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"V'K :'-7f h - 0 .J 4 THE SCOTT COUMTY NEWSBOY. . MIL. A. H AFNKR, Publisher. , BENTON. .'-.. . MISSOUBL SLEEPIN IN THE ATTIC. ' J remember when my pa tatd: "Jlmmle, eo to f bed," . . Er lot o' funny kind o' things went scootln' - through my head. For I slept In th' attic, where altaro-thlnga come at night. Where goblins grow from rafters, an' lmpses hide from sight, An wait to Jump out on yer when ye're most asleep; An where there's funny crawlln' things 'at creep, creep, creep tip on th' bed, on' grab yer throat, on' mnl;e yer cry and groan. All Jes' because yer huve to sleep up nttlo all alone. An' t remember pa sold ho thought most any kid 'Ould like to sleep up attic, leastwise ho always did. . An' when yer hear the rats cr rumiln' round at night, An' yer think perhaps thpy'n boglo men with long white teeth 'at bite; An' then ihe moon comes in on lays or white streak on th' floor, An' yer go ter sleep an' dream about th' bogle men some more, . An' the cobwebs on the rafters look like fairy castles most An' yer think perhaps the moonlight Is Jlmmlo Nolan's ghost For Jlmmle when he worked here sold 'at ghosts lived In th' house. An' they was big cr littla like the moonshine er a mouso. An' so I tuck my head down where the bogie men can't see. Right in th' bed. an' that's th' way fer little folks like me. An' onco at night. I know, I see a funny thing an' screamed. An' pa come up an' laughed, an' said he guessed I only dreamed; But It wa nt er dream at all, 1 know, fer over by th' wall ' Er yeller man hung by his neck, an' he was awful tall, An' he kept movln' back an' forth an' kicked his legs at mo; An' pa said In the mornln' if I'd look there I would see Twas Jes' th' yeller corn 'ot hung a dryln', nothin' more; Then he went out with th' candle an' shut th' attle oor. An' then I see him shake again, the yeller man, an' crawl, Er hangln' by his neck there in th' dark upon th' wall; An' then I tucked my head down In th' clothes an' couldn't see. An' th' first I knew 'twas mornln' an' pa was callln' me. Walter M. Hazeltlne, In Housekeeper. IISS MAKOA- &6mjiilv-'u was reatl" y52ilv inS the evening not often she had such a priv ilege. Neighbor Brown's people were away for a day) so Miss ppr Margaret could have the first reading of the news. Usually she took it a day old. Someway the good things of life had always come a day late to Miss Marga ret, or else not at all. Perhaps that was the reason why her face, which had been handsome once and full of promise, had such sharp lines about the mouth. It was a thin, angular face, and the scant, straight hair above it, which used to be so black, was streaked with gray. At the other side of the small round table sat Miss Margaret's sister Har riet, placidly knitting. If her face bore fewer traces of disappointment than Margaret's, it was not because she had had more of the joys of life. Per haps it was because she had expected less. Harriet Staples had been called a very plain cirl; but now hers was a pleasant face to look upon, round and peaceful, the touch of rose color in the cheeks contrasting prettily with the t nowy whiteness of her soft, heavy hair. The eyes were pleasant and friendly; at the corners of the mouth were the little wrinkles that come from smiles, and, altogether, the face was very lovable. Yet these two sisters had lived their lives and grown old together. For forty years they had not been sepa rated for a singlo night. For forty years and more they had had the same things to worry over, and to be glad about, the same sorrows and the Baine simple pleasures. Suddenly the paper dropped from Miss Margaret's hands and she looked up at Harriet, her pale face almost ghastly. "AVhat is it, sister?" "Bob Barton's dead!" "You don't say!" Even Miss Harriet's ealm face showed signs of agitation, and her hand shook as she reached for the paper. " There were only two lines of it. Robert Barton had been found dead that morning, in the little room which was the only home he had known for forty years. The paper had lost all attractions for Miss Margaret, and Ilnrriet's stock ing fell to the floor unheeded. The room was very stiil only the little old clock ticking in the corner, and the purring of the great, gray cat on his cushion. Outside, in the street, people were passing to and fro. Sometimes their voices were loud and penetrating, but the sisters did not hear them. They were back in the long ago, 'when band some Bob Barton used to spend an evening, now and then, in this same sitting-room, which In all these years bad never quite lost the glory of his presence." '.''