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** NOTHING BUT LEAVES,*’

Good-by, bright leaves! Poor, pretty, useiess things! 5 . Your scarlet robes are soiled and trampled now; ( Awhile—ah, - such a little while—you ' laughed . o And danced, upheld by yonder sturdy bough. : ; s And then—he tired of you, and let you go; You clung and pleaded, but you fell at last, ; S Bhivering and shrinking from the unknown fate, . ] With ne’er a hand te help you as you passed, Ah, mystic world! Not yours the fault, : poor leaves, : That vou had neither flower, nor fruit, nor seed, : Nor e’en restraining rootlet, still to hold

Story of a Worthless Fellow 2 9 & By JOHN H. RAFTERY.

' F THERE are.any sufficient reasons why a married man should gointo the army, LouisTappan had them. His five years of married life had been a camulative failure and he knew it. What was more important, however, his young wife knew and charged the whole score of their mutual disappointment to him. Their one child, now .a teething baby, had not healed their chafed spirits nor brought together their wandering hearts. Mrs. Tappan was a good little woman, so good - that she neither sympathized with nor understood Louis’ puerile ways, his passions for excitement, his slavery to habits that were neither mecessary to her happiness not waryanted by his slender means, even in the days when he earned a goad salary as bookkeeper for the Buena Vista

bank. : Her father owned the liftle town where they lived, but he was one of those stern men who, having made their own way in the world, would discourage and resent the idea that they should give aid to others in the fight for independence or weaith. When Louis married Lucy Harding he admitted to himself that the.old bank pres3dent was ‘‘a grouch,” butin those days his self-confidence was not shaken by the prospect of working out a way for himself and Lucy. For a year he carried out his good resolutions, and even won a measure of Mr. Harding’s wrabbed regard. During that year the ¥oung people were fairly happy. The enterinig wedgs of misery came when it dawned on Lucy that Louis didn’t have any religion and couldn’t ‘“‘get” any. When he heard that she ‘“had him prayed for” he lost his temper and they had their first quarrel. - After that his descent was rapid. They drifted further and further apart. The boy (he was only 23) lost his grip ©on good resolves and slid along the smooth and winsome cusrent of his ©ld, free habits. The row with Harding didn’t come till the second year, but after that Louis’ place in his fa-ther-in-law’s bank became precarious. The old man warned, threatened and even persecuted him in the mistaken belief that he could scare the young husband back into the narrow path. But Lanis didn’t scare worth a cent. Long before the baby came he was in debt, neck and crop. His wife was getting morose and quarrelsome, and his creditors were beginning to talk about ‘‘going to the old man.” Even that didii’t move the rascal. He began to think that he was the martyr of an unhappy marriage, that Lucy didn’t understand him and that her father was determined to break up a union that he had never approved. When a man getsito coddling himself with such assurances he’s in a bad way. And Lomis ‘was in a bad way even before the grocer, who was a deacon in Harding’s «ehunch, made what Louis called 2 holler” .about his bill. -

That settled the young man with Papa Harding. A month’s notice, a threat of starvation and a mumbled impreeatiom were what the bookkeeper got with his next pay envelope. After he was out of his position he made a few feeble efforts to find work; he made a trip to Chicago, and in a weak way determined to take his wife and make a home for himself elsewhere. But somehow the svorld seemed to have suddenly grogvn ¥ery narrow and selfish. His comrades of dissipated days and nights couldn’t help him further than to “hope the old man will come round all right,” and buy another drink. Harding didn’t come round. He ignored his son-in-law when they met on the street, and only when the child was born did he insist on taking charge of Lucy. After she was taken-to the Harding: home Louis’ heart began to fail him.~ He. discovered that he was fond and apt to grow fonder of the child—a boy. Broken in spirit and pocket, he swore he’d mend his ways and find work. But there.was none. He went to Chicago, met an old companion, forgot his troubles for a night and adayand came to hisdreary senses in the biue, ill-fitting uniform of a *rookie.” : t

