II I* Superior to Gunpowder The Germnn military authorities are experimenting with a new explosive which its inventors claim is destined to supersede gunpowder. The explosive i a brown fatty substance. A spark or a shock does not set it off. float to a considerable degree does not affect it scarcoly uny smoke and but little sound accompanies the explosion. When in guns the oxplosion is obtained through rontaot with another chemical com pound. It is Intended mainly for the artillery branch of the service. A MAN doesn't wish he was a boy aga'n when ho sits alone in the gloam ing and reads ovor the essays ha wrote during his school days. It Is Not What We Say But what Hood's Saras pari 11 a DOES that t-Us the story- Hood's Cures Miss Lizzie May Davis Ilavcrhill, Mass. After the Grip Nervous Prostration No Help Except in Hood's " Have been suffering fth 11 ston and this c ty could not do. those 3 bottles of Hood's Sarsa parilla have done for mo. 1 am now well and Hood's "?ii,\ Cures can walk without a cane. 1 feel grateful to Hood's Sarsapar lla, as I believe I should not now be alive if it were not for this medicine." Miss LIZZIE MAY DAVIS, Haverhill, Mass. Hood's rills net easily, yet promptly and EFLL cicutly, on the liver and bowels. -JO cents. PW t' 2 i V 3 "August Flower" Eight doctors treated me for Heart Disease and one for Rheumatism, but did me no good. I could not speak aloud. Everything that I took into the Stomrch distressed me. I could not sleep. I had taken all kinds of medicines. Through a neighbor I got one of your books. I procured a bottle of Green's Aug ust Flower and took it. lam to-day stout, hearty and strong and enjoy the best of health. August Flower saved my life and gave me my health. Mrs. Sarah J Cox, Defiance, O. ® This Trade MARK is on the best WATERPROOF COAT Illustrated In the World ! ""SAOE"" A. J. TOWER. r.OSTON . MASS. Unlike the Dutch Process rrft No Alkalies Other Chemicals preparation of gWC w * BAKEtt & co -' 8 ffllßreakfastCiicoa ill I which in absolutely ran lI ' I VVI ]•"'" and soluble. 11l | I p; ) | r |] it ban mone than three times MS i by |; M the strength of Cocoa mixed UjflJ, £• [ 1 Lwlfli Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, ami is far moro eco nomical, costing less than one cent a cup. It Is delicious, nourishing, and EASILY DIGESTED. Sold by Grocers e>erywher. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. Illustrated Publloatlons, KB" I" B &ECT &■ Idaho, Washington and Orsgon. thi FRKB GOVERNMENT VttlANDs ULIKIJIBOERI", . r. U.A.,. rui. lu ncucmN |n " N W.MOHHIS, NENBLUN I. C. y 'jyralu lust war. lSadjudiealiugcUinia. atty since. A remedy which, used by Wives cliM? / 7l\ about to experience 1V tho ra '" ordea l / t Child-birth, proves / Si an Infallible speci- I J r rTx~~'* fie for,and obviates \ rj tha tortureu ofcon• f i r / h n o meut lessening 11 v\ ys *ho dangers thereof I ffl I YV t L / to both mother and li 11 it \vSS /***J child. 1 old by all II H l\ (\ J '\ druggists. Sent by V il\ I#**" I express on receipt j&s JSrTUfr* -"o . It hot tie, charges pro ** /s s PW. JNAARTEI.!) NEOULAT9FL co.. ATUHM, O*- ONLY A SWITCHMAN. HE FACES MORE DANGER THAN A ;ldier. • Kinking Up l ong I rains and Guarding th% Public —A < ou'.igeam l.t of Men Who Give Theh U r l. o. ThouKiC'tp u tiled Yearly. Eight hiindi thousand men find employment < i the various railroad lines whu'l r.i r -rse the United States, and of liese fully one-fourth are stationed u th yards as switch men. Ol a'l ic uen who have any thing to k jith railroading there are none if liioui tlie public know so little as s w ehmen. Did youevei notice th- i • rmed, one-legged man waving hl-lid flag at the'crossing? lie is kuijn as a mgman, but ho fvas a sw : | man once, and there are many hundreds of others Just like him. Did you qver see a one-armed man struggling *ith the patent lock of a switch, ills empty sleeve Huttoring in the wind' I|r 's only tending switches now, but hi e belonged to a switch crew, rod , > In engine, and helped to make 'in long trains which carried pa 1 crs and freight out of Chlcag i, -! tte Inter Ocean. It is a dangorot' ling—this occupation of swi'c! i vith meager chanceol promol ' little recognition by the pui lie, it It a necessary and important They are as much a pait if t ■ mad is the conductor, who take! i age of the train when It is madi or the engineer who pulls it, ( Ithout them trains would sti > mads would become blocked, a I ailic finally cease alto gethei M t than one thousand men are ernplo; I in this capacity in the yards aboi | deago. : f Ifar-i-as Duties. No one I fully understand the multi ariiif iuties which fall to the lot of