From Their Itadn Correipondmt.
Five Philadelphia saloonkeepers
have been startled recently through tho
receipt of letters from Hades. The
signature to each letter Is the same,
it is that of a young man who died,
some few months ago, of alcoholism.
The handwriting is also the same, a
hand slanting to tho left, and consid
erably disguised, though the saloon
keepers think they recognize it as the
handwriting of a certain church dea
con. Here is a sample which the Rec
ord gives of the silly letters that have
worried not a iittlo the live saloon
keepers:
‘‘Hell. Oct. 1, 1901.
‘‘Dear Henry:—It is hot down here,
and I have not yet got accustomed to
the heat. This is absetos paper 1 am
writing on. Henry, I am waiting im
patiently for you to join me. You will
some day; there is no fear of that.
The boss, Mr. Beelzebub, says so. Mr.
Beelzebub is very fond of you. He
tells me you and tile other men in
your business send him more people
than any other men in the world. I
know you sent me here, Henry.”
England now has seven admirals of
the fleet and nine field marshals.
Ar# Too 1’ftlng Allen’* Foot*Kr*»« T
It Is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet.
Corny and Bunions. Ask for Allcn’a
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken lrto
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
He who does the best he knows al
ways has a duty in sight.
Brooklyn, N. Y, Oct. II.-people who
have headaches know what they are. and
those who take Garfield Headache Pow
ders know how completely ami how quick
ly they can be cured. This remedy Is pe
culiarly adapted to the needs of nervous
women.
Most any criminal could prove him
self innocent, if his own testimony
went at par.
IRONING A SIIIKT VTA 1ST.
Not infrequently a young woman
finds it necessary to launder a shirt
waist at home for some emergency
when the laundryman or the home ser
vant cannot do It. Hence these direc
tions for ironing the waist: To iron
summer shirt waists so that they will
look like new it is needful to have
them starched evenly with Defiance
starch, then made perfectly smooth
and rolled tight in a damp doth, to be
laid away two or three hours. When
Ironing have a bowl of water and a
clean piece of muslin beside the iron
ing board. Have your iron hot, but
not sufficiently so to scorch, and abso
lutely clean. Begin by ironing the
back, then the front, sides and the
sleeves, followed by the neckband and
the cuffs. When wrinkles appear ap
ply the damp cloth and remove them.
Always iron from the top of the waist
to the bottom. If there are plaits in
the front iron them downward, after
first raising each one with a blunt
knife, and with the edge of the iron
follow every line of stitching to give it
distinctness. After the shirt waist ia
ironed it should be well aired by the
fire or in the sun before it is folded
and put away, Eays the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Sometimes it is hard to tell a long
faced crank from a long-headed sage.
Libhy^
Plum
Pudding
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In I
order. 1
With the frost comes
theeppetite for hearti
er table dainties. Why
spend time and labor when
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ar« Bod^Ucloui, puw. ^bole
tome, and bo easily tecured?
Ask your grocer. They are
aiuong ths nest of
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a permanent cash income, bigger every week
than a whole year's legal interest upon the same
amount? If so. sen l your name and adetre**.
No Speculation or Gambling Scheme
but legitimate business. 1 Trst-cla-s references
in any part of the l/nited States. la. J. Arnold
& Co., Benolst Building, fet. Coals, Mo.
imr*ABCVNEVI1 DISCOVERY; Fires
MJSwTL'M'r I quick relief and core* wonl
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FIAkSa lilt. H. It. BREWS NUlS. tlo* V, Atlanta, Oa.
^ ^ I Thompson’s Eye Wator
BIG FLOATING DOCK
BUILT AT BALTIMORE TO BE
TOWED SOUTH.
ImnieiiRo Steel Dry Dork for Use at
Algiers, I.a.ItM luo In to I.lft (ireat
\ «••**€*!* Out of the Water.
Baltimore correspondence, Chicago
Journal: Down at Sparrows Point,
completed all but a few finishing
touche.-., lies the great steel floating
dry dock built by the Maryland Steel
company for the United States govern
ment, and which is to be towed to Al
giers. La., as soon as the West India
hurricane season has passed. That
will be about Oct. 1, and several pow
erful ocean-going tugs will convey the
immense dock to its destination. It
is certain that this immense piece ol
marine mechanism for lifting great
vessels out of the water in order to
clean or repair them is without a su
perior in its line, and it is doubtful
whether it has an equal, it can raise
a 15,000-ton battleship and have the
floor of the deck two feet above the wa
ter, which is demanded by the govern
ment for its work, but with the floor
even with the water line it can lift an
18,000-ton ship. The dock is 525 feet
in length over all, while its breadth is
exactly 12G feet 2 7-ltl inches. The
width between the sides is 100 feet.
