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‘Squirrel Became Wood. The following story was given us by a gentleman whose veracity we would not doubt. About six years ago in the fall a hunter shot a squirrel, which lodged between two small twigs the size of a lead pencil. This being near the man’s house, he watched the squirrel each week. The first spring the twigs grew and the squirrel remained in ‘the position it lodged. The second year the twigs, which had grown to be the size of a man's fingers, died; so did the limb die. The third year no change, but during the fourth year the tail of the squirrel dropped off, and the man noticed no change in the fith, but in the sixth year he secured the limb and squirrel and found, to his surprise, that the squirrel had become & white oak bump. Under the microscope could be seen the hairs in the wood. The places for the eyes and ears were perfect, and where the chin and forelegs bad touched the twigs it grew to them. The legs were intact, but the feet had disappeared. The hody of the squirrel had grown to be about four inches in diameter. What puzzled the gentleman who gave us this is, through what process could the dead animal become wood? As proof to the story we can furnish the name of the man who has fhe freak of nature in his possession and who watched it from the time it first lodged.-—Hggith’s Grove (Ky.) Times. Effect of Moral Teaching on Youth. - Two small boys stood before Judge Stubbs of the Juvenile court. They gazed fearfully into his earmest, yet kindly face, and, not too badly fright ened to understand, grasped the im port of the lecture. “My Hoys, tell me, now, why did you jump off and on those cars? You knew that you might have a leg or an arm cut off, didn’t you? You might have been killed. Now, you haven’t got any. more arms and legs than you need, Have you? Don’t you see that it's very foolish of you to put your self in%ia'a.ger in that manner?” SittinJg in the little waiting room of the coujrt half an hour later, both boys were sillent. They had evidently been ponderifng over the words of the judge. Not so imuch reverence as might have been exlpected was heard in the voice of the simaller boy as he suggested to the othefr: “Huh/! Bet that’s how the judge lost his owr4 arm.”’—lndianapolis News. { e e . ound the Meanest Man. “I spppose,” said Representative Hughes, of New Jersey, ‘that they " pointed out to me the meanest man in the Unilted States last time I was over in Wilklesbarre, “He lis a merchant there, and his reputation for stinginess is so univer gal that when it was announced he in tended (to do something handsome for his son/ on the boy’s 12th birthday, a delegation of men who knew him called 'around to see what had hap pened,l-}and if he had really loosened up. ; “ [ hear you did something fine ;foJ your son,’ sald one of the visitors. “+Yeg,' sald the stingy man, ‘I treat ed him pretty well’ ; “*What did you do? asked another. -~ 1““Well, he said, ‘I was going to let him have his hair cut as a birthday treat, but as it turned so cold I took a pail of water and made a slide for him in the back yard.” , When Digestion Is Perfect. Thus we have arrived at the conclu sion that moderation in diet has more to do with prolonging human life than any other one thing, and we have en deavored to enforce this teaching by showing in the clearest manner of which we are capable the reasons for it. A proper dietetic regimen, once attained, brings all the rest in its traln. Sleep, exercise, cleanliness, equanimity of spirit, all hang upon it| Life is not only prolonged, but is con: stantly enjoyed, most of its minor an noyances vanishing when digestion ig perfect. Pay no attention to fads. They give rise to too much introspec. tion, and that is bad for every one.