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* -f' - ir ,• •' ^: '.^ , , • ': •' . . • • • --*'•• •"; • • V •; • • -V-• . "H •' • r. .'•••: ' * -- A; ' • -*w," -- . .. ^ ' '• ' V ' • , • - • m , .".ti;. .,,,,„ - *;- 1 Highest of ram btzrmmr Town.--Latest U.S* Gov't 4BSMmnX HIRE a-.-i " >SS.. <«• n*sBr A. Fa&ZEII. mannRcr of the J«ha A fcalzer Ifead Company, La Crowe, Wis., ;• to In Europe looking up rare aoveltle* la Wueubles and new things in the farm seed line He will visit the celebrate,! farming districts of Prance, Germany, IS inland. Belgium. Russia and Ho bum la. and the CS-tomers of. this wide-awake flm> can (Congratulate themselves upon his bringing aloti; the c;-eam or farm and vegetable > Mods that ihdsa foreign countries offer. kj. xt Pmre Water for Drlaklng.,. 5 *1 do not see," eaid a business man w}io travels around & Rood deal, "why Cincinnati can not have something like there is in St. Louis. I mean a concern t - at will supply cool, pure wa­ ter at a nominal cost to the people. OVer in St. Louis there is a water com- Kny that was at arted in a small way, t is now capitalized at, I believe, •100 ,000. Drinking water is supplied for family use in any quantity desired. It is supplied in large bottles, which »re returned. They are delivered by men in wagons, just as milk is supplied for family use. The water is first dis­ tilled, all the impurities removed, and then charged with something which makes the water sparkle like moun­ tain spring' water. It is a delicious drink, and is used in large quantities by families. The water is taken from the river."--Cincinnati Commercial- Qbzette. .j PROFESSOR AT WATER, of Wesley an University, says: "The evil one could not have devised a more sure moans for wrecking humanity than by teach­ ing men to eat whatever their taste happens to suggest and supplying them with money to purchase unlimited quantities." ATMAKING was introduced into gland in 1510 by Spaniards. " Hood's Impure Blood Manifests itself in hot weather in hives, pimplesib. ils and other eruptions which disfigure the face and cause great an­ noyance. The cure is found in Hoo&'s Sarsa- i pdrtlto Sarsaparilla, which F MA^ makes the blood pure A Ul VU and removes all such AAAAAj •disSgnrations.lt also ^wwwww gives strength, creates an appetite, in­ vigorates the whole system. Ciet Hood's OOd*a Pit Is are prompt and efficient. wj&:- -- Lydia - E. Pinkiham's Vegetable Compound CURES ALL Ailments of Women. It will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Complaints, all Ovarian troubles, iiHumiliation and Ulceration, Falling ana )isplaceinonts of the Womb, and consequent rinal Weakness, and is peculiarly adapted the Change of Life. It has cured more 'cases of Leucorrhoea titan any remedy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It dis­ solves and expels Tumors from the Uterus . .fan an early stage of development, and checks .Hay tendency to cancerous humors. That jBearing-down Feeling v. causing. JttailU-weirH* „-V» FIFTY YEARS AGO. fls fifty yealrs ago. dear John, j^»t lift* yaws •go; Beama like *twaa <«dy yaatenUr, I baaed mo tell me so; Do I remember sayin' IN? Woil, John, we're gettiu' o d i And trimly now, and I ain't sua tnf mem*rv la BO bold; And yet, I «pose I must a aald a thing or two in _ play ! For you were rather aaaay, John, a-goln' bom* -w_., that day. .. •-v -»7 ,T^:.. " Ju»l think 1 'tis fifty years, 'dear John, jept fifty years ng". Bence you and me. Mood up afoe old Taraon Ganderblow •. And said we'd have each other--*h'„re!--lor bet­ ter or lor wuB8. ; i Did ever 1 get sick cf It? Kow, 'John, don't , make a fuss *Bout nothiu' for I 'low thnr'a lime* a bad trade turns to good When men's wives nusa their pat enca as Chris­ tian people should. " In all thete upa und downs, dear John, sence fllty years ago Wa joined our hearts and hand*, the Lord alone can fully know What you have been to me, John, or I have been to you; For He seep, though oft we've stumbled, tbat our poor ola he«rrg are tree And that 1 will be i hi' king of >ou, John, as you will be thinking ofme When our fifty yeara below have long teen lost in eternity. --Yankee bla le. THE VALUE OP Johft Stanton, a conductor on the San Guido and California Southern | Kail road, was an exceedingly me- j thodical map, and consequently In- > valuable to the road, it was iui