.'" By and by two tears forced them selves from Harriet's eyes. She wiped them sway hastily, and glanced fur tively at her sister. Margaret had not seen the tears, and her face wore such softened look that Harriet ventured to speak. , .,. - "Father used to set such store by , hiaar she said, softly. - " 'Twas you be always used to com to see.' I always knew that" "Mer "TwanV neither! Every feody knew he wanted you if it hadn't . bean for his miserable father! '0 : sister! don't say that," pleaded Visa Harriet, her pretty old cheeks wst with tears which now she did not try to hide. ' "I'm sore we all thought twa you. He always looked at yon the whole evening. .' . ""Bot h talked to 'yon. And dtda't r frr you that shell box?" . ', "Ut he brought you flowers. ';' . foor womeat For the flrtt J'me la all their lives they spoke the one thought that had meant more to them than everything else. Even Bob Bar ton's name had never passed their lips since that day when the news came that it was disgraced forever by his father's crime. They knew, In a way, what had come to him that he had felt the disgrace as only a sensitive soul can feel; that, with hopes and ambitions blighted, he had passed the fifteen years of his father's imprison ment in bitter loneliness; and that his life since then had been devoted to the broken old man, who came out from the prison walls enfeebled In mind and body and helpless as a child. "He must 'a' been awful poor!" Miss Harriet spoke again, after a long si lence. "Yes, T s'pose he was." "I don't believe there's enough for a decent burylri'." - "I don't believe there is." There was silence again. The gray cat wakened, yawned and stretched himself: then he jumped down from his cushion and rubbed his sleek sides against Miss Harriet She did not notice him, and he, surprised at such unusual neglect, stalked to the door and requested, after his fashion, to be let out Miss Harriet rose mechan ically, picked up her knitting and opened the door. She sat down again and slipped the yarn over her finger, but at the first stitch her hands dropped Idly in her lap. The old clock ticked on. The noises in the street had ceased. The fire was out and the room cold; but still the sisters sat there, unmindful of all save the past. Finally, after much fidgeting in her chair and many uneasy glances at hr sister, after opening her mouth only to close it again, Miss Harriet broke the silence. "Sister?" Her voice had a half-frightened quaver In It. "Well?" Miss Margret's tone was so much less sharp than usual that Harriet took courage and went on. "Why, you know that money we've saved, in case we should get sick or anything?" Harriet paused to note the effect of her words. "Well?" There was no surprise in the tone, no change in the pale face. "Why, seems to me we could get on; it only took us ten years to save It, and wc ain't very old and and we're pretty healthy and we can be more savin' if we try. We don't need that carpet much: and we can get along without them new dresses mine hain't been turned but once." "Well, what do you want to do?" Miss Margaret's tones were sharp enough now. It irritated her to have Harriet so long in coming to a point which had been evident to her from the beginning. But it was something that she did not exclaim at onco against the spending of their care fully hoarded fund, and Harriet went on bravely: "Why, I'd thought mebby we could take that money and bury him decent nnd " "And what?" "And get a little headstone." Har riet's voice had sunk almost to a whis per. "Father thought so much of him, yon know." Again there was silence. Miss Mar garet rose, foldsd and laid by her work, locked the door, wouud the clock and took up the lamp. "Come to bed," she said. "It's half -past ten." They put out the light and went to bed. If they slept or waked, if they shed tears in the darkness, if their poor hearts ached with the pain of forty years ngo, they did not tell each other of it They were astir early next morning. The September sun had hardly begun to warm