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The great thing with this plant is that the ribbons at nearly all times of the year are easily detached from the wooden portion by simply stripping them with the band, and therefore a de corticating machine is not required as for ramie. When it is known how readily the stems allow themselves to be deprived of their coating of bark and fiber it will be seen what advantage this simple fact gives the new product over many of the fiber pro ducing nlants. All that is required is to "cut the stems, which are fully ten feet long, split the bark at the larger ena ana strip off the bark from end to end without stopping, as fortunately the stems have no side branches. Samples submitted to London brokers were favorably reported on and were valued at from $17 to $20 per ton The French Woman Sufragist. lime. Olympe Audouard, a famous French champion of woman's rights, has just died at Nice. She was fifty-nine years old, and bad been married early in life to a Marseilles notary, irom whom tshe separated after a few months, and spent Lome time in traveling about Europe. Af terward she wrote a book and started a review, which became so lively that the imperial- government- inteflered with; a prohibition of any political writing in it. She then came to America and was some what conspicuous here, delivered lectures, and wrote a book on Utah and the Mor mon?. After her return to France the adopted spiritualism as a hobby. Shearing by Electricity. Sheep are now sheared by electricity in Australia, Frederick Wolseley, a brother of Lord "Wolseley, having inventing a ma chine for the purpose. The method of using the shears is very simple, the oper ator baring merely to throw a friction wheel into adjustment by means of a handle, and then push the comb into the vool, pressing it continuously forward and keeping it as closely as possible to the body of the animal being operated upon. From one to one hundred shears cau be operated at one time. By this mode the shearing is done more mcicifully than when done by band shears. A Soldier Priest. Among the veterans detailed as a guard of honor over Victor Emmanuel's tomb in the Pantheon at Home, on the occasion of the anniversary of the king's death, was a priest wearing the medal of the war for independence. lie was called upon to answer many questions by the visiting sightseers, to all of whom bo expressed his piide over the part he had taken in Italy's battles, a part that gave him the right to fctaud guard over the tomb. Here and There. Mrs. Catherine Smitley, of Salt Creek townhip, Muskingum county, Ohio, is hale and hearty at the age of ono hund red and two. Sir "WiMiIam Gumj the eminent Loudon physician, who died a few days ngo, had little fnilh in drugs, and didn't hesitate to say so. Two centenarians living in the neighbor hood of Alton, England, have been great smokers and moderate drinkers all their lives. Aunt Mart FiiABErrr, of Jonesboro, Me., aged ninety-one, has solved the servant girl problem. She refuses to have help and does her own work. A Fremont, Mich., man owns a hen which lays at night, a proceeding which he claims is as phenomenal as though she ato hay like a horse. TwENTr-ONE tramps met in Decatur, Neb., and ordered meals at a restaurant. After they had eaten they compelled the proprietor to accept 10 cents as payment in full. A London confectionery store gives to every purchaser of a shilling's worth a ticket entitling the purchaser to have ono photograph of herself taken at an estab lishment up-stairs. A quantity of fish shipped to Heading from Maryland were found to be alive when unpacked, and when thrown into a tank of water darted arouud as lively as ever. The chain gang of Bibb county, Ga., is eighty three strong. The convicts are di vided into two squads, and the public roads of that couuty are classed among the best in Georgia. The largest shaft in Africa has just been opened in the Kiruberly diamond fields. It measures twenty-three feet three inches by seven nine inches and is to be 1,000 feet deep. AN Anglo-Iloman company has under taken a contract to light Itoine by electric ity. I he plant is to be set up at Tivoli, it is raid, and power supplied by water there, the current then being transmitted by over head wires to the city itself, and through out the city by overhead wires for public lighting, aud by subways for lighting of public houses. Many a clergyman who can preach a capital sermon is very unhappy cs a speaker out of the pulpit. The Philadelphia Times has heard of a clergyman who:e duty it was to iutroduce to an audienco a miesion nrv from Ceylon anl did so as follows; "This faithful missionary of the cross comes from Ceylon, a land where, as you all know, 'every prospect pleises and only man is vile. " " In a court at Droghedi, Ireland, a Mr. Kenny, being sued for rent due on a house that ho had leased, pleaded that his wife had been f rightenod by a ghost that ap l eared at their bed and threw something upon them during the night, and that the place was on that account uninhabitable. 