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HteaSmHSBStedgW ••• • V' % pi I )i 'ft , Jsf WORDS. If words could satisfy the heart, , The heart might find less care; But words, like summer clouds, depart, And leave but empty air. " The heart, a pilgrim' on the earth, Finds often, when it needs, That words are of as little worth As just so many weeds. A little snid--and truly said-- Can deeper joy impart Than hosts of words that reach the head, But never touch the heart. The voice that winds its sunny Way " A lonely home to cheer Has oft the fewest words to say, But, oh, those few--how dear! TJo We Need BiK Mn-cles? By no means. Persons of herculean build frequently possess u minimum of genuine vigor, and exhibit less endurance tlian very small people. ,Real vigor means the ability to digest, and sleep well, and to perform a reasonable amount of daily physical and mental labor without unnatural fatigue. It is because a course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters enables the unfeebled dyspeptic to resume the allotted activity of every-day life, as well as to participate without discom­ fort In its enjoyments, that It is such a pre­ eminently useful medicine. Everything looks straight and secure until--a wee accident comes and knocks things belter skelter. "A few years ago I met the famous oculist at a medical congress. I was introduced to him. He remembered my name perfectly. " 1 was quite correct in my diagnosis of that case you senc me," he said in the course of our conversation. " 'What case?' I asked half smilingly, half-filled with apprehension. "'Don't you remember the young woman who brought me your card and about whom you asked me to write you. She is totally blind. I have her When the hair begins to fall out «ai turn gray, the scalp needs doctoring, aodb we know of no better specific HaH*f Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer. k Statesmen as Autbsra. Fifty-four members of the "aewi Housg of Commons, about one in/ twelve, have wrttten books. I know that my life Was saved "by Piso> Cure £or Consumption.--John A MjJfcr An Sable. Mich.. April 21. 1895. You Nice New Woman. This may be the era of the new wom­ an, devoted to intellect, philanthropy, politics, and science, and ignoring all pretty feminine fads, but one would not suppose her reign all an entirely com­ prehensive one to read all the literature of fashion that is being published, and not only published, but read with avid­ ity. Perhaps the new woman herself lias been unable to eliminate wholly from her complex and superior being the foiul. trivial records of toilets, gowns, textures, and "trimmings and cannot resist an indulgence more or less secret in the same. At any rate, there lias been no time when women gener­ ally dressed more becomingly and so well as the present. One cannot now pick out the writing or the lecturing or the professional woman by her negiect- ed dress and dowdyish appearance.-- Philadelphia Times. MRS. ELLA M'GAEVY, Writing to Mrs. Pinkham. She says:--I have been using jronr Vegetable Compound and find that it does all that its is recommended to dcL -I have been a sufferer for the last four w^s trv^Lydia E. Piiik«i I ham's Vegetable Compound, and to-day, j I I am feeling lilre a new woman.---j MRS. EIXA MCGABVY, Nee be Road Station, Cincinnati, O. TOO LATE TO MEND. 'I WIIX XEVEP. LEAVE YOU AO ATX." CATHARTIC. STANDARD OF THE WORLD. The 5% Nickel Steel Tubing used in 1897 Columbias costs more than any other steel tubing on the market. The expense incident to this con­ struction is justified by the Advantages <which it enables us to offer to the rider, both in safety, stiffness of tubular parts and consequent ease of running. This i s indicated by the regard in 'which '97 Columbias a f t held by all riders. POPE MANUFACTURING CO., Hartford, Corn, It Columbias arc not properly represented la your vicinity, let us know. <>-^1 CURE YOURSafS /CUBE§\ 1 Cm Bin CI for fiOiiAkr j / in I io 5 I <litch*rg*«, ia&uetfctatto* k [Pnnnu eoniwa* ?U,UCOM MMlbratH* " ^ ftunlew, and not [THEEMNS CHEMICAL CO. «*nt or POWOEOU*. VciNCINNATl.O.r""] *»y nIMl \ U. S. A. /. | or «enttn plain ~-in»m X. VOAI vropaiiTfaf CURES mm. ALL ELSE FAILS. „ Q Best Cough 8yrup. Tastes Good. UBO FGF in time. Sold fry (truggUta.' IH "Again I was on the point of asking her to become my wife, but suppressed my1 eager dfesire. 'To-morrow!' I-said, for I had no doubt that the specialist's opinion would coincide with my own, that the ailment was temporary, and not serious. ̂ I gave her my card. It would gain her immediate admission and save her the long wait. Knowing the, doctor, I asked him to communicate to me personally the result of his ex­ amination. "The following afternoon I called up­ on her. She met me with a triumph­ ant mien and twitted me in her inno­ cent way about my pedantry. In a few days the inflammation would be gone, the oculist assured her, < prescribing some watery substance, which was to be dropped into the eye night and morning. I could have cried out with joy. Now, now I would speak, but a spinster aunt sat in the parlor and stopped me for a moment. "I asked if my card had proved an open sesame to the presence of the au­ gust man. She told me that she was not quite pleased with the result. She gave the card to the servant, who promised to hand it .to the doctor, after the patient, just then in the room, was dismissed, But an hour passed before she was admitted, and crowds of suf­ ferers had gathered in the meantime. "I must have looked very happy that afternoon.' All my cases seemed hope­ ful to me. When I arrived at home, I found a letter from the oculist. 