Scrofula;
Makes its presence known
vy many signs, gianauiar
tumors, bunches in the neck;
cutaneous eruptions, in
flamed eyelids, sore ears,
catarrh and wasting diseases.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Effects permanent cures.
An Author Pensioned.
Two British authors are at present
In the public eyes on account of pen
sions they are receiving. Joseph Con
rad has $1,500 from the British So
ciety of Authors, which generosity Is
explained by the " fact that the au
thor, whose writings are among those
In greatest demand by the publishers
to-day, yet seems to have difficulty in
providing for his daily wants, says
the New York Globe. The immediate
reason for the pension, moreover, was
the accidental burning of a manu
script, which catastrophe 60 depressed
Mr. Conrad that his friends thought
It wise to relieve him from the ne
cessity of anything so humdrum and
sordid as looking out for his bread and
butter. '
The case of Conrad can hardly fall
to recall that of Carlyle, who, when
Mill brought the disastrous news of
the destruction of a complete book of
the "Revolution,"'spent the evening In
attempting to cheer the culprit and
then set about the rewriting.
Of Wide Interest.
Breed, Wis., July 18 Special
Charles Y. Peterson, Justice of the
Peace for Oconto Co., has delivered a
judgment that is of interest to the
whole United States. Put briefly, that
judgment is, "Dodd's Kidney Pills aie
the best Kidney medicine on the
market today."
And Mr. Peterson gives his reason
for this judgment. He says: "Last
winter I had an aching pain in my
back which troubled me very much.
In the morning I could hardly straight
en my back. I did not know what it
was but an advertisement led me to try
Dodd's Kidney Pills. After taking one
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other deadly forms of Kidney Disease.
Thinks Soap Injurious.
An English writer asserts that the
English people have greatly deterior
ated physically because of the too fre
quent use of soap. The English he
ays, are too clean. The Creator gave
us a natural oil to protect the skin and
make It supple, and we pass our time
removing this oil with soap. In con
sequence, we are more vulnerable to
colds, to rheumatism, and to all sorts
of disease. Soap opens the pores of
the skin, and disease enters with east.
Her Private Opinion.
"No, ma'am," said the hobo who was
figuring on a handout, "I ain't no
reg'lar tramp. I wuz a sailor free
years ergo, but me ship got wreckt an'
I wuz washed ashore."
"And it's a safe bet,' retorted the
unsympathetic female, "that you ain't
been washed since."
The case of Miss Frankie
Orser, of Boston,' Mass., is in
teresting to all women.
"Dear Mrs. Pinkham: I suffered
misery forseveral years. My back ached
and I had bearing-down pains, and fre-
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misery that it would be hours before
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the long nights and weary days. I
could do no work. I consulted differ
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but, finding that their medicines did
not cure me, I tried Lydia E. Pink
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that it was the medicine for my case.
Very soon I was ridf every ache and
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MOST THRIFTY OF NATIONS.
United - States Government Expenses
Smallest Per Capita.
The expenditures , of the United
States government are much less in
proportion to population than those of
many other of the leading nations of
the world. This fact Is shown by a
statement just published by the De
partment of Commerce and Labor,
through Its bureau of statistics, show
lng the population, revenues, expendi
tures and Indebtedness of the princi
pal countries of the world. It shows
that" while the expenditure of . the
United States, with 80.000,000 people.
is f640.000.000, that of the - United
Kingdom, with its 42,000,000 people.
Is $898,000,000; that of France, with
89,000.000 people, is f695.000.000; that
of Germany, with 68,000,000 people,
$553,000,000; while in practically every
country, aside from China and India,
with their enormous population, the
per capita of government expenditures
is greater than In .the United States.
- Even In the case of Russia, with its
population of 141,000,000, the per cap
ita of government expenditures - is
about the same as that of the United
States. While It is true that a larger
proportion of public expenditures is
borne by state and local governments
In the United States than in many of
the more centralized governments of
Europe, these figures of the relative
national expenditures of the various
governments are at least interesting at
the. present time. '
The table puts the population of the
United States at 80,372,000, the gov
ernment expenditure in 1903 at $640,
232,000 and the per capita expenditure
$7.97. The per capita government ex
penditure of Canada is given at $9.30,
the German Empire $9.45, Italy S 10.97,
Austria-Hungary $14.27, Belgium
$17.40, France $17.94, the United
Kingdom $21.39 and Australia $37.(
Russia's annual expenditure is put,
for the latest available year, at $1,116,
095,000, as against $644,883,000 in the
United States; but the fact that Rus
sia's population is given as 141,000,000
brings the per capita expenditure to
about the figure shown by the United
States.
