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* Good Story. When Representative Morri* Shep pard, of Texas, was nominated for Congress as the snccessor of bis fa ther, he wtis but 27 years old, and his opponents lost no opportunity to make capital of his youth. In Joint debate, one day, one of Sheppard's opponents proceeded something like this: ‘'Why," he snid, "it is ridiculous to ' think of sending a mere boy to Con gress. It is a time and place where we need mature men with mature minds. It reminds me of the old dar key who thought the end of the world was at band and who got down on his knees to pray. " 'O Lord,’ he pleaded, ‘come down and save this sinful world. And come yourself, Lord: don’t send your son. <Thls ain't no time for boys.’ ” The Weak Spot. A weak, aching back tells of sick kidneys, it aches when you work. It aches when you try to rest. It throbs in changeable Ugg weather. Urinary nßy troubles add to ^B?^ your misery. No rest, no comfort, until the kidneys TA are well. Cure t ' le,n with Doan's Kidney Pills. / Mrs. W. M. Dau- M st ‘^ er - -5 Water Im street. Bradford. Isl ^ u ” suyß: 11 I 11^ an a * moßt continu- / mAw 0,18 P nln ln ,lle rar' 1 ' Rlna l l of t,le back. ' My ankles, feet, hands and almost my whole body were bloated. I was languid and the kidney secretions were profuse. Phy sicians told me I had diabetes in its worst form, and I feared I would never recover. Down's Kidney Pills cured me in 11806, and I have been well ever since.” A FREE TRIAL of this great kid ney medicine which cured Mrs. Dau scher will be mailed to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. Sold by all dealers, price 50 cents per box. Comparative Birthrates. The birth rate among the foreign born in Massachusetts is 52 per 1,000; ! a thong the native born it is 17. * VERY LOW RATES TO BOSTON I AND RETURN V<a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern ' Ry. / Less than one fare for the round 1 trip. Tickets on sale Aug. 12, 13 and « 14. Return limit may be extended to Sept. 30. Tickets will be sold via New York if desired. Full /information on application to L. F. Vosburgh, G. A. P. D., 180 Clark street, Chicago, or C. F. Daly, Chief A. G. P. A., Chicago. The flr?t threshing machine was re cently set up in Damascus. It is a steam thresher from Indiana. A«k Your Dealer for Alien’s Foot Kase. A powder to shake Into your shoes. It rests the feet, Cures Corus, Bunieus, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous. Aching, Sweating feet and Ingtowlng Nalls. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. T. Roman capitalists and persons desir ing to become such, sacrificed to Plutus, the god of wealth. I’iso’s Cure for Consumption cured me of g- tenacious and Dersistent cough.— Wm. 11. Harrison, 227 W. 121st street, New York, March 25, 1901. The Pierides gave Greek girls such graces of mind and body as they pos sessed. Mr*. Winslow’s Rootyi** Jnu? far Children C thins; soften* ths rums, redoes* InflsunaeUon, aJ ■ pain, onree wind ooli*. * oeate a boUJe. Th* services of no iess^^an forty three god. amt^oddesses were needed to raise a Itoman child. W£T WeATffifi COMFOff There i» no satisfaction keener than beino dry and comfortable when out in the hardest storm. YOU ARE SWt Of THIS ST YOU WEAK “Ju CTEfcPDOOFjU :D CLOTHING PE IN MACK OR YELLOW | . KLD BY OUR GUARANTY!. ” a C o?a VI 6mntrt. lMe«’r« U<Alcrrs s voue DiAtea. he wW oot euwe yrj A SKIN OF BBAUTV IS A JOV PO*EVBg. Dil t. fblix goubaud'b okikntal CKKAM, OK MAGICAL BKAUTIITBK jil _ Remove* Tan, PltßßlM,Fr«ckla«. ■) At Moth ratebea, Raab, an* Rkiß ■ " J j dleaaaea, and every bleaiiah p.l 2lt b*auty. aaa ft H 1 w ^^Aleaea detection. It 8 1? Jilt fr 01 TOr — har —ls w * 1® M V CT Mte ba rare A i/irri \ I»r- t- a. AX ■ryK \ ® a y r * MUd B Ml A ot & w; /wni uae Ums, 1 I / 1 IB recommend * Qouriwd'a Cream' M the leaat harmful of all the skin preparation*.” For aale by all Dnigfieu aud Fancy Good* baalere in the U. 8.. Canada*, and Europe. FERO. T. HOPKINS, Prep’r, 37 Sreat Jones St, N. L TEA 100 CUPS DELICIOUS TEA Ghen away during July and Ai mu st. To Intro duce our high tirade Teas, we will, upon receipt oi 3u ccnta, lorward to anv addrrab without fur ther expense, sufficient Tea to make 100 cups lull strength of the finest English Breakfast < r J o niosa Oolong Tea. Name your preference. 1 uls offer In 0 ide<| for consumers, not for deal er- Our obj ct being to please and satisfy, four approval Is our last reeomm< u latiun. Money order preferred. Address I« a D-part meut Ore ing Cotfee Company, 128 Water St., New York. muinmnc we<,oßt • hope- UIVIULnUu but have paid five cent* par ■har. lor Id months. Dlvid.uda Incr.aaed thia ~.r I eqltlmat. bu.lnos., honottly haudlad. hotnini Uktt.r or aatw Viral c 1... at.