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This forms a rich, oily to lather, and helps loosen all stubborn scales and blotches of the skin. Copyright, 1WS, hy The Procter k Gamble C#.. CioefcinaH vjU>£JliUL!LOJLajLSLajL^ Hepburn’s Distance From Home. Just after his return to Washington from spending Christmas in his Iov,;'. home. Congressman Hepburn was ash¬ ed by Clerk McDowell, who looks after the mileage of Congressmen, “How far Is it to your home, Mr. Hepburn?” The Iowa man reflected for a moment and then said: “Five hundred and thirteen Sollars’ mileage.”—Philadelphia Sat urday Evening Post. Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoko Year Lift Airtj. To quit tobacco easily and lorever. be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bac, tbe wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, *0c or SI. Cure guaran¬ teed Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Some actions,like frea-coe work, reveal their color in the course of time. State of Ohio, City of Toledo. *s. Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of .the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will Day the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my {—'—) presence, this 6tb day of December, ■< ('—»—) sea L >- A. D. 1886. A. W. Gleason. Xotairv Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure ista'ken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Fills are the best. He who neglects present duties, may never overtake future opportunities. Ifo-To-Bsc for Fifty Cento. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak teen strong, blood pure. 50c. 11. All druggists. Boston owns 1,023 horses, outside of those in the police department, and 97G wagons and carts. T'bREPARE r* for the turn of life. It is a critical period. As indications of the chanj <D wonderful ■“* cal condition is good. The V is a one and under some circumstances full of menace, Mrs. Pink- of Mass., will her advice without charge. _ TALKS WITH WOMAN OF AQE I was troubled with profuse flow¬ ing and became very weak. When I wrote to you I was down in bed, had not sat up for six months; was under a doctor's treatment all the time, but it did me no good. I had almost given up in despair, but your Vegetable Compound has made me feel like a new woman. I cannot thank you enough. I would advise any woman who is afflicted as I have been to write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., and get her ad¬ vice and be cured as I have been.” Mrs. F. H. Allf.v, 419 Ne¬ braska Ave., Toledo, Ohio, ■NY writes: “Dear Mrs. Pinkham;— Change of life was working on i me. My kidneys and bladder were affected. I had been confined to the house all sum¬ y mer, not able to stand v 7*j on my feet for any length of time. Terri¬ m ble pains when urinat¬ ing and an itching that } nearly drove me wild. I had tried many reme¬ dies. I told my bus- ilm band I had great faith t in yotirs and he got me a bottle; am now on my fourth bottle. \ I feel that I am entirely cured. I can work all day. I can hardly ' realize that such a wonderful cure is possible. Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound is the best medicine for women." Don’t wait until yon are prostrated with the mysterious con¬ dition known as “Change of Life.” Get Mrs. Pinkham’s ad¬ vice and learn hew other women got through. Circumstances Alter Cases. Big Sister (shouting to Bobbie)— Bahbee! You’re wanted to do an er¬ rand. Bobby (shouting back)—Tell mether I can’t do it now. I’m busy. Big Bister—It’s not mother who wants you; it’s father. Bobby (hastily)All right. Tell him I’m coming.—Tit-Bitts. An Ostrich Legend. The Arabs have a curious legend to account for the ostrich's residence in the desert. On a certain appointed day, so it is said, all crested beings met together to decide upon their re¬ spective order and precedence. All went well until the ostrich, pleading its inability to fly, disowned the birds and claimed to take rank with the mammals. These, however, would have nothing to say to a creature clothed, not with furs, but with feath¬ ers; while the birds, when it went de¬ jectedly back, repudiated it also as a traitor to its race. The ostrich, however, was equal to the occasion and declared that, being neither mam¬ mal nor bird, it must be an angel; whereupon all the other animals in¬ dignantly rushed upon It and drove it before them to the desert, where it has lived in solitude ever since. Papa Wasn't Flattered.. “Yes, sir, I have come to ask you for the hand of your daughter.” “For Isabel’s hand?” Yes, sir. It is a mere formality, I know, but we thought it would be pleasing to you to have me go through with it.” “What’s that? A mere formality?” “That is what I said—a mere for¬ mality. ” who suggested “And may I inquire that asking my consent to my daugh¬ ter’s marriage was only a mere for¬ mality?” sir.” “It was Isabel’s mother, “Isabel’s mother? Then I have nothing further to say.