The Eminent Kidney
and Bladder Specialist.
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Tie DUcoverer of Swamp-Root at Work ln
Bit Laboratory. j
There is a disease prevailing in this
I country most dangerous because so decep-
" Mnn.r i I . . n .i ok. 1 I
lit heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure
live. mMM su6'i Urania die L-lUifU DV
lor apoplexy are often the result of kidney
I disease. If kidney trouble is allowed to d-
vance the kidney-poisoned blood will attack
Ihe vital organs, or the kidneys themselves,
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Then the richness of the blood the albumen
-leaks out and the sufferer has Bright's
disease, the worst form of kidnev trouble. '
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp. Root the new dis-
bovery is the true specific for kidney, bladder
knd urinary troubles. It has cured thousands
lof apparently hopeless cases, after all other
efforts have failed. At druggists in fifty-cent i
and do liar sues a sample bottle sent free
fcy mail, also a book telling about Swamp-
If... --j i.. J..1..I - - t v
Kooi anu us woiiuunui cures. Aaaress l
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. and
nention this paper.
ocwMcvi uTmia
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BunDury v uewtstown uiviBion.
In effect Kov. '!", 1900.
Irrwaso. 1 stations. sAsrwasn
AM AM r M
9 7 Bunbury W30 antl
limT Belinsgrove Junction BOB 41)0
10 IS tselinsirrove OOt t l'i
mil Pawling 8 50 tea
iom Krearaer s i i ai
Hi 37 Metier 1 10 I -f
lOltl Mi. I' M. 'nil K H H i
1o:im Benfer m m i in
10 to Beavertown n ft 4ir?i
loftl Adanubtira B 310 4 01
liis; Haulm Hills S 18 888
11 it) McC'lure B 117 8 19
i 111:1 Wagner ;?7 sao
s 11 l Bhlndle 7 51 3M
0 11 21 1'iiiiiUrville 7 lit s;ui
6 1127 Maitlanil 7 4:i 834
5 11.15 l.cniKtou n I 7 5 8 15 j
7 11 37 I.ewtt.wn (Main Street. , 7 33 8 13
0 1140 Lewistowa Junction. ' 7 to a 10 !
bain leavnH Hunbury -r 80 r iu, ar
rives at !"eluiHrove 5 , n m
B8ve8SelinHKrove(!:(Hip. n, arrives
at duo bur v B:I6 p hi.
raius leave Lewintown Junction :
! I m, 10 I in. 1 10 p m, i:iiiii m R -."2n m. 7 07n
k 1? 02 a oi for Alloona, PltiHlmrn nn.1 the Ww.
(nr HSItimiire unit Wiml.iiiKtiin sin ui n;io.
K.1.13 4 33 R 10 n m Forl'lillmli-lphiii iiml New
Drk 5 5s, 8 0"), 0 80 A m, I Oi 1 33 4 33 unil 11 1 i
I rnr rtarniinurK s iu i :a
Philadelphia & Ene R R Division.
AND
NORTHBBNd'KNTKAI. KA1LWAY
WtttWABO,
rraln lnav s ill strove Junction daliv lor
lubniy and Wost.
liam, 158 p m, 5 3 p in. s mday 9 ' a m,
I p m.
