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POBTO BICO'S EUINS. terrible" devastation of the great hurricane. ' 'Wcturee of tlie Havoo Wrought in Onr Peaceful Isle, Many Pathetic In ' cldenta and Deeds of Heroism Fol ! lowed the .Passage of the Storm. f The recent West Indian hurricane, with Its attendant loss of life and dam age to property, was one of the worst calamities of the century. In Porto Rico alone the death list reached' near ly 1,500, while the number of Injured iwas three times larger. As to the (damage and destruction of property, fthat. Is Inestimable. Whole villages were swept away; growing crops were washed out by flood or leveled by the wind, shipping was dealt a costly blow, and the sea, for days and days after the terrific storm, tossed upon the ( , t, ' A BADLY WRECKED VILLAGE. shores of the Island a heterogeneous mass of wreckage that told of disaster to vessels, the crews of which perished. Scores .of ghastly, bloaeed corpses came floating ashore to add their ghastliness and horror to the awful scenes already depicted ' there. - Now and then, after the storm, a disabled and long-overdue steamer made Its al most helpless way Into the harbor, and from the men aboard these were got ten the stories of the storm's awful fury at sea. The entire Island of Porto Rico was storm swept, but the worst destruction, was wrought along the southern coast In the vicinity of Ponce and twenty miles Inland. Sickening scenes abounded upon every side; half- dazed, sunken eyed, weeping: men, Wnmon anil ohilriifn went walling to and fro; rows of dead, awaited Identifl cation; strings of dead carts, with their gruesome burdens, rattled away to the cemeteries, white everywhere ". there RUINS OV A KATIVK ABODE. was an oppressive, heart-rending, fu nereal atmosphere that seemed to hang like a pall of despair over the stricken Isle. v; '.. ". , ' . : Full particulars of the terrible storm show, the great destruction and ac centuate, the horrible condition of the peasant; or peon. Houses and roofs to Shelter were as serious questions . as food was before the government Issued frnA rnHnnn nnd ituu1i other nrovlsiona to feed the destitute. The ruins in most cases consisted of a floor only, jwlth a few articles left thereon. At Ponce and along the southern shore the hurricane spent its greatest fury. The front of the storm reached there about daylight and the wind and rain continued to Increase til about noon, jwhen they gradually subsided. This advance guard had broken the palm VX WAKE OT HUBBXCAXB. ' trees, snapped off and stripped of their fruit the banana and, plantain trees the chief food of the peons and had torn and beaten down the coffee trees and the sugar cane. Many houses had been unroofed; but few, If any, lives were lost, though many were injured by the flying debris. . .' 1 At dusk the worst seemed to be over, for the wind and rain had ceased. But between 8 and 7 o'clock In the evening the storm recommenced, accompanied by torrential rain and gales. The lit tle Portuguese River, usually a mere creek, already swollen from the morn ing rain, became a raging torrent- It jumped out of Its banks at a curve Just above Ponce, and swept down through (the streets. Small houses, with whole families, were borne down In Its re sistless current and either lodged In some fence corner or carried out to sea. In one yard In the city were found the bodies of daughter, father, mother and .grandmother. " At one place In the street where the drift was checked, twenty-four bodies 'were picked up, most of tnem peons. Some of them, however, gave evidence of refinement and one was thought to be an American, but so quickly does decomposition set In in that hot cli mate that it was impossible to recog nize him. Dr. Sldley, an American physician, had a narrow escape from death. He had recently purchased and fitted up a handsome home, prepara tory to receiving the bride he expected soon to bring from Chicago. He re mained in his house as long as was pos sible. Tying his money to his arm, and m uib uuuerciowes oniy, ne struggled through water up to his neck and at times over his head. Fortunately some one grasped him by the hair as he swept past a house and he was saved.' J The flood was at Its height near mid night and the scenes along the river ,were heartrending. House aftej house -floated past toward the ocean, carry ing its three, four, and even