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THE WEAVER.
Beside the loom of life I stand
And watch the busy shuttle go; .
The threads I hold within my hand
Make up the filling; strand on strand
They slip my fingers through, and so
This web of mine fills out apace
While I stand ever in my place.
One time the woof is smooth and fine
And colored with a sunny dye;
Again the threads so roughly twine
And weave so darkly line on line,
My heart misgives me. Then would I
Fain loose this web—begin anew—
Blit that, alas! I cannot do.
Some day the Web will all be done,
The shuttle quiet in its place,
From out my hold the threads be run;
And friends at setting of the slid
Will come to look upon my face,
And say. “Mistakes she made not few,
Yet wove perchance as best she knew.”
—Mary C. Huntington, in Independent.
THE ESCAPED THIEF,
BY SARAH B. SCAROROCGH.
“And that is all there is of it, but it
has settled me in Uncle’s eyes.”
Ned Carter kicked the heels of his
boots in a disconsolate clatter against the
box on which he was sitting, as he dole
fully ended the tale he had been reciting
to a sympathetic listener in the person of
his sister, Cressy.
Cressy and Ned Carter were orphans.
She lived with her grandmother on the
lone mountain side, and Ned had been
with his uncle, the sheriff of the county
for a year. He had done so well that his
uncle had held out hopes of a glowing
future, should lie continue to prove trust
worthy. At last he had been left in
chai'ge of the prisoners while his uncle
took two convicted ones to the State
penitentiary; From this the trouble
fcame.
Thii deputy looked after things in fi
general way; and assisted when assistance
was needed, which was only when the
prisoners were allowed in the open court
yard once a day to do their morning
work. There were but three of them at
the time—one; a “regular” who spent
half his time there on charge Of drunk
enness, one who had but it few 'lays
more to serve, and the third, a horse
thief, who received the bulk of their at
tentions, as there was no doubt that, at
the coming session of court he would
follow those just gone with Ned’s uncle
“over the road.”
As usual they had been let out by Ned
from the corridors into the yard one
mdrning; the deputy bn guard outside as
Ned saw him just before he unlocked the
doors; but as Travers, the horse thief
stepped Out to the pump, Hudson stepped
inside for a match for his cigar. The
I 'llow, seeing such a clear coast, instant
1/ decided to improve the opportunity,
nd so dropped his bucket, bounded
across the courtyard, vaulted the fence
tnd was goue before Hudson came up the
•rca steps, or Ned suspected the state cf
affairs.
lii some way known only to such par
ses, the thief succeeded in disappearing
completely, though diligent search was
made and hand bills were sent out im
mediately, offering a reward for his cap
ture and containing a description of the
man.
So it was, instead of a splendid record
to show his uncle on his return, Ned
could only show an empty call and relate
the escape of a valuable prisoner. And
to add to his trouble, the deputy attrib
uted the carelessness entirely to him. It
was a serious blow to bis uucle, officially,
and Ned was made to feel the loss of his
uncle's confidence in him in various im
portant ways.
This was the story he had just told
Cressy with its doleful ending.
“Just as if you were to blame!” she
exclaimed, sympathetic and indignant.
“But I suppose I was, in part. I ought
to have been sure Hudson was just where
I left him, before I took any chances,
though he should not have left the place
unguarded.”
“Isn't there anything you can do about
it?”
“Nothing unless I could capture the
thief. That is the only way I could redeem
myself, and there isn’t a ghost of a
chance for that to happen.”
“Oh, Ned, wouldn’t it be splendid to
do it?”
“Of course, but he must be found
first, and he is too smart to let anybody
know his whereabouts.”
“How does he look, Ned?”
“Do you think: you can corner him,
sis? Well, these will tell you how both
horse and man look when they arc not
disguised,” tossing her some posters.
“A nice money reward, toe, only I care
most for the man. But I must go now or
f shall lose my train. Don’t you fret,
Cressy, and don’t tell grandmother. I’ll
do the best I can to let uucle know I am
not entirely unworthy,” and he jumped
np. and started down the path to the
Station.
