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p:. That Aihwrti Talk, aad •fpUlM Ui BCMWU nHh Illutn- 1:1, 10. H. CUsason, in For««t tad Stream.] - "Do animals talk?" repeated Peter. ,^0f course tliey does. The deucideet fntttnifcat thing happened here hat sea­ son, when I was in the woods all alone, foil e*er heerd tell on. •pSo#. Peter liked to be coaxed, and •o after considerable urging he went mi •'-Spp follow*: In "Of course you :fellows that git all Sfonr larnin' out of books, and who be­ lieve nothing 'cept what you can ex­ plain, won't believe a word on't, but it M jest as- truer as I'm sittin' on this ere j$ump, and don't you forget it! "Well, as I was saying, I was here ill alone, and one day sez I to myself, f l, b'lieveHl go and pick me a pail of ' sbrif. Bosbria was tarnal thick in e 9penin' ill the woods--it was along August, so I took my pail and started [.4 Everything was going along mo­ notonous like--I never did like pickin' Merriest- -till' I'd got the pail eenamost lull, when t' heered something coming &r^mgh the bashes, and afore I'd had 'TOUB ' to more than turn round out popped a big sleek black bear. He'd •:oin aberryin' too, and having got my ^indjust came around to see who it Slight be. Well, as I hadn't no gun, *ind as he kept a cumin' I thought it Were' best for me to get out o' there, 4|ut before doing so--knowing the Jondness of the creeter for berries, and besides bein' aware of his great bump curiosity--I set down the pail before :,?|akin' up the line of retreat. Not heariir of him oomin' arter me I rned around when I'd got up a little ill, and sure enough his nose was own in the berries, and a short job he %as making of them, I can tell you. It asn't long afore he'd got the last of em, but not bein' in the habit of eat- g from a pail the sweet juice that ined the tin had stuck to his cheeks, d so when he riz up to go the pail riz as putty a muzzle as you ever seed your life. Now everybody knows ow handy a bear is with his paw, and he didn't like sich an ornament for face and havin' no fuder use for the il, he riz his paw and gave it a slap, ut as bad luck would have it the paw cidentally hit the bail a tunk and ,nd sent it back Over his ears and so eld the thing on tighter than ever! never laughed so in all my life, for ich a performance I'd never seen the " es of in all my mortal day. First ne paw would come up and then the fcher; then he'd plow a furrer in the und; but there the thing stuck ;hter than ever. He was in for a new xperience and ho mistake. " 'Why didn't I go back to camp and C^et a gun and finish him?' Why, it 'veat all the circuses you ever thought 4>f, and do you suppose I'll spoil such a thow for a little bear meat and a sum­mer pelt? Well, all of a sudden, while L was watchin' the performance, off he J x)lted like chain-shot. Now bein' a little curious to know how he came out ||)f the scrape, I took the trail and i ollowed him up arter a little. 1 found Iris home not far off on the mountains Jyender. If you don't believe it I can ihow you his very den. It seems bruin ' |iad a wife and several small cliillun de­ ll >endent upon him for support, and | vhen they seed him comin' in such a Ijblight they howled a dreadful howl. SSThe old woman tried her best to pull ff the pail, but to no purpose, so .ally she made him hold his nose in e hot embers of her kitchen fire till e'd melted off the bottom of the pail, d afore I'd knowed it the whole thing ad been shoved back over his ears, nd so he was tricked out with a tin illar.. But it was a curious sort of a llar for a bear to wear, for it read: fifteen Ponnds of Leaf Lard, Warranted Strictly Pure. "But bruin's troubles had only com- enoed. He, like all othelr folks, had enemy, and enemies is alius waitin' or something to turn up to put us in heir power. So this particular enemy tually . had him arrested for sailing ound under false colors. In vain his lawyer put in the plea that the wearin' of the collar was an unintentional, act, ft thing thai couldn't be helped. The lawyer, pn tjie other side claimed'it was ft clear c&se of fraud and misrepresenta­ tion, and agin the statute book for a |>ear to call, himself fifteen pounds of J|eaf lard* when there was. nothing in- 'de his pelt corresponding; to it but 's 'fl©! And so they took him to rison, a great deep cavern with a big boulder to the mouth on't. "But- 'the < strangest part of the story Remains to be told, for as true as I'm ttin' on this 'ere stump, notwith- din' all the, guards they put over and; the security, of the prison, and the big boulder and all that, the very |bext day ho was out ag'in, and nobody. Hot even the high sheriff of the hull fregion, dare lay a claw on him." "How was that, Peter ? Please ex- lain the mystery," came from all