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A nervous, irritable mother, often on the verge of hysterics, is unfit to care for children; it ruins a child's disposition and reacts upon herself. The trouble between children and their mothers too often is due to the fact that the mother has some female weakness, and she is entirely unfit to bear the strain upon her nerves that governing a child involves; it is impossible for her to do anything calmly. She cannot help it, as her condition is due to suffering and shattered nerves caused by some deranjsement of the uterine system with backache, headache, and all kinds oil pain, and she is on the verge of nervous prostration. When a mother finds that she cannot'be calm and quiet with her children, she may be sure that-her condition needs attention, and she cannot do better than to take Lyclia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound. This medicine will build up her system, strengthen her nerves, and enable her to calmly handle a disol>edient child without a scene. The children will soon realize the difference, and seeing their mother quiet, will themselves become quiet. I; ' Mrs. May Brown, of Chicago, III., says: \ "Dear Mrs. Pixkiiam : ? * Honor to -whom honor is due,' and you deserve both the thanks and honor of the mothers of America whom you have so blessedly helped and benefited. I have used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Coinpouna when I would feel run-down, nervous and irritable, or have any of the aches and pains y* which but few womon escape, and I have found "^Tff that it relieved me at once and gave me new i fe, r strength. Several ladies, members of car Lit- I _ vS* ^ i -A erary Union, speak in the highest praise of your ,C^T Vegetable Compound, as they have been cured gllllljljp' from serious female troubles. One lady, f|j?j|P^ . who thought she must submit to an opcraSrju~J?A tion, was cured without using anything in HZf % wr^f^\L/)r the world but Lyriiq E. 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Box Calf. Calf, Vici Kid, Corona I ^ /X \J ? 9 | Ha jf\> Colt. Nat. Kangaroo. Fast Color Eyelets used. A Caut&n ' The genuine have w. ?. DotTGUkS" NO EFFECT ON THE HEART. . naine and price stamped on bottom. _ , , Shoes by mail, 25c. extra. IUus. Catalog free. oold a.t a.11 Drugstores W. L. DOUGLAS. BROCKTON. MASS. ^ V ^ Wear Red Seal Shoes Catalog for Postal . APPLE Dear Mother Mature gave to ine A sweet spring gown. If yon could see Those colors soft and rare? The dainty pink and pearl and white? I wore it with a proud delight All through the springtime fair. . V . | "Babs"?A Passi | ulation to I I * ' | CHAPTER I. -JT BRIGHT girl of eighteen, /\ tall, perfectly proportioned, with a small head beauti? fully poised upon her shoulders, delicate hands and feet, and a smile that softened a rather Arm little month and revealed rows of pearls. She had been "Babs" as long as she couhl remember, and remembered neither father nor mother. The former, a man of great wealth, lived in one of the most insalubrious of the West Indian islands; her mother was a Spaniard of extraordinary beauty, to i ? Arr.* 1.,, 4 1?/\ rtnlir Clio nflS juu^u i\> uic \j uij jivmtoi. x sessed of lier, and all her life nearly had been spent at school. She had, in a way, been brought up in the lap of luxury; Miss Milton had been a second mother to her, and now the school was to be broken up for good. and news had come that her father had been ruined, aud his monthly check must cease. "What am I to do. Miss Milton? I have not learned enough to go out as a governess ? not that that is your fault," she added, with feeling. "A crow would blush dead white with envy if he heard me try to sing, and I haven't an accomplishment in the world, and all my money is spent, of course," and her eyes shone the more brightly for the gathering tears. The oldish lady looked at the sweet, plaiutive face and then kissed it. "That is just what puzzles Caroline and myself, dear," she said, gently. "Your father wishes you to go to his * brother's, Major Gilden, whom he has r.ot seen for twenty ycarp but I know the Major is not well, off, and his second wife " and she paused. "Caroline and I would gladly take you with us were it possible, but for years past the school has only paid its way; your father's checks alone kept us afloat, end now?" "Oh, you poor dear. Now, just let me have a good cry, and?and just give me three minutes by your watch, Miss Milso'n," and shortly afterward she dried her eyes, picked up her hat that she had thrown down, and declared she felt better, even laughing softly. In a few days Babs' pony had been fold and the little pony chaise, a present from her father, and she stood oh the platform, alternately hugging Miss Milton and Miss Caroline, her eyes suffused with hot