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A ByWay to Health.

Let it be remembered that the best
cookery of the best viands in the world
is comparatively thrown away, in its
health giving and nourishing qualities,
if the food be swallowed hastily and in
Jumps. From the esthetical side of the
question, too, a grave mistake is this
haste and imperfect mastication. If to
eat be a necessity, and if the satisfac-
tion of this necessity be pleasant, as ma
ture intends it to be; if q sensitive pal
ate be given us to embrace u pleasure,
and to enable us to enjoy the goods the
gods provide-why, in the name of all
that is rational, should there be any
thing grosser in enjoying the fine flavor
OF a well cooked dish than in enjoying
the scent of a full blown rose, particu-
larly when the former in some shape is
q necessity, while the latter is merely a
luxury. Therefore, philosophically, it
is a grave error and an %ungrateful deed
to swallow well cooked, palatable food
at such a pace as prevents your getting
the full amount of pleasure ont of the
act Of eating and which renders you in
different to your cooks skill.
There are some who condemn epicur-
ism as something horrible and as likely
to lead to murder, petit larceny and
other Objectionable crimes; but they
often confound refinement and discrimi-
nation in feeding with gluttony, and, in
their desire to avoid this and set o high
example of Indifference to the flesh,
adopt a scornful disregard of what and
how they eat and drink, and, pretend
ing to be above such mundane consid-
erations, bring themselves to a chronic
state of i'll health, which it takes years
of strict regimen to recover from. No;
you must finger over the taste of your
food as you finger over the swell OF a
flower. Nature demands of you this
concession to health, and there can be
nothing mor sinful in indulgiug the
sense Of taste than the sense of smell.
Having swallowed your dinner in Jumps,
the usual custom is to endeavor to coun-
teract the discomfort produced by wash
ing it down, and rendering it soluble by
huge draughts of fluid. This is merely
adding insult to the injury you have
done your stomach, and is resented &C.
cordingly. Copious draughts are just
as injurious as large, quickly devoured
mouthfuls, and drink should be taken
as cautiously and slowly as food. Thirst
is really more efectually assuaged by
swallowing slowly a moderate quantity
than by taking o large one at o gulp,
and a little thus goes further than much.
The best check upon immoderate
draughts is never to drink out of too
large a tumbler. Taking it in modera-
tion, the fluid assists in dissolving the
solids, instead of setting them floating,
aid sluicing them all before it, as is in
evitably the case when a so-called hearty
draught is taken.
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He'd Suffered Enough,

Capt. Bob Shaftoe concluded to run
for Congress. He had been in the wars
he had fought and bled-and his rec
ord as q soldier wa of the very best.
Of course, having consented to run, he
had to take the stump. Bob could be
eloquent upon occasion, specially when
picturing battles scenes and he in.
dulged rather freely in this style, for be
knew more about war than he did about
politics. His opponent was q politician,
and not a soldier.
One day Bob addressed an assembled
multitude in front of a cross-road
grocery. He told the story Of his hard
ships in the field %eloquently and touch
ingly. He told how he had led a forlorn
hope; how he had been stricken down
under the very muzzle of the enemy's
battery and how he had lain two nights
and one day suffering where he fell be-
fore succor came. And other things he
told LEGALLY as thrilling.
When he had concluded, one of the
sovereigns approached him with sym
pathy in every look.
"Cap'n Bob, was all that true you
told us2"
"True as gospel, my friend"
"And you rally fit right up to the
mouth of the enemy's cannon?"
eyes,"
"And got knocked over3"
eyes"
"And come nigh dyin2-two whole
nights in misery2"
"Yes, my friend, it is all true as
have told you. I was wounded -four
times after that2"
"Well," said the interrogation, with
visible emotion. "I'm blamed if you
haint suffered enough for the country.
1 don't see why we should send you out
among them Congress fellows. They're
a hard lot. T'other man is younger
n you. and amt of much account any,
way. I say, let him suffer awhile ; 30
guess I'll vote for him |"
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The Eastern War.

Both the Turks and the Servians, says
the New York Sun, have displayed i'm.
mense vigor, during the present war, in
keeping newspaper correspondents away
from their armies. Both sides have
filled the world with contradictory false,
hoods, through their official reports,
aboutthe operationsand successes OF thei,
troops in the field. These reports sent
out from Constantinople and Belgrade
have become the laughing stock Of man.
kind. Though marked with the Official
stamp in both cases, they are universal
~ discredited. If they had given facili'
ties to impartial correspondents, instead
Of excluding them from their lines, We
should have the truth about the progress
of the ;Hssf, which thus far we have been
unable to obtain.
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Poisoned by Eating TOadsto0ls.

