In many places of Greece a cream colored water jug or Jar is made which so porous that when filled with water the moisture keeps continually exuding to the outside and there evap orating, which wonderfully cools the contents, especially when the vessel etands in a draft. These cheap "water coolers" are used by everybody, rich and poor, and great numbers of them are manufactured and sold every year. Ladles Can Wear Slines One aizo smaller after using Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweat ing, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package Fiike by mail. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. More aluminium than ever is being used for the caps of fruit jars for ail classes ot goods. • J. 8. Parker, Fredonia, N. Yf, says: "Khali Dot call on you for the §<loo reward, for I be lieve Hall's Catarrh Cure will oura any case of catarrh. Was very bad." Write him for particulars. Bold by Druggist#;*7sc. When a fellow has no bank account to draw 011 it doesn't do him much good to draw on his imagination. FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerveßestorer.s2trial bottloandtroatisefreo Dr. R.H. Kline, Ltd., 031 Arch St., Phila., Pa. A man never forgets how good he is to others. Mrs. Winslow's Scothjng Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces iuttamma tiou,allays pain, cures wind colic. 20c. a bottle A man may know his own mind and not know very much at that. Plso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs und colds.—N. W. Samukl, Ocean Grove, N. J., Fob. 17, 1900. The fellow who borrows fifty cents ia cqptcnt to do things by halves. Your Hair "Two years ago my hair was falling out badly. I purchased a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor, and soon my hair stopped coming out." Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, 111. Perhaps your mother had thin hair, but that is no reason why you must go through life with half starved hair. If you want long, thick hair, feed it with Ayer's Hair Vigor, and make it rich, dark, and heavy. SI.OO a bottle. All droKKkts. If your druggist cannot supply you, send us 0110 dollar and we will express you a bottle, lie sure and give the name of your nearest ox press oflleo. Address, H J.C. AV ER CO., Lowell, Mass. Cross? Poor man! He can't help it. It's his liver. He needs a liver pill. Ayer's Pills. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black ? Use Buckingham's Dye 50cti.of druggistsor R. P. Hall &Co., Naihua.N.H. W. D. Douglas shoes are the stan dard ol' the world. This is the reason W. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $:!.00 and $.'1.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers. W. L. DOUCLAS $4 SHOES CANNOT BE EXCELLED. Best imported and American leathers. Heyls Patent Calf. Enamel, Box Calf, Calf, Vicl Aid. Corona Colt, Nat. Kangaroo. Fust Color Eyelets used. Cniition f ,rhe genuine have W. L. DOUGLAS* Caution I name and price stamped on bottom. Shoes by mail, 20c. extra, lllns. Catu log free. W. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MASS SIO,OOO vs; .Agents Want d—T argent real estate firm In the grorld ia establishing agencies throughout the [united States for the sale of its New lork 'lty prop erties on instalments of jd toglUper month, carry- In* a life insurance. I Besides an enormous local business the outside demand for an opportunity to share In the *rowth Of the Imperial City of the World hue been so great the past year nndg half that we. have sold nearly IKKI,UUO worth of property from Alaska to Bouth riea. Our airents are making from SI.OOO to SJfi. oue I* A*busiriess conducted as honestly and cmtnerva tkely as ours Is capable of as great development as the National Life Insurance Company with infinite ly greater ease, with a compensation live times aa great and the opportunity for en rgetlc. honest, In telligent and resi-onslbls men to build up a perma nent business for thorns- Ives and share in the subse quent growth which is sure to come to us. We want no representative who is not willing to work ener getically, or who hus not sufficient capital to visit New York to see our property and be taught the most effective method of doing business; to all who meet these reqniieuiauta and can give references as to probity we will tuake most liberal terms, spend ing more money In instruction and equiyment for the work than their New York trip has cost. Address WOOD, HARMON & CO., fcfPt. T-i, 256 Broadway, New York Cltj. I n"r~i ffweKi Jxjnf a&& im in us HSZJ A Hero in the Life-Saving Service. THE heroic light of W. W. Gles ser nloue against a terrific, driving sea on the shore of Lake Erie and his successful rescue of a man given up for lost, a deed that won him a gold medal, stands first in the records of the United States Life-Saving Service of brave deeds done last year. Tale after tale of courage and hard ship, as dramatic as anything In fiction are told in this report, but Glesser's spleudid achievement stands us the greatest. The hero is the keeper of the Buffalo station. A gale was sweeping across tlie harbor of Buffalo one afternoon. Two large scows with several men aboard broke from their moorings un der the tremendous strain of lashing seas and