« ka law pile. lav dividend, .ooa. Mb.Ko your money ba n money e rite to day, hank ret.renc.,. Oil aud mining .tock bought, raid or exebanged. W Lal Lava von I DUBEN I'URE BUHETY COM FAAI, Una I Klalto Bldg , Ean Franclaco, Cat - ♦♦♦♦♦<<<Hl IHH L OLD | i; FAVORITES | Rule Britannta. When Britain first at heaven's com mand, Arose from out the azure main, This wa. the charter of the land. And guardian angels sung (his strain: Rule, Britannia, rule the wave.! For Britons never will be slaves. The nations not so blest as thee Must, In their turns, to tyrants fall; Whilst thou .halt flourish great and free. The dread and envy of them ail. Rule, Britannia, rule the waves! For Britons never will be slaves. Still more majestic .halt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; A. the loud blasts that tear the skies Serve but to rot thy native oak. Rule, Britannia, rule the waves! For Britons never will be slaves. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tanie; All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse thy generous flame. And work their woe—but thy renowk Rule, Britannia, rule the waves! For Britons never will be slaves. To thee belongs the rural reign; / Thy cities shall with commerce shine; A-l) thine Rhall be the subject main, Aud every shore it circles thine. Rule, Britannia, rule the waves! For Britons never will be slaves. The Muses, still with Freedom found, Shall to thy happy coast repai/; Blest Isle! with matchless beauty crown ed, And manly hearts to gftard the fair. Rule, Britannia, rule the waves! For Britons never will be slaves. THE FIRST BASEBALL GAME. Such a Novel Event That It Was Tl luatrated in a Weekly Paper. The first newspaper report of a base ball game that I remember reading was an account of a game played at Hoboken, N. J., In 1859. It appeared In an Illustrated weekly and was such a novel and Interesting event that the weekly gave a double-page illustration, writes James L. Steele, In Outing. There were no baseball schdules In those days, and nobody lay awake nights hatching up reasons why Har vard should not play Princeton and why Yale should play Pennsylvania. Ali that was needed was an occasion such as a Fourth of July celebration, a county fair, a house-raising or some other event of that nature. The occa sion for this particular game was the entertainment given to a team of Eng lish cricketers then touring this coun try and defeating “United States' twenty-twos" with commendable reg ularity. We had evolved a game from the old English “rounders,” which we called baseball, and we wanted to show our cousins what a high old game it was. It may have been the "humors of the day” editor who wrote the report, ■which was as follows: "Baseball differs from cricket, espe cially In there being no wicketst The bat Is held high in the air. When the ball has been struck, the ‘outs’ try to catch IL in which case the striker Is ‘ouL’ or, if they cannot do this, to strike the striker with It when he Is running, which likewise puts him 'out.' “Instead of wickets there are, at this game, four or five marks called bases, one of which, being the one at which the striker stands, Is called ‘home.’ “Aa at cricket, the point of the game Is to make the most runs between bases; the party which counts the most runs wins the day.” The fact that the reporter thought It necessary to explain how the game was played Indicates the extent of the public knowledge of baseball at that time, and even he wasn't, quite sure whether there were four bases or five. When he says a base runner may be put out by hitting him with the ball he makes no mistake, for that was an actual fact, and It was considered a good play on the part of a base run ner to draw throw from the pltqher, for usually, the runner would dodge the throw and gambol arourfd the bases, while the fielders were hurrying after the ball. This rule was abolished as soon as the game been ini’ popular, for a base man, Instead of touching a runner with the ball would often “soak” him at short range, which generally brought forth unprintable remarks from the soakee. The artist In Illustrating this game was not far behind the, reporter. The picture shows u^/ several hundred spectators and, with the exception of a few ladles and gentlemen seated In carriages, the only person sitting down in the entire assemblage Is the umpire; and, as if to show the perfect tranquil ity of bis mind and his contempt for foul tips, he leans gracefully back In his chair with his legs crossed. The basemen, instead’of "playing off," are standing, each with one foot on Ilia base, and a base runner Is “glued to third.” although the pitcher Is al>out to deliver the ball. In short, the gen eral aspect of the field Is enough to give a modern baseball captain nervous prostration.. REPLACING STEAM POWER. How the Gt« Engine Ie Coming Into Use —Use of Petroleum on Hhipa. W’rltlng under the title of “The Superseding of Steam Power” in the World's Work. Lewis Nixon say.: “I have been led lately to think the whole development of the