Slaye From Boylioofl.
(Fiom the Ked Wing, Minn., Retatolioan.)
"I am now twenty-four years old,
Bald Edward Swanson. of "White Rock.
Goodhue County. Minn., to a Republican
representative, "and as you can see I
m ot very large of stature. When I
was eleven years old I became afflicted
with a sickness which baffled the skill
and knowledge of the physician. I was
not taken suddenly ill but on the con
trary I can hardly state the exact time
when It began. The first symptoms
were pains in my back and restless
nights. The disease did not trouble me
much, at first, but it: seemed to have
settled in my body to stay and my bitter
experience during the last thirteen years
proved that to be the case. I
was of course a child and
never dreamed of the sufferings
in store for me. I complained to
my parents and they concluded that In
time I would outgrow my trouble, but
when they heard me groaning during
my sleep they became thoroughly
alarmed. Medical advice was sought
but to no avail, I grew rapidly worse
and was soon unable to move about and
finally became confined continually to
my bed. The best doctors that could be
had were consulted, but did nothing for
xne. I tried various kinds of extensively
advertised patent medicines with but
the same result.
"For twelve long years I was thus a
sufferer in .constant agony without re
spite, abscesses form?ti on my body in
rapid succession and the world indeed
looked very dark to me. About this
time when all hope was gone and noth
ing seemed left but to resign myself to
my most bitter fate my attention was
called to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People. Like a drowning man
grasping at a straw. In sheer despera
tion I concluded to make one more at
tempt not to regain my health (I dare
not to hope so much) but if possible to
ease my pain.
I bought a box of the pills and they
seemed to do me good. I felt encour
aged and continued their use. After
taking six boxes I was up and able to
walk around the house. I have not felt
so well for thirteen years as during the
past year. Only one year have I taken
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and I am able
now to do chores and attend to light
duties.
"Do I hesitate to let you publish what
I have said? No. Why should I? It is
the truth and I am only too glad to let
other sufferers know my experience. It
may help those whose cup of misery is
as full to-day as mine was in the past."
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 build up the blood, and restore the
glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks.
Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in
loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes
for $2.50, and may be had of all drug
gists, or direct by mail from Dr. Wil
liams' Medicine Company, Schenectady,
N. T
AVhitt He Should Take.
A magistrate of Edinburgh, contem
porary with "Lang- Sandy Wood," emi
nent physician, planned how to get
f roni the latter a prescription without a
lee. Taking1 advantage of a custom of
the time, he invited iandy to take his
meridian with him in a "change house"
near the Cross. Over the wine he gave
a long account of his ailments, to which
Wood listened in grim silence. At last
he rvt the direct question: "Doctor,
whso you think I should tak'?
tTak!" exclaimed Sandy, "why, if
ye're as ill as ye say, I think ye should
take medical udvice."
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My Critics" in the August number of
the Century. His book on "Degenera
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gives serious answers to several objec
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the present epidemic of hysteria and
degeieration is due to the over-exertion
of the last sixty years; and that,
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Tt August Atlantic Monthly con
tainseveral articles which are calcu
late: to create widespread interest.
One f the most striking contributions
is bylacob D. Cox on How Judge Hoar
CeasI to be Attorney-General. Mr.
Cox as a member of Grant's cabinet
witliudge Hoar, and this paper is an
impdant chapter in our recent polit
ical listory. Percival Lowell, in his
fotm paper on Mars, tries to answer
the estion. Is Mars Inhabited, and,
if so by what kind of people? The
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TALMAGE'S SERMOK
THE IMPERIAL ORGAN OF THE
HUMAN SYSTEM. ,
Th All-Seeing th Subject of Lan
Bandar's Discourse "lie That Formed
the Eye, Shall He Not See? Psalms
4 I 8 A Wonderful Camera,
EW YORK, July 28.
1895. Rev. Dr. Tal
mage, who Is still
absent on his sum
mer preaching tour
In the West and
Southwest, has pre
pared for to-day a
vf$v CStr9 1 ermon on "The
V 9 7 All-Seeing." the text
VW: selected being
Psalm 04:9. "He
that formed the eye,
shall he not see?"
