f activ- dustries by the aterials customs ipal ar- ring in- rger in > month ng con- est rec- ere has ‘mporta- roducts, leaf to- wed in ces over e other 1’ most export ympared Tr. ENT destroys S were injured, by the cendiary snément illo, his shildren, rancisco rs. Rosa daugh- , Pietro ie as made - ts occu- do not ed with blazing tting off persons e upper in their nd then YOKE * s Union e Island vents in wt indepen- nexation by Aus- w\imed a 1as sent rotesting « lamation t steps y' the re- Bulgaria key’s in- teed by . Britain Austria- ation of refused | and has | stro-Hun- - ider it. NON d : Move- er. > e com- ciety of h, which against Speaker = in Con- on gave ‘0 Meth- are ad- nperance ninations League, 1ow lead . ges that , be pub- s the re- Speaker, 2d in the VE Brigands. Haul.’ . ymmitted ghboring ~ entered y named in their a small ‘ers were egister. y 000 men” 2 to vote election ster. Fig- ristration - |. Go y 285,000 $ registra- A whereas the as- NTS. + sa-Duluth { six, Mexi- { \ A celebrat-" f its ex- "emonies. nd name- } rival of denly at d street, WN | on ale. « venty-five a» undering rer Juan- lewfound- the | tain, who, several He had aster .occ- Br Ei ———————e ee AA —— as a ‘Miss Helen Sauerbier, of 815 Main St., St. Joseph, Mich., writes an interesting letter on the subjcct of catching cold, which cannot fail to be of value to all women who catch cold easily. PEAUNA ADVISED FOR SUDDEN COLDS. It Should Be Taken According to Di- .. rections on the Bottle, at the First Appearance of the Cold. ST. JosEpH, MicH., Sept., 1901.—Last winter 1 caught a sudden cold which de- veloped into an unpleasant catarrh of ‘the head and throat, depriving me of my appetite and usual good spirits. A friend who had been cured by Peruna advised me to try it and 1 sent for a bottle at once, nd 1 am glad to say that in three days -the phlegm had loosened, and I feit better, my appetite returned and within nine days I was in my usual good health.' —Miss Helen Sauerbier. Peruna is an old and well tried remedy for: colds. No woman should be with- out it. {CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS] CURE FOR PILES SAMILE TREATMENT of Red Cross Pile and Fistula Cure and book explaining Piles sent free. REA CO..Dept.B4,Minneanolis.Minn The Golden Age. To. have been an Athenian with pericles or a Roman while Augustus was transforming that capital from brick to marble; to have been an Englishman in the “spacious times of great Elizabeth,” or when Trafal- gar was fought, or a Spaniard under Charles V.; to have seen Napoleon at Austerlitz or Titian at his easel or Shakespeare at the Globe theater— this was to have lived and to have participated in the making of glori- ous history. Yet to have been an American dur- ing the past half century is to boast a prouder citizenship than any other nation has ever offered. This has been the age of steel, Bessemer’s process dating from 1856. But it has been more truly the world’s gold- en age, the age not of milk and honey and pastoral innocence, but of man’s highest’ intellectual and indus- trial development, his furthest pro- gress in humanity and the fullest realization of his powers, rights and duties. In that period the shackles have been stricken from every form of slavery. Not only is the field- hand free, but industry is free, the pulpit and the press are free. If any bonds remain they are the ones men forged for the masters of com- merce. Labor has acquired an un- known dignity.—New York World. 42 Electrification. Inconspicuous, yet important, is the news item which tells of the plan to operate by electricity the wew trans- continental line of the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul railroad for 1,000 miles from the Pacific coast. Water- power is so plentiful in the country through which this new road is be- ing built that locomotives burning coal or oil will not be needed there. The electrification of railway trans- portation in this country is advancing more rapidly than is generally real ized.—Hartford Times. WANTED TO KNOW The Truth About Grape-Nuts Food. “It doesn’t matter so much what You hear about a thing, it’s what you know that counts. And correct knowledge is most likely to come from personal experience, “About a year ago,” writes a N.Y man, “I was bothered by indigestion, especially during the forenoon. FI tried several remedies without any permanent improvement. " “My breakfast usually consisted of oatmeal, steak or chops, bread, coffee and some fruit. : “Hearing so much about Grape- Nuts, I concluded to give it a. trial and find out if all I had heard of it was true. “So 1 began with Grape-Nuts and cream, two soft boiled eggs, toast, a cup of Postum and some fruit. Be- fore the end of the first week I was rid of the acidity of the stomach and felt much relieved. *‘By the end of the second week ail traces of indigestion had disappeared and I was in first rate health once more. Before beginning this course of diet I never had any appetite for lunch, but now I can enjoy a hearty meal at noon time.” ‘‘There’s a Rea- son.