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* a a ) take careful note of these facts. } a TELEPHONES IN JAPAN. Remarkable Developments in Elec- tricity in Japan, American electrical engineers may find it not unprofitable to keep a close eye upon electrical developments in Japan. During the last session of the Japanese Imperial diet it was agreed to appropriate a sum of above 12,800,- 000 yen, or more than $14,000,000, Spread over seven years, for the exten- sion of the telephone service, and the work of construction is being actively carried on at vacious important places. ‘The number of new subscribers to the four centers of Tokio, Yokahama and Kobe, under the expanded system, will be over 13,000, and in Kioto and thirty- live other places where the service is to be newly established, there will be over 6,800, A considerable number of branch lines will also be established in i places of less importance, so that tele- phone communication will be within the reach of a large part of the popula- sion of Japan. The people everywhere are eager to take advantage of this means of communication, and it is Stated that ut present, in Tokio alone, there are over 2,000 subscribers, and more than 2,000 applicants are waiting impatiently to have the privilege ex- tended to them also. Arrangements are being made in Tokio to grant 500 new applications during the present year, in order of priority, and during the next two years 1,500 new applica- tions will be accepted, the intention be- ing to increase the number of subscrib- ers until it reaches 10,000. Notwith- standing the activity of the Japanese in these matters, many of the applica- tions which are being granted this year were sent in as far back as 1893. The way is being made much easicr for American manufacturers by the marked preference which the Japanese have shown for American .iethods. This is strikingly instanced in the fact that three electrical experts have late- ly been sent from Japan to this coun- try for the purpose of studying the latest developments. One of the com- missioners says: “All over cur empire now there is the greatest interest in electrical lighting and power. Electric- as been introduced in several cit- but the government wants it all over the country. Beyond a thorough- ly comprehensive telephone system, we | want to generate electricity from the | many powerful waterfalls in our coun- try, and to use it for electrical rail- ways, general power ard lighting, and in connection witn our numerous pub- lic and private enterprises. It is also our desire to utilize the long-distance | telephone in Japan.” That Japan is open to adopt the best electrical appli- neces of any country is seen in a re- nt large purchase of camp telegraph »paratus in Berlin, for service in Jap- anese mil ry operations, and it is | stated that in future the Berlin materi- | al will be imported for the use of the Japanese army. It is to be hoped that those present in this country who are specially interested in the matter will | Hearing Music Through the Hands. Notwithstanding the great amount of study which has been brought to bear upon improving or restoring the hear- ing of deaf persons by electricity, but little headway has been made so far as practical results are concerned. On the other hand, much light has been thrown on the physiological effect of certain kinds of electrical vibrations, and many experimenters are sanguine of being eventually able to employ them successfully in many branches of aural therapeutics. One singular and most interesting outcome of this line | of investigations is the proposal of Dr. | T. McKendrick to make a deaf man! hear music by dipping his hands in a} tub of water. A phorograph is used for supplying the music. The sound waves are directed into a regular tele- | phone transmitter ,which connects with a series of batteries under the tub. These batteries are specially construct- ed to give perfectly rythmie vibra- tions, the difficulty of securing which has always been a stumbling block in the utilizing of this principle of convey- ing the rythm ef music through the nerves to the nerve centers of the brain. A passenger on board of a small steam vessel which is being pro- | pelled at a high rate of speed by pow- erful machinery feels the unbroken or | rythmical vibrations going through the body of the craft. A deaf person, un- | der similar conditions, hears thse vi- brations as well as one whose auditory | nerves are perfectly normal. While the sensation of listening to the musi« by the aid of Dr. McKendrick’s appara- s accomplished on the same gen- ciple, the effect on the deaf, it | iking | and agreeable. In the case of a person | who has been deaf from birth, the} hands are immersed in the prepared | water connected with the phonograph. | The rythm of the usie is conducted } by the nerves locaJly affected to the | fissure Rolando in the brain, and the | sensation is one of pleasure. Greater still is the enjoyment experienced by one who has at some time or other had normal hearing, but who is suffering from deafness. If the tune selected is one he is familiar with he can easily follow the varying changes of the mel- od%, and harmony, and