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make a show for company Is at the
bank, and I don't see my way clear to
bring 1t home under my arm. You can
have them all home and trust to luck
Il you'd rather | say.
III rather they were at the bank
because then l should have them, you
know
Don't see IT, said L; but It's just as
you say
When u anniversary came around
we had n present and a note from one
Of Agnes elderly frienls. The note ran
this way:
My dear Mrs. Lounsbury: We send
you our best congratulations on your
anniversary. My husband will have
his little Joke. you know; and, as some
ono told him that the Lounsburys had
had so much silver given them on their
wedding that 1t was a positive embar-
rassment to them, he says you ought
to be ashamed of being such p~lutocrats
at your age, while the older generation
has not even accumulated souvenir
spoons, and sends you this little gift
to remind you Of the fact
"'Oh. Joe! It's silverr for I HAD
punched a hole in the paper. No, it
Isn't. It's a pudding dish, or for oys-
tiers, you know. How kind. And plat
ed, too. 1t didn't cost much, Joe, did
itT
ga few dollars, 1 should think
"'How goodi Perhaps even less,
Joe?'
Perhaps so; it's rather ligh,
weight
"Isn't 1t delightful Well have
oysters in 1t tomorrow night. and
ask them ovc to tea
Il should feel dreadfully to have that
l heard her murmur that even.
ing.
"'What for?'
"'Because it's such n comfort to have
one thing that you don't care whether
it's stolen or not
you're getting sleepy, Aggie. Eut
l know one thing that goes on, goes
on forever
"fWhat?'
"'Our storage rent. I reckon in a
few years we'll have paid for the whole
outfit, and then We'll fetch 1t homo and
keep open house for burglars with 8
clean conscience
Don't be ridiculous, Joe,' said my
Sife."-New York Tribune.
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uSE OF THE ssNs=,.
Iabit II Experience Play n Part in
Seeing aud Hearing.

4abtt anu experience fiay a fnrt In
Seeing aud Hearing.
II We ask ourselves just how it is
hat we see, hear and receive impress
Ions from the senses, we shall soon
discover two things. The first Is that
le explanation we see with our eyes"
we htar with our ears" etc, is not
quite satisfactory. II is easy enough
to explain how certain rays of light
impinge on the retina of the eye, and
.ertaln waves of air on the drum of the
or; but how these purely physical
things nre converted into purely psy-
chical things Of sight and hearing no
one can explain.
Our second discovery will be that II
Is not by the eye alone that we see, or
by the ear alone that we hear. Mem
DRY, or, rather, experience or habit,
plays a great part in oil sensations,
though we do not often notice il. unless
our attention Is drawn to the fact by
circumstance that puts experience
at fault. and thus produces n sense
Illusion.
Have you ever noticed, for instance.
how experience helps you to recognize
the position of sounds2 II n mad n
noise Mt a little distance from you, you
could instantly tell from what direction
It came, because experience has taught
you to judge of this matter through the
very slight difference in the Intensity
If sound in your two ears. An expert
ucnt will readily prove this.
Stop up the left a firmly with rot.
.on-wool, and 60 into n dark room with
else who carries n bell. Let
he other person strike the bell in diff
parts of the room, yourself re-
naming still. No matter where the
Iell is, It will always seem TO you to
;ouDd on your right side, even though
t may actually be ear the left ear.
'crsons deaf in one ear can tell
whence a sound comes. 1t takes twT
.arS to do this.
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CIGAR WRAPPERS FROM MEXICO
Their Use Not Yet Increased by the
Present Troubles in Cubn.

