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THEY KIBP SILENT.
Hi. Bale ef •iereev l» the K«y»J
ne«(«b*ld.
Os« •( the iP*a7 rule# hedging thos«
*]to citer to Hie wanli and plpaiufes
>f toyaltr la that a strict secredy shall
t« maintained as to the aaylms and
lofngs of their royal masters and mis
trouts, says the Now York Herald.
Many a secret lias gone to the grave
in told owing to the conscientiousness
H the hearer or seer, whe, bound by
the oath of office, would rather die
than divulge what the world is ever
»a the qul vlve to learn. It Is said
that when Miss Adeane, who Is now
Mra Mallett, was appointed maid of
honor in the queen’s household, she
was visiting In a household where was
a well-known man of letters and wit,
•What a fine opportunity you will now
hare to keep an Interesting diary,” h*
•aid to her. Miss Adeane responded
that, according to the queen’e condi
tions, no one was allowed to keep a
liary when at court But, disbeliev
ing. the map laughingly repponded, “I
think I sheuld keep a very secret one,
all the same;” to which the futur«
maid of honor courteously replied:
"Then I am afraid you would not b«
i maid of honor.” The term "maid ol
honor” seems to have a wider slgnifi
tance than is usually applied to it. II
is to be not only a maid who Is hon
ored by ber elevation to the member
ihip in the royal household, but It li
to be a maid who6o honor Is used In
defense of her mistress by speech oi
lllence. as may be required.
Bctatr I* Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin* Ho
beauty without it. Cascareta, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
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gists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c. 25c. 00c.
The falling of a man’s countenance natur
slljr lowers his face value,
How Are Tver Kidneys f
A gratuitous falsshood naturally gives it
self away.
The might of Ignorance often discounts
Ibat of the truth.
Toiny minutes is all the time required to
dye with Fadeless Dies. Bold by
»fi druggists.
Worry is frequently the forerunner of In
lanlty.
A barber says a man’s whiskers are always
rat down in his youth*
Kdaoato Tosr Bowels With Oaaearets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
Wo. EOo. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund mosey
If money coaid only induce people to be
good, what a jolly world this would be.
Catarrh Cannot be Cured
With looal a indications, as they cannot read
the seat of tha disease. Catarrh is a bleed oi
constitutional disease, and In order to our}
It you must take internal remedies. HaU'i
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, aud acts cli
rectly on the blood and raucous surface. Hall’}
Catarrh Cure Is not a quack modiuine. It wa}
prescribed by ono of the best physicians in
this country for years, and Is a regular pre
scription. It is composed of the best tonics
tnown, combined with the best blood purifiers,
actinif directly on the raucous surfaces. The
perfect combination of the two ingredients is
what nroduoes such wonderful results In cur
ia* oavirrh. Hond for testimonials, free.
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Hail’s Family Dills aro the best.
Necessity knows no law, but lots of lawyers
know no necessity
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We have not been without Plso’e cure ro»
Consumption for 35 years.—Lizzie Ferrel,
Camp Ht.. Harrisburg. Pa., Mat 4. 1894.
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If you are not entirely •well, you are SI.
Illness does not mean death’s door. It is
a sense of ‘weariness, a 44 tired feeling” a
life filled •with nameless pains and suffer
ing. In 907, of cases the blood Is to blame.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is Nature’s corrective
A woman died in Atchison a few
years ago who had boarded every daj
»f her married life, and who never go
»ut of bed before 9 o'clock In the morn
lug. Still, her folks look reproachfullj
it the bereaved husband and say tha
'Poor Susan was worked to death.
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TALMAGE BERMOW.
l IB I IF SYNOPSIS OF THi DIVINF'S SUN
DAY OISCOURSL
Subject: Capacity to Sleep—lt te the Poor
Man’s Ulessiiig—WorJs ef Comfort For
the Victims of Insemnla—Wakefulness
a Means of Grace.
[Copyright, Louis Kloptch, 1100.’
