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Ing from loss of appetite and general debility, called in a physician, who, (o tempt the patient to eat, prescribed?so a writer in Good Health states?a few oysters and a little champagne. "Where do you suppose I'll get money to pay for luxuries like oysters and champagne?" demanded the ! mother. The doctor shrugged his boulders, knowing that many of the Lancashire miners earn good wages, and | often spend a fair amount of them. "In an extreme case like this," he suggested, wit would not be extravagance. " , Some days later he met the mother, and made inquiries for the girl. "I hope she is better," said he. i "Well, she isn't," replied the i mother. "She's lots worse." '> "Worse?" repeated the doctor, in ' surprise. "I thought she would be arln trt rvlolr itn TUrt vnn civp Vl?>r ' i b1" w y o what I prescribed?" "Well, not exactly," said the 1 \ mother, "but I give 'er the nearest J the likes of us could afford. I give 'er cockles and ginger beer." v Deafness Cannot Be Cured byiocal applications as theycannot reach th? diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by consti- j tutional remedies. Deafness is caused byan j inflamed condition of the mucous lining of | the Eustachian Tube. When this tubeis in- j flamed you have a rumbling sound or impeis -i feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed i Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam- I mation can be taken out and this tube re- j stored to its normal condition, hearing will : be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten ! are caused by catarrh, which is nothingbut an I inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. ! We will give One Hundred Dollars for any i case oruearnoss (caused bycatarrh) that can- : not be curedby Hall's (Catarrh Cure. Send foi circulars free. P.J.Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. ! Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. I Permanence of Iron Gall Inks. Various iron gall inks which, when j freshly made, had been analyzed by j the Prussian government testing bu- , reau and had been ranked in the first j class, were allowed to stand three ! years and again examined. It was j found that the quantity of iron in so- ; lution remained unchanged, but that the tannic and gailic acids were greatly diminished, in some cases by 1 more than one-half, so that many of \ the inks no longer satisfied the con- ; J v ditions established for inks of the j \ first class. The sediment deposited In the bottles contained only traces 1 of Iron and consequently could not consist of tannate or gallate of iron, c as has hitherto been assumed. It : ] was probably composed of products j \ ^ ;of the decomposition of tannic and J gallic acids, if this decomposition is : ' favored by exposure to light, as is j '' not unlikely, Ink should keep better ! 1 In earthen jugs than in transparent ? glass bottles. | 1 VThe Danger. Her Mother (sobbing)?"Dear-i | . -dear! It's seven o'clock and EtheJ 1 ( hasn't come in yet." Her Father?"Well, there's noth- ' ( ing strange about that, is there? j She often doesn't get in from her ' f teas and junketings until seven." j T Her Mother?"I know. I know, j "But she's very stout and this mora- \ ? ing'r paper said a girl might bettei , commit suicide than have hips."? z Harper's Bazar. j i ? i 1 "COFFEE DOESN'T HURT ME" j Tales That Are Told. f L "I was one of the kind who wouldn't r j believe that coffee was hurting me," | says a N. Y. woman. "You just j ] couldn't convince me its use was con- ' ] nected with the heart and stomach ] trouble I suffered from most of the j ? time. "My trouble finally got so bad I I ] had to live on milk and toast almost j j entirely fo: three or four years. Still \ I loved th'3 coffee and wouldn't be- i } lieve it could do such damage. "What I needed was to quit coffee } and take nourishment in such form . as my stomach could digest. 