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Show f Peach Stones for. Fuel, it U found that peach atones burn as tell as the best coal Ud give out more beat in proportion to weight Large quantities of the .atones taken out of the fruit that Is 'tinned or dried are collected er sold. Apricots stones also burn, but not so well as peach, and do not command so htgh a price. to OW shall I know thee in Will My happier lot than mine and larger light, 'Await tliee there, for thou hast bowed thy will In cheerful homage to the rule of right. And Invest all and renderest good for. ill. For me, the sordid cares in which I dwell Shrink and consume my heart as heat the scroll; And wrath has left Its scar that fire of hell Has left Its frightful scar upon my soul. My Minnie" and fell dead. But be bad made a mistake. The woman was not bis wife. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured Yet though thou wear'st the glory of the sky. Wilt thou not keep the same beloved name. The same fair, thoughtful brtfw, and gentle eye. Lovelier in heaven's sweet climate, yet the same? u With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, the? cannot rMk , CftMiTfa la blood or coo at ibe m of tto Mid In order to core It yoo moat take dleeoee, Internal remedlea. Haifa Catarrh Cure If taken In Urn ally, nod acta directly on the blood and miicoad knrfacee. Haifa Catarrh Cure la not a quark uiedl It waa prescribed by ooeofthe beat phytlclana Mb country for years tad Ih a regular prescription, in tiila ft composed of the beat tonics known, combined frith the beat blood purifier, acting directly oa Ibe tnuooua surfaces. The perfect combination of tba two tagredienu la what produces such wonderful re uita it. coring catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. CHKffRY CO., Prope Toledo, Bold 9f Druggt-ta- , price 75c. Take HsUe Family IMU for eonattpettoa. ' Shalt thou not teach me, ii that calmer home. The wisdom that I learned so 111 In this The wisdom which is love till I become Thy fit companion in that land of bliss? a Celery Culture In Florida. A few years back the low, wet lands of the state that now produce thousands of dollars annually for the planters of celery, were deemed utterly worthless and could bave been bought for a song no sane man would bave paid $5 an acre for It, while et the present time the improved land, peculiarly adapted to celery culture, will bring from $300 to $1,000 an ere, the unimproved $25 to $125 an , acre. Florida Tlmes-Unlon- other Grey's Sweet Powders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, none the Children's Home in New York, core Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach. Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A.S. Olmsted, Lc Roy, N,Y. , Adulteration of Coffee. A German review contains an article by Bertarelll on a new adulteration of coffee. The roasted beans are plunged In a live per cent solution oi borax and then left to dry. The borax makes them shine and absorbs water, . 'thus adding to the weight of the cof- The way to discover this Ingenious fraud is to dry the coffee and if it loses over 4 per cent In weigh! there has been a fraudulent absorptloq of water. London Globe. fee. Important to Mothers. Rmrliw carefully every bottle of . J CA8TOBIA, for infsnts and children, Been the hlgnelare of, la .Dm Poe Over SO Yen. The Kind Yon Have Always Bought. ' Chicago Man's Keen Criticism of New York Characteristics. Mark Twain, speaking of dress in his Life on the Mississippi. remarks how grace and plctureaqueness-dro- p gradually out of it as one travels away from New York. He adds: "It may be that carriage Is at the bottom of this thing, and I think it Is; for there are plenty of ladies and gentlemen In' the provincial cities whose garments are all made by the best tailors aqd dressmakers of New York; yet this has no perceptible effect upon the grand fact; the educated eye never mistakes these people for hfew Yorkers. No, there Is a godless grace and snap and style about a born and bred New Yorker which mere clothing cannot efface. In the smoking room of a French liner which docked here a few days ago this passage was recalled by one of a group of cosmopolites who discussed it. I dont know about the 'godless grace, ' said an Englishman, but the snap and style are unquestionable. I should say that the New Yorker has an air about him; an air of alert confidence which distinguishes him. Jus' so. said a Frenchman; an air distingue; cat. is pet, Out our way, said a man from we call that 'confidence' Chicago, gall, and the air hot New York i Times. Eggs Easily Digested. Eggs are very easily digested. Raw more quickly digested than are eggs cooked eggs. eggs, roasted He Had An ObjecL eggs and poached .eggs are more easYou are the gentleman who left ily digested than fried or book manuscript here a week or two eggs. The stomach will digest a raw ago? said the publisher to the caller. from two one in a and to half egg I am. You said you