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Every
Niece and Nephew
of Uncle Sam
should be deeply Interested in what he has said about soda
crackers, because they are the one food with which all of
them are familiar.
Uncle Sam has given out figures showing that soda
crackers are richer in nutriment and body-building elements,
properly proportioned, than any food made from flour.
This is saying much for common soda crackers, and
much more for Uneeda BlSCtilt, because they are
soda crackers of the best quality. They arc baked bcttci
more scientifically. They are packed better more cleanly.
The damp, dust and odor proof package retains all the good
ness and nutriment of the wheat, all the freshness of the best
baking, all the purity of the cleanest bakeries.
Your Uncle Sam has shown what food he thinks best
for his people. His people have shown that they think
Uneeda BSsCUit the best of that food, nearly
400,000,000 packages having already been consumed.
Uneeda Biscuit
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
This Beautiful Set
of Dishes FREE with
DEFIANCE TEA! COFFEE
No money whatever required you get the set absolutely free
for giving your opinion of the finest tea and coffee in the world
to a few friends and neighbors. Full particulars of the plan in
each package. It was our intention to withdraw this offer
October 1 st. but so many people have said they did not realize
the great chance we are offering until they saw it in the home of
some friend, we have therefore decided to extend it. This will
give everyone a chance to get a set. Many ladies are securing sets
to present to friends at Christmas. Remember, this is not a
premium with Defiance Tea and Coffee. It is a present to users
of these beverages for making new friends. Ask the grocer.
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LETTS-SPENCER GROCER CO. - ST. JOSEPH, MO.
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DEATH IN CYCLONE
irK TWilNTY PERSONS KILLED AND
$2,000,000 LOSS AT HAVANA.
Cruiser Brooklyn Drags Her Anchor
. and Grounds in the Mud, but Gete
Off Without Injury Banana and
I Other Crops Destroyed.
Havaim, Oct. 20. A cyclono of un
precedented severity, accompanied by
a terrific downpour of rain, swept ovei
the provinces of Havana and Plnai
del Rio Wednesday night and resulted
In twenty deaths In this city and the
eerlous Injury of a dozen or moro per
sons. The dumage is estimated at
fully $2,000,000. The dead are all
Cubans of the poorer class.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
dragged her anchor, until her stern
grounded In the mud off La Hegla
She got off without injury.
The storm caused great havoc and
confusion In tho shipping in tho har
bor. Many buildings wore badly dam
aged and nearly all the trees In the
city and suburbs were uprooted.
The 2,000 Atnorlcan soldiers and
marines at Camp Columbia were put
to great inconvenlcnco by the storm.
Nearly all tho 400 tents wore blown
down, but thero was little actual dam
age. Harry Fosdlclc, an army team
ster with tho Twenty-eighth infantry,
from Sioux City, la., sustained prob
ably fatal Injuries. He was crushed
by a trco which fell through tho bar
racks In which he was sleeping. Prod
Sutcliffo of Tort Snelllng had his head
seriously injured and Thomas Shonelt
sustained injuries to his back.
TIDAL WAVE ENGULFS ISLAND.
Hurricane Drives Ocean Over Elliott's
Key, Drowning 250 Persons.
Miami, Fin., Oct. 20. Tho steamer
St. Lucie, Cnptaln Bravo commanding,
has sunk off tho Florida const. A
steamer arrived In port, bringing sixty
Injured, who were tnkon to tho hos
pital, and It Is said twenty-elght dead
bodies will bo brought up soon. It In
believed now that a part of tho Flor
ida Fish and Produce company's lleot
was destroyed. Mannger Adams sent
out one of their boats to look Tor the
men and boats and on their return
they reported no signs of the Hoot.
Tho fishing nets wero found strewn
upon tho slioro.
Captain Bravo says that ho an
chored on tho loo side of Hlllott's key,
twenty-five miles south of Miami,
Thursday morning and that soon after
n tidal wave engulfed tho Island. He
says thero wero 250 residents on tho
Island, nil of whom wero lost. The
St. Luclo wos crushed by tho snmo
wave and of tho 100 pnssengers on
hoard, twenty-flvo wero killed. Cap
tain Bravo was seriously injured.
A barge containing 100 peoplo Is
snld to have boon torn away from Its
moorings at Elliott Key and after
wards picked tin near tho Bahama isl
ands, fifty of her passengers having
boon drowned.
LONDON BANK SENDS SHOCK
Sudden Raise In Discount Rate Felt
Around the world.
