iwm Kotelmann Saw
OTELMANN is & man with whom
K 1 have no sympathy. He is, un
goubtedly, & very clever fellow, but
the uncanny expression of his face
«hen he looks up is to me positively
"p\\mvt.
For all that, he is excellent com
pany. I have spant many hours, many
an evening, in his society, and must,
in fairness, own that I have never
jound him wearisome or dull. .
Not long ago I took a walk with
Lim. As we sauntered through the
stubble fields we discoursed of this
snd of that, and at last we got upon
the topic of the latest murders which
hiad besn reported in the press.
Kotelmann, as we talked about
these things, had the look that al
ways makes my hair stand on end.
We were discussing the question of
circumstantial evidence and its value.
“In ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred,” I remarked, “there is nothing
else to be done but to conviet the
criminal upon circumstantial evidence.
No man in his senses would perpe
trate a murder in the presence of an
eye-witness.” >
“Probably not” returned Kotel
mann, slowly. *“That kind of thing
is usually done ia private. It may so
chance, however, that an eye-witness
is present of whom the murderer has
no cognizance.”
After making this remark he walked
by my side for awhile in silence, ap
parently deep in thought. Then he
began again, in his characteristic
fashion:
“One may travel all round the world
and vet never witness a murder. I,
Lhowever, have secn one.”
“What-—you—you have seen one!™
I excliimed, almost terrified. “Ex
plain yourself, wan! Was the mur
derer caught? Was he punished?”
“It was no ‘he,” it was a ‘she,” " said
Kotelmann, with a laugh. “And as
she was not caught it stands to rea
son she was not punished.”
“Yet you—" I began.
My companion interrupted me.
“I had nothing to do with it. My
evidence was not called for nor re
quired. The thing was accomplished
in the neatest, most refined manner
possible. If you like, I will tell you
the whole story.”
I pricked up my ears.
“Four years ago I was spending my
summer vacation at the little water
ing place of B——, This quiet, retired
nest suited me well, and 1 stayed there
for some time.
“In the house where I found a lodg
ing there were already a number of
viler visitors—a fact which, to a so
ciable individual like myself, was in
po wise distasteful.
“&mong others I made a slight ac
quaintance with a family consisting
of an old gentleman, his young wife
and his daughter by a former mar
riage. The girl, a slim, delicate creat
ure, apparently about 20 years of age,
was blind. She could not be termed
pretty. but her personality was inde
scribabiy attractive, gentle, and, I
may say. pathetic. The wife was a
beauty. She had a splendid figure and
a pair of gray eyes not easily to be
forgotten. I shonld judge her age to
have been about 28. These people
ecemed to be in very easy circum
stances and kept themselves as much
as possible apart from the other vis
ilors.
*“l ean boast, as you are aware, of
some small gifts of observation. Al
thongh my acquaintance with this
family was, as [ have already stated,
but a slight one, I yet took some inter
est in studying the different members
which composed it. For, wherever 1
ro. I make it a rule to study all the
new characters I meet. It was not
long bLefore I discovered three things
concerning this trio. Firstly, that the
old man was passionately in love with
hiz wife, but had for his daughter
neither eyes, ears nor heart; secondly,
that the daughter "had an almost
idolatious reverence for her father,
blt a seeret dislike for her stepmoth
er; thirdly, that the wife had a down-
Tight hatred for the other two.
“None of the other inmates of our
vilia, however, bad any suspicion of
this state of affairs; to the superficial
obgerver these three persons appeared
to be living together in perfect har
mony,
“One morning the old gentleman did
not appear, and in answer to inquiries
bis wife said that he was ill. In the
course of the day a physician was
summoned to him, and in the evening
our host imparted to me in confidence
the distressing fact that the old man
had been attacked by typhus fever
and lay now in a very precarious con
dition.
“The honest Thuringian well-nigh
shed tears of chagrin; one wonld have
thought to hear him that the poor
gentieman had taken the fever out of
sheer wickedness and spite, on pur
pose to give the house a bad name,
There war some cause for this lamen
tation. The secret could not be kept
long, and as soon as it became known
taat typhus was in the house the vis
itors decamped with all speed. Only
two or three, more reasonable than
the rest, remained.
“l have no fear of infection, and
when 1 told our Lost g 0 I rose prodi
giously in his estimation. 1 even
ited the invalid and tried to cheer him.
