SCRAMBLE FOR DIAMONDS. e«ma Thrown Away by aa 4Mrnt> Minded UMltr. "Have you got any of those dia monds?” Is the question of the hour in Birmingham. Some 809 precious stones have been sharedl out by luck; prospectors in Vittoria street, and the search still continues, says the London Express. It happened in this wise: In a fit of abstraction JJm Davis, member of a firm of diamond mer chants, while walking down Vittoria street an a recent morning, pulled an old envelope out of his pocket and commenced to tear it up. When he reached the last section the terrible fact dawned upon him that it was the envelope in which were some 1,600 small diamonds, valued at £100, and that he had been sowing these broad cast over a public thoroughfare. The news spread with lightning-like rapid ity. Shopkeepers locked up and came to the more lucrative occupation of picking up diamonds, while for a mile around an errand boy at bis ordinary work was a phenomenon. Such a scraping of the street with knives and sticks had never been seen. As it happened, most of the lost stones went down the cellar gratings of a jeweler's shop. Ingenious youths Ashed for them with a piece of soap attached to a stick and reeled in three prizes at a time. Others sat in the gutter sort ing an anxiously guarded handful of dirt. Still the crowd grew. At one period over 1.500 lads wrere to be seen hard at work. From noon to seven o’clock the street was nearly blocked. When night fell candles, lamps and lanterns were brought to aid the Inde fatigable hunters for treasure trove, and the scene presented could only have been done justice by Hogarth. About half the diamonds have found their way back to their rightful owner. Some were sold to a shopkeeper and the rest, like the graves of a house hold, are scattered far and wide. Dia mond pins will shortly be fashionable in Birmingham. PRAIRIE DOGS, rtiey Iluvn Il.nl Their Day on ilie I’liiuf of the Far Went. Passengers on the "Q” system who have ridden the better part of a day through western Nebraska and east ern Colorado will remember the prairie dog. He is numerous in that section of the country. He lives in villages and the villages are as close together ns the villages of certain parts of Eur ope, says the Des Moines News. But the prairie dog has had liis day. The agricultural department says he must go. Mr. Wilson has decided that the dogs kill the grass and ruin good graz ing land. "Tama Jim” has little of the love of picturesqueness in his make up. He is eminently practical and his philanthropy is of the type which seeks to make two blades of grass grow instead of one. Therefore he proposes to relegate the prairie dog to the pic ture books and to the stuffed specimens of the museum along with the buffalo. Mr. Wilson's chemists have discovered a mixture that will make whole vil lages fight for the first bite, but which at the last biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Under its in fluence the hole that knows the prairie dog will know it no more forever. The frisky, nervous, barking little beast will join the innumerable caravan ol prairie dogs who havo gone before There will be more grass when the prairie dog is gone, and therefore more cattle. There will be less break ing of the legs of cowboys’ ponies anil the rattlesnake will live alone in the hole until the summons come to him also. THE ANOA. Dwarf Cattlo of Oleltes Are No Longt i Than Ordinary Sheep. Celebes has the distinction of being the home of the smallest living repre sentative of the wild cattle, or, In deed, of the wild cattlo of any period of the earth’s history, for no group appears to be known to science. An idea of three extremely diminutive pro portions of the anoa, or sapi-utan, as the animal in question is respectively called by the Inhabitants of Celebes and the Malays, may be gained when it Is stated that its height at the shoul der is only about 3 feet 3 inches, whereas that of the great Indian wild ox, or guar, is at least 6 feet 4 inches, and may, according to some writers, reach as much as 7 feet. In fact, the anoa is really not much, if at all. larger than a well-grown South Down sheep and scarcely exceeds in this re spect the little domesticated Bramini cattle shown a few years ago at the Indian exhibition held at Earl's Court The anoa has many of the characters of the large Indian buffalo, but its horns are relatively shorter, less curved and more upright. In this, as well as in certain other respects, It is more like the young than the adult of the last-named species, and as young animals frequently are gradual ly lost as maturity is approached It would be a natural supposition that the anoa Is a primitive type of bt*ffu/* —From Knowledge. What Can You ExjM-i-t? There was a bargain sale of gloves in one of the up-town stores the other day. One woman who had considered herself fortunate in being in the front rank the bargain counter rush was much disgruntled when she reached home to find that both gloves were for the same hand. She took them back e»>d explained. “What can you expfew at such a price?'’ asked the girl of whom the purchase had been made, b* a deprecatory tone.