FEW ELOPEMENib NOW.
DEATH OF ROMANCE LAID TO FEM
ININE ATHLETICS.
Nowrtiluy. it Itunumiy Marring* in Much
T:.ler Than the More Orthodox Stylo
of Ceremony rarenta Are Much More
Seunlble Than They Were in the I-ant.
"It seems odd at first glance that,
considering all the facilities which now
make runaway marriages such an ex
tremely simple thing, elopements have
to a great extent gone out of style,"
said a clergyman. "There are hardly
one-fourth the number of runaway
marriages now recorded that there
were 20 years or more ago.
"in the old days runaway couples
had to go to all kinds of trouble to
carry out their plans. In the first
half of the century, when elopements
were quite common, the young people
had to hire coaches or riding horses,
ford rivers in leaky boats, for which
they had to pay big sums to the own
ers. and go long distances to find some
one who would consent to marry them.
Nowadays a runaway marriage is
much easier than the more orthodox
style of ceremony. With justices of
the peace on every corner and a most
obliging coterie of officials waiting
on the docks over at St. Joseph, Mich.,
ready to perform the ceremony, kiss
the bride, and present the groom with
a half-tone marriage certificate, all
inside of three minutes it does not
seem that any young couple in Chi
cago who had the slightest wish to
elope would find the least bit of
trouble, and similar conditions exist
all over .the country.
"Stern fathers and relatives on stur
dy steeds no longer follow fast be
hind eloping couples or stand on the
shore with arms outstretched and wail:
"Come back, come back.' he cried in
grief,
'Across the stormy water;
And I'll forgive thy Highland chief,
My daughter. 0, my daughter.'
"But in this fact may he fonnd one
of the principal reasons why elope
ments are no longer popular. An
elopement appealed to sentimental
young people because it was so ro
mantic. If there are no angry papas
mounted on fiery chargers or a reti
nue of relatives in pursuit a large ele
ment of romance is eliminated. The
papas cf ye good old days had a much
finer appreciation of true romance
than the prosaic and commonplace
dads of today. The old-time father,
with sundry 'Ods bodkins,' 'gadzooks'
and 'by my lialidom' gave the true
romantic finish to an elopement and
made the sentimental maiden feel that
indeed she had not lived and loved in
vain. But the father of today spoils
the romantic element by simply light
ing a fresh cigar when told that his
daughter has run away to get mar
ried and remarks: 'Run away, eh?
Well, they'll run back quick enough
when their money is gone."
"A runaway marriage with nobody
to run after the runaways is not at all
a success. It is "Hamlet" with Hamlet
left out.
"Yet the greatest and posßibly the
real reason why elopements have gone
out of style Is because of the better
conditions of life which women of to
day enjoy—compared with their moth
ers and grandmothers. Until quite
recently the women of the upper and
great middle classes of the country
passed their lives either in unhealthy
pastimes or complete idleness. It
used to be considered unladylike to be
strong and healthy like modern girls,
and even when they were children
girls would often be reproved, if not
forbidden, to romp with their broth
ers. Such things as golfing, bicycling,
rowing and tennis that make the mod
ern girl big and strong and tans her
face a good sailor brown were un
known to the girls of the old genera
tions. They had to sit in the house
and keep their hands soft and their
complexion of pearly whiteness, and
any girl that dared to assert her in
dependence was set down as a lioyden
ish tomboy, whom ail good men look
ing for a proper helpmate would shun.
"The girls of the former days, too,
were fed on a sickly sentimental lit
erature. They read nothing but nov
els, which invariably had for their
themes the story of a maudlin sort of
girl who left home and wealth and de
fled her parents in order to marry for
'love alone' with some ninny who was
from every standpoint entirely unsuit
ed to marry anybody.
