THE FRONTIER. remiHit mn nnwtT sr Taa raoHTica Piuxtixx Co. O’NEILL. .> NEBRASKA. OVER THE STATE. ' The potato crop in Lincoln county ii ; turning out poorly. Fullerton has votod in favor of a ' System of orator works. Thk postmaster at Davenport has Mot in his resignation. |r ■, A good roads organisation has been affected in Hurt county. A movement tot; good sidewalks has been inaugurated in Nebraska City. Richardson county will have a line collection of produce at the state fair. | ' if: In Boyd county last week a young * lady named bias* was killed by light ning. Fullerton this year has made great progress in the way of erection of fine dwellings. Thebe is something of .a contest in Lawrence over the question of saloon or no saloon. Ladies of Beatrice have started a crusade against the circulation of ob i(. scene literature. An effort will be made im Lincoln to * “® away witli the Sunday dance, as in the case of base ball. Tuk summer Normal school at Ver don commenced the third week with an increased attendance. Alt. of the Chautauqua assemblies in Nebraska were .a success educationally and In the matter of attendance. A FAJt.Mr.il passed .through Cor.ad the other day with a colt having five feet and the animal was active on its legs. It is proposed to spend about 375,000 toward protecting the river front at Omaha. Uncle bam will do .the work. William Downs, motion boss at Pal myra, waa thrown from a wagon .and sustained a serious fractured the left arm. >r A busking wad from jt gfun caused the destruction >o( the granary and ■tables of George Rhclnhar.t.at Nomuliu CUy. 'A man sent tip for drunkenness for fire days at Grand Island refused to eat the jail fare and fasted until his term expired. The Fremont Chautauquanssociatlon has filed amended ..articles of incorpor ation and increased .the capital stock to Wo,ooa Whims walking In his sleep, Edward Kearney, a Jackson banker, fell Irani .a second story window .and received seri ous injuries. The Salvation army of Nebraska City nave got into tlielr new .barracks and are making considerable noise and some converts. A meeting lias been called at South Omaha to take the initiatory steps to ward organizing a Young Men's Chris tian association. It is estimated that the assessed val uation of Nebraska will be a little over $183,000,000, or about $11,000,000 less than it was lastyear. The old national hotel at Kearney, which waa recently damaged by fire, has been condemned and will be moved . away from ita present location, t CxKRLEsa school children at Pierce started a fire that destroyed the barn of County Treasurer Steinkrou. Two ,, horses were consumed in the flames. JOLT 4 the Hank of WUcox at Wilcox, Neb., was entered and 81,000 stolen. The thieves have been discovered, and as they returned the money there will be no prosecution. Mrs. John Westerobken, the wifeof a farmer living about four miles north cast of Iloldrege, has become insane, she was taken before the insane com ; . mlssioners for examination. The house of representatives took up Ok. •b® passed the biH providing fer an ad dltional federal judge in the Eighth Judicial circuit This is the circuit in Which Nebraska is situated. George Rueiniiart, a farmer living Bear Nemaha, lost his barn, a lot of hay, grain, farm implements and other fixtures by fire. The cause is unknown, i. and there was no insurance. " Ed Hanford, wanted in Kansas City , }Mtr robbing a farmer of 8700, was ar ^5, rested in Omaha last week and taken back to the scene of his operations to . answer before a judicial tribunal. A second unsuccessful attempt was .made by cracksmen to blow the safe in -.the Union Pacific depot at Elkhorn. An ■express package containing 1,000 cigars was taken. There is no clue to theper , petrators. S h At Bloomington Frank E. Crandall, • young Burlington freight brakeman M McCook, fell between the cars and waai fatally injured, both legs and an •M> being cut off, besides receiving in juries ..about the head, lie died soon •Iter the accident. Twenty-five years ago a few of the ' old settlers met at the home of Olof Kelson, three miles west of the present Bite of Oakland, and then and there the . first Swedish Baptist church pf Oakland (then,called l.ogun Creek) was organ ised with eighteen members. Tub committee on public landsof the 5 senate .has reported the house bill for the resurvey, of Grant and Hooker coun ties in the state of Nebraska with an amendment.providiug that nothiug in the act shon.d be so construed as to im pair the present bona fide claim of any .actual occupant of any of said lands to ( the property ■of the state for taxation will tie 8183, '#00,000, or 813,000.000 less than lust .tear. This is an estirante that will not lie apt to vary materially, although the counties of lioone, Custer, Hoyd, Hurt, '■ttihcbl, Hayes, I’crkins