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You will never find our Doc.
tor out. He is here to give
advice without charge to those
who need him —to those who
don’t, sometimes. He doesn’t
always recommend the Ayer
medicines, because the Ayer
medicines are not “cure-alls.”
Perhaps if we tear a leaf |
from his correspondence it will
show you what we mean. Here
is a letter which came last
March.
“DEAR DR. AYER!
I want your advice for my little boy.
He is getting very thin. He has no appe-
tite. He is fifteen years old. When he
was four years old he had lung fever, but
his health was good until two years ago.
Since then he is failing fast. The doctors
here say he has the bronchitis. He spits
all the time awful bad. The spits are big,
thick, and white. Yours truly,
Mis. MARGARET MURPHY,
March 30, 1900. Kinbrae, Minn.”
And this is the way the Doc-
tor answered Mrs. Murphy :
“DEAR MADAM:
“We enclose our book on The Throat
and Lungs, in which we trust you will find
just the information you desire.
“You should begin at once the use of
this Cherry Pectoral for your son, giving
it in moderate doses. Then procure some
good preparation of cod-liver oil, as
Scott’s Emulsion, and give him that, as
well. Pay particular attention to his diet,
giving him such nourishing foods as rare
steak, lamb chops, good milk, eggs, etc,
Above all, keep him out of doors all that
the weather permits. There is nothing
that will do him more good than plenty of
fresh air. Let him live out of doors all
that is possible. By carrying out these
general suggestions we shall hope to hear
soon that your son js improving in every
way. Very truly yours,
April 5, 1900.
J. C. Ayrr.”
' You see, it wasn’t only the
Ayer medicines that we recom-
mended. The first idea of the
Doctor was to cure that boy.
The result is told in this letter:
“DEAR DR. Avi
“My little be improved so much
since I received your advice that T want to
write and tell you AH the
“When I first wrote you, on March
30, he only weighed 50 pounds, but now
he weighs 82 pounc and all this gain
since the 8th of April, ‘when I first began
to follow your directions.
“Please let me thank you again for what
you have done for my boy.
July 17, 1900. MARGARET MURPHY.”
Perhaps it was the cod-
liver oil; perhaps it was the
Cherry Pectoral. Probably it
was both. But, more than
either, it was the good, sound
advice the Doctor gave in the
first place. We are here to
serve you in just the same way,
and we will tell you the medi-
cine for your case or tell you
what medicines to avoid.
Five out of ten of our cor-
respondents need a doctor
rather than a prepared medi-
cine, and we tell them so. If
the doctors only knew it, we
are working with them every
day.
iw
J. C. Aver Company,
Practic.. hemists, Lowell, Mass.
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Ayer’s Pills Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
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The Evaporation of Trees.
Some curious facts concerning trees
have been discovered. A single oak of
good size is said to lift 123 tons of wa
ter during the months it is in leaf.
moisture is yorated and rises to form
rain clouds. From this estimate of the
labor of a single oak we can gain some
idea of the immense force which
forests exert in equalizing the ¢
the
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periods of inunc ition and drought.—
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gold medal to Walter Baker & Co.,
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now the largest manufacturers of
cocog, and chocolate in the world, have
received the highest awards from the
great international and other exposi-
tions in Europe and America, This
is the third award frem a Paris Expo-
sition.
Free From Cyclones.
Sunstroke
in the arid region is prac
tically unknown. The rainless air that
sweeps over it is necessarily dry, and
neither breeds disease nor carries their
germs. Further than this. the lack of
moisture, combined with the configura-
tion, forbids the presence of tornadoes
and it is claimed that the Weather Bu-
reau has absolutely no record of a cy-
clone or tornado west of the ninety-
seventh meridian.
It requires no Areas to dye with
Pursam Fapeness Dyes. Simply boiling
your goods in the dyeisall that is necessary.
we admirable public
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The Peruvians
roads. One is
ading vessels leave the
all parts of the world.
Five hundred t
Thames daily for
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An oil identical with that of bitter
almonds is extracted from coal tar.
The stomach has to work hard, grinding
the food we crowd into it. Make its work
easy by chewing Beeman’s Pep sin Gum.
Russian offi-
mache.
The scabbards worn by
gers are me de of papier
The Best Prestilption for Chills
and Fever 18 a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS
Cri. Tonio. It is simply iron and quinine in
a tasteless form. No care Eo pay. Price 50c.
The average Notght of of an Englishman
is 5 feet 83 3% inches.
9250. by mail to E. & 8S, Frey, >. 0. Box 248,
Baltimore, Md., will get a bottle of Vermi-
fuge. Your little one may need it.
A Philadelphia andertaker has had
pn automobile hearse constructed.
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TWO MYSTERIES.
| Death is a mystery to me no more
That yesterday departed from the
strife,
| "Tis now I dream upon the misty shore
About the greater mystery of life.
—R. K. eM. in in Harper’ s Bazar.
§ HER JEWELS. |
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| It ought to have been a radiantly
| contented face that was turned toward
the toilet, lying like a snowd ACTOS
the lounge, so beautiful, so tasteful it
was, and so certain to be wondrously
becoming to the fair, dainty little lady
who stood looking at it, her blue eyes
frowning, her red lips a little pouty.
Mrs. Clifford touched the thick, shin-
ing satin waist caressingly, and looked
up at Jennie.
“Don’t you like it, dear? I can’t see
where there is room for the slightest
improvement. The skirt is elegant,
and the waist is exquisite.”
