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igTabel West Haven, Ooon. THE PICTIIBToF HEILTII Hood's Sarsaparilla Made Her Strong and Healthy. “Hood’s Sarsaparilla lias boon of great bene fit to our little girl,and also to myself and hus band. When she was 3 years old Mabel was seized with stomach trouble, like cramps or in flammation. 1 was taking Hood's Sarsaparilla for my blood, and as the doctor’s prescription did not help her, I occasionally gave her a lit tle of my own medicine. I soon realized that Hood’s Sarsaparilla was Doing Her Good, so gave it to her regularly. It has helped hot wonderfully, entirely curing her stomaefc trouble, and making her strong and healthy. Our friends say she is the picture of health. Myself and husband were both troubled with Hood's 8 #' 1 " Cures malaria, and Hood’s Sarsaparilla built us op and keeps us healthy and free from t-ickness. We cordially reconun 'iul Hood’s Sansapark- la.’’ Mhh. William Kv\>8,Wcst Haven,!’ora Hood’* Pills are tin* best fa nil. cathartic, gen tle aul effective. Try a box. 2> cajts. Bkigandaoe is greatly on the increase it the province of Cadiz, Spain. 110^11 This ! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's tlutivmi Care. F. J.CnuNKT & Co., Props., Toledo, 0. Wr, llie undet'Mgned, have koowu F. .1. Che, ney for I ho lust 15 years, ana heueve him IHT- feclly honornlile In all business transactions and tinanc ally aid.‘ to carryout any obliga tion ramlo by thc.r firm. "Vest & Tkuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. fifAUUNO. Ki^vak & Marviv, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Ha l’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the tills) l an l mucous sur faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle- Sold >y all Druggist s. Testimonials free. The Hsrvard faculty have Increased tta, rental of dormitory rooms from fifty to set- enty-flve per cent. rOR STRENUTHKMKa ARP t'LL'AltINC THE \ oi' Eiise’TliwK'.’i'eifmiir/iin!Tinehce." ‘1 have commended them to friends wlio were imlilic speakers, anil they iiave proved cxlrenndv ter- viceable.”—/ter. flenni Iran! lieerhe:-. The Bell Telephone Company last ye«t earned *8,925,485.69 not and paid *3,339,IK in dividends. Shiloh's Cure Is sold on a guarantee. Itcnrrs Incipient Con sumption; it is the Best Cough Cure; 25c., jUc., $1 i Oft eat Bcitais has annexed Pondoland, South Africa. Mine. Marie Huot wants the clog tax in Paris raised from SI and $2 to $0, liecause she believes thit then the ani mals would be better watched and would not so often full into the haucU of vivisectors. KNOWLEDGE Bring* comfort and Improvement and tend* to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with lee* expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the heeds of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, 8vrup of Figa. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fever* «nd permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of me medical profession, because it acta on the Xid- nevs, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it ie perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 60c and $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Oo. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, yon will not accept any substitute if ofiered. •THE TIME HAS COME." The time has come when rustics go afield And make the ln*y air resound With load taUoos; The birds begin to sing, T e frogs to pipe; Ice and the black frost yield In cowslip marshes thick with ooze, And murmurs of the trembling ground Breathe o'er us, this Is spring. The time has come when Pleasure claps her hands When Love puls on her purple dress, Her shoes oSgold. When Fane/ spreads her wing ; The flower of hope that lights new fairy lands Is mixed with poppies in the old, And all the sons of men confess: Ah, it is spring, spring, spring! —Dora It. fioodale, In Godey's Magazine. TUB IRON BRACELETS^ NTAXTEO.—A i-ohlli ;i 1*dc« M an ornament, and to p «-at«r op ttaira, cut wood, cm'. light ptirpoaea, and do a great twlety of o-lr* ‘ Jobs, for a week 1 hava beta a iied-after • ct: A :r motor; previous to li-.at I waaonljr&toel, Ziuc and Aluminum. ’ uualloyed and tmmado up. Uj tervtatff ean bo bud very cheap, Igtafc'UXiow, during tha ilacltfcucn* Ap ply to my parents, the Ana- ■oroa CowAar, KtH, Ao-lt- well and Fillmore st eels, Chicago. H.B.