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DANGEROUS Kjjjgfj PISEIS Pe-ru-na Creating a National Sensatio of Chronic Ailments of the Kl Major T. H. Mars, of the First Wis consin Cavalry Regiment, writes from 1425 Dunning street, Chicago, 111., the following letter: "For years I suffered with catarrh of the kidneys contracted, in the army. Medictne did not help meany until a comrade who had beenhelpcd by Peruna advised me to try it. 1 bought some at once, and soon found blessed relief. 1 kept taking it four months, and am now well and strong and feel better than I have done for the past twenty years, thanks to Peruna."-T. II. Mars. Mr. John Vance, of Hartford City, Ind.. says: "My kidney trouble is much better. I have improved so much that everybody wants ro know what medi cine 14m. using. I recommend Peruna to everybody, and some have com menced to use it. The folks all say that if Dr. Hartman's medicine cures me it.must be great."-John Vance. Mr. J. Brake, of Petrolea, Ontario, Canada,, writes: ''Four years ago I had a severe attack of Bright's dis ease, which brought me so low thc doctor said nothing more could be done for me. I began to take Peruna and Maudlin, and in three months I was a well man, and have con tinued so ever since. J. Brake. A t the appearance of the first syrup > tu FATAL POSSESSIONS. Weird Romance of a Finger Ring That Killed a Bride. Some of the most weird and curious romances are associated with posses sions which appear to have no other purpose than to bring misfortune and trouble on those who own them. A tragic instance of this is related in connection with the Lindsey family. According to the lesend, Colin Lind sey, a former Earl 'of Balcarres, w&s quietly eating his breakfast when he should have been awaiting his bride at the altar. When reminded of the fact he hurried off to church, and, for getting the indispensable ring, bor rowed one from a friend, which he duly placed on the bride's finger. At- the conclusion of the ceremony the newly-made countess took a glance at the ring and, on seeing that lt bore a grinning death's head, sud denly fainted away. The incident af fected her to such an extent that, on recovering consciousness, she express ed her conviction thal she was des tined to ; die within twelve months. And sure enough, in less than that period her life came to an end. Na poleon III was the possessor of two rings, which he constantly wore, and which had belonged to his predecess or, Napoleon I, who rras a fatalist in the fullest meaning of the term. When Napoleon III died it was proposed that these rings should be removed from his finger; but the prince im perial refused to have them. They were accordingly buried with his father at Chislehurst, and, so far from regarding them from the same point of view as the prince, the em peror's servants firmly believed that he would come to an untimely end for discarding the rings. And when, In 1879, the unfortunate young man met hls^death at the hands of the Zu lus, against whom he was fighting for this country, they saw in this deplor able' event the realization of their tears. One of the bast-known public men in New Zealand, a wealthy resi dent of Hokiangi, North Island, re cently traveled all the way to St. Louis, U. S. A.. in a fruitless endeav or to have an idol cremated which had cast an..-.evil . spell over him. The heathen idol had come to him as part Df a legacy from his grandfather, to whom lt had been presented by a Ma ori chief. Said its owner, "I have traveled 10,000 miles with the image, ind it has brought disaster after dis aster upon me. I have often endeav ored to destroy it, but without avail. "I once" threw It under a train, and, In running to get out of the way, fell and broke one 01 my fingers. Then ( was arrested for endangering the lives of passengers. When in London three months ago I threw it into the Thames, and a drunken sailor who fished lt out brought it back to my rooms, and In his rage at not receiv ing a reward, almost beat me to death. While in San Francisco I tried to chop lt to pieces with an ax, when the ax rebounding, struck me on the fore head with almost fatal effect. The wood is so hard that an ordinary fire will not destroy it, and I am afraid to get rid of it otherwise because of the evil results." The image was a crude figure in rosewood and ebony, ind about two feet long. Failing to jet lt cremated in St. Louis its owner .tarted for New York, where he was determined to have it destroyed at whatever cost Burled in the shadow of Diamond Head Volcano, at Honolulu, is a violin known as the "Violin of Death." In the space of a' few months two per sons, who had owned lt took their own lives and a third "mysteriously ?lisap peared. The last victim of this weird instrument was George H. Scott, a sergeant of the United States army, 66th Coast Artillery. ,This victim kill ed himself at the barracks at Camp McKinley, but a few days before doing so he realized the evil influence of the violin and buried it as above stat ed.