Un one occasion, when only a hired
nurse hesides myself was present, he
startled me by & fit of delirium. in
whick he implored me to save him
frem bis wife. I did my utmost to
Facify him and soon his mood changed
tnd he began to speak of his wife in
the most pathetic and endearing
terms. Ten duys after the beginning
©f the old gentleman's iliness 1
chanced to encounter the doctor, who
Was just descending the staircase,
“*'Well, said I, ‘how fares it with
Your patient?
“'Oh," enswered he, ‘the symptoms
are very favorable. The erisis is over
—or all but over. We know, of course,
tiat be is an old man, and his consti
tution is weak—extremely weak. If
ke pulls through. as I trust he wiil.
ke will bave his wife and daughter to
thank for it--especially bis daughter.
The gui is a born nurse! He is anleep
2ow and upon this sleep depends all.
I he awikes of himself in three or
four hours’ time, then, humanly
®peaking, be will be owt of danger.
Everything depends upon this sleep! T
have impressed upon Herr K——, your
landlord, the strict necessity of abso
iute quiet; he will give orders to the
servants. Should the patient be
frighiened, startied out of his sleep,
tnere will be a catastrophe. His nerv
ous system is so greatly depressed
that the slightest noise in his proxim
ity—such, for instance, as the slam
ming of a door—would, in all proba
bility, prove as fatal as a builet shot
into his head or heart. 1 have warned
his wife. Sleep is now everything!®’
“With these words the doctor put on
his hat and departed. Aslstocd fora
minute in tke hall, thinking over what
1 had heard, Herr K—— crept toward
mwe on tiptoe.
* ‘Listen, Herr Kotelmann,' said he,
in an undertone, ‘Fraulein von DPe—,
who wus so brave at first, because she
has been a Sister of Mercy, left my
nouse early this morning. She took
herself off becayse she was afraid of
catching the fever. Are you, then, some
wihat superstitious?'
*1 laughed.
*‘All right,” said he, triumphantiy.
‘I came to tell you that, if you please,
you can have the fraulein's room. You
wiil like its situation so much. It over
looks the whole valley, right anay to
the forest. You shall have it for the
same price as ycu have been paying.”
“I was delighted.
“‘Can 1 take possession at once? I
asked.
* “This very moment,’ replied the land
lord. ‘The room stands empty. Ah!’
he added, ‘I forgot. It is next to the
sick’man’s chamber. Will that make
any difference to vou?”'
“y laughed and shook my head.
“‘Very good. The room has been
cleaned lately, and is guite ready for
your reception.’
“I thanked him, ard was ascending
the stairs, when he softly called me
back.
“‘Pardon me, Herr Kotelmann, [ for
got again. The doctor has given orders
that on no aceount must any sound be
heard in the neighborhood of the sick
room. Hesaysthatthe old gentleman’s
life depends upon his sleep being un
disturbed. Perhaps you will be so very
kind as to defer moving your things un
til this evening.’
“l expressed myself perfectly satis
fied with this arrangement, but -as |
felt curious to behold my new habita
tion, especially the belauded view from
its windows, I-—when the host had left
me-—stole Gith light steps along the
corridor, opened the door with caution
and entered noiselessly.
“The room had a friendly look and
was large. The view was magnificent,
After duly admiring this I threw an ap
proving glance over walls and furni
ture. 1 have already alluded to the fact
that 1 am an observer of things as well
as of persons. I possess the true de
tective's eve,
“This being the case, I very speedily
remarked a weak spot in one of the
walis. It was a tiny slit or hole, such
as would have been discoverable by
most persons only after a whole day’s
confinement in the reom. A small nail
just above it apprised me that the late
occupant, Fraulein von I'~—-, must have
been accustomed to hang some garment
taere.
“I approached this Lole and peeped
through it into the sick man’s chame
ber. The room contained three human
beings. On the bed lay an old man in
decp sleep. Beside the bed knelt his
biind daughter, with clasped hands and
bowed head, her whole attitude expires
sive of intensely earnest prayer, Re
hind the daughter 1 saw the wife; she
alore was moving. The hired nurse
was not present, and had doubtless re
tired to enjoy a well-earned rest.
