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We to Dr. \Yilliams' Pink Pills. mp, my restoration looms shz-r' nf a miracle. l was like drum and brought back to life, mum-1 sneak ")0 highly 0ft“. cim- or urge too strongly thm urn :rff?ictm| In give it a trial." It has iron prmed time and thzt Hr. \Villimns' Pink Pills hmrr trnnh'es. nervous debility. nvniuu sviatit'a. St. Vitua' dance MOO” mm in: the git h» I» mlh fiahlum‘r «meat (LH'UBOI, are: A cord of VI prmiuqes fit! gun-um avid war The :I con! 01 “'00 r: set cent. wunis oi : 23') gaJO'lhx c U .. ua-v uvu.|l,uu[; tabuully I i an . ;\t ihe hast 9‘9"“). 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'1". acid. 1 n thresi-fiflhs 0‘ ””14 ll :‘vi AK 1 N G WOOD ALCOHOL mpnlmznn l\ “"5 I" vb II :tivn‘Jn? for ”nun“: U 13m} ‘airm‘teflu ‘fnd 8 ° "barrow! by mean u I amok», tn the o: L'r'nt. of 1210 weight . z'unclvnwtl into affflrdfl «' ll 3! D raiI,and [steadily '0? BdVilcd a Pd 10 Munch)“. ysell under the c '91“. 0! H10 . by ‘but3in n iron rett nvvrvume with dining ma. While in l essan first to convert «I. The struncvfl ”‘1 “onld not squeeze N ”I". "I file moisture {NI r v’inims’ntfl n1bhzm€e$ xhstam-r That Third! sumo-Hm" Drink. .1 into 9310“” .-‘ In 3 .h 'I‘hey mako an“ '0lt It. It WIS DC“ has drains tin...» mid. Ewn the ir would work lad mu occasioned some an- phy mow gmwing mm the unâ€" hthrough thv joints of the film. we doubt whether 50 |~. tile as this laiel shallow could mm. The! died of the un- l. . . m is to cumtainlly Increase the to which water freezing will Le. It \m not many years he- i“ drains filled up and had Maid. E'fl'n Yb? roots of grass ”would work down into the [icing it. For two or three ymrs mum to the bone that when no a flood of wamr. as the-re pry spring. sometime the water ”lush the conduits and pxpel Named them up. But at two bpth the ms of roots was too I. hithe end the flies were taken Id trams three feet deep were Mghfbese did nut fill up, and than an helmv the reach of hung!!!“ wiil injure them]. In [him it is murh better to dig mortirainn first at least three ' p. lathe heaviest clay soils .M‘hataomc 10039 stone he morthetile.to make a conduit water (town through it. If "P 00 mm in the neighbour- . 0’ "Pl POEMS? WPBd-fl may {h M”, Mina (\n’" in LA‘.) [LING u. and fished “men: have t Wit fret been wet; there through which d to the under- hn believ- most of by; always 3 {.0 veins may he I? [am a farmer w mkrdrainzzge for [who hnl one low and near- . d with heavy clay subsoil.t [rheai only two feet. deep,; . ~ f umleruram every twenty: O the field. uni emptying it : underdrain at the {arch-j :9 there was a better fall. ; 3 indrain Was more effectha ’; underdraining was quite. though at first the soil depth was not easily [:en- , mar, yet. the action (If frost ; m of growing roots in sum- u: mm penetrated to this i w nuts PM" P905 "he 70ft! being only to hnld Ip while water van work ,nd through it. Freezin why very quivkly. .\ - l rm tb° owner of a ’day soil will he sur- fhat sum» of the clm'é‘r fufly as low :13 the file. 1‘"?! a Mmmr rnn’ "" are tw 8p ray is the R’Pn the 8! I a Hover roc "or after as it ml H 1w; seasnns done rm. and. wth unchecked for has men killed '0 kinds of can- \\ em '"ed ma y May winter s5 and as they forum h) the hey can read: wling up the ,9 endeavor tn Inn ' nL'v net (‘an Wilfrallj} I ll to Wb "08801113 Pmary, "Till 0f EVPry Ion [he t-U (hp l80 aid Shdul $5 thor- t in]? ha ve lb! H'- just She While 0r to ly- its l5 . Mistressâ€"I saw two policemen alt- “ng intho kitchen with youlast night. Bridget. g Bridgetâ€"Well. ma'a yoz wouldn't 1“" an unmarried lady aittin' alone with Only wan policeman. would yoz? The Other won m a chaperon. I A STRANGE CZAR. . From all accounts Czar Nicholas II. is l‘t‘afly very fond of his wife. much E ”' 1he Dowager Czarina’s disgust. as ‘ Sh". finds she is not the power behind zihe throne that she expected to be. 3 The “35y ceremony of the Russian court 3W0“ great displeasure to sticklers for ; “mim-Vom forms. Their Imperial Ma- r Jest-lea actually exchange endearing phrases in public, a thing prevnously 3 unheard of in Russia. -1 wonder what that there talking about. The «Inaf man got out of the tramâ€" ‘im' on to the: other line of rails: Look um! there’s a car coming! sand the (*ti'nductor. What? said the deaf man. There's a car coming. What 9 The car caught and knockedfiown the deaf man, and as he picked bun-elf up he said: ‘ ' ‘â€"--.