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Ax oak, still living in Tilford, near Farnham, is mentioned in a charter of Henry of lois under the date of 1250. One Secret vt Longevity. Tbose anxious to prolong tola rapid transitory existence of iura bejond the average span, should iostor bis digestion, negatively by ab staining from indiscretions In diet, and affirm atively by the use of 'hat pe er lt ?5 stomachic, Hosteuer s Stomach Bitters, .whoo he experi ences symptoms of ir digestion. The, Impair ment of the digestivo 1 unction ls fatal to visor. Subdue with the Bitte::?, also, fever and ague, biliousness and constipation. The football champion of the present may be come the hack driver of the futuro, lt ia a pleasing thought. If you have tried Dobbins* Floating-Borax Soap you have decided to usa lt ali the time.? If you haven't tried lt you <nr 3 lt to yourself to do so. Your grocer has it or iriU get it. Be sure that wrappers ar? printed in red. A deficit in health ls much better than one in Picket. _ _ Deafness Cannot be Cored by locvl applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. " There ls only one way to cure deafness, and that ls by constitu tional remedies. Deafness ls caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets In flamed you have a fumbling sound or imper fect hearing and when lt ls entirely cloe sd Deafness ls vno result, and unless the Inflam mation can be taken out and this tul e restored io its normal condition, bearing wi il be de stroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are' caused by catarrh, which ls nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for clrculiurs, free. F. J. CHEXSY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. HaH s Family Pills are the best. Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. .After physicians had given me up, I was saved oy Piso s Cure.-RALPH ERIBO, Williamsport. Pa., Nov. sS, 1818. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists seU at 86c. per bottle. St Titus',-Dance. One bottle Dr. Fenner'a Sp?cifie cures. Circular. Fredonla, N. Y. FITS rtonped free and permanently cured. Nc fits after first day's use of DB. KIJXB'S GREAT NEBVB KKSTOKEB. Free 92 trial bottle and treat iso. Send to Dr. Kline, 9*1 Arch 8t. Phlla., Pa. 100 Doses One Dollar is trua only of Hood's Sarsa parua. It is economy to ??el Hood's when you need a blood puriller and nerve tonic because Hood's Sarsaparilla The best-In fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hood's Pills p&ag?fcasg ?iot Discourteous. "JVhat time is it, my lad?" asked an American traveler of a small Irish boy, ?who was driving a couple of cows home from the fields. "About 12 o'clock sir," replied the boy. "I thought it was more." "It's never any more here," return ed '.he lad, in surprise, "It just be gins at 1 again."-Harper's Bound Table. A Paper House. Hamburg's paper eating honse has walls composed of a double layer of j paper stretched on frames and impreg-1 nat<.d with a fire and water proof solu- j tion. A thin wooden petition affords i further protection against the in elem- i ency of the weather. The roofs and \ walls are faptetied together by means of bolts and hinges, so that the entire structure may be rapidly taken to pieces and put up again. WOMANS LONG* HOURS." ffRl MAN/STAY'S WORK IS DONE. . ".. What She Has io Contend With-Work That Sooner or Later Breaks Down Her ^Delicate Organism. The great majority of women "work to live " and " li?e to work," and as the hands of the clock approach tho hour of six, those em ployed in stores, offices, mills and factories, hail closing time with Joy. They have won their day's bread, but some Huties are yet to be performed, and many* personal mat ters to be attended to. They have mending to do, and dresses or bonnets to make, and long into the night they toil, for they must look neat, and they . have no time during the day to attend to personal matters. "Women, therefore, notwithstanding their delicate organism, work longer and more closely than men. .They do not promptly heed such signs as headache, backache, blues, pains in the groins, bef^ring-down, M all gone" feeling, nervousness, loss of sleep and appetite, whites, irregular or painful monthly periods, cold and swollen feet, etc., all symptoms of womb trouble, which, if not quickly checked, will launch them in a sea of misery. There is but one absolute remedy for all those ills. Any woman who has to earn her own lfring will find it profitable to keep her system fortified with this tried and true woman's friend. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound speedily removes the cause and effects a lasting cure. We are glad to produce such letters as the following from Miss M. G. Mc Namec, 114 Catherine St., Utica, N.Y.: **For months I had been afflicted with that tired feeling, no ambition, no appetite, and a heavy bearing-down feeling of the uterus. I began to noe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-^ pound. Soon those bad feelings passed' away ; I began to hava more ambition, ray appetite improved and I gained rapidly in every way, and now I am entirely well. I advise all my friends to use the Compound, it is woman's truest friend." _ Business Course w one perso j In every county. Please a ply gr-mptly to Georgia business Collegs, MACOS. GEORGIA. DON'T BE CUT KNIFE. FREE We ca i cure you without lt Ti you hav? tho PiLBS use Planter's Pile Ointment. We guarantee to give Instant and. permanent relief. Send five two cent stamps to cover postage and we will mall FRES package. Ad-, dress Dept. A. New Sp-M. *T Medicina Co., CHATTANOOGA. TENN. -- liniment. ^WSTBTW . UURtS WHERE AIL ELSE FAILS. " j I Bett Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use I ID tlnR r*oid by druggists. I CPNSUMPTIO A SONG OF "Homething old sad something new, Something borrow?.I and something bine, Aad a silver slxr n : in her shoe." Eft bridal attire had been modified by the superstitious mandates ot thu quaint old rhyme, her gown, of coarse, was' new ; her veil had decended from her grandmother ; her younger b r o t h e r rendered unusually tender-hearted by the thought of losing her-had so m red the town in Eearch of an English six pence, and there had been several maidens benighted enough to vie for the privilege of supplying the bor rowed hankerchief, and the blue ribbon she had tied about her arm. The ribbon was cut into bits and di vided among eager friends when the bride changed her gown, and the lucky lender of the handkerchief re ceived back the talismanic article with reverent joy. Gertrude stood ty, smiling indulgently during the flurry but making no attempt to share in it.. The last moment had come, and the bridegroom was waiting at the foot of the stairs, when the bride-standing ready inher traveling dress, her white attire strewn about the rpom-sudden ly remembered something, an 1 snatch ing up a white satin slipper from the hearth rug, rescued from the toe a round and shining article and pressed it, laughing, into Gertrude's han 1.. "Here's the luckiest thing of all, Gertie," she said, affectionately. "0 Leila i Mowgood of you, dear ! I will never part with it," cried Gertrude warmly, and slipped the lucky sixpence into the palm of her glove. And then the good-byes were said; the bride went off in a shower of rice ; the guests began to fade awiy. Ger trude, who had been a bridesmaid, was urged to linger and discuss the event with the ianiily, and she had almost humored her own reluctance to leave the flower decked house, with its excite 1 and festive atmosphere, for the dreariness of the December day outside, wheo she discovered that Bob Norman bad been atke.l to linger, too. That altered the matter. "In?leer*, I mustn't steal another minute," she assured Mrs. Vierhng awkwardly. She sighed as she took a last glauco at the mirror -which refieoted brown and wistful eyes in a piquant face aglow with color, and a dainty pins gown and an old white cloak-but she j was unnecessarily stifl with Mr. Nor man when he handed her into the car riage. She relier ted with a little shiver, as the door wai closed upon her, how long that carriage had been waitingaud what a bill she would ka*0" to pay for it. But she had dSVer mined that that day should ?he 'nije tjie ci?j times, be timeswhe-? oarriagcs ^ ?- TJLVto and pretty pink i gowns ranked as necessities instead of j nnwarrautable luxuries. And she bad had ber wish. It had been the cul mination of all the delightful week's [ during which her position as one of Leila Vierling's bridesmaids had i brought her many unaccustomed pleasures. Amiable friends and rela i ti ves had entertained the bridal party with breakfasts and dinners, dances and theatre boxes, one following fast upon another until life was just a whirl of gayety with only a single thing to remind her of this work-a-day world. That drawback had been Mrs. Vierling's manifest intention of indulging her kindly propensi'y 'or match-making, with Gertrude and Mr. Robert Norman for her victims. Ger trude had been quite innocent at ?rst, though she had won iered somewhat that Mr. Norman so frequently ap reared on the evenings that Leila had begged her tb oome up aud talk over wedding arrangements. And at last the truth forced itself upon her. For the same thing happened at all the festivities-that he sat next her at ta ble, that he was left to hold her cloak at the theatre, that be was given a thousand opportunities of devotiog himself to her, and no ohance of de voting himself to anybody else. Thp knowledge had caused her agonies of shame and embarrassment ; end fear that Bob Norman might think her a willing party to these maneuvres made her so stiff, so awkward and so whim sical in her treatment of him that she secretly wondered at the good humor with which he continued to carry out Mrs.Vierling's arrangements. She, for her part, did everything to upset them. She spent fewer eveniags at the Vierling's; she insisted on hurry ing away if Mr. Norman appeared there ; and when it came to wadding rehearsals-whioh. tho suspected had been multiplied solely to give that eligible young man more opportuni ties of escorting home herself-she' sored a point by seizing upon Leila's brother