THE BIGGEST BUREAU.
A GLANCE AT THE UNITED
STATES PENSION OFFICE.
of a Pension—The Claim
Traced From Its First Entrance
Into the Office Until Its Allowance
or Rejection.
There is a great deal in the newh
impers about this tine about pensions
and pensioners, but who that reads all
that is written knows anything about
the pension office? According to the
estimates of the Sccietary of the Trea
sury for the service of the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1892, pensions and the
pension bureau will require an appropri
ation of over $140,000,000, that is a sum
of money that is almost incomprehensible ;
to ordinary people. It is over $2 for
even* person in the United States. The
machinery that will make the disburse
ments will require $5,000,000 to keep it
running. The stall of the pension of
fice consists of nearly 0,000 people.
There arc the United States examining
surgeons, who are scattered nil over tlrn '
United States and whose duties consist
in making physical examinations of np- '
pliennts for pension. There are the pen- j
sion agents, who pay out the money to '
the pensioners. There are special ex !
aminers, who travel about and investi- (
gate eases of unusual complication or
in which fraud is suspected.
The pension office proper, the huge ;
building of red brick that Gen. Meigs
put up in Judiciary Square, contains the ;
bulk of the men who give out pensions j
or refuse to give them out, as the case ;
may he. It is larger than several of the ;
departments and is toagrentextcnt a de
partment by itself. There" arc fifteen j
divisions in it and each one of them does j
an amount of business that is quite;
astonishing, for there is no loafing there. '
No matter how hard the clerks work it j
is almost impossible for them to keep
abreast of the increasing tide of applica
tions for pensions that come pouring in. ]
These applications are for every concciv- I
able ailment. Before the enactment of the
dependent pension law every claimaut
who made what is known as an "original
invalid" claim—that is, a claim on his ;
own account for a disability that he had
incurred in the war—had to prove a |
number of very difficult things. He had i
to make it clear that he was himself first.
Always the government requires proof of
identity, and yet some clever scoundrels
have imposed on the pension office in j
this matter. Another form of imposi- j
tion is that practiced by the gentler sex. j
According to the pension laws the pen
sion of a widow ceases as soon as she |
gets married. Of course this is a hard- j
ship to a great extent, because at that
time, if she marries a poor man, she j
needs money more than ever before; but :
Uncle Sam doesn't look at it in that
light and thinks that her new husband .
ought to support his wife. The consc i
qucnce of this is easily foreseen. Some ;
of the ladies, wishing a husband and a
pension at the same time, get married
and never give the pension office a i
chance to congratulate them, but con- I
tinue to lead a dual existence, posing as i
poor forlorn widows before the govern- ;
ment and leading pleasant married lives
at home.
The dependent pension law lias made
many claims easy to prove. After the
claimant has established his identity it
must be proved that he served ninety
days in the army or navy and was honor
ably discharged, aud that he is suffering
from "mental or physical disability of a
permanent character, not the result of
his own vicious habits, which incapaci
tates him from the performance of
manual labor in such a degree as to ren
der him unable to earn a support." But
any claimant who prefers to claim under
the old law may do so, and in this ca'e
he has to prove that he served in the
war, that he got disabled while in servit e
and in line of duty, and that his dis
ability, if a disease, has existed to a
pensionable degree each and every year
since the close of the war up to the pres
ent time.
The question of line of duty has pro
duced many singular cases and has puz
zled the pension ofiice sorely. Was a
man who bought a pie from a huckster
in a certain southern city where his regi
ment was quartered and was poisoned \
by it in the line of duty, and having died
from the elTects of the pic, is his widow ]
entitled to a pension? He had his regu
lar rations; the government never
ordered him to eat a pie; is it responsi- \
ble for his death? On the other hand j
is there.any probability that he would j
have eaten the poisonous pic if he had
stayed at home? Isn't the government !
responsible for having put him in a
situation where he would be exposed to
temptation of eating bad pies? Then
there is the question of bathing iu
creeks or rivers during a march. Some
times the soldiers were ordered to go in
and if anything happeucd then of course
it was the government's fault, but often
the soldiers used to like to take a swim
without authority for doing so, and when
anything befell them under such circum
stances it was their own fault. Should
the government he liable under these
circumstances? Following the usual
custom in such cases they are passed
upon individually and the decision of
the pension office is dependent largely
upon the particular circumstances, but
the tendency in late years has been
toward liberal rather than strict decisions.
