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T.oftun a la ‘•I-rnnon.” Miss Cissy Loftus is getting up a lot of new imitations and proposes to try in New York the plan many of the vaudeville stars of London adopt of appearing at several theaters in the same evning. She will "make up" at her hotel and drive to the first the ater at which she is to appear and as soon as she has finished there she will Jump -nto a cab and hurry to the next pluce, and so on. Japan will not restore captured ships to China, but will sell her new ally 240y#OO Mauser rifles and 24,000,000 rounds of ammunition at a low orice. Bf, ScnfciM ed to a Minute til .lull William Smith, who was released j yesterday from the penitentiary, where | he had served a two-year term for ob- | tainlng money under false pretenses, found a rather interesting reception awaiting him outside of the prison gates, where he was immediately ar rested on a charge of lureeny. This offense was committed before he had served his two-year term. On account of the poor health of the prisoner Judge Palmer exercised great leniency In sentencing him. The deputy sheriff marched him to the county jail, where he was sentenced to languish for a term of one minute. Overlx-arlug Straw Ix-rrirH. The special expert sept abroad by the agricultural department in search of new seeds and edible plants has brought back an ' everbearing straw berry," which he recommends highly. It comes from h ranee, where it has been recently bred. It is said to pro duce fruit for months ofl the same plants, and a small patch will supply a family table a whole season, , Ante for the Bf**t lt«ii<ltiic. Liberal religious literature sent free on application to Mrs. H. 1). Reed, 132 N. 38th ave., Omaha, Nebr. The common opportunity comes, as the divlnest opportunity in the whole history of th,r world ramp, cradled in cbscurlt;’. f I. youreyes? Bad taste in your mouth? It’s your liver! Ayer’s Pills are liver pills. They cure constipation, headache, dyspepsia, and all liver complaints. 25c._All druggists._, Want your moustache or be*nl a beautiful orown or rich black ? Then use BUCKINGHAM’S DYE fcUte,. 6? <•▼»■ or Qm-GOUTS, on R. P hail ^ CO. t Naswja, K H. FREE GOVERNMENT LANDS... There are still thousands of acres of (?ot erninenl lauds In the states of Washington and Oregon, also prairie and timber lands near laTroud and water cuminuniratlon that can be bought for S3.00 peracre; and there are no cyclones. blTraards. lour winters or real hot summers, no fnlluio of crops, hut always good markets. If you wish to raise Brain, principally, or fruit, or the finest stock ou earth, you can find locations in these two states where you can do this to perfection. If you are looking for employment and wish to secure steady work at good wages. I cun help you todo this. 1 have no land for sale but If you want in formation about this write me at 199 E. Third St.. St. Paul. M nn. R. E. WERKMAN. W. L. DOUCLAS S3 & 3.50 SHOES jj|MSg Worth $4 to $6 compart with other makes. IudorhHl by over 1,000,004) m t arei H. The genuine have W. I. I noughts' name and prue i stamped on bottom. 'l ake lm> substitute • Mimed to [as good. Your deale should keep them if ^not. we wilt .sen t a paif m receipt c*f price. State TV^^Jkind of i eather. *-i/«, and width, plain or cap toe. Catalogue A free. * i . f. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO.. Brockton. Mata. CARTER'S INK the test ink made ►* but no dearer than the poorest DR. ARNOLD’S COUGH cukes cnucss and coins. |/|| I PQ PREVENTS CONSUMPTION. IV ILLC fl All llriiKKlsts. Alto. FHeS&fiter ANOAaoTMtu o»!*ASCS m |YL?»WG F*OM vmc AflO »* TWt BLOOD rni. kwh VJL^myMB CO-. INVENTORS . ■ t UM »\% HI >« . ^U*hV‘m r. nmuiniiuii. ■> * •’ll* - - 4MXIS mttHh r»l«iil I Mwtrra, PENSIONS ■ rilMf* IIAil ’•imMUh aimI I hll W««r*. Sol* py illrrv H4iit<r« \VWtt»i*» l hil!r»»*, F»lt»rr» .»!• > M -'l“ - .V>f*« uhlt-•» + <uv **• fit). V. M *•»•*»*% «U. . It* *. rCIldlUnO OOUBLE QUICK Mitta Ufr OfMM M. 4«mI, l4i;N«» ImI, Atitiw, MlMIIMtlUN.D. C< LADY OR MAN «*>.«»<) t* !»