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!M4MNAw ri. ajjfc.-gjK.Tid ! ..V 2j2-3Xfc-- y ,.. II- . : . i ?-: P. jr-i I-' Iv ! V. I. Sf Hailay traveling in Algeria certain ly loaves very much to be desired. From Algiers to Biskra is 400 miles and it requires thirty-six hours to per form the Journey. '1 he trip from Oran to Algiers is 263 miles and this re quires twelve hours. Sleeping cars are required on all night trains ana restaurant cars on ail through trains. Atchison Glebe: Notice, and you will be alarmed at the number of times you have to repeat everything you- say in order to be understood. Is it that you don't talk plainly, or that the world is going deaf? "He is Wise Who Talks But Little." Tfiis is only a half truth. If tvise men had held their tongues, ive should know nothing about the circulation of the blood. If it lucre not for this advertisement yoa rrJght never know thai Hood's Sarsapa tula is the best blood medicine. T&cdSc TJTannmnWKKK'timm UAMHMBBI2f2lsQlH The late Charles A. Pillsbury was not one of those men who make a success of everything they under take. His first business venture, that of commission merchant in Montreal, according to the Minneapolis jour nal, was a disastrous failure. After paying his debts, he went to Minne apolis and began the business that in a few years made him a millionaire. Orurig-'n Wee til j- Patent Offlce Report. A simple device frequently invented and brought to us consists in attach ing a thread to an envelope so that the end of the thread is exposed and by pulling it the sealed envelope can be opened thereby. Patent No. 114,072 was granted for the said invention May 9th. 1871. Improvements are al ways in order and in many instances the improvements are more valuable than the original, but it is hard to conceive of a patentable improvement in the manner of applying a thread for an envelope opener and yet some genius may do so and get a valuable patent therefor. A patent has been allowed to T. il. J. Leckband of Adair, la., for an ace tylene gas generator. A retort is plvotally and detachably connected with a water tank and water and gas conveying pipes combined therewith so that the How of water can be ar rested while a plurality of pans in the retort are being cleaned and refilled with carbide while gas continues to flow to the burners. Consultation and advice free. Valuable printed matter sent to all applicants. THOMAS G. ORWIG & CO., Registered Solicitors of Patents. Des Moines, Iowa, Oct 7, 181)9. Scientists now assert that the hu man body Is full of microbes, when they are in good conu.iion, the man is healthy; but when tney are inactive from illness, the man needs medical treatment. Selling Patent. Thirty (30) per cent of the inventors who re- g ceived patents the past week were able to dispose ot their inventions before the patents were issued. Amongst the prominent concerns who bought pat ents were the following: Vive Camera Company, Chicago, 111., Eastern Paper Bag Company, Hart ford, Conn., Western Union Telegraph Co., of New York, American Pulley Co., of Pennsyl vania, Eagle Pencil Co., of New York, Singer Manufacturing Co., of New Jersey, Asphalt Paper Pipe Co., Los Ange les. Cal.. Sanitas Nut Food Co., Limited, Bat tle. Creek, Mich., Carnegie Steel Co., Limited, Pitts burg, Pa., T nitehead-Hoag Co., of New Jersey, Stover Manufacturing Co., FreeporF, III.. Bridgeport Brass C, Bridgeport, Conn. Inventors desiring information as to the sale of patents should address Sues & Co., Patent Lawyers and So licitors. Bee Bids., Omaha, Nebr., for free information. Berlin (Md.) Herald: Few men profit by the experience of others, but they generally think others should profit by theirs. Sick headache. Food doesn't di gest well, appetite poor, bowels con- snpated, tongue coated. 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Md. W.N. U. OMAHA. No. 421899 Ik & ULt PsBfo AMPEIRE SKETCHES GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. (Then Johnny Keb Went nome Former Confederate Telia of the Return of Soathera Soldier After the Biff War Kilpatrick In a Tight Tlace, Old Letter, rhe house was silent, and the light Was fading from the western glow; r read till tears had dimmed my sight. Some letters written long ago. The voices that have passed away. The faces that have turned to mould, ft'ere round me In tho room today And laughed and chatted as of old. The thoughts that youth was wont to think, Tho hopes now dead forever more. Came from the lines of faded Ink As sweet and earnest as of yore. I laid the letters by and dreamed The dear dead past to life again: The present and Us purpose seemed A fading vision full of pain. Then, with a sudden burst of gleo The children burst Into the room. Their little faces were to me As sunrise in the cloud of gloom. The world was full of meaning still, For love will live, though loved ones die: I turned upon life's darkened hill And gloried In the morning sky. F. G. Scott, When Johnny Keb Went Home. At a dinner party the other night several former union soldiers and one ex-confederate