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Catarrh Cannot Be Cored with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts dlrcctly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and Is a regular pre scription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. 'f was a woman, an' married a man to reform 'im, I'd reform *im or keep qui et."—Cincinnati Enquirer, Cronp Cnred ID'SO Minutes By using Muco-Solvent. A 40-page book mailed free. Tells how to cure all throat and stomach ailments. Quinsy, catarrh, diphtheria, sore throat and colds, all cured, at home. Write Muco-Solvent Co., Chicago Head the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements they will afford a most interesting study, and will put you In the way of getting some excellent bargains. Our rdvertlsers are reliabl they send what they adver tise. Time may be a success as a wound healer, btit it seldom removes the sears. How is this? Perhaps sleepless nights caused it, or grief, or sick ness, or perhaps it was care. No matter what the cause, you cannot wish to look old at thirty. Gray hair is starved hair. The hair bulbs have been deprived of proper food or proper nerve force. AVer's Vigor Increase* the circulation In the scalp, gives more power to the nerves, supplies miss ing elements to the hair bulbs. Used according to direc tions, (ray hair. begins to •how color In a few day*. Soon It has all the softness and richness of youthand the color of early lira Tetania. s^ Would you like our book on (he Hair? Ve will gladly send 4t to you. Wrttm mi .ou do not obtain all tike benefits you expected from the Vigor, wrlte the doctor about lL He msybeable to suggest sometblng of value ('4s. sTS fi TA THIS IS TIE NEW MAINE, LAKCEII, FASTER AND MIGHTIER A large, and more powerful Maine will take the place of. the one blown np by the Spaniards in the harbor of Havana. The next three battleships to^be built will be the Maine, Missouri and Ohio. The first of these ships will represent not only the old "Pine Tree 8tate" on the rolls of the navy, but will keep alive the memory of the dastardly work which precipitated the Spanish war, and be a floating memo rial of the martyrs who found their death in the original ship of that name. As soon as the ship is finished she ought to be sent to Havana to Are a salute over the wreck of her name sake, which is the coffln of so many of our brave sailors. The Missouri will represent on the waters the great state of the "Middle Valley," and the Ohio the State which has supplied the country so many presidents and states men. Not since the civil war have Missouri and Ohio been represented among the fighting ships of the navy. Now that their names are to take the seas once more they will be borne by first-class battleships, sister ships to the new Maine. The original Maine was a second class battleships built from plans bought from an. English firm. The new Maine will be a first-class battle ship, built from American plans pre pared by the Navy Department. The plans originally prepared for the Maine and her two sister ships were changed after the battle of Santiago, and advantage taken of tne lessons learned in that fight. The principal changes made were with a view to an Increase of speed over that originally contemplated. The ne,w Maine is to have a speed of at least eighteen knots. What is said of the Maine applies, of course to her two sister ships. She will be a ship of over 12,000 tons displace ment, and in her main battery will carry four 12-inch and ten 6-inch guns. The original Maine was of 6,682 tons displacement, and in her main battery had four 10-inch and six 6-inch guns. Her speed was seventeen knots. While these figures give some idea of the superiority of the new Maine over the old one, the idea is only partially con veyed in them, for the new ship will be an embodiment of everything that has been learned by experience and ex periment, and conceived by ingenuity and study since 1890, when the ship wrecked in Havana harbor was built. Among other things, the new Maine will have under-water torpedo tubes, the first ever put in any ship in tl^ American navy. Torpedo tubes above the water line are so dangerous to the ship trying to use them that it is not probable that they will ever be used in battle. It has been recom mended that the torpedo tubes be taken out of all the battleships. A tor pedo fired from above water is liable to be hit by the rapid-fire guns of the enemy while it is in the tube, ready for launching, and exploded. This would hoist a battleship !'with its own petard." The British asserted some time ago that they had discovered a plan for using submerged torpedo tubes, and have put them in a few of their men-of-war. There were many difficulties In the way of successfully firing a torpedo from a submerged tube, but these have been overcome, and the Maine will be the first to have the advantage of the new plan. A torpedo fired .from a submerged tube Is not In danger of blowing up the •W® whieh fires It, and Is fully as liable as ohe fired above water to hit I the enemy and do its work. All the guna of the Maine, except the big 12«lnCh ones in the turrets, will be of the raptd*fire pattern. Her secondary battery' will be exception ally strong and so mounted thai no torpedo boat can creep.tip and cet In a "dead-angle"—that 2? position •jvhere the mat of ytbe aeetadivr tat* twjr eannot be trained lo*fl»ere frill be sixteen f-poinders and esv- Just What the Reincarnated Battleship and Her Twin Sisters, Ohio and Missouri, Will Be Able to Do to the Nation's Enemies. /i *j I eral automatic Colt guns and Impound ers in "the secondary battery. There is only one ship in the havy now us ing