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HER CHINESE PUPIL.

A WOMAN CURIOUS TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT HIM. To Knablc Hordel f to Study Him She ltcconics a SantlayScl'ool Teacher, and Visits Ihe Opium Joint of Her Heathen Charge What She Learned. A woman who ins herself Dorothy Dare, curious to luiow why bo many Iwhite women bivomo fond of the Chinese, secured a position as a teacher la ft Chinese Sunday school in Now York, and very interestingly describes her experience with the would-be Christian, both in school and in his opium joint. At her request one of the worstlooking creatures in the whole school was pi veil her as a pupil. "He was," says Miss Dan, '"hip. fat and preasy, und when I sat down beside him he mi.y su 1: i.i'i. or.t i.. moved Ids chair close to mine. While I w:is looking lhriiph the lesson books he was making an inventory of my I e r s o s : 's ! a pp'.' : u a i i . "What is your name':" I asked, bestowing upou him one of my choicest smiles. T.cji Wmi.;. V.'hat yon name:" . "Missy," was my reply. ,' "Missy nice lil pi ul," ht returned, quickly. "Not tloo yor.np not tloo old." "YVc must attend to our lessons," I paid, severely. "It is not ripht to talk Avhen all the rest are study inp." He read quite well, and was a credit to his regular teacher's instructions. J'.nt he evidently was not in the humor for study, for, after a while, he shut the book with a banp, and informed me lie was tired and couldn't read any lonper. Thinkinp I had better po to headquarters to see what was to be none next, I rose from my chair. As I did so, lien Wunp caupht hohl of my dress. "Where you po':" he asked. "To .speak to Mrs. M.," I said. 44 Vou come apain':" , "Yes." Ho he released my dress and let me jro. "Ien Wuup won't study any more," I said to the teacher; "ho wants to talk, ami I am not inclined to talk to him. Can't I read with one of the others':" "Oh, my dear! that wouldn't do at nil!" exclaimed the little woman in great alarm. "If you po to any of the others, he will leave the room and never come back!" Seeing how troubled she looked over the probable loss of such a dirt', disreputable sheep from her fold, I relented. "Well, I'll po back to the beast, but he flatly refuses to study or read, so I rwen't know what to do with him." "Talk, if he wants to, my dear. Who knows but you may be able to speak the Word in pood season':" When I sat down by the greasy Wung again, he began: "Missy Molehen. All old hens come here. You nice lil glul. You terpen nest Sunday?" "Perhaps." "I bliu' you nuts, cnmly, nice things. I blinp lil bhiek blalls; make you sleep nlieo clleanis." 4'Doier I whispered. IIow his wicked little eyes danced, as he gave his chair a hitch ami pressed close against me! "You know dope?" ho whimpered. I nodded. "You co nie see my laundiy. I give j on pipe," he said in low tones. Just then the closing bell ranp, and I barely had time to scribble W ling's address before the last hymn was given out. As the pupils tiled out Wung whispered in my ear: "You no tell':" I shook my head and gave him a sweet smile. The very next day I wont to the Hast Side to lind Wu'ng's laundry. It was a dingy little den. quite as dirty ns Wung himself. When I entered Wuug was talking to a customer. When she had pone AVung locked the door. I.efore I fairly knew what he was about he had pulled down the heavy red curtain and 4Ki:i:r vol n hands off mi;, vor miski:aüi.i; i:i;ati i:i:." pulled me into the inner room. Pushing chair toward me, he said, insinuatin,rl v : "You no 'Haid me':" "No," I answered. 4I cook some dope. AYo smoke pipe." "I don't know how," was ruy reply. "That's lie," he exclaimed, angrily. "Really, I don't, Wung." 1 repeated; 4I never smoked a bit of opium in my life." "You no tell truth," retorted' Wung, ns he Hcowled at me. "I see it at Sunday school, here and there," putting his linger as he fqoke first to one eye nud then the other; "you smoke dope plenty time." And then I saw that to the heathen mind there was no difference between the heavy eyelids of the victim of In

