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Our Six-Inch Gua ls the Best. The new six-inch fifty-calibre sun for the navy now being constructed at the Washington Navy Yard will be the best gun of that type iu the world. It will carry a one hundred pound shell and will use American smokeless powder. The present six inch gun of the American navy, which is of forty calibre, was tested agains? an English fifty-calibre gun "about three months ago at (he Indian Head proving grounds, and under similar conditions of charge and projectile beat the English g?:n by 400 feet per second muzzle velocity. Thc English gnu's best initial velocity was 2.000 feet; the American gun's was ??.000 feet. For the new American sly-inch gun a minimum Initial velocity ot 3,200 feet is looked for. Australia's Bicycle Mah Stamp. A bicycle mail stamp is issued in Western Australia. Thc ground is pale green, with the lettering and design in pink. In the centre oval is the black swan of Australia, while Immediately above, in a curved line, are the words, "Cycle Mail." and over h. in two straight liner across the top of the stamp, are the words. "Lake Lefroy Gold Field." Curving under the oval are the words "Western Australia," while at the bottom of the stamp is the word "Postage." flanked ^u each side by "CdV]_ Abolish the Death Penalty. At Albany tho 1-w-makers are wrangling over the abolition ot tho death penalty. The man who succeeds in passing such a bill will I>rov? ns groat a benefactor to th<> breaker nf man's laws ns Hastener's Stomach Bitters has to the breaker of nature's laws. If you're neglected your stomach until indigestion, constipation, biliousness, llvt?r and kidney trimbles aro upon you there's but one cure Hos te tte r's Stomach Ritters. Don't full to try lt. All druggists sell it. Fools always invest first and investigate later. _ Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tonr Life Away. 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The planter who gets the most cot ton from a oliven 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. We will send Free, upon application, pamphlets that will interest every cotton planter in the Soifth. QERflAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. u? ptsorSr?uR:E ;JTO:R? CURES Wm ALL ELSE 1AILS. Good, lid ny druutrlsts. Uso THE MANILA THEATRES. SPANISH OPERETTA THE CHIEF FORM OF AMUSEMENT. - Jokes That tile Americans Do Xot Un derstand - Sluging by Spanish Soldiers . -.Nightly Trouble Over the Demand for ii Spanish Sont;-Filipino Acrobats? Theatricals in Maiiila are not in a very settled state yet, owing probably to the uncertainty that still seems to exist as to whether the population is to consist of Americans or Filipinos or Spaniards, or all three. Outside of one or two purely Ta galo theatres, the only steady place of amusement is the Circo Filipino, which is occupied part of the time by a stock company ol Spanish operetta singers. During the hist few ?eeks there ha* been (juke a run on zarzuela, or Spanish comic opera. The com pany is composed of Spanish singers, who probably drifted in from Spain when the Philippine archipelago was a colony ol'their nation. The produc tions are uot at all extravagantly got up, but the dialogue seems to please an nudieucc of two or three hundred Spanish residents each night, aud the singing and dauciug are enjoyed by Spaniards, Americans and Fi.?pinos alike. The place is advertised to open afc 8.30 every night and the bill gener ally is composed of three one-act oper ettas. There is a change of bill nightly and a continuons performance. The latter feature is made possible at present by the assistance of a glee club composed of fifty Spanish sol diers, who occupy the stags between acts and siug songs of their native larfd. To the Americans this is one of the big features of the entertain ment. Xo accompaniment is used, .the men all relying cn the pitch given by the leader at the start and his ba ton throughout the selection. The Circo Filipino on the outside appears to be a jumble of sheds with corrugated iron roofs, but within there is a fair-sized auditorium with a cement floor. The butacas or orches tra seats are wide mahogany arm chairs with bane bottoms, and arranged with an aisle down the centre. At the sides are a couple of rows of chairs extending the leugth of the place, and directly above these are the balconies whore the box partie? sit. Seat checks arc procured at a little window out side the door, and presented to one of the ushers, who linds the seats. The members of llio audi? nee smoke us many cigars and cigarettes during the performance as they choose. Al though the place is fairly well ven tilated at the sides, the atmosphere sometimes gives a hazy look to the stage, which in the regulation small tiieatre stage titted with curtains which do not roll up, but arc simply gath ered and whisked above by tue ropes, which run pnekeriug string-fashion. Directly in the