TALK ON VENEZUELA.
COMMISSION BILL AMENDED IN
THE SENATE.
Mr. Shrrman Says There Will Be So War
and That There is No Occasion for All
HiU Haate Mr. Moren Would Like
I'rnmpt Action The Senate Substitute
for the House Measure.
IttseossintT Venezuela Matters.
wafhik8ton, Dec. 21. The foreign
affairs committee of the Senate met
early this morning' and devoted the
time before the assembling of the
Senate to consideration of the Vene
zuelan commission bill pasted by the
House the day after the President's
message was sent to Congress. After
some discussion, the following was
agreed upon:
"That the sum of S100,00( or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be
and the same is hereby appropriated
for the expenses of a commission to
consist of three members to be ap
pointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate,
to investigate and report to him the
facts in regard to the divisional line
between the republic of Veuezuela
and British Guiana; provided, tha sec
tion li of the act approved July 31,
1 m iking appropriations for the
legislative, executive and judicial ex
penM s of the government shall not
apply to any commissioners appointed
under this act.'
When the senate was about to con
vene Mr. Allen cf Nebraska consulted
with his Populist friends as to whether
he would consent to allow the com
mission bill to go to third reading and
passage to-day. Finally he said that
he would not object to its passage to
day. As soon as the Senate met, Mr. Mor
gan secured unanimous consent for the
consideration of the House Venezuelan
bill and it was at once read. Then he
offered the Senate substitute and
bi ieliv explained the changes.
Mr. Piatt of Connecticut said that
any delay would be construed in Eng
land as hesitation on America's part
and that it was essential not to change
the bill. As to that part which
changed the wording as to the report
of the commission upon the true di
visional line, or the facts in the case,
he claimed that the facts would be the
divisional line. The amendment of
the Senate would be construed as re
ceding on the part of the Senate, and
the Senate should notify Great Britain
that America is behind che President.
Mr. Sherman said that the Presi
dent's course had been approved unan
imouslv by both houses of Congress.
Kngland was not making apy fresh
agressions and was not taking the
matter very seriously. He thought
that the dispute would be settled
honorably and that no Ameri An blood
would be shed. The fact that the
Senate amended the bill could not be
construed in any way as meaning that
the Senate did not stand firmly by
the President. The amendments
would improve the bill and he had no
doubt if made they would be accepted
by the House. "It seems to me," he
continued, "that all this is too hasty;
that we are too eager. Let us take
our time to deliberate, and not rush
into the matter."
COMMITTED FIVE MURDERS
Hurry Hayward's Confession Made Just
Jsefore His Execution.
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 21. The
ante-mortem statement of Harry Hay
ward, making 30,000 words, is in many
respects a most remarkable document.
It was made under the most formal
conditions and with solemn assertions
on the murderer's part that he was
telling the truth. Not only does he
claim to have murdered during his
brief career, no less than five different
people, but in describing the various
tragedies in which he figured he shows
an utter absence of human feeling,
and a pleasure in his achievements
that mark- him as an unnsual type of
criminal. The language used in de
scribing his criminal adventures is in
the careless, flippant style that char
acterized his testimony on the stand.
Money, ha said, was his object in
life, gills the second, and travel the
third. There was a girl in Minneap
olis with whom he was going and who
had $2,000 a year. He had planned to
itill her. but did not because there
was no way he f-ould get her money.
He longed to do the deed. 'Sbe used
to make me so d mad." said Hay
ward, "that I wanted to choke her. 1
can understand how Durrant killed
tho'-e two yirls in San Francisco with
pleasnre. "
His first murder was that of Carrie
Hass. near Pasadena, Cal., whose little
fortune of SfToO he secured. Once
when tending bar in Long Branch he
killed a consumptive man who was
there. The consumptive had money
and wanted to die. The name Haory
refused to tell on the ground that he
had an accomplice who might get into
trouble now, but this murder was by
shooting, too, and the body had been
thrown into the water. Then there
was a Chinaman killed in a gambling
quarrel and the brother of the Mexi
can girl at El Paso Del Norte, and
lastly Miss Ging.
ttusnia Does Not Look For War.
St. Pkteksbl-rg, Dec. Jl. The Rus
sian newspapers generally discuss the
Venezuelan question, and express the
belief that it will have a pacific issue.
