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??? : isgjgv. Tried by Time. Eugene E. Lario, of 751 Twentieth avenue, ticket seller in the Union Station, Denver, Col., says: "Yon are at liberty to repeat what I J|?} first stated through our 7?T Denver papers a bout Dean's Kidne^ Pills in the sum- ?SHE?v in or of 1899. for I have had no reason in the interim to ijKfW^Br chnnjiS my opinion of the remedy. I said when first khh interviewed that if I had a ^Sjgffip friend1 and acquaintance Hgj| suffering from hack ache HSI or kidney trouble I would flHj y unhesitatingly advise them p| to take Doan's Kidney |?E Pills. I was subject to jfjay severe attacks of back ache, always aggravated if I sat long at a desk. It struck me that if Doan's Kidney Pills performed half what they promiso! they might at least help. This inducec&ne to try the remedy. It absolutely stopped the back ache. I have novor had a Dain or a twince since." A Free Trial of this great kidney medicine which cured; Mr. Lario will be maiftd to any part of the United States on application. Address Fos?ter-MilbBrn Co., Buffalo, N. T. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. ______________ ?>" Z ~~~~~~ patient and Physician. The Massachusetts Medical Society is moving to secure legislation for the protection of the confidential relations between physician and patient. Tho lawyer %nd clergyman now have the protection of the law for their professional secrets ag3inst the questions of exar^ini^g counsel, and the argument is that the consultation and confiden<* tial confidence between the doctor and theg^atient, which the law does not project,, should be held equally sacred In the courts. When called into court as witnesses the respect in which confidences given to the two other professional men are held falls away f^in the doctor. He can be fnrre^ t* reveal that which has been given tofhim under pledge of secrecy, and this'-is revolting to his sense of honor. :Hence the protest and appeal vrhich c&nes from the State Medical Society.?Springfield Republican. St$?tf? fe Public Parka. In des%ning a garden or square, the fixing ofTgites for future statues should be to design as obvious a problem as . the flxiiS oi tree 'sites In respect to | their fulre growth. Thus every design shqfcd be considered as a complete whofer "Ffefcre should 'be a fixed number of fstere usft the utilizaticBofwhich completes the original ide? and excludes the introduction of firther monuments. How far from thn are ?he actual conditions v\* , needs n<#eUia?i$ t?e, observant New ! Yorker. ,TUe prevailing method of | placing Batulry fn our gardens is a farce?a jgisgraee to the park depart- | ment, aA^isAAHto the public and a j heartbreilag jefiection to the seulptor. 9 9- ? cfsi' The rr^oritj/ of the sites for these statues mpear as mere afterthoughts, which inlreaHty they are?utterly incongruous^to their surroundings. They ' seem to hare been waylaid en route to their^alotted positions.?Architectural Re^rd. TennykoruiRttsentfcd Pleasantry. . Sir W||iam Harcourt was once a confidan%>f Tennyson's upon the subject of Jfcoking, the poet confessing to a lovjfor the after-breakfast pipe j above aar else. Sir William immediately redEled one of Tennyson's own poems, asd adroitly parodied it "The early pwe of half-awakened bards" ! (birds). ^This was coming too near ! home to|be pleasant, and the touchy j temper St the laureate resented the pleasandg. HEROIC MEASURES. "I'm after a servant girl," said Hauskeeflf "one with, a good big appetite pref&red." ' "That'? rather an unusual request," began tt& employment agent "Well,yve got to tmt a stop to. this business having^ things wanned j over ^.''?Philadelphia | bein'^ru^ed^ovsr' be ^ throfley car? : Phat Oi yant, is a lawyer.?Judge. jS _ ^5 V BL" * j ? ^ lady of Richmond, Va., a great sufferer:with woman's troubles, tells hqfr she was cured. 44 For some years I suffered with backache^ severe bearing-down pains, leucorrhoea, and falling of the womb. I tried many remedies, but nothing gave any positive relief. 441 commenced taking Lydia E. iPinkh^ii's Vegetable Compound in June, J?K)1. "When I had taken the first halfbottle, I felt a vast improvement, and have now taken ten bottles ' with the result that Y feel like a new J woman. When I commenced taking the Vegetable Compound I felt all j worn out and was fast approaching complete nervous collapse. I weighed only 98 pounds. Now I weigh pounds and am improving every day. I g-ladly testify to the benefits^ re ceived."? Mrs. R. C. Tttpmak-, 423 West 30th St., Richmond, Va.?$6000 forfeit ff original of above letter proving genuinenert cannot bs produced. When a medicine has been sue- j cessful in more than a million cases, is it justice to yourself to say, without trying it, "I do not l believe it would help me?" Surely you cannot wish to re- j main weak and sick.. Mrs. Pihkham, whose address is Lynn, Mass., will answer cheerfully and without cost all letters j addressed to her by sick women. Perhaps she has just the knowl- j edge that will help your case? try her to-day ? it costs nothing* ( V 0400K404040404040404040 | cmm SB* f I v COLDS and i g FEVERISH CONDITIONS. V 4 10. 