State Chemist, California: | The R oyal fulfils all the require- ments. Our tests show it has greater leavening power than any other. « « By MARGARET LEE. ® ft | $ s, . - • — - - — Ducking Stools. AMONG THE SHEAVES. ’ Ducking stools are noticed as existing formerly at Chester,' Cambridge, Rug­ by, Southam, Covenfry, Nottingham, Southwell (Notts), Retford, Grimsby, Scarborough, Hull, Beverley, Morley (near Leeds), Ilkley, East Ardsley, Craven, Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, ‘ Kirkham, Burnley, Derby, Chesterfield, Kingston-on-Thames and Leicester. Ex­ amples of the actual instrument seem still to be preserved at Leominster, Ips­ wich, Scarborough and Leicester. The latest recorded use of the ducking stool (the designations cucking and ducking were, of course, synonymous in the days of Queen Elizabeth) was in 1809. It was at Leominster, when a woman named Jenny Pipes, alias Jane Corran, was paraded through the town on the ducking stool and ducked in the water near Kénwater bridge by order of the magistrates. In 1817 another woman, called Sarah Leeke, was wheeled round, the place in the same chair, but not ducked, as, fortunately for her, the wa­ ter was too low. The instrument of pun­ ishment in question has not been used since then.—Notes and Queries. O Lord, the fields are ripe with corn; The laborer goeth singing; His joyful heart is heavenward borne On music’s pinion winging; The sky is fair, with here and there A downy cloudlet sweeping; Lord, in this time of happy cheer What do I with my weeping? Oh, shame, among'the golden sheaves To stain the day with mourning! Oh, shame on him who idly grieves, God’s harvest blessing scorning! The heavens above look down in love; The earth smiles back victorious; By hill and vale where’er you rove The harvest fields shine glorious. But on my soul a sadness lies, Made deeper by the story Of nature’s patient sacrifice Thus perfected to glory. Each faithful heart hath borne its part, The autumn treasure sharing, But I, I only know the smart Of failure and despairing. O Lord, had all these weary days. These wasted weeks of grieving. Been spent in showing forth thy praise, I had had corn for sheaving. Not empty hand and empty land Had been my harvest measure, Nor sad and stricken should I stand, A mark for thy displeasure. Lo! yet there comes a thought to me; I see the poor and lowly With bended head and bended knee Go gleaning, gleaning slowly. They did not sow, they did not mow; Dropt ears is all they gather. Wouldst take such labor even now—- My gleanings, O my Father? —E. E. Kitton in Good Words. [Copyright, 1894, by American Press Associa- “What are you to decide?” “Don’t ask me. I cannot comply with his demands. ” Mr. Howe rose and paced back and forth in the pretty room. Miss Barclay sat as if motion were impossible to her. She became aware that Mr. Howe had stopped beside her and was resting his slender hand on the table near which she sat The hand was white and deli­ cate, and something made her look up and catch his glance. His fairness made his face almost boyish, and his eyes had in them the frank expression and the blue of childhood. He spoke calmly. “Why may I not ask?” “It can do no good. I cannot ex­ plain. ” “You amaze me! There is nothing that may not be openly discussed in this matter. In fact there are no secrets con­ nected with it now. ” “I suppose not with my brother’s crime. ” “Then with what, pray, has secrecy to do? Miss Barclay, there is no personal question involved? Impossible! What do you mean? I insist upon knowing pre­ cisely what has passed between that man and you. He would not dare”------ Mn Howe’s languor changed to the other extreme. His eyes shone, his voice was full of decision, his manner that of A Soothing Car Ride. The latest cure for insomnia is cheap. The remedy was suggested by an old doctor to whom a despairing young man had gone for __ _GEO. W. IRWIN, Irwin, Pa. / lished testimonials are proven to be not ruin you forever. Trust me, I will not Never fails to cure, \ genuine. T he P iso C o ., Warren, Pa. betray your confidenca I would, how­ even when a11 other C ever, advise you to keep this letter until roinedies have. Our r T sy G bbmea tor breakfast. treatise on blood and r this whole matter has reached a settle­ Ba j R s skin diseases mailed J Extract from catalogue of lending library; ment.- Of course it has no signature, but 1 agarey free to any address, r “In the novels and stories marked with an as­ ( SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. w J terisk, the happy couples get married at the it bears internal evidence that would finish.” tell against him. ” Mr. Howe drew a chair to the table and sat down, facing Miss Barclay. “Now, let us anticipate somewhat. 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Tried the Doctor. cers withdraw their charges against your brother I can obtain employment The Lancet tells this story to show for him in another part of the country. ” the trials of a country doctor in France. “It sounds like mockery after listen­ A young physician settled in a com­ ing to Mr. Messenger’s words. He alone mune, whose paupers he attended for can help us. ” $10 per annum. One night, soon after “I think you are right. I had no idea his arrival at this El Dorado, he received that this man could control so much an urgent summons to visit a patient money, but he is interested in several who lived at a distance of six kilome­ stock companies and no doubt has the ters from the village. On reaching the means at command. ” cottage—it was then 11 p. m.