Biiili x&Mjwr iKjr The risks of death faced by a soldier in battle are more than six times as great as the dangers of railway service. Medical Book Free. "Know Thyself." a book for men only l sent Free, postpaid, sealed, to any mato render mentioning this paper ; 6a for post age. The SoieDoe of Life, or Self-rreser . yatioo, the Gold Medal Prize Treatise, the W best Medical Book of this or any pp., with engravings and prescriptions. Only k6c., paper covers. Library Edition, full gilt, fl.oo. Addreoe The Feabody Med ical Institute, No. 4 BulflnSh St.. Boston, Mass., tbe oldest and best (n this oountrv. Write to-day for these books; keys to health. Boston will utilize sea water to ex tinguish fires. An experiment with salt water lias proved successful. Are You l'#lng Allen's Foot. Baa e It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Tired, Aohing, Hot, Sweating Feet. Corns aDd Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. Cures while you wulk. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25a Bample sent FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Leßoy. N. i\ One L&tt&r SAYS "I doctored with two of the host doctors In tho city for two yomrs and had no relief until I used tho Plnkham remedies• "My trouble wee ulcer ation of the uterus, / suf fered terribly, could not sleep nights and thought sometimes that death would bo auoh a relief . " To-day # am a well wo man, able to do my own work, and have not a pain, " I used four bottles of y Lydla E. Plnkham*s Vege table Oompoundand three packages of Sanative Wash and oannot praise the medlolnos enough.*'— MRS, ELIZA THOMAS, 634 Pino St,, Eastern,, Pa. 1 Mrs, Plnkham advises suffering women without charge. 9 .wi. o ttmA r.o Lynn. Mass The Increasing Use ol Metals. In the United States steel cars art being substituted (or wooden ones on railways, and to this one new departure a goodly share of steel industry activit) is ascribed. The various uses to which electricity has been applied in late years the water supply of cities, and all kinds of engineering enterprises have alsc greatly inci cased the demand for iron and steel in all countries: and lastly, a new era in railway building has com menced in Russia, the United States, and some other countries, the great Si berian enterprises of Russia alone call ing for immense quantities of railway material. y Charles S. Wilbur, the New York su pervisor of the censu6. was the first to send in his compiled returns to Wash ington. What Shall We Stare Ter Deeeertl This question arises lo the family daily. Let us answer It to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious and healthful dess.rt. Prepared in 3 mia. No boiling! no baking! Simply add a little hot water A set to cool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c, It is estimated that about 2,000.000,00a bicycles have been made in Europe an-1 America. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVK PROMO Qrisiss TABLPTS. Alt druggl-ts rotund the m uey If U fulls tn cum IS. W. Onova's signature Is on each box. North Carolina got along all of last year, ending May 31, without a strike. Piso's Cure for Consumption I? tin Infaill-i tile medicine lor coughs nnd colds —N. W. bAMcai. Ocean Orovt, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. Tarantulas are being raised in Aus tralia for their webs, which are beinij used in making threads for war ball j loons. 1 OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR. LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. rite Polite Burglar— II üßlnoM—Another Definition lll* Cash Superior In formation Two View* An A|>prea fthip—A Modern Diagonals, Etc., Etc. "Will you please ro away, sir?" she asked in a fright, Of the burglar she found in .'ha dead of the night A-burgling away at her plate. And the burglar politely bowed bis shock beau And "I'm quite at your service, door madam, he said: "Which perhaps it is needless to state." —Chicago Reoorxl. Business. "Do sell on easy terms?" "Yes, If you pay on easy terms."— Chicago Record. Another Definition. "What is a financier?" "Usually u man who makes money without earning it."—Chicago Tost. Ills Cash. Druggtsb—"Rockwell seems to have money to burn." Grocer—"l don't know. lie ulwuys pays me the cold cash." 9ui>erlor Information. The Small One—"Even de rich follis can't have shad In winter." The Big One—"Oh, yes, they can. too—they eats hothouse shad."— Brooklyn Life. Two Views. First Tramp—^"l envy dera butterflies wit' uotbiu' ter do but sippin' de flow ers." Second Tramp—"Oh! I dun no. Seems ter me doy does a lot o' hustlin'. 