1 "I had read much about Postum, j but never thought it would fit my \ case until one day I decided to quit coffee and give it a trial and make , ohnnt it Sn I srnt a naeltaea and carefully followed the directions, j , "Soon I began to get better and | was able to eat carefully selected | foods without the aid of pepsin or j other digestants and it was not long before I was really a new woman physically. "Now I am healthy and sound, can eat anything and everything that comes along and I know this wonderful change is all due to my having quit coffee and got the nourishment I needed through this delicious , Postum. "My wonder is why everyone don't j give up the old coffee and the troubles that go with it and build themselves up as I have done, with Postum." Easy to prove by 10 days' trial of - Postum in place of coffee. The reVy ward is big. / "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of humpji interest. SPa)' *- Terfectly Equipped. When the large and health? looking individual who had asked at the door for "a little something to eat" was told that he might have it if he would work a while at the wood pile, he shook his head mournfully. "I've got the ague." he explained, "and my hand is that unstiddy I couldn't hit more'n one stick in seven." "All right!" exclaimed the mistress of the house. "Go out in the back yard and shake those ashes for me." \ A Regular Radiator. "The young man is smitten with | /ou, Jeannette. He says you radiate | happiness." "Gracious!" "And he also said that you radiate j beauty." "My!" "And wisdom." "Dear me, how funny." "What's funny, dear?" * "Why, he must think I am a radiator."?Chicago News. . (S0^-c- - Near Delicacies. The mother of a delicate Lanca- i uhiro ciri Tuhr? sppmed tr> he suffer- I TECHNIQUE. I take i little bunch of words and set 'e: ifl a row, I take a little bit of ink and mark 'e: down just sa; I take a little time and pains and then have a verse That starts about as this one does or ma; be slightly worse. And then i go back to the start and cri: and cross and scratch, I vaccinate my words until I find me son that match The pretty thoughts that dart about lit silveV fish and shine, B?t need a patient, watchful hook to gf 'em on the line. My thoughts melt into words sometimesnot alwavs?now and then, And 1 can feel 'em coming down my ari and through my pen. I only have to push it o'er the paper an "it spells For you and all mv other chums the thing * my fancy tells; Just like a boy with building blocks, move my words about When I have something in my mind an try to work it out, Until in orderly array I get 'em in a rrv Just as I think they ought to be and writ 'em down just so. And so just with some words I paint th pictures that I think The boys and girls who live in me and se 'em down in ink, And sometimes there's a tear in it, an sometimes there's a smile, And there is many a grassy bank an many a vine-grown stile; And many a lane that vou would know i you could be with me, To look right where my pen is now and could help you see; I merely take a lot of words and place 'ei in a row, And build such pretty things if I can ge 'em down just so! ?J. W. Foley, in the New York Times. IN THE CLUTCH OF A BLIZZARI By ERNEST McGAFFEY. The snow had fallen softly an< steadily for days. The strawshed wai a Chinese pagoda, the haystacks re sembled Swiss cottages, and the sta ble, with snow packed deep about i and a heavy mantle on the slopinj roof, could hardly be distinguishec from a huge drift. Every mornin* the prairie chickens perched on avail able corners of the stacks and out buildings, and in the hedges the quai and rabbits sheltered themselves a: best they could from the wintrj blasts. John looked on the landscape witl keen interest. Toward distSnt Tarkio the tlmberline loomed black as night. To the northwest rose Satter lee's grove, a dark speck against the sky, and for the rest there was only z wonderful whiteness. Still the snow fell, and higher and still higher rosv; the drifts. They wound about the slender trunks of the young walnu! ;rees like enveloping wraiths of foam md among the tall cottonwoods tc ;he south they broke in misty billows, lrged onward by the wind. It was hard work now feeding the Jtock and poultry, chopping and jringing in wood and looking after ;hings generally on the farm. Saturlay night the wind freshened about L2 o!clock, and John felt shivery unier the old fashioned comforters. In the morning he found his uncle md Mart Barr talking in whispers by hp lritrhen stnvf>. He heard Rarr say: "I didn't much more than get back, ind if this keeps up we're in for it." He started to go outdoors, but his mcle's sharp "Wait a while!" kepi lim from leaving the room. He tried ;o look out of the windows, but could see nothing but a whirl of flakes. It began to be bitterly cold. Back )f the stove was a pile of wood, which apidly found its way into the fire, ind it was evident that a new supply nust