DAVIE RHYS, COWARD
By WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE and
WILLIAM HENRY: .EADER.
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His great frame filling the dbor-
way, “Dynamite” John glanced up
at the snow-comb hanging over the
mountain edge far above. ‘‘She’ll
rip loose some day and smother us
for sure,” he said.
““That’s what,” agreed Brawn,
with a sly glance at Davie Rhys,
the butt of the mine. ‘Bet un she
comes down this very night.”
“Hello, Davie, bye! Be thee go-
ing to get out of the track of un?”
Jjeered a third.
“1 am,” said Davie. ‘“Th.re be no
place for me in ‘a snowslide. I'm
no top man.”
“That vere not,” scoffed Brawn;
“an no first-class headsman would
own you for his trammer, either.”
A slow flush crept into Davie’s
homely honest face. He knew him-
self for a born coward, and he knew
that these rough, reckless miners
also knew him for one. The risks
they took without a thouglt in the
dark depths of the mine made him
shudder. Yet he was a man grown,
as big and strong a Cornishman as
they.
“Aw, leave the bye alone,” spoke
up Jemmie Lord, the cook. ‘It be’s
no fault of his that un’s a six-foct
babby. I mind of a story I heard
when. I was a little un.”
“Ye an’ yer stories!’ growled Dy-
namite. ‘“What matters it to thee
if we have . bit fun with the bye?”
and the man slouched out into the
starlit night.
“Better gzet outside, Davie,”
Brawn, leering at Jemmie.
“I will, mon. If there be snow-
slides comin’, I want to be where
I can run,” said Davie, contemptuous
of his own weakness.
He strode out of the cabin in a
rage with himself, a volley of guf-
faws following him. :
He stood on the ledge in front of
the cabin, looking down into the
canon below. From the edge there
was a sheer drop of fifty feet, and
below that a descent for nearly a
mile to the river, on the edge of
which he could see the shining lights
of the Blue Bell stamp-mill. Halif
a mile to his right ran the ore tram-
way of the Blue Bell, connecting the
mine far up on the shoulder of the
mountain with the mill in the canon.
Except for that aerial route, there
was no means of communication be-
tween the miners above and the mill
below.
Davie glanced
snow-comb above,
it should break,
should catch their
descent! A
said
up at the great
and shuddered. If
and if the slide
bunk-house in its
moment, and he was
frantically tearing open the cabin
door. The miners looked round, to
see framed in the opening the face
of Davie, wild and haggard.
“There do. be a snowslide a-
comin’?’” he yelled. “I hear the comb
breakin’ awa from the ridge now. Git
ye out quick, cause Dynamite’s gone
an’ left thee, an’ I'm a-goin'!”
“Ha! ha!” yelled the chorus of
miners.
Brawn shouted, ‘‘Ho, ho,
bye! Think thee is goin’
our own game on us?
awa!’
But Davie had already gone, dar-
ing to pause no longer before the
downward sweep of the swirling,
crackling, roaring white terror. He
clambered madly up the side of the
gulch in a desperate, heart-pounding
scramble for life. Behind him he
heard the thunderstorm rush of the
slide scoring its way down the moun-
tain ravine. Safe on the rim he
paused at last, his ears deafened
with the roar, his eyes dilating fear-
fully, his head reeling.
Gradually the terrific noise sub-
sided, the white swirling pall settled.
Davie, trembling on the rock ledge,
peered fearfully down into the path
of the slide. The cabin he had left
not five minutes before was no-
where to be scen. The avalanche
had wiped the bluff clean.
He knew his comrades must be
buried, alive or dead, under forty
feet of snow at the foot of the ledge
on which the cabin had stcod. fe
knew, too, that even if they were
alive help must reach them soon or
they would smother.
Turning, he sped swiftly along the
trail in the direction of the com-
pressor-house. From out of the dark-
ness his voice rose in a shriek: ‘“‘Dy-
namite! Dynamite!” But no answer-
ing voice mingled with the echoes
of the shrill cry.
“Dynamite, the men be covered
in the snowslide!”
Yet although the hills cried his
terror back and forth, no other an-
swer came. Davie, before the black
depths of the unlighted compressor-
house, stopped to wring his hands
despairingly. “I cannot dig un out
alone! Where be Dynamite?”