the teners. "Why, that's easy enough," said Peter, with a wink in his eye. "He'd got bail, and they couldn't tech him no Iknore!" Of great ttftNfc The Royal Charter is ] the most notable instance of the wreck j of a "treiufnto" ship that we can just i now call to mind. She left Australia with £350,000 in her. Of this sum, says Charles Dickens in his chapter on this dreadful shipwreck, in the "Un­ commercial Traveler," £300,000 worth were recovered at the time of the novelist's visit to the spot where she had been driven ashore. --- London Telegraph. Beats Fiction. Among the younger realistic story writers of the day is Mr. Vanderpoole. He is the author of "Sebatana," and "Buhainab," and it is whispered by his friends that he wrote "Democracy." This young man, he is about thirty- two, is a living proof of the fact that romance may go hand in hand with realism. The story of his life beats anything from a sensational point of view that he has ever written. An American by birth, Vanderpoole comes from a notable French family. He is related to the late Madam Qeorge Sand, and also to the owner of the great Parisian journal, The Figaro. He writes as easily in French as in English. He is familiar with many languages, and is said to be well acquainted with several oriental tongues and dialects that have no written symbols. This remarkable young man acquired the greater part of his education while traveling over the world. His career as a wanderer was caused by a singular tragedy. The partner of Vanclerpoole's father misappropriated funds belonging to the firm. The elder Vanderpoole de­ cided not to prosecute, and his son, then a boy of 15. hastened to tell the good news to the little daughter of the fraudulent partner. While the two were talking the girl's father came up and dealt the boy a terrible blow with an ax. The weapon missed itd aim and went crashing through the girl's skull, sprinkling her horrified playmate with blood. The murderer fled the country, and young Vanderpoole started off to hunt down the man who had killed his little girl friend and ruined his father. The boy avenger went first to France, and then followed the fugative across Asia Minor. Sometimes he lost the trail, but he kept on until he picked it up again. Once in Tartary he was only three hours behind the criminal, but his horse broke down and he failed to capture him. The resolute youth went through Africa, the Orient, Alaska, and British America. Finally he lost the trail, and subsequently learned that the man he sought had been frozen to death in a house in Chicago which Vander­ poole had at one time lodged in. Vanderpoole did not pass through these wanderings without some strange experiences. In Central India he visited a shrine which foreigners were prohibited from seeing under pain of death. Disguised as a Musulman he made the trip in safety. Again he acted as the field correspondent of the Figaro in the Turco-Russian war, and had many hair-breadth escapes. He is now under"contract with that paper to go to the front in the event of a war be­ tween France and Germany. Such is a brief outline of the history of a war correspondent, traveler, ex­ plorer, linguist, and novelist, who is just entering his thirties. It fiction.--Atlanta Constitution. Tft- <f pla list Lost Treasure Ships. The memory of the loss of £1200,000 of silver and gold will survive the drowning of 1,000 souls in a coup There was the Lutine, for instance. She was of thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain Skynner, and she went ashore on the bank of the Fly Island passage on the night of October 9, 1799. At Sfirst she was reported to have had £600, \ <XH) sterling in specie on board. This ;*was afterward contradicted by a state­ ment that "the return from the bullion «, toflice makes the whole amount about r" • '£140,000 sterling." "If," I find in a co- temporary account, "the wreck of the unfortunate Lutine should be dis- j. covered, there may be reason to hope V, -.for the recovery of the bullion." '•* In the reign of James IL someEng- „ * lish adventurous fitted out a vessel to ' . search for and weigh out the cargo of a •i;*^.a*ich Spanish ship, which had been lost on the coast of South America. They succeeded and brought home £300,000, which had been forty years at the bot­ tom of the sea. Captain Pliipps, who , commanded, bad £20,000 for his share, "fand the Duke of Albemarle £90,000. A medal was struck in honor of this event in 1087. Theie was a very costly wreck in 1707. She was a Dutch East Indiaman, and foundered in a storm within three leagues of the Texel, taking down all ^hands but six and £500,000. The price of four such armadas as that of 1588 •went down in the last century alone in the shape of gold, silver and plate. She was the