The Novosti considers that the posi
tion assumed by the United States is
in conflict- with the interests of the
whole of Europe, and suggests that
the mediation of certain European
powers will probably result in a
peaceful settlement of the dispute.
CANADA TALKS DEFENSE.
Thirty Thousand Troops Ready for Action
if Needed Alarm Hot Tet Felt.
Ottawa, Ontario, Dec. 51. Officials
of the government claim that in case
of war between Great Britain and the
United States Canada could in twenty
four hours put 30,000 fully equipped
men into the field and hold any force
the United States is likely to bring
against this country in check for a
couple of months at'least. The situa
tion is generally viewed as one of the
greatest gravity, calling for prompt
preparation fo- defense, but not for
any alarm.
UNITED STATES ALLIES.
South and Central American Countries
Will Oive Their Support.
Washington, Dec. 21. Among Sec
retary Olney's callers yesterday were
Minister Andrade of Venezuela, Minis
ter Mendonca of Brazil and Minister
Romero of Mexico, representing three
of the first republics of South and
Central America. Although none of
the Central and South American dip
lomats will consent to be quoted re
garding their call, it is known that
they, as a rule, have cabled their gov
ernments that the present seems an
opportune time for invoking the Mon
roe doctrine as a means of support
against European pressure, several of
them being involved in disputes
with European nations at this time.
The statement is made by one
of them that several important re
sults will follow the vigorous con
struction of the Monroe doctrine.
First, it is said, will be the official
adherence of the Southern Republics,
making the declaration practically
unanimous from the countries of the
Western hemisphere. It is pointed
out that Lord Salisbury insisted that
the Monroe doctrine was not recog
nized as international law, but this, it
issaid, will be answered by a showing
that all the Republics of North and
South America accept it as the law
governing them.
The project of another conference of
American republics in line with the
Pan-American conference, but with a
view to political alliance rather than
commercial reciprocity, is being dis
cussed also. The suggestion is made
with much directness in diplomatic
circles that the course of the United
States assures to it the moral and phy
sical support of all the Southern and
Central American republics. In the
aggregate this allied strength of the
Western republics, with the United
States as its head, would constitute a
new and formidable factor in interna
tional affairs. It is not suggested
among diplomatists that such an alli
ance will take the formal shape of a
treaty, but it is urged that the feeling
of union existing constitutes a com
pact quite as effective as a formal un
derstanding. HOT TALK BY INGALLS
Says Americans Hate Kngland Most In
tensely tor Various Reasons.
Atchison, Kan., Dec. 21. "The
President's message is an adroit ap
peal to the profoundest passion of the
American people," said ex-Senator
John J. Ingalls to a reporter. "Our
conception of the Monroe doctrine is
vague, and our love for Venezuela is
platonic, but we all hate England. It
is hereditary. It is so intense that it
obliterates party lines, effaces section
alism and makes us homogenous. We
divide on protection, on silver,
on the race question, but in our
hatred of England we are unan
imous. The sloppj- diplomatic
twaddle about kindred blood,
and a common language, deceives no
body. We feel that England is our
only enemv among the great powers
of the earth. It has been so from the
beginning of our history. At every
crisis in our affairs we have encoun
tered the secret or open hostility of
England, and the tone of her press
has been always cynical, sneering and
contemptuous.
4,But there will be no war. Like all
ruffians and bullies, England is a cow
ard and poltroon when it comes to a
showdown: she never fights her equals;
she kicks women and children; she
bullies Turkey, Egypt.. Hindoostan.
South Sea Islanders and African tribe.
and tyrannizes over the weak and
feeble, but when Grant notified her
that she must pay for the depredations
her pirates committed on our com
merce in the rebellion, or take the con
sequences, she accepted the Geneva
award, and sent her check for Sio,
500,000 in full settlement of our claim-M
GEN. MERRITT'S VIEWS.
Would Take the Initiative and Invade
Canada at Once.
Chicago, Dec 21. In the event of a
war with Great Britain, Chicago and
the lakes will be safe," said Major
General Wesley Merritt, commanding
the department of the Missouri. "My
impression is," he said, "that we would
make the war an aggressive one. We
would, I should hope and judge, take
the initiative, and invade Canada at
once and make that country the great
seat of war. The immediate seizure of
the Welland canal, to hold it or de
stroy it, would 6olve at once the prob
lem of the lake ports. There is noth
ing to fear from Canada. No invasion
of our country conld be undertaken
there. We could overwhelm the coun
try, with a force numbering ten to one
anything they could collect or muster,
and then not leave our seacoast un
protected and unprovided with men to
defend every port"
Joseph Cook Broken Down.
