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.
The very great change which has
taken place In recent years in the na
tionalities -which predominate in immi
gration to this country is well shown
in some figures recently compiled by
the Department of Commerce and
Labor. It appears , thatin the period
between 1821 and 1902 Germany and
the United States sent us 12,170,727
immigrants , while Italy , Austria-Hun
gary and Russia contributed only
r,781,873. In the fiscal year 1903 , on
the other hand , the first group of coun
tries sent us but 101,605 immigrants ,
.while the second group sent 572,726.
Making the comparison by percentages
between the total immigration from
3821 to 1903 and that for 1903 alone ,
we find that in the first case the Ger-
any-United Kingdom group contrib
uted 56 per cent of the immigration
and the Austrian-Italian-Russian group
21 per cent , while in the second case
1903 alone the first group furnished
but 12 per cent and the second 68 per
cent There are few facts about the
America of to-day more significant
for the future of the country than
these.
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President Roosevelt has selected
Judge Beakman Winthrop of the Court
of First Instance , Philippine Islands ,
to succeed "Will
iam Hunt as gov
ernor of Porto
Rico. Judge Win
throp is from New
York. He is a
member of one of
the oldest families
of New York , a
graduate of Har
vard , and a per
sonal friend of
President Rnose-
JUDGE W THEOP. yolt Hewentto the
Philippines as the assistant executive
secretary to the Philippine'commission.
He made a record for efficiency , and
during the temporary absence of Mr.
Ferguson acted for several months as
secretary of tke commission. Judge
Winthrop will not assume office in
Porto Riao until the beginning of the
next fiscal year , July 1 , it having been
decided Governor Hunt shall continue
In the office until then.
'
The United States , with $680,000,000
In silver on hand a mass of metal
that would fill 500 cars , and which it
costs $100,000 to recount now deliber
ately proposes to forever store this
enormous mass and to add to the
amount With the good business condi
tions now prevailing , it would seem to
be the wisest course to followtheadvice
of the Secretary of the Treasury and
the director of the mint and gradually
change over the dollars which will not
circulate into a form of money which'
not only will circulate , but which will
remain absorbed in the currency of the
\
country. On July 1 next the bullion
of 1S90 will be exhausted aud we shall
have on hand 580,000,000 silver dollars.
54,000.000 of which are in circulation.
The highest amount ever in circulation
was 79,000,000 in 1902. It is manifest ,
therefore , that $500,000,000 can only be
circulated through means of certifi-
cates. Austria , Russia , Germany ,
France and Japan have within the last
ten years recoined into subsidiary coin
age more than $194,000,000 of full ten *
der silver instead of buying bullion.
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The Navy Department has ordered
that when the colors are raised in the
niorning and when they are lowered
.at night the band shall play "The Star-
Spangled Banner. " Probably most
Americans regard it as their best na
tional song. The only objection to it is
that it is hard to sing. "America" can
be sung , and would no doubt take prec
edence over all the rest if Great Brit
ain would consent to stop using the
tune as its own national hymn. There
are several stirring military songs , but
their Civil War origin makes them un
available. The Navy Department is
right. Even if most of us cannot sing
'The Star-Spangled Banner , " the band
-can play it , and we can think of the
.words.
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"Clean money , " free from microbes
and the filth gathered from constant
circulation , is in sight if the currency
bill reported to the house from the
Committee on Banking and Currency
by Congressman Fowler Is adopted.
The bill provides for the removal of
the limitation of the issue of small bills
and for a greater amount of small
coins. It is proposed to recoin the
578,002,099 silver dollars now in the
treasury into fractional currency.
The Department of Agriculture has
prepared a bulletin on weeds used in
medicine. It suggests that although
the price of crude drugs from this
source will not be large enough to pay
.any one to gather them as a business ,
it may be handy to know , in ridding a
farm of its pest , that it has some com
mercial use.
President Roosevelt has always be
lieved that it was useless to have guns
on the ships of the navy unless the
gunners could shoot and hit the mark.
