mm Pimples Are the danger signals of impure blood. They show that the stream of life is iu bad condition, that health is in danger of wreck. Clear the course by taking flood's Sarsaparilla and the blood will be made pure, complexion fair and healthy, and life's journey pleasant and successful. Hood's8 parilla Is America's Greatest Medicine, fl; six for 15. Hood's Pills care indigestion, biliousness. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A pen carrying a small electric lamp to prevent shadows when writing has been patented in Germany. Chileans never enter or leave a coach, street car or other public vehicle with out bowing to all Its occupants. A Brighton (England) young man has killed himself because his wife made fun of him foi kissing the servant girl. It is estimated that since the begin ning of the historical era 18,000,000 persons have perished in earthquakes. Ornithologists have discovered that crows have no less than 2? cries, each distinctly referable to a different ac tion. The wages of Chinamen in Amoy are $ 6 a month, which is 10 per cent above the average wages prevailing in China. The first Chinaman to offer his ser vices as a soldier in the present war was Ong Q. Tow, a wealthy merchant of Santa Ana, California. The nests of the termites or white ant are, proportioned to the size and weight of the builders, the greatest structures in the world. There was sold In London the other day a manuscript in the autograph of William Cowper, comprising the varia tions made from the first edition of his translation of the Iliad. The artificial serum of common salt and cooking soda (sodium chloride and soadinm carbonate) is used by an Italian epeoaillst. Dr. Tomasoli, for the treat ment of extensive burns. When liquid air, containing from 40 to 60 per cent of oxygen is mixed with powdered charcoal it forms an explo sive which is said to be comparable in power to dynamite, and can be explod ed by means of a detonator. There Is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly tailing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has nroven Catarrh to be a constitu tional disease, and therefore requires oonstitu- ' tional treatment. Hairs catarrn t;ure, man ufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a tcaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case It fails to Sure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Ad ress, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sr.ld by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The time required for Niagara to out its gorge has been variously estimated at from 7,000 to 35,000 years. Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder. A French army surgeon claims sev eral advantages for a bullet of com piessed paper covered with polished aluminum, the chief being that the wounds are surgically clean, healing with little risk of blood poisoning. The Japanese are curiously alike physically. Recent measurements taken of pn infantry regiment showed no.--TSrTa;'on except two inches ia heightaW'uao w'gni. Naturalists have ascertained that scorpions and certain kinds of spiders are able to make peculiar noises to warn an enemy that an attack is at tended by danger. Electro magnets capable of picking up a load not exceeding five tons aie used by an Illinois steel company to transfer steel beams or plates from one part of the shop to another. THE ILLS OF WOMEN And How Mrs. Pinkham Helps Overcome Them. Mrs. Mary Bollinger, 1101 Marianna St. , Chicago, 111., to Mrs. Pinkham: ' I have been troubled for the past two years with falling of the womb, leucorrhcea, pains over my body, sick headaches, backache, nervousness and weakness. I tried doctors and various remedies without relief. After taking two bottles of your Vegetable Com pound, the relief I obtained was truly wonderful. I have now taken several more bottles of your famous medicine, and can say that I am entirely cured." Mrs. Henry Dorr. No. 806 Findley St, Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mrs. Pinkham : " For a long time I suffered with chronic Inflammation of the womb, pain in abdomen and bearing-down feeling. Was very nervous at times, and so weak I was hardly able to do any thing. Was subject to headaches, also troubled with leucorrhoea. After doc toring for many months with different physicians, and getting no relief, I had given up all hope of being well again when I read of the great good Lydia E. Flnkham's Vegetable Com pound was doing I decided immedi ately to give it a trial. The result was simply past belief. After taking four bottles of Vegetable Compound and using three packages of Sanative Wash I can say I feel like a new woman. I deem it my duty to announce the fact to my fellow sufferers that Lydia E. Pinkham 's Vegetable remedies have entirely cured me of all my pains and suffering. I have her alone to thank for my recovery, for which I am grate lul. May heaven bless