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Gambling
It’s too risky, this
gambling with your
cough. You take the
chance of iis wear-
ing off. Don’t |
The first thing
you know it will be
down deep in your
lungs and the game’s
lost. Take some of
Ayer’s Cherry Pec-
toral and stop the
gambling and the
cough.
“I was given up to die with
quick consumption. I ran down
from 138 to 98 pounds. I raised
blood, and never expected to get
off my bed alive. I then read of
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral and began
its use. I commenced to improve
at once. I am now back to my
old weight and in the best of
health.” — CHAs. E. HARTMAN,
Gibbstown, N.Y., March 3, 1890.
You can now get Ayers
Cherry Pectorzl in a 25 cent
size, just right for an ordinary
cold. The 50 cent size is bet-
ter for bronchitis, croup, whoop-
ing-cough, asthma, and the grip.
The dollar size is best to keep
on hand, and 18 most economical
fot'long-standing cases.
A Great Boon {o Humanity.
Bioxide of sodium seems to be one of
the greatest boons to humanity which
the century has given—that is, if the
reports as to the recent demonstration
of is qualities before the French acal-
emy of science prove to be substan-
tiated.
It is said that this product possesses
the property of renewing oxygen, ‘he
life-sustaining principle in air, as well
as of absorbing carbonic acid as it is
given off. Two men with a new appur-
atus containing bioxide of sodium are
alleged to have put on diving dresses
from which all air was excluded. and
remained for the space of two hours
under these conditions. Subsequently
théy remained under water for half an
hour under similar conditions
‘The ¢ ability of this new means
of ‘vitalizing air in the case of sub-
marine craft seems obvious. 3ut its
vse is likely to be very extended, en-
abling firemen to penetrate the densest
smoke without danger of suffocation,
and miners to pursue their calling safe-
ly, by depriving “fire damp” and nox-
ious gases of their power to work harm
and death.—Boston Globe.
Unique in Their Alignment.
The highest of the Tennessee moun-
tains is the Unaka range, and its high-
est peak is Rattlesnake, the giant that
stands above the Cherokee Indian res-
ervation over 7,000 icet. wenty-two
peaks measure about 6,000 feet. A re-
markable fact is that some of these
peaks, standing directly opposite each
other, measure exactly the same height,
while others come within a few feet of
a common height.—Chicago Record.
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Possibly the reason why the Japa:
ese are so nrogressive is because they
are so cleanly. Public baths are pro-
vided on every street. Japanese work-
men bathe once or twice every day.
WOES OF WORKERS.
Too Many Fried Messes.
Dr. Jacobi, writing in the Medical
Record, says that in the United States
there is one physician to every 600 peo-
ple—proportionately twice a
in Great Britain, four time.
Frances has, five times as many as (
many has and six times as many
Italy has. And Dr. Jacobi might h
gone on to show that we take an in
est in patent or proprietary medi
and in various other forms of extra-pro
fessional
treatment which 1s almost
tent in Europe.
There must be some explanation of
this American craze for doctoring. Cer-
tainly it is not that we are a sickly and
an ailing race. On the contrary we are
exceptionally hardy and enduring.
It may be that our backwardness in
the art of cooking has a great deal to
do with it. Outside of a few highly-
favored centers the efforts of cooks are
directed chiefly to the concocting of
sundry fried messes that are interesting
to the palate but productive of that
lumpy feeling in the pit of the stomach
and afterward of all manner of disorl-
ers, from a general sense of gloom and
dissatisfaction and need of some sort
of medicine to complete collapse and a
fierce struggle with death.
A good cook can come pretty near ‘o
keeping the doctor out of the house.-—
7 New York World.
Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor
goods dyed with PurNyam FApeLess Dyes.
Sold by all druggists.
The area in Ireland under flax this
year is 47,327 acres, an increase of 12,-
338 acres on 1899. Under favorable
conditions flax yields in Ireland about
or £7 per statute acre.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
ii local applications, asthey cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu-
tional remedies. Decafnessis caused by an n-
flamed condition of the mucous liningof the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in-
amed you have a rumbling sound or imper-
fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam-
mation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten aro
caused by catarrh, which isnothing butan in-
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
e will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can-
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send
for circulars, free.
. J. CHENEY & C0., Toledo, O
Sold by Druggists, 75¢.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
A wideawake American has erected
steam pumps on the Jordan and is sup-
plying churches all over Europe with
genuine Jordan water.
Best For the Bowels,
No matter what ails you, headache to a
eancer, you wili never get well until your
bowels ars put right, CascarkTs help
nature, cure you without a gripe or pain,
produce easy natural movements, cost you
just 10 cents to start getting your health
back. Oascarers Oandy Cathartle, the
genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tab-
let has C.C.C. stamped on it. Beware of
imitations.
