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THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care und'skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the California Fig Sviiup
C o. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing tho
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi
cal profession, an-l the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver anil
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it floes not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company —
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
BAN FRANCISCO, OnL
MUTSVSLI.E. K». FEW YORK. M. V.
SUMMER LAW SCHOOL
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than common chimneys. All dealers.
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unbroken record of
Pifty Years of Cures .
To those doctors, who went up and : down the country in every
kind of wind and weather, faithful, patient, and true, Ayer’s Sarsa
parilla owes its first success. Today any doctor of repute who
prescribes any Sarsaparilla prescribes Ayers. We bavc thousands
of testimonials from doctors all over this land that it is the one
safe Sarsaparilla, and the doctors know what it is, because we bavc
been civing the formula of it to them for over hatf a century.
This is why
Ayers
is "the leader of them all," not because of much advertising nor
because of what we put around the bottle, but because of what
is in the bottle.
Ci It is the safe spring medicine for
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The Englishman's Experience.
He was an American citizen, and a
bit vainglorious, and he was talking to
an Englishman, who iuul a wit of his
own, despite reports to the contrary.
The recent achievements of Uncle Sain
in various localities aonstituted tho
subject of conversationh, and the Yan
kee fairly bulged out with pride.
"I ain a free American, I am,” ho
said, slapping his manly bosom, though
there was ho especial occasion for such
a demonstration. .
“I fancy not,” responded the English
man in a tone that Hounded as if he
know what he was talking about.
The Yankee resented it with prompt
ness and dispatch.
“I’d like to know, sir, why I am not?”
ho exclaimed, with the color of wrath
rising to his face.
“You are married, aren't you?”
“Yes ”
“And to an American?”
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“Well, that settles It in my mind.
i'vc got an American woman for a wife
myself.”
Thc Yankee smiled, stuck out hi I
hand and said lie thought it was aboul
time for them to organize an Anglo
American alliance not entirely for com
mercial purposes. -Washington Star.
Montreal’s Famous Bridge.
Victoria Bridge, over the St. Law
rence, at Montreal, is one of the fa
mous bridges of the world. It is 0,520
feet long, it is a tubular bridge, and
was completed in 1800, after six years’
labor on its construction, at a cost of
$7,000,000. 1 he bridge lias 25 spans,
the middle one being 350 feet, and
each of the others 242 feet long. All
Its iron work was made in England.
Don’t Tohiweo Spit mid Smoke Tour T.lfc Away,
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. lull of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 50c or 51. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
At . , Jasper. T ,, (»a. a cow poked . , , ner tongue ,
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through a crack in the partition between
her stall and that where the horses were
confined and one of tho horses bit her
tongue off.
To C ure a Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Linguists refund money if it falls to cure. 25c.
Accordin'.? to the Publishers* Circular,
0,008 England—a–i now books were published in 1897. last The year*, de
in fewer thau
is almost entirely in the class of »
novels and juvenile works.
Educate Your Bowels Wltn olasearet*.
Candy Cathartic, etna constipation forever.
lOc.SOc. if O. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
The Wheeling steel and Iron Co. granted its
from 8 to 15 per cent, increase.
N the year 1871
£ i the Service Life-Saving of the
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Ho secured ap
^2—propriationsfrom
Congress, introduced scientific meth
ods of saving lives and ships, drilled
I the moil, built stations at points with
hi a few miles of ouo auother from
j Maine to Florida, and along the
: shores of the Great Lakes, and effected
such improvements that he got the en
tire country heartily at his back. The
amount of property and the number of
lives saved, from the outset, was most
impressive. In 1874 he prepared a
bill to extend the work, to bestow
medals upon deserving life-savers, to
collect and tabulate statistics of ma
rine disasters, and to determine what
j p 0 iuts on the coast were specially
I li a Dlo to maritime calamities. He
| caused i ife . boats to be selected for
particular regions with a view to their
fitness for meeting the conditions
there existing; he investigated the
merits of various inventions in the
way of guns for shooting lines to
wrecked vessels, and of life-cars and
other devices for bringing persons
from wrecks to the shore. Finally,
the Bureau was separated 1 from the
... Treasury ... Department, , , and -. set in
up
business for itself,
Our Life-Saving Service is now
unique among nations. The greater
part' of our coast being practically
uninhabited and deserted, and in
many places very dangerous to naviga
tors, . there was need ihj.ii that it sliouiu. u , be
tedulously watched. The entire
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FIRING THE LIRE-LINE.
stretch of coasts, about ten thousand
miles in extent, is now patrolled daily
during the stormy seasons, and no
wreck can occur without being prompt
ly reported, and all possible means
taken to minimize loss. The men are
perhaps the most thoroughly drilled,
intelligent and efficient body in the
world, and constant inspection and
encouragement of the worthy maintain
them at this high level. The station
buildings are commodious and well
kept, and stored with whatever can be
of use iu the service, or productive of
benefit in educating the men. The
latter are paid regular salaries by the
Government, and in case of their dis
ablement or death, pensions are pro-
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vided for them or their families. Poli
tics are kept rigorously out of the Bu
reau ; and altogether, its history and
statistics are perhaps more gratifying
to the national pride aud pleasure
than those of any other bureau apper
taining to our Government. Mr. Kim
ball has been the right man in the
right place, aud the life-savers tkem
seU'es have magnificently supported
him by their achievements in the face
of tremendous perils and difficulties.
