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x * ^irn :^-^r i ("A.-.**- *»W ? • K'-'-^'Z:•>.*! „*. ":*» r~,;J'* •'•**'"« '.^ *sr v >.. ;•. ^ *v: aj^.WIV ̂ v, ... ^ 'v w Trr^f « - ,,'i";- 7' - >*Vu.".vtae*r.6' * , .s^si Weak and Weary Overcome by heat< r extraordinary ex* ertion, the physical system, like a ma* chine, needs to be renovated and repair* ed. The blood n^4to be purified and &arsa- f pariUa s#: •ww*. J-Jood's serves « strengthened by Hood s Sarsaparil!a, Cures? */*«/*<%/ which creates an appetite, removes that tired feeling and givSs refreshing sleep.1 Hood's Pills core all liver ills. 25c. A WAR OVl PET NAMES. Francisco Teachers WU1 H»n to i' • . Crop Th- m. :- There is a pretty flutter among the * public school teachers of San Fran­ cisco. President Hyde of the Board of Education, signing a /lot of certifi­ cates recently, was struck with the ... number of them bearing the diminu­ tives Maggie, Laisy, Essie, Ettie, and Bird e. The last seemed to him the ^Orstofall. "Why, just think of it," Eaid tho edu­ cator to a reporter, "the teacner wh<t signed herself Birdie is named Blanche. Her name isn't Birdie at all. New, thai isn't right or dignified. Then there were cissies and "Dairies andt Etties galore. I don't think it is quite the thing. I spoke a year ago to the superintendent about this, but it seems that the epidemic of pet names is spreading again. "Why, just think: there i9 the prin­ cipal of one school here whom every­ one cali-3 Bessie. She is so ashamod of it now that she signs herself B. Blank. I won't give her name. It wouldn't te fair. "Suppose," went on President Hyde, lifting up his hands in horror at the thought, "1 signed myself Freddie-- Hyde," he repeated slowly. "Imagine how that'would tound! Freddie Hyde! Why, it is preposterous. And vet we see gray-haired women in the depart­ ment signing themselves Guasie, Jen­ nie, Jessie, and Birdie." Out of all of ifhich has came a rife prohibiting the use among the teachers of pet names in official designation. Investigation disclosed that one-third of the Christian names printed in the school directory a-e diminutives. An­ nies, Maggies. Netties, Nellies, and Carries abound, many of them borne by married women long past their first youth and, officially, they must all go. Rules affecting personal tastes and opinions are always unpleasant, but the propriety of the suggestion that educators should cease to be "Birdies'* and "Essies" few will question. The;, reaction set in here in the East some tim3 ago, and the use of diminutives in signatures of professional and business1 women is much mare olten omitted employed. EVENING THOUGHTS. (Sttrtinwnrort'iMof (oBHt, . All bordered and fringed witti got; to*n from tueir «ilver cornice . And blown to the distant world. Athwart the rift in the btnena Come hurrying forth the stars; I fancy I hear t be rattle And clMh of their golden caijju • flow tip from the murky rivest' And acrua* U o-valley wide. • • ; A ̂ wavering mist is creeping-- Tlio autumn wind is gc iriv.iu' K' • Aloud for the roeea Blsio, '5'^/ v' And the moan of the pineB come Like the wail of a soul in pain. jThia whip-poor-wiU'B mournful tre&M •' Is drowned by the frog's bnsson; . ,»he owl iu the distant woodland ; Sends forth a plant to the moon. f Good Ground for Divorce. Cut in San Francisco, a sensitive husband is suing his wife for divorce because she b eached her hair. In his petition he says: "Bleached or artificially colored hair is easily distinguished W (such, and does njt ap ear natural, nor does it deceive any person, but i* perfectly patent and noticeably conspicuous, it is regarded by the majority of right- thinking persons as an indication of a loose, dissolute and wanton disposi­ tion, and is regarded as and commonly held to be a p:*actic; never a ected by modest, pure and respectable women." The husband claims that he is morti­ fied and humiliatad on account of the change in the color of hi* wife's hair. He adds: "She is a brunette naturally. Her hair is of a chestnut-brown color, which in its normal state is modest and be­ coming, and harmonizes with the nat­ ural color of her skin and eyes. Since we married she ha* against my wishes and protest, and with intent to vex, annoy, exasperate and shame me, dyed her ha r and changed its shade to a conspicuous and showy straw or canarv color. As a consequence of this artifi­ cial coloring sae has been obliged to paint her face to secure an artificial complexion in keeping with the irtii- cial color of her hair. The combina­ tion has given her a giddy, fast and sporty appearance."