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Merit Means Money Made. Toil cfliinot advertise money out of peo­ ple's pockets all the time; you may do it now and then, but if you don't give them something of absolute merit in return, ad­ vertising will never prove successful. The kind of advertising that pays is advertis­ ing a good thing. As it has merit the people will use it again and again. Never has this been better illustrated than in the great success,of Cascarets, candy ca­ thartic, that we have been lately adver­ tising in this paper. All druggists call In Close Quarters. Jack--I hear you had a narrow escape from a grizzly in the mountains this summer. Ella--Yes, indeed. It was the tightest squeeze I ever had. Jack (putting Lis arm around her)-- Well, that grizzly is not the only mem­ ber of the "press association." A Sensation. ^ ^ ^ t t ^ = o That the world is coming to an end Cascarets repeaters, that is, people buy j fj1 them, like them, and bujr them again and " **" "**" " recommend them to their friends. Gas- carets are guaranteed to cure constipation or money refunded, and are a delightful laxative and liver stimulant; the best medicine ever made. We recommend all our readers to try them. Decrees of Foolishness. "That man. Barker, is the biggest fool I ever saw. lie never talks about anything but himself!" "I don't know that you ought to call him the biggest fool, for that." "Do you sanction that sort of thing?" "No, but^ Barker doesn't know much about anything else. The biggest fool is the one who tries to talk about things that V he doesn't understand."--Cleve­ land, fieader. English Steel Rails. : In- tearing up a siding on the Straits-, ville divisio'n of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the other day* the section men discovered that" several of the rails had bee^(niade in 1803. Subsequent investi­ gation revealed the fact that' the'sevrails. •were part of a lot that were hotight in England during the war, at a costot $125 per ton in gold. The rails were still in i every very fair condition and for light motive power would last ten years longer. is here referred to. There are different kinds of sensations, as very many peo­ ple know who feel sharp twinges of pain in the big nerve of the thigh. Sci­ atica is a very painful sensation. a#d the torment of it makes one think some­ thing is come to an end. But just at the lirst sensation or twinge is the best time to use St. Jacobs Oil. The less pain the more easily it is cured, and the Oil prevents its development by soothing the nerve. At auy stage it will cure. » Earth's Speed Not Even. It is an interesting fact that the earth does not travel at the same rate in all parts of its journey through space. Its orbit being elliptical, ./4t must at some time approach nearer to the tuu than <at others, and, will take loss time in moving through one part I of its path than through another, lii 1 winter the earth is nearer the sun than j in >11 miner, and moves tlirougL space I mute rapidly.. . • or twice his friends hare become very' apprehensive of ultimate results of the accident. At times his mind would wander and he went off into state­ ments foreign to the subject under dis­ cussion and in a strain not natuifxl with him. A word directly addressed to him brought him back to the orig­ inal subject again and he picked op the thread of conversation, even in the middle of an interrupted or broken sen­ tence.--Galveston News. COUNT.OF FLANDERS ROBBED. Clear Atmosphere. The atmosphere is so clear in Zulu- land that, it is said, objects can bo seen by starlight at a distance of sev­ en miles. Coughing lieaiis to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan­ gerous. • Some men keep so busy deciding what women they don't want to marry that they never get time to decide what woman they do. Ringing Noises Troubled for Years with Catarrh, but Now Entirely Cured. "I was troubled for years with catarrh, which caused ringing noises iu my ears and pains in the back of my head. 1 was advised' to take Hood's Sarsaparilla.. 1 did so and a few bottles entirely cured me." HENRY M'KIltRYHER, -Laporte, Iowa. Get only Hood's because I bors. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the best--in fact, the One True IJlootl Puriller. Hood's Piils cure indigestion. biliousness. ftSH Then Sleep Soundly. You can't afford to lie awake o' nights. Nothing compensates for loss of sleep. Eight hourS of good sleep night is what you need if you hope to keep healthy nerves in your body and a clear head on your shoul­ ders.' Yet you cannot get rest enough while you persist in drinking coffee. No habitual coffee drinker can depend on his sleep. Why not break off the coffee habit and drink Grain-O in place of it? Guiin-0 is made from pure grains, has the rich seal brown color of Mocha or Java, is nourishing and pal­ atable--a food drink--without any of the noxious properties of coffee. Hav­ ing used it a short time you will prefer it to the best coffee that was ever set on your table. Two points gained- health promoted, money, saved. All grocers. In packages at 15c. and 25c. Whom Yellow Fever Attacks. "It is generally believed here," says a New Orleans dispatch to the Balti­ more Sun, "that full-blooded negroes are practically exempt from yellow fe­ ver. as much as they are prone to smallpox infection. There is no rule by which it can be stated who are es­ pecially subject to the infection. In a j general way, it might be said that fat j men and women who are in the habit j of using stimulants to excess are more ! liable to catch the disease than their I thinner and more abstemious neigh- But in an epidemic of the fever children seem to be the most frequent victims, and especially girls. There have been comparatively few cases of male adults taking the disease. SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY. Don't be fooled with a mackintosh or rubber coat. If you want a coat that will keep you dry in the hard­ est storm buy the Fish Brand Slicker. If not for sale In your town, write for catalogue to A. J. TOWER. Boston, Mass. Embossed in Gold. The Companion's Souvenir Calendar for 1898, a series of charming figure-pieces, faithfully copied iti colors and embossed in gold, is recognized everywhere as a most charming piece of color-work. Ev­ ery new subscriber receives it without ad­ ditional charge. Moreover, the paper is sent free to new subscribers every week from the time the subscription is received until January, 1898, and then for a full year to January, ISfll). Illustrated Prospectus of the volume for 1898 and sample copies of the paper sent free. Address, THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, 207 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. Klondike! Klondike! A party owning claims In thn Klondike ronton will •ell» few shares of stock lu a company now fortu ne at $1.00 perBhare. For particulars address Klondike Improvement Co. Box lZ98,Salt Lake City,U tah ftP.l.yjBLElHVEHjmit NTI COS I Ui 'A KOOD PATENT can i: foreign patenti M'BURTON & BURTON 5S2 IF YOU'Rfc TR^EDTAPE WORMS and doctors fall to euro you. write to us and WTP will fond yon a simple and harmless remedy send $2.00 by mall. The Pope Remedy Co., Mtnden. Neb. I") IOJ HAM R TO ICVOIV roiiR KI - ture? 't hen send 27 rents for the Family Horost opr.adcv eeltint tells-you everything'. J'o-t paid. Address. Ji. V. UO i.OSCOi E t'Ji- 227 > rhlrd Avenue, New York City. | is oiten maae pronv [ less tiy a poor patont A fibrous preparation of steel, made in the same manner as the so-called "mineral wool," by passing an air blast through molten steel, is coming into use for cleaning, polishing, etc., instead of sandpaper. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. lu order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price '25 and HOc. MARRY i\ rite to Denver Corresponding Club for new inivate list. 10 els Members wort h ; 500 to $G0.000 Box 1 BOO. Denver. Iol. tiDt'T/1 TIT1 "S3 A YTl on orders ot 2.000 b«i. J? JtC XilvjiA 1 XT iilD ft. of Hooting or Wall an.I ceding Manilla. Write for samples and prices. The Fay Manilla Rooting Co., Camden, :>. J. S. N. U. No. 47--1>" What Spool Means. The averaged-sized spool for sewing thread is 2 inches high and 1Ms inches in diameter at the ends. X spool of thread means about 200 yards. TO CURE A COLD IN ONK DAY. Take I.axatlve Brorno Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund the money If It falls to cure. 25c The compulsory education lavs- in In­ diana is believed to have added 25,000 , pupils to the schools. I believe Piso's Cure is the only medi­ cine that will cure consumption.--Anna M. Ross, Williamsport. Pa., Xov. 12, '9^ m OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO TH£ EXCLUSIVE USE OP THE WORD " CASTORIA," AXD "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK.. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Eyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that tuis borne and docs now Sip V/&/? , /' "" on everiJ hear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought Sip V/ty, ? "" on and has the signature o f wrap­ per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. /j - Marrh 8, 1S97./>« Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. "The Kind You Have Always Bought" BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. TMK CCNTAUM COMPANY. TT MURRAY BTRCKT. NIW YOMK CITY. "Forbid a Foe a Thing and That He Will Do." Don' t Use S A POLIO At a recent meeting of the Institu­ tion of Civil Eusrineers in London, the opinion was expressed that the com­ ing material for ship-building is nickel steel, but that before it can be exten­ sively used, further deposits of nickel must be discovered. . '. < : : s; • Diving operations at a great depth have proved successful off Cape Fiuis- terre, all the silver bat's from the steamer Slcyro, which sunk in thirty fathoms in 1891, having been brought to the surface. The working depth for the divers was never less than 172 feet and was often more. Dynamite was used to blow away the deck. The value of the silver was $45,060. ; .; ;: Experiments have recently been made bv Eastern railways in sprinkli g oil along the ground, beside their tracks for the purpose of preventing lie dust from being swept up by the motion of the cars. A stretch of road .11 New Jersey was sprinkled with crude oil for a distance of six fuet 011 each side of the track. This was found to lay the dust successfully, and it is said that the entire Pennsylvania system will be thus treated. People who like "plain'fishing" with angleworms for bait will be interested in the best methods of procedure when the weather is dry and the bait hides deep in the ground. One way to cause the angleworms to come out is to sprin­ kle strong salt water, or an infusion of tannin or of walnut husks, on the ground. Another way recommended is to drive sticks, or spades, deep into the soil, aud then shake tliem violently. This operation, it is said, will frequent­ ly call the worms from their retreats. One would hardly look for new forms of animal life in a vast, dark cavern Jike the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Yet as a matter of fact, no less than seven such forms inhabiting that par­ ticular cave, and hitherto unknown to science, have recently been described. The fact that these creatures arc very minute does not detract from their sci­ entific interest, while, on the other band, it must increase our admiration for the skill and industry of the natur­ alists who do not allow even micro­ scopic life to escape their ken, although hidden in places where no ray of sun­ light ever penetrates. Perhaps the most marvelous ceme­ tery known to science is the sheet of chalk which seems at one time to have covered the country from Southern En­ gland to Central Asia beyond the Sea of Aral, having an area about 3,<H)0 miles long by 1,000 miles broad. This enormous bed was formed entirely of the microscopic remains of minute sea animals. Isolated patches of the great sheet now remain, that of England be­ ing more than 1,000 feet thick, and cov­ ering the island southeast of a line ex­ tending diagonally from the North Sea at Flam borough Head to the coast cf the English Channel in Dorset. A Russian journal calls attention to the fact that< for some twenty years pa.st the inhabitants of a malarial local­ ity in the government of Kharkov have used powdered crabs with great suc­ cess in the case of fevers. The powder is prepared in the following way: Live crabs are poured over with the ordi­ nary whisky until'they get asleep; they are then put in a bread-pan in a hot oven, thoroughly dried and pulverized, and the powder passed through a line sieve. One dose, a teaspoonful, is gen­ erally sufficient to cure the intermit­ tent fever; in very obstinate cases a second dose is required. Each dose is invariably preceded by a glass of aloe brandy. The powder is used in that locality in preference to quinine. Prof. Jules Amann, of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, was recent­ ly called upon to apply scientific pho­ tography to a rather novel purpose. A Swiss peasant woman who had saved by hard labor and economy a sum equivalent to $110. having temporari­ ly to leave lver cottage untenanted, placed her money, in the form of bank- bills, iu a tin box. whicii she hid away in the oven of her stove. During her absence her son came home and, not knowing what his mother bad done, started a fire in the stove. When the poor woman returned, the bank bills had been reduced to black cinders. She was advised to apply for aid at the laboratory of the university, and Prof. Amann succeeded in so photographing the carbonized bills as to make their denominations, signatures, etc.. de­ cipherable. Armed „with these photo­ graphs the woman recovered the value of all the bills from the banks which bad issued them., Queer Effects of a Fall. Never .was there a case to which more peculiar circumstances attached than that of Elmer Doolittle, of Sher­ man, Texas. First he plunged head first from the cupola of the Diamond mill elevator to the ground, a distance of sixty-seven feet, and escaped with a few bruises about the face and rup­ ture of the nose and a slight fracture of the bones in one foot. Within a few VJayg lie began to mend rapidly and he Tv is soon out. He was