As he remarked in one of his messages
to Congress , "The shot that hits is the
only one that counts. " Accordingly he
lias had presented to the navy a gold
trophy , for which the various ships are
to compete each year. The ship that
makes the best score in its class at the
annual target practice will hold the
trophy for the succeeding year.
THE GILLESPIE MURDER TRIAL.
Remarkablc Indiana Tragedy
Being Thrauhed Out.
No murder triarin. southern Indiana ir.
recent years has attracted more atten
tion than the one which is now on in
Rising Sun , and in which the authorities
are striving to bring to justice the mur
derers of Miss Elizabeth Gillespie. Thn
prominence and wealth of the accused
and the singular circumstances surround
ing the tragedy , make it a most remarka
ble and unusual case.
Miss Gillespie was shot while stamling
in the parlor of her home on the evening
of Dec. 8 , 1903. One of the most popu
lar and prominent society women of
Rising Sun , a member of one of the old
est and wealthiest families of southern
Indiana , the murder of Miss Gillespie
created a sensation throughout the entire
country. This was increased when the
murdered woman's twin brother , James
Gillespie , was placed under arrest charg
ed with the crime. Held with him as
accessories are his sister , Mrs. Belle
Seward , and Myron V. Barbour and his
wife , Mrs. Carrie Barbour.
Behind the murder of Miss Gillospie
is the story of a family skeleton and
that story the officers of the law have
not been able to bring out. Noted
throughout Indiana for their pride and
haughtiness , the members of the Gilles
pie family have lived up to their repu
tation since the tragedy. Those impli
cated in the murder treat the authori
ties with disdain , while the other rela
tives maintain a forbidding silence. It
has developed , however , that although
James Gillespie entertained a deep affec
tion for his sister at one time , he had
during the last three or four years of her
life hated her fiercely. Miss Gillespie ,
it is known , had severely criticised the
conduct of Mrs. Carrie Barbour and
this led to a violent quarrel between her
and her brother , James , who , thereupon ,
went to live with the Barbours , opposite
his own home. The fact that the moth
er , Mrs. Gillespie , had left her daugh
ter the bulk of her property intensified
the family feud.
The most tangible evidence against
James Gillespie is that he is one of the
two men in Rising Sun who own a dou
ble-barreled shotgun of 12 caliber. The
bullet taken from Miss Gillespie's tem
ple was a No. 4 bird shot , the kind used
in her brother's gun , a supply of which
' 1 been given the latter a few days
previous to the tragedy by Myron IJ ar
bour. Onthe night of the murder two
men were approaching the Gilespie
home from opposite directions. Both
saw the flash of the gun and heard the
report , but no one passed them while
they ran to the spot. They heard the
click of an iron gate in. the darkness.
The only iron gateway in that vicinity is
in front of the Barbour residence.
Lined up on both sides in the case are
the most brilliant criminal lawyers in
Indiana and the trial bids fair to be a
great legal battle.
JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER ,
Indorsed for tbe Presidential Nomina
tion by New York Democrats.
Alton Brooks Parker , the New York
candidate for the Democratic nomina
tion for President , is one of the best
known jurists of the Empire State , hav
ing occupied a high position on the bench
since 1SS5 , when he became a member
of the State Supreme Court. He was
born at Cortland , N. Y. , in 1852 and was
JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER.
educated in the public schools of his na
tive town and in the Cortlatd academy
and Cortland Normal school. From the
normal school he went to the Albany law
school , and after his admission to the
bar practiced for several years at Kings
ton. He was surrogate of Ulster County
from 1877 to 1SS5 , when he became a
justice- the Supreme Court. In 1SS9
he became a. member of the Court of
Appeals and since Jan. 1 , 1898 , has been
chief judge of that court. Judge Parker
has always been influential in the politics
of his State. He was a delegate to the
convention that nominated Grover Cleve
land for President in 1SS4 and in the
following year was tendered an appoint
ment as First Assistant Postmaster
General. In 1SS5 he was chosen chair
man of the State Democratic executive
committee.
