lU K 4 K I r a i c - tv i Y j i P r f ii A ti i r I r I A - tH5 n i 4t M 1 rft Li i V J 5 X SJSS OK8 XJOYS Both tho method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste and acts Esntly yet promptly on the Kidneys iver and Bowels cleanses the sys tem effectually dispels colds head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach prompt in its action and trulv beneficial in its effects prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO SAN FRANCISCO CAL LOUISVILLE KY NEW YORK NY FREIGHT PAIDffSfSSiSMIW ad Ceiling Manilla Write lor samples and prices The Fay Manilla Roofing Co Camden J Send ror Inventors Guide free Kdoab PATKNTS Patent Solicitors 245 Broadway N Y Before the Flood Smiles Isnt It strange that those old timers didnt have any clothes they could call their own Giles Why what do you mean Smiles Well you know the Bible says that they rent their garments It Is Not Cold in the South The weather this season in the south has been all that could be desired and all who have already reached the resorts of Florida and the jjulf coast are charmed with their locations The Louisville and Xashville Railroad Companys arrangements for through service of sleeping cars and coaches from northern cities are unsur passed this winter Tourist tickets good to return until May 31 are on sale by this line from all poins at low rates For full particulars write to C P Atmore general passenger agent Louisville Ky or Geo B Horner D P A St Louis Mo The swiftest bird Is the kestrel or English sparrow hawk It has been known to achieve a speed of 150 miles b J hour Hows This We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot bo cured by taking Halls CatariiCdrO T J CHENEY CO Props Toledo Ohio We the undersigned liave known F J Cheney for the laBt 15 yeare and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations nmdo by Choir firni Wjcst Truax Wholesale DruggiBts Toledo Waldin g Kdjsax Marvin Wholesale Drug gists Toledo Ohio Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally act ing directly upon tho blood and mucous sur faces of the svstein Testimonials sent free Price 75 cents per bottlo Sold by all Druggists As the rarest wine doth turn to vine gar through neglect so doth the most exhilarating love What to Eat It Keeps tho Feet Warm and Dry And Is the only cure for Chilblains Frost Bites Damp Sweating Feet Corns and Bunions Ask for Allens Foot Ease a powder to be shaken Into the shoes At all druggists and shoe stores 25c Sample sent FREE Ad dress Allen S Olmsted LeRoy N Y The largest known flower is said to be the Rafliesia of Sumatra It has a diameter of nine feet TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All Druggists refund Uie money if it falls to cure 25c Indolence is to the mind like moss to a tree it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth Pisos Cure for Consumption is the only cough medicine used in my house D C Albright Mifflinburg Pa Dec 1195 The best way to humble a proud man Is not to take any notice of him jJR fli F V Lifeboat Idea Ridiculed at First One of the attractions in the village church at Hythe England is a stained glass window in memory of Lionel Lukin inventor of the lifeboat Lu teins body lies in the parish churchyard and a curious inscription records his connection with the invention He took out a patent in 1785 but the con servative lords of the admiralty saw nothing good in it and It was not recog nized by the government for some time thereafter Instrumental Play The horn Im going out on a toot to night The drum Well you cant beat me Ill bet I have the biggest head in the morning The violin I heard you had an awful head on you this morning The drum Dont you believe it some ones been stringing you again The bones Shut up there will you You get me rattled CHRONIC RHEUMATISM From the Industrial Neios Jackson Mich The subject of this sketch is fifty six years of age and actively engaged in Vanning When seventeen years old he hurt his shoulder and a few years after commenced to have rheumatic pains in it On taking a slight cold or the least strain the trouble would start and he would suf fer the most excruciating pains He suffered for over thirty years and the last decade has suffered so much that he was unable to do any work To this frequent dizzy spells were added mak ing him almost a helpless invalid In all Sorts of Weather He tried the best physicians and used several specific rheumatism cures without being benefited About one year and six months ago he read in this paper of a case somewhat similar to his which was cured by Dr Williams Pink Pills and concluded to try this remedy After taking the first box he felt some what better and after using three boxes the pains entirely disappeared the dizzi ness left him and he has now for over a year been entirely free from all his former trouble and enjoys better health than he he has had since his boyhood He is loud in his praises of Dr Will iams Pink Pills for Pale People and will gladly corroborate the above statements His postoflice address is Lorenzo Neeley Horton Jackson County Michigan All the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blopd