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Have It .Inmly.
He oried out in agony, and they ran to
the neigh Dors for help. Sciatica was tor
turing him. Better run for St. Jacobs Oil,
or have it handy. It is known to cure the
worst cases.
The total capital of our national banks
is *621,5X7,895.
Beauty I. Blood Oeep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascaretb, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
The loss of Cuba and the Philippines did
not seriously affect Spanish credit.
Lane'i Family Medicine.
Moves the bowels each day. In order to
be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently
on the liver and kidneys. Cures slck'head
ache. Price 25 and 50c.
Ten years ago Manila sugar was intro
duced into America, duty free.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer, gz trial bottle and treatise 112 ree
Dn. It. H. KLINE, Ltd., 1)1! 1 Arch St..Phila.,Pa.
About ¥64,000,000 yearly is the total of
the English trade In the Philippines.
Dr. Seth Arnold's Cough Killer best, medi
cine ever tried for Colds.—L. C. HAMMOND,
!£! loldeu St.. Newburgh, N. Y., Nov, 2U, ISH7.
Attached to the army of Norway is a
corps of skaters armed with rifles.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathnrtic. 100 or 25c
If C. C. C. fail to cure, rtruffiists refund money
February, 1891, was the driest month on
record In Dublin, Ireland.
Sharp Pains
Darting from one point to another, stiff and
swollen joints, inflammation, intense suf
ferlng, are characteristics of rheumatism.
All these painful symptoms are cured by
Hood's Sarsnparllla which purifies the
blood and neutralizes the aold which is the
cause of rheumatism. Why continue to
suffer when you may be relieved by
Hood's Sarsaparilla
America's Greatest Medicine. Price sl.
Prepared by C. I. Hood A Co., Lowell, Mass.
Hood's Pills cure all Liver Ills. 35 cents.
Where Napoleon Took His ISrlde.
The French Government is propos
ing to sell for building purposes the
chateau and park of Villeneuve
l'Etaug, near Saint Cloud. The
Parisians do not like the idea, since
they fear that other and more inter
esting portions of the beautifully
wooded country which surrounds
Paris may be dealt with in a similar
way. But, although there is nothing
really historical about the chateau, it
has at least one curious reminiscence.
It was at Villeneuve l'Etang that
Napoleon 111. snatched a brief and
almost clandestine honeymoon with
the Empress Eugenie. With absolute
secrecy the chateau was got ready,
and in the evening of the wedding
the Emperor took bis bride thither
in a phmton which he drove himself.
So quietly was the whole thing man
aged, indeed, that most of the in
habitants of Saint Cloud had no idea
that their imperial master aud mis
tress had flown,—London Chronicle.
TUMOR EXPELLED.
Unqualified Success of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. ELIZABETH WIJF.ELOCK. Magno
lia, lowa, in the following- letter de
scribes her recovery from a very criti
cal condition:
" DEAR MRS. PIXKHAM:—I have been
taking your Vegetable Compound, and
W read y. to s °und
Kji jjf \ ° ' a tumor -
Cp "My health
has been poor
11' and was a bur
den to myself. Was troubled with
smothering spells, also palpitation of
the heart and that bearing-down feel
ing, and could not be on my feet much.
" I was growing worse all the Mme,
until I took your medicine.
"After taking three boxes of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Lozenges, the tumor passed from me.
"My health has been better ever
since, can now walk quite a distance
and am troubled no more with palpita
tion of the heart or bloating. I rec
ommend your medicine to all sufferers
from female troubles."
It is hardly reasonable to suppose
that any one can doubt the efficiency
of Mrs. Pinkham's methods and medi
cine in the face of the tremendous vol
ume of testimony.
CONSTIPATION
M I have gone 14 days at a time without m
movement of (he bowelit not being able to
move tbem except by using hot water injections.
Cbronic constipation for seven years placed me in
this terrible condition; during that time J did ev
erything 1 heard of but never found any relief; 6uch
was my case until 1 began using CASCARETB. 1
now bave from one to three passages a day, and If I
was rich 1 would give 1100.00 lor each movement; It
LB such a rellqf." AYLMEII H. HUNT,
1689 Russell til., Detroit, Mich.
B CATHARTIC
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| A SABLE HERO. §
X Carried the Colore at San Juan. X
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George Berry, Troop D, Tenth Cav
alry, with the rank of First Sergeant,
was retired at Camp Forse, Huntsville,
Alabama, November 1, 1898. That
the man is alive to-day seems nothing
short of a miracle, says Harper's
COLOR-SERGEANT GEORGE BERRY, TROOP D, TENTH U. 8. CAVALRY. .
