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BLAISE'S BATTLE LOST. Death Claims the Famous Diplomat, END OF THE STRUGGLE. AMERICA MOURNS HER BRILLIANT STATESMAN. Story of the Life and Achievements of the Son of Pennsylvania—His Prominence in Maine and National Politics—The Peer of the World’s Greatest Political Students—Story of His Brave Fight for Life. Will Live in History. Blaine is dead. The end of h : 3 long Illness has been reached, and his struggle for existence, so heroically made, has come to its inevitable conclusion. James G. Blaine, the brilliant Republican leader in Congress and for three terms Speaker of the House of Representatives, then a member of the Senate for the State of Maine, subsequently Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Garfield, and the man to whom the nation turned with the greatest confidence in the gloomy weeks that intervened between the shooting and the death of Garfield, next the nominee of the Republicans for President of the United States, and again Secretary of State from March 4, 1889, to June 4, 1891, has passed to the beyond. Mr. Blaine’s illness first took a serious turn in the summer of 1891, after a period of intense mental labor incident to the seizure of the Chilian steamer Itata and the preliminary negotiations regarding the Behring Sea controversy. Mr. Blaine relinquished the active direction of the State Department until early last spring, when he returned to Washington still in an enfeebled condition. He resumed his official duties, however, and in their performance displayed something of his old force. He had, however, several spells of severe indisposition, once being attacked while at a public dinner from which he had to be conveyed to his home very much prostrated. During early winter the dispatches made frequent reference to Mr. Blaine’s condition, but until recently these references were of a general and indefinite nature, the only fact apparent being that he was not as well as he had been during the summer. Two months ago, after having kept to his room for a week or more, he went out for a drive. The day was cold and a chill was the natural result to one in his debilitated condition. In spite of the family’s aversion to and efforts to avoid publicity in the matter, it came to be generally understood that there was practically no hope of Mr. Blaine’s recovery, and that his death might occur at any time. ■ Aaa Organic

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from any authoritative bourse, however, that Mr. Blaiue was suffering from an organic disease. In all of Mr. Blaine’s previous illnesses it has been denied ' that the sufferer was afflicted in any way that permanently affected his system, and it has been always asserted by those in a position to know that his ailments were due to temporary causes and local conditions which yielded readily to medical treatment. The careful concealment of the real condition of Mr. Blaine’s health both by the family and the physicians in attendance induced the general public to believe that he would get well, and the rallies that the naturally vigorous constitution of the invalid had made from all former attacks led most of his friends to expect his recovery upon this as upon all previous occasions. On the morning of Dec. 18 he had a slight attack of hemorrhage of the lungs, resulting, it is claimed, from the severe cold, and this was followed by a sinking spell, such as afflicted him during his Bar Harbor sickness and upon the occasion of his serious illness in New 'York some time ago. So severe 1 and so prolonged was this attacK that I It was believed Mr. Blaine was dying. It continued until 1 o’clock, and at that ] hour the patient, apparently in his last earthly moments, was surrounded by his family. It was believed even by the I : I ■ * v WfiL z' WHERE BLAINE DIED. & physicians present that he was dy Ing, and the family, giving up all hope gathered for the final farewell. Bud

denly he rallied, and within half an hour he was apparently much better. The cause of these sinking spells or spasms has always been mysteriously kept secret by the physicians and family, though the public and press have frequently attributed them to Bright’s disease of the kidneys; at other times brain trouble was alleged, but the most frequent conclusion was that Mr. Blaine was suffering from kidney disease of some sort. It is now asserted that the disease which has so long and so insidiously undermined his constitution and destroyed his health is what is known as waxy degeneration of the kidneys. To its ravages is attributed the general break-down of his physical system, his remarkable pallor during the past few years, and his occasional attacks of illness marked by severe fainting spells. The following day Mr. Blaine seemed to be considerably better. He sat up up for a short time and talked with members of the family in a very cheerful frame of mind. The sinking spell of the previous day seemed to have lost its effect, and the reaction apparently left the invalid stronger than before. From this time until the end came little remains to be told concerning the great statesman’s illness. For nearly another month he lingered on the very brink of the grave. The ablest physicians were almost continuously at his bedside, buttheir attendance was of no avail other than to make restful the suf-