He had a vague idea that he would “win his way” as g soldier inithe war which had just' begun; visions of coming home a stern and famous officer—captain at least—crowded his boyish mind, and with his hopes there mingled, stinging sweet, the sense that at last he might have brought home to Lucy and her people a realization of

A LESSON IN POLITENESS. Grover Cleveland’s Method of Rebuking an Ungracious Govern- : _ ment Clerk, When Alonzo B. Cornell was governor of New York, says a writer in Success, he had a clerk so ungracicus in manner that he frequently remained seated while callers at the eapitol were obliged to remain standing as they attempted to transact business with him. One day a delegation came from a city in the western part of the state to plead for the life of a condemned.man. The governor was seldom known to grant a pardon, but the visitors hoped, at ' least, that they would be accorded a proper hearing. After the clerk had Xkept them waiting for two hours in ~ the outer -hgwa_y,»he admitted them and accorded them permission to _ #tate their case to the governor—all

For you a place, in winter time of need. I hear your wailing voices, ds you float To your dark rest: **‘Have I not-done my sipart? : I kept the fierce, hot rays from tender lives Of those who do not heed my breaking " heart! ‘““And even in my misery and death In some strange way I feel, but know not > how) To other years some richness I shall give, Some esgsence of the bloom on vine and bough.” But now the scornful world has blown yru on, And heaven’s bright tears fall from the household eaves Upon you, and your little life is o’er—- : The fate of all the lost and fallen leaves. —Fannic Barber Knapp, in. Chicago Inter Ocean. .

the fact that he was not all bad. He even imagined the old ‘“‘grouch” pitying him, and in the thought was the grim satisfaction that now at Jeast he had martyred himself.. He swore softly to himself that he would never drink nor gamble again, and when he left for Chickamauga with his regiment he had not fallen from grace. : A scribbled note on a postal card telling Lucy that he was “gone into the drmy” was all they heard about himat Buena Vista for three yearsafter that. The Hardings read all the war news with eager curiosity at first, hoping to get some news of Louis, but their interest waned agaia and again, to be faintly renewed with the actual beginning of the fight. But there was not a word about Louis, not even his name among the wounded, sick or dead, much less notice of his gallantry or promotion. Not until the Cuban.and earlier Philippine campaigns had dwindzed down into intermittent skirmishes in far parts of the islandsdid there come a hint that he was yet on.earth. Then just a line in the list of *‘dead from discase- ¢

“Tappan, private company K, Twen-ty-third infantry; dvsentery.”

And there,ended the career.of Louis Tappan, the worthless young man .of Buena Mista % =, % : - The station agent at Culver, tenmiles below Buena Vista on the Louisville & Nashville, saw the last train ‘“hesitate” at his door,andwas getting .out his key to lock up when a well-dressed, swafth_y young man with a small bag dropped oft the mear coach and .approached him. | . “This is Culver,itsn’tiit?” .

#¥Yes mip : “Do you know ‘where Mrs. Tappan, Mrs. Loais Tappan, lives ?” :

“Don’t live here, leastways not in town. I know ’em :all. No Tappans and nothing likethat:name roundihere. I'm pretty sure” -

“Moved here fromißuena Vista,”-sug-gested the stranger,wistfully; “moved up about a year.aga.” : “OR, hold em! 'Lappan—oh, hername ain’t Tappan mo more. She’s married to Bill Chesebrough. They wasimarried at Buena Wista .a year ago,.and come up here to.live. Sure I—

The siranger woughed a few times, looked up and @own the tracks,.and then: :

