SOLDIERS AT HOME,
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
How the Hoy of Uulb Aruilo Wbiled
Awtoj Life ia Cump-Fomtji" K"
periemea, Tiresome Marc ben Thril
ling Uceaes on the ISuitlelield.
: Don't wait until vour sufferings have
driven you to despair, with your nerves all
'shattered and your courage gone.
' Help and happiness surely awaits yon if you accept Mrs. rinfcham's
advice. Jii.-ease "makes women nervous, irritable, and easily annoyed by
children and household duties; such women need tho counsel and help
of a woman who uinlerstands tho x-eu!iar troubles of her f-ex; that
woman is Mrs. Pinkham, who with her famous medicine, Lydia 1-3.
JMnlJiam's Vegetable Compound, have restored more sick and did
counifj"l women to health and happinehs than any other one crson.
llcr address is I.jnn, .Ma.-.s., and lier advice is fiee. Write today, do
not wait,
AYill not the volumes of letters from womm who havo been
made stronjf ly Lydia I'.. J'inkhaiitN Vegetable Compound con
vince others of the irlues of this print medicine?
When a medicine has been successful in more than a million
caws, H it justice to yourself to say, without trying it, "I do not
llieve It would help me?"
Surely you cannot wi-h to remain weak and sick and dis
couraged, CJ.Iiau-tcd w it It each day's work. If yon have some de
rangement of the feminine organism try Lydia U. Piukhani's
Vegetable Compound. It will sur. ly help you.
Mrs. Cmilie Seering, 174 St. Ann's Ave., New
York City, writes:
"Diiab Mrs. Piss ham : If women who arc always bine and drpreiwd
and nervous would time ljuia i.. i innimiii s
Vegetable Compound they would find it the medi
cine they n-fd to lirinK them to a more cheerful
frame of mind. 1 was terribly worried and downcast,
and was thin and bloodless. My hack ached all the
time, no matter how liu.ru i irieo 10 iorKri iu w
change my position to ease it, and the pain at the
base of my brain was so bad that I sometimes
thought that I would grow crazy ; 1 had the blues bo
much and was always so depressed I could not sesm
to bhake them off ; half of the time 1 did not seem to
have the courage to do my work ; everything
aeemeil to go wrong wiui me, auu i
worrying and fearing the worst. I began to
..'.. 'i ,-iin I' lMiikli.mi'H Vegetable Com
pound. After the first few doses a load seemed
i i tiwmbWit. I felt better in every
Ti.. v.i.,.. i..ft mi. nml mv head stunned aching;
1 in: i'i.. .t v .... ---j . . j
Vfore lonsr mv back was bet ter too. and I looked younger and stronger I too if
Ulln'aU.and it in with i''"';? t.1
present good health is due to the use of Lydia L. Pinkham 8 V CfcCUiUie
Compound."
I Tti:i: MI.DICAL ApVIC'E TO WOMF.V.
If there Is anything in your case about which you would like
.pecia. advice, write freely to lrs. IMnkham. No man see
your le.ter. She can surely help you, for no person in America has
such a wble experlem e in treating female ills as she ..as had. She
has helped hundred of thousands of women hack to health. Ilex
address Is Lynn, .Mas., and her advice Is free. You are very feol
lh if you do not ac cept her kind Invitation.
A.flnn FORFEIT lf..nnol forthwith produm th. nrllnl l.tfr d .Ifn.tar. of
$5000 " " Sjrxc..,LWMW.
t and have some
one rub your LAME BACK with
Back up
Mexican Mustang Liniment
You'll sleep like a top and have a good,
sound back free from pain in the morning.
A locomotive, when going t ex
press speed gives l.O.Vl puffs per mile.
While miring in Mexico. Win. I'.
Dunham, nf Denver, visited what Is
considered the hluh"st waterfall In
the world. It bears the Indian name
of Lusasearhh:, and Is Incited about
one hundred and ninety miles .vest
of the City of Chihuahua, near the
summit of the Sic.m Madre Moun
tains. The elevali-i. of the moun
tain Is 0..VKI feet above sea level
The cascade (alls !7s feet,
AVE MONEY
Uuy y"ur gonila at
WboleMiile 1'rlecH,
Our 1 fmw ftalou will . wrt
UIm rrcelpt of If. fen. Thl ;-
j- not even .y the Out II I"
2umrl.t,l.rKhow ... thut you " 1 "
In motiH faith. Heller eml for It now.
