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If- cat*ln one conttenon? strip of the same width as tbe *• orer eighteen thousand (1MO0> aliti la length. ™*< calendars are issued by the pro­ prietors of Hood's OarsaparllU, tbe well- known medicine which baa gained such tepown by its wonderful cures la cases *»w* the Uood wsa poUoaed or Impure^ ™ history of this ferepavatlea is entirely ualque. the business having grown from a assail retail trad* natll. at the present tiina. the great laboratory Jo which It is made lias a capacity for fifty thousand (M.0M} bottles a day and is tbe largest building In the world devoted to tbe man­ ufacture of a medicine. The sales of Rood's ParsaparllK In all sections of the country are enormous, The proprietors have never claimed that It would cure •very ailment* but they show by thousands of testimonials tnat Hood's 8atssparill& purifies and vitalizes the blood, builds up the system, and cures those dis­ eases caused by Impure blood and debil­ ity. such as scrofula, salt rheum, catarrh, rheumatism, etc, As a preventive of tbe grip. Hood's Sarsaparilla has proved to be antoaalltd, and it restores the wasted •Ital forces after a siege of tfcat dreaded malady and fortifies tbe system against future attacks. The fact tbat great care is exercised In tbe preparation of this medicine and tbat nothing has ever been claimed for It ex­ cept as warranted by previous cures, has much to do wltb the confidence felt by the public In Its curative power*. Tbe motto of tbe proprietors is. "It is not what we say. but what Hood's Sarsaparilla does. 1 that tells the story," :md It is what Hood's Barsapartlla has done, as shown by the published statements of persons whom It kai cured, that has placed It at the head field of medicine In tbe present day. • ..-^Unpublished Fiction by Scott. Some years ago, writes Andrew Lang, In Scribner's, I chanced to pick up the sixth volume o! Lockhart's "Life ci Sooty and opening on page 410. read what seemed to be a letter written in the. reign of James I. of England. The style entirely took me in, and it was not till X had turned back for a page or two that I found the letters were of Sir Walter s own composition. Lock- hart says that in 1821 Scott "amused BOtne leisure hours with writing a series of 'Private Letters,' supposed to have been discovered in the reposi­ tories of a noble English family, and giving a picture of manners in town and country in the early part of the reign of James I, Taese letters were printed as fast, a* he penned them [this, by the way; is not quite accurate) in a handsome quarto form, and he furnished the margin with a running commentary of notes, drawn up in the character of a disappointed chaplain, a keen Whig, or rather Radical, over­ flowing on all occasions with spite against monarchy and aristocracy." When seventy-two pages had been printad, Lockhart, Erskine, and James Baliantyne t>ld Scott that he was throwing away, in those letters, the materials of as good a romance as he had ever penned. By the kindness- of Mrs. Maxwell Scott I was permitted, whefi staying at Chiefswood, Lockhart's cottage, to read the one surviving set of sheets on which the "Private Letters" were Srinted, with the widest of margins, in the final page I found written, in the well-known, and pathetic scrawl of Sir Waiter's last days, "Send to Press. March, 1831." He therefore contem­ plated the publication of the fragment, and in a letter written from the Con­ tinent in his last journey thither, he reminds Lcckhart of the "Private Let­ ters," and of Lady Louisa Stuart's E^ftre in the composition. :> Pecan Culture in Missouri, farmer in Mississippi County, Ma, has ten acres of pecan trees that yield an income of #1,0.K) every year. The cost of gathering the nuts and caring for the trees is said to be not over $50 annually. Five years ago he clea *ed his land and secured his trees by dig­ ging the saplings out of the woods, in two years he had a crop large enough to pay for all the trouble incurred, and now the farmer is so tickled with his success that the orchard will be en­ larged. In southwest Missouri an ex- Eer^ment of like nature will be tried, ut in that case the Italian qualities of the climate will be tested by an at­ tempt at systematic chestnut culture. --Kansas City Times. » In Olden Times People overlooked the importance of permanently beneficial effects and were satisfied with transient action; but now that it is generally known that Syrup of Figs will permanently cure habitual constipation, well-informed people will Dot buy other laxatives, which act for a time, but finally injure the system. Alaska's Threatening Coal. Vesself can load coal in Alaska and deliver it at San Francisco cheaper than the railrdads can haul it from the Pennsylvania mines to New York.