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f THK MOKNINU ASlOKlAN, NlNH.W, -(YOBKR VK n bp I 1 r 1 I i 1 UUI I i ; it . ' i 490 Commercial OOM PAUL KRUGER'S GREAT TREASURE His Wife 0oe Woman In More Than Ten Thousand. EXAMPLES OF HER VIRTUES She Is Richer Than Queen Sheha, But Her Name Kill be Most famous as Kife and Mother. . The wife of Oom Paul Kruger, presi dent of the Transvaal, Is a treasure. This by th; testimony of a man who should know. Through her he hag saved twenty-five millions of dollars. Oom Paul, who has the .-eputation of using few words, and those only after abun dant consideration, has net Queen Vic toria down as a troublesome old shrew and his own frau as an example to all women. When, with goat-like board, tinged with hairs of gold, and his sunken eyes lit with the light of love, young Kruger carne a-WKilng, he came not a bit In the fashion of the modern youth, who promises his lady love a diamond engagement ring, a good piano and an apartment somewhere below the con fines of Knob Hill. According to a Boerlsh custom, his pleasure had been made known. Mrs. "Oom" Paul, who was then only gentle, blue-eyed Miss Du Plessls, came forth timidly to greet him In a gown so sim ple that she could Burely never have expected to win a suitor through It. A n J these are the words she said, with downcast eyes and cheeks of rosy red: "I can bake. I can stew, I can raw, I can clean, T can scrub," and behold, it was enough. Her suitor was at hr feet. He who was then only fltephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, esteemed for his courage and his piety, took her from that moment to his heart to him she was the most rarely accomplished of all women. Music, art. language, degrees rh had none of them. What cared her hero fir apt fiiiK-rs unleps they could scrub? What cared he for a voice except to call the chickens? Trills and runs an aria from "Robert ha Dlable," forsooth? A picture In th" salon? French to chatter In? Italian a. Men's Clothing W..W You would not think it jkkmoIi', but it is so. We can sell you a black clay worsted suit, lined with the best of material we know of we use no other for $10. These suits are made with round or square corners. Ask for lot 7172. Then we have some fancy worsted suits also with round or square corners, for $0.75. These are made as well as our factory knows how to make clothes, and if you can't get tittol in tluse, no ready-made clotidnjj will fit you. Ask for lot ii!". Here is a .articularly attractive line, the material is thant and tin: workuirn sl.ip - superior in every way. Tlu-v mv cheviot suits f winter weight anl we ask only $"v0. Ak for lot W. The foregoing is not the only line of cheviots we carry. Ask for lot 71 if and see what they are. You will he pleased with them ns they are nice enough for anybody to wear. We have marked the price on these 10.50 just for a surprise. an accomplishment? A smattering of English'' Oom Paul, the ardent suitor; Oom Faul, the man of Iron nerves, would have shrugged his shoulders and gone In serch of that which even In the i Orange PJver State is rare. It has a hard sound there, fraught with V and R's, but It signifies Just the same sweet virtues that we call housewifeliness. Oom Paul's wife has it to a remark able and unusual degree. Some women have It In addition to other Qualities. The Boer women has it to the exclusion ot all lse. She Is 11 Mt a wife, jecoml a. house wife, and third nothing. The glories of her reign as first lady of the Transvaal will some day be chronicled even as the virtues of put'-'-at Oriselda. Husbands will serve tP'-r" ac ix.Tiple u their wives all over the wc .6. Though thl- -oman a fortune of ! iwenty-flve rr :lions was saved. It will be her epltu. h. Ph might have lived j in barbaric splendor greater than Lady ! Curzon s. She might have wrestled for i America s cup in a yacht all her own. She might have driven in an equipage and lived In a palace to match that j troublesome first lady's of England, j The things she might have (lone are 1 obviously, even to the mind of the most I unimaginative, without number. She would have none of them. She looked at the black that shone upon her stove and was happy. Sh c Muted the Irons that stood In a row and rejoiced She thanked Ood that there was plenty of clothesline. She was ;rareul for the nimble fingers that enabled her to sew. What a lesson to other first ladles of j r;-l:.