ac, y= What Doctors Think of Wearing Rube bers. Here's the first law of health— Keep your feet dry. We all know it. We all know that pneumonia and con- sumption always start with a cold, and that the shortest cut to a cold is a pair ot wet feet. But it’s so impor- tant a matter that we can’t be remind- ed too often, especially when the re- minder carries the weight of authority. Dr. Wendell C. Phillips, one of the most distinguished physicians in New York, was recently giving a lecture on “Colds, and How to Prevent Them.” It was a rainy night, and he began: “How many persons here wore rub- bers to-night ? Hands up. “Not half of you. Now, that is what I thought. Every one of you should have rubbers on a night like this. To go without them is to invite colds, bronchial trouble, catarrh and pneumonia. It is astonishing how peopie neglect their feet. Rubbers are fifty cents. You can save a lot of money on the investment—perhaps a ten days” doctor bill, to say nothing of medicine.” ; The doctor might have made it still stronger and said that a fifty-cent pair of rubbers would not only save doctor bills and medicine bills, but often life itself. Don’t try to save on rubbers; | it’s the most expensive economy iu | ‘the world, especially just now when everybody is getting the grip. The Vervain Plant. Ta plant known as vervain, which | is not distinguished for its beauty, and { which grows now-a-days utterly disre- | garded, was so sacred to the Druids | that they only gathered it for their | divinations when the great dog-star arose, in order that neither sun nor moon should see the deed. Digestion Waits on appetite, or it should do so, but this can be only when the stomach is in « healthy condition. Hood’s Sarsaparilla so tones and strengthens the stomach that it digests food easily and naturally and then all dyspeptic troubles vanish. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is America’s Greatest Medicine. Price $1. Hood’s Pills curs Liver Ills. (25 cents. Don’t substitute black tea for green because the purchaser is color blind. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 950c, 81. All druggists. “Let It Pass.” A photograph of the czarina nursing her baby recently appeared in an Eng- lish newspaper, and when it reached the Russian censor the latter was a much puzzled official. He consulted with the minister of the interior, who was equally perplexed and decided to onsult with the czar. “The best thing I can do,” said the Russian em- peror, “is to show this to the czarina and let her decide.” In a few minutes, according to the story, tho czar re- turned and said, with a smile, to the minister of the interior: “Her im- perial majesty finds nothing in the pic- ture contrary to I»w. Let it pass.” Perfectly Wonderful. Hattie—"Then we went to Scotland. It’s perfectly wonderful the way they talk the dialect.” Uncle George— “Why, wonderful?” Hattie—“I should think they’d forget now and then and drop into English. I often do when I'm reciting Burns or playing golf.”— ‘ Boston Transcript. fa rE Som Trt £4 PERIODS OF PAIN. Wenstruation. the balance wheel of wvoman’s life, is also the bare of exist- ence to many because it means a time of great suffering. : While no woman is entirely free from periodical pain, it does not seem to have been na- ss ture’s plan that women otherwise healthy should suffer so severely. Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vege- table Com- (* pound is the most thorough fe- male regula- tor known to medical sci- ence. Itrelieves the condition that pro- duces so much discomfort and robs men- struation of its terrors. Hereis proof: DEAR Mrs. PinkHAM:—How can 1 thank you enough for what you have done for me ? When I wrote to you I was suffering untold pain at time of menstruation; was nervous, had head- ache all the time, no appetite, that tired feeling, and did not care for anything. I have taken three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, one of Blood Purifier, two boxes of Liver Pills, and to-day I am a well person. I would like to have those who suffer know that I am one of the many who have been cured of female complaints by your wonderful medicine and advice. —Miss JENNIE R. MILES. Leon, Wis If you are suffering in this way, write as Miss Miles did to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass, for the advice which she offers free of charge to all women. BG) TEE PN SUSIE EERE | COUGH KILLER ) P hi Ro CURES WHEN 3 Ch STN aN ALL DPRUG GI STS. v Send Postal for Prem! List t , 001d Medical Corporat isto Ha rr TASTES lbs din { where. {SKETCH IN THE BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMBRICA, DAWSON CITY. A ST The above sketch represents the of- fice of the Bank of British North America, the pioneer bank in the Klon- dike. It is an interesting fact that until suitable premises could be se- THE EMPIRE OF CHINA. WHERE INTERNATIONAL IN- TERESTS MAY CLASH. The Native Is Absurdly Simple—A Journey Through the Country is the Passage of a Critic Through a Vv as Fairy Tale. To travel through China, even as China is today, is as the passing of a critic through a fairy tale. There are uses for the pruning knife, but the sub- tle delicacy of the local spirit impreg- nates the mind in such a way as to render excision impossible. There is infinite wealth of color in the gorgeous background, and infinite disappoint- ment. The people in the phantasms which the idea of China has conjured to the mind have been endowed with such vitality that comparison estab- lishes an impossible travesty. The Chinese are hopeless, but their signal state originates a genuine fascination. They meander across scenes that are replete with personal