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# Those who subscribe now for the 1901 volume of T£* Youth's Companion Sending $1.75, a year's sub« scrlption price, with this slip or the name of this publica« tlon, will receive, ÏT WAA ■ M remain in« 1900 issues from the time of subscription January 1, 1901, In« * w eluding the Holiday issues, and The Companion's 1QA1 "Puritan Girl" * <0 v JL Calendar, litho« graphed in twelve colors, it m fit?. Illustrated Announcement and Sample Copies FREE on Request, 00000 The Youth's Companion, Boston, Mass. A JAPANESE DIRGE. fiers she lies where all most com* After days grown wearisome; She that was Chrysanthemum. Tulips falter in the wind, With blown leaves her eyes are blind And her Binging mouth is dumb. Here she lies where all must coma Eyes as dark as Indigo Now a deeper darkness know; Hair that mocked the raven's wing Feela its lotus withering After days grown wearisome. Lotus flower between he rbreaste Resta as deeply as she rests; Milky veil about her rolled Feels seeds quicken in its fold. Heat she fears not, nor the cold— Here she lies where all must comes I/ittle feet that moved so light Music will not stir to-night. Though the strongest love of men Lilted on the samlsen. Little hands men's hearts that led Into snares that she had spread After days grown wearisome— Little bands shall hold no more Closing door or opening door; Keys of pleasure or of grief Lo! they hold a withered leaf. World, and where is thy distress— One chrysanthemum the less? World, what sayest thou? SHE la dumb; Bhe that was Chrysanthemum. Mother« will find Mrs. \v inslow's Soot) big Syrup the beet remedy to use for the; children during me teething period. Everybody knows worse of himselr than he knows of other men.—Doctor Johnson. Carter's Tnk Is just as cheap as poor Ink and is the best Ink made. Always use .Carter's. In the archaic vase room at the Brit ish museum anyone can gaze upon ba bies' feeding bottles of sun-baked clay which were antique when Joseph went into Egypt. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Cenulrie Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signatur« of Sm Facsimile Wrapper Below. T«rMdl«a<uwv «•take as sagas. FOR RIADACNE. Mall FOR DIZZINCSS. FOR RIUOOSRESS. FOR TORHD LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW OMR. FOR THE COMPLEXION maa iwCTiMmsyHMmM. CURB SICK HEADACHE. FIEE ON THE VELDT. SCENE OF TERROR ON SOUTH AFRICAN PLAINS. Flames Race Thronab the Tall Graaa, Destroying Homes of Whites, Natives and Dumb Heaeta— Wreck and Deao* ! latlon All that la Left Behind. j Far away on our left flank the enemy hold the heights and watch us moving outward, while between them and us, j »tretchlng mile after mile in a line with t our column, ripples a line of scarlet flame, for the foe has fired the veldt | to starve the transit mules, horses and ! oxen. Like a sword unsheathed ln th« 1 sunlight, the flames sparkle amid th* ' grass, which grows knee deep right to ; the kopje's very lips. Birds rise on ; the wing with harsh, resonant cries, flutter a while above their ravished home, then wheel in midair and seek more peaceful pastures. Hares spring up before the crackling flames quite j reach their forms and, like gray streaks in a soldier's beard, flash sud denly into view and as suddenly dis appear again. Here and there a grace ful springbok dashes through the «moke, with head thrown back and graceful limbs extended, his glossy, mottled hide looking doubly beautiful backed by that red streak of Are. The wind catches the quivering crimson streak and for a while the flames race, as I have seen wild horses neck to neck rush through the saltbush plalnB at the sound of the stockmaD's whip. Then, as the wind drops, the flames curl care lessly around the wealth of growing fodder, biting the grass low down and wrapping it in a mantle of black and red as flame and smoke commingle. Here and there a pool of water, hid den from view until the fire fiend strip ped the veldt land bar*, leaps to life like a silver shield in the grim setting of the bare and blackened plain. Small mobs of cattle stand stupidly snuffing the smoke-laden air until the breath * of the blaze awakens Ihem to a sense of peril; then with horns lowered like bayonets at the charge, with tall« stiff and straight behind them as leveled Jances, they ieap onward, over or tnrough everything in front of them, bellowing