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fliscellany. THE OLD-FASHIONED GAMES. The -wheel is apparently coining to stay, For lassies as well as for laddies But sorry we are for it's taking away The old-fashioned games of our daddies. The children have wearied of flying their kites, The shooting of 'marbles is over: Gay "leap-frog'' will never give any de lights . And "par" is no longer In clover. On stilts . little fellows won't think they are' tall, ' And tops they will never be spinning, And as for the amateur game of baseball, No more will it give us an inning. The ronnd iron quoits will no longer be tossed, And tag, dear old tag, has been ban ished, While "duck on the rock" is an art that is lost ' And "riding duck," also, has vanished. Forgotten, nlns! is old "ball in the hole;" "Hop-scotch" is all out of the fashion; The hoople we never will gracefully roll, And "cat" is no longer a passion. "Hide and seek" doesn't enter in anyone's mind. For. "cricket" nobody Is wishing; "Snap the whip" has departed, and soon we will find No pleasure in going a-fishing. "Copenhagen" in spite of its "kissing, Is done, "Mnmblepeg" is not worthy of notice. And bold "stunting master" the little ones shun As much as a hot mustard poultice. "I spy," '"wolf" and "follow your leader" have passed, "Hare and hounds" is as flat as the ceiling, And rowing and sailing are leaving a fast. For nothing is thought of but wheeUng. The only old sports that may linger .around Are sledding and snow forts and skat ing, For when it is cold and jthere's snow on the ground The wheel is way off in its rating. The cycle has come and Is likely to stay, For lassies as well as for laddies. And sorry we are, for they never will play The old-fashioned games of their dad dies , . Chicago Daily Sun. MISS FANCY'S - EAVESDROPPING. iWho was that young man with Miss- Nancy Armstrong asked the question of her niece, Margery. Her tone was sharp and her eyes had an angry snap in them. "It was John Markham," answered Margery, quietly enough, as she took off her bonnet, but the tone In -which the question had been asked brought an extra color to her cheek and a spar kle of resentment to her eyes. "I thought so," responded Miss Nan ' cy, in her most Irritating way. "Mar gery Armstrong, I should think you'd be ashamed of yourself." " "What for?" asked Margery. "I'm - not aware that I've done anything to - be ashamed of." "O, you needn't try to plead Inno cence," retorted Miss Nancy. "You ought to be ashamed of going with that Markham fellow, and yon know It." ""I don't knowv'any such thing," an swered Margery, facing her aunt braveT ly. "John. Markham is a . respectable young man. You don't like him be cause there used to be trouble between the Markhams and the Armstrongs. That happened before either of us was born, and there's no reason why we should keep up the quarrel. If we see ' fit to like each other I don't know who's going to prevent our doing so." "I am," answered Miss Nancy, grim ly. "You needn't think and John Mark- . ham needn't think that a cent tf my property'll go into the hands of any one of that family!" "O, you can do Just as you see fit to about your property, of course," said r Margery. "I haven't anything .to say about that, but if you think anything you. can do about it will prevent John and'T from liking each other, you're quite 'mistaken.. He don't want your property, but" with the prettiest lit tle blush imaginable and a softening of the voice at the Import of the werds , "he does want me." - "Margery Armstrong, I'd like to know '- how far this matter has gone," cried Miss Nancy, in wrathful surprise. '.'To judge by the way you talk one would suppose it is all settled between you." "It is," answered Margery, with eyes that never flinched before the angry ones of her aunt "I promised John to-night, coming home from church, that I'd marry him as soon as he has a home for me." Miss Nancy fairly gasped for breathJ "You're a fool," she. said, as soon as she could command her voice, "to take up with that fellow' when you might marry the. squire's nephew!" "I wouldn't marry the squire's nephew If he was the last man on earth," said Margery. "Look at him alongside John Markham, and I know . that down in your heart you can't help owning that he's an insignificant apol ogy for a man. All you can see to ad mire In him is his money, I'm sure, and If he had a thousand times more than he has I'd have Just as much contempt for him as I have now." -. " "You may see the day when you'll t wish you had some of his money," said Miss Nancy. "Wait till you're John Markham's wife and poor as poverty and things'll look different to you. of course he thinks and you think that I'll change my mind when I find out that I -can't prevent your marrying him. But you were never more mistaken In your life. Marry that fellow and I'll see that not a penny of mine goes to you." "Please yourself about that," answer ed Margery. "We