--Omaha Bee. v Jj»t eve* my eyes turn sadly \ ? Toward the grove of < fdars grwn, ' • JFor glimmering wh'te imjong ibem I can tee tho marble's sheen. The duet of my painted inotbejt Ueth hidden there from mef- Uut her cell one day shall ope&* Upon fair eternity, ' .'n •-Htartii tui - Sail, * ;ros8 bis forehead?" I eager- THE BLUE (From a story by W. H. Carpenter in tba Cali­ fornia.! i. In July. 188--, three American students in Brunswick started on a foot tour of the Harz Mountains. They had walked a week when they arrived at the little village of El- bingerode, far back in the mountains, and put up at the little ion known as the Blue Ariael. The evening was spent in the company of a number of German students and at a seemly hour we retired to the room that had been assigned to us on the second floor of the inn. The bedroom, since it plays an im­ portant Dart in the story, were best described in detail. It was in shape almost square. The door from the passage entered it in the middle of one side. In the side opposite were two windows opening into a court­ yard. The wall to the right of the door was unbroken. On the left, nearly in the center, there was, how­ ever, what was apparently a sliding window, which one of us tried and found securely closed. There were three beds in the room--one in each corner to the right of the door and one directly under the sliding win­ dow on the lett. Quite by acc dent, the bed udder the window fell to my lot, and almost immediately, follow­ ing the example of my tired compan­ ions on their Side of the room, I was ensconced in it and soundly asleep dragged themselves by and it time to get up and dress. I had U> submit then to a further inereiulous Questioning about tho episode or the I was trembling with a new ex­ citement. "Has the murderer a heavy soar straight mjr ly asked. "Yes," he said with astonishment "Do you know him"" I asked for a further description, but had the host summoned and to him I told my story. He avowed, however, that it was utterly impos­ sible for any one to get into the va­ cant room, since he had lo ked the door himself no longer ago than the morning ot the preceding day, and The key was still in his possession. A gendarme was, never heless, irume- wa* ? whose support had been so ruthlessly ! snatched away. A GLIMPSE OF A if ACS, tHE FACE IN THE WINDOW OF THE BLUE AN­ GEL INN. The German's Answer. A good-hearted old German citizen of an Illinois uwn recently received a tel­ egram from a far-away State informing him of the sudden death th^re of a friend whom he had known in his boy­ hood days in the fatherland. The mes­ sage read: "Frederick died sudden y to-day. Answer." ^ The exact raason for the answer de­ sired by the distant setder of the tele- giam was n t apparent. The distance was too great for the Illinois man to think cf jr.vrneying there to witness the last sad rites at tho grave: hut the message called for an answer, and the mess-entrer was given the usual in­ structions to get an answer. The white-haired man was visibly affected bv the news of the sudden death of his friend. The tsars came one ly one and trickled down over his wrinkled face. However, ia his sudden grief he did not overlook the one last word. With a trembling hand he took the pencil and wrote the reply. This was his answer: "Mine Got! Ish dot so.-" No Bulls There? Red is' the Chinese lucky color. There is a Woman, in Philadelphia who lived for years in a daily circle of suffering because jshe thought there was no relief. Her suffering was caused by fe- taale weakness in its worst forms. She had pain in her back and loins, (great fatigue from walk­ ing, leucor- rhcea, and a frequent de. sire to uri­ nate. All this time telief was close at hand. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her of all weak­ ness and disease, and she is now a different woman. This woman is Mrs. Walter Wilcox, of 736 West St., who advises all women who suffer so from female weaknesses tatry it also and be cured. It ex­ pels tumors, removes backache, in­ vigorates the system. At druggists. lELY'S CREAM BALM CURES C ATA RRH PRICE 50CENTS. ALL DRUGGISTS b. N. U. Na 33-04 B3S faSwGood! Ui in time. Sold by druggists. Ririniaiiimfi I Best Cough Byrnp. ; • •/.. There had been no conscious lapse of time. It might have been an in­ stant or an eternity for aught that I coul<J realize, when all at once I was awake and sitting upright, gazing at the window over the bed in an agony of fear that brought the perspiration out upon my forehead and made me shake as if in a palsy. I had heard nothing and seen nothing, but while I continued to look with a dreadful fascination, noiselessly a fa e ap­ peared at the window, pale and dis­ torted. The moonlight from one of the other windows fell full upon it, and I could see ever? feature with an unmistakable distinctness--even the heavy scar across the forehead at the edge cf the hair, and a smear of blood that looked red and fresh over one cheek. i*or an awful instant the wild eyes met mine with a flash of recognition, and then the whole van­ ished as noiseless!v as it had come. Then, at last, in unreasoning ter­ ror, I sprang from the bed and crouched on the floor of the room. Both of my companions, awakened the noise, started up and eagerly asked what was the matter. As soon as I could, I ex itedly told my story, which* was received with a manifest incredulity that my earnest­ ness did not dispel, ana an investiga­ tion was at on e proposed. We found the sliding window fastened from the other side, but a candle held up to it, while it did not reveal the whole interior, showed that there was absolutely nothing at all in the room as far as could be seen, not even a piece of furniture of any sort The next door along the passage, that unmistakably led into the room, was locked. A glance from the other windows of our room into thecouit showed a bright moonlight night in which everything could be seen al­ most as distinctly as by day. While we stood looking out of the window, a bell close by sharply rang out a single stroke, and the hourly song of the wat hman came faintly from the distant street. There was clearly nothing to do but to go back to bed, and with the admonition not to dis­ turb them with any more night­ mares, however interesting thev might be, my companions settled down again to sleen as was soon ap­ parent from their regular breathing. As for me, 1 had all the sleep vouch­ safed me for that night, ana I was glad when the long hours had Anally preceding night and was finally al­ most ready, in the sober light of day, to believe with the others that I had ^ a most vivid dream. | I was, however, in this belief soon j set aright. Below stairs, the head j waiter greeted us with a "Goo j morning, gentlement. Have yo beard the news?" j Of course we had not, and he con- : tlnued: "There was a murder last ! night, just around the corner." A yoang man of the place, he told us in response to our questions, back j from his military service, on a fur- I of the village cobbler. He now had j finally asked the father for the hand of his daughter, but be was a worth- ; less fellow, and the father had flatly t refused his consent. This had led to | high words between them, and be- i side himself with anger, thtj younger j man su 'denly snat hed up a knife and buried it in the other's breast. I "And the murderer?" I eagerly ' asked. j "He has escaped." j "What time was this?" * I '-A few minutes after half-past 12 , o'clock." | lough, had before his departure I gained the affections of the daughter diately summoned, and. led, by the host, we proceeded to the room in question. The door was really locked, and when the official had finally opened it there was nothing to be seen. The room Dad no other en­ trance than the window, which was securely nailed, and could not be moved from either side. Later in theday my narrative, how­ ever, was taken down in its details by the police clerk, and duly signed and attested. As soon as possible that afte^noon we shoek the dust of Elbingerode off our feet and set out again on our way, for the episoae bad not been a pleasant one. The remainder of the foot fcour was not without important incident, and baa left no particular impression. I only remember that even when w$ were again back in Brunswick, I felt a haunting ner­ vousness at night, but change of scene Anally made me forgot it, and when in October of that same year, 1 went on to Leipz g to enter the uni­ versity, it was lair to become, ulti­ mately, only an indistinct memory. 