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A Silent Appeal for Help. TWhen your kidneys and bladder are in. active they are making a silent appeal for help. Doun't disregari it, but with uos tetter's Stonm Bch Bitters safely impel them to activity. They are in immediate dauger, and it s foolhardiness to shut one's eyes to the fact. Be wise in time, too, if you ex perience manifestations of dyspepsia, ma laria, rheumatism, constipation or nerve trouble. The Bitters before a meal adds zest to it. ST.a END OF THE VACATION.-He (In leav lng) -"I think I have said good-by to you before, miss." She-" Well I'm always glad to say good-by to yo."--Truth. Nerves and Blood Are inseparably connected. The for mer depend sanply, solely, solidly upon the latter. If it is pure they are properly fed and there is no "nervous ness." If itis impure they are fed on refuse and the horrors of nervous prostration result. Feed the nerves on pure blood. Make pure blood and keep It pure by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla .The One True Blood Purifler. -- --- - - -- AI~n I11 ~A 1ood's Pills 22"l r ". "ctrti. Is EW DOMESTIC COFFIE BERRY A o I T F T I BETTER TIIAN A GOLD INE. RtM y our own ooffee ot less than one ect e ound. Let high tariffb store coffee go. The poor an's friend and rich man's delht. Matures north or south in four months. Plant .ty time up to the 2th of June; 20,(00 farmers supplied and or. cry one praises it. Has produced over 60o bushels per cre. Some prefert to stre coffee. Produces twocrops a year no the outh. Lnrne packet.pot. paid 20 ctt." or enough to plant 200 hills, 60 cis, orstamps. Will make 200 pots of most delicious coffee, good enough for a king. Is sul ersedin stor cofee as fast 8a Its merits become known. Large pataloue of w0 new varieties of seeds and test mondals from patrons all over the Union sent ree wrlth eact·o order by . . OL, Seedsman, B knekuer, ,Mlaoutl. "Special thoedtsal Pries to Farmers und Mre chants, ndo clear over f00 per cnt.sellin ts ast won dbrfut SEED dhuin wonter. The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY, DONALD KENNEDY, of ROXBURY, MASSw., Has discovered In one of our common t pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Srofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried It In over eleven hundred t ases, and never failed except in two cases 1 (botthunder humor.) He has now In his possession over two hundred certificates of Its value, all within twenty miles of i Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect cure Is warranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected It causes shooting pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This !s caused by the ducts be Ing stopped, and always dsappears In a I week after taking It. Read the label. If the stomach Is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best you can get, and enough of it.r Dose, one tablespoonful In water at bed time. Sold by all Druggists. DRESSMAKERS TFID THE ONLY ORIGINAL PUBLISHED In This Country L'Art de La Mode, And all the most re liable information on the question of dresnt Order of your News dealer or send sb Oenst nort h Poare h dsout in for the last Number. erepis at prode0 o h THE MORSE-BROUGHTON CO, ert. te Ave. pd froadwa. NsEW YORK. Trywit wen the digestiont is WEAi ande no FOOdl seems to niuriste Tryit aleoit seems impossible ts with each orer bay .N. E Sewyok. SSn 3Pe Ii ri t Pursuerssa- i Met' elaante·:,I 1t clear oner 400 par ct. ecil.s thdaseesa WHERE WE WERE BOY&. D'you mind the mountain farm, old boy, where you an' me was kids? An' how we laid o' summer nights an' heard the katydids An' whippoorwills a-pipin' out and fiddlin' 'mong the stooks, An' how we usen't dare to speak foer fear we'd raise the spooks? Can't you mind the spring-house still, where all the milk was kep'. An' how our little toes would ache, a-standin' on the step? Our house was nest an' tasty, the barn was full o' hay, A-purpose so as me an' you could romp a rainy day. What fun to climb for huckleberries, tip-top of the hill. An' set our traps for rabbits in the meadow by the mlil An' don't you know that moss-grown trough, deep in a forest glade. Where tinkle, tinkle, went the spring, a-sing in' while we played? Somehow I took to