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Freservlng Ship Tlmbur3. A novel process is being attempted at Camden, Me., to preserve tho wood of a new 1,400 ton schooner, now al most ready for launching. All of the timber of the inside and outside of the vessel has been soaked in crude petro leum to save it from dry rot by expos ure to tho air and to prevent the rav ages of tho teredo worm in 6alt waters. Even tho vessel's beams have been coated and tho tips of the topmasts. It is expected that the oil will become so thoroughly soaked in the schooner's upper works that tho water cannot penetrate through the wood. Old wooden vessels which have been con verted into bulk petroleum carriers, after having outlived their usefulness in other trades, have been known to last for years after becoming soaked with either crude or refined oil. A Case of Overtime. "Say," said the office boy, "I think the boss ought to gimme a bit extra this week, but I guess he won't." "For what?" asked the bookkeeper. "For overtime. I was dreamin' about me work all las' night."-Tid Bits. _ Obvious. Father-So you wish to mako my daughter your wife? Suitor-Well, it's the only way I can see of becoming your son-in-law. Chicago Inter-Ocean. In a Quick Lunch Room. Waiter-Did you get everything you ordered? Patron-Well, no. I muffed that apple dumpling.- Detroit Free Press. Ask Aid, If you are troubled with malaria, constipa tion, biliousness kidney trouble or dyspep tia, of Hosteler's Stomach Bitters, and it will bo spee-liiy forthcoming. Nervousness, loss of appetite and sleep, and a los3 of vigor, are also remedied by this restorative. Phy sicians of eminence indorse it, a valuable con tinuation of the vor.iict of the people and tho press. Take it regularly. Tobacco so effects the brain that in many instances it almost renders one unconscious. Dr. Kitmer's.Sw AMP-ROOT can? ail Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y. Innocent III exercised tho greatest temporal power of any of the popes. En Old Age The vigor so earnestly craved for is given by Hood's Sarsaparilla, because it restores the vitality and purity of the blood, and thus strengthens and sustains, all the bodilj organs. "I could fill a newspaper with words o? praise for Hood's Sarsaparilla for it is the best medicine for the blood. I am an old man 79 years ot age and I feel very thank ? ? ful to Hood's Sarsaparilla, nOO? S for 1 believe it saved my life. I was troubled very severely with my stomach and from disordered blood, having sores on my cheek. Some thought I had a can cer but Hood's Sarsaparilla cured me. The pains in my stomach left me, it regulated my bowels and that dull feeling was driven away. The sores on my cheek healed I am in every way greatly improved. I cannot find words good enough to praise Hood's Sarsaparilla." ABCHIE MOALLISTEB, Young Hlokory, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the Only True Blood Purifier Be sure to get Hood's and only Hood's. ci _ _ J J _ DSIIM cures habitual constipa j HOOG S rlllS lion. Price 25c. per boy. ? * *> ? ? McELREES < WINE OF CARDUU . For Female Diseases. | HIGHEST AWARD rjT) WORLD'S FAIR, m S?KfBEST's?lTEDTOGA? FOTCONDITIONS/DIGESTIVEO^ Dyspepttc.Delicate.Infirm and AGED PERSONS THESAFESTFCOO.N THE SICK ROOM FOR INVALIDS p ^No CONVALESC^TSjj^-; /NURSING MOTHERS, INFANTS/ c^rJ DRUGGISTS. C^> JOHN CAR LE I SONS, NEW YORK. "lapsas CURES WHIKE Alt EISE FAILS "cst Cont:!: Syrup. Tables Good. Ute in tum. S;-!d by druggists nEV? VAL, A little SUD, a little raio, A soft wind blowing from thc Wos^ And woods and fields are sweet again, And warmth wiihin the mountain's breast. So simple is earth we tread, So quick her love with life aud fame, Ten thousand years have dawned and fl?d, And still her magic is the same. A little love, a little trust, A soft impulse, a sudden dream; And life as dry as desort dust Is fresher than a mountain stream. Simple is the heart of man, So ready for now hopo and joy; Ten thousand years sinco it began. llave left it younger thau a boy. -Stafford Brooks, in tho Pnthflndor. AN ARCADIAN DREAM. WISH I had been named Poggy," said the young wife, sobbing. "Berenice is a name for a prin cess or a coun tesp. Peggy or Polly would do well enough for receiving orders through the kitchen speaking tube. And what was the use of making up my mind to be be an old mac's darling rather than a young man's 6lave when it turns out like this?" "But it can turns out just as you say, my dear,"said Mrs. Royal. "Give mo the particulars. Mora is to be gained by submission than revolt, especially when tho husband is much older than the wife." "Submit !" cried young Mrs. Fisher. "No! I will never do that-never! Do ycu suppose I married a rich man to do the housework ?" "Let me hear the particulars, Be renice," repeated Mrs. Royal. "Well, mamma," 6aid young Mrs. Fisher, "you know I went into ahouse full of servants-excellent ones, ff>o. Josiah was very affectionate, as he al lays is, and all he asked me to do was to tie his cravat, and pin a roso ?into his buttonhole, and to go to the door and throw kisses to him of a morning. And after a whilo it was, 'Get my slip pers, darling. Run for my umbrella. Where is my handkerchief ?' Very tiresome, but to be expected. Then very soon it was, 'Let us send the ser vants away at meal times, and wait on ourselves at table. It is so delicious to be quite alone ! ' Of course I agreed ; and newjeomes this astonishing prop osition-dismissatl the servants; live for each other ! I'm to do the cook ing for him, iron his Bhirts-black his boots, for all I know ! Not for econ omy's sake, but to make life beauti ful ! Oh, I sha'n't endure it. I can not, mamma! I shall quarrel if he persists ! I did not marry a rich man to be cook and laundress. 