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BALKING BUBRO.
VIVID DREAMING.
Has a I
Only One Thin? Proved Efficacious
in Giving Him a Start.
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When my little girl was one month old, she
had a scab form on her face. It kept spread
ing until she was completely covered from
head to foot. Then she had boils. ; She had
forty on her head at one time, and more on
her body. When six months old she did not
weigh seven pounds, a pound and a half less
than at birth. Then her skin started to dry
up and got so bad she could not shut her eyes
to sleep, but laid with them half open. About
this time, at the earnest request of friends, I
started using the Cuticura Remedies, and
All Manner of Inducement Ar Triad,
Bat AU Fall Until He I. Uftd Bodily
to Where lie ,Can No Leafer Ob-
tract Anything. ...
There is a boy in Newport who j
owns a burro, which means that the
, boy has no time to take a vacation.
A burro is a cross between a mule j
and a jack rabbit, and has the quali
ties of both under- certain circum
stances. Like the. latter, it can run
fast, wear long ears or stand still In
one spot lor a long time. Lilke a
mule it comes and goes at its own
pleasure, and not at anyone else's
nod and beck.j Its favorite amuse
ment is to stop suaaenly in tne mia-
dlQ of the street and stand there
while an admiring throng watch the
boy try to start it. It stopped on
the electric car track the other day,
ana alter beating it until he was
tired the boy got off and tried to
lead it. But it braced its legs and
held back bravely. Then he got be-
mna ana mea to pusa. it never
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dred doUars, the Cuticufa bill was not more t other, trying to throw it. It only
than five dollars. My child is now two years ' . j i(o . y , ...
oid.sW.heaithvand bnr. as anv chad of spread its four legs wide apart like
her age (see photo.) and it is all owing to j those of 'a saddler's horse. Then
.Cuticura. Yours with a Mother's Blessing, ; the boy took off the bridle, thinkinc
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, Then the boy gathered a lot of
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Durro never cnea. . a man was
sprinkling his yard with a hose near
by, and the boy got him to squirt
water on the burro. The burro
laughed and snickered audibly. Then
the boy pulled a handful of fresh
grass and held it temptingly ' in
front, but the burro only nodded his
head and leveled his double-barreled
headgear at its master (?). Natur
ally this excited- the crowd, and
many were the words of encourage
ment showered , upon . the boy and
the sticks and yells at the burro, for
the boy in a sort of public address
gave them all "leave at him.' Just
at this point an electric car ap
peared. It came spinning up in the
burro's rear, clanging its bell noisily,
tor the motorman recognized the
A fount Minneapolis Man
Startling Vision. :
A young business man of Minne
apolis bought a furnace and had it
set up. A day or two later he
worked all day showing his wife
how to run it so she would not burn
'the house down, and then took a
sleeper for St. Louis. - Is ear Fulton
he had a vivid dream. !
He thought his house was afire
and his family locked1 up inside.
With yells of desperation which
fairly froze the blood of the other
passengers in the sleeper, he kicked
in the door and found the floor
burned away, his wife and every
thing in the house cremated, and he
himself landed in the cellar with a
heavy thud. ' The blow awoke him,
and picking himself up he found
himself by the side of the railroad
track. Glancing about -him, ex
pecting to see the train a wreck and
the other; passengers killed, he saw
in the starlight his train vanishing
in -the distance. He had actually
kicked out the double window of his
berth with his bare feet and thrown
himself feet first through the -window
to the ground while the train
was running twenty-five miles an
hour, and was , unhurt save three
cuts on his left leg, caused by. the
broken glass. '
The passengers notified the con
ductor, and when the train was.
backed they found the man walking
to meet it; He was clad only in his
night clothes. It was almost impos
sible to believe his story, but his
condition and his deserted berth
containing his clothes and the brok
en window confirmed it.- St. Louis
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repairing
aim Opper , obstructionist. He thought the ani
mal would get out of the way of the
racket. But the burro never moved.
The motorman, not caring , to kill
the beast, stopped the car, only giv
ing the burro a hard bump, which
made him brace the harder. Then
the crowd - yelled, while an attempt
was made to start the car slowly,
but the burro only spread his lees
wider and smiled. The passengers
then got off, and, two men taking
hold of each leg of the burro, thev
lifted it off the track and sat it down
on the roadside just as if it had been
a heavy center-table. The boy then
put on the bridle again and climbing
aboard trotted the burro off after
the car, wagging his ears as peace
fully as if he had never balked in his
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LOTS OF SNAKES.