The Imperial organ of the human sys
tem Is the eye. All up and down the
Bible God honors It, extols It, Illustrates
It, or arraigns it. Five hundred and
thirty-four times it is mentioned in the
Bible. Omnipresence "the eyes of the
Lord are In every place." Divine care
"as the apple of the eye." The clouds
"the eyelids of the morning." Irrever
ence "the eye that mocketh at its
father." Pride "Oh. how lofty are their
eyes!" Inattention "the fool's eye in
the ends of the earth." Divine Inspec
tion "wheels full of eyes." Sudden
ness "in the twinkling of an eye at
the last trump." Olivetic sermon
"the light of the body Is the eye." This
morning's text "He that formed the
eye, shall he not see?" The surgeons,
the doctors, the anatomists and the
physiologists understand much of the
glories of the two great lights of the
human face; but the vast multitudes go
on from cradle to grave without any
appreciation of the two great master
pieces of the Lord God Almighty. If
God had lacked anything of infinite
wisdom, he would have failed in creat
ing the human eye. We wander through
the earth trying to see wonderful
sights, but the most wonderful sight
that we ever see Is not so wonderful as
the Instruments through which we see
It. It has been a strange thing to me
for forty years that some scientist, with
enough eloquence and magnetism, did
not go through the country with il
lustrated lectures on canvas thirty feet
square, to startle, and thrill, and over
whelm Christendom with the marvels
of the human e3e. We want the eye
taken from all its technicalities, and
some one who shall lay aside all talk
about the pterygomaxlllary fissures,
and the sclerotica, and the chiasma of
the optic nerve, and in common par
lance, which you and I and everybody
can understand, present the subject.
We have learned men who have been
telling us what our origin is and what
we were. Oh! If some one should come
forth from the dissecting-table and from
the class-room of the university and
take the platform, and. asking the help
of the Creator, demonstrate the won
ders of what we are!
If I refer to the physiological facts
suggested by the former part of my
text, It is only to bring out In a plainer
way the theological lessons of the lat
ter part of my text, "He that formed
the eye. shall he not see?" I suppose
my text referred to the human eye,
6lnce It excels all others in structure
and in adaptation. The eyes of fish,
and reptiles, and moles, and bats, are
very simple things, because they have
not much to do. There are insects with
a hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes
have less faculty than the human eyes.
The black beetle swimming the sum
mer pond has two eyes under water and
two eyes above the water, but the four
lnsectlle are not equal to the two
human. Man, placed at the head of all
living creatures, must have supreme
equipment, while the blind fish in the
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky have only
an undeveloped organ of sight, an
apology for the ej-e, which, if through
some crevice of the mountain they
ehould get into the sunlight, might be
developed into positive eyesight. In
the first chapter of Genesis we find that
God, without any consultation, created
the light, created the trees, created the
fish, created the fowl, but when he was
about to make man he called a conven
tion of Divinity, as though to imply
tbet all the powers of Godhead were to
be enlisted in the achievement. "Let us
make man." Put a whole ton of em
phasis on that word "us." "Let us make
man." And If God called a convention
of Divinity to create man. I think the
two great questions in that conference
were how to create a soul and how to
make an appropriate window for that
emperor to look out of.
See how God honored the eye before
he created It. He cried, until chaos was
Irradiated with the utterance, "Let
there be light!" In other words, before
he introduced man Into this temple of
the world he illuminated it, prepared it
for the eyesight. And so. after the last
human eye has been destroyed in the
final demolition of the world, stars are
to fall, and the sun is to cease Its shin
ing, and the moon is to turn into blood.
In other words, after the human eyes
are no more to be profited by their shin
ing, the chandeliers of heaven are to
be turned out. God, to educate and to
bless and to help the human eye, set
In the mantel of heaven two lamps a
gold lamp and a silver lamp the one
for the day and the other for the idght.
