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rjjrfrvi-Mg *%4 »V ff ^mw Crippled by Rheumatism. **|Ws v. Those who have Rheumatism find L^mselves growing steadily worse all the while. One reason of this is that the remedies prescribed by the doctors contain mercury and potash, which ul timately intensify the disease by caus ing the joints to swell and stiffen, producing a severe aching of the bones &. has been curing Rheumatism for twenty years—even the worst cases hich seemed almost incurable. Opt O E Hughes,the a raHimri conductor of Oolumbia, SPC fhVdan expen enee with Rheumatism which convinced him at there i» only one cu for that painful dis ease He says 'I was a sufferer from mus c'Ptir Rheumatism for ears I could get ,/xi\oopermanen relief iiomany medicine nre- BCI ibed by my physician. I cook about a dozen bot tles of your S S S and »\v I am as well as I Wf&gg&EgSf e\"va inmy life I am SAB*^ cure that your medicine tired me and I would 1 txoinmend any on *®&®^Sl*)Fm*QS2%£iS**/. buffering froimto any blooe disease." Everybody knows that Rheumatism 13 a diseased state of the blood, and only a blood remedy is the only proper treatment, but a remedy containing potash and mercury only aggravates *^8 trouble. S.S.S.FiLBkwd being Purely Vegetable, goes direct to the very cause of the disease and a per manent cure always results. It is the only blood remedy guaranteed to con tain no potash, mercury or other dan gerous minerals. Books mailed free by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia. MINNEAPOLIS,NEW ULM& SOUTH WESTERN RAILROAD. Departure of Trains. No. 15 St Paul, Mpls P.iss, 6 30 A. M. No. 29 «t Pnul, Mpls Pisa 11 10 A. No 53 WinthtopAcc'iiatiou 4 00 P. M. Arim ot 1 rai'is No. 54 Win tin op Acc'dation 0 0 A No. 30 M. Paul. Mnls Pass 3 20 P. si. No. 16 St. Piul, "Vlpis Piss 8 55 M.the All Dailv Evcept bundav. No 15 arrives Mpls 9 50 K. St Paul 10 i0 A M. No. 16 leaves St Paul 5 00 Mpls. 5 35 \r. Ifu. No chuige of cais between New I lm, T&t. Paul & Mpts. 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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. SAW VB, AXOIBCO, OaL LOUUTXLLB, Ky. NEW YORK, W. Y. 1 *m THE LUCK OF ABQBBK 4 A SUPERSTITION WHICH SEEMS TO BE BUILT ON FACT2 Disaster Bars the Doors. rf Few Persons "Who Erect Costly alona For Tbeir OTTO Use E Live to OCCUPY- Them—H Not Death Then An instance has recently occurred of a well known man refusing for super stitious reasons to live in a beautiful bouse he had built until some one else, a perfect stranger, had occupied it for some little time. If ever there has been a superstition that appears justified by solid fact and precedent, it is that which prevails about the building of a house. Few who erect costly mansions for their own use ever live to occupy them. An ill fate seems to bar the doors of these abodes upon which has been lavished so much thought and money and hope. Sometimes it is death and sometimes it is ruin that overtakes the owner. So widespread and so powerful is this strange superstition that one finds even an intellectual man like Lord Salisbury insisting on leasing to strangers for sev eral months the beautiful home which he has had erected for himself at Beau lieu, on the Riviera, before he will con sent to occupy it himself or to permit any member of his family to cross its threshold. Lord Salisbury, however, has only to look round him in London to find ample grounds for the adoption of such ex traordinary and at first sight unneces sary precautions. The completion of Lord Revelstoke's palace in Charles street coincided with the bankruptcy of the great firm of Baring Bros., of which he was the principal, and it has remained ever since an exquisite monu ment to the futility of human hopes and ambition Mr. Sanford had hardly finished re building the exterior of his magnificent mansion in Carlton House terrace when the collapse of Argentine securities oc curred, involving him in ruin and com pelling him to dispose of it to Mrs. Mackay, of "Bonanza" fame. The Marquis de Santurce, having purchased the neighboring house from Lady Granville, spent a fortune upon the reconstruction and adornment of interior But before the work was completed he in turn was overtaken by the terrible disaster which befell the well known Anglo-Spanish banking house of Murrieta, of which he was the chief director, and he had no alterna tive but to sell the house to Mr W. W Astor The downfall of Hudson, the railway king occurred at the same time as the completion of the great house he was having built for himself at the Albert gate entrance to Hyde park, while in the same manner Baron Albert Grant witnessed the piecemeal sale of the gor geous palace he had erected at Kensing ton but was never destined to occupy This is why there are, comparatively, so few new mansions of a palatial char acter either in London or the country. Persons