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Returns from prison wardens in thirty
States ami Territories show that out of j
31,176 convicts arc imprisoned for :
arson or incendiarism.
A Manitoba man has invented a car
heating device. Manitoba has sent us
many a cold wave, so it is about time
she scut us something in the heating
lioc.
The sardine crop is a failure this year,
but that will not make any difference;
you can get your hcrring,young bluetish,
and young everything but sardines, but
all labeled "Sardines a Thuilo" just the
samc as usual.
An estimate of the raluc of the pro
ducts of the orchards and vineyards of
California in 157 has been made which
foots up a total of nearly $ is, 000, 000.
More than live-sixths of the wholo
amount was produced in central Cali
fornia. It is not generally known that the
coeducation of the sexes is carried on
without restrictions in the University of
Texas. Yourur men and young wony?n
arc admitted to the same classes in every
department and arc eligible to degrees
and honors without exceptions.
One of the big bridges of thc world
will scon be ready for trafiic. This is
thc iron railroad bridge across thc Mis
souri a few miles below Kansas City. It
is TJJJi feet long, weighs 31,275 tons
and h fifty feet above high water, with
towers reaching to a height of 200 fctt.
The Kussian government offers prizes
for lamps that will burn heavy unrefined
naphtha oil ; first, 2500 roubles for a
jingle lamp of cheap construction; sec
ond, loo roubles for a lamp of better
ronst ruction. The Russian war minister
offers three prizes each of 500 roubles
Tor a stove that will burn naphtha
refuse; for a cheap galvanic battery for
electric lighting and third for phosphoric
uibstanees to bj use 1 in illuminating.
Emn 1'asha, whom Stanley was sent
to relieve, but who subsequently sent
word to Kuropu that all the relief he
needed was an open way to the sea cont,
seem', to be well enough off at Wadolai,
not only to attend to thc advancement
of civilization in Africa, but to do somc
!hing for the eau-e of European educa
tion. The natural httoiy branch of the
Brit Mi Museum at London has lately rc
:cived from him a valuable collection of
African bird si; ins, mammals and but
teitliei, besides soui.; anthropological
specimens, with a promise of another
consignment of such things at an early
day. '
Some idea of the extent to which mc
chan'ciil ingenuity and efficiency have
vlvaec- d m ly bo h i I from the follow
ing si it-inc'it : ,,lt is now possible to
;onMi;irt a compUtc sewing machine in
i minute, r sixty m ono hour; a reaper
jvery liftceu minutvs, or less; :',00
ivatch- s i'i a d.iy, complete in ail their
ipp"i:itmc:'ts. Mr; important than
Ihis even, U llio fact i :i at it i; poiblc
:o coa'tnirt a locomotive i:i a day.
From the plans of a draugliMn m to
.ho execution of them by th; workmen,
ivery whocl, lever, valve and rod may
'jo con rue! ed from tin metal to thc en
gine intact. Kvery rivet may bo driven
in thc boihr, every tube in th; tube
sheets u:nl from tho smokestack to the
ashpan, a loeomotivo may bo turned out
n a working .lay, c mp!( t .ly equipped,
fealy to do th0 work of a hundred
horses." Without such machinery and
tho skilled labor to operate them, tho
t ivi:i.od world of today would be an
inq osMtility.
All competent observer in Russia
igree in representing tho condition of
lhc c wtnlry since thc emancipation of
;li M i fs as very wretched. Kach rural
rommnui; is responsible for thc relief ol
its own poor, and Sir R. Morler, in a
foreign vtticn report jir-t published, says
that the officials .;iro quite incapable ol
rrpl ring ali that was done for the peas
aiils by the 10:J,000 large landed pro
prietors whose ii t ( rest it formerly u
that th. ir dependents should bo able to
weik w li and constantly. Since lsiw;,
accordingly, there has been permanent
famine ii about fourteen province-., and
it is officially stated that in the large r
provinces, such as Kursk, Tambow, and
Kostroma, over 100,000 peas nils have
a'widoucd tho plots of tiglit acres each
allotted to them. The number of beg.
par in scvcnty-one governments is given
as :JM,000, of whom ls',000 arc peasant
propii, tors. The most hopeful r-medy
Mig-esled is the formation of labor colo
nies, which have been successful in
fiennany.
runishiiig a 1'i iiup.