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read ‘‘The Road. to Wellville,” in pkgs. Ever read theabove letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest, No man éver ate himself to death on a meal ticket. " Thé.Government has just ordered 750,000. yards of khaki for soldiers’ uniforms, [| : The first recorded mention of gold t is ‘in the second chapter of Genesis, 4004 B.C. ne A potato that is said to be disease proof has been introduced in France from Uruguay. The shipping tonnage passing ‘| ‘through the “Soo” Canal so far this year is 15,000,000. One of the fastest growing cities in the world is Kobe, Japan; its popula- tion increased from 190,000 to 360,- 000 in ten years. . Rejected by the British War Office, an aerial torpedo, the invention of a Swedish artillery officer, has been purchased by the German army. Although but a few miles from the mouth of the River Thames, noted for its fogs, the atmosphere of Horne Bay, England, is rarely obscured. Two monster whales have just been killed on the Eden coast of New South Wales, thereby furnishing a re- minder that the whale fishery was once looked upon as the staple indus- try of the Australian continent, The discovery of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky was due to a search for saltpeter in 1807. Congrass had forbidden American vessels to sail for Europe, and foreign vessels to land cargoes in this country, and saltpeter was needed for gunpowder. How the French Farmer Lives By VANCE THOMPSON. The French farmer, Pierre,,whom I visited that year, raised 2000 meas- ures of wheat; 100 were laid aside for seed; flour; the remaining 1750 measures he sold at sixty cents, for $750. ' His rye, Harley and fodder, after deduct- ing seed and supplies for the cattle, brought in $420. . He. sells every year a pair of oxen—the old “ones; last Year he got $130. The sale of other stock brought him $210. Another source of income is the poultry yard. But this and the dairy may be set aside as equivalent to the many taxes that weigh upon the peasant- farmer. In Pierre’s income in an average year is $1500. Over against this he places his expenses, thus: Two men at $100 a year......... ena $200 Onefman., . 7, LW o2 00 ted 80 One herd ...... sn 30 Read he 12 Gre woman. Ll to ig ne 60 Adairyomaid., 7. 5 50 Two haymakers at $3 a week 10 Extra hand for harvest and so forth.. 6) $502 Food for seven laborers (Pierre and wife not included): Bacon “Blacksmith. .... ER ahs Wheelwright. ....... Tools, ete. ..... 71 Cost _of attending fairs, selling cattle enflgrain ete... 0. 2 Insurance. ...... ete ed sana vei 13 \ $72 And the total is $979. Thus be- tween income and expenses there is a difference of $521, which is Pierre's profit for the year. he provides for his family and meets the needs of life.—From “The French Peasant in His Fields,” in the Out- ing Magazine. ———— meee A Cultivated Memory. E. C. Laston, who issued a chal lenge to the world, for the memory championship, although only a young man of twenty-three years, is a verita- ble walking encyclopaedia, for he has memorized 40,000 dates of the princi- pal events in the world’s history since the creation. It was quite by accident that he discovered that he had an exceptional gift of memory. He was being trained as an army officer, when an attack of rheumatic fever dispelled his hopes in that direction. At ‘that time he happened to meet the Zancigs in India, who, noticing what a re- markable memory he had for dates, advised him to cultivate it. He then purchased a copy of Haydn's “Dic- tionary of Dates,” and sought to com- mit to memory the dates of the most important events in the world’s his- tory by writing fifty to a hundred dates on a piece of paper, and re- writing them three or four times until he had fully grasped them, with the result that he has a repertory of thousands of dates, and can give the correct answers without the slightest hesitation.—London Tit-Bits. Et ———————————————————— Cat Not Guilty. A cat accused of killing a chicken was found guilty on the grounds of self-defense by a jury in a Justice's court at Marysville, Ill., recently. French scientists are studying a peculiar movement of the sands along the northern coasts of France, Bel- gium and Holland. A fine sand orig- inating on the coast of Normandy has been found as far away as Denmark. 