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v> THE WRINKLE OF LAUGHTER. .What hair he has is very thin and gray; His eyes are sometimes filled with bitter tears, And when you see him -n his weary way. You wonder how he carries all his years. He is so old?so old and filled with pain One marvels at the spirit he displays; Yet from those eyes there flashes, once again, 1 The splendid courage of his younger \ days. v And ever, when you greet him, you will see Upon bis face a smile from worry free! There are a hundred wrinkles on his face? Scars left by Father Time from battles grim? Yet, there is one which does deserve its place And. wrinkle that it is, it honors him. Tis long and deeply marked, and some might say It marred that strong old face. That is not so! It is the badge of laughter; day by day He saw the happy side?and made it grow! ' Though life has been no joke to him, 1 he's found . The value of a laugh?and passed it J JUUUU. In years to come, when I am old and gray One hope I have?that men may gay of me, "The wrinkles that he has we would not change? ! The cheerful side of life he helned us see!"' ?Jack Appleton, in Cincinnati Times-Star. mmSW/AWAVAWM | A RICE PUDDING j ww.vav.v.v.v.w.w.wI ^ ?rst P,ace "were both elderly, sober-miDded, 7 I CT r?i mi i +i ml nnAnln ca 4Vinrr? ^ | Q UJ^liiUCU |?cvpjc, OV Ultiv A fc -was 130 possible reason why any one should be inspired to play ridiculous tricks on them when they finally decided?after twenty years of waiting? to get married and go East on a long R edding trip. [r I Thomas Carr was fifty-three, a dea/ con in the First Church at,home, and I a busiDose man of standing and reputation, whose frosty side whiskers { were more likely to inspire respect and awe than levity. Sarah Anderson, his bride, owned to more than forty summers. and possessed a quiet and serene disposition?which latter fact proved, after all, a great blessing. Then they took care to see that no one was invited to the wedding who might have been moved to do anything foolish' in the way of throwing old shoes or rice after the bridal party. And Thomas Carr, with a craft and guile which hurt his conscience, concealed the route they were to take and the hotel they were to stop at in Chicago?at least he thought he did. No, indeed! There should be no foolishness about their wedding trip. They were too old to be stared and laughed at. On the train to Chicago they sat in the same seat, but Satab looked out of the window, while her newly mad? husband read the morning paper, with hardly a glance in her direction. As a ^natter of fact he played the part of a disinterested escort too well to suit the bride, who, after all, was a woman. On arriving in the city they took the common 'bus and were driven over to the Sherman House, where Thomas iwrote,. "Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Can'. Earlville, 111.." on the register, without . betraying in any way that be was doInrr nnr+Vi?r?rf mm cno 1 auj iuiug, uuuouai. "About $2, please." be said, when the tlerk asked him what sort of a room be wanted. "By the way, Mr. Carr," the clerk tailed after him as he turned to re\ Join his wife, "there's a package came by express for you this morning." "Send, it up to the room," said Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Carr had agreed that they would spend a whole week in Chicago. Thomas had arranged to leave his business for a month or two, and there was no reason why they should Lurry. The boy brought in the package. Barah looked at it and saw it came from Earlville. "I wonder what it can be?" she said. EThomas allowed that he had no idea. He tore off the outside wropper, and Bnpeeled, one after the other, half a dozen layers of tissue paper. Finally !there stood revealed on a large china plate a curious white something, rounding at the top and about the shape of a balf watermelon. "What in all fishhooks is that thing?" tasked Thcmas. Sarah poked it quesMoningly with one finger. Part of it toroke off and crumbled away into little particles. A look of comprehension, balf amused and half angry, came over fiarah's face. "Why. Thomas, it's a rice pudding," Bhe said. ! "A what?" r "A rice pudding. I suppose," she ftfent on with a laugh, "they thought rice in the form would be