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How is Your Blood? If it is poor and thin and lacking in tho number and quality of those red corpuscles, you are in danger of sickness from disease germs and the enervating effect of warm weather. Purify your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla . The great blood purifler which bas proved its merit by a record of cures unequalled in medical history. With pure, rich blood you will be well and strong. Do not negloot this important matter but take Hood's Sarsapar illa now. Be sure to get Hood's. ISAA*!'* DMIfik RRE lasteless, mild, eff"C nOQQ S ri?g tlve. All druggists. Sc. Kew Substituto for Butter. The latest substitute for butter is said to be a product made from pe troleum, but by what name it is to be known we have not learned. Petro leum is put to many uses, and in the exhibit at the "World's fair there were over eighty different oils made from it including "imported pure olive." It is all right to use science in as many ways as possible in the aid of humani ty, but it is entirely wrong to put fraudulent products on the market and call them genuine. If wo are to have a new substitute for butter let it be called by some different name. Climatic Co-Operatlon. "Well," said tho man who fixes up tho weather bulletin, "there's ono thiner to be said to my credit anyhow." "What is that?" inquired the assist ant. "My reports haven't been dry read ing for a long time."-Washington Star. _ An Impertinence. Tho following notice is posted con spicuously in a newspaper office out west : "Shut the door ; and ns soon as you have done talking business, serve your mouth the same way." Too Impulsive. "Brilliant and impulsive people," declares a lecturer on physiognomy, "have black eyes; or, if they don't have them, they aro apt to get them if they are too impulsive." THE waters of North America, which means tho Gulf of Mexico, the two great oceans and the rivers, creeks and lakes, are stocked with 1800 different varieties of fish. Of tho above num ber five hundred aro peculiar to the sea and about six hundred to tho rivers, creeks and lakes. The Miran gelt Men Crow Weak Sometimes. The short cut to renewed vigor is taken by those sensible enough to uso Hos tctter's Stomach Bitters sysUmatica'.iy. It Te-es:ablbhes impaired digestion, enables tbe system to assimilate food, and combines the qualities of a fine medicinal stimulant with iiiose of a sovereign preventive remedy. Ma laria, dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatic, nervous and kidney complaints aro cured and averted by it. A Baltimore drngei-t puts this sign upon his broken window: "This window was broken by a horr-e in a ma 1 rush for one of our sodas." Dr.Kilmer's SWAMP-ROOT caret ail Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Binghamton. N. X. An Abbeville, X. C., paper makestbcmitque claim to "more reders for least circulation of any p.iper in thc United Slate)." Change ot" Lite. When a woman approaches the change of life she is liable to have a return of all the menstrual derangements, and oiher adments tba' afflicted her in former years. Thc direct a-tion of McElrce's Wino of Cardui on the organs afflicted, make it tho best remedy for usc during this period. Mrs. D. Pennington, West Plain?, Mo., says: "I had been suffering from chango of life and it lo k the form of drop-y. The doctora told my husband it was useless to prescribo for me e.r.? nitwr.- About that timo we get Dr. McEl ree's book oa the treatment of femalo diseases and decided 'o try the Wine of Cardui Treat ment. After using nine bot tles, I am well." Always Corea Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Bad Breath, DebUIty, Sour Stomach, Want of Appetite, Distress After Eating, and all evils arising from a weak or disordered stomach. It builds up from tho ?r>t dose, and a bottle or two will cure tho worst oases, and insure a good appe tite. excellent digestion aud result in vigor ous bea.th and buoyancy of spirits. There is no latter way to insure good health and a long Ufe than to keep the stomach rizht. Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy is guaranteed to do this. Tao Tranquilizing Atter-Dinner Drink. For sale by Druggists. Manufactured by C. 0. Tyner, Atlanta. .F. S. Parker, Ff donia. N. Y., says: "Shall not call on yon for tlie $100 rowar.i, for I be lieve Hall's Catarrh Cure will cure any case of c itarrh. Wa? very bad." Write bim for par ticulars. Sold by Druggists, 73c. Experience Leads .Hauy Mothers to Say "UscParker's Ginzer Tonio" because it is good for colds, pain and almost every weakness. Pisa's Cur . i- a wonderful Cough medicine. -Mr?. \V. PlCKJCRX. Van Sielen and Blako Aves.. Brooklyn, X. \.. Oct. L'C. '94. Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it ia pleasant and refreshing to the ta?te, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is tho only remedy of its kind ever pro duce!., pleasing to the tasto and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have mado it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs 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. Bo not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE. KY. 11EVJ YORK. N Y. ? HIGHEST AWARD* WORLD'S FAIR. ? THE BEST ? PREPARED SOLD EVERYWHERE, jir_JOHN CARLS <? SONS, New York. * 1 ?5n?S V.'