If — ... . Ml sieso •<* U-c \Y..r. [ ■ . ,• -.lionizes price?: b.V emphasis | War *• '" s f an d demand. Dir M* . i' -Vt the M°dilcr rive r sci's for > ': i,:i t K-. eud a drink for a horse • -'I “ at -*IH. In rap - Town tH, .\ , \, w York could be had iStri -• reuU-S for 85 a night. io the last Soath Afri.nn . ~aulite\vvr sold for $1 •-<>. a... F ? ‘; j s the market prie. of a- at was tVn .... ! dog sold for To cents a p. un i. t ; bants i:i the Zoological *ard< n 0"’ jijf], and. a nd elephant meat, while it istc.i ' readily brought 88 a pound. 'Wind the price of foodstuff? vc ; . s in fimhlrity mid is in Mafcking has u .t en giveii out. hut a? tie tieople in Kim -icy were said to be subsisting largely u.rsetiedl. tlx* priei s must have id those of the l’aris siege. Th quotations from I.adystnith are: fables scarce: one egg. 7.T cents: $4,75 t pound: tobacco, ¥22.50 i ,1. Boers are smuggling tub:; . in tgli the natives. tgttlaily enough, eats in a besieged seem to have nearly a fixed pri e. ats were .worth BM.uu during the • of l’aris. so in I'artagena. iu t'olom wlit-n that city was besieged in 1885. sold in the markets for -85. Prices n unusual kind are fixed not only by . but by fieight. On this world's 'ace "jKisitiou is everything.” As ght can bring together a donkey and ferby winner, so freight can pnt on a •1, bulk for bulk, gold, black pepper, minds and amateur potry. At vine r?;p Melbourne hay was dearer ti n d ifeim sugar, and up the Amazon i fateriwy watch can be bartered for iy dolliVrs' worth of rubber. In Green •V valuable furs van be bought for >es of window glass, and in Persia ih hrushcffNare so rare and valuable t the Shalt \ias one among his c-ollee > uf jewels ayd priceless curios. Fruit Trees rrenth Highways. t is announced! that the French gov nicnt. looking out for anew source revenue. fans* det to plflnt fruit r-s all along the piublie high roads of trace. T he Strand c>f Old. In the reign of Edwnril\lll. the Strand is an open country roatd, wi’h a man sion here and there, on banks of the River Thames, most probamy a castle or stronghold. In this state it mo doubt re mained during the greater snirt of the York and Lancaster period. lFrom Hon ry Yll.’s time the eastles most likely be gan to be exchanged for mansions of a more peaceful character. These gradu ally increased, and in the reign of Kd ward VI. the Strand consisted, on the south side, of a line of mansions with garden walls, and on the north of a sin gle row of houses, behind which all was eld.—Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle. Curious Facts About Coal. ; Australian soft or bituminous coal pro duces twice as much gas as European or [American coal. For this reason, the Australian eon! is imported into Europe, [although it is very costly. This is a ease |of the best coal going to Newcastle to joust an inferior kind. Pennsylvania an thracite weighs twice as much as Euro pean anthracite and takes but half th [WBU-tWu,r Knropan (product, because of the advantage in rail poatl freights—St. Loois Post-Dispatch. The Prince’s Neat Compliment. k The Prince of Wales is— occasionally at Boast —clever at paying a compliment. In connection with the lilting out of the American hospital ship Maine, he was surrounded by a number of American women, including Mrs. Bradley Martin, Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, the Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Randolph Church ill. Mrs. Ronalds and Mrs. Arthur Paget, when he said. “I have the greatest faith in the good the --hip will do; American girls have healed many an Englishman's wounded heart."—Philadelphia" Post. , Looks Like Tweed. There is a man in charge of the vaults of a safe deposit company in New York who. in personal appiea ranee. is the ex art counterpart of William M. Tweed, its the big Tammany boss appeared in the days of his prosperity on Manhat tan island. He is very lntteh unlike Tweed, however, in the fact that the property of other people, of which ho is the guardian, has no temptation lor him. —Ntw York Commercial. Try Grain-O ! Try Grain-O ! Ask your grocer today to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of ooffep. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try if like it. GRAIN-O has that rich sea! brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stom ach receives it without distress. One fourth the prioe of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers. “Which is the head barber?" inquired the customer. “We're all head barbers." replied the artist: “what did you sup pose we were—corn doctors?"