A Th§ .. . I^ONDJBN.TBE EuglttAfl regarding- •ifricoHtit'n! inter- oats. makes a oomparwon. It eaye: "The disaster to British agriculture is more widespread in its ruin and heart-rending effecta than would be the loss of at least twenty ships like the Victoria, and yet it goes on with out a word of sympathy from Parlia ment or the slightest attempt to throw out a legislative life-buoy. Let those who doubt our assertion just consider a few facts. The deficiency from an active crop of hay in England alone in the two years 1891-92 was no lees than £15,000.000 sterling, while if our crop thi9 year is two-thirds less than an average one, the loss (at £4 p n' ton; on which the. above is computed) will be over £20,000,000. If we divide this by two we have nearly £18,000.000, or enough to purchase eighteen such ves sels as the one who.-e loss the whole nation is deploring, and this gigantic loss is from one crop alone. Tnis year all our crops are fa'ling us more or less, and the total loss of income to the agri culturists of this country, from all these sources, cannot be far short of £2 per acre; and as there are over 24,0(0,000 acres under cultivation in England--where the disastar of the year is more felt--it follows that the losses from this source al< ne cannot be far short of £50,000,000, the value of Ufty fully-equipped iron-eladi." He "Was Successful.. . On one occasion Calverly. the cele brated po'^t, was ahowinsr 6' ine ladies over Balliol College. Ho had shown them everything of interest in the col lege, and was hesitating where to take them next, when a ffiend dared him to show his friends the Master of Balloil. An audacious thought struck Cal verly, and turning round to the ladies, he asked: "Should you like to see the Master of Balloil himself?" They said they would be delighted to see the Master, who, as everybody knows, of all Oxford "pots" is the most tremendous. Calverly picked up a handful of gravel and threw it against the Master's drawing-room window. Very soon'the Master himself threw up the window, and looked out, red and angry at this unspeakable outrage. "There, ladies." said the bold under graduate, "is the Master of Balloil himself?" -• Collecting Coins. Coin collectors have long appreciated the difficulty of making a complete col lection of American specimens. The United States coinage of 1793 is veiy rare, and a dollar of the year 1794 has often sold for as much as 1100. A 1796 half-cent is so rare as to sell readily for $15, and a half-dollar of the same year is worth 60 times its original vaiue While the half-cent of 1H04 is common enough, all the other coins of that year are rare, the dollar of that particular date being the rarest of all American coins. Only eight are known to exist out of the 19,570 that were coined. The lowest price that one of these now changes hands for is $800. These prices are encouraging to col lectors. • _____ WANTED.--Salesmen; FOOD pay for honest workers Begftiners taught; 900 new out fits just ready--cost 4 yoars' time and thousands of dollars, but worth all they cost--the finest ever used. We sell direct through our own salesmen. No middlemen. No Tree Dealers. £TARK BBO'S NUBSKRIES & ORCHARDS CO. , Rock port, 11L Lively Animalcules. de L'Isie discovered an arimalcula thai could run six inches in a second, and calculated that it must move its legs no less than 1,200 times in that brief period. c r A Great Thin*. It Is a great thin? for a man to get out a little and come In contact with oiher people and see how they lire. Bt F. Johnson & Ca. Richmond, Va., are giving many young men a chance to do tbla. and at the same time to put money in bank rapidly. Try them and see. IN Massachusetts there are 351 towns or cities, 300 of which have free public libraries. • FOB weak and inflamed eyes use Da Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. It is a care fully prepared physician's prescription. FIFTY-ONE metals are now known to exist. Three centuries ago only seven were known. To aid Digestion take one Small Bile Bean after eating. 