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AYER’S
COMPOUND CONCENTRATED
EXTRACT
OF
SARSAPARILLA

The Only Sarsaparilla

Awarded a medal at the World’s Fair, Chicago, 1893, was....

Ayer’s Sarsaparilla

The medal medicine is the model medicine. It is the great blood purifier of the age. Use no other.

COLONIAL HOUSES were built on the beautiful lines and harmonious, restful proportions our grandfathers borrowed from the Greeks. Our ancestors had taste if they did not have telephones. If you are going to build, and are tired of the phantasms of sawmills, but want instead a beautiful, ideal home, send for

Our new ’96 edition of
“Colonial Houses.”

Shows really correct, artistic designs in the inimitable Colonial Style, but with modern and complete interiors. Price by mail, $2.

Artistic One-Story Houses.—Showing Summer Homes costing between $400 and $4000; price, $2. Low cost Barns and Stables, 50 cents, by mail. Address,

CHILD & De GOLL, Architects, No. 62 New Street, NEW YORK.

“This very readable story is fresh, bright, graphic, deeply pathetic, eloquent, powerful,” says the New York Times, of

“A Singular Life,”

MISS PHELPS’S wonderful novel which everybody is reading. Price, $1.25. It can be had of the Booksellers, or sent by the publishers,

Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, Mass.

The Only Perfectly Seamless Heel

ELASTIC
STOCKINGS

For Varicose Veins, Weak Knees and Ankles, Lame and Swollen Joints.

Recommended by Physicians over all other makes.

They Neither RIP NOR CHAFE.

For daily comfort, wear our
SEAMLESS HEEL.

We can save YOU 50 per cent., by ordering direct from us, and the goods being newly made (to your measure) ensures long wear. Send address and we will mail to you diagrams for self-measuring—also price list.

Abdominal Supporters and Rubber Goods.

CURTIS & SPINDELL CO.,
31 WYMAN BLOCK,
LYNN, MASS.

Don’t Wear Dirty Shoes

Hauthaway’s

RUSSET AND PATENT LEATHER POLISH

The best Russet or Patent Leather Polish in the world, used and recommended by the best dealers.

Not only polishes but preserves the shoes. Take no other if you would save your shoes from cracking. For both Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Shoes. All dealers, or by mail for 15 cents per box.

C. L. HAUTHAWAY & SONS,
346 Congress St. Boston, Mass.

Columbia
Bicycles

STANDARD OF THE WORLD

Pope Manufacturing Co. Makers. Hartford. Conn.

Burning up fat

A man is all the time burning up fat. This fat has got to be in as constant supply as the air he breathes. Every minute of life depends on it. It has got to come from somewhere; if it does not come from the food direct, it comes from the fat stored up in the body. It gets stolen without his knowing it; but his friends tell him of it. They say: “You are getting thin. You are not looking well.” They are right; but they do not recognize the full significance of what they are saying.

If you are not getting the fat you need from your usual food you are getting thin. One can go on losing fat a little while with no more serious harm than some discomfort to himself, and the causing of some anxiety to his friends. But there is danger ahead. You must have a food you can get fat from. Cod-liver oil is that food. It is as truly a food as if it were nothing more.

Scott’s Emulsion

is cod-liver oil made easy. In it the oil is broken up into particles finer than water drops in cloud or fog. The work of digestion partly done beforehand. The tiny drops of oil slip easily through the wall of the intestines into the blood.

This is the reason why “Scott’s Emulsion” produces plumpness when common food, or even cod-liver oil, is ineffectual.

“Just as good” is not SCOTT’S EMULSION

GET RICH QUICKLY

A FORTUNE IN AN HOUR

Can be made by inventing something new. Send for list of

100 INVENTIONS WANTED

And patent book free.

Patents procured through us sold without charge.

EDGAR TATE & CO.,

Solicitors of United States and Foreign Patents, Trade Marks, Designs, and Copyrights.

245 Broadway, New York.

Branch Houses in all Countries.

Dr. PARKHURST in the Independent, Dec. 12, 1895:

“The value of a machine is not in the exquisiteness or even the antiquity of its build, but in the amount of good work it will turn out.”

Measured by this Standard, the
Caligraph Typewriter

Is Absolutely without a Peer.

“It Outlasts Them All.”

Our illustrated Catalogue for 1896 will be sent on request. Ask also for sample book of Typewriter Papers.

American Writing Machine Co., 237 Broadway, N. Y.

Who cares for PUBLIC OPINION!

What we all want is SATISFACTION.

If the Daugherty-Visible Typewriter

suits you, buy one and pay for it, and let some one else buy any old make simply because “it’s the oldest made,” or “it claims everything,” or it shows a cut turned sidewise as “view in use,” or it’s “Perfection.”

