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Ills (innltflcHtlonn. Official of Fire Department—Is tliis friend you want to get on the force a bright sort of a fellow O'Harrigan—Sure, he isn't bright enough to set the worruld afoire, ez ye inoight say, but I'm thinkin' he'd do a good job helpin' put it out wanst it got a-goin'.—Harper's Bazar. Beauty la Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without It. Cascarets Candy Ca thartic cleans your blood and keeps It clean by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all impurities from the body. Be gin to-day to banish pimpies. boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly, bil ious complexion by taking Casearets— beauty for 10 cents. All druggists. Sat isfaction guaranteed. 10c, 25c, GOc. "Oh, I can stick up for myself," said the tack in the chair. "I won't be sat upon Ions *t a time." COSMO BUTTERMILK TOILET SOAP makes the skin soft, white and healthy. Sold everywhere. It doesn't take more than one -whisky straight to get some men terribly twisted. a!Hng Heaves ovc warning ol Whiter So the falling of the hair tells of the approach of age and declining power. No matter how barren the tree nor how leafless it may seem, you confidently expect leaves again. And why? Because there -is ilife at the roots. So you ®eed not worry about the falling of your hair, the threatened departure of youth and beauty. And why? Because if there is a spark of life remaining in the roots of the hair will arouse ft into healthy activ ity- The b?ir ceases to come out: it begins to grow: and the glory of your youth is restored to you. We have a book on the Hair and its Diseases. It is free. Tibs Best Aftvlae Fro a. If you do lint obtain all the benefits you cxpected from the use of the Vigor, write the doctor about it. Probably there Is some difficulty with your gen eral system which may be easily removed. Address. DR. J. C. AVER, Lowell, Mass. fISH SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY. Don't be iooied with a n'«tiintosh or rubber coat, if you v-«ntacoat a a est storm buy the Fish .Brand Slicker. If rcottfor sale in your town, write for catalogue-to A. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. Sour Stomach •'After I was ladaeet to toy CASCA- BETH, I will never be without them in the house. Uy liver was in a very bad shape, and my head acbed and I had stomach trouble. Now. since tak ing Cascarets, I feel fine. My wife has also used them with beneficial results for sour stomach." Joa. Krehling, 1921 Congress St., St-Louis, Ma. CANDY CATHARTIC I WMI MAK1 IS bcuctua® TRADE MAftK ftSOWTBIIKO Pleasant, Palatable. Potent, Taste Good. Dc Good, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 25c, COo. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. .. atwllng Mr CnpiVi CfclMio, Moalrrat, Kcw V.rfc. I0-T0-BAC ftEEWIBF—- I Sit b-y ---g Tobacco Habit. CURE YOURSELF! Mijra. jP"? f°r unnatural discharges, inflammations, I irritations or ulcerations or mucous membranes. Prrrtota toaucioa. Painless, and not astrin- rtTHEt»»N8 CHEMIOAlOO. 8«nt or poisonous. I «oM byDninlili, or sent In plain wrapper, b* express, prepaid, loi •1.00. or .1 bottles, f2.7S. Circular sent on request PITH OF THE NEWS EVENTS OP THE PAST WEEK IN A COMJUNSIOD FORM. A General Rename of the Most Im portant News of tUe Week From All Parts of th» Globe, Boiled Down and Armnscd In Con venient Form tor Raitltl Perusal ny Diisy People. Washington Talk. Tlie United States government lias placed an order in England for 10,000, 000 cartridges. Regi-hiiioris have been issued con cerning military taxes to be collected in tlie Philippines. Gen. Miles has official r.ckno'.vledg nient I'ron?. Capt. Gen. Macias that the latter acquiesces in the terms of peace. It tons been decided l.»y tlie postoflice authorities to allow ail mail aaclrtssed to Spain to ijroeeea as before hostili ties begun. The subsistence department will have plenty of supplies ready to for ward to Cuba in case it is found nec essary. The secretary of the treasury has di rected that vessels of the Umted States only wi be cleared with the- transpor tation of merchandise between the United States and Porto Rico. The express companies have been in formed ti-r.t the iaw does not state whether tlie 'wmviaiiy or the shipper shall bear the j.-evenue tax, but that the company .-'hail be held responsible for its paymcat. Several pre/voHour in the marine corps have resulted. from the advance ment of Lk-r.t. W. 11. Huntington to tlie grade of. colonel. Maj. P.. L. Meade becoii.-:p p. lieutenaut colonel, Capt. J. IvI. T. Young a major, First Lieut. C. H. Jii'oheimer a captain, and Second Lieut. .V. II. Russell a first lieu tenant. People Talked Abont. The death of L*r, Zcucr, the musical compos-cr, is announced at Berlin. Mrs. Nelson A. Miles and Miss Miles will join Gen. Miles at Ponce, Porto Rico. Sir Wl'Jisw Augustus Frazer, hnrt., the authc." a .id one of the queen's bodyguard fev Scotland, is dead. Elm°r J. Gourdain, Company K. ii~ ond New York volunteers, and D. Brawand, Third United states iufaut ry died at Fort McPherr ::i, Ga., or iy. phoid i'ever. King Leopold IT. of. Belgium lias promised to visit Hartford City, Ind. on his comias American tour. Many of his former subjects are employed in the glass factories. The reported death of Mrs. Terriss widow of the actor who was mur dered by Richard Arthur Prince Dec 1 last, proves to have been an error Mrs. Terriss is seriously ill in London CaKnalties. Two members of a threshing ere v.