His uncle had sent him to a neighbor
ing city for some handcuffs which a
locksmith had been repairing and it had
hurt his feelings much to hear the closing
comment as the errand was explained:
“ They II hardly run away if you do lose
sight (f them.”
He iiad been given permission, also,
to stop off over night at the little way
station and go up the mountain to sec
his sister, whom he now left looking
after him sadly as he set out on his long
walk to catch the morning express back
to the city.
“How 1 wish Ned could get him,”
she sighed, as she turned back to the
little house at her grandmother's call:
“ I ou had better go over the other side
and see if the: berries are ripe, Cressy,”
and t'rcssy took the basket and started
for the other side of the mountain.
But berries were scarce, so she picked
her way down—farther than she had ever
before ventured, until she reached a spot
where a precipice dropped suddenly into
the ravine below. It was a dark and
lonely spot—so covered with growth that
the bottom, where a shallow stream ran,
could hardly be seen. Cressy was curious
about the ravine before her and threw
herself upon the ground to peer down
Into the gloomy depth, wondering how
she could get down there, when a splash
and a rattle of stones startled her, and
she sawq the next moment, a man care
fully picking his way through the ravine
and leading a horse whose step in the
water and on the shaly rocks had reached
her ears.
“How queer! If that horse was a
chestnut I might think the man was the
one that Ned wants.”
She parted the bushes and looked
again. He had stopped directly below
her, and stood as if deciding what to do.
Therl he Shaded his eyes with his hand
and Cressy gave a start; for she saw upon
the back Of the hand the letter TANARUS; and
as he let it fall upon the back of the
horse she distinctly saw that the little
finger was crumpled—bent under to the
palm. Her heart gave an ijpmense
leap, for those two things were especially
mentioned in the description she had
read from the poster as she came up the
mountain.
What could she do—for it must be the
thief and escaped prisoner,- and lie must
be caught, She could hurry back find
down to the station and get the men
there to come—but that would not do.
Ned must get him. It would make it
all right for him again, if he could take
the mnn back—be the one to' capture
him. Tint must be it. But how Could
she get word to him ? She peered over
the brink again, and felt satisfied from
the movements that the man was making
this secluded spot a hiding place for a
time; and then she cautiously slipped
away up through the woods and over the
top, down to the station as fast as she
could, turning over in her mind what
plan to pursue that Ned might find the
man before any one else succeeded.
It was a long walk, but at last she
stood at the foot of the mountain, and
learned that Ned had missed the pas
senger train, but had gone on only a
short time before on a gravel train which
had tom up two miles from the gravel
pit for another flat car and must now be
Ailing up at the pits for its return to the
city. -
“It has to wait for the special to come
up before it can go on,” the operator
told her id answer to hei question.
So; without a word more, she set off
down the track, tiled as she was with
her two miles’ walk. She felt quite
sure, as she stumbled along over the
ties, that she could reach the pits in the
forty minutes before it could possibly
leave. But her footsteps lagged in spite
of her. Still she kept on until she
reached the long, open river bridge.
She had forgotten that; and she knew,
as she looked at it, that she Could never
keep a clear head to walk across it upon
the ties. She could go around, but the
gravel train might start before she could
walk around by the distant road bridge.
She shuddered, but she must cross here
in some way.
As she looked around in a dizzy terror
at even the thought of attempting the
feat, she saw a short, broad board, and
an idea struck her. She slid down the
embankment and scrambled back with
the board.
“I can’t fall off it, if I can only do it,”
she said to herself. “Anyway, I mustn't
think about it, and it is long enough,”
ai she thrust it out before her upon the
ties inside and next the rail.
There was also a narrow plank upon
the outside, which she had not dared to
venture upon alone. Now she knelt
upon the two and, grasping the rail with
her hands, shut her eyes and crawled on
in that position until she felt the end of
her board. Then she braced herself with
one hand, found a footing for her kaee
upon a tie, and pulled forward the board
to bridge another set of ties.
It was slow and dangerous work, and
she screwed her eyes close shut for fear
she might see what would unnerve her.
Once her board caught and it seemed to
be slipping. It was a horrible thought,
and she felt as though she, too, were
slipping, but she clutched rail and board
and it held firm as she crawled along.