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soinnla and the flabby lids of the dope fiend. That, then, was the reason Hen AVung had taken to me so promptly. Ihe room into which I had been somewhat forcibly ushered was a dirty little cubbyhole, containing a bed, a table and two little chairs. When tha opium was ready, Wung drew the other chair close to mine, seated himself and put the layout on his knee. "We smoke pipe," he said, leering at me, "and then we have nice sleep." "No, we won't," I exclaimed, thinking the affair had gone far enough. As I arose from the chair lie pushed me back roughly. "You stay here!" he hissed, all his evil nature Hashing through his wicked eyes. I lis sudden movement caused him to drop one of the pipes, and as he stepped to pick it up I saw my opportunity. It was the work of a moment to give the creature a violent push, and in the twinkling of an eye Wung, the chair and the layout were all in a bunch on the floor! IIow he swore, and how sorry I was that I could not understand the Chinese language! He was fat and clumsy, and th chair was lying on his head. I could no. help laughing as I stepped around him carefully and made a clash for the outside door. Imagine my dismay to find that he had Avithdrawn the key! And even as I fumbled at the knob ho was beside me, looking uglier and more wicked than ever. As he grasped my arm I drew back and said: "Keep your hands off me. you miserable creature, and unlock this door at once!" "You stay here," he began, but went no further, for I had drawn a revolver from my pocket and had pointed it, straight at his face. "No shoot! No shoot!" he implored, backing away from me and presenting in his sudden and abject cowardice a most ludicrous contrast to his previous manner. "Open the door or I will." AVith fumbling lingers he obeyed, and

"so shoot! so shoot!" hi; imitokkp.

in another moment I was on the sidewalk, making tracks for home. I confess I did not lind out why white women ever become fond of Chinamen. The Adhesive Plaster. In one family, where there are nullit rous sideaches, backaches, bruises, and strains, the porous plaster has come to be a recognized institution. Its putting on is generally accepted with delight, but when it comes to the taking off, the "oh. dears." and "doifts," and cries of pain are many and emphatic. Even after the plaster is pulled off there is a layer of adhesive gum on the skin that is struggled with in all sorts of ways. Sometimes the razor is employed for scraping; sometimes a sharp knife is brought into use, and, again, a soft warm cloth Ss pressed over the spot and Avhen this has firmly attached Itself, the peeling process goes on. Those who have occasion to use this application will find immediate relief from their annoyance, if they will, after raising one side of the plaster, wet the surface of the skin with alcohol, allowing it to run down as the plaster is pulled a little. If any of the gummy substance remains, a bit of rag wet with alcohol will cleanse the surface almost immediately. This, also, has another advantage, in tVat the stimulating effect of the alcohol prevents any possible cold that might be taken on account of the removal of the warm plaster. This is but a trifle, but it makes easy something that has always been a bugbear, especially to children, and is well worth trying. New York Ledger. cize of Seed Wheat Kernels. Mr. I I). Coburn, secretary of the Kansas State lioard of Agriculture, in advising the farmers of his State about sowing wheat, says; "As the subject of -how much to sow per acre is one "of no small importance, permit me to call attention to the wide difference in the quantity of actual seed there may be in bushels of different wheat, resulting from the size of the grains, even when of the same variety. It has been noted at the Iowa experiment station that one bushel of a variety grown in California contained only 489.S79 grains, while a bushel of Turkey lied from Iowa had l.lSl.tRXl grains, or about 2!2 times as many. Other bushels of the same variety, one from Iowa and one grown in Kansas, lunl upwards of Ih)0,000 grains each. The average of all the samples tested at the station was 770,200 grains per bushel. The point 1 wish to make is that while two men may be agreed that a bushel of wheat may be about the proper quantity to sow per acre, one may be seeding twice or more than twice as heavily as the other." Arrestoil Both the Twins to lie Sure. Maria and Sallio Troutman, because they looked so much alike, were both arrested yesterday afternoon by Patrolmen Simpson and Werne. The girls are colored, 11 years old, and twins. One of them is guilty of throwing stones at an old woman at (Uh and Levering streets. The woman, when she saw both the girls together, could not decide which it was w'ao had mistreated her. To be sure, the - woman swore out a warrant for each of the girls, charging thorn with disorderlj conduct The resemblance Is remarkable. Courier-Journal.