While the English law provides for
the organization of labor bodies, it de-
prives them of the privileges of incor-
poration.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous-
ness after first de use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. trial bottle and treatise
free. Dr.R.H. Kring, Ltd. 931 Arch St. Phila. Pa.
Danish lighthouses are supplied with
oil to pump on the waves in case of a
storm.
H. H. Gn Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., are
the only suc ful Dropsy Specialists in the
world. See their liberal offer in advertisement
in another column of this paper.
The cost of Philadelphia’s marble
City Hall to June 30 last were $23,739,-
593. So
Piso’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
as a cough cure.—J. W. O’'BrieN, 322 Third
Ave., N. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900
The Missouri is now claimed to be |
the longer by 200 miles than the Miss-
issippi.
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All
druggists refund the money if it fails to cure,
E. W. GROVE’S signature is on each box. 25¢,
The skins of upward of 100,000 ani-
mals are used to cover Oxford Bibles
alone.
Throw ph to the dogs—if you don’t
want the dogs; but if you want good diges-
tion chew Beeman's Pepsin Gum.
A pound of phosphorus heads 1,000,-
000 matches.
The American man or woman is industrious. Our leisure class is small,
our working world very large.
are hard workers.
Many of our leading citizens of great wealth |
Our laboring classes
Be Ey
are found in herds and hordes in the 51 3 hy LY
“hivesof industry.” What isall this work
for? In most cases it is for daily bread,
in many for maintenance of others. Great
numbers also work to acquire wealth.
Some for great commercial prominence.
Some to preserve intact a splendid inheri-
tance. Necessity, generosity and ambition A ,
are the inspiration of all classes of indus- 7
try, and the object of every one fallsto the
ground when ill-health attacks him.
Maintaining health is the most vital
thing in the world for workers of every
class, and the usefulness of Dr. Greene’s
Nervura blood and nerve remedy, as
strengthener of the constitutional and
vital powers, is beyond all question. This
great remedy enters into partnership
with Nature and helps human beings do
their work without giving up to prema-
ture decay. The strain of work is on the
minds of some, on the bodies of others
but the nourishing of either, or both, is
in the nerves and blood. Nervura acts
directly on the fountains of health and
its strengthening power is wonderful.
Dr. Greene's
NERVURA
for the Blood and Nerves.
What does the worker do when
trouble manifests itself ? He takes some stimulant or
something which is designed for temp
simply weakens his already overworked system. How
is the work of Nervura!
beautiful its support to the natural powers! With-
out shock of any kind its purely vegetable elements
different from this
seek out the weak spots and build the
diately the circulation of the blood improves and the sluggish
elements are expelled. The nerves are quieted, the quality of :
the blood is enriched and the new and strengthening tide communicates itself
to every muscle of the body.
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Mr. JOHN D. SMITH, Electrician for the Thomson-Houston
Electric Co., of Lynn, Mass., says
«When a man has been sick and is cured, it is his duty to tell others about it, that they,
too, may get well. Three years ago
eat LU and got only a few hours’ sleep
soon began to be
my stomach. )
“1 went to doctors, but they did me no
Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve rem
prostrated. 1 could not Hien Wiss js), guy ro
I was in a terrible condition, and was muca .
f the wonderful good done by
er 1t cured me com-
ks to this splendid medicine.
Imost night and day, could not
a D 2 man can stand that long, and I
1 tried, and my food would not stay on
at night.
y, I determined to try it.
beliove it to be the best remedy in existence.
Frei of all my complaints. I eat heartily and slesp well, than!
Dr. Greene, Nervura’s discoverer, wi
His office is at 35 West 14th Street,
d by personal call or by letter
The weorm-out in
Greene. | gan,
eounsel free of charge.
City, and his advice may be secure
through the mail; ne charge is made in either case.
body, mind, or sexual powers will get prompt help from Dr.
His adviee is absolutely confidential aud is free to all,
11 give all health seekers his
New York
A strange-looking little Arizona
newspaper, in oa wayworn wrapper,
te with wy mail a few mornings
. and when T epened it, wondering
why it had been sent to me and by
whom, my eye presently fell on a blue-
penciled paragraph:
“Marshal Catlip and posse got back
late last evening. They had a lively
chase—and there is one bad man the
less. It won't cost this town anything
to try him. Dive Tranchard needed a
change. He was too fond of horse-
flesh —other people's.”
Probably Arizouniaus understood that
paragraph perfectly at first sight, and
it intimated even to a slow New Eng-
lander that “Dive Tranchard” had
been sternly punished.
“Dive Tranchard!” Something in
the name set the chords of memory
vaguely vibrating all day, and when
I waked next morning, the full, fa-
miliar name had come to me out of the
past—Dives Tranchard! It must be he
—the ‘queer boy” of the school where
1 first. began as a teacher in Kennebec
county, Maine, 20 years ago.
