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0 March, April, May There la a best time for doinK everything—that ia, a time when a thing cun be done to the l>eat ad vantage, moat easily and moat e f fectively. Now ia the beat time for purifying your blood. W hy! H ocuuhc your ayatera ia now trying to purify it— you know thia by the nimplea and other eruptions that nave ooine on your face and body. ( Hood*s Sarsaparilla and Pills Are tho medicines to take- they do tlie work thoroughly und agreeably and never fail to do it. Hood's are the medicines you have always heard recommended. '*.1 cannot recommend Hood's Hareaparllls too highly aa a spring medicine. When w« taka It In the spring wr all feel better through the summer.” M u M. II. Naan. 51H 'ray» Pa ■Hood's Sarsaparilla p rom ises to cu re and Keeps th e p rom ise. H O W M E N M A Y L IV E LONQ. O o td w ln S m ith T e lia th e S e c re t o f Ilia Y o iit lifiiln r s s am i V lg u r. (loldwlti Minltb, the fuiiioun historian, educator, Journalist and iHtHaylat, who is the literary life o f Canada, bus brought out s good dcnl o f coiniueiit in the problem of old uge, with incntul inti pliynlcul sounduoaM, by bln own »pinion o f the Influences which have helped him celebrate bis eightieth birthday lit good health a ml able to do brilliant mid valuable work In bis ;b»Hcii Held o f labor. Professor Smith thinks thnt h# owes much to hla freedom from hard leaks, m school or otherwise, when s l>oy. He waa a sickly child und his chance »f even average length o f dnye seemed poor. Hut he was allowed much freo- loiu In boyhood, to ronm the fields md play Instead o f sticking closely to books or taxing his mind severely. It is hardly ti«*cessiiry to say thnt tlold- wlu Smith was still a young lad, how ever. when he ttcgnn to work sealoua- ly In school, and at Eton and In the university he was a brilliant student Another point be makes much o f Is his lifelong Imlilt o f working In the early morning rather than late at night, and getting sleep In the hours o f darkness, asture's time for rest. He also test I* lea to bis constant care ns to outdoor txerclse and his moderation In eating ind drinking.—Cleveland leader. A f t e r M u c h D iscu ssio n . Judge Acheson wus trying a 973,000 damage suit In the United States cir cuit court at Pittsburg, the defendant being the Southern Oil company. A witness was asked what effect the (hooting of a well with nitroglycerin would have at a depth o f 1,300 fe e t Defendant's lawyer objected to the question and then followed a long ar gument between counsel. The court Anally ruled that the question was ad missible and directed the witness to answer. This was the reply after all the debate: “ I don't know; l ’vs never boen down to investigate." A COMRADE OF GENERAL GRANT In 1880 the Mouth hnil hut 20,500 mllos o f railway. In 1000 there were over fifty-four thousand in I lea. repre senting a new Influx o f capital to the amount of $ i ,r>oo,noo,ooo. They cut an old-time pine down In Haiigervlllp, Me., recently. The tree waa 147 feet tall, alx feet through at the base, and ran up alxty feet before there waa a Hub. It will be used for a uiaat. Although the sea covers tbree- I fourths o f the enrtb's surface. It dot-a ■»nl provide Ip the same proiiortion for maii'a wants. Only about three per cent of the people in the world gain their living directly from the sea. leeliergs In the Arctic regions are neither so large nor so numerous us those seen In the Antarctic seas, but they are usuully loftier und more l>euu- tlful, with spires and doinea. When the sun shlnea on them they look like a fairy city. Ijirg e number« of aeu robins have been taken In a Nantucket tlsh trap, and until recently were thrown away, as the Ashermen were unaware o f the prices the homely creatures brought In city markets. Might dollars a barrel ia a usual ligure for them. I ’robubly the oldest musician In the world Is Manuel <iarda, now aged 98 years. He lias given up teaching and lives In a villa In northwest London. Ills memory Is still excellent, his wit sparkling, and he Is proud o f having recently learned how to play "bridge.’