A BOY VIOLINIST WHO
Disfigured Skin
Wasted muscles and decaying bones.
What havoc!
Scrofula, let alone, is capable of all that,
and more.
It is commonly marked by bunches in
the neck, inflammations in the eyes, dys
pepsia, catarrh, and general debility.
It is always radically and permanently
cured by
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Which expels all humors, cures all erup
tions, and builds up the whole system,
whether young or old.
Hood’s Fiji's cure liver ills: the nonirritating and
only cathartic to take with Hood’s Sar»ay;tri 1 la.
DRAWS SIS.80 A MINI IE.
Jan Kubelik Is a mere boy. but the
violin s master. In Carnegie Hall. New
York, lie played ,'i3 minutes and re
eeived il.iXMl for ills work. Jan Ku
belik was eight years ago getting up
winter mornings In the garret of tlie
house ot liis father, who is a Bohemian
vegetable gardener ami waking up the
raving family by playing Beethoven
and Bach on the violin made of wire
drawn over a cigar-box for a soutidiug-
board. Now lie has come to tills eouu-
Tolstoy Independent of Doctors.
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Military and Manual Train Inn
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lootoi Morrlaou dusse
Can give you
l'uggia*. : 10«-.
Win mill« ami
Macninery. bee
th, best bargain, In
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us oeiore buying.
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Academic and Collegiate Halls.
It is stated by an authority that the
COURSES—Classical, l iterary. Sciontiilo anl
weight of a man'h brain has nothing
to do with his mental power. The Commercial. For yitrticuinrs apply to
colder the climate, the greater the size
REV. E. P. MURPHY, President,
of the brain. The largest heads of all
University ?arx. Portland, Oregon
are those of the Chugatchee, who live
very far north, and next comes the
heads of the Laps.
We Teach
Bookkeeping, Stenography,
Mathematics, English, Lan
guages, History, Etc.,
Locomotives to burn oil are appear
ing in the Pacific states. They are
built with the cab and furnace in front
and the smokestack behind. The ten
der is discarded, and the oil and water
are conducted In pipes.
The Kaiser’s Palaces.
By Mail
For full information address
The Farmer’s First Profit
Pacific Coast Corre
spondence Institute
Is made in his selection of seed.
Send ior
In the twenty-odd palaces of the
Portland, Crifton.
Our Complete Annual Cata
German Emperor some 3500 servants
are employed, aoout 2000 of these be Holiday Resolutions
logue for 1902, FREEl
ing women.
A huge income is. of
Two Girls.
It contains full directions for garden
course, required for keeping up estab
work and many useful tables for the
“If ten men should ask you to mar lishments on this scale, and the Em
farmer. Noone sells better
ry them, what would that be?’ '
peror’s total expenditure is estimated
Seedh than
bure relief fiom liquor, opium ami tooaoaJ
“What would it be?"
at some $25,000 a day.
LA M BEESON ’8 SEEDS.
habiU. tìend for partioulars to
"A tender.”
“And if one should ask you, what
Keeley Institute,
A Prehistoric Canoe.
would that be?”
“I don’t know: what?”
A' prehistoric canoe was dug up re
Patents Send no Money n . r. n . V.
x<>. ■; i«oa. '
“A wonder.”—Life.
cently in a bog about five miles from But
a model or drawing with a description,
Dungannon. County Tyrone, Ireland. and we will advise you. J. S. Du Hie PDUP
H KN writing tr. advortlsere pion««
luei'tl.u this paper.
It is scooped out of an oak trunk, is six 4 Co., (Dept. A) Washington, D. C. 1
A Peculiar Wasp.
feet long three feet wide, and eight
One kind of wask found in Brazil een inches deep. It has a ring shape
UN YOUR POCKET!
and Guiana makes its nest of a bril at the bow, evidently for mooring and
Between sickly, louse chickens and healthy, contented fowls,
liant white pasteboard suspending it haulage, and also two lugs at the
one briny, no money io vour pocket, tlie other mean, money
from the highest branches of the trees, stern.
In the same bog a woman's
In your pur-e Which will > ou have ?
so as to escape the attention of the body was discovered in a remarkable
Is Ù I quid to paint or spray the roosts, quickly destroying all
lice. The price is nothing in comparison to tlie good it will not.
monkeys, which, in those regions, state of preservation.
According to
eed Groesbeck's Kgg Producer and Health Food to the
have a troublesome habit of investi medical opinion it has lain there for
iickens prevents niortsllty. I’ullet. begin laying when five or
gating everything, even a hornet's 200 years, but the peaty soil had pre
six months old. 25 to 50 per cent, more eggs produced.
nest.
served it.