THE PRIDE OF THE 200.
A dainty little girl In pale blue
frock, her golden hair prettily tossed
by the wind, seated on the broad back
of a rhinoceros Is the most interesting
picture to greet the eyes of the visitor
who is spending an afternoon at the
Berlin zoo. Little Veilchen, or Violet
the diminutive lady who has succeeded
In taming one of the most intractable
of beasts, Is the, daughter of Keeper
Schwartzen, of the animal house at
the zoo, and although she can count
but seven summers, her fame has gone
far abroad.
For every one else in the world, not
excluding his keeper, the huge thick
skinned animal ' Is one of the ugliest
and croBscBt members of the zoo fam
lly. But the moment little Veilchen
appears on the scene the great -monster
becomes as mild and docile as a lamb
and tries by the most absurd amblings
and twisting of his ungainly body td
exprcBS the pleasure that her dainty
presence affords him. But the hap
piest hour of the big beast's day comes
when his fragile little mistress is lift
ed to his huge back for their after
noon amble through the park. He is
quite a picture - of contentment, and
not even the ugly tusk that adorns his
upper lip is able entirely to destroy his
air of satisfaction.
A SPREADING FASHION.
If hats and veils get much bigger,
what about the man in the middle?
Punch.
Opinion Baaed on Experience.
Father Daughter, Algernon Von
Spook wants to marry you.
Daughter What, that man? Why,
papa, I wouldn't have him. He hasn't
any sense.
Father Of course not, of course not.
You don't suppose he would be want
ing to get married if he had, do you?
Detroit Free Press.
Genuine Luck.
"Did you ever play poker?"
"Once, and I was very lucky."
"Won a good deal of money, eh?"
"No. I lost, and it cured me of
ever playing any more." Philadelphia
Press.
During the courtship It Is a case of
suspense with the girl and a case of
expense with the youth.
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Russia's Awakening.
In Russia it is the government only
that sleeps. The people are uwake
and astir, says the author of "Greater
Russia,"- They are making new de
mands and feeling a new freedom
which is apparent every day in the
absence of the former rigid repres
sion, and in the frequent indulgence in
license that is miscalled 'liberty.'
One wilt sometimes see on the pal
ace quay at St Petersburg a line of
people waiting for the steamer to take
them ' to the islands. - Along comes
some high official who, instead of
awaiting his turn, drives to the head
of the line and crowds in ahead of
the others. Formerly such an occur
rence would have been received in
silence as a matter of course, but now
the people hiss and denounce the offi
cial, and police do not interfere.
If a street car is delayed for a con
nection at some transfer Station, the
passengers often become riotous and
demand meir fare back, or begin to
pound on the floor and even break
windows until the police make the
driver go ahead without waiting for
the other .car; and he is not allowed
to stop again until he reaches his
destination.
If an officer remonstrates with a
street car conductor for lack of cour
tesy to a passenger the crowd will at
once interfere, and even the offended
passenger turns on him. The officer
is told to give his orders to soldiers
who have to obey, not to free men
who do not, and not to interfere be
tween men who are as good as he is.
These are trifling things in them
selves, -says the traveler, but to one
who has long known Russia they are
startling signs of a new spirit - of
freedom.
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phants. Two horses, weighing 1,600
pounds each, together pulled 3,700
pounds, or 550 pounds more than their
combined weight. One elephant, weigh
ing 12,000 pounds, pulled 8,750 pounds,
or 3,250 pounds less than his weight
Fifty men, aggregating about 7,500
pounds in weight, pulled 8,750 pounds,
or just as much as the single elephant.
