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FORTUNES IN THIMBLES*
HOW THE USEFUL LITTLE IMPLE
MENT CAME TO BE INVENTED.
The Chinese Used It Centuries Be
fore Any Other Nation—Queer
Kinds Now in Use.
“The is a rich family of the name of
Lofting in England,” said a dealer in
fancy articles, ‘ ‘the fortune of whose house
was founded by such an apparently in
significant tiling as the thimble. Two
hundred years ago thimbles were un
known in England. The thimble is
claimed by the Dutch as an invention of
their country, but it is knowu that it was
in use among the silk embroiderers of
China hundreds of years before it was
used elsewhere. The first ever seen in
England was made in London less than
two hundred years ago by a metal worker
named John Lofting, the founder of the
family named. The usefulness of the
article commended it at once to all who
used the needle, and Lofting acquired a
large fortune and great fame in the manu
facture of the new accessary to the
needle-worker’s art. The implement
was then called the thumb-bell, it being
worn on the thumb when in use, and its
shape suggesting the rest of the name.
This clumsy mode of utilizing it was soon
changed, however, but when and why
the name ‘Thimble’ was given the article
does not appear.
“Lofting’s thimbles, and, In fact, all
early thimbles, were made either of iron
or brass, and specimens of them extant,
many of which are preserved as heirlooms,
are crude and clumsy-looking things com
pared with the commonest thimble of to
day, although their cost was many times
as much.
“To-day gold, silvan, iron,ivory, steel,
pearl, shell, celluloid, rubber and even
glass are utilized in making thimbles.
When art needlework was in its first
burst as a popular craze, four or five
years ago, thimbles of great value and of
most elaborate workmanship, to accom
pany the rich and costly implements and
materials wealthy needlework ers affected,
found a large sale. Solid gold thimbles,
plegantly carved, and frequently set with
diamonds, were found none too good for
many fashionable home decorators.
Thimbles made to order, with the mono
gram or initials of the person for whom
they were intended set in precious stones,
were by no means unknown objects d’art,
in the fashioning of which the skill of our
artistic metal workers were taxed. I
know a rich young lady in this city
whose enthusiasm for art needlework
was so intense three years ago
that nothing but a diamond set gold
thimble that cost SIOO, with other em
broidering implements to match, would
enable her to reproduce those well-re
membered, fearful and wonderful butter
cups, daisies and blue bells that one saw
blooming in such prodigal profusion on
foot stools, banners, screens, tidies and
bureau covers in all homes of culture and
refinement in those crazy days of ama
teur home art.
“In China the ladies of high rank arc
very dainty with their thimbles. Some
are carved from enormous pearls, with
bands of fine gold, on which are engi'aved
all sorts of fantastic things, the etchings
«of which serve for catching the needle,as
the ordinary holes in the thimbles of the
outside barbarians do. The high-rank
■Chinese thimble always has a mother-of
pearl case. With the thimble the Chinese
lady always has a delicate pair of scissors
of the finest steel, in a sheath of pearl,
ami a pearl needle case. The articles are
all inclosed in an exquisitely inlaid case
of the purest mother-of-pearl. A New
York lady, whose husband was in the
China trade, has one of these Chinese
needlework kits, which she values at
S2OOO.
i “The way thimbles are made in Eng
land and in this country is simple
enough. Dies of different sizes are used,
into which the metal, whether gold, sil
ver or steel, is pressed. The hole punch
ing, finishing, polishing and tempering
xire done afterward. Celluloid and rub
ber are molded. The best thimbles are
made in France, where the process is
more thorough. Strange as it may seem,
the French consider durability in their
thimbles as the first requisite. The first
step in the making of a Paris gold thim
ble is the cutting into a disk of the de
sired size a thin piece of sheet iron. This
is brought to a red heat, over a
graduated hole in an iron bench and ham
mered down into it with a punch. This
hole is the form of the thimble. The
Iron takes its shape and is removed from
the hole. The little indentations to keep
the needle from slipping are made in it
and all the other finishing strokes of the
perfect thimble put on it. The iron is
then made into steel by a process pecu
liar to the French thimble maker, and is
tempered, polished and brought to a deep
blue color. A thin sheet of gold is then
pressed into the interior of the thimble
and fastened there by a mandril. Gold
leaf is attached to the outside by great
presu'we, the edges of the leaf being
fitted hi and held by small grooves at the
base of the thimble. The article is then
ready for use. The gold will last for
years. The steel never wears out, and
the gold can be readily replaced at any
time.. Nowhere else in the world are
gold thimbles made in that way.
