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NATURE SURPASSING ART.
Written for the RECORD.
The rich-colored woods are a study in art,
In beauty unrivaled, unique,
Attracting all eyes, delighting each heart—
The l i k e ' t w e re useless to seek.
Oh, marvel of colors in harmony blent,
That never an artist could match,
With touches of brightness the sunshine has
lent,
That never a pencil could catch.
The symphony of crimson and gold.
With russet and orange and red,
The artist's delight and despair, we are told,
Defies imitation, as said.
Transported we gaze, in raptures admire
The picture thus freely displayed.
In finish and scheme trauscendently higher
Than anything artist e'er made.
A. S. B.
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Deacon Sn$>er'8
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OIN'S on by «¡fight tran-spires
onct in awhile 'at
no mortal bein' has the
gift to 'splain, leastways
right off, an' the twistin'
an' turnin' roundabouts of ol' Deacon
Snyder's graveyard tombstun' were to
my thinkin' enough to set mos' any-body's
teeth on aidge."
Thus spoke the keeper of the quaint
and cozy little Flying Squirrel, whose
observation was drawn forth by the
discussion . of manifestations and
mediums, which the little group in the
" hotel office " was indulging in owing
to the fact that a glaring poster tacked
up on the " o f f i c e " wall announced
the coming to Freeville of a " celebrat-ed
" personage, who would shortly
hold a seance iu the " hotel parlor."
The advent of a medium, or, in fact,
any entertainer was an event which all
Freeville appreciated the importance of
fully, for " s h o w s " rarely sought out
the little village tucked away in a
hollow of the Catskills. It was indeed
scarcely ever visited by any . save the
faigratory peddler in his wagon, who
was looked upon as a swindler in dis-guise,
to be warned off the premises
with dog or broom, and by a class
of city folk coming under the general
head of " summer boarders," who were
regarded as merely representing so
many dollars per week to the " store "
and whoever might be " k e e p i n '"
them.
To the proprietor of the Flying
Squirrel the medium's coming meant
more possibly than to anyoneelse. He
had figured it all out. He would have
the mysterious person at his house over
night, he would rent his parlor for the
seance, and would be a privileged wit-ness
of the manifestations with expense.
He was accordingly inclined to en-courage
conversation which might
arouse interest in things and happen-ings
incomprehensible.
I t was a .time.and place well suited to
dwell upon such subjects as the one
under discussion, for cozy and comfort-ing
as the little hostelry was at all
times, with its low-browed porch,
sheltered by overhanging vine-clad
eaves, where on pleasant evenings the
menfolk of the place, with chairs tilted
back against the shingled side of the
building, would discuss the work of the
day, it was a very haven of refuge on a
night like this, sending the rain sweep-ing
down through the valley, and
dimming ever and anon the lamps
with its vivid flashes of lightning,
which were followed by reverberating
peals of thunder that rolled and echoed
from peak to peak, dying away some-where
in the far distance. This night
there was a roaring fire in the great
cylinder stove which stood in the center
of the sanded floor of the office, and
round about it sat a half-dozen of the
veterans of the community, who every
little while, at one or another's invita-tion,
would march off" to the little bar,
nestling modestly in a corner of the
room, and take "so'thin' to warm up."
"Yesser," repeated the proprietor,
" t h a t tombstone manifestation were
terrifyiu'. Some of ye may have hearn
tell of it,others maya't. Howsomever,
it don't do no harm to tell it over
again, jest to show how things can
take place, 'at are what may be called
past all understaudin'.
" When old Deacon Snyder lived
over to Centerville township, a mile or
more east of Aery, he took a notion to
pervide hiself with a tombstun' 'at
would be jest a lettle ahead in point o'
looks of anything in Green county.
This was, as near as I can call to mind,
'long about fifty years ago, an' when
ol' Mehitabel Snyder, the deacon's
aunty, was a-lyin' on her death bed.