and, by skillful flattery, in ducing that unsuspicious youth to be her companion to and from the ohurcb. She strove all the harder for these small victories because she was miserably conscious of the faot that if matters had been different, if Mr. Nor man sought her oat, of his own accord, it would-well, it would havo been very pleaaan' There had been a time when suoh attentions from him had filled her with other feelings. That was in her first season "out," when she was nineteen, and, as people said, so pretty, and he was a promis ing college lad, with a delightfully in fectious laugh, and high ideals and a perfect grasp of the waltz step-an ensemble which Gertrude then consid ered satisfactory. They had danced a good deal together at that time, bu? since, until that present fall, had seen little of each other. For the loss of her mother had caused ber retirement from society next year, and after th?t came the crash of her lather's busi ness and his death, which left hu daughter with no resource but their own powers; abd Gertrude had dropped out of the gay, delightful world she bad scarcely learned to know, and bad been for five years only a struggling, patient, neivous little mutic-teacher, meekly thankful now, at twenty-sir, that i-he could earn enough for two, and keep Kitty in school until the child was MI ?lie ie n t ly learned to impart thc m varies of grammar aud geography to younger .atudeuts. Bo' ert Norman, meantime, had liuished college, and spent two S SIXPENCE. yean abroad, and had lately come home, eager and confident, to fulfill his duties as a prosperous citizen. It was only through Mrs. Vierling's planning that he and Gertrude had met again. Their days of meeting were over now, Gertrude thought, stifling another sigh. Her brief play time-and she permitted herself to sigh at this-waa over too. The wed ding was a thing of the post ; she had bad her little hour of happiness ; she had looked so yonugand pretty in her bridesmaid's dress, that Bob Norman might almost have been glad to como and talk to her even if Mrs. Vierliog hadn't managed it-but henceforth she must think of her pupils and of her practicing and of showing a cheerful face to Kitty, who ?ras nodding eagerly from the window of their flat as the carriage drew np at the door. Ger trude hurried upstairs and Kitty helped her off with her things in the modest parlor, where the fading fur niture formed a giariDg contrast to the aggressively new wall paper. Ger trade reproached herself for noticing this dismal fact ; it wonld never do to let Kitty guess her state of mind. Therefore, she shook herself mentally and plunged into a lively account of the morning's festivities. Kitty list ened, revolving abont her sister, and deriving mach amusement from an account of Leila's charms. Gertrude pat tho luoky sixpence into a E&fe cor Der of her shabby little purse, and set about getting sapper-for the afternoon had flown. She and Kitty hud wedding cake for dessert, and she assented to Kitty's suggestion that they should sleep with some ander their pillows, lt was unreasonable of Gertie, after tempting fate in that manner, to be vexed at dreaming of the wedding and of Robert Norman's face, so downcast as he said goodbye. She threw away her cake next morn ing, resolved to have no more of that nonsense. The episode was indeed finished, but she was not as glad as she mi ;ht have been, to remember, that after the distant way she had parted from him, there was no danger of Mr. Norman's venturing to seek her company thereafter. Unfortun ately, though she didn't see him, there were oircumstinoes which kept the thought of him before her; for he had gained prominence in certain attempts at improving the oity politics, and a speech of his at a reform club iiauquet wasbeing vigorously discussed iu the newcpapers. It was, perhaps, not so much a sign that the speech was good, as that times-from thju^oui-" nahstio point of view-y?&r?uM' but Gertrude did notj^aifs?that fact and assured her^alp'that few men were so It was three weeks after the wed ding, and Gertrade was harrying across the centre of the city on the way home fr sm her last lesson. Snow was falling and melting as it fell, and the exertion of carrying two big roi13 of music and of holding ap her skirts from contact with the muddy pave meats bad ad dod to the fatigues engendered by the musical vagaries of an unusually stupid pupil. She was exasperated at herselt for stopping at a news stand because she caught a glimpse of Bob Norman's name on a front column headline, bat she hadn't J strength of mind enough just then to 'resist the impulse. Her weakness was punished, for as she tried to And a penny, her chilled fingers fumbled the purse,which tipped sideways, allowing a bright bit of silver to escape and roll across the pavement. Gertrude started after it, with a little cry of distress, but someone ehe started too, and in a second Mr. Normau came forward, lifting his hat, and holding Leila's gift in his other hand. "Ol thank you so much," said Ger tiude breathlessly, trying to arrange her burdens. "It's my lucky six pence. I wouldn't have