Jennie laughed at her mother’s evi-
dent distress lest she was not perfect-
ly satisfied.
“It is perfectly lovely, mamma!”
she replied. There can be no doubt of
that, and I am quite sure I shall lock
nicely in it, and I am also quite sure
P’hil will admire it. Only—"
And the little discontented look
came back into the pretty blue eyes
that Phil Courtenay swore by, and
that had played sad havoe with his
heart, until he had conquered their
owner.
Mrs. Clifford jooked inquiringly.
“Only what, Jennie?”
Then the secret dissatisfaction came
out, in a burst of emphatic earnest-
ness:
“If I didn’t have to wear flowers,
mamma, with it! Oh, I am so sick of
flowers—flowers, always flowers, for
crnaments—and I am just dying for
jewels—a diamond cross and ear-
rings.”
And accompanying the words was a
defiant little nod of the head, and a
compression of the red lips.
Mrs. Clifford gave an exclamation of
startled astonishment.
“Jennie! A diamond cross and ear-
rings! The idea! Why don’t you wish
for a queen's crown or an angel's
wing, and be done with it? A diamond
cross and rings! Child, how silly to
waste even a thought, a wish, much
less a word, on such an utter, absolute
impossibility!”
Instead of being hushed by Mrs,
Clifford's positive determination, Jen-
nie only smiled, with a little more of
defiance in her blue eyes
“But I do wish for them, all the
same, mamma; and I think I ought to
have them, too. And so does Phil, and
he has as good as told his rich old
granduncle to give me just such a
present. IIe's horribly stingy, old Mr.
Bemerton is, and if I wait until he
gives them to me—"
The wilful little beauty crested her
head and shrugged her shoulders very
becomingly.
“But, dear, I cannot see what that,
or anything else, can have to do with
your insane desire. Wait until Mr.
Bemerton sees fit to present you with
some handsome jewels; and, mean-
while, you will look just as sweet as
ever in fresh, lovely flowers!”
Mrs. Clifford had a caressing, gentle
way of speech, that was the very es-
sence of motherliness.
“But, mamma, you see, I will have
the diamonds, or else I won't go to the
ball.”
Her mother sighed over the sweet,
wilful girl.
“And,” Jennie went on, in a decisive
sort of way her mother knew would
be of no avail attempting to prevent,
“I can easy enough have them, mam-
ma. I'll hire them for the occasion!”
The girl's audacious suggestion fair-
ly took Mrs. Clifford's breath for the
minute.
PAULINE MONTAGUE.
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“Jennie! Hire them! Child, what
folly you are talking! Wear hired
jewels—hired finery! Jennie, surely
you are not in earnest, when you pro-
pose such an unwomanly, such a per-
fectly disgraceful thing?”
Jennie’s eyes sparkled, as she lis-
tened, impatiently.
“Mamma, what nonsense! Better
people than we do such things, and I
am sure it can be no worse than hir-
ing masquerade suits, and everybody
does that, or imposing upon people
with hired wedding presents, as cousin
Amy did!”
“What your aunt Olive does is often
very different from what I would do.
Besides, Jennie, you know Philip
would De indignant. You know he
would never tolerate such a thing.”
Jennie's cheeks flushed.
“I will tell him, if he says
that it is because his cross,
there'll not be anybody at the
with no ornaments.
going to have them,
there is about it! And I'll look so per-
fectly fascinating that even you will
forgive me, you dear little over-con-
scientious mother you! Now let me
kiss you, mamma, for I assure you I |
shan’t stir one step till you do, so I'll |
know you aren't mad with me.”
And, for all the mother-heart was
sore at the girl's headstrong wilful-
ness, yet it was no easy matter to re-
fuse the kiss on the sweet, tempting
lips so near her own, or resist the
clinging coaxing arms that were
around her neck,
And then the little grand tycoon
danced laughingly away, knowing that
victory was on her banners.
Of all the beautiful women in the
ball-room that eventful evening, Jen-
nie Clifford was undoubtedly the belle,
and in that conscious satisfaction that
is so gratifying to a woman. Jennie’s
checks grew daintily pink, and her
eyes sparkled even brighter than th
shining brilliants that swung from her
ears and lay on her bosom, suspended
by the black velvet band at her throat.
Tor she had accomplished her desire,
Mamma, I'm just
and that’s all
and had hired the diamonds, and
thoroughly enjoyed the limpid, daz-
zling elegance than enhanced her own
fair beauty, and that of her snowy
white costume.
At home, when Mr. Courtenay had
kissed her before they took the coach,
Jennie had taken care her opera-cloak
should be around her shoulders, and a
white, fleecy covering over her fair
hair, so that, when he had met her at
the dressing-room, in the crowd about
them he could anly look his complete
astonishment.
As old Mr. Bemerton did, when, an
hour or so later, he was watching Jen-
nie dance—only look his astonishment
—and, after a prolonged stare. give a
little surprised “Humph!” and then go
off to the card-table for a rubber of
whist.
Jennie laughed and danced, ani the
dimples and flushes vied with each
other in their bewitching attractive-
ness. People looked at her, and re-
marked how perfectly lovely and
graceful she was; and the evening was
one long ovation to ter
a word,
miserly |
old uncle refuses to give me any, and |
ball |
!
beauty, until at last she was surfeited
with the nectar, and asked Philip to
take her home, when, in the coach in
waiting for them, which was old Mr.
