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It purifies and enriches the blood tones
the stomach gives strength to the nerves
and health to the whdle system It is just
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Rootbeer
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Invigorating appetiz
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Scld everywhere
Equal parts of lime water and sweet
oil well mixed will form a kind of
soap which is very efficacious in tailing
out or removing inflammation as well
as for healing wounds cansed by burns
or scalds
SAVED FROM INSANITY
HckkIs Sarsaparllla Proved to Be the
Rijrlit Kind of Medicine
The horrors which accompany a shat
tered rverrous system are known only to
those wfoo enffer Xo one else can com
prehend them Weak nerves insufficient
ly nourished owing to impure blood lead
to nervoHS prostration and insanity
Hoods Sarsaparilla purifies and enriches
the blood strengthens the nerves and re
stores physical mental nervous and di
gestive strength Just read this letter
KaJainazoo Mich April G 1S9T
G I Hood Co Lowell Mass
I was sick for six months and in a ter
rible condition When I was not confined
to my bed I was hardly aWe to get around
I was all run down and lost flesh so that
I weighed only 100 pounds I could not
sleep and I had very bad spelis with my
heart My stomach was also in a bad
condition and my head feJt so iliat at
times I couid not see across the room I
was to5d that I had nervous prostration
and that my blood was bud 1 tried med
icines with only temporary relief One
day I was told to take Ilwds Sarsapa
rilla and I got six bottles I began Tak
ing it and soon commenced to improve
This eneou raged me to continue I had
found the right kind of medicine I am
now completely cured I have gained in
flesh and weigh 15S pounds I can eat
and sleep well I recommend Hoods Sar
saparilla 10 all sufferers and believe it
Eaved me from the insane asylum Mrs
F P Firrar 1023 North Burdick street
The total duration or bright sunshine
for a week in Aberdeen Scotland re
cently amounted to nine hours in an
English town sixteen hours and in
London but a little over a quarter of an
hour
The Minnesota Summer Resort
Lake Miunetonka near St Paul and
Minneapolis is the ideal resort of the
northwest It is one of the most pictur
esque localities in the country the lake
having over 150 miles of shore line attract
ive willi forests lawns and cottages It is
a not able yachting resort and has more
line sailing steam craft than any other lake
in the Union The outlet is Min
nehaha Laughing Water Creek made
famous by Longfellows poem The
bass fishing cannot be excelled Ho
tel Lafayette at Miunetonka Beach
Dpens June 26th for season of 1897 It is
X the most complete summer house west of
the Mississippi and contains live acres of
floor surface every room facing the water
It is reached by frequent trains on the
Great NorthernKailway from the Twin
Cities Persons desiring to spend a few
days or weeks at the Lafayette please ad
dress E V llolcombe manager St Paul
plinn
For rates to St Paul Minneapolis and
Lake Miunetonka address W B Mc
mdev G P A S C X R R Sioux
City Iowa
The introduction of one new culture
is worth more to a nation than all the
victories of the most splendid battles of
their history
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TREED BY A BEAR
school Maam Thought It Was a Calf
Un1ll She Fonnd Out IJifFerant
Lucretia Ritter a pretty little school
teacher of Sullivan County Pennsyl
vania had a terrible experience the
other day She is in charge of a coun
try school in a lonely portion of the
Shunk Mountains in the vicinity of
Elk Lake and boards at a farm house
over a mile distant For convenience
the young teacher has been accustomed
to take a short cut through lonely
woods thus saving herself a long walk
As slip was traversing the path on her
way to the schoolhouse she observed
THE SCHOOL MAAM UP A TREE
what she supposed was a yearling calf
lying directly in her path She bravely
waved her lunch basket to scare the
animal but was almost petrified with
horror when she discovered that it was
a full grown bear The bear made a
rush for her and the girl in her fright
climbed partly up a crooked tree To
add to her terror her clothing became
fastened to a broken limb of the tree
and the frightened girl was unable
either to ascend or descend The bear
in the meantime had devoured her
lunch basket and flowers off her hat
which were dropped during the girls
fright
The bear kept the girl a prisoner for
over three hours and was finally fright
ened off by the arrival of Fanner
Swartz After Miss Ritter had been
released from her perilous position she
fainted and was carried in Swartzs
arms to her boarding house a distance
of almost a mile She is entirely pros
trated since her terrible experience
and it is feared that the shock may