lost it for anything." "Awfully glad to see you. Never thought of meeting you here," said he, his face beaming. "I've just gotten through my les sons," said Gertrude-very primly, because she felt O? rtaia he knew why she'.! bought that paper. She shook hands because he so plainly expected it, but when he essayed to talk a little farther, and would nave commenced by asking nows of the bride, her em barrassment increased with the thought of that wedding day, and she abruptly cut him short, remarking coldly that she must harry, and, hav ing bowed stiffly, hastened on. straight through a mud-puddle which com pleted the rain of her poor little shoe?. She had not gone half a block before she asked herself why she had done it ; he was talking to her then of his own accord and she need not have been so disagreeable. Well, all was certainly over now. He wonld never try to speak to her again, and she was very tired, and her feet were wet, and it was absurd to pretend to herself that this was snow melting on her eye l&siics "Miss Wilbur 1 Miss Gertrude I" sounded suddenly behind her and she turned, winking away the snow flakes, to behold Mr. Norman, Hushed from fast walking, holding ont that lucky sixpence in a well-gloved hand. "I forgot to give you this alter all; it's very stupid in me," bo began, rather formally, and then, as she tried to ehilt her music rolls, he took them geutly from her. "Let me carry them for you-I'm going this way," he said in quite an other tone; for he hal eeen those tell - tnle lashes and it occurred to him that she had been abrupt only because she was troubled cr tired. He took possession of her news paper, too, in tbe most matter-of course way in the world, and pro ceeded to ask her questions about the coin, he held. And Gertie, in the vigor of her penitence, expia nod in the friendliest manner, and they laughed together over the superstition. And then they talke I and laughed about other tbinsrs. He remtuded her of thu first dance they had had and sho let him persuade her to remember it, and they walked away past the pl nc J where she sho dd have taken the oar, before either of them noticed. He even dared, after a bit, to touch on Leila's prenuptial festivities, and to hint that' he lelt grateful to Mrs. Vierling for the frequent aid she had lent his wishes, and having received this aseuranoe, Gertruds allowed bin to start what subjects he pleased They walked on and on, as the i airy tiles say, and feeling quite as thi fairly tale prince and princess used until it was needless to take a ea at all, on discovering which foo they wondered greatly over thei: absence of mind. Soon after absorbed in a discussion of mn no and of Gertrude's pupils, the] f trolled some two blocks past her homi and retraced their steps in mud confusion. Mr. Norman could no possibly accept her invitation to enter but he so far forgot good form as t< stay seme time talking on the entra?e? steps. Gertrude should have beer very tired and hungry, but she wasn't, when at last he said goodbye. Ever after that he lingered. "I haye your luck yet," he sud, looking down with a strange shyness at the sixpence in his hana, and then, with a sudden desperate "plunge ; "Gertrude, won't yon trust your luck to me for always? Won't jon-" No one has ever learned what else he said, though Kitty tried hard lc make Gertrude tell. However, another bride wore thal sixpence in her shoe a few months later, when Mrs. Vier ling insisted on giving the quiet wedding breakfest. And Gertrude, sad to be recorded,was much less magnanimous than ?tila had been, for she made quite a favor -a most'reluctantly yielded favor-ol letting Kitty tako possession of the sixpence when she took off the little white slipper.- The Peterson. WORDS ?FvYlSDMJ. Young lions are often verV lean. - Getting the big head sarinks the heart. / The fears we borrow are fie hardest to drive away. Unless yon want to be por don't try to keep all you get. It is harder to dine with i >me men than it is to inst alone. We are rioh not in whal we have, but in what we cannot lose, j Live to do good and you pill never tire of yopr employment. When a little man is lifted: np every body finds out that he is little. The man who thinks he knowi others is a great - stranger to himself The man who would be considere wise often turns out to be otherwise If you knew that to-morrow woub be your last day how would youBpen. this? The man who has lived only fe himself has wasted his time and robb? the world. There are some very important l? sons which can only be learned fromi mistake. It is doubtful if there is any ma who bas not at some time in his li) been a hypocrite. There can be no true md abidig comfort and peace that is not 100? and grounded in faifcb. The business of fault finding won! soon como to an end if every fau - finder could only be well introdnol to himself. Money is one of the levers tht moves the world, and it always mois it in the right direotion when a goer man controls it.