—I am Always at home and steady. Oura I* (ho largest famtlvof i.J lend in tlio World, and ne- er has one ot os gone wrong. We are also a most powerful family, with marvelous ontiur- ar.ee. Wo have iron con- ctitutiona (or rather eteel ones) but are very penr-it ire, bcln g vis* ibly affected by a hi eath cl air. W - # stand high r.nd have great In fluence, being able to persuade water t > rnn uphill. In fart, we are euperier beings, hav ing been placed by ®ur creator between the ear. h and bcavone. Ourbteel baa b.-icntned in many * tilt end toweie above every thing everywhere. We ereindusti ioua hevond any thing ever known, einee we work St boure a day and more than 865 day* in the year. We are unl.r- mg in cur vigilance —we t tend ever you d#y and night. Ye ate econoi.tical bo- y nd anything ] t!ie earth or inti ». ;avens, a« we t ' J.'! i onrgyateme el>:olutely noiliing h * thio air. •••julok we,, .oiflo* fast, f n rariM or nrn-- n .‘Ut-nrhan rert- -unip water, gprinkle lawns, carry f.od, run a d/uamo lor vie ulc SUBURBAN JOBS Lino this which de light tbo eyo and add Innumerable comfort# 1 to any home, are fur- fclahrd At priceserlttim roach or *it Ctpma, Plr.e tr Galvanized Steel Tanks.with grace ful galvanized Steel substructures A spec ialty. Wo furnish gal vanized steel stock tauhs that do not leak and make mud holes at less than wooden ones cost. The Aennot** C\ propoocs to distribute $500 CASj Ik riU7.E*, for . the bett essay i viittcn by tliojn wife, ten or i daughter ofafi.r* weror user tf a i windM mill * enswerinffthe ours- tion^mysuolu) I 16R A.1 Hit- ■OTt BI** for ecu- ditiona ©t eonpa- titicn end emount* and ir-imicrs of prueasrr.d for par- tlcuiare to t! a Arrmotor Co Chicaco, OT U l*a pmeh*t •tfiaaFianci ee^kanuiCi'r. - N II.-17 ON SUMPTION BY FRANK BARRETT. INTON took the tickets as the train was running into the station; in hastily snatching up the change a half sover eign slipped from his fingers. It took us a couple of min utes to find it, and the train was lost. “Three-quarters of an hour to wait in this hole, ” Hinton groaned. * ‘Better walk over to Chorley. The train is dne there at 9.15, we can do it easily. ” We did it a little too easily; the train was in sight before we reached Chorley. We leaped over the railings and ran along the line; the train passed us at the signal box, and we overtook it as it came to a stop. The last carriage was a third class; a young Indy, leaning throngh the open window of the end apartment looked toward us anxiously. “Will you be good enough to opeu the door,” she asked, as #e drew near. We both stopped. Hinton brushed past me to render the service; he was younger than I, his gallantry was boundless, and the present appeal to it was made by one of singularly pre possessing appearance. It was not a common face that smiled down on us, showing a long row of dazzling teeth, a white, sensitive nose, an intelligent forehead from which the hair was drawn back assertively, and a pair oi dark gray eyes, cipable of anything; not a common figure that stood re vealed when the door was opened—tall, graceful, simply elegant, and dressed with faultless taste, and the first ques tion that mystified me wss how such a lady came to bo traveling alone in a third-class carriage and at this early hour. She stood at the open door in em barrassment that added a charm to her face. The platform did not extend to the carriage. The depth of the ground was considerable, the step awkward. She put out the neatly booted foot, and drew it back hastily; all the time she kept her hands close in her muff, which made the descent more imprac ticable. With a faint tinge of color in her pale cheek, and her fine eyes twinkling with vexation, sho said: “May I ask you to help me? I have hurt my hands; they are useless.” In a moment we were on the foot board, one on each side, helping her to descend. As I glanced along her arm I caught the glimpse of a bluish- black metal inside her sealskin muff. She wore an iron bracelet. Was it an eccentricity of fashion, or a surgical appliance, I wondered. It was to Hinton she smiled her sweetest acknowledgment, and when in parting she bowed to us both, her eyes rested last and longest npon him. We stood by the open door watch ing her as she walked np to the plat form with a graceful step. “Now, then, sir, are you going on?” called the guard, with bis whistle raised. At that moment the young lady turned ronnd, and