don't want your . money. We're both strong and willing to work, and we'll get along. Don't worry, about that." "That sounds well, but you'll sing a different tune by and by," said Miss Nancy. "Just remember what I tell you." "All right, I will," replied Margery, and then she went np to her room, not to think about what her aunt had said, but about the things she had talked of with her lover as they walked home from church together. . One day Miss Nancy decided to go -o the city to do some shopping. She was always afraid of being too late for the train, and generally arrived at the sta . tion at least half an hour before it was due. She did so on this occasion, and as the day was a very warm one she sat down on the platform in the shade of some large boxes of freight that had beer unloaded there, thinking it more Comfortable there than In the stuffy little waiting room." ' 1 v Pretty sooa she heard steps on the platform; and presently voices from the other side, of the pile of boxes reached her ears. , -- "How Is your matrimonial project getting along?" was asked by one of the unseen parties. And a voice which Miss Nancy recognized as belonging to the sTjuire's nephew answered: "It" seems to fiang fire just at pres ent The fact is.ljie girl's got another string'. to hejr.jK), and the chances would betflast me If it wasn't for the fact that heT aunt' favors my suit, be cause she thinks I'm going to get Un cle Amos' money, and she'd like - trf unite the two properties. So I'm rath er sweeter on the aunt at present than I am on the girl. If I get the girl at all it must be through the old lady's Influ ence, you see. The girl's a little daisy, but the aunt's well, she. Isn't a daisy, you can be sure of that! It's -a question if having her In the family wouldn't be paying a dear price for all.her property, but you see there's a ctiance of being able to shake her off after a little. happen to know that a new railroad's going through this place, and the com pany will .have to buy a piece of land she owns, and this land she intends to give to the girl as a wedding present Now, just as soon as the road is ;put through and t's sure to come this land will be worth more thari all the rest of the old lady's property. If the girl gets a deed of it"Smrri get the girl I can sell It to the railroad company and make a good big sum of money out of it and we'll be Independent of the aunt and when that happens, if it ever does, I'll tell her to look out for ner affairs and I'll look out for mine. 1 m looking out now that she don't find but about the new railroad scneme. I want to make sure ft the girl ana the land before I break the news to tier.""" . Miss Nancy listened with ears and eyes very wide open. .. "Yes, when " It happens, if It ever does," she chuckled. "I don't believe you'll ever get the chance you're look ing for, my smart young man! I don't suppose I am a Saisy I never thought I was! but I rather guess -I'm a match for you, since I know what to do. I don't believe you'll have to shake me off. I think I'll do a little or most of the shaking." ' ' 1 ' - Just then the train came alopg, and Miss Nancy got aboard of It without being seen by the young"men. That evening, when she came home, Las luck would have it, she met the squire's nephew at the station. ; -" "If you're going home you might walk along with me 'and help carry some of my bundles," she said, Jn her very pleasant manner. "I'm just about tired out I've been seeing to a gpoll deal of business today. "I've had a deed made out, giving Margery " the south forty acres of the farm, and I've been pricing carpets and furniture and finding out how much it's going to cost to set up a young couple In housekeep ing. Of course they won't need the things right away, but I thought I'd get some Idea of what the -Expense would be." ', "They who do you mean?"' asked the young man In bewilderment -'- Why, Margery and Mr. Markham, of 4 course," answered Miss Nancy. "Who else should I mean?" "You don't mean to say you're going to let your niece marry that fellow!" cried the squire's nephew In surprise and consternation. " "Why, certainly,! replied Miss Nan cy, as If she had never had any other idea. "He's a nice young man. He's got brains, and when he gets Margery he'll get money, for the new railroad's going to make the land I've deeded her worth a snug little fortune." "I'd like to know how you knew about the new railroad!" cried the as tonished young man. "O, I keep posted on such matters," said Miss Nancy, looking very wise. "But here we are at my gate. Thank you for bringing my bundles. Won't you come In?" "No, not to-night" was the gruff re ply, and Miss Nancy chuckled as the young man went his way. "I guess I've got about even with you," she said, nodding her head after his retreating figure. "I guess he was about as much surprised as Margery'll be." . : Her niece had seen her, and came out to meet her and help her with her bun