?IJ ?§ 2-S I 2o 2? 3-5 pjj Iflll j jll I l^lpfiilfp (S-J t I sftl* II If piii a% 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 sent tree, postpaid, sonled, to any male reader mentioning this paper ; Gc. for post age. 'lhe Science of Life, or Kelf-l'reser yation, the Gold Medal Prize Treatise the best Medical Book of this or nny pp., with eugravines and prescriptions. Only 25c., paper covers. Library Edition, full gilt, $ 1.00. Address The Penbody Med ical Institute, No. 4 Bulfinch St.. Boston. Mass., the oldest and best In this country. Write to-day for these books; keys to health. Boston will utilize sea water to ex tinguish fires. An experiment with salt water has proved successful. Are Yon I'sing Allen*. Foot-Knee It la the only euro for Swollen, Smortine, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powdor to bo shakon into the shoos. Cures While you walk. At ull Druggists uuil Shoo Stores, 25a Sample Bent FItEE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. I". Has Five Knighthoods. Sir George White, who has been made a G. C. V. 0., has now no fewer than five knighthoods. He is Sir George White, G. C. 8., K. C. 8., G. C. S. 1., G. C. I. E.. G. C. V. O. Only two other British subjects, not of the blood royal, have five knighthoods. They are the marquis of Dufferln and Lord Rob erts, and they have but four each, without their K. P.s. Among com moners, who cannot be K. P.s, Sir George White stands alone. Indeed, he is the only commoner with more than three knighthoods. Conjuror Outwlttod. At a country fete a conjurer was performing the old trick of produc ing eggs from a hat, when he remarked to a little boy: "Your mother can't get eggs without hens, can she?" "Of course she can," replied the lad. "Why, how Is that?" asked the conjurer. "She keeps ducks," replied the boy admist roars of laughter. OBIQ VI Letter SAYS "I doctored wtih two of the best doctors In the city for two years and had no relief until I used tho Plnkham remedies. "My trouble was ulcer ation of the uterus. I suf fered terribly, could not sleep nights and thought sometimes that death would be suoh a relief . " To-day I am a well wo man, able to do my own work, and have not a pain. " I used four bottles of Lydla E. Plnkham'a Vege table Compound and throe packages of Sanative Wash and cannot praise the medicines enough."— MRS. ELIZA THOMAS, 634 Pine St., Easton, Pa. Mrs. Plnkham advises suffering women without charge. Lydla E. Pinkhara Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. DON'T STOP TOBACCO SUDDENLY It Injures nervous system to do so. Dinfl HIIRO If. theonlv cure that IGnlly Cain DfIUU-LUnU aod notifies you when to atop. Sold with a guarantee that three lx.xes will cure any cane Dion OiIDH i vegetable and harmless. It has DAUU-uUnU ,-ured thousand*, it will cure YOU. At all druggiltg or by mail prepaid. fel.OO a IHIX; 8 boxes. *2.50. booklet free Write EUREKA CHEMICAL CO.. La Croatia, Wis. P. N.U. 27, *OO, nDnDQV NEW DISCOVERY; given L/riVrO V quick reliaf and cures w.-ra •Ares- Boo* of tast.nmnfala and lOdaT*' tteatmeui Free. Dr. H. H. ORKEMB BOMB. BOX B Atlaata. Oa. Ho a ™oyu h I Thompson's Eye Water STRANGE COINCIDENCES. SIMPLE EXPLANATIONS OF THINGS THAT SEEMED INEXPLICABLE. Tho Profound Tmpregftlon Mndo bv n Magician'* Lucky (iuen-Wliy a Firm Attached a Plantation—A Telephone Helps Out a Newspaper Man. "Luck and coincidence explain away many a mystery," said one of a group of late workers the other night. "I remember a queer story along that line," he continued, "which I ouee heard from the elder Herrmann. In his earlier performances, as you may recall, he made a great feature of a very clever 'second call,' or mind-read ing act. He would request people m the audience to select small articles, which would then be described by a blindfolded assistant on the stage. As a matter of fact, Herrmann really gave the cue to the descriptions in the way he framed his questions, but it was very dextrotisly done and not one person out of a thousand 'caught on.' "One evening, as he told me the story, lie was giving an entertainment in an Ohio city and was just return ing to the stage after the mind-reading specialty, when an elderly man sud denly jumped up at tue other end of the house. 