THE AMERICAN NAVY. M'KINLEY IN GOLD. THE PATRIOTS' MANIFESTO. THE CARETAKER. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. It hunt Conditio Summed Vp hy Secretary Long. Washington, Nov. 89. The report of tha secretary of the navy was made pnblic today. It shows that the pres ent effective fighting force of the navy consists of four battle-ships of the first class, two battle-ships of the second class, two armored cruisers, sixteen cruisers, fifteen gunboats, six double turreted monitors, one ram, one dyna mite gunboat, one diepatch-boat, one transport steamer and five torpedo boats. There are under construction five battle-ships of the first class, six teen torpedo-boats and one submarine boat. There are 64 other naval vessels, in cluding those used as training, receiv ing and naval-reserve ships, tugs, dis used single-turreted monitors, and some unserviceable craft. There Is, further, the auxiliary fleet. This consists, first, of more than 20 subsidized steamers, which comply with the requirements of the postal act of March 3, 1891, with regard to their adaptability to naval service, anl to an armament of main and second batteries; second, of a very much greater number of large merchant marine steamers, which can be availed of at any time of need. These auxiliaries, ranging from 2,000 to 18,000 tons, will, if occasion re quire, form a .powerful fleet of ocean cruisers, capable of swift and formida ble attack upon an enemy's commerce. Their great coal capacity will also en able them to remain a long time at sea in search of the whereabouts of hostile vessels. The country is congratulated upon the results obtained in the rebuilding of the navy. -While its ships are not as many and it is not necessary they should be as those of some other great powers, they are, class for class, in power, speed, .workmanship and offen sive and defensive qualities, the equal of vessels built anywhere else in the world. Five additional battle-ships are un der construction, which should be com pleted by the end of the year 1899. One gunboat and 17 torpedo-boats are also under construction. The first cost of the gunboats was about $250,00 each. That of the cruis ers nearly $2,000,000 each. Bids for the torpedo-boats were from 16 firms, covering a variety of designs. The contracts of these " 30-knot boats were awarded to the lowest bidders, as follows: To Harlan & Hollingsworth, one 310 ton boat, at $236,0000; to Gas Engine & Power Company and Charles L. Sea bury Co., consolidated, one 235-ton . boat, at $210,00; to Wolff & Zwicker iron works, one 247.5-ton boat, at $214,500. It is of interest to . note the naval programmes of the principal foreign powers which show ' the great activity prevailing among them in the matter of naval oonsturction. NITROGLYCERINE EXPLOSION. Nearly Wrecked an Entire Town in Indiana. Anderson ville, Ind., Nov. 29. Ches terfield, Ind., was almost wiped off the map at an early hour this morning by an explosion of 80 quarts of nitrogly cerine in an oil field half a mile from town. Tames Gol's house, about 300 rods distant, was torn to pieces. The explosion tore a bole in the ground down to the water line. A three-ton engine was torn to fragments, and ev ery animal in the neighborhood was killed instantly. The little town of Chesterfield is a mass of ruins. Every house was moved from its foundation, and windows were battered, doors smashed in, every light put out and the plastering shaken from the walls. Several people were shaken out of bed. At Dalesville, two miles away, and at Yorktown, five miles distant, the damage was almost as great. ' Many people were injured, and it is miracu lous that many were not killed. The hock was felt 15 miles away. The damage cannot be estimated. Will flatten Durrant's Execution. San Francisco, Nov. 29. Acting Attorney-General Carter has received word from Attorney-General Fitzgerald that he will advise Warden Hale to carry out the execution of Dorrant, re gardless of any legal proceedings that may be instituted, by Durrant's attor neys, after the present legal quibble has been decided. Durrant will be re sentenced as soon as the controversy now pending is settled, after which the attorney-general of the state believes no legal step can accomplish further delay in the proposed execution of the prisoner. ..- . - Manual Blanco's Assurance. Madrid Nov. 29. Marshal Blanco has cabled to the cabinet an assurance that he will be the arbitrator in con nection with the customs tariff, and that the interests of the peninsula hall not suffer thereby. . An excellent effect has been pro duced in official circles by the publics tion this morning, in the official ga zette, of the two decrees extending to the Antilles the universal sufferage law of 1890, and applying also the laws in scribed in the first chapter of the Span ish constitution. There is a white sparrow in Lafay stte, Ind. "' The Concord Returns From Alaska. San Francisco, Nov. 29. The eun- boat Concord arrived from Alaska to day. She will go to the navy-yard for an overhauling, after, which she will be sent to China to take the place of Uie x or ktown on that station. -. 