1 had been in Leipzig two months, when one day^ the lath of December, I was hurrying, late in the afternoon, to my lodging in the Keil Strasse, through one of the narrowest streets in the older part of the town. I was not quite sure of my direction, and was wondering where the crooked street would lead, me, when my at­ tention was suddenly attracted to a man who came to the door of a house just in front of me, and after look­ ing up aud down the street, as if in search of somebody or something, had drawn back again into the passage and closed the door behiud him. The action in itself was not suspicious, and would have passed unnoticed in a more crowded thoroughfare. It suddenly struck me, however, that 1 had seen the face before. 1 had caught but a momentary glimpse of it, but surely it was not unfamiliar. THE MUKDEREE IN Ills GABBET CHA1CBEF. I stood still to puzzle it . out, but all at once it cam6 to me with the cer­ tainty of conviction--it was the face 1 had seen in the inn at Elbingeiode. I hastened off as rapidly as possible and told my story to an incredulous official, who only reluctantly at last decided to send a policeman to appre­ hend the man upon suspicion, in case he should be found. To make a long story sboit, we Anally discovered our man in the smallest and poorest room in the verv garret of the house. We had learned where he was probably in hiding, and enteriug the door without knocking, came upon him quite unawares, as he lay awake upon the bed, covered up with the bed clothes to keep himself warm in the Areicss room. He was pale and emaciated: bis spirit had teen broken, apparently as much by hunger as by remorse or fear of apprehension, and he made neither by word or sign the slightest protest to his arrest. There was, however, not the faintest doubt as to his identity. There were the same wild eyes that had stared in upon me through the window, and across'the forehead was the scar that I hid seen so distinctly iu my ter­ rible vision. The identification was made com­ plete by means of the photographs anil descriptions that had been sent out by the authorities at the time ot the murder and an examination was set for the following morning. There is little more to be told. When the next day, I appeared at the department of police, as directed, I was told ty the otfeial In charge that there was no further need of my services, for the prisoner had taken the matter into his own hands dur­ ing the night, and lay dead lo his cell. I was not yet destined to hear the last of the episode, for in order to se­ cure the reward that had been offered for the apprehension of the murderer, a journey was Anally necessary, in the middle of winter, up in the mountains to the little Harz village where the Arst secnes of the story were laid. What more than made up t«o me, however, for any discomfort I was obliged to suffer was the satis­ faction 1 bad of giving the consider­ able sum ultimately paid me into the bands of the almost destitute widow, At this time I again took the opportunity to look over the ground with the utmost care, and examined once more the door and window of the still vacant room next the chamber in which we bad slept. The window was nailed up, as before, and there was no other possibe en-* tr.-tnen exrspt by the door which, sow, as t hen, was sccutcly lock&d. Floiii every possible point of view since' then, I have thought the matter over, but with no satisfactory explanation; and to this day, ten years or more after the episode, I am still as much in doubt as ever as to what I saw at the window ot the Blue Angtfl of El bingeroda R-I-P-A-N-S. * J Machine DM Not Work. His face was as black as ebony and bright looking, but he (ould riot read, §jelse he never would have done what he did and said what he did. He was ^evidently used to penny-in-the-slot ^machines, for when his eye fell on •the tempting-looking slot he tlshed llown in his pockets, drew forth a xent with a grin and slipped it through the aperture. Then he took a step backward and waited, his big eyes rolling in expectation. But no chew ing gum or motto came forth; no lead pencil appeared, no horses ran, no music played. There was just a dead silence, and his 'vopper" was gone. An anxious expression settled on his face, and he went nearer and peered through the slot He ex. amined the box carefully and then shook it Nothing came fortia. He turned to a bystander. "Wha's de matter wif dis yere ma­ chine?" he asked susp clously. "What machine?" "Dis yere, wha 1 drop my penny. I ain't got nuflin.M "Well, you will not get