“In perfect silence,without produeing
the slightest sound, she was drawing
along over the smooth surface of the
wax-polished floor a small table, whose
marble top was laden with quite a
dozen medicine bottles and a number of
glass vessels of various shapes and
sizes,
“I did not at first comprehend her
design. I knew very weil that she had
received the strietest injunctions to
make no sound. But when I caught
sight of her face! It was the face of a
fiend! Never should 1 have believed it
possible that human face could wear
stamped upon it such a horrible expres
sion of murderous hate. In an instant
I understood.
“She was in the aet of sliding the
table into such a position that the ‘east
movement of the kneeling blind girl,
absorbed in prayer for her beloved fa
ther, would be sufficient to overturn it
with its frugile burden.
“I am, as you know, a 8 somewhat
cold-blooded fellow, but I ean assure
you that for the moment I was rigid
with horror. I wou.d have given the
whole world to have been able to marn
that poor child. Dut what could | do?
A call from me might be as disastrous
in its consequences as the catastrophe
itself.
“I stood In dumb terror, as if turned
to stone. There was no time for
thaught. Before my whirling brain
could suggest any expedient the deed
was done,
“The unbappy girl rose from her
knees; with hands still clasped, she
stood up. I saw the table reel and tot
ter, and as, half swooning, I averted
my eyes, I heard the thud of the tathe
and awfal erash of the breaking glass,
followed immediately by an ear-pier
eing, blood-curdling scream.”
Here Koteimann made apause. After
a few momentz of silence he said:
“Give me a iight, friend.”
When he had lighted hiscigar I asked
him:
“Did the ¢ld man die?”
“He was as dead as though he had
been shot through the head,” he re
plied, calmly.
Presentiy he sontinned:
“T had left the room before the con
motion in the house began. It wa:
never known that T was there. It was
row to me a terrible thonght that |
must spend the night in that ehzmber
I am not superstitious, but I must con
fess that 't was long ere [ closed m~
eyes that right.
“Aud when I did so! Ten times a\
feast I started up from evil dreams
with the crash and the fearfui erv ring
‘ng in my ears. Jt was a full week be
fore I eould get any rest.”
We walked on in silenec o til T apoka
aguin.
“Have viu ever heard what has be
come of the woman?" .
“Ok, yes. She has married agaln, ba
ker danghter, poor thing, died about ;
year after her father"—Chicsgo Her
ald.
TALK WITH HUNTON.
Vens:rable Virginia Ex-Senator Tells
Some War Stories.
Wounld Cheerfully Surrender the
Presideney to Avert Civil War—
Confederate Nills at a Tre
mendous Discount.
[Specia! Washington Letter.)
X-SENATOR EPPA HUNTON, of
E Virginla, is one of the most en
tertaining gentiemen that vis
its this capital city. He resides at War
renton, only four hours’ ride from here,
and every session of congress brings
him to Washington several times dur
ing the winter. ‘Those who know him
well always seek his society because
they find not only entertainment, but
instruction or information in his ordi
pary conversation,
“] am the sole surviving member of
the electoral commission,” said Gen.
Hunton this afternoon. “There were 15
of us, and one by one they have gone
hence while I have been permitted to
live thus long and enjoy good health
even until now, although 1 am almost
79 years old. The electoral commission
was created by congress in order that
there might be a peaceful settlement of
the contest for the presidency, in Jan
uary, 1877.
“Whether that commission was conr
stitutional or not has always been a
mooted question. But that makes no
difference; the representatives of “the
people agreed upon the commission,
and its conclusions were accepted. Itis
a singular fact that the learned judges
and lawmakers composing that com
mission were swayed in their conclu
sions by their partisan inclinations,
rather than by calm, cool judgment,
Eight republican members of the com
mission voted in favor of Hayes, and
seven democratic members voted in fa
vor of Tilden, on ali controverted
points, and Hayes was declared elected,
and he was inaugurated.