-Tit-Bits. POOR. HUMAN NATURE. "Women dress very ridiculously," he said, a?-he watched his wife finishing her toilet "It is the fashion. John," she said, pleasantly. "Fashion be hanged!" said he. "1 would be superior to fashion if I were a woman, and wear nothing not use fnl." Five minutes later he asked her tc ?ew a batten on the back ot his coat CATARRH IEYS EVERY TIME n in the Cure Idnejs. of kidney trouble, Pe ruua should be taken. This remedy strikes at once the very root of the disease. I tat once re lieves the ca ta iThal kid neys of the stagna n t blood pre venting the escape of serum fruin the blond. Perana stimulates tbe kidneys to ex crete from the blood the accumulating poison, and thus prevents the convul sions which are 6ure to follow if the poisons are allowed to remain. It gives great vigor to the heart's action and digestive system, both of which are apt to fall rapidly in this disease. Perana cures catarrh of the kidneys simply because it cures catarrh wher ever located. If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of re runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman. President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. Ohio. The Largest Cave in Europe. In the Muota-thal, near . Schwyn, Switzerland, there is what ls prob ably the largest cave In Europe. The existence of the cave had long been known, but a? it could only be enter ed by crawling no one had tioubled tc investigate the interior. This sum mer, however, three separate parties have explored it. The distance tra versed amounts, altogether, tc no less than 8,000 yards, and the end of the cavern has not yet been reached, says a contemporary. Evidently the grot to is greater than those of either Han or the Adelsberg, ana ls to be counted among the most striking of tbe curi osities of the Alps. The entrance is close to the village in which Suvaroff had his headquarters in tne campaign of 1779; but that great general was kept much too busy to notice it.-St. James' Gazette. lt May Happen. With undauted courage the interpid polar explorer pushes on and on, with only occasional stops to partake of the luscious canned provender provid ed for his sustenance. "The goal is in sight." he announces to his men. "The pole is but two miles away." Seizing his field glasses, he care fully scrutinizes the spot. "Send ten men ahead to see who those strangers are," he. orders, for he has observed moving objects near the pole. In a short time the ten men go and return. They report: "Sir, it is our rescuing party. They say they have been -waiting for us for two weeks."-New York Times. ALL OVER. Lady Belle-I should think that he would propose soon? Miss Grahame-Oh, no; it's all over! He never really meant anything. Lady Belle-Why, have you quar reled? Miss Grahame-No; but yesterday he gave me a box-such a lot-of sta tionery. Lady Belle-But presents are al ways promising. Miss Grahame-But my initials are on it; such a lot! Oh, no; It's all over between nat THE LAST WORD. "A woman is never happy inless she gets the last word.' said tLe nn;n who runs to platitudes. "That's a mistake," answered Mr. Meekton. "A woman always insists on a man's having the last word. But it must come in the form of an ^oology."-Washington Star. SUPPLY AT HAND. Employment Agent-I have a cook that will just suit you. She is a young widow and is very fond of children. Mrs. Richleigh-But we have no children. Employment Agent-Oh, that'll be all right, Ma'am. She has six of her own.-Chicago News. STATE OF OHIO, CITYT OF C.?DO, / LUCAS COUNTY. I ' ' FRANK J. CHENEY, make oath that heit tbs senior partner ot tho Arm ot F. J. CHENKY ic Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for eaoh and every case of CATABRH thfct cannot be cured by tho use of HALI "?j CATARRH Oil. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me an! subscribed in n y ._*_. presence, this 6th day of December, \ BEAL. \ A. D., 18S6. A. W. GLEASON, ? - ' Notary I'ythlic. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acte directly on the blood icu! -:\cous sur faces of the system. Sond for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists,75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. An eagle can live twenty days without food, ana a condor forty days. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day s uso ot Dr. Kline's Groat NerveBestorer.$2trial bottle and treatlsefree Dr.R. H. Kum, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Puiia., Pa. Carp are said to live hundreds of years, and pike are also hardy old fellows. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchildrea teething.eoften the gums, reduces inflmima tlon.allayspaln.cures wind colic. 25c. abottle Some men with liberal views allow their hberalify to end there. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce the brightest and fastest colors. A rolling stone gathers no mo33, but neither does a rolling mill. Flso's Ouro cannot bo too highly spoken ol KI a cough cure.-J. W. O'BMEN, 322 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Mian., Jan. G, 1M3 American potatoes are told in Ireland, CLIMATE DOESN'T CHANGE. THE "OLDEST INHABITANT'' CON TRADICTED BY RECORDS. lt ls a Psychological Phenomenon Which Close Observers Are Aware of For Persons to Have Delusions About the Weather. "There is nothing so untrustworthy as unaided human recollection," once remarked the late John G. Nicolay, who helped to write the Lincoln memoirs; he referred particularly to historic controversies, and intended to discredit those observations which had not been put in black and white at ih,e time of the occurrence of the event, but instead had been allowed to grow. A forcible illustration of this truth is found in popular estimates of the weather. It was only last year that we had a summer so hot as to break the records of the Weather Bureau, and yet this summer the countrymen hereabout are saying that "the climate is changing," and speci fically charging that "the summers are not what they used to be." This is a psychological phenomenon similar to that one which acounts for that peculiar brand of pie that "mother used to make." Whatever tho pies, the climate remains the same, as will be proved by the truth ful records of scentific appliances. There are periods during which it varies; times when cold or rain or heat prevails to a larger extent than the normal. Eut when the whole is summed up, covering a reasonably long period of time,? it is found that the frost-lino is just where it used to be, and the cold or hot or the rainy periods are no more or iess fr?quent than when grandfather was a boy. Thomas Jefferson was a victim to the popular deludion, and writing in 1771, said; "A change of climate is taking place very sensibly. Both hea:.s and colds are Jjecoming more moderate within the memory of even the middle-aged. Snows arc less fre quent and less dc?p. They do not often lie below the mountains more than ene, two or three,days, and very rarely a week. The snows are re membered to have been formerly fre quent, deep, ard of long continuance. The elderly ir form me that the earth used to be covered about three months in every year." But in those days there was no Weather Bureau, and the "elderly" were free to give their recollection without the danger of an official ob servation being quoted. In Europe accurate records have been kept o' dates of the opening of navigation of streams at certain points for sev eral centuries, and it is shown that, covering a long period of years, there has been no appreciable change. The first twenty years of record, compar ed with the totals of the last twenty years, gives the same result. Observations made by geologists convince them, and Professor Moore of the Weather Bureau, that in our lake regions no changes of climate have taken place for several thousand years.. Ossian Guthrie, the neted civil engineer, says that "the same variety of trees now growing in the lake regions were growing soon after the glacial epoch." The records of the Weather Bureau show that the maximum of heat re oorded in the United' States was in Colorado, at Mammoth Tank, a sta tion in tho desert, where in 1SS7, rho thermometer recorded, in the shade, 12S degrees Fahrenheit. Again in 1884, 124 degrees was reached in the same placo. Taking lt all *together, the hottest place in the United