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Snake, and the G-ranium. In South Africa, we are told, the geranium has the reputation of being a guard against snakes, which. It la ■aid, avoid the plant as though it wore poisonous. We are reminded that, though the flowers of the geranium are scentless, the leaves contain a quantity of volatile oil, with more or less pungent odors; and it is stated that no snakes will ooipe near a bed of these flowers. A missionary in South Africa has surrounded his house with acordon of gqpaniums, with the result that it is never visited by these unwelcome intruders. The discovery of this prop* ' erty in the geranium is attributed »■« the Kaffirs. A Nice Nune. Parents who are in the habit of putting their young children out to nurse will do well to ponder over the following case recently tried in a police court at Paris: From the testimony it appears that a nurse woman was in the habit of giving a baby in her charge an artificially healthy complexion by cruelly painting the infantile face with cosmetics. The child progressed so nicely that its weight increased in an astonishing manner, owing, it is said, to some shot which the nurse placed in the baby's clothes. Finally the cruel fraud was detected, and the woman received two years’ imprisonment. Queer Paiiport. The finest examples of unpleasant passports on record are, according to James Payn’s wuy of thinking, those given by the King of Portugal when master of the Indian Seas. Even Moorish ships dared not set sail without his • permission in writing, and as the Moors could never acquire the art of reading, these “permits,” for which handsome payment, of course had to be made, generally ran as follows! “The owner of this ship is a very wicked Moor. I desire that the first Portuguese captain to whom this is shown may make «. prize of her.” A Chance for Health Il afforded those fast sinking Into a condition of hopeless debility. The means are at hand. In the form of a genial medicinal cordial, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters embodies the combined qualities of a blood fertilizer and depurent, a tonic and an alterative. While it promotes digestion and assimilation, and stimulates appetite, has the further effect of purifying the life current and strengthening the nervous system. As the blood grows richer and purer by Its use, they who resort to this sterling medicinal agent acquire not only ▼lgor, but bodily substance. A healthful change In the secretions is effected by it, and that sure and rapid physical decay, which a chronic obstruction of the functions of the ■ystemlproduce, is arrested. The primecauses of disease being removed, health is speedily renovated and vigor restored. A San Francisco Genius. Joseph Schiesser .has invented a steam sledge on which he thinks he will be able to reach the North Pole. The sledge is arranged with a number of steam arms, and these arms, when set in motion by the small petroleum engine on the sledge, propel the machine forward. The sledge is also provided with a small cabin for the voyagers. and a large tank to contain the petroleum used for fuel. Schieser thinks that he has solved the problem of polar exploration, and, having some property, intends to devote it to the purpose of getting farther north than white man has ever before gone. Sample Package Mailed Free. Address Small Bile Beans, New York. In a great many cases a woman’s faith In a man 4s a sort of stubborness.

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-I * DR; TALMAGE’S SERMON. -V ■ ./ A SEASONABLE DISCOURSE ON BIRDS. This is Pre-eminently the Month to Gonalder the. Ministry of Nature-How the Hongs of tho Various Birds Show Forth the Family Idle. At the Tabernacle. Rev. Dr. Talmage last Sunday chose for the subject of his sermon “The" Song of tho Birds.” This, like many of his sermons, is suited to the season of the year in which it is preached. It is well fitted to be read under the trees and has in it the health of Outdoor life. Text, Psalms civ, 12, "By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.” There is an important and improving subject to which most people nave given no thought, and concerning which this is the first pulpit discussion —namely, “The Song of Birds.” If all that has been written concerning music by human voice or about music sounded on instrument by finger or breath were put together, volume by the side of volume, it would fill a hundred alcoves of the national libraries. But about the song of birds there is as much silence as though a thousand years ago the last lark had with his wing swept the door latch of Heaven, and as though neverawhippoorwill had sung its lullaby to a slumbering forest at nightfall. We give a passing smile to the call of a bobolink or the chirp of a canary, but about the origin, about the fiber, about the meaning, about the mirth, about