centre of the stage at the front is the prompter's cage. The prompter stands three-quarters be ueath the stage, libretto iu hand, and the actors depend on him to get through their lines. He reads every line ol' tho dialogue, indicating tlie man who is to say it with his ringer. and keeping a neck ahead of him all the ti'ie. To ?in occupant of a front seat the performance is made highly absurd. The orchestra is au up-to-date or ganization of Filipinos, directed by a wise-looking, gray-headed mau who wears glasses and smokes cheroots throughout the performance. The bass viol is statioued directly behind tue director, who occupies the centre, and the first and second violins are arranged on cither side. The reed instruments and horns fill out the ends. The orchestra is composed of fifteen pieces and b??eles fairly diffi cult music with much graze. Eight-thirty is a little early for reg ulation Spanish diners to reach the theatre, so it is usually the case that the audience is not completeuntil near theeud of the first act. A jangling bell gives warning that tho show is about to begin, and at the second ring thc footlights are turned on and the orchestra plays up the curtain. Per haps the operetta deals with Spanish police in pursuit of villains wearing the old style Spanish knickerbockers, sash and tur ban, and are counter parts of the average creation of the American cartoonist who wishes to caricature Spain. The women of the plav wear Spall isl) shawls and have their hair arranged in dizzy towers on top of their heads. At the Filipino theatres of Manila it b- the custom to show appreciation by tossiug coins ou the stage in lieu of bouquets. The Spa?ish soldier ch- rus is a pleasing innovation, and the members seem to enjoy their songs, which are given with gusto. Nearly every mau wears a white drill coat adorned with a small knot pf Spanish colors. Some of the men have save l enough of their pay to enable them to t!o:i white trousers, hut the majority of them appear iu the blue madras affairs iu which they probably fought agaiust the Americans six months ago. "Gloria Espano"' is one of the favorite so:ig.< of the Spanish soldiers, and the peseta gallery is each night filled with Spanish prisoners out of the walled city on permission, who demand vociferously that the glee club sing it. Whether it is con sidered that the singing of "Gloria Espa?a" would not be pleasing to the Americans nuder the conditions that exist or not is not known, but it is a noticeable fact that the chorus invaria ! My declines to sing it. The Spanish soldiers listen to the chorus through a song and then scream and applaud for anent ore. When the curtain goes np for the encore the din breaks out again, and the cry is "Gloria Espa?a!" The opening notes plainly tell that "Gloria Espa?a" is not to be on the bill. Indignation breaks forth and the leader is compelled to silence his 'men until the racket subsides. He makes a fresh start on the same piece, but the crowd will have nothing if not "Gloria Espa?a" and breaks out afresh. The leader dismisses the men in disgust. Some of the presentations are de cidedly artistic and replete with sparkling musical dashes which the leading people take in happy style. But every timo a Spanish joke is clacked between songs it relates to Americans. Then there ure looks of regret among tho Americans when the leading lady glides smoothly over a road oj lisp words, strikes a lot of "z" creations, which she rolls around her tongue and then fairly hurls her self in a glorious climax of articula tion at the villain. The secret of the play is out and the English speakers are not in on it. Between the acts the audience gets up and walks back to the foyer, which has a dirt tloor, to cet drinks of citric acid lemonade and handfuls of pea nuts. The women invariably sit lip stairs and gaze down at the crowd jf smokers below. It is often midnight wlnen the Circo Filipino t tain goes down for the last timi-, and sleepy coachmen 'wake up und prod their steeds homeward with tl; Vj-patrons. - .New York Sun. HORSE "KNOCKED OUT. Alaskans Have No Use Tor Him Since the Reindeer Has Arrived. Some interesting facts about the use of reindeer in Alaska are contained in the United States Commissioner of Education's report, just issued (Vol. II, pp. 1G01-1647). The report states: Siberian reiudeer were first im ported by our government in 1891 ns a humanitarian movement. The Alaskans were ready to starve, for their sole food-whales, walruses and native game-had been mostly killed or frightened away by white hunters. The progress from this initiative has been great. In July, 1897, the Alaskan herds amounted to 14Gb', at four sta tions north and south of Prince of Wales-the most western cape on tho American mainland. This number has siuce greatly increased, not only by native births, but by an agency established in Siberiu for seeming animals all through the year and hav ing them ready for transportation within