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PE-RU-NA CURES o'Wb CAT>.lilW ' "> "Ti^^a $7* sciaJT^ ban fit Rous miifSsim Pe-rn-na Creating: a National Sensation of Chronic Ailments of the Ki; Major T. H. Mars, of the First Wis- J consin Cavalry Regiment, writes from j 1425 Dunning street, Chicago, 111., the j following letter: "Foryears 1 suffered with catarrh of the kidneys contracted in the j army. Medicine did not help me any j until a comrade who had been helped ; by Peruna advised me to try it. 1 \ bought some at once, and soon found blessed relief. 1 kept taking it /our j months, and am now well a nd strong and feel better than 1 have done for the past twenty years, thanks to: Peruna?T. 11. Mars. Mr. John Vance, of Hartford City, j Iud., says: *'My kidney trouble is much ; better. I have improved so much that! everybody wants to know what medi- j cine 1 am using. 1 recommend Peruna to everybody, and some have commenced to use it. The folks all say that if Dr. Hartmaifs medicine cures me it must be great."?John Vance. Mr. J. Brake, of Petrolea, Ontario, Canada, writes: "Four years ago 1 had a severe attack of llrlght's disease. which brought me so low the P doctor said nothing more could be done for me. 1 began to take Peruna j and Manalln, and in three months v: I was a well man, and have continued so ever since.J. Brake. At the appearance of the first sy nip >m j 5 , FATAL POSSESSIONS. Weird Romance of a Finger Ring ; That Killed a Bride. Some of the most weird and curious romances are associated with possessions which appear to have no other j purpose than to bring misfortune and j trouble on those who own them. A tragic instance of this is related in j connection with the Lindsey family. J - According to the legend, Colin Lind- j sey, a former Earl of Balcarres, was ! Quietly eating his breakfast when he , should have been awaiting his bride j at the altar. When reminded of the j ~ fact he hurried off to church, and, for- J getting the indispensable ring, bor- : rowed one frcm 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 It bore a grinning death's bead, suddenly fainted away. The incident affected her to such an extent that, on recovering consciousness, she expressed her conviction that she was desf lined to die within twelve months. And sure enough, in less than that period her life came to an end. Napoleon III was the possessor of two rings, which he constantly wore, and which had belonged to his predecessor, Napoleon I, who was a fatalist in the fullest meaning of the terra. When Napoleon III died it was proposed chat these rings should be removed from his finger; but the prince imperial refused to have them. They were accordingly buried with his father at Chislehurst, and, so far j [rem regarding iaem num. me &o.mc point of view as the prince, the emperor's servants firmly believed that he would come to an untimely end I Tor discarding the rings. And when, In 1879, the unfortunate young man 1 met his death at the hands of the Zulus, against whom he was fighting for i this country, they saw In this deplor- . able event the realization of their fears. One of the best-known public j men In New Zealand, a wealthy resi- ! dent of Hokiangi, North Island, recently traveled all the way to St. Louis, U. S. A., in a fruitless endeavor to have an Idol cremated which had I cast an evil spell over him. The ! heathen idol had come to him as part of a legacy from his grandfather, to whom it had been presented by a Maori chief. Said its owner, "I have j traveled 10,000 miles with the image, ! and 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, i in running to get out of the way, fell j and broke one 01 my fingers. Then [ was arrested for endangering the | nornnnMK. TVKan in Tj-mrlon ! UTCO Ui ^a30cu5uo. iv uwu iu ^ivuuv.* . three months ago I threw it into the I Thames, an l a drunken sailor who j fished It out brought it back to my rooms, and in his rage at not receivtag a rewarc , almost beat me to death. While In San Francisco I tried to chop It to pieces with an ax, when the ax rebounding, struck me on the forehead 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 fe. v crude figure in rosewood and ebony, ind about two feet long. Failing to jet it cremated in St. Louis its owner itarted for New York, where he was determined to have it destroyed at !