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GUARDING THE COAST. Work Performed by the United States Life-Saving Service on Ocean, Lake and River. The work of the life-saving service of the country during the past year has been so creditable as to be highly to the governmental officials here. There have been fewer dis asters nnd more lives saved on the coast in the last year than ever before in tho history of the country. With out question the life-saving service of the United States is the superior of that of any Nation in the world. This is demonstrated every day. Many stories are told, and many novels written of the hardy and sturdy Volunteer life savers of England, but these veterans do not compare with the trained, brave life crews of our own country. During the fiscal year 1695-’96 there ■were 4620 disasters on the coasts of the British isles. Despite the efforts of the life savers 458 lives were lost. Along the immense coast of this country, including also the great lakes, there were, during the same period, 680 disasters and only twenty lives lost. The figures of rescues are not given, but the lives saved by American life savers are far in excess of the number saved by the English. There are 25G life-saving stations in ihi? country. Of these fifty-five are on the lakes. There are only fourteen stations on the Paoific coasts and these do comparatively little work. Few disasters are credited to this coast. The Cape Cod district of this country is the worst of any section, furnishing more disasters than the same stretch of any other part of the United States. From the eastern extremity of the coast of Maine to Race Point on Cape Cod, a distance of 415 miles, there are but sixteen stations, ten of these be ing located at the most dangerous points on the coast of Maine and New' Hampshire, which, although abound ing with rugged headlands, islets, THE SURF BOAT. rocks, reefs and Intricate channels that would naturally appear to be replete with dangers, are provided with nu merous harbors and places of shelter in which, upon short notice, vessels an take refuge. The portion of the Massachusetts coast included, al though less favored with safe resorts, ienjoys the excellent guardianship of the Massachusetts Humane Society— a venerable institution, operating un der the volunteer system. On account of this protection, the general govern ment has deemed it proper to place its stations within this territory only at points where wrecks are unusually fre quent; at least, until other dangerous parts of the coast shall have been pro vided for. The life-saving stations upon the ocean beaches are generally situated among the low sand-hills common to such localities, sufficiently back of high-water mark to be safe from the re*ch of storm tides. They are plain structures, designed to serve as bar racks for the crews and to afford con venient storage for the boats and ap paratus. Most of those upon the Long Island and New Jersey coasts have been enlarged from the boat houses put up to shelter the boats and equip ments provided for the use of volun teers before regular crews were em ployed. Those built later are more comely in appearance, while a few, located conspicuously at popular sea side resorts, make some pretensions to architectural taste. They are all desig nated by names indicating their locali ties. In the majority of stations the first floor is divided into four rooms —a boat room, a mess room (also serving lor a sitting room for the men), a keeper’s room and a store room. Wide, double-leafed doors and a sloping plat form extending from the sills to the ground permit the running out of the heavier equipments from the building. The second-story contains two rooms; one is the sleeping room of the men, the other has spare cots for people, and is also used for storage. The more commodious stations have two additional rooms —a square room find a kitchen. In localities where good water cannot be otherwise ob- THE MOTtTAH. tained cisterns are provided for water -taught from the roof. There sur anounts every station a lookout or ob servatory, in which a day watch is kept. The roofs upon the stations on those portions of the coast exposed to view from the sea are usually painted dark red, which makes them dis tinguishable a long distance off shore. They are also marked by a fiagstall' sixty feet high, used in signaling pass ing vessels by the international code. The stations (other than the house of refuge) are generally equipped with two surf boats (supplied with oars, life boat compass and other outfits), a boat carriage, two sets of breeches buoy apparatus (including a Lyle gun and accessories), a cart for tho trans portation of the apparatus, a life-ear, twenty cork jackets, two heaving sticks, a dozen Coston signals, a dozen sig nal rockets, a set of the signal flags of the international code, a medicine chest w'ith contents, a