Bemerton’s, they found the old man
himself patiently awaiting them and
very enthusiastic over the furore Jen-
nie had created that evening.
“Only there's one thing I'm sorry for,
and that is that I shall be disappointed
in giving you these, and I hurried Tiff-
any up so's to hand them to you to-
night, thinking you'd be so pleased to
wear ‘em. But, seeing you have one
set, you won't want these, and I'll take
them back.”
And as he spoke he took a Russian
leather casket from the seat behind
him, and sprang the lid, revealing, in
the light of the carriage lanterns a
magnificent cross of diamonds, a
broach and earrings, a star for the
hair, and a bracelet—one glittering
splendor, lying on their bed of black
velvet.
A little scream of rapture burst from
Jennie.
“Oh, oh, oh! How glorious! What
exquisite—exquisite beauties! Phil, did
you ever see anything so perfectly
lovely? And they are for—"
And then the actuality of her posi
tion, with all i*s shame and mortifica-
tion, occurred to her, and she sank
back against the cushions, hot, angry
tears forcing themselves from her
eyes, and dropping on the hateful,
fateful diamonds on her breast.
Philip, who began to understand it
all, said not a word, doubting whether
to blame or pity her.
And old Mr. Bemerton, with most
tantalizing calmness, carefully tied up
the precious package.
“I meant em for a wedding present;
but so long as you've got a very pretty
set, why you won't want these. Tiff-
any'll take ’em back. No; I'll give 'em
to Fletcher's daughter. She hasn't
any, I'm quite sure. Hello, there,
Lumley! Let me out here at the
‘Bastminster,” and take these young-
sters home afterward.”
Poor little Jennie! The hot tears
came in a torrent now, instead of in
slow drops, and she turned to Philip,
her heart almost breaking with the
shame, and regret, and disappoint-
ment, and told him the whole story,
while he listened, still not knowing
whether to pity or censure.
In Mrs. Clifford's parlor a day later,
Philip very gravely discussed the sub-
ject with her.
“I can overlook your foolish pride,
Jennie, for I know you will never re-
beat the fault. I will forgive you,
but my uncle never will.”
And Mr. Bemerton never did; and
Jennie had to bear her three-fold har-
vest of reward for her vanity, and an
expensive lesson it was.—Saturday
Night.
AN ueLY WOMAN'S CONFESSIONS,
The Duchess of Orleans on Her Own Per-
sonal Looks.
Perhaps no woman was ever better
reconciled to positive ugliness in her
own person than the Duchess of Or-
leans, the mother of the Regent d’Or-
leans, who governed France during
the minority of Louis XV. Thus she
writes of her own appearance and
manners:
“From my earliest
aware how ordinary my
was, and did not like that people
should look at me attentively. I
never paid any attention to dress, be- |
cause diamonds and dress were sure |
to attract attention. On great days
my husband used to make me rouge,
which I did greatly against my will.
One day I made the Countess Soissons |
laugh heartily. She asked me why
I was
appearance
years
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I never turned my head when I passed |
a mirror—everybody else did. I
swered
love to bear thesight of my own homeli-
an- |
ness.” I must have been very homely
in my youth. I had no sort of feat- |
ures, with little, twitching eyes,
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDERSED
PENSIONS NS GRANTED.
Eagle Killed in Mercer County—New Elec-
tric Railway for Tarentum and Springdale.
Miner Injured by Dynamite.
Following persons were granted pen-
sions last week:
Jeremiah Ramsey, Bedford, $24;
George Castor, Canonsburg, $6; An-
drew J. Bruer, Millhall, $6; James Fitz-
gerald, Pleasant View, $10; Alexander
M. Bitner, Ligonier, $10; Daniel B.
Crawshaw, St. Clair, $10; Horace A.
Watson, West Middlesex, $10; Lotten
H. Breden, Shoustown, $6; John Mc-
Reighton, Cannellton, $8; Jeremiah
Burgess, Canonsburg, $10; trin
Matthews, Beaver, $17; Joseph B. Shir-
ley, Long Run, $10; Louis N. Morgan,
West McKeesport, $6; James L. Long,
Reynoldsville, $6; August Floto, Myers-
dale, $24.
Martin Hession, a miner at Pittston,
received injuries which may result fa-
tally. He was smoking his pipe when
it suddenly exploded. The supposition
is that he had a dynamite cap in his
pocket mixed up with his tobacco.
Emil Rossberger, of Wilmington
township, Mercer county, had a fight
with an eagle in his barn yard Friday.
The bird attempted to carry off a chicken
and Mr. Rossberger knocked it down
with a club. It then flew at him, badly
clawing and lacerating his face with its
talons. He killed the eagle, which
measured six feet four inches from tip
to tip.
Anrother coke town is proposed for
Westmoreland county. The Ocean Coal
Con:pany has began the construction of
1,000 coke ovens on the Gardner farm
near Herminie. The Hempfield branch
of the Pennsylvania railroad is being
extended to the field, and one shaft has
been opened to the depts of 350 feet. An
excellent vein of coal has been struck
and the erection of the ovens will be be-
gun at once.
Silas A. Kline, of Greensburg, exec-
utor of the estate of an aged woman
named Sabina Beer, who died at Madi-
son, Westmoreland county, some time
ago, sent his son Wade and Kirk Mc-
Connell down to Madison to look after
some of the belongings of the deceased.
In going through an old chest they
found $16,000 in cash, over $5,000 of
which was in gold.
