Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Page 7

HALF-FARE TO SEE WESTERN LANDS.

Last Chute* IW* Tear. The third and last Harvest Excursion will be ran to especial territory—Oklahoma and Indian Reservations and Texas. The Great Rock Island Route runs into ..and through these reservations, and is the only road that touches these lands, lately >put on the market See hand-bills giving particulars, and remember the date is Oct 25, for Chicago and points to and Including Mississippi 'River, and one day later for Missouri River ,points. John Sebastian. G. T. and P. A., Chicago, IIL

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CHAPTER XVl—Continued. “I suppose that Is a pWbuke to me,” Margaret made answer to the Doctor. “You see, I am always ready to improve everything and everybody but myself." “Which needs improving sadly,” iriterposwl Brian, entering at this moment. “I have a scolding for you, Margaret. I thought " “I know,” answered Margaret, rather contritely. “I am really very sorry. Doctor Wilson has excused me, and I -have promised to do better for the future. So no more, please. ” “No more. That is always your cry when you need a lecture. I see you and Wilson are friends already. I thought .you would be. Effects of kindred tastes. Where did you walk this afternoon? To ■the end of creation?” “Oh, no. Only within the bounds of New York. I was not gone so very long, really; but I decided to go so late that ” “Another inopportune decision. I wonder when you are half way to heaven if you won’t turn back and try the other place, just to differ from the rest of the world. Wilson, behold the very incarnation of self-will. Leaving out this little failing, she deserves Bertie’s eulogies, and I am wonderfully proud of her. ” “Very consoling. I thank you, sir. For reward I’ll give you your dimmer. I dare say you are ready for it.” “Decidedly, Margaret. I had a wretched lunch and my appetite is now in prime condition. I wish W ilson would make a like admission just to keep me in countenance. I don’t expect much from you. Shall we progress?" “I have been telling Mrs. Leigh howjnuch I admire your charming Home,” remarked Wilson when they were comfortably seated about the tahle. “I have always had a prejudice against apartments, but this one has thoroughly converted me.” “I like them,” said Brian, following Wilson’s glance around the room. “Much more cozy than a house. This one was my choice, though Margaret gave me the cue. I must let her have the credit for all these fixings, however. This room was much more eny>ty when we first moved in; now it seems real homelike. It is astonishing what a woman's hands can do.” “Astonishing,” repented Wilson, musingly. “Don’t make me bewail any lonely estate more deeply, I beg of you. Think how these delightful rooms compare with my dull quarters. No wonder you don’t care to show yourself there. You are such a stranger that I was wondering to-day what you do with yourself. ” “What?” repeated Margaret In her own mind, while she gave Brian s rather Searching glance. He pretended not to see it, however. "Oh, I’m around generally.,”’ he an- • swered rather unsatisfactorily.. “I don’t find any difficulty in occupying my time. I’ll run in upon you some night. Though while Margaret is here " “You will be taking her about a great deal, of course. Under those .circumstances don’t consider me. iihope you like sight-seeing, Mrs. Leigh. Otherwise you must find it extremely tiresome. Or perhaps you are one of those fortunate Individuals whose cnducanoe is always equal to the emergency.” “Endurance,” repeated Margaret, starting from her train of thought. “Do you know, Doctor, I think endurance is nothing more than determination .or will. It is with me, at least. If I make up my mind to bear a thing I always bear it, and if I don’t, I don’t You seem amused, Brian, but I’m sure you can say the same thing if you would. When I was a child I used to pinch my arm to see how long I could Btand the pain without crying, but ft reproving tap from my old nurse sent me into spasms of weeping. That was all will, ■you see.” “All will," repeated Brian. “I thank you for telling us, Margaret. I can imagine how you tried that poor old murae. What are you intending to illustrate?"

