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rw. ' . Modern Uuguentg and Salves. Various elegant preparations have superseded the coarse unguents and salves of former times. It -would be impossible m our limited space to give a just idea of the wonderful improvements that have been made in this branch of pharmacy. Perhaps one of the most notable improvements is the preparation of an animal fat, called lanoline, which is now used as the basis of a large number of ointments. Unlike lard, which has generally been employed for this purpose, it never turns rancid; and it has the valuable property of being readily absorbed by the skin, and penetrating with friction to its deeper layers; therefore, it becomes a most efficient veincie ior conveying memuiuea through the 6kin. When mixed with mercury and rubbed into the pores, it h&s caused the peculiar metallic taste of the drug to be perceptible in the mouth three minutes after its application. In its impure crude form, thia fat was known to the ancient Greeks, and employed by them in xpedicine, being extracted from the wool of sheep. The chemist has now purified it, and made it one of the most useful agents that we possess for applying medicines to the skin.?Chambers's Journal. Alnmlnuut Watches. The latest fad of the Parisian swells is the aluminum timepiece. They are very light in weight, but a trifle more than the worke. The cases are in a dull black color?very effective. Some are open faced, some are open in a small three-quarter-inch disk in the center, with small gilt hands on the black face of the watch, but they are in all sorts of inlaid decoration in colorings, and the best of it is they are very reasonable in price. It is the custom at the gay capital for the gentry to carry this timepiece in the right hand trousers pocket along with the keys, coin, matchbox and other paraphernalia of the masculine pocket. It is, moreover, the wont of th? owners to rnsh the hand down ! in the pocket with great show of imperturbability and bring forth the watch, of which the material is nilscratch able, from among the other articles, glance at the time and carej. lessly replace it with an air of certainty in its infallibility.?Clothier and Furnisher. )j mm A NO-TO-BAC MIRACLE. PHYSICAL PERFECTION PREVENTED BY THE USE OF TOBACCO. Am Old Timer of Twenty-three Years' Tobacco Ckewlng and Smoking Cared, and Galna Twenty Pounds In Tklrty Days. Lake Geneva, Wis., July 21?Special.? The ladles ot oar beautiful little town are making an interesting and exciting time for tobaoco-nsing husbands, since the injurious effects of tobacco and the euse with whioh tt can be cnred by a preparation called NoTo-Bac, have been so plainly demonstrated by the core of Mr. P C. Waite. In a written statement he says. "I smoked and chewed tobacco for twenty-three years, and I am sure that my case was one ot the worst in this part ofthe country. Even after I went to bed at night, if I woke up I would want to chew or smoke. It was not only killing me but my wife was also ailing from the injurious effects. Two boxes of No-To-Bac cnrAH mo n.nt\ T hflrn nn mnr? riocirA fr?r tr> bacco than I have to jump oat of the window. I have gained twenty pounds In thirty days, my wife Is well, and we are indeed both happy to say that No-To-Bac is truly worth Its weight in gold' to us." The cure and improvement in Mr. Waite's case is looked upon as a miracle?in fact, it Is the talk of the town and county, and it is estimated that over a thousand tobacco users will be usin? No-To-Bac within a few weeks. The peculiarity about No-TorBac as a patent medicine is that the makers, the Sterling Remedy Company, No. 45 Randolph street, Chicago, abso'utely guarantee the use of three boxes to cure or refund the money, and the cost, $2.50, is so trifling as compared with the expensive and unnecessary use of tobacco that tobacco-using husbands have no good excuse to offer when their wives insist upou taking No-To-Bao and getting results in the way or pure, sweet breath, wonderful improvement in their mental and physical condition, with a practical revitalization of their nicotized nerves. Wyoxinq sheep and wool are being exported to England. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root cures alt Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet And Consultation free. Laboratory Binghamton. N. Y. Watibmilons lately sold for sixteen cents ft hundred in New Orleans. The Ladles. The pleasant effect and perfect safety with which ladies may use the California liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions makes it their favorite remedy. To get the true and genuine article, look for the name ot the California Fig Syrup Co., printed near the bottom of the package. The California Mid-Winter Exposition has Just given the John P. Lovell Arms Co., of Boston, the highest award and Gold Medal fo> bicycles. _______________ Dr. Haxile'i Certain Croup Care Should be in evsry medicine closet. It curethe worst of cougbs and colds, and does not cause nausea. SO cts. Hall's Catarrh Care Is taken Internally. Price 75c. Haue's Honey of Horehound and Tar re ueves whooping cough. Pike's Toothache Drops Care in one minute. Karl's Clover Hoot, the great blood purifier, rives freshness and clearness to the complexion and cures constipation, 25 cts.. 50 cte., $1. li afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle In Hot Weather Something is needed to keep up the appetitp, assist digestion and give good, healthful sleep. For these purposes Hood's 8arsnparilla is peculiarly adapted. As a blood purHOOd'S Bursa*%%%%% parilla lfler it has no equal, 4 < and it is chiefly by its f Urgg power to make pure blood that it has won such fame as a cure for scrofula, salt rheum and other similar diseases. Get Hood's. Hood's Pllla euro headache and Indigestion. ~ I Consumptive* and people who have weak lung* or Aath> H ma, thfold dm Plso's Care for H Consumption. It tau cored H thoniandi. It ha> not Injur- H d one. It U not bad to take. It la the beat ooogh ?ymp. H Bold everywhere. M?. gf ' II 4. . THE BLACK DEATH. THE TERRIBLE PLAGUE RAGING IN CHINA. A Look at Canton, With Its Millions of People, in Plague Times^Chinese Superstition. "7T LL China and the far East are / \ much excited over a -terrible | plague which has recently I (f~ broken out in the southern provinces of this empire, writes Frank S. Carpenter in a letter from Peking. It came originally from the interior, but it has reached Canton and Hong Kong, and the people are dying at the rate of hundreds per day. The disease is practically an unknown one to the physicians of to-day, but it is said to be the same as that which devastated Europe during the middle ages pjjl FLEEING FP.CM THE PLAGUE. and which was so awful in its ravages that it got the title of "the black death." It ran over Europe again and again from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries, and it is said to have caused more deaths than any of the great epidemics which human flesh has been heir to. It is the pest which Daniel Defoe describes in his story of the great plague of London of 1665 and 1666, and it has done terrible damage in Arabia and Persia within the past generation. It came a few years ago from* China to Southern Russia, and the Czar stationed troops about the infected districts and in this way kept it from the rest of Europe. The plague that ravaged Europe in the fourteenth century came from China, and it lias been known to have existed for some years past in one of the Chinese provinces above the Burmese frontier. The black death broke out in Canton during the last week in February, and for a time the average of those who died from it was about two hundred per day. This average steadily increased, until in March and April it ! was five hundred per day. It is said ] that the Pearl River, which flows past < the city, and upon which hundreds of 1 thousands of people live, contains maDy 1 floating corpses, and that the under- J takers are unable to make foffins enough to supply the demand. In or- 1 dinary times the Chinese spend large 1 sums upon their funerals, and they 3 are more particular as to the styles of 1 their burial caskets than they are as i to those of their wedding beds. Cof- i -c- A ^ii / r , JLilib uust till but? wuj AX'uiu o icvr uuiiars up to thousands of dollars, and it is 1 not an uncommon thing for a man to t bnj a coffin and keep it in liis honse < for years, bo as to have a first-class < article on hand when he dies. Chil- j dren often make their parents presents 1 of coffins, and they have their mutual t coffin supply association, somewhat i like our building and loan association, or like our mutual life insurance societies. Every member of such an association gets a coffin and burial clothes when he dies, and the not having these is considered a greater calamity than death itself. To-day the dead in Canton are carted out and disposed of in all sorts of ways, and the greatest trouble is found in getting rid of them. Often the pall-bearers who are paid to carry the coffins to the grave are stricken with the dread disease on the way, and of the four who start out with the body only one or two return. There are not coffins enough for the grown persons, and the children are being buried in baskets or wrapped , up in pieces of matting. In some places the babies are not buried at all . and the baby towers are fulL These B baby towers you find all over China, \ They are little buildings, with windows i high up near the roof. The babies g are laid on the windows and are pushed ? inside to decompose as they will. I 6 saw, near Shanghai, the bodies of & babies thrown out upon