able to wmem- Upr distinctly scenes and even Import- am utterances and incidents immedi- atelly preceding the accident, but from his mind was blotted out all remem­ brance of the accident. He could not remember having on that day met Wal­ ter Morris, who fell with him and died in the evening of the same day. He heard of the accident and the fatal re­ sults attending it as one would hear of something that had befallen a friend off somewhere. He was taken to the. scene of the accident In the hope that this would clear away the hiatus that seemed to exist, but the effort was use­ less. . Lately he has recovered his physical strength rapidly, and is now able to go about easily, even the wound in the foot giving little tvouble and pain. Once NOT WILD AND WOOLY. An Instance When the Lone Star State Led the Style. The denizens of the older States of the East love to rejoice in their own self-constituted superiority and con­ ceit. These soft-shell creatures lay back iu their satisfaction and it affords them supreme gratification to bear Texas pictured^as the wild and* woolly out- skirt of civilization--a land dominated by the roaming cowboy with the six- shooter and rattlesnake hatband, and who prowls over the expansive prairies seeking some helpless human victim to slaughter. It does not occur to them that the great Lone Star State is a land of limitless possibilities and that a. large percentage of the brains and en­ ergy of the world has camped Within her borders seeking fame,and fortune and that we have an up-to date civili­ zation here that knocks out tlio Euro- peanized and congested article they glorify. Such is the ease,.however, and the Lavacaen further begs to inform the "inhabitants of the corrosive East who so love to flatter their own supe- riority and snatch beams out of the eyes of the West that Texas leads the fashions in this country. The Texas dude (and suffice it to say that we have begun to breed this va­ riety. of the human species within our midst in great numbers) puts "on the latest spring touches long before his brother in the East has crawled out of winter quarters and is ready for an­ other immutable edict from the decay­ ing monarchies of the old world. M. E. Fowler, one of the most fashionably decked out men who rambles over these parts, went to New York at the begin­ ning of summer and had an experience which shows how we stand on the dress question. He went to mix with friends and - Natives and tat in the giddy sights. In addition to the latest style suit, he tapered himself off with a gray hat with a black band. • He found that the Cotham natives had not yet caught on. but moved around in old fogy raiment and thought he had just suffered from a death in his family. It is so always, and the Texas lady who goes East arrayed in the latest for the season often suffers from the gaping inquisitiveness of , the local folks who must still wear out-of-date styles. When it comes to keeping up with the fashions it is a settled fact that the East is not in it with Texas.-- Post Lavacaen. Hunts Kggs with X-Itays. There seems to be 110 limit to the use to which the X-rays can be put in re­ vealing the true inwardness of things. It is now being used by poultry farm­ ers anxious to discover the laying ca­ pacity of hens. One enterprising man, says the Pittsburg Dispatch,- finding the percentage of eggs was not what It should be, considering the size of his poultry yard, hit upon the idea of ex­ amination by the Roentgen rays, and was thus able to weed out the nonpro ducers. The birds were examined at the rate of 30 per hour, and the "noh- effieleAts" were soou plucked and sent to market. The Roentgen rays are said to have nn extremely injurious influence on th# action of the heart, causing that organ to palpitate violently, and some of the leading doctors In Paris have issued a warning to medical students and others to exercise great caution in examination of the action of the heart by the rays. * 111 effects have followed the use of the rays after many surgical operations where It was desirable to observe the process of the healing of the tissues, the knitting of the bones, and the re­ creation of various parts. These effects have usually partaken of the nature of burns, and in nearly every instance were caused by placing the exciting tube too near the part under inspection or making the exposure too long. The tube should never be loss than 14 Inches from the object, but the time of exposure will vary according to the strength of Ihe apparatus. A Washington photographer is said to have discovered a means whereby the ill-effects of the X-ray can be eliminated independently of the ques­ tions of strength of the rays and dis­ tance and length of exposure. The rays are passed through prepared gold foil, though