“rStmply that our wills have everything to do with our feelings. Dr. Wilson wants to know if I find sight-seeing tiresome. lam afraid I do. But I like It, .and so I quite forget that the hard pavements tire my feet most dreadfully, and that when 1 ride I’m jostled almost to death. Really, Doctor, you may say what y«u please about your wonderful city, but I think its streets are an everlasting disgrace to any civilised town. ” “I have nothing to say in their defense,*’ admitted the Doctor, with a laugh. “They are bad. Does your idea of endurance extend to social duties also?” “Yes, certainly. Why should they be called duties. I wonder? I have a special distaste for that word. It carries with It the sense of obligation, and obligation is always disagreeable.” “Always?” questioned Wilson, rather quizzically. "I dare say you are right, though. Duty can be most unpleasant. We are queerly constituted at best.” “I think we are rather natural,” added Margaret. “It isn’t to be expected that we women should like to do what we feel we ought. Just put must before a request and it grows disagreeable immediately for me. I might go to a ball and dance all night with a raging headache, but I wouldn’t think of going to church in the same condition. I’d be much too ill. I’m giving you a dreadful example, am I not? Well, I can only advise you to do neither as I say nor as I do.” “I always thought you religious, Margaret. ” “You have never thought anything of the kind,” returned Margaret, meeting Brian’s mischievous eyes. “Why should you think so? Simply because I’m a woman. What a reason. I believe the world does think religion was made for women rather than men, though it is the men who really need it. Poor women! They are obliged to walk stiff and straight in a certain beaten track. They mustn’t do this, they mustn't do that, and they mustn’t do the other, until they are so and mustn’ts that ~1 wonder they have any individuality left. ” “Thank heaven you haven’t lost your Individuality yet, Margaret. Wilson, you were regretting your lonely estate awhile ago; after listening to such remarks from the mouth of one woman, beware of all others and rejoice at your escape. ” “Come, Doctor,” said Margaret, before WilsoH could reply, “we will go to the parlor, and I promise to be very quiet and sedate for the restof the evening. ’No doubt, you will find Brian’s conversation much more Instructive aad entertaining.” When Wilson had takes his departure

an hour or so later, Margaret turned to Brian with the remark; “I am so glad you brought him, Brian. I like him so much.” “Then I don’t believe I’ll bring him again. I’m jealous of him. But, seriously, Margaret, he is quite a fine fellow. I wish I were half as fine. You should have heard the nice things he said about you. He is very anxious that you should see more of New York, and he mentioned several places that I had forgotten about. He says you would like to see them, and so you shall. I’ve left you very much alone lately, but I intend to be more attentive hereafter. ” He knew that Margaret was pleased, from the happy light that stole into her eyes. “I believe that I shall be glad of the day I met Doctor Wilson,” thought Margaret, as she crept into bed un hour later.

CHAPTER XVII. A LIFTING OF THE CLOUDS. To Brian, the knowledge that Margaret had not lost all feeling for him, and that her faith in him was Btrong, notwithstanding his many falls, brought new strength and courage. With the power of strong determination he teemed to be gaining a victory over that old habit. Not an entire one, of course. Margaret could not expect so much. Sometimes a friend could lure him away, but this was seldom, and never since their talk in her room hod he lost the entire command of himself. Under these circumstances Margaret felt her heart considerably lightened. She could look forward more hopefully to the future, and her letters took on something of her own cheerful spirit Brian ooukl not fail to see the change, ■and it was equally apparent to Wilson, In his few brief visits. He onlydropped in upon rare occasions now, seldom stayed hang, and always claimed that he was too busy even to find time to see bis friends. “I suppose we must aoeept your excuses, Doctor," Margaret replied one ■evening to his usual plea. “Can’t you teach your patients some idea of the fitness of things? Why should they all get sick together? I think .a few might wait 'until the others .are well. ”

“.So they might, Mrs. Leigh, if they could see the matter from your point of; wiew. Unfortunately, however, illness, ■ like time and tide, waits for no man. We have had a very itrylqg winter, and pneumonia is very prevalent. That has added considerably to my labors. I confess I am thoroughly tired <out when night comes, and only too glad to creep into bed.” “And sleep in the comfortable sense ■that yourrest Is well earned.” “Yes,”.he laughed, “though that is no proof against its being broken. The only time my prof ession brings .-a regret is when I hear my .night bell jingling and I am called from a delightful map.” “Just as I’we always said,” observed Brian, with a side glance at Margaret. “A doctor’s life is all work and no plgy.” “And you like the play beet; don’t you?” she rejoined, quickly. “Still, play or not, Brian, it is a very moble profession, and when I was .a ohild I always deolared I should be a doctor’s wife.'" There was a decided question iin the •eyes she fixed upon him. “Poor Margaret,” he 'replied, joining in Wilson’s laugh. “What a miserable concern you managed to-get. Only the ■beginning of one.” “Don’t .be so generous with your sympathy, please. A beginning is better than mothing. An acorn is only the beginning of an oak, but we don’t despise the acorn beoause it is mot .an oak— ; yet. ” Wilson, as well sas Brian, caught the ■delicate 'emphasis on the yet, and he answered with a half smile: “Brian will become an honored member of the profession before his days are undod. 1 predict that, Mrs. Leigh. ’’ “Ah. I hove quite decided it,'" returned Margaret promptly. “Brian knows that as well as I do. I ■oouidnU have all my childish saleulatimms mpset. 1 used to think Uncle Stephen the very personification of all things good and noble, and I wondered then if his son were anything like him. You see I had not met Brian. ” “And now, Margaret, that you have met him?” Brian came behind her chair with this question. She glanced back at him and smiled.