'lf this thing is genuine,' lie called out in a loud voice, 'I want you to tell me what card I am think ing about at this moment.' The man was a wealthy merchant and known as somewhat of a crank on spiritual ism. Of course, Herrmann had no Idea what he was thinking about, but lie replied without hesitation: 'lt is the deuce of clubs,' liis intention being to turn the Inugli on the old fellow by some bit of repartee when he de clared that the guess was wrong. But, to the magician's intense amazement, the man raised both hands in the air and bellowed, 'Correct! by thunder!' Tills miraculously lucky and wholly unexpected hit made a profound im pression on the audience and no doubt converted many people to a belief In tho reality of mind reading. Herr mann told me that the proprietor of the theater, who was an old personal friend, was very curious to know how the thing was done, and when he was finally informed in eoniidenee that it was mere luck he declined to credit the explanation. It was too simple to suit him." "Coincidences certainly do play an important role in every-dny life," com mented another In the party, "and I dare say they have been the pivot on which many an event of the first mag nitude has turned. One case of the kind came under my personal observa tion when I first went into business in New Orleans. At that time there was a large mercantile house, located on tiie same block, that did an extensive business with planters up the river. As usual, in that trade, they operated on a credit basis, and ocasionallly they carried some formidable accounts. The largest of these at the period cf which I speak was against a planter who had formerly been very prompt pay, but who had latterly pleaded bad luck and allowed the majority of his hills to run over for several seasons. The firm believed him to be good, and although the amount involved mount ed away up into the thousands tliey decided not to press him, in full con fidence that the money would ulti mately be pnid. "One day the planter came to New Orleans on some business, and while he was still in town a member of the firm elinnced to go over to a notary's office to get an aekuowledcgment of some legal papers. As he entered the office he overheard one of the clerks in an adjoining room ask another whether he had completed 'that plant ation transfer' to Col. 's mother. 'You know lie wants to take it with him when he goes home to-niglit,' ho added. Col. was the delinquent debtor, and the accidental was like tile" revelation of a flash of light ning on a dark night. The merchant said nothing, but transaeted bis own business as speedily as possible and hurried back. Then lie wired liis local attorney to institute proceedings, and when the planter arrived home lie found everything tied up with ail at tachment. He was forced to make a settlement in full, and doesn't know to this day how his plans were so suddenly checkmated. Five seconds sooner or later in that visit to the uotary's would have made a difference of many thousands of dollars to the firm." "I think I can tie that story my self," said one of the party. "Do you remember the recent death of Lewis Redwine, a noted bank defaulter of Atlanta, Ga., whose case created an immense sensation some years ago? Weil, when he was placed on trial, Redwine maintained a stubborn si lence, and lie was convicted and sen tenced to five years in the Federal I'enetentiary at Columbus, Ohio. It tvas generally believed that he would break down when he actuallly started for prison nnd Implicate some people who stood high socially, and the pa pers decided to send reporters with him to the train. For some reason the authorities didn't approve of the plan and arranged to slip him out of town a day in advance of the time officially given out. The train was to leave at noon, and about twenty min utes before that hour a reporter, out on other business, happened to use a telephone in a downtown store. While he was talking the wires became crossed and he heard a voice say: 'We have arranged for the train to stop at the outskirts of the town to-day to take on Redwine.' He recognized the voice as that of a deputy Marshal talking to the jailor, and realized in a flash that a scheme was on foot to get the noted prisoner out of the city twenty-four hours ahead of time. He dashed away from the store and got to ills office to draw some money and caught the traiD. Redwine didn't con fess, after all, but that doesn't affect the marvelous luck or coincidence of the 'plione episode." SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL A compressed air drill lias proved very successful working under water on the sunken battleship of the Rus sian navy. The machine works as well when driling with granite and hard substances as It docs above water. Powdered sugar is said to possess decidedly inferior sweetening proper ties to those of the coarsely crystal ized article. In the process of pulver ization it is claimed that the heat and electricity produced