YourClKubon. tr..le with u. - why not
jrou alw f
With a I.ittla Whl.kejr.
Lemon juleo may do to destroy ty
phoid fever germs In water until
some scientist rises to tell us what
sort of deadly yerms Infest lemon
Juice.
jlfrrn'..
"What sort of a rnuo Is my has
hand? Well, before we wero mar
ried tie wouldn't leave the nouse be
fore mldrjliht, and since he never
enters It before 'Journal Amusant.
CHICAGO
Th hmiwi tht Kill tbi truth.
(lorn li l lualonnrjr Flftlrf
Ulshop Isaac W. Joyce of the Methe.
dlst churcn, iMioncapolis. has depart-
ea for his missionary Held alnnit the
! west coist of S'outh America, with
headquarters at lluenos Ayrcs.
Mother Grny' Sweet I'owder for
Children.
' guccMnfully nd hy Mothwr Orny, norw
!ta th ChiMren'i Home. In New York.
iCuro Fevermhiieiii, Had fitoiuach, Itrta
ling Iiorlere. inoT nd regulate th
I Howell mid Ietroy Worn. Over 30,
: iwm ...;..,,.iil. At- nil driiKemti. oc.
Bmi)le mulled FUEB. AddreM Allen
B. Oluiiteml, LeUoj, N. T.
WESTERN CANADA
MAS MK HOMKS
FOR MILLIONS I
, J I kr HUM l w-wr. nl
ss&ss&r.a r-a: i-
Fiti isxtnl ISO Km, Fin
C
I'oor DlrUlon nf Wrollh,
PiacMcally the entire commercial
wealth of iDdla'a 30(1,000,000 Inhabl-
tanU li In the bands of 90,000 far
scea aod Rajahs.
Any one can dye with PUTNAM
FADELESS DYB, no eiperlence required.
Untied Mate Mnrishty ltltlee
Amonc the foreluo born residents
of tho United States tbe mortality Is
orenieit In Irish and Oermani acfj
least In the Polish.
ra. wi.io' ioormim mnr fw akiMrM
(Mthlne Mftiw the nine, pmiwm ihmmhi
Kara Kin. ro aollt".
"N. S. Woodward," Kiiid (lie Caiitiiln,
"tells u (,'ood Kt' ry in llie Kxiiiis (iii
zette. Woodward served us a'nt of
(lie Adams Express Company In the
South "durihs't lie nvil WHr, ano, put
oni of business inilv In 1S.J4 by the
opfratioiiH Hbout Kuosvllle, supported
himself by cuttliiK cord wood. He had
a good supply on hand, In fnc!, quite
a wood yarn or nis own, wuen niu-n-
dan'a division camped mar, and the
biys conliseated every stlek mid chip,
and were Jolly over finding wo-id chop
ped and plied up ready to hand.
"Of course, the men of Sheridan's
division will plead guiliy. It was a
hard winter and at many camps wood
was scarce. In this particular case
there was abundance of wood, without
the chopping, and the boys appreciated
Woodward's work, ned I have no doubt
scores of them will write him at Knox
ville, Tenu., expressing their thanks for
favors rendered In the matter of cord
wood thirty-nine .years atfo. This story
reminds me of scores of incidents in
which tired or fieeziiiK soldi.Ts burned
anything combustible, fr lit shingles to
saw logs, or from fence rails to houses,
with enthusiasm and a reckless disre
gard of e.iliscij nonces.
Win it we tirst camped at Shell
Mound, after crossing the Tennessee In
l,Si!, there was a neat, substantial
brick building used as the railway sta
tion, and the orders were that the
structure be strictly guarded. It was.
but in the coinings and go'n.,'s, up and
down the Tennessee, the boys needed
brick for lire places In their little shan
ties ami frame timbers for the same.