"Yet 'for love alone' was the phrase
which sentimental young girls, cut off
from knowing men and being unable
to form a proper estimate of their
character and ability, had continually
ringing in their ears. Any number
I of the old-time girls no doubt arrived
J at young womanhood with the idea
* firmly planted in their breasts that a
lormal engagement and marriage was
something entirely at variance with
love, which invariably demanded of fts
votaries that they defy parental coun
sel and advice and make all sorts of
sacrifices in going to the altar, and
that otherwise marriage was but a
business arrangement in which the
heart had no part.
"The dull, listless lives that girls
of former times led often drove them
to elope, as much as a protest against
boredom as anything else. It was
about the only way they hau of show
ing their utter disgust for the exist
ing social conditions.
"In the days of our grandparents
and our great-grandparents the sexe3
never met on terms of equality and
comradeship as young people do now.
Young women hardly ever met their
social equals of the male sex except at
parties and receptions, where the
/ strictest formaility prevailed. And so
unscrupulous music teachers, or hand
some servants, or young men blessed
with more good looks than manners
of regard for conventionalities often
played havoc with the hearts of young
girls and drew them into elopement.
"Parents are much more sensible
than they used to be. The craze for
securing rich sons-in-law is dying out,
and few men of means object to a de
cent and persevering young fellow pay
ing his addresses to their daughters,
providing the alfection is reciprocal.
They argue, witli wisdom, that pover
ty in the outset is no great drawback
to a girl's career provided he possesses
integrity and intelligence. This in it
self is a powerful reason for rendering
elopements comparatively uncommon.
"But more than all other reasons
that operate against elopements by
the girls of today is that the present
conditions give them an opportunity
to meet many men, to study them and
understand them, and when they de
cide to marry they usually select men
who are in every way worthy of them
and to whom the parents can make no
valid objections. And, even if they
were inclined to object, they will not.
for the idea has become generally pop
ularthat marriage is a thing which con
cerns most the young couple who wish
to become husband and wife, and that
if they are satisfied no one else should
say anything to the contrary, and a
wedding of the orthodox kind is per
mitted to take place without the nec
essity of secrecy and elopements."—
Chicago Tribune.
BONAPARTE MOTTETTE.
flow lie Lives With Ills Gouts and Ills
Big r>oc.
Shunning human beings and culti
vating the friendship of wild animals,
Bonaparte Mottette, an aged French
man, has obtained a section of land
on the Los Pinos river, 50 miles
from Durango. His nearest neigh
bors are miles away, and they first
learned of his eccentricities when he
undertook the task of taming Jules
Barriller's wild goats which were de
scribed at length some time ago. Al
though the old man is reticent, it is
the common impression around there
that Barriller, when he found himself
about to die, wrote a letter to some
friend asking him to carry on the
work he had taken up.
Meanwhile, however, the goats grew
wild. Many of them were killed by
hunters, and now they are quite as
shy as mountain sheep, excepting the
few the old man has succeeded in tam
ing. It seems to be his intention to
elaborate Barriller's idea and estab
lish a park where all hunted wild ani
mals may find refuge. Already he has
made preparations to fence his posses
sions, and has posted signs that no
animal must be killed within the
boundary lines of his land. Readers
will remember that Barriller, a lone
prospector, obtained two goats as
pets, and before he died there were
numbers of them about his place. At
his death only one old goat was left
that did not desert the place. He was
killed while hurrying to greet a posse
of hunters, who, he apparently be
lieved. would treat him as Barriller
had done.
Barriller's successor has a number
of wild animals domesticated already.
To a prospector who ridiculed his idea
he said the work would go on long af
ter he was dead. The Frenchman
seems to have plenty of money, as
twice a year he drives a team of goats
to Durango and hauls out the few
supplies necessary to last him until he
can make another trip. At such times
his cabin and premises are guarded by
four Great Dane dogs, far more sav
age than any bear or wolf in the
mountains. The dogs have been
trained not to molest deer or goats,
and they confine their attentions to
would-be trespassers.
The wild goats seem to be increas
ing in numbers, notwithstanding the
ravages of mountain lions, wolves,
bears and eagles. The birds carry off
the klrls. but other animals destroy
the old ones as well as their offspring.