“I never form an opinion of a book after reading only its first page. I must go deeper to see if it will realize or disappoint my expectations. Besides, I don’t air my views in public. Speaking of views,” she continued more lightly. "I have some I want to show you, Doctor. You must promise to think them very beautiful, or I shall be disappointed. Brian, will you get them, please?” At this request Brian got out a small folio of wood cuts and pen pictures of various scenes about Elmwood and the surrounding country. They were all excellent, and Wilson’s appreciation was was warm enough to satisfy even Margaret’s enthusiasm. “Do you wonder that I am proud of Elmwood?” she asked, after, an animated description of several of Its finest points. “Do you wonder that I Should love it so dearly? My wonder is that Brian doesn’t care for it as I do, for he was born there. I think he has the least bit of fondness fora Bohemian existence. lam sorry for him, because I do think it a most unsatisfactory sort of life. I aferee with George Eliot that we all should have one home spot that shall stand clearly out in memory, and to which our minds and hearts may always return, no matter how far we may have wandered from it.” Margaret broke off with a sigh “This,” she added, taking up another picture in some haste, “ is a side view of The Cedars, Colonel Barton’s home. Brian and I were speaking of Bertie when you came in. He has finished his book and the publishers predict a great success for it. ” ."Yes, I read it in the manuscript some time ago. I thought it excellent. Bertie is lull of pluck and deserves success. By the way, I met him to-day. He was in cheerful spirits. He tells me he has a charming wife. Ycu know her, of course, Mrs. Leigh,” “Almost like a sister, I may say. I hear from her quite frequently. She writes very delightful letters. Bhe is constantly expressing the fear that I shall become so infatuated with New York and its pleasures that I shall forget what she calls their rural delights. I try to convince her that there is no danger of that. ” “No. 1 fear you are too firm In your opinions ever to be converted, no matter how earnestly we may try. ” As he spoke, Wilson left the table and drew a chaty clpse beside her, and Brian busied hitaoelf in gathering up the scattered pictures. “I acknowledge that I like your city the least bit better than I did, ” admitted Margaret, “but further than that I can not go. I forgot to tell you that I saw yotr little eripple to-day. I Should think she was very 111. ” “fiar lift is a matter of but a few

weeks at most'," was his answer. thauk you for your interest in her.* “please don't thank me. I’m wonderfully self-satisfied, and I may begin to think I’ve done something meritorious. Brian, do oome from behind my chair. You make me think of Satan. Get in front of me, please.” “Thanka for your compliment. Youi candor is really lefreshing. I want to hear about the new unfortunate. I guessed from your face at dinner that yoli had been on some errand of mercy.* “I am sorry my face can not keep a secret better. Don’t persuade Dr. Wilson that I am an indefatigable St. Elisabeth, ever bent on charitable missions, when I am merely a young woman who wants —who doesn’t quite know what she wants.” “Doesn’t she? I think she succeeds very well in getting it. If you will play SL Elizabeth, I suppose no words of mine will have any effect. I can only mildly hope that you will not quite kill yourself. But seriously, I do not like to think of you going around In all sorts of neighborhoods and meeting all kinds ot characters. Of course, wherever Wilson recommends, is ail right Don’t go entirely on your own judgment, though. I shudder at ths thought." |TO BE CONTINUED, ]

A Strange Building Legend.

