Salt Rheum
It may become chronic.
It may cover the body with
large, inflamed, burning, itching,
scaling patches and cause intense
suffering. It lats been known to
do so.
Do not delay treatment.
Thoroughly cleanse the system
of the humors on which this
ailment depends and prevent their
return.
Counting hit Chicken».
"Before I gits my consent to your
engagement to n<y daughter, what is
your annual income?”
"Counting everything, sir, about |4,-
000. as near as I can tell."
"Yes hm—and added to this would
be the 1.1.000 income which I promts
ed to settle on her which would—“
"Yes. sir. yea—that is if you don't
mind. I've already counted that in."
—New York Times.
The Change et
Ute
la the most important period in a wo
man'» existence.
Owing to modern
methoda of liviug. not one woman in
a thousand approaches this perfectly
natural change without experiencing
a train of very annoying aud some
times painful symptoms.
Those dreadful hot flashes, sending
th«' blood surging to the heart until it
sc«'iu» ready to burst, snd the faint
Stestt-Car Pau lor Dog.
feeling that follows, sometimes with
A Detroit man has a pass which en chills, as if the heart were going to
titles him to carry his dog with him stop for good, are symptoms of a dan-
on the street cars. The pass Is in the
shape of a photograph of the dog. on
the tpkek of which Is an order, signed
Th» medleln» taken by Mrs. Ida K. Ward, by the superintendent of the lines, di
Cov» Point, Md.. was Hood'» Sarsaparilla recting the conductors of all cars to
Hh» write»: “ I bad a dlsacrveabl» Itching on permit the dog to rtde. The dog—a
my arms which I concluded was »alt rheutu
Boston terrier—ia known to nearly
I b»san taking Hood'» Sarsaparilla and la all the conductors, and it is rarely
two days f»lt batter. It was not long bafora necessary for the owner to show hta
I was cured and 1 hav» n»r»r had any skin order.
disease »Inca"
Hood*s Sarsaparilla
Th» Dittinction».
“I could never sqe," remarked the
caustically, “wherein the
Promisee to cure and keeps the Sabbatarian,
'sacred concert' differs from the ordin
promise. It is positively une- ary concert."
iualed for all cutaneous eruptions,
“Why. that's simple enough.” re
aka iU
plied Wagga.
"It is?"
"Certainly. The ‘sacred concert' Is
A Faverite Spot
given on Sundays only.”—Philadel
Miss Dusnap (disgustedly).—This phia Press.
is the sixth jug 1 have hooked into
and pulled up.
Sweat R«v«n<«.
Mr.
Bertwhistle
(confidently)—
Diggs—And you arn't going away
Good! That shows that this must be
a pretty fine place to fish.—Brooklyn on a vacation this summer?
Daggs—You bet I’m not; my land
Eagle.
lord said, if I closed up the house and
went away he should charge me rent
just the same, and I'm going to stay
at home to get even with him.—
Ohio State Journal.
To Fit Naw Coaditioiu.
“In a baseball gam«' near Boston
the ostrich swallowed the ball.”
"That would appear to necessitate
a change in the language of the
game."
"What change?"
"Out in a fowl."—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Sack Protection from Extortion.
Eight hundred residents in South
London have joined a tenants' protec
tive league, started a few weeks ago.
“to enable weekly tenants to combine
for self-protection against the extor
tionate and illegal demands of land
lords and rate collectors, and for pro
vision of the necessary legal assist
ance.”
Time proves all things. It has
seen Wizard Oil cure pain for over
forty years.
Many people know
thia.
A Pennsylvania Giant.
William Lippincott, the heaviest
man in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
weighs 479 pounds, but offers to out
dance any man who will try conclu
sions with him on the wared floor.
Not long ago he allowed a young man
to hit his hardest where his (Lip
pincott's) waist should be.
The
young man broke his arm.
A wife la either a man a best
session or his very worst.
S l Jacob» Oil for Chut Cold», Broachitu.
Croup and Pleurisy.
An outward application for bronchi
al difficulties is many times far more
effective than syrups, cough mixtures,
cod liver oil, etc., simply because it
penetrates through to the direct cause,
which is, as a rule, an accumulation
of matter or growth tightly adhered
to the bronchial tubes.
