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J tt la better to collect your thovghU than to borrow other peoples Mother Oraja Hwcol owdoTJi for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray nurea In the ChlldrenH Homo in Now York cure f nnoMnnHnn Ffivnriahness Bad Stomach Teething Disorders move and regulatotho noyf thirty- eight years of age Over 30000 tes Bowels and DeBtroyWormB timonials At all JJrugglSls aoc oiirame 2TREE Address A S Olmsted LeEoyNX Some men are so easy going that after awhile they cease to go at all mm jp -1 n Miss Alice Bailey of Atlanta Ga escaped the sur geons knife by using Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Deab Mrs Pinkham I wish to express my gratitude for the restored health and happiness Iiydia E PinK Iiams Vegetable Compound has brought into my life I had suffered for three years with terrible pains at tho time of menstrua tion and did not know what tho troutto Traa until the doctor pronounced at in flammation of tho ovaries and proposed an operation I felt so weak and ciclr that I felt suro that I could not survive the ordeal and so I told him that I would not un dergo it The following week I read an advertisement in the paper of your Vegetable Compound in such an emer gency and so I decided to try it Great vVas my joy to find that I actually im proved after taking two Bottles so I kept taking it for ten weeks and at the cud of that time I was cured I had gained eighteen pounds and was m excellent health and am now You surely deserve great success and you have my very test wishes Miss Auce Bailed 30 ITorth Boule vard Atlanta Ga 5000 forfeit If orighMd of above letter proving genuineness cannot oc pro- All siek women would bewiso if tliey would take kydia E JnL hams Vegetable Compound ana be well Every housewife gloats over finely starched linen and white goods Conceit is justifiable after using Defiance Starch It gives a stiff glossy white ness to the clothes end docs not rot them It is abso lutely pure It is the most economical because It goes farthest does more and costs less than others To be had of all grocers at 16 oz for ioc THB DEFIANCE STARCH CO OMAHA K3 MBHons of U AIC Shot Shells M enM t ach vear They are made in ths largest cartridge factory in the -world TheUKlON METALLIC G3TR1DGE CO BRIDGEPORT COflN Voar dealer sells tlicm jtfSs Cstaloz scot upon request BIpansTftbules era the best medicine ever tnde A undred mtlUons of them have been old -In the United States In a single year ConsUpaUon heartj inrn nick headache dlMlnes bad breath aare throat nnd everT 111 ncei arUlng from a disordered STSSSSv l 55 Within twentr gWitpaclcagel cnonifh for onUnarjr When Answering Advertisement Kindly Mention This Paoer The Rev Ekai Kawafluchl The Rov Ekai Kakaguchl whost narrative of personal adventure fn Tibet The Latest News from Lhasa will be one of the more important ar ticles In the January Century is a priest of tho Zen sect of Buddhists no was born in Sakal near Osaka stud ied at tho Temple of the Five Hun dred Kakan in Tokio and prosecuted hia RnnU Hfr studies under the Rev Bunyu Nanjio of the Imperial Univer sity He entered the priesthood at the age of twenty five and was attach ed to the Obkau Temple at Uji After seven years in holy orders he started on his journey to Tibet his sole ob joct as he explains in his narrative to complete his studies of Buddhism He declares also his intention of re visiting Nepal during 19Q4 to secure more collections of BuSdhist scrip tures in Sanskrit ad also the Tibetan edition of the Trinitaka The man who would retain his friends should not fail to remember that there are a great many things he should forget 3600 per M Lewis Single Binder straight 5c cigar costs more than other brands but thisprice gives the dealer a fair profit and tho smoker a Deuer cigar Lewis Factory Peoria 111 It takes a lot of cold cash to mel a marble heart When you attempt to strike a match in the dark the head is always on the other end Superior quality and extra quantity must win This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of an others A Remarkable Family Likeness A curious example of family like ness has been noticed at Amsterdam in recognizing where an interpreter persisted ognizing an English guest who arriv ed at a certain hotel It seemed now ever impossible that the Englishman pnuld bo known to the native The latter shortly afterward accompanied tho visitor to the state museum where Pinemans picture of the battle of Waterloo is shown and thero he perceived the cause of his mistake General Lord Uxbridge who is repre sented in the painting was exactly like the English gentleman who final ly proved to be his lordships grand son State Farmers mutual Insurance Co of S Omaha Nebr is one of the most successful farm insurance com panies in the West Organized 189o has 20000000 insurance in force Issues that does not sues a perpetual policy empire just before a fire Annual meet ing Jan 12 1904 We want live Agts BR STOUFFER Secy T B HOLMAN Pres Mary Johnstsns Pirates in England Among all the novelists who have written of pirate ships and their bloodthirsty commanders it remains for a young American novelist Miss Mary Johnston to be singled out by the London Sphere in its latest issue for mention in connection with a double page pirate picture Among recent novelists says the Sphere Miss Mary Johnston has drawn some very vivid pictures of life on a pirate vessel and forthwith reproduces an extra from To Have and