150 went for the family round numbers, then.’ With this sum. FICE AND RADE REVEW WEEKLY TRADE SUMMARY Retail Trade Decrease at Many Points—Iron and Steel Busi- ness Quiet. R. G. Dun & Company's “Weekly Review of Trade” says: “Retail trade at many points has decreased with the higher’ tempera- ture. Contracts for finished steel are restricted to current needs, but a large tonnage is under negotiation. New projects are deferred until after election. © Confidence is "shown by the steadiness of prices and the grad- ual increase in pig iron production. “Evidences accumulate that stocks of dry goods are low. almost beyond precedent, and the urgency for quick shipment tends to generate confi- dence among buyers. Men’s wear for immediate delivery is the best feature of woolens, but scarcely any new lines are fully sold. - “Better conditions are reported at New England and footwear factories. New business is chiefly for medium priced gouds.” ‘“‘Bradstreet’s” says: “Although trade reports are some-- what irregular in character, owing largely to varying weather conditions in different sections of the country and uncertainties caused by impend- ing elections, the general undertone is toward sustained improvement. “The heavy marketing of crops has made for an increased railway tonnage and improved collections considerably while exports of wheat are heavy. “The iron and steel are quiet, but production is increasing in anticipa- tion of forthcoming good business, and there is more doing in other in- dustrial lines. There is less indus- trial idleness, and in some instances business is developing’ for the first quarter of .1909, especially in shoes, lumber and pig iron. “The pig iron production for Sep- tember exceeded that of August by 4.2 per cent, and it was the heaviest total recorded since November last, while it represents an increase of 35 per cent over January, 1908. How- ever, the decrease from September, 1907, reaches 35 per cent.\ MARKETS. PITTSBURG. Wheat—No. 2 red....... $ 8 9) yo—No,2......:.. Corn—No 2 yellow, ear. 90 91 ‘No. 2 yellow, shelled.. 87 58 od. ear............. 77 73 Oats—No. 2 white 53 51 . 3 jte.............. £2 53 Flour—Winter patent...... 5 80 3 90 +. Fancy straight winters. Hay—No.1 T 300 135) Clover 100 120) Feed—No. 1 white mid 000 3100 Brown middlings... 70) ?%50 Bran, DulK.. ps e-.i." 400 245) Otraw—Wheat..... ...... 700 80 Cat... Li ee 700 800 Dairy Products. Butter—Elgin creamery 2 0 2 Fancy country rol 14 Cheese—Ohio, new. 17 New York, new. 17 Hens—per Ib. ...,........0. devas, 17 18 Chickens—dressed......... 12 13 Eggs—Pa. and Ohio, fresh PH] 23 Frults and Vegetables. Potatoes—Faney white per bu.... 9% 1 ro Cabbage—per ton............ os 150. Yi75 Onions—per barrel............ cies 155) 6.0) BALTIMORE. Flour—Wintor Patent............. $ 357 5 9 Wheat—No. 2 red....... sees 1.08 Corn—Mixed,...... . 7 i BES. oie, erie 17 1s Butter—Ohio creamery............ 23 24 PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Winter Patent............. $ 560 575 Wheat—No. 2 red...... 97 Corn—No.' 2 mixed 88 a8 Jats—No. 2 white. os 54 Butter—Creamery p21 23 Eggs—Pennsylvania firsts 17 13 NEW YORK, Flour—Patents.,.... ror ceeeneen od $ 58 59) Wheat—No. 2red. Lo Corn—No, 2....... 9) 90 Oats—No. 2 white.. 54 55 Butter -Creamery . 2 23 Eggs—State and Pennsyl 17 13 LIVE STOCK. Unicon Stock Yards, Pittsburg. : CATTLE Extra, 1450 to 1609 pounds.......... 585@ 5 00 Prime, 1300 to 1450 pounds, L000 @ 5 8) Good, 1200 to 1300 pounds .525@ 5 60 Tidy, 1050 to 1150 pounds, 465@ 5 15 Fair, 90) to 110) pounds . 40 @ 475 Common, 70) to 900 pounds 300@ 4 00 Bulls.......:..C. 2. 300@ 450 Cows... I... ne 1500@ 55 Ov ’ moas Prime, heavy.. 20 rriisaisernriennens 630 @6 49 Prime, medium weight. .... 61 @620 Best heavy Yorkers...,..... 59) @6 0 Light Yorkers, .54' @550 igs... a .b0) @5 30 Roughs, .. LAL @5T Stags. ........ .40) @4 7 SHEEP Prime wethersi................ 422@4 9 Go0d mixed, J; 0000 4 65 @ 4 20 Fair mixed ewes and wethers....... 3B@3 7» Culls and common.........,....... 15) @ 25) Spring lamps. 00 000 40) @6 2) Yeal fulves.,, > 1 ne 50) @ 77> Heavy to thin calves... 1 30) @4 5) The Amenity of Tennyson. An American young lady — the daughter of an Ambassador—who was exceedingly anxious to meet the laureate, was given the chance to ful- fil her eager hopes one night at a soiree. After she had been. intro- duced to him the following dialogue began: Tennyson—You are American? + Girl—Yes. Tennyson—Yot know Walt Whit- man? Girl—No. Tennyson—Then you don't know the only man worth knowing in Amer- ica. Whereupon the laureate away and the interview Conservatoro, turned was over.