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The United States department of ag
riculture makes many strange excur
sions in its wide-
Dietary Stmly , . ..
spread pursuit of m
<>f Kcgroea. , „ ,
formation. One of
these, recently reported to the secre
tary of agriculture, is a dietary study of
the negroes in eastern Virginia, eon
ducted by 11. 1?. Frissel, principal of
the Hampton institute, and Isabel Bev
ier, professor of chemistry at Lake
Erie college. They report that the ne
groes in that section obtain their living
almost entirely from the small tracts
of land rented by them, paying their
rent in produce, the staple crops be
ing sweet potatoes, cotton and peanuts.
Their diet consists of side bacon, fish
from the neighboring Chesapeake bay,
unbolted cornmeal and milk, though
some of the families cat frogs, turtles,
and snakes at certain seasons of the
year. Their drinking water is obtained
from shallow surface wells, which are
mere holes dug in the swampy land.
The exasperating feature of these
studies, says the Chicago Tribune, is
the discovery that these negroes, who
live upon wet cornmeal, fried side ba
con, boiled pork shoulder and stagnant
water do not seem to be aware there
are such things as microbes, and are
fiendishly healthy.
Every new invention excites the
word-makers. A few years ago the
adoption of the
A\ork of (lie
eleclric chair in
Word-Mnltera. . , ,
place of the gal
lows for the killing of criminals called
forth the ill-formed "electrocute" and
"electrocution." After Koentgen made
his discovery dozens of attempts
were made to construct a word
from Greek root to express the
process and the result; but- popular
common sense discarded them all. and
Roentgen's own tentative "X-rays" is
all that- has a vigorous survival. And
now Marconi's device for telegraphing
without wires is greatly exercising
those who would add to an already
overloaded vocabulary. "Fleography,"
"undigraphy," "teleradiography," and
other still worse compounds are sug
gested. The fact is overlooked 1 that
"telegraphy" does not signify the use
of wires, and is therefore applicable to
the wireless system; so that the simple
"wireless telegraphy" is exactly ac
curate. It is, moreover, no more cum
bersome than most of the one-word
substitutes proposed, and not as cum
bersome as some of them. Why not
let it stand ?
When cowardice is described as a
leading feminine attribute, somebody
makes a huge mistake, asseverates the
Philadelphia Times. Women do the
most daring things on record —take
chances which would appall a man.
They may jump at the sight or mere
mention of a harmless mouse, but they
court death several times a year. It is
one. of the traits which, makes feminine
nature so puzzling. I have known wom
en who were timid to a degree, under
ordinary circumstances, come forth as
heroines under the pressure of occa
sion. A woman who shudders at the
sight of a small cut from which blood
oozes will often exhibit, a marvelous
courage in a shocking accident. It is
beautiful to think that dependence can
be placed upon the sex in times of need,
but I wish that a curb could also be
placed upon that species of recklessness
which leans us into unnecessary
trouble.
Women are not cowardly; they are
only timid, says a man who claims to
have studied carefully the attributes
of the gentler sex. While they often
display considerable agitation at the
sight of a mouse, history abounds with
instances of their courage and pres
ence of mind in great emergencies.
Why, during the late war with Spain
w omen fact d every danger to lend aid
to the wounded, and they are now go
ing in large numbers to act as nurses
in South Africa in spite of the dangers
to be faced.
In regard to plans for beautifying a
town the American architect makes the
striking remark that it has been shown
many times that where sutiable places
inviting decoration are provided in our
cities, "there arc plenty of people ready
to contribute money for their adorn
ment." The observation covers so much
important ground that it deserves care
ful and permanent consideration.
DISCORD OF DEMOCRACY.
The Snicliinl Coumr Recommended
b,v Ilrynn to lll»
Party.
