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to bear this hardship OVERWHELMINGLY. If
a woman is in thoroughly good health it
does not come so hard, bat when, as is fire.
quently the case, the poor woman is suf-
fering from the pains, nervousness, debility
and ill-health that are a result of weakness
and disease of the distinctly feminine or
ganism, the task is too much.
Under these circumstances, unless the
right remedy is used, the poor woman will
soon break down completely and fill an
early grave. Over 10000 women have testi-
fed to the marvellous merits of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. Many of their
names, addresses, photographs and ex-
periences have been published by permis-
sion in DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Med
ical Adviser The Favorite Prescription y
cures all weakness and disease of the deli
cate and important organs that bear matern-
ity's burdens. 1t makes them well and
strong. 1t builds up the nervous system.
It makes weak, sickly, nervous, fretful wo-
men strong, healthy, amiable wives. All
medicine dealers sell it.
My youngest daughter, Mrs. Julia Raphe,
was all run down with nervous prostration and
lung trouble" writes Mrs. Julia Ann Gibson, of
EiclSerson Reno Co., Kansas " She took DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Ned
ical Discovery and was cured"
If YOU want to read the testimonies and
see the photographs of many grateful pa
tients who were cured by Dr. Pierce's rem
edies send for DR.. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser Besides telling about
these cures it tells about the home-treat-
nIent of all diseases. 1908 pages. Over
900 illustrations. Send 81 one-cent stamps,
to cover cost of mailing only, for paper
covered copy. Cloth-covers 10 cents extra
Address DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N Y.
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The big, hearty, healthy man is a
continual irritation to his dyspeptic
friend. Constipation is the root of
nine-tenths of the sickness of men,
and Of large proportion of the
sickness of women. II can be cur
cd easily, naturally and quickly.
Nature is continually working as
hard as she can to throw off impure
ties, and to force out poisonous re-
fuse matter. When there is an i'm.
pediment, DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
lets set the wheels working again
without any trouble. They assist
nature in gentle, healthful, eff
cient way. There is nothing violent
about their action, and yet it is just
as certain as if it were twice as vio-
lent. "You do not become slave
to. their USE" They are different
and better than any other pill for
the cure of constipation, headache
and kindred arrangements. Almost
all druggists understand this. and
are conscientious enough to tell you
so. The druggist who tries to sell
you substitute is not safe man
from whom to buy medicine. Send
81 cents in one-cent stamps to
Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation, Buffalo, N. Y, and receive
DR.. Pierce's 1908 page Common
Sense Medical Adviser" profusely
illustrated.
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THE KROOBOYS.
a Singular People and Their Queer Method
of Face Decoration.

a Singular People and Their Queer Method
of Face Decoration.
Between Cape Mesurado and Cape
Palmas the Krooboys have their towns,
the Little Kru, the Settra Kru, King Wills
Town and the rest. A race apart, the Las
cars Of the coast, the Krooboy for the last
300 years has been In intercourse with
men from Europe and still remains wor-
shipper of gods which, in tho latitudes of
Aberdeen, of Sunderland, the Hartlepools
and other regions where the true faith
reigns are not accepted. A healthy pagan,
tall active, with muscles like Hercules,
head like comic masque, speaking sort
of petit negre" or "Blackman English"
Jargon, call it what you like, the ground
work of it oaths; its face tattooed on Ell
Their temple with triangle, from which
line of blue, which starts below his hair,
runs down his nose, giving him when he
laughs look of having two distinct faces.
The hrooboy ships for a cruise and then,
on his return to the five towns, reverts to
paganism, a merry misbeliever over
whose life no shadow of the Galilean trag-
edy has passed and who therefore ships
aboard an English ship in the firm expec-
tation of returning home after a two
years cruise to invest his wages in the
purchase of more wives, 200 years of mis-
sionary labor having as yet proved ineffec-
tual to eradicate the natural polygamistic
tendencies which Providence who one
supposos acted after due consideration,
seems to have planted in the fiber of all
mankind except, Of course, ourselves
Strong, tall, coward, animistic to the
core andscalled indifferently "Jack Beef"
"Sam Coffee" or "Small Fish" the Kroo-
boy Is a man apart, and for the test of
moral worth our Christian navigators put
bale weighing two hundredweight upon
his head, and if he carries it safe through
the surf he is engaged. Saturday Review
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Personally Conducted Tours
via Pennsylvania Railroad.
SEASON OF 1878.

