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There is a
widespread
and false im
pression
that a man,
in order to
be a good
physician, must bu
more or less heart
less. People mis
take heartlessncss
for nerve. The two
terms are far from
synonymous. A
man may have a nerve of steel and a heart
as tender as a mother’s.
Of all the specialists in the world, there
probably arc not two that have as wide an
experience in the treatment of women’s
diseases as Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consult
ing physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and
Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. \\ ilh
the assistance of his staff of able phvsi
cians, he hns prescribed, in the past tli.riy
years, for many thousands of women. I>r
pierce is pre-eminently a sympathetic phy
sician. Perhaps more than uny other man
in the profession he realizes the hardships
of woman's work, and the disadvantages
under which she labors because of the
weak, delicate and susceptible structure of
the feminine organism, llis immense prac
tice in diseases peculiar to women forced
upon his recognition the fact that women
would never take the proper care of their
health, so long as that care required the
repugnant "examinations” and “local
treatments” insisted upon by nearly all
physicians. After years of study he invent
ed a remedy now known as Dr Pierce's
Favorite Prescription that is an absolute
and unfailing cure for the most complicated
and obstinate cases of disease* peculiar to
women. This wonderful medicine cures in
the privacy of the home, and docs away
with the necessity for obnoxious "local
treatment.” It imparts health, strength,
vigor and elasticity to-the organs distinctly
feminine and fits for wifehood and mother
hood.
In paper covers, 21 one-cent stamps , cloth
binding, 10cents extra. Dr. Pierce’s Com
mon Sense Medical Aden er. Address l)r.
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
A Folding Pilothouse.
The steamer Falls City, which ruM
cm the Ohio river, has a pilothouse
which folds together like an accordion.
It reminds one of the old stump speech
which predicts the day of “coffeepots
that shut up like jackkuives. ”
The boat was named for the city of
Louisville. The pilothouse was built in
layers, in such a manner that it cun be
removed in a jiffy and pnt back with
out trouble, and all the time remain
stable. The pilot pulls out a staple here
and a small iron rod there, and first
thing he knows the whole structure col
lapses like a dress hat or a barrel with
one stave out and the hoops loose.
It is well that this is so, for whenever
they call out “Low bridge I” on the Ken
tucky or Ohio river it means that the
smokestacks must be nnjointed and let
down to a horizontal position, and as in
the case of the Falls City, the pilot
house folded up.
This latter trick came iu very handy
nfew days ago at theWarthville bridge
on the Kentucky river. There was a cry
of “Low bridge I” and the boat was put
in readiness to go under. Pilot Pat
Laitch was compelled to dnek his head,
but even at that the topmost handle of
his wheel missed the bottom girder of
the bridge only about two inches
A Xew Grantee.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record says: "An orange tree
that will grow and bear frnit as far
north as St. Louis and Philadelphia is
promised by the officials of the agricul
tural department. The destruction of
orange crops and groves in recent years
through frosts in northern Florida di
rected tho attention of Secretary Wil
son to a search for some measure of re
lief for the owners who have been suf
fering financial loss. He has been super
intending the crossing of the Florida
orange and the Japanese trifoliata, a
hardy variety of fruit, and now has
several thousand of the hybrid plants,
which will beset out during the present
spring. The experts believe that the
new orange will survive frost anil a
moderate amount of cold and are confi
dent that the experiment will result in
producing trees in which the excellence
of the Florida orange will be combined
with the hardiness of the Japanese
plant. If the experiment succeeds, the
department will materially assist in re
viving the orange industry, not only in
Florida, but in other southern states,
and will at tho same time assure the
orange eaters of uu unfailing supply. "
Tlic \eit Senate.
The Republicans will have a total
membership in the senate of the Fifty
sixth congress of 51, exclusive of a sen
ator from Pennsylvania, and not count
ing Stewart, Jones and Kyle, who will
vote with the Republicans on all ques
tions except silver. The total opposition
will number 83, which, with the va
cant seats of states having made no
choice, make np the total of the 90
members of the upper chamber. This
gives a Republican majority of 16 over
all, counting Stewart. Jones and Kylo
in the opposition, and 'i'i when included
in the Repnbliean column
Republicans..51
Democrats....26
Populists.4
Hilver Republicans. 2
fcilver. 2
Independent. 1
Vucnnt. 4
00
In Nebraska a Repnbliean succeeds a
Populist; in Montana a Democrat suc
ceeds a Silver Republican, and in Mary
land, Wisconsin, New York, North Da
kota, New Jersoy, West Virginia and
Indiana Democrats go out and Repub
licans take their seats.—Washington
Post.
