General Debility Day In and out mere Is that ter ling M weakness that makes a burden at Itself. Food does not strengthen, bleep does not refresh. It Is hard to do, hard to bear, what Should t>e easy,— vitality is on the abb, and Ute whole system suffers. For this condition take A STUDY IN SCARLET BY A. CONAN DOYLE. Hood's Sarsaparilla It vltallr.es the blood, gives vigor and tone to all the organs and functions, and Is positively unequalled for all run-down or debilitated conditions. ' H ood s F ills carecaaistlyMiiua-5 seoK at Ion for blood corpusol»». Tim latter is valueless if the stains area few hours old. Now, tide ap|Heeted of a crime months ¡u-rhaps alter it is eomiuitled. His linen or dollies are examined, and brownish stains dis­ covered upon them. Are they bhus!- stains, or niudataina, or rustataine, or fruitstain»,or what are they? Ibero is a question which has puxiled many an expert; and why? Because there was no reliable teat. Now we hate the Sherlock Holmes test, and there will uo longer be any difficulty." Ill* eyes fairly glittered a* he »¡s>ke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed aa if to Koine applauding crowd «xmjured up in his imagination. "You are to lie congratulat'd," 1 remarked, considerably suiptiaod at his enthusiasm. "There w as th« caae of Von Bischoff at Frankfort last year. He would cer­ tainly have l>eeii hung had this test been in existence. Then there was Mason, of Bradford, and the notorious Muller, and Lefevre, of Montpelier, and Samson, of New Orleans, I could name a score of cases in which it would have been decisive." "You sci.n to be a walking calendar of crime," said Stamford, with a laugh. "You might start a paper on those lines. Call it the ’Police News of the Past.’ " "Very interesting reading it might make, too,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, sticking a small piece of plaster over the prick on bis finger. "I have to l>e careful," he continued, turning to me with a smile, "for I dabble with poi­ sons a good deal." He held out liis hand as he spoke, and I noticed tiiat it was all mottled over with similar pieces of plaster and discolored with strong acids. "We canie here on business." said Stamford, sitting down on ii three- legged stl and pushing another one in my direction with his foot. "My friend here wants to take diggings, and as you were complaining that you could get no on» to go halves with you, I thought that 1 had better bring you together." "Wilbur,” asked the patient llilla lady who taught in the night m-hool, "why is ymtr writing an dree ifully up I and doWIlt" ,,.nc.. “Iion’t know .” answered W illniP. “less It's cauae I run an «'levator day«. Ha Made No Mlitak*. “1 ahn’ did sm Marse T-m’a las’night," *aid the oid familv «*rv. ant. “Ara yvu sur« ot tlial?" h* •aked. ,, , , , "Ye*, »uh— •he’ 1 “ I couldn't mako no mistako, käse n* g mo Straight to fore 1 could vet to stand much noise or excitement. Ignorance. white pepper or ginger or «'»her join it the second Afghan war had I had enough of both in Afghanistan to I*e Style—Have you ever heard of broken out. After you try them you may select last me for the remainder of my natural ping pong? you’ll agree with us that no other brand How could I meet this On landing at Bombay I learned existence. Gunbuxta (innocently)—Oh, yes ; I that my corps had advanred through friend ot voura?” on the market is mi pure and strong. Moat grocers handle Mono|sde gnaetles. frequently take my laundry to hiui "He is sure to be at the laboratory. the ¡«asses and was already d(.s>p in the Smart Set. Wadhatna A Kerr Bros . Portland, Or. He either avoids tiie place for weeks or enemv’s country. I followed, however, with many other else he works there from morning to Th* Observation Car Quita Fa as a fellow lodger. A fin* Library Confirmed. "You mustn’t blame me if you don’t I served at tiie fatal battleof Maiwand. Of 140 volumes of the Itest literature There I was strnck on the shoulder get on with him," he said; “I know Clara — He told me that although you is fount! on each of the Northern 1 aci- bad refused him, he knew tiiat I he by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the nothing more of him than I have He's “North l'oa»t Limited” trains, bone and grazed the subclavian artery. learned from meeting him occasionally would get over it. Don't forget that these are the only Maud—That’s what I was afraid of. I should have fallen into the hands of in the laboratory. You proposed this ar­ the murderous Ghazis had it not laren rangement, so you muat not hold me trains operated in the west that are responsible. ” lighted throughout by electricity. for the courage and devotion shown by Th. Particular Kind. “If we don’t get on it will be easy to ‘Thompson says he regards his Murray, my orderly, who threw me A Csl a Cradla. “It across a pack horse and succeed«*! in part company,” I answered. mother-in-law as a perfect treasure. t* seems to me, Stamford, ” I added, look ­ bringing me safely into tiie British A cat had taken tip it* abode “To be sure he does—the kind he’d ing hard at my companion, "that you nursed it» litter of four kittens in be satisfied to lay up in heaven."