1 Maxim's New Gun Tested. Portsmouth, Nov. 29. Hiram Max im's hew 'quick-firing gun was tried here today with' 'remarkable results With 25 pounds of cordite it showed an effective range of 16,000 yards. .Another Cable to Victoria. Victoria. -Nov. 39.1 Frank .Tavnes. - superintendent of the-, Western Union Telegraph Company, who is in the city,1-said today that his company -would enter Victoria by laying a cable from the mainland. Railways' in Holland are so carefully managed that the aocidental deaths on them average orily one a year for the entire ouuntcy - Whife exoavating for a pond on the farm of.L. V, Harkneis, nenr Donerail, Kj., recently, workmen discovered the bonei of a mastodon. A Statue to Bo Exploited at the Paris Exposition. Kew York, Nov. 29. Ada Rehan in silver is to be outshone by William Mo Kinley in gold according to the Herald of today. The added fame which the actress acquired by posing for the Mon tana statue of sol it! silver exhibited at the world's fair is to be approached if not eclipsed by the president of the United States who will furnish the fig ure for a life-sized statue of solid gold. This will be the most costly lump of precious metal the jieople of the mod ern world have ever seen. So says F. D. Higby, of Chicago, who has been retained by Western millionaires to furnish such a statue for exhibition at the Paris exposition in 1900. Mr. Higby was in the city yesterday oh his way to Washington to get the consent of President McKinley to pose for the figure. As Mr. Higby took a prominent part in the headquarters management of the late campaign, and has asked for no office he is confident of success in this mission. "You know," said Mr. Higbv "that I designed and built the Montana statue at the world's fair for which Miss Rehan posed. I suppose it was because of my experience that I have been retained to build this statue, which with the base will contain bul lion to the value of $1,050,000. "While it will be designed primarily to first exhibit the statue at Paris in 1900, the directors of the pan-American exposition to be held in Cayuga island, in the Niagara river, in 1899, are anxi ous to have it completed in time to ex hibit there first. It is likely that this arrangement will be made. I cannot say yet who the capitalists are who are back of this projeot, but there are a half dozen of them, and everything is ready to begin work on the statue as soon as a design is com pleted." ' OREGON LINEN MILLS. Reported That Flax Will Be Made l'p Into Wares at Salem. Salem, Or., Nov. 29. There are prospects that the "Scotch Mills," in Salem, which have long stood idle, will be converted into an important manu facturing plant. It is understood that Mr. T. B. Wilcox, who owns a control ling interest in the mills, has submit ted a proposition to Dr. Deimel, the importer of linen goods, whereby a linen manufacturing establishment is to be located here, and Mr. Wilcox is to be one of the stockholders. The details of the negotiations, pending between Mr. Wilcox and Dr. Diemel, have not been given out, but assurance is given that the prospects for the establishment of a large linen manufacturing plant here are very bright. Mrs. Lord received a letter from Dr. Deimel last night, stating that he sailed for Germany Tuesday. He further Bays: "I have now more offers for shares in our present company that I am able to accept, and if $500,000 or even $1, 000,000 should be required to organize a company for the spinning of yarn and the weaving of linen, including linen mesh, it can be had, on the showing that you can grow and will grow flax of a quality equal to the best, and that yonr people desire the locating of our industry there by offering us such ad vantages as you mention in your let ter." ' Legislation for Alaska. Washington, Nov. 29. The presi dent in his message will recommend speedy legislation to insure the best possible government for Alaska. He will point out the difficulties which the people living there are nnder, and will urge that something be done to protect the property of the government. He will allude to the fact that the govern ment is losing large sums because there is no way of protecting timber from indiscriminate use. A better system of permits for the cutting and inspection of timber, not only for the mineral states of the West, but also for Alaska, has been presented to the president, and he will endeavor to have legisla tion speedily enacted for the better pro tection of the forcBts. Rearing a Settlement. Washington, Nov. 29. Hawaiian Minister Francis M. Hatch, who has just arrived in this city on his return from Honolulu, expressed the opinion today that the trouble between Japan and Hawaii has been smoothed over, and can be settled now without diffi culty. The Japanese government seems to be disposed to have the matter set tled in as amicable a spirit as possible. Canada's Reply. Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 29. A reply has been prepared by the Dominion govern ment and forwarded to Washington in respect to the negotiations which' are going on between those countries. The government will not say what the reply is until it reaches Mr. Foster, at Wash ington, but it is understood that it is a refusal to stop pelagic sealing for one vear. Chicago, Nov. 29. The Luetgert case will be called for a second trial to morrow morning, in Judge Horton's court. The state will announce its readiness to go on with the trial at once, but it is very probable that At torney Phalen, for the defense, will ask for a continuance or a change of venue. A Four-Hand ed Fight. Mandeville, La., Nov. 2. From Bayou Lacombe, a small settlement 11 miles east of here, news has been re-, ceived of a desperate fight between Ar thur and Edward Jolie, on one side, and Laurence and Edward Cousin, on the other; in which all concerned were killed. : Shotguuns and pistols were the weapons used. A long-standing family feud led to the fight. To every 192 persons in the United States there is a telephone. Moscow, Idaho, Nov. 29. K. O. Skatteboe, prominent farmer and grain buyer, was fatally injjred this morning by being struck by a train on the Korthern Pacific The aocident occur red near the depot as the train was pulling in. Mr. Skatteboe and his two sons were walking along the track, the boys being in advance of their father. Mr. Skatteboe, being slightly deaf, did not hear the train, which was coming up behind him, nor did he hear the cries of his boys, who tried to warn him of his danger. A wagon obscured the engineer's view, and be did not see the man until it was too late to stop. the Cuban Constitutional Assembly. New York, Nov. 29. The Cuban constitutional assembly, which met re cently at Camaguey, to remodel the constitution and elect a new president, issued a manifesto, which reached the office of the Cuban junta in this city today. The document is dated Dayaya, October 80, 1897, and is signed 'by Domingo Mendel Capote, aa president of the assembly. The manifesto is the address of "The representatives of the Cuban people to all those who have in dependence and the future welfare of Cuba at heart." The document says the assembly, before adjourning, deemed it its duty to proclaim, among other things: "That no special laws, no form of I autonomy; nothing, in short, that the Spanish government may be willing j to grant, that means Spanish sov ! ereignty over Cuba, will be accepted 1 by Cubans as a settlement of the war. j Independence or death shall be the un alterable and sacred motto of the Cu bans. . "Cubans have not resorted to arms in order to obtain any political nieas- i tires which do not, onoe and for all, reason we will accept nothing short of absolute independence. "It is onr purpose to constitute an independent state, orderly, prosperous and happy, over the ruins of a worn out colony. We are firmly determined to carry on the war until victory or death crowns our efforts." Autonomy at Last. Madrid, Nov. 29. The official ga zette publishes today the royal decrees granting autonomy to Cuba and Porto Rico, thus removing the anxiety that had begun to be expressed on all sides as the result of the government's reti cence and unexplained delay. Article 1 explains the principle of the future government of the two islands. Article 2 decrees that the government of each island shall be composed of an insular parliament, di vided into two chambers, while a governor-general, representing the home govemmment, shall exercise in its name the supreme authority. Article 3 declares that the faculty of making laws for colonial affairs rests with the insular chambers and the governor general. Article 4 directs that the in sular representation shall be composed of two corporations, with equal power, a chamber of representatives and a council of administration. Article 5 provides that the council of adminis tration shall consist of 85 members, of whom 18 shall be elected and 17 nomi nated by the home government. Artiole 6 provides that members of the council must be Spaniards 85 years of age, who have resided in Cuba con tinuously for four years. It specifies numerous officials, such as senators, presidents of courts and of chambers of commerce and other bodies as eligible to election to the council. Article 7 to I 14 deal with nominations and the con I ditions of election to councils. Article j 15 empowers the throne or the governor-general to convoke, suspend or dis solve the chambers, with an obligation to reassemble them within three months. CHEERED FOR AMERICA. Released Prisoners Brought on a Riot in Porto Rico. . Havana, Nov. 29. Advices from Porto Rico Bay a riot occurred there yesterday. It appears that a steamer having on board a number of political prisoners, recently released from the Spanish penal settlement on the Afri can coast, in accordance with the am nesty decree, arrived there, and the liberated men were allowed to land. They soon found their way to a drink ing saloon, partook of stimulants and began cheering for the United States-, crying: "Hurrah for free America." This demonstration was resented by the crowds about the place, and rioting followed. The police were called upon to interfere, and compelled the liber ated men to re-embark. During the disturbance, the police arrested the in surgent, Colonel Aliposanchez. Senor Marcos Garcia, the governor of Santa Clara, has arrived at Sagua, in order to be better able to judge of the condition of thereconcentradoes. From this day, these unfortunate people will receive rations. The Spanish authorities today re leased from prison Thomas J. Jordan, a prisoner captured, according to the allegations, after the landing of an ex pedition by the American schooner Three Friends, and Emanuel Hernan dez, who is said to have been a mem ber of another filibustering expedition. Both men were under sentence of death. The government has also re leased from prison Juan Aris, Augus tine Cossio, Emil Betancourt and Ro sendo Betancourt. Baker City, Or., Nov. 29. A fatal accident occurred last evening at the Elkhorn Bonanza mine. In some un- ( accountable manner James Cagel ignit i ed some giant powder, and the whole , magazine exploded with a force which ; almost jarred the mountain. The un : fortunate miner was killed as if struck i by a lightning bolt, his body being j mangled in a frightful manner. Thos. Hopkins was painfully though not fa tally injured. Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 29. Following the requests of the boards of trade and the Commercial Club of Louisville, come numerous letters urging Governor Bradley to appoint his daughter, Miss ' Christine, who is now in school in !. Washington, D. C, to christen the I new battle-ship Kentucky. - While it is somewhat embarrassing for the gov ernor to confer the honor on a member of his own family, it is quite likely that he will comply with these popular requests. Prairie Fire In New Mexico. Clayton, N. M., Nov. 29. A prairie fire is sweeping over the country south of this point. The grass is very high, and there has been no rain for weeks. The course of the fire is through the great range belt, and for over 200 miles there is no barrier in its path. Thou sands of sheep are in danger. j Coal tar, when used for dyes, yield j 16 shades of blue, the same number of ! yellow tints, 12 of orange, nine of ' violet, and numerous other colon and shades, leaned by Caretaker is word adopted Into modern use and means on who takes cars of, and is very generally applied to those employed to take care of things committed to their keeping. The way some people have of taking care of themselves is very sugirestivo of the need of a curt-taker. The human body to such is a mansion tilled with pre cious things unrarvd for, where thieves may break m ami rust doth corrupt. Tains and aches are thieves, and the body left uncarwi for to their spoilage will be robbed of all its comforts niul despoiled ol its peace of mind ami happiness. It is a happy thought to look upon St. Jacobs Oil as a caretaker, to employ it as a watchman against such intruders. There is hardly an ache, from a toothache to a toeaehe, that it can't take cure of and ett'ect a cure, and pains the most violent are conquered by its use. Its otlice as a caretaker is to prevent the spread of aches ami pains into a chronic stage. Keep a bottle of it in the handiest place and be assured of good care and comfort. 