Washinotok, D. C.—ln this discourse
Dr. Talmnge treats of a style of disorder
not much discoursed upon and unfolds
wliat mu9t be a consolation to many people;
text, Psalms Ixxvlt., 4, “Thou boldest mlue
eyes waking.”
Bleep Is the vacation of the soul; it is the
mind gone Into the playground of dreams;
it is the relaxation of the muscles aud the
solhco of the nerves; It Is the hu9h of ac
tivities; It is the soft curtaining of the eyes;
It is a trance of eight hours; it Is a calm
ing of the pulses; It Is a breathing much
slower, though far deeper; it Is a tempor
ary oblivion of all carklng cares; it Is the
doctor recognized by all schools of medi
cine; it Is a divine narcotic; It 13 a com
plete anaesthetic; It* is an angel of the
night; It Is a great mercy of God for the
human race. Lack of It puts patients on
the rack of torture, or In the madhouse, or
In the grave. O blessed sleep! No wonder
the Bible makes much of it. Through sleep
so sound that a surgical incision of the side
of Adam did not waken him came the best
temporal blessing ever afforded to
man—wifely companionship. While in
sleep ou a pillow of rock Jacob
saw a ladder set up, with angels coming
down and climbing. So “He giveth His
beloved sleep,” soliloquized the psalmist.
Solomon listens at the door of a tired
workman and eulogizes his pillow by say
ing, “The sleep of a laboring man is
sweet.” Peter was calmly sleeping be
tween the two constables that night be
fore his expected assassination. Christ
was n9leep in a boat on Galilee when
tossed in the euroclydon. The annuncia
tion was made to Joseph in sleep, and
death Is described as only a sleep and the
resurrection as a glorious wakening out of
Bleep.
On the other hand, Insomnia of sleep
lessness is on old disorder spoken of again
and again In the Bible. Ahasuerus suf
fered from It, and we read, “In that night
could not the king sleep.” Joseph Hall
said of that ruler, “He that could com
mand a hundred and seven and twenty
provinces could not command sleep,”
Nebuchadnezzar had insomnia, and the
record Is, “His sleep brake from him.”
Solomon describes this trouble and says,
“Neither day nor night seeth he sleep
with his eyes.” Asaph was its victim, for
he complains in my text that his eyes are
open at midnight, some mysterious power
keeping the upper and lower lids from
jolniDg, “Thou boldest mine eyes wak
ing.”
Of course there Is an uprlghteous sleep,
as when Jonah, trying to escape from
duty, slept In the sides of the ship while
the Mediterranean was in wrath because
of that prophetic passenger; as when
Columbus in bis first voyage, exhausted
from being up many nights, gave the ship
Id charge of the steersman and the crew,
who, leaving the management of the ves
sel to boys, went to sleep and allowed the
ship to strike on the sand banks of St.
Thomas; as when the sentinel goes to
sleep at his post, endangering the whole
army; as when the sluggard, who accom
plishes nothing the day before he went to
sleep and will accomplish nothing the day
after he wake 3, fills up Solomon’s picture
of him as he yawns out, “A :>ttle sleep and
a little slumber aud a little fc ldlng of the
hands to sleep.” But sleep at the right
lime and amid the right circumstances,
can you imagine anything more blessed?
[f sleep, according to sacred aud profane
literature, is an emblem of death, the
morning to all refreshed slumberers is
a resurreotlon.
ltemark the first: If you have escaped
the insomnia spoken of in the text, thank
God. Here and there one can command
sleep, and It comes the minute he orders It
and depnrts a$ the minute he wishes It to
go, as Napoleon when he wrote: “Different
affars are arranged in my bed as In draw
ers. When I wish to interrupt one train of
thought I close the drawer whloh contains
that subject and open that which oontalns
another. They do not mix together or in
convenience me. I have nev.r been kept
awake by an Involuntary preoccupation of
mind. When I wish for repose I 9but up
all the drawers, aud I am asleep. I have
always slept when I wanted rest, and al
most at will.” But I think In most cases
we feel that sleep is not the result of a res
olution, but a direct gift from God. You
cannot purchase It, A great French finan
cier cried out, “Alas, why Is there no sleep
to be sold?”