the pathoSj about the inspiration, about the religion in the song of birds, the most of us are either ignorant or indifferent. A caveat I this morning silo in tho high court of Heaven against that almost universal irreligion. Feathered Choirs. * •*"’ First—l remark that which will surprise many, that tho song of birds is a regulated and systematic song, capable of oeing written out in note and staff and bar and clef as much as anything that Wagner or Schuman or Handel ever put on paper. As we pass the grove where tho flocks are holding matin or vesper service, we are apt to think that the sounds are extemporized, the rising or falling tone is a mere accident, it is flung up and down by haphazard, the bird did not know what it was doing, it did not care whether it was a long meter psalm or a madrigal. What a mistake! The musician never put on the music rack before him Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” or Beethoven’s “Concerto” in G or Spohr's B flat symphony with more definite idea as to what he was doing than every bird that can sing at all confines himself to accurate and predetermined rendering. The oratorios, the chants, the carols, the overtures, th. • interludes, the ballads, the canticles, that this morning we heard or will this evening be heard in the forest have rolled down through the ages without a variation. Even the chipmunk’s song was ordained clear back in the eternities. At the gates of paradise it sang in sounds like the syllables “Kuk!” "Kuk!” “Kuk!” just as this morning in a Long Island orchard it sang “Kuk!” “Kuk!” “Kuk!” The thrush of the creation uttered sounds like the word “Teacher!” “Teacher!” “Teacher!” as now it utters sounds like “Teacher!” “Teacher!” “Teacher!” In the summer of the year 1 the yellowhammer trilled that which sounded like the word “If!” “If!” “If!” as in this summer it trills “If!” “If!” “If!” The Maryland yellowthroat inherits and bequeaths the tune sounding like the words “Pity me, pity me, pity me!” The white sparrow’s “Tseep, tseep,” woke our great grandfathers as it will awaken our great-grandchildren. The "Tee-ka-tee-ka-tee-ka” ofjthejbirds in the first century was the same as the “Tee-ka-tee-ka-tee-ka” of the nineteenth century. Taught By the Creator. The goldfinch has for 6,000 years been singing “De-ree dee-ee-ree.” But these sounds, which we put in harsh words, they put in cadences, rhythmic, soulful and enrapturing. Now, if there is this order and systematization and rhythm all through God’s creation, does it not imply that we should htive the same characteristics in the music wo make or try to make? Is it not a wickedness that so many parents give no opportunity for the culture of their children in the art of sweet sound? If God stoops to educate every bluebird, oriole and grosbeak in song, how can parents be so indifferent about the musical development of the immortals in their households? While God will accept out attempts to sing, though it be only a hum or a drone, if we can do no better, what a shame that in this last decade of the nineteenth century, when so many orchestral batons are waving, and so many • academies of music are in full concert, and so many skilled men and women are waiting to offer instruction, there are so many people who cannot sing, with any confidence in the house of God, because they have had po culture in this sacred art, or while they are able to sing a fantasia at a piano amid the fluttering fans of social admirers nevertheless feels utterly helpless when in church the surges of an “Ariel” or an “Antioch” roll over them! The old fashioned country singing school, now much derided and caricatured—and indeed sometimes it was diverted from the real design into the culture of the soft emotions rather than the voice—nevertheless did admirable work, and in our churches we need singing schools to prepare our Sabbath audiences for prompt and spontaneous and multipotent psalmody. This world needs to be stormed with hallelujahs. We want a hemispheric campaign of ' hosannahs. From hearing a blind beggar sing Martin Luther went home at 40 years of age to write his first hymn. In the autumn I hope to have a congregational singihg school here during the week, which shall prepare the people for the songs of the holy Sabbath. If the church of God universal is going to take this world for righteousness, there must be added a hundredfold of more harmony as well as a hundredfold of more volume to sacred music. The Divine Melody. Further, I notice in the song of birds that it is a divinely taught song. The rarest prima donna of all the earth could not teach the robin one musical note. A kingfisher' flying over tho roof of a temple a-quake with harmonies would not catch up one melody. From the time that tho first bird’s throat was fashioned on the banks of the Gihon and Hiddekel until to-day on the Hudson or Rhine, the winged creature has learned nothing from the human race in the way of carol or anthem. The feathered songsters learned all their music direct from God. He gave them the art in a nest of straw or moss or sticks and taught them how to lift that song into the higher heavens and sprinkle the earth with its dulcet enchantments. God fashioned, God tuned, God launched, God lifted music! Ana there is a kind of music that the Lord only can impart toyou, my hearer. There have been depraved, reprobate, and blasphemous souls which could sing