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ferer’s last days, for it was well known that he was beyond the aid of medical skill. It was a constant struggle with 4vath and grim, unconquerable death was the victor. — —— Breathes His Last The end came at 11 o’clock Friday morning. Surrounded by his sorrowing wife and family he ceased to live, and the soul of one of the greatest statesmen the world ever knew passed beyond the veil and made its entry into the realm of the unknown. Throughout Thursday night the end was hourly expected, but the man who had achieved so much in his life seemed j ready to give death a battle, be it short i and against him. The devoted physicians remained until the end. Ready to administer any stimulant that would extend his life, they found themselves baffied by the insidious disease. When the extraordinary strength of will ' Mr. Blaine has shown began to suc11 Im uILp 5 Im IMh. jfU u Mil I xivTllrS I

BURIAL PLACE OF BLAINE’S PARENTS. cumb to coma, the last of fatal symptoms to manifest itself, efforts became hopeless. Nothing but the original vigor of Mr. Blaine’s constitution and his powers of vitality protracted his life so long. As is usual in such cases, he passed away peacefully as one sinking into a profound sleep. Little by little the poison crept through his brain, benumbing his faculties, j It was only by constant watching for I the cessation of the breath and the stop- j ping of the enfeebled heart that the mo- | ment of death could be determined. To those who were with him at the ! last he was unable to give any sign of recognition at the end. Shortly before sinking into the fatal and final sleep the change of expression of his eyes showed that he recognized Mrs. Blaine and the physicians. But he was unable to give any further sign. CAREER OF JAMES G. BLAINE. Striking Features of the Else of the Famous American Statesman. James Gillespie Blaine, second son of Eph- - ralm D. and Maria Gillespie Blaine, was - ! born at the Indian HU; Farm, Washington I County, Pennsylvania, Jan. 31,1830. The old » I stone house in which he was born was the first - j structure of the kind ever erected west of the

Monongahela River. It was built by the ar^f grandfather of Mrs. Gillespie Blaine m mV now stand 3 within the city limits ni B est Brownsville. y 01 From his father the son inherited the hardv energetic qualities of a Scotch-Irish ancestry' Ephraim Blaine, his great-grHndfathcr Commissary General of the 8 American vi°” 11778 7° * be fl° 3e °f the revolution in 178^ This great-grandfather was poss, ssed of amr^J S’ the ^Ving times c? depHv; 8 the continental army was materiall}' aided from his private purse. 7 1 hegiandfatlier for whom voung Blaine was fl » St F b i 8 ® 11 P° lltic al career. 1 protracted stay in Europe, after he had finish,m hL 8 ?^ 8, e » tran ßCd him from his early ano bition. He returned to America in 1793 and as a special bearer of dispatches, delivered to the American Government a treaty with some Af ?’r ard b ® retired to prime lite, the father of James G. Blaine was born ln 1818 heremoved Ho . “Aniston County. He had Inherited considerable wealth, ami owned landed pronertv in the western part of the State These lands however, had not been developed, and a larJe H-’Vh^diid l r a t 5 upon ilis means. In j lie aeedt-d to the Economites a tract of land now occupied by the site of Philadelphia snnS r aa ^’ slace fouudrlch in minerals, were sold for almost nothing Mr. Blaine’s mother m BtrOa< character and superior Intelligence. She was a devout Catholic but the son adhered to the Presbyterian convictions of his paternal ancestry. The son James received every advantage of education. In 1842 Mr. Blaines father was of the County Court of B ashington County. The father was then in poor circumstances ami his removal to the county seat enabled him to send the son to college. James entered the freshman class of B ashington C ollege in November, 1843. At the age of 17 years and 8 months he was graduated in a class of thirty-three, sharing lirst honors with John C. Hervey, who was afterward Superintendent of Public Instruction at B'heel-

