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&:a , . V.; K 4 rastc JcttcIi. A cabbage by any other name would be as common. If Heaven isn't in a man's heart, he'll hever get there. The early bird lias been kuov/n to be broiled for breakfast. The little man sits on his pedestal and gazes at bimseif all day long. A friend in need usually needs all ho "- n squeceze out of you. f, They who pawn their opportunities rarely h?ve the wherewithal with which to redeem them.?New Orleans r it-ay une. Swim Public School*. The next reason why the Swiss fare well is that their public school sys tern is probably the best in the woriu. and with tliem public school education is practically compulsory. Yon can send your child to a private school (in some cantons) if you insist upon so doing, hut tb* face of the Government and the foiee of public opiuion are sternly against the practice. In the eantou of Solothurn private schools are absolutely forbidden. In other cantous a private school pupil must se.cure a formal permit from the local authorities, and in some cantons he must pay a charge to tiie public funds. The idea is that the public schools are good enough for all, that rich and poor are to moct there on even terms, that the public school is the nursery of demorcacy and patriotism; above all. that democracy is the life blood and strength and very soil o' the republic, iiud the republic is Switzerland. ami without the republic Switzerland is nothiug. I'rivate schools for Swiss children are few in number, and such as exist are under strict supervision of the Stale. Education is a . serious matter in Switzerland; there is j 1 no cscape from it. A parent must ' send bis childre to school or go him- j self to jail. They Kept : Seventh Day Adventist in jail for two years be- i cause he refused to let his child at-1 tend school on Saturdays. As it then seemed likely he would spend Hie rest j of his life iu a cell, he surrendered.- : Evervbodv's Masazine. Airerican xea tirowinj. Reports from the American tea plantation at Pinehurst, South Carolina, continue to be encouraging, so much so tnU-. ' timt otner piamers art: luuoiuvim^ kM.. ing up the crop. As a preliminary to the establishment of the new industry, the Government authorities have completed a soil survey of the rice soils on Copper River, South Carolina, the proposed location of the tea plantation ami find from analysis that they are well adapted to tea culture, containing, as they do, considerable quantities of organic matter, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. The present plantation consists of about 100 acres and while, started under indepeudent auspices, the work has proved so successful and promising as an American crop that the Government has lent assistance in many ways. The possibilities of the industry are indicated by the fact that the annual importations of tea are valued at nearly $13,000,000, practically all of wliicii comes irum Chiua and Japan. i Hertzian "\Vavp? anil Subiuurlneo. The "Petit Journal" says that further experiments have been made at Antibes witu the submarine directed from the shore by Hertzian waves. The battleship St. Louis has been communicatlng with the shore aud with other warships by means of wireless telegraphy, in order to see whether the Hertzian waves r.re affected by the wireless messages or vice versa. The Petit Journal says that neither affects the other. Fm'thc experiments have been made in maneuvring the submarine at Light. Its position is knswn by means of two colored lights in the stern. These can be lighted or put out at will by the operator ou the shore. Submarined In Warfare. In the Italian Chamber the other day Si,guor de Scalea, Under Secretary of Stat- for Foreign ' ffairs, replying to a question by Signer Santini Maresca. announced that the Government intended to take steps to get the question of submarine weapons discussed at the next Hague Conference. Siguor de Scales added that from what the Ministers concerned had heard there was ground for the hope that the use of such weapons would be regulated in a manner compatible with the principles of civilization! The statement of the Under-Secretary was received with evident satisfaction.?Kniter. A BUSY WOMAN. Can Do the Work of 3 or 4 If Well Fed. An energetic young woman living just outside of N. Y. writes: "I am at present doing all the housework of a dairy farm, caring for 2 children, a vegetable and flower garden, a large number of fowls, besides managing an extensive exchange business through the mails and pursuing my regular avocation as a writer for several newspapers and magazines (designing fancy work f^r