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facia Worth Knowing.
Q. Is Alabastine expensive?
A. No, it is the cheapest article for the purpose
on the market.
Q. How is that? Cannot I purchase kalso
mines at a few cents per pound?
A. Yes, kalsomines can he purchased at
almost any price.
Q. Why then is Alabastine less expensive?
A. In the iirst place a package of Alu!>astino.
costinu a few cents more, will cover double the
surface that a package of kalsominc will.
V. What other advantage has Alabastine
that kalsomines do not possess?
A. Aluhastine is entirely different from ali
kalsomines. It is manufactured from a base in
itself a cement, and when applied to a wall set*
hard.
O. llow do kalsomines differ from tills?
A. Kalsomines are made from whiting, clays,
chalks or somo inert powder for a base and are
entirely doiieudeiit on animal glue to hold tliero
pn the wall.
Q. What are the results?
A. In ono case the Alalmst ine being a cement
hardens with age, and the kal aminos as soon
as the glue, which constitutes its binding
nnslltv.rtoi'iivc pnl? ntnl i,?j ?ir ?? i?
nothing to bold it on tbo wall.
Q. Does Alabastino require washing and
scraping off before recoating'/
A. No. Alahastinu when oure applied to a
clean surface can bo rocoated for any length of
time without having to wash or scrape the
wall*.
0. Does this feature count for much?
A. Ask any practical housekeeper, who has
been driven from hoine to have walls washed
and scraped, whether It will Is- desirable to
have all of this overcome, and walls improp d
instead < ! -p -tlnl by coating them.
1,?. How ran I get Alnlmsl iueV
A. From your local paint dealer. If he does
not keep it in stock, and tries to sell you s<micthing
else, tell him you are determined to try
Alabastine. and if he will not keep it you will
get it elsewhere.
The fellow juit out of the look-up h
the follow who thoroughly eujoys the
'freedom of the city."?Columbus Post,
It 3s considered by many people cttremelj
forward for a young mn to aeud
a jprl-a waluntine in leap year.
^ y|T|U<0 ''
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Mayor Tillbrook
of MeKeesport, l'a., Cured of
Scrofula in the Neck
vy nana h ,*>ii rxtt )xi ri11a
All parents whose children suffer from
Scrofula, Salt Rheum, or other diseases
caused by impure blood, should read tho following
from Mrs. J. \V. Tillbrook, wife of
theMn vor of McKeesport, Penn.:
"C. 1. Hood A Co., Lowell, Mass.:
"My Utile boy Willie, now six years old, two years
ago had a
Bunch Under One Far
which the doctor said scrofula. As it continued
to grow he finally lanced t and It discharged
for Romo time. We I hen liegan giving him Ilood's
Sarsnpnrllla and ho Improved very rapidly until It
healed up. I,ast winter It broke out again and was
followed by
Erysipelas
We again gave him Hood's Sarsaparllla with most
excellent result* and he lias had no further
trouble. Ills cure s due to the use of Hood's Sarsaparllla.
He has never beeu very robn t, but now
seems health* and dully growing stronger.
The doctor seemed quite please I at his appearance
and sold he feared at ouc time that we should
lose Is ins. I have also taken
Hood's ^arsaoar lla
myself and am satisfied that I have beeu helped by
It." Mrs. J. W. Tll.i.MtooK, fifth a\o., McKeesportllood'i
l'illit arc | urely vigeiable, perfect]-'
barmless, ?lo not gr pe.
"'MOTHERS']
!; FRIEND"
ToYr"s...ii
Mak^ C^I'd f&fttasy. |
: Shortens Labor, j
' i Lessens Pain, 2
; EmVyoiscd by the Leading Physicians. J
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2 ATLANTA, GA.
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"German
Syrup"
William McKeekan, Druggist at
Blooiningdale, Mich. " I have had
the Asthma badly ever since I came
out of the army and though I have
ueen in me drug business lor litteen
years, and have tried neatly everything
on the market, nothing has
given tne the slightest relief until a
few months .ago, when I ttsed Bosi-ileft'ji
German Kyruft. I ?m now
glad to acknowledge the great good
it has done tne. I am greatly relieved
(hiring the day and at nightgoto
sleep without the least trouble." (D
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Flatulence, Hlek-lfeadaolie, "all ruiiQ
ilown" or losing flesh, tako
;Tutt'sTiny Pills?
^PTIiry tone up the weak stomach mill v5J
'uillil up the nagglno; energies. %.1e.
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THE l.ADY OF TEARi
Through valley and hamlet and city,
Wherever humanity dwells.
