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MONGOOSE IN PORTO RICO INTRODUCED BY SUGAR PLANTERS TO KILL OFF THE RATS. Har? Made Themselves Welcome by Ex tirpating tb? l'est That Tbreutencd the Cane-Are Xow Turning Their Atten tion to Poultry-This Is Frowned Upon. Tbe zoologist of the Smithsonian in stitution, who hus just returned from the ish.nd, says that the mongoose is at present found all over Porto Rico from one end of the island to the other, from the sugar plantations along the coast to the tops of the inouutaius of the interior, hut is more . abundant iu the lowlands. The ani mal's native home is in India, where he has a great refutation as a killer of snakes, and especially the cobra. He was brought by some enterprising in dividual from India to Jamaica for the purpose of killing off the rats that caused great injury to the sugar cane. About 1877 a sugar planter in Porto Eico, who also was troubled by rats, conceived the idea of bringing the mongoose iuto that island. On all of the plantations a number of dogs and men were kept busy killing rats. Sometimes hundreds of dollars of damage would be done to the cane in a single night. The rats gnawed into it just above the grouud, so that fer mentation wonk! set in and the cane would topple over and be ruined. Latimer & Co. undertook the intro duction of the mongoose. They brought over three or four pairs from Jamaica, and arranged to keep them in captivity on an estate a short dis tance outside of San Juan. They in tended to breed them until they had multiplied aud,then release them. It was not long, however, before the little animals found the door of their cage carelessly left open aud escaped from the inclosnre. They multiplied very rapidly and in the course of a few years they were plentiful in that section. They have since spread over the the eutire island. The traveler nowadays sees them frequently gliding across the road from the hedge on one side into that on the other. It is customary to use for fences the ordinary barbed wire, stretched on posts, and beside it to plant a species of brumilla, Avhich has stiff leaves three inches wide and about four to five feet long, with keen hooks half an inch or more in length, thickly distributed over the outer edge, with their points sticking toward th'e-Top of the leaf. As eacb plant has from twenty to forty leaves, growing up somewhat like a century plant, and as they soon multiply and additional plants spring up until the hedge be comes from fifteen to forty feet wide, it can readily be seen that it makes a most complete barrier and at the same time the finest of covers for the mon goose. It is practically impossible to drive it out or in any way exterminate it. ' The sugar planters seam to be fairly well satisfied with the result of the introduction of the mongoose, aud say that it has reduced the number of rats so that now they do comparatively little damage. But most of the other people of the island, especially the poor and those engaged in raisiug poultry, are unqualified in their con demnation of the mongoose. The rats have adapted themselves to the^ new element that has been brought into the contest for life, and now build their nests in the trees. ; They pref er the cocoanut palm when I it eau be had, and in many places the i trunks of these trees have been en circled by a wide band of tin or sheet iron, . which prevents the rats from climbing. Rats also live to some ex tent iu other trees, especially in the royal palm, and occasionally in the thatched roofs of bail dings. The closest relative to the mon goose we have in the Ignited States is the weasel. The mongoose is about tweuty inches long, of which a little less than half is tail; has rather short legs, a nose little more poirfted than that of the weasel, and is covered with a thick coat of coarse, rusty gray hair. It is called by the people of Porto Rico an "ardilla," which is the name given in Mexico and the southwest to the squirrel. It is also known as the "mongosta." While introduced for the purpose of killing rats, the mongoose has shown a lively appetite for j^onltry, and has become a pest to the natives, nearly all of whom raise more or less fowl. The animal eats all kinds of small animals living on the ground, including spider?, snakes and lizards. The islaud of Vieques, off the coast of Porto Rico, and belonging to the United Statea, has had the mongoose a much shorter time, and the people there say that before the auimal was introduced snakes were quite com mon. Jiow one is rarely seen. On the island of Culebra, close by, there is no mongoose and snakes are quite common. ^ . The snakes of Porto Rico and the adjacent islands include one small boa and one or two species resembling our common garter snake. Xone of (hem is poisonous. It may be sai:l that no poisonous snakes are found in any of the islands this side of Martinique. While Porto Rico has an i.bnndauce of big centipedes and some very large spiders, their bites seem to