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Salt Rheum You may call it eczema, tetter or milk crust. But no matter what you call It, this skin disease which comes In patches that burn. Itch, discharge a watery matter, dry and ■cale, owes its existence to the presence of humors In the system. It will continue to exist, annoy, and per haps agonize, as long as these humors remain. It Is always radically and permanently cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla which expels all humors, and is positively unequalled for all cutaneous eruptions. A Satisfactory Score. "You never seem to give even a thought of your ancestors." "Oh, yes, I do; I often rejoice that, within public recollection, none of them ever got hanged." No Disappointment. "Isn't your new house taking long er to build than you expected?" "Oh, 110, I've only spent twice as much on it, so far, as I anticipated " Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contaiu Mercury, As mcrcnry will surely destroy the sense of amell and comvletely derange the whole sys tem when entering it through the mucous sur faces. Such articles should never be used ex cept on prescriptions from reputable physi cians, as the damage thev will do is ten fold to the pood you can possibly darive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., T01A10.0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken Internally, and made In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney A Co. Testi monials free. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle, Hall'i Family Fills are the btrt. Keeping Up Appearances. Excited man (to reporter)— Now, in writing up the story of the burg lary of my house, you must say that they overlooked .$4,000 in the cup board. Reporter (incredulously) —Really? Excited Man—Yes. You see, I don't want the public to know that they could go through my house and only find $32 worth of silver and stuff worth stealing. SIVA Permanently Cured. No flta or nervousues ■ 119 after firm ■my V uteof !>r. Kline'R Great Nerve Restorer. Bend tor Fit B K trial bottle and treat* is*. Db.H.ll Kline. Ltd..U3l Arch St.. Philadelphia, P* Two-fold. Sniffs—There is more sin in Chi cago than in any othei city on the face of the earth. Snuffs—l beg to differ. "I defy you to name another with more sin in it." "Cincinnati." Disproved. "He can't be a good business man. Why, he is a college professor." "But he has married the daughter of a millionaire." Laxative Promo-Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents. Pref.red Them at Rest "You want the pockets to run up and down, I suppose," said the tailor. "No, sir," the irritable customer replied. "I prefer stationary pock ets. You may make the slits perpen dicular, however." A Man of Courage. She—l didn't suppose you had the nerve to kiss me. He—Oh, yes, I have got nerve enough to do anything. CASTOR IA For Infant* and Children. Tho Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the /H? , Signature of /4&CC*U>f/. The Literal Mind. "Tommy, how many wars has the United States been engagedi n?" "Five, sir." "Enumerate them." "One, two, three, four, five." Meroury as jggH sEBS Potash fflEal law and bowels, and a dangerous form of dyspepsia and * &ONi often chronic diarrhoea follow its use. r jm mittoUeSe Stamto to tw« JJ«r» .I*l c "\ 1 chinsetoPotash is made, the stomach rebels you are puton Merc" l "? the bone. bMoma diMawl. and and bloubw from the ZSJfigUTS,l«.l,ft by tbft of fc ihe OTly wrisrs s£si&££A baf tormTwid an satl.fi.d that the «P" infaUib i e rem edy for the dlaeaee was makln* would mo# 7* 2?«w«£m this peculiar poison. It life-loss Invalid w WjM »7 V % mm! destroysand eradicates disappeared and soon every particle of the lvl.Me*«»efthe disease waa left. Xam now thirty poison, and makes the alns^r»ars^sM, andh ave seen no sl*ns of It durlnr tTood as healthy and the past eighteen pure as before the dis for It. W*. lIUMOIi, Pmljr, no. ease was contracted. 8 8. 8 is the only purely vegetable blood purifier known, and we offer Ji.ooo for proof that it contains any mineral ingredient whatever. The general health imt>?oves as the Specific purges the svstein of impurities, and as new, rich blood brains to flow in the veins the unsightly sores and other evidences of blood poison dfciannesr: strength returns and you are forever rid of this loathsome disease. Sllliurn I» beet time to enre Catarrh, VIIIMID Bronchitis nnd Consumption, i " 111 UURtS WHtHt *11 ILSI _ ■ \||BBPI| our remedy U guaranteed, |1. | H Beit Cough Syrup. Ta»te» Good. v*H tfUmmLII p. o. Bo* »»3. M 'q time. Sold by druii«l»t«. — W. I. Win IW, liffslo. *. y. I Np His Ont Commission. "Docs your artist friend lmve many commissions?" "I believe lie had one last year. His father-in-law asked him to paint the barn." Eminence. "She married a poet, didn't she? And is he successful?" "Oh, yes, remarkably so. Why, his name is a household word on two continents, and last year his income was nearly $300. Still More Counterfeiting. The Secret Service lias