He would have given anything for
a glimpse of Dynamite John, the
camp bully and hero, that he might
thrust the responsibility upon his
broad shoulders. But that doughty
champion, well aware that where one
slide had come others were likely
soon to follow was running swiftly
for safety across the hills.
Into Davie’s tottering mind leaped
a picture of the one chance for
his buried mates. Half a mile away
the tiny tnread of the 3lue Bell
tramway spun its course down at a
dizzy height over the clifis and
gorges. If he could fling himself
.into one of the descending ore-
buckets he. might perhaps carry the
news of the accident to the men at
the mill, and they might be able
to rescue his comrades from their
SNOWY grave.
Davie,
to work
Go awa! Go
Jerash
"| sharp call,
a
Snow - filled gulches lay between
him and the aerial tramway, and
above them huge white razor-edged
|snow-combs hung suspended from
‘the’ rocky ridges, threatening to
down without warning upon
He knows that a pistol-shot, a
even theibark of a dog,
is often sufficient to precipitate the
‘menacing masses of snow which
hang on the giant crests of the
Rocky Mountains.
But he plunged headlong into the
first drift. He could not quell, but
he would not yield to the deadly fear
clutching at his heart. Intermina-
ble seemed his slow advance through
the great snow billows, around
boulders and over fallen trees. At
times he was buried in the depths,
wallowing he knew not where, op-
pressed by dread lest at any moment
he might fling himself over a preci-
pice. Yet he worked steadily for-
ward till he came to the base of the
forty-foot height of timbered tram-
way station.
At intervals of about two hundred
yards these statigns were built to
support the tramway. On the plat-
form of each station was a shaft bear-
ing two heavy iron wheels grooved
to receive the cable, on which
were suspended every hundred feet
the iron ore-buckets running from
the mine to the mill and back to the
mine in an endless chain.
These buckets were so nicely ad-
justed, to facilitate dumping, that
any unevenness in loading would
cause them to empty themselves. It
was into one of these swaying buck-
ets that Davie meant to make his
flying leap. To miss the
clutch, to strike the side of the
bucket in such a way as to cause it
in its wild rebound to fling him out,
would be sure death.
Somewhere above Davie a neglect-
ed wheel shrieked an uncanny wail
of complaint. Occasionally the click
of a bucket-grip rang out in the
darkness. The trammer shuddered
as he began to climb up the ice-
coated ‘ladder.
When the trammer reached the
slippery landing his nerves were
quivering and -his head swam. The
swaying buckets seemed to click a
warning to him as they passed. He
had once seen a man, under the spur
of whisky and a foolish boast, at-
tempt the leap into one of these
buckets. He had later helped carry
his crushed, lifeless body from the
sharp rocks below. That had been
in the daytime and this was black
night. He shrank back.-
“1. don’t know,” he murmured,
“whether it can be did in the dark
or no. I saw Black Tom miss, an’
heared un shriek as un cracked un
bloody skull on the rocks.”
Bucket after bucket passed, and
the man still fought with his fears.
He cursed himself for a coward, he
crouched for the-leap-once and again,
but he hung back, trembling. He
promised himself it should be next
time, but as the buckets came down
out of the darkness he wavered. His
lips were parched and shriveled, his
blazing eyes strained in their sock-
ets.
In
him.
instant it was done. As
the black bucket slipped down at
him he leaped far out into dizzy
space and caught the clutch. The
bucket swayed from the impact,
tossed like a boat in a heavy sea,
and seemed to hurl him from it.
His mind was a tortured chaos as
he found himself riding in a wild
flight downward. The terrific roar
in his ears churned all sounds to a
scream of malignant triumph.
an
Round the new stove in the tem-
porary and hastily constructed cabin,
Brawn, Dynamite, Jemmie Lord, and
the other survivors of the snowslide,
sat in the glow of the firelight.
“Quite a boost for Davie,” said
the ccok. “I hear the super is going
to make un timekeeper on: the
Mary H.” 2
‘“‘He earned it,”” said Brawn. ‘He
did more’'n Dynamite here thought
o’ doin’, an’ more than any 0’ ‘the
rest of us would have done. I say
he earned it.”