be less poisonous than those of the corre sponding species in our own south western states. There is a small scor pion found there, however, whose sting is perhaps worse than the bites of either of the others.' Judging by the habits of its specie the mongoose lives in a nest iu the : helge, although I must say that I have never seen a nest. It is proba ble, however, that their nests are lined with soft grass and material of that kind. Wherever there is a crevice in the rocks conveniently at hand they make their home. The habits of the mongoose are similar to those of the weasel. It preys mostly at night. It is said than in Jamaica tbe mongoose has so largely exter minated the ground birds and other animals that live on- insects, that the ticks have increased in number until they threaten *o cut down the numbers of the mongoose. But in Porto Rico there is no sign of the mongoose being troubled by ticks. The pelt of the mongoose has no com mercial value so far as I know, and I could not learn that they were hunted to any extent. It may be that natives who have suffered loss of chickens through the visits of the mongoose re taliate by hunting them. I am not a ?rare that there is any law in Porto Piico prohibiting the killing of the mongoose. Vernal* Physician* In Kur-sia. After a long and patient struggle the womel physicians in Russia have secured a decree placing them upon au equality, both socially and politically, with the male physicians in the era i ire. All official positions will be ope ! to the a equally with men, and they will be entitled to pensions after ba required length of service,- and this whether or ::ot they are married. -Medical Ker ord, HEALING IN HIS BREATH. The Alleged Remarkable Power of a Fire man in an Ohio City. An occult power is attributed to "Whitey" Davis, one of the members of the Columbus (Ohio) fire depart ment. By the use of a mysterious charm, which he claims is of Indian origiu, he is able to stop the flow of blood from wounds and to absolutely cure pain even that resulting from severe bums. Davis's mysterious powers have been thoroughly tested and have never failed. But he will offer no explanation of the manner rn which he works the wonders at tributed to him. Little Edna Walls, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Walls of 520 West Second avenue, in Colum bus, was playing about the open grate while her mother was preparing the bed for her reception. In some man ner little Edna got too close to the Are, and the skirts of her dress caught. In a moment she was envel I oped in flames. When Mrs. Walls had extinguished the flames she found her darling's face had been burned in such horrible fashion that it was almost unrecogniz able. Tho eyes had been spared, hap pily, but it was feared that the child would die simply from the pain of the wounds. The Walls home is near the honse of the North Columbus fire company, and there the distracted mother sent for help. Davis re sponded. He took the screaming child in his arms, breathed upon her wounds and muttered gutteral words in au undertone. Little Edna's pain seemed to be lessened, and though she still Buffered it was noticeably abated. Davis repeated the per formance, passiug his hands gently over the charred surface aud mutter iug his charm. In five minutes the child wa3 asleep and breathing calmly, her pain and suffering forgotten. At this point the physician who had been called arrived, but declined to do anything for the child. "?She's doing well enough," he declared, and beyond applying a few simple lotions he left no medicines. Mrs. Walls's hands had been burned in extinguish ing the flames upon the child, how ever, and them he treated. The ! child's wounds healed safely and she never suffered a recurrence of paiu. On the other hand, her mother con stantly suffered from the healing burns, as Davis never tried the magic of his healing on them. This is by no means an isolated iu stance of Davis's powers. As a mem ber of a fire company ho frequently has opportunity to heal burns and cuts for his companions. He has never ? failed. A cut from which blood flows ! in streams yields to his soft breathing aud muttered charm. The blood dries up, aud though tho wouud remains open, it heals as if by some magic in fluence. The man himself is appar ently impervious to pain. Davis is .small of stature, being 5 1-2 feet tall and weighing about 125 pounds. His black eyes and hair lend ' credence to the tales of his compan ! ions, who assert that he is of Indian j ancestry. This belief . is unfounded, ; however, as he comes from the purest ! Welsh blood. Assistant Chief Jen I kins Daniels of the fire department is j one of his closest frieuds and a firm j believer in his powers. A peculiar j thing about Davis's power is that it has no apparent dependence upon the subject. Whether the one that asks that his pain be relieved believes in Davis's power or not makes no differ- , ence. A few muttered words a soft breath and a caress of Davis's