Nine master masons who . were engaged in building a citadel in the time of Yoivoid Neagoe found on returning to their work each morning that the portion of the wall which they had completed the day before had fallen to pieces during the night and was lying in a heap of ruins in the ditch. Manol of Curtea, the head mason, informed his comrades onj morning that a voice from heaven had warned him in his sleep the night before that their labors would continue to come to naught unless they all swore on that very morning to i.umure in the structure the first woman, be it wife, mother, daughter or sister, who should arrive with the morning meal of one or either ol them. They all took the oath, and the last had hardly been sworn when Mamol’s own wife appeared, carrying her husband’s breakfast. The oath was kept, and the woman known In the legend as "Flora of the Fields,” was murdered, and her blood and flesh incorporated with the walls of masonry. A curious practice of the Bulgarian masons (the above scene is laid in ■Bulgaria) which survives to this day, testifies ito the vitality of this legend. To insure the solidity of the houses they build they measure with a reed the shadow of the first person who passes after the digging of the foundation has been completed. When the foundation is commenced this reed is buried under the first rock, usually the corner stone.

His Weight in Gold.

The ancient annual ceremony of “Talabbaram, ” ot weighing the Maharajah of Travancore against an equivalent weight of gold, has eome round again. It appears to have been conducted this year with great pomp and ceremony, for the present Maharajah is a Hindu of the orthodox type, who aspires to keep up the traditions of his house. Some months before the ceremony the Government purchased through its commercial agent at Alleppey about two thousands’ weight of pure gold, the greatr er part of which was converted into coins for this purpose. After presenting an elephant and offerings to the shrine, the Maharajah entered the building prepared for the occasion, .and having completed the preliminary ceremonies, mounted one of the scales. The sword and shield ■were laid in his lap; in the other side of the scale gold coins, struck for the ©ocaston, were placed by the first and second princes, till it touched the ground and the Maharajah rose in the air, the priest meanwhile chanting Wedle hymns. Volleys were fired, the band played, and the troop presented arms. The Maharajah worshiped ait the shrine, and then went to the palace. Subsequently the Dewan and other officials distributed the coins from the fort gates to fifteen thousand Brahmins.

Cure of the Eyes During Early Life.

Dr. L. Webster Fox (Medical and Surgical Reporter) formulates ten rules on the preservation of the vis ion: 1. Do not allow light to fall upon the face of a sleeping Infant. 2. Do not allow babies to gaze at a bright light 3. Do not send children to school before the age of ten. 4. Do not allow children to keep their eyes too long on a near object 5. Do not allow them to study much by artificial light. 6. Do not allow them to use books with small type 7. Do not allow them to read in a railway carriage. 8. Do not allow boys to smoke tobacco, especially cigarettes. 9. Do not necessarily ascribe headaches to Indigestion; the eyes may be the exciting cause. HO. Do not allow the initerant spectacle vender to prescribe glasses.

For the Complexion.

Ten to fifteen grains of magnesia sulph. taken in a tumblerful of water every morning before breakfast will cause the most unsightly complexion to become clear in a short time Generally l , a month suffices for a complete cure, the skin having all the softness and clearness of a baby’s. The application of a solution of magnesia sulph. externally is said to be very beneficial also—say, one grain to the ounce of rosewater, applied every night and morning by means of a bit of soft sponge or linen cloth. It is said that blush-of-roses, a South Bend nostrum, is only a weak solution of magnesia sulph. In water.

Black Eye.

There Is nothing to compare with a tincture or a strong infusion of capsicum annuum, mixed with an equa: bulk of mucilage or gum arable, and with the addition of a few drops of glycerine. This should be painted all over the bruised surface with a camel’s hair pencil, and allowed to dry on, a second or third coating being applied as soon as the first is dry. If done as soon as soon as the injury is inflicted, the treatment wnl invariably. prevent the blackening of the bruised tissue. The same remedy has no equal in rheumatic, sore or stiff neck. —Medical Times.

“Tiiere is no castor oil trust,” says the New York Tribune. We are glad of it. It is good policy to purge tho commercial market reports of such laxative rumors.

FOR OUR LITTLE FOLKS.