25c. per bottle. THE armies of Europe have grown since the Franco-Prussian war from 6,958,000 to 22,248,000 men. IT SEEMS TOO SMALL to do any good, when you h,j!c at one of Dr. Pioroe's Pleasant Pellets. But just try it, when you're bilious or constipated, or have a sour stoiuach, or a lit of indigestion--and you'll own up that they're tbe best tilings in the world. That's because thev cure permanently, tuid do it, I pleasantly. They've tiny, sugar - coated, aad easy to take. There's no disturb ance to the system, diet, Satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Houston. Jfnn. Dr. R. V. PIERCE: Dear Sir--I oouM tell of a number of eases where-Dr. Pierce's Fumfly Medicines have cured. A frielid of mine, Mr. Williams, was about used up with liver troub les; now he Bays that " Pleasant Pellets " havo helped him more thun any or all the medicines that he has ever taken. or occupation. HIGHLY ENDORSED. The Professor of Physiological Chem-1 , istry at Yale College says: "Ifind Kick- ( l apoo Indian Sagwa to be aw extract of i Roots, Harks and fferbi of ValutM* Rem- ^ efiifil Action, without any mineral or other ( I harm ful admixtures. Kickupoo Indian Sagwa is the graad- 1 est Liver, Stomach, Blood and Ker»« Remedy Known. Cleanses, Purifies, , and Renovates every ..part of tlie human ' system. All Drug- . Klsls, $] a bottle-- 16 Bottles for $5. *1SH This Trade Mark It en the beat W A T E R P R O O F C O A T BteitnM in the World I A. J. TOWER. BOSTON. MASS. No. 41 93 An Now nanitia (MUIU away, Anotbac Is sttfwtag it back. With wllfto pearls of toil on his bcowt And tiwadtag the bay in bis track, looms faintly the boy In the mo«V j Through crevices often can he " f> View, past the old barn wall of b(Mk A river that leads to the sea. A railway that, drives to the town. "O, when shnll my fortune make hqy In yon fields oi splendor, and hastl - v T«rfll wait for full many a day-- ' I'n^only a boy In the mow. £-•- „•, 5 A cloud like a flag from the sky tf-i ^ Is splendidly spread and unrolled; Tbe sun rarehes down from on high. To fringe it with silver and gold, "O, when will Heaven's mercy us As bright as thoBe colors alios But earth has no glory or fame To waste on a boy in the mow." A elorud in the -west like a pall Creeps upward and haugs in tbe It carries a gloom over all, It looks like a part of the night. With clamor the thunderbolts gwana And trees bend in agony now, "Tie thus, too, that Poverty's storm Would conquer t he boy in the niowl The clouds have flown into a < Tile birds are discoursing In gl« The smile of the ana is agleam ' On river ;md hilltop and tree. Look up to the heavens, little lad. And then to your earth duties bows And some day both worlds may be glad , To honor the boy from the mow !y,; ;'.v •-Will Carelton in Youth's Companies - ' -- BERTRAM. wfraftt threw himself dovfti trtKler a tree at the seaside, and looked up at the shifting pattern of leaves and j sky. His comely, boyish face relaxed. He was a tramp, he supposed; but he | was no longer beholden to anyone; he was free! He felt an adventure some satisfaction, but was impatient because his satisfaction was not com plete. He began to blink. He had w&lked six miles since noon, and the drowsy insect sounds made him sleepy. He ceased to think, and then ceased to know*. Something roused him suddenly. He looked up, and saw an open buggy with a woman and a boy on the seat, ahd some bundles and potted plants on the back. Tbe buggy came to a stop. "We've waked you up," the woman said, as if apologizing. "We thought at first we knew you; we thought you were Oliver Dodge." That the good looking hoy was not Oliver Dodge, but a tramp with a bundle, seemed to astonish her. "It's just as well you woke me up," said Nathan, getting up. "Are you going my way? 1 might give you a lift," said the woman. "I guess we can make room, Bertram?" "Yes," said Bertram. He climbed over the back of the seat very promntly, and sat down among the pots and packages. He was vounger marks .n the ground . . .._ bewiu wttUt- Un* Along ctteerf&ny; and that's how you'U find him always. "Bat be Isnt doing what he wants to do; that's $he worst of it. "He wants to be a civil engineer; as his father was. He's food of mathematics. He hasn't had much schooling, but he's picked it up him self, iii a wfxy that show» lie has a wonderful turn for it. I've given bim all my boys' old algebras and geometries, and he's gone through them alL When the surveyors were here putting in the new road, Bert ram went and helped them, and they told him he ought to go into the busi ness. Bertram's heart is set on it; and here he is hoeing potatoes and taking care of the pigs. ' Folks say he isn't under obliga tions to Hulbert* and really owes it to himself to go away. But it's for his mother that he does it. He