Mr.. Flint, Of Louisville, KY, gather.
ed what he thought was a fine lot Of
mushrooms, and ordered them cooked
for dinner. They were placed on the
table at dinner, hot and steaming, MIR.
Flint, his sister, and his three children,
two boys and one girl, eating of them,
Mr.. Flint and his daughter eating more
heartily than the other members OF the
family. Not long after dinner all five
were taken with violent vomiting and
other signs of poisoning, and aphysician
was summoned, when it was ascertained
that the supposed mushrooms were toad
stools. The proper remedies and resto-
ratives we're used, and in an hour or two
all were out of danger. The father and
daughter, who ate moro freely than the
others, were more seriously affected.
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How he Changed his Subject.

A new minister who arrived in one of
the circuits of Illinois, the other SUM-
day, announced as the subject Of his
first discourse: woman, her history
and sphere"
"Ev wa a most beautiful woman"
he proceeded, "aud doubtless as tender
and helpful to her husband as any of the
good wives of to-day"
"Yes," called out q grizzly back
woodsman, getting up and going out,
eve all know how she helped him bout
the fall work !"
The preacher Immediately dropped
the subject of "woman and her sphere"
bnt being an Englishman, was enabled
to proceed with n much more adapted
to the locality, namely: "Agar in the
Wilderness"
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A Painters Nhim.

The house in which Turner, the
painter, lived was 80 dirty and disorder
y that it was known as turner's
den." He was very untidy, and in this
dwelling his popularity had full sway.
The windows were neve cleaned, and
had in them breaches patched with
paper; the door was black and blistered;
the iron palisades were rusty for lack
Of paint. If a would-be visitor knocked
or rung, it was long before the summons
was replied to by wizened, meager old
man, who would unfasten the chain suf-
iciently to see who knocked or rung,
and the almost invariable answer was :
"You can't come in" It was here that
be kept for many years the greater part
of his store Of pictures, shrewdly cal
culating upon the time when they should
be worth thousands OF pounds.
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The Fearful Little Maid.

She stands within the daisied field,
A little maiden all alone ;
And bending down she takes a flower,
And plucks its petals one by one.
"He loyxsrne we'll he does not love-;
Trembling, weeping, now is she.
"Ah, does no love: or loves he not
Icannot try! I dare not see J"
Her heart is beating loud and fast,
Her binding tears are like a pail
She does not hear the eager step,
She does not see the shadow fall.
The flower is taken from her hand,
Swiftly tho petals he removes.
"He loves-loves not-he lovss-loYe
not.
See, darling !-'tis the last-he loves
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So Old.

Dobbs (who is a jolly old bachelor,
and o bright young lady acquaintance
we're bantering each other about mar
riage. "Oh," said she, "you'n gel
married one of these days, I know !; and
you'd have me now if 1 would wait TO,
you" YOU'D have to wait until my
second childhood, then," said Dobbs,
Well, I shouldn't have long to watt
was the quick repartee from the lady.
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Ohapped hands, face, pimples, ring
,;ora ,s srltThs sum r and oss as;n 'u Ias5s sn,t an .R;
smooth, by using JUNIPER TAB SOAP. Be care
full to get only that made by Csswell, Hazard a
Co., New York, as there are many limitations
made with common tar. all Of which are worth
leaa -Tosn.
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Tonic.

Every ono, at times, feels the necessity Of
som restorative Of the vital lowers, depressed
by mental or bodily exhaustion. In such con'
dltions, let every one, instead Of flying to the
alcoholic or medicinal stimulants, which must
be followed by depression Equal to their ex-
element, reinvigorate his dersnged system by
the nsluIa tonic clements of the Pc uvian
Syrup. Sold by ell druggists.
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yLurs truly, JAMES O. BALLS.