Suddenly the rails vibrated under her
hand. Were was she? Was she any
where near the eud? The special was
coming—how far away she dared not try
to see. With one more convulsive effort
she pulled the board forward, crawled
its length, then a sharp whistle shrieked
out—two of them. She gave one gasp
and looked. She saw a few more ties
between her and safety—saw the engine
flying right at her—heard another shriek
from the whistle, wavered a half second,
then in desperation rose to her feet and
bonded with swaying arms along the
narrow outer plank, to strike the solid
earth, leap aside, and roll down the em
bankment, while the train came to a stop
upon the bridge.
Cressy was not hurt, only unnerved,
and to the questions poured iu upon her,
she could find no answer but that she
must see Ned before the gravel train left.
“It’s something important. No person
would ever try crawling over the long
bridge ’less it was,” the fireman ob
served.
“Can we make it?” suddenly sisked the
conductor, looking at his watch.
“Yes, sir,” the engineer replied briefly,
and Cressy found herself swung up into
the cab beside him and the train sped
hack, to the bewilderment of the passen
gers, over the last half mile.
The engine came to a stop right oppo
site Ned, and he was astonished to see
Cressy, who cried out:
“Oh, Ned, I’vo found him.”
.“Why, Cressy Carter, how did you
come here?”
“On our hands and knees, youngster,
I some of the way,” the engineer put in.
“But I have found him.”
“Who?”
“The prisoner,” she whispered.
“Cressy Carter!” Ned was too as
tounded to say more.
“What is it?” the conductor asked,
coming up curious to know.
Ned explained briefly, when the con
ductor caught him by the arm.
“Jump aboard, boy,” he cried. “Put
on, Billy,” to the brakeman, and before
they were hardly aware of it, they were
, steaming back to the valley station.
A little quiet work, and three men ac
companied Ned to the other side of the
mountain. The man was taken entirely
off his guard when a revolver was pre
sented with a command to throw up his
hands. Ned had the satisfaction of plac
ing the handcuffs which he had iu his
pocket, upon his prisoner, and escorting
him to the city before the sun went
down, fastened to liis own wrist.
“You see, I thought I would fix the
handcuffs so they couldn’t run away,”
Ned explained slyly, so he delivered him
over to his uncle.
The latter was delighted at the deed,
and laughed heartily at Ned’s reminder
of his own last words to him when he
left home on his errand.
“But,” said Ned, as his uncle ex
pressed his pleasure, and assured him
that he had made full reparation for the
trouble arising from his share in the es
cape—“but you know that, after all, the
credit of it belongs to Cressy. She did
it for me.”
“Yes, she did a brave thing for you,
Ned,” his uncle repeated for the hun
dredth time, as he came in one day with
a package. “Now, you can do some
thing for her.”
And that was how it came about that
Ned one day went up the road and moun
tain path, and laid a package in Cressy’s
hands; after she had heard all about how
Ned had succeeded in recapturing the
horse thief.
“And it has settled me in uncled
eyes,” he ended the account. “And
now Cress, for what you did for me, this
is all I can do in return.'’
It was two hundred dollars—the re
ward Offered for the capture of both
horse and thief—for the bay horse she
had seen in the ravine had turned out to
be the missing chestnut, most cleverly
dyed.
“For me!” exclaimed Cressy.
“Yes, for what you did for me. You
did not think 1 could keep the re
ward.”
“I had forgotten the reward,” said
she, with a tremulous little laugh, as she
fingered the money.
“Well, I hadn’t. But Cress, don’t
you ever try such a thing as crossing that
bridge again, not even for Neil.”
“I was fearfully frightened, so I guess
I won’t,” she answered slowly, “un
less—”
“Unless what?”
“Unless I find another of your es
caped prisoners.” —Yankee Blade.
How Dogs Protect Sleep iu Russia.