sat down. The latter had ridden with J. E. B. Stuart He Is now "riding" about for a northern con cern. The talk turned on the home coming of military heroes, and the southern man said: "I was asked the other day in Pittsburg as we watched the welcome of the people to the Tenth Pennsylvania back from the Philippines what sort of a reception we Johnny Itebs got when we went home after the civil war. Whipped soldiers are not often required to march in bodies when they go home. The con federates did not as a whole. They did not In any way so far as I ever heard. They went back in twos or threes but oftener one at a time. Tou will know some day that the civil war was unlike any other war of history. When the confederates realized that they were whipped they were heart broken. I am not making any argu ment for the cause. But you must con sider the temperament of a southern man to understand what defeat means to him. You people in the north would have recovered if the north had been whipped. You would have been at Richmond, if we bad succeeded, with your Yankee inventions and schemes. You would have gotten the contracts for the Confederate States public works. You would have had the con tracts for building our navy, for mak ing our guns. You would have built our railroads. You would have reviv ed your industries from our coffers. You would have become partners in our commerce. All this would have been characteristic of you. With the southern man it was different He was whipped, but he was sullen. He moped and would not play. You peo ple had the advantage in the play, of course, but you might have given the sulker a show for his white alley if he had shown a disposition to let you In side his yard. But he barred the gate and scowled at you through a knot hole. And this trait clung to him for years, and he awoke one morning to find some of you folks in his field, and on his plantation, working his soil, while he was starving. Then he quit looking back and went to work. And now when you have a trade with a southerner you do not take advantage of him as you did. But just after the surrender he was in no mood to be re ceived. The town from which he had enlisted was in no condition to turn out in welcome and hurrah, even if a regiment had returned, or any body of men. Gentlemen, believe me there was not a healthy hurrah in the whole south after Lee's surrender. It was nothing to brag about for some time before that Some of us saw the hand writing six months before the meeting of Grant and Lee at Appomattox. Your soldiers returned home in com panies, battalions and regiments. They were received by the populace, as we are now receiving our returning sol diery from the Philippines, and as we recently received them from Cuba. But the confederate sneaked back, not because he was ashamed of what he bad done, for to this day we are mighty sensitive on that point, but because he had been whipped. It takes a brave man to acknowledge a licking such as you gave us. We ryknowledged it all right to you, and at home, but we did not want any hurrah made about It Our people were In no mood to ring the bells or fire the guns when we went home. A man going into his old home in the night, climbing the back fence and going through the garden, mak ing peace with the dog, knocking at the kitchen door, is not an inspiring spectacle. That's the way most of us went back. Very often there were no bells to ring. You Yankees shot them out of the church steeples, or our peo ple had to melt them for ammunition. We were mighty short toward the last There were few house guns in the south during the war. Occasionally a confederate returned to find his town so battered that he did not know it He met strange faces In the streets. Familiar land marks had disappeared. Sometimes he found the foundation of his old home, and Jt was overgrown with grass. Whole towns disappeared, and communities removed, in some sections of the south during the war. I know many ex-confederates today who were never mustered out They bunched us and told us to go, and we scattered In every direction, i know a man in my state who is holding a fed eral office who never surrendered, and who was never discharged from the confederate service. No war ever had as many strange situations, as many curious results, as that war." Bom Talker or the Nary. From the Washington Star: A good story comes up from Cuba about a well-known naval officer.. Wherever the United States navy is known rvm. mander Lucien Young is known, i loung was one of the men who went to the rescue of the shipwrecked sail ors at Samoa after the great cyclone in 18SS. He also performed a daring feat aff Cape Hatteras when the Huron was lost, and was presented with a sword by the state of Maryland as a result of It He was one of the landing party at Honolulu when the cruiser Boston sent troops there to support Minister Stevens in his recognition of the pro visional government which overthrew Queen Liliuokalani in Hawaii. Lucien is a Kentuckian, and as a talker is sec ond only to Joe Blackburn of that state. But