baromoter, a thermometer, patrol lanterns, patrol cheeks or patroi clocks, the requisite furniture for rude housekeeping by the crew and for the succor of rescued peo ple, fuel and oil, tools for the repair of the boats and apparatus and for minor repairs to the buildings, and the necessary books and stationery. At some of the stations the Hunt gun and projectiles are supplied, and at a few the Cunningham rocket apparatus. To facilitate the transportation of boats and apparatus to scenes of ship u’reck a pair of horses is also provided at stations where they cannot be hired, and to those stations where the sup plies, mails, etc., have to be brought by water, a supply boat is furnished. All the stations on the ocean coast of Long Island, tweuty-niuo stations on the coast of New' Jersey, nine sta tions on the coast between Cape Hen lopen and Cape Charles, and all the stations between Cape Henry and Hat teras inlet are connected by telephone lines. The station buildings upon the coast are all constructed with a view to with stand the severest tempests. Those located—as many necessarily are— where they are liable to be undermined or swept from their positions by the ravages of storms and tidal waves, are so strongly put together that they may be overthrown and sustain but trifling injury. There are instances on record where they have been carried a long distance inland—in one case a half a mile—without sustaining material damage. This substantial construc tion also enables them to be easily and cheaply moved when threatened by the gradual encroachment of the sea, which, upon many sections of the coast, effects in the course of years great changes in the configuration of the coast line. At Louisville, Ky., are dangerous falls in the Ohio Kiver, across which a dam has been constructed. Naviga tion there is dangerous, and a station is established. The floating station at Louisville is a scow-shaped hull, on which is a house of two stories, sur mounted by a lookout. Besides the housekeeping furniture there are but few equipments; tw-o boats, called life skiffs, and two reels, each with a ca pacity to hold a coil of five-inch man illu rope, and so placed in the boat room that a boat can be speedily run out from either, or, if desired, that THE BREECHES BUOY. they can be run out of tlte boat room, with the lines upon them, for use else where. The station is usually moored above the dam at a place which will afford the readiest access to boats meeting with accident, but it can be tottedfrom place to place when neces- as was the case in the i|||g||j|j|b<ls of 1883-’B4, when it was service iu rescuing W from the upper stories and roofs of their inuudated dwellings, and in distributing food to the famish ing. On these two calamitous occa sions the crew of this station rescued and took to places of safety over 800 imperiled persons—men, women and children—among them many sick and infirm—and supplied food and other necessities to more than 10,000. The number of men composing tbe crew of a station is determined by the number of oars required to pull the largest boat belonging to it. There are some five-oared boats in the At lantic stations, but at all of them there is at least one of six oars. Six men, therefore, make up the regular crews of these stations, but a seventh man is added on the first of December, so that during the most rigorous portion of the season a man may be left ashore to assist in the launching and Reach ing of the boat and to see that the sta tion is properly prepared for the com fortable reception of his comrades and the rescued people they bring with them on their return from a wreck; also to aid in doing the extra work that severe weather necessitates. Where the self-righting and self-bail ing boat, which pulls eight oars, is I used, mostly at the lake stations, a corresponding number of men is em ployed. The crews are selected by the keep ers from able-bodied and experienced sWrfmen residing in the vioinity of the respective stations, Each station has a keeper who has direct control of all its affairs. The position held by this officer w ill be recognized at ouce as one of the most important in the service. Ho is, tlierefore, selected with the greatest care. The indispensable qualifica tions for appointment are that ho shall be of good character and habits, not less than twenty-one nor more than forty-five years of age; have sufficient education to be able to transact the sta tion business; be able-bodied, physi cally sound, and a master of boat-craft and surfing. Upon original entry into the service a surfman must not he over forty-five years of age, and sound in body, being subjected to a rigid physical examina tion ns to expertness in the manage ment of boats and matters of that character by the inspector of the dis trict. Only Nine Years Old and Swam tlic Ten- Lizzie Hagar, aged nino, is now tho prido of Hill City, near