annual register ship, as the |term then was, and had in her 500,000 ^piastres and 10,000 ounces of gold on account, of the king, and twice that sum on the merchants' account, making her a very rich ship. She foundered, and no man escaped to tell how and when. In the same year the Dutch lost the Antometta, an Indiaman, and with her sank £700,000 sterling, besides jewels A Pretty Good Bad Boy. A good many years ago now, a small, bare-legged boy set out from his home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for an afternoon's sport with a gun. Ho rambled along, as boys will, with his eyes wide open fdr everything that came under them, as well as for the game that was the special object of his ex- Eedition, and lie had not gone far when e saw a chaise approaching, driven by the Governor of the State. The Governor was a very popular and distinguished man, who was being talked of for the Presidency, and we should not have liked the small boy if he had not been a little overawed by finding himself alone in the presence of so august a personage. He was equal to the occasion, however, and as the chaise reached him, he stood aside to let it pass and gravely presented arms. The Governor at once pulled up his horse and looked with amusement at the little fellow standing there as serious as a sentry, with his gun held rigidly before him. "What is your, name?" said the Gov­ ernor. "Thomas Bailey Aldrich," replied the bov, with a military salute. He was invited into the chaise, and though he lost his shooting, what was that in comparison with the distinction of riding into Portsmouth town with Governor Woodbury? This was forty years ago, and .since then Thomas Bailey Aldrich has earned a place among the foremost of Ameri­ can authors' by a series of books, some in prose and some in verse, which are distinguished by the purity of their tone, the refinement of their style, and the picturesqueness of their invention. One of them is called "The Story of a Bad Boy." and except that some of the names of persons and places are changed, it is so faithful a picture of the author's boyhood that it might be called an autobiography.--William. H. Ricleing, in St. Nicholas. Toothache Superstitions. In some parts of Sussex, England, there is a superstition that if you put on your right stocking, right shoe, and right trouser-leg before the left you will never have toothache.' To drink out of a skull and wear it round the neck, to apply the tooth to your own living but aching tooth, to put a double nut into your pocket, to pare your finger-nails and toe-nails, and wrap the parings in a paper--all are charms against the toothache. In other parts of England there is a custom of calling the toothache the "love-pain," for which the sufferer is not entitled to any commiseration. Whether he or she fully consents to this may, perhaps, be doubted.--Iron Times. Not Investing in Futures. "And is this to be the end of all ?" Said O'Reilly De Vere, as he seized the girl's hand. "This is about the size it," she re­ plied, coldly. "You tell me that your employer has refused to raise your B&l&ry ? " "Yes," cried the youth, eagerly; "but next year"-- "Excuse me," she interrupted, with arctic frigidity, "but I am not intesting in futures--not this week."--Tid-Bits. Willing to Do the Bight Thing. Dumley (irately)--I understand, . lob- in son, that you have said that I look like a monkey. Robinson--I believe I did say some­ thing of the sort, Dumley. - Dumley (threateningly)--'Well, you will have to apologize. Robinson-- All right, Dumley. The first time I see a monkey I'll apologize. Harped* Batar. Bachelors. The BepuWic of Switzerland ts the European oountry whose system of taxation mcjgt tresemblos our own. It is the only cBuntry where there is any considerable tax on property. The countries in which the aristocracy is more powerful generally raise most of their revenues by indirect taxes. In Switzerland the indirect taxes are of comparatively little importance. Com­ merce with the surrounding nations is practically free. In the assessment of local taxes the Democratic cantons are not content with a property tax, but most of them assess at a higher rate the property of the rich man than the property of the poor. A good many years ago this principle was adopted by Basle, Zurich, and several of the smaller cantons, and a law has recently been passed in Vaudby which this can­ ton also adopts the system of progress­ ive taxation. The Vaud law divides real property into three classes and personal property _ into Beven classes. The lowest class in each division in­ cludes property under $5,000. The rate of taxation'is 1 per 1,000. Estates that belong to the second class are taxed li per 1,000, and those belonging to the highest class are taxed 