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A Leader.

Since its first introduction, EIec-
trio Bitters has gained rapidly in
popular favor, until now IL is clearly
in the lead among pure medicinal
tonics and acknowledgements
nothing which permits its use as q
beverage or iDtoxicant, it is recogniz-
ed as the best and purest medicine
for all ailments OF Stomach, Liver
or Kidneys-it will cure Sick Head.
ache, stipation, Indigestion, and
drive Malaria from the system. Sat
isfaction guaranteed with each bottle
or the money viii be refunded.
Price only Soc. per bottle. Sold by
e. G. Williams, Jr. T. Co.
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encouragement.

Mr.. Dolly-Did any one ever at
tempt to steal a kiss from you?
Miss Polly-Oh, yes; the attempt
has been made, but in vain.
Mr.. Dolly (sighing)-Then il
would be foolish for me to make the
attempt.
Miss Polly-I suppose so. 1 don't
know. One cannot always be on the
alert, you know-New York Press.
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| had catarrh of the head and
throat for five years. I used Ely Is
Cream Balm, and from the first ap
plicatlon / was relieved. The sense
ofsmell, which had been lost, was
restored after using one bottle. /
have found the Balm the only salts
factory remedy for catarrh, and it
has effected cnre in my case.-H.
L. Meyer, Waverly, N. Y.
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Guaranteed Cure.

We authorize our advertised drug.
gist to sell DIR. Kings New Discov.
cry for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds, upon this condition. If you
are afflicted with Cough, Cold OF
Lung, Throat or Chest trouble, OF
will use this remedy as directed, Civ.
ing it a fair trial, and experience and
benefit, you may return the bottle
and have your money refunded. We
could not make this offer did we not
know that DR.. Kings New Discovery
could be relied on. It never disap-
points. Trial bottles free at E. c
Williams, Jr. & Co.'s Drug Store
Large size SOC. and ST..
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"Nothing can make q woman so
superlativsly happy ~ TO have baby
of her own to kiss" exclaimed Mrs.
Mcbride, rapsurously, as she foadled
her first-bor
'sMy dear, exclaimed her husband,
piiyinely, "you can never know tho
unutterable JOY Of being next In .
crowded barber shop on Saturday"
-Brooklyn life.
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find Chamberlain's medicines
very excellent. particularly Cham.
berlaina Cough Rtmldy.-B. r.
ErnRlpoE, HALL ttville, Texas.
have tribe Chamhcrlain's Cough
Remedy with great success -R.
Tanneiet, Wavcland, Miss.
Chamh rlaih's Cough Remedy
can not be beat.-W, l.. Davis, Lib.
erty Hill, L..
| have used mbeilain . Couy h
Remedy N my family, and consider
it the best ! have EVER tried. w.
j. Flowers. d ,raville, Ga. so cent
bottles for sale iy Il. G. William 8
Jr.. Il ca.
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We want every mother To know
that Group can be prevented. True
Group never appears without a warn
ing. The (rst symptom is hoarse-
ness, then the child appears u have
taken cold or cold may have ac-
companicd the hoarscness from the
start. After that peculiar rough
cough is Developed, which is follow
ed by the cough. The time to act is
when the child first becomes hoarse;
o few doses OF Chamberlaiu's Cough
Remedy wonld prevent The attack.
Even after the rough cough bias APP
peared, the disease may b. prevent
ed by using this remedy as direct
ed. The only safe way is TO keep
so cent bottle OF the Remedy in
the house for use whenever symp-
toms of the disease appear For
sale by E C. Williams Jr., & Co.
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The fall of the year is trying sea-
son for elderly people. The many
cherries, dark, dismal days act
depressingly, not to say injuriously,
ON both old and young. Now is
the time to reinforce the vital ener-
gies with Ayers Ssrsaparills-the
best of all blood medicines.
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FARM AM GARDEN NoIEa.

prv ,.lean and .issl.t poultry
hous are Indispensable. 10 success.
R,ea,,;ng ;n..nd.i ~ nanltry
shonl,l he !. .,i,Ied "A tendinu Is
d aercracy.
E.s,,;na eoi,, mill icons, !,
conso u sco,,r. ;aca, * ls,d III /
- ,,lo,,1 !, !,
u.., ,.v.,s ~. IN.
NH, ~ ,o,,,, /, ~ j
ia. ,;.,,,,
....,s ,ha !, rn,,l
!, ~
= = Y
nus "o'"' "'s " ''' D'''''.'
n''"'"''o" - "o
IL easiv 70 WASH a'ld KEEP he
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The Chance of His Life.