New York, Oct. 20. The Bank of
England sent a sonsntlon pulsating
through tho financial markets of the
whole world by Its unexpected action
by advancing its olllclnl minimum dis
count rate from r to G per cent follow
ing an advance from -1 to (" per cent ,
on Oct. 1. Speculation In all markets
was disturbed and tho effect in Now '
York seems to have been moro acuto j
even than In foreign markets. Tho
rush to sell at tho opening of tho mar-1
ket here was empnnslzed by vnguo
fears that sotno undisclosed develop ,
ment may be behind tho drastic tnens-1
uro thus adopted by tho great central
Institution of English finance.
Women as Well as IHen Are Made
Miserable by Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.
Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
discourngcsniullcsscusamhitiou; beauty,
vigor nnu cuccrim
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys are
out of o-ler or dis
eased. Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncom
mon for a child to be
born nfllicted with
weak kidneys. If the
child urinates toooften, if the urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
ngc when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet nfllictcd with bed-wct-ting,
depend upon it, the cause of the clilli
culty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards thi treatment of
these important organs, flits unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased -condition of
the kidneys and bladder and not to u
habit as most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made miser
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remudy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold
In. .1 t-lltririut u .11 fift tiflsA?
rent ami one-dollar
sie bottles. You may
have n sample bottle
by mail free, also a Homo of Swamp-ltoot.
pamphlet telling all about Swamp-Koot,
including many of the thousands of testi
monial letters teceived from sulTerers
cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
llinghamton, N. Y., be sure anil mention
this paper. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp-Koot,
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Koot, and the ad
dress, llinghuintoii, N. '., on every
bottle.
RytfWWlCTlKSSJ
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Mrs. Davis LaTd at Rest.
Richmond. Vn Oct. 20. With fit
ting tribute!? from a host of repre
sentatives from many slates la tho,
southland, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wld- (
ow of the president or tho Confed-1
oraey, wns laid at rest in Hollywood
poinetory. whore rests tho body of her
distinguished husband.
OYSTERS
in every style. Ca
tering to parties and
dances a specialty.
Fresh Bread, Pies,
Cakes, Candy and
Cigurs.
READY TO LIFT SUBMARINE
Two Officers and Fourteen Men Per
ished In Sunken Tomb.
Biserta, Tunis, Oct. 22. Tho divers
working on the French submarluo
boat Lutln, which went down off this
port Oct. 10 with fourteen men and
two ofllcors on board, succeeded In
digging a tunnel under her stern,
through which a hawser was passed.
A heavy chain has been placed In po
sition under tho submarine's bows and
tho preparations for lifting her aro
now complete.
All clforts to remove the bodies
from tho Lutln have proved In vain.
Through tho window of tho hatch
divers have perceived two corpses,
with arms Interlocked. Tho position
of these bodies is such as to make It
impossible to open tho manhole, nnd
therefore Ingress to tho submarine
cannot bo had. Tho two bodies seen
from outside cannot bo Identified, but
there is reason to he Hove that one,
clad in a white shirt, Is that or Lieu
tonnnt Fopoux, commander of the
Lutln.
The Bon Ton i
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TEMPEST RAGES FOR TEN DAYS
Storm Brings Death and Ruin to Re
public of San Salvador.
San Salvador, Oct. 20. A tempest
has raged Incessuntly for ten days
throughout tho republic, flooding the
rich vnlleys, principally that of Mo
Jada, and resulting In great loss of
llfo and tho destruction of cattle and
crops.
Tho Salvadorean man-of-war Izalco
was lost at Acatjutln.
Tho topography of various depart
ments has changed, buildings have
fallen, burying their tenants in the
ruins and the Iron bridges over tin
principal rivers have been carried
away.
Up to Wednesday 15,000,000 tons o!
water had fallen. The aqueducts and
electric light plants at Sonssonatc
and Salvador huvo suffered hoavj
losses.
Tho storm is abating. The railroads
telegraphs and commorce aro paral
yzed. Tho rivers ore bringing down the
bodies of persons drowned In tho
storm nnd tho carcasses of cattle and
the sight of these tend to Increase the
terror of tho peoplo.
Tho losses aro Incalculable. Th
government has Issued orders that as
slstance bo given victims of the
storm.
Guatemala and Honduras also have
suffered nevorely. It Is expected tho
losses thero will amount to many mil
lions of dollars.
Aro you troubled with piles? One
application of MnnKim will give you
immediate relief. Sold at Henry
Cook's drug store.
Do You
Eat
Meat?
When you aro hungry end
want somothlg nice in the
meat line, drop into my
market. Wo huvo tho nicest
kind of
Home-made
Sausages
and meats, fish, and game
in season. Wo think, and
nlmost know, that wo can
please you. Give us a
trial.
Koori Bros.,
Successors to
ROBINSON & BURDEN.
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woll as US, to buy your Building Ma
torial and Ooal at ouryards? Not only
that our prices aveijage lower, or at
loast as low, as those of our competit
ors, but because wo tako especial care
of and protect all can bo classed as
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Charges as low as the Lowest
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