-- Chicago Herald. an«I,ieees*b! I*re a list in aay pqefcetoffhat I'm to do, • * --re. yoaf la. W. J. iuoft Puis. Dear, Str-i wish to inform you of the benefit my wife bss received from the use of your medicines. I must say tbat your "Favorite Prescrip­ tion" is tbe best fe­ male regulator on earth; my wife baa been cured by tbe timely use of it. I bare been using tbe "Golden Medical Disepvery" and "Pleasant PeJlv-U," and I am fuU^ sat- T'*'~ continue tarrarooUevoik, AMTVEB A Mtod they are ail you claim them to be- so, wishing you 'abund- that tM Almighty toward you AT.ITTtn OB aONET IS 3EFIJNSEA ' wanted iu every town. The beet thing yet. No trouble to sell. Send postal note tor45c lor 19 valuable samples. Expres* "with full instnu'tions. You'll never regret for45c lor 19 valuable sample«. Expres* " "1 instruotions. You'll never regret 313 Market St., Wiihamsport, Vs. Are You Making ---- i Alter MOneV rjR.M.STIVERS, Cariisge Bldr., N.York You can by selling Stivers & Barker's Miaft Suoporter. the neatest thins ever used on abusrKyfor the purpo-*. Agents wanted in this locality. Add.' n & N. 0. Tried BRINK'S Thill Coupling? If not send to Hoicomb & Co Bloom- vil e. O., and a sample pair; [oney retu.ned it not satisfactory. No. 3--94 I'd Tattler thsia co to -- I tell you te be£r and I will have foxtl jseforc'jrs occun* , SSC- avouutu (UlU i u tl It piui". When 10 o'clock comes I'm tegiTsblat a dilnk •tan "tbe tfass tm the bnreaa" rlgbe tbera. At let* the wOi; eb, l»lp iee to thtolt l And a "gwn"--so my oMsrs deelara Wbsn h^'s bnogry lllfeedblml WbatgloctQUS ' turn Tbeday will be 4M . % V Before it's begun, " ' ' • Id! Bowlantl and I are n pair. « : At 11 ws»go riding-he'll be "in tbe pnsta." Which I'll push with the greatest of tares At 1 I'm to sing to hbn "Husb-a-by. HashF Until dream visiong float in tbe air. When he'« sleepy Hi dug him to ikwl More fan? Tbe C*y will be done Before it a began. Wet Bowland and 1 are a pair. At ftMrat good gracious! von need not wpeel More details of tbis little aff«fr: l"be youagstet's awake, if I'm not Incorreet* To begin the flood time We're to share. ' > > « 1 hope biaMsas are Ilkemtne- about inal ' : Before it'B begun. ~ V I wiah the day done, 1 Altfao' we1%eo muoh of a pair. ?i"SfV -r & --Chicago Beoucd. • ' i*: 't* • " DAD'S JO. 't$' ; Just noon of a warm, bright day at Block Island. On the broad, shady piazza ot the great hotel there is an unbroken stillness. The roses clam­ bering over the railing nod lazily In the breeze; the lace curtains at the loog windows sway gently to and fro; the parlors beyond are sil nt and deserted Up at the beach the waves are sleepily lapping the glistening Saudi* where the bright-colored suits, drying in long lines behind the bath> ing houses are the only reminder of the merriment that existed less than half an hour ago. One or two ox teams are slowly creeping along the road, loaded with trailing seaweed of variegated hues; here and there is a group of bronzed fishermen mend* ing their nets. These are tbe only signs of lifa Everybody is down on the pier. The "Block Island" is overdue more than twenty minutes, and the rick­ ety boards creak and tremble as the anxious crowd press to the very edge, each one eager to' catch the first glimpse of the steamer as she rounds City Head. The excitement increasea The fishing boats huddle closer together behind the breakwater; and ha,ck- men, growing impatient, vociferate loudly; the marine band in the pa­ vilion on the hill strikes up; and yet-- "Here comes Jo!" some one shouts. '•Depend on't the boat'll be in soon now," says a grizzled old fisherman standing close by. "Jo's a sure sign. N gh on to a year she's watched that boat come in every day, fuid I never knew her to round the Head unless Jo was here." All eyes turned toward the road. An antiquated specimen of a car­ riage Is coming dowp the hill as raoidly as the lean and bony horse in front can drag it along. It draws i)p on the wharf beside the more pretentious vehieli s, a young girl jumps out, ties the horse, lays her arms lovingly around his neck a moment, then hurriedly pushes her way through ttu throng to the end of tbe pier. A tall, angular girl, clad in a home­ spun driss or the coarsest