Remark the second: Consider among the
worst crimes the robbery of ourselves or
others of this mercy of slumber. Much
ruluous doctrine has been inculcated on
this subject. Thomas Moore gave poor ad
vice when he sail, “The best way to
lengthen our dajrs Is to steal a few hours
from the Dlght.” We are told that, though
they did their work at night. Copernicus
lived to be seventy-three years of age, and
Galilei seventy-eight years, and Herscbel
eighty-four years. Yes, but the reason was
they were all star hunters, and the only
time for hunting stars Is at night. Prob
ably they slept by day. Tho night was
made for slumber. The worst lamp a stu
dent can have Is “the midnight lamp.”
Lord Brougham never passed more than
four hours of the night abed, and J istinlan,
after one hour of sleep, would rise from
his couch. But you are n*iiher a Justinian
nor a Lord Brougham. Let not the absurd
apotheosis of early rising 'nduce you to
the nbbrevlatlou of sleep. Get up when
you are 9lept out unless circumstances
compel otherwise. Have no alarm clock
making its nerve tearing racket at 4
o’clock In the morning, unless special rea
sons demand the forsaking of your pillow
at that hour. Most of the theories about
early rising we inherited from tlme9 when
people retired at 8 or 9 o’olock In the even
ing. Buch early retirement Is Impossible
in our own times for those who are taking
part lu the great activities of life. There
Is no virtue in the mere act of early rising.
It all depends upon what you do after you
get up. It would bo better for the world If
some people never wakened at all.
Remark the third: AH those ought to be
comforted who by overwork In right direc
tions have come to Insomnia. In all occu
pations and professions there nre times
When a special draft Is made upon the ner
vous energy. There are thousands of men
and women who cannot sleep because they
were Injured by overwork in some time of
domestic or political or religious exigency.
Mothers who, after taking a whole family
of children through the disorders that are
sure to strike the nursery, have been left
physical wrecks, and one entire night of
slumber U to them a rarity, if not an Im
possibility. The attorney at law, who,
through a loug trial lu poorly ventilated
courtroom, has stood for week 9 battling
for the rights of widows aud orphans or
for the life of a client In who9e Innocence
he is confident, though all the circum
stances ure unfavorable. In his room he
tries the case nil night long and every night
when he would like to be slumbering. The
physician, In time of epidemic, worn out in
saving the lives of whole families and fail
ing in his attempts to sleep at night be
tween the janglings of his doorbell. The
merchant who has experienced panics,
when the banks went down and Wall street
became a pandemonium aud there was a
possibility that the next day be would be
penuiless—that night with no more possi
bility of gaining sleep than it such a bless
ing bad never touched our planet.
Remark tbe fourth: Insomnia is no sign
of divine displeasure. Martin Luther had
distressing insomnia aud wrote, “When I
wake up lu the night, tbe devil immedi
ately comes aud disputes with me and gives
me strange thoughts uutil at last I grow
enraged beyond endurance and give him
111 words.” That consecrated champion
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of everything good, Dr. Stephen H. Tyng
Sr., in his autobiography says that theonjj
encouragement ho had to think ho would
sleep at night was the fact that he bad to!
slept the night before.
Wakefulness may be an opportunity for
prayer, opportunity for profitable reflec
tion, opportunity for kindl'. •’g bright ex
pectations of tbe world, where there Is no
night and where slumber will have no
uses. God thiniis just as much of you
when you get but three or four hours of
sleep as when at night you get eight or
nine hours,
Remark the fifth: Let all lnsomntsts
know for their consolation that some
people sleep more rapidly than others, as
much in one hour as others do In two, and
hence do not require as long a time In un
consciousness. In a book ou the 9nbject of
health years ago I saw thl9 tact stated by a
celebrated medical scientist: Borne people
do everything quick—they eat quick, they
walk quick, they think quick, and of
course they sleep quick. An express train
cau go as far In thirty minutes as a way
train In sixty minutes. People of rapid
temperaments ought not to expect a whole
night to do the work of recuperation which
slow temperaments require. Instead of
making It a matter of irritation and alarm
be a Christian philosopher and set down
this abbreviation of somnolence as a matter
of temperament.