- Yonkers statesman. r* oughing Heads to Consumption- Kemp’s Balsam will stop the cough at Go to your druggist today and get bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 rp t't bottles. Go at once; delays are dan gerous, Mach of Berlin has made anew ailoy of magnesium and aluminum, pro ducing a compound like brass, white as n be turned anil bored. Spring Humors of the Blood Come to a cortaiu percentage of all the ►eople. Probably 75 per cent, of these people are cured every year by Hood's Sarsaparilla, and we hope by this ad rcrtlseuient to get the other 25 per •ent. to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. It las made more people well, effected pore wonderful cures than any other aedldne in the world. Its strength s a blood puritier is demonstrated by B* tMrreloos cures of Scrofula Salt Rheum Sf cia,d Mea d Boils, Pimples ■II Kinds of Humor Psoriasis ■lood Poisoning Rheumatism K tßrrh Malaria, Etc. ■ ct wtl!ch prevalent at this season. K' 0 ” nood Hood’s So’•sapari 11a now. H Will do you wonderful good. I Hood’s ■Sarsaparilla •America's Greatest Blood Medicine. BEQIMNINQ OF CRONJg’S CAPTURE. , Artillery starting out on the bold and eouutjy that compelled the surrender o ers. These are the guns whose lvdd laager and forced the lion-hearted ieade QBEEB WEftRS THE GREEN ... i Entiuis'astic Celebration of Shru*- rock Day. ♦ HER VISIT TO DUBLIN. Ireland end ill: Shamrock Now Mo uo(i iliziiu the Attention ot Loud ot People. London. March 17. -Shamrock day promises to vie with Primrose day in the hearts of the people, judging front the enthusiasm with which, ror the first time in the history of the nation, loyalists all : over the United Kingdom tire celebrating j and everywhere the green is conspicuous, i Front Windsor castle where the Queen I observed the day by wearing a sprig of j genuine four-leaved shamrock, to the ; east cud of the slums of London, where the ragged urchin glories in his morsel of green weed, nearly everyone sports something in the shape of jt green favor. A word from her ma jesty has turned the emblem of semi disloyalty into a badge of honor and lot? i made the shamrock the most prized of ! a'l the plants iu the British isles. By the Queen’s order the bills in the curfew tower of Windsor castle, honored St. Patrick this morning; Irish airs played by the Grenadiers enlivened the Queen's luncheon, and on London’s man sion house floats anew loyal Irish flag with the Union Jack in the upper corner and a crowned harp iu the center of a green field, as distinguished from the Irish flag which bears the harp without the union or crown. The street venders have done i roaring trade with flags, buttons, clover, moss spinach, bits of green ribbon, etc. Houses and stores lavishly display green flags and bunting, and Irish soldiers and sailors showing special pride in wearing the national em blem. Great Britain Irritated. London. March 17.—Between the lines of the politely-worded editorial comments on President McKinley's expression of willingness to aid in the restoration of peace between Great Britain and the Boer republics can lie discerned many evi • lein, .. _• —. ... ..r.t in-itatiou which the ess responsible public does not nesttaie to outwardly express, while even mem bers of the government privately display pique that of all the powers America should have consented to assume what one official designated as the "ungracious role of suggesting some form of inter ference.” to which he added this expres sion: "Englishmen cannot help contrast ing the perfect correctness of the attitude of opeuiy-unfriendiy France with the of fer of the United States, which, if it had Como from a less disinterested source, could only have been regarded as an un friendly act.” There is no doubt that the overtures of the United States, even through care fully worded, have sensibly irritated Great Britain as a whole, while circles es pecially friendly to the United Staten ex press open regret at the opportunity of fered to critics to compare the refusal of M. Delcas.se. the French minister of foreign affairs, to gratify the hostile sen timent in France hy making proposals to Lord Salisbury which were sure of rejec tion with what they testily call the "in terference" of Washington, and which, though only tentative and clothed in words of perfect friendliness and courtesy, came at an inopportune mo ment. when the