Nothing in the Wide VWsMltt has such a record tor ab solutely curing female ills and kidney troubles as has Lydla E, Plnkham's Vegetable Compound Medicines thai are ad" vertlsed to cure every thing cannot be specif los for anything m Lydla E, Plnkham's Vegetable Compound wUI not cure every kind of Ill ness that may afflict men, women and children, but proof Is monumental that It will and does cure all the ills peculiar to women. This is a fact indisput able and can be verified by more than a million women. If you are slok don't ex periment, take the medi cine that has the record of the largest number of cures. Lydia E. P-inkham Med. Co., Lynn. In Philadelphia a young woman who played ghost gave up the ghost from the blow of a brick. Which seems to argue that it may be safer to rock a boat. DON'T GET FOOTSORE. GET FOOT EASE. A powder. At this season your feet feel swollen, nervous and uncomfortable. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try A Hen's Foot-Ease. It rests and comforts: makes walking easy, (.lures swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and js a certain cure for Chilblains, Sweating, Damp or Froted Feet. We have over 30, 0"0 testimonials. Don't get footsore get Foot-Ease. Try it lodaii. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial package Free. Address, Allen S. Olm sted. Le Roy, K. Y. A German scientist says the world weighs 11,913,000,000.000,000 pounds. This is a ton or two more than we made it. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Hoi ses are said to be afflicted with hay fever the same us human beings. As hav fever is said to attack only be ings of superior intelligence, this must he looked upon as a tribute to what if called horse sense. There in more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For & great many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu tional disease, and therefore requires constitu tional treatment. Flail's Catarrh Cure, man ufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio, la the only constitutional cure on the market. Itns taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Bend for circulars and testimonials. Ad dress, F. J. CH ENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. . Hall's Family Pills are the best. The ground for strawberries should be selected a year in advance. It should be planted to some crop that requires liberal manuring and frequent hoeing, so as to destroy all weeds. It is grass and weeds that cause strawberry beds to become worthless after the first year, and after the rows are matted there is no way to get rid of weeds in the rows except to pull them out by hand. If the ground 'is kept clea the previous year but few weeds wil. appear. ' 'Emerson Beaconstreet, making mnd pies in your finest attire?" "What matters that, nnrse? There should he no complaint until I will make mnd pies upon my finest attire." Contagious Blood Poison There is no poison so highly contagious, ao deceptive and so destructive. Don't be too sure you are cured because all external signs of the disease have disappeared, and the doctor says you are well. Many per sons have been dosed with Mercury and Potash for months or years, and pro nounced cured to realize when too late that the disease was only covered up Begot, Uko. out again, and to their sorrow and mortifi cation find those nearest and dearest to them have been infected by this loath some disease, for no other poison is so surely transmitted from parent to child as this. Often a bad case of Rheumatism, Catarrh, Scrofula or severe skin disease, an old sore or ulcer developing in middle life, can be traced to blood poison con- pearly SI" f ftuWlfc life, for it remains smoldering in the sys tem forever, unless properly treated an! driven out in the beginning. S. S. 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The countries where the long finger nail is most affected are Slam, Assam,. Cochin China and China. The approved length varies from three or four to twenty-three inches. A Siamese exqui site permits the nails on his fingers to grow to such an extent that his hands are practicallly useless. The aristo crats who affect these nails can not write, dress themselves, or even feed I themselves. The Siamese hold the long linger nail i in the same reverence we hold the i family tree. Many of them never have j had their nails cut from the day of their i birth. On the first finger the nail is of moderate length three or four inches while on the other fingers the nails : grow occasionally to two feet. The ! thumb nail, which is also allowed to : grow long, after reaching a certain ; length curves around like a corkscrew. In both China and Siam the owners 1 of long nails wear metal cases over j them to preserve them, made of gold or silver, and jeweled. While long i nails are not regarded as singular in China, they are rarely met with ex cept on fanatics and pedantic scholars. Among the fakirs in Hindoostan a : peculiar custom is that of holding the hand tightly clenched and in