The Crltlea Bumbled.
Manager—The crities say that la
.the play *\A Wrongde Wife”,jou don’t
exhibit enough emotion when your
husband leaves you, never to return.
Popular Actress—Oh, 1 don't, don’t
IP Well, I’ve hod two or three hus
bands leave me. never to return, and
I guess I know as much about how to
act under those circumstances as
any body—Puck.
Shake Into Tour HhoM*
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out of corns and bunions. It is the
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Allen’s Foot-Ease makes Ught-llttlng
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A little girl who has recently moved
here from Boston was very sorry to
leave the hotel where the family
boarded for some weeks before going
to housekeeping.
“It just makes me homesick to
think about it.” she said to a friend.
■ But why. dear? It wasn’t as nice
as your own home.”
••No but they had beans to eat
there three times a day. ” said the lit
tle Hubster. —Detroit Free Press.
Kev. P. Slagle, of Golden. III., writes:
4‘1 was often almost erased with pain in
temple and eye. Have used two packages
of l>r. Kay’s Kenovntor and think it an
excellent remedy.”
If you are sick from any cause, there is
no remedy more likely to cure you than
Dr. Kay’s Uenovator. Send for a valua
ble 68-page book “Dr. Kay’s Home Treat
suent.” It has 6R recipes and treats nearly
all diseases. Address Dr. B. J. Kay Med
ical Co., Oraaba, Neb.
In the Red Sea.
In the waters of the Red sea the
cessation of the engines on a steamer
for an hour means extreme physical
sufferings for passengers; for a day
it would involve absolute torture.
The wind which prevails every day
is a hot. asphyxiating blast, and its
continuous directions are from north
and south toward the center. An' a
result every passing vessel is sub
jected to two days of almost intol
erable heat, followed by two days of
comparative comfort.
Sound Reasons for Approval
There are several cogent reasons why tbs
. medical profession recommend and the pub
. lie prefer Hoe tetter's Stomach Bitters above
the ordinary cathartics. It does not drench
and weaken the bowels; but assists rather
than forces nature to act; It Is botanic and
safe; Its action is never preceded by an Inter
nal earthquake like that produced by a dras
tic purgative. For forty-five' years past It
has been a household remedy for liver,
stomach and kidney trouble.
A Severe Operation.
Chollie—"You look very pale to
day, me deah boy.”
- Chappie—"Ya—as; I took ethaw
' this mawning.”
• ’Chollie— • Took ethaw! “Did you
- have a tooth drawn?”
Chappie—"No; the doctaw put a
powus plaster* on me back.”—New
York Press.
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Lost at the Age of Seventy-Sis.
Alexander Brownlie, of Tumnt,
New South Wales, who has reached
the venerable age of seventy-six, waa
lost recently while prospecting in
the ranges and wandered absolutely
without food for eight days. But he
had water to drink and a pipe to
smoke, and he came back to civili
sation, if not well, at least alive.
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The belt, at half the price; all grocers wlU re
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Now Auitrnna.
Two hundred Australians nnder
the leadership of William Lane, are
founding a'“New Australia" in Para
guay. The colony proposes to settle
400 families in the country within a
year.
Mrs. Wiailtw'i Soothlar §rnip
Fop children teething,softens the gums, re daces Inflame
■nation, allays pain, cures wind colic. ShcentaabotUa*
Every man is satisfied with his own
argument.
Cures Chapped Hands and Face. Tender or Sore Feet,
Chilblains, Piles, Ac. C. O. Clark Co., New Harea, Ot
The more thriving a woman's plants
look, the better housekeeper she is.
K finest* Toor Bowel* With CmishIs
.Candy Cathartic, cure constipation fororar.
•Oo. If a C. C. fall, drnsitlsta refund woaej.
The only thing a gentleman can af
ford to strike is an attitude.
fLaugh
r at the Sun
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FLOOD THAT HELPED.
KAN DM UTH1SR
Melton lighted the
kitchen lamp and
aet It In the middle
of the table.
"We might aa
well have aupper,”
ahe said. “Your
father prob’ly
won’t be back till
late.”
drew up their chain, and Grandmother
Melton brought a Steaming bowl of
mush from the stove and dished It into
two smaller bowls.