would look it hours. over and that I was to call again. Well, 1 have looked It over and I find that it won't do. In fact, I would not publish it if you paid me tor It. A trifle of tea hi a dainty, Is it as bad as that?' Soft-boile- d hard-boile- d tea - nd A ed from bis wife for some years thought he recognized her among the ballet girls on the stage of a theater. He sprang up. pointed to her, cried end sate reeled end eee that B packages branded as such. Why, there is no more need of that," rejoined Senator McCumber, "than of having miners branded as men to whom saloonkeepers shall not sell drinks" Well," replied Senator Spooner. I once had a case in which the lability of a saloonkeeper for selling drinks to a miner was involved. The miner had a beard, and was large and The judge decided that the esponsibility rested with the saloonkeeper to ascertain whether any patron was capable under the law as a drinker. A smile went around the senate at this illustration of the possible necessity of some distinguishing labels for miners who want to patronize sa- rot thine own meek heart demand me there? That heart whose loudest throbs to me were given; name on earth was ever in thy prayer, And wilt thou never utter It in heaven? - The love that lived through all the stormy past,-Ameekly with my harsher rature bore, And deeper grew, gnd ten to the last. Shall it expire with life, and be no more? Mistake Was Fatal. a aafe 1 In meadows fanned by heavens wibd. In the resplendence of that glorious sphere, And larger movements of the unfettered ntlnd. Wilt thou forget the love that joined us here? A Liverpool man who bad been part- , Long-wort- shall feel the sting of ceaseless pain If there I meet thy gentle presence not. Nor hear the voice I love, nor read again In thy serenest eyes the tender thought. Our baby had a yellow crust on his head which I could not keep away. When I thought I had succeeded in getting his head clear, it would start again by the crown of his bead, crack and scale, and cause terrible Itcbing. I then got Cuticura 8cap and Ointment, washing the scalp with the soap and then applying the OintmenL A few treatments made a complete cure. I have advised a number of mothers to use Cuticura, when t have been asked about the same ailment of their babies. Mrs. John Boyce, Pine Bush, . N. Y." - Senator Spooner was led to tel! the Jake" Beldler of Cleveland. is a great judge of a horse. story of a miner. It came up during the senate debate on the pure food Hes simply great. Why. a few years bill, when the senator remarked upon ago Longworth went with a horse the advisability of having pure food breeder to see a couple of colts the Old Cattleman Never Suspected Why Knife Wat Soapy. Miss Violet Oakley, the young artist whose work in illustrating received at St. Louis one of the highest awards, lives on the outskirts of Philadelphia, in a quaint, low, white house of English aspect, called the Red Rose. Miss Oakley was serving tea In her studio the other afternoon when the word ruse came up. Every one had some episode about an odd and successful ruse to narrate. Miss Oakley said: I, too, recall a ruse that succeeded wonderfully, an unexpected and original ruse that a friend "of mifie employed. My friend, a Philadelphia woman, had recently for a visitor an elderly uncle from the country. He was a good old man, as Intelligent and sensitive old man, but his table manners were not ah up to the mark.-Mfriend could not think of taking her uncle to task about bis table manners; if she had it would have broken the poor old gentleman's heart. Instead of taking him to task she employed a ruse upon him. Her ruse, which was quite successful, culminated like this: y Mary, says her uncle at dinner, 'this knife of mine tastes soapy.' 'Very well, 'uncle Yon shall have another. The second knife comes. The uncle, with a grimace, again remarked: Soapy, too, Mary. Just like the first knife was. v t My friend frowned. , Its too bad, uncle, she said. 'But city servants are so careless. Try eating with clean. your fork. Maybe that's Floriculture Offers Rich Returns. Even worse. It is hardly fit to cup has in it a world of rest kindle As a business Investment floriculture a fire with. Let me ask you or ofjstimulant what is the why you dont try the barber business stands on equally as good a basis as do other well established Instead of the literary profession. occupations. time oday! It Is a business Why, sir, I am a barber already. requiring strict and constant attention, because the subject dealt with Is life, and that brookt no slight without Injury. It is a business of detail and requires twenty-fou- r hours attention each and every earn $14. I wrote that manuscript to give the thing a trial, but as it seems day. The man or boy who selects the I bave been misinformed Ill go back to the razor and the latber again. If florist's business for an occupation should be sure that he will not you want a good shave call on me. only like it but love