CUBAN MINISTER & U.S. Recommends Pe-ru-na. Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States. Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States, is an orator bom. In an article in '1 lie Outlook for July, 1899, by George Kennan, who heard Quesada sneak at the Esteban Theatre, Matanzas, Cuba, he said: ‘T have seen many au<.ljj,ences under the spell of eloquent speech and in the grip of strong emotional excitement; but I have rarely witnessed such a scene as at the close of Quesada's eulogy upon the dead patriot, Marti.” In a letter to The 1’eruna Medicine Com pany, written from Washington, D. C., Senor Quesada says: **Peruna I can recommend as a very good medi= cine. it is an excellent strengthening tonic, and it is also an efficacious cure for the almost universal complaint cf catarrh. ”—Gonzalo De Quesada. Congressman J. IT. Bankhead, of Ala bama. one of the most influential mem bers of the House of Representatives, in a letter written from Washington. D. C., gives his endorsement to the great catarrh remedy, Peruna, in the following words: *,Your Peruna is one of the best medicines / ever tried, end no family should be without your remarkable remedy. As a tonic and catarrh cure / know cf nothing Letter.”—J. ti. Bankhead. There is but a single medicine which is a radical specific for catarrh. It is Peruna, which has stood a half century test and cured thousands of cases. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to I)r. llartman. giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of Tlie Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus, Ohio. All correspondence held strictly confidential. There are Many Imitations of Baker’s Cocoa -and Bakers Chocolate Don't be misled by tbcni! gy Our trade-mark is on every package of genuine goods. Under the decisions of several United States Courts, no other chocolate or cocoa than Walter Baker Of Co.’s is en titled to be sold as “Baker’s Look for this Trade-Mack Cocoa” or “Baker's Chocolate” Cur handsomely illustrated recipe br k sent free. Walter Baker Q Co. Ltd. Established 1780 Dorchester, Massachusetts 45 Highest Awards in Europe and America pi A P TH£~^j r grand] THE HIGHEST AWARD AT THE ST. LOUIS WORLD'S PAIR WAS GIVEN TO WATERPROOF oiled clothing SLICKERS* MATS' POMMEL SLICKERS A O. TOWER COrESTABLtiHED IB36 •BOSTON- NBVV YORK CKICACO TOWER CANADIAN CO.. LntiUd. TORONTO. CAN The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by usi,ng Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 ounces more for same money—no cooking required. Charity begins at home, but reform begins with our neighbors. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces In a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. t —. '■ ** The* trouble with an idle rumor is that it is always so industrious. PIANOS Prom Maker to liner. Cut out Agent*’ Profit. SAVE A CLEAN $100 Don't think of buying a piano with out first getting our catalog, prices and ■ terms on the famous “ilueller” pianos and 20 other makes. ADDRESS SCHMOLLER & MUELLER Piano Maker*. Omaha, Neb. Real Old Irish. A letter bearing-»the following ad dress took four days in delivery: “Bean ni ghi abraim teac-osda priom haidech radhare an chuain, Kilronan, Aran Island Galway.” This is not a joke. Translated, it is merely this: “Mrs. Gouran, Private Hotel, Harbor View, Kikronan. Aran Island. Gal way,” and it represents an effort to revive the Gaelic language in Ireland. Better Than Moral Suasion. “To-.my,” said the teacher to a pu pil in the juvenile class, “can you tell me what capital punishment is?” “Yes, ma'am.” answered Tommy. “It’s when a fellow is naughty and his mother locks him up in the pantry where there is lots of cake and jam.” Perfect Timing Device. In Australia there is used an elec tric clock which is so perfect In its work as to make it impossible for the timers to either deceive or innocently make a mistake. P_ The Siberian river Ob and Its trib utaries drain an area almost equal to that of western Europe—1,260,000 square miles. Toboggan on the Grass One-half the world’s coasters doesn’t know how the other half coasts. The Canadian has his toboggan, the moun taineer his ski, the rustic easterner bis home-made sled for ankle-deep snow in zero weather, the city boy his wheeled coaster for paved streets, but here, on the hillsides of suburban San Francisco, a boy may coast without snow, without a cement walk or an asphalt street—without even a coast er. All he needs is to mount a piece of hoard on the top of a hillside where there is a vacant lot covered with dry “sticker grass,” and away he goes like a sandbag out of a bal loon. whooping, screeching in wild excitement and boundless joy. It is a dangerous sport, but no boy loves it less for that. Even full grown men have been known to break faith with life insurance companies, forget their duty to housemates given them to keep their trousers in order and throw themselves for a mad hour into this intoxicating frolic. Foxtail grass, or “sticker grass,” as it is commonly called, is the terror of gardeners. The seed head of foxtail is borne on a rod-like stem that, as , the season advances, becomes stiff and sleek, like wire polished with sand. In this state, beginning usually in the latter part of May, the foxtail makes of every hillside upon which it appears an unrivaled coasting track. June is the ideal month for grass coasting. Sometimes the grass is not dry enough in May, sometimes it has been spoiled for later months by Fourth of July fires, but almost any June day, if you will walk about the slopes of Bernal Heights or of Fair mount, you may find boys enjoying this sport either singly or in groups. Occasionally a long board starts down a precipitous descent, with a sturdy steersman iu front and a row of other boys squatter along upon its entire length. On the downward flight some of the coasters are usually spilled, be ginning. commonly, with the one seat ed farthest back. Often 1 have watched them and ^ have never seen one of these courageous youngsters seriously hurt. Sometimes the board strikes a stone, swings round and se lects a new course, as if it were a living thing.