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Farm Notes. "r ZGG-ZamAfLG 7ZM. . In an egg-laying test at the Louisi ana Station, involving hens of ten com mon breeds and continued 240 days, brown leghorns made the best record, the hens of this breed laying an aver age of seventy-two eggs. Light brahmas came next with an average of fifty eight, then langshans with forty-nine, buff coohins and Plymouth rocks with forty-aix each, and minorcas with forty five. The American breeds averaged thirty-three eggs a hen, Assatic forty five, and European forty-four.-New York World. Now cooD cowS AE ECnmD. Many good cows are practically tuined by being kept apart from the herd. Their isolation is due usually to a whim to make a pet of an individ ual cow. Women and children are mainly responsible for this form of foolishness which should never be in dulged by the careful dairyman. Cat tle are in their way exceedingly social creatures, and absence from their as sociates affect them unfavorably. They are nervous and uneasy when separ ated from them, and in the case of cows lose flesh and fall off in milk. Sometimes it causes them to abort, but this rarely -happens, enough mis chief being accomplished without. Foolish men sometimes tie a cow up to punish her, with the result that the fool is punished in the lessened yield caused by the separation from the herd. -American Dairyman. EXIAVSTED LAYD. We are suffering here in New Eng land from land exhaustion. That is one of the questions that confronts New England, confronts Massachu setts. If these lands were highly pro ductive, they would be occupied and used. One of the prime reasons for the abandonment of these lands is be cause they no longer have plant food. Now, how have they become ex hausted? I think largely by raising the grains. That is what the New Eng land farmer primarily did. He raised corn and oats, wheat and barley, and sold them, and thus impoverished +hese lands. The farms of New England have been impoverished because we have sold more from the land than we have restored to it. The question then for the farmer is, How shall I restore, how shall I build up my farm? How shall I wisely do it? I believe the wise way to do it is to buy grain. I think it is the oheapest way to do it, because when youraise a crop of grain on your land you diminish the fertility of that land. I When you raise a crop of anything except the leguminous plants, except the pea and the clover and the bean, and crops of that nature, and araw it off the land, you have taken something out of mother earth. When you buy grain you buy something which has a large manurial value. When a man buys a ton of bran for $20 I say it is a good investment. Why? Because he buys in that $20 worth of nutrition $12 worth of manuriul value. The' man who buys a ton of cottonseed meal for $28 buys $24 worth of manur jal value. -New England Farmer. In answer to the query, "How often in one season ought geese to be picked?" a farmer with fourteen years' experience answers, in the Philadel phia Farm Journal, that it depends en tirely on the feed and run and ex plains the whole situation as follows: "They feather out more quickly when they are permitted to run on green pasture and gave abundance of good water to drink. Every ten weeks should find them, under such treat -ment, with a good coat of feathers. Do not pick until laying is over. Geese cannot be artificially moulting and producing eggs at the same time. -Never pick them in cold weather. When ready to pick, which the experi enced geese-raiser can tell by the color of the plumage (if ready there will be no yellowish tinge on the white feathers, but to be s-re pick a few from the breast of noi goose), the feathers come easily and are dry at the quill end. If not ripe, they are soft and bloody. And this is one of the reasnsn why store-bought feathers sometimes have such a diar eeable odor. The best guide, experience, tells as to take only a small pinch of !eathers in the fingers at a time, and with a quick downward jerk, from tail to neck, displace the first coat of feathers with only a very little of the second coat, the down. Do not pick: the bolsters. those large feathers under the wings. If you do, the poor creatures' wings will droop continu ally. When the goose dies, we can strip-these off for filing pillows for home use. But never take them from~ the geese while living." PARM AD oARDEN NOTES. -The