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Dawson City's Isolation.
It is a carious and almost anomalous
position that Dawson City occup er
There are few if arty towns of its size
In all the world so locked away from
the outside world for nine months in
the year. Think of it! A city of
10,000 souls, and the center of a dis
trict of 30,000, a live, busy-city, with
streets thronged vith men, its lug
warehouses, Its growing Interests and
civic problems, shut away entirely at
least nine months in the year, during
those seasons of the year when the
Ice is forming and breaking, and with
only occasional and laborious com i ii ti
tration during the three months.
Whatever happens of fire, flood or for
tune it must Temain for many weeks
or months unknown to the larger
world outside-Toronto, (Canada)
Globe.
Germany and Asia Minor. .
It is inevitable- that Asia Minor shall even
tually paso from the possession of Moham
medanism, and whether Germany accom
plishes tho task or not, tho Sultan must yield
toa Christian nation. It ls JUBt as Inevitable
that diseases of tho digestive organs must
yield to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Tho
disorders of this kind are usually called dys
pepsia, constipation and biliousness. Tho
Bitters nro equally good for all such com
plaints, regardless of tho name.
Ireland and Scotland aro said to have the
largest proportion of unmarried persons.
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOc.Sl. All druggists
It takes moro * han 12,000 election officers to
man the precincts in New York.
Warm Blood
Coursing through the veins, feeds, nour
ishes and sustains all tho organs, nerves,
muscles and tissues ot the body.TjSHood's
Sarsaparilla makes warm, rich, pure blood.
It ls tho best medicino you cnn take In
winter. It tones, invigorates, strengthens
and fortifies the whole body, preventing
colds, fevers, pneurrc?la and the grip.
?r* Sarsa
parilla
Is America's Greatest Medic inc. Price SI.
Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Hood's Pills cure Sick Headache. 25c.
Queer Belief About Seven.
.So numerous are the queer beliefs
concerning the number seven that a
narration of them all would fill a vol
nine, but we may mention a few of
them. From the very earliest ages
the seven great planets were known
und ruled this -world .md t.hc dwellers
In it, and their number entered into
every conceivable matter that con
cerned man. There are seven days in
the wrek. "seven holes in the head for
the master stars are seven." seven
ages both for man and the world in
which he lives. There were seven
material heavens, and In the under
world described by Dante the great
pagan dead who were not good enough
for heaven or bad enough for hell re
posed in a seven-walled and seven
gated city. There UTO seven colors in
the spectrum and seven notes in the
diatonic octave, and the "leading" note*
of the scale ls the seventh. Be it
Doted that the seventh son Is not al
ways gifted with beneficent powers.
In Portugal he is believed to be sub
ject to the powers of darkness and to
be compelled every Saturday evening
to assume the likenpss of an ass.
Peculiar Stream In Africa.
One of the strangest streams in the
w'orld is in East Africa. It flows in
the direction of the sea, but never
roaches it. Just north of the equator,
and when only a fow miles from tho
Indian ocean, it flows into a desert,
when it- suddenly and completely dis
appears.
rrinted in Chinese.
Los Angeles is to have a Chinese
newspaper printed from type. It will
be a secular paper with telegraphic
news of interest to Chinese.
" A LIVING WITNESS.
Mrs. Hoffman Describes How Sho
Wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for
Advice, and Is Now Well
DEAK MRS. PINKHAM:-Before using
your Vegetable Compound I was a
great sufferer. I have been sick for
months, was troubled with severe pain
in both sides of abdomen, sore feeling
in lower part of bow
els, also suffered
with dizziness,
headache, and
could not sleep.
I wrote you a
letter describ
ing my case and
asking your
advice. You
replied tell
ing me just
what to do. I
followed your direc
tions, and cannot praise your medicine
enough for what it has done for mc.
Many thanks to you for your advice.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has cured me, and I will recom
mend it to my friends.-Mrs. FLORENCE
E. HOFFMAN, 512 Roland St., Canton, O.
The condition described by Mrs. Hoff
man will appeal to mtiny women, yet
lots of sick women struggle on with
their daily tasks disregarding the
urgent warnings until overtaken by
actual collapse. *"
The present Mrs. Pinkham's experi
ence in treating female ills is unparal
leled, for years she worked side by side
with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for
oometimes past has had sole charge
of the correspondence department of
her great business, treating by letter
os many as a hundred thousand ailing
Women during a single year.
" I hare been nolngr CASCASKT8 nod CB
a mild and effective laxative they are simply won
derful. My rtaiiKhter and I were bothered with
sick stomach and our breath was very bad. After
tn iii ng a few doses of Cas^arets wo have Improved
wonderfully. They ?ire a ureut help in *.ho family."
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FOR FARM ?ND GARDEN.
Early Maturing Hogs.
Young pork is always best as well
as]:he most cheaply produced. Un
less ibo animal is wanted as a breeder
it isuot usually kept until a year old.
The breeds that mature early will
jiake more pork at less cost at six to
eight mouths old than those that keep
on growing two or three years aud at
tain very heavy weights But it is
still better to keep a breeding sow of
some of tho coarse, large-boned hogs
and then grow litters of jugs from her
when mated with some of the snisti
breeds that mature earliest. The half
breeds will make more pork than will
the thoroughbreds.
