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m CLIFFORD : SWAN'S PANIC EAR C: Meot me at the "heclmen's IJest on the J y Sol South pike at 5:45 to-morrow evening. We can talk the matter over on our wheels. Very affectionately, "ELS A." Clifford Swan sat on an office stool and turned this little note In his fingers at the same time that he turned its Im port over In his mind. The clerk who eat nejlr him could not resist an In quisitive impulse to look at Mr. Swan's face, and he saw that Mr. Swan was smiling satisfaction at himself; also, he saw that the little piece of paper In Mr. Swan's fingers was a feminine note, and he drew conclusions. That clerk would have greatly amused him self with putting teasing questions to Mr. Swan If the latter had not been his superior In the bank. So tho clerk held his peace and wondered what there was In the note to make Swan look so happy. Clifford Swan took another dive Into the four lines of very modern feminine handwriting to refresh his memory as to the wording, and then he meditated again. It was, no doubt, an original way of answering his rather old-fashioned proposal, but her originality was always one of Elsa's great charms to this devoted lover. The Idea of meet ing a girl at a clubhouse on purpose to discuss a proposal of marriage with her while taking a spin! And then there was something so peculiarly sen sible in the phrase "talk the matter over." Elsa really was a very sensible girl so sensible as to be all the more piquant for this quite extraordinary good sense of hers. She was not the Bort of girl to do anything rashly; she would calmly "talk the matter over" while riding out In the cool of the evening. Swan liked that deliberate way of looking at a serious matter; he Judged from It that Elsa would be for ever constant when she did make up her mind. True, she had already had four days to reply to hie letter, but he had not the least doubt that In the end her decision would be favorable. Was he not her "Dear C." to begin with? So Clifford Swan smiled as he sat at his desk. Then he looked at his watch and resolved to go and have lunch. lie put the watch Into his vest pocket and folded the little note and looked for thv Pli tjTope from which he had some what precipitately torn It when Elsa's little brother had put It Into his hands a quarter of an hour before. There It was a pink little envelope. The clerk next to Mr. Swan at this point Indulged his curiosity once more. He saw Mr. Swan look with a tender smile at the envelope, and then he saw the smile faint and fade, and then he observed that Mr. Swan had turned pale. "Are you feeling badly, Mr. Swan?" the young man ventured to ask with polite solicitude. Swan started and stared resentfully. "Feeling badly?" What do you mean?" "Vou look so pale, get you a glass of I thought I might water or some- thing." "Thank you. Mr. Edwards," said Swan with a forced laugh. "I don't know that I ever felt better In my life. I believe I'll go out to lunch now very light breakfast this morning." So Swan took up the envelope and the note and reached for his straw hat. He walked out of the bank, gazing at the address on the envelope, which was: "Miss Clara Henderson. Ad dressed." The inference was plain. That young brother of Elsa's "Young Nick" had had two notes to deliver. He was, In his own conceit, a born courier and scout, and It delighted him to ride his wheel all over the city, leav ing notes and messages. If there had been no note for Swan the boy would not have stopped at the bank at all. The wretched urchin had no doubt whirled Into the Henderson home, as he had whirled Into the bank, dashed down his Swan's fate-fraught letter with a curt, "Letter for Miss Clara no answer," and then sped away to chalk up his last record of letter-carrying. Therefore It was certain morally that Clara Henderson by this time had bad the satisfaction of reading through her friend's reply to Swan's offer of marriage. So did Clifford Swan argue. He ate no lunch worth mentioning, but sat and felt cold chills running about all over him, although the ther mometer was far above 70 In the shade, and the sun was shining bright ly. This was because he knew Clara Henderson so well. If it had been any one else but that feather-headed That afternoon a ring at the door bell of the Davis residence was soon follow ed by a sound as if a huricane had sud denly been let Into the front hall. The rushing and rustling was mingled with laughter. "Oh, I must see Miss Elsa. Yes, right away. Tell her I'm coming up to her room." In less than one -nlnute Clara was at her friend's door, standing behind the servant, who was supposed to be de livering her message. "Elsa! Won't you let me in? I'm In a tremendous rush, dear " "I'm so glad to see you, Clara. Couldn't you go to-morrow?" "Go? Go where? Ha. ha! Ha, ha, ha! Elsa, don't be angry. It wasn't my fault. I'm awfully sorry. Young Nick brought tills for me, and It was meant for for Mr. Swan. Ha, ha. ha! He, he, he!" And with that the tempestuous young woman fell upon tho bamboo