—San Francisco Chron- j icle. Took Payment in Lives Chief among the stock owners was John Chisholm, whose brand was on thousands of range cattle. Billy worked for Chisholm a short time, but soon he had his inevitable quarrel with his employer. It was over a question of wages, Billy claiming that Chisholm had not squared their ac count. Only the fact that Chisholm was surrounded by a guard of liard ficfiting cowboys, with reputations as “killers.” kept him from assassination | when he and the young desperado parted. As it was, Billy managed finally to exact a terrible penalty from Chisholm. It is more than likely that the Kid swore his vendetta against Chisholm and other cattle owners sim ply as a matter of course instead cf a punctilious affair of principle. Billy would naturally take sides I with the rustlers, who were making : life miserable for honest men in Lin- | coin county. He soon became a lead- ' er of the desperate crew and was in j the thick of many of the deadly en- | counters that took place during the i course cf the “war.” It is estimated that he put a round dozen of notches on his gun handle during this fiercest of range feuds, every notch represent ing a human life. Two of his victims were a sheriff and his deputy, who had driven him and part of his gang into an adobe house. One day the Kid turned up at one of the Chisholm cow camps. He had not forgotten his old feud with the cattle king of the Pecos. Three of the cowboys were at a fire cooking suppt r ard twenty yards away Bar ren Howell was hobbling a cow pony. Billy rode up to Howell and asked him if he worked for John Chisholm. On being answered in the adirmative, the rt the e< wboy I h the head at the same time cry in: :n his high pitched voice, “Weil, there’s your pay.” The cowboys at the fire sprang to 'heir feet a- they saw their comrade fall, but Bill's revolver spoke twice more and two of them fell dead. Then, covering the remaining cow:icy with his revolver, Billy shrilled this mes sage: "You tell John Chi si 1m he owes me money. I’ll credit him with $5 on the bill every time 1 kill one of his men. If 1 kill him the account is wiped out.”—Outing. How _s_ In the grand assault commencing Aug. 19. the immortal Ninth regiment of the Japanese army was ordered to cross the field to the foot of the slope on which lay, dead and dying, many of the men of .the regiment which had gone before. The colonel, Takagagi, surveying the task set for his regi ment, sent hack a report that it was not feasible. The brigade-general, Icbinobe, replied hotly that one regi ment was enough to take one battery. Takagagi stepped out of the ravine, in which he had been seeking shelter, at the head of his command. Before, he had oeen marching, as colonels usually do, in the rear, while his line officers led the advance. Now, he leaped forward up the slope, out in front of his men. A dozen paces from the ravine he fell with four bullets through his breast. The lieutenant colonel took up the lead and was shot a few yards larther on. The majors were wiped out. Every captain but one went down. The last captain, Nasbimoto, in charge of D company, found himself, at length, under the Chinese vail with seventeen men. Looking down upon the shell-swept plain, protected for the moment from the sharpshooters above, 'with that handful of heroes, a. mile and a half in advance of the main body of the Japanese army, he grew giddy with the success of his attempt. Of a sud den he concluded that he could take Port Arthur with his seventeen men. lie started in to do it. There was * only the wall ahead—the wall and a few machine guns—beyond, the city itself—a five minutes’ run would have brought him to the citadel. He scaled the wall and fell across it—his back bullet-broken. Eight of his men got over, scaling the height beyond, called Wangtai, or the Watch Tower, ^place to which the Russian generals former ly rode on hoiseback to survey the battlefield. On this slope, for three months, in full sight of both armies, the eight lay rotting. The Russians referred to them as “The Japanese Garrison,’’—“Hell at Port Arthur.” by Richard Earrv, in Everybody's Maga zine.. Girl Startled the Camp The Pine Tree state last winter ex perienced the coldest day known for many years, says the Boston Globe, and on that day Miss Edno Lord of Rumford Falls, a young and attractive insurance solicitor, penetrated the wilds of the Rangelev region and reached a logging camp. Not only was this the first time that a woman ever canvassed a Maine camp of woodsmen, but it was the first appearance in the Keenan