Water Hornes Frequently.
It is not natural for the horse to go
long without a drink of water. His
stomach is small aud caunot hold a
water supply for a long time. Water
ing morning, noon and night when at
work in summer time is none too often.
If the work is very heavy two table
spoonfuls of oat meal stirred in the
pail will make the horse * nk better,
and will also prevent so much cold
water from injuring his stomach. It
is a mistake to suppose that a horse or
any other domestic animal prefers to
drink water only a few degrees above
the freezing temperature. If it is
lukewarm the horse will drink more
freely and the witter will be less apt
to injure him.
Oil Meal for Fattening HORS.
One of the best variations of the
all-corn diet for fattening hogs is some
old process linseed meal, or if this
cannot be procured, use cottonseed
meal with some oatmeal not bolted.
All the linseed and cottonseed meals
contain some oil, and to this extent
are laxative. But all the cottonseed
meal made now lias the oil so squeezed
out of it that it is unsafe to feed it to
young pigs, and it eau ouly be fed to
old-hogs in very small quantities, and
then not very safely. It will need
some roots to go with it. But these
should be given any tray when corn is
fed to hogs, as the starch of corn is
hard to digest. Besides the oil the
oil meal contains some nitrogenous
nutrition which makes tho feed n bet
ter balanced ration.
Spraying Potatoes for Blight.
The past season has thoroughly de
monstrated the value of the bordeaux
mixture for blight on potatoes, and it
has quite as thoroughly shown that
the uso of paris green and london pur
ple, alone or mixed with land plaster,
has no good effect. Potato growers
should bear this fact iu mind next
season and use tho bordeaux mixture
freely, not only on potato vines, but
other vegetables and fruit trees where
foliage diseases of any kind appear.
Without question it is one of the most
valuable implements for ure on the
farm, and Uie bordeaux mixture can
be easily and cheaply mada at home.
So there seems to be no reason why
the blighted, scabby potatoes that
have been put on the market for the
past two years should not be replaced
by the fair, smooth specimens of the
days when scab and blight were prac
tically unknown, or at least not for
midable. .
Straining: Milk,
There are some points'about strain-'
ing milk thai are not generally thought
of, and therefore the milk is not wholly
cleared of its bacteria. In the first
place it ?3 important that tho milk
should be put through tho strainer
and set whore its cream is to riso as
soon as possible after it comes from
the cow. It often accumulates bac
teria very rapidly if left in stables ex
posed to foul odors. Besides, if left
long some of the cream will rise aud
will be so mixed with the milk that
what does not cliug to the strainer
cloth or wire will not rise as cream
a?aiu. The strainer should be thor
oughly washed by dipping it first in
cold water and moving it rapidly
through both ways, so that bacteria
will not adhere to the underside, as
they are apt to do if the rinsing water
is merely poured on the strainer from
above. Then repeat this process with
water pretty near scalding heat. In
that way if there are any bacteria on
the strainer they will be killed.
M nieblas St rafi berries.
The plants should be covered with
some coarse material jusv before tho
severest weather comes on iu the fall.
It may be applied before the ground
freezes or after it is frozen solid. If
covered before, the mulch should be
dropped off at the ends of tho rows
and carried onto the bcd with forks.
After the ground is frozeii, you eau
drive anywhere, depositing the ma
terial where most con renient to spread.
The entire surface should be covered
just deep enough to entirely hide the
plant. When applied the straw will
be about three inches deep. Bains
and snow will causo it to pack down
to an inch. Strawberries will not
smother, no matter how deep the cov
ering, it it is not applied too e:irly in
the fall or left ou too late in the
spring. Bemove the covering and
put it in the paths between the ro-vs
about May J, or as roon as gro\\lh
starts. Just before the berries begin
to ripen, go through the fields aud
pull all weeds and place the straw
carefully about the plants sa as to
cover all the surface not occupied by
the plants.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Ad vantages of Fall Flowing:.
Nearly every farmer who has been
caring for the farm for a series of
years will have seen the benelits of
fall plowing in many ways while run
ning the farm. There may be some
soils where the benefits are not seeu
so plainly as upon others, but nearly
all sorts are in some way improved by
being worked in the fall. If the soil
is stiff and clayey, nothing seems to
improve it so much as fall plowing.
Lot fall plowing be practised each
season for a series of years, and a
liner and more mellow soil will surely
follow. If a good dressing of light,
strawy manure, such as horse stable
dressing, cnn bc applied, spread broad
cast upon the soil and.plowed under,
so much the better. But if the farmer
has not the dressing, plowing alone
will help to improve the soil surely.
By turuing up the soil late in tho
fall the action of the frost will servo
to render it liner in texture.