TLe Jackson day celebrations bring
out in a strong light the iliscord and
demoralization which prevail in the
party of which Jackson was one of the
founders. Grover Cleveland, the only
man the democratic party has elected
president for 40 years, in a le'ter writ
ten for publication on Jackson day, de
clares he wishes it was to be printed at
a time "when saner counsels prevailed
in the party which he (Jackson) did so
much' to strengthen and place upon,
firmer foundations. "It seems to me,"
the ex-president adds, "tha*. Ihe incon
sistency of unreasoning and false party
leadership is impressively exhibited
when the claim is made that Jacksonian
democracy sanctions the degradation
of the people's currene.v and a reckless
disregard of the restraints of law and,
order." This is the voice of one of the
lights of the old democracy—of the
democratic party which Jefferson and
Jackson created and led, and which
governed the United States, except for
one or two short intervals, from 1801
to ISGI.
Another prominent democrat, in a
banquet at Omaha, was making an ap
peal at a celebration of Jackson day for
a reaffirmation of the Chicago platform
of 1596 and for a new ci r.sade in favor
of base money. This was William .T.
Bryan. To Bryan the defeat of himself
unci his cause in 1896 and the prosperity
which that overthrow brought to the
country means nothing. He is as de
voted to the 50-cent dollar now as he,
was four years ago, and lie wants to
putin the platform of 1000 another doc
trine which would be as abhorrent to
Jefferson and Jackson as dishonest
money would be. This is the doctrine
of territorial contraction. Bryan wants
the flrig io be pulled down in the I'hiL
ippines, and he urges this while pre
tending to be devoted to the memory
of Jefferson, who got the Louisiana
province from France, and he urged it.
at a celebration of a day dedicated to
the memory of the man who upset
Spanish sovereignty in Florida and con
strained Spain to make the treaty with
the United States which gave Florida,
to this country. The placing of Bryan
in juxtaposition with Cleveland will
show tie wide divergence which the
democratic party has made in the past,
few years from the creed of its
founders.
The suicidal course which Bryan rec
ommends to his party will not be adopt
ed this year without a strong opposi
tion from an element of the part y which
urged it four years ago. Ex-Gov. Boies,
also at a Jackson day celebration, de
clared that the democratic defeat, of
1596 was due solely to the free silver
crusade, and he said "a repetition of the
course we pursued that year is as abso
lutely certain to lead to a worse defeat
in this national canvass as this canvass
is to come." Boies was a 50-cent-dollar
man in IS9C>, but he is not a bourbon.
He learns something from adversity.
Undoubtedly the Boies faction is strong
in the democratic party, but the Bryan
wreckers are probably still in the ma
jority. Nobody now alive ever saw the
democratic party more discordant and
demoralized than it is at this moment.
The situation to-day is as bad for that
organization as that was which was
presented at the split which took place
at the Charleston convention of 18(10.
The Cleveland men represented the
Douglas element of that year, while the
liryanites resemble the Breckinridge
madmen who plunged the party to de
struction. These are gloomy days for
the hundred-vear-old democratic party.
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
DEMAGOGUE BRYAN.
TryliiK lo Hake the People llelleve
It Is Not for Him to
I'ny Taxeit.
Not only does Col. Bryan object to
paying the war tax of one cent on
every telegram he sends, but he is try
ing to make the people believe it is
unjust to the poor man to make him
pay the same tax on the tobacco he
smokes and the liquor he drinks that
is paid by the rieh man.
"The poor man pays a larger percent
age of his income in war tax on the
tobacco lie smokes and the liquor he
drinks than the rieh man does," de
clares the free coiner, or words to
that effect. Of course, if tho poor man
is paying a larger percentage of his in
come than the rieh roan is in war taxes
on tobacco and liquor, something
should be done about it at once. Per
haps it did not occur to Col. Bryan
to suggest that the poor man should
smoke less tobacco and drink less
liquor. That, however, would ba an
interference with personal liberty, lie
might, nevertheless, propose that the
rich, man be compelled by law to double
or triple his consumption of tobacco
and liquor, and in that way the tax
matter could be evened up.
But the colonel will suggest no rem
edy. lie knows the poor man does not
feel the war tax he pays on tobacco and
liquor; that not a single consumer
would know he was paying such a tax
unless told of it. The sole purpose of
the colonel is to array the poor against
the rich. He is making again the same
appeal to passion and prejudice that
he made during the entire campaign of
1890. It is simply the wail of the
demagogue and nothing else. —Cleve-
land Leader.