more, wretched passengers, who uttered pit eous cries for help. The night was lighted by Incessant flashes of light ning, though with little thunder. Many persons held lamps At their windows and balconies to aid the struggling and their rescuers. ; . - It was a "wonderful - but : horrible sight. A city of 30,000 people was en tirely under water, a foaming torrent pouring through the streets; lightning flashing; men, women and especially Children struggling with the current; r - and then drowning; the raln.ccaseless ly coming down In sheets. . Many Heroic Incident. There were many Instances of hero Ism displayed. The Eleventh Infantry. U. S. A., led by their adjutant, saved at least 100 lives, by rescuing people from the water. The adjutant person ally saved fifteen from drowning. With a life line tied to his waist, he dashed bravely. Into the torrent again and again, depending upon his men to draw his body out. The firemen of Ponce also worked bravely, and one noble fellow lost his life. '- s .- - " : I i A flat valley, usually ten or twelve feet above-the water level, extends along Del Rio "Portngues. stretching from half a mile to amlle on either side. On this plain the plantations are situated. Around the planter's bouse, and often near the rlyqr, bank, cluster the huts of the peons, or laborers, from twenty to fifty on each plantation. Kmlla Quinones, a prosperous planter living near the river a Tew mlle3 above the city, and his whole household of thirty souls, were carried away and not one saved. : Native estimates place the dead at 3,000 for the Ponce district alone; but the real number will never be known. All were burled In haste. ' Who they were, what they were will never be found out r Love grows toy what It doesn't feed on. . . . .:-::, . .-: -.; ..-. . Love "never condescends to "reason; that is why it 1b so reasonable, , -No thin girl will ever admit that there. Is a "family skeleton anywhere around her house, v j : -. . The average woman would rather have a man think less of her and think of her oftener. You can always distract a woman's attention bw showing her a new dolly pattern or a baby. . ... ,. . When a man has a piece of bad luck there is always some woman around to say it Is a judgment Some of the worst gifts that Santa Glaus ever put In a stocking are what women wear In them. .' . ' The first time a girl kisses a man she tries to pose just like the actress she once saw kiss in some play. ,The average woman gets about half her pleasure In life out of "misunder standings" with people she likes." After a girl has been engaged three or four times she feels lonesome every night a man doesn't propose to her., . . The Lord probably made man: first because be was afraid Eve would in sist, on advising Him-, about making Adam. ;,'",;: ' i-- ' i-" : i A well dressed: woman looks as if her clothes were-made for her, but a well dressed man looks as If he was made for bis clothes. " ' ' ..... A woman's's idea of society Is to talk and act before people who aren't .her own family like she thought the world was nothing but a nice dish of atraw-- berries" and cream. '.. '. He Sized Up His Customer. A rather loudly dressed "gentleman" stepped into the necktie department of a big shop the other afternoon, and In a supercilious tone that would have nettled a graven image Into anger ot tered the single mandatory word: . , "Neckties!",: ? , ,;;'.; . ;: Then he threw back his head as If the assistant was entirely beneath his no tice. This top-lofty air aggravated the assistant but he quietly displayed a number of late patterns with a deferen tial air. ' v-: - " .' "These," he said obseqiously, "are the -very newest things and are excel lent quality at a shilling.".:. : - "A shilling!" haughtily snapped the customer; "a shilling! Do I look like a man who would wear a shilling neck tie.. Is there anything about .me to in dicate that I " . "I beg your pardon,; sir,"; meekly in terposed the assistant; "the sixpenny counter is at the other end of the shop." London Tld-Bits. V : Pianos and Literary Reform. - A funny story about Miss Marie Cor elli comes from Stratlord-on-Avon, where that mystic novelist has been living opposite a young ladies' school. It appears that in this school are many pianos, dally practice upon -which by the pupils has been excessively dam aging to Miss Corelli's nerves. Driven to desperation, she wrote to the prin cipal of the school, asking that when piano-forte practice was going forward the windows might be "kept closed, as the noise interfered with the progress of literary composition. To which the schoolmistress replied that If the noise would prevent the composition of an other book like the "Sorrows of Satan" she would order half ; a dozen more pianos. New York Tribune. Thought It Was a Cornet. A parish beadle .