The fame of GLENN's SULPHUR Soar
as a remedy for eruptlons, sores. burns, PIN.
pee, blotchcs aud rheumatic and equity pains
has spread far aud wide. Ply sicians recon.
mend it and the demand for it constantly in
creases. Depot. Crittenton's, No. Z Sixth
avenue, New York.
Charge gray hair to black or brown with
Hills Hair Dye.
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CA Drop OF Joy In Every Word"

F~LKxINaroN. Huuterdon Co., N J., June 26, IA
DR.. r. Y. Pierce, Buffalo, N. T.: Dear Sir
It il with a happy heart that I pen these line,
to acknowledge that you and your Colder
Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets are
blessings to the world. Theee medicines can
not be 10 highly praised, for they have a.
most brought me ont OF the grave. Three
months ago I was broken out with large ulcer,
and sores on my body, limbs and face. pro.
Purgative Pellets, and have taken six bottlep,
and to-day I Am in good health, all hose ugly
ulcers having healed and left my skin in q
natural, healthy condition. I thought at one
time 1 could not be cured. Although I can
but poorly c1I ress my gratitude to you, yet
there is a drop Of Joy in every word I write.
God blessing rest On you and your wonderful
me-i:ines ie the humble prayer Of
5Lurs truly, JAMES O. BsLL1s.
When a medicine will promptly cure such
terrible c-tiug ulcere and froe the blood OF
the VII uIeut poisons causing them, who can
longer doubt it's wonderful virtues? DR..
Pierce, however, does not wish to place his
Golden Medical Discovery in the catalogue OF
qnack patent nostrums by recommending it to
cure every disease. nor does he 30 recommend
it; but what he does claim is this, that there
10 but one form Of blood disease that it Wi not
cure, and that disease il cancer. he dues
not recommend bis Discovery forthat disease,
yet hs knows it to he the most searching blood
cleanser yet discovered, and that it will free
the blood and system Of al, known blood pol
sons, be they animal, vegetable or mineral.
The Golden Medical Discovery ia warranted by
him to cure the worst forms Of skin diseases,
as all forms of blotches, pimples and erup-
tions, also all glandular dwellings. and the
worst form Of scrofulous and liberated sores
~ heck, legs or other parts, and all scrofulous
d~i-eases OF the bones, as white swellings, fever
sur"s, hip joint and spinal diseases, all OF
which bolong to scrofulous diseases.
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At our request Cragin & TO-, OF Phil
adelphia, Pa, have promised to. send
any Of our readers, gratis (on receipt Of
fifteen cents to pay postage,) q sample
of Dobbins' Electric Soap to try. Send
at once.
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Farmers and stock raisers have fire.
quently told us that thoy have noon very good
results from giving S~heriddn's Cavalry Con-
dillon POWDERS TO oows and swine before aud
after they drip their young. Tho powders
put them In god condition, and give them
strength to care and provide for tho SUCK
linps,
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We have often wondered whether
there is a person in the country who does not
know and appreciate the valu of Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment "a q family medicire2 1t
is adapted to most all purposes, and Is the
beat pain destroyer that can be used.
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See aivertisemtnt Jsmes' Bittere.

$50 or 500 BOUNTY.
Act Of 1891 renewed. soldiers, Widows, Children, Pa.
reuts, write term Of service, amount Of Bounty receiyed
sending stamp to Cor. L. BINGHAM Z 90, Attornsys
for Claims, Patents, Land Titles, Washington, D. g.
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1t was the wife of q ragged hummer
who said, at midnight 1T is Isvertoo
late to mend"
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The Evangelical Union in Scotland is
composed ct eighty three churches that
do not admit liquor dealers to member
ship.
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FORTUNES FOR AI1.-Agents wanted.
Address Bullion Mining Co. ITS Broadway NY.
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GEORGE ROSE.

Gsrman By birth, and speaks poor English age,
from, 40 to As Years, about Ave feet SIX ioche, In height,
brown ssir. sandy mustaohe. sharp bT9xn eyss, fat iors:
head. high cheek bones, thin face. His vile L. English
By birth, is . low sized woman, has q Lame step, gray
hair and dark eyes left hero az Year, .E2, iaiine my
plexlon, light blue tyea have no other children; $25
reward. MRS. EBBINGHOUSE, 1913 West Polk
! Street., Chicago, Illinois.
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n. 4. HURLBUT & co.,
RI ana II Randolph street, Chicago, 1 !
EUPEON
A Positive Victory over Rheumatism
and Neuralgia, Headache, Burns,
Bruises, Etc.