Tolstoi's Vanity.
Professor I/oiubro8o, the great Italian
"physicocriminologist,” while visiting
Russia recently, met Tolstoi, and this
Is what he says of that eminent writer:
"As I entered the room I saw him sit
ting at his writing table in old, patched
clothes. I am an admirer of Tolstoi,
bat I believe he is ilL I received the
impression that he is very vain. Yon
have only to look at the shoes he has an
bis feet The leather was everywhere
torn and in holes, all done artificially
In order that he might have an oppor
tunity of mending them in his skillful
way."—Philadelphia Saturday Even
ing Post
A Lonff I'neumntlo Tube.
A pneumatic tubo to trannmit mail
between New York nnd Philadelphia is
tinder serious consideration, and the
project will probably be introduced in
the next congresa A pressure of eight
pounds to a 12 inch tube would give a
speed of 33 miles an hour and 200
pounds of pressure a speed of 150 miles
an hour. Each carrier, 34 inches long
and 11 inches wide, would convey 100
pounds, and, dispatched at intervals of
ten seconds, giving a carrying capacity
of 432 tons daily. At present a letter
mailed in one of these cities for the
other is seldom delivered on the day it
is jiosted.
Paper Hanging by Machinery.
Paper can now be hung by machin
ery. The device has a rod cn which a
roll of paper is placed and a paste reser
voir with a feeder placed so as to en
gage the wrong side of the paper. The
end of the paper is fastened to the bot
tom of the wall and the machine start
ed up the wall, being held in place by
the operator. A roller follows the paper
as it unwinds and presses it against the
wall. When the top of t'io wall is '
reached, the operator pulls a string,
which cuts the paper off from the roll,'
A lilt of Red Tape.
Great is red tape! A telegraph re
pairer was sent out from Great Bend,
Ind., the other day to locate a break in
line No. 1. On climbing the pole he
found a break there also in line No. 2.
After fixing No. 1 he climbed down the
pole, walked two miles to the nearest
station and telegraphed to the superin
tendent, at Great Bend, for orders to
fix No. 2. ,
Trv Or Independent.
DENSEST FOREST ON EARTH.
Redwood Enough (o Lost 300 Tears
at Present Hate at Catting.
The habitat of the redwood is peculiar.
It is found only in a narrow strip, closely
hugging the T’aciflc coast, stretching from
the southern boundary of Oregon or just
across the boundary—for there are perhaps
1,000 acres of redwood in Oregon—south
ward through northern California, nearly
to the bay of San Francisco.
The closest and finest growth is in
Humboldt county, near the northern end.
That portion in Mendocino and Sonoma
counties is not as heavy or continuous,
nor arc the trees as valuable for lumber,
as they branch lower down. The wood is,
however, of slow er growl h. is denser and
harder and perhaps more durable. Tho
best lumher and tho heaviest growth are
everywhere in the valleys and on the flats.
On tho hillsides the trees are smaller and
not so close. Nowhere Is there any young
growth. The youngest trees, which arc
found only in tho northern ]>ortion of the
bolt, are several hundred years of ago.
This is probably the densest forest on
earth, as measured by the amount of tim
ber iH>r aero suitable for tho sawmill. It
is not the size of the trees alone which
produces this, although they are excep
tionally large, even in this state of largo
things, but it is tlic great nu ml er of trees,
the closeness cf their stand. In a redwood
forest the sun never shines—it U always
twilight. You are, as it were, under the
roof of a vast temple, a root of foliage,
supported by great treo columns.
The area of the redwood belt has been
carefully mapped and is, as nourly us cun
be estimated, 2,000 square miles, or 1,280,
000 acres. The stand of timber on this
area is not so easy to ascertain, but may
be oomputed thus:
Feet.
Del Norte county. 4,000,000,000
Humboldt county. 42,000,000,000
Mendocino county. 28,100,000,000
Honomn county, say. 1,000,000,000
Total. 75,100,000,0,0
The annual cut by the mills is 850,000,
000 feet. At the present rate of cutting,
therefore, the supply will last 800 years.
