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SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1901.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
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Coffee
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the county clerk’s
Our Phone works—No. 79.
HANNA & LEONARD.
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UNCLE EPH for diamond bargains.
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VIM VIGOR VITALITY FORMEN
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Rakes
Hoes
any description. We want your trade; and offer
the finest CALCASIEU LUMBER at lowest prices,
quality considered.
MILL and YARDS and the number of drays and
wagons we are loading. But that’s what we are
here for — BUSINESS — and we are getting it.
WE MAKE Sash, Doors, Blinds and Mill Work of
REDUCTION!
REDUCTION!
No Premiums!
Wetmore’s Best
sells on its merits.
Creosote, Asphalt Varnish, 2 and 3-Ply
Ready Roofing Felt, Aqua and Anhy-
drous Ammonia.
Galveston, Toxas.
T®Y®IO
testimony and hanged,
fore his execution
human
science
get re-
Dan Creedon knocked out Billy Stift in
the fifth round at Hot Springs, Ark.,
TURN OFF THE EXPENSE
with your thumb and finger, instantly. ''
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Bryan’s
2205-2207 Postoffice St.
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Ail Garden Tools, at
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OVER THE
I. & G. N. R. R.
You Reach St. Louis Next Evening.
Office—301 Tremont St. Phone 181.
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LAWRENCE V. ELDER,
&■' (SUCCESSOR TO J. W. BYRNES),
Contractor for Shell and Gravel Roofing, Manufacturer of Roofing and Paving Pitch,
Sanitary Flooring, Asphalt Paving, ' “ ---
Artesian Wells and Waterworks Plants.
Office—212 Tremont Street,
Factory—Avenue A, bet. 18th and 19th Streets.
G O L D 'SEAL”
Coffee,
Baking Powder have
only by the
cm Coffee Co.,
guarantee their
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BEST FOR LEAST MONEY
TRIBUNE WANT ADS.
Tn consideration of our doing a
STRICTLY CASH BUSINESS we
are enabled to reduce the prices on
certain articles. __lk
NEW PRICE LIST.
SHIRTS................10 to 12 l-2c
UNDERWEAR (per garment)..Ge
SOCKS (per pair)..................3c
.......25o
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on FAMILY
HOUSEHOLD
The following real sstate transfers were
recorded in the e®unty clerk’s office
yesterday:
George J. Robert, jr., and wife to Peo-
ple’s Loan and Honriestead company, lot
4, in northwest blocklof outlot 45, $1.
Galveston, Houston, and Henderson rail-
road company to Gulf, Colorado and San-
ta railway company^ blocks 517, 518, 519,
parts of blocks 520, 521 522, 523, block 514,
513, blocks 457 to 460, both inclusive, part
of block 581, SH63.47.
MODEL
LAUNDRY,
24th and Postofflce
BRANCH OFFICE, 410 21st st.
TRIMBLE BROS., Propr’s.
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HARMONY THEATER.
Last night’s heavy rain had a dispiriting
effect on theater goers, as was evidenced
by the slim attendance at Harmony the-
ater to witness the Braunig Dramatic
company’s presentation of “A Social
Highwayman.”
Tonight the company will close its en-
gagement with “A Soldier’s Sweetheart.”
The Practical
Part of Plumbing.
A quarter of a century. That’s a
long while, but we’ve spent it solving
and perfecting ourselves in the prob-
lems that arise in the practical part
of plumbing work. That we are suc-
cessful plumbers is proven by our fre-
quent triumphs. Ask for estimates.
PAUL SHEAN SANITARY PLUMB-
ING COMPANY. Heating, Gas Fitting
and Fixtures, 2116 Mechanic st. ’Phone
No other coffee (not even the fancy-
priced) is cleansed, roasted, blended
and packed with greater cafe or more
skill. Buy Arbuckles’ Coffee and get
better quality and greater value than
you could get in any other coffee at
anywhere near the same price.
OVERALLS (per suit)
HANDKERCHIEFS
Special quotations
WASHING AND
LINEN.
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When a newspaper writer and proof
reader that works nights can feed himself
out of dyspepsia, which most all that class
suffer with, it is worth while to know the
kind of food used.
This man is on one of the Rockford, Ill.,
papers, and says: ‘‘Being a newspaper
writer and proof reader, also a graduate
in medicine as well, though not practicing,
makes a combination that would produce
a. skeptic on the subject if anything would.