- Ham's Horn. liTelj' llear Han't. A Jackson (Ky.) letter to the la ington Herald tells of a lively ber haut in Br eat hi tt County : "On last Tuesday Steve De hart sit and killed a black bear near 19 Uiver, in Menifee, which is about ie miles uothes' '. ?i Duu?ce sutton, n the Lexington acd Eastern Ra?i&:> Mr. Dehart was thirteen days ont o [ thc hunt for the bear, when he fono ' his den in a ledge of rocka about 25 feet from the ground, and ho liad t< go over the cliff eighty feet higher} Leaving his gun and two dogs on t of the cliff, he went into the den tc look for the bear, and as he was crawl ing along the den tho bear made 8 roaring noise, and then Dehart ran baok on top of the cliff tor the gnu and a dog. The dog had to be tied by the head with a rope and let over thc cliff inte the den, when all at once the bear seized the dog by the throat killing him instantly. Then anotbel dog was lowered in the den, and as th bear made a rush for tho dog Stevi shot the bear between the eyes, slight ly woundiog bim. The bear regain ct his feet and got baok into his den, re maining there until the next morning while Dehart lay by th a den all night trying to punch the bear ont with pole. Then early the next morning he ran a long pole into the den, ant as the bear made a rush for the monti of the den Steve shot bim in the head, this shot being fatal. About this tim?. Dehart felt that he did not want anj more bear hunts with a squirrel rifle The bear weighed about 300 poundi net, and was about ten years old. The bear's hide, when tacked to the wall, was six feet and ten inches long am five fe?t broad." Tho Afternoon Nap. The frequency with which medios, men are asked whether it is harmful tc indulge in the "afternoon nap" is not;, perhaps, surprising, for several rea sons. Most persons have had expert; ense in the seducive charms of tb.? somnolenoe which has followed the comfortable ingestion of a midday ox evening meal. The meal finished, the diner arranges himself comfortably in an armchair, takes up a newspape^ and prepares to make tho most of the restful conditions of his mind acid body. But nature soon begins to is-l sert her sway. In time, the eyeljdi clo e, the head bozins to nod, tht newspaper falls from the hands abd tho symptoms of a nap are complete. Whether the "winks" be forty or one hundred in number, the result is tho same-a short, sound sleep. Th?o comes the question, Is it harmful that to fall asleep after a meal? By no means, for the very obvious reason tbat the process is merely a phyoiohig ical one, and ns snob, when it occurs, is quite natural. When digestion ie in progr?s?, nature ha3 arranged t :at all the available blood in the body shall be collected in and about (he digestive orgnns, Consequently, the blood supply to the brain falls tea low ebb, and thus sleep is easily in duced. On the other band, of cou rs?, physiologically, it is wrong for brain work to be attempted immediately after a 6olid meal.-Medical Press. Celery Oil In Restricted Doman''. Celery oil now finds a restricted market, the oil being produced chiefly in Germany. It is distilled from the Iresh leaves and imparts the peen''ii flavor of celery to perfection. Ther< is an increasing demand for th6 oi and larger production of celery form manufacture. -New England Home stead. _ American H orso j in London. London 'buses aro drawn by Ameri can horses, thousands of which an imported annually. En^l'sh breeder will not rait : hones strong enongh fe tho work. Not They Who Soar. Not they who soar, but they who plod* The ragged way, uahelpo.i, to Goa Aw? heroes; they who higher fare, And, flying, /an the upper air, Miss ali the toll that hugs the sod. Tia they whose baolcs haye felt the rod, Whose feet have pressed the path unshod May ?-mlle upon defeated care, Not they wt;o soar. High up there aro no thorns to prod, Nor bonldors lurking 'neath the clod To turn the keenness of the share, For flight is ever free and rare; Bnt heroes thay the soil who've trod, Not they who soar. -Paul L. Dunbar. Tie First Snow. fho first snow slowly falleth, as the years That drop from God's hand in the lives of men; Far off the rumblings down the brooding glen Ot the last loaded wagon reaches the ears; blurr'd as a pictured scene we see through tears. The bleak hills loom-beyond the cheerless fen The hermit owl's hoot eohoing; and thea 81 lenee and darkness, and no choristers. Beneath the snow the mountains' rugged heads, As the low bosom of the valley, rise As smooth and soft as moon-blea^hei daisy beds That baro thelr.bosoms to the summer skies; Becallieg the white peace of death that spreads And shuts all troubles from the wearied eyes! I Will T. Hale, In Nashville American. Kinship. There is no flower of wood or lea, No April flower as fair as she; O white anemone, who hast The wind's wibi grace; Know her a cousin of thy race, Into whose face A presence like the wind hath passed. There ls no flower ot wood or lea, No Maytimn flower as fair as she; O bluebell, tender with the blue Of limpid skies. Thy lineage hath kindred tie? In her. whose eyes The heav'as' own qualities imbue. There is no flower of wood or lea; No June-day flower, as fair as she; Bose-odoroi o with beauty of Life's first and best Behold thy Bist? here