Family hntlM. • nhvsioians are not Inclined to recom« self iUth® vTt there is one need, says the Ameri «u> Analyst, which they are almost !^able to supply. We refer to the !familvl«*ative.” The familv phy ■‘•an is able to prescribe for the most •r:sn is ailue vcv,* me uiobL L,mnlicate,free from danger, and notun* sleasant to take. When absent on our Lniner vacation we were asked by four different parties, representing as many ♦.milks what we thought of the “Syrup of FigsNot one word did we •oiunteer on the subject, and we were -omen-hat surprised to find that there was this small token of the very gen eral use of that preparation. These Mrties said they derived more benefit Jj0m it and found it more pleasant to tnke than anything of the kind they lad ever used. _ The simple question with them was, is it a dangerous com 1 .. VS' — 4Ua*m . Ai — A * A unm me*** ” win pound.’ We informed them that ita active ingredient was a preparation of aenna, and that it was entirely free from danger. With_ this assurance UiLU&V** IV ava* •'****» BMUIftUUH they volunteered the information that they should continue to keep it in the house. . The therapeutical properties of senna are so well known that comment on this seems unnecessary. It might be well to notice, however, that Bartho ]0tv says it is “a very safe and service able cathartic,” and that it is ‘-highly Srized as a remedy for constipation.” e also makes the important observa tion that its use “is not followed by in testinal torpor and constipation.” The simple truth of the matter is, we have altogether too few preparations which we can recommend to our families as effective laxatives. But the Cali fornia Fig Syrup company has one of the most desirable combinations for this purpose with which we are famil iar The Fig Svrup company gives to the profession the composition of this preparation, therefore there is no secret about it; the persons who use this laxa tive speak in the highest terms about it; and we are pleased to notice that a large number of physicians are pre scribing it. Viewed from the narrowest and most •elfish standpoint the physician will lose nothing by recommending such a preparation as Syrup of Figs to his pa tients: fvhile viewed from the highest standpoint of doing the best possible by those who place themselves in our care, we would say the profession can not do better than give their indorse ment to such a preparation. . “German Syrup” My niece, Emeline Hawley, was, taken with spitting blood, and she became very much alarmed, fearing that dreaded disease, Consumption. She tried nearly all kinds of medi cine but nothing did her any good. Finally she took German Syrup and she told me it did her more good; than anything she ever tried. It stopped the blood, gave her strength and ease, and a good appetite. I had it from her own lips. Mrs. Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn. Honor to German Syrup. @ YOU .tflc. uKgk. Si.t Tkmt, Cmp. hStaatk, .Juft Broaihitti u4 aitkaa. ao-TtibctIf ■■nnapUBta lit it utf. ulim mUrf b H 2"1 *•■»*»£ Dm It no*. Tn -will im tit ncollnt •ftJtifcwtatbgthf flretiote. Sola trdubntMn Urjo bottloo SO cna uaS |1. CO. P DelicateWomeh Or Debilitated Women, ebotdd i UFItlD’S FEMALE REGULATOR. Every ingredient possesses superb Tonie properties and exerts a wonderful influ ^ce in toning up and strengthening her system, by driving through the proper channels all impurities. Health and •trength guaranteed to result from its use. PHy nib, who nraa btdrlMea'ftr el|h> *?*a month*, eftor nalu Brm&fMa’u Regulator tor two ** l*Wb»S Well.” lUu Is s. J. M. Inmai. Malvern, U. “«»D»in,D RnacLATon Co.. Atlanta, Go. w*i ty Druggist* at (LOO per bottle. ■ PISO'S CUBE FOR poni«»»UTM AIKS people who hare weak lung* or Asth ma, should dm Plso’sCure for Consumption. It boa cored thonwadi. It baa not Injur* ??i0n?* Hit not bad 10 taka, it is the beat cough syrup. Sold everywhere). S3c. [*i5r*R ,n l*M» f armers A Merchants insurance &.2 lrl.;lncw!n- Capital and hurpius over I300,01A ^_^*«ea paid iq Nebraska people since 1885. highly endorsed. . P'J’fessor of Physiological Chem- { r mtrJ && ^ ale College says: *l 1 find A *ck- ^ I^qq /arfiqn Samoa to be an extract of J ) ^°^J^rka Herts of Valuable Rem- r without aup mineral or other ( r WlrmAiJ — —■ - I„dl^ m;„1; ter' BuhmcIi. 1 ’ r00'1 *ud Karve | H'-meri y Known. ! Purt*« every °t Hie liuman ! [•***. All Drug- 1 If1’1*- *1 > botUei tor tS. reCKETSF ULL OF GiEMS. 