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TV tits conpoa ana tfaree |ccnt sttmps to tfie J. Co., Lowell, Mass., yoa receive is return a copy of sotli Century Year Book. .. A- lit is not an ordinary almanac, a fttndiome book, copiously it*d, and sold for 5 cents U1 news-stands. (We simply Dow you tie two cents you id: in postage for sending.) men have written for Book. In it is summed progress of the 19th ccn In eacb important line of rk and thought the greatest ig specialist has recounted events and advances of the itury and has prophesied we may expect of the next. «the most noted of itnhutors are: of Agriculture Wilson, on Btore Senator Chauncey M. on Politics Russell Sage, on Thomas Edison, on Elec -Dr. Madison Peters, on Re I General Merritt, on Land War "Admiral Hicbbom, on Naval ire /"Al" Smith, on Sports, etc. 115 complete review of the whole of human endeavor and progress. ch article is beautifully and ^priately illustrated, and the le makes an invaluable book ^reference, unequalcd any where for the money. 1 J. C. AYER Co., Lowell, Mass. fnmarried 'women are aeonrred a| (lents in Russian universities. CHRISTIANITY IN BUSIN ESS. Inelptea Applied to Commercial Af toM Weald Work Revolutloa. l"here is not the least question thai the commercial. world is organized rim to-day it iB run &t a feanu* alpng the side of money," writei harles M. Sheldon, author oi Steps," in the November Lad yaie Journal. "Even the ru'ea 1 that business men lay dovrn sure success. Perhaps no ag« tied this for disturbance ani id wa.rrltig' interests in uie Jworld. the principles oi Jity were applied to the whe'o vorld it would cause a shock the time being would result (Ktvprove to be the greatest ani©1 of the ajres. But out bsult would emerge anew or [lying and selling that would jltimately in mure financial in the part of mot people than fid has ever witnessed. Ulti Jlove will pa.v in dollars and Etter than selfishness. On sel |nciples the business world to not succeed even in the mat kaking money—that is, not for Vgth of time nor for the masses le people. Love in business would 1 less money, and actually distrib the real eiarnings of toil amori? a Vreater number of human beings, |s possible now under the present take leave while you are the -not wden the conversation dished, lest you appear to go you are bored.—Mrs. Burton id, in the January Ladies' auroftl. |falng Leads to Consumption. 1 Balsam will stop the cough Go to your druggist to-day 1 sample bottle free. Sold in |0 cent bottles. Go at once dangerous, Fsalaries paid in the Chicago jehoolsAnnually averaged $55.56 eh pnpil taught in them. [ERICA SAYS SO. Entire Country is the Move. ,ly Cathartic Did It.and Record benal VUtory. Hive MilJoa .. es Sold Last Year. -oi part of America amis tho Terers from ocmstlpation in Cascareta Candy Ca derful modern scientific Intestinal tonic. Cascarets lively land literally In every |th. Thousands have tried Cas the mov pleasant and ef alts, and'Voluntarily testify to eriences., Here are a few ex 9nn sbme of the letters: befeiU&Slng Cascarets for head eoa»tipation and have received iefit from them." Mrs. M. Gub arrabee' St., Chicago. ^been taking. Cascarets for over od find" them just the thing for bii." Albert B. Burt, 70 Main Ever, Mass. fusing Cascarets and have never ythlng so satisfactory." Mrs. C. at, 5t Emerson St., Buffalo, N. aken Cascarets and cheerfully hem to all my friends." Mrs. Frugality, Pa. jne for biliousness and peasant to take." Mrs. pd, Oklahoma. (r family and And I, them to be." B. bd 'Railroad, Mead- JTdd appendicitis to the It CasCfcreta will benefit J. Smith, Rich Valley, Tcascareto there Is noth constipation." BenJ. Pas. Jtown, Ind. J~ are all right. They have constipation, and I never ex ^In^voiilcl/' Ch^rlee H. Nye, IKf Cincinnati, Ohio. thankful for your Oaacareta. Itter than any-fnedecine I ever 1 M. Rew, Lacelle. Iowa. I hesitate to say that Casca -jy best medicine ever placed bojple." Andrew Woodruff, Ire.the best cathartic I ever Molt,' Wellwood, Manitoba, your Cascarets and 1 want are just splendid." Jdhn _j* 961, Allegan, Mich. [fill the whole paper with ex the above. Thousands of JJtlons of the merits of Cas volunteered and prove laxative, so pleasant ^d yet effective, has Tilahed place in the —secrets yourself to I, 10c, 25c, 50c. Booklet Address Sterling Rem ~igo or New York. ,rthe OASCARET tab 9ftry. tablet of/the only Afc^c^-th* Sttlwut THE MEN IN RUSSET MANTUE CLAD. That the English officers and sol diers now fighting in South Africa have learned to their sorrow that the Boers have many a sharpshooter in their ranks is clearly shown by the prt parations which the English troop ers now make before going in the field. Every bit of bright color and every A FAIR LION HUNTER. Lady Delamere is the beautiful young English society woman who is now in the heart of Africa with her sband, shooting, or trying to shoot, lions. Lord Delamere, who is still a young man, and who was married but one year ago, is well known to be an increpld lion hunter, and has already made three trips into the interior of the dark continent after big game. His present expedition began at Mombasa some time ago, and it will be several months