— lines. Worn with pain and weak from the have some reasons for washing your fork of a tree '.’H feet from the ground, Smart Set. prolonged hardships which I had under­ hands of the matter. Is this fellow’s in the garden of Aid. Peace'« residence gone, 1 was removed, with a great temper so formidable, or what is it. at Castle Hills, High Wycomlw, Eng­ Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow’s Sooth­ land. The kittens were removed bv ing Syrup the beat remedy to use tor their train of wounded sufferers, to the base Don’t be mealy-mouthed about it." “It is not easy to express the inex­ hospital at Peshawur. the gardener, but the cat speedily took children during the teething period. Here I rallied, and had already im­ pressible,” he answered, with a laugh. them up the tree again to their strange proved so far as to be able to walk "Holmes is a little too scientific for my Had Been There Before birthplace. — Ext hange Boreman—Hello, Sharpe! Well I, about the w ards, and even to bask a lit­ tastes—it approaches to cold blooded- (To be l uullnual ) tle on the veranda, when I was strut k nese. 1 could imagine his giving a CATAKKII CAJtSOT MB Orli» tell you I’m glad to get back again. down by enteric fever, that curse of our friend a little pinch of tiie latwt vege­ Sharpe—Back from where? BHIEF BUT KILLING. With locai application*, aa ihry raanoc rsach table alkaloid, not out of malevolence, Boreman—Why, I’ve been in Europe Indian possessions. thè *-«t et lt><- 1 •■ **- ( aiarrn I* * blood «>r For months my life was despaired you understand, but simply out of a cciiamuiicnai.1 u. and . onl.r t>> rur* li for a month, and I ve had lots of inter­ vou nvi*tt*k* internai rvrnwl r* Itali * t a of, and when at last I came to myself spirit of inquiry, in order to have an Remedy Waa Not Recommended, But Wa. larrh esting ex per— t ur» la t*k*o internali?. *n I asta t.r» or Very Effective In It* Way. >e Mèsti ai i :n i eus seriaeas itali < I ■ Sharpe—Shake! I’ve been visiting and became convalescent, I was so accurate id*-« of tiie effects. To do him larrh Cure ta uni a ouack nar.llcUir It *o A rv'cont West Philadelphia political pre-< in Lonelyville for a week, and I tell weak and emaciate«! that a medical justice, I think he would take it him­ rtbod by <>no of tnr t^at phyalctan* in thta you, I was surprised with the place. board determine«! that not a day should self with the same readiness. He ap- meeting was niarsed by the telling of cvuuiry tur yrar* and ita rogular prrw-rtptlon be lost in sending me back to England. pears to have a passion for exact and the following story as illustrative of the It ;• onii).«'d ot thè l**t totiica »noeti, rum Let me teli you about it. You see- hlnod wilh 0(0 (‘••l b.'-’d ¡'uriflsra. arilo» di I was dispatched accordingly in the definite knowledge." evil of being too laconic in everyday rv .y un tba noi .■((* aurfa< e* thè portoci What, going? Well, so long!—Detroit costi* nailon <*l tho two tnxradtanta la wbat pr- “ Very right, too. ” i troopship Oroutes, and landed a month j s|>eech. Brevity was the distinguish­ Free Press. «o h wxridorful rotulta lacurlnsoalazrh i later on Portsmouth jetty, with my | "Yes, but it may be pushed to ex- ing characteristic of the village where­ duco* Sond ter trai moina!*, trrc F J t lIKSKY .4 co., l’ropr» . Tolado, O. health irretrievably ruined, but with cess. When it comes to beating the in lived Jim and Zacli, farmers, and Financial Effort.. Soli! by drnok. Send address with six cents “Mine, too." Each train is brillirntly lighted with ! finance* become, that I soon realized bleak stone staircase and made our way and book will be mailed to you by “Good niornin'!” over 300 lights, and the beauty of it that I muat either leave the metropolis down the long corridor, with its vista Chas. S. Fee, G. P. aud T. "Good mornin’!” all is, you can travel just as cheaply on and rusticate somewhere in the country of whitewashed walls and dun «xrlored Paul, Minn. this train as on any other. All repre­ or that I must make a complete altera­ doors. Near the farther end a low Satlified. Anyhow. sentatives will be glad to give you ad­ tion in my style of living. arched passage branched away from it Cultivation. “Maria," said the colored citizen, ditional information. A. D. Charlton, Choosing the latter alternative, I be­ and led to the chemical laboratory. "I snppo*« yon aim to make a Assistant General Passenger Agent, 255 gan by making up my mind to leave This was a lofty