ds leave Sonbury ilally except SundiiT:
II am for H fT.ilo. Krie and CananiUiirun
110 mn ior llellelonte Krlennd Cuimiidaticiia
mm am for Look Haven. Tyrone and the weal,
BIO p m tor neilelonte halt' Tyrone and tlanar.-
I H llfUH
5p in for kennvn and Kl in ir
1 p Di tur n luiatnspuit
andaT 1 -21 a HI for Bun" do via Emporium, 5 to
u iur i .i ir ami v;.tniiiiiiiiiKita
lam forUick Haven an.i H 6.1 p in lor i
Imipurl
Jam, I SB a n) 3 00 and 5 48 pm tor wllkea
rr. and Ha.ellon
I a ui. lo 10 a in, '2 05 p in, 5 45 P in Iur Shiuno-
I and Mniint (Tarinul
andaj' 9 55 a m lor Wllkebarre
BAST WARD,
rrslni leave BetluaTovs Junotlon
W a in, dally arrlvtnir nt I'lnl idelnhbi
an New York 868 p m Baltimore 8 11 p m
hlnKturi 4 10 p in
i p m aaiiy arnvinr at miadeipnia
l!inilon"or S S B,im,"oro 9 ,n
Bp in. ually arrM,, hi Phlladelpbla ; end of a century to certain public ob
t m, Naw York 718 a m, Baltimore 3 30 a m I . 1
unflon4 0Bam
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1 ruHH il so Iailva Stlnluirv
Wmora 1 8 a m WHhlnjrton 746 am New
mn warn wasusji, iii us a m Bundayn, i
mi p m week dv arriving at I'hllaih-liiliia
dan. V! VZ2 . I
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H pin, week day arrivlnv ai Philadelphia j
I .. r, i.i. i in, DBHUUOru OUjpiU
iblrifttou T lsp in
fains alo leave Snnhury at 9 so a in iml 8 35
ii ph., lor uiirrisiiura. riiiluiluliiliia and
nore
I. K. Will III. Oan'l Pmrnm ,.,.,
IDT0BTNROB ln'l Manaaar.
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I the Year Book foronly tl.69. ante.
In a recent isme of London Hlucs
and White we find the following! "ll
I s exl raort Inary
What a ii) a ! I
am nut of interest
41 f 1 .
aroused by the mighty political earn
paiya In the United States. Theordi-
' "'V ''w,'"er excltingcouutrles
,,i,s l)U' hopelessly Inadequate notii n
"' ''u' upheaval tint these presidential
, election involve. The Industry of the
whole vast nation cornea to a standstill
for months; meetings are packed with
tens of thousands of respectable peo
I pie. who listen for an hour in a perfect
I ly orderly fashion an.! with the keenest
merest to a political address; gigan-
pro t ssiotis, whose nuinliers run
'",0 slx figures, pass through serried
ranks of respectful onlookers. Everv-
thing, in fact, is dune on a Qorrantuan
vim ii In vr.;t.. tl...
of t he popu
'' anurousetnen tever ueatofen-
'husiasm; yet there Is never scarcely a
hreach of the peace or a discreditable
dlaolav of barti . i ,i ....
., . . , ' '
;'"" " to ue most eas-
"J moved. It i a Wouderful instance
of iho curious con: rnsl in the imerlnnn
,,inr. ,.;,.,,,, , ,
,. , K 1
il,un8 directly concerning the iudi-
rlouaI, and absolutely lethargic aboul
things with which he has no persona
connection. Thcv vote by the million
,, , ,- uo u,,mon'
"Ul thev do nol u bi ti.. .. ;n .....
" ""(.'
Blowing excited over it. So thej
vote calmly. If we were to have the
game atics i this country ul tin elec-
,KI" c should have a civil war.
Thl
is may be t rue in I In- main, hut
that there are times when the lawless
element is in evidence Is equal!; true.
Numerous instances of vicious parti
sanship were recorded during the re
cent presidential campaign in various
parts of the country and an occasional
broken head was the result. Still we
may justly claim to lie a reasonable and
orderly people in our elections, nation
al u mi local.
rhere is something so manly nnd
lovable ahoiit .Mark Twain that every-
An llinirable
Iliiinorlat.
ooay win beartilj
indorse what is
said of him h
David F. St. Cluir in Success: "Mr.
Clemenssays he went around the world
to satisfy li is conscience. The great
humorist has, however. alTorded an in
spirational example to all his debt-ridden
countrymen. Doubtless many of
j them, when he had paid his debts, bavt
been incited to pay theirs, rather than
go through bankruptcy. They are sat
isfied that the Twain method of wiping
out old scores is ii good one. First, we
simply laughed at I wain's jokes. Then
we uiseovered that they are literature.
Next we learned, against our will, that
the humorist is something else a se
rious soul, who does not love the laugh
ter he provokes. And at leng-th th
humorist turns out to be the most strik
ing example of honesty in the country
a quality that the world has tried to
deny to all jokers. Here is a man who
ean exemplify his country's gift of hu
mor and its honor at the same time."