her for the food work she is doing for our sex." PROGRESS OF CATAPHORESIS. Medical Illustration of Whfct Can Be Done With Electricity. In dentistry no subject is more dis cussed than the painless filling and extraction of teeth. Regarding the former Dr. Thomas II. White, when seen in his office at 271 Morrison street, near Fourth, said: "That teeth can be filled absolutely without pain is a positive fact, which is demonstrated most every day in my office. Teeth that are so sensitive that the patient cannot endure an' instru ment to touch them can be made thor oughly insensible to pain or feeling in from 10 to 20 minutes, and can be then filled or treated with ease'. Yes, electricity is a great boon to mankind. Just think of taking the nerve out of a tooth in 10 minutes from the time of the application of the electricity with out the slightest knowledge of it by the patient." The late method of bridge work invented by the brother of Dr. White is a great improvement on plates. 1 -4WA SOLDIER'S TARGET.-!'-1 BffiBfflfflffiBSffil I ' bm l ACII man, as he - ? H signed his name on ' C il the 'distment roll, ' An "iS- rr ! i d that war meant fight, and that fight meant kill. This Idea was further drilled into us lu camp; It form ed the basis of the colonel's address as we marched to the front; It brought our muskets to an "aim as wo caught sfeit of the enemy for the first time, ffs had become soldiers to march, fight and kill. It was to be look ed upon as a matter of business, as well as a patriotic duty. The sooner the strength of the enemy was exhaust ed the sooner we would have peace. We thought that every man In com pany "G" had the same feeling to kill but we had not been long at the front when we found an exception. A score of skirmishers were ordered down in front of the regiment to feel the strength of the enemy In the fringe of bushes along a creek. Ambrose Davis was one of us. He was a man of 30 a plain, every day man who had laid down the tools of a mechanic to take up the musket of a soldier. He was not g!vn to enthusiasm, but he was an obe dient soldier and the best shot In the company. As we clambered over the fence and took "open order" on the broad field which dipped down to the creek, the enemy In the fringe had a dead rest on every man. War with them also meant kill. To kill one of half a million men means little, and yet It means kill. Zip! Ping! Zip! It was not firing by file It was not firing by volleys Into a battle line half hidden in the smoke, but every bullet that came pinging was meant for an individual soldier. We crouched down and ran forward. We zlg-zagged to right and left We took the shelter of every knoll, brush and stump. The enemy had to develop his strength to check us. In front of Davis was an opening In the fringe a spot where a farm road crossed the creek. The enemy to the right and left of this road was using the bank of the stream as a breastwork and we were firing a good deal at random. An oflicer suddenly appeared in the center of this opening, and raising a pair of glasses to his eyes he took a cool survey of the regiment far back of us on the hill. He was within pistol shot of Davis and he must have known- It, and yet he stood there as cool and calm as you please to take his chance. It was Sheer bravado. Four of our twenty had been killed, and the enemy was seek ing the lives of the rest I was to the right of Davis and could have almost hit the officer with a stone; the man on his left had just as fair a target. He was not our "game," however he belonged to Davis. We saw our com rade thrust forward a barrel of his musket and bring his eye down to the sights. Then we watched the officer to see him throw up his hands and fall. Thirty seconds passed away, and we glanced back at Davis. He had lifted "SLEWED THE MUZZLE OF his head and was looking at the oflleer over his gun. At the end of a quarter of a minute he dropped It again. It was his duty to kill, but this was kill ing In cold blood, and he had to have a few seconds to nerve himself up. Back went our eyes to the officer. He was slowly sweeping the glasses across a front of half a mile, and I wondered If he would drop them as the bullet struck h'm, or whether his fingers would clutch and hold them the tighter. My heart camo crowding Into my throat as I watched and as the sec onds passed, and at length I heard the man on Davis left shouting at him: "Shoot! Shoot! Why the devil don't you drop that officer?" I turned to look at Davis, and as I did so he slewed the muzzle of his gun to the right and fired Into the bushes. A few seconds later the officer lowered his glasses, and swinging them In his hand and perhaps humming a tune, he slowly disappeared Into the bushes. Later In the day, when Davis' singular action had been reported, the captain said to him: "Davis, I can't believe you are a cow ard, bec-ause you went down on the skirmish lino to be shot at but when you had