ming Humors
Coma to most people and causa many
troubles, pimples, boU and other
eruptions, besides loss of appetite,
that tired feeling, fits of -biliousness,
indigestion and headache. '
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Charles Stockier and a friend were
driving along a country road on the
Canadian snore of Lake Ontario when
this sign, nailed to a gatepost, attract
ed their attention:
LAM. i i:
SHEAP.
"Now, what does that fellow mean?'
mused Mr. Steckler. "Is his name
Lamb, and has he got sheep for sale,
or is his name Sheap, and has be got
lamb for sale?"
Hailing a native, Mr. Steckler re
peated the question. The native
grinned and drawled:
'"TIs a leetle bit complex, come to
look at It, ain't it? Farmer Towle there
ain't much on spelling, but he's pow
erful strong at trading. What he's try
ing to let people know by that sign Is
that he has lamb for sale and that he'll
eell it cheap."
This la Miraculous.
Manhattan, Kansas. March 14.
One of the strangest cases that has
ever been heard of in Kiley county is
that of the three year old daughter of
Mr. Jonas Brubaker of this place.
Sometime ago the little girl took
whooping cough, which was followed
by pneumonia When the pneumonia
left her, she was taken down with ma
laria fever with at times symptoms of
Spinal Meningitis.
The family doctor brought her safely
through these troubles, but after the
fever Bright 's Disease set in, and the
doctors gave her up. Her father tells
the rest of the story:
"We began to give her Dodd's Kid
ney Fills and after, she had taken about
three and a half boxes, she was entire
ly cured. Now she iB well as any child,
rum ing and playing as if nothing had
ever leen the matter. The -doctors
said she was beyond the reach of medi
cine. Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly
saved our little girl's life, when she
was so far into the chronic stage of
Bright s Disease that we thought noth
ing could save her."
About the Sise of It.
Ideals die too fast, 'tis said;
But why should people mourn 2
For every one that shuffles off
At least two more are born.
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IN BALTIMORE.
For hundreds of years Chinese coast
ing junks, beating along the Yellow
Sea in the coastwise trade, had run
Into the land locked harbor of Lu
Shun Kow, down at the extreme south
ern end of the Liaotung peninsula. All
along the shore great gray cliffs ran
up straight from the sea to a height
which varied from 300 to 1,500 feet.
If you came close enough In you could
matte out a slit in the mountains
which gave entrance to a body of wa
ter within. This -slit was not more
than 200 or 300 yards wide. Once
you got through the passageway there
was a wide stretch on every side. At
high tide the water was deep enough
for the anchorage of a big ship, but
r . .'- v
HARBOR AT PORT ARTHUR AND PART OF CITY.
irhen the tide went out hundreds of
teres of mud flats were exposed to
iew.
In the valleys between the cliffs
were built some fifty or sixty miser
able mud huts, and in them lived 300
or 400 Chinese coolies. That was the
situation up to 1860 in what is now
Port Arthur.
In that year three or four ships of
the British navy came that way on a
surveying expedition. One of these
ships was the gunboat Algerine, com
manded by Lieut. William Arthur.
Lieut. Arthur daringly ran his vessel
in between the cliffs which guard the
harbor, which was thereupon named
Port Arthur in honor of his exploit.
But beyond the name, Port Arthur
gained no new fame for another 20
years. In 1881 it was .still merely a
convenient harbor into which coasting
junks could run for safety when great
storms swept the seas outside. On Jthe
cliffs and in the valleys thereabouts
there still lived only a few hundred
wretched Chinese coolies.
Then the great Celestial empire be
gan to wake up. - Foreign engineers
were sent along the coast to pick out
a safe harbor which might be fortified
and made the chief station for the new
and modern navy of China. They set
tled on Port Arthur, and it was plan
ned to transform the place into an im
mensely strong and completely fitted
naval station. Plans were drawn for
great dockyards, workshops, dry docks,
refitting basins and foundries, while
above them on the commanding cliffs
strong fortresses were to be erected.
The contracts for all this work were
let to French contractors, so that it
was France which first among the na
tions had to do with this Gibraltar of
the far East. French contractors, with
the aid of swarms of Chinese coolies,
working like slaves for 15 cents or 20
cents a day, worked for years on the
works in and about Port Arthur. Not
until 1S91 was the place turned over
to China, ready for occupancy as a
great naval station.