tears, her lips trembling so that she could not speak. As she stepped into the carriage Miss Milton handed her a letter with a "God bless you, child; read this 5h the train," end she was off. The envelope contained a portrait of the twin sisters and a bank note for twenty pounds. How they must have scraped and hoarded to save that, she thought with a swelling in her throat, find reckoned up her available capital. The ponies and trap had sold well. She was starting the world on a capital of nearly seventy pounds. The future did not look so very gloomy after all. If all trades failed she would buy and istock a sweetshop. Some one had told her that was a paying business, and Deiore sue reaeueu viciuua ouu softly laughing. ******* Two months before the events recorded above Talbot Gilden read and re-read a letter from Miss Milton with knit brows and anxious face. "Babs simply has no idea of the value of money," it said, "and I really wish you would decrease or stop her far too am- * pie allowance. A more sweet and lovable girl does not live; she has exceptional ability, but no notion of applying her talents. She is, of course, Innocent of the world and its ways, and a 6hort spell of comparative poverty may do her good, as you suggest." "It's a confoundedly dangerous experiment," he muttered, "but, by George! I'll risk it; the old girl may be right, after all," and sitting down he wrote a long letter to Miss Milton, another to his brother and then called his boy. "Get these off in time for to-night's mail," and said, "and book my passage by the following steamer. Tell Mr. Carey to parade all the hands to-morrow at 5 sharp." But the overseer entered the veranda as he spoke, cigarette in mouth, and hugging a leather case. "Gad! I'm glad you've brought your " lift cnlfl "Sif dmrn mid nlnv 'The Heart Bowed Down;' that always cheers me up. I'm going home next week." CHAPTER II. uirs. GHelen welcomed her niece in the drawing room with a certain, or rather an uncertain, amount of cordiality. She was a massive woman, who had at one time been good looking, but her complexion was rather florid, she had large hands and feet, her ample bosom was covered with small steel bangles that clattered, and, as Babs said to herself, "She creaks every time Bhe breathes." "Ah! here are the Major and Ella," exclaimed her hostess, after a desultory conversation, during which she had never taken her eyes off the girl, and Babs rose. Ella, a girl of about the same age as Babs, was a bright little being with a rather large mouth, small but very bright blue eyes, and an impertinent little nose; she kissed their guest noisily and heartily, and Babs took a fancy to her. The Major?she wondered if he resembled ber father at all?was tall and thin, with long legs, over which he seemed to have little or 110 control, and a quick, searching, almost covetous way of looking at one; ho seemed always on the defensive. lie greeted the girl kindly enough, and then Ella conveyed her to her room chattering the whole way. and in five minutes Babs possessed the whole family history. A young artist, a Mr. Itoyce, who had a studio close by, loomed rather large in her prattle, and, as it was mother's "at home" day, would probably call that afternoon. "Where am I to put all my things, Ella?" Ella, perched on the edge of the bed, looked round with the air of a robin 011 the trail of a fat worm. "I can lug ft couple of trunks into my room," she said, "and, oh, do let me help you unpack!" When she saw the ivory - backed brushes, silver mounted, the costly knick-knacks that soon crowded the toilet tabic, she gazed with wide open i eyes. "Your father must have been awful- ? lv rich. Babs." 1 TREE. And see me now! In pride I hold My apples, shining red and gold. Corne to me, children fair, And all my bounty freely take, With love and smiles for her sweet sake Who kindly hung them there. ?Youth's Companion. ing From Trib- Jj happiness. I "I believe be was?once. See here, I my initial is 'E,' the same as yours, Wiy you accept this brush?" and she handed her one of her ivory trio, and Ella impulsively kissed her. Whatever her first slight awe of her statuesque cousin, it was brushed away now. At lunch?and how Babs hated hash and its flabby bits of saturated toast? the Major was talkative and spry, glancing keenly at his niece from time to time. She had brought a few presents for the family, a pair of earrings for her aunt, and she handed him a cigar case. uT ?^ ? T A? cmnlro m'crn vc 1 U 111 bULX'Jf A. UU IIUl OUlWJlt VIQUIC, Babs," he said, "but I shall value your present all the same." Something had evidently ruflled Mrs. Gilden, for she said aloud, Icily: "Xo, dear, half a dozen packs of cards would be more in your line," and Babs wondered if she had been allowed a peep at the skeleton In the family cupboard. "I have just had a letter from my brother handed me by a namesake of ours, a very distant cousin, introducing him. I have asked him to dinner tonight." "Does lie come from the West Indies, uncle?" came eagerly from Babs. J "Yes, he can tell us all about poor j Talbot." j "Poor father is really ruined, then?"