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When that tired feeling, the first rheu- matic pain, the first warnings of impure blood are manifest, take Hood's Sarsapa- rilla and you will rescue your health and probably save a serious sickness. Be sure to get Hood's, because 3474 7 ST THE ROYAL HOSTESS. German Emperor’s Little Daughter Gives a “Five o'Clocik Tea.” Princess Viktoria Luise, the only daughter of the German emperor and empress, celebrated her return from the mountains by entertaining all her iittle friends at a “five o'clock,” where chocolate was served, and not tea. There are so few little princes and princesses of tender years that little people of less exalted rank were includ- ed among the invited guests. These latter, a little shy at their first intro- duction into imperial cireles, were re- ceived by the gracious hostess in such an informal manner that they felt at home at once. She has Inherited house- wife capability from her charming mamma, and she insisted upon dealing cut to each separate his or her share of cake and chocolate. As each child left it received as a souvenir a package of chocolate, attached to which was a small portrait of the fascinating little imperial hostess. It was all a very great success. She is not only beloved by her father, mother and six brothers, but the entire imperial household is at her feet. This little sprite can do with her father as she likes, and at the same hour every morning she runs into his study and delights him with her va- rious accomplishments from day to day, such as a new verse in French, German or Engiish, or anything that she thinks will please him. She is five years old, very blonde, with expressive blue eyes, and enjoys to the utmost every moment of her until now un- clouded life. The mother and little daughter are inseparable, and in this way the little one has become quite a traveler, and she has seen more lands than many a grown person. A Story of Twins. Lloyd Lowndes and Richard Lown- des, sons of Governor Lowndes of Maryland, are twins and look very much alike. According to a story go- ing the rounds, Richard was traveling through Ohio a year ago, when a man came through the cars and slapped him on the back. “Hello, Lloyd,” he said, “stop over and spend the night with me at Chillicothe.” Richard said he wasn’t Lloyd, but the man wouldn't believe him, so he stopped over. Among the people he met was Miss May Quinn. She liked him and he liked her, but Richard had been mar- ried for several years. So he told his brother Lloyd about her, and in proec- ess of time Lloyd went to see her, fell in love, proposed, and was married last week. When he told his fiancee that he was not the Lloyd she first met, but that the first Llovd was a false. Lloyd and really Richard, he had a hard time convincing her he was speaking the puth. Clerical Ordinance. From the New York Advertiser: Hobbs—I see by the papers that your friend, the Rev. Dr. Bang, has joined the artillery of the church. Dobbs— What do you mean? Hobbs—Why, he’s been made a canon of the cathe- dral. Dobbs—H’m; I didn’t know that he was such a big gun. Keeping on Safe Ground. Kansas City Independent: Dasher- Iy—He's all the time harpimg-ahont Ladysmith. Flasherly—Well, that’s the only name over there in the Trans- vaal that he knows how to pronounce Facts For Sick Women First—the medicine that holds the record for the largest number of abso- Jute Cures of female ills Is Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Second — Mrs. Pinkham can show by her letter files in Lynn that a mil- Jion women have been restored to health by her medicine and advice.’ Third — All letters to Mrs. Pinkham are received, opened, read and an- swered by women only. This fact is certified to by the mayor and postmas-~ ter of Lynn and others of Mrs. Pinkham’s own city: Write for free book con- talning these certificates. Every ailing woman is invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham and get her ad- vice free of charge. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. What do the Children Drink 7 Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink cailed GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distrib- ute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about } as much. All grocers sell it. 15c. and 25c. - Try Grain-O! Insist that your grocer gives you GRAIN-O Accept no imitation. ARTERS INK Have you tested it— No other ink * just as good.” OR. THLMAGE'S SUNDRY SERMOR A GOSPEL MESSAGE Subject: The Afairs of Olhicrs-The Basy- body Has a Mission to Perform When His Motive i183 Good—Search Out the Miserableand Offer Them Consolation. [Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1800.] WasHiNgTON, D. C.