hands and the work is done, the pain is stopped and the blood ceases to flow. A Great Hound. The greatest fox chase of which ; there is any record took place in the ; neighborhood of Long Branch, in j Meade county, Ky., the other week. : Ben Matthews, a colored man living ; at Long Branch has a foxhound named . Queen. One evening that week, when ' the air was soft, Queen and her com ; pallion, Dou, together with Jim Bick I erstalFs "Old Maje," started for the j hills near by, and were not long ab j sent when they started a vigorous old j fox. By their vigorous mouthings it j was known that they had a warm scent I and were on the trail of a fox of fine j staying qualities. For several hours during the night the residents of that vicinity could hear all three hounds together, aud then the two male dogs dropped out of the ruu, leaving Queen to keep up che chase alone. All night long she followed the trail, and along toward morning was joined by some fresh hounds, who stayed with her for a few hours, fell out, rested up and joined in the chase again at intervals during the next twenty hours. On the second day of the chase Will LaGrand's "Tige," a hound noted for its staying qualities, joined her aud I remained until the close of the run. j Queen was on the run, without rest, the entire thirty-six honrs consumed in the chase. She stopped only when she had run reynard to cover. After she had accomplished this she lay dowe and gunrded the burrow, and when found by her owner was so stiff and sore that she could not move a limb and had to be carried to ilie house. Matthews,her owner, thinks she is tho best foxhound on earth, aud would not trade her for the best horse in Ken tucky.-Breekiuridge (Ky.) News. Cheating a City. When a clerk who is earning a sal ary of ?23 a week puts aside in th? bank more than $6000 in one year, mere frugality is not sufficient to ex plaiu the transaction. That was the record of a clerk who had charge of the rolls in the paving division of the Boston street depart ment two or three years ago. When he was transferred to another division two things happened. His savings ceased and some queer dealings came to light. For two years, at intervals, the courts at Boston have been inves tigating these dealings. The over thrifty clerk has been tried, first in company.with one contractor and then with another,on charges of conspiracy to defraud the city. The method of fraud was simple. The contractors were credited with more work than they did, and with some which they did not do at all. One of them was proved to have drawn over $2000 for teaming during a perio I when he had not furnished a single cart.-Youth's Companion. Proper Length of the Foot. A perfectly formed foot should, ac cording to anatomists be as long as the bone in the forearm, which ex tends from the elbjw to the joint of the wrist. This seems to be abnor mally long m a tall person, but is the measurement taken by artists. Ot' course arms are sometimes out o; pro portion, being far to short for the general height, but it is rare that an arm is too long for the stature of a persou. Two letters oi Mary Qneen of Scots, written just before her execution, cost an English collector $20,000. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. Eros is the name selected for thu newly discovered little planet between Mars and the sun by Herr Witt, tho discoverer, though Mr. S. C. Chand ler of Cambridge, Mass., the astrono mer who has compute:! tho planet's orbit, pleaded to have it called Pluto Mr. Chandler's computation has been verified by examination of the star photographs taken at the Harvard ob servatory station at Areqniba in Peru. A writer in Cosmos, M. Emile Ma son, argues that the East Indian du gong or lamatin is tho natural founda tion for tho myths of sirens, nereida, and tritons. A female dugong re cently captured in the Red sea has a head and bust which, wheu seen at some little distance, might be taken for-a mermaid. The lamatin has also a vibrant voice, and these two coni biued make a good base for the theory which the writer has advanced with a good deal of elaboration. Sunlight, says the laufet, has a well-known effect upon the life of pathogenic organisms. Direct sun light will kill tubercle bacilli in a few hours or perhaps in a few minutes, whereas they will livo for days if ex posed-toa very strong diffused day light. The exhilarating' effect of a burst of sunshine iu pring is prob ably not d' . ._,re luminosity, but to an increased actiuic action, a chem ical action which we caunot very well explain, but which every oue feels. In estimating, therefore, tho value of a health resort, the amount of this actinic value in the sunshine ought to be takeuiuto account, no less than the number of days upon which the sun shines during the month or tho year. The breeding of orchids has received much attention in recent years, both in Europe and America, with results of the greatest interest to the natural history student. Up to 