When Hot Don’t sweat and fret, but keep cool and taka Hood’s Sarsaparilla. This Is good advice, as you will find it you follow it. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a first-class sum mer mediciue, because it is so good for the stomach, so cooling to tbe blood, eo helpful to tbe whole body. Make do mistake, but get only HOOd’S Sp’eriila America's Greatest Medicine. • • r»-ts c,ir# *-iver Ills; easy to IlOOd S Pills take, easy to opera' VALUE OF SEARCHLIGHTS. tlsstol for Slyusllug as Moll as foe Cipoilog an Enemy. Prom tbe Philadelphia Times: The tlnlted States government has ordered for use in the coast defenses a large number of the most powerful search lights to be built in tho earliest possi ble time and delivered for mounting Ln the principal harbors along the coast. The lights are of vital import une# In harbor defenses and will be a valuable addition to our harbor equip ments. Already a considerable num ber aro in operation, but not sufficient to do the work which might be done In this way. Operated on a scientific sys tem the Importance of the light can ■earcely be overestimated. By its us* the whole ares of the harbor protected by our fortifications and by fixed or stationary torpedoes is ln the dead of the night made as bright as day. In detecting the approach or any move ment of an attacking fleet, and espe cially where an attempt is made to pas# a fortification after a partial or total destruction of its torpedoe*, these are most important. Under such cir cumstances the searchlight would ex pose the enemy’s ships to the deadly fire from the heavy artillery guns of our coast defense and insure total de ant of the many factors of the search light system as adopted by the array Is Its adaptability to signaling from one fortification to another bv means of long and short flashes, messages being tent several miles by cipher code. An Idea of the wonderful power and effi ciency of these searchlights for signal ing may be had from the following: A ehort time ago a great searehlight was purchased by the government ar.d turn ed over to the army for experimenting purposes In ecast signaling. This light ■was purchased from a firm in Ger many, and upon its receipt it was Im mediately forwarded to the Sandy Hook proving ground, where it under went a thorough test. One object was to determine the facility with which a message could be transmitted by long and short flashes. The light was mounted on a tower at Sandy Hook and arrangements mado with Mr. Dunn of tha weather bureau iu New York to be ready to receive tha message ut a stated hour. Late In tha night, as agreed upon, one of tho army officers especially expert in signaling mounted the top of the tower. When the ex act moment arrived there were thrown against tha dark sky long and short flashes of bright light from the tower at Sandy Hook. At the same moment, In New York city, another man was at the top of one of the high office build ings steadily looking toward Sandy Hook. Ho read the message and re peated It by wire to Sandy Hook, where It was found correct. This message was flashed a distance of twenty miles, and could undoubtedly have been pass ed a much greater dista’nce. With these lights mounted at the fortifica tions around New York harbor mes sages could be immediately sent from the defenses at Sandy Hook to either Fort Wadsworth or Fort Hamilton, when the movements of a hostile fleet coul.' be seen and It was desired to transmit Instructions to the inner de fences. The searchlight in coast de fense interferes with the sight of the mati at the helm of an approaching vessel. In experiments tried in France a powerful electric searchlight was turned upon a moving vessel, tho cap lain. of which stated that hla eyes were *•0 darned by this light that It pre vented him from properly steering his boat, which resulted In a collision with another. Iowa l atent onirx Report. Tus Moines, July 22. '98 M. A. Oppenhoim, of l)es Moines, f popularly known as "Col. Oppy”) has :i|i;i!letl for a copyright for a puzzle that < onslst In nuui.s tor fighting ‘ the bat tle of Santiago" over ami over again by persons who want to Indulge in that kind of amusement. A limited degree of iuventlon is no' n liar to a patent and ome of the moat wimple dvtie under < uustdeialon ami t,p«vi npp m| ii, me bytrilShlhiiwlNnsIr. CVef bis tilvtrw lecislon was lr l itvl and a patent granted tip.nl n, and advice It*" upon a Invention* eiibmilied t«* us for warn livslbin. Va'uv’d.e Inf rwel'ail ah « f pe, ulna valuing at 4 telling pal*ni» Ssilt f'« wli. « 'S’ted f>o TilONAH d nilWtd A I" y, !i tt ir« of 1‘au-ntt r*‘«** iin V h* « ’ ho w • I • tvj In Ihe 3r»t • barge * the Hough |ti |«ri «'• 1,1 itvriieut fur • he south IV hie die* « at >!