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make It a Point
To Cot the Best Everv Tlmo.Wh
You Buy Medicine.
Health Is too valuable to be trifled with.
I) :> not experiment. Oct Hood’s Sursapa-
rillA and you will have the best medicine
money can buy — the medicine that cures
when all others fall. You haveevery reason
to expect It will do for you what It has
done for others. Remember
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is America’* Greatest Medicine Price $1.
Hood's Pills are the favorite cathartic.
5 aii
: . • ft
have ,„cd year valuable CAM A-
ItKT'S fii.-i them period, couldn't do
witnout th> m. 1 have uked them for some time
/or pletcly (iUgcstion nnrtbillonsnoM and nm now com-
cured. Iterommrnd them, to every cue.
Once tried, yon wilt never be without them la
the family.’' Enw. A. Mjtltx, Albany, N. Y.
CANDY
CATHARTIC •
TftAOt MAUN KleiBTIKIO
x
Pl«iWnt. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do
Good, NoTor pHckon. Weaken, or Gripe, !0c,36c,60c.
... CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
Alt,linn lit merit i'nmpnny, < Mmrn. Montreal, York.
HQ-TO-BAC Bold gists anti to € fill reV? Tobacco*! 1 1 abit**
C OTTON tinue of to the is be and South. the will money con¬ The
crop
planter who gets the most cot¬
ton from a given area at the
least cost, is the one who makes
the most money. Good culti¬
vation, suitable rotation, and
liberal use of fertilizers con¬
taining at least 3% actual
Potash
•will insure the largest yield.
We will send Free, upon application,
pamphlets that will interest every cotton
planter in the South. •
CltiRnAN KAl l WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
J
Be clicMM’fiil nl home, sunshine
In a free Bill dividend. I’ay as
you go, debt is a chafing saddle.
Buy from cash buy lug merchants,
they pay 110 Interest.
Wear Bed Seal Shoes, and get
most near for the least money
A postal will bring you a set of
blotters.
J.K.ORRSHOECO.
Alt. A NT A, (i\.
i f imiotM with i Thompson’s Eye Water
■or* i'voh, uw
i AH AFFAIRS NATION
^ u It hjts been SMd of Americans thjvt they
are “a nation of dyspeptics* 5nd it true
TT jl thect few Arc entirely free from disorders
^ of the digestive trAct, Indigestion. Dyspepsia.
^ StomAch And Bowel trouble . or Constipation.
A The trc&tment of these diseases
with cAthArtic medicines too often Ag-
oJ ^rAVAtcs the trouble.
THE. LOGICAL TREATMENT
li the use of a remedy thAt will build up
the system, thereby enabling the various
orgAns to ALt as HAture intended they should.
Such a remedy is found in Or YhlliAms' PinK
Pills for Pa\c People * Here is the proof*
In Detroit there are few soldiers mere popular and efficient thnn Max
R. Davies, titst sei£ennt of Co. R. His home is at 416 Third Avenue. Kor
four years he was a bookkeeper with the wholesale orug house of Fan and,
Williams & Clark, aud lie says: “I have charged up many thousand
orders for Dr. Williams* Pink Tills for rale Teople, but never knew their
worth until I use,! them for the cure of chronic dyspepsia. For two years
I suffered and doctored for that aggravating trouble but could only be
helped temporarily.
“1 think dvspepila is one of the most stubborn of ailments, and there
It scarcely n cleik or office mau but what is more or less a victim. Some
days I could eat anything, while at other times I would be starving.
Those distressed pains would force me to quit work. 1 have tried many
treatments and remedies but ttiey would help only for a time. A friend
induced me to try Dr. Williams’ rink rills for Tale Teopte, nnd after tak¬
ing a few doses 1 found much relief and after using several boxes I was
f cured. pleased Tbe to I genuine know recommend these pitta pAtKAgc them wilt .’'—Vttttit cure dyspepsia fdw&ys (Mitk.)Jcur*+i. of beM* Us worst tbe form and I naunc.' am 4
At fell drog^isty ot s>cnt postpaid on reectpt ol pt^t.50
per bo*, by tUc Or.trtilliMns Methone Co,SthcncUMly.N Y.
o
cunts WHtttt Alt ELSE f AILS.
lls«t C ough Cynip. Tastes (loofl, l/*c
|-i time. Sum liv iirm:gl‘ts.
