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m THE BEST OF HEALTH w,. SIHGE TAKIHfi FE-RU-HA. •TWILL ALL COME RIGHT IN THE MORNING. Twill all come right in the morning; There’s never a night so black. But following after the shadows. The sun is on its track; And whatever there is of sorrow. And hatred’s bitter scorning. We have no need to borrow— 'Twill all come right in the morning. —From “Birch Twiii ail come right in the morning; For ever the truth will rise; And ever the coward error. Before her coming flies; So whatever there is of trouble. Or falsehood’s- cruel scorning, When justice pricks the bubble, 'Twill all come right in the morning. Leaves,” by Mrs. Alice E. Bartlett. DRUGGIST’S DILEMMA IS POOR HEALTH. PAINS IN BACK i 1 SICK HEADACHES. PE-RU-NA CURED. Mrs. Lena Smith, N. Cherry street, cor. Liqe, Nashville, Tenn., writes: “I have had poor health for the past four years, oains in the back and groins, and dull, sick headache, with bearing-down pains. •M friend who tras verj; enthusi astic about I’eruna intialed. that 1 try it. T took it for ten days and was »ur- prised to And I had so little pain. “I therefore continued to use it and at the end of two months my pains had totally disappeared. "J have been in the best of health since and feel ten yearn younger. 1 am very grateful to you.*' Catarrh of the internal organs gradually eaps away the strength, undermines the vitality and causes nervousness. Peruna is the remedy. I Pay Days In Norway. f In Norway on pay days saloons are closed and savings banks open un til midnight. Servant girls hire for half a year at a time by contract at public registry offices. There Is a telegraph box on every street car. Ono writes the message, puts on the right number of stamps, and drops it In the box. Farmers can borrow money from the government at three per cent. There are practically no Illiterates. The average wage earn ings are $88 a year. There are more reindeer than horses, more sheep than cows. FITSpermanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great NorveRestorer,$2trial bottleand treatise free Dr.R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch 8t., Phlla.,Pa. Japan is exporting cotton yarn at the rate of $15,000,000 a year. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething.softensthrgnms,reduce? inflamma- tlon;allay8 paln.cures wind colic,25c. a bcttle Singers cannot sing so well after a lit of anger. I Jdonot balievo Pisa’s Cure for Consuaip- tlonhasanaqa.it for coughs and colds.—John >.Boyeb,Trinity Springs. Ind., Feb. 15,1‘JOJ. China is anxious to have a national an them, j' _ Draws the Poison. ij Sloan’s Liniment, the great antiseptic, draws the poison from mosquito bites ami ill insects. It kills ptings of ail inAccts. and malaria germs. It kills yellow fever Peru and Bolivia have the richest silver mines in the world. The Guest and the Waitress. ' A dainty stranger wafted into the dining room of a hotel in Smith Cen tre the other day, and as the chair was held back for him pulled out his handkerchief and dusted the seat carefully. Pulling up his trousers ne seated himself, wiped the knife, fork and spoon' with a napkin, worried a few crumbs off the table and heaved a sigh of relief. Without hesitation, the girl who stepped forward to take Lis order, deftly wiped the stranger’s mouth, which had been drawn into a pucker of dissatisfaction at the Ima ginary untidiness abounding, and planted a kiss thereon that was plain ly heard in all parts of the room. The dainty stranger, when he recov ered, ordered meekly, ate hurriedly and left quickly.—Kansas City Jour* nal. Cheap Nitrogen. ^ • It is reported, says the Engineering and Mining journal, that by the Esch- weiler-Woltereek process for taking nitrogen from the air a ton of ammon ium sulphate can be made at a cost of less than half the present price. Prof. Wllholm Eschweiler is in the Technical High School of Hanover, and H. C. Wiltereek is a Londoner. The process is described as follows: A current of air mixed with steam is passed over a mass of burning peat. Part of the nitrogen of the air unites with nascent hydrogen from the ateam, forming ammonia, which la then absorbed by sulphuric acid. \3 GET POWER. The Supply Comes From Food. If we get power from food, why not strive to get all the power we can. That is only possible by use of skilful ly selected food that exactly fits the requirements of the body. Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a poor fire is not a good steam producer. "From not knowing how to select the right food to fit my needs I suf fered grievously for a long time from stomach troubles,” writes a lady from a little town iu Missouri. “It seemed as if I would never be able to find out the sort of food that was best for me. Hardly anything that 1 could eat would stay on my 'stomach. Every attempt gave me .heart-burn and filled my stomach witli gas. I got thinner and thinner until I literally became a living skeleton, and In time was compelled to keep to my bed. “A few months ago I was persuaded to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such good effect from the very beginning that 1 have kept up its use ever since. I was surprised at the ease with which I digested it. It proved to be just what I needed. AJ1 my unpleasant symptoms, the heart-burn, the inflated feeling which gave me so much pain disappeared. My weight gradually Increased from 08 to ll,l» lbs., my figure rounded out. my strength came back, and I am now able to do my house work and enjoy it. The Grape-Nuts food did it.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. A ten days’ trial will show any one some facts about food “There’s a reason.” i rf2 JVIVXVWlV ! gpot€*3IGIf*CBEKT WATKINS,chemist j I | ^ and druggist “by exauiiua- I * J““ , | & tion.” was usually charac- i £** *£ terized by people who had . more ihan a shop-counter acquaintance with him as j “fussy,” and indeed a close student of j human nature could hardly have pur- • chased a cake of soap from the trim | little man without registering men tally some such epithet. Spare and spectacled, with a drooping mustache and a half-apologetic air, he conveyed the impression of being iu a perpetual state of subdued anxiety. Perhaps the cause was to be found in the reputa tion for counter-prescribing he had built up during the ten years he had been in business —a reputation which, on the principle of noblesse oblige, could not fail to make him feel at least as old as he was; perhaps it lay iu the fact that his returns were not quite large enough to justify so cautious a man in keeping an assistant; perhaps again it was connected with the dom inance of a masterful wife. But whatever the cause, the effect was plain—Hubert Watkins showed to the world a careworn countenance. And on a certain day his habitual ex pression was more marked than usual, for he had a cold. It was not a dan gerous, nor even a severe cold—the use of a clinical thermometer selected from his stock soon settled that point—but it was bad enough to cause a snuffle in his speech, and lie was fretfully ap prehensive that his customers, perceiv ing it, would begin to doubt the effi cacy of medicines iu general and of his in particular. It must have been the harassing ef fect of his cold that resulted in his making a terrible mistake. In all his honorable career lie had never been known to go astray in deciphering a prescription, and, having had a thor ough training in dispensing, lie had made his name in the little town of Burgmore as the best, or, as he would have said, the most elegant dispenser therein. The writing of the local doc tors had naturally become familiar vo him, and if a prescription from a strange hand was brought to him could almost always master its hiero glyphics. Just after noon on the day in ques tion Dr. Crabbe, a prnctiouer who pat ronized him. bunded over the counter a preseriplion which Mr, Walkins, as was his wont, received with the brief ritual of a bow and a “Thank you. doctor!” Then, taking in the patient’s name and the directions at a glance, lie murmured, “Every four hours, I see; I’ll send it at once.” Dr. Crabbe, a massive personage with a preoc cupied air, briefly ejaculated, “Thank you,” and went’bis way. Now it chanced that the prescription was written for a patient, Miss Pur- fleet by name, for whom Mr. Watkins had a peculiar esteem. She was not only the most influential member of the choir chapel which the atkinees fended > buV she was -dtstRigtTfSfrrd from her colleagues by a pretty figure set off by a taste in dress that in a more worldly milieu would have been called coquettish. Mr. Watkins’ regard for her was of the palest platonic order—the application to her of such a word as “coquettish” would have moved him to grief—but, strictly dis interested though it was, he would never have dreamed of mentioning it to his wife. If that lady’s all-embrac ing scrutiny happened to result iu her pronouncing, on the way back from Sunday morning service, she being a yard or so in front of her spouse— “Miss Purfleet was pretty well got up this morning,” Le would discreetly re ply “Ah, yes!” and give no further sign. It was the one secret which— he hoped he did right—he shared with no one; and, although the force of his sentiment would not have disturbed a bit of