“That's what he did,” said Jem-
mie. “It was him told un to bring
along the pipes to poke in the snow
for us, too. They never would have
got us out if they hadn't brought
those pipes along.”
“That's right,”” agreed Brawm
“They might bave dug for a month
without finding any of us. ’Twag
Davie bye saved us.”
The other men nodded silently.
‘““All right to talk about it now,”
continued Brawn, ‘but if it hadn’t
been for Davie’s nerve, we would be
down in the gulch here, frozen stif-
fer'n square sets by this time. If
anybody asks me who's the bravest
man 1 ever knew, I'll say Davie, an’
lick un if he disputes it.”
“Brave!’’ sneered Dynamite. *}
saw un hangin’ round the dump to-
day, skeered to go in under that
tale drift for the last car-load.”
“You may drop that, Dynamite!
We'll not stand for it any more!”
growled one of the men.
‘“All the more reason,” said Jem-
mie, ‘“that he should get to be time-
keeper. He won’t have to go intc
anything he's skeered on then, un-
less he gets sore on somebody, an’
that ain’t Davie’'s way.”
“Well,” said Brawn, ‘‘we’s a-goin'
to give him that ’ere gold watch for
what he done, no matter what he’s
skeered on, an’ we's goin’ to say spe-
cial it's for bravery.”
‘QO’ course,” assented Jemmie, and
the other men nodded vigorous ap-
proval.—Youth’s Companion.
The thin paper on which the Ox-
ford Bible is printed is made after a
secret process by the Oxford Univer-
sity Press. The secret is valued at
£1.250,000.
cable- |
<-~ Their Moneg A
The federal agriculturs 3]
ment is. preparing ta. ‘issue a bulletin
which dllustrates, in, startling’ fash.
ion, the actual mopey value of” good_
roads to the farmer and: the people
generally, as well as the financial
losses they are now indirectly sus-
taining from poorly maintained thor-
oughfares.
The bulletin gets to the very meat
of the proposition by showing, as the
result of careful investigation, the
average cost of transporting agricul-
tural products from the farms to
shipping points—an expense that _in-
evitably falls upon the farmer and
lessens his profits.
It is estimated that the average
load of cotton is 1702 pounds, the
distance of the haul 11.8 miles and
the cost of hauling: sixteen cents per
hundred pounds. The bulletin then
sums up the cost of transporting the
leading American farm products in
actual money and the no less tangi-
ble investment of time, as follows:
“The total tonnage of farm pro-
ducts hauled on country roads in the
United States is not known, but of
twelve leading products it is esti-
mated that nearly 50,000,000 tons
were hauled from farms during the
crop year 1905-6, at a cost of about
$85,000,000, or more than five per
cent. of their value at local markets.
Of this traffic, 40,000,000 tons rep-
resent the weight of corn, wheat and
cotton, and the cost of hauling these
three products was $70,000,000.
“The number of working days
taken to haul twelve leading crops
from farms to shipping points during
the crop year 1905-6 is estimated at
21,417,500, and the number of loads
taken as 30,319,000.”
The department jnakes very sensi-
ble suggestions in the following
terms:
“The distance limit of profitable
farming for a given crop may often
be extended by improving methods
and means of hauling. Better wag-
ons and horses may be used, roads
may be improved and better facili-
ties may be had for receiving the pro-
ducts at local markets and shipping
points... Improvements of this kind
tend to lessen the expense of hauling
a load, and thus make it profitable
for farmers to haul from greater dis-
tances.”
While these estimates are based
on general averages, it is fair to as-
sume that they furnish reasonably
accurate material for calculations
looking to the introduction of more
economical methods.
There can, therefore, be little
doubt that if the roads of the South
and. other portions oi the
were improved to a degree of even
ten per cent., the cost of hauling
products to shipping points would be
perceptibly reduced. Less time,
moreover, would be required to make
the designated haul—another factor
which can by no means be ignored
in the final summing up. Fewer men
and fewer horses or mules would be
called into requisition, or taken away
from other tasks. The farmer would
find his profits sensibly increased,
and the opportunities for the exten-
sion of his work greatly multiplied.