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows how we should interest ourselves in the affairs of others for their benefit, but never for their damage; text, I Peter, iv., 15, “A busybody in other men’s matters.” Human nature is the same in all ages. In the second canlury of the world’s ex- istence people had the same characteristics as people in the nineteenth century, the only difference being that they had the characteristies for a longer time. It was 500 years of goodness or 500 years of mean- ness instead of goodness or meanness for forty or fifty years. Well, Simon Peter, who was a keen observer of what was going on around him, one day caught sight of a man whose characteristics were severe inspection and blatant criticism of the af- fairs belonging to peopie for whom he had po responsibility, and with the hand once brownea and hardened by fishing tackle drew this portrait for all subsequent ages, #A busybody in other men’s matters.” That kind of person has been a trouble maker in every country since the world stood. Appointing himself to the work ot exploration and detection, he goes forth mischief making. He generally begins by reporting the infelicity discovered. He is the advertising agent of infirmities and domestic inharmony and occurrences that but for him would never have come to the ublic eye or ear. He feels that the secret ought to be hauled out into light and her- alded. If he can get one line of it into the newspapers, that he feels to be a noble achievement to start with. But he must not let it stop. He whispers it to his neighbors, and they in turn whisper it to their neighbors, until the whole town is abuzz and agog. ou can no more catch it or put it down than you can a malaria. It is in the air and on the wing and afloat. Taken by itself, it seems ot little impor- tance,but after a hundred people have han- dled it and each has given it an additional twist it becomes a story in size and shape marvelous. If it can be kept going, after awhile it will be large enough to call the attention of the courts or the presbyteries or conferences or associations. The most of the scandals abroad are the work of the one whom Peter in the text styles “a busy- body in other men’s matters.” First, notice that such a mission is most undesirable, because we all require all the time we can get to take care of our own affairs. 0 carry ourselves through the treacherous straits of this life demands that we all the time keep our hand on the wheel of our own craft. While, as I shall show you before I get through, we all have a mission of kindness to others, we have no time to waste in doing that which is damaging to others. There is our worldly calling, which must be looked after or it will become a failure. Who succeeds in anything without concen- trating all his energies upon that one thing? Allthose whotryto do many things go to pieces either as to their health or their fortune. They go on until they pay ton cents on the dollar or pay their body into the grave. We cannot manage the affairs of others and keep our own affairs [rosperous. While we are inquiring ow precarious is the business of an- other merchant and finding out how many notes he has unpaid and how soon he will probably be wound up or make an assign- ment or hear the sheriff’s hammer smite his counter our own affairs are getting mixed up and endangered. While we aro criticising our neighbor for his peor crops we are neglecting the fertilization of our owns flelds or allowing the weeds to choke our own corn. While we are trying to ex- tract the mote from our neighbor’s eye we fall under the weight of the beam in our own eye. Those men disturbed by the faults of others are themselves the depot at which whole trains of faults arrive and from which whole trains of faults start. The men who have succeeded in secular things or relig- ious things will tell you that they have no time for hunting out the defleits of others. On the way to their counting room they may have heard that a firm in the same line of business was in trouble, and they said, “Sorry, very sorry.” But t they went in and sat down at their table and opened the book containing a full statement of their affairs to see if they were in peril of beipg caught in a similar cyclone. Gadders about town, with hands in pockets and hats set far back on the head, waiting to hear baleful news, are failures now or will be failures. Christian men and women who go round with mouth and looks full of interrogation points to find how some other church member is given to exaggeration or drinks too much or neglects his home for greater outside attractions have themselves so little grace in their hearts that no one suspects they have any. In proportion as per~nr!e are consecrated and holy and useful they are lenient with others and disposed to say: “Wait until We BeaT the other side-of that matter. Icannot belleve that charge made against that man or woman until we have some better testimony than that given by these scandal mongers. I guessitisa lie.” Furthermore, we are incapacitated for tLe supervisal of others because we cannot see all sides of the affair reprehended. People are generally not so much to blame as wo suppose. It is never right to _do wrong, but there may pe alleviations. There may have arisen a conjunction of circumstances which would have flung any one of us. The world gives only one side of the transaction, and that is always the worst side. That defaulter at the bank who loaned money he ought not to have loaned did it for the advantage of another, not for his own, at young man who purloined from his employer did so be- cause his mother was dyiug for the lack of medicine. That young woman who went wrong did not get enough wages to keep her from starving to death. Most people who make moral shipwreck would do right in some exigency, but they have not the courage to say “No. Furthermore, we ‘make ourselves a dis- gusting spectacle when we become busy- bodies. What a diabolical enterprise those undertake who are ever looking for the moral lapse or