The peach crop in Center and adjoin-
ing counties is beginning to ripen and
the fruit will soon be ready to market.
The crop this year is probably the larg-
est ever grown in this section. In Nit-
tany valley alone it will aggregate over
10,000 opis while the total will pos-
sibly reach close to 20,000 bushels.
Growers expect to clean up from $25,000
upwards from the crop.
George Henderson, of Shenango
township, Lawrence county, heard a
noise in his cornfield and slipping
down with a club he jumped upon what
he supposed to be a cow, but which
turned out to be a huge black bear. A
desperate encounter ensued. Hender-
son finally breaking away and escaping
to the house. The bear is supposed to
have escaped from a show.
At Wilkesbarre twenty-one young
women took the final vows and receiv-
ed the black veil at Malinskrodt convent
Tuesday morning. Eight of them are
natives of the United States and the
others are from Germany. Rev. P.
Christ, of Scranton, officiated at the
high mass and Rev. D. Mackerel, S.
J., of Buffalo, delivered the sermon.
Friends of Judge John G. Love, of
Bellefonte, have sent to Governor Stone
a petition signed by almost all the mem-
bers of the Center county bar praying
for his appointment to the place of the
Supreme Court bench made vacant by
the death of Chief Justice Green and
consequent promotion of Judge McCul-
| lom to be chief justice.
John H. H. Lewis, justice of the peace
| and ex-postmaster of Franklin Mills,
Fulton county, is in custody at Magers-
town, charged with receiving exorbitant
ees in securing pensions. Lewis once
served six months in jail at Pittsburg
| for extorting an illegal fee from George
ail e a r pension F
, ‘Because I have too much selt- | Peter Barnhart, a pensioner of alton
county, Pa.
William Bingle, a farmer near Laugh-
| lintown, Westmoreland county, respond-
ed to a knock at his front door in broad
a | daylight and was beaten into insensi-
stort, stub nose, and long, thick lips. | bili: ty by men with sandbags. Neighbors
The whole of wy physiognomy was
far from attractive.
“My face was large, with fat cheeks,
and my figure was short and stumpy; |
in short, I am a very homely sort of |
person. Except for the goodness of
my disposition, no one could have en-
dured me. It was impossible to dis-
cover anything like intelligence in my
eyes, except with a microscope. Per-
haps there was not on the face of the
earth such another pair of ugly hands
as mine. The king often told me so,
and set me laughing about it; for as
I was quite sure of being very ugly, 1
made up my mind to be always the
first to laugh at it. This succeeded
very well, though I must confess it
furnished me with a good stock of
material for laughter.
“One thing that always surprised
me was how anybody could ever fall
in love with me. I was notoriously
the most homely woman in the French
court, and yet I was only 19 when I
was married. I often asked my hus-
band whether my looks did not repel
him, and what he saw in me that he
should fall in love. To my questions
1 have never received a satisfactory
answer, but it seems to me that other
qualities, in lack of beauty, caused his
attraction.”—New Orleans Picayune.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
The only failure a man ought to fear
is failure in cleaving to the purpose he
sees to be best.
It is only as a man puts off all foreign
support and stands alone, that he can
be strong and prevail.
Nothing is useless to the man of
sense; he turns everything to account.
Instruction ends in the scholroom,
but education ends only with life.
Common sense is, of all Kinds, the
most uncommon. It implies good judg-
ment, sound discretion, and true and
practical wisdom applied to common
life.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the
health of the body, the peace of the city,
the security of the state. As the
beams e' a house, so is order to all
things.
Right in one thing becomes a pre-
liminary towards right in everything;
the transition is not distant from the
feeling that tells us that we should do
harm to no man, to which will tell us
that we should endeavor to do good to
all men.
Life's attav of roses is as rare as it
is precious, and it takes the sunshine
of many summers and the braving of
many thorns to make a single drop.
3ut that drop when produced is worth
all that it costs, and the perfume of it
will last forever.
The grand difficulty is to feel the
reality of both worlds, so as to give
cach its due place in our thoughts and
feelings, to keep our mind's eye and
our heart's eye fixed on the land of
promise without looking away from
the road we are to travel toward it.
A Chinese Segment ons a gay
appearance to the foreign observer.
youth and | Nearly every man bears a banner.
| ance.
|
| and the Gray
heard his cries and came to his assist-
The plunder secured by the rob-
bers was trifling.
General orders have been issued from
| the headquarters of the National Guaid
of Pennsylvania announcing the honora-
ble discharge of the Twentieth regi-
ment; Company K, Sixteenth regiment,
Invincibles, which were
recently mustered out of service.
A portion of the old Pennyroyal coal
mine which has been operated in the
Second ward of Connellsville for 30
years, caved in under some of the Bali
more and Ohio tracks near the Sodom
shops, letting some cars into the cre-
vice.
As the result of a request by the
American Iron and Steel Manufacturing
Company, at Lebanon, to their striking
ironworkers to return to work, the men
held a meeting and decided not to return
unless the puddlers are paid at the rate
of $3.50 a ton.
Work has been started on an sori
railway connecting Tarentum,
Kensington and Springdale. At the New
rentum end it will join with the line
already in operation between that town
an Jatrona.
Attorney W. H. Martin, of New Ken-
sington, has been arrested, charged with
violating the act of assembly and also
“with setting himself up as a lawyer
when not a “member of the Westmore-
land county bar.” He gave bail.