1 was then only 18 years old,
the school agent who hired me
the good minister-member of the school
board who gave me my “certificate”
said that I might “pull through” if I
could manage Dives Tranchard.
In the schoolroom, Dives did not ap-
pear formidable at first view, but I
was not long in discovering the fer-
tility of his mischievous ingenuity.
The wits of the average schoolmaster
could not possibly keep pace with the
swift trickiness in which he indulged
himself.
He was a somewhat sedate and dis-
tinguished looking youngster, with a
clear-cut, refined face, and the incon-
sistency between his countenance and
Lis conduct was such that I never was
able to feel, during the whole time he
wag my pupil, that 1 quite understood
him.
Dives was an orphan, who, while
still very young, had been adopted by
the storekeeper of the place, Mr. Mul-
hall.
His father had been a very intem-
perate and blasphemous man, whose
dearest delight had been to rail at the
Scriptures. In profane bravado he
wad named his three sons Judas, To-
phet and Dives. The two former had
died of croup while very young, and
Dives, or “Dive,” as he v generally
called, was the sole survivor of the
family. -
Naturally, a teacher only 18 years
old could not hope to assume the role
of moral adviser to a youth of 17 with
entire success.
When I attempted it with Dives, he
grinned in my face, and the effort end-
ed in a rough-and-tumble fight over the
schoolhouse floor. In this conflict I es-
tablished a kind of doubtful suzer-
ainty over him, and afterward main-
tained it with a bold front, but the
issue was always in some little doubt.
What the outcome would have been
is far from certain. I have a feeling
that Dives would have been too much
for me, in time, had our relations as
pupil and pedagogue continued long.
| But they lasted only three weeks, On
| the first day of January he ran away,
| In consequence of a curious prank,
| District Number Eleven was the only
place where I ever saw what was be-
i
and
and
lieved to be a ghost. The people there
were not superstitious, but I found
that many of them had seen an ap-
| parition that they could not account
| for. It had been seen three times the
| previous winter and once late in No-
| vember, a few days before I arrived.
| More than 20 persons admitted that
they had seen it during snow-storms,
| but all made light of it; the people
| were not ignorant, and the apparition
puzzled them much more than it
| frightened them.
| The mysterious thing, whatever it
| was, had always been seen at night,
| and seemed to be a kind of phantom on
| horseback, an equestrian ghost, so as
| to speak.
| It had been discerned passing at
| great speed, but the hoofs made no
| noise, and it looked thin, or white,
| and was hardly distinguishable in out-
| line amidst the falling snowflakes,
| That was about all I could learn re-
garding the phantom; and as the repre-
sentative of education, I set myself to
discountenance belief in the spectre.
| My theories were received with re-
spect the only difficulty in the way of
B
bers of those who listened to me had
| really seen the ghost.
It was a place where the people re-
tained many of the old customs of an-
cestral Puritan England, amone others
that “of watch-night,” or watching the
old year out and the new year in, cn
the night of December 31st. It was
announced at the meeting-house ihe
previous Sunday that there would bo 4
watch-night the following Saturday
evening, to last half past twelve, New
! Year's morning. There would be sing-
ing and prayers, but it was not to be
an exclusively religious ceremony.
Conversation and even story-telling
| would be allowed.
| At the watch-night meeting there
were 30 or 35 people, old and young,
{including the Methodist minister, Mr.
Reeves, who had been settled there bu?
(a few months, a very young man,
. with whom I had already become inti-
mate.
He was companionable, robust and
jolly, a youth who still enjoyed snow-
| balling, for instance. After schoo!,
when I passed the house where he
lived, he usually dashed out, fresh
from his theological studies, and we
would go at a brisk trot for a mile to-
gether along the road to the post-office
and back.
The early hours of the watch-meet ng
passed agreeably. We had all gath-
ered about the meeting-house stove,
for the night was cloudy and bleak,
and after the usual hymn and opening
exercises, we amused ourselves by re-
lating our “good resolves” for the New
Year. Many of these were admirable
and some very humorous. Mr. Smith,
the little shoemaker of the place,
whose wife was very large and s{rong
and active, rose to say, with a twinkle
in his eye, that he had sadly neglected
his duty for the past twelve months,
but had now firmly resolved to beat
Mrs. Smith more frequently during
the year to come, to which Mrs. Smith
responded with a breezy laugh, “I'd
like to see you begin!” :
At about 11 o'clock one of the
boys, who had been to the outer door,
returned to say that it was snowing
fast and thick, aed indeed, we could
| faintly hear the icy flakes driving
against the window-panes. One of the
young ladies was playing, on the or-
the accompaniment to a hymn
which many of the older people were
singing.
their entire acceptance was that num-
: AN ARIZONA GHOST STORY.