were drifting steadily toward the breakers. A life-boat was launched with Gles ser in command. Nearing the point of danger, tlie boat was driven before the wind just outside the line of surf. Anchor was dropped and it was in tended to slack away till the scows, which were now in the breakers, could lie giveu assistance. But the anchor dragged, a big wave snapped the haw ser and another upset the boat. All the occupants were thrown out and had a hard swim in the pounding seas for a quarter of a mile to reach the land. There they heard that a man who had been 011 one of the scows was in a perilous position among gome old piles standing nearly a third of a mile from which Glesser then was. Mounting his engine Glesser, with his crew, rode to a spot opposite. The half-drowned man was clinging to the slippery piles 400 or 500 feet from shore, the seas constantly breaking over liini. The use of the hunt was impractica ble, and the situation of the unfortu nate man was such that he must perish unless aid should reach him. There was little time for deliberation, and Glesser. in spite of all protests, quickly resolved to try to swim out with a line, lie called upon Surfman Green- j land to accompany him. They were warned by experienced men that they could not live to accomplish it, but with solemn resolve Glesser replied: "Wait until we try; the man cannot come to us; we will try to get to him." Then, making one end of the lino fast about his arm, lie dashed into the surging waters, accompanied by Green land. Tlia two bad not proceeded far when thoj' were thrown back upon the beach. Again they set out, but when about fifty yards on the way a particu larly heavy sea hurled Greenland against an old pile and then swept him back to land, considerably injured, so that he had to give up tTv attempt. But Glesser was undaunted by the loss of his companion and bravely per sisted. He was repeatedly driven ashore, but gradually gained ground until he reached a pile standing about sixty yards from shore. There he rested for a few moments. This was the only pause he made dur ing the entire operation of rescue, which consumed three-quarters of an hour. After recovering his breath Glesser renewed the battle, and although se verely buffeted about and driven back sometimes 100 feet or more, he kept up a stout heart, diving under the worst breakers. At length, getting sufficiently near. Glesser threw to the man the end of the line, instructing him to make it fast about Ills body and then to let go his hold of the piling niul drop into the water. He had only sufficient strength, however, to secure tlie line about his wrist, aud before lie could leap the waves and fouled the bight of the line among the piling. Glesser was thrown nearly 100 feel away. To the people 011 the shore if seemed as though both must certainly perish. Glesser still persisted, regain ing his lost ground, and at the end of fifteen minutes of dangerous work cleared the snarl. Thou upon his sig nal the man let go of the piles, while scores of persons at the other end of the line pulled him with a rush to the | beach, where he was picked up uncon scious. Then Glesser struck out for the land, which lie reached without aid, but so exhausted that he could not stand. Xot till then was it found that he was coil siderably injured by a floating tele-' graph pole, which had passed over him two or three times, inflicting heavy blows upon his back. New York World. Hie Hoed of Wilson Mo Field. From the records of the Royal Hu mane Society a writer in McClures Magazine draws tin* story of an ob scure negro seaman whose brave deed was discovered and honored by two of the great nations of the earth. One tropical night the schooner Dolphin rested almost motionless off the Cay man rocks in Nicaragua. Crew and passengers, some twenty in all, were asleep about the deck, for it was too hot to go below. Then came such a squflll as comes only in those southern seas. The sails, all set, furnished am ple leverage. Within ten seconds the Dolphin was bottom up, her passengers and crew struggling in the water. Wilson McField, a negro and a sub ject of Great Britain, Avas the first to come to the surface. All his twenty seven years of life lie had known these waters, and he swam like a fisli. He soon succeeded in climbing upon the bottom of the vessel. Then he shouted to the others, and one by one pulled up five of the crew. Fortunately the squnll was soon over, although the sea was high. After they had drifted two hours the men heard strange sounds, like pounding within the vessel. Some thought they heard voices. The more superstitious were afraid. The night dragged on, and by daylight the sounds had grown fainter. The crew concluded that men were im prisoned within the boat, but none could devise away to save them. Then the negro proposed to dive under and Into the ship. They assured him he would never get out again, but carry ing between his teeth one end of a rope that had beeu drugging from the vessel McField dived, passed under the gun wale and rose in the hatch. It was pitch dark, and the interior of the vessel was full of the floating cargo, hut he kept on steadily. Finally, concluding that he had reached the cabin, he rose, and in