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EXPECTING roo MUCH.
That What Many Persons Do When Thcy
Engage Physician.

When you buy ticket from any Of
the leading railroad companies they can
not promise you, If they are truthful,
that they will take you TO New York in
time to catch tho steamer to Europe.
Many things might happen to delay the
train-wreckage. fire, food, tornado
you might die yourself. A berth in one
of the finest ocean steamers does not as
sure you that you will land safe in Liv-
erpool, Queenstown or Havre. You con-
tract to have your house built according
to certain plans and specifications, the
house to be finished and ready for occu-
pancy on a certain date. Do you always
find IL ready at the promised time?
When you occupy the house do not the
windows often move with difficulty, the
doors close badly, cracks appear in the
plastering. the plumbing unsatisfactory?
You find that the plans and specifica-
lions were not followed. You get on
the cable car and pay your nickel, to
ride a few blocks, or few miles. The
cable breal or the grip gives out and
you are compelled to walk. In none OF
these cases mentioned, and hundreds
more could be cited, can you be assured
that what you desire will be granted.
There is nothing certain but death and
taxes.
When you call upon physician, you
very often demand from him more than
you would from the railroad company,
the steamship company, the contractor,
or anybody else. You often say, Doc
tor, what will you take to cure me@'
You may have been sick for many years.
Your parents may have been delicate
people and started you in life with in
herited tendencies to disease. You may
have injured yourself by bad habits
you may refuse to correct these bad
habits when pointed out. Notwithstand-
ing these facts, you want to be ''cured."
No honest physician will promise you
''cure." He would not guarantee cure
FOR scratch of pin, for men have died
from as trifiing matter as a
scratch of pin. Cure, formerly
meant, Ito care for" He will do that
Quacks promise cures; the true physi-
clan never uses the word, except in its
sense Ito care for" Remembering the
instances cited above-the uncertainty
of earthly things-no intelligent person
should ask physician to guarantee a
cure; and if so-called physician under
takes to make such guarantee, every in
telligent person should know that the
guarantor is a quack. Health Monitor.
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FAR-FAMED TIMBUCTOO.
The Mysterious African City Visited by
Few Explorers.

rev Explorers.
When, three years ago, Lieutenant
Carron, a French naval officer. succeed
ed in making his way with a small gun
boat up the Niger to Timbuctoo, he did
not tarry there long. A pressing invita-
tion was given him to get out,a Lieu
tenant Carron, realizing that he and his
men were handful against thousands,
and finding Timbuctoo determined
neither to trade nor talk, thought it best
to depart The fact that he got to Tim
buctoo at all was no small tribute to his
pluck and perseverance. Not half q
dozen Europeans had succeeded since
the century began in getting into the
mysterious city before him. One of
these was murdered.
The few who by stealth and disguise
have visited Timbuctoo brought any
thing but a pleasing picture of the jeal-
ousy guarded seat of old Mohammedan
learning. Three hundred years or
more ago it may have been the rich
and royal city of which old chroni-
cles tell, though doubtless it's grandeur
lost nothing from the circumstance that
it was zealously guarded from the eyes
of the Christians, and that the explorer
who tried to reach it took his life in his
hands at the imminent risk of losing it.
The few recent travellers who have seen
it describe Timbuctoo as little more
than breakdown city, with mud huts
for the dwellings of its people and with
here and there stately ruin as evil
dence of it's former greatness. Lieu
81 Al. Il H..
started from the French settlements at
the mouth of the Niger in September
last with two small river gunboats,
succeeded, after steaming eight hun
dred miles, in reaching the city. The
detailed report of his voyage has not
been published, but it is stated that he
met with friendly reception, his ex-
perience in this respect being very diff
ferent from that of his predecessors. -
London Telegraph.
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They tell a good story of man who has
a fondneSs for fast horses. A year or two
ago he had one that was said to be a ''hyer,"
and marvellous stories were told of what she
had done, and was capable of doing. But
an intimate friend noticed that the owner
OF the wonderful horse never staked any
money on her.
"Why don't you back her for good,
round sum, if she can do what you claim
she can 80 he asked. "That would prove
that you had confidence in her, but as it
it is"
eSee here, my friend" said the other,
with a twinkle in his eye, don't you know
me well enough to know that I'm too modest
to bet on my own nag, especially when feel
sure that she can't come out ahead 3"
When a man knows he can accomplish
what he undertakes, he doesn't feel too mod
est to say so. When DIR. Pierce put his
"Favorite Prescription before the public
as a certain remedy for " female weakness, y
with satisfaction guaranteed or money re.
funded on every bottle of it, it proved
that Re had entire confidence in the prep
aration He felt sure of its merits, and
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AN ANCIENT STRONGHOLD.
Windsor Castle. Queen victorIa's Fsvorit
Dwelling Place.