tSates is California's "Death Valley." Tho name is supposed to come from a tragedy which occurred there in the '50's. when a party of immigrants en tered the valley, and every one died of thirst. The valiej is the bed of a former salt lake, and it is below the level of the sea. Streams flow into it, but the burning sands and alkali lick them up. Large borax de posits are found there. Thc valley is seventy-five miles long and in places only six miles wide at the bottom. In 1S91 the Weather Bureau sent an observer to remain there and take observations all summer. When he returned, he said ho would take 'per dition straight" next time. He was there 153 days. On the hottest day the maximum was 120 and the mini mum 99 degrees, making an average for the day of l?i?.C, which is rather trying weather. Professor Moore advises people not to stand in doorways or at open win dows during severe electric storms. Tho neighborhood of trees and fire places are to be avoided. On tho other hand, he says it will do little or no good to wrap up in a feather bed. Alarm, in case of lightning, is quite superfluous. Remember that one who lives to see the lightning flash need not concern himself about the possibility of harm from that flash. Also recollect that heaven has more thunders to alarm than thunder bolts to punish. It serves also to calm the spirits to think that even though struck by lightnine. the conse quences are net always fatal; even if stunned, and apparently dead, the vic tim may be resuscitated. Professor Moore says not to cease efforts at ar tificial respiration and stimulation for an hour. T ightning stuns, but does not often kill.-Now York Post. The Last of thc S:ufriere Bird. An untoward result of the recent volcanic eruption in St. Vincent will (a correspondent of tho Birmingham Post hears from an ornithological friend in the island) probably be the extinction of the Soufri?re bird, a very rare species known as Guilding's Amazon parrot. This bira was for merly found only on the Soufri?re it self. The great eruption of 1718 drove many of them to the other mountains of St. Vincent? but their numbers were greatly reduced by the vir'ont hurricane- of 18?S, and it is now feared that thc few survivors have been completely destroyed by the last eruption in May. At any rate no specimens have sinea boen seen, notwithstanding a very careful search. -St. James' Gazette. Paris and London. There are 15.000 tabs in Paris and 11.000 in London. The drivers in tho latter city are the most insolent and extortionate of their fraternity. Fares aro reckoned hy distance or time, the charge for two mile? being 25 cents, with 12 cents for each additional milo or fraction. By time the charge is 50 cents for the first hour and 12 to 1G cents for each oiTiiitional quarter hour. A "course" drive in Paris costs 30 cents, whether from ono extremo of thc city to the other, or the length of a street. But there is the ineviia Ve "pourboire" of 5 cents fer a short drive and 10 for a long ene. Ameri can visitors, infamously treated by cabmen in both cities, are a rich har REVERIE OF A FAJJJWTMAN. i_ What Anderson Was Thinking of Dur ing His 100-Foot Drop. John Anderson, tho former naval Jackie, who while painting ironwork beneath the high bridge a month ago, was severely injured by a fall, is rap idly recovering at the city hospital. Both his thigh bones were broken His left leg was fractured near the ankle, a portion of bone was torn from his right hip, and he was wounded about the crown of his haad. But he will not be permanently maimed or disfigured. On the afternoon of May 20 he was I swinging happily like a bird or a twig, i within a sling six feet below thc road way of the high bridge and about 100 I feet above the Mississippi River. The se.it of a swing is a short piece of plank. It is attached at.each end to ropes, which, - passing through a block, return to the sling as a singlo rope. By lengthening or shortening this rope the man in the sling can ' lower or elevate himself. "I was hanging close to one of the steel rods," said he yesterday, "a rod that I was painting. My rope was good and fast. I had no warning of any danger, when thc sky and the clouds, and the bottom of the big bridge in the middle of it all dashed past my eyes and thc air whistled in my ears like a typhoon in the China seas. I knew I was going down head first. No, I wasn't frightened. I said to myself, 'Now I'll strike the river be fore long, and if I