—he found “You think he would do all that he I the doors closed and lights extinguished. promises?” In reply to his knocks the door was “Yes, even if his passion led him into opened by a sturdy peasant, who laugh­ crime. He could take trust money and I ingly informed him that there was no replace your brother’s deficit. I tell you, illness in the house, but that his wife if you yield to evil you increase the in­ had wished to see if, when any one was clination to it in others. Therefore, if ill, he would come if sent for! The un­ possible, be strong to do right and let fortunate medico—since dead from over­ results follow. No one is required to sin work and probably underfeeding—re­ in order to take another’s burden. ” marked, “I could have felled him to the * T know you are right I am glad you ground.” came. I was beginning to fear for my reason.” All the Comforts of a Home. “I should have been here sooner. I “By the way, your advertisement was detained. It grieves me to see you mentioned ‘home comforts,’ ” said the suffer se ” young man in quest of lodgings to a “It cannot be helped. Think how Glasgow landlady. much more Jasper suffers. Then, his “Yes, ” was the reply. “Ye see ye wife!” could get a seat wi’s in the kirk. (My “I see I shall be anxious until your last lodger used to pay for the hale pew.) interview tomorrow is concluded. ” Then, t’ keep ye frae .wearyin in the “Listen. I am going to do right. You evenin’s ye cud gie the bairns a han wi’ have shown me the way. I can suffer. I their lessons, for their ain faither’s nae am learning how so quickly. Will you scholar. come again to hear what I have to tell? “Aboot yer meals, ye cud just come We are quite alone here, deserted. Do down an get them in the kitchen—it you know that I forgot to tell Jasper of wid be hamelike, ye ken. There’s little your kindness? I was too excited, too Johnny, ye wid get him to sleep wi’ ye troubled. ” He’s an awful kicker, but wid keep ye “It his best as it is.** fine an hate thae winter evenin’s.” Then, seeing her aruditor making his “Once tomorrow is past, everything that we dread will happen. Will you way to the door, she hastened to add: care to come then?” “I widna chairge ye onything extra “Yes. ” for a’ thae preevileges. ”—New York Herald. “You are too good. ” ‘ ‘Oh, ne Others feel for you as I do, Spurgeon’s Points For the Preachers. but probably see noway to help you and "Mind you avoid inappropriate are fearful of intruding upon you. A good woman never lacks sympathy. For texts,” said Mr. Spurgeon one day to that matter, neither does a bad one his college students. “One brother Some one can always be found-ready to preached on the loss of a ship with all excuse poor human nature Now I must hands on board from ‘So he bringeth leave you. I have a great deal to attend them to their desired haven,’and an­ to before I can see you again. I must set other returning from his marriage holi­ about it without delay. Just at this mo­ day: ‘The troubles of xpy heart are en­ ment I am supposed to be in Colorado larged. Oh, bring me out of my dis­ pursuing health. You look surprised. tress !’ Mind your figures of speech are I may explain in the future Rejnember not cracked. Don’t talk like the brother I am going away with perfect confidence who said, ‘I fly from star to star, from cherry beam to cherry" beam.’ Get in your fidelity to conscience ” among you? people or somebody may be “That helps me ” “You must be firm in your resolution saying of you, as one old lady said of her minister, that he was invisible all to help yourself. ” “I am beginning to fear that my the week and incomprehensible on Sun­ strength will give out I hate the idea days. Shun all affectation in the pul­ of seeing that man again. ” She looked pit, and mind you never get into the goody goody style One of this sort said, up. “I could write to him. ” i ■ ‘ ‘I can appreciate that feeling. Still, I ‘I was reading this morning in dear think it would be wiser for you to con­ Hebrews.’ ”—New York Observer. trol your dislike of meeting' him and POT BOILING. face the interview tomorrow. Other­ wise you might hereafter regret your From the runn'ng of the maple trough want of courage ” in the Spring to the boiling of the apple “I suppose you are right I will butter pot in the fall, and all the house­ promise you to go. ” hold boiling between times, there are a “At 2 o’clock in the afternoon you thousand chances of very severe scalds and will be in Mr. Messenger’s office?’ ’ burns. In all household work, winter and “Yes.” summer, in great factories and in nurseries, He rose and offered Miss Barclay his where careless children play with matches, hand, and without hesitation she put there is need ot something to be always on hand in such emergencies, and St. Jacobs hers into it Oil fills that want to the letter. With “And you will be brave for con­ careful attention to directions for use, science’s sake?” there is nothing more soothing, healing and curative than this great remedy for “Yea” It cures promptly, and, making a He pressed her hand, bowed and left pain. new surface, leaves no scars. The pain of her. When Miss Barclay went up stairs, scalds or burns is acute and torturing, and the relef _by the use of the Oil is immediate Mrs. Barclay was quite excited. BANK PRESIDENT BEALS. The Great Financier Found Health in Paine’s Celery Compound. Prominent among the New England men whose brains and energy have helped to make the western states rich and powerful is General David T. Beals, president of the Union national bank of Kansas City. Successful in his many enterprises, he lives today in a fine mansion at the corner of Indepen­ dence and Wabash aves. The work and the responsibility in­ cumbent upon the president of so im­ portant a banking institution as the Union national would endanger the sturdiest health. Gen. Beals’ clear­ headedness and good sense were as manifest in the choice of a remedy as in his business enterpriser He strengthened his tired nervous system by the use of Paine’s celery compound. Its invigorating, health-giving effeots justified his expectations, and showed in his own case the remarkable, power of this muoh-disoussed remedy for thor­ oughly restoring and strengthening the “run-down” system. “I found Paine’s celery compound an agreeable tonic and soothing to the nerves,” says General Beals. These are the concise words of com­ mendation characteristic of the con­ servative business man and the influen­ tial banker, who has learned to weigh well his words. The scanty sunlight and the stag­ nant, used-up air of living rooms dur- ,ng the winter reduces the strength and nervous energy, especially of per­ 0HICHE8TER'8 EN0U8H, RED CROSS Miss Barclay felt her cheeks flushing. “I never thought of him as a detect­ ive He came to inquire how our affairs are progressing. ” “He knows more about them than we de Oh, Belle, when will all this per­ plexity be ended?” * ‘Tomorrow afternoon. ’ ’ “And you hope* for something?” [ continued .] J? * Pope I.eo’s Boyhood. He spent his childhood in the simple surroundings of Carpineto, than which none cduld be simpler, as every one knows who has ever visited, an Italian country gentleman in bis home. Early hours, constant exercise, plain food and farm interests made a strong man of him, with plenty of simple common sense As a boy he was a great walker and climber, and it is said that he was excessively fond of birding, the only form of sport afforded by that part of Italy, and ¡..practiced there in those times, as it is now, not only with guns, but by means of nets. It has often been said that poets and lovers of freedom come more frequently from the moun­ tains and the seashore than from a flat inland region.—Marion Crawford in Century. ______________ _ JLittle Connecticut has 149,939 hands in its factoriesr making every year goods valued at $248,336,364. The saffron is valuable as a dye It grows wild in many parts of south Eu­ rope; JX R THE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE. The only Safe, Bure, and reliable Pill for sale. NXS t J Ladle«, ask Druggist for GMcAesfor's AiyUilt Diamond Brand in and Gold metallic \ boxes sealed with bine ribbon. Take ao other kind. Befuse Substitution» and Imitations. * All pills in pasteboard boxes, pink wrappers, are dangerous eonn terfeita. At Druggists, or send as 4e. in stamps for partioulars, testimonials, and “Relief for Ladle«,’* in letter, by return MalL 10.000 Testimonials. iTama Paper. Sold by all Local Ikrnggiata. Physician—Take hot water and a little sugar three times a day and your stomach trouble will cease. Bilkins—Yes, doctor, but it’s disagreea­ ble stuff to take; can’t I have a little something with it? __________________ OHIOHEBTRR CHEMICAL CO.. S8«l Madison Hg-/PWT T.AlMCLl>HTAt PA. FAIR AND FRUITFUL As the West ls, it is often malarious. But it is pleasant to know that a competent safeguard in the shape of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters exists, which absolutely nullifies the poison of miasma. Western bound emigrants should bear this in mind. Nor should it be forgotten, the Bitters is a sterling remedy for dyspepsia, bil­ iousness, constipation, kidney ; and nervous complaints and rheumatism. Were They Both Rude? A Senator of the United States, a man who has been In public life for many years,- and who has never been regarded as of a hasty or belligerent temper, sometimes ' narrates to his friends an incident which amuses them by Its unlikeness to anything they would have expected from him. He was traveling on a German rail­ way, and-was one of three, persons whi' were locked into a small compartment, which had two windows. At one of the windows sat the Sena-; tor, while at the other sat a “big-mous­ tached, warlike” man, apparently some member of the resident nobility. The American had his window open, and was gazing at the landscape and snif­ fing the air, when all at once the man with the soldierly moustache rose, stepped forward, and without a word of apology, put down the window. The* Senator was astonished, of course; but what could he say? There are some kinds of insolence which it is hard to know how to deal with. However, the American statesman rose to the occasion. Instead of undo­ ing what the German had done, he stepped to- that gentleman’s seat and put his window up. Whether this was in all respects a proper thing to do, ls a point as to which opinions may differ. One thing is certain; it was now the second man’s turn, to be astonished^ Wtemouth re­ mained shut, and his window remained open. Throughout the scene, so far as can be gathered from the Washington Post, where we find the story, not a word was uttered on either side. DIAMOND BRAND V ’E.UUXWfLU * * ‘ So that detective h;w Ixeoxx here ag-ai n? What did he want?’ ’ i sons employed constantly indoors. The need—the absolute necessity—of a genuine ingivorator at this spring sea­ son has impressed itself on the atten­ tion of all thinking people. In the famous laboratory of Dart­ mouth Medical School, Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M. D., LL. D , discovered the formula of Paine’s celery com­ pound, a remedy that has become the standard nerve restorer, blood purifier, and strengthener from one end of the oountry to the other, a preparation that stands unrivalled as the medicine that makes people well. It is a fact much commented upon that men and women of national repu­ tation and prominence, like Gen. Beals, State Treas. Colvin of New York, Mr. Carlisle’s private secretary, Mayor McShane of Montreal, Rev. Fr. Ouellet, Com. Howell, ex-Minister to. Austria John M. Francis, and a host of others who are careful what they em­ ploy when Bick, and have the amplest opportunities for finding out-, what is best, have of their own accord sent let­ ters describing fully their permanent recovery from rheumatism, heart weak­ ness, sleeplessness, debility, kidney trouble, and diseases of the stomach and liver. In all these cases Paine’s celery compound was the remedy that was able to completely and perman­ ently bring back health, make poor blood again rich and pure, and regu­ late and build up the nervous system when weakened and deranged. “I cannot tell a lie,” said he, As guilt suffused his browt And pointed to the cherry tree— But that’s a chestnut now. BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA­ TARRH THAT CONTAIN HERCVKI, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to fthe good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., To­ ledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken in­ ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the syst- m. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. 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Thia and many other cures prove that Hood’s Sarsaparilla ts the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1. Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. „ -, —act easily, promptly and effectively. 25 cents. tlOOQ S HillS SURE CURE FOR PILES Itching and Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles yield at onee to Dr. BO-SAN-KO’S PILE REMEDY. Stopsitoh- lng,absorbs tumors. A positive cure. Circulars sent free. Price Wo. Druggists or man. DR. BOSANKO, Phil«., Pa, A Gentleman of the Old School. President Kruger lives up tohis Puri­ tan principles. When in Paris, he refused all invitations to go out on a Sunday, and he thought the costumes;worn by ladies at the opera or parties very im­ modest. He said he could not think how any lady who respected herself could look at a ballet. The only books he bad ever read besides the Bible were the “History of the Princes' of Orange, ” “History of the Thirty Years’War, ” Motley’s “History of the Dutch Repub­ lic,” Macaulay’s writings on William of Orange and “The Pilgrim’s Prog­ ress.” He said that in the Transvaal when a' boy was- sent to school he was provided with a gun and a pound of ammunition. He could then bring' home a bag of game and defend himself against the Kaffirs, but the parents tried, nevertheless, to make these self reliant boys understand that the meek shall in­ herit the earth. Another story told of President Kruger is that when he got home from his visit to Europe he said England was well enough, but the land seemed to be all owned by somebody. One could not even go out into the country and sit down under a tree to smoke his pipe but some­ body would come along and say that he owned the land and ask what the smoker was doing there—Buffalo Cou­ rier. Christmas Tips. Then you have Have you a feeling of weight in- the Stomach— Bloating after eating—Belch­ ing of Wind—Vomit­ ing of Food—Water­ brash—Heartburn— Bad Taste in the Mouth in the Morn­ ing—Palpitation of the Heart,due to Dis­ tension of Stomach —Cankered Mouth —Gas in the Bowels —Loss of Flesh— Fickle Appetite — Depressed, Irritable Dondition of the Mind — Dizziness— Headache—Constip­ ation or Diarrhoea? DYSPEPSIA in one of its many forms. The one positive cure for this distressing complaint is Beker’s Dyspepsia Cablets, by. mail, prepaid, on receipt of ag, cents C- harlbs 'R amsry , Hotel Imperial, New York, says: I sufiered horribly from dyspepsia, but Acker 8 Tablets, taken after meals,have cured me.” ACKER MED1C1NEC0., >6 & 18 Chambers St, N.T. The Unscrupulous Merchant who tries to make you believe some other skirt binding is as good as gooa — — - « I Bias Velveteen Skirt Binding should be taught a lesson— buy it elsewhere. Look for “ S. 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