smokeless, powder, the New Or leans, formerly the Amazonas, which wais bought from the Brazilian govern ment at the outbreak of the Spanish war. The guns of the Maine, however, will be for smokeless powder, as will probably the guns of all warships hereafter. The Spaniards are far ahead of us in this respect. All of Cervera's ships at Santiago used smokeless pow der, while the American ships yrere continually enveloped in a cloud of their own smoke, whieh interfered with the marksmanship of the gun ners. They did excellent shooting as it was, but would have done better if their guns had used smokeless powder. It was at first planned to have the big turret guns of the Maine of the calibre of 13 inches, but 12-Inch guns were finally decided upon. This is the calibre of the turret guns of the Iowa, and the new 12-inch guns for smoke less powder whfth are to be placed in the turrets of the Maine will be as effective as the 13-inch guns on the older battleships. The big guns for the Maine will be slightly longer than the ones now used in battleships. The ad vantage of the 12-inch gun is that the gun and its mount weigh less than a 13-inch gun with its mount, and another is that more ammunition can be stored for it than for a gun of an inch larger calibre. In looking for speed every ounce of weight is a bat tleship is a factor not to be despised! In planning the Maine it was sought to do away with every bit of wood work possible. What little woodwork will enter Into the composition of the ship will be treated by a process whieh renders it absolutely non-combustible. The battle of the Yula and the battle of Santiago both proved the great dan ger of woodwork about a fighting ship. Another feature of the Maine will be her comparatively shallow draught, which will enable her and her sister ships to manetivre in waters where other ships of the same fighting power would be aground. This, it will read ily be seen, even by a layman, might sometime give the Maine a great ad vantage over an antagonist in a fight. It was originally intended to have the armor-plating of the Maine of 16% inch Harveyized steel, but then came THE NEW BATTLESHIP MAINE. along the wonderful "Kruppized" ar mor, and after exhaustive tests this armor has proved so good that the Maine will have 10-inch plates of it put on her instead of the 16%-inch Harveyized armor originally planned for. The change will admit of mak ing the armor belt of the battleship broader and of extending it further forward and aft. The Maine will be es pecially well supplied with electrical apparatus for lighting, etc. Her tur rets will be moved by electricity, and the ammunition will be hoisted from below and rammed into the gun by electricity. The new Maine will be 36S feet over the water line, 27 feet beam and will have a draught of 24 feet 7 inches when she has full supplies of, stores and ammunition and 1,200 tons of coal on board. The new Mntno will at all times and In all places be able to avenge the old Maine, and, with her sister ships, will form an ad dition to the navy of the United States which will do much to place the navy in the front rank—where It belongs. A BMsn to Vint Principle* "I had supposed until yesterday, doc tor, that the days of bleeding p*H»ntw were pest" "And BO they are. But what changed your mind?" "The bill you Just sent ine."—Harper's Weekly. ®'"*FC«EE MANS— TSWH JJL Two towns in Kansas, Lost Springs and Bomana, have not an Idle nun or boy, «r an unoecupted house, or dog. Bach town has a population of about lOfc ANGEL BARTON.** TfceSame Woman la the Civil War Mow in the Cuban Straggle. In the Ant'ietam campaign of Sep* tember, 1862, a brigadier-general hur ried back from the front with a force to rescue a wagon train of hospital sup plies which had been ambuscaded and shelled by the enemy, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. To his surprise ho found the teamsters mending their har ness, rearranging their broken teams and getting ready to move on. The train had been attacked, but had not stampeded, as usual under such cir cumstances. The brigadier surveyed the scene of order and discipline with amazement. He turned to the presid ing genius and asked: "How in the world did you keep these men from running away?" "They stayed because I did," Miss Barton replied, simply. She wore boots, and her skirts were tucked up in wet- weather fashion. She had been out in the storms and the mud for ten days in the Maryland mountains. What a sight she was! This was the first time a nurse corps had gone into the field with a union army, ready to work among the wound ed as soon as the fighting began. The idea was Miss Barton's. She had been in the peninsular campaign and bad seen the need. When the army started to head off Lee on his Maryland raid Miss Barton got a detail of wagons return with all its accustomed severity. from Assistant Quartermaster General Rucker, filled them with supplies which she had collected, but not from the government, and started after the ar my. She traveled so vigorously and kept so close to the fighting end of the army that the prudent mule drivers became alarmed for their precious skins. One night they revolted against petticoat government. Under the lea dership of a stalwart teamster they re solved as they sat around the camp-fire that they would refuse to drive forward in the morning. News of the crisis reached Miss Barton when the hour came to start. She climbed down out of the wagon where she had slept and went to the camp fire, around which the mutineers were clustered. She laid her hand on the arm of the big conspirator and asked him if he was not going to hitch up and start for ward. "I don't know about that," he growled, with