couch, helpless. , "Clara! Did you open It?" For auswer Clara held out a bulky packet, the flap of the envelope torn. "I give you my word of honor. Elsa, 1 only read as far as 'can confer on a -woman' 'man can confer on a worn jui.' Then I nearly had a fit." A less evenly balanced mentality than Elsa Davis might have been tem poral lly upset by this revelation. As let. But she retained her self-command sufficiently to recognize a Juvenile whistle that sounded shrill at that mo ment In the back yard, performing some variations on a popular air. Young Nick was oiling his bicycle. His elder sister threw up her window and called to htm peremptorily to como up. Clara was still on the bamboo couch, trying bo recover her breath, when a youth of 8 years. In corduroy knicker bockers, appeared In the doorway. "Can't go oil now, sister. Got to oil up " "You took that note to Mr. Swan, did you?'' his sister asked. "Yes, sir. And I took the other to Miss Clara. Didn't I, Miss Clara? Did the whole trip In seven minutes an " "Never mind the time," Elsa Inter rupted. "Did' you take that to Mr. Swan?" holding up tho bulky letter Clara had brought. "That's it," said the boy, nodding. "How did you get It back?' ' "Go!" was all Elsa could say, and she slammed the door to, behind the puzzled youngster. "Don't you think you'd better put the letter in a fresh envelope and send It to him?" Clara asked, becoming very seri ous. "My dear Clara," said Elsa, "I shall never speak to Clifford Swan again." "Oh, don't say that, Elsa! Please! "I shall never have a chance. I know that man too well. And you, of all peo ple." "Why me, of all people?" Tie's positively afraid of you. He thinks you the most formidable tease on earth, and he can't stand teasing." "Then what do you think he'll do 7" "My own private belief," said Elsa, speaking very deliberately, "Is that he will pack up and go to the Klondike, without saying a word to anybody." The catch In her friend's voice as she spoke these last words brought a most unusually serious look to Clara Hen derson's habitually Jocund face, which was still glowing under the combined Influences of laughter and a rapid bi cycle ride. "Elsa," 6hc said, "give me that let ter." "What are you going to do with it? No, I can't, Clara. It will look like running after the man." PLEASE GIVE ME MY "Well, then, good-by. What time lsgwan and asked, "How do you feel It? Ten minutes to three. Good-by. "What are you going to do?" "I want my letter." "Your letter?" "Yes. You must have sent me some letter, or young Nick wouldn't have brought me Mr. Swan's." "But It doesn't matter. I can tell you, now you're here. It was to meet me about that picnic, you know " "Never mind," said Clara "I'm going to have my letter.' And she whirled away, much as she had come, only without laughter. Clifford Swan was sitting at his desk, on his high stool, experiencing cold chills, wondering how a man so eas ily upset as he was by a trifle could have held his position In a bank all these years and risen repeating to himself mechanically, "Can these things be, and overcome us like the shadow of a cloud?" Still more vividly Imagining what Elsa Davis had said In the letter, wondering how much of it Clara Henderson had read, and dreading her terrible laugh. But he would not face that terrible laugh, he thought; he would sooner make a will, leaving everything he had to Elsa, and then "Mr. Swan," said the young clerk, who was becoming really uneasy by this time, "a lady wishes to see you." "Tell the lady I'm very busy." The young clerk stared at what seem ed to him the obvious untruth of the al legation, but nevertheless he took the message to the paying teller'B window in the front office. "Mr. Swan, the lady says she has some very important business to settle with you, and will you please speak to her tor two minutes?" "Who the lady?" "I know her face, but she didn't give me her name. She wears a brown vel veteen bicycle " "Light hair done up in a coil?" The young clerk nodded. "Mr. Edwards," said Swan, "I don't think I'm very well to-day." "I noticed that you weren't looking well before you went to lunch." "Mr. Edwards, I think I'll go home for to-day. My wheel is in the back hall, I think. Please tell Mr. Glinn I'll be all right to-morrow." The young clerk stared and walked awav to tho front of the bank. Then, d tamed to go to the back hall, he heard a ripple of feminine laughter, echoed by half a score of clerks. "He'll go out the back way, I suppose. Thank you," sounded in the dreaded voice of Clara, the tormentress. Clifford Swan thanked his stars and the city authorities that the street be fore the baek entrance woe paved with nspha.lt and not thronged with vehicles at that hour. Over the asphalt he sped, longing to look behind him, but afraid to attract attention. If be seemed anxious as to who was following, passers-by might think he was fleeing from the bank and the law. On ho went, not knowing exactly where to speed to. until, after a brilliant quarter of a mile, be same to the South pike, and Its familiar smoothness allowed him to