f [Nothing makes a woman so mad p.s having something to say and no one to li&'-en. _ ___ XVliat Will Heroine of chinaT None can foresee the outcome of the quarrel between foreign powers over the division of China. It Is in — terestlng to watch the going to pieces of this race. Many people are also going to pieces because of dyspepsia, constipation end stomach diseases. Good health can he retained If we uso Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters. Wounded pride uses dignity for a salve. town *'atent Of.tc#* Krport. DKS MO INKS, July 14. '98. Seven U. S. Patents were Issued to Iowa inventors tills week, viz.: To J. H. Ayrhart. of Dedham, for a riding and foiuing barrow; to Thos. Caswell, of Cherokee, for a combined hay-rake nud bailing press: to J. A. Cooper and A. (’. Savage, of Adair, for a gun-sign-.; to Wm. W. Dodge, of Burlington, for a game apparatus; to It. Harris, of Cedar Falls, for a rod-guide for dow el-machines; to N. Kauffman, of Du buque, for a catch-basket for lawn mowers; to F. A. 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What will the fault-finding Chris tian do In heaven? I.lfe and me J.iver. “Success in life depends u)>on the Itrer " Is tbe way C'bus. I.umb, tbe poet (and imn eler put It. Medical science bai proven. ♦ but time tenths of the ailments of living Lave their origin in the liver, and in con stipation caused by Its derangements. Keep the liver lively and it will be well. Modern science points out t'ascaretsaa the onlv perfect, gentle, jo-ltive liver regula tor fit to be used in the delicate human organism. All druggists sell Cascarets 10c. J-c, doc, and we recommend them most heartily. Santiago bombardment powder cost $1,000,000._ Shake Into Tour Rimes. Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cure* painful, swollen, smart ing feet and Instantly takes the sting [out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allens Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It Is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, nervous, aching feet. Try It to day. Sold by all druggists and shoe etores. By mall for 25c In stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen y 8. Olmsted, L* Roy, N, Y. The effort to make sugar from beet* dates back as far as the year 1747. Within the past month the first iron bridge erected In the stale of Ohio has been removed. This bridge was over Fait Creek, on the Central Ohio di vision of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road, in Muskingum county, and was built In 1851. It was a single span, 71 feet In length, and was known as a “Bellman deck truss bridge with plate girders.” Bollman was at that time chief engineer of construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. When you let go the good work the devil takes hold. < rtso's l ure lor lontuaiftiou is me on:y rough medicine used iu my house.—D. C. Albright, Mifflin) urg, l a , Dec. 11, '93. If your harvest is a failure, remeui her you selected the seed. Cop’o t'oorn nnlmm It (h# old and b«st It will up a eoM quicker Uu&fi tsnytbiiitf eltm. It In alway s rt-1 !•*»»•. Try IU If a man makes a fool of himself twice in the same way his case is hopeless. The Standard Dictionary. The Independent, New York: "It Is a noble example in which the modern tendency to popularize knowledge his v riser, to the highest level yet reached." Jt' The Boston Dally Herald: "It is a monument of the highest character which the publishers of this work have reared In honor of the Kngllsh lun I uage.” See display advertisement of how to ibtsin the Standard Dictionary by naktng a small payment down, the re mainder In installments. If a man doesn't lie after returning from a fishing trip lit* word l* aa good ns his bond. The Automatic Urip Neck Yoke Co.. 1 cf Indianapolis, Itnl , whose ad. ap pears elsewhere In this paper, have Invented what Is without doubt lh» best and safest ne-k joke on the funr fcet. It Is simple In construe lion doe* not rattle, mid the pots cannot pos sibly gel sway Dow It. 1 hey offer very liberal term* to nrr twineol* *«-e .nncuyeuea S'ti-t gk Jw IIUCi ls» dno •ueltslacMf The sscent wl sms cwwes through the dee*skt of Christ. vmMmmmmmamaamnmmBrtammmsmmzTMKWBmrwvB* G KAN DPA'SCOU RTSHIP "3o you yotiugstera want a war story," sighed Grandpa lawyer, glanc ing fondly over the merry group of children and grandchildren that had as sembled to celebrate his sixtieth birth day; and wondering what he could pos sibly say on this august occasion that had not been repeated at least a score of