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yajaW, 'i25fec: t 1 w 1 t' The Absence of Earthworms from Ca. nadlan Prairies. Not by any means the leasTrnraarka ble of the very notable series oi works which Mr. Darwin has given to the world is that which came last from his pen but a short time previous &- his la mented death. Dealing as it does with effects which, when looked at in the de tail, are exceedingly small nd insig nificant but, when viewed in the aggre gate, are shown to be of surprisimlm porlance, the "Vegetable Mould and Earthworms" roust certainly rank as a most strikingly interesting work. It is not my desire to call in question the conclusion? at which Mr. Darwin has arrived with regard to the action of earthworms in cultivating the soil, but I wish to point out that in one extensive portion of the earth's surface, to which much attention has of late been directed on account of its agricultural capabili ties, earthworms do not exist I refer to the vast region commonly known as Manitoba and Northwest Territories My friend, Mr. E. E. T. Seton, of Car berry. Manitoba, was the first to point out to me that this enormous country must be regarded as forming an excep tion to Mr. Darwin's generalizations, on account of the total absence from it of every kind of earthworm, and, having lately returned from a visit to those regions, I can add my testimony to his in this particular, as well as in the mat ter of the amazing innate fertilit of the soil, which has been the wonder and re mark of all travelers for years past, but which, in this case, obviously can not be attributed to the action of worms, since those do sot exist there. The agency which 1 believe has caused the absence of earthworms from the Northwest is the prairie fires which an nually sweep over enormous portions of the country, totally consuming the grass and converting it into a black ash. This, it might well be imagined, would for months-together completely deprive any worms that formerly existed of that variety of decaj-ing vegetable matter that composes their food; and assuming that fires have annually passed over large portions of the prairies for scores of generations (as seems in every way probable), it appears to me only rea sonable to suppose that this cause would effectually have exterminated the worms from the country or have prevented their occupying it. It is my belief (as I shall elsewhere state more fully) that the very fertile, line, black, powdery and almost soot-like soil from one to three feet thick, even the open, treeless nature of the prairies themselves, and the absence from their surface, so far as my observation goes, of every species of mollusk, while many species abound in all the ponds, lakes and stream--, are all in a large degree, if not entirely, due to the action of fire. If this view ultimately turns out to be correct, it will be "further seen that the verv means which has deprived' the soil ol the Northwest of that natural cultiva tion which the soils of most other coun tries enjoys, has at the same time, liber ally supplied it with a manure resulting from charred ashes of the grass which is annually burned. As another evidence of the absence of worms, the numerous large glacial bowlders that strew the prairies around lirandon and elsewhere may be cited. These, had worms existed, would doubless have long ago be-n lowered beneath the surface, as also the skulls and other bones of buflaicos which so abound on the prairies, and most of which have evidently lain there a long while. Nevertheless, some of these have been buried in the course of time, as one gentleman told me that he had sometimes turned them up from a depth of two or three inches beneath the surface when plowing. Their burial may have been accomplished by the wind drifting soil oer them, or 113 the working of gophers. Of these pe culiar little animals two species are very abundant on the prairies, where they make extensive burrows, which it seems possible may to sonic extent ac complish the natural cultivation of the soil in the way worms arc accustomed to do it elsewhere. Robert Miller Chris ty, inXalurc. How Colonel Sigaftis Paid the Bill. A story is told of Colonel Sigafus, the old forty-niner millionaire, who is erect ing a magnificent castle on the heights back of Tarrytown. who is said to have moved to thc'East to introduce his heir ess, a lovely maiden of eighteen years, to the blue'soeiety of the Hudson. The Colonel takes an active part in the con struction of his house. With shovel or pick he may frequently be seen leading a "-nng of workmen and explaining how inthe early days of California gold mining he labored" for the precious met al. One dav a contractor