swijim u without paying a visit to soj one of the many yards. About thetrst man you meet will be a great bifcr.y, ruddy-faced son oi Ireland, wi. in rich brogue, will order you if of the way of a moving locoinotive||ir you are almost cer tain to f*l n the wrong track), and then Icastically inform you that tliis in' fo .gda" or a "Wlnsda," and tint 'Brlii -finer" has a bit o 1 minei t i © hat particular piece o( track 1 <■)> ali/.e the possibility ol this and itf A second later youi informant J s to the pilot of the "Ingine," at .with inimitable style waves you salute and inquires "How oiijlli yee.3 bin too town?" or te: s (towith a broad grin that "Oi alw -iifi >ws a Jay, sur, case his fate s 1 §t. torn Inst hes back." Befoyc - in make a retort the engine Wwy mr tormentor out of reai ll if ur voice, and you turn just in ti ifc mother man mak ing fran. Ilot-ioi and yelling at the top ofßs villi- , "ttaet utf dose track, da H an k ,ra, cf yo wan a yob go bw moil, es is bcthar es dese." Y | ;lc t, lls t i n time, and realize whl close call you have bad as the ii I -id with a clang and sputter- I gng steam rolls over the spot oil deli you stood Just a moment bef Vou resolve to be more cai - .a. >\v, and walk between ' the tracks, b there is such a laby rinth of irpralling that only the experleneiiJ in recognize the be tweens, aftluu walk on trying to look in f I lire ions at once. A mli'.ut'' i small bouse with an open -pa rou d It attracts your attention he strain Is too much for your i :s, and like the small boy makl i frantic dash for the door to i from the darkness, you ' rush for i muse. I I ufom-itio Switch* It i 3 -'! 'illi !y fashioned t-wo- Blory a fir. in- top very much re semblin. utinumis bow window, to whicl nt is made by outside t AIIT r. riTOn DOARI). steps. Al, florid, well-built man is desccndfj and in a trice you have ask/im can go up. Turn ing his gollitured face to you, and taking ajje from his mouth, he says, "Vhllt dot?" The request is repeateljd a light shines in his eyes as hebwers: "Kumcn-see-de haus-ln. Jyah, yah," and then struts off tig the moving cars, just as a man air- it' h "door above and invites yoi fi occurs to you then that "Haulis extended the invita of his coun uni."you did not know It Once lie little house a good view of thl is can be had from all sides, audi comiiu-nco to realize the dangtl.ich tin; switchmen brave in Iperfurmau :e of their duty. In I cut ove-' and under the movlnJ ■ waving their arms and shoutjo the engineers, ap parently sw is little thought of their perill osltic-o a.a man en an ox cart, lii, r:,,t, wlio seem too busy to let , a,,- „f life worry them for anient. The switch man's worklt ,ii manual labor, though It I ind dirty. He must he cool f action at critical raoi. ; he must have a lierfect conl n ~f f ( , e nnd dis tance, and Innvi r ant with the time-cards ol the ro-d for those In charge of 1 muter trains often ■ visit two ol.(. yards during the | day and niilv, r ght of way to regular trainl |=oi)ieof tljt.ini - it witliip [ the past two or three years are pro vided with automatic switch-boards, fashioned not unlike the old-time Gillian telephone board, and oper ated on the same principle. This is placed in the second story of the switch-house, where a view can be had of ail approaches. A Libor-navlng Device. Sitting before a long table contain ing a row of numbered levers one Diac controls the switches that lot al! trains in and out of the yards at the Btation. This is regarded as a labor saving device by the railroad com panics, and, though it costs more tc operate, it dispenses with the ser vices of six or seven switch tenders, placing the responsibility in th< hands of two men and reducing th< possibility of accident. Attheoldei stations the old-time manner of man aging the yards is still in vogue, and absolute dependence is placed upon the switchmen, who must throw the switches, make the couplings, and be responsible for the safety of all cars arriving or leaving the yards. One of the most important duties Is that of examining the condition of cars while making up trains, and reporting any defect. A weak or im perfect coupling is sure to make trouble, and a single accident may mean serious loss to many patrons oi (WITCH-DOUSE. the road or a disturbance in the com mercial world. From 7 o'clock at night to 0 o'clock in the morning Is the busiest time in the yard. Then they are making up the trains for the next day. All night long the engines puff and sput ter and throw myriads of sparks from their stacks, dropping a car here and one there, like the mail clerk distrib uting letters, until the engines stand alone exhausting steam