*r the usr« rtaisii** wf th • hsllle p o> .-*•*» s*s h*'“**»» Mr* ileorrsi Villa*, fc» stul * Iw » "» (» "* * » ailarked .. »«* bit »l»IH>»* *nrd *»< I * ,4«d I' vs h *» *»t\ I he ** *4 If h* aseuM be Ml.sd Sb**4*‘ pepoe 1st rMS*«Shee *•'■» *»h I'M p wr< *'■ IMMSlbts IMS "M a men's h- • »** Is »s UittSt <*!•»*« si St b ** Af'-t ] Instead of Trying to Escape It is Doubtful If Any of Our 692 Captives Could I3c Driven Away. (Portsmouth, N. II.. Letter.) Civilization while you wait would be an appropriate motto for the prison stockade at Camp Ix>ng. The camp Is on Seavey's Island, part of the navy yard, which on the map appears in Kltlery, Me., and on official documents at Portsmouth, In New Hampshire. Two days before the St. Louis steamed into the harbor with 032 Spanish pris oners cf war on board the camp ground was not much be,tier than a desert. This end of the Island Is bound with rocks, which stick up through the blueberry bushes and scrubby grasa on knolls and hillsides. Col. James Korney, commanding the Maine Guard, had during hi3 previous term of duty at the r.avy yard laid out golf links on this eastern end of the Island. Today ho u«C3 the old iron hole markers as dead lino ranges. Tbo best hazards In the links are spoiled by a little new pine board town of a dozen houses, ail but one of which are cut off from the rest of the island by a high board fence. Within Ihlrty-slx hours from the arrival of the 3t. Louis In the lower harbor this village had been equipped with all the creature comforts demanded by a free born American citizen. The landing of the Spaniards was without ceremony or display. Two black, flat-iron shaped barges were brought up, one after the other, from the big liner, about a mile away, and made fast to Lieut. Greeley’s landing piece, tt the foot of old Fort Sulilvan, now used as a reservoir. There were a few workmen and a few ladies and children from the post on the shore, and a cordon of pleasure boats on *he water, but no official demonstration of any sort. There was not an officer, nor even a marine, in sight, and no indication that the island was garri soned. On the first barge Lieut. Catlln, a survivor of the Maine disaster, brought with him Capt. Morcu, of the Cristobal Colon, to act as interpreter, and about a dozen American marines to take care of a boatload of four hundred Spanish prisoners of war. Lieut. Cat lin had a navy revolver in his belt Instead of his sword, and went at his work without any fuss or feathers. When six marines bad scrambled ashore and were strung along the bank OX »"» «'k. 6vMkOO>«ntf i HSii" G -r*e*s&sas£Mm SJ Ml r«e r •»•’••• ^ <»•** 6<** *v ' '■ ^ SOME SCENES AT PORTSMOUTH. , til* gangway was opened to tho pris oners, who went off the barge in an irregular straggling. They were defeated and shipwrecked Bailors, and they showed it. Bare headed and barefooted, with straggly beards, and only a couple of dirty gar ments In most cases covering legs and bodies, they passively obeyed the or ders of ('apt. Moreu, and were gather ed In ship's companies by the calling of the roll. Hardly had a hundred men been landed before the aick be gin to drop groaning upon the dusty roadside. The first official navy demonstration on shore was made by the navy sur geous, I'rs Tar ions. Kitts and Morris, who walked oier from the naval hos pital, followed by an ambulance. Sur geou-ln-f’harge Pwrtone * pea ha Span ish unite fluently, having to--n station ed In l‘rru. but very little talk was itenerary lo feet the ptiUe and see the tongue of a groaning Hpnntard. With all possible gentleness the must sen nit tty »l*k were taken to the naval hospital and given as god rate as could to given to American sailors. Ho they landed, penniless, sick, dirty an>l almost naked After the muttering us > over me first shipload of prisoners was sur rounded by marines from tns garri son sad msr> bed Into the stockade, tbs barefooted ones being ihteny anstoua to avoid the nettles that Inch ed la *on»e of the grassy pterea After one day in camp th* -e same hungry looting prisoners enutd ha tly ha reeognlesel The «l*l e ration* of beef bread, “'gee sad ptvhh s *»m *» enured at ntto meal e*#h msn eotlttg more than a pound «*f meal fh*? found hammou ha, sum for table h»ir m»it>e >* and gn*#f»meat bisnbet# provtded for them, and after a few puffs from bor rowed cigarettes the well Spaniards slept long and roundly. More meals followed with surprising abundance and regularity, and great wagon loads of clothes wore hauled over from the navy