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1- ' 3 . N i. -. f t f - 3 J t" ,?: i t IS if o i L a o J -. h " 14 . I i R -. 9 -. o In l- o .- IW & J 1 JHnfJ'4 ttoKmiiT j JL tUrtll v paWIcatlon oa the raff xtlaction of taa aboriglBal aoinatt of this coatiaeat Ii soon to be Issued at Washiagton, The buffalo has already become practically extinct Oalr a few years ago the "passenger pigeon" flew by aillloBS la Ohia .There are now bat a few af theai left. Domestication alone has saved the American tnrkey from utter extinction. The great Arctic sea cow that was fouad In great anaMrs In 1741 is Behriag Sea is no mote. Within the last stity years the American auk has disappeared. The beautiful Labra dor dacic 1 also a thing of the past, the last speelaen of it having been seen in 1870 Qf the few aboriginal animals that still survive It is only a question of a comparatively short time before they will be extinct The seal is doomed be yon'd all hope. Last year 875,000 hair seal were slaughtered for leather and oIL Erea the alligators are not spared, aad they, too, will sooa hare disap peared ander the demand for reticules, BKiketbooke, aad other fancy articles, ran while a tealoas chase Is kept up for the birds of the air and every creep ing thlag that can be made toadora fashion and luxury. The same mania Is rampant all over the world. The elephant Is being hilled la Africa far IU Ivory at a rate that will sosa extermin ate him. Before half a century the huntsman will stand alone over the com pleted extermination, with nothlag te shoot at nut the human race. etch, we gave hi Wheal Wheal ChlM, she criad tor OMtotia, soCastoria, Castoria, ' A hospital physician, talking about suckles and attempted, suicides tiie other evening, said: "Whoa a parentis brought into the hospital havlag pre sumably taken pol on, it is aa absolute Impossipility to know whether or not such is really the case. There are sev eral reasons, Drue clerks are pretty wise nowadays, and one of their fre quently practiced schemes Is te give a harm 'ess decoction Instead of poison to persons who act as though they might Intend suicide. The results In such cases are sometimes very surprising The parson who takes the alleged poison may be worked up to such a pitch of nervous excitement that all the outward symptoms of poisoning may be exhib ited. Then, very often, people are brought la who are mere'y shamming. The most remarkable rase of this kind I ever knew of was that of a beautiful young woman who took fake' poison under very sensational circumstances. She appeared to be profoundly uncon scious when received here. She re mained so whilo the stomach-pump was being used, and that required little less than Spartan nerve. But when some one made a facetious remark about ho underclothing, she bit the tube of the stomach-pump in two in her efforts to keep from laughing." ENTITLED TO THE BKBT. All are entitled to the best that their money will buy, so every family should have, at once, a bottlo of the best family remedy. Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the sys tem when costive or bilious. For sale in 80c and f 1.00 bottles by all loading drug gists. Watts "I suppose that the French will now erect a bronze statue to Bonl- anger." Potts "Dunno. I should think a cast-iron Gaul would perpetuate him better than bronze." "If I were only in politics," mused the car horso as he started up the hill, "what a lot I could do with the pull I have!" JTo Opium In Plso'a Cure for Consumption. Oares where other remedies fall. 25c It is a good rule to pay as you go. But some men must go very slow if they go as they pay. rTT!-4BnaatMftMarIr.Bnirt'aare.tt ffrt WLtmrmr. Jfo Fits after Sret ra am. M aalloaacarea. Treaties atid rtflB trial bottle free u Fit naan Sea to Dr. gone. SSI Area at. Ptill P .illllMIIVif.ii "llHM1!! W Brought bads to health snfferera from the worst forms of Skin and Scalp Diseases, Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, and all manner of blood-taints. It's done by Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical Discovery, which purifies and enriches the blood, ana through it cleanses and renews the wholo sys tem. Even Lung-scrofula (known as Pulmonary Consumption) yields to it, if taken in time and given a fair trial. It's guaranteed to bene fit or cure, in every case, or money paid for it is refunded. Only a medicine that does what is claimed for it, could bo sold on such terms. No other medicine, besides the " Discovery n has undertaken it. So positively certain is it in its curative effects as to warrant its makers in selling it, as they are do ing, through druggists, on trial It's especially potent in curing Tetter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Erysip elas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Goitre, or Thick Keck, and Enlarged Glands, Tumors and Swellings. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influence. GRATEFUIrf-COMFORTINQ. EPPSS COCOA BREAKFAST. "By a theroaga knovrledm of the aatwal !e-v-which govern the operatl -as ofdfge tlon ana netrS ti:i.andbyacsrerulappllsatiomif thenco i or tlesof H.