and Thurston have not ytM,•reported. P. C. Mattox, who .onue upon a timo claimed to have discovered perpetual motion, hns«lartedout of Chaitron with u wild west combination and will travel east and south. liis show will consist of sixteen cowbijys, ten Indians, six girls and ail the paraphernalia of a Dendwood coach, hand wugon, carria ges and wagons, which go to make up what will ho called ‘'Diamond Dick’s •Wild West Show. " The (irund Island reunion committee has ibaou unusually late in gutting to gether, but ut its mueting lust week it •started off ut a .most ;promising gait, •doing more than has usually been done in the first two meetings, and there is no>doubt but that.it will cross the wire and close the homo stretch in ample •time to havo every necessary prepara tion complete. A program -will be put .forth at an early.day. tiov. Jackson of Iowa has sent to Uov. Crounse a copy of his proclama tion designating August 10, 1801, as liatlle Flag day. On that day, ns pro widod by an act of the last legislat ure, tlie battle flags which were borne by the Iowa 'regiments in the war are to be removed from tho state arsenal and deposited in the state house. This an nouncement is made that many Iowa •soldiers.now living' in Nebraska may .attend if.they so desire. ■W. J. Ttkgem,.agent of the Ameri can express company at Jackson, and also agent of .the Northwestern rail road, transmitted a message for the Jackson bank to the Sioux National at Sioux City for gl.O.K) and forgetTa sec ond message culling for &!,t;00 more. When the money came he appropriated iit and 8700 of the railroad company's .money, put a man in his place und Ued, It is presumed, for Mexico. The secretaries of the board of trans portation went to O'Neill for the pur pose of applying for a writ of manda mus to compel the Elkliorn and the Pa cific Short Line railroads to comply with .the board s order and put in a transfer switch. The same will be .done in Colfax county at Schuyler, both cases being brought under the transfer aw it oh law, .which the railroads refuse >to recognize as constitutional. TiiK.Buic.ide of John V. Forrer of West Point.appears .to have been premedi tated. The deceased performed his du ties in .the saloon In the morning as usual, and on leaving for breakfast bade his bartender good-bye, a very un usual thing. The deceased was form erly proprietor of a milk route in Omaha, and was well known to early settlers, lie leaves .a .wife and grown up family in fair circumstances. At Oxford Frank llrei.thaupt was shot twice an unknown man and hiB re covery is doubtful, lie returned about 10 o'clock from a fishing trip and was feeding his team, when a shotgun from over his shoulder put out his left eye, and immediately another shot tore a slight furrow across his back. Breith aupt is 18 years old and recently had an altercation with William Ulauvet about a love affair, and the latter has been arrested on suspicion. N. M. Pilbury of Fremont received last week a very welcome letter from a long lost brother. The brother in question is now located in New Zealand and writes to make inquiries as to his relatives, of whom there live in Fre mont his two brothers, N. M. and Charlie, and a sister, Mrs. C. U. Veazie. This brother, William, left the old home at llucksport, Me., twenty years ago, since which time no tidings of him have been had by any member of the family. Sheriff Ksudsojj returned to Hold rege last week with three men suspect ed of the murder of Elmer E. Drum mond on the night of June 30 last. Two of them were arrested at Topeka with the Sells Bros, circus The other one was found at Junction City, Kas. They gave their names as Andrew Fox, YViliiam Sullivan and Thomas Neyland, alias "Slim.” They bear out the des cription of tho parlies wanted, but have a good story arranged as to their whereabouts June 3U. Gkorok Midriff of Union met with a painful mishap last week. Ue pur chased a bottle of carbolic acid; plac ing it in his hip pocket he jumped into his buggy and started for home. \Vhen within a mile of the house he broke the bottle in some way and the contents ran down the side of his hip. Not knowing tho dangerous nature of the fluid, he drove home before cleaning it off. lie soon discovered his mistake and was writhing in fearful agony. A physician was called to relieve the burn. Thk following advertisement appears in the North Platte Telegraph: “Lost, Strayed or Stolen—From the premises of John LeMasters, one dark brown boy, 13 years old, about twelve hands high; weight ninety-nine pounds. Has no brands or other marks, but can be { easily identified by his muster. Hoy is I kind and gentle when under control of | his master, but is apt to resent any up i proaches at familiarity from strangers. | Any information leading to the where I abouts of the above described