more suitable to our age. But I thought you had .concealed our stopping place?" "What are we going to do with it?" asked Thomas, anxiously. "I can't ask anybody around the hotel to take it away without letting them into the fact that we've just been married." "Well, Thomas," said liis wife, "if iwe stay here the Earlville people'll be sending us all sorts of foolish things, like's not. now they know the address. I think we'd better keep right on East. We can take the pudding with ms and leave it on the train when we get off. That'll be easy enough." She did the pudding up carefully. pjare ana an. in iue various paprrss ;which had originally swathed it. while her husband went down to pay his bill and arrange for taking the evening train for the East. When they got into the cab to drive to the station, she carried it on her lap. On the way a ibright idea seized her. i "Thomas." she said, "we'll leave this pudding right here in the cab. Perhaps the cabman will take it home to (his family. I've no doubt it's a good pudding. Looks like one of Cousin Mary's baking to me.:' tpi, rr/\+ +r\ + Vio roHrAnd cfof!nn Wlitru lUC.V ?umvuu otMMVM there were two solicitous porters waiting at the entrance to assist passengers, but Sarah managed to get .Thomas and the other bundles out in safety and then stepped down herself, leaving the pudding lying safely on the Beat of the cab. She caught Thomas going down the steps and whispered to ibim that she had got rid of the incubus. - "Lady, lady," a voice sounded behind ' her .inst then. "You've forgot *omeI thing." [ It was the other porter, and in his i hand he bore the devoted pudding. He came running down after her and handed over the package with a smile so compelling that Sarah felt forced 1 to ask Thomas for a dime with which to reward him. "Never mind." she said, "we'll get rid I of it on the train all right." Her bus- , v,;c "Let's drop it out of the window," i she suggested with a sudden 'bftrst of [ inspiration, after they had found their J scats in the sleeper. That seemed a i good idea to Thomas, but, unfor- < nately. the train was one of the latest vestibuled arrangements, with not an unguarded opening l'rom one end to the other. Thomas wrestled in vain with I a window, and when the porter was ap- 1 pealed to for assistance he raised the ^ window, indeed, but it was protected { by a screen which prevented the egress ' of anything more substantial than a j hairpin. Besides, it was cold outside, j and both Thomas and Sarah were pres- < ently shivering in the draughts of icy 1 nir Ti-iiirh Rwpnt in on them. They I ! were both relieved when a red-faced j man across the aisle leaned over and ; said in an injured lone: "Say. my baby ?' isu't well. and I wish you'd put that : window down." ] The porter came and lowered the ) window with a look on his face that 1 seemed to indicate that the two pas- j sengers in that seat were mentally un- i sound. In the morning, after the berths were made up. Sarah shoved the ] rice pudding out of sight under the j back of one of the seats. Now, she was sure, they would get away from it ? in safety. They got off at the station, j the porter assisting. Thomas felt so { good at noticing the absence of the j pudding that he gave the man fifty cents. They climbed into a cab and were half a block away when their ears were saluted with shrill cries from the rear. The cab came to a stop at the side of the street. "Heab's a package you lef undab the seat, sub," said the porter, sticking his head into the open door of the cab. "I done run 'twili Ah'm out ov breef acatchin' up to you. suh." Thomas groaned, took the loathesome thing in his right hand and handed the porter a quarter with the other. "Oh, don't, Thomas," his wife pleaded. "If you do we'll be arrested for littering the streets, I'm sure." "Do you expect me to carry a rice pudding about on my lap during the whole of our wedding trip, madam?" he demanded, with dignity. "Just wait till we get to the hotel, dear," she said. "I'll get rid of it somehow," c For more than a week the uniortunate couple were haunted by that rise pudding. A dozen times they t thought they had got rid of it. only * to have some porter or other messen- r ger come running after them, panting ^ and out of breath, to restore the I treasure and collect his fee for thoughtfulness. Once they tried to feed it to { a dog. but the animal turned up his f nose at rice, and almost bit Thomas, < who was trying to force it to eat. j They left it in a room in their hotel, t and the boy who carried down their i bags brought that also, with the re- ' mark: "I found dis on de top shelf E in de room, rn'urn. Once I found a ? man's laundry up dere an' he give me r half a dollar." 