couldn't bear to do anything to make trouble tor her, as that would. Hul- bert's a strong-willed man, and he considers that Bertram belongs there. "Then there's his little step-sister; 1 don't know what Lucy would ever «Jo without bim. Bertram always thinks of other people before he does of himself, and he'll do anything in the world for Lucy. "This spring Hulbert dfd let him weed onions for the Longs a few days.. What do you think he did with the' money? He walked to town and bought a pair of buttoned shoes that she wanted very much. "Well, I always like to talk about him--that's my house. Sometimes I could cry, thinking bow it is, and then I feel as though there isn't any thing to cry about. He's doin$ his duty and more than his duty, and anybody that can do that and be happy doing it isn't to be pitied, I say. "He'll amount to something yet. He's made me think more than once of some oT the great men, presidents or what not, who started out poor boys and came to something by their own efforts. Bertram will come to something yet. There's something in him, and it's bound to show. No, I oughtn't to worry about him," said the kind woman, looking at Nathan with mistv eye*. She drove into her Yard without halting. "Wait," she said, 'and I'll give you some supper; it's supper time." Nathan attendedkto the horse, and then sat down, tram-fashion, on the doorstep But be looked at the tall pink hollyhocks and blue beehives without seeing them. His chin rested in his hands, and his foot made deep •an* Bottled Up Tbwtor t» <taor HM» Torpedo Boat*. Considerable interest attaches to tbe miniature torpedo boats which will be carried on the decks of tbe battleships Tesas and Maine, now under construction by the Govern ment. They are excellent specimens of modern engineering skill. The boat for the Texas wiii be of twelve toes displacement and the one for the Ma.ine will be 14.8 tons. They will be swung into water from the top of the superstructure by great cranes, and will be used in midnight attacks. The little boats will he fitted each with oce propelling en- Tine of the quadruple expansion type, working a single screw. It is estimated that the indicated horse power of the Texas' boat's engine will be 155, and that of the Maine boat's engine 200, when the screw is making 675 revolutions. The engine will be vertical inverted, with the cylinders placed in order of size over the shaft, the high pressure cylinder being for ward. There will be one water tube boiler on each boat, placed in a sep arate compartment forward of tbe engine. It will be constructed for a working pressure of 250 pounds per quare inch and have about twelve eet of grade surface, with 480 feet of leating surface. Bulkheads and floors will be fitted where necessary to make the fire-room airtight, In the Texas boat there will be one pm ikepipe and in the Maine boat there will be two stacks, situated for ward and placed far enough apart on apposite sides of the ship to allow the torpedo boom to rig between them. Two feet tanks will be provided in pach boat, that in the Texas having H combined capacity of seventy gal lons, and that of the Maine's boat of ninety gallons. The weight of all machiney and boilers, including aux iliaries and water in the bo'lers. con- flenses and pipes, as well as the spare parts and tools, must not exceed i>, 900 pounds on the Texas' boat and 12,000 pounds on the Maine's boat Marine engineers taice a good deal of interest in these little boats, for they contain as much bottled up energy as anything afloat. The tor pedo boat at its best appears to be nothing more than combined vitality and destruction. Within a thin and narrow shell there is an engine of re markable force and a projectile of unusual deadliness. The little tor pedo boats of the big battleships are the best of their type, for they are the latest and concentrate what was before condensed. --Washington Star. than Nathan, who noticed his smil ing eyes and friendly look. "We've been to the Centre," the woman said, driving on. "I had ] some errands; ajid then 1 saw those ' geraniums and had to get 'era." "She's got a yardful now," said Bertram. "I tell her she'll have to go some other road than the florist's if she wants to have any money left." "Bertram says so,"t said the wo- ftan, laughing. "I -can take you a mile. How much farther are you go ing?" "To Moxley," Nathan answered, warming to the friendly pair. "That's my home. I've come from Torring- ton to-day," he added, boyishly will ing to tell his chief concern. "<L've been working for Mr. Hogan since last year." "Joseph Hogan?" said the woman. "His is a big farm, isn't it?" "Sixty acres, and he thinks one man ought to do the whole work and not get man's wages either. I call him a mean man," said Nathan, hotly. "Well, 1 il tell you just how 'twas! ••1 didn't like the way be treated me. I'm willing to Work, but I want to be treated fairly. 