dles. ' - ' "Margery, I've got something to tell you," said Miss Nancy, anxious to have the matter disposed of. - "I've thought It all over, and I don't'know but you're right about John Markham. It is fool ish to let an old grudge snd' in the way of young folks' happiness. I've concluded to let .you do as you think best, and I've had the south forty deed ed to you, and when John gets you he'll get that too, if you see fit to turn It over to him. Anyway, it's yours -to do Just what you please with." . "Why, Aunt Nancy!" cried Margery, looking at her as if she felt sure she had gone crazy. "1 thought you'd nev er consent to eur marriage!" "Folks change their minds some times," said Miss Nancy. "There! there! Don't hug me so or I'll drop this bandbox. I .hear a whistle down the road that sounds like John's. - You'd better go and tell him the news, and by and by, after I've had a cup of tea, bring him in-to see me.' New York Ledger. Beginning of Porcelain. The art of making porcelain was fa miliar to the Chinese and Japanese for ages, but It was not made In Europe until the early part of the eighteenth century, when John Bottger, a German from Schlaiz, in Voightland, Invented the art says Harper's Round Table. Bottger was apprenticed to a Berlin apothecary, where he fell in with an alchemist, who.'in consequence of some service which Bottger had done for him, offered to teach him the art of making gold. r The young apprentice, ' thinking his fortune was as good as made, promptly ran away from his master into Saxony, in the year 1700. He was pursued, but found - protection in" that country, where the people who befriended him urged him to give a specimen of his newly found skill. The poor fellow had, however, been grossly Imposed upon, and the secret from which he had hoped so much proved valueless. "7 He still believed- in the possibility of making gold, and worked at the matter Incessantly. It so happened that, having mixed a number .of different kinds dt earth to gether for the purpose of making dura ble crucibles, in the course of baking them he accidentally stumbled upon the art of making porcelain, and sud denly found himself transformed from a poor alchemist into a prosperous pot ter. This first porcelain was manufac tured In Dresden In 1706, and was brownish-red in color, having been made chiefly of a brown clay. The man who never argues . with women, children or fools, has but few arguments . .-: THE NEW ELDORADO THE GOLD FIELDS OF ALASKA AND THE YUKON. Geography, Climate and Resources of-th Kow FamcTus Region of the Far North Great Extent of Ground to Be Prospected. Special Correspondence.!. Purchased from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000, Alaska was a portion of the Unite! States for 30 years without at tracting th'e attention its resources and wealth merit. Everywhere apathy and ignorance preaviled in regard to this latest territorial acquisition. Suddenly this was changed. : In a single day the eyes of the entire world were turned to Klondike, and there they remain fixed. On thel7th ot "last July the steamer Portland sailed into port with $800,t)00 fof' gold-bn board, and to the ends of the earth was telegraphed the story of the rich placer diggings discovered along the Klondike and its tributaries. Then began that rush to the new mines which has filled the news columns of the press with its varied experiences for four months. Ten. thousand men joined in it. Some are now. at the mines; others.-are scattered all. along frrje trails -from the coast to the Klon dike; still others are at Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay, awaiting a more favor able time for the journey, while not a few have returned to civilization, sat isfied with their experience or to make a fresh start under better circum stances. Great and exciting as was this first rush, it was but the advance ripple of the great wave of gold hunt ers that will roll in upon the Alaskan coast the coming spring. Probably not less than 50,000 men will start for the Yukon next year, and possibly four times this number may go. For this reason a clear and succinct description of Alaska and its resources, with a brief review of its routes ot travel must be of interest even to those who have no intention of seeking the northern wilderness. In the first place, it must be under stood that the Yukon river flows partly through Canada and partly through the United States, and that the Klondike region is on the .Canadian' side of the boundary line, though good placers, pos sibly as good as those of the Klondike, exist on the American side of the line. Beginning at the Arctic ocean, the boundary line runs due south along the 141st meridian as far as Mt. St. Elias, 10 marine leagues from the Pacific,, whence it follows the coast line, pre serving a distance of 10 marine leagues from it, in a southeasterly direction to the latitude of 54 degrees and .40 min utes. which becomes the