lad will 1 be gratefully received at 207 Spruce street, North Platte, Neh. Thk last Nebraska crop bulletin says: The first half of the week was hot and dry and injurious to all growing vege tation; tile last half cool, with light showers, but not giving sufficient inois | lure for the best growth of crops. The I average moisture for the week ranged | from about normal iu the northern I part of the state to three degrees below j the normal in the southern. Thresh I ing of wheat is general in the south i easiern section, and a yield of from six to eighteen bushels is commonly re ported, Oat harvest is progressing rapidly fn the southeastern section and has begun in the northeastern, and the crop will be light. CLEVELAND'S LETTER ——— r CRITICISED BY f A SENATOR FROM HEW JERSEY. II© Reicnti the President'a Stetementa-— Senator 11111 fraliH the Presldent'a Free IUw Material Poaltlou and Some what Sharply Scores the Senate—Sen* •ter Vent Detrounrea the President and Mr. 11111—Tive Lion and the Lamb Lie Down Together. Senators on the Letter. ’Washington, July 23.—Crowds xucTi ®s had not thronged the senate in 'months packed the galleries to-day in amticipationof a sharp conflict over the tariff, the houseund the president having thrown down the gauntlet to the senate. When the president pro tem (Mr. Harris ol Tennessee) rapped the senate to order there was a pro found hush. • Senator lilnokbttrn of Keutucky, in >a pink neglige shirt, stood wateli in hand like a judge at a Kentucky derby while the chaplain delivered his invocation. The “cons.'rvativo" Democrats, Mr. Brice in an immacu late suit of white flannels, Mr. Gor man in a sedate suit of blue iind Mr. Smjth in a long black frock coat sat grouped together on the Demo cratic side. Mr. Hill, sitting fur back, chatted with General Dun Sickles, the one-legged veteran of Gettysburg. Messrs. Sherman, Aldrich, Allison, Hale and Chandler, leaders on the Republican side, appeared amused at the stonn which threatened across the political aisle. After the morning routine had been disposed of Mr. Voorhees, chairman of the fi nance committee, arose and called up the conference total disa greement report of the tnriff bill, which had been laid before the senate yesterday. Then without a word of explanation ho yielded th * floor to Mr. Smith of New Jersey who read a carefully prepared speech. SMITH nr HK.V JICHSEV OPENS. Mr. Smith said that he had hoped when the bill passed the senate two weeks ago that it had been perfected. Hut the events of the Inst twenty-four hours had confronted the Democratic party with the possibility of the fail ure of all the tariff legislation at this session. If so the responsibility must be placed where it be longed. He criticised the president for “violating" the principles of his party in attempting to interfere with the prerogative of the legislative branch of the government, but declared that he never should be intimidated by threats from the president or by the utterances of his party associates at the other end of the capitol. He reviewed the. events in the house which had culminated in the passage of a bill with the loss of 17 Democraticvotes in that body. In the senate he said every Democratic vote was needed to pass the bill if it was to be passed as a party measure, and the members of the tinanceicommil.tee had heroically harmonized the differences existing in the Democratic side—to .their ever lasting credit be it said. He had been one of those who stood out for concessions in the interest of ihis constituents. He had made no concealment of his position then and made none now. The senate bill, he declared,.contained no menace to the industries of the country and had not been framed by men from sparsely settled districts who knew nothing .of the great commercial in terests of the United States. He asserted that the framers of the house bill and a large proportion of the Democratic party were not tariff re formers, but free traders. HI1X-ON FREE RAW METERIALS. Mr. Hill, the nest speaker said: “A theory as well as a condition now .confronts us. The theory of the Democratic party is that in the enact meat of tariff legislation free raw materials should always be an essen tial and eonspieuous element It is our creed that the materials which enter into our manufactures should be free from the burden of tariff taxa tion. The best interests of the manu facturers as well as the consumers of the land demand tiie recognition of this wise discrimination. We are committed to this side of the question anl wj cannot retreat and we cannot retract. We are honorably bound to redeem our professions and our promises. Justice, good faith and a decent regard for public sentiment all require this course. Until recently I had supposed that there was no dispute upon this question of principle, hut