seeing us still stand ing by the door, smiled bewitchsngly, mado a short step forward, turned again and stopped, fixing her eyes on - Hinton, who was scarlet to the roots of his hair. It was an invitation that my fiery young friend was not very slow to accept. “I shall come on by the next train. Jack,” said he, and started at once to rejoin the fascinating lady. The guard blew bis whistle, and I stepped up mechanically into the car riage, elosing the door, and never losing sight of my friend and the lady with the iron bracelet He bad his hat off, and was speaking to her as the train whisked me by. They were both so pleasantly occupied with each other that they took no notice of me. J. continued to watch them until the train was out of the station, and then I sat down and glanced ronnd to see if there were any other occupants of the compartment. Heavens! What was this at the other end, half on the ground, half on the seat. I started to my feet and drew near the dark mass, with growing ter ror, as I perceived that it was a police officer who lay huddled together, wjth one shoulder on the eeat and hie head drooped down npon his breast. His helmet had dropped off. When I raised his face I found it terribly col orless, only half the whites of his eyes were visible through the half closed lids. There was no sign of any wound, no blood upon his hands or face. A white handkerchief lay upon the seat. It seemed to me that the man had suddenly fainted. 1 tried to raise him from his supine position, but the dead weight (he was a large man) was more than ! could manage. The carriage was open from end to end—the compartments simply dividr ed by backs. There was only one other traveler in the carriage—a navvy in the next but one compartment, witn bis back to me, and bis head was out of the window that the short black pipe he was smoking might not be ob jected to. I called him twice before he heard me, and then, taking his pipe out and holding it in the hollow of his hand, he looked at me in vacant surprise. “Come over and help me,’’! cried. "There’s a policeman lying here— dead.” “A dead policeman I” he said, his little eyes rounding with wonder. “Yes, come over and help me lift him up.” “Nought me,” he said, his face set tling with an expression of dogged ob jection. “I ain’t goin’ to have no truck wi’ no dead policemans, no fsar. I’m n poor man, I am, and they’d have me off to the station ’ns soon’s look at me if I get messin’ myself in that job, no fear,” and with that he turned his back on me and sat down in an at titude of neutrality. I made what effort I could to restore life to the dead man, to call the atten tion of the guard to rouse up the nav vy to a sense of humanity, but all to no purpose. The train was express to London, and alone with my ghastly fellow-passenger I had to await the end of the journey. As the train ran into the terminus 1 called loudly to a porter on the plat form. It took the fellow a couple of minutes to overcome his astonishment. Then he did as I bade him, and ran off for assistance. Three minutes more passed before he returned with a conple of policemen. While they were getting the dead man onto the platform the inspector came over. After he had heard my brief explanation he took out his note book and pencil, saying he must have my uame and address. I gave them, and added that I was to be fonnd dur ing the day at Guy’s Hospital. “If yon are a medical gentleman you may perhaps be able to tell the cause of death,” he said. “Heart disease, I should say.” “Where did you get in, sir?” “Chorley.” > “Anyone in the compartments be side yourself?” “No.” “Anyone get out there?” “A lady.” “Did she say anything about this?” “No.” “There was no one else in the car riage?” he asked. “There was a navvy in the third compartment.” I explained his be havior. The insi>ector smiled. “He was right. I should have had io detain him. That would have been the loss of a day’s wages, perhaps— couldn’t let him off with his name and address. However, there’s no sign of violence, and most likely what you say about heart disease is right. That will do, sir, thank you. I ex pect you will be summoned to attend the inqceit.” The platform was empty; the ticket collector had come up to satisfy his curiosity. As I was goibg away he said: “Your ticket, sir.” I gave him my ticket; as I turned the corner by the barrier I saw him showing it to the