! "Irretrievably, I fear." "Then good-bye to our occasional checks," thought Mrs. Gilden, sighing heavily and creaking. I To put it mildly, Mrs. Gilden's reception was not a crowded function, for no one but Mr. Hoyce called. IIow this handsome, refined man came to find himself in this third rate makeshift kind of society was a marvel to Babs.! Guy Royce sometimes wondered vaguely himself what brought lil.rn there. He, a lonely man, who made few friends, had met the trio at an unfash-! itmable watering place, and Ella amused him. When lie entered the room, a smile upon his lips for the adoring Ella, and was introduced to Babs, his manners for a moment deserted him. All the artist in the man, j all the intense love of the beautiful j awoke in him; he had instinctively taken her hand and looked into her dark eyes. Sensitive and proud as was the gii-l she did not resent the glance, for it was an almost reverential look. Guy Royce, like most men in his profession, worshiped beauty, and in Babs he thought he had found its very incarnation. Conversation languished, and Ella was inclined to pout; Mrs. Gilden, too, grudgel the admiration Babs' had nvnivp/i Trbpn suddenly a brisrht Idea struck the artist. "Mrs. Gilden," lie said, and liis was a wonderfully* persuasive voice, "will yon all come round and have tea at my studio"' My 'Prospering goes off to Paris to-morrow." "I cannot, of course, get away, but If Mrs. Grafton will play propriety there's 110 reason why the girls should not," and the girls darted off for their hats. Guy proved a most courteous host, and showed them everything. Babs was specially attracted by an oldfashioned carved oak cabinet containing china. "None of these specimens arc really valuable," said Guy, deprecatingly, "but to me thfey arc very precious, and have Ji history." "Thank you for your hospitality, Mr. Royce," said Babs, in her smooth, even tone. "You have taught me more in the lest two hours than I have learned i as many years." "Why, Ella, I do believe you have been trying not to cry. My dear girl, w*hat is the matter?" and then, as a happy thought, the schoolgirl remedy for grief suddenly presented itself to her mind. "Come and gorge ices, Ella!" CHAPTER III. On their return and descent to the | drawing room, a few minutes before the dinner hour, the girls found that the stranger had arrived. He was a tall man of about fifty, his beard thickly sprinkled with white hairs; he had dreamy blue eyes, and, as far as could be seen a sensitive, sweet mouth. Babs was in a white cashmere dress that, like al' her costumes, iitted her like wax; a small diamond sparkled in either ear. Her dark hair and glorious eyes were enhanced in beauty by her attire, and Mr. Gilden started, and a hot flush rose to his cheek as he took her hand. i "You are the image of your mother j ?n ay I call you Babs? We are cousins'?and there was that in his voice that caught the girl's sensitive ear. She wondered if he, too, had fallen a victim to the wonderful charm of her j der.d mother. "Now, I want to see this artist friend of yours, Babs. Your father would like your portrait, I know, and?and I intend to pay for it. We will go round j to-morrow. I know something of yoang Royce's people." After dinner the Major led the way to the smoking room, where cards lay. I upon the table. "What shall we play, Gilden?eu-1 cbre?" I The elder man rolled his cigar be-! tveen his lips and leaned his back ocnincf- tho floor. "No, thanks, Mortimer; I never gam- j ble." "Good heavens?Tall ot!" "Precisely. Now listen to me. If you tell any one, even your wife, that I am your brother, you get no more money from me. I have been in town for some days. I called at the Junior. I found you were posted there; I have paid your subscription. At the Circle, ditto, ditto." "Then you are not ruined?" "Never mind whether I am or not, but keep your mouth shut." x "Talbot, you are generous." "I always was eccentric. A man must be eccentric or mad to reward the fellow through whose lies and machinations he was cut off from the family and sent abroad. Still, we are good friends, my dear Mortimer. Now let us join the ladies." After this Talbot Gilden called nearly every day, sending the Major and his wife to one theatre, while he took the girls to another, and Babs idolized him. One day he had accompanied her to the studio to watch the progress of the portrait when a telegram which, / Lad been sent on from the house was handed to Lira and he left the studio. "Miss Gilden," said Guy, throwing