25 an 1 50 eents, at Drugstores. g 0404040404040404040' 0+040* Thompson's Eye Wator U THE LOWI I ff BY HATTIE HOR k~?;? ^tOSZ> ASON GRANT, sat in his light spring wagon, wait' O I O in? to go with his wife and ! 7^ her friends to the Lower Ranch. She was really going, although she had i vowed that she never would. But they were not ready yet, and he bowed his head on his hands and allowed his mind to wander over the almost twenty years of their married life. Ao one "would ever accuse Jason I Grant of sentimentality; yet in this j retrospection his thoughts dwelt with j singular persistence upon a certain | morning in a haying season long ago, when pretty Mary Moore had come to help his mother cook for the hay hands. He recalled the jealous pang with which he saw the young minister drive Mary to the door?for Jason Grant, hard-working, close-handed, grasping, I was never given to sentiment. But J twenty years made a difference; and he had been at that time what most of the other farmer boys were?even though every one thought him wrapped I up in land-getting and money-making. How well ho remembered that day! ! He had made numerous trips, neces| sary and unnecessary, from hay field | to house, just for a word with Mary j Moore, or for a glimpse of her plump ; form and blooming face. The picture j that rose oftenost before him was that ! of Mary, framed by the doorway, smiling upon him as he turned away with the hammer for which he had made one of those unnecessary trips. That smile had made his heart beat like a hammer of another sort?foolish fellow! Ah, me! he could see it all in detail? the yellow farmhouse with" green shutters, the "leanto" for tools, the bench, | the grindstone, the scythe, the garden rake, the wood-pile with the axe in the old stump, the well-sweep, beyond the Stretch of orchard fence, the barn. swallow-circled, and the fast-multiply; ing stacks of emerald hay. Jason, the only son, had inherited the Grant homestead; aud Mary Moore had been wise, from the worldly point of view, in accepting bis hand, grasp-* *' ing though it was, rather than that of the young minister, which had been offered her 011 that very morning's drive. It was more the spirit of innate coquetry that prompted her to inform the reticent young farmer of the honor proffered her by the minister; though Jason Grant, during the sober second ( thought followiug the arduous insistence of his own proposal, came to the conclusion that the information had \ been vouched him in order to bring him to the point < His father had for some time had his business eye upon a rich bottom- j land ranch, an entire section, six hun- ] dred and forty^ goodly acres, wooded, watered and gently sloping, and lying j in the inevitable path of the much- 1 talked-of branch road from seat to seat 1 of the adjoining counties. When old 1 Ranchman Grant came to his last ill- .] ness, shortly before his son's wedding. ; he confided to the prospective bride- ] groom that the coveted ranch could 1 be had upon a small payment, and by ] assuming the heavy, though long-time mortgage held by eastern parties; and ( that the acquirement of it was worth < even the postponement of the wedding. ' But love is love; his blundering proposal was made, and the marriage celebrated shortly after the old father had been laid to rest. It was not until the wedding day that the young ranchman told his bride of the proposed purchase of the Lower Ranch, that it would require all his ready money for the first payment, and that they would have to defer their intended weddng tour to the State capital. Instead, she might accompany him to the county-seat, where he must go to fix up the transfer of the mortgage. So Mrs. Jason Grant?how proud she was of the Jiew name?informed her friends and the minister?who bad the grace to hide his disappointment and officiate at the wedding?that for the present "my husband and me'' would journey to the county-seat and stop at the best hotel till "my hus-^ band's" business was settled, that ofl buying six hundred and forty acres of the richest bottom-land in the country; that later they would build a fine house on their new ranch, and move there; and that they would go on their wedding trip in the fall. Needless to say, that wedding tour was never taken. So this was the first of a long series of credits to Mary tyrant 111 nor account with the Lower r Ranch. That fall her health was not the best; by spring, baby Ruben came, and the niultiplication of household cares tied her to the home ranch. But Mary was young and strong, and like any other loving woman, centred her heart in her husband, home ahd baby, sang about her work, and laughed down any mention of a wedding tour. There were so many other things she wanted more; a baby-carriage, some new clothes, and an ingrain carpet for the best room. But her mother-inlaw said she had raised one son and six daughters without a baby carriage; that the wedding clothes could be made over, and that rag-carpets ought to be good enough for farmers' wives. When Mary appealed to her husband, he said gravely that he feared she'd have to wait awhile, as the semiannual payment on the Lower Ranch was about due, and he hardly knew how he was to meet it without sacrificing some hogs 011 the then low market. Then Mary, in