— In addition to things that are lia- ble to be dropped from airships might be mentioned the man who Tun- uing the machine, suggests the Wash- ington Star, is One of the Essentials of the happy homes of to-day is a vast fund of information as to the best methods of promoting health and happiness and right living and knowledge of the world’s best products. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully presented and which have attained to world-wide acceptance through the. approval of the Well-Informed of the World; not of indi- | viduals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtain- ing the best the world: affords. : One of the products of that class, of known component parts, an Ethieal remedy, approved by physicians and com- mended by the Well-Informed of the World as a valuable and wholesome family laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine, manu- factured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. The Swamp Angel. “The Swamp Angel,” was the name given by the Federal soldiers to an eight-inch Parrott gun which was mounted on a battery built on piles driven into, a swamp outside of Char- leston, S. C., and used during the siege of that city. It burst August 22, 1863. After the war it was bought ‘with some condemned metal and sent to Trenton to be melted, but, having been identified, was set up on a granite base on the corner of Perry and Clinton streets in that city. DRAGS YOU DOWN. Backache and Kidney Trouble Slowly Wear One Out. Mrs. R. Crouse, Fayette St., Man- chester, Iowa, says: ‘For two years > my back was weak and rheumatic. Pains ran throughmy back, hips and limbs. I could hardly get about and lost much sleep. The action of thekidneys wasmuch disordered. I began 455: was remarkable. Pills, and the result The kidney action became normal, the backache ceased | and my health is now unusually good.” ji Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. TFoster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Transportation Capacity. The fact has been repeatedly de- monstrated in this country, as else- where, that increased transportation facilities invariably develop increased tonnage. It is wise economy to keep the capacity of service a little ahead of the demand, rather than to clog business by insufficiency of transportation facilities. — Boston Herald. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put to- gether, and until the last few years was sup- posed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and eri] local remedies, and by con- * stantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the Oy con- stitutional cureon the market. It is taken in- ternally in doses from 10 raps toateaspoon- ful. It'actsdirectly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hun- dred dollars forany caseit fails to cure. Send for circularsand testimonials. Address F.J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75¢. Take Hall's amily Pills for constipation. Used on Lakes. The Great Lakes rank next to the Atlantic Coast in the quantity and value of coal consumed in steam pro- pulsion. Out of 11,300,000 tons load- ed on vessels for bunker purposes in 1907 these waters alone are credited with 25 per cent of the total coal tonnage required. WAS DELIRIOUS WITH ECZEMA. Pain, Heat and Tingling Were Excru- ciating—Cuticura Acted Like Magic. “An eruption broke out on my daugh- | ter’s chest. TI took her to a doctor, and he | pronounced it to be eczema of a very bad form. He treated her, but the disease spread to her back, and then the whole of | her head was affected, and all her hair had | to be cut off. The pain she suffered was | Xcruciating, and with that and the heat | and tingling her’ life was almost unbeara- | ble. Occasionally she was delirious and | she did not have a proper hour's sleep for many nights. The second doctor we tried afforded her just as little relief as the first. Then I purchased Cuticura Soap, Oint- | ment, and Pills, and before the Ointment was three-quarters finished every trace of | | } | | | | Coal the disease was gone. It really seemed like magic. Mrs. T. W. Hyde, Brentwood, Essex, England, Mar. 8, 1907.” Save the Foolhardy. After several accidents on roller | coasters and scenic railway contrap- | tions at so-called amusement resorts | the Chicago authorities have decided | that they can step in and save fool hardy pleasure selves. seekers from them-: ISO; Throat and Lungs need just the protection against cold and disease that is obtained from: ff Piso’s Cure. If you have a cough file or cold, slight or serious, begin tak- H@ ing Piso's Cure today and continue until you are well. Cure the cough § i while it is fresh, when a few doses of Piso’s Cure may be all that you of will n Famous for half a cen- B tury. Pleasant to taste. Free