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? 1 MBS. COL. W q O n GBESHAM f f did IJ I Pe-runaSa fir.* It was catarrh of the lungst si II I ms.coLEJ.Gmm v%^vv??v??\vv\^vvvvvvvvvvv J t Mrs. Col. E. J. Gresham, Treasurer [ dent Herndea Village Improvement So< j! Hernden, Fairfax Co., Va.: ! > The Penma Medicine Co., Columbus, 01 r-' I > Gentlemen?"I cannot speak ! > I bf.li.ftve that I owe mv li e to its 1 I -J > catmrrh ot the head and lungs in i? /airly g > vc me up, and 1 despairt ; | '*1 noticed your advertisemt ; [ given bp the people u ho had been J [ to try a bottle. I felt but little be ][ bottle and kept on improving slot ! > "It took six bottles to cure me, j I torn to me. 1 talk Peruna to all i , I in its w ?rth. ,r~~Mrs. CoU E. J. Gi \*% *%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%*%%%%*%%%%%% A PLAIN TALK On a Plain Subject in Plain Language. The coming winter will cause at leas one-half of the women to have catarrh colds, coughs, pneumonia or consumption Thousands of women wi1! los KEFP tbeir ^ves an<* tens thous nrorv t an<*s acquire some chroni PEKLVA ailment from which they wi, IN THE never recover. HOUSE. Unless you take the necei sary precautions, the chance are that you (who read this I0S05K3 It REPEAT Rv- ; | No matter what your prefer* ii some one of the eight differe U will suit you. Winchester I M ble for shooting any game, land in many styles and we Py I select, you can count on its jA reliable in action and a stror Hk FREEt Oar 160-p H^^U/T/TjUPSETYOURrsra W ?y To Cure Your Hetv.d TaKe CATUV *1 Immediately?while you wait?and ba iLjaUjP. Afirof t".r>!r1 | Ihis is What Yon Want! !, flare Yon lay Malarial Troubles? Do yon want to fret well and get well quick ? If to Mnd a Post office order for fifty cents to the REGAL MEDICINE CO.,of Stamford, Goia, fbr medicine and directions. A quick and certali cure guaranteed In all cases of malaria, ckilla anc fever,dumo ague and intermittent fever. tt Dropsy1 Jflftk. jr Removes all swelling in 8 to a / days; effects a permanent cun in3oto 6odays. Trialtreatraenl given free. Nothingcan be fairei Write Dr. H. H. Green's Sons. i yw Specialists, Box B Atlanta. a 8 "7" HE 22 caliber rifle ?s a sevei | long and long rifle cartridj I model is original in design, reli I, I the well-known accuracy of all I made In all desirable sizes fron I big game loads. Cata'ogue Nc j m Mailed fw. 0 . -T ^ spprtsmen> Mention this p?i>er. SAij X : ? ' - ,iven Up m vedHerLife ) common in the winter months ImummmscoLL IB Miss Jennie Driscoll, S70 Putnan IH Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: s'fi 4tlf people knew how efflcien 5j* Peruna teas in the cure of ca$11 tarrh, they would not kesttate to try it. 1 have all the /aith <n the world in it an it cured I me, and 1 have never known 1 of a case when the person was 1 not cured in a short time."? Jennie Drtscoll, Daughters of the ConfeArracy and Presi:iety, writes the following letter from Hernden, Va. lio: too*highly of the value or Peruna. wonder, ul merits. I suffered with [ its worst form, until the doctors \ 94 of ever getting well again, int and the splendid testimonials cured by Peruna, and determined tter, but used a second and third but they were worth a King*s ranny friends and am a true believer eshatn. ? (will be one of the unfortunate ones. Lil tie or no risk need be run if Peruna is kep in the house, and at the first appearanc of any symptom of catarrh taken as d. rectea on the bottle. Peruna is a safeguard, is a. preventative a specific, is a cure for all cases of catarrl t acute ana chronic, coughs, colds, consump l, tion, etc. i. If you do not receive prompt and satii e factory results from the use of Perum im write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a fu c' statement of your case and ne will b 11 j pleased to give you his valuable advic I gratis. j-! Address Dr. Hartman, President < s The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbu ) Ohio. . mnafik ING RIFLES Mm jnces are about a rifle, mf * :nt Winchester models"8^ Rifles are made in calibers suita- J from rabbits to grizzly bears, j sights. Whichever model you I being well made and finished. J ig, accurate shooter. fL age ClartTMted catalogue. Jlif URMS CO. NEW HAVEN, CONN.