1 just had the brunt of everything, always. I had to work like a slave. Up at four al ways, and I was lucky if I got to bed by ten, busy times. We plowed till half-past ten, once; he was bound to have it done that day. I've been so tired sometimes i couldn't get. to sleep. I never had a day off. "Well, he's done other things no body would have stood as long as I have, and I got tired of it. I've earned more than he's paid me; I've known that, and this morning I asked him to give me more, and told bim I was doing a man's work for boy's wages "He saiu he'd give what he'd bar gained to; and we had some words. I told him I wasn't bound to him, anyhow, and if he couldn't deal fairly I'd leave, and I did. "I ate my dinner and fixed up my bnndle and started. I'd sent my last month's wage's home,and didn't have enough for the railroad fare, and I'm going to tramp it'* "Whoa," said the woman. Bertram was getting out of the buggy. With a parting smile he took one of the bundles and went in at the gate of a farm-house'. : "I thought that was your boy," be said. "No," the woman answered. "That's Bertram Taylor. I feel some times as though he was my boy. I think tbe world of Bertram; there never was a better boy." "What does he do?" Nathan said, heedlessly, and feeling that his own bjtrd case had been slighted. "He does the best he knows .how," said the woman, earnestly. "He makes the best of pretty hard circum stances. If his father had lived, be would have had some chance. But* he has a stepfather. George Hulbert isn't the worst man in the world if be isn't the best, and 1 suppose he thinks he's doing well by Bertram to give him a home. "Bertram isn't sixteen yet, but he does as much on that place as Hul bert does--more, I believe. Now, before he's sixteen, he's doing a man's work every day of his life. It has taken him Out of school all but a little U2D6. It seemed to him a long time be fore the woman called him in, so many were the thoughts which had passed through his sobered mind. "You'll feel more like starting aloug when you've had a bite," she said. "I guess I shan't start along," said Nathan. "I guess I'll start back." "What's changed your mind?" . "That," said Nathan, slowly. "What you told me. I don't know that I know how to say it. It's made me feel mean, though, what you told --awful mean. I've thought all the time I bad about the hardest time that anybody has; but I guess I don't 1 guess that boy would think my job was easy, anyhow. "I do work extra time, and I don't have the things the way I want them much. I say 1 do, because I'm go ing back. "It wasn't right for me to leave like that. Mr. Hogan is paying what he agreed to, and I need what he, pays. They need It at home, and I didn't have any right to stop May be I wouldn't get work all summer. "I'm older than that boy, and my case isn't so hard, either. I feel like a shirk compared with him, and I'm going back!" His thoughts had ran still deeper. He felt as if he were a coward, and in his humility he saw things in a clear light To have dwelt jealously on himself, to have 6tickled for his small rights and sulked over bis small wrongs--it was unwbrtbj a brave boy. But to work with a willing spirit; to feel and to show manly concert for his employer's interests: hot. dog gedly to study how little he could do, but how much, cheerfully to realize the truth that money truly earned is more than barely earned; and to work out a worthy destiny with strong and ready hands--that would be worth while. He felt as does one who has mad« a pleasing discovery. A happy thrill passed through him. "I'm glad," said the woman, heartily. 