A Lot About Abraham, ' A schoolboy was asked at an examination ! to give an account of the patriarch Abra ham. He wrote: “He was the father of Lot and had two wives. One was called Ishmale and the other Hagar. He kept one at home and he turned the other into the desert, where-she became a pillar of salt in the day time and a pillar cf fire by night.”—London Jewish World. Best for the Bowels, iNo matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produc ■ easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. It is a great mistake for a married man to give way to a love of pastry, as it puts him so much in the power of his wife. —Ally Sloper. Bane’s Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. 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It is a remarkable thing how many socie ties at their meetings waste hours in mak ing minutes.— Ally Sloper. LOSS OF MEMORY is often derived from an unlocked for source—the Kidneys. Odorous urine or that which scalds or stains is an in fallible proof that you are progressing towards Bright’s Disease or one of the other forms of Kidney Trouble all of which are fatal if permitted to grow worse. MORROW’S Kip-NE-mns Will arrest the disease and under most solemn guarantee effect a cure where it is possible by human means. ILLINOIS, IOWA, WISCONSIN AND INDIANA People cured by KID-NE-OIDS. Id writing them, please enclose stamped addressed envelope. Mrs. Frank Anderson, 410 N.2nd St., Elkhart, Ind. Bert Dawson. City Space. Connersville, Ind. K. C. Green, Grand Ave., Waukegan, 111. W. R. Beebe, Centrnlia, 111. Mrs. C. A. Hewl tt,Wilson Ave. & 10th St., Sterling, 111. J. H. Rose, Ist Ward, Independence, la. John W. Lohmer. IHIO Johnson St.. Keoknk, la. W. S. 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Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Ji | Worms .Convulsions,Feverish- ji ness and lass OF Sleep. || Facsimile Signature of jj| I NEW YORK. I EXACT COPr OF WRAPPER. P mmm m h mm m ftft ■ ■■■ A treatment taken at home by the I MN ■ ■ patient which lenders U' l\l 111 nMDI I Whiskey, Beer. Etc., Obnoxious. Cures relapses from other treatments; endorsed by business firms of National Reputation. Write Jor convincing evidence. THE PAQUIM IMMUNE 00,, Dept. 28, St, Loulm 9 Mo* A Stolen March. The famous composer sat in the orchestra chair and listened to the comic opera of his rival. As the chorus roared out a stringing, familiar air, the tears started to the great musician’s eyes. “Ah,” he said, sadly, “I would not have believed it, but he has stolen a march on me.” To those familiar with his works, the truth of this remark would have been apparent. —Princeton Tiger. * * Catarrh Cannot Be Cared with Local Applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription, ft is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect com bination of the two ingredients ic what pro duces such wonderful results in curing Ca tarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, price 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Very Cordial. The Gn esi--There is something very cor dial in your husband. The Hostess —Yes, several pousse cafes, I guess. He came home with a pocketful of cloves. —Chicago Daily News. TOUR OP ABB MEXICO in Pullman’s finest Compartment Drawing Room, Library, Observation and Dining Cars —all Vestibuled-—with the celebrated Open Top Car “Chililitli” for Observation in the Mountains and Canons and Dining Car in the Tropics. A delightful trip of 38 days with Three Circle Tours in the Tropics of the South of Mexico and a Visit to the Ruined Cities. All exclusive features of these itineraries of leisurely travel and long stops —The Spe cial Train starts Tuesday, January 22. from Chicago. Tour of Puerto Rico. Special Pullman Cars leave Chicago Thurs day, January 17, and Thursday, February 14, at 9:30 a. m., connecting with the splendid new steamships Ponce and San Juan sailing from New York the second day following. Individual Tickets sold for other sailing dates, alternate Saturdays. Ticket* Include All Expenses Every where. These select limited parties will be under the special escort and management of The American Tourist