^;^ 4ACH With Nauseous CaJhaxtics sche ? . . . It Cures S s no bsdeffocts on the Stomach. IT IS IsG ' 810 4 kottie. jff Saw mills The DeLoach Patent Variable Friction Fee ? Saw Mill with 4 h p. cuts 2.000 feet 1 er day. A sizes and prices to suit. DeLoach Shingle Mill: Edeers, Trimmers. Planers; Corn and Bull ' Mills, Water Wheels. Lath Mills, Wood Saw | Our handsome new Catalog will interest jot DeLoach Mill Mfg. Co.. Box $34. Atanta.'Gi I 1"~ A nii-Baccolin Vlii\vvV'inv frill. Treatmin EAST, NA FE. 8111 1 A.\ll AUUbbADlil 5 m Y-u ii" rh uc. s X fl | B'ti Cure \o Pay. Ailco re t : R I if B\ p "Ut-ni.e-trliii.T I'onQrlei r a B I j"% 8 > il i!..Aiiitre>* "'be Dr.J.t V W II 111 Antl ? Baecolln t i V y m Co.. tireeiiv lie lli..B *33 t shot repeater taking the short, -II lL. "! L _ ges an in uie same arm. ? ms able in action and shoots with Savage rifles. Our rifles are n the 22 caliber to the heavy >. 6 is of unusual interest to all IGF. ARMS CO., Utlca, U.S.A. ir- ;V. - ' ' T- *>. " i STORM IN THE ROCKIES. ..] i I The Thunder Worse Than the I Rear of a Battle. i If you have never seen a mountain ? thunderstorm at an elevation of 7,000 J feet or more you have -missed an exi perience that will add gray hairs to your head. Here is the story of a ; storm among nature's massive sentii neis upon whom it left a lasting impression: i "To mo a thunderstorm back east j held no special terrors, and freque.u i ly I have been out in such a deir,ontration without fee.ing any especial nervousness. "Up here on the xtocky Mountains things are different, and I confess now to rive in an awfu* ?^ect terror of a thunderstorm, especially at nigh: in my tent. I suffer this terror notwithstanding the fact that so far the storms have in every instance except one gone around or beneath us without even raining enough to wet the ground. But it is the 'going around and beneath' that gets into my ! nerves. In the first place imagine what it is to be one and a half miles nearer -a rip roaring thunderstorm than one is 'back home.' There you have occasional flashes of lightning; here it is one continuous dazzling, awe inspiring performance^ The lightning strikes, too, for it is no uncommon thing during a storm to hear the rocks splintering and cracking whe*o one especially vigorous bolt has landed. Add to this nerve racking exhibit the most awful detonations of thunder that you can imagine and a 'straight blowing' wind that some! times makes the flaps of your tent play a ragtime melody, and you have t some idea of a mountain thunderstorm. The thunder is worse than the sound of a mighty battle, it ' bangs up against the mountain side t and reverberates and roils off into one ear splitting concussion after another until you, lying quaking in your tent, fully believe that the next 1 'boom' will split mountain and valley in twain and land you in China or some other seaport town. , j "I lay one night and with chatter* ing teeth counted five distinct thun0 I derstorms come up to the edge of the * j plateau on which my tent stands and * ea^h time go inrough with an elec* trical performance that would give * Tom IDdison a dumb ague, and J through it all not a cupful of water * fell on my tent t "These electrical displays are not \ seemingly much dreaded by the pe> 0 pie who live in high altitudes. They t comfortingly dec'are that a tornado 0 j or cyclone is unknown in the moun0 j tains."?Philadelphia Press. , 1 REAL THING. I Tipkins?I don't believe there ever j i ' was a horse race that was on the 0 square. | j Piker?I saw an honest race once. ?t j Tipkins?Indeed! Where? f j Piker?In Arizona. The chap in the lead stole the torse. > - 'I J: NOT IN HERSELF. "Has the prima donna any talent?" "Quite a lot." - "But I thought you said she could ? neither sing nor act" e "She can't The talent is in the , comnanr she carries with her."