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Dr. Seth Arnold's Cough Killer knocks CoId?.— JOHN DARGANELL, 444 Fargo Ave.. Buffalo, N. Y.. Aug. IT. 1898. 25c. a bottla. It rains tliree days out of Ave in Glas gow, Scotland. Soldiers From the Wa> Bring tho germs of malaria, fevers and other diseases, which may prove contagious in their own families. Hood's Sarsaparllla Is a special boon to soldiers, because It eradicates nil disease germs, builds up the debilitated system and brings back health Every returned soldier and every friend and relative of soldiers should take Hood's Sarsaparilla America's Greatest Medicine. 91; six for $5. Hoort's PIHs cure sick headache. 35c. Nelson Day In London, Nelson stock is high in England just now, and this year the celebra tion on Nelson day, Ootober 21, was more elaborate than ever. The Nelson column in Trafalgar Square was spirally entwined with a con tinuous laurel band, which for the first time reached the very top of the shaft, while at the base there was a varied display of shields, de vices, wreaths and other floral tri butes. Motor Cam. Notwithstanding that the motor car. industry is undoubtedly better de veloped and more active abroad than in the United States, yet some of the American companies are reported to have recently booked considerable numbers of orders in Paris and Lon don, and one Chicago firm has an nounced its intention of opening branch offices in these two cities. LINGULAR STATEMENT. From Mrs. Rank to Mrs. Pinkham The following letter to Mrs. Pink« ham from Mrs. M. RANK, No. 2,35< East Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, Pa., is a remarkable statement of re* lief from utter discouragement. She says: " I never can find words with which to thank you for what Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound has done ior me. " Some years ago I had womb trouble and doctored for a long time, not see ing any improvement. At times I would feel well enough, and other times was miserable. So it went on until last October, I felt something terrible creeping over me, I knew not what, but kept getting worse. I can hardly explain my feelings at that time. I was so depressed in spirits that I did not wish to live, although I had everything to live for. Had hys teria, was very nervous; could not sleep and was not safe to be left alone. *' Indeed, I thought I would lose my mind. No one knows what I endured. " 1 continued this way until the last of February, when I saw in a paper a testimonial of a lady whose case was similar to mine, and who had been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound. I determined to try it, and felt better after the first dose. I continued taking it, and to-day am a well woman, and can say from my heart, ' Thank God for such a medi cine.'" v. Mrs. Pinkham invites all suffering women to write to her at Lynn, Mass., for advice. All such letters are sees and answered bv women onlv. MARY PEAR IN NINETY-EIGHT. "O, Mary dear, O, Mary sweetl Down at your little fairy feet— May, lassie, do not scornful start— I lay my fortunes and my heart. "If you will be my own, own A dream of ease will be your life, And all that love and gold can do, O, Mjary dear, I'll do for you." "I scorn your'heart, I scorn your gold, I have a sweetheart brave and bold, One of a battleship's brave orew, My sailor sweetheart tried and true, "He has no gold but strong and leal. He fearless guards his country's weal, And as he loves bis country so. He'll love his own, own wife,l know." — M. PHELPS DAWSON, in New York Sun. PIJOTTVEI | p A Tragedy of Santiago. 0 After the first day's fighting at San tiago two men, lying side by side, tried raivly to sleep. The nightmare of the itrdggle left its impress on them. A twitching of the lips or a nervous a limb showed the after-ef fects of the strain. They were volun teers, wfc.3 had picked each other out or the staunch,all-trusting friendship that comes to men who are to langer and hardship. The heat of war sends all the small inventions of life up into thin smoke. Where death and blood surround on every side and the hum of bullets and (he shriek of shells whisper a warning that the next togo may be one's self, khe man is reduced to elementary prin jiples. David cleaves to Jonathan with his whole soul and asks no rea lOU why. So it was with these two. Their learts spoke directly to each other. The black Cuban night formed a dtting surrounding for confidence. A man liked to reach out a hand and find that a friend was near. It was IO dark; so empty of God and hope; luch a fitting prelude to the frowning morrow. At last the younger broke the lilence: "By gosh, Billy, you showed ap well today," said he. "You went up that hill like a man who wasn't ifraid to live or die. I tell you I was proud of you." "Shucks!" answered the other; "you did the same." "Yes—l know,but my reason wasn't juite the same, I'm afraid. To tell you the plain truth, old man, I only came upon this business to get my name up. I wouldn't give you three :ents a hundred for Cnbans, let alone my life. I wanted," he went on in a ihamefaced way, "to have the girls point me out when I get home—you know: 'Ain't he a hero?' and that kind of thing. 