To show how God honors the eye, look
at the two halls built for the residence
of the eyes, seven bones making the
wall for each eye, the seven bones curi
ously wrought together. Kingly pclace
of ivory Is considered rich, but the
halls for the residence of the hunan
eye are richer by a much as hujnan
bone Is more sacred than elephantine
tusk. See how God honored the rfyes
when he made a roof for them, so what
the sweat of toil should not smart
them; and the rain dashing against the
forehead should not drip into them;
the eyebrows not bending over the eye,
but reaching to the right and to the
left, so that the rain and the sweat
should he compelled to drop upon the
cheek, instead of falling into this
divinely protected human eyesight. See
how God honored the eye in the fact ,
presented by anatomists and physiolo-!
gists that there are eight hundred con
trivances in every eye. For window
shutters, the eyelids opening and clos
ing thirty thousand times a day. The
eyelashes so constructed that they have
their selection as to what shall be ad
mitted, ttaylng to the dust, "Stay out," ,
and saying to the light. "Come in." !
For inside curtains the iris, or pupil of
the eye, (according as the light Is greater '
or less, contracting or dilating. The
eye of the owl Is blind In the daytime,
the eyes of some creatures are blind
at night, but the human eye so marvel
ously constructed can see both by day
and by night. Many of the other crea
tures of God can move the eye only
from side to side, but the human eye so
marvelously constructed has one mus
cle to lift the eye, and another muscle
to lower the eye, and another muscle
to roll It to the right, and another mus
cle to roll It to the left, and another
muscle passing through a pulley to turn
It round and round an elaborate gear
ing of six muscles as perfect as God
could make them. There also Is the
retina, gathering the rays of light and
passing the visual Impression along
the optic nerve, about the thickness of
the lampwlck passing the visual im
pression on to the sensorium, and on Into
the soul. What a delicate lens, what
an exquisite screen, what soft cushions,
what wonderful chemistry of the
human eye! The eye washed by a slow
stream of moisture whether we sleep or
wake, rolling imperceptibly over the
pebble of the eye and emptying Into
a bone of the nostril. A contrivance so
wonderful that it can see the sun,
ninety-five million miles away, and the
point of a pin. Telescope and micro
scope In the same contrivance. The as
tronomer swings and moves this was
and that, and adjusts and readjusts
the telescope until he gets it to the
right focus; the mlcroscopist moves
this way and that, and adjusts and
readjusts the magnifying glass until
It is prepared to do its work; but the
human eye, without a touch, beholds
the star and the smallest Insect. The
traveler among the Alps, with one
glance taking in Mont Blanc and the
face of his watch to see whether he has
time to climb it.
Oh! this wonderful camera obscura
which you and I carry about with us,
so to-day we can take in our friends, so
from the top of Mount Washington we
can take in New England, so at night
we can sweep into our vision the con
stellations from horizon to horizon. So
delicate, so semi-infinite, and yet the
light coming ninety-five millions of
miles at the rate of two hundred thou
sand miles a second is obliged to halt
at the gate of the eye. waiting for ad
mission until the portcullis be lifted.
Something hurled ninety-five millions of
miles and striking an instrument which
has not the agitation of even winking
under the power of the stroke. There,
also, is the merciful arrangement of the
tear gland, by which the eye is washed
and from which rolls cne tide which
brings the relief which comes in tears
when some bereavement or great loss
strikes us. The tear not an augmenta
tion of sorrow, but the breaking up of
the Arctic of frozen grief in the warm
gulf stream of consolation. Incapacity
to weep is madness or death. Thank
God for the tear glands, and that the
crystal gates are so easily opened. Oh!
the wonderful hydraulic apparatus of
the human eye! Divinely constructed
vision! Two light-houses at the harbor
of the immortal soul, under the shining
of which the world sails In and drops
anchor. What an anthem of praise to
God is the human eye. The tongue is
speechless and a clumsy instrument of
expression as compared with It. Have
you not seen It flash with indignation
or kindle with enthusiasm, or expand
with devotion, or melt with sympathy,
or stare with fright, or leer with vil
lainy, or droop with sadness, or pale
with envy, or fire with revenge, or twin
kle with mirth, or beam witn love? It
is tragedy and comedy, pastoral and
lyric In turn. Have you not seen Its up
lifted brow of surprise, or its frown of
wrath, or its contraction of pain? If
the eye say one thing and the lips say
another thing, you believe the eye rather
than the lips. The eyes of Archibald
Alexander and Charles G. Finney were
the mightiest part of their sermons.