TW Httn’S k-jfl i XI jfol
Ld
m
ircater Tinted States.
lands we take number more
)0—they have never been
Taml still less have they been
accurately surveyed. But the best
statistics available yield the following
results as to areas iu square miles:
45,000
Porto Bico 3,550
Hawaiian group 6,640
T1)e pjjjij pp i ne s 114,000
The Snlus.. I..... 1,000
T Guam he Carolines.... 1,000 500
in Ladrones
—-
Tota 171,690
Cuba is about the size of New York,
Ohio or Alabama.
l'orto Bico is a little smaller than
Connecticut.
The Hawaiian islands are somewhat
than New Jersey the largest
island, Hawaii, besug about the size of
Delaware.
,,,, l ho Philippines - cover a , land . space
about as great as New York and the
New England states together. Luzon,
on which Manila is s tuated, is not
much smaller than New York.
Window Panes «f Sea Shells. I
Most of the honscs and offices in
Manila h ivo tiny panes of translucent
shells for glass. An average window
six feet long by four feet wide contains
about 260 of such panes, which temper
the heat of the sun, the shells being
very low conductors of heat. They
also prevent the blindness which is
induced by the fierce g are of the sun
in that part of the world.
Beauty I* Blood Beep.
• ’lean blood means a clean akin. No
beauty without It. Casoarnts. Candy Catbar-
(if cioan your blood anil knap it ol<-an, by
Mirrimr up tho lazy liver and driving all im-
loititles from tho body. Begin to-day to
bnnluh pimides, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly billons complexion by taking
Casearcts, beauty for ten cents. All drug-
gluts, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c. 25 b, 50.;. I
Tho great nutritive powers of chocolate
arc been now adopted o generally recognized that it has
for campaign u-e in the armies
orumen't!* 8 ° f nlmo8t every Kuropean * uv -
To ( urn 11 1 old In One Bay.
Take Lnxnllvo Brnmo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money tf It falls to cure. 25c.
The old Kearasgo was wrecked on Ronoa-
pieces.
Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Lift Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag¬
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak rren
strong. All druggists, 50c or $1 Cure guaran¬
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Itomody Co., Chicago or New York
Itriifursa Cannot Bo Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach tho
diseased portion of tbe ear. There isculv ono
way ilniml to remedies. cure deafness, Deafness and that is by constttu-
is caused by an in-
llnmcd condition oi the raucous lining of Ilia
KuRtnehlnii Tube. When this tube gets In-
Mamed fect you have a ru mbling Bound or Imper¬
hearing, and when It is entirely closed
Deafness Is Hie result, and unless the Inflam¬
mation can lie taken out and tills tube rest red
to Its normal condition, hearing will be <1»-
stroyod forever. Nino cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an In-
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can-
not bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sond for
circulars, free.
F. .1. Chknkv A- Co. % Toledo, O.
Sold by DriifrgiAts 75o.
Hull's Family Pills are tho host.
Life N a Journey by night to soe the sun
rise in tho morning.
INI ovale Your Bowels With Casv.arets.
Oanfly If tiatliartlc, cure uonstl iatlon forever.
UV.'JJv. C. C. fall, Urugglsls refund money.
Souls and bodies arc to bo let thatcaunot be
bought outright.
A CATTLE QUEEN.
ROMANTIC CAREER OF MRS. NAT
COLLINS ON WESTERN PLAINS.
Picturesque Eifjure of True Western Type
•—Married, Hilt Master — Husband I*
“Quiet” — At 55 as Vigorous as at 20
—Time Still Hangs Heavily Upon Her.
The city of Minneapolis has withiu
its gates, says the Tribune of that
citv, a notable guest, no less a per-
soilage than Mrs. Nat Collins, who is
known throughout the Northwest us
“the Cattie Queen of Montana.”
“Mrs. Collins presents a picturesque
figure of the lare arid perlect Western
type which is fast giving way to an-
other order of things. She is the
product of the conditions which pra-
vailed upon the Western plains many
years ago, and a history ot her eveut-
till Ini ille life is is about nlmiit at interestin'? inieicsuii 0 as as
could possibly be painted by the great-
e st living novelist.
