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BOOTH IN HAMLET. fe» fe» Absolutely Pure. Careful Housewife uses no other fe» 5» Once in life’s rosy dawn 1 saw the towers Of Elsinore rise ou the painted scene-*- The king, the ghost and the unhappy queen 1 saw. and fair Ophelia with her flowers, And heard the slow bell toll the passing hours But when you entered with dejected mien. The others were as though t hey had not been; We wept with Hamlet, for his griefs were ours. And here tonight, amid the listening crowd That hangs upon your lips, I see the flame (The sacred Are nor time nor age can quell. Howe’er the mortal frame be changed and bowed! Burn clear as the high places whence it came. Pass on, thou royal Dane; hail and farewell —Flora Macdonald Shearer in Lippincott’s. A FAIR RECLUSE D ear F rank — I have found the very house for you—Jacobean period and almost original. It was a trifle spoiled by some Philistine indi vidual about thirty years since, but with your taste and the aid of the local architect every thing can be put right. This pearl of houses goes by the name of Thorpe manor, and is of course haunted, so you may relieve the monot ony of country life by a genuine ghost hunt. Ever yours, J ohn R idgway . P. S.— The house is in Surrey, about four miles from Winton station. You had better come down at once, as I hear some one else is after it. HOITX’S OAK GROVE SCHOOL, BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS. She was tall and slender, and wore a long russet gown of an old fashioned Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays cut, but her face was pale and sad, with Millbrae, San Mateo Co., Cal., is a first-class home school for boys, with beautiful sur to virtue. So the almost innumerable imi sharp, clear cut features, and a mass of roundings. The best of care, superior in rough, rdddish hair was carelessly struction. Prepares boys for any university tations of A llcock ’ s P orous B lasters are twisted into a long knot at the nape of or for business. Fall term commences Aug. a witness to their genuineness. In proof 8. Catalogue and all particulars can be had of their genuineness the eminent Henry A. her neck. by addressing Ira G. Hoitt, Ph. D„ Master Mott, Jr., Ph. D., F. C. 8., late Government She motioned me to one of the chairs, (Ex State Supt. Public Instruction). Chemist, certifies: taking the other herself, and she' now “ My investigation of A llcock ’ s P orous sat bending over the fire, apparently too When a Girl Has the Bines. P laster shows it to contain valuable and deep in her own bitter reflections to be essential ingredients not found in any other When a girl feels an attack of the blues conscious of my presence; The expres coming on she withdraws herself from the plaster, ana I find it superior to and more than any other plaster." sion on her thin, worn face was very cold and cruel world and locks her door. efficient Ask for A llcock ’ s , ana let no solicitation sorrowful, and her hands were tightly She lets down her hair and puts on her or explanation induce you to accept a sub clinched' in her lap. But, though thin homeliest gowns. She pulls down the stitute. B bandbeth ’ s P ills do not injure the and worn, her face was still lovely, and blinds and makes it nice and gloomy and buries herself in the depths of a big chair system. as I gazed 1 thought how lovely it would with a large handkerchief to hold the Lover—I assure you, Herr Meyer, I cannot live be were the hollows filled out and the tears. without your daughter. Herr Meyer—Oh, you deep lines smoothed away. She curls around with her cheek against overestimate my—income. Suddenly, with a little resolute ges the back of the chair and cries a little and DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED ture, she turned toward me and began thinks how awfully mean Jack was last night. He needn’t have gone off in such a to speak in low, rapid tones. Three Years in the War local applications, as they cannot reach the Impaired my health. I contracted bronchitis, “I brought you here because I wanted huff, and he might have known she didn’t By diseased portion of the ear. There is only one catarrh, rheumatism, indigestion, and other to tell you my story, and I want your mean what she said. He ought to know way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu complaints. Last year I thought I would try that girls don’t mean things when they tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in Hood’s Barsapaiilla. I ,saw at a glance that it help if you will give it.”