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A~yt v<* ^ v ^ , > ,'H. » JWSSSWRRffl^Sfc Ipv; % '™~^->:^'i\v* :y'*-'- fm .•,-;<* l> . f.V* > m? T* - C e -**+ i" ' ""' f 'k}?<0, isos JONES JS EXCU1SI05. v /, "Been shopping for your wife, «&?* goavely asked the stranger. ?V "Yes," replied Dusenberry, as he glaaoed complacently at the packages • Opread upon his knees and on either side •. of him on Che seat of the car. S' , * "Shopping is a terrible bore to me, !Rnd I never get anything right," re­ marked the stranger. "Ycu had every Item written down, I suppose." . "Blessyou, no!" protested Dusenberry. . *1 would scorn to do that. It would be ./'7* admitting a weakness in my mental "structure. I have trained myself to (le­ nd entirely upon my memory, and ere isn't a better school for the mem- j|»ry than a shopping excursion." • ' "And do you think that you have everything that you were ordered to -sbring--the shade, the quality, the quan­ tity, and all that?" "Why, to be sure!" declared Dusen­ berry; "got such matters down real fine." "Then, sir, I envy you," commented ihe stranger, with a sigh. v When Dusenberry arrived at home •with his parcels he could not make his boasting good. In fact, he had made a terrible mess out of his errand. His txiemory had played liim falsely in every Instance. His wife tried to be patient over it all, but she couldn't. There hasn't grace enough to offset the provo­ cation. "What have you here?" she asked, ./^hatching at a large package. "Hazel- fc .', Huts? I didn't order any." "I guess they are nutmegs, my dear," K|.' Dusenberry said. i?" she almost screamed. iv fe: I "Nutmegs?" v*How many?" \ ' "Five pounds." " "Oh, you simpleton! Five pounds of fratmegs! I told you to bring three trances." "Did you, my dear? Well, I thought "there were a good many nutmegs, and -they cost dreadfully." "What's this?" she asked.' "A yard Of sateen. I told you five yards of satin. This is of no earthly use to me." "Can't you make a bathing suit of it?" , Dusenberry faintly asked, so "rattled" that he really meant it. Her proportions were none of the most insignificant and so she frowned fiercely Upon him. "I don't see the Lyons velvet," she eaid. "No doubt you forgot it?" "Maria, I didn't forget anything. They hadn't any." • , "What! hadn't any?" , "Yes, Maria. Lyops was dead or had gone but of business, or something of • the kind, the clerk said." "Oh, Dusenberry!" groaned she. * How can you get off such an outrage- cms yarn like that ? Sakes alive, man, "what do you call this ?" , "It is a hair-pin, isn't it, my dear?" "One big, ungainly, horrid-looking hair-pin! Oh, you parsimonious wretch! What do I want with one hair-pin? The -• clerk must have thought you daft." *- "You said I should bring you a coarse hair-pin, Maria." "I didn't." 4 "My dear, let ns not quarrel--but I distinctly remember that you did." "Nonsense, Dusenberry. You've got the worst memory of any man I ever knew. I told you to write it all down, Jbut you wouldn't. I told you to bring tae a gross of hair-pins. Not one coarse ' |iair-pin, but twelve dozen of them." "Oh, I flee," Dusenberry said, as he rubbed the end of his nose. "Gross, «oarse; gross, twelve dozen. It wasn't ft slip of tlie memory, my dear. It was merely a miscomprehension." •i His wife found fault with every pur- • chase, and he felt deeply humiliated, and all the more so when he recalled his ' Tboastfiil speech to the stranger. The last article unwrapped was a bottle of castor oil. "Is this for yourself?" she asked. "No, my dear," replied he; "you told tne to bring castor oil." u ; " "Dusenberry, I didn't.* "Maria, I shall insist that you did. It's the last package, and surely one out of the lot ought to be right. I'm try­ ing my best, my dear, to be patient, but " "You're trying to be patient! Oh, Lor! I've two or three bottles of cas­ tor oil in the house. I don't want any, •and I didn't tell you to bring any." "My dear, I am willing'to swear that you did," persisted Dusenberry. "You must allow me to depend somewhat upon my memory. I regret that it has Harrowed down to a question of veracity ^between us, and I'll try to be patient. It was the last order you ^a,ye me. I had already reached the street; you were in the doorway; ySu said to me * were f" --" m ft fa "Yes, Dusenberry, I remember." "Ah, I knew you would! You had me down in the dust, but now I feel correspondingly elated. No doubt most of the other orders " "Yes, you idiot, I remember! We : Were standing where you say we were. I did not say, bring a bottle of castor oil. I said, bring me a bottle of oil for the castor." "That's so, Maria," admitted Dusen­ berry, as limp-looking as a dish-cloth. "I'm down in the dust again, my dear; but mavbe it's a good place for me to be."