The Beaver Falls Steel works, recent-
ly absorbed by the Crucible Steel Com-
pany, has been ordered closed in-
definitely.
ihe remains of Harry A. Griffin, who
died July 31, at
a hospital in Vienna,
Austria, from pneumonia cotnitracted on
one of Cooke's European tours, were
his mother,
brought to the home of
Mrs. Julia Griffin, in Beaver.
Arrangements have been completed hy
which the Banner Silk company, of
Paterson, N. J.. will establish a branch
mill at Meadville. It will start with
60 hands and will eventually employ 250.
The management of the Meadville
city hospital are about to build an addi-
tion to the hospital to be used for the
treatment of patients suffering from
contagious diseases.
At a meeting oi Franklin citizens
$100.000 was subscribed for stock in the
Grant Machine Too! Company, of Cleve-
land, O. ‘he amcunt was subscribed
in less than three days. The plant will
be moved to this piace and enlarged.
Company K, Sixteenth Pennsylvania
cavalry, held its reunion at Old Con-
cord, Washingtor county, Saturday,
and Captain Edmund Dunn, of Wash-
ington, Pa., was present. He 1s the only
surviving ofticer.
The East Brady Oil company brought
in their No. 3 well on the Solomon
Mays farm, and it proved to be one of
the largest gas wells ever struck in this
vicinity.
Opposed to Treason.
The Independent People’s party of
Michigan held its state convention at
Saginaw Wednesday, with a majority of
the congressional districts in the state
represented. Daniel Thompson was
nominated for governor.
Resolutions were adopted favoring
tqual taxation, municipal ownership of
public utilities, nomination for public
pffices by popular vote and equal suf-
frage regardless of sex. The resolutions
1lso condemn the political policy of of-
fering aid or encouragement to open
enemies of the United States.
MINES AND MINERS.
After New Coal Areas—Science to Cume to
the Consumers’ Aid in Great
Britain.
The English Admiralty has contract-
ed with Cardiff firms for 150,000 tons of
the best Welsh steam coal, at
ranging from 23s to 27s 6d per ton, de-
livery to be within four months. This
is the highest price the government has
yet paid, except in times of strikes.
There is no doubt that when business
settles down after the holidays there will
be a sharp advance in prices for steam
coal, but this will furnish no legitimate
excuse for further forcing up the price
of house coal.
Will the serious consideration which is
now being given to the coal question
lead to scientific research and the dis-
covery of new coal areas in different
arts of the United Kingdom, says the
ondon Daily Mail. A coal expert to
whom the question was put by a Daily
Mail representative expressed an af-
firmative opinion.
“It will be found,” he said, “that our
coal reserves are far from being ex-
hausted. The readily accessible seams
of coal near the surface are the chief
seams which have been worked in this
country, and it is these which are show-
ing signs of exhaustion.
“New sources of supply will be found
at greater depths and will involve the
initial outlay of much larger capital ex-
penditure and the establishment of shafts
with appliances of much larger capac-
=
y.
“The small coal owner,” he continued,
“may become extinct, and there may
only be room for the great capitalist,
but this fact will guarantee greater ef-
ficiency in mining and less waste.
Science will be sure to unite with capi-
tal and prevent any very appreciable in-
crease in the cost of coal mining.
“In various parts of the country bor
ings are being put down to thoroughly
test the geology of the district, and in
several cases, where upper seams have
been worked, tests are being and will
be made at a lower depth.
“An old-fashioned notion was that
coal did not exist under the chalk, but,”
he pointed out, “as far back as 1856, in
a paper read before the Royal Geologi-
cal Society, Mr. Godwin Austen con-
cluded that coal would be found under
the secondary rocks in the southeast of
England, and this opinion was support-
ed by Professor Sir. J. Prestwich at the
Royal Coal! Commission in 1871.
“The experiments which were a few
years ago made by Professor Boyd
Dawkins and Mr. F. Brady in Kent also
proved this thing correct. The boring
was put down through the chalk, and
the first coal seam of two feet three
inches thick was struck at a depth of
1,130 feet. Between that and 2,000 feet
eight workable seams 'wvere proved.
COULD BE A POWER.
Female Suffrage Would Represent a Host o
Strong Organizations.
_ It is very hard for women, who have
just as much interest as men in the po-
litical outcome, to sit in idleness
throughout the campaign, neither by
pen, voice nor organization helping the
party whose success they earnestly de-
sire, when they are very strong at the
present time on all of these three points,
says a writer in the New York Sun.
Men themselves are no more systemati-
cally and thoroughly organized than are
the women o the country—the
Woman's Council, with a million and a
quarter members; the W. C. T. U., with
200,000; the Federation of Clubs, with
perhaps a larger membership; the
Women’s Relief Corps, the Ladies cf
the Maccabees and on through the list,
representing millions of women. These
hold together, constantly augmenting
their numbers and increasing the sphere
of their activities. It would be entirely
possible to organize these great forces
for campaign purposes and bring an un-
dreamed of power into politics.
Woman's strength with the pen and
on the platform is universally recog-
nized. Some of the strongest writers
of the day are women, and many a
“leader” for which a masculine editor
receives the credit is written by some
woman on the staff. Audiences to-day
would rather listen to a woman speaker
than a man, provided the ability was
equal. And yet one of the strangest
features of the present political situation
is that the voices, the pens, the great
organized force of women are absolutely
rejected by the very party leaders who
are scouring the earth to gather up the
elements which will bring strength to
their tickets.
Two-thirds of the public schools in
Belgium have savings banks for the re-
ception of the hoards of the pupils.
It has been estimated that from 90,000
to 100,000 deer feed in the forests of
Scotland, and that 4,000 stags are killed
annually.
The penal code of the Chinese em-
pire is at least 2,000 years old, and un-
der its provisions about 12,000 persons
are annually executed.
The new forts at Dover, England, are
to have six nine-inch wire-wound guns,
having an effective range of 11 miles.
They are nearly 4o feet long.
If the average man were to attempt
to read everything the Government pub-
lishes in one year he would have to de-
vote about half a century to the task,
taking eight hours a day.
The winter and early spring are usu-
ally considered the best months to visit
Sicily, but a German author declares
that Taormina and Aetna are really at
their best in May, June and July.
An English expert declares that he
knows of at least 600 counterfeits of the
old masters which are now hanging in
the private galleries of the United
States, and all of which were originally
purchased i in Europe at very high prices.
The principal cotton mills in China
are those at Shanghai. They now num-
ber eight and have 273,000 spindles and
3.450 looms. At Ningpo there is one
mill at work with 11,000 spindles and at
Hankow there are two with 30,000 and
50.000 spindles respectively.
Two more vessels of the British navy,
the Diadem and the Furious, have been
equipped with Marconi’s wireless ie
raphy apparatus. The receiving coil i
suspended to a gaff attached to Ti
mainmast above the semaphore, which
is the highest point on board. he ap-
paratus is fitted to work up to a dis-
tance of 20 miles.
War Room of the White House.
The “war room” is still maintained at
the White House, and maps of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippine islands
still hang on the wall. Colonel Mont-
gomery, who is a sort of military secre-
tary to the president, keeps up the prac-
tice that was commenced at the begin-
ring of the war and marks the position
and movement of every regiment and
detached battalion and man- -of-war ana
transport in the service by means of dii-
ferent colored flags mounted upon pins.
By a single glance at the map of the
Philippines, for example, the president
can locate every company or battery in
the army and every ship and transport
in the navy, and the flags are moved as
the changes are reported to the adjutant
general or the bureau of navigation, for
all the dispatches they receive are for-
warded to the president promptly.
Each flag bears an inscription to show
what it represents. Thus the president
can obtain all the information concern-
ing. the movements of the army and
navy without a guide. For example, the
Philippine commission left San Francis-
co the other day on an army transport
which will make an average speed of 300
miles a day. The flag that bears the
name of that transport will be moved
forward that distance on the map every
morning until it comes to the end of the
route in the harbor in Manila, when the
president expects to receive telegr aphic
notice of its arrival. Another transport,
going the other way, was at Malta when
last reported. It is more difficult to keep
track of her because the speed is not 30
regular in the Mediterranean and the
canals as in the open sea, but as she
reports every time she stops anywhere
it is easy to keep track of her.
prices |
AFTER THE S1ac.
Royal Sport Which Exciies Interest in the |
West of England. |
In describing the preli
annual meet of th
staghounds at C
newspaper says
excites a great a
west country. The rendezvous
lying under Dire Beacon :
manding some of the
views of land and s
ren moor and fertile
west country can ese
The meet, it is anticipated,
tended as usual by thou
sporting element of West
be there, and hunting visit
parts of England, Cloutsh
which the meet takes . be
crowded with vehicles of every size and
shape, from the four-horse coach to the
ie s of the |
will be at-
the
oil
on
char-a-banc or bre ak and down to the
farmer’ s two-wheel dog-cart. The first
day is a great picnic, yarade of
hounds, ending probably with a il, af-
ter an easy run, but the real business
of hunting only commences at the meets
that follow, and a 20-mile point is by no
means an unusual circumstance.
e master of the Devon and Somer-
set stag-hounds has already several bye-
meets to get the new entry into trair
of my house for a walk when a funer:
ing before the season actually. begins.
The herds of deer are very plentiful, as
the farmers in the deer country can tes-
tify by the damage done to their crops.
Look These Up.
In many educational journals now ®
days we see pronunciation tests, cate
words, etc., which may be valuable for
technical use and yet not being needed |
every day in everyday talk are, like
certain folks I know, chiefly interesting
on public occasions. I should like to
put down here a list of words that are
generally mispronounced.
Everybody knows how to pronounce
them, perhaps, but being such common |
little things, mere street waifs,
washed faces, nobody takes the troub! ef
to “speak them fair.” Now, to know
what 1s our duty
and fail to do it is a
much more culpable thing than not to
do it because we don’t know what our
duty is. So here they are, litle, com
monplace creatures, which are mis pro- |
nounced every day:
Toward, again, bade, brooch, apri- |
cot, often, catch, hearth, lien,
greasy, sew, scare, years, ide 2
bouquet, ague, bleat, rise (noun),
tic, shone, route, gaunt, canine, juve- |
nile, infidel, corporal, tete-a-tete, trou 15- |
seau, amendment, restaurant, le
were, recipe, frontier, depot,
recess, romance, tirade, essay,
tarpat Hh
and of
them, of
on.
The above are in common use
common abuse. Some of
course, come from our si France
and people are likely to say that
are not expected to pronounce ic
Joss correctly.—Texas School
nal.
sister,
A Dream That Came True.