as if tired out with work. A Perilous l,lfe. At night, ton, the switchmen must be more careful. They must be ever on the watch lest a misstep throw them in the way of a moving car, re sulting in the loss of a limb or, what is still more serious, life. Of the 28,000 employes killed and injured on the railroads the past year, fully one third met with the accident while coupling or uncoupling cars." Statis tics show that one man in every thirty who follows railroading meets with an accident, and the chances are about equal when one does occur that the unfortunate is a switchman. In a law recently passed by the Legislature compelling railroads to equip their rolling stock with auto matic brakei and couplers, the switchmen have some hope of light ening their labors and removing the possibility of accident. This will also tend to reduce the rates of insur ance, a SSOO policy being the most any company will take, and for which they charge the extortionate premium of $37. An eng'nccr, firemen, foreman, and two helpers constitute a switch crew, unless there Is a grade, In which case two extra helpers arc carried. When hired by the month they receive a salary of from $45 to $55, ten hours constituting a day, though they not infrequently work extra time when trains are late or the yards blocked. No regular hour is set for dinner and they are compelled to eat at odd mo ments wherever they happen to be. These irregular hours and extra pay for overtime are the causoof the switchmen advocating a scale fixing the pay by the hour at the rate of twenty-flvo cents for day men and twenty-seven cents for night workers. Those who remain any length of time at this employment do so be cause they can hope for promotion when occasion offers, or because they can find nothing better. This leads to a constant change of employes, which explains why the foreign ele ment predominates, and why there Is often more or less friction In their clans. The Artfulness of the Ant. Like many other insects, the ant Is very fond of sugar, to obtain which it employs a skill that is almost in credible. An observer thought ho had protected his sugar basin from the attentions of a number of ants by placing it in the center of a vessel full of water. To his amazement, however, he found that they got at the sugar by climing up the wall of the room to the part of the ceiling that was just over the ceiling. From this point they allowed themselves tc fall down among the sugar. Several that were carried by the draught pa3t the bowl fell into the surround ing water, and would all have been drowned but for the efforts of theii mates, who succeeded in rescuing some of them. Tl}o truth of this singular occurrence is vouched for by the witnesses of it. All He Wanted. Tramp—Bog your pardon, sir, but Affable Parly—Oh, that's all right, certainly; don't givo It another thought. When you stopped mo I didn't know but you wanted a quarter or something of that sort, and you only wanted to beg my pardon? Granted, irecly! God bless you, my man. LITTLE I)OT —"Oh, dear! I wish I wasn't a Kirl." Teacher—"You do? Why?" Little Lot—" 'Cause X hate to sit with the boys,"—Street & Smith's OpQd Pews, THE MERRY SIDE OE'LfFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. She Was a Humorist—ESiglish—Took the Door Human Nature His Theory, Etc., Etc. He courted her for twenty years And they had had hut few dissensions But many hopes and many fears She had concerning his intentions. At length he popped ; of color red Her cheeks there was an instant flood in And she replied, with drooping head And downcast eyes : 4 'This lis so sudden !" —NowiYork Press. ENGLISH. "Wlieali is Chollie? I have not met the deah boy faw a week." "He went to Lunnon to gpt his haili cut." —Indianapolis Journal. HITMAN NATURE. "My sweetheart is neither beautiful nor young," said Downes. "But she j is as good as gold." "Ah! It's the gold you're after!"/! said Bigsbe.—Yankee Blade. / COULDN'T SHOW IT. "What delicious mince pies you have, Mrs. Nuvvo! I'd like to see your receipt," said the guest. "They aren't paid for yet," said Mrs. Nuvvo meekly."—Judge. HIS THEORY. "You seem to have a good deal of faith in doctors," said the friend of the sick man. "I have," was the reply. "A doctor would be foolish to let a good cus tomer like medieA"—Washington Star. A SMALLT DIVIDEND. "I hear your wnture on the stock exchange was not very successful. Didn't you get anything out of it?" "Oh, yes, I got experience and the sympathy of my friends." —Chicago Record. TOOK I 'THE DOOR. "I called to see," said tho poet, tim idly, "if you had\an opening here for an author?" "We have," editor. "Which do you prefer—the * door or tho win dow ?"