Collier’s Weekly has a striking arti
cle on the Life-Saving Service from
which the following is taken:
The venturesome mariner may lay a
straight course past Iceland and Spitz
bergeu northward till he brings up
against the eternal ice, by steering due
northeast from anywhere on the coast
of Eastern Massachusetts, and keep
ing away enough to clear the project
ing headlands of Nova Scotia aud New
foundland. In other words, when the
northeast wind arises in its might and
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The Brave Coast Guards Who Patrol the Shore
While the Storm Rages. §
goes forth from its lair in the Arctic
seeking whom it may devour, the first
land that it strikes squarely is Cape
Cod and the first large seaport that lies
in its track is Boston.
The meteorologists tell us that most
of the destructive cyclone storms orig
inate in the Gulf of Mexico or else
where in the South Atlantic, and in
truth the warnings of approaching
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BEACHCOMBERS AT WORK ON THE SALVAGE.
hurricanes at all seasons confirm the
truth of this theory. But be that as
it may, when the northeast wind gets
an unobstructed sweep of some thou
sands of miles down the wide stretch
of ocean that leads the Gulf Stream
northward it has a chance to develop a
degree of violence that it can hardly
attain where its course is interrupted
by outlying islands and reefs.
During the comparatively calm and
peaceful voyage that most travelers by
sea achieve from New York or Boston
to London, Liverpool or Southampton
they are told that when the ship crosses
a tract known to sailormen as “the
hole in the wall” their seamanship is
likely to be tested. The reason for
this is that until that point is reached
the southward sweep of wind and wave
is more or less modified by submerged
shallows such as the Grand Banks and
other ridges that are revealed by deep
sea soundings. It is not surprising,
therefore, that the accumulated force
of a protracted winter’s gale is some
thing terrific when it breaks on the
sandy headland that forms the ex
tremity of Cape Cod.
On one of the high Sand dunes that
form this promontory stands the High
land Light, looking out to sea, and
from sunset to sunrise, year in and
year out, sending its rays over leagues
of restless ocean to give warning of
the dangerous sand-bars that are
formed by waves and current all along
this coast.
The Government observers of ocean
phenomena, in their forecasts of North
Atlantic weather for the winter
months, habitually predict gales of
greater or less severity at intervals of
about seven or eight days covering all
this zone and extending southward as
far as Hatteras. or perhaps even tiil
they melt away into the gentle
trade winds of the tropics. But not
even the hydrographic office ventures
as yet to predict very far ahead the
approach of phenomenal storms such
as visited this coast at the end of
November. It could aud did give
warning several hours before the storm
began to make itself felt at the Vir
ginia capes and along up the Jersey
shore. Hurricane signals w ere promptly
set at every station away up the coast
as far as the jurisdiction of the United
States extended, and if the coastwise
authorities of the British possession
had only been willing to accept the
warning of American weather
prophets they, too, might have shown
danger signals for the benefit of their
seafaring population.
It is a singular characteristic of a
great many masters of vessels, from
the flag-officer of a squadron down to
the skipper of a coasting sloop, to
cherish a certain contempt for every
thing that savors of meteorological
science or official interference.
Lightships are anchored with an
eye to violent conditions of tempest,
their mooring chains are so huge und
heavy that to lift one of the links re
quires something of an effort to an
ordinary man. In spite of all, this
phenomenal gale tore theee lightships
from moorings, breaking the huge
chain cables and sending them adrift
to work their way under sail to such
harbor as Providence might vouchsafe.
One of them, the Pollock Kip light
ship, was driven away down toward
the Delaware Capes, and was at last
P«k:ed and towed , to . place , of ,
up a
safety by the Belgian steamer Switzer-
land. As this is written revenue
vessels are out looking for the other
lightships that are adrift, and, as still
other storms have intervened between
then and now, the question of finding
them becomes more and more.doubt
ful.
To recount even a few of the inci
dents and adventures and daring
deeds of rescue performed alike by
men of the Life-Saving Service and by
volunteers who manned lifeboats and
went to the rescue of crews on board
foundering vessels that they met on
the high seas would take far more
space than is at my disposal, Wlier
ever human life was imperiled men
were ready with daring hearts and
skillful bauds to rescue their fellows
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without hope or prospect of reward,
and while instances have been re
ported of alleged plundering of
wrecked persons and property along
shore, the weight of evidence, on the
side of courage and faithful discharge
of duty, is largely in the lead. Heaven
grant that the interval may be long
before such auother storm descends
from the Northern Ocean!
It Roused His Ambition.
The fat boarder groaned softly as lie,
watched the landlady band around the
cold chicken. He saw his finish. It
would either be a section of the back,
or a leg joint. He wasn’t much of a
favorite with the landlady.