anything out of that unless you break it open, an I theu you'll be arrested." "I want inv cent back, ef I don't gitnutlin." , "You can't get it back?" "Cyan't get it back, eh?" be said, his eyes rolling until they were in danger of turning clear over. "Look hyah, sah, 1 kum from Ma'ylan. Down In Baltimo* I puo pennies in de slot machine an' I always git chewiQ' gum or candy or de horses run. I kum up hyah to New York an' 1 git bunco. See hayb," he cried excitedly, "ain't dis de bunco game?" T, "Ob, no." j 4 . '•Ain't it de flim-flam gamoS^. "No, indeed." "Ain't it de thimbie*rig?" "No; that's a contribution box. Don't you see what the little sign there says? it says 'Contributions for the poor.' You have put you; cent in a charity book.". 1 "An' I don' git no guta*^ - "Not from that." "An'no candy?" "No." "No nuTn?" "Nothing at all." "Cvan't git my cent back?" "Na" "I guess," he said, looking around furtively as if he expected a high­ wayman to come up and throttle him, «'my ole 'ooman was right whep she said I better stay down in Ma'y- lan'."--New*York Tribune. A Marvellous Showing. The U. S. Government, through the Agri­ cultural Department, has been investigating the baking powders for the purpose of in­ forming the public which was the ijiQst economical and wholesome. The published report shows the Royal Baking Powder to be a pure, healthful preparation, absolutely free from alum or any adulterant, and that it is greatly stronger in leavening power than any other brand. Consumers should not let this valuable information, ^pcjial unheeded. 1 ' i ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 1C6 WALL ST., NEW-YORK. Magnetism in the Wrong Plkoe. The recent order of the British Admiralty whereby sentries are for­ bidden to carry side arms when on duty in the dynamo tats of her Ma- jesty's ships appears to be due to some experiments wh ch are said to have demonstrated that bayonets tie- longing to the marines have become highly magnitized owing to close proximity to the dynamos employed for lighting purposes. Both mag- j itictic and electric influences may easily be perverted and sometimes With startling results. Not long ago I a passenger on board an ocean steam­ er folded up his iron < eck chair be­ fore retiring, and. as the night was stormy, left it inside the pilot-house, j The man at the wheel presently be-1 came aware of something wrong with i the compass, and before the delin-1 quent deck ( hair was pounced on the ship was half an h ur out of her j curse. An equally well-authenti­ cated case is that of a learned pro-! fessor who took his head student out1 testing one day. It was winter time, ! and, as a cold wind blew through ihe j station, the head student kept nn J his hat while taking insulation read- J iritfs. The result showed an unprece-1 dented degree of insulatJou, one, in ' fact, greater than infinity, aud the professor, as well as the student, was amazed and mystiAed. Tbe former, however, repeated the test, and ob­ tained results much less creditable to . She Would. An Englishwoman relates rather a pretty story about a factory girl's novel way of answering a mafriage proposal made to her: The young girl could not write or read writing, and one day she brought a letter to me to read it for her. It contained an offer of marriage. I happened to know- that the writer was a deserving young artisan, so I said to her, "Now, you must consider this matter very seri­ ously, and if you like to come to me when tyou have made up your mind, I will write a rep'y for you." A day or two afterward I met tho girl again, and asked her if she wanted me to an­ swer the letter for her. "Oh! that is all risfht." said the girl, tcoking radi­ ant and pleased. Tve settled it. I an­ swered it myself." "Why, how did you do it'" I asked. And then she told me that ?he could make a capital "I," and that she stuck on the paper a piece of wool after it for "wull"--"I wool." Surely one of the quaintest accept­ ance of an offer of marriage ever penned. ' The Culture of Water Watercress can only be grown In e'ear water, preferably in a clear run­ ning stream. This valuable crop is mostly grown in the broad, open ditches of drained swamps made wide for thi-* purpose, and in which there is a slow current of clear water. The bottom shbuld le sandy, but not mud­ dy. The ditches are usually six feet wide. The seed is commonly sown by mixing it into balls of mud. which are