Mr.. Henpeek-My life is misere-
BILE
What is the matter?
Mr.. Henpeck-Oh. my wife is al
ways fsrirg up at something and
n ,w she is jealous of my typerwrit-
er.
Frisnd-Jealons OF your typewrit-
err? Good This is the chance 0,
your life.
Mr.. Htnpeck How?
Frlcnd-Discharge your typewrit-
er and let your wife take her place
aud then you will be able to do some
thing you've never done before ia
your life.
Mr.. Henpeck- What is that ?
Friend-Dictate to your wife
Ne,o York Press.
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To Take His Place.

SHave You parrot that swears ~
asked woman as she entered bird
store.
al suppose | could get one," re-
piled the dealer, but never had
such call before.p
"You see, my husband went out
West a month ago and I'm sort o
lonesome.-Judge.
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The greatest of all pain cures,
Salvation Oil, may be confidently
relied on to speedily heal scalds and
burns. 1t is recommends by many
prominent housekeepers and cooks
a. curative that ..just fills the b;ll.n
It's effect is magical.
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His Coed Name

Il prize my good name above ev-
erything on elrth.
"Them you must have two of them.
What is your good alias?"
81 have but one name. 1t is Jones,
sir, What do you mean?"
"0h, nothing, only | have seen it
lately on several protested notes and
have been told that it wasn't worth
the ink usedin writingit that's all. /"
-ErchdnQe.
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4 Fortunate Miship.

"The was an accident in the mu
scum tbs mor,ing said the marag
er. THE fat lady sat down on one
of the spectators and before he could
cry out had nearly crushed the life
out Of him.
docs that mcana lsw.uit2' asked
his wife.
ut would if / hadn't thought
to offer the man $40 week TO
JOIN tie show as human founder.
He Joined. p Exchanged.
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FARm AND GARDEN NOTES.


Clean up for winter
A squalling pig gives no profit TO
itsowner.
Get supply OF sand and small
gravel before the pit freez' up--bet-
Ter get it to day.
Road dust makes a better dust
bath than ashes. Have you sup.
ply housed Tor winter?
Do not crowd the figs so that
when they are fed the weak will be
trodden upon by the strong.
IL you want plenty of lar feed
your pigs on corn; ifyou desire meat
and growth feed other food.
On clay land especially t. c apply
ing Of course fresh manure is bene-
fetal on account of the mechanical
effects rr duced.
There is no profit in Figs that re-
ceiye no attention. To make them
pay they should receive some care
and be fed in the most economical
way.
1t is stated that in well bred hog
a gain of from ten to eleven pounds
can be made from bushel Of corn.
Fowls roostlng in trees had better
be brought down from their high po
sition and given place with those
that rest under cover.
Do not forget the hens when you
are harvesting the cabbage crop.
Bury some OF the loose headed ones,
that you are throwing to one side,
for their special benefit. They will
take care of them, stump and all next
winter.
If you have a goodly stock OF
fowls do not make 4 special effort
to feed all the small potatoes to the
hogs. Boiled, mashed and mixed
with shorts or oatmeal, they make
a most excellent breakfast for fowls
in winter if fed warm.
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FoR SoRE THRoAT.-Saturate a
flannel bandage with Chamberlain
Pain Balm and bind it on The throat.
II will cure any ordinary case IN
one nights time. For sale by z. c..
Williams Jr, & Co.
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It is positively without a peer.
Mr.. Walter Brewer, Vinton, Iowa,
says: 81 had very bad cough and
a few doses of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup gave reliefand effected cure
l would not be without it in my
family
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REPAIRING NEATLY
AND PROMPTLY DONE.
LUCKY NUMBER y.