4 per 1,000. There is also a retrogressive tax upon earnings, and in this each in­ dividual is allowed in returning his in­ come to deduct $80 for each person de- Eendent upon him. It is easy to see ow different is the working of such a tax from the working of an indirect tax. An indirect tax upon sugar and salt, for instance, falls almost as heavy upon a man who has $300 as upon a man who has $30,000. According to the principle of the Swiss tax, the man who has $30,000 ought to pay more than 100 times as much as the man who has $300. By the Swiss principle, the man with an income of $300, who has a wife and two children dependent upon him, would pay no taxes at all, while a bachelor with the same income would pay upon $220. If, on the other hand, the revenue was raised by a tax upon sugar and salt, the mau with a family would pay a great deal more than a bachelor. The social justice of the Swiss principle is recognized by almost all recent writers on taxation, and we notice that it is gaining more and more favor here in America. One of the re­ sults of the Swiss system of taxation is the remarkably equal distribution of property in the country.--Christian Union. Jwh Billings' Scrap Book. The late Josh Billings told me once, says a Chicago Mail writer, that his first experience on the lecture platform was the making of him. "I had been writing a good deal," he Baid, "and the stuff was pretty well re­ ceived. At least I thought it was. I got it printed, and a good deal of it was paid for. I imagined that I was a little the biggest man in New York, and cer­ tainly the best known man outside the city, except* Greeley. I had made a scrap-book of my writings, and con­ cluded I would give readings from these. I made an engagement to give such a reading at a small town in New Jersey. I carried my book with me and put up at the one hotel in great style. The landlord did not seem re­ markably overawed by my presence, which was somewhat dampening. I gave him a half dozen tickets for the lecture. When I came on the platform there were but seven persons in the hall, six of them being from the hotel, and the seventh a small boy who came in free. When I got back to the hotel I called the landlord into my room and had him bring me all the old newspa­ pers he could find and a ball of cord. I took out my book, wrapped a dozen or so of newspapers around it, and then began winding the cord. I wound the entire ball about the bundle and tied the ends in a double knot. "The landlord had watched the pro ceedings intently, and when I had fin­ ished my wrapping he inquired what the proceedings meant. I told him I was going back to New York and go to work, and I did not propose to untie that book until I could do so in his town and before an audience that would fill the house. I went back to the city," continued Mr. Shaw, "and struck out on a new lead. Two years after I re­ ceived an invitation to lecture in this same town. I had been waiting for this. I took my old book and took it along to sefe how things looked. When I came on the platform I found an au­ dience so tightly packed that the last man had to leave his cane in the vesti­ bule for lack of room. I took out my book and unwrapped it before them, telling the story as I did so. It was this shutting up of the past and begin­ ning again that saved me--or at least made me what I am." Well-Preserved Meat. The River Viloui, in North Siberia, is frozen a greater part of the year. In the cold season the natives follow its course to the south; and as spring comes on they return. , It was during one of these migrations that an entire rhinoceros was discovered. The river, swollen by the melting snow and ice, had overflowed its banks and under­ mined the frozen ground, until finally, with a crash, a huge mass of mingled earth and ice broke away and came thundering down. Some of the more daring natives ventured neat and were rewarded by a sight wonderful in the extreme. A broad section of icy earth had been exposed, and hanging from a layer of ice and gravel was a creature so "weird that at first they would not approach it. It hung partly free, and had evidently been uncovered by the landslide. From the head extended a long horn, as tall as some of the chil­ dren, while behind it was another, smaller one. But the strangest feature of this curious monster was that it was covered with hair. At first, the astonished discoverers thought the creature was alive, and that it had pushed aside the earth, and was coming out. But the great rhinoceros was dead, and had probably been entombed thousands of years. The body was frozen as hard as stone, and the hair-covered hide seemed like frOzen leather, and did not hang in folds as does the skin of living species. Several months paseed before the animal was entirely uncovered, and so perfectly had nature preserved it, that it was then cut up and the flesh given to the dogs. The news of this discovery passed from native to native and from town to town, until it reached the ears of a government officer. He at once sent orders for the preservation of the car­ cass, but the flesh had already been de­ stroyed;* and now only its head and feet are preserved in one of the great museums of Russia.