George Whitefield enthralled great as
semblages with his eyes, though they
were crippled with strabismus. Many a
military chieftain has with a look hurled
a regiment to victory or to death. Mar
tin Luther turned his great eye on an as
sassin who came to take his life, and
the villain fled. Under the glance of
the human eye, the tiger, with five times
a man's strength, snarls back into the
African Jungle. But those best appreci
ate the value of the eye who have lost
It. The Emperor Adrian by accident put
out the eye of his servant, and he said
to his servant: "What shall I pay
you in. money or in lands? Anything
you ask me. I am sorry I put your eye
out." But the servant refused to put
any financial estimate on the value of
the eye, and when the Emperor urged
and urged again the matter, he said:
"Oh, Emperor, I want nothing but my
lost eye." Alas for those for whom a
thick and impenetrable vail Is drawn
across the face of the heavens and the
faces of one's own kindred. That was a
pathetic scene when a blind man lighted
a torch at night and was found passing
along the highway, and some one said:
"Why do you carry that torch, when
you can't see?" "Ah." said he. "I can't
6ee, but I carry this torch that others
may see me and pity my helplessness
and not run me down." Samson, the
giant, with his eyes put out by the
Philistines, is more helplesa than the
imallest dwarf with vision undamaged.
All the sympath ies of Christ were stir
red when he saw Bartimeus with dark
ened retina, and the only salve he ever
made that we read of was a mixture o!
dust and saliva and a prayer, with
which he cured the eyes of a man blind
from his nativity. The value of the eye
is shown as much by Its catastrophe as
by its healthful action. Ask the man
who for twenty years has not seen the
sun rise. Ask the man who for half a
century has not seen the face of a
friend. As in the hospital the victim of
ophthalmia. Ask the man whose eye
sight perished in a powderblast. Ask the
Bartimeus who never met a Christ, or
the man born blind who is to die blind.
Ask him. This morning, In my imper
fect way, I have only hinted at the
splendors, the glories, the wonders, the
divine revelations, the apocalypses of
the human eye, and I stagger back from
the awful portals of the physiological
miracle which must have taxed the in
genuity of God, to cry out in your ears
the words of my text, "He that formeth
the eye, shall he not see?" Shall Her
scope? Shall Fraunhofer not know as
much as his spectroscope? Shall Swam
merdan not know as much as his mi
croscope? Shall Dr. HooKe not know as
much as his micrometer? Shall the
thing formed know more than Its mas
ter? "He that formeth the eye, shall he
not see?"
e e e e e e
It passes out from the guess into the
positive when we are told in the Bible
that the Inhabitants of other worlds do
come as convoy to this. Are they not all
ministering spirits, sent forth to minis
ter to those who shall be heirs of salva
tion? But human inspection and angelio
inspection and stellar Inspection and
lunar Inspection and solar Inspection
are tame compared with the thought of
divine inspection. "You converted me
twenty years ago," said a black man to
my father. "How so?" said my father.
"Twenty years ago," said the other, "in
the old school-house prayer meeting at
Bound Brook you said in your prayer,
'Thou, God, seest me,' and I had no
peace under the eye of God until I be
came a Christian." Hear it: "The eyes
of the Lord are in every place." "His
eyelids try the children of men." "His
eyes were as a flame of fire." "I will
guide thee with mine eye." Oh! the eye
of God, so full of pity, so full of power,
so full of love, so full of indignation, so
full of compassion, so full of mercy!
How it peers through the dark" ss!
How it outshines the day! How it fe-ires
upon the offender! How it beams upon
the penitent soul! Talk about the hu
man eye being indescribably wonderful
how much more wonderful the great,
searching, overwhelming eye of God?
All eternity past and all eternity to
come on that retina!
But you say, "God Is In one world and
I am In another world; he seems so far
off from me; I don't really think he sees
what Is going on In my life." Can you
see the sun ninety-five millions of miles
away, and do you not think God has as
prolonged vision? But you say, "There
are phases of my life, and there are
colors, shades of color, in my annoy
ances and my vexations that I don't
think God can understand." Does not
God gather up all the colors and all the
shades of color in the rainbow? And do
you suppose there is any phase or any
shade In your life that he has not gath
ered up in his own heart? Besides that,
I want to tell you that it will all soon
be over, this struggle. That eye of
yours, so exquisitely fashioned and
strung, and hinged and roofed, will be
fore long be closed in the last slumber.