Windsor Castle. Queen victorIa's Favorite
Dwelling Place.
Windsor Castle is one of the most an
cient of the magnificent strongholds in
Great Britain. 1t is known that Will
liam the Conquerer fouad 1t famous
place, the favorite seat Of the Saxon
kings The Norman removed the rude
wooden enclosure and constructed a
stone circuit wall; the first complete
round tower was built in 1872 by Henry
Ill, and Edward III. in 1874 remodeled
and reconstructed it on a much greater
scale, to afford an assembly place for
the Knights of the Garter, an order
which he had just established. The
legends had il that it was on the sum
init of that circular mound that King
Arthur was accustomed to meet with his
Knights of the Round Table. Addi-
tions have been made by various sover-
eigns to this famous Round Tower, the
later Improvements being by Sir jeffrey
Wyatville, the court architect, in the
reign of George ~. The chapel cloister
built by Henry Ill. remains, as was an
other, erected by the same monarch,
and dedicated to Edward the Confessor,
is now called the Albert Memorial
Chapel. Henry VII, in 1901 and sub
sequently, did much to improve the
chapels of the great structure. The
chapel of st. George is said to rank next
TO Westminster Abbey as a royal maui
soleum. This chapel is splendid speci-
men of Gothic architecture, and there the
marriage ceremony of the Prince Of
Wales and the Princess Alexandra was
performed with great magnifcence. In
regard to the ceremony it was said that
''the altar was arrayed with its gold
communion plate in massive rows, and
the ceremony performed by a number OF
prelates who made the service most i'm
pressiye. The musical portion of the
ceremony was sweetly rendered by Nine.
Jenny Lind Goldsmith, who, with 9th.
ers, offered up the hymn of praise on
this great day. A picture OF
the grand ceremony was painted by Mr..
Firth, for copyright of which higher
price has been offered than has ever
been offered for any other picture
Among those buried there are Henry
VIII. and Lady Jane Seymour, George
III. and his Queen, William Nv. and his
Queen, Charles |. and the Princess Char.
lotte. The vault in which the remains
of these lie is at the eastern end of the
chapel. 1t is in this chapel where the
installation of the Knights of the Gar.
ter takes place. The castle, which has
been one of the favorite seats of the
rulers of Great Britain for eight eentu.
ries, is in its interior rich in decorations
and works of art, embracing pictures,
statuary and bronzes. The principal
gallery in which these are shown is over
500 feet in length. The private apart
ments of the Queen were for the most
part rebuilt or remodeled by Sir jeffrey
Wyatville. The royal forest of Wind
sor in 1890 contained some $4,000 acres.
Since then, however, it has been much
reduced in size, although it still ranks
as one of the finest in the kingdom, and
contains some oak trees of great age and
siZe-Chicapo Inter Ocean
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PITH AND POINT.