1 Finally they and the pudding, by this } time riding their necks like a Nemesis, 1 came to a little inn in the old Connecti- * cut town where Thomas had been born \ and reared. One side of their room < was occupied by an old-fashioned 1 brick fireplace. The ehimpey was old and there were big cracks between the bricks. j "Now," said Sarah, "I am going to ? get rid of it." She crumbled the pudding into tiny ? flakes of rice, her husband sitting by j hopelessly. Then she put a chair into j the fireplace opening and climbed up ] on it. A handful at a time she stuffed j that pudding into the cracks between , the bricks on the inside of the chim- J ney. i "Perhaps," said Sarab. when she was j through, "perhaps the chimney swal- j lows will find it." "Thank heaven," said her husband, fervently. "What should 1 have done without you?"?H. M. H., in Chicago < Tribune . j Fed od Kosee an?l Currency. 1 A lion cub which has been ou exhibl- ] tiou in former Alderman Tan Cole's t flrvrv-or cfnvo in XpturiTk flVPtlllP .IprSPV ! City, N. J., escaped from the store win- I (low yesterday and rubbed against J Cole's left leg. The florist paid no at- ; tention to it, thinking it was the cat, i until The cub began to claw his trous- ! ers. Then he gave a vicious kick and , sprinted for the stairway, with the cub close astern. He slammed the door shut, and the baby lion began to get busy. . ! "He ran around the place several times," said Mr. Cole, "and broke a jardiniere on each lap. Then he quieted J down somewhat and tackled a big bunch of American Beauty roses. He , ate a dozen or more as if he liked them i 41?a? 4a/ilrlAil o nn/ibothnnl* tvhiph 1 he found on the counter. He pawed it open and chewed up eight $10 bills. "Then he walked into a ice box l where 1 keep cut flowers. That was I uiy chance.- I ran from my hiding place and shut the door. I kept the , cub in cold storage several minutes. Then his keeper took charge of him and thawed him out. I fear I'll never get those bills back, as they arc not indigestible securities."?New York Sun. Emperor of Japan's Pedigree. The Emperor of Japan surpasses all! sovereigns in the length of his pedigree. He is the one hundred and tweuty-sccond member in direct, unbroken descent of his family who has sat on the throne of Japan. The founder of his house was. in Japanese 1cfpnrt a <*o(1<1pss of tho snn nnd con temporary with Nebuchadnezzar, CUG years before the Christian era. On the other hand, the Romanoffs have been royal only since 100], when they succeeded to the sovereignty of tlie then extinct house of Rurik. Ao for t'iei other European rulers. King SdwarJ can go back to Cedrie. 495 A. D., the Hapsburgs to 952 A. D., and the Hohenzollerns to the eighth century, bufi as kinge only to 1701?London Chronicle. ME GREAT DESTROYER j I SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. j There is No Greater Snnre to the To-ancr Man Just Bcclnnin^ Life Than tho CouipanionRhlpof the Moderate Drinker?They Are Society's Real Bane. "Oh. 1 only take a g]ass now and then ivith a friend or when J don't feel quite veil. I defy any man to say he ever saw Be drunk" And so we say to you, misguided man, hat for this very reason, because you Irink bat are never drunk, that you are -he bane of society. You, and not the irunkard. There is no greater snare to the young nan just beginning life than the companonship of th? moderate drinker. He had better a thousand times have I or his friend the man who lies half of the , ,ime dead drunk in the gutter. For your moderate drinker is very of:en a man of good mpra!s, as the world ' lnffilu r?f cr-hpmPfi for ' JOCK, till U lie inino 1W1VIIJ V* . aising mankind and purifying society. He dways puts something in the missionary : jox. and he goes to church, and helps to l jay the minister, and he makes speeches i it Fourth of July celebrations and Sabbath-school picnics, and. altogether, is con- I idered a very good citizen; while his j leighbor. who began with "just one glass." 