-s Kctel Cocoa, Mr. Ep-s has i-rcvM u i mi ImaiTiet taoha with a deucatialy flavoured bev erage wtuch taay save a many heavy doctors' bit's itisay inoja&lc'oai use of sacs. articlM of Jl'i that acoas:4aaca maybe gr daaltr oollt up rati. etroegeaoaga to raaUt every tendency to disease Handredofsab!l maladies a floating trooai m reedy to attack wherever there ! weei pout We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping oar tetvesweUrorttael with pare blood a d .irroper! i ailasiiriaur" ---" ' Gaattte.'1 Bade simply with boUlex water r mit. fold air la aalt-p-iaal tin. y sroo r. labellc 1 thus: JAMSS EPPs 4c CO., Iloaaopathio Cfcernuts L03DOS, ESOIASO. The Soap that Cleans : Most Le nox. fv (vli V aaaaWiha wtt xi"iw I 1 aTsssTV I I J m Mw "a AT THE DOOff. She ataadfl at tbe la a dorr of aoMem llabt. Watcbktheairanowaaoar Aad tbe cawing rooks alow flight. A fair face teader and troe,- A figure stately and tall ; Beyond, a dark hedge of yew And an old bloseomy walL ZiUiea in aUvar sbeaves Edging tbe pathway stand; The roaea shed their leave, . Trying to kiss hrr band. I iko jewels dropt at her feet, The purple paneiea gleam ; ALore 1 er head the jaunine sweet And the gold-eyed mosses dream. The sunset burns in tbe skies ; The antique gables lean To watch her with blinking eyes For tbe old bouM knows its queej Quickly I climb up the bill ; Tbe crescent glimmers pale ; Elow purple shadows fill Tbe hollows ot the dale. Soon I shall see her stand, Soou I shall see ber smile ; She will give me her little hand. And the rose will watch tbe while. Out. alas, I forgot! Tbe glory has died away ; Tbe lluies with tears aro wet. Tho skies are pallid and gray. She passed from tbe light of the sun. r&ssed from tbe scout and tbe bloom, The sweet life over and done. Tbe sweet eyes closed in the tomb. No more, O my love, never more Will you stand la tbe golden light. Watching tho swallows soar And tbe cawing rooks' flow flight ! "COMRADES. 99 VkX LOUISE JAMISON. E was a ragged child of the street. One of that great army of quick wilted, sharp eyed, little lads, who cry their pa pers from early morning until late at night in the highways, and by-ways, of the busy, bustling city of New York, lie could remem ber neither father nor mother. Alone he had fought his way through life, with a fearless front, and an assump tion of bluff indifference, that would have done credit to a much older, and much wiser, man of the world. Early in his loveless existence he had met Mollie. It was a winter evening. Itagged and cold she stood upon an exposed corner of the bleak, cheerless street. A bundle of unsold papers was clasped convulsively in her numb Angers; a mute pleading was visible on the wan little face, and a childish dread of the fast gathering darkness echod in the mournful cry: "Extra, sir, extra. Only a penny." She had seemed such a tiny thing to face the stern realities of life. A mere baby who had missed her share of pity and love. The rude crowd jostled her heed lessly. Few paused to buy her wares. They were hurrying from the luting wind; hurrying to their warm tire sides, and to the little oiks safe in the sheltering fold of a mother's love. But no cheerful lire or sweet home influences awaited the boy, whose companions had loen the cold of the streets and the shadows of the night, since memory liegau. With a swelling heart, and a mist in his eyes that could not l tears, for Jim could not remember the time he had ever cried, he paused Iwfore the pitiful little figure. "Gimme yer papers," he said with a roughness that was not meant for roughness. She glanced at him with a startled look. She was afmid of him; this big burly boy. "Give me them," he repeated. This time more gentle. "I won't run off wid em'. I'll sell em for ye." "Without a word she jKissed them to him, following until the last was sold, and she held the money in her hand. Their fortunes were one from that hour. Mollie had no home, unless a miser able shelter with a woman, who drank up her small earnings, and beat her unmercifully, might le termed one. "Don't yer go back to her," advised Jim, when a host of childish confi dence revealed the facts ot the case to him." Come and bunk wid me. I ain't no Yandcrbilt, but I ain't starving nedcr. I ain't got no pard like de odder fellers, and ljjuess yef's as good as de kids, if yer arc a gal." So they became comrades, sparing bravely the good and ill of their lonely, loveless, little lives. "When times were hard, and pennies scarce, they ate their smaller allow ance of dry bread, with as much con tentment, as more favored children would being to a meal of pound cake. But when business was brisk. Mollie I fared better. There was always an I apple, or an orange for her, brought - a i a f home in the depths of Jim's dirty pocket. Nor could Jim be induced to share these danties. "Sweet things was made for gals: kids don't like 'em," he would pro test, when urged to take a bite. When, as happened on rare occa sions, fortune was very propitious, he would say, with that little air of diffi dence which sat ujion him so oddly: "Don't go "out to-morrow Mollie. Gals can't stand tilings like boj-s, and there's enough to give yer a holiday." But Mollie could never Ik; talked into such an indulgence "Wn'll novnr Trtn e rich, she would mge earnestness, "if ays, Jim. declare, with strange I'm to take holida i-or they had their hopes and am bitions too. Touches of the same worldly pangs, that agitate the hearts, and energize the children of a larger growth. They talked over these bright anticipations, after the daj's work was over. Dreaming their wonderful dreams, and building airy castles of that very plastic material, their own active imaginations. Yet they did nor neglect the every day realities that confronted them. They still worked bravely on. starting out each morning with fresh courage and confidence, counting their pen nies, and comparing profits each suc ceeding evening. There came a night, however, when the pennies were not compared as usual, Jim did not re turn home. Long after her bed time, Mollie waited, hoping each moment to hear either his footstep, or his cheery whistle. It was a weary vigil, and a vain one, and sleep came at tast to relieve her. Morning still brought no Jim. With a heavy heart, and sad fore bodings, Mollie started alone to buy her papers. The long hours that followed were filled with tender thoughts of her ab sent comrade. Love magnified the simplest incident of their long com panionship. . : With a swelling heart, she remem bered how often, and how bravely, be had defended her. In