| Those who court popularity are
afraid to speak the truth.-The Amer
lean.
| Only truly selfish man can realize
fully how utterly selfish other men can
be.-Somerville Journal
speech was given man TO conceal
his thoughts" but IL was a needl ess
precaution in many cases.--Puck.
Sometimes it is those who have
seemed the hardest to gain as friends
who afterwards prove the most faithful
ones.
Ask favor from your enemy and
you make him your friend; ask favor
OF your friend and you make him your
enemy.
The man who is always saying that
he wants but little here below generally
means the little he hasn't got already.
Toronto Globe.
The good are said to be happy; but
it is probably not because they spend
the time thinking how much better they
are than the rest of humanity.-Boston
Transcript.
-Antisthenes wondered at mankind,
that in buying an earthen dish they
were careful to sound it lest it had a
crack, yet so careless in choosing friends
as to take them fiawed with vice.
Life is like an ocean, some souls,
like the great waves, bear heavy bur-
dens and carry treasures to far-off lands;
others, like the foam, sparkle for mo-
ment in the sunlight and then are cast
upon the rocks or dissolved in empty
| air.
The world is upheld by the veracity
OF good men; they make the earth
wholesome. We call our children and
our lands by their names. Their names
are wrought into the verbs of language,
their works and effigies are in our
houses. and every circumstance of the
day recalls an anecdote of them.-Em
erson.
There are legitimately in every hui
man soul two opposing forces-the CEN
| tripetal which draws us to our kind, and
the centrifugal which causes us to isolate
ourselves. We are impeled by an in
ward necessity to seek social exist
ence, and SO create human society, and
at the same time to vindicate the great
TACT OF personality, ana SO secure lnul-
viduality.-Once A Week.
-People-and sometimes those who
call themselves, or would have others
call them, good and upright-are
pleased with any thing that has in it an
element of chance. 1t is for this rea-
son that, though they would not sit
down to game of cards, they will risk
a ticket in lottery, or make invest
ments in speculative enterprises that
are wild with uncertainty
Presbyterian.
knowledge, like the blood, is
healthy only while in brisk circulation.
Its work is to supply the veins and ar
teries OF our mental life, thus contin-
ually being transformed into new
thought and fresh activity. 1t
should feed our whole lives, making
them richer, happier, more powerful,
more valuable. The knowledge that
does this has attained its object, wheth-
er it be the highest culture of the
schools or the practical business of the
office or the factory.--N. Y. Ledger.
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watch while l refreshed myself l was
behind the partition drinking from the
Jar when the native uttered low cry OF
slarm and bounded in upon me and shut
down the door had the jar vet in my
hand when a heavy body dropped 10 the
floor and heard the snarl and saw the
form OF a tiger in the hut This was
what had happened: The tiger had ap
preached the house from the opposite
direction. and. creeping softly around,
had sprung for the opening and into
the natives face. In his alarm the
man had started back and dropped his
gun. while mine was leaning against
the door. He had shut the partition
door, however. and that saved US There
We were, face 10 face with fuil-gro~n
man-eater with only bamboo partition
between US and his faugs. and ! am
frank 20 say that for 9 moment was
completely done for. The native fung
himself down on his face without .
word, and knew that neither sugges-
tons nor aid could be expected from
hin.
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THE SENATE GAvEl.
IL Has No Handle Hut Answers Its Fur
pose Very Well.

liz Has NO Handle Hut Answers Its Fur
pose Very Well.
The Vice Presidents gavel is of itself
a standing evidence that the Senate is
an orderly body and needs no school
master for a presiding officer to compel
quiet The gavel has no handle. 1t
never did have any. 1t is simply lit
tie piece of white ivory like the head Of
gavel, polished and shining Itwould
not do in the House at all. for the most
that can be done with il is TO give a
gentle rapping on the desk, and in the
other wing the Speaker sometimes
needs TO hammer away like a man with
beetle. This Senate gavel. with
which Vice-President Morton tells the
Senators that they are making too much
noise, has been in existence and in use
as a gavel for many years. 1t is the
identical one, it is said, which was in
use when Daniel Webster was in the
Senate, and probably was used the day
he made his reply to Hayne, to still the
buzz in the gallery when the great man
sat down. This, at any rate, was said
to be true the other day.
There is mystery about the gavel.
OOO. NODOuy Oub Ndpbtiu DdSSebtr lnc
white-haired door-keeper. knows what
becomes of it during the recess and
when Congress is not in session. The
venerable old Captain Bassett takes il
from the Vice Presidents desk when
the Senate adjourns and hides IL some
where, and it is lost to the world until
it is again needed by the Vice President.
Captain BasSett knows the history of
the gavel, as he does of every thing else
about the Senate chamber. for he has
been there since some time in the thir-
ties or forties, when he first received
his appointments a page. it is said
through the influence of Daniel Webster.
1t has been suggested that Captain Bas-
sett carries the gavel in his pocket as a
mascot when the Senate is not in ses-
sion, though this is probably not true
St Paul Pioneer Press
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HARD GARDEN ROLLER

