4- IN ARMY 0NT1IE MARCH SCRIPTION OF ORDER IN WHICH A COLUMN ADVANCES. PrnfreM Thrnnch an Enemy's Conn fry la Magntnrent ami ItemarkaMe pecterle 1 he Advance "Polnta" Tlia eelry Srreen, Van and Main tinariU. Hi lt Mi column advancing In time war through nil enemy's country Ik once a magnificent nnd remarkable etude; or rutlicr, to lu quite cor- ct. It would be, provided the eye uld tnko In nil the dctiills nt n single iiiicp. But thnt I Just preelxely whnt toe re oiinnot do. A column of even lodcrate strength when on the move, bngtheiis Itself out abnormally; so mcU so, Indeed, tlmt a boily or troop Hhlcu In review order could be imcKeii itliln a modern-allied pnrrule ground hl occupy rlbbonwlse eight, ten or ten more mllea of country. We will, therefore, tnke tip n prod on on nil eminence n kopje, If yon ke nnd wntch In Imnglnntlnn n col- inn of ltrltlKh rcgulnrs miii'thlng on. ay Pretoria. Flint there will come in sight, rldlim t a wnlklng puce nthwnrt the holder- rewn veldt, n solitary pair or hors' en. TIickp nre the ndvmice point. U they nre termed, nnd nre thrown irwnrd. perlmpa a mile nlienil of the hngniml. They nre on the lookout ir the enemy, nnd on the first hint of linger It Ib their duty to ride buck to 'ft and right nnd iihirm the Hunkers. These latter nre thrown out fnnwlse torn the cavnlry which screen the ,ifnntry vniigunrd. nnd they In turn iss the word lmck along the trolling. Innkelike rililion of armed men, till Ithln half nn hour, any. of the rue- fny' lielng Hint sighted, thp entire immnud knows of the threatened lunger nnd Is prepared to deal with It. The two advanced points have been ell likened to a couple of electric tmt- ns, which on being touched, thrill le alarm down on both flanks iroughout the entire length of the olumn with which they nre In com- lunliiitloii. The alnillle la not quite rfect, however, for tho nliirin Is mnded by these living electric but- lns while yet the danger Is quite re nte. Some hundreds of yards hi the ear of the cavalry screen conies the dvnnee guard, subdivided Into a von- unrd nnd a tniilnguard. This latter Immtltutea the first fighting unit of the advancing column, nnd Its rength Is, of course, proportionate t the strength of the force It Is cover- ig. With It nre field nnd machine una, snpiK-rs, miners, engineers, am ulnnces, reserve ammunition wagons nd so forth. In fact, the advance nnrd of a large column constitutes In itself a fighting force n mlnntiire rmy so to speak, complete In prncti- ally all essential details. After the dvnnee guard hns passed we simil rolmbly see emerging from the louds of dust which nlwnys, except In wet wenther, envelop ns with n hnnntlc a column on the nmrcli another wolltnry pair of horsemen, nnd then nt fjiiterynls, another and yet nnothcr. nrhese are the connecting links, A alf troop, or perhaps. If the force is . large one, a whole troop of cnvnlry vlll come next, then more connecting Inks, and lastly the officer commnnd ng, surrounded and accompanied fiy ds staff. The unlnlnted In matters unitary will now expect to see lne naln body of the army; hut no. A sin rle Infantry battalion, or maybe two, ivlll perhnps pass, marching strictly 'to attention," bayonets fixed, the of leers swords carried naked nt the ilope; after which there will heave lowly Into sight an apparently end- as train of field artillery, mncinne nns, ammunition wagons, nmnti- ances, tool carts, forage and store agous, "and numbers of led horses. t Is only when this heterogeneous procession hns come to an end that he thickening of the dust cloud and bo. measured tramn trnmn tramn! Id the approach of the Infantry les. On they come, rltlea nt the r at the trail, talking, laughing. singing, smoking, an though d Its attendant horrors were n nd mllea awny. On they come still on! Battalion after bntfui- irlgnda after brigade. becomes almost monotonous after ter a while for the mighty machines. acta compoBed of a thousand or more ndlvldual tlfghtlng units, swing past I'tth the mechanical precision of gl nutic automata. Kverythlng moves if by clockwork. Thirty paces In- erval la the regulation distance be- ween