«««) HI Wr„ . tMItt A Hi*1* *Mft *%***«•• ‘ *. \ i • H iti4g % hi 9.DOM noMMlV %% 4«ltlHttloU, Ml. . i . ;.V^, Thom^iM’l Eft W*Ur. U N I. OMANI. 4* »•»•**# v'lXmxd i THE LITTLE HEROES. HEROIC DEEDS OF CHILDREN IN VARIOUS LANDS. Urrmany Owns the Mott Frecocloo* Ileru on Record—A Kaonliin Itoy Who Tackled A Hungry Wolf to Save a Sleeping Itnix. Probably the most precocious hero on record Is a tiny boy called Leonard Webber, aged 5 years, who several days ago received a certificate of honor from the Royal Humane Society of Germany for raving from drowning the life of his little brother, aged 3. The children were playing with some other hoys on the edge of a pond, when the youngest Webber fell into the water. The others, frightened by the incident, took to their heels, but Leonurd, with out the slightest hesitation, plunged In and rescued his brother from a watery death. The youthful hero, who Is a bright, intelligent youngster, seemed to think nothing of his brave feat. Quite as remarkable was the case which comes from a remote corner of Russia, where a boy of 9 years actual ly possessed the temerity to tackle a great, gaunt wolf that had assailed a tiny playmate as the latter lay asleep. The rescuer seized an ax that chanced to he lying on the ground, w'here it had been left by a woodman, and gave Ibattle to the wolf, who. finding him self thus attacked, promptly aban doned his murderous intentions and trotted off into the wood. So silently was the splendid deed performed that the sleeper slept on through its per formance, and it was only when he awoke soon afterwards that he heard how narrow an escape he had had from a terrible death. Russia has, indeed, been the scene of much youthful heroism. Some years ago, when a peasant woman was sitting with iter little daughter, aged about 8 years, at supper, the curtains w’hic'i divided the living room in which they sat from the adjoining bed room, caught fire, through the explo sion of an oil lamp. The mother sat dumbfounded, not knowing what to do, but her daughter, child as she was, possessed more presence of mind, for, seizing a knife, she climbed upon a chair, cut down the blazing curtains and then smothered the flames with the hearth rug. In two minutes' time tlie fire, which might have developed into a veritable conflagration, was ex tinguished. and the whole business was carried out by the unaided pluck of a mite of 8. Fortunately she escaped with nothing worse than several trivi al burns, and her brave conduct was the talk of the village for a long time afterwards. Even burglars have found them selves worsted by children little more than babies, and in Nottingham not so very long ago a burly disciple of Bill Sykes was subdued and captured by the action of a schoolboy of 12. The boy slept in a tiny room adjoining his father’s apartment, and was awakened one December night by sounds of a struggle from the latter chamber. Without an instant's hesitation the child seized a poker and gliding on tiptoe into the room found his rela tive In the grip of e. massive burglar, who was gradually choking him. Quick as thought the boy hit the ruf fian, once, twice and thrive upon the head, with the result that h** loosened his grasp on the father's throat and fell to the floor stunned and helpless. Ten minutes later he was on his way to the police station under the guar dianship of two stalwart constables and it afterwards transpired that he was a malefactor long wanted by the police for a series of daring burglaries. Sort of Up-tn-Uute Mazcppa. A boy named Veasy, having escaped from the workhouse at Hinckley, Iajicestershire, England, the porter was ordered to proceed to Stanton, a neigh boring villuge, and bring him back. The porter went to Stanford on a bi cycle, and, finding the lad, tied both his arms with a rope, and, attaching the end of it to his bicycle, dragged him back to Hinckley, the man riding at good speed. The affair has created a great sensation in the district, and at the recent meeting of the Hinckley guardians the board expressed their strong condemnation cf the porter's conduct. One