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Cabby'* Revenge.
A stipendiary magistrate In a town
lB Yorkshire who was not given to err
•a the eldo of leniency, once had be-
fere him a cab driver who was chars;-
«d with furious driving. After some
•evere comments on the man’s con-
duct a heavy fine was Imposed.
A few days after the trial, the mag
Istrate, who had been detained rather
longer than usual In the court, was
hurrying along to catch his train,
when, seeing an empty cab handy, ho
bailed the driver and directed him to
proceed to the station, telling him
that he was pressed for time. The
driver, however, heedless of the hint,
kept to a very gentle trot.
“I say, I say, my man,” exclaimed
the fare, with his head out of the
Window, "drive faster than this.”
"It ca 't be done, sir,” replied the
driver. “Ye see, if we drives faster
we're ’ d up aforo the beak, and we
gets fined; so we has to be careful."
He did not alter his pace and neither
did the “beak” catch the train.—Lon¬
don Titbits.
Stole Coal Trains.
Three men were arrested near Nor¬
ristown, Penn., recently, l’or stealing
coal-:ruius by greasing the track and
then stealing the coal.
1 , 000,000 Sailors From On© Ship.
Tho U. S. Receiving Ship Vermont, now over
60 years old, has been the school house for
over 1,000,000 sailors in our navy. The age and
the accomplishments of the Vermont are
much the same as Hostetter's Stomach Bit¬
ters, which has been before the public for 50
years and bas cured innumerable cases of
malaria, fever and ague, besides dyspepsia,
constipation, indigestion, blood disorders and
kidney affections.
There are more than 8.000 Christians in
Bulandshardistrict, in India.
“ Only the First Step
is Difficult. ”
The first step in Spring
should be to cleanse Nature's
house from Winter's accumu¬
lations. Hood's Sarsaparilla
does this work easily. It is
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Medicine. It purifies the blood,
as millons of people say.
It makes the weak strong, as nervous
men and women gladly testify. It
cures all blood diseases, as thousands
of cured voluntarily write. It is just the
medicine for you, as you will gladly say
lifter you have given it a fair trial.
Bad Stood— “Although past 70 years of
age I am thoroughly well. It was three
bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla that made
me so after spending over $60 in medical
attendance. My trouble was a raw sore on
|my ankle.” Mrs. Louisa Mason, Court
Street, Lowell, Mass.
Running I Sores-" children After Hood’s worrying Sarsa¬ four
months gave my
parilla and it cured them of running sores.
Hood’s Pills cured me of dyspepsia and
constipation.” Mas. Kate E. Thomas, 31
Governor St., Annapolis, Md.
Consumptive consumptive Cough cough - “ Five which years
ago I had a re¬
duced me to a skeleton. Was advised to
take Hood’s Sarsaparilla which 1 did and
recovered normal health. I have been well
ever since.” Matilda Bridgewater, Cor.
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Modern RHEUMATISM Science Recognizes f y
a.s a Disease of the Blood |
There is a popular idea, cold, tlut this that disease /( V
it> caused by exposure to and
localities infected with it more '
some are ^
than others the development Such conditions of the frequently )
promote disease,
but from the fact that this ailment runs ]
in certain families, it is shown to be hered¬
itary, and consequently a disease of the (
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blood. «
Among the oldest and beat known resident* of Bluffa, Ill., la Adam
Vangundy. He has always been prominently identified with the interests
of that place. He was the first President of the Board of Trustees, and for
n long time has been a Justice of the Peace. He says : “I had been a suf¬
ferer of rheumatism for a number of years and the pain at times was eery
Intense. I tried all the proprietary medicines I could think or hear of, but
received no relief.
“I finally placed my ca9e with several physicians and doctored with
them for Borne time, but they failed to do me any good. Finally, with my
hopes of relief nearly exhausted I read an article regarding Dr. William*’
Pink Pills for Pale People, which induced me to try them. I was anxious
to get rid of the terrible disease and bought two boxes of the pills, I began
using them about March, 1897. After I had taken two boxes I was com¬
pletely cured, and the pain has never returned. I think it is the best medi¬
cine I have ever taken, and am willing at any time to testify to its good
merits .”—Blujfi (III.) Timtx.
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How Meats are Canned.
Canned roast beef, so called, is not
roasted, but boiled. The other kind of
canned beef is boiled corned beef.
Both kinds, if properly packed and
cared for will keep for ages. The can¬
ning is simple, the process having un¬
dergone no radical change in twenty-
five years. Large pieces of fresh
meat are boiled in vats, after which
the bones and gristle are removed. The
meat is cut into convenient chunks,
which are put into disinfected cans
and sealed. A small hole is left in the
top of each can, through which the hot
air and gases are forced out in the |
retorts. Then the holes are sealed up
with drops of solder. The cans are j
next placed in hot rooms, where fer- j
mentation develops in improperly |
packed cans. That is indicated by the j
swelling of the can covers. Such as J
those are destroyed. The others are j
sent to market. >
AN EXCELLENT COMBINATION.
SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE BASED ON
MERITS.
The Importance of Informing: the Public
of the Value of an Article Through
the Leading Newspapers.
The few remedies which have attained to
wide-world fame, as truly beneficial in ef¬
fect and giving satisfaction to millions of
people everywhere, are the products of
the knowledge of the most eminent phy¬
sicians, and presented in the form most
acceptable to tho human system by the
skill of the world’s great chemists: and one
of the most successful examples is the
Syrup of Figs manufactured by the Cali¬
fornia Fig Syrup Oo. Unlike a host of
imitations and cheap substitutes, Syrup of
Figs is permanently beneficial in its effects,
and therefore lives and promotes good
health, while inferior preparations are be¬
ing cast aside and forgotten. In olden
times if a remedy gave temporary relief to
individuals here and there, it was thought
good, but now-a-days a laxative remedy
mu st give satisfaction to all. If you have
never used Syrup of Figs, give it a trial;
you will be pleased with it, and reo-
ommend it to your friends or to any who
suffer from constipation, over-feeding, ills
colds, headaches, biliousness, or other the
resulting from an inactive condition of
kidneys, liver and bowels.
In the process of manufacturing the
pleasant family laxative made by the
California Fig Syrup Co., and named
Syrup of Figs, figs are used, as they are
pleasant to the taste; but the medicinal
properties of the remedy are obtained from
an excellent combination of plants known
to be medicinally laxative and to act most
beneficially. As the true and original
remedy, named Svrup of Figs, is manufac¬
tured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will assist
in avoiding the worthless imitations manu¬
factured by other parties. The Company
has selected for years past the leading pub¬
lications of the United States through which
to inform the public of the merits of its
remedy.
At dru£- I
gists or from,
direct
DrVfiiiidms
Medicine Co,
Schenectady,,
Quite Another Matter.
“1 am ready,” shouted the speaker,
“to meet calmly any emergency that
may arise.” At this moment the plat¬
form collapsed and the speaker ex-
hibited great perturbation, “How
about that one?” they asked of him
later. “That one did not arise.”—
Indianapolis Journal.
A CHECKERED CAREER
CARL SCHURZ HAS LED A
CHANGEABLE LIFE.
Has Been in Nearly Every Political
Party In This Country—Has Made
Some Lively Political Handsprings
and Somersaults.
Carl Schurz Is the foremost anti-ex¬
pansionist of the conservatives in Am¬
erica. Mr. Schurz has been the Mark
Anthony of American politics for
years. He has been always promin¬
ent upon one side or another on the
great questions that have disturbed or
interested the American people. It
was not in his nature, therefore, to
remain out of the debate when the na¬
tion was born to a new era with the
outcome of the Spanish war. Intense
activity of some kind is the meat and
drink of Mr. Sehurz’s mind. Flying i
from his native Germany 'a revolution- I
ist in 1852, he is seen in 1860 as a tre¬
mendous campaigner in American pol¬
itics. Minister to Spain in 1862, fie
threw up his post to lead a brigade in
the war of emancipation. Next lie is
United States senator from Missouri.
A prominent figure in national con¬
ventions, he helped to nominate Grant
in 1868, and four years later was pres¬
ident of the convention that nominat¬
ed Greeley. He supported Hayes in
1876,. Garfield in 1880, and Cleveland
in his three campaigns. In ’96 Mr.
Schurz did gladiatorial work for con¬
tracted money, and now he is the most
powerful opponent of America’s pet
scheme of expansion. Mr. Sehurz’s age
(he will be 70 in March), does not
seem to dim the fire that has burned
so brightly in his life for more than
half a century. He was born at Lib-
lar, near Cologne, and was educated
at the university of Bonn. At the
surrender of the fortress of Rastadt he
escaped into Switzerland, and after
man y wanderings in Europe he decided
to make America his home.
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FAMOUS SONG WRITER.
Col, Will S. Hays, the most famous
of southern song writers, has just cel¬
ebrated his 61st birthday anniversary
and is still as hale and hearty as when
long before the war he wrote the
words and music of that most popular
of popular songs, “Mollie Darling.”
The author of “Old Log Cabin in the
Lane,” “Take This Letter to My
Mother” and other songs to the num¬
ber of 343 is a tall, gruff, gray-haired
man with a southern military look. He
writes the river news for one of the
Louisville papers, sells steamboats, oc¬
casionally officiates as captain on one
of the big steamers plying between
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Louisville and Cincinnati, writes poe¬
try and continues to grind out songs.
He is one of the greatest characters
about the falls of Ohio. Everyone
knows him and from the time he leaves
his home until he reaches there is a
continued “Hello, colonel!” heard on
every hand, In spite of his rough
ways and his profane language. Col.
Hays is one of the gentlest men in all
the southland. He has a heart in him
as large as a war debt.
“Mollie Darling” had a sale of over
2,000,000 copies, but ail Col. Hays re¬
ceived for the song was $25, and he
gave the money to a poor woman to
buy a coffin lor ber dead child. It
netted the publisher in the neighbor¬
hood of $60,000.
Thunder is rare at Cairo, being
heard on an average only three days
in the year.
NEWSBOY WHO WENT TO WAR.
“Pat” Rurke is 16 years old and
looks about 12, He had too much sense
to he spoiled by being the pet of the
Louisville Society for the Protection
of Newsboys and Waifs, a society or¬
ganized in 1895, and doing much good
work on rather novel lines—the out¬
come of one of Judge Thompson’s
ideas. In this home and club house
Pat became one of the best players in
the Newsboys’ band, and when every
other heart leaped at the hope of serv¬
ing its country, this patriotic little
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It required a special permit from
Washington, because the boys were
under .age, to allow them to go with
the Louisville Legion when it went to
the front as the First Kentucky. This
Newsboys’ band had great success in
Porto Rico. They gave two concerts
a week to the citizens of Ponce.
But it wasn’t all “making music”
and receiving applause. AVbng in
October poor Pat fell a victim to the
fever, owing to the constant rains and
tent life, and might never have reach¬
ed his friends in Louisville had it not
been for his speedy removal Uf Phil¬
adelphia and the splendid care given
him at St. Agnes hospital.
The women interested in the hos¬
pital made a lion of Pat and when he
went back to Louisville he found a
host of newsboys marshaled at the
station to cheer him.
No Right to Be Murdered.
Lord Monck, at one time governor of
Canada, sat in the house of commons
for an English constituency. An Ir¬
ishman himself, he was very patroniz¬
ing to the Irish members. Meeting
Vincent Scully, the member for Tip¬
perary, in the lobby one night, he
slapped him on the shoulder and said,
familiarly; “Well,Scull, how are you?”
The other, annoyed by this form of ad¬
dress, rejoined: “I will thank you, my
lord, not to deprive my name of the
last letter. Or, if you do, pray add it
to your own. and call yourself Mon¬
key.” Vincent Scully once gave ut¬
terance in the house to a ludicrous
confusion of thought. A landlord had
been murdered in Tipperary, and dur¬
ing a discussion In regard to the crime,
an attempt was made to prove that it
was agrarian. Mr. Scully spoke of the
murdered man in terms of the highest
praise. “He was much beloved,” said
he; “he distributed food to the starv¬
ing people and no man had a less right
to be murdered!”—Argonaut.
Peculiar Privileges.
Lord Forester, who has accepted the
office of mayor of Wenlock, England,
this year, possesses an extraordinary
privilege, and one that he is hardly
likely to avail himself of. By a grant
from King Henry VIII., which is no,w
among Lord Forester's family
archives, he has the right of wearing
his hat in the presence of the queen.
Lord Forester is the only English no¬
bleman who enjoys this privilege,
which was conferred upon his ances¬
tors as commoners. The Forester
peerage was created at a compara¬
tively recent time—July, 1821.
Lord Kingsale, the premier baron of
Jreland, also enjoys the hereditary
privilege of wearing his hat in the
royal presence—a favor granted to his
ancestor, John de Courcy, by King
John.
WAS A WEIGHTY TASK
THE PART FERGUSON! PLAYED
N PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
Ho First Becamo Famous During: the
Sessions of the Pan-American Congress
by Delivering: Blaine's Great Speech In
Spanish.
Cable reports from Paris have had
much to say of late of the splendid
work done by Mr. AHhur W. Fergu¬
son, attached .to the American peace
commission as official interpreter. He
is the son of Col. Tom. Ferguson, who
distinguished himself in the Mexican
war, and at the close of that war lo¬
cated In Mexico. It was there that Ar¬
thur Ferguson was horn and received
early training amid the old Spanish
surroundings which fitted him for the
skillful interpreter he has since be-
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come. He was educated at Georgetown
college.
It was when Blaine called together
that notable assemblage from North,
South and Central America, known as
the International American congress,
that Ferguson first made his appear¬
ance as an official interpreter. Mr.
Blaine’s right hand man on that par¬
ticular occasion was William E. Cur¬
tis, who, in looking around for trans¬
lators and interpreters, recalled that
young Ferguson had spent his early
life in a Spanish-American country,
and was doubtless fitted for this par¬
ticular work. Ferguson undertook the
task, and he made his bow as official
interpreter by taking the memorable
speech of James G. Blaine, greeting the
South and Central Americans, and
rendering it into Spanish. It was no
easy task, for Blaine spoke rapidly and
with that wealth of figurative speech
which always marked his discourse.
But Ferguson did it not only rapidly
and well, but with felicity of expres¬
sion, such nice shading of figures and
metaphors that it drew the enthusias-
itc applause of those Spanish auditors.
It was such that when Blaine turned
from the reading he remarked to some
state department officials:
“I don’t know whether that was my
or Ferguson’s.”
At all events Ferguson made hi3
reputation then and there as an inter¬
preter, who could not only give the
letter of the speech, but could conver
its spirit, even its accent and its modu¬
lations by which the speaker sought to
impress one or the other feature upon
his hearers. Since then he has acted
as interpreter in many notable gath¬
erings. He is a man of splendid phy¬
sique, six feet three inches in height,
broad shouldered and robust, weighing
probably 250 pounds.
AN AGENT OF WEALTH.
Professor Arthur T. Hadley of Yale,
the new president of the American
Economic association, is a distinguish¬
ed teacher of the science with which
the organization concerns itself. For
some years he has been professor of
economics at Yale, and his writings
upon that topic have been widely read.
His text-hook, “Economics,” is one of
the most useful volumes of its kind and
is held in high esteem. Professor Had¬
ley has a reputation as an economist
that is not limited to the United States
and he is in every way fitted for the
post voted him by his fellows in the
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PROF. HADLEY.
association. He is the trainer of
Yale’s young debaters, and is very pop¬
ular with the studAits. Among the
candidates prominently mentioned for
the presidency of the great school at
New Haven, Professor Hadley is one
of the strongest and ablest.
A Woman Fixed Thanksgiving Day.
According to the Bost,on Transcript,
it was a woman who waj the means
of having a definite day in the year set
apart for the national observance of
Thanksgiving. Mrs. Sarah Josepha
Hale, a Boston woman, and editor of
the first woman’s magazine published
in this country, worked for twenty
years to accomplish this end. Time did
not daunt her courage, but rather, in¬
creased her insistence. She wrote to
governors of states and to presidents
of the United States. At last Presi¬
dent Lincoln adopted her suggestion
in 1864, when there was reason to re¬
joice over the success of the North in
restoring the union.
STUCK TO HIS ELBOW.
War Rcvvuue Stamps Which Disappeared
but Turned Up.
“These war revenue stamps are cer-
tainly an unmitigated nuisance,” said
a New Orleans business man to a
Times-Demoerat reporter, "especially
the ones we are obliged to attach to
our telegrams. I don’t care how fre¬
quently you use the wires in the course
of the day you are still as liable as
ever to forget to stamp the last mes-
sage. A few nights ago I had occasion
to send a telegram from my home, and
the servant came hack in about an
hour to say that I’d neglected to put
on the stamp. I rushed him out to buy
a few, and aftev a good deal of trouble
he secured a couple at a drug store—
the only ones, I really believe, in the
whole neighborhood. By that time I
concluded tp rewrite the message, and
before doing so placed the stamps
carefully on the edge of my library
table. When I got the wording ar¬
ranged to suit me they had vanished
—disappeared into space. I never
knew of anything more mysterious. I
was certain down to a fraction of an
inch where I had put the confounded
things. There was no breeze or cur-
rent of air to have carried them away,
and no time for them to be hidden by
accidental disorder. Yet they were
gone; that was undeniable, and we
searched and researched in vain. We
pried into all sorts of impossible nooks
and crannies, and at last gave up in
despair. I was tired out, grimy and
exasperated, and rather than go to any
further trouble concluded to wait un-
til next day before sending the tele¬
gram. When I got down to the store
in the morning I pulled off my coat,
and the first thing I saw was the two
stamps sticking to my sleeve at the
elbow. I suppose I must have touched
them accidentally while writing, and
they hung to the cloth like grim death.
Anyhow, I had had them right there,
literally at my elbow, all the while
we were making that search. I didn't
say anything, because I couldn’t think
of anything that seemed to fit the case.
But telegraph stamps are a nuisance.
They ought to be abolished and some¬
thing substituted that involves less
sorrow and sweat and swearing.”
JAY GOULD’S,YOUNGEST CHILD
From the family of Jay Gould the
New York stock exchange has received
its latest and one of its youngest re¬
cruits. Frank T. Gould, the youngest
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of the family, has just bought a seat
on the exchange. The recent boom in
stock trading has made such privileges,
highly .valuable, and his membership
cost the young millionaire $30,000, the
highest price recorded in more than
ten years. Unquestionably he can af¬
ford it. By the terms of his father’s
will he was to come into control of
his share of the estate on attaining
his majority. He was 21 years old
Dec. 5, and on the following day Rus¬
sell Sage, who had been trustee of
this part of the fortune, rendered to
him an accounting of his stewardship.
The details were not made public, but
as the amount originally was more
than $10,000,000, the youngest Gould
enters upon his career in finance with
solid backing. He is a quiet, unassum¬
ing young man, devoted to business
and fond of sport. Frank has been
under the guardianship of his sister,
Miss Helen Gould, and lives with her
at Lyndhurst, near Irvington, N. Y.
He was educated at the Berkeley
school and New York university. To
prepare himself for the proper man¬
agement of his fortune he has made
trips over the railroads controlled by
the Gould interests and has made his
business headquarters in the offices of
the Missouri Pacific railway, in New
York. He is a great lover of dogs.
Recently he bought Presto and Laura
Jean, rough coated St. Bernards, for
his kennels, the reported price being
$5,000.
Acetylene for Street Lighting.
The City of Wabash, Ind., is soon
to be lighted by an acetylene gas
plant, now being installed by the Lo-
gansport and Wabash Valley Gas Com¬
pany, otherwise known as the Deitrich
Syndicate, says the Railways Review.
The machinery and materials are now
on the ground and the city authorities
inform us that the street lights will
probably be in operation shortly. The
city has heretofore been lighted by ar¬
tificial gas, in the usual way, and the
substitution of acetylene for street
lighting is an experiment which has
been but little tried.
Britain’s Homeless Wanderers.
In Great Britain it has been reck¬
oned that there are about 100,000 ab¬
solutely “homeless wanderers," and
that 60,000 of those belong to Lon¬
don.