--betroit Free Ppess. Machinery Outdone by Hands. "Speaking about the acuracy of ma­ chinery," observed a scientific writer the other day, "but this degree of ac­ curacy to which the human hand can be trained is equally wonderful." Playing cards are required to be cut •with the sides quite parallel to each other, because if a pack be trimmed by the machine slightly wider at one end than the other, and they become turned "end for end" in dealing, the excess of width of some cards over others at the «nd ot the pack will be double the variation in any one card, which would facilitate cheating, a very minute varia­ tion being perceptible. The men who test these cards for this, make calipers of their finger and tlram and by passing them along from one to the other, detect a difference in width between the two ends which it is difficult to measure by •any other means. There are men employed in factories where dried yeast is made whose busi­ ness it is to put up the yeast into pack­ ages weighing a certain amount each. : It is on a table in front of them in a large plastic mass, and there are the scales for weighing it. But the men do •not use the scales. They simply sepa­ rate from the mass with their hands a lump of it and put it up, and you may choose at random and put it on the iscales and it will weigh exactly the right amount, toe scales beam just balancing. , Where large number of eggs are handled and shipped to market there is a process known as "candleing" eggs, : -which consists in taking them up in the lands (usually two eggs in each hand at a time) and holding them up before a lighted candle. The light shining '. through them reveals to the practiced the exact condition of fits contents. But some of the men soon get so that they do not need to use the candle, the mere contact of their hands with the shells denoting the condition of the egg just as infallibly and much more quickly. And they distinguish in that way not merely eggs which are decid­ edly bad, but those which are just barely begining to lose their freshness. "Here are the different ways in which extreme skill of the hands is shown by persistent training. First, in detecting slight differences in magnitude; second, in weight; and, lastly, in texture of character of surface handled."---New York Mail ami Express. When Europe Did Not Manufacture A no­ thing. In those days tapestries were not only used for the interior decoration of pal­ aces, temples, and villas, but they were used also to convert public highways and squares into the guise of galleries or rooms to add splendor during the solemnity of a civic or religious festival, to which they lent themselves in a mar­ velous manner. Such, however, was the devastation which took place in Italy during the Middle Ages, age of superstition and barbarian invasion, that of the innumerable works of art collected by the Roman conquerors, scarcely a specimen was to be found in the beginning of the fifteenth century. There is not a vestige, perhaps, to be discovered in Europe for several gener­ ations of any considerable manufacture; I mean of fabricating articles of com­ mon utility to an extent beyond what the necessities of an adjacent district required. Rich men kept domestic arti­ sans among their servants; even kings in the ninth century had their clothes made by the women upon their farms; but there was no extended traffic. The insecurity of movable wealth, and diffi­ culty of accumulating it, the ignorance of mutual wonts, the peril of robbery in conveying merchandise, and the cer­ tainty of extortion, are sufficient expla­ nation why manufactures did not flourish; and before any manufactures were established in Europe, her com­ mercial intercourse with Egypt and Asia must have been very trifling, be­ cause, whatever inclination she might feel to enjoy the luxuries of those genial regions, she wanted the means of ob­ taining them. It is not, therefore, nec essary to rest the miserable conditions of Oriental commerce upon the Saracen conquest, because the poverty of Eu­ rope is an adequate cause, and in fact what little traffic remained was carried on with no material inconvenience through the channel of Constantinople; but imports from the East beginning to fail, the inhabitants of the different States of Western Europe began to con­ sider their local resources and to de­ velop them. We read that the art of weaving tapestry was introduced into France about the ninth century, but it was not generally introduced into Europe until the time of the Crusades, and the work­ men employed in the manufacture were originally called sarazins and sara- zinoix, indicating the origin of the art as derived from the Saracens. But the fabrication of tapestry with the needle had always been a favorite occupation for ladies of the liighest rank. The fa­ mous Bayeux tapestry is supposed to have been done by Matilda, wife of Will­ iam the Conqueror, and the ladies of her court; it is a wonderful piece of pic­ torial needle-work, representing the events connected with the conquest of England. It is worked like a sampler in woollen thread of different colors, Remarkable Ingenuity. The chief charm to most boys, in Robinson Crusoe, is the ingenuity dis­ played by the shipwrecked sailor in providing himself with a house and the furniture for it, and his successful sur­ mounting of the obstacles nature placed in his path. Yet these are the ordinary difficulties met with by white men who bury them­ selves in savage countries to carry on exploration or trade. On account of their inability to procure various sup­ plies, they are compelled to resort to all sort3 of ingenious devices, some of them much more wonderful than Cru­ soe's feats, who, you will remember, frankly confesses that ho was a clumsy workman, with not much ingenuity. A Paris paper relates the following: "A French expedition was sent a few months ago far south on the Niger River to take possession of a newlv-an- nexed region and to build a fort at Siguri, where the Tankisso River joins the Niger. "While ou the march one day they came to the Kokoro River. It was too deep to ford, and native canoes for ferrying the expedition across were out of the question on account of the bulky nature of some of the baggage. Various