Freezing and thawing are among
the great agencies va preparing the
suil for better production. Stiff clay
soil is a poor soil for plants to do good
work in, even if it be made rich with
dressing; the roots cannot penetrate a
hard soil and poor crops are the re
Bj?fc Every farmer who has had a
p. ucticul knowle-1 go by treating such
soils cannot fail to seo this, and they
must work with this point iu view if
they hope to succeed, that a gradual
deepening of such soil by ditching and
fall plowing are the vcr'' best methods
to apply. No soil can produce even
fair crops while is is in a cold and hwd
state. Then let us devote our atten
tion to making an improvement. We
must work to render the soil fine, and
to take the surplus w ater from it by
ditching and plowing. Let freoziug
and thawing come in to help us.
Nothing eau be cheaper than this in
the farm economy.
We have treated soils such as have
been mentioned above many times,
and these methods have proved satis
factory in every case. We hope that
all farmers who may have, such soils
to work will try this mode of treat
ment and report results.-A. E.
Faught iu American Cultivator.
Feeding Hoirs in Fields.
The feeding of hogs in the field ie
becoming more in practice every
year.
Putting them in pens ou a floor will
no doubt have a tendency to put flesh
on more rapidly, as it deprives the
hogs of exercise, which is necessary to
good health and better pork. Then,
pen feeding requires more labor in
taking everything tb the peu to feed
besides the daily denning.
More manure is wasted around a
hog jjen than auy other place. Owing
to its offensiveness and being filled
with corn cobs, which makes it trou
blesome to handle,it is left to lie right
where it is thrown out of .the pen.
While this manure is of the best.I be
lieve there is tho least attention paid
to saving it of auy manure we have.
When hogs are fed in the field all
this good manure is saved with the
least trouble. There is no drawing
ont and spreading, as tho hogs have
done this work better than it can be
done by hand. While you may add a
few more pounds on the hog with the
same amount of grain by pen feeding,
this will-bo more than overcome by
the saving of manure and the decreased
amount of labor required.
I don't believe in having a lot on
purpose to feed in and keep it for
such, year after year, with nothing
else in it. rbis would be an entire
waste of manure. Every farmer should
have some small fields and change
them for feeding purposes. Where
hogs were fed last year should bo put
into some crop this year.
They may be fed with profit on a
clover sod that you intend to plow for
corn next year. Do this feeding on
the poor places af the field, and make
them as rich as the richest places. If
you hnve n. few hogs, rm olcl . wagen
can be loaded and driven where you
wish to feed, changing places each
load. If yon haven't the old wagon,
a store box sot up high enough so that
the hogs won't got into it will do. If
yon have a large number of hogs, a
portable corn crib can be built on
runners and drawn with a team any
where you wish. We havo one of this
kind that holds about a hundred bush
els, made of rough boards. Our man
made it in a couple of hours. It is
just a large box, made strong enough
to hold a hundred bushels, with no
roof over it. One end is made to take
out, so you can use a scoop from the
start when you commence feeding.
Then the end can bo placed back
again.
But how about the water in those
fields with so many hogs? Yes, they
must have water, and all they want of
it, and water that is fresh and clean.
Well, we fill barrels and draw them
out to tim'? rm o afnuA boat, enonjorli
at ouepart ol salt anti three tu U.MICO, I
and cover it over to keep the rain out.
You will be surprised at the amount
they will eat. It keeps them in healthy
condition.
If the weather is hot, some kind of
place should bo fixed to shelter the
hogs from the sun. Cheap affairs of
some kind that will suggest themselves
to the farmer can easily be arranged.
-I. N. Cowdroy in Farm, Field and
Fireside.
THE SURGEON'S DISCOVERY.
Found That Irishmen Hail Calloused
Spots on Their S Ii on hi orx.
A young physician, some years ago
appointed as interne at one of the
hospitals in Cincinnati at one time
made a discovery that nearly made
him famous. While in attendance at
this hospital a scaffolding erected foe
convenience of workmen at a building
in course ci erection in Cincinnati
broke down injuring seven Irishmen.
The young disciple of Esculnpius
was in the receiving room when the
patrol wagons brought in the men.
In examining one of tho men for in
juries he discovered a calloused spot
on the right shoulder. He thought
nothing of this, until looking over tho
second mau, on whom ho discovered
the same .;pot. He then went over
the entire batch of injured men, and
found the samo mark on each shoul
der. .
Concealing his discovery from his
superiors, the young man went about
all day with visions of fame floating
through his brain. In every conceiv
able way he managed to obtain a
glance during the day at each man's
shoulder, to be sure the calloused
marks wore still there.
That night ho locked himself se
curely in his bedchamber and prepared
a paper, in which at great length ho
dilated upon the discovery he had
made. He wrote pages upon the pe
culiar structural formation of the
Irishmen's bodies, aud stated that, al
though in descending generations pos
sibly the spot would be nearly oblit
erated so as to become almost unno
ticeable, yet he had no doubt that if
each nnd every Irishman in the world
was examined, traces of this calloused
spot could be lound on the shoulder.
In the morning, bursting with his
newly acquired information, ho took
one of the physicians of the institu
tion into his confidence. The physi
cian listened to the young mau with
an air of interest, and theu asked:
"On what shoulder docs this cal
loused spot occur ?"
"The right, one-the right!" ex
claimed tho 3'oung man. "And I am
sure it can bc found on all Irishmen's
shoulders."
