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Dropper?
There are cough medicines that
are taken as freely as a drink of
water from a dipper. They are
cheap medicines. Quantity does not
make up for quality. It’s the qual
ity that cures. There’s one medi
cine that’s dropped, not dipped—
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. There’s
more power in drops of this remedy
than in dippersful of cheap cough
syrups and elixirs. It cures Bron
chitis, Asthma, Croup, Whooping
Cough, and all Colds, Coughs, and
affections of the Throat and Lungs.
Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral
is now half price for the half-size
bottles 50 cents.
Fighting in Two Wars.
Gen. Wheeler, comparing the civil
war to that of the Spanish-American
said :
“During the civil war we fought at
close range, and there was tremendous
noise and smoke. In this war the
range of fire was 800 yards or more,
and there was very little noise, and
the use of the smokeless powder, <lis
posed of the smoke of battle. I saw
probably the first American struck in
the fight. He was near me, and 1
went to him just as he had fallen, and
could see no mark where he had been
hit, yet lie was in the last agony of
death, and died almost instantly. I
had heard no noise; 1 had seen noth
ing. and could not even see a wound
on him and yet he was dying. We
undid his belt and there was just a
small hole where the ball had gone
through his body. The range of fire
is so great witli modern guns, the dis
tance seemed to make little difference
in the matter of danger. There is no
such thing as seeking safety in the
rear. When we got to within 500
yards' range practically the whole
army was exposed to the fire, those
in the rear being in danger as well as
those forward."
CASTOHTA.
Boam tlw Kind You Haw Always Bought
* V T C&tffflzZu
The government s telepraph bill
during the continuance of the war ap
proxiniated $2,500 a day, and will
foot up something like $500,000 for
the whole period. It was possession
a good thing for the treasury that the
United States hadn't a Seward in the
state department during the war or
the telegraph bill might have been
one of the biggest war items. At the
time of the invasion of Mexico by
Maximilian, Secretary Seward sent a
dispatch to the French government
which cost $15,000 in tolls.
Sacrificed to
Blood Poison.
Those who have never had Blood Poi
non can not know what a desperate con
dition it can produce. This terrible
disease which the doctors are totally
unable to cure, is communicated from
one generation to another, inflicting its
taint upon countless innocent ones.
Some y'in S(C> 1 was Inoculated with poison
by a nurse who Infected my bats? with blood
taint. The little one wni
unequal to the slruKKl*'.
and tie life was yielded
up to the (earful polaoo. W
For six loitu years 1 nut- 7 VBb
fered untold misery. 1 HM
was covered with sores
and uloors from head to p* yjf
toot, and no language /jr
can express my feelings T-s
of woe during those long Et
years. 1 had the bent
medteal treatment se\ >
ernl physicians sueoes
sively treated me, but all ";
to no purpose The mer
cury and potash seemed to add fuel to the
awful (lame which was devouring me. 1 was
advised by friends who had seen wonderful
cures made by It. to try Swift's specific. We
got two bottles, and 1 felt hone again revive In
my breast—hope for health and happiness
again. 1 improved from the start, und a com
plete and perfect curt* was the result. S. b. 8.
is the only blood remedy w htoh reaches des
perate cases. Mrs T. W Lf*.
Montgomery, Ala.
Of the many blood remedies. S. S. 8.
is the only one which can reach deep
seated, violent cases. It never fails to
cure perfectly and permanently the
most desperate cases which ure beyond
the reach of other remedies.
S.S.S.tIBIoo<I
Is PTH*bT vsorrABLR. and is the only
blood remedy guaranteed to contain no
mercury, potash, or other mineral.
•Valuable books mailed free by Swift
Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
“A LASS AM I."
A loon am I, and I wait my day.
To Home ’twill lie nay, but toons 'twill liey*m.
Win n the time cornea, I shall know what to way.
The winter (roes, and the warm wind blows.
And who elm 11 keep the color from the red,
red ro.tef
A lasa am I, neither high nor low.
My heart ia mine now, but I’d have the world
know.
When the wind’s right, away it will go.
the brook ainga below, and the birda
above,
! And sweeter in between sings the lover to his
love.
—John Vaneo Cheney in Century.
A DOCTOR'S OFFER.