down palette and brushes, "our picture Is nearly finished, and I am sorry?life has been very sweet to me." "We shall never meet again," she said gently. "My aunt can afford to keep me n? longer. I am to teach in a school," and tears rose to her glorious eyes. "Babs, dear, I am a poor man, but I can save you from being a governess, at any rate. I love you, darling, emblem of everything that is pure, lovable and good. I will not ask you for an answer. If you will have noue of me break this cup," and he put it into her hands. She gently touched it with her lips; he understood. In a moment his arms were round her, his lips lay upon hers. "Guy, Guy," she said, brokenly, "heaven is very iioar ro me now, dear one. Heaven is very near." "Well, girlie, you might ask your old father's consent," and Gilden entered. ' "Father?father! are you my father? Oh. father, my heart is full." She kissed him again and again, and tnen tunica to ner luvti, muiai-iv t-u, her bosom heaving. lie clasped her hand. "We are going to be poor together, father. ' Guy and I will help you, and " The genial old fellow burst into a loud guffaw, and clapped the artist 011 the shoulder. "Artists, as a rule, don't know much about finance," he said, "but I think I can show you some figures that will rather astonish you." ? $ o * ? * ? And Ella? The generous, unselfish little soul, when she heard the news, first had a good cry, then laughed, and said she was a little fool, and then thought that for the last three months she had been rather unkind to Tom Dacres, whom she had known all her life, and who was "something in the city."?New York News. ASIATIC MAILS HARD TO HANDLE. Changes in the Seattle Fostofflco to Facilitate Them. Ferhaps the most dilficult section ct the duties of the foreign mails office of the United States Postoffice Department is that of Asiatic mails, says the American Asiatic. Recently there have been some changes in the methods of the department, and particularly toward quicker dispatch. Among these changes is the assignment to the Seattle office of the making up of inward and outward mails for all sailings and arrivals of mail steamships of the ports of Seattle, Tacoma, and Vancouver qnd Victoria, in connection with all territory north of Canton, in East Asia. This Includes all the vessels of the Great Northern or Nippon Yusen KaJslia Companjr, the Northern Pacific Steamship Company, and the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to and from Japan and China. The territory involves China and coast points south, Japan, Siberia and Korea. The duties of the foreign department of the Seattle postoffice are particularly responsible in the proper assignment of mails to the East Asiatic distributing points. And in the absence of Asiatic detailed geographic intelligence by the general public, and also due to the general ignorance of the postoffice "geography" prompt dispatch is often impossiDie. man orucu readies this point from interior United States offices, being wrongly directed by the addressor, which has to be redirected via New York. This is particularly the case with mail for British India, the Dutch East Indies, and other important trading points not within the trans-Pacific mail jurisdiction. Mails are made up at Seattle for Japan, whence Korean and Siberian mail is distributed, Shanghai, Hongkong and Chinese ports dependent on Hongkong distribution. Mail is also taken for the Philippines when directed by this route, but at international rates, all Philippine Islands mail being usually routed at domestic rates via San Francisco on account of the United States transport mail service thence. San Francisco distributes mail for trans-Pacific sailings and arrivals at that port. New York sends mail by the eastern or Suez route to India, Slam and Dutch East Indies. This mail goes direct to London for transfer to British mail steamships. It Bested Qhn. "Folks that talk against long-tennis and goff and such games have got different feelings from what I Jiave," said Ephraim Stone in a talk at dusk Avith his nearest neighbor, "for I approve of 'em, I can tell ye." "Always appeared to me kind o' foolish?kind o' flighty," volunteered the neighbor. "That ain't the point," said Mr. Stone, quickly; "the point is how they make me feel. This Avhole enduring day I'd been nicking cranberries down !" >T nnrl TfllOn T ILL Lvijni O UJ^, xuu n nva v..? a past tlie club grounds I was feeling lame and mad. And I come right upon a mess o' the summer folks hard at it with long-tennis and goff. "There was a couple o' girls batting and jumping and scrabbiug here an' there, red in the face and all worked up. And there was five young mer plowing the field with sticks, and out on his hands and knees, hunting ii1 the blackberry bushes for a ball that had got lost. i "Thinks I, 'Every dog has his day and njine's come right now.' And 1 got out and hitched old Xell to a tree; and while those folks worked and fussed and got all bet up, Ephr'im Stone sot back in his kerridgc and watched 'em; and I tell you, sir, he felt pretty good!"