“Day after day I read the proof on the
Grape-Nuts Food advertisements with the
feeling that they were all ‘buncombe.’ All
this time I was suffering from, dyspepsia
from the improper food I was eating at
the restaurant. One day I saw a package
of Grape-Nuts at the restaurant and tried
it with good, rich cream. The dish took
my fancy at once. After a few lunches at
midnight I noted an improvement in my
feelings and was able to work with less
fatigue.
I have used Grape-Nuts as a, regular diet
since then and have Improved greatly.
The old dyspepsia and bad feelings that I
thought were necessary adjuncts to night
work all disappeared, and I am able to do
much morewith less effort than ever be-
fore.
“I was nearly ready to give up night
work and seek health in some other walk
in life, but thanks to my change in diet I
am now all right.”
'Please do not use my name In publie.
Name can be given by Postum Cereal
Co.. Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich*
The largest independent
factory in America.
' ’ , NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Bids are invited for supplying heating
apparatus for Ball high school building,
according to specifications prepared by N.
J. Clayton, architect.
All bids are to be filed with said archi-
tect on or before April 4, 1901, at 12 o’clock
poon, and the right is reserved to reject
any and all bids.
I. LOVENBERG,
WM. T. AUSTIN,
L. S. McKINNEY,
Committee.
“The nomination of Judge Eldbridge
Hanecy by the Republicans for mayor of
th© ‘town’ of Chicago and the election of
John Mitchell as senator from Oregon are
incidents where the wrong men have been
honored,” said a St. Louis man who has
spent many years of his life in Seattle to
a Tribune man yesterday.
“You see it is this way. The Republican
nominee for mayor of ‘Porkopolis’ was
born plain Hennessey, as was his father
before him. But Hennessey did not seenr
to suit the intrepid Eldbridge, so with the
help of a friendly legislature he had his
Celtic cognomen Tuetonized into Hanecy.
Just why he was ashamed of Hennessey
no one seems to know.
“In the instance of Senator Mitchell,
away back in the early seventies he was
known as John M. Turnipseed, and even
before that • time he had been thus
christened while a wee bit of a baby.
Young T'urnipseed took a notion to dabble
in politics, but with such a name he
found it impossible to do more than fur-
nish material for the funny men on the
western papers, and consequently in poli-
tics it was pretty much of an uphill job
for John M. Turnipseed.
“Instead of trying to butt down a moun-
tain young Turnipseed took a short cut
around it. He soon realized there was
little fame in being a ‘turnip seed,’ so he-
petitioned and got the legislature to make
him a more dignified Mitchell, th© maiden
name of his mother.
“As John Mitchell his political rise was
rapid, but until recently whenever he was
an aspirant for a fat office., the Portland
Oregonian, which paper was always his
bitter political opponent, used to have in
big type, scattered all through the paper;
‘He changed his name—why?’ leaving-one
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came to Texas
M. LASKER.......................President!
M. ULLMANN...............Vice President
JOS. F. CAMPBELL................Cashier,
JOHN T. MCCARTHY. .Assistant Cashiec
Islrt Ciiy Savinas Bank
Geenral Banking Business Transacted.
CAPITAL - - - $100,000
SURPLUS- - - $100,000
Interest Paid on Saving Deposits.
DIRECTORS: M. Lasker, M. UHmann,
Chas. Fowler, Robert Bornefeld, Juliug
Runge, C. H. Moore, R. Waverley Smith*
A. Ferrier, Jos. F. Campbell.
W Made only by
® M. C. WETMORE TOBACCO CO.
A St. Louis, Mo.
With each package of Arbuckles’ Coffee you buy a
definite part of some useful article (see list which each
package contains). The article is yours whenever you
present a certain number of signatures from the wrappers
at our Notion Dept. Took for the list.
ARBUCKLE BROS.* Notion Dept..
New York City, N. Y,
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Ben Scoville Says He Was Teacher
of Elocution In Ball High School
and Lost Ills Wife In Storm.
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FRIEND TO FRIEND.
It is not so much what the newspapers
say as what neighbor says to neighbor, <.r
friend to friend, that has brought Cham-
berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy into such general use. It is as
natural for people tc express their grati-
tude after using this remedy as it is for
water to flow down hill. It is the one
remedy that.can always be depended up-
on, whether a baby be rick with cholera
infantum or a man vith cholera morbus.
Jt is pleasant safe and reliable. Have
you a bottle of it in j our home? For sale
by all druggists.
EXPECT THEIR CHARTER.
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The Galveston Light Guards, the new
militia company recently organized here
with Capt. Victor Theriot as captain, ex-
pects to receive its charter from Austin
today. The Light Guards have secured
the old Sealy Rifles armory on 22d and
-Market for their hall and are hard at work
interesting the young men of this city to
join them in their efforts to organize a
first class military company.