hsnkerin' to see the farm again An' view the spots that seemed so bright be fore we two was men. Es frisky ez a colt I clum the dear old hill once more I wish to God I'd stayed away; my heart is sick an' sore. The farm, old boy. was dead an' gone-the bones was scattered 'round; I felt like in a graveyard, where ghouls has tore the ground. The chimbley's fallen off the house, the barn's without a roof: The spring-house shed is tumbled in-it's full o' leaves an' stuff. Where mother used to set her crocks down in the spring to cool, An' turn an' yiss us when we'd come a-bouncin' home from school. The wind sweeps through the stable, an' the stall where old Nell died Is filled clean to the manger top with snow that's blowed inside. A great big lump come in my throat thet cough drops couldn't cure; I turned to hunt the moss-grown trough and spring so cold and pure. I found the trough upon its side and rotted quite away; The spring was dried-I dtanno why, but I Jes' couldn't stay, Fer't seemed so sad an' lonesome there, an' voices filled my ears That you and me hain't heard at all for more'n twenty years. I couldn't somehow trust myself to go back past thet scene, But sneaked away along the creek-I never felt so mean Sence when our little bluejay died, an' we tried hard not to cry, An' made a drizzling failure at it, blubbering on the sly. I hain't a-tellin' what I done a-comin' down that road, But when 'twas over, like, I felt relieved of quite a load. I'm never goin' back no more t' thet graveyard of a place, For spooks walks there in broad daylight thet I don't care to face; I'd ruther treasure up them scenes, afore the place was dead, An' hang 'em round like pictures on the inside of my head. An' eof any man should ask me: "Where's the farm you once lived on?" ul say: "It's gone to Heaven, where the dear old folKs is gone." -Edwin L Shuman, in Chicago Journal THE SECOND FIDDLE. HE has played see ond fiddle all her N life. Not that she lik'ed this part; not that nature had in- t tended her for it, app arently, but fate had so ar ranged it. In youth she had fought bit terly against the secondary place to which she was perpetually relegated, but to no purpose. "I will play any part in the whole orchestra, from the conductor down to the man who looks after the cymbals and the drums," she said once, "but I absolutely decline to be the second 1 violin." But as she grew older she recognized that only by playing this very instru ment could she have any part in the great orchestra of lifer and she pa- 1 tiently began to accustom herself to being second fiddle. And all her life this fate pursued her. She loved a man, and he fancied he loved her long enough to give her that fleeting glimpse of bliss which Satan 1 is supposed to allow his victims before dragging them down to the bottomless pit, but just as she began to think that the wonderful gift of love was really to be hers, he fell in love with her sis ter, and she became the second fiddle again. Love was offered to her again, and because her heart was hungry she ac cepted it, and became the wife of a man who harped on the string of his first wife's virtues until it jarred her nature out of tune; motherhood came 1 to her in the same secondary way. Her husband's child, wiom she loved with a perfect, self-abnegating, altruistic love, cared far more for her selfish fa ther than her unselfish stepmother, and again she struck the chord as signed to the second fiddle. Fame came to her late in life, but just as she tasted its glories her sister TOLD HER THAT HER HUBBAND WAS DYNG. also became famous in a greater de gree, and once more she sauk from the new, sweet, longed-for rank of first violin to-that of second fiddle. Even in death she was denied the fleeting honors and dignity which comes to most lives this once. She had often wondered how this would be. In her bitter moments she had foreseen and prophesied it, saying. that she would be only the second fiddle even in death, but the sting of it embittered her last moments.. She died suddenly, death resulting from a railroad accident, and for one whole, long, perfect day she was the only care of those who surrounded her. "I shall be first once after all," she was thinking.in the vaguewandering, unreal manner common to ios~ whhoo are near