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{Something better than a cakewalk la 'prom iped in a bicycle road race to j be ridden by the colored scrub women eMploved In the public school of Cranford, N. J. Tho lightest rider Will weigh ninety-eight pounds and ,the heaviest one hundred and nino I teen. A cake will go to the winner. ' The course will be t-reo miles and all those who will start are now practic W®' In* hard. _ ,, The Filipinos. l» ing unhampered by liea\y attire, easily outrun our troops. Mo-t of them consider ihat when a ^narrow cloth encircles the waist they ' are in full dress. The amount of espionage carried on » My the ambassadors in foreign couu ESjptriea as revealed by the Dreyfus af |r fair it is said to have so Impressed the P German emperor that he is taking 1 steps to see if it will not be possible to abolish su< h a system entirely and if not to modify it. Ho seems to be finding out, however, according to re port, that no one government can stop It without the co-operation of all the others. The late Charles A. i’illsbury was not one of those men who make a success of everything they under take. His first business venture, that of commission merchant in Montreal, according to the Minneapolis jour nal, was a disastrous failure. After paying his debts, he went to Minne apolis and began the business that in a few years made him a millionaire. t An example of the life-preserving powers of British eivil positions is the Hertslet family, one member of which has completed sixty years’ ser vice in the queen’s household. Ho has two brothers who spent fifty years each in the foreign office, while his father was in the same office for fifty six years. f fiHIliur I*at«*ntn. Thirty (HO) per cent of the inventors who re ceived patents the past week were able to dispose of their inventions before the patents were issued. Amongst the prominent concerns who bought pat ents were the following: — Vive t’amera Company, Chicago, 111., Eastern Paper Bag Company, Hart ford, Conn., Western Union Telegraph Co., of New York, American Pulley Co., of Pennsyl vania, Eagle Pencil Co., of New York. Singer Manufacturing Co., of New Jersey, Asphalt Paper Pipe Co., Los Ange les, Cal., Sanitas Nut Food Co., Limited, Bat tle, Creek, Mich., Carnegie Steel Co., Limited, Pitts burg, Pa., Vvnitehead-Hoag Co., of New Jersey, Stover Manufacturing Co., Freeport, 111., Bridgeport Brass Cc$, Bridgeport, Conn. Inventors desiring information as to the sale of patents should address Sues & Co., Patent Lawyers and So llcltors. Bee Bldg., Omaha, Nebr., for free information. Berlin (Md.) Herald: Few men profit by the experience of others, but they generally think others should profit by theirs. Cleveland Leader: Some men con sider they are economists when they save 10 cents by doing $10 worth of work. Sick headache. Food doesn’t di gest well, appetite poor, bowels con stipated, tongue coated. It’s your liver I Ayers Pills are liver pills, easy and safe. They cure dyspep sia, biliousness. 25c. All Druggists. Waul your nouitaoia or baai I a beautiful brown nr rich black 7 Then lite BUCKINGHAM'S DYE (JUIS™ WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. •; 174 Urine Aftnon. N«« Ma««n. Conn T t QARTERSlNK It 1**4 tt* <1 i>i]oiuih for 1'iu'lo H *if» tuutflt f*»r >«*«• DR. ARNOLD'S COUGH CURit mu«H« m> COUW. mi | rfl RILLtH tltf fc»*t I *«ti I'rlM t*»M l«f Poultry, Gams, Butter. Eg|S. |«*«i f t* - • •*«••«!« CAMPFIRE SKETCHES GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. When .Johnny Keh Went Home—Former Confederate Tells of the ICeturn of Southern Soldier* After the Ulg War —Kilpatrick In a Tight Place. Old l.etters. The house was silent, ami the light Was fading from the western glow: I rend till tears had dimmed my sight, Some letters written long ago. The voices that have passed away. The faces that have turned to mould, Were round me In the room today And laughed and chatted as of old. The thoughts that youth wus wont to think, The hopes now dead forever more, Came from the lines of faded Ink As sweet amt earnest as of yore. I laid the letters by and dreamed The dear dead past to life again: The present and Its purpose seemed A fading vision full of pain. Then, with a sudden burst of glee The children burst into the room. Their little faces were to me As sunrise In the cloud of gloom. The world was full of meaning still. For love will live, though loved ones die: I turned upon life’s darkened hill And gloried in the morning sky. —F. U. Scott. TVlieti Johnny Hob Wont. Home. At a dinner party the other night several former union soldiers and one ex-confederate sat down. The latter had ridden with J. E. H. Stuart. He is now "riding” about for a northern con cern. The talk turned on the home coming of military