I TO YOOrlJABfES From the Trcasnrer of tho Young Peoples Christian ioranco Association Elizabeth aine Fond du lac Wis Deah Mn3 Pxkkiiam I want to tell you and all tha young1 ladies of tho country how grateful I am to you for all tho bencfitn I havo received from using Lydia E Pinkliams Vcgc tablo Compound I suffered for MISS ELIZABETH CAINE eight months from suppressed men rjtruation and it effected my cntiro fystem until I became weak and debil itated and at times felt that I had a hundred aches in as many places I only used the Compound for a few weeks but it wrought a change in mo which I felt from the very beginning I havo been very regular since have no pains and find that my entire body is as if it was renewed I gladly recom mend Iiydia E Pinkliains Vege table Compound to every bodj Miss Elizabeth Caine C9 W Division St Fond du Lac Wis 5000 forfeit If above testimonial Is not genuine At such a time the greatest aid to nature is Lydia E Pinkliams Vegetable Compound It prepares the young system for the coming change and is the surest reliance for womans ills of every nature Mrs Pinkliam invites all young women who are ill to write her for free advice Ad- dress Lyuii Mas3 JED UCATXONAL THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME INDIANA FULL COURSES IN Classes Letters Eco nomics and History Journalism Art Science Pharmacy Law Civil Mechanical and Elec trlcal hnglneerin Architecture Ihorougli Preparatory and Commercial Courses Uooms Fros to all students tvho havo com pleted tho studies required for admission Into tho Junior or Sonior Year of auv of tho Collegi ate Courses Roams to Rent moderate charjre to studonts over seventeen preparing for Collegiate Courses A limited number of Candidates for the Eccle siastical state will he received at special tates St Edwards Hall for bovs under 13 years is unique in tho completeness of its equipment The 50th Year will open September P 1902 Catalogues free Address REV A MORRISSEY C S C President ST MARYS ACADEMY NOTRS DAME INDIANA Ono mile west of tho University of Hotro Dame Thorough English and Classical Education including Greek Latin French and German On completing the full course of studies students receive the Regular Collcglato Dogroes Tho Conservatory of JVInsio is conducted on the plan of the best Classical Conservatories of Europe Tho Art Department is modelled after the best Art Schools of Europe Preparatory arid JUInlm Departments Pu pils are here carefully prepared for the Aca demic and Advanced Courses Gymnasium un der direction of Graduate of Boston Normal School of Gymnastics Bookkeeping Phonocr rapny and Typewriting extra Every variety of Fancy Needlework taught For catalogue ad dress DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY St Maiys Academy Notre Dame P O Iaditax Attend School Cheaper KS ulara American School CoUege Agency Chicago ST AftS BERRY NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE STANBERRY - - MISSOURI To everyone who will send to the Auditor ium Co or the De fiance Starch Co Omaha Neb 15 trade markB cut from 10 ct or IS oz packages of W N U Omaha ttttBC No 33 1C02 fT lurttS WHLSi All tlSk TAILS r 5 Ilest Cojtfb Syrup Tastes Uooft TjM J fW iattao SscldbTJJrccsl tS fXJ A Hair Cut This story according to the New York Press comes from the west per Senator Spooner The credit man of a great Chicago house visited his bar ber in the morning on the way to tho store and upon arriving in his office was greeted by tho manager with a codrlal Good morning I see youve had your hair cut Yes I have had my hair cut he replied suavely The office boy entered Mawnin Mr Gates had your hair cut Yes I have had my hair cut Enter the head salesman Hello Gates had your hair cut Yes I have had my hair cut This sort of thing was kept up until he went home for din ner when his good wife observed My dear you have had your hair cut Yes he snapped I have had my hair cut His dar ling daughter Papa you have had your hair cut Yes I HAD my HAIR CUT He tore into the dining room to swallow a morsel and escape The pretty maid 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iidividuality and also the development of a sense of soi iai responsibility Thoroug mess insisted upon as osenMl to Hipr acter building Out door sports and a lar p new sunny gymnasium equipped with Swedish apparatus Physical training da Iv under the direction of a professional instructor Ilappv 1ome life Terms molerate Send for catalogue Address Miss Macrae Prin nal Omnia tLcn Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper Maybe the butterfly has as muct fun in life as the bee Pisos Cure for Consumption is an infallible raed i no for coughs and colds X VT Saaiuei Oceun Grove X J Feb 17 1900 wouhl indicate that the average man doesnt get much beauty WHEAT FARM SYNDICATE LED BY NEBRASKAN WILL ESTABLISH IT BUY FORTY THOUSAND ACRES The Syndicate Will Introduce Steam PI0W3 and Other Modern Machinery as Well as Own Its Own Elevators to Do the Work ST PAUL Aug 9 A syndicate of Americans led by T B Hoard of Ne braska a wealthy cattleman will es tablish the first bonanza wheat farm in Canada between Craik and David hon on the Prince Albert branch of the Canadian Pacific Forty thousand acres of land have been purr hased at an outlay of 200000 and another 100 000 has been set aside by the syndi cate for improvements None of the methods which made the great wheat