till great auditoriums were in raptures. There have been soloists and bassos and baritones and sopranos whose brilliancy in concert halls has not been more famous than their debaucheries. But there is a kind of song which, like the song of birds, Is divinely fashioned. Songs of panion. Songs of divine comfort. Songs of worship. “Songs in the night” like those which David and Job mentioned. Songs full of faith and tenderness and prayer like those which the Christian mother sings over the sick cradle. Songs of a broken heart being healed. Songs of the dying flashed upon by opening portals of amethyst. Songs like that which Paul cotnmended to the Colossians when he said, “Admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Songs like Moses sang after the tragedy of the Red Sea. Songs like Deborah and Barak at the overthrow of Sisera. Songs like Isaiah heard the redeemed sing as they came to Zion. Oh, God, teach us that kind of song which thou Only canst teach and help us ta sing it on earth and sing it ih Heaven. It was the highest result of sweet sound when under. the playing of Paganini one auditor exclaimed reverently, “Oh, God!"‘And another sobbed out, “Oh, Christ!” The Song* of Hope. Further, I remark in regard to the song of birds that it is trustful and without any fear of what may yet come. Will you tell me how it is possible for that wren, that sparrow, that chickadee, to sing so sweetly when they may any time be pounced on by a hawk ana torn wing from wing? There are cruel beaks in thicket and in sky ready to slay the song birds. Herods on the wing. Modocs of the sky. Assassins armed with iron claw. Murderers of song floating up and down the heavens. How can the birds sing amid such perils? Besides that, how is the bird sure to get its food? Millions of birds have been starved. Yet it sings in the dawn without any certainty of breakfast or dinner or supper. Would it not be better to gather its food for the day before vocalizing? Besides that, the hunters are abroad. Bang! goes a gun in one direction. Bang! goes a gun in another direction. The song will attract the shot and add to the peril. Besides that, yonder is a thunder cloud, and there may be hurricane and hail to be let loose, and what then will become of you, the poor warbler? Besides that, winter will come, and it maybe smjtten down before it gets to the tropics. Have you never seen the snow strewn with the birds belated in their migration? The titmouse mingles its voice with the snowstorm as Emerson describes the little thing he found in tempestuous January: Here was this'atom in fall breath Hurling defiance at vast death ; Thta scrap of valor just for play From the north wind in waistcoat gray, For every bird a thousand perils and disasters hovering and sweeping round and round. Yet there it sings, and it is a trustful song. The bird that has it the hardest sings the sweetest. Songs of Family Lite. Further, I notice that the song of birds is a family song. Even those of the feathered throng which have no song at all make what utterances they do in sounds of their own family bf I birds. The hoot of the owl, the clatter of the magpie, the crow of the chanticleer, the drumming of the grouse, the laugh of the loon in the Adirondacks, the cackle ofthe hen,the scream of the eagle, the croak of the raven, are sounds belonging to each particular family, but when you come to those which have real songs, how suggestive that it is always a family song! All the skylarks, all the nightingales, all the goldfinches, all the blackbirds, all the cuckoos, prefer the song of their own family and never sing anything else. So the most deeply impressive songs we ever sing are family songs. They have come down from generation to generation. You were sung to sleep in your infancy and childhood by songs that will sing in your soul forever. Where was it, my brother or sister, that you heard the family song—on the banks of the Ohio, or the Alabama, or the Androscoggin, or the Connecticut, or the Tweed, or the Thames, or the Raritan? That song at eventide, when you were tired out —indeed too tired to sleep, and you cried with leg ache, and you were rocked and sung to sleep—you hear it now, the soft voice from sweet lips, she as tired, perhaps more tired than you, but she rocked and you slumbered. Oh, those family songs! The songs that