- In Scotland . was lately much exercised at theappearance of a strange old gentleman who, when the sermon was about to begin, took a huge ear trumpet, In two parts, out of his bag and began screwing them to gether. The beadle watched him until the process was completed, and then, going stealthily up, he whispered: "Ye manna play that here! : If ye dae, I'll turn ye oot!" Answers.- ; : :: ' :. Molluska In an African Lake. Lake Tanganyika, in Africa, offers a unique field for scientific exploration. This region, like Australia, is one of the few localities where animals still live that have become extinct elsewhere, certain whelk-Uke mollusks of this lake appearing to have been driven, from the ocean and to be identified with fos sil forms of old Jurassic seas in Eu rope.. . ' It's much easier to run up a bill than It Is to foot it . I Some men haven't ambition enough to get out of their own way. FBUITS AND DISEASE. STRAWBERRIES ARE SAID TO CAUSE RHEUMATISM. Acid of Cherries Believed to Be an Cn , failing- Cure for the Same Malady Unreasonable Fear of Appendicitis in These Times. ' ''''--' - People suffering from that most dis tressing of diseases, rheumatism, should be ' careful In their diet at all times. There is a general Impression that all fruits are healthful and may be indulg ed In freely by invalids, but this is not the case. A South Water street fruit merchant remarked the .other day: "There Is an impression very prevalent In the minds of many persons " that there Is rheumatism in strawberries. It may .be only imagination and due to the season,-but- there Is no doubt that per sons who are -subject to rheumatic- at tacks suffer from them very frequently during what Is known as the straw-, berry season, whether they eat straw . berries or not I am satisfied In my own case that the acids in strawberries work up a nice attack of rheumatism for me every year, but I cannot resist them, and do not know as I want to. ''But there is one satisfaction, and that 'Is that while strawberries may have something to do with rheumatism, cher ries, which follow them, are an abso lute cure for rheumatism. Z have never known a person to suffer from rheuma . tism who ate freely of cherries, and I know of hundreds who have been re lieved of attacks by "eating them. I have, of ten had cherries ordered two or three . months before the season for them opened hereabouts, and to supply the orders have had to send to Cuba and to California for them.:" The ordin ary cherry contains an acid which re lieves if it does not effectually cure. Of course, It may an be in the season, and that rheumatism would disappear any how, but It Is safe to say there Is no rheumatism during the cherry season. I jdon't' know of anything more health ful.' though even the best tasting, thor oughly ripe and perfect cherries start up. very fine cases of colic and cholera morbus, which are very annoying. The colored people of the South think, and it; may be that the same belief exists elsewhere,-and among others as well, that all the cramp or colic is taken out .of the cherry by. eating it, swallowing stone ' and . all. ' That, unquestionably was the practice once, but In recent years - fears of appendicitis' may have changed it somewhat, though for the life of me I cannot understand why it Is so dangerous now to swallow apple seed, grape seed or cherrystones, when In old-fashioned times It was the. rule to do so, rather than, the exception." Chicago Chronicle. -s . . OLE OLESON AT THE RACES. He Relates to a Friend His Eexperi ' . enco iu;Turf Speculation. : '''Hello, Ole,' var yu baen: to-day?" said John Johnson, ' a sunny-natured son of Sweden, as he met his friend Oleson alighting from a race train. :' "Aye baen tu da races," replied Ole. "Aye hav fren an ha ask ma tu go tu da races an win sum mo nay. YaL Aye go to has office an he say ve vill go an get " Halgren. Halgren ha kno ebery horsevta da contry. Val, va go an get Halgren and va go to da train. -. On do train Aye bar a