material, scant and patched, yet very clean, with a rough straw hat tied down over her hair which is long, straight and decidedly red. A girl with noth­ ing pretty and attractive about her, but there is such a brave, pathetic look in her great blue eyes that one involuntarily turns and looks at her again and again. Swiftly aid silently she passes along to the farther end of the pier, and, lifting one hand to shield her eyes from thi sunlight, gazes stead­ fastly at the distant horizon. "I know he will come to-day," she says, seemingly unconscious that s e is speaking aloud. "Just a year ago he went over there, dad did. He' went to get some filing's for me, and he promised to come back soon, but ithju been so Jong. Ob, he will surely come to-day, won't he?" she asks, turning to a weather-beaten old sailor who is gazing at her with just a susp cioa of moisture in his eye& "Aye, lass, tbat he wily he an­ swers. "I've got extras for dinner to-day," she goes ou, brightening up, '"cause he'll have a mighty appetite after be­ ing at them furrin' places so. lone; and I've a cushion for hi3 chair that sets by tbe window. I brushed up tbe team, too, and old Bess seemed to know he was coming, for she brought me over in no tiin^." "Quite likely he'll come to-day," says the old skipper; "and he'll bring you so many things that I'm afeard you won't be Jo any longer." "Yes, I will," replies the girt *T11 always be Jo to 8ad, anyway. Dear old dad. He's told me many a ttme how he picked me out of the water tbat dreadful night; and when no one seemed to want me he took me home with him--me. a helpless babe with nothing in the world but a ring on my finger, with 'Jo"* scratched on it Oh, I wish I could do something big for him, so he would know." "Well, cheer up, lass: he's waiting for some good reason. Praps be can't find what he wants for you just ye&" "Oh, 1 know now; that's it He was going to get me a blue gown with a big collar on it and a great gold star in each corner, butl begged him to try and get a white one; white is so pretty like, and 1 never had a wliite dress in my life," glancing rue­ fully down at the homespun cotton. "May like he had to go and go, 'fore he could get it ? For a few moments she gazed earn­ estly over the water. Is it smoke--- that long thin line of gray? Yes; just around the headland something white is coming into view. A few mor' minutes and the great steamer, gayly bedecked with flags and pen- ants burst in sight Slowly, too slowly for Jo, the boat plows along through the blue water, until, a}l dripping with foam and sparkling in the sunshine, the huge wheels cease revolving, and the "Block Island" is in at iast Tbe ropes are fastened, the plank is put out and the passen­ gers come ashore. In every face Jo peers eagerly. He might have changed in a year so much that she must watch closely. feaove tlsoit, my iW," says the • captain, roughly. "What do you want Jjere?" "Oh, I want dad,H she sobs; "h3 was coming to-day, 1 know. Tell rme, haven't you seen him?" . ' " *'TTriv:" -:f;. vn1<-! T Y V. t. ̂ -- - -- M iitiuu tllttiv «IV 3&sv,'di£ gruuujf. -:i£ove ttioiiK; we are late to-day, and can't be both­ ered." Jo turns slowly away and mechan­ ically passes up over the gangway. What does it matter to her that the »ttn is shining, that the band is play­ ing its sweetest music? All the brightness of the day is goue for her. Calmly she walks along, slowly unfastens Bess, and'climbing into the wagon silently drives away. But her face is very pale, and there is such a strange look in her great blue eyes that more than one honest hearted sailor draws his brown band .across his eyes and murmers: >,«f "Poor little gal:" - ^ " ' * * # • * • I It is evening. A sadden and fear­ ful storm is raging. The sea has risen, and with a roaring sound Crushed inland to dash against the jrocks. Up , at the great hotel tbe huge drops of rain dash against the windows, and the guests gathered to­ gether in the parlor shudder and tremble at every returning flash and deafening peaL Down on the beach the angry surf is roiling in moun­ tains high, and the fishermen are anxiously gazing out upon the dark waters, as if fearful of what such a storm might accomplish. Suddenly there comes a vivid flash, a terrible reverberating roll, and in the awful silence that followed, the group of waiting men gazed with horror in each others face's. Then comes another flash close by, and on the outer edge of the brake water they see a ship is going to pieces. There comes the sound of a signal