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four blood Words of wisdom at thfs
season During the winter months Im
purities have been accumulating in your
blood owing to diminished perspiration
close confinement and other causes These
impurities must now be expelled Now is
the time to purify
YoiirB
lood
By taking a course of Hoods Sarsaparilla
Thi medicine makes pure rich nourish
ing blood It thoroughly eradicates the
dangerous poisons with which the blood
is loaded It invigorates the system and
builds up and sustains all the organs by
leeding them upon pure rich blood
Sarsaparilla
Is tlio best in tact the Ono True Blooi Purifier
Hnorle OiIIc act harmoniously with
Iloods Sarbuparllla
The Coyotes Were Too Cute
An n musing Incident occurred the
other day on the Lemon farm near
Garfield Wash Burt Lemon and nn
employe of the farm were plowing
when they came across three young
coyote pups which had not yet opeued
their eyes While they were
ing them the old ones appeared and
approached to within fiitj yards Mr
Lemon went to the house for a gun and
a sack and placed the young ones in
the sack which was tied up and left in
the field until time to go in from work
The old covotes kept a respectful dis
tance from the rifle but hovered
around Several turns of the field were
made with the plow and finally when
the men came in sight of where they
had left the sack containing the young
coyotes they saw one of the old ones
with the sack puppies and all streak
ing it over the hill and that was the
last seen of them Spokane Wash
Review
209 Bushels Oatn 173 Bushels Barlsy
M M Luther East Troy Pa grew
209 bushels Salzers Silver Mine Ooats
and John Breider Mishicott Wis 173
bushels Silver King Barley per acre
Dont you believe It Write them
Fodder plants as rape teosiute
vetch spurry clovers grasses etc in
endless varieties potatoes at 150 a
barrel Salzers seeds are bred to big
yields Americas greatest seed cata
logue and 12 farm samples are sent
you by John A Salzer Seed Co La
Crosse Wis upon receipt of 10 cents
stamps worth 10 to get a start
Unhappily Expressed
Jilson has a most unhappy way of
expressing himself
He told me he was going to propose
to that charming grass window from
Chicago
He did But his clumsy effort to be
j joffhand and easy spoiled it He had
read these allusions to Chicago divorces
until he thought they were true
What did he say to the widow
He asked her if she was engaged for
her next wedding Washington Star
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the world giving a full detailed descrip
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population history business interests etc
Absolutely correct and brought down to
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Trying to Suit Him
Josiar said the young mans fath
er do ye remember what ye said the
other day bout not bein able ter do
what I asked yer to round the farm
sence ye got eddicated cause ye want
ed suthin deep ter occypy yer ten
tion
Yes father
Wal Ive got the very thing fur ye
Ole man Tunkins is diggin a
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est liver and bowel regulator made
An Aboriginal Order
Fire Water
The shriek sounded through every
portion of the big hotel
Chaos ensued
But through it all the night clerk re
mained perfectly calm
Here boy he said take a bottle of
best Kentucky to that gentleman from
the West New York World-
Iowa farms for sale 1 per acre cash
balance a crop yearly until paid for J
Muliiall Waukegan 111
The exapt length of time it takes the
moon to complete one revolution around
the earth is twenty seven days seven
hours forty three minutes and 11545
seconds The second figure of the frac
tion is known to be absolutely correct
When bilious or costWe eat a Cascarot candy ca
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No man likes criticism and he par
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DEADLIEST WEAPONS KNOWN
Probably Made to the Special Order
of Pome Coldblooded AKsaasin
Two of the most beautiful and at the
same time murderous objects I have
ever seen in all my travels I picked up
in Paris during my trip there last sum
mer said J V Atkinson of Savannah
Gn to a friend
I bought both of them from an old
gunsmith in the Quartier Latin and
Ihe assured me they were without doubt
the only ones in existence as far as his
knowledge of death dealing instru
ments went and he also told me that
he had puFchased them of an old Span
iard who had spent most of his life in
the South American countries and had
never seen anything that would in any
way approach them for villainous mur
iderous purposes
The first as you see looks innocent
i enough and when I ask you what you
think it is you will reply
A silver matchbox answered the
reporter as he gingerly handled the
beautifully chased silver object
Touch that spring
At an easy touch the lid of the box
flew open on a powerfully hinged
spring and disclosed the interior and in
a compartment about one half of the
capacity of the box were a dozen wax
matches
Now youll find a tiny bottom on
the side next you and near your thumb
Tust press that lightly
As the suggestion was followed a lit
tle sharp pointed creamy white curv