inspector. *»•*** My friend Hinton, on coming up to the lady with the iron bracelet, said: “I have ventured to follow you with the hope that I may continue my as sistance—your disabled hand”— “It is precisely for that reason that I found courage to—to look back,” she said. “I felt sure that yon would not misunderstand my motive.” “Only tell me how I may serve you. ” "I am ashamed to tell you that I have no ticket, and I cannot get at my purse,” she explained, blushing and smiling at the same time; “and if you would kindly get me some-sort of con veyance.” Hinton paid her fare; she said she came from Overbnry—gave up his own unused ticket, and opened the door of a fly that stood outside the station. When she was seated she drew herself to the side, holding her winsome head a little on one side, and smiling an invitation. Hinton took the vacant place by her side. “Where do you want to go?” he asked. “Where are you going?” she asked in reply. “I have to go to the city.” “Then I want to go to the city, too. ” “City,” said Hinton to the driver. “f must show you something,” sho said, when the fly was rattling along. Sho raised her muff from her knees, aud added: “Slip my muff up my arm.” Then very gently he moved her muff, and uncovering her hands started hack in horrified astonishment. The small, white wrists were menaeled together with a pair of iron handeuffs. "Good God! what does this mean?" hf exclaimed. “Press the spring you see there and I will tell you. ” He pressed the spring and the hand cuffs dropped off m her lap. “Late last evening, as I was leaving a friend’s house, I was arrested. The last train to London was gone. I was taken to an inn and confined there. This morning the policeman put those things on my wrists, and led me to the railway station. In the carriage where yon found me the policeman fell asleep when we stopped at that elation I saw my chxnce to escape, and thanks to your help I am here. ” “But why were you arrested?” asked Hinton. “Oh, I cannot tell you that,” she replied, covering her face with her hands, “not yet—later on, if I may hope to gain your friendship and con fidence, I may nnburden my beait of its secret. But look in my face”—she uncovered it, and laying down her hand on flinton’e arm, offered her charming face to his examination. “Look and tell me if you can find there the sign of a crime that should be punished with this shame.” My gushing young friend had got as far as this in his narrative, when the hall porter ushered into onr sauotam our old friend Kennot, a clear-headed lawyer. “Now, you young fellows,” he be gan brusquely, “I’ve come to get you out of a mess, if I can. I must know all about the affair this morning.” I told him my story as I have writ ten it here. His first question sur prised me. “Can you bring anyone forward to prove that you got into that train at Chorley, and not at Stevenham ?” After taxing our recollection to the fall, Hinton and I came to the conclu sion that we eould not find a witness tonrove this. The station master had closed the ticket box the moment alter giving Hinton his change. Th« door loading onto the platform was locked when we reached it. At Chor- Icy we had not gone through the booking office. The guard’s van was in the front of the train; the porters were on the platform, and we won, not seen till the moment when w* were helping the lady to descend- KenusUooked grave. “Now, give me your account, Mr. Hinton, ” said he. Hinton went over the facts again. “Do yon know where the young lady is now?” “Yes, but I must decline to tell yon until I know your reason for asking. ” “My reason for asking 1 That’s sim ple enough: I wish to save you from criminal prosecution.” We gasped: “What crime has been committed?" “Murder 1” “Murder!” we echoed aghast. “The handkerchief that lay beside the dead man is found to have been saturated with chloroform." “Good heavens, Kennet, do you think we carry chloroform about with us?” “Yon are medical students.” Hinton and I stared in blank be wilderment. "Of course you don’t believe the young lady committed the murder," Kennet said, addressing Hinton. “How on eerth is such a thing pos sible? She had her wrists handenffed, and a muff on her hands. ” “So mnch the worse for you. The man is murdered, and the respon sibility lies npon you two young men and that young woman. Of courwi I believe in your innocence, but that counts for nothing. Your