compacting the ground above other
seeds and between rows of vegetables.
If the earth is ri2ged up against the
vegetables the roller can be run over
the ridge, on each side. A piece of log,
twenty inches long, is dressed down un'
til ten inches in diameter. Iron pins
are driven in the center of each end,
the pins working in the iron pieces,
which unite to form prong driven into
the end of the handle. This roller can
be made at home, except the iron pieces.
American Agriculturist.
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A Large job of Surveying.

A dispatch from Benton, Mont, says
Messrs. Page & Orr, who have contract
with the government for surveying a
half million acres Of land in the Milk
River Valley, are there with their men,
teams and equipage. stocking up for
active work in the field. Their initial
point is Fort Conrad, on Marais river,
from whence they run east one hundred
and eighty miles to the mouth OF woody
Island creek on Milk river in Dawson
county. From there they run south to
and west along the foot OF the Little
Rocky and Bear Paw Mountains. Their
contract calls for the sectionizing OF all
the agricultural lands in the Milk
River Valley which are open for settle
ment. This is one of the largest sur
veying contracts of recent years
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CHIcAGo, May ESPECIAL The lows
Central has made close traffic arrange
ment with the st. Paul road which viii
entirely change the situation of affairs be
rangement a new route is formed between
st. Paul and Kansas City, 40 miles shorter
than any existing route, and in case of ne
cessity this can be still further shortened X
miles. A new double daily vestibule ser
vice will be started on the new TO te MAY
H. and viii make five hours less time thar
any at present made I etween st. Paul and
Kansas CITY. From Kansas City close
connections will be made with the Wabash
10 st. Louis, and through car service be
tween ST. Paul and st. Louis established.
This Passenger service will cut deep into
go, st. Paul a. Kansas City have hitherto
had a monopoly
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shivering, and almost felt ashamed to

shivering, and l almost felt ashamed to
shoot him.
Not knowing whether the dead man.
eater had a mate or not we secured the
jungles for his lair, and found 1t in the
ravine not more than half q mile away.
He had not devoured any of his victims
at the spot where he rested, but all had
been eaten within a radius of few
rods. From what we could discover it
was concluded that he was solitary"
and as the village suffered no more this
must have been the case. In removing
the skin We found spot on the shoulder
where the beast had been severely cut
with knife. The slash was fully four
inches long and quite deep. and the hair
had not grown out to cover the scar.
Ninety-nine chances out of hundred
the native who had inflicted the cut had
been eaten.-N. Y. Sun.
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Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. j. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case Of Catarrh
that can not be cured by the use of Halls
Catarrh Cure FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, thi s6th day Of December, "A d. 1886
lsEALl A. w GLEASON, Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system Send for testi-
monials, free. F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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Hand Garden Roller.

The accompanying illustration of a
hand garden roller is from a sketch sent
by subscriber. who says he finds fire.
quent use for it in the garden.
Some seeds are simply scattered
over the bed anu then with the
roller pressed into the ground. They
terminate better than when covered
with the rake The roller is used for
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THE LITTLE GOLD HEART.