presented a demand for'monev. The Colonel, with .hovel in hand, hall paid out all hissmall change and did not wish to don his store clothes ami go to the city. Throwing down his spade he strode to his apart ments over his stable, and hastily cut ting twenty tliousand dollars of coupons from his Government bonds rode oil" at a furious rate toward the village. In an hour he returned with a huge pack age strapped behind his saddle. The contractor was awaiting him. The package, clone up with a rope, was un done, and bank bills of all denomina tions, from oue to a thousand, were ex K)sed and the bill was paid. N. Y. World. A Fiuc Morning; "Fine morning, jour honor," affably remarked the man who was arrestee! the nirht before for being drunk and disor dcrlv. . , 'i'es, indeed." heartily responded the Justice; "quite a fine-morning; in Tact a ten-dollar-finc morning." After this little pleasantry the gentle man was booked for the "Black Maria,' and the business of the court went on as usual. Philadelphia Call. One of the most highly-prized arti cles in the collection of a Hartford (Conn.) book lover is a copy of Prince's " Chronological History from 1620 to 1633," giving a daily account of the pil'Tims for thirteen years. The volume is not easily duplicated, even in public libraries of long standing and means. Doston Transcript. - The Smith familv occupies fittcen chwely printed pages of the London Di reciorv this rear. A Few Frigid Facts. If there is one thing more than an other that the country needs that it ab solutely yearns for it is a law abolish ing the temperature crank and his ten cent thermometer. Both are nuisances in the fullest meaning of the term, and a long-suffering people are, just at this time, losing their temper and their con fidence in the wisdom of an all-wise Providence under this double infliction. The man with the ten-cent thermome ter is far superior, in point of bore-you-to-deathati vencss, to the fellow who asks if this is cold enough for 3011. The latter is 'merely seeking information, and you are at liberty to either answer him or turn the remains over to the coroner; but the thermometer fiend isn't a seek er after knowledge; he is loaded to the muzzle already, and only seeks a victim with whom he" can divide. It is useless to tell him that his ten-cent, mercury loaded, bottle-glass and tin-back weather prevaricator is a snare and a delusion; that it doesn't know anything about temperature. 3 He has the utmost faith in the accuracy of his instrument ami will accept its statements in the face of contradiction by all the high-priced and high-toned thermometers in the coun try. If he finds that she shows thirty seven degrees below zero, he orders an other ton of coal and puts on four more suits of underclothes though the boys be playing marbles in the alleys, the streets knee-deep in mud and the man in the next yard is spading up ground for his next spring's garden. There is no denying the fact that the ten-cent thermometer is great at getting down to its work. It can make a man's hair stand on end and send the shivers scooting down his spinal column without half trying that is, if you are foolish enough tc place any confidence in the showing it makes. It can go down to forty-two below zero on the pleasantcst of Wyo ming afternoons, and stay there, "with out turning a hair," as the horse re porter saj-s. It can show a tempera ture calculated to freeze the nasal or gan off the face of the bronze dogon the Iront stoop of the Maj-or's residence, and stare you in the face with a George Washington stare, while 3-011 wipe tin" perspiration from your face and long for a linen duster and a fan. When the ten-cent thermometer's owner is obliged by feminine persua sion to get up and light the lire, he looks at his tin weather iudicator and finds it registering seventy-live below zero and still going down. He goei down town and makes affidavit before every man he meets that it is seventy five below, because his thermometei said so. He enlarges upon the supe rior excellen -u of his thermometer, which can, when the weather permits, register all the way down to oue hun dred below zero, while the ordinary in struments freeze up somewhere about the fort- notch. The average cheaj thermometer is about as reliable as 2 gas-meter, or a politician's promise, and its workings as uncertain as tin verdict of a jury. Hence we sa that ii some genius will suggest some plan 1 which the evil instrument and all be lievers in it can be swept from the fact of the earth into the waste-basket of r chaotic eternity, a grateful people wil' rise up and ask him to take something. The Boomerang. Why He Goes on Crutches. Mr. Gazely, traveling salesman