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coughs
Thai Hill
'are not distinguished by any mark
or sign from coughs that fail to be
fatal. Any cough, neglected, may
sap the strength and undermine the
health until recovery is impossible.
All coughs lead to lung trouble, if
not stopped.
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
Cures Coughs
“My wife u suffering from a dreadful
cough. We did not expect that ehe would
long survive, but Mr. R. V. Royal, deputy
surveyor, happened to be stopping with us
over night, and having a bottle of Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral with him, induced my wife to
try this remedy. The result was so beneficial
that she kept on taking it till she was cured.”
R. S. HUMPHRIES, Saussy, Ga.
“My little daughter was taken with a dis
tressing cough, which for three years defied
all the remedies 1 tried. At length, on the
urgent recommendation of a friend, I began
to give her Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. After
using one bottle I found to my great sur
prise that she was improving. Three bottlos
completely cured her.”
J. A. GRAY,
Trav. Salesman Wrought Iron Range Cos.,
St. Louis, Mo.
Ayer’s
[Cherry Pectoral
is put up in half-size bottles at half
price —so cents.
The Food Value of Sugar.
Children all over the world and all
the keepers of “sweet stufi shops
ought to join in a testimonial to the
learned though annonymous scientist
who publishes in the Allgemeine Zcit
ung an enthusiastic glorification of
sugar. Not only as a “genussmittel,”
sugar is almost the most valuable
thing that enters the mouth of man,
woman or child. There is scarcely
any other equally important feeder of
muscle power. The laborer can do
nothing better than keep a few lumps
of sugar in his pocket. The negroes
in sugar plantations renew and quick
en their weary bodies by sucking
the sugar canes. Sugar is a fine re
storative for soldiers. A Dutch army
surgeon asserts that during an expe
dition to Sumatra he found that the
best means to maintain the soldiers in
vigor and freshness, not only during
the march, but during the
fight, was a generous al
lowance of sugar. Each man was
served with a handful at a time. The
Swiss chamois hunters bear similar
evidence to its marvelous powers of
sustenance and of recuperation after
exhausting fatigue.
The writer gives an account ot sue
cessful experiments made with sugar
as food for athletes by several of the
Dutch rowing clubs, by pedestrians,
by cyclists and others whose bodily
powers need “a rapid, portable and
innocent stimulant.” Sugar is com
ing more and more into use in Hol
land in the course of “training” foi
contests, anti it is as good for beasts
,asit is for men. The poor hardly re
alize as yet, or only realize uncon
sciously, what a treasure they possess
in cheap sugar. Its value in fevers
has been emphasized by Hupeland and
others. That which is supposed to
injure the teeth in the consumption of
“goodies” is not the sugar, but the
socallcd “fruit acids” which are intro
duced to flavor the sugar. Negroes,
who devour sugar in so huge a quan
tity, have the best teeth in the world.
London News.
Crippled by
Rheumatism.
Those who have Rheumatism find
themselves growing steadily worse all
the while. One reason of this is that
the remedies prescribed by the dootors
contain mercury and potash, which ul
timatHy intensify the disease by caus
ing the joints to swell and stiffen,
producing a severe aching of the bones.
B. 8, 8. has been curing Rheumatism
for twenty years—even tne worst case/
which seemed almost incurable.
Capt O. X. Huahes, th popular wllmiJ
conductor, of Columbia, 8. C.. had su rxrM>rt
•nor with Rheumatism which convinced hltt
that there 1* only one
sure for that painful die
easr lie says: “I was a
great sufferer from mus- / Wh
eular Rheumatism for L Ia&
two years. 1 could set .VS
no permanent relief wi
from any medicine nre- IA y
scribed by my physician. |wK\ T
I took about a iloien hot- lIHHI T
ties of your 8. 8. 8.. and i<v
now 1 am as well as l
ever was InmyMfe. Um ipccy l
•ure that your medicine , j |
cured me. and 1 would
recommend It to any one
suffering from any wood disease."