plans, including a pontoon bridge, were discussed, but it was finally decided that it would be most expeditious to build a suspension bridge. "The expedition had among its stores six thousand feet of telegraph wire. This wire was fastened to trees on both banks, and then passed from shorg to shore again and again and stretched as taut as possible. "When enough wires had been stretched to form a wide roadway, they were covered with straight boughs, and on these was laid a mixture of grass and damp earth. "This completed the bridge, and the little cannon and ammunition and pro­ vision carts passed safely over, to the great astonishment of the natives, who had flocked from far and near to see the wonderful work. The poor blacks were completely bewildered by the white man's ingenuity. "The expedition at last reached the Niger. It had a wagon loaded with tools, and a number of kegs of nads, but for the rest it was compelled to de­ pend upon the country for materials to build the fort. There was plenty of stone for the walls, but no lime in nfrhich to lay them. "The first thing the carpenters did was to build some log shops in the edge of the timber. Then they made a boat, and several men were kept at work for days dredging in the Niger for clam shells. By burning the shells they turned them into very fair lime, and so this necessary article was supplied. For a mortar bed they made a big trough out of a tree trunk, and in this they mixed their lime and sand. They used the forward wheels of their artillery for carrying logs."--Golden Dags. Just the Same. He was inquiring of a farmer at the Central market about cider, and finally asked: "If I pay you 8 cents a gallon will you put just as much water in it as if I had only paid you 5 cents ?" "I suppose so," was the reply. "The temptation would be there, and the water would be there, and I have a hired man who never gives anything away."--S>etroit Free Press. • inrs-wc-'i J The Duke's Dog; The Due d'Engliein had a spaniel which passionately lamented over his death, and we wonder if Napoleon suf­ fered any qualm of remorse when he read of it fiercely bemoaning its master's untimely fate in the moat at Vincennes. At the first halt the Due d'Enghein's abductors made, their prisoner requested them to send back to Ettenhiem for his "dog and his clothes." He did well to ask for his dog, for at Strasburg Na­ poleon had ordered that his friends and servants were to leave him. His dog, however, since it lacked "the divine power to speak words," was not in­ cluded in the order. In the brief days of life which remained to him, this speechless friend was his only com­ panion, went with him a prisoner to Paris, and entered Yincennes at his heels. On his arrival there he was de­ pressed, and his dog sidled up to him, and Lamartine savs: "The spaniel which he had kept at his side the whole route, rested his head on his master's knee." The dog beguiled him out of dark thoughts of his doleful prospects, his spirits rose, and he left the window, out of which he had been disconsolately staring, and called his dog to share his supper with him. The faithful creature was on guard beside him, when, one midnight, he was aroused from his sleep to appear before his judges. The Duke, sure of his innocence, went to the mockery of a trial, with sanguine hopes of a speedy release. He knew not that during his trial his grave was being dug. After leaving the judgment hall the prisoner, still unsuspicious of the haste to fulfill the sentence from which he expected a pardon, was talking to Lieu­ tenant Noiret, a soldier who had known his grandfather, the Prince of Conde. A historian gays "he played with his dog" while chatting gayly to the soldier. The poor beast had been ill at ease, for some subtle instinct warned it that there was danger afoot. Its dull spirits were raised by its master's assux*ance; but it was but short-lived contentment, for the duke and his dum friend were soon parted by death. The prisoner was ordered to follow the commander down a darksome stairway, which led into the moat. The duke hesitated; but the dog, as usual, followed without question at his master's heera. The duke, when he reached trench, realized the .-truth. He cut a lock of his hair, gave it • and a ring to Noiret, to send to,liis betrothed, Princess Charlotte de IWhan. As three o'clock struck, the sojdiers fired, and Napoleon's young victim fell. The spaniel, in the dim light--for it was a gloomy March morcing, and the moat was lit by a solitary lantern--had not seen its master's face, and was unaware of his 2vil fate till it saw him dead. In vain it fawned upon him, who, but a few minutes previously had stroked and commended his pleased favorite. It wa« with difficulty that the poor animal could be torn from the spot and given to one of the Prince's servants who took him to the Princess Charlotte.