foi the well-known liquor nouse of Gum cane & Racket, now wears a pair o! crutches, not for ornament, particular y, but mainly for use. Several d:i3'j ago Gazely. while en route for a rural seat of trade, fell in with a lot of young fellows, representing man' trades and profess'ons. They exchanged cards, flasks and compliments, old jokes and wearisome stories. When Gazely ar rived at the small town where he was to transact business, if possible, he pro ceeded at once to the houe whose wanti in the whisk line he had ever supplied but upon eufering the store he saw thai a change in proprietorship had taker place. The proprietor came forward. "Good morning, sir."' "Good morniuir. I see that this place has changed ownership. I used to dt considerable business with your pred ecessor and hope to merit vour con licence. "Your name?'' Gazeh handed him a eard, not his own commercial pasteboard, but un fortunately the name and two-line ad vertisement of a 3"oung undertaker lie had met on the train. The merchant looked at the card for a moment and said: "I am thankful to say, sir, that I noed nothing in your line.' "But 3"ou soon will, 1 hope," m replied Gazely. The merchant knit his brows, drooped a stitch, picked it up and proceeded tc knit a while longer. "I hope I may not soon need 130111 services, sir. I don't know wiry '3011 sa3 that my predecessor ever had any dealings with vou. for he is a youn man "I know he's a 3'oung man," said Gazcl, looking sharply at the mer chant, "but what difference does that. make? He kept his cellar well stocked wh my goods, but that's neither here nor there. Pve got the lieu in the market, and just now we are sidling at strikingly low figures. You'll never have a chance to do better audi I advise you to lay in a stock at once. ,Now, for j-our own individual use, I can do the nice thing by you." "Do 3-0:1 take me for a fool?" "Certainly not. I'm only advising you to bu in time. Such reasonable Injures will not be open to 3011 many days longer. 1 can fix 3011 up in nice style, so that when your friends and neighbors come in'' "You heartless scouudrel!" exclaimed the merchant, wheeling Gazeh; around and kicking him from the dojr. The fall injured the younj- man, Ucncc th crutches. The mistake has Ifcen dis covered, and both partics,yoiinjjr Gazely in particular, are sorry that such a lu dicrous misunderstandins: shfculd have occurred. Arkansaw Travclc, Hon. William I. UowdiU; in are- cent speech at a woman-sull' iov niffr. .0w mg, saul mat mu average p 01 worir- mr women in isoston was JS4 a vcar. which, after subtracting th nccessitioj dollars. of life, left a surplus of fou Joslon Ucraia. A Long Sleep. A certain famous historical desert snail was brought from Egpt to Eng land as a chonchological specimen in the year 1846. This particular mol lusk, (the only one of his race, proba bly, who ever attained to individual distinction, at the time of his arrival in London, was really alive and vigorous, but as the authorities of the British Museum, to whose tender care he was assigned, were ignorant of this impor tant fact in his econom, he was gummed, mouth downward, on to a piece of cardboard, and duly labeled and dated with scientific accuvae3: "Helix deserlorum, March 25, 1846." Being a snail of a retiring and contented disposition, however, accustomed to long droughts and corresponding naps in his native sand-wastes, our mollusk thereupon simply-curled himself up into the topmost recesses of his own whorls, rind went placidl to sleep in perfect contentment for an unlimited period. Every chonchologist takes it for granted, of course, that the shells which he receives from foreign parts have had their inhabitants properlh boiled and extracted before being ex ported; for it is only the mere outer shell or skeleton of the animal that we preserve in our cabinets, leaving the actual flesh and muscles of the creature himself to wither unobserved upon its native shores. At the British Museum the desert snail might have snoozed away his inglorious existence unsus pected but for a happy accident which attracted public attention to his remnrk ablo case in a most extraordinary man ner. On March 7, 1850, nearly four years later, it was casually observed that the card on which he reposed was slightly discolored; and this discovery leu to the suspicion that perhaps a liv ing animal might be temporarily im mured within that taper tomb. " The Museum authorities accordingly ordered our friend a warm bath (who shall say hereafter that science is unfeeling!) upon which the grateful snail, waking up at the touch of thefamiliarmoisture, put his head cautiously out of his shell, walked up to the top of the basin, and began to take a