The Personally Conducted Tour
list System Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company is the highest
perfection yet attained in railway
travel; it affords all the comforts
and conveniences OF modern railway
equipment, and at the same time
eliminates all anxiety and annoy
ance inseperably connected with in
dividual travel.
For the season of '97 and 1913 it
has arranged for the following
tours:
CALIFoRNIA.-Four tours, leaving
New York, Philadelphia and Pitts.
burg January 9Th, January 9th,
February 10Th and March 10Th.
With the exception of the first
party going and the last returning
all of these parties will travel by
the Golden Gate Special" between
New York and California, stopping
at interesting points en- route.
FLoRIDA.-Four tours to Jack
sonville, will leave New York and
Philadelphia, January 25th, Febru.
airy 9Th and 22d, and March 9Th.
The first three admit of a sojourn of
two weeks in the "Flowery State
Tickets for the fourth tour will be
good to return by regular trains
until May 3Ist, 1898.
Tickets for the above tours will
be sold from all principal stations
on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
For detailed itineraries, giving
rates and full information, address
Thomas E. Watt, Passenger Agent
Western District, Pittsburg, Pa. ;
e s. Harrar, Division Ticket Agent,
Williamsport, Pa. or George W.
Boyd, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Philadelphia.
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WHAT TO DO.

There is comfort 10 tie knowl-
edge 50 often expressed that DIR.
Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great
kidney remedy, fulf1lls every wish in
relieving pain in the back, kidneys,
liver, bladder and every part of the
urinary passages. 1t corrects ina
billty to hold urine and scalding
pain in passing it, or bad fleets fol-
lowing use of liquors, wine or beer,
and overcomes that unpleasant nee
essity of being compelled to get up
many times during the night to uri-
nate. The mild and the extraordi-
nary effect of Swamp-Root is soon
realized. 1t stands the highest for
its wonderful cures of the most dis
tressing cases. If you need medi-
cine you should have the best. Sold
by druggists. price fifty cents and
one dollar. You may have sample
bottle and pamphlet both sent free
by mail, upon receipt of three two
cent stamps to cover cost of postage
on the bottle. Mention INDEPEN-
DENT and send your address to Or.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamtvn, N. Y.
The proprietors of this paper guar
antee the genuineness OF this offer.
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International Sunday School Lesson for
April 10th.

Subject, The Resurrection of
Jesus" Easter Lesson. Mark Is:
1-8. Read Matt. %. Golden Text,
"Now is Christ risen from the dead,
and become. tue first fruits Of them
that slept" l Cor. Is: 20.
Jesus tomb was made sure by
sealing great stone at the door,
and guarded by Roman soldiers, be-
cause he had said while yet alive,
"After three days / will rise again"
But all The mountains, and all
the armies of the world could not
hold in death Him who held all life
in Himself, and who had declared,
mo man taketh it from Me, | have
power to lay it down and to take it
again.
At sunrise on Sunday morning,
the two Marys and Salome came to
the tomb With sweet spices to anoint
Jesus. They said, "Who shall roll
US away the stone" for it was very
great. And, behold, there was a
great earthquake; for the angel Of
the Lord descended from Heaven,
and came and rolled back the stone
from the door, and sat upon it. His
conference was like lightning, and
his rainment white as snow and for
fear of him the keepers did shake
and became as dead men. But the
angel answered and said to the wo-
men, "Fear not We, for know that
ye seek Jesus, which was crucified,
He is not here for He is risen, as
He said, "Ccme see the place where
the Lord lay, and 60 quickly, and
tell His disciples that He is risen
from the dead"
During forty days Jesus appeared
eleven times to His people. And
on the Mount of Olives, while He
blessed His disciples, He was part
ed from them, and carried up into
Heaven, and cloud received Him
oat of their sight. And as they
locked, two angels stood by them,
and said, "This same Jesus, which
is taken up from you into Heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye
have seen Him so into Heaven
He Himself had said, II will come
again." and though nineteen cen.
turtles are nearly past, we know our
Lord will keep His word, "and
when Christ, who is our life, shall
appear, then shall we also appear
with Him in glory."-American S.
S. Union, Phila.
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Newspapers Endorse.

Educators are certainly the great
est benefactors of the race, and after
reading DR.. Franklin Miles popular
works, cannot help declaring him to
be among the most entertaining and
educating authors. "--New York
Daily. He is not a stranger to our
readers, as his advertisements appear
IN our columns in every issue, calling
attention to the fact that his elegant
work on Nervous and Heart Dis
eases is distributed free by our en-
terprising druggist A. NJ. Gilbert.
Trial bottles of DR.. Miles Neryine
are given away, also Book of Testi-
monials showing that it is unequalled
for Nervous Prostitution, Headache.
Poor Memory, Dizziness, Sleepless-
ness, Neuralgia, Hysterie, Fits, Epi-
lepsy.
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Sick-poison is a poison which
makes you sick. 1t comes from the
stomach. The stomach makes it
out of undigested food.
The blood gets it and taints the
whole body with it. That's the way
of it.
The way to be rid of it is to look
after your digestion.
If your food is all properly di.
gested, there will be none left in the
stomach to make sick-poison out of.
If your stomach is too weak to
see to this properly by itself, help
it along with few doses of Shaker
Digestive Cordial.
That's the cure Of it.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is a de
licious, healthful, tonic cordial,
made of pure medicinal plants, herbs
and wine.
1t positively cures indigestion and
prevents the formation of sick.
poison.
At druggists. Trial bottles 10
cents,
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WHAT A DINNER COSTS.
q Curicus Calculation, Showing the Cost
Of an Ordinary Meal.