1-" "Be quiet, darling," said Mrs. Royal. "Listen to me a little while. Let him have his own way, that you may have your? in the end. It is an amiable caprice ; humor it." A long conversation between mother and daughter followed, and the result was that when Mr. Fisher returned to his home that afternoon he found his wife fairly beaming with smiles. "Well, Berenice, my pet, havo you been thinking of the ideal lifo I pro posed? You did not 6ecm to appre ciate tho notion quite as thoroughly asl expected this morning." "I'm afraid I did not, darling," said young Mrs. Fisher. "But I ran ran over to mamma's, and she was so enthusiastic over it." "Was she? was she?" cried the hus band in amazement. "I fancied that she would rather oppose it, " "Oh! you don't know mamma," said Berenice. "Josiah, while you are doing it, why not get a cottage and a cow and chickens? I would like to milk, and mako butter, and hunt for eggs. And wo might havo a few pigs. " "We'll begin by degrees," said Mr. Fisher. "I suppose we'll have to, Josiah," said Berenice ; "but I'm wild to take things in hand. Pay the servants up to the end of their months to-morrow, and pack them off, and you'll have nice, homemade cooking right away." "Dear me!" said he, "I shall spend most of my time watching you at work, in a little white apron, with your sleeves rolled up." "Ob, how nice!" sho cried, kissing! him. "Oh, make haste about it, Jo siah." Josiah obeyed. By the following night the servants had all departed. Only Berenice remained in the house, though sho had a visit from her moth er. The table was set for a grand dinner, and as Mr. Fisher opened the door a small figure appeared at the head of the basement stairs, "Who's that," he cried. "Your little wife," was the reply. Berenice's face was adorned with smears and smudges, so w?ro her bands, so was her white apron. "Some accident, darling?" be cried, in alarm. "No, love," answered Berenice. "Why do you ask?" He did not like to tell her that she had a dirty face, so he laughed, and as sho threw herself into his arms em braced her like a very knight of cour tesy. Retiring to his own room to look in the glass, he found that the three kisses that she had imprinted on his cheeks and brow had left their mark there. He put his hand to the pol ished space on the top of his head, and found it sticky, and his usually immaculate shirt bosom had the marks of ten tiny black fingers upon it. It took him some time to make his toilet, and when he descended dinner was on tho table, and Berenice was striking the gong iv ?ar-splitting fash ion. "X was so afraid you would let your wifelet's first dinner grow cold," she said. "Not likely, love," ho replied. "But don't you need a glance in the mirror?" "Ob, I shall put all vanity aside, my dear," she answered, "and simply be domestic. If you are pleased, there is no ono else to see, you know ; besides, I must wait on you. Will you carve?" "I? Ob, certainly!" said Mr. Fisher. "Certainly. This is-" "Soup, love," said Mrs. Fisher. "Of course wo have soup. I served every thing at one time. But wc have courses all the same." The fluid which Mr. Fisher tastou somewhat resembled dishwater; bu* he forced a smile, and thought he would "try the tish." The next in stant a creature of the sea lay before him, much as it came from the water, save that it was covered with a very rancid butter sauce. It had not been opened ; its head, tail and scales re mained intact. "It does not seem quite right, some how," said Berenice. "Next time have it cleaned, love," eaid her husband, playfullv. "And after all, beef is ?ho great reliance. Where is the beef?" "Before you, dear," said Mrs. Fisher. "Shall I turn the gas up higher?" The husband made no remark. He turned a ball of burned bone and meat about with his fork, tried to out a few scraps, gave it up as a bad job, and sighed. "Oh, Josiah, doesn't it suit you?,: asked Berenice, with pleading glances. "Is it overdone, dear?" "I'm afraid it is, a little," said Mr. Fisher. "But I've no doubt the next conrse will amply compensate. What have you given me, my angel?" "Apple pie," said Berenice, handing him a largo plate, on which lay a large slice. "The unfortunate husband took one mouthful, then said, meekly: "I'll try tho pudding, dear." "Pudding!" laughed Mrs. Fisher. "That "is my home-made bread, fresh from the oven. Try a piece." "No, no ! I've eaten quite heartily already!" cried poor Fisher. "I'll smoke a bit." "Oh, dear!" screamed Berenice, "my after-dinner coffee-I forgot it." "The very thing, love," said Mr. Fisher. While she was gone, howerer, he 6tayed the demands of