fate will be decided by a jury, and not by me. Now what is the evidence that will be laid before them ? One of you is found in a third-class carriage with the dead man, and gives up a first-class ticket from Stevenham, the station at which the policeman got into the train with his prisoner. The other young man gets the young woman out of the train at Chorley, pays her fare, and whisks her ont of the way in a fly. A hand kerchief saturated with chloroform is found beside the dead man, and you two are medical students. What is the presumption? That yon, seeing this attractive young woman put into a third-class carnage by a policeman at Stevenham, get into the same carriage with her. The young woman fascin ates you and excites ynur sympathy. On nearing Chorley the policeman dozes, and one of you, intending, possibly, only to prolong his sleep, applies chloroform. The effect is more serious than you expected, and while one saves the young lady, the other remains with the policeman to use such means of restoring him to life as your experience suggests. However, you had better let me see this young woman at once. If we can prove hex guilt—” “Then you shall not see'that yonng lady,” cried Hinton, in a'flerce fury. “If you think I’m going to get out of the difficulty by shifting my responsi bility onto the shoulders of a woman you are in error!” “Then you may prepare for twenty years of penal servitude," said Ken net, brutally. In all probability we should have got the punishment, bnt for xn event that never entered into onr calcula tions. The young lady with the iron brace let hod assured Hinton that in three days or four at the outside she coulA clear her character if only she was se cured from misapprehension in the in terval. The infatuated young man sent her to his mother at St. Albans with a touching letter that appealed to the old lady’s sympathy—of course she regarded her son as faultless in all things. The yonng lady was treated as an honored gnest. The first thing she did was to send telegrams to Lon don. The old lady seems to have beou ss enchanted as her son by the lady of the iron bracelet, and at night-time they separated with affectionate rc- gard. When the servants came down in the morning they found the street door, which had been carefully bolted over night, open, and the plate gone. Later they found that the lady with the iron bracelet was missing also. In tie evening a man was arrested on suspicion of having committed the burglary. At the examination I identified him as the navvy I had seen in the carriage on the morning of the mnrder. He was recognized by the police as one of a gang who,' in con junction with a young female of fashionable exterior, had been eon- eerned m a series of burglaries, for which the “youog female” had been apprehended at Stevenham. The lady with the iron bracelet is still at large, and I trust my friend Hinton may never see her again, for nothing has cured him of his folly in regarding her as the hapless victim of a diabolical conspiracy. Is Ice Cream Milk 1 The question, “Is ice orcatn to bs considered as milk?” came up m a Glasgow case of some importance from a sanitary point of view, which was recently settled in the British Hir • Court of Jndioary. Its promint^, features wore these: During last sum mer and autumn some cases of fever were found to have been caused by the use of ice cream, and at the same time some very unsavory revelations weie made as to the manner in which the manufacture aud storage of ioe cream are carried on in English cities, partionlarly in the overcrowded aud dirty dwellings of foreigners, into whose hands the trade haa largely fallen. In order to bring these deal ers under the sanitary regulations ap plicable to purveyors of milk, the Glagow local authorities brought a test case before the Sheriff’s Court aud won it; the Sheriff’s decision was reversed on appeal by the higher court. A man who sells ice cream, therefore, which consists almost entirely of milk, with a little flour and flavoring, is not a purveyor of milk in the sense which the English statute requites, aud is consequently uot amenable to the law. —New Y'ork Sun. Power ol Foreign Police. The Vienna police have general charge of all newspapers, and keep records of all presses and publications, maintain e censorship over all theatres and plays, issue licenses for the publi cation and sale of all books, magazines and periodicals. All plays, dialogues, songs, dances and entertainments by societies, clubs or individuals must be submitted to the police aud approved before production.