frantically their brute beast protest against the red ruin of war. The flames roll on, they reach the stone walls of a cattle pen and leap It as a hunter takes a brush fence In his stride, onward still until a Kaffir kraal is reached. The soft-tipped billows kiss the uncouth mud waits and for a mo ment transfigure them with a nameless beauty that precedes ruin. Only a mo ment or two and then the resistless de stroyer flaunts Its pennons amid the reed-thatched roofs, the sparks leap up, the black smoke curls toward the sky, while on the neighboring hills the negro women with their babes in their arms wail woefully, for those rude huts, with all their barbarous trappings, meant home—aye, home and happiness to them. The flames roll on ward, now In two long lines, for the Kaffir encampment hal sundered them, and now they look, with their beau tifully rounded curves, sweeping so gracefully out Into th* unknown. All that they leave behind is desolation, only blackened walls, simmering car casses, weeping women and walling children. Away on our right flank we can just make out the skeleton« of what a few hours before had lussn a cluster of smiling farm bouses. They do not smile now; they grin horribly in the sunlight, grin as the teshless skulls of dead men grin on a battlefield after those sextans of the veldt—the graÿ hooded, curved-beaked vultures—have screamed their final farewell to the charnel-houses of war, noble war, splendid war, pastime of potentates and princes, invented In hell and pat ented In all the temples of sorrow.— London News. TO CURB A COLD IN ONB DAT Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab* lata. All druggists refund the money It It fella to oure. E. W. Grove'« «lg* Man la on each box. I 80 . Hazelton girls refuse to dance with miners who wont support the strike. Now, will you be good! If to is a I * "What a strong face that Mr. Mimma ley has." "Yes. He used to be the Iron-jawed man In a circus."—Wash ington Star. "They're going to run the new hotel on the European plan." "Heavens! I hope the plan doesn't include tips!"— . Cleveland Plain Dealer. j "Er— I want some sort of a present for a young lady." "Sweetheart or sis ter?" "Er— why—she hasn't said which she will be yet."—Pittsburg Dispatch, j Resort Hotelkeeper—Any guests in this evening's train? 'Bus Driver—No body to speak of. Only a single trunk , woman and a grip gent.—Boston Tran- 1 script. j Snarley—What's self-esteem? Yow— I It's something we all hate to see in some one else, but which is a virtue if we possess it ourselves.—Syracuse Herald. "What is an optimist?" asked the lad. "An optimist," answered Mr. Brykins, as he took a dyspepsia tablet, "is in most cases a confounded prevaricator." —Washington Star. Edith (coyly)—What is it the poet ■ays about a "young man's fancies" In the spring? Backward Lover—Why— er— really—I— er— leave all that to me tailor, ye know!—Puck. "You seem to be very much interest ed in that couple in the middle of the floor." "Yes; you look at them and see If you cau figure out which it is that can't danee."—Chicago Record. Hicks—The easy writers have a deal to say about "the dead of night." When is that, 1 wonder? Wicks—The dead of night, 1 suppose, is when everybody is buried in slumber.—Boston Transcript. "Even the general that never wins a battle can beat sometimes," remarked Beechwood. "What are you driving at?" asked Homewood. "He can beat a retreat."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele graph. "What did Aunt Minerva say about the shirt-waist man?" "She said now he had to keep his belt in the right place ail the time he'd find out he wasn't any smarter than woman."—In dianapolis Journal. "Amelia, when a letter came from you while you were away 1 did not read it for a day at least." "What was that for, Edgar?" "Don't you see? 1 saved one day's interest on the money you asked for."—Chicago Record. "Language," quoted Willie Wishlng ton, "was given for the concealment of thought." "Iudeed," rejoined Miss Cayenne languidly. "Permit me to con gratulate you on being so perfect a master of English."—Washington Star. "Did you have any words with your mistress which caused you to leave your last place?" "Niver a wor-rd. S lui re an' Oi locked her in the bath room and tuk me things and slipped out as quiet as yez plase."