hunger with biscuits from the sideboard, and sat beaming upon her as she re-entered with an extra smudge on her nose and a scorch on her apron, carrying a tray loaded with coffeo pot and cups. "Now I will show you the sort o? coffeo your little wife can make," said she, passing ? cup for him. He took it, tasted it, and beamed on her again, then ho said : "A little weak, my dear. By the way, did you grind the beans?" She shook her head. "Does one grind coffee?" she asked. I "Always," said tho husband. "I'm so sorry," said Berenice. "But now I'll get my little note book and you can tell me just how you fancy things. The soup stronger ?" "Yes," he nodded. "The fish?" she inquired. "Well, you must tell them to ?end the fish well cleaned," he said. "The beef moderately done, and, lest yon should have too much to do, buy baker's bread-and pastry." "Viever!" 6he answered, solemnly. "I know a housewife's duty better. Give you baker's bread and things ! Never, my love. And the coffeo must be grouud, I remember." "Yes," ho said, helping her to get the dishes together and put them on tho dumb-waiter ; "grind tho coffee, sweetest." "And it was a lovely little dinner for me to cook, wasu't it?" qneried the black and greasy object, whom he could scarcely recognize as his dainty Berenice, approaching him with up raised lips. "Kiss rae ten times." He did it. "And isn't it so lovely to be alone together-I doing everything to mako home happy?" "Delightful!" said Mr. Fisher, as ho polished himself surreptitiously with a napkin. "I'm going out for a few minutes, pet." He did. His goal was a restaurant. During his absence Berenice admitted her mother at the kitchen door. "Well?" asked the latter. "I shall love Josiah better all my life!" said Berenice. "He has been an angel ! Oh, what a mess I served him ; and he smiled it through. My programme is ready for to-morrow. I mean to offer him a dinner, after a receipt of my own, serving everything with sugar instead of salt. The cof fee will bo ground into powder, and I shall put peppermint into my pud ding by mistake, and mako more of my delicious bread. And I have pre pared to make au omelet for break fast to-morrow, and ono of the eggs is addled, lt is dreadful, when I can cook 6o beautifully. But I shall always adore Josiah after this; his patience is so beautiful. He has never blamed me for what he believed to bo my innocent mistake. "It war. tho only way-tho only way," said Mrs. Royal, as she bade her daughter good-night. "Go on as you have begun. I adrise a suet pudding and fried oysters-scorched oysters have an unequaled flavor, my dear.': Mrs. Boyal returned home. Three days passed. On the fourth her daughter and son-in-law appeared at her door. Berenice was beaming with smiles, Mr. Fisher gravo beyond description. "We have como for a little advice, dear madam," ho said. "A nice receipt for plum-pudding," said Mrs. Boyal. "No," cried Mr. Fisher. "I think my littlo wifo confided to you our de lightful dream of living quite without servants?" "Sho did. It was beautiful !" said Mrs. Royal. "And how docs it suc ceed?" "Splendidly, mamma!" said Bere nice, "lam improving so fast! I made him mince-pie to-day, and home is like Arcadia." "Precisely, darling," said Mr. Fisher; "but I don't havo enough of your society. You live in tho kitchen, covered, my dearest, with pot-black. You are working too hard. Besides, I begin to understand, since you ironed my shirts, sweetest, that laundry work is a specialty." "But I shall learn in time," said Mr3. Fisher. "I only scorched four of your shirts; and my home-made bread is delicious. And, oh ! I am so anxious to make home all it should bo -to carry out Josiah's lovely dream. Mamma, como and dine with us to morrow, and seo if I have not some littlo talent for cooking." "That is a good idea," said Mr. Fisher. "I shall unavoidably bo away from home; but I think, little wife, your dear mamma will see that my idea was, perhaps, too Arcadian ; and wo might get tho servants back, aud see wifio in her pretty dresses again." "I always tell my daughter to do as her husband wishes,"said Mrs. Royal ; "but of course I will dine with Bere nice." She did. It was a very good little dinner; but the next day found the servants in their places, and Mr. Fisher never alluded to his Arcadian dream again.-Good Company. Carbolic Acid Causes Agonizing Dcalh. "It is a strange fact." said my friend, the Franklin street physician, "that six out of ten would-be suicides now resort to that most horrible of all deadly doses, carbolic acid. It canses moro pain, more genuine, lingering agony than any deadly doso I can mention. Yet its popularity contin ues to increase, especially among tho unfortunate members of the half-world who have become weary of lifo and seek the comforts of tho grave. The antidote? Ob, an antidoto after the acid has been swallowed is of little avail. A mixture of flour and watet should be given, also mucilaginous drinks, I onco had a patient recover after taking a small quantity of the acid, and she said she thought she was swallowing molten lead. It is a hor rible life destroyer. "-Buffalo Courier. BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES 1^B& VARIOUS SOURCES. ?H| Cupid Up-to-Date-Love's Test-? Remindor-Not a Personal Re ward-Died lor Lack of Love Modern Armor, Ktc., Etc. Perhaps 'tis true that Cupid is Quite blind, and yet I think The blinders that he wears are gold, . And Love looks through the chink. -Life. LOVE'S TEST. Mabel-"Is Tom's love genuine?" Ethel-"Tho ring he gave me is, anyhow, for I had it examined." Philadelphia Inquirer. A REMINDER. Charley Goodly-"I owe everything to my mother." Bobby Lenaer-"Please don't over look the ten you owe mo."