be obtained if they wished to teep alive. John's grandmother had ilready been warned to stay in bed, ind with a lighted lantern at her feet she was buried under blankets and vas quite comfortable. "Step out on the stoop, John," said [Jncle Tom. "See what you think oi i blizzard. Hold on to my hand," he idded, as the boy started for the ioor. John took his uncle's hand and crossed the threshold. He found limself in a blinding maze of furious snows. HeAeld his disengaged hand lp before him, and could not see it lor the revolving drifts; he was >tung and cut by fine icy needles, vhich filled and even choked the air, ind he Instinctively felt for the door md got into the house again, gasping 'or breath.' The first thing he said on recoverng his breath was, "What'll become >f the buckskin?" His uncle looked grave. "The pony will have to take his chances vith the mules. Mart fed 'em all last light, and he tried to get to the stable this morning, but he barely got sack. We've got to wait till this itorm clears, if she blows a week." The tears came into John's eyes as le thought of the pony, but he knew ;he blizzard must be a serious mat:er when Mart Barr or his uncle could aot get to the stable. They sat down to a good breakfast, md the hot coffee heartened John up, md he began to feel the novelty of the adventure. He took his grandmother her morning's meal, and re turned to the room below. The house was a small story-andi-half frame, with no sheltering trees Dr outbuildings near at hand. Ur stairs were the bedrooms, three ir number, and down stairs the singte large room served as library, sitting room, dining room and kitchen. II was warmed by a squat, good sized kitchen stove. Pretty soon Uncle Tom rose, tied s clohtesline round his waist, and weni out into the swirl. Mart Barr helt the other end of the rope, and in i few seconds Uncle Tom returned with a stick of wood from the woodpile This he sawed into stove lengths witl a hand saw. The wood was dried in the over and piled into the stove and eaten ui like tinder. Then Mart put on th< life line and made a dash for mor< wood. After this grist had been de v^ured by the kitchen stove, Johr begged and insisted on being allower to go for a stick. The woodpile la: south of the house, hardly fifty fee away, and you could not miss it, al though you could not see it. Afte some persuasion Uncle Tom fastenec I I the clothesline with a firm grop about the boy, the door was opened and out m he darted. The instant he emerged he seemed m to be wrapped in a suffocating blanI ket and pierced by innumerable bits of glass. The time spent in reaching the woodpile occupied only a few secjs onds, but he almost fell before reaching it. ( ie He seized a cord stick and half ran ;e and was half hauled into the house. ^ He was speechless from even that short exposure, and for a few seconds fairly numb. His uncle looked at - him. "You can't go ouc again, John," he II said. "It's as much as Mart or I d want to do to tackle that blizzard." And with the rising of the wind >3 and the plunging of the drifts it j seemed to the boy's imagination that the storm was besieging the house. d The thin and fragile window glasses ^ were re-ehforced with wood, there ;c being no shutters, and snow fine as the finest sand crawled in at every crevice and was sifted down like powder on the beds above. The grandit mother's bed was brought down from , up stairs and placed close to the stove. John distinguished himself by d finding an old cross-cut saw in that corner of up stairs called the garret, and the men sharpened it up and alI lowed him to help saw the sticks they brought in. H +V?a rrrln/? Tiorra/1 f AfO nf vuiaiuc luc muu iarcu ciuia %.\j*w uw !t the cottonwoods and walnut trees, breaking off branches and moaning away in the distance. The winds piled up the snow against the house until the men were feheeted with it when they rushed back from the woodpile. ) Three days and nights the carnival of an icy ghost dance kept up, and three nights they had but fitful snatches of sleep in the intervals between the hurried races to the wood. Pile- J . At last the strength of the storm was spent, and Wednesday it cleared, .' s bitter cold. The men and the boy hurried to the stable. The stock ^ ' were all alive, but weak. They had eaten the feed left in their boxes and [ mangers, and then broken their halters and got at some of the "slue ? grass" which formed the roof of the