“I have heard of many curious
thimbles. The Queen of Siam has one
which was a present from her royal hus
band. The thimble had never been in
use in Siam until a few years ago, when
the King, noticing that English and
American ladies who visited his court
used thimbles, had one made for his
Queen. It was made of gold', in the
form of a loftus bud, the loftus being
the Siamese royal floral emblem, and was
thickly studded with diamonds, so ar
ranged as to form the Queen’s name and
the date of her marriage. The presenta
tion was equal to an order that the ladies
of Siam should use thimbles, and they
have used them ever since. A lady in
Boston has a thimble made from a piece
of the old Washington elm at Cam
bridge, the tree under which Washing
ton stood when he took the oath as
pommander-m-Chief in 1775. The wife
of a prominent Brooklyn clergyman has
a thimble that was carved from a pe
culiar stone she found on the shore of
the Dead Sea. A well-known New York
society lady has one made from asphal
tum, the substance with which the
sacred fires of Persia were built.” —Mail
and Express.
System of Slaking Crop Reports.
Now that the system of gathering crop
reports and making estimates, as used by
the Government, is being adopted by the
several States, giving uniformity through
out the country, it may be interesting to
those who read these reports from time to
time, to know on what basis they are
made.
The instructions to local reporters, as
given by the Statistician of the United
States Department of Agriculture, are as
follows: One hundred is made the unit
of measure or basis on which estimates
are made, and any increase or decrease
from that is represented by percentage.
An increase of one-tenth means a ten per
per cent, increase and is represented by
110. A decrease of one-twentieth means
a five per cent, decrease and is repre
sented by ninety-five.
In comparisons of area with that of the
previous crop, 100 represents the acreage
of the previous year. As to products,
the question may be in reference to the
present yield as compared with that of
the previous year, or it may refer to the
average yield, 100 being the basis in each
case. In reports of “condition” of grow
ing crops, 100 is the standard of full
condition, representing perfect healthful
ness, exemption from injury, from insects
or drouth, or other cause, with average
growth or development. Condition of
crop can never go above 100, except from
one cause, unusual or extraordinary de
velopment and vigor of plant which more
than counter-balances any deficiency in
stand or other loss. Any injury, from
whatever cause, is estimated as such a per
cent, or part of 100 and is subtracted
from 100. To illustrate: If a corre
spondent estimates that the wheat crop
in the section for which he is reporting
has been injured by chinch bugs, so that
the condition is not so good by one
fourth as it would otherwise have been,
he will, if there is no other injury, report
the condition as being seventy-five per
cent., twenty-five per cent., or one-fourth
below what the condition would have
been had there been no injury. If other
causes, such as bad conditions at seeding
time, winter killing, drouth, etc., have
affected the condition so that as a result
of all the injuries it is only one-half as
good as it would otherwise have been, it
is represented by fifty.— Farm , Field and
Stockman.
Making Plaster Statues.
A section of the famous Venus dc Milo
stood on the floor as a A ews reporter en
tered a plaster-of-Paris statuary establish
ment on Grand street, New York city.
On the second floor was the gallery,which
exhibited the statues produced by the
concern, and the low basement served as
a workshop. Two Italians were busy on
the figure, which was to be ten feet high
and to grace a niche in the wall of a
South American’s house.
The men were cementing the four sec
tions composing the statue together.
Figures as large as this are invariably cast
in parts or sections. To cast the whole
figure together involves too much labor
and too much exposure to damage in
handling. To make the first mold of a
figure requires considerable time and costs
a deal of money. For this purpose a
skillful sculptor has to be secured and he
makes the prototype from clay. The clay
statue is first covered with oil.
It is then placed face upward in- the
lower half of a flask, divided in sections
and filled w'ith plaster of Paris. After
the plaster adhering to the back half of
the body has become hard, the other half
of the flask is fitted on and filled with
plaster. The oil prevents any plaster from
sticking to the clay model. After the
mold is made,no difficulty is encountered
in turning out any number of statues.
Italians alone serve in establishments of
this kind; men of other nationalities, be
ing unable to perform the work without
too much breakage, cannot obtain em
ployment in them. The proprietor stated
that casts of live faces were' never taken
because the risk of destroying the casts
was too great, but it was a common thing
to cast dead faces.