Young Mr. Reeves sat near me, With
a quiet smile on his face, pondering,
as I fancied, something which he
meant to say after the music. Sud-
denly I felt him start, and glanced at
his face. His eyes were bent on some
object, but he turned at once.
“Don’t took!” he wh'spered to me. *I
have seen that ghost. It is outside,
looking in at the opposite window.
Wait a bit, then cast your eye in that
direction.”
1 did so, and saw as distinctly as I
ever saw anything, a long, white aw-
ful face looking in! Much to my con-
sternation, it moved, and appeared to
nod several times.
“Don’t seem to notice it!” Mr.
Reeves whispered. “Sit quiet a mo-
ment. When the people move back
from the organ, we will steal out and
see what we can discover.”
Recovering myself in a
stepped quietly to the docr, and a few
moments later was joined by Mr.
Reeves in the dark entry.
We took our hats, and then, without
waiting to put on ur overcoats, opened
the door carefully. Snow was falling
fast and drove in our faces: several
inches had fallen; but we dashed out,
doubled the corner of the house and
hurried toward the window.
A great, dim. indistinct object was
standing there which appeared to melt
away suddenly, with but the softest
possible sound. It disappeared round
the other corner of the house. With-
out speaking, we ran after it.
We could hardly see anything on ac-
count of the driving snow and dark-
ness, yet we again discerned, dimly,
the great, indistinct object moving to-
ward the highway.
I confess I felt a shivery sensation,
for the spectral appearance made
hardly an audible sound: but I dashed
on, side by side with Mr. Reeves.
We were good runners, and made a
dash to catch the thing. In the road,
a few hundred feet from the church,
we came so near at one time that I
reached out my hand in hope to lay
hold of the apparition, but it glided
away only the faster and I did not suc-
ceed.
And now we beth heard a kind of
regular muffled noise, as of great feet
falling softiv: and these audible evi-
dences of physical substance stimulat-
ed us to continue the chase,
“Run it down!” Mr. Reeves said, in
a low voice, and 1 settled myself to
keep pace with him.
The snow hindered us little, but not-
withstanding our efforts the efligy
drew away from us. We had lost sight
of it when we ran past the house of
Mr. Mulhall, the storekeeper, but in
the very moment of passing, we heard
the large door of the stable creaking.
This, at that hour of the night, seemed
so strange that we both stopped short
and turned back.
Entering the vard, we approached
the stable door, but found it closed.
There were slight noises inside, how-
aud match gleamed
through the crack of the door, and a
lantern was lighted.
To our astonishment, we now per-
ceived that the person inside was
Dives Tranchard. clad in a white gar-
ment and white cap, and that he was
untying what looked like snowy bags
from the fect of Mulhali’'s old white
mare. Having taken off these inufHers,
Dives next proceeded to withdraw a
large, white, bonnetlike structure
from the mare's head.
When these singular trappings were
removed, hie put the beast in her stall,
stripped off his own white garment
and cap, and made the whole outfit
into 2a bundle. Then he extinguished
the lantern, left the stable by a side
door, and went to the hous», which he
entered cautiously by a door in the
rear.
moment, I
aver, soon a
My first impulse had been to seize
him when he came out and compel him
to confess to the prank: but as he
emerged from the stable, Mr. Reeves
whispered, “Wait! Don’t say any-
thing to him. Don’t let him know yet
we have caught him.”
We therefore stood aside in the dark-
ness and allowed him to go to the
house unmolested, and then, hastening
back to the meeting-house, joined the
people there. Our absence had been
hardly noticed.
At 8 o'clock the next morning,
after Dives had gone to the school-
house, we called at Mulhall’'s store and
told the astonished storekeeper what
we had seen. He did not at first be-
lieve us, and was inclined to resent
the charge against b's foster-son.
At last, when Mr. Reeves sald that
he might perhaps Le convinced by be-
ing allowed to examine {he room
where Dives slept, Mulhall led the way
up-stairs.
It was a larg’, open room, with many
old chests, boxes and cuddies, and a
very brief search disclosed the bundle
which we had seen Dives bring from
the stable the previous evening. It
contained not only his white shirt and
cap and the gunny bags, with which
Lie mutlled the hoofs, but a
curious padded contrivance of white
cloth and wire to tie on her head.
The front of it was drawn to repre-
sent a human face, with holes for the
horse's eyes. It this nodding
white face which we had seen at the
window.
nan
was
Farther search in the chamber re-
vealed other things: plunder of many
kinds; goods and trinkets from the
store: not less than 50 letters, appar-
ently stolen from the post-office; four
bridles: 15 silver spoons: a bunch of
articles which Dives could not have
come by honestly.