supreme self-sufficiency the quarrel to accept the good offices of a mediating power, such interference was. in this ease, out side the hounds of diplomatic possibili ties and gav- Lord Salisbury full justi fication for his "retort courteous.” Outside the international jmlities, Ire land and the shamrock largely monopolize the attention of lautdon. The interneeim strife in the Nationalistic ranks engen dered by the Dublin corporation's ad dress to the Queen am) the bitterness felt in loyalist circles in Ireland at the outward exhibitions of disrespect of her majesty, keep the officials guessing as to what is likely to occur at the Irish capi tal next month. An official in the office of the chief secretary of Ireland. Gerald Balfour, said he was not surprised at the Nationalists opposing the address of welcome, "which, necessarily, was either hyjH’crisy or a lie, in addition to which it would go far to stop the Bow f Ameri can contributions.” Speaking of the Queen's visit, the same official sad In* had little doubt that "wigs would litter Dublin green" liefore the visit was concluded. Simply of Sliamrock 1 nm flicient. lii the meantime St. Patrick's dav i* ls’ing observed throng..out the l'i>it*-d Kingdom :t> never t*efore. The supply of shamrock is quite insufficient to m<-* t th*- demands. Tl.e new yacht Built for the Queen in ♦ lit* government dockyard*. at a e.si of about S-\r*o(i,tlOo, will probably never i.e used by b*r majesty. Her instability, palpably demonstrated at tin* time of b*r undocking has caused the Queen to ’ak<* a strong.dislike to the vessel ami the al terations : eeessitated so materially re duced her omfort and convenient o tbs' it is believed they will render the vessel uusuited for th<* purpose originally in tended!. The probability is that the yacht i will ultimately !■*• renamed Kindi li tres nsl> into the very heart of the enemy’s f Gen. I*. A. I'ronje and his brave tight ite shells made such awful havoc in the r to capitulate. and converted into a dispatch vessel for the use of the admiralty. Bi ycl* s for Volunteers. Of the 82.>,(M*0 Which the g, vern inent purpose? to spend in deceit yin- the volunteers $250,000 will be s|>ent. at tin 'ate of SB* per man. to encourage each regiment to form a company of bicyclists. Lord Lansdov. ne. the secretary of war, and George Wyndham. the parliaments ry secretary of the war office, both ride w heels and they know from personal expe rience what can bedonewith the machine on the fine English roads. Of course they do not expect the soldiers to use the wheels on the South African plains or in ihe Indian hill country, but they aver that in assembling for home defense and in concentrating at any point on the coast battalions of bicyclists could trans port themselves and their arms and am munition and emergency rations with less fatigue and with as much speed a though on horseback. A volunteer trained to the use of the bicycle, they claim, would have tit hand for instant use the means of reaching, by a direct load, a point of mobilization possibly twenty or fifty miles distant. With a bicycle it would be as though a charger stood ready saddled at the volunteer's floor. NURSES IN THE WAR. View* of Some Who Are Now Serv itor in South Afrit-i. Nurses who -ire serving in hospitals iu South Africa say it is astonishing how severely wounded many of the soldiers can be and still live. An added discom fort from which the wounded suffer is the intense heat. At Pietermaritzburg the thermometer often registers I,‘tN de grees outside and t>4 degrees in the wards. A temperature of SS degrees is considered cool. A rajs are universally used in the hos pitals. After a battle nurses and sur geons are on duty night and day in the "theaters, as these places of suffering arc called. In all cases the men con sider it a disgrace to be ill of typhoid or dysentery, and would rather be wounded. I hey say the most awful ex perience is lying wounded on the field after a battle waiting to be picked up, and wondering if they will be found at all. Sometimes it is claimed that they endure forty-eight hours of this sus pense. M'omen nurses are not permitted to serve in stationary hospitals at all. while in base hospitals only four arc allowed f..r every luO beds. At Mafeking Lady Sarah W'iisoa is in charge of the uu.vih ary hospital, it is said that where worn on nursos aro employ oil thoy give thoir irtMvnis mistiniyd re and 'sympathy. Ihe English Smbul.imV trains m-ed j n Soutti Africa are