“The people of the entire country
were greatly excited, and there was
some danger that civil war might ensue,
I don’t think the presidential succes
sion is worth a civil war. Neither polit
lcal party should ever stir up the peo-
WHEN EATING WAS AN EXPENSBIVE LUXURY AT RICHMOND,
ple to such an extent again. Having
been through one civil war, and having
known by experience all of its horrors,
I would surrender the presidency even
if I felt that I had been elected, rather
than have a civil garoverit. Many peo
ple blamed Mr. 'lldcn at that time for
not insisting upon his inauguration,
but he was patriotic and wise in declin
ing to carry his contest to the arbitra
ment of war,
’ “Speaking of civil war reminds me of
bundreds of scenecs and incidents in
that four years of fighting. During the
greater part of the time | was on Vir
ginia #oil with Hunton's brigade, and
we were kept busy all of the time,
With plenty of money and unlimited
resources, during the first two years of
the war, we had plenty of supplies, food
and clothing. Even then the hardships
of army life were severe enough. But
when our cause was failing, when we
could get no money from abroad, when
our confederate paper money was de
preciated and depreciating, when our
ports were blockaded and our supplies
exhausted, our sufferings were as in
tense as those which were suffered by
the continental army under Washing
ton at Valley Forge and elsewhere.
Moreover, our soldiers, believing in
their cause, were as patriotic and noble
) as were their ancestors, the heroes who
fought for the liberty of the 13 colonies.
‘ “There are thousands of living con
federate soldiers who will freely admit
that the cause was wrong, and who will
say that it in a blessing to all of us and
to our posterity that we have a great
united country, but no self-respecting
confederate soldier will say or permit.
anyone to gay that the confederate sol- |
diers were not as patriotie, self-sacrific
ing heroes as ever carried arms for any
cause in the history of the world. And
on many a battlefield we learned to re
spect the soldiers of the north. Nosol
diers on earth but southern men could
have made such a charge as Pickett's
men made at Gettysburg. No soldiers
in the world but northern soldiers could
have withstood that charge and rolled
our shattered columns back from those
heights,
“At the beginning of the war with
Bpain I received letters from scores of
the old members of Hunton’s brigade,
begging me to blow my bugle and call
them together. They wanted to fight
for our common country just as freely
and patriotically as they fought for the
etonfederacy. BSome of them were more
than 60 years old, but the fire of youth
was kindied in them, and they were
ready 1o leave their families and march
ander the stars apd stripes against the
foreign foe. Of course, they did not get
into the army, but their sons eniisted, |
and I bave been told that upwards of a
thousand of the sons of veterans of Hun- [
ton's brigade offered their services to |
the federal government.” i
Gen. Hunton's references to the vicis
situdes of the confederates during the
latter part of the civil war reminded & |
{riend of an old serap book in the treas
ury department which mutely but elo
gquently tells the story of the failure of
the eause. It was shown 10 the writer
to-day. It is filled from cover to eover
with samples of confederate money,
The first bills issued by the confeder.
scy bear the fuseription: *“Two years
afirr date the confederate stntes prom
ise 10 pmy.” but very scon thereafter,
whes 11 was sees thatl & long war Is-
stead of a short one must ensue before
the confederacy could be established,
the notes were issued with the inscrip
tion: *Six months after the ratitica
tion of a treaty of pcuce beiween the
confederate states and the United
States,” and this wording was contin
ued to the close of the war.
In 1861 and 1862 the paper money of
the confederacy was maintained at
par. Gen. H#unton referred to those
days as days of comiparative ease for
the soldiers and for their cause. But
in 1863, when Vicksburg surrendered
and Lee was defeated at Gettysburg,
the confederate merey fell to 30 per
cent. of its face value. At the closc of
that year the money was held to be
worth 43 per cent. of its face value. In
the spring of 1864, when Grant mobil
ized Lis army in Virgicia, Sherman at
Chattanooga, and Sheridan in the valley
of Virginia, the value of coufederate
money depreciated 80 rapidly that it be
came practically worthiess. The union
armies encircled the confederacy with
walls of steel and fire, and the financial
world would give no recognition to con
federate promises to pay.