5'V; Ft> - T MEN THAT Carry FORTUNES ABOUT THE COUNTRY. l eadline Diamond* a Cation* and Not Wy Lncomm“n Trade-Ko Knelt Thine " * Barealn—dome Hay hot to Wear i ®ut *° Admir# and Enjoy. One of the most surprising Hues of business that a man can go into_ surprising, that is, until you have time to think about It, and then isn’t surprising at all—is the peddling of diamonds. Men go about the country with from *10,000 to *40.000 worth of the Costly, tiny trHles in their clothes, hunting for customers in all sorts of places where they are likely to And customers, and. they make, at least some of them make, a good living out of it * A nrl —----J VM“w«o tmujr nuuiu it is that very lew of them own the Roods they carry. They do not. in some, cases, even give bonds, or put up any BOrt of security, excepting that of their own personal character. They are known or believed to be thoroughly honest and reliable, and the merchants who really have money invested in the goods, trust them fully and freely. A New York man, who travels almost continually, met one of these peddlers in the reading-room of a hotel m Hartford some time ago. and told the New York Sun writer after ward how astonished ho was when the stranger approached him and be gan showing his goods. “He was a tall, good-looking young fellow,” said the New Yorker, “and was dressed very quietly and taste fully. I noticed that there wasn't a single article of jewelry visible on his person, not even a gold button or a watch-chain. “The only thing that looked like jewelry was a key-chain, and I ob served afterward that that was made very strongly and appeared to be, as I presumed it was, made of the very finest steel. “He sat down beside me, and pull ing at his chair drew out of his pocket a chamois-leather bag or purse. Out of this he took what looked like a handful of small pack ages, each wrapped up in fine white tissue paper. These he unwrapped one after another and showed me the contents. “In each one was a gem. There were diamonds, rubies and emeralds, and two or three pearls, but nearly all of them were diamonds, and only three or four were what 1 wonld call unusually large stones; They wore without settings, and as he unfolded the papers he rubbed each stone gently and deftly with a small piece of flannel. “Naturally, he was talking while he did all this, and 1 soon gbt very much interested,” the speaker con tinued. “He began by asking me if he could not sell me a diamond, and I told him I thought not, but I said it hesitatingly, because I wanted to hear what -he had to say. “. ‘I have them here,’ said the peddler, ‘all the way from 150 up to $3,50), but I can sell you one that any gentleman would ba pleased to wear for $20) to $801. Most persons, even those who can afford it do not care to wear very large ones, though I have some customers who won't look at a small stone.’ “You have regular customers, then?” asked the man from New York, and he answered: “Oh, yes; my trade is mostly among actors and hotel men, and I know nea:-ly all the promi nent ones east of the Mississippi.” And then he took out a powerful glass and asked the New Yorker to look at a beautiful brilliant he had just unwrapped. • “1 looked at it and admired it, but I told him that I was no judge of diamonds,” the New Yorker went on. “All stones of the same size looked pretty much alike to me, though I could see that some seemed to be more brilliant than others. He laughed a little and said that he found that comparatively few people were judges, but that a great many were reluctant to own it, and either be lieved, or pretended to believe, that they could tell a genuine diamond from the best possible imitation and a good stone from a bad one. “ ‘Such people,’ he said, ‘buy dia monds whenever they can be made to that, t.hev are peltin'? bar gains, but, as a rule, they pay more than they need ta Strictly speaking, there is no. such thing as a 'bargain’ in diamonds, except in buying one from some one who is ignorant or careless of the true value of what he has, because a diamond has an in trinsic value as well defined as that of gold. *• ‘However,’ he continued, *1 am always glad to meet anybody who is on the look-out for bargains, because 1 I generally manage to 6ell them something at a good price. ’ ••Then he went on to tell me that he only carried the other stones as a sort of side-show. Once in a great while he would sell a pearl or a ruby, but nearly all his business consisted of sales of diamonds