hi presence no boy had dared to hurt her by word or action. "Gal is first rate pards," be had sBHaO f'laal JaJ said one day when some youthful gamins had spoken contemptously of her, 'and the feller wot says dey ain't is goln' to git wot he don't want See." He had looked so brave when he said it, and she had trusted him so thoroughly, and bad felt so proud to put her hand hi his and walk through that crowd of laughing boys. She remembered, too, the few ill nesses that had fallen to her lot, his almost womanly gentleness, and the dainties he had gone without bread to give her. She thought she had ap preciated them then, but now she could not think or them without that painful tightening of t te throat, which brought tbe hot tears to her eyes. And with such thoughts came a faint realization of what her life would be without her boyish friend to share its lights and shadows. "Something has happened to him, something has happened to him," she repeated again and againduringthose first lonely days. The idea that he would leave her otherwise, did not for a moment find lodgment in her trusting heart Yet the weeks passed and brought no tid ings of him. Forced by circum stances, she sought other quarters. She gradually avoided her old haunts. They held only painful memories for her Months grew into years. Girlhood gave place to womanhood. News paper selling to the needle. With the tiny little shaft of gleam ing steel, which her weary fingers plied from early morning until late at night, she supported the mockery she called life. "The Song of the Shirt" was to her a reality, an epitome of her daily existence. Her voice was another in that great chorus, which ever echoes and re-echoes at the mighty throne of God. And through all this time not even a word of Jim came to cheer her lonely hours. Through the flowing hot tears, and with a heart hunger nothing could satify, she longed for a return of the old days, and a sight of the old Jim. Walking through the streets one day with articles she had just finished, she felt a sudden illness come upon her. Too late she stretched out her arm to seek the support of a friendly railing. The next second she had fallen with a half suppressed cry, upon the hard pavement She awaked to consciousness to find herself on a comfortable lied in a hospital waid: "You are in good hands," was the old doctor's answer to her first e?ger question. "You have only to lie still and get well, my dear." It was very pleasant this lying still, for she was very tired. The next day a young doctor replaced the old one. Dr. Willetts the nurse called him, but for Mollie he had another name. A name fraught with memories of much that was sweet and sad in her life. "Am I dreaming?" she asked in a low wondering voice. "Am I dream ing, or is it you Jim?" The name came slowly, half doubt fully, from her lips. BTe was unlike the loy comrade of long ago, the tall line looking man, unlike, yet strangely like, too. "You are not dreaming, Mollie," answered the well remembered voice. "Not dreaming. I ainJim, and I have found you at last' "At last," she repeated in the same wondering accents. "I. have waited so long Jim, and been so lonely, so terribly lonely." So lonely, dear Mollie. It must le different now. It will be different dear." There was a ring of the old cheery confidence in his words. An unex pressed something that filled her heart j with a vague, sweet, joy. She was well content to wait for the explanation he promised to give when she should be strong enough to hear it And gradually she learned the events that made up the record of those long years. He told her of the accident that had befallen him within an hour after he had left her; of the brain injury, that had made his mind a blank for many long months. Of the kind old doctor, who had taken him to his home and treated him as his own son, and lastly of his vain search for her, when reason once more reasserted its sway. "It's all so changed," he added when the long story was finished. "The hopes we dreamed of long ago, I have fully realized. I have thought of those old days many times, and not without tender memories of you, but I would not care to live them over." "And I," she answered with a sigh, that was almost a sob, "would be so glad to go through it all again. We wen .M were sometimes Hungry ana orten -VI"U then, but I have felt another cold, and another hunger, harder, so much harder to liear. You don't re member them as I do, Jim." The days JKissed heavily. They brought no strength to the invalid. Worn by long, and wearying, work, heartache and want, her exhausted energies seemed wholly unable to rally from the lethargy that oppressed them. Sometimes she was too weak even to sieak to Jim. Though she knew he was near. Often feeling his strong handclasp, or hearing his voice. The same voice that had so often said: "We'll always be pards Mollie,even if n-o An o-ir. n nilo nf tiinnfv nnrl rire&s Hke tiebigsweIIswhobuysourpapers." Yct evcn with thls mcmorV there was tne vaue consciousness of the indefinable something, which stood betweeu them. She was still Mollie, but the old Jim had gone from her life forever. One day she missed his accustomed visit. She waited until evening; still he did not come. "Dr. Willetts has not been here to day," she said to her nurse, when the itorl-nocc rtmran tn o-athor " ""No, my dear, was the the unsus picious answer, "it is his wedding day. I guess he's about being mar ried now." "His wedding day," repeated Mol lie, as the light died from her face. "His wedding day," "Did you wish to speak to him particularly?" asked the unohservlng nurse in the tone of one humoring an invalid. "No." was the faint answer. "I did not know. That is all. Tell J him I am glad. Tell him Ah I ! am so tired. I think I would like i t-tx TkC I ZZZir. 