There was a great to do. yer better be-lieve,
when the tombstun' come to
Centerville. The deacon, he sent all
the way to Scotlau' for the "stone an'
had it chiseled out down to Catskill.
" On one o' the sidesit were a steeple-like
contrivance settin' on a square
block, was ol' Deacon's name, with the
words, 'Born August 10, 1807,' aud just
underneath, 'Died ,' so 'at when
the deaeon did die there wouldn't be
no trouble 'cept to cut in the date. On
t'other side was old Aunty Snyder's
name, fixed up just like the deacon's.
On t'other two sides was the deacon's
brother Ezry and his wife, Car'liue.
The tombstun' was drawed up from
Catskill village on a stone boat by two
yoke of oxen, and was so heavy 'at
when it was got to the eemelery they
had to send over to East Durham for a
derrick to h'ist it into place. The dea-con,
he had it set so 'at his name was
facin' th' risiu' sun an' Mehitabel's
the settin.'
" Ye may remember 'at old Aunty
Snyder had considerable money an'
when she fopn' out that her name
were p'intin' to the dyin' day she got
an idee into her head 'at it were some-thin'
of a hint on the deacon's part.
This made her all-fired riled up, an'
pointin' her finger at her brother, she
says:
" 'Alzar Snyder ! What's did is did,
an' can't be undid. I knows that, but
what hain't been did can be did, am
you knows that as well as me. You
hear what I say, an' take waruin\!
" Well, with that ol' aunty laid back
on her piller an' never said nothin
more. Nobody could make out what
the meanin' of her warnin' was, but
most folks agreed 'at she would haunt
the deacon if she could.
" I t might have been a week or more
come along when Alzar tòok it into his
head to go up to the buryin' ground an
take a look over the place, so's to see if
the turf was mowed down close. When
he got to where his moniment was,
Luke Simmons, whedruv him up there
in his buckboard, said, as he turned
pale as a white turnip, an' his knees
knocked together with fearsomeness.
" 'Luke,' says he, in a kinder whis-per
an' chokin' like, 'the ol' 'ooman
has kep' her word. What hain't been
did can be did.' She's a gone an
turned the tombstun roun', a warnin
in it, an' I hain't a-goin' to live long.
Le's go home.'
"The deacon,he was turrible wrought
up, ye'd better believe, when him an
Luke Simmons got'back, an' he give
orders f ' r E p h Harkins, his hired man,
to git that derrick f 'm East Durham
an' reset the moniment. Eph he took
the team an' hayriggin' and druv over,
but it were so late in the afternoon
when he started 'at he concluded to
wait till mornin' before bringin' of it
back. As he come rattlin' down the
hill the nex' day with the derrick a
crowd follered up to the buryin' groun',
the deacon leadiu', but when they got
to the place I 'm jiggered if that ther'
tombstun hadn't been turned roun'
again, so the deacon was lookin' to the
east onct more. Naturely ther' weren't
nothin' to be did 'cept sen' the derrick
back home, but folks shook their heads,
an' some allowed that the deacon had
been dreamin' an' had an uneasy
conscience. Luke Sitiimons, howso-ever,
backed him up an' said 'at, with
his own eyes, he seed the moniment
twisted wrongside afore.
"Ol' Mehitabel didn't seem to be
satisfied with her part, though, an' in
a couple o' days one o' the boys in the
village come a-runnin' and cryin' 'at
the tombstun was turned roun' again.
Mos' ev'ybody hurried up to thecemer-tery
when they beared this, an' for cer-tain
an' sure the deacon he wa.«_ a-look-in'
to the sun 'at was jus' a-settin' be-hin'
Black Dome. 'Course the deacon
was flustered to beat all an' he weren't
easy till he sent Eph for the derrick.
Before the nex' day, howsoever, the
tombstun was in its right sitiwation an'
so the contrivance weren't needed
"Folks in the village by this time
begun to feel kinder creepy about the
goin's on, an' so there were a party
organized to hoi' a sort o' watch meet-in'.