St. Jacob’s OIL possessing as It does
those wonderful penetrating powers,
enables it to loosen these adhesions
and to induce free expectoration.
Cases have been known where expec-
toraUons have been examined after
SL Jacob's Oil has been applied, and
the exact formation was clearly shown
where the adhesions had been remov
ed or pulled off the bronchial tubes.
All irritation of the delicate mucous
membrane of the bronchae is quickly
removed by the healing and soothing
properties of St. Jacob's Oil. In cases
of croup and whooping cough In child
ren St. Jacob's Oil will be found super
ior to any other remedy.
St. Jacob's Oil Is for sale through
out the world, It is clean to use—not
at all greasy or oily, as its name
might imply, For rheumatism, gout,
ramp, pleurisy.
sciatica, neuralgia,
lumbago, sore throat, bronchitis, sore
ness. stiffness, bruises, toothache,
headache, backache, feetache, pains
in the chest, pains in the back, pains
in the shoulders, pains in the limbs,
and all bodily aches and pains it has
no equal. It acts like magic. Safe,
sure and never failing.
A Luxurious Traveler.
Cecil Rhodes never does anything
by halves. When he came over to
England by the fast mail from Africa,
besides other specially provided com
forts, he was accompanied by his own
chef, his own poultry and his own
cow.
Survivor of San Jacinto Battle.
James Monroe Hill, of Austin, Tex.,
is one of the few survivors of the
battle of San Jactnto, which assured
Easy.
"Which would you rather, Tommy, to Texas Its Independence. He was
be born lucky or rich? asked Uncle born in Georgia, and is a cousin of the
late United States Senator Benjamin
Tredway.
"Both.” replied Tommy, sententious- H. Hill, of that state.
ly-Detroit Free Press.
khy tie Thought So.
“I see that a steamer ran into a
school of whales off the Lower Cali
fornia coast. I «'pose it was a school
of oratory."
"Why so?"
"They were all spouting."—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Outlet for Much Frtsh Water.
Will They Take Expert Testimony ?
The Detroit river is the outlet of the
“They are investigating that young
greatest body of fresh water in the
world,
aggregating 82,000 square doctor who kissed the pretty nurse
miles of lake surface, which in turn in the hospital.”
"All the testimony is oral, I sup
drain 125,000 square miles of land.
pose?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Under Control.
|\ Timely Hint.
The Count—Your daughter, madam,
says she is perfectly willing to have
Every married man should join
me.
some good society—the society of his
The Mother—Yes; she is very du wife and children for Instance.—Chi
cago News.
tiful.
trerov.s, nervous trouble. Those hot
Hashes are just so many calls from
nature for help. The nerves are cry
ing out for assistance. The cry should
l>e heeded in time. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound was pre
pared to meet the needs of woman's
svsteiu at this trying perk'd of her life.
’ It builds up the weakened nervous
system, and enables a woman to pass
that grand change triumphantly.
•' 1 was a very sick woman, caused
by Change of Life. I suffered with hot
fliLhea. and fainting spells
I was
afraid to go on the street, my head anti
back troubled me so. 1 was entirely
cured by Lvdia E Pinkhams Vegeta
ble Comimund."- Mas. J knnuc Nusu,
goto Keyser SL. Germautown, Pa.
Poor Child.*
“You've got a little brother."
the nurse at breakfast. “He
born last night."
• Really," said Tommy. "And
night was Sunday. Poor kid!”
"Why do you say that.’”
"Cause his birthday won't do
any good. Sunday's a holiday,
how."—Philadelphia Press.
A Waite of Hospitality.
Mrs. Hermitage (of Drearydale) I
believe I will i invite the Gothams cut
from the city to spend Sunday with
us. Oscar.
Hermitage (hopelessly) — What's
the use. Mary ? They don’t want to
buy a suburban cottage..—Boston
Journal.
Northwest
lu»»
Pacific Coaxt
Correspondence Institute
Portland, Oreg""-
Wette a* ewee. ••
ters of credence or recall from foreign
envoys, or accord audience to dusky
potentate«.