-Philadel phia Inqnirer. NOT A PERSONAL REWARD. Unelo-"If you pass your examina tion I will pay all yonr debts." Student-"So you want meto stud\ simply for the benefit of my credi tors?"-Fliegende Blaetter. DIED FOR LACK OF LOVE. Watts-"Did you ever know of anj one dying for love?" Potts-"Once. I knew a fellow wh( starved to ileath after being refus?e by an heiress."-Indianapolis Journal DESIRABLE LOCATION "Did you know that science had dis covered microbes in kisses," said om student to another. "Humph," replied another, "tha shows that a microbe isn't such a foo as he looks. "-Washington Star. WHERE WOMAN FAILS. Kicksey-"Few women seem t< catch the idea of making chickei soup." Wicksey-"Gracious, man, there'i hardly any of them that can. evei catch the chicken. "-Philadelphia In quiter. MODERN ARMOR. "I hear that the guards Wells-Fargc sent out with Southern Pacific traim aro entirely covered with mail." "Is it possible?" ^ "Yes; every time there is a robber] they hide under tho postal sacks." San Francisco Examiner. ONCE ONLY. Pushalong-"This is the second fiv( you've asked me for iu a week. That'i pretty quick work; quicker thai lightning." Thespicns - "How do you mean?" Pushalong- "Lightning nevei strikes iwico in the same place." Philadelphia Life. REFLECTIONS ON THE FOOD. Mr. Boredar-"You pride yoursel on thc refining influences of your es tablishment, Mrs. Lanladeigb?" Mrs. Lanladeigh-"Yes, Mr. Bore dar." Mr. Boredar (gazin? at his plate) "And yet I see you admit the toug] element. "-Philadelphia Life. SOME PATCHING NECESSARY." "Well, your Congressman's at homi now?" "Yes, he's como !" "What will ho do now?" """"" "Don't know ; bnt I reckon he'll g< to farmin', fer I hear somebody say b had a good deal o'work to do iixin' nj bis fences."-Atlanta Constitution. A CONSCIENTIOUS CONCLUSION. "Are you the boss of this ranch?' asked tho tramp. "Yes," said Mr. Timmins, thought fully, "I think that at tho present mo mont I can truthfully say that I ar the boss here. Tho hired girl is takin; an afternoon off, and my wife is ou riding a bicycle."-Washington Star. UNAVOIDABLY POSTPONED. "Mr. Bilbus, did you deliver you celebrated lecture on 'Orderly Honec keeping ; or, A Place for Everything Everything in Its Place,' at tho chura last Monday, as advertised?" "Xo!" "Ah-not feeling well?" "Yes." "Eh-what caused thc postpone mont?" "Mislaid my manuscript. Haven' found it yet."-Cleveland Plai: Dealer. THE CLERK KNEW THE SIZE. "I want to git a collar fer my hus hand," said the hard-faced woman "and I declaro I havo plumb forgo the size. I giner'ly bny all his collar and ties fer him, too." "Ah !" 6aid the astute clerk. "Thei you probably want about a thirteei and a half or fourteen." "Yes, that's right, but I don't se how you guessed it so easy?" "Oh, I havo noticed that a man win lets his wife buy all his haberdasher for him usually has a neck of abou that size. "-Cincinnati Tribune. A GRAND IMPROVEMENT. A. -"What is that curious machin that Count M- has had constrncte on your recommendation? He tell me the thing cost a lot of money, bn he is delighted at its beneficial effec on his health. What is it for?" B. (Count M-'s medical adviser -"The machine is intended to pum] fresh air from outside into the clos and 6tuffy library where the Coun spends most of his time." A. - "Yes, but wouldn't it do jns aa well if the windows were oponed?' B. -"Certainly; but my occupatio] as the Count's family doctor would b gono if I dared to suggest anything si simple." AN EYE TO BUSINESS. Thc auction room was crowded, an< tho collection of furniture, art am bric-a-brac hoing unusually ohoice bidding had been very spirited. Dur iug an interval of tho sale, a man wit! pale and agitated conntenano pushed h's way to tho auctioneer' side, and engaged him in a wbisperec conversation. Presently he stood aside, and th' auctioneer wrapped attention with hi little hammer : "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, ii a loud voice, "I havo to inform yoi that a gentleman present has lost hi pocketbook containing ?1500. He of fers $250 for its return." Instantly a small man in the back ground sprang upon a chair and cried excitedly : .TU give $500."