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Finally the authorities hired a man and his steam launch to tow the whale out of sea. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Afl Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 35c. Austria is the only empire in the world which has never had colonies, or even transmarine possessinos, in any quarter of the earth. Her ambition has hitherto been purely continental. Kdurate Your Bowel* With Cascarot*. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever 10c, Jjc. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. There have never been more than three cotemporary European Queens; in fact, the number who have occupied the throne in medieval and modern times is comparatively small. England , heads the list with Ave; Russia can boast of four, but the total comes to considerably under 30 altogether. W. H. Griffin, Jackson, Michigan, writes: "Suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years. Hall's Catarrh Cure cured me." Sold by Druggists, 75c. After six years' suffering, I was cured by Piso's Cure. MARY THOMSON, 29V£ Ohio Ave., Allegheny, Pa., March 10, 'O4. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. 82 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr.R.H.KLINE, Ltd.,031 Arch St.Phila.Pa Dletl a Pauper. Samuel Tetlow, who died a pntrpei recently In San Francisco, was one ol Ihe earlier settlers on the Pacific coast, ind In the good old days of Friseo'r babyhood was known as "Prlues Prodigal," because of the facility with vhleh he won and lost fortunes ovei •he green baize. He built the old Bella Union Theater, having as a partner in :ts management William Skaueantle- Wry, whom he shot to death during a junrrel. Tetlow was sentenced to death, 'tut "social" Influence brought aboul Ms acquittal at a former trial. At one lime he owned the property now known is Sutro Heights, which he sold to ex Mayor Sutro for $30,000. From Bad to Worse. Dixon—l'd give anything I possess II I could only get rid of tills gout. Illxon—Oh, that's nu easy matter Just move around to our boarding bouse and I'll wager that liver com plaint will soon take the place of the gout. Dixon—Liver complaint! Why, how'i that7 Hlxon—Well, the landlady feeds ui liver every other day and the boarders are all complaining. Dickens Not Good Enough, Of the remaking and unmaking of books there Is apparently as little end as of their making. We have already seen the expurgator at work on "Ollvei Twist," and now It is the harmless looking "Sketches by Boz" which Is t be torn to pieces. The authorities at Darllnghurst Jail, In Sydney, Australia, declare that thirty pages of this booli are unfit for prisoners to read and have accordingly cut them out of the copjr la the Jail library. The Missing Heart. Jack Fotts—l might have won • couple of hundred from old Chlpps lns( night In a little game of poker, but 1 didn't have the heart to take his raonoy, Will Betts—Conscience wouldn't pep mit It, eh? Jack Potts—No; merely a case ol heart failure. Will Betts—Why, how's that? Jack Potts—Well, you see I neofled Just one more little heart to make I j flush. j Some men are so fixed that they have no use for n moving vun. NERVOUS DEPRESSION. [A TALK WITH MRS. PINKHAM.] A woman with the blues is a very un- I comfortable person. She is illogical, | unhappy and frequently hysterical. ! The condition of the mind known as j u the blues," nearly always, with wo men, results from diseased organs of I generation, | It is a source of wonder that in this age of advanced medical science, any person should still believe that mere force of will and determination will overcome depressed spirits and nerv ousness in women. These troubles are j indications of disease, j Every woman who doesn't under i stand her condition should write to j Lynn, Mass., to Mrs. Pinkham for her I advice. Her advice is thorough COUP i mon sense, and is the counsel of a learned woman of great experience, j Read tlio story of Mrs. F. S. BENNETT, ! Westphalia, Kansas, as told in the fol- I lowing letter: U DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I have suf fered for over two years with falling, enlargement and ulceration of the womb, and this spring, being in such a weakened condition, caused me to flow for nearly six months. Some time ! ago, urged by friends, I wrote to you ; for advice. After using the treatment 1 which you advised for a short time, that terrible flow stopped. "I am now gaining strength and flesh, and have better health than I i have had for the past ten years. 1 I wish to say to all distressed, suffer ing women, do not suffer longer, when there is one so kind and willing to aid you." • > Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound is a woman's remedy for wo man's ills. More than a million wo men have been benefited b\* it U. S. INFANTRY TACTICS. COMPILED BY A FIGHTINC CENERAL FOR OFFENSIVE WORK. The United States the Last Nation to Adopt the Modern Formations—Skir mish Line Now Recognized^'The Ad vance by Leaps and Short Hushes. The fighting methods of the United States infnutiyhave now become of in terest to the most peaceable newspa per reader. The peace-loving develop ment of the United States explains why it was the last nation that re formed its infantry tactics in a modern sense. Up till 1801 Upton's "Tac tics," which did not even absolutely recognize the skirmish line, was the rule. It prescribed for rank and file the closest alignment. AVhile Upton and his "closed order" have been done away with by the new infantry regu lations of October, 1891, there is still much of the spirit of this antiquated rule in the present fighting formation. At present the company, 10G men, is the tactical unit in the United States infantry. With its exclusive two-rank formation it presents a front of fifty men and two men as guides. The alignment is six inches, hence less than elbow-touch. In closed order the company is divided into twenty five "fours," which, as soon as the company advances under fire, are called squads. Two such squads in the skirmish line form a section, with a noncommissioned officer, usually a sergeant, as leader. Two sections form a platoon, commanded by a com missioned officer. In regard to the number of sections