those who perished in the deluge; outside of the ark not one wai saved; some were rich and some poor, some learned and some ignorant, some lived in the highlands and some in the lowlands, but there wa6 no difference. 14. "Enlargement and deliverance shall arise, and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" Mordecai was sure that deliverauco would come. How he was so sure we are not told, but he suggests to Esther that possibly the providence of God had put her in this high position for this very emergency. As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore saved by His precious blood, we know that tbe church will be completed and the kingdom will come. Israel sball be saved and the earth filled with the glory of God. 15,16. "So will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law, and if I perish, I perish." Inreply to Mordecai's seoond message Esther returned answer that they should fast three days for her, and that she and her maidens would do likewise, and then she would go to the king waether she lived or died. She being one of them -would take her life in her hand and lay it , down if need be on their behalf. The Lord Jerus knew that He would lay down His life for us, and became one oi us that He might do so. But if Esther is suggestive of the church, where does the laying down of the life corne in? Is it not fouud in I John iii., 16? "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His lite for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." 17. "So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther had commanded him. It would no doubt be fasting to 6ome purpose, for it was a matter or life or death. When David's little child was sic* he lasted and prcyeJ. How much mora should these people last wheu tbe lives of a whole people were at stake! Daniel ate no pleasant bread lor three whoie weeks, be cause tie was earnestly seeking to Know tne mind of God (Dan. x., 2, 3). Je*us said concerning certain evu spirits, 'This kind goetn not out but by prayer and lasting" (Math, xvii., 21) And it it not written in Jer. xxix., lis, "Ye shall seek Me and tiad Mewnen ye shall searca lor Me witn ail* your hearts?' V. 1. I\ow it came to pass on the third day tnat Esther put on her royal apparel and Btood in tne inner court on the King's house." It is easy lor us to read it, but how mucn it must have meant to Estnerl We read that on the third day Abranaoi lilted up his eyes and saw the place alar off, but who stops to think bow mucb that ihira day meant to Abraham/' It meant the taKing of his very life, lor was not Isaac the son in whom all the promises centered, and this was the day of tne sacrifice? So with Esther it meant, il need be, tne laying down ot her lue. 2, "6tie obtained favor in his sight, and the king held out to Estner the golden scepter that was in nis bana." Ul?r, then, was hers, and not death, or was it not as hie froth the dead ? So it was with Abraham, for on that day he received Isaac bac t from the dead in a figure (Heb. xi.,19.) An1 this is the meaning of the third day in the Scripture?, it is resurrection, or life from the dead. "After two dayR will He revive us; in the third day He will raise us up 8nd we shall Jive in His sight.'' iHos. vi., 2). Think also of Jonah and his third day, but especially of our Lord Jesus Christ and His third day, with all its glorious results yet to be fully seen. 3 "What wilt thou, Queen Esther, an:l what'is thy request? It shill be even given thee to the halt of the kingdom." How exceeding abundantly abova all she cDuld have expected! This will be the glory of the church's third day, the marriage of the Lamb, foreshadowed by John il, 1, and it will not ba half the kingdom, but the whole. for He has given us tbe glory which the I Pfcther gave unto Him (John xvif., 22). Then shall tbe Jews' enemy and the church's enemy he destroyed, and true Mordecai will be great among the Jew?, seeking the wealth of His people and speaking peace to all His seed A). The Jews will have light and gladness and joy and ho aor, a feast, and a good day, and men of all languages shall say to the Jew?, we will go with you for God is with you (chapter viii., 18, 17; Zecb. viii., 23). May we even now know Him and the power of His resurrection.? Lesson Helper. The wheat crop of the United Kingdom is 