'Tain't very noble, is it? I don't suppose you'll think much »112 me after that; but,somehow, I felt { had to tell it." The elder man smiled into the dark less —au exceeding bitter aud mirth less smile. "What do you suppose I came down lere for?" he asked. "I don't supppose anything about it—l know," answered the other itoutlv. "Haven't I been with you •very day since you fished me out of khe turf? And you've never kicked or grumbled, no matter what came up. i'ou're here because you believe in it, ind you needn't say anything different lust to comfort me." "Listen," said the other, laying a aaud on his arm and bringing his mouth close to the lad's ear. "I'm going to tell you something, Kid— lomething I certainly never expected to tell anybody. But I may get it tomorrow, and I feel that I must ipeak. Don't say a word until I've, finished, aud then see if you want to take my hand. "My boy, I came down here to kill » ma» in our regiment." He felt the start tho other gave, but went on without a change of voice. "I'd been watching my chance for a month, when I heard that he enlisted, *nd I joined. Now, the first time he Mts near me and nobody's looking, I'm going to shoot him through the fceart —right—through—his— dirty Mack—heart." "Good God!" said the other. ''lt's the truth, "continued the elder Q the same quiet voice. "I picked the scoundrel out of the rutter and tried to make a man out of Mm—took him right into my home, »nd that was the worst dav's job I ever lid, for it didn't stay my home long. My wife—my wife—well, I had no irife after that. I don't know what to think. She seemed a good girl—as Irue a wife as a man ever had before —for years—but—well, Kid, the rea ;on I charged up the hill today was to >how myself that I wouldn't bo afraid to meet him face to face. I'd have killed him openly before, but that would have brought the whole story, out, and the bums on the corner at tome could laugh and joke about— ibout my wife." The silence fell black around them. It last the younger spoke. "I'm only a kid, Bill, and I don't |uite understand these things. I don't know anything about them, but Ido know that you're a square man. [t seems awful to me. But there's my hand just the same." The other groped for it and iqneezed it heartily. A tingling came to his eyes. The boy's sympathy was very sweet to his sore heart. "I have always been a square man, and this job goes against me," he went on."I wish there was some other way out of it." "Oh, Lord, so do II" groaned the boy. "Ain't there anything, Bill?" "Nothing, I suppose if we both get back it will be the same old misery all over again. I suppose if I could talk about it to—to -my wife—per haps it might make some difference— hat I can't speak. The words stick in ny throat." "Perhaps he'll get killed?" "Not on your life. His sort never dob No—no—there's nothing for it but for me to take the law in my own hands. Good nigbt, Kid, I'm going to sleep." The next day Bill was struok on the head by a piece of shell in the early part of the engagement. A man, who had hitherto kept care fully out of sight, ran forward, and, picked him up, started for the rear, carrying his insensible body. The Kid, who was leaning against the tree bandaging his shattered left arm, looked up as they passed him. "Why, it's Bill," he cried. "Say, pardner, where's he hit? Is it bad?" "In the head—don't know," answered the stranger. "Poor old Bill!" snid the boy, with quivering lips. "Oh, ain't this war a horrible business? I don't want any more of their fighting!" He lis a stood the pain of his own wound without a whimper, but the sight of his friend's bloody face was too much for overwrought nerves. He broke down and sobbed like a child. "Brace up. Kid; perhaps it ain't as bad as it looks," said the stranger. "Oh, that's all right for you to say," answered the boy. "What is it to you? But he was my pardner, and I care something about it." The arms of the stranger gripped bis burden convulsively. He turned a savage face upon the boy. "Shut up, you fool!" he said; then added in a different voice: "Give me a, lift with your good arm, will you; I feel kinder sick." The Kid took his friend's feet under his arm, while the stranger supported the shoulders. So they staggered on until they came to the field hospital. There they laid the wounded man down with all possible tenderness. The Kid went to hasten a surgeon. As Bill touched the earth his eyes opened, vacantly nt first, but with gradually increasing intelligence, fury gathering in ;them the while, until they bent upon the stranger with ab solute ferocity. The other gazed steadily at him. "You here,you black-hearted dog!" at last said Bill, between his teeth. "If I could raise a hand I'd kill you!" "Will you listen to me a minute?" answered' the other. "I only ask you for a little time, and every word shall be God's truth." A weakness swept across the wounded man. Life lost its intensity. ] He nodded wearily. "Well, Bill," said the stranger, in a halting, abrupt fashion, "I was