Association. Reau Camp bell, General Manager, 1423 Marquette Building, Chicago. Itineraries, Maps and Tickets can be had on application to Agents of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y. Friendship is a welcome ship in an j port. —Chicago Daily News. Information for Homeseekers. Valuable information concerning Lands, Locations and Climate of Tennessee, Ala bama and Georgia may be found in “Infor mation for Homeseekers” recently issued by the Passenger Department of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. It gives detailed information regarding prices paid for farm products, varieties of soil, climate, elevation, rainfall, etc. Homeseekers Ex cursion tickets to this territory at very low rates. For maps, printed matter and other information call on nearest ticket agent or address Briard F. Hill, N. P. A., 328 Mar quette Bldg., Chicago, 111., J. B. Kiliibrew, Immigration Agent, or W. L. Danley, G- P. A., Nashville, Tenn, Asa general rule the more a man leaves behind him in this world the less he has to commence the next one with. —Ally Sloper. Excursion Sleepers Via M., K. & T. Ry. Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave St. Louis via Katy Flyer (M. K. & T. Ry.) every Tues day at 8:16 p. m. for San Antonio, Los An geles and San Francisco. Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave Kansas City via the M. K. & T. Ry. every Saturday at 9:05 p. m. for San Antonio, Los Angeles and San Francisco. When wine is in wit is out. —Danish Prov erb. Jell-O, Tlic New Dessert, pleases all the family. Four flavors; —Lem- on, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. ,At your grocers. 10 cts. Try it to-day. Worn’ is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.—Chicago Daily News. I am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb 17, 1900. All worthless people are not lazy.—Atchi son Globe. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the / i Signature XJttjJr ry JrV‘ In Use U> For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE OtNTAUd COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. DISASTER AT SEA. German Training: Ship Founders Near Malaga—Fully 100 Are Drowned. Madrid, Dec. 17. —The German -train ing- frigate Gneisenan has foundered off Malaga, 65 miles east-northeast of Gibraltar. Private dispatches say that 40 persons were drowned. A large number of the cadets can be seen from the shore clinging to the rigging. They are shouting and sig naling for help. The captain and many of the cadets have been drowned. It is believed that 40 who left in one of the ship's boats and have not been seen since are also lost. The total loss is now thought to be no less than 100; some dispatches say 140. Forty of those saved are badly hurt. The training ship had been at Mal aga since November 1, practicing with guns of large caliber. She had been previously at Megador, Morocco. At ten o'clock Sunday morning a review of the cadets was in order. The wind was extremely violent, and instruc tions were given to stoke up as rapidly as possible. Put already mountainous waves had struck the ship, snapping the anchor chains. She was driven helpless toward the port and sank. The crew threw themselves into the sea and clung to the wreckage, but the majority quick ly disappeared. Capt. Kresthmann died at his post. The Malaga lifeboat made heroic efforts and rescued 15, but the weight capsized the boat and 12 were drowned. The other three were saved by means of ropes thrown to them. The port authorities saved many of the sail ors. A LAKE TRAGEDY. Two Women and n Man Meet Death on Lake Michigan—Story of Terrible Experience, Manitowoc. Wis., Dec. 17. —Adrift on Lake Michigan for 22 hours, lashed to a small boat with the dead bodies of his wife and her niece, was the terri ble experience of W. H. Shields, light house keeper of Squaw island, with his assistant, Owen McCauly. They ar rived here in the steamer Manhattan Sunday morning, having been picked up by that boat in the north channel of the island Saturday afternoon. Keeper Shields told the following story as he lay at Holy Family hos pital in this city: "We closed the station on Squaw Island