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1 : THE LIE JOE LD settlers In the southern part of Baylor County, ! Texas, still make occasional refer ence to the Sav- 'rwses, or the Sav- !ge brothers, as they sometimes call them. This does not refer to the time when the Indians were In the country, although that time is by no means" so far distant as to be beyond the memory of living man; nor does it imply anything especially wild and fe rocious about the character of the men in question. It merely goes back to the first half of the '80s, when two brothers of that name were among the promi nent Inhabitants of that sparsely set tled district. In some countries events of that period would be considered comparatively modern, but In Western Texas they are ranked as strictly an cient history. It seems, from a careful survey of the facts In the case, that neither of the brothers was really a bad man at heart, notwithstanding the fact that a great many people who ought to know are strongly inclined to think otherwise. It Is certain that one of them is as true a man as ever trod the soil of Texas, or any other State, for that matter. All who knew him agree that the final year of his life, at any rate, was a year of such courage and self-sacrificing hero ism as one reads of in books, but sel dom looks for in real life. The people of West Texas are not much prone to ero worship, and whenever they agree that a man of their acquaintance Is above the average of mortality there is very likely to be some basis for the be lief. Judging merely from physical ap pearances, one would have had little trouble in deciding which of the two men would be more likely to prove of j heroic mold. Bill, the younger, was a man of magnificent physique, not un duly large, but with muscles of such herculean strength as perfect air and the free life of a Western cowboy are apt to Impart. He was light-complex-loned and is said to have possessed a vigorous, manly countenance, such as ought to have made him more success ful In his love affairs than he really was. Joe, on the other hand, was as much a picture of weakness and de formity as his brother was of health and strength. He was not only a peaked-faced, slender slip of a man, but he was a cripple as well. When he was 5 years old and Bill was only 3, a cyclone had struck the log house In which the boys and their parents were living. The mother and father were killed, but when the neighbors came to look through the ruins of the cabin they found Joe crouched on the bed with his limbs spread out In such a manner as to pAtect his baby brother. A heavy log had fallen across his right foot and Tigiik wrzst, urusufug lutaj julu irtsrjr badly, but Trill was still sl eeping hi ab- "HELLO! ARE YOtJ LOST solute unconsciousness of the existence of any such disturbing affairs as cy clones. As a result of his Injuries at the time, Joe was "club-footed" through the whole of his life, and his right forearm had a big knot on it, and a crook that made his right hand turn out when it should have turned In. It is said that Joe was proud of his de formities rather than otherwise, pre sumably because they had been Incur red In the defense of his baby brother, and that Bill was, for the most part, tenderly regardful of the brother who had sacrificed health and almost life for him. Naturally enough, Bill was the more prosperous of the two. Before he was 80 he owned a considerable "bunch" of cattle, and leased quite a body of land In the eastern part of Baylor County as a ranch. Joe was his line rider, and in that capacity was able to do a great deal of such work as did not require any very great amount of mere muscu lar strength. Everything worked smoothly with them until May Conley came to live with a married brother of hers who lived only a few miles from the Savage ranch, She was not a high ly educated girl, by any means, andJt is doubtful if she was more than fairly intelligent; but she was pretty, and she was fickle and that tells the whole story. In this case Joe was the first victim. H met May at one of the big camp meetings that are common in that country in the fall of the year, and after that he was very pronounced In his attentions to her for several months. Then his attentions ceased as suddenly and abruptly as they had be gun. People noticed this and they also noticed that just about that time Bill began going to see her. "Bill took It up just where Joe laid it down," remarked one cowboy to an other during one of the intervals in a dance on one occasion. "Naw, that ain't It," responded his friend. "I think Joe laid it down just where Bill took it up." One day as the two brothers and