Thorn was onco a learned doctor who
had studied long and hard, but in Cu
cuguano, where he had settled, no one
had faith in him. Meeting him always
with a book in his hand, the Cucugu
anese said:
“That doctor knows nothing—he is
always studying. If ho studies so much,
it means he has need to learn; if lie
needs to learn, it means he does not
know; if lie does not know, he is an ig
noramus. ’’
A doctor without patients is iiko a
lamp without oil. Without other re
j sources, forced therefore to earn a liv
ing by hook or by crook, up to this time
! the poor devil had not been able to pay
| even for the water lie drank. He decid
j ed there would have to be a change, so
one day he managed to spread abroad
[ through all Cucuguano the report that
| his science was so sublime and all pow
erful that not only could ho heal the
| sick—mere child’s play—but raise the
dead as well; a miracle of God, surely.
Aud this miracle he promised to per
form openly in broad day in the grave
yard amid the multitude.
Few gave credence to tho report, yet
even tho incredulous said: “We will
let him attempt it anyhow. Let’s see
him at work —tho proof of tho pudding
is tho eating. Ho may succeed—he
reads so much, and nowadays such won
derful discoveries are being made. If 110
succeeds, wo will applaud him; if not,
wo will hiss him out of the countryside.
Let him bring a man to life again and
we will say he is the cleverest doctor
wo have ever had.”
Finally it was settled that on the fol
lowing Sunday, at tho stroke of noon in
the cemetery of Cucuguano the doctor
would raise a man from the dead—nine
or ten, some old women went so far as
to say.
That Sunday, long before noon, tho
graveyard was as jammed as is the
church ou Holy Easter day. True to his
word, on tho second stroke of the bell
appeared the doctor, all in black. He
elbowed his way to tho steps of the cen
tral crosa There ho saluted the crowd,
spat ou tho ground, blew his nose and
began:
“My dear friends, I have promised to
bring one of your dead back to life. I
intend to keep my word. Ho silent and
hearken to mo. It will cost mo abso
lutely no effort to raise from the tomb
Giascomo or Giovanni, Nannina or
Betta, Amadeo or Simone. Shull I raise
Simone? Simone —what was his last
name? Simone Capauuaro, who died of
pleurisy a year ago?’ ’
“Excuse me, signor dottore,” said
Oateriua, poor Simone’s widow. “Cer
tainly 110 wus a lino fellow. lie made
mo very happy, aud I will mourn him
as long as I have eyes fur tears. But,
pray, do not bring him back; for, you
see, toward tho end of tho month I’m
to put off mourning, and, to please my
family, I’m to marry Pnsqualone. Tho
banns are already published, aud I’vo
accepted the presents.”
“You did well to tell mo, Caterina.
Then I will raise NiuaCarota, who died
Candlemas day.”
“For heaven’s sake, signor dottore!”
cried Giacomo Carota. “Nina was my
wife; we lived together ton years—ten
years of purgatory, us all Cucuguano
knows. Let her stay where she is, for
her rest and mine. What a peppery
temper, doctor! Obstinate as a mule,
lazy aud quarrelsome aud slovenly and
rugged! And that is not all. Wasteful,
and a tongue—a viper’s tongue—that
would have set St. Joseph to quarreling
with tho Madonna. I might add— But
that's better left unsaid. ”
“Yet, my dear fellow”—
“Excuse mo for interrupting, signor
dottore. Anew broom sweeps clean.
Nina left me throe brats, who certainly
do not take after their father, and tts I
could not handle them all I have mar
ried again; so you see it is useless. ”
“Welland good. I can conceive it
would lie martyrdom to have two wives
in the liouso. One is more than enough
sometimes. Theu whom shall I restore
to you, my dear people? I must liud
someone. How a bout Master Pietro?”
“Ah, my poor father!” cried a voice.
“May God rest his soul. A good man
was he. But don't bring him back,
pray, doctor. He who wished so much
to soo us a united family would b.
heartbroken to find our affairs in such a
muddle. After a dozen lawsuits the six
of us—four sons and two daughters—
have finally divided' the property into
six little strips Each of us has a swarm
of children, each of us has to shift for
himself. There is not ouo of us who has
anything to spare. ”
“So it cannot be?”
“No. If you should bring him back,
we would have to make up u little in
come for him among us all. Only the
times are so hard, doctor, you know.
The silkworms don’t hatch well, nor
spin when they do; the vines uro dis
eased, the grain is thin, the olives are
wormy, there is no rain, the taxes are
heavy"—
“Enough, we will let Master Pietro
sleep ou. But I have net come here to
string beads and to have the crowd gape
at me. Tell mo whom to raise.”