times. "You might tell them about the time you fainted dead away,” suggested grandma, with her tender pensive smile, as she bent caressingly over his latest namesake fast asleep in her arms. Yielding to the clamorous entreaties of more than a dozen young voices, the veteran slowly proceeded: "You see, I was Just out of Andersonvllle, and a little shaky even on an ordinary occa sion, and this was a most extraordinary occasion, being the day your grandma graduated at Holyoke. "I first enlisted for three months, full of fight and sure of victory, and 1 look ed so fine and tall In my blue uniform, 1 thought I'd go and say good-bye to Dr, Mlller’a daughter. I was only a common farmer, and she had another beau, a student at Amherst, but I re membered once at a party, when she bad to choose a partner she selected me Instead of Jim; so 1 thought I'd go and tell her I was off for Dixie In file morning. I thought maybe she'd cry a little as my mother did, or say something fine about my laying down my precious life for the dear old flag; but she dldn’; say inuc'.i. and I didn’t stay long, for Jim was there. "Martha went with me out to the gate. I reached out my big sun burned hand, and she took It In both her own and held It quite a bit, and she Bald: 'Bennie, I'm sorry you're going to the war; you're too young a man, and too good a man to stand up and be shot at.’ Then Jim appeared on the scene, and I went away half cursin' my honest hand for being so brown, while Jim's was as white as a Illy with a great flashing diamond on the smallest of his slender (lagers. "Talk about standing up as a target for bullets; that's nothing—nothing at all compared with lying down to starve In a foul prison. As the (lays passed Into weeks, and the weeks so long Into months so much longer that 1 lost all count, how many and mauy a time I looked at my white bony hands and wished they were as big and as tanned as they used to be, and when I would have prayed for an end ing of my misery, how well I remem bered that Martha had said 1 wus too young to die, and the way she had held my hand still thrilled me, and kept me alive and out of the clutch of old Giant Despair, and 1 said over and over to myself a thousand times, with grim determination, what Dr. Miller had so often repeated, ‘While there is life there Is hope,’ and at last I was exchanged and discharged. Oh, 1 ow happy I wag to be get free! I did not 'regain my freedom with n sigh,’ like that poor prisoner of Ch!l lon, but with a great joy that buoyed me up for the long, weary journey home, and enabled me to assiet others who were still weaker. "When at last the stage set me down In the familiar village postof flce, I was so weary and wasted no one teemed to recognize me, hut looked at me in a pitying way 1 could not un derstand, and so 1 did not speak to any one, hut ataggcod down the hill to the old farmhouse, trying In vain to scent the supper, or the clove pinks. I did not know my precious mother had been dead for almost a year, but when I reached the gate I felt the change. It hung by one hinge, and swayed and creaked with n dismal sound that scented to nto like the groaning of a ghost. It weukened me so that 1 had to rest uwbile before going down the long walk still Slued by my mother's flowerbed*; but oh. how neglected they looked! As I neared the porch I saw u red calf tied to a lilac bush, one that my mother had herself planted on the v man who did her heel to eeive n* on id not understand my simple law ■ nage, hut she d-d c -mptehend otV sorrow and weariness and hitler dis appointment and after I had takes a glees <1 milk eke silowed o-e to •« right up te my own airy chamber, where sse'ything »s# i. ted y latw '■ iar. How deliciously soft and clean the i bed seemed, and I cried myself to sleep like a tired, homesick baby. "Tho first thing I heard on the morning was, not the chirping of tho robins, as In the olden time, but the loud bawling of that steer calf under my window. I covered ray head wi*h the bedclothes and was the r0!,r- weak baby over again. When I woke later In the day, good IJr. Miller was sit ting by my bedside. He helped me dress, and look me home to breakfast, w'herc the talking, as well as the cook ing, was all United States; but some how I wasn’t hungry, and longed to ask what had become of Martha. "I soon found out. Her father was going to Holyoke the very next (lay to hear lur valedictory, and he took me along with him. It was a long drive, but v.c took It slow and easy, and 1 had my flil of fresh air, and re covered