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The Story of a Scar. My Virginia friend—I was going to say my old Virginia friend, but ho is only 45, and doesn’t live in old Virgin¬ ia, but in West Virginia---was telling me of tlie code duello iu the South. He raised his hat, and, with his forefinger, traced a deep scar on his forehead just at the roots of his hair. It looked as if made by a red hot brand. “That,” said he, “was received in a duel. The duel is going out of fashion in Virginia, but there are still some hotheaded men who think that their wounded honor can only bo satisfied with blood.” Said I: “How did you get that scar ?” Said he: “I’ll tell you, I was making a stump speech one night in the heat of a political campaign. Excitement ran high, but I was keeping my temper right along and never got angry at the frequent interruptions. In the crowd was a man who was a power in the com¬ munity, and he was just drunk enough to be offensive. He had interrupted mo several times and I passed it off good naturedly, until at last he said some¬ thing that stung me. Well, I am a Vir¬ ginian born and bred, and I answered back that when he was made his mouth was put in the wrong place, that it should have been fastened on top of his head and filled with hog’s lard and sawdust. There was no wit in the Teply —it was brutal, but it turned the laugh on the fellow, and I knew I was in for it. The next day he sent me a chal¬ lenge, and I accepted, naming pistols at ten paces. He was a good shot, and I know that I am. We were both ex¬ cited, and, when we got the word to fire, both pistoh cracked at the same instant. I shot him through the lungs, and the ball from his pistol struck me on the fore¬ head, ploughed this ear, and glanced upward. I had aimed to shoot him through the leg, but the pistol jerked up with the pressure on the trigger, and my ball went through his body. He had aimed to shoot me through tho breast, but his pistol went up from the same cause and struck me on the fore¬ head. I’m glad to say he did not die, and I haven’t a better friend in the world.” Then my Southern friend explained to me that a short-armed man fired quicker than a long-armed man because the dis¬ tance from brain to tho finger tip was less; and ho also said that the better class of people in the South were bent on extinguishing the duello, and its death was only a matter of time.— [Harrisburg Telegraph. Sunshine a Remedy for Obesity. But here is a secret for women troubled with obesity, which we anticipate will carry some weight, namely, that bodies exposed constantly to the sun “gain such activity of the blood forces as to prevent any excessive forming of adi¬ pose matter.’’ It must not, however, be supposed that, ou the other hand, plenty of sunshine is conducive to lean¬ ness. Not so, for the really healthful condition is neither fat nor lean, but shapely and plump, and tho sun’s rays quicken the nutrient functions, pro¬ ducing a beautiful and elastic roundness of form; indeed, the constant action of the sun upon a human body is like the effect upon a plant, vitalizing and strengthening to every part.—[Press. Tipsy Mocking Birds. A letter written from Orange, Cal., says that the mocking birds in that lo¬ cality feed on the berried that grow on the Chinese umbrella tree, and that this sort of food makes them tipsy. They act very foolishly just after a hearty meal, and stagger about badly intoxi¬ cated. —[Chicago Herald. CONVINCING GUARANTEES. Which are Justified by a World-Wide Experience. TO THE PUBLIC: Having different branch quarters, houses and and therefore laboratories having in seven a world-wide experience, we. H. H. Warner & Co., statements: justify ourselves in making the follow¬ ing —For tho hirst past decade we have held that 93 per cent, of diseases originate in tho system, kidneys, which poison that introduce is ini'urious uric acid to into the a every or¬ gan, which at tacking and destroying first the organs held are the weakest. We have also that if the. kidneys are kept in. perfect health most of the ordinary ailments will be pre¬ practitioners vented, or, if have.held contracted, that cured. kidney Other extreme disease is incurable. We have proof to the contrary, however, in hundreds globs. of thousands of cases in every section of the Second. —The kidneys being the sewers of the human system, it is impossible to keep the entire system in good working order unless these, organs are doing th°ir full duty. Most people do not believe their kidneys are (•lit of order because they never give them any pain. It is a peculiarity of kidney dis¬ ease that it may long exist without the laioivledge It of the be patient or of if the practition¬ gradual er. may departure suspected from ordinary there health, is any which departure increases as age comes on. Third. —We do not cure every known disease from one bottle. This is an impossi¬ bility. Fourth. —Warner’s Safe Remedies have been recognized by the doctors and the peo¬ ple all over the globe as standards of the highest —We excellence. Fifth. make the following unqualified guarantees: Warner’s Guarantee 1.-—That Safe Rem¬ edies are pure and harmless. Guarentee 2 .—That the. testimonials used by us are genuine, and so far as we know, absolutely true. We will forfeit $5,000 for proof Guarantee to the contrary. 3.— Warner’s Safe Remedies have permanently cured many millions of people incurable. whom Fermanent the doctors have pronounced merit. cures are alwayscon- Sixth.— Ask your friends and neighbors what they think of Warner’s Safe Cure. REV. S. P. ARNOLD, Camden, Tenn., had fearful abscesses caused by Kidney disease. In 1 SIS and 1881, other running abscesses appeared. lie was fully cared in 188$ by Warner's Safe Cure and in 1888 reported 70 himself old. sound and well, and he is over years MRS. ANNIE JENNESS-M1LLER, editress of Dress, 253 Fifth avenue. New York, eight yeais ago wa-cured of nervons proitration, when tiie good. best New England cured herself physicians with could do her no She Warner Safe Cure, and writes In It 1S87: “To-day the, I am a perfectly weil woman. is only medicine I ever take.’’ L B. PRICE, M. D.. a gentleman and physician of the highest standing of Hanover C. IE, Va., four years ago, after trying every other remedy for Bright’s disease, himself including Warner’s famous mineral wa¬ ters, cured by Safe Cure, and March 24, 1888, wrote: “I have never had the slightest symptoms URBAN, of MacNeale mv old and fearful trouble. HERMAN of & Urban, safe makers, Cincinnati, O., who was broken down by excessive business cares. He w>as fully restored to health four years ago robust by Warner's Safe Cure and has since been in heal h. DR. DIO EEWIS wrote: “If I found myself af . dieted with a serious kidney disorder I would use Warner s Safe Eure.” MRS. E. J. WOLF, Gettysburg, Pa.: S. C. Farring¬ ton. Cincinnati, Goiha, Fla.; J. M. Eong, 43 East 2nd street, O.; and the sister of J. W. Westlake, Mt. Vernon. O., were cured of consumption caused by kidney acid in the blood, as over half the cases are, by Warner’s Safe Cure. We could give many thousands of similar testimonials. Warner’s Safe Cure does ex¬ actly Seventh. as represented. —Warner’s Safe Remedies were put on the market in obedience to a vow made by H. H. Warner that, if the remedy now known as Warner’s Sure Cure, restored him to health he would spread its merits be¬ fore the entire world. In ten years the de¬ mand has grown so that laboratories have been established in seven quarters of the globe. specific— Warner’s Safe Cure all the is doctors a scientific it cures when fail, thousands of the best physicians prescribe it regularly, its power over of disease is perma¬ nent and its reputation is the most exalted character. Can you afford longer to ignore its extraordinary power? bottles Now, in the spring of the year, a few will tone you up and cure all those ill feelings which, unknown to you, the blond, are caused which by will the fatal surely kidney end fatally, poison in if not at once removed. For this no other specific is known. A Sacred Race. Cooks of old were considered a sacred race; even tiieir fingers were consecrated to the deities. The thumb was devoted to Venus, the index finger to Mars, the middle finger to Saturn, the next to the sun, and the little one to Mercury. Im¬ agination has so much to do with pleas¬ ures of the palate that impudence, con¬ ceit, and boastfulness were held to be necessary qualities to the profession. Hear one modest cook: “I may say I have discovered the principle of immor¬ tality and that the odor of my di.-hes would recall life into the nostrils of the dead.” Bechamel claimed that with a sauce he had invented a man would have no compunction in eating his own grand¬ father. —New Yorle Press. Dr. Juneman, an Austrian chemist, has invented the most destructive fluid known to man. This fluid, when brought in contact with the air, after the explosion of a shell in which it is held, becomes a gas. which destroys all living things within its reach, melts metais and sets everything inflammable on fire. A Railway Romance. The great strike on the “ Q ” road re¬ minds me of a romance. In one of the towns on the main line lives a man who for years has been in the employ of the corporation which is now having trouble. From apprentice boy in the workshop he worked his way up until he became an engineer. One night he was called up and sent out on an extra. He had not gone far on his run when something danced before the glare of his headlight, and a,s quickly did he reverse his engine. track Leaving the pilot, he walked down the and found a child neatly wrapped and wide awake. He took it back to the pilot, made a cot for it, and proceeded on his run. On his return the waif of the road was taken to his home, adopted, reared and educated. She became one of the beauties of the little town, and grew into womanhood. The engineer, although the nearly thirty-five years older than pretty-faced creature, loved her, and they were married. The other day when there were ru mors of a strike, the old engineer ap¬ pealed to liis child-wife for advice, and she begged him to remain with the company and not desert the road on which he found her and from which he rescued her. He consented, and there is one of the old engineers who is true to the throttle. I have this little story irom a gentleman who lives in the town where the old engineer makes his home. —Chicago Mail. The gaikwar of Baroda, of India, his wife and a numerous suite, since their return to Baroda, from the jubilee fes¬ tivities at London, were expelled from their castes on account of contamination in London. They have lately performed the prescribed penance, which cost the gaikwar about $10,000, and were re-ad mitted to their respective castes. Popular Education. We sympathize with the feeling which often leads citizens to boast that no chid born in this country need grow up in ignorance, and yet it is a fact that many people who have learned to read and write have never taught themselves to think. A man who suffered from catarrh, consumption, bronchitis scrof¬ ula, or “liver complaint," might read, till his eyes dropped out, how these and many other diseases have been cured by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, hut if he did not take the lesson to himself and test the vi lues of this great medicine, his time would be thrown away. M. Legrand, a wealthy Parisian cooper, who bought the Legion of Honor, was kicked out. Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures when every other so-called remedy fails. There were in the universities of Germany during last Winter, 36,015 students. Use Long’s Pearl Tooth Soap for cleansing your teeth. 25c. at Druggists. i£]HoseAches down ef% your limbs Mean F^HEU MATISM, NEURALGIA by' OR KINDLED JLLS.^t Cuj^ed ® Sv. AT E Eta*' DRUGGISTS’'' a dealers: TheCha3.AVooei.er Co. 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AVedonot ask you to show thes sc sara pies for more thn "he two months, iths, and and thei then they ABSOLUTELY become your own property. of IIow art samples alLtliis?—easily are sent to you often FREE cost, ran we do enough! We get a s much as $2,000 or $3,(XX) in trade from even a small place, after our art samples have remained where they could be seen for a mouth or two. We need one person in each locality, all over the country, and take this means of securing them at once. Those who write to us at once, will secure, FREE, the very best Sewing Machine manufactured, and tiie finest general assort¬ All ment of works of high art ever shown together in America. particulars FREE by return mail. Write at once; a postal card on which to write to us will cost you but one cent, and after you know all, should you conclude to go no further, why no harm is done. Wonderful as it teems, you need no capital—all is free. 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