1 Everybody knows that Rheumatisir
is a diseased state of the blood, and
only a blood remedy is the only propel
treatment, but a remedy containing
potash and mercury only aggravate*
the trouble.
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being Purely Vegetable, goes direct tc
the very ceuee or the disease and a per
manent cure always results. It is th
only blood remedy guaranteed to con
tain no potash, mercury or other dan
gerous minerals.
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Character of Klondike Ground.
The streams here are not what are
called bed-rock streams—that is the
water does not run over a rocky bed —
but under the present streams is a
deposit of decayed vegetable mould
or peat, called muck. This muck is
often of great depth—in one placei n
a part of Bonanza, forty-eight feet.
Under this is gravel, then the bed
rock. The gold lies in this gravel,
and not only on, but in the bed rock.
For bed-rock, in miners' parlance,
does not necessarily mean hard rock,
but anything that will catch and hold
the particles of gold as the water car
ries it down. , ,
The hole which is sunk is usually
about three by five feet. F-ach fire
burns down about a foot, and is us
ually started at night. By morning
the hole is clear of smoke, the earth
is softened and can he lifted out.
When the hole has been sunk ten
feet, or as deep as a man can shovel,
a windlass is set up, and the dirt is
hoisted out in a square board bucket,
and lifted upon the dump. Every
little while, after gravel is reached, a
panful is taken to the cabin and wash
ed out, and by this it is known when
“pay” is reached. Where the creek
bed is wide, or where there has been
much sliding in, several holes will
often have to be sunk in a line across
the creek from rim to rim, and there
connected by drifting, before the pay.
which lies ir. the old bed of the stream
is found. It will thus be seen that
much time, both of actual work and
“dead work,” is consumed making
any prospect of a claim. When one
stands on the Dome and sees the
miles of creeks all staked to their
sources, likewise every pup, he real
izes the years that will elapse before
what is in every claim can be known.
The main work of the district is
being done on El Dorado, which, as
far as the forties, or four miles up, is
rich beyond the power of imagination
to conceive. Yet there are total
blanks on Fddorado. On Hunker
there is a blank between two of the
richest claims on the creek. The
gold has slipped over, apparently.
Bonanza is spotted from top to bot
tom, yet the total amount that will
be taken out will be large, and there
are some very rich claims. Hunker
will also turn out a large quantity of
gold. Next to this comes Dominion,
a creek of great promise, while it is
impossible to say in what order the
others come. They all show promise,
but hardly more can be said, for the
amount of work done on them is in
significant.— Harper's Weekly.
FO F. OVE R FI FT Y YEA RS
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothino Syrup
has been used for over fifty years by
millions of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect success.
It soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind colic and is
the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It
will relieve the poor little sufferers
immediately. Sold by Druggists in
every part of the world at 25 cents a
bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs
Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, and take
no other kind.
Flxlugr the It Ia me.
President Lincoln's jokes, es
pecially when perpetrated in con
nection with grave matters, usually
had a purpose in them. After Lee
had taken Harper's Ferry, the Presi
dent realizing how great a calamity
it was to the Northern arms, deter
mined, if possible, to fix the respon
tibility for the loss of this imporiant
position, says the Manchester (Eng.)
Courier.
Halleck was summoned, but did
not know where the blame lay.
“Very well,'’ said Lincoln, “I’ll ask
Gen. Schenck.” The latter could
throw no light upon the question,
further than to say he was not to
blame. Milroy was the next to be
called to the presence of the com
mander-in-chief, and to enter a plea
of “not guilty." Hooker was next
given a hearing, and Fighting Joe
made a very emphatic disclaimer of
all responsibility.
Then the President assembled the
four generals in his room and said to
them: “Gentlemen, Harper’s Ferry
was surrendered and none of you, it
seems, is responsible. I am very
anxious to discover the man who is."
After striding across the room sev
eral times, the President suddenly
threw up his bowed head and ex
claimed, “I have it; I know who is
ersponsible.’’
“Who, Mr. President, who is it ?"
asked the distinguished quartet, as
they looked anxious, if not troubled.