member of the bourd said the boy was exhausted by the treatment meted out to him. At the meeting the porter’s resignation was tendered and accepted, the mun's ex planation for resigning being that he did not care for the treatment lie re ceived from the vagrants. Vlrtroliigirwl Hvfurn. In hi* prnidefiltil address before th« Society for the Promotion of Kugiueer lnK K*lu<alion, Hr. Mendenhull ndvo iail'd tin' adoption of the metric •>* ti*iii of weights and measure* Hr said that there i> a certain data of object ora who »«•*< something sacred In the yard and the pound tu-rause they aie relic* of antiquity, and sowciltlng in herently wricked In thp meter and the kilogram became they originated with the Ptrin h doting the revolution at ! the clone of the ls»t centMry, lie quot rd the words of t'barlee Sumner In the senate, uttered more thaa Ihtrty rear* ago "A system of weights and me is ores horn of philosophy rather thaa chance U what we no* seek To thle end old system* must he abandon,.,j iim i»*t* mo i ,.H<.i Mi* Tladlet Why Johnny shal is the matter wtih yon’ You ve b*ea Aghllag' And | ' id you to touni i, u when you were angry Johnny I dot hut Tommy l inker played roots <>n me lie didst ewuai hi* ten until after bs d plunked me In th* eye Itmius Tran serlpl SPIDER WHO REASONED WELL MotliH and Mo*qtilto«ui Sought an Klntrlc Light and lie Saw IIU t'liHQce. Insects reason at least some in sects do. This Is no dogma. It is a fact that can be demonstrated, or rather that has been demonstrated. The demonstration lies in the appli cation of electricity to spider utili ties. In a trolley car on a suburban line the other evening I noticed that around the central cluster of lights pendant from the roof was a spider’s web. It was evening, and by and by the current was turned into the lights. From a crevice somewhere In the roof of the car emerged a great fat, well favored spider. Hlltbely he lowered himself by homespun ladders until he was on a level with one of the glowing bulbs of light. Patiently he waited, and he had not long to wait. Even as the first tide of electricity surged through the dainty filament of the lamp, heating it to illumination, a silly moth turned from Its haphaz ard course to hover about the light. A score of other moths, a swarm of pestiferous mosquitoes, a collection of gnats, some belated Hies and other denizens of the insect world plunged madly into the circle of ’’all hands around" the electric lights. It was the spider's opportunity. Here he seized a moth, there a mosquito. Skillfully he threw his silken ropes about them, binding them fast. One victim secur ed, he hastened to secure another, storing up choice viands of all sorts for a midnight feast. Now, why did the spider fix his lair near the electric light? Was It instinct? Instinct is a development of generations, and elec tric light Is of recent invention. Say. rather it was reason. This observing spider by chance bud wandered into an electric car. Wideawake for op portunities, he noticed this new In vention of man—electric light. He had seen how the foolish moths and mosquitoes swarmed about the blaze. “If these foolish creatures gather here to-night,” this cunning spider reas oned—what other name shall we call it?—they will gather here to-mor row night, and on the nights to come. Ergo, there will I pitch my tent and set my snares." Howr else can the spider's presence there be explained? New York Her ald. New Manser “The new Mauser pistol, with which our cavalry is about to be armed, is a horrible-looking piece of machinery," said an aesthetic New Orleans sports man. “it doesn’t resemble a firearm at all, but looks like some strange scien tific instrument, such as one might see in a laboratory. Imagine a cigar box, Japanned black, with a handle at one end and a short tube at the other, and there you have it. The box contains the mechanism and the tube spouts bullets. The cavalryman of the past was a dashing figure. He wore a steel cuirass and a helmet with nodding plumes, and while he carried a brace of pistols In his holster, his