“Ghita—bring back Ghita, my
Ghita, ” cried a poor old woman, weep
ing like Mary Magdalen.
"No, no, doctor, do not wake her,”
interrupted a girl. "Oh, no, pretty
creature, it’s all well she died. Before
she left us she told me aIL We dressed
, her in white and pat a wreath ou her
hair till she looked like a bride. Leave
her in holy ground. Tho man she loved
deserted her for someone else.”
“Poor Ghita. But you must admit
you are making it hard for me. To put
an end to it all 1 will bring back Grin
galetto, who choked to death eating
codfish not a mouth ago.”
“You must not, you must not,“cried
Lina Paparero, wringing her hands.
“He sold me that vineyard of his on
tho installment plan. For ten long years
I’ve been paying in hard coin far more
than its value, and now would you have
rue begin all over again? It’s not fair,
signor dottore. ”
“What a state of things. But we
will let that go. I will now propose one
who left to mouru him neither brother
nor sister, wife nor parent; oue who
lijft only a blessed memory, an example
of all the virtues, and his little savings
to tho hospital—l mean your good
priest, who loved you so well, whom
you regretted so deeply, made, you
remember, such a dreautul journey to
the other world, seeking, poor pilgrim,
his Cucuguanese in every corner, even
in yawning hell itself, not missing a
single one. Shall I restore him to you?”
“No, no, ” cried various devout mem
bers of the flock. “No, no, ” added Lena
Russolina, tho mother of the congrega
tion. “He was old, poor man, aud deaf
as a post, so much so that at confession
he always absolved us of sins we had
never committed. Leave him in glory,
especially since we now have a young
and hearty curate. Ho is as good as a
saint, he sings like an organ, he preaches
like a seraph, and ho swims with the
current."
“What’s to bo done? I’ll try some
one else. I seo over there a little white
wooden cross. Tho harebells seem try
ing to hide it; the tall grass is almost
on a level with it. You can read that
that narrow grave holds a 10-months
old baby. Truo, it seems half a pity to
bring the tender soul back to this world
to bear—what you have all been bear
ing. Still, if you wish him raised, say
but the word and I will display my
power. ”
“Signor dottore, ” whispered a wrin
kled crone, “that little one is ours,
alas! lam the grandmother. My daugh
ter had not yet weaned him. Ho was
just getting his teeth, when suddenly
ho died. But God took him from us.
God’s will be done! Now there is an
other babe at the breast. God knows
what ho is doing. What he takes with
one hand he gives buck with the other.
My daughter couldn't suckle both, and
wft aro too poor to p~t him out to
nurse. ’ ’
At this the doctor burst out: “Enough
for today, if not too much, indeed!
Since you won’t havo the miracle now,
1 will perform it ou another occasion.
Only I beg of you to agree beforehand
0:1 the person to bo brought to life.”
Aud ho strode away.
From that memorable Sunday our
doctor has douo wonders in Cucuguano.
It is true ho does not raise tho dead,
but 110 saves tho lives of tho sick. The
Cucuguanese, now fully trusting him,
say, “If ho did not fulfill his promise,
to tell the truth, it was not his fault— l
it was ours, for we wished to leave out
dead underground.”—Translated For
Argonaut From the Italian.
Tho Queen’s Four Leaved Clover.
Ail amusing story of Queen Hortense,
(laughter of tho Empress .Tosephino and
wife of Louis Bonaparte, king of Hol
land, lias lately been told After her ex
ile from Holland tho ex-queen sojourn
ed for u time in a modest habitation
near Constance, in Switzerland.
As her health was broken down by
her troubles her physicians prescribed a
visit to tho mountains of Appenzell,
and the ex-queen, accompanied only by
a reader or female companion and two
or throo servants, went to a rustic
neighborhood iu the hills. There shfl
and her companion found nothing bet
ter to do than hunt for four leaved clo
ver and beearno quito excited iu the
search.