os- | slble to delay him. He worked like j don't a-machine. The !?an Guido and California Southern Kailroad was a slow and easy single-track load, operated chie"y for fruit-growers, it extended abont 175 miles southward trona £San Guido to Jasper City. Between these terminal points there were but two stopping-places--a tlatr station and a town calle.1 New Uabyloo. Two trains a day were run one fr<im each end or the liue; an i usually they met at New Babylon. The train from Jasper City ran some­ what slower than the 6ther, as it was apt. to tave a heavier 1 ad. It commonly stopped for nearly an hour at New Babylon for the purpose of loading with .ruit and waiting for the other train. Not that it tobk an hour to load one car with a tew boxes ot oranges and peaches, but there was always a ce tain amount of joking ana loatlng to be done, and the other train to wait for The occasional passenger whose fortune it miarht be to travel from Jasper City to San Guido always cha ed at being obliged to waste so much time in listening to jokes on Jack and Bill, and de.-lared, justly, that a switch ought to have been put where the trains would regularly meet. To this it was answered that the train had to stop half an hour any­ way. and they "might as welj wait another hai -hour and takt^ things easy, instead of being in such a tear­ ing hurry." As the complaints were few, a third switch was never put in. The down-train as the one lrom San Guid,* to Jasper City was called, seldom carried more than a passen­ ger or two aDd the scanty mail, sometimes it stopped at the i^ag sta­ tion and switcher! off to let the othe* train pass there, but this happend^ F.O.OOLBY.D. D.*. DKNTI«T. Woodstock, III. Specfal *tten-lion paid to regulating ctais t e eth, Parties coming from a distance would do well to give timely notice by mail. Office, Kendal block, corner Main street and PaulloSq u*re 'Hi:.: O. P. BAKNTBS, " ATTORNEY, Solicitor, and Q#tm**K>ir. A Oollectlons a epaciatty. " « ^ , WOODSTOCK, UUUHOtjfe "'li.'U KNIOHT * BROWN, Express Oo.*s CHICAGO, ILL.. ' A TTORN• TS AT LAW. U. S. Bnildlag, 87 and 88 Washiagton 8fc.. V, S. LUMLEY. TTORMKY AT LAV, ul Solloltat la O^^e^OODSTOOK, ill. i|figela Park House, first floor. • H. C. MEAD, Justice of the Peace and General 7n*. •" • eurance Agent neluding A ccidetd * end Life lnnurante. % / »' 0»FIC* W ill B. GILBKKT, NEAB DWOI, ; .v ' WBUJT MCHKNPV. III. i - ' & " i " ' w. P- «- CLAIR#} Jfatice of the Peace and Notary Public Jb eal Eatate and liuurance, * ' ; L Hl« M. CHURCH, l^toh^iaker a.u<I •Jeweler N°i .On > flundredTwenty-Five State Rt Chi­ cago, 111. Special attention given to r#- ipalringl' ine watches and ohronometere. If ifall A«»ortment ot Good# in hi» line C.PIUCHER, FRENCH&ENAMEllED CALK FlNECAlf&KANGAFIW $ 5.5? P0LICE.3 SOLES. BOYSSCHOOISHQES. •LADIES* ^•$2SBestD0ng®M. I, SEND FOR CATALOGUE ' W*L.* DOUGLAS , BROCKTON, MASS. Ttn cwnTO money by wearing the W* La j^ouclas 83.OO Bboe, ecan»e, we aro tho largest matiufactnreri of sgrftdeowbees in t':ovror!d,anu guarantee their * Talue by 8tai»£tag Ute n-r.ia and price on the --hlch prc!-"t 7011 - j-!nst high prices aui the miJdSeman'a proOts. Our shoes equal custom " work in style, easy fitting and wearing qualities. We have them Bold everywhere at lower prices for the value given than any other make. Take no sub­ stitute. It your dealer canaot supply you, we can. only when the operator at the 1 at; V«Hvl?n f6 00 Pan f4 6 00 H arrin Casfimere Pants 4 20 00 Riverside Mills Suit .16 5 00 Suit 3 51 Fancy Good Pants $1 50 to 17>r 2 00 Bove Con^rePs Shoea 1 2 2 50 MCD'S Fine Shoes 1 7 ti Also Groceries and Canned Goods fresp every two weeks. E LAWLUS. Opposite Riverside House. BEST IN THE WORLD. vJVi.' • • * ; ; ' .'.ti.' r e l I- V d s ,8 fS FEEE la Good - - ̂ Tor Spot Ca^li Oaly, ' - •'M " AJAPAYS FORia?tW U B | 1 • i n l O O h i g h g r a d e m UEi^tmn • w or we can lumfft .It * 11 III It't timet in 1,375 country Ul • papers for Adv. 4 tun< in lOO high grade papers in Illinbia. guaranteed circu- 1 Tatiou 100,000-- or we can insert lt":{ timet in 1,375 country papers for. SK.Xl) FOR CATALOGUE. CHICAGO NEWSPAPEK UXION, flfl Boa til Jefferson Street, ' - Chicago, 111, JELY'S CREAM BALM CURES C A T A R R H IFRICE SOCEMTS. ALL PRUQCISTS people pll?et iQDfl injur* , _ X y - * • ' • • "Well," said John, "seems to nie that's a mighty loose-jointed way of running a railroad: Wonder why he didn't tell me himself?