“It is somewhat of a fad among so
ciety people to have casts of their hands
and feet,” explained the proprietor. “We
charge $5 and upward for the cast of a
hand or foot and for that of a dead face
$lO, sls and S2O. All the plaster of
Paris that we use comes from Newark,
N. J. It is made by pulverizing a soft,
white stone and afterward steaming it.
We mix nothing but water with tho
plaster.”
llow Notable Writers Work.
The Phonographic World describes the
manner in which notable writers do their
work, and aptly precedes its articles with
an extract from the Indianapolis Journal
showing that 500 letters come to the
White House every day, outside of the
President’s family mail. To answer them
a force of men work until nearly mid
night. The more important letters Mr.
Halford replies to by dictating to Miss
Sanger, who typewrites what he says.
But as to how great people write. John
Habberton often has his manuscript copied
by typewriter; so does Thomas Went
worth Higginson. J. T. Trowbridge
writes with a pen. Luke Sharp writes
that a noted English author once told
him he could not dictate love scenes to
a typewriter, because “he felt he was
making a fool of himself.” Sharp fi*4s
the same way, he says. Mrs. E. D. E.
N. Southworth regards the pen as an old,
tried friend, and stuck to it until three
years ago, when she got a typewriter.
Edmund C. Stedman is thinking of em
ploying a stenographer; Noah Brooks
uses a typewriter; Itossiter Johnson writes
with a pen; Sarah Orne Jewett relies on
quill pens, and so do Sidney Luska and
the author of “Cape Cod Folks.” Arlo
Bates has been forced to use a typewriter,
and Thomas Nelson Page does his law
w<«rk with a typewriter and his literary
work with a pen.
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
FEA-VINE SILAGE.
A Long Island truck farmer asks
whether pea-vines from which the pods
have been picked for market are suitable
for silage. They make excellent silage,
and, fed in connection with that from
corn, it is a better-balanced ration than
either kind alone. But a ton of silage is
contained in about fifty cubic feet, and it
takes a quite large area of pea-vines to fill
even a moderate-sized silo. However,
some truck farms have, fifty acres or more
of peas,and in such instances there would
be no difficulty. The pea-vines may be
packed into the silo without running
through the cutter. —American Agricul
turist.
DANDRUFF ON A HORSE’S SKIN.
The gathering of cast-off scales of the
skin at this season of the year should be
removed by the use of a card or curry
comb and a stiff brush. It is prevented
by regular currying of the skin through
the winter. A horse kept in a pasture
and exposed to much rain will be covered
with a matted coating of these scales and
shed hair, and these mats are exceedingly
injurious to the skin, causing raw spots
and sores. These matted patches should
be removed carefully by soaking with
warm water and carbolic soap before they
are torn off by the currycomb. Constant
brushing of the coat will prevent this
trouble, for which medicine is entirely
useless. —New Torlc Times.
TRAINING TOMATOES.
A simple and cheap way of training
tomatoes, and especially adapted to limited
space, is thus described: Set the plants
in even rows about three feet apart. As
soon as large enough, hill well, and close
to each plant drive a forked stick, leaving
about three feet above ground. On the
forks place long poles firmly. To these
train the vines, tying with strings, and
nip off the shoots that grow too far above
them. By this means every fruit will be
fine, free from mud, even when heavy
rains fall, and the vines keep in bearing
till late in autumn. The plants are more
prolific, and but little fruit is lost, as is
so often the case when the vines rest on
the ground. In case of early frosts,
double sheets of newspapers hung over
the trellises will protect the tomatoes un
til gathered. —New York Witness.
TREATMENT OF LAMBS.
Sprinkle a little salt on the lamb so
the mother will be induced to lick it. .
To make a ewe take another lamb after
she has lost her own, tie the skin of the
latter on the “adopted” youngster. If
at any time the lamb is weak and sickly
give it half a spoonful of hog’s lard. Re
peat the dose in half an hour if no better,
as this cuts all phlegm, makes breathing
more easy, and gives strength and tone to
the system. But of all things there is
nothing like sunshine for young lambs,
as this gives them more strength and
growth than anthing else. Should they
get chilled at any time give them some
rum with a little afeedita dissolved in
it. Manure should not be allowed to ac
cumulate in the barn, as the gases arising
from it are very unhealthful. It is one
of the most prolific causes of bad outcome
with pregnant ewes, failure of milk, dis
owning of lambs, shedding of wool, and
perhaps death. We should say, in con
clusion, that there are but three short
periods each year that sheep require any
extra attention—that is, breeding season,
lambing time and weaning time. —Mark
Lane Express.