the world when their scanty breakfast was over, the dishes washed and put away, the old carpet swept and the room dusted. Miss Margaret came out of the tiny bedroom with her bonnet on. "Where arc you going?" Harriet looked up, surprised; she usually did the errands. "I'm going to ask Mr. Morgan to see to things for the funeral. I'm the old est, and it's proper 1 should do it You'd better put on your other dress, an' go an' get that money out of tho bank." And so the matter was settled; and poor old Bob Barton, who had died alone, and left not a relative in the world, nor a cent of money, instead of 1 1 slfll ii, , fii:! ItfrH STILL THK TWO SISTERS SAT TJIEBK, being laid in a pauper's grave, was de cently buried, and followed to his last resting place by two sincere mourners. When the expenses were all paid, the sisters found their little sum re duced more than they had anticipated. "We can go without our roast beat Sunday," Harriet suggested, timidly. "Yes, and tea once a day's enough for anybody," Margaret answered. So, without a word of regret, or a thought of yielding their project, the sisters made their sacrifices, and then they went to give their order. After all, their money would procure only the simplest of simple stones; but they were satisfied. ' . f "What's the Inscription?" asked the man in attendance, when the stone had bceu Bclectod. .''" Harriet turned helplessly to Mar garet, and Margaret looked blankly at Harriet Neither of them bad thought of that, -. "Why his - name I suppose," Miss Margaret bega(u "So, s'.Bter, don't" pleaded Harriet "Let's wait and talk it over and eome again." And so they walked slowly home. They bad a way these sisters of not speaking until they had thought a thing out, each for herself. . Miss Harriet lighted the fire when, they reached home, and made the tea, while her sister vet the crips and pi a tea on the table, sliced th bread and nut on the wee bit of butter, tt was ehlllV evening, bnt they put oil their shawls and let the fire go down. There was no paper to read to-night; so they both knitted. Margaret worked steadily, but Harriet stopped now and then in an absent-minded way, and she passed over more than one dropped stitch without seeing it It was she, of course, Who finally broke the silence. "I can't bear to have that name go on," she said, "even if it was his. Ho never disgraced it." "But whoever heard of a tombstone without any narao on it?" "Well, we could put on his first name and and a verse of poetry, mebby, or somcthin from the Scrip tures." "Harriet Staples! Poetry! The Ideal It ain't befittin' and you know it Nor yet Scripture. Ho was a good man, but we don't know nothing about his religion. It don't suit, somehow. I guess it'll have to be jest tho name Robert " "That sounds kind o' cold like." Miss Harriet hesitated. "Nobody ever called him that Couldn't we have the other Bob you know?" "No, we couldn't!" snapped Miss Margaret. "We ain't goin' to have no nick-names on that stone." Harriet said no more, and the next day they gave their order. Miss Mar garet was even more quiet than usual during the remainder of the day, and when night came she went to bed earlier than was her custom. In the morning, when Harriet awoke, she was startled to find her sister gone. She kindled the fire, wondering what could have taken Margaret out so eurly. By the time breakfast was ready her anxiety had increased to such an extent that she was in the act of putting on her own bonnet to go in search of her, when the door opened and Margaret appeared. She loefaed cold and blue, and her thin lips were shut slightly together. "Is anything the matter, sister?" Harriet asked. -"Where have you been?" "Of course there ain't anything the matter. Can't I go out for a little with out .Vjpur gettin' riled up?" "I was afraid somethin' had hap pened to you." "Guess I can take care of myself. Seems to me I smell somethin' burnin'." "It's the toast!" Harriet turned meekly to the 6tove. She asked no more questions, Margaret kept her own counsel, and life in the little cottage went on as monotonous ly as ever. It was a cold, bleak day in early No vember. There was not a bit of green ness left anywhere; the frosts had "I'M GLAD WE DID IT, ANYWAY been early and severe. Even the bright-tinted leaves had fallen from the trees, and the whole landscape