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CA! TUB W« |SKA!«1 M.lN [BU. m Belt *• Tkaach He Wee Jielaa ^cietclicd aad Bltteu kjr a Ca<-Hew He Wee Cared. (From the Hoi iiia larmer an4 Omeer I Not long ago the elltor oi the 0»url Ga- tcU" received a letter which nt first was de- cldetUjr puzsllng| It /contained je request ****** fta tOflWP net f;rn|Ma jAyfewM* It. llrgite, jo: Holly Hill, on'tWwtthject ot Pin'e Pills, and wiial he knew acout them. The edito.* was not familiar with Pink Pills, but, knowing from the letter ttfllleie Interest- ing behind he kfeMvmheito inrestt-1 gale. Mr. Bryne was found with his son putting on the flnlshlngtouelies to one of the handsome new houses at Bldgewojjkd Avenue and Dayton Street,. * j’t f\ ■/, Catching a moment when Ihe^httlier qalt polishing the ceiling with his trowel and de- soended for more material, the scribe ap proached the subject an 1 asked him to kindly relate his experiense with rlhVHlii. “Oh! Pink Pills, is it? All right, only It is my eon here, V. H. Bryns, Jr., that you want to see.'' So the young man, the top of whose bead was scraping the ceiling, which his father missed by fmlnehM, earns down from the ccaflold with a smiling face and commenced: '•I will dMrfuUy tell you my experience with Pink Pills If you wish. You see, a year ago, I was all drawn up with aching pains ail "VST me- Folks said it was this, that and the other, fcafcwhatovrr It whs (. felt as If I was au eighty-year-old chronic rheumatic patient, o^had a waasiatent s : age of bone- break fever. Both legs, both arms, both should era and every joint m me wodld ache and, kept Uehingaatil I felt rare I was to be n miserable cripple the rest of my life. “Didn't I have thebluea! Hem I was only 18, rackedwfth Joint torturing pain that I •■ould not care, and nil the pleasure gone fromille. * - ‘'ll a few drops of rain fell on me; if a little breeze struck me; if the weather changed a tew degrees, 1 would feel as If 1 had been stretohed on a rack. lu the morn ing I would he stlir and sore all over. At night, when I should rest froni my day's work, those paf«s would go at mp at bain- K , Ksiiliwrfc«.« gnawing me. You can imagine what kind of a time I had! “This went on and on until I just goftired of trying to Use. But one day I saw in a Canada paper, father takes, an scoount of a medicine oaUed Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, re lating some wonderful cures they had made in New York State. I determined to try It. Kill or cure—I should hare risked the kill ing—for I had got to the point where I didn’t care much whether I lived or died. “I sent for some of the pills, and the long nnd short of it Is, the flat box did me so then-well he or a boll t quit tortur- ing 'S#hnC* tta way I felt, and 1 tell y ou PnwfuolfaYimd feeling ot relief and uoyaneg that I feel almost like a bird on . the wing.” Dt. Williams' Pink Pills contain, iu a con densed form, nil the elements necessary to give new life and richneM to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are au un failing speeifle for suoh diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effeets of la grippe, pal- pitatloa of the heart, pale and sallow com plexions, that tired feeling resulting from nervous prostration , ail diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to fe males, suoh is suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are not a patent tnedleinein the sense that name implies. They were first compounded as a prescrip tion and used as suen in general practice by on eminent physician. 8o great was their offlcacy that it was deemed wise lo place them within the reach of all. Tber are now manufactured by the Dr. Williama' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and Brock- ville, Ont., and are sold In boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or handred, and the publie are cautioned against numerous imi tations sold in this ahnpo) at SO cents a box, or six boxes for 02.50, and may be had ot all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Will iams’ Medicine Company* frokn.cither ad dress. ' Motxx* Mxxdilbacx, the ones notorious We w York “fence," recently died at Ha mil- It ■ much good,/ sent fag-more, and then you know What a raying toothache or i is HniJ <ow good you felt when it quit t< Ing ■ - -- - you buo Nigh Oftjo Death Wound Dollar AfterTaklng Five Bottles of Hood's. “In the spring of 11801 was taken with severe pains In my breast so that I could hardly straighten myself up. I could not sleep at night and shortly after i was taken with nlgbt sweata. f had no appetite and when I did eat I Became Deathly Blok. Then large lumps the size of a hen's egg form ed upon both sides of my neck. I opened them and closely followed the doctor’s directions, hat I grew worse end the hair commenced to fell off my heed. Finally, I beard so much talk •bout Hood’s Hanaparill* l decided to take It I continued until I took five bottles which cur- edmees until t He firm Jures not felt the slightest effects of rheumatism." Ia. A. Wson. 27 Pjrospoct Bt. Hagerstown. Md. Heed’s Pills are promVt and rmcleut, yet easy Inictloa. Sold by alt druggists. IU cants. . s' ■-» • • • • 1U per celt. February *•*■•’•*•* It “ ■“•x* ifi V • * • * • $ “ _ . „ TOTAI., dTeerceat- A»»« P*»d «j» esr ceesnmers is »3 dare! _ H*?”