Remark the sixth: The aged Insomnlsts
should understand that It their eyes are
held waking they do not require as much
sleep as once they did. Solomon, who in
knowledge was thousands of years ahead
of his time In his wondrous description of
old age, recognises this fact, He not only
speaks of the difficulty of mastication on
the part of the aged when he says, “The
grinders cease because they are few,” and
of the octogenarian’s caution In getting up
a ladder or standing on a scaffolding, say
ing, “They shall be afraid of that which Is
high,” and speaks of the whiteness of the
hair by comparing it to a tree that has
white blossoms, saying, “The almond tree
shall flourish,” and speaks of the spinal
cord,which Is the color of silver, and which
relaxes In old age, giving tbe tremor to
the head, saying, “The silver cord
be loosed.” But he says of the
aged* “He shall rise up at tbe voice of
the bird;” that Is about half past 4
lu the summer time, an appropriate hour
for the bird to rise, for be goes to his
nest or bough at half past 7 in the evening.
But the human mechanism has been so
arranged that after it has been running a
good while a change takes place, and in
stead of the almost perpetual sleep of the
babe and the nine hours requisite in mid
life six hours will do for the aged, and “he
shall rise up at the voice of the bird.” Let
all aged men and women remember that
they have been permitted to do a great
deal of sleeping In their time and that if
they do not sleep so well now as they used
to It is because they do not require so much
sleep.
Remark the seventh: Insomnia Is prob
ably a warning that you had better mod
erate your work. Most of those engaged
in employments that pull on nerve and
brain are tempted to omit necessary rest
and sleeplessness calls a halt. Even their
pleasuring turns to work. As Sir Jo3hua
Reynolds, the great painter, taking a walk
with a friend, met a sun browned peasant
boy and said, “I must go home and deepen
tbe coloring of my infant Hercules.” The
suu browned boy suggested un Im
provement In a great picture. By
the time most people have reached
midlife, if they have behaved
well more doors of opportunity open be
fore them than they ought to enter.
Power to decline, power to say “No,”
they should now cultivate. When a man
Is determined to be useful and satan can
not dissuade him from that course, the
great deceiver induces him to overwork
and in that way get rid of him. We have
thermometers to tell the heat, aud barom
eters to tell the air, and ometers hung In
engine rooms to tell the pressure of steam,
and ometers to gauge and measure almost
everything. Would that some genius
would Invent an ometer which, being hung
around the ne:k and dropped over
heart and lung, would by the pulsa
tiou and respiration, tell whether ono
is under too great pressure or might carry
more. All brain workers would want such
au ometer and want it right away. For
the lack of It how many are dying and how
many have died of overwork? A prominent
financier who recently departed this life
was an officer In over 100 financial aud
oharltable Institutions. Thousands of
editors, of lawyers, of physicians, of
merchants, of clergymen, are now dying
of overwork. Do not be in the board of
directors of more than three banks and
two trust companies and five life and
fire Insurance establishments. Do not
as pastor preach more than three ser
mons a Sunday and superintend your
own Sabbath-school and conduct a
Bible class the same day. Do not edit
a paper and write for three magazines
aud go to tour public dinners where you
will be called to make a speech more than
four times a week. Do not go so deep In
to the real estate business that before
spring all the real estate you will really
possess will be a piece of ground about six
feet long and three feet wide. Your In
somnia Is the voice of nature, the voice of
God, saying, “Better slow usl” Stop that
long, swift train, the wheels of which are
taking fire from the velocity and smoking
with the hot box. Do not burn tbe candle
at both ends. Do not under too many
burdens sweat like a camel trudging from
Aleppo to Dauiasous. Do not commit sui
cide.