battalions and brigades, and HO laces Interval It la no more, no less. here Is no slackening, no hestltnucy, or all the apparent free-aivd-eaalnesa. company lags but a foot or two; It spurred sharply forward by a bit '.tig dims half eipostulntlo.i half com- (dnand uttered by its captain. A battalion does likewise; and a wave of tbe hand from Its ever watchful chief aends the adjutant galloping down the right flunk, exploding as he goes. 80 the force Is kept "strung up." And a very , necessary process la this same stringing up. The loss or a rew yarns at the head means hundreds at tin) tall. Trivial check to the front i a 'ong column la a serious deluy to the nen in the rear of It, and continual Stepping out or rapid closing tends to exhaust troops. I With tho passing of the rearmost brigade the Interest to the average spectator largely vanishes. True, there follow more machine guim, more tool carts, ammunition wagons, lead norsee, etc., but all these we have seen 'before. The henrer compunles with Ibelr trim stretchers and the red cross of Geneva showing conspicuously on their tunic sleeves, arouse a brief cu 'rlu.lty, bu' they art out of sight, swal lowed up In the dust cloud almost era we rcnlir.e their presence. If, however we core to occupy our kopje for another hour or so we shall sec yet another cloud of dust advancing toward us, This la formed by the bnggoge train which follows all nrmles. Lastly comes the rear guard, followed by n small detachment of military police, whose duty Is to look after stragglers. OPPOSED ON PRINCIPLE Would Have Nothing tn Its with Work Under Any tireninstanree. " A tramp or any niiinberof tramps," said a wealthy retired chemicals man ' ufaettirer, "will not work, however ninny nnd good are the opportunities afforded them, nnd I speak from ex perience. The comic pictures and Jukes make the tramp out to be ler fectly happy If he has plenty to smoke and ill Ink and nothing to do except to eat and sleep and be comfortable. Hut It Isn't true, ns I proved. A doe en years ago I thought I was on the eve of making n great discovery thnt would revolutionise n whole lot of things In my business, nnd one of the necessities of the discovery was cigar ashes. And cigar ashes made by being smoked by the mouth. There Is a Uirt erence between such and those formed ordinarily, and this difference was what my discovery was hanging on I thought. Anyway, It became neces sary for me to secure nshea, and though there were thousands of them about they were not obtainable, and so I concluded to hire smokers and get what I wanted. The Job was not to be a steady one. so I looked for tramps who were exactly lilted to do tlie work. I soon hud - of the lean est ones I could pick up and I took them to a nice, well-lighted and venti lated room In my factory, where 1 hud put In n lot of comfortable chairs, an old sofa lounge or two, n lot 01 paper back novels and cigars to burn. I was to pay four cents a cigar, and 1 calcu lated that 'jri cigars would be a day's occupation. The cigars were not bad, as 1 paid $1 n hundred for them, r.ach tramp had a lot of checks with Ins number on them, and every time ..e got n cigar from the overseer he hand ed In n check nnd the ashes of me cigar lie had smoked. The number of checks he had at quitting time represented Ills earning for the day. In addition to this I bedded and boarded loom at the factory boarding house nnd allowed them three meals a day. Could human beluga ask for more than tlifs 1 uey could not. and at first the tramps did not. and they said that they not oiny had the snap of their lives, but mat 1 was n public benefactor and tney were going to set aside n fund out of their earnings to present me wii.'i n loving cup. It made ashes come pretty high, but If my discovery amounted to what I thought It would every ounce of ashca I secured would be worth twice Its weight In gold, so 1 wasn't losing anything by my being a public benefactor. Kverythlng went beauti fully for the first three or four ways, and to look nt those chaps In tlieir smoking room, lounging around read lug, talking or Just smoking and dreaming, you