A few bricks were torn out lirst from
one comer and then from another, un
til the building was pronounced un
safe. Then the men of the regiment
swooped down upon It like vultures,
and in twenty minutes there was only
a bare skeleton left, and that was car
ried off that night.
"Open campaigns In winter would
have abounded In hardships had it
not been that most of the men In the
tcrvice were good fire builders. When
wi first entered Kentucky in January,
ISt'r' every fence rail was tied down,
ns the boys put It, with the order
'don't touch,' and I have seen three
thousand men shivering In rain and
snow through a cold night without
shelter and without fire because there
was nothing to burn. There were
trees and wood piles all about us. but
none for soldiers. Si . eral of our of
ficers were put under arrest because
they Instructed their men to appropri
ate wood or rails to prevent great suf
fering. "In one case a Colonel became popu
lar at home and in the army because
on a stormy night he took possession of
a wood yard and a straw stack mid
worked energetically to make his men
comfortable. When threatened with a
court-martial the next day he paid for
straw and wood and said nothing about
It. The liovs found It out, however.
and the year after the war that Colonel
received the vote of every man In our
township, Republican and liemocrat.
for sheriff, and be was re-elected, with
oul organized opposition In the county,
until he Insisted he was too old to serve.
All because he believed that when the
boys needed things to burn they must
have things to burn.
"The men of some companies In tin
old army," said the Major, "call, d them
selves 'destroying angels.' and when it
came to building fln-s or providin
shelter they were. In the early sprln
of ISfU our brigade was twenty or
thirty miles east of Chattanooga and
with no expectation of severe weather
the men lav down under blankets or
the thin shelter tents, and during tli
nlirht were litem Iv snowed under,
When reveille sounded the next morn
lug there were six Inches of snow on
the ground. The camp looked like n
cemetery with Its Clusters and lin
of little hillocks, and there was only
one fire In the brigade, and that was
at guard headouaiters.
'As the men were roused from heavy
sleeti and three out their anus to lift
overcoat, cane, or blanket from thch
faces the snow startled them to silting
or standing posture, and the seine was
comical beyond any other I ever saw
In the army. Those who hail taken
off their shoes could not llnd them.
Many could not find their lints. All
were chilled, but the boys laughed and
swore by (urns, then they started to
build fires, and while some cut down
dead trees as big as saw logs, others
tore down on old barn, and In half an
hour dozens of big fires were going.
coffee was boiling, breakfast was cook
ing, 'nnd--M:lth bodies warm the men
wero ns frolicsome as children.
"It ro hannened that the barn de-
ctroyed belonged to one of the Brown
low clan, and when he saw the fires
that had been built of Its material he
opened his eyes very wide and said
'shucks.' The boys Joined In making
out a certificate for him which read:
This Is to certify that the First Ken
tucky volunteer Infantry, being burled
In a snow storm and suffering dire
distress and other things, did on this
blank day of April, 1804, tear down
and appropriate a ham worth about
belonging to tho holder hereof, who
Is n good Union man, and If Uncle
Sam can't pay him for tho harp we
will do It ourselves.' This was signed
by aliout forty men who saw that the
'plmky man of the Brownlow clan'
didn't lose a cent."
I "The fence-rail habit," said the Ser
geant, "grew cm a man. Tin-re was HQ
more exhilarating work than breaking
up o siaaoued cedar rail. A man who
did It once wanted to do It again, and
i after doing It again he could spilt a
! cedar rail Into coarse or fine fep!lnter9
by the way he struck It on the hard
ground or a L I had a comrade who
had a record of breaking up COO r.Mls,
. and he reasoned that over O.iiOo.OOij
J cedar, walnut, and oak ruils In tho
South were burned by soldiers, and
that this wholesale destruction gave
as much Impetus to the barbed-wire
bi!sln"ss as the settling up of the prai
rie States.