yard and dumped at the feet of the prisoners. The few Industrious spirits volun teered for camp work, and their work ing made a pleasant spectacle for those who were not Industrious. With warm new clothes and a comfortable full aesa under one's belt, it Is agreeable to eSt in the sun, or at least out of tho rnln, and discuss why It. was that Ad miral Cervcra did not utterly destroy the American fleet. To be sure there are sentries and deep water in front, and sentries, with a high board fence behind, backed by barbed wire and Gatling gur.s In tho rear. What would you? Shall sane men run away from good food, good clothes and a good company to lose thcmselvc3 In a strange country and starvo? Perhaps It may not last, but that Is tho sentiment In Camp Long at pres ent. The landing cf the prisoners und the establishment of the camp was ac complished without the slightest hos tile demonstration cn the part of the Spaniards. Some of the men passive ly object to being clean, but they can put up with cleanliness If only they get plenty of tobacco. Col. Forney has In the barracks at the navy yard and on duty at the stock ade about two hundred men, but Sur geon Parsons says that If the Span iards only understood that they were to have their three square meals a day a marine guard would be requir ed, not to keep thorn on the island, but to drive them away from it. At the navy hospital baths and clean nightgowns and beds have transform ed the patients who Monday afternoon were groveling In the dust of the road side. There are three wounded men, one having been shot la the leg, another having been backed In the face by a Cuban machete while attempting to get ashore from the burning ship, and a third who lost several tees from a machete wound. There Is an old man whose legs are paralyzed, probably from being so long In the water. All the other patients, about one hundred and twenty-five, are suffering fro:n ac dimatlc fever, which is not conta gious, but which causes chills, crumps and great pain for about five days. The surgeons say that this fever will go through the camp, attacking ail who have not had It. About a score of men are taken sick every day, and about the mm* number are discharged from the hospitals. The convalescents and milder cases of fever are cared for In the stockade, where one large building la used 'or hospital purposes. Two ripantsh chap lains. two surgeons, an apothecary's steward, and five Junior lieutenants have had a building built for their special accommodation, and have been fitted out with sailor’s clothes from the navy yard storehouse. Their warti room Is lilted out with bunks and abundant furniture Ur. Snares, who speaks English a little. »ay* that whllo there will be a good deal for the doc tors to do. they all expect la tnjay i themselves la tamp. The rltlllxiag Inti tear* ()f a short piece of r«.pe is still to be *e*n at 1'ailip : Uut In uld*tt tluii i the r J>.^>C«Tfc rations for the whole force sufficient for the voyage and for some time after. It was necessary also to carry out large quantities of ammunition and supplies for Admiral Dewey’s squad ron. for ships carrying on operations seven thousand miles from their base of supplies need many things. To secure the ships and prepare them for such a voyage, and to accumulate and get on board of them all the need ed supplies In a little more than three weeks. was really a remarkable achievement, lighting fur a Ke.itliuent. The masse* of the north will flght. and tight bard and long, as we of the south have had proved to us. More over. they will light fur a contlment, V< we also know by experience they will tight better for a semimeut than for anything else. Hut for the senti ment of the north about "the old Hag" and "ths preservation of the union.** ttuuth Carolina would now be a meat ier of the Confederate h'late* of a 111 ar t's* That la a self-evident proposition. While that #•- Hon utilised an enor mens Immigration 10 recruit Its armies It would have defeated the smith with out muh aid. be au«e without it It was still far stronger than the south. 