— ‘qger S. Tracy in Century Magazine, L Ty st } THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME Are Never Without Peruna in the House for Catarrhal Diseases. q LR X AN \~\ ‘x'iJ‘ {1 H/ 11N ',s‘:‘%' N B N ot SR lEAI }§'% 0B \ Y e e e §f4§’§§:£\ \\ SN HADES R O SNt 2 \ ; s iST gy Zfim\’n NS !v P& '\\R\*“‘f@ Sl o s§* \ A 2 U} S = N - SN gt TR Lal N ¢ g 3 . & § - . ‘l? \:Q\ 3 ! e " AL (A 1 eoy ;”i Al Al \\\\&» f?"'..'t 'BB ARG ‘:\_ B go (’ /,“‘/' o S SS ‘ \\ ‘,‘\:, VI SN :';,7 3 : N\ ‘l‘ CamEE— { y‘ 2N g =35 ' ' I N\ ol 1! LR . \ == 48 Wl NN ‘ RO AN % o ey N e Ry NN ; > oM N N N Y Ve SnseniaeN \\gué %}\;&”(l, j,/ / ,N“ ‘é\fil‘ i (‘,?\ LY ENTY SNNI 80 J Y P (RSN NI A NN AN S 0 2 D %@s‘%} e .-:-‘gf'}(‘- S (RRAN N/ e"'-m\-s—“-- B\ | | LSS 2 WSEE) R t N \\}'\‘.“\ .;,{[//Blfi-tz:\F—T- e N '«' ::3 ‘;::‘3-:.: M’ \e \‘)JR5(y 7‘,‘4“,- | INRFEC = SN IR NIA\ S\ P '\\‘&&m};fi Rt FONN, O . ,'f"\“ a“'\\;;/” LS LA e 72 IR I WAL \\W T R N VIR r Y A ) Ko SR e, Al ST N : . ,‘. ‘\ 7 \y' '--*;’,'~".'~:u.;'~!_g'{7'~w‘.wn"fw S 0 g WA N\ # % MR. AND MRS. J. 0. ATKINSON, INDEPENDENCE, MO. UNDER date of January 10, 1897, Dr. H#rtman received the following letter: “My wife had been suffering from a com plication of diseases for the past 25 vears. “Her case had baffled the skill of some of the most noted physicians. One of her worst troubles was chronic constipation of several years’ standing. . “‘She also was passing through that most eritical period in the life of a woman— change of life. In June, 1895, I wrote to you about her case. You advised a course of Peruna and Manalin, which we at ence commenced, and have to say it completely cured her. She firmly believes that she would have been dead only for these won derful remedies. “About the same time I wrote you about ray own case of catarrh, which had been of % years’ standing. At times I was almost past going. I commenced to use Peruna according to your instructions and contin wed its use for about a year, and it has completely cured me. “Your remedies do all that you claim for them, ‘and even more, Ca tarrh cannot exist where Peruna is taken according to directions, Suc cess to you and your remedies,’’ John O. Atkinson. In a letter dated January 1, 1900, Mr. ; | Hurt, Sweat, Blister, cured by ROYAL FOOT WASH. FEET TH AT Removes odors of feet, argnpits, ete. Keeps the feet cool. If ———— DOt at druggists send 26¢ §0 EaTox Drua Co., ATLANTA, GA., for full size. postpaid: sample, rostpaid. for 2¢c stami. One application proves its merit. | The DeLoach Patent Variable Friction Feed | Saw Mill with 4 h, p. cuts 2,000 feet per day. All ¢ sizes and _Frices to suit. DeLoach Shingle Mills, " Edgers, Trimmers, Planers; Corn and.Buht | Mills, Water Wheels, Lath Mills, Wood Saws. Our handsome new Catalog will interest you t Deloach Mill Mfg. 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In my rounds as a traveling man lam a walking advertisement for Peruna and have induced many people duringthe past year to use Peruna with the most sat isfactory results. I am still cured of catarrh,” John O. Atkinson, Box 272, Independence, Mo:~ - When old age comes on catarr af dis eases come also. Systemic cafasfrh is al most universal in old people./” _ This explains why Perunid has become so indispensable to old jfeople. Peruna is their safeguard. Perydna 1s the only rem edyi vet devised that {meets these cases ex actly. Such cases cannot "be treacod locally; nothing but an effectsive systemic remedy could cure them. ."I'his is exactly what Pe runa Is. 2 : If you do noff receive prompt and satisfac tory results rom the use of Peruna, write at once to IYr. Hartman, giv_in%a full state ment of yg/ur case and he will be pleased to give you HMis valuable advice gratis. Addregfs Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartma!p Sanitarium, Columbus, O. e Cotton Gin : @ Machinery L Rt PRATT . 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