southern limit.' All east.of that line belongs to CaiK ada, part being in the Northwest Ter ritory and part in the province of Brit ish Columbia, the dividing line run ning east and' west' across' both lakes Bennett and Teslin. The present gold discoveries are all north of the British Columbia line, but no one can tell what may be revealed in the future. That portion west of the boundary line and belonging to the United States constitutes Alaska proper, and contains a total area of 617,703 square miles, -of which 37,596 square miles consist of islands along the coast. It is only on these islands and a narrow strip of the adjacent mainland that settlements have been made and industries de veloped .except the gradual development of gold placers along the-Yukon, ending with the recent startling discoveries. The towns of Alaska consist of but half a dozen of any prominence, besides the new places on the Yukon. They are Sitka, the capital, Janeau, U rangel, New Metlakahtla, Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. Sitka is on Baranoff island, off the southeast coast, and has a popu lation of about 500. Juneau is on tfie .mainland, about 100 miles , further north. It is the chief commercial city and during tbe.winter season its porjn lation exceeds 3,000. New Metlakahtla is a mission "and .trading point near the southern extremity, and Wrangel is a trading point on the coast at the mouth of Stickeen river. Kodiak is on the island of the same name south of the Alaskan peninsula, and is the seat of the salmon packing industry. Dutch Harbor is on the island of Unalaska, one of the Aleutian group, where vessels pass from the Pacific into Behring sea. Alaska is a region of mountains, there being no great valleys nor plain's. Along the coast a high range of moun tains rises almost abruptly trom the water's edge, deeply indented with long arms of the sea. These present a series of Alpine peaks of the most picturesque description, the highest being the Fair weather alps, exceeding 15,000 feet, St Elias and Logan exceeding 18,000 feet, and Wrangel, further to the north west, said to be still higher. Down the canyons of these coast mountains many tremendous living glaciers flow steadily to ' the ocean, filling the bays and inlets with great masses of floating ice. Beyond this coast range the moun tains are lower, but almost continnons as far 'north ' as the Arctic, and as far east as the great plains of Mackenzie river region. Yet there are many fine mountain valleys, .'with occasional stretches of rolling table land, in sum mer time brilliant with a carpet of grass, mosses and flowers. . The coast mountains divide the -climate of Alaska into ,- two distinct classes. A branch of the warm Japan current skirts the coast, its influence modifying the climate of the islands and. adjacent mainland. The average temperature for July at Sitka is but 55 degrees, while the mean winter tem perature is as high as 32 degrees. This is the' most equable climate in the United States. The same causes pro duce copious rains or continuous driz zles, there being but an average of ,66 clear days in a year. Across the sum mit of the coast range conditions are very different. the rains are cut off by the high mountains, and the -warm ocean air is not felt From No vember to April the mean temperature remains continuously below the freezing point, often remaining for weeks at a time below zero and occasionally going as low as 60 or 70 degrees below zero. It snows about one-third of the time in winter, but the snow does not become excessively deep, though frequently the storms are very severe. The mean temperature of the interior during the summer months is 60 to 70 degrees, there being many very warm days. The Yukon region, being so far north, has the long summer days, and long winter nights of that latitude, though, being south of the Arctic cir cle, it just misses the continuous day and continuous night of the Arctic summer and winter. Aside from gold, the chief resources of. Alaska are timber, fish and fur-bearing animals, including the famous fur seals which are giving the United States, Great Britain, Russia and - Ja pan bo much trouble. Salmon are nleatiful in all the streams of the islands and mainland, and-millions are annually packed for market.. Halibut and cod, herring and smelt, pr oola chon, abound and have become of great commercial importance. The seal and sea otter in the water, and the fox, bear, lynx, otter, beaver, etc.. on land, contribute thousands of their skins an nually to the world's fur supply. The fur trade is handled by the Alaska Commercial Company and the North west Trading and Transportation Com pany, both of which have headquarters on St. Michaels island, near the mouth of the Yukon'while the Hudson's Bay Company operates on the Canadian side of the line. . f Coal and coal oil have both "been discovered and may be of future value. The timber of the coast - and islands