Part 6

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.

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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.

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_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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

Stories of Adventure Stories of Mystery Stories of Detective Life Stories of Love Stories of Pathos Stories of Humor

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Latest Cheapest Best

Produces Healthy growth and Generous flowering.

Russia Cement Co. GLOUCESTER, MASS.

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Milk-Weed Cream

A SKIN TONIC A SKIN FOOD A SKIN CORRECTIVE A SKIN BEAUTIFIER

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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_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