heroes, and the southern man said: "I was asked the other day in Pittsburg as we watched the welcome of the people to the Tenth Pennsylvania back from the Philippines what sort of a reception we Johnny Hobs got when we went home after the civil war. Whipped soldiers are not often required to march in bodies when they go home. The con federates did not as a whole. They did not in any way eo far as l ever heard. They went back in twos or threes but oftener one at a time. You will know some day that the civil war was unlike anv other war of history. When the confederates realized that they were whipped they were heart broken. I am not making any argu ment for the cause. Put you must con sider the temperament of a southern man to understand what defeat means to him. You people in the north would have recovered if (he north had been whipped. You would have been at Richmond, if we had succeeded, with your Yankee inventions and schemes. You would have gotten the contracts for the Confederate States public works. You would have had the con tracts for building our navy, for mak ing our guns. You would have built our railroads. You would have reviv ed your industries from our coffers. You would have become partners in our commerce. All this would have been characteristic of you. With the southern man it was different. He was whipped, but he was sullen. He moped and would not play. You peo ple had the advantage in the play, of course, but you might have given the sulker a show for his white alley if he bad shown a disposition to let you in side his yard. But he barred the gate and scowled at you through a knot bole. And this trait clung to him for years, and he awoke one morning to find some of you folks in his field, and on his plantation, working his soil, while he was starving. Then he quit looking back and went to work. And now when you have a trade with a rouiherner you do not take advantage of him as you did. But Just after the surrender he was in no mood to be re ceived. The town from which he had enlisted was in no condition to turn out in welcome and hurrah, even if a regiment had returned, or any body of men. Gentlemen, believe me there was not a healthy hurrah in the whole south after I^ee’s surrender. It was nothing to brag about for some time before that. Some of us saw the hand writing six months before the meeting of Grant and Lee at Appomattox. Your soldiers returned home in com panies, battalions and regiments. They were received by the populace, as we are now receiving our returning sol dlery from the Philippines, and as we recently received them from Cuba. But the confederate sneaked back, not because he was ashamed of what he had done, for to this day we are mighty sensitive on that point, but because he had been whipped, it takes a brave man to acknow ledge a lit king such us you gave us. We acknowledged It all right to you. and at home, but we did not want any hurrah made about it. Our people were lu no mood to ring the bells or (lie the guns wbcu we went home. A man going into his old home in the night, climbing the back fence and going through the garden, mak ing p«ae# with the dug, knocking at the kitchen door, ia not an inspiring spectacle. That'a the way most of us went Lack. V< ry often there were no t>e I la to ring You Yankees shot them out of the church steeples, or our peo ple had to melt them for ammunition We were mighty short toward the laet There were few house guns in th« I south dining the war. tk caalonaliy a I confederate returned to find hie town ’ so tiatteied that he did not know It * He met strange Nte* in the streets. I'aMlitsi la.. 1 marks had iii>4pl«S.id ! gomeiim* k found the foundation of ! In* old h* m*, end It was o>> tgio«n ' With grass- Whole towns disappeared, ; and cowmanttme removed, in some | section* of the south during the war | ihnww many sv-eonfed*rstea today who were ion r mu<t- »d uut Th< t I hunt hest w* and told a* to go, and wa war red in every direction i know a ■ fiatt In w . it* oh * is holdtag a fed eral office who never surrendered, ant who was never discharged from the confederate service. No war ever hac as many strange situations, us man.] curious Tesults, as that war.” T!o*« Talker of the Nuvy. From the Washington‘Star: A goof story comes up from Cuba about e well-known naval officer.. Wherevei the United States navy Is known Com mander I,uclen Young is known, Young was one of the men who went to the rescue of the shipwrecked sail ors at Samoa after the great cyclone in 1888. Me also performed a daring feat off Cape Hatteras when the Huron war iest, and was presented with a sword by the state of Maryland as a result of it. He was one of the landing party at Honolulu when the cruiser Boston sent troops there to support Minister Stevens in his