It. With that and TEA ' due industry I think there is no proIbsen'a Queer Parallel. . f i of the recently published let- fession which affords as much pleas- One lingers long over tea, tersIn one of Ibsen he says that while he ure as does the florist's in if the tea is fine. It is a was writing one of his plays he had and ever changing phases. its many on bts desk an ale glass with There is no bet scale of wages, but good time and place to linger, 4 scorpion in 1Lempty Now and then the the wages average as good or better animal would grow sick and the au- than is to be had In any other trade Save the Bulbs. throw would a of thor soft of fruit piece like caliber. f Men with good knowlDo not throw away bulbs after they have flowered In the window. Take to It, whereupon the scorpion would edge get $15 to $18 per week or more. a little care of them until you can fall upon the food furiously, empty its Good foremen command $22, $25 to into it, and then get well again. $30 per week, and, like every other plant them out doors and they will poison ' Is it not a good deal like this with calling, there is always room at the flower In the garden. All yon bave to do Is to see that the bulbs get thor us poets? Ibsen continues. "Natures top. The work is of the pleasantest laws apply In the domain of the spirit kind, and is not laborious, oughly ripened. The Garden .Magathough the also. hours are sometimes longr- . . , zine. y- Comments on the Wildcat. . A wildcat was caught tn a trap to Rosshire, Scotland, recently, and is to be carefully stuffed and preserved. The Westminster Gazette says a wildcat - la beautifully remarked, and adds that It ts more dangerous tor game or man than the fox. V;Y Then how did yon come to take up literary work?" "As a barber I get $12 per. I was told- - that as a literary man I could - ; , :: TEA ' Fine tea brings-ou- t conversation if anything will ; it compels to a little leisure. 4 - Frightful Capacity. little sister Marion, when four years oli, 'was feeding some greedy hens In the back yard one day at noon. She was called to dinner, and, on taking her chair at the table, exclaimed: Oh, mamma. I'm as hungry as a chicken with a hundred tongues.' 1 My ; . -- , I TEA ,?We stgnd or fall by our tea Schillings Best and were not going-down. Tour grocer return your money If os dost tike H. . . , - Meat of Giraffe Popular , African epicures consider th tongue of a young giraffe a great deli, cacy. The meat of the animal is said to taste somewhat like veal. e v Omissions of History, The courtiers were felicitating Pep-24- . king of the Franks, upon his giant fan, Charlemagne. "What a magnificent looking he will be some day! they exclaimed. - - . - . , Yes, said Pepin, but it looks like wasting him. Think what a sensation a man seven feet high would make as a crossing policeman in Chicago! Vain, however, was the dream of a doting father. It was not to be. em-perl- Wireless In the South Seas. Plans are now under consideration to establish a wireless telegraph system between a number of South Sea islands. J. f. Arundel, the manager of a London concern oyerating the guano beds of Ocean, Gilbert,-Marshaand other South Sea Islands, is considering the feaslbiLty of establishing wireless telegraphy eo as to secure communication between the different Islands controlled hy hie company. Belgian Exposition. Belgium, h busy with arCargo from the Orient. rangements for an exposition to be Among other things the steamship opened there toward the end of April. Manchuria had in her hold when she A large amount of floor space has entered San Francisco harbor recent- been reserved for the use of the ly were 707 cases of opium, valued at many foreign countries that have sig$203,000; 1,332 bales of raw silk, $799,-00- 0 nified their intentions of exhibiting. and 47,060 rolls of matting-eno- ugh Germany and France are to to stretch from New York to vie with one another. V preparing ; 100 with miles to spare. Chicago u Soldier Tames WitdcaL At the Dime Museum. A soldier who returned recently Boy Whats the matter from South Africa brought with him a wltli the glass eater? cat which he had caught wild and Human Snake He has a pane tamed, and which had tmveled with his stomach. him between 11,000 and 11,000 miles. . Liege, Dog-Face- it Jtojfs 's h He was bragging about. breeder Now, looked them over critically. Nick, said the breeder. I want to name one of these colts after you. Take yonr pick. "Longworth made another careful exam'natiori. Then he picked a colt and the breeder named the colt He called the other colt Her- Long-wort- ml3. Hermis was one of the greatest horses of his generation. Longworth s never won a. race. Oh. yes; a fine judge of horses." Long-worth'- 84 Senator Pettus of Alabama, years young, listened In amazement to the debate on eliminating the free seeds cow distributed by members of congress through the Agricultural He beard many Senators loons. say the practice Is a fraud and an imOut In his own congressional