"THAT TERROR of MOTHERS." How it was overcome by a Who is well known as an author. Of all the evils that attack children scarcely any other is more dreaded than croup. It so often comes in the night. The danger is so great. The climax is so sudden. It is no wonder that Mrs. W. J. Dickson (better known under her pen name of "Stanford Eveleth,") calls it "the terror of mothers." Nor is it any wonder that she writes in terms of praise and gratitude for the relief which she has found both from her own anxieties, and for her children's ailments, in Dr. J. C. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. "Memory does not recall the time when Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral was not used in our family, for throat and lung troubles. That terror of mothers the startling, croupy cough-never alarmed me, so long as I had a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in the house to supplement the hot-water bath. When suffering with whooping cough, in its worst form, and articulation was impossible on account of the choking, my children would point and gesticulate toward the bottle; for experience had taught them that relief was in its contents."- Mrs. W. J. DICKSON ("Stanford Eveleth"), author of "Romance of the Provinces," Truro, N. S. ART C. J. Wooldridge, Wortham, Tex., writes: "One of my children had croup. One night I was startled by the child's hard breathing, and on going to it found it strangling. It had nearly ceased to breathe. Having a part of a bottle of Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in the house, I gave the child three doses, at short intervals, and anxiously waited results. From the moment the Pectoral was given the child's breathing grew easier, and in a short time it was sleeping quietly and breathing naturally. The child is alive and well to-day, and I do not hesitate to say that Ayer's Cherry Pectoral saved its life.”—C. J. WOOLDRIDGE, Wortham, Tex. These statements make argument in favor of this remedy unnecessary. It is a family medicine that no home should be without. It is just as efficacious in bronchitis, asthma, whooping cough, and all other varieties of coughs, as it is in croup. To put it within everyone's reach, Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is now put up in half size bottles, at half price-50 cents. Send for Ayer's Curebook (free) and read of other cures effected by Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Address the J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. CRAYONS FOR SCHOOL AND HOME DECORATION. We have a limited stock of finely Lithographed Art Crayons of the following subjects, size about 18 x 24 inches. 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This is a suggestive and helpful little work for the teacher's use in intelligently guiding small fingers through the mysteries of making. Beginning with a study of the type solids as a means of gaining the first form facts, the usual work under modeling, sewing, tablet exercises, paper-cutting, paper-folding and sticklaying are given, each emphasizing some salient point as well as adding variety. The work is evidently the result of practical school room experience, presented by one who thoroughly appreciates the self-activities of the child and his love of creating.-Art Education. OUR 5 CENT CLASSICS. Such editions as your "5c. Classics" certainly places opportunities within the reach of poor children that thny might not otherwise secure. And frem a mechanical standpoint, they are equally worthy of commendation. MARA DE BENARDI, Independence, Mo. You would be gratified to see how the "5c. Classics" delight my little pupils. 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It is in such cases as this that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery reveals its extra. ordinary power of restoring nature to her proper balance. It has the remarkable property of reaching and arousing the innermost springs of vitality in the human organism, enabling it to take up again and carry on to completion its own natural work of repair in spite of disease. "I have thought for a long time," writes Mrs. Rosa Petty, of Lockville, Chatham Co., N. C., "that I would not do you justice if I did not write and tell you how I was cured of that dreadful disease called consumption, by using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. I had measles and pneumonia both at the same time and came near dying, and as soon as I was able to go out I was taken with grip and then followed consumption. My physician did all he could for my relief but I received none. I tried everything that I could hear of that was good for a cough but grew worse, and would have died soon had I not commenced using the Golden Medical Discovery.' I felt improved before the first bottle was finished. I took six bottles, and after that I felt better and stronger than in ten years before. That was six years ago, and to-day I do not feel any symptoms of a return of the disease. I remain cured, and I think I am the cause of a friend being cured by using the same medicine. He was afflicted like I was, and after everything else failed to cure him he took Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and was cured." " This wonderful "Discovery begins its marvelous repairing process at the very foundations of life in the nutritive system; it gives the digestive functions power to extract nourishment from food and transform it into rich tissue-building blood. It charges the entire circulating system with the vital red corpuscles which repair inflamed throat and bronchial passages; heal and renew worn out lung fabric; create healthy substantial flesh, muscular force and nerve power. It energizes and rejuvenates the entire sys. tem; drives cut impurities; restores strength, capacity and mental buoyancy; rounds out sunken form3 and gives fresh color to pale cheeks. No