Friday morning, and soon after I, with Mc- Cauly. Lucien Morden, the helper, Mrs. Shields and her niece, Mrs. Mary Davis, with a few belongings, embarked in a small sailboat for the mainland seven miles distant. When out but a short time the boat capsized. By hard work we all managed to reach the boat and lash the women to it. McCauly and myself also succeeded in doing the same, but Morden, who had become delirious, refused to do this and was soon afterward washed off and drowned. About ten hours after the capsizing my wife and her niece died from exposure. We drifted around the lake for hours, and at one time was within 50 feel of the mainland when the wind shifted, carrying us again into the lake. In this manner we passed Friday night, suffering untold agony, drifting and tossing around with high seas breaking over us until we were finally sighted by the steamer Man hattan. bound for Manitowoc.” A TOWN LOOTED. Five Men Lock Ip Town Marshal of Brighton, 111., Rob Fonr Stores and a Dank. St. Louis, Dec. 17. —Five unidenti fied men, garbed as tramps, who asked shelter in the calaboose at mid night Friday, overpowered the village marshal of Brighton, 111., locked him in a cell, and then broke into a bank and two stores. They attempted to get into the vault of Blodgett Bros.’ bank, in which there was a large amount of money, but were unsuccess ful, although the strong box was partially wrecked by several explo sions of dynamite. Failing there, the robbers entered the general store of E. Butler, where they broke into the safe and secured SIOO. Soon after en tering another store, Butler’s store was discovered on fire. Before the flames were subdued a loss of several thousand dollars resulted. The rob bers then escaped on a hand car. When the marshal was liberated he organized a posse and started after the robbers with bloodhounds. Brigh ton is a village of 1,000 inhabitants, northeast of Alton, 111. A POISON MYSTERY. Four Persons Dead and Three Dying in a Settlement Near Marietta, O. Marietta, 0., Dec. 17. —Asa result of a mysterious case of poisoning at For sythe Mines, near here, four persons are dead, three are dying and two oth ers are seriously ill. Jealousy is hinted as the motive for the crime. The dead are: Andrew Baruick, Marj’ Laichak, Andrew Letchie, and a child, name not given. The coroner and a physician went to the place and learned that all the vic tims had died in great agony, suffering without a doubt from poison. A post mortem was held at once on the bodies and the stomachs were secured for an alysis. The people all lived close to each other and were all taken ill Friday night, after having eaten supper. There are many signs that poison had been placed in their food, but by whom is yet to be determined. Money Lost on Paris Fair. Paris, Dec. 17. —The official report of the finances of the exposition shows a loss of 2,000,000 francs. The total ex penditures are 116,500,000 francs. The receipts amounted to 114,500,000 francs. The loss is less than in the case of either of the preceeding expositions. Family of Six Perishes. Cannonball, N. D., Dec. 17. —An In dian family consisting of father, moth er and four children burned to death from an explosion of gasoline. An other family of father, mother and one child are frightfully burned and will probably die. CURRENT TOPICS. Kansas farmers will get seed wheat from Turkey. A steel ship carries one-fifth more cargo than an Iran one, Nail plant at Belfont, Pa., costing $85,000, sold as junk for $6,375. Leipzig, in Germanjy, sells 10,000 tons weight of books in one year. The kiale, or household fox, is a favorite pet among Chinese women. English people drink yearly, on an siverage, eight ounces of cocoa a head. Insurance companies will now take risks for limited amounts on football plaj'ers. Powdered charcoal, if laid thickly on a burn, almost instantly allays the pain. Henry Labouchere, M. P., editor of Truth, completed the 09th year of his life recently. Buffaloes are found at the height of 12,000 feet on the African mount ain of Kilima Njaro. Over $1,000,000 worth of diamonds are stolen every year from the South African diamond mines. More than half of the $1,921,000 gold Imported into this country during March came from Canada. The Indian name of the Charles river at Boston was Mis-sha-um, which meant great highway. Thirteen million cubic yards of earth were removed in making the canal across the isthmus of Corinth. Three hundred Negroes from va rious parts of the south will leave Birmingham, Ala., in January for Li beria. New Scotland Yard is the largest police station in the world. It is capable of accommodating 3,000 police officers. According to Mint Director Rob erts’ estimate, the output of gold for 1901 will exceed $1,000,000 a day, $365,000,000 for the year. Switzerland complains that the cheese trade is a little dull, and yet during 1899 that country exported $8,000,000 worth of cheese. The king of Siam owns an army corps of 500 elephants, all well trained for military purposes and under command of n general. Watches are tested as to correct ness of time in heat and cold, eight hours at 110 degrees Fahrenheit and eight hours at freezing point. It. J. Reynolds, has given $5,000, half the sum needed, for the con struction and operation of a Negro hospital at Winston-Salem, N. C. The American District Telegraph Cos., of New York, will put in little telephones at its call boxes, and thus have a telephone company of its own. Moscow has the largest hospital in Europe, with 7,000 beds. There are 96 physicians and 900 nurses, and about 15,000 patients are cared for annually. The greatest steel structure in uhe world, so far as railroad work is con cerned, is just about completed in Pennsylvania. It is the wonderful bridge of the Erie railroad across the Kinzua valley in McKean county. The bishop of Chester (Dr. Jayne) has issued a letter on licensing re form, urging the adoption of the method of placing the public house In public hands, that it may be man aged as a public trust with a single eye to the public welfare. The Siberian railway will cross al together thirty miles of bridges, and of these the line to Irkutsk required a large number, including such im portant ones as those over the Irtysh at Omsk, 700 yards; over the Yenis sei at Nijmi Udinsk, 359 yards. The common hen lays about 500 or 600 eggs in 10 years. In the first year the number is only from 10 to i>o; in the second, third and fourth years from 100 to 135 each, and there after it rapidly diminishes. In the tenth year the ordinary hen lays but 10 to 12 eggs. A Boston Chkia house received two interesting orders recently One was from Cecil Rhodes, to be sent to his residence in Cape Town, South Africa, and the other was from Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, to be sent to her home. The Elms, Rotting dean, Sussex, England. THE MARKETS. New York, Dec. 17. LIVE STOCK—Steers $4 75 @5 60 Hogs 5 25 @ 5 40 Sheep 2 50 @ 4 25 FLOUR —Winter Straights... 340 @ 3 55 Minnesota Patents 3 90 @ 4 35 WHEAT-No. 2 Red 76%@ 7814 January 77%@ 77% CORN—No. 2 44%@ 45 January 43%@ 46% OATS—No. 2 27% @ 27% BUTTER —Creamery 18 @ 25% Factory 11%@ 16 CHEESE 11%@ 12 EGGS 22 @ 28 CHICAGO. CATTLE —Prime Steers $5 40 @ 5 So Texas Steers 4 10 @ 4 90 Stockers 2 10 @ 3 25 Feeders 3 30 @ 4 35 Bulls 2 10 @ 4 35 HOGS—Light 4 80 @ 4 95 Rough Packing 4 70 @ 4 82% SHEEP 3 60 @ 4 40 BUTTER—Creamery 15 @ 24 Dairy 14 @ 21 EGGS—Fresh 15 @ 23% POTATOES (per bu.) 36 @ 48 PORK—January 12 25 @l2 30 LARD —January 7 17%@ 7 20 RIBS —January 6 25 @ 6 27% GRAlN—Wheat, December.. 697 8 @ 70% Corn, December 37 @ 37% Oats, December 21%@ 21% Rye, No. 2 46 @ 47 Barley, Good 50 @ 55 MILWAUKEE. IRAIN —Wheat, No. 1, Nor’n. $ 73%@ 74 Oats, No. 2 25%@ 26 Rye, No. 1 Eo%@ 51 Barley, No. 2 59 @ 60 KANSAS CITY. GRAlN—Wheat, May ? 