By that time Port Arthur its name
sake already forgotten had become a
fairly well built town, containing more
than 1,000 houses .and shops, outside
of the government works. It then had
a commercial population of 6,000, to
say nothing of the Chinese garrison of
7,000 or more soldiers. The forts were
mounted with modern guns, and Chi
nese gunners were trained by German
and other foreign experts In the use
of the artillery.
In 1894, during the month of Novem
ber, the victorious Japanese army
marched doWn one of the two narrow
passes which lead through the sur
rounding mountains to the city of Port
Arthur, captured the city, and put to
the sword many of the inhabitants,
non-combatants as well as the mem
bers of the garrison. It was a bloody
day, though the Japanese officers
stopped the slaughter as quickly as
was possible.
For a time then Port Arthur was
apparently in the permanent possession
of the Japanese, until the pressure of
the allied powers forced her to give
it back to the Chinese in January,
1896. Before they marched out the
Japanese destroyed a large part of- the
Chinese fortifications.
In 1898 Port Arthur was "leased" to
Russia, which immediately began to
fortify it, with the intention of mak
ing it the strongest port in the East
ern seas. Its importance to Russia is
great. Vladivostok, the other great
Russian port on the Japan Sea is ice
bound a large part of the year. The
possession of Port Arthur gives the
navy of the Czar a port which is never
frozen. Moreover, it is a port which
commands the approach to Pekin, the
Chinese capital. Never since the Rus
sian occupancy has there - been any
cessation of activity in and about Port
Arthur.
One important result of the Russian
occupancy of Port Arthur has been a
tremendous increase in. the Imports
from the United States. During sev
eral weeks in 1902 American goods to
the value of more than $2,000,000 week
ly were landed at Port Arthur and the
yearly commerce of the United States
with that and the adjacent ports has
been estimated at nearly $100,000,000.
But the Russian plan has been from
the first to make Port Arthur a purely
military and naval center. With that
plan in view the Russians several years
ago began the construction of the won
derful city of. Dalny, 30 miles north
and 10 miles east of Port Arthur,
which they hope to make the commer
cial capital of the far East. The plan
contemplates that all commercial ships
shall be barred out of Port Arthur and
sent to Dalny and that the former
fortress shall be barred to civilians,
where, indeed, they are now allowed
only on sufferance, property being held
on merely temporary leases.
Dalny or rather the site of the
present city Was located on an open
roadstead, -where the navies of all na
tions might ride. In order to make
there a safe harbor,' an immense break
water, costing millions, was built and
is now completed, projecting into the
sea for a great distance and inclosing
a splendid anchorage. At Dalny, also,
great administration buildings were
erected and even that rare thing in
the far East a first-oiass and com
fortable hotel.
Eventually, as planned, Dalny is to
be the final terminus of the great Si
berian railroad by means of which
Russia has tied together her widely
scattered empire.
Disappointed.
Gritty George Dat young lady must
have been reading the comic papers.
Dusty Dennis Why so?
Gritty George She expected a tramD
to be funny.
Any wise little fish begins business
on a small scale.
. He So your husband has given up
smoking? It requires a, pretty strong
will, to accomplish that! She Well,
I'd have yon understand that I have
a strong will! New-Yorker. :
"How ' long ' shall I boil the eggs,
ma'am?" asked the cook. , "I don't ex
actly know," replied the young house
wife, "but cook them until they are
real tender."--Chicago Post
"Maud said something clever about
that rich Chicago uncle of hers."
"What was it?" "She said he was
born with a silver pie-knife in his
mouth." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
How it felt: Maggie I say,' Chim-
mie, when yer look inter dat restau
rant winder don't it make yer mouf
water? Jimmle Water? Hully gee!
it makes me mouf feel like a ship-
buildin' trust Ex.
Nodd Awfully sorry to hear your
house burned down. Did you save
anything? Todd Oh, yes. After some
very lively work we succeeded in get
ting out all the things we didn't want
Town and Country.
Easy error: " La Montt Made a ter
rible blunder to-day. Saw a man In a
rubber suit and cap, and asked him if
he was a sewer-cleaner. La Moyne
Who was "he? La Montt Millionaire
chauffeur. Chicago News.
"Well, Snowball," said the patron to
the dusky waiter, "how did you ever
come by a name like that " "Well,
sah, I was born in Chicago. Reckon
yer never, seed a Chicago snowball,
Bah!" Yonkers Statesman.