*' "You ran by the station," she re­ plied. Then seeing tbat John looked puzzled, she asked anxiously, "Isn't it all right?" "Oh yes, 1 guess it's all right," said he. He feaw no reason why he should alarm the young lady, by way of conversation while she lodked for her ti ket he asktd, "Are you the new schooltea her they're going to have down af- Jasper Cityv" "Yes." she answered. "Why?" "Oh," rejoined John, "I thought you jooked like a ^ ankee. Drove pver from San Fratrico?" " V es." She handed him her ticket,. and -John retired to the baggage-car. i here he sat down an an crange- boxand began to think over the situation. The two trains we e steadily funning toward each other on the same track. How long before the v would meet? He knew that the u^-tratn usually made about twenty-eight miles an hour, and tbat they started at the same time How was he to tell where they would meet? Suddenly a bright idea illuminated his face. He produced his note-tiook and pencil, atip wrote: "Let x fequal the number o* hours before we meet." Then he stopped and thought. It was a good many vea s since he hatt studied algebra, and h3 had had no oeeasioa me lt SFO • 1M left school* For a long time tie pondered, but eould not go on. He pushed his fingers through his hair andtwiddled his pencil nervously. Then he* thought, "the schoolma'am Ml know1." and he rose and walked decisively to­ ward the passenger car. Going directly to the teacher's seat; he showed her what he had wr.tten and stated the conditions of the p:ohleui, asking her if she could make an equation. She took the bq^k, and after a moment's reflection wrote: 30 plus 2$ e uals rate of approach in miles per hour. Then (30 pi i s 28) x equals number miles covered in x hours. "Oh. I see," said John. "Can you tlnish it nowr" she asked, offering him the book and pencil. "I ifuess so," he replied, ana wrote. But 174 equals number miles co?> ered in x hours (30 plus 28) x equals 174 mileg 58 x equals 174 x equals 3 WSThats IV'she said, wb? have you written 'we' in' the first line there?" "Because that's what it ipeans," answered John, taking out his watch. "You see, we started from ban Guido at 9 o'clock, and they started from Jasper City at U o'ciook< •. and - they passed the switch ?at 'NTJW Bubylou, and now we'll meet itt tlir6ci\ hoiirs fron* 9 o'clock, which is 12. if we stop," he added, j$ 4nn after­ thought. "VV hy didn'tyou*warit back^ere?" she'asked, her eyes "begiTintnglfe open as she grasped the tftunfctofiL.'/' ... "Well, I didn't Ret wofd ih 'tiigie, you know," he rtjoiued. ular rule is to pas>c ati New : Babylon. Ko good in breaki(ig..hiles ^ t "Am there's no -othcr givfrab?^ ViS'one." '•What time is it now?'^she asked, excitedly. v' "Eleven forty•ona'*' ? * "Well, why don't yon i$npthe<t!ratn now?" she asked, anxiously catching his sleeve. , "Why, there's lots of tlinejv he re­ plied thoughtfully, rubbing bis watch crystal with his thumb. "There's nineteen minutes" . . \ ! ••But you may be wrong,"'sb*said, beginning to rise and talk loud. 'Maybe the other train has, been go­ ing faster twenty-eight miles an hour. Perhaps you lost time stopping for me. Perhaps--" John laid his hand restrainingly on her sleeve, glancing about the car as he did so. Following his glance, she saw she was beginn.ng to attract the attention of the. ,'qtber ttoo passen­ gers, one placid Chinaman apd the other a sun- biowne4 prospector. She sat down clinching her hands and looking beseechingly at John. "Jo--hurry!" she said. John went out to the baggage-car and sat down on his orange-box again. "She might be" wrong, being so ner­ vous like," he rejected, and hei pro­ ceeded to go overy every detail of the algebraic process. The train rattled on across the gray plain; the lizards scurried out fropi under the rails when they began to hum, and watched the'train from under a convenient Rage bru&i, just as they had done twice a day for the two years the road had been in operation; and the two trains stead­ ily approached each other. The mo­ ment^ seemed.hmrs to the voung s.hool teacher. "Whv don't be stop?"' she gasped. At last John had verified his re­ sult to his satisfaction. "That's light, sure," he said to himself, as he put his notebook into hi^ pocket. Aealn he looked at his