interest, and they show no comprehension. They do not care, they do not think. The China- man is content when he exists. He is indifferent to Americans and Euro- peans because he finds no use for them, save where they are disturbing factors in his life, and then he hates them. His cupidity is only the cunning of a mind that never exerts itself unless to suit a purpose of its own. It is cus- tomary to consider the character of a Chinaman complex, whereas it is ab- surdly simple. He mistrusts where he does not understand, and he dissimu- lates because the sentiment of the one is the initiative of the other. The Chinaman in China has little re- semblance to the cross-breeds that are found in America, Australia, New Zea- land, or anywhere. The Chinese ser- .vant abroad eliminates the pictur- esqueness from his character for the deleterious substitution of the con- glomerated vices of civilization. He is an admirable laundryman in Amer- ica, a painstaking market gardener in Australasia and an expert thief every- In China, if his objections are | removed, he makes an industrious but { dirty retainer. | | i | Treated decently, his character registers a vague probity which exerts itself to the benefit of his master against the crowd. The untutored native in China, more particularly where foreigners are scarce, takes himself very seriously. He assumes matrimony with laborious intensity, and even his babies are prodigies of gravity; so much depends upon their smile that it is attended al- most with serious consequences. A Chinese baby, as such, never frivols— that is permitted only when she has achieved that pinnacle of immorality which is the distinguishing feature of the dancing girl. The dancing girl trivols, and her frivolity is but the thin disguise of those women who, while not of easy virtue, are not difficult to approach. At tle inn, when a traveler arrives, she is pushed ferward; but her beauty is unheppily not of that high order which pays a compliment by rea- son of its presence. From Pekin, where the smells come from, to Si-An-Fu, whence they spread themselves over Europe, from the new order back to the old, the pity is that the morality of the country is so susceptible. There is a self-sufficiency about these particles of Chinese life that is singularly hu- man. The soldier, with his length of gas pipe, is the embodiment of that dignity which considers itself the pro- tector of an empire. These martial ciphers are merely emblematic, and, for practical purposes, they have been too long in idleness. If they were properly drilled and equipped, there is scope in their physical development for obtaining the nucleus of an army. Whatever power protects China event- ually, the military rabble throughout its empire will provide her with an im- Ns 7777 Ws a Pe cured the manager of this bank act- ually commenced business on the 19th of May last in a tent. The sketch is an excellent representation of the primil- tive methods of the first banking facill- mense field for organization. They can be made capable, and time will show whether, once appreciative of their own formidableness, they wiil summon up courage to wrest their land from the hands of the usurpers. SUBMARINE TREASURE. Gold and Diamonds Lying at the Bot- tom of the Sea. From the London Mail: On the Cornish coast; about five miles from the Lizard, it is quite common to pick up Spanish dollars which have been washed? ashore from the wreck of a galleon that went down in 1784 with a large amount of bullion on board. It is surprising that, with all the mod- ern appliances for diving, systematic attempts are not more frequently made to recover treasure from the deep. As early as 1598 a great deal of treasure was recovered, including the historical golden cup which once belonged to Frederick, king of Sicily, from the wreck of one of the ships of the “In- vincible Armada.” In 1680 an Ameri- can named William Phipps came over from Virginia to this country and craved the assistance of Charles II. to- ward recovering some wrecked treas- ure on the coast of Hispaniola. Charles provided him with a ship and the necessary funds, but the first at- tempt proved unsuccessful.’ “In a sec- ond effort he was financed by the duke of Albemarle, and this time he suc- ceeded in recovering specie to the val- ue of £200,000, and after paying all expenses he was able to give the duke the sum of £80,000 as his share in the venture. The specie on board H. M. S. Lutine, wrecked in 1799 off the coast of Holland, amounted to #£1,200,000, and the whole of this still remains at the bottom of the sea, with the exception” of £99,859, recovered in the year 1859. Attempts to recover the remainder are still being made. Diving operations resulted in the recovery of £80,000 in gold from the wreck of the ill-fated Royal Charter, which took place close to Moelfra, off the Anglesea coast, but a vast number of diamonds are still lying about the wreck. £40,000 in specie was recovered from the wreck of the Hamilla Mitchell, in the Chinese sea, after lying in twenty-three fath- “oms of water for upward of twenty years, and £90,000 in gold was saved from the wreck of the Alphonso XII, which was sunk in twenty-six and one- half fathoms of water off the Canary islands in 1885. Some of the French ships sunk at Trafalgar contained vast treasure. .Five tons of silver plate, ex- cluding the famous silver gates of St. John's Cathedral, Malta, and a ton and a half of gold plate, mostly stud- ded with jewels, the plunder of the Maltege’ churches, were on board one of these ships. Not an ounce of this treasure has been recovered. Vast Wealth in Jewels. The glorious pearl necklace which the emperor of Austria presented to the late empress on the christening of the miserable Crown Prince Rudolph has been left to the young Archduchess Elizabeth, together with many other jewels, by her grandmether’s will. The empress’ own jewels, Independent of those belonging to the crown, were not long since valued at $7,000,000. India’s Married Girls. The latest government census in In- dia showed 6,016,759 girls between five and nine years of age, who were al- ready married, of whom 170,000 had become widows. Two Views of the Case. “No, I do not think she will marry again. She vowed on the day he was buried she would not.” ‘Ah! Think- ing about it already, was she?”’