A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO THEM. What Children Hen Done, YVbat They Are Doing, and What They Should Do to Put Their Childhood Days. What the School Belt Say*. , It la wonderful what unlike thlugs The school bell says to the boys when It rings! For Instance, the laggard, who drags along On his way to school, hears this sort o/ song: Oh—suz—hum! Why did I come? Study till four—books are a bore! Ob, how I wish I could run off and fish! See! There's the brook, Here’s line and book. What’s that you say? Hurry up—eh? Oh—hum—ho! —' ' . S’poso I must go, Btudy till four. Books are a bore! Then the boy who lores to be faithful and true, Who does what his parents think best kC should do, Comes bravely along With tacheV and bocks. The breeze In his whistle, the sun in his lpoks. And these are tho thoughts that well up like a song. As he bears the old bell, with Its faithful ding-dong: Cling, clang, cling— I’m so glad I could ting! Heaven so blue, . Duty to do! ft Birds In the air, • >*>«*’- Everything fair, , Even the boy Finds study a, Joy! When my work’s done * I’m ready for fun. Keener my play For the tasks of the day, Cilng. clang, cling— I'm so glad I could sing! Tfc*je are the songs which the two boys heard. When the school-bell was ringing, word foi word. Which do you think was tho truer song? Which do you hear as you're trudgin'] along? • Don’t be a laggard!—far better. I say. To work when you work, and play when you play! —Exchange.

A Fish Story. Papa—Did you catch fish? Little Son—Only one, but it was w bln one.” 41 Very big?" “Oh, awful big." “Did it get away?” “No. but it ’most brokethe >pol» pullin’ it mit." “Well, well! Where is it?" “In my pocket”—Good News. Every Attention. “Mr. Schoolmaster, 1 hope you will treat this little boy of mine exactly as if he were your own son.” “Ob, yes; certainly; I will give him a whipping every day, since you desire it.”—Tid-Blts. A Friend In Aeed. How often we find that when misfortune befalls us we are deserted by many whom we imagined were our most devoted friends, and upon whom we had strong claims fipr sympathy and help. From those wO)know little, we naturally expect little, or nothing. But here in the animal world we have an extraordinary example of disinterested friendship in the time of need. A poor sparrow by some mischance had lost the sight of both eyes. Few people have much to say for the sparrow, he eats the young seedlings just as they are coming up in the garden, so the gardener prosecutes him, and the farmer hates him because he makes raids on the corn. Now this poor blind bird would have had a very poor ohance against tho world; without his eyesight he must speedily have come to grief, but a hen, upon whom the sparrow hrad no sort of claim, took upon herself the full charge of him, guarded him jeab ously under her wing, brought him food, and protected him from his brother sparrows, who would soon have killed him. We may learn a good deal from this hen, we who are only too ready to turn away from sorrow and misfortune, because whan wo ourselves are prosperous and happy they might cloud and disturb our peaceful horizon for a time.

An Astonished Fox. A gentleman In Meaford, Ontario, told me that when a boy at home he used to be greatly amused with the hunting stories of an old man called Nehemiah, or ’Miah. writes Marshall Saunders, in Good News. ’Miah would come to the house, take up his station in the kitchen, then the children of the family would gather round him for a tale of the woods. ’Miah was a good mimiej Rnß would accompany his storfeA With appropriate gestures. Upon one occasion he told the boys that be went into the woods, not with his gun, but with hands In his pockets, just strolling about for a lark. There was a light snow on the ground, and he soon came upon the recent tracks of a fox. Near by was an uprooted tree, its roots stuck up high in air. ’Miah crept (and he dropped down on the kitchen floor, and showed the boys how he went) behind the roots, and began to chirp and squeak like a mouse.

Now a nice, plump, young mouse is a dainty morsel for a fox, and by and by ’Miah saw Mr. Fox coming back. ’Miah showed the children how the fox came, trotting nimbly along, then stopping to listen, turning his head wisely from side to side, and holding up one paw. To see ’Miah on hands and knees, going across the kitchen and snuffing the air, always convulsed the children. He would be fox and mouse alternately. The mouse would squeak, the fox would advance. Finally Mr. Fox crept lightly up to the tree trunk and looked. Probably his mouth was opened to receive the mouse, when ’Miah opened his mouth and sprang up with a terrific yell. The astounded fox fell over and over on the ground as if he were shot ’Miah always vowed that it took the fox several seconds to recover himself enough to run away. And then he looked so sheepish. A trick had been played on him! ’Miah sat on the ground and laughed and laughed. He always assured the chil* dren that he had twice as much fun as he would have had if he had taken his gun and shot the fox.

Web Cloth.

Spiders’ thread, which is one-third stronger than steel wire of equal diameter, is to be utilized for the manufacturing of spider silk textile (or ladies’ upper and under garments.

When Nature

Needs assistance it may ba best (a render It promptly, but one should remember to use even the most perfect remedies only when noeded. The best and most simple and gentle remedy ia the Syrub of Tigs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.