to get to the story: It ap pears that some naval officers were to gether down in Havana, and a late ar rival wiped his brow, ordered a drink and remarked that he was completely talked out as he had been up against the greatest talker in the navy. "I guess you must have struck Lucien Young," remarked one of the other -fleers. "No." he replied. "I have Just been up against plain Smith." "Well, then, you have another guess coming as to who Is the greatest talker," re sponded the man who had mentioned Young's name. "I don't know what your man Young can do," said the new comer, "but I have (5 to back my man Smith against him." "Taken," answered the champion of Lucien Young, quickly, and the money was put up in a third man's hands. It was agreed that nothing should be said either to Young or to Smith, but it was arranged that this group of naval officers should bring them together and quietly allow them to get started on some topis. The arrangements were all made. The men met casually. A drink or two was passed around and some topic introduced with with both Young and Smith were familiar. The others dropped out. leaned back in their chairs and smoked their cigars, while Smith and Young talked against each other over the table. This went on for a matter of two hours, and each apparently doing his level best Finally, Smith brought his fist down on the table with a bang and said: "Lucien Young, you are the greatest talker In the navy. I'll quit you right here." The money was passed over to Young's backer, and the joke explain ed, amid loud laughter on the part of those who had perpetrated it upon the two talkers. The "Camp-aJar.' Some recent stories of slaughter, sent home by private soldiers in the Philippines, evidently intended to elec trify the corner grocery store rather than to become the subject of investi gation at headquarters, have prompted Colonel Huntington of the United States marine corps to relate an in stance of untruthfulness and Its retri bution which fell under his notice. A private in his command, during last summer's campaign In Cuba, wrote home a vivid story, wholly the work of his imagination, of the way in which he "corraled" seven Spaniards. Three of these, he declared in his letter, he had shot, and the other four he had brought in as prisoners. The letter was published by the soldier's admiring friends in his home newspaper, and a copy of the paper was eventually sent to one of his comrades in Cuba, and passed about the camp. As the other members of the company knew that no such incident had taken place, they gave him no peace. A tin cracker box fell into the men's hands, and out of this they proceeded to cut a large cress, with a clasp and inscription, in imitation of the "Victoria cross." The brave Tom was asleep when this was done, but the soldiers called him up, led him out. and formally presented him with it, amidst a great uproar. Then they pinned it conspicuously upon his back and forced him to wear it. He made many attempts to get rid of his decoration, and finally managed to lose it in the woods. It was found and brought to the colonel, who pre serves it as a memento. Soldier and the Ant Hill, Only the other day the Kansas vol unteers got under a fire so heavy that, after spreading out in line of skirmish ers, the order was given to lie down. One unfortunate soldier flopped square ly into an ant hill. Thousands of the little pests swarmed angrily over him, biting with the peculiar penetration of Filipino ants. In a second the soldier jumped up, swearing and almost screaming with pain. "Lie down, my man," shouted his captain. "All right, sir," and down flopped the unhappy soldier. He could stand it only a few seconds, when he leaped once more to his feet. "Lie down, I tell you." in sisted the captain. "Blankety-blank, captain, I can't!" protested the poor fellow. Just then a sheet of Mauser bullets flew past him, at all heights, from his shin to his head. It was mar velous that the standing soldier was not hit In a dozen places, but he changed his mind swiftly about the possibility of lying down. Down he went, regardless of ants, shouting to his commander: "Yes, I can, captain! By the holy smoke, ye3, I can, sir!" And he remained down until the order came to rise. Manila Correspondence Leslie's Weekly. Kllpatrlck la a Tlrht Flace. From the Washington Times: The late General Judson Kilpatrick was caught in a tight place near Chatta nooga during the civil war. The gen eral, with his cavalry division, was outside of the federal lines on a lit tle raiding business. Being hard pressed by the confederates It wa3 necessary for him to ford the Tennes see river in order to escape. He knew there was a ford but did not know where to find it Riding up to a plan tation house he saw a fine looking old gentleman, with the ladies of his fam ily, sitting on the veranda. He at once demanded that the venerable planter should lead him to the ford, which the latter positively refused to do. There upon General Kilpatrick told him that unless he complied with the request he would be shot