Tm hungry as a bear,” observed
Fred, between mouthfuls. “I think
it’s a shame we have to So so far to
school. There Isn’t a single boy or
girl In Sprlngvllle that has to go half
so far as we do.”
“I don’t see why father doesn’t move
down there," complained Polly, pour*
lng more of the rich yellow milk over
her mush; "he could get to his work
just as well, and It would be ever so
much pleasanter than this lonesome
place."
“Yon must remember that your
father isn’t a rich man,” answered
Grandmother Melton, gently. "He
owns this cottage, and If he moved he
would have to rent another home, and
perhaps he couldn’t sell this one.”
The Meltons had only been in their
new home since' the summer before.
Both Fred and Polly had enjoyed it
very much Indeed during the pleasant
warm weather of August and Septem
ber. Then the wide, swift Mississippi
had gleamed through the willows and
there had been unlimited boating and
swimming and Ashing. But with the
coming of winter the roads choked
full of snow and Ice, and the winds
swept up the river sharp and cold.and
It was a dreary, lonesome walk of four
miles to school at Sprlngvllle. As the
winter progressed they had complained
more and more, and now for a week,
owing to the spring freshets, Polly had
been unable to go at all, and Fred was
compelled to make a long detour over
the bluffs to avoid the lagoons In the
river bottoms.
“They’ll all- get ahead of me,” Polly
had sobbed; "and I can’t pass my ex
aminations.”
That morning Father Melton had
gone up the river to help watch the
levees. Reports had been coming from
St Paul, St Louis, Cairo and other
points farther up the great river that
the water was rising rapidly. The
levees must be watched night and day
to prevent breaks. On leaving his
home that morning Mr. Melton had
told Fred that he would be back be
fore dark, and that there was no dan
ger to tear from the water. All his
neighbors had told him that his cot
tage was high enough to be safe, even
in the greatest Aoods.
• “It’s after 9 o'clock now,” said Polly,
as she arose from the table; “I wonder
where father is.”
“I'd go out and watch for him if it
wasn't raining so hard,” said Fred,
and then he looked around toward the
doorway, anxiously.
• He caught his breath suddenly. Then
he half rose from the table and pointed
at the Aoor. Grandmother Melton
dropped her fork noisily on her plate
and her eyes followed the direction in
dicated by Fred’s Anger. Polly sat still
and gased at the other two, wonder
ing what it all meant.
There on the Aoor, crawling from
the crack under the door, was a dark
wriggling object. At first Fred had
taken it to be one of the swamp rattlers
so common to the Mississippi bottoms,
and his first impulse was to spring tor
his father’s rifle which stood in the
corner.
■‘Its the flood,” said Grandmother
Melton when she could get her ureuth.
By this time the black ribbuu of
water was spreading, slipping into the
cracks and creeping out over the floor
toward the table. Polly broke into a
cry of terror. Even Grandmother Mel
ton seemed uncertain what to do.
Fred suddenly roused himself. He
remembered that he was the man of the
uuuoc:, ttuu uitti ue umbi waicn over
and protect it in his lather’s absence.
So he sprung from his seat and threw
open the door, not without a throb of
fear. It was dark outside, and the rain
came down in torrents. Curling up
over the step they could see the muddy
water, and they could hear the sound
of it slapping against the house, it
stretched away Into the darkness In all
directions as far as Fred could see. He
knew that it already must be a foot or
more high around the house.
"The levee's broken," said Polly, in
a scared awed voice. “Do you think
we'll be washed away?”
At that moment something bumped
against the Bide of the house with so
much force that the dishes rattled.
Fred ran to the side window, peered
out, and found that a big log had
washed down against the building.
Grandmother Melton, who was usual
ly cool and brave under the most try
ing circumstances, was wringing her
hands in terror.
"Hun upstairs,” shouted Fred, “and
Polly and 1’li bring all the siujf we can
with ns.”
■ Grandmother Melton waited no long
er. She crept up the narrow stairway
to the little attic. Fred ran to the cup
board and began filling his arms with
dishes of food, while Polly in her ex
citement seized the first thing that
came to band—grandmother’s rocking
chair— and struggled up the stairs
with it
"We'll need clothing more’n anything
else,” called Grandmother Melton.
