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If Coffee Poison* Ton.
rains your digestion, makes you nervous
and sallow eomplexioned, keeps you
•wake nights and acts against your sys­
tem generally, try Grain-O, the new food
drink. It is made of pure selected grain
and is healthful, nourishing and appe­
tising. It has none of the bad effects of
coffee, yet it is just as pleasant to the
taste, and when properly prepared can't
be told from the finest coffees. Costs
about as much. It is a healthful table
drink for the children and adults. Ask
yoar grocer for Grain-O. 15 and 25c.
Diplomacy Defined.
"What is this here diplomacy?" asked
the grocery loafer.
"It is like this here," said the grocer.
"For instance, if I wanted to call yon a
liar, I'd jist do su right out but if I want­
ed to be diplomacy, I'd go at it sorter
roundabout an' jis say to the surroundin'
air that while I wasn't nainin' no names,
I reely did believe that a certain red
nosed, squint-eyed cuss that had et at
least ton pounds of my best i&eese with­
out ever piiyin' a cent was not so keerl'ul
with the truth as he orter be. See?"
There is more Catarrh in this section of
tin* country than all other discuses put to­
gether. antl until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease, and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catnrrk to be a constitutional
disease mid therefore n-qui res constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufac­
tured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the mar­
ket. It is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys­
tem. They offer one hundred dollars for
iiuy case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address,
J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Electric Railway in Paris.
The new electric railway at Paris has
proved a great success, despite the mis­
haps rliat have occurred thereon from
time to time. From the date of its open­
ing. on July If), until October ol, .IS,000,
000 passengers were carried. Occasion­
ally the daily number of passengers car­
ried amounted to 170,000. It was orig­
inally intended to run only 270 trains per
day, but this number has been consider­
ably increased, and further trains are to
lie added.
A Remedy l'or the Grippe.
Physicians recommend KEMP'S BAL­
SAM for patients afflicted with the grip,
as it is especially adapted for the throat
and lungs. Don't wait for the tirst symp­
toms, but get a bottle to-day and keep it
on hand for use the moment it is needed.
If neglected the grip brings on pneumo­
nia. KKMP'S BALSAM prevents this
by keeping the cough loose and the lungs
free from inflammation. All druggists,
«."c and C0e.
Living Cheap in China.
The servants in some of the best places
in Shanghai club together and pay
a cook to provide and prepare their food
for them at a cost of $2."0 Mexican a
month, or about a month in gold,
or a fraction over 4 cents a day in our
money.
Cure for Rheumatism Free.
A trial package free for the cure of
liheumatisrn. A simple remedy that you
may try without spending a cent. Many
eases cured of IjO and 40 years' stand­
ing. Write to John A. Smith, 28 fjer
niiinia building. Milwaukee, and request
a free trial package.
Sculpture at the Pan-American.
Thirt.v-five prominent American sculp­
tors will contribute to the embellishment
of the grounds and buildings of the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo. They
are at work on 125 original groups of
statuary.
Lane's Family Medicine
Moves the bowels each day. In order
to be healthy this is necessary. Acts
gently on the liver and kidneys. Cure.*
ick headache. Price 25 and 50c.
Chicago's Municipal Pawnshop.
Chicago hns the only municipal pawn­
shop in the country. Paris and other
European cities have had them in opera­
tion for many years.
TO CURK A COLD IN ONK DAY
Take LaxativeBromoQuinineTablets. All
druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.
E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c.
—A drift in the Sauta ltita mine on
Squaw -mountain, Col., has just broken
into ore which rivals in richness that
which tirst brought the mine into notice
about a year ago. The assays are again
running up into the thousands.
Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spok­
en of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'Brien,
322 Third Ave., N. Minneapolis, Minn.,
Jan. G, 1900.
-In the region of the southern Urals
a liussian laborer gets only l." cents a
•lay, and a man with a horse and a cart
costs 45 cents dav.
PUTXAM FADELESS DYE pro­
duces the fastest and brightest colors of
any known dye stuff.
—American apples are becoming
known in France an well as in England
aud Germany.
MRS. WIXSLOW'S SOOTHING smut* TOR
Children teething softens the gum*, reduces in­
flammation. allays paiu, cures wind colic. 23
tents a bottle.