Humphreys Specific No. 3, cures
Sleepless, Collie and Crying of In
fants; curing not only the Wakeful-
ness, Collie and Crying, but by aid :
ing the digestion, giving Strenth
and Vigor, and SO making healthy
children.
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Careless but cutting.

Attorney Wantlins-Whst did
yoar father say when he saw my
picture in your watch 7
Miss Worth-That it was the'only
case you ever appeared in.-Jew
elers' Weekly. A
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81 am extremely glad )" said Will
lie Washington to friend, st that ]
never contracted the habit of talking
TO myself" Why ?" "Oh, / am
suah should die of ennui.n
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1892-11-19

What is your father.
He's dead.
But what was he before be was
dead?
He was alive.-L0ndon Globe.
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The HOmIlest Man in Martins.
burg.

As well as the handsomcst, and
others are invited TO call on any
druggist and get free trial bottle
OF Kenp's Balsam for the Throat
and Lungs, a remedy that is selling
entirely upon its merits and is guar
anteed to relieve and CUE all chron-
ic and Acute Coughs, Asthma
Bronchitis and Consumption. Large
bottles so cents and 81. 227 80 ly.
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When Time Shall be no More.

He-Ah, darling, even when time
shall be no more our love-
Sbe-It is almost that time now, ]
guess.
He-Eh?
She-I said it was nearly that
time now. Time never gets TO be
more than -, you know -Ex-
change.
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Poor Efie (who has been stupg)-
First it walked about all over my
hand, and it was so nice. But, oh,
when it sat down.
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Too Expensive an Honor

DAY. hear you have b'en made
q member of the firm.
Weeks-Yes, but | find there is
one drawback about that.
Day-What?
Weeks-My salary is larger than
l can afford to pay.-New York
Herald.
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The Plain Truth

Is good enough for Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla-there is no need of embellish-
ment or sensationalism. Simply
what Hoods Sarsaparilla does, that
tells the story OF its merit.
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Nv at was it th ernaut said
when he fell out Of his balloon snd
struck he earth with his usual dnii
ihnd, HE remarked that this
was q hard world
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9..Y:jaPTIVES.

.aae. i9ned having been re-
he:tth by simple means, after
FOG several years with a severe
c,icn, and that dread disease
1.>s;-.: 1i9ti0D. is anxious to make
A4.owA 10 hi fellow sufferers the means
Of cure. 10 those who desire it, he will
cheerfully send Gree of charge) copy
Of the prescription used, which they
wilifnd 3 sure cure for Consumption,
Asthma, Catarrl, Bronchitis and
all throat and lung Maladies. He
hopes all sufferers viii try his Remedy,
as it is invaluable. Those desiring the
prescription, which will cost them moth
ing, and may prove a blessing, will
please address, REV. EDWARD A. VIII
SON, Williamsburg, Kings County.
New York.
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Castoria.

"Casteria is so well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior toany prescription
known to nc"
II. A. ARCHER, II. D.,
III So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, N. Y,
'our physicians In the childrca's depart
msnt have spoken highly OF their expert
cnce in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won US to look with
favor upon IT.
UNITED HOSPITAL AND pisPEssARr,
Boston. Mass.
ALLEN c. SAITH, Pres,
urray Street, New York City.
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The cycle rider is not generally a /
"all around athlete" but he natural
~ ought 10 be.
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ForMa1aria, Liver Trou-
BILE, or Indigestion, use
BROWN s IRON BITTERs
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LADIES
Needing q tonic, or children who want build
ing up, should take
BROWNS IRON BaTTERS.
It Is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, lndl'
gestion, Biliousneae and Liver Compiai6M.
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MO OTHER Sarsaparilla has the
- careful personal supervision of the
proprietor in all the details of its prepa-
ration a. has HooD'e Sarsaparilla.
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BuckIen's Arnica Salve.