But, like the horses, they pulled more
than their own weight. One hundred
men pulled 12,000 pounds. ;
- :, - Failed to Hear Her. -
"It is said," remarked the moral-
lzer, "that fortune knocks once at ev
ery man's door?" "-.'"-.'"
"i guess the old girl forgot to remove
her gloves when she knocked at mine,"
rejoined the demoralizer.
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Reporter Senator Bilklns has abso
lutely nothing to say. Editor Well,
boll It down. We are terribly crowded
to-night Puck.
Brown Is Smith the boss over at
his house? Jones Mrs. Smith says he
Isn't, but I take notice he picks out all
the new wall paper. Cincinnati Trib
une. . , . -
Mr. Tim Idlty--Ia your chauffeur a
safe man to ride with? Mr. Knots
Slowe Why, certainly! No policeman
has succeeded in catching him yet
Town Topics. .
Mrs. Chugwater-Joslah, where Is
there such a thing as a laundry trust?
Mr. Chugwater Where? - What do
you suppose" the Flatlron Building in
New York Is for? .
"Arthur, dear, don't you think Jt's
rather extravagant of you to eat butter
with that delicious jam?" "No, love;
economical. Same piece of bread does
for both." Tit-Bits.
Magistrate (sternly) Didn't I tell
you the last time you were here I never
wanted you to come before me again?
Prisoner Yes, sir, but I couldn't make
the policeman believe it New Yorker.
"Are you ; at all familiar with
Plato?" asked Mrs. Oldcastle. "No,
that's one thing Josiah always blames
me for. He says I never make real
close friends with anybody." Phila
delphia Ledger.
After a more severe reproof than
usual, little Bessie, who Is extraordin
arily sensitive, thought diligently for a
minute, and then said: "Mamma, isn't
there any way a child can get a di
vorce fronr its parents?"
"Some scientists," began Mr. Gay,
significantly, ".consider kissing danger
ous. Do you?" "Well," replied Miss
Smart, "I think it would be for yon.
My big bx&ther is within caU." Ex
change. Pair Passenger I've paid my fare
once. Why do you ask for it again?
Conductor I beg pardon, lady, but
you look so much prettier every time
I pass through that I thought- you
were another passenger. Chicago
News. ,
Farmer Hoptoad I dunno as them
city folks is so lazy, after all. Farmer
Trefrog How's that, Hiram? Farmer
Hoptoad One of the clerks at that
hotel where I put up wuz up ahead of
me every mornin', try to beat him as
I would! Philadelphia Press.
"When young fellers begins a-court-
ln,I" said Farmer Halcede, "they Jest
gits crazy, an' thet thar boy Jim o
mine ain't no exception." "What's Jim
bin a-doin'?" asked Farmer Soanreep.
Hanged if he didn't go Inter town
yesterd'y an' spend a hull sixpence fur
a teethbrush!" " .
"Yes," said the boarding-school
teacher, "I think that Is a model letter
for you to write your fiance. But of
course you will copy it leaving out
those numerous spaces?" "Oh, dear,
no!" replied the girl.; "Those are for
'dearest' I have it on a rubber
stamp." Detroit Free Press. - - -
Mr. Phoxy I was going to ask you
to try this little trick. , Multiply the
years of your age by three, subtract
twenty-one from the total and what's
the answer? Miss Kute You should
be able to guess the answer at once.
Mr: Phoxy What is it? Miss Kute
None of your business.-rrPhiiadelphia
Press.
Tne honest man (to theater-door ten
der) I see that you have signs in the
lobby saying that tickets bought of
speculators will not be accepted. Now,
I want to Inform you that : I bought
my ticket of a speculator. Door Ten
der (with a sickly smile) Say; you re
formers give me a pain In the solar
plexus! G'wan In! Exchange.
Edgar had been asked to write . a
composition about the camel. This is
what he evolved': ."The camel has four
stomachs, and can go four weeks with
out feeding them, remembering the
week by counting the stomach he hap
pens to be using at the time; and so,
coming in out of the field once a
month, as regular as a ciock, for his
breakfast, .which Is mostly -water."
They had been talking as they
walked. She had remarked parei
thetically: "Oh, it must be terrible to
a man to be rejected by, a woman."
"Indeed it must," was his response.
Then after a while, with sympathetic
dislngenuousness, she exclaimed: "I
don't think that I could ever have the
heart to do it" And there came a
silence between them as he thought It
over. Tit-Bits.
In a small village in Yorkshire an
old laborer once went Into a neigh
bor's cottage. In the cerner of the
little kitchen stood a grandfather
clock, on the dial of which was the
customary figure of an old man holding
a scythe, and above was the time-worn
inscription, "Tempus fugit" Looking!
wisely , up at the clock, the old man
said to the .owner: "Aye, tempus
fugit! Same man as made ours, I see!"
Tit-Bits.
General "Phil" Sheridan was at one
time asked at what little Incident did
he laugh the most "Well," he said,
I do not know, but I always laus;b
when I think of the Irishman and the
mule. I was riding down the line one
day, when I saw an Irishman mounted
on a mule which was kicking its legs
rather freely. The mule finally got its
hoof caught in the stirrup, when, in
the excitement the Irishman remark
ed: " 'Well, begorrah. if ye're goln' to
get on, Ol'll get off r New York
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Baiting 0 leers; uvS
; Nothing is a source of so much trouble as an old sore or ulcer, par
ticularly when located u pon the lower extremities where the circulation
is Weak and sluggish. A gangrenous eating ulcer upon the leg is a
frightful sight, and. as the poison burrows deeper and deeper into the
tissues beneath and the sore continues to spread, one can almost see the
flesh melting away and feel the strength going out with the sick
ening discharges-. Great running sores and deep offensive ulcers often
develop from a simple boil, swollen gland, bruise or pimple, and aro
a threatening danger always, because while all such sores are. not can
cerous, a great many are, and this should make you suspicious of all
chronic, slow-healing ulcers and sores, particularly if cancer runs in
your family. Face sores are common and cause the greatest annoy
ance because they areso . WheeHna, w. V., May as, 1903.
persistent and unsightly ; Bomeyeusaro wha tt work,lfUoTer atriiek
and detract SO much -from and orely injujre both ef my ahina. Hy blood
wrsnn9i ontv-iranre became poisoned as a result, and the dootor told
one S personal appearance. me x would nave runninsr sores for life, and that
Middle aged and old peo- if they eloaed up the result would be fatal. TJn
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. , f. - some 12 years have elapsed since what I have de
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"A traveling man stopped at a hotel
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"The traveling man protested. He
must have a room. Finally the proprie
tor told him there was a room, a little
room separated. by a thin partition
from a nervous man who bad lived in
the house for ten years.
" 'He is so nervous, said the land
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room. The least noise might give him
a nervous spell that would endanger
his life.'
" 'Oh, give me a room,' said the trav
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I'm there.'
"Well, the room was given the trav
eler. He slipped in noiselessly and
began to disrobe. He took off os
article of clothing after another M
quietly as a burglar. At last he cam
to his shoes. He unlaced a shoe and
then, manlike, dropped it
"The shoe fell to the floor with A
great noise. The offending traveler,
horrified at what he bad done, waited
to hear from the nervous man. . Not
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and placed it noiselessly upon "the "floor.
Then in absolute silence he finished un
dressing and crawled between the
sheets.
"Half an hour went by. He had
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"'Blame you! Drop that other
shoe!' " Indianapolis News.
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It was a well-dressed young man,
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The Downtrodden.
"Remember," said the man with the
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One day as Pat halted at the top oi
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for the village, my good man?" . :
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"Ah! How many loads do you take
la a day?"
"Prom tin to fifteen, sor."
"Ah, yes! Now, I have a problem
for you. How much water, at this rate,
have you hauled in all, sir?"
The driver ef Abe watering cart Jerk
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-don't see there now, sor."
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A Knock-Down Argument.
Skeptic You have given me many
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didn't know. -
Medium (with dignity) I would have
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On the Other Hand.
"Of course," remarked the very
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"Perhaps it does," replied the man
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Social Service gives some late sta
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the Empire, of which number 40,131
are under the jurisdiction of the Min
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the jurisdiction of the Holy Synod, andf
the remainder under other depart
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3,291,694 boys and 1,203,902 girls. The
teachers number 172,000. The main
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