dis- position and should be stopped. Then trict Speaker Cannon is not an unfa- he rose and lectured the Senate lecmiliar figure driving along the high- tured the Iconoclasts who want no ways in an old buggy and saluting more free seeds. Mr. President, said he, Just think every farmer he encounters with a He drives hither of It for a moment. What is the purfriendly "How-de- . tnd thither over the prairies Jn that pose of distributing valuable seeds, Did rig, which the voters regard as and bulbs, and flowers, too? Do yoq real evidence that the speaker, in all forget your country raising? Do spite of his high office, is still one of you suppose a farmer ought not to have flowers in bis yard? them. You forget your youth If you do What would they think if permitted to view the speaker in a picture not forget your raising. We young, which reposes on the mantel of his men remember the flowers that we private room at the capital? Therein saw. Do you not remember the box he appears on the front seat of as that stood on the cabin front porch? magnificent a tallyho as Bar Harbor Do you not remember the violets that ever saw, whisked along behind four grew tn that box? Senators, do not bobtailed He sits erect forget what you once knew. Do not ts a ramrod and seems to be sniffing forget when you were better, if not wiser, than you are now. the exhilarating sea air. The explanation Is found in- - the One of the newly rich in Washinggentleman by the speakers side ton has hanging in the library of his Morrell of PhiladelRepresentative palatial home a water color showing phia. It is Mr. Morrells own fashionable turnout, and it was be who the little farmhouse in which he was together with the surrounding hospitably lured the speaker to take born, field and the wood lot. He explained such an unusual ride. to a party of friends a night or two ago that his farm was the scene of a lively battle in the civil war, and went on: There it Is, as true to life as If it were a photograph. It brings tears to my eyes every time I see It. That the old farmhouse and there are the fields where I worked and played when I was a boy. Right back there Your , claim! exclaimed Mudd. on that hill Is where father poor claim was thrown out Why, your father was killed. fears ago. .Did he die In battle? asked one of I know that, said the man, but the sympathetic friends, " Ive fixed It up. Oh, no, said the newly rich? he "You see," be continued confidenoff a load of hay. fell was tially. there never nothing the matter' with that claim. The only Senator Scott of West Virginia Is trouble was that the supreme court that took the claim up found a flaw likely to be hauled up In the Senate perpetrating a pun. Just as soon in' that diuged old constitution and for anti-puas the committee meets fuhad' to knock my claim ouL They ture will be determined. Duraction had to stand by the constitution, you ing the debate on the Miles amendknow." ment Senator Lodge strenuously to the plan to legislate Gen, James Kooe, secretary to Justice Miles out of full pay for serving the McKenna, and one of the State of Massachusetts. young men of Washington, was unex"I beg to remind the Senator from pectedly drafted t, Sunday or two Massachusetts, Interrupted Senator to a school. teach ago class in Sunday The regular teacher was 11L Mr. Scott, who has a deep voice, "that we Hooe decided the best and safest tack are not discussing Gen. Miles; we are Bill! (or him was to question the chil- discussing General Senator Lodges anguish was draad-fu- l dren on their knowledge of Biblical to behold. characters. He turned to the first boy in the row 'and asked: "My son, "I see a good deal about voluntary who was Nebuchadnezzar? confessions these days, said RepreHe ate grass, announced the boy, sentative Cooper of Texas in the Demwith an atr that showed be wondered ocratic and every tlmff cloakroom, what sort of a chap was asking that read about one it reminds me of a ' simple question. story Judge MacFarland used to tell Now, my boy, said Mr. Hooe to down in my country. the next lad, you tel me who AbraJudge MacFarland had a large ham was. practice and was a rattling good lawHe was yer. He had a client named Hender-sdn- , Sure, that boy replied. the gent that freed the colored ladles who was at daggers' points with and gentlemen from slavery." his own father, a feeling which he had inherited from his mother. The . The great trouble 'with SergL 8. client went to the and judge one Prentiss was that he had too great a told him that his father had day tried to thirst for the ardent spirlL" said Rep- poison him. resentative Chandler of Mississippi at What evidence have you of that? a cloakroom symposium. He once arked the Judge. his had falling called to hts attenMy negro, old Sam, told me so, tion by a political opponenL 'It Is was the reply. true,' said Mr. Prentiss, 'that I someWas his story a voluntary one? times drink, and sometimes drink to 'Oh, yes, entirely so. I took Sam excess.. Suppose