?Youth's Companion. A Curious Coincldcrcc. A Liverpool correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette tells of a curious happening on September 27 last. He and his brother-in-law were discussing second sight and the substantiality of dreams, and the brother-in-law in the course of the conversation described a dream he had had the night before. In his dream he saw himself and relatives standing on the platform of a railway station. An express train rushed by, but it was not out of sight before the narrator exclaimed: "Good heavens! It is off die line!" lie saw the carriages rock from side to side "Arm* Dtl>r>r dot?) ils UUU AHItiiij h/j/j/au v ? v-* wmv* v*^. were not wanting. Two days after the conversation they read in the newspapers the account of the accident to the Lille express in France, the particulars of which were almost identical with those of the imaginary catastrophe. Valne of a Broken Ncek. A Chicago court has decreed that $35,000 is the price of a broken neck, when the victim of such an accident does not die. Such damages were awarded recently to Frederick Tliocrfell, a carpenter employed by the Union Traction Company of Chicago. I About a year and a half ago Thoerfe'l I fell from a scaffold and broke his neck. | He is one of the few cases where such ' an accident had not brought death. PLAN TO WAX THE SPHINX. Hope to Save the Egyptian M< nutrient From the Desert Sand Stoims. A plan for saving the sphinx from further injury by the elements has been suggested by Edward M. Cattail, an expert on stone preservation, whose father, Robert May Cattail, applied waterproofing nj^erial to the obelisk in Central Park nearly twenty-years ago. At a cost of about $8,000, he thinks, the great figure in the Egyptian sand can be protected for an indefinite time for the wear and tear of the sand storms and the rains. That the sphinx is crumbling more rapidly than it did in previous centuries seems to be admitted. For instance D. 0. Longworth, writing in a paper called the Cairo Sphinx, recently pointed out the reason for this more rapid decay. The i igation of Egypt has decidedly changed the climate in the last few decades. Instead of being constantly dry, the sphinx now becomes rain-soaked for from fifteen to eighteen days of each year. The wind from the desert, "khamasseen," carrying the sand before it, beats upon the soft limestone of the sphinx while it is wet, and eats it away exactly as does the sand blast used in manufactures. When the sand blast is used for Etching: on gdass. the parts which are not to be affected are covered with paraffin. Mr. Caffall believes, therefore that if the surface of the.sphinx were treated *with paraffin, it would much better withstand the sand storms and the rains. Experimentally he has found that under a "rubbing-bed" the stone so treated wears away only one quarter as fast as the natural stone. The experience in treating the obelisk here has shown just the methods that would be necessary on the sphinx. Experiments which were made then at th? city's expense snowed that the stone can be heated to the melting point of the wax, as far below the surface as~twenty inches. The wax being applied with a brush, the hot stone absorbs it, filling up the pores completely and excluding moisture. The obelisk when treated in 1885, had so disintegrated from the frosts that 780 pounds of flakes and chips were removed when it was being waterproofed. In some cases flakes of eighteen inches in diameter and four inches thick had become detached. In order to fill up whatever cracks might exist beneath the surface a triangular tank was used and the melted paraffin forced against the face of the stone by hydraulic pressure, thus entering all the interstices, and sealing the partly detached fragments in their places. This same method would probably have to be used on the sphinx. Altogether the operation would probably take about two months. Mr. Caffall is in hope that somo artheological society or public spirited man will look into the practicability of his plan. If the great monument Is really in danger of destruction, and his process will save it, he thinks that an experiment should at least be made. He is doubtful if the Khedives Government could be prevailed on to take an Interest In tne project. Motor on the Farm. Hitherto the British farmer has not looked with very friendly eyes at the motors as they "passed" his best nag on the way to the market town, but Dan Albone, the well known cyclist, will soon change all this. He has just brought out an Ivel motor, which will