floating gossamer, he cherished the feeling assiduously, marking with a tick in red ink on the calendar over his desk the days on which Miss Pur- fleet set her gracious foot inside his shop. Just as ho was stooping to a locker iu which medicine bottles were kept to select t’*e smartest looking, Mrs. Wat kins ca led peremptorily from a half opener door at the back of the shop: “Dinner, hub!” - “One moment only, lovey!” he meekly responded, feeling that it was a trifle unfortunate that he should be obliged to hurry so sacred a task as the preparation of a mixture for the exquisite singer. Disastrous hurry! For, reading in his haste “Tinct. Opii.” for what was really “Tiuct. Quin.” the “Q” being very indistinct—lie poured Into the bottle an ounce of tincture of opium in place of an equal quantity of tincture of quinine. Summoning his errand boy from the cellar in which that hireling had been cutting sticks of licorice—and incident ally his finger—Mr. Watkins des patched the bottle, addressed in spite of his hurry not less neatly than usual. Then, leaving the bell of his shop- door “on,” he obeyed the summons of his wife, who by that time had become ominiously ruffled by his non-appear ance. During the meal Mr. Watkins’ thoughts naturally reverted to the fair patient to whose restoration to healtli ho hoped to Good heavens! How many doses was that ounce of tinct. opii. divided into? Mr. Watkins sprang to his feet in a cold perspiration. “What is it?” said Mrs. Watkins, sharply, not without a tinge of anxiety, for such behavior on her husband’s part was quite unprecedented. “Nothing.” UKi-'inured the unfortu nate druggist, growing paler and paler. “That is—I’ve forgotten something.” He rushed into the shop, and, hav ing closed tk« door behind him, groaned aloud. Reaching his desk, he tore the pre scription from the file on which he had left if, and stared at it distrac-iedly. Then some vestige of reason returned to him, and on a sheet of blotting- paper he made a penciled calculation of the amount of tincture of opium in each dose. “The first dose may not be fatal- may not be fetal,” he said aloud, and he hastened to prepare at emetic. Luckily the distance to Miss Pur- fleet’s house was not great, and the boy, even allowing for the snail-like habits of his kind, would be back soon. He did, iu fact, appear wnile Mr. Wat- nTWler.i k:iis, with trembling fingers, was writ iug a label—"Half to be taken at once, the rest in ten minutes if no result follows.” By this time other problems had crowded into his perturbed brain, his head felt like bursting. He knew that susceptibility to opium varied enormously with different persons, though the chances were that Miss Purfleet, taking the emetic at once, would not have absorbed sufficient of the poison to He dared not dwell on the horible thought. Then how was he to explain the mistake to her; and, again, how was he to keep it from the knowdedge of Dr. Crabbe? If that redoubtable pa tron got to know of it—as it was quite likely he would—the reputation of Mr. Watkins, so laboriously built up, would be blasted forever. Instinctively he looked round the shop, holding the now wrapped and addressed bottle in ids hand, till his glance fell on the wondering errand boy. “Tom.” he almost shouted, “run with this to Miss Purfleet’s as hard as you can! Say It ought to have gone before the other, and that a dose is to be taken at once!” Then come back—I’ve a telegram for you!” “A telegram?” queried Mrs. Watkins, at that moment appearing from the house. “Come and finish j'our dinner!” “I tell you I can’t be bothered!” said her husband, snappishly. Mrs. Watkins gasped; tue errand boy grinned. Never had such a tiling hap pened before. Then, recovering her self, the lady thundered; “Go, boy, when j’our master tells you!” and with drew, slamming the door. The telegram was a brilliant inspira tion—the most brilliant, perhaps, that had ever come to Mr. Watkins in the whole of his. professional career. Read ing one of his trade journals—he sub scribed to three—that morning, he had seen an advertisement that had aroused his interest. It related to a new gen eral antidote, for which it was claimed that it would completely neutralize, or even in the worst cases sensibly modify, the action of every known poi son. Mr. Watkins, as became a man of scientific training, had said to him self that the idea was medieval and almost incredible. But now. In his hour of need, he thanked the happy Providence that had directed him to read that advertisement. That he had been specially guided to read it he had no shadow of doubt, and what a bless ing it was that London, whence it came, was only