PRESERVING MILK IN NORWAY.
A new method of preserving milk for
a lengthened period, without altering its
composition, and without adding any for
eign ingredient, says the Farmers' Gazette ,
has lately been devised and brought into
use in Norway. The milk, we read, is
taken direct from the cow, and in the
first place is cooled down to ordinary
temperature, about 50 to 60 degrees
Falir., and then hermetically sealed up
in tins. In this state it is exposed to a
temperature of about 160 degrees, and
kept at this for one hour and three
quarters, or thereabout, after which it is
allowed to cool down to 100 degrees, at
which it remains for some time. It is
then quickly heated up again to the for
mer temperature of 160 degrees. This
alternate heating and cooling is repeated
in the same manner several times, and
then finally the temperature is raised to
the boiling point of water, or about 212
degrees, after which it is cooled again to
ordinary temperature, when it is found
to be completely sterilised, not a trace
of any organism or germ being left, and
is, therefore, in a state in which it can
be kept for an indefinite length of time
without undergoing any change.
RAISING MUSK AND WATER-MELONS.
Musk-melons require a warm, dry,
sandy loam. Plow the ground thoroughly;
strike out furrows six feet apart each
way; put in each crossing a good, large
shovelful of manure (stable manure is
best); tread it well down, and cover with
two or three inches of soil. Drop ten or
twelve seeds, scattering them in about
one foot of space and cover half an inch
deep, packing the ground down with the
hoe. When the second pair of leaves
appear, thin out to four or five of the
strongest plants. Watch closely for the
striped bugs, as they will destroy
the plant while it is young. As soon as
they appear dust the plants with Paris
green early in the morning, while the
dew is on, and repeat for several days
until the danger is over. Keep down all
weeds and the ground loose by the
frequent use of the cultivator and hoe, at
the same time hilling up slightly around
the plants. When the fruit forms, cut
off all imperfect or smooth-skinned
melons, as they arc worthless and take the
strength from the perfect ones. Do not
plant near squashes or pumpkins, as they
will mix and spoil the flavor of the
melons. For near-by or home use, they
should be left on the vines until the stem
shows signs of cracking from the fruit, or
it will part readily. If the melons are to
be kept several days pick earlier. Use
care not to press nor bruise the blossom
er.d, us it will soften and spoil the melon.
A barrel is best to pack in. Lay in all
around the barrel, stem end out and side
down, to prevent bruising. A barrel will
hold from thirty to thirty-six prime
melons. Cover with coarse bagging
drawn tightly under the top hoop and
nailed.
Watermelons require a warm, rather
sandy loam, thoroughly plowed and har
rowed. llun furrows twelve feet apart
each way; dig the soil out with a hoe at
the crossings about six inches deep, and
two feet or more in diameter, and fill
with good, strong stable manure or
guano. Tread well down and cover with
about two inches of soil. Drop eight or
ten seeds, scattering them, and cover
about one inch deep, pressing the soil
down on the seed with the back of the
hoe. Dust with Paris green, the same as
musk melons, being sure to get it well
under the leaves. When they have made
the second pair of leaves, thin out,
leaving four or five of the strongest
plants. When they begin to make run
ners give the ground a good dressing of
fine, well-rotted manure or fertilizer, over
the hill, and extending about two inches
all around it, and work it well in with
hoe or cultivator. Pinch or cut off all
weak or imperfect ones, and thin down
to from one to three on each vine, to have
large ones. The large ones are the most
desirable, and the only ones that are
worth sending to market. It will pay
best to use plenty of good, strong manure
to attain that purpose. If shipped in
barrels, place them stem end down and
tightly together, to prevent shifting, and
cover with coarse bagging. —American
Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Be ready to fight the curculio promptly.
Nothing is gained by cutting potatoes
until planting time.
Rag weed, motherwort and golden
rod are spoken of as good honey plants.
There are few foliage plants easier of
propagation and cultivation than cannas.
A grape grower recommends lime
mixed with muck as very good for vines
on poor soil.
Small chickens kept and fed with
those much larger than themselves are
very liable to injury.
Prevent slugs on rose bushes by spray
ing the foliage with white hellebore—
half an ounce to a gallon of water.
Sow two or three small boxes with let
tuce seed and set in the kitchen window,
to have green food for the early broods.
Some beekeepers consider raspberry
bloom not only rich and good for bee
pasturage but the surest that can be had.
