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Business cards, five line* or less, IS per year, f»er five lines, at the regular rates of adver t'a.ng No local lnsorted for less than 78 cents pet issue JOB PRINTING, The Job department of the PKESS Iscornpleia ,i,( >,ff, rds facilities for doing the best i-ltss ol WORK PAUIH.I I.AU ATTENTION PAIDTU LAW PMNTINU. No paper will be discontinued ntU arrear f,g. a are paid, except at the option of the pub- Papers t,ent out of the county must be paia for in advance CURRENT TOPICS. SENATOR FKYK, of Maine, is a great fisherman. MAW Atlantic liners burn as much as :;oo tons of coal per day. OF all the staple crops of the world the potato takes the first place. A HANDSAW bearing date of IG2O was dug- up recently at North East, Pa. THE total cost to Russia of the im perial family is 520,000.000 per year. IN Germany a clock has been made that is warranted togo for 9,000 years. IT is believed that in China there is 20 times as much coal as in all Eu rope. TIIK favorite small arm in Brazil is a double-barreled pistol made in Bel pi um. Music boxes for bicycles are now manufactured by a firm in Hamburg, Germany. DANIEL WEI. I.S, of Milwaukee, aped 85, is the oldest livinp ex-congressman in the west. PAUL KRUKOER'S favorite dish is salt herring. He cats at least one of these fish every day. GEN. FITZIIUGH LEE is said to be con templating the writing of a life of his uncle, R. E. Lee. MAJ. Gen. OTIS' wife regularly re ceives a cablegram from her husband on the 15th of every month. IN the fanning- districts of Russia it costs U8 cents to hire a horse for one day, and >!4 cents to hire a man. IIEXKV LI. BENEDICT, the millionaire type-writer manufacturer, was once a teacher of Latin in the Fairfield semi nary. IT is said that at the death of Hetty (ireen $1,000,000 of her fortune will be divided among 100 distant connec tions. CONGRESSMAN KETCH AM, of New York, has a unique claim to fame. He lias served in 13 congresses and has never made a speech. A BAI.D eagle wnose wing extension was seven feet, was killed recently near Milford, Del., while trying to carry off a lamb. A SUCCESSFUL firm of tea merchants in London is composed entirely of women. The blenders, tasters and packers are also women. THEM-: are three varieties of the dog that never bark—the Australian dog, the Egyptian shepherd dog and the "lion-headed dog of Thibet. IN 1880 Germany imported ep-ps to the value of 3:1,500,000. In 1898 the amount was nearly trebled. Russia provides 90 per cent, of them. TO-DAY 50,000 persons and $50,000,000 are employed in the business of mak ing and distributing newspaper clip pings among tiiose whom they concern. TIIK ordinary folding fan was in vented in the seventh century by a Japanese artist, who derived the idea from watchinp a bat closinp its wings. THE prince of Wales has warned his brother free masons not to make themselves cheap by wearing their masonic regalia on ordinary occasions. THE oldest creature living in the world belongs to Walter Rothschild. It is a giant tortoise, weighing a quar ter of a tou, and it has a known life of 150 years. A I. AW was recently passed in Nor way prohibiting the sale of tobacco to anybody under 10 years of age without a signed order from an adult relative or employer. A I. AW was recently passed in Swit zerland prohibiting the manufactur ing, importation or sale of matches containing the ordinary form of yel low phosphorus. IT is averred by a famous Chinese doctor that nervousness is kept out of the Celestial empire by the use of soft soled shoes. The hard soles worn by the Anfflo-Saxon race are said to be the cause of their extreme nervous temper ament. RAILWAY whistles inflict torture on so many people that Austria has intro duced a system of dumb signaling ;o start and stor> the trains. Belgium is trying compressed air whistles instea of steam, and Germany experimen with horns. WILLIAM OXI.KY THOMPSON, the new president of Ohio state university, spent ten years in petting his diploma from Muskingum college, be ng JO poor that to get one year's study he had sometimes to work three years to save the money required. IT is not generally known that S. Coleridge Taylor, who composed the cantata played at the last festival in Norwich, England, is a full-blooded Negro. Mr. Bispham declares the com poser of "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" the coming musical genius. E ACH day of the week has served as a day of rest somewhere: Sunday among Christians, Monday with the Greeks, Tuesday with the Persians, Wednesday with the Assyrians. Thurs day with the Egyptians, Friday with the Turks and Saturday with the He brews. SAVED BY DEMOCRATS. Lt-fflKlnlion ARlilnst Monopolistic Combination)* Furthered by Ilrpultllciins. 