how the foil is treated is kept a close seeret. Bullet Dancer's Romance. The Countess Marie Magdalene Kuef- stein, wife of the Austro-Hungarian Minister at Berne, Switzerland, who died the other day, was born Fraulein Kruger, and wanformerly a member of the ballet of the Royal Opera House iu Berlin. A sensation was produced in the Prussian capital in 18G7 when Count Karl Von Kuefstein, then sec­ retary of the Austro-Hungary Lega­ tion, a grandson of Prince Paar, asked his parents' permission to marry the dancer. They declined to grant It. Soon after the Count fell ill. Ills father then relented, giving his consent to the marriage on the condition that Fraulein Kruger attend school for a time. She entered a convent in Belgium, became a Roman Catholic, and in 1S70 was married to the Count. By her clever­ ness and modesty she won the hearts not only of her husband's parents, but of all who came in contact with her at the various posts to which the Count was sent. The Countess was 52 years old.--New York Tribune. A Fein t e Scholar. For tlie first time in its history the University of Durham is about to mark its appreciation of feminine erudition by conferring a degree upon Miss Jane E. Harrison, the well-known Greek scholar and lecturer on Greek art, es­ pecially on Greek vase painling. Miss Harrison has been a frequent contrib­ utor to magazine literature, and has published works on (ixqek vase paint­ ing, etc! She won the language schol­ arship at -Cambridge. A Jlo.iern Cra«!le. A recept invention is a cradle that rocks by means of a clockwork me­ chanism, and at the same\ time plays baby tunes. His Palace Biirjilarizetl Regularly Once in Twelve Months. -The palace of the Count of Flanders, only brother of King Leopold of Bel­ gium and next heir to the throne, has once more been subjected to a burglary, this being the fifth visitation of the same kind, the mysterious robbers hav­ ing paid their respects in this fashion 'to his royal highness, who is one of the wealthiest princes of the blood in Europe, regularly once every twelve months during the last five years. There is something distinctively un­ canny about these robberies, not only because the, palace is so exceptionally well guarded, but also because the thieves seem to be thoroughly well ac­ quainted with the whereabouts of the various valuables, and have managed always to get away with their booty without leaving any trace of their Identity. The first time they stole half of the superb jewels of the Countess of Flanders, who is a sister- of Iving Charles of Roumania; the second time they got away with the major portion Of.the gold and silver plate of the count; the third time they took away the re­ mainder > of the plate, while in the fourth year they again rifled the jewel casket of the countess. -. Last year they got away with some valuable papers, stocks, etc., while this year it is not the count or countess who is the sufferer/but the lady in waiting of tho. latter, t he Baroness, de Leffken, who has lost all her jewels and a num­ ber of .government bonds. It must be borne in mind that the palace at Brussels of the Count of Flanders is patrolled on every side by military sentinels, as well as by uni­ formed Brussels policemen, several of whom are stationed at every entrance and exit. Moreover, there are several detectives on duty, just as at every royal palace, while the count has like­ wise engaged several private detec­ tives to keep watch 011 his palace in consequence of the repeated robberies. The latter have had the effect of put­ ting tlie Brussels police more than ever on the qui vive, and that the tlieftsi should go 011 without interruption is as inexplicable and mysterious as it is ex­ asperating. It may be added that all the servants enfployed by the count and countess are old retainers, and un­ til now above suspicion.--New Orleans Picayune. Parisian Thievery. There have been several sensational thefts in Paris lately among the wealth­ ier families in the fashionable quarter. The detectives have discovered that these were committed by a gang of burglars and sneak thieves who oper­ ate in evening dress. They obtain ad­ mission to fashionable gatherings and mingle with the guests, helping them­ selves as occasion offers to silver plate and articles of bric-a-brac. They often conceal themselves until the guests have departed and the family have gone to lied, when they visit the dress­ ing room of the hostess and walk off with her jewels and any other valua­ bles they can find. One of these bur­ glars, who was discovered in the house of a banker after the guests had de­ parted, pretended to be intoxicated and explained that he had been overcome by sleep. Another, who tried to steal several valuable presents at a recent wedding, was arrested by