1 i There was silence after this. The J nurse moved off to another patient. Presently she glanced towards Mollie again. Something in the strange stillness of the wasted form, and tne un earthly pallor of the sweet, true face, j rainfall, were all taken into consider fllled her with an undefined fear. j ation. As the number of observations Hastening to the bed, she put her .were only forty, the investigators hand upon the coldfbreast j give the results with some reserve. The heart was stilled forever. Best 'nevertheless they believe that they had come sweet! v. and 6oftly, to a arc justified in affirming tbra forests soul grown tired of long wandering. do exorcise the power of straining out And not far away iu a church, gay the bacteria thatan:hrui:ghi to them with bright lights, and beautiful i by the wind: flowers, the joyful strains oi a wed- ding march, thrilled the listening ears, of a happy bride and groom. RMdaa Wttk Whlakara. "What are you doing that for?" asked the writer of a downtown ele vator boy, who was industriously hacking the edges of a nickel with a sharp knife. "Puttin up a job on one of de 'L' rakes," he replied, as he- started tho elevator with a velocity that doubled up the knees of a puny-looking man who wanted to go to the top floor. "Who are the 0 rakes?" He left two girls on the second floor and blew a chewed wad at a messenger boy on the third; then he answered: "De rakes are de fellows wat pull in de coin at de elevated station win dows. Dey tink der mighty slick in makin' change, and de lazy way dey slide it out makes you tired. But we fellers are on to 'em. We whittles sharp edges on a coin like dis and flops it down hard on de wood. De man paws it, but it don't rake. He tries it again, but his fingers slip off. It's fun to sec him get rattled when ders a big crowd waitin'. Tree of de fellers had a man wild last night. .We mixed up in a 7 o'clock crowd and each of us had a cut com. De ticket man was slidin' change his purtiest when a lad chucked down a nickel with whiskers on. He pulled at it six times and then had to pick it up. After a few people had passed I struck him wid a sharpened dime. It took him a minute to rake it in and gimme change, and a Hollum train went up wid a big crowd pushin' to get through de gates. Den de money slipped all right for a minute, but an other of de gang set down a fixed piece. It stuck fine and de man was so mad de station trembled. It's de last joke out nint' floor!" New York World. The Car fraenr. The car tracer is a man employed by a railroad company to hunt up lost freight cars. He travels a great deal, but the beauties of the country through which he passes are lost to him, for he has no eye except for lost freight cars. If he takes a little snack in a railroad restaurant, his eye is turned to the window con stantly, especially when a freight train goes rumbling by. He has been known to leave his coffee half drank, rush out and mount the caboose with an ajr of triumph, which proclaimed that he had recognized the initials and number for which he was search ing. Studying freight cars as he docs renders him oblivious to the beauty of the most elaborate 1'ullman or Wagner palace car, and he looks iion the latest improved vestibule limited with supreme indifference. ' In fact he dreams of nothing but lost freight cars, strayed or stolen, and initials and numbers dance before his sleep ing vision continually. He doesn't confine his search to the main lines by any means, but wanders off on ol scure roads, branches and cut-offs, and is sometimes rewarded by finding the car in some gravel pit, or switched off at a stone quarry and used as an office or perhaps residence for a sub boss. Great is his joy then to drag it out to light and start the truant on its way home. Verily, there is more joy in the freight master's office over one lost car that is recovored than ninety and nine that went not astray. Texas Siftings. A Care for Diarrhea. A South Dakota correspondent writes: "I copied from the Mechanical Xeics several years ago (I think about 1875) a prescription for the cure of diarrhea, which has been used in my family since successfully but have lost it. Can you in any way get it without too much trouble; if so I shall feel greatly obliged." More than eighteen years ago in August, 1873 the prescription which we give below was printed in Hie Me chanical Neics. It was especially recommended for the prevention of cholera, but was declared on very high authority to be equally efficacious for summer complaint, diarrhea or the first stages of cholera. We quote from the issue of our paper above re ferred to: "It is not to tie mixed with liquor, and any competent druggist can put it up. The dose being very small, the remedy can be carried in a phial in the vest pocket, and will thus be always at hand. The prescription, in druggists' terms, is as follows: Tinct opii, capsici, rhei co., menth. pip., campho. In common language, Tincture of opium, red pepper, rhubarb, pepper mint and camphor. Mix the ingredients in equal parts. Dose, ten to thirty drops. For diar rhea, ten or twenty drops in three or four teaspoonfuls of water." This is doubtless the remedy to which our correspondent refers. It is slid to have been uniformly effectual, even against the cholera, if adminis tered in time. Mechanical News. A Very Bab Bab'-t. Nothing is more indicative or ill breeding than the familiarity with which men and women make use eacli other's given names. It is well enough for schoolmates and college chums to use diminutives, or plain Mary or John, in addressing their companions, but with the other evi dences of personal dignity acquired by maturity should be that of cxclnsive ncss in the use of one's baptismal title Not only is it well for women to refrain from using the first name of their male friends in speaking to them, but, in private as well as pub lic, a certain fine reserve is main