I do. I like the out behind the barn and had him hit wines which for thousands of years lashes, and he voluntarily seventy have entered Into the blood of our belched up the truth. emperors and kings, while my opponent Is satisfied with the cheap Secretary Taft, who made Tom com whisky of his constituents. Mine Reed's claim that no gentleman is a refined appetite, while that of my weighs more than .200 pounds fit his opponent is depraved. own case by changing it to read No gentleman weighs ' more than 300 They were talking about horses in pounds, his huge bulk pushed cloakroom the Republican of the through the Cabinet Toom door at the -house, and somebody brought up ihe first Cabinet meeting after the elecname of Representative Nick Long-wort- tion, just as the President said, "I ' of Cincinnati. feel so good about the result Fd like he said. to wheel somebody around in a wheel"Now, there's Longworth, Longworth Is a great judge of a barrow." horse. He knows all the fine points. said Postmaster General Well, said rfOh, yes, Representative Wynne, "there's Taft. Claim days bring a lot of curious characters to the capital. On a recent claim day in the house a constituent of the Hon. Sydney Mudd showed up with a long- roll of manuscript. He called for Mr. Mudd. . . "Ive got some new evidence bearing on my claim, he said to Mudd.-- - J 1 well-know- n -- . h -- Woman Sets Good Example. Miss Laura Perkins of Beloit, Wis., has sent a cold chill down the spine of many a fellow taxpayer In that city. While many are asking rebates for one cause or another, Bhe has writ Gentle Words, Heavy Sentence. Judge McMichael of Philadelphia Is a man of conservative speech, though at times his utterances on the bench do not seem to be quite in harmony with the sentences he Imposes. One ten the city clerk stating that she ob- day recently a man was before him serves that the assessor failed to tax charged with striking his wife - a on a few hundred dollars she has in violent blow in the face. His honor the savings bank and that if an error remarked mildly: For a man to do is made she desires to pay her full as you have done in my Judgment Is Then he sentenced the share of taxes. Chicago Chronicle. fellow to sixty days On the rock pile. Consul Gowdy Coming Home. ConsuL General Gowdy, who has been In Paris for eight years nearly, has not. visited the 'United States since his appointmenL though he has a fine farm In Indiana. He will return after March 4, as'tte President will appoint Consul General Mason, now at Berlin, as Mr. Gowdys successor. 'Chfldren. Parents of Twenty-seveWashington ts promised a visit from George F. Dunville and Mrs Dunvtlle, who live on a farm out near Yankton! S. D and who are the parents of twenty-sevechildren nine sets of triplets. All of the children are living, too, or were a short time ago, and all but one set are boys. Mrs! Dunville is only about 40 years old and her husband about 5 n n Internal Improvement in Japan.' Japan Is not devoting its whole attention to war. An elertridaf plant has Just been sh'pned from England Apparently. for Toklo, to work mi'es of elecSo many people trust to luck." cars. In tric street railway ' Yes. Luck teee to have excellent that city. nredlt' Way In This In Everything. Wrong There is the m For and Little Stories Told of and By Statesmen in the Meeting Places of. the Capital sphere which keeps The disembodied spirits of the dead. When ail of thee that time could wither sleeps And perishes among the dust we tread? Would Crack Open and Scab Causing Terrible Itching Cured by Cuticura. , HEARD AT WASHINGTON By WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. YELLOW CRUST ON BABY f HOW TO OPEN A BOOK. THE FUTURE LIFE. California si Many people, when they first came Into possession of a new boob, ars apt to spoil the back by not knowing bow to open the book properly. Here are a few hints as to the best way ol opening a volume. It should be held with Its back on a table, the front board cover should be lei down, the leaves being held in one hand. Next, the other board cover should be let down. Following this operation, a few leaves should be opened at the back, then a few at the front, and soon, alternately opening back and front, gently pressing open the sections till the center of the volume Is reached. The best results will be obtained 11 this is done two or three times. If the book Is violently or carelessly opened In any one place, the back will be broken. Pearsons very likely Weekly. DERAIGEDIJERTIS DISTRESSING TR0JJBLE8 LEFT BT ST. VITU8 AND GRIP. Afflicted for Tnui by Strug of Knnbutw and Wcakaet Recover Perfect Health. When she was fourteen years old. Mrs, Ida L. Brown bad St. Vitus dance. She finally got over the most noticeable features of the strange ailment but was still troubled by very uncomfortable sensations, which site recently described as follows : One hand, lialf of iny'Jaoe, and hall of my tongue would get cold and nnmb. These feelings would come on, last