There was me an' Hipe Lacy an'
Zebe Becker an' Charley Snyder 'at
agreed to fin' out whether ol' Mehit-abel
had a han' in the carryin's on.
We met down to John Park's hotel,
about dark, an' went 'cross lots to a
p'int where we could see all parts of
the cemertery. I don't know how
long it was we waited, squattin' down
behin' a fence jut' south o' Nate
Every's apply orchard, but we was all
gettin' mighty sleepy when Charley
Snyder whispers:
" 'B'jocks, boys ! but there she be
now, all a-dressed in white !'
" With that we peeked over the fence
an' see her. She looked mos' as big as a
giant in the dim light, an' we could
jus' make her out as she went through
tthe open gate o' the buryin' groun' an'
over to where Deacon Snyder's tomb-stun
were. None of us didn't darst
to move. We see her goin' roun' and
roun' the moniment, an' heered a sort
of rubbin' noise. Bimebye she went
out jus' as she come in, an' when we
went down we see 'at the names had
been twisted roun' again. This last
time were too much for the deacon, an'
so he sent down to Catskill an' had
men sent up from the stone yard to see
if that tombstun couldn't be anchored
so no ghost could unsettle it. They
come up the next mornin' an' worked
all day on it. An' so far as I knows ol'
aunty hain't bothered it since, but I
tell ye, folks couldn't pass that buryin'
groun' for some time in the dark with-out
kinder shudderin"%n' wonderin if
Mehitabel had turned the stone again."
As the landlord of the Flying Squirrel
concluded the little circle about t h e big
stove disintegrated, its component
parts setting out for home iu silent
meditation.
I was to stay over night, and go on
over the mountains the next morning
by stage, and I was waiting for the
landlord to blow out the lamps and
light me to my room when I bethought
me to ask:
" Was the mystery of the tombstone
ever explained ?"
" Oh, yes; by hokey, I forgot to tell
that part. When the men come up f 'm
Catskill to l i s the monirrjpnt, what
they foun' then spiled the ghost part.
Ye see it took some time to set the flat
stone 'at the shaft o' the moniment
stood on. It was smooth on top an'
had a iron rod in the middle about
a foot high 'at fitted into a hole in the
shaft. When the base stone was set
an' afore the shaft was histed into
place, the deacon took all han's into
the grove close by an' set out a spread
for 'em. While they was gone some o'
the youngsters got to rollin' marbles
on the base stoue an' mus' a forgot
some of 'em; the stone men f 'm Cat-skill
found' three betwixt the shaft an'
base stone. The acted jus' like the
little balls in the bearin's of a mowin
machine, an' anybody could turn the
tombstun roun' with one han', but it
could only be turned jus' half way
roun' an' back again."
" But about the ghost herself?"
" Oh, we foun' out 'at what we
s'posed was Mehitabel was on'y a ol'
white heifer belongin' to Judge Bagley
'at come down an' scratched herself on
the sharp aidges o' the tombstun,
turnin' it roun', back'ardsand for'ards.
' FLORIDA PAST MAIL."
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where connections are made for St.
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points. This train connects at New
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Baltimore 6.22 A. M., Washington
10.55 A. M , Richmond 2.40 P. M.,
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Harrisons Outside the Gate.
A little incident occurred on New
Year's day, showing how the whir-ligig
of time changes things in Washington.
About noon, while the crowd was
hurrying to pay its New Year's greet-ings
to President McKinley, the eager
face of a little boy peered through the
iron railing that separates the White
House grounds from wide Penn'a ave.
Beside him stood a man of erect mili-tary
bearing. The little fellow was
much interested in the brilliant scene.
He was none other than Wm. Henry
Harrison IV.,,and the man beside him
was Lieut. Col. Russell Harrison, his
father, son of ex-President Benj. Har-rison,
and great-grandson of Wfli.