—Florida papers report that the lobster
is disappearing.
THE SPENCERI.VN BUSINESS College. Mil­
waukee. is the oldest and best school of business
nod shorthand in Wisconsin. Circulars free.
—Philadelphia has the largest city hall
in the world.
Farntn. Improved or TlmlierUiivl* In ihl*
Hate for sale or vxehiugs for elc\" property. JOHN
PETKKS. 1G03 VlletSt., Milwaukee.
—Alabaster exists in seventeen differ­
ent states.
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DOWNFALLS
Sometimes in winter at every
step there is danger of
SPRAINS
tad
BRUISES
which cripple or hart
deeply, but at any time
from whatever cause
St Jacobs Oil
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PBACTCCE OF HAZING
CUSTOM ORIGINATED IN COL­
LEGES OF HE EAST.
atrocious Brutality to Defenseless
Students lias Stirred the Country
Merits Penitentiary Term—Rules of
Conduct Prescribed for Freshmen.
Great interest in the subject of col­
lege hazing was stirred throughout the
entire country by the startling charges
which were made in connection with
the death of Cadet Booz of the West.
Point Rational Military Academy. The
PAINTING A. CADET'S PACK.
investigations of the military board ap­
pointed to look into the accusations
brought by the young man's family
were closely followed by the public, and
every average American citizen read
with horror and disgust the allegation
that the life of the boy was ended by
hazing of the most outrageous charac­
ter. The blood of all decent and intel­
ligent men or women boiled when they
read the revolting story that tabasco
sauce had been poured down the throat
of the student, who was at the mercy
of the liazcrs. The victim was so ter­
ribly injured by the fiendish act, so runs
the story, that death at last came to his
relief as a natural consequence of the
wounds inflicted. When the barbarity
of this inhuman treatment of a defense­
less student was realized there was a
demand for an investigation and the
detection and punishment of the stu­
dents who were guilty of such atrocious
brutality.
The demand resulted in the appoint-
TOSSIXO IN' A BLANKET.
ment of the military board, which at
once began taking evidence. The case
was not more than fairly started when
a second incident was brought to light
through the statements of other par­
ents, who alleged that they had lost a
son whose death was directly traceable
to hazing which he had received at
West Point. These two cases prove
quite conclusively, if any froof were
needed, that the infamous practice of
hazing is far from extinct, at least in
some parts of the country. Hazing is
distinctly a product of eastern college
life. It originated there and there hap
never been much of it indulged in out­
side of the colleges of the East. It has
been practiced to a limited extent in the
universities of the West, but it never
found a strong foothold In the Missis­
sippi valley nor in the States beyond.
Origin Is Hasy,
College hazing is so old a custom that
its origin is somewhat hazy. One
theory is that it was at least a partial
outgrowth of the fagging system of
English colleges, in which it was the
custom to make new students do me­
nial work for the upper classmen. The
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HAZERS AND ONE OF TIIEIK VICTIMS.
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basing which haa been Indulged ln luiji
largely been practiced upon freahmen,
but occasionally other clMamen have
been based. To haze means to dlBturb,
harass, annoy, and It was In some way
figured out that this was just whist
ought to be done to men entering col*
lege for the first time. It was decided
that they should be servile and that
they should do whatever they were told
by upper classmen, no matter how
absurd or degrading an act should be
demanded of them. As early as the
year 1760, sixteen years before the
breaking out of the Revolutionary War,
the following regulations were enacted
at Yale University:
"It being the duty of seniors to teach
freshmen the laws, usages and cus­
toms of the college, to this end they
are empowered to order the whole
freshman class or any particular mem­
ber of it to appear, in order to be in­
structed and reproved, at such time
and place as they shall appoint, when
and where every freshman shall attend,
answer all proper questions and behave
decently.
'"The freshmen are forbidden to wear
their hats in the college yard until the
May vacation, and whenever a fresh­
man either speaks to a superior or is
spoken to by one he shall keep his hat
off until he is bidden to put it back on.
"A freshman "shall not play with any
of the members of an upper class with­
out being asked.
"Freshmen are required to perform
all reasonable errands for any su­
perior.
"Freshmen shall not run in the col­
lege yard nor up and down stairs, nor
call to any one through a college win­
dow."