possessed of adequate means and in need of either a town or country residence prefer as a rule to purchase homes that have been lived in to build ing new ones If they do any building at all they, general, cause it to take the form of additions to or alterations of edifices no longer new Even then the owners endeavor to safeguard themselves from the possibil ity of danger by letting their residences for the express purpose, as they say in France, of "wiping the dust from off the plastered walls Nowhere is this superstition more powerful than Bavaria, where many of the most picturesque spots, especial ly in the mountainous districts, are adorned with fairylike palaces None of them has been entirely completed, for insanity and violent death overtook the brilliant and accomplished King Lud wig, who conceived their design, but unfortunately perished before their completion Nor even have the builders of many of the splendid structures that adorn the French metropolis been more fortu nate Thus M. Jules Grevy had scarce ly completed the construction of his lordly mansion in the Avenue d'lena when the scandalous behavior of his son-in-law. Daniel Wilson, overwhelm ed him with disgrace and compelled him to resign the presidency of the re public amid a perfect hurricane of pub lic obloquy The Empress Eugenie's only sister, the late Duchess of Alba, had not occu pied the lovely palace erected for her in the Champs Elysees more than a few months before she was seized with a sudden illness and died there in a man ner so mysterious as to give rise to ru mors of foul play. The building was subsequently pulled down. Another equally unlucky house is that now owned by the widow of the late Baron Hirsch Situated at the coi ner of the Rue de 1'Elysee and of the Avenue Gabriel, it was erected by the Due de Mouchy He had not occupied the house more than a few weeks before was the scene of a daring burglary that covered its noble owner with ridi cule Two months after, his daughter died there so suddenly and under such strange circumstances that the duchess would not consent to remain longer in such an ill omened house.—London Mail Birds That Play. Some birds,'likes all children,, like to play, and Australia and New Guinea produce the *'bower bird,*' whicb bjijlds regular playhousea These houses are not apart of-their nests, but ''are con structed usually in the shape of covered archways of little boughs two or three feet long, 18 inches high and about as wide They use these houses .simply for their gomes, as if they were clubhouses. Generally these playhouses are decorat ed with bright colored shells and feath ers, just as children decorate their play- houses. A "i\^ki^/tb- THE SgfiTrW DRANK, But Geaeral freade DM Hot Haayea At a little village on the Susquehan na river I met an old soldier who re lated this incident of his experience with General Meade in the civil war. I have forgotten his name and the place where it occurred It was a raw night in October, the wind was rather strong, and Meade had fixed a etove in his tent. The soldier was the sentry for the gen eral A pvff of wind knocked down the improvised stovepipe, and soon the tent filled with smoke. The general came out and asked the sentry to help him to rearrange it. The soldier replied that he was under orders and could not leave his post "Yes, yes," said Meade, "that is true, but I would like to have that stovepipe fixed. You are right." And the general went at the job himself. "I kept pacing my beat," said the soldier, "and enjoyed Meade's efforts to get the pipe back in its place. He made a sorry mess of it. Finally he turned to me and said: 'Sentry, you will have to help me. I will be respon sible for you, and if there is any trou ble about your leaving the beat I will explain to the officer.' "In a few minutes we had the pipe in position. Meade disappeared into the tent without a word of thanks, but he soon came out with a jug of applejack and asked me to take a drink. Once more I reminded him I was on duty. 'Yes, yes,' he answered, 'I know, but you helped me tofixthe stovepipe.' "He turned on his heel and re-enter ed the tent, leaving the jug outside After a time he came out 'Did you drink?' he inquired I nodded. 