* P** 1 twtoe each montli; meaty caa be y&ZlSZSSZ •* u, » 10 *°“ i Mir warranted. Ldlnte CmIom _ W. L. DOUGLAS S3 BHOB (equals custom work, costing: from " *|f4 to $6, bast ralue for the money In the world. Name and price k stamped on the bottom. Every Rteti. Take no subati I far Edits tad go., i Sr send for // FM+CemUf*. how to or. der by mail. Pnstajre free. You can get the beat bargains of dealers who push our shoes. 1 * TH* WAVtttFUL heart, j Wherever I am led late, In regions wild ahddeeofcte, Or In tht bnrryMg crowd, more mde And alien far than solitude, One blessed truth In sUne and storm, Consoles my heart and keeps It warm; One tender.goql, through good and HI, Remembers, holds, and helps me etUU In mountain gorge, on treeless plain, In weary wastes unblest by rata, Or selfish ctties,-|0MBer tar ’ , Than wtlderscas end desert age, One face Is ever by my side. My shield and guardian, friend and guide; A face that none but I can see— The face cl her whejthinlts of me. * Though tnllrt on mite* afretch Wtkrfly Bel ween that faithful heart and me, I know its nnforgetting grace Ogn bridge eU diatonce, time end epace, htlgfnd ^btegstng from afar However wide my wanderings ere, And be, wherever I may stray. My fire by night, my oloud by day. . I spread my blashst on the ground, Remote from human sight and sonul, And as my senses swim to aieep Amid the alienee wide and deep, The wind by which my eheek is facial Seems like her kind, caressing head, And in each rendering star, I see The face of her Who prayfffor me, O tender light, shine soft Her yet! O watchful eyes, do not forget! O helpful heart, strength renew, And keep me safe, andhoM me trne! O gentle thee, still kindly beam, Kustaln my son', inspire my dream, Ba now and always, near and far. My hope, my guide, my polar afar! —Elisabeth Akers, in Worthington'*, THAT VITAL CLEW. UiBERT 8TAN- ton lived in l>am b e r s in cha Wh ’hitp’s Inn and Wig reading lor the bar. Wild, who jnatified his name, was an old collage acquain tance who had at tempted several things in life and failed in all. Gilbert had nut seen him in sev eral years, when Wild turned up gt his chambers sad announced that ho was “stone broke.” Stanton reproached Wild for hit dissipated habits, and declined to ren der him any assistance. Raymond Wild was hot blooded and high words ensued. The quarrel was at its height when Mrs. Mortou, Gil bert’s old laundress; who had been completing her morning dutiae in an other room, closed the - door of the chambers and passed out. Shortly afterward the tempera of the two men cooled. Wild apologized for some offensive remark*: ha had made, and they shook hands. Gilbert now promised to do hh best to help his old acquaintance, and invi ed Wild to remain an hoar while he went to keep an appointment. When Gilbert Stanton retnrned he mounted the stairs to the door of his chambers, but did not immediately enter. He stood for a few minutes on the landing, considering what eonrae he should adopt with regard to the man inside. As he leaned against the door, smok ing a cigarette, he wae startled by a loud explosion inside. He hastily unlocked the door and went in. Stretched upon the floor waa Raymond Wild—dead I 1 V »—*—*. The evidence at the inqneat wag simply this: The police, when called in, had found the dead body of a man, identified as Raymond Wild, with a bullet wonnd in hi* bead. A revolver was also discovered which Gilbert Stanton bod admitted was his, and, the' contents of one chamber had been discharged. Mr. Stanton had said: “The man committed suicide. I was not inside the ehamberi) at the time. ” William Carey, a solicitor’s clerk,, depdose that he was looking out of the office window on the ground floor when he saw Mr. Gilbert Stanton enter flu building, and heard him rmm up the stairs. ’About fire mipatas afterward—oar- teiffly ^ken ample time bad elnnaed for Mr.