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The Bacon Folly.

It was inevitable that the Bacon folly should proceed to commit suicide by piling up extravagances. By some meth ods one can prove anything. and accord inglv we find writers busy in tracing Bacon's hand in the writings of Greene, Marlowe, Shirley, Marston, Massinger, Middleton and Webster. They are sure that he was the author of Montaigne's s essays, which were afterward translated into what we have always supposed to be the French original. MT. Donnelly believes that Bacon also wrote Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. Next comes Dr. Orville Owen with a new cipher which proves that Bacon was the son of Queen Elizabeth by Robert Dudley, and that he was the author of the ''Faerie Queene" and other poems attributed to Edmund Spenser.
 Finally we have MT. J. E. Roe, who does not mean to be outdone. He asks us what we are to think of the notion that an ignorant tinker like John Bun yan could have written the most perfect allegory in any language. Perish the thought Nobody but Bacon could have done it. Of course Bacon had been more than 50 years in his grave when ''Pil- grim's Progress" was published as Bun yan's, but your true Baconizer is never stopped by trifies. MT. Roe assures us that Bacon wrote that heavenly book as we'll as Robinson Crusoe" and the "Tale of a Tab, which surely begins to make him seem ubiquitous and ever lasting. If things go on at this rate, we shall presently have a religious sect holding as its first article of faith that Francis Bacon created the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day.-John Fiske ill Atlantic
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much that l purchased another one, and even a third bottle, when, to my great joy, [ found myself as we'll as ever l was in my life; and furthermore, have remained so."
 In further conversation he said:
 Dr. Greene Nervura is a great medi- cine. There is no humbug about it It was made to cure, and it does cure No one need le afraid 10 use it..
 Dav bv day he praises this wonderful medicine to his friends and neighbOrs, as the one sure way to regain their health.
 The word of ihis Nidelv-known states man should have the most convincing weight with the public, but when we have added 10 this the fact that the Northamp- ton Duly G0zc/fc, q newspaper of the highest standing, ,ouCheS editorially for the truth of every word, and its editor states that he has personally investigated all the facts of the marvellous cure, there should be no hesitation by the people to use this great medical discovery, this W on- dcrful Curer of disease, Dr. Greene's Ner- vura' blood and nerve remedy. IL is a fact, no longer'to re toubted, that this remedy cures - that it makes those who use it strong and we'll -- that 1t k the surest. and most certain cure. for, disease in all the world, and the Ncns best spring medicine possible to take.
 IL is not q patent medicine, but the pre- scription of the most successful specialist in curing'diseases, Dr. Greener of B West tIth St. New York City. He has the largest practice in the world, and this granc medical discovery is the result of his vas expc. fence. The great reputation of Dr Greene iS a guarantee that this medicine will cure, and the fact that he can be con suited by anyone at any time free of charge personally or by letter, gives absolute as surance of the beneficial action of this won derful medicine. Do not fail to use .tI
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AN UNFORTUNATE EDITOR.
Edison's Experience In Newspaper Mak'
 ing Was Not a Happy One.

Edison's Experience In Newspaper Mal-
 ing Was Not 8 Happy One.
 In her life story of Edison Mrs Sarah A. Tooley relates the following con- ,erning the "Wizard:''
 Having been successful as news seller, Edison lost no time in becoming an editor and publisher, and like Gar sison:
 What need of helpP He knew how types were
 set.
 He had dauntless spirit and 8 press.
 "True, Tom Edison's s press only con- sisted of disused set of type purchased for a nominal sum, and his combined printing office and editorial sanctum was a dilapidated luggage van, but it possessed an advantage of which even Printing House square cannot boast-it was migratory. The van converted to this novel purpose was attached to the train on the Grand Trunk railway, and appropriately enough the paper was en~ titled The Grand Trunk Herald.
 "A further venture was Paul Pry, in which, if any one may be excused a pun. the editor 'pried' into things in too free manner, and some individuals, incensed at his fun at their expense, dipped him into the river to cool his imagination. Further disaster followed when one day a phosphorous bottle up- let ill his laboratory and nearly set the train on fire. The conductor promptly removed Edison and his apparatus, printing and chemical, to the platform at the next stopping place.
 "It was bitter moment, of which Edison cannot think without feeling over again the sense of utter hopelessness and desolation which came upon him when he saw the train whirling of while he stood alone and forsaken among his broken goods, his ear tin gling with a brutal box which injured his hearing for life '
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A HINT TO ARTISTS.
One Way of Putting Rejected Exhibits to
 Good Use.

