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’ ) IfrlSE WORDS (' 1 ‘'ft e possibilhi** in a cus do not ^rove it Instruction is but an incidental part ol education. To educate is to unfold, and to in- struct ie to enfold. < breakfast-table or a long TOjage lor close acquaintance. Most men are willing to die lot their deuatry of old aga. Once your friend does you an ill turn he will never forgive you. Inheritei wealth does not neces sarily reader a man despicable. Loosen your grip on others some- Iflmes, but never upon yourself. Most women nowadays are fair Just in proportion as they are falser Longing for the future has its pendent in regret for the past. Imagination is what makes a butter fly of the grub called observation. No one knows the right way so well as one who has once been misled. Sometimes genius may be bound or barred for a time, but she will out. To enjoy one’s work is no less neces sary than to enjoy the definite result of it Emergencies occasion substitutes, and nature is the first adept in the art of substitution. It must be an un isuil an l peculiar case which can require a perton to so far forgive anl forget an injury as to place himself in a position to invite a repetition of the offense. , Burie 1 in *a Ingot of Steel. "Ever ybody has read Mark Twain's story of the man who got woven into fourteen yards of carpet, how they gave the strip containing the remains to his widow, who had itbnried (land ing up for a monument,’’ said O. P. Wesley, of Baltimore. "Well, that was a funky enough conceit, but when I was traveling in England six or seven years ago, a thing occurred in aotasl life which discounts the carpet story. A workman named Moriarity waa en gaged in casting metal for the manu facture of ordnance, at Woolwich arsenal, when he lost his balance and fell into a huge ingot containing twelve tons of molton steel. The metal was at white heat, and of course the nn- fortunate man was utterly consumed in l^i time than it lias taken me to teU it. ^he English respect for the deiul Js praise-worthy enough, but in this instance it waaoarried to a ridicu lous extreme. The solemn old fogies of the War Department held a confer ence and decided not to profane the dead by using the steel in the manu facture of ordinance, and that enor mous chunk of metal was actually in terred, and a Church of England clergyman read the services for the deal over it.”—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Msw a Chinese Official Lives, -h.v bina little time is devoted by Ihe natives to amusement and reorea- jtiou,” said Lieutenant O. P. Florence last night "To the poor, who form Wn immense majority of the popula tion, life is a never-ending straggle against starvation. The middle class nre extremely busy, but take life more leasily. Many of the offioiala have {leisure time, but those who are high office and in favor with theEm- iror are sadly overworked. I once iked a member of the Chines* {Cabinet for a statement of hia daily routine. He told me that he left Lome every morning at 2 o'clock, as tie was on duty at the palaoe from 3 (until 6. As a member of the Privy Council he was engaged in that body from 6 till 9. From 9 until 11 he was nt the War Department, of whioh he was President Being a member of the Board of Punishment, or Suprema Court he was in attendance at the of fice of that body daily from 12 till 2, nnd as one of the Senior Ministers of e Foreign Office he spent every day om 2 until 6 in the afternoon there. These were his regular daily duties, •nd, in addition to them, he was fre quently appointed to serve on special boards or committees, and these he sandwiched in between his other du ties as best he oould.”—St. Louis .Globe-Democrat. Nervous Troubles Originate in Impure Blood Therefore the True Method of Cure Is to Take HOOD’S Sarsaparilla Which fares Nervousness, Dyspepsia. Kcrofula, Salt Bheum, Catarrn, Rheumatism and other Diseases, because It Purifies The Blood Be sure to get HooVe and only Hood's. Hood's Pilla are the best family cathar tic, gentle and effective. Try a box. Sic. McELREES’ : WINE OF CARDUI. A VAST NATIONAL EVIL, HORRORS OR ABUHTHR DRINKING IN FRANCK. Its Chief Ingredient is Wormwood, and It Poisons the Body and Burns the Brains of Its Viotima. P UBING the Algerian war, which lasted from 1814 to 1847, the French army were '■awe in danger from African fever* thaii from Algerian enemies. Several things were tried as antidotes or preventives by the skilful army physicians. Finslij absinthe was hit on os the most effective febrifuge. The soldiers were ordered to mix it in small quantities three times a day with the ordinary French wine. The