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Monroe Doctrine and Golden Rule.
No one, we imagine, can find much
fault with the terse statement of inter
national policy made by Secretary Hay
before the New York chamber of com
merce the other evening. "The briefest
expression of our rule of conduct," says
the secretary of state, "Is the Monroe
doctrine and the Golden Rule. With
this simple chart we can hardly go far
wrong." Continuing, Mr. Hay said:
I think I may say that our sister republic* to
the south of U9 are perfectly convinced of the
sincerity of our attitude. They know we desire
the prosperity of each of them and peace and har
mony among them. We no more want their terri
tory than we covet the mountains of the moon.
We are grieved and distressed when there are dif
ferences among them, but even then we should
never think of trying to compose any of those
differences unless by the request of both parties
to it. Not even our earnest desire for peace
among them will lead us to any action which
might offend their national dignity or their juat
send- of Independence. We owi them all the con
sideration which we claim for ourselves. To crit
ics in various climates who have other views of
our purposes we can only wish fuller information
and more quiet consciences.
The address for two reasons was one
of especial significance. The secretary
was at the meeting of the New York
chamber of commerce as the substitute
of the late President McKinley, who
had accepted an invitation to be pres
ent, but a few days before his death
had asked Mr. Hay to take his place,
and the latter no doubt voiced the sen
timents of the dead president touching
our international relations. Again, the
address, coming so soon after the sign
ing of the new canal treaty with Great
Britain, was interpreted as an authori
tative utterance in regard to questions
of international relation Involved in
that agreement. It was taken to mean
that Great Britain not only recognizes
our right to build and maintain a strict
ly American isthmian waterway, but
our right and obligation to protect
against foreign aggression the territo
rial integrity of our sister republics.
The soundness of the Monroe doc
trine i 3 almost universally recognized
by Americans. Why may we not also
apply the Golden Rule to our relations
with other nations, since we profess
neither to fear the strength of the
strongest nor seek advantage through
the weakness of the weakest?
The Dream of Independent Poland.
That the dream of Poland free and
Independent again taking its rightful
place among the sovereign nations of
the world has not utterly faded Is
shown In the fact of the recent convic
tion of several Polish students at Po
sen charged with treasonable participa
tion in a movement to re-establish the
kiugdom.
It is more than a century since Po
land was ruthlessly partitioned be
tween Russia, Austria and Prussia and
her national independence drowned in
blood and consumed In flames. Yet
deep in the Polish heart there has been
maintained a spark of hope of Its ulti
mate resurrection. Seventy years ago
the Poles made a desperate struggle
for the restoration of their nation, but
the result was the suppression of the
Insurrection and the obliteration of
even the shadowy form of national
life. Thirty years later the Poles made
another heroic struggle, keeping up for
four years a determined but hopeless
Btruggle for Independence against the
mighty power of Russia, but at the end
Poland lay crushed and helpless at the
feet of her grim conqueror.
Since then Poland has seemed hardly
able to raise a hand for freedom,
though the trials just ended reveal the
fact that the hope of a redeemed and
regenerated nation still finds lodg
ment in some patriotic souls. Secret
propaganda is at work, particularly
among Polish students, and there is a
revolutionary fund In Switzerland to
which patriotic Poles at home regular
ly contribute. Time is awaited when
the great powers are once more at each
other's throat which, It Is hoped, will
furnish Poland's opportunity, when the
national standard will again be raised.
Until there shall be a decided reaction
from the prevailing spirit of national
concentration, of the stronger powers
absorbing the weaker, there is little
hope of Polish independence.
Cren the Coul Was Whitewashed.
When the Duke and Duchess of
Cornwall and York reached Ports
mouth recently after a tour of the
world, visiting the colonies over which
the duke may one day reign, they
found awaiting them a magnificent
special train profusely decorated to
bear them to London. Even the coal In
the tender of the locomotive was
whitewashed, partly to help in the dec
orative effect and partly to prevent the
dust from flying back into the coach
occupied by the new Prince of Wales
and wife and getting into the royal
eyes or besmirching the royal features.
There is scarcely an end to the
lengths to which people will go in dis
playing their enthusiasm over a popu
lar favorite, particularly if they be loy
al subjects of a monarch and are pay
ing tribute to one of the household of
the Lord's anointed, but whitewashing
the coal would seem to be the limit.