Miil with Only Two Boy Assistants
Kills Thirty-Nine Rattlers.
William Gossard, who lives near
the southern, terminus of the Aurora
electric line, had an exciting experi
ence and is fairly tumid with pride
at , the way, he acquitted himself.
With two boys for assistants he did
to death no less than thirty-nine rat
tlesnakes of varying, sizes and
brought, the rattles to the city in
the bargain. The-most astonishing
part of the whole matier is that the
snakes were found basking quietly
in the sunshine within five i miles of
the city, and Mr. Gossard says there!
are plenty more left "where his came
from. .
According to his statement two
boys named Smith, one fourteen,
the other twelve, came out to his
house one morning to spend the day.;
To amuse them he took a small twen
ty-two-caliben rifle and started out.
over the fields, thev takincr. their
bean-shooters and firing pebbles at
every living thing that came in their.
way. Just beyond the DuBois farm.
some two and a quarter miles from
the end of the Aurora car line, they'
came upon a deserted, prairie dog
town and saw two or .three cattle ly
ing there dead. '
'While seeking to find what had
killed them Gossard heard a warn-i
ing rattle and saw a snake just
crawling under one of the carcasses.;
He promptly shot the reptile, which
was about three feet in length, and
they cut from it eight rattles and a'
button, showing it to be a patriarch
of eight years and six months. Then
one of the lads discovered another
snake and shot it in the head with
his bean-shooter. And then they
began finding snakes here, there and
everywhere for over half an hour, fi
nally counting up no less than thlr-",
ty-nine of all sizes which they had',
killed. f'We could have got more'
ii we'd staid longer," said Mr. Gos-;
sard ."but 'I began to get shaky.:
Thev were too thick. I didn t
History of a
Much Und.
Moet persons who use the word
origin oz ima term, or .wny tms
name was given to tfcat apparatus
by which the electricity -is conveyed
from an aerial wire. Twenty years
ago the word was used to designate
"a form of truck which can be tilted,
for carrying railroad materials, or
the like. " This is the only definition
of the word in Webster's dictionary
6f the edition of 1848.; In the edi
tion of 1892 of the same 'work, three
other definitions are added. 1. "A
narrow cart that is pushed by hand
or. drawn by an animal. " It is noted
that this meaning of the word is in
use in England, not In the United
States. 2. "A truck from which
the load is suspended on some kinds
of cranes." This meaning is tech
nical, according to Webster, and
employed only in speaking of ma
chinery. 3. "(Electric railway.) A
truck which travels along the fixed
conductors, and ' forms a means of
connection between them and a rail
way car." ' It is easy to see how the
primitive form of the electric trol-
ey, which travels upon the wires,
came to receive its name from its
resemblance to other types of trol
ley, and the name, having been im
mediately given to. this ! primitive
form, was naturally retained when
the , method , ot connection was
changed from a little truck moving
on a wire, to ff mast having at its
end a wheel pressing on the lower
surface of the wire.
Tit for Tat.
An American and an Englishman
were one day sitting on the balcony
of the house of the Anglo-American
club in Brussels passing the rather
slow hours In a little friendly guying
of each other. The Englishman sat
facing ' the American flag. After a
brief lull in the sharpshooting the
Englishman came out with: "I say,
'old man, ye cawn't imagine what
your flag reminds mebf.";
The American was serious. "Well,
what is it?" - . !
Why, it reminds me of a deuced
big gridiron, don't you know."
The American smiled a sad smile
and then said: . "All right, Johnny.
But what do you think your flag re
minds me of ?" i I
"Don't know." M
'Well, it reminds me of a darned
big beefsteak that we can fry on our
gridiron." Boston Budget.
Dan Dawson's Versatility.
!