I dropped on the bottom and thus pre­ vent the seed from being carried away. Or cuttings of the plants may be set in the bottcm two feet or so apa"t, and will soon spread and fill the ditches. Tho cross is cut for sale a3 soon a < the soring growth is made and until the plants flower in July, when the s-eod is left to ripen and sow itself. The tops of the plants are cut with sheep- shears as they are he'd in bunches by the left hand, and packed evenly in baskets holding about a feck, usually selling for L'f> to 75 cents a basket. In the Depths of Misery. Thottph endowed with wealth "beyond tti dreams of avarice," the wretched sufferer from chronic dyspepsia is plunged in the depths of misery, from which he or she seldom emerges even for a day at a stretch. There la a way to down the Imp. Invoke the aid of Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters and hedeperts. Keep using the mcdlcine and the relief you promptly ex- i perlence finally becomes permanent and a I thorough cure is effected. Heartburn, flatu- j ience, uneasiness and sinking at the pit of the j stomach, nervousness, insomnia -- these ar<£ | symptoms first relieved and flually cured, with j their cause, by this ineffably reliable specific. ! Liver complaint and constipation, brother tor­ mentors of dyspepsia, arc also sent to limbo by the Hitters. So are rheumatism, malaria and kidney complaint. Use this helpful medi­ cine systematically, not by fits and starts. It Used to Bother Farmers. Twenty-five or thirty years ago the Sodom apple was the tarror of farmers in New York State, though now it is seldom heard of. It was a low, haad- some plant with sharp thorns and sma l round fruit that when ripe looked like a tiny orange. English fo^k sometime s brought it over as an ornacental plant, but were speedily induced t J destroy it whe 1 thev camo into a region where it was known. There w^as a strong belief that the farm upon which the Fodom apple ap­ peared was well-nigh doomed. Success ia Lire depend* on little things. A Ulpans Tabule Is a little thin?, but, taking one occasion­ ally gives good digestion, and that means good blood, and that means good brain and brawn, and that means success May Have to Pay for Her Presents. An amusing case is to b3 tried in one of the courts of Paris soon, in which the most prominent figure is ex-Queen Isabella of Spain. T. ward the end of 18.-R), on the anniversary of her birth, her Majesty received in her hotel in the Avenue Kleber, among other pres­ ents, a bsautiful basket of flowers which came from the greenhouse ol a Mme. Lion. A few days later Mme. Lion went to the palace of the former ivueen and demanded 2,r>0 francs a i the price of the basket of flowers. "Eut." replied her Majesty, "I di 1 not order any flowers from you. You have been the victim of some mysterious person." Getting no satisfaction at the time, the dealer addressed a letter to the Queen, in which was the following pas­ sage: "I have been the victim of a mysteri­ ous person; but, in order to indemnify myself, I appeal to your amiability and kind heart for the .50 francs." Her Ma;esty di l not deign to reply to this note, and Mme. lion sent "a mes-enger to the palace who also re­ turned without sat sfaction. Enraged at her fai ure, Mme. Lion has entered suit in one of the civil courts against "Isabella de Eourbon" lor the payment of the money. The florist alleges in her complaint that the (^ueen, "having had the Denefit Oi the flowers, ought to pay for them."--New Yo k Tribune. The Modern Deanty Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty ot exercise in the open air. Her form glows with health, and her lace blooms with its beauty. If her systim needs the cleansing action of a laxative remedy, shex u^es the gentle and pleasant liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs. 1 '* • . Effectually Buried* The sewage of Los Angles, Oal., is conveyed sixteen miles out into the Pacific Ocean and there finds an exit thirty feet below the surface .of. th$ water. .. How to Make Yearly $500 ', With twelve hfens. Farty-flve medals and diplomas awarded Prof. Corbett. 