‘ mo w ,- In three minutes the intervening S‘I‘Ouml wm strewn with tanks. and the at tacking corps was obliged to retreat in confusion. Tho day; was saved. ‘ I‘w.bvg .\h. replied the General with great S-atisfuotim. now we have an Oppor- tunity to see what. our tack-throwing morters can do. Let them open fire at once. 'l'uiveroultmis has been communicat- M m fishes by French bacteriologists, and proves fatal very quickly to them, Wbmher the bacilliare derived from hu- man iwing‘fl. rabbits or hens, or from previously infected fish. Tuberculous bacilli from fish. however. have very littl» nffect when injected into rab- him and fowls, the inference being that their pOW9!‘ is attenuated in the cold- er bimd of the fish. An Aide de Camp ran hurriedly to 'h8 ”Pneral’s side and gaqud. Geneg'al. {hos "nemy's bicycle corps ls preparing to charge. M I ’AL Mfl‘nL One of the curiosities at Chats- worth, the Duke of Devonshire's place. is‘ a weeping willow made of copper. and so dexterously fashioned that at a. distance it resembles a real tree. It i-. actually a shower bath: for by press- mg a secret tap, a tiny spray of wa- ter can he made to burst from every “'ranch and twig of the tree. to the discomfort of any who may be under H Jo class 3f work; aim; of this promiscuous grafting and sinve it has been in my possession the {Luv fruit, gathered from these scatter- «i 11' s about the placq have impress- ed trongiy with the( value. of this 'J'HI'Z NA'I'IVE SEEDLING APPLE. The native seedling apple. budded or 91:0.me right where the seed Sprout- fart. so that the stock! has the original tap-z wt and all others uninjuxed, does make :1 longer lived and more healthy Lree than one transplanted from the nursery. A former owner of a [MINOR of my farm here' did conmder- If a bush is desired lot the buds on the cuttings remain, but it a tree or ‘ ' le stem is preferred. remove all Fbuds that would go beneath the ‘rfm-e. Let them stand three feat apart in the rows and rows tour fee apart. in the spring remove all. of the dead wan-l and prune carefully and in this way you will have a very good crop. As soon as the berries have been pick- ed mow the entire field close to the (qrmni, and when the tops are dried, “um and with a turning wow bar- ,mw down the rows to six inchgs and Ehnrmw both \vays.'1hen with a hoe th n down the rows to the number: of Wants desired. This field is than cul- Himtcd the same as a new field. ; Among the instruments used for cul- m wing strawmrries. the several Weed- There is no reason why this very useful fruit. should not ha found abun- dantly in every garden and fruit patch. They are no trouble tq raise. They are grown very easily from cuttings; take the wood of last year from six to ten inches in length, prepare the place where they are to stand permanent- ly force them into the soil not less than four inches, press the dirt firm- ly around them, do not forget to mulch them and ‘th.en.let them grow. 91‘s do good Wiork after: the plants: are set. The small weeds are killed and the surface of the soil' kept well stir- rml. Fine toothed cultivators can be used a little later. The ordinary two- shovel cultivators are often used ex- wnaively and are good instruments during the early part of the season, but should not he used for summer or early autumn cultivating. The spring tooth Cultivators do good work. ('on- tinue the cultivation until Oct. 1, plow- ing at least once a month“ FOR. APPEARANCE SAKE. [{()\\' T0 GRO\V GOOSEBERRIES ARTIFICIAL WILLOW. SA VED 'l‘HE DAY IN ["ECTING F [SI-F. INQI_’ISI'I‘IVH fool kept hard to realize that it was once alux- ' lden h 15 the case. In 0 ury. But suc 50 Shillings a - Iol_- “Jan “it“’arms Mr. Gibson says: “ The flowers usu- § ally bloom for three mornings. By that time all the tiny yellow flowerets that make up the yellow cushion have bloomed. The green calyx now closes, : to remain closed for a week. while the l stem generally bends outward and thus draws the withered flower toward the ground. often hiding it beneath the leaves. During this retirement.the stem continues to wither sideways and the flower is busy ripening its seeds. each yellow floweret having a seed of its . own from which there grows a slender, hair-like stalk, with a tin)r feathered parachute at the: top. Gradually these little feathery ends push upward inside this calyx and on the seventh day. 10! lthe withered dandelion has appeared [against the lap of the grass. It now ibas a tiny brown cup at its top, or rgierha;is has just lost it. and g'ves us a glimpse of a white. feathery tuft. 