I've quaint little keepsake,
A relic OF childhood.
Among the odd trinsets tucked by in my drawer;
It's dear little treasure,
A gift from my sweetheart.
A tiny gold heart that my boyhOOd's love wore.
remember the evening.
A sweet recollection.
Twas long years ago, on fair summer da-.
When she gave me the token,
And babe me TO keepit
Ard tenierly think Of the giver Away.
In q ar away church yard
The dear child is sleeping.
The sweetheart who was of my bOy-life part.
And hold above jewels
This token more precious.
Her pledge Of aIeotiOn-the little gold heart
Prank d. welch. in The Jeweler.
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WHAT may properly be termed leak,

WHAT may properly be termed leak,
in dairying, through which al profit is
filtered, may be summed 40 in few
words, says the Farm Journal lmprop
er care OF milk and creams churnins
cream at too high or too low tempera.
ture; too much working OF the butter
poor salt; the lack Of well balanced
ration for the COWS; lack Of cleanliness
in dairy utensils and in the dairy room.
and uninviting, rusty packages. Butter
made in such surroundings and by such
methods always has and always will sell
for price corresponding TO its value,
which is usually about ten cents 8
pound. II snapped for Goldfish and kero
sens oil at the village grocery store.
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The Hedrick Route to Kapsas City and
ST Louis

via the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Railway from st. Paul and Minneapolis
"Solid Vestibuled Trains to Kansas City,"
"Double Daily Pullman Service to st.
Louis,n
Through Coaches to st. Louis"
Through Coaches TO Kansas City on Morn
ing and Evening Trains"
Elegant Day Coaches"
Magnificent Lunch Cars"
"Pullman's Best Sleepers"
The Shortest and Quickest Line"
The Best Route to Kansas City"
The Best Route TO st. Louis
1.-The Best Route to Colorado T"
''To Kansas, to aliforpIa,n
ITO the West and Southwest"
Do not fail to try It, The Chicago, Mil
waukee a. st. Paul Railway guarantees its
excellence Secure accommodations from
the Company agents in st. Paul and Min
neapolis or from any coupon ticket agent
in the Northwest.
Open May 18th, 1850.
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No Time for Details.

Enamored Guest Ito attractive female
waiterl-Esty. love you. Do you re-
turn my love?
Waitress-Yep.
"Why don't you call me Charlie?"
Cant " see for yourself that have
botl hands fgllY''-Texas Siftinga
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Our Hannah Jane was thin and weak,
And ashy white her lip and c1eek.
We often thought-and thought with pain,
I'VE soon must lose our Hannah Jane"
With change OF doctors. change of air,
She sought for healing everywhere.
And, when our hopes were almost past
"Favorite Prescription tri ed at last.
It gave US joy, IL gave us hope.
Shec ased 10 pine. she ceased TO nope
IPierce's remedies are sure and true
Now Hannah Jane is good as new.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the
only medicine for women, sold by druggists,
under positive guarantee from the manufact-
urers, that it viii give satisfaction in every
case, or money will be refunded. This
guarantee has been printed on the bottle
wrapper, and faithfully carried out for
many years
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A lady Of Marneshnrn. Ga rece,

"A lady of Waynesboro, Ga, recent
IL. was presented with case of cham
payne, and it was carefully slowed
away The other day she opened tie
case and out jumped several mice. fat
and sleek One by one she drew out the
hotties Of sparkling fluid, until to her
surprise three empty bottles were found.
the sealing having been taken off and a
nice little hole made in every cork and
tss champagne gone.
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I'll ng an q
staple. When the gate is opened as far
as necessary, it is given sharp pull, as
If to close it; the sharpened lower end
of the prop is forced into the ground,
and the gate is firmly held. When the
gate is to be closed. push in the other
direction loosens the prop, which is car
ried around-if 1t will not drag along
until the gate is nearly closed then il
is dropped on the ground and, forcing
the gate shut, will raise it somewhat on
the prop. taking a part of the weight
of the hinges, and preventing the sag
ging of the gate. American Agricultir-
o.
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nad a VeXatlous
hunt for a stick
of some sort, ~
use as a prop ts
hold the gate
open agains
wind or gravity
The illus traticr
shows a devsc
which avoid
such hunt A
prop is fastened
to the gate with
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In another place in this paper will be seen
an advertisement of the Hartman Manu-
featuring Company, of Beaver Falls, Pa
They are an enterprising, reliable firm, and
have great deal of testimony TO show that
the Hartman Steel Picket Fence is the best
thing of the kind on the market You can
find out all about it by writing for particu-
lars