father sang, that mother sang, that sisters and brothers sang. They roll on us to-day with a reminiscence that fills the throat as well as the heart with emotion. In our house in my childhood it was always a religious song. Ido not know ; that the old folks knew anything but religious songs. At any rate I never heard them sing anything else. It was “Jesus. Lover of My Soul,” or “Rock of Ages,” or “There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood.” or “Mary to the Saviour's Tomb.” Mothers.be careful whtjt you sing your children to sleep with. Better have in it something that will help tha f t boy thirty years from now to bear up under the bombardment of temptation. Better have in it something that will help that daughter thirty years from now when upon her comes the cares of motherhood, and the agonies of bereavement, and the brutal treatment of one ■wtoo swore before high Heaven that he would cherish and protect. Do not waste the best hour for making an impression upon your little one, the hour of dusk, the beach between the day and the night. Sing not a doleful i song, but a suggestive sbng, a Christian song, a song you will not be ashamed to meet when it comes to you in the eternal destiny of your son and daughter. The oriole has a loud song, and the chewink a long song, and the bluebird a short song, but it is always a family song, and let your gloaming song to your children, whether loud or long or short, be a Christian song. These family songs are about all we keep of the old homestead. The house where you were born will go into the hands of strangers. The garments that were carefully kept as relics will become moth eaten. The family Bible can go into the possession of only one of the family. The lock of grav hair may be lost from the locket, ana in a few years all signs and mementos of the old homestead will be gone forever. But the family songs those that we heard at 2 years of age, at 5 years of age, at 10 years of age, will be indestructible, and at 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 years of age will give us a mighty boost over some rough place in the path of our pilgrimage. The Captlveis’ Song. Many years ago a group of white children were captured and earned off by the Indians. Years after a mother who had lost two children in that capture went among the Indians, and there were many white children in lino, but so long a time had passed tho mother could not tell which were hers until she began to sing the old nursery song, and her two children immediately rushed up, shouting. “Mamma!. Mamma!” Yes, there is ah immortality in a nursery song. Hoar'it, all the mothers—an iifimortality of power to rescue and save. What an occasion that must have been in Washington Dec. 17,1850,when

Jenny Lind»ang“Homo, Sweet Home," the author of those words, John Howard Payne, seated before her! She had rendered her other favorite songs, “Casta Diva” end her "Flute Song,” with fine effect, but when sho struck "Home Sweet Homo” John Howard Payne rose under the power, and President Fillmore and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and the whole audience rose with him. Anything connected with home ransacks our entire nature with a holy power, and songs that get well started in the nursery or by the family hearth roll on after tho lips that sung them are forever silent and the ears that first heard them forever cease to hear. I preach thissermon just before many of you will go out to pass days or weeks in the country. Be careful how you treat the birds. Remember they are God’s favorites, and if you offend them you offend Him. He is so fond of their voices that there are forests where for a hundred miles no human foot has ever trod and no human ear has ever listened. Those Interminable forests are concert halls with only one auditor —the Lord God Almighty. Hebuilded those auditoriums of leavesand sky and supports all that infinite minstrelsy for Himself alone. Be careful how you treat His favorite choir. In Deuteronomy he warns tho people, "If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones or eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.” So you see your own longevity is related to your treatment of birds. Then go forth and attend the minstrelsy. Put off startling colors, which frighten the winged songsters into silence or flight, and put on your more sober attire and move noiselessly into the woods, farther and farther j from the main road, and have no con-I versation, for many a concert in and out of doors has been ruined by per-1 sistent talkers, and then sit down on a mossy bank — Where a wild stream with headlong ahock Cornea brawling down a bed of rock. And after perhaps a half an hour of in- i tense solitude there will be a tap of a 1 beak o’n a tree branch far up sounding like the tap of a musical baton, and then first there will be a solo, followed j