turn Into It. As he turned he ventured to look over his shoulder and saw no body of whom he need bo afraid. So on he pedaled. After the most unpleasant three min utes' spin he had ever known on that road he was beginning to hope that be had escaped Clara Henderson's terrible teasing, when, "trr-r-r-lng," & bicycle bell sounded bhlnd him. "You must be very busy to-day, Mr. Swan," a clear voice called aloud "and very sick. Do you always ride like this when you are very busy and sick?" Physically, Clifford Swan kept his balance, only turning to raise his hat; morally, he collapsed. "Oh, Miss Henderson?" he said, "how d'ye do? No, I'm not feeling very well to-day." "Still, you're not sick enough to be in bed, are you? I would like to speak to you, If you don't mind. Just for a min ute. You have a letter of mine, I be lieve?" All this conversation was going on as they wheeled, side by sldo, ou -the South pike. "I? Oh, yes. I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to read It." "That's of no consequence," said Clara. "But please give it to roe. I want to see what Elsa says " "Hi! HIT' came from behind the two. "My! Can't you go when you get a move on you, Mr. Swan?" It was young Nloji. "Sister says I gave you the wrong letter. 8o I brought you this when I got through oiling up my machine." Young Nick held out n letter to Swan. All three with one accord dismounted by the roadside. "riease givo me my letter," said Clara. And Swan, with smiles and nervous apologies, produced Elsa's little note from an Inside pocket. "Will you allow me?" he asked, as he took his own letter from young Nick. Clara nodded and turned her atten tion to her own little note. Young Nick stood wide-eyed while these two read: "Sister changed her mind after you went. Miss Clara," he said. It took Swan a long time to even glance through his three sheets of up right callgraphy. Clara displayed the patience and self-restraint of a waiting angel. At last she said. "Now, It wasn": so very dreadful, after all, was It. Mr. Swan?" "Oh, no," said S-wan, "hot at all. Nick, please tell sister for me that I'll be around this evening." "No, Nick," said Clara. "You hurry on home and tell sister that I've caught Mr. Swan and I'm going to bring him with mo right now." Then, as young Nick flew down a side street by way of making a short cut, she turned to LETTER," SAID CLARA. now better?" "Thanks," said Swan, "I feel decid edly better now." And he had good reason to. Chicago Chronicle. Afraid bat Courageous. Emerson, In his essay upon "Hero ism," says that the characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistence; and a very good illustration of this truth was given by the philosopher's son, Waldo, when he was a small boy. On his way to the village school Waldo had to pass a house where a French family lived. The boy had never heard any language but his own, and the strange talk frightened him; he could not understand it, and there fore felt that the people must bo dan gerous. Mr. Emerson decided that Waldo was old enough to go and come from school without attendance, and after talking the matter over with the boy, he said, "Now, Waldo, some one will go to school with you this morning, but you must come home alone." When the school was dismissed the boy thought of the house full of strange people that he must pass on his way home, and leaning up against the fence he began to cry. Miss Elizabeth Hoar, a neighbor, seeing him, put on her bon net and went to his rescue. "Come, Waldo," she said, "I'm going down your way; you can walk along with me." Tho boy looked at her a moment, and then said sorrowfully, "I don't think that was what my father meant me to do;" and refusing her comforting com panionship he trudged sturdily home by himself. It is pleasant to know that he was never afterward afraid to go and come alone. His persistence In doing what he felt was right was surely heroism for a frightened child. . Tea Drinkers. The United Kingdom consumes 000, 000 pounds, or about 4,000,000 gallons, of tea every day, which is as much as is used by the rest of Europe, North and South America, Africa and Aus tralia combined. Even the Jay birds are hollering Dewey." 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Professor Dewar recently stated 1u the course of a leoture at the Royal In stitution of Great Britain that there lias been a great developmnet in the application of liquid air as an ana lytical agent. No parental care ever falls to the lot of a single member of the insect tribe. In general the eggs of an insect are designed to be hatched long after the parents are dead, so that most inserts are born orphans. Clocks can be accurately leveled by a new shelf which has a fixed wall plata supporting a pivoted, adjustable shelf, with levels in the top, to be set by thumb screws on the upper side. When dead bodies are entered as a cargo on a ship they are often recorded on the invoices as "statuary" or "nat ural history specimens," to allay the superstitious fears of the orew. The production of what is known as silk worm gut tor fismng lines is a curious industry that has followed the decline of silk culture in the vicin ity of Murca, Spain. 