0 — Puck. An Apprenticeship. Prisoner—"B-hut I'd be willing to Join the band!" Pirate—"Join the band? What do you knowafcout our business?" Prisoner—"W-well, I've been hi pol ities!"— Puck. Alwem-, Makt>. the Heart Grow Poitdep, Mr. Newed—"l am afraid, darling, that while I am away absence will conquer love." Mrs. Newed—"Pray Jon't think that, my dear; the longer you are away the more I shall love you." A Modern Diagnosis. "Skinner got a bill the other day for his wife's automobile drives, and he's been laid up ever since." "What's the matter?" "The doctor says he is suffering from an overcharge of electricity."—Life. His Opinion. "And what," asked the reporter, "do you consider the secret of success hi life?" "I sltould say," replied tlie wealthy philosopher from the Klondike, "that It consists in being at the right pdaoe at the right time."—Puck. Diplomacy. Census Taker—"What Is your Madam?" Mrs. Neighbors—"Did the wbmon next door give her age?" Ceusus Taker—"Certainly." Mrs. Neighbors "Well, I'm two years younger than she is."—Chicago News. Rotative OoNtion.. He was holding up one side of the vestibule when be milkman arrived. "What do you mean by being so late?" he thundered. "W-why, sir," stammered the milk man, "it's only 5." "Doesn't matter! My wife ripped me up for being late and I got hope at 4." One Beauty of Classical Music. Miss Gush—"Do you like classical music, Mr. Sourdropp?" . ... Mr. §ourdropi>7-"£es." Miss Gubli— "Oil, I Sin so glhd. Do you not find It great inspiration, sub lime thought and true beauty?" _ Mr. Sourdropp—"Not exactly. I like It because no blithering idiot can heat time to it with hi 3 foot."—Baltimore American. Envy. "I found a four-leaf clover yesterday while out walking with a young wom an," said the breezy young person. "Do yon consider that a sign of luck?" "Emphaticaly," answered the man who had his coat off and was toiling. "If being able to wander arcund hunt ing four-leaf clovers with a pretty girl Isn't luck I don't know what is."— Washington Star. Fine Intentions. "I am determined," said tlie man who is proud of his boy, "that this youngster shall acquire correct hab its of speech." "Tbe best way to do that Is to see that he bas good examples." "Of course. And that s what I'm going to do. I don't intend to let him say 'don't,' and I ain't going to toler ate the use of that vulgarism 'ain't.'" —Washington Star. Conclusive. "What does she say?" asked the crafty politician who had referred the committee to his wife for information as to his intentions. "She refuses to talk," replied the spokesman of the committee. "Then it wasn't my wife you met, gentlemen," he rejoined with great positiveness. "It was somebody else." —Chicago Tribune. KrllMtelleTM. "My dear," began tbe extravagant young wife, "I've got several things I want to talk to you al>out." "Ah! that's a relief," exclaimed the husband." "What is?" "To be assured that you've got the things you wish to talk about. You generally discourse upon things yjou need." POPULAR SCIENCE. A young Danish engineer has con structed a phonograph xvhieh will take telephone messages. It is much simpler than the Edison phonograph, j and instead of a wax roller bas a steel j hand from which the message can lie | wiped off after it has been delivered. The practicability of using electrto light for the forcing of vegetation is maintained by a writer in Science, who claims to have been quite suc cessful ill applying It for raising lil ies. He finds that tbe arc light should not be used until the lily-buds ore an Inch long, and that it should then lie passed through glass to screen out tlie ultra-violet rays. In his experi ments a dork browu burn appeared on tbe plants under the naked light The light was continued nightly for four months and tlie plants were taller and earlier In blossoming, but less ro bust and with shorter-lived Howcm than those grown in the dark. Thow who speculate upon tbe In habitants of other planets usually far get how slight a change of present couuitlons ou earth would suffice to extinguish the forms of life wo know. Mr. Lowell has suggested that the "canals" of Mars may be tlie stupen dous works of beings akin to tlie hu man race, but an English astronomer points out that tlie force of gravity is only atKint a tenth as great as 011 earth, and that as a consequence of this must lie a failure to retain the lighter gasscs and probably even wa ter. In a waterless world, under an atmosphere of nitrogen, argon anil carbonic acid, life must be very differ ent from anything we can imagine. The sand dunes of the Gascony coast are stated by It. LeMang to occupy a belt four or five miles wtue ami 150 long, in which area they freipieutly rise to 11 height of 125 feet, and 111 one case reach ,'MK) foot. The shifting sand lias lieen that along tlie shore. Bar ren of vegetation, tills lias lieen blown nliout by every wind and has buried fields, forests and villages, and lias caused disastrous Inundations by blocking the mouths of tlie streams. 