man say ; da ; horse Talked aen, an another ha say da horse ha no com von two tra. an Aye tank ha baen queer races yar da horse .valked aeh, an ha no com von two tra. . ;"VeL ven .vay gat to da trak, vay go aen, an Yonson, ha baen fine plac, Dar baen vimmen, an yeldren, an Aye tank Aye var at da piknik.; Den va go up In da Widen. . Halgren ha say ha var gran stan. Den purty quik Halgren ha say, Dar baen ; da horses,' an ha tak has glasses, an ha look at ham, an ha say ha pik a vlnner sure.. An den ha say, Dar baen da vlnner; nomber sax, ha vin sure. VaL den va go an bet da mon ey on nomber sax. Purty quik Aye tank abberybody ha var krassy. Da vas yellin, Da vas off,' an da all yufinp on da shairs, an da yelL - Aye look to say vot var da matter, an Aye say da horses, com m In an Aye yell, too.. Aye look for nomber sax to vin, an Halgren say ha no com von two tra, an va loose da money. - -''-:'v - "Den da horses da com out again,' an Halgren ha say ha pik a vlnner sure nex time, dat da yockey ha no giv nom ber sax a good ride. ., He tak his glasses an ha look again,' an ha say nombei von ha could vin sure. VaL va bet da money oh nomber von.' Den da vas yell 'da vas off,' again an Aye look for nomber von an Aye no say ham. Aye ask Halgren var nomber von baen, an ha say ha baen left at da post an va loose da money. -.l.U j .yii : : .' :. "Halgren, ha say da nex race ha baen steeple chas, and dat ha. kno all da yumpers an ha pik a vlnner sure, an Aye tal ham dat Aye go to sleep an ven da horess com out to. yake ma up an Aye vould bet da money on da first horse Aye saw. Val, putty quik Hal gren ha say, "Ole, vake up, an Aye vake up, an da first horse bean nomber for. Aye go an bet on nomber for.. Den da horses da go out in da fiel an den da vas off, an den nomber for ha yust run an.yump da fenses an da ditches, an ha yar yust beaten dem all, an Aye say to'Halgren, Aye pik a vlnner sure,' an Aye would vin ma money. Nomber for, ha youst var vinoiin In a volk, ven on da las f ense ha fall an break has nek, an Aye loose da money. - Aye go da.rM mor. .Aye baen busted sure." Chicago Inter Ocean. ; . . . . ;.. Custer's Joke on Osborn. The : late Charles Osborn, the New York broker, and Gen. Custer were in timate' friends, - and Osborn annually visited the general at his camp on the plains. During one of the Indian cam paigns he Invited Osborn and a party of friends out to Kansas, and, after giving them a buffalo hunt arranged a novel, experience In the way of an Indian scare. As Osborn was lying in his tent one night firing was heard at the outposts and the rapid riding of the pickets. "Boots and saddles" was the order In the disturbed atmosphere of the night, and Custer appeared to Os born loaded' with rifle, two revolvers, a sabre and a scalping knife. . "Charlie," he said, in his quick, ner vous way, "you must defend yourself. Sitting Bull and Flea-in-Your-Boots, with Wiggle-Tail-Jim and Scalp-Lock Skowhegan are on us in force.'-1 didn't want to alarm you before, but the safe ty of my command is my first duty.. Things look serious. . If we don't meet again, God bless you." . , : The broker fell on his knees. "My God, Custer," he cried, "only get me out of this! I'll carry 1,000,000 shares of Western Union for you Into the firm to . get me home. Only save me." - t : t But Custer was gone,: and the camp by shrewd arrangement burst, into a blaze, and shots, oaths and war-whoops were intermixed, until suddenly a painted object loomed on Osborn "s sight and something was flung Into his face a human scalp. . He dropped to Lth ground, said the Lord's prayer backward, forward and sideways, until the noise died away, and there was ex posed a lighted supper table, with this explanation on a transparency: "Osborn's treat!" Chicago Record. Walls Plastered with Coins. Miss " Daisy Dentz, - of j Dentzville, N. J., a suburb of Trenton, has prob ably the largest collection of coins In New Jersey. Some of them are many hundred years old, and they represent the currencies of nearly every country m the world. Some idea of the size of the - collection may be gathered from the fact that the celling . of. Miss Dentz's boudoir is completely covered with United States money, while the four walls are hidden behind the coins of Asiatic, European, African and South American countries. There is considerable, history attached to this collection, especially to the English