tne roadside, I and such corpses are often left by the ? poor for the dogs to eat. To-day many t of the dead at Canton have not a bur- v ial plot and their coffins are left on 0" the top of the ground. This, in the t case of such an infectious disease as p the black plague, cannot but be of ( great danger to the rest of the people, p and the plague is said to be steadily p spreading over the surrounding coun- a try. Some of the coffins are hermeti- f cally sealed by varnishing them again f and again with a sort cf lacquer var- t nish, and as the wood is often four in- e ches thick, in ordinary times they do a not cause much trouble from their of- t fenBive smell. Now, however, the a haste with which the dead are dis- x posed of does not admit of such treat- ^ ment, and the very air about Canton a is laden with the pestilence. The richer Chinese of the city have been ( doing what they could to relieve the j distress, and there are a number of ( charitable associations who are aiding ] in the disposal of the dead. At one | -? i l*s? J I RICH MAN'S GBAVK. 1 dispensary alone 2000 coffins have been 1 given away, and it is estimated that . up to this time 60,000 coffins have ] been fnrnished by such associations. < The sanitary board of Hong Kong i visited the plague-stricken parts of < Canton some weeks ago, and made a i report on the disease and its symp- i torn s. It comes upon one without i warning in the shape of a fever, which ? raises the tomperature of the patient I in a short time to 105 degrees and up- i ward. There is no ohill and no other I premonitory symptons. The patient has a severe headache, and he shows sign6 of stupor. After twelve hours the glands of the neck, the armpits or the groin begin to swell, and they soon become as big as a hen's egg. Theseswellings are hard and exceedingly tender, but they do not suppurate. In some cases a vomiting of blood occurs, and within a few hourB the man dies. Some few recover after having been attacked, and if they can keep themselves alive for more than six days after their exposure there is a a chance for them. The disease seems * --.1 to De very miecuouB, nuu m muoc quarters where it is raging it has more than decimated the population. In one small street the sanitary board of Hong Kong found thirty deaths, and in another out of 170 people only forty have survived. At one of the gates of Canton a man took a box the other day and dropped a cash into it every time a coffin -was carried out. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon he counted the cash and found he had 170 in the box. The disease is very sudden in its attacks, and the only safety from it seems to be to get out of its range. For weeks the people have been flying from Canton, and a letter which I saw the other day states that every house seems to have its dead. A few days ago a thief entered a house in which the whole family had died of the plague, expecting to have an easy haul. He was stricken while in the act of robbing the dead, and a day or two later his body, with the booty upon it, was found lying in the house. A curious thing about the plague is that it affects some kinds of animals as well as men, and in Canton it attacked the rats of the city first. Dead rats were found in the drains of the in- | fected quarters, and the rats ran from I I? SCENE IN such places almost as fast as the human species. In every house where clead rats were found it was seen that bhe people had taken the black plague, and the sign of a dead rat will now cause a family to fly. The Hong Kong doctors at first said that the disease was not of a parasitic nature and that it could not be carried to any great distance; but this is thought by many to be a mistake, and - J iltnl lin MAVIIVin Ad ft VvA Lb IB liUW baiu bliai) HO ^CIXUO uau wo transported in clothing and in other ways, and the Japan Mail is advising ;he most rigid sanitary precautions igainst all of the Hong Kong steam;rs. In one editorial it asserts that ;ven a shotgun quarantine would be ustifiable against it, and when it is remembered that every ten days a big iteamship from Hong Kong lands at San Francisco and Vancouver it would ilLtiit'ifi, i i;l| jjl^ STRICKEN" WITH THE FLAGUE. eem advisable that the greatest care >e taken to keep it out of America. It s thought here that the disease cannot I fet a firm hold of any quarter which ias good sanitary arrangements, and ] o far, I believe, only Asiatics have been ' .fflicted with it. It has attacked 1 long Kong. The Japanese papers 1 tad reports that there were one or < wo deaths in different parts of Japan, 1 >ut these reported have since been ? lenied. The Japanese are much bet- < er prepared to suppress such a ? ilague, should it break out, than is ( Jhina. They are the cleanliest peo- < >le in the world in regard to their ' lersons, and their