--All the Year Jlotind. Which Was the Savage? There is a wide difference between man who is born a savage and one whty becomes a savage through his own ef­ forts. The latter is always contempti­ ble, while the former may, and fre­ quently does, earn for himself the re­ spect and admiration of society. A train from Pittsburgh was approach­ ing Chicago. On board was a quiet* well-dressed, copper-colored young In­ dian, who seemed to have all he could do to attend to his own business, which he did without molestation until a youngj chap came from the sleeper into the smoking car and saw him. "An Indian, I guess," said the young man, as he lighted a cigarette. , And then approaching the son of the plains, he attracted general attention by shout­ ing with strange gestures: "Ugh, heap big Injun! Omaha! Sioux I Pawnee! See great Father? Have drink fire-water? Warm Injun's blood!" The copper-colored savage gazed at the young man a moment with an ill- concealed expression of contempt on his face, and then he said, with good pro­ nunciation: "You must have been reading, dime novels, sir. I am going back to my peo­ ple in Montana, after spending three years in the East at school. I advise you to do the same thing. No, I do not drink whisky. Where I live gentlemen do not carry whisky--flasks in their pock­ ets." -The young fire-water drinker did not wait to finish his smoke. There was too much mirth and music in the air just then. -- The Little Christian. Water Tests a Humbug. According to Dr. Tanner, of Boston, a paper from whom is published by the Sanitarian tests for the purity of drink­ ing water are worthless. He says the chemical processes relied upon are "as apt to condemn a good water as they are to commend it, and to commend an impure water as they are to condemn it. " If five per cent, of milk or beef extract were added to pure water the processes will condemn it as impure on account of the presence of organic matter, but a few million of disease germs may be added to a gallon of distilled water and' none of the processes will lead to their discovery, because the quantity of organic matter is not large enough. He cites instances where water purposely contaminated had been proven by the processes to be remarkably pure. If Dr. Tanner is right, his conclusions are startling, as the processes which he says often give resnlts quite contrary one to the other are those upon which almost absolute reliance has been placed. Getting Into the Blood. MM. Grehant and Quinquand, in de- terming the length of time needed for substances to appear in the blood after they have been taken into the stomach, used solutions of the iodide and sali­ cylate of soda. The conclusions are, from their experiments on dogs, that the presence of salicylate of soda in the* blood can be shown within thirty-one minutes after an injection of a six- gramme dose subcutaneously or di­ rectly into the stomach. In the case of iodide of sodium a seven-gramme dose was needed to cause its appearance in the blood within the same length of time if it had been given by the stomach; but when given subcutaneous^ and in about half the foregoing dose it ap­ peared in the blood after a lapse of eight minutes only. The authorities a.1«o remark that after the injection of' two-grammes of iodide of sodium into the stomach no trace of this salt could be detected in the blood. "If I was a man," said Mrs. Shuttle to her patient Job, "I would pnt a stop to a great deal of wickedness in this world." "How would you go to work to do it, my dear?" "rd Bhut up all the bad places, every one of them." "Which would you take first?" "Why --why--Fd--yes, Fd shnt up the first millinery store that didn't get my bon­ net done in time."--Hartford Post. a/ m-i •;:r" ' siiACT: WAY. ®t(» tka ladiaa Treats an Injury--Old- ' Tim* Method*. Th« savage is emphatically the child of nature. He lives close to nature, his oiili education Is gained in nut,ire's school. When the Indian receives an injury bo aoes_ not seek a ,cHre in mineral poisons, but binds on the Simple leaf, administers the herbal tea. and. with nature's aid, comes natural recovery. Our rugged ancestors, who pierced the wilderness, built their uncouth but com­ fortable Log Cabins and started the clear- in the woods, which in time bceamo tho broad, fertile fields of tho modern farmer, found in roots and herbs that lav close at hand nature's "potent remedies for all their common ailments. It was only iu very serious oases they sent for old "sad'dle- P?#8" with his physic, which quite a$ often killed as cured. Latter-day society has wandered too far away from nature, in every wav. for its own (rood. Our grandfathers and grandmothers lived wholesomer, purer, better, healthier. more natural lives than we do. Their minds were not filled with noxious isms, nor their bodies saturated with poisonous drugs. Is it not time to make a change, to return to tho simple vegetable preparations ot our grandmothers, which contained tho power and potency of nature jis remedial agents, and in all tho ordinary ailments were effica­ cious, at least harmless? Tho proprietors of Warner's Log Cabin remedies have thought so, and have put on the market a number of these pure vegeta­ ble preparations, made from formulas se­ cured after patient searching into the annals of the past, so that those who want them need not be without them. Among these Log Cabin remedies will be found "Log Cabin sarsuparilla." for the blood; "Log Cabin hops and buehu reme­ dy." a tonic and stomach remedv; "Log Cabin cough and consumption remedy. "Log Cabin hair tonic." for strengthening and renewing the hair; "Log Cabin ex- Iract," for both external and internal ap- lication; "Log Cabin liver pills," "Log Cat>- - cream," an old but effective remedy .11 plication; in rose ci_ for catarrh, and "Log Cabin plasters." All these remedies arc carefully prepared from recipes which were found, after long inves­ tigation. to have been those most success­ fully used by our grandmothers of "ve olden time." They are the simple, vegetable, effi­ cacious remedies of Log Cabin days. FACE TO FACE WITH A LEOPARD. A Woman Optai tti« Door of Her