When Benjamin Franklin died in
171K) he left $;.,i(io each to the cities
of Boston and Philadelphia, to be keol
. 1 1
nm-sieu iur n perum oi iuu years, ana
tbe entire accumulation devoted at the
jecia. now great, a otnerence mere
. , n . , .
nn ue in ii ha ue ia i manaffemeat is
shown by the tact that the Boston fund
,
.iiiiiuoiis in ni,.ss uno ln;n oi
rhiiadeiihia to lmt little over $100,000.
Boston has decided to spend the money
!., , t tl if ,-i
i for a branch of the public library, ti
be called the Franklin institute, espe
cially used for classes nnd lectures in
history and science and for instruction
In applied arts nnd mechanics. Phila
delphia will turn over its Franklin fund
to the park commissioners for un art
gallery.
Music will be a prominent feature in
the Pan-American exposition, to be
held in Buffalo next year from May l
to November 1. The Temple of Music,
a free treatment of Spanish renais
sance architecture, is octagonal in form
with pavilions ut the cornem, n. dome
13ti feet high und seating capacity for
L'.DUO persons. A $10,000 organ is to
be constructed in the building and two
recitals will be given daily. The saen
gerfest of the North American sanger
bund will open in Buffalo June 24, and
the choruses will be among the larg
est ever seen in this country. Lovers
of music in UulTuIo have formed a com
pany with a oapital of $40,000, divided
into 1,000 share ut each share en
titling the holder to two season tickets
to the saengerfest,
The expedient of allowing a carrier
pigeon, alleged to have been stolen,
to fly away from the court in order
that its home might be known, wan
adopted- in Kast Orange, X. J the
other day, with such success that
George Uennett was held for the
grand jury on a charge of larceny.
He had been accused of stealing game
cocks and a homing pigeon from Kob
ert Euraig, but the evidence was so
conflicting that it was decided to send
the pigeon out and see where it went.
Shortly after it had been released the
dove was found in Kuraig's loft.
A Sharon (1'a.) pustor on a recent
Sunday cut his sermon short and dis
missed the congregation because cer
tain members habitually slept during
his discourse. He then handed in his
resignatioa.
The national irrigation congress,
which was in session in Chicago re
Irrlu.-iilnn for
Arid Mat,
cently, is to make
another appeal to
canirresa at the
pre-. nt SetHion to take up this ditli
eult irrigation problem, though the
outlook for action is not very hope
ful. At the last ,.-vi,,n llOOVOOO was
appropriated for the purpose of mak
.ng surveys of water sources, which
is regarded as a stepping stone for
further action bj congress. Hut that
does not necessari.y follow. Congress
took action to set aside reservoir sites
several years ago. hut that was not
followed up. ln fact, a strong and
partly successful effort was made by
western men to undo what had lit en
I :.. .!. .1: . ,n. ,
uu in iiuii nil f( i uni. inis. very
truly says the Philadelphia l'res. is
n gnat problem and must be care
fully considered. Secretary Hitch
cock, in his last annual report, esti
mated that the arid land of the wist,
if properly reclaimed, would support
a population of no less than SO,O0O,
hm. Other reports say that with ir
rigation the wa-le lands v. . '.! I .
worth at least 1300,000,000, It is gen
erally conceded that these lands ought
to be reclaimed. But ii will be a
"-:',v undertaking, and perhaps only
the government can undertake it.
Moreover, the longer the work i- de
layed the more difllcult it. will In- to
do, li -cause private interests are ab
sorbing so much of the water supply.
The alternative proposition is for the
government to deed to Ihc various
suites nil the arid public lands with
in their respective borders, and to
grant to them the um- of such reser
voir sii,.s, water ami forest reserva
tions as shall be necessary to reclaim
the waste districts. This meets with
opposition, but it seems the most
feasible plan. There is no doubt that
if the work could Ue carried out by
the government on business principles
and the reclaimed land sold for Its
:t',w it Would be a paying invest
ment. Hut we fear that the lminos
feat lire of it. would soon disappear, if
it- ever existed from the start. Con
gress is too much given to legislation
for short hours, lug pay, long vaca
tions, and other things of that kind
to make any government work pay.