. say ’em, and he might have come over this flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Then, with voice rising and falling afternoon and let her explain. eustachiau tube. When this tube gets iuflamed Sarsa- you have a rumbling sound or impeifect hear with varying emotions, and with deep Presently she gets up and looks in the ing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is gray eyes fixed on my face, she told her glass to see how awfully melancholy she the result, and’unless the inflammation can be p - bu taken out and this tube res.ored to its normal sad tale. The beginning was common does look. Then she curls up and cries' condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; was doing me place enough—a beautiful, willful girl; some more, getting deeper and deeper into nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, is nothing but an inflamed condition of a stern, unyielding father; two lovers, the slough of despond. Her nose begins to which s^U t J 1 C the mucous surfaces. m o r e and •one brave and handsome, the other mo get red, and she has just reached a delight We will give One Hundred Dollars for any ties used it regular- fully miserable state when ---- ease of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot rose and unattractive; a proposed flight; ly. It has re- “My goodness, that’s Jack’s voice down be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for cir lieved me of all the diseases which I contracted a sudden death; a broken heart—the last in the halll” culars, free. F. J. CHENEY■ & CO., in the army. I have no more tired feeling and Toledo, O. three were the tragic elements. my health is mucn improved.” 8. L. G obsline , Then she flies up in a hurry, dabbles her Sold by druggists; 75 cents. 228 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Ind._________ “And 1 saw them carry him by the eyes in cool water and does her hair up in house—dead,” she said, speaking in a a ravishing curly little knot behind. She Guard yourself for summer malaria, tired Hood's Pills cure liver ills, constipation. feeling, by using now Oregon Blood Purifier. strange, dull way, “and for a long time hangs that horrid, homely gown on the farthest hook in the darkest corner of the 1 think 1 must have lost my Senses. and dons that dear little pink tea When myfathj^still^g n -my- closet, gown that Jack admires so. marriage with tne aa cnosen When she slips into the room where Jack for my husband 1 raise So’proteát. I is sitting, staring gloomily out of the win viewed the preparations for the wed dow and wondering why in thunder she ding with indifference. 1 seemed turned doesn’t hurry, he turns and sees her, all CAS and to stone. But a week before the mar rosy and smiling and teary, and what can riage my reason returned, and I realized he do but kiss her?—Chicago Inter Ocean. CASOLINE the horror of the coil which was slowly Choosing Names. tightening around me. Then it was If we are to fight for an extension of our that I determined on what was virtually a living burial. 1 was born in this dear privileges we shall be obliged to conduct along less-rigid and natural lines, such, old house, and 1 knew every-nook and it for instance, as the ■ matter of names. We cranny of it. My foster mother had might compromise by agreeing that the shown me the sliding panel in the room generation before us shall inflict upon us above that which 1 then occupied; and such titles as please it; that we shall bear she and 1 were the only living persons these for a term of five or ten years, as who knew the secret. She was devoted shall seem best upon due consideration, to me, and 1 at length won her over to and that thereafter we shall take to our selves an agreeable name as freely as we KNOWLEDGE my plan. now permitted to take a wife. Our “On the night before my bridal day 1 are Brings comfort and improvement and names are given to us for better, for worse, fled down here, and here 1 have remained for richer, for poorer, and it is quite tends to personal enjoyment when p< ever since. For eight years 1 have been possible that they will have a serious effect rightly used. id. The many, who live bet dead to the world. 1 had valuable upon our fortunes. Under the new ar ter than others and enjoy life more, with jewelry which had been my dead moth rangement Galusha Elisha, with the 'ess expenditure, by more promptly er’s; that has been gradually sold, and burden of dead generations upon him,. idapting the world’s best products to on the proceeds 1 have subsisted. My might blossom out at the appointed time ;he needs of physical being; will attest ;he value to health of the pure liquid foster mother conies daily and brings as Reginald or Raymond. Parental sway, so far as names are con axative principles embraced in the me food—not through the house of —NOTED FOR— would be over, and he would have remedy, Syrup of Figs. course. There is a secret path and door cerned, no cause to hide two or three disagreeable Its excellence is due to its presenting of communication in the garden. syllables behind an initial. Like charity, in the form most acceptable and pleas “And the ghost?” 