Honw and Finds an Vaweleome Caller There. In an Indian bungalow every bed­ room has a small ante-room attached, in which the important function of bathing is performed, writes a lady traveler in India. The floor is of ce­ ment and uncarpeted, to allow of splash­ ing, and around the tub are placed the ghurras or earthen pots of water, which are required for the bath. The little room has always two doors, one opening on the outer hall to admit the bheesti with his supply of water and the other opening into the bedroom. One evening, just as dusk was falling,* I had finished the unpacking of a box in my bedroom and was moving away when I fancied I heard a slight sound in the bathroom. It was an unusual hour for the blieesti's visit, so I opened the door, and, to my horror, saw just in front of me the beautiful sleek black of a large leopard, which was crouching on the flpor and dfinking out of one of the ghuhffiLH. The 'rogmwas. so small that I fotmd myself close to1 the leopard, and could, indeedl, have touched the spotl on its glossy coat from where I stood. I was too {Tight­ ened to move, ^nd ^tOnd perfectly;still; and„ fortunately ftfr me, the outer door by which the creature had entered stills stood wide open, *j}d with a single bound it cleared f^^reshodd and dis­ appeared up the uBt Ide. Had the door blown to, or been closed from the outside by a Servant, the animal would have had no resource but to seek an exit 4>y the doorway in which I was standing, and the knowledge of my narrow escape> foJuie us careful ever after about shutting up earjy ^n the af- ternobfc A few nights later we wt»re awakened by hearing the watchman call out loudly that there "tfas a leopard in the veranda; and we ran to the window in time to see the waving of the branches where the beast had sprung out among the trees. The bearer, who was lying rolled up in his blankets in the same veranda, slept soundly on meanwhile, unconscious of his proximity to the stealthy-footed creature. These leop­ ards are cowardly creatures, and will never attack a human being if they can avoid it; their special fancy is for little dogs, and they will so haunt the neigh­ borhood of any house where dogs are kept that the greatest care is necessary t(> prevent the little quadrupeds falling victims to the big ones. As the weather became better they grew less bold, and it was only toward the end of the season that we saw them again. When snow fell on the farther hills they were driven to seek food lower down, and then again they began to infest the station. Often in the month of October, when coming home late at night, I have heard the hoarse sort of purring noise they make as they rub their sides, like huge cats, against the trunks of trees. The men carrying my dandi (light palanquin) would then step out, and talk loud to keep up their courage, while the mate would flourish his lantern and shout. No leopard would come near so noisy a party, and the only danger on such occasions is of the men taking a panic and dropping the dandi, when the situation would be awkward. This, however, never hap­ pened to me, and I jeas equajUj. fortu­ nate when riding. • Becoming * Lawyer. v" Gentleman--I hear you've had a windfall, Uncle Bastus? Uncle Bastus--Yes, sah; my ole mar- ster die de odder day an' lef me fo' hundred dollahs. , Gentleman--I suppose yon will open a small store of some kind with the money. Uncle Bastus--No, sah, I specs Til open a offis. Gentleman--Beal estate office ? Uncle Bastus--No, sah; a lawyer's offis. I know several lawyers an' dey all 'pears to be doin' ver well. Dere's mo' money in offis's, Mistah Smif, den dey is in sto's.--Time. Annihilating u Multiform Diwtn. Miasmatic, or malarial disease has many forms. Physicians have, for the sake of conven­ ience and for purpose of indicating its most strongly marked forma, subdivided it into in­ termittent and bilious remittent fever, dumb ague and ague cake. But it presents so infinite variety of symptoms in different individuals. Be these symptoms -what they will, always re­ member that Hostel ter's Stomach Bitters will annihilate them at the outset, and prevent their recurrence. A review of the proofs would con­ vince any one of the fact. This, however, is im­ possible, beeauee they are too numerous, nnd unnecessary because the effects of this grand anti-malarial specific are a matter of common knowledge. No less familiar to the public are its remedial and preventive effects in bill us attacks, constipation, dyspepsia, incipient rheumatism, debility and kidney troubles. It is, moreover, an excellent appetizer and tonic Berrine. • His Intention Was All Bight. What an ardent prayer was that of the colored brother who besought the Lord to an'int his congregation with the "ile" of Patmos!--Editor's Dra wer, in Harper's Magazine. Ladies of fashion starve their happi­ ness to feed their -vanity arid their lbve to feed their pride.