?tKi Ali EISE FAILS. Lg Bert COORD s jr rup. TfttfuOood. UBCE| THE SONG AND THE SIGH, When bright skies seem far away, Smilo and think the winter's May; If the snow falls day and night, Dream each flake's a rose of whitol Never mind how dark the sky It's the song that beats thc sight As this old world rolls along, Hear the bells ring! and the song! Every bird on every tree Joining in the melody! Happy as the time rolls by It's the song that beats tho sigh! Every garden has its rose; Every storm a rainbow shows! When, each day, the sun declines Star lo star in glory shine?! Seo the sun-the stars on high It's the song that beats the sigh! Still God's heaven greets your sight In tho darkness there is light. Every morn the sunlight streams. And tho dark is sweet with dreams. Rear the music from on high It's the song that beats tho sigh! -E. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. ROSE-LEAVES. ET HELEN FOEREST GRAVES. HERE : ro six of u1:.!" said Fenelia Grey t o n ; "and nothing to live upon !'' She looked around upon the rest of the Greyton family with the tragic air of a modern Medea. Tho Greytons lived in a pretty old manor house on the Bloomingdale road, just a pleas ant drive out of town. They liked pretty draperies, nnd cultivated rare roses, and painted lovely little amateur pictures, and basked, in a sort of unthinking way, in life's sunshine. They didn't know quite how much income they had, nor exactly where it came from. They only knew that everything was in the hands of "poor papa's lawyer-a darling, white haired old philanthropist, who was devoted to tho heathen, and who of ficiated as Secretary to half a dozen foreign missionary associations. And whenever they wanted money they went to him for it. And one day, when Mrs. Greyton and her daughter Lilla went to the city office with a bundlo of unpnid bills to get Mr. Framingbam to write a check for them, the door was pad locked, and a little paper notice "To Let" was tacked upon it. Where had Mr. Framingbam gone? Nobody knew. When would he return? Thepublic was densely ignorant on that subject. Why had he gone? And in answer to this question thero was a very uni versal shrugging of shoulders, and a whisper about a general "smash-up." Poor Mrs. Greyton ! She and Lilla were both as ignorant and inexperi enced of the world as a pair of white kittens, and it was some time before she could comprehend that Mr. Fram ingham was a thorough faced villain, and that she and her little flock were penniless. "What shall we do?" murmured Mrs. Greyton, after she had wept through her whole supply of pocket handkerchiefs. "Couldn't we sell our hand-painted china?" said Clarice, a swarthy browed girl of eighteen. "I de signed every piece myself. And Mr. Favalli said-" "Pshaw!" curtly interrupted Fen elia. "Just look at the china stores, crowded full of far finer work. Poor Clarie ! they wouldn't pay you the price of the mineral paint it took to do them for your plaqnes and vases." "1 eau do art embroidery very nice ly," suggested Mona, a tall, shy girl with liquid black eyes, and jetty hair growing low on her forehead. "The embroidery market is over full," said Fenelia, who was the incar nation of common senso fer the fami ly. "If you could do housework now. Mona-" Mona looked down at her slim, white hands, all sparkling with rings, and shuddered. But Bess, the youngest, came bravely to the rescue. "The first thing," said she, "is to send all the servants off except Ann. We can't afford to pay four girls and a man any louder." "But who is to keop the garden in order," cried Clarie, "if we discharge the man?" "It must go without being kept in order," said Bess, "or else we must do it ourselves." "My poor roses !" sighed Mrs. Grey ton. "Mamma's roses shall not suffer," said Lilla. "I will look after them myself." "And old Mrs. Playford, who spends a month with us every summer?" said Mona. "And the Bidgood girls, who always invite their frienes here to the midsummer picnics-and all tho peo ple who drive out from the city to lunches and teas-" "We must make a clearance of tho whole of 'em!" said Fenelia, crisply "uuless, indeed, they would like to make a business matter of it and pay their board." "Oh, Fenelia!" cried Mrs. Grey ton. "Well, why not, mamma? So far as I can see, we haven't got money to buy our own bread and butter-so how can we afford to order ices, and frozen puddings, and pates de foie gras for other people? But if we had a regular income, I am almost sure, with Ann's help, that wo could set a very nice tablo for boarders." Lilla looked terrified. "Mamma," said she, "has it come to this?" Bess frowned savagely. "Lilla," said she, "don't bo a fool! unless you think you would like to starve." And while tho family were still in committee-of-the-who?e, old Mrs. Pl ay ford's huge, old-fashioned ba rouche rumbled up to tho door, with a Leaning Tower of Pisa strapped on behind in the shape of trunks ! "I'm a little earlier than usual, my sweet girls," said she, with a smile that revealed the golden hinges of her falso teeth after a most ghastly fashion. "But tho season is in tolembly hot, and my doctor declares it would bc suicide for me to remain longer in town. And I know, darlings, I'm always sure of a welcomo hore!" Mrs. Greyton was about to reply, when Fenelia stepped forward. "Then you haven't heard of it?" said she. "Wo are ruined, Mrs. Flay iord. Old Mr. Framingbam has spent all our money and gone