w tch, and saw that it lacked eight minutes of 12. He walked slowly toward the engine. "Jake," he called to the engineer, across the tender, "I reckon there'll be a colli ion in about live minutes if you don't pull upi" The engineer, who had never known him toriudulge in a joke of any kind, took one look at his face, pnd brought the train to a quick halt. Just ahead, the track curved to the left through a deep cut. While John ran ahead and placed a torpedo on the track, the train bacleed off several hundred yards John stood with his watch in his hand and waited. i-our minutes of twelve--three-- one--at a quarter of a minute before twelve o'clock the rails began to sing, and on the dot of 12 No, 27 came roaring through the cut, stop­ ping at the repcrt of the torpedo. John closed bis watch with a snap. ••Don't tell me algebra's no good," he sa d, and waited placidly for the other conductor. "Why didn't you stoD at the flag- station?" he asked. "I was past before I knew you were coming on," eaid John. "All you'V ' got tc do is back up and let me pass at New Babylon.--Robert P. Utter, in Youth's Companion. AS TO COMPLEXION; No Timn to Aim. it is a strange fact that the human hand, eye, aud nerve are so con­ structed as to act automatically and correctly at the proper moment, al­ most withqut conscious effort on the owner's part* The author of "Tales of a Nomad" gives an experience that illustrates this In a most fortunate manner. We were passing through grass about two feet in height, with clumps of low scrub here and there. 1 was leading, and my spoorer, a Kafir named Jacha, was following me. He had only one eye. and that eye was keener to detect game thai! two pairs of ordinary optics, but on this occasion it overlooked a terrible danger, for the reason, that the dan­ ger, though within a few yards^lus, was-invisible. V, . A"' There was a rustle In pa^-$$l scrub six or seven yards tie fore nife, and suddenly out of it rose a wburidiid buffalo with bloody n»outh and glar­ ing eye, which wheeled round fecihg me in act to charge. It all took place quicker than thought. My rifle, which happily was at full cock, went up to my shoulder instinctively, and 1 dropped him in his tracks with a ball through the brain. So sudden was the whole affair that my heart bad not time even to gVve a ereat thump. I do not quite remem­ ber how 1- did it. I am sure I did not take a tine sight* and I doubt if I looked at the rib of my ritte at akl Mttlil Varied Basagh to salt Ati, tat An Worthless. •'Nothing is so beneficial to the face as steaming. You can do'it at home ever p saucepan of boiling water. Be sure to bind the eyes, as hot water is injurious to them." "Use pure cold "water to insure a fresh rosy skin. Hot waiter is a sure producer of wrinkles; fpr example, look at a washerwoman's hand. Steaming is very injurious, as it makes the skin loose and tiabby." "Bathe intiamed eyes with hot water." "The ^molest and most harmless preparation to smooth the skin is glycerine and ro e water; two parts glycerine and one partiose water." "Never use glycerine on the face. It draws powerfully and in Barnes the surface." "oVe cold eream or some soft cream of roses on the face before 'tetirlngv The skin must be fed." ' ' "Avoid the use of cold cream and all unguents on the face. All grease, vaseline or glycerine has a tendency to till up the porfs and produce down n the face." - "Squeeze out blackheads after bathing the face in very hot water, then use some soft cream." "Never squee/e out blackheads with the nails; it bruises the tender skin and enlarges the pores; rub them out with a coarse towel" "Never rub the face with a <oarse material; wipe gently on a soft linen towel," "-oap H injurious to the complex­ ion by reason of the alkali in it." '-Wash the face in a lather of hot water, and good, pure soap; rinse with a dash of cold water." "Employ the best masseuse you can find and let her rub the face for half an hour every day. The skin will net vigorously and wrinkles will vanish like magic." "Massage treatment is ruinous to the face, though beneficial to the b;dy. It is a sure producer of wrinkles." ••When rubbing the face always rub from the nose." "Bub under the eyes toward the nose to drive away crowsfeet." "The face mask is the surest beau- tiller in tjie world, send for one and become ten years \ounger." "Face