declared to be models ol comfort and common sense, each beiug splendidly- equipped with a kitchen, pan- Uy and dispensary. The bunks are ar ranged on either side of a narrow center aisle, and have detachable sides, so that the patient cun be easily slipped from stretcher to bed. One hundred men can he comfortably accommodated. As they are without water for week? on the field of battle, the men generally begged to be bathed before anviliing further is done for their relief. They are then put to bed and operated upon if the ease is urgent, though this is not done oil the train if it can he avoided. Ea h man is provided with a shirt, sponge, brush, socks, handkerchief, knife, fork, spoou and cup within reach. The trains carry two nursing sisters, several trained orderlies and surgeons. In a recent discussion in England a? to when a man should be considered incapa citated for service, it was ?■ t:it■< 1 that no age limit should be set. In fact, ii is claimed that age. so long as it does not accompany physical incapacity, has the advantage of youth iu the varied exjte rience it brings to the work. New York Tribune. I lie Press and Christian science. To those unfamiliar with the healing system known as Christian Science, there may seem to lie a lack of wisdom in dis carding the well-known and long-estab lished systems of healing by drugs and ether material means, and trusting to a system which, to them, is unknown amt uncertain. This is true of our newspaper friends who have not investigated < Inis tian_ Science as well as of others. We .in- nevertheless aware that fair minded newspaper men. even though they may not endorse Christian Science, do not wish to do it and its adherents in justice. Their natural de-ire i< to treat ; it fairly, and give it the credit to which I it is entitled. This suggests the question whether, if I they desire to publish anything relating | to Christian Science, they ran occupy this fail- attitude toward it unless they ! take reasonable pains to inform them- I selves, as to what Christian Science is. 1 what it purports to lie able to accomplish in the wav of healing disease, and what it lias actually accomplished and is ac complishing. To the newspa(x-r fraternity who de - sire legitimate and candid uses. Christian '! Scientists will afford every facility in their power ill the way of furnishing 'such information. There is plenty of evidence to be had. although there are sonic eases j where, for obvious reasons, publicity is! not diedred by those interested; and their ’ wishes should he resjsx-tixi. There are, I on the other hand, numerous instances ! where the beneficiary is only too glaVI j to make known the fact of having been | healed. ITn- Christian Science publico i fions, extending back for many years, j tontain testimonies front thousands of) this ilass. In view of the whole situation, there fore. we feel warrantisl in asking, ami do hereby respect fully and earnestly ask, our newspaper friends to look into our methods, satisfy themselves as to the work nr-complished and being accom plished. and then give us such a bearing j iiefore the bar of public opinion as is - justly ours. We specially ask that particular case*, where rumor would often place Christian j Science in a false position, Is- fairly 1 looked into and treatisl in accordance ! with the facts.- Christian Science Keuti- I Tricks of Kiit-.il Cost masters. The poet office department wishes to put i a s.op to the practice of large merchants i buying their stamps of small jiostofficew. | I’ostmasters of a certain grade are pa hi I according to their stamp sales, and hence i they have induced some users of many ! -tamps to buy of them, either through t friendship eglii to scream with agony, and t ti • exJltcd mother or uurat* pours down the phrsie. 'Dhat** the lime for the use of Uascarefs Caiiiy \*ithurtle. If the bribe be HUekl ng ti e morher tunkes her milk tiu'dly pi igailvt* by catiag a Untrarer. older Infants eat n liith* p'eee like eundy. In all • as.*s ('as carets are mild but pv!tive. never grip nor gripe, stop sour Rtoinncb. move the l>*.weN naturaliy, and put things right n-* they sltMild he. Now, mamma, buy and try Unvarr!** day It’s what they do. nut what we mm v they'll do, proves their merit All drug gists. 