gun, once, twice Ail is confusion now. The lifeboat is manned, pushed out and beaten back. Above the angry shrinking of the wind can be heard the shouts of those on tbe beach, the faint, despairing cries of those on the doomed vessel, and the sobs of the women who are endeavoring to keep back their loved ones from seeking death in those terrible waters. . .. And it is death. Six stalwart forms, so full of life only a few minutes de- fore, are stiffening ou the damp sand. It is of no use; no boat can live in such a storm, and hundreds of lives must perish while they stand there, unable and powerless to help. The storm redoubles its fury. One sharp shaft of lightning, and a cry goes up from tbe terrified women. A figure can be seen near one of tbe dismant­ led masts; a figure with gray hair and beard flowing in the wind. It is Jo's dad. They must try again. They cannot let him die when she expects to see him so soon. Five pairs of hands are ready. Can they have one more? In another moment it will Le too late. But see! Some one is hurriedly advancing toward them through tbe darkness and mist; a slender figure, wrapped in a shawl, with paie face aud eyes that burn like coals in the darkness. It is Jo, She springs into the lifeboat beside them. Her presenoe nerves them on, and they push off into the seething waters. * • * # • * They have come back and have laid her unconscious on the damp sand. Some beam had struck her and she had not spoken since. Tbe blue eyes are closed, but there is a smile on the still, white face, and the small hand is firmly clasped in the hand of a trembling old man, who is stoop­ ing over her, and smoothing back the thick masses of hair from her pale fonhead. A hush falls upon them all. Ten­ derly they take her up, and, with ber hand clasped in his, sadly wind .their way to the little cottage where she had waited for him so long. * - * » * ' * . * • It all happened only last night Tbe storm had gone down soon after they bad carried her home, and the sun is shining brightly, lovely, as though there is no sorrow, and never a storm or wreck. They had laid her on the little white bed in her chamber, from which the harbor could te plainly seen, and save for one or two kind neighbors, and gone away and left them together; she, lying so still, with closed eyes--he, beading over her, s.lent and unmindful of tbe presence of others. Just before noon she slowly opens her eyes and gazes at him in silence. Then, with a little sigh, she says feebly: "i knew you'd come, dad; I knew you'd come. 'Twas a hard voyage you had, dad, and a pretty rough landing; but you didn't mind it 'ecause your little gal was there." She is silent for a few moments, and then raising her head, she arks: "The white dress? You didn't forget it? Tbe white drees with the gold stars on the corners, that you were going to get tor your liltle gal?" "O, Jo!" The teais were stream­ ing down the old man's cheeks. "I bought the purtiest one for ye; all soft and white, with stars on't and a great, long sash; but 1--lost it--in the wreck--Jot" "And a great long sash:" This said very slowly. "Oh, dad, if I only could see it! But don't cry; I guess I don't want it; I'm going to leave you a little whil& I'm going up there where they've lots of white dresses, all shining aod pretty; and soon you'll come, too, won't you dad? I'll watch for you, jast as I did here, and there won't be--any storms--dad t--the vessel will sail--right iu on blue waters-an' I'll .be looking for you. I'll have 'em give me--a dress --with a big, shining star on it--an* you'll know me, sure--I knew you'd come!" One last feeble pressure of hie bind one little smile, and Jo waits and watches no more on earth. A strange calm falls upon the old man. They cannot persuade hi in to leave her for an instant He is utterly deaf to their entreaties, and, kneeling by the bed, he presses, from time to time, her ice cold hand to his lips. All through the long night be keeps his silent watch, and when another morning breaks they find him still there. t Meobanlcaiiy ha watches them lobe hnlBoved he w snowy buds in Ma hands. tbe door opens softly; a rough-lowing fisherman comes in, and, bewllng over the coffin, his tears fill like rail Within. •, "The little gal was so happy*yos- tv-Hioj, ! "IK-^ ffsys. Lurtiiiuc to the old man, who, even now, wUl not re­ move his gaze from her. "I'll never forget her standin' there an' saying as how ihe wished she could do some­ thing big for dad; an' she has, so she has, poor little girl.'