Chattanooga, Teun. She swam the Tennessee River yrffir 1 1 |jjj‘ LIZZIE IIAGAR. one day recently. At the point where the feat was performed the river is three-fourths of a mile wide, and she was in the water nearly half an hour. The feat was made more remarkable for so young a swimmer by the fact that she accomplished it without rest ing, and almost wholly by straightfor ward swimming. She changed her position by floating occasionally, but she kept on progressing. The feat was performed on a wager made by her father that she could ac complish it. He followed close in her wake in a skiff, so as to be on hand if she took swimmer’s cramp or met with any accident. Lizzie learned to dive and swim before she was seven years old, and is never happier than when indulging in her favorite pastime. “Pa’s” Orders. A ludicrous episode of the Civil War is told in a Southern paper: During the early months of the war a certain brigade was being drilled in Virginia. Brigadier-General —— was a Louisianian, and his son, also of that State, was his Adjutant. The General’s voice was not as strong as it might have been, and his son often re peated his orders for him. On the occasion in question the brigade was marching in fours, and the Brigadier- General gave the order, “Head of the column to the left.” His son, the Ad jutant, dressed to kill, galloped for ward, and when he reached the head of the column shouted in his powerful voice, “Fa says head of the'column to the left.” Discipline had not been perfected then, and what “Pa” wanted very nearly broke up the ranks, hundreds of men laughing as they marched at the Adjutant’s infu sion of domestic relations into mili tary tactics. A Musical Mousetrap^ Acting upon the idea that mice are very sensitive to music a Belgian manu facturer lias substituted a musical mousetrap for the common trap. In stead of baiting the apparatus with a bit of cheqpe or lard the inventor lias hidden in a double bottom a small music box, which plays automatically various popular airs of the country. The mice, lie insists, are drawn irre sistibly toward the music box, and in order to hear better they step into the trap and find themselves prisoners! According to recent Government tests by Lieutenant Vladimiroff, of the Russian Navy, pure caoutchouc should stretch seven times in length without breaking. Five and a half ounces of grapes are required to make one glass of good wine. TRICYCLE PATROL FOR TAKING PRISONERS TO THE POLICE STATION, It is in active use by the Dayton (Ohio police department, and affords a quick and j convenient method of handlingan arre9t. TINIEST HORSE IN THE WORLD. A Shetland l*ony That l no BiKß*r Than a St. Bernard l)og. The tiniest horse in the world is only twenty-one inches in height, and is the property of the Marchese Car- SMALLEST HOUSE COMPARED WITH A DOO. cano, a celebrated nobleman horse fancier, whose four-in-hand of small Shetland ponies have taken first prizes at every horse fair in Europe for four or five years. The Marchese Carcano told the Rome correspondent of the New York World that he is about to make a tour of the world with his team of Shetland ponies, and will also take with him his smallest horse, Leo, which has won the gold medal at the Milan. Leo, the smallest horse, is a full grown animal which has been reared on the stock farms of the Marchese, and is the surprising result of a num ber of interesting experiments. The smallest Shetland poqies are never un der eight hands high, which is equal to thirty-two inches, and is eleven inches taller than Leo. The latter is no less remarkable for his perfect symmetry than for his minute propor tions. He is a beautiful chestnut, with shaggy tail, which reaches almost to the ground. His neck measures ten inches, and his head from his face is just about six inches. From his fore legs to the hindlegs Leo measures just as much as his height, and his chunky legs are exactly ten inches long. A BrifjTit Retort. Sergeant Harrow once had an archi tect in the witness-box and thus in terogated him: “You are a builder, I believe?” “No, sir, fam not a builder; I am an architect.” “Ah, well, builder or architect; architect or builder; they are pretty much the same, I suppose.” “No, totally different.” “Oh, indeed! Perhaps you will state wherein this great difference consists?” “An architect, sir, conceives the de sign, prepares the plans, draws out the specifications—in short, supplies the mind. The builder is merely the machine; the architect the power that puts the machine together and sets it going.” “Oh, very well, Mr. Architect, that will do. Avery ingenious distinction without a difference. Do you happen to know' who was the architect of the Tower of Babel?” “There was no architect, sir; hence the confusion there.” What Some Plates Cost. The plates that are most popular among multi-millionaires are of Min ton ware. They cost 82740 each. A plate of