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/yi OST LITTLE BABIES 1)1 E, either from bowel troubles
or from diseases which tliey contract because they
arc in a weak and feeble condition from bowel troubles.
Mothers who are seeking the ideal and proper medicine to give their little ones for
constipation, diarrhoea, colic and simple fever* will liud LAXAKOLA the great family
remedy.
It is the belt and most effective laxative for children. BEST lepause it Is safe ami
made entirely of harmless ingredients. BEST because it is non-irritating and never
Kripes or muses piiin or irritation. BEST because it is sure and never (ails BEST
because " Children like it and auk for it."
.. I U IU.I" flanB 6 ™"''Y.n.K'o Rive little babies violent remedies that nick and rend
their little bodies. DON 1 DO IT—givethem LAXAKOLA.
A few drops can be given with safety to very young babies, and will often relieve
colic by cxjieliing the wind and gas that cause it, and it also will check simple fevers
break up colds and clear the coated tongue.
Great relief is experienced when administered to young children suffering from
dlarrh/ca. accompanied with white or green evacuations, from the fact that LAXAKOLA
neutralizes the acidity of the bowels and carries out the cause of fermentation aids
digestion, relieves restlessness, assists nature and induccH sleep.
Ii A X A K O L A u<e <,urin .g 3,1 ' <>nditions of health ,f the
FOR WOMHS,
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156 De'l!s?n SITOI ChiJego" " nJ TIIE LAaAKULA CO.. 13. Nassau Sired, N. V.. or
WASHINGTON LETTER
(Special Correspondent*. ]
The volume containing statements of
appropriations, new offices, etc., re
quired by law to be prepared and pub
lished fit the end of each session of
congress, under the direction of the
committees on appropriations of the
senate and house, has been completed
for the second session of the Fifty
sixth congress by Mr. Thomas P.
Cleaves and Mr. James C. Courts,
chief clerks respectively of those com
mittees. A summary of the appropria
tions shows the grand total of $730,-
338.575. The details by bills are as
follows:
Agricultural $4,512,420
trray 115,734,040
Diplomatic 1.840,428
DiMrtct of Columbia 8,502,260
Fortification 7,304,011
Indian 0.747,471
legislative 24.504,068
Military- academy 772,656
Naval 78.101.701
Pension 145.245.230
Post office 123,782.088
Sundry civil 61,795.008
Mdcncin 15.017,416
Miarollanroua 7,000,018
Permanent appropriations 124,358,220
Totals $730,338,675
The statement shows that In addi
tion to the specific appropriations made
are authorized to be entered
Into for public works requiring future
appropriations by congress In the ag
gregate sum of $4,224,040. These con
tracts Include $1,384,640 for perma
nent improvements of and increased
facilities at certain navy yards, $2,-
841.500 for public buildings previously
authorized, to be constructed In various
cities, and for certain lighthouse ten
ders and a revenue cutter and $408,500
for school buildings In excess of ap
propriations made at the previous or
first session of the Fifty-sixth con
gress, amounting to $54,215,734 moro
than the contract authorizations of the
session just closed.
Nof tlie Proper Hour.
About nine-tenths of the cranks who
arc allowed to enter the city of Wash
ington sooner or later make their way
to the treasury department. They seem
to have a spite against the place be
cause there Is an immense quantity of
money within the walls of the great
white marble building. Secretary CI age
has become so expert In handling them
that he would make a first rate warden
of an insane asylum when he lets go of
his place In the cabinet. The other
day one of these cranks secured an
audience with the secretary after tell
ing an Impressive story to the clerk in
the outer office.
"Mr. Secretary," he said briskly as
he approached Mr. Gage's desk, "I
won't detain you but a minute. Just
please sign your name to this."
"What Is it?" asked Mr. Gage, reach
ing for the piece of paper which the
crank liad taken from his pocket.
"A check for $135,000," answered
the crank.
"The government does not allow me
to sign personal checks during office
hours," replied the secretary. "Come
In after 4 o'clock."