keep going like chis I'll strike the water head first, which will he just as good as diving; and be ing a good swimmer I can easy gat ashore' I wondered, too, if I'd beat my paint brush down. Funny what little things a fellow will think about at these times instead of worrying about his own neck. "But about sixty feet down-I didn't measure the distance then-I struck one of the cross rods a slanting blow with my head. But my legs, sort 'o . uddled up as I fell probably, came full force against th? rod. I could hear the bones crack. They made quite a loud noise like a percussion cap. Still it was the blow on the head that hurt rae most. Then, though not before, I thought to myself. 'Well, its your last cruise for sure,' and things got black before mc. I guess I fainted. "But the cold water brought me to. ? bobbed up as natural as a harbor buoy. I soon opened my eyes and I suppose I smiled. I thought, just as if I was somebody else. 'Say, mate, you didn't die this watch, did you?' I know I felt awful good about it. But soon as I made my first kick, or rather tried to make it, I found that both my legs were hanging as heavy and dead as shot in a canvas bag. They didn't pain me, though. And when I found I couldn't swim I felt my gun was spiked for sure. Bu' just then 1 heard the crew up aloft on me v.ruige hollering 'Good boy, Sailor! You're all right! Keep it up! Boat's coming! Keep a paddling, Jackie.' It did sound fine and hearty, let me tell you. And so I kept a paddiin* until a man reached rae in a boat fifteen minutes after I dropped down. "I was pretty nearly done up. I knew how my legs would hurt me if he tried to pull me over the gunwale of the iCat, and I tried to make him tow me alongside. But he couldn't manage that and he did haul me in, though it was a mighty tough experi ence. I didn't faint again, and after I was once in the hospital began to feel quite comfortable!. I've had very little pain; they take such fine care of patients here."-St. Paul' Pioneer Press. A NAVAL COOK BOOK. j Every Ship in Our Fleet to be Equip ped With a Modern Manual. Several thousand copies of an of ?"?al cook-book aro experted to arrive . . League Island navy-yard shortly. The book has".inst been issued by the Navy Department at Washington, with orders to'place one on every war vessel and ship belonging to the Uni ted States, and the sailors look for ward to better mess in the future. One of the officers at thc yard stated recently that the book was one that has long been needed and that with its use lhere should he no more com plaints from the men that their food is not properly cooked. The book is bound in canvas and bears the title 'Gensral Mess Manual and Cook Book, United States Navy." The volume was prepared by the Pay master-General of the navy and pub lished by the authority of the Score- | tary of the Navy. It is divide*] into j three parts, general mess, commis- j sary stores, and thc preparation of food with recipes for every article served on a table, including dessert. One of the officers on board the re ceiving-ship Minneapolis stated that until fifteen months ago thc landsmen, ordinary seamen and able seamen ate by themselves in messes. Each had their own steward whom they would pay, and he would buy the supplies of food. The steward also cooked, and the ones giving the most money received the best food. This caused a general complaint among the men, and the Secretary of thc Navy was notified of their grievances. The case was put before Congress, and they de cided that all enlisted men, with the exception of the chief petty officers, should fare alike. The new cook-book has a number of rules that have to be kept by the men. under severe punishment in case they are broken. The book states that the cook shall receive no extra pay and that tips are strictly prohibited. The book als-o says that the cook cannot under any circumstances strike or or resign, under penalty of being sent to prison. 