THs .3RsT SlLvE in the world for cuts Bruis-
ss, .Si-es, Ulcer, Salt Rheum Fever. Sores
letter Ghapped Hands, Chi,blsins Conees
ton, Eruptions, and 1t positively cures Piles
,r no pay required It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded
Price 25 cent? per box at Il. G Williams. Jr
l. Cos Drug Store.
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excuse me, sir" he said, as he
stepped into the Office" but do you
carry any life insurance." " I'd like
to answer that question BY asking
another said the merchant g Do
you carry any fire insurance ~
Why, no, u "Well if you go
out quietly, you m,n't be fred, that $
ALL"
One reason why some men do no t
succeed in fruit growing is that they
grow nothing else. They buy all
fertilizer, meat, grain and every
thing else they use. This takes all
the profit.
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Gratified InquIsitiveness

Hoods Pills are easy, yet eff
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Beckson-Well, well; and SO e
managed to get something through
his head at last, did he?
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Got 1t at Last.

Clarance--Charley Knoxville com.
mitted suicide by blowing his brains
out. IS
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from one years end to the other. They
have but few horses, and the most of the
labor is done by hand. The fields are
sometimes plowed with bullocks, but
they are more often spaded or dug over
with great mattock. and in the cultiva-
tion of rice nearly everything is done by
hand.
The work begins about the 1st oi
April, when the ground is broken up
with the hoe or the plow. If the plow
is used it is drawn by bullock, and the
plow itself is for all the world like that
used in Egypt in the time of Pharaohs.
1t is of wood, and is more like forked
stick than a good American 2low. II
has an iron point for plowshare, but
there is no loam- board, nor any arrange
ments for turning burrows or for plow-
ing deep or shallow at will. The farmer
carries his plow with him on his shoulder
to the field, walking behind his bullock,
and he does not hope to do anything
more than break the surface with it.
The chief part of the work is done with
the spade or with the mattock. This
last has short handle, and you see all
over Japan during the springtime men
and women standing up to their knees
in water and digging up the ground with
these great hoes.
The first thing in rice. planting IS the
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Fortunes i'm Smoke.

The utilization Of the smoke of fac,
tories Is becoming of an element Of
greatest importance. The waste smoke
and gases from the blast furnaces of .
Scotch iron works are rented out for q
handsome sum. From the works they
are conducted through several miles OF
wrought iron tubing, diminishing in size
from six feet to eighteen inches, and as
the gases cool there is deposited a con-.
siderable yield of oil. From compare
lively small factory some $500 gallons
of furnace oil are thus recovered weekly,
to say nothing Of the large yield of sui
phate of ammonia and residual gases
which can be used as fuel for distiIling
and other purposes. In many other in:
dustries the same disposition to use what
was formerly wasted is mauifesting'
itself. A company has been formed in
England for collecting the carbon diox-
ide given off at breweries and distiller-.
les during the process or fermentation.
This has hitherto been allowed to simply
poison the atmosphere. and the loss is
estimated at 25, 600, 900, 900 gallons q
year, equal to 81, 500, 100000. 1t is in,.
tended to Iquefy the gas by new pro.
cess at about one-sixteenth the cost Of
the ordinary methods. The supply Of
LIQUID carbonic acid will be sold almost
entirely to manufacturers of carbonated
drinks. In spite of this prospective
economy of production it is not reported
that any reduction in the price of the
popular beverage known as "soda" is
contemplated.
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Initiative Forms in Rock.

There is universal tendency to seek
and sometimes to see in the forms Of
objects around US represe entations of the
human figure or of animals and plants.
ldany interesting examples have been re-
vorded and pictured in La Nature Of
rocks and mountains presenting resem.
bisnces to animated forms. We are
quite ready to discern in the clouds all
sorts of personages; and atperiods when
superstition has been active, apparitions
have been described, the whole existence
of which consisted of misinterpreted
simple resemblsnces. Stones have
usually been considered especially
worthy of attention IN this category; in
tubercles of sandstone and nodules Of
flint it is easy to find features analogous
with the most various objects. A block
of sandstone is exhibited in the forest of
Fontaine ebleau on which one willing to
see it may recognize a petri6ed knight
on his horse, all of the natural size. A
noiule of sandstone was once brought to
me in the geological laboratory of the
museum on which the owner saw the
portrait of our Lord on the cross. Some
persons are specially ingenious in finding
resemblances in flint; and Boucher de
Pertbes admitted into his Atlas of Celtic
and Antediluvian Antiquities a whole
series Of figures of initiative forms of
that mineral.
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The Peculiar Mexicans.