q Curious Calculation, Showing the Cost
Of an Ordinary Meal.
Recently a gentleman who is fond of
arithmetic made up his mind that he
would find out how much dinner really
cost. This gentleman asked how much
simple dinner (that he was eating) cost,
and he was told rs cents.
He contradicted this and then made out
the following statement about the cost of
that dinner: The pepper, he said came
from 10000 miles away. 1t grew On lit
tie bush about s feet high, which must
have had growth of at least five years.
Tho pepper was picked green. 1t had to
be dried in the sun, and this meant en-
ploying women. 1t took one ship and 900
miles of railroad to bring the pepper to the
United States. The flour of which the
bread was made came from Dakota. Some
one owned the land and that meant the
investing of capital, and then he had also
to pay wages to workingmen. Tho -four
had to be ground, and the building of the
mill and the plant or machinery meant
more money invested. The millers had to
be paid, eoopers had to be paid for making
the barrels and of course, the wood of
which the barrels were made had to be cut
and sawed and shaped and this meant the
employing of more men. Then the flour
had to be shipped over the railroad and
handled again by cartmen before it came
into the house.
The tea on the table came from China
and the coffee from South America The
Goldfish had to be brought from Maine.
Men had to be employed to catch the fish.
Other men and women were employed in
drying, packing and boxing it and it, too,
had to make long railroad journey.
The salt came from the Indian reserva-
ton in the northwestern part of New York
state. The spices in the cake came from
the Spice islands in the Indian archipel-
ago. The canned peaches came from Cali
fornia, and they, too, represented the ON
ployment of capital and labor. The little
dinner represented, directly or indirectly,
the employment of 100000, 900 of capital
and 5000, 600 men.-Chioago News.
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Make the Baby Smile.

To hear crying baby suffering from
collie and gripping pains is not inspirit-
ing. You can relieve and soothe the
baby at once with DR.. John w. Bulls
Baby Syrup and make her smile again.
II gave DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup to my
baby who suffered and rested badly;
after the first dose she became quiet and
slept peacefully. 1t is a blessing to
mothers. Annie E. Burkhart, Reams-
town, Pa" DR.. John w. Bulls Baby
Syrup costs only 25 cents.
For sale by NJ. A. snodgrass, u N. Queen
street.
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HOW TO FIND OUT.

Fill bottle or common water
glass with urine and let it staEd
twenty-four hours a sediment or
settling indicates diseased condition
of the kidneys. When urine stains
linen it is positive evidence of kid
ney trouble. Too frequent desire to
urinate or pain in the back, is also
convincing proof that the kidneys
and bladder are out OF order.
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A Queer (?) Medicine.

There ia medicine whose pro.
prletors 10 not claim to have dis.
covered some hitherto unknown in {.
gredlent, or that it is a cure-all.
This honest medicine only claims to
cure certain diseases, and that its
ingredients are recognized by the
most skilled physicians as being the
b,st for Kidney and Bladder Dis
eases. 1t is Foley's Kidney cure.
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What is

Castcria is Dn. Pitchers prescription for Infant
and Children. 1t contains neither Opium, Morphine e
other Narcotic substance. 1t Is harmless substitute
for Paregorc, Drops Soothing Syrups and Castor Oil.
IL is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years by
Millions of Castoria destroys Worms and aays
fevershness. Castaria prevents vomiting Sour Curd
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Collie. Castoria relieves
tecthing troubles, constipation and fatulency
assiistcs the food, regulates the stomach
bowels, giving healthy and natural Sleep CaSs
toria Is the Childrcus Panaceathe Mothers Friend.
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The Moons Movements.

The moon is the nearest, and, being the
nearest, appears to u.s. with the single ex-
ception OF the sun, the largest, although it
is In reality one of the smallest of the
heavenly bodies. just as the earth goes
round the sun, and the period of revolu-
lions constitutes year, so the moon goes
round the earth approximately in period
OF one month. But while we turn on our
axis every "a hours, thus causing the al
formations of light and darkness, day and
night, the moon takes month to reyolye
on hers, so that she always presents the
same, or very nearly the same, surface to
us.-London Echo.
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Tr,aa -.

Under a new imperial ukase in
Russia, labor upon Sundays or on
the IA great feast days of the Greek
calendar is to be severely punished.
Hours Of labor are restricted to 8
for children and Ii for adults, and
to 10 hours on Saturaar.
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No NOEeltY.