Fossible Ideas.

An English scientist has made fanciful calculation on the number of Ideas of which the human mind in the aggregate is capable and arrived at a total pi 3,656,760,000.

Keep Off the Enemy.

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That he who blows tho coals In quarrels he has nothing to do with hafl ; no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Exoursion Rates South.

The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad will sell excursion tickets Sept. 27 gad Oca 25, 1802, at the low rate of one fare for the round trip, to numoroue points to the southeast, south and southwest For full particulars, maps, time tables or any other information, apply to (1 W. Humphrey, Northern Pasaenser Agent 170 East Third street ft Paul, Minn.; to City Ticket Office, 204 Clark street Chicago; to any agent a & E. I. U. K. i or to Charles L. Stone, General Passenger Agent Room 415 First National Bank Building, Chicago. Th> uae of Ely’s Cream Balm, a sure oure tor Catarrh and Cold In head, Is attended with no pain, Inconvenience or dread, .which can be eald of no other remody. I nil. it my duty to say a few words In regard to Ely’s Cream Balm, and I do so entirely without solicitation. 1 have used It halt a year, and have found It to be most admirable. 1 have suffered from catarrh of the worst kind ever since I was a little boy and I never hoped for cure, but Cream Balm seems to do even that. Many of my acquaintances have used It with excellent results—Oscar Ostrum, 45 Warren Avenue, Chicago, 111, Apply Balm Into each nostril. It Is Quickly Absorbed. Givgs Km.izr at oncs. Price 60 cents at Druggists or by mall. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St., New York.

Fine Flaying Cards.

Bend 10 cent* In stamps to John Sebastian, Gen’l Ticket and Pas*. Agt, a, R. I. k P. R'y, Chicago, for a pack of the “Rock Island" Playing Card*. They are acknowledged the beet, and wortb five times tbe cost. Send money order or postal note for 50c, and will send live packs by express, prepaid.

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bit R. ScHirvMAHif. St. Paul, Minn., will mall a trial package of Bchlffmann's Asthma Cure frtt to any sufferer. Give* Instant rollef In worst casas, and cures where others fall. Name this paper and tend address Rebuff la a wet blanket that dampens ardor. A M. PRIEST, Druggist, Bhelbyvllle. Ind., •ays: ‘Hall’s Catarrh Curs gives tbs best of satisfaction. Can gst plenty of testimonials, as It cures every one who takes It." Druggists sell it, 75c. In the flutter of exoitement the flight •f time is unheeded. For Indigestion, constipation, sick headache, weak atomach, disordered liver—take Beecham’s Pills. For sale by all druggists. Give attention and you will get For a Oovor or Bona Throat tbs best medlelne by far is Hang's famous Honhy or Horshound and Tar. Pots'* Toothache Drops Cars In one Minute. A sinibteb glance betokena an evil purpose.

TIINCERKLY BEJflMgfeh i LIKVU that I •tumid have been dead long Wlk W »«»if it had not been for [yw TO Hood'* Sarsaparilla. I ■BA y 7 had a bad humor that would not yield to any treatment, and my stomaob waa very weak. I wae Christian Temple. hardly able to get wound when I began taking Hood'i Baraaparilla. I began to improve slowly nntll after I had taken somalO or 12 bottles. I considered myself well once more. HOOD’S BAKSAFAIinXA did me io much good that it seems ae if it must do •there good.* Mbs. Chblstina Tbicple, Banfor. Me. HOOD'S PILLS are the beat after-dtnnsr Pills; aeelat digestion, cure headache. Try a box. RaS®& READY BELIEF. NEVER FAILS TO REUEVE PAIN, The Cheapest and Best Medicine for Family Use in the World. It surpasses all other remedies In the wonderful power which It possesses of coring RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA. The application of the READY RELIEF to the part or psrta where the difficulty or pain exists will afford ,ue and comfort. I Pgr Sprain., Bruises, Backache. Pain in the Chest or Sides Colds, Congestions, Inflammation*. Lum bago, Sciatica, Headscbo. Toothache, or any other Pain, a tew applications act Uke magic, causing the pain to Instantly stop. Thirty to #0 drops In half a tumbler of water will In a few minutes cure Cramps, Spurns, Sour stomth^elrt^Kd^r *^ UUon of SUMMER COMPLAINTS, Diarrhea, Dysentery Cholera Morbus, Faintness, Heartburn, tflck Headache, Colic, Wind In the Bowels, and all Internal Pains. water will prevent alcSn-ee or pain from change of water. It Is better than French Brandy or Bitters u a stimulant. Frloe BQc. per Bottle. Wold by DwH-n (*OW ER>s fit Best *l—- fatenroof foSff I WORLD! SLICKER Tbs FISH BRAND BUCK** is proof and wlUkeeß you dry In the hardest storm. Tha new POMMEL SLICKER la a perfect Ming coat and covers the endre saddle. Beware of imitations. Don t buyacoat if tbe“Flah Brand" Is act on It. Itlu.trated Catalogue free. A. J. TOWER, Bolton, Mass. EjMFilj-.PJfi.li rtAorasOeaipleiTsa itumCsaMlaatlsa. Ullvrw lempe »>lf«a SUMS to xSon. ©W FAT FOLKSREIUCED DElP^&jKa«aaa frk