one posi ' tion so long that at last the nails grow through the palm, emerging at the back of the hand, and growing thence al most to the wrist. When the wasted muscles refuse to support the arm any longer it is bound in position with cords. In Nubia the long nail is regarded as indicative of good breeding. The aris , tocrats constantly subject their finger 1 tips to cedar wood fire to insure a good growth. The inhabitants of the Marquesas Islands are among the most expert tat- tooers on earth, and not even the crown of the head, the fingers and the toes are ; exempt from the needle. The hands : are ornamented with utmost care, all the fingers having their own pattern, so that the hand-would look as though incased in a tight-fittig glove were it not for the finger nails of enormous ; length which complete the hand adorn : nient of the wealthier natives. Chica go News. Sorry He Learned. "Did you ever know the difference between a boy who has been brought up with girls and one who has not? The one whose acquaintance with girls of his own age has been slight is apt to be awkward and unobservlng; where as, the boy who has breathed an at mosphere of feminine Influence notices the occasions for the small politenesses of Ufe. The speaker was a young woman who had had experiences, and she pro ceeded to unfold them. "I was thrown last summer," she went on, "with a college boy who had no sisters, nor cousins, nor aunts, to polish him off. At Yale he had studied hard, and had not 'wasted his time,' as he would have called it, on girls' af fairs. He didn't know how to do the few thousand small services that women like, and as he - was really clever and nice, I proceeded forthwith to polish him. I never went for any thing 1 wanted. He had to go on all my eivands. I dropped my scissors, or book, or parasol, fifty times a day to teach him to pick them up. At first I had to remind him, but after a while he did it quite naturally; and at the end of the season he thanked me sincerely. "The sequel came a few days ago, when I received a letter from him re proaching me ruefully for having made him ridiculous. 'I'm always jumping around to help people when I'd better let them alone,' he says. 'The fellows can't drop a pencil in class but I find myself sprawling on the floor after It before I stop to think. It will take years to undo the direful work of last summer." New York Telegram. What She Wears. The famous woman, Annie S. Peck, who has been noted as having scaled the Matterhorn and broke the record on Mount Orizaba, going 8,600 feet into the clouds, wore flannel undergar ments, a waist of serge, a woolen sweater, knickerbockers and leggings of sage-green duck canvas, which she made herself. She wore the heaviest kind of winter boots, and a shoemaker in Switzerland put an extra piece of heavy leather over the whole lower part of the shoes, toes and heels, and then nearly covered them with nails. In many of her trips she has worn fur topped gloves, but for the Mattea-horn she wore woolen mittens. A substan tial canvas hat, tied on with ribbon, and veil, as well as smoked glasses, complete her outfit. She takes the pre caution to put cold cream on her face before facing the severe weather. The Cook Got Even. A cook here who quarreled with the owner of the restaurant got even In this way: After making the soup he im proved it by the introduction of several foreign ingredients, such as a quantity of sand, half a cupful of red pepper, a pound of tacks, a bunch of kindling wood chopped fine and a couple of old kid gloves a la noodles. The feeders sat down as usual last evening, but as soon as they sampled the soup they rose up again en masse and almost mobbed the whole shooting match. Ac cording to the evidence produced at the preliminary hearing a more fearful brew than this soup was never con cocted, even by Maebeth's weird sis ters. The cook is now in the consomme. New York correspondent Pittsburg Dispatch. When Yon Write to the Queen. The paper on which letters to Queen Victoria are written must not be folded. No communication which bears evi dence of having been creased will ever fall into her Majesty's own hands. The proper method is to write on thielf, glossy white paper and to dispatch the missive in an envelope which fits it. Any folded communication never reach es the Queen, for the simple reason that she never looks at it. All such letters ire opened by the Mistress of the Robes, and as a rule their contents nev- get beyond her. or, if the letter is of importance. It is returned to the writer with the directions how to forward It. Exchange. We know a man who has enough in dustry and ability in his line to make i conspicuous success, if his fool ways lidn't keep him down rlELD THE FORT John Barleycorn Proved Too Much ior a Hand of Hostile Indians. An adventure with hostile Indians, seldom surpassed iu critical peril and excitingsituation, was that of a French Canadian some years ago at Fort Pierre au Calumet, on Lake Athabasca. One day, when the chief trader was