The dogs which guard the sheep ol
southern Russia are as intelligent as the
Scotch collie. At evening time the
shepherd (pastouh) gives his signal to his
ofeharkas and in a short time the dogs
have driven their cllarge—sometimes
numbering thousands of sheep—into au
unmarked circle. Then they form a
ring around the imaginary pen (tzep)
and keep watch, at stated distances, for
their enemies, the polevoy volks. When
a wolf makes his appearance near the
tzep only two of the thirty or forty dogs
forming the tzep ring attack him. And
these are always the two nearest the
intruder. The others are taught not to
leave their posts, and never do, unless
more than one wolf endeavors to get at
the sheep. Having sighted the polevoy
volk, the dog nearest to him barks
loudly, and immediately his nearest com
panion rushes to his assistance, while the
others widen their distances to keep the
sheep from breaking away. The ofeharka
No. 1 growls at the wolf and No. 2 gets
behind him. When they get into this
position they signal to their comrades
and the entire number set up a strange
kind of a howl to warn the shepherd that
the dreaded pest is near. Meanwhile the
wolf finds that he is in danger, and en
deavors to escape but he cannot. Should
he try to run forward the ofeharka
catches him by the leg or tail and holds
him fast, and if he attempts to get away
toward the prairie again the dog in
front holds him by the ear. I'hey do not
try to kill him. They are trained not to
risk a fight, but to keep the intruder at
bay until the arrival of the pastouh, who
puts him out of th'e world by a few sharp
knocks on the head with liis staff.
A Town Filled With Cheese.
The day w r e were in Alkmaar, in North
Holland, writes a correspondent, the
weekly cheese fair took place, and the
sesne was lively enough. All the farm
ere of the neighborhood bring theii
cheese there to sell on Friday, arriving
in canal-boats and in carts gayly painted
and prettily carved around the top.
These carts were drawn up on one side
of the large and picturesque market
square, the neatly bricked pavement of
which was covered with their ware.
The red and yellow round Dutch or
Edam cheeses, which arc so well known
all over the world, lay in regular piles
like canton balls at the navy yard, on
white sheets. Crowds of sellers and
buyers walked between them, and as
soon as a sale was made the cheese were
carried on great barrows slung between
two men to the weighing house.
This handsome building, with its lofty
tower, was built in 1582, and half the
cheese of Holland is weighed there,
amounting to about 10,000,000 annu
ally. The” lower stoiy stands open and
four huge scales hang from the ceiling,
an official attending to each. The canal
that borders the square was full of ships
and boats to carry away the precious
piles, which are shot on board by a
wooden trough like the balls at a bowl
ing alley.
One Bag of Coffee Worth Five Barrels
of Flour.
A barrel of American flour would once
buy at Rio a bag of coffee weighing
thirty pounds more than the present ones,
whereas it now takes five ban-els to make
the barter. Nineteen staples of trade
have gone down iu price, while coffee
has more than doubled. People now want
to make in five years what would once
have been considered the work of fortv
years. Some do it, but tho great majority
become bankrupt. The commission
houses make profits out of this specula
tion, but that adds nothing to the pros
perity of the country. It is neither more
nor less than gambling to buy and sell on
the exchange 22,000,000 bags of coffee
on an average crop of 5,t)00,000 bags.—
Boston Globe.
Morbid Craving Alter Sympathy.
Curious instances are related of this pe
culiar attitude of mind. A young lady
once waited upon a surgeon for treat
ment of a wound upon the arm. lie gave
her a lotion and an ointment, neither of
which had any beneficial effect. The
origin and the obstinanev of an apparent
ly trifling injury puzzled'the doctor. At
last he had the curiosity to take a piece
of the black matter that covered the
wound and submit it to analysis. To his
astonishment he found that it was noth
ing more than liquorice or Spanish juice.
Once upon the right, scent, he made
inquiries that confirmed his theory, and
was soon able to inform the mother that
her daughter made the wound by scratch
ing the skin deep enough to draw blood,
and then rubbing in Spanish jutce. The
lady, naturally indignant that her child
should seem an imposter, wrote the sur
geon down a fool, and consulted a spec
ialist. She came soon afterward to
apologize to the local practitioner, and to
await with patience the result of a firm
course of treatment, which removed her
daughter’s craving for sympathy, and
with it any re-appearance of her self-in
flicted wound.
A Comfortable Habit.
“My wife was always a comfortable
woman to have abound,” said a truly dis
consolate widower. “She would always
lie down every afternoon and sleep a bit.