coins, which-were found near Prince ton In a queer shaped hat by one of Miss Dentz's relatives while in search of minerals. The hat is similar In shape to those worn by the Hessian soldiers during" the revolution and Is still In Miss Detnz's possession. There . are many valuable coins in her collection, and were she to convert them all Into present American currency they wouhi' yield quite a snug sum. Philadelphia Record. ,, .. Lord Kelvin in a lecture stated that as a result of recent investigation It was estimated that the earth had been. the abode of life about thirty million years.. -.. -. . From recent statistics it appears that the annual death rate in the United States is eighteen per one thousand; in Great Britain It is 19.4; Ireland, 18.2; France, 22.5; Germany, 24.4; Aus tria, 29.4; Hungary, 32.4. In Norway and . Sweden it is less than .eighteen. Out of one thousand deaths , in .the United States during the year, 100.93 will be In January. ' ." Acclimatization of Europeans in the tropics is regarded by Dr. Koerfer as simply a matter of diet Nature has made food to conform to climatic con ditions, : from; the fish-oil polar zone, through the pork-fat temperate zone, to the oHve-oil and . vegetable tropic zone; and to preserve health in hot cli mates one must leave pork fat, meats and alcohol toehlnd with bis furs and heating stoves. In a tropical - experi ence of several years Dr. Koerfer. has met with no case of sunstroke. "; It has often been suggested that the brilliance of the sun's disk Is due to incandescent particles of carbon,: and within a few years past the presence of carbon In the sun has been demon strated : by the spectroscope. . Lately Professor Hale, the director of the Yerks .Observatory, has. shown that there is a thin layer of carbon in the lower part of the sun's atmosphere. It . surrounds the solar globe like a lumin ous shell, and, under normal - condi tions, Is probably not more than 500 miles above the sun's ' surface, i- But when an eruption takes place, , from . beneath, the. carbon layer, like all the Other constituents of the solar atmos phere, is broken up and' locally dis persed by the tremendous agitation. ... Near the head of the Copper River in Alaska, in a very rough and broken country, above which rises the cone of the ' extinct volcano, ; Mount Wrangell, there exists, "according to the report of Captain Abercromble of x the United States Army, a nest of gigantic geysers which .may. even exceed those of the Yellowstone, -Valley in power and. mag nitude. The" captain was nnable to ap-' proach near to the geysers, but be saw ' many in eruption from a distance, and he- thinks that, the steam from these geysers has given rise to erroneous re ports .that. the crater of Mount Wran gell is still active. . . The surrounding country is so savage, with Its chasms, glaciers and lava-beds, that Captain Abercromble thinks it - would . be al most Impossible for explorers to reach the mountain. .' .' '. Recent observations with the" seismo graph at Mauritius have led to the sug gestion that not only the' ocean and the atmosphere, but even the land, may . experience the effects of a daily tide running round and round the earth at. It revolves on its axis.; But While th tides In the air and the sea are du more to the moon than to the suiij the supposed "land tide" arises solely from the sun's, action.. Moreover, . It . it caused, not by , the attraction of the sun, but by its heat A wave of de pression is supposed to follow the sun from east to west caused by the ex traction of moisture from the soiL At Mauritius it Is found that there Is a relative ' upheaval of the land to the west of the place of observation from morning until evening, and a relative depression on the same side, or an up heaval to the east during the night , Detail In Hardware Business, '. "In no other business in the world," said a Chicago hardware merchant, "Is there such a multicipllty of detail as there is In this. It Is not a thousand and one objects you have to keep track of, but ten thousand and one. The great American Inventor Is forever at work in this line, and there is not a day that we do not add some new Items to our stock, and. relegate some others to the realms of the obsolete. It has become a business of 'specialists' to as great an extent as the profession of "medicine has, and, although I : have been Jn 11 twenty years, I