3ut had not the will power to stop there, j md went on to the depths of drunkenness ; ind despair, is despised by all and hoott?d , ind scoffed as he staggers along the 6treets. j But Mr. Smith, the moderate drinker, inows where to stop, and so retains the espect of his acquaintances. And when , he young man at the beginning of his ca- j eer of rain is remonstrated .with by his ' "riende, he looks surprised and refers them ,o Mr. Smith. "Why, look at Mr. Smith. He has always taken a glass when he felt like it, ma J am sure mere js iiu man swuuo , jigrher than Mr. Smith." Young friends, such of you as are taking I i pattern by Mr. Smith, pause a moment . md consider. How do you know that, like rim. you can 6top before you leave the ground of safety? How do you know that four will is strong enough to keep you jack from the brink of the precipice to,vard which you are advancing: Every one has not an appetite which, vhen once aroused, can be controlled by .he will. Nine-tenths of the men who be;in by taking "just one glass" end by beaming drunkards. How do you know ,hat you are the lucky tenth man? Again, we repeat, moderate drinkers are ;he bane of society, because their example s one full of insidious fascination, and the j langer is never seen or realized until it is : oo late. No man was ever influenced to Irink by the sight of one of his fellows ying beastly drunk by the roadside. Beastly, diet we savr we Deg 10 correct | mrselves. Beastly is not the word, for j leasts never degrade themselves to the j evel of men in this respect. A brute beast is a creature to be hon- j >red beside the poor wretch who prosti- j utes his manhood, sinks his mora] respon- ! libility and falls to the degradation of a sot. j Think you that any young man who sees he bloated, disgusting wreck of humanity, I vhich we call the drunkard, passing along ; ;o the lockup in the hands of the police, lesires to become like him? Is it any emptation to him to go and do likewise? , [Joes the si?ht make liim anxious to be- j :Ome a drunkard? Never! He shudders with disgust and hurries by. No, the drunkard never tempts any man I ;o become like him; he never entices the ! roung man of so-called good habits to Irink. It is your gentlemanly, perfumed, efined, respectable moderate drinker, who vears glossy linen and broadcloth and jasses for a worthy member of society. Society forsooth! Out upon such society! Men and women of to-day, ye who would In <wvl to vour fellow-men, who would strengthen the weak and lift up the fallen, :ast out from your friendship and your lomes this moderate drinker. Place him mder ban. Let the light of truth shine ipon him, and show him in his true colors, vhich, beautiful though they may be, are jeautiful only with the baleful glitter of a lerpent's skin. : And when you pass the miserable drunkird as he lies heloless beneath the fiend of um?when you draw your virtuous robes iround you with a 6hiver of disgust, and )ass by on the other side, remember that, oath some and repulsive though he may be, lis example is a thousand times less baneill than that of the respectable, moderate Irinker whom you receive into your houses md feast at your tables and accept as a ompanion and friend of your families.? Sate Thorn, in the New York Weekly. Temperance For Railroad Men. Some time since, the Boston and Maine Railroad bought a hotel at Rotterdam, N. f., where liquor had previously been sold | md turned it into a plant for moral and eligious work among the railroad employes, who congregated in large numbers n that town. It was determined xo supilant the saloon by affording employes a jlace of resort, which was conducted upon noral principles and where religion might save access. The reports of the company innounce that the investment has been a lecidedly paying one. The employes are nore sober and reliable. The danger from iccidents and injuries to life and limb has seen decreased, and the religious hotel is regarded as a success. "What the Saloon Does. The other day we saw an old man pushed >ut and staggering from the door of a saloon. He stumbled off the