CTSenator Depew is tc'.ling a story
of a New York factory which used to
shut down for a week < very Christmas
for general overhauling. "This year,"
says the senator, "the placp was rushed
with orders, and there was no let. up
except during the actual legal holidays,
•ind many of the men \\ < ren't idle even
then. One of the workingmen growled
i good deal about having no holidays
and finally wound by saying: 'IT this
sort of thing keeps up I'll vote the dem
ocratic ticket.' " —Chicago Post.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1900.
TRUSTS IS THE RA3T.
Wanton ItlllllnK of Ilrynn lo Create
Prejudice Agnlnal Industrial
Com Itlnalionit.
As usual, Mr. Bryan cries out
"Trusts!" and takes great care not to
say what he means. The plain people,
as Mr. Lincoln used to call them, are
well aware what that sort of treat
ment means. Never does it, mean igno
rance only. Were Mr. Bryan profound
ly ignorant on the subject, he would not
fail to guard himself by aiming his
shots at the corporations which actu
ally abuse their power, or at those
which have powers they are likely to
abuse. The bare fact that he is par
ticularly careful not to limit his at
tacks, as a man of his cunning obvious
ly would if he wished to reach the
minds of intelligent people, proveslhat
lie has a different purpose, lie is not
trying to guard against any real evil;
on the contrary, nothing else so effect
ually cripples the effort to promote sen
sible iind practical legislation on this
subject as wanton and indiscriminate
railing at good ant! bad corporations
alike. He is not, trying to reach or
influence men who are guided by infor
mation or reasoning, but to stir tip
hatred against capital and its effective
use in productive industry. Whether
he hurts individuals who arc material
ly benefiting all workers and till con
sumers, he does not. care. Whether he
hurts the country, he does not care.
For people of common sense no words
of opprobrium are needed to describe
such a purpose or such a man.
A year ago such wanton railing at all
industrial combinations did kindle prej
udice against them. Most people
had not closely followed the history of
such corporations and did not, know
what they had done nor what had be
fallen them. A year's experience and
discussion, with all the object lessons
the year lias presented, have entirely
changed the state of public opinion. It
is not yet fully informed, but knows
for certain that information is neces
sary. and that some of the great indus
trial corporations are doing much good,
as others are doing much evil. It has
become known lo practical and com
mon sense voters that the man who
rails indiscriminately at all industrial
organizations does not do it because he
is stupid, but because he is a dema
gogue and a knave.
Large public information has been
promoted by the conduct, of new corpo
rations toward employes, llow many
persons they employ can only be con
jectured. but several hundred thousand
of them have materially gained in,
fuller and better employment and
larger wages, and the fact is known to
them and their friends and neighbors
that the change has been reached in the
great majority of cases without, any
struggle or sacrifice, and without even
a formal request in most instances, by
the desire of the corporations to retain
and fully satisfy the most competent
and experienced men in thei.- lines of
work. There is no savor or pretense
of philanthropy about it. The corpo
rations want the most efficient work
they can get. They are so far free from
fear of immediate competition that
they can afford to secure it. They cal
culate that it will add to their profits
in the end. But if that is so, the nat
ural tendency of combinations is to give
to the strong corporations the pick of
the workers and to their employes the
best wages in their occupations.
Whether this is the lasting effect re
mains to be proved. But the plain peo
ple have sense enough to see that it is
the immediate consequence, and may
possibly prove permanent, and that it
mcars a distinct advantage for the
great <imy of workers in the branches
of industry most affected. As a result
the half million employes, more or less,
and the millions of friends and neigh
bors who know how the thing works
thus far have realized that more infor
mation must be awaited before indus
trial combinations can be indiscrim
inately assailed by any honest man.—
N. Y. Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Bryan assumes to tell exactly
what the demoeratic party must do,
with almost as much assurance as if
he were one of these wicked political
bosses. —Washington Star.
E7"l'he free silverites profess to be
lieve that the war in Sou Africa will
help their cause. The silverites are al
ways seeing things that are not visible
to other people. —Cleveland Leader.
tns"Bourke Coclo-an says lie will sup
port Bryan if the latter will drop the
silver issue until 1901. It will now re
main for Bryan to show whether he
values Cockran's support more or loves
silver less. —Chicago Times-Herald.