for . about ten minutes, and then go away, several times a day. Besides I would have palpitation of the heart, and my strength would get so low that I could hardly breathe. ' As time went on thest spells kept coming ofteuer and growing worse. The numbness would sometime extend over half my body, How did yon get rid of them ? It seemed for a long time as if I nevei could get rid of them. It'was not nutil about six years ago (hat I found aretnedy that had virtue enough in it to leach my case. That was Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, aud they have since en; ; rtirely cured me. . ; s- Did it take long to effect a care? Not I hadnt taken the whole of the first box before I saw a great Improvement, So I kept on using them, growing better all the time, mi til I had taken eight boxes aud thep I was perfectly well, and I have remained in good health aver Sugar a Universal Need. Sugar has modified the history of Europe and of the world in more ways than one, says a writer. Used four centuries ago, almost exclusively in the preparation of medicines, and long afterward an article of luxury only accessible to the rich. It has by enlarged production and cheapened manufacture been brought within the reach of all. The universal use of this practically pure carbohydrate, which is not only a freely burning fuel and proteld sparer, but a muscle food. Increasing the power of doing work and lessening fatigue, must have had widespread and beneficial effects on oue exception. tbs general health. Especially in the J ,,ce ' What was that? case of children, whose greed of sugar 1 that was Oh when bad the grip. I Is the expression of a physiological want, has that food been valuable In I was in bed under the doctors cars, When I got up I bad conducing to growth, contentment and for two weeks. dreadful attacks of dizziness. I had to grasp bold of something or I would fall Size of Ancient Babylon. right down. I was just miserable, and Ancient Babylon was not such when I saw the doctor was not helping great city as some have supposed, ac- me, I began to take T)r. Williams Pink cording to H. Valentine Geere, the Pills again. In a short time they cored The idea me of that trouble too, aud I have never archaeologist He says: of Babylons vastness, and magnlfl had any dizzy spells since. cence, to which we have become acMrs. Brown lives at No. 1705 DeWitt customed, has been practically explod- street, Mat toon, Illinois. Dr. Williams ed. Dr. Kodewey told me that the Pink Pills are withont an equal for the site of the city wag larger than that rapid and thorough cure of nervous prosof any other ancient city; but even tration. They expel the poison left in the so, the Idea that it could be compared system by such diseases as grip and are with London and Its suburbs, which tbe best of tonics in all cases of weak, has been verygenerally held, is en- ness. They are sold by every druggist. tirely erroneous. In point of fact, It Sarcasm from Desr Old Punch. appears that Its walls were not more The absurd tale that Lady Hopton than eight miles In circumference. Moreover, the great palaces qge shown Woods pretty little Manx cat was sufdiseased liver has no to have been poor affairs after all, fering fr-with wretchedly cramped apartments, foundation In fact. Tfie liver was perand next to no pretensions to archi- fectly good, and similar to that usualtectural style; and the temples were ly supplied. London Punch. "DrDftTld Kennedy! FTorU RsmBdr u exceedingly crude buildings. me exponent fur tbe well-being.- 1 m liver, rured after elRht Fepron, Altnot, V. Y. World Man of Will Cheapen Old Violfna Are we about to witness a slump in Strads and other old violins? - A letter received In Rome, from Bucharest, states that an Italian artist named Antonio Bonardl, long resident there, has found a method of greatly Improving the quality of tone In violins. This result is secured by a certain modification of the shape, especially .at the narrower part, rendering the Instrument at the same time more elegant In form. It la stated that at a recent musical ' conversazione, - the Bonardl Instrument, although made of new wood, was tried against an old Allen t a powder, cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. Its the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by ali 25c. - Tjial package FREE. druggists, Address A. & Olmsted, La Roy, N. Y. Plana. At the government station Lulea, In Sweden, experiments are being made to secure varieties of plants not likely to be injured by frost. Foot-Eas- &. offering. Shake In You Shoes. e, Frost-Resistin- g Pisos Cure for Consumption Is an Infallible medicine for ooughs and colds. N. Ocean Grove. N. J.. Feb. 17. 