an enemy fairly under your gun. and an oflicer at that, why didn't you bring him dowrrT' "I was going to, sir, but I I couldn't," was the reply. "But they were shooting at you to kill." "Yes. I know." The captain could hardly reprimand a man for not killing an enemy as he would have shot down a rabbit, and there was no one to hint that Davis lacked courage. The Incident was for gotten after a little, and such was the soldiery conduct of the man that he was made a corporal. When the enemy withdrew bplilnd the works at York town to bar MeClellan's road to Rich mond he covered his wings with sharpshooters, and our officers were their special target. One day, as three companies of us were dragging up some of the heavy siege-guns to be put in pollion, a msjvr and a private were kill ed by a sharpshooter who was located in a tree top. He could be plainly made out, but the riuge was too far for our army muskets. A Bcrdan rifle was sent for, and when It arrived our captain put It Into the hands of Corporal Davis and said: "Ton arc by long odds the best shot tn our company. With a dead-rest over that log you can tumble that man out of b.s tree." - Davis hi-ng back and turned, pale. Just then a brigadier rode up to give -lis f . . , i 1 1 . 1 r I .1 uCXJt. come to tt'hn l!i when a bullet from the( 3CS f .:. it sharpshootei passed through the gen eral's hat He was not only a bit startled, but inclined to reprimand that the fellow had not been disposed of. When he saw the heavy rifle In the hands of the pale-faced and hesitating corporal he shouted out: "Hurry up, man, and tumble him out of that before he can reload! If you bring him down I'll ask your captain to make a sergeant of you five minutes later!" Davis advanced to a stump a few feet away and knelt down and sighted his rifle across it. We who knew his marksmanship felt, sure that his bullet would speed true. He took a long aim, and we were holding our breath to hear the report of the rifle, when he drew back, rose up and said: "I I can't shoot that man!" The words were hardly out of his mouth when the man In the tree fired again, and his bullet struck down a lieutenant within five feet of the briga dier. "You Idiot but why don't you shoot?" shouted the indignant general, as he stepped forward. "It Is cold blood, sir cold blood!" whispered Davis, who trembled In ev ery limb, and was as pale-faced as a dead man. "You poltroon, you coward!" raged the general. "Here, you man cut the stripes from his sleeves, and you, cap tain, see that he Is reduced to the ranks on the company roll! He ought to be court-martialed and driven out of the army In disgrace!" A soldier stepped forward and with his pocket-knife cut the chevrons frorh the porporal's sleeves, and Poor Davis slunk away In disgrace. Here was a strange thing. A soldier who did not hesitate to put himself In a position to be killed could not be Induced to fire upon the enemy. His soldierly quali ties were such that he had been taken out of the ranks, and yet he refused to carry out a soldier's first duty to kill. We could not call him a coward no man Is a coward who will face death but we called him strange and won dered what was back of It all. The men of the company fell away from him, and In a few days he stood almost alone. When we followed up the ene my after Yorktown there was some heavy skirmishing with the rear guard. Ambrose Davis was with the company, and upon one occasion, when the hun dred charged and captured a gun, he led us all In the rush and was the first man to put a hand on It After that we said It was a case of "nerves," or that he had a hereditary fear of shedding blood, and he was looked upon more favorably. We saw nothing more of the "strange ness" of Ambrose Davis until the battle which drove McClellan to make a change of base. For half a day our reg iment stood In battle line, waiting to at tack or be attacked, and during this in terval our company lost two men killed and three wounded. It required all the nerve the men could work up to stand there and be shot at without firing a shot In return, but Davis showed no HIS GUN TO THE RIGHT." more nervousness than any of the rest When at length we moved by the left flank for a quarter of a mile and then dropped down to open Are and hold our ground, Davis was the man on my left and as I loaded my musket I noticed that he was firing high. Five minutes later a lieutenant came creeping along In rear of us and warning each man to aim low. I heard him cursing Davis, and twice after that ere we fell back, I saw the man firing Into the tree tops. The enemy crowded us back day by day and mile by mile, and there Was fighting over every foot of the high ways. We had a fierce grapple at Fair Oaks, and again at Savage Station, but all I knew of Davis was that he was with us. It was only when weturned at bay at Malvern Hill that I found my self beside him again. He had been three limes grazed by bullets, and