We want you to have a machine on trial. Be your own judge. Catalogues and machines on application to The Daugherty Typewriter Company, of Pittsburg, Penn. Factory at Kittanning, Pa.

Price $75.00

The
Typewriter Exchange.

Send for Catalogue.

$25.00 to $65.00

Rentals $3.50 to $5.00 per month.

Four Stores: 1½ Barclay St., New York; 156 Adams St., Chicago; Court Sq., Boston; 818 Wyandotte St., Kansas City.

Consumption
AND ITS CURE

To the Editor:—I have an absolute remedy for Consumption. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been already permanently cured. So proof-positive am I of its power that I consider it my duty to send two bottles free to those of your readers, who have Consumption, Throat, Bronchial or Lung Trouble, if they will write me their express and postoffice address. Sincerely,

T. A. SLOCUM, M. C., 183 Pearl St., New York.

In writing please say you saw this in The Black Cat.

IF YOU’RE A
PIPE SMOKER

A TRIAL
Will Convince that
Golden Sceptre
IS PERFECTION

SEND 10cts FOR Sample Package—PRICES 1lb 1.30; ¼lb 40cts. POSTAGE PAID, CATALOGUE FREE. Surbrug, 159 Fulton St., N.Y. City.

The Imperial Hair Regenerator

NO MATTER HOW GRAY YOUR HAIR IS—OR BLEACHED—OR SPOILED BY DYES—MAKES IT BEAUTIFUL, NATURAL, HEALTHY.

Restores Gray Hair to the Color of Youth.

Regenerates Bleached Hair.

Gives it new life and vigor, and makes it any color desired.

It is guaranteed by court tests absolutely harmless—and genuine. There are many worthless imitations. Refuse to take them.

PRICE, $1.50 and $3.00.

Send a sample of your hair, and we will restore its color free of charge.

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL MFG. CO.
292 Fifth Avenue, New York.
All Druggists and Hairdressers.

THE APEX
OF
Bicycle Perfection

is represented in the Monarch. All the bicycle goodness that the best bicycle makers know is incorporated in this king of wheels. No chronometer could be made with more care, or with greater accuracy. Every part of the

Monarch

is in perfect harmony with all other parts. So perfect is the distribution of weight, so accurate the adjustment of gear, that the Monarch will outspeed, outlast, outrival, any wheel on the market to-day.

Made in 4 models. $80 and $100. For children and adults who want a lower priced wheel the Defiance is made in 8 models, $40, $50, $60 and $75. Send for the Monarch book.

MONARCH CYCLE MFG. CO., Lake, Halsted & Fulton Sts., CHICAGO.
83 Reade St., New York.

Our Mammoth New 1896 Flower Seed Offer.

A Magnificent Collection of FLOWER SEEDS

Over 300 Varieties FREE

A WHOLE FLOWER GARDEN WITHOUT COST!

An unparalleled Offer by an Old-Established and Reliable Publishing House! The Ladies’ World is a large, 24-page, 96-column illustrated Magazine for ladies and the family circle, with elegant cover printed in colors. It is devoted to Stories, Poems, Ladies’ Fancy Work, Home Decoration, Housekeeping, Fashions, Hygiene, Juvenile Reading, Etiquette, Out-of-Door Recreations, etc. To introduce this charming ladies’ magazine into 100,000 homes where it is not already taken, we now make the following colossal offer: Upon receipt of only Thirty Cents in silver, stamps or money order (the regular subscription price), we will send The Ladies’ World for the Remainder of this Year (April to December inclusive), and to each subscriber we will also send, Free and post-paid, a large and magnificent Collection of Choice Flower Seeds, over 300 varieties, as follows:

1 Packet Blood Red Castor Bean (Ricinus Sanguineus). Very large, rapid growing ornamental foliage plant of tropical appearance. Stems and leaves deep blood red. Height 6 feet.

1 Packet New Fireball Dianthus. This beautiful new dwarf Pink is a distinct novelty. The plants are covered with brilliant, rose-red double flowers during the summer and through the fall.

1 Packet Venus Looking Glass (Specularia Speculum). The name of this plant signifies “a mirror,” indicating the unusual shining brightness of the lovely blue flowers. Grows about 9 inches high.

1 Packet Phlox Drummondii. Lovely, brilliant flowers. Nothing can surpass them for beds, on account of their richness and variety of color, profusion and duration of bloom.

1 Packet Poppy, mixed. A grand collection of this popular favorite, including the Mikado, Cardinal, American Flag, Mephisto, Flag of Truce and many other rare and beautiful sorts.