1 queried. the initials cover a multitude of impropri “Oh,” she said, with a queer little eties. But more seriously, this question of ant to the-taste, the refreshing and truly smile, “1 am the ghost! You see, 1 names is by no means an idle one. On the beneficial properties of a perfect lax ; effectually cleansing the system, wanted to keep the house empty, so that one hand there might be a good deal less of ative dispelling colds, headaches and fevers 1 might wander about the rooms and reverence and respect for relatives and con and permanently curing constipation. grounds; but now 1 am tired of this un nections manifested in the matter of nam It has given satisfaction to millions and ing children, and on the other hand, the natural existence. Life will alwayh be sentimental parent, who goes to the ro met with the approval of the medical sad for me! 1 have had a dreadful grief, mantic extreme instead of to the ancestral, profession, because it acts on the Kid and all my dear ones are dead; but, in so to speak, needs to be curbed.—Providence neys, Liver and Bowels without weak spite of all, my youth reasserts itself, and Journal. ening them and it is perfectly free from solitude has at last lost its charm. So 1 every objectionable substance. A Pretty Lively Scene. wish to return to the world, and you can Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug John Lucas and the late Archbishop help me to do so. Will you?” zF —AND Wood were warm personal friends. It hap gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man-, Of course 1 helped her, and within a pened that the two were journeying to At ufactured by the California Fig Syrup week from that time the Thorpe manor lantic City ’ together, and various expert Co. only, whose name is printed on eyery “ghost”—now laid forever—was safe ences were told by each. “Once,” said th* package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, under the kind wing of John Ridgway’s archbishop, “I referred to one of Philadel and being well infdrmed, you will not homely little wife, and by the .timé the phia’s most charitably women a sad case accept any substitute if offered. roses were blooming in my ^sweet of destitution arising from the sudden scented old íSSEt^iieí’“gai’den the death of a poor man who had left his fam ily penniless. The lady felt it her duty to “ghost,” too, had bloomed into beauty, visit the stricken home. She found the. and 1, sober old bachelor, had fallen in body laid out, for burial and the widow THAT - love—quite hopelessly, 1 told myself, weeping beside it. After leaving a sum of for her heart was with her dead, and money she departed, but discovered that In Every Detail yet it happened that one June afternoon, her veil was forgotten. Returning she as we stood alone by the sundial on the found the body sitting upright in a chair ./y/WIIH These engines are acknowledged by expert en sloping shady lawn, something gave me joking and laughing with his family. I gineers to be worthy of highest eommenda'lon courage. Perhaps it was that she was always very cautious,” concluded the for slmplici ty, high-grade material and superior archbishop, “ in recommending charity fol looked so sweet in her fresh mqslin destitute widows after that.”—Philadel workmanship. They develop the full actual horse power, and run. without an Electric Spark gown, with the flowers in her belt, or phia Press. Battery; the system of ignition Is simple, inex 25cts.,^™" perhaps because 1 caught a strange, pensive and reliable. 50cts. and For pumping ou.flts for irrigating purposes A Publication Ruled by a Planet. 81.00 Bottle, fleeting look in her shy gray eyes; any no better engine can be found on the Pacifio One cent a dose. One of the newspaper curiosities of the Coast. way 1 know she murmured that she For hoisting outfits for mines they have met It is sold on a guarantee by all drug loved the dear old home with its many world is called Le Passage de Venus (the of Venus) and is to be published gists. It cures Incipient Consumption with highest approval. gables and pretty garden. Then 1 transit For intermittent power their economy is un whenever that astronomical phenomenon and is the best Cough and Croup Cure. questioned. whispered: recurs. Its first issue bore the date of Dec. “Need you ever leave it?” And look 6, 1882. The next will be dated June 8, Nature should be ing under the broad brimmed garden 2004. The subscribers of this unique jour assisted to throw hat into her flushed happy face I added, nal cannot possibly hope to get the four off impurities of the “Come, sweet ghost, and haunt the Old teenth issue before the year 2882.