Their Use Not Yet Increased ny tine
Present Troubles in Cube.
There Is a growing idea among smok.
ers that, owing to the troubles in Cuba,
there will be a scarcity Of Cuban leaf
tobacco, which will soon affect both the
quality and quantity of domestic clear
Havana cigars, and a rumor is prevail
ent that already many Of the so-called
clear Havanas are covered with Next
can tobacco, and that 1t cannot be de-
tected by experts. The b~est-lnformed
persons In the trade deny this rumor,
and state that most of the large Ameri-
can firms have enough Cuban tobacco
to last them for a year or more, and
that there is little OF no tobacco in
Mexico suitable for the f%astitdious
smoker. They say, also, that Mexican
tobacco is detected easily at sight, and
while it may be possible in future years
to produce tobacco for wrappers which
will compete with the Cuban article, it
will be a long time coming, rs up to
date no effort has been made by the
Mexican growers to cater to this mar
ket. The Mexican leaf Is thicker and
duller in appearance, without the rich
gloss Of the Cuban variety SO attrac-
tive to American smokers. What Is
still more to the point, it rapidly de-
t~eriorates in appearance after being
worked up into cigars. Still another
reason is that all the available Mexi-
can wrappers worth anything are
called for by the Mexican trade, n
firm of which is said to be under con-
tract with Englishmen for 100000
cigars every two weeks.
The government statistics also give
an important hint in this matter. The
total export of filler tobacco from
Mexico for 1893 was only 4S,451 pounds,
of a value of $11,456; in 1894, $3.50
pounds, valued at $1S.507, while the
total amount of wrapper tobacco for
1895 was but thirteen pounds, valued
at 81. This country imported from
Cuba in 1893 q, 694 ,s91 pounds, valued
at s,94O, O5s; In 1904, some ~14,57s,0O0
pounds, valued at SIS, 1888 ,o64, and in
1905 some 20,147, 900 pounds, valued at
81, 238, 474. The total amount Of I'M
ported wrapper tobacco from Cuba
duty into the United States
treasury during 1905 was 2S,130
pounds, valued at $sS.S2o. These are
the facts in the matter. and as soon as
Mexican tobacco begins to come In for
use on domestic-made clear Havana
cigars its arrival will be shown in the
weekly tables of imports published in
trade and shipping organs. What is
very likely is that the consume of IIay-
cigars will soon have to face a
darker tobacco on his cigars than he
has been wishing for lately.-New York
Sun.
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Destruction Caused by paepipes.

A Scotch Highlander. dressed In kits
and carrying a set of bagpipes under
his arm, appeared at Bar Harbor the
other night and next morning at s
o'clock strolled up Main street In search
of a good place to try the bags on the
natives. 1t Is years since the uncanny
music of the canny Scot has been play
ed there, and 1t had a wonderful effect,
the first tune causing no less than five
simultaneous runaways among horses
and the wrecking Of two wagons and
sets of harnesses. The bagpiper stopped
in the middle Of the tune to see the fun,
and after he saw the destruction that
one tune had wrought he let the wind
out of the pipes and took the 1870
O'Clock boat for Bangor.
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Sims Reeves, the English tenor. has
lust been recalled to the public mind In
singular fashion; for, at the age of IA.
he has emerged from his retirement.
and gone again upon the stage.
In the entire history Of musical ar
there Is no other case Of so long and 40
successful a career as his. Neyerthe.
less the kindliest critics agree that he
should not have invited comparison of
the voice he has with the voice he had.
Reeves was always the most eccen-
tric and perverse of singers. Innumera.
bic stories are told Of his audacity in
breaking engagements. In 1863 Col.
Mapleson had announced him to sing
in London, and on the first day of the
engagement received n telegram from
Reeves, who was on his way to town.
expressing his surprise that he had
been advertised for that evening when
the engagement was for the following
me.
The manager Mt once hurried to
Reeves house, and learned that dinner
had been ordered for haIf-past T.. He
told the butler that the time had been
changed, n that the meal must be
served at midnight instead. He then
went to meet the tenor, who was ac-
companied by mis- wife, ut the Euston
aailway station.
While MIS-. Reeves busied herseli
about the luggage Col. Mapleson got
thes tenor to himself, and explained
his difficulty. But 1t Is quite impossi.
bic for me 10 ing this evening"" was
the answer. i have ordered my dinner
ut home.
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thing by Harry's success. so hc said.
with q bold grin:
II guess you won't punish me, either,
wrong. SO, you see, to keen INV
word, l shall have to whip you, much
ms | dislike to do It." And he laid tho
rulcr on with a right good will %
that one would think he really enjoyed
4.
"Now, Richard. what do you have to
say
II guess I am to be punished, sir"
Now, here Is the question: As the
tea sler was bound to keep his word
did he punish Dick or mott II he aid
Dick hnd guessed right and should no,
be punished; but II he did not, Dick
had guessed wrong and the teacher
would have to punish him.
Did Dick get his whipping9
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ihNN "NNhf ~
Eyes, indeed, l will"
The time passed quickly to the little
girls, for Aunt Mary told them stories,
and just as they finished the last bed
the dinner-bell ran@A
After dinner Aunt Mary gathered a
dozen m~arguerites, and the same num-
Der of well-formed fuchsias; while she
was busy getting the flowers, Ethel ran
to her room, and got a number of pins,
and the bottle of ink, and pen, and
Margie went to the kitchen 10 get sew
oral broom straws.
Aunt Mary then trimmed Off all the
stamens of the fuchs;a but two, which
we're left for feet.
Margie cut off all the petals of eacl
marguerite, leaving them as n margin,
for the rufle of the little cap, except
two. these petals were left for strings.
AS soon as she had finished one,
Ethel marked eyes, nose and mouth
on the center of 1t, with pen and ink.
When this was done Aunt Mary put
a broom straw through the tube of the
fuchsia for arms, and connected the
head with the body with a pin, and
this finished n dozen of the cutest little
fower dolls which looked like this.
Margie and Ethel were delighted, and
carried their dolls to tue garden wall
under the shade of the large maple.
Here they played until their Uncle
Will asked them to take a drive. They
hurried off, and 1t was almost tea.
time when they returned.
Remembering their flower dolls, they
ran to get them; but the hot Eun had
come beating down on them, end each
little flower lady had dropped, and
grown weaker and weaker until she
had died.-Household.
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There is talk in England of having
a birthday party for the potato. 1t is
just 800 years since the first potato
plants were taken from this country
over to London, and the same year Sir
Walter Raleigh planted some Of Them
in Ireland. Everybody eats potatoes
nowadays, and yet for nearly 200 years
the plant was only a curiosity. Occa-
sionally potatoes were served on some
princes table as a great delicacy, often
candied like fruit or spiced. And high
lords and ladies wore the flowers as or
naments. 1t Is said that Frederick the
Great had to compel the farmers of his
dominion to plant potatoes. Now they
ore only too glad to do 1t.
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UNANSWERED

