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•‘HEMEMBER THE MAINE I ” I Signal Under Which American Ships Went luto Action at Manila. Uncle Sam Says: This is T) ENEATH his country’s starry flag. Where thousands stood before. Prepared to tight till life shall flag And darkness gathers o'er. Garbed in his uniform of bluet. Ready to answer “Here!” A man and soldier through and throngb. He stands, the volunteer. America’s Greatest Medicine. It will Sharpen Your Appetite, Purify and Vitalize Your Blood, Overcome That Tired Feeling. Get a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and begin to take it TODAY, and realize the great good it ts sure to do you. Hood’s Sarsaparilla ia America’s Greatest Medicine. All driwalsts. Warehouse Fired by a Meteor. An extraordinary accident is reported from Austria. Some extensive ware houses were destroyed by fire lately at Flume, the result, as was believed, of a stroke of lightning. It is now rejiorted that Hj clearing the debris a great meteoric stone, weighing four tons, •‘SHOOT ON DOWNWARD ROLL." was discovered imbedded in a deep pit among the ruins, and the experts have This Is Uncle Sam’s Standing Order to the Novy of the United States. decided that the premises were set on “Shoot on the downward rolL” That fire by the glowing stone. Is the standing order In the navy of the Careful measurements prove that the United States. The American practice, average curvature of the earth is 6.90 I both in the army and navy, has always inches to the statute mile. ; been to shoot low, and always to save [ ammunition until it was possible to use OUR AMERICAN POLICY. i it effectively. Ln the navy the tradition The policy of this country regarding foreign to short low has crystallized into a complication« seems likely to rematn conserva I standing rule, unwritten indeed, but tive. The Monroe doctrine, according to the declaration of our leading politicians, will be none the less religiously oiiserved, and sustained, but pati« nee and prudence in official its wisdom has been proved on more quarters will restrain the exuberance of public opinion. The wisest and most prudent course than one occasion of great importance. for the rheumatic ami the malarious i* to use The precise form of this unwritten Hostetter’s Scomach Bitters, which also cures 1 naval rule is to “wait for the down kidney complaint and dyspepsia. ward roll.” This is the converse of the It is estimated that 400,000 larks maxim obtaining in the British navy are sold yearly for food at tlie Leadeu- that it is best to take advantage of the hall market, London. ’Tts not the Joy of clashing arms That calls him to the fray, ’Tis not the love of war's alarms That blds him haste away; For him there’s pain and grief and mA A wife—a mother’s tear, But loud his duty calls, and lol He comes, the volunteer. Q, mighty nation, proud and great; Of strength he Is a tower! Behold him, warlike and elate. In this, your darkest hour. For you be lives, for you he'll die. And sell his life blood dear. And glory's gates will open on high To greet the volunteer. enemy, where they would do most dam age. On the other hand, it was ob served that shots fired when the vessel was heeling toward the enemy on the downward roll, though frequently strik ing lower than wus Intended by the marksman, almost invariably took ef fect A Monkey's Accomplishment. No creature but man has ever made use of lire. An African traveler, in deed, has told a story of apes making a thieving raid on a camp of natives and carrying torch«« to light their way. Inrt this story lacks proof and is not ac cepted as true by zoologists. There is, however, in the Philadel phia zoological garden a monkey who has learned to scratch matches per fectly well. This accomplishment he JOHN POOLE IS CONSTANTLY HE- ceiving large invoices o/the celebrated Stough ton wagons. These are superior to any ever put upon this market. Before buying a wagon call and examine, ar write for catalogue. Addreea foot of Morrison street. Portland, Oregon. The time required for Niagara to cut its gorge has been variously estimated at 7,000 to 30,000 years. Piso’s Cure for Consumption has saved me large doctor bills. C. L. Baker, 4228 Regent 8q., Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 8, 110. The elephant does not smell with his trunk. His olfactory nerves are contained In a single nostril, which is in tlie roof of the mouth, near the front. MERITS OF SHOOTING ON “UPWARD” AND “DOWNWARD ROLL.” The barking of a dog on the earth can be distinctly