Henry Harrison. Col. Harrison's little
son was anxious to see the New Year's
reception at the White House. Col.
Harrison not being on the best of terms
with the President, did not desire to
attend the function, aud so took his
boy to the gate, where he could see the
crowd and be amused. Many who
passed out, seeing the two, commented
on the spectacle of a son and grandson
of one President and the great-grand-son
and great-great-grandson of
another standing outside the White
House among the crowd of spectators.
The Home.
To have a home in every sense of the
word homelike demands a certain
knack and also a keen and poignant
determination not to become the abso-lute
slave of either time or tidiness
Of course, just here some housekeeper
who would regard it as positively
criminal to let breakfast stand five
minutes after it was on the table, or
who wouldn't break a pair of blankets
to save a baby from freezing, shrugs
her shoulders and gives vent to some
uncomplimentary remarks about the
sort of home such a place would be,
But let us assure Mrs. Fussy that it
would be in very truth " home, sweet
home" to a far more certain degree
than where the harassed head feels
that he is is not privileged to sit on
certain comfortable-looking but too-good-
to-be-used bits of furniture, and
who feels that he must retire to the
back yard if he cares to indulge in an
after-dinner smoke.
No, we do not advocate slovenliness
by a n y means. That is as certain dis
comfort as superlative tidiness. Create
a mean—a pleasing, comforting sort of
mean that resolves itself into cleanli-ness
that is not so glaringly obtrusive
that it is painful—a mean that resolves
itself into, also, a comforting disorder
that is soul-satisfying without being
absolutely shiftless. You know the
sort of a house we advocate—such a
one as where you always have a good
time, yet where there is never a certain
day when all the furniture is set out in
the hall and the mistress, in most un-becoming
headgear, makes a weekly
onslaught on dirt that only her eagle
eye can detect, while every other
inmate rushes forth to seek refuge even
on the stormy streets, or if, perchance,
remaining indoors, sits in draughts
and wonders gloomily why cleanliness
and discomfort should of necessity
be allied.
A day for this, an hour for that,
a minute for the other, the shades
never permitted up or down beyond a
certain line, every chair iu its same
relative position to the pattern on the
carpet from one year's-end to the other,
never a variation in meal time or menu,
exactness to the last degree, but com-fort
never.
And the house can be kept clean,
the domestic machinery oiled and in
perfect running order without any of
these harrowing visible evidences of
thrift and order. Suppose, instead of a
weekly upheavel, there is a daily dust-ing
and tydying; instead of satin-embroidered
cushions too fine for a
tired head to rest upon, are.substituted
real cozy affairs that mean just what
they look and which can be quickly
patted into the necessary precision to
satisfy the housewife if visitors should
arrive unexpectedly. Suppose—ah,
well, we need not go on proposing.
Every woman knows just the sort of a
house we mean, and she can have it if
she will be less a slave to the innate
feminine tendency to worry herself
and others to death over a little dust
and disorder and give herself up more
to the task of making her abode a
home in very truth.
Observations.
Pity the social parasite who earns
his dinner by his wit, no matter what
his humor.
Persons who have shoals of acquaint-ances
are bound to have some fishy
friends.
Worrying everything to tatters is
common to old men, aud—puppies.
The reasons of the heart, and those of
the head, are alien.
You never miss the water 'till your
pipes freeze—dry.
A man who permits a woman to
control his time has cut the last link of
his individuality.
As logicians, women are failures; as
faetitians, victors.
Men who are tired of feminine chains
should pretend abject servility—they
will soon be released.
Women, who seek to tie the knot
marriage too tightly, forget that fetters
can cut through, at times.
Philadelphia's Big Hall.
The principal dimensions of the
Philadelphia public buildings are as
follows: Length from north to south
480.; feet; width from east to west, 470
feet; total area of grounds, including
courtway, 4j acres; height of tower,
547 feet, 11J inches; diameter of clock,
26 feet; total number of rooms, 246;
total floor space, 14J acres; height of
Penn statue, 37 feet. The cost of the
building up to June 30, 1898, was
$22,039,822, since which time about
$1,500,000 has been spent on additional
furnishings and maintenance. The
Commission to take charge of the
erection of the buildings was created
by Act of Assembly of August 5, 1870;
the first ground for the foundation was
broken upon August 16, 1871, and the
first stone was actually laid upon
August 12, 1872, at the southwest angle
of the foundations. The records of the
Superintendent's office do not show
the exact number of casualties, but it is
estimated that about twenty men have
been killed in aud about-the construe
tion work, most of the accidents hav-ing
occurred duriug the erection of the
tower, from July, 1874, to May, 1887.
They Wash.
Winston Churchill, the English war
correspondent, says that after careful
study of many nations he has conclud
ed that the distinguishing characteris-tic
of English speaking people as com-pared
with other white races is that
they wash, aud wash at regular in-tervals.
"English and American," he
says, " are divided by an ocean of salt
water," but they are united by a bath
tub of soap and fresh water,
New Wax Groups a t t h e Eden Musee.
Hardly a day passes that the Eden
Musee of New York City does not
make some addition to its large collec-tion
of wax groups and figures. Several
groups of more than usual artistic
merit have just been added. One
represents a careless butchers boy.
While delivèring meat he becomes in-terested
in an advertisement of the
Musée. While he is thus occupied a
hungry dog prys open his basket and
is stealing a large steak. Another
group shows a woman explaining a
phonograph to her little daughter. It
is a real phonograph in operation and
the little girl is much interested.
Several spectators are enjoying the
scene. Still another group is that of a
little newsboy disposing of his papers.
All of these groups are charmingly
artistic and examples of the best work
that can be produced in wax. Among
the other groups in the Musee there
have been many changes and additions.
New costumes have been added to re-place
the summer costumes and the
figures all look comfortable. By long
aud continued effort the Musee has be-come
a great center for moving pictures.
I t spends large sums of money each
week for the best pictures that can be
secured anywhere in the world. The
result is that it has a collectiou of at
least a thousand pictures and seldom
shows the same picture twice iu one
day. Exhibitions are given hourly and
each exhibition contains historical,
conlic and mysterious pictures. These
latter are most wonderful and it makes
one's hair almost rise to see the fairies,
demons and goblins that apparently
appear and disappear with great ease.
Concerts are given afternoon and
evening by the Neopolitan Orchestra.
The programme at each concert is
made up of solos, duets, and choruses
with orchestral acc mpaniment. Each
programme is different and the most
difficult music is rendered with pleas-ing
charm and grace.
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Air Line Railway, the only line
operating daily limited traius to Florida,
will put on its magnificent new train,
"Florida and Metropolitan Limited,"
solid from New York via Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington to Richmond,
Raleigh, Columbia, Savannah, Jackson-ville
and St. Augustine. Connections
at Jacksonville for Tampa and all
Florida points, and at St. Augustine
for the east coast. This train also
carries drawing room sleeping car New
York to Atlanta. Leaves Boston 12.03
A. M., New York 12.55 P. M., (from
23rd street station Pennsylvania Rail-road),
Philadelphia 3.29 P. M., Balti-more
5.45 P. M., Washington 6.55 P.
M., arriving at Southern Pines, N. C.
5.56 A. M., Columbia, S. C. 10 A. M.,
Savannah, Ga. 12.25 P. M., Jackson-ville
3.50 P. M., St. Augustine 5 P. M.,
Tampa 6.30 A. M., Charlotte 9.51 A.
M., Atlanta 4.35 P. M. Connections
are made both at Miami on the east
coast and Port Tampa on the west coast
for Key West and Havana. The
"Florida ancl Metropolitan Limited"
is luxuriously equipped in every re-spect,
with Pullman drawing room car,
compartment car with drawing rooms
and state rooms, observation car,
through day coaches anjl unexcelled
Pullman dining car service.
For further information, call on or
write to all Pennsylvania Railroad
offices, or representatives of the Sea-board^
Air Line railway at 306 Wash-ngton
street, Boston, Mass.; 1206 and
71 Broadway, New York; 30 South
Third street, Philadelphia; 207 East
German street, Baltimore; 1434 New
York ave., Washington, or to R. E . L.
Bunch, general passenger agent, Ports-mouth,
Va.
Over the State.
Frank Landis, of Coopersburg, and
his hired man, Henry Graber, wanted
to blow up a log with a charge of pow-der.
The fuse burning slowly they
fanned it with their hats, when an
explosion followed. Landis lost his
left eye and Graber was painfully
lacerated about the face and chest.
David F . Miller, a Lebanon County
tax collector, was arrested charged
with embezzlement.
The Carnegie Steel Company will
build, at Rankin, a $1,000,000 blast
'arnace that will produce 750 tons a
How?
" H o w comes it that the evil which
men say spreads so widely and lasts so
long, whilst our good, kind words don't
seem somehow to take root and bear
blossoms?" asks Thackery. "It is
that in the stony hearts of mankind
these pretty flowers can't find a place
to grow ? Certain it is that scandal is
good brisk talk, whereas praise one's
neighbor is by no means lively hearing.
An acquaintance grilled, scored, devil-ed,
and served with mustard and
cayenne pepper, excites the appetite;
whereas a slice of cold friend with
current jelly is but a sickly, unrelish-ing
meat."
An Anxious Parent.
Country Minister— I am very sorry,
Mr. Wrangle, but as I was driving from
the parsonage before service, I saw
your little boy on Goosecreek bridge
snaring for suckers.
Mr. Wrangle—Is that so, parson
Did ye notice what luck he was havin' ?
Life a Century Ago.
One hundred years ago a man could
not take a ride on a steamboat.
He could not go from Washington to
New York in a few hours.
He had never seen an electric light,
or dreamed of an electric car.
He could not send a telegram.
He couldn't talk through a telephone
and he had never heard of the hello
girl.
He could not ride a bicycle.
He could not call in a stenographer:
and dictate a letter.
He had never received a typewritten
communication.
He had never heard of the germ
theoryor worried over bacillior bacteria.
He never looked pleasant before a
photographer or had his picture taken.
He never heard a phonograph talk or
saw a kinetoscope turn out a prize fight.
He never saw through a Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary with the aid
of a Roentgen ray.
He had never taken a ride in an
elevator.
He had never imagined such a thing
as a typesetting machine or a type-writer.
He had never used anything but a
wooden plough.
He had never seen his wife using
a sewing machine.
He had never struck a match on his
pants or anything else.
He couldn't take an anaesthetic and
have his leg taken off without feeling it.
He had never purchased a 10-cent
magazine, which would have been re-garded
as a miracle of art.
He could not buy a paper and learn
everything that had happened the day
before all over the world.
He had never seen a McCormick
reaper or a self-binding harvester.
He had never crossed an iron bridge.
I n short, there were several things
that he could not do, and several things
he did not know.
EXCURSIONS.
Having cut her hand while opening
a can of corn, Mrs. Samuel Metzger, of
Cople, died of blood posoning.
While cleaning a gun which he did
not know was loaded George Deishei-rner,
of Georgetown, shot and killed his
wife.
Attacked by heart disease, William
W., Levengood, of Pine Iron Works,
was found dead on the floor of his
bedroom.
Samuel Reynolds, aged eighty-five
years, who lived alone at Carbondale,
was found smothered to death by coal
gas.
Going back to see what delayed a
blast, Watkin Williams, a Prieeburg
miner, was killed by the explosion, in
the Store shaft.
Charged with robbing Thomas Wil-liams,
traveling salesman for a Phila-delphia
firm, at Wilkesbarre, Harry
Baiker was held for Court.