* Covering his face with his horny hands, be breaks into bitter weeping, and, turning, quickly leaves the room. The old man's.whole frame changes. The terrible calm has broken up, but no: tears come. Only a look of un­ utterable. gladness and joy. "I know'd it, "Jo; I know'd it Somethin' big for dad! Dear, little gal! Walt just a minute, Jo; I'm Comtn'!" His head falls forward upon the coffin. Someone comes in presently and finds him thete. He is quite dead. They bury them side by side, In one grave, close by the murmuring sea; and at the head they placed a simple, white wooden shaft with jus t t hese two words rough ly in - scribed upon it-;-"Dad's Jo!"--Mil­ waukee Wisconsin. Herds of Wild Reindeer. It is not generally know tbat Just over tbe line of Alaska, on the edge of the Rocky Mountains and in the Brit­ ish possessions, there a:e vast herds of reindeer. Doctor Sheldon Jackson, Superin­ tendent ot Education for Alaska, has for two years teen imp orting reindeer from Siberia, and this is the ieason for the supposed scarcity in that re­ gion; but the scarcity appears to be toward the southern, southwestern, and northern coasts. In the far In­ terior there are myriads of them. An Episcopal missionary, who re­ cently arrived in this country from the Porcupine River, In the British possessions, has this to lay atout the reindeer; Back toward the mountain from my house, I have seen great herds of them, and almosteverywhere I looked 1 could see th?m. For much of the time I have lived at the mission I have subsisted al­ most exclusively on reindeer m at, It is very good, and I may say it is about tbe only kind of meat you don't get tired of. I think it is better, all things considered, than beef, and tbat you can eat it longer without its palling on you. It is a venison more than anything else. The Indians eat it as the main ar­ ticle of diet, and they are big and strong. Some of them are six feet in height, and the ave age is about five feet ten inches. They are genuine North American Indians, and net the Aleuts, Esquimaux, or a mixture of the two. I keep an Indian hunter, and he supplies me with all tbe rein­ deer meat I want He also brings in grouse, ducks, bear, and other game as I need it The ducks and grouse, like the reindeer, are remarkably good eating. It is fearfully cold there. Last winter the thermometer was, for a week at a time, down to 60 degrees, and I have seen it go considerably lower. At no time in the winter, nor during other winters tbat I have been there, was it higher tban 40 degrees. I discovered a queer thing about tbe cold, and it was this; Below 40 degrees you didn't notice it any more than 40. It might go 60, or even more, but it made so little di(Terence that vou didn't notice it. Practically it was all the same to yo* •* v • I ^ , < »„• / £} Balking nog* -. \ Away back in the seventeenth century a boy of Saxonv owned a mastiff which had a peculiar bark. The boy thought that there was a resemblance in the sounds made by it to some German words, and he de­ termined that he would teach the animal to speak. The task was a difficult one, but the boy had great patience, and finally taught the dog to speak thirty words, a few ot them French, but the majority German. The words were simply uttered by the dog after the DO? had repeated them to him. It is said that In the year 1718 a dog was exhibited in Holland which could pronounce all the letters of>the alphabet except I, m and n. In the year IT 10 there was a speaking dog at Berlin,| and the "Bibliothaque Germanique" for 1720 asserts that there was then a dog which could speak sixty words, and that it showed a preference for short words, never attempting to speak a word of more than three syllablea These cases are of coarse remark­ able, and yet it cannot be said that tbe dogs employed speech in the real sense of the term, for there is no evi­ dence that thought determined them in the choice of words. They simply imitated the human vol<3&|.. s * •' "V*: "Why He Never Smiled. ^ ^ Mr. Cbauncey Depew has the repu­ tation of being the best after-dinner speaker and raconteur in the world. Last time he crossed tbe Atlantic be and some other choice spirits used to foregather daily in the smoking-room and tell one another stories. At these meetings a stranger to tbem wis always present He- smoked cigars, drank whisky and water, and never spoke. a word. Worse still, he never smiled. Depew determined to make him laugh, and applied all his talents to the en­ deavor. But in vaitL At last a member of the party said to the §ilent man: "Now, sir, wp have been trying all we know for tbe last few days to amuse one another. Can't yon con­ tribute anything?" "No, sir," was the reply. "I don't know any stories. But 1 will ask you a conundrum if I may." '•Certainly sir. We shall be de­ l igh ted t o hea r i t " 4 'How, then, do I differ firotai a turkey?" ^ , The company guessed away merrily, but at last had to give it up. "Because." said tbe silent man, "they stuff a turkey with chestnuts when it is dead. 1 am alive." "4>. Highest of all In Leavening power.