* A grandfather's clock was brought ! to n watchmaker's shop In Peters town, N. Y., a few weeks ago for repairs, the flrst that have been mude upon It since some trifling ones In 1778, which were due to the raid o f the Indians under Brant and the tory Butler at Cherry Valley, In November o f that year. The clock was brought from England to tills country In 1740. H. C. Robinson, who has spent two years In scientific Investigation In the Malay peninsula, recently exhibited to the xoological section o f ine British Association a specimen o f a fish known ns the "mud hopper," which by means o f strong fins under Its l>ody Is able to move about on land for dis tances o f at least twenty yurds from Its watery nests In the swamps. Tulare lake. In California, once nav igable by at ea mera. Is now perfectly dry. A man on foot can cross it safely at any point, and In some places the ground Is hard enough for a team to drive over. The cause o f thl» condition Is the draining o f Kern and King riv ers of their water by Irrigation canals. The farmers are using all the available supplies and keep the streams dry. Says: “ I DO NOT BELIEVE • PE-RU-NA SUPERIOR FOR CATARRH.” HAS A P e -ru -n a Is a Catrrrhal Tonic Especially Adapt ed to the Declining Powers of Old Age. a good . medi cine for chron- A TRAVELER lc catarrh of A T S E V E N TY -O N E th e stomach Y E A R S OF AGE. and bowels. I have been troubled severely with it for over a year, and also a cough. Now my cough Is all gone, and all the distressing symptoms o f catarrh of the stomach and bowels have disap peared. I will recommend It to all as a rare remedy. I am so well I am contemplating a trip to Yellow Stone Park this coming season. How Is that for one 71 years old?” In a later letter she says: “ I am only too thankful to you for your kind advice and for the good health that I am enjoying wholly from the use of your Peruna.' Have been out to the Yellow Stone National Park and many other places o f the west, and shall al ways thank you for your generosity.” — Mrs. F. E. Little. Strong and Vigorous at the Age of Eighty-eight. Rev. J. N. Parker, Utica, N. Y., writes: "In June, 1901, I lost my sense o f B E N J A M I N F. H A W K E S , hearing entirely. My hearing had been somewhat Impaired for several Benjamin F. Hawke*, of Washington, D. C., is One of the Three L iv years, but not so much effected but ing Comrades of Gen. Grant in His Cadet Days at West Point. that I could hold converse with my friends; but in June, 1901. my sense grip. A t flrst I did not know that of bearing left me so that I could hear Peruna was a remedy for this disease. no sound whatever. I was also In a recent letter from 611 G When I heard that la grippe was epi troubled with severe rheamatic pains street, 8. W. Washington. D. C.. I commenced taking demic catarrh, I tried Peruna for lo In my limbs. this venerable gentleman says of grippe, and found it to be just the Peruna and now my hearing is re Peruna: stored as good as It was prior to June. thing.” — Isaac Brock. “ I have tried Peruna after hav 1901. My rheumatic pains are all ing tried in vain other remedies Pe-ru-na Uaed in the Family for Years gone. I cannot speak too highly of for catarrh, and I can say without Mrs. E. West. 137 Main street, Men- Peruna. and now when eighty-eight reservation that I never felt a asha, Wis., writes: "W e have used years old can Bay it has invigorated aymptom of relief until I had given Peruna in our fam ily for a number of my whole system.”— Rev. J. N. Pa r Peruna the simple trial that its ad vocates advise. I do not believe it ■ years and when I say that It Is a fine i ker. Mr. W . B. Sehnader, o f Terre H ill, medicine for catarrh and colds, I haa a superior, either aa a remedy know what I am talking about. I Pa., writes; for catarrh or as a tonic for the de " I got sick every winter, and had a have taken it every spring and fall pressed and exhausted condition lor four years, and I find It keeps me spell o f cold in February, 1899, I which ia one of the effects of the robust, strong, with splendid appetite, could not do anything for almost two disease."— Benjamin F. Hawkes. and free from any illness. A few months. In December. 