Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume], November 09, 1899, Image 2

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TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
BOER-BRITISII WAR.
The siege of Ladysmitn continued
The boers have gene south and cut
White off from all communication;
hence no news of the results of Jou
bert’s operations, although White’s
last dispatch announcing the wounding
of Lieutenant Egerton indicates con
tinuous fighting. Joubert probably
holds the railway. Interest centers in
Ladysmith. The main army and sup
plies of the British are there. The
boers believe that capture would bring
England to terms, or hasten foreign in
tervention. White has 9,800 men, not
half the estimated boer strength, and
fifty-four guns, about equal to Jou
bert’s strength. Ladysmith is not nat
urally equipped for defense, but the
British think it can hold out two
weeks, and then reinforcements should
arrive. Definite figures of British cas
ualities are impossible, but it is esti
mated at 3,000. The boer losses less.
London fears that Pietermariezburg,
capital of Natal, will'be in the hands of
the boers before General Duller can ar
rive with reinforcements. His arrival
at Durban is reported.
The London Times' military expert
says the question at I-adysmith Is
whether White can hold out for ten
days or a fortnight, when reinforce
ments should reach him. Even if suc
cessful the attack would cost the boers
3,000 or 4,000 men —a risk they are
hardly likely to run. Joubert may run
short of ammunition.
Klipdarn was captured by the boers.
Natives will not accept their domina
tion. Magistrate Harinsworth, who es
caped, found the Kimberley garrison
well and anxious for fighting. The
boer proclamation of annexation was
to induce the Dutch t<> revolt without
fear of treason. Most of then] believe
the stories of boer victories
The boer invasion of Zululand met
little opposition. They captured many
small towns and expect to hoist the
the flag in every magisterial district.
Kimberley is surrounded by six thou
sand boers. The of the I bitch
in Bechuanaland and Gr'.tjualand Is ex
pected.
The Libre Parole calls the English
"man-eaters and bullies,” and says the
queen Is like King Lear. French Work
ingmen refused to embark mules
bought by the English for the war.
British channel squadron is in readi
ness at Gibraltar. Russia mediates,
France sulks.
Mafeking is burning after bombard
ment.
Boers are reported to have captured
1,500 mules.
Gen. Sir Redvers Buller has arrived
at Cape Town.
The boers are concentrating strongly
on the border of Rhodesia.
It is thought that England is prepar
ing for European Intervention.
The British loss at Ladysmits causes
great excitement In London.
The British at Ladysmith make ob
servations from a war balloon.
The British wounded at Glencoe for
mally thanked the boers for "extreme
kindness.”
The boers closely invest both
lardysmlth and Klroheiely and both
are likely to fall.
Gen. White’s official report of the in
itial figrting at Ladysmith admits se
rious British losses.
The Transvaal government accepted
the German Red Cross society's offer
of a full detachment.
Gen. White reports the capture of a
portion of his command, hree regi
ments, by the boers. The British situ
ation is regarded as critical.
i'he boers began shelling 'lie British
armed camp at Ladysmith. Gen.
White's official report of tell rfist day’s
action indicates that the boeis had the
best of it.
The English-born residents of Spo
kane decided to raise SI,OOO for the
benefit of t< h widows and orphans of
the British soldiers killed in the south
African war.
SPANISH-AMERICAN ISLANDS.
Gen. Young continues to advance in
Luzon.
Prof. Schuman defends the agree
ment with the sultan of Sulu.
A detachment of Col. Bell's regiment
routed the Filipinos near I-abam.
Gen. Lawton is paralyzing the Phil
ippine rebels with effective blows.
Capt. Charles French, late of *he
Montana regiment, was killed in Lu
zon.
Gen Fitzhugh Lee reported Cuba ns
doing well, but not yet tit for self-gov -
ernment.
Gen. Gomez evinces a fear that Cu
bans will favor annexation rather than
Independence.
General Youn gis having trouble in
getting supplies to the front through
the mud iu Luzon.
Senor Regidor. Agulnaldo's envoy,
says the Filipinos will never submit to
a military government
A number of Cuban farmers have pe
titioned General Brooke for protection
against American corn.
The Filipinos suffered two more de
feats. They ill-treat their Spanish
prisoners but use their American cap
tives well.
A movement is started to obtain the
pardon of the seven members of the
fifteenth Minnesota regiment who were
sentenced to imprisonment for mutiny.
Owing to the preesnt low price of
sugar and the poor prospects, many
Cuban planters have decided not to
grind their present crop, but to use ii
in replanting anil In increasing their
acreage.