in a minute. At this one of the ladies exclaimed indignantly: "General, have you a father?" Kil patrick replied: "Yes, I have, and a mother, too, and they have a boy, and that boy is in a d d tight place!" Phil Sheridan's Objection. Gen. Meigs was the architect of the pension office In Washington and was inordinately proud of his achievement. When Gen. Sheridan inspected the building, Gen. Meigs accompanied him. Sheridan went thoroughly over the structure from top to bottom, without passing any comment, but when the inspection was completed he turned to his guide with: "Well. Meigs, I have only one fault to find with it" "What is that, general?" asked the delighted ex-quartermaster general. "It's fire proof," replied Sheridan. Chickens with Croop. The small girl who was in the coun try for the first time since she was of an age to take serious observations was much interested in a lot of little ducks in a neighbor's yard. She was more acquainted with infantile weak nesses than with barnyards, so, being a clever little woman, she put her wits to work and soon solved the problem as to why the quacking of the ducks was so different from the peeping of the chickens. "Mamma," she said, when she went home, "I have just seen a lot of little chickens with the croup." Uncoaacloas Homorlata. The unconscious humors of journal ism are often more amusing than the best efforts of the "funny men." A rural paper not long ago contained this statement: "Our friend, B. K. Jones of H street, is seriously sick. He is being attended twice a day by Dr. Smith in consultation with Dr. White, thereby his recovery is in gravs doubt" A whule of average size yields about 2,000 gallons of oil. FAKM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OP INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. tTp-to-Dste Hlnta Above Cat- tlratloa of the Soil and Yield Thereof Horticulture, Vltlcaltaro mad SlerlcBltBre. f Horticultural Obaerrattoaa, The time of year Is approaching when the horticultural conventions will be in session. We wish to exhort every reader of these columns to at tend wherever it is possible. These associations are not for scientists ex clusively, but any person that has an interest in growing fruits, flowers or vegetables will be welcomed. The cost of belonging to almost any of these societies is but 1 per year, and the benefits received are far beyond the expense of attendance. Many a mam would escape making some expensive mistakes if he would avail himself of these agencies that come almost to his door. Preparations should be made this fall to cover all tender plants with straw or dirt as a protection against the winter. The men that covered their strawberries, raspberries and blackberries last winter got good har vests this year and it was due entire ly to their covering of the plants. Some of the most advanced horticul turists in the West affirm that It is of little use to attempt to grow cer tain varieties of raspberries and black berries, even as far south as North ern Illinois, without covering them with some kind of material that will keep out the sun on the warm days in winter. If we could depend on hav ing a heavy blanket of snow to do the covering no artificial covering would be necessary. But the experience of last winter was that during the period of greatest cold the ground over a wide portion of the country was en tirely bare. As the end of the fruiting season in the orchard approaches Is the time to look over the orchard and see what trees can be removed with advantage to the looks and health and future fruitfulness of the orchard. This should be done before the leaves fall, for it will be more difficult to do the work after the limbs are bare. It will then be difficult in many cases to tell the thrifty tree from the unthrifty one. Many an old tree is allowed to stand in the orchard till its usefulness has been passed by many years. It be comes a harbor for Insects and fungoid diseases, and a nest from which to spread the pests to other parts of the orchard. These old trees should be cut out and even the roots dug up. A new tree should not be put in place of the old one, as the old rotten roots in the ground may make It easier for diseases and insects to attack the roots of the new tree. The old dead Hmb3 and limbs showing little or thrift on the other trees should like wise be cut out but this need be done only after the tree has stopped activ ity in the fall. The limbs can, bow ever, be marked, at this time. Conditions for Successful Orcharding. The past winter, spring and summer have given us an object lesson as to cause and effect in the treatment of orchards. But if we were to shape our course in the light of the effects of the last winter on the trees we would be making a great mistake. The last winter was so severe that the very conditions that would have been fa vorable to the orchards In ordinary years proved the reverse this last sea son. For once the best-cultivated or chards suffered the most Some be lieve that this was due to the fact that the ground above the roots