Mrs. Collins is en route to Chicago
and she came to Minneapolis with a
ti ainloatl of cattle — thirty-two ear
loads—all her own property. She
makes this trip each year, and accom-
puities the stock from the point of
shipment in Montana to Minneapolis,
the last feeding point before reaching
Chicago. I rum there she takes a reg-
ular passenger train and ira\els as be-
fits her condition as mistress of a
great fortune. The cattle are directly
hi charge of six cowboys from her
ranch, and they are with the stock
from Montana to Chicago.
Mrs. Collins, although a married
woman, is master of the various
ranches in her namein Montana. This
property is located ill the vicinity of
Cliotean, a little town north of He!e-
na and is about sixty-five mile3 from
Great Falls, which is the nearest
laigc Oboteau . is about
town. twenty-
five miles from her ranches, and is
also thirty-five miles from the nearest
railroad. Thus it cau be seen that
4 me |. P ,.,,ttln came mioon queen is is locator! totaled remntelv remotely
enough almost to rival Bobinsou Cru-
soetor isolation.
Mrs. Collins has had a romantic
career, although not devoid of what
would be considered grievous hard¬
ships by the average American woman.
She is now about fifty-five years of
age and is just as lively and vigorous
as any young woman in tho twenties.
She is an industrious worker, and is
of that nervous temperament which
must find employment to keep the
mitul at rest and the heart satis-
tied. She began her Western experi¬
ence at the age of ten years and has
lived upon the plains ever since. It
her boast that she went through
Denver when that great city of today
contained but one log cabin and a
f 0w tents. " Long before she was
twenty , , years old , , she , , had , made . ten
trips across the plains between Omaha
nml Denver, acting in the capacity of
cook in the wagon train of which her
brother was wagonmaster.
Later on the spirit of adventure
winch had begun to , dominate , her , dis- ..
position 7 impelled V her ' to remove to
the , new milling . ileitis . , of . Montana, at
the time of t heir first opeuiuu. 1 She
visited Bannock and many other
points, and was the first white woman
in Virginia City. She was at Helena
before there was such a place, and it
was at Helena some time later that
she wedded Nat Collins, a well known
aud respected minor. The marriage
occurred about thirty years ago, and
shortly alter the ceremony the young J T
couple quit the mining camps and
went into the northern part of Mon-
tana aud established themselves in
the stock-raising business, to which
they have clung persistently and with
great success ever siuce. They have
but ouo child, a daughter sixteen years
old.
They began .anchiug with about 450
head of stock. The animals were
turned loose upon the plains and al¬
lowed to increase und multiply as rap¬
idly Coilius as they would, aud today Mrs.
says it would be utterly im¬
possible for her to give an estimate of
the number of head of cattle upon her
various ranches. No effort is made to
count them. Each year they round
up as many as they care to ship aud
the others are unmolested.
The cattle queen has well earned
her reputation. Probably no one in
Montana has larger cattle interests
than she. Her success has been due
to her own interest aud exertions, for
her husband is one of those quiet in¬
dividuals who prefer to take life with
as little trouble as possible. When
Mrs. Collins begau to ship her stock
to the eastern market she found her¬
self confronted by railway rules nnd
regula.ious which expressly stated
that no woman could vide in the ca¬
booses attached to the stock trains.
She immediately put iu a protest, and
as the agent could give her no satis¬
faction she carried the matter to the
division superintendent. That official
found himself powerless, and finally
James J. Hill, president of the Great
Northern, was appealed to. Mr. Hill
reluctantly refused her the desired
permission, and by so doing raised a
storm of indignation about his head,
In a few days he was fairly smothered
with le ters from prominent ranch-
men and cattlement of Montana de-
mandiug that he accord the customary
privileges of the road to Mrs. Collins,
In a few days threats began coming
in, the writers declaring that if he
did net accede to Mrs. Collins* re-
lins got her pass and Las had one each
year since, and is today the only worn-
an so favored.
One would suppose that with the
management of several ranches upon
her shoulders Mrs. Collins would find
plenty to keep her busy, but such is j
not the case. She declares that there
is auy quantity of time which she
finds it almost impossible to dispose
of, and she finds vent for her surplus
energy in various ways. Repeatedly
she visited the new mining region
near St. Mary’s Lake, Mon., and :
while there invested in several fine
copper claims and located a town site
on the banks of the lake. j
i
MRS. CONDON, MITTEN CAPITALIST,
The Big Industry a New England Woman
started on S 4 o.