--Charles Freder­ ick Holder, in St. Nicholas. A MAP showing the distribution of 'fog on the various parts of the earth has just been published by Admiral T. de Bort. The observations upon which it is based wore made at 1,600 land and 112,000 marine stations. X Famous Itetfefttra. ̂ James Jackson, the famous State de- tecti e, resides in Sing Sing, and is gene ally in attendance at the prison. His duties are to examine carefully the face of e-ery convict ns he enters, and to scrutinize e* erv visitor in order to pre ent any discharged con ict from seeing his pals. Occasionally he has to make long journeys in pursuit of run­ away prisoners or to id ent fy criminals convicted in other States. He ne< er makes a mistake; if once he looks a man in the eye he will know him under »ty disguise, as he tells his man by the look of his eyes. Once an escaped convict had his nose pared down one-third, but .fa kson de­ tected him at once, notwithstanding*' this remarkable change of feature. Mr. Jackson is about 5 feet inches in height, about :~'5 yeaisold, of a light and sinewy build, with black hair and piercing black eyes, Ond is altogether remarkab'y handsome. He knows about 10,000 crfmiuals. and it is simply wonderful that he can distinguish the features of every one. I n his long journeys he eats very moderately, and always takes one Brandreth pill at night When mucb fatigued by the j jolting of the cars on his tiresome trips he uses two Allcook's I orous liasters on the small of the back, which give h'm renewed vigor, and < uiikl.- relieve him of all weariness. These are the only two remedies he uses, and he at­ tributes his vigor and remarkable health to Allcock's Porous Plasters and Brandreth's Pills.--Sing Sing {N. Y.) Daily Register. What Chailes King"ley's Daughters Bid. Let me tell you llbw we were taught to help those who helped ns in our dear old home at Eversley Hector v. Of course in a busy house, where ev­ eryone has work to do, the servants cannot be helped much week days, ex­ cept by thoughtfulness in little things. But there is the seventh day, when the children have no lessons to do. This was wh»t we were taught to look upon as the "helpers* day of rest, as far as we could make it so. In the morning breakfast was earlier than usual. While wo were breakfast­ ing the maids were emptying our baths, for they were too heavy for us chil­ dren. As soon as breakfast was over we trotted off to our rooms, made the beds, folded up and put away all our clothes, dusted--and in fact put things straight all around. Then we ran down to the dining room and laid the table for dinner; and capital butlers we all became, I assure you. By those means the maids were all ready, in their nice Sunday dresses, to go to church with us at 11. Dinner Sunday--no matter who was with us--was at 1 o'clock instead of 7. This was the only hot meal in the day. No cooking was done after I o'clock, as our supper was cold. At both din­ ner and supper the servants were sent away, and we waited at table. I laugh now when I think of the faces of hor­ ror of learned men or ga'lant soldiers who had come down to spend Sunday in the dear old rectory, or ridden over from Sandhurst or Aldershot to the morning service. The agonies they went through at being waited on by the daughters of the house! The struggles they made to be allowed to change their own plates! And their resigned submission when quietly told by their host: "It ia the way of the house." That was how we were made to help the faithful and devoted serv­ ants who spent their lives in helping ns. It was not much; but it gave them an almost free Sunday.