to death, when a ambie came softly into the room muad ~ild her that her lusband was dying. She shran back apim the j wlo shocked, less at the dreadful news than at the sudden realization of the fact that now she must die as she had so often dreaded, with only a casual sor row to bless her memory, and the hope less look, so strange in death and so noticeable when she lay in her coffin, settled slowly over her face. Next day her husband died, and she followed him closely-so closely that the people who paid the last honors to him found it almost impossible to do the same for her, and she was buried as she had lived and died, as she had been born even-the second fiddle. But once, just once, and once only, e during the course of her life she had 0 been first, and this was how it hap pened: She had lived as a child in a small country town where religious dissipa- B tion was the only kind of pleasure tol erated; the kind of place where a camp-meeting is a diversion, and q s temperance revival (barren of converts t save stray strangers) a wild exhilara. e tion; the kind of place where the Bible a forms the subject of ordinary conver sitions, and where every baby, not to men tion every man, woman and child in the village limits, can quote Scrip; ture and do battle with texts. I Upon one occasion the Sunday school C superintendent, wishing to still further promote this habit, offered a prize to c the child who could in a given time t learn the greatest number of Bible t verses. The Second Fiddle, just then displaced from her accustomed niche in the household and her mother's heart by a newer arrival and addition to the family list of children, took foxr C-. 'A -. A iii A t 'L-. " =/=" I her text "Desolation," and collected a such an overwhelming number of texts bearing upon this word and condition that she was easily first in the race. P In fact so long was her list, so perfect her command of her strange spiritual In wares, that the entire time usually de voted to the Sunday school session did not suffice to enable her to repeat them b all. She stood up there on the plat form and reeled off melancholy texte h in her even, mournful, monotonous E voice until the sun had sunk and it be gan to grow dark. Then the siperin tendent advanced, and, lifting his V hand to stop her, announced that she had so palpably won the prize that it was needless to hear any of the other f aspirants or even to allow her to finish. g "We congratulate our little friend," he said, pompously, "upon her dili- E gence and fine knowledge of the Scrip 1 tures, and we take great pleasure, the minister and I, in giving into her hands this token of our appreciation and ap proval." He handed her a small, shoddily bound scarlet-covered New Testament, and she took it and sat down with a t swelling heart. She recognized the pomposity of the superintendent's tone, she knew how worjhiess was the tri umph she had achieved, but she did not care. Nothing mattered to her h now but this sweet, perfect joy of con quest. Perhaps fate, knowing how lit tle of triumph would fall to her share, made this small victory the sweeter, L perhaps the God who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb made this breeze of success even more bland and delight- s ful than the air of prosperity usually is, perhaps - who can spell out the causes of human joy or sorrow? She went home that day walking on air, treading on roses. What mattered it that other children sneered at her choice of subjects? What mattered it that some of them had even hinted that she had won the prize unfairly? What mattered it that even her mother thought the time spent in earning her poor little joy a little excessive? The law of compensations is a sure if slow power, and there was bliss enough in this one minute of success to balance a lifetime of failures. And this was the purpose, apparently, of. that Sunday school prize. It gave her the only per fect gladness she ever knew; it fur nished the element of success neces sary in some degree to the completion of every human life. She cherished that small, common Testamentfar more than she did either of the gorgeous gilt and leather com binations given her on her dreary wed ding day; she treasured it far more than the plain ,little copy of Tenny son's poems