At South Penobscot, Me., lives tbe
mitten capitalist of the United States,
Mrs. A.C. Condon is the name of this
wealthy woman and she distributes
every year from 12,000 to 15,000 dozen
pairs of mittens. She is a living illus- !
tration that it pays to knit mittens, a
modern, up-to-date proof of the fact
that our grandmothers knew what
they were doing. Mrs. Condon’s story
shows what a brave,plucky New Eng-
land woman can do when she sets her
mind to it. Airs. Condon has written
this statement of her mitten industry
from its beginning up to the preseni
time.
“I began business in 1804 with a
capital of $-10 iu a little room about
15 by 12 feet in size, 1 first made
over worn-out felt hats thrown away
by the men, cleaned,shaped and turned J
them and then made them over into
hats for women and girls. Then, as I
lived in the country where there was
no hands, industry, but very many willing
1 resolved to procure, if pus-
sible, some work for those idle hands
to do.
“I went to Boston and saw some
yarn manufacturers and from them
got twenty-five pounds of yarn ou
credit, this yarn to be made into mit-
tens. The manufacturers furnished
the yarn, and I put it out at the homes
of the people near where I lived. I
had difficulty in starting the work and
was obliged to return jjart of the yarn
to the manufacturers at the end of the
year because I found it impossible to
have it all knit into mittens.
“This was not very encouraging for
a year’s work, but I persevered and
at the beginning of the second year
one family insisted on having some
yarn to knit into mittens. So I tried
it over again and after it once got well
started I could not supply the demand
for yarn. Tons of yarn were sent to
me and my business grew until I paid
the steamboat company the largest
freight bills of any one who did busi-
^ ess 011 the Boston and Bangor route.
From 10,000 to 15,000 dozen mittens
were manufactured yearly,and besides
making mittens we' made ladies’ aud
misses’ hoods and caps, toques, etc.
“I had 1500 names on my books ol
people who were at work for me, aud
many more that were really working,
as on my books there would he only
one name from each house, although
perhaps two, three or four members
of the household were knitting,often-
Gmes as many as there wore members
»tbe family. In the long winter
evemu S« “eu and boys wound the
jani and xu some cases even the men
knit.
“After 1873 the knitting of mittens
by hand gradually decreased aud 111 a-
chines came in to take the place of the
knitting. In 1882 1 began to buy ma-
chines and kept adding to my stock,
until now I have eighty-two machines.
We make from 12,000 to 15,000 dozens
in one year on the machines. One ot
girls has made 104 pairs of mit-
teus in one day, small single mittens,
and , eighty-live . , . „ . of ...... boys
pairs double-
lined mittens. Nearly all the machines
are run at the homes of the knitters,
for in that way they make more
money.
“Girls on an average make about
four dozen of cheap mittens or two
dozen of lined mittens in a day. We
make a great many fine fancy-backed
mittens of all sizes and of these the
girls make from one to two dozen a
day. The pi ice of knitting used to
be 25 cents a pair. Then it dropped
to six and it is about that now.”
When 81000 Looked Big.
Divide anything up into pairs and
yon magnify it. A certain wise man
took this way to give his wife an idea
of money. Her purchases were enor¬
mous. It happened one day that her
eye fell upon a magnificent ring and
she coveted it. It cost $1000, but
what was $1000 to her in comparison
to the ling? Of course her husband
consented to the purchase. What else
could a dutiful, affectionate husband
do? But he tried this method of edu-
eating his wife concerning the great
price of the ring. He instructed his
banker to send the $1000 in small
pieces— pennies, dimes, quarters. In
came the money, bagful after bagful.
Fhe never bad such an idea of $1000
before. When the money was piled
before her it alarmed her; the price
of the ring went up a hundredfold,
and was considered at once an extrav-
agauce which she of her own option
abandoned.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
. , '* • *•) university labora-
teorite* 3 lsco ' ere< ^ F at inum me-
*
p x . Penment3 • with plant seeds
Jf . c *° sub¬
ec extreme cold have shown
at tae P°wer of germination is not
, royed
but merely suspended by
® co1 ''-
deposit of earth strontian has
)8( " ri ou Put-in-Bay Island in
Bake Erie. It is many acres iu ex¬
tent. The nitrate of stroutia is of
l JUre white color.