"So am I, answered the older man.
"All Irishmen that are hod-carriers !"
A Living Illustration.
Women are now admitted to lec
tures at Edinburgh university, where
they sit on tho front seats. Decently
eight women were attending Professor
Tait's lecture on the gtometric form
of crystals. "An octahedron, gentle
men," said the professor, "is a body
with eight plane faces. For exam
ple-"
"Look at the front bench," broke
in.a man from tho sufo ground of the
back seats.-Wave.
Wild Beasts of India.
Official statistics foi British India
alone show that about 21,000 j:>eoplo
aud 'JO, OOO domestic animals arc killed
there every year by wild beasts.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Lichens have been found groking
on the Himalayas ab an elevation of
17, OOO feet.
The highest waterfall in the world
is Cholock Cascade, at Yosemite, Cal.,
which is 2634 feet high, or half a mile.
The result of typhoid epidemio at
Maidstone, England, in 1897 was
1818 cases in a population of 34,000
and 130 deaths.
Dis. Schiff and Freund have found
by experiment that short and frequent
exposures to X-ray influence- will re
move hair from the human skin.
The notion that once prevailed at
Constantinople that persons who had
smallpox were plague immunes has
been shown in Bombay to be incor
rect.
Wherever a profound cavity exists
in the be 1 of the ooean near the land
earthquakes are frequent, being caused
by groat piecos of the land sliding off
into tho depths of the sea.
An elephant's skin is exceedingly
sensitive, notwithstanding its great
thickness. Flies, gnats, mosquitoes,
etc., cause it considerable annoyance,
especially wheu it is confined to a
house and cannot procure dust to
sprinkle over its body as a protection
against their attacks.
A FIN DE SIECLE EQUINE.
"Kit!le" "VTn* n Victim of Fashion, and
Now AVeatM Fnlso Hair.
It is not given alone to woman, who
would make herself more beautiful
with abundant tresses, to rest while
her back hair hangs on the door knob.
On the contrary there is a petted sorrel
mare in San Francisco which is bedded
down carefully every night by Morris
P. Sweet, a dairyman, while her
switch, or rather her tail, hangs up
with the harness. Her present owner
has had her for several years, and so
deftly has he dressed "Kittie'?" back
hair that he has driven her over all
the streets of San Francisco without
attracting attention until she fell un
der .be lynx eyes of Matthew Mc
Cui rie, assistant secretary of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
With his attention turned all ways
at all times, McCurrie noticed what
he supposed to be harness sewed to
thc hide of tho poor bruto. Upon in
vestigation he was sorry that there
was not a special reward of merit for
tho man who had, at infinite pains,
provided a good, bushy switch that
this poor brute might be adequately
armed against the common enemy.
After Sweet bought the horse with
the sad-looking stump, where a tail
should have been, he made several
trips to tho boneyard before he man
aged to get a sorrel tail of just the
proper hine. To it he had enough
hide attached to reach the crupper
straps. When it was new there.was
hide enough to lace well around the
stump, but it has since been tanned
and shrunken by the wind and weath
er until now a bit of scrutiny shows
some of the lacing at the sides. From
a utitarian standpoint the tail is quite
as useful as if every hair of it was
rooted to the stump.
"Kittie" holds her head proudly
and her limbs are as slender as those
.?-*? tU?Wtn/rltKpoA Rho wns
Two big meteors of irregular shape
and orbit and sprouting tire over the
astonished heads of the peoplo are the
talk of San Diego. The larger one
.as seen just before G o'clock a week
or so ago. It tilled the southern sky
with a burst of light and rushed from
tho regions of ocean into the interior
with a hiss and flaking of fire that
scared everybody that saw it. The
other meteor moved in from the ocean,
too, but it was slo.v and twisted as it
rolled. It was about thirty feet high.
People driving between Sau Diego
and Old Town saw it coming across tho
bay and thought it was an airship. It
passed directly in front of au old
couple, and tho horse reared and sat
j on his haunches whilethe thing twist
ed and sputtered and shed its fire.
Tile meteor was all colors of the raiu
bow, and its mot on was uncanny. It
had a long tail, which turned from
salmon to pink and Crom pink to lemon.
A number of men were standing near
a bridge ou tho road, and they dived
under it as tho fiery exhalation came
toward them. Finally the light fell
to the ground. Its queer, revolving
motion and many-colored lights ren
dered it extremely unearthly. Thero
were plenty of witnesses to both me
teors.--San Francisco Examiner.
Two VI neaya Hut (onH.
A war correspondent returning
from the front brought as a souvenir to
one of his friends a button found in
the captain's cabin of the wrecked
Viscaya. It was a black and ruined
thing, the royal arms of Spain hardly
distinguishable through the crust of
corrosion which flame and flood had
spread upon its once shining surface.
Impressive as a relic of Pompeii, it
spoke of ruin ns fearful. The recip
ient bore it about with him wherever
he went, proud to display it, this elo
quent trophy of our splendid victory
- and Spain's crushing defeat-the
battle of July 3.
Calling oue evening on a Spanish
girl of his acquaintance he produced
it. Tho senorita lookod at it for a
moment, then rose and left the room.