—Xew Voile Times. A law in Boston permitn residents to keep street musicians 300 feet from their houses. There should be fewer crimes and more criminals committed. Tt la well to remember that GARFIEDD TEA cleanses the system, purifies the blood, regulates the liver and kidneys and cures chronic constipation. A man isn't necessarily a coward be cause be runs from a vicious cow. Wont for lie llowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARKTS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 ceuts to r.tart getting your health back. CASCARWITS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up iu metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Be ware of imitations. When cats light they simply scratch a match. PITS Permanently Cure100,000 was paid to exhibitors in prizes. "Advance,’’ the champion fat steer, was sold for >1 50 a pound, live weight, and weighed on the Chicago Scales Co.'s scales, the official scales of the show. Tbi3 is the highest price at which any animal was ever sold for beef. In Now York a Mr. Wiekes is a real er in lamps, while Mr. Lampe i3 a dealer In lamp wicks. Magnetic Starch is the very best laundry starch in the world. Moral diseases breed in the swamp of the impure heart. $148 will buy new Upright piano on easy payments. Write for catalogues. Sehmoller & Mueller, 1313 Farnam street, Omaha. Never violate a faith, desert a friend or leave a woman in an ill hu mor. Plso's Cure for Consumption In an Infallible medicine tor coughs mid colds.— N. W. Simukl, Ocean drove, N. J., Feb. 17. 19U0. So many Christians are fighting for i toys when God offers to give them a : kingdom. Try Magnetic Starch—it will last longer than any other. LOW RATES TO THE SOUTH. Excursion tickets at reduced ratei. are now being sold by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway to the prominent resorts in the South, in cluding Jacksonville, Fla., Mobile, Ala., New Orleans, La., Savannah, Ga., El Paso. Tex., which are good for return passage at any time prior to June 1st, 1901. Information regarding rates, routes, time, etc., can be obtained on application to any coupon ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & SL Paul Railway. Affluence is the dream of every man who is in the employ of others. Carter* Ink has a coo-! deep color and It docs Dot strain the eyes. Carter s doesn't (ado. I^actrald, a substitute for celluloid, is made from skim milk. If you have not tried .Magnetic Starch try it notv. You will then use no other. The muzzle does not cure the dog of madness. For starching flue linen use Magnetic Starch. The wages of sin are always paid right on time. Use Magnetic Starch—It has no equal. “Father” Is the keyword to all true prayer. T't crRF, A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take '.axative Bromc yri.MKK.TABi.ETS. All IruggLts refund the money 1( it fails to cure. L. W. Grove's signature is on the box. 26c. 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Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by !\ J. Cheney & Co., 'IXiledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken Internally, and made In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimoniuisfreo. ‘ Isold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. llail s Furnily Fills are the best. How weary the shoulders of these self-thought Atlases must be? TO HOUSEKEEPERS and all lovers of good food, pure food, and food that satisfies, Wheat-0 par ticularly appeals. It is made by a new process that eliminates all unhealthy parts of the wheat and retains the pure gluten and strength-giving parts of the grain. Ask your grocer for Wheat-0 and give it a trial. Hit a block with a club and It's shinny; hit a head and its felony. An a dressing and color restorer, Parkrr's Hair Balsam never falls to satisfy. Uindriicobns. the best cure for corns. 15cts. Taxes are like hurdles, you fall on them If you can't jump them. Drug* have their use, but don't store them In your stomach. lJcemun s Pepsin Gum aids the natural forces to perform their functions. Ambition is often but another name for happiness, work and disappoint ment. GOVERNOR Uses Feru-na For Colds OF OREGON in His Family and Grip. CAPITOL BUILDING, SALEM, OREGON. A Letter from the Executive Office of Oregon. Tb« Governor of Oregon is an ar Jent admirer of Fe-ru-na. He keeps It continually in the house. In a re cent letter to Dr. Hartman he says: State or Oregon, Executive Department, Salem, May 9, 1898. The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sirs:—I have had occasion to use your Fe-ru-na medicine in my family for colds, and it proved to be an excellent remedy. 1 have not had occasion to use it for othpr ailments. Yours very truly, W. M. Lord. Any man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. Fe-ru-na is the only ab solute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure cold3, is to cheat ca tarrh out of its victims. Pe-ru-na not only cures catarrh, but prevents. Every household should be supplied with this great remedy for coughs, colds and so forth. It will be noticed that the Governor says he has not had occasion to use Pe-ru-na for other ailments. The rea son for this is, most other ailments begin with a cold. Using Pe-ru-na to promptly cure colds, he protects his family against other ailments. This Is exactly what every other family in the United States should do. Keep Pe-ru-na in the house. Use it for coughs, colds, la grippe, and other climatic affections of winter, and there will be no other ailments in the house. Such families should provide them selves with a copy of Dr. Hartman's free book, entitled “Winter Catarrh.” Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O. 