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. MISERY BY THE WHOLESALE, Is what chronic Inactivity of the llrer lives rise to. Bile gets Into the blood find imparls a yellow tint, the tongue fouls, anil so does the breath, sick headaches, pain beneath I he right ribs and shoulder blade are felt, the bowels be come constipated and the stomach disordered. The proven remedy for this catalogue of evils is Huaieuer's Stomach Bitters, a medicine long and professionally reeommended.and sovereign also for chills and fever, nervousness and rheumatism. In the period 1383 to 1894 the crim inal record in the German empire in creased 23 per cent, or 13 per cent more than the population. hows thst We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for an) case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by HaU' Catarrh Cure. V. J, CHENEY it CO., Toledo, O. V e, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly hororable in ail business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations tuade bv their firm, WkstATrcax. Wholesale Drueslsts, Toledo, O. Wilding, K inn an & Marvin, W holesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Testimonials free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold hy all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Japanese officers who fought in the late war against China have petitioned their government to erect a monument to the memory of the horses that fell in battle. HOME PRODUCTS AND PUKE FOOD. All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually very light colored and of heavy body, Is made from glucose. "Tea Harden Uript"' is made from Sugar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for sale by first-class grocers, in cans only. Manufac tured by the Pacific Coast 8Y.rr Co. All gen. uine "Tea Onnirn Vript" have the manufac turer's name lithographed on every can. Japan is about to send a lot of experts to this country to teach the people how to make tea. "King Solomon's Treasure," only Aphrodtalacol Tome known. (See Dictionary.) &V0O a box, 3 weeks' treatment. Mason Cbeaacal Co., P. O. Box 747, Philadelphia, Pa. ,A man who is fond of figures affirms that in battle only one ball in 85 takes effect. My doctor said I would die but Piso's Cure for consumption enred me. 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Her remedies are a sure cure." Mrs. Ella Kbinbh, Knightstown, Henry Co., Ind. By the way, the leading druggists tell us that the demand for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is simply beyond their power of under standing ; and, what is best of all, It does the work promptly and well. , When you feel that soreness In your back, that dull pain near your kidneys, it Is time to do something for yourself, for these symptoms are serlons Indications of a growing disease in the most vital functions. Get Dr. Sanden's Electric Belt at once. It will cure yon. SANDEN ELECTRIC BELT CO. S3 West Washington St., Portland, Or. Pleau mention tnit Paper, YOUR LIVER Is It Wrong? Get it Right. Keep it Right Moore's Revealed Itemed y will do It. Three doses will make you feel better. Get it from your druggist or any wholesale drug house, or from Stewart it Holmes Drug Co., Seattle. fytyyvtntfstystwft r "CHILDREN TEETHING." J w Mas. Wwklow1! Hoothixs svavr iaaola always be J , used for okllilrso teething. It aoothri Uie child, wft- lid, ton- ic.aitd Is S ueati a us a a ens the gtime, SHaya au pern, ouren winu cotic.a E the ben rirmeflr or dlarrhaa. Twenty Are oei I Dottle, n in the beet er au. a.4 3 od. Cm ra t: mm in?ims, imiii rueenisffiiisri r IT'-nri tOUlce of Downing, Hepklne A Co., Chicago Board of Trade Brokers, 711-714 Chamber of Com merce Building, Portland, Oregon. The event of the week in the Chicago wheat market was a jump of 4o in one day in the price of December options. The sentimental figure of II was reached for a moment. The bulk of the wheat iu CTiiuugo is in the hands of a powerful clique, who are in a posi tion just now to dictate to the short sellers of December. These people keep on declaring there ia to be no cor ner, but a squeese is almost certain. The outcome of the May price de pends altogether on the world's statis tical position. Europe would not be taking 6,600,000 bushels of wheat and flour from America in one week if there did not exist extraordinary necessity for it. But no one knows how long this demand will keep up or whether the price fairly discounts the situation. A good illustration of how little can be decided with exactness about so vast a question as the wheat supply is the conflict of two respectable authorities in the mere interpretation of an official lviiaaian crop report. The Corn Trade News declares it shows a shortage of 103,000,000 bushels, compared with hut year, while Beoroohui makes the shortage only 1,000,000 bushels. The profession of crop statistics is like the ology. It is so big a field as to permit of all sorts of differences and to enablo each teacher to pose before those imme diately around hiui as the only really authoritative one. Nothing would affect the sentiment at Chicago quicker thai) a falling off in Northwestern receipts. But on this comparatively simple problem there is no unanimity. Pillsbury a fortnight ago predicted confidently that the car lots at Minneapolis and Dtiluth by No vember 20 would be down to small figures, with not over 20 per cent of the crop loft in the hands of the farm ers. There has all through November been perfect weather fur marketing; but the authorities at Minneapolis are now predicting another two weeks of free movement. The weather Is to count a great deul on the price between this and Dec me her 10th. It will make easy or difficult the continued move ment of wheat between Duluth and Chicago; it will keep open or olose up navigation between Chicgao and Bnf alo, and will influence, too, the move ment from the spring wheat farmer into Duluth and Minneapolis. Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, 7877c; Val ley and Bluestem, 7879c per bushol. Four Best grades, 4.25; graham, 3.50; mi per fine, 2.25 per barrol. Oats Choice white, 84 35c; choice gray, 82 33c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew ing, $'.'0 per ton, Millstiffd Bran, 15 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. Hay Timothy, 13 12.50; clover, $1011; California wheat, $10; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $910per ton. Eggs 22 25c per dozen. Butter Fancy oreamery, 60(355o; fair to good, 4045c; dairy, 8040c per roll. Cheese Oregon, lljo; Young America, 12cj California, 010o per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $1.75 2.50 per doeznf broilers, $2.002.00; geese, $56; ducEs, $3.004.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 9 (3 10c per pound. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 85 40c per sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental. Onions Oregon, new, red, 90c; yel low, 80o per cental. Hops 814c per pound for new crop; 1898 crop, 46o. Wool Vulley, 14lGo por pound; EaHtern Oregon, 712o; mohair, 20 22o per pound. Mutton Gross, best hheep, wethers and ewes, $3.00; dressed mutton, 5o; spring lambs, 5c per pound. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50; light and feeders, $3.00 4. 00; dressed, $4. 50 5. 00 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $2.763.00; cows, $2.25; dressed beef, 45jo per pound. " Veal Large, 45o; small, 6 Go per pound. Seattle Market. Butter Fancy native creamery, brick, 27c; ranoh, 18 18c. Cheese Native Washington, I2J40; California, 9c. Eggs Fresh ranch, 80 32c. Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 10c; spring chickens, $2.60 8 00; ducks, $3. 50 3. 75. Wheat Feed wheat, $22 per ton. Oats Choice, per ton, $1920. Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton, $22; feed meal, $22 per ton. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $22; whole, $22. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef, steers, 6c; cows, 6)0; mutton sheep, 6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 7. Fresh Fish Halibut, 45c; salmon, 84c; salmon trout, 710o; flounders and sole, 84; ling cod, 4 5; rock cod, 6c; smelt, 2)4c. Fresh Fruit Apples, 60c$1.25 per box; peaches, 7580o; prunes, 8540o; pears, 75c $1 per box. San Francisco Market Wool Nevada 11 13c; Oregon, 12 14c; Northern ll12o per pound. Hops 10 14c per pound. Millatnffs Middlings, $2022; Cal ifornia bran, $17.5018.00 per ton. Onions New red, 7080c; do new silverskin, $1.401.60 per cental. Eggs Store, 1826c; ranch, 40 41c; Eastern, 1724; duck, 25c per dozen. Cheese Fanoy mild, new, 2n fair to good, 78c per pound.. Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valenoias, $1.603.00; Mexican limes, $2.00 8.00; California lemons, choice, $2.00 2.60; do common, 75c$l per box. Hay Wheat, 1214.60; wheat and oat, $1113; oat, $1012; river bar ley, $78; best barley, $1012; alfalfa, $89.60; clover, $8 9. 50. Fresh Fruit Apples, 2590o per large box; grapes, 2540o; Isabella, 60 76c; peaches, 50ort$l; pears, 75o $1 per box; plums, 2085o. Butter Fanoy oreamery, 2728c; do seconds, ?428c; fancy dairy, $4c; good to choice, 19(322o per pound. Potatoes New, in boxes, 85 80c. 2000 II says " It is worth a great deal to us to have you try Schilling's Best baking powder and tea." Money-back says "We have a great deal ot confidence in your good faith and in Schillings Best baking powder and tea." Schilling's Best baking powder and tea are . bccause they are money-back. What is the missing wordr-not SAFE, although Shilling's Beit baking powder and tea ar safe. Get Sthitting't Self baking powder or te at your grocers'; take out the ticket (brown ticket in every package of bHkini powder; yellow ticket In the tea); send a ticket with ench word to address below before December jut. Until October 151I1 two words allowed for eveiy ticket; after that only on word for every ticket. If only one person finds the word, that person gets fiouo.oo; if several find it, fiooo.uo will be equally divided among thnn. Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard creeping babies at the end of the contest. Those sending three or more in one envelope will receive an 1S98 pocket cnlem.lnr no advertising on It. 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