'l'tie Kumilmi Empire,
The Russian empire contains more
than sixty-five independent racial
groups. It is a veritable tower of Ba
bel. Even with the omission of Siberia
and central Asia there remain in Rus
sia in Europe and the Caucasus alone
fortv-six different neooles
The Prisoner's Return
When 1 enlisted, I thought I'd go
aud say goodby to Dr. Miller's daugh
ter. I was only a common farmer, an-1
she had another beau, a student at
Amherst, but I remembered once at a
party when she had to choose a partner
she selected me instead of Jim, so I
thought I'd go and tell her I was off
for Dixie in the morning. 1 didn't stay
long, for Jim was there. Martha went
with him out to the gate. I reached out
my big sunburned hand, and she took
It in both her owu and held it quite a
bit, and she said: "Beanie, I'm sorry
| you're going to the war. You're too
young a man and too good a man to
stand up and be shot at." Then Jim
appeared on the scene, and I went
away half cursing my honest hand for
being so big and so brown, while Jim's
was as white as a lily, with a great
Hashing diamond on the smallest of
his slender lingers.
Talk about standing up as a target
for bullets! That's nothing, nothing at
all compared with lying down to starve
in a foul prison. As the days passed
Into weeks, and the weeks, so long, into
months so much longer that I lost all
count, how many and many a time I
looked at my white, bony hands and
wished they were as big and as tanned
as they used to be, and when I would
have prayed for an ending of my mis
ery, how well I remembered that Mar
tha had said I was too young to die,
and the way she had held my hand
still thrilled me and kept me alive, and
I said over and over to myself a thou
sand times, with grim determination,
what Dr. Miller had so often repeated,
"While there is life there is hope," and
at last I was exchanged and discharg
ed. Oh, how happy I was to be set
free! A great Joy buoyed me up for
the long, weary journey home.
When at last the stage set me down
in the familiar village postoffice, I was
so weary and wasted no one seemed to
recognize me, but looked at me in a
pitying way I could not understand,
and so I did not speak to any one, but
staggered down the hill to the old
farmhouse, trying in vain to scent the
supper or the clove pinks. I did not
know my precious mother had been
dead almost a year, but when I reach
ed the gate I felt the change. It hung
by one hinge and swayed and creaked
with a dismal sound that seemed to me
like the groaning of a ghost. It weak
ened me so that I had to rest awhile
before going down the long walk, still
lined by my mother's flower beds. But,
oh, how neglected they looked! As I
neared the porch I saw a red calf tied
to a lilac bush, one that my mother
had herself planted on the day she
was a bride, and then I seemed to
know that she was gone. War kills
women as well as men. She thought
her only boy was dead, and she had
nothing to live for.
That was too good a house to be long
unoccupied, and Dr. Miller had rented
it to a needy family of foreigners, re
questing that my room should be left
just as my mother had last arranged
it. The woman who occupied it allow
ed me togo right up to my own airy
chamber, where everything was sacred
ly familiar. How deliciously soft and
clean the bed seemed, and I cried my
self to sleep.
The first thing I heard in the morn
ing was not the chirping of the robins,
as in the olden time, but the loud bawl
ing of that steer calf under my win
dow. I covered my head with the bed
clothes and was the poor, weak baby
over again. When I awoke later in the
day, good Dr. Miller was sitting by my
bedside. He helped me dress and took
me home to breakfast, where the talk
ing as well as the cooking was all
United States, but somehow 1 wasn't
hungry and longed to ask what had be
come of Martha.
I soon found out. Her father was
going to Ilolyoke the next day to hear
her valedictory, and he took me along
with him. It was a long drive, but we
took it slow and easy, and 1 had my
fill of fresh air and recovered my ap
petite. We were a little late to the
exhibition and found the chapel al
ready crowded, but the good doctor
finally succeeded in getting a seat well
up In front, and there, right before us,
was Amherst Jim. just as slim and
white as ever. He fingered his watch
chain and petted his mustache and
made his diamond glisten and devour
ed the platform with his eyes, just as
he used to in the old red sclioolhouse
when Martha was going to speak her
piece. Now he was a full fledged phy
sician and Dr. Miller's partner. We
had a long time to wait. The essays
were lengthy and learned, and Mar
tha's was the last. The other gradu
ates wore white, but she was aIT in
black, with a crape collar. I looked
questioningly into her father's face.
He put his arm around me and whis
pered, "She wears mourning for your
mother—and for you."