Some folks thought ’twas a dreadful lazy
habit, and ’twas no wunder wc didn’t get
rich faster, but she suited me just as she
was. Sally was a comfortable sort of a
woman to have round, never frettin’
at a fellow or faultin’ him when
things didn’t go right. When
feeling troubled, she’d often say, ‘Fa
ther, I believe I’ll lie down fora few min
utes,’ then back she’d come, spry and
chipper as a canary bird. Sally didn’t
drive and scold, but she wasn’t lazy, and
she brought up the youngsters to do their
part. I don’t see that drivin’ women gets
on one mite better than she did. It does
comfort me to know that Sally would
take her rest.”
Fingers and Forks.
Less than three hundred years ago
the fingers were still used to perform the
office now assigned to forks, in the high
est and most refined circles of society.
At about tills time, in fact, was the turn
ing point when forks began to be used at
table as they are now. When wc reflect
how nice were the ideas of that refined
age on all matters of outer decency and
behavior, and how strict was the etiquette
of the courts, we may well wonder that
the fork was so late in coming into use as
a table-furnishing. The ladies of tho
middle ages and the Renaissance were not
less proud of a delicate, well-kept hand
than those of our own days, and yet they
picked the meat from the platter with
their slender white fingers, and in them
bore it to their months. The fact is all
the more remarkable, because the form of
the fork was familiar enough, and its ap
plication to other uses was not uncom
mon.
A Penny in the Slot.
The idea of dropping a penny in tho
slot boxes is older than Christianity. In
the Egyptian temples devices of this kind
were used for automatically dispensing
the purifying water. A coin of five
drachmas dropped into a slit in a vase set
a simple piece of mechanism like a well
sweep, in motion, a valve was opened for
an instant and a portion of the liquid was
permitted to escape. The apparatus was
described in the “Spiritalia” of Hero of
Alexandria, who lived two hundred years
before the Christian era, and is illustrated
in the sixteenth century Latin manuscript
translation of his work, in which, by the
way, is also delineated the Egyptian fire
engine of the author’s day, with its
double-force pump valves, lever arms,
goose neck, and probably, too, air cham
ber—but this is a moot point—which
form the essential feature of the machines
of the nineteenth century.
Carious Facts.
The British poet laureate can take a
sheet of paper, and by writing a poem on
it, can make it worth sixty-five thousand
dollars. That’s genius. Vanderbilt can
write on paper and make it worth five
million dollars. That’s capital. The
United States can take an ounce and a
quarter of gold and stamp on it an eagle
and make it worth twenty thousand dol
lars. That’s money. The mechanic can
take the material worth five dollars, and
make into a watch worth one hundred
dollars. That’s skill*. The merchant can
take au article worth twenty-five cents and
sell it for one dollar. That’s business.
“Talking Shop.”
To talk about one's business in a mixed
company is at complete variance with
good taste, and those who do it make
themselves disagreeable. They do so, ns
a rule, however, thoughtlessly. Better
swear off and talk socially about anything
else. Mosquitoes, yellow fever, highway
robbery or ballet dancers arc better and
more interesting subjects to discuss.
If rivers come out of their prison thus
bright and immortal, shall not I, too, re
new my spring life with joy and hope?
Have I no hopes to sparkle on the surface
of life's current? It is worth while to have
our faith revived by seeing where a river
swells and eddies about a half buried
rock.
That which is easy to do, though it may
be worth doing, is not so important as that
which is hard and disagreeable, and which
therefore finds fewer workers.
Pains and Aches
Fd various parts of the body, more particularly in
the back; shoulders anl Joints, arc the unwelcome
indications that rheumatism has gained a foothold,
and you are “lu for it” for a longer or rhortex
period. Rheumatism is caused by lactic acid in the
blood, and is cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which
neutralises the acidity and eradicates every Impur
ity from the blood.
*‘l tnffered from acute rheumatism Induced by a
severe sprarn of a once dislocated ankle Joint,
which caurei great swelling and intense pain. One
bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla restored circulation
cleansed the Wood and relieved the pain so that I
am nearly well."—L. T. Huirr, Springfield, Mo.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
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Wood Salaries—A, Noted School.