by a duet or quartet and afterward by I doxologies in all the tree tops and amid the branches, and if you have a Bible | along with you, and you can without i rustling the leaves turn to the one hundred and forty-eighth Psalm of David and read, “Praise the Lord, i beasts and cattle, creeping things and ■ flying fowl,” and then turn over quietly : to my text and read, “By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches,” or if under the power of the bird voices you are transported, as when Dr. Worgan played so powerfully on tho organ at St. John’s that Richard Cecil said he was in such blessed bewilderment he could not find in his Bible the first chapter of Isaiah, though he leafed t*he book over and over, and you shall be so overcome with forest harmony that you cannot find the Psalms of David. Never mind, for God will speak to you so mightily it will make no-difference whether you [ hear His voice from the printed page or the vibrating throat of one of His plumed creatures. God’s First Temp'es While this summer more than usual out of doors let us have what my text suggests—an out of doors religion. What business had David, with all the advantages of a costly religious service and smoking incense on the altar, to be listening to the chantress among the tree branches? Ah, he wanted to make himself and all who should come after him more alert and more worshij> ful amid the sweet sounds and beautiful sights of the natural world. There is an old church that needs to be rededicated. It is older than St. Paul's or St. Peter's or St. Mark's or St. Sophia’s or St. Isaac's. It is the cathedral of nature. That is the church in which the services of the millennium will be held. The buildings fashioned out of stone and brick and mortar will not hold the people. Again the Mount of Olives will be the pulpit. Again the Jordan will be the bKptistry. Again the mountains will be the galleries. Again the skies will be the blue ceiling. Again the sunrise will be the front doof and the sunset the back door of that temnle. Again the clouds will be the upholstery and the morning mist the incense. Again the trees will be the organ loft where "the fowls of Heaven have their habitation which sing among the branches.” Saint Francis - d'Assisi preached a sermon to birds and pronounced a benediction upon them, but all birds preach to us, and their benediction is almost supernal. While this summer amid the works of God let us learn responsiveness. Surely if we cannot sing we can hum a tune, we can whistle. If we cannot be an oriole, we can be a quail. In some way let us demonstrate our gratitude to God. Let us not be beaten by the chimney swallow and the humming bird and the brown thrasher. Let us try to set everything in our life to music, and if we cannot give the carol of the song sparrow take the plaint of the hermit thrush. Let our life be an anthem of worship to the God who created us and the Christ who ransomed us and the Holy Ghost who sanctifies us. And our last song—may it be our best song! The swan was thought by the ancients never to sing except when dying. In the time of Edward IV no one was allowed to own a swan except he were a king's son or had considerable estate. Through one or two hundred years of life that bird was said never to utter anything like music until its last moment came, and then lifting its crested beauty it would pour forth a song of almost matchless thrill, resounding through the groves. And so. although the struggles of life may be too much for us, and we may find it hard to sing at all when the last hour comes to you and me, may there be a radiance from above and a glory settling round that shall enafte us to utter a song on the wings of which we shall mount to where the music never ceases and the raptures never die. “What is that, mother?'’ "Theswan, my love; He is tie cling down from his native grove. No loved one, no nestling nigh— He Is floating down by himself to die, Death darkens bis eye and unplunieshis wings. Yet the sweetest song is the last be sings Live so, my child, that when death shall-come. Swanlike and sweet, it may waft thee home!” New York in 1840. The houses Ugly, being built of brick and having areas in the English style. There are stone pavements everywhere; the middle of the street is paved with rough stones, which is very hard, for carriages; trees are planted in several streets; the general effect is that of a large English country town with a slightly Dutch aspect, wherein there is activity created by a mercantile population numbering 300,000. * * * Broadway is the principal street; it contains all the shops, the finest houses, and the leading establishments. Here, however, everything gives the impression of a city , devoted to business. There is not a monument, nor a wellbuilt house wliich is not spoiled by something petty and in bad taste. *