be the farmer's friend indeed and in need, for it will reap and sow, plow and mow, and perform all manner of hauling, and then work its own way or haul a load to the barn, where it will thresh and grind corn, cut turnips and chaff, turn the churn and make itself generally useful at a very small cost. This is no fancy picture, for a correspondent has witnessed the machine at work, and when attached either to a six foot cut reaper and binder, a mowing machine or a two furrow plow it did its work equally well, while the cost of fuel?eight pence per acre?comparts favorably with horse traction. It is a petrol motor, of eight horse power, double cylinder, with water circulation. It has electric ignition, one speed forward and reverse, and any intelligent man can drive it after a feV lessona ?Chicago Inter-Ocean. ? THE AMENDMENT. Wantanno?Here, read over this feature of the proposed character amend/v rrrVi r% If m AO no JLUtiUL UUU LCli j_ue tvuai, Ik ixi^Or.ic. Duzno (after reading it carefully eleven times)?It means that In any case of emergency the Board of Education may employ or remove any teacher or head of department if it can.?Los Angeles Herald. THE USUAL PRACTICE. 'If wealth were mine," they heard him say, 'The world should praise my generous way," But when at last wealth sought his door. He locked it up and looked for more. ?Washington Star. NOTHING LACKING. Customer (emerging from bargaincounter crush)?Help! My leg is broken! Floorwalker?You will find the crutch department, sir, on the fourth floor in the rear.?Tit-Bits. QUITE FRIENDLY. ^'When I want to borrow a doll'.r I never go to a friend," he said, as if he were leading up to something. "Ah! well," replied the other, extending his hand, "let us be friends." ?Yonkers Statesman. Coughs1 Immrnrnmmimmmmmmammmmmmm "My wife had a deep-seated cough for three years. I purchased two bottles of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, large size, and it cured her completely." J. H. Burge, Macon, Col. Probably you know of cough medicines that relieve little coughs, a// coughs, except deep ones! The medicine that has been curing the worst of deep coughs for sixty years is Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Three sizes: 25c., 50c., $1. All imgtjlsh. I Consult your doctor. If he sayi take it, then do as he says. If he tells yon not to take it, then don't take it. He knows. Leare it with him. We are willing. J. 0. AY?B CO., Lowell, Mass. - * *' ' -S5S."iv* A PASTORS SAVED B I [ j|J Rev. H. Stubenvoll, of Elkhorn, Wis., i John's Church, of that place. Rev. Sfcuben1 sented to him by Emperor William of Ger: Bibles the Emperor has written in his own This honored pastor, in a recent letter 1 Ohio, says concerning their famous catarrh j 2Tie Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus Gentlemen: "Ihad hemorrhages o lespaired of me. I took Peruna and xc courage, and made healthy, pure blooi a healthy color, and I feel well. It is t everyone kept Peruna in the house it u year.?-U. STUBENVOLL. Thousands of people have catarrh who would be surprised to know it, because it 1 has been called some other name than ca- 1 tarrh. The fact is catarrh is catarrh wher- ' ever located, and another fact which is of j equally great importance is that Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. ] Rick-a-Chlck-a-Boom! Football players must suppress theli exuberant spirits while in the Union depot, as the giving of college or school yells will not be tolerated there. This notice was served on the team of the Central High School and a group of their sympathizers. The Kansas City boys had been to Topeka for a game and, returning defeated, bruised .and lame, but not disgraced, they gathered in the centre of the waiting room to give one last yell before separating, to show that their spirits were not broken, even if some of their bones- did appear to be. They had gotten no further than their second uRick-a-chick-a-boom" before Depot Master Carns was in the centre of the group and commanded silence. "You'll have to cut that out," said t!ie depot master. "We'll do all the yelling that is to be done here." "I guess they're afraid the boys will jar down some more plastering," said a man in the crowd, which was smiling indulgently at the exhibition of boyish enthusiasm?Kansas City Journal. St. L > ui3 an d San Francisco R. R. Offers to the colonist half fare, plus $2.00, to points in Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territories, on the following dates: Nov. 4 and 18, Dec. 2 and 16, Ja:i. 6 and 20. Feb. 3 and 17, March 3 ahd 17, April 7 and 21. Write for advertising matter, rates and J information to W. T. Sauxdebs, G. A. P. D., Atlanta, Ga. HEROIC REMEDIES. "They claim that peritonitis is a acre for appendicitis." "I suppose that's on the same prin- , ciple that beheading is a sure cure for squinting."