66 @ 66% Corn, May 34%@ 34% Oats, No. 2 White 25 @ 25% Rye, No. 2 46%@ 47 ST LOUIS CATTLE—Native Steers...!,. $3 00 @ 5 75 Texas Steers 2 65 @ 4 65 HOGS—Packers’ 4 80 @ 4 87% Butchers’ 4 90 @ 4 95 SHEEP —Native Muttons 400 @ 4 50 OMAHA. CATTLE—Native Steers $4 00 @ 5 40 Cows and Heifers 3 (X) @ 4 DO Stockers and Feeders 3 00 @ 4 40 i HOGS—Mixed 4 80 @ 4 82% 1 SHEEP—Westerns 3 70 @ 4 10 60VERN0R * OF OREGON Uses Pe-ru-na *|y|iE in His Family CAPITOL BUILDING, SALEM, OREGON. A Letter From the Executive Office of Oregon. The Governor of Oregon is an ardent ad mirer of Pe-ru-na. He keeps it continually in the house. In a recent letter to Dr. Hart man he says: State of Oregon, ) Executive Department, > Salem, May 9,1898. ) The Pe-ru-na Medicine Cos., Columbus, O.: Dear Sirs:—l have had occasion to use your Pe-ru-na medicine in my family for colds, and it proved to be an excellent rem edy. I have not had occasion to use it for other ailments. Yours very truly, W. M. Lord. Any man who -wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. Pe-ru-na is the only absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. por particulars, rates and Illustrated panjphlets, address GEO. J. CHARLTON, Gen. Pass. Agent Chicago & Alton Ry., CHICAGO, ILL* WALTHAM WATCHES The real value of a watch depends upon the accuracy of the movement and not upon the price of the case. The “Riverside” Waltham Watch Movement is an accurate watch in any case. 44 The Perfected American Watch ", an illustrated book of interesting ir formation about watches, will be sent free upon request. American Waltham Watch Company, Waltham, Mass. Dr. Bull’s Gough Syrup iHißSmjr Igl Cures Hacking Coughs, Sore Lungs, Grippe, Pneumonia Mil and Bronchitis in a few days. Why then risk Consumption? Get Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. Don’t be imposed upon. Re fuse the dealer’s substitute. It is* not as good as Dr. Bull’s. Salvation Oil cures Rheumatism and all Palm Price, 15 and 25 cents. THE USUAL RESULT. Dog: Fights In Kentucky Do Not Ter minate with the ‘Whipping’ of a Dog. “The colonel and I sat talking under a shade tree in front of the town post office when a dog fight started down the street,” said a traveling man, relating an incident of a recent trip to Kentucky, relates the Washington Post. “ Come on!’ I said, as I sprang up, “ ‘Come this way!’ replied the colonel, as he seized my arm and drew me into a door way. “ ‘But I want to see the dog fight/ I pro tested. “ ‘Yes, I reckon you do, but you also want to keep clear of the shootin’.’ “ ‘Why should there be any shooting?’ “ ‘Bekase one dog has got to lick t’other, and the owner of the licked dog ain’t goin’ to let it rest that way. There they go!’ “Ten minutes later we stepped out to find one man lying on the ground with two bul lets in him and some people carrying away a second with half a dozen. “ ‘Dog fights are bewtiful affairs,’ said the colonel, as we walked away together, ‘but the safest way to see one in Kentucky is to wait till it’s all over and the dead carried off.’” Time to Go Sonfit. For the present winter season the Louis ville & Nashville Railroad Company has im proved its already nearly perfect through service of Pullman Vestihu'led Sleeping Cars and elegant day coaches from Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago, to Mo bile, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, Thom asville, Ga., Pensacola, Jacksonville, Tam pa, Palm Beach and other points in Florida. Perfect connections made with steamer lines for Cuba, Porto Rico, Nassau, West Indian and Central American Ports. Tour ist and Home Seekers’ excursion tickets on sale at low rates. Write C. L. Stone, Gen eral Passengei Agent, Louisville, Ky.j for particulars. To prevent colds, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out of its victims. Pe-m-nanot only cures catarrh, but prevents. Every nouse hold should be supplied with this grea; rem edy for coughs, colds, and so forth. It will be noticed that the Governor says he has not had occasion to use Pe-ru-na for other ailments. The reason for this is, most other ailments begin with a cold. Using Pe ru-na to promptly cure colds, be protects his family against other ailments. This is exactly what every other family in the United States should do. Keep Pe-ru-na in the house. Use it for coughs, colds, la grippe, and other climatic affections of win ter, and there will be no other ailments in the house. Such families should provide themselves with a copy of Dr. Hartman’s free book, entitled “Winter Catarrh.” Ad dress Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. ELECTROTYPING AND . 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