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.______ blood. Nothing place forever!” And she consented.—Munyon’s Maga does it so well, so CROSSING THE ATLANTIC zine. promptly, or so At that time 1 was a fairly good look ing, well to do bachelor of thirty-five. My ample leisure 1 devoted to antiqua rian researches, literary work and the collection of “curios.” 1 had no rela tives and few friends, and I lived an The Place to Grow Bananas. WOMEN WHO DRINK, almost solitary and perfectly happy life The country most extensively culti vated for the growth of bananas, and The Habit Is Astonishingly Prevalent, Ar- , in my chambers. cording to Dr. Kellogg-Lane. Among what some people called my ifeUirh for the past three months has so Oakland, Cal., is to have a drink oure , "crazeaswas an enthusiasm for anqient distinguished- it_self by the unusual quality and fine development of its prod exclusively for women, by women and of ; houses, and 1 had deputed John Ridg ucts, is situated in the Republic of women. A society has. just been formed, way, an artist friend of mine who lived Colombo, Bocas del Toro being now the with Dr. L. J. Kellogg-Lane as president, in Surrey, to find me a genuine old coun- for the building of a drink cure institute shipping center and principal attraction exclusively for women. Nearly all of the > try house—a dreamy, rambling place— for planters and merchants engaged in ladies are either physicians or members of ’ where 1 could spend the summer. Hence the industry. the Woman’s Christian Temperance union. ■ his letter. As the train steamed into the little There are at the present time, taken Some time ago Mrs. O. R. Johnson, then at a rough estimate, no less than 18,000 president of the Woman’s Christian Tem station at Winton John rushed up to acres of land devoted entirely to the cul perance union of Oakland, said in an ad- my carriage and clasped my hand. Dear old chap! he quite beamed with joy at tivation of bananas, from which can be the prospect of showing me his wonder shipped weekly 80,000 bunches, all aver ful house. aging 250 bananas to each bunch. These “Charming old place! I’ve had my are termed “whole bunches”—besides eye on it for months!” he said as he which about 25,000 bunches of a smaller walked over the common. size, averaging 200 bananas each (which Then he produced the inevitable note are termed halves) still remain uncut, book and pencil and was soon drawing and at the expiration of another week plans and explaining details. attain their full size, when they also As we passed through the village we ready for shipment. called upon the house agent and took At the lapse of the same length him with us. He was a prosaic man, time perhaps twice the quantity and evidently thought we were a couple bunches are ready to. be cut, and so of mild lunatics, so excited did we be from week to week, month to month, come when suddenly turning a corner at and year to year. New plantations are the foot of a steep incline we stood in continually starting up, taking ten front of Thorpe manor. It was a quaint months from the time the “suckers,” or old house, standing back a little from plants, are first put into the ground to the road, and its walls were as perfect the time they commence to yield.—Cor. as when first built, but mellowed and New Orleans Picayune. beautified >by time. Wholesale Deer Killing in the Northwest. We walked up the prim gravel path DR. L. J. KELLOGG-LANE. Parties who have been out hunting in iress to the city council during an anti- to the wide doorway with its fantastic the country between the headwaters of saloon fight that 500 women in Oakland carving. Here our agent produced a the forks of the Santiam bring back ac went to bed drunk every night. This state huge, rusty key and unlocked the door, counts of a wholesale destruction of deer ment has gone down in the history of Oak which swung back easily on its large in that region by Indians. Bands of land, and though Mrs. Johnson’s admin hinges. We entered and went through Warm Spring and Klickitat Indians, istration of the Woman’s Christian Tem the rooms, whiclj had low ceilings and union has passed she seems to broad windowseats. Most of these had numbering from 150 to 200, get permis perance have left the mark of her ideas upon her sion about July 1 to come over into the successors, and this may be the outcome paneled walls, though some of them had been covered with paper, which of