prove fatal
Bansring Rock Near Massillon Iowa
About one quarter mile east of Mas
sillon Iowa on the bank of the Wapse
pinicon River hangs a ledge of rocls
which makes a beautiful spectacle
when viewed from the quarter mile
country bridge just above Just back
of this rock on the bluff are two natu
ral wells reaching seventy feet down
into the solid limestone It is said by
some that these wells are infested by
firedamp which makes an examination
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impossible These wells are as round
and perfect as if bored by an augur
Another peculiar phenomenon is the
myriads of mosquitoes that gather
about these wells during the warm
summer months It was claimed some
years ago that curious musical sounds
issued from these wells at midnight
but upon close examination scientists
found that these musical disturbances
wepe caused by millions of mosquitoes
The fact of these natural wells are
vouched for by anj of the citizens of
Massillon and surrounding country
The accompanying sketch is a very
good one of the hanging rock showing
the wells on the bluff to the right
The most sublime of poets was
Isaiah His word pictures have been
models for all succeeding writers
WivJtlll
Sweetness and Light
Put a pill in the pulpit if you want practical
preaching for the physical man then put the
pill in th pillory if it does not practise what it
preaches Theres a whole gospel in Ayers
Sugar Coated Pills a gospel of sweetness
and light People used to value their physic
as they did their religion by its bitterness
The more bitter the dose the better the doctor
Weve gat over that We take sugar in ours-
gospel or physio Its possible to
please and to purge at the same time There
may be power in a pleasant pill That is the
gospel of
Ayers Cathartic Pills
More pill particulars in Ayers Cureboofc ioapags
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tiy i v Cnssiers Magazine This is
if- uf Mr K V MeKeuna
for ywu s ident ilird with large railway
systems IIi idea wk- to heat th j
worn ril in its entirety and cause as
littU reduction of weight of section a
losbk and restore it to perfect sec
tion and make it suitable for its
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SECTIONS OF OLD AND KKKOTLTCD RAILS
inal main track use Experiments with
the renewed rails in actual service
prove eminently satisfactory
In the accompanying illustration are
shown three sections of worn rails
The sections given show the different
ways in which steel rails wear togeth
er with llowage of metal i e excess
ive curve wear ordinary curve wear
and tread wear The fact that these
different forms of worn rails varying
in weight from r4 pounds to HoO
pounds per yard were all renewed to
the staaulard C weighing H3 pounds
per yard demonstrates that the maxi
mum reduction due to the process need
not exceed 25 pounds per yard and the
resultant product of any lot of worn
rails will be within five pounds of the
original weight
In sections of rails shown in the sec
ond illustration the original rail was
of English make and was in the track
twenty nine years In the rerolling
process the rails were altered to admit
the use of modern joint material
In operating the process the rails
were charged into a furnace that was
sufficiently long to accommodate the
whole rail After being brought up to
a bright red heat the rails were drawn
from the end of the furnace opposite
to that used for charging and carried
by a steam driven carriage to the back
side of a three high set of rolls and
entered between the top and middle
rolls After passing through they fell
upon driven rollers and liy them en
tered into the final or finishing pass be
tween the middle and bottom rolls
Thev were then earned to the hot saws
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in the usual way and after beiug cut
to the desired lengths were put on the
hot bed to cool subsexpiently being cold
straightened and drilled for splice
bolts The lass in heating and rolling
ran from On per cent to OS per cent
With one heating furnace the product
was over 100 tons per turn A plant
is being built at Toliet 111 to renew
rails by this process
AGED ILLINOIS PREACHER
Father Rnpp of Clarice Counts- Was
Born Ninety two Years Afro
Rev Father Henry Rupp of Clarke
County Illinois is theoklestactave cler
gyman in the State if not in America
At 92 years of age he is still preaching
the glad tidings He walks into town
three or four times a week He has a
kind or a pleasant word to say to every
body and he is beloved by all who know
him Father Rupp was born ninety
two years ago in Lebanon County
Pennsylvania In 1S32 he immigrated
to Wayne County Ohio and in 1847 he
came to Illinois At this time this part
REV HENRY KUPP
of the country was very thinly settled
and as tie people here spoke English
of which Father Rupp was ignorant