The entire height of the sides, from
their bottoms, which are submerged, to
the tops, is fifty-five feet. The depth
of the pontoons, or what the inexperi
enced might cal! the hulls of the docks,
is seventeen feet six inches. The
greatest draught of the dock is forty
nine feet six inches. There ure three
pontoons, which form its floor and also
with the sides, give it buoyancy. The
middle pontoon is the largest, being
242 feet long, and the end pontoons are
each 141 feet % inch in length. The
walls are 395 feet •"*« inch long and are
nine feet in width at the top and thir-'
teen feet at the bottom. The pontoons
and sides are divided into forty water
tight compartments, which enable the
dock to be completely under the con
trol of the dock master, who can make
it assume any position required to
dock a vessel. It has 261 keel blocks,
upon which the vessel rests in the
dock, and they are movable, so that
they can be readily adjusted. The
weight of the steel in the dock is 5,865
tons, and the weight of the dock equip
ment is 1,000 tons, making a totai
weight of 6,865 tons. The cost of the
dock complete is $810,000. The stabil
ity of the structure, according to the
engineer's figures, is something re
markable. Carrying a 15,000-ion battlu
ship two feet above the water, it will
cause her stability to lie fifteen or
twenty times as great as that of a ship
in the water. The numerous compart
ments add to the steadiness of the
dock, for, if they were few in number,
the water in them when the dock was
submerged or partly so. would splash
about and cause considerable motion
to the structure. When it Is necessary
to dock a vessel water is admitted to
the compartments through sixteen
valves, each sixteen inches in diam
eter, aud it requires about an hour to
sink the dock so tiiat craft can enter
it. After the dock is sufficiently deep
in the water the vessel enters, and,
having been accurately adjusted the
water is pumped out of the compart
ments by means of eight pumps, which
are driven by four engines that have
four boilers of the water-tube type and
of 135 horse-power each to supply
ihem with steam. The pumping ap
paratus is so arranged that either en
gine can steam from either boiler, and
in case there is a breakdown on one
side of the dock the pair of pumps on
ihe other side could do all the puinp
'hg. It. takes about three hours and a
half to raise the docs. The pumps
also operate a line of hose, which is
employed to wash the slime from the
hul's of vessels that are docked. This
is quite a task, for ihe amount of foul
in‘g which is washed from the sides of
a large ship is considerable, and after
it has been cleaned the stuff iias also
to lie washed from the floor of the
dock, otherwise the men could not
work about the craft.
I tiff: Order** for Wild Animal*.
Car] Hagenbeck, the well known
animal dealer, was a passenger on the
Hamburg American steamship Penn
sylvania, which sailed from Hoboken
recently. Herr Hagenbeck said that
in the course of his two weeks' stay
In this country he had received larger
orders for animals than he could fl’I.
“There is a scarcity," he said, “of such
anlma's as camels, ei'-afTes, sable an
telopes, big horns, baolroussa and ar
galis in the market and their price has
almost doubled in the pa.-t year. 1
have only a few of them in my me
nagerie at Berlin and I would not sell
them at any price. However. I shall
make large shipments of elephants,
lions, hears, leopards and other ani
mals within the next few weeks,
enough, in fact, to start several ;ae
I nagerles.”—New York Sun.
Berlin** Chaotic Tralllc.
The management of the Berlin traf
I fle is becoming more and more diffi
cult every day. writes a Berlin cor
respondent. The chief cause of this
is the sudden increase during the last
year of electric trams. At every street
corner, down the center of the thor
oughfares, whether broad or narrow,
on every bridge, along every suburban
road, and at every point in the dan
gerous ubiquitous tram. So that cow
catchers have now been affixed to
them. The police have had photo
graphs of the chief tram centers ta
ken all over Berlin in the hope that
by their heln they will he better able
to cope with the traffic. How the
photographs will help them they
, themselves only know.
NOTHING EQUALS
8t. Jacob'* Oil.
For Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica,
Neuralgia, Cramp. Pleurisy, Lumbago,
Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Soreness.
Bruises, Toothache, Headache, Back
ache, Feetaehe, Tains In the Chest,
Pains in the Back, Pains in the Shoul
ders, Pains In the Limbs, and all bod
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Safe, sure and never failing.
Wise men of ancient times were
probably no wiser than other men,
but they talked less.
ARK TOl’R CLOTHES FADEDT
TT“0 Ked Cross Bali Blue and make the,*'
white again. Large « oz. package, 5 cents.
If a hammock is hung, somebody
will swing for it.
Brooklyn, N. Y, Oct. 14.—The value of
Gartield Tea. the herb medicine, is siir
gislfl by these facts: It is a specific for
all diseases of the liver, kidneys, stom
ach anil bowels. It purities the blood and
lays the foundation for health.
The average man makes too much
difference twixt his politics and his
religion.
How trivial everything in life
seems when we stand face to face
with death.
B«r« T!il»T
We offer One Hundred Dollars r*wari for*ny
rare of Catarrh that canuoL bo cured by Ha,i n
Catarrh Cure.
V J. CHENEY & CO.. Props.. Toledo, a
We. the undersigned, have known p. J.
Cheney for the Inst 15 vears and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business (ranxactiona
ami financially able to carry out any obliga
tions made by their tlrm.
WestiTruax. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo.
f> : Waiding. Kinnan & Marvin. Wholesale
Druggists. Toledo. Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing direct: v upon tho blood ami mucous surfaces
of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price
Tic per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Hall's family l’llls aro the best.
INSIST ON CUTTING IT,
Some grocers say they don't keep De
fiance Starch. This is because they have
a stock on hand of other brands contain
ing only 1? oz. in a package which they
won't be able to sell first. beeause De
fiance contains lti oz. for the same money.
Do you want 1<> oz. instead of • la oz.
for tame money? Then buy Defiance
Starch. Requires no cooking.
For tall, slender figures a twice
around sash of white chiffon or crepe
de chine, deeply fringed at the ends,
is still the prevailing feature of their
evening gowns.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency usual
ly proceed from inexperience of the
world and Ignorance of mankind.
If you wish beautiful, dear, white clothes
use Hod Cross Ball Blue. l.arge V! oz.
package, 5 cents.
Australia has more than 1,000 news
papers.
If everyone knew how good a remedy
was Hamlin's Wizard Oil its saios
would double in a day.
Airing your doubts in the pulpit Is
attempting to feed Clod's flock on fog.
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acute nervous disorder* ft i* un invaluable iieniedy.
Recommended by best Physicians.
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