“Talking
Smith as we
“I once had a very
dreams,”
around the
about
sat
strange experien
I drcamed that I was just stepping i
passed by. A man with a cap marked
nine and a red scar i across his
forehead jumped e hearse
and, approaching me, a ‘Are you
ready? ‘No,’ 1 replied, ar 1d with that
I awoke.
“A few months later I was
in Chicago. was on the top floor of
one of the big houses and about
to step into the clevator when I re-
membered another thing I wanted to
buy. 1 stopped and looked through
my notebook ‘Down!’ exclaimed the
elevator and then asked me,
you ready No,’ 1 answered, and the
door closed.
‘The next instant a great crash was
heard, and the occupants of the eleva-
tor were dashed to an untimely Jom
“The cap of the boy hore the figure
9, and he had a red scar running acros
his brow.”—San Francisco Chronicle. |
stopping
just
Glass Dissolved in Water.
Every kind of glass at a sufficiently
high temperature, says Professor Ca
Barus, must eve ntually show complete |
solubility in water. Under pressure
glass dissolves in water heated to 410 |
degrees Fahrenheit. Sea water more |
than about 66o feet beneath the surface
will remain liquid at that temperature,
and if it penetrates the earth's crust
where the temperature is equally high,
it will, apart from the pressure, liquefy
the silicates, or glassy rocks. Professor
Barus concludes that at a depth of about
five miles, silicates in contact with wa-
ter are virtually fluid, and that the level
of aqueous fusion in the earth is five |
times nearer the surface than is that of |
igneous fusion.—Youth’s Companion. !
A Unique Piece of Engincering.
An extension of the Mexican Na
tional railway so miles, from Patzcuaro
to Uruapan, was completed a year or
two ago, and is a unique piece of en-
gineering. Probably a more crooked
railroad is not to be found anywhere in
the world. After winding along the
shore of Lake Patzcuaro, then past beau-
tiful Lake Zirahuen, it crosses a moun-
tain range by the devious course of four
long, adjacent loops. In an air line
covering the four adjacen loops the di
tance is 2,673 feet—just about half a mile
—and the fall 426 feet, but the train
travels two and a hali miles in the
descent.—Los Angeles Times.
10c.
25¢c. 50c,
IN TEE 14%D OFMAGIC,
| Wonderful Sight
veler in Thibet.
A Florentine suc
i i to
death o
hat he
traveler ceeded
r the
1 iY
with the
who
g child.
temple te
3uddha founc
a
priesthood,
secret signs to
mself in a
;, but a few
! pre ence of the people
y ed upon the altar.
reincarn
fant
brought
and re
Sudde
child be
to utter in a loud,
+ 1 SheasT " Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All
ce the following sentences: L am gry ists refund the money if it falls socese
am his spirit, and I, Buddha, We G GROVE'S signature 1s on each LOX. 2c.
your have left my old
t | decrepit body a the temple of * The averag when re-
and selected the body ef this young marrying is 42;
babe as my earthly dwelling.” ETT TT
? T : Jlorentine says he was permit- I do not believe Piso’s Cure for gensumpties
ted by the priests to take the baby in bas an equal for coughs and colds—Jonx F.
irry it off some distance,
y himself that it
ventriloquist.
his arms and
SO as to satis
trick of the
look that it made his flesh creep,
then repeated the same words,
1d 1 o stal bout it. This ac-
could be no mistake about i
count is confirmed by Abbe Huc, who KIDNEY TROUBLES OF WOMEN
states that the child answers questions ey 2
and tells those who knew him in his | nies Frederick's Letters Show How She
past life the most exact details of his Relied on Mrs. Pinkham and Was
anterior earthly existence. Cured.
The e Barber's Revenge. “DEAR Mgs. Prxgiam:—I have a
“Does a barber ever deliberately and yellow, muddy complexion, feel tired
with ma
bad shave? asked the inquisitive
customer, as he tiled comfortably sometimes am troubled with a white
back in his ch “Well, that's a | discharge. Also have kidney and blad-
rather leading question,” replied the | der trouble.
barber. “I can only speak from my I have been this way for a long time,
own experience. In confidence I will 1
admit to you that occasionally 1 have
instance,
with un- | I shaved a man this morning who will
the
He has been coming here
and nothing
done my very worst. For
have a sore face for a week as
result of it.
‘now for about six months,
has ever Seed him. He
k
they tip cae
had never given up
is a chronic
but this
price of his shave. I nearly dropped medicine a more miserable person you
dead the other day when he handed | never saw. I could not eat or sleep,
me a nickel, with the air of a man; and did not care to talk with any one.
lw ho is doing something wonderful. | Now I feel so well I cannot be grateful
After he had gone I discovered that enough to you for what you have done
o ick 12 lnooe Je us n n drm
de eet ns hd nd fost for me."—Miss EpxA FREDERICK, Troy,
1ade 4 V NC ). gel: § are, a 3 3 9
did t morning. He kicked and Ohio, Sept, 10, 1895.
squirmed in the Tats, but I had him Backache Cured
where I wanted him,
iit, good and hard. That
ten happen, though.’
Record.
doesn’t of-
The Golden Honeymoon.
intr epid soldier of fortune an- of the best physicians in the city of
ed joyfully the other day that New York, but received no benefit. I
ooed and won the rich Miss | haa been ailing for about sixteen years,
T he man to i hom jis go was 50 weal and nervous that I could
ji Se : dod = Og Hh apd hardly walk ; had continued pain in my
_ his triend would have mar backand was troubled with lencorrheea.