downfall of others! As the human race is a most imperfect race, all such hunters find plenty of game. There bave been sewing societies In churches which tore to pieces more reputations than they made garments for the poor. With their sarcasms and sly hints and deprecia- tion-of motives they punctured more good names than they had needles. With their scissors they cut character bias and back stitched every evil report they got hold of. Meetings of boards of directors have some- times ruined good business men by insinu- ations against them. The bad work may not bave been done so much by words, for they would be libelous, but by a twinkle of the eye or a shrug of the alioiides ora sarcastic accentunation of a wo “Yes, he is all right when he is sober. i “Have you inquired into that man’s history?! “Do you know what business he was in be- fore he entered this?’ ‘I move that the application be laid on the table until some investigations now going on are consum- mated.” It {is easy enough to start a sus- picion that will never down, but what a despicable man is the one who started it! All people make mistakes—say things that afterward they are sorry for and miss Sppormnily of uttering the right word and doing the right thing ut when they say their prayers at night these defects are sure to be mentioned somewhere between the name of the Lord, for whose mercy they plead, and the amen that closes the supplication. “That has not been my ob- servation,” says some one. Well, I am sorry for you, my brother, my sister, What an awful crowd you must have got into! Or, as is more probable, Tn are one of the characters that tex! sketches. You have not been Iertine for purtridges and quail, but for vul. tures. have been microscop- izing the world’s faults. You have been down in the marshes when you ought to have been on the uplands. I have caught you at last. You are ‘‘a busybody in other men’s matters.” How is it that you can always find two opinions about any one and those two opinions exactly opposite? I will tell you the reason. It is because there are two sides to every character—the best side and -| the worst side. A well disposed man chief- ly seeks the best side. The badly disposed seeks chiefly the worst side. Be ours the desire to see the best side, for it i3 health= ier for us so to do and stirs admiration, which is an elevated state, while the de- sire to find tha worst side keeps one in a spirit of disquietude and disgust and mean suspicion,and that is a pulling down of our own nature, a disfigurement of our own character. I am afraid the imperfections of others will kill us yet. he habit I deplore is apt to show itself in the visage, A kindly man wha wishes everybody well soon demonstrates his dis- pasition in his looks, His features may fracture all tha laws of handsome physiog- nomy, but Gad puts inta that man’s eyes and in thecurve of his nostrils and in the upper and lower lip the sigrature of Di- vine approval, And you see it at a glance, as plainly as though it had been written ail over his face in rose color: “This is one of My princes. He is on the way to corona. dictions that infinity can afford. Look at him. Admire him. ongratulate him.’l- But there is a worthy and Christian way of looking abroad upon others, not for the purpose of bringing them to disadvantage or advertising their weaknesses or batting in “great primer” or “paragon” type the frailities, but to offer help, sympathy and rescue. That is Christlike, and he who does so wins the applause of the high heavens. Just look abroad for the people who have made great mistakes and put a big plaster of condolence on their lacera- tions. Such people are never sympathized with although they need an infinity of so- lace. Domestic mistakes. Social mis- takes. Ecclesiastical mistakes. Political mistakes There is a public man who has made a political mistake from which he will over recover. At the next elections he will put back and put down into a place of approval from which he will never rise. Just go to that man and unroll the scroll of 100 splendid Americans who, after occu- pying high places of promotion, were rele- gated to private life and public scorn. Show him in what glorious company he has been placed by the anathema of the ballot box. There is a man or woman who has mada a conjugal mistake, an1 a vulture has been put into the same cage with a dove or a lion and a lamb mn the same jungle. The world laughs at the misfortune, but it is your business to weep with their woe. There is a merchant who bought at the wrong time or a manufacturer whose old machinery has been superseded by a new invention or who under change of tariff on certain styles of fabric has been dropped from affluence into bankruptey, Goto him and recall the names of -flfty business men who lost all but their honesty and God and heaven. Let them know there are hun- dreds of good men who have gone under that are thought of in heavenly spheres more than many who are high up and going higher. All will acknowledge that good and lovely Arthur Tappan, who fail ed in business, was more to be admired than William Tweed in possession of his stolen millions. Hear it! The more you go to busying yourselves in other men’s matters the bet- ter if you have design of offering relief. Search out the quarrels, that you may set- tle them; the fallen, that you may lift them; the pangs, that you may assuage them. Arm yourself with two botties of Divine medicine, the one a tonic and the other an anmsthetie, the latter to soothe and quiet, the former to stimulate, to in- spire to sublime action. That man’s mat- ters need looking after in this respect. There are 10,000 mien and women who need your help and need it right away. They do not git down and ery. They make no appeal for help, but within ten yards of whera you sit in church and within ten minutes’ walk of your home there are peo- ple in enough trouble to make them shriek out with agouy if they had not re- solved upon suppression. It you are rightly interested In other men’s matters, go to those who are just starting in their occupations or profes- sions.and give them a boost. 