Houghton is a good variety oi - gooseberry. For currant worms spray with white bellebore and water. Sugar beets are better than mangek~ wurzels for feeding stock. The hog is a good animal to keep in connection with the dairy. To avoid tnumps diminish the amount af food and give regular exercise. The Kiefer pear is commended foi tts keeping and canning qualities. Sheep would pay better if a superiol grade were kept. The trouble has been ',e inferior quality of the stock. Pinching back the new growth OL the berry vines increases the hearing iurface and keeps the bushes low. The bees get a great -deal of hone3 kom the locust blossoms. The honey is of a pale red gold color, and keeps roll. Many a low, marshy piece of ground dan be made into a harvest field for the bees by planting willows, asters, >r mint. Ewes that have proved themselves. good mothers, and especially if they produce twins, should be kept in the flock until they are at least five years >ld. It is much easier to keep a sheep in good, thrifty order than to get it up in flesh again after it has grown p~oor. Remember, "a sheep well summered a half wintered," and the reverse of ihis, a sheep well wintered ig half sum med is equally trne. MICHIGAN'3_BENEFACTOR .N OFT REPEATED STORY OF TE1 Pil LA NTI1 KOPY. What Cbax. H. liackley Has ]Done I Western Micbigan. (From Grand Rapids, Mich., Evening Pres The most beautiful spot In all this city inseparably associated with tho name Hackley. Chas. H. Hiackley has been In t lumber business he-o continuously siD 1s56. and in that timo has amassed a fortu which gires him a rating among the wealt men of the nation. Bnt with wealth the did Dot come that tightening of the pui strings which is generally a marked chart teristic of wealthy men. It is no wonder then that tho name Charles H. Hackley Is known at home a abroad. His munificence to Muskeg alone represents an outlay of nearly half million. For the past twenty years he h been a const ant sufferer from neuralgia a rheumatism, also numbness of the low limbs, so much so that it has seriously fnt( fered with his pleasure In life. For soi time past his friends have noticed that has seemed to grow young again and have recovered the health which he had youth. To a reporter for the News Mr. Hack1 explained the secret of this transformatic "I have suffered for over 20 years," he sa "with pains in my lower limbs so sever that the only relief I could get at night w by putting cold water compresses on i limbs. I was bothered more at night th in the day time. The neuralgic and rhe matte pains in my limbs, which had be growing in intensity for years, fInally 1 came chronic. I made three trips to t Hot Springs with only partial relief, a then fell back to my original state. couldn't sit still, and my sufferings began make my life look very blue. Two years a last September I noticed an account of I Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People a: what they had done for others, and sor cases so nearly resembled mine that I - interested, so I wrote to one who had giv a testimonial, an eminent professor of mu. in Canada. The reply I received was ev stronger than the printed testimonial, and gave me faith in the medicine. "I began taking the pills and found the to be all that the professor had told me th would be. It was two or three months b fore I experienced any perceptible bette ment of my condition. My disease was such long standing that I did not expc speedy recovery and was thankful even be relieved. I progressed rapidly, howevi towards recovery and for the last six moat have felt myself a perfectly well man. have recommended the pills to many peol and am only too glad to assist others health through the medium of this wonde ful medicine. I cannot say too much I what it has done for me." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all t elements necessary to give new life and ric ness to the blood and restore shatter nerves. They are for sale by all druggist or may be had by mail from Dr. Willian Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., f, fifty cents per box. or six boxes for $2.50. MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLI Some Drugs Cost Over Their Weight the Yellow MetaL Some months ago, at an exhibitic of the American Public Health Ass ciation in Brooklyn, one manufactu ing chemist handed in mediciies ti total value of which amounted 1 some $30, 000. The most costly drt in the collection was that labelE -Hom-atropine hydrobromate, cryst. [n all six pounds of it were containe n a single lar, and the price there< was $12,600, or $2,100 per poun< This expensive remedy is an alkaloit trtificially prepared from atropine, reparation of belladonna. Another costly medicine shown wi n aconite alkaloid in the form of a amorphous powder, prepared froi aonitum napelius. Three pounds < his was valued at $489.50. A thr4 nd one-quarter ounce bottle< nemnonia was priced $191.45. C affeine there were thirteen differex preparations in small bottles, ranj ng in price from $16 to $28 a Dot'le A small vial of a tetter wart prepa: tion called chelidomine alkaloid wi narked $88. Cocaine is another e: pensive medicine, four pounds of eing there yalued at $420. A ne form of cantharidin crystals wE riced $143 a small vial A fifteen-ounce bottle of a prepar ion of morphine, called codeine phol hate, stood for *135. Digitali ermaine, the great heart remedj osts about $70 per pound. A fitt unce bottle of "true cotoin" sellsa 70 an ounce. The South America Idian arrow poison, as preparedi he form of crystals and used as edicine In hydrophobia and lock jat osts $35 an ounce. A still more e: ensive form of crystals named hy< cine hydrobromate, is valueda 1, 166.66 per ounce. Certain othi rgs varied In price all the way frol 12 to $3i5 per ounce. Papalne alkaloid, a vegetable pel in obtaIned from the juice of th elon tree in tropical America, sel) or $180 a pound. A solvent for dit heric membrane is valued at $14.5~ n ounce. The calabar bean comi n for very costly preparations chiefl sed in diseases ot the eye and loc] aw. One of these, physostigmin lkaloid, is valued at the sumc 109.35 rer ounce. Another prepari ion of the same costs somethiing ove $1i3 an ounce. A special formc itrate crystal, prepared from th eaves of the jarborandi, pilocarpu ennati tolius, and used in consum] ~ion, is priced at $37, ounce value. The list might be indefinitely e: ended, for the number of new ani ostly drugs is on the daily increase t would be hard, indeed, to find th ruggist who Is familiar with all hose now on the market. Td pre ure anything like accurate knowl dge on this point the immense pha: acopo.ia of the United States mus not only be studied, but those al-o o ermany and Great Britain, thena selves vast complications of scientif! tally assorted facts. Out of this great number of remi is, however, but few are in actua use, and the task of the piractica haralst is, therefore, not so hope essly bewildering as it would seem o the cost of the drugs he manipt ates must, moreover, be added a cer a per centum of the cost of his owl rainig-let alone that of the pre scribing physiclan, Putting all thi and thati together, it would seem atter of wonder, nat that It costs a uch, but that it costs so little fo the luxury of being ill.--Pittsburgi )upatch. Quinine. One of the latest triumphs I1 Themical science is represented by th production of artificial quinine. Th new substance is absolutely identica with the natural products of the cin hona trce, and the discovery whic] s due to two French scientists, ikely to bring down the pric f that valuable drug considei ably. It is believed, too, that thi anufacture may lead to the disco' ry of new bodies analogous to qu ine which may have great therapel iea vale. - The Trail of a Mooae. The trail of a moose, leading some. ,imes for miles together through a net or vork of fallen debris, the labor of fol owing him, and to do so climbing s.) ver and under the innumerable fallen is ogs and interlacing branches, may be of nore easily imagined than described. he However wearv the hunter may be, he ce nust never for one instant relax his ne :aution, and in those large silent woods by iever, if possible, break a stick. TO The myse has an intensely acutt se ;ense of hearing and smelling, and as, >. f course, despite all his caution, when iunting before the snow has come, the o1 iunter, although moccasin-clad, must aa areak sticks sometimes, he finds fre on juently, after working his way on the trail through one of these horrible a woods, that on reaching the other side ad the quarry has started off across a mile er f open prairie to seek the shelter of 'r- ,similar cover on the other side. ae be As the moose, even when undis to turbed, is a tremendous walker, brows in ing on the low willows as he goes, there is no knowing when or where he