absent on a visit to York factory, and the other men employed In the station were playing lacrosse upon the ice, this man and an Irishman named McTaggart were the only persons left in the fort. Just then forty Chippewa "braves" who had pretended to have furs to sell, but who had really beeu watching an opportunity to plunder, came up to the fort and poured inside the stockade. Pierre, the Frenchman, had barely time to bar the main door when they rushed against it, showing plainly their unfriendly purpose. A parley with the chief, through a small side-trap, re sulted in the withdrawal of the Indians outside the stockade and an agreement to admit the chief alone, with' the furs. Pierre thus relates what followed: I instructed my man, McTaggart, to watch when the Indians were well out of the yard, and when the chief came in to make a dash and fasten the outer gate. I then opened the door. Mc Taggart slipped out, but had not made one step when the chief struck him with his tomahawk, killing him in stantly. The savage then darted through the half-open door, and, parry ing a blow I aimed at him, he seized the bar which fastened the door and threw it outside. I had by this time got hold of one of my pistols and pulled it at him as j he came toward uie, flourishing his I bloody tomahawk. The bullet took ef j feet, for the savage, with a frightful yell, staggered through the doorway, I where his cries soon gathered his band about him. Before I could fasten the door the whole gang had burst Into the fort. 1 sprang behind some casks and hid myself there, feeling, however, sure that they would find and kill me. There can be no doubt about my fate If the savages had not been more eager for plunder and whisky than they were for vengeance. As it was, one of them at once rushed to a cask of whisky, the head of which he stove in with his hatchet, and with the greatest eagerness the whole crowd began to help themselves to the contents. That they would drink themselves drunk was now my only hope and op portunity, and I quietly kept out of sight behind the empty barrels to await events. v The Idiotic abandon and general "cutting up" of the savages as they came under the influence of the whisky was very ludicrous; but you may be sure I kept my laughter to myself. In an hour all were hopelessly intoxicated, except one "big fellow who seemed to have a stronger head than the rest. I now felt that with my pistol in my hand I could fight at least on equal terms, if a fight was necessary; but the rascal precipitated matters by turning over the cask of whisky while climbing to reach some plunder that he wanted on an upper shelf- In doing this a live coal was jarred out of the stove into the liquor on the floor and the room was immediately In flames. The Indian who had caused the catastrophe sprang toward the door, but my pistol ended his career. The whisky was soon consumed, as there was but little left, and the fire was put out without doing large dam age, but many of the drunken savages on the floor were fatally burned. When the men came back from the lake and found so many dead Indians and saw the general ruin they were amazed, and supposed I deserved all the credit of the capture of the assailants, etc., when It was merely an accident that bad accomplished it. A Peter the Great ' Boom." We are about to witness the outbreak of a boom on Peter the Oreat similar to that which has raged for some years round the person of Napoleon. Sir Henry Irving, with all the world open to him, has chosen a play on Peter the Great, written by his son. Prof. Oscar Browning is about to publish a life of the Inevitable Peter; and J. M. Gra ham's historical novel, "The Son of the Czar," has already attracted consider able attention, and will certainly be widely read, as it gives a powerful pres entation of Russian life at the most critical epoch of Muscovite history. There Is something significant in this renaissance of Peter the Great. The smaller states of Europe are vanishing, one by one, and everything points to eventual collision between the Teuton and the Slav. In the meantime every thing that Holy Russia and the anoint ed person of the Kaiser can do to mag nify their respective missions will cer tainly be accomplished. Harper's Weekly. An Original Order. An order came to a wholesale hard ware house one day last week. That is, It was presumably an order, for It was written under a business heading and had all the general appear ances. The employe who opened the letter studied it and said it beat anything he had seen up to date. He sent It to a member of the firm, who read it and threw up both hands. Since then he has been showing it to his friends. It was written by a rural dealer, and is as follows: "Gentlemen Please send me at once two long-handled shovels, one dozen sixteen-Inch hinges and two kegs of tonpenny nails. Yours truly, "JOHN ROBINSON. "P. S. My son tells me we have plen ty of above, so you need not send. J. R." Chicago Tribune. The Only One. Miss Well wood Yes, I belong to the Daughters