41 wasn't thinking of you when I was talking about Bet train; but there! there! you've got the right words now. Sit down and eat some thing." Two miles up the road, on bis re turn trip, Nathan met a buggy with a farmer-like looking man in it. It was Mr. Hogan. He cracked his whip at sight of Nathan, and laughed. "I reckoned I'd overtake you along about here," he said. -Come, come, get in and go back with me! I don't want to let you go. What would your folks say? Come, I guess we can fix it up somehow. Maybe you have had to dig in harder* n you ought to; I guess you have. I'm willing to talk it over and--why, hadn't got started back, had you?" "Yes, sir, I had," said Nathan, looking up with a smile.--Youth's Companion. while winters, and it's taken his j"P- A Dog's Revenge. A farmer having sold a flock of sbeep to a dealer lent him his dog to drive them home, a distance of thirty miles, desiring the dealer to give the dog a meal at his journey'3 end and tell it to go home. The drover found the dog so useful that he resolved to keep it and, in stead of sending it back, locked strength. I can see myself it has fairly stunted his growth." "That's pretty hard on him," Nathan murmu;ed, for he' felt that he must say something. "Yes," resumed his companion, "but what he does wouldn't be so great a credit to him as it is, if he dian't do it the way he does. You saw him to-day; and no one ever saw him any less cheerful than that "Why. I overtook him on the way to town. He had started to walk both ways after hellebore The collie grew sulky and at last effected its escape. Evidently considering the drover bad no more right to detain the sheep than he had to detain itself, the hon est creature went into the field, col lected all tbe sheep that had belouged to its master and, to 'that' person's intense astonishment, drove the whole flock home again--Spare Mo ments. , THE stories a boy is most interest ed in are those in which no one has to work. • - 111-Matched Marriages. Race and color prejudices, always stronger in this country than in Eu rope, have prevented many such mar riages between American girls and Asiatics as are described in an article on the subject on the twenty-third page of to-day's Press. Of those which have taken pla^c, some have been happy; but it is true of most of them, as our contributor says, that their story has been one long life tragedy. Even an Englishman is less con siderate of his wife than an American, expects more from her and concedes her less in return; a European gives bis wife less than an Englishman in respect, in reverence and in daily care and consideration, and an Asi atic simply carries the parallel still farther. The practical lesson is that an American girl Is wise if she -seeks wedlock at home It may not bring happiness; but it is more likely to than anywhere eisa Bank confers certain definite ad vantages, particularly for a woman wrapped in social interest; but where a* foreign marriage does not bring that, an American girl who marries a man of middle position abroad, and particularly on the Continent is ex tremely apt to find herself hampered by a thousand conventions, bound down to trying economies, and of much less personal weight and im portance in her husband's eyes and his family's than the wife of an American husband. This is ten-thousand-fold morp true of an Asiatic marriage, fortunately so rare as scarcely to need considera tion. But in all marriages the one glaring mistake of our American so ciety is to forget that the surest and only safe foundation of happiness in married life is a common training, common friends, common social habits and a life before marriage, as well as after, as much under common condi tions in essential particulars as possi ble--Philadelphia Press. She Was a Paragon. "Yes, there was one girl who lived right along with us for twenty-two years." said the old lady with a rem iniscent sigh. "and she might have been with the family yet if she had wanted to stay." "She must have been a jewel,"said one of the callers. '•Yes. We never had any trouble with her about waqes or afternoon out or anything of that kind." ••Good cook?" "Excellent She could play tile piano beautififllv. too.'" "Did you let her do that?" "Oh, yes. And she read the pa pers to us and kept the library in order, and could keep accounts aad paint on china and embroider on silk as nicely as anybody you«%ever saw." 41 never beard of the like! How in tbe world did you happen to let her go?" "Well, there came a ycung man along one day--a professor in col lege--and said he wanted her, and-- and here's one of her children now. Come, darling, and sit on grand mother's lap."