--Col ton,. A Fortune from a Button. . About fifteen years ago there were a large number of gambling saloons in Mobile, where keno, roulette and faro were played every night. A young man, who is now a merchant in Memphis, Tenn., was almost insane about devising some scheme to break the roulette at a gambling saloon which was backed up by thousands of dollars. He had been left some property by his father, and he had sold it piece by piece to secure funds with which to play roulette. One night, while betting on the red and black numbers as usual, he lost all the money he had with him. Feeling around in his pockets, his hand touched a coin about the size of a quarter, and he called out quickly, just as the wheel was about to atop: Twenty-five cents on number eight, black." The wheel stopped with the marble on eight, black, before the voung man eould get his money out. The banker, knowing he was a good cviatomer, paid the bet, giving him two dollars. The young man bet onla dollar on another number and won. He hot again, and again won, and he continued to win for hours and hours until he had $(1,000 or $7,000, and the bank suspended. The young man carried the money home, and in his room searched his pockets for the quarter that had brought him so much money, saying he would keep it for a luck piece. He found the coin and took it out-- it was a brass button.--Atlanta Jour­ nal* • Proof Better than Assertion. With such prqpf as the following letter from W. H. Dean, of No. 278 Seventh street, New York, it is not necessary to make the bare assertion that Allcock's Porous Plasters cure lumbago. Mr. Dean says: Some ten days ago I was taken with a very violent pain in the small of my back. It was so severe, I could hardly breathe; every movement caused great agony. I finally found out it was lumbago. Being entirely helpless, a friend sent to a drug­ gist and got two Ai.i,cock's Porous Plasters; these were well warmed and applied to my back, one above the other. In half an hour, to my great delight and surprise, I found the pain began to abate. In two hours I was able to walk out and attend to my business, the pain being almost gone. Next day I was all right, but continued wearing the plasters, for a week. . Declined with Thanks. A while ago a student preached in a New England city "with a view." After his Sunday evening sermon one of the "pillars" said to him: "We have been much pleased with your sermons, and I am very sorry we are never going to see you again." This suggestive re­ mark convinced the candidate that he was not likely to be elected to the va­ cant pulpit.--Christian Inquirer. A Great Snrprlee Is In store for all who use Kemp's Balsam for tho Throat and Lungs, the (rreat Kiiaran- teed remedy. Would you believe that it is s*oid on its merits and that any drucgist is authorized by the proprietor of this wonder­ ful remedy to give you a sample bottle freo? It • never fails to euro acute or chrouie coughs. All druggists sell Kemp's Balsam. Large Bottles 50c and $1. The New England Milk Trust has failed. It had to take water.--Phila­ delphia Pre*#. Mothers who have delicate children can see them daily improve and gain in flesh and strength by giving them that perfect food and lucdieino, Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, vith Hypophosphites. Dr. W. A. Hul- bert, of Salisbury, 111., says: "I have used Scott's Emulsion in cases of Scrofula and Debility. Hesults most gratifying. My little patients take it with pleasure." Sold by all Druggists. It seems a paradox that in contracting small-pox a man is liable to spread it. Itloxle has created the greatest excite­ ment as a beverage, in two yeart*. ever wit­ nessed. from the fact that it brings nervous, exhausted, overworkod women to good pow­ ers of endurance in a few days; cures the appetite for liquors and tobacco at once, and has recovered a large number of cases of old. helpless paralysis as a food only. The barbed wire fence is the greatest drawback on a farm nowadays. The Raising of Children* This is'a task where experience Is es­ pecially desirable. The first-born of young couples too often perish through ignorance of the needs of the infantile constitution and what precautions, medicinal and otherwise, are necessary to guard it from harm and rescue it when in peril. In this connection no sounder advice can be given to parents whoso children are troubled with lung or throat disease, or are affected with maras­ mus or rickets, than to keep always on hand a supply of Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with the Hypophosphites of Limo and Soda. Feeble, nervous children speed­ ily become more robust and thrive famously thereafter through its invigorating influ­ ence. Nothing repellant in its flavor dis­ gusts them, since it is endowed with a pleasant taste by careful chemical manipu­ lation, and it is particularly susceptible of assimilation by a feeble or delicate digestive apparatus. It is ineffably line in all diseases of the lungs, and for scrofula, an.vmia or feebleness of tho gentler sex, rheumatism, and wasting maladies and premature decay. Catarrh Cured. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsome disease. Catarrh, and vainly .trying every known remedy, at last found a recipe which completely cured and saved him from doath. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence. 88 Warren street. New York City, will re­ ceive the recipe free of charge. Grr Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners applied to those new boota and they will never run over. Pure Blood 1is absolutely necessary in order to have perfect health. Hood's Hantaiiarilla is the (treat blood puri­ fier. quickly conquering scrofula, salt rheum, and all other insidious enemies which attack the blood and undermine the health. It also builds up the whole system, cures dyspepsia and sick headache, and overcomes that tired feeling. 