'Tnose old physicians do not want vour help, for they are surrounded with more patients than they can attend to, but cheer those young doctors who are counting out their first drops to patients who cannot afford to pay. Those old attorneys at thelaw want no help from you, for they take retainersonly from | the more prosperous clients, but cheer those young attorneys who have not had a brief at all lucrative. Those old merchants have their well established that they pendent of banks, of all changes in tariffs, of all panies, but cheer those young merchants who aro making thelr first mistakes in bargain and sale. That old farmer who has 200 acres in best tillage and his barns full of harvesied crops and the grain merchant having hought his wheat at high prices before it was reaped needs no sympathy from you, but cheer up that young farmer whose acres are covered with a big mortgage and the drought strikes them the first year. That builder with contracts made for the con- struction of half a dozen houses and the owners impatient for occupancy is not to be pitied, but give your sympathy to that mechanic in early acquaintance with ham- mer and saw and bit and amid all the limitations of a journeyman, now my words are to the invisible multitudes I reach week by week, but yet will never see in this world, but whom I ex- ect to meet at the bar of God und hope to seo in the blessed heaven. The last word that Dwight L. Moody, the great evan- gelist, said to me at Plainfield, N. J., and he repeated the message for me to others, was, “Never be tempted under any circum- feel stances to give up your weekly pub- lication of sermons throughout the world.” That solemn charge I will heed as long as I have strength to give them and the newspaper types desire to take them. Oh, ye people back there in the Sheffield mines of England, and ye in the sheep pastures of Australia, and ye amid the pictured terraces of Now Zealand, and ye among the cinnamon and color in- Samed groves of Ceylon, and ye Armenians weeping over the graves of murdered households in Asia Minor, and ye amid the idolatries of Benares on the Granges, «nd ye dwellers on the banks of the Androscoggin, and the Alabama, and the Mississippi, and the Oregon, and the Shannon, and toe Rhine, and the Tiber, and the Danube, and the Nile; and the Euphrates, and the Caspian and the Yellow seas; ye of the four corners of the earth who have greeted me again and again, accept this point blank offer of everything for nothing, of everything of pardon and comfort na illumination and safety and heaven, ‘without money an without price.” What a gospel for all lands, all zones, all ages! Gospel of sym- pathy! Gospel ot hope! Gospel of eman- cipation! Gospel of sunlightl Gospel of enthronement! Gospel of eternal viectoryl Take it all ye people, until your sins are all pardoned, and your sorrows all solaced, and your wrongs all righted, and your dying pillow be spread at the foot of a ladder whieh, though like the one that was let down to Bethel, may be thronged with descending and ascending immortals, shall neverthe- less have room enough for you to elimb foot over foot, on rungs of light till youn go clear up out of sight of all earthly perturbation into the realm where ‘‘the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.” PROMINENT PEOPLE. General Lord Kitchener says the South African war will last at least one year. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, is known as one of the most indefatigable workers in Congress. Professor James Martineau, the fam- ous English Unitarian theologian, is dead at the age of ninety-five. William Dean Howells, the novelist, has considerable ability with the pencil as well as with the pen. He is a born caricaturist. The Prince of Wales has consented to be the colonel in chief of the Imperial Yeomanry (England's regiment of rough riders). General Joubert, the commander of the Boer Army, in his siege tactics be- fore Ladysmith, has shown himself an apt pupil of Moltke's ideas. Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind millionaire, of New York City, is an accomplished pianist and spends an hour at his piano every evening of his ife. Archbishop Patrick J. Feehan, of Chi- cago, makes a fad of the cultivation of flowers. In the season he spends all his spare time in his private garden, attend- ing to his plants. Senator Edward C. Wolcott, of Colo- rado, ewns an automobile, in which he rides back and forth betiveen the Capi- tol and his house in Washington. He has become a skillful motorman. Philip D. Armour, of Chicago, has gone to Pasadena, Cal., to pass the win- ter. He hopes the California climate will be beneficial to him. He is accom- panied by Mrs. Armour and his physi- cian. Richard Harding Davis, with his wife, has sailed for South Africa, where he will act as war correspondent for a num- ber of magazines and newspapers. His wife will accompany him to the Cape. Hon. Walter Rothschild, M. P., eldest son and heir of Lord Rothschild. has been rejected for service in South Af- rica with the Yeomanry on the ground of his weight, which was about 200 pounds. Mrs. McKinley's health is so poor this winter that the hospitality at the White House will have to be limited to official functions and the entertain- ments of the members of her family and friends. Captain Richard P. Leary, Governor of Guam, writes to a friend in Denver, Col, that the one drawback to his posi- tion is that it is the only place on land, except in Samoa, which he has ever held where he could not get his daily 3 tion, I bless iim now with all the bene. § NEWSDaDer. | inoreasa of $279,939,051, or business SO | inde- | A TREMENDOUS TOTAL. TWO BILLIONS OF MONEY NOW IN CIRCULATION. Increase in the Past Two Years of Five | Hundred Millions in the Amount of | Sound Currency in the Hands of the People—=What We Escaped. There has been a gain of about five hundred millien dollarsin the amount of money in circulation in the United States in the past two years of re- stored protection and prosperity. The figures of this gigantic increase of | material wealth and of money in the hands of the people have a sugges- | They show | tiveness that is startling. what the country escaped when in 1896 it chose between William Me- Kinley and William J. Bryan. are alsd peculiarly suggestive in con- nection with the Presidential contest of 1900. One more financial month like No- vember will bring the total of money in circulation in the United States past the two billion dollar line. On November 1 the total money in circula- tion was $1,963,716,148, and on De- cember 1, $1,985,930,964, an increase of $22,214,816 in the month. A gan cf even two-thirds this amount in the present month would bring the total money in circulation in the United States past the two billion dollar line for the first time in our history. The steady and rapid growth in the circulation of money in the United States, both gold and total of all kinds of money, isindicated in a compilation made by the Treasury Bureau of Statis- tics fism data supplied in the annual and monthly statements of the Bureau of Loans and Currency of the Treasury Department, showing the amount of gold and total money in circulation in United States at annual periods dur- ing the past twenty years. It shows an increase in that length of time from $138,641,410 of gold and gold certifi- cates to $778,385,303, and of total cir- culation from $816,266,721 to $1,985,- 980,964, with the prospect, as already indicated, that the two billion dollar line will shortly be crossed. While the general growth in that time has been remarkable, that of the past three years is especially marked. On July 1, 1896, the total money in cir- culation in the United States was $1,509,725,200, and on December 1, 1899, $1,985,930,964, an increase dur- ing three and a half years of $476,- 205,764, or 313 per cent.; while the gold coin end certificates increased from $498,449,242 to $778,388,303, an 56 per cent. The following table shows the total | gold cuin and certificates, and the total | money of all kinds, in circulation on January 1 of each year from 1879 to 1899: January 1— 187 . Gold ¢ oin and . 43219581 oo. 474,263,726 . 527,717,483 . 469,989,147 . 469,505.861 ... 496,095,200 .. 500,722,960 .. 498,891,811 . 535,127,876 . 556,105,299 ... 530,064,099 . 586, 014, 990 3 538,863,276 . 534,664,986 . 555,630,668 , 584,126,049 . 702 ig 838 778 Marine Legislation Demanded. The extent to which the people of the United foreign shipping for their sesa-borne commerce furnishes a conclusive rea- son for prompt action looking toward the rehabilitation of the American merchant marine. In these days of | open and opening doors, when the | Unitea States is preparing to control the trade of her mew dependencies, and besides is clamoring for access to other and bigger markets, it is not erediteble to us as a nation that we are carrying in American vessels not more than one-sixth of the total volume of American overiea com- merce. Itisin the power of the Con- gress of the United States, acting upon the recommendation of Presi- dent McKinley in his last annual message, to bring about a radieal change in the marine situation, to s~ rc7orse the case that five-sixths of the American commerce with foreign countries shall be carried in American ships. There is a general demand for legislation with this end in view. The people expect it. "Mer Happy Brood. Why Times Are Better. Warner Miller, says: “In all my business career times wera never bet- ter than they are now.” We have never had so complete and scientific a system of protection of American interests in operation as we have now. That explains in part why times are better now than ever before. For the other’ part, we have never until now seen the completed effects of the pro- tective tariff. In the past we have been struggling by means of the pro- tection of American industries, to build up American enter prises, to put them on their feet. To-day, in many instances, this has been accomplished, and the ole duty of the protectiy tariff in regard to these enterprises is to preserve to them what they have already achieved and to give them a chance to branch out, now that, at last, they stand on a firm basis. Times are better than ever before, and they are likely to remain so because pro- tection is likely to continue to be the policy of the country. A Question. Five years ago green hides were selling at 31 cents per pound, now they sell at 13} cents. Would not any farmer prefer to pay fifty cents more on a pair of boots {and have hides re- main at the price they are now ?