W ith a heart too full of infinite pity,
A breast that with sympathy wells,
She walks iu her beauty immortal.
Each household gro ws sad as she nears,
But she crosses at length every portal.
The mystical Lady of Tears.
If never this vision of sorrow
Has shadowed your life in the past,
You will meet her, I know, some to
niorT' >w?
She visits all hearthstones at last.
To hove', and cottage, and palace.
To servant and king she appears,
And offers the gall of her chalice?
The unwelcome l<ady of Tears.
To the eyes that have smiled but in glad
nese,
To the souls that have basked in the sun,
She seems in her garments of sadness
A creature to dread and to shuu.
And lips that have drank but of pleasure
Grow pallid and tremble with fears,
As she portions the gall from her measure,
The merciless Lady of Tears.
But iu midnight, lone hearts that aro break
>ng.
With the agonised numbness of grief,
Are saved from the torture of breaking,
Bv her bitter sweet draught of relief.
Ob, then do all graces enfold her;
Like a goddess she looks and appears.
And the eyes overflow that behold her?
The beautiful Lady of Tears.
?Ella Wheeler Wiloox.
deliveredfromIivil.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
3 supper read}
%* v%\ \WNaomi?"
'< 4**0)) IB "No, it ain't!"
' ? - U David Pole ha
4- M n brought with hii
jfl a breath of th
, ? Jlco^ outside ai
t! 'n*? ro?'
4 'm w^ere !>'8 s'st<
If-jrl V \ was iron'ug- Th
young people wei
I M* alike?tall, well
*? ?L . shaped, swarthy
complexioncd, with regular features, aa<
large, gipsy-black eyes, where the jett;
lights seemed to swim at every breath.
A very old woman, cowering over th<
stove, had the same strange eyes, al
though her hair, under its close-frillor
cap, was bleached snow white, and he
skin was the color of old parchment.
"What yc got?" the crone demanded
as voung Pole flung a bunch of birds o
the table.
"Something for breakfast, granny,
said he. "I've beeu hunting in Callt
Woods. Not much luck, though. Isaj
Naomi, I wish you'd hurry up supper."
"What for? It ain't supper time yet
and I've got ail the towels to do yet."
"Oh, bother the towels I I want t
go over to Skene's Corners to night am
sec Miss Stuart's new piano."
"Humph!" Naomi ironed away witl
redoubled zeal. "Miss Stuart's nev
piano, indeed I I wish Miss Stuart wa
further, and her new piano, too! Bu
you're like all the rest, Dave?a new fac
turns your head, llessie Holt and he
poor little parlor organ ain't, much ac
count now."
"Eh? What ye talkin' 'bout. Who'i
Miss Stuart? Is Hessie Holt's organ oul
o' tune ag'in?" crooned out the oh
wouiau by the lire.
"Granny do*;'t know," said Naomi
"I guess she's the only one that don't
Miss Stuart, granny? Why, she's th<
latest fashion at Skene s Corners. She'
the new schooima'am. Ask our Dave i
you want to know all about her. As]
any of the young fellers! '
"Ask John Classonl" added David
angrily. "Naomi's jealous?that'
what ails Naomi."
Naomi compressed her full red lip
and ironed resolutely on. The ok
grandmother fell into a sort of doze an<
nodded _o.v?'t the stove. David Poll
.UrtJ.'f?the lantern down from its nai
against the chimney-piece.
"If 1 can't get ray supper here," sai<
he, "I'll get it over to Classon's. I'll
look arter the cattle tirst."
"You'll get it here if you wait
supper time!" sharply spoke Naomi.
"I don't choose to wait."
"Then don't."
David Pole bit his lip.
"An' I'll take care to let John Clas
son know what a sweet tempered siste
I've got," said he.
"John Classou nothing to me," re
torted Nnotui.
"And never will be, I guess."
Naomi uttered a vexed exclamationher
over-heated irou had left its triangu
I iar impress on a fringed, red-bordere
I towel.
"Somethin's burniuM" saueakei
| granny, starting from her doze.
And in a moment David was gone.
"He can do as he pleases," though
Naomi, vindictively. "Ther's nothin;
but cold pork and pickled beets fo
supper, anyhow. Perhaps they'll hav
something better at Classon's. Mirandy'
igood cook."
She pot tho ton steeping in a filth
earthenware pot; she took the irons ot
the stove, put away the clothes horse
, ud began, in a spiritless way, to set thi
table for the evening meal.
The clock had just struck six, an<
granny was stirring the homely browi
Migur into her tirst cup of tea, when
gentle knock sounded on the warpe
pine' of the outside door. Naomi ros
to answer the summons.