Jy this time Mulhall, a rather simple
man, was abusing his foster-son vig-
orously as a thief, and wished to go at
ounce with us to the schoolhouse and
denounce him.
Mr. Reeves persuaded him to say
nothing till evening, and we arranged
to call at the house that night and en-
deavor to get the truth of the matter
from Dives himself.
But before noon that day the youth
had, in some way, learned or guessed
that bis thefts were discovered. He
did notreturn to theschoolhouse in the
afternoon.
He had run away, and I never heard
of him afterward until I saw his name
in the Arizona newspapers.—Youth's
Companion.
Anticipition and Realization.
Whenever a mother tells her daugh-
ter to sweep a room, the girl thinks en-
vyingly of the day when she will be
married, and “her own bos: And the
manner, by the way, in which a mar-
ried woman is “her own boss” is
enough to make that noble bird, Free.
dom, drop its tail feathers and close
its eyes in death.—Atchison Globe.
THE HEROINE OF TO-DAY. |
— i
She is Self-reliant, Strong, Ambitious, and |
Fitted to be Man’s True Companion.
The heroine of modern life and fie-
tion is contrasted with the heroine of
the century’s beginning by Robert
Grant in the Woman's Home Compan-
ion. In the following passage Judge
Grant leaves little doubt as to which of
the two he prefers:
“Not only woman herself, but theuni-
verse, rejoices in the new heroine of
real life and contemporary fiction—
the self-reliant, incredulous, sphere- |
seeking, critical, yearning modern |
woman. Even the rose on her bosom
wears a pronder demeanor, as though
conscious of her changed estate. Who
would remand her to her insipid servi-
tude? Certainly not man. She has
become his true companion instead of
his adoring doll. The Amelia Sedleys
have passed away from the face of the
earth forever, and the Marcellas rule
in their place. And yet, with the swing-
ing of the pendulum in mind, the phil-
osopher may be pardoned for drop-
ping a few violets on the grave of the
heroine of the past; even on poor
Amelia Sedley's—Amelia, who would
certainly have bored this philosopher
to the point of weariness.
“Amelia Sedley was the sheer hero-
ine of the past without lights and shad-
ows. But her more attractive sisters
lie also in their graves, and memories
of some of them come back to us fra-
grant with virtues in spite of their
limitations, which, it seems to a phil-
osopher, the new heroine—the Gibson
girl—cannot afford to disregard. They
had no minds to speak of, it is true.
That is, they were parrot-like in their
repetition of what their husbands and
fathers and brothers told them was
so; and their energies were devoted to
household concerns—the generation
and rearing of babies, the production
of delectable food, to darning, nursing,
church-work-and small charities. They
were generally timid and afraid of |
mice, disinclined to athletic exercise |
|
and heroic undertakings: they had no |
clubs, and did not aim to be original.
But think how dainty and pure-minded |
and tender they were! Dainty with
the niceness of dolls, pure-minded with |
the innocence of the moated grange, |
tender with the loving forgiveness and
foolish infatuation of idolaters, it may
be, and yet dainty, pure-minded and
tender.”
QUAINT AND CURIOUS,
A Chinese woman's shoe is often
only three inches long. Naturally the
Chinese lady does little walking, and
when she does get about she leans con-
stantly on her maid.
A marble statue of Apollo, with the
head in & fine state of preservation,
has recently been unearthed near Ath-
ens. Its workmanship shows that it
belongs to the fifth century B. C.
When a rich Chinaman is so ill that
he is likely to soon shuffle off this
mortal coil, his thoughtful relatives
hurry him off to an undertaker's,
where he may rest his dying eyes on
the coflin that is to contain his bones.
This is to save time and trouble.
Numerous droves of cattle, each
beast with smoke tinted spectacles
fixed over its eyes, are in winter seen
ranging the snowcovered plains of
Russia. The glare of sunlight on the
snow causes blindne hence the re-
sort to spectacles to protect the eyes
it of the cattle as they pluck the
iss which sproutsthrough the earth’s
white mantle.
A curious fight took place a short
time ago on the south branch of the
Potor John Fisher, of Romney,
W. Va., caught a 40 pound turtle,
Just as he landed it, the hook broke,
and the turtle chased him all around
the boat. The fight lasted 10 minutes,
“isher defending himself with a pad-
dle, when the turtle at last turned
tail and flopped into the water.
What is the record price for a single
flower? Irom Australin comes an
answer to the query. A princess was
president of a music exhibition on
which a loss had been made. She ac-
cordingly organized a flower show, at
which ladies of rank, including the
princess, had stalls. One of her cus-
tomers was the wealthy Baroness
Teinelt of Trieste, who, in choosing
a pink, asked: “How much may I
pay for this flower?” ‘You, Baron-
(ss, may in your generosity fix the
limit.” “Ilow much is wanted for
the music exhibition?” Iorty thou-
sand pounds.” “I will give that for
the pink,” said the baroness.
A Paradise For Spinsters.
Queensland has been not inaptly de-
seribed as a paradise for spinsters. The
last census taken there showed 75,000
more single men than single women,
and the efforts of the colonial govern-
ment in the way of emigration are now
chiefly devoted to making up the de-
ficiency. Indeed, Sir Horace Tozer,
the agent general for Queensland, may
claim to be one of the busiest matrimo-
pial agents in the world, for he is send-
ing out large numbers of single women
to that colony, and it is said that the
objection entertained by the working-
men of Australia to free or assisted
emigration does not extend to the class
exported by him, so long as he is care-
ful to select them young and tolerably
good looking. It is evident that the
agent and his assistants must possess
unusual powers of discrimination with
regard to picking out attractive emi-
grants, for it appears that about 50
per cent. of the women marry within
two years after theirarrival in Queens-
land. When we are told that servants
are always in demand in the Austra-
lian colonies, that wages average be-
tween $100 and $200 a year, and that
in all probability within two years do-
mestie service may be exchanged for
matrimony, it is easy to understand
why Queensland has been termed “a
paradise for spinsters.”
Advertising in
Devious are the ways of Parisian ad-
vertisers. Their latest trick is to send
20 men out on the knifeboards of om-
nibuses, each holding up a banner or
scroll inscribed with a single large
capital letter. When the men sit down
close together the names of the firms
advertised, and notices of special protl-
ucts appear well displayed on the ban-
ners borne aloft by the hired monopo-
lizers of the knifeboards. The men,
of course, take their places at the head
of the station, and go along to the end
of the journey. It is not likely that
ordinary citizens will tolerate these
proceedings long. Strong protests are
already heard against the new praec-
tice.—London Telegraph.
A man can’t be closemouthed when
he sits in the dentist's chair,
oco or less.
REYSTONE STATE EHS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
State’s Finances—Receipts of the I 1 #iscal
Year Largest in Its History—Large
Pottery for New Castle.
Last week pensions were grant-
ed the following persons: Chas.
Ashton, New Brighton $6; John
R Muller Mt Pleasant, $10;
le
William Phillips, Port Perry, $6; Will-
iam Gray, Carrolltown, $12; Darius G.
Doyle, Three Springs, $8; Thomas G.
Smith, Coles Summit, $12; Noah W.
Cuhn, Mercersburg. $12; Thomas Wil-
son,, Orbisonia, $12; Vez Shaner, Lash,
$8: George Stone, Boalsburg, ; Su-
san N. Foust, Mt. Pleasant, $8; Jere-
miah Kohler, Lemoyne, 8.
The next Legislature will be asked to
pass a bill making the office of district
attorney in the small counties a salaried
one. At present they are paid fees and
a number of them complain that the
compensation does not justify them to
perform the labor required. The biil
will propose a salary of about $1,000 in
counties containing a population of 350,-
id
The State's financial c rs announce
that at the close of the fiscal year, No-
vember 30, there was $6,640.688.77 in
the State treasury. of which $4.322,336.65
was in the general fund and $2,327,652.i2
in the sinking fund. During the year
there was received at the State treasury
$17.494,211.78. the largest receipts in
one year in the history of the State.
The New Castle Pottery Co. has been
organized with $100,000 capital to manu-
facture table and other ware. The main
building will be 482x195 feet and the
smaller buildings 8ox1co, and 100x355
feet respectively. Work has already
begun and the plant will be in opera-
tion in six months. It will employ 200
people.
For the proposed soldiers’ monument
and memorial to ex-Gov. Curtin at
Bellefonte about two-thirds of the re-
quisite amount of money has been
pledged. It is thought the remainder
can be secured and the monument erect-
ed by October 7, 1901, the anniversary
of ex-Gov. Curtin’s death.
At the service in Christ German
Church, of Hazleton, the Rev. Mr.
chneckler, in a sermon against fooi-
ball, characterized the game as the dev-
il’'s sport, and said that the patrons of
the game are simply the devil's ser-
vants.
The capital stock of the Sharon and
Youngstown Street Railway has been
increased from $200,000 to $600,000.
Work on the line between the two
places is progressing rapidly and it is
stated that cars will be running by June
1, 1QOI.
The Pittsburg, Somerset and West-
moreland Railroad Company has made al
proposition to extend the road from ns |
terminal 12 miles to Somerset if the
citizens will take $50,000 worth of stock
in the enterprise.
The fourth death in the Gates shaft
of the American Coke Company at
Uniontown, occurred when George Liv-
ingstone while working on the tipple
lost his footing and dashed down the
shaft over 100 feet to his death. |
James Gibbons, a justice of the peace, |
and a prominent Democrat politician, |
was found dead in a chair at the St. |
Clair hotel, Pittston. Heart disease is
supposed to have been the cause of
death. He was 52 years of age. |
The first rail machine at the Sharon |
steel wor in Scuth Sharon was put |
in operation for a test and a large num- |
ber of rails cut. One hundred machines |
are now completed and nearly ready to
be started.
James Patterson and George Johns-
ton, colored, terrorized the people eof}
astbrook, Lawrence county, and at-|
tempted to kill their employer, Win- |
field S. Moore, and are in jail at Greens- |
burg. {
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Miss Louisa Sheppard, an actress of |
New York, has given up the stage io}
go into mission work. She will wed
Rev. Charles H. Pridgeon, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Canons-
burg.
t=
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An option on ten acres of ground at|
3raeburn has been secured by a New|
Jersey tube company and will be given |
by Park Arnold, with the stipulation |
that the company give employment to]
500 men within a limited time.
Huffman M. Liston is back at Union- |
town, after a sojourn in the Cape Nome |
gold fields. He reports the discovery
of a mastodon’s bones.
that Mr. Bartlett, of
struck it rich.
At Washington the jury in the C:
roll murder case failed to reach an
agreement and were discharged after
being out about 14 hours. Eleven stood
for acquittal.
At Martins Creek, Northampton coun-
ty, fire destroyed the cement plant of
William Krause & Sons. Loss, $200,-
000; insured. The works will be re-
built.
By an explosion of powder John Pe-
tos and his three boys were dangerously
burned at Smock, Fayette county. Pe-
tos was filling his powder can, when
the youngest boy pulled an open lamp
off a shelf into the powder.
Fifty students of Waynesburg col-
lege have formed a cadet corps, adopt-
ed the West Point uniform and will en-
deavor to have a West Point man as
mstructor.
He reports
>i
Pittsburg, has]
The county commissioners object ‘o
the bill of Coroner F. Taylor, of
Fayette county, and say the cost of z3
inquests should have been borne by |
corporations and not by the county.
Eleven milk dealers arrested at New
Kensington and find $20 and costs each
for adulterating milk, refuse to pay their
fines and defy the authorities to collect
them.
The Washington county commission-
ers are deadlocked over the selection of
a superintendent for the new court |
house.
John Miller, East Titusville, tried to
save his cow from being killed by a
train, was struck and received injuries
from which he died.
John Chisholm, a Pennsylvania brake-
man of New Castle, has begun suit
agai ational Steel Company for
$50,000 for inj received last July.
Morris Shafnisky, a eight-year-old
boy, of Greensburg, was injured in a
foot ball scrimmage with boys of his
own age, and died Sati
Buncoed Out of His Seat.
“In the matter of strategy a woman
can get the better of a man every
time, in minor affairs, at least,” said
a man who is in business down town,
and who rides home in a West Phila-
delphia car during the rush hour ev-
ery evening, says the Philadelphia
Record. “I usually get a seat, for 1
take the car away down at Fourth
street. The other evening I was busily
reading my paper when a woman got
aboard at Twelfth street. I glanced
up slyly, and saw that all the seats
were occupied. Hasty as my glance
was she caught my eye and that was
my finish. Smiling broadly, she came
over to where I was sitting and ex-
INIT
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The ordinary every-day life of most of our women is a
ceaseless treadmill of work.
How much harder the daily tasks become when some
derangement of the female organs makes every movement
painful and keeps the nervous system all unstrung !
One day she is wretched and utterly miserable ; in a day
or two she is better and laughs at her fears, thinking there
is nothing much the matter after all; but before night the
deadly backache reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch
—it seems as though all the imps of Satan were clutching
her vitals ; she goes to pieces and is flat on her back.
No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of
misery, because these symptoms are a sure forerunner of
womb troubles. She must remember that Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound is almost an infallible cure
for all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, which cause
weak stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and in-
flammation of the womb, or any of the multitudes of ill-
nesses which beset the female organism.
Mrs. Gooden wrote to Mrs. Pinkham when she
was in great trouble. Her letter tells the result.
““ DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—1 am very Sraseful to you for your kindness
and the interest you have taken in me, and truly believe that your medicines
claimed, ‘Why, how do you do? How
are all the folks? I couldn’t place the
woman to save my life, but I lifted my
hat and replied that we were all well.
‘She must be some friend of the fam-
ily,” I argued with myself, so I folded
up my paper and gave her my seat.
After she had settled herself comfort-
ably she looked up at me in a queer
sort of way and said: ‘Really, I must
beg your pardon. I took you for Mr.