luckless, happy-go-lucky privates grow to like their medicine, whioh at first they swore at bitterly for spoiling with its bitterness that beautiful purple vinegar they fondly fancy is wine. Bat when absinthe alone began to usurp the time-honored place of claret in the affections of the French army, the evil became an unmixed one. Absinthe straight as a beverage is a direly different thing from absinthe mixed as a medicine os an occasional tonic. The victorious army on their triumphal return to Parte brought the habit with them. It is now so wide spread through all classes of Parisian society-—and Paris gives the one to France—that French men of scienci and publicists regard the custom of absinth* tippling as a vast national •ril. The consequence of tho nee—and use of this drug ripens to abuse, even with men of unusual will power—has been in France disastrous to a dread ful degree. Many men of remarkable brilliancy have offered np their brains •nd their lives on the livid altar of absinthe. Baudelaire, who translated •11 Poe’s works into French, had a terrible grotesque .passion for the £leMaut green poison. In one of hia mad freaks this minor French poet actually painted his hair the same tint as the beverage that corrode 1 his brain, posaibly from an odd fancy to have the outside of his head corre spond with or match the inside. Paul Verlaine, a French literateur and criminal, still living, who had a poem in the May number of Mr. As tot’s English magazine, is another absinthe fiend, and Gay de Maupassant is re ported to have burned his brains away with the same emeraldme flames. The brain diaease caused by this drag is considered almost incurable. Far worse than alcohol or opium, it can only be compared to cocaine for the fellness of its clutch on poor humanity. Yet, we take it occasionally as an after dinner settler of digestive debts in this oonntry, and quite often as an appetizer or tonic before meals, while in New Orleans, throughout the older quarter, little cabarets, devoted almost exclusively to the sale of it, are quite common. What, then, is this dreadful drink composed of,, and how is it made ? The answer is easy enough, though the process, to insure perfection in the evil, is not so. Absinthe may be tech nically described as redistillation of alooholio spirits (made originally from various things, potatoes, for instance), in which to give it the final character, absinthium with other aromatic herbs and bitter roots are ground ' up, or macerated, in chemist Hugo. The chief ingredient is the tops and leaves of the herb artemisia absin thium, or wormwood, whioh grows from two to four feet in great pro fusion under cultivation, an l which contains a volatile oil, abs/nthol, and a yellow, orystaline, resinous com pound, called absinthin, whioh is the bittsr principle. The alcohol with which this and the essentials of other aromatic plants are mixed holds there volatile oils in solution. It is the precipitation of these oils in water that causes the rich dondiag of the glass when the absinthe is poured on the cracked ico; doable em blems or warnings of the clouding and the cracking of the brain if it is taken steadily. Thus every drink of the opaline liquid is an object lesson in she mist ry that carries its own moral The continued use of tin absinthe gives rise to epileptio -rmptoms ns an external expression of tho profound disturbance of the brain and nerves. One large dose of the essence of ths wormwood, indeed, has been noted as oaasing almost instantly epileptiform convulsions in animals. But the drug is not without its uses from a broad point of view. As the name implies, it is an anthelmintic, or a pretty sure care for certain kinds ol animal life that sometimes infest the intestines of men, - causing pain and death. This peculiar property was well known to the Greeks, who had a wine infused with wormwood called absinthites. The first effects of it are a profound serenity o' temper and a slight heightening of the mental powers, coupled with bodily inertia. This is the general rale, but as a famous phy sician once remarked of a dreadful disorder in his lectnre-foom, "Gentle men, the chief glory of the beautiful disease I am now explaining is the re markable variety of its manifesta tions.”