stable. The snow had so completely covered the low structure in many places that they had not suffered un3 usually from the cold. 7 Every chicken and turkey on the place had frozen, but the hogs had 1 burrowed into a strawstack in their " pen, and were squealing vociferously ' for feed. " Away to the river bottom the treea ! rose dark as scaffolds, and a great 1 white sea stretched in all directions [ as far as the eye could reach. The | air was still, hut nipped sharply at * the boy's bare cheeks. It was hia ' first blizzard. ' To the northwest he saw the Sat1 terlee windbreak, and wondered how ' it weathered the storm. And as a solitary hawk, strong of wing and | gray as the drifts beneath him, swung | high over the prairies, he turned to the house.?Youth's Companion. What's the Score? , By C. M. BALDWIN. Unleash the doggerels of baseball. 'me season is open wun tne usuai eclat. The baseball reporter has , rubbed his facile pen on the seat of his pants, and ground out something '> like this: j "Smiling Harry came to the bat for i the local gladiators. He was a good 1 waiter and got three counterfeits. Lanky Jim, who was handling the : damp spheroid for the opposing nine i finally unwound his superstructure ? and put the joy pebble to the liking ' of His Merriness. Smiler pressed 1 against the little comforter for a onei sacker out into right truck farm. ? Smiling Harry tarried not long on tha ; initial sack, but when Lanky Jim was1 not sitting up and taking notice immediately drug his anchor toward the 1 second depot, which he larcenied in : safety. The Long One showed symp> toms of taking on a sky-pilot at this time and Lonesome Jim, the next batter, reached the first oasis via the . charity route. However, his narrow 1 lankships took a caucus with himself i and Handsome Ike whiffed the ozone, the understudy for the Singer build: ing occupying the box for the visitor^ i putting Ike to sleep with three of his , fadeaway knockout drops. In fhe? * , meantime Smiling Harry and Lone-1 ii some Jim performed a twin pilfer and ' e: ; were safely occupying second and third refuge when the smoke cleared b away. Hank the Bite put a fly in n Lanky Jim's ointment by aeroplaning a to the Midway Plaisance, Smiling ii i Harry ambling on to the lowly v, i thatched cottage on the put-out."? 1 ; From Puck. u s Tears of Blood. f 1 " The belief that certain individuals are able to weep tears of blood is of 1 such antiquity that the German equiv- t alent for "bitter tears" is "blutige Thranen," "bloody tears." There y seems, however, no outhentic instance of blood being actually secreted by . the lachrymal gland. > Micas has^published a very inter- 0 : esting article" on real and false tears ^ of blood. It is a clinical study on g( conjunctive hemorrhage. Some years tl ago the author was consulted about g] a boy aged twelve years, who from t( > the slightest cause, such as laughter, > or sometimes apparently for no cause ^ 1 whatever, wept tears of blood?an V( occurrence often repeated several w times a day. The lad was pale and g1 enervated from constant hemorrhage. a 1 Tne source or tne Dieeaing was tne tarsal conjunctiva, which was cov1 ered with fine papillae, and light t cauterization with the galvano-caut- > ' ery resulted in a cure. 1 This case led the author to study 31 1 the literature of the subject. He found that in none of the cases cited 1 is it certain that the blood did not come from the conjunctiva or from ^ i the lachrymal passages. He feels ) that it is unwise to deny the possi bility of a sauguineous secretion from ' - the gland, but that examples in which ? - other sources cannot be shown to be i present must be exceedingly rare. 1 7 One of the biggest car companies t in this country has decided to aban don the use of steam in its plant and r i? now putting in a mammoth electric 1 ulant. I i i { i New York City.?The half fitting :oat in box style is very becoming to ,'oung girls and to be very much worn :hroughout the season. This one is Imple and youthful yet is cut on adllrable lines and is equally well dapted to the suit and the general rap. It includes patch pockets that re both smart $nd convenient, and i finished with rolled-over cuffs, hile it allows effective use of the ishionable buttons. Panama cloth Ill" BODICE DE< 1th stitched edges Is the material 11istrated and Panama cloth is to be sctensively worn. The coat is made with fronts, acks and under-arm gores. The eck is finished with regulation collar nd lapels, and the sleeves are made 1 coat style, in two portions each '1th slight fulness at the armhole. 