These are only a few of the argu-
ments in favor of a systematic cam-
paign. There are the equally unde-
niable ones of the enhancement in
property values, and the furtherance
of the social and educational facili-
ties of the respective communities.
Evidences are not lacking that the
sentiment in every Southern State is
rousing to an appreciation of the fact
that money spent in this direction is
productive of sure and substantial
dividends. — Birmingham Agc-Her-
ald.
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Treasury Surplus For Roads.
A unique geod roads bill has been
introduced in Congress by Represen-
tative John Sharp Williams, of Mis-
sissippi. Its object is to distribute
the surplus in the Treasury of the
United States to the several States
and Territories for the sole purpose
of improving the roads therein.
The bill provides in effect that it
shall be the duty of the Secretary of
the Treasury at the end of each fiscal
year to take an account of all the
funds in the Treasury and after de-
ducting from said sums the amounts
required by law to be kept in the
Treasury, the remainder, if any, shall
be declared a surplus. The Secretary
of the Treasury must then immedi-
ately provide for the distribution of
this surplus, not exceeding $25,000,-
000 annually during the continuance
of the proposed law, on a per capita
basis to the States and Territories,
to be computed from the last general
census, and shall prorate the same
accordingly, for the soie purpose of
improving the postal roads in said 4.
States and Territories, under such
rules and regulations as the States
and Territories may provide.—The
Automobile.
Tit For Tat.
Mr. Wood, a Cherryvale man, fond
of playing jokes, met his friend Stone
and said: ‘Hello, Stone! How is
Mrs. Stone and all the little pebbles?’
‘Fine, thank you.” Then he added:
“And how is Mrs. Wood and all the
little splinters?’’—=San Francisco Ar-
gonaut.
On the Woozy Mississip.
A humorist has said that “the Mis-
sissippi River is so crooked in places
that a steamer going south has been
known to meet itself coming north,
giving passing signals, and narrowly
escape a collision with itself.”’-—De-
troit Free Press.’
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country
DLY PARALLEL.
) Considerate in the Res~
Elsewhere, After All.
Xi 1an walked into a
restayrant.
~One, eholce seat had a hat Qn it.
“Anothér was occupied by ia news-
A feeder had his feet upon the
rungs of a third.
The considerate man, wishing to
bother no one, walked past these
choice seats and found a chair which
was sheltered from every cooling
breeze and which also permitted an
unrivalled view of a piece of wall and
a coat hook. ;
And in this spot the considerate
man waited for a waitress.
Once he coughed in a gentle sort
of way.
Other times he twisted his head
around and tried to catch a waitress’
eye.
Or picked up the bill of fare and
put it down with an air of finality as
though wishing to be observed as
saying to himself, ‘There. That is
what I want. Now I am ready to
place my order.”
He began to feel as though he was
being slighted. He flushed, and as
he sat there with his wrists resting
upon the edge of the table (his finger
tips together) viewing the wall and
the coat hook, he began to feel a
warmth at the back of his neck, and
became suffused with all the help-
lessness of a man who knows that his
ears are turning red.
At last a waitress (possibly inex-
perienced) ran up to him, leaned
over him, swished the table with her
napkin and gave him a look that
said, ‘Now, then, slowpoke! You
needn’t think you're waiting at the
chureh.” ;
“Do you mind bringing me, please,”
said the considerate man, ‘‘a small
steak, well done, and a cup of tea?”
In half an hour she slapped a por-
tion of liver and bacon down in front
of him.
“Cawfee?’” she demanded.
“Please,” said he.
Now as he sat there viewing the
wall and the coat hook while he
chewed his leather and bacon, not
wishing to hurt anybody’s feelings by
calling attention to mistakes (always
fearful of causing a good girl's dis-
charge from honest employment) an-
other man came into that restaurant.
He was a man withoyt modesty or
breeding. He selected a cool spot
where he could see everything in the
place, tipped a hat and a parcel out
of a chair, sat down, glanced at the
bill of fare, and snapped his fingers
for a waitress. He waited one second
and banged his knife against the vin-
gar cruet.. He waited another secc-
ond, half arose from his chair and ex-
claimed, “Here! 1 want some one to
wait on me!’”’
Hearing that voice three waitresse
made a leap for him.