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Our Country and Other Countries. Somebody has taken the trouble to collect the following figures, which will prove interesting as an exhibit of the growth and condition of the United States as compared with other leading nations of the earth: Age—United States, dating from the Declaration of Independence, 100 years; United Kingdom, dating from William the Conqueror, 800; France, dating from Charlemagne, 1,100; Germany, dating from Charlemagne, 1,100; Russia, dating from Peter the Great, 350; Austria, dating from Charlemagne, 1,100. Population—United States, 50,150,000; Great Britain, 34,505,000; France, 37,166,000; Germany, 45,367,000; Russia, 82,400,000; Austria, 39,175,000. Wealth—United States, $55,000,000,000; Great Britain, $45,000,000,000; France, $40,000,000,000; Germany, $25,000,000,000; .Russia, $15,000,000,i 000; Austria, $14,000,000,000. Debt—United States, $1,800,000,000; ' Great Britain, $3,800,000,000; France, : $4,000,000,000; Germany, $90,000,000; Russia, $2,000,000,000; Austria, $2,000,000,000. Expense—United States, $257,000,000; Great Britain, $415,000,000; France, $650,000,000; Germany, $150,000,000; Russia, $600,000,000; Austria, $370,000,000. I Production —United States: Agriculture, $7,500,000,000; manufactures, $5,000,000,000. Great Britain: Agri- ! culture, $1,200,000,000; manufactures, i $4,000,000,000. France: Agriculture, $2,000,000,000; manufactures, $2,500,- , 000,000. Germany: Agriculture, sl,800,000,000; manufactures, $2,200,000,- ' 000. Russia: Agriculture, $2,000,000,000; manufactures, $1,300,000,000. Austria: Agriculture, $1,000,000,000; manufactures, $1,500,000,000. How Many Knew. Says Bill Arp in the Atlanta Constitution? I know a young man who was poor and smart, and a friend sent him to one of those schools up North, and he stayed two years and came back as a mining engineer and a bridge builder, and last year he planned and built a cotton factory and is getting a large salary. What a grand opening there is in this region for boys who have a mechanical genius, or have a fancy for minerals or for mining. How many college boys are there in this State who can tell what kind of native timber will bear the heaviest burdens, or why you take white oak for one part of a wagon and ash for another, or what timber will last longest under water and what out of water. How many know sandstone from limestone or iron from manganese. How many know how to cut a rafter or a brace without a pattern. How many know which turns the fastest, the top of the wheel or the bottom as the wagon moves along the ground. How many know how v steel is made and how a snake can climb a tree. How many know that a horse gets up before and a cow behind, and the cow eats grass from her and the horse to him. How many know that a surveyor’s mark never gets any higher from the ground or what tree bears fruit without bloom. Two Old Sayings. The expression, “putting one's foot in it” is by no means elegant, but so expressive that, sometimes, nothing else can take its place. It has an amusing historical origin. When the title to land is disputed in Hindostan, two holes are dug in ' the ground, and one leg of each of the lawyers of the rival claimants is buried therein. In this awkward position the dusky legal champions fall to arguing, and the one who tires first losses his clintcase. Thus in a very humiliating sense, both the losing litigant and the defeated lawyer have “put a foot in it.” The expression “topsy-turvy” also originated in an odd way. When turf is used for fuel, it is laid out to dry with the right side down. Thus arose the phrase, “top-side turf-wise,” pronounced “topsy-turvy,” and meaning “upside down.” Electric Light Bug. With the introduction of arc lights in the South have come numerous bugs of •more or less dangerous species. One in particular that is worthy of notice has been termed the electric-liebt bug. It is about an inch and a half long, and from a sixteenth to a quarter in thickness, and seems to consist wholly of legsand wings. They have hitherto been considered harmless, but now it is believed they bite or sting with direful results. —Electrical Review. Regularity. Regularity in feeding and caring for poultry is very essential to success. Kindness, also, will find a reward. Never allow your fowls to be frightened by any unnecessary noise or bluster. Fright or worry will surely decrease the amount of eggs hens will lay and retard tho growth of young fowls. Facts Are Insolent. Oliver Wendell Holmes it was who said that "Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind. Scientific knowb edge even in the modest men has mingled with it something which partakes Os insolence.” Cupid is never pictured as anything but a little baby, because love never lives to grow old. When children are compelled to go to church too much, they quit going after they marry.