-New York cury. HIS LUCK. Von Blumer-"I had the m gular thing happen to rae the day. Did yon ever go into a man's place to pay a bill you owed him and find him out?" - Plankington (emphatically) -1 'No, sir. Did that happen to you?" Von Blamer-"It did. I took a notion, or rather I nerved myself up to it, to settle up some billa that I owed. So on my way np from my of fice I dropped in to see my fish-man?" Plankington-"And he was out?" Von Blumer-"Correct. Then I tried my grocer-man." Plankington-"He was ont." Von Blumer-"Bight. Plenty of clerks, but no proprietor. Of course I left word that I called in to settle up, but ?wanted to see the proprietor fir*t. Dispute about bill. See?" Plankington-"Ob, yes. That strengthens your credit." Von Blumer-"Exactly. Then I called to sec my butcher, and I'll bo hanged if he wasn't out also !" Plankington-"By Jove, but you were in luck !" Von Blumer-"No, I wasn't." Plankington-"Why not?" Von Blumer-"When I got home, I found them all waiting for me."-Har per's Bazar. Scotch Fishermen. Ashore the Scotch fishermen is the laziest of operatives, lolling about the wharves and harbor corners with his bandi* invariably deep down in his "breeks" pockets, his women folk meanwhilo doing most of the work, TI and toiling along bent nearly double under their heavy creel loads of fish. Well does Jenny, Oldbuck's serving wench, put it: "As 6une as thc keel o' tho coble touches the sand, never a bit mair will the lazy fisherloons work but tho wives mauu kilt their coats, and wade into the surf to tak the fish ashore." Their method of baiting tho lines with a multitude of hooks is very t j neat and pretty to watch, the wholo 11 being arranged so systematically. In this branch of shore labor the men do sometimes like a share. Some of tho fishing villages along the north and east seaboard of Scot land aro singularly quaint and pic turesque, Netherlandish almost in their details, worthy studies for a Buy8da?l or a Van de Velde. Tho rows of little split fish skewered on sticks or triangular lath frames nailed along the cottage walls are quito dis tinctive features. So also are the cot tages themselves, with the vermilion, pan-tiled roofs and outlyingstairways ; but these aro fast disappearing and giving place to a modern 6tyle of tenement, which makes ono miss tho Old World forms and warm color. Well were it, however, if primitive dirt and archaic scavengering could in many cases make v?ay for moro mo dern sanitary arrangements. Tho fisher folk of both sexes are very commonly of a serious, inscrut able cast of countenance, generated, I suppose, by tho precarious nature and constant risks of thc seafaring occupa tion. "It's no fish ye're buying," quoth the masterful Maggie to Monk barns, "It's men's lives." The men do, indeed, carry their lives in their hands, and it were strange if this did not give a certain solemnity and God fearing set to their characters. Tho Eyeraouth pooplo etill speak with bated breath of tho tembl? catas trophe which overtook them in the great storm or cyclone of some years back, and turned well-nigh every homestead into a house of mourning. The fisherman has a long memory for 6nch visitations.-Tho Scottish Re view. _ Origin ol Some ol thc Dast. st-u_to a largo cxtani-ji^pjrjidccfc of human activity. In houses ana workshops, on the highways and in the streets, everywhere there is weat and tear of things, and tho product is always dust. Tho wearing and cleans ing of our clothing is continually breaking up its fibrc6into minute par ticles, and the friction of clothing on tho skin carries away the scales of tho epidermis, which aro constantly being shed and renewed. Every contact of human feet, horses' hoofs and tho wheels of vehi cles with paving aud road materials wears away particles of iron and stones. Tho effects of tho weather and tho alternations of cold and heat disintegrate all exposed surfaces. To theso particles, which form the dust invariably present in dwellings and in tho streets, there must be added tho innuraexablo minuto cells of vege table origin incessantly floating in the air, and on a completo view the dust produced by tho disintegration of meteors by contact with our atmos phere must also be mentioned. Dust accordingly cauaists of portions of all substances, organic and inor ganic, which decay by natural pro cesses, and arc reduced to powder by any means whatever. Few of its consitueuts can bo recognized by the naked eye. Thc microscope alone cat detect the nature of many, ana espe cially thos8 of tho greatest impor tance.-All thc Year Hound. The Diamond Disappears.]. Colonol Andrews was talking on dia monds, his favorito theme: "About twenty-five years ago a man named Louis Nathan showed me a seven-karat stone. " -Paste,' I said. "Well, he wanted to bet, and I took him for a tonuer. Wo went to Louis Schwartz, to Maurice Schmitt's father, to Dinkelspiel Sc Co. and to several others. They all said it was a rose dia mond of tho first water and was a rare gera. "All we could do then was to take it to a lapidary and havo it filed. The first one who touched it agreed with me, but this didn't satisfy Nathan, and he had soveral others take Q whack at it. They all pronounced it paste." Tho Colonel paused a moment, and, throwing up his hands, said to tho San Francisco Call roporter: "What do you supposa became of it?" "What?" "Why, they filed it all away apply ing the test," and he laughed at the remembrance of Nathan's discomfiture. Broadway thc Longest Street. The longest street in tho world ia Broadway, which begins at Bowling Green, in tho city of Now York, and runs up the Hudson under the same name past Yonkers, somo fourteen miles, and is then continued along tho Albany post-road to the capital of tho State of Now York. This makes the street practically 150 miles long. Of course there aro many other long and fine streets in tho world, but not ono, taking in all and all, equal to Broad way.