1 Packet Comet Aster, mixed. A superb new variety, with large double flowers, having incurved petals, resembling the finest Japanese Chrysanthemums. The mixture includes Snow-White, Rose, Sky-Blue, and many other beautiful colors.

1 Packet Blanket Flower (Gaillardia picta). Very large flowers, two to three inches across, in beautiful shades of color. Showy, free-blooming plants, one to two feet high.

1 Packet Rose Queen Convolvulus (Convolvulus tri-color roseus). Beautiful dwarf variety, of bright rose color, with white center, fringed purple, and shading toward golden yellow.

1 Packet Lobb’s Nasturtium (Tropæolum Lobbianum). Remarkable for brilliancy of color and profusion of bloom. The flowers, lasting from early summer until frost, exhibit every shade, from creamy-white to fiery scarlet, striped, spotted, etc.

1 Packet Eckford Sweet Peas. Fifty named varieties of this famous collection, including the most recent introductions, producing every shade and color of this beautiful flower.

And Three Hundred Other Varieties, including Californian Poppy, Forget-Me-Not, Love Lies Bleeding, Blue Love Grove, Mourning Bride, Virginian Stock, Nugget of Gold Marigold, Choice Pansies, Verbenas, Chrysanthemums, Finest Asters, Cypress Vine, Digitalis, Mignonette, Crimson Flax, Marguerite Carnation, Godetia “The Bride,” Striped Petunia, Rose of Heaven, Youth and Old Age, etc., etc.

Remember, thirty cents pays for the Magazine for the remainder of this year (April to December inclusive), and this entire magnificent Collection of Choice Flower Seeds (310 varieties), put up by a first-class Seed House and warranted fresh and reliable. No matter how many flower seeds you have purchased for this season, you cannot afford to miss this wonderful offer. We guarantee every subscriber many times the value of money sent, and will refund your money and make you a present of the seeds if you are not entirely satisfied. This offer is reliable. Do not confound it with the catchpenny schemes of unscrupulous persons. We have been established over 20 years, and refer to the Commercial Agencies as to our entire responsibility. Write to-day. Don’t put it off! Six subscriptions and six Seed Collections sent for $1.50.

Address: S. H. MOORE & CO., (Premium Seed Dept.), 27 Park Place, New York.

The Mysterious Card Unveiled!

There will shortly be published in The Black Cat, under the above title, a sequel to “The Mysterious Card,”—the startling tale which aroused more universal interest, and caused a greater sensation than any other story of recent years.

The entire first edition (150,000 copies) of The Black Cat for February, in which “The Mysterious Card” appeared, was sold out in three days, and a second edition was also disposed of in less than a week.

The sequel to this marvelous story graphically unveils one of the darkest mysteries surrounding a human life, and reveals, for the first time, the contents of the accursed piece of pasteboard which caused Richard Burwell the loss of friends, fortune, wife, and home.

Buy The Black Cat of your newsdealer for five cents a copy, or send fifty cents for a full year’s subscription to the Shortstory Publishing Company, Boston, Mass.

Waverley Bicycles

ARE THE CHOICE
OF EXPERIENCED RIDERS.

Those who have learned to know the difference between a wheel that actually is high grade, and one that is simply claimed to be. Others may be good, but the Waverley is the Highest of all High Grades. REWARD of a new Waverley Scorcher is offered to each person who recovers a stolen ’96 Waverley during 1896, payable upon presentation to us of satisfactory proof of the facts and the sentence of the thief. This reward is open to everyone excepting the owner of the stolen wheel, but is not payable to more than one person in any case.

ART CATALOGUE FREE BY MAIL. INDIANA BICYCLE CO., Indianapolis, Ind.

SUCCESSFUL SPECULATION.

If you want to learn how to make money in Wall Street, send for a copy of my Prospectus on Co-Operative Speculation; under this plan I have never lost a dollar for a client. It is the only safe plan to use for those living at a distance, and who are unable to buy stocks outright. Prospectus and best reference furnished free on application. (Mention this publication.)

E. MORTIMER PINE, Banker and Broker,
Rooms 127, 128, 129, and 130 Manhattan Building, 66 Broadway, New York.
MEMBER NEW YORK MINING EXCHANGE.

Great Innovations 1896

’96 brings to the front many bicycles having valuable improvements, born of experience and demanded by the cyclist. To keep up with the times and demand, the manufacturers of the “Search Light” have produced for 1896 a Bicycle Lantern full of innovations which experience has shown were necessary to constitute a first-class lantern and give satisfaction.