., 13S Frot t Struct. Portland, Or. Cocat Attenta.
ft™ Keeley Cure
LAMBERSON - Portland, Oregon
An Independent American Citizen.
Wire Gauze for Hay Fever.
Mark.
Magazine Editor—Haven't you got
a poem to go on this page?
Assistant—Here’s one that I don't
quite get the meaning of, but I sup
pose many of our readers will under
stand it.
Magazine Editor—That won’t do. I
want something that will puzzle every
body.—Judge.
By local applications, ns they cannot reach the
diseased portion or the ear. There isoniy one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
flamed condilion of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
flamed yon have a rumbling sound or imper
fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed
deafness is tho result, and unless the inflamma
tion can be taken out ami this tube rest »red to
its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever ; nine cases out ot ten are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed
conditioner the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
Case of Dearness (caused by ottarrh) that can
not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Hail’s Family Pills are the best.
CBTG Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousner
lllw after first-lav > iwofUr KI ine’s Great Nerve
Restorer. Send tor FR EE S'^*OOtrial bottle and treat
ise. Dn.R.H K line . Ltd.. ( j 31 Arch St., Philadelphia. Pa
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Brain-Weight and Mental Power.
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
Oil-Burning Locomotives.
(VRED
While riding in a Maine country
road a traveler observed a field of
corn which was overrun with rank
weeds, and midway of the place was a
large, consicuously displayed sign with
the following:
“Notiss!
None of
Your Business if This Corn Ain’t
Hoed.”
Tricking a Chronologer.
President Pritchett of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology in
relating his experience in college re
cently said that the way boys had of
finding a certain professor was to step
into the middle of the college yard
and call out a date in American his
tory. Instantly the professor would
come out from some window or door
in the college and say that the date
was incorrect.
The late Russian savant. Dr. Knlesh.
made a translation into Little Russian
of th'1 Bible, which the censor worn I
not allow to be printed. His widow
has now sold the manuscript to tiie
British Bible Society for 5000 roubles.
Count Tolstoy is not an obedient pa
tient. Some time ago his phvsiclans
told him not to walk or ride on horse
back, but he uid wnat he pleasea. ie-
marking. “I know better than all phy
sicians what is good for me.”
DEAFNESS
Did Goethe Have Pockmarks?
'me Goethe specialists have some
thing new to talk about. A Breslau
professor his discovered In a plaster
cast of the poet's face, spots on the
chin and the left cheek which look
like smallpox marks. The savants ate
now discussing the important ques
tion whether Goethe really had pock-1
marks in his face, or whether the
spots discovered indicate mere imper
fections in the plaster. It is known
that Goethe did have the smallpox
when he was six years old.—New York
Post.
try. under the management of Hugo
Goerlitz and Daniel Frohmau, to play
to tile tune of $100,000 for tile trip.
When lie played in Rome the Pope,
upon the advice of the Senior Cardi
nal, sent for him ami told him that he
had heard the soul of Paganini was
new born, and he decorated the boy
with tlie Order of St. Gregory, rarely
bestowed. In Vienna the Archduchess
Theresa sat in her box while lie played
eight encores, and afterward sent him
a scarfpin made of her crest iu dia
monds. All over Europe he has been
sought.
W
The newest idea for mitigating hay
fever—a disease which seems to claim
more victims every year, in propor
tion to the population is embodied in
a small disc covered with wire gauze,
TEACHING DANGERS OF LAMPS.
which is inserted in the nostril.
La Grippe conquers life—Wizard Oil ChildrenAre Instructed in Their Bund
ling in London Schools.
conquers l.a Grippe.
Your druggist
Authorities in control of the public
sells Wizard Oil.
schools of London have introduced as
part of the system of instruction object
A New Billiard Ball Trick.
An entirely new performance witn lessons in the care and management of
cue and billiard ball has been given by kerosene and other lumps. The Idea is
the famous billiard player. Robert de a good one. No one element of the tire
Bremont, says the Peoria Herald. Mr. risk of cities is more serious from the
Bremont calls his trick “William Tell.” underwriters’ point of view than the
He performs it on au ordinary billiard careless use and abuse of lamps and in
table, upon which a lighted candle has
been placed. By hitting a ball with his flammable oils. An illustration of this
cue lie sends the former over the is found in the historic incident of the
flame, describing an arc. The holder great Chicago conflagration, which tra
or candle is not touched by the ball, dition says was started by Mrs. O’Lea
but its motion extinguishes the light. ry's cow. which kicked over a kerosene
lamp which had been set on the stable
Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow’s Sooth
ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their floor behind her to illuminate the milk
ing operation.
children during the teething period.