cursory survey of Brit ish institutions with his four eye-bearing tentacles. So strange a recovery from a long torpid condition, only equaled by that of the seven sleepers of Ephe sus, deserved an exceptional amount of scientific recognition. The desert snail at once awoke and found himself fa mous. Na3 he actually sat for his por trait to an eminont zoological artist, Mr. Waterhouse, and a wood-cut from the sketch thus procured, with a his tory of his life and adventures, may be found even unto this da3 in Dr. Wood ward's "Manual of the Mollusca," to witness if I lie. Cornhill Mayazinc. How the Skeleton Was Married. Rev. B. C. Lippencott, the minister who united Bertha E. Clear and J. B. Garrison, the living skeleton, in mar riage, explains how he was iuduced to perform the ceremony. "He was ap proached at the ministers' Monday meet ing by a young man who asked if he would go "with him to mam a couple. Being informed that everything was all right, Mr. Lippencott consented to go, and was conducted to a boarding house in Arch street, where, in an upper bed room, was Ga'rrison and the young lady. Garrison was dressed in a full black suit, and I had no idea he was a museum cu riosity. He said he and the young lady wanted to be married. I requested them to stand up, but the bridegroom said he preferred to be married sitting. With out suspecting that anything was amiss, I married them in tha"t posture. They were certainly married, and no mistake, unless I was dreaming, and I don't think I was. Any way. they have a certifi cate." Philadelphia Times. ISC Year Old. Messrs. Francis Newberry & Son, Lin don, England, established for 125 years, write: As a testimonial from one of the old-st drug-hous's in Great Britain, re spacting your household remedy, will no doubt bo of interest to you, we are pleased to make the statement that we have sold St Jacobs Oil with satisfaction to the pub lic for several years, and that owing to the extraordinary merits of the article, the de mand is continually increasing, and that we have heard of many favorable reports regarding its grout virtue as a pain-curing remedv. ' I'm afraid, Bridget, that we will not be able to live together any longer." "An' sure, mum, where is it ye'd bo goin'?" N. Y. Xttca. The short hacking cough, which leads to Consumption. N cured by Pino' Cure. THE GENERAL MARKETS. KANSAS CITV, Feb. 10. 1SR4. CATTLE Sliinninir Steers....?.-. 00 dt. it ;j 4 00 4 & 5 10 7 30 5 00 HI K8 78 43 JM.'-i 50 7 HI 24 10 23 14 7i 19 " 5J 6 25 520 7 2T. 4 00 4 25 110'i 101. Hl',4 :G!i 57 i Native Heifers a 00 & Native Cows 3 00 f(i Butchers Steers.. 4 00 dh HOGS Good to choice heavy C 40 dn Li-rht 4 00 . WHEAT So. 1 M) di Xo. 2. ...... ......... S7 (f No. a 77 dn CORN No. 2 42 dt. OATS-No. 2 ' 30 & KVE No. 2 48 & FLOCK Fancy, per Mick 2 35 dr. HAY Car lots, hri-rht 7 00 Or. nUTTEK Choice dairy 20 dr. CHEESE Kansas, new O!" & EGGS Choice 22 (ft, POKK Hams 11 ?, Shoulders 7 S Sides ! & LARD t h WOOIi Missouri, unwashed.. 18 & FOTATOES-1'er bushel 45 S ST. LOCIS, CATTLE Shipping Steers.... 5 SO Ch HutehfTS' Steers... 4 00 dt HOGS Good to choice 50 & SHEEP Fair to choieo 3 75 Q. FLOCK XXX to choice 3 40 dt. WHEAT No. 2 Winter 1 07 dt. Jfo.3 100 a CORN No. 2 mixed HI fi OATS NO. 2 36 (ft KYE No. 2 ."i" di X VJ V- COTTON-MiddlinR TOBACCO New Lups Medium new leaf 18 35 dt 18 50 tlli 4 40 dt C25 4 75 5 75 CHICAGO. CATTLE Good shipping- 5 40 Ch 6 10 HOGS Good to choice 5 SO 6f. 7 00 SHEEP Fair to choice 2 75 dr. 5 00 FLOCK Common to choice 5 00 & G (O WHEAT No. 2 red Ki rn !5?' No. 3 7!" Cij hO No. 2 Spring IG U'iS CORN No.2 54 & 54 OATS No. 2 33 dt, 33 POKK New Mess lg 25 18 35 NEW YORK. CATTLE Exports HOGS Good to choice COTTON Middling FLOCK Good to choice WHEAT No. 2 red No.2Sirimj rvinv -Vn jJ I Itil Ua OATS Western mixed : 1 7 50 7 40 10': 0 7T. 1 13!' 108 04' i ,.t 10!i 50 1 10 105 Ct 42 18 00 4-1 PORK Standard Mess 18 00 18 25 A HERTER-S STORY. How He wm Overcome and the Way by -which He wm Finally Saved. Correfpondence Spirit of the Times.) An unusual adventure which recently occurred to your correspondent while hunt ing at Brookmere in this State is so timely and contains so much that can be niado valuable to all readers, that I venture to reproduce it entire: The day was a most inclement one and the snow quito deep. Rabbit tracks were plentiful, but they principally led in the direction of a lage swamp, in which the rabbits could run without difficulty, but where the hunter constantly broko through the thin ice, sinking into the half-frozen .mire to his knees. Notwithstanding these difficulties, the writer had persoverod, al though a very small bag of game was the result. While tramping about through a