recognition of the pro visional government which overthrew Queen Lliltiokalanl In Hawaii. Lucien is a Kentuckian, and as a talker Is sec ond only to Joe Blackburn of that state. But to get to the story: It ap pears that some naval officers were to gether down In Havana, and a late ar rival wiped his brow, ordered a drink and remarked that he was completely talked out, as he had been up against the greatest talker in the navy. "1 guess you must have struck Lucien Young,” remarked one of the other of ficers. “No,” he replied, "I have just been up against plain Smith," “Weil, then, you have another guess coming as to who is the greatest talker,’’ re sponded the man who had mentioned Young's name. "I don’t know what your man Young can do,” said the new comer, "but I have $5 to back my man Smith against him.” "Taken,” answered the champion of Lucien Young, quickly, and the money was put up in a third man's hands. It was agreed that nothing should be said either to Young or to Smith, but it was arranged that this group of naval officers should bring them together and quietly allow them to get started on some topic. The arrangements were all made. The men met casually. A drink or two wae passed around and some topic; introduced with with both Young and Smith were familiar. The others dropped out. leaned back in their chairs and smoked their cigars, while Smith and Young talked against each other over the table. This went on for a matter of two hours, and each apparently doing his level best. Finally, Smith brought his fist down on the table with a hang and said: “Lucien Young, you are the greatest talker in the navy. I'll quit you right here.” The money was passed over to Young’s backer, and the joke explain ed, amid loud laughter on the part of those who had perpetrated it upon the two talkers. Nul<ll»r unit (lie Ant Hill. Only the other day the Kansas vol unteers got under a fire so heavy that, after spreading out in line of skirmish* ers, the order was given to lie down. One unfortunate soldier flopped square ly into an ant hill. Thousands of the little pests swarmed angrily over him, biting with the peculiar penetration of Filipino ants. In a second the soldier Jumped up, swearing and almost screaming with pain. "Lie down, my man,” shouted his captain, “All right, sir," and down flopped the unhappy soldier. He could stand it only a few seconds, when he leaped once more tr his feet. "Lie down, I tell you,” in sisted the captain. “Blankety-blank, captain, I can't!” protested the poor fellow. Just then a sheet of Mauser bullets flew past him, at all heights, from his shin to his head. It was mar velous that the standing soldier was not hit in a dozen places, but he changed his mind swiftly about the possibility of lying down. Down h»' went, regardless of ants, shouting to his commander: "Yes, I can, captain! By the holy smoke, yes, 1 can, sir!" And he remained down until the order came to rise.—Manila Correspondence Leslie’s Weekly. Kilpatrick In n Tight riant. From the Washington Times: The late General Judson Kilpatrick was caught in a tight place near Chatta nooga during the cUil war. The gen eral, with hia cavalry division, W'as outside of the federal lines on a lit tle raiding business. Ilei-ng hard pressed by the confederates it was necessary for him to ford the Tennes see river in order to escape. He knew there was a ford but did not know where to find It. Riding up to a plan tation house he saw a tine looking old ! gentleman, with the ladies of his fam i lly, sitting on the veranda. He at once ; demanded that the venerable planter should lead him to the ford, which the latter positively refused to do. There upon General Kilpatrick told him that unless he complied with the request he would be shot in a minute. At this one of the ladles exclaimed indignant!)' I "General, have you a father?" Kil patrick replied "Yes, I have, and a i mother, too, and they have a boy. and that boy is in a d d tight place!" riill Ot> j*rt i«»m. Gnt. M> l|» was the architect of the pension uRiee lit Washington and wa* I Inordinately proud of his achievement. When Hen. tiheridau inspected the i building, G* u Meigs ar coin pa uied him I Hheridan went thoroughly over the j strut lure from top to bottom, without pissing any comment, hut when the inspection was completed he turned to his guide with Well, Mr I as, I tat* only on* fault to linJ with It." "What is that, general?” asked tb«* delighted ea-quarter muster general, "It'a In* p.iwif, ■ r--p ud jthertdan It's all w*!