a burst of generosity, said he must do nothing of the sort. He should have her butter and egg income, w.hicli was no little. So she continued to carry her heavy baby, made over lier meagre wedding outfit, and spent the evenings tearing and sewing carpet-rags. That fall the old mother died, and the funeral exoenses consumed much of the money saved toward the winter < payment on the Lower Ranch: New s winter clothes were not to be thought 1 of; the butter and egg income con- < tinued to flow into the Lower Ranch s fund, and by spring Mary was asking t a quarter at a time for thread and other necessities. Still she was proud ] of her husband as a land owner, and i kept saying that she would go with ( him some day to see the Lower Ranch, i But it was ten miles distant, a long t ride for her and baby in the heavy 1 wagon, and she was always so busy, f That season the crops were almost \ a failure through drought, and the a hogs had to go, market or no market, c In the spring another baby added to r Mary's cares and she made Ruben's t infant clothes do for the tiny girl, f How could she ask for new things j s ??-K 3E EANCH. B<8> n NER LOUTHAN. r when barns must be painted, hired hands paid, and that semi-annual pay- , ment always staring them in the face? A hired girl had been the dream of her honeymoon days, and the necessity for house help grew as the passing years increased the work, and slipped babe after babe into her reluctant arms. But she was told, impatiently, , I fear, that she could see that three : hired men couldn't put in and culti- j vate and gather all the crops of the homestead and Lower Ranch and the rented land; he must have more help. Whwi nnpp the Lower Itaneh was naid < for, she could have a hired girl and welcome. I It was the fifth year when the mort- 1 gage was due that a diplomatic trip ' had to be made to the county-seat. 1 The last payment was overdue, with s only part of the interest paid. But the agent was wise. He had learned i upon inquiry that Jason Grant was " hourjt, hard-working and ambitious; ' that he always paid, as he demanded 1 to be paid?to the last penny. So there i was no trouble about the extension of i the mortgage; and the ranchman returned home radiant. His wife was i not as sympathetic as he had expected. Every year of the extension of that 1 mortgage meant another year without help in the house. j The second five years proved harder ] than the first five. Mary's superb j health yielded more and more to the strain. The rosy face and arms grew ; brown and leathery from exposure at . the wash tub, in the garden and in the , barnyard. She took less pride in herself and children now, went less fre- j quently to church, though the minister, , still unmarried, called to protest. She ( grew more and more silent, unfriendly and self-contained, as she "trod her eternal circle" of cooking, disli-wash- f ing, sweeping and mending, washing, ^ milking cows and rocking babies. t During these years of meeting pay- j ments, .she seldom expressed a want , of a n^ed?shoes or school books for the children, a bottle of medicine, or ? small ..donations for the parsonage? A bnt she was confronted by the Lower j Ranch and its next payment At length the mortgage was lifted, the last payment met; but the sign of pardonable relief was quenched by the announcement that the "fine house' would now be built?for renting purposes. The projected Branch Road from county scat to county seat was enjoying its biennial boom, the Lower Ranch was on its surveyed route, and as all the adjoining ranches were making improvements, it was just pure bnsiness to keep up with the neighbors and be ready for what might happen. ' The "fine house" was begun and finished, and Ranchman Grant urged bis wife to go with him and see it. Mary smiled one of her grim little smiles, and said she was too busy and too tired; the children might go?Rul>ena Mandy and Jason. She really never had been to .the Lower Ranch, near as it was. The longing of eariier rears to visit had changed, first into indifference, and by-nnd-by into a positive aversion, quite unaccountable to her husband. The years that followed were full )f prosperity for Jason Grant. He bought more land to raise more corn :o feed more hogs"?his eternal circle. His possessions increased ? fields, s harns, stock, family. He would have hired a girl for his wife, he told her >ne day about here; but country help tvas higb-priced, and besides, Mandy c md Mag were quite old enough to :ake responsibilities. To this Mary ma lot respond. SI19 was growing to be t llmost as silent as he. * f More years, more prosperity, more ii mprovements on all the ranches and u low of the state of affairs at the old g anch house, just a glimpse. i: Ranchman Grant sits inside the fly- t screen of the west kitchen door. Mrs. h 3rant has "done'' the supper dishes s ind strained the milk and set the yeast md picked the chickens and put the h iaby to sleep and heard Mag's and c {gillie's Sunday-school lessons, and t iow she draws her mending basket v iear the lamp, and approaches her b lusband on the matter of their share f >f the minister's salary. The Joneses 11 rive ten dollars besides most keeping s he minister and his sister in meat, li