An anec.lote told of tho young Prince
of Italy shows that the bringing up of
kings re,,uires lessons in democracy:
One d iy when tho Prince wa playing
with thc daughter of one of thj ladies
of honor he got into a quarrel with her
and at last said in an autocratic tone:
"Now, then, I'm going to cut your head
off." The little girl commenced in cry
nnd the King, who chanced to be pass
ing, on learning what had happ-iml
had hU son placed in doso confinement
for fifteen days, in order to impress him
with the fact that nowadays kings may
no long, r decapitate their subjects as in
" the good old days of yore." Boston
Journal.
Taming Birds.
A New York woman, who has great
success a a bird tamer, says tho secret
of her power is in making tho birds be
lieve sno is ainu-l of them. At lirst
.. .T., ,KCK ni ncr lor Her j
lun.uuii-v, uut wneu uioy na.i Her still
more humble and anuablo they "row
Rorry for her and kind to her, and final,
ly end by being fond, tho fondness ol
thc strong for tho weak.
f OR FA KM AND GARDEN.
D.mp or Shallow Frames.
An apiarist in Maine expresses him
pelf in Home and Farm on the subject
of deep or shallow frames' as follows: "I
find by observation that bees on the np-
i proach of cold weather cluster below
their stores, but the lirst very cold day
you w ill find them at the top of the
frames at the end and next to the cn-
- (rancC) aml ;S winter wcarg on ftn(1 thdr
storcs an cons;ini(Hi 1ll0y movo towards
lhc othcr om of thjJ fram( takiH thc
, f . f th f
thc width of the cluster, and if thc
frame is narrow they sometimes take all
the honey from the upper part of the
frame and starvo to death with plenty
of honey below the cluster and on thc
adjoining frames.
''1 am fully convinced that a long
frame is better for wintering bees than
a deep and narrow' one. Give mc a long
frame, with the entrance at thc end of
the framt, and no more frames in the
hive than thc bees will cluster on, with
plenty of good storcs and a good chaff
hive for wintering on thc summer
stands."
Distributing Manure Evenly.
On most long-tilled farms the yearly
crop is largely dependent on thc yearly
application of manure. It is therefore
important that tho manure be evenly
distributed; if not, thc crop will be not
only deficient, but unevenness of
ripening, if of grain, will make what
there is of it harder to harvest. This is
especially true of commercial manures,
which, owing to tho small amounts
used per r.civ, cannot easily be distrib
uted uniformly so as to cover the entire
surface even with tho drill. On small
fields with short bouts it is generally
better done, for at each turn the driller
puts in a fresh supply and sees
that the tubes are working all
right. If the bo,uts arc long the
farmer puts in a larger quantity, which
is more apt to clog the tubes and cause
them to distribute unevenly. The re
sult is seen in a streaked appearance of
the field after the grain' is up, and this
continues until harvest. More than half
thc value of commercial fert li.crs is lost
by imperfect distribution through the
drill. Sown broadcast they are still
more unevenly ditriluted and have the
further disadvantage of not being in
contact with the seed. It is this last
circumstance that make the drilling of
commercial manures so widely popular.
If the work is well done it gives the
grain a quick, even start, and soon puts
it into position to make it? own way to a
succcful crop. ---Cultivator.
Ch.iri;o if Iitnrp.
There h more good solid sense ex
pressed in the old saing that 'A change
of pasture makes fat calves" than most
people are apt to realize on a casual
reading. X-t only calves but all de
scriptions of live stock need for their
hiuhe-.t thiift some little variety in the
way of foo l, and the pastures, to main
tain their best condition, need an occa
sional rest. Roth stock and pastures
are therefore benefited by a chan".
Thc stock coming into a fresh pasture
find every variety of grass natural to it
in full growth, ami are able to till them
selves easily without toi much exertion;
and if the animals are of an improved
character and quality they never fail to
give a good account of the luxuriant
feed. There are some grasses in tin
pasture which will not stand very
flow grazing; the sun let in too
directly upon their roots acts unfavor
ably and they seem incapable of
making much growth until after they
have progressed to ab ut a certain stage.
If constantly grazed the pasture is cer
tain to lose its due proportion of such
grasses. It i better, therefore, for both
stock and grass that the pastures be di
vided into several lots, that one portion
may recuperate while another is being
used. If there is a difference in its pro
ductive capacity some portions grow
ing more luxuriant food than others it
is well to make thc divisions with refer
ence to that fact, for if there is not prof
itable food on any portion it is better
that the stock should not be suffered to
tramp around over it. Suitable divi
sions of thc pasturage also enable tho
farmer to keep different discriptions of
stock separate, which is quite desirable.