real weap on was his trusty saber. Do you re member the splendid fellows who are galloping past Napoleon In Metsson nier's ‘1807’? Since then science has gradually sucked all the poetry out of war, and the Mauser pistol is the last work of brutal utilitarianism. The cavalryman of the future will carry nothing but a small black walnut box, and will closely resemble a surgeon go ing out to operate for appendicitis. When he gets to the right spot, desig nated by the engineer corps, he will dismount, open the box, take out his hideous Mauser machine, hook the case to one end, so as to form a shoul der rest, spray a few quarts of projec tiles in a given direction, and go home again to rest after the fatigue of the fray. If the calculations of the range finder are right, his bullets will perforate somebody a mile away. That will be war a la mode. In some re spects it is a great improvement on the old style, but it will inspire no poets. Imagine Tennyson writing the ‘Charge of the Light Hrigade’ about a cavalry regiment armed with Mauser automat ics!"— New Orleans Times-Demoerat. I ln« n I<oclc«*rrt AImihimI Ship. There are no laundries on board ship; they take up too much room. So the chief steward lays in thousands of pillow slips, sheets and towels. These come on board tied up In bales of a dozen each, and are stored In the linen locker, a cubby-hole of n place on the main deck; the ventilator pipes from | the engine-room run through It and keep It hot. There U no danger of linen gettlug mildewed there. The ! linen which has been used Is thrown | Into auother room provided with the ; same atmosphere, and la kept thor oughly dry. Where there are clean ^ napkins every day. frequent cluugtn of staterouut linen and an everlasting replenishing of towel racks, the de mands upon the linen locker arc very eitenslve. Hu* Ilia lllr.l. Is tfff I hew. Mias .Marie Italroyde, the London actress, who recently Inherited a large | fortune, created a sensation on a j thoroughfare of that city recently While passing a stall where a bird 1 dealer had a targe stink of wild bird* 1 In cage* she purchased a doa*n Jin a<>ts, opened the doors of their cages and let them By away, t'lndiag ah* had not money enough la her purse to procure freedom for all the warblers •he returned home for more, and rerts Ulna the man purchased and liberated every wild bird lb bis stork An Ini ni>use crowd of people gathered and many of them warmly commended her kindly a*t New York Mail sad i:i press If we could see ourselves aa others see us we might have a better opinion i «f our*#.ics man we have now The editor of the North American Review gives, in his November num ber, renewed evidence of his purpose to make that periodical the vehicle for conveying to the public the best po etrj.’ which poets of the English speech are producing today. The appearance of Me. Swinburne's "Chanml Passage ' in the July number created a sensa tion, and the publication now of Mr. W. E. Henley's latest songs and mad rigals, under the title of "Hawthorn and Lavender,” Is an event of no less importance. This feature of the No vember number comprises no fewer than twenty-five exquisite poems. STRIKE! Hundred of Thousands Are Involved. Trouble In an Important Part of the Orttnizs tion Affects All the Rest A Perfectly Harmonious System Easily Thrown Out of Cear. Organized labor has reached such n stage that anything affecting a particular branch of It draws ull the rest into the difficulty. It ts exactly the same way with differ ent organa of the human body. Work too hard, eat too much, drink too much, ex ercise hut little, be a little Irregular In any way, and the liver nulls work. Then the bowels become constipated and the stomach goes on strike. The heart is affected, the brain follows suit, and every part In the body Is drugged Into the trouble. The only way out of It Is to go at the source of nil this lhe liver Square your self with the liver and all will gel buck to regular natural work. t'usearets Candy Cathartic make things right with the liver. They perfume the breath, prevent food from souring on the stomach, give tone to the bowels,strength en the Intestinal muscles, while they are cleaning and stirring up the liver to re newed activity. No matter how long a case has been In curable, t'asearelH are guaranteed to put things right as they should be, and set the whole machinery a-going. And you can get them at any drug store or by mall for price 10c, 25c. or 60c. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. This Is the t'ASt'AHET tab let. Every tablet of the only genuine < 'ascarcts bears the magic letters "C C C." Look X A at the tablet before you buy, v 'v and beware of frauds, ltnltu tlons and substitutes. When you hear most noise about religion you may remember that the propeller Is not heard save when It churns out of water. Orwitf’M Patent Oftlci* Il«*|iort. Applications for patents preparo'l and prosecuted by us have been al lowed as follows: To O. Sullivan, of Fredericksburg, la., for a railroad joint comprising a chair re-enforced at its ends by inte gral downward angular projections to overlay the side faces of cross ties and provided with an integral splice bar at one edge adapted to overlay the flanges and webs of the abutting endi of rails and a notch in the other edge adapted to receive a projection at the edge of a mating splice bar. To A. Mendenhall, of Oskaloosa, for a simple, strong, durable and < fliclent device adapted to be detachably fas tened to the top edge of the dasher of a buggy or carriage in such a manner that a person seated in the vehicle can readily detachably fasten driving reins thereto. Printed information about securing, valuing and selling patents sent free to applicants. THOMAS G. ORWIG & CO., Registered Patent Attorneys. Des Moines, la.. Oct. 28. 1899. The devil has to pry the busy man s door open, but that of the idler is u standing invitation to him. JASON CROW. OSCARVILLE. GA. Writes us, May 31, 1S99: "I feel it my duty to write and let you know what your medicine. ‘5 Drops,’ has done for me. I have had rheumatism about eighteen years, but was able to be up most of the time until a year ago last May, when I was taken down and not able to move about. About six weeks ago 1 saw your advertisement and wrote for a sample bottle. After tak ing a few doses it did me so much good that I ordered some more for myself and friends, and in every case it has done wonders and given perfect satisfaction. “Dr. Wocdliff. niy family physician, who has had rheumatism for fifteen years, is taking the ’5 Drops.’ and says it is the most efficient rheumatic med icine he has ever used.’’ "5 Drops” is the most powerful spe cific known. Free from opiates and perfectly harmless. It is a perfect euro for Rheumatism. Sciatica, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, llackache. Asthma. Catarrh, i.a Grippe, Neuralgic Headache, etc. If you or any of your friends are suf fering, do not delay, hut send for a bottle of "5 Drops.” Large-sized bot tles (300 doses), $1. For the next thirty days we will mail a 25-cent sample bottle for 10 rents. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO., ICO to 1C4 E. Lake Street, Chicago. III. In the mathematics of souls you ran never he sure how many two and two may make. Melting I'aUnli. The pant wr-»-U tn«*ri« w«*r** 4 It |mtrn'« iMMiird to Invt'iitor* of th« l?alt«d niau'i, rtiiu 01 min numlwr Jt> !»>r rent of lh«« Inventor* wer** ( uh!e to aril *»lth**r th« ' whole or m |mrt of their Invention* before th< Biine Were Inane.I Amnugat the firoini neiit niMitufat turltut e>*in> u>.i «ini (jut• ii iM'il iwti tit* n**r«> (In- following: Mrrgmthalor l.ttiutyoo Co. of Now York. Mrtor rtjfo ami i.mk I'd . < 'I in in na il. ohm Klartrtr Whli )«• t’o Now Vnrh ilijr Itraiwr l’», llo|M‘«t*to. Mam., mu I 1'ortlaml, M» King«r \l.ihufai luriM4 C'u. NVw J»r* of Horton H«kot M.oltlnv t'o, No* York rlty. Amort* 4« t’nivorial Hill IV, Now York, N Y Kliaon IIHnwirkw lioatiag amt In uwlwtm Idghiiag t'o.. I‘hii«4|*>i|>hu. I‘» , and rharlwton W Va Ohio M*kr t'o, Itniua ft •’art low •Wiring Inforuuttma u lo •ailing or obtaining patent* may