before' the lion hunter and his fair companion will again be heard of by their friends. Greatest Woman Painter. The announcement that Miss Cecelia Beattx, the painter of "Mother and Daughter," and one of Philadelphia's artists, had been voted the first prize of $1,500 and a gold medal by the interna tional art jury of the fourth annual exhibition at the Carnegie galleries in Pittsburg, was received with great pleasure by all who had inspected the 258 canvases submitted to be judged, says the Philadelphia Times. In his address, Wm. H. Chase, who was a member of the jury of awards, com plimented Miss Beaux on her great success over many foreign artists of great repute. He said: "This is a red-letter day in American art Miss Cecelia Beaux deserves credit and as much more as we can give her. I will repeat what I said the other day*, so that you may know that it was not an unguarded, hasty assertion',n that Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but ,the best that has ever lived. Miss jBeasx has done away entirely wl^ 'uie idea of sex in art." Here is a lordly old castle that Is about to come under the hammer, when it will be knocked down to tho highest bidder, like any old bit of fam ily furniture. It is kno^h as Chep stow castle and Is really (the ruins of the castle of Striguil, which one of the' first fivfc Norman duties built Baslaiu} during the reign of Willium trace of glittering metal is carefully cast aside. The accompanying illus tration, for instance, shows a number of lancers busily engaged in painting tbeir scabbards khaki color, to match the uniform which they wear during active service. This is a dull earth color and does not afford a glaring, tar get for concealed marksmen. ZANGWILL AND THE BULLY. Israel DM Not Fight Till He Was Sure of Victory. When he was a boy, Israel Zangwill the author and playwright, was the same thin, long-haired spectacled per son that he is today, only it then took more courage to be eccentric in ap pearance than it does now, says the Saturday Post Twenty-five years ago Mr. Zangwill was a pupil in the Jew ish Free school. Bell lane, Spitalfields, London. His singular face and still odder manner led the older and larger boys to make a butt of him. For the first few months he was cuffed and boxed, bullied and kicked by a number of playful youths, but especially by the bully of the school, a broad-shouldered, noisy young ruffian. One day, after school, Zangwill attracted not only the attention of the school children but of the neighborhood as well by turning upon his persecutor and reply ing to him in kind. When the bully recovered from his amazement he threw off his coat and hat and made a rush for the lad. Zangwill was ready for him. He laid down his books and doubled up his angular fists. Inside of five minutes he had knocked down the bully three times and two minutes later he had him suing for pardon and beg ging to be let up. From that day until he went to college he was let severely alcne, and it was not until years after that the secret of his victory became known. During all the period of his persecution Zangwill had been taking boxing lessons privately of a prizefight er and he did not offer battle until he was reasonably sure of the result. What a Fojj In. In Engineering there is an interest ing contribution by Prof. Barr of Glas gow university, who deals with mete orical phenomena. It used, he said, to be commonly supposed that the parti cles forming a fog or a cloud consisted of small vesicles or bubbles of water, filled with some very light gas. This extraordinary conception arose from the supposed necessity of finding some explanation of the suspension of these particles in the air. The process of formation of such vesicles, and the presence in them of gas was lighter than air, though subject to a very con siderable pressure on account of the capillary contractility of the envelope, were mysteries never explained. But the principle just given will suffice to indicate that very small particles of water will fall very slowly in still air, while a very slight upward current will suffice to keep them from descending at all in the case of very small parti cles. Aitken has shown that the globules forming a fog or cloud con sist each of a film of water condensed upon a particle of dust. The core is, therefore, solid, not gaseous. CASTLE UNDER TME HAMMER. THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900. PUKES, PERSONS AND THIS if mm the Conqueror. The walls, which ex tend .for a distance of 250 yards, are smothered in creepers and vines, rise imposingly above the cliffs of the river Wye to a height rot a hundred feet The old place rich with historic as- NEW ENGLAND HAS A JAG CAR. Blbnlooa Berliner* Now Enjoy a Speetal Conveyance* A special "jag car" is operated be tween New Britain and Berlin by the enterprising and public-spirited Con necticut Lighting and Power company. It is for the accommodation of citizens who go to New Britain from Berlin to get intoxicated. It is believed that this is the only "jag car" in America, and its patrons are very proud of it. Ber lin, which is on the hard cider belt, re cently voted "no license," and even asked the county commissioners