Willamette valley to pick hops and leave of her speech four years ago. their reservations They come in over Mrs. L. J. Kellogg-Lane, the president course we said must come off. One of the Santiam wagon road and make a of the new association, does not hold as the bedrooms—which 1 thought from camp at Indian prairie, and then organ pronounced views about female drunken the elaborate carving on the high man ize a grand roundup of deer. They sur ness as did Mrs. O. R. Johnson, but she tel shelf and the beautiful oak paneling round a vast tract of country on their looks at it from a medical as well as a had originally been the state one—was point of view. She holds to the perfect. ponies, which they ride through a coun- moral need of such an institute and explains the 1 felt strangely attracted to this room, try that a white man can hardly get need in this way, for she is a practicing xnroiignon toot, and drive the deer to physician: “ Only physicians have any con I know not why, and as we turned to ward a common center, and slaughter ception of the strong hold the liquor habit leave I lingered behind the others for a them by hundreds, killing bucks, fawns has, not only on the women of the country parting glance. Then 1 slowly went and does indiscriminately, drying the at large, but of our own city, and it is par down the winding stairway. ■ “Seen the ghost?” asked John jest choice parts of the meat for winter sup ticularly so in the large cities. We know plies. It is stated that in the region how much drunkenness there is among ingly. The agent looked uneasy. Ghosts are about the headwaters of the various .them, because of the great number who the services of a physician to put tiresome things, apt to militate very forks of the Santiam, Indians have this require them into proper condition after a more or much against the chances of securing a season slaughtered over 1,000 deer.— less protracted spree. Portland Oregonian. “It has been my experience that drink good tenant, but 1 reassured him by re ing women are much more prone to have marking that 1 rather liked ghosts, and How Some Lazy Fellows Gamble. regular periodical sprees than men. Some that, so far as I could see, the house was “Rain gambling” is the latest vice to men will go on a spree every three or six exactly what 1 wanted. Of course there develop in India, and the police of Bom months, but there are many women who were many details to be settled about bay and Calcutta are just now vigor must have their sprees every month. But the lease, repairs and other matters, and ously at work prosecuting rain gamblers they are more sensible than men, for in I stipulated that 1 should be allowed to of carousing around the streets at all make some alterations, such as remov in the local courts in an endeavor to stead hours of the day and night they shut them show that the law includes this form of selves in their own homes, and no one out- ing the staring plate glass with which gambling. In Calcutta the “outfit” of side of the family physician and the im the late owner had “modernized” the the rain gamblers is in a street in the mediate members of the household knows windows of the lower rooms. Six weeks later 1 was installed in my burrabazaar. Here into a small tank, anything about it. But the women also four feet square and six inches deep, an get quite as drunk as the men, and they new residence. The alterations were ordinary spout discharges rain water remain in that condition until their appe not nearly completed, but declining the from the roof of a three story building. tite for liquor is properly satisfied. Then Ridgways’ pressing invitation to take commence the harder task of getting' up my . quarters with them, 1 occupied In gambling with this apparatus bets they sober, just as thè men do: two rooms in the old house and engaged are made at the beginning of the rainy “The saloons and restaurants with pri Acids for Tool Sharpening. season as to whether or not the tank vate entrances a^. private rooms are very a woman in the village to come daily A French journal calls the attention will overflow at a given shower; to the tempting places for the drinking woman. and attend to my simple wants. On the third evening after my arrival of mechanics to the fact that, though all extent the rain will overflow it when the While out shopping it is no trouble or even water sheets come down in proper tropi risk to her to enter a private room and I was smoking my favorite pipe by a dilute mineral acids are adapted for tool cal style. It is alleged that on busy drink all she may wish. Besides those wood fire in the oakroom, which I had sharpening—say ten parts of sulphuric days in the bazaar several lakhs of ru who drink to excess there are those who made my bedroom. It was nearly 12 acid hydrate to 100 parts of water—the pees change hands. This is surely vice just tipple, and the number is legion. o’clock, but being accustomed to late desired end is really more quickly at They feel that they must have their brandy hours I did not feel inclined for. bed- tained if a portion of the sulphuric acid made easy for the lazy man.