—Atlanta Constitution. RELIEVED OF WORRY. Adorer (feeling his'way)—"l—er— suppose your sister does not like my coming here so often, does she?" Little Brother (confidently)—"Oh, you needn't worry about sister. She can enduro 'most anybody. "—Good News. HE WANTED TO BE FORGOTTEN. Dudely Canesucker—"Your noble uncle will probably remember you. when making his will." "Confound it! That's what I'm afraid of. If he remembers me it's all up with me," replied Teddy Vander chump. —Texas Siftings. NOT THE ONLY ONE. He—"Dearest, for six months now, three times a week, I have called upon you. Is not the great love I have be ginning at last to dawn upon you?" She—"Yes; and that is not the only thing that is beginning to dawn, either." —Truth. TOO WEAK TO WANDER. Cholly Dudekin—"My head feels vewy light; I'm afwaid my mind's wandering." A1 McWaidister—"Well, don't about that, dear boy; it's not "strong enough to wander very far, don't cher know ?" —New York Advertiser. HOPE FOR DUDES. Old Plaintalk—"l say, Snobberly, I've got some good news for you dudes." Snobberly—"Aw ! What is it?" Old Plaintalk—"There is some hope for you fellers yet. A man in Michi gan has invented a calf-weaner.' '—Texas Siftings. KEEN AT A BARGAIN. F r ender—"Any sawdust, lady?" Irs. Cutrate—"How much?" 'ender—"Five cents a bar'l, an' I'll take it in an' dump it." Mrs. Cutrate—"l'll give you three." Vender (scornfully) —"Won't your take a bar'l for nothin' ?" Mrs. Cutrate (deliberately) —"ls it; sifted?"— Puck. WHY HE SUCCEEDED. /' "Who is your doctor, George?" "Dr. Smoothmau." "How did you come to havo that hare-brained creature?" "Oh, my wife once asked him if he could tell why she always had cold feet, and he told her that they were so small that they couldn't hold blood enough to keep them wnrm. She wouldn't have any other doctor now." —Buffalo News. THE LAST RESORT. "Yes,"said the Marchioness of Ee gadzir, as she furtively dried a tear, "my son, Lord Da Massy, has run through his entire fortune; in fact, there is left to him only one loophole of escape from absolute ruin, and of that he must at once avail himself." "What is it?" asked Lord Zavus, to whom she was detailing her woes. "That is to cross tho Atlantic and marry an American heiress." OCT OF ORDER. "As I was saying," said old Mr. Skinphlint, of the Story-Tellers' Club, "as I WSB saying, he then borrowed 810 of me—" "Gentlemen," interrupted the Presi dent of the club, rising to his feet, "I must rule the gentleman out of order. One of the first by-laws of this club is that only stories which bear evidences of reasonable probability shall bo re counted here."—Chicago Record. WORTH THE MONEY. Patient—"What do you mean, Doc tor, by this bill for one hundred and twenty-five dollars, when you came to oee me only four times?" Doctor—"Well, I don't see how you can complain, for I haven't charged you anything for those four visits." Patient—"Then what is this bill for?" Doctor—"Why, you said that you got along better when I staid away than when I came, so I have charged you for the times I've staid away."— Harper's Bazar. WHERE SHE DREW THE LINE. She had just burned her arm on the oven door and her desultory remarks were yet echoing through the humble yet comfortable cottage, when the man with grizzled whiskers and an air of self-repression knocked at the door. When she appeared at the threshold he fell upon her neck. "After all these years, after all these years," he sobbed. The lines in her forehead deepened, but she was silent. "Can you—" Seizing her yielding hand ho directed a burning glance into her eyes. " —forgive me for leaving you, Mary ?" A sigh agitated her bosom. "Yes," she answered, "I had for given you for that." "Mary." The joy that shone from his face Was a corker. "But—" She contemplated him in a weary way. " —I don't see why you couldn't lot it go at that. I don't believe I can bo resigned to your coming back." He perceived the necessity of a great sacrifice on his part, and went forth into the woodshed and plied the ax.— Detroit Tribune. NOT "LOOKING FOR- A LADLE. Not many years ago, before tho "boom" struck Southern California, Mr. L—, an old New Yorker, had a large ranch near Los Angeles. He was fond of good company and a good din ner and frequently entertained house parties at tho comfortable, old-fash ioned Mexican Hacienda. Among others who made a stay with one of the New York parties was Miss M—. Al though a woman of "uncertain age" she retained much charm of manner, and her quick wit was respected by every one who had come in contact with it. Mr. L- - was a jolly bachelor of perhaps forty summers, who had seen much of the world, and had a magnetic personality. He was a man of enormous proportions; some of them, no doubt, encouraged to their growth through his fondness of good things to eat. The party was at dinner at the ranch one day. The host, the bachelor, sqt at one end of the table and Miss M— was on his left. He had been chatting with her for some time when she asked for a spoon. Mr. L— arose at this and bowing in his most suave and polite way, said: "My dear Miss—, won't you tako me?" "Mr. L—," retorted tho lady, "I did not ask for a ladle.