Fred ran back. The floor of the cot
t*ge was now entirely covered with
water. He splashed through it and
seised all the clothing, coats and jack
ets he could carry. Polly bravely
wiped away her tears, and when Fred
hraaght the loads to the stairway she
ran with :hem to the bedroom where*
Grandmother Melton was sitting. i
By., this time the. building had. begun ]
to shake and quiver as the water beat i
against It. 1
"She’s going soon," shouted Fred. i
*Tm afraid the water will reach us ,
up here," suggested Grandmother Mel- <
ton. i
Fred looked up. The celling was low,
and just above him there had been r.n ,
old trap-door, now nailed up. In
stantly Fred seised the ax and burst ,
It open. Above they could see the davk ,
sky and the rain coming down In steady. ,
torrents. Fred piled a trunk on top of
the table and climbed out on the roof.
He couldn’t see far, but he could (
hear the roaring of the water from ,
every direction. His heart sunk; he felt ,
sure that they all would be drowned.
Suddenly something thumped heavily l
against the side of the building, and
the next Instant the front end of the
room went up and grandmother and
Polly slipped down toward the rear (
end. Fred narrowly escaped belag
hurled off the roof.
“We’re going! We’re going!”
screamed Polly.
"We’re just off the foundation,”
answered Fred, as bravely as he could.
Then he swung back down into the
■vutuuui ouu UClyCU VJ1 ouuuiwvuk*
Melton and Folly up through the trap
door to the root. He covered them up
as well as he could and told them to
cling to the ridgepole whatever might
happen. Then he ran down for a coll
of clothesline. This he tied firmly to
the window at one end of the bedroom,
carried the other end up through the
trap-door, along the roof and dropped
It over the eaves. Down he went
again and fastened It to the other win
dor!, frame. It would do to hold to.
Hardly had he finished his work when
the building gave another great lurch.
“Hold on," shouted Fred.
The words were hardly out of his
mouth when ho found himself thrown
violently from his feet. He caught a
glimpse of the water pouring up the
stairway and then the lamp was cap
sized and went out. Next he found
himself pounding about In the water.
“Fred! Fred!” came the agonized
voice of Polly.
“Here I am," spluttered Fred. In
falling he had caught the edge of the
trap-door and Polly helped him to the
roof.
“We had all we could do to hold on,"
gasped Grandmother Melton.
“We’re moving." shouted Polly.
They rocked and scraped and bump
ed along, with the water swirling and
crashing around them.
“It’s our first voyage,’ said Fred, with
an effort to laugh; “p’raps we’ll wind
up In the Gulf of Mexico."
But Polly didn’t laugh; neither did
Grandmother Melton.
A few minutes later they heard some
WB*RE MOVING.
one shouting far out on the stream and
they saw the glimmer of a lantern.
They shouted In return, but there was
no answer, and presently the lantern
was swallowed up In the darkness and
the three castaways were even more
lonesome and terrified than before.
They were compelled to cling firmly
to the rope and the ridgepole all the
time, for the house was continually
bumping against obstructions In the
stream and careening and jolting like
a boat in a rough sea. Besides this,
they were wet to the skin and shiver
ing with cold and fright. Occasionally
huge forms would loom up near them,
and they would see the outline of trees
or buildings floating down the river.
They were momentarily afraid lest
their boat should bump into something
and be broken up. If this happened
they knew they would have small hope
of escape.
Quite suddenly they felt the building
grind on something, and then, with a
jolt, it came to a standstill'. Tiny
could hear the timbers strain and creak
and the current of the stream splashing
about it, but it did not move.
"Well, we’re anchored," said Fred.
“I suppose we're out somewhere on a
sandbar in the Mississippi."
"Do you' think we have reached
Memphis?” asked Polly, anxiously.
TO Polly it seemed as if they had
been drifting for hours.
For a long time they remained al
most still. Occasionally they joined
their voices in a great shout, but there
was no answer. Fred said the water
roared so loud that no one could hear
it, anyway, but it eased their spirits
to be doing something.
At last they started again, with a
jerk and a shiver, as if some of the
timbers of the building-had given away.
They bumped on for what seemed an
end lets time, and then, after scraping
along for some minutes, they again
stopped. By this time the rain half,
ceased and the moon shone out faint:/
through the clouds.
“There’s lights,” cried Polly, joyfully.