Nixes, Mich., Dec. 21.--S. T. Scarle
of this city has received a- letter from
his daughter, a missionary stationed
at Kobe, Japan, in which she says that
Joseph Cook, the noted Boston, divine,
arrived there recently from Australia,
broken in mind and body. He had to
give up his lecturing tour and the prob
abilities are he will never regain his
health or mental vigor.
Walker's Life Insurance Attacked.
St. Joseph, Mo., Dee. 21. Suit has
been begun in the Circuit court against
the estate of the late James W. Walker,
who committed suicide in Kansas City
not long ago, by Louis and Fred Hax
&iid Mrs. E. G. Judson, who allege
that he fraudulently assigned his in
surance to his wife to avoid payments
of his debts. It is said that he carried
over S50.000.
A Trlpple Tragedy In Iowa.
Sioux Citt ,lowa,Dec.2l Near Cas
tana, in Honore county, George Wolf,
a Frenchman, shot and killed Mrs.
William Rattlege, with whom his di
vorced wife was staying, shot and
fatally wounded his wife and then
committed suicide.
Designer At wood Dead.
Chicago, Dee. 21 Charles B. At
wood, architect and designer!, until
recently a member of the firm of D.
II. Burnham fc Co., is dead, from a
complication of nervous diseases. He
was a bachelor and a few month
more than 44 years of age.
a WESTERN INTEREST
IRRIGATORS GATHER IN STATE
CONVENTION.
Third Annual Sslon of the Association
at Sidney Keport of the Secretary
Results of Efforts That Have Been Fnt
Forth Number of Claims Filed for
Public Waters An Kdueallonal Society
Irrigation In Nebraska.
The third annual Nebraska state ir
rigation convention opened at Sidney,
Neb., under magnificent auspices, with
nearly 1.000 delegates and visitors. The
convention was called to order by Jo
seph Oberfelder, president of the local
executive committee, who in a brief ad
dress, stated the object of the gather
ing and the hope that the question
which would be presented would meet
with a hearty co-operation, not only
locally, but of the entire country.
The address of welcome by Mayor
Pease was a masterpiece of humor and
characteristic of a true western wel
come. After the report of the committee on
credentials the chairman, on motion,
appointed a delegate from each county
on the committee on resolutions
The report of the secretary was pre
sented, Irom which the following is
taken:
One j-ear ago, by the gracious cour
tesy of the representatives of this asso
ciation, the writer became invested
with the powers and duties of secreta
ry. The only records accessible were
the books, papers and documents con
taining the report of the second annual
convention, and these have been care
fully preserved. The history of the
first year of our organization, though
familiar to all officers and many mem
bers, iias not been committed to my
official care.
"No regular printed report of the last
onvention has ever been made, for the
reason that no funds whatever were
at hand to defray the expenses. Many
calls have been made for copies of the
official report, but aside from condens
ed newspaper sketches of the conven
tion, the demand has remained unsup
plied. Such literature as has been
furnished has been distributed at my
own expense. Every letter of inquiry
has been answered during the year,
and no week has passed without cor
respondence. All expenses for post
age, telegrams, stationery, etc., have
been paid by the secretary personally,
except only such stationery and post
age as has been furnished by the con
vention committee in connection with
preparations for this meeting.
"The treasurer, Hon. James White
head, writes me that he has not re
ceived a cent of funds during his entire
term of office, and it goes without say
ing that the president and secretary,
as all officers of oar association, serve
without salary. If the work that has
been performed during the past year
and during the past two years by your
president should seem to you to merit
public approval and support, it may
not be out of place here to suggest
that the actual necessary printing and
postage bills at least should be assured
and paid by this organization.
"It would not be strange, under ex
isting circumstances, if little had been
accomplished during the year's admin
istration just closed. But fidelity to
history requires that a few things be
set down to show the effort that has
been put forth. The president, Hon. I.