and restore shattered nerves are contained in a con densed form in Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People All druggists sell them Ketort Courteous I have no fears as to my daughters ultimate success said the ex prima donna for she has inherited my voice Indeed replied the visitor Ive pften wondered what became of it STILL THERE IS MONEY IN IT Carl Vollen sold 350 of Salzers Cab bage Labor seed rent and all did not cost him 50 profit 300 You can beat that and make lots of money on Early Radishes Peas Lettuce Mushrooms Onions Sweet Corn Tomatoes Pota toes etc Salzer warrants his seeds the earliest in the world Potatoes only 150 per barrel Millions of Raspber ries Cherries Apples and small fruits Catalogue tells all about them Send 16 Cents in Stamps to the John A Salzer Seed Co LaCrosse Wis and get free their big Plant and Seed Cata logue and 10 packages vegetable and flower seeds novelties worth 1 cn Travel on Belts Endless leather belts acting as mov ing staircases convey the patrons of a large Parisian store from one floor to another Given Away For only four dollars a genuine guar anteed watch with your order for forty boxes 120 cakes Red Clover Soap Retail price 25 cents a box Any man or boy can sell this in one day Send 10 cents for sample cake by mail F P Deax Sioux City Iowa Delayed by a balky horse on a visit to Cornell ex Gov Flower visited the library and finding more books needed left a check for 5000 to furnish a spe cial library for the veterinary college MEN CALL WOMAiN A MYSTEKY So She is to Them Not so to a Woman A Womans Knowledge Saves Mrs Ebbcrt From an Operation A woman understands women as a man never can hope to For this reason Mrs Lydia E Pinkham of Lynn Mass now known all over the English speaking1 world set to work to help her sex After long and patient investigation Mrs Pinkham confirmed her own conclusions namely that seven- eighths of the sufferings of women are due to dis orders of the uterine system Reasoning on this line she saw that the only preventive of early breaking down was a specific medicine which would act alone on the female organism This was why she prepared her excellent Vegetable Compound which has been such a boon to thousands and thousands of women If you have headaches chiefly at the top of the head and are troubled by painful menstrua tion dizziness sleeplessness backache and that bearing down feeling Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound will tone up your -whole system Mrs Chab D Ebbert 330 Wood St Reading Pa testihes to the great power of the Compound Mrs Pinkham I can say that your medicine has cured me of the pains and troubles which I had My case a very had one and puzzled the doctor My womb 1 fallen and I had terrible pains in my hack andhips I could hardly walk My husband went to our fam ily doctor and he prescribed medicine for me but Ifoundno relief and grew worse instead of better The doctor examined me and wanted to perform an operation but my husband would not consent Seeing the advertisement in the paper I got a bottle of Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and before I had f taken half of the second bottle I felt like a new wo man In all I have taken four bottles of your medicine and can say that I am entirely cured I hope that every woman suffering as I did will follow my ad iice1 and tike your medicine at once - fMH aH v Among the many curious Inventions in which electricity plays the principal role is mentioned a pen provided near the point with a minute incandescent lamp intended to illuminate a small space on the paper and prevented from shining into the eyes of the writer by a little reflector placed just above it In a concert hall of Paris electric energy has been put to the novel use of moving the ceiling This is in two parts which are drawn back on travel ing cranes opening the hall to the glass roof by day The opening or closing of the ceiling is effected in one minute by two electric motors A wealthy lady who possesses a pet Maltese cat found recently that the cats eyesight began to fail so she took him to an oculist By means of a pic ture of a mouse the oculist quickly learned what was the matter and was able to fit the cat with glasses The lenses were set in gold frames especial ly made and now the cats eyesight is as good as ever Dr G K Gilbert of the Geological Survey says that a comparison of gage records for a period of twenty years shows that the land surrounding the Great Lakes is being gradually tilted from northeast to southwest at such a rate that of two points 100 miles apart the northern rises five inches with ref erence to the southern in 100 years At Chicago the lake level rises about one inch in ten years Dr Gilbert predicts tihat if this movement continues in about 3000 years all the upper lakes will discharge Into the Illinois River the Detroit and St Clair Rivers will flow backward carrying the water of Lake Erie into Lake Huron and the Niagara River will run dry A new fireproof paper made in Ber lin is reported to be capable of resist ing even the direct influence of