it is claimed thyt, by the aid of his imagination, which in the deaf is unusually acute, he can thus enjoy the oddly-conducted concert almost as thoroughly as if his hearing were normal. eral ) is stated, and is much more stri Women’s Battle in America, Miss Frances M. Abbott, in an arti- cle on “The Pay of College Women,” gives some instructive figures in re- gard to the status of women who have graduated in American colleges. A number of circulars inclosing sched- ules to be filled in were sent out by the American College Association. Four hundred and fifty-one of these circulars were filled in and returned. The total number of occupattons adopt- ed by the women who responded is sixty-two, but many of these are very nearly filled. There are 169 teachers, the largest number in any single em- ployment; 47 librarians and women en- gaged in library work; 28 stenogra- phers; 22 nurses and superintendents of nursing; 19 journalists, including edi- tors and reporters, and 19 clerks with- out specification as to the kind of ser- vice. When the list of occupations represented is scanned it would seem that no woman should ever despair of finding a field in which she can be specially useful. There is an actress, advertising agent, assistant in the Na- tional Herbarium, assistant on diction- ary, assistant in observatory ,astrono- mer, car recorder, .draughtswoman, in- surance broker, insurance solicitor, writer of advertisement, reviser of patents, water analyst, besides several proof-readers, telegraph operators, bookkeepers and artists. It is some- what remarkable that so few Ameri- can women tave taken to the profes- sion of medicine. Out of nearly 2,000 members of the American College As- sociation less than 2 per cent write M. D. after their names. This is the more surprising in that medicine is one of the few callings where pay- ment is the same regardless of sex. On this subject of the relative pay of women and men, Miss Abbott's paper contains a good deal of information. Of 250 women who made reply, 150 got less pay than men for the same work, 95 received the same pay and 5 women actually received more pay. To the question of the relative value of the:services of men and women there were also many contributions. Of 90 employers who replied to this question, 46 said that the work of men and women was equally valuable; 29 said the services of women were of less value; 7 made indetinite replies, while 8 answered, “On some work, yes; on other work, no.” When asked for the reason why women in general receive less pay than men for the same work, 67 replied as follows: Twenty-nine attributed it to the effect of supply and demand; twenty-one to physical and mental differences, or differences in general ability ,while 17 allege custom as an explanation. The general showing of woman’s work, however, is far beyond what it was 10 years ago. Making Gunnery More Deadly. Capt. Thouvenin’s clever invention, the phonotelmeter watch, has been so much improved and modified that it is proposed to use it on warships as well as for its original purpose of increas- ing the efficiency of land artillery. ‘This watch measures distance by the velocity of sound. While it is not easy to judge of distances on land, at sca only very experienced mariners can estimate with anything appreaching accuracy, if it be in any way consider- able, the distance separating a vessel from a passing ship or from a given point of land, and the chances are that in nine cases out of ten he will be wrong in his calculations. All this ele- ment of uncertainty is done away with by Capt. Thouvenin’s watch. Holding the instrument in his left hand, the officer watches for the flash of the enemy’s rifle or cannon. Immediately he perceives the light he presses a screw, which resembles that of a key- less watch. When he hears the report he presses the screw a second time. In the interval between the two pressures a needle or hand has moved over the are on the face of the instrument. This face registers fifteen seconds, each sec- ond being divided into ten parts. There is, moreover, a small dial on the back which registers the number of times that the needle has gone round, and marks instantaneously the minutes and quarter minutes. Within the cir- cle of seconds is a smaller one, which indicates the distance covered by the sound through the air. The approxi- mate distance at which the weapon was fired is thus seen at a glance. The same test can be applied to a flash of lightning which precedes a clap of thunder. The phonotelemeter watch will enable commanders of batteries to promptly concentrate their fire with- | out having to experiment to find a | range, as in times past. It will also be of the utmost value at the coast guard and lifeboat stations in case of vessels in distress firing signal guns for help, and may be the means of saving innumerable lives. New Version of the Indian “Mango” Trick, A new version of theIndian “mango” trick, in which a plant is seen to grow up from the seed in a few minutes, has peen devised by M. Michael Corday, of the Ecole Polytechnique, in France. M. Corday employs the well-known cinematograph, or apparatus for pro- ducing “living