A. Fort, has carried on an agitational
and educational campaign, extending
over every congressional district in
this state, and has gone forth as a mis
sionary for the cause of irrigation to
Illinois. Indiana and other states. He
has kept the public press alive with
irrigation information and interviews
on the progress of the movement at
home and abroad. Every member of
our state executive committee favored
and worked for the passage of the pres
ent Nebraska irrigation law, intro
duced and championed in the legisla
ture by Senator William Ii. Akers, now
a member of the state board of irriga
tion. The resolutions that were
adopted by the Kearney convention re
lating to the passage of the district and
general irrigation law have been an
swered by legislation in accordance
therewith. Under the new code of
irrigation law, pronounced by eminent
critics to be one of the most carefully
framed and practically adapted statutes
of recent years in irrigation develop
ment, the face of our state has been
changed in many places as if by the
hand of a master magician. Before
one year has passed since the law went
into effect forty-five counties have irri
gation works of some kind under oper
ation, and before the spring seed time
has come again the record will most
certainly show the scientific applica
tion of water to the soil in more than
sixty of our eighty counties of the state.
"Somewhere between SCO and i'00
persons have filed their claims to the
public waters of the state with the
State Board of Irrigation and the com
ing year will show a large increase
over this number. Over 900,000 acres
of Nebraska productive soil have been
placed under ditch, reservoir or wind
mill irrigation. The cost of the works
already constructed amounts to nearly
$1,500,000, and the total cost when com
pleted will be not less than 2,500,000.
The result has naturally been a large
increase in the value of - the land
brought under the beneficial opera
tions of the new system. Careful esti
mators now place the increase in land
values already apparent from $8,000,
000 to SI 0,000,00a If one year of ac
tive work can produce such prodigious
results, only the realm of the reckless
dreamer can undertake the unfoldment
of the coming decade in the advance
ment of scientific agriculture in the
new empire of the west.
"A delegation of eleven, five of whom
vere appointed by the governor, rep
resented Nebraska in the fourth Na
tional Irrigation convention at Albu
querque, N. M., last September. The
resolutions adopted by the second an
nual convention of our state associa
tion relating to future legislation by
congress relative to the supervision and
control of interstate waters was urged
by our delegation and adopted by con
gress. The congress also adopted a
resolution asking an appropriation of
250,000 for the purpose of paying the
cost of a thorough and systematic irri
gation survey of the arid and semi-arid
areas of the United States, and calling
for legislation providing for said sur
vey under the direction of governmen
tal efforts.
"Nebraska was honored by the presi
dent of the National Irrigation con
gress, who appointed your secretary
one of the five delegates to represent
the congress in the Trans-Mississippi
Commercial congress at Omaha last
month. The last named organization
adopted unanimously the resolutions
on irrigation presented by the Nebras
ka delegates and increased the recom
mendation to the United States con
gress for an appropriation of 5500,000.
"This organization of ours has ex
erted a tremendous educational effect
during the past year in spite of all its
difficulties. Greater undertakings and
far more important dnties are before us
for 1896. The -decisions of the courts
are not at all discouraging and the out
look is constantly brightening.
"As yet there are thousands who
have little or no information on the
subject of irrigation and the objects
for which our. association was organ
ized, the development of the arid and
semi-arid areas of Nebraska were never
so important and pressing as now. The
secretary desires, personally, to thank
every officer of the association and
every irrigator with whom he has come
in contact during the year, either at
long or short range, for their uniform
courtesy and unfailing patience in con
veying information and assistance ren
dered in what has been confessedly cn
your humble servant's part a weak, but
honest effort to serve the common caus
of all. Fraternally submitted.
"A. G. WOLFEXBAKGER."
THE MESSAGE APPROVED.
It Created a Great Sensation in Washing
ton. Washington, Dec. 19. The message
of President Cleveland to Congress
transmitting the correspondence be
tween Secretary Olney and Lord Salis
bury relative to the Venezuelan
boundary dispute created a real sensa
tion in Washington. Nowhere was
there a voice lifted in dissent from the
doctrine so firmly laid down by the
President, but on the contrary there
was an outburst of patriotic feeling
that must have been highly gratifying
to the chief executive.
On the streets, the message was dis
cussed and old veterans of the late
war talked exultingly of what they
were prepared again to undertake at
the call of their country.
In the great hall of the pension
building, the employes gathered and
sang with great gusto the "Star
Spangled Banner," and "My Country,
'Tis of Thee."
At the White House messages poured
in from every quarter of the country,
congratulating the President upon his
message. They came from men of all
parties and station.