heard by a ballonist i “upward roll,” which has been ob- is willing to exhibit on any occasion. j served almost from the beginning of He has learned to hol«j the match by its at an elevation of four miles. j naval fighting by the gunners on En- middle part, so that his fingers ore not The Roentgen rays can diagnose I glish ships, and to which much of the burned by being too near the flame, pleurisy. j power of England’s “wooden walls” to aud so that the match will not break defend the island was attributed In the by being held too near the other end. TltY ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE. This fact Involves another—that he days when England, and not the United is aware which end has the sulphur A powder to be shaken into the shoesi States, was at war with Spain. At this season your feet feel swollen, ner Necessarily the deck of a vessel at and does not a ttempt to scratch the un vous. and hot, and get tired easily. If you sea offers a much less satisfactory plat sulphured end. He has furthermore have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Alien’s Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and form from which to shoot than the sol learned that a rough surface is better makes walking easy. Cures swollen and id foundation provided in a land fort, to scratch the match on than a smooth sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. since, even when tlie ocean is calmest, one, and his care In looking for a rough Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest aud comfort Ten thousand tes the vessel must constantly roll from place is very diverting. But with all this intelligence the timonials of cures. Try it todov. Sold by side to side. Theoretically, the best all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Sent time to fire would be at the moment monkey has no notion of kindling an by mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package between rolls, when the deck of the other fire with the one that be has F ree . Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le ship is perfectly level, and in a general caused by the friction of the match. Roy, New York. way it may be said that an attempt is He simply lets the match burn out, and The prefix ‘’O’’ before so many of the made to do the shooting nt that instant. If be lights another does It for the names of Irish families is an abbrevia It is practically Impossible, however, to pleasure of seeing it burn. tion of tiie word "oglia,” meaning j fire invariably when the decks are hori This monkey's keepers and the men grandchild. zontal. No matter how careful the gun- of science who are experimenting with « tier, the piece is almost always exploded his Intelligence hope to communicate I Just before or just after the proper in to him eventually an Idea of fire mak ing and using, but from the moment stant It was noted by the sea fighters In they succeed in doing so—if they ever ■ the revolution thnt projectiles from do succeed—it will be necessary to fired when the ship was heeling keep matches out of his reach. in your pocket, if you buy I guns from the enemy in the upward roll Schilling's Best baking pow were hurled higher in the air than was Mrs. Barton—What a cold creature Intended, and that well-aimed shots that Mrs. Clammlsh is ! Mrs. Heming der, and use only one heap were thus often sent harmlessly over —Yes. but it’s hereditary. Her father ing teaspoonful to a quart of head. or, at beet took offect only in made h1s fortune in the refrigerator the rigging instead of the bull of the business.—Cleveland Leader. flour. ... ====^=====- UHIOfl PACIFIC R. R. THE THROUGH CAR LINE. PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPERS. PULLMAN TOURIST SLEEPERS. FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS Portland to Chicago Without Change Quirk Tlnjr. I nlon Depot*« Personally Conducted Excursion®. BaggiMre Checked to Destination. Low Rate«. Direct line to Trana-Miwflifl»ipi»i and International Exposition held in Omaha, Nebraska. June to November. Write underlined for rates, time table* and other information pertaining to Union Pacific B. R. _______ R. W. BAX TER, Gen. Agent, 133 Third St«, Portland, Oregon. WILL A FIICI (13 ■PR”*° crair will trim uk j bacnkedlw «»...... Plain or win. Cutter. The bret needle In th. mar ket. t art by all reck rewere. For sale by all gen eral mervbandlee Mores, or by WILL * FINCK CO., Market Street, Haa Francisco, Cot C1JR A naval message that Is destined to go ringing through the ages with