—Exchange. and soda in the morning and their toddy be substituted by nitric acid, a suitable at night,, besides drinks of various kinds far from it. 1 decided to have one more mixture being one liter of water, fifty Latest in Hatpins. during the day and evening. This deplor pipe, and hastily taking up my pouch 1 A hatpin has appeared upon the scene able matter has forced itself upon a larger began to refill my pipe. Suddenly 1 grams of Chili saltpeter and sixty cubic that .is destined to bring joy to every number of thinking women who have be stopped short, and with my little finger centimeters of concentrated sulphuric feminine heart. come earnest in a mutual desire to mini still rammed into the, bowl of the pipe acid. This compound dissolves 1% grains of The usually straight pin is now curled mize drunkenness among women. left my chair and walked to the opposite “There are many drink cure establish side of the room, for I could have sworn metal within ten minutes from an iron in a spiral that • gyrates through the wearer’s' hair and challenges the wind ments in the state and country, but I do 1 saw the paneling move ever so slightly surface of one square centimeter. Dis or any other element to eject it. Im not know of one that is devoted to the upward. Nor was 1 mistaken; for very solution is slower where sulphuric acid perfect pearls are largely used to head treatment of women. There are many slowly the whole panel disappeared, and alone is used. Steel is acted upon in the Who would like to be cured, but these pins, and the defects of the former women who do not like to go where men are treat in the opening stood the figure of a wo same manner as iron, with the excep are cleverly concealed under gold and ed. Recognizing this, we have determined man. tion that the process is not so rapid, be jeweled sernents.—St. Louis Republic to found a remedial institute to meet this The room was dark, for the wood fire cause of the polished surface becoming demand and to be used for the cure of had begun to smolder, so 1 could not see covered with a thin deposit of separated women only.” The cocaine and morphine what she was like—young or old, ugly carbon. habits will be treated also; and here again, or beautiful. Check. says Dr. Lane, are habits more frequent I was not nervous—I had a profound The man who tries to take advantage of among women than among men. disbelief in the supernatural—so 1 sim the ignorance of another occasionally gets means that children do not ply waited to see what the intruder pro a Roland for his Oliver. A Boston man They Watch the,Bank Employees. posed to do. She advanced into the once in England, seeing a laborer digging get proper nourishment from “On the occasion of a visit to Paris last food. They are therefore winter I renewed acquaintanceship with a room and came close to my elbow, then flints out of chalk, pompously asked him thought they grew. thin, narrow-chested and very old friend who is employed in a bank raised her hand and beckoned me to fol if he “Sure,” was the reply, “I know they low her. Of course I went, and she led in that city, ” says a writer in the St. weak. Louts Globe-Democrat. ‘ ‘ During the even me through the aperture and down a do.” “Then put some flint on a table and see ing we took in several innocent and harm steep wooden staircase. It was pitch less recreations, and I suggested to him dark, but 1 struck matches at intervals. how much it grows in a year.” “And you, sir,” said the laborer, “put that we might see something a little more My companion went on quickly, never out of the common. To my surprise, he looking behind her, but I smiled as she a potato on the table and see how much said that if I wanted to see Paris on the raised her skirts gingerly from the dusty it grows in a year.”