1 he court held that the fact that a house was h muted was no defense in such a suit, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff. Oregon, the Paradko or Farmers. Mild, equablo climate, certain and abundant crops, liest fruit, grain, grass and stock eoiintry in tho world. Foil information free. Address the Oregon Immigration Board, Port land, Oregon. A colored man now has control of all the news stands on the principal elevated roads in Hrooklvn. ONE K:ivjOYa Both the method and results when 8yrup of Figs is taken ; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yetpromptly on the Kidneys, .uiver 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 truly beneficial in ita effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities coos mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup or Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug? gists. Any reliable druggist .who may not ham it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept , myBUDsuiuieu CALIFORNIA FIB SYRUP COL umvitu, at..- hew rmc, n.r. 'aaaIliaaaa FaaaaVpwTaaav IKSsMaBaE aaaBsavv w- v V laaasaJJ two "vAiEinats. - i BT TB1NX DBXFSTm KHWitlftW. t ' lVove, at your doorvoung Copkl stands And knocks lor yon to-ceeae r The frost is In his feet and kaads. Els lips wttn cold am naaab. Grant nim admittance, awoatnswrt mine, And by'yoar cheering flro v His lins shall loosen as with wine : Andspeak'iorth'my desire; He left me not an hour ago, And when the rascal went ; Barefooted ont into the snow- - I asked him "whither benU Quothbe: "Jo her whoso face Is like ' A garden full of flowers. Toner whose smiiea'like sunlight strik Across the.winter hours." ' 1 No moro he said, nor need of more Had J to know. I knew '' His path layynTraight unto your door That faco belongs to you. "Godspeed," I'cried, "and give her this When yon her iace shall see; . And cm Ms lips I set a kiss, A vtlemtino fro m me I ANX OLD ; VALENTINE BY VBX.MA CAtmVKIX-3MXVIIXE. "Oh, mother! isn't "it lovely?" cried a pretty bit of femininity as sho held up a wonderful creation in flowers, lace, mottoes, etc "Baiph's valentine," she added, turn ing her blushing face aside. "It is indeed a beautiful thing," was the reply, and so different from the ones sent in my day." "Did you ever get a valentine, mother?" ""Yes, dear, many a one." nad the voung girl been less occupied she would have noticed au unusual flush on tjie withered cheek, and a far-away look in the kindly blue eyes. As it was, sho thought of naught but the dainty thing in her hand and the lover who had sent it. Lato that Valentino eve the same gentle-faced woman softly turned the key of an old trunk in a reraoto closet, and puttintr thcs lamp down beside it, lifted the lid. Ever and anon she glanced furtively about her, as with faltering fingers sho lifted out a small, flat box. "It's dreadful, foolish of me," she murmured, "but some way Nellie's val entine kind of made me ihink of old times; but it's dreadful' foolish." Slowly she. untied Jhe bit of faded pink ribbon that held 'the cover on "It's dreadful foolish," Hberepeated, "don't see what has come over me." But tho lid was open now and sho was nervously pushing aside tho yel lowed tissue paper that concealed tho contents. An indulgent smile at her own weakness llitted over her face, and then sho relinquished herself to the sweets of stolen reminiscence. First sho took up a well-thumbed yellow card, in the center of which was a bunch of faded piuk roses fastened, apparently, by a green gauze Tsnot; and underneath were the words in a cramped boyish hand : "Tho rose is roJ, tho violet's blue. Sugar's sweet and so are you." "My first valentine," she mused, "and from Bobbie, dear little fellow, how many, many years he has been at rest. Wasn't I proud and happy when I found it in my dinner pail wrapped ina leaf froju his' old copy book. And here is the next ono I received, Fent from Toledo by the boy who boarded at our house one summer. Stinson, was his name; be got to bo a senator or some big thing I heard. Aud here is the ono Billy Shaw sent me after I mittened him at spelling school. Wasn't he mad? There is another one Stinson sent, and dear me!" Her fingers trembled a little as she picked up a largo envelope addressed in a bold, round hand to "Miss Kittie Deane." This she laid quickly aside, smiling, nodding and musing over the others till the stock was exhausted. Carefully she replaced them all but the big envelope. "It really seems as if I can't open it, and yet and yet it is all so long past, and I'm an old woman, a mother, and grand mother. God forgive me, I'm dreadful foolish, dreadful foolish, but it can be no harm this once, and like as not I'll burn this one thon, and give the rest to Nan's baby to play with." Hesitatingly yet fondly, as one touches a curl cut from the dead baby's head, she drew the card from the en velope, and then, swayed by some sud den and over-powering emotion, pressed it to her lips. "Heaven forgive me! oh Harry, Harry!" Letting it fall in her lap, she covered her face with her hands, and wept half in sorrow, over some grave of the past, half in repentance because she could not forget. To other eye than hers there was nothing to excite emotion about the queer, old-fashioned valentine with its heterogeneous collection of flowers and brief inscription, "Mizpah;" but to her it conjnred up a picture of a fair young giri viewing it for the first time through a mist of happy tears. Only the day beforo she had bade her handsome, true-hearted lover farewell. They were engaged, and he had gone West to make a home for her. "Yoa will.be true to me, -Kittie, and not get tiped of waiting?" he had qxie3 tioned for the twentieth time, perhaps. "I wiii never tire of waiting for you, Henry,' sho had fervently averred. And he had gone away, sending back the valentine and a fond little note so soon. How thoughtful of him! But that was all. Vainly she waited for the promised letters. They