confessed! Whose malden breast Is fragrant with the dreams of love. -Madison Cawetn, in Ledger. Somewhere. Fair, mystic realm of Somewhere, Beyond the Sometime Sea, 1 The vagrant odors come where. The world's ways torture mo O'er waves and lonely islands Thy whispers come behn*?a, As lute-notes in the sikace, As minor poets' rhymes. O beckoning realm of roses, where pleas ures mark eaoh mlle. These yearnings are but music and living ls a smile! Sweet as a virgin's dreaming, Who love's first kiss yet thrills Fair as tue flowers gleaming Where moonlight softly spills. Man's later Eden Somewhere, Wo needs must long for thee; The tempter's lips are dumb there, The serpent hate's not free. O beckoning realm of roses, where pleas ures mark each mlle, There yearnings are but music and living ls n smile. -W. T. Hale, In Chloago Th :i*a,\\ii Ono Advantage of Cold ^ Notwithstanding the frosts that ? ?.. the winds that whistle dre . There's a certain thrill of pie present time of year; A vindicativo satisfaction Whlor : . the hour, -Arti b?rioffs us -resignation as withered flower, 'Tis the qulot exultation that player feels Whose Ills are slight compared enemy reveals. So wa shun the melancholy whu less boughs disclose, And we hail the days of autumn, when tn* flies get froze. Tis std to see the flowers fade as thev ars wont to do We'd bk* to keep them working night and day the whole year through; We miss the artless songsters who made merry in the tree, We long for the companionship of butterfly and ben. But, in spite of all our losses, there's a brac ing sense of joy In our knowledge of our triumph over crea tures that anncj; And we vow that there is nothing, as we set tle for n d<iz*>, Like tho good old days of autumn, when the flies get froze. _"_ -Washington Star. The Little Bell in tip Ileart. My heart keopi knocking all the dav! What does it mean? What would lt say/ My heart keeps knocking all the nigh-:! Child, hast thou thought ot this aright/ So long it has knocked, now loud, now low; Hast thou thought what lt means by knock ing so? No. ohlld, 'Us a Hve'y little beF.. The dear God's girt, who lovos thee well. On the door of the soul by Him 'tis hung, And by His haud it still is rung, And He stands without and waits to 3ee Whether within He will welcome be. And still keeps knocking, lu hop-'s to win The weloome answer: "Come in! come In!" Bo knocks thy heart now, day by day, And when its strokes have tiled away, And all Its knockings on earth are o'er, It will knock itseir at heaven's door: And stand without, aud walt and seo Whether within it will welcome be; And hear Him say: "Come, denrest guest! I found in thy bosom a holy rest. As thou bast done, be it done to thee; Come into the joys of eternity!" -From the German. A Remarkable Will. LaPorte, Ind., has several citizens tvbo are beneficiaries of a very re markable will made in Germany over 100 years ago. A wealthy man named Federman died, and by will left all bis property in trust with the Gcvern ? ment, the interest to be distributed i among his descendants by a soit of a i lottery Boheme. AU the descendants to the remotest generation are re quested to send in their names with . proof of their heirship. These names are put into a box duly sealed and i guarded, and in July of each year twelve names aro drawn. Barney Kramer's wife ia one of the descen dants, and two of his children have drawn over $100 each in this novel in heritance. Mrs. Isaac Kramer is one of the heirs, as Federman was au unole of her mother, but she has never drawn anything. There are several other descendants of Federman in La* Porte, but none but the Kramer chil dren have been fortunate enough to get their names on the liet. The first intimation the Kramer children had of their good fortune was a letter 'J? faining a draft for the money.-In dianapolis Journal. Haga Turtle Shells. The huge turtles that existed dur ing the youth of tho world appear to have inhabitod the foothills of tbs Himalaya Mountains. The eggshells and bones of these extinct creatures, which occasionally wash oat of thc ravines where they have been buried for ages, prove that they were mort than twice as large as any specimen ol (he tortoise family which now exists. BUDGET OE FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROl VARIOUS SOURCES. Still Ho Stated-Yes, Indeed-Not i Musical Note-Malicious-Way .She Rules Him-How He Evens Up, Etc. She yawned, but still he lingered there (Of bores he was f he greatest), , Until she murmured In despair, '.You'ra up-to-date, I must declare, For you re the very latest." --Washington Star. A REGUL?R ARTIST. She-"Why do you insist that Jennj See is particularly accomplished ?" He-"Because she can try a dough nut so it will ttile like angel cake." Buffalo Times. YES, INDEED. Jaspar-"It is not the men whc clear up a new country who beoome rich. " Jumpuppe- "No. It is the men who clean it out."-Truth. HIS FATE. Sympathizing Friend - "Where were the remains of your late husband buried?" The Widow (sadly)-"There were I no remains; he-me-met-a-bear !" XOT A MUSICAL NOTE. Smith-"You told me your friend sang liEe'?