and Neuralgia, Headache, Burns,
Bruises, Etc.
PROOF AS TO NEURALGIA.
cbie,pAJ uly 1. 1s76-It immsti .tely relieved the
psroIysn,.o Of pain: relief was almost instantaneous -
Csc. !. La~TnneeS = tsSMf IonnS immeci late relief
M Gs' Il. 81 S ss!S q FEC 3 ose ss14 Aysa.s: .
Cinoinnls May 81, ls75.-Eupscn is TIE most wontet-
i J. r s9as iAl1 my Sgts,2n' I iHs .ni ps 'istor aI %t, es1s;''
and Aanu aetstt rers' Rssis'o.
.h ai1s snsi s.a III h,. Sh'a inoTH:~Joln ii. Biofs, 70
oiaotaas.ss', l3Suly 5, ls5s7J have t.ond 4 sI EuDsGP i'm:
dent isin Stttest Railroad;
.Clloaso, Jslly u. 1915 ny ite has Tsea IL ior nsu.Dl.
3. ia The sts sssa s 8 \. pG saS Street.
Cincinns1d, July 8, ls'smi have 1esn : snne.sr; sad
y d asDsnsuatdi. july ysS~ Is. ls7a.-I shall ever DO indebted to
{ u b sf : s' IS f. H5 TSild &
PROOF AS To RHEUMATISM.
Chicago, July 5, 1E6-One apple ltion caused Inc
pain 10 cease, and Il has not ,iucs troubled ms.-M.s.
4. 3. Uar, Us y. Ada Street.
Sisie: an 'i'''0''' s"'.' '' '''n 'o"'''''a-f'S d.
chicago. Jul, !, lse-Wa, oOnaned t. my bed min.
walk two or three blocks.-FsliI V.gh. 100 W. Msdi Il
CniSaso, July 10, Ih6-Txo days use of Eupeon ha,
enabled me- TO rss irum my char without AID, which I
have not been able 10 do Tor SIX months Defose.-W. 4.
Chicago, July II, 1878 II was relieved In tAsnty.four
hours.-tevts b. Cox, IA LsSslls street.
For letters In full, 500 circulars 10 hands Of Wsstern
Agents. For sale by ali Druggists.
Wholesale Weston Agents,
n. A. HURLBUT & co.;
IS nnd II Nnndolph street, Chicago, Ii.
NYNU No. IS
yvyAlLA "A . - H. .n,s nv u
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ROOFS.

Why Not naks your Roofs Last a HEstims, and save the
expense of G new roof eyeJ 10 or u years II ean 70
done: II you use Slate Paint, II Will not only resist tho
effects Of ws.er and wind, but ahield you from Efro.
IRON ROOFS. ,g,al%
Protect yorr Buildings BY using Slsts Paint, which
neither crack In winter nor fiMs IN summer. Od
single roofs can be painted, looking ssseA bsttsr, osd
one fourth the cost Of reshingitns: On decaysd shiagi .
Nal roof, that Lasts for yesrs. Curlsd or rayped shingles
requires no hesting, Is applied With . brush sad ysy
changes to . uniform slate color, and Is to ali intsnts
and purposes slote. .y -@as
ON TIN OR IRON ROOFS,
tho red color ID the best paint In the world for durability.
Il has . heavy body, 10 easily applied, expands By heat.
c~ontrsets By cold, dries siov and never cracks nor seal.s.
One coat equals 4 Of any other.
FIRE-PROOF NEW ROOFS.
Mills, foundriss, factories snd dwellings . ~speeiahy.
Materials complies for Q atU steep or fat Roof OF Ratosr
Roofing cost but about halt the price Of reshingiing.
For Private houses, barns and buidings OF all dsscrtp::
tious It Il far superior to any Other roofing In the word
for convenience In laying, and combires the. oTnamsHhot
appearance, durability, and fre-proof qualities OF da,a
one third tho cost. No Tar or Gravel Used.,
"How to saps rsshingling-stop leaks ehectonily ana
cheaply In roofs of all lind" 3 100 page book. free.
Write To-day!
New York Slate Roofing Co., Limited,
:. Roofing Contractors, Z Cedar St, NJ z.
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no. FOR IOWA!!