one or two others were engaged in brand ing some of Bill's yearlings the subject was brought up. "Sure enough, Joe, whatever made you quit goln' to see that Conley gal so suddent?" asked Jim Smith, one of the helpers, in a jocose way. "I stopped so's to give Bill a chance," said Joe, with what was evidently a forced attempt at gayety. "Shucks!" ejaculated his brother. "You needn't a stopped for that. If I couldn't beat you I'd better quit." There was Just the least bit of con temptuous emphasis on that word "you," and Joe noticed It. A slightly shamed, pained look came over his poor, thin face as he faltered: "W well, I didn't keer much for her. no way. I was just a foolin' from the first." My very deliberate opinion is that O t , this statement was a lie. It is my opiii SAVAGE TOLD. : ion, furthermore, that in this single, ungrammatical, mispronounced, muti lated lie there was a loftiness of thought and purity of purpose such as an angel in heaven might well aspire to. Bill did not take any such view of the matter, though, for he only look ed up and retorted angrily: "My opinion of anybody that would go foolin' 'round a woman when he didn't care nothing for her is that ho ain't much man." "He's pretty small potatoes he shorn Is," put In Tom Jackson, the fourth man at the branding. Nobody noticed the remark particularly at the time but subsequent events caused them to think a great deal about it later on. "I'm surprised at you, Joe," said Bill The ghost of a forced smile hovered piteously on Joe's lips for a moment, but he merely rubbed his forehead with the knob on his wrist In the nervous way peculiar to him on such occasions, and said nothing. Aside from one or two little incidents like this which are hardly worth counting as exceptions Bill's coutrship was an illustration of the fact that, notwithstanding a certain very emi nent authority to the contrary, the course of true love does occasionally run smooth for awhile. In this ease it ran smooth down to the very day set for the wedding. The ceremony was to be performed at what was known as Plum Creek school house, and early in the morning Bill went with a number of his friends to get ready for the fes tivities. In some countries it might not be considered as a part of the groom's duties to make these prepara tions, but in Texas it Is etiquette for anybody to do anything provided there was not some one else to do It. The ceremony was to take place at 10 o'clock. Perhaps half an hour before that time Joe and his friend Jim Smith were ritjiog through the timber which always abounds around creek bottoms In Texas, and were much astonished vhen, at a sudden bend in the trail, they came across the supposed prospec tive bride. She was on horseback and unaccompanied. "Hello:" exclaimed Joe in surprise. "Are you lost?" "Yes," answered May, with a nervous laugh. "I never was so glad to see anybody In my life. This here creek bottom timber's so thick a wildcat would mighty nigh get lost in it let alone a woman." "1 should think you and Bill had been to Plum Creek schoolhouse often enough to know the way by this time?" "I ain't goin' to Plum Creek," said May, with a foolish giggle. "What! Ain't you goin' to get mar ried?" "Yes." "Well, Bill's at the schoolhouse now, a waitin' for ye." May tossed her head and then giggled again. "I ain't waitin' for him none," she said. "I might as well tell you now as any time. I'm goin' to be married to Tom Jackson this morning at Round Timbers. I've lost my way there and I want you to tell me how to go." At the mention of Jackson's name Joe's face hardened for a moment. He was the man who had been so quick to take Bill's part in the quarrel with his brother. Then Joe began to reason with Mary as to her conduct, but a very few moments sufficed to show him the futility of the attempt. Promptly changing his plans, he gave her a de tailed account of the way to Round Timbers. "Say!" interrupted Jim Smith, who had listened In profound astonishment to the whole conversation, "you're mis taken about " "fo, I ain't," retorted Joe. "The trail's been changed lately. That's all right, May. Come on, Jim." "I still think you were mistaken about that trail," said Jim, as the two men rode on together. "No, I wasn't mistaken," said Joe. "I just lied that was all. I did it for Bill's sake. If May goes the way I sent her she'll not get to Round Timbers this morning." After they had ridden a few moments in silence, Joe began again: "Jim, old fellow, for God's sake don't let on that you've seen or heard -nothing this morning. It'll be plenty tough on Bill, anyway." "I shore won't," said Jim. There was quite a crowd assembled around the