to Australia. Wo can't entertain company any lon ger. But if you would like to board here, at a reasonable compensation, we Bhall be glad to receive yon, and give you all the comforts of a home." Mrs. Playford's jaw dropped; she turned a sickly putty oolor. "John, John?" she cried to the M^-^-- ----i^ man; "yon needn't unstrap thc trunks. I havo so many friends w are anxious for my society, tl really I am not at liberty to accc your very singular proposition" Fenelia). "Of course" (to Mrs. Ort ton) "I sympathize deeply with ye but we ali know that riches ha wings, and I never did put any cc fidence in Mr. Framingham as a bu ness man. So sorry that things shot have come to such an awkward co plication !" "There she goes-the old hi ridan!" said Mona, as the wither hand waved itself from tho carrin window, half-way down the drr "Sho has lived upon us for six su mcrE, and now she wonldn't fling c of us a penny if we were starving !" Old Mrs. "Playford was better th an advertisement in tho newspapc The Bidgood girls came no more ; t city people kept sublimoly away. T old adage concerning the flight of ri from a falling house carno stricl true. "Bosa Bidgood hasn't even coi after that conserve of rosc-leavee promised her," said Mona, sad! "And I gave Ave dollars for the spic and essential oil. and I dried tho jr que minot and neil leaves so careful and Clarie painted such a beautil butterfly jar for it !" "Can I have the pot-pourri, Mona asked Bess, suddenly. "Yes, if yon want it," answer Mona, with a shrug of her Bhouldei "We can't eat nor drink dried ros leaves." "Perhaps wo can,"said Bess to he self. And sho rummaged out divers ai sundry rare old porcelain jars ai vases from tho family stores, fill them with the sweet, strangely-seen ed mass that Mona had concocted, ai carried them quietly to town. "It smells exactly liko Mrs. Gre; ton's drawing-room at the mani hoii60 here!" exclaimed Ferdinac Houghton, as ho entered tho studio < Miss Malvina Morris, a fair feminii sculptor, who had some very origim ideas of her own, an 1 was on "hai fellow-well-met" terms with all th other artisis of both sexes. She wa3 neither young nor pretty yet every one liked Miss Morris. "Well, I should think it might, said she. "Do you seo those wine jar on the shelf?" "Ot course I do. What aro they? "They are filled with conserved ros leaves. Mona Greyton mado then Bess, the second sister, wants mo t sell them for her. Beal old porcclai -leaves full of thc subtlest scents o Bendemeer. Will you tako ono at te dollars, Ferdy?" "Then it's true?" said Houghton. "About their financial troubles Unfortunately, yes," said Miss Met vina. "I only wish I could help them Come, buy the pot-pourri-there's good fellow !" "It's my last ten-dollar bill," sail Ferdinand, "but here goes! Mon Greyton is in angel. Do you suppose Miss Mally, she would accept a poo artist like me, with no particular in come and nothing to live on?" "Try it and see," said Miss Morrie "But I'm not half good enough fo her." "Possibly," acceded Miss Malvina "But thero aro five girls, you know and nothing to live on." So Ferdinand bought the pot-pourri and rode out at once to the mano house. .'Your uncle, sir, wants to soe yoi np at the house," 6aid the groom whe led out his little gray nag. ".[ can't 6tay this morning," sah Houghton. "I'm in a hurry." "But it's fiomo very particular busi ness," said the man, running do wi the pavement after him. "Oh, hang business!" said Hough ton. . And off lie rode. Mona was in tho gardon with i basket, gatheriug moro rose leaves She thought the pot-pourri questior promised favorably. Clarice was painting desperately away at old India ginger jars, up stairs Fenelia was writing an advertiso ment, "Boarders Wanted," for thc paper. "The house is as big as a hotel,' said she. "Why not make some usc of it?" Mona Greyton listened with smiles and tears to Ferdinand Houghton'e vehement proposal. "But what could we live upon?' said she. "Why, I could paint pictures," sail! this sanguino young wooer. "Pa guro to sell them at a tearing bij price as soon as roy name becomes ? little better known; and I'll have your mother and all the girls to live with us." "Oh, Ferdinand !" said Mona, hr 1 laughing, half crying. And thou tho young artist knevi that he had not pleaded in vain. "And it's nil owing to tho pot pourri," said she, "the bwcet, pootl cal pot-pourri." "Every bit of it," said Ferdinand. But his undo listened gravely tc the tale when the young man came home, late in tho moonlight, with hie heart full of love affairs. "Humph!" said Unelo Barlow^ "How many pictures did you sel! during the past year?" "Two, sir." "At how much?" "Seventy-five dollars each," reluc tantly admitted Ferdinand. "Humph !" again grunted this re lentless old Rhadainanthus. "And you expect to maintain a wife and her mother and four sisters ou a hundred and fifty dollars a year?" "J shall manage to maintain them in some way way, sir," sail the un abashed nephew. "There's always tho Far West, you know." Unelo Barlow laughed. "I think we can manage to do bet ter than that for you, you young scamp," said he. "If you had turned back this morning when I sent for you, instead of psltiug off to tho manor houso as if it were a question of life or death, you would havo learned that old Framingham had been overhauled in Loudon, cn route for Van Dieman's Laud, gorged with plunder like