that of Nelson's “England expects that ev- cry man this day will do his duty.” Is “Re member the Maine.” It was this admoni tion that floated lu Hags from the mast- head of the Olym- phla In Manila Bay on that fateful morn ing of May 2, 1898. To the landsman the string of bunting conveys but little meaning. To the naval man the small signal fl a g s a 8 shown In the pie- ture read from top to bottom, as al) naval signals art read, represent tlie following combina- of letters: R. N, Q; Q, K, H; B. G, J. With the aid of the code book the com bination of letters spells out the till tion's slogan: “Re member the Maine.' There is always 8 buttle cry of somt sort displayed at th« mast of the flagship jf the commander oi :he fleet when e squardron goes into notion. It has beet the custom ever since the adoption oi marine flag signals for suddenly com municatlng intelligence to distant ob jects at sea. Anti signals have beer employe«! for many years, their origin being indeed lost In remote antiquity. During the day flags are used fol signals. The first code used in the United States navy was almost precise ly similar to the code in use about the same time by the British. There were twenty-six flags, one for each letter, and a number of pennants for special and defining systems. There was nc fixe«l code dictionary, and beyond a few general signals each commander made up his own combinations. About 1S1(! a code dictionary was issued. A new code was adopted In 1846, known the Rogers code. In this nin« square flags and five pennants were used, with a dictionary witn 13,40? combinations. Rogers’ code was modi fied in 1861 to a system having twelve square flags and nine pennants, there being ten numbered flags, three repeat ing pennants and two square ami six pennants as defining signals. The dic tionary was reduced to contain 0.99E signals. In 1866 this system was still further elaborated by the addition oi eight defining flags and pennants. At the same time the signal l>ook was re- modeled. Tactical signals were separ ated from the general signal book, and the latter divided into alphabetical, compass, word, geographical and gen erul classifications. Aside from the flag signals there art two other codes, one for use during fogs and the other at night During fi fog the signals are made by means oi the steam whistles, the code consisting of long and short blasts, arranged some what after the fashion of the dots and dashes in the Morse telegraphic alpha bet. THE VALUE OF PERSISTENCE How a Stranger Got and Kept a Good Job. “I'm lookin’ for a job. I’m a gooc feller and I'll work cheap.” This is the language in which au hon est an«l rather simple looking man up proached the head of a Chicago firm. “Sorry.” smiled tlie proprietor, “bu' we have nothing to offer just now. Cal ’round again.” Jake, as he called himself, walker away a couple of blocks, and tliet faced aliout and returned to repeat his application. “I been here,” he said, “fur a job. and you told me to come again. Tin here.’ Tin' proprietor, being busy, (lid noi recall the previous visit, ami. after in forming Jake that there was nothing for him yet. asked him to com«’ again This time Jnke made a round trip oi aliout half a mile, and again dropped In. offering his services as twice before. “Persistent and looks honest,” sal«l the proprietor to his liookkeeper. "Won der what he could do?” "Might give him a chance to collect some of our Impossible accounts,” laughe«l tlie liookkisjper. "He’s the kin«: of a man to keep ¡«egging away, and even cr««dltors can lie worn out.” Jake was given some of the worst old accounts that could tie hunted up and | started out By making forty or fifty I calls on the same man on the same day he began to make an impression, and I the firm Is now getting a good deal oi I money that hail long since been etiargw , to profit and loss. Right« of Newsboy*. The judgment conies from the Dis trict court at the national capital that j the sale of newspapers on the streets is ' a legitimate business, and that news- ■ boys have a right to enter street cars and sell newspa|iers to i»u<sengers pro- J vlded they behave themselves and < leave tlie car when their business Is flnWlied. One newatioy was forcibly ejected fnotn a car in Washington some time ago and hail a leg crushed by a car running on the other track. He Iwu just «Obtained an award of $5.000 dam ages from a jnry under Instructions to the above effort by the judge. “She is very frigid In her manner," remarked Willie Washington. “Per haps,” was the reply- "but she has h heart of gold.” "So I have been in formed. But I am tired of trying to cross a conversational Chllkoo* Pass lr order to reach IL”—Washington fits*. Adío» I Land of garlic and tortillas, Land of xebecs and mantillas, Land of mules and smuggled bitters, Land of raisins and of fritters, Land of Pedro and Sancho, Land of Weyler and Blanco, Land of bull tights and pesetas, Land of dusky señoritas, Land of manners stiff and haughty, Land of Isabella naughty, Land of Boabdil and Hamil, Don’t you hear vour Uncle Sam’l? "Git!” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. As far as calculations can decide the temperature of comets is believe«! to be 9.000 times fiercer than that of redhot iron. AN OFtN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting in the courts our right to the exclusive use of the word " CASTOKIA,” and “ PITCHHR SCASTOR1A,“ as our Trade Mark. I. Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “ PITCHER'8 CASTORI A,” the same that lias txirne and does now bear the tkc-*imile signature.of CHAS. II. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This » tlie original “ PITCHER’S CASTORI A” which has been used in the homes - of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look Carefully nt the wrapper and see that it is | Zkz im,l ivw Anrw altvayi bought, aud has the signature of CHAS, H. FLETCHER on the I wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Clias. H. Fletcher is President. March S, iSy). SAMUEL PITCHER, M.U, If the weight of the body tie divided into 11 parts eight of these parts will j be pure pater. THE TURN OF LIFE. Owing to modern methods of living, not one woman in a thousand ap proaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying and sometimes painful symp toms. Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until it 6eems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes with chills, as if the heart were going to stop for good, are symptoms of a dan gerous nervous trouble. The nerves are cry ing out for assistance. Theory should be heeded in time. Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound was pre- pared to meet the needs of woman's system at this trying period of her life. M rs . D ella W atson , 534 West 5th St., Cincinnati, Ohio, sayst “ I have been using Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound for some time during the change of life and It has been a saviour of life unto me. I can cheerfully recommend it to all wo men, and I know it will give permanent relief. I would be glad to rtdate my ex perience to any sufferer." FIT* Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousnes ill» after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Semi lor FULK 9'4.00 trial bottle and treatise. DR. IL li* liLLLNK, Ltd., iw Aixffi street, Philadelphia, l*a* There are several varieties of fish that cannot swim. In every instance they are deep sea dwellers, and crawl about the rocks, using their tails and fins as legs._______________ S tate of O hio , C ity of T oledo , / L ucas C ounty . i 8 ’ F rank J. C hkney makes oath that he Is the senior par ter of the firm of F. J. C heney Co., doing business hi the City of Toledo. County j and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum oi ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every ease of Catarrh that cannot be oure<| by the uJb of H all ** C atarrh C ure . FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me aud subscribed in iny presence, this 601 day of December, A. D. 1836. 1 i —i A. W. GLEASON, I seal | Notary Public CLEVELAND COTTAGE COLORS PURE PAINT READY MIXED Best Reputation. Best Paint for Dealer or Consumer. Color Cards Sent Free. Cleveland Oll X Paint Nfg. Co., PORTLAND, ORECON. Hall’s Catarrti Cure !s taken internally and acts directly on tlie Wood and mucous surfaces oi the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY <& CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists. 73c. Hall’s Family Pilis are the best. Good Health Among the Phoenicians the wearing of earrings was u badge of servitude, the same custom obtaining with the He brews. Tf< the yvorklng capital of humanity. He who loses that Ls wrecked indued. Is your health fiUlfng yon, your am bition, vigor, vitality waiting away ? When others fall con- •UH DOCTOR RATCLIFFE, THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the C alifornia F ig S yrup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the C alifornia F io S yrup C o . only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the