that was proof that he had stood up to a soldier's work. Our regiment was sta tioned at the base of the hill, strung along in the bed of a dry creek, and the banks gave us protection and a rest for our muskets. " As the enemy came swarming across the open every man was a fair target I had fired three or four times when my musket fouled, and as I waited to clear It I watched Davis. He was firing over the heads of the enemy by thirty feet Our position was one which could not be carried. The enemy realized this at last and the battle began to die away. On our front we had only dead and wounded men, as far as we could see, and all firing had ceased, when a man suddenly rose up from the ground about a pistol shot away and stood staring at us. A thou sand men shouted at him to come and surrender, but after a moment he turn ed his back and began moving away. I do not know why any of the hundreds of men who had him In range did not fire, but they did not Some were even cheering the man, when an officer of artillery jumped down among os and shouted: "Shoot him shoot him why don't some of you bring him down?" His words were heard by fifty men, but not a gun was raised. The oflicer was storming at us when Davis sud denly lifted his musket and fired, and the retreating man flung up bis arms, whirled about and sank down. Curses and groans followed, and Day is threw down his gnn and hid his face in his hands and sobbed. "A splendid shot!" cried the officer, "and if I were your captain you would be a corporal to-morrow I" Davis had done a strange thing. We looked at him and wondered over It The heat of the battle waj yet strong Jf32 jii us, but the killing vf the. man seemed little short of cold bloodci mur der. "Did I kill kill hlmr asked Davis of a man beside him when he could con trol himself. "Yes, you shot him dead, the poor devil Why didn't you let him get away?" "You have all been down on me bo cause I wouldn't kill," moaned the shooter, as he hid his face again. That night we fell back to the James Rivet. In the darkness and confusion commands-were mixed up, and It was night again before the company roll was called. Private Davis was among the missing. He had survived the bat tlethe retreat was unmolested If alive he was bound to find his command within a few hours. And yet he never found It When the returns were made up his name was placed among the dead. He had been disgraced because he would not kllL He had nerved him self up at last to fire upon a human target and then? We spoke his name in whispers after that and said only good words for him. Charles B. Lewis, in Denver News. A FORTUNE OVERLOOKED. The Unexpected Find Made by the Kxecntors ot a Washington Estate, "You may talk about the wonderful discoveries of gold in the Klondike re gion," said a lawyer a few days ago, "but one of the richest gold finds of the year occurred right here In Wash ington. I will not mention names, but the gentleman referred to was known all over the country before he died as one 6f the wealthiest pension agents and publishers of the present day. "A short time after the captain (I will call him 'captain' throughout the story) died, his executors were engaged in making an examination of his effects. His will had been carefully drawn and all of his real and personal property was supposed to be distributed among his relatives and friends, according to his last wishes. One day in clearing out the safe in the building which still bears the captain's name an old chest was discovered in one of the dark corners of the vault It had been there for years, and was supposed to contain only some plates and drawings of war pictures, used in connection with a book of war stories. The executors had passed the old chest by without exam ining Its contents, supposing, of course, that it contained nothing but the plates and drawings, as indicated by the marking on the outside. One of the clerks engaged in the work had curi osity enough to take a peep Into the chest When the loose drawings were removed a sight met his gaze that fairly took his breath away. There, nestling among the sheets of war pictures, and at the bottom of the chest was an im mense pile of gold coin, which, when counted, amounted to something over $50,000. "There were gold pieces of every de nomination, from $1 to $20. The dis covery was so unexpected that the ex ecutors were at a loss for some time to account for the pile of treasure. The latest will was Carefully scrutinized, but nothing in It could be found rela tive to the unlooked-for gold deposit Various theories were advanced to ex plain the accumulation of coin, and It was finally concluded that the ca.pta.ln had followed the example of other cau tious capitalists during the last raid on the treasury gold reserve, and hoarded the amount found In the chest. The coin looked as though It might have been dropped Into the chest carelessly, for the various denominations and