?Cin g1 cinnati Times-Star. ' i -I 1 PITS rx?rmanently eared. No fits or nervous[ nes3 after first dav*g use of Dr. Kline's Great INerveRestorer. $2trialbottleaiidtreatisefree Dr. R. H. Kune, LtdM.931 Arch St., Phi la., Pa. No vomgTi ever attributed the ioss of her husband's aopetite to hex' cooking. Salter's Home "Builder Corn. So named because 50 acres; nroduced so heavily, that its nroceejs bui't a lovely home. See Saber's catalog. Yielded in 1O03 in Tnd. 157 M.. Ohio JfTO bu.. Tenn. 08 bu., and in Mich. 220 hu. per acre. You can heat this record in 1904. WHAT DO YOU THINK OV THESE YIELDS J j TEE ACEE? , 7?0 bu. PeardlcsR RarVy Der acre. | 810 bu. Saber's New National Oats ner A. j 80 bu. Sa^er SneUr and Macaroni Wheat j 1.000 bu. Pedirrrec Potatoes r>er acre. |> 14 tons of T'^h "Billion Do'br Grass Hay. I 00 000 'be. V:ctona Iiane for sheen?T>er A. P iPnnon lbs. Tw^inte. the fodder wonder, g 54.COO Tbs. Sabers Sunerior Podder Corn ?rich. 5'iiev fodder, ner A. i Now. such vields you can have. Mr. i Farmer, in 1(VH. jf you wiH plant Saber's ! seeds. TA.C.L.I JEST SEND THIS NOTICE AND IOC. ! in stamps to .lohn A. Salter Seed Co.. La ! Crosse, Wis., and receive their great j catalog and lots of farm )>eed samples. VviiUo fnnl tr>Vps as thev coine ? the wise fniv poos after what he wants., ~ i Mr??. Winslow's^oothinsrRyrunforchildren f teethincr. soft ?n the trams, red v.ces inflammation.allays pain,cures wind col !c. 25c. a bottle Some husbands believe tha",beauty inexd pensively adorned is adorned sufficiently. 11 9. ir; ALL DON = our. 5" i I ?! ' Veteran Joshua Heller, of TOG South - Walnut street, Urbana, ILL. says: "In g* the fall of 1S99 after talcing Doan's ^ Kidney Pills I testi- ddS&A ? fled that they had e relieved me of kid- jfc.T^B ]\ :\ey trouble, dis* posed of a lame ?. 'nek with pain. / i x across my loins and y r ((? J beneath the shoul- I jT m Im der blades. Dur- A / \M ing the interval /& J? which has elapsed / | I have had^ occasion each and every occasion the results obtained were just as satisfactory as when the pills were first brought to iny notice. I just as emphatically endorse the preparation to-day as I did over two years ago." > * Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., proprietors. For sale by all druggists, price 50 Cents per box. '-O - . > ; ;r< ? 'X'- " " . V~v-' " ' !' ' '" '' " *. fll30LdJ-THROWINC JPIDER. ?-E~?? By CHARLES E. HUTCHINSON. HE spider known as Ord 71 __ garius eornigerus Hentz is 0 1 O spread widely over tin J I v,.,. H UlJllVJtl OiUlW, UUl, slicing to say, its habits have nev er uceii uescribed. It scorns to exhibi' little choice in its selection of a perma npnt site, though I have found it less rarely on low-branching cypress trees it remains secreted during the day, al THE SUBJECT. ways in the same place, curled up ber-ath a leaf, limb, or fence rail. For this reason it is almost impossible to find it until it reaches maturity, when its conspicuous ep:g cocoons tell of its proximity. These, three to five in number, are hung within a few inches of one another, fully exposed to the sun. They are made one at a time at intervals of tea or fifteen days. At nightfall the spider crawls out to one of the outermost branchlets and there engages in a most wonderful operation. The branchlet selected is always one that retains a clear space of at least two or three inches below it when depressed by the spider's weight. A few .short threads are first placed irregularly abcut the extreme tip of the branchlet and along its under cide for a distance of several inches while adrHMnnnl threads are carried out to ad jacent branches to lend stability to the part.