"There is one popularity about the
Mexicans in their social and family re-
lations which I doubt to exist among any
other people on the GLOBE" said P. L.,
He'll, of Chihuahua, Mexico. "While
it is true that majority of those occupy
ing the highest social and political posi-
tions in the country are descendants of
the proud old aristocrstic Spaniards, yet
it is equally true that good many others
of wealth and acknowledged leadership
have come up from the lower ranks by
some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune
or eruption of evolution. Unlike the
American, the Mexican who acquires
fame and fortune never forgets or neg
lects his poor kin. And, unlike the
American again, he treats his more i'm
pecunious relatives in queer way. Hc
takes them into his household as servants,
giving to them the most menial service,
but never denying the relationship or
attempting to conceal it. I know of
many instances where a rich Mexican's
mother is his cook, his sister his house
girl and his father OF brother his butler.
The American would either disown them
altogether or put them on equal footing
with himself. In this regard, you must
admit, the democracy Of Mexico is purer
THAI that so loudly boasted of in this
country. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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the rose, and its fields are greener than
those of the Valley Of the Nile. The
whole country looks like garden, and
japanese farming is more like market
gardening than bonanza agriculture.
The country is divided up into small
holdings, and q few acres suffice to sup
port family. The people do not In
many cases live upon their farms. You
find little villages Of one and two story
cottages matched with straw along the
roads, and from these people 60 out to
the fields, and men, women and children
work together in them. A surprising
thing about the farm LANDS to us is the
absence of barns. The japanese would
look upon the big barns of New York,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio as so many Bud
dhist temples, and they would get down
on their knees and bump their heads
against the ground as they past them.
The crops are generally taken from the
fields to the markets, and such grain as is
kept is stored about the house. The
Japanese do not require barns as we do.
They keep but little stock, and in four,
fifths of Japan you will not see COW
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big hats with their mahogany legs shin
ing out over the green seemed natural
part of the scene.
A great deal of the irrigation of Japan
is done by human labor. The water is
raised from one level to another in buckets
or IN jars fastened to great wheels upon
which men stand and step up from one
rung of the wheel to the other with much
the same motion dog in dog churn.
In the western part Of Japan great deal
of the water is drawn from wells by means
of long handled pole hung on pivot,
by which man pumps the water out of
the ground and spreads it over the fields.
Labor in Japan is very cheap. You can
get good man in the interior from ten
to fifteen cents day, and he will board
himself. Women can be gotten at still
lower wages, and the result is that the
farming of Japan is far more intensive
than ours, and much greater percentage
is gotten from the acre. Some of the
fields produce two aud three crops year,
and one crop is scarcely harvested before
the next is put in. This, however, is
not the case with rice. It seems to ex-
haust the laud and rice lands are usually
allowed to lie fallow in the winter.
During the past ten years Japan has
changed agriculturally as well as politi-
cally, and since the revolution it has be-
come different country. It has popu-
lation Of about SO, 900, 900, and it is es-
timated that only ten per cent. of the
country is given up to farming; but this
area will be rapidly increased from now
on. There is a big agricultural college
near TOXIC, and agricultural schools have
been established in different parts of the
Empire. Experiments are being made in
the introduction of stock, and the whole
physical as we'll as the intellectual life of
the people is changing. The fact that
the Japanese were Buddhists has greatly
prejudiced them against the use of meat.
In Buddhism, q mans soul after death is
liable to go into the body of an animal,
and the Japanese have prejudice
against serving up for breakfast slices
of their ancestors, and in the killing
of COW or sheep they might
be cutting of the,life of q grandfather or
great-grandmother. Buddhism is, I
think, declining. The contact with
Western civilization has caused the peo-
pie to give up many of their old preju-
dices, and while they have largely be-
come infdels instead of Christians, after
leaving the religion Of their fathers they
are ready to look at things in practical
light, and they will in the future proba-
bly, be meat.eaters as well as rice.eaters.