steam en gine, to the exclusion of the gas en gine, has been a mistake and that we are now at the beginning of a new era in the use of power. Engineers could to-day gain better and more economical result, by abandoning .team and using internal combustion engines, even In large establishments. The gain In economy of fuel will ad vance with the size of the establish ment With the Internal combustion engine a brake horse-power can be produced on a pound of coal. This could not be done with steam'under any condition. So great a revolution Ima come about In methods, of producing steam that a 10.000-ton cruiser of twenty one knots an hour could to-day pro ceed around the world at fourteen knots without taking on fuel and without sacrificing any of her war efficiency. New kinds of engines have come Into vogue which suggest, facts larger even than this. Oil engines using crude petroleum will be developed as soon as the de mand is felt for them. but. even here, the fuel can be made into gas and burned thus with far greater econ omy than is possible when the oil itself Is burned under boilers or gaso line can be used. In an ordinary 3.200 horSt-power torpedo boat forty three tons of coal would be used in ton hours. With gasoline the radius of activity of Wie same torpedo boat can be more than quadrupled, for 3,200 horse-power can be produced from 3,200 gallons of fuel. Briefly, 16,000 pounds of gasoline will do the work of 96.000 pounds of coal. The cost of the fuel is higher, but witli a gaso line plant In a torpedo boat only two men are required in the engine room and none at all in the fireroom. The dangers of steam at high pressure are avoided and the complexity of steam machinery done away with. Owing to the certain saving to be secured in coal consumption and to the simplicity and reliability of the gas engine plant, we shall witness a gradual forcing out of the steam plants In future power plants for lighting, pumplug or factory- uses and it will be a question of only a short time before many of “the existing steam plants will not be required. CHEERFUL LITTLE CRIPPLE. Passers-by Smiled and Pitied Him in a Crowded Louisville Street. Spinning along the concrete sidewalk at a speed that made pedestrians dodge into doorways and off the curb ing flew a mite of a boy in his veloci pede wagon, says a writer In the Louis ville Courier-Journal. The pedals were gone, and a second glance was neces sary to learn by what power the ma chine was propelled. The wagon was propelled by the left hand of the little cripple, while his right hand deftly guided this new stylo of automobile and prevented mishaps, though the way was crowded. Lying Ump'.y in the bottom of the wagon bed and quiv ering with the speed of the locomotive were the legs of the little sufferer, withered. The sun was shining brightly nnd the crowd was in a Sunday mood. Every one paused a moment to watch the-pathetlc sight. Dashing along with what seemed to be reckless abandon, his speed was not diminished as he approached a steep step-off. Men in tlie crowd bent forward as If they would catch the wee chuut.eur and stall off the disaster that seemed about to happen. None was swift enough. With a skillful turn of (be band lie directed bls vehicle to the side and glided off the paving to the street without a wabble and with a smooth ness that would make an ordinary automobile owner pale with envy. Again he is on the sidewalk, and now he whistles a merry tune, not a whit put out by the exertion of pro pelling himself or of the inquisitive glances of tbe crfiwd. A street car dashes by, but it is no swifter than the little cripple, who leaves.the pedes trians behind and drives calmly on, his hand muddy and his sleeve torn from tugging nt the wheel, but his lieart happy despite bis withered limbs. Arc No Tramps in Germany. To-day the lot of the laboring man in Germany is in many respects better than that of ours. The German state recognizes the right of every mm to live—we do not. When tlie German laborer becomes old or feeble the state pensions him honorably. In Germany the laboring man can ride on the elec trie cars for 2 cents—we pay 5. Ger man cities have public baths, public liuindry establishments, big parks, free concerts and many other features which soften poverty—although they do not remove it. The corollary to tills Is that tbe em peror permits no tramps to terrorize, his highways. The police are organ ized for rural patrol as well as city work, and every loafer Is stopped and made to give an account of himself. Ift England vagrancy has beert a pub lic nuisance for generations—with us It lias become of late years dlmost a public danger. Germany has no tramps. The man who Is without work In Germany finds no Inducement to re main idle. A paternal government sets him to such hard work that tlie would be unemployed finds it decidedly to bls interest to seek some other employ ment as soon as possible.