Then it was that the confederate sol
diers suffered many privations, while
their families at home suffered for the
necessities of life. The women and ehil
dren lacked clothing and shves, and
“otten were deprived of food. No wone
der that the old soldier and statesman
now says that the presidential succes
sion is not worth another civilwar, The
old scrap book referrcd to containing
samples of all issues of confederate
money, has a companion in the lasl
oheck book used by the quartermaster
general of the confederacy, This book
was opened January 26, 1865, and dur
ing the few remaining duyvs of January
the sum total of $347.217 was checked
out, for transportation of troops. The
stubs of the check book show every
transaction until the close of the war,
The largest cheek drawn was for $OOO,-
000 in favor of the Richmond & Danville
l Railroad company; but a marginal note
shows that the company accepted $l6,
000 in coin in lieu of the $BOO,OOO in con=
Fffllrrnte checks. To such un extent
had the value of confedcerate money de
preciated,
The total amount of paper money ise
sued by the confederacy was §1,500,000,+
000. That is an immense sum to cons
template, ‘und all of it became values
less. Towards the close of the war
milk brought $4O a quart in Richmond,
in confederate money, Lunch at a res
taurant cost $lOO. Coffee was five dol
lars per eup, and Y was not good coffee,
either. Gen. Hunton says that these
conditions were brought about not only
because the confede rate money of law
ful issue had depreciated, but because
that money was counterfeited, and
hundreds of thousands of counterfeit
confederate money flooded the south,
The confederate government was pow
erless to stop this praetice, becanse the
counterfeiting was done in the north,
Northern speculators bought cotton
with this counterfeit money. Inasmuch
as it only cost them the price of print
ing, they could afford to pay fabulous
prices for the cotton, and then the
money was circulated throughout the
south by its innocent halders, ]
It is not generally known, but itis s
fact, that previous to the civil war this
government had a mint at Dahlonega,
Ge., where gold to the amount of about
$7,000,000 was minted; and most of
the gold was taken from mines in that
vicinity. But when the war began the
mines were deserted, and they have
never since been operated. Deeause of
the scarcity of gold within the boun
daries of the confederacy, that govern.
ment was never able to establish a mint,
and hence was obliged to depend upon
its issues of paper money.
All these Interesting facts resnlted
from the brief conversation with dear
old Gen. Hunton, who, in speaking of
the electoral commis.ion, made earnest
ard feeling reference to the war be.
tween the states which has been aptly
termed “The Irrepressible Confiict.”
BMITH D FRY.
BERMUDA LILIES.
Experiments With Them Conducted
by the Depariment of Agricul
tare in the South,
An interesting experiment s now
being conducted by the United Btatey
department of agriculture in South
Carolina snd in the southern states
with the Bermuda lily so popuiar st
Easter ax a gift and for decorative pur
poses. HBulbs have been distributed
freely in every section of Louisiana and
South Carolina with a view to ascer
taining if the Bermuda lily will bear
transplanting to this soil. An experi
ment made in the Nally experimental
station in Bouth Carcline was attended
with the most satisfactory results, and
if the same luck follows the general ex
periment the home markets ean be supe
plied with the native grown produet,
The supply in the Bermudas is stil] un
limited, but the stock has so deter
foriated as to cause yeneral complaint
from the recelving florists in this coun
try, and this resulted In the action of
the department of sgrienlture, As 8
corrective method the Pritish pt.eorn-’
ment has established an rxpcrimrmnli
station in Bermuda to edneate the r.a-‘
tives in the more successful growth of
this, one of their prineipal industries, 1
Had Been There Beofare.
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‘ CELESTIAL CHAFF,
The Pointed Retort of a Small But
Smart Mongolian to an Amers
fean Scehoolmnate,
‘ The young daughter of a former Philadel
phian s a schooimate of httle Wu, the
son of the Chinese ambassador at Washing:
‘lon, During a recent visit here she often
talked about the hittle celestial, and told
"tales about him that seemed to indicate that
Little Wu at times gently guye his Chiristian
_schoolmates. “He 15 awtully cute,” she
said, “and speaks very correct Eoglish.
“He's just my age, yet he's ahead of me.
| What he likes best to eat, he says, is milhi,
That is young mice, dipped in honey and
swallowed raw. A horrible thing, wsn't it?
But Wu u‘i'- that milhi aren’t half w 0
N\nlhx and slimy as raw oysters. His
mother's feet are so tiny that she can hard-
Iy walk at all. She s pushed about in a
wheeled chair. 1 asked Wu once if he didn’t
think it was cruel to torture the Chinese
ladies’ feet like that. He said: ‘Virginia,
my papa says that wheneverany person asks
me that guestion I wmust make the follow
ing reply:s It 1s not more cruel than for
American ladies to torture their waists in
steel corsets until their noses are beet red
and their shapes like an hour glass.”" Then
he gave a loud laugh and walked away with
lhufillt!e bhands in the pockets of Lis baggy
brocade trousers. He looks awlully grave
I and funny.”— Philadelphia Press.