24tit for democratic action in con gress a stringent national law against trusts would be in force to-day. Re publicans passed the law in 181)0. Dem ocrats dest roved it in ISO 1 and defeated its reenactmcnt in 1597. The proof is easily within the reach of everyone. It is distinctly set forth in the laws passed by congress and is too plain to be disputed. In the McKinley tariff law of 1800 was the following-section: "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspir acy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several slates, or with for eign nations, is hereby declared to be* il legal." Any person engaging in such combination was to be deemed guilty itf misdemeanor, und. on conviction, fined not to exceed $5,000, or impris oned for not more than one year, or both in the discretion of tlie eourt. T lie law containing this most sweeping provision against trusts was passed in 1890 by a vote of 104 to 142. Every vote ior it was republican and every vote against it, except two, was democratic. It passed the senate by a straight vote of 40 to '-" J. The only biil ever passed by congress in the direction of tearing up the trusts by the roots, in every state in the union, and in every shape and form, received almost unanimous democratic opposition. In the ne\t congress the democrats controlled both houses and proceeded to extend to the trusts the greatest net of friendship they have ever received from any source. No OTIC was more prominent in this deed than William J. I'ryan, who was a member of the ways and means committee, and one of the framers and champions of the Wilson tariff law of 1804. The V\ iison law killed the complete and effective pro vision against trusts in the McKinley law, substituting the following sec tion, which is of no practical use what ever: "Every combination, conspir acy, Irust, agreement or contract is hereby declared to be contrary to pub lic policy, illegal and void, when the same is made by or between two or more persons or corporations either of whom is engaged in importing any ar ticle any foreign country into the United States." The McKinley law placed a heavy penalty upon trusts of every bind and everywhere in the L nit cd States, the Wilson law swept this full safeguard away and limited the penalty to importers alone. Mr. Bryan worked and talked for the Wilson bill incessantly. He and his fellow demo crats in congress tore down the wall that shut out trusts, and they came trooping in all over the country as the result of the democratic overthrow ot the law of 1890. More than tiiis. the democrats in the last congress prevented the restoration of the provision against trusts in the present, or Ding-ley. tariff law. ihe re publicans had no majority in the sen ate and democratic senators would not permit the anti-trust clause of the Mc- Kinley law to be inserted in the Ding- Icy law. The new congress is repub lican in both branches. lor the lirst time since 1890 republicans have the power to put back into a tariff law tho section ■which they passed before and which declared all trust combinations, no matter what their form or location, to be illegal and subject to a fine of £5,000 and imprisonment for one year. A comparison of Ihe McKinley law of 1890 and the Wilson law of 1894 will convince any investigator that the democratic party, with Bryan as one of its most prominent and zealous lead ers, stepped in and saved the trusts at the most critical time in their history. The oilicial evidence is within the reach of all, and it is incontestable. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Wall of Woe. This is the way the irrepressible Henry Watterson in the Courier-Jour nal lamented the departure of Bryan's Bimetallic league, which held its con vention in Louisville a few days ago: "Now they are gone, and all is dark again. Yes, they are gone 'quite gonested away,' as poor Artemus used to observe —the leaguesters—the bime teoric, monometallic leaguestry, and ail is sad and dark. No more do we behold the flash of the diamond upon George Fred's shirt front, nor the bulging brows of Tarvin, the child of genius, bursting with thought. The sweet, soft, cynical smile of the only Altgeld likewise is vanished. The boy orator has transferred his activities to other scenes of conquest. Mr. Belmont has taken his resplendency eastward. Even the three 'little jokers'—Hardin, Stone and Goebel—have fired blank cartridges at one another in the air, as it were— are off among the hayseeds again to startle and confound. All is drear. And the wind blew through his whiskers. And next day, when it snowed, there was not a pickle left in the bottom of the jar. And no pie!" r7""lf the democratic party wants somebody to lead a retreat it must find some one accustomed to walking back ward," said William Jennings Bryan, speaking in Atlanta on the Fourth. That wuf iiis way of saying that if the democracy wanted to retreat from the silver issue it would have to get some one else to lead it, as he was not accus tomed to walking backward. 