1860, states Mr. C. C. Hurst, but four flowered orchids, raised from distinct crosses, were recorded; in 1890, about 200 had beeu enumerated, while there arc now on record no less thau 800. Of these 800, about 100 are generic hybrids, the parents belonging to different gen era. About 500 are primary hybrids; that is, hybrids of the first generation between two different species, about 270 are secondary hybrids, and 30 are tertiary. No hybrid orchid of the fourth generation has been known to flower. These experiments have dem onstrated the existence of natural hybrids, formerly thought to be im possible, have proven that hybrids aro very fertile, removing an objection to the theory of the evolution of species admitted by Darwin, and have sug gested that hybridization has been one of nature's rapid and effective means of creating new species more fitting for life under new conditions. The progress of the various re searches into tbs origin of malaria, is a subject of considerable interest, and medical meu are gratified to hear of steady advances in the prosecution of several investigations. In the pro ceedings of the Reale Accademia dei Lincei the work of Messrs. Bastianeiii, A. Biguami, aud Grassi is describe:!, and it is stated that they have suc ceeded in tracing the development of the semilunar bodies in the medial in testine of Anopheles claviger kept at suitable temperature after these- in sects had drawn blood from individ uals suffering from ostivi-autnmnal malaria. They have also been able to obtain spring fever by allowing one of the insects to pierce the' skin of a per son who had not previously been affected by malaria, and who was liv ing in a locality where the disease was not experienced. In an elaborate series of researches they have proved that the malarial parasite is an authen tic case of hetorcEcism, where the same organism appears uud^r different forms. It is of interest to know that concurrently with these observations the life cycle of a parasite of the bat has been studied, which apparently undergoes similar alternations of gen erations, the intermediary host being an insect. These conclusions are in agreement with previous investiga tions in the malarial parasites of birds, and are considered substantial addi tions to tho knowledge of the subjects liow possessed by scientists. 'VERY CENTLE SAVACES. Visit?n? Inspect Samoan Camps WliMo thc Fifchters ICcst from Battle. The Samoans impress all travelers as a very agreeable people, habitually gentle in peace and habitually brave in war. "Gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked." They have a strong strain of chivalry in their disposition which has besn manifested iu many ways. A Boston gentleman who re cently visited Apia gives in a private letter, from which we are permitted to quote, a description of Mataafa's army in camp after one of the battles which have been fought between the rival claimants to the Samoan throne. He writes: "We went all about among tbs huts where the savages ware resting after tho battle and making preparations for the next right. Altogether it was a very peaceful scene, for their arms were all concealed under the mats on which the meu sat, aud mary of the soldier, wer-- accompanied by eir wives and children. They were amus ing themselves by smoking and beat iug on tomtoms. The Samoans are a most amiable race, of savages, and white people are always perfectly safe among 1hem. Everywhere we were greeted with smiles aud friendly uods and tho salutation, 'Talofa,' which means 'Love to yon !' from meu, women and children. "Oue instance of their friendly feel ing occurred during the big battle. A white man who lived on the street where they were fighting saw that two of his horses ha 1 strayed ont right between the hostile lines. He didn't want to lose them, and he didu't want to venture out in the line of fire, bo he stuck a white i'ag out of his win dow. Upon seeing it both chiefs or dered their men to stop firing, and hostilities were suspended while the white mau went out aud calmly drove his horses to a place of shelter. Then they went at it again." They are people who need but a sympathetic association with white people to acquit e the virtues of civil ization without, losing their own ex cellent qualiti?s or native kindness and courtesy. -Bostou Transcript A nnffline Sign. "What's the matter with you?" asked the friend. "I haven't the least idea," an swered tue very cynic il invalid. "The surgeons ave going to operate for appendicitis."-Washington Star. Will Sonsi Sti iUo Tf-rrn Firma. The Inexperienced-He says he can hardly restrain himself from falliug down and worshiping her. The Rejected-Toll him uot to get nervous; she'll throw him down soon enough.-Puck. The.Sexton In New York City. "Sexton and Undertaker" Is the sign nsunlly found affixed to or near the New York churches, but it does not mean that the sexton actually con ducts an undertaker's establishment He merely contract.