tained by adopting this course, says the Illustrated American. It is just as easy to refer to Mr. Jones as Mr. Jones, instead of Tom, Jim, or Will, only in the latter case a degree of intimacy is implied complimentary to neither party. After all, it is a mere habit, and by a little careful correc tion a lady will soon find herself quite as fluent in addressing and mention ing her masculine acquaintances by their correct titles as when she un dignifiedly spoke of them in the same terms ber cook employes in alluding to the grooms. Ferasta aaal Baetaria. Investigations have been made by ! Seraflni and Arata to determine the correctness of the belief that the foliage of trees has some influence in filtering out the bacterial contents of the atmosphere. Their method of 1 procedure was to determine the num- ber of bacteria in air under motion before and after it has reached the woods. The barometrical pressure, direction and strength of the wind, temperature at the edge and in the midst of the woods, humidity and DANNY. A aTteattfat Shatafc), bat o fta-n Seen la J&mI Li r Gome here, Danny! Danny started. He had not heard his father come. He had only started. hut if his father had been a man of fine discernment which lie was not he would have seen that his child trembled with fear or some other strong emotion. "I hear that you do not want to go to school. Your mother says that you have been crying about it like a baby. Now I want to know what this sort of nonsense means. Do you want to be a dunce'r" "No-o, sir," said Danny. As he stood at his father's knee, he twined the fingers of his small thin hand iu and out of that large strong one. "I only wanted to wait, papa, till next month. It's so nice in the woods with the birds and flowers.'' "Birds and flowers. Any one would think you were a little girl. Well, sir, I don't want any more such nonsense. I expect you to be ready on the first day of school, and you've got to learn your lessons, too, remem ber, no shirking." It would be hard to relealize that Danny was ouly a child, hearing tbt harsh words of the father. But that was his way. People :i)ologiz( for such men by that phrase. God help those who cross that "way:'5 they must either grind, or themselves he ground. When Danny's father left the room, the boy seated himself on a hassock, and with his elbows on his knees and his sharp little chin supported on his hands, he looked out of the window up to a square of blue sky just visible above tbe curtain. He was thin and peaked, and very iniscrableabout that school business. "Danny hates to learn anything," his father was saying in an aggressive tone to Danny's mother in the next room. "I don't think it's that, exactly," answered his wife patiently; "he is not well, and he does love the country so. And you would be surprised, Ilu f us, to see how much he learns there. Why, he was so interested in the bees that he knows all their habits, and really you would be pleased to hear how well he can talk." "Bees!" echoed Danny's father, and there was a contemptuous inflection to his voice that told what lie thought of such knowledge. Danny did not go back to the coun try, but staid at home to be ready for school, which began in two weeks. It grieved him to think of his dear birds and bees without him, but he got out his books, and rublted up his knowledge of arithmetic in obedience to his father's order. It was a funny performance for his mother did not know much more about it than he did. A few days later Danny sat with his hand in his mother's, talking very fast. "Why the bees know me, mamma, and they can tell an enemy from a friend, and I saw them bringing iu the honey and oh, mamma, I know a place where there's a tree full of sweet apples and there's the light house I know what it's for, to keep the ships from driving on the rocks and I never learned such nice lessons at school." "But, Danny, you must learn to read and write, and say your lessons. All little boys must. "Must they, mamma? When it's warm summer, and the woods so green and cool, and the birds, birds everywhere, and the ponds full of lilies and cat-tails? I've learned such lots of things. Why, mamma, it's ever so much better than books." "Then he told her of the wasps' nest he had seen under the eaves of the barn when he was in the country, and of the sheep with dear little white noses, that came and nibbled salt out of his hand, of the swing in the or chard that went up-up so high, and let the old cat die, and then he laid his tired, heavy head, that felt twice two big for his body, down in his mother's lap and still babbling of the country, went to sleep. It was night when he awakened, and it was so strange. He felt so light and queer. WTas that his father sitting by, speaking in such a low voice? And that was surely the doc tor who came to see him when he was sick. It was all so funny that he laughed loud and long in a voice that did not sound a bit like his own. "The bees," he said, "lots of 'em buzzing in my head. This isn't the country, is it, mamma?" "Seven from nine plus one mam ma, I saw a yellow-hammer to-day. Six from six, nought to carry and he caught a poor worm how does it go, mamma? I hate 'rithmetic." He knew his mother and wondered why her face was wet and shining. "I can't learn my lessons," he fee bly complained; "they're too hard and the bees are all mixed up with them. There isn't any plus seven, plus four in the country, is there, mamma?" "No, dear" sobbed his mother, as she smoothed the little hot hands tenderly. "There's only one more lesson," panted the child; "the birds told the bees it's plus nothing an' nought to carry, an' oh, mamma, it's so easy when somebody docs all your sums for you to make 'em come out right" His hands relaxed their nervous tension, and fell by his side. The closing cj'elids quivered a moment. "The book is closed." said