sidewalk, and, Tailing headlong, struck his head on the pavement, and lay stunned and bleedinc jntil some passers-by picked him up and < carried him across the street. Of course,, be was drunk, and probably disagreeable, iml presumably had spent all his money, ind so he was put out as an undesirable juest. The saloon keeper had his money u>d was through with the man until he sobered up and had some mpre money, as he came, pitched out from that den of iniquity, he was a fit sample of the work ilone within. He illustrated what the saloon does, in the long run, for those who make it their headquarters. Strong Prohibitory Ordinance. The strongest prohibitory ordinance yet ! adopted within the State of California is j that which was recently cnacted by the ! trustees of Lompoc, which provides for the ' following penalties: First violation, $10C j fine and thirty days' imprisonment; second . violation, ?200 fine, sixty days' imprison- j ment; third violation, $300 tine and ninety j days. According to this ordinance all pre i scriptions for liquor must be signed by a duly accredited physician, and must state ) day, hour and minute when given, and j must be filed within three hours of date j and placed on a separate file by the druggists for inspection. What He Had to Say. A number of yoang men were one day sitting around the fire in the waiting room j ol' an English railway talking about total abstinence societies. Oust then a policeman caine in with a prisoner in handcuffs. He listened to the young men's conversation, but did not give any opinion. There was also in the room Mr. McDonald, a : minister of the gospel, who, hearing what I the young men were saying, stepped up to the policeman and said: "Pray, sir, what i have you to say about temperance?" "Well," replied the policeman, "all 1 have | to say is that I never took a teetotaller to j York Castle prison in my life, nor tc Wakefield house of correction, either." jLreinoriinze* mr Bishop Hartzell says that seventy-five per cent, of the demoralization of natives of Africa in their home life anil charactei comes from the use of strong drink, and Rev. Charles Satchell Morris declares that no fewer than 2,0(X),000 savages die every year as the result of the traffic. Whisky Breeds Feu<ls. Dr. William Goodell Frost, President of Berea College. Berea. Ky.. in speaking recently upon "Feuds in our Southern nighlands," said that it is the common belief of judges that have tried criminals foi murder that ninety-five per cent, of all these killings are performed under the in- I fluence of the whisky bottle. Gifts For Washington's Cathedral. Bishop Satterlee has received for the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul a beautiful silver and ebony mace as a gift from Fitzbugh Whitehouse, in memory of his father. Bishnn While bouse, who was the founder of the cathedral system in the American Church. At the top of the mace is a beautiful silver figure of an angel, holding in one band the sword of St. Paul and in the other the keys of St. Peter, as emblems of the two apostles from whom the cathedral bears its ancient name. A Great Waste of Money, A great waste of money spent on ad* rertising has just been brought to the attention of people generally. It 3s when costly circulars are sent by thousands through the post. The number and variety of these circulars are always great during the holiday season, and it seems to have been especially large this year. Some of them were so elaborate in their ornamentation that the expense laid out on them must have been very heavy. Besides, the cost of postage wr.s great. Almost I# invariably, of course, such circulars are tossed into the fire, unread. If a man has on sale an article or articles of which information is desired by a IS mi tori nnmhor nf pftllpntnvs nf nninnp objects, generally known to him, a circular may serve his purpose; but, after all, not so well as an advertisement in a daily paper as a part of the news of the day, for then he sticks his notice on the bulletin at which all society looks. Still another great waste in advertising is due to failure to discriminate between the value, actual and relative, of the mediums employed for it. As a j general rule, of course, the more respect a newspaper commands from