Remark the eighth: All the victims of
Insomnia ought to be consoled with the
fact that they will have a good, long sleep
after a while. Sacred and profane litera
ture again and again speak of that last
sleep. God knew that the human race
would be disposed to make a great ado
about exit from this world, and so He In
spires Job and David and Daniel and John
and Paul to call that condition “sleep.”
When at Bethany the brother who was the
support of his sl9ter9 after their father and
mother wore gone had himself expired,
Christ cried out In regard to him,
“He Is not dead, but sleepetb.” Cheer
ing thought to all poor sleepers, for
that will be a pleasant 9leep, in
duced by no narcotic, disturbed by no
frightful dream, interrupted by no harsh
sound. Better than any sleep you ever
took, O child of God, will be the last sleep.
In your slumbers your home may be in
vaded by burglars and your treasures car
ried off, but while here and there, la one
case out of millions, the resurrectionist
may disturb the pillow of dust the last
sleep Is almost sura to be kept from inva
sion. There will be no burglary of the tomb.
And It will be a refreshing sleep You have
sometimes risen in the morning more weary
than when you laid down at night, but
wukiug from the sleep of which I speak
the last fatigue, the last ache, the last
worrlment, will be forever goue. Oh, what
a refreshing sleep!
So ray hearer, my reader, “Good night!”
May God give you such sleep to-uight as
is best for you, and If you wake too soon
may Ho till your soul with reminiscences
and expectations that will be better than
slumber. Goodnight! Having in prayer,
kneeling at the bedside, committed your
self and all yours to the keeplug of the
slumberlass God, fear nothing. The
pestilence that walketh In darkness will
not cross your doorstill, and you need not
be afraid of evil tidings. Good night!
May you have no such experience as
Job had when ho said, "Thou scarest
me with dreams and terrifies me through
visions.” If you dream at all, may it be a
vision of reunions and congratulations,
and, waking, may you find some of them
true. Good night! And when you come
to the best sleep, the blissful sleep, theiast
sleep, may you be able to turn aud say to
all the cares and fatigues and bereuve
ments nnd pangs of a lifetime. “Good
night!” and your kindred, standing around
vour illumined pidow, give you hopeful
though sorrowful farewell as you move cut
from their loving embrace into the bosom
of a welcoming God. Good night! Good
night! . -
NOVEL ARTILLERY fRACTICE.
Queer Training enil Queer Machinery
Ueed by German Offleera at Jneterbog.
The recent maneuvers at the Camp
de Chalons presented an opportnnity
to a considerable number of officers to
follow closer the progress of the
French artillery and to appreciate* the
peerless qualities of the new guns.
The actual field praetice executed un*
der their eyes by the batteries facili
tated observations which cannot fail
to be of advantage in the general train
ing.
Bat it is to be regretted that the
Cauip of Chalons is not supplied with
greater resources in the matter of the
establishment and mobilization of ma
chines that serve as targets. In this
respect France is inferior to the other
powers which possess for their artillery
schools ingenious contrivances whose
utility cannot be questiond.
The German firing ground at Juter
bog in the heart of Prussia, just sixty
kilometres from Pottsdam, leaves
nothing to be desired from this point
of view, if we are to believe the de
tailed account of it which has just
been published in the German milita
ry papers. On the Polygon which
covers about one square mile there
are two establishments which work
the movable targets. The depot con
tains an enormous quantity of panels
representing heads, Dusts, lines of in
fantry, batteries of artillery, regi
ments of cavalry all fixed ou trucks
that run on rails at varied rates of
speed. *
By this means it is easy to present
the different phases of a battle. The
ground represents a village organized
for defence. In ambush behind the
walls and hedges are the infantry. On
the side of the village lines of batter
ies are in position. But the sharpnel
and shells soon render the position of
the enemy untennable, and lie resolres
upon a counter attack. Detachments
of infantry emerge from the wood
and, taking advantage of the shelter
afforded by the lay of the ground, ap
proach to within 1500 or even 1000
metres. Then suddenly lines of skir
mishers appear.
The recoil of the pieces is limited
by using tbe spade and rope
brakes. Then the lines of the ene
my’s infantry are swept by a murder
ous fire. During these phases of the
notion each battery fires from fifty to
Bixty shots. Tbe enemy unable to
stand against such a fire, falls back.