--Chicago Tribut e. A Russian Watch. ® A mechanical marvel exhibited lately in St Petersburg is a* musical watch which was made by a Russian . peasant in the reign of Qatherine. It is about the size of a hen's egg, and contains a representation of the tomb of Christ with the Roman sentinels. On pressing a spring the stone roll" away from the tomb, the sentinels fall down, the angels ap pear and the holy women enter the sepulchre, and the same chantwhich is sung in* the Greek Church on Easter eve, is actually performed. Two PERFECTLY-FOR WED chickens were hatched from one egg. it is said, at Olympia, Washington, a short m S. Report Powder I must say a word ficacy of German as to /tBSOUJTECr PURE SAFE FROM THIEVES. A Costly King I>ft to Ita tfate in Spain's /' ..Capital. A costly ring, unguarded by police or other special protection, hangs sus pended to a silken cord round the neck of a statue of the Maid of Almadena, the patron saint of Madrid, in one of the much frequented1 parka .of the Spanish capital, says the Philadelphia Record. It is set with valuable dia monds and pearls, but, notwithstand ing, there is not the least danger of its beinn stolen; the greatest thief in Spain would sooner steal the plate from his own mother's coffin than to even so much as to touch the uneanny felic. Its history is curious and interesting, being equal to anything related in medieval folklore. It was made in ac cordance with a special order from the late Alfonso XII., who gave it to his cousin, the beautiful Mercedes, on the day of their betrothal. She wot it constantly during hef short married life. Upon her death the King pre sented it t^ his grandmother, ^ueen Christina. She died so in af ter accept ing it and the King then passed tine deadly little jeweled band Oi fold to his mother, Infanta de Pilarj Wio died within a month after. Again the accursed circlet stirted on its deadly rounds, next finding a place upon the finger of Christina, caughter of the Duke de Montpensierfi In less than one hundred days she-tod, -was dead. , ( Alfonso then put the cursed Jewel in his own casket of precious ulics, and lived less than a year after Bo doing. Is it any wonder that such a harbinger of death can safely hang on* statue in an unguarded square? ' , r t "-*-77. Of No Consequepje. Lady Holland was a soc&l autocrat who had no hesitation ,ti ordering about the moBt dignified aid celebrated men, when they liappenecf o be guests at her house. It was not rften that one had the courage to witlisand her, but if a man gathered the h>rdihood to do it, he became forthwitbAer chosen fa vorite. Another such ruthlis hostess was one connected with a st»ry of Monsieur Renan, though, unhapfiiy, we are not told whether she profifed by the lesson taught her that evenilg. At a dinner-party More Renan had risen to fame, he waafbout to speak on a current topic. wherJules Simon sig nified his intention o talking, and the hostess asked Renanto wait. When the greaterijion had done roar ing, the lady said: flow, Monsieur Re nan, it is your turn./ You were going to say something." "I merely want t> ask for some peas," he replied, with gravity, and he was silent during the wst of the evening. --Youth's Companion. P fofetjr from aPerlodto Sootirga. ., , Do yon want to bensured, dweller in a ttitr larious region, agaiist the periodical scourge which threatens to vail yon in the form of chills and fever or some of the forms of mlasma-bom dlseaiC? It goes without saying that you do. The^, instead ot using quinine or other Ukaloif and mineral drugs, which, merely relieve a^d are always detrimental, to general health, B>ek aid where it is always forthcoming--fron the thorough preventive and remedy, Jiostetter's Stomach Bitters, which, in regiont where malaria is far more violent and pre*Alent than it is on this conti nent, eradicate! it completely from the sys tem. BiliouBiese, dyspepsia, constipation, kidney and nerrous complaints, neuralgia, and rheumatism ari among the maladies to which the n«! ioual tmic and corrective is adapted. Physicians everywhere know its Jffnulue worth- A Happy Family. The exceptional motherly affection of Lotta, an Angora Maltese cat, for three little white bull terrier pups, or phaned won after then4 birtn, is the most noticeable feature of a "happy family" possessed by'Gilbert H. Prin- dle. The purring foster-mother, al though she has two pretty kittens of her own, takes quite as t ender care of these t*rrier puppies (which are white, like the kittens), and of four fox terrier {>uppie-i also, as she does of her own ittle felines. She nurses, feeds and washes the puppies and kittens impar tially; and the partner of her joys, a big Maltese cat, known as Grover, seems to regard the adoption of the seven canines with approval.