from § E88 opiates and harmful ingredients. gists’, using Doan's Kidney | AMERICA BEATS THE WORLD | Produces More Coal Than All Coun- bined, Exclusive of Great Britain. The United States produced 60 per cent more coal than Great Britain in 1807, over 90 per cent than Germany, and exclusive of Great Britain pro- duced more coal than all other coun- tries of the world combined. The Geological Survey, in a report today on the world’s production of coal, es- timates the production at 1,209,184,- 109 short toms, of . which the United States furnished almost 40 per cent. More than 98 per cent of the total world’s production. of coal ‘is from countries south .of that.line producing less than 20,000,000 tons. annually. centage of the world’s total produced by the United States has increased from 14,32: to- 39.73. and ‘since 1899 this country” has held first place, hav- ing distanced Great Britain so far that that country can no longer . be considered a rivalg An Unexplored River. The world greatest river is located by Prof. Mudd in Australia. Pecu- liar geological conditions lead much of the water of this continent under- ground, and he estimatés that a great subterannean river flowing through we center is as much as 200 miles wide. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reducesinflamma- tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. Praying for Rain. Throughout the state last Sunday prayer was offered in many churches for rain to break the prevailing drought. The spectacle’ is sugges- tive. Modern man can build cloud- | piercing cities, he can make the light- nings his servant, banish darkness, sail above the clouds, talk a thousand | miles through the air, but when one | of the elemental processes of nature | is stayed for a time, he finds himself ja helpless as his cave-dwelling an- cestors, and compelled to lift up sup- plicating hands to the power above.— | Philadelphia Bulletin. | 1 Save tie Water Fowl. | | | The action of the American i] bon society in acquiring an island off | | | | | | | | | the Maine coast as a bird reservation merits duplication. New England wild water fowl are becoming less | humerous each year. The inland | birds were deciminated long ago, and | attack upon the shore birds has been | growing fiercer each year. Reserva- | tions to be used for breeding and for places of refuge must be maintained if the extinction of the Species is to be prevented.—Boston Herald. Metals Need Rest. Metals get tired as well as living things, a scientist declares. Tele- graph wires are better conductors on Monday than Saturday on account of their Sunday rest, and a rest of three week adds 10 per cent to the con- ductivity of a wire. Tolstoy's Domestic Life. Tolstoy's domestic life is singular- Iy happy, in spite of the fact that his wife does not share his views. con- cerning religion and sociology. The Countess is 16 years younger than her husband, and, although the mother of 13 children is still beautiful and charming. For Sale S250 Mone. in 14 States. Strout’s mame : mothillustrated catalog of bare | RHEUMATISM ow curable; thousands cured; re- low. Write quick. DR.S, 1 WRIGHT, facRiprice | — will tire your shoes are made by always fit. Skreemers readily, write us for dire countries north of .the equator, the:| :~ During the past 40 years.the per- |. red pounds, more or less, k for the label. FRED. F. FIELD CO., BrocKton, After suffering for seven years, thiswoman was restored tohealth by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Read her letter. i “Mrs. Sallie French, of Paucaunla,,’. Ind. Ter., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: “I had female troubles”for seven years—was all run-down, and- sa ner- vous I could not deo anything. The doctors treated me for different troubles but did me no good. While in this con- dition I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for ad- vice and took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound, and I am now strong and well.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera- tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear- ing-down feeling, flatulency,indiges- tion,dizziness,ornervous prostration. ‘Why don’t you try it ? Don’t hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there is anything about your sickness you do not understand. She will treat your letterinconfidence andadvise you free. No woman ever regretted writing her, and because of her vast experience she has helped thousands. Address, Lynn, Mass. The value of all kinds of fish land- ° ed in England and Wales in one year is over $35,000,000, and the number of men and boys employed over 40,- 000. 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