Strikes in Various Cities.
City , occupation , and cause. Number.
Philadelphia , building trades.
wages 5,000
Buffalo , N. Y. , grain handlers ,
lockout 200
Cleveland , O. , metal and tin work
ers , wages 200
Indianapolis , Ind. , plumbers , wages 100
Quincy , 111. , plumbers , hours 50
Jackson , Mich. , building trades
time 300
Newark , N. J. , carriage makers ,
open shop 500
Oil City , Pa. , building workers ,
open shop * L'OO
Waterbury , Conn. , carpenters ,
wages 400
Waterbury , Conn. , hodcarriers ,
hours , wages r 300
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Schenectady , . N. Y. , tinsmiths ,
wages 150
Schenectady , N. Y. , coal handlers , c
wages 150
Holyoke , Mass. , carpenters , wages. oOO E
Handled Large Sum Without Error. t
Major George W. Evans , disbursing
officer and chief of the division of finance I
in the Interior Department , has just v
reached the fortieth year of his service in
the department , during which time he t
handled more than $1,000,000,000 with.i
out an error. . . t
BUSSIANS IJS A TfiAf.
PORT ARTHUR IS INVESTED BY
TWO JAP ARMIES.
Cut Off from the World , Russians Ex
pect to Hold City for Year Mikado's
GO.OOO Men Land from Sixty Trans
ports and Seize Railroad.
The Russians secrn to have abandon
ed Port Arthur "to its fate , and Gen.
Stoessel and his men must either sur
render or die. The Japanese invading
armies swarm at will over the narrow
neck of the Liao-Tung peninsula. They
have cut the wires and blockaded the
railpad back of the doomed fortress.
Alexieff and the wounded were hurried
ly shipped north , just before the way of
escape was closed. Admiral Togo has
reduced Port Arthur's fleet fo a. nullity.
Two big Japanese armies , believed to
number not less than 00,000 men , have
landed on the Liao-Tung peninsula north
of Port Arthur , seized the railroad and
put the Russian fortress in a state of
siege. One army landed on the west ,
the other on the east , coast of the pe
ninsula. It is reported that one army
will march north and attack New-
chwang. Port Arthur has been isolated
and left to its own resources , and yet
all this the Russians seem to accept with
great stoicism. These events have been
expected since the outbreak of the war
and the authorities appear to be re
lieved now that the blow has fallen.
They assert that the fortress of Port
Arthur is impregnable and amply pro
visioned to stiind a siege for a year and
that it can hold out until the time comes
to relieve it.
While the landing was proceeding on
Thursday , the Japanese ships , consisting
of the battleships Mikasa , Hatsuse , Shi-
kashima , Yashima and Fuji , and the
cruisers Iwate , Idsumo and Asama ,
made a demonstration ofE Port Arthur k >
prevent the possible egress of Russian
torpedo boats. A number of Japanese
BATTLE WAS BLOODY.
Nearly 4,000 Men Are Said to Hire
Fallen in Yalu Fitfht.
The official reports of Gen. Kuropat-
kin and Gen. Zassalitch on the battle of
the Yalu have been received by the Czar
and made public , The reports show that
from 3,000 to 4,000 men were killed and
that the artillery fire on both sides was
fierce in the extreme.
It is now plain that no more than
8,000 Russians were actually engaged in
the fighting at the Yalu against the Jap
anese army , of a. total strength of be
tween 30,000 and 40,000. The losses on
both sides , which are expected to reach
1,000 and possibly 1.200 in the Russian
force and twice that number for the
Japanese , make it one of the bloodiest
fights in history.
At the river crossing the Japanese
dead lay piled up literally in heaps and
Gen. Kuroki's success was purchased at
such a heavy cost that the Russians are
disposed to regard it as rather a defeat
than a victory for him.