L'he Turners give ten dollars and never n ro to town without taking a bushel d )f turnips to the parsonage. And didn't e le -mind, they had set down four dol- t ars and one-half last revival time, and >nly fifty cents of it was paid, besides ti he half bushel of potatoes and what f )utter she had spared? a Emboldened by his silence, she goes v m romfnrl bin* thflt "Rllhen nf?f?ds a D lew pair of boots, since he and the v earn have been promised a week in v Turner's timber. And Mandy ought 1: 0 have a new calico dress if she v akes the little ones to Sunday-school. s< *md she, herself, would like to get mother bottle of "that iron tonic just n :o carry her over haying season; the t >ther bottle had sort o' braced her up. c She hated to go to Dr. Dean again, n vhen he wasn't paid yet for tending on s tVillie and the baby. v Jason Grant is astonished. Doesn't f le let her have half the butter and t! ?gg money, and oughtn't a woman to v ceep herself in little things with all t< hat? Don't all the stores where she o rades carry calico? And Ruben's v >oots will last another two months at v east; he noticed them only last Sun- c lay. As to the parson, doesn't he, n lason Grant, give each of the children ^ 1 penny every Sunday for the colleo- Q ion? She doesn't stop to calculate t< low much that amounts to in a year; vomen are nothing at figures anyhow. IVell, he'll see the parson some of these lays and4see about that four dollars. i< Vlaybe he'll take some more potatoes, a fle settles back to his paper without tl i mention of the medicine. But his v ivife persists, though half frightened r< it her own temerity. Can she have just l: mough to get the tonic? She can't A ;ell butter and eggs at the drug store. C [f she can only be carried over till C >ool weather. She isn't feeling right lc ;inart, and baby pulls her down tl md " . n Her husband breaks in impatiently, si low much does a bottle cost? Thirty- d ive cents. He counts out the exact ri 'hange into her extended hand, mutter- v ng that he doesn't see how he is ever t< :o improve the Lower Ranch if she s< jeeps on. Nearly a whole half dollar 1< 'or a bottle of patent medicine that b von't do any good either. Women are a ilways sick or think they are. If they'd p >nly take care of themselves! He is t< lever sick. Always money! Does she P hink his breeches pockets are chuck ull all the time? A man can struggle ilong all his days and .work like a a, slave and never get ahead. And to [ see his money, good straight silver, | cash, mind you, worse than thrown j away on such fool things as patent bitters! It is downright outrageous! And two new sickles broken and a new sulky rake to buy, and a stock-well to dig on the Lower Kanch, and won't | that ranch be hers when he is dead? i After several such interviews, Mary j Grant's aversion to the Lower Ranch grew into a sort of mania. Not only I did she refuse to see it, but she began ! to tell her neighbors in a boastful way I that she had never seen the big piece j of land, bought when she was a bride, j now more than eighteen years ago, | and what was more, she never would | go near it. It was the one subject I upon which she was talkative. The ! habit grew upon her. She would tell the same story to every one, even to chance acquantances. She went so far as to repeat her vow to the minister in the presence of her husband?a vow which the minister never forgot and which the husband never forgave. But one- day, after a week's absence at the county-seat. Jason Grant returned home too jubilant to remember petty wrongs. The Branch Road waa to be* built, in fact, was being built The survey was completed, construction begun, and oh! what a fortune,, a station was located right in the southwest corner.of his section. A town, rejoicing in the name of Grantville, was to be laid out, and he would be the Town Company, with the price of lots to be fixed at his discretion. Now she must go to see their town on their ranch. She heard him through with her little mirthless smile, but shook her head. She could not go; she was always too tired. And she clung to her resolution. The oad was completed, the town laid out, ots sold and houses erected by the magic of all Western booms. Grantrille flourshed that summer and fall. There were the smell of new lumber md fresh paint and the sound of saw md hammer. A quarry was opened within two miles of the town. The J lew cemetery, with its two fresh rraves, was laid out in the northeast corner of Jason Grant's ranch, and wen there was a boom in lots. But the Town Company's wife never :aw the town. She kept her vow with lie dogged persistence of herv class, hough the town was fheir nearest narket. She remained at home altogether on Sundays after the services vere transferred from the country .choolhouse to the new church in town, ind the neighbors whispered that daiy Grant wasn't the housekeeper she used to be. She hadn't entered >utter nor preserves nor patchwork luilts at the county fair for three ears. Her marieolds and hollyhocks lied from want of attention, and dandy took the entire care of the last )aby. Even the minister's sister had o acknowledge that Mrs. Grant "didn't ;eem to take any interest" ? ? * * Jason Grant sat in his light