Loving hands will smooth down the
silken fringes. So he giveth his beloved
sleep. A legend of St. Frotobert Is that
his mother was blind, and he was so
sorely pitiful for the misfortune that
one day in sympathy he kissed her eyes,
and by miracle she saw everything. But
it is not a legend when I tell you that
all the blind eyes of the Christian dad
under the kiss of the resurrection morn
shall gloriously open. Oh! what a day
that will be for those who went groping
through this world under perpetual ob
scuration, or were dependent on the
hand of a friend, or with an uncertain
staff felt their way; and for the aged, of
dim sight, about whom it may be said
L that "they which look out of the win
dows are darkened," when eternal day
break comes In. What a beautiful epi
taph that was for a tombstone in a Eu
ropean cemetery: "Here reposes in Cod,
Katrina, a saint, eighty-five years of
age and blind. The light was restored
to her Hay 10th, 1840."
Temperance Note.
In one year over a million dollars
worth of property was destroyed by the
failures of beer-drinking engineers and
switchmen.
The W. C. T. TJ. of Fremont, Neb., ara
said to have paid in full for their Tem
erance Temple, which was built at a
cost of $10,000.
Twenty-one temperance associations
have been formed in India during the
past winter, with an enrollment of 2,000
new members.
Wanted 20,000 boys In New York and
Chicago who do not smoke cigarettes.
The business men have decided to give
such the preference.
A commendable decree has been is
sued in the German principalitj- of Wal
deck forbidding the issuance of a mar
riage license to an habitual drunkard
unless satisfactory proof of reforma
tion be produced.
Since Belgium was permitted free
trade In drink, public houses have so
multiplied that intoxicants can be pur
chased at almost every shop. As a re
sult, four-fifths of the deaths of men
are now said to be caused by intemper
ance. In answer to letters of inquiry ad
dressed to the wardens of the peniten
tiaries, these figures were received,
showing the proportion of crimes
caused by strong drink: Sing Sing.
N. Y., 92 per cent; Boston, Mass., So per
cent; Jackson, Mich., 78 per cent.
Archdeacon Farrar, speaking at Dev
onshire House, said: "We sacrifice in
England every year to the drink demon
more children than were offered to Mo
loch in ages gone by. In London alone
at least a thousand babes are suffo
cated by drunken mothers every year."
Broncho Pete I've got to go to the
dance -tonight down at Deadman's
Gulch. Five-fingered Jake What for?
Broncho Pete Editor of the Mountain
Echo asked me to get him a list of the
killed and Injured.
Mrs. Rendix Yes, my husband is a
somnambulist. Mrs. Kawler How
dreadful. Mrs. Bendix Not at all. You
see, when he gets up In the night and
walks about the room, I put the baby
in his arms and he never knows it.
A Short Term E.r.press. Binks Oh,
yes, she carries herself like an empress,
and bosses me around all she likes now;
but wait until we are married, and then
see how she'll fawn and cringe. Winks
To you? Binks No; to the servant
girl.
Mr. West End (to pretty nurse)
Whose baby is that? a pretty little fel
low! Nurse Why, sir; it's your own
little boy. Mr. West End Really? My
wife changes nurses so often that I
cannot recognize my own flesh and
blood.
Shopkeeper (to importunate commer
cial traveler) Simpklns. call the .porter
to kick this fellow out. Undaunted
commercial traveler Now, while we're
waiting for the porter, I'll show you an
entirely new line best thing you ever
laid your eyes on.
I "I see." said Mrs. Wickwlre, "that two
j million boxes of oranges were frozen on
j the trees in Florida. I don't understand
i it." "Don't understand it?" echoed Mr.
( Wickwlre. "The statement is plain
: enough." "Yes, but do they grow in
boxes on the trees?"
The lady had implied a doubt as to
the statement of the dairyman. "Ma
dam," he said, indignantly, "my reputa
tion rests upon my butter,". "Well."
she replied, testily, "you needn't get
cross about it. The foundation Is strong
j enough to keep It up forever."
The most respectab e sinners are the most '
dangerous onea t
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U.S. Gov't Report
A Twilight Interview.