and platoons to the company the present regulations leave much discretion, and the same is the case with the next highest for mation, the battalion, which may con consist of from two to six companies. Even tacticians of the European armies admit that this discretion in the size of the battalion is not only no mistake, but an advantage. Soldiers who stood in closed order under fire during the Franco-Prussian war rec ognize that the much-praised Germau tactical unit, the battalion, is too un wieldy. According to the military definition the tactical unit of an army ought to be the maximum of men which a com mander can reach with his voice. With the present rapid firing, both for small arms and field guns, it is im possible for a German compLny com mander to reach his 200 men with his voice, far less can the battalion'com mander do so. The regulation step of the United States infantry is thirty inches, or 0.76 meter, and the time is 115 to the minute. In the German army the step is 0.80 meter, or a little more than one-half of one per cent, larger, and the time is 112 to the minute, or a little more than 2\ per cent, slower. Regarding the change from the marching formation to the battle line, the present infantry regulations of the United States army prescribe that as soon as the company enters the zone of the enemy's artillery the line, com pany front, is formed" and the com pany advances in this formation until the artillery fire begins to be effec tive, a distance of about 2500 yards. Then the company commander pushes out a number of skirmishers or scouts in charge of a non-commis sioned officer. Before advancing the latter is informed by the company commander of tha tactical task of the company and of the direction of the attack, and next the scouts—six or eight men of a section which the com pany commander reserves for sup port—seek to reach a distance of abont 150 yards from the enemy's front. This accomplished, the company commander pushes out two sections in line and the other sections follow as stipport of both the skirmishers and the advance sections. Regarding the distance between the fire line and the support sections the regulations contain nothing definite. This dis tance is in the German infantry about 500 yards. In the meantime the scouts, who must be good shots and must be par ticularly agile in taking advantage of any cover the territory may afford, open skirmishing fire. The next fol lowing two sections form a line, keep ing the squads together as closely as possible, and at about 900 yards these squads break into skirmish line and take up the scouts or first skirmishers. The opening of the company firing should be retarded as long as possible, though the company commander may, if the enemy shows exposure, order volleys by the company or by desig nated sharpshooters, in each instance designating the number of Volleys. The first volley is at the same time the signal for the two support seotions to close up, one at each of the two wings of the company. For the distance from 900 yards to 500 yards the company advances in line, firing by sections, the firing to be volleys exclusively. Five hundred yards distant from the enemy the company advances in leaps, the ad vance to be by sections in such man ner that the temporarily resting sec tions fire volleys over the heads of the rushing sections. The leaps or rushes are short, about fifteen yards. They are followed by rushes in lines, and at 400 yards dis tance from the enemy the company commander orders rapid firing, bay onets fixed. Rapid fire upon the re treating enemy and rules for repulsion of a counter attack by the enemy form the close of the normal attack of the infantry company. It should lie borne in mind that this fighting method of the United States Infantry is called normal—and the same term is also applied tp. the tao tics of, other armies—because, as a rule, it can be executed exactly only upon the drill ground, and is, there fore, mostly abnormal ir actual war far a. The present United States infantry tactics are, as has been said, formed after European patterns, and it appears that the French tactics have been Hol lowed in the main. The French, on the other hand, remodeled their in fantry tactics toward the close of the 'Bo's, immediately following the Busso- Franco alliance, after the Bussian style, and the latter, in turn, is patterned in its material poiuts after the German infantry tactics. The exception in favor of the United States tactics is the maintenance of the company formation as uuit instead of that of the battalion.. The scouts of the skirmish line have beeu taken from the French tactics, where they are called "ecleaireurs." But it would seem as if, in decisive ac tions at least, the days of the scout iu modern warfare are past. A loose chain of scouts cannot maintain any effective fire at a great distance unless the enemy offers an unusually favor able aim, which can hardly be sup posed in the modern science of war. Such a chain of scouts may, on the contrary, hinder the support whioh follows at 150 yards' distance from do ing effective work without endangering its own scouts. Infantry tactics, as they now rule in the United States army, are obviously compiled for the offensive and not for the defensive. They are eminently the gospel of a "fighting general." The American tactics, however, differ from the Busso-French in avoiding the latter's olose order and in bringing to the front a larger firing line. The attack with fixed bayonets, also, is likely to be scarce in modern war fare because the effeot of the improved small arms of the present day is so de structive that the volley of a compact firing line will in most cases dislodge the enemy. Hence the better rifle and the cooler and better rifleman will al most invariably decide the attack. Jimt Catching Fish. One day tliis week a Boston party on a fishing trip to Moosehead came across one of the old-school fishermen. He was up off the mouth of Tomhegan stream and was fishing out of a lum berman's bateau. It developed latei that he was the cook for a crew of rivet drivers. On the bank near at hand stood the cookee, or his helper. The cook had thrown about a peck of table refuse into the lake in order to "tole" the fish, and