(He curried the colors of the Tenth and Third Cavalry In the charge at San Juan Hill
Santiago.)
Weekly, because of his conduct at San
Juan Hill, where, under heavy fire,
fifty feet in advance of his comrades,
he waved aloft two flags, the stars and
stripes of the Tenth and the Third
Cavalry.
This hero did not burst upon his
commanding officers as first dis
tinguished for gallantry in the war
with Spain. He had long before won
his laurels, having, during his thirty
years' service in the army, actively
participated in six separate campaigns,
against the Cheyennes, Kiowas, Ara
pahoes, Comanches, Apaches, Utes, in
Colorado, Kansas, Texas, and New
Mexico. *.
Sergeant Berry, who, after the man
ner of real heroes, is modest of his
own achievements, in speaking of his
action at San Juan Hill, where he suc
cessfully planted the colors of his own
regiment upon the works from which
the Sf aniards were even then runniug
away, said:
"Where did my conrage come from?
It came from our 'war chief,' Captain
Ayres. When I saw him leading his
men, waving his hat in the air, shout
ing out like a trumpet to the soldiers
to follow, I took the two sets of colors
and ran, calling as Iran: 'Dress on
the colors, boys! Dress on the
colors!' "
During the recent peace celebration
in Philadelphia, as this sable hero,
bearing the tattered battle flags he had
carried so gallantly at Las Guasimas,
San Juan, aud Santiago, marched in
the procession with the Tenth Cavalry,
he was pelted with roses from the bal
conies and stands crowded with peo
ple.
The "large picture, taken from Har
per's Weekly, shows Sergeant Berry
standing near Captain Ayres's tent at
Huntsville, Alabama. In his lefthand
he holds his regimental national colors,
while in his right is the regimental
flag ribboned by the Spanish bullets
in the three great land battles of the
Spanish-American war.
Hebrew Flags Flying In New York.
One of the results of the Zionist
Congress at Basle is the reappearance
of the Hebrew flag in Now York City.
At the meeting-place of the delegates
a flag was hoisted which had two blue
stripes ou a white field, and between
these the six-pointed star, or sign of
David, it was explained at that time
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THE FLAG OF THE HEBREWS.
that a similar flag was used as the
standard of the Hebrews in the days
of the Hebrew Nation. Pictures and
descriptions of the flag came to the
United States with accounts of the
proceedings of the congress, and
dwellers in the New York Qhetto be
gan to look for Hebrew flags. The
consequence was that the manufactur
ers turned out a quantity, for which
there was ready sale.
The deepest coal mine in the world
is the Lambert, in Belgium. One can
descend 3490 feet.
WOMAN AS PUBLIC PROSECUTOR.
Bin. Abbott, of Michigan, la First to Hold
This Office.
By ft majority of four votes, on a re
count, Merrie Hoover Abbott, the wife
of Chftrles F. >\*>ott,of West Branch,
Mich., has vd into prominence.
Mrs. Abbott holds a very peculiar posi
tion, as she is the only woman in
Michigan ever elected to a constitu
tional office, and the first to hold the
office of County Froseouting Attorney
in the United States.
Mrs. Abbott is jnst old enough to
vote. Her parents were pioneer resi
dents of Clinton County and lived at
St. Johns, where she was born and
where she received a high-school edu
cation. Then she took a normal course
at Ypsilauti, devoting her main atten
tion to shorthand work. Shortly after
this she secured a position as stenog
rapher with Marshall Field & Co., of
Chicago. In the early '9os she met
Charles F. Abbott, and they were mar
ried at West Branch in 1894, after
which they took the law course at the
University of Michigan together.
Having finished her law course qfie
returned to West Branch and began
MRS. MERRIE HOOVER ABBOTT.
practice last summer. Her first case
was in the Circuit Court against the
Michigan Central Bailroad Company,
and she will have opportunity to ap
pear in the Supreme Court, as she has
taken the case to that tribunal.