||:. whatever cost. x Buried in the shadow of Diamond Head Volcano, at Honolulu, is a violin known as the "Violm of Death." In the space of a few months two persons who had owned it vtook their own lives and a third mysteriously disap^ peared. The last victim ^of this weird instrument was George JL Scott, a sergeant of the United States army, 68th Coast Artillery. This Victim killed himself at the barracks ^t Camp McKinley, but a few days before doing ?o he realized the evil influence of the violin and buried it as abovk stat? d.?Tit-Bits. \ \ POOR HUMAN NATURE. "Women dress very ridiculously," lit! said, as he watched his wife finishing her toilet. "It is the fashion, John," she said, pleasantly. "Fashion be hanged!" said he. "I would be superior to fashion if I were a woman, and wear nothing not useful." Five minutes later he asked her to nv a button on the back of bis coat. CATARRH EYS EVERY TIE, t | iseuRED^|!!^' rmia should the escape of serum tuan'the Mood. Peruna stimulates the kidneys to excrete from the blood the accumulating poison, and thus prevents the convulsions which are sure 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 fail rapidly in this disease. Peruna cures catarrh of the kidneys simply because it cures catarrh wherever located. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Ilartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will he pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Ilartman, President of The Ilartman Sanitarium, Columbus. Ohio. The Largest Cave in Eiucpe. In the Mucta-thsl, near Schwyn. Switzerland, there is what is probably the largest cave in Europe. The existence of the cave had long been known, but as it could only be enter ed by crawling nc one had tsoubled tc investigate the interior. This summer. however, three separate parties have explored it. The distance traversed amounts, altogether, to no less than S.000 yards, and the end of the cavern has not yet been reached, says A T7N-{ A rvrv + ] tr 4 V _ vL LUlll Ut u ? i uc" to is greater than those of either Han or the Adelsberg, ana Is to be counted among the most striking of the curiosities of the Alps. The entrance is close to the village in which Suvaroff had his headquarters in tne campaign of 177$; but that great general v.*as kept much too busy to notice it.?St. James' Gazette. It Way Happen. Yvith undauted courage the interpid polar explorer pushes on and on, with only occasional steps to partake of the luscious canned provender provided 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 carefully 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 Grakame?Oh, no; it's all over! He never really meant anything. Lady Belle?Why, have you quarreled? Miss Grahame?No; but yesterday he gave me a box?such a lot?of stationery. TaHv Belle?But nresents are al ways promising. Miss Grahame?But my initials are on it; such a lot! Oh. no; It's all over between us? THE LAST WORD. "A woman is never happy \mless she gets the last word,' said tl e man 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 j that will just suit you. She is a young ' widow and is very fond of children, j Mrs. Richleigh?But we have no j children. Employment Agent?Oh, that'll be i all right, Ma'am. She has six of her j own.?Chicago News. i j State or Oaxo, CityT or olSdo, > gg Lucas County. \ ' Frank J. Cnr.xey, make oath that he Is the 1 senior partner of the firm of F. J. Chunky ! Co., doing business in the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of onu hundred i>olI lars for each and every ease of catarrh that ' cannot be cured by the use of Hall a i n " fiuvc J. Cheney. ; taiantia wujl. - - . Sworn to before me and subscribed in mv , ?*, .. presence, this 6 th day of December, ! \ seat.. - A. D., IS3G. A. W. Gleasok, ?>?-1 Notary Public. \ Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and ; acts directly on the blood and mucous sur[ faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists,75c. i Hall's Family Pills are the best. An eagle can live twenty days without food, and a condor forty days. FITS permanently cured.No flts or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Croat NerveEestorer.?2triaI bottle and ircatlsefree Dr.R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. P'nila., Pa. Carp are said to live hundreds of years, and pike are also hardy old fellows. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, reduces inflammation,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle ^ Some men with liberal views allow their liberality to end there. Putnam Fadeless Dyes produce the brightest and fastest colors. ! A rolling stone gathers no moss, but neither does a rolling mill. Piso's Cure cannot bo too highly spoken of as a cough cure.?J. W. O'Brien, Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, 31iuu., Jan. G, l'JJJ American potatoes arc sold in Ireland, CLIMATE DOESN'T CHANGE, THE "OLDEST INHABITANT1' CONTRADICTED BY RECORDS. It Is a Psychological Phenomenon Which Clcse 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 the 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 specifically charging that "the summers are not what they used to be." Thic ic n iidvrnnlno'ienl uhonomenon similar to that one which acounts for that peculiar brand of pie that "mother used to make." Whatever the pies, the climate remains the same, as will be proved by the truthful records of scentifie appliances. There are periods (luring which it varies; times when cold or rain or heat prevails to a larger extent than the normal. But when the whole is summed up, covering a reasonably long period of lime, it is found that the frost-lino is just where it used to be, and the cold or hot or the rainy periods are r.o more or less frequent than when grandfather was a boy. Thomas Jcffcicon was a victim to the popular delusion, and writing in 1771, said; "A change of climate is talcing place very sensibly. Both heats and colds are becoming more moderate within the memory of even the middle-aged. Snows are less frequent and less deep. They do not often lie below the mountains more than one, two or three days, and very rarely a week. The ,snows are remembered to have been formerly frequent, deep, and of long continuance. The elderly inform 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 observation being quoted. In Europe accurate records have been kept of dates of the opening of navigation of streams at certain points for several centuries, and it is shown that, covering a long period of years, there has been no appreciable change. The first twenty years of record, compared 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 voars Ossian Guthrie, the noted 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 shew that the maximum of heat recorded in the United States was in Colorado, at Mammoth Tank, a station in the desert, where in 1SS7, the thermometer recorded, in the shade. 12S degrees Fahrenheit. Again in 1SS4, 124 degrees was reached in the same place. Taking it all together, the hottest place ir. the United tSates is California's "Death Valley." The name is supposed to come from a tragedy which occurred there in the '50's, when a party of immigrants entered the valley, ar.d every one died of thirst. The valley 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 deposits are found there. The valley is seventy-five miles long and in places only six miles wide at the bottom. In 1S91 the Weather Bureaii sent an observer to remain there and take observations all summer. When he returned, he said he would take 'per+ ctraip-hf' npxf time. He WES UltiVU UHMi-uv ---? there 153 days. On the hottest day the maximum was 120 and the minimum 99 degrees, making an average for the day of 10S.G, which is rather trying weather. Professor Moore advises people not to stand in doorways or at open windows during severe electric storms. The neighborhood of trees and tireplaces are to be avoided. On the other hard, 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 j one who lives to see the lightning j flash need not concern himself about J the possibility of harm from that flash. Alscf recollect that heaven has more thunders to alarm than thunderbolts to punish. It serves also to calm the spirits to think that even though struck by lightning, the consequences are not always fatal; even if stunned, and apparency dead, the victim may he resuscitated. Professor Mcore says not to cease efforts at artificial respiration and stimulation for 1 an hour. Lightning stuns, but does not often kill.?Now York Post. The Last of the Goufricre Bird. An untoward result of the recent volcanic eruption in St. Vincent will (a correspondent of the Birmingham Post hears from an ornithological friend in the island) probably be the extinction of the Soufriere bird, a j i very rn.ro sjtetnes i aa uvumiut, o t Amazon parrci. This