'he backs are lapped over onto the nder-arm gores to the depth of the titchings, so allowing comfortable reedom of movement. The quantity of material required or the sixteen-year size is four yard? wenty-seven, two and five-eighth ards fifty-four or two and a quarter ards fifty-two Inches wide. Three-Piece Suits. Three-piece suits all of one tone, ut representing three materials, are 'equent occurrences among hand3me imported gowns. A rich cosime seen recently has a brown satin tcirt. a chiffon waist of the same majrial trimmed with the satin and nished with just a trace of sable at ae throat, the cuffs and a coat of velet, also of the same tone, trimmed tth bands of sable. All the coats in jch combination are half-fitting, to void crushing the bodices. High Ruchings Out. High ruchings are going out and in ieir place are seen crush ribbon and atin folds. Embroidered Waists. Among the most effective of the mbroidered shirt waists are those one in the Wallachian embroidery, his work has the virtue of not' taklg a vast amount of time, and it tiovs every stitch that is put into it. arge designs are best for this style C embroidery. Smart Thing in Hats. The smart thing In hats is an imlense Romney cap with high, full rown and short brim that tilts down II around. s \ ' I %iorS^ Popular Sleeves. A popular yet simple sleeve for evening dresses is cut straight and even, 1 with the material looped up nearly to the shoulder on the outer side. Shadow Plumes. Shaded plumes are in high popular, ity, and the old-fashioned navy blue feather, flecked with red, yellow and a variety of other tints, also has special claim to consideration. In Various Greens. Green has the stamp of approval for the moment, at least. Parisians show a decided leaning toward the color right now. There are smart green tailored costumes abroad, and indoors the afternoon gown of green in all its shades, from the peacock blues and greens to the empire green, and again the softer shades of graygreen. ' Misses1 House Jacket. The house jacket that is loose at the front and half fitted at the back is always a becoming one, and this model suits girlish figures peculiarly well. It will be found just as desirable for the morning dress that ia made with skirt to match as it is for tho pprifirfll necHcpp. for It ia nrettv and graceful and becoming. It can jbe made either with three-quarter or long sleeves, with the wide fancy collar illustrated or with a plain, standing one as liked. The jacket is made with fronts and backs. The fronts are tucked at each aide of the centre and finished with hems and either the fancy collar or the plain one is joined to the neck edge. The sleeves are moderately I 1 *! j CORATIONS. full and gathered Into bands, what ever their length. The quantity of material required for the sixteen-year size is three add five-eighth yards twenty-four, twc and five-eighth yards thirty-two oj one and seven-eighth yards forty-four j inches wide with three yards of edg| ing and one and a half yards of band! ingWhite Lace Coats. The popularity of handsome white lace coats worn over long skirts of white or colored muslin or silk b?s brought about the fashion in less expensive laces. Some women are using them over smart linen skirts and giving a touch of color by a satin or silk cirdle tied in front. I ? Decorated Linen Belts. A decidedly new and novel idea is to applique linen belts with, oddly | shaped bits of colored linen. ( {VISE OLD CAT SAVES EER YOUNG AT A FIBE. Could Not Do It Alone, so S*he Picked OutTender-Hearted Fireman to Help Her. There was a fire in the cellar of a big tenement, No. 155 West Twenty3fth street, but that has little to do with' this story. It serves only to introduce one large black cat, four very small black kittens, a tender-hearted battalion chief and two sympathetic firemen. The firemen were pumping water Into the cellar, when the big black cat rubbed against the le& of a fireman and "me-owed." The fireman shaved her away. She went to another fireman and received the same treatment. Finally she rubbed up against Battalion Chief Langford. He noticed that aft?r each "me-ow" she would walk off in the direction of No. .153 West Twenty-fifth street, on the ground floor of which was a butcher shop. "Seems to me that cat has something on her mind,".he