2T6 West 113th street, Now York. Send stamp for particulars. SAN FRANCISCO'S Midwinter Fair, will be transferred to the City of Mex­ ico, where it will be opened in Novem- •ber. WE cannot define it. but there seems to bo an "aroma of love" about every young, lady whose complexion has been beautified by Glenn's Sulphur Soapt IN love all men are alike, just as in a dark room they are all of a dark color. DR. KILMER The Underground Sect. A new sect in Russia is known as the Underground People, lately o« an- the Arm who supplied the cables, but i ized in Saratoff. When a person falls still very good. The student had ig.! il,» the elders come in and baptize him nored the fact that the felt hat he wore was stiffened with a steel wire in the brim. To Stop a Runaway Horse. Scarcely a week passes in any year that human lives are not jeopardized by horses taking fright and running away. The man who can devise some means which will surely prevent this will be a great public benefactor. Some one who professes to know states that runaway accidents sel­ dom occur in liussia. The means used in preventing them is very sim­ ple. It is asse: ted that in Russia a horse that is addicted to the habit of run­ ning away has a thin cord with a running noose around his neck at the ne -k «trap, and the end is tied to the dashboard. "At Borne," says this informant, "I saw in the Corso a phaeton with two spirited horses bolt. They were driven by a lady, and 1 expected to see instant "destruction. 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We have them sold everywhere at lower prices for the value given than any other make. Take no sub­ stitute. If jrour dealer eanaot su;i-!y you, we can, FREE! Every farmer's wife who boils her tea-kettle over a fire of maple or hicko *y wood, know* T H at, by leech in P the and din^ any rem-o grease at c ommand, she may make a ser­ viceable soap. And jet, not­ withstanding this, she find* it better to buy a soap made by improved methods. Some man* ufact irerd produce soap of such peculiar excellence that people are led to specially desire it: and the makers advertise t .eir product w.dely, and accumu­ late fortunes by its sale. The fact still remains that scap is •> combination of alkaloid and grease. Its manufacture is a simple or artistic process, according' to the quality produced. Soap has been made for thou ands of years, but the best soaps are the product of nine­ teenth century methods. Gunpowder is composed of charcoal, sulphur, and saltpeter. Yet not e^er/ wocd produces the best charcoal for the purpose*. Some sorts of sulphur ara of morj value than others to the manufao- t&rer of gunpowder, aad saltpeter must be properly prepared to admit o. best result*. Given all of best quality, skill in blending is still required, and al­ though it is possiole for almost any one to make an explosive mixture, those who have use fo.* gunpowder find itad- vi able t > buy of a manufacturer who has grained a reputation for making the be3t. Tne ingredients are no secret, but the resultant combination is of proved effectiveness, and, although some other may be as cosd, it is risKy to experi­ ment; consequently the trade-mark of a favorite brand of gunpowder is worth a g. eat sum to its owner. Medicines are of less universal use than soap, and more rerions re juire them than have occasion to buy gttki- powder. .^:0; Soap is a universal cleanser. Gunpowder is the explosive in most common use. There is a certain form of prescrip­ tion in almost as common use among medical ^ract tioners, in their attend­ ance upon the sick, as soap is in t*o ev-. erv-day affairs cf the household. It seem* to be needed on every occasion. This application by physicians of asin- g:e remedy for many apparently vary­ ing ills comes ab ut frtm tbe well- known fact that every Ulness results from or is augmented by a disturbed c ndition of pa ticular " organs that come in play in the conversion o.' foud into muscle or bio d. or into power of action by limb or brain. Whatever aids or stimulates those organs gives lite and energy to all others, it is not so very strange that, out of the exper!