A story is circulated in St. Petersburg
of a striking episode during the fighting
on the Yalu river and the desperate
bravery of a Russian regiment which
without artillery attacked two and one-
half divisions of Japanese. The Rus
sians , headed by a chaplain bearing a
cross , fought like lions , but were crush
ed and almost annihilated by overwhelm
ing numbers , Ihe scene after the tight
resembling a shambles. " " *
Gen. Kuropatkin's dispatch shows
that the Russians fought with such bull
dog tenacity and bravery against the
overwhelming superiority of the enemy
that the nominal victory of the Japanese
was eclipsed by the prowess of the
Czar's soldiers. Gen. ivuropatkin's re
port also served to restore Gen. Zassa
litch to public favor.
The Russian people are especially im
pressed with the desperate bayonet
charge of the Eleventh regiment The
mtntal picture of the regiment advanc
ing against the enemy with bands and
bugles blaring and tlie priest with cross
aloft at the head appealed to the dra
matic sense of the Russian population as
nothing else could. The survivors of this
PORT OF NEWCHWANG , WHERE JAPS LANDED.
torpedo boats were observed off Miado
Island , in Pigeon bay.
Upon the mountainous banks of the
Yalu , Kuropatkin fears that the victori
ous Japanese will turn his flank and
the stage is cleared for one of the great
est sieges and assaults of modern war
fare.
Land at Two Points.
According to official information t.
lauding of troops from sixty transports
began simultaneously at Pitscwo and
Cape Terminal on the morning of May
5. It is also reported that troops are
being landed nr Kinchow , but this is not
credited , as the Russians are known lo
have fortifications there , and it is not
believed that the .lapanese had the dur
ing to land immediately under an in-
trenched position , from which the Rus
sians could inflict severe injury on them.
Complete details of the landing are
lacking owing to the interruption of com
munication. No resistance was made ,
the few Cossacks who observed the
movement retiring when the warships
shelled the shore preparatory to disem
barkation. Ten thousand men were put
ashore Thursday , and the disembarka
tion was proceeding at the time that
communication 'ceased. It 'is believed
that there are over 20,000 now on laud
preparing for a forward movement.
Two Japanese regiments were hurried
westward to cut the railroad and tele
graph communication. One of these fired
on a train conveying the wounded from
Port Arthur.
It was because he was convinced that
Port Arthur was about to be cut off that
Viceroy Alexieff , accompanied by his
staff and Grand Duke Boris , left hastily.
On Thursday several train loads of sick
and wounded and other ineffectives were
dispatched northward.
Wants No Mediation.
In the most categorical terms Russia
has officially notified the world that she
will not accept mediation to terminate
the war with Japan. The official notifi
cation declares : "Everything within the
limits of possibility was done by Russia ,
to solve the complications which had
arisen in the far East in a peaceful man
ner , but after the treacherous surprise
on the part of the Japanese which forced
Russia to take up arms obviously no
friendly mediation can have any suc
cess. Similarly the imperial government
will not admit the intervention of any
power whatsoever in the direct negotia
tions which will occur betwwm Russia
and Japan after the termination of hos
tile operations in order to determine the
conditions of peace. "
The State Department has received a
cablegram from United States Minister
Griscom at Tokio 'confirming the press
reports of the landing of the Japanese
In the Liao-Tung peninsula , about forty
miles above Port Arthur. The location
as given in the Japanese dispatch is Kiu-
chau.
Humorous News Notes.
What Russia needs is a Gen. Wood to
clean up its camps in Manchuria.
Alexieff's plight should assure him the
sympathy of Gen. Buller , at all events.
Perhaps Kuropatkin. intends that his
masterly retreat shall go down in his
tory.
Nobody need be surprised if Manchuria
proves to be the graveyard of other rep
utations besides that of Alexieff.
Alexieff is not the first man to discover
the unpleasant consequences of occupy
ing a job that is several sizes too large
to be a fit.
heroic regJment which cut its way out
declare that the position was surround-
ea by more than 1,000 dead Japanese.