"Thank you, sir," answered the
crank as he reached for his hat. He
did not know that after that hour he
would be compelled to state his busi
ness at the outside door of the treasury
building.
PoHtmaiiFr Smith May Ilonlan.
Postmaster General Smith has given
up the lease of the house he has occu
pied In ttys city since he entered Presi
dent McKlnley's cabinet three years
ago, and the gossips have It that he in
tends within the year to resign his
portfolio and go back to Journalism.
Before the re-election of Mr. McKinley
Mr. Smith expressed a desire to leave
the cabinet, but was prevailed on by
the president to remain. While he has
denied emphatically his intention to
leave official life Immediately, he has
always intimated to friends that he
wished to give up his portfolio just as
soon as the president could find It con
venient. to replace him. On the return
of the presidential party Mrs. Smith
j will go to a northern resort, and Mr. j
I Smith has engaged apartments at the |
I Arlington. Close friends say he will
| not lease another residence In Wash
; ington, but will probably live at the
hotel as long as he remains at the head
of the postofiiee department.
The QnenUon of Mannfaotnrm.
Washington is not satisfied with the
extent of its manufactures and is agl
j tatlng the public with the expectation
! of securing organized effort to attract
j to this city men and capital to be em
ployed lu a variety of manufactured
i products. The standing of the city In
j the census as a manufacturer Is not
low, being something like twenty-sev
enth, but this figure is illusive, and the
expectation Is to Induce manufacturers
that will take advantage of the yet un
developed water power of the Potomac,
the convenient coal and Iron fields, the
five trunk lines of railway offering con
' ditlons not enjoyed by many cities that
j have greater manufacturing iinpor
j tance. The men who have discussed
the subject are very plainly not satig-
I fled to see the city increasing In popu
lation while the proportion of the pop
ulation that derives income from the
government to support the whole num
ber is constantly increasing.
Tliey Get Place of Honor.
I Tlie public schools of Washington
are to occupy the place of honor among
I the school exhibits at the Pnn-Ameri
! can exposition at Buffalo. The exhibit
| will consist entirely of bicgraph, pho
nograph ajid photograph reproductions
: of actual school work, showing every
! grade, from the first in the primary
i department to the last grade in the
| Normal school, and including the man
| ual training department and the high
schools. The expense of the exhibit
| has been provided by the national gov
ernment. It will he shown in the gov
| eminent building.
CARL SCIIOFIELD.
Important.
| lit; — Darling, will you he my wife?
, She—Have you a recommendation
! from your fiancee?— King.
Little Perry'* Awful Threat.
1 won't over live in tins house no more,
And I'm goin away, 'way off somewhere
In the dark woods, and tnt-hby a bear
Or something nobody ever saw before
Might come and eat me up, and then,
I bet you, when
My pa has no little boy he'll be
Sorry he punished me I
And I'm go in to starve and not
Ever eat anything apain at all,
And when I'm up with God and not
Wings and can look at my pa and he
Comca home and sens my coat in the hall
And looks all around everywhere
And I ain't there,
I bet he'll be sorry he punished me!
And wlirn I'm far away
And nearly starved and can hardly stand
They might be a big, bad man come alonn and
say
He'd take me off to some strange land.
And then, when the people told my pa
How cruel he was, 1 bet he'd he
Tlie saddest person you ever saw
And aorry he punished me I
And when they had no little boy no more
Mamma would cry all day,
And when no little boy would open the door
For pa at nlpht and say,
"Hello!" 1 bet
That's when he'd be
Tlie saddest yet.
Awl I'll stay this time, but he
I> t-b-b-betm quit punishin me!
—Chicago Times-Herald.
Pan-American Exposition.
Low fares via the Lehigh Valley Kail
road to tlie. Pan-American Exposition.
Five-day tickets, good only in day
coaches, will be. sold on Tuesdays and
Saturdays, May 1 to October 31, from
Freeland at tin; rate of #7 for the round
trip.