-Frank Leslie's Weekly. Sleep vs. the Sermon. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone wero sitting in a church at Cannes the other day. They were near tho pulpit, but wheu tho sermon began Mr. Gladstone turned to his wife and said, irritably, "I can't hear !" "Never mind, my dear," sho replied, in a whisper loud enough to reach tho pnlpit, "never mind ; go to slee]). It will do you ranch more good."-Now York Tri bune. Big Headed Women not Beautiful. A woman with a big head can never bo handsome, much less beautiful. Tho "big head" that is sometimes ac quired is not the sort referred to, but that actual largeness of skull and fea tures which savors of disproportion and can never bo symmetrical when combined with feminine shoulders. Websterian massiveness may please the Willards and tho Somersets, though never the admirers of beauty and womanly grace, and to whom size means nothing intellectually, provided the gray matter has room enough to exercise its preciso function. There is an antediluvian notion that the small head of the antelope or the deer signifies a type well followed by nature in the construction of fair women,and even if the present development of brains does physically affect tho race, this standard must remain the truest and best while the Venus of Milo con tinues to exist.-Boston Herald. Engraving by Dynamite. Some officers at the naval station at Newport were testing a new fuse. In some way a small dried leaf had slip ped in between the dynamite cartridge and the iron block on which the cart ridge was fired, and a perfect imprint of the leaf was left in the metal. The discovery was afterwards used in dec orative work, and the process is found so accurate in operation that even the veins in tho petals of flowers can be reproduced in metal. BAPTISTS IN WASHINGTON. Southern Knptists Will Go Ry Southern Railway to thc Annual Convention in ?Hay. Tlio Southern Baptist. Convention is a groat convention, and tlie Southern Railway is a great railway. From nil principal points in i he entire South round trip tickets ?rill be bold via tlie Southern Railway to Washington and return, at. rato of one fare for thc round trip, on dates May 7th and Bill, KO ?1 fifteen day*. Tlie Souther.i Railway i< tho only railroad from tlie South enter nj: Washington. lt ls the only railway winch has three daily through trains from the South lo Washing ton, inc'.u Ihm tuc lincst train in the South, "The Vestibuled Limited." Tho Sont hem Railway is tho only railway which ha* it-> general offices In Washington. And remember that thc return echedul s hythe "Piedmont Air Linc" Southern Rail way, ur ! ai g.ind a-1 the going sch'dulcs. r or full Information communicate with any agent of this groat tvstcm. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, I LncAS COUNTY. ( FRANK J. CneNEY makes oath that ho ls tho senior partner nf tlie firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in tho City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that ?aid linn will pay tho mini of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every caso of C narrh that. c:?nnot bo cured by thc uso of HALL'S CATAURO CURE. FRANK .r. CuKNEY. sworn to heforo mo and subscribed in my presence, this ?th day cl December, A. D. 1S3'J. . -, A. W. GLEASON, ?j SEAL > I -Y- 1 N-itnru Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure -staken internally and acts directly on the blond ?ind mucous surface of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. 0. t3T"Sold by Druggists, 75c. CONFEDERATE TE PUR ANS. .tiny Encampment, Houston, Tcxns-SpC' rial Low linton by Southern Railway. On May 17th and lsih tho Southern R.-vlnnj wlil sell from nil prill' ipalstatl 'ii>on its ino excursion tickets tn Hon ton. Texas and r.v turn at very low rate". Special accommoda Mons will be arranged for parties of snfficienl siz". All desiring to go should communicate at once with sonn representative o? thc "Great Short Line Route." **A Frosh English Complexion." That healthy pink and white might just n<. well Do th? typical American compl exion, ll people would take reasonable care of theil health. Rip ms Tabules go to the r.iot of thc Irou'de. heeau.se a Stomach in jood order pro ducos good blood. Mr?. Wlnslow'sSoothins Syrup for children teething, softens tho gums, reduces in flam na tion, allay"'pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle Piso's Cure is the medicine to break up chit drcn's Coughs and Colds.