-r republics! I i Some women told Mrs. Kruger that' j their husbands draw yearly some 115,-' , 000 more Scilary than Oom Paul. She answered with enthusiasm: "You must ; have Jl'i.OCO more every year to put: away.'1 Then she asked eagerly: "Do: , you have coffee money?" j i Nowhere Is there a democracy equal l to that carried on In the Transvaal re-; ; public, where the president lives by the , aid of his wife on 2.000 a year coffee money, allowed by the government Ini addition to his salary of $35,000 a year, j This has been "Tant.i," or Auntie ! Kruger's ambition ince the great day, no".v eighteen years ago, when her hus band was made president of the Trans J vnal. And she has achieved It. Multlplv number eighteen by tl'.OOO and you will have an approximate ldea of Oom Paul's for'une. Only approxi- mate, becaujte the Boer president is ai wise man, arid he has not left the mon- ey under a floor of his hous- nor In hlsi wife's stocking under her pillow .r mat tress. It has been gathering Interest. He has put It into banks that are solid. ' He has Invested it In land that has, yearly Increased In value. Then fore, today the president of the Transvaal has a snug little fortune variously es- Young Men's Clothing , VWV;'i We are selling hi ire as intuh young men's clothing this year as we did a year ago. This must mean 1'iat what we sold last year suited a lot of young nu n, and they have been telling their friend" about it. Yes, and it means that our stock this year is just new and nobby eiiongh to catch them anyway. Ask to Sec Some of These Singh-breasted suk snits, brown mixed cheviot, strung or faint plaid as you chooe. Doubled nvasted sick suit, brown In r ring'.Mtue cheviot. Single-hivatrd aek -ii it, fashionable collar, tloiiiiie-i'H -a-led ve-t. (ir.iv and led mixed, making a ! -r k n phiid. Sin-h-brt-a.-ted sack siiii, u ihmble breated t of gray e. c!i plaid rheviot. Singfe-'..".i!-t 'I s.-.ek -i;it, with ibmt.le brejisted vtsl; g.a;. !. vii t with owrplaid of green. Singiedire .t? suit, tine eheek worsted. Some of the-e are pretty gay, some are quiet just like ung men. Street, timated, never at less than twenty; If the wife of Oom Pnul Is not d.irntng millions, and sometimes at more. m'ck(ngs she la sure to lie absorbed In Cn the coffee money which has sup-ja pastime equally Important. Every ported them for years the Krugers have entertained dlplomates and travlers of all nations.' And no one has come out from that hospitable mansion hungry. No one could who has a palate for good cooking. For "Tanta" Kruger Is one of the best. She Is her own chef. And furthermore, she Is her own but ler. Yes, Tanta Kruger. the wife f the msn whose salary Is J35.0OO a year, and who recently presented the Pope with a 41,000,000 diamond. On occasions when she has guesis site wears her very bent Sunday-go-to-meeting black gown. She puts It on Just before she announces, "dinner Is served." At 5 every morning the little Boer household Is astir. It Is a little houwhold now. for out of the six'ienn children that this model Hausfrau has brought Into the world, between wash ing and cleaning and serving, only seven are alive. These seven are mar ried and comfortably settled In and about Pretoria, where their mother and father live. What serves as their white hoiioc Is a little two-story cottage. It has In the parlor a nice neat set of black hor-hair furniture that Mrs. Kruger, who is not ashamed to acknowledge to 69 years, has made do since she first became Oom Paul's wife. It has two marbleHoppKl tables that came with It. The halls and walls of this Utile collage are as clean as anyone could wish them. Once every year when the hottest weather ifi over they are White washed from top to bottom. Three times since their marriage Aun tie Kruger has had her dlnning-roorn chairs recaned. That was when the children were little and somehow would go through them. Since tin y have grown up these chairs have stool In state, except for the ceremony of charging them about, which goes on as regularly as In all v.eli-ord v d households. Over her little kitchen stove at 5' any morning Auntie Kruger may be seen bending Industriously. She has rls.'n half an hour earlier to light the fire. Whei: her Oom arrives the aroma of coffee fills his nostrils. It has been eaid that the first lady