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Cse I Sold by dTugglsts. 117.1 Mr mm my Aa side MM H li M Hints on Macadam Construction. The building of macadam roads has grown into quite a business, and those who are engaged in it occasionally strike something that may be useful to others. A correspondent of the En gineering News gives views on various points as follows: The quantity of roll ing considered desirable Is a serious question, and it Is hard to specify a cer tain number of hours with a certain weight roller for a certain number of square feet of surface for all kinds of rock. I have lately drawn up my sp. cl flcatlons to read that the foundation that is, the earth surface after having been cut to the proper depth and the soft places filled with sand or fine bro ken stone and each layer "shall bo rolled with a roller of not less than five tons weight and sprinkled, and said sprinkling and rolling shall continue until a wagon with two inch tires aud carrying not less than two cubic yards of stone can be hauled over it without making an appreciable rut." There is no mistaking the meaning of the clause. I always advocate a roller of not less than five tons weight, and prefer a horse roller. If the rock Is an extreme ly hard material and does not bind well, then a heavier roller can be used. I may be peculiar In my preferences, but my experience with extremely heavy steam rollers has not been all that could be desired. In most cases there is too much crushing of the ma terial. If the contractor possesses a heavier roller than five tons, and, in my, opinion, the material can stand it, he is at liberty to go ahead. My specifications insist upon an en tire absence of clay and loam In the metaling, but there is such a thing as going to the extreme In screening. Doubtless Madaeam and some of the European engineers could succeed in doing without binder. I suppose tires are much wider abroad than In this country aud loads are heavier, -and un der the influence of the traffic and with constant repairs a road of fair sized stones without binder ultimately be comes first-class. Here we must face the fact that tires are narrow, and the authorities will seldom spend 10 cents for maintenance inside of three years. Binder Is therefore a necessity. But It is best if of the same material as the macadam. My specifications generally call for three layers the first of rock, not more than four Inches and not less than two inches In any dimension. 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Shepard, who has un dertaken to prove that tea, one of the greatest staple articles used by Ameri cans to-day, can be raised by our farm ers profitably, says a writer in the Cos mopolitan. This attempt to add to our now widely diversified list of indus tries is one which Dr. Shepard made partly as an experiment and partly as a regular business enterprise. And it is very interesting to note that, in a business way, It has been quite suc cessful. Last season Dr. Shepard sent to market upward of eleven hundred pounds of the finest tea obtainable, and this year's crop, he states, will amount to more than two thousand pounds. In 1877, General William G. LeDuc, then Secretary of Agriculture at Washington, hearing of the attempt to import a new Industry Into this country, requested William Saunders, of his department, to investigate the matter and ascertain whether the tea plant could profitably be grown In the United States. After thorough inspec tion of Mr. Shepard's tea plantation, Mr. Saunders made a very favorable report, predicting that it will be only a question of time, now, when our farm ers will supply Sufficient tea for home consumption. Concerning this new in dustry, Dr. Shepard said: "My plants are affording me a pro duction greater than the Chinese aver age, and almost equal to that of India and Ceylon." Fifteen months ago the committee of the United States tea im porters expressed, through their chair man, before the Committee on Ways and Means, the opinion that teas pro duced on this estate equaled any sent to the United States from the Orient. The product of these gardens has al ways found a ready sale, and has been marketed from Massachusetts to Flor ida, also in the Central and Western States. The crop of last season was about eleven hundred pounds, being much curtailed by an unusually severe autumnal drought. The outlook for this season is toward two thousand pounds. It would be gratifying if, as present indications promise, the ven ture should prove very profitable, al though the object In view is only In part Industrial. "Because of the cheap labor of the Orient," says Dr. Shepard, 'It is useless for us to try to compete with them on cheap grades," but he thinks it is possible to grow a finer grade of tea in this country, at a profit which woud thoroughly Justify all continued experimentation. Delicately Approached. "Mister," said Meandering Mike, "would you like to have all