every Democrat worthy the name was will ing to concede that if there is one thing more than another to which the Democratic party was comm.tted it was in favor of absolute free raw ma terials. The true and honest con struction of every Democratic na tional platform for twelve years past irrevocably commits us to this just and reasonable principle.” Mr. Hill read the Democratic na tional platform of 1892 arid continued: ‘ To repeal thj McKinley law in I form simply, to re-i»uact it in effect | is keeping this promise to the letter, ! but breaking it in spirit. The plat form pointed with pr.de to and de liberately approved the measures for free iron ore, free lead ore, free coal and free wool, which were pending in cougress at the time of the conven tion. Tiie Democratic position was so plain and so clear that he who runs may read. If any Demo cratic orator in any part of the coun try, forgetting the interests of the whole land and subserving the sup posed interests of a locality, promised the people of any state or section that there would bo any exception made to the enforcement of the general prin ciple of free raw materials when the Democrats should obtain power, he exceeded his authority and misinter preted our position. THE PRESIDENT’8 LETTER PRAISED. “It Is Said by some in justification of or excuse for their present action that the president's letter of accept ance in 1892 modified the extreme de mands of our platform. It is true that some portions of his letter may tend to bear that construction. It waa not that bold, ringing and explicit declaration In favor of the platform jrbieb his party ha<| a right to expect* T ont waa regarded by many as tfmld, cautions ( and conservative. But whether' this eriticiatn is or la not well foandedf the fact remains that be had no power or authority to change or alter one line or seutenoe or provision of the national platform which had been deliberately adopted in the national convention duly as sembled. No president can ' be above his party; no president can dictate to hia party; no president can change his party platform. “Hut no matter what idea it may be claimed was intended to be conveyed in his letter of acceptance in mitiga tion or modification of the platform, there can be no donbt as to the presi dent's position at this time upon the essential principle of free raw mate rials. Let me read from that remark able letter of the president's which was yesterday submitted to the house of representatives. It expresses better than I can hopo to do the trne, sound aud logical position of the Dem ocratic party on this question.” After reading extracts from the let ter Mr. Hill continued: “Sir. President, I approve every word that I have quot'd. It is an honest and manly statement of the true attitude which the party should assume in this crisis. 1 am not re quired to defend, the propriety or wis dom of the promulgation of this letter at this peculiar time. It may have been indiscreet; it may operate as a firebrand to spread the flames of dis cord already kindled • among party friends, honestly differing as I am disposed to concede upon questions of public and party policy. It was a time for diplomacy, statesmanship and conciliation rather than recrimi nation, denunciation and arraign ment Hut aside from this question of its mere expediency, I am here to defend the president's letter in so far that it demands that the party shall not be led astray into the violation of Democratic ple’dges and principles. THE SENATE’S POSITION ATTACKED. “Upon the question of free raw materials the president is right, and you know it. You cannot answer his arguments. Y’ou cannot successfully dispute his propositions. You cannot doubt his sincerity and patriotism. You must yield in the end to his views. Y'ou cannot stand up against the sentiment of the great Democrat ic masses of the country which will rally around the president in his con test with you upon this particular branch of the subject. The time to yield is npw, before there is further humiliation, embarrassment and dis cord. "Air. President, having .demon' strated the fact that the true Demo cratic theory of revenue reform re quires that free raw materials should be the distinguishing feature, let ue next inquire what is the condition that confronts us. The senate bill which lias been passed violates this Democratic theory and, while it re duces the duty on iron, coal, lead and some of the other raw materials from those imposed under the McKinley law, and in that respect is commend able, it nevertheless imposes some duties thereon and thereby fails to redeem our pledges. It is not a ques tion of the amount of duties which may be imposed, a question of princi ple is involved, and a single penny’s duty violates our promises and places us in a false position. As the