Probably the late poet ' athlete of
Philadelphia, Dan Dawson, was npt
intended to rank as high in. the
world of letters as the ;late John
Boyle O'Reilly, but he seems to have
had some of OTteilly's versatility,
It is related of him that one morn
ing he went over "to New York to
give his foreman some instructions in
carrying out a contract for building
a creosote factory. In the afternoon
the Authors' club gave him a recep
tion and his latest poem was the
topic of discussion. Later he went
toSheepshead Bay to see the famous
steeplechaser, - Kusb crook, engage
in a race there. In the : evening he
! lectured on "Norse Mythology" be-
, fore a select literary audience; and
; afterward, before the New York
i Athletic club, he whipped their
want ' champion middle-weight pugilist.
. JI every
killed it wo
to the favorable side of the world's
finances, so far as dollars and cents
jare concerned. The feed of dogs,
jtheir taxes, and finally their depre
dations, foot up a large amount.
Still the world does not live for dol
lars' and cents. And how many a
child would mourn its amusing pet,
ihpw many a lock and household miss
ja faithful friend and defendert Bur
glars, foxes, vermin generally
would rejoice at canine extinction.
"But-men . who have been pulled by
Idogsfrom alpine snowdrifts, rescued
(from drowning, delivered from In
furiated bulls or from the burglar's
"pistol, are not going to vote against
the dog. No dog should be trusted
,to run loose at night unless the
jpwner is absolutely sure that it will
pot leave his premises, or bite an in
offensive stranger. This is so hard
to determine that it is safest that
every dog should be tied, during the
night at least. This rule would de
crease the ravages in flocks of sheep
.wonderfully, as such butchery is
generally done at night. ,If every
dog running loose at night could be
(Shot with impunity, it would be an
excellent law, in sheep-growing dis
tricts at least.
If you own a good dog, do not
kick him outdoors when you go to
bed and tell him to shift for himself.
He cannot be expected to remain a
good dog long. Get a tight, large
dry goods box. cut a circular hole
just big enough for the dog to pass
through, In one side of the box, near
the end. Nail a loose flap of carpet
above the hole to keep out the wind.
Put on a sloping roof of matched
.boards and set the house in an open
'shed or on the south side of a build
ing. - A dog with such a residence,
although it is cheap, will learn self
respect. Now get several rods of
heavy - wire and fasten it near the
dog's house, a little higher than your
head, so it will be an obstacle, and
carry it out to a tall post 'and fasten
it taut, about six feet high. String
the ring of the dog's chain on it be
fore fastening it. It Is then but a
second's work to snap or unsnap the
chain from the dog's collar. The
animal can have a fine run out to
the post and back, insuring health
and cleanliness, and the way he will
make the chain jingle along that
.wire will - make you admire the con
trivance. Give the dog an occa
sional bath with flea soap; or a rub
bing with bagging. Insect powder,
also, will kill fleas if dusted dry into
the hair. A dog's food should be
varied, with not, too much meat,
though a bone is always a boon to
him; table scraps, johnnycake made
of meal and fine middlings, with a
little bone meal in it and dried beet
root, stale bread from' the baker's
will piece out the dog's menu. Re
member, also, that pure water is as
important as food.
For all purposes of the farmer the
Scotch collie is the choice dog. He
will not only drive stock by instinct,
but is a good watcher, fond of chil
dren, and often, a game hunter of
vermin, squirrels, etc Terriers
Scotch, Irish, fox, . bull and other
sorts are valuable animals, cot
only for' hunting rats, but as bouse
dogs to detect robbers they are un
equal eL ,They are a generally safe
and a gamey, amusing pet. Fox
hounds render an excellent service
to poultry raisers, but setters, point
ers and such pets of hunters cannot
be trusted . around poultry. They
are better kept on the chain, being
often snappy in disposition. Be
ware of Spits dogs and degenerate
Newfoundlands, as they are prone to
bite, and . seem especially liable to
hydrophobia.' A pure Newfound
land makes a noble protector, espe
cially for children when near the
water. A thoroughbred St. Ber
nard is . the noblest and safest of
oanine companions, but they are too
high-priced for the average farmer.
If possible, get a dog in his youth.
and train him up in the way he
should go. Old dogs will not attend
school, or at least will ignore their
lessons. When training a young
dog, do it all alone by yourself, so
nothing will distract him; let him
know you are In earnest; enlist bis
good will; reward him when he does
well, and do not weary him with a
long lesson,- and you will succeed.
C. H. Crandall, in Country Gentleman.
A MARINE 'WONDER.
The Coral Rampart Along the Coast
of Northwestern Australia.