Especially in periods of drought it is es
sential that thc farmer should be able to
manage the pasturage with tho greatest
care and intelligence, for there is danger
of th - permanent stand being in jured in
such portions as arc too heavily bur
dened with stock at such a time.
Breeders' Gazette.
Storlii'; Potatoes.
Digging as soon as the vines are dead
and not leaving them to long in the
sun are good points. To build sheds or
carry thc potatoes under a tree .where
there h only one tree on a ten-acre lot
yicl ling from 200 to 100 bushels per
acre, makes much useless labor. Stop
and think before you attempt to carry
2000 bushels u ider trees to dry or to
temporary sii ds, either. I have seen
people dig potatoes in a hot sun in
thc forenoon an 1 leave them until after
dinner and then pick them ui I throw
them into a cart, and at night dumpth' in
down the cellar window to sweat, and rot,
and then complain about their rotting.
1 had a bin in the home cellar last year
twenty-two feet long, five feet wide an I
MX inches from the ground, and I began
to fill it in August. By the middle of
September it was from four to five feet
! hi'di. n fid was ;n no-ir t1- (.in nl-..
that we could not empty any more in it.
j took o
k out the first load in December
nnd sold them as fast as a first-class
hotel wanted them, and thc last 1-a 1
, was taken out iu Aprii. There were not
four quarts of unsound potatoes in thc
whole bin. I did thi3 knowing thc
others complained of rotting, and I ai$
doing thc same this year. For tho lasl
five years I have had no trouble with
rot or' unsound potatoes when handled
with the same, care used in curing a to
bacco crop. After thc potatoes are a
little dry on top begin to pick them and
put them in bags or sacks, and lot
them stand in the field until night and
then cart them to thc cellar and set them
on boards placed on the ground. Never
empty thc same day they are dug; if
placed on the ground they will gather
moisture in a very short time, lie sure
and not leave a single one in the bin
that is not dry. Of a single bag picked
in a hot day as soon as dug, and carried
to an open shed and set on tho ground,
thc most were soft or rotten within a
week. Leave the windows open until
cold weather, with old sacks or carpets
for curtains to keep out the light, for n
bright light will make thc potatoes look
dark-colored when cooked, and thc
more there h in a bag the less they will
shrink in bulk and weight. New Eng
land Homestead.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Ichneumons, lady-bugs and spidera
destroy other insects and should bo en
couraged. It has been claimed that Ayrshircs arc
more except from tcrbcrculosis than any
other breed.
Rail-fences are expensive on account
of thc ground they occupy and the
weeds they protect.
Sheep manure contains 90 to 05 per
cent, of the plant food contained in the
rations consumed by sheep. It is there
fore, a very rich fertilizer.
Professor Roberts of Cornell Univer
sity is reported as saying that under
favorable conditionit cost 1 1-2 cents
p:r quart to produce milk.
Good clover hay is always considered
as equal to any oth-.-r. It is thestaudard
by which all other grasses are compared,
and no farm is considered fully supplied
for thc w inter that has not had a crop of
clover grown upon it.
It needs extra warm pens and good
feeding to make lato Fall pigs pay foi
wintering. As a rule pigs dropped in
October or later should be sold for what
they will bring. They will cost more
to winter than they will be worth iu the
spring.
Don't set your milk in shallow pans
or crocks; get a portable creamery, or,
if you can't afford that just yet, have
some deep iht cans made, and set them
in a tank of cold water. Time, labor
and cream saved w ill soon enable you to
buy a creamery.
The Allans Express Company is rep
resented by the New York Wico as
having learned by experience with their
horses, which are out in all weathers,
that blanket s do more harm than good.
Too much co Idling enervates animals ol
all kind, human included.
A correspondent of Vick's rccom
momls planting potato onions late in fall,
so that they can get a little start before
the ground freezes, for early use. Covci
them an inch or more and pack the earth
around the bulb. The correspondent
has had 20 years' experience.
In pruning trees of any kind it is bet
ter to have one strong branch or limb
than two or three weak ones. It's better
to keep heads low than high. It's bet
ter to keep limbs thinned out than to
cut back and make two close heads.
Let thc suu's rays in through all thc
t ree.
Scaly leg is caused by a minute insect
which burrows under thc scales on thc
hanksof fowls, causing them to enlarge.