and watches. ••He kept on chatting, even after I had satisfied him that I didn’t in tend to buy anything, and he kept some of hi*;parcels open for a con siderable time while he was slowly wrapping up the others. ••I thought at first that he seemed to be careless about it but as I watched him I noticed that he never looked anywhere excepting either at his goods or straight in my eye, and 1 could see that his vigilance was never relaxed for an instant. ’. The description affords a very fair notion of the business these peddlers do. and there are more of them going around the world than most people bare any idea of. The staff they teka with them, too, la of e kind th»t it would bo practtg*. ally impossible to trace, for dlft* monda. even good-sized onos, are hard to identify, as a rule. There are cases, of course, in which some peculiarity of cutting Or the' accl dent of great size renders identiflca tion possible, but the stones that could be positively sworn to are very rare. POVERTY IN INDIA. n A Journey Among tlio Hot. Where the Poorer Clone* Lin. Poverty is the most striking (act in India. In the streets of the oitles the rleh are rarer than in the streets of Kast London. In the oountry the villages consist of huts of almost uniform smallness, and the Helds are w orked by farmers, most of whom are too poor to do anything but soratch tho land. In one city we went from house to house among the poor. A common friend gained us a welcome, and we were everywhere received with courtesy. One house which we visited was entered directly from the street. There was neither flooring, fire-place, windows nor furniture. A few embers were burning on the mud floor, on which only is it lawful for a pious person to eat, and a few pots were standing against the walls, with, if 1 remember rightly, one chest. It was a holiday morning, and the i family which in India may include | grandfather, sons, daughters-in-law | and grandchildren was gathered. I The men had Blept in the open I warm air, and had come in to be served by the" women with the morning meal of a few ounces of grain and butter. They wore no clothes but rose to bow us our welcome. After the usual cour tesies, and when we had told them about ourselves, the talk went thus: “What is your trade?” “Shoemakers.” ••What can each worker earn?” “About five rupees a month.” “What rent do you payP” _ : “Eight rupees a month. ” From which answer we gathered that not even a paternal government nor system cf land nationalized can prevent tho growth of landlordism. The land in this case probably be longed to the state, and had been let to some individual at a yearly rent, subject to revision after thirty years; but. the land had been let and sublet till the rent paid by the tenants far exceeded that received by the government. In another house, or rather shed, lived a mill-hand and his family. He, j too. was preparing to enjoy the holi day in “singing” and “seeing the lights;” which on that night, in honor of the new year, would be placed in every window in the city. His earnings were ten rupees a month. Out of the margin, that is, out of three shillings a week, he would have to support a large fami ly and save enough to enable him in a few years to return and get land in his own village. _ Killing; a Horse by Tlir iw hr. There is a certain way that exper ienced stockmen know of throwing a horse down so as to break his neck and kill him at once. An ordinary halter is put on the horse, the lead strap from it passed between the horse’s front legs, a turn being taken around the far one near the fetlock. The executioner then hits the horse a sharp cut .Jfith a whip, and when he jumps up pulls sharply and, strongly on the halter strap. The horse strikes head first, with the en tire weight on his neck. The fall is invariably fatal. READY READING. In Spain water in which a wedding ring has been dipped is good for sore eyes. The United States has 11.1 medical schools, regular, eclectic and homeo pathic. In China a boy begins his schooling at five years of age and is at his study nearly twelve hours a day. One of the prized relics belonging to the New York historical society is the tail of King George III.’s horse. Recent statistics show that England contains over a million widows, while the widowers number only half that many. Among1 the Kondeh people, who live on Lake Nya.reatly needed temporary relief, professional efforts are far more *en erally directed, now-days th n formerly, to