Rallroads and Progress, In his before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce at Washington on May 4, Professor Hugo R. Meyer, of Chicago University, an expert on railroad management, made this statement: “Let us look at what might have hap- pened if we had heeded the protests of the farmers of New York and Ohio and Peunsylvania (in the seventies when grain from the West began pour- ing to the Atlantic seaboard) and acted upon the doctrine which the Interstate Commerce Commission has enunciated time and again, no man may be deprived of the advantages accruing to him by virtue of hig geographical po- gition. We could not Lave west of the Mississippi a population of millions of who and are We never should when we bulilt railway, for po farmers River who testimony that people are freat have 10,000 and there would west of the Mississipp could have used the laud that would have been opened up by the building of those railways. And, #f we had not geen the years when we couid build 10,000 and 12.000 miles of railway a year, we should not bave to-day. east of the Mississippi, a steel and fron producing centre which is at once the marvel and the despair of Europe, be- cause we built up a steel and there had been no market for its product. “We could not have New Eung- land a great industry; we conld nd ngland a could York prosperous COLSUNICTS. the 12,000 seen YCIaIs ieiles of liave been conld net | iron industry if great cotton willing industry; we not have sp New and Peunsyly turing industr fled Kinds, would have Ors west of “And, country. River millions the from one +} . {L108 man, who has duct crowded out. ion of Nl the destruct values in this | up of farn that & that sb sary it ufa try. ing sin 1 Never gras way and witl man; that UU that are evil; that that es and that it by the ereation of 2 8 which are infinitely greater one that is to be corrected.” thes gt 1 corrected except and abuses than the Canno Has See Many Years’ Service. A quaint old piece of baggage in the baggage room in Skowhegan, Me. this week was a haircovered trunk that had come in from Guilford. On the tottom of the trunk was the mark “BxP.” which signified that at some period in its life it had gone by rail to Boston. In early days there were no checks, the destination of a piece of baggage being designated by a mark. This was forty-two years ago FITS permanently cared, Nofits or narvots. nessafter first day's use of Dr, Kline's Great NerveRestorer $2trialbottie and treatise fres Dr. RH, Keane, Ltd, 931 Arch St, Phila, Pa, lake Biwa is the only large sheet of fresh water in Japan. Ask Your Dealer For Allen's Foot-¥ase, A powder. It rests the feet, Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore Hot, Callous Aching Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails, Allen's Foot -Ease makes new ortight shoes easy, Al all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents, Ac. ecpt no substitute, Sample mailed Fras, Tre; Allan 8, Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y, Joch Tay is one of the deepest Jakes in the British Isles Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children testhing soften the gums, reduces inflamma- tion aliays pain cures wind colic, 4bc. abottle, London has 15000 street accidents in a year. Piso’s Cure for Consumption Is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. -N, W, Samver, Ocean Gro N. J., Peb, 17, 1900, The amount of rice produced in Siam has increased enormously. Itch cored in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Never Fails. Sold all druggists, 81. Mail orders pr tly filled by FEE. Detchon, rdavilie, fad. chon, Urawfo In 1830 John Jacob Astor was the only millionaire mm New York, Short Order. At a special meeting of the Mit. Can Council an ordinance was passed callin for the completion of the town's system, as a cost of $160,000 Amos Witter, a 6-year-old boy Reading, was scalded to death by ia backward into a tub of water while pl house © mpiive > © Prevention of St 1 was buried four : i « week front of a fast express 2 " nD ling Railway at Roy fu a track Dunlap, he ¥ K 5 | wagon because he was unabie 10 ¢ t his wages orted to the West he proposed sewer and disposal plant will st S1o0.000. Council will take action in the near future Albert Hoskins, of Pottsville, attacked wife with a sickle and bread knife | and then plunged the knife into his own | throat. He is in a serious condition at the Pottsville Hospial. The wife's injuries are sligh, Hoskins, it is alleged, tried o injure his children and mother-in-law, i After ringing a physician's office bell, | Frederick Hueter, aged 6 gyears, of York, fell dead from an attack of heart failure. . An engineer re Chester Counc: "Hr 1 pi a ist svsitiem an iis % ais0 After a strike of less than two days duration, the 300 men and boys employed at the Mary D. Colliery, Tuscarora, re turned to work, Superintendent Tindley guaranteeing that in the future the same rate of wages would be paid at that col liery as at the collieries of the Philadel. philphia & Reading Sompany. A committee of the Alumni Association of Darlington Seminary, appointed to prepare plang for a memorial to Mrs Darlington, wife of Dr. Richard Dar lington, founder of this institution, has decided that the memorial shall be placed in the Chester County Hospital, ANOTHER LIFE SAVED. Mrs. G. W. Fooks, of Salisbury, Md., wife of G. W. 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December an old man Henri died in the Rue de He Known sate means, known Patay pri were meager Last as M Paris was POsEeRS it that they shabbiness indicated by his and a single Henri's noth unds than two was ihe that he lived When a was alone in of M made a vp in fact room gearch death which of fur expenses dingy looking books, id, with his few funeral uver of veda of siocks the books discovered From Change in Food, brain depends much more on the pach than ve take tO suppose ur the matter «1 the stomach on proper food easy digest and containing the want of phosphates and the he will respond to all demands A notable housewife in Buffalo writes trouble as we are apt thonght in proper althy The doctor diagnosed my a ‘nervous affection of the stomach.” | wang actually so nervous that | ewspaper, and to attend to my house doctored all the time with remedies Laut medicine did no good ‘My physician put me on all soris of of. and | tried many kinds of cereal foods, but none of them agreed with ¢ I was almost discouraged, and vhen 1 tried Grape-Nuts 1 did so with nany misgivings-1 bad no faith that it had failed “But know how glad 1 am that I tried it. 1 feel like a new person. | have gained in weight and 1 don’t have that terrible burning sensation nu ny stomach any ore. 1 feel so strong again that [ am cirprised at myself. 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