Manuring in the hill is like heaping
manure about the stem of a fruit tree.
Better spread it out as far as the roots
extend.
Keep the pigs growing rapidly. The
cheaper the animal the less the cost of
each pound of flesh made, generally
speaking.
The foliage of the plum is so sensitive
that spraying with Paris green should be
trusted to skilful hnn<Cj|bnly, or injury
will follow.
The cucumber requires considerable
moisture. Dry soil and drought de
creases the crop and is also thought to
give a bitter flavor. £
A chick hatched in March and April,
is worth two hatched in June,
in July. Do you know why some farm
ers make poultry a success?
Feed the meat you give to your dogs,
and kill your worthless curs, and buy a
market basket to gather your eggs in,
and keep the profits for a rainy day.
Pounded crockery, shells, or old mor
tar, are good to be fed to hens at anj
time, as the mortar not only contains the
mill for grinding, but the bag to hold
the feed.
Don’t feed too much corn, at least not
more than three times weekly and that at
night. Corn produces fat, a fat hen is a
poor layer; eggs from fat hens will sel
dqm hatch.
Combinations of Indian com and skim
milk afford a most economical ration foi
young pigs, shotes and breeding stock
where good bone and muscle are essential
to the highest results.
If turnips will not grow without being
wormy, if cabbages have the club foot,
if the onion bed is infected with mag
gots, put the land in dandelion one year
and the trouble will disappear. ...
The smaller the field the more fence
required and the more land taken from
cultivation. The more oblong the field
the more fence required to enclose a
given area; conversely, the nearer a
square is the field the less fence is re
quired.
In mixing whitewash, use two table
spoonfuls of crude carbolic acid to a buck
etful of whitewash, mix thoroughly and
' use at once. Do not wait until your
i chickens arc moopy and dead, and won
der how, and write your editor for a re
ceipe to kill lice.
There are few things that yrill improve
the appearance of a home more than tree
planting. Every rural and suburban
home should be marked by a nice grove
of forest or ornamental trees, hedge rows
for wind breaks and an orchard of stand
ard and small fruits.
It is always the active, energetic fowls
that are most prolific of eggs and the
surest of breeders. The eggs of very fat
fowls will not hatch. If not infertile at
the outset they have less vitality, and
besides are apt to be somewhat oiled by
brushing against the feathers of a fat hen
in the nest. Most of the active breeds of
fowls have high combs, which are very
sensitive to cold.
An American Grace Darling.
Ida Lewis, who helps her father keep
the lighthouse on a little island near
Newport, R. 1., is the Grace Darling of
America. She has saved the lives of
sixteen persons, men, women and chil
dren. At the first cry of distress she
plunges into the water, swims out to the
struggling victims and bears her human
burden in safety to the shore. She has
been decorated by Queen Victoria and
has medals from life-saving stations all
*ver the world.—AW York Press.
The Next Census.
In taking the next census, there will
bo one supervisor for each district, who
will be nominated by the President and
whose nomination will be acted upon by
the Senate in next December. The enu
merators will be named to the superin
tendent of the census by the supervisors.
The enumerators will work only during
the month of June, 1890, when the ac
tual counting is to be done. They will
be paid according to the number of
names they turn in upon their lists, with
the limitation that no enumerator can
make more than $5 a day. Their general
average will be about SOO for the month
during which they work. The supervis
ors will commence preliminary work in
January next. Their work, which will
continue to the first of the following
July, Mill not, except for a very short
time, be in any degreo arduous. Their
pay will be according to the population
of their respective districts.
Bernhardt’s Grievances.
Madame Snrah Bernhardt says: It is
not because I am extravagant that I am
nlways in want of money, but because I
am always being robbed by my directors.
Shamefully robbed! I have been cheated
out of millions upon millions. One trusts
the rogues, does not read over the en
gagement as carefully as one ought to
do, and signs. Then there is always a
line about a forfeit or something else
which one has overlooked, and it is there
that the director is in ambush. Between
the thieves on one side and the small
prices paid in Paris on the other, I often
wonder how I get a piece of bread to put
between my teeth. Of all countries,
France is perhaps the one where an ac
tress earns the least. Look at what El
len Terry, Bernard-Beere and Mary An
derson earn. Why they make as much,
I am sure, in a week, as I do in a seuson.