the latter) and all the energy and ability to do this I owe to drape-Nuts food. "It'was not always so. and a year ago when the shock of my nursing baby's death utterly prostrated me and deranged my stomach and nerves so that I could not assimilate as much as a mouthful of solid food. and was even in worse condition mentally, he would have been a rash prophet who would have predicted that It ever would be so. "Prior to this great grief I had suffered for years with impaired digestion, insomnia, agonizing cramps in the stomach, pain Jn the side, constipation, and other bowel derangements, all these were familiar to mv daily life. Medicines gave me no relief?nothing did. until a few months ago, at a friend's suggestion, I began the use of Grape-Nuts food, and subsequently pave up coffee entirely and adopted Fostum Food Coffee at all my >neals "To-day I am free from all the troubles I have enumerated. My digestion is simply perfect, I assimilate my food without the least distress, enjoy sweet, restful sleep, and have a buoyant feeling of pleasure in my varied duties. In fact, I am a new woman, entirely made over, and 1 repeat. I owe it all to Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellvilk," in pkgs. J: W'-.. . . * . ; >'?/>- /.V THE PULPIT. " | A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. DR. H. M- SANDERS. Subject: The Character of Jpshh. Brooklyn, N. Y.?At the Washington I Avenue Baptist Church. in the absence | of the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Robert MacDonalil. the pulpit was occupied j Sunday morning by the Rev. Henry M. i Sanders, D. P., of Manhattan. The I preacher's subject "was "The Character ; of .Tesus." His text was Matthew | xxii:42: "What think ye of Christ? I Whose Son is He?" and he said: I The character of Christ is the ulti-j mate fact in Christianity. It is the j central citadel of our faith. What I Hugomont was to Waterloo the charac; ter of our Lord is to our religion. : Around it the fiercest fight and blood j iest carnage raged, but it "was round impregnable, and because it was not captured Napoleon was defeated. So the character of Christ stands to Christendom. If it could be shown to be false all would be gained by its foes. I but that character stands because it I comes <*it of the flames of criticism, ! without so much as the smell of fire j upon its garments. Who Christ was ] and what He was. therefore, are quesi tions that have not lost their interest j for mankind. Ever Jesus Christ is the i most powerful spiritual force. He is j to-day what He was for centuries, the | object of the love and reverence of the j good; and the cause of hope and repent| ance to bad; of strength to the morj ally weak: inspiration to the despondi ent; consolation to the desoiate; cheer | to the dying. He has been the incenI tive of the most unbounded benevoj lence, the most seif-sacilfieing devotion. the Infinite within the limits of our humanity, and faith lias beheld in His sufferings the sacrifice for human sin. Surely no other has done such a work as this. He is to-day the world's imperishable wonder; its everlasting nroblem. The man who would assail | our faitb with any degree of success j must do it through the Founder. I ! want to direct your attention to some of the features of that character which ; strike vs as being unique. In the first place, it is the /lawlessness of that character. He completely satisfies our ideal of human virtue. You cannot think of God as being j more holy than He. In the world He j lived a perfectly sinless life at all j points. We shall seek in vain for any j trace of sin in that life which would I ? ***ill /JAffinfnH frnm rind j iiiujcuir u ucicv.uu pritle, ambition, covetousness. malice, paltering with truth, no deviation from the most exact rectitude. It was a life of the highest purity, of the most impartial equity, uncalculating self-sacrifice and sternest veracity. And yet our Lord's faultlessness of character does I not rest upon our inability to detect evil. In the first place. He never acknowledged sin in any form, but lives Himself free from every kind of sin, either of commission or omission. Sin Is the transgression of the law or any want of conformity thereto. But Jesus j never left undone anything He ought t to have done. H$ said, "I have glori| fied Thee on earth," and "I do always j the things that please Him." lit* j throws down the challenge. "Which j of you convinceth Me of sin?" ! Then, again, the faultlessness stands j the test of intimacy. "No man is a I hero to his valet," said Thackeray, j When Whitfield was asked whether a i certain man were a Christian, he said: | "How