One of the marine wonders of the
world is the great barrier reef of
Australia. This stupendous ram
part of coral, stretching in almost un
broken line for 1,250 miles along the
northwestern coast of Australia,
presents features of Interest which
are not to be equaled in any other
quarter of the globe. Nowhere is
the action of the little marine insect,
which builds up with untiring indus
try those mighty mountains with
which the tropical seas are studded,
more Impressive; nowhere are the
wonderful constructive forces of na
ture more apparent.' By a simple
process of accretion there has been
reared in the course of countless
centuries an adamantine wall against
which the billows of the" Pacific,
sweeping along In an uninterrupted
course of several thousand miles,
dash themselves in Ineffectual fury.
Imclosed within the range of its pro
tecting arms is a calm inland sea.
eighty thousand square miles in ex
tent, dotted with a multitude of
coral Islets and presenting at every
turn objects of interest alike to the
unlearned ' traveler and the man of
science. Here may be witnessed the
singular process by which the wavy,
gelatinous living mass hardens Into
stone, then serves as a collecting
ground for the flotsam and jetsam of
the ocean, and ultimately develops
into an island covered with a lux-
urious mass of tropical growth.
Here, again, may be seen In the se
rene depths of placid pools extraor
dinary forms of marine life, aglow
with the most brilliant colors and
producing in their Infinite variety
a bewildering sense of the vastness
of the life of the ocean.'
Highest of all ia Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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VAPORIZED QUARTZ.
The Volatilization of Rock Crystal by
. Electricity.
A beautiful opalescence may some
times bo observed in the glass globes
used to diffuse the light of the elec
tric arc, particularly after such
globes have been in use for along
time. '
Close examination shows that the
opalescent effect is due to the pres
ence on the glass of minute spheres
of silica which have evidently been
formed by volatilization from the
glass under the Influence of the elec
tric arc i This effect is in accord
ance with the experiments of M.
Moissan,' whose electric furnace has
produced some surprising results.
The essential feature of the fur
nace is an electric arc of great in
tensity, j When rock crystal, broken
Into fragments, is placed in the fur
nace it simply melts, like so much
ice, and in a few minutes the liquid
thus formed begins to boiL
The vapor rising from the lique
fied crystal is condensed into a little
bluish-white cloud, from which tiny
spheres of silica, glimmering with
opalescent hues, j are deposited.
The latter, of course,' are the prod
uct of a very slow and " "gradual
process,' while in the electric furnace
the volatization Is effected with as
tonishing rapidity. ;Youth's Com
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Some Tone ought to go out after !
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Evolution.
i Long on Number Ten.
The number 10 is very noticeable
in the life of A. Northup, of Ray
county, Mo. He was born on July
10. He has a brother who is 10 years
older,-also .born on July 10. His
a ot.;'. iITIv- a ' wife is 10 years younger, also born
10 and was discharged July 10. He
Indian school in Virginia as Tommy
Wild Cat, remains under the digni
fied name of Thomas W. Catt.:hi
cago MaiL
fought on island No. 10. i He has al
so 10 children und wears No. 10
shoes. ' .
"This morning," said a prome
nader,' "I saw a newsboy pick up
and hand to a lady who was walking
rapidly away from it a.bundlo which
she' had just dropped. She had a
number of bundles upon her arm,
and this one had slid : out from the
rest. She was walking with another
lady and talking with her; perhaps
it was becaffee she was thus preoc
cupiod that she paid no attention to
the newsboy when he handed her the
bundle; she simply . placed it back
among the rest and went on. The
newsboy halted for just "a brief mo
ment, and there was just the faint
est flicker of a smile upon his face.
This was one of the times when he
had played for a tip and ost, and
then he went on with his regular
work. This leads mo, to say, as the
result of my observations, that men
more often than women give the
newsboy something. I Why is this?
Is it because women expect as a
matter of ' course ; homage and
service from all, or are women less
generous than men?" N. Y. Sun.
I had heard so many stories In the
West Virginian mountains of the
that every time I saw a man with a
gun I fancied he was one of the
heroes of the hills and treated him
with corresponding courtesy, not so
much because I was naturally polite
as that I was anxious to leave the
'country without taking '.any lead
away, in my system. One day I
Vode up to a comfortable farmhouse
:and seated in the doorway was a
'mountaineer with a Winchester on
his lap, rubbing it up clean and
fcright. - i,
"Good morning," I said, most
courteously, "will you be ' kind
enough to tell me how, far It is to
Reed's 5IU1?" -
. "Four mile," he responded briefly.
