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p. somnambulistic state , Joyce took
possession of Eichler's vioilo and
played two tunes with musical skill.
His roommate was aroused by the
music , and stared at bimin wonder.
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Negative "Wisdom
"I don't quite understand that fel-1
low Foodie' said Poison. "Beseems
to get along swimmingly in society
but I'm sure he doesn't know much. "
"That may be partly true" replied
Tolbut , "but he has a liberal educa
tion in what not to do. " Indianapo
lis News.
In Corea aservicable umbrella costs
about twelve cents. The covering is
of foiled paper.
Lost Twenty Years.
Kokomo , Ind. , Dec. 1. Twenty years
is a long time to take out of one per
son's life , but that was the fate of
Anna M. Willis of this place. For twen-
tj' years she suffered all the torments
of Kidney Trouble , and anyone in that
state is not living , but simply existing.
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ered. She appreciates the pleasure of
living again and never forgets to tell
you that it is all because a friend ad
vised her to try Dodd's Kidney Pills.
In speaking of her wonderful cure
she says : "For twenty years I suffered
from Kidney Trouble. The disease was
terrible in itself and it was all the
more terrible because I could get no re
lief and my case seemed hopeless.
"But one day I got sis boxes ol
Dotld's Kidney Pills and by the time I
had taken five boxes my pains had lefl
me and I was a free woman. "
Tbe more education some men ac
quire the less able they seem to make
a living.
If you like Mrs. Austin's famous Pjinoake
flour , won't you be good ? Tell your frieiids
how delicious It is.
A fox farm is conducted by Elijah
Norton , near Bangor , Me. He finds
the raising of foxes more profitable
than the culture of grain oi vegeta
bles.
Help your wife to set breakfast easy. Take
home Mrs. Austin's Pancake flour. Your
crocer waits to supply you.
It is a custom in the Belgian Par
liament , when a member is making a
long speech , tu be supplied with
brandy as a beverage , at tbe expense
of the Government.
All creameries use butter color. Why
not do as they do use JUNE TINT
BUTTER COLOR.
A British army officer , when in
full unirorm , is not allowed to carry
an umbrella , no matter if the rain
is falling in torrents.
Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Drops ,
ns n blood purifier , strength and health
restorer , and a specific for all stomach ,
liver and kidney troubles , leads all other
similar medicines in -wonderful sales
and marvelous confidence of the people ,
especially our vast German population.
It ia not a new and untried product , but
was made and sold more than sixty years
ago.
Never Forget the Note of Thank ? ,
Be sure to send a note of thanks
for a sift received at the earliest
possible moment. Write it before
your ardor cools. Make it hearty ,
spontaneous , enthusiastic. You need
not be insincere. Even if you do not
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that prompted it. JSe\er defer writ
ing with the idea'that you will thanK
the giver in person. You may do
that as well when opportunity offers ,
but do not risk delay. Nothing is
more discourteous than belated
thanks.Ladies' Home Journal.
The man who realizes his own pow
er is the one who always knows his
weaknesses.
HAT.I/S CATAKRH CURE
Is taken internally. Price 75 cents.
The average number of criminals
is 38 to the 1,000 , among bachelors ;
among married men the rado is only
18 per 1,000.
Don't forget a large 2-oz. package Eed Cross
Ball Blue , only 5 cents. The Russ Company.
oSuthBend Ind.
IN ITS ADVANCED and chronic
form a cold in tlie head is known as
Nasal Catarrh and is the recognized
source of other diseases. Having stood
the test of continued successful use ,
Ely's Cream Balm is recognized as a
specific for membranal diseases in the
uasal passages. It is not drying , does
not produce sneezing. Price 50 cents at
druggists or by mail. Ely Brothers , 50
Warren street. New York.
Give up prejudice and try it.
Messrs. ELY BROS. : I have been
afflicted with catarrh for twenty years
It made me so weak 1 thought I had con
sumption. I got one bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm and in three days the discharge
stopped. It is the best medicine I have
used for catarrh.
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Proberta , Cal.
Hardships of Genius.
Milton sold his copyright of "Para
disc Lost" for $72 , in three pay
ments , and finished his life in ob
'scurity.
Uorasr was a beggar.
Spencer died iu want.
( Jrevanes died in hunger
Drydeo lived in poverty and dis
tress.
Terracne , the dramatist , was i
slave.
Butler lived a life of penury and
died poor.
Flatus , the Roman comic poet ,
turned a mill.
PauHjorghese had fourteen trades ,
yet starved with it all.
Tasso. the Italian poet , as often
distresseed for a dollar.
Otway , the English dramatist , died
prematurely and through hunger.
Bacon lived a ilfe of meanness and
distress.