Returning shortly, she too displayed
a souvenir, a bright and shining but
ton, with he royal arms of Spain.
"Captain Enlate gave it me," she
said, "when the Viscaya was here for
the Grant monument celebration."
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Fislirn NOIMI Air to Live.
It is a familiar fact that fishes can
not live without air, of which all sweet
water contains inore or less, and in
cold "'-mates fishes sometimes dio for
W-...C of air in ponds that are frozen
over iu winter; they exhaust the air
contained in the water and not enough
more can get in to sustain life.
The frozen over waters in which fish
don't get air enough to support life
aro likely to be smaller ponds with a
gravel border all around, where the
i-je can form unbroken clear to the
edge, making a complete covering
over the water and practically sealing
it up. If there is vegetation around
the po lld at the edge of it, shrubbery
or trees or plauts dippiug in the water,
such vegetation is likely to supply
some air, for as the ice settles it cracks
and breaks about the stalks of thig
vegetation and thus" leaves places
where air can get in.
Sometimes in small sluggish bodies
of water such as park ponds, holes are
cut in the ice to give the fishes bo
neath air.-New York Sun,
K Meddling Phonograph.
The "board of health is the recipient
of many queer complaints, but the
one lt received thc other day from a
disgusted and nervously prostrated
jeweller of Eighth street Is entitled, to
prominence In a class by Itself.
It seems that thc jewelry store Is lo
cated next door to a phonograph es
tablishment that has for the purpose
of attracting passers-by a phonograph
going all day long. All kinds of tunes
and alleged witty sayings are squeak
ed forth from early In the morning
until late at night in peculiarly pene
trating and nerve-destroying tones. At
first the machine efforts at wit amused
the jeweler, and he used to laugh
heartily at the comicalities, but these
were repeated with such deadly per
sistency that they began to pall, and
from being amused the tradesman
grew Into a "negative desperado.
Cne day the climax was reached
when a customer who looked like
"ready money," came in to bay a dia
mond ring. For some reason the ma
chine next door was quiet f?l* a while,
and the jeweller was just on tho point
of closing a highly profitable sale
when the shrill voice of the phono
graph began to sing. "Oct Your
Money's Worth." The amazed cus
tomer hesitated, and finally told thc
jeweller he world call another day.
This incident was the'last straw, and
the board of health will now look into
the matter.-Philadelphia Record.
Peculiar Advertisements.
The subtle though important part
that arrangement of words and com
mas plays in a sentence, no matter
how short, is often demonstrated in
signs and ads. Following are some
such distortions:
"Wanted, a room by two gentlemen
thirty feet long and twenty feet
wide."
. Wanted, a young man to take care
of horses of a religious turn of mind."
"Wanted, a woman to wash, iron
and milk one or two cows."
. In a certain hotel on the continent
the visitor is mystified, not to say dis
heartened, by this announcement: "lu
this hotel the wines leave the traveler
nothing to hope for."
Beauty IK Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarcts, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and koep it cli-an, by
stirring UD tlio lazy liver and driving all. im
purities from tho body. IJi-^in to-<tiiy to
banish pimple?, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by raking
tiiiicaret?,- beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c. -Vic. 50c.
Spain ls smaller than Texas by about 75,000
square miles.
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF HOS
is due not only to the originality and
assist one in avoiding inc worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the CALI
FORNIA FIG STOPP Co. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which thc genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of thc Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
faa- in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it docs not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
ihe Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CnL
30I8VILI.E. Kr. FKW Y<?!tK. N. Y.
The Indian Is Merry and Chatty.
For the Indian 's not. as the popular
Idea figures him. stolid, taciturn, or
even sullen In his every-day life, says
George Bird Grinnell in the Atlantic.
He may be shy and silent In the pres
ence of strangers, but in lils home life
he ls talkative,-cager to give and re
ceive the news, and to gossip about
it He is of a merry. Ianghter-lovlbg
people, and likes to make good-natur
ed fun of another's peculiarities. Thus,
one of her companions may jeeringly
call a rery slender woman the shadow
of a moccasin string. Once, on tho
prarie, in the bright, hot. sunlight. I
heard an Indian say to another who
was very stout. "My friend, stand still
for a little while. I want, to sit dowu
In the shade and cool off."
Some years ago I was on the reser
vation of a tribe known as the Big
Bellies-Oros Ventres-at Fort Bolk
nap, Montana; and while I was there
a now agent came to thom. Ile was
a fat. man. and one of the Indians, who
met thc agent for the first time in my
presence, said, ns he shook hands with
him, "AJII. you are one of our own
people. You. too, are a Big Bolly."
Found the Needle After Many Years.