-Mr*. M. G. ULUNT Sprague, Wash., March 8, '94. Both the method and results -when Syrup of Figs 13 taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gen ?.ly yee promptly on tho Kidneys, Liver and liowels, cleanses tho sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of ita kind ever pro ducer, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in ita action and truly beneficial in ita effects, prepared only from tho most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figa is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept anj substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK, flt Y. powdered soap could be. It any soap-and many more, that does the work easily, 1 easily than any other way yet Breamers c C W di C FALSE-3 you an imitation, be honest-send it back. USUAL PRICE, The AERMOTOR ANTI-FRE break, bas a very large air chamber, has and can be furnished by any dealer this ci Aermotor agent for them. It is always 1 As a rule bc is a first-class, live, reliable, in our entire list ot thousands of agents, AERMOTOR FORCE PUMP fi Pump Catalogue. Buy nothing but an i furnish it good goods at low prices. W Voa consult your own interests by insistin next week ot a Uo Feed Cutter at Ito. J You wan Royal Baking Pow never makes sour, ? never spoils good rr lumps of alkali in the all these things do of cooks who cling methods, or who use If you want the Baking Powdei BOYAL BAKJNO POWDFR ( How to Get a Wife. Austrian matrimonial advertise ments, according to a contemporarj correspondent at vienua, are marked by an acceptable humorous audacity. Here, for instance, is one that ran foi six or seven days: "Wanted-A rici lady-no matter how old-who will finance a student of medicine until such time as he obtains his degree, when he engages to marry bis benefac tress." Another is quoted wherein a young prince seeks a handsome girl with ? dowry of not less than 81,000,000. When the desired mate is obtained al] one's needs are apparently satisfied, judging from this advertisement for t purchaser for "a well-trained monkey a talkative parrot and a beautiful sympathetic cat," which belong to i lady who, owing to her approaching marriage, has no further usc for them The most amusing of the advertise ments quoted by our contemporary is however, that of the very Irish peru quicr who makes wigs for "men of in tellect, philosophers, scholars and phy bicians, whose severo mental labor ii the cause of humanity has filled theil brains with genial ideas, while depriv ing their heads of their natural c:ipil lary envelopes." These "artistically j finished wigF," the advertiser contin lies, "while extremely useful nro high ly ornamental, aro guaranteed ab.so lutcly invisible to the spectator. The] can be seen any day in my privat? show rooms."-Philadelphia Pres*. Reading and Talking. Those who read largely arc best fit ted to converse well, for they obtaii from books and papers interesting matter for diecussion. As to the man uer, it can bo acquired only by socia mingling with our fellows. A hermi cannot be expected to be a good con vcrsationalist. Whether in simple tall or in the higher forms of conversation we need to consider thc preferences o others and try to adapt ourselves t< them. A real amiability will lend ai indefinable charm to our speech. Ab ruptness, contradiction, all assnmptioi of mental superiority, are to be stndi ously avoided. Graciousness and cou sideration aro requisite for those whi would make themselves helpful am agreeable. Children should bo en ^ew<agod._llot only to listen._bnt mod estly bear th?nTpart in the family tulk asking questions freely and relatini their daily experiences as older peopl do. -Harper's Bazar. Taking Russia's Census In One Dav In the autumn of tho present yea tho censns of thc wholo of Russia wi) bc taken in one day. For this pm pose a committee, consisting of up ward of 200 persons, has been work ing moro than two years, and tho iv structions to the different province will be issued shortly. It is believe that in twenty provinces there are noi upward of 47,000,000 inhabitants whereas when the census was taken i: 1860 in tho samo districts there wer 30,000,000. It is supposed that th greatebt increase of population ha taken place in the provinces of Kief! Poltava, Kharkoff, Tamboff, Samar and Viatka and in the towns of Kiel Kharkoff, Odessa, Baku, Lody an Kishincff.- London Standard. NEW BLEEPING CAR LINE Tn Bruni" irk, Via Central Kal rand (Je ru m So ul li rm and Kl or id a and Plan S'ystcni. Commencing Mond.iy, April 1st, the Centra Railroad of Georgia, ?ti connection with tb Ocorgln Southern and Floridaand Plant sys t-m. will put on a Pullman sleeper betwee: Atlanta and Brunswick. Leaving Atlani every evening ~ p. m., and arr ve Brunswic! 0:50 a. m.. to accommodate the va-1 amount o travel to Cumberland and St. Simon's Islan< ? luring the summer. In addition to this trni: lhere will be a train leaving Atlanta 7:30 f m.. and arriving Brunswick S p. m 'Ibis wti be good n -ws to the many Atlanta ncop'e wr. visit (,'iimb Hand und St. Simons during th rammer. Close connection will bo made a Brunswick with boats for Oural orland an St. Simon's. For full ami reliable informs tion apply to F. J. BoniNSON, S. B. WEBB, C. P. and T. A. T. PTA. IC Wallstreet, Kimball House, Atlanta, (it Edeede. A n. I know Tc'tt?iine to be a radical cure ic Tetter, Salt Rheum, Eczemi and a 1 kindre diseases <>f the Skin ?md Sea p. I never pro 1 scribe anything else in all Skin troubles, ft r S. Fielder. M. D. Sent by mail for 50? i ?tnmp-i. J. T. Slinptrine, Savannah, Ga. 