towns and houses ( .re models of neatness. China is the 1 ilthiest and nastiest country on the ? ace of the globe, and outside of the * reaty ports there are no means of ^ inforcing sanitary measures. There ? re drains in some of the cities, but * hese are flushed only by the rains, ? ind it is said that one cause of the ? apid spread of the plague in Canton t vas the prolonged drought -which has I ifflicted the city this spring. The fact that the plague exists in I Danton makes its danger greater than t would be had it broken out in any jther city of China. Canton is the Sew York of the empire. "It is the oiggest of the Chinese business cities, ind it contains something like 3,000,300 of people. Its boat population is i said to number more than 300,000, I and as many people as you will find in ' Washington, Cleveland, Buffalo or i Cincinnati are born, live and die upon ; i its waters. Its people are the bright-1, est in China, and tliey are the best I traders and the best workers among j t the celestials. They will command i liigher wages than the Chinese from my other cities, and you find Canton j men engaged in business all over ( China. I met them in Hankow, I t found them on the busiest streets of t Chinklang and Nanking, and here in j Peking they own some of the best i property, and are engaged in all sorts t af undertakings. A great part of our t imports come irom cannon, ana tne t credit of the big Cantonese merchants 1 .s as good as that of the most solid i Americans in the banks of London. It t s a city of millionaires and paupers, 1 tnd it contains the richest and the i joorest of the Chinese. When I vis- t ted it, not long ago, I was entertained < >y the Jay Gould of China/ % man < tt named How Qua, who is said to be worth his tens of millions, and in riding up to Canton on the steamer I saw a hungry-eyed boatman greedily grab at a dead rat which was thrown him from our ship, and which I doubt not furnished the piece de resistance for his family dinner. It is from the Cantonese province that most of the Chinese in America come, and its people are noted for their turbulence as well as for their skilled hands and their sharp business brains. 1 have never seen anywhere 6uch a beehive of humanity as the city of Canton, and I can imagine no place better for the dissemination of a plague like this. The streets are so narrow that the big hats which the coolies wear almost graze the walls on either side, and you can stand in the middle of some of the best business quarters and touch the walls on both sides by stretching out your hands. The main streets fairly swarm with Chinese men and women, and half of these Celestial humans are loaded. They crowd and push against eaah other as they work their way through the city, and the disease germs if possessed by one are easily communicated to many. They pack themselves together in the houses, and the population of a small city is crowded into a single block. The poorest of them have only a few cents a day for the support of their families, and ten of our cents is a good wage for a day's work. Agricultural laborers about the city do not receive more than five cents a day, and women are paid still less. The average workingman who can save $5 a year is doing very well, and the question with the majority of the people is one of existence. The diet of the laboring classes consists of salt fish, vegetables and rice, and if they can add to this meat three EH "JWoilSil CANTON. or four times a year they deem themselves happy, It is not uncommon to find 100 people living in a little nest of a dozen one-story houses, and rents per family range from $2 a year and upward. Canton is the only city I have visited where I have found cat and dog restaurants, and 'it is the only city where I have seen dried rats exposed for sale in many quarters. I priced some of these rats and was charged five cents for the one I bought. It could not have weighed more than eight ounces, and 1 suppose 1 paid double price for it. At one of the dog restaurants I treated a lot of coolies to a stew of black dog's flesh, and the price of it was ten cents a plate. I could have gotten a stew of yellow dog for less, but when one gives a treat, even in China, he ought to buy the best. Black dog's meat is worth twice the price of that of the yellow canine, it is cooked with a tuft of the hair left on the end of the tail to show the color 'of the dog, and it looks, when in the pot, much like the flesh of a sucking pig. The dog is killed and the hair is taken off as we take the bristles off of a pig, and when stewed it is cut into small pieces. At this same place I saw cat meat cooking, and there were cats in cages awaiting the orders of customers. Cat meat is higher priced than dog or rat meat, and the tabbies are killed only upon order. The people whom I saw at