HOMESPUN PHILOSOPHY. Pinkham Observations on Commonplace Thing* by the Atchison Globe Mun. Idleness is uot a luxury. It is easy to say, "Dou’t uiiud It;” but ' we all do. The fame of Hood’s Sarsaparilla has been won by the good it has done to those is who were suffering from disease, lu cures have excited wonder and admiration. It has caused thousands to rejoice in the en­ A friend lias great power in hurting joyment of good health, and it will do,you your feelings. the same good it lias done others. It will When a man insists on having a row, expel from your blood all impurities; will give you a good appetite ami make you let him have It all by himself. strong and vigorous. It is just the medi­ A woman's idea of a refined man Is cine to help you now, when your system is in need of a tonic ami invigorator. one who likes oatmeal better than Sores—“Last spring I had sores on meat. my face. I began taking Hood’s Sarsa­ parilla and continued with it until the sores It Is easy for some people to attract were all gone and 1 was stronger and attention. All they have to do is to healthier than ever before.” J ohn E. M oungovan , Point Arena. Cal. work. A cut is never healthy unless half starved. A Mrs. Pinkham person­ ally attends to her tre­ mendous correspondence with suffering women. Her trained assistants are all women. The letters from women are opened by women only. They are read by wo» men only. They are answered by women and only women. The correspondence Is saoredly confidential. Write for a book Mrs. Pinkham has Just pub­ I lished which oontalns let­ ters from the mayor of Lynn, the postmaster of Lynn and others of her I own olty who have made careful Investigation. Mrs. Pinkham has helped a million women who suffered with female troubles. She can cure I YOU. Her address Is Lynn, Mass. I A Confederate's Idea, “Io succeed in war,” General Miles observes, “is to get ready before you commence hostilities.” One of the confederate generals in 1861 said his idea of success was ‘ ‘to get there fast­ est wi’h the mostest.”—Detroit Free Press. it Kickers are so unpopular that many men stand injustice lather toan coin- plain. After all, It is a matter of taste, The man who succeeds in anything must have good taste. A new automatic machine gun is be­ ing tested by the United States army. It weighs only 12 punds, can be car­ ried by one man, and fires 450 shots a minute. London has an asylum for lost and starving cats. Last year it cared for 8,000 of these useful animals. Rifle clubs are being formed all over France to perfect the members in marksmanship. The system is in imi­ tation of the custom so long practiced by the Boers, who instruct even their children in the use of firearms. An Excellent Combination. The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known remedy,. IS trup or Flos, manufactured by the C alifokxia F ig S yrup C o ., illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxa­ tive principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxa­ tive, cleansing the system effectually, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers gently yet promptly and enabling one to overcome habitual constipation per­ manently. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and sub stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakening or irritating them, mak«. it the ideal laxative. I Some people have an unconquerable prejudice against anything made at home or bought at home. ■ ■a E3 Cough Syrup. in tinte. ' Mold by druggist*. H A new method of preserving tele­ graph poles is to surround the portion in the ground witli an earthenware pipe like a drain pipe. Into the space be­ tween the .pole and the pipe is poured a mixture of sand and resin. According to Prescott, the money of the Aztecs consisted of quills full of gold dust and bags of chocolate grains. Before the introduction of coined money into Greece skewers or spikes of iron and copper were used, six being a drachma or handful. New Excuse of tlie Fox. An Emperor * III*. A Saf' gn rl. U5ÇIT' Somebody, very learned, once took the trouble of weighing the brains of a number of animals, and found that the brain of a tame rabbit weighed less fur its size than the brain of any other known creature—much less than that of a wild rabbit. • Once there was a wily old fox that was too fond of grapes, and one day. the New Year’s of all the foxes, he swore off from eating this fruit lest his I Clothing in Winter. embonpoint increase beyond reason and Overclotliing