- n- v." >v Latest U. S. Gov't Report Wiixie--Which is the tioa in which to On the police force; •J, • -r£'.: Af; l itsjr-. . vr-V J: "a ^'!. 4 "Jvi- 1 o'u " 4 m Ji best posi- Wallace-- that'I AfiSOftl/rELY PURE BIT OF RAINMAKING. How • Rain Doctor Bronckt » Flood aad Th«n Stopped It. Lieutenant Boyle T. Somerville, of tbe English navy, recently returned from the Hebrides Islands, tells the following interesting tale regarding the work of a> professional nativeTain- roaker. Toward the end of the year, just after yam planting, there came an unusual period of drouth, so that an inland tribe in the island of Ambrvn went to its rainmaker and demanded hU immediate attention to it. He at once set to work to weave a sort of hur­ dle of the branches and leaves of a tree famed for its rain-producing qualities, which being finished was placed, with proper incantations, at the bottom of what should have been a water hole in the now parched bed of the mountain torrent. There it was then held in place with stones. Down came the rain; rior did it stop for fort hours, by wnich time it had too much of a good thing. Soon the rain-producing hurdle was quite ten feet under water in the seething tor­ rent, and the people, mnch to their dfemay. saw that tneir yams and the surrounding earth was beginning_ to wash away down the hillsides. The lieutenant continues: "Now mark what comes of fooling with the elements! No man of the hill country was able to dive to the bottom of t':e water hole to pull up the hurdle with its weight of stones, so the merciless rain still held on. At last €he flhero natives, accus­ tomed to swimming and diving, heard what the matter was, and some of them coming to the assistance, the compel- ler of the elements was recovered from its watery bed, and--the rain stopped." It is such a coincidence as this, hap­ pening perhaps once in a decade, which causes this people, now thoroughly Christianized, to refuse to give up weir rain doctors, although all other out­ ward forms of rank superstition appear to have been freely abandoned. An (JuMen Enemy la mow to be dreaded than an open tnd visible ooe. That subtile and larking foe, which tinder the generic name ot malaria man­ ifests itself, when it clntches us la Its tenaoions grasp, In the various forms of chills and fever, bilious, remittent, dumb'acne or acne cake, can only be effectually guarded against by fortifying ti e system against its lnsidlons attacks with Hostetter's Stomach Bitten, a thorough antidote to the poison of miasma in the system, and a safeguard against It thoroughly to be relied upon. In the event of r malarious sttscV avoid ynui system with quinine, and use instead this wholesome remedy, unobjectionable in taste and far more efRcaoioas than any drug. Use the Bitters for dyspepsia, biliousness, consti­ pation. kidney complaints and rheumatism. Couldn't See Any Danger. 1A Maine man just home from Boston savs there's a good deal of talk about being run over by the street cars, but they didn't dare run over him. "Why," he exclaimed, innocently and with proper personal pride, "I stood right on the track when one of them durnmed sky-pole cars came a-buzzing along, and I thought I'd just see if they'd run over me. They hollered and yelled for me to get off the track, but I didn't budge an inch, for I had as much right there as they had, and they just hauled the thing up stock still afore they got to me. All a man's go to do is to stand up for his rights, and them Boston fel­ lers dasn't run over him." And he Haw Ice Is Made. By subjecting ammoniacal gas to a certain pressure and reducing its tem­ perature to a certain degree it be­ comes a liquid; this liquid will expand again into gas by removing the pres­ sure, and, while undergoing this change, it absorbs heat from every­ thing it comes in contnct with, leaving it intensely cold. If you let the liquid in the expanded state circulate through immersed in brine, the brine lomes cold enough