—New York World. Grasshoppers by the Bushel. The State of New Hampshire pays $1 a bushel to farmers for grasshop pers that they destroy. The hoppers hatch out in the first part of June, and the farmers have found that this is the best time for destroying them by plowing them under. A machine, which consists of two shallow pans of tin or galvanized iron eight feet long and two feet wide, anf having a back eighteen inches high, is used to catch the half-grown hoppers, whioh are active enough to hop away from the plow. The pans are filled with kero sene and water, and are run over the grass at s rapid rate. The grasshop pers jump up in their terror and fall back into tne kerosene. —New York Advertiser. Ob'; ol Ike Karest oi Backs. It is reported, notes the Critic, thal a copy, in excellent condition, ol Poo’s “famerlrtne” (1827), one of tbs rarest books in the world, lias recent ly been discovered nnd is held at 31621. It is Ktiid to have been picked np in a second-hand bookstore in Bos ton sixty years ago and to have re mained in the possession of the pur chaser over since.—Chicago Record. NEWS AND NOTES FOB WOMEN* Tarn down collars are a new feature of capes. There are in the United States 30,- 600,000 women. The tinkling, jingling chatelaines are coming back again. Less severe than the English shape* are the French sailor bats. Women gardeners are in great de mand in England and Germany. The latest fad in underclothing Is white silk garments, trimmed with black Isoe. In Astoiia, L. L, many of the larg est hot houses are controlled and man aged by women. Deer Isle, Me., has women for town stewards, ascessor of taxes and super- intendent of schools. "Onids” dislikes intensely to shake hand*, a salutation she pronounces to be of all forms the most valgar. The origin of the bustle is not known, but it was worn by French ladies of fashion as early as 1598. Some late fashion notes are to the effect that the long reign of wool for street costumes is waning in favor of silk. Greyhounds, roosters, lizards and tortoises are made in gem jewelry for the women who like those pin da- signs. Open work embroidered ecru bah iste, lined with white or colored silks, is used for full vests in black silk gowns. Cotton grenadines are exceedingly dressy. Like the silk and wool fab rics, they are lined, and with charm ing effect. i Mrs. Fleming, the assistant of Pro fessor Pickering at Harvard observa tory, has recently discovered four acw variable stars. Hair cloth and alpaca skirts mad* with three ruffles up the back and s steel in the bottom are prophetic oi the crinoline scare. Yachting dresses are made of cream white or bine serge, with red sailor collar, cuffs and panel trimmed with gilt braid and buttons. Moire ribbons in delicate colors and chine patterns are in use for trimming black dresses and giving a touch of coior to black orepon gowns. The health oi Miss Florence Night ingale has been steadily failing ainoe the death of her brother-in-law, Sir Harry Verney, with whom she made her home. In New Orleans one of the finest or chestras is composed entirely of wo men, and the leader and her corps of well trained musicians are seen at every entertainment of note in that 8*7 city. Long jackets full at the bottom pre vail. They have applique embroid eries of braid and cloth and are trimmed with enormous buttons. White cloth revers wristband and col lars are considered smart The height of elegance in garniture is realize! by the association of lac* and jet. One choice trimming of this kind presents a succession of fans made of jet beads and oaboohons and edged with box plaited point d’esprit lace. It has been decided that the deacon esses of the Methodist Chnroh shall wear black gowns, with gathered or plaited skirts, bishop sleeves, round waists, tarn down collars and white cuffs. They may "friz” their hair if they desire to do so. A new dress material is called "Ven etian,” and is to take the place of cashmere; and a silk cheek called "Scotch llama” is very soft and fine in texture. Tiny checks are becom ing very popular for walking dresses, bicycling costumes, etc. Married women are being deposed from service in the pnblio schools of the Australian colony of Victoria. Under a new law when a woman mar ries she must resign her place. The main deeign of the change is to give advantage to single women. Six weeks ago a young ftirl, who lives in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., applied a bleaching preparation to her hair, •nd since then she has been eonfined to her be! with threatened congestion of the brain. Her hair and the skin on her head have both come off. Black stockings, either in silk, lisle thread or balbriggan, remain in favor. Tan colored are the only rivals, whioh are often chosen to go with tan suede slippers. With evening toilets, stock ings match the slippers, whioh are of satin, moire or material of dress. The most delicate tints in fancy straws are to be found this season both in hats and bonnets. Among the new dyes are pinks from deep rose color to