To impress children with a whole
Clean Person, Among the Lepers.
some respect for the Incendiary charac
In the leper settlement in the island ter of a lamp is to impart useful knowl
of Molakai, there were 909 lepers and edge and make them through their
164 “clean” persons. The general whole lives discreetly careful. Among
opinion was that the "clean” would in
time become leprous. Nearly 1.100 the points emphasized in the London
people are housed, fed and clothed for instruction on this point is the folly of
placing lamps on chairs or rickety ta
about $80,000 a year.
bles, or on narrow shelves; of the at
Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken tempt to carry a lighted lamp and
of as a cough cure.—J. W. O’B rien . 322
Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. something else at the same time, and
the general inadvisability of carrying
6, 1900.
lighted lamps at all. It is also made
Freddie Would Have His Way.
cleay by experiment why oil should
Little Freddie — Mamma, doesn't never be poured upon a lire, either to
Uncle Bob like plum pudding?
stimulate it or facilitate Its kindling,
Mamma—Yes; but the doctor won't and the danger incident to tlie leakage
let him eat it.
Little Freddie—Well, if I was as big of oil from vessels containing it is ex
as him there wouldn't be any doctor plained by methods calculated to leave
big enough to stop me.—Boston Her a lasting Impression upon the minds of
ald.
the children.
Some clever apparatus have been ar
ranged for illustrating the dangerous
character of oil. and as children dear
ly love everything which savors of an
“experiment” the method of objective
instruction is remarkably effective.
The children take home the ideas thus
Sores and Ulcers never liecome chronic imparted and are constant monitors in
anless the blood is in poor condition—it
sluggish, weak and unable to throw oil the family circle to remind the careless
the poisons that accumulate in it. Tlw adults of what is imprudent in lamp
system must be relieved of the unhealthy manipulation. Tlie plan is one. says
matter through the sore, and great dange: the New York Times, which merits con
to life would follow should it heal before sideration by progressive educators in
the blood has been made pure and health} American cities.
and all impurities eliminated from the sys
tem. S.S.S. begins the cure by first cleans
Hix Reasons.
ing and invigorating the blood, building
“No!” exclaimed tlie eloquent orator
up the general health and removing from
at the meeting of tlie Society for the
the system A CONSTANT DRAIK
“¿eteXYter: UPON THE SYSTEM Suppression of Other People's Foolish
Habits. "No, indeed, at my establish
When this has been accomplished the dis ment we will not employ a man who
charge gradually ceases, and the sore oi smokes while he works.”
ulcer heals. It is the tendency of these old
As the bum of approval went around
indolent sores to grow worse and worse,
and eventually to destroy the bones. Local a curious person in the rear of the ball
applications, while soothing and to some arose and inquired:
“May I ask wliat line of business ~ou
extent alleviate pain, cannot reach the seat
of the trouble. S. S. S. does, and no mattei follow, sir?”
how apparently hopeless your condition,
“Powder-making,” replied the elo
even though your constitution has broken quent orator in embarrassed tones.—
down, it will bring relief when nothing
else can. It supplies the rich, pure blocs > Baltimore American.
necessary to heal the sore and nourish
Mnst Follow th* Kn'e.
the debilitated, diseased body.
The soft-voiced Salvation Army girl
Mr. J. B. Talbert, Lock Box 245, Winona, Mias.,
says: “Six years ago my leg trom the knee tc with the bundle of War Cries under her
th'c foot rr-3 one solid sore. Several physician?
treated mear.d I made two trips to Hot Springs, arm stopped at tlie entrance of the
but found no relief. I was induced to try S. S. S .
and it made a complete cure. I have been a per apartment house.
fectly well man ever since.”
•q have come.” «he said, “to bring the
*s the only purely veg- good tidings of----- ”
etable blood purifier
"Take it around to the rear door.”
known — contains no
poisonous minerals to arrogantly interrupted the janitor.—
ruin the digestion and | Chicago Tribune.
add to, rather than relieve your suffer
A Personal Grievance.
ings. If your flesh does not heal readily
when scratched, bruised or cut, your blood
"I never fully realized how shameful
is in bail condition, and any ordinary sore ly corrupt our municipal elections are.”
is apt to become chronic.
“What's opened your eyes?”
Send for our free book and write out
“Why. I worked all day for the re
physicians about your case. We make nc
form ticket and better government and
charge for this service.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, SA.
they never gave me a cent for It.”—
det eland Plain Dealer.