The matter, of course, was of th
greatest interest in diplomatic circles,
and the general impression, on a sober
second consideration of the notes, was
that the matter has not reached a
stage where war is imminent, and
that the hint of Great Britain's pur
pose to reopen negotiations with Ven
ezuela, looking to settlement of the
dispute between themselves, perhaps
may be regarded as the indication of
how the whole matter will end.
Minister Andrade of Venezuela
secured a copy of the message early in
the day, and cabled it, by way of
Cuba and Hayti, to his government.
The time of transmission is eight
hours, and it is felt that its reception
at Caracas will be the signal for an
enthusiastic demonstsation. Mr. An
drade's satisfaction was almost be
yond the power of expression. "The
message is superb," he said with much
enthusiasm. "It is even a surprise to
me in its vigor, in the nobility of the
sentiments expressed, and in the mas
terly exposition of the Monroe doc
trine. There can be no doubt or mis
construction of its meaning. In my
country it can not but arouse the
keenest appreciation on the part of
the government and the people for
this powerful expression of friendship
from a strong country in behalf of a
comparatively weak one."
Mr. Andrade was asked what the
next step of Venezuela would be.
"There is nothing further for us to
do. We have announced our policy,
and in that we have the co-operation
and support of the United States. We
are a little more than spectators now.
"Is the plan of a commission to
I investigate the question and fix the
line feasible?" the minister was asked.
"Perfectly so," he replied. "The
evidence can readily be furnished, so
far as Venezuela is concerned. It will
be a laborious work, as the documents
and maps are very voluminous, and
from many sources, including those of
Holland, Spain and other countries, as
well as those of Venezuela. "
POLICE CUAh'O CARS.
Philadelphia Street Railway Service in
Bad Shape.
Phtladelpiiia, Dec. 19. Last night
not a street car of the Union Traction
company was running, though that
company controls every line in the
city with the exception of two com
paratively short cross-town lines. The
police were absolutely unable to con
trol the mob violence during the day
and the company concluded to shut
down at nightfall. Five hundred ex
tra palicemen were sworn in by Mayor
Warwick last night, and added to the
regular force of :,100.
This morning all of the branches
were in effect tied up, although cars
with formidable escorts of police
made their circuits nearly everyone
of them without molestation. While
this enabled the officials to declare
that the lines were "open" it did not
help the situation much as far as the
convenience of the riding public was
concerned.
The officials of the company declare
that they have plenty of men to run
the cars if they can get protection for
them. On the other hand, the strikers
declare that enongh skilled men to
take their places cannot be obtained.
The strike has proved a windfall of
considerable magnitude to the single
independent line in the city, which re
sisted the pressure when the big con
solidation of all the other lines was
recently affected. The company runs
its cars to West Philadelphia on Arch
and Vine streets, and in its endeavor
to accommodate all the people who
wish to patronize it, pressed into ser
vice every summer car and even resur
rected 6ome which, had been perma
nently sent to the hospital. - Every
car run is packed to the roof.
The men have almost universal sym
pathy not only from conservative
citizens who, while deprecating vio
lence, declare that the strikers have
right on their side but from labor
unions throughout the country.
THE SUJSDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XII!. DECEMBER 26
REVIEW HEBREWS, 11:24-4-0.
Golden Text: Thy Kingdom Come
Matt., 6:10 Development of the
Kingdom of God Moral Teach
ins. NTROD UCTORT
This quarter's lessons
extend over four hun
dred years, from B. C
1443, the beginning of
the period of ta
Judges, to 1055, the
close of the reign of
Saul. If we include
fifl llit.-v' 11,6 lessons for the
5PJ ST CMtt xast six months, the
JtfjM period is four hun
S dred and fifty years.
beginning with the
year at Sinai. 1491 B.
C Country. Themap of Palestine
should be carefully studied, and the events
located In their place. This map should be
come so familiar that whenever a Bible event
is mentioned It will immediately be located
mentally. Palestine proper, the land west
of the Jordan, extends from Mount Hermon
on the north to the southern end of the
Dead Sea, about 180 miles, which is also the
length of the coast line. It is twenty-five
miles wide at the north, and sixty miles from
the Dead Sea to the coast through Gaza. It
has an area of about 6,600 square miles, a
little less than Massachusetts. But the
tribes at this time occupied also a large area
east of the Jordan, so that the whole domain
of the twelve tribes was about 12,000 square
miles.