For my mother and for me—oh, the
pnin of It! Oh, the Joy of it!" And,
whether it was the pain or the joy or
the crowded room or the way Jim look
ed at Martha, I cannot tell, but some
how everything slipped away into
nothingness.
When I came back to consciousness,
the folks were all gone, all but Dr
Miller and his daughter, and Martha
was holding me as handy as she is
holding that blessed baby now, and I
was Just as quiet and submissive.
Rpmnrknlile Self Control,
"no's a man of remarkable self con
trol, they say."
"Well, rather! Why, ho can cover an
entire coif course without saying
'damn.' " —Chicago I'ost.
Kinct Mr*. JcineM.
Mrs. Brown (indignantly)—ls it true
that he said I was "fair, fat and for
ty?'
Mr. Jones—l'm not sure that he said
"fair."
Donlile I'lrnnnrr.
Mamma—No; you may have either a
banana or an apple, but not both.
Willie—l'll take the banana, then.
Mamma—l thought you liked apples
best.
Willie—Well, there's more fun in a
banana. You can throw the skin on
the sidewalk when you're through eat
in.—Philadelphia Press.
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Tommy—O-boo-hoo! No, ma'am.
Mamma—l'm glad to hear that, but
what
Tommy I was goin to chew it, but
boo-hoo—l saw you comlu, an I swal
lowed It.
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V COFYBIUHT, 1S»01, BY C. B. LEWIS. Q
b O O-O O-O OG O o o o o d
We had been driven below Cape
Horn hundreds of miles by a tierce
gale lasting eleven successive days and
nights, and one morning we found our
selves among the ice aud almost
wrecked aloft. The gale had blown
itself out, luit the situation was one
calling for the best seamanship and
the keenest vigilance. Only steam
whalers and exploring vessels get as
far south as we found our position to
be except by accident. During the
three days we were putting the bark
shipshape we were packed in a field
of ice extending as far as the eye could
see on every hand, and even had we
been a twin screw steamer I doubt if
we could have worked clear of it. It
was field ice broken from the coast of
some island, and some of the cakes
were a good twelve feet thick and al
most as hard as flint.
On the fourth day we found ourselves
driving down among six or eight great
Icebergs, and the boats were provi
sioned and other preparations made to
leave the bark at a moment's notice.
The odds would be a thousand to one
that the boats would be ground to
pieces in ten minutes, but we had to
lake them. While we helplessly waited
the field struck a berg which was esti
mated to be a solid cube measuring
about 2,000 yards on every front and
towering up over a hundred feet high.
There was a grand crash, and the berg
began to slowly topple. It was like a j
tree falling, only much slower. It took |
a long minute for that monstrous cube :
to turn turtle, and as the top reached j
the water the mass cracked in twain
with a report like the firing of a can
non. The sea kicked up gradually,
opened a wide lane in the icefield, and
the bark was headed in and had clear j
sailing for ten miles before we found
the passage blocked by one of the big- !
gest bergs ever set afloat. Had that i
berg been measured I should have had (
some wonderful figures to set down ,
here, but it was impossible for us to j
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WE I'UT OCT AN ICE ANCHOR AND M.VDB
FAST.
more than guess at its dimensions.
The waves had squared its four sides
to a great extent, but above their wash
the berg was full of hills, valleys and
ravines, and it would have been iuipos- j
slble to cross it.
As there was no way to dodge the
berg, we put out an ice anchor and
made fast to drive with it until an
opening should occur. The side on
which we were was as straight up and
down as a wall, and, though the wind
was whistling far overhead, it was
scarcelj' to be felt on deck. We passed
a very quiet night, and soon after sun
rise next morning the captain ordered
me to take two men and pass over the
field ice and get a view of the western
face of the berg. If I found that it
could be done, I was to clamber up
and look to the north for clear water-
As the great cakes of ice were wedged
together in the greatest confusion, our
pace was necessarily slow, and it was
a matter of two hours before we turned
the corner of the berg and lost sight of
the bark. I judged the western face
to be a mile long, but it was not as
steep as the southern. About midway
of its length we came to a gully, up
which we toiled for a matter of 200
yards. We then found our way blocked
by a cliff fifty feet high. It was a cliff
of ice, of course, though here and there
one could see a bowlder creeping out.