particularly malaria I ortion of the swamp, a middle aged man suddenly came into view carrying a muzzle loading shot-gun and completely loaded down with game of "the finest description. Natural curiosity, aside from the involuntary envy that in stinctively arose, prompted the writer to outer into conversation with the man, with the following result: 'You've had fine success, where did you get all that game?" - Right here, 111 the swamp." "It's, pretty rough hunting in these parts, especially when a man gos up to his waist, every other step." Yes, it's not very pleasant, but I am used to it and don't mind it." "Howlong have you hunted hereabouts J" " AVhy, bless you, I have lived here most of my lite and hunted up to ton years ago every year." ' How does it happen ou omitted tho last ten years" " Because I was scarcely able to move, much K-s hunt." - '-1 don't understand you?" ' Well, you see, about ten years ago, aft er I had been tramping around all day in this same swamp, I felt quite a puin in my ankle. I didn't mind it very much, but it kept troubling me for a day or two, and I could see thai It kept increasing. The next thing I kner. 1 fell tlie same kind of a pain in my shoulder and I found it painea me to move my arm. This thing kept t-oing on and iiieieasiii;-, and though I tried to shake off the feelingand make mye!f think it was only n litths temporary trouble, I found that it did not go. SShoi try after thi my joints began to ache at the knees and I fiw.lly became so bad that I had to remain in the houe most of the time." " And did you trace all this to the fact that j 011 had hunt e I so much in this swamp!'" "No, I didn't know what to lay it to, but I knew that I was iu misery, hiy joints swelled until it seemed as though all tl.o flesh I had left was bunched at the join's; my fingers crooked in every way and some of them became dcuble-jointed. In tact, every joint in my body seemed to vie with the others to see" Inch could become the largest and cause me the greatest suffer ing. In this way several years passed on, during which time 1 was pretty nearly helpless. I becanu o nervous and sensi tive that I would siv bolstered up in the chair and call to people that entered tho room not to come iear me, or oven touch my chair. While ll this was going 0:1, I felt 1111 awful burmng heat and fever, with occasional chills naming all over mvbody, but especially along my back and through my shoulders, 'iheii ag.iin my blood seemed to be toiling and n.y brain to be on tire." "Didn't you try to prevent all this agony?" "'try, I should think I did try. I tried every doctor that camo vithn my reach and all the proprietary medicines I could hear of. I used washes and liniments? enough to last me for all time, but tho only reliet I received was by iujections of mor-. phine." " Well, you talk in a very strange man ner for a man who has tramped around on a day like this and in a swamp like this. How in the world do you daie to do it?" "Because 1 am completely well and as sound as a dollar. It may seem strange, but it is true that I was entirely cured; the rheumatism all driven outof my blood; mi joints reduced to their natural size and my strength made as great a-, ever liefon-, by means of that great and simple remedy. Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure, which I believe saved my life." " And so you now have no fear of rheu matism?" " Whj", no. Even if it should coma on, I can easilv get rid of it by using the same remedy." The writer turned to leave, as it was growing dark, but before I had reached the city precisely the same symptoms I had just heard described came upon me with grt-at violence. Impressed with tho hunt er's story, I tried the samo remedy, and within twenty-four hours all pain and in flammation had disappeared. If any read er is suffering from any manner of rheu matic or neuralcic troubles and desires re- net let him by all means try tins sanur grcst remedy. And if any readers drubfI7 the truth of the above incident or its statt meats let them write to A. A. Coatefl Brookmore. N. Y who wns the mnn wit ....... -'... . 1 whom the writer conversed, and convinri themselves of 11s truth or falsity. J. R. 1 A nEALTir journal tells its readers " Ho to take cold." hat most of us want know is how to let go of it. Bitrlingto Ilaickeye. m A Itleaaenger of Health. bent tree to sufferers from nervou chronic and blood diseases, brain and heart affections, nervous debility, etc. It tells of wonderful cures effected by Dr. Scott's Coca, Beef and Iron, with Phosphorus. Hold by druggists; $1. Dr. Scott, Kansas City, Ho. A sigj in Cleveland reads: " Ice Kream Sallune," which is probably tho worst cold spell of the season. Chicago Journal. Hnle'a Honey of Ilorehound ml Tar If timely used prevents galloping consump tion. Pike's toothache drops cure in ono min. "AFRtEXDis a second self," but some men wobble along without duplication. iv". 