- Idaho were killed by lightning. Three others were severely injured. Horace Adcock, twelve years of age, died from fright received during a heavy electrical storm at Macomb, 111 Samuel Byers of New York was drowned In the St. Joseph (Mich.) river near the Truscott boat works. His body was recovered. Severe wind, hail and rain storms which visited Southwestern Iowa and Western Illinois, caused considerable damage to grain and fruit. A conflagration devastated a vast area in the packing house Oislrict at Fresno, Cal. The loss is e.-^hnated at nearly half a million dollar.?. The steel Yukon river steamer Ma bel Lane, owT?d by Lara •& Cole of Chicago, anO. in. tow of the steamer Portland for Si:. Michael. w::s lost in Bering sea by the foolish action of a frightened crew. The men were saved with great difficulty. A caboose and several cars ran off a siding on the Valley railway at Akron Ohio, colliding with a freight. Chub Murray, brakeman, of Leavittsburg, Ohio, and Ross Morris, an operator, of Fairmont, W. Va were killed. Both were asleep in the caboose. Advices from Melbourne report that tlie American bark C. C. Funk, Capt. Nissen, which sailed from Tacoma May 22 for Melbourne, has been wrecked on Flinders Island, Ti}/ma.uia. Eleven of those on board, including Capt. Nissen. his wifp and to chil dren, were drowned. A great fire at Nijni Novgorod, capi tal of the government of the same name near the confluence of the Oka and the Volga, about 250 miles north east of Moscow, has destroyed a num ber of factories and eighty houses. Forty persons have been injured, and damage to the amount of 1,500,000 roubles lias been done. Criminal Record. John Searles, a wealthy farmer, killed his wife and liimsel:.: ?t Prince ton, 111. With his pocket knife he cut his wife's throat. Rev. Fluvius J. Borbst ?f '.-hicago is accused by his wife of Having given her the alternative of poison or a re volver with which to end her life. Mrs. Womert, wife of Emanuel Wc mert, who was murdered in bed near Lancaster, Pa., by supposed burglars, while his wife was aslepp by his side, committed suicide. pan, -n •r-.v. ', Foreign Notes, The American Bar association held its annual convention at Saratoga, N. Y. Eight deaths from sunstroke oc curred in Paris. Colombia lias agreed to ail the points of Italy's ultimatum regarding the Cerutti claim. The bubonic plague is again epidem ic at Bombay. There were 103 deaths officially reported last week. Japanese paper? say the government will protest against tlie United States olding the Hawaiian islands. A violent shock of earthquake was felt at Messina recently, throwing tlie inhabitants into a great panic. The British press makes favorable comment upon the conclusion of the Spiiiish-Anierican peace protocol. A dispatch published in St. Peters burg declares that England has as sumed a. protectorate over the whole of South Arab'a. The Portuguese ministry has re signed, and Senor Jose Sueanio has been charged with the task of forming a new cabinet. The lights in the harbor at Teneriffe, Canary islands, which were extin gushed shortly after the declaration of war, have been relit. The death is announced at London of Ferdinand Linke, a usurer, who was worth £2,000,000. His estate will go to liis daughter, who is a domestic ser vant. The London Daily Mail's Biaritz cor respondent says: It is -clear that ev erything is ready for a Carlist upris ing immediately upon the conclusion of peace negotiations. William Ogilvie, the newly appoint ed commissioner of the Yukon, says lie lias no power to abate the royalty on Klondike gold or to deal with the matter of the government reserved claims. After Sept. 1 a bounty will be grant ed by tlie French government on re fined French native and colonial su gars, for export, as follows: Per hun dred kilos, first grade, 2.42 francs second grade, 2.77 francs third grade, ii. 13 francs. Otlierwiae. Republicans of the Fourth Wiscon sin district nominated Theobald Otjen for congress. New York capitalists will start a bank at San Juan, Porto Rico. It will be capitalized at §500,000. The French ambassador and his staff recently paid a visit to the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon. Gen. Shafter reports the customs re ceipts at Santiago, from July 30 to Aug. 13, inclusive, $58,445.24. The Pieadilly club of Cincinnati has had made a beautiful loving cup which is to be presented to Admiral Dewey. Andrew Carnegie has offered the town council of the town of Dumfries, Scotland, the sum of £10,000, to build* a public library. Charles W. Depauw of New Albany, Ind., has filed a petition of bankruptcy. 