to freeze cans of water suspended in it, thus converting water in the cans to blocks of ice. Some persons seem to think that the ammonia comes into contact with the water to be frozen. This is a mistake; there is no possibility of such a con­ tact. If it were, the process of freaz- ing would at once te interfered with. The water put into the cans before frozen is absolutely pure, and so is the ice as it is made from distilled water, which cannot be said of any natural ice. The natural ice by storage loses to some extent its cold temperature and is delivered at the melting point, above 32 degrees, while the artificial ice is delivered fresh, frozen at a tempera­ ture of 10 degrees to 15 degrees smove zero, and hence will last much longer. It can be cut into uniform and con­ venient size to fit any refrigerator, cooler, or ite box. In addition to its greater purity, it is worth from 25 to 4 ) per cent, more than natural ioe.-- Ice and Refrigeration. $4 to California. ^ This la onr sleeping car rate on the Phll- llps-Rock Island Tourist Excursions from Chicago to Los Angeles or San Francisco, via the scenic route and Ogden. You can go with Phillips, the best of all excursion managers, for he has each party accom­ panied by a special agent who goes the en* tire trip with patrons. These personally conducted excursions leave Chicago twice a week, Tuesday aud Thursda/. We have also a dally tourist car service, via our Southern route, through the beau­ tiful Indian Territory and Fort Worth to Los Angeles and San Franrlsea '1 he tour­ ist car rate via this route, the samei Ap­ ply at Bock Island ticket office, 104 Clark street John Sebastian, G. P. A.-. Q, B. I % P. Ry., Chicago. Yet He Meant Well. The voung clergyman had consented at the last moment to act as substitute for the venerable man who was accus­ tomed to go to the bridewell Sunday morning and preach to the prisoners "My friends," 'said the embarrassed young man, as he rose up and faced the assembled toughs and vagrants, "it re- {'oices my heart to gee so manv of you lere this morning."--Chicago Trlbuns Catarrh Cannot B* Cored With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the «e*t of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Ca­ tarrh Cure is taken intoraaUy, and acts directly on the blood and muoous surfaces. BaU'a ca­ tarrh Cure Is not a qoaek medicine. It was pre­ scribed by* one of toe best physicians in tikis country for yeart, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, com­ bined with the best blood purlftecs. acting di­ rectly on the muoous surfaces. The perfeot combination of tbe two ingredients is What produces such wonderful results in curing ea- tanrh. Send for testimonials, free. r. J. CHENEY ft CO., Props., Ttoledo, Ofaia Sold by dragltsts, price Wo. A Prayer Book of Silk. A silken prayer book has been woven at Lyons, in Prance, the completion of which has taken three years. The lore m a position to judge, tried many Cough Syrups ten years post few "equal to Bcscbee' 2 nave given it to with the most Every mother should Jiave HOBBS, Druggist Moffat, Texas. living facts, of German Syrup gives body. Take no i I Recommend Tbe Great KMesy art Brier Hill. N. Y. Dr. Kilmer & Cou* Btaffhamtofej; { Clenttemdn;-It affords aw I ure to your two hecai several your Kithwr R *oae4y and found" the greatest I ever a because a great since I h tmslnegsfior the past six years. I a good medicine as it gtass the beat tion. Almost every day I bear my customers saying: Or. KilmerV SmaplNi toil and telling what it has done for thMfc, One doubting tills statement can write* ! gladly answer. Yours with great reap^H.,,.» 0.8. Yorden, <Meilftj|||| At Druigiito, SO cent sni "lortliMMl to Health" frev-ONMl Dr. Kilmer & Co., - Binghaartoa. ^ 0r„ kfimr'e II &0 AsetstmrtCwWl - . Trisi Bei free. - *1 Pw^glstaSOeiiii^,. ^ .4' WM.TEI (MMU Ob .the ttUowtag •Bake!;: MEiKFiST . ftEHOIH fiKllU SWEET _ UHJicmmn, Men una, lALTE3BAKfca*titfJ Hi t*tei prayers are not printed on the silk, but woven. Five hundred copies struck off the loom, and are 001 looked just as if he believed there wa*J 8truck off the loom, and are bought ho danger.