the brief summer in which navigation is permitted by Arctic ice. Siberian owners often refused to sell their reindeer unless they ware them selves taken along to care for those "members of their families," and they became schoolmasters,as it were, to Alaskan herder apprentices. It was soon, however, ascertaine:l that the Lapps were superior to all other natioualitios as regards the most improved methods of handling rein deer. An agent dispatched to Lap laud prevailed on seven families of the most expert trainers to teach their mystery in Alaska for three years. This service they performed with gratifying success. Then three of them were persuaded to remain, be coming herd owners, while four, in accordance with the original terms, were carried back to their homes. The reindeer superintendent Kj' Il mann-whose name bespeaks.! Noise man, if not a Lapp-soon wen! abroad I with orders to import a permanent colony from Lapland for building np a sort of normal school of reindeer culture. It is now demonstrated that for the development of Alaska reindeer are an ! absolute necessity. Dogs, horses and mules aro as nothing in comparison. They all starve where the reindeer finds plonty to cat, and freeze where he has no care for shelter. To capa bilities of our Arctic camels have never becu so tried and found not wanting as in Alaska. In the winter of 1896-7, wbou Congress had voted $200,000 for sending food to starving Klondikera and 4.00 whalers frozen in still further north, it proved that no other crea ture but the reindeer could either find food on Hie routes of rescue or draw enough of it for its own subsistence. Reindeer gathered from thc different stations then afforded the only reason able plan of relief, ami showed beyond a doubt that they are invaluable as freighters, mail carriers and aids to miners prospecting where no other means of transportation eau .carry them. Early i i 1837 three men with sevea ! teeu reindeer finished a trip of 12000 ! miles, the longest kuown to have been ever made with tlie same teaing. Their route was through unknown regions, pa tly to discover uew oasis of moss pasture and partly to learn what could be done away from trains and timber. In twelve hours of one day they made eighty-five miles. The cold was sometimes 77 degrees below zero, but the colder it was .the more the rein deer throve, and at night found their own food. In spite of a poorga which is'a blizzard raised to thehigh , est power-all would have gone well to the end. But when nearing their goal no moss could be discovered i where it had been declared to abound. After all, ina forced mai ch of four days, four only of tho seventeen in the foodless teams perished. When Kipling "Burrowed" Children. Kipling, when a young man and be fore he had children of his own, was constrained to "borrow," as he said, i the children of his relatives and ac j quaintances to satisfy his love for j younglings. He loves best to gather them around him on a rainy day when the sky is dull and thc earth soddeu and gust swept and tell them stories : and draw pictures for them. As he talks about jungle animals, . his favorite theme, he illustrates the I stories with little pencil sketches in ! outline. Three Denver children had .Hie pleasure of being his audience for a number of rainy days and of dogging his footsteps on pleasant ones, several years ago. They are the now grown up children of H. R. Smith, who are the first cousins of Mrs. Kipling. Kipling and Miss Balestier were married in January, 1892, and started for a trip around the world. They got ns far as Japan, where Mrs. Kipling ! was taken-nick. Thc bridal trip was j abandoned, und they returned to the United States and decided to spend the summer among the sugar forests ! of Vermont at Raponda. During the early part of August a family reunion was held there, and it was thus that the young Smiths be I came Kipling's audience, and he be ? came their hero. When rainy days ' came and gray showers blew over the I lake they would retire to Kipling's ! own room,his work and thought room, where none dared intrude, aud with his briarwood in his month and paper and pencil to illustrate, there would be story after story.-Denver Post. Frost DOCH Strange Work. The frost played some tricks down this way that are new even to the old est inhabitant. To begin with, we never had zero weather here before, 1 or, at least, no such weather has ever j been recorded, lt was cold enough J to freeze the palms in the hothouses; it killed the cacti, wilted the rose bushes, froze all the water pipes, und knocked the leaves oft' some of the evergreens, such as the live oak. The fall of dead leaves reminds one of au tumn in deciduous woods. '. Another curiosity is that some fenns of deli cate glassware, having been frozen, have become excessively fragile, break ing all to piecs, no oue tonchiiig I them. A housewife, finding her glass ! goblets "blowing up" in this remark able fashion, saved-the remnant, of her collection by bringing the glasses to a boil iu salted water and allowing them to remain in the water until it became cold again.