masks ruin the skin, mak­ ing it leathery and yellow and pro­ ducing a look of premature age." "Lemon juice Will remove tan and freckles." "Never use an acid on the skin. A few drops of toilet ammonia in the bowl fieshens, cleanses, and purifies the skin." "The daily use of ammonia is a prolific source of evil to the com­ plexion." i(Cold water and plenty of nourish­ ing food, with ex'ercise in the open air, is a regimen that will insure a good complexion." "Never use i erfectly cold water on the face: avoid long walks; always wear a thin veil in the sunshine." Columns could be tilled with these contradictory and absurd directions read and practiced with avidity by foolish women in the hope of becom­ ing beautiful. Comment is useless. The newspapers will continue to publish and women will contiuue to experiment with their faces until finding the texture of the skin ir­ retrievably ruined as we whitewash tarnished walls. The prescription of the celebrated Abernethy for the complexion was something like this: "Keep clean ail over; eat plenty of nourishing food; sleep plenty and walk plenty out of doors; keep the system o0en." It would seem as if this covered the. ground.--St. Louis Republic. STRENGTH OF FRANCE'S ARMY. Interesting the War Information from Bodftet or 1894. The uncertainties of an interna­ tional character accompanying the electoral campaign in be many give more importance than ordinarily to official statements relative to the military strength of European na­ tions. Speaking only of France, the war budget for 18^4, which does not differ 'from the budgets of former years, contains interesting informa­ tion about the "effectifs," or number and classitlcation of the French army. It would be composed in 1894 as follows if the ministerial budget es­ timates are accepted by the Deputies, which is most likely to occur: Mili­ tary staffs, 3,678 officers and 821 uienr military schools, 590 officers and 2, Tfja men; "hors cadres," that is, not at­ tached to any regular organization, qut employed in divers services, 2,704 offcers and 486 men. The in.antry consists of 163 regi­ ments of the line, forming a total of 10,322 officers and 247,622 men; thirty battalions of foot chasseurs, 942 officers, and 25,932 men: tfour zouave regimeuts, 356 officers, and 12,218 men; five battalions of light in.antry of Africa, 155 officers, and 7,605 men; four companies of disci piined fusiliers; two regiments of en­ rolled foreigners, European; four reg­ iments of Algerian sharpshooters. Total, 1^377 officers apd 317,905 men. In the cavalry are eighty regiments of French cavalry, forming a total ot 3,413 officers and 63,010 men; six reg­ iments of chasseurs of Africa, eight companies of horae recruiting or "r£- monte," four regiments of s pah is. Total, 3,905 officers and 73,856 men. The aitillery consists of sixteen battalions of fortress artillery; thirty- eight regiments of artillery, comprls- ^g 45ti batteries, 1,463 officers, and 24,854 men; batteries in Algeria and Tunisia; two regiments of "ponton- niers," or pontoon builders; ten com­ panies of workmen; three companies of artificers; mountain batteries, and musicians of the a tillery school To­ tal, 3,719 officers, and 75,815 men. Military engineering, gendarmene, and diveis other corps have to be added to the list, the grand total of which lepresents the active army of France, which will be comixised in )*94 of 2J,555 officers and 530,048 men.--New York Tribune, As soon as a man makes a little money, it is discovered tha*> his w is qualified by birth and educate shine the best society. - ' . > 'J With One's Whole Strength. We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that Is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our dgiight, and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done •es or shifts* but with a will; hat is not worth this effoi not to be done:. at all remaps au tbat we have to do is meant lor noth­ ing more than an exercise of th« heart and of the will, and is useless in itself; but at all events, the littl® use it has may well be spa ed if it ia not worth putting our hands and onr strength to.