One Way of Putting Rejected Exhibits to
 Good Use.
 They were riding on the Fourteenth street cars and their conversation was edifying. The man with the long hair was evidently sculptor. and his con- panion. large, jolly looking fellow, was trying to persuade him to present work of art to some society woman who had a mania for collecting bric-a-b brac and articles of vertu.
 "I told her that you would, I thought in time present her with some memen- to, statuette illustrating your peculiar style. Was I wrong in saying so?''
 The sculptor answered indignantly: "I know her value of art, and I tell you she cannot distinguish between manu- factured trinkets and works of art. In fact, she thinks all artists are manufao- turers and can turn out statuettes as easily as the rich stove ornament man who gave her a nickel plated mule. Then, too, brass fixture artist gave her something from the brass foundry, and she thought it great. Never, in my judgment, could she appreciate a true work of art. "
 "Then you refuse to give her sam- pie of your work? Remember, she has great influence.
 "I do not refuse. I'll give her that model in plaster of paris which was re- fused by the committee last month. She will think it great, whether or not the committee did.'
 "Goodl She will think it magnifi- cent and get you an order. "-New York Commercial
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We are living too fast. "Fast as light ning," expresses it, for we talk by cleo trieity, cook by electricity, travel by electricity and Sc cn.
 Its hurry, hurry, hurry from the cradle to the grave.
 We crowd too much, crowd OUT work, crowd OUT sleeping.
 A breaking down of the nervous sys- tenn" is the way of expressing the result.
 It means a depicting of the nerves in duced by prolonged strain; overtaxing of the nervous system; a product of over hurry and bustle.
 It affects all people in all walks of life. It baffles physicians of all schools.
 No one knows the horrors of such a condition better than Rev. J. N. Nc Cready, of E1kton, Mich. For years he labored faithfully and well. He was pro gressive and aggressive; leader among men, deep thinker and hard worker.
 In his zeal, he overworked; overtaxed his mental and physical strength.
 The outlook was dark, with health shat tered and recovery apparently hopeless.
 Many means for cure were tried, with out receiving benefit.
 Finally he took Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and was restored to health.
 He says:
 "In April, 1896, the physicians said must stop preaching or die.
 had overtaxed myself and was sui fering from a complete breaking down of my nervous system and persistent stom- ach trouble.
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Several physicians treated me, bot no permanent benefit was derived.
 Four times Twas stricken with nervous prostration twice with gastritis.
 These attacks would throw me into spasns.
 "I could eat neither meat or vegetables. If my bare feet touched the floor was immediately seized with cramps.
 "I was used up; helpless, hopeless.
 "I commenced to take Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. One box was consumed and felt no better. This dis couraged me.
 My wife urged me to try the pills some more, feeling that my life depended upon the result.
 I continued to take them.
 Since then, and it has been several months, have enjoyed life.
 Have preached all summer and held revival meetings for fifteen weeks.
 have had no muscular exercise for years, but recently, have done considerable hard work in my garden, my muscles standing this test remarkably well.
 Every Sabbath l preach three times and now think l am good for another twenty years, if the Lord wills.'
 To add weight to his words, Rev. Me Cready made affidavit before J. D. Brookes, Notary Public.
 Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People exert a powerful influence in restoring wasted nerve power and in purifying and enriching the blood. Druggists consider them the most effective remedy which they dispense.
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FIVE REMARKABLE TREES.
Which Rank Among the Curiosities ol
 Plant Life,