an instant his head was above water. Yet so foul was the air and so narrow the space between the water and the ship's bot tom that lie could hardly breathe. He could see no one, hut lie heard the knocking again and called out. Then came voices, faint but familiar. Swimming in tho direction of the sound he found two men braced against ihc cabin sides and holding their heads above water. One was a yoting rubber cutter, mimed Mallitz, the other n native Spanisli-Xicarnguan called Ohando. Botli were panic stricken. and McField was obliged to threaten them with instant death if they did not. obey him. He fastened the rope round Mnllilz and gave the signal to pull. McField (lived into tho water along with his man. In his fright Mallitz entangled himself in (lie hatchway, and precious time was lost in freeing him. AVucn they reached the surface Mallitz was unconscious and McField more dead than alive. They pulled Mallitz aboard, but .Mc- Field would not follow. As soon as lhe rope was free he took it in his teeth and went under, l'ouud the hatch and entered t lie cabin. Obaudo was al most uncontrollable with fear and ex haustion. but McField finally secured him with the rope, and gave the signal lo pull up. This time the trip was made without accident, and both men were drawn on board. All the men were saved. The United States Government awarded McField a medal and .SSO in gold, and the Itoyal Humane Society of Great Britain gave hiin a silver medal. Desert. Ills Heath Trap. J. P. Fay has returned to San Ber nardino, Cel., from a trip across the Colorado with news of the death of J. A. Adams, Deputy County Surveyor of San Bernardino County, and n grand sou of John Brown, Abolitionist. "We were out on tho desert prospect ing lor gold," said Mr. Fay. "An In dian whom wc had employed to show ns where lo timl water oa the desert caught Ids foot in tho stirrup while mounting his horse and fell on his hack. The horse started to run, drag ging the Indian by one foot. "As the ground was covered by jagged rocks the Indian would have been killed had not Mr. Adams run up and seized the horse by the hit. Tho animal, wild with fright, reared and plunged. Mr. Adams was twice thrown upon the rocks, and once the horse's hoof struck him, but lie still gripped the bit until my companions and I succeeded in releasing the Indian. "After all the danger was over Ailams sat down upon a rock and be gan laughing, and when asked if he was hurt replied: 'Ob, no; I'm only a little tired, but I guess you will have to help me set this arm.' "We then started for Yuma, Adams riding some twenty-five miles that af ternoon and never once comxilainiug, though we could sec by his drawn feat ures that lie was suffering intense pain. "At dusk we camped for the night, and within an hour the man was deli rious and raving like a maniac. Some time during the night he left camp. As soon as we discovered that he had gone we made every effort to find liiiu, but could not do much until daylight, when we found his tracks in the sand. "We followed the tracks all that day and until about i) o'clock the next day, when we came to a hard, rocky place at the foot of some rock hills. Hero we lost the. trail, and try as we might we could not liml it again. "For three days we searched tho hills, but not a trace of the man could we discover, though we well knew that somewhere within a radius of twenty or thirty miles lay the body of one of tho bravest men that ever lost his life in that great death trap—the Colorado Desert." Adventure With Iluttlcanakc. Fred Harris, an express messenger en the Illinois Central, had an expe rience which he does not care to re peat. He was on train No. 29, and just after leaving Centrnlln, 111., settled hack into his eliair and dropped into a doze. He was awakened shortly by a tickling under his chin, and drowsily opened his eyes to discovered the coils of an enormous snake lying across his breast, its restless head waving under his chin. It is hardly necessary lo state that Mr. Harris made all former records for instantaneous and lightning moves in that car look like six counter felt nickels. He also awoke to the fact that while one snake is bad, several are worse in a geometrical proportion, and he was soon on a pile of baggage sur veying a don of rattlesnakes. The rep tiles were a 'consignment from Tampa, Fin., to Chicago, and had made their escape while Mr. Harris slept. It takes the constant labor of GO.OOO people to make matches for the world. Why Not? If Bet bedecks herself with gems, bestirs herself when bid, And feels benumbed when very old—be wails her lot when chid, Why shouldn't she bedress herself with garments, and befeed Herself with food, and feel beglad a nice book to beread? _ -Life. Digging For It, "When a man is ■working hard why do they say he is digging away V" "Because, my boy, he is after t lie root of all evil, and how else can he reach It?" Chicago Post. Severe Measures. "Can't you stop your little brother from crying?" "No. I've been er punchin' him fer der last five minutes, and he won't stop."—New York Journal. Extremes Meet. "Were you positive enough when you told the old mail you intended to marry bis daughter?" "Yes, hut he was negative."