1 opened it leisurely; it would only con­ firm what 1 already knew. Suddenly the lines began to dance before my eyes. What I read in snatches, between anxious gasps, was impossible. The bearer of the card, it said, was hope­ lessly endangered. A lengthy diagnosis followed, setting forth , that the lady would be blind within two years. He had said nothing about it to her. There was nothing to be done. The case would develop slowly at best, and it might be well for her to call again later. "It was the experience of my life, my dear boy! After it was all over, I won­ dered how 1 could live and recover from the shock. I worked hard from morn­ ing till night. Prom the old soldier and his daughter I stayed away. I could not tell them of the Impending fate and marry her. A voice withiu me said, 'Yes.' Louder and louder it clamored to be heard. I turned a deaf ear to it. I was a physician, as well as a man, and had no right to continue a race of blind. Before my conscience I felt justified, but the pain of the separation from the sweet girl gnawed at my vitals. Weeks after her father sent for me. Of course, I went, but it was like going to my doom. "Elizabeth had greatly changed. She left the room immediately after I en­ tered. My old friend asked me why I had deserted them. Pride was in his voice, but in his eyes there was the most touching plea. 'Don't make my child unhappy!' they said. I feigned unusual stress of work and almost complete collapse from it. We talked on about ludiffereut matters. When I left him he thanked me for my visit. I promised to come again, but not 10,- 000 horses could have dragged me there. Elizabeth sent the servant to accompany, me to the door. I was grateful to her for it. "At intervals I met her in the streets. The last time I saw her. I hardly knew her. The 20-year-old girl had grown old and wan. Deep shadows lay be­ neath her eyes. Tlie» cheeks were sunk­ en. "She must lie ill, I said for such rav­ ages can culy come from great bodily suffering. During the winter the dread influenza made its appearance again. We call it '.jrippe' without knowing why. My practice was very heavy. Day and night I was about visiting the sick. It was just what I liked, for the sweet pallid face of the girl could not haunt me in my busy hours. Late in February, the old soldier's servant came to my oftice. "He brought me his master's good wishes and the information that Miss Elizabeth was very ill. Would I not come? They lived at the other end of the town, but I was there in less than fifteen minutes. "It was too late! "She was unconscious, babbling away with shining eyes and parched lips. Again and again my name oc­ curred iu her feverish wanderings. She spoke it yearningly, without malice, without hatred. The little hands were almost transparent. Death had already marked the girl's temples. She lived a day. and *i night aftei my arrival. I remained constantly with her. Once she awoke from her stupor, and recog­ nized me. She did not seem surprised to find me there. " 'I have been dreaming of you,' she said with a smile. 'You were so long away!' " 'I will never leave you again,' I faltered, and kissed her. Weakly the sweet lips returned my caress. She smiled and nodded and held my hand. IT HAS ROBBED ME OF MY LIFE'S HAP­ PINESS. Her father clasped the other, and thus she slipped away from us ere we knew it. "The poor old man was heartbroken. After awhile I told him why I had not made her my wife. "'Thank God!" he exclaimed, fer­ vently. 'Better dead than blind.' He lived many years after his daughter's demise. I went to see him every even­ ing, reading to him and playing cards to amuse him. When he, too, passed away, I buried him beside the tender girl who had gone before. "And now, my dear boy, comes the aftermath! Rather the foundation of my story, I should say. We build up our life's structure carefully and de­ liberately, like a child rears castles with its blocks. The higher, the better. in my private hospital, Her family in­ sist that I perform an operation, but it would be useless.' "I shivered with dread. 