unearthed another band of counterfeiters and secured a large quantity of bogus hills, which are so clever ly executed that the average person would never suspect them ot being spurious. Things of great, value are always selected for imitation, notably Hostetter' Stomach Hitters, which has many imitators but no equals for di«oders like indigestion, dys pepsia, constipation nervousness and gen eral debility. Always go to reliable drug gists who iiave the reputation of giving what you ask for. Syndicate Defined. "Papa, what is a snydicate?" "My son, it is a body of human beings entirely surrounded by money.' <8 This signature is on every box or the genuine Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablet. the remedy that cures a cold In one day Necessities Come First in Texas. On account of a scarcity of bricks in a Texas town the congregation of the local church allowed their new cdifice to remain unfinished while a saloon was being erected. I do not believe Piso's Cure fur Con sumption has an equal for coughs ami colds,—John F. Hoyf.r, Trinity Springs. Ind., Feb. 15. 1900. Up-to-Datc Game. Ted—Was the game close? Ned—Close? I should say so. The crowd was just pouncing on the um pire when the police reserves arrived. YOUR HOME AND FENCE 3. No Man Can Conveniently Go Without Either of These Necessities. I You may as well talk about going without eating as going without fences. I f you have a house and home you must have a fence around it. If you have a farm you must mark its boundaries by fences, and also shut in the stock with fences. A fence is in many ways as import ant as a man's house. As a commun ity grows the subject of fences assumes more and more prominence. The success of the "Anchor" fence in the United States has been phe nomenal for the chief reason that it combines economy, strength and ! beauty in a way that instantly ap peals to everybody. In the Eastern states . where it has been known lon ger, the factories making it are pressed to full capacity. In this state, where it is comparatively new, its widespread adoption seems to be ! only a question of the agents getting around and showing their wares to | the people. There is ample reason for all the talk going on about the "anchor" fence, as it is solving the great fence problem satisfactorily. It is not only well adapted to ornamental work, but it is the biggest kind of a blessing to stock raisers and ranchmen gener ally. It is made of heavy wire and the joints are held rivet-tight by the patent "anchor" clamps. It does not cost as much as the old-fashioned fences, yet it lasts practically forever. It is worth anyone's while to write to the manufacturers, The Portland Anchor Fence Co., 742, Nicolai Street. Portland, Oregon, for catalogue and pictures explaining their wonderful fence. Repartee. He—How do you feel when I beat you at whist? She—Not quite so bad as you feel when your friend Jenkins beats you at poker. CRIME WITH THE PEN REMARKABLE FORGERIES THAT ARE STILL REMEMBERED. There Have Been Others a* Clever as the Famous "Jim ths I'enman"—A Forger Who Footed Bank Officials in Reveral European Cities, j The history of forgery records many oiarvelously clever and audacious feats, Lint tiie most daring and skillful of them all stands to the credit, or rather dis credit, of that most dramatic of forgers, Jim the I'enman. When Jim was arrested at Memphis, Tenn., 011 a charge of forgery lie was able to produce so many striking testi monials to iiis character from the prin cipal men in the United States that the judge considerably reduced the severity of his sentence. He had been In prison only ft few weeks when the governor of the jail re ceived 1111 official notification that an influential petition signed by the judge, jury and many leading citizens, had been been forwarded to the Governor of the State praying for the convict's release on the ground that "he bore an excellent character, and had been a dupe and not a willing or conscious agent in the forgery;" and a mouth or two later an order was received from the Governor commanding his release. It was some time afterward that the discovery was made that testimonials, petitions and order for release were all the product of Jim's own clever pen, and that they had been actually written 111 Jail with the connivance of a friendly warder. Twenty years ago a convicted mur derer was lying In Newgate prison un der sentence of death, when a reprieve was handed to the Governor. Some in formality aroused his suspicions, and the matter was placed In the hands of detectives, who discovered tiliat the re prieve had been forged by a man who had a "conscientious objection" to the death penalty, and who had tnken this darlug means of preventing it in this particular case. A few years ago a Greek presented himself at the Bodleian Library. Ox ford. with a roll of ancient manuscript which he wished the authorities to pur chase. The most recent of them dated from the thirteenth century, and, one by one, the musty time-stained parch ments were