induces debility; for if he be called fatty, a term of derision. we bear in mind the fact that four- But his appetite for the lucious bunches fifths of the food we eat is burned for grew too strong and he hied him to a heating the body, it will appear at once grape arbor. A heavy hunch ol grapes why the wearing of sufficient clothing was hanging high up on the vine. He to overheat the body, or greatly to les­ jumped and jumped, but could not sen the amount of heat production re­ reach them. After he had exhausted quired, must exercise a most marked himself to no purpose, and he was sure effect upon the appetite, Nature, It is he couldn’t reach the grapes he said: true, often comes to the rescue by in­ I “No, I will not eat them. I made a during perspiration; but here another resolution not to do so. What a virtu­ danger arises; for with clothing moist­ ous fox am I.” - And he went off to ened by perspiration the body is almost tell his friends about his self-denial. certain to be so suddenly cooled by en­ Moral—Virtue is always a comforter countering a draught, or by evapora­ i when vice becomes impossible.—N. Y. tion alone when the body is not in act­ Commercial Advertiser. ive movement, as seriously to unbal­ “The Newest Thing; Out.” ance the circulation. Inducing internal When some little time ago a minister congestion, colds, and not infrequently had finished his sermon shoving how maladies of the gravest character. new light was constantly shining upon Care must, therefore, be taken not to God’s word, until now it was resting overload the body. It Is better in cold on surer foundations than ever, a theo­ weather to accustom one's self to wear­ logical professor in one of our semin­ ing clothing which involves the neces­ I aries, who had listened to the discourse sity for moderate activity in order to with the closest attention, approached I maintain the warmth of the body, than the speaker as the services were ended, to dress so warmly that a little exercise and thanking him for his discourse, is sure to Induce perspiration with the said: “Yes, the Bible is the newest risk of an after chill. thing ent; I read it now more under- standingly, more satisfactorily, more Mark Twain on the B»cr. helpfully, than ever.” The professor Mark Twain has met the Boer, and is not alone in his position; everywhere this is what he says of him: "He is countless thousands, in the newer light deeply religious; profoundly ignorant; shed upon the Scriptures by historical dull, obstinate, bigoted: uncleanly in research and by science, find that his habits; hospitable, honest in Ills which supplies its own liest defense dealings with the whites, a hard master against the skeptic.—Christian Work. to his black tSrvant; lazy, a good shot, Ether Drinking in Pru««iH. good horseman, addicted tothecliase; a To the evils of alcohol are now added lover of political independence; a good husband and father; not fond of herd­ the evils of ether drinking, which has ing together in towns, but liking the spread alarmingly in Eastern Prussia, seclusion and remoteness and solitude where ether is sold in the saloon like and empty vastness and silence of the any liquor, four or five grammes to the veldt; a man of mighty appetite, and glass. In the town of Memel alone, it not delicate about what be appeases it is stated, the amount thus sold last with—well satisfied with pork, and In­ year was about 8,580 quarts, and in reality twice this*amount was con­ dian corn and biltong, requiring only that the quantity shall not I m * stinted; sumed, the rest brought in by smug­ willing to ride a long Journey to take a glers. The effect is Baid to be four times more powerful than an equal hand in a rude all-night dance in* amount of alcohol, but its continued use terspersed with vigorous feeding and produces intolerable suffering and in­ boisterous Jollity, but ready to ride curable lesions of liver, kidneys an 1 twice as far for a prayer meeting. heart. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. HEALTH RESTORER ^REGON^rnOPpURIFIER A popular remedy for the bite of a mad dog, at the beginning of the 19th century was for the victim to take an ounce of the pulverized jawbone of the Some woman's idea of originality dog that had bitten him. After tiie runs to something new in tilling tor administration of this remedy the ani­ sandwiches for afternoon parties. mal was never known to bite any one. To be perfectly satisfactory, a sick Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow’s 800th- man Is glad to have his wife ask every hig Syrup the best remedy to use for lh*fe children during the teething period. five minutes how he is Feeling Now. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the C alifornia Fie S yrit Co. only. In order to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of theCompany printed on the front of every package. ígon 8( po 0IW i (R Foxhunt Ended In a Church. There ought to be some man nround every big institution who will have nothing to do with politics. We wonder every time we see an energetic woman wash a boy's fate that it retains the shape the Lord gave it If you are afraid of lightning there’s a very simple safeguard to remember —simply put on your rubbers and then stand up so that your clothes won’t touch anywhere. Whether you’re in­ doors or out of doors you're perfectly safe, for rubber Is a non-conductor and you are completely insulated. We* th at Bottom of Hea. It is computed that there is £800.(100. «MM* worth of gold and jewels at the bo. lorn of the sea on the route between India and the British Isle*. A Guilty Conscl.n«., Rastus—XVhad yo tink is de mattah wif me, doctah? Doctor—Oh, nothing but chicken* pox, 1 guess. Rastus (getting nervous)—I clare on mail honah, doctah, I haint bin uo- what 1 could ketch dat!—Judge. • 1OO ltKWAltD U1O0. Is America's Greatest Medicine. As the congregation was assembling the other day at Broughton Astley church, near Leicester, where a daily service is held during the war, a fox and the whole of the Atherstone pack Every girl of sixteen believes that of hounds ran intQ the sacred edifice! she can keep off the wrinkles by pure where the fox was quickly dispatched strength of mind. by the hounds. Some minutes elapsed When it comes to putting the neigh­ before they could be cleared out of the bors “on” to bargains on sale, every church.—London Mail. woman is a.missionary. Will Cure you. Dr. Pfunder’s The Chinese Emperor is obliged to live in seclusion. He can never go out of his palace gates ami see his people and country, as other monarchs do. His promenades are anrrounded with mys­ tery, and though lie passes at least sev­ en or eight times a year down the prin­ cipal streets of Pekin no ordinary citi­ zen can laiast of having seen him. •AN FRAMCiaCO. CAL LOXTT8VTLLR KT NEW TORI. W T. For sale by all Druggist«.—Price Sdc. per bottle. Hood’s Sarsaparilla When a brakeman goes to a dentist he says lie is going up to have the slats in his pilot fixed. When the average sick man begins to talk about the Lord his women folks are convinced that he is on his death- SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES bed. Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It should be a part of every man's It cures painful, swollen, smarting, nerv­ ous feet, and instantly takes the sting out preparation for a lonesome old age to I of corns and bunions. It’s the greatest acquire a taste for playing a game of comfort discovery of the age. Alien’s Foot- i solitaire. Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for Ingrowing Nails, We have noticed that when a ma n sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching gets married lie begins to speak : in a feet. We have over 30.000 testimonials. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and more bossy tone to the other w< omen shoe stores. Bv mail for 25c. in stamps. he meets. Trial package *FREE. Address, Allen S. The fashions are making one baby Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. and its wardrobe cost so much that it No able-bodied men need be idle in is becoming positive extravagance to New Zealand. The government gives I have two. every applicant work, and pays him the Judging from what leaks out from rate of $2 a day. women’s literary clubs, woman is weak as an infant physically, and a giant in mental strength.' Advertising is not a luxury, but rather an economic busi­ ness proposition, recognized by all the be st and most suc­ cessful business men the world over. Croat Fame of a Great Medicine Won by Actual Merit. Toujour. I.* Polites««. “During a recent sharp skirmish,” •ays “The Sphere,” “an English officer in South Africa noticed that one of his guns was in danger. Calling an officer to his side he requested him to go snd help the captaiu to try ami bring it in. 'Pardon,' he added, as the officer turn­ ed to obey, ‘perhaps you do not know the captain.’ The officer had not the pleasure. ‘I’ll introduce you, then— charming fellow,’ Baid his lordship, and, regardless of bursting shells and puffs of dirt which marked the pitch of bullets all around them, he can­ tered along the hillside with him. ‘Captain,’ he shouted, ‘let me intro­ duce my friend. Mr. B.. Captain A. He will lend you a hand to bring in that gun; hope neither of you will be knocked over doing it.’"—Collier’s Weekly. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure iu ail its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh belnç a constitutional dis­ ease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the founda­ tion of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro­ prietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars tor any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHKNEY A CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's'Family Pills are the best. A doctor of Breslau has been experi­ menting with hens, and he gave 40 of them gout by feeding them on horse­ flesh without fat. Then he partially relieved them of the gouty pains by the administiation of powdered egg shells. A SIGNIFICANT LETTER. New York City, Feb. 15, 1900. My Dear Carlton:—I know it will please you to learn that my homeward journey irom San Francisco was more than pleasant. One striking feature that added very much to my comfort was the dining car service on the Rio Grande Western and the Denver & Rio Grande. This is the finest service of this description I have ever seen any­ where, either in this country orabroad; the food and cooking was all that could be desired, and at very moderate prices. If you happen to know the Rio Grande Western people, I wish you would say to them that it will afford me the greatest pleasure at all times to bear testimony anywhere to the above facts. Very truly yours, (Signed) J. ADDISON BAKER, 2nd. [ -alt Lake Tribune.] The Rio Grande Western Railway now operates through Pullman sleeping cais between San Francisco and Chi­ cago, without change. The route via Salt Lake City is unequalled in attrac­ tiveness and wealth of novel interest. Three through trains daily. Write for information, rates, etc., to J. D. Mans­ field, General Agent, 253 Washington street, Portland, Ore., or Geo. W. Heintz, General Passenger agent, Salt Lake City. ! RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA SCIATICA Sure ft. taxes is the care ot them by St. Jacobs Oil : The street cars of Havana are heavy, cumbersome, old style cars, drawn by three ponies, one in the lead of a span at the doubletree, all of them hitched too far from the car for economy of effort on the part of the little beasts or successful handling by the driver. Don't I.et Constipation Kill You!# It will do it, openly or tn disguise. C onsti- pHtion hie. ninny long .cientlne aliases, but Case nrets Candy Catliarlle w ill save you. Drug­ gists, 10c, 25c, 50c. In San Rafael, Cal., is is illegal to shoot game with a repeating or maga­ zine shotgun. Tie« Shortest General** Long Titles. “Bobs, who is sometimes known as Lord Roberts, has, next to the royal family, the longest lists of titles in Great Britain. Here is his official designation: Baron Roberts, of Kan dahar and Waterford, P.C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C., D.C.L., LL.D. And yet he is the shortest general in the service, Should be be triumphant in South Africa he may count on a few more letters to his name.—Collier’s Weekly. .4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Incurable. Wife—John, you have a very annoy­ ing habit of saving “What’s that?” whenever you are spoken to. Can’t you break yourself of it? Husband—(reading) — Eh — what’s that?”—Tit Bits. Th« Maker» of Carter’» Ink Say: “We can’t inakenny better ink than we do; we don't know how to. We can make poorer ink, but we won’t.” Carter’s Ink is the best. There is a time in every lfie when one muBt concentrate or fail. It is so in business, in the choice of a profes­ sion, in respect to religion.—Bov. C. Barrett. BESTFORTHE BOWELS 1’iso’s Cure is I lie best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—W m . O. E niisi . ky , Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The British government keeps 11 If you haven't a regular, healthy movement of the vessels at work sounding and charting bowels every day, you're sick, or will be. Keep your bowel« open, and be well. Force, in the shape of the ocean beds to find out where dang- violent physic or pill poison, is dangerous. The smoothest, easiest, most perfect way of keeping the ers lurk. Last year 10,000 square bowels clear and clean is to take miles were carefully charted in differ­ ent parts of the world—Asia, Africa CANDY and the South Pacific. CATHARTIC Refuse, choose and endure I They are truly the great things of which thia life of toil and suffering are made.