to Hold which by the way was published in England by the title By Order of the Company To Cure a Cold in Ono day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Ail druggistsrefundmoney if it fails to cure 2oc Its the worker who succeeds in life not the fellow vho is worked Yes Aionzo by all means marry a girl who can swim she will realize the importance of keeping her mouth shut Perfectly simple and simply perfect is dyeing with PUTNAM FADLESS DYES The people who are always looking for bargains seldom get rich as quick ly as those who offer them Take care of your enemies and your friends will take care of them selves DO TOUR CLOTHES MOK XErXOWT If so useRed Cross BpIIBIug It willmaka them white as snow 2 oz package 5 cents The claims to wisdom of owls and a multitude of men rest upon their looks and nothing more To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers n ho smierior to any other brand but because each 10c package con tains 16 ozs while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other Quality and quantity must win A Sign of Old London Onn nf the siens pictured in Julian King Colfords The Signs of Old Lon don in the January at ixiuumaa no peculiar interest for all Americans What is called The Crown and Three Sugar Loaves was the sign of the his toric house which exported to America the celebrated chests of tea that went into Boston Harbor in December 1773 the first over act of rebellion in tne Revolution While the contest gave America her independence and set aside the rule of George m it am not overthrow the business of the oldest tea house in Great Britain The busi ness is carried on today in the same old place as in Revolutionary times Its sign the 8ign of The Crown and twavca o au Three sugar the tress of age and storm and fire The Great Fire of London swept within half a block of the shop but 1 the old ssn itself reigns today WORLDS GREATEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE OPENED FOR TRAFFIC IN THE EASTERN METROPOLIS Writing in the New York World of the great Williamsburg bridge opened for traffic in that city last week James Creelman says The greatest bridge in the world containing 40000 tons of steel cost ing 11000000 and connecting the swarming tenement districts of Man hattan with Williamsburg and the chean home lands of Long Island was opened after Mayor Low and the prin cipal officers of his administration had walked its entire length of 7264 feet A few speeches bristling with statistics hour of artillery tics a club reception an lery firing a march of societies across the giant structure and a really mag nificent display of fireworks at night with a parade of tugboats down the East River fitly celebrated the end of work and the seven years of unbroken inauguration of a bridge with a capa city when it is in full operation of 128000 passengers an hour There were bands of music streams of bayonets pracing cavalry and bat teries of cannon to both sides of the river but the march across was in deep silence Mayor Low and the offi cials of Manhattan the Bronx and Richmond walked from the Manhat tan side Borough President Swan- strom COMPARATIVE CROSS- SfcCTlONS WILLIAMSBURG AND BROOKLYN BRIDGE3 From TK Engi rveering News JRoodwoy duced to figures its superiority be comes even more strikingly manifest Fifty millions more of passengers the engineers estimate will he carried by tho transit lines on the new bridge than on the old Against the hun dred million who annually cross the older bridge one hundred and fifty million will cross the new The river span of the new bridge is only five feet longer than that of the old the figure for the former being 1600 but tho approaches make up the differ ence in the length of the newer struc ture those of the former measuring 1800 feet each while the Manhattan approach to the old bridge Is only 1562 and the brooklyn only 971 The towers of the Williamsburg bridge built of steel rise 333 feet above high water mark 50 feet higher than the stone towers of the Brook lyn bridge while this height will be increased by 20 feet wnen tne orna mental caps are placed on the new structure The height of the new bridge above the river in the exact center is 135 feet the same height as the older bridge The new bridges now in construction will keep the same level The great cables which hold tne framework measure 18 inches in and the officials of Brooklyn steel CONNECTING MANHATTAN AND NEW WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE and Queens walked from the Wil liamsburg side They met in themid 31e of the bridge raised their hats to one another and then trudged to gether to Williamsburg where the speeches were uttered to a great multitude plaza at the entrance titude in the new trance to the bridge It was a melancholy but suggestive experience that walk across to Wil liamsburg A raw wind whipped the vast reaches of painted steel beams and reddened the noses of the mayor and the official multitude which shuf fled along the roadway Coat collars were turned up shiny high hats were difficult to keep on and an irreverent rabble of photographers raced about ii rinr tfr cameras flapping their hands shouting and jostling the half frozen officials There was a faint scent of whisky too fully justified by the weather But the bridge itself how mightv it was and how solid under the fejjt How small it made a man feel to tread that complicated immensity of steel suspended from the two steel towers by four cables containing 17 