BUSINESS PICKING UP.

COMPTROLLER ECKELS GETS ENCOURAGING REPORTS. Bankers Throughout the Country Assert that Confidence Is Retnrninsand Prospects Arc lirishtemn;; Cleveland Averse to an Kxtr.i Session. Kckels Is an Optimist. Tashlcston correspondence : w y-N OMl'TIIOLI.r.R rvkH I els, who is in touch Ä Vwith the bankers throughout the country, reii't nit !iiii.i-. ? . business. This imIrovemont, he says, began some time ago rind is coin;r steadilv riUfiBS,fiw ou- IIis information IIHJUyLUiS warrants him in cxjEmSrSfS? Posing the belief 3ir5g:d5lS!,?fifr?that it will continue MimMto go steadily on, un-yftf--,irul normal conuijn..f ;.. tion has been once more read:-!, lie is discouraged by present hnan:al lit ion. lie docs not believe that the country is poin.i; to the "domnitioa bow-wows" or that it i anywhere near that place. Tho'i-h of a naturally optimistic nature, Mr. I-ko!s is sullieiently conservative to refrain from expressing nny opinion under which he lms not a oUd solid ground for foundation. lie is in daily communication with the national hankers, and it seems as if every one of them felt called upon to pive his opinion as to the condition of affairs in his particular section of the country, all of which is very aproeable to the Comptroller. His eorrespoiidt. nts are the ablest men of the country. They have carved their own way in the world, and have achieved a prominent niche. They do not pive their opinions for the purpose of publication or to achieve any ulterior end. They merely write them as bits of gossip, thinkinp they will interest the Comptroller. These national bankers, receiving their information from business men of their respective communities, who come to them for loans, probably probe more clearly into the very heart of the trouble and condition of the general public than any other class of men. It is their knowledge, given with the honest purpose of supplying the Comptroller with accurate information of national affairs, whieh forms the basis of Comptroller Eckels' opinion. The chief trouble which the present condition of affairs is causing the country is the spread of fear in Kurope that our national credit is in a shaky condition. The report has pone abroad that we are not to maintain gold payments, and American securities, held in such enormous quantities by foreign investors, will be paid for lü Kilver or some depreciated currency. This naturally creates apprehension and distrust. The President's message has had a wonderfully reviving effect on Europe, according to private information received at the Treasury Department. And many men and corporations of great wealth seeking investment, and who a month or so ago were doing their best to realize on their American securities, are now perfect 1' willing to hold them. There are plenty left, however, who fear that this Congress is not to be trusted, and that some legislation dangerous to the stability of our national credit will be inaugurated ere the final adjournment. This feeling possesses, in a slight measure, a few American bankers. They are. however, of the timid class, and though their feelings may be cMcr.ded to their customers, the damage will not be i-o very great. President Cleveland appreciates this feeling, both here and abroad: at a reeent Cabinet'meeting he expressed himself as being strongly opposed to an cMra sisBion; so strongly, in fact, as to warrant him in informing his associates that tb.-re would be none, unless some unforeseen emergency should arise. The President does not believe that the prospect of securing party advantages al.ne would warrant him iidlicting an extra session of Congress upon the people. The situation must take .n a much darker hue. It is his belief, based on communications from people in all parts of the country, that what the country wants is a rest from Congress, lie further believes that the recovery of business will be more rapid If members of Congress are at home, instead of at the national capital in session, lie shares Secretary Carlisle's belief that the revenues will soon be sutliciently huge to meet the ( ovcrnment expenditures, and when that is i roved to the general satisfaction cnnCdence will strengthen and the need for further issues of bonds disappear, mich is the s.'irdioii to-day. Employes of both houses of Congress are spending a good deal of time on their knees, praying that an extra session will not be caned. No particular lore of country actuates 