This may be cured by dipping tho
shanks of those aff.cted into crude pe
troleum, or a mixture of lard and kero
sene may be thoroughly rubbed into tho j
scales. Repeat the treatment in ten days,
and thc euro will be completed.
Cleanliness in Japan.
Those who come around thc world
eastward, writes a Ht. Louis CJlobc cor
respondent from Nagasaki, find all the
Asiatics from Fort Slid to tho ends of
China and Corea one in tho great broth
erhood of dirt, and sitting meditatively
and in contented indolence in tho midst
of filth that would do populate those
countries by one epidemic, if there was
anything in tho theories of sanitary en
gineering, malaria, germs and microbes
t hat could be applied to Asia. To them
Japan is even more of a wonder and de
light than to those who come to it west
ward from our very practical and prosaic
Am.rica. The first boat and boatman
in tho harbor is a shhfng example of
cleanliness. His one scant cotton gar
ment may be patched and darned all over,
but it is as e'ean as daily washing can
make it, ami thc boatman himself is as
clean as constant scrubbing, soaking in
hot water and rubbing down with his
illustrate! Japanese towels can make
him. The wholo nation is amphibious,
and although thc government has done
away with the publiebath homc,whcr
every one went in together, the con
stant babbling and splashing in tanks
of boiling water has not ceased since
the Arcadian fashion was dou-j away
with. Tho bath houses arc the club
houses, thc places of public resort,
where any one drops iu for a smoke and
a chat with hi 5 neighbor, and there is
no special boar or limit to tho indul
gence. The lowest coolier; do as much
bathing as the nun of hi gh rank, and
cleanliness is not, as in England, the
badge ami altrilmte o? tho better class
es only. The clean faces, the wel!
serubbed boats, the clean and sprinkled
streets, tho pretty little homes, with
their toy balconies without spot or speck
on their .Inning Moors, arc an ecstasy to.
tin- ey ; after tin; mu l hovels, tlu dirt
fio r the filth, rags and repulsive peo
ple living ju it across tho Yellow sea.
SEAL SKINS.
Interesting Processes of Prepar
ing Them For Use.
An Inside View of a Celebrated
Factory.
The Albany Press reporter describes
thc processes of dressing and dyeing
seal skins iu a largo factory in that city.
He 3 ay s :
Thc building in question is the factory
of Messrs. Tread well & Co., and in it
arc annually dressed and dyed thousands
of senl skins as well as many other furs
of value. Thc firm has carried on tho
business for about fifty years, and for
the last twenty-five years the work of pre
paring the fur for the market has been
carried on in tho present quarters. Lon
don is thc great fur market of the world
and all pelts of value arc shipped there,
whence they are distributed to all parts
of the globe, principally to northern
countries. The seal skins used by Tread
well & Co. are purchased in London,
and thousands arc imported direct by
them every year. They embrace tho
Alaska and Copper Island seal. Tho
Shetland seal has been about annihilated
and no new skins are to be found in tho
market. The skins como packed in a
barrel, like fish. They are packed in
salt which with thc abundant blubber of
thc seal forms a sort of brine and pre
serves the skin. They arc generally
used thc season following their capture.
The price of seal skim remains about
thc same every year, owing to tho fact
that thc great Alaska Fur company regu
lates thc si.j of each season's capture so
as to just supply thc demand. The con
tract with tin government allows an
annual rapture of 100,000 seals, but of
ten the actual number killed falls be
low this amount. The process through
which the skin goes in thc course of
preparation for actual use in the making
up of fur garments is very interesting.
There certainly is nothing attractive
in them when they arc first taken out
of the barrel, where they may have lain
iu salt for perhaps a year. They arc
lirst blubbered on a beam, a process in
which all the fatty adherents arc re
moved by scraping, and then thorough
ly scoured on a table with strong soap
nids until thoroughly clean. They
ire next unhaircd, thc long hairs
being pulled out by the roots by a kind
of hand-knives, leaving thc fur in. Thc
skins, which are usually of a slaty gray
color, now, with tho long l air out, be
come a light drab. The next step is
to shave down th pelt to an even thick
ness. Next they are gotten ready for
milling and passed through a fuller's
mill that softens the pelt and thorough
ly cleans the fur. Tho next process is
to stretch out the skins and prepare
them for the dyer. Thc dying process
occupies about two weeks, after which
both pelt and fur are thoroughly washed
agaiu. Thc pelt is second time shaved,
this time quite fine, and is prepared to
go through thc milling process again.