of the Revolution, and pride myself upon being the most distin guished member of the society. Mr. Hargreaves Indeed! I suppose you trace your lineage back to some man who was a lion in his day, eh? Miss Wellwood No, my great-greatgrandfather was only a private, but frorj all that I can learn he seems to have been the only one In the whole army. Cleveland Leader. Curious Profession rn China. In China the detection of false coins Is a skillful, prosperous profession, inown as "shroffing," and is taught io special schools. REASON OF HER LONG LIFE. Queen Victoria's Longevity and Health One to Regularity. An eminent physician of this city who aas recently returned from London, tvhere he had opportunities of learning aiuch of Queen Victoria's habits of life, is of the opinion that not only her longevity, but also her wonderful ex smption from the ills and aches to ivhich humans are ordinarily sub ject, are due to the fact dt the extra ordinary regularity which is followed in the daily routine of her majesty's life. Nothing makes a differeuce in this routine, tor everything is arranged by rule aud compass. In a fashion which no incidents whatsoever ever .nterfere with. The queen rises every morning at the same hour and retires it the same instant every night, her meals are served to the second, while tier drives and airings are regulated with the same punctuality; indeed, the royal household of England far out Soes any great public business institu tion for scrupulous and perfect punc tuality. This state of affairs has gone an, year iu, year out, ever since the leath of the late lamented prince con sort, whose very Irregular and free and fasy temperament frequently "got" a little on the queen's nerves and caused between the otherwise so united a joupie a great many scenes which were the reverse of pleasant. So dear to Victoria is this abnormal punctuality hat she has instilled It into all her chil 3ren, and the Prince of Wales' house aold, for instance, is almost as noted for its accurate appreciation of time as is that of his royal mother. The prince luring his entire lifetime has never as ret been known to be five minutes late for any meal, either in his own house r iu anyone else's. On one occasion a very popular and well-known English luchess. famous for her unpunctuality, save the greatest offense at Marlbor )ugh house because she was a few inln ates late for dinner. As she entered the drawing-room the prince pointedly Elanced at a small clock which stood in the mantel shelf. The duchess' luick eye observed the action and she inew at once that a long time would lapse before she was ever again likely to receive an invitation to dine with Her future king. With a somewhat constrained laugh she exclaimed: "Why, sir, it Is not that hour." "No," replied the prince, "you are only four minutes late, but I like to have all my ilocks five minutes fast, for it keeps un puuctual people up to the mark." MEXICO'S SCENIC WONDER. Waterfall of Jnanacactlan a Little Known bnt picturesque Cataract. The great waterfall of Juanacatlan is ne or the grandest, though least inown, scenic wonders of Mexico. The .mmediate approach to the falls is in itself an artist's dream of rural de lights. Leaving the railroad at the little station of El Castillo, one. is con veyed by a native tramcar for a dis tance of five miles through a beautiful circular valley thousands of acres in irea and resembling in the graceful curves of its surrounding hills and the lelicate tints of its labyrinths of wild Sowers a mammoth seashell.. At fre jueut Intervals above the tops of the oug grasses and tropical shrubs jlimpses are caught of the broad', wind ng Rio de Santiago, its waters hasten ng onward to the sea. Having traversed perhaps two-thirds f this enchanting landscape, one's ear gradually becomes conscious of a low, listant murmur, which steadily in creases to a deep rumble, aud from :hat to a mighty roar, aud presently the rrainear comes to a standstill at the very brink of a high precipice, from which" is viewed through clouds of va porous mist the sight of thousands of tons of water plunging over a wall of rray granite in a steady, unbroken cataract 3G0 feet in width for a sheer listance of sixty feet in a seething, eddying vortex below. For a time the mind is apt to be held in rapt contemplation of the spectacle; ihen, by degrees, the senses are awak ened to the various characteristics, the jxqulsite effects and weird vagaries of che foaming, falling waters. At the ex treme further shore a portion of the rushing flood is turned aside by a spur f granite and hurled against the face if the confining wall, from which it rebounds in a fine veil-like cascade, while from the top of the precipice on :he nearer side long trailing vines droop lown and reach out their tendrils as if in vain efforts to grasp the descending torrents. Associated with these falls Is a strange and beautiful phenomenon. It Is the constant presence of myriads of gorgeous butterflies, which flit in and out of the rifts of the great cascade and to and fro through the clouds of drift ing vapor, seemingly attracted and fas cinated by the dazzling, buffeting ava lanche of foam. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ' Shore Cargoes that Shift. "Once in a while we read," said Mr. Bozzle, "that the ship So-and-So or the steamer So-and-So has returned to port, or has arrived, perhaps, with 'a decided list; cargo shifted.' Sometimes we see a land craft, a truck, with cargo shifted a big pile of boxes, towering high, shaken over to one side or the other by continued Jolting along on the side of the street on the slope. "A load thus shifted can't be shaken back by running along on the opposite slope of the road; It is like a stick of wood that has been bent and kept bent till tht crnin i itT whatppr von An ! with it the crook stays in. "If care is exercised in turning cor ners and in navigating generally, the shifted load can usually be carried to its destination as it is without upset ting, though It may work harder; the experienced truckman .knows just what can be done with it, and whether It has shifted so far as It will go, and all that. If it is so badly shifted as to make the operation of the truck diffi cult or dangerous, he hauls to one side by the curb and anchors that is to say, he halts and nnloads the shifted top courses of his cargo and then re loads and makes everything trim and secure and sets out again." If wives didn't insist on their bus bands working the lawn mower over time there might be fewer grass wid ows. If a man has short legs they can't be long to him. A Cemetery for Logs. In Paris there has recently been op j ened a special cemetery for dogs where the deceased canines can be buried with as much pomp and be marked by j as pretentious a headstone as their late ; masters can afford. Along the front of the cemetery grounds a handsome stone wall has been erected, andwitb in the entrance on either side are the house of the concierge and the office. Directly in front of one entering is a handsome marble monument. A heavy relief in the stone represents the dog bearing a child on bis back, and com memorates the saving of a little one lost in the snow of iit. Bernard pass whom a St. Bernard dog found and brought to a safe refuge. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Syrup the best remedy to use for thf'T children during the teething period. Neither' Krlglit Nor Shining-. Heine's wit was caustic. When forced into the arena to fight a silly duel, he said: "The field of honor is dirty 1" This is so true that it is hard to und erstand why this popular bubble thus deftly pricked did not collapse for good and all. TAPE WORMS "A tape worm eighteen feet lone at least came on the scone after my taking two CASCARETS. This I am sure lias caused my bad health (or the past three years. I am still taking Cascarets, the only catharLic worthy of notice by sensible people." Geo. w. Bowi.es, Ualrd, Miss. CANDY WMinAKltb TRADE MASH RIOWtlMD Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken. 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Bub bles of pride, bubbles of hypocrisy and self-assertion, bubbles of outward seem ing unhelped by inward worth, shine on the suj face of the river of time, un til God's finger touches them and they are gone. It may be well for some of us to pray that we may not be bubbles on the stream, deluding others by pre tense of worth; but we need to pray also that we may not be bubble wor shippers, caught by social pretense or intellectual arrogance and forgetful of the limitations of human thought and tne revealing touch of the finger of God. Sweet Krelitn I Love. An offensive breath is an insult to ymr friends when it can be quickly, permanently remedied by i.'asearcts Candy Cathartic. Drug gists, 10c, 2jc, 50c. Providence. God is the Master of the scenes; we mnst not choose which part we shall act; it concerns us only to be careful that we do it well, always saying: "If this please God, !et it be as it is;" and we who pray that God's will may be done on earth as it is Heaven must remember that the angels do whatso ever is commanded them and go wher ever they are sent and refuse no cir "unistauces; and if their employment be crossed by a higher degree, they sit down in peace and rejoice in the event. Chinese Commercial Wealth. The progress of China in the last 60 years is well illustratetd by the fact that when the Yangste valley was opened, about that many years ago, $500,000 represented all that the Chi nese could buy or sell to foreigners, and a few small vessels carried all the freight and passengers. Now all the annual foreign trade of the Yangste is valued at over $100,000,000, and a larger fleet of ocean uui1 local craft ply between Shanghai and Hankow than on the Columbia, Mississippi and Hud son livers combined. The renewing of an old orchard in the fall should be done by plowing it aud turning the sod under, followed bv an application of 10 bushels of air slacked lime per acre. A disk har row may then be