president well says there can be no compromise on a matter of this character, where a vital principle is at stake. The house of representa tives, fresh from the people which represents more distinctly and pecu liarly than we do the taxing power of the people, repudiates our bill, and,as the president has emphasized that re pudiation, the condition which con fronts us is one of extreme embar rassment. Shall we retreat or (ad vance? Shall we surrender to the house while we can do so honorably, or shall we wait until we are driven to it? VETO DECLARED UNQUESTIONABLE. “In the light of the letter of the president the house cannot honorably retreat. It has no other alternative except to insist upon its bill wherein it provides for free raw materials. The president cannot approve the senate bill after what he has said in this remarkable letter. He arraigns the senate and intimates that the en actment of the senate bill means "party perfidy and party dis honor.” These are strong words which the president of the United States would not use towards a measure which he ever ex pected afterwards to approve. This letter, unusual and unprecedented in its character and method of promul gation, though it may be, neverthe less clearly foreshadows a veto of the senate bill even if the house should finally concur in our amendments. What person would expect the presi dent to approve the senate bill after its vigorous and scathing denunciation contained in his letter. I would think less of him for his glaring inconsis tency. “No, this letter is significant, it is a bold, vigorous, even if imprudent, let ter. It means war to the knife against the senate bill; it justifies much that has been said against the senate bill during all the last three months; it means that the senate bill can never receive the executive approval;it means that the senate cannot be permitted to abandon or surrender the great under lying principles for which we struggled and lost in 1883 and fought and won in 1892. The president is right; there is ,no middle ground which we can occupy. No bill which does not provide for raw mate rials can be permitted to become a law.” Mr. Hill took issue mildly with the president on the necessitv for a sugar and an income tax and declared that the house should stand by its free su gar provisions. VEST SCORES TIIE PRESIDENT. Mr. Vest of Missouri followed Mr. Hill. He said that after the speech of the senator from New York, it wa« a subject of congratulation that he and the president had at last found ■ platform on which both could stand. The lion and the lamb had at .last lain down together and were letj'as a little child by the ways and miaul committee. Ho left to others to de cide which was the lion and which JJ** J}1* lamb. The senator ffrom New York had said that free rmxv mi teriala ww a cardinal printfole 01 pemoermey. The pmidtntt wen further and declared that f« f«irt1 pf»«« nt materials on the free list was Democratic perfidy and dis honor. Why did not the senator from New York rote for free wool, he asked. "I did not rote on sereral motions . while the bill was in committee,” re plied Mr. Hill, "but I distinctly voted for free wool in the senate.” ••If my very soul was thrilling and pulsating for free raw materials,” re torted Mr. Vest, sarcastically, “at the peril of my life I should have been on hand to vote on every roll call for the cardinal principle of Democracy.” Mr. Vest then read the letter of acceptance of President Cleveland in 1892 pronouncing in favor of “freer raw materials.” Tet now he de nounced “freer raw materials” as perfidly and dishonor. He then ar raigned the president. He had been his friend. He had defended him on the floor of the senate when his friends could have been counted on the fingers of one hand. Where did the president get the right to dictate to congress? To denounce one branch of congress to the other. Did he em body in his single being all the Democracy, all the tatilf reform sentiment of the country? Mr. Cleve land was a big man, but the Demo cratic i party was greater than any | one man. l lie uemocra-cy, iur. vest sum, uau survived Jeffersoa, Madison, Jackson; it would survive Grover Cleveland. I Under what clause of the constitu tion did Mr. Cleveland get the right after a bill had been sent to “full and free” conference between two houses to make an appeal to his party friends to stand by his individual views. Mrs. j Madison said in her memoirs that the ' capital had been placed at one end of the avenue and the White house at the other to prevent the president from exercising an undue influence on the legislative branch of the govern ment. If the president could send here to his friends to stand firm, he I had a right to send his cabinet ministers here to coerce members in ! congress; he had a right to do as he