I Lost My Hearing As i result ot catarrh In the head. and was deaf tor over a rear, I kofan to taka I3E' w Bsli'l SanayartUa, and —I found when I had taken 3 xNWEBje bottles that my hearka. f was rsturnias. It is now I more than a year and I oan QjijiHSSam. I hear perfectly weH. " Hsasun Hicks. SO Carter Street, Koohester.li.Y. jRa/jES/Ja HOOD S Henna.. 11l Uta. Sarsaoarllla CURES ■

Only One Chance. It is customary to say that the circus of to-day is the same as the one of twenty years ago, but it isn’t: it isn't as gofxl. The old-time circus had only one ring, and you could see all* that was going on without doing violence to your eyes. But with three rings you miss half the fun. While you are looking at the-athletes in blue tights in one ring, the athletes in red tights in another ring are sure to break the world's record, and you hate yourself because you didn't see them do it. You go away from the show with a mist of tears in your eyes and a great gnawing pain at your heart, and you wish, oh, you wish that you could see a one-ring circus again before you die. But you will never see it in this world, gentle reader, unless an extra session of Congress is called in July. —Washington News. In Borneo. Charles Hose, an explorer, recently made a trip up the Baram River, in Borneo, and noted several strange customs practiced by the natives. One ijight he slept in a native house, and, upon awakening, was surprised to find at the head of his bed a large box, which proved to be a coffin. On inquiry he learned that the coffin contained the mortal remains of the chief's late wife. He found that it was the custom of these savages to keep a corpse in the house for three months before burying it. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from ten drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Adp dress. F. J. CHENBY & CO., Toledo, O. O-Sold by Druggists, 750. Worms. To rid your flower pots of worms, dissolve haff an ounce of corrosive sublimate in a quart of water, add a tablespoonful of this to a gallon of water, and water the plants not oftener than once a week, taking care not to pour it on the leaves. If there are any worms they will scramble to the top. Map of the United States. A large, handsome Map of the United States, mounted and suitable for office or family use. ia issued by the Burlington Route. Copies will be mailed to any address on receipt of fifteen cents in postage by P. 8. Eustis. Gen'l Pass. Agent, U., B. & Q. B. 8., Chicago, 11l What He Wanted Most. Father —To-morrow is your birthday. Tommy. Tell me what you want and I’ll do it for you. Son—You will, sure? Father —Certainly. Son—Pound my teacher. —Texasfiiftings. Dyspepsia. Heartburn. Headache, Lassitude. Spring Fever, all debilitation and winter irregularities fly before Smith’s Bile Beano Small. The good it does to tell troubles, like the benefit of some kinds of medicine, is oq)y temporary. The best 5c soap in the world is Dobbins’ Perfect Soap. Have your grocer get it and try-for yourself. It is sure to revolutionize the trade and use of soap. Dobbins' Soap Mfg. Co.. Philadelphia. Pa. Every day something annoying in a business way comes up to convince us that the true philosopher is the man who marries a woman who will support him. The pleasant coating of Beecham’s Pills completely disguises the taste without impairing their efficiency. 25 cents.a box. There are few who can tell where playing stops, and working for the devil begins. Hitch’s Universal Cough Syrup will eure that oough surprisingly quick. 25c. Clothes do not make the man. but they have a good deal to do in making a woman. Put up in neat watch-shaped bottles, sugar coated. Small Bile Beans. The poorer a man is. the better luck he has in raising his children. N. K. Brown’s Essence Jamaica Ginger will cure indigestion. None better. Try it. 25 cents. Thb longer beard some men have the more tobacco they chew.

HICKELpATE. HieNe^ork.Chicago^ t j {OU j TS'WAILY PALACE SUPERB BUFFET ® DINING SLEEPERS. CARS. No change of care between New York, Boston and Chicago. Tickets sold to all pointe at Lowest Rates. Baggage Cheeked to Destination. Special Rates for Part4es. I*. WILLIAMS, B. F. HORNER. Gen’l Superintendent. Gen*! Pass’g’r Agent Hto 95 lb« flk /A ►»A^ S t! I 4 " tiris, /A B C w TSorwarS. rural. Sand Sc la itsmpst k ill 1J O. W. F. SNYDER. M. !>., Mail Dept. *, MoViCker’a Theater, CTileatro, 111. n IC.neuneptle.e and people D wko hare weak loons or lath- ■ ■a. kbould us. rise's Care for ■ Oonsomytioa. It has eared |B thoueaads. It has not l»)or- E9 od one. It Is not had to take. K 3 H is the heat eoo.h syrup. Sold oTerywhere. »*<■ J1 iirr r