ah tala the mw > by a>Mroa*tng #<*•• * t’o, t*aioat la«t«it and tulluiur lb« building naan ha, N*h Ho who 'tkm lha pain* will taka the pritoa At I.»w Over a WoimImi Henry Henner complained to the po lice to-Uay that an artificial leg. worth $107, given him by the Pennsylvania Railroad company, hail been unlawful ly seized and held by B, F. Sutton, another one-legged man. An Investi gation showed that Sutton had gotten the leg by representing to Mrs. Benner that he was going to enlarge the socket so as to fit her husband's stump better. After getting the leg Sutton secured an attachment, claiming ihe owner of j the leg owed him for repairs made upon it. Sutton advertises the leg lor sale to satisfy the judgment. Fruit <«rnulriK t ntli r It is estimated that the area of ground in the l nited Kingdom which Is covered by glass houses devoted to fruit culture has increased more than tenfold during the last thirty years. The latest statistics show that tnere are a present over 1,000 acres of land covered in this way. The superin tendent of the Covert Garden market, London, estimates that these houses produce anout 1,000 tons of grapes, 0,000 tons of tomatoes, 500,000 dozens of cucumbers of every year, besides which there are, of course, lesser quantities of such fruits as strawber ries, peaches, nectarines and tigs. Yitluitlilt* Invention. A Now Zealand man named Gibson has patented an Invention for brand ing stock without Injuring the hide. The new process uses a chemical dep ilatory, which permanently destroys ihe hair. The destruction of part of the hide was one of the bad features of the old method, the brand appear ing on the best part of the skin. Gib son's patent, it is claimed, will add a value of d or 7 cents at leant to every hide to which it Is applied. The right for Australia ulone has just been dis posed of for $050,000. Try Graln-ot Try Graln-ot Ask your grocer today to show you a package of GilAlN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of onffoe. The children may drink it without in jury as well as the adult. All who try it. like It. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-fourth the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. Sold by an grocers. So many Chinese officials nrc re singing that the empress dowager has ordered the punishment of those who apply for leave without pressing ne cessity. State of Ohio, cttt of Toledo, i LucasCouhty, ( Frank .1. Cheney makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the ttrm of P. J.Cheney A Co., doing business In th- City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONK HUNUBKI) DOLLARS for earli and every ease of Catarrh that cannot he cured by the use of Hall e < 'atarrh Cure. PRANK J. CHUNKY. Sworn to before tne and subscribed In my presence, this8th day of December, A l>. 1SHA , A- W. GLKASON, [SEAL. J Notary Public. Hall s Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. P. J. CHBNKY A CO., Toledo, a Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hull s Family l’ills uro tbo best Their Strong Point. "What are the race peculiarities or Filipinos?” asked the teacher who be lieves that current history Is not to be neglected. “They kin race like thunder," was the prompt reply of the new bey In the utstrici. TDK GRIP CCRK THAT HORS CURE. Laxative Bromo (juinlno Tablets removes the cause that produces La Grippe. K. W Grove's signature is on each hex. 28c. Queen Victoria has seventy-five di rect descendants. The queen has seven sons and daughters living, thirty-three grand children and thirty-one great grandchi.u. There are now twenty-three stations in all parts of the world for register ing earthquakees. If no one shrinks, the sermon lacks salt. Cecil Rhodes, the man who has done more than any other (Englishman to give the English-speaking race a foot hold In South Africa, and hence is in directly, if not directly, responsible for the differences between the British government and President Kruger that have culminated in war, is the subject of an elaborate character sketch by Mr. W. T. Stead