In the "Ancient Laws and Liber­
ties" of Harvard similar restrictions
upon the freshmen are found. Among
them are:
"No freshman shall wear his hat in
the college yard unless it rain's, hails or
snows, provided he be on foot and have
not both hands full.
"Freshmen are to consider all other
classes as their seniors.
"No freshman shall speak to a senior
with his hat on, nor have it on in a
senior's room, nor in his own if a senior
be there.
"When any person knocks at a-fresh­
man's door, except in studying time,
he shall immediately open the door
without inquiring who is there."
Fighting Freshman Sustained.
The death blow to the hat law and
most of these other absurd regulations
was struck over 100 years ago, when
Levi Hedge, who was afterward a fa­
mous professor, threatened to knock
down a senior who demanded that he
remove his hat. The trouble was
brought before the president of Har­
vard for adjudication and he decided
in favor of Freshman Hedge.
Although these regulations were early
overthrown the spirit underlying them
was kept alive and frequently mani­
fested itself in the mistreatment of
members of the freshmen class. The
new college men were "smoked out,"
taken from bed at midnight and doused
under the town pump, painted with
green or red paint, made to eat or drink
vile combinations, blindfolded and
made to run three or four miles, made
to sing or dance or deliver orations,
while very often they were shorn of
their hair completely. There have been
many instances of the most vicious
kinds of practices. Voting men have
been thrown into rivers or lakes, head­
ed up in barrels and rolled down hill,
etc. Occasionally freshmen have re­
sisted the perpetration of these out­
rages. Revolvers have been drawn by
both sides, but when the freshman who
Was thus inclined to defend himself has
been caught unarmed he has often been
made to pay dearly for his self-defense.
With the progress of education and
civilization these practices have be­
come less common in many of the large
universities, but that they still exist to
some extent and in their worst form
is evident from the developments in the
West Point case. This fact led an old
college man to: remark the other day:
"The time has come when the brutal
college hazer should be treated in ex­
actly the same way as any other crlm
inaL No effort should be spared either
by the college or dvil authorities to
catch the cntoiifs and when appi
hended they should be' given the fi
penalties allowed by the law. If a few
of the young wretches, who are nothing
but brutes In human form, were sent to
the ^penitentiary as they should be for
five or ten years It would have a most
salutary effect upon college hazing."
AMERICAN POETS LONG-LIVED.
With Some Exception*, Our Bards Have
Reached the Allotted Age.
A most striding fact is the longevity
of our poets. The typical American
poet—when one thinks of it and no­
tices the faces that look down from his
library walls—is found to be an aged,
hoary man, says Oscar Lovell Teiggs in
the Forum. Of the eight poets pic­
tured on the frontispiece, six are gray
beards and incline to baldness and of
the black-haired heads, Lanier lived to
be 39 and Poe to be 40. No American
poet has had the advantage of John
Keats of dying young with still enough
accomplished to be compared with
Shakspeare on the ground of his prom­
ise. Many fair hopes centered in Cora
Fabri, Anne Aldrich and Winifred
Howells, the youngest of the sister­
hood to lay down their pens but their
work was too incomplete to give
prophecy of their maturity. Joseph
Rodman Drake at 25, Stephen Crane
at 29, James Berry Bensel at 30 and
Francis Brooks at 31 had hardly begun
their true poetic career. Probably our
literaure sustained its greatest loss in
the death of Richard Hovey, who was
destined to accomplish great works and
to win high renown at 36 he was just
prepared for bold adventure. Timrod
and Emma Lazarus had fulfilled much
of their promise at 38. Edward Row­
lands Sill and Bayard Taylor, Avhose
premature deaths were much lamented,
had yet time at 40 and 53 to accom­
plish not a little well-rounded and well
proportioned work. Longfellow, Low­
ell, Whitman, Story and Halleck en­
tered the 70th Emerson reached the
80th mark: while Freneau, Whittier,
Holmes and Bryant passed it. Dana
lived on into the 90th.
Some few sensitive natures, like Poo
and Richard Realf, suffered pain and
travail, largely the fault of their pe­
culiar temperament ill-health affected
the output of some the Civil War cut
short the lives of several accident
closed a few careers and four suffered
violent death at their own hands. But
for the great majority the currents of
life ran smoothly, and, save the or­
dinary incidents of change, they lived
in serenity of spirit.