a bad lot—there ain't any doubt of it, and that my feelings toward Sally were wrong I ain't going to deny, but don't be too hard on the girl. It was all my fault. I led her along so quiet and easy that she didn't suspect me. That she didn't understand right away is true, too; but,Bill,we're all human, and yon know I hail the trick of pleas ing women. As God is my witness, Bill, it didn't go as far as you think. Then, and when she understood fully, she wouldn't let me so much as touch , her hand. Still she felt, poor little soul, that she was to blame in the , matter, and she worked and talked to me, to show what an awful thing ; we'd done. She brought up how good you'd beeu to both of us, until I saw —I saw. "Then I enlisted right away—that's the reason I came down here —to see if I couldn't get out of it all in a decent sort of a way, for I am sick of I myself—dead sick. And, Bill, I'll i never go back—l feel it in my bones —but even if I should I couldn't trouble you any more,for the girl gave it up of her owu free will, which aiu't a little thing on this earth, whore . none of us are angels. I might change again—l know it—l never was either ; good or bad long at a time—but ttally is a different kind. You'll never have cause to doubt her again,that's sure." ; The wounded man looked at him with sad eyes. "You always were a liar," he said, simply. "That's so, that's so," asserted the other, eagerly. "But not this time, j Bill. I wish I could tell with my ; dying breath; then you couldn't help ! but believe me." The words bad hardly left his mouth wheu there was a ripping sound in the bush, instantly followed by a sharp "thwuck!" A piece of cloth leaped from the stranger's breast. A fountain of blood spurted after it. His eyes were tilled with wonder. He stood erect—so—for a fraction of time, then the muscles gave way and he came crashing to the earth. A t second later he raised himself upon his elbow, struggling with the hurry and confusion of his mind. He fixed his dimming eyes upou his enemy, gasping: "I'm gone, Bill—all true—so help me—God! Forgive" And he was dead. Bill covered his eyes with his hands. The vengeunce which we gloat over looks horrible wheu worked by other hands. The bitterness left his soul and a great pity took its place. "Oh, Lord !" he prayed, "send me back to my little girl!"— Criterion. Trumpeters to Royalty. Mr. Thomas John Harper, who died in England recentlj', in his 82ud year, was sergeant trumpeter to the Queen, and was for nearly half a century trumpeter to the lord mayor, while at the opoia, the great musical festivals and at the best concerts he was ac knowledged to be the greatest of liv ing trumpeters. His even still more celebrated father, Thomas Harper, the elder, blew the trumpet at the coronation of George IV, so that par ent and son, down to the practical re tirement of Thomas Harper, the younger, in 1885, performed the prin cipal trumpet work at almost all the important performances in England duriug the greater part of the present century. HANGED, BUT MAY CO FREE. Sentenced, but ltope Broke, and Son. fence Wai Commuted. After being tried for the assassin*- | tion of Will Buckley in Madison county, Mississippi, for which crime he was convicted and an attempt at a legal execution made, failing because the rope broke, and after having his senteuce commuted by Governor Mc- Lauriii to life imprisonment in the penitentiary, Will Purvis, the notori ous Whitecapper, stands a good chanoe to be pardoned. The governor received a remarkable letter, signed by the three brothers and a brother-in-law of Will Buckley, the murdered man, stating that they believed a mistake had been made, and that an innocent man was suffer ing the penalty of another's crime. These relatives have ever since the assassination, been bitter against Pur vis and have resisted every attempt to have him pardoned. The letter in question is signed by A. L.l uckley, J. C)>. Buckley, F. M. Buckley and H. C. Turuage. It recites the fact that the continued confinement of Will Purvis in the peuitentiary will have a tendency to shield the real murderer of their brother. One brother, Jim Buckley, was with Will when the latter was killed, and testified on the trial that he saw Will Purvis unbreeching his gun right after ihe fatal shot was fired. This, with some corroboratory evidence, was the meat of the prosecution's case and the evidence upon which Purvis was sentenced to hang. During the last session of the legislature a petition was circulated and largely sigoed ask ing that Purvis be pardoned. In ad dition the people of Marion county have all along doubted his guilt. The story of Purvis' alleged crime and the subsequent proceedings have already been published. Will Buck ley was alleged to have belonged to a a gang of Whitecappers in Marion county. It was said he was threatened with death in case he revealed any thing to the grand jury. He was as sassinated while returning from court. Purvis was arrested and convicted on the evidence recited above. He was sentenced to be hanged, but the rope broke, and he fell to the ground un conscious. He