Jones. You look so much like him.
But she had the seat, and she kept it.
It was a clear case of bunco.”
medicine.
kind advice and attention, I Temaln,
‘
and advice are worth more to a woman than all the
doctors in the world. My troubles began with inflam-
mation and hemorrhages from the kidneys, then
inflammation, congestion and falling of the womb,
and inflammation of the ovaries.
treatment every day for some time; then
two months, the
back to work. I went back, but in less than a week
was compelled to give up and go to bed.
ing down the second time, I decided to let doctors
and medicines alone and try your remedies.
the first bottle was gone I felt the effects of it.
Three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’
Compound and a package of Sanati
me more good than all the doctors’ treagments and
I have gained twelve pounds during the
last two months and am better in every way. Thanking you for your
RS. E. J. GOODEN, ‘Ackley, Iowa.”
I underwent local
after nearly
octor gave me permission to go
On break-
Before
Vegetable
oe Wash did
Yours gratefully
3000
REWARD
deposited with the Natirnal City Bank, of
which will be paid to ay | person who will
testimonial is not genuiny \ h
writer's special permission. —XL¥DIa E. PINKHEAM MEDICINE Co,
Owing to the fact » skeptical
people have from t estioned
the genuineness ie nial letters
we u
are cons.antly p!
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Thought Him An Angel.
The late Gen. John M. Palmer used
to enjoy telling of being once mistaken
for a person of greater dignity than the
President of the United States.
“While I was military governor of
Kentucky,” said he, “a disturbance oc-
curred in some town in the interior. I
was at a distance, but was needed at the
scene. There was no train, no carriage,
no buggy to be got; the only vehicle
available was a big girdled circus char=
iot leit by some stranded show com-
pany. I didn't like it, but there was
nothing else to do, so I got in. You
may imagine, I cut a great dash as I
drove through a small town. People
turned out in droves to see me pass.
When 1 leit the town behind me and
reached the plantations the negroes
saw me and stared with open mouths.
They followed me at a respectiul dis-
tance, until presently they were joined
by an old, white-haired preacher, who,
on seeing me in my magnificent chariot,
raised his eyes and his arms on high
and, in a voice that stirred all within
hearing, cried:
“‘Bress de Lord, de day of judgment
am cum, an’ dis gemman am de angel
Gabriel hisself. Bredren, down on you’
knees and pray, fo’ yo’ hour am hyar!”
An Overwhelming Thought. -
Our sun is a third-rate sun, situated
in the milky way, one of myriads of
stars, and the milky way is itself one of
myriads of sectional star
tions, for these seem to be countless
and to be spread over infinity. At some
period of their existence each of these
suns had planets circling around it,
which, after untold fi
some sort of human being to inhabit
them for a comparativeiy brief period,
after which they still continue for year
to circle around without atmosphere
vegetation or inhabitants; as the mo
does around our planet. There is noth-
ing so calculated to take the conceit out
of an individual who thinks himself
an important unit in the universe as
astronomy. It teaches that we are less,
compared with the universe, than a col-
ony of ants is to us, and that the diffe
ence between men is less than that be-
tween one ant and another.—London
Truth.
Hunters’ Paradise in China.
According to a correspondent in the
Washington Star China is the last great |
game preserve in the world. Many will
be surprised to learn that, notwith-
standing the dense population of Chin:
and the centuries since the country has
become thickly populated, it is still the
best stocked with game of any country
in the world. Even in the regions
about Peking, now occupied by the al-
lied troops, where villages dot the plains
every me or two and the population
exceeds 2,000 to the square mile, wolves,
foxes, raccoons, weasels and rabbits ar
so thick as to be pests, while such game
as pigeons, quail, grouse and rice birds
are found in immense flocks. The
wolves of China are particularly numer-
ous and fearless, and many lives are
lost every winter from their depreda-
tions.
London’s Big School Population.
The London school board is respon-
sible for the education of a population
more than double that of Denmark or
Greece, larger than that of Scotland,
and is only exceeded slightly by that
of Bavaria and Holland. The child
population of London in need of ele-
mentary education is larger than the
total population of any European city
except Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg,
Moscow and Vienna. It is more than
accumula- |
ages, are fit for!
Soco dod dodo do doco dfe doco dodo
double the population of Bristol, Dres-
den or Prague.
pended on elementary education in tl
metropolis is alone equal to the t
national expenditure of Denmark, Nor-
way and Sweden, not to mention that
of many other minor States of Europe.
—Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle.
The sum annually ex-
It has been ascertained by experi-
ments that persons who use the tele-
phone habitually hear better with the
left ear than with the 1 . The com-
mon practice of the tele e companies
is to place the telephone so that it will
be applied to the left ear.
phon
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