"I hear you're dissatisfied with your
doctor's bill." "Yes, I don't think he's
entitled to two hundred and fifty dol
lars for that operation." "Why not?"
"Because if he was he'd claim more."
Philadelphia Puuiic Ledger.
A way she has:. Morton Is Mrs.
Styles much of a. talker? Norton
Much of a talker I should say so!
It is impossible for her to play solii
talre intelligently she has so much to
say to herself, you know." Boston
Transcript -
A question: She Charles, dear.
how many teeth does a baby have?
He I don't know." But I think that
after the way I've walked the floor for
the last six months, ours ought to have
at least a hundred and fifty by this
time. Detroit Free Press.
Howes Don't like this cold weath
er, eh? Why, only last summer you
were complaining of the heat Barnes
Not of the heat itself, but rather be
cause of its untimelinesa. It would be
all right if reserved for such weather
as this. -Boston Transcript
Mr. Trucker I think I shall give up
my business, my dear. I might as well
have some good out of my money. Mrs.
Trucker Oh, not -yet Samuel. But
when one of us dies, I shall give up
housekeeping and see a little of the
world.; Town and Country.
Wife There was a mam around to
day selling big brass burglar alarm
bells to put on the front of the house,
so I ordered one. Husband What!
You know we haven't anything worth
stealing. Wife I know, but it will
make the neighbors think we have.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Editor In Chief "(to office boy) Ben- i
nie, where's the theater tickets I sent
you after? Bennie I forgot 'em. City
Editor Bennie, Where's that paste I
sent you for? Bennie I forgot it
Sporting .Editor tfenme, what was
Jack Glasscock's battin' average in
1888? Bennie (promptly) Three nun
dred and eighty-six. Cleveland Lead
er. .
Turpin1 Come with me to the zoo.
Jenks No, thank you. I'll stay at
home. My oldest daughter does the
kangaroo walk, my second daughter
talks like a parrot my son laughs like
a hyena, my wife watches me like a
hawk, my cook is as cross as a bear.
and my mother-in-law says I'm an old
gorilla. When I go anywhere I want
a change. Tit-Bits.
Icy. -"Didn't you git no money from
dat woman yer held up?" asked the
first footpad. "Naw," replied the ot
er, shivering slightly; ."she wuz from
Boston." "Well, Boston people has
money." "Mebbe dey has, but when
I sez to her, 'Money or yer life, lady,'
she sez, 'How dare ye speak ter me
widout de formality of a interductlon?
sez she, an' leaves me froze stiff."
Philadelphia Press.
"I thought" said the Irate strap
hanger, "you claimed when trying to
get the franchise that you proposed to
build the road for the benefit of the
public?" "My dear sir." replied the di
rector of the soulless corporation, who
occasionally condescended to patronize
his own cars, "the road was built for
the benefit of the public, but It is run
for the benefit of the officials." Chica
go Daily News. .
"There was once a minister in Hart
ford," says Mark Twain, "who had a
lot of boys in his Sunday school who
were in the habit of staying away on
the Sunday when the big steamer City
of Hartford docked In the morning.
"One Sunday the minister, came
down to Sunday school and found all
the boys there. He was profoundly
affected.
"'Boys,' he said, "you cannot imag
ine how much this exhibition of loyal
ty on your part to the Sunday school
affects me. When I came by the docks
this morning and saw the City of Hart
ford there '
"Gee whiz 7 shouted the boys in
chorus, Is she in?" and they left in a
body." Philadelphia Post
: j ' ; Remarkable Bridgets, !?' -
Perhaps the most remarkable bridges
in the world are the kettle bridges in
Russia and Siberia, of which Cossack
soldiers are expert builders. They are
built up on the soldiers lances and
cooking kettles. Seven or eight lances
are placed under the handles of a num
ber of kettles and fastened by means
of ropes to form a raft Each of these
rafts will bear the weight of half a
ton... .. ,...,v . .
Teoslnt and Billion Dollar Orass.
The two greatest fodder plants on earth, one
good for M tons hay and the other 80 tons green
rodder per acre. Grows everywhere, so does
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swine food per acre
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receive In return their big catalog and lota of
iarm seed samples. F. C. L.