was returned to the jail, and his lawyers made the point before the supreme court that he was executed. The court held, however, that he had to be dead before the sen tence of the law had been carried out. He afterward escaped, and was at large when Governor McLaurin was inaugurated. He offered to return to custody if the governor would com mute his sentence to life imprison ment. He refused to negotiate with him until ha had surrendered. Pur vis then surrendered and was brought by the governor's order, to the peni tentiary for safe keeping. There his sentence was commuted to life im prisonment, and ever since he has been serving the senteuce. Attack* Women on the Cars. The woman agent is ranging the streets of the city in ferocious packs. Driven by unusual hunger, or other desperation, this species has become unusually daring aud ferocjpus the past season. It is not enough that she and her kind have driven us daily out of our happy homes onto the back piazza. They now actually attack us on the street cars. Instances of this are becoming quite common. A mild-mannered, elderly woman boarded a car the other day with a companion without noticing the sharp featured woman behind. Scarcely bad she gotten seated wheu the womau behind her leaned over, and the fol lowing interesting conversation took place: "Madame," said the sharp-featured one, "excuse me, but I see you wear a switch." "No, I do not," said the astonished victim. "Do you save your combings?" per sisted her stronger sister. She received no reply, but she did not retire. "Now, ladies," she continued, "I can give you something in this line." But the women in front had edged over to the other end of the seat, and were talking so earnestly on relatively unimportant topics that she did no' finish her address. Another day, two pretty young women were proceeding down street on a car, when a pair of new shoes appeared over the back of the seat between them, dangling by theii strings. "Excuse me, ladies," said the voice, "but do you wear water proof shoes." The discourse con tinned on the merits of water-proof shoes for the space of several blocks, when the victims filially repulsed the boarder by the most wanton use oi feminine brutality and the force ol superior numbers.—Springfield Re publican. Killed » I>eer With a Club. Surveyor D. C. Wood of Herkimer, N. Y., brought home the saddles and hind quarters of a two-year-old doe that he killed along the Mohawk and and Malone railroad with a club. Mr. Wood has been in the Adirondacks surveying for Dr. Seward Webb, and one day recently he started to walk from Beaver river to Keepawn on the Mohawk and Malone railroad track. Near Brandreth station the road runs through a swamp aud the embankment is about ten feet high. Just as he reached that point he happened to look over one side of the track and there, not ten feet away, was a deer feeding in the underbrush, which grew close to the track. He laid down his instruments carefully, aud, taking a step or two toward the deer, hit her over the head with his surveyor's staff. The blow felled the deer, and before it recovered Mr. Wood jumped down the embarkment and cut its throat with a penknife.—New York Sun. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The common caterpillar has more than two hundred muscles. Some insects are in a state of ma turity thirty minutes after birth. At sea level an object one hundred feet high is visible a little oveVi thir teen miles. If five hundred feet high, it is visible nearly thirty miles. One of the most interesting features of modern industrial chemistry is the synthetic production of odorous sub stances, closely related to the odors of flowers, plants, and animal sub stances. The longest wave hitherto observed ;s said to have had a length of half a mile, and to have spent itself in twenty-three seconds. During storms in the north Atlantic waves sometimes sxtend to a length of 500 and 600 feet, rod last from ten to eleven seconds. A peculiar nervous disease, called mali raali, is sometimes noticed,chiefly iu old women, among natives of the Philippine Islands. The victim, whose symptoms may appear only on being Bxcited.has an uncontrollable desire to imitate the movements of some person before hi in. MAUSERS VS. KRAC-JORCENSENS. Some Comparison* Recently Made by Expert* at the Springfield Arsenal. While no decision has yet been made as to what shall be done with the Spanish ]\lauser rifles which ar rived in the United States arsenal re cently, it is expected that, after hav ing been cleaned and repaired, these weapons will be sold to the public as curiosities. Officials at the arsenal state that these Spanish guns, besides being in every way inferior to the Krag-Jor gensen riHes used by our regular army, show rough and ignorant us age at the hands of the Spanish sol diers. The main difference between the Krag and the Mauser is that, while both are bolt guns, the former has a magazine which, tilled with tive car tridges, can be cut off so as to make the rifle practically a single shooter ; the latter's magazine cannot be so cut Dff. It is, therefore, really