—New York Tribune. Artificial Diamonds-. At last one of the eminent chomists belonging to the French Academy of Sciences has been successful in artifi cially producing genuine diamonds. The lucky discoverer is M. Henri Mois san. Several of his associates have been experimenting in this direction for years, and black crystals of pure carbon were produced some months ; ago, but M. Moissan's achievement is a production of perfect crystals equal in purity to the diamonds found in the mines of Africa. To bo sure, the crys tals are very small, and it may be that tho production of diamonds large enough to be of serious importance to the world of commerce in jewelry is | still very far off, but the fact that so much has been done will undoubtedly I set dozens of chemists to experiment ing in other parts of the world, and it may be that in time artificial diamonds will be produced galore. The ancient philosophers tried the philosopher's stone, the test of which r was to be that it should turn to gold that which it touched of certain baser metals. But diamonds are much high er in value than gold, and there is a sense in which this is a greater triumph than the discovery of the philosopher's stono would have been. But, after all, the value of alleged valuable things are mostly only relative. When diamonds get to be so plentiful that everybody can have them in his shirt front very few people will want them. This would have been equally true of gold if the philosopher's stone had ever transmuted copper of lead into that precious metal. —New York Press. Giant IV.lms of Cayenne. The most interesting thing in Ca yenne is the Place des Palmistes, or grove of palm trees—a square wherein perhaps five hundred cabbage palms, averaging ninety feet in height, are planted in lines about twenty feet apart, and the same distance from each other in three rows. They are like half a dozen of tlio world-renowned palm avenues of Bio Janerio's botani cal gardens massed together—stately Titanic halls or Egyptian temples, with enormous round gray pillars, smooth as marble and straight as arrows, up holding massive arches of glossy dark green verdure. One never tires of walking in these giant aisles, of gazing upward at the verdant roof which trembles and whispers with every pass ing breeze, but wonder and admira tion grow with each succeeding visit;. —New York News, The Wretch. One day the Swell artist was pass-1 I rig the house of the younger one, says (he Boston Globe.and the latter called to him: "Mr. Chrome, I have just finished two pictures, entirely differ ent in subject, and would like to have your opinion of them." The great man said he would be only too happy to look at them, so, ushering him Into the house and opening the par lor, the owner pointed to two pictures hanging on the wall, and said: "Tliero they are. One picture is of my father, copied from an old-fashioned ambro typo; the other is a painting of Lily Pond." The artist, after adjusting his eye-glasses and looking carefully at the paintings a moment, turned and asked: "Which one did you say was your father, Mr. Madder?" THE biggest dollars we see arc those lust out of our reach. 1 Be on your Guard. I ® If some grocers urge another baking J ® powder upon you in place of the' Royal," % it is because of the greater profit upon it. * This of itself is evidence of the supe- ® If? riority of the "Royal." To give greater |j ji profit the other must be a lower cost powder, and to cost less it must be made ® (£ with cheaper and inferior materials, and ® ® thus, though selling for the same, give ? @ less value to the consumer. §) j| To insure the finest cake, the most i @ wholesome food, be sure that no substi- © @ tute for Royal Baking Powder is accepted i) % by you. ® I Nothing can be substituted for 1 H the Royal Baking Powder * and give as good results. § " Use the Means and Heaven will Give yauthe Blessing." Never Neglect a Useful Article tike SAPOLIO with Paste*. Enamels and Paints which stain the hands, Injure the Iron and hum red The Rising Sun Stove Polish | H Brilliant. Odor less. 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