tho money you wanted?" "Of course I would," was the natural reply. "Well then, I kin approach you as man to man an' tell yer me own feel ings. It's a good deal to be able to de pend on sympathy an' co-operation In, advance. All de money I wants fur de present Is If) cents, which Is some-, thin' that I know you could help me to without mlssin'." Washington Star. There are two occasions when a girl is particularly anxious to look well: when she graduates, and when she marries. But a sweet girl graduate and a bride always look tacky. They are over dressed; they worry so much over their dress, that It looks hurried. When a man Inherits dishonesty that is about the only thing he honestly acquires. A Total Disability Claim of $1,650 Paid to a Man Who Was Afterward Cured. The Monitor, a newspaper published at Meaford, Out., Canada, lirst discovered this ease two years ago, and published it at length, which now seems, owing to the cure or tt. to be a miracle. The facts were so remarkable that many people doubted the truth of them. They said: "It is too remarkable; it cannot possibly he trne; the paper is mistaken, and the man. although he may think himself cured, will Soon relapse into bVs former condition," etc, etc. The accuracy of its report called into question, the Monitor determined to find out definitely whether the facts were as stated ami whether the man would real ly stay cured. They accordingly kept a close watch on the case for two year after the iirst article appeared, and have just now published another article about it in which tike original reports a e completely veri the cire is permanent, and t-'iey pnhlish a fac simile of the cheek given t-y the Candlan Mutual Life Association fw SI 660.00 a novnt "f total disa'i ity c aim paid by them to Me. Fetch. The first account stated that the patient (see address below) had been a paralytic for live years, that there was such a total lack of feeling in his limbs and body that a pin run full length could not be felt; that he could not walk or help himself at all ; for two years he was not dressed ; fur thermore that he was bloated, was for that reason almost unrecognizable, and could not get his clot hes on. The paralysis was SO complete as to aiTect the face arid pre- Eiifrineerinir Under tbe Eavth. The newest wonder in American en gineering has just been inaugurated at fiaughton, Mich., viz., the Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet ami Helca the greatest mining shaft In tbe entire world. It is 4,000 feet deep, and, com pared with It, the deep silver mines of the Com stock lode in Nevada, or tbe wonderful mines in Austria, worked for many centuries past, are but shal low pits. There are six compartments, says tie New York Sun, each equal in size to an ordinary mining shaft, four of these being used for hoisting rock and lowering timber; one is used for the ladderways, and tlie sixth and last compartment carries the wires and pipes for telephones, light, power, water and compressed aif. The under ground workings of tbe shaft are laid out with mathematical accuracy, the ondeviattng course of the copper-bearing lode allowing work to bo planned thousands of feet ahead of the mineral picks. The great pumps which free the mine of water are operated inter changeably by compressed ail and elec tricity. The power drills which eat the holes for the dynamite cartridges are run by compressed air alone, and there are more than 300 of these drills, each doing the work of a dozen men, work ing both night and day, in the Calumet and Helca mine. REDUCTION IN WICTCLE PRICES. It is saiii that western capitalists are con templating the organization ol a great blcvcle Company, which hopes to make flrst-ciuss wheels and sell tuem as low as flO. Whether this be true or not. the fact repiains that Hos tetter's Stomach Hitters is a tiret-class remedy for the stomach, liver ami blo-l, and the price puts it within everybody's reach to be well and strong. For fever aud ague it is a apeciflo. 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'-, - mmTX&W F U v SV I t IS .rak w mmt 9AT I fH mm VI IM I M. imhmxfff YOHIKaODF V -MW a s mT six mWP Counrcrs,gAd AVW is ivc vented him from opening his month suffi ciently wide to take solid food. The doc tors called the disease spinal sclerosis, and all said he could not live. For three years he lingered in this condi tion. Then 6v some friends he was advised to take Williams' Pink Pills ior Pale Peo ple. He took them and there Was a slight change. The first thing noted was a tenden cy to sweat freely. This showed there was some life left in his helpless body. Next came a little feeling in his limbs. This extended, followed by pricking sensations, until at last blood began to course freely, naturally and vigorously through his body, and the helplessness gave way to returning strength, the ability to walk "returned, and he was restored to his old time health. 