a repeat ing rifle. Furthermore, in the Krag the bolt is opened and closed by the iction of cams—an application of power similar to that used on chain less bicycles—while with the Mauser the man has to compress the main spring by direct force. It is probable that these Mausers will be sold for not less than sls apiece, so that for every one sold the government will be a little more than reimbursed for the manufacture of >ne Krag-Jorgensen, which, as made it the arsenal, cost 314.50. Several Krags have arrived at the irsenal for repairs after having been ased by rough riders. They show that they can staud very hard usage without impairing their efficiency, proving thereby the excellence of their pattern, manufacture aud ma terial. There are two which, after having been carried through the surf, filled with sand and wet with water, rod having gone through all the fight ing, were quite ready for use just as they were when they arrived without my cleaning or oiling. The butt of one of these —carbine pattern —was split and perforated by a Mauser bullet, which most likely bored a hole also through the arm of whatever Rough Rider held the gun at the time. One reason of the inferiority of the Vlausers is that they are made by con tract by a firm in Berlin, Germany, while our guns are made at the Springfield arsenal under the direct supervision of ordnance officers. Our guns are therefore exactly alike, one to the other, while the material and workmanship of the Spanish rifles show many degrees of quality. Springfield Union. ltope* Woven by Spider*. Spiders must now be counted among the necessary helpmates of balloon manufacturers. Many experiments made with spiderweb as a substitute for silk have proved the far reaching possibilities of the new material. The thread of the spider was found inval aable in the production of so-called reticles, crosses or nets of fine threads placed in the focal plane of telescopes, to determine the exact position of an observed object. Some ten years ago a French missionary started the sys tematic rearing of two kinds of spiders for their web. Now the "Industrie Textile" an jounces that a spider web factory is In successful operation at Chalais- Meudon, near Paris, where ropes are made of spider web intended for bal loons for the French military aeron autic section. The spiders are arranged in groups of twelve above a reel, upon which the threads are wound. It is by no means easy,workforthe spiders, for they are not released until they have furnished from thirty to forty yards of thread each. The web is washed and thus freed of the outer reddish and sticky cover. Eight of the washed threads are then taken together, aud of this rather strong yarn cords are woven, which are stronger and much lighter than cords of silk of the same thickness. These spider web ropes are very much more expensive than silk ones, but it is hoped to reduce their cost somewhat in the future. Pointed Suggestion, Study of local peculiarities is one ot «he first conditions of trade success It is said that Germau pins and need les in China have completely displaced those of better quality made in Eng land, because the English persist in putting theirs up in black paper, which to the Chinese stands for ill luck, while the Germans, anderstandinj> this, pnt theirs np in red paper which has a more obeerful omen Boston Journal. A Nation of Dyspeptic*. From the Mountaineer, Walhalla, JV. Dakota, The remorse of n guilty atomaoh Is what a large majority of the peoole are suffering with to-day. Dyspepsia Is a characteristic American disease audit Is frequently stated that "we are a nation of dyspeptics." Improper food, hurried eating, mental worry, exhaustion—any of these produoe a lack of vitality in the system, by causing the blood to lose its Ufe-sustalning ele ments. The blood is the vital element in our lives and should be oarefully nurtured. Restore It to its proper condition, dys pepsia will vanish and good health follow. For example, In the county of Pembina, North Dakota, a few miles from Walhalla, resides Mr. Earnest Snider; a man of sterl ing Integrity, whose veraolty cannot be doubted. He says: The Doctors Disagreed. "I became seriously ill three years ago. The doctor gave me modloine for indiges tion, but I continued to become worse. I bad several physicians at intervals who ?ave me some relief, but the disease would return with all its accustomed severity. "I read In the newspapers articles re garding the wonderful curative powers of Or. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and finally concluded to try the pills. Five months ago I bought six boxes. The first box gave me much relief, und after using tour boxes I was cured." These pills are recognized everywhere as i specific for diseases of the blood and lerves. For paralysis, locomotor ataxia, *nd other diseases long supposed incur able, they have proved their efficacy in thousands of cases. Moscow's (Russia) orphan asylum is :upported by a tax on playing cards. Hon.'W. J. Connell, Ex-Congressman frorc Nebraska, and at present Omaha's City At torney, writes: "To Whom This