to refuse to issue druggists' license, it having been found that some of the old topers were drinking alcohol sold to polish brass work with and also get ting exhilarated on Jamaica ginger. When the licenses expired the drink ing men of the town acquired the habit of going to New Britain to make mer ry. It is the nearest saloon town, and a brand of whisky is sold there that eats holes in the bottles that contain it. Sedate citizens go to New Britain also, as it has dime museums, merry-go rounds, and other symptoms of culture not known to Berlin. They returned up to a short time ago on the 11 p. m. trolley with the topers. There were so many fights on the last car that fre quently the sober folk alighted and walked: The sober "pe'6ple of Berlin wanted transportation for themselves, and told the company so. Its general superintendent, a man of talent, had an inspiration. He unearthed an an cient, tumbled-down vehicle and fitted it up as a "jag car." It leaves New Britain at 11:30 p. m., ten minutes after tha last "sober car" departs. An in spector stands on the street' and ex amines those who try to board the One of the most interesting and ro mantic cities in France is the little old provencal town of Les Baux, now a mere shadow of the great center of art and music it once was. During me dieval times Les Baux held a once famous Cour d'Amour, and the little renaissance temple with the umbrella shaped roof, shown in the accompany ing illustration was the center of this sixteenth century court These were originally courts held by ladies of high rank, in which the rules of minstrelsy were laid down. The ladies pronounced "sober car." If he detects any signs of liquor upon them, he refers them to the "jag car." Nearly all the drinkers are content with the extra ten min utes the establishment of the "jag car" gives,them, and don't try to enter the other. The "jag car" has made such a hit that the trolley people expect that they will have to put on a second sec tion of it, starting five minutes later. Several other towns want "jag cars," and other trolley companies may be forced to adopt the new idea.—St. Louis Star. A Jocular Parnon. Eccentricity has its victims in all classes of society. Even the clergy do not escape, while their prominent posi tion in the community renders their idiosyncrasies doubly noticeable. Among the clerical peculiarities which have gone down in history, those of the Rev. Mathew Byles of Boston are en titled to high rank. One fast day Dr. Byles was to exchange pulpits with a country clergyman, and on the ap pointed morning both ministers set out on horseback for their respective desti nations. As the two horsemen neared the half-way point Dr. Byles spied his brother minister, and instaiitly by whip and spur drove his horse into a wild gallop. "What's the matter?" shouted the pther, raising his hands in aston ishment as the doctor dashed past him, his canonicals flying in the wind. "Why so fast. Brother Byles?" And Byles, without slackening his speed, shouted over his shoulder, "It'a fast day." vOne nr- Boclitiom and in one cornar ig I Tories, and his hold upon his Boston old tower named after Marten. ..congregation naturally grew very ^slight Finally he waa arraiUd aad day in winter the eccentric doctor was busy nailing cotton batting on his windows to exclude the cold, when a passing parishioner observed: "The wind bloweth wheresoever it listeth, Dr. Byles." "Yea, sir," replied the parson, "and man listeth whereso ever It bloweth." Throughout the struggle for American independence Byles' sympathies lfty with the confined in his own house under guard. The captors probably did not consider their jocular prisoner of prime import ance, for the sentinel at the door was removed, replaced and again removed. The doctor seemed to feel that such slackness bordered upon contempt for a prisoner, and remarked to passers-by that he had been guarded, regarded and disregarded. His sentinel he called an old observatory (Observe a Tory). WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND WAR. The man who is in charge of the wireless telegraphic department of the CAPT. KENNEDY. THE COUR D'AMOUR AT LES BAUX. British forces in South Africa—and a very important department is has proved to be—Is Capt Kennedy of the Royal engineers. This officer, whose portrait is herewith produced, is an experienced electrician and a daunt less soldier. As the wireless telegraphy is being carried on in connection with the balloon cerrps, it is to be expected that Capt. Kennedy will get plenty of exciting experiences during the campaign. a on the qualifications of a candidate, dictated the subjects upon which troubadours were to compose their lays, judged the different singers' mer its, and punished by disgrace or ex clusion those who violated the laws of the court In the twelfth century these courts of love, went even fur ther, and, besides laying down rules of grammar and dialect, went so far as to form rules for love and lovemak ing, and directed all the symptoms which the disciples of Eros were to ex hibit on the proper occasion and be fore the proper person. A PORTO RICAN BELLE. Porto Rico, like many other coun tries of the south, is noted for the beauty of its young girls, though it must be confessed that as the Porto Rican belle advances in years her beauty very quickly leaves her. In their youth, however, many of the young women, especially those in whom the Spanish blood is strong, are very comely persons to look upon. The accompanying Illustration is from the photograph of one of the belles of San Juan. -ivT Pickle Crop Is Short. For the first time In ten years there is a scarcity of pickles. Since the 1st of November pickles have advanced from ?2 to $3 per barrel, and the pros pects are that a still further advance will be made before Christmas. In the west drought and insects killed a proportion of the vines. The 1899 crop is 40 to 60 per cent below normal. The acreage this year was 11,200, averaging eighty to eighty-five bushels to the acre. Last year's crop was 2, 108,334 bushels. The cucumbers from which the pickles are made are sep arated'Into large, small and gherkins, or tike exceedingly email. V- $Sg0 'f: !p!|: A Boiten Man Pleased, In conversation with some friends, a prominent Boston man told of his suf ferings from rheumatism and nervous ness, and one of his friends gave him some advice, which will be mentioned later, and which has proven to be of incalculable value. To successfully act on the advice, it was necessary to make a trip of ovpr 2.000 miles, but he undertook it, and pow thanks his friend for the advice, as he finds himself fully relieved of his bid trouble and has returned to his !rasiness iome feeling able to cope with his demands, a new man. The advice given was to go to Hot 9prings, South Dakota, and the take .lie baths and enjoy the finest climate of any health resort in America. If this man was satisfied after making a long trip, those residing within a few hundred miles and similarly afflict ed can certainly afford to try it, or rather can't afford to neglect to try it. Ask any agent of the North-Western line for full particulars, or write J. It. BUCHANAN, General Passenger Agent, "F. E. & M. V. R. R.. Omaha, Neb. Icebergs in the Atlantic sometimes last for 200 years. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES pro duce the fastest and brightest colors of any kno vn dye stuff. The father of Constable, the painter, was a miller and a flour merchant. Try Grain-o! Try Graln-o! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without in jury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from p.ure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-fourth the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers. Marshal Suchet was a silk-winder's boy and enlisted in the ranks. Lane's Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In or iler to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Charlotte is a French name meaning ail Noble. Mrs. WlnBlow'fl Soothing Syrnp. Tor children teetblng, softens the Rums, reduces !n flaminatlou, aluya pain, cures wind colic. 23c«bottle- Silk manufactures were established in Europe in A. D. 550. THE GRIP CURE THAT ICE9 CUBE Laxative Kromo Quinine Tablets removes the cause that produces La Grippe. K. W. Grove's signature is on each box. Soe. Billiards were invented in France by Devigne, about 1471. Plso's Cure for Consiimp Ion has saved me large -ctor bills.—C. a e.'. 12-i) Re fe,ciic Sq.,lJhilada.ptv.a, fa., Dec. 0, 'J5. A searchlight that equals moonlight has been invented by a lieutenant in the German army. The chemical used is acetylene and the rays illumin io every spot for a distance of'100 miles. smssew. f- »i\paratiq similcting iheFosdaiK ling die Stomachs\ LNKVN f" welsof CHILDREN is Promotes Digeslion,CheerPul ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. KOTNARCOTIC. JtmpeofOUJlrSSMVELmcasa fan^km Seal" jllx.Sauui AdMUSmkt ^anSiA H&mJiud C&rt/udJiifar mtqmn FUntr. A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Fevensh ness and Loss SLEEP. OF Facsimile Signature or NEW YORK. A N S EXACT copy OF WRAPPER. 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Mnoti 14 Nut Set, Oi acker and tf Plcjts, silver Pitted so IK Ba*e HaT), "Association," best qoal.100 16 AlarmCloek.nfckel 150 17 Bi* Oennine Rogers' Teaspoons, best l»*ed goods i5u 19 Wa'cJi, nickel, stem wind and set.. Sou 10 Carvers, good steel, bnckhorn handles 200 90 Six aennine Racers' Table Spoons, best plated goods.. fi 81 each, Knives and Forks, back horn handles $50 99 Biz each. Genuine RJcers' Knives and Forks, best plated goods. 6611 THE AWV? OFFFR EXPIRES NOVEMBER 3Dth. IBfil Special Notice! 8'" hundred, if rwrtrM hr o.im &-ch 1 WBiSAIt IN flll.Vl) that dine'a worth af HOBBIgL Kinsi ngtoii, D. C. Wa« :utes Claims. Pension Bureau, 15 iKlJ^tinatiiiL' Hainis. atty aiuoeh DR. SETH ARNOLD'S COUGH KILLER has stood the test of 60 years and is still the Best CougU Remedy Sold. Cures when other remedies fail. Tastes good children like it. Sold by all druggists—25 cents. Thirty Years CASTORIA •MI CKWTAtm COM—NT, NEW VORR eiTV. 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Jbnt jwUl bejpaW^fop in GA6H .'on Uu ot ivutf ranf |*8f STAR PLUG TOBACCO willtaatlonger aad afford aura plea*nr. tbiu dlatft worth wt •titerhiud. MAKE THE TEST SeMUqitO COarTIXEgTAL TOBACCO Od as. k\l 4