-b?rd. I think ho has a hor ribly hoarse voice. How can you say it is hWa bird's?" Joners-"Well, the bird I meant was a crow,"-Judy. MALICIOUS. Tom Barry-"I don't see any sense in girls kissing each other. Now, you nate that girl you just kissed." Prudenoe-"You bet 1 do ; but just see how the freckles show where I kiseed the powder off."-Truth. EXPERTEN!A DOCET. "John, John, whatever shall we do? Little Willie has swallowed his china alley!" "Never mind, Martha. Don't grow excited. It will-not harm him to be given the marble heart early in life. " WAY SHE BULES HIM. Miss Girly-"I shall never marry a vain man. " Mrs. Many wed (Chicago)-"vYait till you have had my experience, dear, and you will know what a comfort it is to have a husband who can be man aged." . HOW HE EVENS UF. "Is it true, Gravely. *.hat Boomer ly bests you every time you go duok shooting?" _ "No, but I h?ve no ohance against him when i* jomes to ijing about the amount ?igame we bagged."- Detroit Free fresa. ETERNITY IN FEE SIMPLE. Scadds - "So, Prince Picayunski says he's the heir apparent. How does that happen, when he's the younger son ?" Miss Scadds-"Ohl he explained that. His brother is the heir consump tive. "-Puck. .. ?aer??*? v.;. '??miiugi? be ?O?. B.J Whereupon the pencil asked the sponge if it saw the point, and the sponge dried up -New York Journal. ENOUGH SAID. Baldy-"What became^ of your nephew, who was suoh a promiting fellow a few years ago?" Oldun-"Oh, he's discovered that he had a mission to fulfil in the world." Baldy-"Ab, yes, and went to tbs dogs, of course. Too bad, too bad." -Truth. HEARTLESS FUN. When they told her that the young man whofie huit she had rejected the to" the gafe"post directly an?i bu JUI# her, the beautiful girl shrugged her shoulders. "It isn't my fault," she said, coldly. "I specifically told him he mustn't think of hanging around here any more."-Detroit Tribune. *TO DRIVE OR NOT TO DRIVE. Roberts-"Hallo 1 What's wrong, old fellow?" Benson-"I'm almost crazy. I sent a letter to my broker, asking him whether he thought I was a fool, and another one to Miss Willets, usking her to oome for a drive with me, and 1 don't know which of them this tele gram is from." Roberts-"What does it say? Benson-"Simply 'Yes.'" M li RELY A SUGGESTION. "My dear," eaid Mrs. Younghus band, "I saw suoh a queer, dingy cable car this afternoon. It had no passengers at all." "That was a sand car," replied her lord and master, as he looked up from his evening paper. "It distributes sand along the tracks to keep the whoeis from slipping." "How very nice, Edward, she t-ighed. "lt seems to me that such a contrivance would bo very ireful to you at times."-New York Herald. The Czar's Carnage Service. The Czar of Bussia has four separate "services" of horses and carriage?, namely, the Russian, French, English and gala sets. Each set comprises at least fifty horses. The Rnssian set accompanies the Emperor wherever he goer, and at Gitohina it" is used, to gether with the English set. The gala ?nd French horses and carriages are housed at St. Petersburg, in tha Win ter Palace stables. The Emperor's gala turnout consists o? fifty Hanover ian horses. These horses are perfectly while, with blue eyes, and anything more magnificent in tho way of trap pings than their harness can hardly be conceived. So Honors for Seli-Humorers. The German Minister of War has issued a general order to tba effeot that military honors aro no longer to be rendered at the funerals of officers who have committed suicide, whose names aro likewise henceforth to be made public, instead of being kepi secret. Emperor William hai been led to take this step by t? extraordinary increase of late ia ti. J tr?ber of sui cides among the officers of the army. HO? IO fr I. .Vi; OUT. fil* a Lottie- or common water glass wit urine and lot it stand twenty-four houri; I sodbrtrmt br settling indioaJea r. diseased eon ditton ot thc kidneys. When urine stain iinoL it is positive evidence ot kidney trouble Too frequent desire to urinate or patn In th. back Ls also convincing proof that the kid noys and bladder are ont of order. WHAT TO DO. Thor* ls comfort in tho knowledge so ofter oxpressod, that Dr. Kllmor'a Bwamp-Boot tho groat kidney remedy, fulfills every wist !n relieving pain in tho back, kidneys, liver, bladdor and ovory part of the urinary pas sages. It oorrwcte inability to hold urinj *nd scalding pain In passing lt, or bad effecti following cse of liquor, wino or beer, an< overcomes that unpleasant necessity of bein] compelled to get np many times during tn< night to urinate. The mild and tho extraor dinary effect of Swamp-Eoot h soon realized It stands the highest for its wonderful eura of the most distressing cases. Sold by" drug gists, price fifty cents and one dollar. Foi a sam plo bottle and pamphlet, both sent frei by mall, mention thia paper and send youi full postoffice address to Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamton. N. Y. The proprietors of thiii paporguarantee tho genuineness of thl3 offer. Aoomss STERLING REMEDY COMPAN' REASONS Walter Ba: Breakfi Because it is absolu Because it is net which chemic Because beans of th Because it is made the exquisite r Because it is the m a cup. Bc sure that yon g BAKER & CO. Ltd., DOT "Blight" costs cotton planters more than five million dollars an nually. This is an enormous waste, and can be prevented. Practical experiments at Ala bama Experiment Station show : - V r!