And so it would he with the reclaimed
arid lands. If, by the expenditure of
enormous millions of dollars, the gov
ernment once reclaimed the waste
lands a bill would probably be rushed
through giving them away. I'n.ler
the circumstances it would he much
belter for the states, under proper
restrictions, to be allowed to do t lu
work. Hut there will he difficulty
about the reservoirs and' water sup
plies which in many cases will in
volve the rights of more than, one
State. Hence it is not an easy prob
lem, but it is n very important one,
and should be solved us early us pos
sible. In an address before the Educational
alliance in New York a few nights age
lion. Allium S. Hewitt predicted that in
the coming century "the spirit of com
mercialism will steadily grow less
strong and the spirit of altruism
stronger. 1 believe that the rule do
unto others as you would have others
do unto you will more generally pre
vail than in all the centuries which have
gone before." Mr. Hewitt also said in
his study of future sociology: -'A
school is better than a jail; a college i.
beter than a state prison. Every dol
lar spent in education is a dollar saved.
When it is not spent for education it
has to be doled out for police expendi
ture." Much food for thought in these
few sentences.
In a Washing-ton building there is an
elevator man who seems to be perfec
tion ill affability, and the way he makes
people happy has often been the sub
ject of comment. An instance of this
follows! A few days ago a lady ap
proached him und after getting in his
car thus addressed him: "I want to
bee u man whose name 1 do not know,
and I do not know, either, what of
fice he is employed in." "1 am well
acquainted with the gentleman you re
fer to," wus the. instant reply of 1 he
elevator man, "and he has just stepped
out." The lady left the cur seemingly
entirely satisfied with the information
slie hud received
An authority on bacteriology says
that many diseases mav be traced to
the eating of unwashed fruit, and, par
ticularly of unwashed grapes. After
washing some grapes which had stood
for a long time in a basket on a fruit
stand the man of science found that
the water contained tubercle bacilli
iu sufficient quantities to kill a guinea
pig in two days. Two other guinea
pigs which were inoculated with the
germ-infected water died within six
weeks.
Watermelons of northern growth
may be enjoyed in winter by following
the plan adopted by "l.'ncle Mike" Mor
ris, a farmer living near Stanhope, la.
Last summer he selected a number of
ehoicc melons and put them in a cave,
after sealing the stems with wax. Lust
week he cut one and found it as fresh
ind crisp as though it had just been
taken from the vine. All this is vouched
by a local paper.
Some statistician discovers that the
average woman carries 40 to 60 miles
of hair on her head.
Ms- A
Spnr----
CATARRH IS A CONSTITUTECftAL OR BLOOD DISEASE,
and f ir beyond the reach of mere local remedies. Those who rely upon them for a cure lose valital le time, inert with disap
pointment and allow the disease to take firmer hold. Onlv a real blood lemcdy can reach this troublesome and dangen i eusi .
S. S. S cures Catarrh because it lirst cleanses and builds up the blood, purifies it, makes it rich and healthy, stimulate! audi
puts new life into the sluggish wot n -out organs, and thus relieves the system of all poisonous accumulations.
Mr Josephine Polhtll, of Due We-.t. S. C . writes r " I had Catarrh, which became ileep
sestr.i that 1 wns entirely ile.if in one rnr, an.l sit uihiile of my no-e, Including lsitt t the t-,.ne,
fciotigheil uff. when itie iiiseu-e had (one tins fat the fhyafcisn Mvr mc up i - incurable, i
determined to try 8 s s us last resort, snd begsn to improve st once. It seemed to get at the
sestot the disease, and after a few weeks' ueuitnciit l was entirely cured, snd fur more ihun
seven years have hu.l iiu sign of the disease."
S. S. S. is made of roots, herbs and barks of wonderful tonical and purifying
properties, It is the only vegetable blood purifier known, and a certain and safe
cure for all blood troubles, Send for out book on Hh4 and Skin I liseases, and at
the same lime write our physicians about your case. They will cheerfully yive you
any inf nnation or advice wanted. We make no charge for this.
The question as to the recognition
J which cigarettes are entitled under
I fun rcl 1 n n il
lie law was con
sul n 0 oy I lie I nu
rd Stales supreme
the I. il it.
rourt recently in an opinion rendered
.11 the ease of llllnm H. Alls
;-S)ii v-.
