ACSA and refined Xoning dom the i, of new ofl | Sells and the | shipping indusesy. nd i 2 of i eatin. The tanker has 2 pensive ang Sanpiios cated han the F luis were not a true tale it would Bot be worth the telling. A frolzht train was wrecked by a rockalide on one of the rallways running between Chicago and 8t. Panl | The Buperintendent had dome up from i Lacrosse in a hurry with a8 wrecking | train a doctor and some stretchers, Om the side of a cut a little way from the engine & man sat with the pallor of death upon his unwashed face As ore the surgeon and the Superintendent *% | approached he waved them bark | Train rrr erly Hour—Ahend Fifty Feet. re on the Santa Fe fiyer City to Wichita, Kan, iba an exciting experience in & mad “race between the fiver and a evelone, : {end the former came ont about 50 foet {ahead after a flight of 12 miles. North Na. 406 due af passenger | Wichita at noon left Arkansas City at 10 o'clock. The cyclone which will aahine oa | Ee Ind. Prom pe a6, and kept it up rp not only did the tumor dis- : - | "Don't aind me, Doc.” be said; “I'm 1 done for. I had po business bere, any- way,” he added after a paunse. “Hat there's ane of your men-—poor beggar,” § be sald, pointing toward the wreck. “He's got a locomotive on his lap and | be ain't making a murmur. Get him | | out—-he's obe of your men” : Going down to the wreek they found Having rescusd the fireman, the doe. tor turned to look after the tramp: bat Be. foo. had crossed the dark river Hig life had been wasted bat ar the door of dost he bad been almost be | role. A little way dows te line they found another mun seatad by the roadside. “Bix clothing disarranged and bis face stained with Wood, “Have you had trouble ™ asked the railroad man HT ve Bad a dream” sald the man and he pointed to the wreck where a) most every conoesivable sort of freight was heaped up In pleturesque confo- {Hon “Do you see that pyramid? asked the man on the bank spd the en two nodded. "You see the few | oars of coal at the boltom, and then the ordinary merchandise, and above that there 1s 8 car of bonsehold goods, id there's a man aml a monkey and a and-organ In there sommewhere—and, at the top of the heap, a harvester” CAD] Ie thin your dresin™ aslted the iv | raitroader. “Oh, po-T was fost going to tell you: I was sleeping peacefully in the top of that harvester when this thing { bappened. 1 dreamed that some care less person had started the machine ap, forgetting thet 1 was in ft | was | dreadfully frightened, Dut when the | whevls stopped I was perched. practi of- | cally unhurt, on the pinnacle of that ie s | pramid, looking down on the tops of the telegraph poles” "Have you bad breakfast?™ the So. | perintendent asked. “No.” said the man; “just a dream's | all I've had” As the two Den moved on toward a farmbouse, the dreamer, taking a nod of the head gs It was meant to be taken. followed After breakfast the milrcad man asked the tramp if he {was looking for work “Do I look RY asked the tramp. oe | wating a quick edo glanee at bis * | questioner, “We want men Soppose vou be a “| man and go to work right pow * The tramp pot up a hand as a stop > etgnal "I thank you for the compli- ment, and I'd ke to oblige yon, but it {1s 8 matter of principle with me 1 simply won't work; so if you're a work. gman I'l bave tn sary good-by to ox. Good-by and good lock. "Cy urman, in Collier's Weekly. Row to a Craver. Jomnh Burkam. a Minnesota umber Gender. had. IT a Westin newspaper is to be believed, an experience in an ex. tinct crater Io Arizona whieh pearly cost Bim his life and bas all bot de! Mroyed his health. Xr. Borkam Is an enthusiastic explorer. One day Be ye. Ne i : ete upon the crater of an extiner vol. | tdow on the head, fell overboard and cana, snd climbed about it for an hour thont mishap. Then he discovered a | bole about as large 1a a barrel and! (Aarted to craw] in. Suddenly he 1 and slid a long &lstance, strik ng Bis bend against a ledge of lava, | When be came to be was tn total dark. Down and sbsolote silence, He had pine matches. These be | ruck one after the other, holding each jones unt it burned ala fingers He | groped along the passage, thinking be Bet soon woe daylight Suddenly it | came on him that he was pot finding | the antrance as soon as be ought to. cutting bis hands and bruising his bead and shonlders against the lava Sometimes Bo lowt consciousness for bours. Then dedtog strength again be Quer a luminons spot lsd Mm on overfoyal Fe atrock with awful toree agninst a pha horescent wall which | bad deceived him. By rubbing it be wus able to make Detley progress for the pext few rods Without warning he pitched head ong Mito ss pit of thick fluid. It was sulphurous and choked him. He strug | glvd out and lay down to rest. When he looked around again be saw gereral pairs of gleaming: eves Ririll| squeaks told him thay they belonged to rata The mats made a dash at him. { th ‘bat were kent off. fortunately, by the sulphur. which was too strong fur them. © Seize he might mave did; farther forward 1 should