—National Magazine, Hcalp Is Replaced. The surgeons of Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx have succeeded in replac ing the scalp on the head of a young girl after it had been tom completely off by s revolving shaft In a mill. A keen critic Is ant to uiake cutting remarks. - . rtEGROEB OWN TOWN. Qoldaboro, Fla., with Three Hand reO Boals, Has No White Person. Society folk from the Northern and Western cities who have visited Flor ida during the past season have dis played a keen Interest in the Florida negro, writes a correspondent for the New York Telegram. . A unique town In Florida Is Golds boro. a place peopled entirely by ne groes. Goldsboro is 127 miles from Jacksonville, on the Atlantic Coast Line railway, between the Florida metropolis and Tampa. Within Its precincts no white person nor mem ber of any other nationality Is found nnd a negro mayor and negro council dictate the destinies of <J>e commun ity. A negro postmaster appointed under a democratic administration has ■■harge of the mail service ami dark skinned night watchmen look after the stores and shops between sun and sun. The school system Is, of course, operated under the regular guidance of the public school laws of the state «nd applicants for positions ns peda gogues are examined by the Orange county school board. Withal Goldsboro, which has 300 population. Is well governed. There are few radical discords. The town Jail Is In great disrepute and the pop ulation pays Its taxes about op an average with the ratio of whites in other Florida.communities. With only few exceptions negroes own every foot of land in Goldsboro, and that which they do not own they are pur chasing on the installment plan from white people who hold deeds for the properUes, ’I he town Is ten years old from the point of Incorporation and there have never been any riots or unusual dis orders to mar Its records. The community Is very religious and has three churches with rapidly grow ing membership rolls. A unique spec tacle on Sundays during the spring aud summer of each year Is to see the devotional exercises attendant upon the administration of the rites of baptism, which Is not conducted without loud and fervent crescendos of thankfulness. Goldsboro, however, has Its sinners. It has one chronic sinner who belongs to no church in particular and It Is reported among his own people that Uncle Abe professed religion twenty one different times In one spring and summer—and was baptized that num ber of times, or seven times by each church in the settlement—each time falling back in the mire of the wicked, Tlie negro municipality is the home of The Independent voter. Each in dividual votes as bls conscience dic tates. The absence of white citizens has removed the source that frequent ly contaminates the negro voter, al though It Is told that upon one oc casion an aldermanlc election was bought through the_^lniluence of a barrel of whisky. The relations between the town of Goldsboro and the neighboring town of Sanford, two miles dlstanL peo pled mainly by whites, nre friendly and there Is an interchange of busi ness lietween the two municipalities. STORY OF “FIRELANDS” TOLD. Fertile Ohio Region Recalls BcnU<Hct Arnold’s Famous Connecticut Raid. Unnumbered native Ohioans, not to speak of hundreds of thousands of rc-sidi-nts of this State, .who have come from foreign lands and other States of\tlie American Union, must have wondered why a fertile and productive tract In northern Ohio, a dislrict which in no way hints of the ravages of fire, should be called the “flrelands.” Among nil the vicissitudes of Ohio's early history great conflagrations were notable for their absence. No such terrible forest fires swept this State as ravaged large areas In Michigan and Wisconsin seventy or eighty years later. The fires to which the name refers raged in Connecticut, not Ohio, aud they were the work of British and tory wldiers, instend of the result of accidents or natural causes. In 1781, when the long struggle for Independ ence was nearly ended, Benedict Ar nold commanded an expedition which ravaged the Connecticut coast ot Long Island Sound. He burned New Lon don nnd other towns and left behind misery and destitution as well as a more bitter hatred than he had earned before thnt outrage upon his native State. This nnd other cruel and senseless attacks upon Connecticut towns left so strong a feeling of sympathy nnd injustice behind that In disposing of Connecticut's rights In lands now forming part of Ohio 781 square miles in the extreme western edge of the western reserve were set apart th be donated to sufferers by the British raids. Five ranges of townships run ning north and south were included In this tract. Sandusky Bay and Lake Erle extend so far southward at this point that the five ranges of townships contained only about .VKI.OOO acres of land. The tract measured some twenty-seven miles by thirty. The Connecticut suf ferers from the torch of the enemy lived chiefly In New London. Norwalk and Fairfield, and it was from those towns that many of the settlers of the ••Firelands" came to build In the Ohio wilderness settlements bearing the same names and having like civic Ideals and character.