Ten-day tickets will bo sold from Free
land every day. May 1 to October 31,
good on any train, except the Black ,
Diamond express, at. the rate of 310 for |
the round trip.
OASTOniA.
Bears the /) The Kind You Have Always Bought
fSSa7
OASTORIA.
Bears the /t Tha Kind You Have Always Bought
"T" i
CHOICE MISCELLANY
Fun on n Drintol Street.
A very singular state of things now
exists in the town of Bristol, Tenn.,
by reason of an act passed at the last
session of congress fixing the boundary
line between Tennessee and Virginia.
The line runs along the middle of the
main street of Bristol, and as there is
a railway In the street the passengers
on the south side of the car are riding
in Tennessee and those on the north
side In Virginia.
If an offender against the laws of
Virginia be sitting on the south side of
a car, an officer from Virginia may sit
I opposite to him, within arm's reach,
I and yet dare not touch him unless he
has duly issued requisition papers.
But there Is a more serious phase of
the matter than that. If a headstrong
I youth and an equally headstrong maid-
I en, both under the legal age and living
| in Virginia*, take a notion to be mar
rled, they can have the ceremony per
i formed on the south side of a car,
while on the north side there Is a law
prohibiting It. So they have only to
move from one side of a car to the
other. Tennessee permits the marriage
of minors, but Virginia does not.
However, the same state of things
would exist If the boundary line ran
outside the town limits Jn a field, for
Virginia law would rule on one side of
the line and Tennessee law on tne
other. The oddity about the present
arrangement is that the line runs akmg
the middle of a street on which there is
a railway.
A Schrmr Thnt Failed.
James A. Hamilton of Chambers
burg, Pa., told this story at ft reeent
meeting In Philadelphia of the officials
of 05 Pennsylvania towns to discuss
the tramp question:
"Three years ago we thought we had
the tramp question In Franklin county
settled for all time. We started out
to make them work. We bought sev
eral hundred carloads of stone and
had It hauled to the yard of the coun
ty Jail. We Invested in a good many
suits of blue jeans and laid In a stock
of hammers and ran up quite a bill for
provisions. Then we sent out after
the tramps. We didn't have to send
far. The woods were full of 'em, sent
down, I suppose, from Seranton ajid
Allentown.
"The whole country was Interested In
the project, and the first day of the ex
periment we had 000 to 800 people turn
out to see the tramps work. We had
a band of music, too, and altogether it
was a great day. We had corralled 50
or 40 tramps, and In the forenoon they
worked first rate, hut after the midday
meal they complained of the food. In
the afternoon they gathered in little
groups of three and four and did a
good deal of talking. Next morning
after breakfast there was a strike.
They wouldn't work, and we've never
beea able to make them work since."
Slic Eijjrotod It.
A writer, Tolstoi thinks, ought to feel
the public's pulse. lie Is fond of tell
ing the following story of two Ameri
can girls who came to see him in Mos
cow, says London M. A. P. They had
traveled around the worlcf, starting
from Now York in opposite directions
to meet again In Moscow for the ex
press purpose of calling upon him.
When they had finished, Tolstoi didn't
know anything more gallant to say
than:
"Well, ladles, I think you might have
employed your time to better purpose."
As he spoke he felt the rudeness of
the remark and was.about to add some
excuses when one of the young ladles
cried:
"Ah, how much like Leo Tolstoi! I
was ready to bet that you would say
something of this sort."
And they went away as happy as
larks.
The Pnmima Tonal.
In the opinion of all engineers a sea
level canal across the isthmus of Pana
ma is the most desirable, although it
would be the most expensive. The
greatest objection to It Is the length of
time required for its construction,
which is estimated at 20 years. It is
believed that with the work already
done a canal with locks across Panama
could be completed In six or seven
years. Ten years Is the time fixed for
the Nicaragua route. The reason that
the sea level canal at Panama would
take so long a time Is that the Rpace Is
limited and It would be possible to
work only a small number of men and
excavators. The heavy digging Is all
at the watersheds, within the limits of
a few miles.