1'. Graphic Both Lydia E. Pinkbam'i Vegetable Compound and Blood Puriiier are prepared at iJ3 and -S5 Western Avenue, Lynn, JUas-t. Price of either, $1. Six bottles for j5. Sent by mail in tho form of pill--, or of lozenges, on receipt of .price, rl ior box for either. Mrs. i'inkham freely answers all letters of inquiry. Inclose 3c stamp. Send for pamphlet. Mention this paper. Lawn tennis is a popular game, but it is played out, all the same. y. O. Picayune. m t3TQuantity and Quality. In the Dia mond Dyes more coloring is given than in any known dyes, and they give faster and more brilliant colors. 10c at all druggists. Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt. Sample Card, 32 colors, and book of direc tions for 2c stamp. m Men wear light straw-bats in summor be cause they are not felt. J. W. Graham, Wholesale Druggist, of Austin, Tex., writes: I have been hand ling Dr.WK.HAi.i.'s Balsam forthe Lungs for the past year, and have found it one of the most salable medicines I have ever had for Coughs, Colds and Consumption. "It quiets the patient, and ultimately cures him." A late encomium on Samaritan Atrclnc . . I belikvc Swift's Specific has saved my life. I had virtually lost nse of tho upper part of my body and my arms from the poisonous effects of a largo cancer on my neck, from which Lbad suffered for twenty years. S. S. S. has relieved me of all sore ness, and the poison is being forced out of my system. I will soon be well. W. R. Robinson, Davisboro, Ga. Cold feet two Free Press. feet of snow. Detroit Something for all the Preacher, Rev. H. H. FairaU, D. D., editor of the Iowa Methodist, says editorially, in the November (1883) number of his paper: " We have tested the merits of Ely's Cream Balm, and believe that, tby a thorough course of treatment, it will cure almost ev ery case of catarrh. Ministers, as a class, are afflicted with head and throat troubles, and catarrh seems more prevalent than ever. We cannot recommend Bly's Cream Balm too highly." Not a liquid nor a snuff. Applied to the nostrils with the finger. The man who hath no music in his soul The chap who wears rubber boots. Ar. Y. Journal. Hard to Believe, it is hard to believe that a man was cured of a Kidney disease after his body was swollen as big as a barrel and he had been given up as incurable and lay at death's door. Yet such a cure was accomplished by Kidney-Wort in the person of M. 11. Devereaux, of Ionia, Mich., who says: " After thirteen of the best doctors in De troit had givon me up, I was cured by Kidney-Wort. I want eveiy one to know what a boon it is." "Life is a riddle." That is probably the reason whv suicides want to get riddle life. Boston Transcript. Farmer Try It ! Wells, Ri hardson & Co.'s Improved Butter Color will be found to bo the only oil color that will not become rancid. Test it and you will prove It. It will not color the ttter-milk: it gives the brightest color of any made, and is Uia strongest and therefore the cheapest. Ileum, mamma," said a little innocent with a cut finger, " it's leaking." FnoM the annual statement filed with the Auditor of Iowa, we note lhat the Burling ton Insurance Company had a very pros perous year iu 18S3, its gross income, being over a quarter of a million dollars, the largest cash incomo of any Iowa company. The Burlington has not a dollar of unpaid losses or losses in litigation on its books a highly creditable feature and 0110 that has characterizudthis staunch old com pany for many years. 'Iho Burlington of lers'more certain indemnity to tho insur ing public than any other company, as its ratio of asset- to liabilities is more than double that of any other company. Never pr.'ck rusts the pin. a blister with a pin. It Scdden Ciiangks of Weather are pro ductive of Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds, etc. Effectual relief is found in the use 01 Brown's Bkonciiial Tkoches. A warm .lay for the ladies Fry day. Ar. Y. .Mail. m ' Mh. Olivkk MrKits.of Ironton.O., says: -S-tiiaWtau Xtrvinc cured me of penera! debility." CnnisTOPHF.u Columhus was one o' tho first men to "go Wet." Tcjras Siflinys. . If afflicted with Foro Ees. uo Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eyo Water. Drusnrists sell it. 25c. 3 THE GREAT GERMAN REMEDY For Pain! Believes and cans RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, SCIATICA, LUMBAGO, BACKACHE, Headache, Toothache, SORE THROAT, QUIXSV, SWELLINGS, SPRAIN'S, (1) Soreness, Cuts, Braises, FHOSTBITES, niXILN'M, SCALDS, And di other bodily aches and pslns. FIFTY CENTS A BOTTLE. Sold by all Drngplats and Dealers. DlrecUous la II langunias The Charles A. Vofre If r Co. (feKOMfon I A. 0GEU.R ca) Saltimere.Hd..J.S.A, CHAMPION RINK ROLLER SKATE. Jat the Hknle for Kfnk. JParposcs. t in CO BS. o ft S a" o 5 CO ' 1 1 " offer his Stock of entire IL ltm !