grows very large, owing to the humid atmosphere. It is.chieflv cedar, spruce and hemlock. It has been little used thus far, though several small mills have cut it for local purposes. The timber of the interior is much smallnr, and is found only along the lakes and. water courses. It is chiefly spruce, alder, Cottonwood and willow. Several small mills have been taken in' for cut ting this timber. . -Agriculture is - as yet an experiment, but little having been attempted. Conditions on the islands are favorable f or-gwss and. soph vegetables and cereals as mature quick ly. Even along the Yukon .reglpn summer vegetables may be grown and possibly wheat A few yestrEr'Will show what can be done in agriculture and stock raising. , ' 'The great interest in Alaska at the present time centers inthe Yukon placers on both sides of the- boundary line. Prospecting on the Yukon, began in 1881. In the fall of 1883 the first gold was brought to Janeau from the interior. The next year 300 men crossed the mountains and the number of miners steadily increased each year. The first work was on Stewart river and then Big Salmon, both in Canada. In 1886 the Forty-Mile creek placers, also in Canada, were discovered, and the next year the famous .Franklin gulch, on the same stream.' In. 1892 the Miller creek diggings were found, also a tribu tary of Forty-Mile, and on the Cana dian side of the line. 'The next year there .was a large influx of miners, fully 800 working in the Forty-Mile district. In J 893 the first important discover ies on the American side of the line" were made on Birch creek, and the town of Circle City, now having 500 log" houses, was started on the ; Yukon as a supply point. The .next year over 400,000 were taken out along Birch creek and Forty-Mile. . In 1895 Eagle and Porcupine creeks began to produce in the Birch creek district. The total output of that year exceeded $700,000. In August, 1896, it was reported at Forty-Mile and Circle .City that won derfully rich placers had been discov-' ered on the Klondike, a small tributary. of the Yukon entering that river about 50 miles southeast of the international boundary . and on -Canadian territory. There was a gratrush to the new dig gings, the older ones being nearly de serted. ' In a few days $ 1,000 were taken out on Bonanza creek, a tributary of the Klondike. By January 1, 1897, 400 claims had been located on Bonanza and Eldorado creeks, and 200 on Hunker creek, and later many others on Bear, Gold Bottom an.1 Too-Much-Gold creeks and their tributaries. Fully $1,400,- I 000 were taken from the Yukon placers in 1896. It was not so much the amount of gold Drought out by the first steamer to come down-, last summer, as the news that this was the reBult of but a little work in a- few claims nIy, and that there would have been many times as much had the hundreds of other claims been worked in time to send the gold out, which caused the excitement The method of working these mines is to sink a shaft into the frozen ground in winter, taking out the rich gravel near bed-rock ami piling it up to be washed out when the water runs in summer time. For this reason the gold washed out last summer, could not be sent away, and will hot be brought down until, next July,, when it is expected that several millions of dollars will come out as the result of the first year's work along the Klondike. The com mercial point, for' "the Klondike district is the new town of Dawson City, situ ated on the Yukon jut:? below the month of the Klondike and reached by river steamers. The Yukon gold fields extend for a thousand miles along the stream, with a width of 500 miles. In this vast area there are hundreds of streams and gulches, offering "ample room for the thousands of gold seekers to prospect for new diggings. The new discoveries re-, ported this year are on Dominion creek and on the tributaries of the Stewart river, on the Canadian side, and on Munnook creek and its tributaries on the Alaska side, near the mouth of the latter the new' town of Rampart City having sprung up. Not all of the thousands who go to Alaska next year will seek fortune on the Yukon. Some will go further north to the streams flowing into Kotz-. bue sound, where discoveries arerepprt ed. Others. -will go to Copper river, flowing south into Prince William sound and heading in the same region as the Munnook and Birch creeks, and still others will prospect along the streams falKng into Cook's inlef'where rich placers have been 'worked for sev eral years. The region where prospect ing will be done is as large as the en tire Pacific coast west of the .Rocky mountains, and should many new dis coveries be made a population of half a million people may be expected in a few years NEWS IN BRIEF., i A Farmington, Me., man 92 years old took a friend 84 years old out rid ing the other day behind a horse 34 years old. - -- " It is said that were it not for our atmosphere, the oceans would become ! boiling hot from the rays of the sun in the course of a year's time. In a railway collision ia North Caro lina, a four-year-old child at an open car window was thrown out of the win dow by. the shock and escaped injury. Experiments have proved that if fish get beyond a certain depth in the sea they die from the pressure of the water, which they are unable to sup port Ten judges of the English supreme court continue on the bench, though they have passed the period at which they are by law entitled to - retire on a pension. ' f ;.