do I know? I have never lived : with him." But the people who lived ! with Jesus are the most outspoken in j the expression of His holiness. John ! declares that He was "A lamb without ! spot or blemish." Such was the testiI mrtnv nt Hie cinlocCtlPSS UJl'ilJ Ul UltilUO. AAtk> ? .?.VWW..?VW . stands the test of enmity, of those who lay in wait to entrap Him, and yet their testimony is explicit. Pilate declared: "I find no fault in Him;" the centurion who superintended the crucifixion said, "Truly this was the Son of God." and the traitorous disciple declared that he had "betrayed innocent blood." When we look into the life of Jesus we find that the record sustains | this testimony of friend and foe alike, i He never repents, never expresses rej gret for anything. It is clear that He has no compunctions of conscience, no feelings of unworthiness. He tells us that He goes back to God untarnished. 'And all this in view of the well known fact that the nearer a man lives to God the more he realizes his defects. The measure of human perfection is the conscience. Carlyle says that the greatest of faults is to be conscious of nothing. The worse a man is the less conscience speaks to him. If the shield be ami more or less spois upon u muiie little difference, but if perfectly polished one spot mars it. Jesus never accused Himself. Abra! ham, Moses. Samuel and Ezekiah all land to acknowledge imperfections. Peter wept tears and Paul speaks of himself as "the chief of sinners." Edward Paysoa says he did not know any evil of which he did not feel the possibility in his own nature, and Jonathan Edwards in writing his diary stained the manuscript with tears of contrition as he wrote. You detect no such thing with Jesus. Why? Because he was a Pharisee, satisfied with external righteousness? Had He fantastic ideas of holiness? He made the most exalted standard for men and yet never gave the slightest intimation that He fell below it. He said: "If ye (not we) repent;" and "Ye (not we) must be born again." In all matters of human sympathy where He could i ally Himself with man He did so, but in sin Ho always separated Himself. The so-called "Lord's Prayer" is not the Lord's prayer except that He gave it. Wheu lie said, "Our Father, who are in heaven, forgive us our sins." it was a prayer He never meant for Him | self. Hie symmetry of His character, the completeness of it and the idea of goodness which is presented by Him is harmonious. There is nothing onesided or narrow which is so often discernible in the greatest of men. As c rule we cannot exemplify one aspect of human goodness except at the cost of tlie rest. It would seem as if nature exhausted itself by success in a certain direction. The hollow answers to the hill in human character. It was not so with Jesus. In His character each virtue was balanced by its counterpart; He was magnificent, yet weak; humble, yet firm; just, yet benevolent; dignified, yet condescending; pure, yet .sympauietic; commanding, yet submissive; spiritual, but not ascetic. A great many virtues are only vices that have gone to seed. Our Lord never went too far. I-Ie was in perfect equipoise; unique, but not eccentric. He was a combination of the masculine and the feminine. I like to think that He took on all human nature, not simply that of the man. We need not to worship the virgin Mary, when we have Jesus Christ. He sympathizes with everything that is beautiful in human life. He was sensitive, but not sentimental: brave, but not rash; always firm, but not obstinate or pigheaded; His dignity never approaching pride; His sympathy Dever becomes easy-so: 'J v ' ' " '.v.-' v- . ' J ing familiarity; He unites implacable hatred of sin with the warmest love for the sinner, and keeps a beautiful balance between severity and tenderness. Our human nature, even at its best, can hold nothing settled. The scales are always slipping off the balance. The finite nature seems to exhaust itself in success in any one line of human achievement. But this balance of the character of Jesus is never disturbed nor needs readjustment. In Him the diverse prophecies of the Old Testament unite. In one place He is described as "a root out of a dry ground;" in another as "the living branch;" as "despised and rejected of men" in one passage and ns "the desire of all nations" in another. In His character He combines the char- j acteristicS of moral excellence. Think also of the universality of the j character of Jesus. No nation or race, no time or sect can claim Him as its own. While a Hebrew, yet there does not seem to be any particular Hebrew, or even Oriental, characteristic about Him. And thjs