432 miles of steel wire And as the mayor walked on at the head of the shivering mirthless procession with his white flag carried before him he may well have pondered the opening words of his speech No such achievement as this bridge is ever the work of a single man A TRIUMPH OF ENGINEERING Williamsburg Bridge a Noble Monu ment to American Skill That the Brooklyn bridge after nearly c generation of use has endured mark in the dured as a highwater bridge line at least in the- greater city is no mean tribute to the skill and the daring of the engineers who planned it That the new bridge now surpasses in all important dimen sions and foot by foot cable for cable outclasses the old signally is perhaps the greatest single description of its magnitude tion that can be given tude as the greatest suspension bridge in the world surpassed in length of span only by the Firth bridge The Brooklyn bridge in length falls diameter The four cables contain 41588 wires and the supporting strength of each of these cables is 222S0 tons as contrasted with 12000 for tho older bridge while the figures for the weight of the two structures between towers are 7771 and GG20 tons respectively The Williamsburg bridge was be gun in October 189G the first work being done on the foundations of the New York towers It was more than fivfi vears later on April 9 1901 when amid the salutes of the craft on the water front the two cables were hoisted from the river bed and the actual construction of the span began On Nov 11 1902 a fire de stroyed the wooden staging breaking out on the Manhattan tower 350 feet from the East river burned along the and furrlhd one of the most spectacular conflagrations in the his tory of the city Little serious uam age was done to the main structure however and the vrork was hurried forward although there were many delays incident to the fire The cost of the new bridge will reach about 11000000 At the pres ent time only the south roadway is completed Within a few days the north roadway will be opened to pe destrians and will serve for them un til one of the footways is completed No arrangement has yet been made for the letting of the car tracks on elevated structure the new bridge and the ture ends with the bridge at both ends Delancey street at the Man hattan terminus is to be widened and the work is to begin soon This street will be widened by razing tene ment houses along the southerly side Already hundreds of buildings have been destroyed further east along the course of the bridge and the old re gion of Poverty Hollow is entirely de stroyed New Chief of Division George Winfield Scott class of 90 of Stanford university has been ap pointed chief of the newly created division of law of the library of Con- 7- built before the age of trolleys has two roadways now shared by vehicles and surface cars alike The new bridge carries on its double decks two roadsways each twenty five feet wide and each unobstructed by trolleys Two double track trolley roadways two promenades to the one of the old bridge each ten and a half feet wide two cycle paths each seven central space for a feet wide and a double track or elevated L cars Sive the new structure a contrasted with an 85 foot 118 feet as width in the older structure efficiency of the When the Increased new bridge in carrying traffic is re- gress at Hasuiugiuu j - an administrative one and the salary t i fu oi at S3000 a year He I1US UGGll nwv D l olly 0-5- roetwiK 41 B TrcyF Ctvato4 R I t V 1 federate army and that he feels only those soldiers of the Confederate army who wore the gray are entitled to the badge of honor which this bronze cross is ARTICLES USED BY SENATORS All Sorts and Descriptions Were Dis pensed Last Year Charles G Bennett secretary of the United States senate has sent to that body his annual report detailing the expenditures of last year In some cases the items are more characteris tic of a womans boudoir than of sup plies for staid and dignified senators The stationery room where articles are put on sale at cost to senators in the year sold manicure sets wrist bags at prices up to 30 and similar articles appreciated by women Laru cases leather cases for railroad passes and such articles found a large sale The medicine chest in the office of the sergeant at arms dispensed 30000 grains of quinine pills a dozen pack ages of court plaster large quantities of pepsin and soda mint tablets and horehound drops to a total of twenty pounds Toilet articles were dispens ed by the government to a large amount in such lines as bay rum BROOKLYN powders cologne dandruff cures smelling salts and complexion restora tives It also appears that the senate used four tons of hay in the fiscal year just ended TOO STRENUOUS FOR RUSSIANS ess 1 Governor Refuses Honor The youthful Governor D C Hey recently addressed ward of South Carolina dressed a meeting of ex Confederate veterans to such acceptance that one ot them1 enthusiastically proposed that the Confederate Cross of Honor be conferred upon him Tne resoiuuuu rA hiifr tWA Ernvernor has re- Senator Beveridne Wore Out Relays of Interpreters When Senator Beveridge of Indiana was collecting material for his book The Russian Advance he engaged an interpreter and started with Ameri can hustle At the end of the first day the Russian was limp and at the close of the second day he was in a state of collapse When the third night came the Russian begged for a days rest He disappeared perma nently but sent back word that no