plain gold costs just about the same sum. They are very handsome, as they well might be at the price. These gems for the tables of the rich have an exquisite painting in the cen tre of each. They are painted by the celebrated Boulliniere, and the de signs are taken from old miniatures. The coloring of these little pictures is simply exquisite, and every tiny detail of the face, hair and costume is worked out w'ith the daintiness of perfection. The picture is surrounded by a lace like pattern in raised acid gold. The edges of the plates are open w'ork in a lace design, decorated with a running pattern in gold. The Binltop and His Bun. The Bishop of Worcester, England, once had occasion to travel through Banbury by rail. Being desirous to test and at the same time to encourage the far-famed industry of that town, and the train having stopped for a short time at the station, he beckoned to a small boy standing near at hand and inquired the price of the cele brated buns. “Threepence each,” said the boy. The Bishop thereupon handed him sixpence and desired him to bring one to the car, adding: “And with the other threepence you may buy one for yourself. ” The boy shortly returned, complacently munching his Banbury, and handing the threepence in coppers to the Bishop, exclaimed: “There was only one left, guv’nor.” — Baptist Union. There is a little corner in kersey cloth this year, one New York house having bought up about the whole available supply. A FORTUNE IN SNAKES. MINNESOTAN WHO CONDUCTS A SUCCESSFUL REPTILE FARM. Clrviifteii His Mainstay—Handles Rattle snake. With Impunity—Ho is a Natural Snake Charmer anti Ills Little Daiigh ter Has Equal Power Snakes’ Food. Along the warm and honeycombed limestone bluffs that line tho quiet Zurnbro River in Minnesota are the homes of snakes by the million, and in the early days of the settlement of tho Northwest there w r ere myriads of all sorts of tho deadly reptiles known to North America to lie found in this neighborhood. To-day there are more snakes caught for circus companies and other buyers here than anywhere else in the country except in some of the lower counties of Florida, All along the Mississippi and tributary streams where snakes are to he found they arc caught for the Rochester farm and sold to O. W. Estes, the bright, keen-eyed young man who runs the snake farm, and who for several years has been making a success of tho ven ture. Mr. Estes also carries on a snake hatchery, something after the manner of a hennery, but considerably more exciting. The eggs produced by liis stock are gathered and laid in the sun ; on the sand, .where, in the coifrse of time they hatch, and there are youngsters fully as lively and venom ous ns their parents. So far this year several hundred have been hatched, and all have thrived on the treatment given them by Mr. Estes and his as sistants. Many of these young snakes are raised for sale and others are used for foed for the king snake and others that eat only their own kind. A chief part of the business of this Minnesota farm is in rattlesnakes, as they are more plentiful than any other variety of the valuable reptiles. All this region used to be overrun with them. A single day’s receipts of diamond backed and other rattlers often runs up to several scores, espe cially when someone or more of the outside catchers for the farm brings in his sacks full and sells them to Mr. Estes. These snakes vary from three to six feet iii length. Among the other varieties received and grown are the spotted adders, blow snakes, the beautiful turtle heads, the sullen bull snakes, the gentle blue racers, the spreading adder, and many kinds of water, grass and water snakes. .They are sold to the leading circus aggrega tions, such vas Barnum’s, Ringling’s, Foropangb’s, Sells’s nnd many others, while the lesser concerns take the less expensive, because less harmful va rieties. Alligators from Florida and crocodiles from abroad, as well as some foreign snakes, are constantly kept in stock for customers. Estes is a natural snake charmer, and never, unless requested by his customer, takes out the fangs of the reptiles in which he deals, nnd to this fact he attributes considerable of tho success he has had in raising them. He will, without fear, fondle a rattler, a bull or an adder, force open its mouth, and with his finger nail deftly expose the poison sacs and fangs. In ail his long experience in this sort of thing he lias never been bitten. His favorite method of capture is to grab the rattler by the tail and dex terously swing him into a sack, but when one is found lying at full length Estes grasps it tightly back of the head. Though he has many assistants among the farmers of his vicinity, there is no other man, in that part of the United States at any rate, who dares to open their jaws with bare hands, as he does fearlessly. His lit tle daughter, Hazel, who is only