A beautiful young woman, with red
old hair, lar^e light-blue eyes and
omplexion ;is delicate as a roseleaf
ood there, wrapped in a scarlet am
olack plaid shawl.
"Mi s Pole? ' she said, hesitatingly.
Naomi inclined her head stiffly.
"Vcm," said she, "that is my name."
"I am Eda Stuart."
Again Naomi bowed frigidly.
"Au?l," hesitated the new school
teacher, with a smile that might h&T
melted the earthen ware Chinaman 01
iho lid of granny s teapot, but whicl
produced no sort of effect on Naom
Pole, "I've started out to visit a sicl
pupil?Louisa Ledyard?and I'm afrai<
i've lost rny way. I hadn't any idea i
.ould grow dark sr soon, and I mus
e back by seven o'clock, for I ex pec
omc friends to try a new piano that
i ive hnd sent mc from Boston. Vou
not her has half promised to come, Mia
'ole. Won't you accompany him?"
"Davfd isn't at home, sitd Maomi
with a sidewise glance at the roa I dow
vhiih her brother had strode some a;o
"And I don't care nothin'about piano*.'
Miss Stuart colored, and shrank luck
She felt as if this hard, handsome bru
cite had slapped her in the face,
"Perhaps, then," said she, you can
toll ruo the .nearest way home. It's
quite dark, you see, uud," brushing
some white, needle-like particles out of
her face, "it's beginning to snow."
"Keep right along the path till you
o >me to the old stone tavern," said
Naomi* indifferently. "Then turn tc
the right, and it ain't more'n half a mile,
or maybe three-quarters!"
The bright-tressed girl still lingered
on the doorstep.
" "I am not very well acquainted with
the roads around here," said she. "II
you could send a boy to show me?"
'We don't keep no boy," said Naomi.
'And we'vo no one to send.**
Again Miss Stuart recoiled.
"Good-eveuing!" she said, gently.
"Good-evening!"
And Naomi banged the door shut.
As she sat eating her supper,and helping
granny to fre3h supplies of homemade
bread and butter,a sudden thought
darted into her mind.
In giving Miss Stuart the directions
for finding her way back to Skene's
Corners, she had forgotten the young
stranger's total ignorance of the neigh.
: borhood characteristics.
It was true that the regular road
branched off to the right of the ruined
pile which had otice been an old stone
tavern; but there were was also a disused
thoroughfare which led through a
dismal swamp, towerd a long abandoued
stone quarry, across a rotten corduroy
road, which had nearly sunk iuto one of
these frightful, quakiug bogs which
sometimes appear iu dense and swampy
woods.
To one unaccustomed to the local
topography, it might be perilously easy
to stray off iuto the weed-grosvn aud deserted
track, especially when everything
r' was whitened with fast falling snow.
Naomi sprang up and went to the
door. She looked out, with one hand
held above her her eyes.
15 "Am I losing my wits?" she thought.
!' "Of course I cannot see half a dozen
11 rods down the road; It's dark as pitch,
^ aud suowing into the bargain. Let her
21 go her own gait! I ain't responsible!"
" A sudden light blazed in her eyes, as
if Satau's self had (lashed a lurid bombshell
across hersoul. John Classou, her
own "steady company," had been dazzled
1 ?at least so spoke the tongue of popular
F rumor?by the glitter of Eda Stuart's
sea-blue eyes. She, the late belle of
e Skene's Corners,was quite out of fashion
now!
1 Eda had danced every danco at Squire
r Marbury'8 corn-husking,and Naomi had
sat by among the wall-flowers,her heart
? swelling with secret anger.
D Though Naomi hated the beautiful
M blonde, she rose up again aud reached
down the lantern that David had replaced
on its hook by the kitchen chinar?
uey.
"Granny," said she to the dozing old
? woman, "I'm going out a few minutej."
"Eh? What?" shrilly questioned
? gruuny. "lie you a-goin' to sec the new
fortc-piauuv ? 11 vou bewitched arter
the new schoolma'am, too?"
Naomi made no reply. She lighto 1 tho
v lantern, bundled a shawl around her
3 head, and rushed out into the frozen
darkness.
e It was suowing hard now; the wind
r rustled the pine trees with a mournful
sound, and had nearly blown out the
faint beacon of Naomi's lantern until she
' sheltered it with her shawl,
She gained some distance by climbing
nimbly over a stone wall and traversing
a stubbly meadow, instead of following
the windings of the road, and presently
arrived, panting for breath,at the ruined
3 stone tavern,
s
f She held the lantern high a'iove her
t head and looked around. Nobody was
visible. She called aloud, "Miss Stuart!