The 12th semi-annual session of Jen
nings’ Business College, Nashville, Tenn.,
commences to-day. This school, which
has nearly 700 students, from 18 states
and territories, has acquired an enviable
reputation, co-estensivc with the South
ern .States—ninety per cent, of the grad
uates of this school get good positions,
some of them receiving salaries ranging
from SOOO to SI,BOO per annum. An in
stitution like this is a public benefactor to
the young men of our country. — Nashville.
Herald, January Ist.
Speaking Dolls.
A London workman experimented upon
the speaking doll for nine years before it
said “papa” and “mamma” in a natural
way. Since then other mechanical dolls
have been invented, very attractive in
their novelty, but beyond the means of
ordinary purchasers. ' There aro no less
than forty doll manufactories in London
and almost as many in New York and the
New England States. There are second
ary industries in the trade, such as the
manufacture of dolls’ gloves, gaiters, cos
tumes, fans, parasols, carriages, ham
mocks, etc., all of which must be kept
in stock.
Don’t Fool
away precious time and money and trifle
with your health experimenting with uncer
tain medicines, when Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery is so positively certain in
its curative action as to warrant its manufac
turers in guaranteeing it to cure dinettes of
the blood, skin and scalp, and all scrofulous
afflictions, or money paid for it will be re
funded.
S3OO Reward offered for an incurable case
of Catarrh by the proprietors of Dr. Sage’s
Remedy. 60 cts., by druggists.
A good doctor is a gentleman t.o whom we
pay three dollars a visit for advising us to eat
less and exercise more.
State or Ohio, City or Toledo,! „
Lucas county, f '
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney &
Cos., doing business in ti e City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum of one hundred dollars
for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot
be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed iu mv
presence, this tith day of December, A. D., 1886.
t —*— 1 A. \V. Gleason,
- seal J- Notary I'ubllc.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken interna'ly and
acts directly upon the Mood and mucous sur
faces Oi the system, bend for testimonials,
free.
F. J. Cheney & Cos., Toledo, O.
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Bradfield’s Female Regulator will cure all
irregularities or derangements peculiar to
women. Those suffering should use it. Sold
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If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
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A pocket pin*cushion free to smokers of
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CH ICH ESTER’S ENGLISH
PENNYROYAL PILLS
EO CROS3 DIAMOND BRAND.
always reliable. Ladle*, A
S\ tL-.va ask Druggist for Diamond Brand, in
metallic beret, cmied with blue jCTV\
Vrv ribbon. Take no other. All pi lit
yl * n usteboard boxes, pink wrapper*, ara
| / ~ dangerous counterfeit*. Nend 4c. V
l s*. (Jr (stamps) for particulars, testimonials and
\T’ rP “Belief for Ladle*,” in letter, by return
£f msll. Same Paper.
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OPIUM HABIT.
A. Vl\ia. l> 1 o Treatise Giving
full Information of au Easy and Speedy cure free to
the afflicted. Dr. J. C. HoNmA.N,Jerfer6on,Wisconsin.
Ailk.SV* VYA ,\ VKIWO pe’ cent. The grat
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Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a
legitimate medicine, not u beverage; care
fully compounded by an experienced pky
sician, and adapted to woman's delicate
organization. It is purely vegetable in
composition and perfectly harmless in any
condition of the system. Contains no
alcohol to inebriate; no syrup or sugar
to ferment in the stomach and derange
digestion.
As an invigorating tonic, it imparts
strength to the whole system. For over
worked, “ worn-out,” “ run-down,” debili
tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seam
stresses, “shop-girls,” housekeepers, nursing
motherc, and feeble women generally, Dr.
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Asa soothing and strengthening nervine,
“Favorite Prescription” is unequaled and
Dr - Pierce’s Pellets
*l. jaaCATlt. PURELY VEGETABLE!
Sl o Z y PERFECTL Y HARMLESS !
Unequaled as a LIVER PILL.
O Q * * Smallest, Cheapest, Easiest to take.
One tiny, Sugar-coated Pellet a dose. Cures Sick Headache, Bilious Headache,
Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derungements of the Stomach
and Bowels. 25 cents a vial, by druggists.