he was compelled to set to work to
master it in order that he might con
tinue his ministerial duties His cir
cuit covered many miles and the roads
vrore aew and rough Many tiniefl he
111 uruer uox 10 uisappomz 11s
tions For more than sixty years he
has been a preacher and has brought a
great multitude of people into the
Christian religion On a recent Sun
day he preached in Martinsville and
the church was filled with his old time
friends and admirers Father Rupp is
still hale and hearty His favorito
pastime is fishing and when he has
earned a vacation he spends it in that
recreation
WRECK OF A WORK OF ART
Statue of Allies Gilkerson Is Deniol
ished
The costly marble statue of Agnes
CJilkerson for years an object of in
terest on the lawn of the Hezekiah B
Smiths mansion at Smithville N J
was broken into thousands of pieces
the other day The wreckage of this
remarkable work of art was then cast
in Rancoeas Creek and the testimo
nial to Congressman Hezekiah B
Smiths folly went out of sight forever
The story of Smith and Agnes Gilker
son is one of extraordinary romance
and wrong and when first made pub
lic stirred the whole country The
man had deserted his rightful family
at Woodstock Vt and made a new
home at Smithville with the woman of
his infatuation He became a million
aire manufacturer creating a great in
dustrial plant in the out of the way re
treat he had selected He also went to
Congress and grew to be a political fig
ure in the State Agnes Gilkerson
known to those who knew Smith then
as his wife pushing liiin onward and
upward He would doubtless have
won higher political honors but his
past became known When the woman
died the inconsolable and aged manu
facturer had a statue of her made in
Italy and placed it on his front lawn
where he could see it always
Captain Elton Smith one of the man
ufacturers surviving children recently
come into the great property of his
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father and one of his first acts was to
order the statue of Agues Gilkerson
destroyed so it should never more
plague him or his A dozen stalwart
men armed with sledges and axes sent
the white statue crashing to the ground
and hammered the marble fiercely un
til nothing but a pile of debris remain
ed Some of the villagers tried to se
cure pieces of the statue as souvenirs
but a cart took the whole mass to the
creek where it was dumped into ten
feet of water and covered with stones
He Mad a Sale
He was a very small boy and very
ragged but there was a look in his eyes
of shrewd intelligence beyond his
years His left hand he held behind
his back but his right was expended
and between two grimy fingers he held
a half smoked stump of a cigarette
Tie had his eye on a well dressed man
who was walking jauntily along the
street swinging his cane
Say mister said the boy gimm a
match will yer please
The man stopped good naturedly and
smiled when he saw the dirty cigarette
stump He made a pretence of search
ing his pockets for a match and finally
said
I havent one bub
The boy hastily slipped the stump
into his pocket and withdrawing his
left hand from behind his back dis
played a large box containing an as
sortment of small Imixos
If yer aint got no matches said
he uows a good time for yer ter
buy I got em all wax and wood and
some what wont blow out in the wind
and udders what will Yer takes yer
pick
He sold two boxes for a nickel
Exit Tompkins
Tompkins is one of those gentlemen
of kind disposition who are ever- on
the outlook for a chance to improve
their neighbors mind Seeing a man
apparently a country fellow sitting on
the fence regarding the telegraph
wires carefully Tompkins approached
and said
Watching the wires ehV
Yes
Waiting to see a message go by
eh
Yes sir the man replied smiling
Then Tompkins spoke kindly to him
and explained the mystery of the elec
tric current and that the messages
were invisible and finished up with
Now you know something about it
Then as he was going away he said
by the way What do you work at
Me and my mate over yonder are
telegraph workers and weve just fin
ished putting up a new wire
No Difference
A Chicago jury discovered when it
retired to make up iis verdict that one
of Its number did not understand a
word of English However he had
made up his mind that the accused
men were guilty and as the eleven
men thought likewise they brought in
a rerdict to that effect
Old Books in California
More rare and interesting books it Is
said can be found on the shelves of th
old book stores in San Francisco than
anywhere else in the country exceit
New York This is accounted for by
the fact that many families v ho wen
to California in 49 have been force
through reverses of fortune to dispose
of personal property books among tb
rest
A Bundle of Nerves
This term Is often applied to people whose
nerves are abnormally sensitive They