'lois means that he will have to put up with the kicks and complaints of the men who are served with muddy coffee, burnt steak, and i overdone eggs. On the larger ves sels of the navy there are to be three cooks, one for moats, another for veg etables, and a third to make tea and coffee alone. There are also to be two bakers, one a senior, whose sole duty is tb look after the quality of the bread. In commenting on the book one of t?io officers at the yard stated that one-half of the volume is devoted to ; recipes alene. The first was submit j tel by an old resident of Boston, ; where bal;e:l b?ans were mr.:!o famous. : lt tells of the cooking of beans a la ; Boston. The F?cond is from a well known N?w York chef, who dwells on tho cooking cf ora?letl steaks, and ether things in thc food linc. Tho t book tell? hon- (0 bake pies and the ' making cf ice cream. Receipts for j ! the prepaiation or ovary vegetable I grown are also given:-Chicago ?hro? liClA i I CURES BLOOD POISON. CANCER. tching Bones, Shirting Palm, Itching Skin, Plmploi, Bating Sore?. Etc. If you havo Pimples or Offensive Erup tions, Splotches, or Copper-Colored Erup tions, or rash on thc skin, festering Swell ings, Glands Swollen, Ulcers on any part of tho body, old Sores, Boils, Carbuncles, Pains and Aches in Bones or Joints, Hair or Eyebrows falling out, persistent Soro Mouth, Gums, or Throat, then you have Blood Poison. Take Botanic Blood Balm. (B.B.B.) Soon nil Sores, Pimples and Eruptions will heal perfectly. Aches and Pains cease, Swellings subside, and a per fect, never to return cure made. B.B.B, cures cancers of All Kinds. Suppurating Swellings, Eating Soros, Ugly Ulcers, after all else fails, healing thc tores perfectly. If you have a persistent pimple, wart, swollen glands, shooting, stinging pains, take Blood Balm, and they will disappear before they develop into Cancer. (Write for special circular on Cancer.) Druggists $1 per largo bottle, including complete directions for home cure. Sample free by writing Br.oo? BALM CO., IG Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble, and freo medical advice sent in sealed letter. Some people only tell thc truth when it is disagreeable. MEN WHO DELIVER MAIL. / Heart Tragedies That Line the Route cf Leiter Carriers. "Tell you a story? Why, yes, I might tell a good many stories If that was in my line." The gray carrier blew a pearly wreath of smoke up ward and flecked the dead ash from his cigar," says the Denver News. "Let me see. There's an old lady on my route down in Alabama who- sits knitting the livelong clay by the front room window. Every morning and afternoon when I whistle at the door of her next dcor neighbor she lays "down her knitting and peers with a tired, eager face out of that window until I go by. She's got a boy some where out west. He doesn't write to her twice a year. Yet twice each day the whole year tnrough she sits there with that anxious look, waiting, wait ing, waiting. I feel a twitch at my own heart every time I pass by and Bee thc look of expectancy fade into disappointment. Sometimes I'd give .$50 to be able to stop and give her five lines from that good-for-nothing boy of hers for whom she's eating out her heart." "That reminds mc." said a younger man who heard the gray carrier's story, "of a pretty baby on my route In a Louisiana city. She's a dainty tot about 4 or maybe 5 years old. She' has blue-gray eyes like a wood violet that look a fellow straight to the heart. Some little girls can do that after they are older. This tot's mam ma died six months ago, and for a month afterward she used to come tripping down the walk to meet me with a little white note in her hand, and looking me to the heart out of those big, trusting eyes, she would say: "Mr. Postman, won't you please take this letter to my mamma in heaven?." I used to take the dainty missive from the wee pink hand. I couldn't-Jtoll her how far away her mamma was>HQnp day she came with out a letter and there was pain in thc j great, sweet eyc3. 'Mr. .Postman, baby wants a letter from mamma. Please, Mr. Postman, tell my mamma me wants some letters, too.' and, boys, ! every day for a week J had to pass that baby with the pain in the gray- \ blue eyes and I wondered thc angels | did not find some way somehow to make her baby heart understand." PBijl-8BBBB ^asnaaegsagaKSgp; I have used Ayer's HairVig: for a great many years, and al though I am past eighty years of age, yet I have not a gray hair in my head." Geo. Yellott, Towson, Md. We mean all that rich, dark color your hair used to have, if it's gray now, no matter; for Ayer's Hair Vigor always re stores color to gray hair. Sometimes it makes the hair grow very heavy and long; and it stops falling of the hair, too. SI.00 a bol'!:. All druggists. If your druggist cannot supply you, Bend us one dollar anti v.o will express you a bot:!e. Bo turo and give tba name o? your nearest expr?s* office. Address, J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. KB3R9 