means of tiulld ng up ilie nervous system us the basis of Its healthful quietude. This Is one reason why H< Metier'- tomach Hitters has received toe sanction of plivslclaus us a u rvlne tonic Indigos Ion unrelieved Is the fruitful father of lusomulu. und the re lief of the parent malady by .lie llltters Is usually followe i by a icturn to tranquil sloeii. Overwork, mcntul anxiety, sedont ry habits Impair olgestlo i and weaken the nerves. The llltters siren aliens them by renewing the utility to digest and assim ilate the food. Besides tills, It liualthfully stimulates the liver und kidneys llllllpus ness. c nstlputlon, rheuniutlsm and debility uru remedied by this sterling medicine. They're "On." Amateur photography has taught many thousands the truth as to the cost of photographic process and made it more difficult than it once was for professional photographists to charge exorbitant rates for so-called "extras.” It sometimes happens that SI per doz en extra is added to the price of photo graphs for processes that consume little or no time and require the use of ma terials that are almost valueless. Shiloh** CoMomptlao Coro In told on a puarantpo. It cum Incipient rontnimt* Uou, It m Um beat Uouffh Cura. BoU..00vU,fc|lAUb A Slight Confanion. Washington Star: She tripped down the stair and answered »the postman's knock, for she was expecting, letters far too precious to be intrusted to foot man or maid. "What have we here,” she enquired smilingly, as she took the missives, "Billets doux?” "Not exactly. Miss.” replied the new letter carrier with ablush, "my name's Billy Dooley." Have You Asthma? Dr. R. Schlffmann.st. Paul. Minn., will mall a trial package of "Schlffmaun's Asthma Cure” free to any sufferer. He udvertUes Dy giving It away. Never fulls to give Instant relief m worst cases and cures where others full. Name this paper und send address fur a tree trial package. _ To Suit tbe Season. Young People: Harry (at the all year-round hotel in the Rockarondle mountains)—"Papa, does the landlord charge you 84 a day now, Bame as in summer?” Mr. Brown—"Yes, Harry, and why not?” Harry—"1 think he might charge less. The days are much shorter, you know.” Throat Diseases commence with a Cough, Cold or Sore Throat. "Brown's Bronchial Trochee" give immediate relief. Sold only In boxes. Price 25 els. It is a risky thing to get mad and stay that way until after sunset. . As a permanent Investment nothing pays like doing good. GOOD SPIRITS ■V ' & ioiiow gooo iic&it a while low aplrlta, melancholia. Impair ed memory, morose, . or irritable temper, i tear of impend y f In t ing calamity and D thuueand and one derange menta of body It and mind, reault from pernicious, solitary prac tices, often indulged in by tho young, through Ignorance ui their ruinous conae uuenccs. Nervous debil ity, and loss of manly result from such unnatural habits. To reach, reclaim and restore such unfortu nates to health and happiness, is the aim of an association of medical gentlemen, who have prepared a treatise, written In plain but chaste language and treating of the nature, symp toms and curability, by home treatment, of such diseases. A copy of this useful book will, on receipt of this notice, with 10 cents In stamps, for postage, he mailed securely sealed in a plain envelope. Address, World’s Dibpeksam Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. HCIiOinUJ°HN W.JHORUI8, __Waahluglon, D,C, ■^Successfully Prosecutes Claims. ■ L*t«PrtnctpsJ Bzimtner V B. 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A hen that la ’ set to hatch ducks' eggs when she Is n 1 pullet cannot know any better about X? the Instinctive liking or disliking of ’■'B her young for the water. A corral nondent of the New York Sun tells of n->": hen that when a pullet hatched u set* ting of ducks'eggs Ever after when t: hens' eggs ware given her she hastened v' with the young chicks to the water's edge, and lifted them into the water, when she could not get them In other wise. The hen finally become old and a confirmed sitter. A setting of ducks* eggs was given her. As soon as they : hatched she hastened to the water's , edge. The ducks took to the water. > The hen's satisfaction with this was too V’ great, as she died a few hours after, • returning from the lake. The difficulty? : in getting a pullet to hatch ducks' eggs IKS. is, to induce them to set the four week., which ducks’ eggs require. 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