said. "Acts as if she wanted me to follow her." The chief followed the cat. In front of No. 153 she raised herself on a level \yith the window of the butcher shop and-gazed in,, making piteous cries. Langford peered in and saw nestling in the window four black kittens."Well, here's a chance to sare some lives, anyhow," said the chief. He ordered Fireman Wittemeyer and Bolinger to break open the door. The cat scrambled Inside, leaped upon the window ledge and carried one of the kittens to the sidewalk. Langford gathered up the other three and laid them down beside kitten No. 1. The kittens were gasping and almost suffocated. The chief sent a fireman for warm milk. While the kittens were coming back to life the mother. cat rubbed against Langford's boots and purred her gratitude. Later the kittens were taken Into a neighboring doorway, the blaze was drowned out and the sympathetic firemen departed.?New York World. nmuna r?u wrarinM TV VADl/kJ \/X' f? AMwvm A fellow can go down hill without having any pull. The office that seeks the man must be blindfolded. No man need be a failure who doesn't yearn for the unrttalnable. To swallow the truth, most of us want It sugar coated. Philanthrophy not only hires a press agent, but a clacque as well. The people who build castles in the air are never sure of their ground. Some men would even like to take their pick of the various brands of success. At least where a mirror is concerned, a woman always looks on the bright side.When a girl is color blind she has little excuse for making a fellow green with envy. ' The gates of heaven are jealously guarded, but the devil always has a latcnstring out. ^ > The chap who is iregarded as one man in a thousand is cordially hated by the other 999. Many a fellow refuses to lay something by for a rainy day so long as he can borrow an umbrella. The trouble with some fellows is that they never have any sbber second thoughts. If every man who has been disappointed in love should take It to heart, the world would be full of pessimists. Some people are so formal that even when Fortune smiles on them they are apt to wait for an introduction. Naturally enough the widow doesn't feel her loss so keenly if it is fully covered by insurance. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is just about as accessible as the silver lining of our clouds.?From "Musings of a Gentle Cynic," in the New York Times. Argument Against Railroads. The stage fare from Huntsville to Glasgow ? twenty-five miles ? was : $1.50. This stage carried the mail ! and it had to go. When the roads were so muddy horses could not pull the stage a double yoke of oxen took their places. It was slow traveling, but they got .through. The steamboat j fare from Glasgow to St. Louis in the : early '50s was $7. That included | stateroom and meals, and if the boat j was held up a week or two on a sand- j bar the accommodations went on | without extra charge. The steamboat owners never believed the railroads sould successfully compete with them. The way they looked at it, people wouldn't be willing to travel 100 to 200 miles tied down to one seat in a small car, when they might be eninvinfi' the freedom nf a hie anrl hnnrt somely furnished boat. "Then how are they going to find room for an orchestra and a dance?" an old river captain wanted to know. "No place to eat or drink, no room to move about; just sit still all day long on a little wooden bench?why, it's downright foolishnesp."?Macon Republican. The Last Chance. Dorando Pietri, defending at an Italian banquet his canny course in j wearing a cigarette advertisement in ' the race with Haves, told an aDna site story of an Italian grave digger. "I must accumulate all I can while [ am here," said he, "for over there in Italy money is scarce. It is with me, in fact, as it was with the grave iigger. "This grave digger, after digging i certain grave, put in a bill that was exorbitant. When complaint of the overcharge was made to him, <fe <aid: " 'Well, the corpse and I had a row Sve years ago over a cart I sold him, ind I could never make him pay me what he owed. So, seeing this was ny last chance, I thought I'd better :ake it.'," Sheep shearing machines are now lsed pxtensivtly in Australia. In Tasmania they ; ~e just beginning to t,*c used. ?a m ML DO* ADVISED OPERATION CuredbyLydiaE.Piakliain's Vegetable Compound Paw Paw, Mich.?" I suffered terri V?lvfrnm female illn. t v ^ including inflam|mation