TORTURINC PAIN. Half This Man's Sufferings Would Have Killed Many a Person, But Doan's Cured Mim, x A. C. Sprague, stock dealer, of Noe mal, Il. writes: “For two whole years 1 was doing nothing but buying medi cines to cure my Kidneys. I do pot think that any man ever suffered as 1 did and lived, The pain In my back was sO bad that 1 could not sleep at : pight 1 could A. C. SPRAGUE. not ride a horse, and sometimes was unable even to ride fn a car. My condition was critical when 1 sent for Doan's Kidney Pills, I used three boxes and they cured me, Now I can go anywhere and do as much as anybody. 1 sleep well and feel no discomfort at all.” A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cts. . LUCKY SHOT SAVED HUNTER At Mercy of Infuriated Buffalo When Gun Was Fired. A hunter in South Africa tells the following story of an adventure with & buffalo: “I was in the act of de scending the bank when Prinsloo, a Dutch hunter, who was lower dowu ‘the slope, saw the dark outline of the buffalo standing at bay behind the screen of reeds. Next instant, seeing it about to charge, he shouted, 'Daar kom hij’ (‘There he comes’), and ‘fired, rather at random, | am afraid. Then, rushing down the path by which he had advanced, he threw himself headlong into the reeds on the left. This all happened in a few moments, but I had sufficient time to raise my rifle to my shoulder and fire as the enraged bull rushed straight at me through the reeds with nose thrown forward and horns back. As | fired | endeavored to jump aside to escape the charge, but my feet got entangled in the matted grass and I fell on my back, luckily, however, re- taining my hold on the stock of my rifle. My first shot seemed to check him for a moment, but the next he was rushing up the slope at me. I shall never forget the look in his fierce eyes. It was but a moment's work to draw back the bolt of my Mauser and to close it again, thus pushing another cartridge into the breech. I had no time to raise the rifle to my shoulder. There was bare ly time, just before he was within striking distance, to pull the trigger, with the stock under my armpit, while I lay on my back on the top of the sloping ground. Without so much as a groan he fell in his tracks and rolled over into the muddy water two yards below with a great splash, shot through the brain.”"—Montreal Herald. HIS MEANING ALL RIGHT. Colored Preacher at Least Knew What He Was Praying For. Caroline Abbot Stanley, in her new book, “Order No. 11,” treating of the deplorable state of affairs in Missouri during the rebellion, when old friends became enemies and homes were burned and the country desolated, in- troduces “Uncle Reuben,” an old darky preacher, who was coachman and general “Man Friday” for "Mahs- ter Trevilian” and the family. The bishop tells about being down at one of their meetings In Virginia once, and the old preacher, anxious to do his best by them, prayed that God would send down His “sanctum sanc- torum"” upon them. Next morning the bishop thought he would get Uncle Reuben's idea of what he meant, and said: “Uncle, 1 was very much obliged to you for all the good things called down upon me last night, but I want to ask you just what you meant by His “sanctum sanctorum?” The old darky scratched his head 8&8 moment, and then said: “Well, master, | don’ jes exac’ly know what dat word do mean, but | know what I meant by it.” “Well, what's bishop. “l meant give 'em de bes’ you gotl” that?” asked the Ignorant English Villagers. A writer who has lived in a remote Euglish village says: “The exorciging or laying of spirits is supposed to be long to the old monkish days and te be now entirely obsolete, and yet » few years ago this oid belief was stil) firmly held by the villagers. The rector’'s wife was visiting a womap who bad recenily lost her husband. After some hesitation she told the lady that she wished to see the rector, for she had something very particular to say to him. Of course, on hearing this, he lost no time in visiting his parishioner. Bhe rose from her chal: with much alacrity and proceeded to drag an empty box from a cupboard ‘What | wants to do, sir, is this: Willum's spirit is a-haunting me day and night and wunna let me be. So if you'll be go kind as to pray him into this box and then take it way and throw it Into the pool, he'll lay quiet and not trouble me no more.’ | laughed at this story when I heard it, but the next day | was visiting an old couple and was astonished to find that they took the matter seriously and sald that the rector ‘might ha' done a8 much as that for a poor 'ooman.’ ” HAS SS Child's Rebuke. Little Boy-—Mamma, why are you go cross at me all the time? Tired Mamma Because you keep doing wrong, and I want to make an impression on your mind. Little Boy-—Well, Mamma, I guess if you'd be good-natured just once ¥ would make a bigger impression. | HE KEYSTONE Short Order. Policeman Frank Skidmore was kill ed and Policeman John Atkinson wounded in a fight with Rosewell Waite. The policeman Waite's home, at Croton, a of Newcastle, to arrest him on complaint of his aged mother, whe said her son had been abusing her He was not home but was found in a neighbor's house, Atkinson said that Sidmore and himself enter. ed the house and found Waite sitting in the kitchen, and that without a word Waite whipped out a revolver and the, first bullet striking Skidmore directly under the heart T! B wounded othcer fell to the floor, while Atkinson jumped forward, seized Waite's rev in his left hand and attempted to club Waite with his mace Waite fired again, the ball striking Atkinson on the inside of the left calf. Both bones of the leg were shattered revolver when the at shot, % iver x} wi 1011 Was shin he but drew his at the retreating man, who also fired he ran fell when he tried to follow and one of the latter's bullets ugh Atkin on's helmet Not in many years, probably ney before, has Lancaster County suffered co severe a lost from the ravages the elements as it did from the rms that followed each other in quick succession the other 1 ght The £t conservative nates piace ine losces Hun dreds if tobac » were either riddled by hail or beat ground. Many fields mus! owed under. The crop several years and growers ked for big dividends The citizens of Essington held 2 public meeting for the purpose © taking steps toward suppressing Sun day orgies. David Boyd, presiden df Tinicum Township S¢ scted as chairman, and William He Harry T. Young, referred to the disge fu nduct of S00 or more persons iron hiladelphia alleging that baseball anc games of chance, principally crap, were main attractions ex-Clerk has tak Superior « Atkinson Waite passed thre “as 1 twe wi estir at $400,000 upon hundreds of acres sustained £ en to the be p wis the finest In hool Board gL - as WES tar coliector, t of secretary Ce the Cre unsel for john T. from the Cour His attorneys sa) under Shoener that the law which he was nvicted illegally retains unconstututional ed to three years pending i retains his growing Horse, Measure and many ¢ fees if some over ars ng Robert Sweney dicd at Ce He wi July 4, suffering severely atesviiie frece ved an exhibits self in saturatin Mrs | y was th pal of the Chester sented volumes to the Christian A The Montgome awarded eh +4 ¥ + wb aeri, he ine + t he sioners and one-eigh Worcester Towns! Co. of Philad i road 1s to be but roads law and once. This is th given out in the cour i Smith & Co. were the lowest of bidders. The highest bid was $10672 Eugene Crawford, a laborer, ag years of age, of Media, taker to the Chester Hospital, in a ing condition result of an deavor to end his life by throat took out his razor saying ing to shave, As soon sharpening the razor Crawf ed out of the house to an out} cut his throat and his Jef Dennis Ryan, of Chester, is suffering from a sprained foot, the rexult of a dream. Ryan thought that he was in an argument with a footpad whe attempted to hol l up and that he was kicking his way to free dom He awakened and found he had been trying to kick the wall out of his room. His i painful and it will fore he can walk Miss Ethel Ashby died at the Chester Hospital from the effects of laudanum poisoning. The authorities ascertained sid Was dy as a en cutting his Shortly after noon Crawford Was gr : finiched he as he him niures are VETY be several days be: intent. Mrs daughter of late on account control, The biggest oil strike lease in Rockland Township field that had been pronounced worth. less and abandoned this company struck a well that spouted a stream of oil high over the top of the der. rick and flooded the hillside on which it is located for several hours before it could be shut in. The company is composed of four Franklin and Rock. fand Township men, who have a lease of 118 acres in the immediate vicinity of the gusher, As she knelt in prayer before retir. ing the other night Mrs, George Ail can was taken ill and in her delirium knocked over a stand which held an oil lamp. The lamp exploded and set fire to the carpet. Mrs. Ailcan fel) unconscious into the flames. Neigh bors, seeing smoke issuing from the window, broke into the house and dragged the woman from the burning In a fit of déspondency, Mrs. Har vey Moyer, aged 24, attempted sob cide by swallowing ioline, at her home in Rockdale. : COMMERCIAL REVIEW. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Moderate improvement in Midsum- increase at any Other season, and the better trade reported during the past week is consequently most encgur- Despatches from all parts of change, while at a few points there have been setbacks; but on the whole is unmistakable, labor controversies are particularly ken and several threatened difficulties have been averted. Despite some injury to Spring wheat the agricultural prospect is very bright while higher prices promise to neu- tralize the effect of such loss in quan. tity as occurred. Interior buyers have placed liberal Fall orders in the lead ing dry goods markets, and confidence in a large Spring trade is becoming The approaching presidential elec tion is viewed with more equanimity than any other contest of recent years both in financial and industrial cles Failures this week were 222 in the United States, against 174 last vear and 33 in Canada, compared with 2: a4 year ago Bradstreet's says: Wheat, ing flour, exports for the week end ing August 11 aggregate 1,284,300 bushels, against 1,370,108 last week 3.413.101 this week last year, 4.501 Roe in 1902 and 9,030,761 in 1001. From July 1 t@ date the exports aggregate 7.846.771 bushels, against 18,460,444 last year, 25386008 in 1002 and 41,546,00f in 1001. Corn exports for the week agRrregate 605,202 bushels, against 273, 365 last week, 707.387 a year ago, 03 Fr agair 1002, ar Cir includ 3.220.111 bushels, in 1903, By 760 in 1001 WHOLESALE MARKETS. jaltimore, Md. —~FLOUR-—Firm unchanged; recipts, 2,623 barrels 1.265 barrels, WHEAT Easier: 3M ols; spot A p . UuRgust, vy es iN an. ; EX frie spot, 0. 2 red 03% @o 4: October contract Western 3%; Seg Osa of steamer No. 2 3% ( Gs! 3s A tember, 0434 Gog December, oB14; BOL (a RE CORN ree Du shiiln chi, A gust, 561.@ 5635; September, s7@ sy! year, 40; steamer mixed, $3451 OATS—Unsettled; old 4R@4BY : old. RYE} § 4 spe Lt, ¥i NO. 2 wh £3 ~~ 4340 44 i \ Western. ie No. 2 mixed, rm; No. 2 BUTTER unchanged: far Steady, 17a 1K fancy cy 1B! packed 10412 EGGS CHEESE $a 2 7 large, EB SSI. In nitation, Steady On G4 New York arrels inactive winter straight Ota g ‘ . patents, © fo 3 # $ air to gi ice to fancy, 4.4004 6¢ TT A 1 a ge s EE Al Steady: ve a 1.12; city, LI12(01.1% TOO 310 1 yy . “1 i gs A ; shipping, 62%; good to taal Weak: steamed, 7.2%; Western refined cacy: continent » Ro compound. ¢ . pound, y 14 : POTATOES —~Easy: 150m 200: Jersey and @1.75: Southern PEANUTS picked, 635: other domestics, 1! CABBAGES—Quiet; and Jersey, per barrel, 25@s0 20 Island, 1.50 1.8000 4.50 hand- {64 Island Long Southern. sweets, Steady: faney Long Live Stock. New York. — BEEVES — Dressed beef slow at 74@10%c. per pound for native sides; calves unchanged: ex- ports, 1,052 cattle and 2,000 quarters of beef CALVES—Dressed calves steady; city dressed veals, of@t1234c. per pound; country dressed, Raiic. SHEEP AND LAMBS-—Sheep low- er, lambs 15@asc. off. Sheep, 275@ 4.50; lambs, sso@7.25; culls, 4.00. HOGS—Nominally steady. Chicago—CATTLE—Good to prime steers, s525@62%; poor to medium, 4.0005.00; stockers and feeders, 2000 4.00; cows, 1.25@4.00; heifers, 2.00@ 4.25; canners, 1.50@2.50; bulls, 200@ 400; calves, 2%50@s75; Texas-fed steers, 1.00004 50. 5.50; good to choice heavy, 5.25@5.50; 5.50: bulk of sales, 5.2005 40. 3.75; native lambs, 4 00@6.75. WORLD OF LABOR German sugar factories consume annually 3,200,000 tons of beets, New York city stone setters re- ceive from 65% to 6834 cents an hour. There are more men in the United States Navy than in all the ships in A Swiss watchmaker has invented an electric watch, which will go 13% years without being rewound. A recent estimate of the number employed in Great Britain's tinplate manufacture places the figures at 18, In Switzerland wood-carving and other homely trades produces a revenue of more than £1,000,000 in the year, A decade ago the laborer had to work sometimes 18 and 20 hours for less than he gets for © and 10 now. Union laborers at Baton Rouge, La, get $1.25 to $1.50 a day, while the unorganized laborers get $1 and $1.28 a day, The annual convention of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join. ers of America meets this year in Mil ‘waukee in September. An association of Milwaukee (Wis) contracting plasterers has been formed for the purpose of arbitrating difficul- ties with emoloves. A KEEN THRUST. “Well,” sald Gassaway, “if ope thing | hate more than it's a long-winded bore.” “Yes? remarked Miss Knox. seems I've misjudged you, then” “Why, how do you mean?” “1 always had an idea you stuck on yoursclf."—Philadelphis ress. there's another “qr EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACL “1 don't like flies, nohow,” said the boarder who never taught in a school “Waat!"” exclaimed the man next to him; “don’t you like ‘em in currant cake?’ Yonkers Btatesman. IN TIME, He—Why has he put her picture ip his watch? She—Because he thinks him in time -—Yonkers she will Slates love man. TO BE EXPLICIT Disappointed Customer—Why, have got that fowl down "spring chicken” the “Walter— That's says it is, sir Disappointed a prevar! you oid az mena ithe on what caterer he's Then Chicago Journa Customer atlerer.