"I'm afeared, F." remarked Farmer Corn
tossel, that the period of usefulness fur
that politician is about to be drawed to a
close"
whats the matter9" inquired his wife.
"Is it case of overwork?"
"No, was the answer; tain t nothin
80 unusual as oyerwork. It's plain, old
fashioned case of overtalk. "-Washington
Gtar.
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Sc Warren ST., New York Cit

% WaTIeH OI', NEW OrK Guy.
Catarrh caused difficulty in speak
ing and to great extent loss of
hearing. By the use of Ely's
Cream Balm dropping of mucous
has ceased, voice and hearing have
greatly improved.-J. W. David
son, Atty at Law, Monmouth, Ill.
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Brown hear that Green's wife
is leading him merry pace.
White-Let's see she's his third
wife, isn't she +?
Brownies.
White-Well, I've no sympathy
for man who doesn't know when
he's got enough.
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Too sharn nin.

Museum Manageable sword swallow
er seems out of health.
Keeper-Yes; he quarreled with the fat
lady, and she made him eat his own
words Detroit Free Press.
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Have You Had the Grip ?

II you have, you probably need a
reliable medicine like Foley Honey
and Tar to heal your lungs and stop
the racking cough incidental to this
disease.
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Castoria.

sCastoria Is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
On. G. @. OsGooD,
Lowell. Mass.
aCastoria is the Lest remedy for children =
which am acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers viii consider the real
interest Of their children. anil use Castoria in
stead of the various quack nostruins which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
Dr.. J. =. KIECHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
Tha Captary COMPANY, "a
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A full-grown man exhales seven
teen ounces of carbolic acid gas
every twenty-four hours.
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1t Is said that when whisky is used in
stead OF water In making glue the mix
ture Will remain unaltered for years, will
remain perfectly liquid and Is ready for
use without heating.
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A Life for soc.

Many people have been cured of
Kidney Diseases by taking so cent
bottle of Foley's Kidney Cure.
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The city of Damascus, in Syria, is SO
tncient that no record of its origin can be
discovered In any written histories.
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The BEST sALvz ia the world for cuts,
bruises. sores, ulcer, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, Chilblains
congestion, eruptions, and it positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t Is guar
anteed to give satisfaction or money re-
funded. Price % cents per box, at L. e..
Matthaei's drug store.
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FRAZER AxLE:
Fl 4 Il 4 !: = &c: e. GREASE
lies Nerve 4 Liver pms

Act on a new principle--regulat-
ing the liver, stomach aEI bowels
through the nerves. A new dis.
covery. DR.. Miles Pills speedily
cure biliousness, bad taste, torpid
liver, piles, constipation. Unequal
ed for men, women children SMALL
est, mildest, surestt so doees. IS
cts. Samples free at A. NJ. Gilberts
Drug Store. Jan 16ly
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Gold vegetables and the like must
be covered il not kept in a wired
cupboard.
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The knife grinder is happiest
when things are dull In his line of
business.
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Many a woman spends the day,
and nothing else, when she is out
shopping.
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A Beacon of Hope.

To those afflicted with Kidney or
Bladder Diseases is Foley's Kidney
Cure. Guaranteed.
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A Real Cafarrh Cure.

The 10 cent trial size Of Ely's
Cream Balm which can be had of
the druggist is sufficient to demon.
strate its great merit. Send 10
cents, we mail it. Full size SOC.
ELY BROTHERS.
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Jack-Who's your friend ?
Oscar-Friend | That isn't a
friend. That's my wife.
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TUFTS Liver Pills

mamma, the DeSmiths are say.
ing that they are richer than we."
what nonsense, child Our
suburban residence is assessed at
435 times its real value, while theirs
is assessed at 1923 times its real
value"
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had only one vote against 1t. 1t was
a viva voce vote, and how does he know
that there was only one vote cast In
opposition? Then I would also like to
know where the secretary obtained his
information that the resolution declar-
ing against proxies was carried unani-
mously. 1 voted against it"
so did IT, chirruped several of the
committeeman.
mo you didn't" said some one In an
angry tore.
whoever says I didn't" shouted
Heney, docs not tell the truth"
Heney looked around to find his tor
mentor, but no one answered his words
of challenge and defiance. 1t was then
decided to change the minutes to con-
form with the suggestion of Heney,
that they only set forth the truth. Thus
ended the first act.
the committee would next resolve it
self into a NOMINATING convention.
M. C. Hassett placed Mcdonald in
nomination for temporary chairman.
and w. J. MCGEE was nominated by
Colonel Sullivan.
Mcdonald, who had his part well
learned. spoke his lines thanking the
convention for the honor conferred on
him, and withdrew in favor of Nc
Gee.
Programmed" shouted some one in
the lobby.
IF there is any further interruption