and conges^ years. My doctor wid^ there was no * j^n^^m>s'^re^e^ I can now say I am Emma Dsapeb. Another Operation Avoided. |V? Chicago, 111. ? "I want women to know what that wonderful medicine, Y Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, has done for me. Two of the ' noof ilnfitrtra In PVilrorm nM T wnnM die if I did not have an operation, and I never thought of seeing a well day ; again. I had a small tumor and female troubles so that I suffered day and night. A friend recommended Lydia ' E. Pinkham'8 Vegetable Compound, ' and it made me a well woman.?Mrs. Axyt.na Sperling, .11 Langrdon St, Chicago, 111. r-( Lydia E. Pinkham's Yegetaoie Com* pound, made from roots and herba/ has proved to be the most succesMMr remedy for curing the worst forms 01 female ills, including displacement!, : inflammation, fibroid tiimora irregu- !| laritiea, periodic pains, backache, beat- 'i ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion, andnervous prostration. It costs ' but a trifle to try it, and the result has been worth millions to many ) suffering women. On the Half Shell in Alaska. \ * V Up in Alaska the nearest approach they have to the oyster Is the set \ urchin. The redskins up there lor? the brutes. They catch them all daj ij long, crunch them in their fists, gulr Sown the orange colored cluster oi ; eggs and fling the thorny shells back s Into the ocean. Sea urchins hav< . been the chief delicacy of Alaskan' ^ Indians since time out of mind, and ^ It shows what will go in a pinch. ? Capital formerly invested in build*: ings at Messina is calculated at about. $16,000,000, at Reggio at $10,00Ci,v:v D00. The greater portion ot thia 1n f irrevocably lost. RHEUMATISM I want every chronic rheumatic to throw away all medicines, all liniments, aU plasters, and rive MUNYON'S RHEUMATISM REMEDY a trial. No matter what your doctor may say, no matter what your friends may say, no matter bow prejudiced yon may be against aU adver- ,, tlsed remedies, go at once to yonr draggist and get a Dottle of the RHEUMATISM REMEDY. If ft falls to give satisfaction,! will refund your money.?Munyon Remember this remedy contains no sailer 11c add," no opium cocaine, morphine or other harmful drugs. It is put up nnder the guarantee of the Pure Food and Drag Act. 1 . For eale by all drnsrsrists. Price, 25c.' . . In Belgium a revenue of 185,000 is de rived from roadside fruit trees. Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes Relieved by Murine Eye Remedy. Compounded by Experienced -Physicians. Conforms to Pure Food and Drug Laws. Murine Doesn't Smart; Soothes Eye Pain ? It takes 6,500,000 acres to gpow' th? world's tobacco^ \ V Itch cured in 30 minutes.Tjy Wool&rd'f Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists On January 1 Canada was shelter* '; Ing 38,258 Orientals, including 17, 239. Chinese, 15,848 Japanese and U**, >~sAA Dili luaittua. Ltinaua uao waui British subjects of 7442 Orientals. j BACKACHE IS KIDNEY ACHE. 'M Cure the Kidneys and the Pain WiU Never Return. Only one way to cure an aching back. Cure the cause, the kidneys, Thousands tell ot cures made by Doan'i 3 Kidney Pills. Jpha C. Coleman, a prom\ inent merchant o 1 Swainsboro, G a IMmK9K/ says: "For several years my kidneyi were affected and my back ached day and % I night. I was languid, '~i nervous and lame in the morning. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right - ? j ^-1 ? a ?.1 iai il*?i ?.k1 away, auu iuu great. lenci iuai iw lowed has been permanent"^ Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Origin of Muslin. This favorite material of the "sum. mer girl" derives its name from beinj first made at Mosul or Moussul, i town in Turkish Asia. From then it-was introduced into India, and flrs? brought to England in 1670. A fe^ i'Mro offortrarH it was manufnpf in large quantities in France and England, and in the present day Eng. lish-mnde muslins rival in finenesi the most delicate of gauzy muslini made in India. Must be Hard Work. | In Russia there is a cheap reaping machine which a reel, but no automatic rake. A man sits on the plat form and rakes off the grain with I pitchfork. The name of this machin? is "lobogreika," and since "lobo* means "brow," and "greika" is "i heater," the whole can be translated "brow-sweater," 4 ... i Flour making in France is th< r most important industrv in the roun try in amount or' oapiml invested and value oi' aiaiua! output. Ei % ... . .