spring vagon waiting to go with his wife tnd her friends to the Lower Ranch. >he was really going, although she had owed that she never would. But they vere not ready yet, and he howed his lead on his hands and allowed his nihd to wander over all the years of heir inarticd life. Presently the minister came out of he house, and spoke a word to his ister who had charge of the children. L'hen he came to the side of the spring vagon and touched the arm of the [reaming man. If the minister had ieen a woman, he might have said omething bitter, since he had never orgotten Mary's vow. As it was, he limbed to the wagon-seat in silence, ook the reins from Jason Grant's hand nd gave the sign for the procession to tart.?Waverley Magazine. f: THE PAPER.CUD MAN. lenuan Inventor Offers a Novel Reform in Dress. Philosophy must needs pause in genie contemplation of this latest news rom Germany. The Taper-Clad Man s on the way, and be who is of an eariest and .receptive nature and wellTounded in philosophy will await the ssue with a serene jnind, believing hat all things are for good, and that inmanity is, as Mr. Carnegie has oberved, tending toward higher ground. It seems that some German geuifci as discovered a way of making paper lothes. No more shall man be slave o the cocoon of the silk worm, or the rool which grows upon the sheep's ack. In pulp he shall have found a rlend in need, and one to be depended ipon in fine weather or foul. No more halllie be clothed in purple or fine i.uen,. but in the product of the paper aills shall he meet the demands of ecency and comfort. It is very intersting news. - There is so much opporunlty in paper. The mind's eye can see the man of he future entering a shop and asking or a new suit of paper clothes. In trice his measure will be taken. The r heels will turn; the mucilage, paste, ins, string, or whatever is to hold the arious parts of his garment together, rill be cunningly applied, and presentj he will sally forth arrayed in chaste rhite or black, or in gay colors, reembling those of the Sunday "comics." In the happy days to come a man ,eed never wear the same raiment wice, for the paper clothing most, of I ourse, be inexpensive. In the snnri ler time he will find need of fabrics o like gassamer that a dozen suits rill scarcely fill one side of his portolio. and a bathing suit will weigh he fractional portion of an ounce. In ^ rinter clothing light but impervious o the weather will be supplied. Many f us know by experience how much rarmth there is in an old newspaper :orn between the upper and the nether oat. In fact, it seems as if the .Gerlan Inventor had struck the long-felt rant. If he has, the phrase, "Made in lermany," must no more be used as a ?rm of opprobrium and reproach. Amotlcan Sharpshooter?. The score of 1570 made by the Amer- j ran team in the Palnia Trophy match j t Bisley, England, is announced as he "best on record" since 1878, but I liile that is technically correct in a ; estricted sense it is misleading. In ! 878 there was no competition, but an ; .mcrican team shot a "walk-over" at1 teedmore and scored 1GG0 points, omparcd with the achievements of mg-range marksmen prior to 1878, j he shooting of the last three years :s othing to brag about. Improved mall-calibrc rifles and smokeless power are supposed to give ^he long-1 - * L 1 *nge marksmen or ro-(iay great auantages over the riflemen of a quar- j ?r of a century ago, yet the winning ?ore at Bisley was ninety-seven points >ss than the score for the same numer of shots made by the Americans t Creedmore in 1878. It Avill take , ractice to produce worthy successors | > the old Creedmore sharpshooters.-' j hiladelphia North American. 1 Pome people are too easily discoursed by the good luck of others. BEGGAR TAUGHT A LESSON. What Happened to an Able-bodied Tramp Who Asked Alms. A beggar approached a husky young man at Broadway and Wall street, and, exhibiting three cents in a grimy hand, told a piteous tale of a job near 116th street, and cents lacking to pay the fare. "Sure," said the young man. "Hard luck, isn't it? Haven't the change, but drop aboard the car and I'll pay j the conductor. It's good for Hundred , and 'steenth street and more, and the , Job's yours." The tramp suppressed his disgust; as best be could, and the athletic chap : hustled him in the car with a laugh ! and a slap on the shoulder. At Liberty street the "panhandler" j made for the door; and there met j the husky young man, who playfully ! pushed him back and said: "It isn i j Hundred and steenth street yet. Don 11 you be anxious, for I'm going all the way myself." At Canal street the beggar appealed to the conductor. "Get off if you want," said the conductor, who had been taken into the secret, "but I'm thinking you're better off on, and that's no joke. Look at the fists on the man." At Houston street the applicant for j alms sneaked for the front door, but ] the importunate man, too, was "on," j and threatened him demolition. So j he planned a strategic movement, in the execution of which he worked his way, seat by seat, to the door. At Sixteenth street, where the car stopped for transfers to and from the crosstown lines, he saw his chance, and took it. The conductor was busy letting 