should strengthen them with Ilostetters
Stomach Bitters After a course of that he
liign fonie they will cease t he conscious
that they have nervous systems except
through agreeable sensations It will enable
them to eat sleep and digest well the three
media for increasing tme and vigor In the
nerves In common with the rest of the sys
tem The mental worry begotten by nervous
dyspepsia will also disappear
x ausas Idea of a To a
A Kansas paper complains because in
a recent church entertainment an em
broidered nightgown was worn to rep
resent a Roman toira
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is a constitutional cure Price 75 cents
The greatest biographer who ever
lived was Plutarch who has been
styled Tin Father of Biography
People with hair that is continually fall
ing out or those that are bald can stop
the falling and get a good growth of hair
by using nails llair Itenewer
Eflie Crooker a pretty girl of 32 has
captured a star route contract at Port
Washington N Y
I believe my prompt use of Pisos Cur
ireventc d quick consumption Mrs Is
y Wallace 7rouoTte Kan Pec 12 X
The small worries fill the most ears
Everybody listens when the mosquito
sings
Mrs TTinslows SOOTHING Sykup for Children
teething softens the ifunis reduces In animation allays
Bain cures wind colic 25 cants a bottle
Motherlioodo
maternity
Do you know the meaning of what
is popularly called those long
ngs or cravings which beset so
many women during pregnancy
There is something backing in the
mothers blood Nature cries out
and will be satisfied at all hazards
One woman wants sour things
another wants sweets another
wants salt things and -so on
The real need all the time is to
mrich the blood so as to supply
nourishment for another life and
to build up the entire generative
so that the birth may be
possible and successful
If expectant mothers would fort
Xy themselves with Lydia E Pink
lams Vegetable Compound which
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Washing Blanket
Blankets which have been used nil win
ter 20 mutter how whhe rhey may look
iire never clean and should not 1k put
away for the summer wicfiout being wash
ed Many hotsckeejeM satisfy themselves
by shaking und airing their blankets rath
er than risk spoiling them in washing
Put this is an error for if the work id
properly ilme no shriling will take place
and the softness and color may be retain
ed for years The most necessary thing
in washing blankets is to have plenty of
soft rt ater and good soap Inferior soap
is the real cause of the damage done wool
en goods in washing
When ready to begin the work shake
the blankets free of dust till a tub nearly
full of soft hot water Dissolve a third
of a cake of Ivory tp in it Put in one
blanket at a time Dip up and down and
wash gently with the hands Never rub
soap on the blankets or wash them on
the wnshlxard After the blankets are
clean nnse them in warm water until free
of muIs Add a little bluing to the last
water Shake and sponge them and hang
on the line until dry then take down fold
and pack in a box and set away in a cool
room Blankets thus washed will retain
their original freshness as well as wear
three limes as long as if put away soiled
year after year
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Switzerland has as many as 57 sav
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or more than a third of the total popu
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Allens Foot -Ease makes tlght litting
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Gou uas created a hunger which only
immortality can appease
A mother who is in good physical condition transmits
to her children the blessings of a good constitution
The child fairly drinks in health from its mothers
robust constitution before birth and from a healthy
mothers milk after
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Jiousands of women in this condition there would be fewer disappointments
b birth and they would not experience those annoying- longings
In the folloxving letter to Mrs Pinkham Mrs Whitney demonstrates the
ower of the Compound in such cases She says
From the time I was sixteen years old till I was twenty three I was
roubled with weakness of the kidneys and terrible pains when my monthly
eriods came on I made up my mind to try Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable
Jompound and was soon relieved After I was married the doctor said I
vould never be able to go my full time and have a living child as I was
weak I had lost a baby at seven months and a half The
icxt time I commenced at once and continued to take your Compoundthrough
-he period of pregnancy and I said then if I went my full tisie and the baby
Ived to be three months old I should send a letter to you My baby is now
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