n. will stop again. Things being thus, it id. follows that the days when there is a 7Iy high wind are the best by far forhunt as ing. Then in the crashing of the fall an ing branches and the rattling of the u- limbs of the trees the wary brute gete en careless, and in easier of approach. he Blackwood's Magazine. ad to In a recent article ou Cofree and Cocoa. the I eminent German Chemist. Profesur Stutzer, O speaking of the Dutch proce-s of preparing )r- Cocoa by the addition of pota.h. and of ihe ad process common in Germanny in which anno ne nia is added. says: "The only result of these s processes is to make the liquid appear turbid to the eye of the consumer. without efTeeting a real solution of the Cocoa sul.st a nee;. This fartificial naLnipiubIttion for the purpose of so. en called solubilit' is, ther-fore. mcre or less in it spired boy deception. and always talacs plate at the cost of purity, picasant taste, useful action , and aroma-tc tlavor. The treatnent of Cocoa by such chemical means is entirely objection yable. . . . Cocoa treated with potash or ammonia wouid be entirely unsalable but for thesupplementary addition of artificial flavors of by whi-h a porr substitute for the aroma et driven out into the air is ofered to the con to suiner." The dilicious Breakfast Cocoa made by Walter 1Baker & Co., of Dorchester, Mass., is absolutely pare and soluble. No chemicals, bs or dyes. or artwicial flavors are used in it. to An electric street sprinkler is in use r- in Philadelphia. It has two thirty or horse power motors, holds 2700 gallons h of water and runs 15 miles an hour. h d @Denrsts Cannot ne Cured s by local application 4. as they cannot reach the S diseased portion of the ear. There is only one r way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafne-s is caused by an in ilamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in 3 flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing. and when it is entirely clued Deafness is the result, and unless the intlamn 11 mation can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are 1D caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in 3amed condition of the mucous surfaces. W' we will give Ohe Hundred Dohllars for any r- 'case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for e Circulars, free. 1o 0 F. J. Csrn:y & Co., Toledo, 0. M"Sold by Drugists.75c. Th'.m Needed No Pressing. d Choly--There was one thirg in f avor of the boiler-plate trousers the odknights wore. Chappie-What wsthat. Cholly-J1f they once got a a crease in them it would stay. - Druth. 'AGENTS, organizers, lodge officers write for n particulars; best frtaternal insurance plan; big pay '.kF. Kecynolds, Exchange Building, IBoston, flass Civil Neghbors. SHe-What about those new neigh ibors you called on to-cday? She SWell, they said they had to come to Sthe village to avoid society and7 Sbegged me to call often. -J udge. * Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chn!dren [t eeti oftens the gums. reduces inflammau tin ' a sain. cures wind colic. s5c. a bottle SAn English paper contains the an nouncement of a cure for blushing. i arrs Clover Root, the great blood purIfter, iS given freshntess and clearness to the comeionh~i anid cures constiuation 253 e ts. 50 ets.. si. The very latest astronomical works 'a catalogue between 6000 and 7000 n ''double stars." aRlepresenltative men as agents mn every town: I travelitng orlocal; permanent position; salary g. . ad cotmmission. Chautauqua Nursery Co., 30. 25 alain St., P'ortland, 3. Y. d1 Platinum, nas been drawn into smooth wire so iine that it could not be distinguished by the naked eye, even when stretched across a piece of white cardboard, 18 Dr. Kilmer's SA r - EOOT- cure )' all Kidney and Bladder troubles. 7 Pamphlet and Consultation free. LaboratorBnrha mtoa. N. ,. YIt is supposed that at a distance *of thirty miles below the surface metals e ad rocks are at white hteat. 1 I have found Pimso's Cure for Consumption an r nfailitng inedicin.-E. it. Lora, 13oS Scott St., Govinigton, Ky., Ucet. 1, 18it4. e Gas pipes are made of manilla spaper. If allicted wlth soreeyes use Dr. IsaacmTomnp so'stye-water.Drug'jtstsell at25c. pet ottle Whas Papa Said, e Mfr. Bigwaist-And so your father f ~as been giving you some po nts mn physology and has told you that all -persons' bodies are composed~ ma nly - o: water. Little lPobbe--All except Iyou. he sa'd. "Exccpt me?" '\ s jhe sa d you were made up mainly oY beer."