'The young woman I sent you is dead,' I answered hoarsely. " 'Impossible. Miss Clara Browther is alive.' * * i* * • "It nuvy ha^e been a justifiable error, and if may have been a premeditated act on the part of the oculist's attend­ ant. For a tip, he may have admitted another patient in the place of Eliza­ beth, after handing the man of science my card. It was done, and there was no use asking how it all happened! "Your poor old father hesitated too long, my boy! Go now and don't make the same mistake!" Not as It Used to Be. "Play base ball?" asked Dangley's friends, with whom he had gone to spend a few days at their summer home. "We generally have a game here in the evening with some of the other resorters." "Do I play base ball?" repeated Dangley with an injured look. "Does a bird fly or a fish swim? Why, I was the crack shortstop in a crack college team of thirty years ago. My title used to be 'Stonewall.' Couldn't shoot 'em through me with a needle gun. Had a live ball in those days and I suspect I might give some of you younger fel­ lows a few pointers on the game. Is this where you play? Too small a field for me. I'd knock the ball Into the riv­ er every time I went to baft. Yes, I'll play my old position. Feel more at home there. Hot daisy-cutters may bother me a little at first, but base ball is like telegraphing or setting type-- you never forget how." The first thing that came Dangley's way was a high fly twisting like a cork­ screw. "Don't run into me," he shout­ ed as he danced about the infleld. "I'll cover the infield." As he made a final side jump at an angle of about forty- five degrees the ball took him just above the left ear and he lay on the sward lost to the world. A bucket of water brought him back. A lump just the size and shape of the ball showed where he had been lilt, but Dangley set his outing cap gingerly on the other corner of his head and ordered that hos­ tilities be resumed. He said the sun had been in his eyes, though the sun was under one of the biggest and thick­ est clouds of the season. When he went to bat he smiled at the idea of a 14-year-old boy pitching for him. Four times lie swung on the, air and spun around like a top, but he never touched the ball. This he accounted for by the fact that none of the bate suited him. Once in the field again he slipped, dodged and threw wild until a sizzling liner caught him in the solar-plexus. When they had succeeded in undoub ling him he muttered that he was sub­ ject to cholera and had a tug chartered to get him to a hospital.--©etroit Free Press. tropical Birds in Germany. A gold medal was recently awarded Herr von Prosch for his success in in­ troducing tropical birds into German ferosts. Disliking to keep his pets In cages, his canaries were first liberated in a large room, then allowed to pass out and in through small windows, al ways getting their food inside. The birds soon began to build nests outside, and to rear their young there. * Two pairs of South American parrots were next set free, and last summer raised a brood of young, which, with the old birds, passed safely through the excep­ tionally severe winter. In their wild life the yellow of some of the canaries has disappeared, the entire tribe now having the green color of canaries In their native islands. This new bird colony is located in southeastern Sax­ ony, where the average winter temper­ ature is about that of New York and St. Louis, the summers being more like those of Quebec. Queer Justice. It is not to be expected that perfect justice will be done under laws that are made and administered by imper­ fect mefl^v; -V ; ' In Arizona, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, a man was sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars or go to jail for ten days. He had only three dollars, and the court accepted that sum In lieu of three days' imprisonment. By some carelessness on the part of the'jailer, however, the man was kept in jail for the full ten days. Naturally he made objection and demanded re­ dress, to which demand the court re­ plied that it was no doubt just, but there seemed to be only one way In which it could be granted. If he would commit a second offense he should be sentenced for ten days as before, anif then be allowed a three days' discount or rebate. THE CANADIAN WE^T. Free Farms to Those Who Desire , v.rThtm.-; . . During the past season, 25,000 farmers raised 00,000,000 bushels of wheat in the Canadian West. The li^tid i» equally as well adapted for dairying'and ranching. 160 acres free. For pamphlets and infor­ mation, write G. j. Broughton, 232 Clark street, Chicago. ' -- -v Doctor's Handsome Fee. Probably no greater doctor's fee is on record than that, pa Id by Empress Cath­ erine to Thomas' Dimsdal'e. ancestor to the present Baron Dimsdale of En­ gland. For innoculating the Russian Empress aud her son Paul against smallpox in 1768 lie received $50,000 as a fee, $10,000 for expenses and an an­ nuity of $2,500, while in addition to all this he was granted the "tie of baron. This was just thirty years before .Ten­ ner's discovery of vaccination, for which Parliament granted him $150,000 altogether. What He Couldn't Understand. "One thing that consoles me," said Virgilius Quackenbusli, "is that very few of the men who have achieved greatness in this world have had wives who could sympathize with them." "Yes," said Mrs. Quaekenbush, "and it. can also be said that women who are married to fools seldom sympathize with them?' ' i - "I wonder," said? Mr. Quackenbusli to himself, when lie had closed the door behind liim, "what that fool <of a hired girl was laughing at!"