is the more remarkable if we remember that the Jewsthere have been no other such people in the world?have kept the mood of mind, the passive disposition through nil nrnnOfoHnilC Oiwl tllPV llflVe tlOWed. I - - , like the gulf stream, through the ocean, yet unaffected by it. They have been more eternal than the "Eternal City" itself. The race remains as when Pompey led their captive fathers to the imperial city, 2000 years ago. Out of this unmiugling race there emerges Jesus, the cosmopolitan, the man of the whole world. We cannot seem to account for Him or bring Him into line with His predecessors. In all centuries He has been recognized as the type of human virtue. Socrates would uot b? considered an exemplary man to-day. nor Marcus Aurelius. A good many saints have been canonized that ought to have been cannonaded. Jesus Christ was what He always called Himself. "The Son of Man," as if in Him humanity was complete. Again, think of the uniqueness of. Jesus in His teaching. Plato has been a dominant influence in the world. By comparing school with school he became one of the most learned men. Not so with Jesus. He did not sit at the feet of any Jewish rabbi. He was only a carpenter's son in a rural district. ."How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" was asked. He associated with those who were His masters in learning, and yet confounded them. Erudite lawyers and Pharisees joined to catch Him, and yet He always answered them immediately and never asked for time to consider. His replies were in terms so explicit that His teachings have settled casuistry for 2000 years. No man has ever been able to add a single iota to the moral and spiritual truth He taught. ' Once more think of the uniqueness of His character in regard to His mighty works, and His manner of doing them. tie never ascenus xo xna wui k, um. always descends. His efforts are without laboriousness or strain, as if ratlier a relaxation, unlike other men when engaged in a great performance. He never prepared Himself for a miracle or studied the laws of dynamics or force. In the first cbaptcr of Genesis it is written, "God said. Let there be light." That seems to indicate tbe way in which Jesus performed His* miracles. He acted as if He were accustomed to doing them, as if they were spangles on the regalia of a king. The disciples rejoiced that "the devils were subject" to them, and He told them rather to rejoice that their names were "written in heaven." That is the best thing. So we come back to the question, "What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He?" What answer are "we going to make? We have got to answer; no man can escape it. That personal query stands dominant>and persistent in front of every man alive; the one j great interrogation point facing every generation and every individual. "VV% know answers that Lave been given: That He was the natural product of the outgrowth of the ages; the flower of the preceding ages, the proceed of the force long held in solution. That is the explanation with which evolution accounts for Jesus Christ. Then why does not evolution produce another Jesus, or something like Him? Some say He was a literary product, the ideal of inventive minds. Renan tells us the gospels are the supreme romances of the world. My friends, it would seem to be as credible that a Zulu composed "Paradise Lost" as that this superb, marvellous character should be simply the weaving of human brains. That interrogation point still stands: "What think ye of Christ?" Painting; the I.ilj. In the vicinity of'the Duomo, 4n Florence, are the bronze gates that Michael ^ngelo said were fit to be the gates of Paradise. Once they were covered with exquisite enamel work. The decorators gilded the bronze with COld iear. -iuc me veueur >va? >cij thin; soon the damp, the cold, the heat, cracked the delicate frosting and now it is all gone. To-day the gates stand forth clothed only in their simple splendor. And yet, behold the rich bronze is more beautiful in its simplicity than with its gilded veneer. The storms were kind to the gates and removed what was meretricious and gaudy and restored them to their native beauty. So men have painted portraits of .Tesus; they have tried to "paint the lily and gild refined gold." But we go back to the portraits of the gospels and in their simple portrayals find a beauty that had been lost. A .Prayer For Strength. 