~ MAKING A MORTAL ENEMY. fawson—Wicks hates me Dawson-—How does that hap Lawson—Oh, be started in me a story the other day, and he got off in I heard ago out Journal. had two sentences “Oh. ves that thre S01 fa Cincinnati. THE INTELLIGENT MULE “Ualuable mule that,” said ! ville citizen, 10 th Chaser my ‘Indeed? How was “Saw a flash of lightning straight for me, an’ Xi “Saved maxing kKed it all to pieces ‘fore it could land? —Atiania TE Constitution UDIENCE where THE SOLITARY Lowe Comerdy-—At one place we showed in the West Lhere was & panic in the Hi Lowe Tragedy ay merely been believe fe was Come in Uh 8 Pass and Times ) ay give that horse 1 a trial by We cho Bob a trial took p furs out to see would be to sneak dare.” answered Un ue whole int if anything as ace, the t. and sure BONO more horses Star. AT A DISADVANTAGE “You make a great many the man who sheers “Yeu” answered the observer if other people had all their mistakes publizhed in the dally paper: as we do, 1 that our would geem pretty good.” Washington Star weather mistakes prophet; said “and suspect record TWO OF A KIND “Yes” maid the young drug clerk who had been trotting in double har wife.” you bave my sympathy.” re ix a boss “Well, joined the man who had come in Muy a bottle of hair restorer; “I've got that kind of a wife, 100. "hii cago News HER WAY 014 Manager—8o0 your prima donna bas a bad cold? Youthful Manager—Yes; tracted ite Old Manager—A She'll break it hours — Detroit Free Press 118 WORST FAULT she con contract, right sometimes.” “That's the worst of it” “What do you mean?” “Why, if he always was wrong fair and vice versa. But as it is, X J right and wrong by turns, so we nevd know what to expect.”—Cleveiand Plain Dealer. od A MISTAKE. “Hello!” "Hello!" “like to go to the night?’ “Yeu ™ “Wear your blue dress, will you, please?” “My blue dress?” “Yen; the one you wore to the dance jast night” “1 didn't go to any dance.” “Say, lan't this East, umpty-four, J” “No. Aren't you John Smathers?” “No. There must be some mistake.” “Yes. Goodby.” *Goodby."~Cleveland Plain Dealer, i theater to surrounding parts forces. 1f you had person with me as I Windsor, Ont. St. be slightest indication of trouble by heat and shooting pains, It will not neglect. my life, and I cannot express my titude to you in words. failed to do me any good. pain. I would daily have 1eadact backache and 30, three bottles ginoe. 1 used fourteen bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier together, and am now restored to perfect health. Had it not been for you, I would have been in my grave. ful remedies, and hope that fo try your Speed of Birds i tor cars defying the 1'w, cannot oom pare, in respect of speed,” with the doings of some birds. It is impossi ble to say how fast the frigate bird could fiy if put on has been timed to do 100 miles hour in calm alr, but its welocity seems to depend upon its own In clination rather than on any limit to its powers Among wild fowl, the mallard covers from forty-five to fifty from sixty-five to seventy-five miles, miles, the pochard from eighty 100 miles. The common swift can fiy at the rate of ninety miles an hour, clearly proving a good title to its name. Of game birds, the speed of the pheasant is thirty-eight miles an hour, and that of the partridge thirty-two miles. FITS permanently cured. No fiteor nervous ness ale first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer §3trial bottie and treatise froe Dr. KH. Krixx, Ltd. 981 Arch 8t., Phila. Pa, The dowager Duchess of Abercorn, aged ninety-two, 150 descendants. Pino's Cure is the best medicine we ever ased for all affections of throat and lungs. — Wa. 0. Expsrey, Vanburen, Ind. Fob. 10, 1900, AAS SS A B15 1 motor car has been devel ope EHTS ve art In Switseriand, A “Success” Training School, Qalgey is a Business and Shorthand Bebhool t or sity of training ite IL gE untes Gir Solinge, Box sar, Wfmlngicn. Del General Glasoff has been appointed Russian minister of instruction, I, — an — Tr _—, _ rows importance of Food. Dr this story: “Many years age when a great English contractor had to lay down a long line of railway in France he employed a number of English and of French naw He found that the Frenchmen could do only half the work of tb Englishmen and being a shrewd ma he concluded it must be due to th difference in their food, so he put th Frenchmen on the same diet as th Erglishmen, with the result that thes were able to do as much work as ihe Euglishmen. It showed how impor tant a factor food was in the produce tion of muscular power.” LAZYLIV “1 find Cascarets so good that | wend sot be without them. 1 wes troubied a groat deal wish torpid liver and headache, Now since taking Cascarets Candy Crathariiv | fool very much better je | aball certainly recommend thom to my friends se the bent medicine | have over "he Anas Osborn Mil No. & Pali River, Masa. yorke-Davies tells vies Best for The Dowels ey on, EH A SEES Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y, Sox ANNUAL SALE. 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