It was not Mrs. Abbott's personal
desire that led her into the arena of
politics. Ogemaw County is naturally
Republican by an overwhelming ma
jority. Mrs. Abbott was known to be
a free silverite, and finally, after the
persistent urging of the Democratic-
Union-Free-Silver County Committee,
she was induced to accept the nomi
nation for the office to which she has
been elected. Her campaign only
lasted three weeks, but she conducted
it personally, speaking in all the pub
lic places throughout the county, and
no amount of bad weather or wretched
roads could prevent her filling engage
ments. While her platform was that
of the party which nominated her, she
added to it some planks of her own,
one of which was conservatism on the
woman's suffrage question.
As a public speaker she was bright,
witty and forceful, controlling her
audience entirely by her natural elo
quence and sympathetic voice.
When the first returns came in the
vote was a tie, but an unofficial re
count of West Branch Township gave
her a majority of four.
Mrs. Abbott makes few intimate
friends among women, as she has ne
glected the social set of West Branch*
and does not attend its functions.
Among the womenkind the fact that
she is a "lady practitioner" is locked
upon as a handicap.
The eleven men who are the leaders
in the Chicago Fire Department are
on the roll of honor for valiant service
rendered at the great fire of October
10, 1871.
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I MISSIONARY CRUISE OF 1
I I DANISH COUNTESS. §
Sooooocooooooooaooooooooco
From Europe there have come to
the United States at various times
strange, weird persons, some bent on
errands of philanthropy and others
from motives of curiosity. Sailing
around the Qreat Lakes in her own
yacht is a woman who can take her
place on the list. She is the Countess
Schimmelman, from Denmark. She
is not precisely a reformer, though
she may see many things that she
would like to have changed, but
wherever she is she certainly does
good. Over in Denmark, she says,
she heard nothing but bad of America,
but since arriving here she finds the
truth of the American conviction that
this is a pretty good country to live
in after all.
At home she was the Queen's favor
ite, and she passed the first thirty
years of her life exclusively at court.
Then she got restless and wauted to
see the wide, wide world, aud try to
alleviate some of the misery which she
vaguely understood existed. She
sold her property and bought a slnp,
and in this cruised about the Baltic in
the summer and in Southern seas iu
the winter. She established coffee
bouses and did good in many little
ways. Of recent year? she stayed in
the cities iu the winter, aud turned
her ship for the time into a home
for the poor boys who wauted to fol
low the sea.
Three years ago she bought the
yacht Duen, or Dove, of Prince
Waldemar, aud by this time, her work
becoming well known among the mem
bers of royalty, they contributed
largely in aid of her enterprise. Her
brothers, however, caused her arrest
once aud put her in an asylum. Upon
her release she resumed lier labors.
Now she has come over to America in
her yacht, and, having passed up the
St. Lawrence, and through the Wel
land Canal, she is making a tour of the
Upper Lakes with her three adopted
sons, whom she brought over with her.
She intends to visit her countrymen
in the Northwest, so that when she
returns home she will know whether
to advise the thousands there who
want to change their homes to come to
to our promised laud.
The Countess speaks English with
ease. She is of medium height, has
brown hair, blue eyes aud a clear,
clean-cut profile. She presents the
appearance of a German matron who
has several winters to see before she
turns forty, writes a reporter who
visited Ler on her queer craft at
Chicago. A very slight cap did not
hide the waves of soft brown hair that
fell about her forehead. When she
did not talk in her slight foreign ac
cent she smiled as she listened to a
guest who was more than likely trying
to answer some question the Countess
had asked about the suffering in
Chicago among the poor.
"I like Americans," she said; "you
have no caste and tho poorest laboring
mau is a gentleman. I have great
hopes for success iu Chicago. The
saiiors I have spoken with and the
men 011 the docks tell me the condi
tion of the men in Chicago is not as
bad as I have been led to believe."
The Countess picked up Walter
Wyckoff's book, "The Workers,"
from her table. "This is all the
source of my information as to the
poor of Chicago at present," she said, I
"but is it true you have 200,000 men !
unemployed here every winter?"