door of the little log school house when these two men rode up. The groom was there and so was the preacher; so also were the people. The house was decorated within and with Ottt with flowers and leaves and other ornaments more or less appropriate to the occasion. However, there was one ornament generally considered neces sary on wedding occasions which was still missing namely, the bride. "See anything of May lately?" asked Bill, stepping to the front as the new comers rode up. There was Just a trace of anxiety in his voice as he spoke. "Naw," answered Joe promptly. His face looked perfectly unconcerned as he spoke, but In a very few moments a cloud began to rest upon it. I suspect, though, that Instead of grieving over the He he had told as of course he should have been he was merely won dering how he might spare Bill the mortification which a public discovery TITE BLOW DESCKNDKD UPON THE ARM. of the real facts In regard to May might occasion. He was now sitting with one leg thrown over the horn of his saddle. Suddenly his face lighted up with Its old sickly smile, and In a voice that trembled a little In spite of the bravado he tried to throw into it, ; he began4 "Say, Bill, that was the devil of a lie I told you about May Just now. I saw her not over half an hour ago." "You did, did you? When will she be here?" "She won't be here at all." Bill's face grew stern and white. "Why won't she?" he demanded "Because I directed her in the wrong road. Jim tried to tell her right and I wouldn't let him. Ain't that so, Jim?" Jim nodded grimly. With faces that now began to grow drawn and anxious, the spectators glanced from one speak er to the other In turn. Bill's face was fairly livid with rago, and his voice trembled with the awfulness of re pressed fury as he asked the next question: "What did you do it for?" The expectant silence that followed was deathlike, but even then Joe's voice was hardly audible as he an swered with the same sickly smile hovering about his white Hps: "Because I useter court her myself and you cut me out!" Before the words were fairly out of his mouth Bill sprang at him with the fury of a wild beast. With all the force of his mighty arm he struck and the blow descended upon the arm the crip pled, knotted arm which Joe had inter posed to ward It off. Some say it de scended upon the very knot itself. He fell from his pony as if lie had been shot, and lay for several moments on the turf where ho had fallen. "Which way did you send her?" asked Bill, in the same awful tones he had used before. "I wou't tell," gasped Joe. "Then get off that ground!" Joe meekly obeyed. "Get on your pony no, I see It's got away from you. Then saddle up mine yonder and go after May and bring her back at once, sir! Do you hear?" Joe meekly took the huge Texas sad dle In his left hand and carried it to where the pony was grazing, tied by a long rope to a tree. His right arm hung limp by his side. After some ineffect ual efforts to throw on the saddle with his left arm he gave up the attempt. "I can't get the thing on." he said. "Use your right arm, sir!" called his brother. "I think you've broke his game arm, Bill," said Jim Smith. . "It's a lie!" shouted Joe, "that arm's as good as ever it was." To prove the truth of this assertion he made a mighty effort and managed to lift his arm to his shoulder, though the wrist still dangled loosely from his elbow. Even then he could not restrain his face from wincing and his teeth from clinching with the pain. Drop ping the saddle he turned abruptly and limped off into the woods without a word. Jim Smith afterward said that only his solemn promise to Joe kept him from telling the whole truth at this Juncture just as he knew it to be, and that he had to grit his teeth hard and say cuss words under hi3 breath to do It then. As to the rest of the crowd, it must bo remembered that they knew nothing but Joe's own statement about the matter, and consequently they all sympathized with Bill. After some moments of condolence and consulta tion with the crowd, Bill, with some four or five others, started out to find Joe. "Get that rope off your saddle there and bring it along," he said to one of the men. "You ain't goin' to string him up, are you, Bill?" was the rather anxious re ply. "No; just want to skeer him a little. Come on." In a very short time they found the man they were looking for. "Are you ready to tell where May Is, or to go after her?" Bill demanded. "N-no," faltered Joe, with a distrust ful glance at the little group of attend ants. Again his brother sprang at him. This time he threw him to the ground and held him there with his grasp firm upon his