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. i Deafness Cannot Be Cared by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this, tube is in- ' flamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,which is nothing but an inflamed condition or tne mucous surraoe. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that ^annot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. * Circulars sent free. F. J.Chene* 4 Co.,Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Japan has an avenue of trees fifty miles long, extending from the town of JSamada to Nikko. _ i FITS permanently cured.No flts or nervous- ! nessafterfirst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer. 12trial bottle and treatisefree Dr.R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. The yearly export of silks from Switzer- i land is valued at nearly $30,000,000. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, reduces inflammatlon,allays pain,cures wind coli&jgc. a bottle Six million pineapples are grown for shipment in the Bahamas annually. Putnam Fadeless Dyes cost but 10 cents per package. Cabmen in Berlin are on duty a little over fifteen hours a day. j PJso's Cure for Consumption Is an Infallible medicine for coughs and colds.?N. W. , Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17,1900. Kleptomania may not be a contagious ] 1 disease, but it is taking. ! ' ' ' ' Capsicum Vaseline i Dntiinln Cnllflnsihle Tube*. ! I Mp IM wscwpwav.v - ?_ I A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain allaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once and relieve headache and sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic,neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and It will be found to be invaluable in the household. Many people say "It is the best of all your preparations." Price lo cents, at all druggists, or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send you a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the publio unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine CHESEBROUGfl MANUFACTURING CO, 17 State Street, New York City. PfcDROPSY 10 DAYS' TREATMENT FREE. L7 w Hare made Dropsy and its comQN ?> plications a i pscialty for twenty T yeir* viik toe most wonderful f i A Success. Earocitiodiaanytlums- g 4 cu ri a. a. mxx*'3 sous. > Box B Atlinta, Chu " I Louisville, Ky., (founded In 1884), will teach you the profession quickly and secure position I for you- Handsome catalogue nil. AS BEFRIENDED, pv AN EMPEROR Y PE-RU-NA. l Mzw / :| |P||; jli^^^^STOBEHVCi^ is pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran St. roil is the possessor of two Bibles premany. Upon the fly leaf of one of tha handwriting a text. to the J?eruna Medicine Co., of Columboa, remedy, Peruna: fth$ lungs for a long time, and all as cured. It gave me strength and I. It increased my weight, gave me he best medicine in the world. If >w, uuld save many from death every If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna "4S ivrite at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a * full statement of your case, and he wilfbe pleased to give you his valuable advice Address Dr. Hartman, President of Tha flartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. rOAMlArV.TFDDV fA # viyayy woi la*aft"il^r v>' . m? LEADING SHOE MANUFACTURERS . OF THE SOUTH. '/% LYNCHBURG ? VA. Beooloe stamped C C C. leter sold h ML Beware of the dealer who tries to Ml "something just as good." WANTED BOO Young Men At once to qualify for good positions wtxtoh m . will guarantee in irrltlng under a $5,000 deposit, to promptly procure them. The Ga.- Ala. Bus. College, MACON, GEORGIA. Avery & McMillan, 01 and 08 S. Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY Reliable Frlck Engines. Boilers, all Sizes. Wheat Separators, . all Sizes. - ">r:> JEST IMPROVED SAW MILL ON EARTH . Large Engines and Boilers supplied promptly. Shingle Mills, Corn Mills, Circular Saws, Saw Teeth, Patent Dogs, Steam Governors. Full line En. gines and Mill Supplies. 8end for rree Catalogue. ni mud Kiraij For twenty years I had been < a suf- j ferer from bronchial tronbles ac- ^ companied with a hacking cough. I at times suffered from extreme \ * j nervous prostration. About four years ago I began taking Bipaus Tabules, and since then I have used them pretty constantly. I rarely retire at night without taking my Tabule, and I find they keep my digestive organs (which naturally are weak) in good order, and they alto allay any tendency to nervousness and make me sleep. , At druggists. rhe five-Gent packet is enough for an ? . ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 69 cents, contains a supply for a year., w~Give the name of this paper whda 'iHfll vrltlng to advertisers-(At. 48, *02)