pever have Then Be saw - streak of daytight, and pushing toward it fell senseless | into the open afr. When be recovered his seneew aud straightened up a wildent was sitting perr bit with ap army of rate behind her. Bhe was keeping them off. in sending evidently to have the prey Wo herself. Mr. Burzam and the wildest stared at each other, the latter apparently | wondering whether the man wis weak encugh to conquer. Summoning all his strength Be threw np bis hands and | rushed at the cat. which fled. Then Mr. Burkam scrambled up the lava bank to the surface of the earth once | more. A Nan Escape, Bear Admiral Robley D. Evans, ak though be has seen plenty of sharp fighting and Deen often under A ofice came nearer to losing hig Jife | af board his own ship and when not engaged with the enemy than during any battle in which be ever bad pert. | He tells the story in “A Ratlor's Log” i A Hite before the destruction of Cer vera’'s fiver he had gone below to hin catin with Commander Kimball of the torpedo fleet, who had lronght | | despatches. They were sifting at the cabin table stodying the situation, | the fireman with ote log under the en. | When a startled voles exclaimed, | t gine. They cut the leg off, but the poise fellow failed to rally and died on | | the way fo the hospital, “Look out, captain “I throw my head to one side” he writen, “to see what 1 was to look ont for. when there was a tremendous crash, and I was aware that 1 was burt and more or less daze], My first linpression was that one of the Span. sh gunboats had sneaked 8p on ue and pat a shell luto my cabin. 1 had been thidklng all the afternoon what a fine shanee it would be for them that night, tint when I wis really conscious | saw that that was not the trouble, “My calin was foll of men, all star tog at me. thelr eyes fairly sticking ant of thelr heads They thought I was killed, and I suppose they wanted | ts soe the last of the ‘old man’ | was soon aware that one of the doctors was feeling and twisting my right arm, >: and that my right shoulder was in pretty bad shape. Through it all 5 was sorry for Kimball who I thovght, | : was surely killed, and 1 was greatly | « relieved when 1 heard his volos, which | shoe sounded 8 mile away. “The accident was soon explained || The men were Panning in & steel hawe ser, and it bad picked up the steel battle hatel. weighing something over #00 pounds, which wae lying on deck ready to he put on the cabin hateh when deeded. The line bad carried - it along until It eame directly over the hatch ander which 1 was sitting, ‘when it slipped off. came down edie first. and caught me on the shoulder hsstead of the head. “The man who called to me to look | out held on to it In his effort to stop | x It. and came down with it "My shoulder was badly mashed and dislocated but the exccilent modical oo teen soon wiped the blood off, reduced {the disloention, handiped my arm © fs y aide and turned me in “*If my bead had been four Inches had the pleasure of writing this Doak.” Harpooning a Drowning Man, *Talking about curious esperiences” aaid 8 sinn who had spent his life along the enast, “1 had ap experience soma years ago and it tried my nerve more than any fickdent Ih my whale career. It was a little above the cast coast | of Florida There is a section of water there which is as cledr a8 a moantaln hrook, and at points where the water i eight or ten feet deep the hottum can Le seen as plainly as if Ir were only six inches down It was one of ‘those white sand bottoms and hid pande It even easier to see any obieet at the bottom of the water, One after. pon 1 had been orulsing around the coast with a party of friends. We hag bwett out fishing awd having a good time generally. Several of them wen old-timers. regular ducks when it came th the water. A severe wind struck os amd I some way, We pever knew exe actly, one of our men wis hit a violen want to the batten He remalpned on the bettons with his face anparently buried In the sand We thought he would coms up amin, and then we srould grad him and poll him our. Bat he remained there, and we beégan Ww figure rather hurriedly on wha to do. “Throw the giz inte him’ said ove of the rougher and older fellows Thin taade me shudder, but the old man reasoned it out that our friend was a dead man sure if we didn't get him ont ha some way. If we pulled him to the stirface by throwing the fix into his Beck he might get off with a lHght Then fear seized Ninn He sprang oe Anyhow, it was a chance I * | forward like & crozy man up the pas mage, struck a projection and fell | } Wien ba recovered lie moved en again, Iazed away. and fortupately fost enuaght the skin In the shle of the neck The provgs of the gig bell and 1 pulled him to the surface. We dragged him out of the water and onto the boat, and in a few hours be was all right 857 Well, 1 should say so. bit really, yon can beileve it or not. Just as you please, It was the only time I ever actually threw the harpoon into a friend, and it the strangest experience of my Ite along the coast.” —New Orleans