palest cameo shades, violets from pur ple to rosy mauve, green shading from Morel to faint sea and willow dyes; also tints in bine from marine to sil ver and tnrqnoise, and grays from stone color to silver white. A most dainty fan for a young lady is of white mother-of-pearl, each stick wreathed with tiny pink roses and en riched with gilding. The ornamenta tion is interrupted by an inch-wide band of veil am, gracefully painted with wreaths of flowers. Above this the sticks are again seen and are richly gilded. The leaf is of white silk, and has soft, green medallions. surrounded by silver spangles. Miss Julie R. Jenney, ( daughter of Colonel E. S. Jenney, one of the best known lawyers of Central New York, has been admitted to the bar at the general term in Syracuse. Miss Jen ney was a member of a class of twelve law students, all young men except herself, who were examined at the same time. The examiners say that she was splendidly successful and pre dict for her a brilliant career. The capability of Miss Wilkinson, who ia the successful landscape-gar dener ol the Metropolitan Public Gar den Association of London, has sug gested to American women a new vo cation that may in time be opened tc them, a vocation both healthful anti delightful. Asa step towards it it is proposed by a number of people in Philadelphia that six young women having a taste for out-of-door life study forestry under a specialist. 8. V. Mitchell, of Gresnc Lake, Mich., has in his possession tho petri fied remains of a duck recently dug ud at Marauette. BUTTER FOR THE NAVY. AIQ CONTRACTS ARB XADB TO SOPFDT UNCUS SAITS SHIPS. Fifty Thousand Pounds Purchased at a Time-How the Butter is Packed and Inspected. ASKED Paymaster-General Stew art of the United States Navy, who is the Commissary General for that branch of the pnblie ser vice, where he gets the butter that is used by the officers and men on Uncle Sam’s ships st sea. "We advertise every spring in the newspapers for butter, just as we do for any other kind of supplies,” he replied, "and then we send out speci fications to the different manufactur ers throughout the country for the in formation of bidders. These specifi cations stipulate that we shall be fur nished with extra creamery batter, made in June or October, put up in tins and packed directly into the tins at the place of manufactnre. The tins must be made of the best charcoal tin, redipped before soldering, each tin to contain three pounds, the weight of the tins not included. The tins must be packed in sawdust, in snb- stancial wooden boxes, two dozen in each, with two hoop-iron straps around each box, one at each end. Each tin mast be carefully wrapped in paper, the tops of the boxes fastened with screws, and the tins and boxes marked with the contents, the name of the contractor and the date of the packing. Directions for opening must also be placed on each package, and an instrument for opening the tins must be furnished with each 600 pounds of butter. Contractors mast guarantee that the butter (hall keep in good condition for two years from the date of delivery. ’ "How much do you usually bur, and where does it come from?” "We usually call for about 60,000 pounds aud give the contract to ths lowest responsible bidder, bnt we are always very careful to ascertain if the bidder is responsible and whether he knows how to do the business, beoanse we do not want to send our boys to sen with bad butter and no prospect of getting better. A Boston firm has furnished our supplies for several yea s, but last year a new company, whose dairies are in Western New York, put in a lower bid and got the business. Before we gave them their contract I sent ont an inspector to ex amine their dairies and their process of manufacture, which turned out to be satisfactory. After they had been doing the work for a few months I happened to meet the Boston man, and he asked me how the butter con tract was going on. I replied that it was all right and then learned that he had sent a man ont to watch his com petitor for several weeks to see whether the work was being properly done. ” "Where are the Boston firm’s dairies?” "Tpey are situated somewhere in Iowa, and all the packing is done ont there They furnished the batter to the navy so long, and the result was so satisfactory, that wo permitted them to do it without inspection.” "Does the butter keep well for two years?” “After a can of batter has gone aronnd the world and np and down the tropics from one temperature to another, and melted and hardened three or four times, you cannot expect it to be as good as it was when it came ont of the dairy, but it seldom gets so bad thrt