Seele , the humorist , lived a life of
perfect war fare with bailiffs.
Sir Walter Kaleigb died on the
scaffold.
Mohammedans do not wear silk.
As it is the product of a worm , thej
consider it unclean.
TBE
ATTRACTED GBEiT ATTESTIOH A20EQ
TflHKDN WOMEI.
Mrs. Frances Stafford , of 243 E.
114th St. , N.Y. City , adds her tes
timony to the hundreds of thou
sands on Mrs. Pmkham's files.
When Lydia E. Pinkham's Reme
dies were first introduced gkeptics
all over the country fro wned upon
their curative claims , but as year
after year has rolled by and tho
little group ofwomen who had been
cured by the new discovery has
since grown into a vast army of
hundreds of thousands , doubts and
skepticisms have been swept away
as by a mighty flood , until to-day
the great good that I ydia E.
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and her other medicines are doing
among the women of America is
attracting the attention of many of
our leading scientists , physicians
and thinking people.
Merit alone could win such fame ;
wise , therefore , is the woman who
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BIG APPLE ORCHARD.
One to Cover GOOO Acres to Be Plant
ed in Missouri.
Missouri is to have a 5,000-acre ap
ple orchard , the largest in the world.
The Frisco road will build a track
through it from cud to end , and depots
and warehouses will he erected for the
storage of the products. An evaporat
ing plant , a vinegar and cider plant , and
a canning establishment will be erected ,
and facilities provided for caring for
every portion of the orchard's product
on a business basis , the keynote to
which is like that of the packing houses
not a thing shall be wasted.
The big orchard is to be located in
Laclede County , about three miles from
Lebanon , on a tract occupying a north
ern plateau , nearly the whole of the 5 ,
000 acres sloping to the north , a con
dition much sought for by orchardists
It is owned by a company officered by
lowans and which expects to make an
investment on the property of $1,000 ,
000.
000.It
It is proposed to set about 4,800 acres
of the tract to apples , the remaining
200 acres being reserved for building-
and other necessary purposes. Two
year-old apples trees are to be planted
on 1,000 acres next spring , and 25
acres of peach trees are to be planted
these to afford quicker returns than can
be expected from the apple trees. The
peach trees will be supplanted by ap
pie trees later , however. From tin
peach orchard returns are expected in
three years , while for the apple trees
six years are allowed. While the trees
are growing the company will plant the
land to corn , berries , and other crops ,
in order to get a return from year to
year. Stump pullers and steam plows
are already at work , and the contract
has been let for clearing the entire
tract.
The apples to be grown will be chiefly
of the Ben Davis and Jonathan varie
ties , which have been shown to be
adapted to that soil and which will keep
well , remaining in cold storage for two
or three years. It is intended that the
orchard company shall market not only
the fruit of its own farm , but shall buy
and ship fruit from surrounding grow
ers , thus keeping constantly in close
touch with the markets and in position
to take advantage of every favorable
condition.
The Ozark country is yearly taking
higher rank among the apple producing
sections , and one of the promoters oi
the big orchard said he was advised the
apple growers of New York and other
of the older States were not replanting
their trees owing to the high values of
land in those sections. lie says that
with the cheap lands of Missouri so well
adapted to apple growing and so cen
trally located as to the best apple mar
kets , the Ozark region will soon become
the apple producing center of the world.
Kansas City Star.
Pity the Tired.
A club veranda conversation in New
port , reported verbatim for Henry Wat-
terson :
"Isn't it a beastly boah ? "
"Ya-as , old chappie , it's demned
beastly. "
"Wli3' } Chawles , you swoah ! "
"So I did ; learned to sweah lawst
aight at Mrs. Vanderdrexel's pwofanity
pahty. "
( Three minutes' lapse of conscious
ness. )
"May Gellatine sweahs fwightfully ,
they say. "
"Ya-as , she's wemahkably clevah. I
expect to maywy her some day. "
"I pity you , Chawles. "
"So does her papa. Wonder if she'll
Bweah at me. Hee-hee ! "
( Silence of ten minutes. )
"There goes Mrs. Shellmonte in her
flying machine. "
"Flying is such a beastly boak. "
"Demned beastly. "
( Another interval. )
"I had an idea yesterday. "
"How beastly of you ! "
"Don't be cruel or I shan't tell It to
( ( Five-minute hiatus. )
"What was that idea , Chawles ? "
"I thought what a clevah thing it
would be for somebody to bwing con-
jwess here for a day ; have a wegulah
session on somebody's lawn ; pay the
jeastly old gov'ment and all that , you
know. "
"How deucedly rulgah ! "
"Ya-as , but think of this beastly
) oah ! "
( Coma till dinner. ) Newark News.