-g mBKS2MSf I'M Uaiie, k EMBRACING f until 1 Irii-ri" Klva Crtvai Balm. I haw list d two liottlf. and now consider mr ca iHrrh cun d. I "hive reoiimu'n Jnl t to acv rral of my irlondu vrli h llkr pood remit. D. T. Hirclnwn. 115 Late Strtrt. Clilcagw, III. Cream llulta caiiM'g no rain. Give n-lltfatocce. CIranM-s the head. Causes In-nlthy fecrctlonr. lMnPPIfPKUr'. - 'nar.rr.ifLK ii: ? '- "w- y&&, -S .(Y (2 USA. Abate inflammation. A thorough trratmrnt will cure. Not a liquid or nuff. Appllrd with the finer. Send for circular. Sold by drugging. Mailed I or So corns. elx nnomnns. Pmclt. Owepo. S". T. t fk VEGETABLE COMPOUND IS A POSITIVE CURE FOR All tlione painful Complaints and Wfakninri go common to oar beat FKHALK l'OPULATIOX. rrlM U la DnM, pin r fawanftra. 'It purpooe it roletu for the legitimate heating of difiM and the relief of puin, and that it !( ail it claim to do, thousariU of indict can gladly tettifv. It will care entirely all Ovarian tronblt. Inflamma tion and Clccration. I'aUratc and Dirarrnif nta, and onwnnent Spinal Wraknem, and I nutirultrly adapt ed to the Changs of life. It remort Faintne.FlatB"jcT, dratroyrall craving for stimulvitft. and rIlev Weatmrn of the Stomach. It curea nioMln?. Headaches, Nervous froftratlon, General IVbilitv. SlepeMme. Depression and Indl pertion. That feellntrof bearlnjr clown, eaualntr pa11. nd backache, 1 always permanently en ml hyita use. Sevid stamp to Lrnn. Ma., for pamphlet- Let ten" of Inanity confidentially answered. Portaleatdrugaitt. ' PIERCE'S IMPROVED GAHOON aarayfe, Btdnst si sm. ---.".::" IdssaEr"-TV --.. TMa machln flow wHa vftV&V two rod wide, so that a : man walking one mile sows ".four acres and does tlie .---". - i work letter than can oe --'.done by any other means 2.:. -:i:-whatrYfr It ion CTasa . j--:-;-.:-: ,,,,,1 and ,j jjinds of grain. " :r..:r:: Price, air dol'urm. We :':-.:? "J have Att-mts In all parts of S'he country. Scad stamp ::: for circular. L.M.nnSET XFG.CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. SKi-XKAI. A6XXTS. WPJEIXO K.AKE EXPERI M K.1TA I. TA.Wt.yi Catalogue tree to all applicants. We test new va rieties In the whole domtlnuf scrt. culture, but sell onlr uch as are valnabie In the Writ Address J. X. W t'lX.LIAJlaOJ', KsVnrard- vine, Kama. IRYAMT STRATOM'S S?SSSS: ! hhoiTtianabyinaittintac hon-haiid michine In one-thlnl " the usual time. Graduates satimfal in tttln j tmplo j totai. J r"2Sl --.- id" kHO. rjBAmM FREE Tiny vno vorla cany and late tae yerrOand "need, oc casionally, tec healtk- fol stimulus Imparted by a wholesome aoalc like Hostetter1! StomacnBtucrs. To a!L Ita nnrltv nut efficiency aa a remedy g: and preventive of dls esse conuncna iu lb checks Incipient rheumatism andma tarlal rymptomt, re lieves conHlpatloa, dyspepsia and bilious ness, arrests prema ture decay of the phy sical energies, njia-f-ates the Infirmities or age and hastens convalescence, for sale by all Druggist and Dealers generally. -Sitters SKIN HUMOR. My baby six month cM broke out with some kind of kin hunior.and after being treated Ave months by my faintly physician, was given op to die. The druggist; recommendtd Swift's Specific, and the effect was as gratifying aa It was miraculous. My child soon got well, all traces of the disease Is gone, and he is as fat as a pig. J. J. Kirklaxd, MIndcn. Kusk County, Texas. I have suffered for many years from ulcers en my legs, of ten very large and painful, during which time I usidalmostcverythlngtoeffectacure. but la vain. I took Swlffg Specific by advice of a friend, and la a short time was cured sound ami well. Edwi.v J. Millsr. Beaumont, Texas. Our Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free to applicants. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. NeirTork Office. 113 T"st 23d St., between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. A SPECIFIC FOR Epilepsy, Spastns, Convul sions, J'alltn a Sidbwsj.St.Vitus Dance. Alcohol- ftTHEfiBKl'flg:01"-"1-': cuuiuis, jxuiyz NERVE Ev2, Ugly Blood Diseases, Dyspep tclojBieinffloiBff sia, Nervousness, IStrifc Hcadaclie. icumatisE, Xenxrds Weakness, Brain Wonr, Blood Sores, Biliousness, Costivenca, Nervous Prostration, Kidiwy TrouUc3 end Irregularities. 