thirty miles away! He wrote the telegram in terms of the greatest urgency, asking for full in structions to be sent with the nostrum. On the reappearance of the boy he pelted him with questiens—“Whom did you see? What did they say?” and the .like. The boy had an incurable stammer;" it was some seconds—to Mr. Watkins it seemed hours—before he got out, ‘Miss P-P-Purfleet d-d-didn’t come—to —the—door—herself,” the last part of tire sentence being dlschargc(T”as but of a catapult. Mr. Watkins's rage war boundless. “I know that, fool! What did you learn?” “L-l-Iearn?” “What-Hlid—they—tell you?” The shout attracted Mrs. Watkins, who loomed in the doorway more massive than ever. “N-n-nothing. I g-g-gave the ” “Here, take this telegram! And then wait at the station for a parcel by the next London train!” ♦“Another telegram!” cried Mrs. Wat kins. “I insist ” ‘‘Do leave me!” almost shrieked the frenzied druggist. “Can’t you see I’ll tell you everything later, indeed I will!” Mrs. Watkins stared, reflected, and" then, to the wonder of her husband, who was beginning to tremldo at his own audacity, slowly turned aud re treated. An hour and a half passed before the all-important parcel arrived from London, and the boy, in handing it to his employer, who was pacing the floor of his shop like a caged lion, thought it desirable to say. “I haven’t 1-1-Iost a—minute.” But Mr. Watkins was already tear ing the parcel open. With eager eyes he began reading the directions, dis tinguishable at once by their heavy type. “Select a fleshy part of the body —sterilize tiie syringe by ” caught his eye. The paper dropped from his hand. The* stuff had to bo injected under Miss Purfleet’s skin, then? He was lost! But yet in such an emergency could not she, if she had not already col lapsed, be instructed how to use the antidote herself? He would take it to the house—a desperate case de manded desperate measures—and ask leave to tell her the truth. She would not refuse to see him; at the worst, she would let him speak to her through the half-opened door of her room. Un less she had sent for the doctor—and his blood ran cold again at the thought. He mixed himself a dose of sal-volatile. Then he put on his hat and rushed out, telling the hoy. whom he had never left in charge of the shop before, that he would soon be back. Before two minutes had elapsed the youth’s researches in the drawer labeled “Sem. Hyose.,” which, as he knew, contained digestive candy, were interrupted by the reappearance of Mrs. Watkins. “Where's your master?” demanded that lady, in no happy humor at reflect ing that her husband's henchman had witnessed her recent discomfiture. “I—th-th-thing he’s gone to ” Mrs. Watkins shook the boy in angry incredulity. “Gone out—without telling me! How dare you utter such foolishness!” . Thoroughly alarmed, the deputy druggist managed to disclose the in formation—which was nothing more than conjecture on his part—that his chief had gone to the house of Miss Purfleet. He inwardly wondered whether it would have been better for him to have held his tongue. The face of the predominant partner of the Watkins establishment was a study. Naturally jealous, she had been acute enough to foresee that in marry ing Hubert Watkins she obtained a husband whdm it would probably not be difficult to “keep in order.” But now that, after his mysterious conduct about telegrams, he had “sneaked out" (so she phrased it to herself), leaving his business to the tender mercies of an Ignorant ana as good as speech less youth, she feared—she knew not what. It was an ominous sign, the worst sign possible that the over dressed Miss Purfleet should be a party to the intrigue—for that there was an intrigue afloat she had now made up her mind. She ran upstairs and ar rayed herself in her most imposing finery, then sailed majestically out in search of her husband. Meanwhile that much-enduring man had arrived at the dwelling of the in nocent victim of his error and had timidly rung the bell. To his fervent “And how is Miss Purfleet?’