such restaurants, however, were those only of the poorer classes, and there are in Canton as costly restaurants as you will find anywhere in the world. I saw places where you have to pay $5 a plate for your bird's nest soup, and where tea is served which you can't get for less than $10 a pound. The black plague, on account of the poor diet of the people and their povsrtv, will last longer in Canton than it would in an American city. There are practically no facilities for taking care A the sick, and Chinese medicine is pporse than no medicine. The misrionary hospital will do mnch. It is >ne of the best hospitals in the East, md it does a great deal of good. The ;hief Chinese charitable institutions of Danton are a blind asylum, from whioh jlind beggars go out day after day >ver the city ; a foundling asylum, supjorted out of the salt tax, and a leper isylum. This last is in a banyan grove ;wo miles from the gate of the city, [t contains about five hundred inmates, md more horrible creatures do not ixist on the face of the earth. There ire more lepers in Canton than can be tccommodated in the asylum, and -here are leper boats filled with these people, who scull or row their boats ?APER COW FOR SACRIFICE AT FUNERALS. /?ra.fi. nn ihf? rivor ^egging. There are no more superstitious people than the Chinese, ami such au )ccasioii as this brings out all of the sooth-sayers. I hear that the streets of Canton are now tilled with ] 5riests exorcising the imps of the ] jiague and that the people go through ] ;he city in bands beating pongs and 1 Irums to drive the demons away. At I i he head of one band was a boy who i lad on a hideous dragon mask, and 1 ;he dragon boats which are kept for j :he annual dragon boat festival have i seen brought out. All sorts of pray- r ng goes on before the different josses ] md the ancestral tablets, and every me connected with the burial of the lead is making money. A large class ; J j of merchants sell nothing else "brat silver and gold paper, which is bought by the families of the dead and is burned by them over the graves, with the idea that this will supply them with funds 'for their travels in the next world. Paper and wooden cows and horses are manufactured to be burned in the same way, and the dealers in white goods will be getting rich. TVhite is the color of mourning in China, and the family when they repair to the cemetery wear clothes of white tied on with coarse rope. They leave food at the graves and generally send an extra suit of paper clothes along to keep the corpse warm when it becomes a ghost. The Tongans. The Tongan group of islands, as you will see by a glance at the map of ^ J** A TONGAN "VILLAGE. Polynesia, are south of the equator, and between Samoa, or the Navigator's Islands, and the Fiji group. The Tongans bear a strong resemblance to the people of Samoa, and many of their legends are the same, yet they are not nearly so handsome a people. The Tongans have the art of making beautiful mats, which they value as highly as the Persian princes do their richest prayer mats, and with these they adorn the floors and walls of their circular houses. In the few settlements where white men are to be lound, the native men and women wear olothes of European style, though even these are confined to a shirt and | trousers for the men, and a sort of ; cctton Mother Hubbard dress for women. But away from the settle ments they still adhere to the costume of their forefathers, and most becoming it is. The Tongans are very fond of ornaments, in which men, women and children delight. One of the cheapest and most effective is made from a scarlet flowering creeper, which they ' fasten with a most graceful effect about the head, neck, arms and bust; but the ornaments most valued are earrings made from the ivory-like substance of the whale's teeth. These teeth are?from one to four inches in length, and worn on strings like a necklace. Although there has not been a war in Tonga for many years, yet* the men make and carry arms, and all the villages are fortified by means of palisades. Formerly, whenever an old man got - ill i - 1 J x so sick in longa mat ne couiu nut move, it was the custom for his relatives and friends to carry him off and bury him alive. The missionaries and the English Government put an end to this cruel practice; but. strange to say, the people who most lamented the abolition of the custom were the old men themselves. Fruit and fish are so abundant in Tonga that hunger may be said to be I unknown, and as there is now no war, and it does not require much work to sustain life, the people give their spare time, of which they have an abundance, to games, sports and semireligious festivals. "White Holland Turkeys, "White Holland turkevs rank next in weight to the bronze, "foiey are high " - _>l WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY COCK. ly esteemed, as they make a nice ap- j pearance when dressed. They ha re a , lighter colored skin, with a pinkish tin^e, which is very attractive. The flesh is white and juicy. White Hollands have clear white plumage, though during summer, like : other white fowls, they become more ! or less yellow. The bills and feet are ! yellowish color. They are good layers and excellent mothers, generally mating quite early. They are not considered so hardy as the bronze and some other varieties, and not so commonly seen. The white Holland is much larger 1 than the common white turkey, with which it should not be confounded. It traces its origin to the Netherlands and Belgium, and is sometimes termed the Flemish. Its feathers are very valuable, as tliey possess tbe softness of the down o? geese.?New York World. Turkish Agricultural Progress. Turkey has already one superior school of agriculture, two schools of practical agriculture, seven model farms, a veterinury school, and an ex- I perimental silkworm nursery. Experiment fields have also been entab- j lished, and new seeds are distributed, J while encouragement is given to the improvement of live stock. There ie iLso a national bank of agriculture which lends money to farmers at alow rate of interest. Altogether it would seem as though there were still considerable life in the sick man of Europe.?New York World. Europe pays $30,000,000 taxes a i fear ou salt. 1 ; ' ' ' ' X'X]'-["'ir'.'-" v 'yUS | The Besl 1 to 1 Are made with ROYAL ^ bread, biscuit, cake, rolls, ir rious pastries requiring a i ^ Risen with ROYAL BAK i.v: , i:_ tffi aic ou^tnauvtiy iijj. ^ and wholesome. K ROYAL BAKING POT <?/ time and labor savers to th A economizes flour, butter and $ the food more digestible anc ? ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. Theory of American Storms. Professor Colbert explains the origin of great storms that move across our country from the Bockv Mountains to the Atlantic seaboord on this theory: The moist air from the Pacific, driven up the west slope of the Rookies by the rotation of the earth, is suddenly deprived of its moisture in cooler altitude. This drying of the air causes a change in specifio gravity, and the disturbance produced at once results in a slight rotary current. The revolving mass of air moves onward toward the east, its motion and size constantly increased by the sucking m of warm south winds on its forward edge. These currents from the south drop their moisture from contact with the colder revolving storm, and the sudden lightening of the air by the dropping of its moisture works like a stream on a mill wheel. Thus the real cause of our great storms lie in the conditions met by these traveling whirlwinds in their regular journey across the country. If they are cold enough and meet with enough moist, hot air in their course ' ? * - ? ~ xney are set spuming wiwi a veiuuii/jr that makes a cyclonic storm.?Chicago Journal. Men and'Women With V/ftrns. Horny excrescences arising from the human head have not only occurred in this country, but have been frequently reported by English surgeons as well as those from several parts of continental Enrope. In the Imperial ^ Museum at Vienna, the British MuI seum at London and the Vatican collection at Rome there are fine single specimens or whole collections of these curiosities. In an English local history (History of Cheshire) a wo nan is mentioned who had been afflicted with a tumor on her head for thirty-two years. Finally it became greatly enlarged and two horns grew out of it after she was past seventy years old. These wonderful horns, which are each within a fraction of eleven inches long and nearly two inches across at the base, are now in the famous Lonsdale collection in the British Museum. In the annals of the French Academy there is an account of one "Pietro le Diblo," who had three fully developed horns on his head; two as large as those of a good-sized ram, one behind each ear, and one straight one, I nine nnrl ?, half infihfiS loner. ffTOwincr from his forehead.?St. Louis Republic. BEECHAI (Veg What The Biiiousness indigestion dyspepsia bad taste in sick headache foul breath bilious headache loss of apj.e when these conditions are cau stipation is the most frequen One of the most impor learn is that constipation ca ness in the world; and it c the book. Write to B. F. Allen Con York, for the little book on 1 sequences and correction); sei reach of a druggist, the pills \\ " Better Work Wisely Than 1 are Unnecsssary in Hoi SAP* For headache (whether alelcnr nervous), toith t ; i . neuralgia, rlieumitis n, lumja^o. palm an I ?v.i ness In the ba:k. splnts or kMneyi. p.ilis ar >un I 11 jiver, pieunsy, a-v?iii?s w ? -- ? "? ? nil icind". the application of Ra Iwjv'i Rs.i Iv R I > will afford lmn.eJlate ease, au