photographs’—that is to say, photographic images endowed with movement and apparently with | life, A rose plant is photographed at intervals during its growth until the flower buds and blooms. The photo- graphs thustaken are combined by the cinematograph and projected on a screen, so as to represent the develop- ment of a plant in a short time. The number of photographs taken in six | months should be equal to the number which the sensitive band of the cine- matograph will contain. This principle is capable of infinite extension. Obvi- ously the same plan can be utilized to show the changing aspects of the coun- try during the seasons in one progress- ive illusion, and it is suggested that it might be employed with advantage in illustrating ‘various scientific experi- ments and natural processes of an evolutionary or gradual sert. A New Method of Resuscitation. If a new method of resuscitation from apparent death from accidental electric shocks should prove to be as effective as it is reported to have been when tried in a Western copper mining works, it is well worth knowing. A workman was heavily shocked by an electric current and fell from a ladder which he was climbing. No doctor was within hail, so one of his fellow workmen laid the victim in a bed of molder’s sand, after divesting him of his clothing, and left only his mouth and nose exposed to the air. <A hose was turned on and the unfortunate man was thoroughly soaked in his im- provised grave. In a short time, so the story goes, he opened his eyes and was brought back to life. A stimulant was given to the patient, and when the doctor at length arrived there was , nothing for him to do. BEST RANGE CATTLE, Beef Cattle of the States Are Retro- grading. A few years ago the beef cattle sent to market from the states east of the Missouri river were very much better than the class sent from the range dis- | tricts. This condition is rapidly chang- ing. The beef cattle of the states are not being improved. They are rather | retrograding. On the other hand our | range cattle are bein improved so that | in the near future, if the present trend of events continues, the range cattle | Will pass the states cattle, and will be | ahead in excellence. The states still hold the front rank for herds of pure bred beef cattle. There are herds in | Missouri, for instance, that cannot be excelled, yet those cattle are bred there and the best of the product comes to the range districts. When the Western ranchman goes East to buy breeders with which to im- prove his herd he always chooses the best. He does not quibble as to the price. He declares that the best are none too good, and that class he must and will have. On the other hand, the farmer in the Central states, relying upon the grades of his cows, demands a cheaper bull, often taking a grade with uncertain breeding rather than se- lecting a pure bred one at the higher price. This method has been in vogue for ten or twelve years, and it is start- ling what a wonderful effect it has had. To verify this statement ask the | breeders of pure bred cattle. They | will uniformly say that the bulls are sold to the ranchman, 90 to 95 per cent of them, and all the best ones, except an occasional animal sold to a fellow breeder who likewise is propogating cattle for the ranges. |_ These statements are not overdrawn. In fact, they are not all the factors that enter in to depreciate the beef cat- tle, as a class, in the states. As a rule their cattle are crossed and mixed till they partake largely of the mongrel, which is but a step removed from the serub. They have a sprinkling of the Shorthorn, Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus or Galloway, and perhaps some Jersey or Holstein. Now, while each of these breeds is excellent in its class, an in- discriminate mixture destroys the type of all ,the tension of high breeding is removed and the road to scrubdom is certainly along that way. Cross bred animals are oftentimes good individu- ally, but to propogate from them is in violation of the most vital and valu- able principles of stock breeding. With all the best types of pure bred Eastern stock coming out West to replenish our great range herds it does not require much argument to show that our cat- tle are bound to be greatly benefited as the years go by and that the best and purest stock on the American continent will in a few years be found on our ranges.—G. W. Waters in Field and Farm. Silage for Fattening Cattle. + Our experiment stations have shown that silage made from Indian corn has a feeding value not materially different from that of well cured, dry fodder. ‘ the difference, where noted, generally being slightly in favor of the silage. It has also been shown by those stations that corn suffers very material loss in its dry matter, not only while curing, but afterward, while standing in the shock. It seems that there are slow fermentations going on all the time, and these, together with mechanical losses, amount to a very considerable depreciation from month to month. As our knowledge of the silo and silage increases we are gradually reducing the losses incident to storing corn in the pit, so that it now seems possible that the silo will save more feed from a given corn field than can be accom- plished by cutting and shocking the stalks, or even by cutting, shocking and housing the same. With the results favorable to the silo ’ by a very small per cent, the advocates | of this system of feeding are left to other claimed advantages. It is cer- tain that good silage is more palatable as a part feed, at least with cattle, ; than is dry fodder. Cattle always show ; astrong liking for succulent food. | Good feeders know that it is important to give their animals for provender | those foods or combinations which are | highly attractive to them. In this par- ticular silage leads. In the second place, comes economy of storage and handling. Our farmers of Wisconsin who are the most experi- enced, now dispose of a ton of green corn fodder into the silo at a wonder- fully small cost. The stalks are cut by machinery. loaded on the trucks, run | through large feed crtters, hoisted by | an elevator into the silo pit at a rapid rate and a minimum amount of man labor. Our silcs are now so construct- ed that they last a generation, and are | filled so that there is practically no waste silage excepting a little at the top of the pit. Farmers who are up to ! the times in this state are much pleased with the silo, and new silos are being built in our advanced dairy dis- tricts every year. I cannot report any recent experience with feeding silage to steers, and so cannot give our corre- spondent the definite information in that regard which he desires In general it may be said that unutil- ity of the silo comes from its adjust- ment to other conditions on the farm. With clover and pea hay for roughness ard crushed corn and cotton seed for grain, our inquirer has very cheap feed indeed, and I should spend some time going over the matter of the silo, its construction and how to use it eco- nomically for food storage, before I constructed it or relied upon silage made from corn or a substitute in any measure for the food articles before named. Feed is cheap at the South, and farm animals are not forced to subsist on dry fodder for any very long period. This would seem to make the silo of less necessity there than in Wisconsin, where our stock has not over six months’ run on pasture.—Prof. Henry, in Breeders’ Gazette. Eggs or Meat. Some persons are at a loss to know ; whether to raise chickens for the mar- ee | ket or keep hens for eggs only. We say to such persons’ that both industries may be engaged in, as the one is done at one season of the year and the other at a different period. We may, at this stage of improvement, separate chicks for the early market from those of the production of eggs only ,by reason of the fact that the invention of incuba- tors has entirely changed the market for broilers by placing the supply with- in the province of the poultryman. While all poultrymen and farmers raise chicks in the spring, it is because at that season the hens are more in- clined to become broody, but the proper period for hatching is in the late fall or winter, which is also the most suita- ble season for incubators, The great obstacles to the production of early broilers is that the hens will not in- cubate until they are ready to do so of their own accord. By the use of the incubator chicks can be hatched at any time. It will thus be seen that the one has nothing to do with the other, all that is dependent on the hen being the eggs, and in that respect she has no substitute. By a division of the two industries, for at the present day arti- ficial incwbation is a great industry, the laying of the eggs is done at the least "expense in months following March and ending when moulting be- gins, while hatching and raising chicks is done from the moulting season until March ends. Here we have the year divided into two periods and into two separate industries, both of which give better results than either alone. The incubator cannot lay the eggs, but can hatch them, while the hen can lay the eggs, but will not hatch them until she prefers to do so, nor will she act in concert with her companions, as one or two hens may be willing and the oth- ers refuse.—Poultry Keeper. Raising Hogs, The swine breeder of experience has learned that if he has a good stock of good pigs ready for sale when the peo- ple begin to awaken to the merits of swine, he reaps his reward. Poultry net makes a perfect hog-lot fence if a stout board be nailed along the bottom and an occasional post be set so that the hogs may have rubbing places.. For a small yard net is not suitable, as the hogs are restless in close confinement. ‘hey ought to have a good range always. Can pork be raised at a profit when prices are but 4% and 5 cents per pound? Not by any haphazard pro- cess. But the careful breeder and sys- tematic feeder can do it; he is doing it, and instead of being discouraged these times of low prices is improving his stock, making new quarters and get- ting ready for the boom which is sure to recur every few years. It is fall ,and pigs are not so expen- sive as in the spring; prices are lower than for some years also. Everything points to the fact that even a poor man may stock up with choice thorough- breds. Started now he ought to be nicely fixed in three years. A good way to start is to buy two or three good, blooded shoates or young sows, and have them stinted to a sire of es- tablished pedigree, and then raise them, repeating the process.—Farm Journal. The Raising of Hogs. A Southern reader asks if there need be any fear of overproducticn of hogs in the South in the next few years. We reply decidedly in the negative. When a good, pure-bred hog is placed in com- petition with the typical razor-back, there can be but one result. If the supply of hogs in the South were dou- bled within the month it would serve to create a demand and the market could handle it with ease. ‘The South- ern cotton farmer is staggering along under the pressure of hard times, when his land might be utilized to the very best advantage in producing gilt-edged, marketable pork. ‘To ovr mind. there is no betier way for the Southern farm- er to utilize the advantages he has nat- urally at hand, and which are quite often going to waste. If preferred, two or three could club together and buy a select boar, and thus grade up their herds quite economically. The differ- ence will Le noticed in the next litter of pigs, and their superiority will cre- ate a demand for them at fair prices in your’ own immediate vicinity. Good pork can always be depended upon to bring a good price. Look into this matter, as it will bear investigation — Colman’s Rural World. Stock Notes. au much feed is as bad as too lit- tle. Dehorned cattle are preferred in the markets. The horse blanket in winter saves its cost by saving feed, to say nothing of the comfort to the horse. Patch the holes and cracks in the barn. Remember that the animal heat has to be kept up by feed, and the colder the barn the more feed it takes, The driver who will jerk a horse’s mouth is out of place when driving a horse. The mouth is not for that pur- pose. Parbed wire fencing has done lots of damage to stock. ‘Yhere ought always to be a slight ditch along barbed wire fencing where stock runs. The stock will not go over the ditch. A prominent swine breeder has said that if you had but five females, and they would raise two litters of pigs a year of five each, in five years the re- sult would be 2,000,000 of pigs. Scientific breeding consists in real- izing the greatest increase in the weight of the animal at the least cost as can be easily digested and give the of so doing. Such fat-producing foods greatest warmth fatten quickest. Cattle will shrink more in one cold rain or snow storm than they will gain back in a week or ten days of good weather, after causing enough loss in labor, feed and time to have paid the expense of furnishing shelter for the entire winter. The Montana experiment station has spayed a large number of mares ,and finds it quite a simple and safe opera- tion. The spayed mares, it is said, are more tractable, keep in better condi- tion than other mares and are equal to geldings in form, courage and endur- ance. A veteran broncho breaker gives the following as a sure way to cure a horse of kicking: “Tie one of his forelegs with a rope to his hind leg on the other side. As soon as he starts to kick he jerks his front leg off the ground and he goes down in a heap. Two or three doses of that kind will cure the worst case you can find.” Minnesota Manifestations, PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE PINK PILLS. From the Ploneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Sche- nectady, N. Y.: Dear Sirs:—In answer to yours re- garding the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People in this locality, I can only say wherever used—wthout an exception—they have been of in-| estimable benefit, and a cure has in- | variably followed their use. In the case of Mrs. R. E. Vanwalt, a lady who has for nearly nine years been suffering from “female complaint,” at times being unable to leave her bed for weeks, and who has paid hundreds of dollars for medical services, the cure might almost be viewed in the light of a miracle. In speaking of her relief from that terrible disease, Mrs. Van- walt said: “For nearly nine years I have suf- fered untold agony, many times being unable to leave my bed for weeks at a time. I tried several proprietary medi- cines, but derived no benefit whatever from their use; I tried physicians, but it was no use. A couple of months ago I tried one box of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and received so much benefit from them that bought one dozen more, seven of which I have used, and to-day I consider my- self a ‘well woman.” Dr. W. F. Carpenter was asked what he thought of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and he said: “In my practice it is not customary to use, as a rule, prepared remedies, as it has a deteriorating effect on a physician's business, but in the case of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Peo- ple I find they afford relief where rem- edies in common practice will not reach.” Cther parties in this locality having used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills all speak well of them and have derived benefit from their use. Personally I cannot recommend them too highly, having been more or less troubled with sciatica and nervous headache. I have used but three boxes and I believe the infirmities have en- tirely left me. I hereby certify that the above state- ments are true and correct as far as was in my power to ascertain through @ personal interview with the parties mentioned. (Signed) FRED BOOMAR. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of August, 1866. CHAS. B. ROMKEY, Justice of the Peace, Clay County, Minn. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and rich- ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after ef- fect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and _ sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50—(they are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Parks for Use. One feature in Birmingham rather surprising to an American is that every park is made for use. There is no fear lest the grass may be injured, but in every ground adapted for them are ericket and foot ball fields, picnic grounds, croquet lawns, tennis courts, bowling greens, the use of which is permitted for a merely nominal pay- ment. Every park, large or small, has one or more concerts each week during the summer, paid for by a neighbor- hood subscription. Less need exists for large parks than in American cities of the same size because the better class of houses all have ample gar- dens.—Century. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup For chilu.ea teathing, softens thes ums, reduces inflam- maciou, allays pain, curee wind colic. 25 cents a bottle. The Roman Catholic seminaries have 1,250 theological students, or 16.3 per cent of the whole number of students in this country. When billows ot costive, eat a Cascaret candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. 10c, Be. Cranberries are plentiful and cheap, and many Cape Cod growers are holding on for higher prices. Coe’s Cough Balsam Is the oldest and best. It will break up a Cold quicker than anything else. Itis always reliable. Try it. The value of scienticfic apparatus and Ubraries used in the instruction of the youth of this country is estimated at $13,532,419. Might have Changed the Map of Europe. T the & Battle of Waterloo the great Na ‘was so pros- trated from Nephritis.. (Inflamma- tion of the Kidneys) .. that for more than an hour the battle against him. Had Oe been known at the time, Napoleon § need not have been ill at such a j supreme moment, nor his star suf- § fered eclipse. While all cannot be Napoleons, all can be spared the illness which resulted in his downfall. | eke ay cc nem reel peti 8 Patents Issued. List of patents issued last week to Northwestern inventors: Michael Favrow, St. Cloud, Minn., rol- ler mill adjustment; Edwin H. Mont- gomery, assignor one third to M. ; Thommes, St. Paul, Minn., multiple fuse block; Joseph R. Moore, Denver, Col., bicycle bell; Herbert D. Myers, Bowdle, S. D., band cutter and feeder; Daniel H. Newton, Minneapolis, Minn., starching machine; Englebrecht Olsen, Walkerville, Mont., signal bell; Budd Reeve, Buxton, N. D., means for treat- ing seed; Louis B. Smith, Denver, Col., spool holder for sewing machines. T. D. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, 910, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Builuing, St. Paul, Minn. Business Stagnation. “What made you so long buying that spool of thread?” “Why, I had to wait until some shop ladies got through telling each other what they dreamed last night.”—Chica- go Record. $100 Reward, $100. ‘The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re- quires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its cura- tive powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by drug- gists, 75c. Mr. Fusser (picking up young lady's umbrella)—I beg pardon. Young lady (haughtily)—I did not speak, sir. Mr. F.—Oh; I thought you said “Thanks.”—Yale Record. There are many fashionable West end physicians clearing ncomes annually of £4,000 or £5,000. Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowles. Never sicken, weaken or gripe. A foot of newly fallen snow changes inte an inch of water when melted. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, All Druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 250 It 4s said that in London alone over 100,- 000 men, women and children gain thelr daily bread by pocket-picking. Just try 2 10c box of Cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. Sharks are frequently killed that weigh three or four thousand pounds. My doctor said I would die, but Piso’s Cure for Consumption cured me. — Amos Kelner, Cherry Valley, Ills., Nov. 23, 1895. Montana produced 21,530,013 pounds of wool this year, and leads all other states as a wool grower. the Man, And The Pill. She was a good woman. He loved her. She was his wife. The pie was good; his wife made it; he ate it. But the pie disagreed with him, and he disagreed with his wife. Now he takes a pill after pie and is happy. So is his wife. The pill he takes is Ayer’s. Moral: Avoid dyspepsia by using Ayer’s § Cathartic Pills. THE SMITH RACING SKATE. 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