0 Lord, who in infinite wisdom and love orderest all things for Thy children, order everything this day for me in Thy tender pity. Tliou knowest my weakness, who madest me; Thou knowest how my soul shrinks from alii pain of soul. Lord, I know Thou wilt lay no greater burden on me than Thou canst help me to bear. Teach me to receive an rnings mis uay num mec. Enable rue to commend myself in all things to Tbee; grant me in all things to please Thee; bring me through all things nearer unto Thee; bring me, day by day, nearer to Thyself, to life everlasting. Amen.?E. B. Busey. A* Well as They Know. The choir invisible! Who are the members of it if not all those who, in any quiet, simple way, are doing the day's work, whatever it may be as well as the> know how; who are trying to make life plcasanter and happier for those to whom their lives are naturally bound; who, where they see a wrong or lie, are quick to strike it down; who, where they see a right thing to be done or a true word to be spoken, say, "Here am I, send me."? John Chadwick. Kvldencen of T^ove. One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those thai love Iliin is to send them afflictions v.vii grace to bear them.?John AY jsl^y. In Germany a oc :?ercial traveler j who drinks loses tht r j-ect of his fel- I iow travelers. ... ' ..... 1 THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE, A Qnerr : What Othor F.nn:ne?* Entail* Suflfrlnff, Sorrow and Di*cmce on Its l'HtronH T.Ike Liquor Trnftlc?? There Ib But One Antwer: None. Once more the license mill has been set iu motion, and the license court granted perniiss/on to 130 persons in Lycoming County to sell intoxicating liquors as a beverage. One poor fellow who awfully wanted to sell some, too, was refused on the ground that another place was not necessary at the poiut he had selected a* an ideal location. Two places notorious for violations of the regulating (?) law had to make a pretense of rebutting evidence produced against them and they with two other places were "held under advisement until the court can learn how the business is conducted." Two questions naturally arise concerning these 130 liquor hells. First, What good will result from them? Second, What harm will result from them? As to the good that will result, any claim thereto must be far fetched. There is not another business in existence from which so little good arises; it is true that 130 families, the saloonkeepers' families, will be supported In comparative luxury, but in order to secure this support they are subjected 1o disgrace and defiling environments ?T" :-1- -1- TTlntimc nf WJJIL'il icuuaa iJUtm auiuauj rivuuio W*. tbe traffic and although they them-" 6elves may be total abstainers, as many of them are, they never can shake off, even after retirement from the debasing business, ihe awful and lasting disgrace and defiling effects of the blighting damning traffic. But, alas, while these 330 families live in luxury, think of the hundreds of families represented by the poor'fellows on the other side of the bar. No diamonds and rich raiment for them. In many of their homes not even enough to satisfy the hungry cries of the poor wife and little ones. No shoes for the children to wear to Sunday-school, no dress for the overworked wife and mother to wear to church. What other business entails suffering, sorrow and disgrace on its patrons like the liquor traffic? It may be claimed that further good will result in the employment that the business will give to brewery employes, drivers and bartenders. But will they not, like the 130 families, be dragged down to a lower level of re spectability, useful citizenship and true enjoyment of life than would be t.lie case in any other employment? Can you conceive any other good to result from these 130 licensed rum holes in our county? Now, what harm will result from them? Alas, who can tell? "What will the harvest be?" There will be fights and brawls, assault and battery cases by the hundreds, suffering and sorrowing, broken hearts, starving children, freezing babies and frenzied mothers, profanity, perjury, cruel blows, Incendiaries and murders, crowded jails and creaking gallows, crimes innumerable and unmentionable, funerals and perdition for many a poor soul who to-day walks our streets all oblivious of the doom which awaits him. The timeworn, bare-faced fraudulency of the claim that this accursed traffic is licensed, "for the good of the traveling public," is manifestly one of the most misleading influences toward commercial and political dishonesty, and there is little hope of a permanent return to honest methods in business and public affairs, while the essentially dishonest and disloyal system of accepting a license bribe for such a business 1s continued?The Index, Williamsport, Pa. Townships Under Local OpilAi. In the State of New York there are more than 600 townships in