*", for the funerals of ibo members of the congregation and sublets the work to what are known as wholesale undertakers, who attend to this class of work exclusive ly. , A twenty per cent, commission Is the sexton's share of the proceeds, and taking into consideration the large membership ol' some of the New York churches and the elaborate funerals that take place almost daily, it can read.ly be seen that to he a sexton is an honorable calling-for it is a busi ness that brings in the coin. The pro fits of a sexton in one of the large downtown churches is estimated at $10,000 annually from his funeral bus iness alone. Weddings are not so profitable, but they do fairly well and are cheerful. He collects the pew rents and takes his habitual commis sion, he gets $10 for digging a grave nnd hires a mere laborer to do the the work for !?4: he is paid for opening the church and for closing it, and a few other things that keep him from starvation. But there is one thing he must look sharp after, and that is his collections. It is a peculiar fact, but people will stand off a funeral bill as long and af callously PS any other, -Detroit Free i t^ss. The Power of "Storm. Tho Cayman Islands in the West Indies woro nearly overwhelmed by the recent storm Even apparently secure things are not safo. Even If you have lienlth bo on your guard. Disenso works stealthily-it undermines and troublo occurs where it is least expected. An occasional dos* of Host-Otter's Stomach Bit ters will keep the bowels regular, the stomach sweet and dlscaso at bny. If you have indi gestion and constipation try it. lt cures. Discretion is the sait, and fancy the sngar of life; the one preserves, the other sweet ens it. __^_ Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoko lour Life AM cy. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag? nctlc. full of life, nerve and vigor, taite No-To Bac, tho wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50s or Ci. Cure guaran teed Booklet and samplo free. Address Sterling Eemedy Ca, Chicago or New York. Inconsistency with pase views or conduct may be but a mark of increasing knowledge. "He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last." A hearty laugh indicates a degree of good health obtain able through pure blood. As but one person in ten has pure blood, the other nine should purify the blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Then they can laugh first, last and all the time, for perfect hap piness comes with good health SoUupoM Hood's I'll!? turo liver IUK ; ttio non-lrrltntlnf: and only cathartic :<>_l tko with Hood'? .S:ir*iiparllla. Wonderful Memory for Faces. It is well known that Henry Clay was remarkable for his recollection of faces. The following curious illustra tion of this wonderful power occurred at Clinton, while he was on his way to Jackson, Miss. The cars stopped for a few minutes, when an eccentric, but strong-minded, man made his way up to him, ex claiming as he did so, "Don't introduce me, for I want to see if Mr. Clay will i know me." "Where did I know you?" asked Mr. Clay. "In Kentucky," answered the old man. Mr. Clay struck his long, bony finger upon his forehead, as if in deep thought. Then noticing that the man had but one eye, he asked, "Have you . lost that eye since I saw you, or had you lost it before?" "Since," was the reply. . "Then turn the sound side of your face to me that I may get your pro file." Mr. Clay paused a moment, his thoughts running back many years. "I have it!" he cried. "Did you not give me a verdict as juror, at Frank fort. 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His meals were placed outside his roon at stated intervals. He had a strong aversion to medical men, and any buslness had to be transacted with the?aronet on one side and his interro gat r -on the other side of the partly opeied door. Tl ? rent roll of this eccentric baronet amounted to $150,000 a year, and he hal '.eft personality to the amount of $7^*000.-New York Press. f_A?? Sharks Afraid of Noise. ^5 ^owardihe"ss~??"sharks ls well kuo.'c among men who have been muci to sea in southern waters in: fest d by man eaters. The fiercest shaik will get out of the seaway in a verjj great hurry if the swimmer, not! ing its approach, sets up a noisy spla hing. A shark is in deadly fear of my sort of living thing that splashes in the water. Among the Sou? Sea Islands the natives never go to sia bathing alone, but always in partes of half a dozen or so, in order that they may make the greatest hub bub in the water, and thus scare the sharks away. Once in a while a too ventireome swimmer among the na tives foolishly detaches hiiusei- from his fwimming party and momentarily forgets to keep up his splashing. Then there ls a swish, and the man eater comts up beneath him like a flash and goblles him. lili.vino and Henson. There is a new song going the rounds of th3 press and it runs as follows: Wo don't want to buy at your place, We won't trndo there any more; You'll bo sorry when you soe us Going in some other store. You can't sell us any stalo goods, Wo havo oponed wldo our eyes ; We don't want to trade at your store, ? Cause you do not advertise. men seem more important than tey feel, they drag themselves e up trouble, has to be as, Ohio, s in the ght with ms until ed. She el :t my duty to write to you to ia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com edicine in the world like it. I ?metimes for twelve weeks at a feet. I had female troubles of ihe, and headache ali the time, ?oetors treated me. 