>~* ?-i---C 93 isassau it., INew York. Art ?Ire?' KerUirtN rR.El WATCHF8EEJ 138 other articles. Coil nothing. Read Our Offer, tnij pun it. n? uuVi ? 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Webstorsays: "X remedy for one disease, But Webster 1? only partially <*7cc"t;,ft*S Targe number of -'tho Ills w^ch flesh te he Ir to arise from Impure Blood, and that which, by SaraeUg"sad purifying the blood, eliminates these di seases and restores the patient to health, CURES A NUMBER OF DISEASES, And yet te essentially "?P^fl?" SmSr* qualities of SALVATION BLOOD PL KI FI KR. Ii has no equal, and Impure liioon, with its many attendant evils, cannot exist lu the system which takes lt. It is Purely Vegetable and Harmless. TRY IT. PTAH Druggists, or ATLANTA, GEORGIA. . "For a number of years past I s sta, add how to get rid of it I di friends could suggest, still I gol sedentary, that of a bookkeeper, I often bad to lay off for a doy physician, but the medicine he porary relief. "Finally I xv- * ir was not long before I fek. .eat have not lost a day in the la RI PANS to all who are afflicted as I was that One Gives Relief." Ccrcuviux, K. i., Marah 0, WU. "I enclose f.wo dollars to get Mm? o? your TtrnsRQfE. It ho? Jose venden on three persons to whom 1 hud giren a little of my amall supply. They were radically cured of eczoma." Yo ara respectfully, BIT. C. P. OABOUBY. 1 box by mad for 60c. In stamps. ?f. T. 8BUFTB1MX, Savannah, Ga. "Walter Diker A Co., ot Dorchester. Mut^ U. S. A., harii siren years of sta>ly io the skil ful pr?t aration o' oocoa and chocolare, and hare devised machinery and system? pecu iar to their raetaods of treal ment, whereby tb? purity, palatability and highett nutrient char? uctenstica aie retained. Their preparations .?re known the world over, and hire received the highest Indorsements from th? medical Kranitioner, the curse, and the inte lisent ousekeeper and caterer. There ls hardly any f> od-i>ro;Uiet which may be so ex te;.si rely u?ed m ihe household in eoinblnnton with other foods a< c.?cou and chocolat? ; bat bent again we urge the imp?rtam e o' j unt\ and nutrient Viii-je. und tht se im ortn.it pVnU. wa feel au e, may be relied upon in (taker's C.icon and? Chocolate."-Dietetic and Hygienir. Gazette. A 50-Cert Calendar Free. Perhaps the mest beautiful Calendar Issued tor the year '97 ls THE YOUTH'S COMPANION Art Calendar, which ls given to each subs:rlber to the paper tor the year '97. It ls made up of tour charming pictures, beautifully reptxdiced bi ..weiro harmonious colo! a. It ls in iorm a four pago folder which, when extended, to 10x41 in.'nea in slzo. The subjects are delightfully attractive. Thin Calendar makes a destr?talo ornament for a mantel, centre-table or writing di-si. It ls offered for aale only by the pub lishers of THE YOUTH'S COMPANION at 00 centi per copy. ~ Only beca uso of the enormous num ber published ls lt possible for the publishers ot THE COMPANION to send lt free to all COMPANION subscribers. LT Listless, Aimless, Dull, Lack i?stre f eeling of yours snows that yow i J machinery is running: too slowly* KV rrx LIVER IS LAZY f II J< BOWELS arc languid v BLOOD is sluggish ive on without dela v. or you'll be a very sick Cascareis Candy Cathartic make your liver ?ur bowels regular, your blood pure, move your .y. Buy a box to-day,sny drujr store, lac., ?se.. Sailed for price. fisT Write for booklet end free " CANDY SVlCl^CATi ARTIC CURE CHRONIC CONS*lTPATION. FOR USING ker.& Co.'s ist Cocoa. itely pure. I . made by the so-called Dutch Process in ils are used. ie finest quality are used. by a method which preserves unimpaired $ latural flavor and odor of the beans, ost economical, costing less than one cent ;ct the genuine article made by WALTER chester, Mass. Established 178a - 5 MCELSEE'S - V ' '?si i WOMAN'S RELIEF for monthly pains in the sides, hips, back, neck, shoulders, head and limbs. These pains are symptoms of dangerous derangements pecul iar to women. McElree's Wine of Cardui cor recta these derangements, cures) Whitesnnd falling of the Womb, relieves Suppressed Menstrua tion and flooding, quiets the nerves and brings happiness to afflicted women. For Sole by M ?Mil cine Dcr.>r? nt ONE DjMJLAg A BOTTLE. Best on EVERY FARMER Should HaT? Band's InipTBi GUANO ffl.ffl.ltff AND COTTON PLANTER. Opens, and distributes any quantity at the same Une. For prices write to J. T. GAJIT ty Aluc?n, Ga. tW. PR.J.I,gTEPH?M?. A K. n. uttered untold agony from dyspep id not know. I tried evcrv remedy : no relief, and my business being it was getting almost unbearable, or two. I consulted our family : prescribed for me only gave tem. iduccd to try Ripans Tabuies. It ly relieved, and now, thank God, I st year. I can fully recommend Tabules and in my case it is always a fact