—New York Jour nal. Porterhouse anti Tenderloin. V A carcass of beef is cat in nineteen pieces. All of the pieces and the names are in the dictionary. Look at the list and yon will not find the names “tenderloin” and “porter house”—two names that the inexperi enced buyer has always on his lips. The porterhouse is a delusion and a snare in ninety-nine cates ont of 100. The tenderloin is the thick part of the sirloin after a few round-bone steaks have been cut off, and is called the filet de boeuf. It makes a choice piece for roasting, bat if not sold in a lamp, is cat into sirloin steaks of three grades. The first and second grades are tech nically “hip sirloin steak" and “flat- bone sirloin steak.” These are the tenderloin steaks that the yonng housewife pays extra for. There are not over six of each kind in one car cass, so the chances are that she pays her good money for a third-cut, or “round-bone” sirloin, which is itself a capital steak. Porterhouse steaks are cat from the small-end sirloin steak, and one car cass contains but a few of them. In genious batchers understand the knack of cutting the small-end sirloin so as to include other portions of the beef, thus enabling tnem to sell both at porterhouse prices. Good beef has a juicy or sappy ap pearance, with a fine, smooth grain, which is easily noticed. The fat, both outside and through the muscles, pre sents a clear, straw-colored appear ance. The flesh should be cherry red. When meat rises quickly after being pressed it may be considered prime. When the dent made by pressing rises slowly or not at all, depend npon it tho beef is poor. — Washington Post. Senator White’s Turkeys. "I’ll have to write my mother-in- law that she can look out for another turkey,” said Senator White, of Cali fornia, as he finished reading a letter with a California postmark. “That C— case has been decided in our favor. “I suppose you have some queer experiences,” he continued to a group that contained several lawyers, “bnt I’ve got the funniest clients you ever heard of. Whenever a case is about to be settled aud it’s time to be think ing of fees, the woman appears at my house with the biggest goose or turkey on their place. It is always a fine bird, for she’s a good judge of the product, bnt the gift gets a little monotonous. She never makes any excuse for the present but evidently it is to modify mj estimation of the financial worth of my legal services. My clients are quite wealthy people, who live near us, and as they eeem to have a weak ness for patronizing court*, the tur keys appear frequently’at our gate. Another ease has just been decided in their favor, and by this time the lady and the turkey have probably pre sented their compliments. ”—Kate Field's Washington. All Snakes Do Not Hiss. The popular idea that all snakes hU'i is incorrect when anacondas are in question, if we may believe a close ob server of the serpent family. The sound they make is more like a growl than a hiss and has been well de scribed by a recent traveler as a “low, roaring noise.” Their powers of deglutition are sufficiently wonder ful to make exaggeration unnecessary, creditable witnesses testifying to the fact that one has been known to swal low a horse, while bullocks are not in frequently attacked also. Few non- scientific readers, by the way, are aware that not only do the jaw hinges ot tbe boa tribe become dislocated in the act of swallowing a large animal, : osequently resuming their proper I isition by means of the elastic con- ectiiig tendons, but that tho skull bones separate centrally, so that the whole constitutes a sort of quadrangu lar orifice with apparently indefinite powers of expansion.—Detroit Free Press. liidiag a Bronco. “It's all bosh, this talk about cow boys learning to enjoy the sport of. riding a bucking horse,” said a re formed cowboy. “Biding a bucking horse is like having boils- you never get thoroughly used to it. When you hear a fellow say he would like to ride a bucking horse he is either a liar or a greenhorn. The first day I ever went out with a herd of cattle I was dumped nine times because of the presence of a burr in iny saddle-blanket. I have seen but one man that had grit enough to sit on a real bucking horse until it had bucked all it wanted to, and he was bleeding at the nose, month and ears when they took him off the horse at tho end of a half-hour's strnggle. As a general thing a cowboy will pull a horse’s head up, wind the reins around the saddle-horn, take a firm grip on the saddle with his bands and then rowel the bucker until the ani mal becomes convinced that it is bet ter to behave than to buck.”