The loss of the guns which , according
to the best information obtainable , con
sisted of twenty-two field pieces and
eight machine guns , is considered par
ticularly unfortunate , even though they
will be of no service to the enemy on
account of the removal of their breech
locks.
Blows tliat Have Staggered Russia.
The naval losses of Russia since the
outbreak of the war in battleships , "ruis-
cvs and torpedo craft destroyed ur Ovm-
aged are as follows :
Czarewitch , battleship , torpedoed jmd
beached at Port Arthur , Feb. 7 ; 13,110
tons.
lletvizan , torpedoed and beached at
Port Arthur , Feb. 8. Repaired and used
as a floating fort ; 12,700 tons.
Pallada , cruiser , torpedoed at Port Ar
thur and Ueached , Feb. 8 ; repaired ;
3,200 tons.
Boyarin. cruiser , disabled by Japanese
at Port Arthur and beached , Feb. S ;
sunk on Feb. 14 ; 3,200 tons.
Askold , cruiser , disabled by Japanese-
at Port Arthur ; hole below water line ;
Feb. 9 ; repaired ; 3.100 tons.
Diana , cruiser , disabled by Japanese at
Port Arthur ; hole below water line ; Feb.
9 ; repaired ; G.G30 tons.
Variag , cruiser , destroyed by Japanese
at Chemulpo , Feb. 9 ; 6,300 tons.
Poltava , battleship , disabled by Japan
ese at Port Arthur ; hole below water
line ; Feb. 9 ; 10,900 tons.
Petropavlovsk , battleship , blown up by
mine at Port Arthur , April 13 ; 10,960
tens.
tens.Pobieda
Pobieda , battleship , damaged by mine
at Port Arthur , April 13 ; 12,674 tons.
Torpedo boats and gunboats :
Korieta , destroyed by Japanese at
Chemulpo , Feb. 9.
Manjii. said to have been seized by
Japanese at Nagasaki , Feb. 9.
Yeuesei , torpedo destroyer , blown up
by Russian mine , Feb. 11.
. Skori , torpedo boat , sunk by Russian
mine , March 16.
Bez Shumi , torpedo destroyer , sunk by
Japanese , April 13. /
Bezstraslmi , torpedo'- destroyer , sunk
by Japanese , April 53.
WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.
L
The attitude oC the Manchurians and
Chinese toward the advance of the Jap
anese forces is one of welcome.
It is. rumored that the Japanese cap
tured Fengwangcheng May 4 , and that
the losses on both sides were heavy.
In the battle of the Yalu on Saturday
and Sunday the Japanese had a thou
sand casualties. Many Russian prison
ers are held at Autung.
It is stated that Gen. Oku has landed
three Japanese divisions , or 75,000 men ,
on the Yalu river for the purpose of ad
vancing against the Russian main force *
According to a telegram received from
Chefoo the garrison at Port Arthur has
been reduced to 4,000 men , and all the
important documents , money and field
guns have been removed1 to Mukden.
There is no exaggeration in the state
ments that the Czar is taking the war
terribly to heart. His appearance has
undergoue a great change. He looks
pincliea and plainly is painfully wor
ried.
THE WEEKLY
One Hundred Years Ago.
The Connecticut valley was devas
tated by a flood. Many persons were
drowned and hundreds driven from
their homes.
President Jefferson pardoned all de
serters who had taken refuge in Louis
iana prior to Dec. 20 , 1803.
The legislature of Ohio appropriated
$17,000 for the building of public
roads.
State courts in Ohio seriously dis
cussed whether they were bound by
United States laws.
Dutch Guiana , in South America ,
was taken by the British with 2,000
prisoners , 282 cannon , and several
ships.
After having been closed many
months on account of the plague the
port of Malaga was opened to com
merce.
Seventy-five .Years Ago.
The export of opium from Bengal ,
under British auspices , amounted to
$5,000,000 annually.
The first Roman Catholic peers took
their seats in tliG English House of
Lords.
An incendiary fire occurred in West
minster Abbey.
The new Pope restored to the Jew
ish and Christian dissenters in Rome
all the privileges of which they had
been deprived by his predecessor.