its readers the more respect they have for the advertising in it. A bulletin posted in a disreputable quarter does not tend to enhance the reputability of the concern using it.4 Tcai Poison. The popular theory that a toad's skin contains venom has been confirmed by Professor Kravkoff's investigations. Irritation, inflammation, and even gangrene and death have been known to occur from contact with a toad's skin. Professor Ivravkoff, from experiments on animals with the active principle of poison, "phrynin," has found the results of subcutaneous injection to t)e increased blood pressure, marked in^ ^ T?T V* ? rtH nueuoe uu uue unn l ? ucuvu, nunu first beats quickly and irregularly, and finally stops. In warm-blooded animals, salivation, vomiting, diarrhoea, asthma and convulsions occur. All three symptoms are the same as with digitalin, the active principle of the foxglove. Phrynin may also be used as a local anaesthetic, like cocaine?London Express. Curling Popular in Canada. One of the most popular of Canadian winter sports is curling, which is said to have originated in Scotland. To the uninitiated the sight is that of four men sweeping the ice; but there is method in the game, and the curlingstones and tees are arranged carefully, for a scientific player is keen to take advantage of every ruling. The tees are placed thirty-eight yards apart; the players stand behind a tee. and the Rfwn is marked on the ice seven vards ill front of each tee. Of course the game is to keep the stone within certain limits, a feat not easily accomplished.?St. Nicholas. FITS perm fluently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer. S2trialbottkandtreatisefree l)r. R. H. Kline,Ltd., 131 Arch St..Philu.,Pa Gamblers on ocean steamers operate in groups of two or three. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach thft diseased portion of tiieear. There Is ODly one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an isflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumblingsound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine oases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an 1 inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free." F. J. Cheney <fe Co., Toledo, 0. Bold by Druggists, voc. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. A pelican's pouch is large enough to hold seven quarts of water. The U. 8. Dept. of Agriculture C:ves to Salzer's Uats its heartiest en? dorsement. Salzer's New National Oats yielded in 1903 from 150 to 300 bu. per acre in 30 different States, and you, Mr. Farmer, can beat this in 1904, if you wiJl. Salzer's s~eds are pedigree seeds, bred up through careful selection to big yields. Per Acre. Salzer's Beardless Barley yielded 121 bu. Salzer's Home Bui'der Corn.... 300 bu. Speltz and Macaroni Wheat.... 80 bu. Salzer's Victoria Kape 00,000 lbs. Salzer's Teosinte, the iodder wonder 160,000 lbs Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass.... 50.CKK) lbs. Salzer's Pedigree Potatoes 1,000 bu. Now such yields pay and you can have them, Mr. Farmer, in 1904. SEND 10c. IN STAMPS r?nd this notice to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and you will get then , big catalog and lots of farm seed sample? free. [A.C.L.] The most valuable feathers are those of < the mirasol, a bird of Argentina. ? Mrs. 'WiBslow'sSoothingSyrapforchildreD ! teething, sol'ten the gumB.reducesinflamina- | tion* allays pain.cureswlnd colic. 25c.abottle Copenhagen lias the largest inclosed deer park iu the world. Its area is 4200 acres. For 80c. ami This Notice The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse. Wis., will send free 1 pkg. May 1st Carrot 10c. 1 pkg. Earliest Green Eating Onion 10c. 1 pkg. Peep Of Day Tomato 20c. j 1 pkg. Salter's Flash Light Radish 10c. 1 pkg. Long Quick, Quick Radish 10c. I 1 pkg. Salzer's Queen of All Radish.. 10c. j Above six rare novelties, the choicest and finest of their kind, have a retail value ol 70c., but they are mailed tc you free, together with' Salzer's big catalog, well worth SI00.00 to every wide-aivafe* gardener, all upon receipt of but 30c. in post ?ge v.nd this notice. [A.C.L.] A loc<-mGt:,^c, ^hcc goinj; at express speed, giveb J0;>g ?uif8 pet' eriile. Putnam Fadeless Dyes produce the brightest ana rasicsi coiors. In a cubic foot of honeycomb there are about 9000 cells Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used foz a!, affections of throat and lungs.?War 0. Endsle*. Vanlmreii. Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The first ruler honored with the title of "His Majesty'' was Louis XI. of France. A CONIRAD! Says: "I Do N Supi I ^ < \VVVVVVVVVVVVVVWVVVVVVVVVV vvvww < < Benjamin F. Hawbes, of Washing < < in* Comrades of General Grant 3 jwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww J In a recent letter from 611 G street, ? * S. W., Washington, D. C., this vener- J | able gentleman says of Peruna: ? I "I have tried Peruna after hav- J J Ing tried in vain other remedies J for catarrh, and I can say without { I reservation that I never felt a J I symptom of relief until Ihad given J | Peruna the pimple trial that its J 1 advocates advise.\I do not believe it J ifias a superior, either as a remedy f for catarrh or as a tonic for the depressed and exhausted condi- + tion which is one of the effects of the disease. "?Benjamin F. Hatches. ISAAC BROCK, a citizen of McLennan County, Texas, has lived for 114 years. In speaking of his good health and extreme old age, Mr. r>rocK says: "Peruna exactly meets all my requirements. It protects me from the evil effects of sudden changes; it keeps me in good appetite; it gives me strength; it keeps my blood in good circulation. I ??HPJ??aigam ' A LA B AST IN L & the Durabale Wall Coating, Won't Rub Off; ' g WHY? ti Because it cements to, and is not stuck on the wall with j, decaying, animal glue, as are 0 the various so-called 4 'wall finishes," which are kalsomine6 tj sold under fanciful names. You can apply Alabasiine. i Australian Hard-wood. To the fact that Australia possesses the finest hardwoods in the world is due the mammoth order which South Africa recently placed with a Sydney firm for the supply of 470,000 railway ties. These were to be seven feet long, ten inches wide, five inches deep, and to consist of black-butt, box and mahogany. The first shipment, consisting of 32,000 ties, represented a superficial measurement of 1,000,000 feet, and a dead weight of .'3000 tons. The second shipment consisted of 70,000 ties, rep resenting 6000 tons. There are fifty flour mills in all j Mexico. Teosintc and Billion Dollar Grass. Tbe two greatest fodder plants on earth, one good for 14 tons of hay and the other 8( tons green fodder per acre. Grows everywhere, so does Victoria Rape, yielding 60.000 lbs. sheep and swine food per acre. [A.C.L.] JUST SEND 10c. IN STAMPS TO THE John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and receive in return their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. A weekly paper published in Athens, j Greecc^ is written entirely in verse. ?l I Indispensable ::{ Forallsches from head to foot ^ | | ? ? X i; St. Jacobs Oil j has curative qualities T : 51 to reach the * * ; PAINS and ACHES ]; I k cf the human family, and to re- i > ? Jieve and cure them promptly. i > * i Price 23c. and 50c? 11 j E OF GEWE ot Believe P 9rior for Cat F. HIWKES. on, D. C., is One of Ihe Three Liv- 5 in His Cadet Dajs at Wert Point. 5 have come to rely upon it almost entire for the many little things for which need medicine. "When epidemics of la grippe first l gar, to make their appearance in this cou try I was a sufferer from this disease. "I had several long sieges with the gri At first I did not know that Peruna w o i*amit fnr ikia W'Kpn T Kpr' that la grippe was epidemic catarrh, I trii Peruna for la grippe, and found it to i just the thing. ?Isaac Brock. Pe-ru-na Used in the Family f< Years. Mrs. E. West, 137 Main street, Menasl Wis., writes: "We have used Peruna our family for a number of years ai when I say that it is a fine medicine f catarrh and colds, I know what I a talking about. I have taken it every spri and fall for four years and I find th it keeps me robust, strong, with splend appetite, and free from any illness. A f< years ago it cured me of catarrh of t stomach, which the doctors had pi nounced incurable. I am very mu pleased with Peruna. I am 87 years old ?Mrs. E. West. A I ADA HLoM DM The Only Sanitary and ALABASTINE Is not a disease-brae ing a lodgment and harbor-ground f< composition, in