nsed, when a liberal coating of manure should be given, allowing it to remain on the surface of the ground as a mnlch. Owing to the roots the plowing cannot be done close to the trees. iAjjiliiAiaAAl . .. A .. A A .. AAA., TTTTTTTTTTTTttTTTTTtTTTT A Very Bad Combine is that of A Very Bad Sprain A Very Black Bruise It often happens, but just as often St. Jacobs Oil makes a clean, sure, prompt cure of both. It Didn't Blatter. -. The Dootor Above all things, ma dam, your husband musn't worry. Perhaps you'd better not show him my bill just now. "But I did, doctor, and it didn't make any difference. He said he knew he couldn't pay it anyway. What Will Become of China? None can foresee the outcome of the quar rel between foreign powers over the divis ion of China. It is interesting to watch the going to pieces of this race. Many people are also going to pieces because of dyspepsia, constipation and stomach dis eases. Good health can be retained if we use'Hostetters Stomach Bitters. Some people spend so much of their time trying to be amiable that they haven't time to earn a living. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved iny life three years ago. Mas. Thos. ISobbibs, Maple street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. Some insects, so Rev. Theodore Wood says in his recent book on the subject, have families -of 40,000 chil dren for whom life is simply one long ur.broken dinner time. We are all re garded by a mosqnito simply in the light of a full meal. DON'T LET YOUR HARVEST SEASON FIND YOU WITHOUT A STUDEBAKER WAGON. 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The 'disease yields . easily to the Double Chloride or Golil Treatment as administered or the Heeler Institute, 314 6th Street, Portland, Oregon. Write us if you are in trouble. JOHN POOLE, Portland, Oregon, can give yon the best bargains in general machinery, engines, boilers, tanks, pumps, plows, belts and windmills. The new steel I X L windmill, sold by him, is un equalled. ..ALISKY'S WINTER GARDEN., Third and Morrison Street PORTLAND - - - OREGON C. A. ALISKY. Prop. Do not fail to visi't Buffet Cafe ...VENETIAN LADY ORCHESTRA... OF 10 liuilding or remodeling their homes that we cany a full line of Man tela. Tiling and Fire places, Electric, Gas and Combination Chan deliers andV supplies. Batteries, Call Bells, etc. Catalogues on application. Mm J, WALSH, Successor to Frank Holcomb & Co., 345 Vraahingron St., Portland, Oregon. Home Grown Seeds to Sow This Fall Two of the greatest Grass seeds, two of great est food producers the world has ever tried. BKOMUS INEKMIS, 20c tb or 15 per 100. T l.l. HE - UOW OAT GRASS, 15c per lb or f 10 per 100. HI ssi iX si'KI.TZ, 10c per lb or Jo per 100. CORN WHEAT, 10c per lb or per 100. For further partieuliirg, address M. J. SHIELDS & CO., Moicuw, Idaho, growers and importers all kinds of grass and fieldseeds. CUTLER'S GARBOLATEef IODINE A guaranteed Cure for Catarrh and Consumption. 1.00. D Lock Box 14-. W. H. SMITH 8 CO., Buffalo, N.Y , Prop's. DROPSY 10 DAYS' TBEATMEKT FREE. Hare made Drops y and its com plications a specialty for twenty years with ths most wonderful success. Have cored many thous and cases. S, SS.B.B.qEXS8'SS0H3, Box K, Atlanta, Ga, Nothing Tastes Good And eating Is simply perfunctory I done because it must be. I This is the common complaint of the dyspeptic. j If eating sparingly would cure dys pepsia, few would suffer from it long. The only way to cure dyspepsia, which is difficult digestion. Is to give vigor and tone to the stomach and the whole digestive system. Hood's Sarsaparilla cured the niece of Frank Fay. 106 N. St., South Boston. Mass... who writes that she had been a great sufferer from dyspepsia for six years; had been with out appetite and had been troubled with sour stomach and headache. She had tried many other medicines in vain! Two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla made her well. Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises to cure and keeps the promise. Don't wait till you are worse, but buy a bottle today. is required. It lasts for years. If NOTHING BETTER MADE You can't make a mistake it yon get a ..Mitchell.. jVlitehell, Iieoiis & Staves Co. PORTLAND. ORECON. FINE OLD ...WHISKY... Gin, Brandy, Rum 12 full quarts. 9.00. Per gallon. $2.-50. XXX PORT AND SHEKKY. ILSO. ALL GOOD GOOOS Orrers for I2.V00 and upward delivered free to nearest Railroad or Steamer Lauding. Vlauk Cases and Kegs. LOUIS CAHEN & SON Established 30 Years. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. irrH PENSION If BICKFORD. Washington. 0. C. they will re II tive quioV replies. B. ;"th N. H. Vols. Staff 20lb Corps. Prosecuting claims since 1878. SR. GUKN'SuvK PILLS ONE FOR A DOSE. Cure Sick Headache and Dys pepsia, Romo -e Ptmptei.Purify the Blood, Aid Dlgec tioa. Prevent !'.!!!rusne. DonotGripe or Sic ten. To convince rm, Till mat I samp e free; full box. 23c. DR. B08ANKOCO.,PUi4dpUa,r. SuldbyDragsteta. P. N. V. So. 41 MM, WHEN writing; U, adverlUers pleas mention this paper. r