—Harper's Bazar. "William, a poor man came along and asked for a liât." "What did you do?" "I gave him your Sunday hat." "What on earth did you do that for?" "Well, 1 knew you would need your old one to wear when you go fishing."— Chicago Record. "Pa," asked little Willie, "how long is a 'decade?' " "That depends, my sou. In the census department a dec ade means ten years, but to the women Who hand their ages In to the census man it means anything from 0 to 10."— Philadelphia Press. Mr. Henpeck—The doctor says l ab solutely must go away next week for a rest. Mrs. Henpeck—Goodness! I can't possibly manage to get away to go with you then. Mr. Henpeck—Um-m! I guess the doctor must have known that.—Philadelphia Press. Mr. Gump (to teacher)—No, 1 don't want you to teach my son any gram mar. Not a bit of it. Teacher—But— hut—this is unsual, sir. May I inquire your reasons? Mr. Gump—I Intend that he shall be a writer of popular songs.—Baltimore American. A Good Scheme.—Tourist—Do those scarecrows save your crops? Farmer— They work first rate. You see, every tramp that comes along crosses the fields to see if th' clothes is wu'th steal in', w'ch they ain't, an' that scares the crows away.—New York Weekly. The Seaman—Have you ever been on a battleship when she clears for ac tion? The Landsman—No. "Well, it Is the most thrilling and impressive moment you can conceive." "Oh, I don't know. Have you ever seen a golf club champion get ready to drive?"— Life. Blanche—Was Mrs. Gewgaw's gar den party a "wipe-off affair? Lilian— No; it seemed to me more of a "tag end" party. Blanche—A "tag-end" par ty? Lilian—Yes; a lot of people who were invited only because a lot of other people wouldn't come."—Indianapolis Journal. Strategy.—"That fellow Bumbleton 1« a deep one." "What has he been do ing?" "Why, he got the new boarder into a brisk controversy with the land lady over the reasons for woman's men tal inferiority, and under cover of it he sneaked a second piece of huckleberry pie."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Frenchwoman of great personal charm was visiting a New York family and was being entertained at ft roof garden. In an interlude by the orches tra she turned to her host and asked what the musicians were playing. "I'd Leave My Happy Home for You," an swered the host. "Yes, I know," an swered the lady, with a glance of coquetry, "but ee tune zat sey play, M'aieu, vat eea eet?"—Exchange. ,, III! -.mlu'l'l.rMliniH'I.H" 1 h Ul I. AYegelable Preparation for As - similaiing the Food andBegula ting the Stomachs and Bowels of Infan ishil mu; iV Promotes DigeslionCheerful ness and Rest.Con tains neither Ojaum.Morphine nor Mineral. JiOT Narcotic . A xepe of Old Er SAMUEL PITCHER Mmfjcm Serrl~ Mx.Smnm. * J RixktlU Sdu - Abut Semd A perfect Remedy forConstipa Fion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Facsimile Sig nature o f NEW YORK. ON } S -jyc ms EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CUSTOMS For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTQRIA THE eCNTAUn COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. „The sixth month of the textile work ers' strike at Jamestown, N. Y., is : passing and the end Is not in sight, j Committees are out soliciting financial aid to support the strikers, most of whom are women. BGN'T GET FOOTSORE, GET FOOT* EASE, A powder. At this season your feet feelj •wollen, nervous and uncomfortable. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It rests and comforts: ■takes walking easy. Lures swollen ana sweating feet, blisters and calions spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and , lea certain cure for Chilblains, Sweating, ! Damp or Frosted Feet. We have over 80,- 1 000 testimonials. Don't get footsore get j Foot-Ease. Irv it todnv. Sold by all ' druggists and shoe store« for 2öo. Trial i package Fhkb. Address, Allen S. Olm- , eted. Le Roy, N. Y - I " I Printers in the Typographical Union No. 530 of Joplin, Mo., struck for high er wages and shorter hours All three local papers are affected and the Her ald was unable to issue. IftlOO REWARD $IOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Ca tarrh, being a constitutional disease, re quires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting j directly upon the blood and mucous sur- I faces of the system, thereby destroying I the foundation of the disease and giving the patient strength by building up the j constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they ; offer One Hundred Dollars for any case ; that it fails to cure. Send for list of testi monials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. An exchange draws attention to the fact that in Russia, undeF government control, kerosene is sold for 1% cents ' per gallon, while here from 10 to 20 cents is charged. j --- I ! , I -- ! International Oil Workers' Union, organized 18 months ago, has now a membership of 1,800. Just concluded its second annual convention in Find lay, O. HELP WANTED. WANTED—Men and women of good character to represent estahliftlicd hou»« on «alary; splendid opportunity. Ad dress 1*. O. Box 537« Portland, Oregon. 