18,000,000 bushels less than the 74,730,000 bushels harvested last year. This will entail the necessity of importing 160,000,000 bushels of wheat or flour from without. Agriculture everywhere in the United Kingdom is decaying, at least so far as the production of cereal crops ie concerned. "It would seem," says TJT7 ni(n TV% fnriA Viof fTVCk A 11 O 11 T7 tVllo VVlillttUl tuut ^iUUUUtlJ VMUAU country Is being converted into a huge workshop, and that Its agricultural pursuits are being gradually extinguished. The cry has long been for cheap bread, aDd we have got it; but may it not be possible to buy cheap bread at too dear a price?" "You were out again playing poker last night," said the father. "No, father," replied the truthful youn# man, "1 was in just $17."?Washington Star. Reggie?"Van Harding ha9 been expelled from the club." Ferdie? "Why?" Reggie?"He was getting too beastly bwainy."?New York Herald. If Ton Were 0:1 the Moo t. If lunar conditions are favorable to human existence, atel it is not certain tbat they are not, and you could be trans- i ported to the top of Pico or some other tall peak or rock on the surface of our "silvery sister world," how do you suppose things would look from such vantage ground? You would piobablv first turn your eyes in the direction of our earth, the world you had just quitted, but to you it would be a stranger. In place of the somber elobe you would naturally expect to behold your eyes would be greeted with a most wonderful sight. The earth would appear to you to be sixty-four times larger than thesun appears to the residents of this mundane sphere; this because the earth has eight times the diameter of the moon, therefore she must necessarily show the raoonites sixty-four times as much surface as the moon shows us. The sun, on the other hand, would appear no larger to you from your observatory on the moon than it does from our globe. The earth's atmosphere being blue it has been dccided that the earth must appear as a blue ball to all outside onlookers. What a glorious sight it must be to our JuDarian neighbors tc look upon a bright blue, swift revolving ball sixty-four times larger than the soul.?St. Louis Republic. Among all the great men of ihe period, Gladstone is the earliest riser. Halfpast five sees him "up and about" every morning of the year. TVO BETT1 wagon, sust; nil iili A HELP YOUR HEALTH 9 May depend upoe the way you treat the warnm ings which nature gives. A few bottles of S. S. S. taken at the proper time may insure pood health for a year or two. Therefore act at once, for it IS IMPORTANT that nature be assisted at the right tin>e.V3QKB] never fails to relieve the system of im-?W*Tggr purities, and is an excellent tonic also.^^^ " He Wants to Add His Name. u ma /* naiw to vnur manv other certificates in commendation of the great curative properties contained in Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) It is certainly one of the best tonics I ever used. "John W. Daniel, Anderson, S. C." Treatise on blood and skin diseases mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta. Ga. BTnSTiTne?? - " SWAMP-ROOT MRS. G ERMAN MILLEB^ Springport, Mich. A HAtkar I ifo f QQT^9 niivniva mhv DTOIGESTION AND HEART TROUBLE CURED: Suffered for Eight Long Tears I MRS. MILLER SATS"I had been troubled for eight years with stomach and heart difficulties." I lived mostly on milk, as everything hurt me bo. My kidneys and liver were in a terrible state. Co n Id neither Bleep nor eat. I had been treated by the best Chicago doctors and elsewhere without any benefit whatever. As a last resort I tried your Swamp-Root, and have only used three bottles. Can now cat anything, nc matter what. Nothing hurts me, and can go to bed and get a good nights sleep. SwampHoot cured me. Anyone doubting this statement can write, and I will gladly answer." Guarantee ? Cm content* of One ( WAMDBottl?, if you are not benefited, Drug*ft " r*gl*t will refund to you the price paid. V Ia V "Invalid*' Guide to Health" free ' and thousands of Testimonials. 1, Co limitation free. Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham ton, W. T. At BmcfUti, 60c. and $1.00 81m? " ?J I ' ?!IH35EenH33?n5B No dwarf ibrobfreJUerer J onr Buffalo Berry, Jantberry // A learei begin to nnfold they art rMmu..g plantod tEii ?ea?oa bloom and 1 one plant of each o/tfS ?h^ jrog portpaidforbutgQc : 5eoll OI1ITDC 91 Thick Neck Cure. By Mail $1. i MUi I Kt J. K. HI,KIN, Belleville, M. J. "German' i Syrup" Boschee's German Jjyrup is more I successful in the treatment of Consumption than any other remedy prescribed. It has been tried under I every variety of climate. In the bleak, bitter North, 'n damp New < England, in the fickle Middle States, ! in the hot, moist South?every- j where. It has been in demand by < every nationality. Ithasbeenem- j ployed in every stage of Consumption. In brief it has been used j by millions and its the only true and reliable Consumption Remedy. cD <7sws?sg5?f< Car#* Conramptl on, Coughs, Croup, Sore Throat* Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantee. Fairs of Worth China. Northern China is the country of fairs In any given district there is a constan succession of large gatherings at whicl it is not uncommon for as many as 10, 000 persons to be congregated. The fair are sometimes called the "poor man' market" for the great display of secom hand clothing which the owners wish t dispose of. At Techou and at another point on th Grand Canal there are annual fairs helt from the beginning of the twelfth mont to the fifteenth day of the same montt at which there is a great display of foi eign goods, especially woolens, sold t rvtro 1 Rot JL llVs ivuj ai jjufl dispensable top: and to the cor nience of mode Royal is undoubtedly th< powder offered to the public. - *- 9 T r or nnest ioou x ism v Chef, White House,for Pr 5R PROOF. Milroy. Mifflin Co.. Penka. r of 1kf Ncm York World; John Gemmill, of this place, was thrown from a doing a most serious injury to her spine, and was LESS CRIPPLE FOR 19 YEARS, alk. Her daughter providentially procured twi JACOBS OIL, Gemraill used. Before the second bott!e wu ihe was able to walk about, and has been 4PLBTELY CURED." Very truly, M. THOMPSON, PostmasterJustice 1 It is now apparent to the Exposition that millions of people the possessors of World's $ouv< 1 The extraordinary and grov are on the part of the Directors th; their purchase, have made it necessj To relieve themselves of some r< THE M Throughout the Nation to umt^ wii Dollars on cale. Tuis is done th; living at remote points, may be aJ obtain the Coins. THE FORTUNE of SOUVENIR COINS will be th new advantages. $10,000 Was Paid They are all alike, the issu< value. The price is One Dollar e HOW TO Q1 Go to your nearest merchai them. If you cannot procure them not kss than Five Coins, and remit Send instructions how to si of expense. Remit by registered let order, or bank draft to Treasurer World's Colum In a World Where" Cleanli Praiee ie' SAP MP .^*fcjffWj|*5Pyg^HK^\ * VjBAkT^jMu EK^^ffm^nHlHMflH *1 iMlHrl Ku^^jl f f<i/i * I Mm KM j|M|i wuMHBBj|Hli^^^H| ntrodoced created inch a sensation u ^Ca9T~3[ nd Tree Cranberry. From the time tha scarce of ooastant beanty. 8brnb? )ear the next year. Hardy at oak. _ R TO-DAY. Our Dimoi se rare froit noTelties, will be nailed iflUM A 1 eotioni^orW;25j_jO?oll?eUoM^rJ^>i__J*??'^"_?J^J Do Not Br Deceived tBMHMHHBMBI with Paste*, Enamel* and Painu which stain the hands, Injure the Iron and burn red. The Rising 8un Stove Polish U Brilliant, Odorleas. Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin or glass package with every purchase. CCHTCI DtllT mUtil HULIIIU; IILI1I I HILIIU i BORROWERS ! ! ! If you want to own a home, if you want to pay o a mortgage. If you want to luvest your money at th highest rate of Interest consistent with safety: If yo want a permanent, lucrative agency for a bulldln iind loan association, with $1.UW.UUU assets and $l(JU DUO deposited with Banking Department; If any o above want* are yours then write the Granite Stat Provident Association, Pulitzer Building, XewYorl WA N TEI)?Local and traveling agents and promt tersfor the Maryland Building and Loan AssocU tion; liberal commission. For particulars address H l". Prltchett, secretary, Law Building, Baltimore, Mt1 nnip AN OPTICAL ILLUSION L L L amusing and instructive. Sen r r. name, address and one cent stam to PEEK A SON. COHSEi 17th STREET ASP URUAPWAY, SEW iURJi I If) BOYS ! Mere's a snap. Sen B B 1 I Lll, lucts. with name and address o PV I ' o boys who read stories and ge I L the Boys' World regularly for 6 moi Seven complete stories in Feb. No Sample copy for