1 Chlchamaugn U»*trahorg. Mhxrpaborg sad f*redertehaburg p.oted it* lighting | capacity If we do not recognise thti we can claim an credit hr uur own gluteus lighting far f»»* r yenra. sad we Would have Wo lit tee fur usi defeat Columbia «* l*» HUte floa t alt down and wait fur year ivftuae to lata up. RAISING CHECKS. Its Frequency »ml Prevention—Million* of Dollar* Lost by This Min i*. | A check is the property of the issuer i and ultimately returns to him. there fore he Is morally and legally responsi ble for his signature, in the absence of suspicious conditions. “Unless the most effectual means” have been eni ployed to protect it, the "maker is re sponsible” (Court of Appeals.) An "individual opinion” will not save him. The “consensus if opin ion” comes nearer to It. What is known as the "Embossing" stamp hag long since been re leg: fed to the shelf, li j simply roughens the paper. The perforating machines, whlc i puncture little round holes, have been changed so often that they alsj are being relegated to the shelf as I back numbers. | “Safety Papers," so called, are but i tints, on or in the paper and while < hemlcal.i remove these tints the same can easily be restored by crayons or water colors. One of the finest Jobs ! of the age was recently one on a San Francisco bank—raised from $12.00 to $22,000.00 The Issuing bank using the National Safety” paper, (a water line quality) and the Abbott Perforator; $20,000.00 In gold was paid on this draft. The Union Pacific railroad ha.l pay checks raised on what is known as the “Underwood Safety Paper," a body color, easily changed by using a solution of chloride of tin dissolved in water, and by hydrochloric acid, applied hot, which removes the brown (pots left after removing (ho ink. This leaves the paper white which can then be shaded back to original color. It ! is a known quantity to all chemists that every color has Its antidote, car bon being the only shade not affected by chemicals. However, carbon Inks can bo washed off with plain water. "Letters of Advice” are easily beat en and the “cypher” systems In use among some bankers are but a modi fication of the "Advice.” It rather ex tends the area of operation for the to the "cypher” would for that reason be the easier victim. A small, cheap machine recently sold extensively over the country by reason of its cheapness hrs had a big run. This device pricks pin holes through the paper the shape of the fig ure desired, leaving "rod Ink” marks In same. Perhaps the most convinc ing proof of the Insecurity of this method Is from a letter the writer re cently saw from the Rector & Wil helmy Co., Omaha. Neb., under date of of January 19, 1898, to-wlt: "We had samples of the red inking machine submitted by the agent for the same, with the claim that It could not be removed without discoloring the paper. As the samples were on tinted paper, the color would be re moved, even in erasing common Ink. The samples submitted were removed and It was Illustrated to our satisfac tion that tho color of the paper can be restored by the use cf crayons or water colors. Vve are satisfied this machine would not prevent In any great mea.suro the raising of a check and for this reason the security It of fers Is but nominal." "RECTOR & WILHELMY CO.” The L'nlted States government after carefully Investigating all the devices, papers, etc., on the market, adopted, In 1891, what Is known ns the “cut out" figure machine, which cuts out a solid block figure. It has proven the most difficult device to alter yet known, or on the market, and one using the same will come within the legal requirements of “the most ef fectual means.” Business houses are liable to this check raising from collectors, who re tain checks, turning over cash In lieu thereof—from trusted men as well as experts or professionals, as was the case of the Rector & Wilhelmy com pany, the Onto City Hat company and various others in Omaha. Moral—“An ounce of prevention Is worth a pound cf cure.” nuptial's Anniversary. Baptists have already accepted an invitation for their May anniversaries '.t next year. This invitation came irom tbo First church of S2n yranels 30. This will te the first time these anniversaries have gone beyond the Rocky mountains. They bring togeth er about 2,000 of the active workers in Baptist benevolences. The reason for going to San Francisco, apart from the stimulus given to Baptist interests on the Pacific coast, is the fact that it is lust fifty years since Baptist work was undertaken in California. The occa sion next year is to be made a great one In Baptist circles of the Pacific coast. Corrvrtln? i% n»port»*r. A reporter for an exchange In speak ing of a woman's convention last week, lays: “There was much bustle and 3onfuslon." Of course the confusion 'ould be easily determined. but the ustlo part could only be guessed, and was really none of his business It Is loo much guessing that Is giving Jour nalism a bad name, and these women j light either to make him prove tils as lertlon or take it back. Beardstowu lltl.) Star. TS> IluegUele lllaw I I*. A barrel of oil at the work# of the Georgetown iKy.t g»» company e*- | ploded, and one building