The introduction of the patent attachment for either head or fork—the packed-oil pot whereby either kerosene or naphtha may be used and spilling prevented—the protection of the reflectors from tarnishing or blackening—the addition of a new and successful device which absolutely prevents either blowing or jarring out—makes the 1896 Search Light immeasurably superior to all others and a comfort to the user, because it will not betray his confidence.

Sold by all cycle dealers or delivered free for the price, $5.00.

Bridgeport Brass Co.,
Bridgeport, Ct.

or 19 Murray St., N. Y.
85-87 Pearl St., Boston.
17 No. 7th St., Phila.

Send for Catalogue No. 2.

PABST

MILWAUKEE

Thrice Blessed ...
Is He Who Takes His Own Advice

You’ve got sense. You know it. You have told yourself a dozen times you needed a spring medicine. Were going to get that “Best” Tonic. Well, why in the name of good sense, don’t you do it. Trot out now and get it. It may save doctors’ bills, to say nothing of a severe sickness.

PABST
Malt Extract

will brace, build. Give vim and bounce. Get it and thus take your own advice.

Lafayette, Ind., 8-22,’95.

Ever since your excellent “Best” Tonic has been placed upon the market, my family has been a big consumer of this preparation and I have found it a grateful stimulant, appetizer, tissue builder and tonic. I consider it one of the very few preparations that really do all that is claimed for it and unhesitatingly recommend it to my patients.

DR. CHAS. HUPE.

SUPREME AWARD WORLDS FAIR

THE ART OF BREWING WAS
DEVELOPED BY THE GERMANS

MILWAUKEE BEER FAMOUS
PABST HAS MADE IT SO

TALLY-HO

The most powerful light and the light which is thrown the greatest distance ahead of the bicycle is that from the Tally-Ho Bicycle Lantern. It will not jar out or blow out. Made of brass, finished in black japan and nickel like a coach-lamp, or in full nickel. Burns kerosene. It locks on the head of your bicycle. Try one. Beautifully Illustrated Booklet of Bicycle Sundries Free.

THE BRIDGEPORT GUN IMPLEMENT CO.
313 & 319 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

What is the use of Patent Leather?

When I can polish my shoes with

Brown’s French Dressing

SOLD EVERYWHERE

Superior to all others for the following reasons:

1. It gives a superior Polish.

2. It does not crack or rub off on the skirts.

3. Unlike all others, it does not crack or hurt the leather, but on the contrary acts as a preservative.

4. Has been manufactured over forty years and always stood at the head.

Ask your dealer for ...

Brown’s French Dressing

And be sure to accept no other.

To Lovers of Fascinating Tales Cleverly Told.

We will mail, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 cents, the first five numbers of The Black Cat, from Oct., ’95, to Feb., ’96 (third edition), inclusive, containing thirty-nine

All these stories are original, complete, captivating, and copyrighted,—“the cleverest tales that genius can produce and money can buy.”

Address, The Shortstory Publishing Co., 144 High St., Boston, Mass.

The Black Cat

FOR MAY,

Which will contain the following extraordinary stories, all original, complete, and copyrighted, will be

“The Banner Number.”

For Fame, Money, or Love?—By R. Ottolenghi. The startling story of a mysterious invention that threatened the entire destruction of spoken language, and which did destroy three men’s belief in womankind.

A No Account Niggah.—By Leonard M. Prince, U.S.A. How a despised coffee-colored mulatto recruit in the regular army, alone and unaided, intercepted a band of hostile Apaches, is told in this touching tale by an officer experienced in Indian campaigns.

A Hundred Thousand Dollar Trance.—By Eugene Shade Bisbee. The thrilling recital of the most costly and astounding hypnotic experiment ever made, told just as it happened in the famous Bohemian Club of a well-known city.

The Misfit Gown.—By Elmer Cook Rice. In this strikingly original and humanly interesting tale are described for the first time the wire pullings, heart burnings, and white-hot excitement attending an election in a modern woman’s club.

The Shifting Sand.—By C. C. Van Orsdall. A marvelous treasure-trove, revealed first by the wind-blown sands of the Northwest to a man engaged in digging his own grave, but concealed again for eighteen years by the same agency, forms the pivotal point around which moves this exciting tale of love and adventure.

The above will positively be

THE GREATEST STORY MAGAZINE EVER ISSUED

at any time or at any price, and the publishers earnestly invite a comparison of The Black Cat for May with any issue of any magazine or volume of short stories ever published, either in this country or abroad.

As their present facilities for production are limited to 225,000 copies per month, all orders for this “Banner Number” of The Black Cat should be placed at once with newsdealers. Those who have no newsdealer should send five cents in stamps for a copy, or fifty cents for a full year’s subscription, direct to The Shortstory Publishing Co., Boston, Mass.