Captain governor of GGuam.
has banished the friars from the Island
because they were opposed to reforms
which he desired .to introduce. Arch
bishop Chapelle 3ays the expulsion of
the friars is an outrage.
Senator Romingo Romez has ordered
the governors of the provinces of Cuba
to furnish particulars of all mines in
all harbors within their jurisdiction,
also to obtain from the mayors the
number of cattle in each district.
The engagement of Admiral Dewey
and Mrs. W. B. Hazen, of Washington,
is announced on the authority of the
admiral. Mrs. Hazen is a sister of
John R. McLean, democratic candidate
for governor of Ohio, and has a for
tune. She is 40.
DOMESTIC.
Chicago October wheat 68V&C.
The Shamrock sailed for home.
The yellow fever is stamped out in
Florida.
Slosson defeated Schaefer in the bil
liard match.
Secretary Gage will recommend a
currency plan.
Senator Lodge delivered an address
in favor of expansion.
A six-story building in Chicago col
lapsed with deadly results.
Riotous mirth marked Halloween at
the University of Wisconsin.
The government receipts in October
were $3,359,562 greater than the exped
itures.
The Russian cruiser Variag, of a
new type, was launched in Philadel
phia.
At Wrightsville, N. C., the damage
by Monday night's storm is estimated
at $75,000.
The funeral of Gen. Guy V. Henry
took place in New York with imposing
ceremonies.
St. Agnes's K. C. church, burned less
than a year ago, was rededieated in
New York.
A dramatic feature of Bryan's Ne
braska tour was a midnight speech at
Benkelman.
rile five-story building at 39-43 W.
Washington street. Chicago, burned.
Loss, $125,000.
.1. D. Sargent of Machlas, Me., was
arrested in Wyoming on a charge of
murdering his wife.
Richard Croker charged that there
was administration Interference with
New York’s election.
PM re at Horatio, Ark., destroyed the
business part of the town, entailing
losses estimated at $50,000.
Fall Uiver mill operatives have
asked for an increase of 10 per cent, in
wages to take effect Nov. 13.
Vanderbilt, Morgan and other lead
ers are planning a-pool to control the
country’s railway business.
At New Orleans, Ha., Charles .1. 12.
Parker, a Chicago sporting man, was
stricken with paralysis and died.
Tammany was charged the cen
tral labor union with offering big
sums to break tip the labor party.
Commodore Gerry will test the con
stitutionality of the passengers’ bag
gage section of the Hingley tariff law.
l)r. Hyman Abbott, chairman of the
Cuban industrial relief fund, reported
the people as destitute and helpless as
ever.
A successful test of wireless teleg
raphy was made between the cruiser
New York at sea and Atlantic High
lands.
On her trial trip the Kentucky at
tained a speed of It! 1-3 knots an hour
—one knot more than required by the
contract.
President McKinley attended 'he
launching of the torpedo boat Shubrick
at Richmond, and later delivered an
address.
Charles L. Kurtz, the anti-Hanna re
publican leader in Ohio, is aiding
John R. McLean, the democratic candi
date for governor.
After a cruise in Alaskan waters as
far north as Point Harrow, the United
States revenue cutter Bear, Captain
Jarvis, has returned.
The New York city budget as ap
proved makes the amount to be raised
by direct taxation in 1900 about $4,000,-
000 less than in 1899.
Captain Nicoll Ludlow has been re
lieved with the rnnk of rear admiral
in the navy, on his own application,
after thirty years’ service.
Currency reformers regard the great
demand for gold certificates of the de
nomination of S3O as an argument for
a more elastic currency.
The fifty-first lowa volunteers have
been notified that the state would fur
nish tt ansportation from ‘Frisco to
each man's actual home.
Great Britain. Russia and France
have instructed their ambassadors to
request the United States to select a
definite sphere in China.
Chairman Dickey of the national
prohibition committee said he saw
President McKinley drink four kinds
of wine at a Chicago banquet.
D. H. Mays, democratic candidate
for governor in Florida, has issued a
statement in which he favors the re
nomination of Bryan In 1900.
Senator Hanna, in an interview,
says: “The issue in 1900 will be full
dinner buckets, protection, an un
changed currency and expansion."
Anew agreement as to Samoa is be
ing discussed by the United States.
Great Britain and Germany, involving
the retirement of the latter power.
John D. Crtmmins and ex-Mayor
! Grant of New York are largely intor-
I ested In a consolidate!!! of all the trol
ley systems of northern New Jersey.