George Taylor, a Denver man. who
lives at 1932 Lawrence street, has
been in the vicinity of the French
man's preserves all summer, anil a
few days ago he killed a Mexican blue
goat. It was a great curiosity when
brought, to Durango. and Fish Com
missioner T. J. Holland, who returned
from that place today, said the goat
was one of the largest he had ever
seen. Taylor also killed two white
goats, and has Incurred the enmitv of
the old Frenchman, who thinks they
all belong to him because he inherited
them from Barriller. George Smart,
another Denver man. has killed one
white goat this summer. He says
they are very hard to get a shot at.
and he would not believe Mottette had
succeeded in taming Rny of thorn until
ho saw the domestical d goats. The
flock of wild goats would increase
much more ranidlv if it were not. for
the eagles. The birds are most re
pacloiis in their destruction of the
kids. —Denver Post.
A Uii I quo Subject.
Difficult as It Is to believe, says the
Liverpool Post. King Edward has an
aged subject in these islands, who
cannot speak our language. She is
Miss Mary Stewart (a descendant of
the Stewarts of Appin). and was born
at Ardnamurchan, Argyleshire, in 1791.
so that she has seen five sovereigns
on the throne. She has been 53 years
in service at different places between
Appin and Inverary district. She is
still hale and hearty, and able to get
up and about. The old lady does not
know any English, but speaks Gaelic.
A Whole Vor!
"Mamma, how can you ask me to
marry him when he has no social po
sition?"
"But, my dear, he tells me has made
a million."
"But even with that it will take him
a year to get into society."—Life.
Late Seed Wheat.
Wheat that is seeded late will seldom
be attacked by the Hessian fly. One
difficulty with wheat is the liability
of betng thrown out by frost in the
spring, but when such is the case the
cause may be due to lack of proper
drainage. When a field has been prop
erly tilled there will be but little lia
bility of wheat being injured by alter
nate freezing and thawing.
Soil for Forcing: Crop*.
Soil for crops under glass is the same
as that in the field. It is merely a part
of the field which has been covered
with glass, and its superior mechani
cal condition is owing to extremely
high manuring, which with the decay
of plant roots renders the texture very
loose and light. Fresh land, however,
may be used at once for greenhouse
crops, and such soil is usualljl free
from blights and disease germs for a
year or two. The soil is manured and
forked over before every crop.
ON.* Way to Keep CH lilmci'M.
An excellent way to keep cabbages
Is to pull them up and put them close
together, roots in the ground, and
cover them, so as to protect them
against rain, first placing salt hay or
straw over the heads. By this plan
the cabbages will keep until late in the
spring, as the stalks will take root and
throw out sprouts or greens, after the
heads are gone. By burying the heads
with the roots up the frost prevents
their use, and when the frost leaves
then the ground Is damp and the heads
rot. It will be found of advantage to
use the stalks in the manner stated,
if for no other purpose than to secure
lue early greens.
l'oullry Houses.
There is no one point in poultry rais
ing which requires more consideration
than the house —especially that por
tion where the fowls stay during in
clement weather. The roosting room
need not be large, because the fowls
will huddle together any way, and the
small houses are not so hard to keep
warm. The scratching shed should
be both large and cheerful, so that
the fowls will be contented to remain
there and hustle all day. Clean straw
or leaves should be kept on the floor
and all grain should be rased into it.
It is a very good plan to scatter the
grain in the evening and if the weath
er will permit, leave open the small
door, thus letting the fowls begin the
work scratching as soon as it be
comes sufficiently light.
In selecting grain do not forget that
whole oats will give the best results.
An occasional change will be relished,
but the principal food should be oats.
Unthreshed oats thrown into the
scratching shed will furnish exercise
for the fowls. Look over the houses
carefully and see if the walls and roof
are tight and see that the floors are
kept clean.—Home and Farm.
Pick Out tlie liftßt.