“Her first husband, Patten, ilai-fern—>"-2 - iy

“Tappan,” ssurmured the uneasy visitor. : 1

“Tappan, he died in the Philippines. He was a.no-goad bum and deserted her and the kid,so she ups and marries Bill Chesebrough. Bill is rich, ownsall them quarries .over to Hopeton. I'll show you where they live; take Jou right past the door.” 3 2 “Noo-00,” mused the visitor, half aloud, and fumbling in his pocket, I guess I won’t go wp; I—what did you say her first name was, Lucy ?” “Yes, that’s her. :She was Miss Lucy Harding, daughter .of old ‘Skinflint’ Harding, down to Buena Vista, richer’n hell and meaner stiil. He—" “Yes, I know,” was the interruption. “but you're going mast the house, her house ?” . ‘ ‘(Yep.’7 ’ . “Would you mind stepping in with this?” handing over .a photograph. “It’s a picture of Tappan for the boy, his boy. You see, we, Tappan and I, were in the same regiment, and when he got sick, he asked sme to—for the bey, you know; his daddy”s picture. I promised to give it to him.” “Oh, the Tappan kid; the one by her first husband, he—"" » “Yes, that’s the one. How is he? Does he look like—" “Oh, that one died the firt week they come here, diphtheria got him. He just—" o L But the newcomer was out.of earshct before the station agent eould finish, Down, the tracks he went t';iu?] the east,walking like a fury, wi is head down and his little bag swinging in the dim light of the yard lamps till the night swallowed him. : The station agent whistled a note of wonder, looked at the photograph he yet heid in his hand, 'saw it was of a young soldier standing bravely at salute, and turned it over. On the back was written: “For Louis Tappan’s little boy.” The station agent sHoved it into his overcgat pocket. ; “I'll bet that chap was a bug,” he mused, as he walked toward Chesebrough’s house, “but I guess I’d better give the picture to Mrs. Chesb—, N-0-0-00, come to think of it, I guess I'd better not. Tappan is dead, the kid is dead and old Bill Chesebrough is jealous as an old maid.” S He tore the photograph into small bits after another look and flicked the pieces into the air as he walked homewards.—Chicago Record-Herald. g

standing, The executive refused to interfere, and told his visitors so.

The spokesman of the little party was Grover Cleveland, then a Buffalo attorney. In one'year after the trip referred to he was himself elected governor of the state. When he visited the executive chamber a few days thereafter, Gov. Cornell showed him ovetr the apartments, and inquired if there was anything he wished to have done in advance of his inauguration. “There is just one thing you can do for me, if you will,” said Mr. Cleveland, “and that is to remove the clerk who kept me waiting outside so long when I was last here. It may teach him a lesson in politeness.’ The clerk was removed. _ The Servian language is a mixture of the Russian and the Greekand siinilar to that of Bulgaria, ,

B .rn.,mwm@»ﬁz ’ w%ﬁb"-,,\w M&T m& Tﬂ/l v ’@% s P ..Mki. Pyt IUNTS. Ay 7S K‘-*:.; ! - MANAGEMENT OF DUCKS. The Man Who Expects to Make Pekins Pay Must Pake Excellent : Care of Them, : : " It is not absolutely necessary to have so warm a house for Pekin ducks as for fowls, but it pays best to have a good comfortable house for'them, as will be shown presently. When properly cared for, ducks begin to lay during the winter menths; those that are hatched quite early in the spring may lay in December. We should pre{fer. ducks in their second year for breeders, or at least very earlyhatched ones, so they might be almost or quite one year old before eggs from them are used for hatching. Ducklings do better that are hatched from eggs that are laid by mature ducks. ‘Ducks can be plucked during warm weather, just prior to beginning to moult; then all the blood has gone from the quill of the feather, and but little pain is given by plucking them at that time.

Ducks sit about on the ground; they e not roost like fowls., It is their

o P 2 ez £ ‘,/ il N G AT A i&@B TR e g IR O e I HOUSE FOR REARING DUCKS. . 'habit to lay their eggs very early in the morning, often before daylight; for this reason they are driven into the house at night, and kept shut in till several hours after sunrise,. to prevent them from rurnningabout and dropping their eggs on the ground swherever they may be. Pekin ducks are a kind of a machine; they seldom lay an egg in a nest, and will lay the most of them in the water 7if allowed their freedom and are net shut-up -at night. We doubt if one out of five of themn would go into the hnuse to lay if they are allowed to rmm as they please. , For these reasons they should have a comfortable house that &as a good, dry earth floor. This should be covered over with straw or dry meadow grass for them to rest or :at night. During cold weatheTr the howse should be closed up like the hen homse. When spring and warmer weathereome, give all the air and ventilatiom possible while they are shut in. Yoeu will find it necessary to drive them in:at night, or to give the evening meal within the house, and shut them in wihile they eat. T'he litter should be twrned over at least twice a week; it should be put out in the sun once a week to air and dry, and at this time the floor should be cleaned and the fitter put back. We know that some who keep ducks do not clean the houses-all winter. With such care the dueks and their eggs are always covermad with dirt.