The User of Russia Is even more di
versely throned. Each of a dozen
chairs of state are at various times
styled the Russian throne. The two
most remarkable are the chairs of Ivan
the Terrible and the one In St. George's
Hall of the Winter Palace at St. Pe
tersburg. The former Is of turquoises
In the back alone there are 10,000 of
these gems. The other chair Is of cost
will timi Mrs. Winslow's Booth
ly woods, with Ivory and gold, richly lug Mothers
Hyrup the t»«l rvniedv Ui use tor their
Jeweled, and emln'ased with the Im children durtug ih» teething period.
perial eagle. The seat Is of ermine, and
the arms are Ivory tusks.
Further east. In Teheran, the Shah
displays himself on a white marble
throne, looted from Delhi In 1739. It Is
of Ivory, overlaid with gold, and ablaze
with gems. Its value being estimated at
over £1,000,000.
OcMripitoa.
a cover In thia on
oahl the inquisitive
Accounting for It.
"It may be merely fancy,” remark
ed Mrs. Seldom-Holme, "but since my
husband commenced drinking the wa
ter from that Iron spring he has
seemed to be ten times as obstinate
as he used to be.”
“Perhaps," suggested Mrs. Nexdoor.
“the water is tinctured with pig
iron?"—Chicago Tribune.
In l«17o the Dutch possessed t)0 tons
out of every loo afloat. Now they own
lVi tons out of each hundred.
The suu’» diameter decreases at the
rate of live miles In a century.
Its
present diameter Is 8U0.000 miles.
'there are twenty-eight pounds of
blood in the body of au average grown
up person, and at each pulsation the
heart mores ten pounds.
Houses which are damp l>eeau»e of
proximity to undrained land may be
rendered more habitable by planting
the laurel and the sunflower near them.
A hotel landlord In !4t. Ix>uls has es
lablisbed curfew regulations In his
bouse. Promptly at 10 o'clock at night
Not So Bad.
the curfew rlugs. and guests at that
Mrs. Housekeep—Ob, Bridget, you lime are expected to turn out the lights
haven’t really broken that piece of and go to bed.
Severes? Oh, my! That’s the worst
Owing to competition with Kps In.
thing you could have broken in the
Italy aud Northern Africa, where labor
whole house!
Bridget—Faith, Oi’m glad to bear it Is cheaper, French farmers are aban
wasn't the best, mum!—Philadelphia doning the cultivation of olive groves.
In the department of Marseilles alone
Press.
within six months 40.000 oliva trees
Thrown Iron» Hu Cab and Kilitd.
were uprooted.
The following is a most interesting
It haa tw-en calculated that the hair of
and, in one respect, pathetic tale; — the I«esrd grows at the rate of lVy lines
Street
Mr. J. Pope, 42 Ferrar Road,
a week. This will give a length of 0*6
ham, England, said:
inches In the course of a year. For a
“Yes, poor chap, he is gone,
horse bolted, thrown off his seat on man 80 years of age. no lees than 27
his cab he was driving and killed— feet of beard must have fallen before
poor chap, and a good sort too, mate. the edge of the razor.
It was him, you see, who gave me that
The total number of copies of news
half bottle of St. Jacob’s Oil that
made a new man of me. ‘Twas like papers printed throughout the world In
this: me and Bowman were great ’ one year Is estimated at 12.000,000,000.
friends. Some gentleman had given To print these requires 781.260 tons of
him a bottle of St. Jacob's Oil which paper. The oldest newspaper Is said
had done him a lot of good; he only to be the Kln-Pau of Pekin, which has
used half the bottle, and remembering been published continually for over 1,-
that I had been a martyr to rheums
tism and sciatica for years, that I had 000 years.
In Tennessee and Georgia the peanut
literally tried everything, had doctors,
and ail without benefit ’ .became dis Is known as a goober. In Alabama and
couraged, and looked upon it that the Western Gulf States a ground pea,
there was no help for me. Well,” said In the Southeast of the United States
Pope, “You may not believe me, for and In the West Indies a plnilal or pin-
It is a miracle, but before I bad used
dar, and in various parts of England a
the contents of the half bottle of SL
Jacob's Oil which poor Bowman gave jurnut, an earth nut or a manila nut
To drive ants from the lawn fine coal
me, I was a well man. There It is,
you see, after years of pain, after us ashes sprinkled about the burrows of
ing remedies,
oils,
embrocations, ants will cause them to leave. Ashes
horse liniments, and spent money on may be used on the lawn without Injury
doctors without getting any better, I
Sifted ashes are best,
was completely cured in a few days. to the grass
I bought another bottle, thinking the but those fresh from the stove, shaken
pain might come back, but it did not, from the stove shovel, will answer the
so I gave the bottle away to a friend purpose very well.
who had a lame back. I can't speak
The philosopher Confucius, writing of
too highly of this wonderful pain the great Chinese Emperor Yu, said
killer.”
that all bls efforts could tie summarized
In the creation of canala. They were
An Uncalculating Haro.