1.50. Sample Tcstunocinln. Samaritan Nervine is do!n wondt rs." Dr. J. O. McLemoin, Alexander City, Ala. "I feel it my duty to recommend it." Dr. I). F. Lanolin, Clyde, Kansas. "Itcnrcd where physicians failed." Iter. J. A. Zdie, Beaver, Ts. JB3CerrecpBdexiCO freely answered -C3k THE S3. S. A. EICHB05D BED. CO., ST. JOSEPil! EH 8old by All Druggists. L0KD, STOUTEXBURa ft CO., Agents. Chicago, HI XX. -NOTICE. -XX. As BLUE FLANNEL Garments Of Inferior Quality of Good a:eoldasthe --p-nuin" Middlesex," which arc not made by that mill. The Mldili -sex Cumpuiy. In onh r to protect their eintomew and the puhll;. pni-notieo tint hcrcafercllC!othlngin.i.lefroin Tilt-. MIDDLE SEX 8TANDAKD IVDIUOBLUEFI.ANNEI.S Afcl YACHT CLOTHS, unld Iit all leadlnB clothiers, mnst lieartho "SILK HANKERS." fnml'hed by the Selling Agent to til panic ordering the goods. WENDELL, FAY & CO., ; SELLING AGENTS. M1DDVESEX OMPANT. 80 and SK Worth sr.. New York: SIT Franklin St, Boston. 21 4 Cbotuutbt.. I'll. tad Ip.ila. CHICAGO SCALE GO. CTQ-1 VfiCOt ST U.K. S40. 1TOX. SSO. 4Toii SfiO. lum llox Inclutled. 2401b. FARMER'S SCALE, S5. Tlie "Little Detective," M or. to as lb. W. 300 OTII Eft SIZES. Hnlnttd i-KICK LISTmMU PORaES, TOOLS. &c. . CEST rultCK BADE FOR LIGHT WOltK. 10. 40lb.AnvilnndKltorToolH.iS10. Tsrmtrt n tiM sml aiaary Mn m JM. Blowers. Anvil"". Vico Other Articles AT LOnnST MUCKS, WII0LE31LK RETAIL. J, B. ROOT & CO.'S mustra uaruen jubduhi o vycrrTABLE and FL0WB SEEDS, rcaay for nil appli cnntu. Market Cardenert EEDS Hr-tnlHr- 'Write foi Wholoxnle Price-Usr. tlTBENT VKJ-'K ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS $3.00 wrT $1.50 Wf will tend for one year the JotncvAl. or Aomrri-TCIW AMAJrKU-ANhT.CKUEi:EiiIK, alrr. lpEe. to-ul-umn wcvkly illuitrilrd ptprr, lSe.MeiUb!uhl.awl alaija packet, liJ vritti.of lManl. ViirtableSetd'.turon'y 81-3"; Tliepa-kigecunUintiltefol!oiii5vatictU-i ofthc Itr5tanl best seeds: Egyptian Rett Beet. Brwtticick Uibtxigr. Vanter Carrot, Golden Ceterv. WhUe Spine CucumUr, Perpetual Lettuce, Got.ten Gem tttubmetan. Bott SnUrl melon. Yellow Giant Onimi. White Globe Onion, French Rmtith, SUrer Turnip Rmiilh, furorlte fonvitnjlunich . Ttimip,GertSquah.Spi'""-h. Satupt 1'irprr.tlffdlitl Tre Address. PHILIP CHEW, iub., St-Louis, Ho. CONSUMPTION. Tiinrt.u.inMtireremnlr for tne aove Uumeim.- usethoUNanil-i of ca-n of tho worst k nd and of .farutinf.ti.ivr bMin nirrd. lndtil. -o t-onir in m V in its efKTaT.that I 111 nd TWt) UOTTLI-3 FKHE. to RetherwithaVALUABLBTHEATIbK on thN dlaeo-se, to any sufferer, utve Kxprwi ami 1-. u. anurein. DR. T. A. SLOCUM, 11 Tearl SU . New York. PISffSKENlEdYFOI?; CVTAfWI Easy to tne. A certain cure. Kot eapenslve. Threo) montfia' treatment in one piicknce. Good for Cold in the Head, Ileailuche. Dizziness. Hay Fever, Ac Finy cents. My all Drueaasts. orby mall. E. T. HAZELTLVE. Warren, Pa. RUSSELL & GOS ANNUAL. Just issued. Bent trco to all Interested in lm S roved Threshlstc uehlaen, llorso Poweri, Har MI1I. and nglaiea for Farm m Plantation n.e. Addrt-ri ?u.u.ipir. RUSSELL A CO., Masslllon,0. PATENTS Procured or no chance, also Trade Marks, Label, etc Larue CU-frat ! ( . .1 Ijm l-'llEK. Lonff ex perience. Hiphest reference. W. T. FITZOERALD, Attorney at Law, I OOO F Street, WashlnEtOn,D.C- "THE MST IS THE CHEAPEST." saw ciiniiicc thkshebs'! MILLS, Cnullil-OrmH, lForallsccUonsaadpuriOWriteforiPrltophle and rrlces to Tne Aultman ATay lor Co. , MajaaAelu, Ohio. IIICD -ST. tOIJURQ VEBETaELE PiLLS.- I ff Hill The Seat Care for Liver mnd Sj Blllona complaints, CoatlveBeasy Urstdaehe and Byapcpala. Price. SSe. M at Drunrt'ta or by mail. Saaaplea free. BBiSt.BeiBardPillBTakera, tSaTereerSt.HewToTk. SEEDS I grow them myself and test thcin before aelllnK, They are frrsh and reliable, dontbuyany seeds from second hand deilrm. TUfrlfeiorinyniiiTid 1 Hntrate.l Almanae Catalogue. FJtEE. II WBUCKBEK.Boxl86S.RockfOTd.IlL Lady Agents caa sccneepcfsia. DeateBoloiiBiiia and coo Uty sellias Qaeca i i Sanple outfit Pre. AddreuAvM selliagQaeca Cttr rxr ,aacbinatL9 WAKTEl-Men and Woata t start a new business at their homes, easily learned In an hoar. o nnldltne: Kie to Sue an honr mad davtlme or even ing-. Send IB, for samples to commenccworlt on. Address M. a. JTAY, gatlawd. LEARN TELEGRAPHY tA;,T soanceeveroCered. Ad.J.D.BBOvrx.McrM8edaIa.fo. FAR I IMPS IKC -The grandest article. Sen lUll UlUICO UOti stamp for liluotrated clrcubuv Dr. IX. 6.rAKK, 75 lssex btrect. lloston. SI; A. MOXTaf. AgcnU Wanted. 0'JfJ, .lllnsanl.-lfsmth'world. lsampW .KA& ' Addrcsa JAY BUONSON, DrrmoiT. Micu- ' 2: J A.N.K.-D. So. 9S. ITJjrK-r WBITIMU TO AUVERTMSERfli jtleaae smy au tc the atrerfiaSMuT flOSEErQ; afcFdafaaY-'-K3 $&m v---l KJasv-w ft5rr5r3s-t?l iSS9w!l Hi-.JK vf v:7f"l Tfcy v. jj f - y lc-.' I 1 l - ,-ia-.t 1 1 r "sn. ii :Z&SZL "i- ... - ... .. 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