“Gentlemen,’’ said the President,
with a meaning twinkle in his eye.
Gen Lee is the man."
There was a lack of mirth in the
laugh created, and the four generals
took their departure with a determi
nation that they would not again be
placed under suspicion.
Thousand* of person* have been cured
of pile* by using DcWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve. It heals promptly Aid cures ec
zema and all skin diseases. It gives
immediate relief.
Dk. W. A. Wiught.
White Elephant.
White elephants are not a distinct
species, but are simply albinos, which
are found among animals, birds and
insects as same as among members of
the human family. In India the
white elephant is considered a sacred
animal and is treated with the great
est reverence. When specimens are
found in the woods and jungles they
are captured with tender care, and
their possession is eagerly sought for
by the sovereigns of the small king
doms. White elephants have been
the cause of many wars, as their pos
session is supposed to bestow greater
benefits on their royal owners than
cither chests of gold or extended ter
ritory. One of the proudest titles of
the King of Ava is “Lord of the
White Elephant,” and the King of
Siam at Bangkok also counts his
white e'ephant among his most pre
cious possessions, as according to
Burmese superstition, they insure
prosperity and good fortune to the
nation. The death of one of these
creatures is remarried as a national ca
lamity; the entire! people mourn as
for the loss of a dear relative. These
elephants are kept under richly em
broidered canopies, are fed with the
most delicious fruits, and members
of the nobility seek for the honor of
being custodian to the royal beast.
When the elephant is taken to bathe in
the river it goes escorted by a band
of music ami is escorted by adoring
crowds.
This singular reverence for an albi
no elephant has existed in Burmah
for centuries. An Fmglish traveler
who visited that country 300 years
ago describes the same treatment of
this beast which may be seen at the
present time.
F-ven the hairs ot this creature are
supposed to insure good fortune. In
1855 a foreign Ambassador delivered
some presents to the King of Siam,
who ordered many presents to be
given in return. On the conclusion
of the ceremony, the King himself,
with much solemnity, placed in the
hands of the ambassador a small
golden box, locked with a golden key,
which he said was far more precious
than all the other presents. The box,
when opened, was found to contain a
few hairs of a white elephat.
And, after all, this elephat is not
white, but of a dull yellow color. It
has white or reddish eyes, and is a
very ugly-looking beast.—New York
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Cuts, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or
no pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction or money
efunded. Price 25 cents per box, for
sale by W. A. Wright.
The London Woman’s Summer Press.
One never sees a well dressed wom
an in the London streets in summer.
The inevitable sailor hat is there, and
the ill-fitting shirt waist. All the
dresses clear the ground by a couple
of inches; the women wear white
shoes, and their serge jackets and
skirts always bag at the shoulders and
ride up in front. At rare intervals
does a trig figure appear, in muslin
or foulard—immediately prouounced
that ot af a foreigner —and but once
in a while is one tempted
to turn and look at some
well appointed woman going by, so
when Sirs. Langtry, for instance,
dashes past behind a pair of high
stepping horses—gone before the eye
has had a chance to satisfy itself. If
there be some prevailing .fashion
among those who make the smart
ness of a London season not, a sug
gestion ot it is seen in the streets
when that season is over and its
makers have tied
A summer in London, then, unlike
one in Paris, hardly prepares the re
turning traveller for the note of fash
ion which he will find prevailing in
the New York streets on his return.
It comes upon him with a certain
vividness, a keenness which is bound
to wear away with a few days’ famil
iarity, but which in the mean time
makes him alive to tendencies, to the
trend of popular taste and the devel
opment of fads, which otherwise
might have escaped him. He can
hardly avoid wondering, at this par
ticular juncture, why is it that every
thing in a woman's dress is made to
take so pronounced a trip forward—
the hat down over the eyes, and the
front of the waist to fall over the belt
—the general effect, for all its touch
of abandon, being that of making a
hurrying figure, as if bent to flight—
luxurious in some of its details, to be
sure, often generous in its suggestion,
and sometimes graceful in its pose,
but altogether without stateliness,
lacking in innate dignity, anti savor
ing more of the coquette than the
queen in its character. Has anew
phychological mood take possession
of the feminine mind? Or does the
whole thing mark an inevitable reac
tion from the trim uprightness of the
tailor-made girl ?—Harper's Bazar.