Like some schoolmaster, kind iD being
stern,
Who hears the children crying Ger thei
states
And calling "Help me, MASTER" yet help
not,
Sine, ia his silence and refusal lies
Their seIf-deyolopncnr 50 Cod hhidcs
I'nhyeliug many prayers. lie Is not deRi
To any cry sent Up from earnest hearts;
He hears and strengthens when He must
deny.
H. sees us weeping over lifc's hard sums
But. should He dry our tears and give the
key.
What would it profit us when school were
done
And not one lesson mastered!
What a world
Were this II all our prayers were granted!
Not in famed PandOra's box were snch
vast ills
As lie in human hearts. Should our de
sires.
Voiced one by one, in prayer ascend to
God
And come back as events shaped to our
wish,
What chaos would result!
In my fierce youth
1 sighed out breath enough to move a heet
Voicipg wild prayers to heaven for fan
cied boons,
Which we're denied, and that denial bends
NJ knee 10 prayers Of gratitude each day
OF ms maturer life. Yet from those
prayers
/ rose Away regirded for the strife
And conscious of new strength. Tray on
sad hearti
That which thou pleadest for may not be
given.
But in the lofty altitude where souls
Who duplicate Gods grace nre lifted
there
Thon shalt find help to bear thy future
lot
Which is not elsewhere found.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, In the EosUo'
p9litan.
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What would you think of n manu-.
featured cat that scares away rats and
mice? Well, a clever inventor has re-
Gently made such an animal. 1t is
of metal, built exactly the size and
shape of a cat and painted with n kind
of paint that shines in the dark. If this
metal cat is placed in the pantry the
rats and mice straightway u to safer
homes and don't come back.
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Cape he appointed Nicholson ccess
to Col. II. O. o. Plummer, the FIRST
commissioner sent to take charge of the
forces of the Chartered Company. The
regiment in which Nicholson Is an OH
Ger was formerly stationed in India
The rising of the Matabeles has give'
his position a gravity and responsibility
that were not anticipated.
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SOhlpAdAnLS ~ 4AtsAS
by physicians.
All womb and ovarian troubles
Irregularities, whites, bearing-down
pains, displacements, tendency to can
Ger and tumor are cured permanently
Il feel as if / owed my life to your
Vegetable Compound. After the birth
OF my babe l was very miserable. l
had a drawing pain in the lower part
OF my bowels. no strength, and a terri
bic baekache. Every day l failed. MY
husband said if / would try a bottle u
your Vegetable Compound, he would
get it for me. The change was won
dertul, After 1 had taken the hrss
hall bottle l began to have great faitn
IN it. When 1 had taken three bottles
l was well and growing stout itisa
pleasure for me to write this TO yon.
l only ask women in any way afiiicteo
with female troubles to try h"-MRa
ANNA IvoR, Pittsford Mills, Rutland
Co, Vt
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DEFENDER OF BuLuwAYo.