bird was for-1 racrly four.rl only on the Soufriere it-1 self. The great ^ eruption of 1718 j drove many of them to the other > mountains of St. "Aliment. hut their j numbers wore greatly red need by the j vio'er.f hurricane of 18-8. or?d it is ! now fearc i that (he fp'.v survivors I have Ijeon completely d'-sdroyod by j the last eruption in May. At any rate j no Specimens have smce b?en seen, notwithstanding a very careful search. ?St. James' Gazette. * Paris and London. There are 15 000 cabs in Paris and 11.00 > in Loudon. The drivers in the latter city are the most insolent and ' extoitionate of th >ir fraternity. Fares ' are reckoned by distance or time, the . ( hprye for two mile* being 25 cents, j with 12 cents for each additional mile or fraction. By time the charge is . 5'! cents for the first hour and 12 ic 10 j cents for eaeh additional quarter hour. A "course" drive in Paris costs , 30 cents, whether front one extreme of the (itv to the other, or the length or a street. Puu there is the inevKa<Be "pcurboire" of 5 ?%er.ts for a short drive and 10 for a lor.:; one. Araeri- can visitors, infamously treated by cabmen in both cities/-, a re a rich harvest, i REVERIE OF A FALLING MAN. What Anderson Was Thinking During His 100-Fcot Drop, fr John Anderson, the former naval Jackie, who while painting ironwork beneath the high bridge a month ago. was severely injured by a fall, is rapidly 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 head. But lie will not be permanently maimed or disfigured. On the afternoon of May 20 he was I swinging happily like a bird or- a twig, within a sling six feet below the roadway of the high bridge and about 100 feet above the Mississippi River. The seat 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 single 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 slool rods " snid ho vor.tcrdav. "a rod that I was painting. My rope was good and fast. I had no warning of any danger, when the sky and 1 lie clouds, and the bottom of the big bridge in the middle of it all dashed past my eyes and the air whistled in my ears like a typhoon in the.China seas. I knew I was going clown head first. No, I wasn't frightened. I s\id to myself, 'Now I'll strike the river before long, and if I keep going like this I'll strike the water head, first, which will be just as good as diving; and being a good swimmer I can easy get 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 huddled up as I ft 11 probably, came full force against the 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 me most. Then, though not before, I thought to myself. 'Well, its your last cruise for sure,' and tilings got black before me. I guess I fainted. "But the cold water biought mo 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, rou didn't die this watch, did you?' I know I felt awful good about it. Cut 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 T found I couldn't swim I felt my gun was spiked for sure. But just ther i heard the crew up aloft on the bridge hollering 'Good boy, Sailorl You're all right! Keep it up! Boat's coming! Keep a paddling, Jackie.' It did sound line and hearty, let me tell you. And so I kept a paddlin' until a man reached me 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 l.'jat. and I tried to make aim tow me alongside. But he couldn't manage that and he did haul me in, though it was a mighty tough experience. 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 j of patients here."?St. Paul Pioneer Press. A NAVAL COOK BOOK. Every Ship in Our Fleet to be Equipped With a Modern Manual. Several thousand copies of an of*~ial cook-book arc expected to arrive * League Island navy-yard shortly. The book has just been issued by the Navy Department at Washington, with orders to place one on every war vessel and ship belonging to the United Slates, and the sailors look forward to better mess in the future. One of the officers at the yard stated recently that the book was or:e that has long been needed and that with its ! use there should be no more com- I plaints from the men that their food is net properly cooked. j The book is bound in canvas and bears the title 'General Mess Manual and Cook Eook, United States Navy." The volume was prepared by the Paymaster-General of the navy and published by the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. It is divided into three