GREATEST OF BATTLESHIPS.
Japan's New War Vessel Is the Most
Powerful Afloat.
The Vickers, Sons & Maxim ship­
yard at Barrow, England,
Avas
the
scene recently of the launching of the
new Japanese battleship Mikasa, the
largest of such craft in the world. Her
launching weight was 8,000 tons, this
being practically only her bare hull.
She is over 400 feet long and her dis­
placement will be about 15,000 tons.
Her engines are 15,000 horse-power,
and she will have a coal capacity of
1,400 tons which will allow of her
traveling about 9,000 miles at a speed
of ten knots before replenishing her
bunkers. Four twelve-inch breech-load­
ing guns are mounted in pairs, forward
and aft, and there are fourteen in the
armored citadel.
As the vessel slid down the ways into
the water a large globe of colored pa­
pers suspended from her bows, ac­
cording to Japanese custom, opened
and liberated a dozen pigeons. This is
the Japanese equivalent of breaking a
bottle of wine across the bows of a
ship. Speaking at the luncheon which
followed the launch, the Japanese min­
ister remarked that the Mikasa might
LAUSCH OF THE MIKASA.
at some future time be fighting side
by side with a British fleet, but he was
sure she would never be found in an­
tagonism.
An Uneven Contest.
They ^Jiad a lively boxing match at
Splinter's the other night."
"How was that?"
"Splinter came home late, and as he
passed through the hall his wife's tall­
est palm touched him on the cheek.
Splinter was in an excited condition,
and thought it was somebody's fingers.
So he struck out wildly with both fists
and succeeded in knocking over two
palms and severely bumping his own
head."
"But why do you call it a boxing
match?"
'Because Splinter put up his knuc­
kles against his wife's palms."—Cleve­
land Plain Dealer.
The Liarjcest Incubator.
New South Wales has not only the
largest duck farm in the common­
wealth, but also probably the largest
incubator in the world. The farm and
incubator are situated at Botany, near*
Sydney, the latter, according to a Syd
ney
paper, having a rapacity of 11,440
duck eggs, or 14,080 hen eggs. It Is not
necessary that it should be filled at any
one time.- The eggs can be put in at
intervals, as they are available. With
fifty eggs only it will works Just as well
as it it were filled. The incubator was
designed and constructed by its pro­
prietor, with the aid of an ingenious
local mechanic.
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MADE THE FIRST STOGIE.
Vfheeling Man's Manufacture of a
Cheap Cigar Brought a Fortune.
By the death of Mifflin Marsh, the vet­
eran Wheeling, W. Va., stogie manu­
facturer, was removed one of the most
unique figures in the history of the
tity. He gave to Wheeling the im­
petus that placed its name high in the
list of large cigar and stogie-making
centers. Shortly after Marsh came to
Wheeling he entered the cigar manu­
facturing trade.
In 1856 he was impressed with the
need' of a cheaper smoke than was then
on the market. The 5-cent cigar was
the lowest-priced article made then in
this country. Marsh invented arid
manufactured a smoke, rolling it into
the long, familiar shapes now assumed
by all species of the stogie family.
This was in the days when the stage
coach was the only mode of travel be­
tween the East and Wheeling. The
stage-coach drivers were among the
first to test and, appreciate the merits
&
MIFFLIX MARSH.
of the stogie. They carried them in
their long "stogie" topped boots to pre­
vent breaking them, thus giving them
the name of stogies.
When Mifflin Marsh entered the stogie
business, he was able to supply the
trade by his own work. At the time of
his death his factories, employing sev­
eral hundred expert rollers, and a
dozen other plants just as well supplied,
were catering to the demand for
Wheeling stogies. Marsh assisted ma­
terially in the recent litigation in the
United States Court in Boston, which
resulted in the handing down of a de­
cision protecting the name "Wheeling
stogies." That decision has been the
means of increasing the local trade, in
which he amassed a fortune.
Scrubs antl Dries Windows.