don't know it all yet ; "It takes a man's memory, too, as no other business ever does.,, The other day a man came in here looking for a certain style of hanger for a folding door. No other kind could be used on his doors, and if he couldn't get them he would have to have new doors made at considerable expense. The hanger was of an obsolete pattern, and, while I didn't have it, I told, him I would try and get it . ; r.r. :-,;j,;;, . . ..: "I went to my friend L- 's store n nd asked the clerks there if "thev had any of them. No, not one. Then I went ! to L - himself. I told him that fif teen years ago I had - bought ' some there, and .asked him if he would help me. He said those must have been the last he sold, as they had been out of date fifteen years, but, after thinking a few moments, he took me upstairs, and there, upon a high shelf, we found two hangers such as I wanted, j; s - ' j I just happened to think,' says Mr. jj , that I stuck those away there fifteen ; years - ago.' "Chicago ; Inter Ocean. : .uu ,: .L :y: Basis of Belief. "Nicholas, are you an optimist or a pessimist?" : """"' :' . "Well, when Tve had a good dinner I'm an optimist; when I haven't I'm a pessimist." Detroit Free Press. t ' v ' ' Cleanslna; JDisbes. ; i When tin plates and dishes are very dirty. It Is a good plan- to boll them In strong soda and water before scouflna and polishing them. , , , . . ,'.'.., "... 1 Creeping Numbness is a Mr. O. H. SDTdsr. a wall known citizen of Lawrence. Kan., said : I am now seventy years of agv. About three years ago I experienced a coldness or numbness la tbe feet, then creeping up my leg, until It reached my body. 1 grew rery thin In flesh, appetite poor and I did not relish my food. Atlat I became un able to move about... I consulted -several - distinguished physici&ns, one telling me I had locomotor ataxia, another that I had creeping paralysis. 1 took their medicines but continued to grow worse. Almost a year ago a friend advised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo- &le. Before I had finished my first ox I found they were benefiting me. I used twelve boxes in all, and was perfectly cared. Although it Is six months since I used my last pill there has been do recurrence of tli j disease. "Pnm JUawrenca Journal. ' Dr. Williams' Pink Pills lor Pale People srs neter sold by the down or hundred., but always In packages. At all druggists, ar direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine .Co.. Schenectady, N. t-, 60 cents per tax, o sexes ic-ou. The first Irish woman to be elected a municipal councilor is Mrs. Maurice Dockrell, who was third in the polls in: the Blackiock distiict of county Dublin, at tlie last elections, with nine vacancies to be filled. r Mothers will find Mrs. Wluslow's Sooth ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their Children during the teething period. , Coisets made of aluminium are now used by medical mon for the treatment of. spinal disorders. . . . . .. . rTS Permanently Cured.' Ko fits or nervousness III after first' day's ese of Dr. Kline's tireut Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE S.OO trial bottle and treatise. DH.SL.li. gi.raK, ud 930 Arch street. Philadelphia, Pa. - " Tlie average interval . between nigh tides is 13 hours and 25 minutes. " Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consump tion cured me of a bad lung trouble. Mrs. J. Nichols, Princeton, Ind., Mar. 26, 1895. ! America has 4,000,000.. working wo men. ' There is more Catarrh In this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last Jew years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pro. nounced it a local disease, end prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it Incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu tional disease, and therefore requires constitu. tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, man ufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on tbe market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Bend for circulars and testimonials. Ad dress, F. . CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Bold by Druggists, 75c. ' ,,, , , - Ball'B Family Pills are the best. 