In the Stimmer of ISSI Miss Emma
J. Keener of Marlon, Ohio, swallowed
a needle one inch and a fourth long,
which she had used In sewing. At the
time lt gave her much alarm, but, suf
fering no inconvenience, she was ad
vised to await results, as nothing
cohld be done but to let It have Its
course. The following year she mar
ried Jacob W. B?rry. She is now the
mother of six children, but has not
suffered from any serious illness, oc
casionally complaining of a distress In
the stomach, which was attributed to
Indigestion. For three days p?st she
has complained of something pricking
her ki the pit of the stomach, which
sensation Increased in violence, until
last evening she discovered a sharp
point proruding from the stomach just
below the euslform cartilage, and, up
on grasping it. brought out. The broken
needle, three-fourths of an inch In
length. Tho question .now that trou
bles tho patient is, What has become
of tho other piece of the needle, and
how did It become broken? She is suf
fering no inconvenience, but Is some
what nervous over thc result.-Cin
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Your business is to get as much as possible for
your hard-earned dollars. Our business is to sell
direct to consumers and save them from the large
prices of thc retailers. Wc publish a lithographed
catalogue which shows exact designs of Carpets,
Rugs and Draperies in hand-painted colors. We
sewcarpets frce.furnish lining free and pay freight.
Our Big General Catalogue contains everything
for the house and Furniture for all use's, lt con
tains many surprising bargains similar to this:
Solid O ik Dusk, with rollin? top which lotkn nil d ri we ri
niitum itlcnllr. 1 >nr. i.nliM fiirniihi*<l with 3 drawsT in
?ich p.'dr'tnl. It i? AO IMBM lone, 'M in. d-ep, H nd lui? 2
?Hrixicarnit. All h'L-hl. pnlishnd. Sreci.l l"rler, ?I0.95.
Do you think wc would spend a million dollars
annually advertising oar catalogues if they were
not worth having? They arc free-wc pay all
postage. Which do you want? Or both? Address
this way,
?JULIUS HINES & SON,
Dept. .loi. Baltimore, Md.
HEAT FROM ELECTRIC L?QHT.
Incandescent Lamp Can Set Inflamable Fab
rics Ablaze Quickly.
Perhaps it is not generali known
that the incandescent electric lamp ls
essentially a device "which transforms
electricity Into light, but mostly into
lieat, says the Xew York Press. As ls
well known, the carbon filament of the
lamp is a substance offering great re
sistance to the passage of the current,
ind the product of this reslstence ls
light and heat. It is an instance of
tho translation of ono form of energy
into another. The light thus produced
is. after all, only a small percentage of
thc energy manifested-some 5 or G
per cent at the most.
Tho fact ls important, bearing In
mind a common notion that the elec
tric incandescent lamp is free from tho
lient rays, lt is true that thc lamp,
when working, is not comparable with
i flame of naked light, out at the same
time thc heat evolved is such as may
load 1o ignition. This point is deserv
ing of emphasis, because the incandes
cent electric lamp is used for pur
poses of Illumination in .shops with
out regard to the possibility-even
probability-of fancy goods which hap
pen to be contiguous being fired.
Indeed, so firm is tho Idea that tho
incandescent electric lamp is free from
heat that. It ls frequently to be found
burled In a mass of easily Ignited and
highly inflammable material. This Is
a mistake, and care should be exer
cised with the electric lamp in Its ap
plication Ju this connection. But, of
course, the risk ls not so great as
whore naked lights are employed. It
has been found by experiment that, on
Immersing a slxtecn-candle-power
lamp (100 volts pressure) in a half pint
of water, the water boils within an
hour, and in proportionstoly less time
when a rhirty-two-cnndle-power lamp
is substituted.
if, again, the lamp ls buried In cot
ton wool, the wool soon begins to
scorch, and ultimately bursts into
flame. In one experiment which was
this bursting into flame was nc
..- . ....,!;. V. . ... ~~7-~: -'I,... -
a lamp.
Abyssinia.
The resources of Abyssinia are well
known and probably overrated, but
it seems admitted that nearly every
Abyssinian has a rllio and can dis
pense with a commissariat. Menel?k,
it is certain, docs not want to fight
any Europeans; he is perfectly aware
that they do not count his alliance
for his advantage; and he is sot upon
welding together that loose-jointed
feudal State into a solid monarchy.
If he lives twenty years and can edu
cate a successor, Abyssinia may be
come a power that can exist next to
civilized neighbors. But as things
are, his northern province, Tigre, is
out of hand, and the pagan Gailas of
the south, among the fiercest and
bravest of African tribes, are very lit
tle under control.
Menclck may be a useful ally to 1
England one day; but he Is too power
ful to be allowed to become a thorn
in our side, and thc next few years
may sec, thought we devoutly hope
they may not. another Abyssinian
cn mpa Ign.-Spectn tor.
Birds or Freedom Misbehave.
There were many bald eagles around
tho locality nf St..Michael's. Ind., a
few weeks ugo. Many fine flocks of
winter poultry were attacked by these
predatory birds, and turkeys suffered
to a groat extent. An eagle attempt
ed to carry off a lamb, but the lamb
proved too much of a burden for thc
eagle.-Baltimore Sun.
St. Louis. Mo., has G3S.000 popula
tion and GS?) patrolmen, or one to ev
ery 932 Inhabitants.
It ls said that in Puris there an
'0.000 doers, or one for every thirty lu
iiaihltnnts. _ v
$2.00 Astrological Rending Free.