other remedial agent known to medical science is so marvelously efficacious in bringing back complete, robust, permanent health to the weak and suffering. Mr. A. W. McMillan, of Shiloh Church, Sevier County, Tenn., writes: "I am over 58 years of age. One year ago I was prostrated, and from that date until the 15th of the following Janu. ary I was treated by two as good physicians as there are in the country. They pronounced my disease thickening of the walls of the stomach, a sloughing off of the mucous lining of the stomach, enlargement of the liver, neuralgia of the stomach, and ulceration of the bowels. I had frequent attacks of biliousness and was badly constipated. Thus matters stood until January, 1895. The doctors were doing me no good. Prepared chalk, Dover's powders, calomel, would not reach my case. My wife now got me a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and a vial of his 'Pleasant Pellets.' tivity and is ready for contagion of any de. "The medicine taken, my wife said I was better, or at least was holding my own. She went back and got another supply; I took the medicine and then could see for myself that I was gaining. I have used in all twelve bottles of 'Golden Medical Discovery' and also, some of 'Pellets.' My biliousness has left me, constipation is gone and I am as regular in my bowels as I ever was. I was almost a skeleton. I lived for months on boiled milk, but now I can eat a little of anything I want, sleep well, go anywhere I want to, visit my children and friends, and look after my business. In fact, Richard is (nearly) himself again.' In May, after I was able to sit up a little, I weighed 116 pounds, in August, 122, in October, 132." When a man's liver is out of order he is ripe for almost any disease that happens along. His entire constitution is in a state of recep I soon felt like a new person. I am now enjoying splendid health and have a splendid appetite, good digestion, and also a peaceful, quiet mind." As Chief Consulting Physician to that renowned model sanitarium, the Invalid's Hotel and Surgical Institute of Buffalo, N. Y., for the pas: thirty years, Dr. Pierce has had an unpar alleled experience with severe chronic diseases. His remarkable book, "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," should be possessed in every home. It is a magnificent thousand-page volume, illustrated with more than three hundred engravings and colored plates. It will be sent absolutely free, paper. bound, for 21 one-cent stamps to pay the cost of mailing only; or substantially cloth bound for 31 stamps. Address the World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main St, Buffalo, N.Y. LET THEM READ THE GREAT CLASSICS Their introduction in 1898 will be the best NEW YEAR'S PRESENT You can make to the children of your schools Gentlemen: I am very glad to see this reinforcement of Supplementary Read- W. J. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education. For further information see following pages, also our SAMPLE PAGE and Complete Catalogue for 1898. Æsop's Fables.- (Large type edition.) The pages are in large primer type, with all new and hard words placed at the head of each lesson as in the usual primary reading books. Vols. I. and II. Illus. Boards, 30 cents; Cloth, 40 cents. I have carefully examined the little volumes entitled "Esop's Fables," by Mara Pratt. I have used them with my own children following the first reader. The books charm the children and through reading them they learn to love to read. They can be profitably used as supplementary reading in second grade, and for that purpose I know nothing else in book form equal to them. They are Literature. O. T. BRIGHT, Co. Supt. of Schools, Chicago. Grimm's Fairy Tales. Vol. I. Illus. Boards. Price, 40 cents. Cloth, 50 cents. As you wished to hear of our experience with the books published by you, Esop's Fables, and Grimm's Fairy Tales, I write that Esop is being read with great interest in my lomest grade September children. Though the most difficult reading ever given that grade, they are making a fine success of reading it; their live interest in the matter putting them through difficulties that would wholly stagger them but for such a stimulus. The Grimm is being read in my Second Grade (second year) with gratifying success. C. L. HUNT, Supt. Schools, Clinton, Mass. (2nd Grade.) (2nd Grade.) STORY OF ULYSSES IN MYTHLAND. By M. HELEN BECKWITH, Florence Kindergarten, Mass. Supt. S. F. Porter, Seneca Falls, N. Y. "I am much pleased with Mythland, more so than with any other supplementary reader for primary grades that I have seen." Supt. J. W. Babcock, Dunkirk, N. Y., "I am pleased to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of In Mythland by Miss Beckwith. I have always believed in the adaption of Greek and Roman myths for young pupils. It tends to develop a taste for the best classic literature when the child becomes more mature. When the phraseology of the myth is suited to the young pupil, as Miss Beckwith has done, there will be no trouble in making such books popular and useful." The Story of Ulysses. Large Type Edition. Illustrated. Boards, 30 cents; Cloth, 40 cents. It is an ambitious undertaking to attempt the "Story of Ulysses" for the little ones, in single sentence paragraphs. But this little book contains enough of these ancient stories that are worldrenowned to give a taste of their flavor to the youngest children and create a desire to know them more thoroughly when they are older. The vocabulary is not above the comprehension of the children, the type is large and clear, the illustrations plentiful and the binding serviceable. The teachers who are insatiable in their desire for more reading matter for the children (and who is not?) will gladly welcome this pleasing addition to that which they already have. One hundred and fourteen pages and eleven stories. |