It was blue ice, almost as reflective
as a mirror, and it would have turned
the edge of an ax like granite. Wo |
stood staring and resting, hot enough i
with our exertions, when one of the j
sailors leaped aside and cried out:
"I'll be shot if there are not ship
wrecked people right here above us!
Look here, sir! And why haven't they
raised a shout?"
What 1 saw and what we all gazed
at with open mouths was a sight few
men will ever boast of seeing. About
thirty feet above our heads a man
dressed as a mountain tourist, an Eng
lishman apparently, was lying at full
length with. K !«> face toward us. One
arm was doubled np uider him, the
other outstretched. lie was fully dress
ed, had a cap on his head, and his eyes
were wide open. There was a rope
around his waist, and that rope led
back to the body of a guide and still a
second one. 1 say guide because from
their dress and looks 1 believed them
to be such. One was huddled up as if
his bones were broken, while the other .
lay sprawled on his back. The three j
of us had waved our caps and cheered '
before the thought came to us that j
these men were dead dead and frozen
into that flinty ice for heaven only
knows how long. And yet it was hard
to believe it. We could see
in their faces, and every instant It
seemed a.s If they would* move a log or
an arm. We had brought a rope wfth
us, and I managed to lasso a bowlder
and pull myself up on a level with the
victims. I Judged that there was at
Vast three feet of solid ice before them, j
but it was wonderfully transparent.
It was easy to guess what hail hap- :
pened. Somewhere thousands of miles
away, where a great glacier crept down '
to the sea, the tourist had set out with
the guides to explore, and snow or Ice
had given way under them and drop
| ped them down perhaps a hundred feet.
In time the crevaxe filled up solid,
and as the Ice w:i- pushed down to the
sea a berg was born, and the corpses
were carried away with it. One could
not say from the dr< how long a time
had elapsed. We must judge from the
faet that, though we reported the case
three months later, the identity of the
tourist has not yet been discovered.
We returned to the bark to report
what we had seen and 1 offered ti/
take ropes and axes anil blasting pow
der and return and secure the dead.
The en pt ain favored the idea, perhaps
thinking it would profit its in some
way. but ciretinistaiiee stepped into
prevent me from • lining out my
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J plan. As wo wore potting ready the
j berg began to revolve in a slow and
stately way, and at the end of an liour
the western faee had turned duo
south, and such a sea was beating on
it that no landing was possible. To
make our way over the* berg we
should have needed wings. The move
ment of the berg crowded the icefields,
ami the result was the opening of a
narrow lane to the north. We were
watching and waiting for it, and the
bark was soon warped in and sail
! made. We were lucky enough to keep
j this lane until It led us quite out of
i the floating ice and further danger,
and looking back as wo sailed every
| man of the crew saw tlie figures as
! th<' three of us had seen them. The
spray seemed to dash against their
frozen faces and the waves to rant
and growl like hungry wolves, but we
knew they would not lie given to the
sea until their strange cotlin had drift
ed out of that frozen and desolated
sea into sunshine and warmth.
SuiMTMt it ion* Ilrokcrn.
"Wail street brokers as a class are as
superstitious as women," said one of
them, "and there is hardly a speculator
In tlie street who could not own up to
some pet superstition if he would. I
mean tin? kind of nonsensical supersti
tion that decides his action occasional
! ly. My own is about as silly as that of
any man's, but as it has won me lots of
money I am going to cling to it. It
originated about eight years ago when
I found a fifty cent piece on the side
walk. It was tlie first money that I
had ever found in that way, and I had
a feeling that luck was with me on
that day. I plunged on everything that
I had I'i*en hesitating about, and when
I settled up I found myself way ahead.
After that I f«-il into the habit of keep
ing on the lookout for coins in the
street. You would be surprised to see
the collection that I have at home, for
I have never spent any of this 'lucky
money.' It now amounts to more than
six dollars, and that first fifty cent
piece is (he largest in the lot.
"On days when I have found a coin I
have pushed my luck successfully.
Once or twice when I have hesitated
about doing anything in the market I
have gone out and walked around the
streets, hoping to find a coin. I never
have found one on such excursions,
and each time I stayed out of the mar
ket, which proved to be the thing to do.
I know as well as you do the foolish
ness of superstition, but I can't shake
It out of me."—New York Sun.
The Lieutenant Governor.