parts, general mess, commissary stores, and the preparation of food with recipes for every article served on a table, including dessert. One of the officers on board the receiviirg-ship Minneapolis stated that until fifteen months ago the 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, j and the ones giving the most money received the best food. This caused a general complaint among the men, and the Secretary of the Navy was notified of their grievances. The case was put before Congress, and they decided 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 j are broken. The book states tbat the cook shail receive no extra pay and ! that tins are strictly prohibited. The book also says that the cook cannot under any circumstances strike or ' or resign, under penalty of being sent to prison. j nis means that he will nave to pui op wun ire kicks ana complaints of the men who arc served with muddy coffee, burnt steak, and overdone ergs. On the larger vessels of the navv there are to be three cooks, one for meats, another for vegetables, and a third to make tea and coffee alone. There are also to be two bakeis, one a senior, whose sole duty is to look after the quality of the bread. In commenting on the fxrok one of the officers at the yard stated that one-half of the volume is devoted to recipes alone. The first was submitted by an old resident of Boston, where baked beans were n ado famous. It tells cf the cocking of beans a la Boston. The second is from a wellknown N?v; York chef, who dwells on the coo' ing of omelets, steaks, and other things in the food line. The be ok k.ik how to bake nies and the making c: j>c cream. Receipts for the prcpn.; ation of civory vegetable j grown av& also given.?Chicago Ghroiv I icle I ? ? CURES BLOOD POISON. CANCER. ichin? Done*. Shifting Pains, Itching Skin, Pimple*, Hating Sore*, Etc. If you have Pimples or Offensive Eruptions, Splotches, or Copper-Colored Eruptions, or rash on the skin, Festering Swellings, Glands Swollen, Ulcers on any part | of the body, old Sores, Boils, Carbuncles, J Pains and Aches in Bones or Joints, Hair or Eyebrows failing out, persistent Sore Mouth, Gums, or Throat, then you havo I Blood Poison. Take Botanic Blood Balm. (B.B.B.) Soon all Soros, Pimples and Eruptions will heal perfectly. Aches and Pains cease, Swellings subside, and a perfect, never to return cure made. B.B.B. cures cancers of All Kinds, Suppurating Swellings, Eating Sores, Ugly Ulcers, after all else fails, healing the sores perfectly. If you have a persistent pimple, wart, swollen glands, shooting, stinging pains, take Blood Palm, and they will disappear before they develop into Cancer. (Write for special circular 011 Cancer.) Druggista $1 per large bottle, including complete directions for home cure. Sample free by writing Blood Bat.m Co., 10 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble, and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. Some people only tell the truth when it is disagreeable. MEN WHO DELIVER MAIL Heart Tragedies That Line the Route of Letter Carriers. . "Tell you a stc^y? Why, yes, I might tell a good many stories If that was in my line." The gray carrier i blew a pearly wreath of smoke upward and flecked the dead ash from his cigar," says the Denver News. "Let mo see. There's an old lady on my route down in Alabama who sits knitting the livelong day by the front room window. Every morning and afternoon when I whistle at the door of her next door 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 somewhere out west. Ho doesn't write to her twice a year. Yet twice each day the whole year tnrough she sits there with that anxious look, waiting, waiting, waiting. I feel a twitch at my own heart every time I pass by and see the look of expectancy fade into disappointment. Sometimes I'd give $50 to be able to stop and give her Ave lines from that good-for-nothing boy of hers "for whom she's eating out her heart." "That reminds me," said a younger man who heard the gray carrier's story, "of a pretty bs.by on my route in a Louisiana city. She's a dainty tot about 4 or maybe 5 years old. She j has blue-gray eyes like a wood violet i that look a fellow straight to the j heart. Som-e little girls can do that 1 after they are older. This tot's mamma died six months ago, and for a ' month afterward she used to come tripping down the walk to meet me 1 with a little white note in her hand, and locking me to the heart out of those big, trusting eyes, she would =r>v ."Mr Pnstmnn wnn't vnu nlease i take this letter to my mamma in i heaven?" I used to take the dainty j missive from the wee pink hand. I | couldn't tell her hew far away her ' mamma was. One day she came with- j j out a letter and ihere was pain in the | great, sweet eyes. 