“I am not,” be sorrowfully re
marked, “a man of ambitious long
ings. I care nothing for the cares of
state, or the applause of thousands.
But it never struck me so forcibly as
it does this evening that I would like
to be President.”
“And why this evening?” inquired
the unsuspecting landlady.
“Because the President,” said the
fat boarder with an unctuous fervor,
“because the President, whenever he
dines and it s au old and beautiful
custom is invariably waited upon
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And he took his section of back
with a heavy sigh.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
TUo Passing of the Tow-Path Mule.
The speediest solution of the canal
boat difficulty is offered by M. Salliot,
of Dijos, France, who has invented an
electric traction engine which will run
on any towpatk without rails. The
motive power is furnished by an over
head trolley wire. The towing cable
is fastened to the back of the engine,
and in the cab sits a man who does the
steering and controls the current. The
locomotive is perfectly stable, and
stands all sorts of shunting and cross
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TOWING C^SAIiEOATS BT ELECTRICITT.
ing. Experiments made in Paris were
so successful that the problem of tow
ing eanalboats seemed to be solved.
This photograph, taken near one of
the European capitals, shows how the
good, old, sure-footed, long-eared
friend of our fathers has been sup
planted.
EARLY CHRISTIAN COINS.
Recent Find of Alleged Me*8l»nlc Coin In
Farit Has Arouned NuiuimniUiats.
A holy coin found by Boyer d’Agen
in Paris, and alleged to be a specimen
of the Messianic coin which was in
use among the Christians in Jerusa
lem during the first century after the
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birth of Christ, is stirring up consid
erable discussion in England and on
the continent. The coin bears a por
trait of the Savior, with the liarno of
Jesus in Hebrew characters. On the
reverse, iu Hebrew characters, is this
motto:
“The Messiah, the King, will come
in peace. He is the incarnate living
light of men.”
The claim that this coin was in cir
eulation in tho fir^t century after
Christ is disputed in England, where
George Mackey, a notod coin collec
tor, shows almost an exact duplicate
of the Parisian coin. This coin was
unearthed iu 1812 by a peasant’s
daughter who was helping her father
dig potatoes in Ireland. On one side
is the head of the Savior, with a
Hebrew inscription as shown in the
illustration, and on the reverse a
Hebrew inscription reading:
“The Messiah has reigned. He came
in peace, and being made the. light of
man He lives.”
Walter Davis, member of tho Lon
don Numismatical Society, lias dis
covered that a similar coin is de
scribed in P.ev. K. Walsh’s “Essay on
Ancient Coins, Medals and Gems,”
and according to this authority the
character at the back of the head is
the Hebrew letter “Aleph,” and tha
characters in front of the face form
the Jewish name Jesus.
Still another holy coin, one of silver
and somewhat larger than those
mentioned, was submitted some time
ago to the authorities at the British
Museum. There is no such coin there,
but the verdict passed on the coin
submitted was “Italian coin seven
teenth century. Son of Jesse, the
Messiah, was crucified on the sixth
day and taken down on the sixth
day. He lived.”
The owner of this coin disputes the
great age of any of these so-called
holy coins.
Scientific Cliild-Study in Chicago Schools.
Scientific child study has commenced
in the public schools of Chicago, and.
while as yet it has reached no definite
stage, a beginning has been made at
least.
The most notable test now being
made is that through the medium of
the ergograpk, which is the invention
of Professor A. Mosso, of Italy, and is
for the purpose of determining the
stored up energy of the pupil.
Apart from the ergograpk tests there
are others, all of which are deemed es
sential. Iu the first place, the pupil
is weighed, then his height is carefully
taken, both standing aD^i sitting.
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OE THE ERGOGRAPH.
Then comes the ergograpk. It con
j gists of two main parts, one of which
a cylinder, revolved by means of
clockwork, about which a paper strip
is pasted. The working portion of the
second whiett part is is attached a small sliding carriage?
to a stylographic
pen, the point of which rests upon’the
paper covered cylinder, To one
end of this carriage is attached a
weight, and to the other a cord made
of twisted wire.
The arm of the pupil to be exam
ined is strapped into a rest, the latter
having no connection with the ergo
grapk, however, so that it is possible
to move only the fingers. The child’s
second finger is then booked into a
loop in the wire cord, and the pupil is
required to work the finger back and
forth in time with a metronome, a
contrivance for marking time. This
moves the carriage and the pen at
tached back and forth, and on the
paper of the cylinder, which has been
set into a barely perceptible motion,
the pen records an unbroken line
something like the teeth of a saw. As
the finger of the pupil weakens from
fatigue the distance he is able to pull
the carriage forward grows shorter
and shorter until he cannot move it
at all, and consequently the mark of
the pen on the paper over the cylin
der becomes almost perfectly straight.
Now, the principle upon which the
operation of the ergograph is based is
that any one set of muscles is an in
dex to the general condition of tha
body.
Massachusetts is caring for 500 epi
.eptics of all ages from four to seventy.