* Stanton to enter his ohambert —he heard the explosion. Eliza Morton, Mr. Stanton’s lann- dreae. had admitted the deeeaaed on the merning in question, nnd notieed when leaving that the two gentleman were “having some word*.” His defense was that Wild had found the revolver during his absence; that he was standing outside the door of his chambers, as we have described, when the shot was fired; that although they had quarreled they wer* on pnoifle terms when he went ont, and that the deceased had left a written confession of his own guilt and Gilbert’s tiuw 'oe. Int ha found , piece, but daring the excitement of the honr had mysteriously lost or mis laid ik He had searched everywhere for it, bat without avail. He distinctly remembered that, af ter examining the body, he placed the paper on a small table in front of him, and glancing ont of the window, saw a policeman in the quadrangle. He nt once decided to call the conatabls and ran downstairs to do so, leaving his door ajar. On his return the paper had disap- iared, and he never saw it afterward. Je most diligent search had failed to discover it. z “Now, Mrs. Morton,” said Edith as they stood alone in the chambers, “this is a matter of life and death. That piece of paper mnat be found.” “Tea, miss,” was the laundress’ cotmnonplaoe reply. “First of all you must please answer very carefully some questions I shall put to you. Did you on that day de stroy any paper?” ‘Wo, miss.” “Have yon destroyed or removed any since ?’’ “Not a scrap, misa. Yon ace there ain’t no fires this time o’ thayesr, nnd this little cooking I docs is all done on the gas stove,” Everything was being turned upside down and inside out, when Edith sud denly stopped. “Do you remember whether the win dows were open on that day?” she asked. “Yes, miss; Mr. Stanton always use to ’are’s winders open. ” •‘Well, just open thorn as they would be if he were here.” The woman did as she was bid. Edith then placed a piece of paper on the table where Gilbert said he had laid the confession, the door leading into the bed room and the entrance door hav ing first been opened. There was considerable draught, and the paper trembled on the table. “Perhapa there was more air on that day," said Edith. “I will substitute a lighter piece of paper.” This she did, and almost immediate ly it was caught by a current, and it fluttered across the room. As it fell on the floor they were startled to see * little kitten spring from tho open doorway and pounce upon the paper, rolling over and over with it in her teeth.” “Lor’, miss,” suddenly broke in Mrs. Morton, “now I remember! When the gent shot ’isself I wag work ing in the ’onse opposite, and cams back to see what was the matter. That little kitten belongs to the party in the next set, and when I cam 3 up to the landing she was playing just like that with a bit o’ paper, which she runs away with and leaves on the stairs.” “Yes," said Edith, in breathless eagerness. “Well, paper about the stairs looks so untidy, miss, so I picked it up and-" “Whatdid you do with it?” “I threw it in the pail with tho other rubbish. ” For the second time the contents of the pail was emptied by the laundress and carefully examined. It was abso lutely certain that the paper was not there. Edith sent the laundress home, shnt herself in the colitary chambers and began the hunt afresh. Next morning she returned to her hopeless task. Mrs. Morton she had relieved from farther attendance, and was walking up and down tho cham bers in thought when there came a knock at the door. It was the laun dress herself. “I know where that bit o’ paper is, miss! I stays a bit in the kitchen-- jnst to see if I might be of any use, you understand—and while I was waiting I puts a new candle in the candlestick. Them ‘nines’ is rather small for the candlestick, so I takes a bit o’ paper ont o’ the pail to make it fit; Come into the bed room, miss. W|y, it’s gone. ” buynt the candle very low -and tin pajjer took flrel” ‘iAnd yon burntit, miss!” “Only slightly, I remember. X blew it out, threw the paper away and nufin a new candle that I removed tram the piano. I threw it under tho grate. Thank heaven, we have found ft at last!" “There is nothing here, miss,” said the woman on her knees. “Tho grata is quite .empty! You can take my- word for it, that paper’s bewitched.” “I don’t care whether it is bewitched or not,” said Edith. “I mean to find it. Fetch me that magnifying glass from the table in the next room.” Edith removed the fender and care fully examined the dust that Mr a Mor ton's not over scrupulous cleanlineoc had allowed to accumulate. “I thought as much,” she said. “Mice I They have been attracted by the candle grefiee, and have dragged the paper to their hole.” They searched around about every where, but no mouse hole coaid be found. Edith then directed the woman to mix a qnsntity of whiting, which she placed in a large flat dish in the floor in the middle of the room. In the dish was laid a small saucer, and in that a piece of toasted cheese. When they returned there was a track of little white footprints ccross the room that led to a little hole above the narrow skirting board, hidden by a loose piece of wall paper. A man was called in, and after breaking down some of the plaster and taking np a corner of the flooring, tho coveted scrap of paper was at last se cured. The confession was in part de