dates were in happy confusion. The execu tore were unable to account for the omission of the gold pile in the will, for although the captain was a great spender, he usually kept a clear ac count of his securities. It is possible that he may have been quietly engaged In hoarding gold pieces for a number of years prior to his death, and when his fatal, illness came on he may have forgotten the gold lining to the old chest containing the war pictures. Of course the gold was carefully counted and en tered up as a very desirable part of the estate." Washington Evening Star, Short History of Alaska. Purchased in 1807 from Russia for $7,200,000; purchase negotiated by Wm. H. Seward. Area In square miles, 531,409. Population (census of 1890) 30,320, of whom but 4,416 were white, 8,400 Es kimos, and 13,735 Indians. Principal cities, Sitka (the capital), Juneau, Wrangel, Circle City. Principal rivers, the Yukon (more than 2,000 miles long), the Kuskok wlm, the Colvllle and the Copper. Principal mountains. Mount Logan, altitude 19,500 feet; Mount St Ellas, 18,100; Mount Wrangel, 17,500 feet. Principal products besides gold, furs, fish and lumber. Principal occupations of the people, hunting and fishing. Gold first discovered in 1879. Product of gold in 1890, $4,070,000. Klondike in English Is Deer River. Estimated product of gold to date, $30,000,000. Scene of the present excitement is along the upper Yukon and its tribu taries. Distance from Chicago to the Klon dike gold fields, via the Yukon, is about 0,500 miles; via Chilkoot Pass, 4,000 miles. Time to make the trip by either route, thirty days. Cost of the trip, about $300. Travel possible only in June, July and August. Climate in winter severe in the ex treme; winter beginning in September. During June and July continuous daylight during December and Janu ary continuous night Origin of a Time-Honored Phrase. The doornail in earlier times was the plate of the door upon which the old fashioned knocker struck to arouse the Inmates of the house. As the plate or nail was struck many more times than any other it was assumed to be more dead than other nails. Hence the phrase "Dead as a doornail." If the old Ideas are to be revived, as now seems possible, the phrase may soon have a present application. Large Coffee Plantation. The largest coffee plantation in Bra zil, and perhaps In the world, is th Dumont plantation, established by c Frenchman In the state of Mlnas Ger aes. The number of coffee plants Ii 1896 was 4,718,000. Where "Switches" Come From. Most of the black hair used In wigs and "switches" comes from the Italian and Spanish convents; most of the blonde hair from the heads of Swedish, Danish, Russian and German peasant girls. Paper Telegraph Poles. Telegraph poles are now made of compressed paper. Those of that ma terial are said to be more durable than those of wood. When a man is continually talking about his troubles, his neighbors nevei trouble very much about his talk. Ad Overworked Spain. From the Record, Pierceton, Ind. Determined to rise in his ohoeen profession as an educator, Ernest Kem per, of Pierceton, Ind., overtaxed him self mentally and physically. He was ambitions, his mind was always on his work. From early morn until late at night he continually poured over his books. "Burned the candle at both ends." Few persons, even with the strongest constitutions, can keep np under such a strain. In addition to his studies, Mr. Kem per was teaching school some three miles from bis home. Finally, his excessive study and the exposure of going to and from school in all kinds of weather undermined his health. He was taken to his bed with pneu monia and his overworked brain al most collapsed. For several weeks he was seriously ill. Catairh had taken root in his system and bis mind was in a delicate condi tion. He was sent to Colorado where he spent three months without receiv ing any benefit Then a noted special- Oversludy, 1st from Cleveland treated him without avail, and then a hospital in Chicago was tried, but all absolutely without benefit Finally his physician recom mended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and from the first box he began to improve. When he had taken nine boxes he was completely cured. This famous blood and nerve medicine had accomplished what all his former expensive treatment failed to accom plish.. Mr. Kemper says his catarrh has entirely left him: he is strong again and weighs nine pounds more than he ever did. He gives the pills the entire credit. He is starting teach ing again and feels abundantly able to continue the work. To prove that the above is true in every respect, Mr. Kemper made an affidavit as follows: Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 10th day of September, 1897. R. P. WATT, Notary Public We doubt if these pills have an equal in all the range of medicine, for build ing up a run down and debilitated sys tem. Five Iollarg Postage for