* the well- trained maidservant returned a discreet but slightly puzzled “Pretty well, thank you, Mr. Watkins. Shall I give her any message?” “Is she—is she dangerously ill?” he rejoined, iiiconsequently, crushing his hard felt hat with a loud crash be tween his hands. “I think not,’ replied the girl, de murely, biting her lips. ... “Then can I se her?” “I’ll give her your card.” Thus reminded, the druggist took one from a card case, adding: “And please say it’s very important.” A minute later he was in the dreaded presence, stammering almost as egre- giously as his errand could have done. She was a little pale, but he saw that the worst was over, and his natural cunning began to come to his help. "I wanted to—tell you that—there has been a—a little mistake in your medicines, Miss Purfleet, that might have been—serious.” Miss Purfleet raised her eyebrows. “Oh, you mean that the second bot tle should not have been sent first, after all?” she queried, with the inten tion of helping him out. “Yes—no—that is—how much have you taken of ” “You see them both there,” Inter rupted Miss Purfleet. pointing to the mantelpiece and speaking rather more stiffly. She was beginning to think that the man had no tact. Huber* Watkins gave an audible gasp as he followed hef indicatioiii One dose of the emetic had been taken, but the opium mixture was untouched; “The dost I took,” pursued Miss Pur^ feet, “made me downright bad, so t thought I wouldn’t touch either again till I had seen Crabbe.” A moment later Mr. Watkins had put both bottles in his pocket. His professional manner had returned to him. “If, for my sake. Miss Purfleet, you will allow me instead to rectify the slight mistake of which I spoke I shall ever be deeply indebted to j-ou, believe me,” ho pleaded. “If you knew the anxiety ” • But his agitation again mastered him. “Oh, Vety well!*’ said Miss Purfleet with decision. “But it’s a rather cool request on your part, isn’t it?” To her astonishment the little drug gist took her right hand and raised it to his lips. Tho next moment he rushed from the room. Before she had quite recovered herself she heard the front door close gently. As he turned away from the garden gate Hubert Watkins, chemist and druggist "by examination,” ran into the arms of his wife. “And now,” vociferated that virago,- “perhaps you’ll explain!” , But in the last five minutes thei storm-beaten druggist had found him-' self, and now, with a single word,, he broke the spell of his tyrant’s long dominion. For the first time in his life he used language unbecoming a gentleman and a chemist “by examina-.' tion.”—The Family-Herald of London^ LIGHTING LORE ACETfLENE EX TELS AS AN ILLU- MIN ANT. How tiie Most Important Organ of tho Body is Imposed Upon. So large a place is given in these days to the development of the mus cular system, especially in the case of boys, that the dangers of overexer tion are sometimes forgotten or ignored until mischief has been done. The heart, as all know, is the largest and most important muscle of the body, and the moment it ceases to do its work perfectly the whole system suf- 4 fers. It is reasonable to suppose that so important an organ is so constituf- ed as to be able to meet a good deal of strain. But it is often forgotten Jhat hearts differ in individuals as much as do any other parts of the body, and that of two youths of apparently equal phys ical equipment, the amount and kind of exercise that one will thrive on may permanently disable the other. All exertion means an increased bl^od supply to the iieart muscle, one of the immediate effects of which is a more rapid pulse. When the exertion lias been well within the powers of the individual this increased blood supply tends only to strengthen the heart, and the rapid pulse will very soon go back to its normal beat and there will be a feeling of added strength and well-be ing. If, on the other hand, to much blood is constantly forced into the heart not strong enough to use it, the muscle grows too big, it stretches, loses its natural elasticity, and becomes flabby and weak. Tin? temporary disteation of the or gan, which is normal, turns into a more or less permanent dilatation, giv ing r.se to mfny signs of impaired health. Then follows that condition known to athletes as “going stale.” The pulse is feeble and irregular, the color pale, sleep often impaired, and the sense of fatigue permanent. If heart strain is early recognized and proper treatment instituted the re covery may bo both quick and com plete. by reason of the great powers of compensation with which the heart has been endowed. When there has been a conditio a of strained heart it is very important that after the period of necessary rest and treatment has elapsed the return to any form of ac tive exercise should be looked upon as experimental—it should be both guard ed and gradual—and the patient kept under medical supervision and watched with close attention for some time.— Youth’p Companion. "Slatecl M Tg. “Booked.