15ut while Mr. Bryan declares his inability to walk backward with his party, he wants the whole nation to walk backward with him. lie is persistently advocating the retreat of the I'nited States from its duties and its rights in the Philippines; he is not only willing, but even anxious io lead such a retreat. Mr. Bryan is de plorably inconsistent.—Albany Jour nal. CThr democratic is»ue for the next campaign evidently is Bryan. They may call it by some other name, but that doesn't alter the fact. —Chicago' Post. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1899. FORECAST BY ALTGELD. Some llitMfleMM and I nrcllntite Predic tions on Political iKNuea for the Coniinit Year. Kx-Gov. Altgeld has explained in an open letter to the editor of the Quincy Journal what he thinks will be the po litical issues of 1900. lie says: "tine half of the American people are farm ers, and these find their purchasing power is only about 50 per cent, of what it formerly was in proportion to population, and consequently their social status has been lowered." He adds that the much-boasted prosperity is not the prosperity of the producer, and then swings off into a mass of gen eralities and vagaries of the county fair style. The value of the whole effu sion may be measured on the few con crete statements that it contains. T'or instance, are half of the American peo ple fanners? According to the census of IS9O there were employed on the. farms and ranches and in the dairies of the Cnited States 8,127,070 men and women, in the same year there were employed in the manufacturing and mechanical in dustries 5,U91,C69 people; in trade and transportation, 3,233,9(52; in domestic and personal service, taking in barbers, engineers and firemen, janitors, labor ers, nurses, servants, etc., 4,360,577, and in the professional services, including architects, clergymen, journalists, law yers, musicians, physicians and teach ers. 94-1,333, making a total of 14,1 is,lio men and women engaged in business having no relation to farms or ranches. As everyone knows, the tendency since IS9O lias been toward industrial em ployment, or toward the professions, rather than toward the farms. So much for the trustworthiness of the former governor in matters of statistieal.fact. Now, as regards his opinion of the con ditions prevailing among farmers to day and three years ago. In IS9O thousands of farmers were under a weight of mortgages, which calamity-how lurs of the Altgeld class said never could be paid. Yet in the last two years most of these mortgages have been lifted. Except where drought or storms prevented, the farmers have had more than the usual quantity of grain and other farm products to sell, and it is notorious that, in the last year or two, they have received exceptional ly good prices. Mr. Altgeld could not find more than one farmingcommunity in a hundred where the people would venture to assert that their purchasing power was only 50 per cent, of what it formerly was. Xo one can travel anywhere in the farming districts without perceiving that the social status of farmers is higher than it was 30, 20 and even ten years ago. More, farmers' sons and daughters are in colleges and universi ties. More farmers are taking pride in education and social standing. More farmers' houses have pianos, organs, pictures and books than ever before, and there is a closer relationship be tween the people of the farming dis tricts and those of the cities than e-»er before. The statement that tliis boasted pros perity is not the prosperity of the pro ducer is disproved in the conditions:*: industrial life as well as in agricultural life. In nearly every department o\ manufacture wages have been ad vanced. Where there were tens of thou sands out of employment three years ago there are but scores now. The democratic agitator may strive to blind himself and liis followers to these facts, but all the verbiage of so cialism and Altgeldism cannot put them out of the world. —Chicago Inter Ocean. POLITICAL DRIFT. C?" Mr. Bryan continues to confer with ex-governors and former congressmen. The statesmen out of jobs are naturally chummy.