1 The evil has lieen finally remedied b, : long experiment and nearly a century |of systematic work. A gently sloping half artificial dyke runs along tbe j beach, next to which is a strip 11 quar ter of 11 mile or more wide, which lias lieen covered with stunted firs and hushes, and behind this is a great art whole effectually checking the saud iflcial forest of firs ami oaks, the invasion. Now Zealand Ist distinguished fordts J flightless Ifirds. The Takahe, which : was first captured in 184!), and of j which the fourth and liest specimen ! was taken two years ago, has now been described by Sir \V. L. Buller as a handsome bird of the rail family, aliout as large as a goose, blue-breast ed, having a heavy gait, and with a very noticeable beak in tbe form of a large equi-lateral triangle of pink horn, one angle being directed for ward. Its most remarkable character istic is that it is absolutely unable to use Its wings for flying. The first two specimens obtained of this flight less rail are in tbe British Museum, tbe third was purchased by the Dres den Museum for $50(1, and as much 1 as SL3OO has lieen offered for this fourth specimen. The mystery of the "wabbling" of j tlie earth's axis rqny lie explained, in the opinion of Dr. J. Halm, a German I astronomer, by assuming that tlie ro- I tatlon of our planet is iflTected by changes In the magnetic influence of ' the sun. He publishes a comparison J of observations 011 sun-spots and on ! the Irregular motions of tbe north | pole, which appears to show a coinci dence tbe two phenomena. During a maximum of sump pots the magnetic influence of tlie sun seems ' to lie greatest aud after tlie passage fit. s\ich |t tjie disturbance of the cart!™ axis dimluisTies. The ( fact that the earth's poles of magnet ism do not correspond in location with its geographical poles may. Doctor Halm suggests. Indicate how the sun's disturbing action is applied. Wlion tlie magnetism of our globe Is most powerfully exctted then tlie strain along its magnetic axis may cause a distortion of the figure of the eartli. ' which lieocimes less as the strain di minishes. Dtckenft't London. As we jog along, or walk by turns, we come to Buckingham street, and looking np at Alfred Jingle's lodgings j says a grateful word of Mr. Pickwick, says Kate Douglas Wlggln in the At lantic. We tell gach other that much of what we know of London aud Eng land, when we come to It, seems to have lieen learned from Dickens. Deny him the right to sit among the elect. If you will: talk of his tendency to farce and caricature; call his hu mor low comedy, and his pathos ba- I thos—though you shall say none of these tilings in my presence unchal lenged; but the fact remains that every ! child, in America at least, knows moreof England—lts almshouses, debt ors' prisons and law courts, its vil- j lages and villagers. Its beadles nnd cheap-Jacks and ostlers and coach- ' men and Boots, Its streets and lanes, i Its lodalugß and lnus and landladies and rohst beef and plum pudding, its I ways, manners and customs—knows i more of these things and a thousand others from Dickens's novels than from all the histories, geographies, biographies and essays in the lan guage. Where Is there another novel ist wlio has so peopled a great city j with his Imaginary characters that j there Is hardly rfioin for the living population, as one walks along the streets? The wheel of fortune has turned many a man's head. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. A Weekly Review ol the Happenings Through cut the Labor World in This and Other Countries. Canadian telegraph liners have struck for a nine-hour day. Twenty-five of the hucksters of Cam den, N. J., have formed an organiza tion for mutual protection. Three departments of the Illinois Steel Company, at South Chicago, em ploying 1200 men, have resumed work. The Chicago building contractors have rejected a proposition for peace made by the unions to settle the labor war in "that city. The International Seamen's Union has issued a circular denouncing Con gress for not passing the labor meas ures put before it. Cuban ami Spanish laborers on the Havana electric railroad have struck because they recei\*e forty oents a day less than Americans. After several weeks of idleness, the plants of the Glucose Sugar Refining Company, at Rockford, 111., have re sumed work, taking on 250 men. The journeymen plumbers' strike at St. Paul, Minn., has been declared off after six weeks of unsuccessful effort to jbtii.n shorter hours of labor. The National Building Trades Coun cil has issued an edict forbidding union workmen from seeking employment in several large cities where there are strikes. Henry Finehout aged eighty-one, be lieved to have been the oldest railroad conductor in the world, died at St. Paul. Minn. His railroad service extended over a period of sixty years. The demand for harvest hands ig Kansas is so great that the section hands or. the Missouri Pacific Railroad are giving up their positions at $1.25 per day to go into the fields and work foi $2 a day. The Birmingham (Ala.) Trades Coun cil. the general assembly of the 20.00 c white union men in the Birmingham district, have withdrawn the color line and will hereafter receive negro dele gates from the local unions to the Federal Council. The new electric power plant at the Armour packing houses in Chicago re places 93 steam boilers, 16 engines and 17 refrigerating machines. According to a San Francisco paper children of James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, are now living in Cali fornia. South Carolina is now manufacturing all the cotton she produces. North Carolina. Georgia and other States are also turning out a large part of theii cotton in finished goods. The government owns many thou sands of acres of land in New Mexicc that have never been taken up. It is the finest country in the world for stock raising. Buffalo county. Neb., boasts the larg est alfalfa field in the world. It is undei the management of H. D. Watson and is from one-half to two miles wide and eight miles or such a matter long. It yields three cuttings a season and the total yield per acre for the three cuttings iveiages close to eight tons. Made Up of Malcontents. The "Boxer Society is made up of malcontents and extreme conservatives, opposed to railroads and foreign ideas fn general. The first we knew of them they were destroying property along some German railway lines in Shan- Tung province. The empress has allow ed the outbreak to get beyond her con trol. Her soldiers will fight the "Box ers" with great reluctance, if at all. She dismissed her generals, and that shows that she took sides with the antN foreign element. But she is not bitter in her opposition to foreigners. The number of emigrants to Siberia in the last seven years has averaged 150,000 a year. A DEAD LIVER He thinks he lives, but he's a dead ° nc * No alive whose * n warm, stuffy houses or offices or |J| workshops. Many don't get as much j*W ' exercise as they ought, and everybody Tflh. knows that people gain weight in / \ winter. As a rule it is not sound IffliN weight, but means a lot of flabby fat anc * use l ess > rotting matter staying in *be body when it ought to have been driven out. But the liver was over burdened, deadened—stopped work. There y° u are, with a dead liver, and spring is the time for resurrection. Wake up the dead! Get all the filth out of your system, and get ready for the summer's trials with clean, clear blood, body, brain free from bile. Force is dangerous and destructive unless used in a gentle persuasive way, and the right plan is to give new strength to the muscular walls of the bowels, and stir up the liver to new life and work with CASCARETS, the great spring cleaner, disinfectant and bowel tonic. Get a box to-day and see how quickly you will be liklli aiT BACK TO MAY LIST; BY CATHARTIC To any needy mortal suffering frombowei troubles and too poor to buy CASCAfrETS we win send a box free. Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. LYou Look Cross A ■B What makes you look that way? There 901 certainly must be some good reason for it. If m your tongue is coated, if you are bilious, if Bfl your head aches, if your food rests heavy on B your stomach, and if you are constipated, B then the whole trouble is with your liver. B What you need is a good liver pill, an easy liver pill, a purely vegetable liver pill. You need a box of Ayer's Pills, that's what you H| need. These pills cure constipation, bilious- H ness, dyspepsia, and sick headache. 