— Rev. D, C. MacLeod. The rag pickers of Paris, of whom there are aobut 40.000, are enraged be­ „Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. TatteOoort. Do UooS, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 60c Write cause the new rubbish l>oxes, just in­ for free .ample, and booklet on health. Address SGrll.s R.Mr.y t’Mipaar, Chtea«., ■•atr.al, KawT.rh. 3M. troduced in that city, cannot lie opened If CCD VfillD DI nnn HI ElU l,yi,ny°ue ,,ut t,le cartmen who are ALLI TllUn DLUUU u L l A Iv, en|pluye(i to carry off the contents. Malaria?™ Death-Dealing In atrumen tu. Soapless Sam—I see dey’s been anudder drownded in a bathtub, l’etey. Perambulating Pete — Yep; dem t’ings is a dangerous ns trolleys.— Philadelphia North American. LABASTINTE 1* the original and only durable wall coating, entirely different from all kal­ somines. Ready fOt use in white or fourteen beautiful tints by adding cold water. A L A B A S T I N E The Ideal French Tonic FOR BODY AND BRAIN Since 1863, Endorsed by Medical Faculty immediate lasting anvun man U VV, About one-fourth of the population of Porto Hico are beggars. >10 B. Tainhill Mt„ POKTLAND, OR. 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EWARE of the dealer who says he can sell you the “same thing“ as ALABASTINE or “something just as good.” He Is either not posted or Is try­ ing to deceive you. ND IN OFFERING something he has bougnt cheap and tries to sell on ALABASTINE’S de­ mands, he may not realize the damage you will suffer by a k kalsomine on your walls. RN BIBLE dealers will not buy a lawsuit. Dealers risk one by selling and consumers by using infringement. Alabastlne Co. own right to make wall coat­ ing to mix with cold water. efficacious Makes the BEST PUMPS for IRRIGATION and RECLAMATION. MINE DRAINAGE. Capa­ cities from one gallon to 100,000 gallons per minute. ADIES naturally prefer ALA- BASTINE for wails and ceil­ ings. because It Is pure, clean, durable. Put up in dry pow­ dered form, In five-pound pack­ ages, with full directions. New Double Cylinder Farm Loco­ motives and Threshing Machinery 2000 S are the pains and aches of British Aristocracy Blamed. Many people attribute the recent rever­ ses of the British to the degeneracy of the aristocracy. The life of luxury certainly does not produce vigor. Indigestible sup­ pers, late hours, constant nerve strain and lack of exercise upset the stomach and weaken both physical and mental vitality. The blood that makes men heroes must conic from active, healthy stomachs. Hos­ tetter’s Stomach Bitters purities the blood and strengthens the stomach. It cures constipation, indigestion* dyspepsia and biliousness. 29 I. It First Street FOHIIASD OR. This form, a« well a« Blind. Blredl Plies are curedbv Dr.Bosanko'i Stops Ite hl nt? and heeding. Abaci Jar at druggists or aent by mall. Treader free. Write me about your case. Dll. Bog A S Ko. phiiada. Pa. BUFFALO PITTS CO ¡(SWELL* '• V BRILLINO Old as the Hills a-V NOTICE TO PR0PER1Y OWNERS. Building or remodeling residences and •tores. We carry a complete line of Mantel«, (•rates and Tiling, Tile Flooring. Tile Wain* Moling. A ml irons. Fenders, Kcreens, Khctric, <» h « and Combinntion ('hantlelieis, and all aup- *•! ips pertaining to Electric ami G hk l ighting. By ft «impie twist Of the wrist you C.xn line We also carry all kinds of Batter e , Be l» and up the cutter bar on the Indicators. Photographs cheerfully sent on application. I KINh HOl.t OM11 A ( O 245 Washington Mt., lurtland, Or. Champion Draw Cut Mower You can’t do It on any other. And there «re other points too. K««nd for Catalogne. MITCHELL, LEWIS 4 STAVER C0.r PORTLAND, OREGON. BAD SPRING BLOOD Requires «ome sort of * tonic that cleans out the Impurities. On« that really does tills—and more—is floore’i Revealed Remedy And doe« it thoroughly. Pleasant to take. fl uO at your druggist« YOUNG MEN! For G0n**rrh«v*a and Gleet g»-t Pabst's okay Specific. It to th« ONLY medirme which will cure e«ch and «vet y raae. MO «'ARE known tt ha« ever f«lh-d U» cure, no matter how aer1o«M or of how long afandinir Resalta from ita uar will astonlah you. It to alMolutrly «afe. prevent« atrlrlure and can I* taken without Piconvw Bien«** and dele niton from Imainei«. PKjCE. t3