-Mobile (Ala.) Register. Bismuri-k's ({rent Appetite. Often Bismarck startled his friends by tho quantities he ate. Once lie and the North American minister iu Berlin, the renowned historian, Ban ' croft, were dining with the Prussian minister of fiuauce, Von der Heydt. Bancroft, a tall, thin man, said, warn ingly, to the chancellor, who had piled his plate at the til st course with two helpings at once: "Dear count, I think something more is epming." " 1 j should hope so," Bisi<i??-ck coldly re plied, and he repeated the dose ut the i second course. HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES. To Make the Flavoring. An old housekeeper says it is by far the best plau to make one's own lemon flavoring for cakes and puddings. Be fore cutting a lemon to extract the juice, wash nud wipe it with a soft cloth; then grate off all the delicate yellow skin, not taking any of the white bitter pari. Place the grated peel in a wide-mouthed bottle and cover it thickly with granulated su gar. Keep the bottle tightly corked. The sugar becomes saturated with the oil from the peel and when used in place of extracts gives a most deli cious flavor. Pickled licet?. Wash and place the beets in a saucepan; cover with boiling water, cook until tender, and then drain and put the beets in cold water. Now rub off the skins, and when the beets'are cold put them in stone jars. For half a peck of beets use three pints of vinegar. Place one pint of water in a saucepan, add three tablespoonfuls of salt, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, \hvee bay leaves, twelve cloves, one teaspoonful of whole peppers and boil for five minutes. When cold pour over the beets. A f?AV small white onions may be added; close tightly. Frozen riurn Fudding. Boil together one cupful of sugar aud one cupful of water until the syrup begins to thread. Scald aad chill or whip one pint of cream. Soak a level teaspoonful of gelatine in two table spoonfuls of milk and water. Beat the yolks of four eggs and stir into the cooked syrup little hy little, re turning to the fire to cook until thick. The i beat until cool, add the gelatine, and beat again until thick. Fold the cr et) m in, add one-half cupful of seed ed i aisius and one cup of ground or chopped almonds, then freeze. When ? ea ly t.. pack add one-half pound of candied fruit in alternate layers. If a sauce is desired, serve with cream flavored with almond. Cod and I:* Preparation. Take some cold boiled cod, and re move carefully all skin and bones. Boil the skin aud bones in a pint of white stock for two hours; thou re move the lid of the saucepan and boil thc stock fast, so as torediice it to the quantity required. Strain the stock, season to taste with cayenne, anchovy esseuce and salt. Thicken the sauce with a piece of butter rubbed into a tablespoonful of flour. When the sauce is quite thick and smooth stir into it a gill of milk. Bring it to the boil, remove to the side of the fire, and stir in carefully the fish. Grease a pie dish and sift a layer of fiue breadcrumbs over it; put the fish iuto the dish, and over it a thick layer of breadcrumbs. Place small pieces of butter over the lop, and bake for a quarter of an hour in a hot oven. Cooked Kumina*. Bananas uncooked aro eaten freely and without auy apparent harm by many people, while to others they in variably produce much intestinal dis comfort. They are certainly not im proved wheu fried in a batter, which is often greasy on the outside and un cooked iuside, but they are delicious and very uh desome wheu baked sim Ply. A little salt and lemon juice help to bring out and improve the natural flavor, and are often a great aid in the digestiou of the uncooked fruit. "A little sugar may be used for those who think it au improvement. Divide them once each'way and lay them in a baking dish, with a Sprinkling of the seasouing on each layer; then add water to just show among the slices, and a few bits of butter, which, with thc sugar, helps them to brown bet ter. One tablespoonful of ??gar,one half tablespoonful of lemon juice, a few grains of salt and a teaspoonful of butter for each h. nana is a good proportion. Bako .11 a quick oven, ibor.t fifteen minutes. ' IfoiiHchold Hint*. A delicate entree is made of lambs' fougues boiled until tender,cnt length wise in three pieces each and covered with a cream . tomato sauce. When side combs refuse to confine the hair, all they need to restore them to good behavior is a thorough ' wash ing in warm water and plenty of soap. The odor of the sweet pea is so of fensive to flies that it wiH.'drive theta out of a sick room, though not in the slightest degree disagreeable to thc patient. Bather thick slices of Boston brown bread, toasted on both sides, and with a poached egg slipped upon each slice, make an appetizing