'peeping out. This little brown. with- ered cup is all that is left of the ori- ginal golden blossom of two weeks l)e-‘ fore. now a shri'velled‘ mass, which has gradually been pushed upward and out . by the growing seed tuft. In another i hour, perhaps. the calyx w ill again up~ l en and hand down against the stemfi while the lied at the lotion) to which ’the seeds are attached will round up- warzl. throwing the feathers outward in the'shape of a ball. This rounded seed bed. or receptacle as it is called in the botany, shortly withers, and the wing- ed parachutes will take flight at the slightest zephyr, whereas at. first. a smart breeze would have been requir- ed." 1 . e connection between the dandelion puf day. As the day , ., withers. thus lo . they are easily blown away. Perhaps there is .no commoner flow- ’ it)" frequently in ourselves. “he has er-out of cultivation than the den-'110t numbered among his friends some delion. It grows everywhere; it comes indivrdual W110 is the living walking im- early in spring and 1 saw a half (102- i age of a character made immortal by en ”1er golden blossoms in the grass 3 the pen of a Dickens or a Thacker- of a neighbor's lawn 3n the last day ab"? And rest assured that while of September. How many of those who i you are recognizing in some one else have made dandelion “chains" or I a Character that agrees in every de- “ curls ” or [0111 ,the time o'day by 1,10“; i tail With one that the world has learn- ing upon the delicate feathery periph- , ed to laugh ator to' love in the works ery of its seed globe are aware of the of. the great writers, some one else is peculiarities which the late William l discotering the same thing about you. Hamilton Gibson chronicled in one of a The world is full of the characters, ec- l i the chapters of “Eye-Spy?" .centric, serious and great that liter- Mp, Gibson says: “ The flowers usu- ; axry genius has thrown a halo around. ally bloom for three mornings. By that i it is easy to ascribe a reason for this. time all the tiny yellow flowerets that 3 Most of the characters in the books make up the WHO“ CUShiOfl hm’e ! of 'l‘hat-kerz‘.3'. Dickens, Tennyson, Scott, bloomed. The green calyx DOW 910868. ’ and the list of great authors were to remain closed for a week. while the . drawn from lay figures selected by the stem generally bends outward and thus ! writers from among the people with draws the withered flower toward the i whom they were acquainted. a plant that. was first introduced from Europe and in some parts of the. coun- try it“ has hm'ome so common that. it is a troublesome weed. â€"â€"v'v- _ r- u... People in Chili use soap bark for washing their hair and it is said to preserve it. Another vegetable soap is the soap- wort. This is the common Bouncing Betty Of our gardens and roadsides. It possesses many of the same soapy principles of the soap bark, and its dried leaves and root could, no doubt, be utilized in much the same way. When steeped or even agitated in wa- ter they produce a considerable. lather. The common pink and other mem- bers of the. same order of plants also possess this Characteristic. Soapwort is It is very good to remove grease and for general cleaning purmees there is nothing better. It is very in- expensive also. skirt board. First remove all grease that can be extracted with gasoline, them sponge the cloth with lukewarm soap bark until it is a mass of lath- er. Scrub any places that are especi- ally soiled with a little stiff brush. “ hen the cloth is cleaned. rinse it fk.