Some of the claims that the pension
office has on its files are curious ludeed.
The writer once heard of a claim for the
effects of the bite of a snake. The
cluimant alleged that he went to sleep in
hi 9 tent one day; that he was awakened
by being stung; that he was sure it was
a snake; that his heulth had been bad
since. There was a man once who
claimed pension for leprosy. When the
examining surgeon examined him, he
found white spots upon his skin caused
by the loss of coloring matter in certain
places, a harmless affection known in
medicine a "veal skin." The claimant
observing that he was spotted, as leop
ards are, naturally supposed that he hui
leprosy. It is n pity that there should be
so many applications on file for pension
from diseases that cannot be taken seri
ously, because the claims interfere with
the speedy adjudication of worthy
claims.
Let us briefly watch the course of a
claim through the different divisions of
the pension office. John Smith, us
suppose, claimß pension for rheumatism
contracted wl en he was serving in the
swamps of Virginia. The declaration,
or affidavit in which he sets forth the
facts, is received by the mail division
and stamped there. Then it is sent to
the record division, where there are
hundreds of enormous books in which
the names of all applicants arc tran
scribed, and where a number is given to
the claim and where it is put up in a
neat, tough paper jacket. From the
record division it goes to one of the ad
joining divisions. If it comes from a
Penusylvanian or a Michigan man it goes
to the Middle division; if from a New
Yorker, to the Knstern division or to the
Bouthcrn or Western division, as the
oase may be. When it reaches the flies
of one of the divisions it may be con
sidered as having been launched on its
career. An examiner is given charge of
it, and it is his duty to call for all the
evidence necessary to establish it as a
good or bad claim. John Smith's rheu
matism is investigated from every point
of view, and the correctness of his testi
mony is tested as well as it can be on a
purely cx parte system. In the hands of
the examiner the claim stays until it is
completed. Sometimes it takes a few
months only to reach a stage of comple
tion, and sometimes, too ofteu in -fact, it
takes years. There are plenty of claims
still pending in the pension office that
are ten years old, there are more that are
live j*ears old, and there are even some
that are a quarter of a century old.
When the examiner has brought the j
claim to a complete state lie briefs the
papers in it and submits it to the Beard
of Review for admission or rcjectior, as
the ease may be. The Board of Review,
if it thinks the claim requires more evi
dence, returns it to the division from
whence it came, where it undergoes
more treatment from the Examiner, but
if, on the other hand, the Board of Re
view approves the findings of the Exam
iner and allows the claim it goes to the
certificate division, where a pension
certificate is issued. If the claim is re
jected it is sent to the rejected files of
the adjudicating division from whence it
emanated.—( Washington Star.
OLDEST CHAIR IN AMERICA.
Carved Out of One Block of Wood
and Came from the Bahamas.
The oldest chair in America is carved
out of a single block of wood, and in
full size is about thirty inches long.
The front.is cut out in the shape of tlie
"man-turtle;" the legs stand for the j
clumsy limbs of the animal, and you sit
011 his back.
The oldest piece of parlor furniture in
America came from the Bahama Islands,
the spot where Columbus first landed,
and the natives did not have high
backed chairs as we have. They rested
and slept in hammocks, hamacas they
called them, and we borrowed both the
form and the name.
You sit on this chair just as you lie in
a hammock, for which it is in truth a
wooden and elegant substitute. Your
feet rest on the ground by the side of
the turtle's forefeet, and your whole
body lies along ou the hammock-chair,
your head resting on the extreme end.
1 cannot tell you how happy I was the
first time I reclined 011 this curious
couch gazing up into the sky and think
ing of the time when the voyagers of
1492 landed at Guanahani and saw the
dusky savages sleeping in hammocks,
says a writer.
But I must tell you how I came to be
so certain about the antiquity of my
treasure. Well, I sunpose there is no
doubt that Columbus landed first on the
Bahamas. This very chair was found in
a cave on the islands by an acquaintance
of mine who was exploring for bats. He
also recovered stone implements and
other relics of Carib occupation, but
these do not concern us uow.
But how do I know that such things
were used by the Columbus Indians?
Might not this chair have been made
hundreds of years afterward? The
great discoverer and his followers de
stroyed and removed all the savages of
this region and substituted negro slaves:
the African s are good carvers anci we
often see pictures of chiefs sitting on
stools carved from a single block of
wood.
True, and that is a fair question. This
very objection puzzled me a long time
until one day 1 was reading the account
of Columbus's voyage by old Herrera,
and popped on the following paragraph,
which settled the matter finally:
"When the ship was ready to sail the
Spaniards returned on the sth of Novem
ber with three of the native Indians, say
ing they had traveled twenty-two leagues
and found a village of lifty houses, anil
that they contained about one thousand
persons, because a whole generation
lived in a house; and that the prime
men came out to meet them, led them by
the arms and lodged them in one of the
new houses, causing them to sit down on
seats made of a solid piece of wood in
the shape of a beast with very short legs
and the tail held up the head before with
eyes and ears of gold."
Now, what have you to say against
my chair? I have some doubt about
the eyes and ears of gold. They might
have been of very brilliant shell, be
cause all our Indians use mother-of
pearl and other tests of mollusks for in
laying.
How Spiders Kill.
Spiders kill their prey by the agency
of a poisonous fluid, which is secreted in
a gland, and which flows at will to the
extremity of one of the fauces or jaws.
Some writers have denied the existcuce
of this poisonous substance; but the
effects which a spider's bite have been
known to have upon a human being prove
undoubtedly that it is present. Persons
who have been bitten by a very large
South American spider, knows as the
Myyale fuwa, have felt the effects in the
recurrence of severe pains in the portion
of the body attacked for as long as twelve
or even twenty years after the infliction
of the wound. The stories told of the
disastrous effects of the bite 9 of the tar
antula are, however, quite fabulous.
Everybody has heard of the belief, held
by the inhabitants of the district around
Turantum, that if one chanced to be bit
ten by a tarantula, he became subject to
a dire disease which could only be cured
by musical strains. The disease no
doubt existed, and wa9 probably a form
of hysteria, in the cure of which music
may have proved beneficial, but to saddle
an iunoceut spider with the odiutn of
producing it was distinctly unfair.
The destructive powers of spiders do
not Btop short at killing insects, for
some tropical species habitually catch
and eat small birds. The accounts first
given of these formidable creatures were
for a long time looked upon as mere
travelers' tales, but more recent observa
tions have fully confirmed the statements
made by those who originally described
them. The birds are not caught in
suares, for these spiders spin no webs.
They conceal themselves in crevices or
under leaves and from some such retreat
pounce upon th: birds they have suc
ceeded in approaching. A great deal of
their hunting is done during the dark
hours of night, when they are able to
steal upon their prey without being per
ceived. They ofteu rule the nests of
humming birds, dragging out the young
and devouring them, while the distracted
parent birds nutter helplessly around.—
[Longman's Magazine.
Prehistoric Ruins in Kentucky,
Quite a curiosity, which has caused
considerable talk, has been discovered
five miles from Russellville, Ky. On a
high, cliffy, miniature mountain, so
j thickly overgrown with cedars as to ren
' der the passage of human beings almost
i impossible, was accidentally discovered
what is supposed to have once been s
city. Here and there for several hundred
yards iu every direction were found the
half-buried ruiiis of what were once the
home of a people of whom we know
nothing. A quarry close at hand showed
evidence of having been worked in the
long ago, and from its capacious bosom
the material with which the houses had
been constructed was taken. The most
wonderful thing seen was the one build
ing, which has stood the storms of ages
and is still intact and good for centuries
more. It is a square building about
30x40 feet, and is built of huge blocks
of stone, which are fully ten feet long by
five wide in the foundation, and grow
smaller higher up, until at the top,
thirty-five feet from the ground, the cap
stones will measure about three feet
square. The unanimous opinion of all
who have visited the ruins is that this
must have been built and used as a fort
by the inhabitants of the town in the
time of danger.--[Globe-Democrat.
KILLING MEN IN BATTLE.
An Army Officer's Recollections of
War Times.
"When a man goes into a battle it is
presumably with the intention of doing
some killing," said an ex-army officer to
a writer for the Washington Star. "And
yet I never knew a soldier who liked to
feel that he had himself with his own
hands actually slain an individual foe.
There is an intoxication in the melee of
conflict, but no man likes to feel that his
own pistol shot or bayonet thrust has
taken away the life of a fellow being.
"Perhaps ,1 should except from this
general statement the typical sharpshoot
er, who cultivates an instinct of warfare
that approaches the murderous. I have
never been able to see how a man could
deliberately take up a station in a tree
top or rifle pit and mark down for death,
one after another, individuals whose
lives were solely at the mercy of his
scientific aim. Of course, war is always
savagery, but there is an element of cer
tainty iu the sharpshootingbusiness that,
to my notion, approaches very near to
murder.
"I vividly recall to mind one experi- j
encc of my own while with a skirmish !
party at the second battle of Bull Bun.
The tight had just begun and a Con- 1
federate scout approached without
knowing it very close to a clump of trees I
behind which my little detachment was i
concealed. Catching sight of us sud
denly he wheeled his horse like a flash
and was off. On the spur of the moment
I tired my pistol right at him and a second
later he wheeled in his saddle and fell
out of it. The tight swept over in our
direction and I saw 110 more for the
time being of my victim; but, though I
was in the thick of the fray for most
of the time for the next few hours, I
could not get out of my mind the hor
ror of the idea that 1 had killed that
man. Not only had I taken away his
life, but very likely had I made his wife
a widow, and his children fatherless.
That night when we went into camp I
had this oppressive feeling still on my
mind, when, to my great delight, I saw
the man that I had killed, evidently a
prisoner, sitting on the stump of a tree
with his arm in a sling.
" 'My dear fellow,' I exclaimed, with
much cordiality, approaching him, T
trust that you are not seriously hurt.'
" 'Naw,'replied the Confederate, dry
ly. 'When you [fired at me my horse
shied aud broke my arm against a tree.
Your bullet didn't hit me at all.'
"1 do assure you I never was more re
lieved in all my life.
"But the most painful experience that
I met with during the war was at Chan
celcrsville. I found one of our men,
when the fire was pretty hot, skulking
behind a log.
" 'This'll never do, man!' T shouted
in his ear. 'Get up there aud take your
place iu the line.'
"I took him by the scruff of the neck
—for he was seized with a panic—and
shoved him forward. As I did so, with
my hand on his collar, a chance bullet
struck him on the forehead and he fell
dead without a cry.
"The shock that incident gave me I
have never entirely recovered from. I
felt that I had killed that man. The
fact that I was in a position of equal
danger with himself did not affect my
moral impression as to the occurrence.
It seemed as if I had deliberately forced
him into the path of the bullet, and that
I was responsible for his death. Such,
in one sense, was true, aud yet, of
course, I was not in any just way re
sponsible. But I shall never get over
the haunting recollection."
▲ Celebrated Duel.
Many duels have occurred, first and
last, upou the field of Bladeusburg, near
Washington, most of thern, perhaps, of
later date than the two described, but
owin<£ perhaps to the less prominent
position of the parties scant record has
been preserved. The celebrated encoun
ter between the Hon. Henry Clay aud
the Hon. John Randolph, in 1826, did
not occur here, but took place just across
the Potomac on the Virginia shore, a few
miles above Georgetown. This grew
out of the Presidential election in 1824,
in which the candidates were Adams,
Crawford, Jackson, and Clay. Jackson
had received the highest number of
electoral votes, but not having a ma
jority, as required by the Constitution,
the election was thrown into the House
of Representatives, where, by a combina
tion between the friends of Clay and
Adams, the latter was chosen. The sup
porters of Jackson were highly indig
nant, and when Clay became the Secre
tary of State under the new Administra
tion they raised the cry of a "corrupt
bargain and sale," though there never
was the smallest particle of evidence in
support of such charge. Randolph, a
Senator in Congress from Virginia, in
delivering a speech one day iu that body,
referred to the affair as "a coalition be
tween Blifil and Black George, the Puri
tan aud the blackleg." The Kentucky
statesman immediately challenged the
eccentric Virginian, the oartel was
promptly accepted, and they met. Clay
shot a hole through his antagonist's
coat, Randolph fired in the air, and the
parties immediately became reconciled
and remained warm friends ever after
ward.—[Magazine of American History.
A Prize for the Ideal Couple.
The "Dunmow Flitch" was a prize
offered by Robert de Fitzwalter, at Dun
mow, Essex, England, in the year 1224.
It was established on the following con
ditions: " That whatever married couple
will go to the priory, and kneeling on
two sharp pointed stones will swear they
have not quarreled nor repented of their
marriage within a year and a day after
its celebration, shall receive a flitch of
bacon." The prize was claimed for the
first time two hundred years after it had
been institu.ed, that is to say in 1445.
From that date until 1751 only five per
sous called for it; and after 1751 the
flitch was left unclaimed till 1855. The
tenth occasion of awarding this prize was
j.a 1876. —[Courier-Journal.
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English Art ot' l'o-ctay.
In future years, when we walk
through the rooms devoted to the Eng
lish painters in the National Gallery,
we shall sum up the history of the art
of the century iu a few broad sentences
writes Theodore Child iu Harper's
Magazine. We shall find that the
mass of the English painters have re
lied simply upon nature, and persist
ently consented themselves portraiture,
the sentimental drama of daily life, and
the patient transcription of the phe
nomena of sea, skv and lanpscape. Ai
the beginning of the century we shall
notice that some painters named Barry.
Fueseli, West and Ilaydon were
haunted by poetic ambition, and im
agined that it was possible to begi
where Raphael and Michaelaugo had
left off, and so continue to interest
mankind by the rearrangement of life
less formula; and worn out conventions.
The productions of the-e men, re
main, however, mere historical curiosi
ties.
Then we shall observe a change in
the current ideals of art and the appro
priation of new stores of poetry and ro
mance, of National legend and universal
myth. But amidst the leading expo
nents of the new ideals we shall not
distinguish common qualities other
than evidences of wide literary culture,
a tendency to dreaminess, symbolism,
and definiteness of sensible imagery, end
a parti prisof imitative admiration of the
works of the intense and complicated
artists of the fifteenth century, like
Botticelli, Man tegua and Memling.
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fined personalties, Dante Gabriel Ros
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former the more original of the two,
end the latter the more assimiletive,
being content in much of his work with
variations upon or studies from the
masters of the fifteenth century above
mentioned.
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TANNING BY ELECTRICITY.
A Queer Industrial Wrinkle Reported
front France.
For some time past reports have Leon
current as to the perfection in France of
a method of tanning by electricity, and
the matter lias excited great curiosity I
throughout the country. This country
is, as America is, one of the largest
leather producing countries in the
world, and has no fewer than 3,000 or
4,000 tanning establishments. Within
the present month the process lias ac
tually been experimented with in
America, and the results are now excit
ing no small amount of discussion and
controversy in leather circles. The pro
cess, which is the invention of Worms
& Bale, of Paris, has been under trial
abroad since 1887, in a tannery in Paris
and another large tannery has been
started for the same purpose at Long
Jumeau." A third plant has been es
tablished in Bermondscy, the great
[ leather district iu London. In this
method the tanning is expedited in two
i ways; first, by the agitation of the skins
liu contact with the tanning liquor, and
secondly by the passage of the electric
current through the body of the liquid.
To attain thece two ends a circular i
drum is employed and as the drum ro
tates current is passed through it by
means of a wire brought to contacts at
its side. The skins to undergo this
process are prepared in the ordinary
way, the hair being taken off by lime,
and they are then put into the drum
with the tanning solution. The current
to which they are subjected averaged
about 70 to 100 volts, and the direction
of the current is changed every twelve
hours, so as to act equally on the skins,
which constitute the electrodes. During
the operation the liberation of gas is in
significant, so that the hides may be
considered to act in the same way as
the plates of an accumulator. Goat and
sheep skins require forty-eight hours.
Cow, steer and horse hides require from
seventy-two to ninety-six hours, accord
ing to their texture. The leather pro- i
duced in this way has been examined by |
experts and is said to bo of excellent j
quality. Nine hundred and nineteen
pounds of hide treated in this electrical
manner at Newark gave 1,278 pounds of
leather in four days, while 1,042 pounds
of hidos, subjected to the action of the
revolving drum, but without the current
turned on, gave only 1,210 pounds of
poorly tanned hides. Hence there ap
pear to bo economics additional to those
involved in the saving of time. As far
as the electrical process goes, it may bo
said that it is based upon thoroughly
sound theoretical considerations, which
have been tested and proved by some of
the best known electricians in Franco
and England.
A Fact.
(From an interview, N. Y. Wnr'd).
In an interview with a leading drug-honse
tlio JV. T*. Word , Nov. 0. ISM, gives the follow
ing comment on the propiotorsof reliable pat
ent medicines:
"He is a specialist, and should know more of
ihc disease ho actually treats than the ordin
ary physician; for while the latter may como
across says fifty cases in a year of the par tic
ular disease which this medicine combats, its
manufacturer investigates thousands. Don't
you suppose his prescription, which yc u buy
ready made up for 50 cents, is likely to do
more good than that of the ordinary physi
cian, who charges you anywhere fro • J2ti
$M for giving it,and leaves you to pay the co \
of having it prepared?
"The patent medicine man, ton, usually has
the gooa sense to confine himself lo ordinary,
every-day disease. He leaves to the physician
cases in which there is immediate danger to
liie, sack as violent fevers. He does this be
cause, in the treatment of such cases, there :
are other elements of importance besides |
medicine, such as proper dieting, good nurs- I
ing, a knowledge or lie patient's strength and
soon. \N here t here is no absolute clanger to .
dfe,where the disease is on* which the patient .
can diagnose for i imself or w>iiehs.nte phy-d- j
inn has already determined, the patent med- ;
icine maker says fear.essly: '1 have a prep
aration which is better tha > any other known j
.ml which will cuto you.' In nine coses out j
< C ten his statement is true."
This isabs lately true as regards the great
r. inedy for pain, St. Jacob's 01. It eau assert
without fear o contradiction, that it is a
•roiupt and permanent cure of pain. It can
diow proofs of cures of chronic c ases of 20, 30
iml <oyears' standing. In truth it rarolvever
.'ails ir used according to direction .an l a
ar cjproportion of cures is made Iv half 'he
<\>nteula of a single bottle. It is therefore the
best.
Miss Mary Gnrrett, of Baltimore, lios n
hath in her home lined with Mexican onyx
tho.t cost S6.t)UO.
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, T
LUCAS COUNTY, I
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY
& Co., doing business in the C.ty of Toledo,
ouaty and Mate aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum of One Hundre Dollars for
each and every case of CATARRH that cannot
be cured by the use of HALL'SCATAURH CURE.
r HANK .1. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence, this oth day of December, A. I)., 1880.
. —A— . A. NY. GI.EASON,
' , > Notary
Hall's Catarrh Cure is takon internally and
acts directly on the blood and inuc us sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials,
free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
XW Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Strawberries fetch 15 cents a box at Po
mona. Cal. U5
OIL
1* CURBS SURELY. *4|
SPRAINS! BRUISES.
OhlodkMiM.RallwfT. „ , . ,
Offlc. Prddent and '<6 Dolphin Street,
General Manager, Baltimore. Md„
Cincinnati, Ohio ~ J IMft
"My foot suddenly " WM bruised bed
turued and gave me ly in hip and aide by
a vry severely a fall and suffered se-
ITpfu<
Jacobs Oil resulted at completely cured
once in a relief from me ." Ws. C. HARDEN,
P *W.W. Pc*or.r, Mcmbe / ° r f
Prcst. it Qen'l M.n'yr Leglnlature.
THI CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. GaMauta. H.
PATENTS
■ I K■ WI ■ W SK.M) FOR CIRCULAR.
TACOMI CSI" KSSirKS \'ZSS??T. 1001
TMI IS. TACORA ISTESTRS.IT CO., TIWLLA, WASM.^
13 afflicted with noreeycn use Dr. Isaac Thoinp-
IM'I Fjo-water. Drug" iste sell at 23c. per bottle.
A stingy man is the Inst man in the world
to (iud out that he is one.
Oklahoma G ulde Book a nd .Man sent any where
on receipt of 50cts.Tyier <ft Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Good sense is one of the good things it is
hard to have 100 much of.
Timber, Minerui, Farm Lands and Ranches
in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas,
honirhl and sold. Tyler & Co.. Kansas City, Mo.
The man who has nothing worth fighting
foitdoesn't fight much.
Lee Wa's Chinese Headache Cure. Harm
less in effect, quick and positive in actiou.
Hent prepaid on receipt or SI per bottle.
Adeler ACo..iKSi VVvandottest..Kai.9asClty.Mo
No man enn understand anything that
doeH not begin in himself.
Guaranteed live year eignt per cent, mrst
Mortgages on Kansas City property, interest
payable every six months; principal and inter
est collected when due aud remitted without
expense to lender. For sale by J. H. Baueriein
fc Co.. Kansas City, Mo. Write for particulars
People are very poor who have nothing
they can not lose.
Do You Kver Hpeculutef
Any person sending us their name an I a l
dress will receive information that will lon I
to a fortune. Benj. Lewis & Co., Security
Building, Kansas City, Mo.
A doubt is the heaviest load anybody ever
tried to carry.
Do you wish to know how to have no ttenm,
and not half the usual work on wash-day? Ask
vour grocer for a bar of Dobbins'* Electric
S' dp, aud the directions will tell you how. Be
sure to get no imitation. There arj lots of
thom. •
Books that do not make you think had
bettor not be read.
The ('oldest In Years.
So the weather prophets sojm to predict
that this winter will be. an 1 by our experi
ence thus fur ran wo doubt but that they
must know a thing or two about the matter?
Well,be this as it may. all will concede that
a winter with clear, cold, bracing atmosphere
is certainly more conducive to health than
those so ml d of the past few years.
Warm clothing is most essential; even that
sometimes fails to protect us from the friend
ly embrace of "Jack Frost," who, no doubt,
will bo very vigorous in his endeavors to let
us know that ho has come to stay awhile.
Welcome hira we mu t, but let not "auld ac
quaintance tie forgot" should ho become too
fain.liar: checkmate him as I always have
done. No frost-bites for mo if you please; the
moment i feel his icy breath upon fingers
r toes I nip his little scheme in the bud by
bathing freely with some of that grand old
pain reliever called Dr. Tobias's Venetian Lin
iment. You can just try it for yourselves and
find out, too, that, what I tell >ou is the tru li,
and nothing but tho iruth; something well to
remember!
The Failure
Of the kidneys and liver to properly removo the 1
lactic or urle acid from the system result* lu
This acid accumulates In the fibrous tissues, particu
larly in the joints, and causes inflammation and the
terrible pains and aches, which ore more agonizing
every time a movement Is made.
Rheumatism Is to purify the blood. And to do this
take the best blood purifier. Hood's Rarsaparllta.
Hosts of friends testify to cures of rheumuUsm it
has effected. Try it.
Hood's Sarsaoarilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Ixtwell, Mass.
100 Doses Ono Dollar
"German
Syrup"
For children a medi- J
A Cough c j ne should be abso
andCroup resl^ e *
inotner must be able to
Medicine, pin her faith to it as to
her Bible. It must
contain nothing violent, uncertain,
or dangerous. It must be standard
in material and manufacture. It
must be plain and simple to admin
ister; easy and pleasant to take.
The child must like it. It must be
prompt in action, giving immedi
ate relief, as childrens' troubles
come quick, grow fast, and end
fatally or otherwise in a very short !
time. It must not only relieve quick !
but bring them around quick, as j
children chafe aud fret and spoil
their constitutions under long con- |
finement. It must do its work in
moderate doses. A large quantity
of medicine in a child it not desira
ble. It must not interfere with the
child's spirits, appetite or general
health. These things suit old as
well as young folks, and make Bo
schee's German Syrup the favorite
family medicine. ®
Best Truss Ever Used.
Will hold the worst CHHO
with
Q-aiASt 10-li
T RPa J JB mall everywhere. Send
for descriptive catalogue
and testimonial* to
\ M U.V, llenae Mff.C'n.
VF V y 744 Brand way,
New York City.
jCpU HChfseys#
ho be done ? -"^Sf
JSggT *—"Oughh stands for nothing!
The house ought- to be cleaned
wihh Sapo //o.TrysceJt.einyoup
next* be convinced
"IGNORANCE of the law excuses no
man," and ignorance is
no excuse for a dirty house or greasy kitchen. Better
clean them in the old way than not at all; but the moaorn
and sensible way is to use SAPOLIO on paint, on floors, on
windows, on pots and pans, and even on statuary. To be
ignorant of the uses of SAPOLIO is to be behind tne age.
|x| Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians. Kfl
kr-fl Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the KB
E>U taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. CB
wj/m ii ii ii iii 11 in in ii^p
/—CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH, RED CROSS DIAMOND BRAND A
mk rwwfccmu * rv\i\is #
- WW. „THI OmaiNAL AND GCNUINC. The only Safe, Sure, and rtliabls Pill tor ••
I? I MW k DruffWt for Chichtstsr s Knglish Diamund Brand In Krd •n't Cold nirimllio \y
I / fy boxes Mated with blue ribbon. Tele no ether Und. Rtftut Substitutions and/mnatumt. v
I kff , All pills In pasteboard boxes, pink wrappers, are danjaerova counterfeit*- At DrafftsU, or Bend *
V *©* *9 ,N U,N P" for particular!, testimonials, and "Keller far Indira," In t'ttrr, by return Mali.