Just then his cavalry comes up and
sacrifices itself in au effort to turn the
tide of the battle. The horsemen
charge rapidly ou one of the flanks of
their adversaries. The horses aud
men are represented by pieces of cloth
stiffened by wire and moved by steam.
The battery of the wing thus attacked
rapidly changes front and sendt
masses of iron and lead into the # eue
rny’s cavalry. The charge is repulsed,
The battle is won, and the enemy sends
a flag of truce. The bearer of the
Hag is also a manikin fixed upon a
truck. Nothing rema ns but to ex
amine the results of the fire. Scat
tered over the polygon there are ar
mor-plated posts of observation with
telephone connections with each oth
er nnd with the firing battery. All
these posts are occupied by officers
and non-commissioned officers.
All the German artillery officers,
Bavariaii, Faxon, Wurtemburgian and
Baden,are obliged to spend some time
at Jueterbog. There they learn the
fundamental principles of practical
instruction which they propagate af
terward in all the garrisons including
even the most distant. In France
there is no such establishment where
instruction in firing is carried ou iu
summer and in winter, in rain and
snow* and always in conditions as
closely as possible to actual warfare.
But at Wallenstatt the Swiss army
has a firing ground and training school
for infantry and artillery which is a
model.
LAPLANDERS IN DISTRESS.
They Have I.oet Many Reindeer and Have
Become Very I’oor.
Those famous nomads of north
Europe, the Laplanders, have been
unfortunate in recent years and the
Norwegian press is calling attention
to their sad condition. The news
papers eveu say that unless something
is done for the Laps or a fortnuate
change occurs in their condition, they
will dwindle away and finally disap
pear, victims of the circumstances
that have bereft them of the larger
part of their reindeer, which have al
ways formed their sole wealth. Not
many years ago the average head of a
family in Lapland owned at least a
few score of reindeer, and some of
the wealthiest men had 1000 to 2000
animals. The largest herds today do
not contain over 800 reindeer and
many Lapps who once owned hun
dreds of deer do not now possess more
than ten or twenty. This means dire
poverty iu Lapland,for the deer is the
sole capital of tbe country. To live iD
comfort a family of five persons must
sell or kill from thirty to fifty animals
a year and this requires a herd of
from 300 to 500 deer. But many fam
ilies now do not own enongh deer tc
keep them in food and clothing.
A variety of causes has combined to
decimate the herds. Fatal diseases
have for some years been particularly
prevalent. Then the area of pastur
age has been diminishing because set
tlers from the south have been invad
ing Lapland. The new peasantry are
not on tbe frieudliest terms with the
Lapps, and when deer stray into theii
enclosures they are shot. Beasts oi
prey are also responsible for the dis
appearance of many deer, and all
these causes have combined to destroy
the prosperity of the poor Lapps, who,
from their point of view, were onev
very well-to-do in the world.
Big Ben’* Tone.
Whatever complaints may be made
against the tone of Big Ben, the fa
mous Loudon clock, and masiciant
say it is a terribly lad “E,” at anj
rate, every one will acknowledge tha’
the clock in the House of Common!
tpwer is a wondeifal timekeeper, no
varying a second in Line all the year
through. The me banism for setting
in motion the massive hammer whicl
brings ont the tone of Big fen’s
sixteen-ton bell is very interesting.
The striking machinery is driven l i
weights of ab;.ut a ton an 1 a half
which bang o:i a shaft 4 feet deep
and it is arranged that after the chimes
are ove • the hawme falls on the bij
bell within one second of Green’.viol
mean time.
for Literary Work.