an old leach." "What, sir!" shouted Ferdinand. "The Greyton's defaulting lawyer?" "Him?elf and none other," said Uncle Barlow. "We had a cable tele gram at ll o'clock. Mrs. Greyton's money is all safo in the hands of our Loudon agent. " "But, eir," gasped Ferdinand, "how do you como to know this?" "Old Dorranco Greyton did mo a favor once, when I was a struggling man," said Mr. Barlow. "It was not my intention to stand by and Bee his widow defrauded without some slight effort in her behalf. It seems that I was just in time." So there was an end of tho Greyton troubles. They kept tho old manor house. Ferdinand Houghton set up his studio there in one of thc firent north-lighted rooms, and Mrs. Hough ton makes pot-pourris every year of rose-leaves. And ns fast as tho other girls marry oft*-which is by no means a slow busi ness, for they are every one of them handsome-she gives each a wedding present of a sweej; conserve of scented leaves, in an old Oriental jar. "For pot-pourris are lucky," she sayB, with the wisest of nods. WORDS OF WISDOM. Tho man who hesitates is won. Do not waste timo over your griev ances. It always makes a man foel good to sneeze. Thc street is fall of humiliations to the proud. ^ So many people arc actuated hy puro cussedness. What wo learn with pleasure we never forget. Somo people do nothing but talk encouragingly. Patience is the road to advancement in nil lines of life. Prosperity is a blessing to tho good, a curso to the evil. A small debt produces a debtor ; a largo ono an enemy. Many try but few succeed in borrow ing themselves rich. Few men aro so clever as to know all the mischief they do. A perfectly bright girl can do with out a light in the parlor. Nothing is more reasonable and cheap than good manners. When the State is most corrupt then tho laws are most multiplied. In a great many cases a woman's faith in a man is a sort of stubborn ness. When a ?rom?n wants to laugh in her sleeve eho is not cramped for lack of room. Clothos do not make tho man, but they have a good deal to do in making a woman. A mother thinks her daughter's faithful piano practico is sweet music. That is love. To dally much with subjects moan and low, proves that the mind is weak or makes it so.-The South-West. Danger From Lightning, There is a somewhat widespread im pression that the use of so much wiro for telephone and other electrical pur poses in cities and towns largely in creases tho danger of lightning strokes. Tho notion is based upon the concentration within certain lim its of a great quantity of conducting material,which, it is assumed, attracts the electricity and thereby increases the danger of it. While it is true that the increaee of conducting material increases the attraction, it is not true that it increases tho danger. As a matter of fact, it decreases tho dan ger, for tho moro surface electricity has over which to spread, tho more readily and quickly it is carried to tho earth. A house with a metal roof is not often struck by lightning, for while tho metal may attract tho elec tricity, it also gives it room to spread ont, and its force ia thus dissipated. This fact was demonstrated by Frank lin with his kito long ago, and light ning rods aro put on buildings to give storm clouds a means of discharging their electricity into tho earth. This discharge takes place without tho ro poit that wo call thnndor, for electric ity makes no noiso unloss it uieots somo resisting medium. It ?E a woll-known fact that there ?B less danger from lightning in citios than in the country, and this ?3 duo to tho general uso of iron, stool and' other metals in city buildings. The buildings are tall, and would seom, therefore, to bo specially attraotive to tho lightning; indeed, they aro often struck, but tho metal in thom dissi pates tho force of the fluid and carries it harmlessly and quietly to the oarth. Tho effect of telephone wires upon at mospheric electricity has been under official investigation by the German department of telegraphs, and statis tics from 900 cities show that the dan ger from lightning strokes is four times ns great in towns that do not have the telephone as in those that hive it. Tho conclusion of the whola matter, therefore, is that an abund ance of wires gives protection from lightning, instead of increasing tho danger.-Philadelphia Times. - ii - A Simple Means ot Transportation. The ascent of mountains and the carrying of necessary articles up very steep inclines necessitate an enormaus amount of labor and time. It is pos sible to put up wiro rope tramways at a very small expense, and have those so arranged that loads can be brought up a minimum of the cost and trou blo now involved. A sample of this device is, a wiro tramway recently put up at Gibraltar. It connects tho signal station at tho top of the rock with tho town below. There are two ropes, 320 yards long, leading to the mountain. An engine works the ropes which are able to Bus tain a weight of seventy tons. Tho transit from tho town to the station occupios scarcely five minutes, where formerly it took a whole clay. Ou the general principle of tho car riage lino that delivers parcels and chango in stores, au effective and rapid means of transit between tho various points may be secured. Tho rope tramway idea is yet in its infancy, but before another ten years have passed this invention will be util ized to connect