would have thought an earthly clyslum had been reached nt last, but they couldn't stand It. First one kicked 011 the quality of the cigars, and then another wanted n cushion nn ids chair, nnd another asked for a ham mock, nnd another didn't suy a wwcl, but sneaked away between two days, and be was followed by two or three more the next night. I got extra men to take their places, but It didn't help tjie flint coiners any, nnd nt the end of two weeks I had only four trnmps In my clyslum nnd I couldn't And any company for them. These four weak ened the following week nnd my place was empty. lloWevcr, I had enough ashes to go on with my discovery business, which never amounted to much except to prove conclusively that a tramp Is a born vagabond nnd leg itimately Incurable." Washington Star. Freake of the Cninnaaa, The cnptaln of tho Vnlted States lighthouse tender Myrtle, which was here a few days ngo, reports a pecu liar state of affairs In the eastern part of the state of Maine. He stated that while going through many of the pas sages he noticed that the compass swings around from one to two IKilnls. This is csHclally noticed in Deer Inland parage, and In some places Is very dangerous to vessels, as In thick wenther the deviation Is sufficient to put them ashore, ile says he bus noticed this deviation es pecially between South Mark Island and lry Halibut Hock. In passing Mark Island the deviation Is from three-fourths to one and one-balf points, mid from the time this trouble Is first noticed until the vessel passes out of tho magnetic licit requires aoout eight minutes' time. Some of the residents of the Island say that magnetic ore on Camp's Is land Is the cause of the compass devlii tlou. The captain of one steamer told him that the ore Is particularly no ticeable on Marshall's Island, and In observed that the greatest dcvlutlon Is nt high water. The tripod on Pry ITnllbut Rock has been boarded up solidly with heavy plunks. This Is for the purpose of giving back an echo In thick weather. The captains of vessels have got so they can determine their positions quite accurately by tUli means. Some of the old cnptalns sny thnt fog will give back an echo, but It seldom de ceives an experienced mariner. Portsmouth (N. II.) Chronicle. The Italian government has pur chased some steam motor vehicles of large sice capable of carrying four tons and hauling another vehicle carrying eight torn, ' THI MARKETS. riTtsHtina drain, flnnt and Feet, WHEAT No. red. 7Bf W Hre No. 1 M 63 COIIN No 9. yellow, ear it'i M Ho. I yellow, sbellea GO Mixed ear 47 9 OATB No. 9 white 80'j M No. 8 white XOtJB Wlntar rtnt 4 40 4 6U Vnact RttalRlit winters... A. 'M " HAY-No. 1 timothy 1 00 l 25 Mover, No. 1 12 50 19 00 'KD-No. 1 whits nild.. too.. 18 00 18 5) Ilrowo nilddllugs IB 50 1A 00 llrnn. bulk 10 00 18 tO STItAW-Whaat. 7 60 8 00 Hat 7 50 8 00 Dairy Product PCTTF.n-fldlB creamery..... 22 13' Ohio orenmery 18. 19 Fanny country roll IS 14 CIIKF.HK-Olilo. new 10 10'- New Vork. uew 10! i 11 Fonltr, eta. HFNP per pnlr S3 00 CMHKKNH ilrennerl 13 14 EU08 I'a. (in.UMilo, fnwh.... 11 Wi train and V tie table. UFANB-Oreen bunhel 91 1 00 l CU AlOI H Kaocy White bu 40 4i t'AliHAUE per crate 2 00 2 Vi ONIONS pot bu M 1 23 1 85 DALT1MOUR Fi.orn 4 iou 4 so WHK.AT-No 2 rati 77: Wi COHN-Mlxed 4H -J 4H OATH w4 ttl F.OtlH 13',' Dl'IifcU Ohio crenmorr 20 21 rillLADKLPIII n.orn t 4 2.va 7s WHKAT No. 2 red 77'i 77'i CllltN No. 2 mixed 47; i OATH No. 2 white HI 81.' III "ITF.lt Creiiinery, extra.... M EUUtJ 1'euDKylvaula II ruts.... 13,' NEW YOICK. Fl.Ot'It rntenta 4 80 4 00 H KAT Na 2 red 85 t'OllN-No. 2 60; OATK-Wtilte Weelern 81 liriTF.lt dreamery. ., . 17 ltf LUUU Stale and I'eun 11 18 L1VM STOCK. Central Sum tarda, Kaal LI hart I'a. CATTLa, rrlme beary, 1400 to 1500 lbs.. 8 40 9 A G5 I'rlme. lUOtito 1400 lt 8 15 5 41 Medium, 1UW) to 12V0 lbs 4 75 6 05 Fat lieilera 4 40 4 115 llutcher, 00 to 10OU Ibe 4 (iu 4 85 I onuiion to fair. 4 10 4 60 Oxen, common to fat 8 50 4 50 Common to good lut bulls and cowa 2 50 4 00 Jlllch cows, each 19 00 80 00 Extra milcn coin, each 85 00 40 00 Boos. Trim medium weight 8 70 8 7J hurl heavy yurkera and med. . . 