throat. "Don't, Bill, old fellow, for God's sake," gasped Joe, as his brother some what relaxed the grip on his throat, "I didn't 'mean no harm by it honest, I didn't. I won't do it no more. What are you going to do with that rope, Bill? You're not going to kill your poor, no-account brother, are you, old boy?" Without a word Bill and his attend ants continued wrapping the rope around Joe. Then they stood him up beside a tree and tied him to it, so that his club foot touched the ground, while the other, the strong one, was doubled back in the coil of rope. "Now, you ungratefnl whelp," said Bill, as he started to leave, "I'll be back in thirty minutes to see If you're ready to tell me." "Didn't he kiss your hand as you was tying him?" asked some one as they walked away. Hardly had they left when Jim Smith came up and at once began to untie the ropes. "Don't!" said Joe. "Bill will be back in a few minutes. Just unslip this loop here. Thank you! The strain was on i my right arm, and It hurt, because it was sore. Jim, this Is hard but I guess, j I can stand It, for Bill's sake. I ain't hurtin' so much now, though, as I was. ! It's mostly all a joke. BUI was always a powerful fellow to joke. I wlsht you'd go tell him when he comes back j please not to bring anybody else with : him." At the appointed time, Bill saddled his pony and rode off to where Joe was. "I'll take the hoss, so that if Joe's ready by now he can start off after May and bring her back. I rather guess he's ready by now, too. Maybe we'll get to eat a wedding dinner to day, yet only a little late, of course." j After some time had elapsed and neither brother had "showed up," as the phrase goes In Texas, Jim Smith walked to the place where he had left Joe. There the poor fellow was, still tied to the tree but dead! The thirty minutes' strain had been too much fot his crippled leg to bear, and it had gradually given way, and this had al- lowed the poor fellow to choke to death. Of course, Jim lost no time in rousing the quasi wedding guests, and in telling the real facts about May. It is not the first instance in the history of the world wThere a man has had the truth told about him too late to do him nmr trnnil A mirsnlnof nnrhr rvna nut after Bill at once, but all was to no avail. Some say he committed suicide shortly afterward in San Antonio; oth ers, that he is still alive In New Mexico; still others, that he is to-day in the in sane asylum at Terrell. I do not know what the truth about it is. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Jackson still live in Cottle County, Texas. Jim Smith Is the man who first told me this story. Joe Sav- j age is buried on the banks of Plum Creek, and on his wooden headboard you can still decipher the inscription; "He Loved Mutch." The Scripture had to be misquoted to suit the gender of the pronoun and the spelling Is slightly peculiar, but I can not help thinking the Inscription a good one. Many people consider love a very good thing, and Prof. Drum mond has written a book to prove that it is The Greatest Thing In the World. If these estimates are correct Joe Sav age was certainly a great and good man; for greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for hia friend Utica Globe. The woman who runs after a hus band until she gets one seldom brags of hex He Likes Steel Roads. An interesting series of experiments with steel rail roadways for earth high ways by a prominent engineer and con tractor of Pittsburg named F. Melber has attracted the attention of the De partment of Agriculture, which has de cided to begin experiments on its own account in order to test the value of the plan. Mr. Melber's statement is as fol lows: "My road Is now In position about a month, and among other interesting things I have watched the temperature of the steel when exposed to the hot afternoon sun. Every steel worker knows that steel bars lying in the yards of a bridge works, for instance, will get so warm in a few minutes that the men cannot held them in their hands. I find that my steel stringers remain cooler than the adjacent broken stone. I think this Is as well a remark able as an important fact, and it goes to show that there takes place an in terchange of the temperature between the inner substances and the steel, and that In this class of steel highways we do not need to provide for expansion. Altogether! find the steel road to ver ify all I have said at various times about It, even as to cost, and with re gard to traction advantages I am now able to give figures. I have made twen ty trials, using a gauged spring bal ance, and find that the average force needed to pull an iron wagon weighing 1,550 