James L. on March I, 1 60S * granted
letters patent under the grot _eeal U
John Stowe (London's
authorizing him to beg. letter!
patent of James I- WthoriM* Stowe t
collect tbs voluntary contributions o,
the people. The letters recite that
"Whereas, our loving subject, John
Stowe (a very aged and wortl JJ “®“‘
her of our city of London), this fivf
and forty years hath to his grea
charge, and with neglect of his ordi
nary means of maintenance (for th«
general good, as well of posterity a:
of the present age), compiled and pub
lished diverse necessary book and
chronicles; and, therefore, we, in en
couragement to the like, have in oui
royal inclination been pleased to gran
our letters patent under our great sex
of England, dated March 8, 1603, there
by authorizing him to collect amongst
our loving subjects their voluntarj
contributions and kind gratuities.
John Stowe died on April 5, 1606, and
was buried in the parish church of St
Andrew Undershaft, where his monu
ment, erected by his widow, is still *
be seen. .
“Everything comes to the man who waits,
out It’s aifferent with some women.
New Cnbie Lin#*.
France is absolutely dependent upon Eng
land for news of the Transvaal war, because
the cables are under her control, and she is
ready to spend a vast sum of *° *^e
herself. This is like many people, who, after
allowing dyspepsia to settle upon them. spei.d
a fortune seeking
money and try Hostetters btomach Bitters,
■the medicine which never fails to cue* dys
pepsia, constipation, biliousness, malaria
fever and ague.
The divorce Judge plays into Che hands of
the second-hand furniture dealer.
Don’t Tooicto Spit tad Saioks Toar IJtk Away*
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Hope is a bubble ihe unsuccessful man
blows and blows until it bursts.
To Caro Constipation Forever*
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 85c.
if C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund monev.
a true love knot Is said to be the top-knot
of a woman’s happiness-
| You re
Gamblinql
It's too risky, this
gambling with your
cough. You take the
chance of its wear
ing off. Don't 1
The first thing
you know it will be
down deep in your
lungs and the game's
lost. Take some of
Ayer's Cherry Pec
toral and stop the
gambling and the
cough.
“I was given up to die with
quick consumption. I ran down
from 138 to 98 pounds. I raised
blood, and never to get
off my bed alive. I then read of
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral and began
its use. I commenced to improve
at once. I am now back to my
old weight and in the best of
health.”— Chas. E. Hartman,
Gibbstown, N. Y., March 3, 1899.
You can now get Ayers
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The dollar size is best to keep
on hand, and is most economical
for long-standing cases.
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Judging Machine*.
For registering the results of a foot
/ace the human eye and voice seem
sometimes painfully inadequate. Gloss
contests of this kind will doubtless
end more pleasantly when the new
“Judging machine," described by the
Holden Penny, comes into general use.
The machine, which was invented by
in Australian, is designed to be placed
at the finish line, and consists of a
light metal frame partitioned Into two
>r more divisions, each about four feet
wide. On the top of the frame stands
a small cabinet containing numbered
livisions corresponding to the nura
oers of the tracks. The instant the
lrst man passes through his division
1 shutter falls, disclosing his track
lumber. The other numbers are Im
mediately locked, except when the ma
chine is set for final heats. In this
:ase a small cylinder is attached to
ihe machine, and a hammer head
itrikes a mark on the revolving cylln
ler as the men finish. Thus the exact
josltlons of all the competitors can be
»ld to a nicety. The same inventor
lias originated an automatic Judging
nachine for bicycle races. It consists
if fine, light metal strips placel in a
small trench about two Inches wide,
which is sunk across the track at the
Inlsb. During the last lap these strips,
which are coated with enamel, aro
placed in position by means of a lever,
tnd the first wheel to cross receives
Ive marks. In crossing, however, it
lisplaces one of the strips, and the
next wheel, therefore, only receives
tour marks, the third three, and so on.
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lo Sophia—Ob, please, no—Mr.
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love—Why not? There are no witness
es Sophia—'That’* lust it.—Chins.
Hands and Limbs Covered with Blisters and
Great Red Blotches. Scratched Until Almost
Wild. Burned Like Fire. Sleep Impossible.
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first would appear, then they
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of the upper part of both my
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JOHN D. PORTE, Pittsburg, March 1, iB99*
Of John D. Porte & Co., Real Estate and Insurance,
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MILLIONS OF MOTHERS
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