“Bing me eggs and bacon,” he
commanded, ‘eggs fried on both sides
and the bacon crisp. Mind it’s crisp!
Graham bread. Cup of coffee. And
hurry up! I can’t wait all day!”
He got them so quick there seemed
to be magic in it.
And while the considerate man
was still struggling with his rubber
heels and bacon, the bold, forward
man supped his last drop of coffee,
uttered ‘‘Ah!” with a great sound,
scowled at the bill, paid it, left the
waitress nothing, listened to the man-
ager’s opinion of the weather, barked
“Yes! Yes!” and ran out to elbow an
old lady off the sidewalk.
The bold fcrward man went to his
office. The starter, hearing him el-
bow, held the elevator for him and
then shut the gate neatly in the face
of the considerate man, who followed.
In a few minutes the forward man,
wishing to descend to the street,
reached the elevator shaft just as the
car dropped past his floor. “Down!”
he howled and the car came back for
him as meek as a lamb; but later,
when the considerate man said
“Down, please,” three cars : went
down past him with an unheszitating
emphasis that was insulting.
Coming now to the deadly parallel
we will give the first column to the
considerate man. The bold forward
party gets the second column.
The The Bold, Forward
Man,
He had the best scat
in the car.
He was the first.
He held up
while he
over.
His was right on the
minute.
His was
tender.
He growled
erything
table.
He drank his bottla
of beer with a
noise like the in-
take of a suction
pump.
He choked on a
large piece of
(Considerate
Man.
He had no scat in
the subway.
He was the last man
off the train.
He was nearly run
over. at a corner
crossing.
His dinner
an hour
His steak was tough
and Soins ey.
He nev
hat
traffic
went
was half
ate
fine and
at
on
ev-
the
com-
IIc ‘had no beer.
He drank his glass
of water and meat, turned pur-
smiled” back to ple, kicked the
the angels at some ucket with a ter-
sweet, tender rible on and was
thought. hustled ‘down
to
Which proves that it pays to be
considerate.—New York Sun.
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The Bark of the Sequoias.
California’s giant trees, the se-
quoias, thousands of years old, have
been preserved to this day because of
their enormously thick bark. From
time to time in the course of ages
forest fires have swept through the
big tree lands, destroying everything
yet only scorching for a couple of
inches’ depth or so the almost fire-
proof bari.
bonized that much of the bark, could
not penetrate farther, for the car-
bonized portion formed an absolutely
fireproof covering for the remainder
of the interior bark.
The flames, having car-
A Paris scientist says that gold
boils at a temperature of 2400 de-
grees centigrade. SE
—
Salt extracted from sea water is
recommended for laying dust on the
streets by Dr. Carl, an eminent chem-
ist of Bordeaux.
Cancer, the scourge to which ex-
.pert investigators are now giving
special attention everywhere, takes
seventh place on the list of most fa-
tal discases.
—_—
Lieutenant James Carroll, curator
of the Army Medical Museum, is to
be given the remarkable promotion
of major on the active list of the
army. He helped investigate the yel-
low fever situation in Cuba in 1900,
offered himself as a sacrifice to the
mosquito transmission theory, and
was the first volunteer to take the
fever.
For comfort perhaps the pneumat-
ic tire can never be excelled, but its
tendency to puncture has induced
many attempts to find a satisfactory
solid substitute. Hard rubber i$ not
sufficiently resilient, but a new com-
pound, called elastes, has recently
been tried in England, and the re-
sults are reported to be good. It
consists of a mixture of glue, glycer-
in and chromic salts, dissolved to-
gether at a high temperature, and
forced, while still liquid, into the in-
ner tube of the tire. It is said to
give about the same ease of motion
as an air inflated tire... The use of
this substance increases the weight
of a wheel from twenty to forty
pounds, according to the size, but
an offset for this is claimed in the
fact that extra tires need not be car-
ried.
Considerable interest has been
awakened in-the trial of a new elec-
tric brake on a New York City street
car. The power is furnished by the
irolley current. The motor man ap-
plies the brake with a handle, simi-
lar to that of the ordinary air brake,
and releases by pressing a foot ped-
al. It is said that with the electric
brake the labor of the motor man is
greatly reduced, while the stops are
effected more smoothly and easily.
