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You have read of the cures byHoods Sarsa parilla and you should have perfect confi dence in its merit It will do you good One Point of Difference Whats the matter with you asked the sympathetic friend an attack of grip No this isnt grip I havent time to stay at home and send for a doctor This is simply a bad cold Washington Star Dr Agnews i atrrhal Powder has proved a blessing to many a man before the public In eases of hoarseness bad throat tonsilitis and catarrh Some of the most recent evidences of its efficacy comes from a wellknown actor whose home is in New York City He says 1 have never found anything equal to this remedy for quick relief 50 cents Sold by Edmund Wilson and A A Howes A Co09 Made Him CrossButhe didnt call you a liar in set terms did he asked themolli fier He might as well have done so He said 1 had no more regard for the truth than an historical novelist Life Couldut Ksiinmte Its ValueDr Ag news Cure for the Heart never fails It re lieves in 30 minutes it cures It is a bacon light
NEWS ROTES James M Smith near Athens Ga sold his cotton crop 2o00 balesfor 100 000 Fourteen women received the doctors degree last year at the University of Zurich Congress has adopted the slowsand system of filtration for the water sup ply of Washington Emeralds have been discovered in Arizona and it is said in North Caro lina They are however very small A few days ago at Littleton N H the mercury changed from 40 below to 40 above inside of twentyfour hours It has been found in India that in oculation against rinderpest will protect an animal for a period of seventy or eighty days Iron lands showing more than 7000 000 tons of ore have been leased in Northern Minnesota by the American Steel and Iron Company Arkansas legislators could not decide whether the State flower should be an apple blossom or passion flower and re ferred the matter to the committee on education A bill is before the Federal Council of Germany providing that the time of study shall be for medical students five years instead of the present term of four years and a half There is a Chinese farm in Florida where the Johns
TRYING SPRING WEAT0ER __ Is Your System In Shape to Carry You Safely Through The Practice of Taking a Tcnic in the Spring is descended from Our Wise Forefathers and Has Good Medical Endorsement A Few Suggestions Regarding Health The practice of taking a tonic during the inclement weather of early spring is one that has been bequeathi d to us by our fore fathers who lived in the days when a sturdy constitution and vigorous health meant even more than they do today times when brawn and muscle were necessary for advancement in almost any calling The custom has good medical endorsement and the healthiest people are those that follow it Thousands not really ill need a tonic at this season Close confinement in badly ventilated houses offices shops anil schoolrooms during the winter months makes people feel depressed and out of sorts Nature must be assisted in throwing off the poison that has accumulated in the sys tem else people fall an easy prey to disease andare subject to many discomforts from boils eruptions and similar troubles Hr Williams Iink Pills for Pale People are the greatest tonic medicine known these pills comes a cheerful letter the writer
LITERARY NEWS AND N0TE8 The New England this month has its usual variety of stories and poems Mr Meads Editors Table is devoted to im pressions of Chicago taking up various phases of the citys life as they appear to a New Englander after some years absence In the March issue of McCalls Mag azine there are given dozens of illustra tions of the most attractive styles accompanied by articles reviewing the latest in dress Much matter bearing upon subjects of interest to the house wife is also given including the follow ing articles Concerning Marketing Make the Best of Yourself About the Newr Shirtwaists Life in a New York Flat How to Make a Good Pud ding and Wedding Anniversaries Miss Ethel Parton contributes a bright paper to the March number of the New England upon Fanny Fern at the Hart ford Female Seminary This famous boardingschool was kept when Sarah Willis afterwards so widely known as Fanny Fern was a student there by Miss Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher a younger sister of the princi pal w as a pupilstudent The relations of the two girls destined to be such famous women were most interesting and Miss Partons