—Washington l'ost. democratic party of Ohio is getting ready to sell out once more to a boss with a barrel. McLean will have his own way at Zanesville.—Cleveland Leader. Bryan says he would rather lose with sixteen to one than win on any other issue. He will go down with his liag flying and his jaw moving.— Chicago Tribune. EJ"Democrats are talking free trade ag-ain in a sneaking way. They say it is the lirst step to get rid of the trusts, which is a characteristic specimen of crooked and impotent politics. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Bryan declares that he stands where he did in IS9G. If that is so he can never hope to catch up with the country at large, which has been at the double-quick while he has been mark ing time.—lndianapolis Journal. CAn "anti-imperialist" in Massa chusetts is reported to have placed his flag- at half-mast during President Mc- Kinley's recent visit to that state. The fool-killer has been very busy in Mas sachusetts during the past few months, and it is not. surprising that one should have escaped. —Chicago Times-lleraid. CUnder a republican administration and during times of war the funded debt of the country was not increased much more than under the last demo cratic president in a time of profound peace. There is a whole political speech in that statement, and it will be used this year and next with telling ef fect.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. tTVTIie poor, demoralized and faction torn democracy of this county is ap parently unable to hold caucuses with out gross frauds and shameless bully ing. although it has no power to elect anyone and no reasonable hope of ob taining- such prizes of office as might be expected to stir up bourbon greed and lust of power to the fraud-working pitch. Ohio seems to grow worse and worso. as a breeding ground for fac tions and a theater for bitter political rows. We arc sorry to confess that Cleveland has nlore than its share of the troubles in both great parties.— Cleveland Leader. WON IN A WALK. Shimrurk Kaolly Oulnalla tlio llritan- Ilia in Two Itaeen. Southampton. July 1!'.- There was liuich excitement on the Solent yester day over the Britiinniu-Sltinirock race. I'he course was i'j miles long ;in<l the Shamrock won easily, being I■' minutes ahead of the Brtttania at the finish. Oil the actual difference in the times ,t»( the Shamrock ami Britannia at the various points and the times at the finish of the race it does not appear that the Shamrock has 11 great chance of winning tlie America's cup. These signs, however, ma.V be deceptive. It was the opinion of those who closely watehecj the race from the steamer fol lowing tin- yachts that the Shamrock was never pushed to tier utmost and that Mr. Fife, the designer of the vncht, who practically engineered the -onlest on behalf of Sir Thomas Up ton. merely desired to ascertain wheth er the Shamrock could show the I'.ritannia a clean pair of heels. He had no desire, however, to let every nne into the secret of the actual mer its nr best speed of the challenger. Confirmation of the foregoing opin ion is found in the fact that while the 1 ritannia carried every possible stitch nf canvas, the Shamrock was running before the wind from Nab lightship to the Solent bank buoy, and only had her jib headed with the topsail, instead of the (dull topsail like the I'.ritannia. ind that 011 the broad reach home the Sham rock lowered licr jib topsail, which would have been of material as sistance had her skippers really wished to show her at her best. The Shamrock is decidedly the fast est boat ever launched in these waters. No other craft ever gave the Britan nia such a beating on such a fair sail ing' trial. ('owes. .Inly '2O.- There was beautiful weather yesterday for the trial of the vacht Shamrock against the Brittania. 