Cs"lt is stated that 310 miles of elec
tric railways have been planned in Ha
waii. Another credit mark is due the
republican idea of restoring the Amer
ican flag where a demoeratic adminis
tration pulled it down. —St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Montana is said to have mined $40,-
000,000 worth of copper last year. That
beats the gold or silver record of any
state in the union. Will Montana come
out for free and unlimited coinage of
copper? It would be as sensible as
"free silver" at sixteen to one.—Troy
Times.
CTThere is a man in New Jersey who
says Bryan will be elected president
next fail, because he—the New Jersey
man —has three pigs which crook their
tails so as to form the initials "W. J.
B " Here, at last, is a live issue for
the democrats, with prospective pork
in it. —Chicago Times-Herald.
ITTMr. Bryan does not want to ad
mit the Filipinos into the American
brotherhood, because they are an in
ferior people. Mr. Bryan, it will be
remembered, attributed his defeat in
IfiOO to the fact that the foreign-born
citizens of the United States were most
ly too ignorant to understand the is
sues.—Cleveland Leader.
RELIGION IN COLLEGES.
Forty-live InMitii tioiik Report Hint a
l.utue ■'onion ol Tlieir Pupil*, are
Christian*.
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 9.—ln re
sponse tci letters from the public rela
tions committee of Hartford Theolog
ical seminary, 4."> colleges and univer
sities have sent information on the
religious condition in those institu
tions. The -to institutions which re
ported are located in 20 different
states. These 45 institutions have an
attendance of over 30,000 students.
lu oily three institutions is the re
ligious condition saiil to be at all dis
couraging. Twenty per cent, of the
studerts of the State University of
Wisconsin, at Madison Wis., are inter
ested in Christian work and 50 per
cent, of the senior class are Chris
tians.
The membership of the V. M. C. A.
in thi University of Minnesota has
doubled, being now 425; 50 per cent,
of tie senior class are Christians.
Fifty seven per cent, of the students
in the University of Michigan are
Christians. There are 20 student vol
unteers for foreign missions in the
senicr class, 12 women and 14 men.
In the University of Illinois, at
Champaign, 111., 45 per cent, of the
students are members of evangelical
chnr.'lies, 45 per cent, of the senior
class are Christians. Eighty-live per
cent of the 1,000 men in the Univer
sity of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., are
Christians. 300 are members of the
Voting Men's Christian association,
110 are in the Bible class. The Ohio
We.'leyan has in a senior class of six
ty, 50 Christians and 22 studying for
the ministry. In Northwestern Uni
versity, Eva.uston, 111., over 200 stu
<leiis out of a student body of 300,
are interested in Christian work.
From the University of Chicago
comes the message that there is a
steady progress in religious work. In
.'olins Hopkins university, Baltimore,
(5 per cent, of the senior class are
Christians. There are more men
among the postgraduates going to the
foreign field than among the under
graduates.
Park college, Parkville, Mo., reports
*hat out of 303 students in the college,
111 but nine are Christians. There are
43 volunteers, 54 candidates for the
ministry and 50 in the mission study
class. In Carleton college, Minnesota,
all the nine seniors are Christians and
four of them arc volunteers for for
eign missions.
GOEBEL'S FUNERAL.
Thousands ol KeiitiieklaiiK Dseort Ihe
Etemains to I'ranklort Cemetery.
Frankfort, Ivy., Feb. 9. liain came
down in sheets yesterday while the
funeral services were being held over
the body of Kentucky's dead demo
cratic leader. Just as the hour for
the formation of the funeral proces
sion arrived the rain began to fall,
slowly at first, but with ever increas
ing rapidity until shortly after noon,
when the parade was on the. march,
the flood began to descend. I'here
were dry intervals, but after them the
water came again with increased vi
ciousness and just as the hearse left
the Capital hotel a heavy shower be
gan which continued all afternoon.
The exercises in the cemeterv were
conducted before a crowd much small
er than would have been the case had
the weather been pleasant, but they
were carried out to the letter and the
body of William (loebel lies in the
chapel of the Frankfort cemetery al
tei one of the greatest funeral demon
strations ever seen in this state. As
soon as the weather clears sufficiently
the casiVel will be consigned to the
grave. It had been feared that there
might arise trouble between the sol
diers iu tthe Capitol grounds and dem
ocratic partisans in the line of march,
when the parade passed Capitol
square, but nothing of the kind oc
curred.