—Cincin nati Commercial-Tribune. An Epigram. "Is there any difference between 'eco nomical' and 'stingy?'" "Oh, yes. People call an economical man stingy, and a stingy man calls himself economical."—New York World. A Practical Conclusion. "Did your investigation of volcanic phenomenon leud to any practical con clusion?" "It did," answered the popular scien tist. "What was it?" "A check from a magazine."—WaslF ington Star. A Doubtful Compliment. Mistress—"Now, Jane, there is no use of further argument as to how this dish should he prepared, hut our ideas on the subject are so different that it is evident one or the other of us is crazy." Jane—"True for you, ma'am, an' it's not the likes of me as would be aftber sayin' the likes of you would have 110 more sinse than to keep a crazy cook." —Chicago News. The Six O'Clock Dinner. The G o'clock dinner is not a mere fad; anyway, not extremely mere. The 0 o'clock dinner obliterates the appetite for breakfast. But for the G o'clock dinner there would probably he 'but n meagre demand for breakfast foods, and that which is now a great Industry, employing ninny hands and advertising liberally, would hardly ex ist. The G o'clock dinner kills a man soon er or later; usually not until after he lias amassed a fortune, yet before he has had time to queer Ills wife and daughters socially with his chin "whisk ers and had grammar. The G o'clock dinner keeps one awake nights, thus nearly doubling the nuui her of Ids business hours.—Puck. Shocked Him Into It. Kitty-—'".So you managed to get Fred to propose at last? How did you bring it about?" Bertha—"l borrowed Mamie's engage ment ring and had it on the third linger of my left hand when Fred called last evening." Kitty—"And what did lie say?" Bertha—"He saw it the moment he got into tho room. lie looked as though lic'd go through the floor. Finally he mustered up courage to ask if it was an engagement ring, and 1 said 'Yes.' That was no lie, you know. It was an engagement ring—Mamie's, you know." Kitty—"And then?" Bertha "Then he gasped and I thought he would faint. But the up shot of it was he proposed."—Boston Transcript. Unpleasant* *j~" ~ ~~~~ ■> (Aunt Harriot lias lived in fear and trembling since Willie had u white rat given him as a birthday present. He lias just lost it). Willie—"Don't move, nunt, the beg gar's under here somewhere."—Moon shine. VENTILATING COAL MINES. The Presence of Fire Damp Adda to the Cost. In Great Britain the coal lies at very great depths. In America a shaft of 200 feet is considered fairly deep, while one of 200 yards in England is but a shallow pit, and some few workings are nearly 4,000 feet deep. The result of this is that the cost of hauling the coal out ami the pumping of large quantities of water from great depths make coal mining very expensive in Great Britain. A drift mine is more cheaply ventilated than a shaft one, and the mines are much more fiery in England than they are in America. The presence of fire damp in British mines greatly impedes the rapidity of working and adds to the cost in many ways. There are many stringent reg ulations to be carried out with a view to the prevention of explosions, which, nevertheless, occur only too frequent ly, and when they do they are usually ot a very serious nature, causing large loss of life and property. Frequently several months elapse before the mines are in complete working order again after such an accident. The cost ot this loss of life and property naturally is veiy great. Centenary of Trcusers. Most people will be surprised to hear that trousers, as at present worn by the male portion of humanity, have just celebrated' their centpnary, but, according to fashion, such is undoubt edly the case. They "came in" on ac count of the high living prevalent in England a hundred years ago. This produced a good deal of gout, whose twinings the tight-fitting costume in use at that period made unbearable, llcnccc tho invention of the wider form of garment, which soon became popular, and was adopted by many royal personages at home and abroad. Among tho "dandies" of tho period, however, the new stylo was regarded with contempt, and when Almack's self was once refused admission he srii't the great Duke of Wellington him sell was once refused admission be cause ho presented himself in trousers instead of the (for that time) orthodox nether garments. So far has their sway now extended that they threaten to supplant even the Scottish kilt. The 8010 and the Bayonet. The chief of ordnance has ordered 100 bolos as a tentative substitute for the regulation army bayonet. The bolo of the Philippines and the machete of Cuba are essentiallly the same, and iiave been used with such deadly effect that,troops operating against guerrilla ftrces armed with them were, on the whole, less afraid of the indifferently handled riffles with which a part of the enemy were supplied. The lance is al most out of date as a cavalry weapon, tlie saber is in disfavor, and- now the bayonet is under investigation. The bolo is a cutting as well as a thrust ing weapon; it is serviceable for troops in seach of kindling and is handy in the camp kitchen; it is useful for in trenching. Tho Ghurkas and other British troops are armed with a sim ilar