'Shave your Soap" -so the soap makers say, es >ecially if you're washing delicate lings. Now, in the name ol common sense, what's the use ? When you can get -Pearline, in powder form -J for this very reason, why a do you want to work over soap, which, if it's good "foi ts very hard and difficult to cut. :arline is vastly better than any has all the good properties of , too. There's something in it but without harm-much more known. nd some unscrnpnlous grocers will tell Ton, ! good as" or "the same as Pearline." IT'S Pearline is never peddled, if your grocer sends 393 JAMES PYLE, New York. $1599 ?ERM0?? FORCE PUK has a triad tail! shot 91 the above price, agent for any EZINCTHI a very Urge cpout opening, de of the Rocky Mountains better to go to an Aermotor wide-awake fellow; that ia ' the reason you caa find one slow, stupid, behind Hbo-til IT $4.50, DETTER THAN USUALLY I lermotor Pump, end do not pay more than Acrmot 'e have established twenty branch bouses la order g on not only Aermotor prices but Aermotor goods IERWOT9R co., _Ql?lsfwo.. t the Best der never disappoints; soggy, or husky food; ?aterials ; never leaves ? biscuit or cake ; while happen with the best C to the old-fashioned other baking powders. t I best food, ROYAL r is indispensable. 10? ?AU. ST., New-YORX. Christian Endeavor. The Christian Endeavor convention which meets in Boston, Mass., July 10th-15th, has already aroused a great deal of interest. The committee of arrangements have been granted the use of Boston common for a big open air meeting of a patriotic meeting July 4th. Governor Greenhalge, Dr. Don ald McLaurin of Detroit, Dr. S. Smith, the author of "America," and several other prominent persons will be present and speak. Dr. Smith is to write a special hymn for the convention. Tho singing at the common meeting will be by a choir of 2,0% voicer, assisted by an immense orchestra. Fully fifty thousand Chris tian Endeavorers will take port in the meeting, in addition to the outsiders who will be attracted by the novelty of the occasion. Like an open book, our faces tell the talc of health or dis ease. Hollow cheeks and sunken eyes, listless steps and languorous looks tell of wasting de bilitating disease some place in the body. It may be one place or another, the cause is generally traceable to a com mon source-im pure blood, and im ^ pure blood starts in the digestive organs. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery purifies the blood, stimulates digestive action, searches out disease-germs wher ever they exist and puts the whole body into a vigorous, strong and healthy con dition. It builds up solid, useful flesh, rubs out wrinkles, brightens the eyes and makes life really worth living. a BUBB ' IS THE BEST. I FIT FOB AKIN?. .$s. CORDOVAN; FRENCH & ENAMELLED CALF. ^4.ffi35p FlNECALF&ffANOARim $3.SPP0UCE,3 SOLEO. 52.^17-PBOYS'SCHOOLSHQES. .L, ABIES' DROCKTOMIASS. Over Ono Million People wear tho * W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our shoes are equally satisfactory They give tho best value for the money. They equal custom shoes In style end (lt. Their wearing; qualities are unsurpassed. The prices aro uniform,-stamped on rola. From Si to S3 saved over other makes. If your dealer cannot supply you wc ^n. AN OLD-TIME BEMEDY IN A MODEBN FORtf. TUE LATEST, MOST EFFECTIVE DYSPEPSIA CUBE. Pocket Edition Of a Et in lard Medicinal Pr ascription. That ls: Thc same insredieuta In tho form of TABULES Instead of Liquid. RipansTabules ? sing"o one gives prompt relief. Ri pans Tabules, price ?V) cents a box. At t-ruggists or by mail. RIPANS CHEMICAL CO., 13 Spruce St., New York. Morphine Habit Cured IN 20 DAYS. NO SUFFERING, Nor any Money Required in Advance. Not one cent till CURED ami SATISFIED. Como tos-e nu? or write mo nf onT? f ir terms. 33. JSL, SYMS, M. 33., ATLANTA, (JA., 197 Alexander St. How Consumption Is Now Cured! Pamphlet fully describing the Treatment sent Fra* on application to ROBERT HUNTER, M. D.. 117 West 15th St., New Yerk. Notice io Mill Men And farmers owning smill power: Tho finest ?nd mint com Me Sow Mill in ex stence to-day, is manu fnrtiirod by tho Mr I.O A I' II M I LL M't Ui.VO., 330 lllutila-x' Ave.. Atlanta, tin. Tn k (int pris? at World's Fair at Chicago. All size*, from 4 h. n. up to tho largest. Price* reduced. Send for cata? legue showing r.ow improvem?rt-<: a so. of Portable (Torn Mils. Biting Prestos ?nd Turbine Water Wheels, Pulleys and Shafting and all kinds of mill suppl es. IIT'C LIVER I Riv PRIS J f* -AND G^TONIC PELLETS. TREATMENT SMSS At all stores, or by mail ?"ic. double box: & double boxes ?Li?. BROWN -MF'iJ CO., New York Olrr. to sell our goods by sample* to tba wholesale and retail trades 0ALESMEN 5SGB \ sell on fight to every business man or Arm; llb 1 eral salary, money advanced for advertuing and 1 I expenses;" permanent position. Address, vrlth W stamp. KINO MFG. CO.. D 41, Chicago, UL 4..N.?.Fifteen, D5 castings to lever attached, course, it is better to go to aa thing you may want which he handles, he is aa Aermotor agent It is doubtful if. aes fellow. We furnish also a SPECIAL SOLO AT 98 OR S IO. Scad for our or prices for it. We protect the publie. We that it may get goods cheaply ead promptly, at Aermotor prices, 'fie sore tad ace our offer ?