1899. I saw years ago it cured me of catarrh of one o f your books about your reme Isaac Brock, a citizen of McLennan the stomach, which the doctors had dies. Then I wrote to Dr. Hartman am very for advice, and he wrote that I should county, Texas, has lived for 114 pronounced Incurable. I years. In speaking o f his good health much pleased with Peruna. I am 87 commence the use of Peruna. and how to take care of myself. and extreme old age. Mr. Brock says: years old.” — Mrs. E. West. “ I did not lose one day last winter In old age the mucuous membranes "Peruna exactly meets all my re that I could not tend to my stock. I am quirements. It protects me from the become thickened and partly lose sixty-three years old. and I cannot evil offects o f sudden changes; It their function. This leads to partial loss o f hear thank you too much for what you keeps me in good appetite; it gives done for me.” me strength; it keeps my blood In ing, smell and taste, as well as digest have I f you do not derive prompt and sat good circulation. I have come to rely ive disturbances. Peruna corrects all this by Its spe isfactory results from the use o f Pe upon It almost entirely for the many runa. write at once to Dr. Hartmaa, little things for which I need medi cific operation on all the mucuous giving a full statement o f your case membranes of the body. cine. One bottle will convince anyone, j and he will be pleased to give you bis C O L D AND IN S E C TS . "W hen epidemics o f la grippe flrst Ohce used and Peruna becomes a life valuable advice gratis. began to make their appearance In Address Dr. Hartman. President of T h . L o w e s t o f L o w T ern c e r a t u r e . this country I was a sufferer from long stand-by with old and young. Mrs. F. E. Little. Tolona. 111-, The Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. D oc. N ot K ill N or I a j o r . T hem . this disease. Ohio. The severest cold has no terrors “ I had several long sieges with the writes : “ I can recommend Peruna as , for Insect life. It has been shown by ex periments tbut Insects may be artificial M ilk a n d W a te r . 119 HORSE POWER W ITH TW O HORSES D e s e r te d in S a m m e r . ly or naturally froxen,subjected,indeed, Boston leads the big cities o f the I Can be gotten w ith Sw enson’s M a llea b le stn m p Tbe village« near the north Italian P u lle r : e v e ry casting w arranted, flaw or no flaw. to very low temperatures, without kill lakes are In summer Inhabited almost country in the use o f milk, tbe daily W r ite fo r catalog. ing or even Injuring them. Eggs, average being 1.171 pints per capita. South Bend Steel P lo w s , 14-Inch, fs.00. South entirely by women, who till the fields, B end C h illed P lo w «, 14-Inch. (7 «0- larvae, and pupae, the stages In which She likewise leads in water consump which do not yield much. The men go RE'ERSON M ACHINERY CD. most Insects pass the winter, nre per tion but this does not imply that there to Switzerland and bring back their fectly Immune to cold. is any mixing o f the two.— Boston A d earnings in winter. It Is a common IdeH that cocoons vertiser. of Insects serve us a protection against 80 Bu. M acaroni W h ea t P er Acre. Mothers will find Mm Winslow’s Soothln« rap the best remedy to use for their children cold, hut this is entirely erroneous. Introduced by the l T. S I'ept. of Agr. It is a tremendous cropper, yield in g In good land 8u ; z teething season. They, like the summer webs web- bu. per «ore, und on dry. arid lands, such as | worms, are a protection against birds are found In Mont.. Idaho, the Dakotas, I ’olo., etc., It w ill yield front to to 60 bu. This W heat Arrangements have been made for tel- and iuaect parasites, but not against sny S(>eltr and Hanna Harley and Hrotnus In- thonic communication between various ert'nis and Billion Dollar t.rass, makes it povsi- i cold. . Tin* cocoons o f summer brood* >wns of Lancashire and France, lile to grow ami iatlen hog« and cafiie w h erev MEET are as stout and thick as those o f the er soil is found. 'ranch legislative sanction is awaited. ALL J VST S K S It 10 CKNTH 1 M I T H IS H 0TIC E generations thnt pass the winter. to the The John A. Salter Seed Co.. I.a Crosse. NEEDS Moths, liutterfiies, and other Insects Wis . and they w ill semi you free a sample of Experience has established It as Wheat and other farm seeds, together with build stouter and more compact cocoons this a fact. Bold by all dealers. Yon their great catalog, alone to r.h fluo.uo to any sow —they grow. 1004 S eed In tropical and torrid countries than wide awake farmer. [P. C. 1..] Annual postpaid Area to all ap 3 E they do In those climates where they plicants. * V a lu a b le L ife - S a v in g S e r v ic e . are besieged by winter. There nre D. M. FERRY A CO. So effective Is the life-saving ser D E TR O IT, MIOM. many Insects, allied to the builders of vice of the United States that from cocoons, that make no such covering, the