\..r----._i I . . cess again. then throw away. the dregs and use the strained liquid to clean with. It should he applied hot, for re- moving grease. We will give a, .few rules for i Steep a pound of soap bark; in. u We wi A GOVT TH E DANDF. L ION, ,, and like is a. large one. This bark is over the civilized world for woollen and sometimm emr mncu u'um a tree of It is to be. found in rparts of South Amer- wine. "“1 warms ,5 the tongue. ' uzea world [or sometimes silk In our {as is “ell known, while the weak and J easily victimized Mrs. Niirklehy was the mother of the novelist, Boythorn, in g“l£leak House," caused a. quarrel lie- .' tween Dickens and Walter Savage Lan- fclor, for tile latter recognized in the i character his own peculiarities, and re- l wanted the fact that had been so treat- ed. Leigh Hunt “as angry with Dick- ens lwi-ause the famous character of Harold Skimpole, in the same book, resembled his mannerisms so closely that there was no possibility of the i likeness not being recognized. The ioriginal of Thackeray’s Bulwig, in "Yellow Plush Papers,” was no otherl than Bulwer, and there was a tremend-I ous row over the naming of a murder- 638 in one of his books Catherine Hayes which was the namd of a famous 80:). stress. (Andrew Archdehne was the original of Thackeray’s Foker. Arch- dehne never forgave Thackeray the liberty taken with him. The celebrat- ed Dr. Cornish was Thackeray’s Port- man. and young Grubstreet, in the. "Virginians,” was Edmund Yates to a dot. Costigan, in “The Roundabout. Papers," was a composite figure built on'the peculiarities ohseveral living people. as Thackeray himself acknow- ledged. . Nathaniel Hawthorne was kept busy after the publication pf “The House of Seven Gables? aswring a large and ever multiplying army of Pyncheons that his character of that name had not been drawn from life. So easily were Charlotte Bronte’s charactersjn "Shirley" recognized by their enginâ€" is The original of the character of Mi- cawiser, who eternally looked for some- thing to turn mp, was CHAR-LES DICKENS’ OWN FATHER, The most recent instance of this is “Sherlock Holmes.” The Scotch profes- sor upon whom Conan Doyle founded the great detective has been recogniz- ed, and has been written “mp again and again, until he is as well known as the dateotive. a. character that agrees in every de- tail with one that the world has learn- ed Lo laugh ator to' love in the works of the great writers, some one else is stomp M 'l‘lwm [lave Reselilml the liberties â€"-W¢-Il Known Characters In Flcuon Who .1 re l’ortmyed by Themselves. The characters in the writings of most eminent novelists are living real- ities. We see 'them around us, we re- cognize them in our relatives. our ao- quaintunces, and, if not blinded by van- ity, frequently in ourselves. Who has not numbered among his friends some indivrdual who is the living walking im- age of a character made immortal by the pen of a Dickens or a Thacker- ay? And rest assured that while you are recognizing in some one else LIVING ORIGINALS OF GREAT AUTH- ORS’ CHARACTERS. REAL LIFE IN FICTION. REMOVING OLiJREALL PAPER. about the same as you would have to hang new paper. If anything have it a little thinner. While it is still hot, take a whitewash, or any other large brush, and give the old paper a 800(1 out of a piece of saw plate, it the man of the house is any way handy with tools. - ~v v- uuvukuw 0r onlna i8 plucll Letter than tin; the water it 81888 to preveht the hot tea from breaking it. 15 we greatest tea drinking in the world and' the more ex- glasses held withâ€"11v .svilvé; silver spoon is put in the prevent the hot tea from it. lmakers wash their tea 1g it, that is, they pour .ity of boiling water over it off at once before it any of the flavor from They :then serve it in sea held with a silver The Tudors. Stuarts and Georges hm more. arbitrary methods of. enforcing respect for the crown. They imprison ed and 8Xp()“,ed to prosecution those who:â€" e loyalty was susyected. some times cutting off their heads or taking away their tittea or estates. or heavily fining them. The Victorian method of discipline is mild and uhrilesome and fully in harmony v- ith the po itical con- ditiiuns 0.1. to day. , A dude and a. monocle may be a. more esthetic combination than port: and beans. but the combination in less substantisl. The queen. being a wise ruler, d()en not interfere Openly with the privilege of free speech. which is the Britun‘s birthright. She does not expose rritit-s, of the royal house to vexatiuus annoy- ance, but in .3 (,uiet “ax reminds them that she and her family are entitled tu consideration and reslect“ and ought not to be spuken of lightly and um charituhby. It is; a gentfe, restraining influenve which is exerted in the queen upon parliamentary dehite and public dis- cussmn, but. it is none the less