Sure enough, on the hill, not such a
great distance away, they could see
many lights gleaming out over the
water. Nearer, there were other lights
moving about, as If In boats.
“It’s Memphis,’’ said Polly, and then i
they all shouted at the top of their i
voices.
But do* tihi heard theih. - The water
'oared too loudly.. So they eat (or
tours and hours—.It.seemed.to them—
intil the gray light of morning began
o break In the east. They strained
heir eyes as it grew brighter and look
id off across the gray flood of water
rith Its scattering heaps of wreckage
0 the town on the hill.
"I thought Memphis was a bigger
iity than that,” said Polly.
“It isn’t Memphis,” said Fred, with
1 little joyful ring in his voice that
nade Polly and her grandmother look
iround quickly; "it’s Sprlngville.”
“Springvllle!”
And Sprlngville it was. They could
tee the little weatherbeaten church on
he hill, and the red-brick schoolhouse,
wd Judge Carson’s home, and a great
nany other familiar places, although
>ome of the buildings that had stood
lear the river had disappeared.
“But haven’t we come only four
niles 7” said Grandmother Melton,
looking greatly surprised.
Halt an hour later two boats came
ilongalde and the castaways were car
ried ashore. On the bank Polly found
iu mo nruH ui uer itiuor, w/
>ng and laughing all at once. Father
Melton looked old and worn and wor
ried. He had given up hla family for
lost, and he waa bravely helping the
»ther people in the work of rescue.
After the flood was subsided the
Meltons went down to look over their
liome. Father Melton hardly knew
erhat to do, but Polly spoke up quite
promptly.
"I tell you, father, let’s leave It right
here and live In It: Fred and I won't
have so far to go to Bchool.”
And what do you think? That Is Just
what Father Melton did. He straight
ened the house around, built a new
Foundation under It, and the Meltons
ire living there today, quite happy and
contented. So you see the flood helped
two persons at least—Polly and Fred.
—Chicago Record.
Varying Power of X-Rays.
At a recent meeting of the Royal su
rety in London a description was
given of the change that occurs In the
penetrative power of the X-rays in
proportion as the air Is more and more
completely exhausted from the vacuum
tube in which the rays are produced,
ht a certain degree of exhaustion the
rays penetrate the flesh and show the
bones of a human hand In shadow.
With a greater exhaustion of air the
Sesh becomes almost perfectly trans
parent, while the bones remain opaque.
With a still higher degree of exhaus
tion the rays begin to penetrate the
bones; and with the highest vacuum
through which the electric discharge
will pass, the bones themselves be
come almost as transparent as the
Sesb. Similar variations in penetrat
ive power can be produced by increas
ing o' decreasing the power of the
current, or by varying the electrical
resistance of the tube.
A Bird*' Rea Resort.
Naturalists consider it a wonderful
Fact that the Bermuda Islands have
only seven native species of land
birds, while no less than a hundred
ind twenty-eight other species pay
visits to the islands. Many of these
visitors are birds which pass the sura
ner in the United States, and utilise
he Bermuda Islands as a convenient
winter resort, thus imitating some of
heir human compatriots. Even some
American bats follow the example of
he birds by wintering in the Bermu
las.
MIXED PARAGRAPHS.
About 75,000,000 feet of logs are go
ng down the Connecticut river in New
Hampshire, bound for the mills.
A petition has been circulated in a
Michigan town requesting the council
tot to levy any taxes on account of the
lard times.
Switzerland has issued a new twenty
Iranc gold piece, Helvetia being repre
iented on its face, a realistic peasant
girl’s head. Around It are twenty-two
stars for the twenty-two cantons.
The municipal debt of London
imounts to £37,941,000, which is less
than the proportionate debt of nine
jut of ten of the next largest cities,
rhe estimated expenditure for 1897-98
is £2,452,000.
B. P. Hutchinson, known as “Old
Hutch,” is living at the home of his
son-in-law, E. A. Lancaster, In Chl
:ago. He does not go out a great deal,
and when he does venture on a walk
tie is attended by some one.
In the public schools of Japan the
Kr.glish language is required by law to
[>c taught. The Japanese youth in the
ipen ports and commercial cities are
ill eager ti learn English as a passport
to wealth, position and employment.