stroyed, and required very delicate handling, bat when the precious relic had been carefully mounted on another piece of i. *>er it was found to read as follows, the ords in parentheses be ing supplied on supposition: “ (I am) sick of my life and (re- solva) to put an end to it. In case sus picion falls on Gilbert Stanton (he is) innocent I die (by my) own hand. “Ratmokd Wild.” Edith is now Mrs. Stanton, and her husband insists that he owes his life to the persistent nnd intelligent manner in which ah* followed np that vital and mysterious dew. The “Elephant Man.” The parson whose name will go into the book that will some day be com piled on “Curiosities Respecting Hu man Beings” as the “Elephant Man," died in n London hospital in the early part of the year 1890. The poor fel low wae afflicted with two of the most terrible diseaaes known to the phy sicians and surgeons—overgrowth of the bones and tumorous excrescences of the skin. Two enormous bony ont- growths developed on his forehead, and later on the bones of the upper jaw, noae, right arm and both feet grew to gigantic proportions. The sk'* disease censed great flaplika nu • of flash to hang from different poi ns of hi* body, particularly from the face and head. The nose was the facial feature upon which the dis ease seemed to have taken special apite, the overgrowth of bone, flesh and akin causing it to hang down so as to give the man a very repulsive, ele phantine appearance. Just before his death, the head, which had been in creasing in size with wonderful rapid ity for about four years, attained snob proportions that the neck could no longer hold it erect. Daring tho whole of the Inst year of his life he slept in a crouching position, with hi:, hands clasped around his kgs and hli enormons head resting on his kucei and arm—®, Republic, SPURS ON TUEIR WINGS. CTTRIOtrS WEAPONS WITH WHICH SOME BIRDS ABB ARKZD. rr ( 'V OME birds 1 of doing 1 teologist Fowls That Are Born Fighters— South American Screamers Armed With Stilettos—Earliest of Birds. OME birds have queer ways battle,” said Os- Lucas, of the Smithsonian Institution, to a Washington Star writer. “They not only fight ‘tooth and daw,’ but with their wings buffet the adversary about the head. The swan is a famous fighter and can deliver a tremendous wing blow. The common pigeon, though held np as a type of gentle ness, uses its wings in conflict with much effect. In fact, there are few birds of more quarrelsome disposition or more given to picking upon their weaker neighbors. “The pigeon is a skillful boxer, guarding with one wing and striking with the other. It strikes its adver sary about the head with its ‘wrist’— that is, the part which people who are not anatomists call the 'shoulder. ’ If you will carefully part the feathers on the outer edge of a pigeon’s wing, near the bend, you will find a small bare spot and a blunt, well-marked horny prominence. It is with this that the blow is inflicted. “There ace some geese in Africa which have pinions peculiarly jtrmed. One of the wrist bones projects con siderably beyond the other and is capped with a sharp spur. Plovers are particularly remarkable for the spurs on their wings. In some species, which have* small spnrj, the weapon increases in size at the breeding sea son, so as to become available for fighting. A small and quarrelsome kind of plover is very abundant in northeast Africa. Its restless habits — for night and day it is perpetually on the move—are explained by an kr»\) tradition to the effect, that on account of former laziness it has been con demned to live in a state of perpetual unrest. “The largest of the South American spurred plovers ranges southward to Patagouia, and ia armed with a long, vicious-looking spur just at the bass of the metatarsus. I was about to eay ‘thumb,’ but it eeems probable, as I shall presently explain to yon,- that birds long ago lost their thumbs, and that the middle finger has come to do duty in its place. “Tho South American screamers are the most formidable of spur-winged birds. They are related to the ducks, though they don’t look it. They have two spurs on each wing—one a short affair, the other an ugly, three-sided, stiletto-like blade, almost as sharp as a needle. In fact, it is not unlike part of one of those largo needles used by sailmakers and known as 'roping needles. ’ It could donbtless be driven clear through a man’s hand by a stroke of the bird’s powerful wing. Yet the screamers are peaceable birds, associa ting amicably in large flocks, so that this equipment of spnrs, like our modern ironclads, may be strictly in the interest of peace. “Some birds have claws on their wings. These appendages serve no purpose as weapons and apparently are of no . use at all to the grown-up birds, but merely to the young. You may, perhaps, have seen tbs Florida gallinnlo palling itself up some