Helen—Oh, he is not at all mercen an effective means of diminishing the
destructive action of torrents and avoid
ary,
Alice—But he doubtless knows that ing Inundations, and at the same time
afforded a source of Irrigation.
you are worth two millions.
Helen—Yes; but he says he would
love me just as much If I wasn’t worth
Women in Old Egypt.
but a mile and a half.—Judge.
The religious Egyptian believed his
ulterior happiness and his everlasting
A Real Wonder.
union with tho divinities In the eternal
Bill—Have you seen that woman world to be wholly dependent upon his
lightning change artist at the thea preparations beforehand, and with
ter?
these the wife had much to do. Hhe
Jill—No. Is she good?
Bill—Great! Why, she puts on her was. In fact, as the mother of bls chil
bonnet in less than flfteen minutes. dren, his savior and liberator, for none
but a son could pray for the father's
—Yonkers Statesman.
soul on Its way to paradise, and she
was entitled to and received bls hom
Another Trade by David,
In those
The gentleman known as David age and loyal obedience.
Haram stopped the deacon on the days the "gray mare was the batter
road.
horse,” aud she was treated accord
“Deacon,” said David, "I’ll give ingly.
you a dolllar an' my sorrel mare ter
that black colt you're driving."
Durability of Plate Glass.
"Done,” said the deacon.
It has l»een ascertained that plate
glass will make a more durable monu
ment than the hardest granite.
SteriMg Out ?•»».
A Tarribl» Mittek».
"fllr," said tho Indignant customer
to the proprietor. “I have a complaint
to make.
"What la the trouble?"
"I ordered Ice cream stria, air, an«l
when I stirred It up I found Ice cream
In IL Don't let It occur again, air."
Fatlquteg.
Pathlot—This
country ha
Mr.
standing army to
maintained
many, many years.
Ills Wife—Goodness sake, Henry
Th«-y ought to be dreadfully tired!
Ohio Htate Journal.
FOI NUOACIb
CARTERS FOR
DIHIROt.
TOR • IU0U1««'
FOR
FOR C0MTIMÎ*
foruuoww ^
FOR TOCO««"
■ na RR—Re«
CURE PICK HE*DA c *L
Italy's Wsmaa Lawyer.
Hlgnorlna Tsresa Ijsborloll la the
first woman lawyer In Italy. Hh«> has
passed her examination with honors,
but, as she does not desire to advo
cate the "new woman" sho determin
ed not to practice.
•TAKT. NO JUBJTirUTeJ. CJ
JHOWINO rui L LINJ.
Ad TOWER CO
Contracted.
BESTFOJJ1
BOWELS
"Oh, I don't know,” remarked the
optimist. "After all. you'll find the
milk of human kindness.”
Postofficri and Population
"Iluh!" granted th»» cynic. "What
At the close of the fiscal year of you do find Is usually the condensed
1900 there were 7«,«88 postoffices In variety."- Philadelphia Press.
the United States or one to every
If ye*
1000 Inhfibltants.
Juit About
Unde Jason (at the seaside hold)
What’s the difference between the
American and European plans. John?
Galey Oh! about the same differ
ence as between embezzlement and
robbery.—Puck.
CANÖV
catha O10
Summer Resolution»
Too Much lor H«r.
"Yes, Mrs. Bouncer wanted to send
her daughter to Hryn Mawr, but ah.«
decided on Vassar."
"What. Influenced her derision?”
She
couldn't pronounce
Hryn
Mawr.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Turalas <h< Tabl«».
Mrs Newbride Isn't nt all satisfied
with her husband’s salary.
No; «he says It Isn't nearly so
good as her father used to make -
Boston Journal.
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