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That U wkti It mi ■*• far. .■
lie Hired the Whole Circus.
“Times," said Senator Sorghum,
reflectively, according to the Wash
ington Star, “ain't anything like they
used to be. There's too much for
mality. We're getting to where the
first thing that's done when a good
old fashioned impulse asserts itself is
to tie some red tape around it and
choke it oft.”
“You thiijk we are getting slightly
effete ?" inquired the young man who
is learing the politics business.
“Undoubtedly. And the worst of
it is that we are getting eftete-er and
effete-er. The people ain't governed
as they ought to be. A whole lot of
folks have noticed it. I'll never for
get the first time I ran for office,” he
went on in a dreamy reminiscent tone.
“There was one township that was
dead against us. And we needed it.
And we got it. But we didn't send
around a lot of clumsy and common
place agents with check books. Nor
did we have to resort to any of the
elaborate methods of surreptitious
persuasion that I hear about so often
and with so much pain.”
“How did you manage it ?”
“Delicately, but thoroughly. We
were a little bit annoyed at first by
the fact that a circus had arranged to
show at the village on the day elec
tion occurred. It was only a small
circus, but big enough to make trou
ble unless we headed off its deadly
influence. Its arrival was a tempta
tion for every one to come to town and
cast a vote, and the more votes there
were the more trouble our ticket had
to overcome ; for that was the most
prejudiced township it was ever my
experience to do business in. But I
didn’t despair. I had a long inter
view with the circus manager, who
combined with a love of his art a very
acute business sense. The circus was
showing in a vacant lot adjacent to
the polls. When the crowd began to
gather it found canvas walls stretch
ing from the main entrance to the
polls. People who went to make
purchases at the ticket wagon and
were informed that Socrates Sorghum,
Esq , was giving a theater party that
day, and that there wasn't room in
the tent for anybody except his
guests. When they began to assem
ble at the polls, I announced that 1
appreciated the expressions of loyalty
and esteem which had preceeded
from Elderberry township, and that in
my turn I proposed to show the citi
zens a good time. I informed them
that each of our ballots had a coupon
which would be stamped by a man
who stood just outside, where he
could see that the holder had not
been deceived into voting a wrong
piece of paper, and which would ad
mit the bearer and his family to the
circus. Those who were not entitled
to my hospitality could follow the
show to some other town and see it
the next day.”
“Did it work ?”
“Work! Several of the men on
the rival ticket voted for us rather
than miss the circus. But you
couldn’t do that now,” he added, with
a sigh. “Circuses have got so big
that nobody could afford to hire one
for a whole day. And, anyhow, eve
rything is getting sort of complex and
undemocratic.”
The editor of the Evans City, Pa.,
Globe, writes, “One Minute Cough Cure
is rightly named. It cured my children
after all other remedies failed.” It cures
coughs, colds, and all throat and lung
troubles. Dr. W. A. Wuight.
How Men Act When Shot.
I saw many men shot, says Edward
Marshall in Scribner's. Every one
went down in a lump without cries,
without jumping up in the air, with
out throwing up hands. They just
went down in clods in the grass. It
seemed to me that the terrible thud
with which they struck the earth was
more penetrating than the sound of
guns. Some were only wounded;
some w ere dead.
Tnere is much that is awe inspir
ing about the death of soldiers on the
battlefield. Almost all of us have
seen men or women die, but they
have died in their carefully arranged
beds with doctors daintily hoarding
the flickering spark: with loved ones
clustering about them. But death
from disease is less awful than death
from bullets. On the battlefield
there are no delicate, scientific prob
lembs of strange microbes to be
solved. There is no petting, no cod
ding—nothing. Nothing, nothing but
death. The man lives, he is strong,
he is vital, every muscle in him is at
its fullest tension, when suddenly,
“chug," he is dead. That “chug" of
the bullets striking flesh is nearly al
wavs plainly audible. But bullets
which are billeted, so far as I know,
do not sing on their way. They go
silently, grimly to their mark, and the
man is lacerated and torn or dead, j
I did not hear the bullet shriek that I
killed Hamilton Fish: I did not heai
the bullets shriek which struck the
many others who were wounded
while I was near them: I did not hear
the bullet shriek that struck me.