'hem in their desire. It is purely personal with them, though they may possibly think that their own personal benefit vill indirectly add to the beueßt of the country. The fact is that an extra st -.'ion means the cessation of their prcsen: jobs. If there is no extra session their terms of employment will continue until Congress meets in regular session next December. That means the loss or gain of just about nine months' salary to them. Should the Fifty-fourth Congress convene in session immediately after the close of this Congress, new oflicers would doubtless be elected by the Genate, which it is expected will reorganize, inasmuch as the Democrats are no longer in the majority, and the employes now enjoying soft positions at remunerative prices will have to seek other employment. And the seeking of other employment to a man who has enjoyed a few years in the service of the United States Senate is about ns disagreeable a job as ever confronted a politician. The day after tlie J -t election Logan Carlisle, Chief Clerk . the Treasury, received Applications f om nine-tenths of the employes of both Senate and House. They had hoped for Democratic success at the polls, and had gone to bed the night before wondering if their hopes were to be realized. Th3 were up before daybreak and read the answer in the stars. These told them they must seek other places ere the incoming of the Congress elected the day before; and er the sun had risen their applications were prepared for positions in one of the Government departments. Some of these applicants will be provided for, of course, but comparatively few, because the departments are already choked. If the prayers of theso supplicants J re answered there

will be no extra session, üat even when the next Congress convenes in December they will be just as reluctant to go, and, moreover, they will be all the less able tc secure employment. The report that the President is onc more suffering from ill-health has pone abioad again. This report will doubtless be repeated with more or less frequency after the adjournment of Congress a in! news at the national capital is scarce. Hut whatever the condition of the President will be after the adjournment of Congress, ir can. and should, be said positively now that it has never been better during the present administration. The President is naturrdly a man of action. II likes work. He thrives on worry. His step is light and his pout lias disappeared. His cheeks are ruddy, his eye clear and his hand-clasp linn. He seems well, cats well, works well. He sees everybody who calls on him on public business, and his information shows that he keeps in touch with pretty much all that is going on. The President may not live fifty years longer, but a great many who are now predicting his death will leave him on earth a firm, vigorous man of affairs when they are climbing the golden stairs. A strong tffort is being made by tha friends of General Casey. Chief Engineer of the army, to have him placed in charge of the construction of the new Chicago post ofiiee building. It is to be hoped that their efforts will fail. No one doubts th& engineering ability of General Casey. Hut the long time it has taken him to build the Congressional Library is a monument to Iiis lack of energy, and shouid be a warning to nil who hope for the erection of the Chicago building in Chicago time. Gem ral Casey will soon retire from the army on account of the age limit. lie will retire at a poo. salary, but he would like the fat berth of superintending the construction of so large a building as the new post oMieo in Chicago is to be, and like especially the comfortal.de stipend ho would receive for such superintendence. The General, as an army oilker, has been brought up in that life, and a man who goes to him for information, in the event of his succeeding in Ids earnest wish to be 'laced in charge of the Chicago building, or who ventures to make a suggestion, would do well, if he seeks to proServo his self-respect, to take a club along with ldm. Chairman Savers, chairman of the House Appropriation Committee, is particularly desirous of having General Casey placed in charge of the Chicago building. Apropos is the fact that Mr. Saycrs is ve ry desirous of so prolonging the building of the new iost office as to spread the necessary appropriations over a long series of years. If General Casey should he appointed Chairman Saycrs will be content.