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Patent* taken through Munn A Co. receive ipecial notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomoly Illustrated weekly. Ijirgeat otr. (illation of any scientific journal. Terms *3 ■ year ; four months, ft gold by all newsdealers. ■ munn «co.3»'»— Hrnn. li ufflee. 625 F St.. Washington. 1 iseases of tho Kidneys Morrow's KID-NE-OIDS Cure Sick Kidneys. U. S. SENATOR DAVIS DIES FROM KIDNEY DISEASE. Senator Davis mads a prolonged &Dd gallant fight with disease. The trouble, of which the kidney affection was the fatal outcome, first appeared about Sept. 20. • ••••••• ? Trouble Stealthily Encroached. The trouble had, however, steathlly encroached upon a vital organ, and on Nov. 11 examination of the urine proved the presence of Inflammation of the kidneys. Bott- acute nephritis and diabetes made their appearance, and Dr. Murphy, of Chicago, was summoned. He agreed with Doctors Stono and Lankester as to the presence of these serious ailments In acute form, and, while not making any public statement, he made known privately to some of Sonator Davis’ business associates his opinion that the case was hopeless. • • • • • • • • To those, however, who were familiar with the symptoms of acute kidney troubles the bulletins held ominous information, the rapid respiration, fluctuating pulse, delirium and approaching coma telling the story of death's nearness. —at. Paul Di*patc\. rwill stand no trifling because no disease Is so deceptive and \ none more fatal. Statistics show that more people die from ^ Kidney Diseases than any other disease. { Is This What Ails You? Does your back ache? Do you have scanty flow of urine? / Do you have frequent severe headaches? m Do you urinate too frequently either day or night. | Have you sand, gravel, brick dust or white mucous in your urine? ' Have you dark or bloody looking urine which scalds when voiding? Have you dark circles around the eyes, puffiness under the eyes, or bloated appearance of the face in the morning? Your Kidneys are Sick AND HERE IS WHERE YOUR DANGER LIES: Kidney Disease does not make itself felt until it has secured a firm hold on your system. Morrow's Kid-ne-oids ' ~to KidM7 -r *■*«« Mr. J. O. Solioch, of DuBols, Fa.. convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that Morrow's Kld-no-olds euro klduey troubles promptly and to stay cured. “for about a year I bad a dull, heavy pain In the small of my back, which would bo attended by a sharp, Stirling pain when lifting or stooping over. On account of the pain In niy back I could not sleep and get proper rest, and would fuel dull and tired when arising In the morning Instead of fresh and rigorous. When Mor row's Kid no-olds were first advertised I <11 d not have mnoh faith In their curative qualities, but after soelng them recommended to relieve Mr. J. 0.8choch. symptoms like my own, I procured some at Vosburg's dm# store, aDd took tliem according to directions. In a few days the pain In my back stopped. Tbe Kld-ne olds have done away with that dull, tired feeling and I am enjoying better health than I have for years." Mr. Belioch, lives at »17 Olive Ave., PuBolse.ra.and Is always Rlad to say a pood word tor that peerless kidney remedy—Kld-no-olds. Mrs. Gold Cam pm an 48 River St., Sharon, Pc., graphically describes her condition before and after (ho used Morrow's Kld-ne-olds, hoping by bo doing she will help some other woman to get rid of the debilita ting backaches so com mon to tho female sex. Sharon, T\v, Nov. (*, 1000. John Morrow & Co. Dear Sirs:—“I take pleasure In recommend ing your medicine to the public In the hope that It may benetU others as It has me. Three years ago In March I was at tacked with a severe fe „ — „ tor wuica ieu me in a ivir«. Gold Campman. miserable, weak condi tion. About one year ago, after my kidneys lio raine affected, the pain In iny back was so bad I oould not sit up or lie down. I saw Morrow's Kld-ne-otds highly recommended and procured a box and took them according to directions, which resulted In a cure. I have ttrken In all three boxes and consider the medicine so good for kidney trouble* that I will take no other.”! YOrs truly, Mrs. Cold Campman. Graphic Interview given our reporter by Mrs. D. 8. Sterner, of Altoona, l'a., who suffered for years with kidney troubles. "I suffered several years with kidney trouble and did considerable doctoring, even going to tIio hospital for a time, but It seemed that my disease was Incurabln. My suffering was ter rible, especially with my back. I saw Mor row's Kld-ne-olds ad vertised and recom mended so highly by otbsr persons whose symptoms were simi lar to my own that I decided to try them. I began to Improve In two or three day* after Mr. n <5 tcommencea 10 lane Mr». D. S. Sterner. them >nd continued to Improve until the pain In iny back has all dis appeared. I have felt like a new person since taking Kid tie-olds and am only too glad to bo able to recommend such a valuable medicine.” Mrs. Sterner resides at 10167th Ave., Altoona, l’a. All the Testimonials and letters published by John Morrow & Co. are true. They are proof positive of the great merit of Morrow’s Kid-ne % oids. Each name and address is correctly given; if you write them enclose a postage stamp to pay for the answer. MORROW’S KID-NE-OIDS L.' are for sale by all druggists or by prepaid on receipt of 50 cents. Morrow’* Kid-ne-oida are made only by JOHN MORROW & CO., chemists, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. mail