flame while it may be placed in a white heat without harm It consists of 95 parts of the best asbestos fibre which is washed in a solution of permanganate of calcium and then treated with sul phuric acid and 5 parts of ground wood pulp the entire mass being placed in the agitating box with the addition of some lime water and borax After thor ough mixing the material is pumped into a regulating box and allowed to flow out of a gate into an endless wire cloth where it enters the usual paper making machinery J The electric trolley has been a source of great injury to metallic pipes in its vicinity causing their corrosion by elec trolysis Recently it has been found that the operation of the syphon re corder of the submarine telegraph ca ble at Cape Town South Africa was Interfered with by the new trolley line The shore end of the submarine cable tor the length of a mile was at a mean distance of one half a mile from the trolley line As a remedy a second or dummy cable with an earth plate was laid as nearly as possible over the old one and this effectually cancelled the disturbances Observations made In London have shown that the earths magnetic field is disturbed over the whole neighborhood of the City and South London Electric Railroad and in the United States the utility of the magnetic observatory in the new naval observatory is threatened by the trol ey An American company is making es timates of the cost of a cable road from the City of Mexico to the sulphur de posits in the crater of Popocatepetl A doctor says that in society one may always tell the girls whose parents have risen from the humbler class to wealth by the superior quality of their hair Some people in the South are predict ing that the current trend in cotton manufacture will flood the North with negro operatives and the South with Yankee white girls Several cases of bloomers were among the booty taken by tramps from a freight car at Chillicothe Ohio The police are puzzled to know what the marauders intend to do with the gar ments Bicycles are used for smuggling on the frontier of France and Belgium The customs officers at Tourcoiug took to pieces the machine ridden by a man they suspected and found that all the hollow tubing was stuffed with tobacco A quaint iuscrpitiou has lately been noted upon a tombstone without name and without date in a cemetery The dead man or woman as the case may be had ordered the following words should be placed over the grave Pass on oh reader WaMe not thy time in reading vain prose and still less useful words My tomb tells thee what I am what I was concerns thee not Vani tas vanitatum was evidently in the thoughts of this philosophically resign ed person With Things as Well as People He But the worst of cycling is that It brings one in contact with all kinds of people She thinking of her bruises It cer tainly does Especially the first week or so Odds and Ends Knocked Out Tt kuocks out all calculations oZ at tending to business in the right way for a day when we wake up in the morning sore and stiff The disappoint ment lies in going to bed all rigiit and waking up all wrong There is a short and sure way out of it Go to bed after a good rub wth St Jacobs Oil and you wake up all right soreness and stiff ness all gone So sure is this that men much exposed in changeful weather keep a bottle of it on the mantel for use at night to make sure of going to work in good fix How She Managed It Ella He seemed to question me with his eyes all the evening Hattie Then I suppose you used your nos in answering him Ella On the contrary I waited until he found his voice and then Dont you think my engagement ring is love ly dear 1898 Calendars A very handsome calendar for 1S98 madf to represent a Government mail pouch has been issued by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Ry It is printed in a rich brown and gold on heavy enam eled card size 8x15 inches The calen dar will be sent free anywhere on receipt of eight cents in postage to cover cost of mailing by applying to A J Smith G P T A Cleveland O Submarine Cables The laying of the Atlantic cables was not the uncertain experiment that is commonly supposed for years before any attempt was made to connect the old and new world with electric wires submarine cables had been made a suc cess The first was laid in 1850 be tween Dover and Calais a copper wire covered with gutta percha It soon failed and was replaced in 1851 by a cable of four wires which proved en tirely successful In 1853 six cables were laid between England and Ire land in 1S54 five others the longest about 100 miles In 1855 a cable was laid from Varna to Constantinople 1G0 miles for service in the Crimean war The Atlantic Telegraph Company was organized by Cyrus W Field in 1S5C and made two attempts to lay the Atlantic cable one in 1857 the second in the following year Both were fail ures but the third attempt proved suc cessful and in August 1858 tele graphic communication was establish ed between the continents The cable however worked for only a few weeks and then failed public confidence in the scheme was lost the civil war came on and