--Phila delphia Record. Terribly Tedious. "Speaking of alliterations," said a lawyer the other day. "I am remind ed of what I heard in a down-East gro cery store lasts ummer. 'Got eny good m'lasses, George?' asked a "farmer's wife of the grocer. 'Good's I ever had ii< the store, Mrs. Littlefield,' answer ed the grocer. 'Waall, put me up tew pall'ns, George.' A week or so later Deacon Littlefield called the grocer to account for selling his wife a poorer qualify of molasses than she had been accustomed to. 'It's good 'nough in Injine puddih',' he said, 'an' braown bread, but, George, I gin ye my word as a dekin, it's terrible teejis in tea.' " I* drowsy after a good night's "sleep there is Indigestion ana stomach disorder, which Beecham's Pills will cure. * 39 cents a tot THE greatest swarm of locusts ever known invaded South Africa in 1797. They were driven into the sea by a north wind, and the waves throwing them back, a bank of dead 16cuats from three to six feet thiJk war formed for fifty miles^ along the coast. • Guaranteed to cure Bilioua Attacks and Constipation, Small Bile Beans. •LIGHT griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.--Seneca. We Have High Opinion Of Hood's Sarsaparilla at our l^ouae, and with good reason. For eight years^1 was troubled with rheumatism and all remedies failed to help me exoept Hood's Saraa- parilla. Like many oth ers I have not taken It steadily; only when the pains oime on, but it has always given me relief. For many years past I was troubled with quin sy. Since taking Hood's Sarsapaillla I have not had a single attack. When any of my family are taken sick they resort to Hood's Barsaparilla. I might write several Hood's^'18 Cures pages in praise of this excellent mediaine." T. W. HA us, 70S Penn Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. ($. l yw How Wopdfowl Stewart L. Woodford was a member from Brooklyn not long after the war. He was one of the sensible chaps who didn't know it all at the beginning. For a month or so early in the session he hal to spend a great deal of time in the departments, and so he looked around for somebody to keep him headed right on the rare occasions when he appeared in the House. There was a very shrewd-looking per son who frequently occupied a seat near by, and Wocdford was so struck by his appearance that he got in the habit of asking his advice whenever in dpubt about a question. One day he strolled in during a roll call just before his name was reached. He didn't know what was up, but his unknown friend as usual told him how to vote. When the result was announced he discovered to his chagrin that he had voted against most of the other mettle bers of his party. That worried him a little, but he kept mum, and sure enough a few days later it appeared that he had voted right and that the other fellows were wrong. Then it occurred to him to find out the name of the far-seeing member who never took any part in debate. So he turned to a friend for information. "What's his name?" repeated his friend in response to a question. "Why, my dear fellow, be is not a member at all. He is the clerk of the Postoffiee Committee." *•. Woodford tells this tale himself, '»0 it must be true.--Washington News. Wales* Most popular Daughter., Of the three daughters of tbe PriUoe of Wales, by far the cleverest and the ] one possessed of the largest amount of savoir faire is Princess Victoria (now 251. who has long been her mother's right hand and who carries on half her correspondence and supplies, by the quickest and shrewdest tact, her moth er's want of hearing. She is hearty, jolly, merry and full of aplomb, and there is no doubt that if she and her younger sister were suddenly thrown ! on their own resources the two young J ladies would soon make their way in the world, the elder of the two lead ing. The Duchess of Fife, on the con- j trary, is of a sentimental and dreamy i character and more fond of novel read- ! ing than of the jractical work of j .housekeeping. All three of the Wales girls are very like the type of the Roy al Hous-e of Guelph, especially their eyes iiid foreheads, and the two young est are very similar in