'Mr. Postman, I baby wants a letter from mamma. j Please, Mr. Postman, tell my mamma j me wants seme letters, too,' and, boys, [ every day for a week I had to pass i that baby with the pain in the gray- i blue eyes and I wondered the angels j did not find some way somehow to . make her baby heart understand." i-^w;iwj wrgrc?-j | J Dark Hair\ | "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor g I for a great many years, and al- 1 I though I am past eighty years of 8 3 age, yet I have not a gray hair in a I my head." H | Geo. Yellott, Towson, Md. 3 I We mean all that rich, 8 8 dark color your hair used g ? to have. If it's gray now, g | no matter; for Ayer's J 8 Hair Vigor always re-1 I stores color to gray hair. I I Sometimes it makes the I j | hair grow very heavy and I I long; and it stops falling 1 I of the hair, too. | | $1.90 a bott'c. AH druggists. jjj ? If your druggist cannot supply you, ? j g send us one dollar and we will express 8 i S you a bottle. i'.c euro and give the name H j E of your nearest express cflicc. Address, 8 ? J.C. A Y'LH CO., Lowell, Mass. g 1 9mmms3&smsB3BBSBssBzsgBfmaeaBnSi I | THE CLUMSY MAN. i l i You Can Never Be 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 j relative should exist, the clumsy man I asks after his health with great pari ticularjty and will not be satisfied un! til he receives a full and detailed reply. 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 j is at its fullest, and says loudly: | 'Somebody was talking the other day ! about that unfortunate little affair j of yours in '95. Now tell me!" When on meeting him you say casu. j ! ally and with no desire for Informaj tion, "How are you?" he insists upon j giving you a complete data, and he is | as full of small complaints as a re fractory pauper. It is only fair to add *" -1- ~ + | tn&t R6 V/lli asiv. Jillt!L'iiuusici,r auci | i the colds of yesteryear, and his fav- j ! orite locale for this is at the corner j j of a drafty street. He might be sub- j j sidized by influenza or he might get a j ! commission on sore throats from his ; | eagerness to pin you into the most J j dangerous position that can bo dis: covered, says the Philadelphia Ledgi er. j One desires an adequate amount of j j sympathy in distress, but our man al- j ; ways goes a little beyond this point. I You are growing thin, and he says ! that you are wasting away to a shadow. You are growing stout, and he tells an unamusing anecdote about apoplexy. He can be more critical I than a hairdresser if occasion gives i the least excuse. ; /...? A.:*, j,-ii-:"'.lj.fn-,'-?'- ...,f THE C > Life out of doo V^A^lx/ ment which they greater part of tha happiness when gr r* f? 'r-j given to them to cl / f/ on which it acts, sh / if component parts ar J is every objectionable iff well-informed, app i ( because of its pleas Syrup of Figs?anc be ua.ed by fathers ; 'v- Syrup of Figs naturally without g system effectually, from the use of the -^j which the children ~.SK ^ /-4 grow to manhood : them medicines, w rsfsQS-*assistance in the w; y^ggggg. gentle?Syrup of F Its quality is d laxative principles Z'h ^ also to our original the little ones, do n #> ' ers sometimes ofFe: I ' bought anywhere o \ *? - J '* ? v: Cc- S i A-. v" * -. />v-T: :V*^ Car* ../v N * ,'!jA ""*J ; iy s ' 1' * ' "* THERE ARE FOOLS AND FOOLS. Those Who Risk Death at Niagara and Those Who Ask Questions. "There are two distinct sets of fools in this country," said the proprietor of i hotel at Niagara Falls, as one of his guests took a seat in the lobby with him, for the air outside was cold. "I thought the 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 were persons." "So there are," was the answer; ; "but I mean two species which have come under my special observation, j For example, .there is the fool who j is forever trying to kill himself without wanting to make a complete sue- I cess of it, and, then, the fool who is : always asking how the first fool sue- j ceeded. "Every summer a half dozen per- i sons are advertised to shoot the rap- ; ids, or walk over the whirlpool on a ' tightrope, or barrel themselves up j and tumble over the falls. Some say they are going to do it, but, 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 ohromo and a pair of mirrors, to exhibit their 'three hearted 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 never answer those letters, of course. It would help the United States, I know, but I'd rather give the money to the Treasury Department direct. If any one stopped me on the street and asked me that question, 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 shorter. 