- - In a total population of a little oyer 8,000,000, Switzerland now has over 1,000,000 depositors in savings' banks, with an average for each family of $275 in cash deposits. A whate.reoently captured jn Arctic waters was found to have imbedded in its side a harpoon belonging to a whal ing vessel that had been out of service nearly half a-century. The emblem oftbe-French empire was a golden bee, chosen for the reason that more than 100 of those busy little creatures were found in the tomb of Childeric, king of the Franks-, when it was opened in 1653 ' ' . NEVER AWAKK. Some people will never wake up till the last horn blows, and then they'll ask if that's the horn for dinner. Delays are dan gerous and ruinous.- Thousands can say if they hadn't put off an opportunity, they would have been rich and happy. Some never know the v have rheumatism until crippled bv it, aiid all the while in pain, thinking it will pass off. - But St. Jacobs Oil never delays, and is always wide awake. It goes straight to its work of cure in a bus iness wavi and cures, rheumatism in any form a id at its worst stage. It's a live remedy. ' Mid-Channel Mines a Failure. The recent experiments made by a special commission to ascertain wheth er the mines laid in the Dardanelles are capable of preventing tne passage, of ships have proved the utter useless nanlpss- nefcs , ""S3h" l?v f la".' same time the extreme difficulty 01 lay-1 ; f ii nn ,t of the 1 ana at tne "'5 """"" Qi-wtnry currant. - V A BIG REGULAR ARMY. The mightiest host of this sort is the army of invalids whose boWelsiJiyers and stomachs have teen regulated by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. A.e.' tating and .gripiiifc the intestines, but b rein- forcinic their energy and causing a flow of the bile into its proper channel. Malaria,la grippe, dyspepsia-and a tendency to inactivity of the kidneys, are conquered Dy tne Bitters. . i. - ?U ... ..I'roppsed Floating Tunnel.."'. - In connection with the railway com munication between Scotland -.and ' Ire land it .is propose, to send trains through a tunnel,' which shall float at a derith nf'So'ieet below the surface, and .which shall be kept steadily in its place by means of anchors. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting in the courts eur right to the . exclusive use of the word " CASTORIA," and PITCHER'S CASTORIA,".as our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that hastborne and does now bear the fac-simileCnatureofCHAS.H. FLETCHER on jevery wrapper. This is the original "PITCHER'S rAsTo,A - ;,h h. kJLh in ,he home, of the mothers of America for over'thirty years. Look Carefully-at' the wrapper and see that it is ike kind you have always bousrkL and has the signature of chas. H. Fletcher on 'the wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which' Chas. h. Fletcher is President. March S, sSgr. SAMUEjL PITCHER, MJX A False Prophet. The reputation of a certain well- known "prophet" in London, who but' lately announced positively the end of the world in 1900, has been, seriously impaired by the fact that a fortnight ago it was discovered that he had since paid a high premium to secure the lease of .business" premises for 15 years. .Bread can now'be cut and buttered by machinery. The machine has been invented for use in prisons, work houses and reformatories. A cylin drical shaped brush lays a thin layer of butter on the bread as it comes from the cutter. . . Berlin,- Germany, is- to have" an un derground' electric railway to connect the northern and southern sections of the city. Trains will run on a head way of three minutes and carry 160 passengers at a speed of from 20 to 85 kilometers per hour. A New Hampshire quarry is turning out a soapstone boot drier. It is in tended especially for rubber boots. The stone is to be heated and then dropped, into the boot, to be left there till the latter is dry. Giraffes ate from 15 to 16 feet from the ground to the tip of their horns. Specimens from J 8 to 23 feet have been known.' - '' ;' :"'- . - . If you-look at the map you will find that the mountain .chains of the Old World lie e'ast and west, while those of the New World lie north and south. Benjamin Bissell, who lives near Ballston Spa, N. Y., says .he has voted for 18 presidential candidates, not one of whom was elected. - FREE TO OUR READERS. 