character and disposition also. The Duchess of Fyfe cares nothing for display and state, and would be quite content to be frae from the etiquette of a court. That Joyful Feeling, With the exhilarating sense of renewed health and strength end internal clean liness, which fol.ows the use of Syrup of tigs, is unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond tbe old- time medicines and the cheap substi tutes sometimes offered but never ac cepted by the well in! or in ed. - f !yatutt»VHlnt. ' tfature gives a hint, as to all' mam malia, that a different kind of food is needed for their very voung than older j animals require. Milk contains the elements of bone and muscle in ad mirable proportions, for making rapid growth. But after the young aniiqal has been weaned it should so far as possible be fed on the kind of nutri ment to continue its growth, and of all the grains wheat, Oats, and peas con tain these elements in best propor tions. BEV. H. P. CAKSON, Scotland, l)ak., says: •Two bottles of Hall's Catarrh Cure completely cured my Uttle girl." Bold by Druggists, 75c. used it in my family for Bronrfntis ..X the result of Colds, with most ex-C ,ieP* success. I have taken it my- > • " V- self for Throat Troubles, "and have.V/* derived good results therefrom. I, j. ** therefore recommend it to my neigh- \ , -M bors as an excellent remedy in such'j ̂ ^ cases. James T. Durette, Earlys- , vme, Va. Beware of dealers who* ' offer you ' 'something just as good, " v ' Always insist on having Boschee's German Syrup. IpRCUilL m , h, *r. J <3. Jones, of Pulton, Arkansas,; saveoff About ten years ago I con- HKKfl wactcd a severe case of blood ' ^y'-ing physicians prescribed mcdieino ter medicine, which I took without any relief. i also tried mercurial and potash remedies, with unsuccessful results, but which brought ' v# on an attack of mercurial rheumatism that •• EiSsEMffiSHOTISi X £ paT0 UP *11 remedies and began \ •"/>, nsing, _;b. S. After taking several bottles I S was enurely cured and able to resume wort. ' IHjKtyi19 ,th® Greatest medicino for blood $ r,0^°nlng to-day on the market." P '• '••e on Bleod and tri?cr?es mailed SVTUT SPKCI- !'• Attentr. Ga. PAPED CUTTERS AU.XIKDB Of Furnished Promptli it MUD- ' = ** % 4, ""fe-V' Our stock ot Job and Newspaper Presses, PNMt Cutters, etc., is the largest to be tound in Cnieag*. Printers are invited to call and inspect the etM when in the city. Estimates for Newspaper and Job .Oftce OuKAtS 'will in- turnisho-d with pleasure. 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It bas nearly removed the ef fect of the RHEUMATISM of about T yearastand- iug-, also a severe weak ness of my l»a«-k and kldneyw of about lO years' stiu>tiiu# and has helped a severe attack of INFLAMMATION of the Madder, which I am sure Stt'AMIN w. r. CHILSON. HOOT will entirely cure me of in a short time. I purchaf xl the medicine of S. G. Stone, the Driifrrist here In Butler, Ind." W. R. Chilson. March, 7, ^ At Druggists 50 eenta and $1.00 Slie, '• Iavalids' Guide to Health " free-eonroltalion free. Dr. Kilmer & Co., - Blnetamton, N. Y. tW attention of APVBMUWBi, MMXm: ffACTUKKKS and PK1KTMW is called tS OUT superior iacilities lor turning out CLASS KUKCTROTVPINO or 8 TYI'ING. b We guarantee satisfactory prompt senrice in these lines. ADVERTISERS " 'm*a number of Electrotypes of an advertisement should get our prices be* fore placing their orders. 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On« _ j.a uue uimites bve(5) gulions ot a piu#, uTtVrated.eB'ei veseent drink, healthful and pal atable. Pikv.SJoc; 5 packages Wl; 1* package.- BuooKXY.s Sri <: I A r.r Y C O ..! D.' mi St. .Brooklyn,}!. I. MALLET, Tbe Onlv Safe and Bailable Mallet t4 Handle Over Type, tt Will Not Spii# or Chip Off. It Will Not Batter Type nor Scratch Cat*. It Witt' • • Last a life-Time with Ortll- n&ry Care, ,fi{$ . pare; great constant denial] Imm.profits; ans.quick; 111 opp.lifetime. B.H.COOK,SISI (Ultli.lON.SLKERSU Neutfst v.n.uiK of tlu- liJuii ever wanted to sell CIGAKS iuev- l'r>' county. Agents making*0 aily". \Vrite tor proposition, inclosing tor samples. HAIIKELE W & Co., 19 & 21 WabasbAv.C-> icago n ITCUTC THOMAS P. $raPSON.Waahln««agt RA I tR ION. C. No atty'« fee until PatwatW " - -- - (alued. WilMforlavaator'sUtaiilak • " <« ' , *..•. v K% . •». . • ,v /i* •V ; Maod'B PI H« ace purely Tegetablo. 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