Vice President Hobart’s family nn-
I nouncos that he will not reg ime his
{official duties even should h Billy -o
--! cover, which is considered very doubt -
I ful.
Two men employed in the Fontanel
Inu.. powder mill burned to death
Their clothes were filled with powder
dust which was ignited by an electric
spark.
At Fast Liverpool. 0.. TOO girls in
the biscuit warehouse, dipping and
stumping departments of nearly every
pottery in the city struck for higher
wages.
The democrats of the xixth Nebraska
are preparing the way for a contest in
the event of the election of Judge Wil
liam Neville, the populist nominee for
congress.
A freight train on the Big Four
crashed through a bridge a mile west
of Guilford, Ind., killing two trainmen
and a couple of negro tramps who were
stealing a ride.
C. B. Orvis, an oil operator of Pitts
burg, was arrested in Chicago, charged
with becoming connected with the for
gery of the name of E. 1,. Parker & Cos.,
of Baltimore.
At St. Louis Robert B. Jennings,
secretary and general manager of the
Broadway Cable company, was held
up and robbed of $1,043 in cash and
$48,275 in checks.
Capt. N. A*. Dyer, U. S. N., who com
manded‘the Baltimore at the Manila
fight and who has been assigned to
Havana, has asked to be relieved on
account of ill health.
The New York coroner’s investiga
tion of the wreck of the ferry boat Chi
cago may result in a charge of man
slaughter against the captains of the
Chicago and City of Augusta.
Rev. B. S. Everett of Rhode Hail, N.
.7., will marry Miss Mount next month.
She will be his third wife and the
bridegroom's three sons, all ministers,
will perform the marriage ceremony.
United States (Marshals Cannon and
Meehan have arrested “Jimmy”
Dumphy, “Kit” Garney and Abraham
Abrahomowitz, of Ashland, on the
charge of furnishing liquor to Indians.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Birmingham, Ala., was held, at which
preliminary steps were taken towards
entertaining Admiral Schley, who will
be the guest of the city Nov. 6 and 7.
.1. ,J. Geraghty, a police operator in
south Chicago, was attacked by a
horde of muskrats in a swamp near the
city. They first killed his dog, then
they made a vicious onslaught on
him.
A big excursion down the Chicago
drainage canal, to include governors,
senators, national representatives and ]
federal, state and city officials, Is j
planned by the sanitary district trus
tees.
At Newbern, N. C„ terrific gales,
which blew Tuesday night, drove the
tide higher by two feet than it ever has
been. I'he city was flooded and small
boats were placed in the streets to al
low passage.
At Defcnison, Texas, bandits held tip
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas train,
and, after a murderous assault on the
express messenger, robbed the safe of
$lO 000 in money and valuables to the
amount of $5,000.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society has declined to unite with the
Home Missionary Society of the Meth
odist church, the convention deciding
that both could do the most good
working separately.
Sixty men of the (Tloucester, Mass.,
fishing fleet were lost during the year
just ended, a less number than usual.
They left fifteen windows and twenty
six children. Fifteen vessels valued at
$79,750 were lost.
The gold output for Cripple Creek
district for October was $2,001,600.
This is the first month’s production
that has exceeded $2,000. It is esti
mated that the total of the year will
not fall short of $18,000,000.
At Weir City, Kas., Gus McArdle, a
bartender, was shot and killed in a sa
loon, and in less than two hours his
supposed murderer, George Wells, a
negro miner, was hanging to a tele
phone pole, the victim of a mob.
The new administration building at
Sing Sing prison, built by convict labor
under Warden Sage, and considered to
be one of the handsomest structures of
the kind in the country, was half de
stroyed by fire. Loss. $50,000.
On account of his indiscreet utter
ances at a dinner party in London in
regard to the Venezuelan boundary,
the State Department notified Ambas
sador Choate that he must be more
careful in his utterances in public
At Pittsburg in the county court
Judge White held that an employer has
a right to operate his factory independ
ent of a union, and that a union has no
right to persuade his apprentices to be
come members of their organization.
The recent orders assigning Coloqel
Samuel G. Sumner to duty with the
British army in the Transvaal have
been revoked. Captain S. L. Slocum,
eighth cacalry. military attache at Vi
enna, has started for the Transvaal.
Assemblyman Allan Benny of Bay
onne. N. J.. published letters to Sena
tor Sewell in which he declared the
! Pennsylvania railway refused to give
1 nim a pass because he supported meas
ures distasteful to the railway com
pany.