i had done during the fight over the re* | peal of the Sherman law—punish re* ’ calcitrant members of his own party. I It was a mockery to talk of a full and j free conference when one of the con ferrccs came to the committee room with the orders of the president in his pocket. Mr. Vest spoke with bitterness of the president's denunciation of the senate bill, which had been passed after four months of such toil and re sponsibility as he should never as sume again. Yet, he said, those who were instrumental in harmonizing its differences and bringing about its passage — tariff reformers be j fore Mr. Cleveland began his j phenomenal career—had been ar | raigned as traitors who sought to dis ; honor their party. Personally the | bill did not snit him. He was a radi* I cal tariff reformer, but if he could not | get all ho would take what he could get. | After Mr. Vest had closed his tirade Mr. Vilas moved that the senate re cede from the one-eighth sugar dif ; ferential. | Nr. Gray followed, urging that the senate insist upon its amendments. | He intimated that in his advocacy of i free raw material the senator from New York (Hill) was insincere. He had never in long conferences of the Democratic senators that pre ceeded the adoption of this bill, raised his voice in behalf of free coal and free iron ore. An angry colloquy between the two I senators followed. [ The motion of Senator Vilas caused a great deal of uneasiness on the Democratic side. This one-eighth was retained in the bill by a bare ma jority of one vote, and Mr. Mills de clared his intention of supporting the motion of Mr. Vilas. The Republican members are reticent, most of them saying that as they voted to strike out the one-eighth they could not change their position. COCHRAN FOR CONGRESS. The St. Joseph Editor Likely to Be the Choice of the Democrats. St. Joseph, Mo., July 81. — The Democracy of the Fourth congressional district, which has for the past two months been trying to unite on a nominee to succeed the present con gressman, D. D. Burnes, has finally coucluded to nominate State Senator Cochran, editor of the Gazette. Ex Congressman Wilson, Judge Ellison of Maryville and M. Moran of this citv had been working hard to capture the delegates to the convention, which will meet at Maryville, August 0, but the bringing of Mr. Cochran into the field ends the fight so far as they aro concerned. REVENUE PROM INCOME TAX. Senator till! Estimates the Amount From the Bnrean of Statistics. Washington, July 21.—Senator Hill has received a long letter from Worthington G. Ford chief of the bureau of statistics, in which he states that the possibilities of the revenue that can be raised from the income tax ranges all the way from 812,000,000 to $39,000,poo. He thinks that the latter figure is the highest which can possibly be hoped for, and the last few years the collections would fall below 815,000,000. He also expresses the opinion that the rev enue which will be collected on pri vate incomes will not be more than sufficient to pay for collections. TWENTY YEARS FOR A RED. The Would- Be Assassin of Premier Crlspl Boasti or Hi< Grime. Rome, July 21.—The trial of Paolo known to his associates as “Marat,** the anarchist who at tempted to shoot Premier Crispi .Tune 16, was held yesterday. He said that he had not, acted from motives of personal hatred, but as a solemn pro test against the system of govern ment. Lega was sentenced to twenty years* solitary confinement When sentence was pronounced he called for cheers for anarchy. Gold Exports Increasing. Washington, July 21. -The cash balance in the treasury at the close of business yesterday was 8121,947,771 of which 864,483.797 was gold reserve! Contrary to general expectations, the I exportation of gold seems to have again set in; I A MIRACLE IN MISSOURI The Achlerements of Medical Science , For More Wonderful Than the Manic of the East. The Remarkable Experience of Poet Mai< ter Wood.on, of Panama, Mo,—For Ten Yean ■ Cripple—To-dajr , r * a Well and Hearty Uaa From the Kansas City Times. The people of Rich Hill, Ma, and vi cinity, have recently been startled by a seeming miracle of healing. For years one of the best known men in Bates and Vernon counties has been Mark M» Woodson, now postmaster at Panama, and brother of ex-State Inspector of Mines, G G Woodson of this city. The people of Rich Hill, where he formerly resided, and of his present home, re member well the bent form, misshapen almost from the semblance of man, which has painfully bowed its head half to the earth and labored snail-like across the walks season after season, and when one day last month it straight enened to its full height, threw away the heavy ^butt of cane which for years had been its only support from total helplessness, and walked' erect, firmly, unhesitatingly about