The Spirit of n Sigimmro.
“Did it ever occur to you,” said a treas
ury official, “that a forger has half bis
work clone when he can get hold of the
identical pen with which the owner of
the signature habitually writes? A great
many men, hank presidents and the like,
use the same pen for their names only for
a year ot two without change. A pen
that has been used by a man in writing
his name hundreds of times, and never
for anything else, will almost write the
name of itself. It gets imbued with the
spirit of the signature. In the hands of
a good forger it will preserve the charac
teristics of the original. The reason for
this is that the point of the pen has been
ground down in a peculiar way, from be
ing used always by the same hand and for
the same combination of letters. It would
splutter if held at a wrong angle or
forced on lines against its will. It al
most guides the sensitive hand of the
forger when he attempts to write the
name.”
The choral singing in Russian churches
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thrilling.
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BRYANT & STRATTON Business College
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p ISO'S REMEDY Eldest ■
of which a small pnrti. 1• .s applied Hjl
Hffis to the nostrils. Price, 60c. Sold by druggists or sent
gPS bymaiL Addreas, E. X. Warren, Pa. SBi v
Good for every woman's need,
Whutsoo'er lifir clime or creed,
English, Yankco, Turk, or Swede,
Moslem, Spanish or Egyptian;
Known In every land and tongue.
Friend to women, old and young.
Bound the world its praise is sung,—
“Pierce's Favorite Prescription.”
w invaluable in allaying and subduing
nervous excitability, irritability, exhaus
tion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and other
distressing, nervous symptoms, commonly
attendant upon functional and organic dis
ease of the uterus, or womb. It induces
refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx
ietv and despondency.
It is the only medicine for the cure of all
thoso peculiar weaknesses and ailments
incident to females, sold by druggists, under
a positive guarantee from the manufact
urers, of giving satisfaction in eremj case
or price (*1.00) will be promptly refunded
Seo guarantee printed on bottle-wrapper
and faithfully carried out for many years.
For a Book of 160 pages on Woman ; Her
Diseases, and How to Cure them, (sent
sealed in plain envelope) enclose ten cents, in
stamps, to World’s Dispensary Medical
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Elys catarrh
CREAM BALMgp^~~£
Cleanses the
Nasal Passages, if
Altars Pain and
Inflammation, ™yfeverJ)|
Restores the
Senses of Tasli
and Smell, uju
TRY THE (THE HAY-FEVER
A imrtiole is applied into each nortrii and i axcoeab’e.
mail, raftered. *>cta.
ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New Vurk.
M’.F^IEHD"
LESSENS RAIN Wp T 0
DIMINISHES MOTHER
CHILD
BRADFiELD REGULATOR CQ. ATLANTA S^
BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL CONSULT
DR. LOBB
3*2!> North Fifteenth St., Philadelphia, Ta., for
the treatment o£ Blood Poiaon*. Skin Eruption*,
Nervous Complaint*, Bright’s Disease, Stricture*.
Impoteney and kindred diseases, no matter of how
long standing: or from what cause originating.
fcJVTen days medicines furnished by mall rQCg
Send for Book on SPECIAL Diseases. lilLC*
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rwt'nll Oil IIS and SAVE lIOXEVIjB
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DROPSY
TREATED FREE.
Positively Cured with Vegetable Hemedie*.
Have cured thousands of cases. Cure patients pro
nounced hopeless by best physicians. From first dose
symptoms disappear; In ten davs at least two-thirds
all Hymptoms removed. Send for free book testimo
nials of miraculous cure*. Ten days’ treatment
free by mall. If you order trial, send 10c. In stamps
to pay postage. Da. H. H. DftESX k Sows, Atlanta, Oa.
®I prescribe and fully en*
jrse Big G os the only
)eciflc ror the certaln cum
f this disease. _
.H.INGKAHAM.M. D ,
Amsterdam, N. Y.
Wo have sold Big G for
lany years, and it has
given the best of satis
faction. _ .
D. R. DYCHE&CO..^
1.00. Bold by Druggists.
A. N. U Two, 1890.