1-Ie places his liabilities at $850,000 and assets at $45,000. The attorney general of Ohio has de cided to bring an action against the American Steel and Wire company, under the anti-trust law. The twelfth biennial convention of the Bavarian societies of North Amer ica have closed at Pittsburg. Cincin nati was chosen for the next meeting place. Gov. Culberson and his entire cab inet, accompanied by forty prominent state politicians, left Atlanta. Ga., for the Omaha exposition in a special train. The conference of state and provin cial boards of health in session at De troit. declared tuberculosis to have killed more people than any other af fection. The Pullman company recently dis tributed .almost $8,000,000 in dividends to the stockholders. This was a spe cial dividend, amounting to $20 per share. Gen. Wilson, chief of engineers, has ordered all mines, cables and electrical apparatus connected with harbors and rivers of the United States moved as rapidly as possible. A syndicate has been formed of all the alleged heirs of the late merchant prince, A. T. Stewart, and they have determined to make one more fight for the money they claim to be entitled to. Harry P. Young of Middletown, Pa., on whose farm it is proposed to estab lisha military camp, secured a prelim inary injunction against the Pennsj'l vania Railway company to prevent it building stations on the farm. The directors of the Home brewery of Indianapolis have voted to sell the plant to the Indiana Brewing com pany, which is supposed to represent the malt trust. The price to be paid is $400,000. Creditors of the estate of the late Adolph Sutro of San Francisco, have been busy for several days ou an in vestigation. The total indebtendness is a trifle over $700,000 and the ap praised value is more than three times that amount. Tennessee Republicans meet in state convention at Nashville and nominate James A. Fowler of Clinton for gov ernor. The platform indorses the ad ministration of President McKinley and reaffirms allegiance to tlie St. Louis platform. Gen. C. Hart Merriam, chief of the United States biological survey on the Pacific, coast, says: "We are working out the natural life belts of animals' and plants so as to detenrtine what plants are best adapted to specific re gions. A bulletin will soon be Issued. nnconrnprliipr Rnelielorhood. A lifteeu-story bachelor apartment building is to be erected on tlie south east corner of Fifth avenue and Forty flftli street. New York, by the Mat thew Byrnes estate, at a cost of $750, 000 or more. Matthew Byrnes, who made a fortune as a builder, bought this plot in 1S57 for $80,000. It is now worth $ 1,000,000. Tlie llii!t iKl Ilieycle in tlie AVorltt. A German lias just completed a bi cycle that has one wheel nine feet in diameter. Two people ride on it—one on each side. It runs easily because of its scientific construction. The scien tific formula of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the reason of its great vir tues in making the weak strong. If your health is poor, try a bottle. iOc, The Only One. The Rage—There is only one success* fill argument to be employed in a con troversy with a woman. The Tyro— Aiul what is that? The Sage—Dead silence.—Puck. Wheat 40 Cents Busliel. How to grow wheat, with big profit at 40 cents and samples of Salzer's Red Cross (80 Bushels per acre) Winter Wheat, Rye, Oats, Clovers, etc., with Farm Seed Catalogue for 4 cents postage. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., La Crosse, Wis. v/.n.u. The prisoner who wants to be bailed out would not find any relief from eating sponge cake. For a perfect complexion and a clear, healthy skin, use COSMO BUTTERMILK SOAP. Sold everywhere. It isn't leap year, but some women cannot even get out of a cab without offering a man their hand.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic cure constipation forever, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. Bicycles and anti-fat are responsible for a considerable falling off in the population. A AAA A A A AAA AAA rSTARCHl TofcEAT invent^ REQ.UIRESNOCOOKIN3. MAKES OOLLARS MD GUFFS STIFF AND NICE AS WHEN FIRST BOUGHT HEW. ONE POUND OF THIS STARCH WILL (90 AS FAR AS A POUND AND A HALF OF ANY OTHER STARCH. VlW«f*CTURED OHLVBy "U.C.HUBINGERBROS'C? ^KeokukJowa. NewHaven.Conn./ |ui/miniiiiiiiiinimiiiimim ii 1 •A rr,- .W—h- *. .V- VT»TTTTfTTTTT'rTTTTtf?TIHtTTV?tTTTTTTTTTTTy^ I *ern» Of BATTLE AX! THEN WU-L§\)J\5\tNQt?v. Everybody surrenders to Battle Ax. There is no greater hardship than to be de prived of your and any one who has once chewed Battle Ax will give up most any thing to get it. 10c. buys a larger piece of Battle Ax than of any other kind of high grade quality. Pemember the name THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SVRUP Co. only, and Ave wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing tho true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Fig's is manufactured by the CALIFOKNIA FIG SVRUP Co. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding tlie worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the CALI FORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. with the medi cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. 8AN FRANCISCO, Cal. LOtJISVliI.L.E. Kv. si'Wvmiir.v.T. IRONING MADE EASY. HAS MANY IMITATORS, BUT NO EQUAL. This Starch is prepared on scientific princi ples, by men who have had years of experience in fancy laundering. It restores old linen and summer dresses to their natural whiteness and imparts a beautiful and lasting finish. The only starch that is perfectly harmless. Contains no arsenic, alum or other in jurious substance. Can be used even for a baby powder. ASK YOUR GROCER FOR IT AND TAKE NO OTHER. when you buy again. HANDFUL OF DIRT MAY BE A HOUSE FUL OF SHAME." CLEAN HOUSE WITH SAPOLIO $\ A 1 Vf .,