| enough fur a man to greet kh nth wtth a smite, hut there are times wh*a It is better to wait un til the utor uf the "smile' has some si hut * baled, I'afted States Senator Hanshrougb.! of North Dakota, acquired his educa tion in a newspaper office. In 1870 : he was apprentice in the composing ' room of the San Francisco Chronicle and gradually worked his way up un til he became news editor of that pa- j per. Dispatches from England say that 10,000 persons have riled of starvation in German East Africa. The terrible famine that is destroying the tribes living between anzibar and Mom basa, about 1100 miles, Is due to failure □f the rains during two consecutive seasons. C WITH A TAIL! Every One Has Noticed the New “C” in Town. It lias Cnnis to Stay Witli I'* For»f«r— Health Follows In Its Trail—A Wel come Awaits It 11 very where. Not so longagoevcryboily’s curiosity was aroused by the appearance in towu of a new “C." It looks like this: Thenneer “4‘ with a Tail" linn tnudefta Way nil over the United Staten, and here a* everywhere it promptly jumped into j>opu inrity. Why! because the “C with a Tail” in a comet of health followed by n coma of happiness and joy. It has come to stay with us nud radi ate its benefits in all directions. The new • C is part of the trademark of ( Cnserirets Candy Cathartic, the ideal laxa tive and guaranteed constipation cure. They make the liver lively, tone up the bowels, purify the blood, brace the brain, put everything right as it should lie. buy and try Cascarets to-day. it's what they do. uot v.-hat we say they'll do, that prove their merit. All druggists. Ilk-, !J5c, or 60c, nr mailed for price. Send for book let nnd free sample Address Sterling licm rdy Co., Chicago; Montreal, Can., or New York. This is the C ANCAUKT tablet. Every tablet of the only genuine • ascarets bears the marie letters “( '( C.” book at t'.ietalilet before you buy, and beware of frauds, imitations and substitutes. The pope has received from an Kng lish Catholic a present of a beautifully constructed motor car. The auto mobile is seated for two. As his holi ness lias not for three years taken carriage exercise, it is improbable that he will ever use the motor ear. THE PRESSMEN Pl.EASED. The Transcontinental Trip Was a Sur prise to Them. The following telegram has been re ceived by Mr. D. McNicoll, assistant general manager of the Canadian Fa rifle Railway, from Mr. W. S. Dlngmau, president of the Canadian Press Asso elation: “Vancouver. Aug. 21. 1899. “One hundred members of the Cana dian Press Association are deeply grateful to the Canadian Pacific Rail way Company for the unremitting cour tesy and hospitality which has made their trip across the continent the most Interesting and pleasant of all their outings. Though conscious of the sterling work accomplished in the spanning of a continent, for a large part remote from settlement, and in the opening up of a territory as vast ns some empires, the actual view unfolded on the journey has impressed the ex cursionists more forcibly than wordv can represent. The development all along the route, in cities as well as in agricultural and grazing sections, ba3 surprised us, and is most encouraging to lovers of solid progress and hopeful prosperity. The ease und comfort with which the trip from ocean to ocean is attended in the ears and in the C. P. It. hotels, through a service unexcelled anywhere, is a triumph for Canadian skill and enterprise second only to the | financial and engineering victories at tained in the building of the greatest scenic and developing line in America. “W. S. DINGMAN. “President Canadian Press Associa-1 tlon.’’ Booker T. Washington is to he given a public reception in A'tianta he 2.r.th instant, and Governor Cand ler will be among those to welcome him. while other leading white citi zens will make addresses. "Auk for «lie lint Itending. Liberal religious literature sent free on application to Mrs. M. 1). Reed, ;;!2 N. dStli ave., Omaha. Nebr. It was shown some time ago from j investigation that bribery in Connec | i(cut elections was most prevalent I among the native population of the | rural sections. Now comes a stalc ! meat from one of the eastern coun 1 lies of Maryland, which lias a popula ■ tlon of 19,702 natives and only 4,‘> for I elgn born, two-thirds of which Is i white, that the purch i-alile vote has | increased to il.ikH), und thin number I a mounts to early oue-half of the total electorate. The evil Is wo widespread, says the Worcester tMd t Advocate, I that a jury in rarely ever drawn In the [ county that does not have one or more no n upon it who ate known to Isdotig ! to the vole-selling class. Some members of the co-operative | colony at Huskin. Ten#,, have just founded a new < untie uiwealth at Duke,Ua.One hundred and twenty per ■.