in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for No vember. Mr. Stead was the original 'dtscoverer" of Mr. Rhodes and has for many years been on terms of intimacy with the millionaire-statesman. His sketch is the only authentic biography of Rhodes ever published. How Mrs. Pinkham HELPED MRS. GOODEN. [LITTER TO MRS. FINKIIAM HO. !J,73j] “I am very grateful to you for your kindness and the interest you have taken In me, and truly believe your medicines and advice are worth more to a woman than all the doctors in the world. For years I had female troubles and did nothing for them. Of courso I became no better and finally broke down entirely. My troubles liogan with inflammation and hemorrhages from the kidneys, then inflammation, congestion and falling of the womb and inflammation of ovaries. “ I underwent local treatment every day for some time; then after nearly two moni Its the doctor gave rne permis sion to go back to work. I went back, but In less than a week was com pelled to give tip and go to bed. On breaking down the Second time, I de cided to let doctors and their medicine alone and try your remedies. Before the first bottle was gone I felt the ef fects of it. Three bottles of Lydia E. I’inkhnm'.s Vegetable Compound and a package of her Sanative Wash did me more good than nil the doctors’ treat ments und medicine. “The first remark that greets mo now is ‘How much better you look!- and you may be sure I never hesitate to tell "tins cause of my health.”1—Mna. E. J. Gooden, Ackley, 1a. The Klglit Word. Mrs. Wiekwlre—"Our washerwoman always talks about ’wrenching’ the clothes Instead of rinsing them.” Mr. Wlckwlre—“Maybe she says what she inoanH. r-he has wrenched all the button-holes out of half my shirts.” The Baltimore anti Ohio South Western Hall Hoad placed In service several months ago five large ten wheel compound passenger engines for use on fast trains between Cincinnati j and St. Louis. The performance of these engines has been eminently sat isfactory and up to the highest expec tation. The same line has also in ser vice 50 consolidation compound freight i engines which provide ample power for the entire line In addition to what ! was already in use. The compound engines were un experiment but hard | service has proved that they are en tirely successful und show a saving of 15 per cent in fuel as compared with simple engines of the same type. Ex haustive tests were made with both the simple and compound locomotives before the order for the entire lot was placed with the result vastly In favor of the compound locomotives. Krpld flrowtli In llnnnll. Hawaii's population has increased 25.000 during .-ie last two years, show ing that annexaion has had a favorable effect on its census returns, as it has on Its general prosperity and sociul condition. It Win “8o Nu<I<l*n.*v "Miss Gwendolen,” said he as they sat on the beach in the moonlight, “will you mary me?” "Tills is so sudden.” she cried. “My love?” he askcit. "No,” she replied—"your nerve.” A DOLLAR STRETCHER One lady writes that the greatest “Dollar Stretch er” she has ever found is the new and original method by which J. C. Hubinfjer is introducing his latest invention, “Ked Cross” and “ Ilubinger's Host” starch. She says: With your landless Chain Starch Hook, I received from my grocer one large package of “ Ked Cross” starch, one large package of “Hublnger’a Best” starcii, and two beautiful Shakespeare panels, all for Sc. How far my dollar will no, I am unable to figure out. Ask your grocer for this starch and obtain the beautiful Christmas presents free. "MAMMOTH MAILORDER rtnr nn saved to the purchaser of this *01 nr S25.00 High firade Top Buggy S34.95 -- AT OUR SPECIAL OFFER PRICE OF OIUV - W•• i't*r (hta Inn) ilHtul Iwlt'ri lllm. lln* *'|U*| i'l * ll l< h M frinjlifMl) Ml) t» lb* daalat* III M tow than III. an lUl ll rj »hi* I ni iliwl law a# aai» tallf jw •». m3 i. !•« aba Mar *•.««>. n > gum *«*i atilivr aiaa* uf Vunttmg iljla a nil l>rii.*a <•« HMilni »)>!» t ar WUHI* U|N>« ••• »iil» Uavk. 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