The Duke of Norfolk and seven
other Roman Catholic peers took their
seats in the House of Lords.
An exploring party left Sydney , Aus
tralia , for the interior to discover the
source of several large rivers.
Fifty Years Ago.
The United States ship Saratoga ar
rived at Honolulu , twenty-five days
out from Japan.
The Sultan of Turkey ga.ve a grand
banquet in honor of Napoleon.
The great mill operatives' strike at
Preston , England , ended.
The government of the United States
announced its neutrality in the Crim
ean War.
Santa Ana's squadron abandoned
the blockade of Acapulco , Mexico.
Smallpox broke out on the ships of
the English Baltic fleet.
Forty Years Ago.
St. Louis , Mo. , journeyman tailors ,
then on strike , accused their employ
ers with manufacturing Confederate
army uniforms.
Negro sergeants and private soldiers
in the United States army received
only $7 a month , while whites with
the same rank received $13.
The trotting stallion George M.
Patchen , famous sire of harness hors
es , died at New York.
Congressman James A. Garfield ,
afterward President , asked for the ap
pointment of a committee to investi
gate Frank Blair's charges against
Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P.
Chase.
The Chicago Board of Trade voted
$2.50 weekly to families of men em
ployed by its members who would en
list in the army for 100 days.
The House of Representatives , after
three minutes' debate , appropriated
$25,000,000 for equipping 100,000 more
troops.
Thirty Years Ago.
Carl Schurz delivered his famous
eulogy on Charles Sumner at Boston ,
among his auditors being Ralph Waldo
Emerson , Henry W. Longfellow , Oliver
Wendell Holmes , John G. Whittier ,
Cyrus W. Field , and Phillips Brooks.
The first agreement to fix railroad
rates in the East was made at New
York , officials of the Atlantic and
Great Western , New York , Boston and
Montreal , United States Rolling Stock
Company , the Erie and Pennsylvania
attending the conference.
Polish priests were imprisoned by
the Russian government for refusing
to recognize the Russo-Greek church.
Chicago's street railway problem
was reported solved by the construc
tion of an inclosed steam locomotive ,
designed to haul cars at a rapid rate ,
electricity and the cable being practic
ally unknown.
The inhabitants of , Bilbao , Spain ,
who had been on the verge of starva
tion during the siege of the city , were
publicly fed by Marshal Serrano.
The Citizens' Mutual Reform Asso
ciation of Philadelphia , Pa. , finished
its investigation of the famous "gas
ring' ' in that city.
Twenty Years Ago. '
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach offered a
resolution of censure in the British
Commons because of the government's
dilatory policy in the Soudan. _
Bayard declared in the United States
Senate that socialism was rapidly get-
tine control of the government
Itlight Huvc Been Worse.
At a prayer meeting at the Cove , re
ports the Buffalo Commercial , ono man ,
a money lender , not loved by the people
whose collateral he held , spoke of him
self and the others present as "miserable
sinners , " and took rather too abject an
attitude to please a free-spoken neigh
bor. "Some people , " the latter said ,
"don't mean nothin' when they perfeus to
be miserable sinners , but I will do Elder
Cossey the justice to say that we all
believe him to be just as blame mean as
he perfesses to be. " It must have been
Elder Cossey at wb se funeral the hard-
pressed parson is reported as saying :
"It is true , my hearers , that our depart
ed brother was mean in some things
but we must in all chnrity remember thai
he was meaner in others. "
A Sure Protection.
Barton , N. D. , May 9. Many cases
are being published of how diseases
have been cured and lives saved by
Dodd's Kidney Pills , but there is a
family in this place who use this rem
edy as a protection against the coming
on of diseases and with excellent re
sults.
sults.Mr.
Mr. W. A. Moffet says : "We have no
very serious illness or complaint , for
we always use Dodd's Kidney Pills
the very moment we feel the least
symptom of sickness and they soon
nut us right. If we have a touch of
lame back or think the kidneys are not
right , we take a few Dodd's Kidney
Pills and the symptoms are soon all
gone.