luncheon or break fast dish. Au unusual screen seen recently has a frame of dark wood, in imita tion of mahogany. For a rilling two good etchings are set in on each side of thu three folding divisions. Boiled potatoes ought to be laid out ott a plate, and are then as good for frying or mashing as if they were freshly cooked. If left heaped up they will often spoil in orte night. If in using sour milk for cookies, griddle cakes or muffins, it doesn't foam as it should when the soda is added, a' teaspoonful of vinegar added to the, milk will usually produce the. desired result. Tea and toast used to be considered the ideal invalid diet, but up to date doctors sound a warning against it. Few articles of food, they say, are harder for the weakened stomach to digest than hot buttered toast. Shallow wooden bowls are being largely used in England for the serv ing of baked potatoes. Pretty Rus sian wooden bowls can frequently be pick?d up here, inexpensive but ex ceedingly artistic, that are used for fruit._ Destruction of Hie Cedar Koregf?. The cedar forests of the United States were never so extensive as those in South and Central America; but in recent years the drain upon them has been so tremendous that they are rapidly disappearing. The most valu able at one timo were those on the islands aud keys of the Florida coast. One of the largest lead pencil com panies in the world acquired tho right to the best of these cedar islands, and it has been systematically denuding the forests ever since. Millions of lead pencils were annually made out of the cedar trees that fifty years ago clothed these keys. Almost the same is true of other cedar forests ii. this country. The mountain slopes of Tennessee and other southern states were at one time clothed with vast stretches of beautiful cedar trees. But Micy have been going very fast. In Tennessee the bucket factories us-:, annually 5,000,000 feet of cedar lum ber; 1,000,000 feet go each year to St. Louis for fence posts, and the tele graph aud railroad companies use cedar almost exclusively for their pules and railroad ties, Signaling for Practice. Thjfe Captain had not been long mar ried Iwhen he was ordered into camp. The aong-expecred call had come at last. ! To be sure, thc camp was In plain sight of the Cnptain's residence, which was some mitigation of the hardship, but then it was still a separ ation; and io lighten this terrible con dition it was arranged that the be reaved husband and wife should sig nal to each other often with handker chiefs. It was on the second day that the' young wife was seated on the porch reading. . "Tell me, Jane,' she said, "is Arthur still signalling?" "Yes, ma'am,"oanswercd the maid. "Then keep waving your handker chief. I want to finish this novel." At the snme moment in camp an of ficer ' from an adjoining company stepped up to "the Captain. "I say, old mau," he asked, "why do you keep that man out lhere all day waving a handkerchief?" "Oh, lt's merely a bit of signal code practice for him," he answered.-Cin cinnati Enquirer. Useful Carriage Woods. Forest ash and whitewood are con? eldered indispensable for carriage building, and what concerns the trade more than anything else is that the second growth of these trees never answers the purpose so well as those first growth trees which mark the pri meval forests. The whitewood is used for the panels of the carriages, and the wood must be close-grained and very smooth. A second growth tree usually produces wood that is coarse grained and totally unfit for carriage panels. The forest ash is light, yet firm, strong and resilient, but not elastic, and with n very fine grain and uniform texture of wood. These qualities, which mane forest ash so desirable for carriage building, are not so apparent in the wood taken from second growth trees. The wood ls hard, elastic, heavy and tough, and. in order to make It retain Its ?orm, It has to be stayed with metal. For the framework of heavy carriages it is totally unfit-Scientific American-_,_ Long* Life. "I want to see the airship an estab lished factor in om: every day life," remarked the skeptic. "You think it would be a particu larly useful institution?" j "No.I'd like to live that long; that's al"-Washington Star. ACHARMING grandmotb What a pleasant infk ful old lady in good he: MRS. MOLLIE BARBER, St. J Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable life, and have passed through critical period safely. I sufren years-with falling of the woml female weakness. At times hardly stand on my feet, alsc leucorrhcea. I tried several doctors, but instead of gettin, time. A friend advised me to 1 I did so and after taking six leucorrhcea and falling of won heal md well. It helped me through i cn fifty-five years old. " The women of advanced year aie invariably those who have wien they needed it. Mrs. Pir free of charge who writes about Lynn, Mass. Glac Closes Women's Mouth. ich a point has been reached that iteems