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. She-has done so much for women, surely you can trust her. Read this letter from Mrs. M. C. Grif- fing, of Georgeville, Mo.: “Dear Mrs. Pinkham The doctor called my trouble ulcera¬ tion of womb and change of life. hot Clear. “You say, persisted the lawyer, “that the prisoner pointed the revolver as though intending to blow out the dead man’s brains. What do you mean? Here is a revolver. N./w show me how you would point it to blow out my brains.” “I wouldn’t attempt it,” replied the witness ambiguously. A FRIEND OF FRANCE. CONSPICUOUS FIGURE IN THE EXCITING EVENTS AT PARIS. M. Qncgnar He Beanrepaire, Whoso Ac tloQ in K,-signing from fcho Court of Cassation lias Astounded All the Republic. M. Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire has had rapid advancement in the French magistracy, owing, as many persons of different parties in Paris assert, to po¬ litical Influence and to his dexterity. After the war*with Prussia, having tried editing a newspaper and attempt¬ ed without success to get into Parlia¬ ment, he took up again the career of a magistrate, which he had given up when the empire fell. Within four years he was made Advocate-General at Paris, where he prepared the case against Louis Michel. Six, years later, in 1889, he was promoted to Procur- eur-General (equivalent to Attorney- General) on the refusal of his predeces¬ sor to prosecute General Boulanger. Later he insisted on conducting the case against Ravachol, the anarchist, In person. His conduct at the time of the Panama trials was so ambiguous that his resignation was practically forced from him, and he was shelved in the position he has just resigned— that of presiding judge in one of the civil divisions of the Court of Cassa¬ tion. The appointment was severely criticised at the time as being a job. m J v" 1 ') 2 M. JULES QUESNAY. He lms written a number of novels, published under fictitious names. The first news of his interference in j the Dreyfus case was published some time ago, the story being substantial¬ ly the one of which he now admits the paternity. It involves a plain issue of veracity between M. Quesnay de Beau¬ repaire and M. Bard, a member of the j court trying the case on the one hand, and between him and M. Lebret, min¬ ister of justice, on the other. WHERE TIN IS BEING MINED. Sources from Which the DeairatSle Product Is Obtained. The tin used in the tin plate indus¬ try comes from several sources. The best of these is found in Australia and 1 the straits settlements. The latter fur¬ nish the most desirable tin, known as Banca tin. This is regarded as the purest, and is in consequence more sought after by the manufacturers of j tin plate. The Cornwall mines were discovered about 55 B. C., and for twelve centuries were the one source of this mineral. In 1240 tin was found in Bohemia. Five hundred years later, in 1760, the Banca mines were opened. In the following century Australia be- j came a producer of block tin on a I large scale. From 1872 tin has been found in commercial quantities in New South Wales, Queensland and Tas¬ mania.’ The United States have not been so fortunate, although many at¬ tempts have been made from time to time to find tin. Tin was discovered j in California as early as 1840, but there was no mining done until 1868. Only for a short time were the mines operated; they were then closed down and remained so until 1888. In this year an American company bought the property with the intention of oper¬ ating it, but it was sold to an English syndicate before two years had pass¬ ed. Something like $800,OOp was spent, but no special results were secured. The total product of the mine was j 269,00-0 pounds of tin, valued at $56,000. The Harney Peak mine is the story of another futile attempt to get tin in | commercial quantities. The Harney Peak, as it is familiarly called, is situ¬ ated near Custer City, S. D. A great deal of money has been spent in the development of this mine, but *it is doubtful if more than ten tons of metal have been taken out of the ground. The English capitalists were also heavily Interested in this attempt In Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia tin-bearing rock has been found. In no sense can the United States be re¬ garded as a tin-producing country. Just « a Hint. “Father,” asked Tommy, the other day, “why is it that the hoy is said to be the father of the man?” Mr. Tomkins had never given this subject any thought, and was hardly prepared to answer off hand. “Why, why,” he said, stumblingly, “it’s so because it is so, I suppose.” “Weli,” said Tommy, "since I’m your father, I’m going to give you a ticket to a theater and half a crown besides. I always said that if I was a father I wouldn’t be so stingy as the rest of them are. Go in, and have a good time while you’re young, I never had any chance my- self!” Mr. Tomkins gazed in blank amazement at Tommy. Slowly the significance of the hint dawned upon him. Producing the silver coin he said: "Take it, Thomas. When you really do become a father, I hope it won’t be your misfortune to have a son who is smarter than yourself.”—Tit-Bits. “I wonder why the Mediterranean is so blue?” "You’d be blue if you had to wash the Italian shore.” (EMPRESS’ MURDERER. How the Slayer Will Be Treated In Prison. The prison of L’Eveche, at Geneva, in which Luccheni is now undergoing hts sentence, was built about fifty years ago. Today, no doubt, it IS not up to the last improvements, but nev¬ ertheless It is superior to the majority of prisons in Switzerland and in many other countries. The prisoners in L’Eveche pass the nights In cells built on three floors, and opening on to in¬ side galleries. During the day they work together In workshops. Luc¬ cheni will be subjected to the treat¬ ment common to all prisoners con¬ demned to penal servitude for life. His cell, like all the other cells, will be about three and a half meters In length, two meters in width, and two and a half in height. The daylight en¬ ters by a longtitudinal opening, pro¬ tected by iron bars and a slanting shutter, which allows him only to see the sky. His furniture will consist of a bed composed of a palliasse, sheet and coverlet, and a table and stool; he will be allowed to make himself a bracket, and to decorate his walls with any pictures he may happen to ac¬ quire. In winter he will get up be¬ fore daylight and will go to bed at nightfall. There are no lights In the cells. During the night his clothes will he removed from his cell to pre¬ vent any attempt to escape. During the day he will work in the workshops, unless he prefers to work in his cell, which he will be permitted to do. He will work at carpentry, bookbind¬ ing, making boots or wooden shoes, sorting coffee grains, etc., etc., accord¬ ing to the aptitude he may show, but without speaking a word to anyone, except to his jailer when his work requires it. He will receive a small portion of what is gained by his work. His meals will consist of coffee and milk in the morning, a vegetable with boiled potatoes in the middle of the day, soup in the evening, with 645 grammes of bread a day. On Thurs¬ days and Sundays the vegetable will be replaced by 250 grammes of meat. After each meal the prisoners have half an hour’s exercise in the court¬ yard, marching in single file one after the other, the same as in every other prison. In winter, Luccheni will he dressed in jacket and trousers and cap of gray “milaine,” with yellow stripe. On Sundays he can get books from the prison library, and can write if he wishes. He is allowed to receive dur- ing the year six visitors in the parlor, and in the presence of a jailer, hut to receive or send letters only with the permission of the director of the pris¬ on, who examines their contents. AN ENEMY OF LABOR UNIONS. Judge Peter Stenger Grosscup, who has been nominated by the president to be judge of the seventh United States circuit court for the northern Illinois district, in place of the late Judge Showalter, has had a distin¬ guished career since he was elevated to the bench which he now leaves for his larger sphere of duty. Prior to that appointment, which was made by President Harrison in 1892, Judge Grosscup was an eminent lawyer in Chicago! He came to that city in 1883 from Ohio, where he had been prom¬ inent in law and politics for some time. It is not generally known that Judge Grosscup once lived in the same congressional district with President McKinley when the latter was mak¬ ing his reputation in congress. In fact, Maj. McKinley was nominated for congress by the brilliant lawyer, who stumped the district for the success of the republican candidate. Mr. Gross¬ cup himself was twice a candidate for congress in Ohio, and was well known in that state as a republican orator. The judge was born at Ashland, Ohio, in 1852. He is a graduate of Witten- JHHs! I 1 \ ” 1 '- m y\ % JUDGE GROSSCUP. berg college, and his early law read¬ ing was done in the office of Judge Thomas of Boston. He is an enemy of labor unions and has issued many injunctions against them. Large Private Library. The largest private library in the United States is said to belong to Col. Reuben T. Durrett of Louisville, Ky., which contains over 50,000 volumes, collected during sixty years. Books on the history of the West predominate, and among them Col. Roosevelt worked while preparing his “Winning of the West.” to Conciliate. As the conventional young man sat talking with the conventional young woman the conventional stern father came in. The young man would fain be sociable and at ease. "The open door-” began he. “The front door is open at this minute,” said the fath¬ er.—Indianapolis Journal. A REMARKABLE MAN. LOUIS BETTS, KING OF KAS- KASKIA ISLAND. Ills Farm Was Washed Away Twenty five Years Ago by a Change lu the Mighty Mla.lHglaid'. Coarse— lie Saw Gen. Lafayette. Perhaps the most remarkable char¬ acter in Illinois today is old Louis Betts, an inhabitant of Kaskaskla is¬ land. Betts is In the eighty-fourth year of his life, and is spending his latter days in the one habitable room of one of the few tumble-down old houses that form what is left of the historic old village of Kaskaskla. Louis Betts Is the last living indi¬ vidual of a peculiar type well known in the vicinity of Kaskaskla in the early part of the nineteenth century. His mother was a mixture of negro and In¬ dian, while his father was a full-blood¬ ed Frenchman. The old man’s skin Is 4 m iM j ft C 9 1 j I V I 'h \\i! LOUIS BETTS. almost copper-colored. His hair is combed hack from his forehead and falls in little ringlets about his ears, which are as small and neatly molded as some beautiful young woman’s. He has a sharp, well-set nose and his lips are thin and now drawn by old age. His sharp, piercing blue eyes blink ex- pressively from his shriveled little face and in no way does he resemble a ne- gro save in his hair. The Indian shows itself In his skin. Betts speaks French as fluently as he does English. He was born in 1815 and was 10 years old when General Lafayette visited Kaskaskia in 1825. The old man says that he can remem¬ ber the occasion and is always ready to give an account of the great event. In 1851 Betts, with a party of pros¬ pectors, made the trip across the plains in a prairie schooner to the gold fields of California. But Betts came back in a very short while, and he says today that "there wa’n’t no chance for a poor man out there then.” He has not been off Kaskaskia is¬ land for more than twenty-five years. Year after year he has remained in the tumble-down old village and watched the constant efforts of the mighty Mississippi river to com¬ pletely wash away the historic spot. Betts was at one time wealthy and owned a fertile farm near the junction of the Mississippi and Kaskaskia rivers, but when the former stream decided that her course had been cut out wrong and changed her current to the channel of the Kas¬ kaskia the Betts farm went floating down the river and helped to form the great Mississippi delta. During the long summer months the old man sits on the river’s bank, near the spot for¬ merly occupied by the famous Kas¬ kaskia tavern, and tells stories of events in the bygone days of the old town. He was one of the members of that remarkable funeral train when, in 1844, during the flood in the Mississippi val¬ ley, the remains of Pierre Menard, the first lieutenant-governor of Illinois, who died in his mansion on the op¬ posite side of the river, were taken across to Kaskaskia in a rowboat. During the winter the old man sel¬ dom leaves his home, and it took much coaxing to get him far enough from the door to take his picture. He was never before photographed and to him it was a novel experience. He wanted one of the pictures and thought it strange that they had to be put through a process before they were perfected. Berry Can Back Hla Wordu. Congressman Berry of Kentucky who said on the floor of the house that the United States might have to whip Germany as well as Spain, is six feet four inches tall, weighs 210 pounds, and feels entirely responsible for his remarks. The German ambassador is said to have inquired officially regard¬ ing the man who made the statement referred to. Jeweled Pig** The women are wearing little pigs this season carved out of clear rock crystal or opaque stones of the nature of agate, and suspended from the neck by a ring inserted at the top of the animal’s back. These charms never measure more than an Inch, and some would stand on the thumb nail. MICROBE COLLECTING SKtlT Women Are Learning to Hold Them Grace roily. “The or,If good word I can say has] fon the trailing street skirt is that it skirtal taught women to hold up their more gracefully than they have even done before,” said a woman who was! tramping along her Twenty-third voluminous street] gown] yesterday with side] tucked neatly into folds at one and show held high enough ot above pink-and-hlack] the ground] to an expanse petticoat that' exactly matched the] to] tints of her velvet toque, according the New York Commercial Advertiser! "Before we wore these absurd, dust-1 sweeping, pick microbe-collecting skirts trains we| wej used to up our when crossed the Did street or came upon twenty] a] puddle. you ever watch sidewalk] women pass a wpt spot on the or go over it a crossing the on a rainy advantage] day?] My dear, is greatest corner] of a corner house. To sit in a window for one hundred afternoon and ways] take] notes on the one wrong of holding Delsarte up skirts Paqunin is an education] charge] that or would thousands of dollars for. The short! tight skirt was almost impossible to hold up comfortably, the full skirt unless] was] impossible to hold up neatly one had the hand of practical a giantess. equal] Thej Parlsienne, always and gat.h-j to emergencies, used cwo hands, either] ering up the skirt gracefully at as] side and thus lifting front as well back. The Parisienne’s petticoats are! perfect, adapted and her little the tuoked-up mincing glide frock.] fej well to thej Fancy the long, tramping stride of athletic woman beneath complaining a gathered-up] the] dress! I am not of look of the trailing graceful skirts and now becoming.] in fash-] ion. They are one] But when one picks them up no ,knows whether they hang well or not, a] and if one lets ,them trail they wear , lust border in fifteen minutes. They ■may be charming in Paris, where the streets are clean, hut about as well-dressed] much French women walk as aa do the wives of first-rank mandarins,! I don’t see the great advantage of tha long trains for outdoor wear. But, I said before, the fashion has its com-i pensations. Look at that woman ahead of us. See how neatly and easily shd keeps that tail above the ground and out of the way of her feet. too. Shd doesn’t drag the petticoat up with itJ either, and she doesn’t hold the skirt too high on one side and let it drag in the dust on the other side. That’S system and science and grace combin- e d. Before the trailing skirt came into vogue she probably clutched her dress into a hunch that waggled as she walk-; ed, cramped her arm by holding it too far hack, and dragged the flounces off! her petticoat in her efforts to escape puddles and mud. The logic of a trailing skirt held up is not know] quitq clear to me, but one thing I do an( j that is that it has cured scores 3 f women of their most awkwi ' nerisms.” III ~ HAUNTS DEBTOR CONST An Old Specimen Who Is a S| Collector of Had Debts] From the Augusta, Me., i “There’s the best collector it ca,” and the head of an Auj .ndicated the man on whom tl had been bestowed. “He doesn’t look It.” “No, nor anything like it, lieve that his appearance is per cent of his stock in trac size him up. Did you ever se ingenuous face He got his as he gets money from deb are bad pay. He came rigi and asked for employment, him that we were- not in neei one, and followed the usual telling him to call again. “He took the invitation i j walked'around the square and in to make another applicatio 1 told me to call again,’ he sai( a good man?’ I did the usi^ once more, carelessly asking call again. sqi|: “Another trip around the , he put in his third appearau more informing me that he wa man in search of a job., I tr fcjj again and he proved to !|e a winner. Then it struck me Qat hi make a collector into his if work, he carried (and sistency proved a wonder. He ha: rea 'old accounts that we hai(giv< hopeless long ago, simn.y debtors down to where Ithej rather pay than be hothead i ther. sharp rascal, whq \ “One mi pretense of paying his delis, phenomenon that he wouldtia - : up very early in the morunf anything out of him. Ou n at that fellow’s house at \:3« routed him out and actuaw money, He never tires andlni go- debtoim “Another maddened to sing for his money, andn able’ simply took a stool in t and sawed away on ‘Old 0: Dead’ until he got the cash-^ Overdressed Yoancsi'evs It is foolishness to make t ef young children of heavy 1 Children must be kept wa weight does not always mean and a child should not feel its a burden. Many a little tot c from what ought to have bee tj freshing walk weary and well hausted, because of the weight coat it has the worn. material A layer and of Its xj between gives warmth without adding and nj the weight of a pretty coat, aatin, poplin, cashmere, camel Bedford cord and other soft ( are- much improved in appear; using it.