ed object popped into view from that
portion of the box now occupied by the
matches
What is that
That said Mr Atkinson is no
more nor less than the fore fang of the
Great American rattlesnake You will
notice that the fang is sharp as a
needle at its point that it is silt for a
distance up the middle and that it is
hollow You will also observe that a
fine amber colored jelly like substance
is contained within the hollow of that
fang That is nothing less horrible
than the venom of the rattlesnake and
the rankest poison the most deadly of
ageuts known to man A couple of
scrapes on a mans hand or face means
a certain and a horrible death Nausea
rand vomiting retching convulsions
semi paralysis complete paralysis
state of coma death in a most horrible
form and the swelling to horrible pro
portions of the corpse as it rapidly
turns black from the virulence of the
venom
You can readily see what a terrible
weapon it would be in the hands of an
unscrupulous villain A scratch or two
and the deed would be done while the
victim would simply imagine that he
had been scraped by a pin
Its companion piece of devilish in
genuity is a needle gun Peculiar look
ing thing is it not asked Mr Atkin
son as he passed a richly engraved and
silver mounted object that looked like
a cross between a miniature double
barreled shotgun and a revolver to bis
friend wlio handled it with extreme
caution
That little gun is but five inches over
all and yet it contains within those
chambers in the box like part between
those fine watch spring steel barrels
and the pistol grip enough of fiendish
mischief to lay out a dozen strong men
The charge is a strong and powerful
cartridge made of a highly explosive
chemical which by the peculiar con-
NEEDLE GUN AND VEXOM BOX
struction of the chambers makes so
little noise that it could not be heard
by a person ten feet away The Instru
ment of destruction is a bunch of fine
cambric needles that have had their
heads flattened to offer resistance and
catch the propelling force and their
points have lain in the very same sort
of venom of which I spoke until they
are thoroughly corroded with it
As they leave the gun they scatter
and penetrate to the most vital spots
where their terrible work is quickly
done Nothing short of a post mortem
examination of the most rigid kind
would betray the cause of death
The Saleswomans Hard liife
The average age of our saleswomen
is but 22 years and it is rarely the case
that a woman finds employment in any
establishment for many years In one
establishment it was rumored that a
recently retiring partner was to give
50 to all employes who had served
him for ten years and by actual count
it was found that out of 2000 employes
but forty seven had served that length
of time As a rule employes are seldom
retained for more than five years and
length of service often is made a reason
for dismissal it being feared that they
may acquire the idea that they have a
claim upon the firm Those then who
enter mercantile establishments with
the idea that they may rise to superior
positions usually meet with disappoint
ment One rarely finds the samp onh
children for two seasons in succession
At the close of the holiday season from
one third to one half of the employes
are discharged without regard to
length of service only the brightest
and shrewdest being retained
Under the severe discipline enforced
only the strongest can endure thi life
for any length of time Investigation
proves that few can stand for more
than two years without suffering from
impaired health The law regarding
seats has not been generally observed
and in some establishments where
seats were provided saleswomcm have
been fined if found sitting
While it is gratifying to know that
women can fill these positions satisfac
torily yet through accepting low
wages and submitting to severe disci
pline they are depriving other women
of employment and since their en
trance into mercantile establishments
the wages of salesmen have been re
duced 40 per cent Altogether the posi
tion of the saleswoman is not an envia
ble one and the wise young woman
will give time to learn a trade Inde
pendent
NO PATENT ON THIS
An Up-to-Date Girl Who Has a New
Way of Keeping Her Skirts Clean
She was a strictly up-to-date girl and
she attracted no end of attention as she
walked east on AVashington avenue
says a St Louis paper She was dress
ed in the height of fashion she had a
bearing as stately as that of a queen
and her face was fair to look upon
But it was not her face her dress or
her bearing which attracted attention
Not either nor all three of these It
was the novel way she had of holding
up her skirts or rather of having them
held up for her
Did she have a maid or a page to
carry her train like the maidens of
high degree of a past age No but just
a cunning little woolly Scotch terrier
Whether he had been trained to the
NEW SKIKT nOLDEB
work or had picked up the skirt in a
spirit of canine playfulness are unsolv
ed problems But doggy did his work
as though he was used to it and he did
it well He picked up the hem of the
skirt in front with his teeth and am
bled along beside her as though he way
stuck on his job
Anecdotes of Beard
While the late James H Beard fath