never came, and what added to her misery, if such a thing was possible, every oue in the village seemed to know of his incon stancy. Oh, the agonizing snspense and uurest. Soon she hoard that he was corresponding with some one else. Maddened to desjn;ration, she never questioned the truth of the rumor, but blindly accepted au offer of "marriage from Mark Hazard, the young post- j master. Thev were married in le3s than a year after Harry Se well's de- partnre. A change of administration about this time threw young Hazard out of employment, and he, too, decided to seek his fortune in the West; and thither his bride accompanied him. Stopping in a new town just spring- ing into existence in the lead regions of Wisconsin, he started a small grocery, while his wife, kept boarders-cluefly the rough miners. . Five vears pass in a ceaseless round of toil. Well, perhaps,, for the young wife that it was so. She had less time to encourage the canker that never ceased knawing at her heart Her girl and boy were tho ray3 of sunshine that had flashed athwart her J path. They made life worth the living. juanc nazaranaa proven ine saying 01 his old neighbors, .that, he was narrow minded and small-souled, to be literally true, and to no one were "these traits more apparent than to his wife. It was on a sultry spring afternoon that a double carriage paused in front of the large, unfinished, "almost unfur nished house known as, the "Hazard Place," and a well-dressed gentleman, alighting and stepping to the open door, asked for accommodations for his party of four. Poor woman, she had been washing, and, with dinner just over, she was warm and tired. The flushed face, with damp curls clustering about it, looked far more like Kittio Deane's, however, than did the usual pale'oonn- tenance and plainly drawn hair of Mrs. Mark Hazard. "Yes, you can stay but the accom modations are poor," she answered hesitatingly, lifting her eyes foe tho first time to tho occupants of the carriage. A brief glance took in the well dressed ladies in the back scat, and iras met by the startled, troubled gaze of the gentle- -man holding tho xeins. One little gasping cry, and the Hush was gone from tho sweet face and the landlady" lay in a pitiful heap on. the xough Hour. "Poor thing, tired out!" cried tho ladie3 in unison, while tho gentleman on the front scat, with an exclamation they did not understand, flung the reins to his companion on tho ground, and springing out, was, a moment later, carrying tho limp little body into a room through tho open door of which he saw a home-made lounge. Tho Jadies fol lowed, aud a girl of some fourteen years, entered carrying a slcejiing babe. In tho infdst of tho confusion which ensued, one of the ladies cried out: "Why, Harry Sewell, you look as if you were going to faiut." Tho man made no reply Lut his hande trembled as he sprinkled water on the thin, up-turned faco of the to tho others unconscious stranger. Presently the white lids fluttered, and the blue eyei opened upon the anxious face of Harry. Sewell. A momentary flush, a quick contraction of the features as if in, pain, then Mark Hazard's wife struggled to a' sitting posture. "I was so tired," sho remarked in a weak, "apologetic tone, keeping her oyes averted from tho face opposite. "Here, Maggie," sho continued to the girl, "give baby here and show them to tho east room. Take up fresh Water. " Tho table was set for tho strangers in a big, unfinished parlor room; and as Maggie served them they did not 'see their hostess again that day. Mark Hazard met the men strolling about in tho evening, and talked with them! of the weather, crops and country, as with other travelers, and passed on none the wiser. - Kittie, drawing .water from i;he deep well in the gathering twilight, heard a voice and a step beside her. "Let draw it, Kittie." jue 4 She drew back as if lie had struck her. " Harry Sewell, how dare you cqmo into rny presence. Is it to taunt me? To 'taunt' you, Kittie Deane beg pardon, Mrs. Hazard. Strango words from ono so utterly false, ono who urged lrer betrothed lover to go "West that she might marry hi3 rival." "Me false?" her voioo quivered, "what can yon mean ? Did you expect me to be true to ono who never wrote a single word, but corresponded wi;h others?" "Never wrote you? Great Heavens P During the brief explanations that followed, the part played by Mark Hazard, postmaster, came out in its true colors. Evidently ho had de stroyed Harry's letters in order to win his aflianccd. The latter had received a paper con taining the marriage notice; and had been forced to believe his sweetheart false. Slowly they walked back to the house together. In the shadowy kitchen they paused, and taking both her little toil-worn hands in his, ho kissed them reverently. "Heaven help us both, Kittie, to endure and do right. Farewell." She stood mute and motionless while he filled a pitcher from tho pail and, without another word quitted the room. "Why, Harry, what a time you've been gone," cried his wife as he en tered the apartment. "Landlady fainted again"" she added banteringly. "We must be off early," was the ir relevant rejoinder. , Breakfast was served as the supper had been, and Harry aud Kittie did not meet again ; and he neve? know that for long weeks thereafter the wronged woman struggled with death. Perhaps Mark Hazard was wiser for her wild ravings during tho fevers delirium, per haps not. . t Long years had intervened between that morning and the i ono 0V1 which pretty Nellie Hazard showed