I will send full lifo readinp; and answer nil
questions with pen picture of futuro affinity
for 10cts. (postntre expenses.) ft i ve date of
birth. It, jiiav mean wealth and happiness.
Ad. Prof. JEoWf. Philadelphia. Pa.
Thc United State? bnsahont 20 persons to
the square milo. England ">40 ?nd Belcinm
.>;o. If our country ?rere ns densely populated
as England ?nd Belanim, ita people would
number nearly 2.000.0110,000.
To < ure ?1 t'old in One T?ny.
Tnke Laxativo Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
"l?ruppl?ts refund money If lt fails to cure. 25c.
February. 1806, had no full moon. January
had two full moons and so had March. This
remarkable statoT?f things has never hap
pened before since thc era wo assign to tue
creation._
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forohildron
teeth I nt;, so fte ns the emms, reduces in.'.anima
tion.nllnys paln.cnrcs wind'colic. 2.5c. a bottle.
Fits permanently cared. No fits or nervous
ness niter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Xervo Restorer. SS trial hottleandtreatlsofron.
Du. R. H. KLINE, I-td.. 081 Arch St., Phlla., Pa.
We think Pisa's Cur?, for Consumption is
the onlv medicina for Coughs;--JENNIE
PlNCKARD, Springfield, Ills.. Oct. 1,1894.
Nazareth has3hospitals, "conventsand 12
schools under European supervision.
Educate Your Rowels With Cnscnrcts.
Cnndy Cathartic, euro constipation forevor.
10c.25c. If c. C. C. fall, druggists rotund money.
A Berlin watchmaker invented an instru
ment, measurintr time to tho one-thousandth
part of n second.
I Hair^ Restorer is a Perfec
A Wonderful Timepiece.
Our Brussels correspondent says: A
truly wonderful timepiece is now on
view in Brussels. The inventor, M.
Noll, spent five years in its construc
tion, and bas beaten all previous rec
)rds in clock making. This structure,
which stands fifteen feet high, repro
luces the facade of a building of the
early Renaissance period. The clock,
in addition to its ordinary functions,
marks the four seasons, as well as the
chief Church festivals, fixed and mov
able, all of which are heralded in to
the minute by automaton figures,
choral services, church music, or the
song of birds, according to the sea
son. A feature of the mechanism is
the hourly procession of twelve apos
tles before the figure of Christ, and
the morning and evening ciiant of
monks, who are summoned from the
cloister by the monastery bell, tolled
by.the sexton in view of the public.
A representative of the earth's course
round the sun, anet of "the moon round
the earth, furnishes an object lesson
in the seasous, eclipses and other ce
lestial phenomena. The clock will b.;
exhibited at Paris in 1900, and will be
probably offered for salo, being val
ued at ?15,000. Its mor-Tients ave
regulateil by the calendar >r the next
100 years.-London Chroi ?le.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke /our Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, bo mag
netic, full of life, none and vigor, take No-To
Enc, tho wonder-worker, that make6 weak ir en
strong. All druggists, (?Qc or IL Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and samplo free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or Now York.
Nearly 1.00O.C0O persons make their living
in this country by tho electric industries.
Catarrh Cannot be Cured
With local applications, as they cannot reach
the seat of thc disease. Catarrh is a blood or
constitutional disease, and in order to cur''
it yon must tako internal remedies. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts di
rectly on the blood and mucous surface. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is nota quack medicine. It was
prescribed by one of thc best physicians in
this countrv for years, and is a regular pre
scription. It is composed of tho host tonics
known.combined with the best blood partners,
neting directly on the mucous surfaces. The
perfect combination of thc twoir.gredients is
what produces such wonderful results in cur
ing catarrh Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CnENKY & Co.. Proi.s., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, price T?c.
Hall's'Family Pills arc tho best.
If yon are a victim to sleep let tho baby eat
crackers in bed ?_
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Tako Cascarots Candy Cathartic. lOcor 2.*>i.
ll C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
Chixmpncno wns first made by monks In tho
poventcenth century.
thousands of them, evre suf
fering from lingering div
eases induced by life in
poisonous southern camp?,
the result of changes of
climate, OT of imperfect
nutrition caused by im
proper and badly cooked
food. Sleeping on the ground
has doubtless developed
rheumatism in hundreds
who vyere predisposed t;o
the disease. In such cases
the Boys of '98 may take
a lesson from the expert?
ence of the y
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lams"
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army.
Asa Robinson, of Mt. Sterling, 111.,
icned iu the s^rd Pennsylvania vol nu
ous farmer's hov and came back broli?
nintism. Most of the time he was un
and his sufferings were at all times 11
to give me permanent relief until thr<
called to some of the wonderful cures
for Tale People. I had uot taken mor
improvement in my condition, and I !
I owe my restoration to health. Thcj
Dtmocrat-Mtsstgt.
At all drwfidiit?,: or sent .pootp&K
box. by th? Ot- V?iWi?wmi Medici)
not b
suffer
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If there is any costiveness, n
doses of St. Joseph's Liver Reg?
MY WIFE WAS ALMOS
With female troubles. She has toke
PANACEA and it has cured her. She 11
.well os "he ever did and weighs more tl
SOLD AT DRUG STORES.