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She This is the anniversary of ' our wedding. : I suppose1 -we ought to ob serve tiie day in some t-ay. - ; He Suppose we jend out for some sackcloth and -ashes. N. Y. Journal. " '- 'X.r-est Alphabet. The Tartaran- alphabet contains 202 letters being the -longest in the world. Some of : those are really symbols to represent phrases and emotions. -; . ' working' miner in a coal' pit in September, 1890, a master of arts of London University in June, 1896. That is the remarkable "record of Thomas Reese,. H. A., who has just been appointed to a professorship at Brecon college, one of the leading theological institutions . in the principality.;"-; '::'"-;'' ': - ' '' ' '- ; The finest looking. people, of. 'Europe aro said to be tlie Tzigates. or gypsies.' of Hungary.' Physically they, are splendid specimens of men and women and are rarely ilir--So pure- is 'their blood that their wounds quickly, heal without . the application of medicaments."- - '... ... - ',,-, ir We toNATHAN PENSION I l" BICKFURU. WasWnoton. 0. C. thev will . 1 1 ' cetve quick replies. B. 6th H. Vols. Staff 20th' Corps. Prosecuting claims since 1678. Bast Couah Syrup. Tutus Good. TJse I 1 i lnttma Boln by droKglsn.- H ' La ft la the March of Progress. There are few quieter, more se cluded villages in England than the Meons, east and west, lying among tbe Hampshire Downes. Old Winchester Hill presiding over the scene seems to tell of some old British city there abouts, the forerunner of . the more famous city of the plains. : And the Romans weie busy about the hill with camps and summer settlements lang syne. But nothing much has hap pened there since. Sturdy Cobbett passed that way in his "Rural Ride " and - marveled at the huge church of East : Meoo-; in its mighty solitude. Built to hold thousands, and now, in Cobbett's time. -a few shepheids and graziers, sparsely scatteretd. form the whole population of the parish. And still the process of depoaulation goes on, aa census tables tell. , But tlie Meons are to have, a railway at last, and we read that the Meou valley railway from Alton to Fareham, a dis tance of., about 26 miles, will run through- country hitherto-quite un touched by any railway, and will afford a rapid and direct means of communi cation between Aldershot and the southern ports and defenses of Ports mouth... -Southampton anei . Qosport.-! Household Words. " ! ''.' !t a '" " ' " SHAKE INTO YOUR BROKS Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, nerv ous feet, and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for Ingrowing Nails, sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. We have over 30.000 testimonials. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. .Bv mail for 25a in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. .It is estimated that 40,000 Ameri cans went to Europe this summer. HOW TO TRAVEL. Information for the Public. ' -71 selecting your : route to the East you cannot ' afford to overlook the ad vantages and comforts offered by the Rio Grande Western Railway in con ection with the Denver & Rio Orande and Colorado Midland railroads. It is the only transcontinental line passing directly through ; Salt Lake City, and in addition to the glimpse it affords of the Temple city,' the Great Salt Lake, the salt palace, and the picturesque Utah valley, it offers choice of six dis tinct routes to the East and the most magnificent ' scenery in tbe world. A double daily train service and through Pullman palace and ordinary sleeping cars,' free reclining chair cars and a perfect dining car eervioe are now in operation via these' tines. . . - For pamphlets descriptive of ; the VGreat Salt Lake Ronte," apply to J. D. Mansfield, general agent, 253 Wash ington street, Portland, Or. .l "-v- Are You Going East? ' If so, you should see that your ticket -reads via the Great Rock Island route, and: yon will get the best. Pullman palace sleeping cars, elegant reclining chair cars "free, " and library buffet cars on all through trains. Best dining car service in the world. - Popu lar personally - Conducted excursions once a week to all points East. For full particulars call 'on or address any ticket agent, or A. E. COOPER." G. A. P. D., C. R. I-. & P. Ry., 246 .-" Washington street, Portland, Or. The maximum' number of visitors to the Royal Gardens at Kew, England, on any one day last year was 71.871, on May SO. 