--Cleve- laiid Leader. K :v - . FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness alter first day's use of l)r. Kline's Great Nerve Ke- ftorer. Send for FREE 82.00 trial bottle and treatise. DB. R. H. KLINK, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. PHI > i A b U U U P A ! r _ N K .:.t:™ ~ iron M'BURTONS BURTON CONSTIPATION--..-! Over-Work! Over-Eating I _T , r , , , . * Over-Drinking! No part of the human body receives more ill treatment than the bowels. Load after load is imposed until at last the intestines become clogged, refuse to act,' out Then you must assist nature* Do it; and see how easily you will be Cured by CANDY Not a violent mass of mercurial and mineral poisons, but a PURE VEGETA­ BLE COMPOUND, that acts directly upon tee diseased and worn cut intestinal Tl*y a« indeed NATURE'S OWN REMEDY. AXJj DRUGGISTS. 10c.. 86a, 60c. 'The Best Is Aye the Cheapest. Avoid Imitations of and Sub­ stitutes for ^ SAPOLIO A Golden Opportunity. Pip--"When tlie righteous man be­ gins to swear--" Quip--"The profane man should be around to take lessons."--Truth. When a man gets a job, after loafing 8. long time, about the first thing he does is to monkey around, and see if he can't lose It. Healthy men doii't commit suicide. The man who takes his own life is the whose nerves are on edge--^whose brain- is worn out with overwork and worry--whoe* bad digestion makes him morbid and melancholy. A man can commit suicide in more ways than one. He can let sickness kill him. If he is losing vitality he can let It g* on till he dies--it won't be long. Mauy men hesitate to take medicine. They forget that sickness merely shows the body's need for some material that Is lacking Im tte food. The right medicine supplies this want. In nine cases out of ten Ripaas Tufcule* are the right medicine. They help to digest what is eaten and assist in the assimi­ lation of nutriment. They soothe the nerves and make them strong and ste«<fcy. Tbej purify the blood and All It with vitalizing properties. They are the one great hi&rilibto medicine for men and women whose nerves are out of order, who are losing £e*>h, los­ ing sleep, losing vitality. They bring back health aud strength. The ingredients ol Rlpans TabuleS have been used by physicians for a hundred years and have a record of thousands of cures for every year--a record unapproached by any other medicine li» the world. It Is only in the present decade, however, that It has been possible to obtatt& this nledicine In the present convenient and portable form which makes it so easy to be taken and so capable of being kept for months or years with qualities unimpaired. A new style packet containing ten Klpans Tabules in a paper carton (without is now for sale at some drug stores--for five cents. This low-prioed sort is intended for the poor and the economical. One dozen of the live-cent cartons (120 tabules) an be had by mall by sending forty-eight cents to the Ripans Chemical Company, No. IV Spruce Street, New York--or a single carton (ten tabules) will be sent for five cents. SLICKER WELL KEEP YOU DRY. Don't be fooled with a mackintosh or rubber coat. If you want a coat that will keep you dryln 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. No 37 -«J« Kidney Trouble and Its Effects. The Word of an Old Gentleman of Mattoon, III. From the Commercial, Mattoon, 111. Mr. William J. Wiuuingham is a well- lruown aud venerable gardener of Mat­ toon, 111. Seventy-five years ago Mr. Win- ningihani was boru in Asliboro, N. C., where he resided until 1860, when he re­ moved to his present residence. When 81 years of age he began to be afflicted tyith nervousness and cramps, which in later years developed into kid­ ney trouble of so violeait a -character that it was no uncommon tttiihg for him to void a gallon in a night, exudation through the pores being absolutely un­ known. To a reporter who visited the old gentleman on hearing of his restora­ tion to health after so many years of suf­ fering, he made the following statement: "1 suffered for all rhose long years frith intense pain in the back, nervousness and from the passing ,Qjf large quantities of water. This was uudoubtedly a form of diabetes, and so described by my physi­ cians, of whom I had many. Strychnine and nitre and many other remedies were tried, as well as change of climate, but nothing did me any good. I was so horri­ bly nervous that I could not lift a drink­ ing vessel to my mouth if t-here was not a handle attached to it. A great part of the time I was confined to bed. The com­ mencement of the disease was in 1840, when'I had a bad attack of 'Southern fever,: in North Carolina. "Aboijj; three years ago I read an adver­ tisement of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and thought I would try them, as they might do me good. I soon began to get relief, arid by the time I. had taken eight boxes I was virtually cured. Now my nervous­ ness ha§ left me, the flow of water is nor­ mal, and the pores of my skin perform their duty as well sis when I was a boy, hind I perspire as freely as any one, . "I have recommended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People to a number of .people, and have heard from many of them that they have been greatly bene­ fited. I shall always continue to speak in their praise whenever I have ,an oppor­ tunity, for I recognize that their effect upon me was little short of miraculous. (Signed) "WM. J. WINNINGHAM." Witness: WILLIAM TABOR. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements neces sary to give new life and richness to th»- blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregulari­ ties and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they efleCt a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be bad of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Com­ pany, Schenectady, N. Y. A Queen's Visit. To be old aud poor and bedridden is generally to be debarred from the greater privileges of life, but there was one old man iu Scotland who found liis disadvantages had procured liim a privilege that the strong and more ac­ tive members of Ills family were seek­ ing iu vain. It was 011 an occasion when Queen Victoria was at Balmoral, and, as she often did, she went one day, unaccom­ panied. to visit the cottages. In one of these she found an old man, bedridden and quite alone, and she sat down to talk to him. "And how is it you are alone?" she asked. "Have you 110 oue to keep you company V" "No,"1 replied the old man, innocent­ ly, "my folks be all away seeing the Queen; they thought they might get a glimpse of her." His visitor made no reply, but she sat with the old mau. pleasantly filling the gap made by the absence of "liis folks." and then found time to read to him from the Bible she herself treas­ ured. On leaving she gave a further proof of her sympathy in the shape of a five-pound note, acompanying it with the words: "When your people come back, tell them that while they have been to see the Queen, the- Queen has been to see you." Sbake Into Your Shoes Alleu's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smart­ ing feet, and instantly takes the stln' out of corns and bunious. It's uu greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It Is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot. tired, aching feet Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mall for 25 cents, in st'amps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Not Proved. It is said that if a locomotive travel­ ing at sixty miles an hour were sud­ denly stopped dead, It would require the exertion of a power several times the weight of the engine itself to lift it from the rails, 011 account of the elec­ trical attraction. This is a theory wide­ spread among railway engineers. Of course it has never been practically put to the test. Butted Harder than the Goat. An Alabama negro who was pitted against a goat butted the brains out of 'the quadruped. London Values. London, iu monetary value, is worth two and a half times as much as Paris. To rob it of love is the greatest wrong that can be done a child. , Mrs. YFInslow'* BooxHrso STUUP FIR Children teething; BOttcus the KUIUB, reances inflammation, aUays pain, cures wind coUc. 25 cents a bottle. "Arc you engaged to her?" "Not yet; I am still unsettled." "Doubting Thomas!" sneered' the el­ der of the two men. "Excuse me; my doubts are justified. It's no easy matter to transplant a city-bred woman to the country. . . . She might not always l-ke it. . . . ." "She'll get used to ic," said the other, a physician of renown in one of the thriving cities of northern New York. "What it she does not become used to it? What if she frets and grows un­ happy In the solitude? She umy not be able to bear the long, tedious win­ ter, miss theaters, concerts, balls and "And what not?" again cried vehe­ mently the doctor. . "I might cite a dozer more reasons."'* "Keep them for yourself. Tell me Just oue thing; do you love the girl?" "With all my heart. It's because I love lier so deeply that I . . . ." The look of disdain which the phy­ sician shot at his adopted son froze the words 011 his lips. "I see. You want a matrimonial as­ surance policy to complete the bargain. There'll come a day when you'll be sorry for your proclamation. It has robbed me of my life's happiness and made of me a lonely, crusty old man. I was like you, too cautious, too doubt­ ing." The young man looked with surprise upon his foster-father. "Sit down, and I'll tell you a little chapter out of my life, which will teach you a lesson," continued the physician. "I have never referred to it to anyone, but will tell it to you lo save you from a similar fate. "I was a well-situated young mau in those days and in a position to choose among the daughters of my native town. My father's large practice fell to my share while I was young, and he left mo a snug little bank account into the bargain. So I began to cast about for a wife. At first it amused me greatly, this giving every girl I met a mental overhauling, to see if she would suit for a mate. After a twelvemonth I was sick of the whole business. I had been flattered and feted by prospective mothers-in-law, but had made no progress. The right one had not yet come. Meanwhile I became a heartless critic, who found flaws every­ where. A wasplike waist suggested nil the crippled organs for which tight lacing is responsible. A girl with small feet filled me with notions of pedal de­ formities. One of whom I was quite fond committed the crime of fainting at the sight of a runaway horse. 