A saving of dollars in the purchase
of breeding stock is often false econ
omy, as this often means a lower grade
of stock. The higher priced birds are
often the cheaper in the long run and
are much the better investment. There
are, of course, exceptions, but it usu
ally pays to buy the best, if you are
going to raise poultry for market or
for eggs, for good layers are usually
the descendants of good layers.
It will be noticed that even under
very unfavorable circumstances a few
bens in the flock will lay, while the
others seem to live for no other pur
pose, apparently, than to eat.
The hens that lay the best should
be placed by themselves during the
breeding season, and made the founda
tion of the future flock. By forethought
and persistently following this plan,
the laying habit may be so fixed in a
flock in a few generations as to al
most double the egg yield.
One farmer built up his egg record
from an average of 8(1 eggs per hen
the first year to 179, then to 18C, then
195, and his last year's record was
198. His method has been the simple
one of picking out the earliest and
best layers to breed from.—Poultry
Review.
Destroying Inject l'e*t!.
The recent developments in the tests
as to the possibility of mosquitos,con
veying contagious diseases seem to
have effectually proven that they do
so, and though it has cost some hu
man lives, it may teach us a lesson
that may save more. Experiments at
shore resorts in covering swamps and
stagnant waters with kerosene or some
cheaper form of the petroleum product
have proven that the mosquito can be
greatly reduced in numbers if not en
tirely exterminated by this method,
and though undertaken with a view
to the comfort of their present and
prospective guests than as a sanitary
measure, the fact that it will also
serve that purpose is an additional in
centive to its general adoption. But
we want to see the work go farther
and reduce the number of flies as well
as mosquitoes. We know their favor
ite breeding places, the manure heaps,
the droppings of the cattle, dead ani
mals, r>r fish offal, places where kitch
en waste is thrown out, swill barrels,
and almost all the receptacles of filth
and decaying matter Let it be a rule,
or even enact a law that all such places
shall be saturated every day with some
form of petroleum, and let the oil
companies learn what form will do the
most effective work at the least cost,
and send it out for public sale, and
health, comfort and cleanliness, that
we are robbed of by these files that
come loaded with filth from such
places, to invade our sleeping, sitting
and dining rooms or pantries and dai
ry rooms, to torment us and our do
mestic animals, would soon become so
rare that we should wonder how we
ever endured them so long. The an
nual loss by other insects has been
computed at millions of dollars in
some cases, but who every undertook
to compute the loss from the plague
of flies. —The Cultivator.
Tile Farin Repair Shop.
I often wonder how I got along with
out a repair shop. The building need
not be extensive, but tight and warm.
One end should be rigged up for black
smithing. Build a hearth of stone and
ordinary clay mortar, with a good
sized flue, about nine bricks to the
round. An opening should be left at
the proper place for the admission of
a Ave or six-inch stove pipe. Procure
a blower or bellows, an anvil, a drill
press, a vise, some dies and tops, one
fourth to five-eighths inch, for cut
ting thread, a hammer, tongs and two
or three sizes of heading tools. Steel
punches for hot iron are also neces
sary, but these can be made.
After some experience, many other
tools can be made that come handy.
Much of the equipment mentioned can
often be gotten second-hand from ma
chinists or blacksmiths. Collect all
kinds of scrap iron, bolts, old horse
shoes. etc., from about the farm. Much
useful iron may often be gotten for
a trifle at public sales. Old horse
shoes welded together and worked out
are very useful for making nails, riv
ets, links for chains, etc. I have been
"using for several years a heavy farm
cli 'll made entirely from old horse
shoes. As to the actual work in this
line, many valuable hints may be got
ten from & good natured blacksmith.
One may need instruction particularly
on the working and tempering of steel.
For a time the novice may be dis
couraged by his seeming awkward
ness. but after he gets the set of his
hammer nnd the hang of his tongs,
some experience in welding, etc., there
will be little repairing that need be
taken away from the farm.