SCHEME TO DEFRAUD. Mother and Daughters Consuire to Heat a Railroad. Mrs. Freeman and her two datr?:h:?rs, Fannie, aged 19, and Jennie, aged were arrested in Chicago, the specific charge made against them being that of attempting to defraud the Chicago. Kock Island and Pacific Kail way Company out of 2JK The three women tried to work a new dodge on the company, but it is one which, it is said, has been successfully used by the same practitioners before. Miss Fannie, by much practice in stoicism, passed herself off as a paralytic, claiming that she had been injured in an accident on the railroad, and had become paralyzed in consequence. She feigned the part so well that the company came near paying the claim presented. The 1 W fi-. p a ai:i:i:st or the fi:i:i:maxs. Muallncss of the amount asked for, however, created some suspicion, and detectives were put to work on the case. The Freemans lived in a fiat at (JOS West Twelfth street, but tlie fiat above them was unoccupied. Detectives rented the upper fiat, made small holes in the floor and through these watched the proceedings that took place in the sick room below. Whenever the family was alone the paralyzed young woman would leave leu- bed and walk around the room just as well as her mother or sister eouhl. When tlie doctor called, the mother, before admitting him to the chamber of the "paralytic," would immerse Miss Fannie's limbs in cold water, and as soon as they we re half frozen she was put to bed and the doctor called in. lie found her limbs icy cold, as they should be if really paralyzed. On his final visit, however, he ft ir vi Tin: "pakalttic" takes exekcise. amused himself for a few moments jab bing pins into them, but Miss Fannie had been schooled to stand this sort of thing since childhood and never winced. When the doctor raised one of her legs a look of consternation overspread the young woman's face. What should she do? No doctor had ever raised her leg before. It was not in the program. The leg remained raised and the doctor smiled, while the mother swore. A few hours later the place was pulled and Miss Fannie sprang out of bol. The women objected seriously to being taken into custody, and loudly protested their innocence, but they were quieted down a trille when the peep-hole in the ceiling was pointed out to them. They were taken to the police station, where they broke down and made a complete confession. The Kev. W. P. Hurrison, D. D.. is dead at Columbus, Ga. He was for m.my years stationed at Nashville ns the book editor of the Quarterly Uevlew of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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ISAAC P. GRATIS DEAD

PNEUMONIA KILLS OUR MINISTER TO MEXICO. Contracted on a Trip to V" ashiristoiitiocs to His Post Ill-liil!iii:iu Conductor Fiiuls llim Unconscious Kiid Comes in n Few Hours. Citizen, Soldier, and Parly IvCadcr. Fr.it d States Minister Isaac V. (I ray db-d at the City of M;o at 7:'ö Thursday evening. Minister (Iray had jut rtuiiicl from a trip to Washington with A severe case of pneumonia. A I'oilin.ui car conductor foijnd him unconscious. 1I" was carried from tle train on a stretcher to the American Ib-spital. Ir. Kray informed Mrs. Cray that h" could not live the day tut. 1!- remained küchiisIous until tlie tim of his death. Conul-ticn.. oral Crittenden remain d with him during the day. Col. Cray had boon ill all the way from St. Louis to the City of Meie . First New at V.'nshington. The tirt intimation at Vnhimrton of I tiie condition ol Mini.-ter !r-?y came in the following disp:it.-!i to the St::t" department fn.m Mr. Hr.tler. charge d' affaires in the Auurican L gali :i at the City of Mexico; "Minister Cray arrived !, -re very ill with doulJe piieumoni.!, and is still unCoUciows." The news of tlie death of Minister Cray was received with sincere expressions of regret. II- was in Washington recently, having gone there at the commencement Isaac r. okay. of the recent trouble between Mexico and Cuatemala and consulted with the President and Secretary of State as to the best means of preventing war between the two countries. "Was in Chicajgo Monday. Pierre Cray, son of the dead minister to Mexico, said to a reporter at Indianapolis: 'Tather started to the City of Mexico from Chicago Monday morning. He had been in Washington a short time a week or so before he left here to return to hia post of duty, and had caught cold, his trip being in the coldest kind of weather. Uut he took some