er of Dan Beard the artist was paint
ing a portrait of Zachary Taylor he
said to him Well General I suppose
you are to be our next President
I hope not grunted the bluff old
hero no military man has any busi
ness in the Presidential chair but if
they offer it to me I suppose Ill be
fool enough to accept it
And he was Shortly after Mr
Beards marriage to a niece of Col
Carter in 1833 he made the Southern
campaign tour Tom Marshall of Ken
tucky was then running for Congress
He was defeated by a song which
Beard wrote and this brought a chal
lenge to a duel Eighteen boon com
panions of the rhymsters answered the
challenge and told Marshall that he
must fight all of them singly or all at
once but the eighteen men he must
meet Somehow this duel never came
off and Marshall never afterward al
luded to it but once and that was when
he first saw Beards canvas The Last
Victim of the Flood Standing before
the painting Marshall seemed visibly
impressed Finally drawing himself
up to his full height he turned to the
artist and said Beard youre a
mighty good painter but youre a
poor poet
It Meant Everything
The man in the bicycle suit laughed
heartily
Very funny he said
What asked the man with a large
section of skin gone from his nose
Why these Donts for bicyclists
replied the man in the bicycle suit
Lets see them said the man who
was short of skin
The man in the bicycle suit handed
him the paper
The best one isnt there said the
man with the fantastic nose shortly
If it was the rest wouldnt be
sary
What do you consider the best one
asked the man with the bicycle suit
Dont ride answered the man
whose nose stood in need of grafting
and then he carefully put a large piece
of court plaster where it would do the
most good Chicago Tost
Bostons Library a Bad Job
The great new Boston public library
bas already been found to have been
ill planned and inadequate It cost 2
500000 and now 25000 is about to be
expended to construct a suitable read-
A gray unsized blotting paper was
sold in England- according to Rogers in
his history of prices as far back as
1465
LOST AND FOUND
THE STORY OF A YOUNG GIRLS
TRIALS
From the Xeics Tribnne Mxtscahne iotra
Miss Mae Gatten hvim near Musca
tine Iowa has had a remarkable expe
rience Three years ago last apring Miss
Gattens parents and many friends no
ticed a peculiar change in her She was
not the pleasant wide awake girl of old
Her mother was not alarmed at first
thinking after the March winds and April
storms were over the color would rerurn
to her cheeks But May June and Inly
passed and Maes cheeks were only grow
ing more thin and pale every day One
part of her work after another was given
up Then too her irregular at
tendance at church made it necessary tor
her to give up her Sunday school class
When coming from town one day her
father met her music teacher Miss Jones
in tears going slowly from the house He
spoke to her as usual and then inquired of
Maes progress when to his treat aston
ishment Miss Jones told him that Mae had
not been able to take a full lesson for
weeks This seemed to awaken Mr Gat
ten to the real state of affairs and he
hastily sent for the family physician
With the chilling winds of autumn Mae
grew much worse The doctor pronounced
it bronchial trouble with serious female
weakness During the following winter
they changed doctors and as their be
loved daughter grew worse from day to
day they consulted the best medical tal
ent to be had in that section Thus mat
tors went on during the entire winter
The next spring a young lady relative
of the family made them an extended
visit She had been wonderfully helped
by Dr Williams Pink Pills and always
carried some with her She was so en
thusiastic that she soon had Miss Gatten
trying them and insisted on her jMvinir
them a fair trial She finished one box
and said she felt some better Her father
was pleased and purchased more
One cannot imagine the complete sur
prise and delight of that glad father and
mother when they found their daughter
kept on improving Six boxes were used
and Miss Gatten was able to walk around
a pleasant happy girl of IS summers
Two more boxes and she declared herself
perfectly well cured by Dr Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People
Dr Williams Pink Pills contain in a
condensed form all the elements neces
sary to give new life and richness to the
blood and restore shattered nerves They
are nlso a specific for troubles peculiar
to females such as suppressions irregu
larities and all forms of weakness In
men they effect a radical cure in all cases
arising from mental worry overwork or
excesses of whatever nature Pink Pills
are sold in boxes never in loose bulk at
HO cents a box or six boxes for S2f0 and
may be had of all druggists or direct by
mail from Dr Williams Medicine Com
pany Schenectady N Y
Yvettes Fairy Talcs
One of the absurd things that Yvette
Guilbort told the Paris interviewers
was that she had brought back with
her to France 34000 as the result of
her visit to America Beyond the 310
000 paid to her for singing in New York
her earnings did not amount probably
to a quarter of that sum The mana
ger who engaged her for New York es
timated very well the length of time
she would prove an attraction heiv