submitted to the late Mr. Coxe, the lib:arian, who examined them without comment. The last of them, a document ostensibly as old as the most ancient New Testament manuscripts, was proudly placed on the table. "Now, how old do you tliluk that Is?" the Greek asked, in undisguised triumph. "About the middle of this century," Mr. Coxe quietly answered, as he examined it carefully, and almost before the words weie out of h!s mouth the Greek had snatched up his forgeries and was out of the room. It is doubtful whether any forger, an cient or modern, was more skillful than B—•, who for many years baffled the combined ingenuity of the bankers of London. Mr. B 's forte was the forg ing and manipulation of letters of credit 011 foreign banks. About eight years ago he deposited a sum of £300 with a Loudon bank, re ceiving a letter of credit for this amount on the bank's continental agent, Within a few (lays he drew this amount from a Swiss bank, the letter being duly canceled and the amount drawn in dorsed upon it. To anyone but B the note would have been absolutely useless; but he did not take tills view at all. By means of chemicals he re moved the cancellation marks and In dorsement. and presented the note again in Belgium; again he used his chemicals and drew another £300 In Paris, repeating the process until on that single note for £300 he bad drawn ten times tfoe amount. To make such tricks Impossible the amounts were In future given on the notes In water mark, to which our for ger proceeded to add a cipher, also In water mark, thus enabling him again to draw £3,000 on a £300 note. To the wa ter mark was then added the amount in perforated figures; but B simply cut out both water mark and perforation from the note, cunningly Inserted a new piece of paper In pulp, and on it forged figures for ten times the amount or more. So skillfully were the substitution of fresh paper and the forgeries of tihe tlgures effected that even with a micro scope It was Impossible to see that the note had been tampered with, and on one occasion B actually forged an entire note so perfectly that even the bank officials who were supposed to have Issued It could not detect the fraud. Two mem were sitting In a public house waiting for a man with whom an arrangement had been made to con coct a money-making crime, when the door was silently and stealthily opened and a head furtlfely introduced and much more quickly withdrawn. Not quickly enough, however, for In that brief Instant Its owner had been rec ognised, and before he had proceeded Ave yards a detective's hand was placed on his shoulder. Thus "Jim the Pen man," In spite of all his cleverness, fell at last into the simplest of traps and his career came to an end. WHITE PINE DISAPPEARING. Result of Ruthless Detraction of These Tress Is fcvldent. "The white pine tree is disappearing," said a student of the conifer family to a reporter In the grounds of the De partment of Agriculture, "though now that attention has been called to the ruthless destruction of the trees the various schemes of reforestration and ABERDEEN HERALD. conscftattve lumbering are being given consideration. It has been calculated that the original stand of white pine in Canada and the United States repre sents something like live hundred bill ion feet of merchantable lumber, board measure. In 1801) It was computed that the stand had been reduced to one hun dred and ten billion feet, sixty-four bill ion being in the United States in tile region of the great lakes, forty billion in Canada and six billions scattering. "The white pine Is distinctively a northern tree. The native distribution of the tree was from Newfoundland 011 the east to Lake Winnipeg on the west, and thence to the southern boundary of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut. The white pine belt also followed the Ap palachian range so far to the south as Georgia. The best growth of the tree was in Maine and the British territory east of the State, along the St. Law rence Itivor, in New Hampshire, Ver mont, northern New York, Michigan. Wisconsin. Minnesota and central Pennsylvania. The forests of white pine have been annihilated in New Kuglatid. though some cutting contin ues iu Maine. Some white pine still grows iu almost Inaccessible parts of New York and Pennsylvania. "According to Prof. Spalding, the white pine tree seldom attains a height greater than lUO feet, or a diameter of more than forty inches. A tree of this variety once measured by the division of forestry of the Department of Agri culture was 170 feet tall and forty eight inches thick. The tree was 400 years old. It was a little sapling tifty years before Columbus sailed from l'ayos. "It Is not an easy tree to propagate, so many of the seeds being unfertile. It does not, as a rule, produce flowers and cones until it Is fifteen or twenty years old. During the first decade of Its life It will grow about one foot ev ery twelve months, and It grows a little faster till maturity. A tree twenty years old ought to be about twenty-flve feet high, and at thirty or forty years of age It ought to measure about sixty feet."