--Kuskin. Htatory In Trees. It has been found that the rlnfrs erf growth visible in the trunks of trees have a far more interesting story to tell than has usually been supposed. Everybody knows that they indicate the number of years that tlie tree has lived, but Mr. J. Keuchler of Texas, has recently made experi­ ments and observations which seem to show that trees' carry in their trunks a record of the weather condi­ tions that have prevailed during the successive years of their growth. Several trees, each more than 130 years old jwere felled, and the order relative width of the rings of j growth in their trunks were found to j %/ree exactly. This fict shewed that all the trees j had experienced the same stimula­ tion in certain years, and the same retardation in other years Assum ing that the most rapid growth had j occurred in wet years, and the least rapid in dry years, it was concluded j that out if the 134 ye%;s covered by J the life of the trees, sixty had been I very wet* six extremely wet, eighteen I wet, seventeen average as to the j supply of moisture, nineteen dry, eight very dry, and six extremely dry. But when the records of rainfall running back as far as 1840 were con­ sulted, it was found that they did not agree with the .ecords of the tree& Still it could not be denied that the rings in the trunks told a true story of the weather influences which had affected the trees in successive years. The conclusion was therefore reached that the record of the rings contained more than a mere index of the annual rainfall; that it showed what the character of the seasons had been as to sunshine, temperature, evaporation, legularlty or irregular­ ity of the supply of moisture, and the like; in short, that the trees con­ tained, indelibly imprinted in the r t unks, more than lou years of na­ ture'^ history, a history which we might completely decipher If we could but look upon the face of na­ ture from a tree's po nt of view. Joaeph Jefferson's Curios. Joseph Jefferson's new home at Buzzard's Bay is nearing completion and will be the handsomest edifice in that part of the country. Mr. Jeffer­ son has furnished it in part with fur­ niture taken from his Louisiana man­ sion, and this includes a number of beautiful and rare ola pieces picked up In New Orleans during the last thirty years. Mr. Jefferson ia an enthusiastic curio hunter. His enthusiasm in this direction is not shared by his wife, who has the curious feminine notion that a dollar in the bank is worth two curios on the mantelpiece --a heresy exceedingly odiouj to all proDerly-minded collectors. But Mr. Jefferson has a shrewd way of getting hold of treasures he c >\ ets. He picks our, bis articles and then sends his u.destson. Tom, around to bargain with the dealer for them. Tom may be a Ken ius in his way, but he has no reference for antiq­ uities. He talks ab rnt lovely furnl> ture and precious curios as 'told trum­ pery," and the way he browbeats and haggles with the dealers is simply shocking. The upshot of it all is in- vbribly that Tom gets the goods for about one-third the price demanded of his father. So, perhaps, the ir­ reverent young man may he pardoned for his seeming lack of sentiment.-- Chicago Kecord. Alexander's Crown. The Russian crown and other state jewels are valued at the enormous sum at $11,000,000, taking United States money as a basis of calcula­ tion; the crown itself is reckoned as bejug worth at least 8^,000,000. It is -Adorned with hundreds of dia­ monds, individual specimens of which are valued at all the wa. from a few dollars up to enormous spark ers worth thousands upon thousands of dollars. Besides the diamonds, which make this costly head dress look as if it had been buried in a showe" of falling stars, there are fifty-four pearls, each without a flaw, set around the rim, a rubv of extraordi­ nary size ana brilliancy being used as a center, iece. The crown was made b. Panzie, the old-time Genoese court jeweler, and was first used by Cath­ erine the (ireat. Getting to Linok Like Tecum p. John Sherman grows to look more and more like bis military brother, the late William Tecumseh. every year. The lines in the strong face have grown harder, the Impressive countenance has become more griz­ zled and the closely cropped beard has developed a harsh and military preciseness. Sherman is in many re­ spects the most striking Agu e in the Senate. He is a constant attendant on the floor. His place in the King Bow, is the most conspicuous on the Republican side, and his gaunt hut wi y figure, full of imp