The attendance at her performances
began to dwindle before she left and
there has been no marked demand for
her services next year New York Sun
Hows This
We offer One Hundred Dollars Howard for
any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by
takius HallH Catarrh Curo
F J CHENEY CO Props Toledo O
We the undersigned have known F J Chonoy
or the last fifteen years and boliovo him per
fectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm
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Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting
diroctly upon tho blood and mucous burfucos o
hosystem Price 75o per bottle Bold by all
DruRtiiata
Instances of illness following the free
use of a delicious product of the fatted
goose may have at time a raison detre
in the fact that some goose farmers
have been found to possess a secret of
securing enormous livers in their stuffed
fowls by administering the acid oxalate
of potassium a powerful poison
Special ltat to Washington
17J50 Chicago to Washington and re
turn via Monon C H D B O
S W and B O Sleepers through
without change Tickets good going
March 1 2 and 3 returning March 4 to S
Ticket office 232 Clark street Depot
Dearborn Station Chicago
The Best They Could Bo
I found a fishworin in my dydrant
iis morning said the wrathful citi
zen
Yes said the official of the water
company that is the best we can do
just at present We cant afford to inr
nish fish All we are able to furnish is
bait Indianapolis Journal
for Fifty Cents
Over 400000 cured Why not let
repulate or remove your desire for tobacc
Savo money makes health and manhood Curf
tuarineed 50c and 1 all druggist
Plnys by Women
Interesting evidence of womans
present prominence as a playwright
was offered in London Christmas week
when three theaters in the Strand the
Globe the Opera Comique and the
Olympic presented plays written by
women
To retain an abundant head of hair of a
natural color to a good old age the hygiene
of the scalp must be observed Appl
Halls Hair Renewer
Tops are cut from pieces of box
ebony or other hard wood by a turning
machine The machine is automatic
and turns the top complete from the
handle at the upper end to the tip
The metal point is afterward put in by
hand
Two bottles of Pisos Cure for Consump
tion cured me of a bad lung trouble Mrs
J Nichols Princeton Ind Mar 2G 95
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to 2000000000 times before the stamp
or impression upon it becomes oblit
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changes between 3250000000 times be
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The Umbrella
I see by the papers that an umbrella
Factory in Philadelphia has failed re
marked the veterinary
I have noticed replied the entomol
ogist that with umbrellas it is either
put up or shut up Pittsburg
j The Spnrtnn Virtue Fortitude
Is severely taxed by dyspepsia But good
digestion win wait on nppvtltc and health
on both when Hostetters Stomach Bitters
Is resorted to by the victim of Indigestion
Heartburn flatulence biliousness will cease
tormenting the gastric region and liver If
this genial family corrective meets with the
fair trial that n sterling remedy deserves
Use It regulnrly not spasmodically now and
then It conquers malarial kidney nervous
and rheumatic aliments
The dentists almost to a man are in
favor of candy as it makes liberal ad
ditions to thel business all the year
round
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Save your strength for that Make the rest
ot the washing easy with Pearline
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ouaK doh rinse mat is an mere is
t0 lt e cotes are cleaner and
whiter than in the old wav colored
goods are brighter flannels are softer
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and won t shrink
Use your Pearline just as
directed on every package and
youll get the best results Dont
use more that onlv wastes it
dont use less that only increases your work Use it alone
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For the last 20 years we have kept Pisos Cure for Con
sumption in stock and would sooner think a groceryman could
get along without sugar in his store than we could without
Pisos Cure It is a sure seller RAVEN CO Druggists
Ceresco Michigan September 2 896
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An Alabama druggist reports the case of an old confederate soldier who
when buying
For a neighbor wlio lived out by him in the country told Irs own story
as follows Ever since I wis in the army where I contracted indigestion
and dyspepsia from eating hard tack and sow belly I have suffered much
from those and kindred ailments A son of mine told me while home on
a visit over a year ago to get some Ripans Tabules and take them I
did and in a very short time I was benefited I have felt better ate
more and relished it better than at any time since the war and am doing
more work now than I ever expected to do again I tell you they are the
GREATEST MEDICINE FOR A FELLOWS STOMACH
I ever saw We always have them at home and I always recommend
them when a fellow complains about his stomach hurting him
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