Letter. W. F. Bailey contributes an artiole to the October Century on "The Pony Express," from St. Joseph, Mo., to San Francisco. Mr. Bailey eaysiJThe letters, before being placed in the pock ets, were wrapped in oiled silk to pre serve them from moisture. The maxi mum weight of any one mail was 30 ?ounds; but this was rarely reached, 'he charges were originally $5 for each letter of one-half ounce or less; but afterward this was reduced to $2.50 for ach letter not exceeding one-half ouncer this being in addition to the regular United States postage. Spe cially made light-weight paper was gen erally used to reduce the expense. Special editions of the Eastern news papers were printed on tissue paper to enable them to reach subscribers on the Pacific coast. This, however, was more as an advertisement, there being little demand for them at their neces sarily large price. A Thorough Sport. The Deacon "Young man, don't yon know that there's a rainy day coming?" Spendthrift "Mebby there is, but I've got $5 that says the weather man won't call the turn. Come, now, if you've got any nerve show your money." If you want the best wiud mill, pumps, tanks, plows, wagons, bells ot all sizes, boilers, engines, or general machinery, see or write JOHN POOLE, foot of Morrison street, Portland, Oregon". Lotteries in Old Havana. In Havana the stranger's attention is arrested by the venders of lottery tickets, who stand on the street corners with a pair of shears in one hand and sheets of lottery tickets in the other, ready to cut off any number for buyers. They are very adroit, and are apt to persuade the credulous that they will draw a fortune in the soheme. These licensed, lotteries are one of the great evils there, especially to the Spanish people, who seem to be born gamblers, and for whom the chances of dice, cards, and lottery tickets appear to have an irrestible charm, all classes in Havana dealing In them habitually. No household Is complete without a bottle of the famous Jesse Moore Whiskey. It Is a pure and wholesome stimulant recommended by all physicians. Don't neglect this necessity. A new filament for incandescent lamps has bean discovered in osmium, the densest and most refactory of all metals, being infusible except at the highest attainable temperature. A queer exhibition was recently held in Berlin, Germany, that oi the Vege tarian Society, in which 60 children were shown who had never touched other nutriment than vegetation. The application of the motor to the bicycle has bsen tried, but as yet with no great success. It seems to be evi dent that a vehicle that cannot stand alone is not adapted to self-propuls:op, Seymour Keyes, a postmaster at Manheim, N. Y., has an apple tree which was brought from Holland in the 17th century. It still bears fruit. Under the laws of China the man who loses his temper in a discussion is sent to jail for five days to cool down. In Persia a bonfire plays an import ant part in the marriage ceremony, the ceromony being read over in front of it. 1 Why use moneyback tea? m Land-Crabs of Cuba. These creatures are larger than a sea-crab, and live entirely on the land. They run with great speed, even out stripping a horse. At seasons of the year they migrate in large bodies from one side of the island to the other, in columns sometimes half a mile wide, and so dense as almost to stop a car riage on the road they may be crossing. These columns overcome every obstacle in their direct line of march, even high mountains. It is supposed that these migrations are prompted by the in stinct of propagation, as the crabs seek the sea shore, deposit their eggs, and cast off the old shell. These crabs are so common about the city of Matanzas that the inhabitants often receive the sobriquet of "cangrejo. " They are frequently found in the houses, and in some cases even under the'beds. There is a species of conch which makes similar marches through the country in immense bodies. These are called pirates, from a very curious habit , they display. This creature, which re- sembles a snail, has the ability of de ; tuching itself from the shell, which, I for some reason, it temporarily leaves at times; and while its house is thus vacant, another, passiing, will back its body, tail foremost, into the empty shell, and keep possession. The Pony Express. At first the schedule was fixed at 10 days, an average of eight miles an hour from start to finish. This was cut down to eight days, requiring an aver age speed of 10 miles. The quickest trip made was in carrying President Lincoln's inaugural address, which was done in seven days and 17 hours, an average speed of 10.7 miles per hour, the fastest time of any one rider being 130 miles, from Smith's Creek to Fort Churchill, by "Pony Bob," in eight hours and 10 minutes, or 14.7 miles per hour. Considering the distance and difficulties encountered, such as hostile Indians, road-agents, floods, and snowstorms, and