I'fie case
the stale of Pennsylvania. I
iriginated in tin- state of Tennessee,
ami it called into question the valid
ity of the stale law regulating the
sale of this article of commerce on the
ground that it. was an Infringement
of the right of congress to regulate
interstate commerce, savs tin- Wash
ington Star. The Tennessee supreme
court upheld the law, and Ihe decision
sustained that verdict, though nol
without disapproval of some of the po
sitions taken, und then upon a very
narrow margin, four out of nine mem
bers joining' in a dissent ng opinion and
another member of the court (Justice
White) placing-his assent upon grounds
different from those announced by .lus
liee Brown, w ho handed down t he opin
ion. The Tennessee court had held
that cigarettes are nol an article of
commerce. With this view Justice
Brown took issue, and he delivered
ulte n dissertation upon the subject.
Whatever is an object of barter and sale
is, he said, an article of commerce, and
must be so recognised. Tobacco had
been such an article for 400 years. It
had been made the subject of taxation,
and, indeed, had become more widely
.scattered than tiny other vegetable.
Probably, he added, no other vegetable
has contributed so much to the com
fort and solace of the human rnee. This
being the case, it was entirely beyond
the bounds to say that tobacco was
not an article of commerce. He then
took notice of the claim that cigar
el tes are an especially harmful form of
tobacco, and while he conceded that
this might be the ease, he remarked
that i li i si claim was of comparatively
recent origin. Still, he held that cig
arettes are as much a subject of stale
regulation as is liquor, and he further
held that while no st ate law could pro
hibit importation in original packages
it was entirely competent for a legis
lature to regulate the sale 1 ause of
the original belief in Ihe deleterious
effect of the article, There wasa dis
senting opinion of Justice Shiras, in
which the chief justice and .IllMice
Brewer and Peckhara joined. They
based their dissent upon the theory
that congress has exclusive control of
Interstate commerce.
As the national census and a general
election came together in the year 1 Kt,
it is easy to obtain the true ratio be
hween 1he population and the number
of voters. The total registration in St.
Louis for the recent election was 136,
640, and the official census population
is 575,238, The ratio is one registered
voter to 4J0 inhabitants. But the
actual vote- of St. Louis was 124,037,
the number registered but not voting
reaching n.712. The ratio of the actual
votes to population in St. Louis was
4.V. Missouri's total vote was 683,635,
and its population by the census of
1MK) is 3,106,665. The ratio of voters
MAYDOLE'S HAMMER.
(Benson's Plaster Is Pain's Master.)
When Maydole was told that he made "a
pretty good hummer," he said, "No, I don't
make a 'pretty good hammer,' I make the
best hummer that ever van mode."
Every curpentcr who saw a Maydole hnm
mer wanted ona. It was of the best ma
terial, perfectly balanced, snd the head
never flew off. Hammers were divided into
two classes 1st, Maydole's; 2d, all the rest.
Plasters aro separated in the siunu line
of cloavagej 1st, Benson's Porous Plaster;
2d, all the rest. When, for rheumatic pain,
a cold, a cough, kidney trouble or any
other disease or uiltneut that may be treated
externally, you ask for a plaster, any hon
est, reputable druggist will give you s Ben
sou's. He knotc it ia incomparably the
best, and hs assumes that you know it too.
As the name of Mnydolo stood for hammers
the name of lieuson stands for plasters
tho "real thing." All the medicinal poten
cies that ore valuable in a plaster sre in
Benson's. Capsicum, Strengthening and
Belladonna plasters are ont of date.
An army of physicians and druggists, and
millions of the people, have written of
Benson's Plasters as o remedy to be trusted.
Benson's Plasters have fifty-five highut
award. Accept no substitute.
For sale by all druggists, or we will pre
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States, on receipt of 25o. each.
Sesbury A Johnson, Mfg. Chemists. K.J.
o FORERUNNER OF
o CONSUMPTION
Few realize wbst a deep Stated, obstinate disease Catarrh is, regarding it as a simple inflammation of
the no-e and throat, little or no attention is given it. Hut, however insignificant it may set Bl al first, it
IS serious sad far-reaching in its results.