—Cin- cinnati Enquirer. : The Chinese have a flower which is white at night or in the shade and red in the sunlight. ties afforded in. Dawson City. The gentleman standing near the scales is Mr. D. Doig, the sub-manager; Mr. E. O. Finlaison, the accountant, being seated beside him. AN A A AA AAAS SSSA S SPSS HYPNOTISM AS A DRINK CURE. It Is Now Employed to Abate the Sin of Intemperance. Many and varied are the so-called cures for that curse to humanity—ha- bitual drunkenness. The latest treat- ment, and possibly one of the most effective and successful methods em- ployed, is hypnotism. Naturally the habitual drunkard is considered harder to cure because he is in a state of per- petual intoxication, while the dipso- manic is only periodically drunk; but men versed in the knowledge of sug- gestive therapeutics say with the for- mer drunkenness is a habit and with the latter a form of insanity. A habit can be cured by suggestion, while the patient is under a hypnotic influence; as is every day being manifested, while insanity is rarely cured by a like treat- ment. Therefore the average cures effected by hypnotic suggestion number 80 per cent, the remaining 20 usually being cases of long standing dipsoma- nia and people who really do not care to be cured. The patient must work with the hypnotist, who is usually a registered physician. He must want to be cured and do his best to relax en- tirely the mind and body and to go to sleep as he is told when the magic | hypnotizer of silver is held before his eves. When he is asleep he is told that he will not care for liquor when : physician | he leaves the place, the speaking in a soothing monotone. The desire to be cured, the confidence-in the healer, the perfect rest for the nerves, together with the physical vided, stimulate the heart and stomach until the patient forms the habit of go- ing without liquor. Then he goes away cured, the treatment having last- ed from ten to twenty days. he will be cured, for the greater will be his determination. This method of curing the liquor habit by hypnotism and suggestion is now being practiced | over the! by eminent physicians all country, and is being taught in one of the leading medical colleges of Chica- go. It is strictly “professional,” . for not one of the instructors will teach the art outside the medical sion. Lightning Reveais a Tomb, Lightning recently brought about the discovery of an Etruscan tomb near Volterra. It struck an old pine tree on a hillock, and in cutting down the remnants of the tree the workmen found the top of the sepulghre under the roots. TOLD BY FIGURES. The costliest building of modern times is the state capitol at Albany, N. Y., which has already had spent upon it the immense sum of $20,000,- 000. The dimensions of the capitol at Washington are: The length, 751 feet 4 inches; breadth, from 121 to 324 feet; ! it covers 153,112 square feet. From base line of building to the tip of sta- tue, 287 feet 11 inches. The height of the dome above the base line on the east front is 287 feet 5 inches. The deepest lake in the world, so far as known, is Lake Baikal in Siberia. | While 9,000 square miles in area, or | nearly as large as Lake Erie, it is 4,000 to 4,500 feet deep, so that it contains nearly as much water as Lake Supe- rior. Its surface is 1,850 feet above the sea level and its bottom nearly 2,900 feet below it. To those who have never considered the subject, it might appear that each letter is of equal importance in the formation of words, but the relative proportions required in the English language are these: a, 85; Db, 16; c, 30; d, 44; e120; £ 25; 7, 17; h, 64; i, 80; J, 4: k 8; 1,40; m, 30; n, 80; o, 80; Pp. 17; a.5;r,62;-5.80; t, 90; nn, 34; v, 12; wv, 20: x. 4; ¥, 20; z, 2- It is this knowledge of how frequently one letter is used compared with others that en- ables cryptogram readers to unravel so many mysteries. i chance to be sold. exercise | practiced and the nutritious food pro- | The | «gtronger the patient’s mind the sooner | profes- From Factory to Fireside. Would we spend a million dollars vearly advertising OUR Catalogues if they were not worth having? Our general Catalogue contains Furni- ture, Crockery, Stoves, Clocks, Sewing Machines. 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The managers count on a very large attendance from visitors to the Paris IExhibition. Dr.Seth Arnold’s Cough Klller invaluable : a Cough remedy. Efect magical.— L172 J. JUNK, 448 West 25th St., N. Y., Dec. 11, 1897, London's County Council has decided on the municipal control of the water supply of the metropolitan district and will try to get a bill through Parlia- ment to enable it to purchase, “by agreement or by compulsion,” property of the eight companies that are now providing the water. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar- tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im- urities from the body. Begin to-day to Dt pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. 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