In this it will be wise to include the period
covered by the lessons for six months. You
will notice by the accompanying diagram the
main features of this period. It divides itself
into four epochs, each one having its pe
culiar part in the development of the na
tion. It will be well to draw something of the
kind on the blackboard, and drill the school
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Review by Persons: Most of the hstory of
this period is connected with leading persons,
whose history will furnish one view of the
history of the times. Let the scholars tell
what part each of the following persons had
In the progress of events:
MOSES GIDEOX SAMUEL.
AARON SAMSON SAUL.
JOSHUA RUTH DAVID
CALEB ELI JONATHAN
AC HAN ELI'S SONS GOLIATH
Review by Events: This review covers the
same ground from a different standpoint.
Show what each event had to do with the
unfolding, through the divine Providence, of
the Kingdom of God in the Isrealitish nation ?
Giving of the law.
Golden calf.
Wilderness wanderings.
The report of the spies.
The fiery serpents.
The death of Moses.
The captain of the Lord's host.
Crossing the Jordan.
Fall of Jericho.
Defeat at Ai.
The conquest.
The covenant.
Period of the Judges.
Gideon's victory.
Call of Samuel.
Saul and his possibilities.
David chosen.
Saul rejected.
Victory over Goliath.
Friendship with Jonathan.
Review by Moral and Religious Teachings:
L How the Lord trains a people by re
wards and punishments.
2. How the people sometimes choose the
second best.
3. Two instances of victory over great en
emies, and the lessons they teach us toward
gaining the victory over our spiritual ene
mies. 4. Three great men chosen in youth for
great deeds that would help on the kingdom
of God. Their early training and prepara
tion, the effect of their personal choices, their
possibilities, and how they used them.
5. A beautiful example of choosing God
and his people, and its application to us.
6. God's call and our answer.
7. Rejecting God by disobedience, and 1U
effects.
8. Obedience the test of true religion.
9. God's past aid an encouragement in
present difficulty.
10. An example of true friendship. Apply
to friendship with Jesus.
1L How all these things helped to prepare
for the coming of Jesus into the world, and
the founding of his kingdom. How the Sa
vior helps us to make the right choices, do
brave deeds, live right lives, and possess true
virtues.
Doing No Harm.
Mrs. Mulcahy Doesn't it not worry
yez to know that y'r son is in th' liquor
business, a leadin' min ter drink, Mrs.
Mulhooly?
Mrs. Mulhooly Oh, no. The men he
sells to does not nade any ladin.
They're all polyticians.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Observations and calculations have
led Mr. A. Mallack to conclude that in
sects do not see well, especially at a
distance.
Silver is cleaned at the shops by
pressing the piece against a rapidly-revolving
wheel made of Canton flannel
in many plies.
It is said that a bat finds its way
without the assistance of its eyes. A
blinded bat will avoid wires and ob
structions as dexterously is though it
could see perfectly.
I Paralysis Follows Blco ilessness
i and Neivous Prostration.
A PATIENT WOMAN AFFLICTED
FOR YEARS.
She Tells How at Last She Was Perma
nently Cored.
From ihe Press, New York City.
For more than fifteen years, Mrs. A
Mather, who lives at No. 43 East One hun-dred-and-twelfth
Street, New York, was a
sufferer from anaemia, which, in spite of
the treatment of physicians, gradual ly de
ve'oped into nervous prostration until
finally marked symptoms of paralysis setr
in. Mrs. Mather gladiy gave the reporter
her experience.
"For many years," Mrs. Mather said, ''I
was a constant sufferer from nervousness.
It was about fifteen years ago that my con
dition began to grow worse Soon I be
came so affected that I was prostrated and,
until about two years a?o, was a part of
the time unable to leave my bed. I em
ploye.! several physicians from time to
time, my bills at the drug store for pre
scriptions, sometimes, amounting to as
much as $j0 a month, but all the doctors
did for me did not seem to help me at all.
My blood became greatly impoverished and
after years of suffering 1 was threatened
with paralysis.
"When 1 walked I could scarcely draaj
my feet along and at times my knees would
give away so that I would almost fall down.