Ugo Talbo. the famous tenor singer
and teacher, is dead at Stockton after
an illnes of two weeks. He was a
noted singer in England thirty years
ago. and has prominent relatives there.
He was once an officer in the English
army.
Two hundred employes of the Story
& Clark Piano company, Chicago, went
jon a strike, and it is probable that
their action will be followed by the
workmen in several other factories.
■ Their demand is a higher scale of
wages.
The civil service commission has
made public a letter from ex-Senator
Edmunds, declaring that the circular
sent out by Ohio republicans, solicit
ing contributions from federal em
i ployes. is in violation of the civil ser
! vice law.
At attempt was made to burglarize
the house of Emil Schultz of Mari
nette. The door of the house was bat
tered in. but Mrs. Schultz met the bur
glars at the door with about a pound
or red pepper which she threw into
their faces.
Civil suits for the collection of pn
alties aggregating $402,500 for viola
tion of the anti trust and pooling laws
were begun under the direction of the
attorney general against fifty corpora
tions doing business in Chieago and
Cook county.
At Oakland, Cal., Captain S. Low
berg of New York, one of the best
known navigators in the United States,
fell head-foremost into the hold of the
old condemned steamer Professor
Morse, and fractured his skull. He
will probably die.
At San Francisco Mrs. George Fife,
daughter of the late Nicholas Luning,
has brought suit against George Whit
tel for the sum of $750,000, alleging
that at the settlement of her father’s
estate she was not given the full
amount due her.
At San Francisco Charles Hall, for
merly a private in the first i.ebrasga
volunteer regiment, and more recently
cook on the transport ..anciek, was
shot and almost instantly killed by C.
S. Dodge, an aged saloon-keeper, who
thought Hall had killed his son.
The American line steamer, St. Paul,
which has sailed from Southampton
for New York, has among its passen
gers former President Benjamin Har
rison and Mr3. Harrison; Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett, the novelist; Mad
ame Nordica, the singer and Mr. and
Mrs. James Storey.
The most interesting case of the
October term of circuit court in ses
sion in Alma is that of the heirs of
Emil Richter against the Ancient. Or
der of United Workmen, for the pay
ment of $2,000 insurance money.
Richter joined the lodge as a bartender
and left that business for some years
In 1895 he entered the saloon business
and was expelled.
FOREIGN.
A fatal hotel fire occurred in Mon
treal.
Germany is to put up grain duties
to pay for her enlarged navy.
High government officials of Chili
killed each other in a sword duel.
Princess Isabelle of Orleans was
married in London to Prince Jean of
Orleans!:
Colombian insurgent vessels were
sunk by government steamers and
200 soldiers are drowned.
Paris has heard rumors of an attack
on the French troops by Chinese reg
ulars at Quan Chau Wan. southern
China.
The Belgian Tanganyika-Congo
telegraph expedition had a fight with
cannibals at Sanguili, in the Congo
State, inflicting heavy loss.
The Brazilian and Bolivian foreign
ministers have signed a protocol set
tling the boundary question between
their respective countries.
Lieutenant General Charles Wright
Younghusband (retired) is dead. The
death is also announced of Edward
Fleetwood John Pellow, fourth Vis
count Exmouth.
In the City of Mexico preparations
are making to give Finance Minister
Limantour, on his return a welcome
that will be significant of the general
appreciation of his brilliant work in
Europe in the conversion of the for
eign gold debt of this republic.
An attempt was made at Pisco, de
partment of Lima, Peru, to start a rev
olutionary movement. The promoters
captured the custom-house, where a
stock of arms and ammunition was
stored, and then attacked the bar
racks. They were repulsed by the
government troops.
BARGAIN COUNTER SPIRIT.
It Finds an Outlet in Getting Prizes
With Soap Coupons.
“You don't mean to tell me,” said the
wife of the Brooklyn professional man,
“that you throw away all your soap
wrappers? I never heard of such a
thing.”
“Why certainly I do, said Mrs. Par
ticular, who lives next door. “You
don’t thing I would condescend to such
child’s play as to get prizes for cou
pons. I had no idea that anyone did
it.”
“Anyone!” exclaimed the wife of the
professional man. I don’t thing there
is anyone who uoesn't. I am telling
you the truth when I say that for two
or three years I got ‘nearly all of little
Jack’s Christmas presents with soap
wrappers. Why, it is quite the thing.