6 70 6 75 Oood to choice i.ackera 5 70 5 75 Uood plita and light yorkera. . . 5 00 8 f9 "a'PI'lira 8 60 4 85 Heavy hop. ft 65 6 70 t'ommou to lulr. 6 . 5 50 KoiiKha 4 60 4 ltf Hmki 8 00 4 85 fnxir. Extra, med. weight wethen, a. 4 00 4 63 Good to choice, 8 75 4 00 Medium, 8 25 8 50 tomioou to fair, 2 00 2 51! LAUBS. Enml's, good to choice, spring. . 4 75 5 60 Lniulw, oommou to lair, uprlng.. 8 75 4 60 Extra, clipped 4 60 4 76 Ooed to choice, , 4 25 4 60 Medium, 8 25 8 7ft Common, 2 23 8 00 CALVIB, Veal, extra 6 78 8 00 Veal, good to choice. 8 60 6 75 Veal, common to Inlr 6 00 6 60 Veal, common heavy 'i 75 4 00 REVIEW OF TRADE. There Is no Evidence Thai the Reported In Juries lo Grain are Sertoli Wool Growing Weaker. R. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Review ot Trade" says: If the great increase in failure to $100,570,134 in the first half of 1900, against $41,664,661 last year, and especially to $43,893,079 in the second quarter, against $2,169,635 last year, gave no occasion for diligent search, failure returns would be worth nothing. Hut to-day it is shown that 30 banking failures (or $25,82,682, ugainst 31 last year for $7,601,728, ac counted for much of the difference; that 265 brokerage and real estate failures for $22,122,346, against 145 last year for only $2.32K.2I5, accounted for another part, and that in building and lumber working and trade, other large failures distinctly connected with those in real estate, explain much more of the differ ence between manufacturing and trad ing failures last year and this. The "Iron Age" makes the output of pig 283,413 tons weekly. July I, but the de crease of 16,000 tons has by this time been exceeded, other furnaces having stopped this month, and repairs t.f works and of wage scales may yet occu py some weeks. The increase of 86.958 tons in stocks unsold implies decrease in manufacture more than double the decrease in output and works of five of the great corporations are waiting for decline in wages, just when the workers have looked for increase. Open mar kets are now admitted at Pittsburg, where quotations have been for some time nominal, and Bessemer pig is of fered there at $16. Structural makers decided not to reduce prices, but steel bars there and plates nt Philadelphia are said to have sold at $1.15 in some cases. The sheet works open Monday, with large orders. Coke works, about 19 per cent, idle, have no demand now, and in contracts it is said that even $2.50 would be shaded. Wool is growing weaker and even offered by some Western holders at prices which were refused not long ngo, but the mills do not yet know what goods they will be able to sell, and from a temporary idleness there seems for some no escape. The end of the crop year has brought the usual es timates, which command not more con fidence than usual. If the country can get out a crop, officially called 547,000, 000 bushels, all it wants for food and seed, and 3,000.000 bushels for export, with considerable left over in sight,' it is the easy inference that anxiety is needless. There is not evidence as yet, and for some time to come cannot be, that injuries sustained have been as great as some suppose. Failures for the week have been 106 in the United State, against 169 last year, and 26 in Canada, against 24 last year. The Penrwvlvfinin annrnij -,,, A- cided the mercantile tax law to be con stitutional. A man walking ten mites a day would require nine yeari to cover all the treets of London. Many circus performer are born to the circuses; many of them have never known amdher life. Jell-O, the Slew Deeeert r leases all the family. Four BaTortt emon, Orange, Bnspberry and Strawberry, At your grocers. 