Which Rank Among the Curiosities of
 Plant Life.
 The whistling tree, or Acacia f1stula, is found in Nubia and the Sudan. The Arabs call it soffar, or piper, be- cause of the whistling sound that it pro- duces, and the specific name of fistula, word also meaning pipe or flute, has been given it for the same reason.
 Insects infest the tree and deposit their eggs in its shoots. A gall-like ex- crescence about an inch and half in diameter is produced at the base of the shoots and when the larvB have emerged from circular holes in the sides of the shoots the holes, played upon by the wind, produce whistling sound equal to that produced by a sweet toned flute.
 The COW tree is so called because it yields an abundant supply of milk. To obtain the milk deep incisions are made in the tree, from which the fluid flows into vessels placed ready to receive it. This vegetable milk is white, somewhat viscid and has an agreeable flavor, and an analysis of it shows that it is very much like the milk of COW ill it's com position. The COW tree grows on the slope of the mountain chain bordering on Venezuela.
 The cloth tree is found at Otaheite, in the south sea. The bark is taken off in long strips and put to soak overnight in running water The soaking softens it, so that the inner fiber may be easily separated from the rest of the bark. The tibers are put together in lengths of about II or l2 yards, and the lengths are placed side by side until they are at least l2 inches ill width, and two or three layers of fibers are put one upon | another
 The fibers adhere together in one beaten upon a smooth piece of wood until it becomes as thin as muslin. It is then bleached in the air for time, when it is ready to be made up into clothing.
 The stinging tree of Queensland is pleasing to the eye, but dangerous to the touch. Its effects are curious It causes great pain to the person or animal that has the misfortune to get stung by 1t, but it leaves no wound, no mark of any kind, and for months afterward the part stung is painful in rainy weather or when ill any way it gets wet. Frequent | ly 1t is neCessary to shoot horses and dogs that have been stung by the tree, so maddening is it's effect upon them.
 The angry tree grows in Nevada, east ern California and Arizona. When in the least disturbed, this highly sensi- tive tree shows its anger by ruff1ing up its leaves and emitting a disagreeable odor. D. V. F. in Philadelphia Times.
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THE HUSBANDS soLILoouY.

When we clean house, I'm homeless for a week. When we clean Mouse, my life Is cold and bleak. My wife she works away
 And ''airs the house" all day. .E Oh, what a disarray
 When we clean housel When we clean house. woe fathomless is mine. Tue things are shook and hung upon a line. cannot find my clothes, And where my meerschaum goes The future only shows
 When we clean house. When WV clean house, I feel that have sinned. When we clean house, we mostly live on wind. We have our little snaclxs
 And dine on beats and whacks And soap and carpet tacks
 When we clean house.
 Detroit Free Press.
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her symptoms, surroundings and occu- patton.
 She will get advice from a source that has no rival in experience of wo- mems ills. Tell her to keep nothing back. Her story will be told to wo- man, not to man. She need not hesi- tate in stating details that she may not wish to mention, but which are essential to full understanding of her case, and if she is frank, help is certain to come
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OLD PEOPLE.-Old people who require medicine'to to regulate the bowels and kid
 neys will find the true remedy iD Electric Bitters. This medicine does not stimu- late, and contains no whiskey nor intexi- cant, but acts as tonic and alternative. It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the or gans, thereby aiding Nature in the per- formance of the functions. Electric Bit ters is an excellent appetizer and aids di- gestion. Old People find it just exactly what they need. Price fifty cents and $l.00 per bottle at E. K. Taft's Drug Store. 6
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From all over the country comes words of praise for Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy. Here is a sample letter from c. Shep of Little Rock. Ark: II was suf- fering from a very severe cold, when read of the cures that had been effected by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. concluded to give it trial, and accord ingly procured bottle. It gave me prompt relief, and I have the best reason for recommending it very highly. which I do with pleasure. For sale by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, and G. L. Phil lips, South Coventry.
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Every Seat Was Taken.