the doc tor gently, "and all the lessons arc said." Mrs. M. L. Rayne, in De troit Free Press. Dlptallierin in Chowirijj-lium. A contemporary thus calls atten tion to the possible spreading of diphtheria through chewing-gum: "The practice of chewing gum has lMiComc ory wide spread. It is not a very elegant habit: to many it is nositivclv repulsive; and there are sources of danger, too, that should not be overlooked. Diphtheria broke out in a family in East Des Moines. After the child had recovered, the clothing and all the exposed articles fully disinfected, the parents, with the convalescent child, visited some relatives in the country. The indis pensable chewing-gum, like Satan, went also in the mouth of the little child. Prompted by generosity, it allowed its country cousins two children to chew also the gum pre viously chewed by the visiting child. In three or four days, without any other known source of infection than the chewing-gum, the two children were simultaneously stricken down with diphtheria in a most serious form. It would be a great deaUaafer not to chew the stuff at all, but if it must be done to satisfy the demands of a weak head and a depraved, appe tite, our advice is, don't 'swap' gum to chew any body else's gum, nor al low any body else to chew yours." Hall's Journal of Health. Be carefnl in the choice of your oempany. You are often judftd by tbt tUnding of your frUnd's mtodsV Doa't taaaa aar to ancb. If aha Is tn llnad to wasp ovar tha woes of the hero ar herolae. Doa't forget that almost everytalag yea say can ka heard by taaaa directly la f roat of yoo. Doa't go out betweea the acta, an!es you take aar with yon; afce'd feel quite lost aloaa. Toat chat while the curtala to raised, even if too are not interested; those near you nay be. Doa't carry oa a correspondence on your prograame; reserve jour con fidences antll after the play. Don't allow her to hold her wraps on her lap; the back of the scat or tho checkroom is more appropriate. Don't tell your companion what comes next, should yon have tton the play be fore; let her find that out Don't talk too much If she seems to be listeatajc to the orchestra, but you may brlag la some reminiscence tho music has called forth. Don't let the boy with the ice-water pass without asking If she wants some, but be sure yon give the boy a coin: a woman likes generosity in a man. Don't fall to thank her for the pleas ure she has given you by accepting your Invitation; she may think you are very kind, but you are really the debtor. Help bat Doa't Coerce. To help nature in its efforts to throw oft the trammels of disease is, of course, tbe legitimate method of medication. This method is, unfor tunately, too often diverged from and help per veited into coercion. Drastic. excossiTe purging Is undoubtedly the molt frequent form ot coer cion of this sort. The bowols are forced, liter ally wrenched into action. Of coarse, this ia accompanied with much griping pain, and suc ceeded by exhaustion, which leaves the organs of evacuation in a state Incompatible with sub sequent regularity and activity. The last tato of that man or woman who uses drastic oitbar tics for conetlpaUon ia decidedly woreo than tho first. Hostetter's Stomach DitUr . is the finest laxative in existence, since it produces tho need ful but no abnormal asUon. fa progressive, not abrupt In operation, and strengthens instead of weakening tho organs upon which it act9. Use it for malarial, kidney, rheumatic and dyspep tlo ailments. The Bltera Bit. I met a gentleman at the Union Depot the other night who. had just rctui nod from Kearney County, writes a Colorado man. Ha said: "I took up a claim three weeks ago and built my shanty with more care than is usually taken with t;.om. I built a bedstead of boards in the corner, and laid in a small stock of canned goods and dried meat The first night after it was completed I crawled into bed and fell into a deep sleep. About midnight I was awakened by a half dozen rude jolts, some one cracked a whip, yelled 'Git up!' and I straightway felt the motion of a heavy wagon. I was but half awake,but I realized that my bed was tipped to an angle of 45 degrees and that everything was moving. I realized that my shanty, supposed to be unoccupied, was being stolen with m: tn it. I grasped my revolver and emp tied it at the wa'ls, and In answer heard tho sound of scattering feet I crawled out of the small window and drove back about 100 yards to the site of the house, where I made the horses fast and posted my sol f under the wagon. The next day I drove two miles to my nearest neigh bor, and soon had his opinion and that of several other farmers. They all said tho horses and wagon woro iniuo be yond doubt as no one would ever claim them." J. C. SIMPSOX, Marquess. W. Va., ays: "Hairs Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad case of catarrh." Druggists sell it. Toe. Sarah Bernhardt Fond of Sensation. Sarah L'ornhardt seems to have energy enough to tiro out half a dozen ordinary women The other night, in San Fran cisco, after two performances of -l.n Tosca," tho last of which only ended at midnight, she made a tour of Chinatown, inspected several opium dives and spent a long time In tbe Chinese Theater, tir ing out everyone who accompanied her Early In the morning (for the perform ance of "Cleopatra" did not end till nearly 1 o'clock) she went with several of her company to witness a slugging match at tho Cremorno Theater, and Bernhardt was a deeply interested spec tator. especially when It looked at one tlmo as though ono of the contestants would be knocked out She had never beforo witnessed a prizo fight, and yearned fur this now sensation LOST matism of the hip. I St. Jacobs Oil. I "AU RIGHT! ST. Beat Conarh Medicine. Core where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to tho taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. SHILOH'S CONSUMPTION CURE. The aeeeai of this Great Coven Care k withoat a parallel ia the history of medicine. All draggists are authorised to sell it oa a poa Hive guarantee, a test that no other cure can sue cessmlly stand. That it may become knows, tbe Proprietors, at an enormous expense, an placing a Sample Bottle Free into every hosst in tbe United States and Canada. If you hat aCoagfa, Sore Throat, or Bronchins, ase it, tat h will care yoo. If yoar child has tbt Croup, or Whooping Cough, nee k promptly, and rebel is sure. If yoa dread that insurious diseasa Consumption, ase it. Ask yoar Druggist for SHIIjOH'S cuke, race io cts., 50 cts. f I.00. If yoar Langs are tore or Hack U at SaOoh's Porous Plaster. Prices; cat, DONALD KENNEDY Of RoiboiT, Mas says Kennedy's Medical Discovery cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep Seated Ulcers of 40 years' standing, Inward Tumors, and every disease of the skin, ex cept Thunder Humor, and Cancer that has taken root Price i.5o. Sold by every Druggist in the U. S. and Canada. Ely's Cream Bali SCICUXY GVRKS COLB HI HEM. Fries- Cents. Applv Balm into each aostrlL U.y BKD3- &5 Wsrrea St. X. T. ANAKESISdTMlaUaaS relief, i :U ts an UCFALLt MX ' UJIE for FILES. I'ritt. 1; st dfUJtii ft lir mall. H ! f-e. Adirt.s UlIs. toesaufc Jbrw koas Cm asriSSSrVl alrl PILES A jedge la Hangary was aaMttoaa recently by members Qf the Naiarea sect Ib tbe town of Gyoata forpemisalaa to crucify one of their number, "waft was a Bieasiaa, aad had bee called by heaven to. save men. The judge, for BtOBMBt, was dumfouaded. "Vrieade," ha replied, after reooverlag ala seasaa, "I do aot wish to Interfere with your re ligious practice If yoar raeastaa wishes to be crucified, let hjat prepare himself for death. Remember, however, If ha does not rise In three days I shall eaase every one of you to be hangei. " Tha Na arenes, it is almost needless to say, allowed their chief to live, The Only One Ever I'rlated Vn Tao Flail the Word? There is u 3-inch dl-play advertisement in this paper this week, which lias no two words alike except one word. The same Is trtio of each new one appearing each week from The Dr. llartcr Medicine Co. This lioue places a "Crescent" on everything they make and publish. Look for it. send them tho name of the word, and they will return you book, BEACTtrur. i.viiior.KAras. Or SAMPLES VIIEE Quite a Place for Mnle. Marshall. Ga. Is a grott rhico for donkeys and their kindred. Besides selling 1?,000 mules every year, they have ralsod a mule in that county which is S years old and 20 hands I1I3I1. A mute 6 feet 8 Inches high is such a curi osity that they aro taking It all around to all the county fairs and exhibiting It as a sort of sideshow, and tho gate money in a single day sometimes amounts to $100. Dr. Shei.dox Jacksox has succeeded in transporting sixteen Siberian rein deer to Alaska. The animals were on board ship from ono to tlireo weeks and arrived atthelr destination hi good con dition. The Record Of cure accomplished by Hood'a SvupariU haa never been surpiael ia the history of maJlciaa. And the constant stream ot letters from people who rt re almost in d.-n-slr bat wen cured Ly Hood's Sarsaparilla is verygraUfrinc. Because of the- we urge aU wUe suffer from Scrofula. Salt Rheum, or aar othsr disease caused by impure blood or low state of the intern, to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. HOOD'S PILLS-Invisorate the liver, reg ulate the bowaU. Effective, but gentle. Price 25a. HS8& HEavEToHlw Physiciaus Couldn't Care. X SKDAiisviiLE, Hamilton Co., O., June, 1689. Ono bottle of Tastor Koenig's Nerve Tonic eared me entirely, after physicians had tried unsuccessfully far 8 months to relieve me of nervous debility. W. HUENNEFELD. Cst, Bono County, Kan., Oct.. 1600. A boy eight years old suffered sovcrelyfrom nervousness and twitching. After using Pas Ton Koeniq's Niuivk Tomo for a time, he waa entirely restored. Another cape is that of a young lady who after using B bottlea of l'aator Koenig a Touis a positive cure as effected from spileptlc fits. BEV. JOHN LOEVEMCH. Hovev. South Dakota, Oct. 27, 1800. My health waa entirelv ruined by epilepsy and I could do r.o work. I used Pastor Koetiig'a Nerv Tonic. The effect was such that I daily grew better and strouger; since four months I hav ilone heavy labor, and have had do nioro fits. JOHN MOLITOIi. FREE 'A Valuable Book en NervuM JII'Cj'e- sent free io any aauress. and poor paUeats can 1ko obtain this medicine free of charge. m.i. UM.ii.ii. 1wn tirenftifvl bvthe CaverfiUd Putor Keenic. of Fort Wayue. ind- since 13HS. aad ianowpreparedunderhlsdlrecUoa bytno KOENIC MED. CO., Chicago, III. Sold by Drussbtts at 81 per Bottle. 6fersJo T.-irsoSizc.St."?". O Dottle for SO. Malaria or rilc,Mclc Headache, Costive Bowels, Dumb Ague. Soar Stomach and Itelchlag; if your food docs not assimilate and you have no appetite, Tirff s Pills j wHlenre these troubles. Price. tS casta, TIME. aa H Newton, 111. From 1863 to 1S85 about 22 years I suffered with rheu was cured by the use of T. C. DODD. JACOBS OIL DID IT." i Recommended bv Physicians. fra Bsxar Tboxhos; tas most noted physician of Eng land, says that more thaa half of all d iy come frost errors in dick I Send for Free Sample of Garfield Tea to 319 West 43th Street, Xew York City. Ovsr. ceame maalta I B..a AMla..a..Ma aflc SfarfmetlM restoreaCemplxio;cwrCotljalon. I EWIS' 98 LYE L rowuereu ami renamed. Th $tronaest and vure;t ye made. Will make tho best per fumed Jlftnl b'oap In 20 minutes vollhou t toiling. It Is tllO Scat for softening water, cleansing lraste-idpcs. dislnlect toe. sinkB, cloiet. washing hot tls, vaints, trees, etc. PENRA. SALT MT'6 GO. (ien. Acts.. Pbila.. I'a. Pacniylvania Agricnltzral Works, Yer!:. Fa. Farqahar's Ktaadard Eoglaes and Sir 31111s. Send for