Hard on the Doorkeeper,
On the opening day of the session of the
Fifty sixth congress, a tall, gaunt man,
shambling of gait, with “high-water” trou
sers, a slouched hat mashed in any old way,
and an overcoat that peeded brushing, pre
sented himself at the center door u’ the
house of representatives. He started to
walk right in, but was stopped by one of the
doerkeepers, who said to hum, testily: *““Say,
don’t you know you can’t goin there!” “No
I didn’t know it, my friend; 1 thought 1
ecould,” he said, mildly, ““Nobody but mem
bers allowed in to-day.” “Well, I'm a mem
ber; ('-nn.grvumnn Cushman, of Washing
ton.” “Oh! I beg your pardon; walk right
" As Mr (‘unfmun strode into the hall
the astonished doorkeeper looked after him
for a moment, and then, turning to his as.
sistant on the door, said: “Nay, Bill, did
you see that® Well, after that I ain't got the
uerve to stopanything."”—Criterion,
Rilent neighbors make a desirable neigh.
borbood .~ Anugu Daily News.
Dr. Bull’s
The best rmmul‘y for
cough Consumption. Cures
Coughs,Colds, Grippe,
s y r u p linmvhhh, Hoarse
ness, Asthma, Whooping
cough, Cmy Small doses ; quick, sure resulis,
L, biwll s Ivilscure Constipation, Trvial, wo for 3¢,
SPRING
HUVIORS
Woman’s
Kidney
T roubles
Why trifle with health
when the easliest and
surest help Is the best
known medicine in the
worild ?
Is known everywhere and
thousands of women have
been cured of serious kid
' mey derangements by I.
. Mrs. Pinkham’s meth
ods have the endorse~
ment of the mayor, the
postmaster and others of
her own olty.
| Her medioine has the
endorsement of an un
numbered multitude of
’rntcfnl women whose
elters are constantly
printed iln this paper.
Every woman should read
these letters.
| Mrs. Pinkham sdvises
' suffering women free of
| oharge. Her address Is
|Lynn, Mass.
LABASTINE fs the original
and only durable wall coating
entirely different from all kal
sominen Ready for use in
white or fourteen beautiful
tints by adding cold water,
ADIES naturally ‘vnrar ALA.
BASTINE for walls and cell.
Ings, becauvse 1t s pure, clean,
durable, Put up in dr‘ pow
dered form, In five-pound pack
ages, with full directions,
LL kalsomines are rhelx. tem
porary preparations made from
whiting, chalks, clays, ete,
and stuck on walls with de
caving animal glue. ALABAS
TINKE is not u‘ul-omlno.
EWARE of the dealer who
u‘u he can sell {nu the "same
thing” as ALANASTINE eor
"momething just as good.” e
Is olther not posted or 18 try-
Ing to deceive you.
ND IN OFFERING something
he has bougnt “heap and tries
to nell on AI‘AHAN"‘INM’F‘ de
mands, he may not realige the
damage you will suffer by a
kalsomine on your walls,
ENBIRLIE dealers will not buy
& lawsult, Dealers riak one hy
selling and consumers by using
lnfrll\’rmom. Alabastine Co,
own right to make wall coat
ing to mix with cold water,
HE INTERIOR WALLH of
every church and school should
be coated only with pure, dur
able ALABASTINE. It safe
guards healih Hundreds of
tona used yearly for this work,
N RUYING ALADASTINE,
customers should avold gets
ting cheap kalromines under
mvfiwm namens Insist on
having our goods In packages
and properly labeled,
UIBANCE of wall r‘nn'r 18 obh
vinted by ALABANTINE, It
can be used on plastered walls,
wood cellings, brick or cane
yas. A chilld ean brush it on.
It does not rub or scale off,
BTANLIAITED in favor, Hhun
all imitations. Ask paint deal
er or drugkist for tint card,
Write us fi-r Interesting book«
let, free, ALA"r\HTlN‘i’} CO.,
Grand Raplds, Mich,
OUR ADVA
Double Board Mardened 5t
The bes'
W We ha
A
;'itoo
bomplete External and
Internal Treatment
$1 25
Coml:tlng of CUTICURA SOAP (25¢.), to
cleanse the skin of crusts and scales and
soften the thickened cuticle, CUTICURA Oint
ment (50::'3. to instantly allay itching, irri
tation, a inflammation, and soothe and
heal, and CUTICURA RESOLVENT éwc.). to
cool and cleanse the blood. A SINAGLE SET
is often sufficient to cure the most torturing,
disfiguring skin, scalp, and blood humors,
with loss of hair, when all other remedies fail.