For ' old or laying ducks, mix by measure -one-half corn meal, onefourth wheat bran, the . rest green food, cooked wegetables and meat scraps.. Mix into this some coarse sand, and mix all into a dry mash food with water. The green food should be cut up iuto short pieces; green rye, oats or clover is good for this. When the ducks are not laying, feed light; ‘when laying, feed strong two or three times a dagsnif they grow fat, feoed less corn Zl«e-all and meat and more bran. Always feed the ducks im tiroughs or boxes. They should have plenty of grit and oyster shell. The sand that is mixed in their food is good for digestion or grinding, but they must have in addition to this foad grit or shell. Green cut bone or meat of any kind is good for them. All animal food is Better if cooked for ¢ucks.

Pekin ducks will do very well with simply encugh water to drink, and thousands of them are raised that never kad a chance to swim in water at all. At the same time, ducks that are kept for breeders do better when they have the chance to swim and wash in the wafer.—Country Gentleman.

AMONG THE POULTRY.

If the hen is a machine for econverting feed into eggs, it is a plain business principle that the machine should be kept running at full capacity and at the lowest cost.

Don’t keep a single fowl over winter that you can’t make pay its board. Cull them out and sell for what they will bring. The feed and care thus saved may be given to the more worthy eriese o ¢

Although eggs are a good price} now they will go higher later on. Arnd the hens will be sure to suspend business unless they have comfortable quarters and are well cared for., Inereasing the profits depends ; largely on the observance of three important points: Increasing the quantity, improving the quality and obtaining a Dbetter price for the product sold, _ To {requently change from one breed to another is nearly always attended by more or less expense; in other words loss. And to experiment in cross breeding is still worse. Try i to find some one pure breed that most nearly meets the demand of your fancy and your market, then stick to it and make it pay. : ‘ Treatment : for Staggers, This trouble is caused by a deranged state of the nervous system, the result of something the horse has eaten. Mix an ounce of aloes, half an ounce ginger and half an ounce bicarbonate of soda; dissolve in half a pint of hot water, then add half a pint of cold water and give at one dose. After the physic operates, mix four ounces sulphate of iron, four ounces nitrate of potassium and two ounces nux vomiea; dividdinto 24 doses and give one ounce a day in bran mash until all are taken, Repeat the above if necessary. ’

Makes an Important Statement of Interest to All Women. ! ¢“DgAr MRs. PINKHAM :—The honest, intelligent physician is above the ¢ School.” Whatever is best in each case should be used, no matter to what ischool a physician belongs. I, as a matter of conscience, can only preA i T N oy e -.:4\»“.'4.'...'-%%26.5%, \\\%-*-:- ) LY e SAN \g’\\ B 0 (e e N .:m?ﬁk;t\; A\ ;*.‘év\ By @ S A - Bl (S s R e _\'/ /% payER R NG i G T, N N 8 ,m e Nt K SSt O 2 :A ? e !,_-.4 \::;::;.;..“ , ‘?:,“ - b 5 e 4 ) (i< 5 2 b %://9; e s'7‘ 15 -\ A A :“":.5‘3.,‘;- ;'.‘{ i \7 PR .‘-'f,;.x'zf--‘/i:i,({'ﬁ '/’{// | N ARI e o L [ A R G l, o v%\ :"’," S R j_—;"; 5 " DR. WANATA, of Lansing, Mich. i scribe the best, and as I know and have proven that there is nothing in Materia _Medica which equals Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound in severe cases of female ghsorders, I unhesitatingly prescribe it, and have -never yet been sorry. I know of noth'ing better for ovarian troubles and for falling of the woffib or ulcerations; it . absolutely restores the affected parts to their normal condition quicker and better than anything else. I have known it to cure barrenness in women, who to-day are happy mothers of children, and while the medical profession looks down upon ‘ patents,’ I have learned, instcad, to look-up to the healing potion, by whatever name it be known. If my fcllow physicians dared tell the truth, hundreds cf them would voice my scntiments.” — DR. WANATA, Lansing, Mich. $5OOO forfeit if above testimorial is not genuine. The record of Liydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cannot be equalled. Accept no substitute. Hrs. Pinkham advises sick women free. Address Lynn, Mass.