The only trouble is that 1 don’t know
as we are as careful about soap as we
ought to be. It is such a satisfaction
to accumulate coupons that it is al
ways with a sense of pleasure that I
hear Bridget say that we need anew
supply of soap. There is another thing
about iD-it is no trouble for us to have
our errands done now. Since Jack has
grown' to the base ball age he is al
ways in need of anew bat or ball and
those are among the things they give
for prizes.
“Since Jack has learned something
about the coupon system he has to
have the coupons, and 1 will not allow
it. unless he will go to the store when
ever he is asked without grumbling. I
mean it. too, so he does all the errands
with the greatest equanimity and never
forgets to ask if we need soap.”
“Well.” said Mrs. Particular, "I
don’t think I should ever think of do- ■
ing such a thing. What do they have I
for prizes, anyway? My girl wanted
to save coupons, but l insisted on her
throwing them away.”
“Well, if the small boys of the town
only knew that," said the wife of the
professional man, “your house would j
be besieged by them. I am not sure
that there would be any baseball in!
Brooklyn hut for the soap wrappers: \
according to what Jack says, most of
the boys he knows get their parapher
nalia in that way."
Probably the most popular shop in
Brooklyn is in a big brick building not
far from the bridge and the river. It
is a pleasant place, and it might be
called the bargain shop of the borough.
It is the one, anyway, that appeals the
most strongly to the bargain instinct
of the people, not only in that part of
the Greater New York, but for dis
tances outside. In order to get a real
knowledge of the bargain instinct it is
necessary to know something of the
history of soap wrapper coupons. And
this history develops one thing that it
is good to know— that the bargain in
stinct is not alone confined to women.
Women use the soap, but a great many
men get the prizes.
It was a bright man who conceived
the idea of printing coupons in the
wrappers of his soap and offering for a
certain number of coupons prizes of
varying merit, to be sent post paid to
any one sending the coupons and nam
ing the article desired. The business
has developed to mammoth propor
tions. In the manufactory of one firm
of soap dealers who offer prizes to their
patrons there is one corner of the
lower floor of the building which is a
regular stock shop, where the wares,
all marked, 10, 25, 50 or 100 coupons
are displayed in attractive show cases,
and there residents of Brooklyn of all
classes, from the people who come in
coaches to the barefooted boy whose
mother takes in washing, come shop
ping.
The wife of the professicnl man told
the truth when she said she bought a
great number of Christmas presents
for her boy with soap > oupons, and
there are other people who do the
same. In the shop near the river there
is nearly as much of a display for
Christmas as in shops doing business
according to standard methods.
The place is gayly dressed with greens
and Christmas trees, and there are 10
clerks behind the counters, receiving
the shoppers, counting the wrappers,
and helping in the selection of pur
chases. There are on an average 600
persons a day going in, and 1,500 let
ters opened by a special force of clerks,
who count the coupons and send out
The Shoppers are men quite as often
as women, and they are all as partic
ular to make their coupons go as far aS
possible, to spend them to the best ad
vantage, as me ordinary Christmas
shopper is to get the best worth of the
money spent. As one old Irishwoman
said: , , ' .
“Sure they needn’t try to chate abody
for the sake of a hit o’ paper.
The prizes include a wide variety of
goods. There is considerable silver
plated ware, including spoons of differ
ent sizes and forks-three silver-plated
teaspoons for fifty coupons and two
tablespoons or six after-dinner coffee
spoons for 100. There is a solid silver
thimble for fifty coupons and toilet art
icles of silver for 100 coupons each.
There are toys, small china dishes, bi
cycle whistles, matchsafes, for ten and
fifteen coupons, panel pictures for
twenty-five, and the solid gold ring
that every other baby to be seen in a
street car wears, it is ten chances to
one, was bought with coupons, for it
will only cost 100 of them.
At ordinary times in the year there
are five men in charge of the coupon
work, one buying, and four opening
letters, sending out packages and re
ceiving customers who call. There
are, on an average, 10,000 letters a
month, and two big bags of packages
go out every day. Occasionally let
ters come saying, "Please send me two
teaspoons.” That is all. The man
who opens the letter not being ac
quainted with “me’ that package has
to wait before it is sent. If the sender
lives in Brooklyn there is apt to be
some excitement for a few moments
when the paterfamilias comes down to
see why those spoons have not been
sent. But his feelings are quickly
soothed.