A LOVERS QUARREL BY MABEL QUILLERCOUCIL Bob Jamieson stamped around his I room dropped his favorite pipe said j something untranslatable and picked up his cap He paused for want of breath his eyes flashing his nostrils dilating with calm contempt it is to be sup posed I No my dear Holly I daresay you will be expecting me to come and apol j ogize and implore you to come out on I the river with me but youll have to send for me first With which noble display of inde1 pendence Robert Jamieson flung out of liis room and down to the river meta1 phorically patting himself on the way and all the time dreading the blank in his life which he would feel as soon as I his rage should cool down Holly Parsons put on her prettiest white frock and a picturesque sun hat I If Mr Jamieson calls tell him 1 am j out she said to the maid 1 am going on the river She told herself this last piece of in formation was for the benefit of the servant in case she required to know When he comes and finds me gone he will
JOURNALISM As a Profession for Young Men and Women A paper read at the Universalist Church Sunday evening March 31st by Charles A Pilsburv I am asked to address you tonight on Journalism as a profession for young men and women Should I accept the great preponderance of opinion on this subject it would only be necessary to say to those of either sex who think of taking up newspaper work what Punch said to those contemplating matrimony dont Men and women who speak from experience tell us that journalism is an arduous profession in which there are few prizes and that the qualities which command success in this line of work would bring greater fame or larger pecuniary reward in other professions or in trade This is perhaps true but journalism has its attractions and its rewards First as to the young woman m journalism I can look back to a time when there were no women employed in regular newspaper work There were women contributors but none who held positions as reporters staff correspond ents or editors Today there is not a newspaper in any of the large cities and this is no doubt true of the smaller
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES The Chinese question is treated briefly from the Chinese point of view by Taw Sein Ko in the leading article in The Living Age for March 30 The leading feature of The Living Age for April 0the day before Easter will be a striking and touching Easter story One of These Little Ones by Princess Volkonski translated from the Bussian East does not mean to the Washing tonian what it means to the New Eng lander says W D Lyman in the April Atlantic Anything the ofher side of the Missouri is East to us A new arrival from Massachusetts was once greeted very cordially in my hearing by a lady who had been here some time and who said I came from the East myself Ah said the New England er From what place From Iowa was the unexpected answer In the Easter Number of The Sat urday Evening Post Forrest Crissev tells of the wonderful work of the Interna tional Sundayschool Lesson Series The Central editorial staff is the Ameri can Lesson Committee and it will bold its next meeting in New York on April 17 1101 Twenty million teachers and pupils simultaneously study
JACKS COAT BY LAURA J RITTNHOUSE Jack Turner looked gloomily out of the window his handsome face disfigur ed by a scowl Its always so Just as sure as I have a chance for a good time some obstacle arises to prevent it Howard has a pass for me and my trip south wouldnt cost me a cent if only I had something decent to wear Mrs Turner dropped her work and sighed It does seem hard Jack but I really dont see how to help it If we should buy4kou a summer suit now youd have to wear your old suit again next winter you know she said plaintively Oh I know that well enough mother so it isnt worth while talking about it It seems to me Ive heard of nothing but poverty all my life Were so poor Jobsturkey wouldnt associate with us he said savagely then stalked from the room with the air of a martyr His sister Doris went on darning steadily for awhile Im ever so sorry for poor Jack she said at last a suspicion of tears in her voice I wish 1 could help him some way but Im afraid I cant
WEATHER PREDICTIONS Hie Work of the C S Weather Bureau Bruttits to Commerce and Agriculture There is no other subject in which the people throughout the civilized world are so generally interested as they are in the weather and there its noth ing that exerts a greater influence on the affairs of men Although the weather has occupied mens minds to a great extent since the earliest days of the race and much scientific research has been made it is only within a com paratively few years that any systematic attempt has been made to record and diffuse meteorological data or knowl edge Since the work was taken up by the leading commercial nations of the world great advances have been made and great benefit has accrued particu larly to navigation and agriculture and allied branches The early Egyptians studied meteor ology as a branch of astronomy and Aristotle compiled a comprehensive work on the weather from their writ ings and his own observations He dis cussed prognostics of rain wind storms and fair weather but made no attempt to explain any of the phenomena Cicero Virgil and others wrote on the subject but they added little to the knowledge