Miss Stuart!" No auswer came.
B For one second she hesitated; then,
changing the lantern from one hand to
8 the other, she staste 1 on a run down the
] disused track until she came to the spot
1 where here and there a partially subb
merged log betokened the former traces
1 of the corduroy road.
Was that something white that moved
] against the dazzling whiteness of the
I storm?
Once more Naoini called:
"Miss Stuart!^ Miss Stuart!"
rvOYl,'itrtYiftFybuV ~"Do'coiae here .and#
help me!" a terrified voice answered.
"I stepped on a broken log, and I think
the ground must bo swampy here; tho
log seems to be sinking in. But I've
got tight hold of a young birch tree."
Naomi sprang to the rescue. Eda had
already set her feet upon thfe doomed
spot. Iu another moment tho rescuer
would have been too late!
With a strength at which she herself
afterward marveled, Naomi seized Eda
^ around the waist and lifted her out of the
morass.
^ "Do you know," she gasped, "that
you have been standing face to face with
death? Do you know that you have
wandered out of the road into the Shaking
BogsT'
Eda's fate, in the glimmer of the lamplight,
was very white.
"And you have saved me!" she ex8
claimed. "Oh, how can I over find
words to thank you?"
' "Never mind that now," said Naomi,
in the old, brusque way. "Let us make
' haste back to Skene's Corners. It's
8 snowing faster every moment, and your
. lect are wet in that awful morass. Look.
Here's where 7011 missed the right road.
8 Of course you couldn't be expected to
I know that this old track was closed up
e long ago, and I didn't remember to tell
you. There arc the lights of Skene's
Comers now. Canyon see tbein glistena
ing through the snow flurries?"
"But you are coming with me?"
j "No. I must hurry hack to granny.
nm ?mih! iiuMiuiiL-u ami uusueu ueopij
? "you will kiss me just once to?show
?that?wc are frien Is?"
By way of answer, Edi flung both her
arnu aroand Naomi Pole's nec'.c anl
! showered a score of fragrant kiwej on
her cheeks, lips an I brow.
8 " Friends,'' she crie'.l, passionately,
a "forever 1"
a ? *#**
i "It's high time you were here, Naomi,"
k petulantly uttered old Granny Pole,
J "when here has John Classon boon at
(l settin' half an hour before* the fire,
t waitin' for you to come h ick I"
John Clasaon colored a little as ho held
r out his broad, suubrowncd hand to
Naomi.
"You see," said ho, "Dave cainc over
to our house to see iny Cousin Hessie,
n and?and I thougiit it would bo a good
chance to tell you what I've wanted tc
' tell you so long. Can't you guess what
it is, Naomi?"
It was late when Dave caine home.
Grandma Pole had long been abod and
MUAKitat Naomi sat before the dying
Naomi I you upt" was Dare's
oflP-WoWgreeting. "I'Te got news fot
you. Pfc engaged inyselt to Hessie
Holt, alBtf the crops turn out good
next yw^rr m>wrife shall hare as good s
piWto as Miss jSfch Stuart t"
Naomi held ou^br band; the limpid
black deeps sparkleeyes.
"I'm awful glad, said she.
"I'm sorry I was so cn^Hwith you tonight;
bht my heart sore. I
thought Mifts Stuart h^^^harmed John
"Xnd'hadi'tshe?"
"Ho has never thought Bwico of her,
Dare," spoke op tho exultmnt girl. "H?
cared for rae, and me only J ana to-nigbl
he asked me to be his wife!"
The brother and sister talked late ant
lovingly together, while the clock ticket
behind its screen of asparagus and th>
snow built up fhathery oarricales againv
the outside of the window panes; huj
when Nioaou laid her head on tl^e pillow
her last thought was that of gratitud*
that she had listened to the trunipe,
call of conscience and hastened to Ednt
Stuart's rescue.
"For after all," pondered Naomi
"slio was no rival of "mine, and?and!
think it's likely 1 shall be married belore
she is."
And as she repeated her prayers, one
phra*e lingered sweetly in her drifting
dreams:
"Lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us froin evill"?Saturdav Nieht.
? ? V?: "
?u Brooklyn Bridge.
No douU many people have wondered
what bcooroes of the milliona of ticket*
sold and oollected annually by the New
York and^ Brooklyn Bridge Company.