her-mother "Baiph's Valentine." The struggling little village has become an important Town", amrthc'HaZard hbmrf-nisTsrm-N"' v ,l. fortablc and beautiful as money VcaU make it. Sons and daughters have gone out from it, and only eighteen-year-old Nellie the baby remains All that we have told, and much in'orG passes iu array before the mind of the woman crouching beside the old trunk. Much more, we say, because she alone can open and read the volume of the years, to her alone are the pages visi ble on which are written what she -has suffered. And how little anyone guesses that back of mother's and grandmother's calm, patient smile, ready sympathy, and all-sufficientne3S there is a genuine romance and a woman's wounded heart. wasted to make sure of him. George The ring doesn't seem to fit Terv well. Clara? Hadn't I better take it back and have it made smaller? Clara No, George; an engagement ring is an engagement ring, even if I have to wear it around my neck. Judge. Joel p a shoemakerf three Qorth Qf p hag . fin. ga a pair o 6hceJ 14 inches long, 5 inches and weighing OTer 7 J The shoes were made for a f, , . ., . . . . . German tramp, who a veritable giant . b " a- i Had Eve been a pretty typewriter ( she would have been a match for the L ahem! snake; and he, not she, would I have been turned out of Paradise. s CoJf Wade, of lifespan, fasdUirly ka'JwftM "Farmer Bill" Wade,lcsafram- latea himself on the fact that h6- has, caievea a .commmee cnairatansmp d- oaase ae bow nas a clerk to attend to bis correspondence. .The law contemplates this clerk in the act of devoting himself exclusively to the pressing business of the -committee on labor, but Col. Wade views him mora frequently in the act ox attending to tne congressional ai fairs of William Wade of Missouri. This relieves tne colonel of much of the petty drudgery of congressional work and leaves him free to relate to his fellow members the side-splitting anecdotes for which he is famous. ' Col. Wade never had a private secretary or clerk before he was made chairman of the labor committee, except on one occasion, when he" employed a sub stitute whose performance the colonel has described in a tearful way to all of his col leagues. This clerk was a man who lived in Col. Wade's district for many years, and who had almost a wider acquaintance there than Mr. Wade. He volunteered his services for certain hours in tbe evening to write let ters. Col. Wade was about to absent him self from the halls of legislation and from the national capital, ' with a view to transacting some private business. The suggestion came to him oppor tunely. He wonld go away, leaving his correspondence in the hands of tho ex MisBonrian. The ex-Missoarian "would with much adroitness write in the colonel's name non-committal answers to the letters that were received and the colonel on his return would follow up his assistant's let ters with something appropriate, explain ing the pressuro of business which had oc :asionet the hasty reply previously for warded. The situation was explained to the ex Missonrian. He took it in smiling and as serted' a thorough comprehension of it. So Col. Wade went away with a light heart. It was a day or two after his return before be realized the wreck to which his political hopes and prospects had well-nigh been brought. Said the colonel, tearfully, ex plaining the situation to a colleague after ward: "That man wrote to all the people in my district that I was ont of town just the thing I did not want them to know. Bat he did more than that. Instead of ad dressing my warm political friends in con ciliatory phrase; instead of implying that I was the dust of tbe earth aud that thoy were t he people, ho fell on them and smote them hip and thigh. Beading between tbe linos of his letters these were about the ideas that wonld appear to my correspondent: 'Look here, you d scoundrel, don't yon know who I am? I am Bill Wade, con gressman, and I own tbe XHIth district, together with all tho live stock, two-legged or four-legged, in or about it!' "It took me the rest of my term to set myself right with my people," continued Col. Wade with a groan, "and it is n won der I ever got back to congress." New York Tribune. Personal end General. A PmiiADEiiriiiA bon vivant has kopt a tubful of terrapin alivo in his cellar all winter, so as to havo them handy. The Mexican government is encourag ing the cultivation of rubber trees. A com pany has recontly planted 300,000 in Chiapas. A meteor that cast a shadow and ap peared as large as tho full moon was seen by Noblesville, Ind., people the other evening. A. S. CiiOUon, of Prescott, A. T., drives a team of mnles that are 33 and 35 years old. They are still good workers. A BOSTON woman has bad ber shroud made nt a cost of $20,000. This will cer tainly be a case where a woman is wrapt np iu her wealth. Tiik British museum is solittlo in tonch with tbe multitude that popular illustrated lectures are to be given on its .treasures in art and antiquity. A max in Saratoga, N. Y., who fought in tho war without being regularly enlisted, now finds his name on tho list of desert ers. The congressman from his district has introduced a bill to relieve him of tho stigma. John Ltjxce Talbot, of North Mid dlctown, Ky., ngetl 110, is very ill with tho prevailing disease, la grippe. Owiog to bis extreme age his friends are very anxions about him, but it is thought he will pull through. Tun bishop of Bochcster, addressing the students of tbo Boyat Female School of Arts, in