which had been presented to her on her graduation day, and which had given her a nearer approach to pure pleasure than usually fell to her lot. For the Testament represented her share of that which is the desire of all human hearts-the longing to be first with somebody, something, sometime. The Testament was the only "outward and visible sign" of her worldly suc cess. It was the insignia of rank won in the only victorious battle of a long campaign. And this is why she loved it; this is why, when she was dead, they found it clasped in her cold, stiffened fingers, and pressed close to her silent heart. O, tragedy of the second fiddlel 0, strange, harsh, echoing minor chord! Can it be that in some far-away land where love, music and success are as commonplace and normal as heart hunger, discord and failure are (or seem to be) here the second fiddle may be promoted to the rank of first viola.~, perchance even of conductor? Or is it true that In thh. lifei which, touches o~rs "the lastshall be. frlt,' 'nd the first violn - .o ies import th_ the sec ond fi NM hich makes erfect in tera~ f fble?-hsiilda ittiribune. Jimbiy $here is someting the mat ter wi ' a'bnd the- diiCtor doe n't se. - aow what it .is . Jod s . don't yo;uf go to, a wheelw c dianapolis Journal. usItuamiy aIysm asakea the ca-t Itumiaator tese but the u uaimidate4d Highest of all in Leavening Power-aes t U. S. Govt Report Baking RPowder ABOLTWELY PURE -On the mainland you see a misty camp of mountains pitched tumultu- I ously; that one looming so long and large is Saddleback, and that point you see over yon low and rounded marge, like the loss of a sleeping giant's targe laid over his breast, is Ossipee; that shadow there may be Kersarge; that must be Great Hay- I stack; Agamenticus, he glowers there I to the north of us, wrapt in his blank et of blue haze, unconvertibly savage, and scorns to take the white man's ba'ptism or his ways."- Lowell. -"Can you tell me, professor," asked Grigsby, "what an 'extempore pianist' is? I see that the performances of such a pianist are advertised." "Certainly," said the professor. "Ex, out of; tempo, time; an extempore pi unist is one that plays of out of time!"-Boston*Transcript. Mrs. Collins' Story. I am thirty-three years old, have been married seventeen years, and have four liv ing children. My bealth has not been good since my first child was born. Twelve months ago I was confined, but my baby onlylived a few days. Soon after that I was attacked with irritation of the bladder, choking speill, heart palpitation, fainting spells and great nervousness. In this ter rible condition I was confined to my bed eight months. I thought! was dying many times. My dear little helpless children, in kissing me at night, often said. "Please don't diet mamma;" or "Papa, don't let mamma die to-night." My little boy brought me a Ladies' Birthday Almanac. one day, and after reading it I decided to try the Wine of Cardui Treatment. I have taken two bottles of McE1ree's Wine of Cardui and three small packages of Thedford's Black-Draught, and am better than I have been for ten years I am visiting my neigh bors on foot, doing my work with ease, and eat better than I have for years. God only knows how grateful I am for this wonderful medicine that has worked this great transformation. Ma$. SA.ML COyaxs. McHenry, Ky. DEsnsPs not any man, and do not spurn nything; for there is no man whohatti not Is is hour. nor is there anything that has not a place.-Rabbi Ben Azal. del WnAT some people call prudence goes by he nother name in the next house.-Ram's the corn. Tue virtue lies in the struggle, not in the irize.-Milnes. Pi A nEAP of ill-chosen erudition is but the uggage of antiquity.-Balzac. ] MEN should not talk to please themselves, but those that hear them.-Sterne. Pi WnLJ some fisherman kindly inform us Al iow the bass can reach the upper seat loston Transcript. H.rPooRsY, the only evil that walks in- re risible, except to God alone.-Milton. THE BEST OF REASONS.-"Do you remem )er, Julian, why they shot Saint Sebastian aull of arrows'l" "Cause they hadn't any aun."-Life. Hs-"I saw Miss Backer at Goodwood." The (thinking of dress)-"Ohl What did the have on?" He (thinking of horses) 'Nothing."