In the Mendocino county there is nearly
nino times as much timber on an acre as
j in the southern pineries. In Humboldt
county, upon 90,443 acres, the average
stand is 81,000 feet por acre, nearly 17
times as great as In tho southern states.
There is one cause cf destruction from
which this tree is entirely exempt; that
is fire. Containing no pitch, but, on the
other hand, a large amount of water, it
will not bum when green. No llro can
run in a redwood forest. It is tho only
one of our coniferous lumber trees which
is thus exempt.
Kedwood is in almost universal use on
tho California coast. In tho construction
of houses little other timber is used, even
as far south as Los Angeles and San
Diego. It is exported as far south as Val
paraiso and westward to Japan and Aus
tralia. Indeed, considering its cheapness,
♦14 per 1,000 foot in Kuroka for tho best,
it seems strange that it has not found its
way in quantity to tho Atlantic coast.
Certain it is that before many years rod
wood will supplant tho now vanishing
white pine in casern markets.—National
Geographic Magazine.
Carlyle and the Checker Player.
James Wyllie, tho “Herd Laddie," on
a very wet and tempestuous day, many
years ago, turned into a little roudsido inn
near Locbmaben. Soon afterward he was
joined by a couple of strangers, tho youn
ger of whom, a burly farmer, began to
boast about his prolleioncy on the “damb
rod,”astho draught board is called in
Scotland. Ho was at once challenged by
the Herd Laddie to play and consented,
while the game was attentively watched
by the third man, a person of rugged as
pect. Time after time Wyllio swept the
board, while the vanquished farmer fum
ed, swore and fairly lost his tempor.
Suddenly tho third party broke silence
with the following wurning to his com
panion :
“Stop, stop! Leave off, man 1 Can't you
see that you are either playing with satau
himself or the Herd Laddlo?"
IVyllie smilingly acknowledged his iden
tity. A jorum of punch was ordered, and
tho trio had an amicable chat, ulthough
the farmer said no more about his prowess
with the checkers Hut at- the first oppor
tunity ho took Wyllio aside and whispered:
“ That child’s a relation of mine and as
big a mail as you are in some things.
Maybe you've hoard of him up in London,
That's Thomas Carlyle?"
The Theater In China.
The dresses are magnificent, as bewil
deringly curious as any stage manager at
homo ever conceived. All the talking is
in strained falsetto, and there are yelling
and posturing and wailing and confusion.
Suddenly the band breaks in with an aw
lul crash—such a marvelous band, five
drums and ten pairs of cymbals—such a
deafening smashing and banging! With
hoarse screams dozens of imps, green faced
end yellow eyed and horned, rush on the
stage and gyrate and flout banners and
draw up in lines and swiug partners and
set to places. An ochre faced, villainous
chief domon, a heap of fantastlcalness,
twirls liko a teetotum, and there is moro
banging and jumping and swinging and
mad pandemonium, and tho cymbals and
tho drums rend the air It is terrific.
At it again, with mighty clatter and
hoavings, spinning, flag waving, contor
tioning—it is the accumulated uproars of
tho world all pressed into one Chinese the
ater.
You sit tight, witli fixed gaze, waiting
for the drums of your cure to crack, and
when the top of your la ud is about to fly
off there is one awful thunderous bang,
and the demon kiijg, chorus, orchestra,
tho whole crowd, fan, flop, aud the act is
over.—Travel.
Ills Daily Schedule.
Wo read in a London newspaper that
Mr. Swinburne goes in swimming after
ho haB finished a poem, and some ono ob
serves that he has to do this in order to
cool off, but the literary journals that arc
always printing stories of tho methods and
recreations of distinguished authors have
overlooked one uuthor, who sums up and
sends in his schedule as follows:
“I rise at 10. Then I take a stroll of
ten miles for oxoreiso. Then I breakfast
on ten rolls—when 1 can get them. That
done, I write a poem for $10 and get it
back in ten days. Before 10 o’clock at
night ten bill collectors have called on
me. I receive ten letters daily. I have
ten in my family.—Atlanta Constitution.
Misunderstood.
A dentist on tho South Side advertises
on a largo scalo that ho pulls teeth with
out pain by the “animal magnetism sys
tem."
Yesterday an Irishman camo Into the
dentist’s office suffering with a toothache.
“Faith, and I must have me tooth pull
Id, but I’d like to sec the animals first."
—Chicago Democrat.
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HIS HAIR TURNED WHITE.
Peculiar Experience of the Man Who
Dealt In lllgli Explosives.