as 9f .it were Impossible to otin any more pure home-made sur. James .Linney, a Harrodsburg m:hanf purchased several pounds ofrhat ?ras represented to him as a pt artble the ofher day. An old' la; cam? in and purchased two cakes. Sltook'tbou't a hqlf-one in her mouth ar. began to chew until she could ch? no. more'. Tho merchant and tte standing about in the store, see injhe could not open her mouth, be ca* alar ned, thinking the elderly wian bari n sevoro attack of loc-k ja But, to the chagrin of the oblig ihmerclunt,;,,he" soon discovered he habeen imposed upon hy some un soulous person, who had made the "sar" of sojrV ?rd of glue. It was nasary to nuit a ; ettie cf water and mt the stiff before the old lady cd open her mouth. However, she ha't forgotten to nae it when thc gl'had. been removed.-Harrodsburg (K Democrat. jording to the latest statistics tuculosis kills 70.000 of the inhabi tant Italy every year, and reduces to invalid state well-nigh a million wh the same period. Beauty Is Blood- T?eep. (n blood means a clean skin. No ber without it. Cascarete, Candy Cathar ticao your blood and keep it clean, by Btig up the lazy liver and driving all im ?ua from the body. Begin to-day to ai pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, anet sickly bilious complexion by taking Coets.-f-beauty for ten cent8. All drug gisatiafaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. Ackmart. Ga., an engine of the South erailroad picked tip a pip on the cow cat, carried it six mile*, and-then de po! it upon the ground without tho sliist Injury. "o Cure a Cold lu One Day. \ Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AU Dusts refund ijionej?if lt falls to cure. 2?c. Jbry nuts are an American product ano export them- in large numhers to Ed. where they are found pood eating. Pei belong to tho hickory family. I C --1 j v JateYonr Dowds With Onacuretj, , (f Cathartic, cure constipation forever. I Wc If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. j ti tl ./wedding the men all pity the bride an; women nil pity'the groom. 1 recommend Piso'sCnre for?'onsiimp-1 r tiCBufferers from Asthma.-E. D. Tows-i r!.Jward, Wis.. May 4,1894. Jo man prepares for the worst while ho for the bebt. Plan?a?io To cure, or ii Do Birds Eat Butterflies? Naturalists have as yet been unabl to give a decisive answer to the que? tlon, Do birds eat butterflies or not Some unhesitatingly answer lt in th negative, while others as positivel; maintain that owing to lack of suffi cient data no one is as yet warrante? in giving a decisive answer. In th last number of the Revue Scientiflqn there is an interesting article on tb subject which seems to vshow tha some birds certainly eat butterflies The writer, referring to the recen journey of M. Katharinia througl Central Asiatic Turkey, says: "On on occasion M. Katharinia saw a largi number of butterflies hunted by birds In a short time many butterflies wen killed. The survivors managed to con ceal themselves under some herbag and the birds did not disturb them an: more. In spite, therefore, of certaii assertions to the contrary, it can safel: be stated that birds do to some exten prey upon butterflies. At the sami time it is worthy of note that birds d< not pursue butterfles except when th< latter are flvine."_ Thc Largest Trees in tue World. The largest tree in the world is to b( seen at Maseali, near the foot of Mourn Etna, and is called "The Chestnut Tree of a Hundred Horses." Its name ros( from the report that Queen Jane, ol Aragon, with her principal nobility took refuge from a violent storm un der its branches. The trunk is twe hundred and four feet in circumfer ence. The largest tree in the United States, it is said, stands near Beat Creek, on the north fork of the Till? River, in California. It measures on? hundred and forty feet in circumfer ence. The giant redwood tree in Ne vada is one hundred and nineteen feel in circumference.-Ladies' Home Jour nal. _ Romance oi a Russian Countess A Russian Countess. Wyauoff b> name, and conspicuous at court by rea son of her wealth, has run off with her footman. It is a touching romance. The footman never told his love except by daily placing on the Countess's toilet table a lovely bouquet. His secret did not come out, however, until his mistress entered her apartment one day to find him in the act of kissing her portrait. An elopement and wedding soon followed, and the Countess put tlie finishing touches to tho romance by buying a Bulgarian estate with which goes the title of Count. er! lenee in the house is a delight tlth ! I [ames, Mo., writes: "I took Compound during change of . that ;d for ) and could ? had good g better, grew worse all the try Mrs. Pinkham's Compound. bottles, was cured of both lu. I am now enjoying good th and feel very grateful for the good your medicine has d?neme. I would recommend it to all women suffering as I was." . MRS. N. E. LACEY, Pearl, La., writes: "Ihave hadleucorrhoea for