The Enterprising .Drummer '
Shopkeeper (whose patience Is com
pletely exhausted) Snippers, call the
porter to kick this fellow out
Importunate commercial traveler
(undaunted) Now, while we're wait
ing for the porter I'll show you all en
tirely new line best thing you ever
laid eyes on. Glasgow Evening Times.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh, That
. .. . v Contain Mercury, 1
As mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys
tem when entering it through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never be used ex
cept on prescriptions from reputable physi
cians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to
the good you can possibly derive from them.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury,
and is taken internally, acting directly upon
"the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure yon get
the genuine. It is taken internally, and made
in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testi
monials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 76c per bottle.
Hall's Family Pills are the bert.
The mind is refreshed and invigorated
by distractions and amusements;, but
abuse of them leads to dissipation, and
dissipation to vice.
The Kind. You Have Always
ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his
personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no one
to deceive you In this. Counterfeits, Imitations and
' Just-as-good" are but Experiments, and endanger the ,
health of Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare-1
goric, Drops and Soothing' Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
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and allays Feverlshness. It cures- Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
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Another " It"
If grown-up folks, like children,
Were forgetful and forgiving,
This earth '.would be a paradise
And life would be worth living.
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T&HEUMATIS
AN INDESCRIBABLE TORTURE
Because Rheumatism sometimes comes ou suddenly it doesn't
prove that it is a chance disease or one due to accidental causes. It
takes time for it to develop, and is at work in the system long- before
any symptoms are felt. The blood is the first point of attack, and
the poisonous acids that cause the aches and pains are then distrib
uted through the circulation to different parts of the system, and
settle in joints, muscles and 'nerves ; and when the system is in this
condition it needs only some exciting cause like exposure to night air,
damp, chilly weather, or the cold, bleak winds of winter, to arouse
the slumbering; poisons and bring on Rheumatism. The severity
of the attack depends upon the amount of acid in the blood and the
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joints and muscles. Some peo
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first, while others have occa
sional spells or are uncomforta--ble,
restless, nervous and half
sick all the time from, the
nagging aches and pains. Rheu
matism is a disagreeable com
panion even in its mildest form.
It grows worse as we grow older,
and frequently stiffens the joints,
draws the muscles but of shape
and breaks down the nervous
system. A disease that origin
ates in the blood, as Rheumatism
does, cannot be cured with ex
ternal remedies like liniments and plasters ; such things scatter the
pains or drive them to some other part of the body, but do not touch
the disease or improve the condition of the blood. The thin acid
blood must be restored to its normal
up the general health at the same time.
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Unexpected Happens.
Fred How about that wedding check
your father-in-law gave you; was it good?
Joe--Sure. You know, it's usually the
unexpected that happens.
fTQ Permanently enrea. ironts or nervousness
MlU after first day's use of Dr.Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. Send for Freest trial botUeand treatise.
Dr. B, H. Kline, lAd.-OX- .arch St.. Philadelphia, Pa
Why It Failed to Appear.
Scribbles I sent a poem to a daily
paper last week, but for some reason it
has failed to appear.
Criticus Did you inclose a stamp?
Scribbles No.
Criticus Well, that accounts for it.
Had you done so it would no doubt have
appeared in your mail the next morning.
wsawaaaM
Bouirlit lias borne the signa
Signature of
Over 30 Years.
MURRAY STRICT. NEW YORK CITY.
A Small Income.
"Dolly Decollete, I hear, puts every
penny her husband makes on her back."
"Then he can't be making much."-
Brooklyn Life.
RHEUMATISM TSSt ELBOWS, WKISTS
AND KNEES.
TJrbana, Ohio, Aug. 85, 1903.
Iiast winter I had a severe attack of
Rheumatism. It started In the right
elbow, and from there to my wrists; tha
ritrht wrist was the worse. It became
swoUen and extremely painful. My left
knee joint was the next place to be at
tacked. It became swollen and of course
painful. The next point to be affected
was tha hip and ankle, which pave mm
much trouble. I was barely able to get
about for some time. I was under treat
ment of a physician for awhUe, but trot
ting no better I began 8. S. 8., and after
taking- it for some time I was entirely
relieved of the Bheumatism. All swelling;
and soreness disappeared. I consider
B. 8. S. an excellent remedy for Bheuma
tism and all troubles haying their origin
intnebiooa.
GRIFFITH KELLY.
408 Bloomfleld Ave.
Sarsaparilla
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purity and strength, so that all poi
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which not only neutralizes the acids
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