pounds with a sixteen-foot wagon bed is 2.5 pounds, which reduced to a load of 2,000 pounds means a traction force of 3.23 pounds per ton. My tests demonstrate that the steel roads need for traction one-twelfth the power as compared with macadam, and one- twenty-seventh the power as compared with earth roads." Congress is to be petitioned at this session for the necessary sum to : equip a number of roads in different ! parts of the country with the steel rails j and the plan will be tested on a whole sale scale before any decided action is j taken to make the system general i throughout the country. It is an lm ! provement of such an important kind I tiiat there will probably be a popular J demand for Its as soon as the general ! public, especially that portion of it whose business lies in the way of coun try roads, becomes aware of the fact that experiments are going on. Then the inhuman spectacle of weary horses dragging heavy loads through mud and clay that clog the wheeMPalmost to the spokes will be a thing of the past. Getting Out of the Ruts. The L. A. W. Bulletin offers prizes for the best photographs of choice stretches of our bed roads. Van Buren County, Michigan, has a goodly Increase of mileage in grading and graveling to add to the good roads record for 1807. If Missouri wants to be in the line of march of that promised advance of prosperity It might be Just as well to let the good roads movement pave the way. St. Louis Republic. A large and enthusiastic good roads State convention has lately been held In Columbia, S. C. It recommends the organization of a State commission or bureau of road improvement. New Type of Westerner. Time was when the Westerner of fiction wras a rudely heroic figure, chlv alric and resourceful, reckless of life as the new school of novelists, and In ured to adventure as one of Mr. Da vis' heroes. He lived by preference In a mining camp, or if geologic consider ations prevented that he was apt to be a rancher, an Indian fighter or at least a cowboy. There was more than a suggestion of the untamed wilderness about him, and though generally im possible he was always interesting. The Westerner of recent fiction is an entirely different character. His home has been changed, for one thing, and Instead of the Rockies of the great plains he now affects what might be called in semi-nautical phrase the West-middle-west. He has lost his naively reckless ways in the removal, and his chief purpose in life now seems to be to set forth the Iniquity of exist ing social conditions. Octave Thanets missionary sheriff, It Is true, Is a lineal descendant of the old type, as engaging if perhaps as Improbable as the gentle manly and high-minded gamblers or the simple hearted desperadoes In whom Bret Harte reveled; but turn to the character of that self-proclaimed prophet of the Northwest, Hamlin Gar land, and what a falling off we find! His people do not live; they work. Life, as he sees it, Is a ceaseless round of fierce toll performed angrily and re belllously by men who lack the force to make their rebellion effective. They complain, and sometimes they grow brutal toward their womankind, but their revolt carries them no further. They have altogether lost the fighting spirit. They shrink and cower before the winters cold; they shudder and wince at the pain of husking corn with worn fingers; they swear and rage over the discomforts of heavy work in hot weather. Scrlbner's. A Moscow Chnrch. One result of the Franco-Russian alli ance is to be seen In the proposition to erect for the Paris exposition the fa mous church of Vassili Blagennol, in Moscow, built in the sixteenth century, of which tradition says that its archi tect was blinded by Ivan the Terrible, that he might never produce another building so beautiful. To Western taste It seems odd rather than beautiful, but Moscow is a city of oddities. "There are two notable things here," said a citizen of Moscow to a traveler, "Tol stoi and the great bell they are both cracked." Soft, Sweet and Solid. One day, after visiting a certain Scottish historic town, an English lady entered the train, and, having rather a long journey, she wanted something to read on the way, so she called a news boy. On being asked what books he had, the boy named all his wares. None of them pleasing her he lost his patience, and when she told him she wanted something soft, sweet -and solid he turned away disgusted, remarking: "Awa wi' ye! I think It's a dump lin ye want." Cassell's Journal. Takes H is Part. "Well," remarked the comedian, who had been promised a small part after being Idle half the season, "even a small role is better than a whole