- ' The spider now hangs back downward by its legs to the lower threads stretched along the under side of the branehlet. Attaching: a now thread to one of the others ncsar one end, it crawls alone the horizontally inclined threads below the bracchlei drawing out the ne.v thread tie while from its spinning organ t j the length of about two inches The thread naturally falls below th* others, the spider taking care that ii shall remain free from entanglement. The spider with its newly drawr thread still attached now exudps a verj small quantity of viscid matter tipor the thread at its juncture with th' sninnerels. No other p^rt of this thread bears :aoy viscid matter, nor is any subsequently added. Pressing the tips of its hind legs firmly upon the thread ft pushes eael leg backward, alternately, allowing the thread to slip between the short stiff hairs which clothe them. Witt each extension a small quantity ol viscid matter is pushed outward anr away from the abdomen as far as the leg will reach. At the end of abou' twenty seconds, during which time i a?~,7?/I ftr ton tlTTiOS CJICil U',? IS- CAlirimru u^ui */? <vu there results a globule averaging a bom 3-32 ineh-in diameter. This finished, the snider undertakes to release itself by severing the lint between its body and the globule. Ob viously to release the ball suddenly fastened as it is to a nearly horizonta line, would be to allow an oseillatioi which might retidily resnlt In some sorl of entanglement and the coosequenl destruction of the pendulum. To guard against such an occurrence the snidei first lengthens the line by playing i1 out hand over band, as it were, precise ly as a human might perform a like operation, save that legs were usee in the place of arms, the foot beinc well fitter! to grasp and hold a thread. The ball having been carefully lowered until its supporting line hangs vertically, or nearly .so, the thread running to the spider is severed by a dexterous movement of the clawed i i \ \ . WArn*"'* FOB A MOTH. Coot, tlie free end losing itself in the globule. As soon as the thread is cut the spider turns about and approaching the pendulum thread seizes it from I above, with its legs. In this act the performer hanga by two or more of the legs of one side to the horizontally inclined thread to which the pendulum thread is attached. Reaching well down with one of Its ! long, arri-like forelegs, it grasps the pendulum thread between the claws with which the leg is tipped, about half an i icb above the ball. By a few well directed movements of the other limbs the upper part of the thread is ! quickly passed under one of the short palps or mouth appendages from which the thread continues to its point of attachment to the main line, the upper nortion more often remaining slack. The two forelegs extend horizontally to their full length like the shafts of a wagon, save that one is above the other. If the writer's description is clear the reader now perceives the spider holding in its hand, as it were, a line to the lower end of which is attached a globule, the whole forming a most singular and Ingenious contrivance derlgitcd i for a useful purpose. In this position the SDider may remain I .. - ... -. tr ..... ? ?- - * .. J, ' - U&wl . -rv .. mm >'/ # ' * ' * " > > by the half hoar scarcely moving except to lower its weighted leg for a | brief interval from time to tune, pre- j sumabiy to rest it. Should the spider j remain in this attitude for thirty or j forty minutes the verdant observer; may be astonished to see the ball earo-! fully transferred to the spider's month i . and disappear forthwith. 1 have tried ?o lind a reasou for this action, and j - think one may be found in the impaired | ; viscidity of the globule clue to e xpos- \ i ure. as this, transferred to a piece of j ? glass, seems to show deterioration at i . 