I lu o >nt(nu2 I ? Jor a few days e fec:s a perm tnout eurj. A CURE FOR ALL Summer Complaints, I DieTERf, DIARRHEA. CHOLERA MORBUS. A half to a teaspoouful of Ready Relief In a half tumbler of water, repeated as often as the disciiar<ea continue, and a flannel saturated with Ready Relief placed over the stomach or bowels will afford immediate relief and soon e:Tecc a cure. Internally?A half to a teaspoonftil in half a tumbler of water will, In a few minute), cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Vomiting, Heartburn, .Nervousness, Sleeplessness, SIck Headache, Flatulency and all Internal pains. Malaria in It* Various Forms Cured ( aud 1'reveated. There is n*t a remedial agent in tho world thnt will cure fever and a*ue and all other malarious, bilious and other fevers, aided by RAD W AY'3 flLL?:, SO quickly as RADWAY'S READY RELlEb'. Price Su cents per tattle. Sold by aU druj'gtsta. { cf ); ..-v ; t Things | Eat I BAKING POWDER?. j| luffins, crusts, and the vaMvpnincr or rnisincr acr#?nf. w [ING POWDER, all these P ht, sweet, tender, delicious eg WDER is the greatest of F e pastry cook. Besides, it P eggs, and, best of all, makes || 1 healthful. |[ ,106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK. Jbi Sources ol the Diamond Supply. Until the early part of the eighteenth century, the famous Golconda and other mines of India furnished the world's diamonds, but after that time for a long period the mines of Brazil became the great producers. Both localities are now nearly exhausted. Since the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1867, that region has produced more diamonds than the whole world during the two centuries preceding, the total yield of these mines being estimated at some 40,000,000 carats or about er.ght tons, the aggregate value of the uncut stones being more than $250,000,000. In single years the African yield has exceeded 3,000,000 carats. Not more than eight per cent, of this product 11 is stated can be considered cf the first water; about twelve per ceDt. is of the second water and twenty-five per cent. i6 of the third water, while tho remainder is boart which is crushed to powder and used for cutting hard substances. This boart is distinct from the uncrystalline carbonado which is a cutting agent several times more valuable ae obtained from the Brazilian mines. Diamonds have been found also in the Urals and in Australia while a few small crystals have been picked up in different parts of the United States. A locality in New South Wales is reported to have yielded 12,000 diamonds of which the largest have been out into gems, weighing 3* and three carats respectively.?Atlanta Constitution. Mk ASSIST NATURE a little now and then. :?.u _ rtloonc. WlbU a gCuuO) viMtuaing laxative, thereby removing offending matter from the stom^ ^ B R ach and bowels, and Ufl toning up and invigo/GT V|99 rating the liver and jfgjk WemB action, anf you there* iBSf EBfflby remove the cause * ^SiEr of a multitude of distressing diseases, such as headaches, indigestion, biliousness, skin diseases, boils, carbuncles, piles, fistulas and maladies too numeroni to mention. If people would pay more attention to properly regulating the action of their bowels, they would have less frequent occasion to call for their doctor's services to subdue attacks of dangerous diseases. That, of all known agents to accomplish this purpose, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets ore unequalled, is proven by the fact that once usea, they are always in favor. Their secondary effect is to keep the bowels open and regular, not to further constipate, as is the case with other pills. Hence, their great popularity with sufferers from habitual constipation, piles and indigestion. H'S PILLS j etable) ! i ;y Are For sallow* skin i the mouth pimples torpid liver tite depression of spirits sed ky constipation ; and sonit cause of all of them. tant things for everybody to uses more than half the sickan all be prevented. Go by ipany, 365 Canal street, New Constipation (its causes conit free. If you are not within 'ill be sent by mail, 25 cents. Work Hard." Great Efforts jse Cleaning if you Use DUO W.L. Douglas CUOr ISTriE Bts?. Qv# ^HWfc NO SQUEAKING. $5. CORDOVAN,, i^^HL FRENCH&ENAMELLED CALF ip \ *4.$3.5J>FiNECALf&KM6AR0i (jfe- J& I3.5P POLICE,3 Soles. 49toJ2-W0RKINGMEfj<5 '*-* EXTRA FINE. Nfe; *2 A7-5 Boys'SchoolShoes, JELj3-^&^4 jQrrJRfo* send for catalog * W?L* DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, .MASS. Vou cau save money by wearica tho W. L. Poucii&a 83.00 ?hoe, Because, we are the largest manufacturers o? this grade zl shocr in the world, and guarantee tiieir value by stamping the name and pr!c? on tb? bottom, which prctcct you against high tirlcesaud the middleman's profits. 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