was brown and dreamy. In the old cemetery, where the hill slopes gently to the south, stood two women, look ing down upon a grave. The wind blew Miss Margaret's scant skirts about her ankles, and puffed out Mist Harriet's shawl behind, like a balloon. Miss Margaret's face was cold and pinched, with the thin wisps of hair blowing about it, and Harriet's bon net was askew, and her nose reddened by the wind. Some people were pass ing. A pretty girl in a party giggled and said something to the others about the "two old maids." But the sisters were alike unconscious of the gro tesqueness of their appearance and the pathos of the white stone that marked an old man's grave with its one word "Bob." "Why, sister!" Miss Harriet looked alarmed. "Why, he's made a mistake! We told him Robert." "No, 'tain't a mistake," Margaret answered. "I told him to change it you were so set against Robert And it does look more natural," sh added, after a moment "We always called him that." Nothing more was said, and present ly they turned away. They walked home silently. Once Harriet spoke. There were tears on her cheeks; Mar garet had seen them, and Harriet's tones were apologetic. "I always knew 'twas you he come to sen. Bister; I always knew it." "'Twan't no such thing, Harriet Staples!" "Well, I'm glad we did it, anyway. Father thought so much of him." N. E. Magazine. Hang, or Marry. In the feudal days of Scotland, when noblemen thought it no disgrace to steal their neighbors' cattle, a baron protected his vassals from the aristo cratic cattle-lifted by hanging out right those taken red-hand, without waiting for the slow process of the law. When Sir William Scott was a young Border laird he made one night a foray on Sir Gideon Murray's lands. While driving off a herd of cattle b was caught and being brought before Sir Gideon, ordered to be hanged. Hanging a cattle-thief was such an everyday affair that Sir Gideon went about his ordinary business. But hit wife, hearing that a handsome youth of a good family was to be executed, sought her husband, and indignantly exclaimed: "Hoot Gideon, what do I hear? Yon tak' the life of the winsome young laird of Harden, wl' three ill-faured lassies in the bouse o yer ain to mar ry?" "Ye're recht, Maggie, my dear," replied the baron, grasping the situa tion. "Wullie shall tak' our muvkle raou'd Meg, or else he'll stretch for it" The helpless prisoner consented, and, much to bis father's surprise, returned home with a bride from the neighbor! house he bad ridden out to harry.- Youth's Companion. , A timid person ia frightened before a danger; a coward during the time) and a courageous person afterward. moato ; ... . II PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. MsataatnasK Of all virtues, Justice Is the best; valor without It Is a common pest Waller. Miss Elderiy "t shall never mar ry." Laura "Probably not; but you mado a brave fight." Life. Judge "What's the charge againRt this prisoner?" Officer "Didn't know he was loaded your honor." Somer ville Journal. Minister "Good evening, sonnyl Is Brother Hapenny at home?" Brother Ilaponny's Son "Course! Don't ye see us all outside th' house?" Plaindealer. Teacher "Now, Robbie, you may tell ns when the days Bre longest" Robbie "When we have to carry coal instead of goin' skatin'." Chicago Inter Ocean. "Mnmmn," said Tommy, "how old are you?-' "O, I'm eighteen," said mam ma, who had seen thirty. "Say, mam ma," saM Tommy, "ain't yon sorter shrinking?' Harper's Bazar. "Did you fall ialo t ie Hki this summer, Bobbie?" "Nope just the other way. I took a little tin cup out with mo, and several times part of the lake fell into me." Harper's Young Teople. Scientist (at railroad restaurant) 'Do you km-.v. sir, that rapt I eating is slow suicide?" Drummer "It may be; but on this roa 1 slow eating is starva tion." N. Y. Weekly. Jinks "There is one drawback to these self-made men that they usually overlook." Filkins "What Is it?' Jinks "They'ro seldom nolo to select their materials." Puck. "When a man has attained the wis dom of years," aske I th? youth, ''he loses his foolish belief in omens, does he not?" "He losos," said the sage, "his belief in the g)d ones." Indian n polis Journal. A tragedian rcoently playing Rich ard III. in a small Kentucky town was waited on after the show by an honest farmer, who said that "if the genel'ir who wanted a horse was still in the same mind he would like to make a dicker with him." Truth. Dejected Youth "I would like to return this engagement ring I pur chased here a few days ago." Jeweler "Didn't it suit tho young lady?" De jected Youth "Yes; but another youn man had already givan her one just like it, and I would lika tu exchange it for a wedding present." Tit-Bits. A jii'lge, in crossing the Irish chan nel one storm3- night, knocked ayaint a well-known witty lau'3-er, win was suffering terribly from seasickness. "Can I do anything for you?" said the judge. "Yes,, gasppd the seasick law yer, "I wish your lordship would over rule this motion." White Mountain Echo. HE FELT GRATEFUL. Tli'MiRl! He YVnim't Wealthy. He llnve freely of That Whirli He Had. For five or six minutes the other afternoon a patrolman stood at the foot of Woodward avenue, alongside of a young man who had a satchel in his hand, and was waiting for a ferry boat. At length, as the officer started tc saunter a way, the young man handed him n cigar and said: "Thanks! I'll alwa3-s remember yout kindness," "What is it?"' queried the blueeoat. as lie hesitated over the cigar. "Take it take two of 'em! I'm a man who can appreciate a favor" "But I-I " "That's all right take three of 'cm: I've traveled over most of this country, and know a man when I see him." "Will you explain yourself!" asked the ollicor ns he closely regarded the stranger to see if he was drunk or erazj-. "Certainly. Here I am, a perfect stranger to you. You have the right tc walk up and cracl: me with your club, and ask who in thunder I am, nnd what I am hanging around here for. You could lake iny satchel and fling it into the river, and you could drag me to a dungeon cell and keep me Immured for years and years. Have you done any thing of th-- sort?" "As to that " began the officer, but the young man brought out twe more cigars and said: "Take tho whole five! I haven't much wealth, but I want to show in gratitude as best I can. You, sir, are one of nature's noblemen, and though I live for the next fifty years I shall nefcr f.irgct you. Instead of cracking idj over the head and then jumping on my unconscious body with both feet and dragging me to the station over the cobblestones, you have acted the part of a gentleman, and a man who re spects the rights of others. Sir, let nie again assure you that I shall never for get this consideration on jrour part. Officer, farewell !" He made a break for th' boat and was lost to view, and after riinking it over for five minutes the oftlcer pock eted the cigars and growled: ".Something wrong there somewhere If I ever see him ag:tin I'll run him in for his gratitude." Detroit Free Press JUMPING HURDLES. A Dangerous I'usIIimb thnt Krqnlres Much l'rnftice. In jumping hurdles the one thing which is imperative is not to jump them. Hurdle racing has become en tirely an artificial sport. It was dis covered that by taking oil from one foot and landing on the other, and by covering the ten yards between each luirdlo in three strides, the hurdles could be rim over. Instead of jumped, and it was also discovered that the man who couldn't perforin this acro batic feat was not in the same hunt with tho man who could. A long jumper with a turn of speed has a much better chance of becoming a good hurdler than a high jumper. It is a pastime which requires much practice. You must harden your shins and keep as near to the top bar of tho hurdle as you can. If you are clearing the hur dles by too much, you must practice by leaving part of the skin of your leg on the top bar. A famous hurdle raoer, H. K. Up cher, of Oxford, who by assiduous prac tice brought tho surmounting, one could hardly cull it tho clearing, ol hurdles to tho highest point of perfec tion, was in the habit of bumping each hurdle in practice to make sure he was not going too high, and of going through the top rail when it was mova ble, and sometimes when it was not in order to be quite certain that there was nothing unnecessary to spare. Fort nightly Review.' Where the Trouble Began. Cholly LIghthead Bah Jove! Miss Emeraon, I believe I could tuakt you love me If I bad a mind to. Miss Emerson No doubt yon are right It is intellect which I adore abgH all things, and I nave always de plored the absence of it ou your part, itropkivn