one cannot eat it. In fact, under tho circumstances it is usually very satisfactory.” "Have you ever used the foreign butter—that which is packed in Hol land and Denmark for the tropical trade?” “Yes, we have used a good deal of it, but under the Mw we are compelled to purchase all our supplies in the United States, except in emer- geueies. The Danish batter is very fine. I think I would rather take my chances with it for a long voyage than the American prodnet. They put it np beautifully in glass jars, and their method of packing is probably su perior to that used in the United States, but at ths same time it is much more expensive. The Danish batter psoked in glass jars costs from sixty to seventy cents a pound, while oars pecked in tin oosts from twonty-two cents to twenty-five cents by the quantity. We are now paying under the present contract 24 4-10 cents a pound. I have never need the Holland butter, and know very little about it ” "Do the Danes and the Dutchmen use a good deal of our oleomargarine and cottonseed oil to adulterate their butter?” "I do not know. Of course, I have heard of such things, bnt I have never made an investigation, and have no reliable information on the subject" —Chicago Record. One Yioiv of Higher Edneation. When a'girl is making good, whole some bread, digestible pies and cake, snd keeping s house homelike and comfortable for her father, mother and brothers, it is said she is missing the "higher education” necessary to a woman's life. This "higher educa tion” is one of the mushrooms that grow in the brain of poets, spiritu alists, theosophisis snd fools. It means that her father, mother and brothers should be content to eat soggy bread and grow dyspeptic on canned goods, while she sits on the bark of s stream and reflects upon a lot of things that do her harm. Every good and usefnl woman avoids what is popularly known as the "higher life,” the literal meaning of whioh is the higher fool ishness.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. The Greatest af Equilibrists. No one has really seen a stork until he has watched him stand on one leg beside his nest. After one has seen this feat he is sure it was a stork. Nothing in the animal kingdom is mors marvelous than ths way this great bird can balance his long body on s piece of bone whioh is no thicker than a wheat straw, and to behold also the perfect ease with whioh he goes to sleep while still poised in this critical poaition. —Philadelphia Telegraph. Jt’rtaco ticca :;p anumii biikinces with bur cviccica oi jflTo.OOO.iHi'J. CHILDREN’S COLUMN, ratus. When skies are bins And threaded through With skeins ot sunlight spangles, And breezes blow Quite soft snd low Amid the tree-top tangles. When summer has the world in thrall. And joy is sovereign over all, 'Tls curious that a little bird Should utter such a wistful word As “Poor me! poor mo!” When days are long. And limbs are strong, And blithe with youth the season | When everything Is tuned to spring ana rhyme, and not to reason j Whan life is all a holiday _4(k naught of care and much of play, ■Tls sinful that a little maid Should such complaining words have said As “Poor me! poor ms I" —Julik II. LirntANN In St. Nicholas. OBAVKTA3D FOB DOOS. . London hss a pet dog cemetery. In this town when a very dear and be loved doggie dies he must be buried all alone by himself, because the regu lar cemeteries have officials slid lol owners who object to receiving other than human corpses within their gates. The London Dog’s Cemetery is near the Victoria Gate in Hyde Park. In the rear of the gatekeeper’s lodge is a plot of ground which looks like a tiny garden. In the midst o* the flowers, however, are a number of small marble tombstones arranged in rows, each bearing some tender in scription, with tiny gravel paths be tween snd an arch of ivy to greet tho the spectator, one counts about forty of these pretty tokens of remem brance. “Poor Little Prince" is the inscrip tion over the grave of the Duke of Cambridge's dead-snd-gone pet- Oth ers among the dead have the names of Jack, Tip, Topsy, Flo, Sprite, Vic, Darling and Zoe. Each grave has its well-trimmed bushes of evergreen, and here and there are ornaments in the shape of large white shells. Very few people in London, apart from those whose pets sleep their last in this peaceful little spot, are aware of its existence. Should it be dupli cated on this side of the Atlantic, there is no donbt the tiny burial plots would be readily sold. The Pet Dog Society, for instance, would naturally be interested in such an institution, and many tender-hearted women and some animal-loving men would be glad to bury their dead pets in just this sort of a place.