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The backs of the chairs are elaborately carved, and ire surmounted by a reproduction of the ^rince of Wales' crest, and the :haiacter of the construction and carv ing h?s suggested some doubt about the authenticity of these relics. I should be sorry to express an opinion an the subject one way or another, but the parish church of Stratford has been restored and restored to such an extent of late years that there can be very little left of the. original fabric left on the spot by this time, and frag ments of it are no doubt scattered all over the face of the earth. It may be that some one who knows more on the subject than I do can throw some light on the fate of the old pews." The Royal Academy of Science, of Amsterdam, has paid a delicate compli ment to the English-speaking world by ordering that its transactions shall in future be printed in English, Instead of the native Dutch, in order that they may be more available to the scienti fic world at large. 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If your druggist does not havo lt send 25c, or If you prefer to try lt first, send for free sample Tizakuro Co., Tarpon Springs, Fla. I have found Piso's Cure for Consumption an unfailing medicine.-F. It. L?TZ, 1305Scott St.. Covington, Ky., Oct. 1,1891. We will give S100 reward for any cos? of ca tarrh thatcannot be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. TaKen internally. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Without constancy there is neither love, ? friendship nor virtue in tho world. To Caro Constipation Forevers Taite Cascare ts Candy Cathartic. 10c or 250. *t C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists retond money. True dignity is never gained by place and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing SyrtiD for children leethlncr.softens tbepums. reducesinflamma Uon,allays pain.cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. Man generally proposes, but God always iisposes: _ Educate Your Bowels With Caacareti. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. Put no trust in him that hath once broken faith. "I have DflOd your valuable CASCA BETS and And them perfect. Couldn't do without them. I have used them for some time .'or indigestion and biliousness and am now com pletely eurea'. Recommend them, to every one. Dnce tried, you will never be without them in the family." EDW. A. MAKX, Albany, N. Y. CANDY CATHARTIC TRADE MARK RIOMTJRID Pleasant. Palatable Potent. Taste Good. Do C?Ood, Never Sleken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 25c, Wc. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Sterling rtfnrdy Compmiy, ChltMto, Xontrral, Sew fork, ?tl -T?-R?f? Sold and guaranteed by all drag I U'DMU nuts to CV HE Tobacco Habit* A Dress of Spider's Web. One of thc promised wonders of the Paris exposition of 1900 is to be a dress made of spider's web. The idea is by no means novel, for Reaumur and other men of science long ago thought that the delicate threads spun by the common or garden spider might be utilized for industrial purposes, and so far back as in 1709 some small articles-such as socks and mittens of this material were submitted to the Academy des Sciences. But there was an unsurmountable difficulty in domes ticating the varieties of the insect found or in collecting their product in a wild state. Father Cambone, how ever, a Catholic missionary in Mada gascar, has discovered a big spider, known to the Hovas as a halabe, which can bo induced, under the influence of chloroform, to yield some 4,000 yards of thread per month, and this thread is so strong as to bear a weight of over half a pound, and so elastic as to stretch more than twelve per cent, of its length. In the school of military ballooning cords made from the new material have been used with much success for the netting of balloons, combining, as they do, the maximum of strength and elasticity with the minimum of weicht. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im unties from the body. Begin to-day to anish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug* gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. He that does not esteem any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all. A Wonderful General Remedy. Dr. Sloan's Liniment ls known by horsemen thc world over. Tho la? that lt can bo used In any way that any liniment can bo used makes lt invaluable for strains, sprains, soreness In muscles and similar purposes. Tho fact, fur tbormoro, that this remedy ls remarkable in its penetrating qualities ls greatly In Its favor. Where Sloan's Liniment ls used tho necessity of excessive rubbing ls done away with, ns lt penetrates quickly to tho seat of the trouble and thus rolloves pain without the necessity of undue friction, which is Hablo to make swollen or inflamed Joints, tender muscles and tendouB ' still worse. Dr. Sloan's Liniment can bo given with groat advantago Internally In cases of colic, cramp, etc. This famous remedy will ! also bo found as valuable for the use of man, either internally or externally. A copy of lils Treatise on tho Horse, which is replete with much useful and valuable Informa tion in regard to tho caro of this noble animal, ! will bo sent to any person writing Dr. Sloan, I Boston, Mass., for it. It startles a person when he is seriously called old for the first time. Old Case of Tetter in Toes. "CRAWFORDVIIXE, Fia.: Tetterine ls worth more than its weight in gold to me. One appll cation cured me of totter in my toes of seven (7) years'standing. John M. Towles." It cures all skin diseases. At drueglsts 50 cents box, or by mall postpaid from J.T.Shuptrlno,Savannah,Ga. It ls said,~that in Stuttgart, Ger many, all horse trucks and wagons are to be banished from the streets after a certain period of time._ money refunded by your i Ayers Sarsaj Medicine of A Old friends, old wine, trusty kinds. For half a has Seen the Sarsaparilla ; when they were sick and wai is none too good for you, yt of Ayer*s Sarsaparilla cont the ordinary kind. I'^tol Philippine Bonnets. The hat of a Philippine woman Is useful In almost any emergency. .It is made of palm leaf or rattan, and has a brim so wide that it serres as an um brella In case of need. Two women may sometimes be seen sheltered un der one hat as they cross the street in the rain. But this broad-brimmed hat is not only an umbrella and a head covering, it answers well as a basket, and in the market the women display their fruit, or fish upon It, placing lt on the ground before them.-Scientific American. Another Sort. "Were there no extenuating circum stances connected with the case?" "No, nothing but attenuated cir cumstances." "What do yon mean by that?" The defendant's circumstances wert BO reduced that he could not afford tc engage a competent attorney." An Excellent Combination, The pleasant method and beneficia effects of the well known remedy STRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by tm CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO., illustr?t! the value of obtaining the liquid laxa tive principles of plants known to b' medicinally laxative and presentinj them in the form most refreshing to th' taste and acceptable to the system. I is the one perfect strengthening laxa tive, cleansing the system effectually dispelling colds, headaches and^ fever gently yet promptly and enabling on to overcome habitual constipation pei manently. Its perfect freedom fror every objectionable quality and sut stance, and its acting on the kidneys liver and bowels, without v. eakenin; or irritating them, make it the idea laxative. In the process of manufacturing fig are used, as they are pleasant to th taste, but the medicinal qualities of th remedy are obtained from senna an other aromatic plants, by a metho known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRU Co. only. In order to get its beneficii effects and to avoid imitations, pleas remember the full name of the Compan printed on the front of every packag< CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CC SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. * LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK. N. Y. For sale by all Drujfjrists.-Price 50c. per bott! Slight Be Useful. "Mammy," said Pickaninny Jin "I'se gwinter be one er dese hypnot zers." "What's dem?" "Yoh Ink somebody in de eye ai he des nach'ly goes to sleep." "Well, don't yon go was'in' yoi time. Dan's sleepfulness 'nuff in d here worl' an'-" She paused sudde ly, and afetcr a moment of tboug added: "Jimmie, does yoh 'magi: yoh could do dat to a chickin?" Washington Star. merchant, so why a?t_try yarilla is the luid Lang Syne and the old doctor are the century which the people hace bought ited to be cured. If the best DU will get Ayer's. Ohe bottle ains the strength of three o* THE REASON WHY For man or beast Excels-is that it Penetrates tc the seat of the troubl? im mediately and without irrita ting rubbing-and kills the pain. Family and Si nb lo Strom Sold by Dealers generally. I Or. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, hi aaa. Hartford and Vedette B?eycSes. NEW MODELS FOR 1899. Columbia Bevel-Gear Ghainiess, $75 Columbia Chain Wheels, . .50. Hartford's,.35 Vedettes, .... $25, 26 Ask any Columbia dealer for Catalogue, Booklets, Folders, etc., or write to us, enclosing 2-ccnt stamp. 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