one could work for a man who did a years work in one day After that ur tse eridge resigned himself to a relay sys tem of interpreters but he says the Russians have no real staying powers Mel Hannas Winter Home Mel Hanna brother of the Ohio senator has a winter home near Thomasville Ga Mr Hanna has an estate of 3500 acres and it was there that President McKinley spent some of the pleasantest days of his life for there is not a more ideally beautifully winter home in America nor one bet ter supplied with the things that go to make existence a delight Its own er is hospitable and loves to take his northern friends down south to enjoy the sport of killing deer wild tur keys quail and other game which they can do on his own broad acres Many years of residence in the south has not caused Mr Hanna to change his republican allegiance but he says upon local political questions he found it agreeable and expedient to act with the dominant race Senator Tillmans Counterfeit Bill As the story is told in the South Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina received a counterfeit 100 bill in part payment for his lecture on the race question which he delivered in Savannah Ga He deposited it with the financial clerk ot the Senate in will go to Europe in the interest of Washington CROSS SECTIONS OF OLD AND NEW BRIDGES COMPARED lqg 2 3 ft foatvftlk and soon after was Gp3p i IT MSSi S P Si Jan- i Hi ffl r TTVAv VAv II AAI Y WI MMWgw Tr ti f QArtinn nf th Old Bridae Just short of C000 feet being o 989 feet long The new bridge more than 1200 feet longer has a total extent of oo thnn 7 200 feet The old bridge i nan ww Half Section of the New onagc the government and will remain there about ten months after which he will America While abroad go to South he will be chiefly busied with law work and the gathering of hooks for the library of Congress Mr Scott Is held scholarships a New York man and has arships in Columbia Cornell Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania formed by letter that it had been sent to the treasury department and had been pronounced a counterfeit and punched full of holes A Savannah bank from which the bill had been drawn made the loss good to the sen ator Sports Fear Publicity At the opening of an athletic club in McKeesport Pa the pother night the chief attractions were some prize fights by pugilists of local and neigh borhood fame It has been learned that among the spectators were sev eral clergymen disguised as country sports Leading professional and busi ness men enjoyed the show but now there is consternation for fear the too I preachers may attack the promoters 7ndrf its mover that he was young at the time to serve in the Con- from their pulpits HUMOR or THE nan What Would Be Left A school Inspector was examining a class in a country school As an arithmetic test he put the following question to one of the classes If I had a niiuce pie and should give two fifths to John two fifths to Icaac two twelfths to Harry and should take one halt of the pie for my self what would there be left There was a profound stutly among the boys but finally one lad held up his hand Well my hoy speak up loud feo that all may hear said the inspector The plate shouted the hopeful young fellow Pearsons Weekly Love Is Blind JWta - lUYw Sal Whats thet I cant get no man Why Hi Morton jest begged me t marry him when he wus over last week Si Hump I alius did hear as how beggars was poor choosers New York Sun His Faux Pas They were uttering the tender noc sorse that succeeds the great ques tion And said the girl bravely if poverty comes we will face it to otlior Ah dearest he replied the mcro eight of your face would scare the wolf uvay And over since he has wondered why she returned the ring A Field for Investigation Yes our oldest son is of a very in quiring disposition He delights in investigating things and is always digging and prjing in places where theres a cliance of upturning some thing surprising I havent noticed it Havent you Well you just watch him at the table and youll see that he always calls for mince pie Her Friendly Service Nell You and Jack Sterling seem to be quite chummy these days Belle Yes Jacks a good fellow Hes going to marry May Simpson in a month or so Nell i knew they were engaged hut I thought she was growing cold Belle Oh shes warming up now Ive been giving her the impression htely that I wanted him Somewhat Different Wilder Poor outlooi Brokeum The doctor says youll never live to see 50 Brokeum Oh I knew that loan ago Wilder Why dont you expect tc reach two score and ten Brokeum Oh I thought he meant Id never live to see 10 Responsibility Defined V 1 1 I M j Whats the meaniif of responser bility Jimmy Oh well suppose as yer had two render buttons on yer pants an o rum orf wy all the responserbih uc be on the other A Mean Character Growell Hes about the meanet white rm I ever met Howell At any rate hes success fill He has taken advantage of hi opportunities Growell His opportunities wr small no doubt another proof of h meanness Reversed The average man out of work al wavs declares he would have been all risht if he had only had a good show i the last place Unless hes an actor then his cr1 i if he had only had a good place in the last show Philadelphia Press The Doctors Orders Dedelia Phat are yez doin takin the lock off the cupboard dure Pat Are yez chrazy Pat No darlint th dochtor tould me to day thot I must quit boltin me food and Im going to obey instruc tions k r