-UOStoa Cour.er. .The Swiss government has voted ,1 20,000 for the preparation of a new ichool map of the country. It is to . be distributed free to all schools. - Purify Your Blood .Strengthen and invigorate your nerves and muscles, tone your stomach and digestive organs, and build up yotur whole system by the ue of Hood' s Sarsaparilla if you would avoid the grip, pneumonIa, diphtheria and typhtoid jOOd SSas f e ver. These diseases e seek for theie most ready e victims, persour, who are wetk, tired, debilitated and all run down, owing to Impure and Impov erished blood. Hlood's sarsaparilla purifies and vitalizes the blood and thus wards off disease. Hood's PIlls cure nausea, sick headache. [ tCough syrup. Tastes Good. Use intme ol y rggss Dr. PIERCE'S Golden Medical DISCOVERY Cures Ninety-eight per cent. of al cases of Consumption, in all it. Earlier Stages. Although by many believed to be incura ble, there is the evidence of hundreds of living witnesses to the . that, in all itv earlier stages, consumn-m is a curabb disease. Not every case, but a large per centagZe of cases, and we believe,fully 92 per cent. are cured by Dr. Pierce's Goldeti Medical Discovery, even after the disease has progressed so far as to induce repeatec bleedings from the lungs, severe lingerni cough with copious expectoration (includ. ing tubercular matter), great loss of fies: and extreme emaciation and weakness. Do you doubt that hundreds of such case. reported to us as cured by "Golden Med. ical Discovery " were genuine cases of tha1 dread and fatal disease? You need not take our word for it. They have, in nearly every instance, been so pronounced by the bes1 and most experienced home physicians, who have no interest whatever in mis representing them, and who were ofter strongly prejudiced and advised agains1 a trial of "Golden Medical Discovery,' but who have been forced to confess tha1 it surpasses, in curative power over this fatal malady, all other medicines witl which they are acquainted. Nasty cod: liver oil and its filthy "emulsions" anc mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these cases and had either utterly failed to bene. fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little foi a short time. Iixtract of malt, whishey, and various preparations of the hypophos. phites had also been faithfully tried in vain. The ohotographs of a large number of those cured of consuniption, bronchitis lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasa catarrh and kindred maladies, have beer skillfully reproduced in a book of i64 pages which will be mailed to you, on re ceipt of address and six cents in stamps. Address for Book, World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. You are all right IF! your Stomach, Liver and Bowels 0 are performing # their functions properly. . IF NOT! # ARipansTabulef # willdothework.0 EASILY Carred in Pocket 50 Cents a Box. 0 At Druggists. o ?~.- k with Wehetable Ntemedis. Hav UNU 4MU~U t ceds. mayto ciand ease pro-tI inuned hopeless. From first dose symptoms rap ly ~disa p;'ear.and in ten dlays at leaist two-thirds o1 ll sympt~omxsare removed. BOOK of testimonials ,f miiraceulouls cures sent FREE. L'EN DAYS TREATMENT FURNISHED FREI >y mail. Dr. H. E. GREEN & SONS, Specialists, Atlanta. Ga. Th~e EarqC.".3aar ENGINES, BOTITERS AnStyles, 4 to 600 h. p, TION1.FEEI Kost Accurnt< ,Set wROKI 31ade. Quiel .recediinj It E A , ft. BLoCKS send for Catalogues to A. B. Farquha r Co., Ltd., York, Pa. WALTER BAKER &CO. The Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HICH CRADE CO0O0A8 ANDI CHOCOLAMS 7.on this Continent, have receivedi HIGHEST AWARDS from the great f> EXPOSITIONS iC or other Cbcehls, or Dye a. Ther deliciouts BILEAK FAS COCOA Is absolutely pure and soluble, and costs less than onze cent a cup. SOLO BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER DAKER& 00. DORCHESTER, MASS, SFOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WINSLOW'S SSOOTHING SYRUP frther c1i'len hi T-tliln fo ove Fifty Years. Ir soothes the child. sof tens~ ~ us ~lys a a~n cre wid couec, Twentty..no Cents a Botda., A GENTS WANTEfl IN EVERY TOWN TO -t sll.Tohnston's Automatic blind catch andl storm faittener. Auddress, J. D. JOLINSTON, New ort. Ithode Island. A City of Ad1tentists. The oddest town in New York Stab xS said to be Alfred Center, in Alle heny County. It is a farming sec