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Count Your Blessings. All the best things in tliis world ft re scattered with a lavish hand, and we do not know how rich we a re until we sit down to reckon u p our treasures. The love of parents, the affection of brothers and sisters, the help of teachers, the sympathy of friends, the com- pai iouship of books, the gift of children, the joys of home—all these are given to all sorts and conditions of men. If those you love and who love you have been spared to you another year, there ought to be a thanksgiving season in your home. What is any fail ure in business or calamity in for tune, or disappointment in ambi tion, or weariness in labor, or in- fimity in health, compared with the loss of a- husband or wife or child? Into many a home death has come and a glory has vanish ed from the earth. But even in these homes there is reason for thanksgiving, and the .sorrow should not be that of those who sorrow without hope. The prom ise of the life eternul is ours and ours the expectation of a glad re union.—Exchange. *~o-« Clerk’s Wise Suggestion. “I have lately been much troub led with dyspepsia, belching and sour stomach,” writes M. S. Mead, leading pharmacist of At tleboro, Mass. “I could eat hard ly anything without suffering several hours. My clerk suggest ed I try Kodol Dyspepsia Cure which I did with most happy re sults. I have had no more troub le and when one can go to eating mince pi > cheese, candy and nuts after such a time, their digestion must be pretty gojfd, I endorse Kodol Dvspeptia Cure heartily. “You don’t have to diet. Eat all the good food you want but don’t overload the stomach. Kodol Dys pepsin Cure digests your food. Hull,/.claw’s Drugstore. WhMua To keep skirts from wearing out to quickly around the edge put on a bias fold of lining,stitched with many rows, to give it “body,” the width varying from an inch and a half to four inches.—February Ladies’ Home Journal. amb ENeydiopiot/ £ STATISTICAL VOLUME OF . . Over 10,600. Facts and Figures Containing Over 600 Pages I^Special Features." j Millionaires of the United States; Parti culars About Three Thousand American Magnates. Organized Labor; Strength of the Labor Unions. The Trusts. United States Census. New Census ofHuropeanCountries. The Nicaragua Canal and the May-Paunce- fote Treaties With Orest Britain. The Re lations of Cuba With the United Statos. The Conference of Ameri can Republics at the City of Mexico. The Anarchist Statistics of This Country and Europe. Progress of Aerial Navigation In 1901. The New York Municipal Election of 1901. Agriculture. Manufactures, flortality. ^ FACTS ABOUT POLITICS. |THE BOOK THAT*BELONGsi IN EVERY OFFICE AND: IN EVE&Y HOME OF EVERY AMERICAN. Trapping a Witness. A case was being tried in a county court, 9ays the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. A horse had been stolen from a field, and'the evidence all pointed to a certain doubtful character of the neigh borhood as the culprit, Though his guilt seemed clear,, he had found a lawyer to undertake his defence. At the trial the defend ant’s counsel expended his energy in trying to confuse and frighten the opposing witnesses, especially a farmer whose testimony was particularly damaging. The law yer kept up a fire of, questions, asking many foolish ones, and re peating himself again and again in the hope of decoying the wit ness into a contradiction. “You say,” the lawyer went on, “that you can swear to having seen this man drive a horse past your farm on the day in question?” “I can,” replied tfte witness wearily, for he had already an swered the question a dozen times, “What lime was this?” “I told you it was about the middle of the forenoon.” “But I don’t want any ‘abouts* or ‘middles.’ I want you to tell the jury exactly the time.” “Why,” said the farmer, “I don’t always carry a gold watch with me when I’m digging pota toes.” “But you have a clock in the house, haven’t you?” “Yes.” “Well, what that?” •‘Why, by that clock it was time was it by just nineteen minutes past 10.” “You were in the field all the morning?” went on the lawyer, smiling suggestively. “I was.” “.How far from the house is this field?” “About half a mile.” “You swear, do you, that by the clock in your house it was just nineteen minutes past 10?” “Ido.” The lawyer paused and looked triumphantly at the jury. At last he had entrapped the witness into a contradictory statement that would greatly weakeu his evi dence. The farmer leisurely picked up his lilt and started to leave the witness stand. Then, turning slowly about, lie added : “I ought, perhaps, to say that too much reliance should not be placed on that clock, ns it got out -of gear about six months ago, and it’s been nineteen minutes' past 10 ever since.” Items Of Interest. “This is a thankless world,” says the Manayunk Philosopher,, “The man who pays cash gets no credit for it.” Monte Carlo has a special cem etery for gambling victims who commit suicide. Since 1860 over two thousand graves have been dug there. Uuder a regulation adopted by the civil commission, every for eigner entering the Philippines is uow required to pay a per capita tax of one dollar. The woman’s building at the Charleston expositian is a beauti ful colonial mansion built 200 years ago and surrounded by gar dens filled with old fashioned flowers. Norway, Ireland and Spain have more blind people in propor tion to population than any other European countries. Spain has 216 per 100,000; Norway, 208,and Ireland ,111. Minnesota is called the “bread and butter state,” and rightly too, for last year her