_A V If 10,000 TcaUmonlala. Sams Payor. CHICHKOTC* CHIMICAL CO.. MftdUnn KQ.AN,
*\ Bold b T mU Locad
f 5 \ /'JONES\
/TON SCALES \ ( OF \ RA —* ° H
S6O BIHBHAMTON AWWiS
VEwm Box Tars Beam J Y*?. N. Y. a. J
IS!
ON® ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it ia pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on theKidneyg,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
Its many excellent qualities com
mend it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60c
and $1 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it ou hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
MVIBVIUC. KV. N£W YORK. N Y.
P CONDITION POWDER
ITlglilv concentrated. Dope small. In quantity costs
ICSH than one-tenth cent a day per hen. Prevent* and
cures all diseases. If you can't get it. we send by mail
post-paid. One pack. 25c. Five sl. 2 141b. can $1.20/
6 cans $5. Express paid. Testimonials free. Send stamps ct
cash. Farmers' Poultry Ciui.le pi iec free with fI.OC
orders or more. I. S. JOHNSON &. co.. Boston. Mass.
20O.; best, 25c. LEMABWB SILK MILL, Little Ferry N.J.
A D - TAFT'B iSTRMAbWrn
CURED::;:;
THEIR.TAFTIRIS. W.CI..RICHESTER.M.T.T 9\ £• EI
■ DfTiiC STUDY. Book-fceeplag. Bustneiart>rm,
pyjllnlk Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-ham#eta,
61 thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars
Hrrant'■ College. -137 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y
nippy |/li CCP POSITIVELY REMEDIED.
DAUU I rVNttO Greely I'ant Stretcher.
Adapted by students sit Harvard. Amherst, and other
Colleges, also, bv professional and business men every
where. II not for sale in your town send sc. to
B. J. CiItEELY. 715 Washington Street, Boston.
rre aiipg AXLE
I e tlMfe bill AQC
! BBfiT 1W THE WOltLfi BSsImRSE
19 Get tho UenuliM. Sakl i>ery where.
| Q R ATE FUL—COMFORTING.
EPPS'S COCOA
BREAKFAST.
j "By a thorough knowledge of the natural lawe
; wh ch govern the operatl >ns of digestion aud nutri-
I ti >n, and by n careful applic ntion of tlie fine j roper
j ties of uel-M leetel C.K-o.i, Mr. !:-■ s bus provided
our breakfast tables with a delicately ilarourcd bev
erage wiiioh may save us many heatv doctors' bills.
It Is oy the JuJlcJoiu use of such articles of diet
that n constitution may b gr oually built up until
strong enough to rasist every tendency to disease.
Hundreds of subtle maladies art Boating around us
ready to attack wherever there Is a weak point.
We may escnpe inauy a fatal shaft by keeping our
selves well fortlrte.l with pure blooil a d a properly
nourished frame."— "Civil Servioe 'rosette. "
Made simply with boiling water or mfl'c. Fold
only lu half-pound tins, y Groc r*. labelled thus-.
JAMES EI'M &Coopathlo Chemtet*
PURELY VEGETABLE. ") 25 CENTS PER BOX.
THOROUGHLY RELIABLE. [
ABSOLUTELY SAFE. J age free, on receipt OI
price.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
DR. J. H. SCHEUCK & SON, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
-VASELINE
FOR A ON K-DO 1.1,A It HI 1.1, sent us by mall
i we will dellvi r, free oi all charges, to any person In
; the Uult d States, alt of the follow lug articles, care
j fully packet:
One two-ounoe bottle of Pure Vaseline, - . lOeta,
One two-our.ee Udtle of Vaseline Pomade, - 15 44
One Jar of Vaseline Cold Cream, 15 44
One C'l ke of Vaseline Camphor Ice, • • • • 10 14
One Cake of Vaseline Soap, unacented, - * 10 44
One Cake of Vaseline Soap, exquisitely scented,2s "
One two-ounce bott.e of White Vaselluis - - JO 14
11-10
Or for postage stamp* any single article at the prtos
named. On no account he persuaded to accept from
your druggist any Vaseline or preparation therefrom
unless labelled with our name, because you wUI cer
tainty receive on imitation which has Httle or no ralue
Chmkrsugb Wfg. €?•., J4 Hui St., N. Y.