WANTED— SEVERAL TRI'STWORTHY PKR
con* in this state to manage our business in
their own and nearby counties. It is mainly of
fice work conducted at home. Salary straight
S3OO a tear and excuses—definite, bonafide, no
more, no less salary. Monthly *75. References
Enclored self-addressed stam)>ed envelope. Her
bert K. Hew, Prect., Dept. M. Chicago. (
Unable to Sleep.
IN AFFLICTION THAT HADE A WOMAN A BUNDLE OF NERVES.
Mrs. James Arthur, of Spokane, Suffered Excruciating
Agony—Her Condition Creates Much Discussion.
From the Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.
Mrs. James Arthur, of 1021 Augusta Ave
nue, Spokane, Wash., who suffered excru
ciating agony from rheumatism has created
much discussion among her many friends.
Site told a reporter the following story of
her sufferings and cure:
“From August, 1895, to the following
January, I suffered from rheumatic pains.
For weeks at a time the pain wns so excru
ciating I was nearly' crazy. Night after
night I walked tiie lloor unable to sleep.
From a healthy woman weighing about ItiO
pounds I became a weak, thin bundle of
nerves, unable almost to perform any ordin
ary household duties. Every time we had
a spell of bad weather the awful agony
would begin.
“Prior to August, 1595, I had doctored
with Pr. Power, lie said I had sciatica and
muscular rheumatism. He gave me some
medicine that seemed to do me good. Any
way it stopped the pains at that time, but in
August they came again worse than ever.
I did not go to him again thinking he had
made some mistake in liis diagnosis of my
ease. One day while glancing over a San
Francisco paper, I noticed an article regard
ing Pr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
and that they contained in a condensed form
all the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore shat
tered nerves. The article contained an ac
count of a case similar to mine that had been
cured and I decided to try the pills. I went
to the wholesale drug store, the Spokane
Prttg Company’s place, at the corner of
Sprague and Howard and bought a box.
“The pills are wonderful. I took two
•loses antf the pain ceased. My limbs and
feet were swollen and the agony was in
tense. but after taking the pills, the swell
ing went down and the pains ceased. I con
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tinued taking the pills until I had usedtra
boxes, I think, and felt 1 was cured.
“The pills I found also gave me renewed
I strength and a better appetite, which till
I poor before.
“My lady friends who knew of my suffer*
j ings were much surprised to see the change
in me, and frequently asked how it had been
. accomplished, i used the pills when I
thought necessary for over a year before I
! told them. Now several of my friends are
using Pr. Williams’ Pink Pills on my re*
! commendation, and they all tell me that the
results are satisfactory.
“It is marvelous. I would not be without
the pills. The other day w hile I was clean
ing house, a lady friend called and found me
scrubbing and washing. She knew 1 had
been subject to rheumatic attacks and wae
astonished at seeing me thus engaged. When
I explained to her how Pr. Williams’ Pink
Pills had helped me by slopping the rheu
matic pains and also by giving me strength
and could be had for 50 cents a box. she at
once decided to give them a trial, which she
is doing with much benefit.
“ lain 48 years old, but feel much younger
now than 1 did a year ago, nnd I did con
siderable more work this spring than I have
done for five years.
If any one should desire to hear more
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they may send me. They certainly give
marvelous relief.”
The day Mrs. Arthur was interviewed by
the reporter was one of a series of ramy day*
which come so unexpectedly after a period
of bright warm weather. It was a day when
rheumatism ordinarily would appear in it*
most agonizing form, yet Airs. Arthur was
busily engaged preserving, fruit. She bad
every appearance of being in excellent
health.
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