—Washington Star. I< that Tremendous Cataract's Voire tn He Hu*lie;t Forever? No Illusions as to the ultimate des tiny of Niagara Kails are entertained by the Electrical Review, anil not only does it believe, with most people who have given serious and practical con sideration to the question whether the United Antes and Cauada can afford to mulutnin the cataract as u spectacle, that the utilization of the power avuil ble there will continue until 110 water is left to run over the precipice, but it says so boldly, and does not talk non sense about "inappreciable" difference* In the amount of water to make the plunge as one company after another diverts big fractions of It Into under ground channels. Already the town by the falls, once a village of hotels and curio shops, with 110 industries except those related to tlie exploitation of sightseers, has grown to an Importhut manufacturing city, and a discussion, which Is not likely to remn'n facetious long, has begun as to whether Niagir.a Fulls is a suburb of Buffalo, or Buffalo u suburb of Niagara Kails, The river is a big one. however, and the cataract will be an Impressive spec tacle for many years to come. At pres ent some half a million liorse-power has been or soon will be developed, and as yet neither the beauty nor the niag nilicence of the cataract has been de creased to a degree noticeable to any except the most careful observer. Just the same the fails are doomed as falls, aud a few generations hence. If there are any sentimentalist* left them, they will look with sorrow on a large, dry wall of rock which no man alive has ever seen. Of course the change will be lamentable tn some respects, but the cost of preserving the cataract as It is would be so enormous that the thought of paying It must pass away—New York Times. A young Arizona lawyer who recently visited Detroit gave the following as an example of the style of justice that prevails In some remote sections of the frontier: A certain Justice of the peace whose knowledge of the law was never gain ed from books or actual practice before the bar was hearing an assault and bat tery case. The lawyer for the defense was shouting his arguments when the court said: "That will do. Set down," He then adjusted his spectacles and sagely observed: "Prisoner, shtand up! Accordln' tah th' law an' th' evydence—an' there Is no ev.vdlnce—Ol foliid yez guilty, so*, an' folne ye $"iO. If ye* air guilty, faith, It's a very lolght slntlnce; an' if yez are not guilty it'll be a mighty good lesson for ye."—Detroit Free Press. A story related by Correspondent Mc- Donald of the discovery of a Boer who had received a terrible bayonet wound through the ribs. As the man was be ing carried Into the British lines a Lou don "Tommy" who was watching him asked If he was badly hurt. "Yes," said the doctor; "do you know him?" "Course I do," said the soldier: "he's one o' mine. I guv It 'lm. but I did It as gentle as I could. It wasn't the shovin' In—lt was the pullln' out. Lucky for Mm he met me!"— London Chronicle. "There comes my special," said a brakemun the other day, as he looked up aud saw his wife approaching. A man should not be blamed for the mistakes bo makes; he should be cred ited as he profits by thim. NIAGARA FALLS. Frontier Justice. A Gentle Thrust. FARM MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES.. jUlkkeU* tssr I Best and onT^ pprfcct blow«»rcut ter 011 Oie niarkeU JOHN POOLE, Portland, Oregon, Buggies.' Plows, Hollers and Kngines, Br.lt possible to bnllil. Best muterial. Best pro- ° hit. i , • portion. Ben finish. Lightest running, seventy » lll'ltniila and Pump? an I tienerai StavkiTami ; iC'.ys,V.; 1 Machinery. See us before buying. Wholesale Boots and Shoes KRAUSSE & PRINCE, 87 and 89 First Street, Portland, Oregon. ~, ... . ~ , Catalogue Furnished All Kinds Carried in Stock. upon Application. Lacking in Melody. Jones—Van rounder's latest music is bald stuff. Smith—Wliv bald? Jones—Because it needs an "air restorer." Getting Back to Form. "Is your 111 a well again, Eddie?" "Well, yes'm, but slie ain't quite up to her old form yet. Pa fought a draw wid her last night." Mothers will find Mrs. Wlnslow's Sooth ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. After the Reccnciliatlon. Dooley—Say, Hooley, gin me a punch on th' jaw opposite phwere yen kicked me. Hooley—Phat for. Dooley—l want yez to straighten out me face. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Rromo Quinine Tablets. All lruirgists remind the money if it falls to cure. K. W. drove's signature is on cach box. 25c. Hence the Term. Clarence—Why do you say the wedding was patriotic? Algernon—Well, the bride was red, the groom was white and ner father, who had all the bills to pay, was blue. rotr KNOW WHAT YOC ARE TAKING When vou t»ie Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic, because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is slmnly Iron and Qui nine In a tasteless form. No Cure, Ne Pay. sue. For Others. "It sounds funny to hear you talk ing that way. When wc were at col lege you didn't believe in eternal punishment at all." "I know, but I didn't have any enemies then." Holtt's 4 rliool. At Men In I'nrk, Hnu Mateo County, Cal., with its lipniititiil, Biirroiimiinirs, perfect climate, careful supervision, thorough instruction, coinpletc laboratories, ami gymnasium, easily maintain* its position in the front ranks of schools ior bovn on the I'acitic Coast. Ira U. Uoitt, I'n. D., Principal. His Impression. "Mandy," said Farmer Corntosscl, "I guess it would lie just as well not to say so much about home cookin' when you are talkin' up your summer board." "Why not?" "'Cause some of these fellers act, to me, like that was what they was tryin' to get away from." I PiTSmT i a. taste Rood. Eat them like candy. They I 1»W1UI J nltV remove any bad taste In the mouth, leav- I f* ATU Jl DTlf* I jng the breath sweet and perfumed. It Is I vAlnAnllw ) a pleasure to take them, and they are liked especially by children. sweeten the stomach by cleansing the mouth, throat and food channel. That SWEETEN I /mmnhflllv means, the y stop undigested food from . ! jjWWwIWIW souring In the stomach, prevent gas form- THE STOMACH I 'ng In the bowels, and kill disease germs of any kind that breed and feed In the en tire system. waammmmimii are purely vegetable and'contaln no mer btiDCl v - curlal or other mineral poison. They con rUHCLI AHWjmiHWIn Hist of the latest discoveries In medicine, urrCTADI C MIIJBUIIKW and form a combination of remedies un- VCUCInBLC i equaled to make the blood pure and rich and make clean skin and beautiful com plexion. ' tone the stomach and bowels and stir 41 . ..... ...... «_ the lasy liver. They do not merely soften LIVER TONIC the stools and cauee their discharge, but strengthen the bowels and put them Into wvwrwwnn lively, healthy condition, making their ac tion natural. ywvwwiwuiv never grip nor gripe. They act quietly, po»- Mll n RUT . ltlvely and never cause any kind of uncom lUlhU BUI £ZJtt\4H%yitny% fortable feeling. Taken regularly they make CURB IWMWNNW|tbi liver act regularly and naturally as It should. They keep the sewerage of the body properly moving and keep the system clean. Increase the flow of milk In nursing moth — ers. If the mother eats a tablet, It makes I BOON FOR her milk mildly purgative and has a mild I i tQQCfIwW* but certain effect on the baby. In tills way I MOTHERS i they are the only safe laxative for the VwwrwviYn nursing Infant. taken patiently, persistently, will cure any form of constipation, no matter how old or f«IIBC how often other remedies have farted. They vwltc rnllCOnfflUl are absolutely guaranteed to cure any case, constipation] Vr Kd^ 8 " m " nty wl " b,: ihfcerfVjlly rt cost 10c, 2Rc, BOc a bo*. Samples sent free 11. I. I. niMin for the asking. We publish no testimonials Wrue? /H, . but sell Cawarets on their merit under ab- NEVEK SULU I WlHtfAnOllv solute guarantee to cure. Buy and try a ... „ J W*' **'**?-> bo* to-day, or write us for free samples IN BULK I and booklet. 419 Mm muiN innr co., tHinoo *r iw toss. iaa nru/ inn will be paid to any reader of this paper who will re. a|UU KLTTAnU port to us any attempt of tubitftution, or sale of " something just aa good" when Cascarets art called toil and furnish evidence upoa which we can convict. All correspondence confidential. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. OREGON. PORTLAND. St. Helen'a School for Glrla• Tldrty-third year. Commodious build ings. Modern equipment, Academic and college preparatory courses. Spe cial courses in music and art. Illus trated catalogue. MIS( ELEANOR TEBBETTS. Principal. HILL MILITARY ► . academyjO JSffijPr] A Private 0 School (5 1 For boarding and day pupil». \ L ft <)f«ns September IH. Fine new building. The prineipßl VT/ Y has hud twenty-three years* n K \ experience in Portland. Cor i| f\ \ respondenee solicited. For 111 li \ cataloguesaddress 111 11 \ J. W. HIM,, M. !)., l\ P. 0. drawer 17, Portland, Or. Great Risk. "De pusson diit goes froo life actin' hahd to please," saiil Uncle Eben, "runs de riesk o' habin' folks take him at his word and <|iiit tryin*." Sorry He Lied. De Garry—You are the only woman I ever loved. Madge—lll that case I can't be your summer girl. I don't want any am ateur. The Beat Prescription fur JlaluUl •Jhills and Fever is a bottle of G rove's Tasteless Ohill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in tMtelesß form. No f'ure. No I'liy. l'rice 60c. A Straight Tip. Gentleman (caressing a pretty lit tle girl)— You little lieauty! You shall he my wife when you are grown up. Will you? "Xo, I don't want to get married, hut aunty there would like to.'' Summer Resolutions &k e Keetoy Curo Eure relief fiom liquor, opium and tobaeoa habit*. Send for particular* to •..u. iHtltnfa Moved to 4'JO William* Kimy imumu. a«.. >»■« Hide. M. F. M, V. Me. 33-lIM. WHKN writing to advertlaera please mention thle paper* 9