farms of North Dakota famous have yet been applied in Canada andwheat raising has been confined entirely to small areas and to the work of small farmers The syndicate includes F J Waddell of Aurora Neb another wealthy cat tleman and capitalists from Iowa and Illinois Ono whole township is to be converted into a monster wheat field and the greater portion of the town ship adjoining is to become a portion of the syndicates interests Mr Hoard and his associates will introduce steamplows and other mod ern farm machinery The syndicate will own its own elei vators two of which are to be built this fall at Garvin in the center of the new farm It will also operate nine elevators at adjacent points NEELY WANTS THE MONEY Asks that Currency Found in His Pos session Be Returned WASHINGTON Aug 9 C W Neely who was convicted of Cuban postal frauds and afterwards granted amnesty by the Cuban legislature has applied to the attorney general to be reimbursed for the money found in his possession at the time of his arrest amounting to 623 i This money was sent to Cuba as an exhibit at the trial of Neely and was returned by the military government to the War department Secretary Root wrote a letter to the postmaster general informing him that the money had been returned and was held to be disposed of at the latters direction Th postmaster general has not ac cepted the money and it still remains in the possession of Secretary Root The War department is holding it un til an adjustment is made and a bal ance struck between the Cuban gov ernment and the late military govern ment regarding financial affairs The officials have not yet determined what action they will take after this balance is struck HELPING NEEDY FILIPINOS Poverty Stricken Hundreds of Thou sands Arc Being Fed WASHINGTON D C Aug 9 Major B K West of the commissary department writing from Manila to General Weston chief commissary has the following to say concerning the feeding of natives in the Philippines I was in hopes that the closing up of the campaign in Batangas and La guna would end the feeding of the na tives but such is not the case al though the camps have been broken up The natives were left in a desti tute condition had been unable to plant new crops all the old crops had been destroyed in the military opera tions and so the work has to go on General Bell was in the city and I asked him about the number of na tives he was feeding He told me that in Batangas he was feeding approxi mately 250000 people In Laguna he could not give the exact number but I judge from the quantity that we sup ply that there must be about half as many Joes Boy Gets a Job LONDON Aug 9 Official an nouncement was made today that Aus ten Chamberlain son of the colonial secretary has been appointed post master general vice the Marquis of Londonderry resigned Twenty Miles by Auto WORCESTER Mass Aug 9 The twenty mile motor paced race at the Coliseum between Elkes and Freeman resulted in a victory for the former who covered the distance in 3127 3 5 Funston Confined to Room DENVER Aug 9 Brigadier Gen eral Frederick Funston commander of the Department of the Colorado is confined to his home by illness hav ing undergone an operation for fistula His condition is not at all alarming and his friends expect he will recover quickly The generals illness does not result from the attach of appendi citis for which an operation was suc cessfully performed at Kansas City before he came to Colorado CUBA TO INCREASE DUTIES Senate Orders Executive to Raise Im port Revenue WASHINGTON Aug 8 Tho state department is advised by Minister Squiefs that tho Cuban senate has au thorized tho executive to Increase im ports duties to the following maxi mums Shoes and boots from 10 to 17 per cent coal 25 cents per thousand ki los pine lumber 40 per cent stear ine beef in cans fresh beef fresh mutton salt beef jerked beef hams herring coffee cider beer 50 per cent hats CO per cent butter liq uors wine 70 per cent poultry fresh pork salt pork bacon lard cheese condensed milk wheat flour codfish rice alimentary preserves eggs beans and peas onions potatoes olive oil 100 per cent common soap 150 per cent corn C33 per cent SOUP IS THEIR ONLY FOOD Condition of the Peasant Inhabitants of Eastern Galicia VIENNA Aug 8 After a special investigation of the labor trouble in eastern Galica the Neue Freie Presse draws a gloomy picture of the miser able conditions which led to the ex isting strike The average mortality from famine for several years past according to the Neue Freie Presse aggregated 50000 Laborers wages range from 8 to 16 cents a day and women earn from 4 to 8 cents a day The peasants rarely taste bread and exist chiefly on a soup the principal ingredients of which are water and herbs MET DEATH IN A CYCLONE Sixteen Men Know to Have Been KillcJ by Gas Explosion TRINIDAD Colo Aug 8 Sixteen men are known to be dead and some others are reported missing as the re sult of an explosion of gas in one of the mines of the Union Coal Coke company at Bowen six miles from Trinidad at 7 oclock tonight The work of rescuing the bodies was begun at once and four had been taken out at 10 oclock No names are obtain able at this times The mine employs about sixty men They are all Americans and Irish Most of the dead are said to be mar ried Only meager details have been received here Union Pacific Buys Abroad NEW YORK Aug 8 It is learned