transform a cer tain proportion of the sugar into glu cose, whose sweetening powers are two and a half times less than of sac charose. At Kew, England, at the metoorlog- Ical observatory, a watch is tested in every position, anil its rate measured and recorded by the hour. It is hung upside down, hung from eacli side, placed dial down and back down, and at any number of angles, and to finish it is linked in an oven and frozen in a pall of ice. When it is considered that eighteen thousand vibrations an liour occur in a watch, and it must not vary a second a week, it is easy to see why no watch has ever been per fect. Something new in fire alarms has been invented by the Chief of the Kansas City Fire Department. On a telephone circuit connected with the headquarters there are to be placed the usual thermostats, which give ao alarm whenever the temperature in their neighborhood becomes danger ously high. Tlie new departure comes from the additou of automatic phono graphs to the other apparatus. Dy their agency, when the thermostat gives an alarm the phonograph pro claims over the telephone line the ex act location of the lire. The English have acquired art of making balloons lighter and more compact than those of any other coun try. Other countries use oiled silk, but in England gold beaters' skin is used. An envelope of 10,000 cubic feet ca pacity weighs only 100 pounds. The wire cable which holds it to the ground weighs only eighty-seven pounds for fiso yards. The total weight of a balloon that carries two aeronauts Is less than 200 pounds. Hy drogen is used for inflation. It is car ried in compressed steel bottles. It requires the contents of two and three fourths bottles to supply one charge to a balloon. In Austria a new method of utilizing sawdust lias been invented and seems to promise admirable results. At the sawmills of Joseph Fialla the experi ment lias been tried of making bri quettes of the sawdust for domestic heating purposes. The dust is heated to dryness and then to the point where tiie tarry elements begin to exude. These are used as the consolidating matter, the hot sawdust passing on steam-heated tallies to a press which forms them into briquettes, live by three by one and one-quarter inches, weighing about one-half pound. It is said that they give four per cent, of ash nnd that their heating power is equivalent to that of lignite. The press mnltes nineteen bricks per min ute, and with 300 days of work, pro duces 0,000,000 per year. The experi ment has shown that the cost of man ufacture Is sixteen cents per thousand, while the selling price is one dollar per thousand. Colony Experiments In America. Two generations ago, under the in spi ration of Fourier, a great impetus was given to the community Idea here and scores of colonies were founded in the "Middle West, "most of which were afterward disbanded. To the bent which the movement gave to, social and religious theories, the State of Utah really owes its existence. The community idea attracted less notice ns tiie national interests enlarged, hut it is still true that America is the chosen Held of communal experiments. Colonies of Swiss nnd Pledmontese oc casionally enter the Tennessee nuil North Carolina valleys. Small Ger man sects, following some whimsical religions tenet, are rising to prosperity in tiie Middle West. In the Northwest bodies of Russian peasants whose strange creeds show the same ferment working that is seen in Tolstoy's int er novels, have found refuge from the injurious discriminations of the Greek Church.—New York Mail and Express. President Monroe's Near Union, In Monroe County, W. Va., a couple of days ago the plow of a farmer turned up the greater part of a historic cannon that was pre sented to the people of Monroe Coun ty by President Monroe in recognition of the honor of having a county named after him. The presentation occurred many years before the di vision of the State of Virginia. Short ly after the close of the war, one Fourth of July, the cannon was used in a county celebration. T4 make its report louder young men rammed it full of shearings from a near-by leath er shop. The gun exploded and in jured several persons. For more than a quarter of a century nil trace of the weapon was lost. Most of the fragments have been dug up from the land of Thomas Shaver and they will be given to the State Historical Society.