10 eta. German gas companies pay $18 a ton for Australian coal, and from $5.95 to $9.52 for English. Plso's Care cannot be too blghly anokea ol a a cough aura. J. W. U'Dair.s, 82'J Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. , 1200. The University nf Berlin will soon have three chairs for anthropology and ethnology. Ta Core a Cold In On flay. Take !,txTit Banao Vrisine Tiilits. Alt druritlttn refund the money If It fella to cure. R. W. tiaoTi'e signature Is en eack boa. Boo, The French government has liberated in Madagascar during the last four years above 1,000,000 slaves. The favorite theatrical play in India is the presentation of the exploits of some god. Mn.Wlnploa'eOwtMnB Prtnp fnrMiltilra-i tcfthirii', eoftenetlieiruine. reduce Inttitinfnn tloli. allay imiu.curee wind collciito a bottle. A war balloon, such as is used nt the present operations, can be inflated and floated in not more than 20 minutes. In Nebraska there are 141 log school houses, 517 build of sod, one of baled straw and one of steel. OVARIAN TROUBLES. Lydla K. Plnkham'a Vegetable Cnmponnel Cares Them -Two Letters from Women. "Pit AH Mas. PlXKIIAM! I write to tell you of the good Lydla E. Plnk ham'a Vegetable Compound has done me. I was sick In bed about five weeks. The right side of my abdomen pained me and was so swollen and sore that I could not walk. The doctor told my hus band I would have to undergo an operation. This I refused to until I had given your medicine a trial. fore I had taken one bottle the swelling be gan to disap pear. I con- tinned to use 'SL.';- your medicine nntil the swelling was entirely gone. When the doctor came he was very much surprised to see me ao much better." Mas. Mabt Smith, Arlington, Iowa. "Dear Mrs. Pinkram: I was sick for two years with falling; of the womb, and Inflaramationoftheovarleaand bladder. I was bloated very badly. My left limb would swell so I cotild not step on my foot. I had auch bearing down pain I could not straighten up or walk across the room and such shootingpalna would go through me that I thought I could not stand it. My mother got me a bottle of Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Com pound and told me to try It. J took six bottles and now, thanks to your won derful medlcrae, I am a well woman." Mas. Elsib Urtam. Ottsville. Mich. mi dor Ho- Tiy WISAL V. I 1 7 11 II I CONSTIPATED QILO AGE (mm TUB I TABLET. CaSCARITS are abselatery harmless, a CARST8 promptly. eaecUvtly an! penuanently care erery eiaoroer of the Stomach, Lirer ana food. Merer tic lull, weaken or friee. Writ H eunei iit ina n.rv iHn .1 imnuntv P. R. V. 19, '00. A convict, pardoned that he might go home to die, is spending his declining years in running a saloon in Fort Scott, Kas, C Constipation. You cannot possibly enjoy good health un less you have at least one free movement of the bowels each day. When this is not the case, the poisonous products arc absorbed in to the system, causing headache, biliousness, nausea, vomiting, dyspepsia, indigestion. Ayer's Pills are a gentle laxative, suitable for any and every member of the family. One pill at bed time will produce one good, natural movement the day following. 23 cente a boa. All druggists. Ayer's Tills have done me and my family great good. They are like a true friend In trouble. There is nothing equal to them for sick headache and biliousness." Mre. Julia Brown, Ct. Louis Mo., Dec. 5, 1899. Mormon Ciplorlaa Fartyt Dispatches from Salt Lake City re port a very unusual development of Mormon enterprise. A Mormon scien tific exploring expedition recently set out for a fifteen months' exploring trip to Mexico and Central and South America. The company la made up of twenty students of Drlgham Young Academy, In charge of President Clufl of the academy and two members of the faculty. The general purpose of the expedition Is to search for ruined cities, photograph their remains, and to collect botanical, archaeological and anthropological specimens. Besides this It has a special religious errand. The Book ot Mormon, It seems, claims to be a record of the ancient Inhabi tants of America, from the time of the Tower of Babel to the fifth century of the Christian era. The Mormon story Is that the Nephltes of the tribe of Ma nasseh came from Jerusalem to Amer ica about 600 B. C. The Mormon ex plorers hope to get on to the trail of the Nephltea and perhaps to find the remains of their capital In the valley of the Magdalena. Their proposed course Is through Mexico and Central America Into Ecuador and Peru. The country