COUNTESS SCHIMMELMAN AND HER YACHT, THE DUEN.
The guest to whom the question
was put doubted the statement and
the Countess said she had been skep
tical as to its truth from what she had
seen during the few hours she had
been in Chicago. "Workingmen in
England and the United States are so
much better provided for than those
on the continent," said the Countess,
as she Bhook her head.
Her work in evangelical and practi
cal—teaching the precepts of religion
and at the same time looking after
temporal wants as best she can.
One of her objects in visiting the
great lakes is to inspect lands in Can
ada on Lake Superior, where she is
anxious to establish a colony for the
poor.
The Countess Adeline Schimmel
man is a member of a Danish noble
family. Until taking up missionary
work among sailors she was a favorite
at the courts of Copenhagen and Ber
lin. When she decided to help the
unfortunate many of the wealthy and
titled families of Europe came to her
assistance, for she is not wealthy. In
her yacht she has visited nearly all of
the large seaports of the world in the
last three years. During the summer
she secures chairs and holds services
on the deck of her boat. In winter
she is obliged togo to a hall.
SMALLEST CHURCH IN ENCLAND.
"Where is Its Counterpart In America?—*
Seats Only Thirty Persons.
Where ih the smallest church in
America? It would be interesting to
know. The smallest church in Eng
land has been discovered at Lulling-
LBLLIN-QTON- CHURCH, WHICH CLAIMS TO
BE THE SMALLEST IN ENGLAND.
ton, in Sussex. The village itself is
on so small a scale that the miniature
church, some sixteen feet square, is
quite large enough to supply its needs.
Built in medireval times upon a slight
eminence within a short distance of
Alfriston, famous for its sixteenth cen
tury hostelry, the church is reached
by a path which passes through charm
ing scenery. The present structure
stands upou the site of the chancel of
the building destroyed during the
Cromwellian struggles, and at the
same time the church records disap
peared, so that even the name of the
patron saint is not now known. Some
idea of the diminutive appearance of
the building, which accommodates
only about thirty worshipers, can be
gathered from a glauce at our illustra
tion. Inside the small sanctuary the
large pulpit completely dwarfs the
scanty sitting accommodation. The
belfry is more for ornament than use,
and the birds are allowed toretaiu un
disputed possession.
The Queerest Home In the World.
The accompanying picture is a repro
duction from the Australian of a gum
ONE OF THE STRANGEST OF DWELLINGS.
tree dwelling in the township of
Wynnstay, South Gippsland, Austra
lia, about five miles from Mirboo. It
stands iu the center of what is known
as the raspberry country, and accom
modates five persons. It consists of
two stories, the upper one being
reached by a regular stairway.
Curioun Transference of Heat.
A correspondent of Nature, who is
associated with the observatory at
Toulouse, calls attention to a very
singular phenomenon, the scientific
explanation of which he seeks. Take
a bar of iron in the hand by one end
and plunge the other end in the fire,
heating it strongly, but not so much
that the hand cannot retain its hold.
Then plunge the heated end in a pail
of cold water. Immediately the end
held in the hand becomes so hot that
it is impossible to retain it in the fin
gers. This phenomenon, said by the
correspondent to be familiar to work
men in iron, is ascribed by them to
some repellant aotion which they
suppose the sudden cold to exert
upon the heat contained in the iron,
which is thus driven to the opposite
extremity.
The novelist who occasionally lec
tures is in great danger of degenerat
ing into a lecturer who occasionally
writes novels.
Battleships itnri Men-of-War.
All battleships are men-of-war, but
all men-of-war are not battleships. A
battleship is the largest and most
powerful type of a man-of-war. A
heavily armored, sea-going man-of
war, carrying guns of large calibre
and designed primarily for fighting
the largest ships of the enemy, is a
battleship. From the earliest times a
ship has been spoken of in the femi
nine gender. This is probably some
survival of that old Gothic or Teutonic
custom which arbitrarily applies gen
.der to inanimate things, a custom
which still obtains in the German lan
guage, where a table is masculine and
a fork is feminine. A man-of-war is
a ship, and therefore "she." It is
also probable that the"man" in mac
of-war does not mean a person of the
male gender. One of the old defini
tions of the word "man" is simply a
person, a being, without regard to sex.