“Nitroglycerin, sir; high explosives ac
complished it,” said a well dressed man
With a youthful face anil snow white hair
to a chanco acquaintance at the Great
Northern.
" Rut your face is not scarred? It would
seem that an explosion”—
“An impending explosion it was. Two
years ago I was the most successful well
shooter In America. I could make the oil
loosen up where others had failed. The
secret lay in the explosives I employed. I
made them myself and had tho business
down lino. At that time I went to New
York to figure on a big blasting contract
that would havo made mo a pile. I failed
to niako the arrangement, and the very
day the negotiations fell through I started
suddenly fur England on a similar mis
sion.
“‘Is there such a thing as high exple
tives ripening?’ asked the Englishman I
was accompanying on tho socond day of
our voyage.
“Tho question brought me to my feet
and caused on exclamation of horror to
escape from my lips. Many explosives
undergo a ripening process, which adds
greatly to their destructive power, at the
sometime decidedly increasing the danger
of handling thorn. That made by me was
of this character. Indeed 35 days after it
was compounded it was almost certain to
explodo of its own volition, so to speak.
Now, on the upper sholf of the checkroom
of my New York hotel I had left a large
grip containing a 30 pound can of this
compound, tho ripening of which meant
destruction and death.
“For un hour I was almost in a state of
frenzy, freely denouncing myself as a
multimurderer. In vain I drew an awful
picture of the devastation that would over
whelm a certain New York hotel inexact
ly 17 days and called upon the captain to
put his ship about, lie promised totrans
fer me to a west bound steamer if an op
portunity presented itself, but fortune
failed me, and I was obliged to cross tho
ocean. On tho morning of the twenty -
fifth day of the lifo of my ripening high
explosivo I sprang from a carriage and
rushed into tho hotel.
“No reprieved murderer ever expe
rienced greater joy than I did as I saw the
lust of the terrible fluid disappear in a
catch basin. Ten minutes later I started
back from the mirror of tho hotel bar,
where I had gone for a ‘bracer,’ In absolute
dismay. My jet black hair had turned
whito as snow.”—Chicago Chronicle.
VETERANS UNDER FIRE.
The Hcphod They Don't Stoop Whei
the linllct* Are Plying.
"The temptation to stoop when under
tire is almost irresistible,” said a veteran,
“and that accounts (or so many of tho
wounds received by raw troops. You see,
when a man happens to be hit in a stoop
ing posture tho chances aro that tho bullet
plows right through his body from end to
end. On tho other hand, if he is standing
erect, tho probabilities aro in favor of tho
wound being slight, nnyhow not mortal.
Old soldiers uro woll aware of this, and
while they will drop flat and hunt cover
every chance they get thoy never stoop.
“After a soldior has boon in a few en
gagements ho learns such tricks, and, as
far as the rest of it is concerned, ho be
comes simply a fatalist. There is nothing
strange about it, for almost all his expe
riences appear to lend color to that doc
trine. For instance, he never dodges, be
cause he lias seen men dodge and get kill
ed when it really seemed as if they hud
reached for the bullet. In fact, the
strangest things are continually happen
ing, all apparently the puro whim of
chance.
“I remember near Petersburg a comrade
of mino, as brave a fellow as ever lived,
took refugo behind a little hut. He was
wornout under lire and wanted to get a
moment's breathing space. Twenty feet
in the rear and a little to one side was a
pile of crossties full of wrought iron nails.
A bullet camo along, splintered a tie and
drovo out one of the nails at right angles.
Tho jagged iron struck my chum in the
side, penetrated his kidneys and killed
him.
“That’s the blind chance of war, nnd
after getting a few such object, lessons a
fellow is apt to acquire a sort of sang froid
that is immensely impressive to a recruit.
It isn’t because lie has a contempt for dan
ger; he has merely learned the folly of
trying to evade it.’’—Now Orleans Times
Dcmociat. •
Proud of Him,
When lie was 50, ho returned to his na
tive town 11 just to 600 how tho old pluoo
looked.” He found it unchanged. The
old store, whero as a lad he had clerked it
and sold calico and groceries to the old
farmers, was just the same. He contrast
ed tho sleepy old placo with himself and
felt a glow of satisfaction when ho thought
how much those 30 years hud done for
him. “They ought to bo proud of mo,’1
he said to himself.
Presently he met one of the old inhab
itants.