accidents to horses I and riders, the schedule was main tained to an astonishing degree. The service created the greatest enthusiasm I not only among the employes, but 'also in the ranks of stage employes, freighters, and reisdents along the route. To aid a "pony" in difficulty was a privilege, and woe be to the man who would so much as throw a stone in ' the way. Uncle Sam's Watch Doctor. At the United States naval observa tory is an expert official at the head of a department probably the most per fect of its kind in the world whose duty is to keep in band for the use of the navy thoroughly tested chronome ters, a work whioh requires much care and attention six mouths in the year. For this purpose, says The New York Sun, a temperature room is connected with the chronometer and time service department, in which the testings are made, under the influence of a hydro metric condition of the atmosphere. Comparisons are made daily between II and 11:40 o'clock, morning, with the mean time standard clock, and the errors and rates are worked up once a week, from these mean rates calcula tions being made and comparisons to the nearest quarter of a second. The temperature is closely observed each day and recorded for the previous 24 hours by a ohrnomethic thermometer, and by self-reg'stering maximum and minimum thermometers. The room is heated by circulation, of hot water, the fuel being.gas, and is cooled by an ice refrigerator when a -temperature is required below that of the outside at mosphere. For the six corner months the temperature room is kept within a range of two degrees. REDUCTION IN BICYCLE PKICES. It is said that western capitalists are con templating the organization of a great bicvele company, which hope to make first-class wheels and sell them as low as 110. Whether this be true or not, the fact remains that Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters is a first-class remedy for the stomach, liver and blood, And the price puts it within everybody's reach to be well and strong. For fever and ague It is a specific. Latest for the Toilet Table. The newest arrangements for Mi lady's toilet table is that tiresome arti cle, a hair receiver, or rather a new variation on it. It is of chased silver, gilt lined, and there's a hole in the cover into which lost locks ate thiust. FITS Permanently Cured. lio Co or nervousnes ri I v after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Uri-at Nerve Restorer. Send tor Fl)K $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. DR. R. H. rrT.rfjR. tja. 030 Arch street, Philadelphia, pa. . 4 A curious faot has been noted by arctic travelers. Snow, when at a very low temperature, absorbs moisture and dries garments. I never used so quick a cure as Piso's Cure for Consumption. J. B. Palmer, Box 1171, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 25, 1895. In Sweden there are floating can neries. They are small vessels, which follow fishing fleets, and men on them can the fish while they are fresh. Foreign authorities assert that tuber culosis is prevalent in all countries, ir respective of climate and other condi tions. In Europe Professor Leyden states that it is responsible for at least 1,000,000 deaths annually. Coronium, a chemical element hith erto found only by spectroscopic exam ination in the sun's corona, has been found by Professor Naslni,In the gases given off by Mount Vesuvius. It is supposed to be much lighter than hy drogen. The time necessary for the conver sion of a forest tree, or a part of it, into a printed paper in a recent test made in Germany, was two hours and 85 minutes. The use of oxygen gas, either pure or diluted with pare air, is regarded by Dr. George Stoker, of England, as the speediest method of healing wounds. In Sweeden there are floating canner ies. They are small vessels which fol low fishing fleets, and men on them can the fish while they are fresh. A Schilling & Company San Francia$ established 1780. ! Baker's e -& I Chocolate. celebrated for more than a century as a delicious, nutritious, "3 and flesh-forming beverage, has our g. well-known f a Yellow Label ? . , on the front of every package, and our & trade-mark,"LaBelle Chocolatiere,"on the 3" NONE OTHER GENUINE. MADE ONLY BY g WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd.; Dorchester, Mass. ATLAS ESQ IKES AtD BOILERS. ...Willamet Front and Everett Sts. A Beautiful 1 In order to further introduce ELASTIC STARCH (Flat Iron Brand), the manufacturers. L C. Hubinger Bros. Co., of Keokuk, Iowa, have decided to GIVE AWAY a beautiful present with each package of starch sold. These presents are in the form of Beautiful They are 13x19 inches In size, Lilacs and Pansies. Pansles and Marguerites. r KQU'RtS NO ratrouKe or ths AS FAR AS A FPUMD Ot ANT OTKCK .JIACTOtO "J.C.KUoiNSER These rare pictures, four in number, by the renowned pastel artist, R. 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