^ That extremely well written jour nal, The New York Nation, remarks iu a leading note that “the Kitchener plan for the reorganization of the In dian Army is slated to pass the Com mons,” meaning, of course, that it is scheduled or “booked" to go through. This ’3 a use of the werd which ou this side 've have not yet adopted or have alre: ly abandoned; in these matters it is se Gom safe to say which. In the States a p. rty program is often called its slate, and to “smash the suite” is to extinguish that pro gram. And we ar--* accustomed to “wipe the slate”—the equivalent to the Germ .a “Scbwamm d ireuber.” But a “slate smasher,” according to Henley and Farmer, is not so much a success ful opponent as a lea ier who ignores the visiles of his o- *n party. Over here a slating has 1c ,g meant a cen sure. but of late ye rs it has been brought specially into the field of lUer- nrv criticism.—Louioi Chronicle. Cas For I.lRhtlu;r Formerly Confined to Cities and l.arRe Towns, Xow in Gen eral Use in tbe Country. The satisfactory lighting of suburban and country homes requires that the means used shall be convenient, safe, economical and furnish a brilliant, pen etrating. effulgent light. Everybody admits that these are not the characteristics of the candle or kerosene lamp, which, formerly, were the only feasible menus of producing light for domestic use in the rural dis tricts. For generations there was a crying need, a yearning for something better, which was not satisfied. A few years ago deliverance came in the shape of the chemical compound. Calcium Car bide, from which, by the simple appli cation of water, the gas Acetylene is derived. Acetylene meets all the re quirements fully and admirably and Is being generally used. Common lime and carbon in the form of coke or coal are the raw materials which, fused in an intensely heated furnace, 'make Calcium Carbide, and there is no difficulty iu obtaining it iu any part of the country. The machine into wliich the Calcium Carbide is fed and from which the Acetylene is distributed through the building to be lighted, is but little larg er than a thirty-gallon milk can, and of the same general form. It is easily and cheaply installed, either in the cel lar or in an outbuilding. The light from burning Acetylene is exquisite, and lighting experts agree that it surpasses all other known iliu- minants. It does not taint the air nor strain tiie eyes, and is not objection able in any respect. Every up-to-date rural residence should be equipped with Acetylene light. A New Boyle de Suif. In Paris the police have discovered a woman whose peculiar sort of pa triotism has been compared to that of Boule de Suif in Guy de Maupassant’s story. She was arrested recently for having robbed a German merchant cf £68. To the Magistrate she made a strange declaration. She said that her main object in life was to decoy Germans and to rob them. She went about with them to cafes and music halls, and while affecting to be very interested in them she picked their pockets. In this way sh^ had an nexed for several years past over £700. She had picked the pockets of exactly sixty-seven Germans, and she was proud of it. As her reason for thus acting, the woman said that In 1870 her family In Nor mandy had been completely ruined by the German invaders, who stole heir father’s cattle, pigs, fowls, and even plate. She was then obliged to go cut as a dairymaid, but not being ac customed to servitude she came to Paris, and began waylaying and rob bing Germans. The Magistrate list ened to this tale calmly. It made no impression on him, for he sent the new Boule de Suif back to the depot, there to await trial.— London Tele graph. Mothers Are Helped TKEIR HEALTH RESTORED Hnpplnrss of> Thousands of Hom^s Dus to Lydia F. Finfeham’a Vegetal Ccin- pound and Mrs. PiRkheai’a-Athrit^e. — A devoted mother seems to listen to every call of duty excepting the su preme one that tells her to guard her health, and before she realizes it some derangement of the female organs has manifested itself, and nervousness and irritability take the place of happi ness and amiability. FEWER POCKET KNIVES SOLD. DISFIGURING HUMOR U * ** ' - Jv Ah'S. 0 71 B j/ Tired, nervous and irritable, the mother is unfit to care for her chil dren, and her condition ruins the child’s disposition and reacts upon herself. The mother should not be blamed, as she no doubt is suffering with back ache, headache, hearing-down pains or displacement, making life a burden. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound is tbe unfailing cure for this condition. It strengthens the female organs and permanently cures all dis placements and irregularities. Such testimony as the following should convince women of its value : Dear Mrs. Pinkham : “ I want to tell you how much good Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound bos done mo. I suffered for eight years with ovarian troubles. I was nervous, tired and ir ritable, and it did not seem as though I could rtand it any longer, as I had five children to care for. Lydia E. Pinkbam’s Vegetable Compound was recommended and it has en tirely cured mo. I cannot thank you enough for vour letter of advice and for what Lvdia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound has done for me.