--Hose King it- lev* in,Wide%Awake.s MB. T. J. MT RFHY, 61 Debavoice place, Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "1 was afflicted with sciatic rheumatism and found St. Jacobs Oil very efficacious." The White Man of the New Sooth. Indeed, it is the white man of the South more than the black that has been freed by the civil war; and the greatest blessing which has thns far re­ sulted to the South from the emancipa­ tion of the b*uthern slaves is its effect upon the white man of that region in transforming from him a dependent idler, or "gentleman of leisure," sup­ ported by his slaves, into an independ­ ent, self-reliant worker. We speak of the typical, representative Southern white man, not of all classes, for there were working white men in the old South, and there are idle white men in the new. But the white man of the new South is pre-eminently a worker as compared with the white man of the old South, who, if not an idler, was at least a man of multitudinous leisure. But having now been set free from that bondage to leisure and that contempt of labor which is inseparable from slave- holding, the representative of that re­ gion has become a new man, and has entered upon a new probation among tVe industrious races of the earth. If the old South had a contempt for the worker, the new South has a greater contempt for the do-notliing and the idler--for the man who does no hooest work, it matters not how white his skin or how full his exchequer. The "gen­ tleman idler" has lost caste in the South; he ia an institution of the past. --Century. A LEADING real-estate agent and private banker, Mr. Ira Brown, Chicngo, 111., writes: "1 feel it my duty to say of St. Jacobs Oil that I lay on my hack three months with rheumatism. I tried it, was cured, and have never been troubled sinoe." Smelling the Soul. A German physician, Frof. Jaeger, htm had the temerity to asset1! that he can smell the soul. German scholars have discovered, however, that the art of smelling souls was alreadv known in antiquity, and is mentioned in the Bible. They quote fr> m the Talmud Sanhedrin the following curious story: "Two and a half years J ar Coziba reigned. Then be said to the rabbis: 'lam the Messiah!' The rabbis ob­ jected to this assumption, and said: 'It is written about the Messiah that He judges according to the smell; if thou canst do it we wUl believe thee.' As he failed in the attempt tuey killed him." --Jtwish Messtnger. USE the great ppecific for "cold in head," ud eatarrh--Dr. Sago's Catarrh Remedy. The World's Oldest Tree. The annals of the Cingalese are said to contain an historical record of events extending back over a period of twenty odd centuries. These, with extenuve ruins, sueh, for instance, as those of the ancient cities of Anuradhapoora and Palonnaruwa, which are known to have been inhabited as much as 2,H00 years ago, show that the island was originally very thickly settled by a partly civilized and very energetic peo­ ple. The first-named city was the cap­ ital of the island for over 1,200 years after the^ fifth century B. C. In the fourth century B. C. the annals of Cey­ lon record that the city was presented with Buddha's begging dish, hio collar- bqne, and a branch of .that celebrated Bo tree under which he attained to Buddhahood. Nothing now remains of this ancient city but a mass of ruins, crumbling tombs, and the tree men­ tioned above. This relic of centuries has been flourishing for nearly 2,200 years, and is conaequently the oldest living tree in the world of which, we have any genuine record. It is one of the most sacred objects throughout the entire Buddhist world, and it is es­ teemed a virtuous act on the part of the pious to make a pilgrimage to it. Its fallen leaves are considered a great treasure, and are frequently carried to Sinn), Burmah, China, and Japan by pilgrims from those countries.--Ceylon Cor. Baltimore Sun.« , ; Success Wins. There is no disputing the trhtii bf the f«ot conveyed by that celebrated proverb of Horace ( reeley's: "Nothing succeeds like success." j Mr. Greele • evidently intended to convey the idea of tt.e general inclina- ; tion of the times to help "boom" any j enterprise that was successful, while ! the undertaking that lagged and real! needed aid and encouragement was ~ ! to shift for itself. | A story paper, however, must have 1 real merit before it will secure the I patronage and support of the public. I If it succeeds, it; is conceded that it | deserves success. It might be said that ; a story paper that deserves success will ; succeed, and its success is evidence of | merit. 1 he succesa of the Chicago Ledger is & flattering compliment to the man- | age men t, and it is hoped that the sup- ! port and confidence bestowed by an { appreciative public may be continued ' and sacredly maintained. The Ledger is successfully succeeding and certainly has a bright future before it. Persona desiring sample copies can secure them free by sending their names to the office. Don't fail to read the thrilling story, "Irene, or the Iron-Worker's Daughter," to begin in No. 19. 4ddreas, Chicago Ledger, ' 271 Franklin street^ Chicago, UL 'ally left Tor tlM ww of *114i(ordeal of the Stomach. LItw, ioweu, Sidney*. Bladder, Nervous Diaeaaes. Loaa of Appetite. Headnche, Ooativeneaa. Indigestion. BUkraa- FeTer. uflanitpation of the Pile*, and all derangement* of the Internal Tiacerm. 