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Dr. Kilmer's ' Swamp-Root "is the dis-1 Women are not lacking among the covery of a- great physician, and at poor creatures who come to see the such is not recommended for every-' President and occasionally one appears thing, but wilt be found jnst what is with a baby in her arms, which she needed in cases of kidney and bladder ' wishes to lay In the President's bed for disorders or troubles arising from ' good luck or which she wishes him to weak kidneys such as gravel, rheuma- J touch or' kiss, or to look at, believing tism, pain jr dull ache in the back, too ; that contact with the President will f reqrient desire to pass water, scanty . bring success to the child. supply, smarting or burning in passing it - Swamp-Root stands the, highest for. its wonderful cures. The regular sizes are sold by druggists, - price 60 cents and one dollar.- English Peers. Of. the entire number of English peer ages, only,five go. back as far as the 13th century. Of the 538 temporal peers, 3501iaye been created during the present century, 126 during the last century, and only 62 trace, their titles beyond- the.year-d700. A HEALTHY WIFE 13 a Husband's Inspiration. :-;..-. rr: ' A sickly, .half-deadTand-alive woman, especially when she is the mother of a family, is a .damper to all joyous ness in the home. - If a woman finds that her energies are flagging and that everything tires her, her sleep is disturbed by horrible dreams, and that she often wakes , suddenly in the night with feeling . of suffocation and alarm, she must at ' once regain her strength. . The following from Mas. F. S. Bejj jtbtt, Westphalia, -Kans., shows the power of Lydia E. PinkhamVs Vege table Compound, and a letter of advice: "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: -I have suf fered for over two years with falling, enlargement and ulceration of the womb, and this spring, being in Eucn a weak ened condition, caused me to flow for nearly six months. Some time ago, urged by friends. I wrote to yon for advice. After usinsr XV the treatment which you If advised for a Bhort time, that terrible flow stopped. I am now gaining strength and flesh and have better health than I have had for-the past ten years." ,V " 6 m f Clint WHtHE All ELSE cooxn emia. u aes m tise. pot a dt arm FAILS. IS Good Cw I '' . Public Roads Neglected. The country road has been much neg lected. When we began to build rail roads in this country, State anu county taxes were levied that tonuses might be given to railroad prospectors. Cities ., . . i couieui witu mis, . jui , ucy njr debt to aid In railroad construction. Congress subsidized most of 'our large . . , , . railroad systems by large grants of I K1! lnvwlo f'l horn hwn Hi ml ; ' . larly encouraged by city, county, State and nation. It Is customary to subsi dize almost every new steamboat line. Yet nothing of the sort has been done for the common nubhe. road. It has been the stepchild of a sreat nation. Equally Important in its way with the railroad, It has been left to shift for itself, while the steel highway which spans the country from ocean to ocean has been petted and pampered until It haS grown fat. : " -. It Is this Injustice to the common road that the League of American Wheelmen Is trying to re-nedy, and in this effort it looks for assistance from those who are most directly Interested In the subject the farmers of the Uni ted States. Otto corner. Soad Building in Indiana. - Att Owen County' correspondent writes the Indiana Farmer as follows: "In a recent number you say, "If you ever get a chance to see a stone crusher I at WQrk chewing up Its favori . , , . ..i' t miss tue opportunity. I ite diet. want to say to you and to all who wish to sat isfy their curiosity in that direction, that the opportunity for doing so can ' be abundantly satisfied In Owen Coun ty at this time. From the foundation of the world, SO far as I know, Owen County has abounded In Inexhaustible ,imest;ne cllff8( an(J now ln 8eyeral of our townships these huge monsters of lron 'H Jaws of steel- wltn insatiate greed and appetites never appeased, can De seen busily devouring tneir aiet ' of stone. "It is not a question of how much stone these great gormandizers can fete ' vour In a given time; the question Is 1 how can the stone be fed to them fast enough to satisfy their voracious appe , tites. On any week day, near x my t home, one of these stone- crushers can be seen, sitting at the base of a lime stone cliff, -with fifteen or twenty men busily engaged; some drilling and some with heavy stone hammers breaking large rocks Into pieces small enough to be loaded Into wheel barrows, " and gangs of men wheeling the . broken stone and dumping It Into the jaws of these machines, which mince it Into 1 pieces, the regulation size of which must be small enough to go into a man's i mouth or pass hrotigh a twc-lnch ring. And this crushed stone is carried by elevators Into' an elevated bin, under' j which wagons are driven