--Lewiston Journal, f ^ M wedding presents by rich people. Colchester lubber Co. •5.SOO FKOK TEN ACRKS. C A. M. Lamb, a market gardener in Pennsylvania, cleared $5,800 on five acres of cabbage and five acres of onions. The reason of this, he says, was because Salter's seeds are so ex­ tremely early and wondrously produc­ tive. Lightning Cabbage and King of the Earliest Onions he had in the market three weeks ahead of any other home-grown sort-;, and conse­ quently received fancy prices. Salzer sends 35 packages earliest vegetable seed, sufficient for a family, for 91, postpaid. if Vou WUl Cut Thl« Oat and Send It with (k postage to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., you will re­ ceive their mammoth catalogue and a trial package of "Get There, Eli^," the sixteen-day radish. < Schifftnann's Asthma Cure Instantly relieves the most violent attack* facilitates free expectoration and insures rest to those otherwise unable to slaep except in a chair, as a single trial will prove. Send for a free trial package to Dr. B. Scbilfntann, St, Paul, Ulna., but ask your druggist first He Hadn't Had In our efforts to teach we are fre quently met by an unexpected reply tnat for an instant baffles our question* ing powers. A young woman of Virginia, who took occasion to correct the errors of speech of all the little negroes within hearing, recently received a request from a piccaninny for a small quantity of M 'lasses." "You must not say 'lasses, Tom; you must say molasses," corrected his pre­ ceptress." "W'at does I want to say 'mo'lasses' foh?" replied the innocent. "I haint had none yit!" FOB THROAT DISEASES AND COUGHB use BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES. Like all really good things, they are. Imitated. The genuine are told only in boxes. HE who reforms himself has done much toward reforming others.--Old proverh. j • Kb*P DP TBAT BASPINO Cocoa at tbe peril of breaking down your Lungs and Throat; rather let the afflicted immedl« uiely resort to Dr. D. Jay ne's Expectorant, which cures all Coughs and Colds, and ameliorates all Lung Complaints and Throat-alls. SELF-DECEPTION . of deception. is the wont kind Ebb ucoichestar* Spading Bool' other column. AN epycrnis one-half inches egg thirty-three and long has been picked up in Madagascar. BKECHAM'S PILLS are a certain cure for weak stomach and disordered liver, and are famous the world over. 25 cents a box. Too MUCH rest itself becomes a pain. --Homer. "gpS" Permanently Cure? Because it reaches tbe seat of disease lit the blood. By purifying, vitalising and enriching the blood, it expels every taint of Scrofula, Catarrh, Malaria, etc.. and so renovates and strengthens the vital fluid, and through it the whole sya- ; v tern, as to enable it to throw off future; - attacks of disease. Be sure to ge| ̂ v Hood's, snd only Hood's, because Hood's8#"" Cures Hood's Pi I Is cure all Liver Tlla, Side Head­ ache, Jaundice, Indigestion. Try a box. 25c. My dear fellow, she Is an angel. Bow qulsUelr lovely her complexion lsT^^ uses Glenn's Sulphur Soup." SlUloh's Consumption Care Is soil Stee. It cures Incipient Consumption. __ •t Cough Cure, accents, 90 ceuts and CUM. "SWR After %fp»iwaa disease wl hich the 4 s s s treated 1 3SSTS& and I tried many remedies, withoaf was recommended, and _ takiiMt six bottles I am now watt my skin is perfectly clear, asil my former coMitiOBH " Curetf by smfT"S2SSu. S. S. S. f SMdibr TreatiseouBlow!aa* Skla Diseues matled free. Jeeat a 1 wumuam u tift Ml ? By mail. rand lot of EXT) with every order. and only rasa Catalan*! tbe world with picturea i all varieties, and neighbors' addreaa. R. N. ftHUMWJ Fit cms. Send to Dr. 1 e.981 ArchBt^PhiJa,P». j '*• Sare Gar* for Sprain, Braise or Hirl! ST. JACOBS OIL You'll 0oo it Always for a Like -WP CA the Sorea, Restore* Taate and Smell, ana llefat Cold ft it Quickly Apply into the. Kontrilt. - __ 50c. Druggists or by mail. ELY BROg.,'66 Wiema St., ] ,t One bottle for fifteen cents, Twelve bottles for one dollar. mail JRipans Tabules are €he most effective rec­ ipe ever presaribed by a,physician for any disorder of the stomach, liver or bowels. Bay of any druggist anywhere, or send price to THE RIPANS CHEMICAL COMPANY, to STAVES ST., New YOBK. ASIHIAM r.r«^7Jrrf«yBiS Giw» Belief in Five Minolta. Tr Psckitc tent FBEE. Sold by Dra (tilt*. One Box rat pott-Mi n i ceiptoftlXX). Six Bora, u|l Add. Thoe. Popham^rafauPa PITEMTS (" \ vt'Li * • 7. '.foj •3a... «ti ••'J <4 A Paefc of Playing Card* funusiivti by tiie Burlittgti>lt Koulf ll'. B. & Q K. It 1. which lb till' IWfct It .iiway irom Chicago and St. Louis to all 1 Oint* Northwest. West aud Southwest. Sand IS cents in rostaae ! to 1. a mil deck to P.8. ICUKils, Ufa- ! er U Pa&sencar Acent.CHICAGO 111. ' THOMAS R8nO»01Mra<<h!n«to% Da "wissKi'Aa&r.'isi V.V*ir .<*3 Exam & sr. u. to wrttlas to Adwrtlwer*, vlraaa FOMEMTOA TFA^'^PER. A^E^YA