weapon. Berlin's Horseflesh Steaks Popular. The consumption of horseflesh among the poorer classes of Berlin has been steadily growing from year to year. There exists a private establishment in the Greifswalder street where 12,000 horses, to the value of £125,000, were slaughtered last year for the purpose ot being turned into steaks and sau sages. The Berlin Town Council is now considering the advisability of constructing additional buildings at the place where the public slaughter house is situated. They will provide accommodation for many hundreds of horses at a time which are destined to find an inglorious death at the hands of the city butchers. An Owlish Belligerent. I.ast year a pair of large brown owls had a nest in a wood, close down to the shoro on Milford Haven, with a road passing through it. On several occasions the cock bird violently at ttacked dogs pasing through the wood. This year the male bird lias has not only attacked dogs, but has several times flown down most viciously ill daylight at people walking along the :oad. He tore a boy's ear, and his last performance was to knock a man down with the suddenness of his swoop and injure his face so badly that it is feared he will lose his eye. The bird has since been shot. Titled Clergymen. By the accession of the new Earl of Chichester 6 British secular peerages arc now held' by clergymen. They are the Marquis of Normanby, the Earls of Chichester, Devon and Strafford. Baron I'onsonby, who is also Irish Earl of Bessborough, and Baron Scarsdaie, the lather of I.onl Curzon, Viceroy of India Another Irish peer, Viscount Moles worth. is also a clergyman. The Earl of Devon, 97 years of age, is the second oldest peer in England. Found In Arctic Ice. The steamer Centennial, which ar rived at Port Townsend, Wash., from Nome, Alaska, reported that on June 17 a whaling ship had sighted in the ice pack 80 miles north of Cape Prince of Wales the steamer Portland, which was blown into the Arctic ocean with 144 persons on board. The revenue cutter Thetis was standing by the Port land and would bring her in safely. Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold (n bolk! Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." Beat Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use In time. Sold by druggists. m KIDNEY TROUBLES. Mrs. Loniso M. Gibson Saya That This Fatal Disease la Easily Cured by Lydia E. Piukham's Vegetable Com pound. " DEAR MRS. PINKHAM : I felt very discouraged two years ago, I had suf fered BO long with kidney troubles and other complications, ana had taken so much medicine without relief that I began to think there was no hope for me. Life looked so good to me, but what is life without health V I wanted to be well. MRS. I M.^G '' "Eyclia E. Plnkham's Vege table Compound cured me and made me well, and that is why I gladly write you this, and gladly thank you ; nix bottles was all I took, together with your Pills. My headache and backache and kidney trouble went, never to return ; the burning sensation I had left altogether; my general health was BO improved I felt as young and light and happy as at twenty." —MRS. LOUISE Oißson, 4813 Langiey Ave., Chicago, 111.— faooo forfeit if about testimonial is not genuine. If you feel that there is anything at all unusual or puzzling about your case, or if you wish confidential advice of the most experienced, write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., and you will be advised free of charge. Lydia E. Pinkhum's Vegetable Coin pound has cured and is curing thousands of cases of female trouble. Good Things t<> Eat From Llbby's famous hygienic kltcheua. whore purity prevails. All meats used in LIBBY'S Natural Flavor Food Products ore U. R. Government Inspected. The wholeome ueasand gomiiiesaof evory article in preserved in its preparation tor your convenience, in the handy key-opening cans. A supply on your pantry shelves eimblssyouto have always nl hand the essentials to the very best IIIOHIH. The little book, "How to Make Oood Things to Eat," tells all about them— sent free. Lihby's Atlas of the World, mailed free for 111 cents postage. LIBBY, McNEILL & LIBBY, CHICAGO. ALABASTRINE The Only Durable Wall Coating Wall Paper is unsanitary. Kal somiiies are temporary, rot, rub off and scale. ALABASTINE is a pure, permanent and artistic wall coatir.g, ready for the brush by mixing in cold water. For sale by paint dealers everywhere. Buy in packages and beware of worthless imitations. ALABASTINE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. RIMNS I use Ripans Tabules for periodic headaches, always with quick relief. Only last evening a lady asked me what I thought good for paiu in the stomach from eating rich food, and 1 gave her a Ripans Tabule. To-day she tells me she lias bought a package, the one I gave her helped her so much. At drugget*. 1 The Five-Cent packet is enough for an/ ordinary occasion. The family bottle 60cents, contains a supply for a year. DROP SY SSZ 33S2SZEL £S rtati llook of testimonials and lO davo> treatment Free. Dr. H. M. GREEN BONB. Box B. AtUoto. Go. P. N. U. 28, 02. F" LENSIONU'VL^,"^ jyiali oivll war, 15 Mdjudlcutiug cluiuiN.utky aiuoe
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