Barnes Tormer-Every seat was taken at our last performance
 RoscIus de Hamme-I heard about it. l was told that the audience carried of the benches as the only way 1f getting any return for thelr money -Lndlanap- 0lis JouruaI ~.rr -> .' -...-' ~.--.:
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Country roads in China are never bounded by fences, but are entirely un- defined. While the farmer has the right to blow up any road passing through his land, drivers of vehicles have an equal right, and they exercise it, to traverse any portion of the country at large.
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"I met a woman the other day. "7,

"I met woman the other day" says a writer in the Chicago News, "whc has met Rudyard Kipling. Not only has she met him, but she has broken bread with him, and she has heard him talk. I asked her what impressed her most about him. Think of the man who wrote The Gadsbys' and The Seven Seas and Soldiers Three!' She said she was most deeply impressed by the fact that Mrs. Kipling calls him Buddy. dear
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The editorial columns of the Northanp- ton (Mass.) Daily G0scffc give the par tieulsrs of the remarkable cure by Dr., Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, of Hon. Charles $. Crouch, NorthamptOn's ablest and best known statesman aud Rep resentativc in the Massachusetts Le@isln- ture.
 Editor ]. C. Gcrc, ct this leading news paper, personally investigated the facts of this wonderful cure, and his wide, read editorial states the details of the cure CX- aetly as they occurred, giving Hon. MT Crouch's own words.
 Following Is the editorial in full:
 Learning that q great cure had been ef- fected in the case of Representative Chas. $. Crouch, of Northampton, Mass, by Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, a reporter took occasion to call on Mir. Crouch and mlk with him about it, and among the thousands of testimonials given to this world-renowned medicine, none will be more widely read or give greater weight than this one coming from 90 noted man as Representative Crouch
 Hon. MT. Crouch said
 Last spring | did not feel in my usua health; felt as tired in the morning as whcr retired; had no energy nor ambition tC go apout day wofk' nOsuppetlte Wttt which to regain strength and energy. lr this condition I worked along from wecl to week, thinking that aftcra while matter would right themselves and would fee like myself again. But to the contrary, grew worse.
 "Knowing that Dr. Greene's Nervuri was not n patent mediCins, but a medicine put up from q prescription discovered b, the doctor in his private practice, resolved 10 try 1t. The first bot'ie helped me SC JAPANESE READY-MIXED COLI VI FAINT AT
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A Ministers
 Trials.

7Hzs narvatfOe from q $ o greatest sazse 10 Mose aoAose ne'0es nnsruae, AeaAA shattered otAeroOase alAus z fs barticnlark abbrobraate a Mls age of acti0e, ncrz0us en1dless labor.
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YOUNG WOMANHOOD.

Sweet young girls How often they develop into worn, listless, and hopeless women because mother has not inn pressed upon them the importance of attending to physical development.
 No woman is exempt from physical xraulx0aSS and periodical main <.>
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Many People Cannot Drink

Coffee at night It spells their sleep. You can drink Grain-O when you please and sleep like top. For Gra1n-O does not stimulate; 1t nOur- ishes cheers and feeds. Yet 1t looks and tastes like the best coffee. For nervous persons, young people and children Grain-O is the perfect drink. your grocer to-day. Try it in place of coffee. n60
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What pleasure is there in life with 8 headache, constipation and biliousness Thousands experience them who could become perfectly healthy by using De- Wits Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. w. D. Heald.
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The river Nile has it's rises, but those ing the last 1000 years there has been only one sudden rise of the Nile, that oi 1929, when 3O,OOO people were drowned.
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nUW TO MAnE MONEY!

If you are out Of employment and want a DO tltlon. paying you from $50 to S1OO monthly clear above expenses by. working regularly, or, fl you want to increase your present income from $2O0 10 $500 yearly, by working at odd times, write the GLOBE co, 723 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pa, stating age, whether married or single. last or present employment, and you can secure a position with them by which you can make more money easier and faster than you ever made F.,fg fvN tFa
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Within a radius of 30 miles of Bost

Within radius of 50 miles of Boston there are nearly two million and half of people.
 After years of untold suffering from piles, B. W. Pursell of Knitnersville, Pa., was cured by using single box of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Skin dis eases, such as eczema, rash, pimples, and obstinate sores, are readily cured by this famous remedy. w. D. Heald.
 The cathedral of Rouen, France, boasts of clock that has kept time for 800 years.
 Don't annoy others by your coughing, and risk your life by neglecting a cold. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. w. D. Heald.
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A thrill of terror Is experienced when a brassy cough of croup sounds through the house at night. But the terror soon changes to relief after One Minute Cough Cure has been administered. Safe and harmless for children. w. D. Heald.
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round her and her cheek on protecting

round her and her cheek on protecting shoulder.
 Strong emotions make us view the world in a distorted light with our men, tal as we'll as our bodily eyes, and there was no David i'll the green garden be- hind the high hedge, only brave wo- man, weak and trembling, with he1 head on the breast of the man she had rescued from worse than death-the man who called her "Evey, my dar- ling" " and passionately kissed her.
 