Wi . v Industrial and statistical. Saisino peppermint is the leading in dustry of Wayne county, N. Y. Trig eoal production of 1803 in the United States was valued at 927,660,000. It is estimated tthat there are 73,000, 000 dogs of all kinds in the United States. Tns knife of the assassin in Italy closes the career of 80 persons out of every 10,000. The manufactured products oi Great Britain amount to about 94,100,000,000 a year. According to a French authority, the proportion of killed to the number of travelers Is in France 1 to 19,000,000: England 1 to 28,000,000, and in this country 1 to 8,400,000. Tun Brooklyn bridge cars carried 128,741 more passengers during Septem ber than the same month ln'lS93. On account of tho recent reduction In fare the receipts were 3,000 less. Is England there are 114 widows tc every 64 widowers. In Italy the rela tive numbers (per 1,000 women and 1,000 men) are 130 and CO; in France, 139 and 73; in Germany, 130.S and SO; in Austria, 121 and 44. EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE. Df.nmahk has determined to thor oughly examine the Greenland and Ice land seas during the summers of 189.J and 1800. Commander Wandell will have charge of the expedition. Artificial whalebone is now being made from leather, which is soaked foi two or three days in sulphate of po tassium, then stretched, slowly dried, subjected to a high temperature and then to a heavy pressure, which make! it hard and clastic. A shout time no a physician recom mended that cologne water bo in haled through the nose and mouth for curing short colds in the head and chest. Fifty drops on a handkerchief inhaled four or live times a day is said to have a good uffect THE MARKETS. New Yohk, Nov. 20. I!t. CATIT.K Native Steers.. i 3 as 5 0 COTTON-MHkllinir IT.DfK WiM cr Wheat WHKAT-No. lied C'OUX No. i OATS No. i POKK Xew Mess ST. LOCI-. COTTOX-Miit.lliii Mil: VES-Ship'.ii.sr steers. . . Metlium HOGS Fair to Si-leei SH KEPFuir to (. h iiee Fl.OCH-l'iiteiUs I-'iiuev to Extra do.. WHEAT No. - Red Winter... 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The formula for making Scott's Emulsion has been endorsed by the med ical world for twtnty years. No secret about it Stnd for pamphlet ir' Ewtulfion.- FRBS. Scott Bowne, N. Y. All Drunlsts. ! SOoenta antf 1 1. Highest 6f all in Leavening Powe Latest U.S. Govt Report uwsss ADSoiaJTrnrrv puna As there was no president to re ceive foreign ministers! or to give In structions to the ministers of the United Colonies, this doty devolved on con gress, and there is, among other things, an account of the reception or the Dutch minister in 1783, with his re marks and the reply of the president of congress In the same year congress adopted a list of "ceremonies to be ob served at the first audience of foreign ministers with congress." When Mar quis de Lafayette returned to Km nee in 1778 congress gave him n letter com mending him to his king. Congress carried on a correspondence with the king of Franco without nn interme diary. In this Work-a-Dny World Men and women continually break flown through mcntul strain and physical efTort. The true repairer nf vitalitv thus impuiird. a perennial fountain of health "d vig.r is Hosteler's Stomach Bitters, v.-lii- h rcMorrs dinoslion. enrielio the blon ', unit )icnitl:Ul iv stimulates the bowels, kidneys and liver when they are indolent. This comprehen sive remedy also sublines minima, rheuma tism aud nervousness. "Was there a party hero to loc!f pt the house!" riuapp-'-Weli. I dou't know what you mieht think, but he seeu.vd to ice to be a regular picnic.'' Inter (Acuii. Tut: best couch for Consumption. medicine Sold even Fisn's Cure where. 'i"c. "Mns. BsonrtT has a (.'real ileal of sl.vlo.'' 'She liasl Mercy. I wuuucr whose il is."' Chicago Inter IXuuu. Hall's Catarrh Cur 13 taken interna!!;-. Vvl.c T-V. It takes more courasre to endure than it does to uet. Ham's llora. Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar re lieves wlioopiusr eottpi. l'ike's Toothache JJi-ops Cure iu one minute. We cannot do anv man a creator wrona than to misjudire him. Ka:n ilui::. BaoyeniTis is enrol by frcqwiit sn.'Ull doses of l'iso's Cure for Cor.s;i:..pti n. "Wci.1.. Mr. Joskins. I see yctir left eolieire." "Yes." "What's "Debt."' Harper's liazur. linv he" lias that there is one rheumatic, neuralgic, sciatic, and all-pain remedy, as harmless as water, and sure as taxes It is Si. Jacobs Oil used by everybody, sold everywhere. BE IN TIME FOR .,3-:7 V1: " MERRY CHRISTMAS" 0. " HAPPY NEW YEAR" '-,,... Kvt-rirreen, no fit1lrirT t . t-.rv- . dr,.i.!.u...tr..f it. I'M- t-U3rf.Yr-i-"&, lirc-ii H. Price. 