of the trees, being in a loose condition, per mitted the frost to go much deeper than in orchards where there was a firm sod. In many cases this was the cause of the loss of trees and vines. It Is a well-known fact that frost goes deeper in land that is tilled than in land that is untilled. If we were to continue to have winters like the last we would perhaps be compelled to give up cultivating our orchards and vine yards or confine ourselves to a few exceptionally hardy varieties. But as we do not expect such winters, we are certainly justified in continuing to cul tivate, knowing that cultivation not only gives us better crops and stronger trees, but that trees so taken care of are more likely than others to survive ordinary winters. It has also been noted that the older orchards in clover and grass give the best crops this year, while the younger orchards, even when In clover and grass, seem to have sus tained great injury. A possible ex planation is that the older trees are deeper rooted and were able to get down below the frost line wherever the land was in some kind of crop that had allowed the soil to remain undis turbed for a number of years. The last winter must not be made the standard by which to judge future possibilities of cold. riant for Oar Arid l'lalns. Sooner or later science will bring our great semi-arid plains under the control of the farmer and stock-raiser. The system of reservoirs that is al ready being planned will do much to effect this, but we believe that still more will be accomplished by finding plants that will grow without the use of a great amount of water in the soil. Perhaps, too, valuable plants will be developed from useless plants we now have on the plains, such as the cactus. Already we are hearing of cactus that have no thorns, and that are very val uable for the feeding of stock. The government Is searching the world for plants that will add to the service of those we alreaiy have. Among those that hae been obtained abroad we might mention the Australian salt bush, which promises much. The one that is giving the best results Is called Atriplex Semibaccata. It has great drouth resisting power, and will grow on very alkaline soli. It is said that it will keep green all summer, grow rapidly, and that the root will remain in the ground to start the crop next year. It is said that stock of all kinds thrive on it These claims are rather extravagant, and it is well to wait a little before we praise too highly. We remember that sacallne came into the country with about as great eclat but had so many bad qualities that no one wants anything to do with it now. If the salt bush does half that is claimed for it it will be a great boon to all set tlers west of the Missouri river. Ia the Field. There will be a great temptation this fall to turn the stock into the mead ows and graze them as long as the feed is good or until fall rains make the pastures so good that they will again bear cropping. If the meadows are cropped at all. care should be taken that the grass is not eaten down so smooth that the sod will not recover before next summer. Remember that for the field to start well in the sprint the grass roots must have a good store of latent material from which to sen up the young blade. If the grass blades have continually been eaten down close, then the roots will have little material from which to begin growth in the spring. The root does not of itself elaborate food, but this work is done by the blades of grass. Thus It is that if the second growth of grass 13 left on the field uncut the next crop is stimulated thereby. The hay farm is one that seldom re ceives encouragement from writers on agricultural topics, for the reason that the selling off of hay is considered detrimental to the continued fertility of the farm. But we must have hay farms, just as we have farms devoted to the production of other special crops. The fertility of the hay farm can be kept up, but it must be by a considerable expenditure for manures and by a judicious rotation of crops. This rotation, however, can be easily made, for clover can be used after and before timothy and grasses of like con stituents. It will pay to keep the fields in a strong, healthy condition, and when the grasses show signs of hav ing at all exhausted the land, it may with advantage be put into some such crop as potatoes. Keeping the land rich not only gives a good hay crop, but it permits the grass to send down its roots to a depth where it may bid defiance to drouth. Where the mar ket for hay is good, and where the cost of delivery is not great, the hay farm may become very profitable. Oae View of Hoe Cholera. Nebraska Farmer says: Perhaps the chief safety valve to the hog-raising business, after all, Is found in what is popularly known as hog cholera, by which we mean to include all hogs that die from any disease whatever. That men should have an ambition to overcome and wipe out of existence all diseases that hogs are heir to is surely a good thing to contemplate; but that we could wish them actually to suc