Begiuning of His Career. Soon after graduation Mr. Blaine became a teacher in the Western Military Institute at Blue Lick. Ky. Here he met Miss Harriet • UiTi?.'- 1 ' 1 . 1 , of Miss Stanwood w»* " lersburg 1 . aioi th -t wo T . *"•! . s- *5 j married. Mr. Blaine returned with ills w if/to Pdnnsylvania and became a teacher in the lastitute for the Blind at Philadelphia, instmetkn was chiefly oral an i the young teacher was given charge of the higher class in literature and science. For two years Mr. Blaine was associated with the school. In 1854 he moved to Augusta. Me., where he has siace made his home. Ho purchased a half interest in the Kennebec Journal and became its editor. He ha 1 a ready faculty for the work, and within three years was a master spirit in Stale politics. He engaged ardently lu the formation of the ' Republican par’y. In Kai he was a delegate t > the first national convention of the Republican party which nominated John C. Fremont for the Presidency, it was shortly afterward, at a public meeting, when he first claimed attention as a public speaker. At this meeting he rendered an official report, stammering in confusion at the outset. But as ho proceeded I he gained confidence and wound up in a manner which called attention to him as a public orator. In K>7 he broadened his newspaper field by assuming the editorship of the Portland Advertiser. His political genius, however, had eclipsed the journalist within him. In 1858 he was elected to the State Legislature and was afterward successively chosen f r four years. The last two years in the Home he served that body as Speaker. At the beginning of the civil war Mr. Blaine gained distinction In the debates which grew out of that crisis. At the time of his election to the Legislature he was made Chairman of the Repu!>lican State Committee, r.nd for twenty years h? held that office. Paring this time he led and shaped every political campaign In tie State of Maine, lie was elected to Congress in 1862 and for a period of eighteen years he was a member of one or the other houses cf Congress. His growth in political strength and influence was rapid as it was unbroken. During his first term in Congress he made only one extended speech. This was an argument in favor of the assumption of the State war debts by the general government and contending that the North was able to carry on the war to a final conclusion. He broadened In this argumentative field, however, and gained a reputation as an effective debater. His Career in Congress. : His career in the National Congress was an eventful one. His antagonism to the Stevens reconstruction bill in 1867 created a stir in the nation, and after a seeming defeat his amendment modifying this proposed military law' in the South was carried through both House and Senate. In 1869 Mr. Blaine was elected Speaker of the House, acting in that capacity for six successive years. His career 4n the House has always been regarded as exception- ‘ nllv brilliant. The political revulsion if 1^74 I placed the Democracy in power in thelßouse amt Mr. Blaine became the leader of "ifte Rei publican minority. Preceding the I’rMtdeutial contest of 1876 the session of thenßouse was a stormy one, and in the general am-

nesty bill, removing the disabilities of rfartlcipants in the rebellion. Mr. Blaine stood up for an exception in the case of Jefferson Davis. One of his most notable speeches VW's made at this time under the spur of opposition from Mr. Hill, of Georgia. In 1376 he was called upon to defend his do litical character against charges of briberv from the Union Pacific and other railroad con? panies. The Mulhgan letters were produced and tne stormy scenes of May and June of that UM - * - 1 ’'AX blaine's bar harbor home. year followed. JunrrMLBUmTTDinR to a personal expiation, denied the right of congress to compel the production Os his private papers. He expressed his willingness to stand ' any examination, and having possessed himself i of these letters he declared his purpose to re- ; serve nothing. He stood up in th. house hold--1 in ? t* lo letters in hts hand. "Thank God,” : h ?’ .J am no ‘ ashamed to show them. * There is the very original package And, with