"lie located after the war In Nebras
ka, but got so lonesome with no fence
rails In Right that he returned to Ohio,
and moved from there when the peo
ple began to replace the old rail fences
with board and wire fences. A year
a;ro he came to Chicago and I took lihn
out to Fort Sheridan, and Incidentally
called his attention to the fine grade of
the wlr fence inclosing the reserva
tion. He was furious, and said that
if the governui 'iit really wanted lirst
Class, experienced soldiers it ought to
build at everv fort, and camp an old-
fashioned rail fence, and let the boys
steal and hern the rails, as n reward
for close attention to duty." Chicago
Inter-f leean.
CATARRH THIRTY YEARS.
a frs 'si'
tot'
i i,- .if:
t
A
"l
My .Narrow I'.scape.
When the war broke out ami a cal
was made for volunteers, my hubband
was among the lirst to Join the regl
merit: anil as we had been married
but a short time it seemed hard that
we must thus part, perhaps forever
Hut as we wire both loyal to the 1'n
ion we iTiofloili.it that it was our dots
to answer the call. Three months
ti.i- mv husband enlisted he a-
wounded in battle and desired me ti
d,.i,i1 Wlio u.mi, liine from home. I
replied that I would si nd a trust
oii'seneer w illi them soon. 1 then
went out and purchased a suit of mal
mil iIhio on am! started for
mv husband's regiment. When I fotim
him lie did not know me, as 1 had m;
hair cut and face and hands staineil
so I thought it best not to reveal my
self or he would insist upon my re
turning home. 1 was with the regi
ment only a few days when the order
came to march, and t lie captain ciiine
to me and asked if 1 would volunteer
to carry important dispatches for him
to Sherman, about twenty miles away.
As I had traveled over the same coun
try before. I concluded It would be a
good chance to make a heroine of my
self, so I accepted the offer, and that
night at dark I started on my lonely
trip. It was a nice moonlight night,
and I had no trouble until about mid-
nil-lit when from n lonelv clunit) ol
bushes by the roadside came the ordei
to halt, accompanied by the ominous
click or a musket. I had In my sup.
posed security walked right Into a trap.
I was then led to headquarters, whicli
was half a mile away, and them
locked up for the night as a spy after
lirst being searched in vain for papers
1 did not think it probable they would
llnd my dispatches, as 1 had tliein toe
well hidden. In the miming the t ap-
tain had me taken to his tent, and titer.
1 had to answer a string of questions,
hut he could get no satisfactory in
formation. 1 was then returned to thu
guard house, with the orders to niaki'
a more rigid search for papers. I now
saw 1 was in for it; therefore sent
for the Captain, as I had Information
for him. He came, anil 1 informed
him of my sex and told him my father
was In Sherman's army, wounded, anc
I had taken that plan to get to him.
Of course, he did not believe me, and
I was sentenced to be hung next morn
ing at sunrise. 1 saw now that unless
I'rovld'iice Inter fcrred 1 was gone
Night came with all its horrors; but
at midnight Sherman's army advanced
and llnd on the Confederate camp,
All was now confusion, In which I was
forgotten, and made a break for lib
erty. I had not gone far when I wan
detected mid niii'siK-d ; but I was ton
near the I'nlon army to be overtaken
Mv nuisncrs tired on me with almost
fatal result, one bull cutting my cheek
and another breaking my left arm.
delivered my dispatches, was well n
ceived and cared for. I stayed whi
the army until the war broke up, ami
together witli my husband went back
to the farm. Mrs. .1. S., In AmerlcuD
Tribune.
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CONfiKKSSMAN MEHKISON OF OHIO.
X
Hen Havid Meekiseii is well known, not only in his own Mate, but tlirouyii
mii inerien lie begun hi political career by serving four consecutive terms as
M-ivor of the town in which he lives, during which time lie became widely known
is the rounder of the Mcrkis.ui Hank ol Napoleon. Ohio. He was elected to the
Kifiy-fiflli Centres by a very larg v majority, and is the acknowledged leader ot
his parly i" his section of the State. . .
Only one Haw marred the otherwise complete success ef tins rising s.aresman.
Catarrh will, its insidious approach amlt en.icioiis grasp, was Ids on'y iiiieo:iilered
foe for thirty vears he waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy.
t hist I'oriitia'.amc to the rescue, aud lie dictated the following letter to Dr.