WAS QUITE EASY TO OBTAIN.
Senator Clark** Aleuts Tell About the
Lavish Uxe ol Money in JVlonlana
Polities,
Washington, Feb. 9. —Senator
Clark's managers occupied the witness
stand yesterday in the investigation
which the senate committee on elec
tions is conducting. Mr. Bickford
concluded his testimony and he was
followed by Frank E. Corbett, Mr.
Clark's principal counsel in Montana;
ex-Gov. Hauser, Mr. A. J. Davidson
and A. J. Steele.
Davidson and Steele were identified
with Mr. Clark's campaign, Mr. David
son being one of a commit fee of three
having the matter especially in
charge. He saiil he had spent $21,000
in the legislative campaign and $5,000
in trying to influence the legislators
for Mr. Clark. The expenditure, he
declared, was all legitimate.
Gov. Mauser's testimony related gen
erally to the use of money in Montana
politics. He claimed to have been in
strumental in getting Mr. Clark to en
ter the senatorial race, saying Mr.
Clark had been loath to do so because
of the expense. Mr. Hauser said that
in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 had
been spent in the fight over the loca
tion of the capital in that state.
The Placue'tf UavH^ra,
Washington, Feb. D.—Surgeon Gen
eral Sternberg has received a report
from Maj. Blair 1). Tavlor. the medi
cal officer with the detachment of
United States troops at Honolulu,
showing the dreadful fatality of the
bnbonic plague at that place and the
great distress prevailing among the
people iir consequence of the destruc
tion of a large part of the Chinese
district by lire. His rejwrt is dated
January 22 and says that up to that
date there had been 46 cases of bu
bonic plague, with 40 deaths.
A Step Hack ward.
Pekin, Feb. 9.—The dowager em
press of China appears to be deter
mined t<> relapse into the ancient con
servatism. She has issued an edict
commanding a return to the old man
ner of study, according to the teach
ings of Confucius, for examinations
for official rank, and ordering the
abolition of the study of"the now de
praved and erroneous subjects of the
western schools" and threatening with
punishment the teachers of such sub
jects. The closing of the new univer
sity at I'ekin is expected io speedily
follow
AN APPALLING CRASH.
Nine People Killed In a Collision on
the ( A: Norlhiventern Iluil-
Kuud.
Escanuba, Midi., Feb. 9. —Chicago
and Northwestern passenger train No.
21, known as the Felch Mountain ac
commodation. which runs between
tiiis city and Metropolitan, was wreck
ed in a rear-end collision at Ford
liiver switch last night. Nine people
were killed, tihree are reported miss
ing. five seriously and four slightly in
jured. The dead are:
W. L. Hill, Escanuba, baggageman
of the accommodation train.
William Dillon, Escanaba, brake
man on the accommodation train.
Miss Seymour, section <>, Delta coun
ty, Mich.
Charles Martyin, Escanaba, civil en
gineer.
(ieorge il. Black, Escanaba, civil en
gineer.
Samuel Green, Negaunee, agent of
the Upper Peninsular Brewing Co.
Two unknown men.
Unknown womain, bo<ly charred be
yond recognition.
Fast freight No. 2H9, northbound
from (ireen Bay to Ishpeming, drawn
by Engineer .lames (Ireen and Fire
man Cole Nee, was making about 50
miles am hour when it passed Ford
River switch, seven miles west of this
city. The engine was forging ahead
through a blinding snow storm, which
made it impossible to see signal lights
but a short distance ahead. \\ hen
within 100 vards of the switch at Ford
liiver, Kngineer Green saw the rear
lights of a train directly ahead and
with a warning cry to his fireman,
jumped.
The next inatanit the heavy freight
struck the passenger coach of the ac
commodation and telescoped it and
the baggage car ahead. The do/en "l"
more passengers in the car had not .1
moment's warning before the crash
came, and a moment later the cries of
the injured could be heard above the
hiss of the escaping steam and crackle
of the flames, which soon enveloped
the wrecked cars and made the work
of rescue doubly hard.