-i-N'ew York Sun. Pay or Italian Mounted Folic. The mounted police, whose duty It is in Italy to prevent the illegal fell ing of trees, get only $8 a month, out of which they have to maintain their horses. The result is that many of them wink at the unauthorized fell ing of tve-'s and share the proceeds. AWFUL FAMINE nut Ia Now Making of India One Vast Charnel Pen. The famine area In India is about 850,000 square miles, and extends over the central, south and northwestern provinces, says Leslie's Weekly. No pen couH describe Its awful horrors Some of the things proved by pho tography are too realistically horrible to bo reproduced In any publication, and we print only a few of the less frightful photographs taken by the missionaries, because many have not believed that such an awful condition could exist In this cen tury of plenty and prosperity. Ema ciated beyond belief, the starving na- Uves crawl to the house of the nearest sahib, usually a missionary, to crave food; but 60,000 mouths have to be fed. Fifteen dollars a year will feed a Hin du, yet even this pitiable allowance Is not to be had. The causes of the famine are the failure of the crops, the refusal of the native princes to allow their bunting Jungles to be converted Into fertile agricultural regions, and the mysterious disappearance of a spe cial famine fund of $100,000,000, col lected by the government after the fa mine of 1877. The Hindu Is a strict vegetarian. The low-caste Hindu Is s fatalist.. So, when famine stalks abroad the Hindu submits uncomplainingly. Day by day he will aubslst on less food, until at last, when a mere shadow, he will drag his bony self to a' relief sta tion. There he may get food—or he may not. If not, ho crouches In some corner, or out In the fields, under God'o trees, and awaits the coming of death. The majority of the victims are women and children. Leading Political lCoonomist. Professor de Gustav Schmoller, whose declaration that Brazil must soon become a great state under Ger man influence, has been the rector ol the University of Berlin since 1897. Ho Is one of the foremost political econ omists of Europe, and for years has lectured In German universities on po litical science, economics and history. Professor Schmoller was born at Hefl bronn In 1838, and Btudled In the Uni versity of Wurtemburg. In 1864 he was called to a chair In Halle, and from 1865 to 1872 he was dean of the University of Strasburg. In 1882 Prof. Schmoller was transferred to Berlin as professor of history of political science. His opinions upon national matters are of great weight. Longest Canal. the Erie. The longest canal In the world f9 the Erie, In New York, extending from Al bany to Buffalo, a distance of 381 miles. _ What Shall We -lave For Deroert? Tbis question arises In the family dally. Let us answer It to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious and healthful dessert. Prepared In 2 min. No bolllngl no baking 1 Simply add a little hot water A set to cool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Stru wherry. At grocers. 10c. It is estimated that about 2.000,000,000 bicycles have been made in Europe and America. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE HKOMO QUININE TABLETS. All drutrfcclftx refund the muuey If 11 fulls to euro. E. W. GROVE'S signature Is on each box. 26c. North Carolina got along all of last year, ending May 31, without a strike. Plso's Cure for Consumption Is an Infalli ble medlclno for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Oceun Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. Tarantulas are being raised in Aus tralia for their webs, which are being used in making threads for war bal loons. A DEAD LIVER He thinks he lives, but he's a dead one. No person is really alive whose ver * s dead. During the winter most people spend nearly all their time in warm, stuffy houses or offices or T &J| workshops. Many don't get as much exercise as they ought, and everybody knows that people gain weight in , / -aisaA ( am \. winter. As a rule it is not sound we 'Bht, but means a lot of flabby fat and rotting matter staying in driven out. But the liver was over- WE&fSiSBKr?' burdened, deadened —stopped work. There you are, with a dead liver, and spring is the "Itime for resurrection. Wake up the dead! Get all the filth out of your system, and get ready for the summer's trials with dean, 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 BROUGHT BACK TO NEW To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a bo* free Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. , :l L You Look Cross 9 What makes you look that way? There gjl certainly must be some good reason for it. If IE 9 your tongue is coated, if you are bilious, if |g| !