‘August Flower” " I have been afflicted with bilions* ness and constipation for fifteen years and first one and then another preparation was suggested to me and tried, but to no purpose. A friend recommended August Flower and words cannot describe the admiration in which I hold it. It has given me a new lease of life, which before was a burden. Its good qualities and wonderful merits would be made known to evenrone suffering with dyspepsia and biliousness.” JRSSE Barker, Printer, Humboldt, Kas.# Is msiiii from kerbs, ahd Is prepared torus* as sasUy LAME’S MEDICINE AU Antrim Mil It M Mr 1.1 *1 Jf y*s iwUS It, M*d roof oAAmm for • ftoo MiapU. Um 1 ! gpOotoQ MOM too Wo-.1, ,uh tor. In ord.r to Wo Aoollky, Ufa to O.IOM tort. AddroM ORATORP, WOODWARD. URor, N. Y. F 111 Bile BebJns Small.. Guaranteed to oure Bilious Attacks, BlokHeadache and Constipation. 40 In each bottle. Price 950. For sale by druggists. Ploture “7,17, 70” sad sampte dose (Tee. if. f. SMITH k 00.. krsgrfetors, HtW tOSK.

The Asthma. An exchange gives an account of the death of an aged cltlien who lived until the age of 82, but who had been a sufferer from asthma for many years. It Is generally supposed that this is a malady from which old people In particular suffer, but this is not so, for many young people contract it. It can be cured even In its worst stages. We have tried it thousands of cases and have never known It to fail to give Instant relief when Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cube was administered in small and frequent doses. It acts at once as a stimulant, relaxing the muscles. It contains nothing deleterious, neither opiate nor narcotic; It can be given again and again without any danger of evil results. No other cough remedy on the market can be given without danger; most of them contain opium in some form, or some other drug] which, if taken In excessive.quantities, is likely to prove fatal. Reid’s German Cough and Kidney Cube contains no poison. The small botr ties are 25 cents, the large ones 50 cents. Get it of any dealer. Sylvan Remedy Co., iPeiria, 111. , fwi ML uIILL PRIHTM OFFICE OUTFITS *» reasonable rate# ud upon liberal tom Wmm rot runoouii. CHICAGO NEWSPAPER UNION, es South JoffWraon Street, CMamo. lye. *. mo semvws obienwae cum u. ■ uAcraum. 4T I EWir 98 % LYE I Powdered and Porfnmad. Ip (rATsxTUD.) To* rtrongrtt and purett Lye mad a, Mali Unlike other Lye, It balng a line Id p° wd «r and packed In a oan with "removable lid. the oontenti ara alwajra ready for uaa. WIU make the but perfumed Hard Soap In SU as minute* without boiling. It la tba rnm beat for eleanalng warte-pipea, t f dlilnfaoting alnka, eloaete, wa*b> iL $40,000,000

Earned by the Bell Telephone Patent In IMI. Ten* Invention may be valuable. Ton should protect It by patent. Address for full and Intelligent advice, fr*» *f chart*. W. W. DUDLEY * CUu Solicitors of Patents, Pacific Bldg., CZI F St. H. W_ Washington. D. G. Mention (AM paper. PATENTS! PENSIONS! Barlow’B Indico Blub. His Family Wash Bine, for sale by Chooses. C- N- ts- No. 48-M ■ FlWe Remedy gw Catarrh Is the H Beet, Easiest to Use, and Cheeps*. | 1 !“7r^.%“:rT