not until 1865 could the capitalists of Europe and America be induced to take up the project anew In that year a cable was partially laid by the Great Eastern but snapped and in the following year another cable was taken out and successfully laid be tween Europe and America Mr Field devoted over twelve years of incessant labor to his project and in its Interest crossed the Atlantic fiftv three times WHERE HARD TIMES ARE NOT KNOWN Doscribed by a St Paul Paper as the New Star of Liberty mmm m ijrWiMJJ ajy - r An- I A s p oudent in a com munication to this pa per says during the past few months so much has been said and written of Western Canada and tho new provinces forming it he has been led to give the subject some inquiry and he has been shown letters written to the Canadian Government from delegates sent out by friends to inspect the country One of these delegates who was sent to Western Canada says In under taking to give a description I fear I shall not be able to give it justice for I hardly know where to begin or when to end For a plea for my judgment I will assume for an illustration the experience of a man who went from place to place in search of a wife and finding so many of good qualities and attractions was unable to determine which to choose so in looking for a home in Western Canada I like the country well and two of my boys are going this fall they have since gone and each has a homestead where 1 am satisfied they will do well The lands which 1 have seen are far supe rior in every respect and beyond my expectations Lakes and streams to be found in all districts abound with innu merable kinds of water fowl while fish are very abundant On all sides we see innumerable stacks of grain proving beyond doubt the fertility of the soil On either side of the track can be seen iu addition to the grain herds of cattle horses and flocks of sheep I have traveled over a great portion of the Western States and I have seen nothing to compare with this country One hundred aud sixty acres of land are given free to actual settlers and I saw cases where as high as S20 per acre had been cleared in one year I do not wish to advise anyone but as for myself 1 shall leave as soon as I can arrange my affairs The agents of the Canadian Government are now at work organiz ing excursion parties and the Depart went of the Interior at Ottawa Canada will be pleased to supply the Informa tion to those who are not within reach of an agent Equal to Leap Year Miss Autumn Im going down to that auction sale on State street Miss Young What do you want to buy Miss Autumn Oh I dont know that T will purchase anything just going vjtisfy my curiosity Ive heard r a nice looking man gets up on a at form every day and says Wont borne one make me an offer Do You Dance To Night Shake in your shoes Allens Foot Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy Cures Corns Bunions Chilblains Frost Bites and Sweating Feet At all druggists and shoe stores 25c Sample sent FREE Address Allen S Olmsted Le RoyNY As a bone in the throat taketh away the appreciation of the most appetizing dish so a thoughtless word marreth the sweetest compliments Hawaii and Japan Dispatches from Washington state thnr there are about to be Important develop incnts In the Japanese Imbroglio with the Government of the Haivullan Islands How ever this may be ccraln it is that the dis turbance of the stomach caused by simple in digestion will develop Into chronic dyspepsia unless checkmated at the start The flnest stomachic is Hostetters 8tomach Bitters which promptly rectifies gastric trouble and does away with Irregularity of the bowels and liver Lacked Exercise Maude Your friend Mr Rustic seems rather reserved in his manners Tom Yes hes reserved them so long they have grown rusty from disuse FITS Permanently Cured No flu or nerroumnfi liter flrst day ue of Dr Kline Great Nerve Ite Btorer Send for FKEK 8300 trial bottle an t treatlio Da K H KLlNX Ltd 931 Arch it Philadelphia 1a The ancient Greeks used false teeth yt sycamore wood fastened to the ad jacent sound teeth by ligatures of sil ver and gold Mammas It your llttln ones contract skin diseases school apply Glenns Sulphur Soap mils Hair and Wblskur Die black or brown 50a In the reproof of chance lies the true proof of a good bluffer Mrs Wlnnlown Homiivo Syrcp for fhildroji ttjiujl sotteti tlit reoiii es infl imniatji alla8 ram riro intl colic ii Pfuu a bottlb Discretion In spwb is more than elo quence In cold weather We need heat The blood must be Warm rich and pure Hoods Sarsaparilla Keeps the blood In perfect order Sending it in a Nourishing stream To every organ FOR 14 CENTS Wo wii h to rala 1M0M na w coa tornart nod hnc offer 1 Pier 13 Dr KarfUb 10c I Pic Early Spring Turnip IOu 1 Earliet Red Beet ISo I Bumarok Oacamber 19c 1 CJnoen Victoria Littace lie 1 Klondylce JleloD la 1 Jumbo Giant Onion lie 3 Brilliant ftowtxSeeda lc Worth 9100 frl eenta Abore 10 pkei worth 81 00 we wUl mail you tree together with oar b Croat llant anil seed Uatalorua upon receipt of thia notice I and lie I Doetace Wo 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