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The influence of civilization has greatly increased the consumption rate among the Indians, the effect seeming to be partly due to change of diet, and partly to causes not yet un­ derstood. • To Dislodge the Enemy, When It takes the form ot dtfease of the kid­ ney* or bladder, ia a task well nigh impossible of accomplishment. Renal and vesical mala­ dies are more obstinate than any others. Coun­ teract, therefore, the earliest indications of in activity of the many organs with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which possesses, among other excellent qualities, those of an efficient diuretic The degree of stimulation apparent from its use reaches, but never goes beyond, the bounds of safety. It invigorates always, never irritates Bright's disease, diabetes, catarrh of the blad der, are diseases successfully combated in their incipiency with this benign medicinal stimulant and tonic. Besides re-enforcing and regulating the kidneys and bladder, the Bitters is a specific for fever and ague, constipation and dyspepsia. JUDGING from the tightness of the arti de, it isn't every girl who can laugh in her sleeve nowadays. A CORRESPONDENT wishes to ask how editors ppend their leisure hours? They spend them in working. BEST MEIICIIE FOB FAMILY Ml II TNI WORLD I CURES AIL PAWS Internal or KxtamaL )R.RADWAYS fiOe %. •OLD BY PIL BMW A** OW IMlTJLTIOin. JUSK WOM jUL L1TTLB Heine entirely wemtaMe, erato without dtaturtwaoe w the if or occupation. Put up in mbm oally sealed. Always null am satisfaction. HASWA.TW SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT, L popitive cure for Scrofula sad all Blood aad SUa Vtoaafla RAMWAY Jk rn.. ft. T. Billons 1 Dlnineis, _ tlon, Kndl CSSSttMh nstflit Billons Attacks*andstt derangements of the stom­ ach and bowels, are prompt­ ly relieved and pennaaensly cured by the " ~ Pierce's Pic In explanation^! Pelleu over so great a variety of may truthfully be sakl that tfe * the system is universal, not a escaping their sanative influence, druggists, 25 cents a vial. Manufaetareds* Chemical Laboratory of WORLD'S DM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Buffalo, N. Y. ELY'S ^ ATA DI CBEAMBALHi TAW 1 teas cured before the second bottle of\ £ly"i Cream Baltn i exhausted. 1 i troubled tciih chronic catarrh1 gathering in head. difficulty in breath­ ing, and discharge* from my ears.--C J. t'orbin, 903 Chest nut Street, Phil a. "What Is Woman's Worth P' Asked a fair damsel of a crusty old bachelor. Ho did not know, so she saia: UW. O. luan' (double yon, O man). But a woman feale worth little if disease has invaded her Bye tern and is daiiy sapping lier strength. For all female weaknesses, Br. R. V. I'ioroe's "Favorite Pre Bcription" stand* unrivaled. It cures the com plaint and builds up the system Bend 10 cents m stamps for pamphlet to World's Dis­ pensary Medical Association, 663 Main street, Bnffalo, N. Y. A COCKNEY punster being asked by a friend his opiniod of a new pieoe of hall furniture, replied that he thought it very hat-rack-tive. Pierce's "Pieasanl Purgative Pellets," Positively Popular; Provoke Praise; Prove Priceless"; Peculiarly Prompt; Perceptibly Potent; Producing Permanent Profit; Pre­ cluding Pimples and Pustules; Promoting l'uiity and Peace. Purchase. Price, Petty. Pharmacists Patroniziug Pierce Procure Plenty. IT often happens that the coat of a swell bears a bnttonaire, while that of a tramp has nary a button. The Strongest Man In Ohio In said to be George C. Arnold, of Cleveland, 0., who less than one year ago, owing to chronic liver trouble aud Bright's disease of tflfii kidneys, weighed less than ninety-five pounds, but by using Dr. Harter's Iron Tonio lias gained in strength and weight until now he is admitted to be the giant of Ohio. Pros Cod Liver Oil made from selected livers on the sea-shore by Hazard, Hazard A Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and sweet Patients who have once taken it pre­ fer it to all others. Physicians have dec ded it superior to any of the oth r oils in market Tone best cough medicine is Plso'S Cure for Consumption. Bold everywhere. 25c. You Need It Now Thia ia the best time to purify your blood, for at no other aeaaon la the body BO suaccptible to benefit from medicine. The peculiar purifying and reWriwc qualities of Hood's Saraaparilla are just what are needed to expel disease and fortify the system against the debilitating effects of mild weather. Every year incrsasea the popularity^)/ Hood'a Saraaparills. for it is just what people need at this aeaaon. Hood's Sarsaparilla Tor years my blood was in an unheii'thy condition. Hjrlaga, arms, and face were covered with scrofulous humor, and all the medicine that I received of the physicians did me ne good. I was adviaed to try Hood'a Baraaparilla. After taking four bottles, the sore* were all healed up; and after using six bottles, which cost dm only five dollars. I was well and healthy as I ever was." FBSD i. H. WIBBU, liar coin, Mass. Creates an Appetite •Witt the first bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla my headache entirely disappeared, and where before I could not muster up an appetite for ray meals, I can not now get enough meals to satisfy my appetite. I am at present taking my second bottle, aud feel Uka a different person." WILLIAM LAXSIMG, Post Q. A. R., Xeenah. Wis. Hood's Sarsaparilla Hold by all druggists. $1; aixfortS. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD ft CO- Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar nraicmaio s»*n<i tor Pension ivi>vs to M. HrlVXilinN Clutm AKenta Fli'ZtiKltALD I Livuiunu & I'OWKl.l.. liulia:iapo)i°. Ind. OLD CHRONIC nLES~KS.£.t% MM cured by measures zpild.*afc,and certai.i. Write tor le/erence*. Iflt.Hmu N .Ciark st,. Clricsgo. PATENTS ̂ P. 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EclicticSkodtaasd lapmoM ran ran* HftfEVER S500SBB ijr, -- _ „ Chronic Kasal Catarrh which tbsy cannot cure. 8THVTOMS OF CATABBH.-DBIL heavy headache, obstruction of the noal passages, discharges falling from the herd into the throat, sometimes profuse, watanr* and acrid, at others, thick, tenackwe, moeoia, pnrulent, bloody and putrid; the eyes as ;nt, bloody and pu..n., ^ weak, wnrjr, and inflamed; there Is ringinff e^rs, deafness, backing or coughing to the throat, expectoration of offensive r, together with scabs from ulcers; MM is changed and has a nasal twang; the DALS-AWARDED* Bsckachs, WMkMMp Colds te C A P C I N E of tialUttnB* under SEWDTFTG DAMES. ASK RE* BlVSOX'a AND TARS MO --oral:*. THE-mestm ADVERTISERS w «(iMi*,wno wna to axamma this papet, or obtain attimatss On advertiting ipse* wHan in Chicago, will find it on file St 45 to 49 Randolph St., | f|Q|h • VII AM AC the Advertiting Agency of IsUHU tt I IIINUIwS PENSIONS. Metropolitan Block, Chicago, Ilia. DETECTIVES Wasted ia enry County. Shrewd men to aet under oat iutractioon 1 n our Secret Service, E iperienoa not neeea- MIT. lend •titmof»r particulars- ORaNNAK DKTKtJ" TITE BUREAU. 44 Arcade. Cincinnati, O. CHICHESTER'S ENQLI8H PENNYROYAL PILLS ly Genuine. /w-«?a The Original an* Onl d always Reliable. Jleware of weilhl-- tatfta Ladies, ask your nr«|(i>t '--"T*lil i hsatei*! h" and take no othtsr, or Inclose 4e. (stamna) tc paitfcmlara In letter by rtlara laaM. ST Eft CHEMICAL CO~ Saaara. PUUtUTPa. ywk«i*. A* fat "CMcha* yreyal Pltle. Take no etkw CHH'HKSTL SS1S Madlam ever] in the eq^s. clear the " matter, 1 voice is i „ brenth is offensive; smell and taste an te- paired; there 1s a aensatton of disshMO, wm mental depression, a hacking co eral debility. Only a few of the symptoms are likely to be present in case. Thousands ot cases annually, < manifesting half of the above symptoms, i*. suit in consumption, and end fn toe SIWWL No disease is so common, rnqpe deceptive aet dangerous, or less und< By its mild, soothing, Br. Sage's Catarrh RB eases of Catarrh. **e Ooryza, and Qsuurr! Sold by druggists "UntoM A|Osy Prof. w. HAUSNCR, the famous at Ithaca, N. F- writes: "8ome ten yean ago I suffered untold agony from ofcroafo oasal eatarrh. My family phrridsa gave ne> op as incurable, and said I must tfe. My ease wa* such a bad one, that every day,' set, my voice would become go 1 barely speak above a whisper. Ini my coughing and clearing of my tar almost strangle me. By«e uaeef . Catarrh Ketnedy, in three months, I was a man, and the cure has been permanent." «CeaatMrtly Hawkins ss4 THOMAS J. RUSHING, Esq., not Fins Stomt, St. Louis, Ma., writes: "1 wssagreat anffSrtr from catarrh for three years. At times I cooM hardly breathe, and was constantly hawM* and spitting, and for the last eight mootag could not breathe through the nostrils. I thought nothing could be done forme. Loek- ily. fwss advised to try Dr. 8ag«to_Qiitirtk Remedy, and I am now a well) it to be the only, sure req~ manufactured, and One fair trial to experience i a permanent cure." Three Bottle* Core Catarrh. BLI BOBBINS, Itunyan P. OR Cohmbia ON* pa., says: MMy daughter bad catarrh when Cured a bottle for hw, and soon saw ̂ helped her; a third bottfe effected a \ nenteure. She is now eighteen sound and hearty." .-a UKXTION THIS PAFBL Sleanlat St far market as Keveries* la ONK BAT THE VICTOR IllutraM elren |u BaUet fn*. x*W. cjmuccia* OstambM. S5 to aH a day. Samples worth 11.90, FREE, tines not under the horse's feet. Address Brewster's Safety iteiu Holder, Holly, Mich. anaranwni 'ffKSXlSTHU. rmall. Stoweliaaa ~ atowu, Mass. JONES Iron _Uv«n, 8u-« Bearing*, BriM ud Bturn Bos ft fteo. It* Scale. 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