rezilanj effective. It protects the court and members of the royal family from thamgwht ess' and tzipricious critticima and to this extent upholds the dignit, of the mumrchy. No public man likes to he caHed tn ace-(mutt in this way. He may knuw that no action will Le taken wpun his eXpLanation. and that be will nevur hear of the matter again ; but. he finds himself in an unpleasant positiun amt is not likely tu repeat this indisvrm i-m. His wife and daughters are aim pvtsun- ally interested, for thoir names- may m dropped from the lists of gues‘s fur court functions. AN EXPRESSION 0|“ REGRET for an indiscreet (-umment uxmn hba conduct of a member of her fmni‘y. The prime minister forwards the let- ter to the war office. The Secretary fur \Var sends a letter to the offending member of Parliament, asking for in- formation for the benefit. of the sover- eign. The member is called to ac- count, and makes such explanatiun as he considers necessary. This fetter goes from the war office to the prime minister. and the queen rereives in dun time. what is virtually :Smnet‘imes. a critical remark is hazarded in Parliament about a royal duke connedted “ith the army. The queen, at: once hears of it, and calls ”no attention of the prime miniater to it. asking him L0 ascertain on what. au- thority the statement. has been made. She never has cause to resent any- thing that, is said almut herself. She commands; the res'mct. affecuinn and loyal devotion of all her suhjevts. Nu- lhing unkind or disrespectful is ever men in print alum! Ghe qumsn. llow the Queen Protects the Members «(.0 tfourt and the Royal Family. Unlike the German Emperor. Queen Victoria does not have a fresh scrap- book [ilied viiih newspaper clippings to read every morning over her coffee. The newspapers; are, however, read for her benefit, and she has means of know- ing whenever anything unpipamnt is said about. any member of the royal family. (l‘hiq is the one subject, on which: she is sensitive. Mme. de Steel drew Talleymnd’a characteristics so pointedly that tho portrait was recognized by the Freml statesman. who resented it in one ol his famous mots. When Alfred do Mmsset. and George Sund'returned from their escapade into Italy they pro- ceeded to score each other in novels they soon after printed. Mrs. Gore. Mrs. Trollope and Lady Morgan used the personal element repeatedly,while to come. upon the reel intention of Disraeli’s novels requires a key bring- ing in the names of many prominent peeple in England. TennysUn repaid lluluer in his cou- slaughts both in “APharacler” and in “The New Timon and the Poetn'." Capt. Marryat, who wrote such humorous na- val stories, notably “Peter Simple." once sent to challenge to Prof. Maur- ice lmoawse the latter used his name [or a character in “Eustace Conway.‘ Browning scored Wordsworth in thc “Lost Leader." He also. at. various times in his career. caricaturedl Cardi. nal Wiseman. Napoleon 111., and John Home, the Spiritualist. The Inner fig- ure_d as Sludge. the medium. Dante wrote his enemies in hell, and Michael Angelo painted them in. Dryâ€" den was noted for his sra tires on living mrsvns.‘ Pope actually erased the name of his ch‘u'ucters and put Colly Cibber’s in its place. Byron heavily scored his critics, and B-ulxwr did a like office for Tennyson. Bulwer was rather accomplished in this respect. He aatirized the Athenaeu'in Magazine in “Paul Cliiford." Even George IV., of England was depicted as the keeper of a low den in the same novel. In drawing the character of Rolfe. Charlotte Bronte was Jane Eyre, and George Eliot was a composite of Rom- ola, Maggie Tulliver and possibly Dor- othea. Goldsmith was his own origin- al in “The Good Natural Man." while Fielding “as the. original of Tom Jones. - $13 that tlio letter celled enoh other by their fictitious names. Byron wrote of his own peculinrit- ies of life and temrament in hie verse. Alfred de Musset did the some thing. Mme. de Steel depicted her- self in "Corinne“ and “Delphine." and Thackeray's portrait can easily be recognized in "Pendennis." Dr. Hol- land is supposed to be the original of the villain in his novel of "Bitter Sweet.” and many people lwiieved that Amelie Rives Chanler was the original of her heroine in “The Quick or the Dead." Charles Reade admitted ihnt he was PROTECTION OF ROYALTY. HIS O‘VN LAY FIGURE 1M MI