{12 have Joined the new colony, which will tie eotului ted on similar bins to the Trnnei.se* experiment, alt : property being held In common and members receiving pay for their labor I in goods Mi. McPougall of the London county i council is afraid that the Thames will ' run dry owing to the dams that are ! being built in the upper reaches of the j river. Last year 843,000,000 gallons of | water a day passed over Teddington j Weir in May; the figures for this year are 550.000.000 gallons in May. It is feared that the result may be an epi demic of disease, arising from the un diluted sewage of the city. The gold exported from Western Australia during August amounted to 145,397 ounces, of the value of J2.762,- j 555, This is the second largest month ly export on record. The late Captain Joseph Elliott, who died in Memphis, Tenn., last ] week, was one of the few surviving pioneers of the old Mississippi steam-.; boat days and served as a model for one of the characters in Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi." The somewhat sharp curves at Llno berg on the Seeonil Division of the Haltlmore and Ohio Rail Hoad are be liiK removed and replaced with a tan gent tiius eliminating about 24 de grees of curvature. About 14,000 cubic yards of material will be excavated. The gospel for the eternities is the only gospel for ihe times. Samuel ShPrard, an Inhabitant of PUtabnrg, owns what is probably the most costly hat in the world. Its prire was $1,250 and It Is made of spun glass. At fit at sight It appears to be made of lTTTely woven straw, but a nearer inspection reveals the fact that tt has certain reflective prop erties. It is the handiwork of an old Alsation at Pittsburg. More than 24,0'H) persons paid for admission to Shakespeare’s birth place, Stratford-on-Avon, during the, fiscal year recently closed, and more than 10,000 persons paid for admission to Ann Hathaway's cottage. FITS T>rmi>m ill,i < tirnj. !tom> nr n<*nron»n«w*lt»ir fll.l «Uv ' 11M* .if IH Kline's l.ruit NVr ,' Hrntnier. Sen<1 for I Itt !■: M3.00 irtnl I" me and in«in«, Iju. U. U. Ku»», l.l.i., » 1 Arch St., I hil«.lelpbl», l iu New York cress: a great many men would refrain from doing foollHh things if it wore not for their detdre to pet their names into the newspa pers. Pino’s Cure for Consumption has boeu a Cod-send to me.—Win. H, McClellan, Chester. Fieri du, Wept. 17. 1895. 8t. Louis Republic: That Si. Louis husband who bought himself a bicycle when his wife needed a cook stove undoubtedly has wheels. 1 “I GAVE little thought to my health," writer Mrs. Wm. V. Bell, 230 N. Walnut St., Canton, O., to Mrs. i’uik ham, *• until I found myself unable to attend to my household duties. ••I had haa my days of not feeling well end my monthly suffering, and u good deal of backache, but I thought all women had these things and did not complain. 1 “I had doctored for some time, but no medicine seemed to help me, and my physician thought it best for me to go to the hospital for local treatment. I had read and heard so much of your 7NOW5NT WOMEN Vegetable Compound that I made up my mind to try it. I was troubled with falling of the womb, had sharp pains in ovaries, leucorrlujuaand painful menses. I was so weak and dizzy that I would often have severe fainting spells. I took in all several bottles of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and Wood Purifier and usci Sanative Wash, and am n good health. I wish others to know of the wonderful good it has done me, and now. Will always give your medicine the highest praise.” Mas. A. Tou.e, 1946 Hil ton St., Philadelphia, Pa., writes: “Dear Mrs. Pikkham— I was very thin and my friends thought I was in con sumption. Had continual headaches, backache and falling of womb, and my eyes were affected. Every one noticed how poorly I looked and I was advised to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. One bottle have many friends taking it relieved me, and after tak- i ^ in# eight bottles am now a * • healthy woman; have gained in weight 95 pounds to 140 pounds, and everyone asks what makes me so stout.” Surely a marvel for the money. Only that we buy Furniture in bigger lots than any other Mail Order House, it couldn’t be done. $2.35 This extra high bai'k, deep seated, roomy Rocker is made of thoroughly sea soned rock ilm, finished in it rich ilurk shade. Its main feature lies in its extreme size. Tlio total width of the waddle peat is '£1 inches. The seven wide, flat spln dlei) connecting with the i rnumeutally carved top nrn cutved conforming to the back of the person us ing it, thus affording com fort. The arms arc large end rounding and tho height of back is 31 inches. It Is a strong, as wt-11 as an elegant Rocker that ordi narily would sell for double our price. which it fitted at lowest wholesale prices eat wear and use.is furnish 10? to partly pay and as evidence allowed on first 4199 or above. TCSU.10 SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY. 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