Botne «snsA of humiliation, with a znortiticM L do not attempt to conceal, with a sensa °. f ° ut tage. which, I think, any man in my powould feel, I invito the confidence of . OUr millions of my countrymen while I read these letters from this desk.” this time Josiah Caldwell, one of the originators of the Little Rock and Fort Smittr wa3 tr »Y«ling in Europe, and efforts naa been made at Mr. Blaine’s suggestion tol len? h «’ telegraph. After reading these letters Mr. Blaine turned to the Chairman ofi mt. investigating Committee and demanded to 1. 'Kt HIS lIRST SCHOOL DAYS WERE SPENT. Nr°^d4veri aI TFT r A ad f been reo ® lv e<i from evasive " eU- I‘ ie Chairman returned an h| m, 'chSlng r T^ be ”^ lr ' P? aine turned upon that the ">thin his own knowledge patch “nAil il? 11 ! 811 had received such a disfrom tMi'pU y aUd “baolutely exonerating it ” Os h, l / 8 ^arse- ail( I you have suppressed that it A 8 sc®5 c ®> a ° t* ene ral Garfield once said C^gie B ^ eeded had ever seen in y'* A * “ Candidate for President. tion^<Vmv B tH\V in m> of the Republican Nahad J 1 .. rhe Previous Sunday ho ,lcat ' a" 11 fears were howevel n m b s ß J n tho convention, Xf , ' hls f rlends ‘•food Arm. On the first ~.“e r eceived 285 votes out of the total of Ato remainder were divided between Sen^eeretarv Bristow. Senator Conkot>>ers. On the seventh combination , jS^^Miter'ed the Senate some months iKs " Again in isso bis friends of four years uemegtood by him in the national convcntia* M?he first vote stood: Grant, 3<>4; Blaine, -’B4; Sennan, w; Edmunds, 34; B’ashburne, 30; Windom, I<\ and Garfield. 1. On the final bal« loMowerer, the Blaine forces united on Garwho was nominated. After hls election HKiaine was made Secretary of State. He wain the Cabinet ten months. After Garfießs death Mr. Blaine retired from the Cabtv/eft On hls retirement he was for the first tint in twenty-three years out of publio Btsipn. He took up his well-known htsto^al work, "Twenty Years of CongHR," and issued the first volume in January, issi. In tills year ho was agfei before the Republican Convention for tfiniomination to the Presidency. On the fe-wli ballot he received 541 of the 813 votes anflwas nominated. President Arthur was hurchief competitor. This campaign was a ujlMarlr bitter one. The result hinged upon Nee York, which went Democratic and elected Omer Cleveland. He returned at once to bls histbry and completed the second volume in Met he traveled extensively in Europe, hls beah being much broken. At the time of the Rttblican Conventb n in lass be refused to acw>f>t Ilie nomination, cabling from Scotland to the Chicago gathering to that effect. Several months earlier he had written a letter refusing tobe considered a candidate. As Secretary of State. He worked for the success of Mr. Harrison in the succeeding campaign and at the begining of the present national administration he ettered the President's Cabinet as Secretary of State. His distinguished career in that । ositton is well remembered. The Pan-American Congress, the reciprocity treaties, and other striking incident*, rendered his work remarkaUe. Owing to personal differences with th« President he resigned hi* position in the Cabinet a few days bef< ra the meeting of the Nation Convention of bl* party. Though a short time before he l.ad declined in set. terms to be a Candi dale before the convention he permitted his friends to use lii* name. <>n the first ballot, however. I’resi lent Harn-on was renominated. Though in bad health Mr. Blains wrote a letter and made a speech for bls party during the campaign lately closed. HOME LIFE OF THE BLAINES.

An Almost Ideal Happy Household Until Dentil Entered Two Years Aro. “jKhbhome life of the Blame family a l clO3 t au ideal one. At

^^jr h uss charin ing places 1 to 1 it. Mrs. J'laine was a \ gra lou.s hostess, un- ‘ bending from her cusj tomary reserve at her : ’Jowii fireside, where her ' J i haracter was seen at ■ >1 its best. There can be ' I no question that the i I phases o' social lite 1 devolving upon Mrs. । Blaine from the outset i of her husband’s political career have not been altogether pleasant to her. The obligations of her position have been discharged as a ■». duty in which personal j enjoyment had no

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blaine at 10. part. Mrs. Blaiue is eminently domestic m hA tastes, I and up" to the beginning of the I j resent administration, when her husband was appointed a member of the cabinet, she not only personally suMRS. BLAINE. perintended the housekeeping, but went to market to select the fowls, meat,and vegetables used in the household. Since the death of her son Walker, January 15, 1890, Mrs. Blaine has taken no part in either official or resident society gatherings. Mrs. Blaine has been the mother of seven children, only one of whom, her oldest, Stanwood, died in childhood. The others are Emmons, Walker, Alice, •James G., Jr., Margaret and Harriet. Mrs. Blaine has been a most devoted mother to her children, receiving from them the most extravagant devotion In return for her years of unselfish care. In appearance Mrs. Blaine is pleasing, rather tall, and in figure is inclined to stoutness. Her hair is changing rapidly from gray to white, and is always well and tastefully arranged. Unconsciousness, unworldliness, unselfishness, and truthfulness, a power to make those who know her enthusiastically devoted to her, an industry almost, limitless in its accomplishment, cheerfiulness which never fails in the darkest crisis, and frankness —these are the characteristics of the woman who, though so little known in her own personality, has reflected in her husband's brilliant successes the strength and nobility of her life.