1 lie Shamrock won easily. MUST PAY RANSOM. NpanlarclM W ill\lel«l Money to Secure Iti'li'iiMe at Prisoner*—Manila street# Tunica! Into Ktver*. Manila. .July 20. — The Spanish com mission charged with negotiating' for the release of Spanish prisoners held by the Filipinos expect to return to Turkic soon, with full authority to sicure the release of all the prisoners, rite eomtnisisoners hope to lie abb* to make arrangements under which the money to be paid for the ransom of Spanish captives will lie deposited in the bank, to be draw n by the Filipinos at a future date, so that the money cannot be used to carry on the war against the Failed States. The Fili pinos have refused to allow civilian prisoners to embark on board a ship leaving' Aparri. although they had passports signed by \guinaldo. There have been terrific rains here during the last two days. In conse quence it has been necessary to use boats in moving about the streets of Manila, and the whole country is flood ed. The total precipitation thus far in July has been 35 inches and in II hours I*2 inches of rain fell. Insurgents concealed on the bank of the IJio (irande yesterday fired on the gunboat I.aguna l)e Bay, killing' one soldier and wounding two. The gun boat trained a Gatling gun upon the shore and quickly dispersed the insur gents. MORE TROUBLE IN SAMOA. Itlval Fai'tloiiM ICimagc In a Fatal AI- Iray t liiol .luatlce Chamber* Ite fflj£llN« The joint commissioners will leave for Washington. July 13. Chief Jus tice Chambers will leave for San Fran cisco on the steamer Moana on July 17. lie has sent his resignation to President .McKinley. who does not wish his resignation. The question wheth er this constitutes a vacancy in the chief justiceship is being' discussed by the commissioners. Dr. Solf clams that he will preside over the supreme court if Chambers leaves the island. If there is no vacancy, then either Hun ter or Mair may be designated to (ill the chief justiceship. The commissioners are much blamed for not ordering the restoration of loot taken by rebels. Mataafa par tisans among the rebels are raising funds to fight the king-ship question through lawyers, and arc confident of obtaining- a rehearing-. Mataafa. how ever, accepts the abolition of the king ship and will be present at a meeting with commissioners on Savati island. Apia. Samoa, via Auckland, N. July 10. In fighting- which occurred Rt Sofata, in the Suateles district. July 4. one Malietoa chief was mortally wounded and two V' it aa fa chiefs and one Suatele were killed and three oth ers wounded. The British cruiser Tauranga and the German cruiser Cor tnoran arrested three chiefs and brought them to Apia for trial before the supreme court. A It Wilier A tioilt Hogr*;, Austin, Tex., July 20. —A letter re ceived here from a well-known Bryan leader now in the east says an cle ment of the democvatic national com mittee is seeking' to elect ex-Go v. Hogg, of Texas, to the position of chairman of the committee to succeed Senator Jones. This letter says further that the resignation of Chairman Jones is in the hands of one of the western members of the committee. The pro posed change is said to have been urged by Bryan, and it is to be given Hogg" as a reward for his service in bursting' the Van Wyck boom at the Tammany Hall celebration. A Family Drowned. Tekamah, Neb.. July 19.- Word was received here Tuesday of the drowning in northwestern lowa, near the Min nesota line, Monday night, of A. W. Blades, his wife and eight children, while en route to Minnesota in an emigrant wagon. The family was en ramped on a creek, when a cloudburst raised the creek 1? or 15 feet. Kike .tinker* Combine. New York. July 19. A combine of the bicycle manufacturers became ef fective at a meeting- In-lil in this city Tuesday. Forty-live snianufacturers, re or eventing 53 plants, were present. MR. ALGER QUITS. Tho Secretary of War Tenders Ilia Resignation. Ill* Action Surprised the WaMhlnston Of.i<iu I*, tlie Opinion Having Iteen General that lie Would |te« main in the < abinct I mil .taniiary, 1900, Washington, July 20.- Secretary Al ger yesterday tendered to the presi dent his resignation of the war port folio. The resignation will become effective August I. though it was ten dered "at the pleasure of the presi dent." Gossip has begun already as to his successor, but is entirely specu lative. for notwithstanding the reports that Mr. Alger would not king- con tinue at the head of the war depart ment. his actual resignation came un expectedly. That it would come by the end of the year was generally be lieved. but so little was it expected at this time tiiat some of tin 1 cabinet of ficers when the news first became pub lic were inclined to regard the an nouncement as premature, the an nouncement that it was actually in hand seeming to them in the nature of a surprise. Formal acceptance of the resigna tion had not been made by the presi dent up to a late hour last night, but will be in a letter to be written with in the next day or two. No official Statement as to the cause of the resig nation was procurable either from the president or Secretary Alger. The belief has prevailed in Washing ton for some time that Secretary Al ger would resign from the cabinet, lint the date generally set for it was to wards the close of the year, after he had submitted his annual report, in which he intended to sum up what had been accomplished during his brief but eventful direction of the war depart ment. Its tender then had been re garded as almost a foregone conclu sion. in view of Mr. Alger's announce ment about a month ago that '• had concluded to compete for .