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Dewey Celebration. .Americans are quick to appreciate merit. The Dewey celebrations prove that, and it is again forcibly demonstrated in the praise and confidence which is accorded Hostet ter's Stomach Bitters, one of the most mer itorious remedies ever compounded for in digestion, constipation, dyspepsia, bilious ness, liver or kidney disease of any trouble arising from a weak stomach, i Tooling- the Public. ' ''I'm about bushed in the matter of curiosities," mused the owner of a small store. . "It's a bad habit this idea of drawing ., trade by making a museum of ; the window, but I can't stop nowbusiness won't allow it." - A few hours later v the soda water trade was rushing. The crowd outside the window gazed until it was thirsty at the remarkable bird that hung in a big cage. The card attached bore a handful of the alphabet hysterically put together and ' designed for a scien tific name. After it were the words: "From Samoa." A few days later the "curiosity" was feeding in the back yard with the rest of the bantam hens. Detroit Free Press. The famous clock - in the Palais de Justice in Paris, dates from 1370, and is the work of the celebrated De Vick, whose turret clocks are the earlest on reliable record. The carved figures of Piety and Justice and tbe angles sup porting the royal coat of arms were ex ecuted by Gremaine Pi Ion. It js be lieved that it was the bell of this clock that rang the signal for ' the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572. 44 Necessity is the Mother of Invention. ft tvas the necessity for a reliable blood purifier and tonic thai brought into exist ence Hood's SarsapariEa. S is a highly concentrated extract prepared by a com bination, proportion and process peculiar to itself and giving to Hood's Sarsapa riHa unequalled curative power. 'j. . Settliug- a Quisser. . . 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Since taking them my blood has been pit rifled and my ootnplezien has improved wonderfully, and I feel much better in every way." - , - Mas. Salj.ii K. Sarj.ABS, Luttrell. Teao. )- other mineral piU-potson in Casearets. Casearets promptly, effectively and permanently bnt correct any and every form of irregularity of the bowels, tocludine diarrhoea and dysentery. yon ret the Cenuins 1 Beware of imitations and substitutes I Buy abox of CASCARBTB free sample I Address STBSLHf 0 BBHXDY COUP AST, CHICAGO or HBW T0EK- PORTLAND DIRECTORY. Fence and Wire Works. PORTLAND WIRE IRON WORKS; WIRB and irou lencing; office railing, etc. 3M Alder. Machinery anil Supplies. CAW8TON & CO.: ENGINES, BOILERS, MA chinery, supplies. se-iO First St., Portland, Or. JOHN POOLE, "' PoETLAifD, Obegos. can give yon the best bargains in general machinery, engines, boilers, tanks, pumps, plows, Jbelts and windmills. The new steel I X L windmill, sold by him, is un equalled. DR. 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Its perfect' freedom from every objectionable quality and sub stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakening or irritating them, make it the ideal laxative. . -In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants,- by a method known to the California Fig Strup Co; only. In order to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of the Company printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAW FKAJT CISCO, GAI LOUTBVTLIiE, KT. KEW YOBJC. TS. T. For sale by all Druggists. Price 50c per bottle A Fable In Stocks, . Once . upon a time an operator in stocks was sold short, and ruin stared I him in the face unless the market should break. In . his desperation he I remembered having heard that honesty is the best policy. He tried to dis miss the foolish thought, but .in vain. :' Finally, like the drowning man catch ing at the straw, he resolved to try be ing honest.- The very next day he put his design into execution, and he hadn't been honest more than 15 min utes when ' 1 of the leading balls fell dead, they were so surprised at him. Hereupon the market naturally broke, and the operator could get all the stocks he wanted at his own figure. It is claimed that some, if not all, of these bulls had taken radishes and ham for breakfast, but that, it is submitted, does not' destroy the moral of this fable. Detroit Journal. chinins . '-. tea sold only in ' ' FadKiges It is said that some of the sheep farms in Australia are as large as the whole of .England. . The sprinkler fitters of St. Louis won a st'ike for eight hours and $2.50. 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