-Fua. GREAT minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them. Doiton. NoR cell nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the mur'erer like the voice of solitude. Niaturin. "EanA, I just saw tihe lieutenant kissing vou. Don't let me see that again." "Cer tainly, mamma. We shall be more cautious lereafter."-Lustige Blatter. THE REAL TROUBLE.-Auntie-"Johnnie you must never be afraid to tell the truth.' Johnnie-"No auntie, I ain't. It's to tell a lie without being afraid that bothers me." Life. OPrrcIAN (to his new clerk)-"Now, in sending out these price lists, write the ad dresses as small as possible, so that those reading them may feel how badly they need Mlasses."-Tit-Bits. THE KINQ CURE ovERnALL FOR L -IL YOU Put Your Foot In It when you buiy inferior soap instead of the genuine CL.AIRETTE SOAP. The favorite of every woman who ever used it either in the laundry or for all around the house cleaning. Sold everywhere. Made only by THE N. K. FAI BAMI CORPANY, ST. LOUIS. BES1¶ IN THE WORLD. SUN POatLU PSmvy, hfor s looft-Lbf I~~ IT ,msxm So.-"Paps," said Harry, "wheq a boy keeps on doing something wrong o0 bi own accord he's willful, isn't hePt" "Yes," said Mr. d. "Then if he doesn't do nothing of nobody else's accord, he's won'tful, isn't het"-Harper's Round Table, Wn.r.mn or not sin dates from the first apple-eating, it is pretty generally conceded that new habits were acquired by our first parents very soon after their indulgence in the fruit of the apple tree.-Boston Tran. script Best of A l To cleanse the sy stem in a gentle and truly beneficial manner, when the springtime comes, use the true and perfect remedy, Syrup of Fis. One bottle `will answer for all the famiy and costs only 60 centse the large size S1. Try it and be pleased. Manu. factured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. SHE-"That was very pretty for Mr. IsT. lin to kiss his better half after the race." He-"Yes, it was pretty; but remember it was the other Hat! who won the race.'- Yonkers statesman. Kate Field in Denver. DsNvea, Sept. 10.-My Journey from Chicago was over the Chicago, Burlington &Qumicy, Railroad, one o the best man aged systems in the country, I should says judging by the civility of the employes, the comfort Iexperienced, the excellence of it, roadbed, and the punctuality of arrival. I actually reached Denver ahead of time. The Burlington Route is also the best to St Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha and Kansas City. Tas only liberty that a man, worthy of the name, ought to ask for, is to have all restrictions, inward or outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.-~ . W. Robertson. oere tyes sared Jackson's Indian Eye Salve never fafist do this; 26o atal1 drug stores. MORE EAnLY HIsron. -"Yes, I see you're a new woman, Eve," said Adam, "butI'll take the risk. You haven't any past."--Ch cago Tribune. Hall's satarrh Cse Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 76o. WOULD you kill the weeds in your gar den, plant it with good seed; if the ground be well occupied there will be less need of the hoe.-A. Fuller. CURs your cough Pith Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike'sToothache Drops Cure in one minute. How MUCH will the average hotel waiter measure from tip to tip--BostonTranscript. ArrRa six years' suffering, I was cured by Piso's Cure.-MAar THoMsoN, 2930 Ohio Ave., Allegheny, Pa., March 19, '94. No MAN can pass into eternity, forhe is al ready in it.-Farrar. Ruth and Naomi The DeLONG Patent Hook and Eye. See that hump?, GAYOSO HOTELAEMWEJ ir zoe RooMs, REDUCED T.ta s.Poe E DAY, *IICK BLUE! BESTS sU3Ll~ceiAM: 5to~i; ~ .r~ Snil A. -W.' r i .m op" $M fimr : is St. Landry State Bank --o - OP]!LOUeXS, LOUISI tt. CAPITAL, $75,000.00. A general bankldg esiness traniasted Ib sga e.ehanges bought en" slt. ewSalI * eastion given to oenetion Mone" to.lesa so ge security. WASHINGTON , • • O s. °dm.n' ', r.a . CrPITrL, . 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BLOºOMPI;E .D, :U, S. CU 1bfl$$ SIONZR NOTARY PV8LIO. OPIUAS .---- "Ll.UISIANA. - '- he ua^lP Li P aiP kp.~.Wer ji;~i Poor Health means so much more tha o agie-.us apd '.' fats diseases resamt from trifling ai tents neglectedt Doe t pl with Natre's greatet 3-he Y ghembotil. Bitters · It Curs KiSftSS . 1sLahe LPT~:~r:~~p ~-~i1~.S(~ 1~