As fast as the injured were removed
they were taken to a store a short
distance away, while the train crews
fought desperately, assisted by unin
jured passengers, to gain control )f
the fire, which ithresutened the destruc
tion of the wreck before all the injur
ed could be removed.
BEHIND PRISON BARS.
W. I". .Miller, Head of tlie Franklin
Syndicate, KCIIIMIM 112 rom Canada auil
la Arretted.
New York, Feb. 9.—William F. Mil
ler, the head of the notorious Frank
lin syndicate in UrooKlyn, whic.i
promisei? io pay and did pay to many
persons ">~O per cent, on investments
and who fled when the news reached
him of his indictment for grand la -- -
ceny and conspiracy by the Kings
county grand jury, was yesterday
brought back to this city. lie had
eluded capture since November last,
lie was in the custody of ('apt. Rey
nolds, formerly of the Brooklyn de
tective bureau, who lost his place
through his failure to prevent Miller
from leaving the city.
According to a statement made bv
Chief of I'olice Deverv, ('apt. Rey
nolds found Miller in Montreal. Rey
nolds refused togo into details of his
search and discovery of Miller, lie
said that several days ago he was fur
nished with clues of Miller's where
abouts and was instructed by the
chief of police to get him if he could.
In following up the clues ("apt. Rey
nolds said he ran across a. man who
knew Miller. The movements of this
man he followed until the latter and
Miller met. Reynolds would not say
where this meeting occurred. Accord
ing to Reynolds, Miller was not taken
by surprise. The captain told him
that as they were in Canada he would
not arrest him. but would follow him
wherever he went. Miller replied that
he was going back to Brooklyn any
way.
('apt. Reynolds did not place him
under arrest until they reached the
(irand Central depot, when he showed
him the warrant of the King's county
grand jury.
Miller was taken from police head
quarters to Brooklyn and arraigned
before Judge Hurd in the county
court.
THREE IN ONE.
A lie port tliut Three <ireat TruM* are
About to be Combined.
New York, Feb. 9.—The Mail and
Express says: Rumors of an indus
trial combination including under one
management the National Steel, Amer
ican Steel lloop and American Tin
Plate companies have recently been
current in Wall street. The fact that
W. 11. Moore has come to live in New
York, that the three companies were
promoted by him and are controlled
by the same set of men and that all
three have taken offices in the new
Battery Park building on State street,
are given as indications of the truth
of the story.
W. E. Reis, president of the Nation
al Steel Co., is also in town and Mr.
Moore and Mr. Reis have been in fre
quent conference with President (iuth
rie. of the American Steel Hoop Co.
From an inside source It is learned
that the three companies will consoli
date. It is stated, however, that the
consolidation will not be brought
about before next May, by which
time the three corporations will have
entered upon their second business
year.
The three organizations represent
an aggregate capitalization of $140,-
000,000 and have practical control of
their specialties.
Col. Tlioiii|)i>on IlieK.
Terre Haute, Intl., Feb. 9.—C01.
Richard \V. Thompson died at his res
idence here at 1 o'clock this morning.
He had been unconscious for more
than 24 hours, only occasionally awak
einiiiir fVom the lethargy and failing
to recognize any one.
CheMK i:.v|»ert Adjudged lunatic.
New York, Feb. 9.—Dr. William
Steinitz, the famous chess player, was
examined at Bellevne hospital yester
day mud pronounced insane. It is said
that friends will raise a fund for the
placing of the chess champion in u
private sanitarium.
pDolfoTßurn thTCandte
I At Both Ends."
J 'Don't think you can goon drawing
| •vitality from the blood for nerves,
» stomach, brain and muscles, without <
( doing something to replace it. Hood's
| Sarsaparilla gives nerve, mental and \
I* digestive strength by enriching and
vitalizing the blood. Thus it helps
overworked tired people.
Vest's Stolen I'ljt*.