THE CLUMSY MAN. You Can Never Bc Sure of What His Next Break Will Be. The great virtue about the really clumsy man is that he never exhausts his capabilities. When you think that the bedrock is reached, there is still a lower depth. If a detrimental relative should exist, the clumsy man asks after his health with great par ticularity and will not be satisfied un- j til he receives a full and detailed re ply. Should there be any incident in your past which everybody has generously agreed to forget It is the clumsy man who seizes the one, the inevitable opportunity, when the club is at its fullest, and says loudly: 'Somebody was talking the other day about that unfortunate little affair of yours in '95. Now tell me!" When on meeting him you say casu ally and with no desire for informa tion, "How are you?" he insists upon giving you a complete data, and he ls as full of small complaints as a re fractory pauper. It. ls only fair to add that he will ask affectionately after the colds of yesteryear, and his fav orite locale for this is at the corner of a drafty street. He might be sub sidized by influenza or he might get a commission on sore throats from his eagerness to pin you into the most dangerous position that can be dis covered, cays the Philadelphia Ledg er. One desires an adequate amount of sympathy in distress, but o?r man al ways goes a little beyond this point. YQU arc growing thin, and he says that you are wasting away to a shad ow. You are growing stout, and he tells an unamusing anecdote about apoplexy. He can be more critical than a hairdresser if occasion gives the least excuse. Sj-i* mm ?SA-as-K-i-o.:::;., Life out of do ment which they greater part of til happiness when g given to them to < on which it acts, s component parts a every objcctionabl well-informed, ap because of its plea Syrup of Figs-ar bc ustd by fathers Syrup of Fig; naturally without system effectually from the use of til which tlie childrer grow to manhood them medicines, 1 assistance in thc v gentle-Syrup of Its quality is laxative principle; also to our origina the little ones, do crs sometimes off bought anywhere ..-, /..... cv, 3fi r*h \ . ?&H..i.l THERE ARE FOOLS AND FOOLS. Those Who Risk Death at Niagara and Those Who Ask Questions. "There arc two distinct sets of fools in this country," said the proprietor of a hotel at Niagara Falls, as one of his guests took a seat in the lobby with him, for the air outside was cold. "I though' rhe classification of fools was on a good deal broader lines than that," said the guest. "I always thought there were as many kinds of fools as there wero persons." "So thpre are," was the answer; "but I mean two species which have come under my special observation. For example, there is the fool who ls forever trying to kill himself with out wanting to make a complete suc cess of lt, and, then, the fool who is always asking how the first fool suc ceeded. "Every summer a half dozen per sons are advertised to shoot the rap ids.^cr walk over the whirlpool on a tightrope," cr . barrel themselves up and tumble over tho falls. Some say they are going to do lt. Dut, like a cheap sideshow, put all their employes to work blowing horns outside the tent, but when it -comes to the real performance they point, to only a chromo and a pair of minors, to ex hibit their 'three headed cannibal.' And then some are less foolish and go ahead and kill themselves outright. "Every mail brings me letters from the other class of fools, who. for ex ample, will ask such a question as: " 'Will you please tell me how many persons have gone over the Falls alive?' "I nover answer those letters, of course. It would help che United States, I know, but I'd rather give the money to the Treasury Depart ment direct. If any one stopped me on the street and asked me that ques tion, I used to say: " 'Not one! Every last fool of 'em is dead!' But I can't say that now. I wish I could; for it's so much short er. But now I have to hem and haw and think hard and say : " 'Why, yes, there was a woman who went over, a-Mrs.--Taylor. She went in a barrel over the Horseshoe Falls, and lived through it.' " Here the hotel proprietor Paused a moment, and then added: "But do you know what she got for it? Noth ing. She started out to lectum to crowded houses, and to tedi hov she had met death face to face in a bar rel, but the people wouldn't turr out." 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