ceed in so doing, while all other con ditions remain substantially as now. is not quite so certain. One thing is perfectly obvious to all at this stage of our progress with diseases in swine, and that is, in no part of the country where hogs are raised in any numbers, and fed on grass and grain rations, are they free from raids of so-called hog cholera. The loss of a herd of hogs is certainly a severe one to the owner, but when these losses are legion and are distributed over a large area of country the effect can hardly be other than a salutary one upon pork making in general. That we are grow ing hogs in adequate numbers to meet every demand of the day, and this, too, in the face of and in spite of the continued prevalence of the disease, makes us wonder what would be the result if we were deprived of a possi bility of its presence. The Oswald Ration. The above named ration is a favor ite one for the feeding of lambs and sheep in the west and consists of a mixture of 280 lbs of shelled corn, 60 of flaxseed meal, 32 of oats and 30 of wheat screenings. When sheep are put upon this ration begin with a light ra tion of oats mixed with a still smaller per cent of corn until the sheep become accustomed to the mixture. It is un necessary to grind grain for sheep if their teeth are sound, and it does not pay to grain sheep that have not sound mouths. A common error Is made by many young shepherds In at once placing fattening sheep upon full feed, with the result that they are sickened and do not make the gain expacted. The proper way Is to accustom them grad ually to grain diet, and even one-quarter of a pound of oats or a mixture is often found to be more than sheep will at first clean up, whereas after a time they will eat and digest quite large quantities. It may be said in connection with the above that wheat screenings and hay without other food arc being largely used for the fattening of sheep at the large feeding yards of certain western railroads, as for instance at La Fox, 111., and Trevor, Wis., and the sheep apparently thrive well and are healthy. Sheep and Splenic Fever. In a recent renort to the Australian government on "Preventive Inocula tion Against Tick Fever." by Frank Tidswell, chief assistant medical officer of the government, in speaking of ani mals that possess natural immunity, he says: "It must be admitted that some doubt -exists in the case of sheep. The American observers came to the con cusion that sheep were not susceptible, but they only report one experiment in which blood was Injected into a Iamb. By similar experiments on two sheep in Queensland Dr. Hunt set up fever In both. One recovered and one was killed in a dying state. Post mortem examination did not reveal the characteristic lesion of tick fever, and the examination for micro-organufms was Indefinite. The blood from one of the sheep injected into a bullock 'pro duced no well-marked disease.' The evidence is, perhaps, no more than sus picious, but it is possible that tick fever, like tuberculosis, occasionally occurs in sheep. As Dr. Hunt remarks, the subject merits fuither study." The Tripod of Agriculture. The presence of nitrogen, potash and phos phoric acid is what gives commercial value to fertilizer or manure. The only manurial materials that a farmer can afford to buy at prices demanded for fertilizers are these three most nec essary, most precious and most easily exhausted elements of plant grow til th tripod of agriculture, as Dr. Ked zie of the Michigan Agricultural Col lege says. In the absence of any one of these three materials no plant can grow to perfection, and if the supply o! them is below the needs of any given ninnt. that deficiency limits the cron proportionately. However abundant all the other elements of plant life, nothing will make up for the lack oi any one of these three substances. Vegetable Oyster. One of the plants found in our garden (my wife's and mine) is the vegetable oyster, as it is called. It is a hardy plant and easy to grow. The seeds should be sown in drills when the weather gets warm, say about the first of June, and they will make fine roots by fall. Do not sow them too thick. They make finei roots when sown thin in the rows. Homestead. Soil Mulch. Nothing Is more effec tive as a mulch than fine soil. Straw, spoiled hay, leaves, pine needles, etc, are used to a limited extent in the cul ture of fruits and vegetables. These materials check evaporation, keep the soil moist and loose, and help to re store fertility. United States Senator Hanabrough. of North Dakota, acquired his educa tion in a newspaper office. In 1870 he was apprentice in the composing room of the San Francisco Chronicle and gradually worked his way up un til he became news editor of that paper. Dispatches irom England say that 40,000 personshave died of starvation in, German East Africa. The terrible famine that 'is destroying the tribes living between anzibar and Mom basa, about 200 miles, is due to failure of the rains during two consecutive seasons. C WITH A TAIL! Every One Has Noticed the New "C" in Town. 