London, on tho occasion of tho annual prize giving, remarked: "I am struck with the lovely tasto displayed in your hats, they are so qniet and ladylike." That pleased the girls moro than all the prizes. The Essex institnte, at Salem, Mass., ha3 received from Bobert C. Winthrop, jr., two original deeds from Masconomet, saga more, of Agawam, to John "Winthrop, jr., of lands in Ipswich and Chebacco The instruments are in tbe handwriting of John Wintbrop, jr., and aro dated June 28, 1G38. Two lovers of a young woman in Bir mingham, Conn., got into a quarrel tbo other day and went to the railroad trestle bridge over tho Naugatuck river to settle it. One hit tho other a stunning blow nnder the ear and then pushed him off the bridge into the river. The victor barely had time to stop aside to let a freight train goby. James Collins, who lives near Gales burg, 111., while searching for hogs in tbe woods Tnesday, noticed bees flying around a large sycamoro trco. Securing help, he chopped the tree down. As surmised, it turned ont to be a bee treo of tho richest kind. It was a mere shell, and when it struck the frozen ground split open,- show ing a section of honey thirty feet long. In all he secured 1,100 ponnds. Mr. Collins thought the bees would have filled a large barrel, but ho bad no way of hiving them. A boy in the employ of the Lincoln Dis trict Telegraph company, at Lincoln, Neb., stands out somewhat conspicuously. Hav ing been sent to tho depot with a message for a gentleman about to leave on a train, he arrived just as the train was pull ing ont. He did not propose, however, to lose his man, eo jumping on the rear car he pulled the bell rope, stopped the train, J ionnu nis man ami gui uu icu iruiu wune the brakeman was looking for the cause of the alarm. March April May Are tbe best months in which to purify yonr blood. -forat no other season .docs the system so much need the aid of a reliable medicine like. Hood's 'Brsprill as now. DuriOR the long, cold winter. Mood-iome-tiitirsad litmre.-the-bodre. 1 AA-..d wasV n.i 1mi ttiA gnnettta mow tA Incr liuca SE4S Ul IUIU "U ''-" j w vuh Hood's Sarsaparilla is peculiarly adapted to purify and enrich the blood, to create a good appetite and to overcome that tared feelimr. It has a larger sale than any other sarsaparilla or blood purifer, and it increases in popularity every year, for it is the ideal Spring Medicine "Early last sprine I was very much run down, had nervous headache, felt miserable and all that. I wss very much benefited by Hood's Sarsaparilla and recommend it to my friends." Mns.. M.Taylob, Uld Euclid Avenue. Cleveland, O. "Hood's Sarsaparilla has corfd me cf salt rheum, which I have had for yearS. I do think it is a splen did medicine. I am 40 years of aaeandmy skin is jost as smooth and fair as a piece of glass. Ihae six children, and when anything is the trouble with them the first thins I go for is Hood's Sarsaparilla." Mbs.IiUXA Cijlbk, South Norwalk, Conn. Hood's Sarsaparilla SoldbyaUdroreists. 11; six for 3. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD CO. Apothecaries. Lowell. Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar ! HIRAM C. WHEELER ODEBOLT. SAC CO.. IA. in Imported Percheron. 4 and Shire Stallions Sane betUr imported latt year. Can sell a first clas . 3-year-old ol eithPr breed j forSl.OOO to si.zoo. Best terms and jruaran- ' tees. Come and see them. Jdebolt is 03 the C. i . w. Kauway, .3 mixes souui ICECnOX THIS PATER rat nan to imtnui DENSION JOHN TV. MORRIS, TVasluocton, l. V. Succaaitfullv Prosecutes Claims, I Late Principal Examiner U. S. Pension Bureau. lyrs la last war. 15 adjuaicatlncs claims, atty sinca. Seed your own and addresses oi i All Hook Agvata yon know I ard wo will tend yoa J YKEK t-H-TWr.lCiT.I-:i'Jkr.ti-1lIAAimm BS. Kfl. I HI nt hid 11KMCUK Ur " MB BB Bfe CfclCMO. IU. AOIJTM WmiSBMiM - sEklAJfcZMSBlKjaKA.. r8at-Fntvnaox Abk, reesatly dsjty ,Ni!a.'lsetjre ea ssMkelsis powder at the" JtoyaliastitatioBiB London. He said that 4b stokleas,pbwtUr bow being taaBzao Tared ii" Europe w-i a gelatinoas sub stance shaped into threads and strips ander fprsssore. Jt is sasde by dissolving gun 'cotton or some similar material with camphor or other solvent, and forcing the compound; when properly prepared, through perforated dies. Nxw York receives more than one-third of the merchandise exported from Bahia, Brazil, but in return it. furnishes only a million and a half out of a total importa tion of thirteen. and a half millions. Eng land, France and Germany supply the rest. From this country flour, kerosene, lard, and bine drillings are shipped; from Eu rope everything else is shipped, even to Christmas trees. A St. Louis physician thinks it jast .as important that the ears of railroad em ployes, and particularly that the ears of locomotive engineers, should be scien tifically tested for natural or acquired de fects as that their eyes should be tested for color-blindness. There is a trouble known J to medical men who practice largely among railroad employes as whistle deafness. ATBiAijinthe harbor of Portsmouth, England, recently showed that a modern torpedo boat can mount any boom yet de vised to protect a roadstead or harbor. The structure tested it was supposed would instantly stop and hold fast any boat at tempting to pass it, but the boat,. driven at full speed, went over without difficulty or damage. Put oa tbo Brakes If you find you are going down bill in point of health. Failing strength, impaired digestion, and assimiliation aro tho marks of dcclino. Check these and other indications of prematura decay with tbo grand vitalizer nnd restraining tonic, Hostetter'u Stomach Bitters. Beginning at the fountain head, tho stomach, tho Bitters remedies its inefficiency, corrects its errors, and sets it vigcrously at work. The digostivo organ is thus enabled to thoroughly sopurate from tho food its nutritive principles, which tho blocd as similating, is enriched. Thus is tho system nourished, and being nourished, strengthened, and abnormal waste cf its tissues stayed. Ap petite, the powor to rest well, a regular habit arealbo re-established, and the various func tions niovo onco moro in their natural and healthful groove. Tho Bittors, moreover, is a specific for nnd preventivo of malarial com plaints, rheumatism, biliousness, and kidney troubles. Thomas A. DEBLOis,of Portland, says the Lowiston Journal, was ono of the witty ALiiDo lawyers of whom interesting stories are told. At ono timo Judge Nicholas Emery, who was particular sensitive to jokes at his own expense, had repeatedly rebuked Deblois for alleged departure from tho rules of propriety. Ho being specially pointed at one time .the councilor retorted: "I beg your honor's pardon. Your honor is right and I was wrong, as your honor usually is." The Old, Old Story. A Httla cough ; a feeling ill ; A headache oft ; a daily chill , A slower walk; n quickened breath; A frequent talk of coming death. No strength to riso from day today ; From loving eyes ho fades away. Now lifts no moro the weary head, Tho struggle's o'er; tho niaii ia dead. Such is tholntal progress of consumption. How clton is ropcatetl tho old. old story. Yet not hair so often sis it was buforo tho knowl'-'dgo came to mankind that tlioru was n discovery in inodical science by which tho dread disease could ho arrested in its early stages and tho pationt restored to health. This wonderful remedy is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Thousands of cures follow tho uso of Dr. Sago's Catarrh Kemody. 5'J cents. llENUY Stbatfokd, of Kingston, Oot , has received a letter from England which went into tho sea when tho steamship Oregon was wrecke 1 aud sunk in 1SS0. The letter in question was found buried iu the sauds of the b;a?h near Capo Hattoras, X. C. Tho mail bag containing the mis sive drifted 400 mile;; from tbo sccuo of tbe wreck. TuEnn is more Catarrh in this section of tho country thnn all other diseases put together, and until tho last few years -was supposed to bo incurable. For a great many jeurs Doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to euro with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to bo a constitutional disease, aud therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is tt.o only constitutional cure on tho market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 lrops to a tcasiooii ful. It nets directly upon tho blood and mucus surfaco of tho syotem. They offer one hundred dollars for any caso it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. 3TSold by Drug, gists, 73c There is a terriblo row going on at tbe Theatro Francais, and though the manage ment is doing all it can to keep it dark, rumors of it keep leaking out. The other actors aro disgusted that Coquelin has been taken back. They say that he is so intolerably conceited with himself that it is impossible for them to play with him. All who uso Dobbins' Electric Soap praise it as tho lest, cheapest and iiosi economical family soap made; but if you will try it onco it will tell a still stronger tale of its merits itself. 1'lease try it. The latest English fancy is to wear with a tailor-made gown a Email fancy watch of iron, or oxidized to resemble iron, with elaborato gold initials, fastened with a broach on tho left front of tbe basons, as a medal or other decoration would be worn. Sudden Changes of Weather causo Throat Diseases. There is no moro effectual remedy for Coughs. Colds, etc.. than Bbown's Bronchial Troches. Sold only in boxes. Price 25 cts. Eli Circles, of Carroll county, Mo., won a $35 sewing 'machino by producing twelve ears of corn that weighed eighteen pounds eleven ounces. Bronchitis Is cured by frequent small doses of PIso's Cure for Consumption. In Scotland it is said that to rock the empty cradle will insure the coining of other occupants for it. The tooth extracted from a 13-year-old horse at Towsontown, Pa., weighed a quarter of a pound. Hood's Sarsaprina Is prepared from Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Dock. Juniper Berries, and other weU known vegetable remedies, in such a peculiar manner as to derivo the full medicinal vahieof each. It wiU cure; when in the power of medicine, scrofula, salt .rheum, sores, boils, pim ples, aU humors, dyspepsia, biliousness sick head ache. indigesUon, general debility, catSrrh, rhcu maUsm. kidnoy and liver complaints. It overcomes that extreme tired feeling caused by change of rli. mate, season, or life, and imparts life and strength to the whole system. Blood Poison 'Tor years at irregular intervals in all seasons, I suffered the intolerable burning and itching of blood poisoning by ivy- It would break ont on my less, in my throat and eyes. Last spring I t3ok Hood's Sar saparilla. as a blood purifier, with no thought ofit as a special remedy for ivy poUonicg. bat it has effected a permanent and thorough cure." Calvin T. Shcte. Wentworth. . H. "I had boils all over my neck and back, troubling me so much that I could not urn my head around nor stoop over. nood'aSarsaparllls cured me in two weeks. I think it is the beat blood purifier." Daniel Read, Kansas City, Mo. Sold by all druggists. It ; six for $3. Prepared only ty C. 1. HOOD & CO. Apothecaries. Lowell. Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar QRATEFOL-COMFORTING. EFPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. By l thorough knowledge of tho natural laws which govern tbe operations of digestion and nutri tion, and by careful aj plication cf the fine proper ties of vrell-elcctcd Cocoa. Sir. tips his provided enr breakfaat tabled with a delicately Savoured tv- erage which may save us many heavy doctors' tilU. Tt 4 h-n- h tudieiouB uze of such arti Jes of diet that coDstitutioa maybe gtaduaUy buiitnpuntilstmns out imt9h in mM nenr tendency to disease. Hun dreda of ubtlcanladiF!) are floating around us ready to attack uliililti thrrcls s weak joint. We ma tarape many a fatal haft by kerpinirour elves will fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.' Civil & rvlee Uazrtte. Mades&nptywitnboilinirwateror mHk. SoM enlr In half round tin. by Grocers. laiflleJ thus: JJJSllU) KFJ1 & CO., HoaoeopaUUo ChtiuUU, " Jjondon.Knlarii PEN8ION8ptTffo7?ir!-- Vaisms B'VAsasu, Altr.M I.aw,WMhloi:oB, P.C English cBBjchawa ro dsUgated otar a jast-tdla storr that illustrates, they thiab. the goodness of fie late Bishop Jjghtfoot. It is tkat in early life he fell in love with a woman who rejected him and named another clergyman. After Dr. Lightfoot became bishop he found bis old sweetheart and her husband struggling along on a poor living ia his diocese, whereupon he took every occasion to ad vance his rival until the latter and his fam ily were in very comfortable ciroaa starces. Flertaee, Ala. Tho personally conducted excursions to this rapidly growing city havo been so suc cessful that tho Chicago & Eastern Illinois Kallroad (Evansvillo Route) will run ono on each of the following dates: Feb. 4. 11.13 and 25. For copy of "Alabama as It IV and further information, send to William Hill. Gen. Tass. Agent. Chicago. IU. A dcdish bird that lines its nest with the down of certain flowers is tho lanceo late honeyoater. The nest is shaped like a hammock suspended from twigs, and is very deep. The groundwork is of grass and wood. Claver Seed. .Medium clover seed, $3.50 per bushel: sacks. 20c. Sendmonoy with .tier. H. C. Wheeler, Odcbolt. Sac county. Iowa. Large numbers of Americans, es pecially from tbe Pacific coast, are now visiting Japan. They generally remain a few months, and thus acquire a wide famil iarity with Japanese manners and institu tions. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When sho was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When sho became Miss, sho clans to Castoria, When she had CMldren, she gave them Castona The sanitary commission of Vienna rec ommend electricity instead of hanging for executions. Smoko tho best Tansill's "Punch Cigar." A New York lady recently had ou her dinner table 150 orchids that cost $1.50 each. Copyright, 1SS9. . "SMSMii: "TAKEN IN." " I nsed often to read tho newspaper aloud to my wife," said Bert Robinson, "and onco I was fairly 'taken in' by a patent medicine advertisement. The seductive paragraph began with a modest account of tho soa serpent, but ended bv scttinc forth tho vir tues of Dr. Kerco's Golden Medical Discov ery, which, it was alleged, was a sure euro for all Bronchial, Throat and Lung troubles, and would even euro Consumption, if taken in timo. Tho way I was taken in was this: I had lung disease, nnd I Iwught a bottle of the remedy; I was a stranger to it, and it took me in and cured me." Robinson's experienco is identical with that of thou sands of others. So true is this, that after witnessing, for many years, tho marvelous cures of Bronchial, Throat nnd Lung affec tions wrought by tliis wonderful remedy, its manufacturers feel warranted in selling it as they aro doing, through druggists, under a positive guarantee that, if taken in timo nnd given a fair trial, it will relievo or cure in-every case, or money paid for it will bo refunded. No other remedy for such mala SIP'S: BTBAPACBIE, Blliouft Headache, Dizziness, Conntlpadoii, Indlges tlon, BilioHS Attacks and all derangements of the stomach and bowels, aro promptly relieved nnd permanently cured by tho uso of DR. PIERCES PELLETS. They are As a Purely ONE PELLET A DOSE ! Best Cough Medicine. Cures where all else fails. taste. Children tafce it without objection. By ilrtigRists. B ryait & Station Chicago Business Goiltgtt SHOKT-HAHD IN8TITUTK- and ENGLISH TRAINING SCHOOL. IstMBTABBAJ INtTrrme.1 dd Iha ItiVROXMO1 tloo. Catalogue, MFms.ete.. sent FUKE. Atldresa iaiead this cvllea aar reatora. Are the Ill-ST fcr all mill pmdacuiar everywhere tnble, llcaitl izui Flavrer. and large Farm cmp. 3.j pack.ie3 Earliest Vjirlfililnri?tf rulEcient fur a fanuij -tmrtn.iid-SI.fM. 33 pick" Chnic; i''lowerSerd.Sl.; I plcga. LnCrostp; Seedlinirl :uatc I00.000 ROSES3 and PLANTS, g Sei I fir l'r CaLr. j) rontt!c rttinT f' !iwn rr!'B e1 una. J JOIIX A. PALZKKi l,-l :. I". ASTHMA. repliant's AithaaSperlfle KrlirflnTES.ISUTXS. munU.bwovttt.;!. I). 