REIGN OF KING COTTON. Ahy It Became Supreme in the South Immediately After the War. I romising as was the industrial advance of the South prior to the war it was in its agriculture that the chief interests of the people were centered says the Engineering Magazine. Hore was displayed an energy as great as inat which opened up to civilization tne vast prairies ot the West; here was a well-rounded growth which Hcither the South nor any other part oi the country has been able to duplicate since the war. Cotton was indeed king, but it was not such an absolute monarch as it has been since nor as grain has been in the Most. Instead of being the main crop of the South.it was largely a surplus crop. The South did not tnen have its '‘smokehouse and corn crip in the West”—this was one of the disasters of the war—but it produced its own corn, wheat and bacon. The Bar changed these conditions. It left such universal poverty that men were compelled to grow cotton alone, b?causj the crop could be mortgaged before it was planted for enough at least to secure a bare living for the planter while he waited for it to mature On no other crop could advances be secured in this way. When the crop had been gathered and turned over to th ‘ merchant who had been • carrying” him, and out of its an •.ihAui.u.H ...... commissions — had bceu paid, the farmer had nothing loft. As the next season came around he was again compelled to mortgage his crop in advance to the man to whom he was already in debt. It was “a condition and not a theory” that confronted the farmers of the South and necessarily it has taken years for them to gradually work out of it. Moreover, the Negroes, “intoxicated witli freedom,” had many hard lessons to learn. While they had nothing in the world on which to start, they we e Unanciallyabout as well oil as their late masters, for. at least. the\ had no debts to incumber th. m for years to come. Cotton was the easiest crop for them to cultivate, and so they all began to grow cotton, buying Western corn and bacon oner dit from the merchant who had’ a mortgage on t heircotton before the ground was plowed for its planting. W >rking on snares that is. paving a part ot the crop for the rent of the land they c iltivated—and moving about frequently, they had no inducement t<> try to improve the soil. So. while the aggregate acreage annually increased, the total production of the South's crops roll far -hurt of the yield per capita betwven b'>o and Dto.

PASSING OF THE WHITEFISH. Any Now Caught on the >«e>t bhlv o! L ike Mirhi^nn. Ih usekeepers have noted the scarcity of whildlsh, by alioddstbe best (Dli obtains 1 from the lake. ?a s the Milwaukee Sentinel. Hardly any are brou‘lit into this market although ti-.li catcli^'flWVulll 'llli mi tiiiMiin the lake and is hardly counte I in tLi statistics. Half the catch of our i iishcrni 'ii is lake trout and the other half “blue herring,” not more than one fish in every Inmdrcd being a whiteti-h. In giving to aShet ovan jr urt.al his opinion < f the cau~es of the disappearan • oi the much valued white-ti-h, Commissioner Whalen says: I “The deman 1 for whiteti-h has b?en great tor years and to supply this demand the fishermen have been catching big and little fish, notallowing them to spawn. Another thing. | the deposit of garbage by the city of Milwaukee in the lake has driven , the whitefish away from these shores. They seem to be the most dainty of the finnv tribe, and anything which tends to interfere with the cleanliness of the water drives them away. Take this in connection with the immense ; amount of sewage which is poured I into the lake 1 y the great cities alo .g | the >hore, and you can readily understand why the whitefish are no , longer with the fishermen here as elsewhere along the lower Michigan i shore. On the north Michigan coast, | near Manistique, the whitefish are । gradually increasing. There are hopes, with c mtinued h itching and : depositing of whitefish in the lakes by the State authorities, they may again 1 e ome sut'i iently numerous to make it worth the while of a fisherman in these waters to look for them. The suggestion that the enormo rs deposit oi garbage in the lake has had something to do with the fact that near this bay no whitefish a e found seems to he n asonable. More than one person has suggeste I that it is a question whether all the garbage of the city finds its way, even now. to the crematory. At all events, the experience we have had ought to make any official sanction of the deposit of garbage in the lake imp >ssible for all time. Queer < rows in New Zealand. Sir John Lubbock tells of a particular crow in New Zealand where the male an i female differ widely as to the structure of their bills. The male bird has a bill, stout and strong, adapted to cutting and digging into the tree, but he is deficient in that horny-pointed tongue which would permit him to pierce the grub and draw it out. The hen bird lias however. an elongated and straight bill, “and when the cock has dug down to the burrow the hen inserts her long bill and draws out the erub, which they divide between them.”— Philadelphia Record. .Since you can't guard your neighbor’s tongue, put a check on it by guarding what you pour into his ears.