There is only one best braid.—You will know it by the clasp—GOFF’S. Sold everywhere or will be masked to match any goods in color—3 yds. roll 5 cents; 3¼ yds. roll 6 cents.

D. GOFF & SONS, Pawtucket, R. I.

O TO O

Everything in Carpets, Rugs, Hangings, and Upholstery, from the Oriental to the Occidental, from the superb antique to the attractive modern, from the choicest luxury to the plainest every-day necessity—if it’s worth having, you’ll find it among our stock, and at prices that bring wholesale and retail buyers from everywhere. John H. Pray, Sons & Co., 658 Washington St., opposite Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

Ridge’s Food FOR INFANTS and INVALIDS

THE MOST RELIABLE FOOD IN THE WORLD FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN

SOLD BY DRUGGISTS

THE BEST DIET FOR INVALIDS AND OLD PEOPLE

FOUR SIZES
.35 .65 1.25 1.75

Woolrich & Co.
ON EVERY LABEL.

ESSEX

10c.

Feeds 10 Plants 1 year. Ask your dealer for the 10c. package.

If he does not keep it send us

16c.

in stamps, and we will send it by return mail.

Flower Food
FOR
House Plants
AND
Window Gardens

Produces Healthy growth and Generous flowering.

Russia Cement Co.
GLOUCESTER, MASS.

Milk-Weed Cream

The wonders of chemistry have evolved nothing else to equal its benign effects upon the complexion.

“As fragrant as the roses,

As harmless as the dew.”

Removes pimples, black-heads, eruptions, tan, sunburn, and wrinkles. Price 50c. by mail, or at druggists. Write for free sample to

Frederick F. Ingram & Co., Detroit, Mich.

The Orient
For LADIES.

Graceful, Easy Running, Safe

Built like this.

An embodiment of all the most desirable features.

A Most Desirable Wheel.

WRITE FOR CATALOGUE.

Waltham Mfg. Co.,
240 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

About Lamps

(Something you may not know)

Would you care to have a lamp that you could sit by without the least uneasiness, and safely leave in the room for hours without fear of flame-climbing—a lamp that is odorless—will not soil table covers—run over in filling—nor bother you with loose chimney springs?

And would it please you to know about all the latest things in lamps, and why no one now has any excuse for using old-fashioned Illuminators when ’tis easy to get modern lamps of brass that are as perfect as science and skill can make them?

If so, please send for our beautiful Illustrated catalogue, free to all, of THE “NEW” ROCHESTER LAMP [made at Bridgeport].

Bridgeport Brass Co., Bridgeport, Conn., or 19 Murray St., N. Y.

A lamp such as is described above will be delivered free for $1.20, or with Chimney and Shade $1.75. Address 19 Murray St., N. Y., 85-87 Pearl St., Boston, 17 No. 7th St., Phila., or Bridgeport, Conn.

BRIDGEPORT BRASS CO.

American People Read Standard Newspapers

That’s why

The Boston Daily Standard

Has the LARGEST CIRCULATION of any REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER in New England, a

Fact

THAT ANY NEWSDEALER WILL PROVE.

Its CONSTANTLY INCREASING advertising patronage shows for itself how

It Pays

To interest STANDARD readers. If you are not one, WHY NOT?

Send for sample copy.

Stock Buyers and Bankers

Take care of money—subject to check—give interest on deposits.

Buy and sell for cash or margin ONLY the securities listed on New York Stock Exchange

Investors of money

Givers of stock information, by mail or wire.

A member of our firm always on floor of Stock Exchange.

Wayland Trask & Co.,
18 Wall St., New York.

Puritana

It Cures from head to foot.

It makes the Weak Strong.

Nature’s Cure

Puritana cures disease by naturalizing and vitalizing the Power Producer of the human system,—the stomach.

PRIZE FORMULA OF
Prof. Dixi Crosby, M.D., LL.D.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

It cures case after case, from head to foot, whether the suffering is due to disordered Blood, Liver, Stomach, Kidneys, Lungs, Brain, Nerves, or Skin.

If you are a sufferer get of your druggist this great disease-conquering discovery, (the price is $1 for the complete treatment, consisting of one bottle of Puritana, one bottle of Puritana Pills, and one bottle of Puritana Tablets), all inclosed in one package, or write to the undersigned, and you will bless the day when you heard of Puritana. The Puritana Compound Co., Concord, N. H.

This BLACK CAT
sees itself everywhere

and is surprised at its large number of copies.

Sapolio
brightens
everything—

Floors, Walls,
Tins, Woodwork
Oilcloths, Metals,
All hard surfaces