SCRES AML
ULCERS.
I
I
A New Milk Adulteration.
A new milk adulterant has been dis
covered by the dairy inspectors in use
in Minnesota. It is called giscogen,
and is composed of sugar, lime and
water.
It has the effect of making
milk appear richer than it is. as the
lactic acid in the milk turns the lime
to a thick white substance that as
similates with the milk and improves
its looks while <t does not injure the
taste.
Hard Place to Build Railroad..
The difficulty of railroad construc
tion in some parts of Africa is illus
trated uy the fact' that on the Free-
town-Mattru line in Sierra Leone
eleven steel bridges had to be built in
a distance of thirty kilometers.
The Truth of IL
"It’s my opinion,” said Mr. Medder-
grass. after complimenting the grocer
on the fact that the store had been
furnished with a new stove for the fall
loafers, “that some o’ these here navy
officers is workin' for the coal trust. 1
b’lieve that’s why they didn't tell
Schley about their coal supply—hold
in’ back on him till prices went up
another half dollar on the ton.”—Bal
timore American.
ABSOLUTE
SECURITY.
Genuine
Carter's
Little Liver Pills.
taste rood.
Eat th. m like candy. They
remove any bad taste tn the mouth, leav
ing the breath ecu and perfum'd. It io
a pleasure to take them, and they ire
liked especially by children.
sweeten the stomach by cleansing thn
mouth, throat and food channel. That
means, they stop undigested food from
souring In the stomach, pr.v.-nt gas form
ing In the bowels, and kill disease verms
of any kind that breed and feed In the en--
tire system.
are purely vegetable and contain no mer
curial or other mineral poison They con
sist of the latest discoveries In m'-dlcfne.
and form a combination ot remedies un
equaled to make the blood pure and rlcla
and make clean skin and beautiful com
plexion.
tone the stomach and bowela and stir nt»'
the lazy liver. They do not merely soften
t'.ae stools and cause their discharge, but
strengthen the bowels and put them Intw
lively, healthy condition, making their ac
tion natural
never grip nor gripe. They act quietly, pos
itively and never cause any kind of uncom
fortable feeling. Taken regularly they make
the Overact regularly and naturally as It
should They keep the sewerage of the hodv
properly moving and keep the system clean.
Increase the flow of milk tn nursing moth
ers. If the mother eats a tablet. It makes
her milk mildly purgative and has a mtli
but certain effect on the baby. In thia wav
they are the only safe laxative tor ths
nursing Infant.
taken patiently, persistently, wilt curs any
form of constipation, no matter how old or
how often other remedies have failed They
are absolutely guaranteed to cure anycasa
or purchase money will be cheerfully re
funded.
cost 10c. J6c, (10c a box Sampler sent fro*
for th» asking We publish no testimonials
but sell t'awarets on their merit under ab
solute guarantee to cure. Buy and try •
box to-day. or write us for free samples
and booklet
Must Bear Signature of
Ses Fxc-Stmilx Wrapper Below.
Not Up in French.
Willis—I prefer to eat a la carte.
Gillis—Ah! I see you frequent lunch
wagons.—Boston Herald.
Answered.
"But how do you pass your time?”
CURE SICK HEADACHE.
asked the lady from the city of the re
tired business man who had settled
on a farm.
Automobile, Scarce in London.
"Well,” said the retired business
Automobiles have become very
man. “I spend a good deal of it in ex
plaining to inquirers how I get along scarce in the city proper of London in
con«equerce of the application of an
out here.”—Somerville Journal.
old ordinance forbidding self-propelle I
vehicles from going faster than three
Old-time Drought,.
miles an hour.
The first great drouth on record
happened in 678, and the two succeed
Very Queer.
ing years, when, according to the rec
ords, there was practically no rain
"It’s mighty queer that Frank Tick
Nothing pleases a young girl more fall in England. In 879 the springs in leton should turn out to be a default
than to have her older brother fall In England were dried up, and it was im er,” remarked Tenspot.
“That's what it is,” added Bunting.
love; then be can't say anything to tier possible for men to work in the open
air.
In 993 and 994 the nuta on the "Nobody ever heard him alluded to as
about tbe boys.
trees were "roasted as If In an oven.” Honest Frank Tickleton.' ”—Puck.
tMnas arzRLiss ass,ar ce., rnrrmo ar saw —
DFU/ADn will be paid to any reader of this paper who will tw.
RLHaill/ port to us any attempt of substitution, or sale e*
“ something just as good” when Cascarete are calls*
tor, anó furnish svidsucx upon which we can convict. All correspondence confidential
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