There is no surging of the car, the
reason offered being that the electric
brake can be released instantly,
whereas the air must escape {rom
the cylinder of air brake before
the pressure on the: wheels can be
relieved. To provide against. failure
of the trolley current, a device is fur-
nished whereby the motor can be
short circuited, and the car thus
quickly stopped. — Youth's Compan-
ion.
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A MYTH OF THE ARCTIC.
Peary Proved That There Yas No
Paleocrystic Sea Off Greenland.
It was proved by Peary, in his long
journey westward along the coast of
Greenland last spring, that the Pale-
ocrystic Sea does not exist. It was
thirty vears ago that the world first
heard of it. When Nares sailed up
through the Smith Sound channels
to the Atctic Ocean he saw, instead
of the open sea that Kane had re-
ported, an ocean blanketed with floe
ice deeply covered with snow. Ris-
ing here and there above the general
level were huge masses of ice, not at
all like the Greenland icebergs with
sharp points and irregular domes, but
presenting vertical walls and flat up-
per surfaces like the enormous cubic
blocks of ice that are seen in Antarc-
tic waters.
Nares therefore changed the name
of this part cf the Arctic Ocean from
the Open Sea to the Paleocrystic Sea,
or in other words, the sea of ancient
ice. Greely found that while
the pack ice rarely exceeds seven or
cight feet in thickness many of these
erratic blocks were from ninety to
900 feet thick.
Greely also discovered that these
masses were not composed of frozen”
sea water, but that they originated
on the land. The theory was ad-
duced that they were formed on com-
paratively level plains and were
pushed forward intoithe sea and set
adrift as ice rafts For many years
there. was much speculation as to
their place of origin and their distri-
bution over this part of the Arctic
Ocean.
Peary has now shown that the
place of origin of these prodigious,
flat topped masses of ice is not far to
seek. As he went westward on his
journey to complete the survey of Ihe
Grant Land coast he discovered tha
to the west of Cape Hecla all hot
shores are covered with a continuous
glacial mass having a width of from
one to.fifteen miles. This extensive
ice formation has no enormous ele-
vation, but every headland is buried
under it, and all the bays are filed
with it; and from its outer edge in
summer huge fields of the ice break
off, forming the so-called paleocrystic
floes. As tae current is to the east
they are floated away to the Lincoln
Sea, where Nares and Greely saw
such numbers of them.
Peary’s discovery
probability that, as has been conject-
ured, the higher masses of this gla-
cial ice are formed by encrraous ice
pressure which crushes some of the
blocks together and forces others un-
der the mass. At any rate they are
not of ancient origin, and the name
Paleocrystic Sea is a misncmer,—
New York San,
later
increases the
strengthening the respiratory
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Verdict for Dr. Pierce
AGAINST THE
Ladies) Home . Journal.
Sending truth‘after a lie. It is an ol?
maxim that “& lie will travel seven
ledgues while truth is getting its boots
omy” and no doubt hundreds of thousands
of good people read the unwarranted and
malicious attack upon Dr. R. V. Pierce
and his * Favorite Prescription "published
in the May (1904) number of the Ladies”
Home Journal, with its great black dis-
play headings, who never saw the hum-
ble, groveling retraction, with its incon=
spicuous heading, published two months
later. It was boldly charged in the sland-
erous and libelous article that Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, for the cure of
woman’s weaknesses and ailments, con=
tained alcohol and other harmful ingredi-
ents. Dr. Pierce promptly brought suib
against the publishers of the Ladies"
Home Journal, for $200,000,00 damages.
Dr. Pierce alleged that Mr. Bok, the
editor, maliciously published the article
containing such false and defamatory
matter witi{ the intent of injuring his
business# furthermore, that no alcohol, or.
other urious, or habit-forming, drugs
are, or ver jvere, contained in his “Fa-
vorite Kyesgription”; that said medicine
is mad¢ fpOm native medicinal roots and
contaj no harmful ingredients what-
ever, d that Mr. Bok's malicious state-
meg were wholly and asolutoly find)
the tion p ed by sq
cy wer rced fo a OW Todge {hai the
ad obtained analyse AV0 ite
scription,” from e -hemists, 3
whom certi ontain al-
coholorany of t mful drugs¥
hese facts were also proven in the trial o
the actiomr in the Supreme Court. But the
business of Dr. Pierce was greatly injured by:
the publication of the libeious article with
its great display headings, while hundreds of
thousands who read the wickedly defamatory
article never saw the humble groveling re-
traction, set in small type and made as incon—
spicuous as possible. The matter was, how-
ever brought before a jury in the Supreme
Court of New York State which promptly
rendered a verdict in the Doctor's favor.