little incline by its wings, somewhat as a bat hunks itself along. The claws on the wings which thus serve as hooks are frequent among water birds. “Without a knowledge of fossil birds, through which we are able to traoe the history and development of feathered creatures, it might be bard to explain the presence of tbeee claws. But, if we regard rudimentary organs in existing forms as shadows of the past and vestiges of complete useful parts, the reason for the claws is clear. “The earliest bird of which we know anything was the archaeopteryx. A single fossil specimen has been dug out from the lithographic slate beds of Bavaria This creature seems not only to have had wings for flying, but hands for climbing. In the wing are three well-formed clawed fingers, by means of which the bird could un doubtedly climb about very rapidly. It is a long jump from the archaeop teryx to tho next most ancient type of bird known, But, fortunately, there is a bird still living, and not uncom mon in parts of South America, which goes some distance toward bridging over the gap between this biped with claws and the gallinule. The bird of which I speak, on account of its many peculiarities, stands qnite alone among modern birds. It is looked upon as a survivor of a great group of birds which has become extinct. It is called the 1. latzm. “Now, the adult hoatzin not only has no claws on its wings, but its ‘thnmbs’ are so poorly developed that one wonld hardly suspect that in the nestlings we have the nearest approacb- to a quadruped found among existing'' birds. Soon after the hatching of the eggs ths young ones begin to crawl about by moans of their wings and legs, the well-developed claws on the ‘thumb’ and index being constantly in use for holding and hooking on to surrounding objects. If they are drawn from the nest by their Isj^s. they cling firmly to the twigs with IV11 and wings. The nestlings, even while small, are frequently found far away from the nest, climbing by the help of their claws after the parent birds. If any enemy approaches, they '*rawl out of the nest and hide in the thicker bush close by. “Not the least of the many interest ing features of the hoatzin is the rapid change which takes place in the fore limb daring the growth of the bird, by which the hand of the nestling, with its well-developed and clawed fin gers, becomes the clawless wing of the old bird. It gives us, as it were, at epitome of the past history of birds, and, as ths events of a century are summed up in a page of history, so the slow process of birds in their de velopment from the archaeopteryx to the thrush of to-day is represented by a few weeks in the life of the hoatzin. ” Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Bakins, Powder Absolutely pure WISE WORDS. I The Old String Story. The practice of ocean traveling for the eake of health was known to the ancient Greek physicians, but it later fell into disrepute. “Impossible” is not French.—Na poleon. Anger manages everything badly.— Stadius. He bad a face like a benediction.— Cervantes. Past all shame, so past ail truth.— Shakespeare. Architecture is frozen music.— Madame do Stsel. When all else is lost, the future still remains. —Bovee. Ambition is the mind’s immodesty. —Sir W. Davenant. The first of the new in onr race’s story beats the last of the old. —Brown ing. Most men, until by losing rendered sager, will back their opinions by a wager.--Byron. Walk boldly and wisely in the light thou hast; there is a hand above will help thee on.—Bxiley. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument —Shakespeare. The geqi cannot be polished withont friction, nor man perfected without trials.—Chinese Proverb. Trust not him with your secrets who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.—Lavster. A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called old for the first time. —O. W. Holmes. Mon are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.—Penn. Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are greater than all ceremonies. —Talmud. Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citi zens. —Lowell. The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by disposing of his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rnshes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no traoe behind.—Carlyle, Traveling Too Fast lo Be Wrecked. The passengers iu the Great West ern express due at Stroud at 5.40 last night, had a marvelous escape. Tim ber felling was in progress near Brims- combe, and the trunk of a tree fifty feet long slid down from the embank ment and as the express came up pro jected over the line. Tho train, which was going sixty miles an hour, cut through a portion of tho trunk five feet six inches in circumference and shattered the remainder. The shock was felt by the passengers, an l on stopping at Stroud the engine guards nnd steam pipe were found to be dam aged. The officials are of opinion tkal had the brake been applied or the train been going at less speed, it would have been wrecked.