buildings of all sorts. It would bc of untold value could a Bingle ropo and basket bo BO arranged that one might pass from house to out buildings, regardless of snow, storm, or rnin, stepping from one sheltered entry at tho house to another at tho barn without coming in contact with the ground. The time and need are here, and only await tho inventive genius who shall put theso into prac tical operations. -New York Lodger. Dutch Cure tor Laziness. Tho Dutch aro not fond of lazy people, and they have a very good way of curing persons who can but won't work, if a pauper who is ablo to work refuses to do so they put him into a cistern, to which a pump is at tached, and turn on a stream of water. This stream flows into tho cistern just slow enough to enable tho lazy person by lively pumping to keep the water from getting up over his head.-Now York Advertiser. A Remarkable Jet ot Water. A live-inch jet of water, which risos in a solid stream for over 100 feet, is ono of tho features of tho No. 2 reser voir at Portland, Oregon. Colonel Smith, tho chief engineer of tho water works, says that it will bo possiblo to Lave even a finer jet at No. 8 reservoir in the city jiark. A jct of 200 feet and as many fountains as can be got, throwing water as high as desired, may be some of thu features.-New York Advertiser. lt ia claimed that there are fifty-five dogs in the United Kingdom to cver^ 1000 inhabitants. BUDGET OF FUN. K?JxMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Good for Another Day-A Necessary Precaution-Possibly True-Mak ing a Selection- Tickling the Baby, Etc., Etc. There came a burst of thunder sound; Tho boy-oh. where was he? Out at tho city baseball irround, Whore he had slipped ia freo. The lightning flashed, the Ihundor rolled, Tho rain came pouring down; Tho game was called, nad, wet with cold, He sprinted into town. Back to tho offics bc returned, And sadly did explain How his grandmother's funeral Was postponed by the rain. -Sansas City Journal. A NECESSARY PRECAUTION. "So they lock tho jury up every night, do they?" .'Yee ; otherwise they might break loose and kill some of thc lawyers." Puck. MAKING A SELECTION. "Will yon take ether or gas?" tho dentist asked his patient. "Ether." "Either? Then I'll give you gas." -Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. rossrcLT TRUE. She-"Hero is the story of a man who says he never made love tn a girl in his life. Do you believo it?" He-"It may bo true. Some fel lows make a specialty of widows, you know. "-Indianapolis Journal. HI? LIFE WORK. "Oh, papa! what makes Mr. Grab enheiraer walk BO stoop-shouldered? He looks Uko a horseshoe." "I have heard, my son, that many years ago, when ho was a very littlo boy, no bigger than you aro now, ho found a cont. -Puck. A GLOOMY PROSPECT. Mr. Finemind-"My dear, my sci entific works are bringing me iu a for tune, and we will soon bc rich." Mrs. Finemind-"Too bad. Now wo will havo to associate with a lot of nobodies who inherited their wealth." -New York Weekly. TICKLING THE BABY. Askin-"Good gracious, Kidder! How came you by that fearful cold?" Kidder-"My wife leaves tho win dow open every night when the baby is wakeful and allows the wind to blow on me because it amuses tho baby to hear mo cough."-Truth. ATTRACTIONS OP MANLY SPORT. Cholly-"Say, this golf is a great game, isn't it?" Reggy-"Don't know. Never played it." Cholly-"Neither have L But I've got my golfing suit and its perfectly exquisite."-Chicago Record. THE PREFERABLE FATE. Dusty Rhodes-"Yes, de.ludgo sen tenced poor Chimmio to ten year3 at hard work, but Chimmio has asked to havo his sentence commuted." Weary Waggles -"What's that?" Dusty Rhodes-"He asked de Judge for to let him be hung."-Chicago Record. FLATTERY FOR SALE. Gypsy (telling an elderly coquette's fortune from the lines of her hand) "I am sorry to tell the young lady that Bhe will pass through a serious illness in her twentieth year." Lady- "Good gracious !" (Sighs and gives the gipsy a dollar.)-Fliegende Blaetter. MIGHT BE SO CLASSED. "Paw," asked Tommy, "is it swear ing for a man say 'by grab?' " "Whom did you hear saying it?" "Old Mr. Gotrox." "I hardly know in his case. It looks a good deal like profanity when a man swears by his religion."-Indianapolis Journal. ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE. "You will have to get somebody to identify yon," said the paying toller. "But that's impossible !" exclaimed the presenter of the check. "Since I've had this check in my possession, I've been so proud that my own mother wouldn't know me."-Boston Transcript. MORE INFORMATION. Tommy-"Paw, what is an egotist ?" Mr. Figg-"Ho is a man who thinks ho is smarter than any ono else." Mrs. Figg-"My dear, you have that wrong. Tho egotist is the man Avho says ho is smartor thau any ono else. All men think that way."-Indian apolis Journal. EVIDENCE. Bingo-"Bobby, did yon eat that pie vour mother made for you yester day*?" Bobby-"No, sir. I gavo it to my teacher." Bingo-"Did she eat it?" Bobby-"I guess so. There wasn't any school to-day."-Puck. NOT MUCH RISK. Examining Physician (for insurance company) - "I'm afraid wo can't take you, sir. You are too great a risk." Applicant (resignedly)-"Weill per haps I am. Tho fact ia, that when I get sick I never send for a doctor. I just lay around until I get well." Examining Physician -"Eh? Um we'll tako you."