In that sense it is sometimes used to
day. Mankind includes women as
well as men. The first part of the
word "woman" is merely an adjective,
designating a certain physical form of
man.
A Winter Solace.
With the dreariness and desolation
of cold and rainy nights in winter
oomes the comfortable thought of
brightly lighted sitting rooms, with
hearth fires and good books. There
is nothing more certain to make the
heart swell with cheerfulness than
this same combination. After a long
day at work, when the wind is howl
ing outside and the rain is splashing
against the windows, the flicker of the
grate-fire is magnetic. One can
scarcely force himself to get up and
away from it, and a book adds to the
attraction. It is the time when the
stay-at-home enjoys himself to the
fullest.
Don't yi lit it flic Weather.
There Is one thing that does not mind the
weather, and that is rheumatism; and one
thing that does not mind rheumatism is
St. Jacobs Oil, as it goes to work upon it
and cures right off.
Of all the countries in the world it is
Servia which contains the most centen
arians.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tonr I.lfe Airay.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To
-800, the wonder-worker, tbat makes weak men
strqng. All druggists, 50c or (1. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York
A large turtle affords eight pounds of
tortoise shell.
There is more Catarrh in this section of the
-ountry than all other diseases put together,
md until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For a (treat many years doctors*
pronounced it a local disease and proscribed
local remedies, and by constantly tailing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment Hall's Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. .1. Cheney & Co., Toledo.
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. It is taken internally in doses froin
10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi
monials. Address F.J. CHESEY& Co..Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
About 03,000 tons of refuse a;-e swept off
London streets yearly.
Trj* <Jr»in-0 ! I'rj (irniu-O!
Ask your grocer to-day to show you a
package of Gkain-O, the now food drink
that takes the place of oollee. Children
may drink It without Injury as well as the
adult. All who try it like it. Grain-O
has that rich seal brown of Mocha or
lava, but Is made from pure grains: the
most delicate stomach receives It without
distress. \ the price of coffee. 15c. and
25c. per package. Sold by all grocers.
England's mercantile navy numbers 21,-
000 vessels. Of these tfOOO are steamers.
Five Cents.
Everybody knows that Dobbins' Electrie
soap is the best in the world, and for £5 years
it has sold at the highest price. Its price is
now 5 cents, same as common brown soap.
Bars lull size and quality.Orderof grocer. Ado
Each of Queen Victoria's state horses
carries 140 pounds of harness.
No-To-Rac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weait
men strong, blood oure. 50c *J All druggists
It Is estimated that there are 400,000,000
mummies In Egypt.
Stand* by in Scctl.
Every living thing has pains and aches
sometimes, and the aches and pains of
humankind have a friend in St. Jacobs Oil,
which stands by in need to cure and re
store.
The Tartarian alphabet contains 202 lot"
tors, being the longest in the world.
Coughs I.t ad to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cougb at
once. Goto your druggist to-da.v and get
a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 51)
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan
gerous.
Greater New York has over 130,000 dwell
ing-houses within its limits.
Excursion Kato to New Orleans.
The Southern Railway will sell on Dee. 23,
26 and 27 tickets to New Orleans and return,
one fare for the round trip, plus $2. Con
tinuous passage In'eai'h direction, goodto re
turn until January Uth, 1899, account South
ern Educational Association. For further
particulars call on or address Alex. 8.
Thweatt, Eastern Passenger Agent, -il
Broadway, Now York.
A watch ticks 160,144,000 times In a year.
Do You Wish to Sin? Well?
Then use Hoxsie's Disks for every form of
cough, cold, hoarseness or sore throat.
They clear and beautify the voice. 25 ets.
A fibre of silk one mile long weighs but
twelve grains.
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money if It fails to cur*. 25c
The United States leads the world In the
starch output.
Educate Your Bowels With Cuscarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
10c, 2Sc. If C.C.C. fall, druggists rotund money.
The German postofflce, in 1895, made a
proilt of over £7,000,000.
Wo have not been without Piso's Cure foi
Consumption for 20 years.—LizztK Fkhhki.
Camp St.. Harrisburg. Pa.. May 4. IKB4.
There are said to be 300,000 blind persons
In Europe.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchlldrer
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 23c.abottl*