A plausible young man accosted a
Georgia farmer one day last week, and
in a very little while induced him to
nay 850 for a machine which he assured
tiim would turn out brand-new twenty
lollar bills by simply turning a crank.
Senator Wellington, of Maryland, In
terests himself while the senate is in
session in looking over newspaper
dippings about himself. He subscribes
to a news-clipping bureau, and reads
everything that is said about him with
i great deal of interest.
Lightning struck the home of Mar
shall Spring, at Hiram. Me., and set
lire to six rooms, besides tearing up a
board under Mr. Spring’s chair and
melting a bronze bracket near which
me of his children stood. The whole
Family escaped unhurt, however.
One of the gifts ai a recent silver
seeding was twenty-five silver dolls -s
if 1897. There was some difficulty
Found in making the collection of that
lumber of dollars of this year. At the
>eginning of each new administration
he money in the treasury Is counted,
ind late issues are hard to Had.—New
kork Times. - I
■ • ' Vnm Uiftr Than Snppoiad.
About 8,000 square kilometers of
territory have just been added, to
France, not by annexation, but by
an elaborate system of remoasure
mpnt of the area of the ropublte.
Some years ago a Russian, General
Stebnitzki. created a sensation by
asserting that the actual size of most
European countries differed widely
from their published areas, France
and Italy the most of any. The
geographical department of the
French government Inquired into th'o'
matter, and a recalculation haa
yielded the gratifying result men*
tioned abovek The method adopted
was to cut the country up into curvi
linear quadrangles by the meridians
and parallels of ten minutea The
coast lines and frontier boundaries
required evaluation by a plunlmeter.
The area has been increased from
628,000 square kilos to 686.464 or
636,608 kilos, the exports can’t quite
decide which.
To Colorado Springs and Pashto.
Burlington Roots via Danaer.
A through Sleeping car to Colorado
Springs and PueMo via Denver is attached
to Burlington Route daily train leaving
Chicago 10:80 p. m. Ofttcv. 811 Clark St
not * natter or i-riae.
••You ought to be very proud of
your wife. She is a brilliant talker. ”
••You’re right there." .
••Why, I could listen to her all
night"
••I often da "
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Larne Hands and Feet.
Professor Lambroso, the Italian
scientist, concludes after investiga
tion that women of the criminal and
immoral type are invariably larger
of hand and feet and smaller in the
head than average women.
or. Kay’s Renovator,-a positive care for
nervousness, constipation, dyspepsia and
liver disorders. See advt.
Rich Salmon Fisheries.
Oregon’s salmon fisheries produce
about 600,000 cases a year and its
wool dip exceeds 16,000,000 pounda
There are 26,000 square miles of
pine forests, and the annual gold
yield exceeds $1,000,000.
Plso's care for Consumption has been a
family medicine with ns since 1865.—J. R.
Madison, 240B 42d Ave., Chicago. Ills.
What Papa Bald.
John—What did the old man say
when you asked him for his daugh
ter?
Willie—He didn’t say a word* he
whistled for the dog.
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An air of dignity sometimes misleads
a whole community.
Class of People
Who are injured by the nee
of coffee. Recently there
baa been placed in all the
poetry stores a ne«r pre
paration called GRAIN-O,
‘ v - ' made of pure grains, that
takes the place of coffee.
The moat delicate stomach
receives it without distress,
and bnt few can tell it from
coffee. It does not cost over
M as much. Children may
Hr.: drink it with great benefit
- IS cents and 35 eents per
package. Try it Ask for
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Whan writing to adrartlsara, kindly men.
tlon this paper.
AN OPEN LETTER
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To MOTHERS.
WE AM ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA." AND
"PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
I DR. 6AMUEL PITCHER, of Bydnnit, Massachusetts,
was tho originator of "PITCHER’S CASTORIA," the same
that has horns and does now y/fTTT- on every
bear the facsimile signature of *^^4 wrapper.
This is the original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has 6eeh
used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty,
years, , LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you have always bought /rjf an the
and has the signature of ’wiWa wrap
per •JVb one has authority from me to use Piy name except
The Centaur Company of which Chat. H. Fletcher is
President. jO >■ ’ ■
March 8, 1897* (3^'***•
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap sutMtitute
which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies
on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FACSIMILE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You?
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