'he end of an hour. Should the ball be I, t swallowed a new one is made, usually ! . within a few minutes, and hung out ! i ? was the other. I If now the observer is to be rewr^led . he will see, by the light of the moon - a large moth approaching, flying slowly along as though searching for something. As the marked victim draws nearer the spider gathers itself for a supreme effort. The ball-supporting leg points straight down. The body swings about, if necessary, to assume a favorable position with reference to the moth. As the insect comes within the carefully measured limit the spider d-aws back the bolas supporting leg ! and with a pendulum-like movement j ' swings it rapidly forward in the direc- j tion of the moth. The ball is directed j * with almost unerring aim and finds } lodgment on some portion of the vie1 tim. In nearly every instance it ! strikes a wing, a part to which it is j MASIXO THE GLCBtfLE. probably particularly directed. Its violent contact with that rapidly moving member Insures a wide and firm attachment The moth, finding itself fast, flutters violently in an attempt to free itself, but the assailant drops quickly down from its trapeze and sinks its fangs into a vital part In its descent it fol lows along the bolas line, but is sup' ported by a new thread which it spins ' as it goes?an admirable provision ; against a fall. By reason of the poison j 1 injected the moth is soon paralyzed. J apter which it is carefully euswathed 1 1 in bands of silk. ' Some effort has been made to learn | * what means the spider employs to, * bring its prey within reach. Whether j it Is some agreeable odor emitted by j I A. CLTJsrEB OP EGO COCOOX8. * - ^ ? ? t the arachnid or from its weapon or I - whether the prey comes accidentally' k within reach is a problem of some in- 1 I terest. While the evidence gathered : is wholly negative, it seems to support . the conclusion that the spider does 6mit such an odor.?Scientific Ameri: can. ?????? .??** ?? ? ????? 5 CHEAP i * DWELLINGS * | IN PARIS I ******************A******* Nine societies have been formed in Paris to build cheap and comfortable houses for the poor who live in the overcrowded quarter of the city. At present there are 331,976 people who live in the slums of Paris, crowded together three and even four in a sin gle room. Unlike London, Paris has done nothing in a public way for the housing of its poor. What is being done is the work of a few individuals and co-opcheap paeis DWELIil.ng. erative societies. A house like the one shown in the picture has been built to rent for .?oS a year, costing $1460. Tho builder is satisfied with a profit of four per cent. Other houses rent for amounts ranging from $22 a year to $124. The city government is helping the new movement in a small way by exempting ! these houses from taxation. Most of i the houses are situated in the suburbs i of Paris, within easy distance of the j heart of the city. ' J <r . ).. 1 V - :( ? . > ;< ?????????a . A STORY WITH * MORA!- " Railway Official Who Forgot He Could Pay His Fare. Xot every stOTy that reads like fiction is fact, but the Brooklyn ^ assures its readers that the one her? quoted is quite true. Tne roan who ^ told it was for many years an officer of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincf Railroad Company in Illinois, and had annual passes over ail the important * * railroads in the country. His duties took him to Springfield, the State capital, and as he generally went by the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis road, the & ^ conductors on that line knew him so well that they never asked to see bis pass. One day he received a telegram summoning him to meet one of the , I officers of his company at Aurora the next morning. He had only a short time to catch his train to Chicago, and in his haste left his pass book ^ behind. He did not find this out until he reached Chicago, and was to take the last t^ifl^grAupflfCthat night Then he saw thaPtCe conductor, a m'an brought over from the Iowa division, was a stranger, and the fact that he would need his pass > ; reminded him that he did not have St. What followed is best told in his own words: "I told the conductor the situation ? j but he said he could not carry me on my mere representation that I had a pass. 