my appetite. We were a 11! tl ; late to the exhibition, and We found the chapel already crowded; hut tho good doctor finally succeeded In get ting a seat well up In front, and there, right before us. was Amlurst Jim, Just as slim and white as ever. He lin gered his watch chain and pelted his mustache and made his diamond glisten und devoured the platform with his eyes, Just as he usc-d to In the old red school house when Martha wan going to speak her piece. Now he was a full-fledged physician, and Dr. Mil ler’s partner. We had a long time to wait. The essays were lengthy and learned, and Martha’a wag the vety last. The other graduates wore white, but she was all In black with a crape collar. J looked quesMonlngiy Into her father's face. lfe put his arm arouud me, and whispered: ’8ho wears mourn ing for your mother—and for you.' "For my mother and for me—oh! tho pain of it! oh, the Joy of It! and whether It was the pain or the Joy, or the crowded room, or the way J1 in looked at Martjia, I cannot tell, but somehow everything slipped away Into not himrnowu “When I came hack to conscious ness, the folks were all gone, all hut Dr. Miller and his daughter, and Martha was holding me us handy as she Is holding that blessed baby now, and I was Just as quiet and submis sive, "I didn't know much of anything but submission for a long time after that. I didn't know 1 was helpless in bed In the Miller mansion with Jim for night watch, mixing the medicine to suit himself, and always telling Martha I was slowly Improving, and I could not see the noiseless band that was stretching a pontoon bridge over the last river, but when my hand was wet with the cold surf, I reached it feebly toward Martha's, and she took It firmly Just, as she did when I was going away to tho war, and she said: ‘Uennle, oh Bennie! you are too young to die; If only you will live, my mother shall be your mother,’ and then she laid her warm cheek down on that cold hand and It thrilled me back to life ugaln, and the good old doctor whispered, 'While there's life, there's hope,’ and after that he was the night watch, and Martha was the day watch, and Jim dropped out, and Martha's mother was my mother. “Martha’s children are my children; her grandchildren are all mine, too, and poor Jim never had any. I have outlived him by a quarter of a cen tury, and I'm good for twenty-ftvs years more, but I want you youngsters distinctly to understand this Is my last war etory—positively the last.” Two chubby arms were wound around grandpa's neck, and a reprov ing little kiss wus dropped upon the veteran’s forehead. Little Mattie well remembered that he had said those very words, “positively the last,” on his very last birthday, and so her grateful caress must needs be a little reproving, for had he not often coun seled her "Tell the truth, the whole I truth, and nothing but the truth," and did not grandma sometimes says, “Con sistency Is a Jewel?” Possibly the tender rebuke was quite lost upon grandpa, but the others all appreciated it, and truly, a little child shall lead them.—New York Ledger. Tl»c Oldest Metallic Object* |)r. J. H. Gladstone, discussing at the Royal Institution the question of the metals used by the great nations of antiquity, said recently that gold was probably the first metal known to man, because It Is generally found na tive The old metallic objects to which we can assign a probable date were found In a royal tomb at Nagadu In Kgypt. tupponed to have been Glut of King Mi nes, In one of Ihe chambers wire some bits of g >UI and a bead, n button and a tine wire of nearly pure copper. If the tomb ha* been properly identlflid, these objects ute at bast fi.StHI years old. Nearly alt the ancient gold that has been exam ined lontalus enough silver to give It a light color. It was gathered by the , am tints In the bed of the Iv-tolmi and 1 other stream* of Asia Minot, •'»•**» Hc«|ulvc*l Im IMi« i HU-yc-lc. Tfe# drlitin «»f d t‘h )* lc led mile* an hour h*» Ikvh iMyrUllift) t i r* quirt dbotll our twtftlt •Mid of • tior«#|M»**r An Fitter for i • tioft Uni# let#* cirri «»*»** ih»ti of i hn if|i< i*r |*©r r*)»i4 fork, ®«»* { Ntbflkill t'«1* *#%*!>ill kt'fltfOVfr |l nrrsje l Ihc-c litre* dm lUr rttiiil of j »r)fdtli<‘ Intent (gut k»(* | |l» R*tl *»# R«it»«v A b'l I 't Writ Is 0*4* of ikitl foil* ! It! t,« • rfilutts «n-.i.c i, ptlayr pur., * • wt.dcfi . iU. hctll*. 