<■ vacancy in the I'nited States senate to be caused by the expiration af the term of Senator McMillan. :» strong supporter of the administration, and that he had enlisted in his support (iov. Pingrce, to whom had been attributed free criticisms of the policy that was supposed to be cherished by the president towards the Filipinos. There have been many explanations and denials of the facts* in that case, but in the end the impression was con veyed that the result of the Michigan visit of the secretary had been to change jlie relations between the presi dent and himself to such a decree as to make a restoration of their former status impossible and to render the connection of the two as part of the same official family undesirable. At one time since there was ground for the belief that a rupture might be avoided, but this belief ceased to be held when the news spread that Vice President llobart and Secretary Alger were in conference at Normanhnrst. It was largely as a result of this conference that Secretary Alger de cided to leave the cabinet at this time. At this conference there were present beside Secretary Alger, his military aide, and close personal and political second and advisor. Maj. Hopkins, and perhaps some other persons who felt a deep interest in the future of the secretary. There has been no disclo sure of what has passed by the seaside, but it is significant that the return of the secretary to Washington was fol lowed by prompt action. He arrived in Washington Tuesday night, too late to make any political <alls. Almost before the executive departments were opened for business in the morning he called at the White House and. visiting the president in his oflice, announced that he had con eluded to resign his oflice. Secretary Alger's departure from the cabinet will leave in it only three of 'lie members who entered it at the beginning of the administration, name ly Messrs. Gage, Long- and Wilson. The number of changes that have occurred in the two and ft half years of its life has been unusual. Six cabinet officers have resigned iheir portfolios, either to retire to private life or to accept other positions of honor and trust at the hands of the president. These include Secretaries of State Sherman and Pay; Attorney General McKenna, who accepted a position on the su preme court bench of the United States; Postmaster General Gary, who retired because of ill health, and Secretary Bliss, of the in terior department, who returned to New York and resumed active con nection with business affairs. Mr. Meikeljohn. the assistant secre tary of war. is at present in Washing- He is expected to return to Washing ton to assume charge of the war de partment until such time as the presi dent shall name a permanent secre tary. ICxlra ■ndiieeiiientM <Jll".'red Keernltx. Washington, July 20.—The war de partment is offering extra inducements to expedite the recruitment of the ten volunteer regiments. Nearly all the applicants have been advised to enter the ranks, as in that way it may be possible, for them to secure commis sions. The policy of the administra tion will be to fill all vacancies which may occur among commissioned olli cers from the ranks. A number of ap plicants for commissions have enlist ed as privates in the different regiments and have been appointed non-commissioned officers wherever possible, and consequently are next, in line for promotion. Jlaccabee* Select Otlierr*. Port lluron. Mich.. July 20.—The fight for supremacy and offices in the supreme tent. Knights of the Macca bees, is over. Maj. Boynton yester dav withdrew his candidacy for re election as surireme record keeper, and George J. Sicgel, of Buffalo, N. Y„ was elected to that office. I). T\ Parker was re-elected supreme commander Maj. Boynton will hereafter be chair man of the committee on appeals oi. the board of trustees, with title o1 past, commander. This, it is believed will give "Father Boynton" as mucfc power as before. I " Uneasy Lies the Head ! That Wears a Croivn.'