a policeman who had been placed on guard in even­ ing dress. The thief gave a Russian name and was found to occupy elegant bachelor's apartments In a fashionable quarter. Among other assets he had a complete set of burglars' tools and a list of evening entertainments, whicii he had evidently copied out of the newspapers. An American lady lost her purse the other day. The next morning she re­ ceived by mail several samples of silk, her card to a circulating library, a key, a memorandum of dressmakers' ad­ dresses and several other articles that had been in her purse. They were in­ closed with a note, which read as fol­ lows: "Dear Madame: I return all of the contents of the purse which you lost yesterday with the exception of 15 francs, which I need more than you. and I hope you will pardon a i>oor devil for keeping the purse to carry it in." The liote was written iu excellent French and with good penmanship, which indicated that the thief was an educated man. I Deafness (Cannot"B* Cured I by local application?;, as' tfiey"cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu­ tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in­ flamed condition of the mucous lining "of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is Inflamed ic ol _ infli fleet hear- iess Is C3I1 1)6 taken out and this tube restored to itsTnormal condition, hearing will be desttoyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused bv catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We case not circulars; free. .. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. t3?~Sold by Druggists, 75c. Two-thirds df tlie ships of Great Brit­ ain are built on the Clyde. - - -4' Mrs. TVTnsIow's Sqothino STRCT Children teething; sorteus the cums, reauc«« Inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. '£> cents a bottle. A Valuable "Franchise Secured. The franchise of easy digestion--one «f tit* most valuable in the gift of medical scien --can be secured by any person wise eooogk to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, either to suppress growing dyspepsia, or to tuanMK it at maturity. Bilious, rheumatic and fever and ague sufferers, persons troubled «vltl» nervousness and the constipated, should secure the health franchise by the CUM means. Self-preservation is the first law nature, but too many in this world act as if it were the only one. Fair fashionables patronize that standard and purifying agent. 1 .lenn's Sulphur Soap. Hill's Hair and Whisker Djc. black or brown. W* Good words worth much. cost nothing, but are FITS rermanen:ly Cured. No nts or 1 after first dsyV u-.e of or. Kline's Great Nerw •torer. Send for FKEE S3.0O trial bottle andirea Da. K. H. KL1NK. Ltd.. 931 Kicii St.. Philadelphia. A TALK WITH Mt?S. PLXKHAH A.bout the Cause of Anemia. > The Gray Head t y the llearth. A private letter from a lady who is spending a year among tlie peasants of Tyrol says: "The morning after our arrival we were awakened by tlie sound of a vio­ lin and flutes under the window, and hurrying down found the little house adorned as for a feast--garlands over the door and wreathing a high chair which was set in state. * "The table was already covered with gifts brought by the young people whose music we had heard. The whole neighborhood were kinsfolk, and these gifts came from uncles and cousins in every far-off degree. Tiiey were very simple, for the donors are poor-- knit­ ted gloves, a shawl, baskets of flowers, jars of fruit, loaves of bread; but upon all some little message of love was pinned. " 'Is there a bride in this house?' I asked of my landlord. "'Acli, nein!' he said. 'We do not make such a pother about our young people. It is tJie grandmother's birth­ day.' "The grandmother, in her spectacles, white apron, high velvet cap, was a heroine all day, sitting in state to re­ ceive visits and dealing out slices from a sweet loaf to each oue who came. I could not but remember certain grand­ mothers at home, just as much loved as she, probably, but whose dull, sad lives were never brightened by any such pleasure as this; and. 1 thought we could learn much from these ,poor mountaineers."--The Freeman. More Ancestral Heirlooms. " At the marriage of a daughter of Carroll D. Wright to John Bruce Mc- Pherson of Gettysburg. Fa., the bride wore a veil made by her great-great- aunt, Miss Duncan, a beautiful pattern of old-time lace. The bride's silver shoe buckles were a pair worn 011 his wed­ ding day by her paternal great-great- grandfatlier, Colonel Jacob Wright, a revolutionary soldier and a New. Hamp­ shire pioneer. A wife is called the better half, be\ caus-i, she usually gets the best of the J\] other half. . Everybody comes into this world \vith a pre* disposition to disease of some particular tissue; in other words, everybody has a weak spot. . In ninety-nine eases out of a hundresd weak spot in women is somewhere in the uter­ ine system. The uterine organs have less re- 11 sistanee to disease than the vital organs; thatla. why they-give out the soonest. „ , f. Not more than one woman in a hundred^-- Bay, in five hundred--has perfectly healthy organs of generation. Tliis points to the stern necessity of helping ohe's self just as soon as the life powers seem to be. on the wane, . " • s" - •;?"