The Cloth of Fall River.
Fall Itlver easily loads all other cot
ton manufacturing centers In America.
It has about one-fifth of all the cotton
spindles In the United States and more
, than twice as many as any other indus
trial center in America. It makes 843,-
000,000 yards of cloth annually. Every
working day its mills weave more than
1,500 miles of cloth. If all the mills
could be run on one piece, the fastest
express train could not travel fast
enough to carry off the piece as it is
woven, since the product is more than
two miles a minute.
The Ural Monarch.
Emperors, czars, kings- even presi
dents, perhaps—are of less consequence
than the great inen who are organizing
or rather reorganizing the business of
| the world. Upon them momentous is
sues For good or for evil they
are the master spirits of the time.
Princes and presidents may wear the
trappings of authority, but the man In
plain clot lies occupying a swivel chair
in the bank parlor is the man who does
things.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Benedictine distillery at Fecamp
produced last year 1,081,000 bottles.
One hundred and forty tuns of thin
j liquor, valued at £IO,OOO, were exported
' to Hamburg.
PERSONALITIES.
King Victor Emmanuel 111 has or
; dered an automobile for his own use.
| Governor Barnes of Oklahoma, who
has Just retired from office, has accept
; ed the presidency of a new bank In
that territory.
The czar has presented M. Deloasse
with a gold ijnufTbox ornamented with
diamonds. The gift I# said to be worth
more than 100,000 rubles.
V. S. Grant, Jr., Is the latest convert
to the orange growing fad. He has re
cently purchased the largest orange
grove In San Diego county, Cal.
Benjamin Carlton Iloyt, who died the
other day in St. Joseph, Mich., was the
i founder of that city and the only sur
viving Michigan pensioner of the Black
Hawk war.
Baron Deforest, the adopted son of
the lato Baron Hlrsch, was married the
other day In Paris to Mine. Menier, fa
mous for her beauty, widow of Albert
Menier, once well known on the Euro
pean turf.
George Mncdermott, an English co
median who died a few days ago, Is
credited with Introducing the pop
ular word "Jingo" by means of a song
which he sang In 1877 when the Brit
ish fleet went through the Dardanelles.
Love never grow old In Virginia.
Near Powhatan the other day a mar
riage license was issued to Sciplo
Swann and Mamy Lnnghorn, colored.
The bridegroom Is 1)9 years of age, and
the bride Is 89. Scipio expects a hap
py new century.
M. Pierre de Nothne, conservator of
the Versailles museum, who announces
that lie has discovered an authentic
portrait of Petrarch In the National
library of the Hue de Hlchelleu, Is fa
mous throughout Europe as an author
ity on Italian literature.
George Jacob Holyoake, the English
socialist, bus Just celebrated his eighty
fourth birthday. It Is more than <lO
years since he began Ills career as a
public lecturer, and Ills entire life has
been passed In working In the field of
social and political reform.
Baron Kentero Kaneko, Japan's new
minister of Justice, Is one of the best
English scholars In Japan, speaking
the language with fluency and writing
it with almost the same Idiomatic preci
sion as n native. He Is a graduate of
Harvard and acquired his legal train
ing In Japan. He is 47 years old.
Notwithstanding the Baroness Bur
dett-Coutts' 87 years, she has several
seniors among the British peers. Eirst
I comes the Earl of Perth and Melfort,
j who Is 04. Next is I.ord Gwydyr, who
J Is 01, and then the Earl of Devon, one
j of the few parson peers In the house of
lords who do not sit on the Episcopal
benches, who Is 00, and then Lord
Field.
THE TURF RECORD.
Fred Dletz Intends to race Bessie
Bonehlll, 2:05% pacing, this year.
Veteran Budd Doble will drive the
fast California colt, The Itoniau, this
season.
Sagwa, 2:13%, has, according to re
ports from Baltimore, been shifted to
the pace.