In the process of milling line saw dust
is employed, largely of mahogany and
rosewood. This process both cleanses
and softens. After this the fur is ready
to be made up, and it is
sent to thc Uroadway store of
thc firm where a large force is con
stantly employe I working it up into
every kind of garments demanded by
the trade. In the' preparation at tho
Van Woert street establishment each
skin passes through nine different oper
ations, and it is about six weeks after it
is taken out of the packing barrel before
it is ready to be made up. For a seal
skin sacqtic of the prevailing style, threo
or foui skins are used. Thc skins after
coming from thc factory arc ali assorted
according to the grade and only the very
best ones employed in making up tho
high grado garment?. Some single
?kinofthc same batch may be valued
at $100, while others perhaps may not
be worth over one-third as much. Add
to these values the cost of the expert
work in cutting nnd making up and one
will readily see that it isnot strange that
seal garments command so large a price.
Solving a Vexed (ucstiou.
Admirers of Lord Tennyson have long
sought to ascertain to whom the po;:t
laureate alluded in the opening
ines of "In Memoriam:"
I bold it truth, with him who sings
To one eleir harp in .livers tones,
That, men may rise on sU-ppinn stones
Of their dead sebe:s to higher things.
Many poets have been mentioned, but
hitherto (ho allusion has never been
traced. A little while ago an inquiry
in tho p int appeared in Notes and
(Queries, and has elicited thc following
reply from Rev. Dr. (tatty, vicar of Ec
clesfield, Yorkshire, who some years ago
issued an able key to Lord Tennyson's
threat work: "The poet alluded to in
the first slim.a of 4In Memoriam' is
(Jocthe. I know this from Lord Tenny
son himself, although he could not iden
tify (be passage, and when I submitted
l) him a small work of mine on his mar
vellous poem he wrote 'It is Goethe's
creed' on this very passage."
Until Waiting.
Wist Citizen Do you want to see Mr.
Smith?
Second Citizen Yes, sir.
First Citizen He is upstairs. I'm
waiting for him to com? down.
Second Citizen (a collector) -I'm
waiting for him to "come down," too.
(The Epoch.
Not a Proposal.
He Do you want a little puppy, Miss
EJith?
She---Am I to consider that as a pro
posal ?
He Not at all; good-bye Tho
.Earth
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The first British writers wero Qildasj
Nennine and Bode, ia thc Eevcnth ccn
tury.
In Mexico they have special funeral
cars over thc horso car routes to tht
cemeteries.
Amarath L was tho founder of th
power of Turks, and reigned from 135?
till killed in 1390.
J. M. Cook of Howard county, Ark.,
raised a pear this year that weighec
two pounds and four ounces.
Paris was known as Lutetia until 1184
when thc name of the great French cap
ital was changed to that which it has
borno ever since.
Tho buyer of a largo Cincinnati to
bacco house, who is paid $10,000 a yea!
to know good tobacco when he SCC3 it,
neither smokes nor chcw3.
Though St. Paul's College, Cambridge,
England, was founded as early as 1257,
it was a place of education as early as
thc time of Roman dominiw in Britain.
The origin of thc expression, "Paint
the town red,'' i3 credited to an ener
getic circus agent who announced the
coming of his show in flaming red char
acters. A rooster at Salem, III., is so fond of
music that he will fly in at thc window
of his master's house and run to and fro
on thc keys of the piano, delighted with
thc sounds he evokes.
In 70, Jerusalem was razed and plowed
over by the Roman emperor, Titus, in
order to obliterate and make unrecog
nizable spots venerated by Christians.
It was refouuded, as a heathen city, by
the Emperor Hadrian, A. D. 140.
Mrs. T. R. R. Cobb of Athens, Ga.,
has tho original draft of tho Confeder
ate constitution as itcamo from the com
mittee that drafted it. Her husband, a
brother of ex-Speaker Howell Cobb, wai
one or the committee.
On February 17, 1571, Marcby Hill,
near Hereford, England, began to move,
bearing with it cattle, trees and hedges
5ii its surface. It continued in motion
for two days, overthrowing a chapel that
ay in its path, and leaving, where it
formerly stood, a chasm forty feet deep
ind thirty long. A similar phenomenon
iiapponcd in Dorsetshire in 15.S3.