Capt. John g. Nicholson Who Com
mands the British Forces.
Capt. John Sanctuary Nicholson is the
officer now in command of the British
forces at Buluwayc. beleaguered by the
rebels. He Joined the Seventh Hussars
twelve years ago, and attained the rank
of captain in 1891. When Gen. Good
enough was the commander at tho
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Mary, as she Sep
ped out on to the
side porch where
Margie and Ethel
g playing.
"Oh, l should LIKE
to, auntiei" said
Ethel, ''and l know
Margie will help.
too; and you'll let
us have some mar
queries and fuch-
sias to make those
cute flower dolls,
like I II o e y Il
taught us to make
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How Long IL a BicycieT

If you have a friend who is a great
bicycle rider ask him off-hand when he
is out Of sight of his wheel how long
n bicycle is. First, he'll look puzzled.
and then he'll make the widest kind
of a guess. It's almost as puzzlIng as
the question: How high is a Derby
hatT"
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Or. Agnew's Cure for the Heart gives perfect
relief in all cases of Organic or Sympathetic
Heart Disease in 90 minutes, and speedily eff
fects n cure. 1t is a peerless remedy for Pal
pitation, Shortness Of Breath. Smothering
a Diseased Hrart. One dose convfnces. II
your druggist hasn't 1t in stock, ask him to
procure it fov you Il will save Your life.
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PLAYED HE WAS A STATUE

Hungry John Doc Envicd the Lot of
the Bronze Figure in the Park.
Poor, hungry John Doe sat on n
bench in the New York City Hall park
Illuminating over the vicissitudes of
life. 1t was parching hot, and John
had just removed his outer garments,
so that he sat in his red undcrshirt and
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A Gaelic society for the study Of the
Irish language has been established
among the students of Trinity Col
lege, Dublin. In the Taam Ne,os enc
tradesman advertises his wares In
Gaelic.
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1t will surprise a good many we'll
informed people to learn that Gen.
Lew Wallace receives higher pay for his
writings than any other living Ameri,
can author.
William Black, the novel writer, is
also a portrait painter, an enthusiastic
botanist and an all-around Sportsman.
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Emperor Menellk II of Abyssinia,
says an English newspaper correspon-
dent, is a better man in many respects
than some of the kings and emperors
of Europe.
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A button-ball tree over 100 years
old, and 100 feet in height, In lssex,
Conn.,, has a currant bush growing
between two of its branches. In the
past ten years the bush has produced
fine fruit.
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Doctor-Don't be alarmed. l wa.
sickle than you are a year ago and witt
the aame trouble. To-day l am wei
aud hearty.
Patient (anxiouslyl-Oh, Doctor, tel
me who was your physiclan.-Water
bury American.
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FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN
TEREST TO THEM.

Something TINT Will Interest the Ju'
veniic Members of Every Household
Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
of Many Cute and Chiidreh
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The project of erecting a monument
Freytag at Wiesbaden has been prac.
tically abandoned for lack of sympathy
with the project.
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ANNA IyOR'S REQUEST.

Personal letters reach Mrs. Pinkham
by thousands; some asking advice, and
others, like the following. telling OF
what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has done and will ever con-
tinue to do in graduating those fearful
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RJPEJRE