1900. Goa-dagnl- n with triumphant results. When Cannon Were a Novelty. There is an amusing description by Munro, an old Scottish soldier, of the effect of cannon, when they were new For a long weapons of warfare. time, he says, used for the battering down of walls aad titles, they were at last used in the field to break squadrons and batalles of horse and foot. And how soone the trumphet did sound the enemy was thundered on ao that they were cruelly affrighted, men of valor being suddenly taken away, who before were- wont to fight valiantly and long with sword and launce. But now men are martyrised and cut down at more than half a mile of distance by those furious and thundering engines of great cannon. Lon- don Globe. HHtmiiiiMiiniiimf - ! For Cupboard Corner St. Jacobs Oil Keep Plans in Hoorn with Piano. . A growing plant should be kept in thfij room with a piano, says a piano-tuneAs long as tbe plant thrives the piano will. The reason that a piano is injured by a dry, overheated room is that all the moisture is taken out of the sounding board. The board Is forced Into the case so tightly that H bulges up In the center and though the wpod Is supposed to be as dry aq possible when this is done It contains some moisture vand gathers more on. ' skilled physician. Such a remedy is Dr. Fierce's Favorite Prescription. The treatment of many thousands of those chronic weaknesses and distressing ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids Hotel and Bnrgiral Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., has afforded a vast experience in nicely adapting and thoroughly testing remedies for the cure of womans peculiar maladies. Dr. Pierces Favorite is the outgrowth, or result,Prescription of this great and valuable experience. Thousands of testimonials received from patients and from physicians who have tested it in the more aggravated and ohstinate cases which bad baffled their skill, prove it to be a superior remedy for the relief and cure of suffering women. It is not recommended as a cure-al-l, but as a most perfect for womans peculiar ailments. specific As a powerful invigorating tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system and to the womb and its appendages in worn particular. For out, debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, shopgirls, nursing mothfeeble and women ers, Fagenerally, vorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. s a soothing and strengthening nervine. Favorite Prescription - is unequafed and is invaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, irritability, nervous exhaustion, nervons prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, chorea, or St. Vituss dance, and other distressing, nervous symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic, disease of the womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. over-worke- d, house-keeper- s, Stralcht atrant, lure. Is the best household remedy lor Rheumatism Neuralgia Lumbago BacRacho Sciatica . WOMM N For the relief and cure of tire many delicate. intricate and obstinate ailments peculiar to her sex, a remedy devised and adapted to her carefully delicate organization by an experienced and V Sprains Bruises Soreness Stiffness Price, 25c. aad JOo, - NEEDS A prospective mother cannot to look after her own and physical condition. This ia m to bo reflected in the baby. Any weak ness or nervous depression, or lack of vigor on the mothers part should bo overcome early daring the time by the use of Dr. Piercesexpectant Favorite Ifrescnption, which promotes the perfect health and strength of the orgaite ism specially concerned in motherhood. It makes the coming of baby absolutely safe and comparatively free from Plnl renders the mother strong and cheerful, and transmits healthy constitutional vigor to the child.. toa early t. Dn. R. V. Pibrob. Buffalo, N. Y. : rears azo, after tbe birth of our flrat baby, fwas left In a weak, run-docondition and It seemed nraww were badly unstrung. Did not suffer much . pain, but believe I suffered everythlnff that anyone could suffer with nervousneea. Life was a misery to me. I doctored with a cood but obtained no reJ lief. Then ?TcrV took almost all kinds of patent , medicine and almost all the old trash" that came around. I got no relief, bat ffiww borse all the time. Finally chanced to set hold of one of ycur pamphlets and I would write to you. t was m fear thought that yon would trite thit tuviw could be no cere, bQL great was my Joy. when X received yonr DSer th I could b cured. X took one bote H'fnJRT Pl?rS? " Prescription, two Discovery and four vials Mdj of T?Vipn Pierces Pleasant Pellet. I am never without theue little Pellets In the house. I am also cured of those terrible headaches. I would advise all sufferers to go to Doctor N 1 .. tor relief. I don't flfreeof Buffalo. they will he disappointed. T do know how to thank you enough for all not the good your medicine baa done for me. " Mrs. T. E. Hcnosu Windsor Avenue, Elmirs. R. Y. ... All women should re ail Df. Pierces e illustrated book; The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser. It contains more clear and ta comprehensive ad vice on medical than any other book ever published.' 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