mills turn ed out 26,680,500 barrels of flour and churned over sixty million pounds of butter. A tribe of peculiar people dwell on the banks of the Purus, South Africa. Men, women and children are spotted, with brown spots on a white skin. Their chief article of diet is fish. California lemons are driving Sicily lemons out of the market, it is claimed, because they pos sess greater weight, juiceness and citric acid, which latter sustains their keeping qualities. The Trans-Siberian railway gives the cheapest rates in the world. It is possible to buy an emigrant’s ticket, covering 6,- 000 miles—nearly three weeks’ interest Asked For Uncle Sam. Joe Ohl, writing to the Consti tution from Washington under date of February 8th, says: Representative Lewis, of the third district, today introduced a bill to require national banks to pay 2 per cent annual interest on all goyernment deposits. Mr. Lewis says he feels that the gov ernment is as much entitled to interest on its deposits as are oth er depositors. The government now has deposited in the national banks throughout the country $110,000,000, which has been the average d'eposit for several years. There is no doubt in Mr. Lewis’ mind that the republicans will pass some additional very liberal legislation affecting the banks, and he feels that the banks which are benefitted by this legislation ought at least to pay this low rate of interest on the government money deposited with them. The Georgia state depositories pay 2 per cent on all state money de posited with them, and Mr. Lewis can see no good reason why the national banks should, not pay similar interest. STANDARD AMERICAN ANNUAL. Price GtS. | AT ALL NEWSDEALERS. WORLD Pulitzer Bldg., New York The above described bock free at this omce to every Home Journat, subscrib er who pays $1.50 strictly in advance. «TOB "A7€2% NEA. l’L¥ E XECUTED -AT THIS OFFICE— Saved Him From Torture. There is no more agonizing trouble than piles. The constant itching and burning make life in tolerable. No position is com fortable. The torture is unceas ing. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cures piles at once. For skin diseases, cuts, burns, bruises, all kinds of wounds it is unequal ed. J. S. Gerall, St. Paul, Ark., “From 1865 I suffered with protruding, bleeding piles and c i!;ivcl nothing to help me un til 1 used DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. A few boxes completely cured me. Beware of counter feits. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. journey—for about $3. In the coldest parts of Siberia a rainbow may sometimes be seen all day long in a cloudless sky. It is supposed to be due to the reflection of the sun on fine particles of snow in the air. There are four thousand Rus sian in Kansas, a thousand heads of families who do little beyond raising wheat. They vote in elections as one man, and at tend strictly to their own busi ness. Dredging rivers in gold-bearing countries for gold has become a great industry, and dredges of wonderful power and capacity are being built to dredge 60 feet below the water line and to reach 60 feet above it, along tho banks. An enormous capital is sunk in the mineral water industry in Great Britain. It is probably not overestimating the figure to put it ' at £15,000,000, while the workers employed will number not far short of one hundred thousand. The Russians count upou their climate as one means of defense, as it was when Nopoleon invaded Russia. Their troops are accord ingly trained in winter maneu vers, including loading a battery, with its war transport and mate rial complete, upon sleighs ; mov ing it for some distance over a differcu.lt, snow-covered country, and bringing it into action again. The Farmer’s Wife is very careful about her churn. She scalds it thoroughly after us ing, and gives. it a sunbath tl sweeten it. She knows that if her churn is sour it will taint the butter that is made in it. The stomach is a churn. In the stom ach and digestive and nutritive tracts are performed processes which are exactly akin to the churning of butter. Is it not apparent then that if this stom ach churn is “sour” it sours all which is put into it? The evil of a foul stomach is not the bad foul 1 says i n< taste in the mouth and the breath caused by it, but the cor ruption of the pure current, of blood and the dissemination of disease throughout the body. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov ery makes the sour stomach sweet. It does for the stomach what washing and sun bath do for the churn—absolutely removes every tainting or corrupting element. “Golden Medical Discovery” con tains no alcohol, whisky or other intoxicant and no narcotic, ^Vegetable PrepacaiLonlbr As similating the Food andReg ula- ting the Stomachs andBowels of Promotes Digestion,Cheerful ness andRest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. Hot‘N Ait c ©tic. KMpear&tdMrSXA'!.Uimt/ON P*ntf>hn Stuvl ~ .tixJttnntt * AtwAt/UMir - jilitc Seerl - mal t,‘'.it(i-c,!.- CtoiifiM ,Yimr tmlciijrfaffi. /7<mv; A perfect Remedy forConsUpa- Tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea 1 Verms Convulsions .Feverish ness amt LOSS OF SlaEffiP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. i IFor Infants and Children The Kind You Havp Thirty Years KEEP POSTED CONCERNING:— Houston County Affaire BY READING T HOME JOURNAL. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM, We strive to make the paper a welcome visitor to ever household, thereby deserving patronage, Subscription Price $1.50 a Year.. 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