—Mrs. Ph. Hoffman, 100 Rimrod Htreot, Brooklyn, N. Y.” Mrs. Pinkham advises sick womeu free. Address, Lynn, Mass. City Demand Has Fallen Away In Late Years, Says the Cutlery Dealer. “There Is not so much call for pocketknlves la New York as tbera used to be,” said a man who has been 11 the cutlery business In this city for forty years. "There was a .time when every man carried a pocketkn.fe, out now you might step fifty men in the downtown section and ask for a knife and not more than a dozen could ac commodate you. “We do not carry anything like the stock in this line that v;e did in other times. Now cne person in an office cr business house keens the pencils sharpened for the boss and the help. The manicure shop also has cut in to tho field of the pocket knife, and men who do not patronize the mani- files. “Some of tbe old brand of knives which used to be good sellers the year round have entirely disappear ed from our cases, and nearly so from the factories. When did you ever use a Barlow kni'e? There was a time when every toy had one. For the smaller youngsters there was tho dog-knife. It was so called because the handle was an Imitation of a d g cn a run. The dcgr.nife u:ei to be a sort of necessary in a boy’s stock ng on Christmas. I haven’t seen or heard of a dogknlfe since the Civil War. “A Jong time ago the pocketknlfe most in demand was the four inch spring back. Ono reason why it had such a run was that It was a mighty handy weapon in a fight. V. hen tyo blade was open it staved put fintll you pressed a spring which closed iu Many who could not be induced to carry a revolver did not hesitate to keep the sprlngback knife where it would come handy. “The old hern henries have nearly disappeared from the city. They are still used in the country stores, but the city man who carries a pocket blade wants something that will not wear cut his pockets, and which will not be any extra weight. “There used to be a combination knife that was a good deal in de mand. In addition to its blade it con tained a corkscrew, a pick, an awl, and a small pair of scissors. There is no demand In the city for such a knife now. The corkscrew has its uses still, and its place, but its place is one the sideboard. And then, you know, most decoctions as they are now put up do not require a cork screw. When a man wants a drink in this busy age he wants it quick, and the bottles are so arranged that you unscrew the arrangement at the top and the" drink is ready.”—New York Sun. Brushed Scales From Fnce Like Powder— Hector Paid Brid j AYould Be DIsftgnred For Life—Cntlcara Work* Wonders, “1 suffered with eczema all over my body. My face was covered; my eyebrows came out. I had tried three ooctors, but did not get any better. 1 then went to another doctor. He thought my face would be marked for life, but my brother- in-iaw told rue to get Cuticura. 1 washed with Cuticura Soap, applied Cuticura Oint ment, and took Cuticura Resolvent as di rected. I could brush the scales off my face like powder. Now my face is just as clean as it ever was.—Mrs. Emma White, 641 Cherrier Place, Camden, N J., April •25. ’05.” In the course of sixty-three years S.OOO.OOO persons have been cared for in the asylums for the homeless if Berlin. Orolisw’tl yila.'tav ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT ACETYLENE GAS toil.,. MONEY-Y/ORSHIP NEW DISEASE. i. mm Grafters Aiming Either for Prison or for Congress. "The Easy Dollar and How it Is Made” was the theme for a rather startling sermon by Dr. George Cooper, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Media, Pa. Grift in public and private life and the moral decay of the generation were the points of attack, and grafters jn public office were especially the targets of tho minister’s shafts. There were many epigrams of unusual brilliancy in the sermon. Extracts from it are inter esting: “Thou shadt take “uo gift, for ttrer gift bllndeth them «that have sight and perverteth the cause of tho right eous.” This matter of common con versation in every circle, should be a matter of Instruction in the House of God from a proper point of view. The age is materialistic. Money, with Its power of pleasure and influ ence, is the great aim of life. "Put but money in thy purse. Fill thy | purse with money,” is the popular | motto. As