"Another story that Vest told related to
his candidacy for the legislature in 1861
against A. S. Walker. The canvass was ex
ceedingly exciting because of the near ap
proach of war, and all the question., inci
dent to it were discussed with much ani
mation. Charge* and counter-charges were
made. Both sides knew that about sis
votes either way would determine the con
test, and on the day before election Walker
raised the point on Vest that he had stolen
eoine pigs. The only way that Vest could
meet the charge was to acknowledge smil
ingly that he had the pigs in hia pen and
in his possession. If he had gone further
and said that he had bought them—which
they hoped he Mould do—they had wit
nesses to show that he had not bought
them, but Vest, was too shrewd to be caught
in the trap, and turned the accusation off
with a laugh and the remark:
" 'One can't account for the way his boys
get pigs.' " —St. Louis Republic.
He Was Satisfied.
A married couple who are in the habit oc
casionally of going out at night to entertain
ments and social affairs, at such tin.es
make themselves solid with their littlo
boy by saying that they are going out to
see a siek man. One week these social af
fairs came pretty frequently. On Monday
night they went to the theater, and told
the iad that they hod to sit up with the sick
man. Tuesday night tiiev wt nt out to visit
a neighbor, and explained that they were*
going to give some medicine to the man
who was sick. On Wednesday night they
proposed to attend an entertainment, and
apologized to the young chap by saying they
had to put a plaster on the siek man's back
to draw out the pain. "Papa," asked tha
youth, "is the sick man in much pain?"
Very much, my son." "And is he pretty
tear dead?" he's in bad shape. ' The
lad thought deeply for awhile, and then re
marked: "Well, papa, he can't die any
too soon to suit me. —Memphis Scimitar.
Florida, West Indies an<l central America.
The facilities of the Louisville & Nash
ville Railroad for handling tourists and
travelers destined for ail points in Florida,
Cuba, Porto llico, Central America, or for
Nassau, are unsurpassed. Double daily
lines of sleeping cars are run from Cincin
nati, Louisville, Chicago and St. Louis
through Jacksonville l o interior Florida
points, and to Miami, Tampa and New
Orleans, the ports of embarkation for tho
countries mentioned. Fbr folders, etc., writ©
Jackson Smith, D. P. A., Cincinnati, O.
Hicks—"l wonder how the Tollers manage
to get along. Whv. I believe they owe every
body in town." Wicks—"That's why they
get along so well. Toller has a big mail
every morning. They are all duns, to bs
sure; but the impression upon the neigh
bors is just the same as if they were invita
tions to first-class society functions. It is
the quantity, not the quality, that does th»
business, you know."—Boston Transcript.
An AH-Yenr Resort.
The Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Ark.,
opens March 1, 1900. A most desirable, at
tractive and convenient resort for health
and pleasure seekers. Ideal climate, pure
sparkling water, best accommodations.
Through Sleepers via Frisco Line. Write
for particulars to Manager Hotel or to any
representative of Frisco Line.
You must behave yourself if you hope
to avoid worry; no guilty man can avoid
worry over his misdeeds. —Atchison Globe.
Rnpe. Spelts, llronins.
Most remarkable trio. Will make a fel
low rich despite himself if he niants a
plenty. Salzer's catalog tells. Send 10c. and
this notice for samples of above and big cat
alog. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis. Lk]
A man seldom tells the truth about his
business; he exaggerates it one way or the
other. —Atchison Giobe.
ConsrlitnK Lends to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at
once. Uo to your druggist to-day and get a
sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 50
cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous.
The way to get more is to make the most
of what we have. —Rani's Horn.
The Grip of Pneumonia may be warded off
with Hale s Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The baker gets crusty himself when his
bread doesn't pan out well.—Golden Days.
I have found Plso's Cure for Consumption
an unfailing' medicine. —F. R. Lotz, 1305
Beott St., Coviugton, Ky., Oct. 1, 1594.
NorVOUM
are ailing women* When
a woman has some female
trouble sho is certain to
be nervous and wretched*
With many women tho
monthly suffering is so
great that they are for
days positively insane,
and the most diligent ef
forts of ordinary treat
ment are unavailing»
comes promptly to the re
lief of these women* The
letters frcsn women cured
by it proves thes* Tfcis
pzper is constantly print
ing them*
The adirico of Mrs* Pink'
fs3«rs shonkl aSso he se
cured ty every nervous
v/ommzn* This costs noth
ingm Her addr ess is Lynn,
War