Put in the other end of the build
ing a bench or table. Provide a cross
cut handsaw, nine teeth to the inch,
a square, a smoothing, a jaok and a
lore plane, a brace with at least seven
bits differing in size one-eighth inch,
three or four sizes of chisels, a draw
ing knife, miter square and a hand ax
or bench hatchet. A supply of differ
ent sized nails and wood screws. This
will equip the wood working end of
the shop for all ordinary repairing.
new implements can be made
and ironed complete later. Now get
or make a sewing or Sadler's horse,
procure some needles, wax and thread,
harness rivets, etc. Put up a stove,
fix up the harness and gather the
plows, harrows and other implements
that need repairs.—J. F. Thomas, in
New England Homestead.
SerrelH of tlie Dairy.
There are some secrets which are no
secrets, and the experience of years
nas shown me that the art of butter
making may be known and read of all
faithful and persistent men. A few
of the points that every one who as
pires to good butter mailing must ob
serve I believe to be as follows:
The man or woman who sets out to
be a dairyman must love Ills work.
Unless he does failure lies just before
him.
There must be the essentials of a
good cow in every individual of the
dairy. No man can succeed with poor
cows, any more than a carpenter can
do his best with wornout, rusty and
dull tools.
Good water and plenty of it must
be available. Impure water has more
to do with our failures than most of
us are inclined to admit. Roily, stag
nant or bacterial water never should
be tolerated in the dairy. This applies
to the source of supply in the pasture
just as much as that used in washing
the butter. Wo might better be to the
expense of drilling a well and putting
up a windmill than to attempt to get
along in the dairy room without pure
water.
Every man, woman and child who
has anything to do with the work of
butter making, from cow to package,
should be cleanly and neat. Unclean
liness is the rock upon which thou
sands go down. It is possible to do
something in a slovenly manner and
yet succeed fairly well. This is not
true of butter making. Every pail,
caii, churn, ladle, package, cloth and
worker must be scrupulously tree from
anything which will impart a taint to
the finished product.
The hands especially must be clean.
It does not seem as if it should be
necessary to speak of this, and yet
it is not a week ago that I saw a man
who would resent it quickly if I told
him he was not neat sit down to his
cow, milk on his hands, and wet the
teats of a fine Jersey before he began
to take her mess into the pail.
We lock to the Danish people for
our pattern of cleanliness, and well we
may. for if there be any secret with
them it is the secret of neatness. Cli
mate, pasturage, water, care, nil pass
for nothing without cleanliness.
Finally, the care given the cow large
ly determines the quality of the butter
made. Good food, cleanly quarters,
kindness, freedom from all that might
give the cow discomfort, these all en
ter in to bring about success or fail
ure in butter making.
Many other things have a bearing on
the art of butter making. They may
be said to be adjuncts and not abso
sute essentials. The principles in
volved are not many, but they are in
valuable. They must be taken into
account by all who would win in the
beautiful science of good butter mak
ing.—El L. Vincent, in American Cul
tivator.
DIPLOMA lIC BEAVERS.
They Censed War on Mu.kruta llei-uuse
of Valuable Aid.
Charles Nicholas, an Indian guide
of Kineo, Moosehead lake, to whom the
habits of bird and beast are an open
book, tells the following little story
which he declares is true, which is
certainly good enough to be true.
Near the head of Spencer bay is an
extensive marsh, where in the summer
time deer are wont to feed and frolic,
where in the fall the lordly moose
comes from off the mountain to mate
and where at all seasons of the year
muskrats innumerable have dwelt. Not
so far away is a smaller marsh, where,
for many years, a colony of beaver has
lived in cosey houses built close by
the water's edge. These two little
communities never exchanged calls,
but lived and prospered in happy ex
clusion.
The going out of the ice from the
lake last spring was followed by an
almost unprecedented rise of water,
and the two marshes in Spencer bay,
the large one and the little one, were
completely covered. Now, the musk
rats did not mind the flood a bit- Driv
en from one hole, they sought another
further back, and when there weren't
any more holes these happy-go-lucky
vagrants set up housekeeping in a
huge pile of driftwood, never losing a
meal or a wink of sleep.