{ herself if she had a| Menses were irregular and painful.
fortune, so ne felt rather sorry for | Wordscannotexpress the benefit I have
Miss Blank, but knowing that Miss | derived from the use of your medicine.
Blank had an uncertain temper, white
c¢yc lashes and a
do
the newly en-
n “Don’t
harvest moon!” —
il Advertiser.
ed soldier «
eymoon! Itis my
York Commerc
Importadt Stone Industries.
New Yorl
yout 55 miles
1
New
k-Vermont slate belt ex-
north and south in
ston county, New York, and that hold their shape
R utland county, Vermont. The larger and fit until worn out,
I at of the quarries, however, now be- Over 1,000,000 satisfie
ng worked are in Vermont, whicl
ean contributes the lion's share o
the product. Directly east of the quar
les 7 e the picturesque Taconic moun
ains, a branch or continuation of o\ canbuy W.L.Douglas
jit Green mountains, and just h_shoes for $3 and
east of the Taconic range are the % $3.50 which
{marble quarries of Vermont, where
| Senator Proctor made a fortune in mar-
ble quarrying. Thus these mountains are
the dividing line between two im- ie .
portant stone industrics.—New York Sra =
Sel TF A $5 SHOE FOR $3.50.
A Country of Clear Water. A $4 SHOE FOR $3.
{ § s. T 50
About one-half of Southern Alaska Ta Epa Sith ihe ice 1 85.50
is water. The inlets and bays are so re o the largest makers and retailers of
5 men 5a he wor
numerous as to be one of the wonders ecll more 23 and oe than any live Cr on tr
S facturers in the U
of the world. Both the salt water and ters in the Unites foe business In the
fresh water are remarkably clear. Fish world, and a perfec a & aa ng, enables
and other marine animals may be seen ne $3und $5.40 shoes lan 6at
to the depth of twenty and thirty feet THE REASON more WL. Douglas $3and 43.50
I 1 There a
yencath the surface of the water. jets ARE TIE BEST. Your
or san 2 2 ats them; we gi lealer exclusive wi
re no sandy beaches and no tide flats Take no substitute! Insist on having
Tre timber
edge. The waters are so cold that fish
as well as shell-fish,
out the year. =H ns:
s City
© Journal.
Mrs. W tnslows| s SoothinE Brian forchildren
t hin, softens the gums, reduc es inflamma.
bot
tion, allays pain.cures w ind colic. 25¢ a
Ancients Made Cast Steel.
The manufacture of cast steel in India
can be traced back for over 2,000 years
le there are also examples
wrought iron work nearly as old. Near
Delhi, close to the Kutub, there is ar
enormous wrought iron pillar whicl
weighs ten tons,
over 1,800 years old. —Chicag 70 Journal
one.
liver
is dead.
workshops.
winter.
the body when
driven out.
Seen by a Florentine Tra-
and recog-
have
new-born in-
days old, is
1
r to a sitting posture the
manly
was no
The infant
opened his eyes and gave him such a
and
so there
ice aforethought give a man a
¢ can stand that kind when
fellow
a cent over the
and I let him have
Philadelphia
waist almost as big
her fortune he felt rather sorry | windsor, Pa.
impecunious friend. jut he ? Coma
to smile as he shook his
you think
call it
comes down to the water's
e¢ good through-
and is thought to be!
Ho thinks hie lives, but he's 5 dead
No person is really alive whose
most people spend nearly all their time
in yam, stuff
Many don’t get as much
exercise as they ought, and everybody
knows that people gain weight in
As a ryle ft
weight, but means a lot of flabby fat
and useless, rotting matter staying in
But the liver was over-
burdened, deadened—stopped work.
you are, With a dead liver, and spring is the
time for resurrection.
Get all the filth out of your system, and get
ready for the summer's trials with clean, clear blood, body, brain free from bile. Force
is dangerous and destructive unless used in a gentle persuasive way, and the right plan
is to give new strength to the muscular walls of the bowels, and stir up the liver to new
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Get a.box to-day and see how quickly you will be
BROUGHT BACK TO NEW LIFE BY
Of the 3 700 Chine se in New Zealand
only 26 are women.
| Beware of ointments for Catarrh
| That Contain Mercury.
smelland compl
v he e Be nie Hogi! h
Jonld never Be usec
t.
vder
actured by F. J. Cheney y,
ontains no fnste ury, and is taken
cting directly upon the blood and
tl ster In buying
‘tthe genuine.
de in Toledo,
nonials free.
i
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Hall's Family Pill il
In 1810 public bal
were prohibited in
To Cure a Cold in One Dray.
Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900.
A pet chameleon Tied because it ate
a fly taken from flypaper.
Hereafter boys who enlist in the navy
will not have to buy their uniforms.
and have bearing down pains. Menses
have not appeared for three months;
and feel so miserable I thought I would
write to you and see if you could do me
any good.” — Miss EDNA FREDERICK,
Troy, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1899.
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Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-
pound according to directions, and can
say I have not felt so well for years as
I do at present. Before taking your
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[ovis
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i| orien
7 mE Why do you pay $4 to
© \ $5 for shoes when you
Douglas shoes with name
If Your qdiler will pat pot hen for os sen
nelosing price and 25c. extra for carriage.
Bate kind of leather, size, a dt nin or ca joe,
s will reach you anywhere. Catalogue
W. E ‘DOUGLAS SHOE co. Brockton, Mass.
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