chamber, line«l and “1 fed lak my time has come at las’; I cultivated young man of your boy, is mighty low." Morrison street, Portland, Oregon. the hotel and take up my quarters in litter«*! with countie»« bottles. Broad, “Ain't vo’ been eatin' de cunnel's Josh?’” some less pretentious and less expen­ low tables were scattered about, which waterniillions?" "Yes,” answered Farmer Corntoa- A Mitundcntood Man. ! bristled with retorts, test tube« and lit ­ sive domicile. sei. “We’re cultivatin’ him the b»»t “Oh, yes." On the very day that I had come to tle Bunsen lamps, with their blue, Geraldine—Did you ever have the we can. Every now and then m< ther “ Well, didn ’ t yo ’ know he done feeling that people didn’t understand thia conclusion, I was standing at the flickering flame«. and mo give« him a rakin' over."— There was only one student in the pizened the las’ one er dem?” Criterion bar, when some one tapped you? Washington Star. "Did he pizen um?” room, who was bending over a distant me on the shoulder, and, turning Gerald—I often have it; I use the “ He sho ’ did." At the round, I recognized young Stamford, ' table absorbed in his work. telephone a great deal.—Smart Set. “Dat settles me. But, Maria—” who had been a dresser under me at sound of our steps he glanced around “What do you want?” Bhak* Into Your Shona and sprang to his feet with a cry of Bart’s. “I wuz all day at um, en 1 eat nine Allen's Foot-Eaw. A powder. It make« tight The sight of a friend’s face in the pleasure. or new shoes feel easy. It la a certain cure lor tefo* I quit."—Atlanta Constitution. In Politica. "I’ve found it! I’ve found it!” he «westing, callous and hot. tired, aching feet. great wilderness of London is a pleasant I Bold by all Druggists. Price 25c. Trial package thing, indeed, for a lonely man. In shouted to my companion, running to­ "Ho was too dignified to join In a mailed FREE. Addresa Allen 8. Olmatod, Lo- Almott True. scambi» for office," old days Stamford had never been a ward us with a test tube in hi« hand. Boy, M. Y. “Now,” commenced the attorney for particular crony of mine, but now I “I have found a reagent which is pr«sci- “And what has he now?" hailed him with enthusiasm, and he, pitated by haemogoblin, and by noth­ the green goods men, “it is stated that No Mice on Papa Little. “Notiiing but his dignity."—Brook­ when vou discovered that the tin box lyn Eagle. Mice cannot exist on Papa Little, an in his turn, appeared to be delighted to ing else.” held sawdust you expkxled with laugh ­ Had he discovered a gold mine great­ island in St. Magnus bay, on the west see me. Hamlin * M iz.ard ()i| banishes pain ; it In the exuberance of my joy I asked er delight could not have shone upon ter. How do you reconcile this state­ of Shetland. To test the truth of this, ment with your claim that you were in­ d<«-a it a thousand times every day, and several mice, at various times, were him to lunch with me at the Holborn, his features. lias for over forty years! “Doctor Watson—Mr. Sherlock flamed with wrath?" brought here, but the soil proved so and we started off together in a hansom. “It ain’t exa< tlv the facts, judge, *• “ Whatever have you lieen doing with Holmes, ” said Stamord, introducing us. uncongenial that they soon died.—Ex­ All Proviiian Made. "I acknowledge yourself, Watson?’-’ he a-ked, in undis- . “How are you?” he said, cordially, said the plaintiff. change. "A man has just dropped dead in the guised wonder, as we rattled through gripping my hand with a strength for that I was busted , but 1 deny that I ready-made clothing department," the crowded London streets. "You are which I should hardly have given him laughed.”—Baltimore American. said a new clerk in the big department as thin as a lath and as brown as a credit. “You have been in Afghanis­ And Y«t. Why Not Make ’Em Happy. store, running up, excitedly, to the tan, I perceive.” nut.” An Atchison man told an old maid floor walker. "How on ««arth did you know that,” I gave him a short sketch of my ad­ recently that she was a sweet old thing, ’Have him taken to the cemetery lot ventures, and had hardly concluded it I asked in astonishment. by the time that we reached our desti­ “Never mind," said he, chuckling and she has lain awake nights < ver department with the undertaking an­ Men mould nex, fourteenth floor," he replied to himself. "The question now is since dreaming of him. Sores and Ulcers never become chronic nation. “Poor devil!” he said, commiserat- about haemogoblin. No doubt you aee lie careful to whom they throw Isspiets. briskly. —Lippincott's Magazine. ■nless the blood is in poor condition —is sluggish, weak and unable to throw off ingly, after he had listened to my mis­ the significance of this discovery of Some nice old girls get so few that they exaggerate the importance of a stray the poisons that accumulate in it. The fortunes. “What are you up to now?" mine?” system must be relieved of the uahealtlay “Looking for lodgings,” I answered. "It is interesting, chemically, no blossom.