1 : Steps tim Oaegtt antt I féovks Off Urn Ocftim Laxative Bromo-Quiuine. Tablets curs • cold in one day. Ko oure, No Pay. j Price 25 cents. | __ Ä ; At Conneaut, O three automata ore unloaders have been placed on Carne Hnnlr* «mh one of which will dis gie's docks, each one of which will dis place about 100 men. The Best Prescription for Halsrls Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove'« Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is «imply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure, No Fay. Price 50o. As to the pure, all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vul garity in others than the mind devel oped in genuine refinement—George Macdonald. TOO KNOW WHAT TOO ARB TAKING When yon take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tbnio because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it 1« simply Iron and Quinine in a taste leas form. No Cure. No Pav. 60o. The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.—James Ellis. Plso's Cura cannot be too highly spoken of »8 » cough cure. —J. W. O'Brien, S22 Third Ave., N. ( Minneapolis, Minn., Join, ft, 1900. T he spider has usually been regarded : as a type of tlie solitary amoug anl j " als - each individual preferring to live alone. But naturalists have discovered seems to be truly republican in its in exceptions to this rule, and among the most remarkable are three species of spiders recently studied by Eugene Si mon in Venezuela. The most interest ing of these, the Uloborus republicanus, stincts, several hundreds of individuals dwelling together in huge webs, made up of smaller webs linked together by strong threads and fastened among , . „ „ ! the branches of trees. On these web« 1 the spiders can be seen moving freely j about, meeting and exchanging greet ' ' ... . , ... 5 ? i ln F s with their antennae, like so many , ants. In the center of the main web - is a. space where the eggs of the entire I republic are laid, and where, at the proper season, the female spiders can k e seen assembled, each guarding her own silken cocoon filled with eggs, SECRET TELEGRAPH SOUNDER. j I I j ; ; A Deaf Person Could Tnke the Message Through Ills Teeth. Where a large number of sounders or telegraph receivers of the usual pat- tern are located in a single room the noise made by their clickiug is extremely loud, and an outsid- er often wonders how the operator at each instrument can distinguish between his instrument and that of his neigh- bors. With the In- strument which we moi8elb^9 receiver, show herewith all this noise would be done away with and the receiving room becomes almost noiseless. The receiver is of tubular shape, and is provided with means for suspending from the ear of the oper- ator or it can be attached to a cord hung from the ceiling, in which case a ' spring is provided to relieve the ear of a portion of the weight while in use. j xhe armature and magnet inside the I tube work in a similar manner to those ! of the ordinary receiver, except that the movement of the clicking sounder , is in line with the tube. The inventor I is George H. Landgraf, of Waterloo, ! Wls., and he claims for the instrument t j, e additional advantage that a deaf p ergon can place the receiver between teeth and take the message as well M one who can ij eari Length of Days. At London and Bremen the longest day has sixteen hours; at Stockholm 1 t . . „ _ __, , : til© longest day has nineteen hours and j an( j Dantzig the longest day has seven j teeen hours and the shortest seven | hours! at Tobolsk and St. Petersburg ; lax «5 luuftcu. ««rf "««»o «AAEVA ; ^ shorte st five hours; at Tornea (Fin- i land) i ongest day tweuty . one and % ^ hours and ^ shortest tWQ au( , • half hours; at Wardnuys (Norway) the day lasts from May 21 to July 23, without Interruption. When