Provisions for a Siege. s overn ment in conjunos ? n aJ 1 11? 1 the Pari9 municipality, ara coLSidenng a scheme for the erection or stores for preserving supplies of frozen meat, to be used in case of anpyiß in time ° r war a and twent y tons of meat a this rate, all the flocks of sheep and herds of oxen that could be brought together at the last moment would lasti fiM a i e Y and it might be impossible to feed them. The stores about to be erected will contain, even in time of peace, a large supply of meat, and immediately upon a declaration of war will receix’e thirtv thousand tons of beef and mutton. Thia represents fifty days’ full rations, or one hundred days’ half rations. The forts around Paris have sufficient food to last three years. No war is likely to last this length of time. Au Expert'* Opinion. Cur readers have doubtless notice! the numerous discussions by the scientists and hygienists as to the relative value of the various baking powders. A careful sifting of the evidence leaves no rtoubt as to the superiority of the Royal Baking Powder in purity, wholesomenesa ai.d strength, from a scientifio 6 oln t’ An opinion, however, thah will have perhaps greater influence with, our practical housekeepers, is that given by Marion Harland, the well-known and popular writer upon matters pertaining to the science ot domestic economy ot housekeeping, and of homo cooking In a letter published in the Philadelphia Ladles Lome Journal, this writer says* I regard the Royal Baking Powder ai IRS introduction of it into my kitchen I hava used no other in making biscuits, cakes, etc., and have entirely discarded for such purposes the home-made combination of one-third soda, two-thirds creanjof tartar. “Every box has been in perfect condition when it came into my hands, and the contents have given complete satisfaction, It is an act of simple justice, and also a pleasure, to recommend it unqualifiedly to American housewives, “Mabion Harland." PhiloopliicaL An old schoolmaster, a venerable disciple of “good old Izaak B alton,” once t '.d this pleasing tale of his life as an angler. I remember, when I was a boy, going out one moming before sunrise to fish for pickerel. I had just hooked a big one, when along came a countryman. He said nothing, but with mouth wide open, stopped to see the fun. The contest had lasted more than half an hour, when suddenly, just as I was about to land the prize, the pickerel, with one last rush for liberty, made good his escape. With a lump in my throat, I instinctively turned to the countryman for consolation. “Waal, I’ll be hanged!” he exclaimed. ‘Yew held on ter yoor end. young feller, but he didn’t hold outer his’n!”

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Heavily Freighted. Trailing skirts for street use seem to be coming into vogue again, and the New York Tribune makes a patriotic attempt to stem the tide by printing a list of the articles which such a train collected in a walk down town: 2 cigar ends. 9 cigarette do. A part of a pork-pie. 7 hairpins. 4 toothpicks. 1 stem of a clay pipe. 3 fragments of orange-peel. 1 slice of cat’s-meat. Half the sole of a boot. 1 plug of chewed tobacco. Straw, mud, scraps of paper, and miscellaneous street refuse, ad libitum. Pain Self-Inflicted. Thia Is supposed to be an age of enlightenment. Yet the half-c . ilized persistence with which hosts of people keep dosing themselves on small occasion argues a blind credulity characteristic of the dark ages. Constipation has a myriad or alleged curatives, which in a nauseous dose merely evacuate the bowels—this operation being preceded by pain and followed by weakness—the latter an effect of their excessive, violent action. Podyphyllin, aloes, gamboge embodied in the form of pills, bluemass, calomel—these are among the violent medicaments for which should be substituted Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the finest, most genial laxative extant, never griping, and resembling in its action an effort of naturs in her happiest mood. This benign ani thorough medicine is also an antidote to malaria and rheumatism, gives strength to the system, renders digestion perfect, and regulates ths kidneys and bladder. Oregon Horticulture. The State of Oregon has thirty-six nurseries, covering about 1,576 acres and containing about 9,00\000 young trees, and orchardists have upward of 100,000 acres of growing trees. Onehalf of this acreage is in prunes, onefourth in apples, one-tenth in pears, and the remainder in various kinds of fruits. Asthmatic Troubles, Pleurisy Pains, and Inflamed Throats are overcome and healed by Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant—for i fifty years an approved stand-by for ail Coughs and Colds. Kicking a horse Is a poor way ts make a friend of him.