—New York Journal. ASSAILED BY WILD HOC 8. In "Recollections of the Early Set tlement of the Wabash Valley” the author relates an adventure with wild hogs whioh befell him in 1835. As the reader is aware, droves of hogs left to wander in the woods and forage for themselves sometimes become fierce and dangerous. I was strolling along the bank of the Wabash, says the writer, at some distance from my brothel’s cabin, when I suddenly heard a confused cracking of bushes,rattling of stones and gnash ing of teeth, with a loud boo-boo-oh from the ravine below. Instantly I realized the terrors of my situation; it was one of the droves of wild hogs of which my brother had spoken warn- ingly. I took to my heels and ran to the summit of the hill, making for a large oak tree with the intention of climb ing it On my way I seized a stout maple limb. The trunk was so lofty that I was unable to climb the oak, but I stood with my back against it and faced my assailiants, which were now upon me, squealing and grunting fiercely, a dozen of them. I shouted for help and wielded my bludgeon with good effect The hogs were eager to get at me. First one and then another would advance, snap ping its ugly jaws. A blow from my club would send it squealing to the rear. My brother had told me that these hogs would make nothing oi devouring a man, clothes and all, ii they got a chance at him. For fifteen minutes I kept them at bay with my olub, but they were be coming bolder and fiercer. One had torn a piece from my pantaloons, and I was fearful that I shonld be unable to hold them off longer, when, to my relief, I heard my brother's voice. He soon came up, gun in hand. Ha had heard my cries for help. The loud report of his gun frightened the hogs, aud with many loud oophs and squeals they scampered down the hiil But for this fortunate arrival I probably should not be slive to tell this tsle. —Atlanta Constitution. There is a plant in Jsmtica called the life plant, because it is almost im possible to kill. A $50,000 Hand-Organ- Stuart Robson, the comedian, has what ho calls a 350,000 hand-organ in his baru at Cohasset. That organ was one of tho properties of “The Cadi,” an ill-starred play on which Mr. Rob son lost 350,000. The band-organ i* all that tho comedian saved ont of the wreck. In spite of tho fact that it thus becomes the mos 1 expensive hand- organ in tho world it is devoted wholly to the amiiseL'. nt of tho chil dren.—Buffalo (N. Y.) Express. POWDER' i Admitted to be \ the finest prep* aration of the ' kind in the mar ket. Makes the best and most wholesome bread, cake, and biscuit. A hundred thousand unsolicited testimo nials to this effect are received annually by its manufacturers. Its sale is greater than that of all other baking powders combined. ABSOLUTELY PURE. •‘Dead” Language*. "The expression, Mead language* is almost constantly used in a mislead ing connection,” said Professor Ar thur Dutton, of Boston. “There sre doubtless hundreds of dead languages, of which none bnt antiquarians have any knowledge, but the dead lan guages taught in our universities and eolleges have a good deal of life left in them yet. The n*me is almost uni versally applied to Greek, Hebrew aud Latin. A quarter of a century ago it certainly looked as though Greek was dying ont of existence altogether, but since modern Greece has surprised even its best friends by tho new life it has taken up, the purest Greek is be ing spoken in aud around Athens. It is quite a mistake to suggest that mod ern Greek differs so much from that of the former rulers of the world that tho man who knows one cannot under stand the other. Tho tendency of modern times has been rather to bridge over the differences, and the Greek now spoken is very pare. Not only is Latin in nse now among chnrcb dignitaries and others with scarcely any variation since the days of Virgil and Ciesar, bnt there are thonsands of people in Enrope who use it in their everyday life, although, of course, it is not at all like tho language of the Italians. As to Hebrew, it has always been maintainad in its parity, and cannot by any stretch of reasoning be regarded as a dead language.”—St. Lonis Globo Democrat A Wcnuerlul Mosaic. ,1 A pictnre, measuring scarcely more than 5x8 inches in its frame, and yet composed of 49,000 minute pieces of natural-colored woods, has just been hung upon the wall of Memorial Hall. This wonderfnl triumph of mosaic work was put. together by an Italian artist, of coarse, i*« builder having been Professor OaraUini, of Florence. It was sent over the sea to tho World’s Fair, and finally came to find a rest ing place in tho Industrial Museum. It represents Christopher Oolumbus on the Santa Maria at the moment of discovery, when the sailors are crying, "Land! Land I” It is a remarkably beautiful mosaic of marqnetorie. The gift was made by Catnello Biochardi, an Italian, who represented the Royal Siamese Commission at the White City.