Ben Itcnnlck has purchased a green
trotter, by Re-election, which he work
ed a mile in 2:18%.
Dr. Robinson, 2:17%, pulled a wagon
In 2:28, last half In 1:13, over the To
ledo half mile track the other day.
The brother of Boralma, 2:08, recent
ly foaled in Kentucky is marked the
same as his distinguished fraternal
relative.
[ Walter Illue of Philadelphia prom
| ises to make some of the fast pacers
show a lot of speed to beat Iloscoe
[ in the road races this year,
j The last of the get of Mambrlno
King, a brown lllly foaled In July,
1000, is owned by John Bradburn, su
perintendent of Village farm.
! Charles Chlpman of Philadelphia is
making a solendld showing on the New
York speedway with his crack road
team, Sam T and Jack Miller.
L. F. Keen, Marion, I ml., has bought
from J. A. Works, Vevay, Ind.. a young
mare by Wilstar, 2:17%, that has
shown a fast mile with little work.
The best mile at Lexington, Ky„ was
! one In 2:21% by Charley Herr, who
was in company with Lucy Cnrr. Ca
j hill drove the stallion and Kelly the
j mare.
i At Wlieaton, Ills., Oscar Ames re
! eently stepped the Red Heart mare
j Brash, 2:24%, sister of Chain Shot,
2:11%, a quarter In 32% seconds with
apparent ease. She acts like a coming
I trotter.
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
} A hard wind will dry out the roots of
! trees very rapidly.
In setting out trees be sure that no
lir spaces are left around the roots.
! Plants cannot live without leaves.
Sooner or later they will suffocate, as
plants breathe through their leaves,
j Cut off the sprouts that spring up at
the base of tit: fruit trees, plum trees
especially. They are, to sny the least,
i unsightly.
All winter and early spring pruning
muses a more exuberant growth In the
parts remaining. Summer pruning,
however, checks growth.
Spraying with a solution made by
dissolving an ounce of sulphide of pot
ah in four gallons of water is recom
mended for all kinds of mildew.
It requires plenty of sunlight to pro
duce flue apples, peaches, pears, plums
and other fruits. Prune so as to let
I the sun shine among the branches.
Summer AVeatlier Under
wear, Men's and Boys'
Furnishings, Hats and
Caps, Boots and Shoes
of All Kinds. Large
Stocks and Low Prices.
Persons intending Our goods are
to purchase all of this
anything season's make
in the above lines and are
are requested guaranteed to be
to call worth all we
at our store. ask for them.
McMenamin's
Hat, Shoe and Gents' Furnishing Store,
S3 So-iath. Centre Street.
to call
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\ Colds, J
Grippe, (k
\ Whooping Cough. Asthma, )
Bronchitis and Incipient A
jj Consumption, Is fcj
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
.IUIIO 'J, 190).
I AHRANOKMfcNT OK PAABKNGLIt TIIAINB.
LEAVE FItBKLAND.
0 12 ii m fur Wfathorly, .VlHuch Chunk,
Allen town, Bethlehem, Kuston, Phila
delphia un<] Now Vnrk.
7 34 S.VI fo . r , Onn, White Haven,
Wilkes-Bane. Huston and bernnton.
8 15 a in for Hanleton, Weurherlj. Munch
"S- A """tnwn, Bethlehem, Huston,
Philadelphia, Now York, Delano unj
l rottsvillc.
I 9 30 Ju"' Otr'.ielcu, Delano, Muhanoj
1,, „ LHy, hhinantlnah and Jt. I'artnol.
j 11 42 uin for VVeuthi rly, Munch chunk. Al-
Icnti'wn, lletlilchcni Eustoo, l'hlla
.le'nhli. New York, ilaulelou, Delano,
Ca'rmcl" 3 ' nimlouh and Wt!
115 l a in tor White Haven, Wtlkea-Barre,
hcruutou and the \\ est
4 44 Pin for iVcatticrly, Jlauth Chunk, Al
lontowu, Bethlehem. Huston, Philadel
phia, New I ork, llazloton, Delano,
M.iiiauin City, Shenandoah. Aft. Curinoi
and Pottsvillc.