."Air you goin tharT"
"Yes, sir; I'm buying timber."
"Goln right thar from herer
"Yea' air"
"Well, ef you see a scwin machine
agent thar you tell him I'm ready
fer him."
! Here, I thought, is one of those
j&hooting scrapes of the mountains
budding, only this time it is an out
sider who is to suffer, and my mind
was made up to warn the agent of
pis danger.
Til tell him,- I said; "but what
are you going to do to him?"
"Well, stranger," explained the
native, "beln its you IU tell you.
He comes here yestiddy an sells my
wife a machine fer forty dollcr an
she give him twenty dollers cash,
every dern cent I had in the house.
ana men cauea me in ter sign a
note fer the balance. . Well, yer see.
I was fer fighting,' right then an'
thar, an made fer my . gun, but the
durn agent headed me off. and. In
about four olnutes he bad wiped up
about two acres uv y'arth with roe,
an' then be walked out an' said he'd
be back to-day fer the balance.'
" w . .
imow i was sure wnai that gun
meant- -
xou woman l shoot, an unsus
pecting man down in. hi) tracks.
would you?" I said, in spite of my
self. .
"Shoot that agent, mister," he ex
claimed, jumping up. "Shoot him,
mister?. Not much; be ain't that
kind. I'm goln" ter try to pacify
him by gmn him this run an . ten
dollars, an the gun's wuth tweaty.
ef its wuth a cent. I know when
I've got enough, an 111 be doggoned
ef I want ter be walloped clean over
ine rest uv my iaj-m. bo you can
tell him Ten ready fer him, aa sorter
explainify that I ain t so pizen as I
war ylstiddy."
By this time my feelings had un
dergone a change, and I very willing
ly agreed to "explainify." Detroit
tree Iress..
ROCKS. OF MASHONALAND.
Curious Features of tK Country, R
Mmblin'g Hue Curbstones.
A characteristic feature of Mash
pn aland, the kopje, is freouentlT
mentioned in the dispatches report- '
Ing the enagements with the Mata
bele. Some descriptions of these
curious elevations is given in a let
ter to Prof. Geikie, from. J.' B. Don,
forrcerlr one of his rjunils. avs th
London News. A uniform irranite
formation is, he says,: by fji-.the
most prominent geological peculiar
ity of Mashonaland, and, indeed, of
most of the interior of South Africa,
Sometimes it rises into mountain,
tuluua!'.y the general level Is ocly
broken by low kopjes, and in those
parts where the bed rock and sur
face are flattest the kopjes present,
the mos singular appearance. The'
whole country seems dotted with
huge curbstfQes, and in whatever
-direction you look they .gradually
close in the view, as the trunks of
trees would in a forest. Some of
these curbstones are three hundred
feet or more high, sheer all round.
and apparently of smaller diameter
than height. Sometimes the orig
inal mass has been so broken ud as
to form the most raarrelou steeple
like structures springing out of the
rich foliage that grows In all the
crevices. Native huts are built on
these kopjes in the most inaccessible
positions.
! !
Descended from the Toga.
As the tunic cam a to be worn"
tight and close-fitting an impor
tant change occurred is its general .
cut.
It Is hard to get into a tight tunic.
unless it be very elastic harder yet
to struggle out of it. To facilitate
these processes it has always been
necessary," when the tunic was high
in the neck, to cut it open for a little '
way down the front and to fasten to
gether In the opening thus made
with buttons ' . ,
But when tunics came to be worn
very tight, about the time of the re
naissance, the opening was extended '
to the very bottom of the tuaic
After awhile it became the fashion
to leave the tight outer tunic aho-,
gether unbuttoned, .except in cold
weather. Thus the garment which
had been worn from the earliest
times, and called by a hundred dif-'
ferent names, pucb as chitton, tunic,
ootta, without any "change of gen
eral character suffered its first es
sential modification and became the
modern coat. The same garment
when short is the jacket; when short
and sleeveless,- the waistcoat.
Scribner's Magazine. -w
His Defense.
EASY ' ENOUGH.