■ your head aches, if your food rests heavy on HH 39 your stomach, and if you are constipated, Mj then the whole trouble is with your liver. H What you need is a good liver pill, an easy Jfl liver pill, a purely vegetable liver pill. You H need a box of Aycr's Pills, that's what you need. These pills cure constipation, bilious- ■■ on ness, dyspepsia, and sick headache. 25 cents n box. All druggists. " I always keep a box of Ayer's Pills on hand. There is no pill their equal for a liver regulator. Long ago they cured me of liver complaint and chronic constipation."—S. L. SPELLMAN, Columbus, Ohio, May 31, 1900. Called the Wrong Man. An Irishman arriving in Cincinnati one night found It Impossible to get a bed to himself, but was permitted to share one which had been engaged by a barber. Pat noted that his bedfel low was very bald and proceeded to chaff him. This the barber endured in silence, hut when Pat had fallen into a heavy slumber the other man got up and shaved every hair off his tormentor's head. The Irishman hav ing a long tramp before him on the morrow, had left instructions that he be called very early, and, it being still dark when he rose, he did not notice the loss of his hair. When some dis tance on his way, however, he felt thirsty, and, coming to a spring, took off his hat and bent down to drink. Seeing the reflection of his bald head in the water, he sprang back aghast. "Be Jabers," he exclaimed wrathfully, "they've called the wrong man!" "Akzzzxa!" Sho Gasped. A boy's magazine had offered an an agram for competition among its read ers; the sentence to be transposed ran as follows; "Kruger's addled policy of aggrandizement will puzzle a sphinx." Tommy tried combination after com bination. but always failed to utilize all the letters. At last a brilliant thought struck him, enabling him to dispose of any superfluous letters. Here Is the solution: "With a gurgling cry of 'Akzzzxa!' Miss Nellie Pullen dropped dead." The editor awarded Tommy an extra prize for his ingenu ity. remarking that, if the young lady spoke only English, her death must have been most painful."—Stray Sto ries. Where the Taint Went. The Philadelphia Press tells a story of a house painter who seems to have A very pretty wit. "I thought you were working on Jay Krank's new house," said the house painter's friend. "I was going to," replied the house paint er, "but I had a quarrel with him and be said he'd put the paint on himself." "And did he do it?" "Yes, that Is where he put most of it." Favorable reports have been received from all parts of South Russia regard ing the prospects of the coming har vest. The native hen of New Zealand is an expert rat-killer. 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 thern in your stomach. Beemau's Pepsin Gum aids nature to perform its functions. The intense dryness of the South African air is very destructive of leath er. Hence the soldiers' boots soon wear out. Frey's Vermifuge is GO years old. A9 the years advance it becomes more und more popular. The imports of crude rubber to this country have in the last 30 years in creased 431 per cent. Jell-O, the Now Dessert, rjoascs all the family. Four flavors:— Lemon, Orango, 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. Fits permanently cured. No fit® or nervous ness after iirst day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat Nerve Restorer. 32 trial bottle and treatise tree. Dr. P- ll.Kux E. Ltd. 031 Arch bt.Phila.Pfc There are 500 hotels and camps in the Adirondacks receiving guests. They have a combined capacity of 62.000. E. A. Rood, Toledo, Ohio, says: "Hall's Ca tarrh (Jure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen years ago and she has had no return of it. We a sure euro." Sold by Druggists, 75c, A scientific person assess that bag pipe-playing in the vicinity of a cowshed causes the cows to yield more milk. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GitOVß's Tastet.kss CNII.L Tokic. It is simply iron ami quinine In a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c. The catalogue of the Paris Exhibi tion will contain the names of neariy 90,000 exhibitors of all nations. M rs. Window's Sooth Ing Ry t a p for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, ulluysiiuiij.cures wind colic.2sc a buttle. The cemeteries around London cov er 2.000 acres, and the land they occupy represents a capital of £20,000,000. I YOUR COW'S PRODUCTION will I e increased 20 per cent, by using our aluminum Cream Separators ana up-to-date churns $4 up. 10 days trial. Catalogue free. Address, Gib tfou-Mewart Mfg. Co., Gibsouia, l'a. nest Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. UflO in time. Sold by druggists. |*f
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