"My brother had Diabetes and the
doctor told him he could not live until
spring. I got some Dodd's Kidney
Pills for him , and although that was
se\eral years ago , he has lived through
all the winters and springs since and
is still living. Dodd's'Kidney Pills nr <
a wonderful medicine. "
Overheard in the Jungle.
"Are you aware , " asked the learned
monkey of the elephant , "that , accord
ing to the Latin , you have an imped *
iment in your speech ? "
"How so ? " asked the elephant , as
he deftly mashed a fly with his righ ?
ear.
ear."In
"In Latin impedimenta means bag
gage , and you have a trunk "
"I wish " began the elephant , as
he reached with determination for a
convenient sapling. But the monkej
was already In the top of a high tree
Doafnos * Cannot He Cured
by local applications , as they cannot reach tha
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness , and that Is by constitu
tional remedies. Deafness Ls caused by an In
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
'Iiistachlan Tube. When this tube pets inflamed
vou have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hear-
Inp , and when It Is entirely closcu Deafness la
the result , and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to Its normal
condition , hearing will be destroyed forever ;
nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh ,
which is nothing but an Inflamed condition oi
the mucous simaces.
We will Rive One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness ( caused by catarrh ) thai cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars , free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO. , Toledo , O.
Sold by DrupRlsts. 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
IT REVEALS INCONSISTENCIES.
Absurdities in Dress Made Most Ap
parent by the Camera.
"If women would but remember/
remarked the photographic artist ,
"that the gown when composed ol
more than one material should loob
like one garment worn over the other ,
they would save themselves from some
grievous artistic errors in dress.
Take the case of the double sleeve novv
so popular. The idea is that of a
comparatively heavy outer sleeve , cut
away to show the lighter and gener
ally prettier arm covering , and a wom
an with anj- artistic feeling always
preserves that effect , even though she
may not act on any definite principle.
"But artistic feeling is a rare thing ;
therefore , the double sleeve is the occa
sion of many artistic atrocities. One
actually sees such sleeves cut in two at-
the elbow in order that the puff of
silk may be inserted , thus leaving the
lower half without any apparent con
nection with the shoulder , and nothing
to prevent it , so far as the eye can
see , from sliding oft the arm. The
sleeve may with perfect propriety be
slashed at the elbow to show a-.silk
lining , but to cut it in two for the
purpose of inserting another material
Is merely making patchwork of it. An
other custom is to put the material
with which the sleeve terminates over ,
instead of under , , the predominating
material , thus destroying the idea of
an undersleeve entirely , and leaving
the construction without any show of
reason for its existence.
IN AN OLD TRUNK
Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolic Acid
and Drinks It.
While the mother was unpacking an
nld trunk a little IS-months-old baby
: ; ot hold of a bottle of carbolic acid
while playing on the floor , and his
stomach was so badly burned it was
feared he would not live , for he could
not eat ordinary foods. The mother
says in telling of the case :
"It was all two doctors could do to-
save him , as it burnt his throat and
stomach so bad that for two months
after he took the poison nothing would
lay on his stomach. Finally I took him
into the country and tried new milk ,
and that was no better for him. His
grandma finally suggested Grape-Nuts
r.nd I am thankful I adopted the food , ,
for he commenced to get better right.-
away and would not eat anything else.1
lie commenced to get fleshy and his
cheeks like red roses and now he is
entirely well. ;
"I took him to Matamoras on a visit ,
and every place we went to stay tp eat'
he called for Grape-Nuts and I would
have to explain how he came to call
for it , as it was his main food.
"The names of the physicians who
attended the baby are Dr. Eddy , of
this town , and Dr. Geo. Gale , of New
port. Qhio , and anyone can write to
me or to them and learn what Grape-
Nuts food will do for children arid
grown-ups , too. ' ? * Name given by
Postum Co. , Battle Creek , Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
'
little book , "The Road to Wellville. "