The picture shows an improved clean­
er, which has just been patented by
Ernest M. Farmer of Cleveland, Ohio,
Hitherto a brush mounted on a pole,
with a rubber mop on a separate han­
dle, were in common use for this pur­
pose, and water has also been applied
to the brush through a hose attached
to the faucet. But the implement
shown below is complete in itself, hav-
FOUNTAIN CI.EANEK AND MOP.
ing the scrubber, mop and fountain of
water all combined in one convenient
utensil. The apparatus consists of a
tube to contain the water, with an
elongated slot in one face, through
which a wick or piece of heavy cloth
is forced. The strips of rubber form­
ing the mop are inserted between two
metal strips secured to the outside of
the reservoir and the latter Is provided
at one end with a screw cap, through,
which the water is poured into the In­
terior. To use the cleaner it is first
filled with water and tilted downward
until the wick is saturated, when the
latter is placed against the window
pane and scrubbed up and down until
the dirt is removed. Then the mop
side is applied to drain the water off.
He .Lacked Something.
"I wish," said the old man to a fel­
low passenger on the rear platform of
the street car, "I wish I had the gift of
what they call repartee."
"Can't you talk back?'' was the
query.
"Not to amount to anything. Just
now when I left home my wife called
me a slink, a sneak, a fool, a liar and a
villain, and all I could say in reply was
to tell her to shut ep. Lordy, if I only
could talk back, how I would make
that woman's heart ache from Monday
morning to Saturday night!"—Wash­
ington Post.
Removal of the Stomach.
Of the numerous operations In which
the stomach of a patient has been en­
tirely removed, one at least has. been
completely successful. A San Francis­
co woman bad her stomach removed
two years ago has since been in remark*
ably good health, eating considerably
and without discomfort
There* are men who will laugh at a
woman for buying a nickel package of
chewing gum, then proceed to blow In
a quarter for an imported cigar.
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Women are better qualified for mat^
ing tongoe sandwiches than the stfcrnez
Makes Hair
Grow
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Perhaps your mother had
thin hair, but that is no reason
why you must go through life
with half-starved hair. If you
want long, thick hair, feed it.
Feed it with Ayer's Hair Vigor,
the only genuine hair food you
can buy.
Your hair 'will grow thick
and long, and will be soft and
glossy.
Ayer's Hair Vigor always
restores color tp gray hair it
keeps the scalp clean and
healthy, and stops falling of
the hair.
One dollar a bottle.
If your druggist cannot supply you, send
us Ji.oo and wre will express a bottle to you,
all charges prepaid. Be sure and give us
your nearest express office.
Venezuelians Proud of Their Capital.
Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is
the pride of the people. There the first
steps toward South American indepen­
dence were taken, it was the birthplace
of the liberator Simon Bolivar, and with
its forty bridges, ten public squares, broad
streets, railways and modern buildings
it is as interesting as it was when Baron
von Humboldt visited the place. Its cli­
mate may be judged from the fact that
the lowest temperature in twenty years
was 48 degrees Fahrenheit and the high­
est 84 degrees. Other towns of impor­
tance are Maracaibo, originally called
Nueva Zamora, whence much coifee ?s
exported Valentia, Porto Cabello, Ciu
dad. Bolivar, Barcelona. Carupano and
Guanaco.—New York Tribune.
Wbat Do the Children Brink?
Don't give them tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourish­
ing and takes the place of coffee. The
more 6rain-0 you give the children the
more health you distribute through their
systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains,
and when properly prepared tastes like
the choice grades of coffee, but costs
about as much. All grocers sell it.
15c and 25c.
—While the controversy is proceeding
Dr. Anna Hatfield of New York arises to
say "kissing is a worse curse than drink.
The most terrible kisses arc. those be­
tween women."
Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Go to your drugist today and get
a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50
cent bottles. Go at once delays are dan­
gerous.
—Silk goods are said to take dyes more
readily than any other fabric.
LIBBY'S
Soups
Premier
TEN GENTS
Libby's soups are as good as soups
can be. Some cooks may know
how to make soups as good. None
can make them better—none so
cheaply. Six plates of delicious
soup for 10 cents and think of
the bother saved!
Oxtail, Mallagataway, Chicken,
Mock Turtle, Toaiato. Vegetable,
and Chicken Gumbo.
At your grocers, means ready for instant
serving—just heat them.
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