Thnes Dewmodrat. Pe aR SE The Puttery Tree of Brasil, The pottery tree, found in Brasil 's carious and useful. One would scarce ly expect to find pots and jars and pitchers growing in If'not on a tree | timt the materinl for them certainly grows in this tree. It is found in the form of silica, chiefly In the bark al ough the very bard wood of the tr siiso yields it. To make this curious pottery the back is burned and wha reqiains in 2 ground to powder aud mixed man to sit in Congress. a member from C Fiftrsixth congresses, 18 ut the head bina, founded by the Baron de Hirech Tiian war of independence. instead Furtytwo years aio Garibaldl sailed with 1.000 men from Queries. Of thia | galiant band thers are today 1.30611 aurvivora Again, haly 8 paying | £30,000 a year to 18431 pensioners of | the 184% campaign. According to Qe | of them ought to be d Miss Blanch Grey, 178 Shatana wireel Memphis, Tenn, a society woman of Mem plits, writes: : oh 0 8 octets orn Shim nervous forse w often axed tw the utmost {rom iarle of vest and frregalir seals 1 : pothing which is of so much bene roars. 1 took It a few months ago when 1 feit my strength giving away, and it soon # made iteelf manifest in pvisg me pew stoongth and health "-- Mim Basch Gees Mrs. x. Scuneider, is Thirty seventh Bands and feet, female weakness, 56 Apps tion, wresiblins sinking Fach nearly all fan og sad ng With $ 1m ri sour a ; say teeday that 1 am tell scsi thank wou enough for my com” Verunia cores catarrh wherever Jorated | Peruana is pot a guess nor an experiment. it is an alwolute scientific eeHauty. rt rons hae po substituten—oo rivais spon Baving Peruns. A free book written by Dr. Re t= Se, SNe subject of catareh in tte dGPerent phases and stapes. will be sent free fo ony address by The Pe rung Medicine Go.« Columbus, Ohio. stareh in a ayetemiie dives enable | — by systemic treatment A remedy) thst curves oatarth must sim rely at the deprouned Derve centres. This 1s what Poi PE ta not deriv promin and matin faitory ressiis Irom the svi] of Peroos. write at ono ta Dr. Hartoman, giving a fall statement of your cam an) he will be ig to give you his vaisal sdviow OE Dr. Hartman, President of The man Sanitarmun, {otumbins, iL Twothinds of the German sugar product is exported. y the whole of the C. ental Amers 1} orop I guthered 1a San Salve A NEGRO COLONY. Former Dongressman White Mead of a Land Syndicate. Heary C. White, the last colored North Camiios in the Piftefnth and of a syndicate which has purchased from Senstor Robert E Hand, 967% ecres of land near Burleigh, N. J. pear Caps May, It Is Inténded to a 1s bliah a colony of ougroes from North © Caroline. The namie of the town 8 ta be Whitehora Already several j avenues have bewn lad omt Bach { colontst is Yo buy a bouse on the In staliment plan and 4 to have 10 yoars | fin which fo pay for it. It Is to de An agriculturs colony on the same pinn ss the Jewish colony at Wood fund trustees er a Unprecedented Condition. A curious discovery has heen made : i connection with the vetarase of the | of dying off gradually. as might be ox patted, they are gotaally eressingt | average rates of mortality four-afths | inquire the cause. [| alwavs say | partment, graduste of Columbia Gtr, . and who served three years st West Point, hes the following 10 say of Peruna: ~ Allow me to express mygrattiude to you for the benefit derived from your wonderful remedy. Owe short "month hos brought forth a vast change, and I now consider myself ia well man after months of suffer tng. Fellow su evers, Perune will cure yow. a Perune immedintely invigorates the | nerescentres which give vitality’ ts the mocons membranes. Then catsrrh Sap i perars. Then vatarrh is permanently sored. No Color in Oleo. i : Commissiimer Torkes, of the ten nal revenve bureau, has settled the {oontested guiestion as to whether dub ter or any ober ingredients. sriifienily silorsd. may be used in the manufac i tire of olesihargarine without Inereas 5 ] ing the tax from one-quarter of a cent tn 10 cents 4 pound, by issuing & rege tion which holds in effect that no artificial coloring mstier whatever (an bo used in any way in the manu | eture of Heomuargariog *itaout in Creasing the: fax, i feel bloated after cating the plainent meal. 1 would suffer with headache that nearly drove} me crazy (ind would be so nervous} that if any one spoke a little quick to roe 1 wiuld cry. | could not help it. I was not fit for any kind of work, Since I have been taking Ripans Tabuies the neighbors and my friends notice the change and} Ripans did it. [| take one after each meal and one before retinng. | The Peat’ pa imeaston, "an ; ® cents, oniainas suonly Toe a veut 3 tores color to gray air, Sometimes it ma | air grow very heavy he ng; } md it stops falling Fo kL swe ae EE ER CR - ae eal bosses gr if nl A rad eh ELE A ate colidueten ws Bonestiy ant ay CRNORTR EE Spal SE eg eTual National Lite [nsmemnce Company with a areata saan With 8 Gra peeetic and the on portaity we oh 4 tid ug
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