'em off first, please, the young man was gazing at the sky, whistling a soft air. So the beggar slipped to the platform and reached the step. There a ponderous woman, bound to be first to board the car, halted him for a moment. It was fatal. The young man's hand fell on. his shoulder, and the young man's voice shouted "Wow!" In his ear. The shout and surprise gave him an impetus that carried him to the sidewalk in a bound, regardless of all in his way. At full speed he galloped across the lawns and crocus beds of Union Square. Without breaking his stride he hurdled over a line of benches, and as he landed on the walk an ever-ready policeman fell on him with his club. When the car went on again, with the indignant, ponderous woman berating the conductor, the husky young man saw bis sorely battered charge disappear In the grasp of the law, whereupon the seeker after Innocent diversion smiled as he reflected on the amusement to be had for five cents In New York.?Mall and Express. American Snakes. Out of the one hundred and sixty odd species of serpents in America north - of Mexico, only about twenty are venomous; the others are about as harmless as so many kittens, and may be handled with impunity. Last year I caught with my bare hands several large blacksnakes, a number of garter snakes, three milk snakes, two green snakes, or grass snakes, two water snakes and several others, and although some of them bit me," the effects were of less consequence than as many bramble scratches. An Irritable serpent, but a perfectly harmless one, is-the water snake, which will usually be found in or near the water, perhaps swimming among the stems of the pickerel weeds, in pursuit of frogs, or possibly coiled up on the bank. This snake will bite, and bite hard, but it is not venomous in the least, it does not lay eggs, diu brings forth its young alive. Last September I caught a fine specimen, and carried her home. Between noon and four o'clock she had nineteen lit- i tie ones. They were irritable young-sters from the start, and almost as soon as they were born they would coil and leap at my hand, with their little jaws wide open. All our snakes live on animal food; the larger ones feed an small mam-* mals, birds, frogs and reptiles, and the smaller ones on insects. They 8wallow their, prey whole, the bone3 of tbdlr heads being so loosely put together that they can stretch their mouths to an enormous extent. I have seen a milk snake twenty-seven inches long swallow a fully fledged young catbird.?E. H. Baynes in Women's Home Companion. A Nonsense Calendar. The Oyster is a stupid thing; He cannot dance, he cannot sing, He cannot even read or write? Tndefid. hp isn't verv brieht. When in September school begins (A school of fish, I mean), The fishes come with shining fins And sit in rows with happy grins, But Oyster isn't seen. He just lies lazy in his bed, Although 'tis day; And so to oystermen o'earhead He falls a prey. ?St. Nicholas.. Sufficient Cause. ' Mary?But why do you think they are so certain to fall in love? Ann?In the first place, their parents hate each other; and, in the second, neither of them has a penny in the world.?October Smart SeU OF TWO EVILS. He?You're getting your hat ruined. She?Well, it's an old hat, and I do hate to wet my new umbrella.?Detroit Free Press. FITSpermanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRsstorer.$2trialbottle and treatisefree Dr.B.H. Klixe, Ltd., 981 Arch St., Phila.>Fa. There are nearly 650,000 women dress-makers in the United Kingdom. Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle Virtue may be its own reward, but some people make a trademark of it. Money refunded for each package of Putnam Fadeless Dyes if unsatisfactory. The average man who talks about not heing appreciated is really a chump. 3 do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumptionhas an equal for coughs and colds?John P.Botxb, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1300. A woman who is given to hysterics generally has her own way. To cure, or m< Reading in Groups. Isn't too little attention paid by you young readers to the order in which you read books? It is not difficult to obtain lists of bocks so arranged that each helps in the understanding and appreciation of the following one. in the reading of Scott, for example, v.ouldn't it be wise to take them?or tnose you prefer?in the order of their time? First comes "Count Robert of Paris," then "The Betrothed." Next "The Talisman," and "Ivanhoe," then , "Castle Dangerous," "The Fair Maid of Perth," "Quentin Durward," and "Anne of Geirestein"?all of which are cf times before the discovery 01 America by Columbus. Reading them m tteir order, one has a better idea of tr.e early times, and appreciates each the more because of those before. If vou are lust beeinnins: to read Scott, tiy taking them chronologically, In this way.?From Books and Reading in the September St. Nicholas. Why She Enjoyed It. "I like to go to church," announced Lottie, aged five, "because they sing nice hymns about flowers and insects and things to eat, and the man in the ivgbtgown talks about birds." "Why, Dottie," said her mother, 'I don't think there are any hymns about insects and things to eat." "There is so," insisted Dottie. "Last Sunday we sang a beauty hymn about 'Bringing in the Cheese,' and to-day we sang one what began, 'Just as I am without one flea, 'and when we got through the man talked about a hawk and two pigeons.'' Subsequent inquiry revealed the fact that the text had been, "Why halt ye between two opinions?"