essiveness and a certain g; ace of strength, easily attracts the eye. His dress is always the same--an old-fashioned black frock coat, a low-cut vest, displaying an expanse of shirt front, and a black tie encircling his high collar in a bow. He usually leans far back in his chair, with one arm thrown care­ lessly over the back, and rarely in­ dulges in conversation with anybody. --Cincinnati Tribune, Faithflnl Clerk. As a clerk in a country store In Illinois, Abraham Lincoln quitkly became known for his honesty. He was truthful in what he said about the goode, he gave good weight, and in particular, he lost no time and spared no pains in correcting mis­ takes He was closing the store one even­ ing when a woman called for a half- pound of tea. in the mor, saw fro m the weight in he had given her only a pound. Leaving everytj weighed out the other carried it to her. Another customer pa one quarter cents more due, and when thesto night he hastened to take, although she llvi aw: hjy r • Th ©"'froSf It as tfo Mechanics. Although the mental qualities of onr highly domesticated dogd are singu­ larly like thos» of their masters, the likeness going to the point that tho household pet is apt to have acquired something of tne general character of the people with whom he dwells, there are many suggestive differences aris­ ing fiom failures of development which are in the highest measure interesting to those who study the species. We note, in the first place, that although for ages in contact with the construc­ tive work which occupies his masters the dog show?; no tendency whatever to essay any undertakings of this na­ ture. He is quite alive to considera­ tions of personal comfort and is par­ ticularly fond of a warm bed, yet ex­ cept for a few unverified stories we may say that there is no evidence whatever to show that they ever try to improve their conditions by deliberately providing themselves with warm bedding. In no well- attested case ha< a dog shoWn any sense as to the nature of any mechanical contrivance. They will learn which way a door opens, and rarely it ever do they undiscerningly close it when it is Slightly a'ar when they wish to pass through the opening, but I have never been able ti) observe or obta n evidence to'show that they would pull down a latch in the way in which a cat readily learns to do. Much as dogs have had to do with guns, the^ display no kind of interest in the armfi,Except to far as they are tokens of sport,to come. They connect the explosion with the capture of game and with>earch for it in the direction toward \vvh!ch the barrel was pointed. I have hot^'ttowe- er, b_»en able to find that they,Jknow. as they might readily do, and a* a crow would surelydo, when the* weapon was loaded and when empty/ They show no in­ terest in it, Huch as monkeys readily display toward any mechanical con­ trivance to which their attention has been directed. All these negati e fea­ tures indicate tbat the mechanica. side of the canine mind il"entirely unde­ veloped.--'Chicago News. Fireproof Wood. Almost contempo raneously with flMI invention of bu Jet-proof cloth cones • report of the discovery of tire-proof and fcteel-proof wocd. Several of iron wood have been known for loajr time and have been widely used, on anconnt of their extraordinary and ha dness, in the manu­ facture of such articles as axles and plows These, however, appear to be excelled by a certain tree found in tb« Northern Transvaal, regarding which M. Hasiaux, at present traveling in South Africa, ha^ transmitted a note to the Geographical Society of France. The woo l is a sort of ebony, and is eo exceedingly hard that it cannot be cut or worked in the ordinary manner, ex cept when green. When mature dry, it resists every known tool, eiAer blunts or breaks the fi tempered ^teel. It is, apparently, mo«t impre nablo against fire, as it re quired a fortnight's constant burn! to reduce the trunk of one of these trees to ashes. The wood, although heavy, is considerably .lighter than iron or steel. If it should be found to exist in any ouantity, and satisfactonp means of working it can be discovered, it is thought that it may find an tensive applicat on in the arts. y- The Famous Flathead Valley. Investors and home seekers, investigate ciukcei fur making homes and troney ia it'caerr. Montana. Fertile fanning land, surr