-An interesting test has just been
made by a French woman. With a
view to testing the sustaining powers
for ot chocolate, she lived upon that alone
sixty days, and lost but fifteen
pounds in the interval.
A hybrid between wheat and rye,
produced some years ago by Dr.
aud since improved by Herr
-k^ineus C T repeated selection, now
appeal's li FT CD remarkably fine wheat,
tne f ralQ as well as the ears being
much more like wheat than rye.
Some curious experiments have
shown that a certain slow moving
phosphorescence, which under suita-
ble conditions appears iu the dark
within the eyeball or nerves of the
eye, is sensitive to sound, and is
thrown by it into various movements
which are evidently subject to definite
laws. If the sound is a word, the
A hosphoresceut film tends to form a
£0
THE SCIENTIFIC CONSCIENCE.
Both Were Interested In Geology, and the
Specimen Was a Hare One.
Happening to know two men who
were deeply interested in geology and
who did not know each other, a Detroit
man brought the two scientists to-
gether recently at the house of one of
them and then left them to enjoy the
occasion, says the Detroit Free Press.
A day or two later he met the host
in the case and heard this strange
story from him:
“Well, Mr. Cooper, that was a fine
man y ou brought out to see me the
other night—a fine man. Why, he’s
as ciaz y about S eolo 2y as 1 am > lf nofc
a tlifle w arier. We sat up together
until after midnight looking over my
specimens . and talking about them, and
1>m g° in 8 down to see his cases. He
tells me he has almost bankrupted
himself indulging his taste for rare
aud beautiful fossils. A funny thing
happened the other night, too; he’s a
great oue, that man! On my library
taL, le I had one remarkably beautiful
fossil—too choice to be hidden away
iu a case aud y et to ° valuable to be
left tying around. I needn’t tell you
wliat if was, for you don’t know one
floni another. Your friend does.liow-
ever, and lie returned again and again
to a( hniie this particular specimen.
Of course I enjoyed his enthusiastic
appreciation of it, and when ho was
about to go I said: ‘Mr. Badger, you
admired this fossil so much I’m goiug
to 8 ive myself the pleasure of parting
with it to you. Flease add it to your
collection.’ So saying I extended my
hand for the fossil, and behold it
wasn’t there! On the table and under
the table I looked; behind the lamp
and under papers; no fossil—a myste-
l’ious disappearance, M felt non-
| phtsed looked and sheepmh, looked fumbled at in the . side He
j of Ins sack coat and said: Well I m
! gl^l you are going to^ give me that
tossii. I have itm
,,. ‘"f. T 1 ^ a< 1 u ‘?, n 1 11 e ii Sil ' ue x • i
e T cou , , 11 u 1 , ,’ < ei i a 1 A ' or 0 P 1 lc ro
. ’! *
Sl-
; l ( Well, then,’ I said, ‘take it along
and heartily welcome.’
“I’ve annexed foss.ls myself. Art
has no conscience.”
Tho Rassion for Wealth.
No insanity is more complete than
that which unreasonable craving for
sud den wealth often produces. The
gve&t Duke of Marlborough used to
wa lk twenty furlongs through the rain
and sleet in the middle of the night to
add one English sixpence to his fortune
of more than a million pounds ster-
ling. A celebrated French miser
picked bones out of the streets, gnaw-
iug them like a dog, while his income
was over $5000 francs a day. One of
the most remarkable chapters in the
early Dutch history is the reference
to the tulip mania. The impression
was that fortunes were to be obtained
iu the trading in tulips. The bulbs
were bought and sold by weight, each
fraction of a pennyweight counted as
carefully ag jewel merchants count
their diamonds. The trade of the
Ration was tinned into thi3 single
channel and ordinary industries suf¬
fered almost complete paralysis. So
high at length did the fever rise that
over $5000 was offered and refused for
a single bulb. At last the bubble
burst. Men once rich became poor,
people of the middle class were re-
dueed to pauperism, aud Holland
hardly recovered from the blow in a
hundred years.—Detroit Free Press,
—--
Encourageuient.
He—I wish I could occupy the first
place iu your heart, but I knew that
your admirers’name is legion,
The Coquette—Well, be good, and
I’ll advance you ten numbers.—Puck,
Suaiu’s national debt now nmounta
to $1,200,000, (^.