and a quan tty of oil were consumed by fire. The ill tauk sprung a leak, an I workmen had been engaged In pumping the oil imu barrels. A llghtrd •'»*i41# **» p»»*4 user the i;<<* b • of a bariel aud an egptealOB followed. At tWe l‘l«t ti»m York Truth Kippax- “You j Mn very much affected at the tregie ! I,t« Of Juliet. Mta» tniSiB. I *«h‘ • ] •aw tears la your e>ea.” M> e Nt»l#n - j ■Yea. Ur Kipp**. « 4«** •~,m "* m4 to tklak ib*t ib« My who play eg Juliet w not rsally d#a4'“ I I AmI H*M Mte Jeablae I *•• Mra II**'j»I le gulag to bay# King l#gr" al h*» ee*t yil.aie iksatrt«ala Kra N.wrtrii ifu i n iis with »B»y» *• the s»»ct*4 tbiag* you ha*w. I 4> u t uellesB Mg a teal king M *U. 4t»g| 4torK* I A Maine man offers small prizes to l the school children ia the iutermodi ! ate grade of his town who take the I beat care of their teeth during the 1 summer. 11 minty l» Mlond D»«p. Clr*a blood mean* aclcan «klu. No b®*'**5P without H. Civvcurcis. ruudy Cathartic rlennM your bloon noil keep* It olean. by *tir rlnit up tho lar.y liver and drlvjiiK all tropu rllie* final tho body. Bogin today to buulau pimpl<>«. UilU, Mouhes. b w.kUoil'Ih. uitd that ftickiy bllloiM completion by taking Onju'Ur rrt#—bokuiy for U*n rtiaM. All rtrugaUtu, bHiisfii. ilou KuuraiaNfed. Uic. tic. Me. The combined area of the Philip pines, the Hawaiian Islands, Cuba and Porto Rico Is 247,743 square miles, or a little less than that of Texas. Among the Ango-Saxons In the sev enth century men wore gloves, while women covered their hands with their sleeves. A both with COSMO MJTTKnMIT.K SOAP, exquisitely (rented, Is soothing uuU beueilcial. Hold every where. The capital letter "Q" will lie found but twice In the Old Testament, and three times in the New. YOINU AT SIXTY. Serena comfort and happiness in ad* vanced years arc realized by compara tively few women. Their hard lives, their liability to se rious troubles on account of their pecu liar organism and their profound igno rance concerning themselves, all com hino to shorten the period of usefulness and fill their lateryoars with suffering. Mrs. I’inkham lias done much to males women strong. Biie has given advice to many that has shown them how to guard against disease and retain vigor ous health iu old ago. From every cor ner of the earth there inconstantly com ing the most convincing statements from women, showing the cfiicacy of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Com pound in overcoming female ills. Here is a letter from Mrs. J. C. Orms, of 220 Ilorncr Bt., Johnstown, Pa., which is earnest and straight to the point: “ Dkab Mbs. Pinkham:—1 feel it my duty to tell all suffering women that I think your remedies are wonderful. I had trouble with my head, dizzy spells and hot flashes. Feet and hands were cold, was very nervous, could not sleep well, had kidney trouble, pain In ovaries and congestion of the womb. Since taking your remedies I am better every way My head trouble is all gone, have no pain in ovaries, and am cured of womb trouble. 1 cun cat and sleep well and am gaining in flesh. I consider your medicine the best to be had for female troubles.” The present Mrs. Pinkham's experi ence in treating female ills is unparal lelled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometime past bus had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter os many as a hundred thousand ailing women during a single year, I ■ | Good Places jj | to Spend jj j the Summer— i\ |)j Hot Springs. H. D. jjj Sylvan Lake, 8. D. 2* y klanitou, J: Colorado Springs, fjt j|) Denver* jjj Yellowstone Park,— 5j •J They «ro all on or best reached via Jj V our lino. Descriptive literature and £ kt full information by addressing tj J. Francis, General Passenger Agent tj] jj( Omaha, Neb. M ii P. 8.—If you go west via Omaha tk \.t and the Burlington Kouta you can M :jj stop off and see the Traos-Misaissi|>- jj .jj pi Exposition. jjj FURNITURE. $f>0,000 Stock of all grades of Furniture recently Is-uglit at the very lowest cash price will foe of fered during tile next few mouths at special prices. Custom*!* visiting Oinsha will find this the largest und oldest furniture store here, und wo will make every effort to please both in goods aud prices, Chas. Shiverick & Co., FtmiTtRH. 1200 Douglas St* Omaha. IHMl to ItIIl«r«l Sloial Vova T * th'laff «»i*raair** a* !• tkitiio illi *1 v» r t« r«a-l w« at.) iu«b* a *1 I .«» * **a| «*h tha ?*mr but m| «ay a«tHum«r ah* win I* ii ta ib«r (liras i* | |«« M m I* a* l ikat ttiry atli r-• • u>a«*u4 u* i*» tviaata l• tbra b ‘4* tbrf 1(4)1 arv ,avaU t*rj tvnul U USu. 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