The foul secretions entering the circulation tnjison the entire system. The stomach, kidm -. in
fvt all the org.iua feel the effect of this catarrhal poison, and when the lungs air readied its
is r:pitl ami destructive, and finally ends in consumption.
ll frequently happens that the senses of hearing and smell ate in part or entirely lost, the s ! tl noncsci
the nose eaten into and destroyed, causing intense Buffering ui'! greatlj disfiguring tin- face, Whili aysy
washes and salves may give temporal v relief, no permanent U in fit can he expected from such treat lent
to pnpulntii
general the
India nupolii
i in this st a;,, is
ratio varies cons
reports a ratio
1.54. In
h rnbly.
of 3.71,
St. I':, i
HI
an
llostou I
Thai of
ited is 5,jh,
New York t
Chicago is I
Halt Ituore's
la rire cl i lea
as coilsolii
I'hilndt Ipli
a s.
in
4.5(1
I he UVl
IS
Lorney I.. Sail, y, a 7 -,v - ar old tret
eran of ihe civil war living tit Prec
port, Iml.. received a pi nsion of .u'.'i
per month and npplli d fur an in-
crease to $40, There
ulnrity in his affaire
discovered when his
considered. The resit
e w lis some Irn g-
atltl t his w i iv
application wa
it was that his
entire pension was taken nwav
The
old man brooded over the matter and
began lo fail rapidly, Hi absolutely
refused all food fur Weeks, and died
on Thankrgiving dny,
Judge t'liiTonl Smith, of Cedar Falls,
la., holds- that good citizi ns are needed
more in this country tliaii mere voters.
Therefore he refused lo giant nam
rallzation papers to several foreigners
whocatne before him because thej were
unable to understand some simple ques
tions which lie put to tin in. None of
them could either nail or write Eng
lish, and the judge told them that he
did not think they were ns yet ready for
cit Izenshlp,
A young-woman of Saco, Mc. recently
purchased a pretty bit of bric-a-brac
at a great bargain. Sunn after, the
whist club, of which sin- is a member,
met at her home, ami In r chagrin
could hardly be i magi mil when she
discovered thai tin- fortunate winner
of this article was the very clerk who
sold it.
Tin- mortuary staliies for the Dis.
trie! of Columbia during' the past I"
months show a start ling record of Iu
Derculosls of the lungs. The mortality
from a: causes was 5,853, and of these
713 were victims of consumption an
average mortality from this one dis
ease of 13.60 for each week in the year,
Illinois is the largest manufacturer
f oleomargarine in the country, with
an annual output of ,'iu,000,0oo pounds,
or 4('i per cent, of n that i- made in
the United States. lYnnsv Ivaiiin come
next with 11,000,01)0 pounds.
The percentage of iliitt r:
sas is less ihun il is in anv
y In Kau
ai e in this
union, or In any country on the glebe
save Belgium.
Pome years ago the word prepared
ncss came into use. Kipling had it. it
An Akc of
I'rr till ri d n iks.
one 01 ins articles
anil Copt. Mahal
gave it a large!
vogue. Then it began to appear il
almost every naval nnd military pa-
per. To-day, very truly observes thci
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
preparedness is the keynote of na
tional and international politics. Tin
chances are that not one in u liundrca
of the ships which cost millions wil
ever be engaged in a fight; hut nil the
vast machinery, till the cost, nil tin
effectiveness of modern invent inn, thf
whole idea represents prepared ne
for any emergency. A big navy Is a
great influence. It impresses delln
quent nut ions more than any amount
of diplomacy or correspondence. U
an apology or a bill of damages h
due, a naval demonstration does mori
to collect the bill than uny othei
agency. Moreover, tl big navy adver
tiscs the nation. In this country tin
whole tendency Is toward a larger do
Velopment upon the seas-. Our ship
yards tiro doing greater work; out
maritime companies are stretching
forth in spite of the laws which him;
them; our commerce is reaching ti
every civilized settlement, Of courst
the nuvy mus-t expand in accordance
with all this growth, and it is a fact
that all the parties in congress agret
to larger appropriations in every ses
sion of congress. A year ago tht
total reached $63,000,000 the largest
in the history of the nation. The new
appropriation will probably call foi
$10,000,000 more, and thus the in
crease will go on until our nnviil ex
penditures will probably exceed 100y
000,000 every twelvemonth.