SHOP TALK.

A cruller or doughnut spoon and strainer combined is seen in poprcelain. The bowl of the spoon is broad and lifts the cruller from the hot fat, straining the surplus grease at the same time.

Women have once again taken to the notion of color in their handkerchiefs — narrow-colored borders :in green, lavender, pink and blue being shown. Some handkerchiefs -have printed or colored embroidered designs all over them. One of the crystal ball clocks which have become so familiar has a military setting. Three black ecannon raised tripod fashion support one of these clocks and here and there upon the marble standard are piles of cannon balls finished in gold. Baroque pearls continue in favor and are used in various ways, among which are flower-shaped heads for hats and stickpins. These appear in all kinds of flower designs, the irregular form of the pearls being made an advantage in fashioning . the petals. ‘These pearls are also set in antique gold for hatpins. ‘' e

' There are any number of the beautiful chatelaine bag designs—the omne that is carried on the wrist with the chain given a safeguard turn on the fingers being just now ‘the favorite. One in undressed alligator of soft castor color is lovely and exquisite ones in beads are shown with all sorts of gay designs. = &

SCIENCE GLEANINGS.

All moths produce some form of sillc g

No less than 1,132 different species of seaweeds are found on Australian ecoasts. : : .

The atmosphere, if compressed, would make a sea 35 feet deep around the globe. A French naturalist, Rapael Dubois, asserts that all Jarge pearls are nothing but sarcophagi, in the’ center of which rest the dead bodies of small marine worms.

One of the most curious plants in the world is the toothbrush plant, a species of creeper which grows in Jamaiea. By cutting a piece of the stem and fraying the ends the natives make a toothbrush.

g ' | why :-:'.‘ la: i : h : BJ , i « o ° || SYrup.o lé o s , 1| thebest family laxative i \{;;} Hi 6 | - | momee | :-‘I&1, It is gentle, : : ‘ —': | It is pleasant. 4 | { l It is efficacious. - RV ¥ » i % m | It is pot expensive. : - !llt is good for children. : | el : ks §§izi i It is excellent for ladies. ; 2l : : i 5 ,!n It is convenient for business men. g il, It is perfectly safe under all circtimstances. 7l : : : B ‘I~It is used by niillions of families the world over. ’: ::;':E It stands"highest, as a laxat{ve; with physicians. Al e ' e B ”ﬂ | If you use it you have the best laxative the world COEE produces. ' B , ~ 21 ' ' e i

ottt e e st et e ACR Es at SACRIFICE in CHICAGO SUPERIOR and DULUTH, Chicago acres at 8300 an acre. Old price, 81,500 an acre. Little cash. Balance 10 years, ~Acres adjg’igins city mihof Buperiyt oy $9 s A (P, QOOO core. . 5 3 h Dearbirh Sirect, Chicago, Ll Hefel t 9 Chicage Banks.

BEGINNINGS IN NEW YORK.

The first paper money was issued in 1709. ;

The first quarantine was establishgd in 1737%. : :

The first street used for building purposes was Pearl. ; The first city hall was used by the city magistrates in 1655. The first shock of earthquake felt in New York by Europeans was in 1663. ~ Flour was first belted in 1650 by Pieter Couwenhoven and his brother Jacoh, ;

The first native-born mayor was Stephanus Van Cortlandt, appointed in 3677. ! .