Mrs. Margaret Must, of Williams-port,
was awarded $4000 from the citv
for damages done her property during
the building of an under-grade cross-ing.
Rev. W. H. Turner, a York county
minister, was convicted of criminal
intimacy with a member of his con-gregation
and was sent to jail for one
year. He pleaded for clemency, but
Judge Stewart gave him the full ex-tent
of the law.
Pauline Wirtschapher, aged twenty-one
years, of 630 Greenwich street,
Philadelphia, who was admitted to the
Penn'a Hospital, suffering front car-bolic
acid poisoning, died. She had
taken the poison in mistake for medi-cine.
When Catharine Peters was passing
through Reading on a P. & R. train
from Philadelphia, she was taken ill.
Before she reached Mt. Carmel she
was quite sick. Her mother met her at
Alaska. The girl did not explain and
she died with her secret. She had
been ill in Camden, where she was
a maid servant. She had sore lips,
supposed to have been caused by medi-cine
of some kind.
GOSHEN, 111.
Genessee Pure Food Co., Le Roy, N. Y,
Dear Sirs:—Some days since a pack-age
of your Grain-O preparation was
left at my office. I took it home and
gave it a'trial, and I have to say I was
very much pleased with it, as a sub-titute
for coffee. We have always
used the best Java and Mocha in our
family, but I am free to say I like the
Grain-O as .well as the best coffee I ever
drank.
Respectfully yours,
Pain back of your
eyes? Heavy pressure
in your head? And are
you sometimes faint and
dizzy? Is your tongue
coated? Bad taste in
your mouth ? And does
your food distress you ?
Are you nervous and ir-ritable?
Do you often
have the blues ? And
are you troubled about
sleeping?
Then youf fivop is
all wrong*
But there is a cure.
'Tis the old reliable
A. C. JACKSON, M . D.
BUCH4NAN, Mich., May 22.
Genesee Pure Food Co., Le Roy, N. Y.
Gentlemen:—My mamma has been a
great coffee drinker and has found
it very injurious. Having used several
packages of your Grain-O, the drink
that takes the place of coffee., she finds
it much better for herself and for us
children to drink. She has given up
coffee drinking entirely. We use a
package of Grain-O every week. I am
ten years old.
Yours respectfully,
2 FANNIE WILLIAMS.
California—Mexico—Hot Springs, Ar-kansas.
The Missouri Pacific Railway, the
fast mail route between St. Louis and
Kansas City, iu addition to its Colorado
short line to Denver and Salt Lake
City, and the Rocky Mountain |oute to
California, also embraces in its system
the Iron Mountain route, the short
line to principal Texas points—the
true southern route to California. For
the season of 1900 and 1901 regular
weekly, personally conducted aud in-expensive,
though comfortable ex-cursions
to Los Angeles and San Frai.-
cisco will be operated over this route.
Personally conducted excursions—all
expenses, paid—to, Mexico. Special
excursion tickets to "The World's
Sanitarium "—Hot Springs, Arkansas,
America's famous winter aud summer
health resort.
Write for full information to J. P.
McCann, travelling passenger agent, or
W. E. Hoyt, general eastern passenger
agent, 391 Broadway, New York.
They act directly on !
the liver. They cure
constipation,biliousness;
sick headache, -nausea,
and dyspepsia. Take a
laxative dose each night.
For 60 years years they:
have been the Standard
Family Pills.
Price 25 cents. All Drnjglsis.
" I have taken Ayer's Pills regu-larly
for six months. They hare
cured mo of a severe headache, and
I can now -walk from two to four
miles without getting tired or out
of breatli, something I have not
been able to do for many years."
S. E. WALWOKK,
July 13, 1899. Salem, Mass.,
Writ a tha Doctor.
If you have any complaint whatever
and 'desire the liestmedical advice you
c:tn possibly receive, write the doctor
freely. You will receive a prompt re-ply
without cost. Address,
DK. J. C. AYKR, Lowell, Mass.
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