white and many ex qui for use by simply mixing with cold ALABASTINE cements to walls,distro ft or scales. Other wall coatings, under far vater, are unhealthful kalsomines, stuck o ourishes germs of deadly disease, rubs and i STien it is necessary to refinish, the old co isagreeable job, making the rooms damp t When walls are once coated with Alaba fter year, without washing the walls, thus Hot and Cold Water Ka ome dealers try to sell them, buying them ch< ntil such time as their customers learn ol THEY ARE WORTHL If you cannot buy Alabastlne of your ] nitations, and write ue. We will tell you w r sell it to you direct. $600.jb0 GIVEN i Leaflet of dainty tints, hints on decoratln Ifying the home, Free. 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Gtailtnoa: 1 suit coofeu that tha IDebater I baurfct of you 1* o wood*t. It does lt? wcrk well and economical! j, toailUtico ifttLi tobc ptTfoct, and itii io?uy to op?rat?. Ttry trulj ycur?, m THOMPSON, R.F.D. No. 7. r. ~?{a RAL GRANT e-ru-na Has a S :arrh" ' ': M 1 P?-ru-na is a Catarrhal TonJo -M | Especially Adapted to the Declining lowers of | Ola Age. / In old a^e the mucous membranes b?? I come thickened and partly lose their function. This leads to partial loss of hearing smell and taste, as well as digestive di?- ~:CM turbances. Peruna corrects all this by its specific ^ operation on all the mucous membranes of the body. One bottle will convince anyone. Onca< used and Peruna becomes a life-long; stand-by with old and young. Mrs. F. E. Little, Tolona, HI., writes:! j "J can recommend Peruna as a good medi- ^ < cin^for^ chronic ca- " Vgg / uiiiu ui tiic bbUUl- a T?AVI3THD .'j?j < ach and bowels. I iTcEviitrvjin <" have been troubled j severely with it for YEARS OF AGE. > < over a year, and 5 al?o a cough. Now my cough is all gone* < and all the distressing symptoms of c$r\ t tarrh of the stomach and bowels have dis-* , S appeared. I will recommend it to all a* ? a rare remedy. I am so well I ami > contemplating a trip to Yellowstone Park "'al . I this coming season. How is that for one I? 71 years old?" s* H In a later letter she says: "I am onlyi *1 t?o thankful to you for your kind advice > and for the good health that I am enjoy< ing wholly from the use of your Pentna. J Have been out to the Yellowstone National 5 Park and many other places of the West, 5 and shall always thank you for your gea> erosity."?Mrs. F. E. Little. \ Strong and Vigorous at tke Age of IEigiity-eiglit. Rev. J. N. Parker, Utica, N. Y., writes;! "In June, 1901, I lost my sense of hearing entirely. My hearing bad been somewhat impaired for several years, but not .'|s9 so much affected but that I could hold converse with my friends; but in June,, 1901, my sense of hearing left me so that, , I could hear no sound whatever. I wai "r also troubled with severe rheumatic pains in my limbs. I commenced taking Peruse and now my hearing is restored as goodj ? as it was prior to June, 1901. My niea* , n~ matic pains are all gone. I cannot speak.' ^ too highly of Peruna, and now wheu: P* eighty-eight years old can say it has inviga? orated my whole system."?Rev. J. N? ^ Parker ' *'> *1 Mr.,W. B. Schnader, of Terre Hill, Pt^i De writes: "I got sick every winter and had a spelll 3r of cold in February, 1899; I could not de anything for almost two months. In De cember, 1899, I saw one of your book* about your remedies. Then I wrote.to la, Dr. Hartman for advice, and be wrote in that I should commence the use of Peruna, id and how to take care of myself, or "I did not lose one day last winter that im I could not tend to my stock. I am siartjrng three years old, and I cannot thank yon at too much for what you have done for me." lid If you do not derive prompt and satiafofc* sw tory results from the use of Peruna. writ# he at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full state-o ment of your case and he will be pleased to ch give you his valuable advice gratis. I." Address Dr. Hartman, President of Tho Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. STINEI Permanent Wall Coating idlng, hot water glne wall finish, ill i?> jr aJ&ease g^ruis, it is a uatuini, ?wmmmuw . sitely beautiful tints; In powder form, readywater. 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