—
Mrs. Livermore humorously tells this
about herself: She went to a town in
Maine to deliver a lecture. A young min
ister, who felt greatly his importance in
having to introduce so large a light, an
nounced her in these words: “Ladies and
gentlemen, you have all heard of the il
lustrious man across the water, so belov
ed by his people, and who is known by
the sobriquet of the ‘grand old man.’ I
have now the honor of introducing to
you a lady beloved in Boston, and known
there as the ‘grand old woman 1”
Women are taught that their highest
duty is to marry and bear children, yet
laws are framed to punish its fulfilment
as a crime. The minister ol railways in
Belgium has just issued an edict that all
married women who are mothers, even if
their children are grown up, shall resigu
their posts in the telegraph service.
Brown’s Iron Bitters furnishes aid to the
stomach to accomplish its work. Only a med
icine which has a sioeific action upon the
stomach will do you any good, and Brown's
Iron Bitters will act directly upon that organ,
toning it up and giving it strength todoits
work, relieving the pressure upon the nervous
system, strengthening the nerves, quickening
and improving the appetite, removing flatu
lency and heartburn, restoring the appetite
and dispelling the dizzy fpolfs which aro sc
annoying, and may prove very dangerous.
An expert carpenter in Michigan has con
structed a settee out of an ordinary hen.
Tho Wisest Gift.
“ I bousrht my wife a vo’vet sack."
Thus proudly boasted Mr. Brown.
“ She’ll be, with that upon her back,
The best dressed dame in town.”
But velvet sack or diamond ring
Can bring no balm to suffering wlfo.
Favorite Proscription is the thing
To save her precious llfo.
Tho great and i-ovoreign remedy, know tho
world over, for all female troubles, inflamma
tion, cruel backacho-i and internal displace
ments is Ur. Pierce's Favorite Proscription. It
is tho only guaranteed euro. See guarantee on
every bottle-wrapper.
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets—gently laxative or ac
tively cathartic occo ding to dose. 25 cents.
Scientist—“Do you believe in spirits?’’ Ken
tuckian—“ Thanks, don’tkeeref Ido.
“Stick to your business,” is very good ad
vice, but still there are a great many people
in the world who have no regular and profit
able business to stick to; and thero are others
wlioare following a line of b siness which is
manifestly unsuited to them. Now, when
such is the case, you had better write to B. F.
Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., and see If they
cannot give you a pointer. They have helped
a great many men and women along the way
to fortune, and now stand ready to assist you.
too.
What do you chew ?
“LUCY HINTON!”
Why?
Because it is tho best I can find.
Who makes it ?
T. C. Williams Co., Richmond, Va.
Who sells it ?
All dealers.
How can I recognizo it ?
The name Lucy Hint on is on every plug.
No Rival it the Field.
There is no remedy which can rival Ham
burg Figs for the cure of habitual constipation,
indigestion, and sick-lieadaehe. Their action
is as prompt and efficient as their taste is
pleasant. 2a cents. Do»e one Fig. Mack Drug
Co., N. Y.
Bradfleld’s Female Regulator will cure all
irregularities or derangements peculiar to wo
man. Those suffering should use it. Sold by
all Druggists.
Oi-eoon, tlio Pnrndise of Fanners.
Mild, equable climate, certain andabundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock
country in tlie world. Full information free.
Address Oreg. Im’lgr’t’n Board, Portland, Ore.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle
One by one the roses fall, but “TansiU’s
Punch ” sc. t igar outlives them all.
Weak and Weary
Describes the condition of many people debilitated
by tho warm weather, or disease, or overwork.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Is Just the medicine neodod to
overcome that tired fooling, to purify and quiekon
the sluggish blood and restore tho lost appetite. If
you need a good medtclno be sure to try Hood’s
Sarsaparilla.
“My appetlto was poor, I conhl not sleep, had head
ache a great deal, palus In my back, my bowels did
not move regularly. Hood's Sarsaparilla In a short
time did me so much good that I feel liko a new
man. My pains and aches aro relieved, my appetite
improved.”—Geobob F. Jacksow, Iloxbury Station,
Conn.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for £3. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses Ono Dollar
EPSk ■ 1 B E? £7] r.nd Whiskey Hah*
SJJ H ffi A ix-vQ Its cured at home with
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Mould still be suffering tho ho:root of blood
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of pimples and annoying skin blemishes, others
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tion, others of lame back and general debility.
Try it. Try it now!
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PEERLESS DYES Sold by Dcpuoisni
«I prescribe and fully en
orgr Big G as the only
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f this disease.
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n v 5 en 7 t e he 9 bew d of l sau“
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1). R. DYCHF &
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