635 Pern f< ?. r Bttndy Ki While Haven,
West r °' {Scninlon uud 41,1 points
7 29 pw for Hazleton.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
7 34 m from Pottsville, Delano and Haz
h ton.
9 1 2 • m from Now York, Philadelphia, Eiih-
J'u 11, Alien town. Munch
( hunk. Wealherly, Hazleton, Muhunoy
City, mid Mi. C'urrael
u.'i" V.' 11 Wilkes-liarro and
White Haven.
11 51 a in Irotn Pottsville, Alt. Curmel, Shen
andoah, Muhunoy City, Delano and
Hazleton.
12 48 p m from New York, Philadelphia,
hasten, Bethlehem, Alleiitown, Munch
Chunk and Woutherly.
Rr. 11 . 1 Soruuton, Wilkes-Par re and
White Haven.
0 35 P m from New York, Philadelphia,
Kuston, Bethlehem Alleiitown, Alaueh
Chunk. Weatherly, Mt.Curmel,Shenan
doah, Muhunoy City, Delano and lla/.le
ton.
729 Rrl'l Tr .? m Boranton i Wilkes-Ilarro and
>V lute 11 uven.
For further information Inquire of Ticket
(gents.
ROLL. IN U.WI LBUK, General Superintendent,
-'il Cortlandt, btroet, New York City
OH AS. H. LEE. General Passenger Agent,
Cortland t Street. New York mtv
G. J. GILDUOY. Division Superintendent,
Ha/lcton, Pa.
1 A HE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND
SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time table in otTeet March 10, 1001.
tiT^lk n S YP ~ri J I ton for Jed do, Bekley, Hazlo
hi ok. Stockton, Beaver Meadow Road, Roan
"hzleton Junction at 600 a m dailv
e *iv M P iM?! JM ' IHy .\ ,l r d 7U ' a P "C Sunday.
1 ffmhi J Bfifton lor ilurwood. Cranberry,
J omnicken and Deri tiger at. 600 a in, daily
SundHy: an<l 707a m, JJ.3B p m, Sun
lrains loavo Drifton for Oneida Junction,
ilarwood Road, Humboldt Roud, Oneida and
at 600 a m, daily except Sun
a 7 ' um ' ~P m ' Sunday.
1 rains leave Hazleton J unction for Harwood.
Cranberry, iomhickcn and Deringer at 685 a
AI, daily except Sunday; and 8 53am. 4 22 D M
Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road,
Oneida and Shcppton at 6 32. 11 10 a m, 4 41 p m,
daily except Sunday; and V 87 a in, 311 Dm
Sunday. H '
Trains leave nerlniror for Tomhickcn, Cran
llUO° .' , 1 ,il/ ' ,ot 'On Junction and Roan
eyJ* ,u ' dH,, J except Sunday; ana 337
a m, 5 0i p m, Sunday.
1 rains leave sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
Road, Harwood Roud, Oneida Junction, Hazle
ton Junction and Roan at 7 11 am, 12 40, 526
p in, daily except Sunday; uud 8 11 a m, 344
p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow
Road, Stockton, lluzlu Brook, Eekley, Jeddo
and prittou ut 6 20 p m, daily, except Suuday;
Al m H ,n ' P ln ' Sunday.
1 rains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver
Meadow Road, Stockton, Hazlo Brook, Eekley,
Jeddo and Drifton ut 540 p m, daily,
exoopL Sunday; and 10 10 a in, 5 40 p m, Sunday.
All truii.it> connect at Hazleton Junction with
dec trie cars for Hazleton,.leanosviiie, Auden
rled and other points on the Traction Com
pany's liuo.
Train leaving Drifton at 600 a m makes
connection at Deringer with P. R. R. trains for
Mllkesburre, Suubury, Harrisburg and points
LL'THKK C. SMITH, Superintendent.