int.
We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified
with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."--_Civil Service
Gazette._

Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in half-pound tins, by
Grocers, labelled thus:

JAMES EPPS & CO., Ltd.,
Homoeopathic Chemists, London, England.

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CARD PRINTER =FREE=

Sets any name in one minute; prints 500 cards an hour. YOU can make
money with it. A font of pretty type, also Indelible Ink, Type Holder,
Pads and Tweezers. Best Linen Marker; worth $1.00. Sample mailed FREE
for 10c. stamps for postage on outfit and large catalogue of 1000
Bargains.

R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St. N.Y. City

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"When Christmas was Christmas."

"Seven Crown Jewels."

A precious collection it is, indeed, both of old and new, this
"=Christmas in Song and Story=," with its nearly three hundred Songs and
Hymns and Carols, each in its musical setting. "Where can another such
garner be found, so rare, so choice, and so full?" Twenty-two full-page
illustrations, of Christmas subjects, from Nast to Raphael. The literary
selections are long, but each is complete. "To have these seven crown
jewels brought together into one diadem," says _Christian Culture_, "is
alone worth more than is asked for the entire work, to say nothing of
its rich setting both musical and pictorial." Large quarto, crimson
cloth, $2.50. Address

Harper & Brothers, New York.

[Illustration: THRILLING EXPERIENCE OF TWO YOUNG HEATHENS WHO LEARNED TO
SKATE.

I. THEY TIED THEIR QUEUES TOGETHER, SO THAT IF EITHER BROKE THROUGH HE
WOULD BE RESCUED BY THE OTHER. II. IT SEEMED DELIGHTFUL UNTIL-- III. ONE
OF THEM SLIPPED AND BOTH FELL; IV. BUT AFTER A LITTLE PRACTICE THEY GOT
ON QUITE NICELY, WHEN-- V. THEY BOTH BROKE THROUGH, AND-- VI. THEIR
CAUTION AND FORETHOUGHT PROVED THE MEANS OF SAVING THEIR LIVES.]

A TIMELESS TOWN.

The old proverb says that time was made for slaves. It is certainly true
that it was not made for Alsacians, if the following story told by a
traveller lately returned from Alsace be true. Says he: "On my return
from Belchen, I looked upon the beautiful villages of the Lewen Valley,
and being a tourist who likes to poke his nose into everything, I
turned, by chance, into the church at Kirchberg. On coming out I took
out my watch to regulate it by the clock in the church tower. But there
was no clock to be seen. Henc