-' enco of generations, a fo mis la should be evolved that is as simple and definite as that used for making; soap or gun­ powder. The marked difference to be observed, however, in the case of the medical compound of Rhubarb and So­ da, and the few othe - ingredients equal­ ly well known that ero to make up this prescription, is, that the metho t by which it could be prepared in a manner to secure permanent excellence, and ad­ mit of transportation in a form tit for immediate use, is a recent discovery. It is ior that reason the compound has only now arrived at the distinction of having a name assigned to it. That name is K-I-P-A-N-S. and each letter is the initial of one of the constituent in­ gredients. The preparation of medicines in tab> let form has only been rendered possi­ ble in a large way by machinery in­ vented within a comparatively short time; but the result has already worked a material change in medical practice. The physician to-day is supplied with medicines ia this form, and the maker who produces best results secures the trade. The apothecary is fast ceasing to compound the physician's prescrip­ tion. but sells instead the same ingre­ dients prepared with a skill and nicety that is beyond hi* own power to equal with the facilities at his command. Physicians do not write prescriptions for petroleum jelly, but put down in­ stead, the word vaseline and the en­ terprising merchant who applied his trade mark to a common product, the great excellence and wide application of which he had been among the nrst to discover, reaps a profit therefrom, and deserves it by the unifcrm excel­ lence and purity of the artLle he sap* plies. So, too, the manufacturers of R-I-B A-N-S Tabules. being the tirst t3 set on foot careful inquiries concernirg the myriad combinations of Rhubarb and Suda known to be in such universal use among doctors, aad t:> search out the particular prescription that hud acq uireu the greatest fame and widest acceptance, and then to undertake the manu­ facture in modern tablet lorm. using the choicest of selected dru?s and combining them by method > that have been proved scientific and found to lie fortunate, have secured a trade-mark that is valuable, and given to the public a medi­ cine of m;re uniform excel­ lence and wider application than any other that has ever be?n known. It has be _sn asserted that the principal ingredients of the e tabules are in about as con­ stant use by the best phy­ sicians in their daily practice as salt is by the housewife in the preparation of the family meals. & T5.000&O HICE 6ANI0T SEI ROW TOB A Wirt IT ARB PA* FREIGHT. CIA Bars oar t innt w*!*al «• t4k •rTsMnd H%k Am 81 flarlv tt&latod, ftfckfl plal ne.TT wurk; tum.lwi AatMutie labMaVlafer, S» dtr Shillk,8«l{Mlla| I of BUrUIIMtaMtttiUpH _ J Trial. Ne meeey • _ ow fa tiw. World'! fair Medal awarded ee«fcl»eee< meat*. Duv from factory aad aa** daaln* aad I(nl1 | •n rp Cat Tkla Oct and atad today for 1 r nfct catalogue, tiitimoniils ami G iimran at tfca Wartd'aFalfc OXFORD MFG. CO. 342 VabufcAn.BIISABOJU* PAYS FOR&fffl lalOOUghindt papers in Illinois, | guaracteed circu­ lation lOO {100 tt 3 times In l,3t3 country 1 papers for SSyD FOX CATALOGUE. CHICAGO NEWSPAPER ITKION, p tt Booth Jefferson Street, • Chloga, NOTHING pleases a woman so much as to have her husband pay her a lit­ tle attention when other .women are around. Ruppert's FACE BLEACH Appreci&tiog the fact that tbouundto of tiill-- of the 17. 5. iLave not wed my Fact Blncfc.0* account of price, which Ls $9 per bcttle, la or<i«r that all may give It a fair trial, 1 will *eod a Sample Bottle, s*f«ly pa4*keri. all rhargvs prepaid, co of ?5c. FACK BLEACH remove* ami cure* absolutely all freckles, pimple*. blackheads, sallow* ness. acne, ecterna, wrinkles, or roc^ha^asof _ akin, and beantifie* tbe compUsioD. Mme A RUPPERT. Deot. E. 6 F. 14th St.. N. Y. City. 1 111" StowellAOfe faatowBrJUat W~ - v'« tl circular* tree. Titiril ave. J»ew York. Please oat this ont utd giv to rhtniiitiitie Mi-ijjhbor. 'ibis advertisement ap­ pears a tew times only. Write Spr«itue Bro«„ No. e oat this PARISIAN FACE BEAUTIFIERj i- fluent iti the world. Removes Kmplys t'rvofc. le*. Liver Spots. BiHotOiesdj;. Moth Blott-lus. H riofc. • les. haiiowuess. Kuugtiiu s«. etc. Pru-e r, r three bottles, V»l«mr lifcl, KEY. 243 (imutl >t.. X. V. Wr.te U>-- MODEM HMTnilE&SSr •••HBHAMMMKBUAARIE*! ^ILr 1 estt JJATCBE bos been very kipd •eaaon, except* human oatace. thii Dr. J. H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm Jgstly celebrated as the Peerless Liver and Kidney Medicine of America CURE YOURSELF FRENCH SPKI U'IC newr falls to rare a| dlseawi of the urlu:trji or«un,«iUlWMi condition. Full tiiEvetiiias with each bottle: pr. SI.(HI. Sold>bv E. I.. SfAMl, !»Vi Biiren street corner Fifth Avenue.Otucntfo UUaoi Heut by eipress on reveiiit of price. PATENTS. TRADE-1ABK&. Rsauifnatlon and .VI>ice as to fatntttalKlity cf !»•.; *»tiu >n. good for inke*ww Ou^wt^toMr a Patent. PAT-KICK O't'iuiu. I» C. " N. V. ' ' J ..ft...