about twenty years, falling of womb by spells ?for ten years, and my bladder was affected, had backache a great deal. I tried a number of doctors. ' They would re lieve me for a little while, then I would be 'worse than ever. I then thought I would . try Lydia E. Pinkham's }\\ Vegetable Compound. Eleven bottles of Com pound and one box of Liver Pills cured me and I am now sound i the change of life period. I s who are healthy and happy known how to secure help ikham will advise any woman. : her health. Her Address is Best Prescript! Grove's T It is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form.... Sold by every druggist in the malarial sections of the United States.No cure, no pay.... Price, 50c WHOLESALER. ST. LOUIS, MO., Feb, 6, 1899. PARIS MEDICISH Co., City. Gentlemen :-We wish to congratulate you sn tho lncrensed sales we are having on your Drove's Tameless Chill Tonic. On nam laing our record of inventory under dato of ian. lat. we And that we sold during tho Chill leason of 1898. 2860 dozen Grove's Tonic. Wo ilso find that our siles on your Laxative Rromo-Qnininc Tablets have been some thing enormous: having sold during tho lato Cold and Grip season 4.200 dozen. Pleaso rush down order enclosed herewith, ind oblige. Yours truly, * ' MEYER BROS. DRUG CO. Per Schall. Living In Venezuela. Any one going to Caracas with an dea of economy had much better scan i few figures which the Venezuelan Jerald prints. It costs a Rood deal to naintain any sort of social position, ays the Herald, and, therefore, to sei le in Venezuela on a small salary IB 0 partake of thc life or the immi ;rant. A little house for two-small, clean nd comfortable houses are very rare ents at from $40 to $55 per month. A ook costs $10 per month, and a maid, rho does not know how to sew on a utton. $5. and it requires three maids \ 1 perform badly the service of one un- ] rained girl. Marketing Is very high, and clothing xorbitant. There ls no such thing as a ?ady made suit. Cabs cost SO cents n hour, gas 20 bolivars per 1,000 feet, nd the hotels charge from $2.f>0 to $10 er day, and are second rate at that. n Chill C I louey refunded by your oa HOW TO WAS Dissolve fine shavings of and when cool enough to be one piece of flannel. Don't it with the hands. Don't ri water, but make a second sol for this purpose. Use a clot is insufficient. Dry quickly stand wet, flannel shrinks. Cut out these directions at them with Ivory Soap. It keep1, cor.TW i law, bj TI. Pm*. A "Lightning Change" Artist. As I lay stretched on the bank at the foot of a great maple I saw a weasel run along in the brush fence some dis tance away. A few seconds later he was standing on the exposed root of the tree hardly a yard from my eyes. T'lay motionless and examined the beautiful creature minutely, till sud denly I found myself staring at the smooth greenish-gray root of the maple with no weasel in sight. Judging from my own experience, I should say .that this is the usual termination of any chance observation .of either weasels or minks. Occasionally they may be seen lo dart into the brushes or behind some log or projecting plank, but much more frequently they vanish with a sudden ness that defies the keenest eyesight In all probability this vanishnig is accomplished by extreme repidiry of motion, but if this is the case then the creature succeeds in doing something utterly impossible to any other warm blooded animal of its size. Mice, squirrels, and some of tho smaller birds are all of them swift enough at times, but except in thc case of the humming bird none of them succeed in accom plishing the result achieved by the weasels-TV*. E. C~im, in Appleton's Popular Scientific Monthly. For INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. "I have found Immediate relief In every in stance."-P. B. LOUDEN, Philadelphia. A cure for a try. 25c: a box. 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PARTS MEDICINE CO. , Gentlemen:-I handle seven or ei?ht differ ent kinds of Chill Tonics but I sell ton bottles of Grove's to where I 3ell one of fae others. I sold 38 bottles of Grove's Chill Tonic in ono day and could have sold more if I had had it on hand. Mr. Dave Woods cured five cases ol chills with one bottle. Respectfully, JOHN T. VINYARD. As a Refuge. "What's the idea in wanting to make old Bullion United States Sena tor." "Well, he's worked so hard for the last twenty-five years at his business that he's all used up, and his friends say he has got to have a rest or he'll die."-Chicago Tribune. Asie Your Dealer For Allon'? Foot-Ease, A. powder lo shake into your shoes; rests th? feet. Cures Corns. Bunion?. Swollen. Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching. Sweating Feet nod Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease nakes now or tight shoes easy. At all dniR dfts and snoe>stor*s, 25 cts. Sample mailed ?BEE. Adr's Allen S. Olmsted,LeKoy, N.Y. 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