Cure Guaranteed by DIR. J. II. MAYER, l015
Arch 81, PHIIA., Pa. Ease at once; no opera
tlon or delay from business. Consultation free.
Endorsements of physicians, ladies and promi-
nent citizens. send for circular. Office hours .
A NJ. to 3P. NJ.
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The Bishop Ito young wldow)-My
sister, l dare say you find comfort in the
thought that you made your husband
happy while he lived.
Young widow-Yes. Poor Jack was
IN heaven till he died.-Pick-Me-Up.
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FIT stopped free by DIR. KLINE's GREAT
NERVE REkToRER. No fits after first days use
Marvellous cures. Treatise and SEQ trial bottle
nee. br Kline, 9Sl Arch ST, fhila e.
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An Ehect Misseu
He-I shot him in the Rockies
she-What fierce eyes he hadl
He-Oh, they are only glass.
She-I see. You had the advantage
of him.-Life.
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RUY SLIGO worth Dobbins Floating BoIax Soap
IL OF YOUR grl Ger, send Wrappers 10 nobbinS
Soap Mfg Co, Philadelphia, "a. They will send
iockct Dictionary, lbs Tages, hound in cloth,
rTofusely illustrated. Offer good until August
list only.
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Among the reforms of the new Kitch-
en- Committee of the British House of
Commons will he the substitution Of
mattresses for walters.
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"Some time ago." said Clifton Arms
parger (of Paris, Ky.). County
Attorney OF Bourbon Co.. KY, 81
saw the advertisements OF Ripsns
Tabules in the Louisville Courier
Journal, and believing 1t was tho
remedy / needed, I determined TO
get some Of the Tabules. There was
no name attached to the advertise
ment, so I wrote to the publishers OF
the Courier-Jourhal and was
referred to the Ripans Chemical Co.,
10 Spruce ST., New York, from whom
I obtained n box for so cents. I had
been greatly troubled with sick
headache, but since I secured Rlpans
Tabules, whenever / begin 10 feel
symptoms OF sick headache or sour
stomach, I take N or two Tsbules
and escape all the terrors ola
splitting headache. One taken after
eating has aided my digestion and
made mo feel like a different person
1 ind I now can get the Tabules
from a local druggist. (Slgned).
CLIFTON ARNsrARaER, September
18th, 1895"
slpans Tabules are sold by druggists, or by m,
the price go cents a b1x) Is sent to ne Ripal
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impoverished Blood causes that tired feel.
ing. Hoods sarsaparilla purihes, enriches and
vttalizes the blood, Swing new life and increased
vlgor and vitality.
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/ can PisO's Cure for Consumption
to sufferers from Asthma. d. TOWNSEND, IT
Toward, VIA, May 4, 1874.
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The Princess of Wales lately ordered
for her W use a bicycle of a pattern
that has been practically out of use for
ten years.
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T.. b. Walthall & Co., Druggists, Horse Gave,
KY, say: " HALLS Catnrrh Cure cures every
ono that takes it.M Sold by Drunrlata, 1ln.
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Half the mistakes of this world are
made by people who think they are
correcting MISTAKES Of others.
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Mrs. WinsrOw's soothing Syrup for children
feethlllg, softens the gums, reduces inhammL
ton. allays pain, cures wind collie. 1Oc 4 Dottll
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Never say, ..rhat is one thing l woulf
not stand" The people will laugh .
you when they e you standing 1t !
few weeks lateE.
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Mrs, Bertha G. Lamme, of the West
inghouse works IN Pjttsburg, Penn, is
the only woman electrical engineer in
the country.
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Miss Alice Rotchschild's collection
of roses is valued at $4,000.
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81 wonder II 1 could find two little
girls who would help me weed the
flower beds this morning.: said Aunt
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Gossip is a pleasant way of CRITICS.
ing yourself. No man ever did a thing
that you are not liable to do.
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"nSn't ne Tenn
One day a gay young rooster
Was scratching in the ground,
Just after a brisk, summer show'r,
And a big, fat worm he found.
file placed his claw upon it, then
Ills head he upward threw,
And to his hens he loudly called
Come! Cock-a-doodle-doP"
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Mrs. Catherine Brophy, of Frank
ford, Penn, claims to be 103 and does
her own housekeeping.
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Glddness Comes

With a better understanding Of the
w transient nature of the many phys
ical ills which vanish before proper eff
forts-gentle eforts-pleasant efforts
rightly directed, There is comfort in
the knowledge that 50 mary forms OF
sickness are not due to cry actual dis
ease, but simply TO g. ccnstipated condi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrupof Figs, prompt
~ removes. That ia Why it is the only
remedy with millions Of families, andis
everywhere ests5mei so highly By all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness, without debiiitating the
organs on which it acts. Ills therefore
all important, in order to get its bene-
fetal effects, to motto when you pur-
chase, thatyou have the genuine article,
which is manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep
utable druggists.
iIf in the enjoyment OF good health,
and the system is regular, then laxa-
tives or other remedies are not needed.
If afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
then one should have the best, and with
the well-informed everywhere, Syrupof
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
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The Boys Brigade.

The total membership of the Boys
Brigade for the United Kingdom is 3i,-
900 lads, with $500 officers
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The hens they came a-running,
AS eager ms could be,
And each one thought Now here's a treat
I'm very sure for me-"
But when that rooster they had reached
He gave a wink or two,
Gobblcd the worm himself and Grove
"Gol Cock-a-doodle-dooP
NJ n
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Rlpans Tabnles are sold by druggists, or by man
Il the price 80 cents n b1x) Is sent to the Rlpans
ChemIc i Company, No, 10 Spruce ST.. New forS.
Eample vial, 10 cents.