- The first steps in the direction of police regulations were taken by the city in 1654, : . -

The first man sentenced to be hanged for murder was a negro known as the Giant (1641.) : , The first graveyard (God’s Acre) was laid out in 1633 west of Broadway, above Morris street.

The first money appropriated by the city for the cleaning of the streets was in 1696. The amount was £ 20. '

The first prison on the island was a small room on the first floor of the Stadthuys (eity hall); it was opened in 1655.

The city was first divided into wards in 1683. They numbered six: South, North, East, Wesf, Dock and Out

wards. : The first official census was taken in 1656. The inhabitants were found to number 1,000, of whom a large percentage were negroes. . :

The first tire company was organized in 1657. It was called Rattle Watch, and consisted of eight men; 250 fire buckets, with hooks and ladders, were imported from Holland. The streets were first lighted in 1697. The housekeeper of every seventh house on a street was obliged to hang out on a pole a lantern with a candle in it, the eharges to be defrayed equally by*the inhabitants of the seven houses.

THE TAG ENDS OF THINGS.

The American consular- service is made up of 320 members. Coffee growers and importers are greatly worked up over the ingcreased coffee production.

The value of the minerals marketed in England in 1900 was £135,957,676. 3 ;

The development of dry goods companies. with large capital is one of the latest features in the great dry goods distributing centers. The smaller wholesalers are being driven out. The largest towboat ever made for American waters will soon be launched for use on the Mississippi. Over 1,200 tons of steel will be used and 4,800horse power will be furnished. The boat is 275 feet long and 63 feet wide. The fruit growers of California are contemplating the organization of a cooperative company to control the marketing af their orchard products throughout the United States and Europe. Their first purpose is to keep elear of brokers and speculators. . Something like a revolution in fuel methods is now threatened by the results of the preliminary tests being carried on by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in New York eity with Texas oil, which so far demonstrate that 21, barrels of that oil is equivalent in fuel power to a ton of eoal.

A MIXED LOT.

Quite 50 per cent. of the property of England is insured. In Poland it is a penal offense to speak Polish in any public resorf. When the present prince of Wales was a sailor boy on the warship Britannia his'nickname was “Sprats.”

The amount of live stock in the United States is worth $1,000,000,000 more than five years ago. In Turkey red hair-is counted a great beauty, and the women dye their hair that tint.

The luxurious wood carving of 20 years ago is now done by machinery at a fraction of the former cost.

What will be the largest white lead manufaeturing plant in the world is to be established at St. Louis; capital, $15,000,009. i

ANAKESIS fixee 2: ! stant relief and POSITIVE- % EY CURES_ PILES. ! For{ree sum;ile address “ANAKESIS,” Trib- . une bullding, Mew York