medicine and when he left he was in a fair state of health. He wired us from Chicago, and the next day we received a letter from him. but he did not say that he was at all ill. He went over the Wabash road direct to Laredo, Mex., without change of sleeper, going through St. Louis. We heard nothing more of him until a message said a porter had found him unconscious at II o'clock in the morning in his berth. I knew nothing more of the circumstances." Twice Governor of Indiana. Isaac Pusey Cray was horn in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Oct. IS. IS-S. His parents removed to Ohio in 1S.'M. Young Gray received a common school education and early entered on the study of the law. His poverty, however, compelled him to accept a th'rks'iij in n j-jencral sti re at Xew Madison. In 1S." he moved with his family to I'liion City. Ind. In l.St',;2 lie was appointed co!mel of the fourth Indiana Cavalry by Gov. Morton i and organized the One Hundred and I'or-ty-seventh Infantrv in ISdl. In lSi; he i was the candidate for Congress in opposition to George W. .lulian. being defeated by ."00 votes. Two years later ho was elected to the State Senate, where he made himself famous as president of that body by locking the Democratic members in and counting them to obtain trie passage of a ratification of the fifteenth amendment'. lie was offered the consulship to St. Thomas in INTO, but declined ir. Hii connection with the Democratic party dates from 1ST!, when he failed to pt the nomination for Governor from the hands of the Republican party. He was a delegate-at large to the I.iheral Itepubliean convention of lST'J and was appointed by the convention member of the National Committee for Indiana. His name was before the Democratic State convention in 1S7U for Congressman-at-large and in 1S7-1 for Attorney General, but waa withdrawn both times at his request. The State convention of 1S76 nominated him by acclamation for Lieutenant Governor, to which oü'ue he was elected with "Ilhiejeans" Williams, whom he succeeded as Governor on the hitter's death. In he received the compli mentary nomination of the Democratic minority for the United States Senatorship. In ISSt he was elected Governor against William II. Calkins, receiving the nomination by a two-thirds vote of the convention. After his last term as Governor expired he followed the practice of his profession in Indianapolis in partnership with hii son, Pierre Gray, until he was called to the Mexican mission by President Cleveland two years ago. In 1S."V) lie married Miss KU.a .laque, of Darke County. Ohio. They have two children living Pierre, who is a lawyer in Indianapolis, and lhiyard. who has been acting as his father's private secretary in Mexico. Tlie design of tlie American Has wis probably borrow-od fron the family anus of Gen. Washington, which consisted of three stars in the upper portion ami three bars across the escutcheon. I.aeteria are so small that it takes 100,000 of them placed lengthwise to measure an inch. Capo Conception, Cal., was called after one of the vessels lu the fleet of Cortez.

A BRIGHT STAR.

SKETCH OF THE MAN WHO LED MARY ANDERSON TO FAME. Also Played L.cadiii:i Holes with ltooth, Ilnrrctt und Timme, liVo;i the Louis C'uoiiic.) One of the most conspicuous figures in the Stageland of America to-day is John W. Nerton, lljrn in the seventh ward of New York city forty-six years ago, tha frituds cf Wm youth were Thomas W. Keene end Trank Chautrau. We Lad Kene a star at the age cf -7 and Norton in the t'ower of early manhood, the leading man for IMwin llooth at the famous Winter Garden Theater. He was starred with Lawrence I.arrctt early in the '7o's, and alternated the leading roles with Charles Thome at the Variety Theater in New Orleans. Early in the Centennial year, ia Louisville. Norton met our Mary Anderson, then a fair young girl who aspired for ttage fame, took her under his guidance and, as everybody knows, led her to fame. Mr. Norton is now the proprietor of the Grand Opera House in St. Ixmis, the Du tjuesne Theater, Pittsburg, and one of the stockholders iu the American Extravaganza Company. Ot:e afternoon early in June he hobbled into his New York ola.