from reliable sources today that the Union Pacific has placed a big order for steel rails with a firm in Germany Part of this order is for the Southern Pacific though delivery is to be made to the Union Pacific at Omaha and such other points westward as it may later instruct The order is for 1000 tons Premiums for early delivery were quoted ranging from to 1 per cent A prominent man connected with the steel industry said It is not surprising to hear of the Union Pacifics order Domestic mills can not deliver before the third quarter next year They are stacked up with orders ior millions of dollars in steel Iron orders will have to go abroad before long Groesbeck Makes Reply WASHINGTON D C Aug S Col onel Groesbeck of the judge advocate generals department has written to the adjutant general a reply to the re quest for an explanation of an inter view published on his arrival at San Francisco in which he commented on court martials in the Philippines Ad jutant General Corbin to whom the reply was addressed will return to Washington in a few days He Won Womens Hearts SIOUX CITY Aug S E S Porter an alleged real estate man from Des Moines with many aliases who is un der arrest here as a fugitive from South Dakota where he is said to have swindled numerous women in the sale of patterns seems to be a winner of the hearts of women as well His grip contains letters of a very loving nature from women in Omaha Ha warden Deniion Brainard Minn and other places Today Mrs Saiah Carr of York Neb arrived to meet Porter and upon learning of his arrest confronted him at the police station and severely re proached him between sobs Becomes a Chicago Lawyer CHICAGO 111 Aug 8 President Roosevelt will receive the honorary degree of LL D from the University of Chicago during his visit to Chicago Oyster Men in a Combine MOBILE Ala Aug 8 The vari ous oyster canning and packing com panies in Mississippi Louisiana and Alabama will combine under one head with a capital of 2000000 The movement has been on foot three years and is now practically assured it will control all the business of the three states along the fish and canning lines Headquarters proba bly will be in New Orleans Ten com panies are in the combine HOLD UP A TRAIN MASKED MEN ROB BURLINGTON EXPRESS AT MARCUS ILL ONE OF THE NUMBER IS KILLED The Other Five Easily Escape After Rifling the Contents of the Express Car and Obtaining a Considerable Sum of Money MOUNT CARROLL 111 Aug 7 A daring and successful train robbery oc curred ac Marcus on the Chicago Bur lington Quincy railway five miles north of Savannah about midnight The line vcstibuled passenger train oi eleven cuacnus unuuuiur jnuiuiouu in charge was flagged at the little sta tion and six masked men boarded the engine The engineer and fireman obeyed the imperative orders of the robbers and at once uncoupled the en gine an I express car from the train and ran them a quarter of a mile up the track They then blew up the express car with dynamite ran the engine north a distance of a mile from Hanover and the locomotive becoming dead the rob bers abandoned it and escaped One of the highwaymen was killed being shot above the eye and also in the leg He met instant death while on tho engine and his body was dumped to the ground by his companions as they sped away Express Messenger Byl claims to have done the shooting The deed was done quickly the trainmen and passengers making no defense Six sacks of money were se cured but the amount is not known The passengers were not molested There was no way of telegraphing news of the holdup and a flagman walked back and gave the alarm A special train of citizens and several policemen at once proceeded to the scene but as the track runs along the Mississippi and the country is well adapted to a successful flight the robbers easily escaped The work was evidently that of exports as they went at it coolly and methodically Tho train attacked is one of the fin est in the world and usually carries considerable money which must have been known by the robbers The dead highwayman was a Stranger in this vicinity He was a middle aged man and well dressed In his pocket was found an Iowa Central mileage credential from Grin- nel to Giiman la issued in the name of A L Jacobs Four explosions were required to soniplete the destruction of the safe and the ear was badly wrecked The robbers were six in number all mask ed They evidently Avere railroad men one being a good engineer Messenger Wdlliam Byl fired fivo shots at the rob bers but without avail and an attempt was made to blow him up in his car The bandits had arranged to ditch the entire train had not tho signal to stop been heeded Several passengers in the buffet car including the porter were held prisoners during the strug gle to ciack the safe It is thought the dead robber was killed by a comrade by mistake The body was put on the tender and run by the others a short distance and then thrown into the weeds Official announcement Avas made by tho officials of both the Burlington road and the Adams Express company that a purse of 1000 would be made up by the two companies and given to Express Messenger Byl for his bravery Daring Climber is Killed 1 PHILADELPHIA Aug 7 Daniel Barry a daring climber known as Steeple Jack fell ninety eight feet while working in the city hall tower painting inside of the dome and was instantly killed Barry placed the