pupa or the chrysalis being left en disasters to 24fi documented vessels on having tirely exposed. And so little beat Is the coast during the year, maintained by the pupae o f insects 3.802 persons on board, only twenty * thnt no matter how thick the cocoons, live« were lost, and of tbe $9,000,000 3 = : C they are always too slight to repel worth o f property put in Jeopardy, b u t, 3 [ 'i t f u little more than $1,000,000 was lost. I freezing cold. shoes have by their excellent s t y l e , Certain degrees o f frigidity seem to B ew are o f O intm ent* fo r Catarrh T h a t easy-fitting, a n d have vastly different effects on differ Contain M ercury, I I superior wearing ent species o f Insects. (Inats and As mercury will surely destroy the senae of 3 I qu alities achieve«! smell and completely derange the whole sys the largest sale o f midges dance In the winter sunshine; tem when entering it through the mucous sur any shoes in the butterflies, Vanessa, Grapta, ami some faces. Such sn id es should never be used ex Loss of Time, Lose of Money, w orld. cept on prescriptions from reputable physi Loss of Place, Loss of Comfort, time« Collas. skim over the snow; cians, ss tbe damage they will do is ten tola to They are jnst as good all follow In the train of not using the good you can possibly derive from them as those that cost you wasps and bees wind their wny through Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by K. J. $4 to — the only the leafless woods; ground-beetles run Cheney A Co., Toledo. O., contains no mercury, difference is the price. quickly over the cold earth; crickets ami is taken internally, acting directly upon Sold Everywhere. the blood and mucous surfaces of the syetem. peep from beneath stones and rotting In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get Look for name and ! the genuine. It is taken internally, and made price on bottom. logs; while other species, the vast ma In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney A Co. Testi Douglas uses Corona i__ jority, In fact, are locked In the lethar monials free. For Rheumatism, Coltskln, which Is everywhere conceded to Hold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle. beth e finest Patent Leather yet produced. gy o f hibernation. One o f the Neuralgia, Lumbago, Hall's Family Pills are the beet. Fact Color Eyelet* need. Shoe* bj mall. Sftr.extra. commonest evidences o f this hiberna S c i a t i c « * , Sprains Write fer Catalog. W.L.Dsaglas. Brocktoa. Rasa tion Is to be seen when firewood la A lpin e flowers and plants are to quick It has cured thousands. Will carried Into the house and placed near ly becoming extinct that strong measures P. N. U. Ne. 10-1904. cur* you. Pries 25c. and 50c. the warm stove. It takes only a short are to be taken In the future fo r their time to bring out a swann o f ants that preservation. were sleeping In beetle-borings, their common retreat.— St. Nicholas. W. L. DOUGLAS happiness of children through derangement of the generative organs. Mrs. Beyer advises women to use Lydia E. Pink* ham’s Vegetable Compound. 4 " D x a b M rs . P ir k iia m : — I suffered w ith stomach complaint for years. I got so bad that I could not carry my children but five months, then would have a miscarriage. The last tlma I became pregnant, my husband got me to take L y d ia E . P i n k h a m ’ s V e g e t a b le C o m p o u n d . A fter taking the first bottle I was relieved o f the sick ness o f stomach, and began to feel bet ter in every way. 1 continued Its use and was enabled to carry my baby to maturity. I now have a niee baby girl, ana can work better than I ever oould before. I am like anew woman." — Mas. F r a n k U e ye r , 23 8. Second S t, MeHden, Conn. — ftio o o fo rfe it I f orlylnol of •I m I t t i t r grow I lf genolnonet* cannot ha produced. F R E E M E D IC A L A D V I C E T O WOMAN. Don’t hesitate to write to Mrs. Plnkhnm. She will understand y o u r case perfectly, and will treat ou with kindness. H er advice i free, and the address Is Lynn. Mass. N o woman ever regretted having written Iter, and (h e k M haloed thousands. J < *3.iS&«3 SHOES S Big; R is k s St. Jacobs Oil O n e J o b a t a T im e . The talk o f signaling from Mars hna been revived. Better get through with the north pble and the flying machine, says the Washington Star, before tak ing up this proposition seriously. 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