1'rUa iotia.l'a..wril(r3:'I hateliarf Asthma for 50 jeans f uuuil co relief until 1 tried jour Srcct flc, wMch rwlierea me Imtnft dlatelj. Sold by all Drag gut. SI per tox.ti malt, peat i:UL PICKtCE FBES. Addreaa.T.l'orilAM. JASTHMASyaRffi-FREE ' bjmzlttommWtnr. Dr.K.SCMyHAy,St.ralInai. U yoews-nt yocr Iriiion without deli?. Fit ya,r rUhntnttinliantU ef JfrSEPH Wasa I fig-Urn, n. UC3iTEJC Aiwra7 D.C. r OU WISH A tioou tvm KCYUlifCK tmrchaan one of the ce.fr Iratttl SMITH t WESSON ami. The finest mall annj erer rraaufactur-d-ac'l the l.u a1.a(aa rt TI .vr.rt. Manufacture.; in can ore a. jh ana i-uaa. o.u- m-'-" y. "--... -i'-rri . .rwi ui. rleordouble action. Safety Uamcerirea i acu Ttrgttxaoatis. Con.txucted ntirely of bett Quel areoft-.n aolilfor thenninearticaal areuol mils- unreliable, itut danferoua. The HMITn WESSON ItovolTers are all aUraped upon th bar rels with Crm'a name. addrra antl date of PpjU and are C jcracleed perfect 'SfHV"- sUtnpon harinir the S'-noine jarUde. and if jour dealer cannot aupply you an crdpr ;BttoaddreM Mow will receiTe prompt and careful atU8t.oa. EeacrlptlTecatalojfUeaad price frjraUhcd upon p pbntloa. SMITH & WESSON. it!9.IUirer. 8rJwM. slaas. aaaaaaaaaanKaaVKci WFTMFItiIi jKaaTgasf -TLm asgSjK'yJyj aaaaaafafl fi S3 8 km Sj as ri:- rcnyft irfSXSSA -VMT ! - -VA - fc-.L-V 4?. "TC5"TaiiUBV . VOJ TO Itjr wraicfet ateel. careimiy uijjt..ci w ",,J manshipand atock. they are unriTaltd fpr nJ li. rabiliir nnH accuracy. ronotM;deciv!.l.y -..11.1.T. ...t.lrfm IHfliailSH WD VM yjACOBSOIX CURES PERMANENTLY EU1 i far Ifeaxlr M Yean. U7 M. Chealar St. telcimef. Md. for nearly 39 tssw I tuffm iaa rheums? Hernia ni TaadtlMeMiefr kmHL aot Uftatz i taaa two dooms er k. jeeoes oa WlsLEUSOK. Of Mamy Yean Standing. Gadsden, Crockett Co.. Teas. Ky case was rheumatism of suay years StandiBf. contracted during the war; tried most everything without reUeC St. Jacobs OU finally cared ae. FEED. KOOOE. At Darccars am n Duras. THC OUatES a, V CIE1 Cf.. filial w.1 J UHUUG U0UBH NOW! J Fop Iff tas cfo nnt It mv Immka vin. t suaptlve.. For ConsHmptiom. Serofnlit, j Otmrml HeMlary aad Wmttlu.j liiteaiep, ) were is sowing nae j SCOTTS Emulsion Of Fare Cod Liver Oil and HYPOPHOSPHITES Of Iilme auacl aScMSM. It ia almost aa nalatablo as milk. Tar 1 1 better than other so-called Eiaulaiona. X wonderful fleab producer. 4 Bll Nnnira umircmn wwa av bhiihiwiwu I There are poor Imitations. Get Me gvitMiwe. j Ely's Crew Bali W1IX CURE CATARRH rrice SO Ceuts. Apply Daltu into each nostril. ELY 1JK03, W Warrca 8L.X. 7. OPIUM lloau. Tlie oclT or and eaar car. Dr. J. L. KlaaheB. Lebanon. Ob la. dies is sold under such trying conditions; no ordinary remedy could sustain itself under ." such n plan of sale. For all chrome or lingering Couglis.'Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Bronchitis, Short ness of Breath, Asthma, and kindred ail ments, it is a most potent remedy. AVbile it cures these disease it nlsoclean,s tho blood, invigorates tho liver, improves digestion, and builds up both Uesti and strength. Contains -no alcohol to inebriate, no sugar or syrup to sour or ferment in tho stomach and inter fere with digestion. It is a concentrated, fluid, vegetable extract. Doso small and pleasant to taste. It stands alone in tho field of medicine, and is as peculiar in its won derful curativo effects as in its composition. ' Therefore, don't bo fooleil into taking some- , thing recommended as " just as good." Bear ' in mind, it's the only Liver, Blood and Lung. Remedy possessed of such transcendent curativo properties as to warrant its manu- " facturcrs in selling it under a printed cer- tiiicato of guarantee, which wraps every lottIe. "Wontn's DisrExsAnr Medicai.. Association, Proprietors, C03 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Vegetable1 and Perfectly Harmless. Vneqaaled ! SMA.X.U3ST, XLAJ3XE&1? CHEAPSC TO TAEB. VT, Recommended by Phvsicia-13. Pleasant and agreeable to tho XIW 'X'AS-Sa WOIUjD! Fall Inforna. IL U. BKYAXT Jk '. l'rcirit,Cfclcaaaaa Holloa una poacr n m wiiw. ajataflRj acd elimea. r.nriT wejjc Music, as a handmaid. Mand ready to argltt in all focUI pleasures and k'alettea. SOCiiil SINGIiiG! n.vH52 -ni -r "! i..i!t r -chl. "lijod Old Holks Wo Used to Bln-'"tl.W). Tctsncnsancf rernnerar.ro CruaadB" (35 rat. ItKirtLftKifUI-'o or jaw) rtoz.) Kmereon Mortx. -T".". ------ -t.-yi.-i. -..... ,-,... "ieiruerasce liJiijiii; ;oii i-Mcu-.ur-.vjuoz.j Hull. iilll Ilt-'I! yUurHJ.?.vn uz.) tme.-Ron. -Aa-Jhei'if -i I'raiM-( VI or tldoz.) Ecirrnon. "Ameri can An hem I;o-ik ($l2.nr Jl"i do.). Dow's -J19-Iiontcrf and Scntenco-." 1 0 tta. or 170 doz.) ETf'J PSUTflTf CI Pacrrd: Ttulh and Boaz" AOI bm jrllKal ctl7. d..): "Kebecca iiilc . rJ'iilnz.I rwcular: "DairKJIaldiv Silpiwr lSJct.oriJ)i!oz.;:Oarden of Sioiflntf Flower" (lOcts.erfTildoz.) Great Success of Gut New $1 Music Bosks. ' T.aso CSasidcs" I Vol. I and Vol. 2). "Popular Mann Col ection." "I'fpn'ar Dvic Jlutlc Collection." Voas t lisslca for boor" 'bons: Classics for Alto." l3a-udc lurltore and Uass Sookl" "Claaalc Tenor t'on-.." Each Look, $1. VAILCD FOB ETTalZ. PBICS. LYON & IIEALY, Chicago, IIL . OLIVER DIJS0N COMPANY. Boston. H fjlr C'flinV EockSeepiiig.BuniceBsFormB. Ufn t D ! UU I.l'enra2nsm,Arithinetlc,SD0rt- Uanu.eicinorouitnijiaiiiju; oy nun. i.ireuur iree.isarA.NT'aBfsiNtasCoixxcrBulIalo.N.y. aaaaaaaaaaaaaasaisur relief a cTa 111 ' UtnnCQ'B DlCTIIirCPriceSBctdJIalrlllJI niUULIl d rWJIILLLJ.byaiaii.6toweUaCo.' BaaaaaaaaaaBaas-avaa TO COAL CONSUMERS Throughout tho Northwest: Vritetothc CQH. SOU CMl C8WMT at Streamer, 111, for prices on the best grade of LUMP COAL i Delivered at your station. 'They aiakev special price to uu, lactones ana x. Auiascaa. v. c. y. v. NV.0-M pW61 laaa J2SMAmMm9Gg8&es-- MiflwMer Mb K23taH r VST.-' if - rf . wl --H 1 I? til ip :-t -! 31 -j" fafjR. :..1 & - :hrtthcx jJ tit? iT3S ! --. .fjsis T.--i ivrxtLrWjL r r