-e on llrondway and encountered his business manager, George McManus, who hud ;?lso been a rheumatic sufferer for two years. Norton was surprised that McManus had discarded his cane. Who cured you': he asked. "I cured mvself," replied McManus, -with Dr. William Pink Pills." T was encouraged by Mr. McManus cure, and as a last resort tried th Pink Pills myself." B:iM Mr. Norton to a Chronicle reporter. "You have known me for live years, and know how I have suffered. Why. (hiring the summer of l'A't I was on my back at the Mull.inr.hy Hospital, in tins city, four weeks. I was put en the old system of dieting, with a iow to clearing those acidulous properties in my blood that medical theorists say is the cause of my i heumatism. I left the hospital feeling stronger, but the tirst damp weather brought with it those excruciating pains in the legs and back. It was the same old trouble. After sitting down for a stretch oi live minutes, the pains screwed my legs into a knot when I arose, and I hobbled as painfully as ever. Alter I had taken my tirst bos of Pink Pills, it struck me that the pains weio less troublesome. 1 tried another box, and I began almost unconsciously to have faith in the Pink Pills. I improved so rapidly tiiat I could rise after sitting at my desk for an hour and the twinges of rheumatism that accompanied my rising wer so mild that I scarcely noticed them. During the past two weeks, we have had much rainy weather i:i St. Louis. I7ut the dampness has not had the slightest effect in bringing back the rheumatism, which 1 consider a suflicient and reliable test of the cllicacy of Pink Pills. I may also say that the Pink Pills have acted as a tonic on my stomach, which I thought was well nigh destroyed by the thousand and one alleged remedies 1 consumed in" the past live years." L,ittle Illiteracy. The general diffusion of elementary education in Havana is evident from the fact that of the i'fVXi recruits for the army levied iu ISO,'?, only six were unable to read and write. In Franco tl.J." per cent, of the recruits of the sanio year did not know the letters of iho alphabet. Who Wins the $:IOO? A novel way to obtain a suitable name for their great, yes. wonderful now oats, has been adopted by the John A. Salzer Seed Co. They offer s:!x for :i name for their new oats; their catalogue tolls all about it. Fanners are enthusiastic over the oat, claiming -V.y bushels can be grown per acre right along. You will want it. Farmers report six tons of hay from Sal.er's Meadow Mixtures; lpj bushels corn per aero in a dry season, and 1,101 bushels potatoes from two acres. If You Will Cut This Out and Scad It with b'e post rise to the John A. Sal.er Seed Co.. La Crosse. Wis., you get free their mammoth catalogue and a package of above .".'X) Prize oats. CNU Itonlieur's Painting. Ilosa F.onhcur's paintings are scatteivd all over the world, and not many galleries have more than one or two specimens. It was therefore noted as a cariosity that at a reeent art exposition at Frankfort -on-t he-Main then wore no fewer than nineteen cf her paintings. Worth Its Weight in Gob!. According to a letter to the Sterling Itemedy Co., of Chicago, from N. P. Düna way, of Wesson, Miss., one box of No-to-bae, which he purchased of his druggist, completely cured him of the tobacco habit. New York, Paris, and P.crlin combined lack forty-two square miles of having as groat an area as London. I'm: Whooping t'omdj. Piso" Cure i a successful remedy. M. P. lu:i s..:. 7 Throop Ave., IhVikUn, N". V.. Nov. II, "Vi. Tlie talented Zimmermann, the author of "Solitude," ended his days in a condition of torpid dementia. Rev. Dr. Parker Is the beloved pastor of the Universalist Cltfirch at Fargo, N. D., and has also Leen a pastor in Providence, New York City and Troy, X. Y. He says: "I regard IIooS's Paraaparilla the best blood purifier, ar.d I have good reason for this opin ion. I am now 80 years of ag Four 3 flicted with rheuma tism in my back aud limbs eo badly that tt was impossible for n e to pot my uual Fleepat nlit. I hal just partially le. ovcred from the grip, which reduced ruy right 4' lbs. My W.I w -V a i n -a appetite wa iHor, ui.I . ' IJXu 4,1,1 weck. In fa act. 1t. J. N. Iirk.tr 1. . I js in a very di'izo. -N..-. ix; Matvi cotvlitioa. ilivir.i teard and read so much about the wenlcrf ul c-urcs proJnwHl by llood' Sarxapar ill I resolved to Ive it a trial. I followed the direclions. and before the fifth bottle watflnHood'sCures ish.-d my appetite was restored. I felt intijroiated and ptroag. My rheumatic difficulty had entiicly disappeared. I cannot but think verr highly of Ilood'i Sarsaparill" J, N. Tibiir. Hood's Pills are th best family cat hart lo and liver medicine Harmless, reliable, iure.

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