—Phcenix (Arizona) Gazette. Minnesota is not a very oid State, but she has already more than $0,- 000,000 invested in public buildings and $10,000,000 in her school fund, with 1,000,000 acres of university land yet unsold. Great expectations are entertained of the probable diecovery of rich gold deposits in Australia, and prospectors, investors and schemers are flocking to that part of the world; thousands ars going to Western Australia. * if< 4< Z< 4< * 4* a 4< 4< 4< 4< 4< « Housekeepers Should Remember. | The Government Chemists, after having analyzed all the principal brands of baking powder in the market, in their reports placed the “Royal” at the head of the list for strength, purity and wholesome ness; and thousands of tests all over the country have further demonstrated the fact that its qualities are, in every respect, unrivaled. Avoid all baking powders sold with a gift or prize, or at a lower price than the Royal, as they in variably contain alum, lime or sulphuric acid, and render the food unwholesome. *' >* >* * ❖ >& >ir * & * >5 A Tennessee Patriarch, The Rev. Asa Routb, now residing at Piney Flats, Tenn., hag a record unequaled, perhaps, in the whole country. He is seventy- five years old, has been married tbrcc times, and is the father of twenty-nine children, eighteen girls aud eleven boys. He also has seventy-two gra idchildren, twenty -five great-grandchildren, and fifteen great-great-grandchildren. Five of bis children now live at home Ho has preached at every town in East Tennessee and Southeastern Ken tucky. He has baptized 900 converts, married 800 couples and officiated at 400 funerals. He is still in active min isterial service, is able to ride long distances on horseback, and three weeks ago, in a revival meeting at Bogcrsville, Tenn., led thirty sonls to Christ. He is well preserved and very zealous. His uame is a household word in this section, and his presence is re quired at alt solemn exercises.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There arc 237 Baptist churches in New Jersey, divided into six associa tions, 264 orJaiue 1 ministers, ninety- four licentiates, 202 pastors, and 42,* 507 church members. During the Iasi year there were raised $427,606.59, of which $337,037.48 were for current expanses. The State Convention aided forty-seven missions aud churches, and the total number of baptisms in thu churches of the State was 1777, The ITinntom City ot Glacisr Bay, During the past eight or ten yoarc a curious phenomenon has been regu larly observed at Glacier Buy, Alaska. It always occurs immediately after the fullmoou of Juno and at no other time during the year, aud is said to be a beautiful mirage of some unknown city suspended in the rarified air directly over the bay. A. Juneau (Alaska) photographer has takeu.pic tures of it on four different occasions, but so far no one has been able to identify a single one of thu ghostly buildings outlined on his plates.—St. Louis Republic. January ‘J, •• 15, Fchraarr^l, March 15,’ IJtMf*. *1 “ . IS “ • « » •• TOTA I., es ser cent. We hare said to oar easterners to VS dare. Froflts psl'l twlca each month; mousy con be withdrawn any time; *20 to $1000 can bs Inrestsdj write tor information. FIsHIElt iVCO., Bankers and llrakero. IS and -20 Broadway. New Yerh, W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHO* equals custom work, costing fro* $4 to $6, best Y«lue for the money In t^e world. Name and price stamped on the bottom, nitty lir warranted. Take no subfile tute. See local papers for rail description of our complete “fies for ladies and gen tlemen or send for //- lustrated CataUgua giving in- structions how to or- Postape free. You can get the bee lytit der by mail. 5W bargains of dealers who push our shoes. It your nearest, best and most esteemed neighbors had written tho following letters they could be no inoro worthy of your con- fidenco than they now are. coming, ns they do, from well known, intelligent and trust worthy citizens who, in their