?September Lippincott's. No American Hcrse Type. Notwithstanding the importance of horse-hreedinj? as an- industry in this country, there is at this time no distinctly American horse type. The racing thoroughbred is English, the heavy draft-horse is French, the hackney is English, and the Uotting .horse, as bred at present for "rack and road ser vice, is not a type at all. An animal type cannot be said to be established until it reproduces itself with reasonable certainty.?From John Gilmer Speed's "The Horse in America" iD September Century. How She Knew. Two little girls were playing in front of a city dwelling when a strange man went by. "That man is an undertaker," said one of the little girls. "How do you know?" asked her companion. "Oh, because he is the man who undertook my grandmother."?September Lippincott's. I I Much the Same. He?Do you suppose, after we are married, we'll get tired of each other? i She?Why not? We might. , "But how do you know? You've ne?- j or hofln mirrfprt " . ' i w | "No?but I've been engaged!"?Oc- | tober Smart Set. Colombia has In circulation $053,000,000 of paper money from which nearly all value has departed. The paper money per capita is $1G3, and it takes over $100 of the stuff to pay a hotel bill for one day. There is nothing like a wet blanket to distinguish the fire of enthusiasm. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local diseaso and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hail's Catarrh Cure; jnanufactured by F. J. Cheney 4 Co., Toledo;Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken Internally In doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. Itacts direotly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case It falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. Chxxit A Co., Toledo, O. v Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The Investment in pleasure yachts in America is about $50,0j0,000 and the annual cost of their maintenance is about $6,000,000 a season. When a ettam yacht is chartered the price usually is $10 a month per yacht ton. In Saxony there is an industrial school for every 14,641 inhabitants. I MMMflfc?xiMMirii.fc MUMWMB Poorly? I " For two years I suffered ter- I ribly from dyspepsia, with great | depression, and was always feeling I poorly. I then tried Ayer's Sars*. I parilla, and in one week I was a new man."?John McDonald, Philadelphia, Pa. Don't forget that it's "Ayer's" . Sarsaparilla that will make you strong and hopeful. Don't waste your time and money by I trying some other kind. I Use the old, tested, tried I and true Ayer's Sarsapa-1 H ?4I1A , m A .| I Ilia* 91.0V 1 BOIUC. All UB||UU. n Aik yoar doctor what ha thinks of AyWs 9 Sartaparllla. Ho knows all about this girand B old family medicine. Follow his advkw and 9 we will be satisfied. ^ 3 J. C. Aybr Co., Lowell, Mass. 9 ?ea?BMWwaajB>-j im imp mil ml # Insures against Biliousness Has been regulating rebellious livers for more than 58 years.. THE TARRANT CO. BO<S* *nd ** Chemists, h'ew York. At druggists or by pi1? Dropsyll f Removes all swelling in 8 to ao W [ days; effects a permanent cure in 30 to 60 days. Trial treatment given free. Nothingcan be fairer Write Dr. H. H. Green's Sons. Specialists, Box B Atlanta, 6a. TjjP CufesJ^tStALL ST "ST kg Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use Pg Ld In time. Sold by druggista. W jney refunded by your m< 3j? >- , " ' --- rtr . 4. "'V'V . > fX COMMODORE NIGI Recommends Pe-ru-i Men 1 Commodore Somervffie Nicholson, of the United States Navy, in a letter from 1837 R Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., says: "Your Per una has been and is now used by so many of my friends and acquaintances as a sure cure for catarrh that 1 am convinced of its curative qualities and I unhestltatingly recommend it to all persons suffering from that complaint? S. Nicholson. United States Minister to Guatemala Endorses P^-ru-na. Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter, U. S. Minister to Guatemala, ex-member of Congress from Kentucky, in a letter from Washington, D. C., writes: "I am fully satisfied that your Peruna is an efficacious remedy for catarrh, as 1 and many of my frienfls have been benefited by its use. ?W. G. Hunter, M. IX Member of Congress From Yirgiuin Writes. Hon. G. R. Brown, Martinville, Va., exmember of Congress Fifth District, 50th Congress, writes: "I cheerfully give my endorsement to vour. Peruna as a cure for catarrh. Its beneficial reeults have been so fully demonstrated that its use is essential to all persons suffering from that disease."