—Dayton llenakl Prepared n,r the Worst. •‘Do you mean to say,' 1 asked tire optimist, ‘‘that the unexpected never happens to you?” “Just so.” replied the pesslmlsL “I've got no used to it that I always expect it now.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger- j r - ■ Miss Alice M. Smith, of Minneapolis, Minn., tells how woman’s monthly suffering may be quickly and permanently relieved by Ly^a E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 1 “Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — I have never before given my endorse ment for any medicine, but Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound has added so much to my life and happiness that I feel like making an exception in this case. For two years every month I would have two days of severe pain and could find no relief, but one day when visiting a friend I run across Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound,—she had used it with the best results and advised me to try it. I found that it worked wonders with me; I now experience no pain and only had to use a few bottles to bring about this wonderful change. I use it occasionally now when I am exceptionally tired or worn out.” — Miss Alice M. Smith, 804 Third Ave., South Minneapolis, Minm, Chair man Executive Committee Minneapolis Study Club. Beauty and strength in women vanish early in life because of monthly pain or some menstrual irregularity. Many suffer silently and see their best gifts fade away. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound helps women preserve roundness of form and freshness of face because it makes their entire female organism healthy. It carries women safely through the various natural crises and is the safeguard of woman’s health. The truth about this great medicine is told in the letters from women published in this paper constantly. Mrs. C. Kieinschrodt, Morrison, HL, says: — _ .. “Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — I have suffered ever si llo6 l was thirteen years of age with my menses. *^RRiIMWBw They were irregular and very painful. I doctored a great deal but received no benefit. IS* “A friend advised me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, whi< h I ■W j Bw did,and after taking a few bottles of it, I found *tli* c. u K real, relief. K “Menstruation is now regular and without 7 pain. lam enjoying letter health than 1 have ior,somctimo.” /ZnWlTrrnjH . How is it possible for us to make it plainer / I Il'lUl' I that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com * / Jl)’ I I pound will positively help all sick women ? 11l All women are constituted alike, rich and poor, I | / high and low, —all suffer from the same organic ' troubles. Surely, no one can wish to remain weak and sickly, discouraged with life and without heme for the future, when proof is so unmistakable that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will cure monthly suffering — all womb and ovarian troubles, and all the ills peculiar to women. W FORFEIT If cannot forthwith produce the orlrinaf letters and ■lcr.atnrw a* above testimonial*, which will prove their absolute p^nuin*tnns. Lydia E. 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FREE to WOMEN A 1-arge Trial Box and book of in structions absolutely Free and Post paid, enough to prove the value of PaxtineToilet Antiseptic e Pax tine Is la powder form to dissolve la water — non-poisonous and far superior to liquid antiseptics containing alcohol which Irritates Inflamed suriaces, and have no cleansing prop ertle*. The contents •I every boa makes more Antiseptic Solu tion-lasts longer — goes further—has more uses In the family and does more good than any antiseptic preparation you can buy. Tht formula o( a noted Boxton phyxician, and used with .great success as a Vaginal Wash, for Leucorrhoea, Pelvic Catarrh, Nasal Catarrh, Sore Throat Sore Eyes, Cuts, and all soreness of mucus membrane. In local treatment of female ills Paxtine is invaluable. Used as a Vaginal Wash mo challenge the world to produce its equal for thoroughness. It is a revolution in cleansing and healing power; it kills all germs which cause inflammation and discharges. All loading druggists keep Paxtine; price, DOc. a box ; If yours does not, sand to us for it. Don’t take a subkiitute — there is nothing like Paxt in®. Write for the Free Box of Paxtine t<w!ay. R. PAXTON CO., 6 Popo Bldg , Boston, Masa. I AMR xPDIP •ccnqmiral method erq.ii'ins LAHU Ounir rrntuenl Lan I Hngr Saabarg, fUton X M 8. C. N. U. - - No. St —IOO4 BEGGS'BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach.