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SAILORS OF YORKTOWN NABBED
WHILE OX MISSION OF MERCY.
ADMIRAL DEWEY SENDS THE NEWS
Department Officials Are Amisui Con-
cernlug the Safety or Disposition
of tlie Prisoners.
The navy department gave out the
following dispatch from Admiral
Dawey Tuesday:
Manila, April 18. — Secretary of the
Navy, Washington: The Yorktown
visited Baler, Luzoa, east coast ol
Luzon, Philippine islands, April 12th,
for the purpose of rescuing and bring¬
ing away tha Spanish forces, consist¬
ing of eighty soldiers, three officers
and two priests, which were surround¬
ed by 400 insurgents. Some of the in¬
surgents, armed with Mauser rifles
kj natives. Lieutenant J.
C ~ Gilmore, while making • •
am trashed were fired upon and cap-
lured.
Fate unknown, as insurgents re-,
fused to communicate afterwards. The
°rm ,1I1 ftre missing.
The officer ff previously referred to,
Chief Quartermaster W. Walton, Cox-
swain J. Ellsworth, Gunners Mate H.
J. Hygard, Sailmakers Mate Vendgit,
Seaman W. H. Rynders and C. W.
Woodbury, Apprentices D. W. Aveu-
ville, J. W. Peterson, Ordinary Sea¬
men F. Brissolese, O. R. MacDonald,
Landsmen L. T. Edwards, D. Ander¬
sen, J. Dillon and C. A. Morrissey.
Dewey.
The dispatch from Admiral Dewey
caused much excitement in naval cir¬
cles as soon as its contents became
known. It w as received late in the
day and considerable delay was caused
by the blindness of some of the cipher
words.
It was impossible to completely de¬
cipher it, and the asterisks indicate
tlae .unintelligible words.
Gilmore Well Known.
Lieutenant J. C. Gilmore, the officer
referred to as captured, is well known
in Washington, having been stationed
for ©ome time. Ilis Wlf© &I2(l
family live there. He was born in
Philadelphia July 10, 1854, and was
appointed a naval cadet from Arizona
in September, 1871. He reached his
present grade of lieutenant in 1891.
His main service has been on the
Monongahela, Marion, Bancroft, Ves¬
uvius and Machias, besides considera¬
ble service on boards.
Just a year ago he reported to the
8t. Paul, then commissioned as an
auxiliary eraiser, and served on that
vessel,under Captain Sigsbee,through-
out the war. On January 14th last he
was ordered to the hospital ship So-
lace, and on arrival there was assigued
by Admiral Dewev to the Yorktown.
The capture of the Y'orktown’s men
was discussed with much feeling in
naval circles. The misfortune was
felt with added keenness, as the navy
has prided itself thus far on immunity
from reverses.
The admiral's dispatch was the first
knowledge the department had that
the Yorktown had gone on this special
mission to -relieve the Spanish garri-
son at Baler. That the capture should
have been effected while the Ameri-
can forces were on a mission of mercy
toward the Spaniards rather than in
the prosecution of a campaign led to
the belief that Spain would have no
farther ground for questioning the
good faith with which the Americans
were seeking to relieve the condition
of the Spanish prisoners.
cation that Lieutenant Gilmore and
his men had lost their lives, great
anxiety was aroused by the mystery
surrounding their fate while in the
hands of an uncivilized enemy.
This is the first capture of any
Americans, consequently it is unknown
how the insurgents will treat our men.
If civilized methods were pursued, an
exchange would be quickly effected, as
General Otis has a large number of
Filipino prisoners, but tbe insurgents
have been averse thus far to exchang¬
ing Spanish prisoneis, and this raises
a question as to what‘they will do with
the Yorktown men.
The purpose of the adm'nistration is
to spare no efforts to secure tbe speedy
release of our men.
Statesmanship.
Watts—“After all, the best states¬
manship is that which stops the nmn-
erons leaks always connected with pub-
lie administration.”
Potts—“Yes, as long as things don’t
leak out a statesmnu can generally
hold his job.”—Indianapolis Journal,
Swallowed His False Teeth.
A man recently swallowed ids false teeta
■ nd It drove him'mad. St. nmohe will stand
■ great deal, but not eveiythlng. It yours is
weak try Hosteuer's Stemaeu Bitters, it
cures indigestion, constipation, kidney nnJ
liver troubles, ns well ns malaria and fever
and ague. It Is particularly effective In all
nervous affections, and Is strongly recom¬
mended at this season of the year when the
system is run-down and meat susceptible to
disease, aii druggists keep it.
An Apt Pupil.
Old Clerk—Just watch me wait on
this lady and you’ll get an idea of how
it is done. Is there is anything I can
do for you, madam?
Have you any canned peas?
Old Clerk—Certainly, madam (tak¬
ing down a can), and they have the fla-
vor awd freshness of the pea from the
vino.
Lady—I will take three cans.
©Id Clerk—You see how it is done;
now here comes a lady and I’ll let you
wait , on her .
Lady __ Have you flny pickletl pig - 8
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New Clerk-Certainly, ' madam (tak-
jng down a can)) and th ey bave the fla .
vor and freshness of the pig too right from
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Not The Only One.
Mr. Wliingleby—Ob, you
Teel so uppish. You're not the only
girl in the town.
Miss Flashleigh—No, I’m not the
•only girl in town who has publicly
announced that she wouldn’t have you
if were the last man on earth.
o NE reaaon Mrs. Pinkham *s treatment helps women so
promptly is that they have confidence in her.
Through some of the many thousands of Mrs. Pink-
ham's friends an woman will be led to write to Mrs.
Pinkham at her home in Lynn,
Mass., and will tell her symptoms.
The reply, made without charge of
any kind, will bear such evidence
of knowledge of the trouble that
belief in her advice at once inspires
hop*.
This of itself is a great help.
Then the knowledge that women only see the letters asking
for advice and women only assist Mrs. Pinkham in replying
makes it easy to i>c cAplicit about the little things that define
the disease.
Mrs. Eliza Thomas, of 634 Pine St.. Easton, Pa., writes:
“Dear Mrs. Pinkham—I doctored with two of the best
doctors in the city for two
years and had no relief until I
beftyin l * ie use ol }’ our remedies.
My trouble was ulceration of
5 MI ISXft ||9| the womb. I suffered
w*o something terrible, could
not sleep nights and
f / V_ * thought sometimes that
■A ^5= hH relief. death would To-day be I am such a well- a
fA SBH |9 woman, able to do tny
?4W a own pain. work, I used and four have bottles not
Z?9J gflH of Vegetable Lydia Compound E. Pinkham's and
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Em HR three packages of Sana-
tive Wash and cannot
ft, thank you enough for the
y ' HH good it did me."
Mrs. M. Stoddard,
\ Box 268, Springfield, Minn.,
i writes:
“Dear Mrs. Pinkham— For
about four years I was a great sufferer from female troubles. I
had backache all of thetime, no appetite, painsin stomach, faint¬
ing spells, was weak and my system was completely run down.
I also had falling of womb so bad that I could scarcely walk
*> across the floor. After taking two bottles of your Vegetable
and one box of can I am cured.”
We don’t admire a
Chinaman’s Writing,
He doesn t use Carter s Ink. But
then Carter’s Ink is made to use with
a pen, not a stick.
Fanny booklet “ How to Make Ink Pictures ” Irrr.
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q; Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed
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Sable Island’* Change ol Shape.
Perhaps the most remarkable feature
of nil about Sable Island Is the rapidity I
with which its size, and position have
» ml stl11 ar(> changing. On the
earliest known charts, which were
French, It was laid down as being for ,
ty-four miles long and two and a quar
ter miles wide. In 1770 it had shrunk
to thirty-one miles by two, and bad j
moved several miles to the eastward,
B r | 0 fl v It is traveling eastward SO fast
that topographers must . revise . their ,,
work often to keep trnck of It. Tlio
latest charts are always some miles out
of the way. Within oue hundred years
it has not only decreased about one-
third iu length and breadth, but has
also been leveled down from nearly
two hundred feet to about eighty
feet, while the west end has changed
Its position by twenty-five miles, com¬
pelling the buildings of the life savers
to be moved frequently to escape from
the encroaching seas. If the process
of shrinkage continues, the time is
gradually coming when Sable Island,
the meeting place of the Arctic cur-
rent, the Gulf Stream and the current
from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, will
succumb entirely to the terrific whirl¬
pool in which it exists, and the waves
will wash over the last spot of dry
sand in the “Graveyard of the Atlan¬
tic.”— New York Tribune.
His Hope.
The naan who reads other people’s
literature and forgets to return it hap¬
pened to find his friend busy with
P ast, e a-nd scissors.
’‘Fla, ha, said the caller. “Going
io keep a scrap book, are you?” .
“Yes,” was the unsmiling reply,
guess 111 manage to keep it.
Nobody ever wants to borrow scrap
books, you know.’ Washington Star.
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No amount of argument can convince the experienced,
honest grocer that any other soap will give his customers
such general satisfaction as Ivory Soap. He knows that
they prefer Ivory Soap to new kinds, of unknown quality.
Ivory Soap will sell because the people want it, the
other soaps may look like Ivory, but his customers want
the real thing—they may buy a new soap once to try it,
but they come back again and again for Ivory Soap, and
they insist on having it.
W. !’»«<" » «•**'• c. . ClMtoo.1
New York's Candy Supply.
There are 125 wholesale candy
In New York ciiy. The trade of
houses represents a total of $10,000,000.
New Yorkers alone do not consume
amount of candy a year, but it is
for our country cousins and for
of our relations across tin* ocean.
Ilian $1,000,000 worth of candy is
abroad, while we import only
$10,000 worth a year. Most of
•and.v exported and sent to the
consists of the simple “broken
but the chief favorite in the city
•hocolate tu one form or another.
Chocolate candies come in 100
ent forms, so that one has a long list
select from. I 11 every candy store
chocolate trays are always more popu¬
lar than any of the others, and a box
of chocolates is an acceptable present
to any girl. It is asserted by one of
the leading candy makers that about
three-fourths of the candy made is eon
•mined by women and half of the other
fourth by children.—New York Herald.
Comparing Notes.
“My ancestors came over in
Mayflower,” said the icy young
man.
“Indeed?” responded her eipially
frigid friend. “None of my people
have ever, to iny knowledge, traveled
otherwise than first-class.
ington Star.
Bttnlr la Blood Deep.
Clean blood meang a dean skin. No
stirring up the lazy liver and c-iving all im-
purities from the body. Begin blackheads, to day to
and nanish that pimples, sickly bilious boils, complexion blotched, by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug¬
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 26c, 50c.
Don’t cover your neglected duties with the
cloak of excuse.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
I pet.hing.softens tho gums, red tict-s i nfl/unmil¬
lion. allays patn.cut'OK wind colic. 2no. a bottle.
After six years’ suffering 1 was cured by
I’ieo’e < ure.—M aiiy Thomson, Ztiqi Ohio Ave„
Alleghany, Pa., March 19, 181*4.
Kits permanently cured. No /He or nervous-
iipkb after first day’s use of Dr. Kline s (treat
Not re Restorer. SZ trial bottle and treatise H e*
Dr. It. 11. Ki.ink, l.ta., 981 Arch St., Pblla., Pa.
There nre about, six teen breweries in Mex¬
ico, of which thrta are in the capital.
Educate Tour Bowels Wit# Otiearstl.
Candy Onthnrtlc, cur* constipation forever.
doubt destroy our peace.
DEALERS
should carry a complete
lino of
Spalding’s Heme Belt
Poet Bell
liotl
Trade Mark Cricket Tennin
Athletic Croquet Bernina
Atbletlee
Celforwi*
Supplies Kwretere
Always a demand for them.
Write for our catalogue.
A. C. SPALDING A BROS..
N»w York. IlfiBTor. ChlRBfO*
The Potash
Question.
A thorough study of the sub¬
ject has proven that crop fail¬
ures can be prevented by using
fertilizers containing a large
percentage . of f T I . otash , ; no
plant can grow without Potash.
Wc have a little book on the subject of
Potash, written by authorities, that we
-Id Hke to send to every farmer, free of
cost, if lie will only write and ask for it.
OERflAN KA1.I WORKS,
*3 Nassau St., New York.
w ANT N r Cm* of bud liMlih that RM*-A ,« B
will not hen-Af Send b crs. to Ripan. Oh.nncat
Co., NawYork, for lo Kamylo.i »nd Mod testimonial*.
SigiiN-of Intellect.
“Wlmt's the reason you’re so care¬
less in dress of late, and why do you
never wear your hair in that pretty
style I used to admire?” asked the
husband who likes to spend his eve¬
nings at home.
“I am preparing a lecture,” replied
the wife, “on the ‘Dawn of Esthetic
Life. ) »> Detroit Free Press.
Beacon Street Belles.
Emma Do you know,I think Char¬
lie is really fond of me?
Blanche -Funny, isn’t it?