'Why man,' said I, *1 am an officer v of the company, going to Aurora on company business, and this is the la?t train that will get me there in time* You must tako me/ "He was polite, but firm. He said * .J he was a new man ,on this division, and could not afford to make any arts- / takes. ^|| "When I saw that he was deter- ' mined I rushed off to the telegraph office; but it was too late to catch ^ * anybody authorized to issue passes, so I settled it in my mind that I mu?t go by carriage; and the prospect Of an aH night rkJe over bad roads * < through the dark was anything but Inviting. Indeed, it was so. forbidding that I- resolved to make ' one more appeal to the conductor. "*You simply must take me to Aurora!' I said, with intense earnestness. " *1 can't do it,' he answered. *Biit % % I believe you are what you represent yourself to be, and I will lend you the / 1 money personally. It is only one dollar and twelve cents/ * . * "Well, sir, you could have knocked me down with the flat side of a palm leaf fan. I had more than two thousand dollars in currency in my pocket, | but it had never for an Instaht'oc- j curred to me that I could pay xny'fhie -j and ride on that train. I showed, the conductor a wad of money that made j his eyes stick out. 1 " *1 thought it was funny/ said he, 'that a man in your gositioii cdulfe&'t raise one dollar and twelve Cents' -it was that that made me believe yon were playing a trick' to see ifl wouW violate the rule/" Tie simple truth was the railroad V-.' officer had ridden everywhere on passes so many years that it did not , occur to him that he could ride in any . ^ other way. KITCHEN CONFIDENCES. The Policeman?The folks tiers, Hve ' pretty high, don't they? V The Cook?Oh, yes! I gave tlmpi to ' ' understand that they'd have- to, ] they wanted to keep me!?Brooklyn j&jfc'' ' "V-: :v United States money is extensively nsed In the northern part cf Ck^wnbla, and in many stores prices Wo quoted in American gold. AMENITIES. Mabel?Did he stutter when he pro- ? \ posed? Ethel?No; I don't think so. Mabel?Really? He must have improved.?Judge. The present plan for increase of the ' metropolitan water supply provides for' an expenditure of about $50,000,000 tor bringing to New York 200,000,000 gallons daily from the Wappingers Creek and Esopus regions. ' * H. F. Gbxbx's Sons, of Atlanta, Gn? are the only successful Lropsy specialists in the world, bee tneir liberal ofier in advertisement in anotner cominn of tnis paper. ?ach dav brings its separate and distinct f-? J-' I 1 opportunities tor uuuig j;wu. ? , '? * ^ In Emmoni County, Dakota. We can sell you 160 acres of tine land. You can break 100 acres this spring, ewr it to Saizer's Fiax and reap enough to pay for your land, etc., having a tine farm free the first year. Have 10 su.-h pieces for sale. John A. tsalzer Seed Co., |/.C.L.] La Crosse, Wii. # ? No man moves this world until he is profoundly moved himself. June Tint Butter Colou makes top of the market butter. * ? The life that does no good is guilty of much barm. Piso's Cure for Consumption Is an infallible f medicine lor cougns and ooias.?_\. IV. bAMonn, Ocean Orove, N. J"., Peo. 17,1900. The nope of this world is in the hard things we have to do. _______________ Quit Coughis;?. , Why cough, wnen for 2oc. and this notice you get '?j doses or an absomce.y guar anteed cough cure in tablet form, postpafiL Dr. Skirvia Co., La Crosse, Wis. lxa.C.L.3 Many a man is unhappy only because he believes himself so. "Wonderful Statistics. When it is considered tuac iue percent* > age of deaths from consumption is'91 per tboasaiA against on per tnousana 01 any other ma.aay, how important to guard against a aught cold, layer's Caere- ' , kce itemedy ot Sweet Gum sad Aim.ein is the great medicine for cougas, co.us and consumption. At druggists, 25c., 50c. and ?1.0C a bottle. < Great is the physician who can cum ft woman of an imaginary disease* ^