--New York Weekly. HE WROTE FOR THEM. "I have written pooms for nearly all tho magazines," the young man said, as the editor glanced through thc violot ink manuscript. "Ah?" the editor said with a raising inflection on thc nh ; "I hadn't noticed any of them." "No," the young man answorcd, "they were sent back to mc."-Rock land (Mc.) Tribune. (RUSHED. Employer-"I am sorry to say that tho experts report serious irregulari ties in your accounts." Cashier-"Is that all they havo to say, sir?" Employer-"Substantially." Cashier-"Nota word of apprecia tion of tho simplicity, novelty and originality of my method of doctoring tho books? This is, indcod, a cruel blow P'-Puck. COULD MAKE ONE TO ORDER. "This is a mighty fiuo place, I don't think," contemptuously observed the tattered vagrant, "The benches hain't boen painted for nine years, tho trees ueed trimmin' an' the grass is dyin' fur want of bein' looked after. You j hain't got no bump of order." ? I'll raise ono ou you mighty <?uick I if you don't move on," answered the park policeman, unlimbering his club. -Chicago Tribune. A DEEP AND LASTING SOMtOW. Mr. Say les-"Why, my dear-why are you crying?" Mrs. Sayles (with sobs)-"Ob, John, don't yon remember my new crepon skirt I got at such a bargain last week for fifteen dollars?" Mr. Sayles-"Yes; what then?" Mrs. Sayles (weeping afresh)-"I p-p-passed Lacey's t-t-to-day, and they were all m-m-morked down to fourteen dollars and ninety-eight cents. Boo-hoo!"-Puck. SLOW TO TUililiE. She had now become desperate. "Your family has a grand name," ho observed. "I would prefer almost any other," she rejoined wita a promptness suffi cient to suggest that she had given the subject thought. ""After a time she sat as one in a trance, and wondered what would bo thc chances of his tumbling if a wheat elevator were to precipitate itself upon him.-Detroit Tribune. ? ITU Thc Tongues ol Birds. The old idea that thc woodpecker transfixes its prey with it3 sharp tipped tongue is probably not yet ex tinct, but Herr Prevot adds his oppo sition to this opinion, and states that the insects aro agglutinated to tho tongue by the sticky secretion with which its surface is copiously covered. Although thc form of the tongue usu ally corresponds to tho shape of the bill there are exceptions to this rule, as for example in the waders, king fisher and hoopoe which, in spite of their long bills, only possess small cartilaginous tongues; in the peli can, indeed, tho tongue is alto gether rudimentary. In most birds whose food consists of seeds the tongue is dart or awl shaped; in others spatulntc; rarely, vermiform or tubular. In some birds, such as tho owl, which swallow their prey entire, the tongue is broad and serves as a mero shovel. In the hedge sparrow, nuthatch, woodchuck and others, tho tonguo is bifid or trifid at i ts apex, while in the humming-birds the tongue is split iuto two branches, almost to its base, and ie used for ac tually gripping the small insects on which these resplendent little crea tures subsist. In the family of parrots tho tongue is provided at its apex with a brush of some 250 or 300 hairlike processes. In the parrots tho tonguo is thick and ; fleshy, devoid of horny barbs or pa pilla}, and is even suspected to pos sess sense organs of taste.-Nature. - iCJU - The Cost ot Living. Although the cost of living has been materially reduced in most ar ticles of necessity and wages axe much higher than they were thirty years ago the majority of tho people aro but little better off financially. The rea son is to be found in tho higher scale of living which has to be met to regain any social position. Thirty years ago mon in moderato circumstances thought themaelves well off with living rooms furnished plain ly and simply, the chambers with enameled bedsteads and chairs and I ! plain linen and plated silver through out. This is all changed, and the liv ing rooms must copy as closely a pos8iblo tho appurtenances and be longings of wealthy families. There is no enameled furniture for sale, and whero rag carpets were formerly thought good enough for ordinary uso there aro Brussels carpets, imitationj of imported rags and all sorts of use less bric-a-brac that runs away with many a hardly earned dollar. All classes consume and enjoy a great deal more than they formerly did, and everybody, rich, moderately circumstanced or poor, wants more than he formerly did. All classes travel moro frequently and longer dis tances than they were formerly accus tomed to. They have more clothes, more food, moro finery, more books and papers than their fathers had, but they do not save as much as they did. -Tho Engineer. Peculiar Malady Among Squirrels. Belief from the squirrel pest, which has threatened to utterly ruin the farmers of tho southern and south eastern part of Whitman County, in Eastern Washington, seems to bo at baud. Bocent reports from different points of the afflicted district aro to tho effect that instead of the immense increase in numbers which had been predicted from tho carly appearance of the squirrels, there is a marked de crease over last year, amounting in some instances almost to their extinc tion. Tho cause is not thoroughly under stood, but is believed to bo tho preva lence amoug them ot a fateful epi zootic. At several places around Penowawa they aro reported to be dying in ap preciable numbers, and examination has shown the squirrels to bo covered with scabs. A. L. Daniels, living near Pcuewawo, says tho animals in his neighborhood no longer run nim bly about, and in many instances drag their bind parts. In fact, they are so badly used up that a man can walk up to them. George Smith reports a similar condition in his neighbor hood, and in other sections tho dimin ution in tho numbers of tho squirrels has been noticed, though the cause has not been determined.