Ban Johnson says: “Got money, hoys; no matter by what means.” j Wealth Is the end of life. As a result the methods of making money were never so disregarded la a moral war. We have been called the worship ers of the almighty dollar. In our money-worship a new disease has broken out—a craze for the easiest dollar at any sacrifice of moral prin ciple. Graft is the advanced stage of the craze for unearned money. Our whole social fabric is honeycombed with it. Prostitution of office for tho easy dollar no longer shocks us. Graft cannot exist without being discovered after a while. Cleaning up tainted money is the new antisep tic game. Public exposures of graft ing men are public benefactions. All honor to the public press in this work. Publicity is the one great pun ishment that stares graft and bribery in the face. Success is the standard of life. If a man steals or receives a bribe, is found out and goes to prison, he has only failed In his aim and is unfortun ate. If he Is not found out and goes to Congress and dies in the odor of bribery, he has succeeded, and we are not to condemn him in the heat of his temptation. EMW Automatic rllLAJ I Generators can be installed at small cost in any home, large or small, any where. Acetylene Gas is cheap er than kerosene, brighter than electricity, safer than either. Ful particulars FREE for the asking. Acetylene Apparatus Mf*. Co., !57 Michigan Ays., /. Chicago GUARA* TEED BY A BANK DEPOSIT R.R. Faro Paid. Notes Taken v SCO FRER COURSES |>> | _ 9 Board at Cost. Write Quick GF.O.TuhVAlABAM A BUSINESS COLLEGE, Macon, Ga. $5,000 C. <£ Write to E.K.Behr, iYlsJIi V W ip & La Crosse, \V i». . THE MAN BEHIND THE SAW Has easy work if it’s an Atkins, The keen, clean cutting edge and perfect taper of the blade make it run casiy without buckling. No “ humping ” to do with the Perfec tion Handle. Hut there are other men behind the Atkins Saw. The originator of silvkb steel, the finest crucible steel made, was a good deal of a man. The discovererof the Atkins secret tempering process was likewise a man ol brains ana genius. And there nre high-elsss workmen behind this saw, masters of theircraft, whose skill and pride of workmanship have helped to make the Atkins Trade Mark an assurance of quality as reliable ns the Goverment assay stamp. We make nil typts and sizes of Saws, but only one grade—the best. Atkins §aws, Corn Knives, Perfection Floor Scrapers, etc , are sold by all good hardware dealers. Catalogue on request. K. C. ATKINS CEL CO.. Inc. Largest Saw Manufacturers in the World. Factory and Executive Offices, Indianapolis, Indiana- BRANCHTtS: New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Portlaml, (Oregon), Settle, San 1'rancL.co, Memphis, AtlauUi and Toronto, (Canada). Accept no Substitute—Insist on the Atkins Brand BY GOOD DEALERS LVERWr /*AUAWM\WA*..-.M.VA , UOVOWAe.MAeAAV'.W , J , .'AVM/Vf.O.W.VO Protection for Ruins. Great Britain's government has de cided to secure and protect for the nation the ancient ramparts erected by Edward I. around the town of Ber- wick-on-Tweed. These ruins are of great antiquarian and historical value. They form one of the most In teresting monuments of the bitter strife that existed for centuries be tween England and Scotland, as they are situated right cn the border. The walls include the old bell tower from which a flaring beacon gave warning to the English farmers of the ap proach of the bands of marauding Scots.—New York Globe. THEN HE RAN. Huskey—My weight is exactly 231 pounds. Littleton—With all your clothes on, cf course. Huskey—No, sir! That’s my net weight. Littleton—Net? Hum. Most people would call that -gross.—Philadelphia Press. Rossetti’s East Indian Visitor. Gabriel Dante Rossetti, poet and : painter, was once visited by an East; Indian prince who said to him: “I wish to give you a commission to paint a portrait of my father.” “Is your father in London?” asked Rossetti. “No, my father is dead,” replied the Oriental. “Have you some photographs of him or any portrait?” “We have no portraits of him of any kind.” “How can I paint a portrait of him, then?” asked the artist. “It is impos sible. I could not think of attempt ing anything so absurd.” “Why is it absurd?” demanded the prince gravely. “You paint pictures of Mary Magdalene and Circe and John the Baptist, and yet you have never seen any of them. Why can 3'ou not paint my father?” The prince was so insistent that Rossetti yielded in sheer desperation. He painted an ideal head that was certainly Oriental and also regal in its bearing. The prince came to the studio In great state to view it. 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