“Waal, I declare, is it reelly you,
Hank?” said tho old man incredulously.
“We’ve heerd you’ve been prospering fust
rate senco you went west. Thoy’ve made
you a railroad president or suthin of the
sort, ain’t they? I heerd so, but I couldn’t
believe it. It’s reelly true, is it? Waal,
all I’ve got to say is they must be party
hard up for railroad presidents out there.”
Ho took tho next train for the west.—
New York Commercial Advertiser.
111a Desperate Resolve.
“She is only amusing herself with me!”
txolaimed young Throggins bitterly. “Sho
is all affection ono day and all sneers and
coldness tho next day. I'm good enough
to tako her to theuters or other places
where she wants to go and have a good
time, but when I call on her to spend an
evening sho looks bored and yawns and
makes me do all tho talking. If I wasn’t
*o clean gone on her, I'd drop her right
now. I know ono thing! If ever I get.
her off my mind, b’gosh, I’ll never fall in
love with another girl—never, b'gosh, and
you can bet on it I”—Chicago Tribune.
Of No lie.
“In announcing tho collection,” re
marked tho pastor, “I shall repeat that be
who giveth unto tho poor lendeth unto
tho Lord, only adding that the Lord has
no use for brass buttons, oxcept ns me
mentos of the donorsl”—Detroit Journal
Vast quantities of horsehair, which is
thlclly used for upholstering furniture,
Ionics to this country from Siberia. It
is tuken from tho manes and tails of
horses ridden by Cossacks.
In some parts of China tho punish
ment for murder is sleeplessness. The
culprit is kept awake until he dies. Uft
tier this trontmont a person lives nine m
ten days.
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Oct the trees fUi out before the
Uavrsf begin to open out.
To give the b. et results peaches
require a w. II drained, loamy soil.
Better results can be si cured with
pesclte- if thorough cultivation is
giver.
Wlieu trees are given p'euty o
room, they usually take a natural
and graceful form.
D ATi! f pears should be pruned io
pyramid form by pinching hark the
tops of the joung shoots.
No" is a good lime to give the
trees in the orchard ■& good washing
with strong soapsuds, ft will help
to rid them o( pests.
Ono of the best ways of manuring
grape vines is to supply well rotted
manure broadcast an 1 then work it
in by cultivation.
It is impossible for fruit trees to
hearTruit and keep thrifty for any
length of time unless the soil is kept
emichcd by manures.
Fruit production is a heavy drain
on the vitality of a plant, and for
this reason the blossoms on newly
set strawberry plants should be tak
en off.
In the care of fruit trees thorough
cult ivation is important, especially
for five or six years after planting
after which the ground may be seed
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the kid.”—Philadelphia Record
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“And the thing plays a popular
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Jimmie(admiringly)—Qec! Jest
t’ink of dem fellers doing nuttin
but play ball ev’ry day and gettin
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“A pirn is a ptnv on words isn’t
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“Well; it may be play for the man
who makes it, but it is work for the
man who has to listen to it.’'—New
York World.
“Did you say I lied deliberate
ly ’
“Well, not exactly. Mv remark
was that you couldn’t tell a deliber
ate truth.—Philadelphia North
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Mrs. Crimsonbeak—Has Mr.
Crimsonbeak got home for dinner
yet, Bridget?
Bridget—No, mum.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak—I thought I
heard him down st&iis.
Bridget—Sure that was the dog
you heard growlin, mum.—Yonkers
Statesman.
QE R FECT and permanent are the
• ^cures by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, be
cause it makes pure, rich, healthy,
life and health-giving BLOOD.
Brash—And she rejected your
suit?
Perte—Yes; said the coat wouldn’t
fit her; that the hat was out of date,
the ties too dull, the shirt too big,
and as to the trousers—well!—
Philadelphia North American, i
UD1M
(feeding a tonic, or children who want boQfr
mg up. should take
BROWN’S IKON BITTERS.
It la pleasant to take, cures Malaria, Truffr
•Mtloa hiliousaesaand liver Complaint*
One fourth of the coal used iu the
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Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
35S
What is CASTORIA
Castor .a is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
aud Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
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substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhcea aud Wind
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SCOUTING ON THE PLAINS
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WOLVES vs. DISCIPLINE
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A DANDY AT HIS BEST
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AN EXCHANGE OF SHIPS
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‘ Hood’s Sarsaparilla sells because it
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