In his book, "Up From Slavery,"
I Booker T. Washington wrote:
"The temptations to enter political
I life were so alluring that 1 came very
near yielding to them at one time. I
saw colored men who were members of
the state legislatures and county offi
cers who could not read or write and
whose morals were as weak as their
education. Not long ago, when passing
through the streets of a certain city in
the south, I heard some brickmasons
calling out from the top of a two story
brick building for the 'governor' to
'hurry up and bring up some more
bricks.' Several times I heard the com
mand: 'Hurry up, governor" 'Hurry
up, governor!' My curiosity was arous
ed to such an extent that I made inqui
ry as to who the 'governor' was and
soon found that lie was a colored man
who at one time had held the position
j of lieutenant governor ot' his state.
"I asked an old colored man to tell
me something of his history. He said
that he had boon born In Virginia and
sold into Alabama in 1545. I asked liiui
how many were sold at the same time,
lie replied, 'There were li\. of us—my
self ami brother and three mules.' "
Kinti lisiiir anil ilie VOHIIK Reporter.
On one occa-ion Oscar 11. went to
Gothenburg to rid a dedication or
the opening ol s. ething or other
where he was exi > < d to make a
speech. An enterprising reporter in
tercepted him at a railway station
I upon arrival to ask for a copy of his
manuscript In advance in order that it
| might be published the same after
| noon, for there would be no time for a
! stenographer to write out his notes
i after delivery. The king greeted him
pleasantly and explained that he had
no manuscript; that he intended to
speak without notes. The reporter was
very much disappointed, lie told the
king frankly that lie was a new man
and that his future standing with his
employer might be seriously affected if
he failed to get the speech. King Oscar
responded sympathetically, motioned
to the reporter to get into his carriage,
and while they were driving to the hotel
gave a brief synopsis of What he ex
pected to say. Chicago Keeord Herald.
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BICYCLE SUITS.
Skirts Are Longer and Material*
Heavy.
Bicycle skirts are being made much
longer—so long, in fact, that they may
also be used for golf. It is noticeable
also that the goods used are of darker
shades, black, navy blue and iron gray
being the most popular hues. The
stitchings are less broad than former
ly, and, in fact, much of the heavy ef
fects are being done away with.
Double faced goods are no longer a
necessity now that the increased length
of the skirts prevents them from blow-
PARISIAN COSTUME.
!ng up so easily. Many of the latest
costumes are made of lightweight cov- j
ert or hairy cheviot lined with silk. I
The jacket of such a suit Is pretty
made blouse fashion, ornamented with
tucks and fancy buttons. The latest
Parisian cycling costumes simulate an
ordinary dress with its skirt cut so as j
to reach to the ankles.
Such a model is shown in our ilhis- j
tration. It is made cf gun metal gray J
cloth with the vest, turnover collar \
and cuffs of royal blue velvet. The
skirt is laid In plaits down the center
of the front gore. These plaits are
hold half way down to the knees by
stitchings. The same effect is given in
the back. The jacket is trimmed with
lointed strappings. It fastens with
three buttons part way down, where it
opens over a snug fitting vest of vel
vet. The lines of the Eton are cut
short, so as to reveal the wide bolt,
idso of the velvet. A jaunty turn
down collar and velvet tie give added
chic to this smart coat.
The hat, which is of rough gray
felt, is trimmed with a scarf of red
and blue plaid. .Irnic CHOLI.ET.
Kvery th I »IC For I «e.
That dear old lady, Julia Ward
Howe, bids the young homemaker to
have nothing for show. She says in
Good Housekeeping: "Let your rooms
look as if they were lived in. Provide
convenient cases for your books, com
fortable chairs to sit in, tables or desks
at which one can write with comfort,
pleasant pictures or engravings to look
at. Do not envy the melancholy splen
dor of superfluous apartments rarely
opened and full of ghostly shadows.
The time and money expended in tho
care of these possessions are out of all
proportion to any pleasure that can be
derived from them."
llow to Cook Fein.
Skin and cleanse the eels and cut in
two inch lengths. Slice half a pound
of fat pork and fry to a crisp: take out
the pork and put the eel in a pan. !!'
small, sot the lengths up on end. but if
large you can put them in the pan
lengthwise. Sprinkle with salt and a
very little pepper, add half a cupful of
water and cover lightly, so that part of
the steam can escape; put oil a lire and
cook until the water has all boiled
away and one side of the eel is fried to
a nice brown; then turn over carefully
and fry the other side.
A Nportamon.
Willie—How would you define H true
sportsman?