1 have been troubled by a scrofulous aflbction all my life. It is one of the marked recollections of my boyhood days, and for several years has rendered me anable to labor much. I think Hood's Sarsaparilla, which I have been using at intervals for ten years, is the best thins I have ever taken. I ana now (a and my general health seems better than ever." H.D. Abbott, Warren, K. H. "I have taken two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla for salt rheum and dyspepsia, with which I was troubled very much. After taking this medicine I am feeling as well as ever in mf life." O. W. Rose, Pottsville, Pa. N.B. If you want a good medicine, get Hood's Sarsaparilla 8old by all druggists. 91; six for $5. Prepared only by C. X. HOOD ft OO., Apothecaries, Lowell. ICaM. IOO Poses One Pol*ar MANSASmW Some rare bargains; must be sold to clone up partner ship. What have you to . once. Lloyd B.FerreU or F Send for list at arm enter. WICIITI.Kaa. > The trne American has a warm place in his heart for the old Loo Cabin. It's not "Eng­ lish, you know," but from the Log Cabins of America have sprung best in the world. CASES Lumbago* ao YEARS STANDING. NO RETURN OF PAIM. At SraggMa aat lXal«n. 1 THE CHARLES*. V06ELER CO. BaRlMart, t'tf. Diamond Vcra-Cura FOR DY8PEP8IA. Aim AU STOMACH imOOBLW tfOC* AS: Xa41(Mtl*a. aoar-Ctasaaek. ••arttara, Haana, OwUnUm. Fallaan alter aatiag. SM aitlnf ia tk* llmth aa« 41aagrMaM« taste atut sa*> lag- HUrraaaaos a»4 L»w-I»irlt». At Dritggitit and Dealer* or $ent by mail on re- eeipt of is eft. (5 fco.nrj $1.00) ia JSnmjK* lent on receipt cf2ctn' Stamp. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltlww. Ml ELY'S CREAM BALM la the beat remedy for children suffering from COLD in HEAD, SNUFFLES on CATARRH. Apply IUlrn into each nostril. ELY UROS., W Warren 8>,S.T. P8LIRAM tor t'oiiKiuuplives und ANthmaticK. Mend If J-cent stamp for it. Dr. Barti-ett. Boulder. Colo. SltNTION THIS PAPER w«cn wini<i« TO iMiRtntM. Ulllifni TO HI'V A FAKH in this locaJltvT WflnlC.ll «'urtis A: Wright, 233 Broadway. N.Y. to Ii8 a »lay. Samples worth *1,50. FRKE: .lines not under the horse's feet. Write Brews­ ter Safety Rein-Holder Co., Hotly, Mich. lire at hom and make mora money wortiij for tu tku !| at anything r)s« In 1lt« world. Eithfr MS. Co»llr outfit IHt. Tens* rasa. Addmt, T*c« a Co., Aagnata, Main*. P L S O S C U R E F O R C O N S U M P T I O N $5 FKtTMKHBttil ia nrantTwni lOiMfSSi 14SJWM mm. We am aow Benin* o-- ---- [IIWIMISIRCIU HIH--»ame ax cat-- iP.Ui all attachments d for 5 years tor osriyftt. for cirrmar and see fall d»~ Hon of this aadother H HUB CTlinV Bookkeeping, Business Forms. IIME 9VV1M tPenmanship.Arithmetic,Short­hand, etc.. thoroughly taught by matt. Circulars free. Bryant's BitsinkskColi.koe. Buffalo. N.X. 6LEK Rest Blootl ImhhI Known. (I botlles seut prepaid. House lot tree with cach bottle. Send tor description. GLEK CO., :»;» North State Srt.. Cliicajcn- UllEg 10IK1 New pricelist of Rub SfacnineK. Patterns. Yarn, Sc.. ana book ot beautiful colored pattern de- KigDH frrr. AGENTS WaN T K D. K. ROSS & CO., Toledo. O. ••••••••••••••I Snre relief a nmnt a irmnrnna nanrn « ra Prtceascta.lolaMi* IUUUCH Q rW I ILLtO^)ymail. Stowell AdSk •••••••••••••Or.rlsstowii. Mus. Several Desirable FARMS tor sale on Kany Terms. Virginia. All have dwelling and On or nearrailrosd. Address have dwellings and neces- irj- buildintCH. On or nearrailrosd. Address uEO, K. BURT, Wavorly, Sussex County, \ irgtnia. Southeafc. buildi MONEY! YOU! Over 400 Million ItolUrs are now awaitinK HEIRS and Cl.AIll ANTS in Court of Chancery and Bank of KnKland. l'ov particulars send 10 cents for NEXT QF KIN <;V ZK'I'TK to 1. H. I« HIST Kit. banker and Broker. P.O. Itov 1303, New York City. c The OLDEST MEDICINE In the WORLD it probably Dr. Isaac Thompson's elebrated Eye Walt R This article is a carefully prepare.! physician's pre-1 Scription, and has been in constant use for nearly a11 century, ami notwithstanding tho many other prepar­ ations that have l>een introduced into the market, the sale of this article i» constantly lucrt-asinu. li the di­ rections are followed it will never fail. We particu- - larly invite the attention of physicians to its merits. John Jj. Thompson, Sons «C Co., TROY, N. Y. Cures and Prevents Colds, , Coughs, •Ore Throat, Hoarseness, Stiff Neck, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Headache, Toothache, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Asthma, Bruises, iBpralns, Quicker Than Any Known Remedy. Mo matter how violent or excruciating the pain the Rheumatic, Bedridden, Inttrm, Crippled, Nervous, Neuralgic, or prostrated with diseases may Buffer, MDWIY'S READY RELIEF Will Afford Instant Ease. INTERNAtAY--A half to a teaepoonful in half a tumbler of water will in a few minutes cure Cramps, Spasms. Hour Stomach, N'ausea.VomitinK. Heartburn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, Diarrhea, Colic, Flatulency, and all internal pains. Malaria in its various forms cured and prevented. There is not a remedial a^ent in the world that will cure Fever and Ague and all other levers (aided by KADWAVS Ml.i.S) so quickly as RAD WAY'S READY RELIEF. ACHES AND PAINS. For headache (whether sick or nervous),toothache. • AABf NEfunrcB I IV BARGAIN BDOIIi REPEATING mru Newftoaa Factory. Weataka--».. _ repntationoftf years on thblUSe,aa# , ."j, guarantee It tha Mafgwrt • ifhv TV made. Send Sc. In atefapa fcr IBus 100-pa«« InscriptiveCatmtofue. Gam, ] Revolver*. Ktshtn* Tackle, Bicycles JOHN F. NOVELL ARMS mOlCOTTHUTTMPIUMMi Essisrasstt lee* fuel. Itwaman kitchen and parlor heat which would escape t It is iv itores. .'Sa&'St'g .aad School lw " It will keep yonr honse wana* in tho coldest weather. FuUinfomnartMa^ catalogue, etc- mailed free to any person. A. WOLCOTT. * 1«S Lake Street, Chtawo»l ELECTIONS 48T1CKER8. Lou Primer, Pica, and great Friar. OI.I> 8TYMC--Pica and Groat Primer, 75c per boa of 5.000 slips, _ •• NEW ST YXE--Patented--Lon* Primer aad tea Primer, $2.50 per box of 10,600 slip*. JWSOLD ONLY IN FULL BOPB.