'Twas the first twilight interview,
she swinging in the hammock on the
side veranda, and he sitting submis
sively at her feet with his legs
dangling off the boards, "flow re
freshing at the closing hour of day,"
he gently remarked, "to thus in sweet
companionship await the rising of the
stars that will soon fleck the cerulean
dome of heaven with spangles of silver!
I would ever thus, with thee at my
side, revel in the glories of the azure
azure as sure as''
"What exquisite language," said she,
with a sigh, "llow can you afford it
on St a week?"
The young man was not quite "as
sure" as he was and slid down into the
yard, scaled the fence and was seen no
more thereabouts forever. Texas JSift-
W. H. GRIFFIN, Jackson. Michigan, writes:
"Suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years. Hall's
Catarrh Cure cured me." Sold by Drueeists.Tac.
When Embroidering Paoiiei.
It is best when working small pan
sies, not to employ too many colors on
one flower. For working the two back
petals use dark rich purple shades, and
the three lower ones a light yellow,
with dark veinings of the purple
shades; a rich deep maroon or copper
color can be substituted for the purple
in another one, which will give an en
tirely different effect to the flower.
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you receive, distribute.
For Knights Templar.
Low-rate excursion to Boston via
Nickel Plate road. Tickets on sale Aug.
19th to 25th inclusive. Lowest rates;
through trains; palace sleeping-cars;
unexcelled service, including , dining
cars and colored porters In charge of
day coaches. For particulars address
J. Y. Calahan. General Agent. Ill
Adams street. Chicago, 111.
There will not le another transit of
Venus until '2004.
"Hanson's Magic Corn Salve."
Warranted to cur or monry refunded. ask year
drugg-it for it. Price 16 cent.
An elephant's tkin, w hen tanned, is over
an inch thick.
Fruit Grower find Small Farmer.
Read what is said about a special num
ber of the Great Northern Bulletin, devoted
to the fruit business in the Pacific North
west. "The Fruit Bulletin is a storehouae of
facts interesting to our growers. It is also
calcuiated to show eastern people that the
Pacific Northwest is 'strictlv in it' as a pro
ducer of 6taple fruits.'" J. B. Holt, Man
ager Snake River Fruit Association, Wa
wawai, Wash.
"I am delighted with the Bulletin. I do
not think I ever saw anything more com
prehensive on the fruit business. My be
lief that the country out here is the best
part of the country for homeseekers is
stronger than ever." H. H. Spalding,
Treasurer State Board of Horticulture,
Almota, Wah.
This valuable publication will be sent to
any address, together with "Facts About a
Great Country,' containing large map, for
four cents in jostage, Bv F. I. Whitxet, G.
1. & T. A., Great Northern Railway, St.
Paul, Minn.
Women have usually better eyesight
than men.
11 the Baby la Catting- Teeth.
Be rare and use that old and well tried remedy. If a.
WisloW Soothing Sntcr for Childrea TeethLnjr-
Try to count your mercies,
troubles will soon be forgotten.
and your
A Wine Precaution.
Mrs. X. Why, Otto, what are you
doing there? You are actually burn
ing all the love letters you sent me
durinc the period of our courtship!
Mr. X. I just took up the letters
and was reading them through when
it occurred to me that anybody who
cared to dispute my will after my death
would find it quite an easy matter to
prove my insanity on the basis of these
missives. Taglich Rundschau.
To Cleanse the System
Effectually yet gently, when costive or
bilious, or when the blood is impure or
sluggish, to permanently cure habitual
constipation, to awaken the kidneys and
liver to a healthy activity, without ir
ritating or weakening them, to dispel
headaches, colds or fevers use Syrup of
Figs.
Sunflower stalks are now converted into
pater.
is made from the best leaf,
in the best way, and by
the best skill that's why
ITS MUCH THE BEST.
. Sold everywhere. Made only by the Oldest Tobacco
Mfr's in America, and the largest in the world the
P. LORILLARD CO.
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Ccibld Field and
Hog Fence,
Realistic
Figg I should think you would find
it a terrible bore to shave yourself.
Fogg On the contrary. I enjoy it.