In the Trans ('..public prides herself upon her coffee. It Is one of her boasts, and she Is a modest woman. Another is that she accomplishes her end with less cof fee than any household wife in Pre totla. Good or bad, however, her hus band allows himself only one cupful ivith a biscuit. As there are no maids to be fed, and no butlers, It will be seen that i pound of coffee will lant a long time. After Mrs. Kruger has listened to a Bible reading from the lips of her hus band she has the dishes to wa.'ih, the little house to keep clean, the beds to make, the pots to burnish, the stockings and socks to darn. ' stitch In every dress she hus ever worn and every stitch. In the dress of her daughters for many, many years this good ludy has sewed. It Is true however that she did nt have many dresses. What for? This is the question askis-1 by the president's wife her"lf. She lielleves In one black dress for ln'St, one for every day and one for mornings. i5he has two bonnets. One she wears to church and one she wears to market. She loves anfmnls next to Oom Paul. Here is a story her subjects tell to j prove It. . T'tey wert to her when they yre erecting a statue to their beloved chief, t.i nsk her opinion of the sketcheb and to b' g her to add any si gg'-stion. The drawings represented him In his black eouit, old-fashioned top hat and be! black suit. His wife looked at them with delight. She thought them beau tiful. The tears were In her eyes In the excess of her gratitude and pride. Then, modestly, she made a request. She begged that the crown In th.- top hat might be left hollow, so that the birds could always be able to drink from it. And ,to the hollow crown of the hat catches the rain when It falls and the birds flutter around It to drink and to bathe. This Is a pretty story about "Tanta" Kruger, and there are others that tell how her people love her, and how kind she Is to every one and how she wor ships Oom Paul. When he dies the people say she will die too. He Is her lord and master, hr Idol, her strength. This man, In whom strangers see homllness exemplified U an unusual and almost comical degree, Inspire In her only the most supreme veneration. It is because of him that she brews the best coffee In all Pretoria. He loves It. It is his approval that Inspires her to make a tin of condensed milk go fur ther than any one else. She things him the very lxt and wlsertt man that ever lived. OSiu OF THE EVILS OF PROSPER ITY. "And now," said the Inspired orator from Nebiaska, "let me devote a little attention, If you please, to this prosper ity that we hear so much about, f.'nefl of "That's right!" "o on!" They are trying to make us believe that, having prosperity, we ought to be happy and satisfied, f Groans. What a fallacious doctrine that Is, my fellow citlz-iis' Loud cheers They forget thai prosperity may be the worst thing tlial can happen to a man. A voice: "Is It?" Ah, I sfe they have sent their agents here to try to break up this meeting, l ut their efforts will be fruit less. I have been paid In advance for this speech, and I am going to deliver It. Yes, I repeat that prosperity may Boys' Clothing nVniH SomelMidv's small boy H going to U mightily satisfied with himself when his mamma gets him one of those new capo coats that have just come. We don't make any money to speak of on these, but we havo to do something to stop some p"ople from bnying cotton. Now, whether he is threo or fourtivn years of age, he shall have one for f'.'.IT). I.n't believe it? Well come in and see, and ask for lot U!.T. , Just another word about thehoi I you want your little fellow to look real .swell? If so, we have a line cf boys' blue x rge douiile-lirea.sted suits, nges fmin 7 to I, that are positively beautiful. Tin's- ,,'pn, in eluding an extra pair of p in s. we are ing to sell (Ids week for i'.IM. 