ion and every Friday night at sunset ork of every kind ceases. Mirth and erriment are likewise put aside. hen for twenty-four hours the time f all is given to worship, hymn and raise. The early Puritans observed heir Sabbaths with no more rever nce than do the residents of thislittle ountry town observe Saturday. They re Seventh-Day Adventists, and owhere else in the State are their enets so strictly lived up to. When he sun sets Saturday night the village prings into busy life again. Stores re opened, promlenaaters appear, worldly affairs are resumed and the own becomes as jolly and joyous as it as solemn and severe a few minutes efore sunset. Sunday farmers are lowing, tradesmen are at their coufr ers, shop wheels and blacksmiths' ammers are humming and ringing, ad no sound of church bells mingles n i.-Detroit Free Press. THE CONGO RIVER. Its Course is Now Known from Its Source to tte ' ea. The second in volume of the grea rivers of the world is known at last from its main source to the sea, says :he New York Sun. Seventeen years io Mr. Stanley paddled down the F ongo for 1,200 miles and hauled his oats around 300 milesof rapids. Since that time no part of the world has been the field of so many explorations. We are now indebted to Mr. Mohun, our 3onsul on the Congo, for filling up the last gap in the preliminary survey of tthe main river. About two years ago AlexanderDel 2ommune followed the Lukuga River to the Congo. This river was long a puzzle. Geographers were divided in >pinion as to whether it was the outlet )f Lake Tanganyika. It was twenty rears after the lake was discovered be Core explanation had conclusively es :ablished the fact that its waters flowed kvestward through the Lukuga,* In :racing this river to the Congo Delcom aiune did what many an explorer has Deen compelled to do: He applied the sponge to the map of Africa, besides adding details to it. The Arabs had aid that the Lukuga and the Congo mingled their waters in a large lake aamed Landji. The Belgian explorer proved that this was not so, and Lake Landji is now disappearing from its familiar place on the African maps. No traveler had ever traced the Con -o between its junction with the Lu kuga and Tippu Tib's old town of Kas songo, which several explorers have nade well known. This is what Mr. Mohun has done. He has added about i ighty- five miles of surveys to the maps. His discoveries are purely of eographical interest, for this stretch f river adds nothing to the Congo's importance as a commercial highway. [n no other part of the Congo's course aave rapids and cataracts been found 3o numerous and crowded so closely to. ether. Awhile ago we could not have saic. hat Mr. Mohun's journey completed the preliminary survey of the Congo, because it was not then known whether the Luapula or the Lualabia branch of the upper Congo was the better entitled to be known as the main river. Del 3ommune's investigation showed, how aver, that at the point where these iavers meet the Luapula supplies much the larger quantity of water. The Lu alaba, not yet completely known, is therefore the tributary, and the little river Chambesi, which rises near the aorthern end of Lake Nyassa, and after passing through Lake Bangweolo be 3omes the Luapuala, is entitled to fame as the head stream of the mightiest -i-er in Africa. THE MOST PLEASANT WAY Of preventing the grippe, colds, head aches, and fevers is to use the liquid laxative remedy Syrup of Figs, when- 6 ever the system needs a gentle, yet effective cleansing. To be benefited one must get the true remedy manu factured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. For Bale by all druggists in 50c and S1 bottles. Metals can be welded without fns ing by applying strong pressure for considerable time. Summer Weakneus, that tired feeling, loss of appetite and nervous prostration are driven away by Hlood's Sarsaparilia, like mist before the morning sun. To realize the benefit of this great medicine, give it a trial. Sure, efficient, easy-Hood's Pil. Pneumatic tires have been founda very serviceable on hospital ambu-, lances. ( "An Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Ripans ~ Tabules do not weigh a o unce but they contain y many pounds of good. One tabule gives relief. Try for yourself'the next time you have a head ache or bilious attack. Fruit wrapped up in brown paper . will stand 15 degrees more of colI than if not thus protected. Old