over that hole he was was having great luck. His pole was of the jibboom variety, and when a fish bit he would derrick it over his head into the bushes where the cookee was stationed. The Boston men from their canoes watched the operations with all the disgust of the true sportsmen. "Got enough .for supper yet?" shouted the fisherman over his shoul der as he sent another great trout flaming into the bushes. "No; better catch six or eight more," shrilled back the cookee. "Say, how many fish do you two fellows usually eat for supper?" shouted a Boston man, who didn't un derstand the situation. "When you've cooked for twenty two river drivers as long as I have," yelled the cook, derricking another fish, "you'll know more about empty nail kegs." Hardly was this enigmatic utter ance out when there came a tug at his line that was nothing short of tre mendous. He twitched. The fish didn't come. He braced, set his jaws, and pried. His line only sawed the hissing water. "Play him! Play him!" screamed the exoited sportsmen from the city. "Play your grandmother!" bellowed back the cook. "I ain't here to play. I'm here to fish." And as he spoko he boosted over his bead a fifteen pound laker. Any man in the Boston orowd would have given $lO to have played him an hour at the end of an eight-ounce rod. 'Twas too much for their nerves. They came away.— Lewiston (Mo.) Evening Journal. The I.lar-d City. Venice is one of ttse most singular and famous cities in Europe, and is built upon a cluster of islands in the lagoon. This lagoou is banked oft from the Adriatic by a long, narrow sandbank which is divided into a number of islands, six in number. Inside of this sand bank and be tween it and the mainland, is the lagoon, a sheet of shallow water. In parts of this marshy, sea-covered plain, islets have become consolidated into ground, firm enough to be culti vated. And in the midst of a crowded cluster of such islands, amounting to between seventy and eighty in num ber, the city of Venice is built. The chief of these islands is called Isolda de Bialto, or Island of the Deep Stream. The islands, in many places mere shoals, afford no adequate foun dation for buildings, and the city, for the most part, is built upon an arti ficial foundation of piles and stones. The Grand Canal divides Venice into two equal parts and is the main thoroughfare for traffic and pleasure. The city is subdivided by Bom/ one hundred and forty-Bix small canals of water streets, and the gondola is used for the carriage. Access can also be had to various parts of the city by land, there being over three hundred bridges across canals; the Bialto, the most famous bridge, spans the Grand canal. There are also narrow lanes in among the houses. This beantiful and wonderful city is replete with in terest for the student and tourist. How Sea Birds Drink. Sea birds frequently spend weeks at sea, and are believed to qnench their thirst partly from the falling rains, and partly from the fat and oil which they devour raveuor.sly when opportunity puts it in their way. They have been observed flocking .toward a storm cloud about to burst from all parts ®f the compass, and drinking iu the water as it descends from the skije. Beautiful Custom in Crete. One of the curious Cretan customs which prevail on the eve of every in surrection, says the Fortnightly Re-' view, la known as adelphopolcsls, or fraternization. One of Its Immediate results Is the cessation of all feuds, en mity and rancor. It Is carried out as follows: A number of individuals choose a young girl, who must be pret ty—no difficult matter In Crete. They Inform her parents of their Intention, and the needful consent Is never with held. Then a priest Is sent for and told to begin the ceremony. He tnEes a very long girdle and Joins all the men with It in a circle, in the c-jnter of which the young girl is placed. Then the clergyman recites a number of pray ers and winds up by giving his benedic tion to all present. The moment he pronounces the last amen the circle and Its center stand in the relation of broth ers and sister to each other to all re ligious and social intents and purposes. Each and every one of the males Is bound In honor—and a Cretan knows no more sacred obligation—to protect that girl throughout her life, but none of them can ever take her for his wife. She Is and remains their sister In the eyes of the priest and people to the end of her days. But they must also stand by and succor each other, and If needs be at the cost of lite Itself. "Dexterity or rjigurette-Maltvrs, So great Is the dexterity of the em ployes In cigarette manufactories, ac quired by long continued practice, that some workers make between 2,000 and 8.000 cigarettes dally—and being paid by piecework at so much per 1,000 earn about JO weekly. Don't Tobacco Spit and Sm ike Your Life Away To quit tobacco easily i. ul forevor. be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bac, the wonder-worke-, that makes weak men stromc. All druggists, 50c or sl. Cure guaranteed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Homedy Co.. Chicago or New \'ork. The working classes form 69 per cent, the middle class 28 per cent and the upper class 3 per cent of the population of this country. To Cur© Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c 0r230. 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The doctor said I v \ "s had bladder trouble &$d falling of the womb. I had spells J4 when, if 1 did not sit down, I would fall. I was sleepy all the y time. I was also troubled with leucorrhcea and itching piles. >4 People thought that my end was near. Had it not been for \ Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and advice, I would J4 vV f l iave been dead and buried long ago. I hope that this letter may be the means of helping all women who suffer as did. Women understand women better than men The whole truth freely told to Mrs. Pinkham, and women only see the letters received by her at Lynn, Mass, Her freely offered. I Here a convincing letter from a ■* M woman M my \ I gratitude for the good Compound ■* I has done taken bottles, bet \ I Menses heretofore too \1 V long and ,vcre very profuse, and made me very weak. . 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