three years old, seems to have the same power over the reptiles, and can often be seen handling the most deadly snakes and allowing them to twine over her arms and about her neck. So far this year about 600 snakes of the more valuable varieties have been shipped Jrom this farm. Not alone are circuses and menageries customers of Mi 1 . Estes, but many cigar stores and saloons whore the reptiles are dis played as an incentive to custom or a horrible example purchase from the Rochester farm. A few days ago a rattler, six feet long, eight inches in girth and with twenty-six ratties, was sent to a Minneapolis saloon keeper for exhibit in his window. They are inexpensive things to have about the house, for a healthy reptile taken in the spring will need no food for a year. The rattlers become blind when they shed their skins, which they do every summer, appearing in about ten days with new, bright, diamond backs. The food given these pets consists chiefly of gophers, while frogs, rats, squirrels, birds and rabbits are added occasion ally. The small boys in the vicinity derive quite a revenue catching and selling snake food to the farm. A stranger scene can scarcely be wit nessed than a cage full of snakes mak ing a meal of fifty or one hundred frogs. In their greediness they often swallow each other, and it is no.un usual thing for a snake to back out of a companion’s stomach, where it has pursued a tempting frog or gopher. The trade of this farm has not been influenced by hard times, but has in creased materially the past year.— Chicago Chronicle. A Wonderful L,amp. It is prophesied that present meth ods of illumination are to be super seded by a lamp nearly perfected by Puluj, of Vienna, one of the earliest experimenters on cathode rays. For fifteen years he has been working upon it. Not only does it generate intense Roentgen rays, but it also transforms nearly all of the energy of the electric current into light. Pro fessor Ebert’s experiments prove that a single horse power of electric energy would be sufficient to operate 46,000 Puluj lamps. Professor Lodge, head of the department of experimental physics in Universal College, Liver pool, says that “if mechanical energy j can be converted entirely into light alone one man turning the crank of a suitable machine could generate enough light for a whole city.” Puluj claims that his lamp fulfills this dition. Kuuning Up si Mountain. Ted Battersy, a Liverpool (F-ngland) athlete, ran to the summit of Mounl Snow-don from Llanbevis in fifty-three minutes and back in thirty-eight. This is the quickest time ever made, and il was made in the face a strong wind. COOD ROADS NOTES. Creameries and Good Komis* . o Tlie Mankato (Minn.) Free Press says that the establishment of cream eries is becoming a potent argument for good roads. The daily trip to them with the milk must be made regardless of mud and wet or if the mud be ankle deep,—for milk is a perishable product. Then, even when the road is dry, the milk, of course, is injured by the churning received on the journey over the rough roads. The farmer is, therefore, beginning to perceive the direct money value of road improve ment. The Free Press adds that the creamery is becoming the focus at which better roads centre. Stool Country Hoads. The steel country roads with which the United States Department of Agri culture is now experimenting, accord ing the Engineering News, will practi cally he constructed as follows: The design calls for an inverted trough shaped steel rail with a slight raised bead on the inside and an eight-inch tread and seven-sixteenths inch thick. These rails are to bo bedded in gravel laid in well-drained trenches and the rails are to be tied together at the ends and at the middle. On grades the rails will be indented to prevent the horses from slipping. The ad vantage claimed for these steel roads is the reduction of traction from forty pounds per ton on macadam road to eight pounds on the steel rails. The materials for the heavier type of steel roads of this design will cost $3500 in small quantities. The amount of ma terial required is less than 100 tons per mile, and the lines can probably be built for $2OOO per mile. The lighter types only cost about $lOOO per mile, but this does not include laying of grading or road bed. Practical Good Hoads. A Good Roads convention was held at Cannon Falls which was notable for the practical manner in which the sub ject under consideration was handled. No city speakers were imported to en lighten the farmers upon the theory of road building and to suggest legisla tion looking to future large expendi tures for costly roadways; but the neighbors assembled proceeded to show how the roads could be greatly improved with the means already available. The main point brought out was the necessity of thorough surface draining by effective ditching. The roadbed must be rounded so that the water