'I knew you would, but I did not see it "—Pittsburg Dispatch. A DEADLY CANE. An Innocent Looking Instrument Which Would Destroy Lite. "Anarchists of the physical force school find it now and again irresistible to brag of the powerful things they have used or are going to use,'' says a writer in The Ludgate. "We will sup pose that some aristocratic person has been chosen as a victim The exact pat tern of his favorite walking stick would be noted as occasion arose and a fac simile of it prepared—that is to say, so far as mere outward appearances were concerned "The interior would really be an in fernal machine. Inside the hollow of the stick would be a metal flask con taming a liquid which could emerge only from a small orifice at the top of the flask Theflaskwould be imbedded within a substance which would ex plode the instant that the liquid re ferred to came into contact with it "When an opportunity occurred for the stick to be substituted for its inno cent counterpart, the handle would be unscrewed to a slight extent, thus allow ing a space for the liquid toflowout, which it would do when the stick was held in a horizontal position. Most men occasionally carry their sticks in this way So, when the victim took his sup posed usual stick from the corner in which it had heen placed upright, he might walk about with it for a long period without encountering actual harm, but once let him hold it horizon tally or twirl it in the air there would be—well, you can imagine the result Steeple Clock Dials. Difficulty is experienced in accurate ly reading the time of elevated clocks on account of the distance between the minute hand and the figures Seen from below, the apparent reading may be a minute or two wrong when the hand is not at 12 or 6 on account of this dis tance The perspective throws the hand out of position and gives it an apparent upward position On thefirstquarter this makes the reading slow, on the last quarter fast. A proposed method of correcting this is to make the clock face concave so that the tip of the hand will almost graze the figures. Then the time can be accurately read from below. A Trick of Style. A woman who declaies she cannot afford to buy bound books invested in a Russia leather book cover the other day. It has pockets at the ends into which to slip the covers of the books one is reading. It is very handsome, and it cost $5. When she wraps all thisgorgeousness around a 10 cent copy of "Lorna Doone" or a 25 cent edition of "Pen dennis," she is placid, happy and un ashamed and doesn't think she was ex travagant. New York Commercial Advertiser. A Weak Finish. Little Frances—Papa, my teacher told me to ask you to tell me something about Victor Hugo. Tomorrow she wants me to tell the class what was the most important thing he ever did. Papa (who pretends to know it all)— Victor Hugo founded the Hugonauts but, say, tell your teacher Fm. paying school taxes and I don't propose to have to do her work. Make her tell you about it herself and see how she likes it.—Chicago News. "God Bless the Duke of Argyll." "You Americans." said the Scotch man, "suffer from an itch for notorie "An itch for notoriety," responded the American with spirit, "is better than a notoriety for"— But at that point they clinched.—In dianapolis Journal. Some boys in an English school were requested to write a short letter to the master. One youngster added a P. S., which ran. "Please excuse bad riting and spelling, as I avent been tant any beter." -£One direct result of the Sues canal has been the introduction into the Med iterranean of sharks which previously were unknown there, SJL ft mtft SANG FOR DEATH. The Pathos and Tragedy or Bssapk* I Abbott** Pmssta* Away. One night in the city of Denver, located at the oo* and in plain view of the Rocky mountains, Emma Abbott was billed to appear in "Faust." In the same city a most attractive and beauti ful 18-year-old girl, belonging to one of the wealthiest families, lay In the last stages of that fell enemy of the human race—consumption. Some weeks before the arrival of the company she said to those around her: "Oh, I hope the sun will shine and the weather will be warm and genial, so I can hear Miss Abbott sing once more. I think I could then pass- away peacefully and without one single regret.' But there came with the queen of the lyric stage a northern hur ricane—with the very air charged with icicles, which penetrated the lungs. Some one told Miss Abbott of the griev ous disappointment of the dying girl. She went to the opera house and never sang more sweetly, and as soon as it was over and the audience dismissed called her carriage and directed it to drive to the home of the young lady. The scene which followed was worthy of the finest brush ever wielded by the grand old masters. There lay the dying earth angel, with pallid lips, hectic cheeks and lustrous eyes and the light of immortal beauty shining upon her face. Standing beside her, in one of her richest robes (the one she had worn that night), sparkling with pearls, rubies and diamonds, stood the almost divine mistress of earthly melody. The first piece rendered was "The Old Folks at Home," and then followed "I Know My Redeemer Liveth." The finale of this weird scene was "Rock of Ages Cleft For Me, Let Me Hide Myself In Thee." And then Miss Abbott bent over the frail form and kissed her an eternal farewell. Soon after the spirit passed into the wild winds which rang through the wild mountains near by— set sail for that haven from which the first homeward bound