Up to the first of this year there were
1 prizes on the prizes. It takes postage
and some work to send off a package
and to save this a toy or a little dish
or something of that kind was given to
I any one bringing the coupons around
to the bargain shop as a reward. That
: is not done now, but there is some in
ducement to take the coupons around,
for some things are never sent through
the mails —an umbrella, fo“ instance;
; stickpins, or framed pictures. Then
there is the pleasure the shopper en
joys in seeing the goods to be pur
chased and being positively sure that
the best for the coupon is secured,
i Saturday in summer is the small
boy s day. As soon as it begins to get
warm enough to play ball the small boy
begins his demand for coupons. He
gets every one he can by hook or crook,
and Saturday he is to be found at the
bargain shop in numbers all day long,
exchanging his hoarded coupons for
base balls, bats and gloves. He comes
in such numbers and so constantly Sat
urday after Saturday that it is hard to
believe there are so many small boys
in Brooklyn.
There are certain standard articles
on the prize list, but an attempt is
made to vary them, and every two or
three weeks there is apt to be some
change. One man spends a day every
mouth buying supplies, and if he sees
something that he feels will suit the
tastes of his somewhat particular cus
i tomers there is a business consultation
and if it is thought advisable the new
article is added to the list.
There are some large prizes for in
dustrious soap users, and a coin silver
watch can be obtained for 1,000 wrap
pers, and a man’s seal or lady’s jewel
ed ring for 450 coupons. The cheapest
things ever bought for coupons was a
house. The firm had bought one adjoin
ing its premises on some land that was
needed. Before the land could be used
the house must be taken down, so a
sign was put up. “This house for
sale for fifty coupons If taken down in
30 days.”
It was the man with the bargain
spirit who bought that. There were
some 100 who wished to purchase, but
the first arrival took the house and had
it down in fifteen days. He may have
received a toy premium for making
such good time, but history does not
relate. The only thing history is sure
about is the bargain habit. at*
A" TRIBUTE TO DRY CODFISH.
She wrote to her' daddy in Portland,
Maine, from out in Denv>*v£!ol.,
And she wrote, alas despondentßrThat
life had commenced to pal^;
And this was a woeful, woeful case, for
she was a six-months bride
Who was won and wed in the state of
Maine, by the side of the bound
ing tide.
And ah, alack, she was writing back
that she longed for Portland,
Maine,
Till oh, her feelings had been that
wrenched she could hardly stand
the strain.
Though her hubby dear was still sin
cere she sighed the livelong day
For a good old sniff of the sewers and
salt from the breast of Casco
bay.
And she wrote she sighed, and she
said she cried and her appetite
fell off,
And she’d grown as thin ’s a belaying
pin, with a terrible hacking
cough;
And she sort-of-hinted that pretty soon
she’d start on a reckless scoot
And hook for her home in Portland,
Maine, by the very shortest
route.
But her daddy dear was a man of sense
and he handles fish wholesale,
And he recollected the way he felt
when he dwelt in the world’s fair
whirl.
—He slapped his head. “By hake,” he
said, “I know what ails that
girl.”
And he went to a ten-cord pile of cod
and he pulled the biggest out,
—A jib-shaped critter, broad’s a sail—
three feet from tail to snout —
And he pasted a sheet of postage
stamps from snout clear down to
tail,
Put on a quick delivery stamp and
sent the cod by mail.
She smelled it a-coming two blocks
off on the top of the postman’s
pack;
She rushed to meet him and scared
him blind by climbing the poor
man’s back.
But she got the fish, bit out a hunk,
ate postage stamps and all,
And a happy wife in a happy home
lives out in Denver, Col.
—liolman F. Day, in Lewiston Journal.
Thomas Lynne Chase, son of Aid. A.
E. Chase, has disappeared from Osh
kosh. A week ago his mother saw him
go to bed and in the morning his
room was empty. The police have
been notified all over the country and
a reward of SSO offered. -He is 13
years old.
44 You Cant Catch the
Wind in a Net /'
Neither can you cure catarrh by local
applications. It is a constitutional disease,
and is cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla be
cause it is a constitutional remedy. It
expels from the blood the impurity
which causes the disease, and rebuilds
and repairs the inflamed membranes.
(ccdS SaUapauflg
Nasal
CATAHRH
In all its stages there Jr C °:oA J-Ufl J
should be cleanliness. m ™i9
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the diseased niembrai. •. '.j
It cares catarrh and drives A
away a cold in the lie (7
quickly. ---..-meaaMßi®
Cream Balm is planed into the nostrils, spreads
over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is im
mediate and a cure follow*. It is not drying—does
not produce sneezing. I.a-ge Size, 50 cents at Drug
gists or by mail; Trial t :.. ■, n cents by mail.
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