Papa—He Is a man who believes In
giving every kind of game creature a
chance for Its life and then Is disgust
ed if the poor creature escapes with it.
—l,l fe
EVENING GOWNS.
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I rimminfffi.
Evening gowns are noted this winter I
for their rich materials and tine work- I
manship in the way of embroideries,
application, etc. Lace seems to be the
favorite material. Tucked chiffon, soft
silks in all the delicate colorings, erepe
de chines, and liberty satins are also
very stylish. Panne, especially in black
and in the Persian and pompadour col
orings. makes handsome princess
dresses. Lace plays an important part
OF BLACK POINT i/ESPitrr.
In the trimming of dinner and dancing
gowns. Frequently tlie entire gown is
banded with insertions of different
widths. These insertions are alternated
with tucks so that scarcely any of the
original material is seen.
Today's picture shows a gown of
black point d'esprit over white taffeta.
The skirt, which is plain and clinging,
Is ornamented by arabesque designs
traced in black cliantilly lace. The
Mouse waist is also trimmed with chan
tilly applications. The sleeves, which
reach only a few inches below the
shoulders, are supplemented by a large
puff and frill of white chiffon edged
with lace. The belt and buckle are of
cut jet. JUDIC CHOLLET.
HIS WIFE IS OUT OF TOWN, j
We see a man with under lip that has a downward
droop.
Upon his face a scowl as if he'd fallen in the
soup.
He roams about the bury streets in an uneasy !
way
And puts a surly accent on the things he has to
say.
He goes into a restaurant and drops into a seat
And wonders why they've nut a tiling at for a dog
to cat.
And if you care to seek the cause that makes hint
feel EO brown
You'll not have very far to look; Ui» wife is out
of town.
Wc see another man dressed up unusually gay.
He wears a smile of gladness and a buttonholg i
bouquet;
He joins the cruising parties where the white top- ■
ped schooners sail
And goo goos all the pritty girls who chance to
cross his trail.
At striking of the midnight hour he yet is on ths
street.
Is strenuous in his efforts to control his wabbling
feet;
He wears his hat tipped sideways on bis beer be
fuddled crown;
The mousey knows the cat's away; his wife is out
of town.
—Denver Post.
How to Prena Chicken.
Draw and singe a chicken. Wipe
well with a damp towel, putin a kettle
and cover with cold water, place over
a moderate fire and simmer gently un
til the meat falls from the bone. When
about half done, add a teaspoonful of
salt. When done, take the meat from
the bones and cut it into small pieces
not over half J:IJ inch square. I'ut the
bones and skin back into tlie kettle and
boil until the liquor is reduced to a pint
and a half, then strain and season to
taste. Mix tins with the chicken, pour
the whole into a mold and stand it in a
cold place over night. When hard and
cold, turn out of the mold, garnish with
parsley an ! servi
Tlicre !i Oi»t iltrl ioll.
River.- S >ll !' • :iU a stovepipe hat
look - punk ' • mi'. \on V
I'.rooi \ 'i iiiist;:iderst< od me. I
said you I ' ..«-i 1 punk in a stovepipe
hat.—Chicago Ti iliune.
"How ridici: . for you to fall In
| love with it nrisil 1 don't believt
lie i \ t-r sc ! a ;>i( :i*re."
"l».i | l.i •sif he marries lit
Nerve Slavery.
It is present-day conditions —heaping
burdens of work upon the nervous system
that tells the story—premature breaking up
of health.
It tells why so many men and women,
who so far as age in years is concerned,
should be in the prime of health, find them
selves letting goof the strength, the power,
the vitality they once possessed. It is be
cause that great motor power of the body,
nerve force, is impaired. Every organ de
pends upon its controlling power just at
much as the engine depends upon the steam
to put it into action. An engine won't go
without steam. Neither will the heart, the
brain, the liver, the kidneys, the stomach
act right without their proper nerve force
: supply. Let any organ be lacking in this
essential and troubles begin—some of them
are
Throbbing, palpitating heart.
Sleepless nights.
Sudden startings.
Morning languor.
Brain fag.
Inability to work or think.
Exhaustion on exertion,
Flagging appetite.
Digestion slow.
Fooo heavy
Easily excited, nervous, irritable.
Strength fails.
Loss of fit sh and muscular power.
Settled melancholia.
Utter tiespondency.