several ncigb- lorhoodo. enjoy tho fullest confidence and respect of all Mrs. F. L. Inmar, of Manton, IV’oxford Co., Mich., whoso portrait heads this article, writes as follows; “I began tolling Dr. Fierce's Favorite Prescript ion about a vrnr ago. For years I have cuffered with falling and ulceration of tho womb, but to-day, I am enjoying perfect health. I took four bottles of tho ‘Prescription’ and two of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery. Every lady suffering from female weakness should try tho ‘Prescription’ and ‘ Golden Medical Discovery.’" Miss Mary J. Tanner, North Lawrence, Ft. Lawrence Co., N. Y., writes: “I was sick for four years. For two years I could do no work. I had five different physicians, who pronounced my case a pour or impov- -rished condition of tho blood, and uterino trouble. I suffered " great deal with pain in both sides, and tnv tenderness on pressing ever the womb. 1 ..looted ot thnes in my bowels aud limbs; was troubled with leu- corrhea. I could not sleep, and was troub led with palpitation of tho heart. Suffered a peat deal of pain in my head, temples, forehead and eyes. I had a troublesome ‘cough, raised a great deal and at times cx- ,>crieneed a good deal of pain in my chest end lungs. My voice at times was very weak. I suffered excruciating monthly, periodical pains. Since taking seven bottles of Dr. fierce’s Favorito Prescription some tune ago, J have enjoyed better health than I have for more than four years previously: in fact, for several months post I have been able to work at sewing. 1 have gained in weight tiiirty-nino pounds since taking your medi cines : the soreness and pain have disap peared.” Yours truly, Chifcvl" cfl (few />u \ Mrs. Alex. Robertson, of Half Rock, Mer cer Co.. Mo., writes; ” For twenty years, I suffered with womb disease and moet of the tune I was in constant pain wdnch rendered life a great burden, I cannot express what I suffered. I had eight doctors and all the medicine I had from them failed—the ore after the other. 1 was nervous, cold hands and feet, palpif 3- tion, headacho, backache, constipation, leu- ccrrhea and no appetite, with beariug-down pain t 1 got so weak I could not walk around. I had to keep my bed, thinking I would never get any better. One day my husband-got one of your Ullle • books and read it to me. Ho said there was nothing doing mo nny good. I said I would try Dr. Pierce's Favorito Prescription. I.tjid try it. After the first few weeks myeppe- tite was better ; I was able to sit up m bid. I wrote to the World's Dispensary Medical Association, at Buffalo, N. Y., and deserlBod my case; they sent me a book ou woman's diseases. I read carefully and followed the dircetions as near as 1 could and took the medicine for two years. With tho blessing of God and your medicines, 1 ani entirely cured. That was three years ago." Yours truly, “ Favorite Prescription ” is a positive curs for the most complicated and obstinate cases of leucorrhea, excessive flowing, painful men struation, unnatural suppressions, and ‘irreg ularities, prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back, “ female weakhesa,” anteversion, retroversion, bearing-down sensations, chron ic congestion, inflammation and ulceration of tho womb, inflammation, pain and tendernees in ovaries, accompanied with ” internal beat.” The Book (163 pages. Illustrated) referred to above, is sent scaled secure from observation in plain envelope tor ten cents in stamps, to • i. Wi — " pay posta; out the mi rite for it. Tbo Book pointa means of successful Homo Treatment for nil the peculiar weaknesses and distressing diseases incident to women. Address World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Invalids’ Hotel aud Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y, Young —; Mothers We Offer You a Remedy Which Insures Safety to Life of Mother and Child ^-“Mothers’ Friend” Robs Confinement of Its Rein, Horror and Risk. “After using one bottle of ‘Mothers' Friend,' I suffered but little pain, and did not experience that weakness afterward usual in such cases.—Mrs. Annie Gage. Baxter Springs, Kas. Sent by express, chargrs prepaid, on receipt of price, 51.50 per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Book to Mothers mailed free. BMOFIELO KESULATOR CO., Attinti, 6a. ; teeoeooeeooooeeeoeeeeeeeee * McELREES’ ^ ::WINE OF CARDU1 i! ii For Female Diseases. 1