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? Nothing. She started out to lecture to crowded houses, and to tell how she had met death face to face in a barrel, but the people wouldn't turn out." "I suppose they didn't want to be lectured to by the barrel," remarked the guest, meditatively.?New York Tribune. THE RETORT CRUSHING. Lord Tuffnutt?You have nothing to j grumble at whatever; you were a riob | American girl, I an impoverished Eng- ! lish nobleman, with a proud title. You j bought me with your wealth. I was j what you would simply call in shop- | ping, a bargain! Lady Tuffnutt?Pardon me! Not a | bargain?a remnant. i i READY INFERENCE. "Yes, John married one of the be3t j girls I ever saw. She'll make him an j excellent wife." "It's a pity she's so homely, isn't j it?" "Oh, I didn't know you knew her?" i "I don't, but you say she's so good." I ?Chicago Record-Herald. gCofset Comfort. 3 For warm clin; 3 Corsets com pa 3 Straight from I Royal I Worcester I and Bon T< \ Corset % They always fit. Ask vour dealer to show thei to you, or order style you selec ^^^Royal Worcester Corset Co., won* u ri'i' cr CHILDREN E rs and out of the games which they pis receive and the efforts which they 1 t healthful development which is so own. "When a laxative is needed the eanse and sweeten and strengthen th< ould be such as physicians would sam e known to be wholesome and the remed quality. The one remedy which physic rove and recommend and which the ant flavor, its gentle action and its ben< I for the same reason it is the only laxa md mothers. is the only remedy which acts gentb riping, irritating, or nauseating and w without producing that constipated ha old-time cathartics and modern imita should be so carefully guarded. If you md womanhood, strong, healthy and li; hen medicines are not needed, and wl ly of a laxative, give them only the sin igs. ue not only to the excellence of the co of plants with pleasant aromatic syrti] method of manufacture and as you v; ? - ?i? .. ot accept any 01 tne suosiuui.es wuiui u r to increase their profits. The genui: f all reliable drug-gists at fifty cents p to remember, the full name of CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP C< the front of every package. In order to get its $ beneficial effects it is al- ? /* . CSJS > ways necessary to buy \ the genuine only. I,,.. fig:: ' > / ft. \ \, T: i; : j ?/ { : ) \ *1^ *) i ' ? AN INGENIOUS EVASION. "Did you know that your political antagonist had cast reflections on your truth and veracity." "Yes." "What are you going to do about it?" "Nothing. My pride forbids me to fight any one except a gentleman. And a man who calls another a liar is no gentleman."?Washington Star. Rh^L'Qmith.Q^L &JIUUUUS1U2IIU I/:-',C--.YC inprour A,irk tiitlre llneof Ctt ANL> rla-HtindlVaco r also 'n 3?0:i builders ?? ;?<'?* ??<* O ?iiii:h l.ioln, MIUHTOWER & K1RKPATRICK, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. SOUTHERN MADE FOR SOUTHERN MAIDS The Best Ladies' Shoes in America for $1.59 TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. ' IF YOUR DEALER DOES NCT CARRY THEM, A POSTAL CARD TO US WILL TELL YOI' WHERF. YOU CAN GET THEM. OO'OO CRADDOCK-TERRY CO., ilAkERS. LYNCHBURG, VA, I (APUDINE Hi ? \ y L?GBIPPK,roLUS f? g! and HEADACHE*. * gi Sold by all Druggists. # Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold In balk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something; jost as ffood." r Situations Secured for graduates or tuition refunded. Write at once for cataiogde and special offers. Ufac&av Business IriflSdCj Colleges Louisville. Ky. Montgomery. Ala. Houston. Tex. Columbus. Ga. Richmond. Va. Birmingham, Ala. Jacksonville. Fla. Economy is Wealth (SHOE CQl Money Savin' Catalog Wig? lEifliriLA J ^iirim *-i ? ^ "^"'LTlSi Thompson's Eye Wafer ' . s ' > >*"' " v . " r*'"... ; " ' I ? * \ ' A ... ... i '... '" ^7 NJOY M| ' ay and the enjoy- 'sV\f \ nake, comes the Pv. essential to their ' remedy which is ; internal organs ction, because its /* -Z ^ y itself free from W^y ians and parents, % little ones enjoy, ?ficial effects, is? /V;-N ? tive which should \^(^i r, pleasantly and hich cleanses the .bit which results ESi??ct tions, and against A ^ ?