Artificial Eyelids.
The latest surgical triumph is the
crafting of a new set of upper and
ower eyelids to the eyes of a man who
ost his original set in a fire. The
accident had left both eyesballs en-
irely unprotected , and there was dan
ger of the victim losing his sight en-
irely. It was resolved to replace them
by grafting four new eyelids if possi
ble , by taking the skin from the hip
of the patient. It was necessary to
proceed slowly , but the experiment
vas successful from the start The
our new eyelids perform their normal
unctions naturally.
Denied a Day's Rest.
Jaspar What are you looking so an-
loyed about ?
Mrs. Jaspar I expected a day's rest
ind didn't get it This is the cook's day
ut , but she insisted on staying at home.
-Judge.
She Struck Pay Dust ,
"I see that a Chicago washerwoman
las saved $40,000 by taking ha wash-
Jig. "
o"Ain't that a good deal for one wom-
n to clean up ? " Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
A Suggestion of Riches.
"Did he look well off ? "
"Tea , he did suggest riches ; he was
overed with coal dust"
CATARRH OF LUNGS.
A Prominent Chicago Lady Cured
by Pe-ru-na.
Mins Maggie Welch , eccretnry of tho
Betsey Rottn .Educational and Hencvo-
lent Society , wntow from .TJS North SUato
street , Chicago , III. , the following glow
ing words concerning Ponitin :
"Last fall I caught the most aevero
cold I ever had in my life. I coughed
night and day. and my lungs nnd throat
became so sore that I was in great dls
MISS JIAOOIF. WELCH.
tress. All cough remedies nauseated
me , nnd nothing afforded me relief until
my doctor said rather in a joke , 'I guess
Peruna is the only medicine that wHI
cure you. '
"I told him that I would certainly try
it and immediately sent for a hottle. I
found that relief came the first day , nnd
as I kept taking it faithfully the coirgli
gradually diminished , and the soreness
left me. It is fine. " Maggie Welch.
Address the Pernnn Medicine Co. , Co
lumbus , Ohio , for free literature on ca
tarrh.
Unclean Present *
An Ottawa small boy who had a
birthday Wednesday had a big kick
coming on the presents his aunt
gave him. "They's two things I
never uses , ' ' he said. "What do I
want with a tooth brush and a hand
kerchief ? " Kansas CMty Star.
Wonderful Work.
Case No. 18.977. David M. Bye , P.
O. Address Box 297 , Midland , Mich. ,
says : "Three months I was almost in
capacitated from labor ; could not sleep
at night ; had to walk the floor , owing
to terrible pain in the hips , in the small
of the back , in iny instep and ankle of
the right leg.
"I was treated for sciatic rheumatism
in the hospital , but received no brne-
fit. One month ago I returned home ,
and was given a box of Dean's Kidney
Pills. To-day residents of this city can
bear witness to the fact that I am able
to work , and can also walk to my work
without the aid of a walking stick or
crutch.
"In speaking of the immediate ef
fect of Doan's Kidney Pills , 1 dill not
Hn 1 them to ( leaden the pain but quick
ly and surely to eradicate the cause
of it.
"I am of the opinion that Doan's
Kidney Pills rs the best remedy for
kidney ailments that can be procured.
"I was especially careful in my diet ,
in order to give the treatment fair
play.
"In conclusion. T shall be pleased , at
any time , to answer any inquiries re
garding my case , from anyone desirous
of obtaining it. "
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr. Bye will be
mailed on application to any part of
the United States. Address Foster-
Milburn Co. , Buffalo , N. Y. For sate
by all druggists , price 50 cents per
box.
All Il'uirn.
"My good man , "said the prirn in
dividual , "why do you idle your time
away ? Today is ours , but remember
tomoirow may be others. "
"G'wan ! " responded Plodding Pete
derisively. "Ain't tomorrow hoars ,
too ? " Philadelphia Record.
A Kudo Jolt
We are compelled to sit on the jury
this week , " wrote the editor of the
Spiketown Blizzard , "and in our ab
sence our wife will do the besb she
can to get out the caper. As this is
her first attempt to hold down an
editorial chair we trust our readers
will be lenient and not expect tou
much. "
And this is a sample of the letter
she received from the seventy-nine
"Constant Readers , " "Old Subscrib
ers , " and "Sincere Friends , " includ
ing "Veritas , " "Pro Bono Publico/ '
"Justitia"Fair Play , " "Well Wish
er , " Citizen" and "One of the Plain
People , " the following week :
"To the Editor of the Spiketown
Bllzzaid Dear Sir : The paper last
week was better than it has ever
been beforePlease go and sit on
jury all the time and let your wife
edit tbe Blizzard hereafter. " Chica
go Tribune.
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