loaf." Philadelphia Record. When a woman spends fully half her time soliciting for "her church," she may depend upon it that the people Uave a mighty poor opinion of her. THE A scene in The Slocum Laboratory, New York: The Discoverer demonstrating to Medical Men and Students, the Value and Wonderful Curative Powers of his New Discoveries. NOTE. All readers of this piper can have Three Free Bottles of the Doctor's New Discoveries, with complete directions, by sending their full address to Dr. Slocum's Laboratory, 98 Pine street, New York City. The oldest specimen of pure glass bearing a date, is the head of a lion in a collection at the British museum. It bears the name of an Egyptian king of the 11th dynasty. BLACK AND BLUE. Black and blue colors arc not subject to fashions this season nor in any season. They hold their own and will not wash out. They are pretty solid colors, and but for the misery of wearing them, might become fashionable. Some men take pi-ide in wear ing them ns tokens of their profession, as soldiers do their s ars. But bruises, black or blue, or both, ought to have immediate attention, for under them nia v be a nerve hurt or a muscle badly wrenched. A black and blue bruise is a bad thing, not only froni its tender soreness but the contused blood is prevention of regular circulation. While sore spots like these will not wash out, there is something that will rub them out in no time, and that is St. Jacobs Oil. It is peculiarly adapted to their quick cure. A pennant can be won only by hard knocks, with scars and bruises, but after the ball Is over, if an' remain, this one cure is the best. Bruises come from con tusion in all avocations, and it is well to temcnibor at all times just what will cure them the best. Detectives detailed to look after pro fessional shoplifters, always look to see if their suspects are wearing gloves. A professional, it is declared, never works with gloves on. NEW CEAZr SECT IN CONNECTICUT. A lot of fanatics in the state recently im mersed an old rheumatic woman bodily In the water to "heal her" as they said. She nearly died In Consequence. How much better it would have been to have treated the poor Old woman for her Infirmity with Hostetler's Stomach Bitters, which not only cures rheuma tism, but prevents kidney complaint and rem edies dyspepsia, constipation, liver trouble and llervous prostration. Give it a systematic trial. In order to raise church funds, a Georgia minister charged admission to an entertainment where the contestants engaged iu a ginger cake eating com petition. Portsmouth, N. 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Northcott, Windsor, Out., Canada. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A mechanical device recently pat ented pastes paper labels on 100,000 tins in ten hours. A rabbit with two well developed horns was recently shot in the fields of Chase county, KiTnsas. A local South Shore train came into collision with a Grand Trunk local at St. Lambert, Canada, and August Bourbon and James Coudry were killed. Pour hundred years ago only seven metals were known. Now there are 51, 30 of which have been discovered within the present century. If Chinese children do not obey their parents, and the latter whip them to death, the law has no punishment for them, as obedience to parents is the cardinal virtue. W. T. Woodward, the Kentucky horsebreeder, is going about tolling his friends that he has been cured of rheu matism by carrying old electric light carbons in his pocket Two New York men have invented an electrical dental mallet for use in hardening tooth filling, the tool having a central bar, which strikes back and forth as the current is made and broken. The combination of a lamp, bell and brake for cyclers' use has been patent ed, the bell being set in the back of the lamp in position to be struck by a clapper attached to the brake plunger. The tramways, omnibuses, and un derground railways in and around London within a radius of five miles, carry each year, it is calculated, about 453,000,000 passengers. While the museums and galleries of Berlin, Paris, London, etc., are usually open to the public free, the Italian gal leries and museums usually charge a franc or more for admission. A (jeorgia coroner s Jury brought in the following verdict: ''The deceased came to his death from a railroad in the hands of a receiver, and the same is manslaughter in the first degree." The only electric traction adapted for crowded streets is the Vuilleumier sys tem, Professor Sylvanus P. Thompson contends, supplying current through contacts in the road's surface. The most wonderful astronomical photograph in the world is that