'i v-n't tell volt how we ean all'ordit lor iiie -tci v iioiild lie too long lor our space. Ak p.n'iie il n ly for lot 17 is:!. If the above price is to h'gh, --i-k for lot I71SJ. These are suits of a gray mix ture. i'lidiiding an extra inir of ;w:iK for ."i.7". They are dressy and are siuv to de light the proud little wearer. I . m't fail to examine them. be a bud thing, and I shall prove It to you. Applause and chivrs.J Hen Is a dispatch In the paper that t hold In my hand and It is an administra tion organ, tooA voice: "What Is, the h:'.tnl?' Hisses and cries of "shame! shame!" which says that a farmer at Frederick City. Md., sold his l.tre crop of wheat at a high price, and In the night drea ned that robbers broke Into his house to get his money. In his fright lie arose, dashed through a window and fell twenty foet, sus taining Injuries that may prove fatal." Tremendous enthusiasm followed, and the orator received un unprecedented ovation as he descended from the plat form. The victory of the Columbia In de fense of the America's Cup having been now achieved there Is a clear field for Mr. Lever, of Lever Brothers, Limited, the millionaire soap manufacturer of London, who .has already announced his intention of trying for It In cow- the Shamrock fulled. ll.m i het glory !.'V. is-")': I i lier cmmiin V ion. iiiulIi of Mm its hi. inly de. prn !. upon hr irmrr.il liraltl'. Nine tine in ti a a noaimi'ii frn"ril health is dependent uusn net local health in a womanly way. It l-i An Ini poiwitiility for a woman to be pretty or at tractive who suffers fiom general ill- 4 "V. .i5'A v ' ... VV.V J OCHIU. IDE the eyes, the hair anil the carriage will tell (he siory when a wmnan i smug. It is impoH'-.iblc for a wmran to be in i:-od (,m erai health when ..:.;c local trouble is con tintuilv naps'if ft lrr ncrvc and disar rantiKtlie lottui'Ki iiinctionsof every organ of tiie body IJi. Pierce' Favorite Pie script iosi ih the Ixnt of all medicines fot women who suff r from local weakness nd di-casc peculiar to their sex. It arts direct!? on the delicate snd important organs concerned. It makes them strong, healthy, vigorous and elastic It allays in. lismiiiiiii'in, lienls ulceration, soothes pain, tones and builds up the nerves and ban ishes the unu.il discomforts of the expec tant months. It makes baby's advent easy and a'lit.cl painless. It enables every organ of the botiy to perform its natural functions without unnatural interf rence from a pain tortured nervous system. It corn ' is ;i! irregularities. A woman who is made well in this way will recover bet natural beautv of form and feature a.id her natural amiability of character and temper. Thousands of women hare testified to its merits. An honest dealer will not urge a Ruhmnutt- for u little extra nrofit. Mrs. jwhcl Clark, of Houlton, Bt. Croix Co.. j It Is a pleasure to grow p'd when the Wis,, writ's: " I nm in good health since I yenni that bring decay lo ourselves rlp fcivc t::K-n Mr l-irrce'f Favorite Prescription i ' f,rcMf)priy i, our country. ijave until u a i ift pound hoy last June, lie j 11 Is six monti,. -Id nuw snd weigh, jo pound.." , , How to preserve health and beauty are 1 b M M v Brd. Hnrrlshurg. Pa., told in Dr. Pierce'. Common Sense Mecli- : ))f f h pn)M wh)rn .h ,av. cal Adviser, t is free. For s pap-r-cov- 1 . of 0n(, Mn. ered copy send at one cent stamps, tow, 7e V"ith Cure. It cures all coughs, mailing onlv ; cloth binding, 31 stamp. u , . 1 A."", j iiri- Addres. Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. V I "' tPnJer." ,roUblP"- ' ' j For cnle by Charles Rogers. Overcoats Our assortment is a surprie, Tort landers would come down t price and pur chase these, LOT 7;'. 10. Men's covert cloth over coats $U."0. Stylish and astonishingly low price. LOT 801(1. Men's blue beaver nvcr coats, ?!'.O0. If yiu ay on can duplicate these for the money anywhere -c, it would be a statement hard to believe. .0 'a Astoria, loreph Stockford, Hodgdon, Mo., hel e! a sore running for seventeen jresro and ciire.l his piles of long standing by using lvwilt's Witch 1Url H.ilve. It cores x! skin diseases. Fur sale by Chsrlc hotter. The righ. honorable r,.t.ema .. ,n. d 'tiiei to his memory lor his j-sts ami to Ms Imagination for his fads. "When our boys were almost dead from whooping cough, our d'X"tor gave Oim Minute Cough Cure. They re covered rapidly." writes P. H. Belles, Arglye, Pa. It cures coughs, colds, irrlppe. and nil throst troubles. Bold by Chas. Rogers, druggist. Biography Is the most universally pleasant, universally profitable of all reading. Eat plenty, Kodol Dyspepsia Cor will dlg-st what you eat. It cum all forms of dyspepsia and stomach trou bles. K. R. (Iambic, Vernon. Tex., suv. "It rvlelved m from the start and cured me. It Is now my ever lasting frh-nd " Sold by Chas. Rogers. tint's In a name? That which we call a row, by any other name would