L. QERSTLE & CO., Propriet
OTTON is and will con
tinue to be the money
crop of the South. The
planter who gets the most cot
ton from a oriven area at the
least cost, is the one who makes
the most money. Good culti
vation, suitable rotation, and
liberal use of fertilizers con
taining at least 3% actual
will insure the largest yield.
Wc will send Free, upon application,
pamphlets that will interest every cotton
planter in the South.
QERHAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
Txr ANTED-Case of bi\d health that B'fT'A'N'S
? V will not benefit. Send S cts. to Kipani Chemical
Co NewYork, fer lu i-ainplcs und lOuu tostiuicuials.
If afflicted with \
sore eyes, uso j
Thompson's Eyo Water
MENTION THIS PAPER B2?SH8
t Dressing and Restorer? \
I.
When the children get their
feet wet and take cold give them
a hot foot bath, a bowl of hot
drink, a dose or Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral, and put them to bed.
The chances are tbtry will be
all right in the morning. Con
tinue the Cherry Pectoral a few
days, undi all cough has dis
appeared.
Old coughs are also cured;
we mean the coughs of bron
chitis, weak throats and irritable
lungs. Even the hard coughs
of consumption are always
made easy and frequently cured
by the continued use of
Every doctor knows that wild
cherry bark is the best remedy
known to medical science for
soothing and healing inflamed
throats and lungs.
? Put ono of
Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral
Plasters
over yous9 Fungs
Tho Best Medical
Adv feo Freo I
Wo now have tome of tho most emt*
non*, physician* In tho United States.
Unusual opportunities'and long experi
ence eminently flt them for giving yon
medical advice. Writo freely all the
particulars tn Tour case.
Address, Dr. J. C. AVER,
Lowell. Mast.
g their days oF hevrrisrup
These pills are the best
ls a veteran of the Civil war, haying
tccrs. He went to thc war n vigor
:n in health, a victim of sciatic rheu
fitted for manual labor of any kind,
itense. He says: " Nothing seemed
:e vcars ago, when my attention was
effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Tills
e than half a box when I noticed an
icep on improving steadily. To them
' are a grand remedy."-3ft. Stirling
i;on receipt o? price, 50 ct v. per
IC Co., Bo* V, Schenectady.*.*.
MOTHERS Wake
W can a woman be cheerful and
happy when she is weak? nervous,
md suffering the excruciating tor
rares of Female Diseases? Ic should
e expected of her. When she is
.ing Irom Deranged Menstruation,
39., Falling of the Womb, etc., show
sympathy for her in a practical
)y providing her with
TR?ot(G. f. P,)sMMb
s (splendid tonic will soon relieve
iffering and CUBE the disease, thus
icing the desired result through
al channels. Only $1.00 per bottle,
tove the bowels gently with mild
ulator. Price 25c per package.
!T A COMPLETE WRECK
n six bottles of GERSTLE-S FE(WALI
5 now on tho last bottlo and is feeling as
lian ever beforijn her life.
B. ? LEGGETT. Broxten. Ga.
ors, , Chattanooga, Tenn.
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THAN
UTTER
Butterlne ls. That ls, lt ls better thon very
nearly all butter. '1 he best batter that can be pro
duced is as good as Butterlre. It isn't better. It
can't bo. And the butter ts as gocd only at th*
moment lt come? from tho churn, lt doesn't stay
so. Butter and Butterine remain on a parity only
for a few moments. The butter begins to deterio
rate immediately. The Butte fine doesn't.
Why do you not buy Butterine ? <
It's"b?jause you are prejudiced. Yon have {been
told that Buttorine ls artificial. What does artificial
mean? It means a variety of things according M
< ircumstnnces. Butterine is artificial. Sf is bu t
irr. Butterine is manufactured by t process.
Batter is manufactured bra process. One la just
as artificial as the other. The elements of both ar?
produci d by nature. Both como item the sai-e
animal. .'?'j
And the?o elements aro practically indentlcol.'
That's why butler can't be better than Butterine.
Pure Klondike gold can't bo any betior than pure
Cripple Creek gold, ?old is gold. Certain elements
are the. samo whether in butter ot Bntterlne
whether in the milk or tho fat of a co w.
Thc- difference between Butterine a*d the best
bnltor is mostly in the process of making. The
Butterine process is superior and is a guarantee of
rarity. .
Anil with all its merits Butterine costs less than
butter-only lor. per pound. And at this low
price wo will ?sud it to you express prepaid.
io lt> packages in 1 it) prints.
M1!? packages' in :t lb rolls.
40 1') packages (solid).
You are enjoying othor modern masterpieces of
science: why not this wholesome and economical
I one ' Wo want you to try it.
I WILKINS As CO.,208 Otu Street, N. W*
U uauliixinn, I>. V. I'. O. Box 360.
! r?OODQYNEW DISCOVERY; gires
m& .? 0 C9 ? quick relief and cures worst
cases. Send for book of testimonials and IO days'
[ treatment Free. Dr.H.H.OEEEN'8 S0R8. AUont*. Ga,
?B?
Price $1.00.