But with the beaver it was different.
These industrious property owners suf
fered severely, and when the waters
of Moosehead lake at last receded the
ruins of the beavers' lodges went with
them. The beavers did not sit and
sulk, neither did they for a moment
think of building again on the same
old site. They sought higher ground,
where the floods of another spring
could not reach them, and so it came
about one fine morning when the
muskrats came down onto the marsh
to play they found the beaver there
before them.
It was a large marsh, as has been
stated before, but it was not large
enough for both luuskrat and beaver.
War was at once declared, and the war
ended in the breaking up of the musk
rat colony and the scattering of the
rats along the shores of Spencer bay.
Two miles from the marsh and on
the farther side of the bay was a
clump of poplar trees which the beaver
selected as the best material available
for their new homes. All day and all
night they sawed, until finally they
had floating in the lake and compactly
rafted several hundred logs just the
right length and thickness for up-to
date beaver houses. And then the
troubles of these busy but unscrupu
lous little builders began.
They could not even stir the raft
of logs from shore, to say nothing of
towing it two miles across Spencer
bay to the marsh.
Every beaver in the colony was sum
moned to the task. Young and old,
big and little, weak and strong, they
pushed and pulled, but they could not
budge that raft of timber.
Then the head of the beaver colony
called the other beavers together on
the raft and laid betore them this re
markable proposition: If the musk
rats would lend a helping hand and
tow that raft up Spencer bay, they
(the beaver) would permit them to re
turn to the big marsh, where they
might live without fear of molesta
tion. The rest of the beavers agreed,
and the muskrats, when appealed to,
also agreed. And the following morn
ing, before the waters of the bay
roughed up, the deer and the squirrels
and the gulls beheld with amazement
beavers and muskrats, shoulder to
shoulder, pushing a raft of logs before
them up Spencer bay.
The houses are built and the beaver
are in them. And all about are musk
rats holes, and muskrats in them, too.
And beaver and rat, who are at war
everywhere else in northern Maine, are
living together in peace on the big
marsh at the head of Spencer bay.—
Boston Herald.
ltoy Seudick, but. Game.
He was one of three diminutive mes
senger boys hired to remain aboard
the big ocean going tugboat that fol
lowed the yachts. There was quite a
ground swell on when the tug got
out about the lightship and the wind,
coming up strong made a nasty sea.
The dipping and rolling of the boat
made this boy more sick than the oth
ers. He lay on the after deck unable
to move, and groaning at intervals.
Once in a great while he raised Ills
dull, heavy eyes to note the positious
of the yachts.
All day he lay there, refusing to go
inside the spacious cabin. When the
tug pulled it at the pier he was so weak
he had to be helped ashore.
His face was haggard and. support
ed by his companions, he dragged him
self up the pier, eliciting sympathy
from all the yachting reporters.
Half way up the pier he hobbled
over to the reporter who had been in
charge of the boat that day and placed
two blue and trembling hands on the
wrist of the newspaper man. His wan
face was raised and he said in a hoarse,
tense whisper:
"Hey. mister! If yer want a boy
agin' termorrer, ask fur me, will yer,
mister ;'
He was game.—New York Mail and
Express.
The unci Smallest County.
San Bernardino county, Cal., with
an area of nearly 20,000 square miles,
is the largest in the United States,
and Bristol county, R. 1., with an area
of only 27 square miles, is the small
est. It Bristol county wero In the form
of a square man might walk across it
in a little more than an hour; but San
Bernardino, in the same form, could
not be crossed by ail express train
In two hours. It is larger than Ver
mont and New Hampshire combined.
ARMY POST AN ISSUE.
Dcs Moines Citizens Provide a Site,
but Council Blocks It.
It is probable that the question of a
United Statets army post may be a
considerable factor in the Des Moines
city electiou campaign next spring.