Feeling that doctors could not help me I
had little hope of recovery, until one day 1
read in a newspaper how a person, afflicted
almost the same as I was, had been cured
by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo
ple. I purchased a boi: and began taking
the pftls. The effect of this first box pleased
me so much that I bought another. Before
1 had taken all the pills in the first box I
began to experience relief and, after the
third box had been used, I was practically
cured. It was really surprising what a
speedy and pronounced effect the medicine
had ujon me.
"latwaj-s keep Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
in the house now, and when I feel any
symptoms of nervousness find that they
give me certain relief."
Mrs. Mather's daughter. Miss Anna, cor
roborated her mother's account, and told
how she herself had been cured of chronic
indiirestion by these pills; and, too, how
her cousin had been cured of anaemia in
the same way.
Dr. Wiliiams' Pink Pills contain, in a
condensed form, all the elements necessary
to trive new life and richness to the blood
j and restore shattered nerves. They are
also a specific for troubles peculiar to
females, such as suppressions, irregulari
ties and all forms of weakness. '1 hey build
up the blood, and restore the glow of health
to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they
effect a radical cure in all cases arisiug
from mental worry, overwork or excesses
of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in
boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50a a box or
six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all
druggists, or direct by maU from Dr. Wil
liams' Schenectady, New York.
Marv .lane's KomaiMe.
Mary Jane Ilolder of Lonaconing,
Md. , is the heroine of a romance.
Nineteen years ago Abram Laird, then
aged 29, rode from Lonacouin? into the
west to seek his fortune, vowing some
i day to return to wed Mary Jane, then
a baby of 2 years.
He settled near Eureka, where he be
came one of the owners of a lead and
silver mine. About two weeks aeo he
determined to pro back and visit his old
home. Amonpr the first upon whom he
called were the Holders. Here he
again saw Mary Jane, who had become
a beautiful young" woman.
Laird was cordially welcomed and
proceeded at once to fall in love. The
courtship was short and vigorous.
They were married and left for their
vestern home.
The Pilgrim.
(Holiday Number.) Full of bright
sketches prose, poetry and illustra
tions by bright writers and artists.
Entirely original, new and entertain
ing. Mailed free to any address on re
ceipt of six (G) cents in postage stamps.
Write to Geo. II. Heafford, Publisher,
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Electric Welding.
At the gun works in Perm. Russia,
some remarkable operations in electric
welding have recently been successful
ly carried out. A bell, six feet in
height and six feet across the mouth,
that was cracked from top to bottom,
was made quite solid again and its
original tone completely restored.
This would have been quite impossible
before the electric welding process was
perfected. N
Comfort to California.
Yes and economy, too, if you 1 atronizt
the Burlington Route's 1 ersonally Conduct
ed once-a-week excursions which leave
Omaha every Thursday morning.
Through tourist sleejers Omaha to San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Second-ciass
tickets accepted.
See the local asent and arrange alout
tickets and terths. Or, write to
J. Francis,
G. P. & T. A., Omaha, Neb.
The Latest Slot Machine.
A penny-in-the-slot machine hr
made its appearance in the Berlin ra
road stations. A city directory can
consulted by the outgoing and arrivj
passengers by depositing a penr
the slot Upon insertion of the
the box holding the directory
automatically, and is held perhe
lever upon which the depositor .
coin places his foot. Upon an
away the little lever is releas
the box closes, only to be op' y
he next penny.
Map of the United Sta
The wall map issued by the t long"
Route is three feet wide by for tHj on
is jrinted in seven colors; isv imtor
roLers ; shows every state, ijnion and
tant town and railroad in t. , adiunx-t
lorms a very desirable and -aKisbment.
to any household or busines tne ma. s
I urchased in large quan-han fitteen
cost the Burlington Route 'rth t amount
cents each, but on receipt m t piease.l
in stamps the undersign 1
E,ery land nowfcj 'd ho1""
has giants in it.
WCAN'
MCharlott"Emlden. a "later of
the poet Heine is stfll living, at the
ase of 95. I , . A
Ellen Terry Is paslionately fond of
hildren. and delight In telling them
fairy stories. I . .
Ellse Stanley Hall, An Australian Rlrl.
has received the Meadelssohn scholar
ship at the Leipzigconservatory.
Friends of Mrs. Aassiz have founded
$6,000 scholarship at Radcliffe college,
to be called the Elizabeth Carey Agaaaia
scholarship.