“August Flower” Miss C. G. McClave, Schoolteacher, 753 Park Place, Elmira, N. Y. "This Spring while away from home teaching my first term in a ' country school I was perfectly ; wretched with that human agony ! called dyspepsia. After dieting for two weeks and getting no better, a friend wrote me, suggesting that'l take August Flower. The very next day I purchased a bottle. lam delighted to say that August Flower helped me so that I have quite recovered from iny indisposition.” — _-AM DO YOU LIKE TO TRAVEL! READ THIS ABOUT CALIFORNIA! The WABASH RAILROAD his placed on sale low rate lingle and round trip tickets to all principal Pacific coait points, giving a wide choice of routu both going and returning, with an extreme return limit of Nine Months. Stop-overs are granted at pleasure on round trip tickets west of St Louis and tho Missouri River, and by taking tha WABASH but one change of cars is necessary to reach Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento and Portland, Ore. Remember the WABASH lithe peoples favorite route and is the only line running magnificent free Reclining Chair Cars and Palace Sleepers in all through fast trains to St. Louis, Kansal City and Omaha. For Rates, routes, maps, and genera) information, call upon or ad< ress any of the undermentioned Passcrger Agents of the Wabash System, R. G. BUTLER. D P A., Detroit, Mich. F. H. TRISTRAM. C. P. A., Pittsburg. Pa. P. £. DOMBAUGH. P. A T. A.. Toledo. Ohio. R. G. THOMPSON P. & T. A., Fort Wayne, Ind. J. HALDERMAN. M. P. A., 201 Clark St., Chicago, TIL G. D. MAXFIELD. D. P. A., Indianapolis. Ind F. CHANDLER. G P. A T. A.. St. Louis. Ma nip* ’ITO fl KF l It For SECOND-HAND PRINTING MACHINERY and allow liberal prices for the same in exchange for new. Our stock of Cylinder Presses. Job Presses, Paper Cutters and Gas Engines is the largest to be found in the State. If you wish to trade or buy let us hear from you. We have bargains to offer. FORT WAYNE NEWSPAPER UNION, Fort Wayne, lud. HBK lam seventy-seven years old. J J and have had my age renewed K K at least twenty years by the usl ■ ff of Swift’s Specific Myfoot ■ ■ and lea to my knee was ■ running sore for two years, and physicians said it could not be cured. After taking fift en small boules S. S. S. there is not a sore on my limbs. and_l have a new lease on VEgKSC ftl II life. Yououghtto WFHKJj uJLU let all sufferers know ■ 11W W of your wonderful remedy. Ira F. Stilbs, Palmer, Kansas City. IS A WONDERFUL ■ REMEDY—especially for old people. It builds up the general health. Treatblood mailed free. SWIFT SPCIFIC COMPANY, Atlanta. GaEly’s Cream Balm CATABRHfayj (Price 50 Cents. | Sr ./'zc, .-fli 1 Apply Balm into each nostril. ELY BKOSm 56Warrsn 8U N. Y. F “ Ladies'and qunrc Children’s 00010 lias received the hixhert A wards of merit ever given to a Shoe Polish. Silver Medals at Boston. 1884 and 1887. Highest Awards. >ew Orlen ns. 188": Buffalo. 1888; Barcelonia. Spain. 888. Ladies who use it ones will never use any other. Manufactured by M. 8. CAHILL & CO,, 94 Uncoln St For sale by all Shoe Dealers. Hoston. Mass. A • TRAPS MARX — —REVERSIBLE COLLARS &LCUFFS. RAPt4AE L.MURtUO.TAMO.tf The best and most economical Collars and Cuffs worn. Try them. You will like them. Look well. Fit well. Wear well. Sold for 25 cents fora box of Ten collars or Fira Ealrs of cuffs. A sample collar and pair of cuffs sent v mall for Six Cent*. Addreas, giving size and style wanted. “23k the dealers for them.' Reversible Collar Co.. 27 Kilby St.- Boston. 4T I EWIS’9B ° o LYE ffiSbk I Powdered and Perfumed. (PATENTED. Th® »tro?iqest and purest Lye mada. Unlike other I.ye. it being a flue /Jpcwder and packed in a can with •removal le lid, the cont ‘iits ar< Cjgaff always ready for use. Will make the best perfumed Hard Soap in A) minutes without boiling, it is tho best for cleansing waste-pipes, ■ ■ disinfecting sinks, closets. washIl ing bottles, paints, trees, etc. _L_mohiT__ penna, silt m* g co„ © WlifiisJi7?7Ji Gen. Agts., Fliila., Pa. THAliri llinl A SPLENDID TRAVELING sideline _ _ —— For Traveling Men who vlsll gC’ Taj y many t'>uns. N samples to IVi ag lYp 1 ca rv and no sales to make. The work van be donr in a tew<minut • n while waiting for trains. No expense attached to it—clear ca-E profit. Many traveling men now m - king their daily expenses with it. all without taking any time from their regular business Write to day for particulars, giving permanent address. ••KUWINS,” Lock-Box 818, Chicago, Di. j non nnn acres of lani> for sale by the Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad Company in Minnesota. Send for Maps and Circulira. They will be sent to you Address HOPEWELL CLARKE, Land Commissioner, St. Paul, Mina. WESTERN FARM LANDS! ~ A pamphlet descriptive oTThe farm lauds of brasxa. Northwest Kansas and Eastern Colorado, with sectional map. will be mailed tree to any address on application to SKI STlS,General Pas» Benger Agt.C.,B. A; Q.R. R .Chicago, 811. ■ 3 yr, iu iMt w. IS adj udlcUug uUUm, atty itiMk KIDDER 8 F. w. n. v. ..ko. »•— at When Writing to AdverOian. lay y-M ■aw Uaa Arlvaruaameui lu Uli, pap-r.