A picture, hiiieou-, but easily changed to
one of brightness by use of I>r. A. W.
Chase's Nerve Pills. They build up the
nerves and supply nerve force.
The above *> the genuine package of Dr.
A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills, are sold by deal
ers or Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Company,
liuff alo, N. Y Price 50 cents.
A FIGHTING GOVERNOR; I
fllnncmta'a Who W«*+*
to SIHHMII Itallroatl Combine.
Few fights against combines have
aroused more interest 111 tliis country
tbau the one now on in the northwest- j
era states in opposition to the consoli- !
dation of the Northern Pacific and the [
Great Northern and Burlington rail- |
roads. Governor Samuel It. Van Sant
of Minnesota, who is leading the bat- !
tie against the roads, says he has the i
support of a number of other govern- I
ors. Vhe affair promises to be fought j
to a finish and will be a bitter one
while it lasts.
Governor Van Sant has an Interest- j
lng career. He enlisted under Presi- j
dent Lincoln's first call for 75,000 men, :
but was rejected on account of his age, |
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GOVERNOR B. R. VAN SANT.
being not quite seventeen. Again he
tried and was rejected, but finally was j
accepted as a member of Company A \
Ninth Illinois. Before he was allowei
togo to war, however, he had to have j
a written permit from his father.
The governor was a great favorite
not only in his own company, but
throughout the regiment, and was in
the thick of many famous battles. Aft
er the war he studied in New York city
for some time and then went to Gales
burg and graduated from Knox col
lege. Soon after his graduation he
went into business with his father at
Leclaire, la., and they built one of the
first raft steamers on the Mississippi.
For a number of years Governor Van
Sant was general manager of the Van
Sant & Musser line of steamboats. He
| went to Winona, Minn., in 1883 and
i was closely identified with the city's
| best interests and actively assisted in
! all public enterprises. For two years
he was in the council as alderman and
j was the unanimous nominee of the Re
! publicans for the office of mayor of
Winona in ISBB. Later he was sent to
the state legislature and in 1895 was
speaker of the lower house. This is his
first term as governor.
■
THE DES MOINES' SPONSOR
Mian Fmnopii E. Went, Who Wm Se
! looted to Clirlnteii Sen Warship.
The city of Des Moines, la., is not
! greatly pleased with the battleship that
j bears its name, but extremely proud
of Miss Frances E. West, who was se
lected to christen it, for few American
warships have had fairer sponsors than
the new cruiser Des Moines.
Miss West is one of the belles of Des i
Moines and very handsome and accom
plished. She is a musician of ability,
and her family is one of the best j
known in that city. Her mother was a
Miss Chase and was connected by ties
of blood relationship with Chief Jus
tice Chase and Prescott, the historian.
The father of Miss West is a type of
the successful business man and la
very wealthy.
The Des Moines is a protected cruiser j
of 3,200 tons, with a speed of 1G.5 knots
an hour. She is armed with ten 5 inch
guns, eight 0 pounders, two 1 pound*
MISS FRANCES E. WEST.
ers and t%vo rapid firing Colts. She
has twin screws and is of the same
type as the Denver, Chattanooga, Gal
veston, Cleveland ami Tacoma.
This is the second time an lowa girl I
has been selected to christen an Amer
ican warship. Xliss Mary Lord Drake,
daughter of Governor Drake, gave the
lowa her name when she was launched
several years ago. Ever since her de
but Miss West has been one of the
leading society young women in E>es
Moines. She is a graduate of Vassar
and has traveled widely in Europe.
The Connecticut man whose life was
saved by a package of love letters in
his pocket that stopped a pistol ball
ought to marry the girl without tin- ,
necessary delay if only to show his j
gratitude.
Our far flung thermometer line em
braces about all the shades of temper
ature from zero to fever heat. At ;
Moorhead. Minn., tlie other day it was
8 degrees, while at Key West, Fla., it
was (58 degrees.
Only an !•'.\ porlniontal t'rui*e.
Philadelphia, June 7. —The old Uni- !
ted States frigate Hartford, now used
as a training ship, arrived at League
Island navy yard late yesterday after
noon from Hampton Roads with 400
landsmen for the battleships Indiana
and Massachusetts. These battleships
have been ordered on an experimental
cruise with a view of determining how
quickly a portion of the fleet can be
mobilized. 112
The llaromclrr.
The barometer drops almost exactly
an Inch for 1,000 feet of ascent.
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