Farmers, renters and hlred men Oh hmoE1ca'
1o a an r r terms, at s. and SO per aero. send 5
po"tai card for our man and pamphlet. or eail on the
ti.dsr Raplds, Iowa. john B. CALHOUN. Land CImr.
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"RES WRt!tSE ~ ADVERTISER 4.
w piease say hat you Saw tho advert, =!
nsnt In this paper.
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0llueTbleeYe, john ooQlne, ". %. fdrWeli, ~.
Weber, I. l.. Allen, 7. 8. Dakin and Henry
Fulton.
The funeral Of e1-Gov. Henry A.. Wise was
attended in Richmond, Va, by an immense
conoourse Of people of all nationalities, as we'll
as military and civic societies. .... .Advices
from Natal, South America, are to the effect
that the natives are defeating the Boers at all
points, and that the president Of the Transvaal
republic has been requested to ask England to
accept the country as q province in order that
the people may be protected. ....W While Daniel
Bourne, a d~issipa:od butcher, Of New York
city, was beatin his wife, his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Sesbourgh, interfered to protect the wo-
man, when DAME picked up a stick Of wood
and beat Mrs. Seabourgh about the head until
she died. he was secured. ..... Congressional
nominations: Connecticut, first district, Joseph
R. Hawley, Rep; Tennessee, eighth, J. II. O.
Atkins, Dem; first, L. Mcfarland, Dem. .
Two masked men boarded thee express car on
the Utah Central railroad a few miles west Of
Salt Lake City, and binding the Wells Fargo &
Co.'s messenger, took $l5,000 from the safe
and escaped ...... A man died in q Kew York
hospital in terrible agony from h%ydrophobia,
having been bitten by q pet spitz dog a few
weeks previous..... By a collision on tho
Lehigh road, near White Haven, Pa, three
locomotives and fourteen cars were wrecked.
The train hands saved themselves by jumping.
The Rhode Island bleaohery and dye works
at Providence were destroyed by fire, involving
a loss Of 800, 000. IAN elevator loaded
with goods, under the charge of three men, in
a st. Louis shoe store, broke and fell four
~stories, instantly killing one man and seriously
injuring the others. ..... Terrific hurricanes
have visited many Of the West India islands,
doing much damage. Boston's " Old South -
church has been sold for $500, co.,, to be used
as a historical museum. 49, The report OF the
cotton crop for the year just passed shows
there were 1861 88 bales raised in this ooun-
try, Of which 3,252, 1914 bales we're exported,
!, 1856, 59S were used in manufr c.uros in this
country, OF which the North ru mills took
1,2l1, 59S bales and the Southern mills 145, 600.
......C Congressional nominations: New York,
twenty-second district, Geo. ". Smith, DEM;
Ohio, sixth, E. B. Hall, Grsonbsck Alabama,
fourth, Jsmes T. kapier (col.), Rep. Gen.
Terry's command has broksr up aud all the
troops are on their way home with the e1cep'
tion of two regia ents, which wll winter OF
the mouth Of Tongue river.
Tho Turkish government ordered a ten days.
armistioo to talk over matters relating to the
troubles in her colonies. 900. Gen. Crooks
command has had an engagement with the
Indians. A large village Was surprised by
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The M Is;ssaiseSaS; Chord q G 9s.ss..
wonderful and and amudns instrument ever Invented. Secret
souyenstIon can DO carried on from different rooms, seroN ths
street. &c, without detection. 4 child can use It. D.Agents
Wanted 10 taxa order1 for H. Sells Ike hot cakes. Sample psif
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tSI-Oi course GOmaLOes SQOulQ not De
made sweet.
A PIen for the Crow.
The crow is quite as fond of bugs and
worms and little field mice and Young
snakes as he is of the farmers corn, He
is a good policeman about the farm
house and drives away the hawk, who
can do twice the amount of mischief he
is guilty of. He hunts the grassfelds
and pulls out the. caterpillars and all
manner of pests, and probably saves
many other crops, if he is hard on the
corn. A gentleman had q tame crow who
trotted out after him as he went out to
wage his annual war Oh the squash
bugs. His sable attendant put his head
on one side and watched him for a few
minutes, as if to see how he did it.
Comprehending the business at last, he
went for those bugs with a will, and
cleared the patch in iue style. BE took
it for q business the remainder of the
season, insuring a fine crop.
To Determine the Age of Eggs.
An egg is generally called fresh
when it has been laid only one or two
days in summer, and two to six days in
winter. The shell being porous, the
water in the interior ~evaporates, and
leaves a cavity of greater or less extent.
The yo!k of the egg sinks, too, as may
be easily seen ly holding it toward q
candle 3r the sun and, when shaken,
a slight shock is felt if the egg is not
fresh. To determine the precise age
of eggs, dissolve about four ounces Of
common salt in a quart of pure water,
and then immerse the egg. If it is one
day old, it will descend to the bottom Of
the vessel !; but if three days, it will
float in the liquid. If more than dve
DAYS old, it will como to the surface and
project above in proportion to its IN
creased nge.