bark is yet to be seen—the stainless soul wafted to the stainless heavens by the sweetest music ever heard on earth—into the melodies of paradise birds. Miss Abbott returned to her room at the hotel and retired Some time dur ing the night she awoke with a pain in the left lung It rapidly grew worse. A physician was summoned. Then anoth er, and another, who applied every remedy they could command. All to.no purpose It was typhoid pneumonia in its worst form The black camel was kneeling at her door Angels of the heavenly choir had that night listened to her voice the sickroom and sent for her to come home to them In three days that voice which had so often raised the souls of men and wom en to the noblest, the grandest heights in holy ecstasy, was forever stilled death—gone forth into—the night So fades the summer cloud away, So sinks the gale whtn storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies the wave along the shore —H. Stevenson in Atlanta Consti tution. GERMAN MILITARY SERVICE. A Cnrions method by Which It May Be Avoided. Anybody can emigrate from Germany before he is 17 years old without run ning the risk, in case he should return, of being forced to join the army, but he will be allowed to remain only nine months in Germany If he stays longer he becomes again a German citizen and must do military service If he leaves when he has been a little less than nine months in the country and stays away for two or three weeks he can return without running any danger and can stay another nine months If he does this every nine months he can live as long as he likes in Germany As soon as a man is 17 years old he cannot leave Germany without serving in the army He can, however, get per mission to leave the country until he is 20 years old if somebody is willing to give bond that he will return and serve his term. In case a man forfeits his bond he cannot return to his fatherland before he- is 45 years old, as he would be promptly arrested and sentenced to serve a longer term than the original one. After a man is 45 years old he can go back to Germany without being pun ished and live there as long as he likes. In case a deserter is caught in Ger many before he is 45 years old he is sen tenced to two or three years' imprison ment in a fortress and all his personal property is confiscated New York Herald Aa Eye to Business. The doctor hurried in and called the druggist to one side. "I've just been called to attend the Croesus baby," he said, "and I've given a prescription that calls for nothing but paregoric. When they send it over here, you must tell them it will take at least an hour to put it up and the cost will be $3.50. That's the only way to make them think I'm any good, the medi cine's any good and you're any good, and I want to keep their business."— Chicago Post Proof Positive. fiis Honor—What's the charge, offi cer Drunk? Officer—No, sor—erazy. .Hid Honor—How do you know? Officer—Well, sor, he is a proprietor of a daily paper, and I heard him tell a man that the paper probably had the smallest circulation in the city, and so— His Honor—The padded cell—quick! —Harlem Life. •~i Learal Repartee. "Gentlemen of the jury," said the pompous lawyer, assuming hismost im posing mien, "I once, sat upon the judge's bench in Iowa." "Where was the judge?" quickly inquired the opposing attorney, and the pompous gentleman found the thread of his argument hopelessly entangled. —Detroit Free Press. agHes«kjtf»«i*-*'-* $5,000 Death from accident. 5,000 Loss of hand and foot. 5,000 Lots of both hands. 5,000 Loss of both feet. 5,000 Loss of both yes. 2,500 Permanent total disability. 2,500 Loss of either foot. 2,500 Loss of right hand, 1,250 Loss of left hand. 625 Loss of on« eye. 25 Weekly indemnity (accident) Hf 1 Zbe Smith premiertypewriter Co. arr»oi»t,f¥.T.,a.8B. ST, PAUL BRANCH OFFICE. NO. 136E6THST. 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Brace (real estate & loan«) President Jno CumnmiKS (Manager Minn, P.ickmjj & Prov Co Vice President. Chas. W Ericton, (Merchant) .treasurer A H. VV Eckstein, (ICeal estate, Loan^ & Insurance) Secretary Hon Jno A Kejes. (Attornej at Law) Counsel Dr Frank Lynarn (Physician & aurgcon S Auneke(A Fitger & Co Jirewei" P. Kraemer (P. Kraemer & Co W D. Williams (Lumber dealer M. Gasser [Grocer POPULAR AND PROGRESSIVE MembershiD Dtcembir 81, 1895, 389 Mav 1st, 1896, 869 December 31st, 1896, 2435 May 1st, 1897, 2863 Chums due and unpaid, none. OUR "ORDINARY COMBINATION" POLICY. (PAYING ACCIDENT AND SICKNKS8 INDEMNITY.) The Franklin's "Ordinary Combination Policy" undei Table No. 1, Class 1, for Bankers, Merchants, Commercial Travelers, Lawyers, Editors, Insurance Agents, etc. COST.—$20 it paid annually in advance, or $5 50 quarterly, and Life Mem bership $5 (payable but once BENEFITS. SPECIAL FEATURES OF THIS POLICY. 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