will run off, but the best material for surfacing depends upon the locality and the character of the soil. If the road surface can he kept dry, any locality may have good roads at comparatively small cost all the year round. Incidentally, the subject of wide vs. narrow tires was taken up, and David Valentine, a practical road builder, stated that he had used both wide and narrow tired wheels, and his experi ence was such that if he were to pur chase anew wagon he would not take a narrow tired vehicle if he could get it at half price, as he could haul dou ble tbe load, with the same expendi ture of power, on a wide tire. Where the roads are dry and hard there can be no doubt of tbe superior economy of a wide tire, not only in tbe matter of hauling the load, hut in preserving the roadway.—Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune. 'lnexpensive Hoi.ul Improvements. The farmers of the country are grad ually going over to the belief that good roads are for their personal benefit and there is a decided change of sentiment along this line in many of the States. One of the chief obstacles to reform has been the fear of the farmers that the cost of highway improvements would fall chiefly on them and as they feel that, they are already burdened heavily enough they resist the passage of good-roads laws with their local in fluence and their votes often to the de feat of these worthy projects. New Jersey has a law now in force, how ever, that illustrates how properly this burden can be divided between the in dividual and the community so that it falls lightly upon the farmer. This law apportions the cost of all road im provements as follows: One-third is paid by tbe State, one-tenth by the in dividual beneficiary of the improve ment, the owner of the abutting prop erty, and the remainder by the county in which the improvement occurs. Re duced to a scale of thirtieths the State pays ten parts, the individual three parts and the county seventeen parts Stated in still another way the various burdens are more easily appreciated. The average cost of repairing a road with a macadam finish is about $3OOO a mile. Of Ibis sum the county would pay .$l7OO, the State $lO9O and the in dividual $3OO. It is to be remembered that the $3OO in this case is usually divided among several persons, as few properties in this section of the coun try extend for much more than a quarter or half a mile along a highway, and tax is assessed on the owners on eaeh side of the road. Thus it will fre quently occur that the individual will pay directly for a first-class road in front of his property and for a mile adjacent such a small sum as $4O or $5O. To be sure he pays as well his 3hare of the county tax and in less proportion his part of the State tax, but these burdens are comparatively light and easily borne. These im provements in New Jersey are under taken on the petition of the owners of the abutting property. Such laws as this, if copied in other States would probably result in an immediate bet terment of the country roads in every section, an improvement of untold benefit to millions of people.—Wash ington Star. A Country Without a ltailroad. To railway builders out of work Alaska offers a great if not an inviting field. With a territory ten times as large as New York State, it has not a mile of steam road or of any other kind of road. Thousands of citizens of the United States are ready to emi grate thither long enough to pick up what gold they want, and yet our Government has not built a single railway for their accommodation. The only transportation line into the gold fields is owned by selfish capitalists, non-resident at that, who expect tc make a profit out of the indigent gold seeker.—Railway Age. The most dangerous waters in the world for the passage of ships lie off the east coast of England, CapeUshant, in France, and Cape Finisterre, in Spain. How to Lanmti'y Fancy Linen. To wash embroidered linens so ns not to fade the colors, fill a tub half full of warm water, to whioh add a little Ivory Soap. Wash each piece through the suds care fully, rinse in blue water, to which n little thill starch is added. Hung 111 the shade to dry. Iron on the wrong side, press ing down heavily to bring out the stitches, thus restoring their original beauty. EI.tZA It, PAHKLII. Chances of l.ife. The following table is one that is used by the London assurance com panies, showing the prospect of lift at various ages. It is the result of years of careful calculation, and is said to seldom prove misleading or incorrect. Of course sudden and premature deaths as well as lives unusually extended, occasionally occur, but this is a table of average expectancy of life of the or dinary man or woman: A person of one year old may expect to live :.