C ali fornia F ig S yrup C o . with the medi cal profession, and tlie satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of FigB has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company — CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. • AN FRANCISCO. C.l LOUISVILLE. Kr. NEW TORR. N. Y. DOGS FOR CUSTOMERS A Restaurant Where Sonbrettea’ I « ok * Are Fed. "Ethel must be out to-night,” re- mnrketi a young man In a Sixth avenue restaurant the other night as a messen ger boy attach«’«] to a diminutive dog entered the plaee. “How do you know that?” asktid his chum. "Why, there's her dog, Blppo. She always leaves word for a uh »*■ugcr to take him to supper at 11 when she 1* dining.” The young man leaned forward and call«*! softly, “Come here, Blppo! Hip po! Blppo!” At the sound of bl* voice the dog •prang forward, wagging bl* tall In an eestacy of recognition. But tin» mes senger pulled him up short. By a swift jerk on bi* leading string Blppo was «allied peremi>torily to order. “Say, gent*,” sal«l the messenger boy, “you can’t call to dl* pup now. Dis ls bualtie**. He’* got to ««at and run, see'/ I've seven other soubrettes' dogs starved to death, and I've got to get ’em all here by 12 o’clock." Without further parley be turned to the waiter anti exclaimed: “Make it a beef bone and a bite of Uver, quick." The dog aud the messenger l*>y van ished downstair*. Within ten minutes' time no 1««** tiuui fifteen dogs hud ar rived at the restaurant. Most of the dog* were acoompanltd t»y messenger boys, but one or two of them were with their mlstresstja. For the speedy, safe and permanent cure of all Nervous, Chronic and Rpeclftl diseases, even in their most aggravated forms. There is no man in the world who has effected so many permanent cures In both Men and Women of troubles which other physicans of acknowledged ability had given up as hopeless as this eminent specialist. NERVOUS DEBILITY and all Itaattending ailments, of YQUNG, MIDDLE-AGED and OLD MEN, The awful effects of neglected or improp erly treated cusps , causing drains, weakness of body and brain, dizziness, tailing memory, lack of energy and confidence, pains in back, loins and kidneys, and many other distressing Bymptomi. unfitting one for study, busliw ss or enjoyment of life. 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Keep it Right Moore’s Revealed Remedy will do 1L Three doses will make you feel better. Get it from your druggist or any wholesale drug house, or from Stewart Hounes Drug Co., Seattle. YOUR LIVER Mate money by succesful speculation in Chicago. Wa buy and sell wheat on inar- gins. Fortunes have been made on a small beginning by trading in fu tures. Write for full particulars. Best of ref erence given. Several years’ exj>erience on the Chicago Board of Trade, and a thorough know ledge of the business. Send for our free refer ence book. DOWNING, HOPKINS A Co., Chicago Board of Trade Brokers. Offices io Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Wash. lAf U L fl I WW fl I U I W ■■■■fl I N. P. N. C. W No. >3. ’•». HEN writln* to advertí .er, plea** niontlou thTa paper. After tlie fifteenth dog had put in an appearance the young man who bad riN-ognlzcd Blppo callod to the b«aid waiter: “It seems to me that you are going Into the dog business on ruXher a large scale,” he said. The waiter laughed. "Well, you see It’s like this, sir. We can't afford to offend our regular In trons, und there's no surer way of of fending a woman than by turning down her dog. Ix>ts of our patron* live tn apartment* und get all tlieir meal* ouL They cun’t be botlmred hM»kliig ufter their dog'* meals tlieiuselvtm, and so they send them over to us. There’s some bother about It, but It «¿pens up a fine market for our scrajM, and a* In the course of a day we usually fe»d nt least one hundred dog*, ami we charge them exactly the same prices as their owners have to I »ay, you *» it Isn’t al together a losing tnvestiuenL In fact, you will find when you take the mes senger charges Into consideration that the mistress ofteu i»iy* njoni for the «log's meal* than she <1< m »« for her own Of courio- some of them briug the dogs over themselves, and there are a few others wlio make »heir husban«ls or a friend bring th«Mn. That never keeps up for long. The man always kicks against the Indignity of it sooner or later, and then she has to bring ths dog herself or send for tbs messenger again."—Mew York Run, There is an able-txxMed African In nearly every man’s private wood pile.