10c, 25c or ft)e, or mailed for prb*- for booklet and free sample Addf***s Sferllng Remedy t'o. 9 Uhb’.ugo; Montreal, < an., or New ork. ©ThU is the <' ASrA ItKT fabler, Kvery tablet of the only geiiuiue fas'-arets bears the mngV let fern ‘ Look t the tablet oefre you buy. and beware of frauds, Imitations and substitutes [Couch] don't delay 1 KEMJsI balsam I II Cure* Celd* Cough*. Sore Throat Croup In fluenr* WhoopingCoiiglt.BronchitinandAtth'na * certain cure fer Consumption In first *t*q*s. *nd a lure relief In advanced stage*, Lee at once You will ee the eicellent fec* after taking the firat dole. Sold ht dealer ever*- •here Large battle* 26 cent* and 60 cent* C^ ATl A L ° e ~~ <$WF pRB&j? 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Millions of Women Use 'i Ticritv Soap exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying tile skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stop ping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and healing, red, rough, and sore hand*, | n (he form of batlm for annoying irritations and dialings, or too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative, wenk uesc.. and for many antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, and especially mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery No amount of persuasion can induce those who have once used it. to use any other, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. < 'i;tici;ra Soap combines delicate emollient properties derived from Ut rn t iiA, the great skin cure, with the purest of demising ingredients, and the most refreshing of flower odors. No other medirated soap ever compounded is to be compared with it for pre serving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, Lair, and hands. No oilier foreign ot domestic tniht soap, however expensive, is to be compared witli it, for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it com bine?, iu Oni Soap at One I’rice, vi/., Tvvkstv-hvk Cents, the best akin and complexion soap, the tit ?r toilet, and best baby soap in the world. All that lias been said of CuTiCCNA Soa r may b said with even greater emphasis of ( ’uticcra Ointment, the most doticate, and yt most afflictive or emollients, and greatest of skin cures its use in connection with Cimcmts Soap (as per directions around each package), in the “On* Nk.ht Curie von Hour Hands, 1 ’ in the • I VST AXT I’KI.IItF TRBATMRS'I Poll DtsriOIIRINO lICMIMiS AND I HHITATIO.Nt," and iii iiiviiv uses ion numerous to mention, is sufficient to prove us mjperiority over ail oitc-r preparations for the skin. Cosm P :e,B External and Internal Treatment for every Humor, mll flli cl Ift *M‘i :jct 11 a Hd*t* fUbc. Tto th# Akin *.f cruet* rjOr . ■, - ixt | ’OUieUntly Hy Itching, inftarnraalton, rxl Irritntlcn, ao OakJi. Oiriu , t>oie !*ro|> , lio*ton. “ All abntil Ihe Hktn, Hcalp, ami llalr.'* fr#e What lli<* Hr iriwh Soldier is I iglitmg tor. Thrjf ,•>: :i n iduum In I keep them mil of lit ' will klioii-** . ll* | fold ihrni. on m ri-kit 'd yesterday, in | wail till in jrtnrnril. n hen limy could I all "i’ll In llm tv mi khouse together.” Writing from Middrr Itivcr, js r,,r|innii mi tin- I’lriri. Welch > niniilaiiiH that out r, r 7 stiit lintr** i week in must pay 1 shilling fnr a sirmll pot of jam and tin Miiim mum I'nf eighteen vi-ry email hi* cui ■ : out* l .* billing tm. (tml thru tliere i* tobacco. No wonder the workhouse ioonh* oniinounly! l.ondou f 'll! nlll<’b‘. Drying preparation* irituply develop dry r.itarrh; limy dry up the accretions which adhere to the nminliranc and dr t iir I O | tw-rna of \li limi VViitM.i I S 1 J 0 fipj grow I fig land on th • onli J a! U Milt. • bn *4MMir’l OH fp yw *1 /jn pllration to tha Huf^rih * I•tidant of 1 mmiurutioti JjMKw On***, or i>* m i- dtrign*d Hpactai!/ 001. •imjr*loo will Saava fci Foal. Uiou .on tl. Ut and M Tuolajr in *ach month, and •panlalljr low it*- on all )inn of railway *r* baing'juolftd for oarronnon* laaviog I'aul on Marol. Jhih and April 4tb, for Mini tobit. Aaatniboia. Haakat-hawan and AJbarta Writ* to K. Pedley. Kupt Imrnlfration, Ottawa, C atiadn, or tha uodorgignad who w;ll n,a i % i* ft!- U#*-*, pfcmphiwu, €tc., fr*. T u. Currie. Sttvads Po nt, W*. # -Agrtit for Oovernisent of Canada. w THK OLD AMI kHLIABLP M LaCrosse Mutual Aid Associa ion in the P*oo;:r tmpiiy m Wiscoimin - /M*\ s I'My.ni; ** - r i* .* ol liiuc froin hh lit ■ or tfckueMi Rste* remoasl.i*. Muutbly payment*. Agent* wanted. Address' J. O. PADDOCK. SEC’V, 605 OERMANIA HI 00 . MILWAUKEE, WIS M. N. U ....„ No IJ, 1900. WHEN WRITI.no TO AUVERTISERC please lay you *w the Adverllsrnirnl *D this paper. p ’SOS CU RE FOR *25 CTS. CURES Wfltftf. TtiTThT f ails* c in tiijif. H