Oue who has given somo thought to the
suoject tells what might be done with
them, and incidentally gives other hgujjea
showing the magnitude of the traffic on
the Bridge. Here they are just as he
gave them:
"Over forty-one million of people
crossed the bridge in 1891 on the bridge
cars Had promenade. Could all the hands
which liavo purchased tickets be joined
together at the end of the year, a circle
could be formed 14,112 miles in diameter,
or 42,336 miles in circumference;
a distance equal to one and one-half
times aroufd the, earth. If the grand
chain wenu,suggested, and the fastest
trains ancfthips employed, it would be
nearly three months before one could
make the bow and return to his place beside
his partn^!
'A soltffj^pare of 20,634 columns of
2000 men each, covering over three
square miles, or 2000 acres, could be
I lormea ot tne ticket purchasers.
"It would take 687,606 passenger
coaches, allowing sixty persons to the
coacb, or 45,863 trains of fifteen coaches
each to carry this crowd away. If a
hundred a minute could be counted
witliout stopping during tho twentyfour
hours, it would require over eight
months to count them. If hollow squares
of 300 feet square can be conceived to
be placed one upon the other, the enormous
height of nine miles would would
be reached. By forming a triangular
pyramid with a base of 20,460 square
inches, a pyramid could be had much
higher than that of "Cheops" in Egypt.
If stretched out in a line, so that the
head of one person would touch the feet
of another, they tvould reach a distance
of 39,179 miles.
"The carriages, wagons, etc., that
cross in one year would, if strung out,
reach 25,732 miles, or more than once
around the earth.
"It would take a train of 42,458 box
cars, with 2123 engines, to haul the
people away, and would, if coupled together,
cover 322 miles, or reach from
New York to Richmond.
"The tickets, if joined together continuously,
would reach from New York
to St. Paul, a distance of over thirteen
hundred miles, and would weigh very
nearly a ton. There would be enough
tickets to cover the bridge promenade
to the depth of an eighth of an inch. If
enroot A?if ? ?-??
-C-vou uu? liju Y nuulU GQTCI U f Ot L I 1
square feet, or thirteen acres of ground.
There would be enough tickets to covor
the walls, ceiling and flocr of the Fifth
Avejau,e Hotel corridor fifty-seven* times.
More tBau a thousand ordinary-sized
rooms could be papered, and if piled up
under pressure, one on top of the other,
they would reach 34,390 feet, or over
six miles high.
"It would require sixty cars, five feet
high, ten feet broad and forty feet long,
to store all tiie tickets used in one year."
New York Advertiser.
The King Acknowledged His Mistake.
The good nature cf Italy's King is
well illustrated by an anecdote from the
days of the last royal hunts at Monza.
niu^ uuuiucii is aui usioiutu w> hid nip
sport with the guu in pretty much the
same clothes as other persons and without
attendants, thereby distinguishing
him from his imperial German ally, who
has insignia of his high office all over
his huntiog costume and is accompanied
usually on the chase by noblemen and
flunkeys. -*
Shortly before the end of last season
the King's bourn! started a hare about
two miles from Monza, and the King
tired. At the same instant another shot
was heard, and an Italian peasant, with
uu old-fashumed gun and a mongrel
dog, hurried up from the opposite direction.
The peasant mistook the simple
yet elegantly-clad sportsman who disputed
his possession of the bare for a
lfomau dude, and caught up the royal
arm stretched toward the dead game.
There was a hot dfccuasioD, which ended
in the triumph of the King's superior
logic and his taking off the hare.
At the royal castle the King gave the
hare to tho servants that they might prepare
it for his supper, and stood by as
t lion Hrooonr) if //>?
??swwv? iv j </? vutl |wu. ttuqu mo
entrails were removed the bullet that
earned the animal's death was found. It
was of the old style of a gun, of the
pattern of fifty years ago. The King
looked at it aud at once sent out a messenger
to summon to the castle the
peasant who had disputed the possession
of the hare. When tUo old man was led
into the King's presence the latter
at retched to hi in botn^Mnds and said:
My dear man I have just discovered
my mistake. The hare belongs to yon.
As it is already roasting, however, I can
do no more tbafc to ask you to help me
eat it."
The peasant sat at the King's right
hand at dinner that evening, and,
although high society spoiled bis appetite,
lie jingled his wineglass against
that of histbvefeign ard rode home considerably
exhileratAl in the royal carriage.?Chicago
Tribune.
I
Some Speed Makers.
Some curious facts are brought int
prominence by a correspondent of tioi
Cycling, who has been at the pains to ^
draw up a comparative table of the rates mu
of speed in different modes of loco- JJJ
motion. The express train, of course, ma
stands pre-eminent. Man has as yet
discovered no way of getting about can
faster on the earth's surface. It will be
a surpise, however, to many to learn eas
that the safety bicycle, of which so much
Is heard nowadays, only occupies in this
list the seventh place. s
The fastest time in which a train hns t
been known to travel a miio was forty- Un
nine seconds and a fraction; to accom- cou
plish the same distance the fastest bicyclist,
who has hitherto ridden, took rt*
two and three-quarter minutes, or just tai
about three times as loug. An ice yacht
has traveled a mile in ouo minute and ten
seconds, a running horse in one minute >j
and thirty-five and a half seconds, a tor- cut
pedo boat iu one minuto and fifty
seconds, a steam yacht iu two minutes i
and twelve seconds and a fraction, aud
a skater on ice, with a favorable wind dri
behind hi<n, in two minutes aud twelve ]
seconds and rather a large fraction. A eft
little way after the safety bicycle comes *hi
the ocean liuer; the oarsman is much c
slower, taking live minutes aud forty 1 nei
seconds to travel a nnle, and the slowest
of all is the swimmer, who requires
very little short of an hour to perforin
the same journey. 1
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A Story of Kquiuo Friendship.
A story of a remarkable iustance of t?1
equine friendship comes from Portland. j
One of a pair of horses belonging to the Mt
horse railroad company was sold,- whore- j
upon his mate, a blind horse, refused to Nr
be comforted and so pined away that the ^
General Mauuger went to the new owner
of the other steed and asked for the loan m
of the animal for a visit to the stable. d<
As soon as this horso was put iu his old ?
stall, the blind horse showed signs of
great delight and at once began to recover
his appetite and his health. The
owner of the other horse, seeing the love
of the blind one for his friend, bought
him, too, and now drives down town
with a span.?Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Children Burned to Death.
Orangeburg, S. C.?Annie Inabinet,
aged nine years, daughter of A. II.
Inabinet, of the Bull Swamp Section, met
with a horrible death last Monday. Her
father and mother left her in bed asleep
aud alone iu their residence, with a lire
burning in the bed room. Upon returning,
they found the house in flames,
and their little one at the window, hesitating
whether to jnmp to the ground
or not. In this condition she was overtaken
by the flames, and, with the house,
was soon entirely consumed.
George Hanc, a white child, live years
of age, was burnt to death in the Middle
St. Mathews section. Ilis pirents
left him at home to take charge of a still
younger child. Soon after their departure
the little fellow went out of the
house and began playing with some cm1lr.ro
loft in . V... .......1 IIS- 1 .
WVIO (VIv iu V11U ^?HI 1113 UlUlUt'B uccame
ignited, and there being no help at
hand, he soon burned to death.
Invostor of tha Cotton Picker Dead . \
MoNTCioMEuy, Ai.a.?The death is announced
of James Williamson Wallis, |
the iuventor of the mechanical cotton
picker. He died nt his homestead in
Memphis, Pickens county, on the 14th,
aged seventy s x. lie founded the town I
of Memphis, and for many years was an
extensive cotton planter. Siuce the i
war he has devoted himself to inventing
a mechanical cotton picker, and a (
few months ago his long struggle
in this direction was crowned with
success. His invention was practically
tested and pronounced by expert judges
an unqualified success lie has been associated
with George Lispeuard, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., in his enterprise. He
letves three sons and a daughter.
Prince Bismarck 111. 9
A Berlin cablegram says: Prince I
Bismarck was attacked to day with asuddea
illness. In view of the coudition
of affairs here, the news
has caused inteuse anxiety. Many mu- V
nipinnlitipti nnH ntliot- l?n/1Jou (Kwaik/Kah* A.
Germany have begun their prep- I
aaatious to celebrate Bismarck's ap- *
proaching seveDty-scveuth birthday, on 1
the 1st of April. The illness of the T
Prince is said not to be serious, and the ^
latest advice represent it as no more than {
an indisposition. Owing to the attack,
he has given up his intended visit to 0
Ratzcburg, the capital of his duchy of ^
Lautnburg. '
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To Refund tho Cotton Tax.
Washington, D. C. - A bill to refund
to producers the internal revenue ttx
collected on cotton was introduced in the
Senate by Mr. George. The bill directs ,
the Secretary of Treasury to accrtain the J
amount of intcyual revenue tax collected
on cotton in each of the States, aud to
refund the proportionate amounts, to be
held in trivrt by the States for payment
to the producer. Cluims under tho act
may lie tiled within two years after its l|
passage.
Eloped with Throe Girls at Once. f
Lincoln, Nkb?William Winegar ran '
away with Laura Mcehan nud Lillie and
Minnie Lobaugh, girls of tifteen and six- |
teen. He also stole a neighbor's horse
and bought a prairie schooner, and when
overtaken to-day was enjoying his new
position as a head of u household ten I
miles from the nearest town. When ho
was brought back the father of the Lobaugh
girls tried to shoot him, but was
prevented by officers.
Seven Babies at k Birth.
Quyaquil, Ecuador via Panama.? *
Marie Juneau, a French woman _
living on the outskirts of ||
this city, gave birth yesterday to seven '
children, ail perfect and lie ilthy
Mill Gets the Texas Senatorship. ;
Austin, Tex.?It. Q. Mills was un.iii- ,
imoualy chosen United States Bcnntor by .
the Legislature. The joint session for
mally rati lied his election.
The Only Oae Kver Printed.
cam you pino tna word?
Theee lead Inch display ad van Uoment In
tMa paper, this a oak, which bna no two words
alt i a except one word. Tho nanio Is true of
each new one appearing each week, from The
Dr. Ilarter Medicine Co. This house place* a
^Crcrecnt" on everything they inakeand i>ubHrh.
Look for It. send them the nnme of the
word and they will return you book, bbai'Tirot.
mthoobaphb orsampcm ritat.
A ItisiuiKA farmer has been acquitted
of killing a book agent who persisted la
forcing bis Look on him.
Cooons, HoeasvBss, Work Throat, etc.,
quickly relieved b Biiown's Hiioncihai.
TROOHBR. They ui'pam all o her prepare
tions In removing hoarseness, and as a eonjh
rentedp are pr?-einitially t/ie best.
Ma Ton Matthews estimates that Boston,
Mam., will need 918,000,000 for this year's
running sap tntes.
Ought to be smallc*
?the great, griping, old-fashioned V,
pill. Inere's too much unpleasantness
for the money. Ougnt to bo
? better, too. They're big enough,
and make trouble enough, to do
more good; ! ? _.VS
That's just what Dr. Picrco's .^gj
Pleasant Pellets do, ? more good.
Iustead of weakening the system, jg
1 they renovate it; instead of up?
setting, they cleanso and regulate
It ? mildly, gently, and naturally.
\ They're the original Little Liver Pills
? the smallest but most effectives*
l purely vegetable, perfectly harmless,
and easiest to take. Only one
little Pellet for a gentle laxative?
OMlkNtCu'lWCaNl
local application?, as they cannot reach the
aaaed portion of the ear. There la only one
r to oore deafueea. and that la by conatltnlal
remedies. Deafness la caused by an Inned
condition of the maoooa lining of the
itachlan Tuba. When tube (eta lnned
you have a rumbling aound or lmpert
hearing, and whan It la entirely closed,
ifneaa la the result, and unlace tTni tpR?w?tlon
can bo taken out and thla tuba rered
to ita normal condition, hearing will bi
(roved forever; nine oaaea outof tan are
taed by catarrh, which la nothing but an 1?
ned condition of the mucous anrfanea
Ve will give One Hundred Dollars for nny
* of deafness (caused by catarrh! that we
inot cure by taking Hall's OatarrhCum
id for circulars, free.
., - _ *,- J. CH*K(T4bOOsTeled^a
old by Druggists. 7?>.
'ohty-iioht stage ooaohea carrying the
ted States mail were bald up In this
lutr.f last year.
'on Impure of tbln Blood, Weakness, MalaNeuralgia.
Indigestion, and Biliousness,
;e Brown's Iron Bltiers?It gives strength,
,'itng old persons feel young?and young
ions strong; pleasant to take.
['he Massachusetts State Board of Agritore
reports the abandoned farms of that
ite to be 906.
f you suiTcr from sick, nervous, neuralgic
nal, billious, or dyspeptic headaches, Brady
'tine will euro you promptly. Fifty cents
lg stores.
Koiu v-o.vk electric light plants have been
abtished in the South during the pad
ree months.
>ne doso of Boicham's Bills relieves 6lcli
adacho in J?J minutes. For sale by all drug
ts. 26 cents a bo*.
Russia has prohibited the exportation ol
ic-at frour Finland.
roR Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and Stomach
orders, use Brown's Iron .Bitters. The Best
nlc. It rebuild* tho system, oleans tbe Blood
it strengthens the muscle. A splendid ton
tor weak and debilitated persons.
r you would be correct In pronounolni
mitnbu accent tho last, syllable.
"ITS stopped free by Dr. Knun's onr
;hvk Restorer. No fits after first day's use
irvolous euros. Treatise and 12 trial bottl
o. Dr. Kllno. 031 Arch Bt.. Phlla.. Pa.
In tho beet sugar district of Qermany tb
cn in summer earn but thirty-five cents
>v .-'nil l->oard themselves.
fogs
ON? ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; It is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys.
.Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system
effectually, dispels colds, headaches
and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy^ of its Kind ever produced,
pleasing to the taste ana acceptable
to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
Its many excellent qualities ooinns
end it to all and hays made it
the most popular remedy known.
Byrup or Figs is for sale in 60s
and >1 bottles by all leading druggists.
Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will procure
it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not aooept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA F/0 SYRUP CO
8AH FBANQJ3CO, OAL.
tfivttvnu KY *?W TOIL s r.
Kennedy's
YledicalDiscover
Takes hold in this order:
towels,
iver,
Sidneys,
inside Skin,
)utside Skin,
riving everything before It that ought to bo out.
fou know whethe
fou need it or not.
Bolt! by every druggist, end manufactured bj
DONALD KENNEDY,
eoxbdby, mams.
ELY'S CATARRl
ireambalmw^jct
im worth mm catarrv,
$ 5 O O
to an v man. jf
voman or child y#/a
naflerlns from / ?t yb
catarrh fcm#
tint ? s
.IQUID or SNUFF. HAITtft|
A particle la applied Into each nostril ami Is agi
ible. l'rloo 00 cents at Druugtsts or by mall.
fcljiY HKOTHEK8, 54 Warren street. New Yorl
l/CVOTnyr L?tdsaton in 5 mtnut
IxLlUlUlvL Haves time, work, m
7a t# buy. Kt. on*, durable, lit
U A Y draft. Bend for deecriptf
i nun to KEYSTONE M'f'G CO
LUA Utn Sterling. HI.
DO YOU INTEND TO BUILD t
house?
llWWk I Balusters, Newels. an<1 all kti
f Turned ant) Finished wood work from us. We
lanufactarcrs and have the largest pUnt In
tale. Agents wanted In every Town andOsuat]
ke South. I'rloe lists furnished. Try us
;harlottr Hash, Uuer sad Blind Mfc.C
tor, tth end A Btreet. CrumurrrnTW/t
eld by all deal
' three for a cathartic. Sick Head- * j
ache, Bilious Headache, Constipa- \
[ tion, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, _v
i and all derangements of the Liver,
Stomach and Bowels are promptly . -y ^
relieved and permanently cored.
1 They're the cheapest pills you can
buy, for they're guaranteed to give
* satisfaction, or your money is re*
turned. You pay only for the good
you get. It's a plan peculiar to Dr,
* tierce's medicines. /
HI at n | nrn The best and cheapest plaoa
= WAII PAHFKtob,v"> u-s- i?o?aHULL
rmUlp|MWIItfor ?Oe. postsma.
Thos. J. Myers, iaiO Market 8t.. VhlU.. H
IBBEBfliHgapi
and peuple H
wtM base weak Iobii or Astb'
ma. should ass Plso's Car* for
Consumption. It has nrst
Ifceaimda. It has not Injured
one. It Is not bad to take. H
It Is tba best eoagh a/rup. V*
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aiEFS
| blool. or"8^S?is by fc'it'oS^fMTer or?ntisR5 [
, .to perform tholr proper function? rerunsrlrea to
, , o?er<atlngare benefited bj taking a T> It I'TF. after
, eachmsal 1'rloe.br mail. 1 rroMlt: 1 bottlelte. Ad !
drau THE niPANB CHKMICALOO. JOBpnicwSt.Jf.Y.2
Agent* Wanted! EIU1ITY per eeat prolt. X
wutn"nuu&, Untnuli,
tbn hands, Injur* the Iron, and bum off. I
The Rising Sun Store Polish Is Brilliant, Odor. V
Jess. Durable, and the consumer psya (or no tta I
or glees per keg* with every purchase. I
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SOLD MDDAL, PARIS, 167A \ ^
iw. B AKER Si CO.W \
Breakfast Cocoa
_ from wblehthe egceeeof ?0
LAi has been removed.
Is otsolulelt/ pure end
(( Is eotuble.
i No Chemicals
a ere need In lie preparation. It
Q ha* mors than three timri the
H linngth of Cocoa mired with
I Starch, Arrowroot or^ Sugar,
F| and la therefor* far more eco>
II nomlcel, coittng lets than one
ISeentacup. It la delicious, nonr*
V lehing, strengthening, basil*
U DieasTiD, and admirably adapted tor Invalid*
I M well as for person* In health.
Sold by flrocere everywhere.
W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.
IEVERY FAMILY,! ^
School, Library, and Office . 'vij
8-H-O-U-L-D j
Have a Dictionary. I
Care should be taken to
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petlon,torpid gluncin. Tbeyarotaga Xa
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