mnded and interlaced with 'arest*. rlT- <-». hikes, precious metals, iron and coaL ciimato and scenerr. N<J nllzzarda >•(1 cyclones. Kallspell. coajatv seat -n4 Iquarters of the Grea Uas*.3)9 peoDle, watt>r work t«UK etc. For printed iire<iaC. K Conrad. FLORIDA'S LIA Florida is one o* the great^t of lake States, if the number of its lakes and lakelets entitle it to be so classed. It has a half score of considerable lake*, including Okarhobse, with more than t!0<» s ,nare miles, and many saore* of fmall akos and ponds scattered over aa a-ea forty or fi ty miles wide and several hundred mi'e* long. Ai / : > The Heal Demon of the Mar<h Is not a gpook. bat t reality. It Is aetther a "bo(tie" nor a "kelpie," nor any other of those spirits which the credulous have supposed t« haunt the banks of rivers and streams after dask. Its name is malaria, and though 1unsi-> ble, it is very terrlble atid tenacious when it, seizes you. Hostettel's Stomach tiittenr drives it away, nor wiU' it attack those whose systems are fortified with the great medicinal, defensive agent. The miasmatic mists of early morning;, the vapors exhaled at eventide may. be safely breathed by thoaq protected by the Bitters. In the tropics where every form of ! malarial disease threatena the sojourner, ana is particularly virulent1 wlien developed, the Bitters i* the best reliance of the inhabitant. For dyspepsia, liver complaint lack of vigor, appetite and sleep; lor lheuuiatisiu uud nerv- ousness the Bitters are tc sure and sate ten- ~ •dy. -• " • A. , > i Undaunted. A lively desire is a great sharpener of the wits, and it is likelv enough that the boy of whom the following story is told in an exchange is no brighter than other boys when it comes to gram­ mar and arithmetic. He was cleaning hi) skates and whistling merrily when his mother re­ marked: "The paper this morning ha« an ac­ count of a little boy who was drowned while skating on thin ic?." The boy ceased whistling, but kept on rubbing the skate iron. "Too bad!" said he. "I wonder if he was any relation to the poor little bjy who was killed the other day by an electric while on his way to school!" Save Money on Lumber. a Of coarse, when you build you want K esst as little as possible. Then, why pay your local dealer a commission when you can buy better lumber direct from the 1*11-- sen Lumber Company, corner of Laflln and 1 22d stseeta, Chlcaso. 11L, at wholesale prices? Write them for tariaa MOW GERMANY and Austria have about 150 cooking schools. A four years' course is necessary ere a diploma is granted. Most of the hotel diplomas from these school Hall's Catarrh Cui6 Is a constltutlooMi cure. Price 75 «aH '4 Btiags comfort and tends to personal enj „ rightly used. The many, wb tertian others and enjoy lilei less expenditure, by more prompt̂ adapting the world's best products » thetoxds of physical being, wiirattfcT the value to health of the pure_ liquid laxative principles embraced in tin remedy. Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting fat fte form most acceptable and ant to the taste, the refreshing an' beneficial properties of a perf~ ati re; effectually cleansing the dispelling colds, -headaches and and permanently curing constir-- (t has given satisfaction to millions ana net with the approval of the medical (mfoaoa, because it acts on the Kid­ neys, Liver and Bowels without weak­ ening M1*"1 and it is perfectly free fkoss every objectionable substance. Syrup of fin is for sale by all drug- gate in 50c andfl bottles, but it is man­ ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Ch.anly, whose name is printed on package, also the name, Syrup of F2-- md being well informed, vou will accept any substitute if o&ied. MARRIAGE is the only contract mi­ nors can make which in the court of law will bold good. LOVBLV warmth of color, with traces of pink and white, is the exquisite com­ plexion which follows the use of Glean's Sulphur Soap. HE who despises mankind will never get the best out of others or himself. --Anon. DcbSJSI Removeejhui, Pimples, Frecfc-ta. Mots Patehm, Huh and 8kia diwun. and every biem-iah on beauty, uri dotes detection. It haa stood the test of a years, alid ia wa harmlew we taate it to be tturt- it is prop­erly maile. Accept no counterfeit of similar lusme. Pr. L. A. 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