All I have to do is to ask myself if I
will have a hair cut or a 6ea foam and a
shampoo, whether I'll have my mus
tache dyed or curled, and whether I
have a razor that wants to be put in
order, and then I fill in the rest of the
time in an interesting conversation
with myself in regard to all kinds of
things "which I know nothing" about.
Why, I assure you, I hardly know the
difference from being in a barber shop.
Boston Transcript.
Don't Drag Your Feet.
Many men do because the nerve centers,
weieced by the long-continued us-e of tobacco,
become to affected that thev are weak, tired,
lifeless, listless, etc. All this can easily be
overcome il the tobacco user wants to quit and
gain manhood, nerve power, and enjov vit:or
ouiily the pood things of life. Take No-To-Bac
Uuaranteed to cure or money refunded by
Druggists everywhere Boo free. Address tb
fcteriing Kemedy Co.,New York City or Chicago.
Marrying On oO a Month.
Yesterday a young man asked me if
it would be safe for him to marry on
five hundred dollars and a salary of
fifty dollars per month. I told him I
could tell better when 1 saw the girl.
There are girls who have grown up in
ease and who have kicked great black
and blue welts in the lap of luxury,
yet who are more ready and willing to
accept a little rough weather than the
poor girl who has stood for eighteen
years looking out through the soiled
window of life waiting for the rain to
rinse it off and let the sunlight through
that she might see her approaching
lord. Ladies' Home Journal.
VFHEAT, 48 BUSHELS; RTE, 60 BUSH
ELS. Those are good yields, but a lot of
farmers have had them this year. You
can have them in 1S96 by sowing Salzer's
Red Cross of the North Winter "Wheat,
Monster Rye and Grasses. Sow now!
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.
send catalogue and samples of above
free. If you send this notice to them.
(W.N.TJ.)
Waste of time and words are the two
greatest expenses in life.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is an A No.
1 Asthma medicine, W. R. Williams, An
tioch, LUs., April 11, ISM.
The millennium would be here now if we
all lived up to what we demand from
others.
Coe'a Cough Balaam
la the oldest aad best. It will break op a Cold quick
er taan anything- else. It Is always reliable. Try 1W
Blotting pajer is made of cotton rags
boiled in soda.
Mothers appreciate the rood work
Of Parker's Gicpjr Tonic, with its reviving qualities
a boon to the pain-atrickenleepless and nerroaa.
If your friends don't treat you right, eat
onions.
W hen yon come tat realize,
that your corns are gone, and no more pain, bow
grt?fnl yon feeL Ah the work of Hindercorna. lie.
Homeseekers.
We desire to direct your attention to the
Gulf Coast of Alabama. Our motto: "If
you anticipate a change in location or for
investment, why not get the Lest.' We have
it,' and in order to verify our statement
we are makin? extremely low rates to
homeseekers and investors that they may
make a personal investigation. For par
ticulars and low railroad rates address The
Union Land Co., Mobile, Ala., or Major T.
S. Ciarkson, "Northwestern Agent, Omaha,
Jsebr.
GREAT BOOK FREE.
When Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
published the first edition of his work, The
People's Common Sense Medical Adviser,
he announced that after 6S0.000 copies had
been sold at the regular price, $1.50 per
copy, the proSt on which would repaj- him
for the great amount of labor and money
expended in producing it, he would dis
tribute the next half million free. As this
number of copies has already been sold, he
is now distributing, absolutely free, 500,000
copies of this most com
plete, interest- I COUPON ing and val
uable common No. 1 1 1 sense med
ical work ever published
the recipient only being required to mail
to him, at the above address, this little
coupon with twenty -one (21) cents in one
cent stamps to pay for postage and pack
ing only, and the book will be sent by mail.
It is a'veritable medical library, complete
in one volume. It contains over 1000 pages
and more than 300 illustrations. The Free
Edition is precisely the same as those sold
at $1.50 except only that the books are
bound in strong manilla paper covers in
stead of cloth. Send now before all are
given away. They are going off rapidly.
Poultry. Garden and Rzibit Fence,
Steel Web Picket Lwn Fence, etc. cualltv
first class. PRICES LOW". Catalogue FK.
De Kalb Finos Co., 121 High St.. 0 Kalb, U.