A Milwaukee wheelman tells a good
joke on himself. The other evening hi
left his bicycle -with a friend who u
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i mpli i.veil in a st i
The follow ing in
t he wheel to go
it in front of a
si reet, w here he
i In- nvv net- chnnc
ire i m Mlchlgn n -1 reet.
u n i ng the f riend "ok
m a n errn mi. leaving
store un W et t W ,itr
mule n call. Jusl then
il to route alone lis
revognizco tin- wneel, ami, sieiitt'
Win el,
opportunity for a little fun. took out
his trouser guards, put tin m on. mount
ed the wheel ami rode away. Wlii the
borrower reappeared on the wall he
found no bicycle. Turning pah us
death lie hurried to the police station
and reported tin- theft. The police
were given a description of tin- bicycle
and now the owner of tin- wheel is
afraid to ride his own bike for fi a i of
being nrresti tl as a thh f.
The census shows some niiecr
thing's about Texas. For instance.
Bailey county has but four residents,
Cockran has- 25-; Andrews, ::T: Ly un,
17; Dawson, 36, Twenty five others
have less than 500, .Some counties
have no running stream within theif
borders, some are hundreds of miles
from a railroad, and others are ,-it-tnost
wholly inhabited by prairie
dogs, jack rabbits and rattlesnake.
Tom Green county, the largest iu '.tit
state, has 45,000 square miles, wfiicb
is larger than the whole state of
Ohio, and has hut 6,804 inhabitant .
The shirtwaist for men promises to
be extremely popular next summer.
Salesmen for furnishing' houses "ho
are now on the road are sending in
large orders for shirtwaists for next
spring, and report thai the demand
will probably be heavy. Manufac
turers report that Ihe denial -1' iol
such gnrmi nts has far exceeded thesj
expect n I ii His. ami that they will tic
cum pe I led. lo In;, he up many IIHITO
goods in thai shape than 1 hi .V Ullliul-
pated.
A woman was haled lo court in West
moreland, Kun because she had tg
nurcd a summons ns a witness. (Jn be
ing asked the reusmi for In r ci inpt
uous act, she gravely replied: ". we
have smallpox down iu our house, .in'
I tin. tight, you might be kind) r suiter
prejudiced ng'ln it." Court was in
stantly adjourned, and the judge, sher
iff and onlookers tumhlid over cucb
other in trying to get outside.
A queer judicial tangle is reported
from Osage county, Kan. It
thai a young' woman sued her husband
for divorce and got it, but after the
decree hud been granted it was discov
ered that the husband was not yet
of age. and therefore could not be -ued
in a court of law. ll is said thai the
difficulty may be overcome by appoint
ing a guardian for the boy and lhn
suing through him.
Three Haiti more meal dealers were
filed for selling red frankfurter saue-
"('s' ro!("""1 by means of an aniline
dJ'e' although an expert testified that
the dye was n cool tar preparation con
taining no arsenic, ami was a perfect
ly healthy article of food.
Mr Stout, of the Wisconsin senate,
is giving- to his town Menoinlne n
$60,000 public clubhouse, gymnasium,
natatorium, bowling- alley, etc., ail un
der one roof. The natural conclusion
is that Mr. Stout wants his fellow
townsmen to be stout also.
I'ropi r I y owners of the Pox lake re
gion in Wisconsin have banded togeth
er to t ill the waters of Fox, Grass and
ither lakes in the vicinity of the (ier
milll carp, in order to keep the game
lisb which make I hose lakes famous
I from ui lug driven out.
A Ckeap Di-llvrrnnce.
"Well, you look happy for a man
vho has just been 'touched.' Didn't
I see you give a dollar to that fellow
you were talking with a minute ago?"
"Von did. I am happy, too. He
told me he would pay the money buck
to-morrow." 4
"Oh!"
"Hut it isn't his promise that makes
me joyful. Oh no! He has bored roe
nearly to death during the past yesr
or more with stories about his boy j
and by repeating to me what he eon- i
lidered the child's funny sayings, j
Now this is all ended forever. After ,
this he will pretend not to see me
when we meet. And I'd have gladly .
made it five dollars, if he had wanted 1
thl much." Chicago Times-Herald