—Atchison Globe. matter through th« sore, and great dangei “Trying to solve the problem as to doubt,” I answered; “but prac­ to life would follow should it heal before whether it is possible to get comforta­ tically—’♦ An Important Qualification. the blood has been made pure and healthy ble rooms at a reasonable price.” “Why , man, it is the most practical First Burglar—What did yer taka and allimpurities eliminated from the sys­ “That’s a strange thing,” remarked medico-legal discovery for years. that brickybrac fer? ’Taint no good! tem. S.S.S. beginsthecurebyfirstcleans- Second Burglar—'Taint? lag and invigorating the blood, budding my companion; “you are the second Don’t you see that it gives us an infal­ up the general health and removing from man today that has used that expres- lible teat for blood stains? Come over First Burglar—Naw. 1 tell yer, here now!” He seized me by the coat Jimmy, if yer wantter make a fust class eion to me.” . ,e OONSTAMT DRAIN “And who was the first,'’ I aaked. sleeve in his eagerness and drew me success in dis business yer got ter Xe”°artt£. UPO" THE SYSTEM. “A fellow who is working at the over to the table at which he had beer, When this has been accomplished the dis­ chemical laboratory up at the hospital. working. "I^t us have some fresh know somethin’ alsmt art!—Puck. charge gradually ceases, and the sore or Fie wae bemoaning himself this morn­ blood,” he said, «Jigging a long Ixxikin ulcer heals. It is the tendency of these old White Sand* of New Mexico. indolent sores to grow worse and wor «, ing because he could not get some one into his finger an«l drawing off the re­ to go halves with him in some nice sulting drop of blood in a chemical The "White Sands" of southern and eventually to destroy the bones. Local applications, while soothing and to some r«K)ms which he had found and which pipette. “Now I add this small quan- New Mexico lie in the Ssn Augustin extent alleviate pain, cannot reach the seal were too much for his purse.” ! tity of blood to a litre of water. You plain, and are a sheet of pure gypsum, of the trouble. S. S. 8. does, and no matter “By Jove!” I cried, “if he realty see that the resutling mixture has the 00 miles Jong and five to twenty broad. how apparently hopeless your condition, wants some to share the rooms and the appearance of true water. The pro­ The white "sands” of gypsum raised eve» though your constitution has broken expense, I am the very man for him. portion of blood cannot be more than by the wind resembles a line of break­ Muat Baar Signatura of down, it will bring relief when nothing I should prefer having a partner to be­ one in a million. I have no doubt, ers in the distance. else can. It supplies the rich, pure blood ing alone. ” however, that we shall lie able to ob ­ necessary to heal the sore and nourish Young Stamford looker! rather tain the characteristic raection.” Poker Laws. the debilitated, diseased body. Mr. T ■ Tatbcrt, Lock Box M5. winon«, Ml*»., strangely at me over his wine glass. As he spoke he threw into the vessel White — You don’t like to play poker asys: •'Six year* 110 my leg from the kn-e to “You don’t know Sherlock Holmen a few white crystals and then added with Brown, do you the foot waa one aohd »ore. Several physician* treated me and I made two trip* to Hot Spring*, yet,” he said; “perhaps you would not some drops of a transparent fluid. In Green—No; to tell the truth, I I but found no relief I waa induced te try S. S. 8 . care for him as a constant companion.” an instant the contents assumed a dull don’t. But why did you think that tóit made a complete cure. I have been a per “Why, what is there against him?” mahogany color, an«l a brownish «lust such was ti>e case? y wetl man ever einee ’• is the only purely veg “Oh,I didn't say there was anything was precipitated to the bottom of the White—Because Brown says he likes ■ *» *N KJ* etable blood purifier against him. He is a little queer in glass jar. to play with you.—Chicago News. known— contains no his ideas — an enthusiast in some "Ha! Ha! ” he cried, clapping hie poisonous minerals to Pertinent. ruin the digestion and branches of science. As far as I know, hands and kxrking as delighted as a child with a new toy. "What do you add to, rather than relieve your suffer­ be is a d«scent fellow enough.” Laly fx>ctnrer—Mv dear children, I “A medical student, I suppowj?” I think of tiiat?” ings. If your flesh does not heal readily love all animals. I never under any when scratched, bruised or cut, your blood said. “It seems to be a very delicate test,” circurristan««-» i hurt one. 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