1 1 OMiNIONjBANK The above is the substance of the first article published by the Monitor. Now fol low some clippings, taken irom the same paper two years afterward, and there is not the slightest shadow of a doubt, in view of this testimony, that Mr. Fetch's cure is permanent. Here follows the account: On being again questioned, Mr. Peteh said: "Ytva see those handsj the skin is now natural and elastic Once they were hard and without sensation. Vou could pierce thejn with a pin and I would not feel it, and what is true of my hands is true of the rest of my body. Perhaps you have observed that I have now even ceased to use a cane, and can get about my business perfectly veil. You may say there is abso lutely no dovbt as to my cure oeiug petnanent. Anglo-Saxon FotaI Cards. The Canadian people are showing a stronger sentiment towards Dncle Sam at the present time, called out no doubt by the strugglo, if such it may be called, between this government and Spain. An instance of this is found in new postal cards, which are passing through the Canadian mails to this country. On erne oard t6 shown the Stars and Stripes, which oove the entire fiont of the postal card, the white bare of Old Glory being used to write the aiidresa upon. Another oard shows the anion of the English and American flags inscilbed "Anglo Saxon, one aini, one goal," while be low are the national shields held by Ceres and tle Goddess of Liberty, guarding whom arro the proud eagle bird and the lion. Both are private postals, such as are now permissible li this country, and both are very unique The most ancient coin in Europe, the ducat, was first struck in tho mint of Venice in the year 1284. The building is still in existence. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is duo not onlv to tho nrirrinn.lit.T7 nnrl simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the California Fiq Sybup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the California Fiq Syrup Co. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the Cali fornia Fia Sykup Co. with the medi cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Fig's has gdven to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of Its remedy. It fs far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAX FRANCISCO, Cal. LOUISVILLE. Ky. NKW VOKK. N. T. p Hercules Special (2 actual horsepower) Price, only $185. CXXZXXXXXXZXXXX2 American Type Founders Company Indeed I am in even better hen 'I ' than when 1 gave you the first interview. ' "Do you still attribute vour cure to the use of Dr. Williams' Pin'k Pills?" asked the Monitor. "Unquestionably I do," was the reply. "Doctors had failed, as had also t he num erous remedies recommended bv my friends. Nothing I took had the slightest effect upon me until I began the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills To this wonderful mediine I one my rele-ise from the living de- th. I have since recommended these Sills to many of my friends, and the ver ict iB always in their favor. I shall always bless the day J was induced to take them." Such is the history of one of the most re markable cases of modern times. Can any OOMINtOM SANK . JDoh ars Trmaurtr one soy. in the face of such testimony that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are not entitled to the careful consideration of any sull'eing man, woman or child ? Is not the case in truth a miracle of modern medicine? To make the evidence complete we pub lish above a facsimile cut of the check re ceived by Mr. Petch from the Canadian Mutnal Life Association, being the amount due him for total disability. It is unneces sary to add that this life Insurance associa tion did not pay this large amount of money to Mr. Petch, except after the -most careful examination of his condition by their medical experts. They must have re garded him as forever incurable. Mr. Petch's address is as follows: Iieu ben Petch, Criers ville, Ont., Canada. Cookbooks for Soldiers. Cook books have been distributed through the companies of tho Twenty second regiment, says the New York Tribune. The receipts given show just how the government wants its supplies cooked. There must hereafter be an inspection of the food at each meal, ana an officer is to overlook the weigh ing and apportioning of supplies to as certain that tire amount given out is sufficient. In New Zealand two persons work ing together constitute a factory. Beware ot Ointments for Catarrh That Oontaln Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange tho whole sys tem when entering It through the mucous siir races. Such articles should never be used ex cept on prescriptions from reputable physl ci.ins, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good vou can possibly derive from them. Hairs Catarrh t'ure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you got the genuine. It Is taken Internally, and made In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testi monials free. Bold by Druggists, price 73c. per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. 1 NEW HEP&RTURE ID .DENTISTRY. At last tbe long looked for improvement has been made on the old method of plate teeth. 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