10 ccnttit. ' CHRISTMAS and HEW yVSSt YEAR'S GREETINGS" Vasb BUT NOT UNLESS YOU USE IT 15 THE PIREST '.REST A X 'J & Sold eYcijW&t'? Made by SCI.U miKVWHKHl: THE N.K.FAIR3AMKCa!v-::'A2iY. Sr Louis. You want an Organ. Of course You want the BEST. Tho MASON & HAMLIN has wen HIGHEST HONORS At All Important World's Fairs fires that of Parb, 1S67, in cludinE.'.'Mcajo, 1 S93, ir.d is ibjjlutc'y UNRIVALLED. S3" U 5 our local dealer 'lot not sell cv.T C,iiittd and Crgaus, we will sci.ct ,ta apiirnrat diicct f.om LcMry, MM icsrorsii io in;; '". at .(jtcuhn. New stjle Kir. lVire JiiRt rut. New Stylos at IJi!.mcnt pianor ncntrd Sold on otuWbniK J. Catalogue tree. tsaSON & KAMI!!! ORGAN & PIA!!3 CO., BOjTON, KtW VOIU:. CilCAOii, KANSAS CITY. IsBn Thin, weak babies and growing 6 Parks (at the football game) "Tamo sort of a show, isn't itf" Barker "Tame I You're the first man I've beard express that opinion." Parker "Maybe I'm not in the bumor to appreciate it. I became S member of the stock exebango a month ago." Trulii. Society women often feel the effect of too much gsyety balls, theatres, and teas in rapid succession find them worn out, or "run-down" by the end of the sea son. They suffer from nervousness, sleeplessness and Irregularities. The mile and rood spirits take flight. It is time to accept tue help offered iu Doctor Pierce's Fa vorite picEcription. It's a medicine which wn flUmvprpd nnd used bv a rirominent p'hysician for many years in all cases of 'female complaint " and the nervous dis- orders which arise from it .The Pre, scripiion " is a powerful uterine tonic and nervine, especially adapted to woman's delicate wants for it regulates and promotes all the natural functions, builds up, invig orates and cures. Many women suffer from nervous pros tration, or exhaustion, owinsr to congestion or to disorder of the ."special functions. The waste products should be quickly got rid of. the local source of irritation relieved and the svstem invigorated with the "Pre scription." Do not take the so-called ceiciy cotnnounds. and nervines which onlv put the nerves to sleep, but get a lasting cnte with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. FEMALE WEAKNESS." Mr-. William Hoover, of Bellville, Ric!itiui Co.. Ohio, writ;:-: " I had been a gr-r.t sufferer from ' fen: weakness ' I tri-. '1 three doc tors : tiiev did metf no cond I thought ' I w.-.i vi invalid for- ever. But I heard of It. Pierce's Fa- vorite Prescription, ar.d then I wrote to him ar.d iie told me just hi-w to take it. . I V.'.: eight bottles. I T .n.v.- f.-l ftiliri-lv' wei'.. I eov.l.l stand " Hoover. on in v feet onlv a short time, and now I d all t-iv work for my family of five." fHPKTM A BEAUTtFLL WREATH OP willvID I llt0. I'ai LV ANU MIS I LETCH on Cloth that can n Tacked on the Wall. f-F"Aik ymir local deal- jisTs!, t procure nome o PM sen ). t retail. :,tvl WINDSOR CO, MnnntnrturerK of nil fclnfli nl i'rttite.l lirets tnhrieff. NORTH ADAMS, MAS5. W TT it tie pilepp 3 d&y a pleasure HOE IS THC BEST. NOSaUEAKINtS. 5. CORDOVAN, 4 3.sp FlNECALF&KfetJGASCl 3.5PP0LICE,3 Soles. 2.J.7 Boys'SckoolShbes, LADIES -g;-.,. -r- v! send ftirwww( vS-J'i "m-iSE 1rv nM ''".'yvrfrCmanuy br wearing tao Vou.cX. Donclas C3.00 Sboe. ..srnuip, we ore the lantrt mftnufactanni ol ttw l; V" It i-' shoes Iq tho world, and uuarauteo tbult va:uo iy i tamplng tte name anu price on iu. lioitoin, irnicli protect you ataias lusapncMKm the cUdleman's profits. Our shoes eiaal cuslom wort in 3tyle. eaiiy fitting and wearing qualiilrs. Weba-itira c-'ld eTcrywlit're at lower prices fut th vaiue ?ivcn than any other make. Take no sua stltuto. Il your Ucalrr cannot supply you, we can. FOR nu'PA3!LITY.EC0N6MV AND FOR General blacking is unequalled." Has an annual sale of 3doo tons. ; a. WE ALSO MANUFACTURE THE v 1 m.rt si7Bj ctjwi TOUCH UP SPOTS WITH A CLOTH HJE5 NO DUST,tN5&rOCDlTTlN BOXES. tni owly perfect Paste. Mcrse Bros-PRofs. Camton.Ma8s. , erupVsMMQuua. Vtaf in tsiue. ton L I A. N. 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