which has recently been prepared by London, Berlin and Parisian astronomers. It shows at least 68,000,000 stars. In Delaware two brothers lived for forty years within eight miles of each other, attended the same church and frequently traded with each other with out knowing they were related. Writers' cramp Is prevented by a new device which consists of a frame which with the pen or pencil, forms a tripod to slide over the paper, the body of the tripod being hollow to hold hot water. Frozen butterflies are often found on the snow by mountain climbers, and the insects are so brittle that they break unless carefully handled. When taken to a wamer climate they recover and fly away. Silesian coal mines are provided with pneumataphors, which are bombs filled with compressed oxygen to be used in cases where miners are penned in un derground chambers and in danger of suffocation. An Illinois firm is to manufacture a self-lubricating journal box, in which an oil chamber Is set in the bottom of the box, with a series of flexible fibres extending from the oil to the journal to act as a wick to feed the oil into- the bearing. Schoolboys should beware of licking pens or blots with their tongues. Ac cording to Mr. Marpmann, of Leipsio, there are microbes in ink, and it may be dangerous to prick the skin with a pen. Saville Kent, a naturalist, has an owl, or morepork, as he calls it, which plays possum, out until it appears branch of a tree in stiffening itself as part of the the naturalist's yard. Notwithstanding all the efforts cf in ventdrs, no one has been able to dis cover a substitute for leather. For shoes, belting, harness and a thousand other uses, "there's nothing like leather." The annual convention of the Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredge Engineers, in session at Chi cago, passed resolutions favoring a 21- foot channel in the Chicago river and the construction of the Nicaragua canal by American capital. By the Youghiogheny Gas Coal Com- pany's purchase of 600 acres of land from Captain S. S. Brown, several days ago, United States Senator M. A. Hanna will become the coal king of Pittsburg district. Mr. Hanna's company now produoes 1,600 tons of coal a day. It wants to increase the capacity so as to make it greater than any other company operating in the district. Science CLIMATE. MEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE. With the millions of Anna Gould Count Boniface de " Castellane is still posing as the modern Tiberius. His iatestaot of magnificence is to purchase the Palnzza della Scalu in Verona, for the sake of the eleven ceilings in it painted by Tiepolo. These will dec orate his new palace in Paris, a repro duction of the Grand Trinon. Paris regards the career of the little count with mingled awe and envy. AVlien will it end, or are the Gould millions really inexhaustible? John M. Langston, the colored law yer, politician and orator, bears with be coming dignity tiie many lienors which have come to him during his eventful life. He does not look over 68 years of age. For several years he was a law lecturer and dean of the Howard uni versity law department. In 1877 Pres ident Hayes sent him as minister to Hayti. He is the only colored man Virginia ever sent to congress. As a scholar he ranks among the leaders; as an orator he is the prince of the plat form, James II. Eckels, who, within a few days, has retired from the office of con troller of the currency, evidently does not propose to hide his light under a bushel, because he is no longer a public official. He delivered an interesting address at Chicago -the other night on the subject of "Public Leadership," wherein he strongly favored independ ence in politics and vigorous individual action, regardless of party politics and party lines. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting in the courts our right to the exclusive use of the word "CASTOK1A," and "Pi rCHER SCASTOXIA," as our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, cfHysnnls, Massachusetts, was the originator of " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now bear the Sic-sinilie signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA " which has been nsed in the homes cf the mothers of America for over thirty years. Eook Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have alzvays bought, and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the wrapper. Xo one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March S, iStf. SAMUEL PITCHER, M-D, Germany has 30,000,000 in gold coin packed away in 1,000 iron chests in the fortress of Spandaou. This is intended for use as an emergency fund in case of war. State of Ohio. City of Toledo, Lucas Covnty. j . Frank .1. Cheney makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney A Co., doing business In the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that the said Hrm will pay the sum of ONK HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATAkPH that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catakrh Cufe. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed iu my preseuce, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. . A. W. GLEASON. 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Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, GAL. LOUISVILLE. AY. MEW YORK. H.V- MAP OF ALASKA Fndorsed by the De partment of the Interior and to be used by U. S. army o Ulcers detailed to Alaska. The best and most detailed map of Alaska In existence. Will be mailed upon receipt of price (50c) In 2e stamps, or money order. BWDOLPH KRAFT, Publisher, P. O. Box 111. Portland Or. AT LAST ! II Cure If Ceiiijii, Com id Mta M Cures. Remarkable Discovery of a'n American Medico Chemist. ITS GREAT VALUE HUMANITY. TO How Every Reader of Thils Paper May Obtain the New ' and Free Scientific Sys tem of Medicine CORRESPONDENCE-ADVICE AB SOLUTELY FREEAND PROFES-i SI0NALLY CONFIDENTIAL. : Workers in the wide, unexplored field rf modern chemistry are daily astounding te world with new wonders." Professor and layman vie with each other in their coiti mendable efforts to lessen the ills ofhumall ity. Yesterday it was Pasteur and KocK, and today it is Slocum, with a new discov ery which is the result of years of careful study and research. Foremost among the world's greatest chemists stands T. A. Slocum, of New York City. His researches and experiments, patiently carried on for years, have finally culminated in results which are proving as beneficial to humanity as the discoveries of any chemist, ancient or modern. His efforts which for years had been directed toward the discovery of a positive cure for con sumption, were finally successful, and al ready his "new scient'ii.c system of meiii cine" has, by its timely use, permanently cured thousa ds of apparently hopeless cases, and it seemsa necessary and humane duty to bring such facts to the attention of all invalids. ! The medical profession throughout America atid Europe are almost unaniious in the opinion that nearly all phvsieal ail ments naturally tend to the generation of consumption. The ariiicted die in th short, cold days of winter much fastertha in the long, hot days of summer. The Doctor has proved the dreaded dis ease to be curable beyond a doubt, in miy climate, and has on "tile iu his American and European laboratories thousands 6i letters of heartfelt gratitude from tlvv1' benefited or cured in all pans of the world. No one having, or threatened with, airy disease, should hesitate a day, hut should write at once. Facts prove that the Doi tor has discovered a reliable and absolute cure for Consumption (Tuberculosis) and al! bronchial, threat, luneand chest troubles, stubborn coughs, catarrhal affections, scrof ula, general decline and weakness, loss of Mesh, and all wasting conditions, and to demonstrate its wonderful merits, he will send Three Free Bottles (all different) of his New Discoveries, with full instructions, to any reader of this paper. Simply write to T. A. Slocum, M. C.,88 Pine straet, New York, giving full address. There is no charge for correspondence-, advice strictly professional and confiden tial. Know ing, as we do, of the undoubtful efficacy of The Slocum .System of Medicine, we urge every sutl'erer to take advantage of this most liberal proposition. A system of medical treatment that will cure catarrh, lung t roubles and consump tion is certainly good for and will cure any wasting disease that humanity is heir to. Tlease tell the Doctor, w hen w riting, that you read his generous oiler in our paper. The city of Santa Fe, New Mexito, is without rats, mice and cats, as the air is too rarefied for those animals. THERE IS HAPPINESS IS STRENGTH ! Joy and gladness shine forth in the eye at the manly nnd strong. Confidence, self-esteeju and love of society come with the return of na ture's vigor. Electricity, the force of vitality, makes men (Treat. It brings back the fire ot youth. It helps manhood. Dr. San den's Electric Belt Is the Chosen spring from which is drawn the vital energy which infuses the veins of men and develops the nerve and physical powers. The vigorous standard of our race is improved bv it. "Do you wish to read the story of how vital force is renewed fiy electricity? If mi, get Pr. 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