camp of any woman for the year. The effect on the men was in some instances unique. Miss Lord was sit ting quietly in the office talking with the boss of the crew when a white haired veteran of the ax shuffled up the path and lifted the gnarled wood en latch. His eye fell on her. With his mouth yet open for the first words of his conversation his jaw dropped and his hair stood on end. He paused not to slam the door, but set off at a dead run down the path and into his own camp, where he made a headlong dive for his bunk. He took out no in surance! Miss Lord's call at the camp cov ered about two hours. In the Rangeley region in midwin ter the two modes of travel are on suowshoes and along the railroad ! track. j Mi«s Lord made her headouarters at ! the settlement of Bemis. She “count I ed ties” over the two miles to the Keenan camp, and arrived there warm and rosy, in spite of the cold, which had sunk the mercury 30 degrees be I low zero. She ate dinner in the cookhouse, ' built of the prime old pines of the great woods. After dinner the big dining room was cleared and the eight men of the camp filed awkwardly in, uncouth and unkempt, hut eager to hear the young girl's talk. She addressed the rough logchoppers in a body, keeping their attention with ready play of wit and common sense. She did a very satis factory amount of policy writing. After a brisk walk back to C»mp Bemis a merry backwoods popcorn bee closed the day. Wo^ld Is Narrowing Down Where are the forbidden cities of our youth? Samarcand, which Armi nius Vambery could only penetrate in disguise at the risk of his life, has become familiar as a household word. Khiva, the whilom inviolate, can be visited by any traveler who can get his passport viseed by the governor general offc Russian Turkestan. Merv, the historic entrepot of an oasis once inaccessible, is now a Russian rail way station. Lhasa has been unveiled by the Younghusband expedition. Anybody can go by rail from Joppa to Jerusalem, and the day is not far dis tant when the iron horse will run snorting past the tomb of Mohammed at Medina, and land passengers with in eyeshot of the Black Stone of Mec The Retort Courteous. The dinner proceedings of a certain family were interrupted the other day by the father detecting his little daughter in the act of taking meat into her fingers. This departure from good manners brought forth quite a lecture from the parent. I ca. The Sultan Abdul-Hamid, acting as Commander of the Faithful by vir ; ture of the title transmitted to him by the last Abbassids Caliph, has au thorized and helped to finance the con struction of a railway from Damascus to the holy cities of Islam. Already the line has been pushed from the eld est continuously inhabited city on earth southward through Syria to a j point near Petra, which was so long a frontier fortress of the.Roman empire, which commands the road from Asia to Egypt, and which is less than a ■ hundred miles distant from the Gulf t of Akabah, the most easterly of the | two bays which protrude like prongs from the head of the Red Sea.—Har I pens Weekly. ; "If we were among strangers,” he concluded, impressively, "I would i have to say that I found you in the j | woods and that you were brought up 1 by a monkey.” The little one listened attentively, and then, after a pause, said: 1 “Father, are you a monkey?” Dog’s Kisses Caused Tumor. The danger of kissing dogs is illus trated by the experience of a young lady which is told in the London Lancet. She had been in the habit o? fondling and kissing a pet dog, and when she developed a tumorous growth it was discovered that her trouble was due to the presence of a number of worms which had been transferred from the dog to the tis sues of her cheek. St guaranteed interest semi-annually on al1 investments, in tropical plantation half as large as Rhode Island. 40 profitable Klucts. Active managers wanted. L. re, 211 Oad Fellows' Bldg. ,St.Luuis,Mo. Criminals Help Each Other. New York’s criminals have a bene volent society, which lends small sums on the security of housebreak ing implements and bank note for gers’ presses. A list of unredeemed pledges is printed every six months, and circulated among the criminal classes. Men who have just “done time” are furnished with new imple ments, which they pay for on the hire purchase system. A Heavy Fine. Under the Elkins law, any railroad •ompany which pays rebates in any form, or any shipper who accepts them, is liable to a fine of from $l,uuu to $20,000, upon conviction. It a:so prohibits the carrying of freight at less than the published tariffs. The Interstate Commerce Commission is empowered to detect and prosecute violators of this statute. President Knapp of the Commission states that since this law was passed, rebate pay ing has been as rare as forgery. Beware of the man who speaks of the shortcomings of his neighbor with tearful eyes. TORTURING HUMOUR. Body a Mass of Sores—Treated by Three Doctors but Grew Worse —Cured by Cuticura for 75c. “My little daughter was a mass of sores all over her body. Her face was eaten away, and her ears looked as if they would drop off. I called in three doctors, but she grew worse. ! Neighbors advised Cuticura, and be fore 1 had used half of the cake of soap and bex of ointment the sores had all healed, and my little one’s skin was as clear as a new-horn babe’s. I would not be without Cuti cura again if it ec :t five dollars, in stead cf seventy-five cents, which is all it cost us to cure our baby. Mrs. G. J. Steese, 701 Coburn St., Akron, Ohio.’’ _ An idea sometimes strikes a man when he is down. There Is more Catarrh la this section of the eonmrr than ail other ilK< a--es put b y. .her. wad until the ,a-i lev. years va- sapp »-«d to tie Incurable. For m (treat many years doctor^ prmiumiccd It a l .cat d.-ea-e snd prescribed local remedies ami by constantly falling It* cure with local treatment, proti .unced It Incurable. Science has proven Catarrh t.. hean nstitmlnna'. dls ea-e and therefore require- c mstltutlonal treatment. Hall’s * at-urrh Cure, manufactured by F. .J Cbent y « Co..T dedo. Ohio. Is the only c ustUutb ra! cure on the market. It Is taken intemallr In doses fr.>m 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the buwid and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer .ae hundred dollars for any case U falls to cure. Send fur circular* and te«tlu r ml*. Address; K. .1. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, Ohio. N-'Ul by Druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation. An optimist is a man who is mar ried and glad of it. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of supe rior quality. We can forget half we hear and not lose much. Dyspepsia of Women ABSOLUTELY NEEDLESS AGONY Canted by Uterine Disorders and Cured by Lyaia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound A great many women suffer with a form of indigestion or dyspepsia which does not seem to yield to ordinary treat ment. While the symptoms seem to be similar to those of ordinary indiges tion. yet the medicines universally pre scribed do not seem to restore the pa tient's normal condition. Jl/lrs. /i/l. PVrigh t Mrs. Pinkham claims that there is a kind of dyspepsia that is caused by a derangement of the female organism, and which, while it causes a disturb ance similar to ordinary indigestkm, cannot be relieved without a medicine which not only acts a> a stomach tonic, but has peculiar uteriue-tonic effects also. As proof of this theory we call at tention to the case of Mrs. Maggie Wright, Brooklyn, N. Y., who was completely cured by Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound after every thing else had failed. iShe writes: “For two years 1 suffered with dysf>epsia which so degenerated my entire system that I was unable to attend to my dail y duties. I felt weak and nervous, and'nothing that late tasted good and it caused a disturbance in my stomach. I tried different dyspepsia cures, but nothing seemed to belt) me. I was ad vised to give Lydia E. Piukham’s Vegetable Compound a trial, and was happily surprised to fm i that it acted like a fine tonic, and in a few cays 1 liegan.to eniov and properly digest my food. My recovery was rap,,1,'and in uve weeks I was a well woman. I have rec ommended it to many suffering women.” No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unquali fied endorsement,or has such a record of cures of female troubles, as has Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES LEWIS’iiggLE STRAIGHT 5* Cl CAR OinllJlLtC W 7,000,000 four Jobber, or direct from factory, Peoria, 111. X I When Answering^ Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. BEGGS’ BLOOD PURIFIES! CURES catarrh of the stomach. 1 DUS YDODIES VS. TRUTH. Hero Arc The Facts**Judge For Yourself. Busybodies who see in success only falsity, who, without making an effort to inform themselves, blatantly cry offense against honesty and truth—seem to forget that a slur against Dr. Tierce’s well-known non-alcoholic family remedies is a slur against the intelligence of thousands of clear-thinking American women who know they have been helped and cured by Dr. Tierce’s Favorite Trescription. It is not a "patent medicine" in the true meaning of the word—it is simply the favorite remedy which Dr. Fierce used in an extended practice for the treatment of the diseases of women. Truth and Influence. A name for lionestv and square dealing is better than great riches. Fraud is a bubble that soon bursts. Dr. R. V. 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On arrival iron the plantation, it is carefully roast ed a? our factories and securely packed in 1 lb. sealed packages, and not opened again until needed for use in the home. This precludes the possibility ol adulteration or contact with germs, dirt, dust, Insects or unclean hands. The absolute purity of LION COFFEE is therefore guaranteed to the consumer. Sold only in 1 lb. packages. Lion-head on even* package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE ,_ WOOLRON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. . Putyouriln 53SBE3BS2H^ ger on our trade mark. Tell your dealer you want the best starch your money can buy. Insist on having the best, DEFIANCE. It Is 16 ounces for 10 cents. No premiums, but one pound of the very best starch made. We put all our money in the starch. It needs no cooking. It is absolutely pure. It gives satisfaction or money back. *THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO. L Omaha, Neb. EXCURSJONS TO THE Free Grant Lands OF Western Canada. During the months of March and April, there will he excursions otf the various lines of rail way to the Canadian West. Hundreds of thousands of acres of th