} would have them appy, do not give len nature needs lple, pleasant and mbination of the } 5s and juices, but alue the health of inscrupulous deal- f* 1 ne article may be \ er bottle. Please >/?' ,{ v .? the Company? j \ - ' ' _ . . . j -v??? 3.? is printed on ^ ,-4^- V r*vten i\ ; /: V '*-* * IMalsby & Co. ^ 41 Forsjlli St, Atlanta, da. Portci^ fLationary Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills . AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY 1 Complete line carried in ttockfor IMMEDIA TE shipment. Best Mnchine y, Lowest Prices and Best Terms. \ ' Write us for catalogue, prices, j etc., before buying. i n O/ BlIl^ATIirilT f/o imrtsimtm The Pre/erred Stock of the W, L, Douglas sc?? Capital Stock, 52,000,000. m S 1,000,090 Preferred Stock. si,cco,coo Common stock* - . Slnros, S5 00 each. Sold at Par. O.i?/ Prsf rrsd S''o:k offered for sie. >.. W. L. G;i!gl3S retain i ail Common Slock. WI17 invest yor.r inowy at or 4' when the W. L ujtjriis Preferred stof.it pays 7v and Is absolutely safe. i'.*rerydoIUrof stO'lt offered die public haa behind it mow rli vn a dollar** worth of actnal - - 't assst*. W. l? Hondas continues X toownons-hilfof the Imsbicfs. *. : Wk * ?ail is to remain thcactJve head ??L-^ ifc of the concern. IsSl,,--? . jH This business Is not an r.nde- hsMft&eiiSb. veloped prospect. It is a demon- SB str.ue l dividend payer. Tidals**?/ TEr TAS t'l-1 irgeat business fn the world vyyj . ?3 prodmune Mru's^ood yearWelt S-2jjc0i/(l> Ay (handsewed process) shoes, and has always been Unmeiiyely aBSHBt ? . ,> profitdbK The boalne-u is safe "SgWKSflP A against fierce competition of pa tin, malting It a better in- A vetfnent than any other In- .^L yejSsse^/fJ^{ il tUrial stock. 'f-'fre has .43E1 y; /jSBk. | n-u tv.vm a vear in the past twelve when the bnsineo / Ins n>t camel iri actual wsTt/ ^ caah much mars than the amonnt necessary to pafT* - ?-/2 airt'ial diriden t on the preferred ?o<->c of fi.OGC.000.The annual b Hiness now Is ?r. mo 000. It Is invtead* v\-y raaHtjr, an I will cecal fr.ouoio for the year WCfc Thf faftory is now tnm:ng cut TSOo pairs of shoea per dav. and art addition to the plant is oeimr bntlt which will increase tlie capacity to 10.000 pairs per dkf. The ~ . reason I a:u offering the "Preferred Stock for sale is to perpetuate the business. - If you wish to invest in. the nest shoe bariaMslh the world, which is permanent, and receive 75? on yomt money, you can pnrohase one share er more in this frre&t business. Send money bvcasliiep's check, eerttfled " check, express or P. O. money orders, made payable -to Tf. L. Doujtlas. Certificate of stock will he sentjnm by return malL Ih-cspectps giving full information nta W. L. DOIJOLAS, Brockton; Moos. ; v V: S Free Test Treatment MXt ;P3 ssn BO IWU1 ui U4 . - ? treatment, Mml :n? a sample of jonr morning arise for analyst*. I will . then send roa by mail my opinion or yottr diseA?e and one week's treatment rfSEC OF All C0ST. Yoa wiU thonlw rontlucea that my treatment earns. Muilinacaeoand bottle for arineeent free. OR. J. F*. SHAFER, Peon Ave^ Pittsburgh Pl< , I have been using Ripans Tabules for over two years as a' medicine for general ills. I always keep a supply on hand, and find they come in handy for everyday ; use in case of headache, i constipation or a bilious > attack. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for as ordinary occasion. The family bottla, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. . "^DROPSY t. te ^ W 1? OATS' KEATKEfiT FSIE, Li. jj) Have made Drcpty and its oca* Pa* y plication* a specialty for treaty wV / years with t*e most wonderflQ X. T,,v A anccfsa. Ilavo cured nanytnons/A*.*odcues. E8.2.S.G22IK'3S8S1 I ?Ti rsa& Box B Atlanta, Oft* ? %% jtusiness. MioribauU aud Type. rwrltlng College, Louisville. Ky., open the whole year. Students can enter any time. Catalog free. ryGive the name of this paper when writing :o advertisers- (At. 45. '02) Cb in time. Sold by dnraelsts. p| ^geagHngaggafli