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Address Sterling Rem edy Co., Chicago; Montreal, Can., or New York. This is the C ARC A RET tablet Every tablet of the only genuine Cascarets bears t he tna :ic letters "CCC." Look at the tablet before you buy, and beware of frauds, imitations and substitutes. The pope has received from an Eng lish Catholic a present of a beautifully constructed motor car. The auto mobile is seated for two. As his holi ness has not for three years taken carriage exercise, it is improbable that he will ever use the motor car. THE PRESSMEN PLEASED. The Transcontinental Trip Was a Sur prise to Them. The following telegram has been re ceived by Mr. D. McNicoll. assistant general manager of the Canadian Pa cific Railway, from Mr. W. S. Dlngman, president of the Canadian Press Asso ciation: Vancouver. Aug. 21. 1899. "One hundred members of the Cana dian Press Association are deeply grateful to the Canadian Pacific Rail way Company for the unremitting cour tesy and hospitality which has made their trip across the continent the most Interesting and pleasant of all their outings. Though conscious of tho sterling work accomplished In the spanning of a continent, for a large part remote from settlement, and In the opening up of a territory as vast as some empires, the actual view unfolded on the journey has impressed the ex cursionists more forcibly than word? can represent. The development all along the route, in cities as well as In agricultural and grazing sections, has surprised us, and is most encouraging to lovers of solid progress and hopeful prosperity. The ease and comfort with which the trip from ocean to ocean is attended In the cars and In the C. P. It hotels, through a service unexcelled anywhere, Is a triumph for Canadian skill and enterprise second only to the financial and engineering victories at tained in the building of the greatest scenic and developing line in America. "W. S. DINGMAN. "President Canadian Press Associa tion." Booker T. Washington is to be given a public reception in Atlanta the 25th instant, and Governor Cand ler will be among those to welcome him, while other leading white citi zens will make addresses. "Ask for the Best Reading. Liberal religious literature sent free on application to Mrs. II. D. Reed, 132 N. 38th ave., Omaha, Nebr. It was shown some time ago from investigation that bribery in Connec ticut elections was most prevalent among the native population of the rural sections. Now comes a state ment from one of the eastern coun ties of Maryland, which has a popula tion of 19,702 natives and only 45 for eign born, two-thirds of which is white, that the purchasable vote has I increased to z.uuu, ana mis nuniour amounts to early one-half of the total electorate. The evil is so widespread, says the Worcester (Md.) Advocate, that a jury is rarely ever drawn in the county that does not have one or more men upon it who are known to belong to the vote-selling class. The hissing of Nevada, the Ameri can prima donna, by a Barcelona au dience recently shows that intense bitterness exists in the breasts of the Spaniards against the people of this country. The insult was more than the singer could stand and she can celed her entire Spanish tour, though she afterward went to Madrid, where she was most cordially received by the queen, who is her great friend, and who was greatly mortified at th rudeness of her subjects in Barcelona. Some members of the co-operative colony at Ruskin, Tenn., have just founded a new commonwealth at Duke, Ga. One hundred and twenty per sons have joined the new colony, which will be conducted on simiVr lines to the Tennessee experiment, all property being held in common and members receiving pay for their labor in goods. Since the opening of the free em ployment bureaus In Chicago, six weeks ago, 9,556 persons have applied for employment, and of this number work for 3,992 has been secured. Dur ing the same time 6,058 people have en deavored to employ labor through the offices, and 3,076 of the applications have been filled. An example of the life-preserving 1 powers of British civil positions is the Hertslet family, one member of J which has completed sixty years' ser vice in the queen's household. He has two brothers who spent fifty years each in the foreign office, while his father was in the same office for fifty six years. ONE OP THE etc V RaCBCa55B5 iSSaiffi!Sc& IP ?fErewha1?tK5 tor a short time Mr. McDougall of the London county council is afraid that the Thames will run dry owing to the dams that are being built in the upper reaches of the river. Last year 843.000,000 gallons of water a day passed over Teddington Weir in May; the figures for this year are 550,000.000 gallons in May. It is feared that the result may be an epi demic of disease, arising from the un diluted sewage of the city. The gold exported from Western Australia during August amounted to 145.397 ounces, of the value of 2.762, 555. This is the second largest month ly export on record. The late Captain Joseph Elliott, who died