? lion. G. R. Brown. The day was when men of prominence hesitated to give their testimonials to proprietary medicines for publication. This remains true to-day of most proprietary medicines. But Peruna has become so justly famous, its merits are known to so many people of high and low stations, that no one hesitates to see his name in print recommending Peruna. The highest men in our nation have given Peruna a strong endorsement. Men representing all classes and stations are equally represented. Gross Carelessness. Miss Ellicott?Why did you discharge your chauffeur? He made such a fine appearance. Mre. Lippincott?But the man had no tact. Why, once when I was dozing,-he ran over a fat woman and almost jostled me out of my seat!?October Smart Set. CBCC STUART'S rilbC CIN and BUCHU To all who snffer, or to the friends of those who snffer with Kidney, Liver, Heart, Bladder or Blood Disease, a sample bottle of Stuart's Gin and Buchu, the jfreat southern Kidney and Liver Medicine, will be sent absolutely free of cost. Mention this paper. Address STUART DRUG M'FG CO.. 28 frail St., Atlanta. Ga. Your Liver Is it acting well? Bowels regular? Digestion good? If not, remember Ayer's Pills. The kind you have known all your life. j. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Kasa, Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black? Use BUCKINGHAM'S DYE nre ct8. or prcooists oa a. r. hall a ca, vassva. v. a The Watkms"Boy"Hay Press THE MARVEL OF THE COUNTRY. Two boys can operate it (no other power needed) and bale the crop right in the field at less than cost of hauling to big press. It does lota of other things and coats only S25. Write us at once for circular No. 27. E. E. LOWE CO., - Atlanta, Georgia ?)^GOOD AGENTS WANTED.-%fc 'HORTM-SOUTH- EAST-WEST J tow wibk rno /WBUt* watiww i OiU9 CLOTH UK h LHRYWHIM. ?=7 Tlie bejt motai& skilled nortanoi ttd. &iy-ye#\yato experience hoerafe TOWER'S Otiden Oxjbend ffab HiR % fceca the world owrThgr we nafcin btaajritowfbraflkif&</i?twork, TQRSm .e^otrr^rnertbeahwtte^lGNOf THE rijMbawartodtoflive?t IMfP ijfccticn. All rtfieWe deafen Wtheit in Mint AJLT09B ^ iU OlfliP Town cuohh ca.iwmwici or SOFT, SILKY HAIR COMES WHEN YOU USE Carpenter's 01 MARROW POMADE (?*WABX or MITATI01*? ) Rub It into the scalp thoroughly once a week and it will work wonders. J^ena the hair from falling out and curt* dandruff, too. Better than any hair oil or tonic. PRICE, 25 CENTS, $ At your druggist's, or by mail. (Address, CARPENTER & CO., Louisville, Ky.. ybursfora io$soSfi9A ^j^^ESTFOI GUARANTEED CURB for all bowel troo blood, wind on the stomach, bloated bowel pels* after eatiaf, Jiver trouble, sallow skit regularly you are sick. Constipation kill* i starts chronic ailments and lens rears of sc CA8CARBT9 today, for you will never get right Taka our advice, start with Caeca! money refahded. The senuioa tablet star booklet free. Address Sterling Remedy Co >rchant, so why not try i ' " - / - i-v. .gj 90LS0N ?-^%xx ia--Othcr Prominent jestify.^ ^ If you do not derive prompt aad.tttie- &%&- ' factory results from the use of Penma * ' write at once to Dr. Hartman, givinga'J . full statement of your case, and he wfllbe j^ai pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President oi The , Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. | Malsby & Co. 4| Sootb Forsvtb St, AtluUtfa Portable and Stationary " Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills AND ALL KINDS OF MACHWHI S .Complete line earried in etoekftr SUSP IMMEDIATE shipment . Sect Machinery, Loireat Price# and Beet Tenea Write us for catalogue, prices, etc., before buying. lISAWMILLSiSa U H with Hejre's Universal LojrBe?nis,RecUlln-M - :X"M */ ear. Simultaneous Set Works and th# Hee-B cock-Klnr Variable Feed Works are aaex?? ?j celled for accubact, simplicity, dcxabil-B - . > ity and ease op operation. Write for fuM descriptive circulars. Manofactnred by t*?? gSALEM IP,ON WORK8,Wlnyton-S*lem,N,C.l W. L. DOUGLAS 7 ?3.^&s3SHOESaa Toe can save from $3 to $5 yearly by wearing W. L Douglas $3.50 or $3 shoes. . Slfoef b/'iMlftT^I* ?1f^ nSuSSS ' ' Catalog free. W. L. UOtGLAS. Brocktoa, *? ' ; of^ them ^have been arising from a disordered stomach ^JPji relieved or. cured by their use. 80 common is It that diseases originate from the stomach it may be safely as- . ' serted there is no condition of 01. health that will not be benefited .or cured by the occasional use o? Rlpana Tabules. Physicians know them and speak highly of them. All druggist*. - sell tnera. 'iue nrc-cem yui-&.agv - 7- ;. enough fornn ordinary occasion, and the Family Bottle, sixty cents, contain^ a household supply for a year. One generally gives relief within twenty ' minutes. . . The Great B/ut and West Um Slflilliffi : KO TEOUBLI TO AXSWXB QUB8TT0W. ' Thlrty-five miles Shortest Route Shreyeport to .? Delias. Write for new book on Texas?rasa. ^ . E. P. TURNER, Gen. Pass. Agt., Dallas, Tew IlT '' Give the name of this paper when writing to advertisers?(At39-3) r - - ? ClearHea^ fO-S?lTZm> TrnrifERjE , ' \ v! . I THE BOWELS ^ OA?XjE> 1 WWWw V CANDT Ses^i^p^Sfcft^JMMrosneil^^^^^Sl^jJ^r ;rj fi*nl nuvHth. hMdache. indigestion, pimplee, f i and dixrines*. When your bowel* don't a or* nore people than all other diseases together. It ifering. No matter what ails jrou, start taking well and star well until you get your bowels ets today under absolute guarantee to cur* *f aped C C C. Nerer sold In bulk. 8araple m4 . espany, Chicago or New York. Hyjl allalif IB #spS? rlif | II | UyiKKv iiWiiuiMm t? Prioe 50c.