a woman's husband makes money she no longer employs a sewing woman, but calls the woman who does that work her "modiste." This signature is on every box ot the genuine Laxative Bromo=Quinine Tablets the remedy that mm n cold in one day Efforts of the mine owners of British Columbia to secure the annulment of the eight-hour law have proved unsuc cessful. The operators produced a lot of decisions handed down In the United States declaring the eight-hour law un constitutional, but were informed by the authorities that Canada is not yet a part of the United States. Trade Swvrets. EKÎ Xl\ »"f* ). Btti Mr. O'Toole—What 1« Terrence doing: now, Mrs. Flyn? Mrs. Flyn—He 1« wurnking in Dootdn Pete's chaze factory making imytashuv schwltzer chaze.- Chicago Inter Ocean, Rice and Population, In deciding whether China's popula tion is dense or «parse it ought to be* remembered that the country produces^ rice. Countries which produce rice* yield at least two crops a year. Coun tries which produce corn, on the other hand, only yield one crop a year; Therefore, apjtortionately to its extent, a country which produces rice ought to support at least twice as large * population as a country which pro« duces corn. First to Abolish Slavery, The Danes were the first to aboUate slavery In their West Indian posses sions. Print cloths have advanced in price. This is, however, r.o indicat on that the workers are to receive an increase io wages. fitill More Counterfeiting. The Secret Service has uneart hed another' band of counterfeiters and secured a quan- tity of bogus bills, which are cleverly exe- cuted. Things of great value are aiwayff selected for imitation, notably Hostetler's* Stomach Bitters, which lias many imita- tors but no equals tor disorders like indi- gestion, dyspepsia and constipation. In many cities of Pennsylvania labet leagues are being organized. There lw no more effective way of pushing sale of union labor products. Catarrh The cause exists in the blood, its what causes inflammation of tlie mucous membrane. It is tnerefore impossible to cure the disease by loca l applications. It is posit vely dangerous to neg lect it, because it always affects the stomach and deranges the gen eral health, and is likely to develop into consumption. Many have been radically and perma nently cured bv Hood's Sarsaparilla. It cleanses the blood and lias a peculiar al terative and tonic effect. R. Long, Cali fornia Junction. Iowa, writes: "I had ca tarrh three years, lost my appetite and could not sleep. My head pained me and i felt bad all over. 1 took Hood's Sarsa parilla and now have a good appetite, sleep well, and have no symptoms of catarrh." Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises to cure and keeps the promise. It is better not to put off treatment—buy Hood's to-day. FINI OL» .«.WHISKY.«. Gin, Brandy. Rum IS lull «uarta. 19.00. Pei rollon, 12.00. XXX PORT AND SUKRRY. 11.50. ALL GOOD 0009« Order, (or «26 00 and upward delivered frm M nearest Rahroad or Steamer Landing. Bleak Ca.«« aud Keg«. LOUIS CAHEN & SON Xstebltshed 10 Y »are •AM FRANCISCO, O A LI FORMT A BRILLIANT Self-making Gas Lamp Makes Its own gas. Everybody ca» now have light brighter and better than electricity at about 1-10 tlie cost of kero si ue or cotu mon gas. One quart gaso il eue lusts 18 hours, giving 100 candle power light ; more than 5 electric bulbs or a mammoth Rochester lamp. Any* body can run them; can be carried around or hung anywhere; perfectly -safe; approved by Insurance com panics; j »ver 25,000 in dally use nearly two years; all rec* ; «>',vw i ii unity use ufitny iwO VI i Suuvnt «"ulst chic«o bru.liani QASLA M pvo.^su t eSt . ,CHcM o : Q R O P S Y 10 DAYS TREATMENT TREE Have made Dropsy and its com plication! » specialty for twenty a r suooess. Hav.cn ad oust Box V, most wcnJurfi »vt cured Bin y tboui DLLLUlU'Sini, Atlant«. Qa. SURE CURE FOR PILES ffllSti Piles produce mouture »na chus« urt ITCH IS- __________________ _ . hi. form, a. well a. Blind, Bleedln« or Protruding Pile.are ccredbv Dr.Boaanko'* pils Remedy. Stop. Itching and bleeding. Abtotus turnon. JSOc « trhlng trading lie Remedy. Jar atdraggl.ts or sent by mall. Tre»tl«efree. Write me about your caw. DK. BUSAN KO, Phllada, Pa. CARBOLATK OF lODIHS POCKET INHALES. A (woran tood Caro for Catarrh am« •Msvsyaes. AU Drugglata, yi.SO. I. L inn « II.. lithta, I. !.. fra'a BUTLER'S Ko. 44» 1DOO. ; vQV-gh »JTO] fkrté i