Visiting Cards. c Some fifty years ago, when a house b an Dean street, Soho, was being re- K paired, on removing a marble chimney piece in the front drawing room, four :>r five "visiting" cards were found, mne with the name of Isaac Newton on .t. The names were all written on the :>acks of common playing cards. The aouse in Dean street was the resi fence of Hogarth, or bjs father-in-law. In "Marriage a la Mode," (Plate 4,) this celebrated picture by Hogarth sup plies an additional proof of play :ng cards having done duty as visiting cards and cards of invitations luring the middle of the last century. There are several lying on the floor in the righthand corner of the picture. Dne is inscribed: 'Count Bassett begs to no how Lade Squader slept last nite." Soon after this period some par ticularly ingenious individual hit upon the idea of supplying fantastically ,and-written cards to the "nobility and g entry," and very elaborate and gor geous specimens of stationery and call graphy these same cards were. Then the inevitable evolution set in, and cards soon developed into respect able specimens of the engraver's art, and, though various changes took place in the shapes and sizes, eventually the sensible cards, as used at the present :lay, soon took a hold on the public, and the neatest and plainest have re mained the fashion. But the fantastic and absurb reigned for some considera able time, and stationers vied with " sach other as to who could produce the most elaborate. The present writer has seen some of the earlier cards quite ten inches long by six inches broad, with lace bordering.-Notes and Quer-L ies. CaUing the Turn. Reginald-Heavens, Edith! you .ioubt my sincerity? Hear me swear -by the blue sky above us, by yon red sun sinking in the purple west, by the green fields, the yelow Edith f interrupting)-That will do. Reginald. Black-and-white swearing at a notary puhtic's is good enough for me. -Judge. Coinpetent. Pen Inkley-I think I shall try my aand at magazine poetry. Faber Do you thing you are capable? Ycu know magazines require something more than rhyme." Pen Inkley (en thusiastically)-Capablel Why, it's lust in my ge I'ye been running the puzzle ciepartmnent of our paper rears.--Puct. - For twenty years folks all over the world have cured rheumatism, neuralgia, and all other pains and aches by using St. Jacobs Oil. There must be something in it, for you couldn't fool all the people for so many years. BEECHAM'S PILLS (Vegetable) What They Are For Biliousness indigestion sallow skin lyspepsia bad taste in the mouth pimples ick headache4 foul breath torpid liver >ilious headache loss of appetite depression of spirits hen these conditions are caused by constipation; and con. tipation is the most frequent cause of all of them. One of the most important things for everybody to earn is that constipation causes more than half the sick iess in the world; and it can all be prevented. - Go by he book. 3 Write to B. F. Allen Company, 365 Canal street, New Vork, forthe little book on CONSTIPATION (its causes con equences and correction); sent free. If you are not within reach of a druggist, the pills will be sent by mail, 25 cents. g4HE 5PRINE5 MR f1 1 RAILID AF MYOU? 15 YOUR EALTH L If DEAR TO YOU? THEN WON'T BEWIT/W? A CM f TM E5Tl' MCHAPEST TABLS INILRAL WATER IN TE MARE1T /o 477LX 0TT0L!S 51HT ff!I T!51115 01[QITN ASK TOUR Ef0C!R0R yTJDTLIfRiZ. - ~Te best is, Aye, the Cheapest." AYoid ImiitaioRS of anld Substitutes for SSA POLIOK Case of 7the Eling Passion. Human nature is a queer thing. .6 an died in New Jersey not far from ere last week who was worth $100, '00 and had no near relative. About a hour before he died he asked for a orkman who occupied a little house n the place. The physician and nurseFrhace(weerionevs)toahe irmised that now the dying Dives was nuagaremtslmao an n ek bout to give that little home to thelvrpurs,4inoftejt adaisoal orkman who had been faithful sowilaod meitesanIscoiudusfo any years. "Lazarus," said the dying arwdy fet emnncr. an Dives (that was not the workman's ACUEFR LL ame, however), "you only paid me on the last rent, and in ccae.I die I . ant to have things straight, you know, flflfC npat, > I'd like you to pay the other $2." he money was paid, and a few mhin- DSETRDA IE, tea after clutching it Dives breathed is last apparently happy.---Philadel- H L R O B S hia Times. 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