“To lend tho matter interest,” the
queen wrote iu a letter which hits been
brought to light, “we would assume
that each discovery of a four leaved clo
ver had some prophetic significance,
Tho next one, if found so and so, meant
that we should return to France; an
other meant that I was to receive a let
ter the next day from my son Louis,
and so ou. In this innocent pastime we
found positively the only excitement
that was open to us iu tho placa
“But soon it was noised abroad
among tho children of the neighborhood
that we were continually hunting foul
leaved clover, and consequently, these
children argued, we must want it very
much. Then all the children and some
of the grown people were out hunting
four leaved clover, aud soon great
bunches of it were brought to us, foi
which wo had to show ourselves very
grateful.
“Iu imother day our only resource for
amusement was gouo, for these kind
but superserviceablo people had strip
ped tho neighborhood for u mile around
of all its four leaved clover. ”
A Tat© of the Sea.
Two American captains were recently
relating their experiences on different
voyages. One of them told the follow
ing story: “About 1 p. m. ou March 2
my 6liip was proceeding uuder full sail
wheu a cloud about the size of a man’s
baud was observed oil the horizon. It
came ou, and as it neared tho ship we
discovered that it was composed of lo
custs. They settled ou the sails, and you
couldn't see a bit of canvas for them.
When they flew away, there was not a
stitch of canvas left ou tho yards.”
“Ah,” said the other captaiu, "I can
quite believe that, for at about 8:80
p. in. on March 2 my vessel was pro
ceeding uuder full sail when we ob
served a small cloud on the horizon.
As it approached the ship we discovered
that it was a cloud of locusts, and as
they passed our vessel we saw that
every man Jack of them had a pair of
No. 1 canvas trousers on ’’ —Hrusil Nut
THE BLACK DEATH.
THAT FEARFUL PLAGUE THAT FOL
LOWS IN THE WAKE OF WAR.
I
In the Fourteenth Century It Swept the
Whole of Europe, Killing Twenty-five
Million* of People In Three Year* —The
Pestilence In London.
The plague, or pestilence, that mys
terious and fearful visitation which has
moved its hosts in tho wake of armies
to slay more than war itself, is supposed
to have first originated among the dense
masses of people who crowded together
in the great cities of Asia aud Egypt, or
who formed the encampment of Xerxes,
Cyrus and Tamerlane the Tartar. It
probably sprang from the impurity
which must have existed in the midst
of such vast gatherings and in part also
from leaving the unburied dead upon
the field of battle. At any rate the
germs of this fearful human poison have
always been most active where condi
tions similar to those have prevailed. It
has always been wa r and the march of
armies that has spread it broadcast over
the world from time to time, and as
war became less frequent and less
worldwide the frequency and extent of
these ravages have lessened also.
The first recorded outbreak £f the
plaguo in Europe occurred in the six
teenth century. It came from lower
Egypt. This was the first lapping of tho
wave that reached into the east again,
there to stay its movement so far as the
west was concerned until 644 A. D.,
when the returning legions of the Em
peror Justinian brought it again into
the western world from the battlefields
of Persia. Constantinople was the first
place it attacked. Here in a single day
as many as 10,000 persons are said to
have fallen victims to it. But the plaguo
did not stop with Constantinople. It
had found a too congenial soil in Eu
rope, which was little else than one
great battlefield at the time. It was
carried into Gaul, where it followed
close in the wake of the Frankish
armies, and from Gaul it moved into
Italy, with the Lombards, and so devas
tated the country as to leave it entirely
at the mercy of the invaders.
The various crusades, which extended
over a space of about 200 years, no
doubt did much to hold the pestilence
in Europe, for they served to keep open
the channels of intercourse between the
east and the west. Periodic epidemics
were common during their continuance,
aud these seem to have culminated in
the fourteenth century with what is
known in history as tho black death.
Tho black death was more fatal to hu
man lifo than any other single cause
since the world began. The havoc of war
was nothing in comparison to it. It
swept the wliolo of Europe, leaving in
its path such misery aud destitution as
the world had never known. It kil led in
three years some 26,000,000 of people.
Such figures stagger the comprehension,
but the records of the time cannot be
doubted. The entiro population of Eu
rope is estimated to have been about
100,000,000 —kept down as it was by
the constant warfare—and of these 100,-
000,000 at least a fourth perished.
The ravages of the plague in Italy,
where it came in the track of the war
of tho Guelphs aud Ghibellines, was
particularly disastrous to mankind. It
raged with terrible fury in Naples,
where 00,000 persons are said to have
died. It fell upon Pisa and seven out of
every ten perished. It utterly aud for
ever destroyed the prosperity of Siena.