to be loaded. A trap door is opened and the wagon Is almost instantly filled. A yard square of this stone fills a wagon bed made for the purpose and weighs about a ton. The finer stone, or screenings, as It is called, Is carried into a separate bin and Is used as a top dressing over the coarser stone on the road. The roads that are being Improved have all been under the care of district supervisor, but when completed they pass under the management of the Board of Coun ty Commissioners, to be kept in repair by them. Owen County has at this time under contract and In process of construction about a hundred miles of stone on macadam Toads, at an average cost of about $1,400 per mile. -Thus you see we are creating a large debt and Imposing on ourselves a heavy burden f taxation." . .. Cranks at the White House. The White House Is. beset with the usual number of cranks, .says the St Louis Republic- These gentry come from every part of the civilized -world and for every conceivable purpose. Some of them are frnld and some wildly Insane. The harmless "ones are sent The most persistent crank that ras called recently at the executive man sion is a man named Jackson from Newark, N. J. He Is a good-looking fellow, well dressed and with good manners, who labors under the delu sion that he is the chosen agent of God to warn people of approaching disas ter. He came all the way from Tm home ln New Jersey to advise with th'e President and to predict that the death of some high official, possibly the. Pres I ident himself, wouldjoccur in 'the next few days; to announce that the world will come to an end in November, 1899, and to offer his services to unveil the mysteries of the future. He talked fluently of his hobbies, but was so evi dently out of his mind on this subject that he was placed in the hands of the nollce, who will send him back to his tome. The Peanut Crop. , About 40,000,000 pounds of peanuts ore produced In the United States v ery year, but this enormous quantity is small when compared with the an nual product of the world, which is estimated at 600,000,000 pounds. In 1892 exportatiorvs from Africa and In dia to Europe were nearly 400,000,000 pounds, the city of Marseilles alone taking 22,000,000 pounds, most of which was converted Into olive (?) oil and shipped as such to the .United States and other countries. The mar ket Is, ln fact, unlimited and no other section surpasses' the Carolinas and fVIrginia in their bountiful growth of peanuts of the very best quality. Gives 'Em Salt Now. V Salt has just been put in the allow ance of food which the British Govern ment gives Its sailors, though other con diments were' allowed in the . rations. When "salt horse" was the main staple of diet there was no need for it, but although this was changed on men-of-war long ago, the admiralty has only recently discovered that the men have had no salt They have been obliged to buy It out of their wages for years. An ounce of prevention is not worth a pound of cure in the pork-packing business. . --. ' It's a poor know beans. Bostonjan that doesn't xie South Polar Expedition. ; The commercial and scientific expedi tion to the South Pole, under Herr Borchgrevinck, will start from England next July. Inquiries are now being made for a suitable ship in Scotland and . Norway. The object will be to reach Cape Adairi and proceed to the South Pole on Suowshoes. The party will include several scientific men Herr Bbrohgrdevinck will go to Norway at Christmas, and, with some Nor wegian friends, practice snow-shoe run ning. - HOW TO FIND OUT. - 'Fill a bottle or common glass with urine and let it stand 24 hours; a sedi nient or settling indicates an unhealthy condition of the kidneys. - .When urine stains linen it -is evidence of kidney trouble. Too frequent desire to urinate or pain in the back "is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order: ' WHAT" TO i0. . There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed,- that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the great kidney remedy, fulfills every wish in relieving pajn in the.back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passages. It corrects inability to hold, urine and sclldins naiii in nassincr it." ' or' bad effects following use of liquor, wine or ;beer, and overcomes "that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to gjet up many times during the night to urinate. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for. its wonder ful cures of the most distressing cases. If yon need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists, price hity cents and one dollar. So 'remark' ably successful has Swamp-Root been that if . you wish to prove its great merit, you may have a sample bottle and pamphlet both sent free by mail Mention this paper and send your ad dress to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham ton, N. Y. 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