1 immediately put her down for an in­ curable neurasthenic and banished all thoughts of matirimouv "But there came a day when my heart spoke louder than ever. She was a sweet young creature, half child, half woman, with questioning, fathomless eyes. 'She is the right one!' I said to myself the moment 1 saw her. We met often. Her fathei was a veteran of the late war, with a bullet or two in his body, and there came days when they gave him trouble. 1 was called to atteud him and learned to know her in her own home. I watched her at her domestic duties. I saw her anxiety in behalf of her father. She was al­ ways ready and willing to make sacri­ fices for him, lovely -as a May morn, bright as the sun and tender and so­ licitous as a mother. "'Hold her fast!' I said to myself; 'you will never find another like her.' "But even in this instance my ac­ cursed cautiousness did not desert me. I inquired the cause of the mother's death, and fouml it was scarlet fever. The bullets from which her father suf­ fered were also uninheritable. There was nothing to take exception to. but her father's eye trouble, a tedious in­ flammation, which made it impossible for him to read and kept him confined in a semi-dark room. I examined him j aud found that the sight was unim­ paired, and there was 110 drawback 011 that score. "Secretly I began to put my house in order, preparing an especially pretty little bower for niy loved one. I knew that she liked me, and that her father would welcome me as a son-in-law. Just why I hesitated to ask the decisive question 1 know not. Perhaps the sweetness of our unconscious courtship, her shy little ways that betrayed her love, while they sought to conceal it, made me hesitate to break the delicious charm. "One morning I found her with tear- ftu eyes. "'What is the matter, Miss Eliza­ beth?' < " 'Nothing much. My father has kept me reading to him for several hours.' "What could be more natural than that her eyes should grow tired in the dimly:liglited room. 1 had warned her before al>out straining them. Now I made a serious business of it. She looked at me so confidingly that I was tempted then and there to speak the potent word. But her father called, and his impatient voice- broke the spell. "When, several days later, her eyes showed no improvement, I asked her to consult a famous oculist. She laughed at me. In a few days they would be well again, she said. She did not want to pass hours in the doctor's crowded anteroom. "'Have you been there already?' I asked, with sudden apprehension. " 'When 1 was a little child,' she an­ swered candidly. "Now 1 insisted that she should go. She resented my interference. I be­ came impatient, vehement, and she just a trifle stubborn. I saw that I had gone too far. When I pleaded with her she expressed at once a willingness to visit the oculist. , CHEAP EXCURSIONS TO ! [NEBRASKA] ! September7,21. October5,191 | On these dates round-trip IB jn • |p» J | tickets,good for 21 days, will la gf3 | I bo sold by all BurlMgton gpa -- m ( t Route agents and by those PffiK i | of many eastern railroads at |i|U8 ja.OO. ( V 1 ( The undersigned will send you free on appll-1 I cation a handsome illustrated pamphlet I • describing Nebraska, with a large sectional < 1 map of the State. I | A Dry, Healthy Climate. | A Soil Unsurpassed for Richness, ] > easy to cultivate, and yielding < j all varieties of crops. { | That is what Nebraska offers to the home-! ! seeker. Ask vour nearest ticket agent about J ! the cheap rates, or write to P. S. Eustis, J ! General Passenger Agent, C. B. & Q. B. R., J ! Chicago, 111. j I! IT 111 MO OH j'uhlle' i'nV'prlvato IU ST UU W I I Iff M buildings,dhurches, 11LII 1U1W oWs'.™» "i in . , * metropolis, prlctod City Illustrated. Sont lor 20 cents, coin or stamps. Address E. H.iS- KKH-, 47 ulbfe House, New York city. g n a week sa'ary and $1 a day for expenses. We w'ft want a territorial representative In yourdlst Address, with stamp. PCKACOLA. 146 Worth St., N. Y. AIM OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THr. EXCLUSIVE USE OP THE WORD " CASTORIA," AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyaiuiis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now snj? ^ "" on everiJ bear the facsimile signature of gMC&AC 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 ./ on the and has the signature ivrap- per. No one Jias authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. E. Fletcher is President. /2 a March 8, 1897'. 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