* * > But such are not the only uneasy heads. ♦ | Overworked, harassed, anxious people t , of all ages and both sexes are uneasy J 1 «tvith aches, pains, impure blood, dis- ? | ordered stomachs, deranged kidneys and ? i liver. For all such, Hood's Sarsaparilla I l is the effective and faultless cure. It j \ infuses fresh lift through purified blood. T SHAPE OF AN ANAESTHETIC. As Described by an Eminent Special iiit Who Ilntl Laed One In 1111 Operation. It is a Bath physician who tells the follow ing: Some time ago I happened to spend the night in a country town not far from Isath and it happened that there was stopping at the same hotel an itinerant eye special ist. "We drifted into a conversation, and during the course of the evening he told mo some of the marvelous operations he had performed on the eye. One case in particular he spoke of that caused me considerable astonishment, for I didn't know, 112 confess, that tiie operation had been successfully performed, lie said he had recently taken out a patient's eye, ■craped the back of it, and returned it to its proper place. The patient, he said, was never troubled by bad eyesight afterward. " 'That was a difficult operation, doctor?' said I. " 'Yes,' said he, 'it was.' "'I suppose you found it necessary to employ an anaesthetic?' 'Yes, 1 did,' he admitted. " 'What anaesthetic did you use, doc tor?' I persisted. " 'Oh, well, unless you arc familiar with •ueh operations you probably wouldn't understand if I were to tell you. But— well, it was shaped something like a spoon,' explained the eminent specialist."—Lewis ton (Me.) Journal. A MAN OF PRUDENCE. fie Thought n Cyclone Cellar Might Coiue in Handy When He Was Married. "Speaking of wives and their dispositions and tendencies," said Mr. Biskum to the evening crowd in front of his cross-roads ■tore, there was John Brunt, that lived for ten years in the cyclone belt in Kansas, trying to raise corn and mortgages and. things like that, until he was able to bor row money enough to get back to Mary land again without walking more than half way. John come right to me, and I let him have a job on my farm at S2O a month, for he was a hard worker and thrifty. At the end of the first year he had got the Widow Allen's promise to marry him in October, and he rented a nice little farm to do business again on his own hook. John was a widower himself, and being a practical sort of a man, he went to work right away putting the farm and the house Into shape. One day I happened over his way, and found him digging a hole in the back yard. " 'What's that for?' says I. walking around and looking over things. " 'That's a cyclone cellar, Mr. Biskum,' says he. " 'A cyclone cellar?' say* I, considerably astonished. 'What do you want a cyclone cellar for? 'This ain't Kansas.' "'I know it ain't,' says he; 'but you know, Mr. Biskum,' and he got very con fidential, 'l'm going to git married, and a cyclone cellar may come in mighty handy oc casionally.' " —Washington Star. Justice in the West. "Heard a couple of good ones on this trip," announced one of "Detroit's traveling men. "At a little town in Oklahoma court was in session, and I dropped in while wait ing for the train. The prosecution had taken the testimony of a stationary en fineer, and the attorney for the defense ook hold. "Where were you the day this thing happened?' he inquired. " 'Kunnin' a iniun.' " 'What tribe did he belong to?' "The day before a case had been tried in which a man had climbed to the top of a freight car laid up on a siding. He had no business there, but loosened the brake. The car started down grade, gained speed rapidly for live miles, and then turned a •oiriersault over an embankment. His col lar bone was broken and he got a verdict for SSOO because a smart lawyer convinced the jury that the railroad was guilty of con tributory negligence."—Detroit Tree Press. Trophies of the Chnse. "What are those queer-looking trophies the Filipinos wear around their necks?" ■sked the raw recruit. "Them's the medals for the century runs they've made during the war," replied the Kansas volunteer.—Philadelphia North American. Automobile or ought not to mobile seems to be the question a.t issue.—Cycling Ga ■ctte. Ail Excellent Combination. The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known remedy, tsYiiur OF FIGS, manufactured by the CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP CO., illustrate the value of obtaining' the liquid laxa tive principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system. 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