—London Tele graph. Dogs Fiercer Than Wolves. A pack of three wolves and two dogs are running together east of that city. Those who have observed the animals sny that the dogs are the leaders of tho pack, and that they are much more ferocious than the wolves. The dogs approach tho ranches in a fear less manner, and bring tho wolves up where they can do most damage.— Laramie (Wyoming) Boomerang. oiXTS or Ohio,C:tv ovtolsoo, I , Lucas Codstt. ( • Fiiakk J. CUKirev makes oath ibat h- is tb> senior partneri-f ths llrmof F. J. Chunky 8 I'O., dolus ImsI.hks in rue City ot Toledo Count]-and State afotvxaid, an I that said lira will pay t.io sum of ONB HUNDRED DOL LAR-! tor each and i-vei y esse of C narrh that o<nnot be cured b, th: use of Haui.'sCataokb Cure. Fuank .1. Onr.Nzv. worn to 'store mo ant culwcribod in my pro -once, ibL #:h day - f ■ •ecemb -r. A. I). 138t>. • —'— i A. W. Uleason, 1 AEAl.l .—' Jf If i Puh'ie. Hall'sCa’arr i Care Istakeu stomal y and actr directly on tho blood nml mm-ou < surfaces oi the system. Send tor tort mentals, free. V. J. CniKrY A Co., Tole U O. arSoU by Dr r. Kin's. T.’ic. Natubal sas has been found la large quan tities near Fairfield, Iowa. ahllek't Caro Is sold on a rimt in t'-e. It cures Incipient Coa- sumption; it is the B jst Cough Cure; 25c., 50c., |1 It Is proposed to establish a line of whale- t«ck steamers to run between Battimore, Md., aad Tampico, Mexico. Coughs, HpARkEi-itss. Sore Tukoat, etc.. lUickly relieved by “Broicn/ Urmuhlnl Irochrt." theysurpaucail other prrnarctlons u remonni’ hoAracn-cs. and ac i cowth remedt: we prc-emlueutly ihr he»'. A came has arisen in France, unprece dented sinoe the existence ot the present Constitution. "I saved 11” is sweet muilc tv tho husband. *1 ordered those idlls. plasters and soap, ususl •rice. *2: obtained tnem by mail for $1 from '. A. H "11, Charleston, f. C." Free cutaio/ue. Cold weather has reduced tho pressure in the natural gas fields around Celine, Ohio, and suffering is the result. Ex-Speaker Reefi has retained an j old-fashioned method of reminding himself of certain things to be done during the day. It is not uncommon to see him enter the House of Repre sentatives with a string tied around his little finger. This was the case one morning recently when he brought with him n white piece of eord tied with ends hanging an inch from the knot about the little finger of his left hand. Newspaper men speculated on what waa to be done during the day. When the ex-Spcaker endeavored to twist the Speaker np in a parliament ary decision during the morning most of them thought that that was what the string meant. The man from Maine, however, did not ent the cord off when he got through that little ef fort, so that it is still a mystery. A story is told of Mr. Reed and his peculiar habit. A little child of his family had playfully attached a string to the ex-Speaker’s finger, as she had often seen hint do in the morning. This was done by the little one so quietly that it was unnoticed at the time. Mr. Boed got to the Capitol, and when he took his seat he saw the string. Then he relapsed into a brown stndy. He couldn’t think what it had been put there for. For the first time in his life he thought he was getting absent-minded and was fearful lest he should leave some important duty un done. The little mischief maker watched for him in tho evening and asked him if he bid attended to it. “Have I attended to what?” he in quired. “Oh, I tied the string on so you would think to bring me a box of candy,” said’the child, and then the cloud was lifted from the mind of the leader of the Republican party. It is needless to sav tho little girl got the candy.—Washington News. Stockholm Court Life. Court life iu Stockholm is reduced to the simplest proportions. Each of the young Swedish princes is devoted to some special study, and both the King and Queen have always striven to be their children’s chief friends and confidants. —San Francisco Chron icle. ^ The final reports of the Russian grain crops show the increase over last year to be: Of rye, 210,000,000 bush els; of oats, 232,000,000 bushels, and of barley, 50,000,000 bushels. . Empedocles was called the greatest of all Greek philosophers, but he couldn’t tell where the material went to when he found a hole in the heel of his stocking.—Detroit Free Press. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement aad tends to personal enjoyment' when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with leas expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best prodnets to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. 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