—Philadelphia Record. An Ironclad Rafit-oal. A railroad whioh the Germans have built in Asia Minor, extending from Israid, a harbor about sixty uiles oast of Constantinople, east by south 303 miles to Angora, has as little woo! in it, perhaps, as any in the world. Not only the rails and bridges, bnt the ties and telegraph poles are of iron, nine- tenths of it furnished by German works; and ohiefly by Krapp. There :'re no less than 1200 bridges on tho line, one measuring 590 feet, one 445. and three 327 feet. There are sixteen tnuneis, the longest measuring 1430 foot. This is the only railroad which iivuctratcs into the interior of Asiatic Turkey. —Railroad Gazette. SEVERE EXPOSURE Oft** result* in cold*, fever*, rheumatism, neuralgia and kindred, derangements. We do not “ catch cold " if we are In good condi tion. If the liver is active, andube system in consequence doing its duty, we live in full health and enjoy life “ rain or shine.” To break up a cold there’s nothing so valuable as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets They keep the whole system regulated in a perfectly natural way. If we do not feel happy, if we worry and grumble, if we are morbid, if the days seem dreary and long, if the weather is had, if things go awry, it la the liver which is at fanlt. It ia generally “torpid.” A common sense way is to take Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets We generally eat too much, take insufficient exercise, by means of which our tissue-changes become indolent and in complete. Be comfortable—you are com fortable when well. You'll be well whan you have taken " Pleasant Pellets.” No Constipation follows their use. Put np sealed in glass —always fresh snd re liable. W. L Douglas CUfflF IS THI BIST. V O valwEs Non<aucAKiN& ♦5. CORDOVAN, FRINCH&EN/WEUfDCALT Vfl.MFlNECAlf&IOlNeAffia ♦ 3.W POLICE, 3 Soles. *2.*!.^? BoyjSchoolSmei •LADIES- a SEND FOR CATALOGUE F W'L.'DOUGLAS, ' BROCKTON, MASS. Tea can save money by wearing the W. L. Donslae 83.00 Bhee. Decease, we are the largest manufacturers ol this fradaor shoes la the world, and guarantee their ealuo by stamping tho nsmo and price on th* bottom, which protect you agalnat high prlcea aud th* middleman's proflts. Our shoes equal custom work la style, easy fltting and wearing qualities We have them sold everywhere at lower prlcea for the value given than any other make. Take no sub •State. If your dealer caaaot supply you, we coa. Mystery ol lutlMu Corn. Tha Indian corn, or maize, was first found under cultivation by the na tives. Its origin bos never been de termined beyond all question though many ingenious guesses have been cur rent. Dr. John W. Harshbergor, of tho University of Pennsylvania, has recently made a botanical and econo mical study of the plant, nnd contends that its original native homo must have been, "in all probability,” north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and south of the twenty-second degree north lati tude, nanr the ancient sent of the Maya tribes.—Now York Independent. An ordinary teacup holds about six ounces of fluid and a tumbler about tea. Hull’s Catarrh Cure Is a Const it ut ional Cure. Price 75c. Jatax Is to have an exposition In 1895 a* Hyogo, the old capital ot the empire. Ks'’ a Clover Root, the great btoo-1 purifier, gives freshness and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation, 25 cts., 51) cts., it. Ths German Colonial Society urges’m- perUI notion for n German protectorate over Samoa. KNOWLEDGE comfort and Improvement and lends lo persons! enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with lew expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the heeds of physical being, will Attest the value to health of tho pure liquid laxative principles embraced In tin remedy, Bvrap of Figs. It* excellence is due to its presenting kt tit* form most acceptable and pleas ant to tiie taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative: effectually cleansing the system, lling colds, headaches and feven permanently curing constipation, [t has given satisfaction to millions wad met with the approval of tho medical profession, because it sets on ths Kid- ■sys, liver and Dowels without weak ening them and It ia perfectly fra* from svsry objectionable substance. 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