Buid Bovnghont e wwid. Foviss U &C. Goar, Pregs, Bosion. Hlow & Cure Spring Hamer, Ses
California Grown
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That this is true has been amply proved. but
readers of this paper may now test it for them
selves at trifling cost,
THE LAND OF SUNSHINE
The Magarine of California and the West has
contracted with two of the most reliable seed
growers in California for & large nnly of flower
and vegetabia seeds at lowest wholesale rates
and will give all the benefit of the great reduction
thus obtained to its subscribers. To any sub
scriber, new or oid, we will send packages of Cali
fornia<grown flower or vegetable seeds (your own
selection) to the value of
$1.40 FOR ONLY 50 CENTS.
If you are not now a =uoscriber send $1.50 to
cover one year's wbxr!fflm and the cost of the
seads. We will then mall you two large and beay
tifully Hllustrated catalogues, from which you may
select seeds to the list price of $1.40 without
further cost,
Or for 20 cents we will send sample copy of the
magazine and the catalogues, and aliow credit of
20certs on your order when it comas in. Sub
scribers under this offer will also be entitled to
enter the contest for tha 10-acre fig-orchard
which we are going to give sway, as already ad
vertised.
THE LAND OF SUNSHINE
PUBLISHING CO.,
LOS ANGELES, CALIF,
SUBSCRIPTION DEPT.
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Order by this No. 11 B, CHICAGO, ILL.
FOR 14 CENTS
"o wish to gain this year 0
fnew ¢ aglomerns, und‘onec oqn
Pre Paire Rmerold Cocuedverits
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bove 10 Phge worth $l.OO, we will
il (u Sno. \ofluhu with ewr
reat ‘ % og, tel .ua‘.ltuu'n
isl sling raffye
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now when l-r onee vs!l.llhfl;%
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In3or{Years an llde?enm Is Assured
Ifyou take up your homes
T
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tand of plenty Jliuse
trated pam. hiots giving
f arperience of farmers
s p who have beoome wealthy
g B murowing wheat rr‘vmu
E af delegates, et and full
c F R information as to redueed
raliway rates ean be had
— on applieation W the
rupninumum of lmmigration. Department of
plerior. tnttawa, Canada. or address the Under.
sluned, wiho will mall yon atlases, pamphiots. gto,
froe of cost v l‘lf,lbyl EY, Bupt of Ilmmigration,
itaws. Canada, or 1o HEN LlAvies l;:._\g‘ ;'mut
?n»m. Bt Faul Minn: W RITCHIR, Graltos, N,
% T.O l'l'lc‘nll Blevens Poiot, Wis
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Th’hm od -Inlm\m? with white qrhldl.
Nas faney 11.1" wround sound hole F. best
Amsrican made patent head Hatsep German
aiiver freis, wl.b aulm-} poarl position dts
The senle 12 as near por feot se ll uurfl‘”
to make lsstrung with » 'IIHT
u.Ln; wloslwirings. Avomplete ..mmw.
?l--- fa mant V‘AHL wuhmhuwur ™
caipt of $1.66 we will send 44 €. O h‘.'b
ool to sraminstion. OUKR BPRI Y CATA
hull"cnol‘mnnu?rnohrul b
propald on recelpt o ow -‘h e
part of t?n-u-n‘ charges, and will be W e
roenipt ofl or Phise ontal ~
riees on h“f (1 u:‘%‘
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.u.lloult.,l‘ tenge. Order by this No
DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY | given
guick relief and cures worss
ensvn Book of testimoniaie and 10 dages’ treatment
Free ir H H GREEN'S BONK Bas ). Atianta, ta.
AN KO
€ Throat cnndr. oneof the
best Confertions wr Vooullsts,
Fubite Bpeakors, ete, Bend 10 ota,
to LAMB MFG, CO., Ouawa, Usnada, Tor sam pie bos,
ICE AGENT
tonl Plow, hard as glase all over, e
tplow on sarth at any price.
wa other 8 inch plows for 7 60, ?n‘nuhfl! tn
eor monay refunded, Beod for ‘llt tnwuum
Vol Sulkys, wnn. Diss Marrowas, ngone,
\ n?lln. u'(ou-. .‘\O:. wthey lhE.-.
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