••• v-v ' - .v/- • Excessive menstruation is a sign of physical weakness and want of toirts in the uterine organs. It saps the strength away and produces anemia {bloofi turns to water). " If you become anemic, there is no knowing what will happen. If yourguma and the inside of your lips and inside yonr eyelids look pale in color, you are in a dangerous way and must stop that drain on your powers. Why not build . up on a generous, uplifting tonic, like Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? Mrs. EDWIN Eurio, 413 Church St., Bethlehem, Pa., says: " I feel it my duty to write and tell you that I am abetter than I litfve been for four years. I used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com­ pound, one package of Sanative Wash, one box of< Liver Pills, and can say that I am perfectly cured. "Doctors didhot help me any. I should have been in my grave by this time if it had not been for your medicine. It was a godsend to me. I was troubled with excessive menstruation, which caused womb trouble, and I was obliged to remain in bed for six weeks. Mrs. Pinkham's medicine was recommended to me, and, after using it a short time, was troubled no more with flooding. I "also had seven pain in my kidneys. This, also, I have no.more. I shall always recommend tha Compound, for it has cured me, and it will cure others. I would like to have yon publish this letter.(In such cases the dry form of Compound should be used.) War with Spain. *3 * * A vivid picture of the stirring scenes which would follow a declaration of war with European Powers is given under the head 44 A Brief History of Our Late W&r with Spain" in the November Cosmopolitan. The writer has undertaken to apply the knowl= edge gained from the kite war to the conditions prevailing to=day, with modern ideas of bigness and modern methods of organization. He assigns posts in the war to prominent men now before the public, and touches as well upon the political, mechanical and fi= nancial problems involved. Novem= ber Cosmopolitan, price 10 cents. & & & « * * * & & * To Grocers. We have direct pr6of that peddlers of \Vasliingk- powders say that the stuff they're selling" is "made in the same factory" as Pearline-^- and that buying from them will save going- to, or orderi?ig from, the grocery store. Do you want people "saved" that. You have these same washing-powders in stock. Possibly you are giving them out, whenever you can, in place of Pearline. You are trying to push them into notice; they are trying to crowd you out. You think you are "making more money on them." But will it pay you, in the end ? sto J l'eddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you " thls.is as good as* OCIILI or " the same as Pearline." IT'S FALSE---Pearline is never peddled, and if your grocer sends you something in place cf * \M1 i1; Back honest--send it b.ick. Pearline, be JAMES PYLE. New Yo*fc, / There is no long waiting for help if Ripans Tabules are t^!:en for dyspepsia' and headache." Relief comes quickly. One Tabuie (about the size of a small ^button) will relieve distress in the stomach withia fifteen minutes and the headache will shortly disappear. There was an industrious, hard-working woman of Cooperstown, N. Y., some sixty years of age, who for a long time had suffered greatly from dyspepsia and dreadful headaches:" Her stomach tormented her so that she could • hardly work at all, and, although she had tried all sorts of thing?, she got no relief. A friend sent her some Ripans Tabules and she felt better as soon as she took the first one. She felt more like working. "I have continued with the Tabules ever since." she says, "and th<^ always help me." - _ • ' • , ' - drui of ji ^ Cop'isT. No. 10 bpruco <±in$r toitr-i tgrh-: cents to* t!*o RiPJOfttfC tom> xriii tn> lor Cvo cvaLk $S. N. U. No. 47-07 IN writ'oj to Adrertisers. please do 1 ttoa you uw the Advertisement ia not fall to this paper.' vfe'P,J SO'S->CAJ R £ FOR " UURtS iVHtRt ALL tlSt rAltS." Best Coush Syrup. Tastes Good. Use In time. Sold by drmaelsts. CONSUMPTION CURE YOURSELF! t'se Bi£ tor aise&E(uc«I irricatwr.il or •t'-rmi'ini of mucous memfe i P*ui les*. and not < \WEEVWSCKEttmCO. t or poSoao«». Lffl*ci«ijun.a.l 1 s«W ky or Mat la ptaia i by exprraa, prepaid, "fmt #i Oft. or 3 boni«*r^M. Circular Mai oa