Burglars' Tools.
P. J. Jennings, a New York cngincci
ind michinist, tolls an interesting story
ibout his dealing! with a burglar. Ho
na? sittiug in his office one day a few
iionthsago whm two man cnterel with
l design they wanted to make of steel
lie took the job and turned it out ac
ronling to or ler. The men came thc
ict day, and r.ftor chitting pleasantly
ibout matters of popular inten-st in the
?ity, paid th-ir bill aad went away. S -v-nal
other designs wero brought him by
he two men and he got to know them
piite well. He did not learn their busi
ness, however, but it is a common thing
:o deal with m:u whom one knows only
5y sight and Mr. Jennings never both
;rcd his head about it.
But he found out who thc men were
ifter all. O.io day th?y calle I to have
lim make half a doz ;a eight-inch steel
screws. H-; promised them for 5 o'clock,
Dut thi men.li I not ome. Ho did not
ice them on the next d ly or the next.
Iu (he third day one of Pinkcrton's de
ectives droppvl upon him iu thc
ifterii)OU cavrvi ig a hrid-satch d. Hi
pened it an I threw a lot of curiously
ihaped pieces of steel on thc table.
"Were those nude in your shop, Mr.
Fennings?" casually remarked the Oc
tet ivc.
"Yes, that's our work."'
"Who did you make them for?''
"Now you've got mc it's more than
t can toll. I never had any reason to
mpiire, and tho men didn't bother
ibout telling mc."
'But you are sure you mada that steel
tvorkhcre."
Two days later Mr. Jennings was
mbpovmed by the prosecution as a wit
less against two men who had attempted
;o crack the safe of a bank in Ellen villc,
UMer couaty. Ho met a Harlem -machinist
and an ironworker from down
low n at the co.irtlivisi in Kingston.
I'inkerton's men opened wi 1c th.'ir eyes
ivhcn ho look thc pieces of steel that
?ach ha I shaped and, putting them to
gether, showed what a perfect sectional
jimmy they made -New York Letter.
Lincoln's Statue Unveiled by "Little
Abe."
The great statue of Abraham Lincoln
was unveiled recently at Liucolu Park,
Chicago. The- booming of cannon
startled the assembled multitude, and as
the sound of thc cannon died away over
:hc water of Lake Michigan, "little
Abe" Lincoln, the son of Robert T. Lin
coln, stepped up to the base of the i ig
?overed bro zo figure of his grandfather,
ind pulled a rope which he'd the cover
ing. The folds slowly unb osened and
rlroppcd down at thc base, and the tall
erect figure of Abraham Lincoln shone
brightly in the sun. A tremendous
shout went up, and it was joined a mo
ment later by the roar from lhc cannon.
Thomas V. Withrow, one of the trustees
of thc Bates fund, out of which tho cost
3f thc statue was defrayed, formally pre
sented the figure to tho Lincoln Park
hoard, a id W. C. Con ly rcplie I in be
half of t ic board. Th ! oration was de
livered by Hon. Leonard Swott.
Siswy Disappointed.
Hostess (at an evening entertainment)
Do you sing Mr. Sissy?
Mr. Sissy (vh ) sings on thc slightest
provocation) Oh, yes.
Hostess I am so glad. Mr. Feathcrly
is to favor us with a song, and you,
being musical, will enjoy it, I'm sure.
He has such a fine voice.
Sis-y hitcs Foatherly. Siftiuga.
MEN WHO wiy.
Plve Hnndrerf JlAttilM fhrowtt Away
Ills Aim Was Success.
A good 'healthy body is almost sure to bo
found associated with a good conscience.
A close student of human nature is rarely
willing to place large matters of trust in tho
bands of another until he has BBett the oivS
whom hj is to trust. He looks for the fresh
health and vigor, the honest, frank counte
nance and manly form, and in fact all that is
attractive in men. He doubts the dyspeptic
with sallow skin, drawn cut features, the
evident weak and irritable nature. He feels
as fehakespeare makes Julius Caesar say:
' Jf 1 ?M: hflTe men tt,,0"t me that arc fat;
Meek headed men, and mich as sleep o'nichlB:
?tn. , ,iuK halh H lcai1 anu hungry look;
lie thinks too much; such men are dangerous!"
He does not doubt the honesty of the ioor
unfortunate, but feam disease of the body
will affect the mind, bring misfortune Upon
the individual, and loss to himself.