Thus his traducers came to grief and their
base slanders were refuted.
re=
The will of Mrs .Phoebe Bloomfleld,
Toledo, gives her sister, Mrs. Fryber-
ger, $5,000 on condition that she does
»ot return to Fryberger.
Garfield Tea—the jndiEpensab! e laxativel
Take it in the Spring; it nt urifies the blood,
cleanses the system, eradicates disease. It
is made wholly of simple Herbs. Guaran-
teed under the Pure Food and Drugs Law,
Japanese Fond of Billiards.
So enamored are the Japanese be-
coming of the great game of billiards
that the Mikado has had a fine in-
laid table erected, and it is stated that
H. W. Stevenson is to give lessons at
the imperial court.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred
for any case of Catarrh
cured by Hall's Catarrh C
F..J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned. have ‘Known EF. «
Cheney for the last 15 vears, « >
him perfectly honorable in
transactions and financially able t
out any obligations made by their firm.
West & TruAx, Wholesale Druggists
Toledo,
VALDING, ‘SAN & M AB VIN,
sale Dru , Tole lo.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally
ingdirectly upon the blood and mucuou
faces of the system. Testimonials ser
Price, . per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family P ills for constipation.
Dollars Reward
Shas cannct be
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Japan Not t Able t to Fight.
Financiers of world-wide reputation
have all along laughed at the idea that
Japan, in her present state of finan-
cial instability, would wage war
against any country, least of all the
United States. From what the world
at large is coming to know of the in-
ternal affairs of the island empire (a
recent dispatch from Tokio guardedly
refers to . the growing sentiment
against the mania for speculation),
the pacific predictions of the experts
may well be credited. A country with
a falling stock market and an impend-
ing financial panic does not enter up-
on the extravagance of war, unless its
statesmen have taken leave of their
senses, and it is generally admitted
that the men who are directing the
foreign policy of Japan are excepti
ally level-headed. Japan is in no con
dition to seek enmities or to cha
lenge its friends.—Leslie’s Weekly.
Benefit of Yawning.
Svstematic yawning seems to have
proved highly successful in Austria,
as a method -of vocal and health cul-
ture. Dr: Naegli advises deep yawn-
ing with arms outstretched, thus in-
suring complete change of air in the
lungs, and each treatment he has
his patients make six to eight yawns,
each being followed by swallowing.
He regards the exercise, with deep
breathing, as the best means of
organs
gives astonish-
at
and muscles, while it
ing relief in catarrh of the throat.
For singers a like practice causes the
tonsils and uvula to retract and hard-
en, and the clear passage gives the
voice greater volume and improved
gualitv.
FIND OUT
The Kind of Food That Will Kcep
You Well.
The true way is to find out what is
best to eat and drink, and then culti-
vate a tast@ for those things,instead
of poisoning ourselves with improper,
indigestible food, etc.
A conservative Mass. woman writes:
“I have used Grape-Nuts 5 years
for the young and for the aged; in
sickness and in health; at first follow=-
ing directions carefully, later in a
variety of ways as my taste and jugg-
ment suggested.
“But its most special, personal ben-
efit has been a substitute for meat,
and served dry with cream when
rheumatic troubles made it important
for me to give up the ‘coffee habit.’
“Served in this way with the addi-
tion of a cup of hot water and a little
fruit it has been used at my morning.
meal for six months, during which
time my health has much improved,
nerves have grown steadier, and a
gradual decrease in my excessive
weight adds greatly to my comfort.”
Name given by Postum Cereal Co.,
‘ Litd., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the
‘little book, “The Road to Wellville,”
in pkgs. “There's a reason.”