-Portland (Ore gon) Telegram. A Parrot's Memory. Parrots are in many respects, no doubt, wonderful birds, and to tho many stories concerning them has to bc added ouo from Mayfair. Tho par ticular bird in question was in tho habit of calling tho footman who fed it "Jacko," and tho correspondent of tho Manchester Evcniug News, who tells the story, says that by and hythe footman left tho establishment. Years passed, and ho was forgotten. Ono afternoon, however, the parrot sud denly startled tho inmates of tho house by muttering "Jacko" rapidly aud excitedly, as it were, in his dreams. Some one had the curiosity to run to tho window, and was just in time to seo a carriage disappearing in thc distance, on whoso box sat Jacko tho footraarj, iu all tho glory of powdered bair. Tho bird, who had nover seen hiui in tho gnise before, must, it is allogod, havo recognized him at once.-London Exchange. K Well-Ballasted Fish. Au extraordinary discovery was mado in the stomach of a fish of the I ling species at Liverpool wholesale market recently, according to the ' Wesminstcr Gazette. Tho fish weighed j fifteen pounds, and in its stomach ; wero two smooth cobblo stones, weigh- ' ing over live pounds, which had evi dently been used as sinkers for a deep sea fishing line. Tho fish, so far as could be seeu, did not appear to have suffered from tho presence of suoh a weight in its stomach? . Incubation Period of Discases. Tho Clinical Society of LondoD, wishing to establish a period of incu bation for various diseases, instituted a series of investigations with the fol lowing results: Diphtheria.-In this disease the in cubation period does not as a rule ex ceed four days and is more often two days. It may also extend to five, six and seven days. The infection may take place at any time in the course of tho disease. Mild cases may spread it. Typhoid Fever.-This may vary within wide limits twelve to fourteen days, but not infrequently it is less. As tho disease is usually introduced into the system by food and drink, it is not carried from ono person to an other, but several may get it from thc eamo source. Contaminated water and milk is the usual cause. Epidemic Influenza or "Grippe." The shortest incubation period in this disease is from a few hours to three or four days. It generally strikes sud denly and without warning. A pati ent may carry infection throughout the whole course of the disease. Measles.-The incubation period of measles is usually short. It is counted from the date of the eruption, which decides the disease. Mumps.-Tho incubation period of nmmps is rather long, from cte to two weeks, and the chances of infection diminish daily. Rubeola, Rotheln, or German Measles.-This has a long incubation period, like ordinary measles, and its infectivity diminishes in a day or two after tho rash disappears. Variola or Smallpox.-The incuba tion period of this disease is from ono to three days. Varicella, or chickenpox, hos a period of incubation slightly longer than variola.-Scientific American. A Pair of Them. He wes an oldish man, with a good natured face and a weed on his hat, and ho sat down in a Baker street car be side another oldish man, with a good natured face and a weed on his hat. They looked up at each other and smiled, and the first comer querried: "Wife, I take it?" "Yes, and you?" "The same." "Bad, isn't il?" "Very had." "But time-" "Time is a great healer." "And in due time both of us-" And he winked. And a woman across tho aisle,with a faint show of mourniug on, looked out of the window and sighed and said : "Yes, of course, the old repro bates!"-Detroit Free Press. Woman's Way. Minnie-Mr. Billie, if I should con sent to be your wife, are yon sure you would never object to my c'rcssmakcr'6 bills, never refuse to buy opera tickets when asked, never-er-in fact, never object to any expenses which I might wish to incur? Mr. Billie-Darling, I swear it ! Minnie-Well, Mr. Billie, if you can't hold on to your money any bet ter than that, I must say no.- hidgc. The Spider's Web. Tho spider is so well supplied with the silky thread with which it makes its web that an experimenter once drew out of thc body of a single specimen 3,480 yards of the thread-a length but little short of two miles. A fabric woven of spider's thread is more glossy than that from the silkworm's product, and is of a beautiful golden color. The Classes and tho Masses. Dickens-There is no such thing ae social equality. Did you ever know a place where everybody was on a dead levol? Wickens-Tes, in the cemetery. iVcw York World. Why She Smiles Sweetly. Sparkling By68, quick beating heart, and the rosy blush of pleasure on tho cheeks, makes tho strong man happy when ho meets his lady love. That's tho "kind of a man whose very touch thrills because it is full of energy, ?vigorous nervo power and vitality. Tobacco makes strong men impotent, weak and skinny. No-To-Dac sold by Druggists everywhere. Guaranteed to cure. Book, titled "Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoko Your Life Away," free. Ad. Sterling ltomcdy Co., Now York or Chlcaso. For Well People. Most medicines are for the sink. Some ran ho ll?cU willi gool offerts by person* nppi renily mil. Occasional resort to Hipans Tubules prevent* attacks that result ironi disorders of thc f-tomnch and liver. To preservo is better and cheaper than to repair. _ Mr?. Wlnslow'sSoothlnir Syrup for children Irethlnir. softens the tm ms, reduces In flam lin don, allay? '"?IM. mires "-itri eolio.. 