 David Lancaster came home ill the gloaming half an hour later, with piece of salmon i'll q bass bag and the fifth Globe with all the latest cricket in it.
 Evey, up at her window, white and trembling still, watching with half averted eyes a figure pacing up and down under the cedars, saw her husband coming in at the gate, saw him join the restless figure and tramp up and down in company and knew the story was be- ing told him, for with a kiss had come awakening and shame, as it came with the knowledge of good and evil into the first garden.
 Some time later the two men came | back to the house, and Eveys preter- naturally sharpened ears heard Edward ascend to his own room and David turn down the passage to come to hers. She stood ill the middle of the floor in her white gown, her hair slightly ruffied, her face drawn with the stress of emo- tion which she had undergone, her hands-those little hands that had done so much-hanging Imply by her side And David opened the door and came i'll. She could not look at his face, but she understood as he walked across the room to where she stood and took her straight and unhesitatingly into his arms that somehow, ill spite of all, he knew about the kiss and had forgiven her. And the kiss was all she could remember of her past life.
 | When David Lancaster went up stairs to his wife and took her to his heart without asking for word of explana- tion on her part, he did the one thing that saved him and her and Edward Vereker from shipwreck.
 read story once in which the con cluding sentence ran thus, And so by a little thing was woman saved from Guo mAsAOEtuuo O1 a great pdssIOu.
 Edward Vereker, having done all that lay in his power to atone for what had happened, left the house early next morning without seeing Evey again And her husband shook hands with him at parting.
 They have not met since, except casu ally in society, and then they meet anC greet as friends. They had fallen lit tie way together and repented of it, an6 with repentance comes revulsion of feel ing and with that the end of all thing that might have been, withered unSime ly in the budding of passions poppy flowers.
 So she was heroic ill that she saved him, and he was noble in that he con fessed his kiss to her husband. Blu somehow it seems to me that the great est of these three was David Lancaster who heard and understood and yet, hear ing and understanding, forgave.-Blacl | White
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Metallized Wood.

The following process, invented by MT. Rubennick, for metallizing wood, is thus described by Les Mondes: "The wood is first immersed for three or four days, according to it's permeability, in caustic alkaline lye (calcareous soda) at temperature of from 75 to 90 de- grees. Thence it passes immediately into bath of hydrosulphite of calcium, to which is added after 24 or 36 hours, a concentrated solution of sulphur in caustic potash. The duration of this bath is about AS hours, and its tempera- ture is from 35 to 50 degrees. Finally the wood is immersed for 30 or 50 hours in hot solution (35 to 50 degrees) of acetate of lead. The process, as may be seen, is long one, but the results are surprising. The wood thus prepared, after having undergone proper drying at 8 moderate temperature, acquires un- der a burnisher of hard wood a polished surface and assumes a very brilliant metallic luster. This luster is still fur ther increased if the surface of the wood be first rubbed with piece of lead, tin or zinc and be afterward polished with glass or porcelain burnisher The wood thus assumes the appearance of a true metallic mirror and is very solid and resistant
 We are anxious to do little good in this world. and can think of no pleasanter or better way to do 1t than hv recom- mending One Minute Cough Cure as a preventive of pneumonia, consumption and other serious lung troubles that fol low neglected colds. W. D. Heald. 
 A bill has been introduced in the New York legislature compelling Chinese laundrymen to print their tickets in Eng, | fish.
 There are three little things which do more work than any other three little things created-they are the ant the bee and DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the last being the famous little pills for stom. ach and liver troubles. w. D. Heald.
 The total population of Hawaii is S7, 900, or about one twenty-fifth that oi