electric lights around the brim of the statue of William Penn which caps the city hall tower 540 feet above the pavement and occasionally would low er himself over the edge and hang in midair by his hands Condition of the Treasury WASHINGTON Aug 7 Todays statement of the treasury balances in the general fund exclusive of the 150 000000 gold reserve in the divi sion of redemption shows Available cash balance 203479337 gold 101 317111 Stock Yards Stock at Boston BOSTON Mass Aug 7 Todays regular semi weekly auction sale of securities brought out fifty shares of Union Stock Yards Omaha which went at 101 This was one of the fea tures of the days sales Dies While the Band Plays ST JOSEPH Mo Aug 7 Samuel Pryor noted bandmaster and fathei of Arthur Pryor the celebrted trom bonist who while touring with Sousa was personally complimented by King Edward is dying at his home in this city Yesterday when it became ovi dent that death was near Prof Pryor summoned his band and ordered the leader to conduct a concert of livel airs The band plays beneath the sick mans window TESTING CAPTIVE BALLOONS To Be Used in Naval Demonstration by Rear Admiral Hlgglnaon f UTICA N Y Aug C Major Ruber nnd a detachment of tho Bignal servlco balloon corps under Fir3t Lieutenant Cliffton and Sergeant Bloodsoe of Fort Myor Washington aro now stationed at Frankfort In tho interest of the gov ernment in supervising tho construc tion of eleven captive hydrogen ga3 balloons being made for use in tho na val demonstrations to bo made by Rear Admiral Hlgglnaon with tho squadron off tho Atlantic coast iato In August Tho first balloon has been practic ally completed and a successful test has been made by tho government officials Controlled by a kerosene oil motor windlass the balloon is said to have made flights of nearly a quar ter of a mile In thirty to forty sec onds and then was slowed checked and reversed and was brought to tho ground in three or four minutes with two to four passengers each time nono of whom could immediately detect tho stop or reversed movement at the top although the wind was brisk and at times quito severe PRESIDENT BEARDSHEiR DEAD k Noted College Man of lova Passes Away at Des Moines DES MOINES la Aug 6 Dr Wil liam M Beardshear president of Iowa State college at Ames died early yes terday morning as the result of nerv ous prostration whilo attending tho meeting of the National Educational association at Minneapolis a month ago Dr Beardshear was president of the association Dr Beardshear was one of the fore most educators in Iowa Prior to as suming the presidency of the State Agricultural college ten years ago ho was superintendent of schools for West Des Moines Before that he had been president of Western college at Tama la When he became head of the state college it was less than half its present size its growth being duo in large part to his efforts CHINESE ARE NOT SINCERE A Hitch in Negotiations Over the Abo lition of the Likin SHANGHAI Aug 6 The hitch in tho negotiations between Sir James L Mackay the British tariff commis sioner and the Chinese commissioners Tor tho adoption of Sir James scheme for Chinese tariff which arose from the fact that the Chinese objected to the British regulation concerning in land navigation convinces every one outside of the British commission of the utter dishonesty of the Chinese in their professions in favor of the abo lition of the likin or provincial tran sit duty The American commissioner assured Lieun Kim Yi that the United States would never consent to the abolition of the likin because the bulk of American imports go to Manchu ria and the northern provinces where there is no likin Prefer to Be Left Alone WASHINGTON Aug 6 Thlechumi Fixico Goso Fixico Chee Ufouia igo and James L Gray representing themselves as agents and delegates of the Creek Indian tribe in Indian Ter ritory today brought suit to enjoin Secretary Hitchcock and Commission er of Indian Affairs Jones from pro ceeding in execution of what is known as the Creek agreement for allotments etc They ask to be allowed to re main in undisturbed enjoyment of their landed interests and that such property as already has been taken from them under the agreement and the ratifying act be restored to them l and an accounting made to them by the government Aostolic Delegate at Manila ROME Aug 6 Italia announces that Mgr Guardi at present in tho office of Cardinal Rampolla the papal secretary of state has been appointed apostolic delegate at Manila Saw a Glad Bright Light DENVER Colo Aug 6 Mrs Sar ah Nessler of this city who has been blind for seven years and whose case was pronounced incurable by oculists claims to have recovered her eyesight in a miraculous manner She says that while praying at a revival meet ing of the Holiness sect sometimes called Jumpers a white light brokf on her eyes and soon she was able to distinguish objects Her vision she declares is now nearly as good as it was before she became blind Guidi for Representative ROME Aug 6 Italia announces that Monsigneur Guidi at resent in the office of Cardinal Rampolla the papal secretary of state has been ap pointed apostolic delegate at Manila It was announced Trom Rome August 2 that the delay in appointing an apostolic delegate at Manila was due to a desire of the Vatican tj please the Washington authorities oy send ing to the Philippines zn American prelate r is i - n