25 cento a box. AH druggists. M 1 always keep a box of Ayer's Pills on hand. There is no pill iHj their equal for a liver regulator. Long ago they cured me of liver Hj M complaint and chronic constipation."—S. L. SPELLMAN, Columbus, BBM Ohio, May 31, 1900. SU THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. The Kansas Prohibitionists have nominated a State ticket. President McKinley will make only brief speeches during the campaign. Senator Hanna predicts the over whelming success of the Reoublican ticket. Representative Dolliver, of lowa, will take a prominent part in the coming campaign. Governor Roosevelt will deliver speeches in various parts of the coun try in the campaign. The 5,000 cowboys of Western Kan sas are to be organized into Roose velt Republican club. Congressman J. A. T. Hull has been renominated by the Republicans of the Seventh lowa district. The National Republican committee has appointed O. J. Salisbury National committeeman from Utah. Judge James P. Tarvin is a candidate for the governorship of Kentucky on the Democratic ticket. S. C. Swallow, of Pennsylvania, will be supported for the presidential nom-l ination by Indiana Prohibitionists. Democratic politicians are busy in Washington securing campaign ma terial to use in Congress elections. Democrats of the Thirteenth Illinois Congressional district have nominated John Eddy, of Bloomington, for Con gress i, Topulrst convention has been call ed to meet in Jackson. Miss.. August 15.! to nominate a Pomilist electoral ticket. A. C. Jones, a Prohibitionist, is pre-l renting himself as a candidate fori United States senator in South Carolina in opposition to Senator B. B. Tillman. Governor Peckham. the voungest governor Kentucky has had "and the: youngest governor in the United States, has issued a statement formally announcing his Candida®.- for the Dem ocratic nomination to succeed himself DONT STOP TOBACCO SUDDENLY It injnre* nwvons ayirteni to do ao. 0100 HIIRO la the onlv core that Hmill; (ate* DAUU-UUnU and notifies you whon to stop. Bold with a guantotee that three lioxea will cure any caee DAPft PIIDH in vegetable and haKnleaa It has uAUU'uUnU cured thousondn, it will cure tou. At all druKniMt* or by mail prepaid, 81.(Hi a box; 8 boxee, 8'2.,0. booklet free. Write KUILEKA CHEMICAL CO.. La Croase. Wis. p. an. 27, *oo. nDOP.QY NEW DISCOVERT: UltVrO V omkelMimlnmnnl ea*M- Book of teitimoniaia MJ 10 dyr treatment Free. Dr H. H. ORlSlt'S 10MB. %•* B Atlanta. 9%. 'wnflyMMs' 1 1 Thompson's Eye Water The chief of police at Erie, Pa., pro poses to have tramps make bricks ami construct buildings. Drugs have their use, but don't store them in your stomach. Beeman's Pepsin Gum aids nature to perform its functions. The intense dryness of the Soutli African air is very destructive of leath er. Hence the soldiers' boots soon wear out. Prey's Vermifuge is 60 years old. As the years advance it becomes more and more popular. The imports of crude rubber to this country have in the last 30 years in creased 431 per cent. 1011-O, the New Dceeert* Pleases nil the family. Four flavors:— Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 eta. The aging of timber, which formerly required long storage, is now complet ed by electricity in a few hours. rttape rmanently cured. No fit* or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. S3 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. P-H. KLINE. Ltd. U3l Axch St.Phila.P* There are 500 hotels and camps in the Adirondack's receiving guests. They have a combined capacity of 62,000. RA- Hood, Toledo, Ohio, says: ''Hall's Ca tarrh Cure cored my wife of catarrh fifteen years ago and she has had no return of It. It's a auw cure." Sold by Druggists, 75c. A scientific person asserts that bag pipe-playing in the vicinity of a cowshed causes the cows to yield more milk. The Best Prescription for Chills and FERER la a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. I'rloe 50c. The catalogue of the Paris Exhibi tion will contain the names of nearly 90,000 exhibitors of all nations. Mrs. Winslow's PoothlngSyrap for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion. allays puin. cures wind colic. 25c a bottle* The cemeteries around London cov er 2,000 acres, and the land they occupy represents a capital of £20,000,000. YOUR COW'S - PRODUCTION will be increased 20 per cent, by our aluminum Cream Separators and up-to-date churns. $4 up. 10 day* trial. Catalogue free. Address, Gin bvii-Stewart Mlg. Co., Glbsonla, Pa ■ Best ( uugh Syrup. Tastes Good. Use 51 X In time. Sold by drum* ints. if
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