—Ben- ton (IIL) Republican. Much Alike. Land in the little island of Guam, that was worth only $15 an acre under Spanish rule, is now selling for $100 an acre. There i is a striking “similarity between Spanish rule and Democratic rule. —Springfield (Mo.) Republican- They | States are dependent on | | suite. i | | | | than the dainty, free from impurities, and THE CZAR'S RAILWAY TRAIN. | Luxuriously Fitted Up. The imperial train in which the Czar and Czarina usually travel is wholly ot Russian workmanship, having been made in the Alexander works at St. Petersburg. It consists of eleven car- riages painted blue and gold. They are connected by corridors, and provided with every luxury. Behind the gage wagons there are, first, the kitch- en, containing a splendid French stove and two large fixed samoyars. Then comes the pantry with all its append- ages, to which is attached a second- class carriage for the kitchen servants. The dining room, furnished with a large table in the cen- ter, and small tables along the sides, the walls being paneled, with red beechiwood inset with huge mirrors. The chairs are upholstered with brown Russia leather. Another carriage serves as the reception room, the walls being ornamented with stamped leath- er in beechwood frames. The seats are salmon-colored, with white stripes in Louis XV. style. The reception room also contains five small and beautiful- ly inlaid tables and three hanging can- delabras. The Czarina’s carriage 1s light blue, with padded walls, and con- tains her majesty’s writing table and an enormous mirror, and is decorated with beautiful creeping plants, of which the Czarina is particularly fond. Next to the Czarina’s room, and in the same carriage, is the imperial nursery, while the whole of the adjoining car- riage is also devoted to the children and their wants. Here are their low cradle beds. A special coupe is re- served for the governesses and nurses. The Czar’s apartments consist of two rooms, his study and a dressing room. The study is fitted with brown Russia leather. and the study table is orna- mented with fine bronzes. The next two carriag * are reserved for the The last carriage Is reserved for the railway official. Here the speed of the train is regulated. All the car- riages are connected by telephone. The lighting, ventilation and heating are carefully attended to. More than 300 | lamps are supplied by the electric bat- tery on the train. The train runs quite noiselessly, even when going at the highest speed. A Sly Dig. Mrs. Henpeck—No doubt the an- cients were considered wise because there were fewer temptations in those days. Mr. Henpeck—Why, my dear, the propertion ¢f women in the world must have been ‘about the same.”’— Life. Donald’s Christmas Present. From Brooklyn Life: Ruth—Did you get anything from Santa Claus, Donald? Cousin Donald—You bet I did. I got a good lickin’ fer callin’ him pa an’ pullin’ his beard off! lug- | All except badiones! There are hun- a dreds of cough medi- cines which relieve coughs, all coughs, except bad, ones! The medicing which has been curing the worst of bad coughs for6oyearsis Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. {ere is evidence : “My wife was troubled with a deep-seated cough on her lungs for three years. One day I thought of how Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral saved the life of my sister after the doctors had all given her up to die. So I purchased two bottles, and it cured my wife completely. 1t took only one bottle to cure my sister. So you see that three bot- tles (one dollar each) saved two lives. We all send you our heart- felt thanks for what you have done forus.”—]J. H. BURGE, Macon, Col., Jan. 13, 1899. Now, for the first time you can get a trial bottle of Cherry Pectoral for 25 cents. Ask your druggist. BABY’S BATH. Nothing is more easily delicate skin of a young child. Ivory Soap is cleansing and refreshing. It is wholly | Yhe Imperial Sioving Establishment zs! ~— affected by irritation Not Bo Loonéy. Lunatics often assume a supeariority of intellect to others which is quite amusing. A gentleman while walking along a road not far from the side of which ran a railway, encountered a number of insane people out for ex- ercise. With a nod toward the rail- way lines, he said to one of the luna- tics: “Where does this railway go to?” The lunatic looked at him scorn- fully for a moment and then replied: “It doesn’t go anywhere. We keep it here to run trains on.”