—Harper’s Magazine. shady side he would find me a reliable stairs, and once 1 saw the woman shud Ingenuity. guide, but he certainly could not go him The following ingenious mode of cross self, because if he did he would be like a der as a rat scuttled by. ing a river was once displayed by a Kaffir, “No ghost this,” thought I. statesman out of office at 9 o’clock the fol the cream of Cod-liver Oil lowing morning. Pressed for an explana On we went down the wooden stairs who had for some time stood watching the and hypophosphites, supplies tion, he told me that every official in his till at last we came to some stone ones, vain attempts of a party of soldiers to the stream at a time when to ford it ' material for growth. It bank, and he believed in every other bank, all green and humid, owing to neglect. cross practically under police surveillance We continued our course, going down was attended by considerable danger. Aft makes sound bones, solid was er smiling at their efforts with that sar day and night, and that pictures of each of flesh and. healthy, robust them were in the hands of skilled detect flight after flight of damp, slippery' , donic expression remarkable among these stairs, till at length, to my relief, my , savages he quietly raised a heavy stone, children. Physicians, the world ives. Instead of waiting until a bank offi companion paused before a heavy oaken ■ placed it on his head and then walked cial got behind in his accounts in conse door, ©ver, endorse it. then opened it and entered. Fol with perfect ease through the torrent to quence of excessive gambling or high liv Don’t be deceived &y Substitutes! ing, the directors preferred to close the lowing her, I found myself in a low, the opposite side.—New York Ledger. stable door before the horse had got out.” vaultlike chamber, more like a cell than Prepared by Scott & Bovvne. N. Y. All Drufffi'ists. Woodchuck for Free Lunch. anything else. The floor was stone, the An Ingenious Woman. A newly started saloon on Broadway walls were bare, but it was apparently “My wife is the most ingenious woman inhabited, for there were a few articles is making a bid for patronage by means who ever lived,” said Jones. of furniture—a rickety, spindle legged of elaborate Saturday night lunches. I “I believe you,” said Smith politely. “But you don’t know why you believe table, a couple of high backed, worm During the week the animal or animals eaten chairs and a battered horsehair that is or are to be served up is or are The MONARCH and RED STRIP are supe me,” intimated Jones. “To tell you the truth, I don’t,” frankly sofa. In the grate, too, burned a small displayed on the street in front of the rior brands of BELTING, which, together with Maltese Cross, Ridgewood and Wal- replied Smith, looking bored. fire and a couple of tall, white candles place, either dead or alive. Sometimes G. labout brands of Steam and Water HOSE, “Well,xI’ll téllyou. We’ve been married in tarnished sconces were on the narrow it’s mutton, then again it’s turkey or are fully guaranteed by the manufacturer. pig, or something else. Last week it Your dealer keeps them; if not, write us. twelve years and have lived in the same mantelshelf. house all the time, and this morning she was woodchuck. 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Y., writes: “After my third child was born, I barely gained strength enough in two year’s time, so as to be able to crawl about to accomplish the little house work that I had to do, and that only by lying down to rest many times each day; had sick head ache very often, many itains and aches all the ime. After I had taken one bottle of your ‘Far. vorite Prescription ’ I could see a great change in my strength and less sick headaches. Contin ued taking the medicine until I had taken seven bottles of the ‘ Favorite’ and one of'the ‘Golden Medical Discovery.’ I am now able to do house work for myself and husband and two child M rs . L ansing . ren ____ aged =__ ___________ nine and live. I also take dressmaking, and enjoy walking a mile at a time, when I can have the time to do so. And I am sure it is all due to Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as I know I was failing fast before 1 commenced to take it.” Sold by medicine dealers everywhere.' 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Ask your grocer for list of prizes, or write to CLOSSET & DEVERS, Portland, Oi. HERCULES GAS ENGINE Run WitU Gas or Gasoline« “DON’T BORROW TROUBLE.” BUY SAPOLIO ’TIS CHEAPER IN THE ENFI- nlinm A storu , O b .— I can state with pleasure that by the use of MOORE’S REVEALED 1.11 Kr II REMEDY my husband was relieved from an old case of RHEUMATISM and my UUIILU youngest boy cured entirely of INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM when the best doctor I could get did him no good. Yours in gratitude, M bs . N. V. S teele . Sold liy Your Druggist. I Your Wife can ran it Requires no licensed engineer. Makes no smell or dirt No Batteries or Electric Spark. PALMER & REV, S aw J bancisco , C al . P ortland , O b . BEATS STEAM POWER " CllRESWHERE IU.L ELSE FAILS. _ Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. ■a---------- E ■Qi