Ilariman as the result:
.... .... o..,ro hniiU.s nf Ppruna rind I teef irreativ benefited
thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged tobelieve that if
I use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of
thirty years' standing." David Meekison, Member of Congress.
TI1K season of catching cold is upon
us. The cough and the sneeze and
the nasal twang are to he heard on
every hand. The origin of chronic ca
tarrh, the most, common and dreadful of
diseases, is a cold.
This is the way the chronic catarrh
generally be-ins. A person catches cold.
1..W...1. i,.n,.ru ,,ii WitiioT than usual. The
old ireiicrullv starts in the liea.l ami
throat. Then follows sensitiveness ol
the air passages winch incline one to
uteh cold very easily. At last the pel-
son lias a col.l all the wnne si uiki.,
in nr.. or less discharge from the nose.
hawking, spitting, frequent clearing ol
the throat, nostrils stopped up. inn icci
ing in the head, and sore, inflamed throat.
The best, time to treat cainrra is ar ioe
very beginning. A Dome oi l ei uoa
properly used, never falls to cure a com
mon cold, thus preventing chronic ca
tarrh.
ohi'vcii I.ce'n Order.
Caplaln John I.amb, who represent
the Richmond district In Congress, hal
become famous as a lecturer on th
bti'lle of Malvern Hill through his de
reno of Ociiernl John Magruder from
the charge that he was responsible foi
the slaughter of Confederate troops If,
that engagement.
Captain Lamb at the lime of the bat
tie was an orderly sergeant attached
to the staff of (ieneral Magruder. Tin
night after the battle he was In Mil
gruiler's tent when Ociiernl I.ee camt
In. The latter demanded to know whj
( Ieneral Magruder had ordered his mv
to chnrge when Inevitable defeat anf
disaster awaited them.
"(ienernl Eee," Mngntder answered,
"I charged because yon three tlmei
ordered nte to. I was not able to gel
my men ready for the charge when yo
cave the order me nrst ann secons
times, but when you gave the order I
third time, we stnrted."
General Lee, says Captain I.amb, ad
mltted that this wns true, and that l
was not until recent years that Genera
Magruder has been charged with re
sponslblllty for the disaster. Onptalt
I.amb Is the only man now living win
has personal knowledge of (he meet hit
between I.ee and Magruder (he nigh'
after tho battle. Washington Post.
While many people have been cured
of chronic catarrh by a single bottle of
1'oruna, yet, as a rule, when the catarrh
becomes thoroughly fixed more than
one bottle is necessary to complete a
cure, reruns has cured eases innumer
able of catarrh of twenty years stand
ing. It is the best, if not the only inter
nal remedy for chronic catarrh in ex
istence.
Hut prevention is far lietter than cure.
Kvery person subject to catching cold
should take IVruna at i e at the .slight
est symptom of cold or sore throat at
this Jeason of the year and thus prevent
what is almost certain to end in chronic
catarrh.
Send for free hook on catarrh, entitled
"Winter Catarrh," by Dr. Hartman.
'Health and I'.eaiity" sent free to
women only.
Ask your Druggist for a free Pe-ru-na Almanac.
About 4.7f)U tons of ISritisli money
ate constantly in circulation.
Thirty-eight guineas has been paid
at Yaruiouh, EnglaDd, for a Louis
XVI cluck that tormerly bel mgcci to
Mrs. Siddos. the actress.
Missouri is now credited with the
greatest corn yield, estimated this
year at 315.000.000 bushels. Iowa is
a close second, with 300. 000. 000 bitsh-
e.ls,arid Kan as and Nebraska follow.
The Edinburgh Review, Byron's
"blue arid yellow pesUlenee"f"has re
cmtly celebrated its ccntanary.
'Tut my gun In my collln," was
the request made in ills will by Fran
cis Hagoly. a Hungarian big game
hunter, who has died, aged 98.
His fifty-lit st sentence for proacb
ing has just been passed on a prison
er at Tewkesbury. Knghnd. He hag
been sent to Jail for a month.
Always speak politely and kindly U
servant.
E. L. BARRAGAR. Pres. ED. C. BROWN. Treas D B. PARKS, Sec'y Moir
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