^ roiuun , CHICAGO NKWSPArER LTOON. ^; ail * »T3RMillln St* ChkaMK tiHin. lumlxwo, pains and weakness iu the back, spine or kidneys, pains around the liver, pleurisy, swelling of the joints, and pains of all kinds, the application of Uadway's Keady Uelief will afford immediate ease, and its continued use for a tew days effect a permanent cure. Bold by ali. drduoists. Price 50 Cents. Caret Itesralita, Rssiache, Catarrh ~ R H E Laas Back, Burst, . All Aches iftd Pi b# man j tmumomh ttmil tar *• w% clila " - d by DrnnMa. SSeta. ftm SoocmaHadMtw lists WIZARD 0IL COMPANY ClllttgT •old Addrsts I proscribe aad MBya»-. done Blc O aa tta oaly specific for the ooctain care We have sold Bte «4mH notion. D. B. DYCm k CO.. Cblcage, 111. •1.S0. Bold by Drnggttfc, C.N. IT. No. 43-SS WHEN WRITING TO It please say yon aaw the In thle paper. s II eeilCM WANTED NO EXPERIENCE NKCESSARY. Permanent positions twar-n Lliussibll an teed. Salary and Expenses Paid. Peculiar advantagea to beginners, stock • Free. JT« guarantee what tee uiharWss.; urseryinen, Chicago, IU. (This honao ia laUabla.) anteed. Salary and Expenses Paid. Peculiar advantages to beginners, complete, including many fast-gelling specialties. OutHt Free. Wiij Write at once to IIROW'N BROTHERS, Nur •HORT-HAND INSTITUTE and CMOLISH TRAINING SCHOOL. IstkeSTi INSTITUTION and the IiARaMV XXV '-1'JMLU WOXU>X>t Pttll tion, Catalogue, terms, etc., Mnt FREE. Addrexs H. B. BitTANT * BON, Prearteteta, Oklw We recommend thla college te ear readera. Men tie a »kla paper whea yea wrtea. Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup. TKUTMENT-in this, ti* • diet is of import; SCROFULA undoubtedly • WHAT IT IS had its origin ANB HIW TO among the tVtlCOME IT. poorer classei in new countries where water was bad, miasmas prevalent^ food with little variety, cloth­ ing insufficient, and exposure to cold and wet common and frequent. SCROFULA. We believe it to be the cause bf nearly all chronic diseases. DYSPEP8IA ALWAY8 YIELDS. importance, ami the hygiene not to be neglect­ ed. Fresh air, exercise anti- abundant clothing are all Im­ portant. Hibbard's Rheu­ matic Syrup is the only IT IS POSITIVE, Containing the medicinai virtues of certain Plants audi Roots of known alterativ»- and Depurant Natures, to­ gether with such remedies as Poke, Burdock, Wintsr~ green, diuretic, healing and invigorating, it becomes, the "remedy of all remedies" for this most common su& insidious enemy of mankind. •. ALWAYS RELIABLE IT ISA SATE FATV/TTX/g- Because it contatns no poflion or opiate*. Children* invalids and delicate persons will find it medicine and tonic they can use* No home should be wiUtoutiL Always in season. Siri**, Swamm/L* Autumn and Winter. ; II you cannot procure it of yonr druggist, aead direct to ua. Price $i.oo; 6 bottles $5.00. PUatera aft.- TESTIMONIALS WORTHY OF CONFIDENCE. - S 2 A BAD CASE OF tORBFILA MRU. Port Byrok, N. Y.--I have been doctoring for three or four years, with different physiciaaa, for acrofula, but found no relief until I commeoced tak- iMi ijr mjVifr taodiriae ia the world. it to be Um bast Mas. Wouam Smura, No remedv known so highly endorsed by its home people, in the treatment of Ilheumatiaai aad all Blood Diseases. Our Medical Pamphlet, treating mi Rheumatism and all Hlood and FmuJc Diseases, wet free oa application. Rheumatio Syrup Co., Jackson, Mich. YEARS OF SUFFERING. Col. E. S. WALKia, West Lebaooa,_fai. ' Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and doae more for me than any other mrdirias tfcafc t pure blood, and for a dvspcpCc or a coaatipaiaA have ever taken. It ia the 1 ; greatest remedy far i pica "-- son it teems to have ao equal. ] a dozen bottles. G. ] 1 On*--! received the above letter tM» amafaw He thinks it ia the greatest medicine in tks aaj It ktt givaa entire satisfaction to ait ai« trada. Cot. K. S. Wauns, A SURE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. COMMON SENSE CURE IjM aalLanm mtaa . Thioat Colds, Aathma. Bronchltiii. aad all diaeama of the Head. Ingeaioua combiaation of medical aeieaca aad senao. Continuous current of medicated oaoaiaed air. vorable t^hanije"of"chmate*.' Jlilkble <*. other remedies fail. BadH< You can be cored while ala orperforming any kind of 1 of and how to cure alldiseasea of the Head. Throat, and Ltmm aei !'• Put ap In ahaadaome cane. 56 Stata Straet, Chicago, 111.1 free upon receipt of S-ccot stamp cram scm cmna cm ct„ s The nun >vhu litis invested troui three to five i1<>i!srs in a Kubber Cust, and at his first half hour's experience in a storm tinds to his sorrow that it is hardly a better protection than a mos­ quito netting:, not only feels chagrlaed at being so badly taken in, bat alao feels If he does not look exactly Mta Ask tor t be "FISH UK AND" SudJta 4mi not have the naa aaam, aand tar" A WET wo Oder the man who wants tai>Mi' (not atyle) a usnuent lhat win M|-< hiu* dry Id the hantest ltm.. ~11~« IVtt tK S » IM1 Mto f. " 8LICKKK. a name fcaufrar *»owgr ' Cow-boy ai! over tfie laud. Wrthtajja^ the only perfect W utd and waawprey Ooat is " I'ower's >~i»h Brand I 1. ucxaa WBtlw aad take ao other. ftrrmrifYfflrif"irnfnm v. 'v.r 9 Tfjr* 'Ill IHIBI •"iWOTTWiNiT 'S