a scowl on his face and a shake of his head. "Yes, you do know," she said. "You will obey, be cause I give the orders." Ten minutes later every man was hitching up his mules, and in half an hour the nurse corps train was on its way to the front. Until this time the sanitary commission had limited its relief work to camps and hospitals. Clara Bar ton at Antietam carried the work upon the battlefield. That was where Sergt. William McKinley drove a mule team with a wagon load of hot coffee along the firing line. To the poor, shattered soldier on his cot she showed the ten der heart of a woman. She was "An gel Barton" to him and to all the rest of the wounded men. The mutinous mule drivers who set her wishes at de- fiance discovered that those boots and tucked up skirts went with a mind born to command. Otter Is a Speedy Swimmer. The otter is the fastest swimming quadruped known. In the water it ex hibits an astonishing agility, swim ming in a nearly horizontal position with the greatest ease, diving darting along beneath the and .i. surface with & speed equal, if not superior to that of many fishes. IRONICAL IPS. If a man has one little vice it hides lots of big virtues from the eyes of his neighbors. If time is money one ought to re alize more on a cheap watch at a pawnshop. If a man refuses to see his errors he Is playing afalnst himself with loaded dice. If the teacher floga a girl pupil he hits a miss if the girl dodges she misses a hit.' If you would discover words not found in the dictionaries read sine poems. If a man thinks he knows it all it always hurta him when he happens to learn the truth. If people would frankly admit their Ignorance lots of UMles* argument might be avoided. If you want to boniif trouble you will always find people willing to lend It without cecurltyw—Ohleago News. A NATION OP DYSPBPTIC8. JTOM CM Mountaineer, WalMUa, N. Dakota The remorse of a guilty stomach is what °,aJ°rlty of tha people are suffering with to-day. Dyspepsia is a characteristic American disease and it is frequently stated that "we a nation of dyspeptios." Improper food, hurried eating, mental 7ro"T •*h®«8ti?,* M,yof theee prod.ee a lack of vitality in the system, by eausinc the blood to lose its life-sustalnc element? The blood is the vital element In our lives and should be carefully nurtured. Restore the blood to its proper condition, dviMDtla will vanish and good health follow For example, in the county of Pembina, North Dakota, few miles from Walhalla, resides Mr. Earnest Snider, a man of ste? ling integrity, whose veracity cannot b* doubted. He says: V1. The Doctors Disagreed. *1 became seriously ill three years ago. The doctor gave me medicine for indiges tion, but I continued to become worse. I bad several physicians at intervals who gave me some relief, but the disease would "Iread in the newspapers articles r»- Sardine the wonderful curative powers of r. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and finally concluded to try the pills. I purchased six boxes. This waefivemontht ago. The first box gave me much relief. 1 continued taking the pills, and after using four boxes was cured." These pills are recognized everywhere aa a specific for diseases of the blood and nerves. For paralysis, locomotor ataxia, and other diseases long supposed incurable,they have proved their efficacv in thousands of cases, fc'nrther Eiplalneb. "Did you say that gentleman mado his fortune by some Important discov eries in medical lore?" "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "He discovered a new way to advertise a tellable recipe."—Washington Star. Better Than a Scandal. 'So," said the famous manager, "you would like to go on the stage, would you? Well, what are your qualifica tions? Have you ever had a divorce?" replied the beautiful applicant, but I have been asked to christen a boat and I think I can stir up quite a fight over the question of using wine or water."—Chicago News. Not a Quiet Tnlkcr. She—Is your wife talkative still? He—No but she's still talkative.— Chlcncro News. NEURALGIA Will have peace from PAIN and a CURE by using in The man who wants can get it anywhere* It is as pop ular as sunshine and almost as universal* It satisfies that dry taste in the mouth better^than anything else, and you can buy a larger piece of Battle Ax for 10c* than of any other kind of high grade quality* Remember the name IV when you buy again. f*DIRT DEFIES THE KINO." THEN FARM LANDS MSt A Depth Yet to Bo Braehct. "You boast of your greater civiliza tion," exclaimed the Indian, contempt uously. "Haven't we a right to?" "No, sir. The Indian has been drag ged down by your Influence, but he is •till your superior. He may drink In toxicating liquor, but be doesn't •mash the bottles on the asphalt for bi cycles to rfln over."—Washington Star. Shalt We Keep the Phlllpplmeat While public opinion is divided as to the wisdom of keeping the Philippines, it is, however, all one way in regard to the wisdom of everybody keeping their health. For this purpose Hostet ter's Stomach Bitters Is widely used. This medicine Is both a preventive and cure for malarial fevers and stomach disorders. Ae She Understood It. He—Why did you fail to recognize me on the street to-day? She—I didn't see you. He—That's strange. I saw you twice. She—Oh, that probably accounts for It. I never notice a man in that con dition.—Chicago News. PATEJtTS. Llat of Patenta leaned Last Week to Horthweatern Inventors. Lars M. and A. G-. Anderson. Moor head, Minn., sled James SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY. 1 WE WILL HAVE PEACE, afflirtedSwShe,5r Don't be fooled with a mackintosh or rubber coat. 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