It may be injustice to the w eak, but if the
man has not the mental strength, or if ho is
wrapped up in his misery, he cannot take in
the situation of tho world, doeii not see that
idea j arc broadening, and that isms and
teachings aft? ad van -ing! How can an em
Wbyer hope for success from such a man?
The dyspeptic look, the wax-like complexion
and sallow feature show disease. The far
seeing man notes all these si-ns, and knows
that tho great light of man, the brain, is af
fected, or will be, at no distant day
He discards the poor victim of digeaSo who
goes wearily Cut into tho world. Discouraged
at last he takes to his sickbed. He seeks
medical aid. Lacking tho broad ideas of the
Miccessful man of tho world, he tries the
same medical treatment that he has tried
many times l ofore. The same bigoted coun
sel is sought, the same drugs are administer
ed l.y the same old family lriend that treated
him months and years before, and his parents
before h:m, and in such a way he drags out
his miserable, unsuccessful existence.
Is he to blame? Why not? When ho sees
daily, and hears from every side, proclama
tions of a remedy known us Warner s safe
cure, which is becoming more popular daily,
hourly, while he is becoming weaker.
J. A. Gettys, insurance agent of Chillicothc,
Ohio, suffered for nearly three years with
dyspepsia in its worst forms, having periodi
cal siiells of vertigo, fainting and chills. He
HV!1,is. mvn signat: "I spent about
$.)00, had the best medical attendance, tried
all the remedies recommended without suc
cess, until I was induced lo try Warner's safe
cure. I used three bott'es, have gained
twenty pounds and feel like a new man."
Such a man as wo have described, nine
times out of ten, unconsciously to himself or
to his physician, has a kidney disorder, which
is fast wasting his bo iy and lite. He sees the
merits of Warner's sate cure at everv turn
and heara it proclaimed from the house tops'
and yet he does not use it, because it is said
by his illiberal physician that it is not profes
sional, and not admitte.l by the code. Mean
while the man of the world presses forward,
cares not a fig for this or that school ; his aim
in life is success, and h ? looks hopefully for
ward to the world beyond, believing and
trusting in man in this world.and to his faith
for tho world beyond.
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approach of pulmonary consumption, which is
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believe yonr Emulsion has saved a case of
well-developed Consumption" T. J. Flnpley,
M. D., Lone Star, Texas.
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most liable to be noRleeted. It originates In a cold,
or succession of eoldo, combined with Impure blood.
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DAYLIGHT.
If a gentleman by
the name of lav
volunteers to throw
the light Of his ex.
perience Into the
darkened places of
misery, so that
others may go and
do as he has done
and enjoy life, may
it not be reasonably called daylight?
As for instance, take thc case of Captain
Sargent 8. Day, (Jloucester, Mass., who
vrite3 April 10, 1881: "Some time ago I
was stifteriiig with rheumatism. J used a
small portion of St. Jacobs Oil and was cm j
at once. J have used it for sprains and never
once have known it to fail. I will never be
without fl bottle," Captain Day also re
ceived a circular letter, and in reply undei
date of July 1, 18S7, he says: "I used the
Oil as stated and was permanently cured ut
rheumatism by its use." During the inter
vening pix yeara there bad been tio recur
rence of the pain. Also a letter from Mr. II.
M. Converse, of tho
Warren (Mass.)
Herald, dated July
ft, 1887, as follows:
"In response to
yours of June 22,
would say that ill
ls-40 my wife had a
severe attack of
rheumatism In
shoulder and arm,
so that she could
not raise her hand
to her head. A few
applications of tit,
Jacobs Oil cured her
permanently, and she has had no return
it." Another case is that of Mr. . 15. Kyl.
Tower Hill, Appomattox county. Ya., win
writes, November, lssij; "Was alllioted for
several years with rheumatism and grew
worse all the time. Eminent physicians
gave no relief; had spasms, and was' not ex
pected to live; was rubbed all over with St.
Jacobs Oil. The lirst application relieved,
the second removed the pain, continued use
cured me ; do relapse in ii ve years, and do aa
much work as ever." These'are proofs of the
perfection of thc remedy, and, taken in con
nection with the miracles performed in other
cases, it has no eo,ual.
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We havp never Iward of a ea of Dyspepsia wher
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For Sum ir. or CoinplaliiU a;; 'I Clironlc Dlarrh,Ta,
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Uli Dt Hi nrtllli CINCINNATI, OUHI-
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