stamp. Bore' World, Lynn, Ma? TO WORLD'S FAIR FREE SENOWW IO CBNT8 131 LVEB.I MOW TO IMAKCW V QUICK MONCV |HONOM(U|*MO (A?V. THE WHALE OIL CO. WEST SUPERIOR, WIS cheaper rates than at other cimes. This is called the fair of the grain fleet, tad [ is one of the products of the vicious ?j? i tem of grain taxes. About 400 vessels are annually employed for transporting; 3 the Shantung grain tax to Tungchow, s near Peking, and upon their return these 3 vessels bring large quantities of goods 0 from Tientsin, which are sold at the fairs. While some of the fairs are held e at times rigidly fixed and never varied, j most of them are wholly uucertain as to ^ time.?North China Herald. I, r- A Salisbury (N. C.) woman is reported it to be cuttins her third set of teeth. ing Powder is in-* rugrcss in luuaci y nfort and conve" " ''''MM :rn housekeeping. s purest and most reliable baking ? U. S. Gov't Chemists Report. [so none but RoyaL?A. Fortin, esidents Cleveland and Arthur. | MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS J J THOMSON'S ^ SLOTTED CLINCH RIVET6. Ho tool* retired. Only a hammer needed to Mm and clinch them eaally and quicker, tearing the >lf sbeolntely smooth. Squiring no ho to be mad* the leather nor barr for the Blvatt. They are (tr?ML loach and 4nrakle. Millions now In nae. XI lengths, uniform or assorted, pat np In boxes. Ask rtrar draJer for then, or send Ca. to stamp* tar a bo* of 100, assorted slaea. Man'tdbr JUDSON L THOMSON MFC. CO, WALTIIAJI, KAML # to All. i Directors of the World's Columbian will be denied the pleasure of beaxntaf ? %' ' ? "? - v i Fair jnir Qoins The Official Souvenir of the Great Expositionr? i ring demand for these Coins, and the dart equal opportunities may be afforded far try to enlarge the channels of distribution, jsponsibility, the Directors have invited ERCHANTS th ti e Banks in placing Columbian Halfit th- masses of the people; and those forded the best possible opportunity *0 imn r*/\ r? r \IC fU30C33UK3 ose who are earliest in seizing upon these I For The First Coin ; is limited, and time must enhance their acli ST THE COINS: it or banker, as they are likely to have i in this way, send direct to us, ordering ting One Dollar for each Coin ordered, flip the Coins and they will be sent free ter,or send express or post-office money bian Exposition, Chicago, PL nest is Next to Godliness" ae roo Great for OLIO SfTR <1) THE GREAT BUFFALO BERRY. If ij This is truly the greateat novelty of the oaatury. Thla shrub grows 10 to IS feet high, covering itself In early spring with beautiful t flowers which are succeeded by great qaantities of luscious fruit. It la hardy, as beautiful as a picture, while the fruit la Incomparable. It will grow any and everywhere and forms a jrrand addition to our lawn and garden ahruba. Each, 30c.; 10 for fl.25, poet paid? (2) JUNEBERRY. A ghrnb of wondrous beautr: covers Itself BBB with a great man of pare white, delldopaly fragrant blossoms. These are followed:; by H large, dark colored berries, excellent for plea, sauce, etc. Each, 25c.; 10 for 81.25. MB O) TREE CRANBERRY. IBr Ererybodr la fond of cranberries, and we ^3 ' hare a shrub that will flourish and bear pro|0 dlgioualylneteryiectlonof America. Eacb.iWc. B The aJiove 3 rar? Nov?ftle?. postpaid, only 50c.; W with catalogue, 68c. ith catalogue is mailed upon receipt of 8c. for postage. SAIZEB SEED CO.. La Crowe, Wig. WORN WIGHT AND PAY S HoldsUie wontrapr J tUTJ With CUtO OA?aWJOof 411 ^ >ew Fat. Improre-nnt t Vq^^Fw^/ HlutraieiCataadralai M ior?olt-.nsuiirt 8 > curolr ?c?lo I. S. r. itnt O *f?. C*ap>*r, 744 Bro*4 < r*lltH?au.) way. Saw tort Oltr. I X Y N 0?8 I- Illustrated Publication* k Idaho, Wuhington and Oregon, tk? FRH OOVERMHIIIT and low friccl ft alvftvji !jm LANDS ?Th? bcrt Apleoltnfti, Grating tad Timber ^(6 l,and? nowojwn to Mttlert. Mailed FREE. Addrett u UU8. II. laSBOKX, Lund Cm. R. 1'. H. L. BU Pe?1, Mil*. Garfield Tea s Cure* Sick Headache,Restore* Complexion.Saves DoctoS y. Bills. 8amolefr?pe. GiRnixr> Tul Co.. SH W. i&th 8t, N. T. fc Cures Constipation ' ? MnBSQBoaaziHH' H Coninmptlvei and people H i H who have weak tanas or Astbf Hmft ahnnlri n?A Pllin'll f!nr*l for * Consumption. It has eared H thoauuidi. tt has not Injur ed one. It is not bad to take. H ' H it is the best cough syrup. S H gold everywhere. SOe. H ' I " I