which, under the operation of the local option law, no liQuor can be sold. Over half of the municipalities and three-fourths of the townships in Ohio are "dry." The territory of the State of Indiana is two-thirds of its size without a legalized liquor dealer. The State of Tennessee has only sixteen places where Intoxicating liquors may be lawfully sold. The great State of Texas has 141 counties which are "dry" under local option. In all the Southern States, with a population of more than twentyseven millions of people, more than nineteen millions are living in localities where no saloon is permitted. Practical Restraints to Drink. Slowly, practical ideas concerning temperance are working their way into the minds of business men. It is be coming evident 10 everyuuuy mm one holding a position of trust and responsibility can afford to allow his natural faculties to be disturbed in their exercise by artificial stimulants of any kind. There may be wit in drink, because wit in its essence is a surprise. The more disjointed the logic of a witty man. the more effective Are his sayings. But all business men must trust to logic, and an executive agent must, in the proper sense, have all his wits about him, therefore he cannot allow his logical faculties to be disturbed and disjointed by drink.? Christian Register. Science Dead Asralntt It. A ' ading newspape^ recently stated that people drink "because they like to." In the light of the remarks made by Sir Frederick Treves, who asserted that alcohol is a "virulent poison." this is really the only excuse the moderate drinker has for continuing to indulge in the use of stimulants. Sir Victor Horsley says that science is dead ncninst the use of alcohol, and secin? tliat nine-tenths of the crimes com mitteil in the United Kingdom art traced to strong drink, and that thirty two per cent, of the lunacy of this country is due to the same cause, one wonders why people still persist ir their loyalty to King Bung.?Belfasl Witness. Temperance Note*. There are in this country 400 prohi bition counties and three prohibitioi States. Two State institutions for the treat ment of inebriates without means art being erected by the (Joverumeut ol New South Wales. One of the lawyers who spoke at t recent meeting in London of the Hoy a Courts of the Justice Temperance So ciety said that if England were to tun ?1 nrnfoevinn wnnld ]>< Miirei me , ~ ruined. The Chicago Council has incrensec the saloon license from $."i00 a year t< $1000 for the purpose of hiring 1(K)( more policeman to put down crime. Ii is only right that the saloons shoulc be forced to pay for some of ih< trouble they make. ? Kansas Citj Times. The sale of absinthe in France li.ii decreased about one-fourth during tlx past year, whereas the consumption 01 wine has increased proportionately. A celebrated firm of liquor dealers -win in 1!RK) used to sell 24,000 litres. 01 quarts, of absinthe a day, say thai their largest daily sales now do wot ex c?ed IS,000 litres. " " * x.. ~rn > ',/ -j . Cleanliness and Good Character. Miss Mary Lawler, n Cincinnati school teacher, holds that cleanliness Is ; the foundation of good character. Every morning before recitations she holds a "dress parade," during which such pupils as need- it are brought under the influence of soap and towels. I Missing buttons, unbrushed hair and dirty shoes also come in for careful attention. The school authorities de- ' clare that as a result of this policy there has been a distinct gain in disci- 1 pline and self-respect among the chil- j dren. 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Pari* Fear* the Underground. The Paris underground railway is beginning to be a cause of alarm. Subsidences have taken place, and more are apprehended. The scene of one such incident is the Rue de Chabrol, and now another is reported from the Boulevard de Charonne. Here a newi ly-erected building of six stories has begun to show a decided list, and is being hurriedly shored up by supports. From a report made by technical observers there is some grouud for fear that there has been some defect in ueuuug 1V1IU 11IC SUUOU11, Uiiu luuk 1.UV. constant vibration of trains is finding i out the -weak places, i 1 g The better class of druggists I who devoto their lives to the v I purest medicinal agents of kn 1 scientific formula. Druggists I A always under original or officii | They are the men to deal witi I I all standard remedies and cor i best of toilet articles and prep 1 The earning of a fair living, w f conferred upon their patrons : I I reward for long years .of study , I Figs is an excellent laxative re 1 are selling many millions of b ' h remedies, and they always tali M name of the Company?Califo \ y They know that in cases of col m iioo Imoaq nr t/irnld ihv fif f.Vif 1 vr* >r I J 1 over-eating, that there 13 no ol Syrup of Figs, and they are gl Owing to the excellence of S immense demand for it, imita individual druggists to be four of the profession and whose gr to recommend and try to sell tl sometimes have the name?" ? i or fictitious fig syrup compan; I the Company?California Fig i should be rejected because th they find rfc necessary to resort off on a customer a preparatioi does not bear tho full name of he is attempting to deceive an< oat.aKlicslimenL whether it hp Is f and deception in one case he v ' I physicians' prescriptions, and s ? Knowing that the great majori 1 for our excellent remedy entire 1 where, in original packages on 1 exist it is necessary to inform m any imitation which may be s< ( California Fig Syrup Co.?prh 9 article and to demand the retu $ druggists who will sell you what - - -V" -r.-vr r-v WJ. ' " 'W'. Good Canne. Francis and David, six and ftur years respectively, were standing by the nurse, upon whose lap tlieir little baby brother lay citing lustily. "Huh!" said Francis, scornfully, "what you cryin' for? You ain't a girl. Jus' girls cry. Boys don't cry. Whnt you cryin' for?" But David bent sympathetically over the baby. "I know what he's cryin' for," he said, tenderly, "he's cryin' 'cause he ain't a girl, so's he can cry!"?Harper's Magazine. KIDNEY JROUBLES Increasing Among Women, Bat Sufferers Need Not Despair THE BEST ADVICE IS FREE Of all the diseases known, with which the female organism is afflicted, kidney disease is the most fatal, and statistics show that this disease is on the increase among women. Unless early and correct treatment ifl applied the patient seldom survives when once the disease is fastened upon her. We believe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the most efficient treatment for chronic kidney troubles of women, and is the only medicine especially prepared for this purpose. When a woman is troubled with pain or weight in loins, backache, frequent, painful or scalding urination, swelling of limbs ofr feet, swelling under the eyes, an uneasy, tired feeling in the region of the kidneys or notices a sediment in the urine, she should lose no time in commencing treatment with- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as it may be the means of saving her life. For proof, read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for Mrs. Sawyer. " I cannot express the terrible suffering I had to endure. A derangement of the female organs developed nervous prostration and a serious kidney trouble. The doctor attended me for a year, but I kept getting worse, until I was unable to do anything, and I made up my mind I could not five. I finally decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a last resort, and I am to-day a well woman. I cannot praise it too highly, and I tell every suffering woman about my case." ?Mrs. Emma Sawyer, Conyers, Ga. Mrs. Pinkhara gives free advice to women ; address in confidence, Lynn, Mass. Uncovered Greek Street. The excavations set on foot at Sparta by the English school at Athens have begun under happy auspices. In exploring the walls carved stones have been found bearing Greek inscriptions of the time of the Romans. At a depth of thirteen feet remains of a Greek street were discovered, giving rise to the hope that vestiges of the buildings of the ancient town may be brought to light. ^XK~X"X~XK~X"X"X~X~X~X~X~X I HE ATTENDS o |? who goes straigh | Hurts, Spra ijl by the | St. Jacc 5, and saves time, money and ^ It Acts Like Masic. ffoooooooooooooooooooooftoooo I ACC HDII liuA7 1/1VL .ND ? OTHE , everywhere, are men of scientific atti welfare of their fellow men in supplyi own value, in accordance with ph of the better class manufacture ma: al names and they never sell false br i when in need of anything in their 1 responding adjuncts of a first-class p arations and many useful accessoriei rith the satisfaction which arises fron md assistance to the medical profess and many hours of daily toil. The ;medy and that it gives universal sat nffloa anrmillv t.n Ihfi w?ll informed :e pleasure in handing out the geni rnia Fig Syrup. Do.?printed on tl Ids and headaches attended by bilioi: i liver and bowels, arising from irrej ;her remedy so pleasant, prompt and ad to sell it because it gives universa yrup of Figs, the universal satisfacti tions have been made, tried and id, here and there, who do not mainta eed gets the better of their judgment le imitations in order to make a large >yrup of Figs"?or "Fig