25;?. n, bottle THOM- llNtrcasisijt Cornu! Und as they n*c. Ilindireorni will remove them, and then you c n walk ns you like. These s usia This on< have to g fiL V what every when the \ \ and th( V \\ removed P \\ But tr ip*?*? 9' v. - - because found something better than soa Something easier, quicker, sim economical. No rubbing to s Wear-^easy work and money sa\ it's washing clothes, cleaning I kind of washing and cleaning. IM PURE'' CHAFF. - >> Artificial rubies now so closely re? semble tho genuine stones that it is difficult for even jewelere to distin guish thom. Fish moy be kept fresh for several days by sprinkling them with pow dered borax and keeping them in a ecol, dry place. Advance theets of "living-picture'1 posters must be sent to and approved by ihe Boston Aldermen beforo they are allowed to go on tho bill-boards. The French actress, Madame Rejane, receives $1,600 for each performance, and her manager also pays her travel ing expenses and those of her maid and a dressmaker. A man of rare information officiates as teacher in the vicinity of Howells, Nebraska. The other day ho gravely told an inquiring pupil that B. 0. meant "Beforo Columbus discovered America." A gentleman who recently died in "Vienna, at Ihe age of seventy, had been a smoker sinco be was seventeen. During that time he had smoked 328, 613 cigars, 43,639 of which were gifts. Those he paid for cost him $12,500. An old bank-book was found by a New York widow, in which was one deposit of $5, which had been made by her husband in the year 1820. She mude claim at the bank, and received the principal aud accumulated inter est, amounting to $248. A rattling remedy for rheumatism was tried on an old farmer in Spring field, N. J. For several mouths he had baen bed-ridden with the disease. Six tightly corked bottles of water were placed on tho stove. In bali an hour they exploded, causing tho terrified patient to bound from the bed and run down stairs. The rheumatic pains have left him. Thomas Lyons, an old shoemaker who died a few weeks ago in Roches ter, England, at the age of 96, had drawn for 79 years a boy's pension, amounting to $90 annually. A pre38 gang forced him into the navy when he was nine years old. Eight years later his thigh was injured by the falling of a spar, and thereafter ho walked with a wooden prop. Foul breath'is a discourager of af fection. It is al ways an indication of poor health - bad digestion. To bad digestion is . traceable almost all human ills. It is 'the starting point of many very ser ious maladies. Upon the healthy 'action of the diges t i v e organs, the blood depends for its richness and purity. If digestion stops, poisonous matter ac cumulates and is forced into the blood -there is no place else for it to go. The bad breath is a danger signal. Look out for it ! If yon have it, or any other symptom of indigestion, take a bottle or two of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discover}'. It will straighten out the trouble, make your blood pure and healthy and fuU of nu triment for tlie tissues. COO? POSITIONS SECURED BY STUDENTS Richmond's Commercial College, I'ninb'.iiriicd 1834. Send for Catalogne. SAVANNAH, GA, THE OGLETHORPE Brunswick, Ca. Tills IR the Anent Hotel in its appointments south of Ballimore. The table U supplied w ith nil the delicacies thc market can afford. Tho Cui-inc is excellent, and Berrico prompt and attentive. Open nil th? rear. Rans rea sonable. J. H. STILWELL, Manager. P| TO AVOID THIS USB U0N TETTERINE Sil , Tho ONLY painless ?nd harmless rt T <*ui:E f.ir th* w.irsf. lyne of Kczema, I mm. I Tetter, R'nxworm, ugly rough patoh ?U 1 M on the face, crusted scalp. IIA Ground itch, chafes, chaps, pim HT pies. Poison from ivy or potion oalc. |p In short ALL ITCHES. _Send Adc, in c Hftan.pi or c.ish to J. T. Shuptnne, Savannah, Ga., for one box, if your druggist d.in't Icoep it. TYBI! TYBEE ISLAND, GA. This Hotel is noted for its excellent service and splendid cn sine, iii- r.-i!>'.?. boinc Mipp ind with all the delicacies the margot alford'- An Mandant supply of fish, crabs, -V inp, etc. Lion's tine orchestra en caged for season- Specially low tatos this s-ason. \Wto for terni.-. Special inducements to parti?< of ten or more- li Ol IAN ?fc COWAN. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleaners and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant prowth. Never Fails to Bcstore Groy Hair to ita Youthful Color. Cures scalp ?'.?tram t? hair tailing. 60c,and?l.UOat Uruggliti A.. N. U. Twenty-five, '95. ;topped ig soap, long ago. e stopped because-well, we'll uess why. Perhaps, because too much work to do. That's body thinks, for that matter,' re's nothing but soap at hand, ?re's a good deal of dirt to be [ from anything, tis one stopped she had p-Pearline, ipler, more ipeak of, no red, whether louse, or any 493 VA mik