in Memphis, Tenn., last week, was one of the few surviving pioneers of the old Mississippi steam- boat days and served as a model for one of the characters in Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi." The somewhat sharp curves at Llne berg on the Second Division ot the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road are be ing removed and replaced with a tan gent thus eliminating about 24 de grees of curvature. About 14.000 cubic yards of material will be excavated. TO CURB A COLO IN ONE DAY, Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money If it fails to cure. 25c. . V. Grove's signature on each box. Gibraltar dock yard laborers have gone on a strike on account of the drinking water. To prevent waste the contractors required the men to pay for the water they used, whereupon they withdrew into Spanish territory. Cared After Repeated Failures With Others I will Inform addicted to Morphine. Latidanaa Opium, t'ocattie. of netrr fa'Ilne. hannle, home? cure. Mr. M. II. lutdwln. Hon li. Chicago. 11L Philadelphia Times: Has there ever been an occasion when a story was told that it was not followed by a "that reminds me" from some member of the company? 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I was so weak and dizzy that I would often have severe fainting spells. I took in all several bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier and used Sanative Wash, and am now good health. I wish others to .know of the wonderful good it has done me, and have many friends taking it now. Will always give your medicine the highest praise." Mrs. A. Tolle, 1946 Hil ton St., Philadelphia, Pa., writes: "Dear Mrs. Pinkiiam I was very thin and my friends thought I was in con sumption. Had continual headaches, backache and falling of womb, and my eyes were affected. Every one noticed how poorly I looked and I was advised to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. One bottle relieved me, and after tak ing eight bottles am now a healthy woman; have gained in weight 95 pounds to 140 pounds, and evervone ask what makes me so stout" JOHNMSWYTHCO ' fWIAIVSIVIV ri , ailAII ADnPOJW HOUSE, THIS EXTRA HIGH Surely a marvel for the anoney. Only that we buy Furniture in bigger lots than any other Mail Order House, it couldn't be done. "tS""" ii'iiB'r m oua OEi? SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY. . . - .a.. u.K . tm.lrf ntn.h or rubber coat. If youwantaeoatl tnat win nep y j " v i I st t6ra buy the Fish Brand I bit CUM- IF not lor ue tu ;ww 1 ion, wiiw i wi ,-- ""Vtlf a?f Di(nn Ua .J. Intn.iw""".- GRANDEST OFFERS 3te 11 Samuel Sherard, an Inhabitant of Pittsburg, own3 what is probably the most costly hat In the world. Its price was f 1,250 and it Is made of spun glass. At first sight it appears to be made of ffuVly woven straw, but a nearer inspection reveals the fact that it has certain reflective prop erties. It is the handiwork of an old Alsation at Pittsburg. More than 24.000 persons paid for admission to Shakespeare's birth place, Stratford-on-Avon. during the fiscal year recently closed, and more than 10,000 persons paid for admission to Ann Hathaway's cottage. SWANSON'S "6 DROPS" is the sun of the sick room. It has saved the public, in less than five years, more money than the national debt of this country, when you measure the value of health restored, suffering1 humanity relieved of its agonies and diseases. Money which otherwise would have been expended in funerals, doctors and drug- bills, loss of labor, etc. If you have never used it, do not fail to send for at least n trial bottle. Swunson's "5 Drops0 never fails to cure. It has cured and is curing millions of people afflicted with Acute and Chronic lthcuiuatbni. Sciat ica, Neuralcia, Asthma, L Grippe and Catarrh of all kinds. "5 Drops" has never failed to cure these dibeasos. when used as directed. It will cure you. Try it Price of lurgo sized bottle 51.00, sent on receipt of price, charges prepaid; 25c sample bot tle sent free, on receipt of 10c to pay for mailing. Agents wanted. Swau son'a Rheumatic Cure .Company, No. 161 Lake street, Chicago, 111. Glasgow Echo: We were told the other day that a Glasgow woman had a quarrel with her husband because he wouldn't mortgage the house to buy an automobile. too Reward mioo. The readers of this paper will bo ptcawct to learn tha, there Is at least one dreaded dtsenso that sconce has been able to cure la all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh belli: a constitu tional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure U taken Internally, acting directly upou tho blood and mucous sur faces of the system, thereby destroying tho foundation of thcdiscase.uudi;lvini;thpatlt-nt strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in dolnir its work. Tho pro prietors haro so much fuith in its curatlio powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it rails to cure. Scud (or li.st of Testimonials. Address P. J. CHENEY & CO . Toledo, a Sold by druggists 73c. 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