Catalogue. ForU6!, Stationary. Traction k- .. ...m AittrtmmtlcriifTfneaasDcelaltV Ji sff m Warranted aooal or niDcrlor te any mace. A. m. a? XMVUAM. fc . -fc,rw FOR SALE A FAY PLANIHS MACHINE That will plana sixteen Inches wide. This machine Is In good order and will he delivered on hoard the ears for 875. For further particu lars address W. II. ROGERS, 212 Tearl SL. Sioux City, Iowa WE SHIP THRESHERS GOAL Throughout the Northwest. COAL RUN COAL CO., Streator. La Salle Co.. HI af AT ADDU A Positive Cure. Waa I 0 IX m a! Headache ana nou ratfcla relieved almost instantly hy new meth od. No nameous drugs. On-? jckao will cure tfc most obstinate caae. Price 82 CO postpaid. Agents wanted. Ritchor & Co.. S'oax i ity, Ia FAT FOLKS REDUCES rvHri.A!l: lls?l. Oreoa. Ao. wilt I l 1 J"Mrefhtt'Jpur.:..noIt iiB tstdeetloe of ra lb. For circoNr. n'rtr-., wu -. r.O.W.F3SiVlEl:.aeVicker,aTeair..Ciitcsjo.IU. I flUIS n ?, Hre lite ile.C a-fwRSTf.VVfr1 out ir.mc.eit. la Waahltistou. O.'J mm solicitor PILES IK3TAHT REUCF. SXiSiffi KUUtm KAILS rtu. Add! adrsaa ira sasasfefe-vjfc wSHKSflg.U 4aassnCfil GARFIELD TEA fl ' .. I "AugUSt y-y Flower" l IhU tan tawMtl with Dyapntim. Tie doctontold sitettisusdsTTk!.i4iMts pit of ar stomach. iMsfcredfie queatly fioim a Was Brash of clear matter. SotsKtisacs a deathly Sick ness at the Stosmach wodd overtake me. Theaagaia I would have the terrible paias of Wind Colic At such times I would try to belch and could not Iwasworkiaf thenfor Thomas McHeaxy, Druggist, Cor. Irwin and Western Ave., Allegheny City, Fa., in whose employ I had been for seven years. Finally I used August Flower, and after using just one bottle for two weeks, was en tirely relieved of all the trouble. X can now eat things I dared aot touch before. I would like to refer you to Mr. McHenry, for whom I worked, who knows all about my condition, and from whom I bought the medi cine. I live with my wife and family at 39 James St., Ailegheay City.Pa. Signed, John D. Cox. G. G. GREEN Sale Maaafactarer, Watdaary; New Jersey, U. S. A. DR. N.E.WOOD, The wcll-knowm founder of tha Sioaz City Sanitarium and Surgical Inatitnt aaa for teas lean the leadins an J moet aacceesfal peciallsa of the west, now Preaideat aad caief of tha medical faculty of tho CHICAGO MicalSarpallnstitDli bum retaraeA to Stems City, and aaay W ceiwaltea at his old office. 413 Fifths Street, where ha le aUlt treating with hie great aklll aad aacrea all He & Surgical Diseos DaformitlM and Weakm Men and Woman, j Assisted by a full staff of Eminent Susrialtssa.! Kidney and Bladder Disaaaea,. Brigkt'adiscasr, Diahetea and kindred msiadlea, treated aad cares euVct din thoaeand ot cases that had neon pronouncul hoyoad hope. Nervous Pisceses.-Varicocele, Brdss. eeie, lrfn of Bexoai l'ower and all diseases oa ths Rsnitcnrinarr organs. speedUr and persssvj n-mUy cured. No risisa incurred. Medicine seat free from obsecration, to all parts of ta UaitseV State. t Female Diseases poiitirely cored bya, tiroly hnrmleas and tvailr applied. Cuautltatioaj free aad strictly coafid.-niiil . i Dr. Wood, after twenty years experience haa perfected the mwt intiUiiu!o method or carta Vital D-ain ia Urine, h'octnrnal Losae. las paired Memory. Wra'c lW-lt. Melancholy, Waatef. Energy. Premature Dclinoof the Manly Po ifeonaultol heforo idiocy, inaaaitj. falling fat ortoUl impotent-? re-nit. These terrible dis. orders arising from ruinous practice of y oath. bliKhting the most radiant hopes, unfitting patients for business, study, societ yor marriage, annually sweeping t mi untimely gfava thonnds of j.-ucg men of exalted Salsa and brilliant intellect. PilOO Cured without pain, knileor caaterr. BJIarriaKO. Married persona or young mS contemplating maxri.ice, awareof physical weak. neaa,lossof procrcatit povrcrs. impotsney es any othev disqualification, speedily restored. Free Examination of the Wrlne Each jperaon applying for Medical Trestmaajg ahoaldaend or bring an onace of thairartnsV which will receive a careful Chemical and Miera acopical examination. tees which have been neglected or aneullfaUs' trnetefl. No exnerinaent or failure. treated by mail and express, but when Ppaaihl a nersonal consultation is preferred. CataM case guaranteed. tyCases and Correepondenes) confidential. Treatment sent C. O. D. to any part of I he U. ftV List ot questions and 641AGJS BOOK bee. Address with 4 cenU postage. Dr. N. E. WOOD, 413 Fifth St , SIOUX CITY, IOWA. LITTLE LIVER PILLS 0 KOT CSIPZ I0S SICKZJ. Sara eurs tor SICK HKA1V ACHE, Impair !ttoa.c JU jauoa.orrM gianiie. Tatyaieeae Vila! erjici. natn caafa. 4t leal tit a Wknt l saaeblagder. Can llloas ssrreas dis- laaoer si ra. ami vaut aevtoa. Beaatify complexion by blood, rcsuv VsazrasLS. Tha dot 1 nlr.lv iJlnltrl to tall tmtr. awifytag n rfcatoo mut h. Each vial fo-.tiln, 4i crrV maaincaa Mtiial pocket. Ilka Irai pewit. Itmiueas man's mat caaeealenra. Takea taa!er tkin ttuar. Said awry bta, Alt ftculna goada barCraieafc SaaJTnitrtama.TettgetSaafaaaaaaUfrsc -ala M. HAUTE! UEBICIKE CO .St. LecfJ. Ma. OOltD MEDAL. PARIS, 1870. W. BAKER &C0.'S Breakfast Cocoa from which the exeeaa of 01 haa bees removed, absolutely pmrm nast it is eIwU. No Chemicals are tucd in Its preparation. Il has mere than thrt timtt Us stTt-nglh of Cocoa raized with Etaich. .'.rrowrcot or Sugar, and is therefore far more eco- . neicical, costing Utt tham on cent a cup. I tia delicious, soar. I Jahing. strengthening, kastxt BtSESTZD, and admirably sdapted for lavsUda s well aa fur persona In health. 8M by Grocers iiijwan. W.lAlXR&COi.I)orcbscr. A TRIAL TRIP! .! ! I Wt wM sri THE WEEKLY WISCONSIN sad MEWSMPER LllfURY Three Months i c any address in the C. B. er Canada FOB 25 GTS. i T e Newspaper Library istves eaea ) rrcuutb roatplete novel, by tha best au- tnor?. AUur-Sv CRAM t a. ATKENS t CRAMER. Milwaukee. Wis. 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