the two cities, people looked and wondered. The btory of the remarkable case has be come the marvel of the two counties Exactly as Mr. Woodson told it to a Times reporter, it is here published: “For ten years I have suffered the torments of the damned ahd have been a useless invalid; to-day I am a well and hearty man, free from almost every touch of pain. I don’t think man ever suffered more acute and constant agony than I have since 1884. The rheuma tism started then in my right knee, and after weeks of suffering in bed Iwasat last relieved sufficiently to arise, but it was only to get about ou crutches for five years, the ailment having settled in the joint. Despite constant treat ment of the most eminent physicians the rheumatism grew worse, and for the last four years I have been com pelled to go about bent half toward the ground. In the winter of 1890-61, after the rheumatism had settled into its most chronic form, I went to Kan sas City upon advice of my brother, and for six weeks I was treated in one of the largest and best known dispensaries of that city, but without the slightest improvement. Before I came home I secured a string galvanic battery, this I used for months with the same result In August, 1898, I went to St bonis, and there conferred with the widely known Dr. Mudd of hospital practice fame, and Dr. Kale of the city hospital. None of them would take my case with any hope of affording me more than temporary relief, and so I came home, weak, doubled with pain, helpless and despondent “About this time my attention was called to the account of a remarkable cure by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People of locomotor ataxia, rheu matism and paralysis. I ordered some of the pills as an experiment. When I began to take them, the rheumatism had developed into a phase of paralysis; my leg from the thigh down was cold all the time and could not be kept warm. In a short time the pills were gone, and so was the cane. I was able to attend to the duties of my office, to get about as a well and strong man. I was free from pain and I could enjoy a sound and restful night’s sleep, some thing I had not known for ten years To-day am practically, and, I firmly believe, permanently cured of my ter rible and agonizing ailment. No' ma gician of the Far East ever wrought the miracle with his wand that hr. William’s Pink Pills did for me.” _ To verify the story beyond all ques tion of doubt Mr. Woodson made the following affidavit; State of Missouri, ) County of Bates, j I, M. M. Woodson, being duly sworn on my oath state that the following statements are true and correct as I verily believe. M. M. Woodson. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3d day of March, 18D4. John D. Moore, Notary Public. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple are manufactured by the Dr. Wil liams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bear ing the firm's trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $8.50. Bear in mind that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are never sold in bulk or by the dozen or hundred, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form is trying to defraud you and should be avoided. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co. Sheet Iron. The thinnest iron sheet in the work has within the past few weeks been rolled at Swansea, Wales. It is twenty five centimetres long and fourteen wide. Its thickness is exactly .00") mil imetre. One may get an idea of this “thickness” by comparing it to that of silk paper, which is ordinarily .02 mili metre thick. Some iron manufacturers Hhve advertised that they make visit ing cards of thin iron plates. The longest steel chip is seventy-nine and one-half meters long and was turned in New York. Tim# of Harvesting Corn. At the Iowa station last Beason foui lots of corn were cut—September 20 and 27 and October 6 and 12. The greatest weight of ears was from the cutting of October 6, the greatest weight'of fodder from the cutting of September 27. From the first to the third date the dry matter of the kernels materially increased, chiefly at the ex pense of the leaves and to a less degree at the expense of the husks, cobs and stalka Darn thin places in blankets as you would stockings. An Keho from lb# World's ISIS The Lake Shore Route has recently gotten out a very handsome lltho water color of the “Exposition Fly'er,'' the famous twenty hour train in ser vice between New York and Chicago during the fair. Among the many wonderful achievements of the Colum bian year this train—which was the fastest long distance train ever run— holds a prominent place, and to any one interested in the subject the pict ure is well worth framing. Ten cents in stamps or silver sent to C. K. Wil ber. West. Pass Agt, Chicago, will secure one.