'Die railroad nilJeare in Cuba Is 1,105 miles, owned by seventeen rail road companies. Hell's Catarrh Cure Is 3 constitutional cure. I'i ice, <50, A mrp of Jerusalem in ir.osnic, over 1,500 years old, has t een found in Pal estine. For a perfect complexion ai d n clear, beailby rk.ii, lire t'GH.VO liCT'l i.iillll.K. KOAP. Hold everywhere. Ninety reporters are employed in tli<' gallery of the house of commons glTH PirmiMunil)! ured. Horn# or i,pi vtiaftr** *lt» #it*1 dts» » h-I»». Mint* (•rrdl Nwtvi* i’,««|ur»r hniifl in KMKK %'4.00 irttsl bnillfi *r.4 tr.nti** b*. 1C ♦! KLi.xg. ht.l ,V'.:t Anli M . I * ttaUlgi.t*, I a. Falling on your kncei Is one way to prevent falling from grace. Itrimiy ip liluoil Deep. Hp* i blood UJC.'iliP MrtcMn Pklri No t**uty without, U. CiihCuii’iH. i undjr < *»»t I•.«ri U* 1 rirniip >mii t>U,on it11/yV thorough fa- f male regula- VM •/Tllti* VJ I tor known to \ V i /f ' medical sci- ' 1 ' * (nee* Itrcliercs the condition that pro duces so much discomfort and rolis men struation of its terrors. Here is proof: Dkah Mas. I'inkham:—How can 1 thank you enough for what you havo done for me ‘l When I wrote to you i was suffering untold p.ain ut time of menstruation; was nervous, had head ache ul! the time, no appetite, that tired feeling, and did not care for anything. 1 have taken three bottles of Lydia K. 1’inkham's Vegetable Compound, or;o of ISlood I’nritier, two boxes of Liver Pills, and to-day 1 urn u well person. 1 would like to have those; who suffer know that 1 am one of the many who have been cured of female complaints by your wonderful medicine and advh e. —Miss .Jennie K. Mii.er. I .eon, Wis. If vou are suffering in this way, write as Miss Miles did to Mrs. Pink hum at Lynn, Muss., for the advice which she offers free of charge to all women. PIMPLES ••.llr wire li*«l pliuplt* »» l*«-r l»rr, but 1 • he liB* Man (cl I lie ( ASIAKEl'S sad (try Sure UlHa;*pr*red l but beta tru.iMtl »>lh coattlpatioa for BOBU! l.atr but bftar US loc Uu Ur>l Ctus'brat 1 I bvr biol bO trouble I • III. ml* b! me al. Wi-cuun l *i r»» loobiyb ly u( 1 '*.< »!eu ' l tun W*niM*M. Iran tunuBauHB av« . PaiautoiptalB. Pa & H. ^Me CATHARTIC nut ***** UMK.II! . Pi SBM. Cllut* t l **ut T**t« UaNt tb t* aaJ Ms««r iff U* i# h 14 mm ... OURS CONST I RATION. ... •»•**>*« Bl««4t IMBRMI >»N 4* * «* WrwIIW—l> !« «• k Itltut iWIAMMtaU Or. Kij'i Lung tUlm SKILL OF DOCTORS TESTED. Fifteen Years of Suffering “3 thought I should surely die.” When the stcr.iach teniae to fail in duties, ether orgnas luudily become c faceted in sympathy, uud life is simply g I -tideii almcst unbearable. Indigestion a id dyspepsia art so common that only the auffertr from these disease* know* t;ie possibilities of mi cry that inhere in them. A typical < * ample of the mfl» i mg* t i the vie.tin of indigestion I* furnished I iu the cose of John l. Pritchard, flc went I mi for fifteen year*, front bad to worse Sis sp'.tt of doctors be grew constantly w'ukrr, md tho ight he would di«. in fut well, I jwever, uod thus iclutce I ts cspcncucc; " ffor f-fteen years X was a great sufferer from indigestion in Ha v*i*t him*. I te trd the skill of many doctor*, but grew , wans and* or*e, until I I ccr.me so weak I i f old ii »t walk fifty ya *di v itboiit havio* to sit down and rest.' My stomach, liver ut;d heat I bet nine uftc t led, and f thought i would mi' ly die. I tried f i I. i Ayer •• I ills and they helped me light awry. 1 (('ilinued their iim ami rri now c Mire!v well. I don't know i f anything that will so tpilekly relieve iiistl cure the terrible suff' rings of dyspepfia a* I>r Aur'i> ton* c. Vri ic iiari>, Lrodie, War tea Co., 14. C. This r*»r is not extraordinary. either In the aever'.ty ©f the diaenae ©r the prompt r.nd perfect cure performed by Dr. Ayer© Pills. Similar Manila occur in every uuf where Dr. Aver * Piila are uaed. "The/ helped me fight «way" ia the common raprenaton of tricar who have uaed them. Here ia another testimony to the truth of thia Mate me ut: "I formerly Buffered from indigeafiort and wttknin of the do mac It, but dner f began Me uae of Dr. J t Ayer * I'rlla, 1 bare the appetite of tl»e llrmrr’a boy I oin 4f' year* if aye, end r ecomme t.<( all who wtah to In- free from dvapepsia m take one of Di Ayci’a 1‘illa alter dir,net, till tin ir digr»ttvi c ry.-Hia are in goc Qtarf ll '• on ! Olfllvll scientific priori- > men who have had years of , no in fancy laundering. It , oln linen and summer ureaacs * to their nntuiul whiteness and impart* ► a beautiful and lusting finish. Tho ’ only stareh that is perfectly harmless. ’ Contains no arsenic, alum or other in- ► jj jurioiis substance. 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