smell as sweet. "It did me morn good than anything I ever used. My dyspepsia was of monti-s' standing: after eating It was terrible. Now I nm well." writes B, B. Keener, Holslngton Kan., of Kndol Dysnepsls. Cure. It digests what you est. Sold by Chas. Rogers, druggHt. The best part of our knowledge Is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves ofl and Ignorance begins. President ' King, Farmer's Bank, urnoklyn. Mich., hns used DeWltt's Llttlo Early Risers In his family for years, flays they are ths best. These famous little pills cure constipation, bllllousncss and all liver and bowel troubles. Fold by Chas. Rogers. No school is more necessary to chil dren than patience, because either the will must be broken In childhood, or the heart In old age. "1 wish to express my thanks to the inmiifnetiirers nf Chamberlain's Colic, cholera find Diarrhoea Remedy, for t ..... a, iha tYinrkof flileh n wnn- i .i L ji..i., " anv w W Mas. ! edv his leg would have had to be am J,; ! 7ZmJ r: Ter.M; Plated. PMn Balm Is unequalled Mr housnmls of mothers whose children sprains bru-.se. , and rheumatism. For hnv" been saved from attack, nf dvs-'nMc by Chaa. Rogers. enterv and cholera Infantum who! must nlo feel thankful. It 1 for sale, Pe not penny-wise; riches have wings te, Cltn. Rogers. . and sometimes they fly away of them Tf dnlna-'what ought to be done Is mnde the first buslnss, and success a secondary const lerntlon, Is not this the way to exalt virtuor I For mn.iy venrs science has studied liquors. Result the whole world uses I whiskey. It has proven the best stlm- nlant and does not Injure nerves and tissues like coca wines nnd other drug ged compounds And Harper Whlskev Is the Ideal whlskev. Sold by Fonrd & Stokes Co. Astoria Oregon. ! i Oregon. We mint no tliii... but Jllllfenco, for gie,,i pc r forum w , "If you scour the world yuu will never llnd a rmncdjr equal to On Mimf rough Cur,"ys Kdl'or Fsck. u-r, or lh Micanopy, Kin,, "Himtler. Jf chitis. ciKUp uud all ihront and lung troubles. Hold by Chas. Rogers Moderation Is the silken string run ning through the pearl chain of all vir tues. Tie "Plow noy Preacher," Rev. J. Klrkninn, Belle lllve, III., says, "Aftnf suffering from Bronchial or lung trou blu for ten years, I was cured by Ono Minute Cough Cur. It Is all that to claimed and more." It cures coughs, colds, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. Sold by Chas. Rogers, drug gist. Manage nil your actions and thoughts in hucIi a mariner as It you were going out of Iho w.irlj. On the 10th of December, 1SH7, Rer, S. A. Donahue, pastor of M, H. Church, South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., contracted a severe cold, which was attended from the beginning by violent coughing. lis sajs: "After resorting to a number of so-called 'specifics,' usually kept In the limine, to no purpose, I purchased t bttle of Chamberlain's; Cough Remedy, which acted like a charm. I most cheerfully recommend It to the public." F.ir sale by Chas. Rogers. Guilt alone, like brnln sick frensy In Its feverish mood, fills the night-air with visionary terms and shapeless forms of fenr. During the winter of 1897 Mr. James Reed, one of the lending rltlr.ens and merchants of Clay, Clay Co.. W. V., struck his leg against a cake of loo In such n manner ns to bruise It se verely. !t became very much swollen und pained him so badly that he could not wa'k without the aid of crutches; He -xas treated by physicians, also used several kinds of liniment and two. and n half gallons of whisky In bath ing It, but nothing gave any relief until he began using Chamberlain's Pnln Balm. This brought nlmost a cnnplct" cure In a week's time snd he believes that had he not used this rem- selves, sometimes tney must oc sot ; flying lo bring In more. I ' HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Curo, F, J. CIIENRY & CO., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F .1. Cheney for the last IB years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially nble to carry out any obligations made by their Arm. WF.ST & TRAtTX. Wholesale Dnigrdsts, To' do, O WAI.DINO. KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is tnken Internal ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Tes-tln-or.lals sent free. Price, 76c per hot tie. told by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. ' J