—Agate. Fun of “Auto” Men. It seems that one of the latest fash- fons of the automobilists, motocy- clists and various “chaffeurs” of the auto kind in Paris is to tear through space with escape pipe wide open, emit- ting a succession of explosions that for frightful noise can discount a switch engine. They are not obliged to leave the escape open and make all this noise, but “it sounds big,” and they do it. Recently Beconnais on his tricycle, going at fifty miles per hour in the heart of Paris, scared a cab horse into running away, and the cab- by is now in bed. A noises that will scare a Paris cab horse must be some- Consumption S y r u p jie Asthma, Whoopiug- handsomer lamp made. FREIGHT. Beautiful colored cat. 1 Ever, Tens Guaran- Manufactured by “oughs, Co! er cough, Croup. Small doses ; quick, sure results, Bold at iRanuisotures) 's Makes 2 most accepta- logue of hand-painted tee Money back if Pittsburg Glass Co,, The best ull for Cough Bo Bronchitis, Hoarse- Dr. Bull's Pillscure Constipation. Trial, 20 for se. All hand-painted. No prices. big presen ARLOR oriaf NQUET TAM eo. you want it. Trishurs, Pa. WE M. L, You as Y DIRECT. ‘eae oa Qt. 200 POTATOE! 2Bbl, Lrrgels Seer i T ATO Growers in A ormous stocks of thing more than the rattle of a boy's hoop, or a nurse girl with a baby carriage. i — nnn Send this ar and ¢ JOUX A. SALZER NEED sre eo. lids LA poss, WIS. A.C. Oa’ a0 its mild, creamy lather leaves the tenderest skin unharmed. IT FLOATS. COPYRIGHT 1809 BY THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI EA f- STOPPED TRAIN TO GET MATCH Experience of a Mail Clerk Who Had Work He Couldu’t Do in the Dark. “I noticed in the paper the other day,” observed sn old railway postal | clerk, “the story of how the captain of the. little gasoline boat that left here for up the Missouri had to come back overland for 40 miles for a re- pair that cost him only 10 cents, but which was just as necessary as if it cost the price of the whole engine, I recalled to my mind an experience 1 | once had on the run between here and | Missouri Valley, on the Sioux City & Pacific, illustrating how much may | hang upon something ordinarily quite a whole carriage, is | insignificant. Between Whiting and Onawa one night a gust of wind blew out every lamp in the mail car, which, of course, made it impossible for me to work, and I had considerable to do yet to tie up Onawa’s mail. I put my hand into my pocket to get a match, but couldn't find any. Something had to be done quickly, and all there was left for me to do was to pull the bell cord and signal the engineer to stop. The conductor, brakeman, and some of the passengers came running to the head of the train to learn what was the matter. The darkness in my car suggested that perhaps there had been a hold-up and robbery of the mail; but when I called to the conductor to give me a match it relieved his anx- iety, but it did not entirely restore his good humor. I lit my lamps again and had my mail ready when we reached Onawa. Since that time I am especial- ly careful to see that I have an ample match supply.”—Sioux City Journal. Making Him Whole. “It takes the glorious old west to do business,” said the man with the alli gator grip, as he boarded the train at St. Paul. “We of the east are not in it a little bit.” “Anything to relate?” queried one of the passengers as he woke up. “Just a few words. I trav- eled from New York to Chicago with a staving-looking girl. At Buffalo was gone on her. At Detroit we were en- gaged. As we reached Chicago she had set the date. I returned home, wrote her 320 love letters and came out here to get married. She decided that she would marry another. She estimated the value of my time at $500, the worth of my letters at $300 and my broken heart at $200, and drew me a check for $1,000, and here it is. Gave her a receipt in full to date, kissed her good- bye &nd there you are and here I am. There’s but one way to do business and the west knows all about it. Yes, check for a thousand and how many of you gentlemen will smoke a goed cigar at my expense ?’—Chicago News. Concerning Ivories. Silver for toilet table articles will always hold its own, but ivory today is the most distinguished material of which brushes, combs, powder boxes, hand mirrors and the like can be made. It is better for a person who is col- lecting the furniture for a dressing- table to put money gradually into fine pieces of ivory rather than silver. Ivory of the best quality is steadily increas- ing in value. Every year the num- ber of elephants decreases. The time | is almost here when the ivory-bearing ! elephants of central Africa will be ex- tinct. Collections of ivory now fetch large prices. It is not surprising,there- fore, that ivory toilet articles should be eagerly sought. Because of Their Boer Sympathy. Two Irish magistrates were recently deprived by Lord Ashbourne, the lord chancellor of Ireland, of their offices on account of anti-British comments on the Boer war. The proceeding is most unusual, especially as one of the delinquents is a nobleman, Lord Emly, who, speaking to some laborers at Limerick, inferred that Great Britain might have another Ladysmith in Ire- land. Lord Ashbourne asked for an explanation, but Lord Emly haughtily refused, whereupon he was removed. Lord Emly is prominent in Ireland, both socially and politically, and is an ardent home ruler. The only other in- stance on record is where Mr. Glad- stone years ago deprived Lord Ross- more of a magistracy for similar ut- terances. Defined. From Brooklyn Life: Teacher— Johnny, you may define the first per son. Johnny —Adam. How’s This ? We offer One odd Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bs cured by Hall's Catazrh Cu J. NEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the et have CD nF. J. Che- ney for the last 15 years, and believe him - fot honorable in 2ll business transactions nancially Si to carry cut any obliga- tion m:de by their firm. W. er & TRUAX ae Druggists, Toledo, WAL DiNg, KINNAN & MARVIN, W Druggists, Tole edo, Ohio. Prsiasate a tarrh Cure is taker ternal Ing directly upon the bloo Ch = Hi ST or faces of the system. Pain Tho. per bottle, Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials fres ©. Hall's Family Pi 11s are the be: bes The Alldemeine Deutsche Sprachver- ein has offered a prize of 1,000 marks for the best study of the slang used by seamen. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchildren teething, Soins hue gums, reduces inflamma- tion, allays pai 2S ¢ s wind colic. 25¢ a bottle. Of the 77,671,000 acres of land and water in the United Kingdom, about 47,800,000 are under crops and grass. I can recommend Piso’s Cure for Consump- tion to sufferers from Asthma. £7 , TOWN- SEND, Ft. Howard, Wis., May 4, 1804, BOOK AGENTS WANTED FOR | "the grandest and fastest-selling book ever published, Pul pit Echoes bE a Gy pat FOR HEAD AND WE ART, MOODY'S best Sermons Go as Incidents, Personal Experiences.ete., "as ;tola D. L. Moody | Vimaelf. ith a complete history of his life by Rev. CHAN. F. { GOSK, Pastor of Mr M bodys hicago C! Lurch for fiv tnd ud Introduction AN ABRO Brand new, DO Ws Day Stu ilusrated 071,0 n and Women. iE | 7 Sal c—a TAN Ep ne 1s Send for terms ta | . D. WORTHINGTON & CU., Hartford, Conn. | | Salzer’s Rape Lives) Rich, Catalo; Rr Instantly were terrible. greater part of the night. I consulted doctors knew what the trouble was. I the medicines I had been using. that I concluded I would have to go to get relief. but I had no faith in them. Presto! What a change! cleanse the blood. A SINGLE SET is often physicians, hospitals, and all else fail. AND CHEM. Core., Sole Props., Boston. themselves to women, and especially mothers, and nursery. No amount of per other, especially for preserving and purif children, CUTICURA SOAP combines eli CURA ing of flower odors. other foreign or domestic toilet soap, howe and BEST baby £0ap in the worlds | cases. DR. ARNOLD’S COUGH | Cures Coughs and Colds. | Prevents Consumption. Ve AF ARMS for sale at rare H ex ltching Burning Scaly Blotchy Humors and Speedily Cured by (Uticura The itching and burning I suffered in my feet and limbs for three years At night they were worse and would keep me awake a ling on the road most of my time, also one of our city doctors. I found them of so many different kinds a Cincinnati hospital before I would I had frequently been urged to try CUTICURA REMEDIES, My wife finally prevailed upon me to try them. I am now cured, and it is a permanent cure. I feel like kicking some doctor or myself for suffering three years when I could have used CUTICURA remedies. Complete Treatment $1.25, Consists of CuticurA SoAP (25¢.), to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales ¢ the thickened cuticle, CuTicura Cintment (50e.), to instantly allay itch and inflammation, and soothe and heal, and CuTicurA RESOLVENT (50c.), to cool and figuring skin, scalp, and blood humors, rashes, and irritations, with loss of hair, when Sold throughout the world. “How to Cure Itching Humors,” free. Millions of Women Use Cuticura Soap Exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skid, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softenin healing red, rough, and sore hands, in the form of baths for #nnoy mations, and chafings, or too free or offensive persp i ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative antiseptic p pasion can induce tho , the great skin cure, with the purest of clean No other medicated or toilet soap yeverc ompounded is to be coppared with it for preservin, purifying, and beautifying the skin, sc alp, hair, and hands, : iA : r expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. PRICE, viz., TWENTY-FIV E CENTS, the BEST skin and complexion soap, and the BEST toiled STOPPED FREE ITS: Permantatly Gu Cured Inganity Yeutid bo KUNE S$ GREA “NERVE | RESTORER Posiiiver ure for ni} all Nervous For ee Ss 2 rin an y’ SA Ea and to Fit patients, they payiuge: ao Ly 4 . Kline, Ltd, Pillevae Institute of Stedtoine: Got Ar i St., Philadciphia, Par | = — EARN TELEGRAPHY for Railroad and! Commer- cial fervice. nted Im. mediately: Poin Men Wann En- olose stamp for full particulars, 0. W. Dowell, Manager, Hicksville, Ohio. PS Y NEW DISCOVERY; S¥ives gulelc rode! and oures Book of testimonials ays rn Dr. H. H. GREEN'S fod 04 B, Atlanta, Ga, Free. All Druggists, 25¢. KILLER P.N.U 40 ENSIO JOHN W.MORRIS, Washington, D.C, Succe essfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Princinal Exami BE reau. Syrsineivil war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since bars | good new builc Hh STEW ART, Carson, , Virginia, edly Relieved doctor after doctor, as I was travel- None of the got a lot of the different samples of H. JENKINS, Middleboro, Ky. nd soften itation, sufficient to eure the most torturing, dis- Porter Drua whitening, and tations, inflam. of washes for s whic h re adily est es of the toilet, bath, and for al in, scalp, and hair of infants and t properties derived from CUTI- ng ingredients and the most refresh. No Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at ONE
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