Florence also suffered severely, while
100,000 of the inhabitants of Venice
were literally wiped off tho face of the
earth. From Italy it moved iuto France,
where the mortality was almost as
great; in Paris alone 60,000 people died
from it. 0110 of the worst features pre
sented by tho history of the black death
was the cruel persecution it aroused
against tho Jews. They were supposed
to have infected tho air in some mys
terious manner, aud they were accused
of having poisoned tho wells aud
springs. In Strassburg 2,000 of them
were buried alive in their own burial
ground.
The order of the Flagellanto arose at
this time, coming from the belief that
the sins of the world had at last brought
down tho wrath of heaven. It was the
beginning of the so called Hundred
Years’ war that carried the black death
into England, where in London its, vic
tims numbered 100,000. When at last
tho plague had worked its ravages, it
doubled back over its course, to disap
pear in the east. In 1845 it appeared
again in England, first among the sol
diers of Richmond after the battle of
Bosworth Field, and when the victo
rious army marched to Loudon the
plague went with them to work its
havoc there. As long as it lasted the
mortality was as great as that caused
by the black death half a century be
fore. Five thousand people died in five
weeks, and then the plague left London
as suddenly as it had appeared there, to
sweep over the rest of England.
In Scotland the plague of 1668 came
immediately after the battle of Lang
side, when Queen Mary was dethroned,
but no records of the mortality it occa
sioned seem to have been preserved.
Tho plague visited London in 1675.
This followed after the civil war which
ended with the death of Charles 11, but
so many years intervened that it is im
possible to trace any connection between
the two events. In modern wars dauger
from the plague seems gradually to
have lessened, perhaps as a result of
better sauitary conditions maintained
by the armies of today.—Philadelphia
Press.
Politics toy the Forelock.
The Denver Post takes time by the
forelock and launches the following:
For President,
Teddy Roosevelt of the Texas Terrors.
For Vice President,
Colonel Torrcy of tho Wyoming Wildcats.
Platform,
Tighten yer cinches, hit ’em with the (port
and git there)
—Dallas Newa
Saved From loath.
LIFE WAS EBBING AWAY WHILE IN THE
MOUNTAINS.
A Woman was Rescued when iii a Perilous Plight.
The Hovel Method Used to Save Her.
From the Pre, Ottumwa, lona.
Miss Lola Noble, of 416 East Maine Street,
Ottumwa, lowa, daughter of Mr. E. M.
Noble, the shirt manufacturer, has accom
plished a work which will not only benefit
her, hut undoubtedly he of service to many
others. It was u praiseworthy undertak
ing; one which she may feel proud of and
amply repaid for her indefatigable efforts.
A reporter of the Preen hearing of her suc
cessful achievement sought an interview with
her.
Miss Noble seemed cheerful, hopeful and
in the best of health. Apparently she had
not suffered any ill effects from her efforts
which were reported to have done much
good.
About two years ago she accompanied her
parents to the west, and resided among the
mountains for several months. This was
done in the hopes that her health might be
improved, as she was suffering from anaemia.
Instead of the change of climate benefiting
her, she rapidly became worse and her parents
hastily returned east with her.
Reputable physicians were summoned and
exercised their skill, but it was of no avail.
Her condition became worse and her face
assumed a ghost-like appearance. She was
wasting away for want of ldood, and what
little she did have, was watery and in a de
praved state. Any slight exertion caused
excessive fatigue, and palpitation of the
heart. She had no appetite and the daintiest
viands did not tempt her. Her condition
was deplorable and death seemed nigh.
Many of her friends thought she was going
into consumption.
Finally some friends advised her to try
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They had learned of eases similar to hers
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Miss Noble was reluctant to try them, for
it seemed is if all possible remedies had been
tried and the expense had been considerable,
without being benefited. Her friends were
so enthusiastic regarding the good qualities
of the pills, that she finally decided to try a
box, and purchased one from E. M. B. Scott’s
drug store.
A decided improvement was noticeable
after the pills had been taken and she pur
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dition was so great that lifter taking four
boxes of the remedy, she considered herself
well, and stopped taking the medicine. But
her severe sickness could not be cured so
soon and she was obliged to commence taking
the pills again. After using a few more
boxes, all traces of her fearful disease had
disappeared. To-day, she is the picture of
health, her complexion being that of an
ideally healthy young lady, and she is as
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Her father was so much impressed with
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