}> years longer; of 10 years, 51; of 20 years, 41; of 30 years, 34 longer; of 40 years, 28; of 50 years, 21; of (JO yearn, J 4 more; of 70 years, 0; of 80 years,'!. A Sheathing Propeller. At a recent yachting exhibition in London one novelty was a “sheathing propeller 1 ' for yachts, merchant vos sels, fishing boats and launches. From a tube in the ship’s stern the propeller works. It is supplied with blades which fall into a horizontal position, come together at the tips or expand, as desired. The propeller, when not in use, may lie drawn into its tube sheath. When a ship is becalmed it can bo kept, on its course by the use of a small electric motor, which furnishes sufficient power to operate the auxil iary propeller, which can also lie used for steering purposes. In case of use on fishing vessels it does not foul the nets.--Boston Transcript. Almost Inside Out. The stomach that is not turned thus by a. shaking up on the “briny wave” must be •. well fortified one. The gastric .apparatus •• u be rendered proof against sea siekness •• that stomach i- so popular among travelers by sea and land Ilostctter’s Stomach Bitter-. ( defends the systc in against malaria and rheu matism, and subdues liver complaint, consti pation and dyspepsia. ,\ glass of hot milk and n feu peanuts me a good luncheon before retiring. Deafness Cannot 15* Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach tr.o diseased portion of the* ear. There is only <>r:e way to euro deafness, and that, is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an ie flamed condition of the mucous lining of tho Kustachian Tube. When this tube gets - Uameil you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely clo.-w-f Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam mation can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroved forever. Nine* cases out of ten no*, caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of he mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for a’ ;,' case of Deafness <caiisedb> catarrh/thai can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Ser.d for circulars, free. F. J. ' ’iif.nk v *& Cos., Toledo, O Sold I>y Druggists. 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. \ Prose Poem. EF-.M. Medicated Smoking Tobacco And Cigarettes Are absolute remedies for Catarrh, Hay Fever, Asthma and Colds; Besides a delightful smoke. Ladies as well as men, use these goods No opium or other harmful drug Used in their manufacture. EE-M. is used and recommended By some of the best citizens Of tliis country. If your dealer does not keep KE-M. Send i:*c. for package of tobacco And tv;, for package of cigarettes. Direct to the F.F.-.M. Company, Atlanta. Ga., And you will receive goods by mail. Fits permanently cured. No tits or neryoi.A-- ness utter first dav'suseof Dr. Kline's Groat Nerve lies tore r. rial bottle andtreatiseiv 1 .: Du. K. H. Ki.ink, Ltd., kl Arch St., I’hila.. ID. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for child r. i teething, softens the gums, reduceshiflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bott! 1 am entirely cured of hemorrhage of hit *.:* by Piso’s Cure fpr Consumption. Lori.n\ Lindaman, Bethany. Mo., Jan. •*, ’M. If afflicted with soreej e>usc 1 >r. IsaacThomp so lrsEye- w A tc r. Druggists sell at. 35c. per bo tt • A GRAND WORK HelpingTireci Mothers find Giving Rob.v Cheeks to Children. Thousands of tired, nervous, worried women have found strength, health and happiness in Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which purifies their blood, strengthens their nerves and gives them good appetites. Pale and. puny children .are given rosy cheeks and vigorous appetites by the great blood enriching qualities of Hood’s Sar saparilla. it is indeed the mother’s friend and it may weM have a place in thousands of families. Be sure to get Hood’s. Usod’s Pills wnhH SC* If EK F AM) THKIiE. The new Chinese mint at Canton turned out more than 14,000,000 to cent pieces Just year. It is computed that 20,000 tons • canned salmon are .consumed an nually in this country. The annual coal product of /Mon tana has shown an uninterrupted in crease each year since 1877. New Bedford is investigating with i view to the establishment of a textile school there, following Lowell's et ample. Earrings have never been so fast: ionabie in England as in foreign con." tries, but they are worn more now than at any other time in the lijsto: :> of England. Modern Chivalry. Awkward Miss (with an umbrella Beg pardon! Polite Gentleman —Don’t mention it. I have another eve left. New York Weekly.' HAIR renewer; (%% Drives off old age; a7!\| restores lost color ) to the hair; gives it j the richness and gloss of -rrs youth; prevents bald ness. No dandruff. t LOOK AT THESE n.iu* (mr f.ink. I. y JBKr Tjv-ifl 8 <•< ui-in Sump' O* DU mb bell links. M. Watkins &Cc CATALOG lli I'B/ L. I'BOVIUF.Sf’F.. It. I. ST (JURISW HEkEAL LtLS EfAILS. Ej KH nest Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use R? in time. Sold by druggists. El