Convertible Steamships.
Convertible steamships are the
newest, designs in shipbuilding.
They are built to carry general or
liquid cargoes on very short notice.
The first vessel of that type, the new
British steamship Mexican Prince,
arrived in New York a few days
ago from the Tyne. She was built
at Wallsend, England, for James
Knott, and bad every requirement
for loading and discharging anything
that might have to be sent across
the sea. Steam fans "to driTe out
gases that always accumulate on
this type of vessels were part of the
ship's equipment. Winches and
high-power pumps were also on
board to suit the varying demands
of commerce.
The Young Irish Priest and His Crit
leal Hearer.
In a certain church In Ireland i
young priest was detailed to preach.
This occasion was his first appear
ance, and he took for his text: "The
Feeding of the Multitude."
He said: "And they fed ten
thousand people withj ten thousand
loaves of bread and ' ten thousand
fishes."
An old Irishman said: "That's
no miracle; begorra, I could do that
myself," which the J priest over
heard. .
The next Sunday the priest an
nounced the same text, but he had
it right this time. He said: "And
they fed ten thousand people on ten
loaves of bread and ten fishes."
He waited a second and thea
leaned over the pulpit, and Said:
"And could you do that, Mr. Mur
phy?" Murphy replied: "And sure, your
reverence, I could." t
"And how could you do It?" said
the priest.
j "And sure, your reverence, I could
, do it with what was left
j last Sunday." Tid-Bita.
A Gotham Lawyer's Big Fee.
inexsew lone lawyer who en
joys me cos unction ol having re
ceived, perhaps, the biggest fee on
record is William ftelson Cromwell.
Hs was paid $200,000 once for his
services. One would hardly take
him for a lawyer, however. He looks
like a Methodist minister on a visit
to the city. At present he is coun
sol forthe receivers of the Northern
Pacific railroad, and is esteemed one
of the best railroad lawyers in the
city. He is thin and wears bushy
iron-gray hair. His clothing is not of
the fashionable cut. He may often be
seen reading a novel as he rides up
town from his office. The 1200,000
fee was paid him for extricating a
Wall street firm from an $18,000,000
& tv a
emoaraumrm. iois ne aid la a
month's time. He will probablv
make $200,000 more out of the North
ern Pacific troubles. His law prac
tice is enormous and his income is
princely. Meantime there are 5,000
other lawyers In New. York city
i . . -
wDose pay win not average si.duu a
year.
"There may be some-good in jour
religion," said the studious young
woman, "but you can; nrver make
me see any reason for-your horrid
practice of having more than one .
wife." -
'Allow me to explain," said the
Mohammedan missionary, la-the
first place, it is not considered good
form in our country for a woman to
go gaddlng-J believe that is the
word around the streets. She Is
expected to stay at home." .
"Well?"
"Well, as she has to stay la the
house all the time, her husband
would never see her looking other
than what you call a perfect fright
if there were not some other woman
there to ouUhlne." Indianapolis
Journal. -
Lmuy xaithrull smokes cigars.
but does so Irf order to relieve the
chronic asthma, from which she suffers.
So many descriptions have been
given, from time to time, in numer
ous magazines, of these necessary
articles, and air have been so alike,
and when finished the labor and
time, not counting the money ex
pended, have - been really greater
than anticipated, that I venture to
send directions for making one
which is both simple and unique.
Take a common pillow and cover it
withhold gold cambric; get a piece dl
dotted Swiss muslin, or, If you have
any old lace curtains cast aside, take
and cut out the best parts and make
Into a long slip, leaving both ends
open, the slip to bo five Inches long
er than the pillow. "This covering
can be readily washed when soiled,
and it is always very dainty, and the
over from I old gold showing through the dace
J produces a novel and pretty effect.
The Old Friend
And the best friend,- ihat never
toils you, is Simmons liver Eegu
lator, (the Bod Z) that's what
you. hear at the mention of this
excellent liver medicine," and
people should not bo persuaded
that anything else will do. .
It is the King of Liver LLedi
cinesj ia better than pills, and
tales the place of Quinine and
CalomeL It acts directly on tha
Liver, Kidneys and Bowels and
gives new life to the whole sys
tem. This is the medicine you
want, Bold br all Druggist in
Liquid, or in Powder to be taken
dry or made into a tea.
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