Is a rich field for explorers who are fever proof. They propose to return by sea from Valparaiso to Sao Francisco. Kleetrlelty or Compreeead Air. The question whether a street rail road In Berne, Switzerland, should be operated by compressed air or a change to electricity made was recent ly decided by a popular rote. There were 1,964 votes cast for electricity and 1,772 In favor of compressed air. Herman lien's laying Capacity, The common Oerman hen lays about CM or 600 eggs In ten years. In the Brat year the number la only ten to twenty; In the second, third and fourth, 100 to 135 each, whence It agala diminishes to ten In the last year. Among the Chileans a belief prevails that the mice of onions is a sure cure for typhoid fever if given in its early stages. I V Means misery on the eve of life. Nine out of ten old people are constipated because the muscles of their intestines have become weak, worn out and flabby. Constipation is the curse of old >, causes bile and acid poisons to remain in the blood, making the skin yellow and wrinkled, the eyes bleary and causing the "bones to ache." Keep the bowels strong, healthy and regular and old age loses all its terrors and weak nesses. No reason why grandpa and grandma shouldn't have bright eyes, and clear ruddy skin and feel lively and active, if they will only keep their bowels open and vigorous with CASCARETS CANDY CATHARTIC, the greatest bowel tonic ever heard of. Try them to-day a 10c box and find that the tortures of consti pated old age are PREVENTED CANDY CATHARTIC mi tartly vegetable compound. Ha merearial or ether al II. Me. i. Midi.. Ji rrhM Ana awun.rw toe booklet aa4 tree sample. Aeoresa SilttilBO 1 ' ' J 1 In time. Hold be OruailMa. r 1 'yleaTiTlioipson'tEyiWatirl ; (J Four or five ounces of sugar is all that an adult in good health should eat with impunity in the cour.se ol a day. YVkat Shall tr Hits Tor Dessert This question arises tn the family dally. Let as answer It to-day. Try Joll-O, a dsllsiooa and healthlal dessert. Preparel In 9 mln. No bolllnat nobaklngl Hlinply add a little hot water sot to oool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At grooera. 10a. The Abyssinian warriors always honor their king by a band escort of forty-five trumpets wherever he goes. Ladles tan Wear Shoes One ilr.e smaller after nslng Allen's Font tiwe, a powder for tbe feet. It makes tlftat or new sboea easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aihlng feet, Ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all drugel.taandsboe etoree, 25c. Trlnl raokng HIKE by mall. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Hoy, N. V. A girl at Marion, Kan., died from a wound on the hand made by the barb on the back of a catfish. Fits permanently eared. No fit nr nervons. ea alter flrrt dnv's ue of Dr. Kline'. Ureas Kerve Restorer. 3 trial bottle and treaties Iraa. I)r.K.lLKuKcLtd.t01 Arab StPb.lle.i'a. May 10, 1900. was the coldest day of that date of which the New York weather bureau has record. Tha Beat Prenerlptlon for Chllla and Ferer Is a bottle nf Okovi a Tiarsi.tea C hii lTohio. It la simply iron and quinine la a Uateleaa form. No cure no pay. Price 6U0. Nearly 60 per cent, of all Russians arc unable to read or write. Albert March, Wert Toledo, Ohio, sayst "Hall's Catarrh Cure saved my life." 'Writs him (or particulars, bold by Druga-leU, 74o. Among the clocks to be seen at the Paris exposition is one of the year 1580, which belonged to Henry III. Fwy's Vermifuge has many imitator1. Be mre tn get the genuine, made by E. & H. Kroy, Baltimore, Md. A large quantity of Australasian ap pics will be put upon the Scotch and English markets this season. Throw rhjalo to the does If you don't want tha dogs; but It you want good diges tion chew Beeman's Peprin (ium. To meet the great demand for new guns the royal gun factory at Wool wich, England, is being enlarged. BY 10c 25c 50c ALL DRUGGISTS mineral pltl-polioa la CASCARETS. CAS- Intestines. They not only cure eooi ooostlpatieB, n . . 1 . . . 1. ...... w . . . 1 luitl CO. , CHICAGO or MaW lofil. m
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