WITH A LAME BACK? Y h ism? Do You Have Have You Rheumatism o You Have 5 < ° 4 - Bladder or ‘Uric Acid Trouble? ! Pain or dull ache in the back is unmistak- ' s : able evidence of kidney trouble, It is ' ) ﬂ‘,‘ - Nature’s timely warning to show you thatthe \ B R trdck of health is not clear. i __\ \ BoEsOSERg If these danger signals are unheeded, more /7%% T e serious results are surc to follow; Bright’s ), /{:;}/ ' disease which is the worst form of kidney m/,{},/{g_’/ R @Y trouble may steal upon you. ~ | R ‘ The mild and the extraordinary effect oftt SRR R -#5 the world-famous kidney and bladder reme- 2 i dy, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, is soon real- et ized. It stands the highest for its wonderful S : cures of the most distressing cases, A trial N aaa e will convince anyone--and you may havea W\ N T sample bottle free, by mail. ’ A Q e Backache and Urinary Trouble. , ‘&r \. S 03 .. Among the many famous investigated cures of Swamp 4 Y : : 4 : Root the one we publish this week for the benefit of our \h\‘: ‘ ; ! readers, speaks in the highest terms of the wonderful .‘v_\’\‘\\\\ | X curative properties of this great kidney remedy. IR ? Dr. KiLmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. ’ S GENTLEMEN: —When I wrote you last March for a b N sample bottle of Swamp-Root, my wife was a great suf- * N ferer froin backache, rheumatism and urinary trouble. - DRy After trying the sample bottle, she bought a large bottle . = here at the drug store. That did her s 6 mnch good she - N bought more. The effect of Swamp-Root was wonder- : N f ful and almost immediate. She has felt no return of N the old trouble since : SR\ Oct., 1901. F. THOMAS, - W F 427 Best St., Buffalo, N. Y. S Lame back is only one symptom of kidney \ \\ trouble—one of many. Other symptoms N\ showing that you need Swamp-Root are, WS obliged to pass water often during the day N § : and to get up many times at night, inability - BN \\\ to hold your urine, smarting or irritation in". § \\\\\ O\ passing, brickdust or sediment in the urine, \\ B -\:"\Q\\ catarrh of the bladder, uric acid, constant ‘\\\\\ BA\ ‘\\-,v,"‘),;,, headache, dizziness, sleeplessness, nervous- in ,'//' : . . ‘ oPyßicHy 1698 NBHA ess, irregular heart-beating, rheumatism, axumareco. ,//// S bloating, irritability, wornout feeling, lack ’ =~ e . of ambition, loss of flesh, sallow complexion. : If your water when allowed to remain undisturbed in a glass or bottle fo# twenty-four hours, forms a sediment or settling, or has a cloudy appearance,. it is evidence that your kidneys and bladder need immediate attention. : In taking Swamp-Root you afford natural help to Nature, for Swamp-Root is the most perfect healer and gentle aid to the kidneys that is known to medical science. . Swamp-Root is the great discovery of Dr, Kilmer, the eminent kidney and bladder specialist. Hospitals use it with wonderful success in both slight an@& severe cases. Doctors recommend it to tireir patients and use it in their owmn families, because they recognize in Swamp-Root the greatest and meost successful remedy. > - ' To Prove What SWAMP-ROOT, the Great Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy, Will do for YOU, Every Reader of our paper ; : May Have a Sample Bottle Absolutely Free by Mail. ; If you have the slightest symptom of kidney or bladder trouble, or if there is a trace of it in your family history, send at once to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., who will gladly send you free by mail, immediately, without cost to you, a sample bottle of Swamp-Root and a book of wonderfnl Swamp-Root testimonials. In order that your request for sample bottle may have immediate attention be sure and mention reading this generous offer in this paper. : If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need, you cam purchase the regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles at the drug stores everywhere. Don’t make any mistake; but remember the name, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y,

WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS.

A London physician advises a quiet sea voyage as the best remedy for insomnia. -

According to Dr. Sidney Jones 16,000 consumptives are moving about Australia annually. : An excellent remedy for chilblains is to cover them directly they begin to be felt with a coating of concentrated chloride of iron. =~ ) In view of the instinctive fondness of little girls for kissing their dells, the Lancet thinks more attention should be paid to the.source of the material used in making and stuffing them.

" One authority says if troubled with gout avoid meat, sweets, pastry, wines, spices, hot rolls, bread of all sorts and everything belonging to the tribe of ferments. Eggs, game, fresh fruit, vegetables, especially salad, may be eaten with impunity. ,

A GRATEFUL MAN.

Cox, Wis., Jan 6th.—With Kidney disease so bad that he could hardly walk across the room for pain Frank M. Russell of this piace was a man greatly to be pitied. S He tired out with the slightest exertion and in spite of all the doctors could do for him he was growing gradually worse. He had tried many medicines and treatments without benefit, but recently he read in a newspaper about Dodd’s Kidney Pills and these helped him fromthe very first dose. He took several boxes before he was completely cured but now he is well and strong as ever he was and feels very grateful to Dodd’s Kidney Piils for his restoration to good health.

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