Syrup" and y, printed on the package, but they : Syrup Co.?printed on the front of t] ey are injurious to the system. In to misrepresentation or deception, a: 1 under the name of "Syrup of Figs the California Fig Syrup Co. printad 1 mislead the patron who has been E( irge or small, for if the dealer resorts rill do so with other medicinal age should be avoided by every one who i ity of druggists are reliable, we sup ;ly through the druggists, of whom it ly, at the regular price of fifty cents ] the public of the facts, in order that :)ld to them. If it does not bear the I ited on tht, -ront of every package, di rn of your money, and in future go t you wish and the'best of everything in ' ' r'i'. :V ' : - TI?#i Ancient Late. Chief among the instruments used ' accompany wandering minstrels of the xm Middle Apes, who propagated profane music, were the viol and the lute, with the numerous families. In the tbirtieth canto .of the "Inferno" Dante ?| makes use of a singular though forcibly drawn simile, when he says that the ^;?|B forger, Adam of Brescia, punished with 1j dropsy, would resemble a lute if, thin, . ;im in the face as he was large in the stom- rjjj ach, his body were cut off at the legaf "I saw one made in fashion of a lute^/?|JSj if only he had had the groin cut off." ' Indiana's personal property was valued at $377,416,730 in 1905.. I Mrs. Wlnsiow's Soothing Syrup for Chtldrea leethln^softenstaegnms.redncwlnflamma^gjB UOD.ailajB i am,'Mires wind colic,25c.a bottle /, -'ffSj Professor Stinson asserts that the UM i of apples will improve the disposition. W. L. Douglas i *3^? &*3=shoesba| W- L- Doug as 54 00 Cilt Edge LIn? J carnot be equ jjed^tany pric^^ J MEM'S $a.BO SHOES 7W4f/iyrOWfllfMi MANUFACTURER M THE WORLA .-^S? tmnnn REWAflO to anyone who c*, O 0 UlUUU disprove thi? itatemort. HI could take yoa into my thnM lam toctorM'. at Brockton, Maa?? and ?now yoa the tefloW ^ care with which every palrof ahoes Ii uf.-yftl would realize why W. L. Douglas J3J0 HM< fsM coat more to make, why they Bold their UMfc> JB fit better, wear longer, ahd are of.greatar intrinsic value than any other U.SOihOb . ? * ? - ? M?<l? 'T ^Men"$2*60? $2.Off. "boy* iotoWl 9 Dr??Shtxta,$2.BO, $2,91.75, #f.40 CAUTION.?Insist upon hating WJlDopg.' .?? tas shots. Talie do substitute. None gennin# P without his name and price stamped on bottom;, ' Fast Color Euelets used; they will not wear br*u& \ -SjBM Write for Illustrated Catalog. * .'.vwMM ' W. L. DOUGIMJ3, Brockton, SCMfc_ That Delightful Aid to paxtme j I Toilet Antiseptic S | Whitensthe teeth?purifies IB mourn anu urcaiu?cures "*"""i"iaWBM[ I catarrh, sore throat, sore eyes, Jj kK I and by direct appJicati'on cures ' ^jm I all inflamed, ulcerated and I catarrhal conditions caused by I cleansing, healing and germi- . -5 JH I cidal qualities unlike anything, I else. At all druggists. soCefts 91 | LARGE TRIAL PACKAGE ^FRES - :^| The R. Paxton Co., Boston, DROPSY Irani Old. B*ok of tntlmsaUla ud M Dan' IndMlt'vJH fret. Dr. H. H. CRtlM'B gQiTS, ??i B.11TII *1 THIE JOHNSTON BOMJB TREATMBN??S9| cures drnnkeoneee. Write for free book. ThoaMSa^H Johnston Laboratories. 82 Fulton St.. Freeport,^ :Tp8a| TO BUSINESS ? H ' ' 'tf ?V* - \ * t to work to cure ins, Bruises ^ Ifl >bs Oil I] gets ouLof misery quickly. X jH Price, 25c. and 50c. | fl ccists^ I m S 'f iinments and high integrity, ng the best of remedies and J M ysicians' prescriptions and I flj ny excellent remedies, but H on^e nr imit.at.inn medicines. A ine, which usually includes harmacy and the fihest and 1 3 and remedial appliances. i a knowledge of the benefits I HH ion, is usually their greatest ? H v ail know that Syrup of J isfaction, and therefore they . ? nfl purchasers of the choicest ^ >H| line article bearing the full D le front of every package. ^ isness and constipation iind . H Ztflar habit'3, indigestion, or beneficial in its affects as >j 'IB 1 satisfaction. BH on which ii gives and thet condemned, but there ore .-jMB in the dignity and principles HH , and who do not hesitate v:*' ;r profit. Such preparations of some piratical concern, :?Bi never have the full name of be package. The Imitations order to sell the imitations nd whenever a dealer passes m > or " Tig Ujriuy, niiivu m on the front of the package, 1 H ) unfortunate as to enter his 1 HI to misrepresentation and | Hfl nts, and in the filling of I ralues health and happiness. j 9 iply the immense demand I I I may be purchased every- I per bottle, but as exceptions I all may decline or return M Full name of the Company? o not hesitate to return the M o one of the better class of his line at reasonable prices. * 4 =' u?SoSk.<