The business men of the city nearly
a year ago contributed the funds nec
essary to purchase a site for the post,
but the city council dallies. One condi
tion the government insists on before
establishing the post is that the city
shall annex the territory comprising
the proposed site It is generally de
sired that the post be Inside the city,
in order that the more stringent mu
nicipal authorities may prevent the
gathering of resorts about the govern
ment property.
The Glasgow Student.
His life is plain and hard, and rath
er poor in color. His class at 8 a. m.
calls htm early from his bed—how
early he who comes to it by train
from the suburbs will tell you. And
what, after all, comes he out for to
see? The tardy moon lighting him
up the college hill, the windy quad
rangle all dark, the lighted class room
windows, a brisk janitor selling the
college magazine, the college bell, clat
tering for five short minutes after the
hour has struck, its sudden stop, the
scramble of men to enter while yet
there is time, the roll call, the lecture,
the bent heads of the note takers, the
scraping their anxious feet lest a
word be missed, the rustling of a
sporting paper, the smell of wet water
proof in the hot air, the intolerable
dreichness of (let us say) the con
veyancing statutes, and then —happy
release! —the college clock booming
out the hour, and once more the rain
and wind in the quadrangle. No hand
some reward this for early rising!
Classes meet all day long from 8 a.
m. till 5:30 p. m.; and, If our friend
has a spare hour, and Is eager for
work, he goes across to the gaunt,
warm reading room, where a comradq
with a "call" may invite him to defend
everlasting as against eternal punish
ment, or another with a foible for
jokes, may, in absent-mindedness tell
him the same story thrice in GO min
utes.
Porto Rico's Library Plans.
According to recommended plans
the Carnegie Library building for San
Juan, P. R., which is to cost $60,000,
will be two stories high, 75 feet wide,
fronting on Plaza Colon uiid 50 feet
deep. The second floor will be de
signeed as an assembly hall, the first
floor will be provided with shelves
for 100,000 books, and in the basement
It is designed to arrange two reading
rooms, one of which shall be for chil
dren.
ENCKE'S COMET A HERALD.
Has Appeared Before the Assassina
tion of Three Presidents.
Encke's comet has heralded the
death by assassination of three Presi
dents of the United States. President
Lincoln was assassinated on April 15,
1805; Encke's comet appeared Janu
-25, 1865, and was visible five months.
President Garfield was the victim of
the assassin's onslaught on July 2,
1881, and died September 10; Encke's
comet appeared August 20, 1881. and
was visible to the naked eye. Presi
dent McKinley was attacked on Sep
tember 6, and died September 14,
1901; Encke's comet appeared on Au
gust 15, 1901, and was visible for sev
eral weeks.
We refund 10c. tor every package of PUT
NAM FADELESS DTE that fails to give satisfac
tion. Monroe Drug Co.. Unionville, Mo.
The Japanese earthquake of 1703 was
the most destructive on record. It killed
190,000 people.
There is more Catarrh in this section of tho
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years w.*e supposed to be
Incurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and thercforo requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. It ia taken internally in doses from
10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi
monials. Address F.J.CHENEY A Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Thore are 165,000 Hritons living in
the United Kingdom at present who
were born in the colonies.
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I Coughed
MnMBW—WTTIiIinTrTT""
( " I had a most stubborn cough
for many years. It deprived me
of sleep and I grew very thin. I
then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
and was quickly cured."
R. N. Mann, Fall Mills, Tcnn.
Sixty years of cures
and such testimony as the
above have taught us what
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
will do.
! We know it's the great
est cough remedy ever
made. And you will say
so, too, after you try it.
There's cure in every drop.
Three siiei t 25c., 50c., sl. All druyjlsta.
Consult your doctor. If '.to si\ys take It, I
then do as he says. If he tolls you not I
to take It, then dout tako It. lie knows, d
Leave it with htm. Wo are willing. '.J
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Cold Medal at Bufln'lo I'xpoaltlon.
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