It is the purpose of the promoters of the
Light Guards to make the social feature
quite prominent in the organization.
Counterfeits .of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Falve are liable to cause blood poisoning.
Leave them alone. The original has the
name DeWitt’s upon the box and wrap ■
per. It is a harmless and healing salve
for skin diseases. Unequaled for piles. J
J. Schott.
DRS. HALL & ROGERS
announce that they are still at their old
office, 2123 Market street, over Robert I.
Cohen’s. They also have an office in the
Binz Building, Houston.
That’s the beauty of using gas for cook- "
ing and heat. It’s always ready to be
used or shut off. Sometimes coal fires
burn up too quickly—and spoil the
meal. Sometimes they are too slow, i
with a like result. Gas stoves are al-
ways the same. Cost less than coal,
cook quicker, cleaner and better, and
are always ready to give prompt serv* i
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Fuel Gas, $1.50 Per 1000 Feet.
GALVESTON GAS CO.
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To accept some other
brand of Coffee, Ex-
tracts or Baking Pow-
der when you asked
for “GOLD SEAL?”
If so beware of such a
grocer. 'There is no
substitute.
“G O T id tn a t ’>
brands
THE ORRIS OBER STOCK COMPANY.
An exchange says of this company: The
Orris Ober company opened a three nights’
engagement at the opera house last night,
presenting Milton Royal’s great play of
“Friends.” It is by far the best popular
price company that has ever appeared in
this city and surpasses a great many
higher priced companies. Miss Orris Ober,
the leading lady, is a. finished artist and
played her part in a charming and natural
manner. Miss Errol; in the part alloted
to her, was in entire sympathy with the
audience. Miss Bruinley played her role
well. Messrs. Ettinger and Gordon, as the
two friends, both looked and acted their
parts with a spirit: that gained them
many admirers. Theffepecialties introduced
were clever and numerous. Among those
of unusual merit was the turn of Miss
Gay Errol, who sung, in the sweetest way
possible a song.ntewato this city, with the
pretty title of “Wh4ii the Birds Go North
Again,” and gave sat neat exhibition of
buck and wing danfeing. Miss Brumley,
assisted by Mr. Martin, presented for the
first time here a startling spectacular per-
formance entitled I“La Danzo Inferno,” in
which the lady is enveloped in real flames
without the usual black art apparatus
that accompany such feats. It was the
most startling thing of its kind ever seen
here and our citizens are still wondering
how it is successfully achieved.
SAVES TWO FROM DEATH.
“Our little daughter had an almost fatal
attack of whooping cough and bron-
chitis,” writes Mrs. W. K. Haviland of
Armonk, N. Y., “but, when all other
remedies failed, we saved her life with
Dr. King’s New Discovery. Our niece,
who had Consumption in an advanced
stage, also used this wonderful medicine
and today she is perfectly well.” Des-
perate throat and lung diseases yield to
Dr. King’s New Discovery as to no other
medicine on earth. Tfifallbie for Coughs
and Colds. 50c and $1 bottles guaranteed
by J. J. Schott. Trial bottles free.
Some people can’t stand prosperity, but
the majority don’t get a chance to try.
IN KANSAS AGAIN.
“Yes,” he said, as he deposited the tough-
looking fowl on the kitchen table, “I won
that turkey in a saloon raffle.”
The lady of the house looked at the un-
pretentious bird, and coldly sniffed.
“Yes,” she said,’’“it looks to me exactly
like one of those turkeys that you have to
carve with a,.hatchet.”
There would have been further argu-
ment, but a guest came in with a bottle of
“Cabinet” beer and the discussion' ended
very abruptly.
In corn and oat chop you get all the nu-
trition in the' grain, and the necesesary
roughness—not the sweepings and refuse
of the house, but a concentrated feed of
test quality, well mixed in equal propor-
tions. Try it.
Phone 7C3.
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YOURJ3HOICE.
We Make a Specialty of Fresh
Roasted and Ground Coffee Daily.
ORIENTAL TEA AND COFFEE COMPANY.
Highest grades of Tea, Coffee and Spices.
Prompt delivery to all parts of the city.
PETER BELLEW, Proprietor,
622 Tremont St.
blood.
Two years ago Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets
were unknown, but today have become so
popular through positive merit that drug-
gists everywhere in the United States,,
Canada and Great; Britain now sell them.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
KODAKS
FILMS, DRY PLATES, ETC.
F. PREUSNER,
Photo Supply Store, 604 Tremont Street.
Develpoing and Finishing Done.
15c will get an ad in Tribune want column
force of this
the Oregonian
brands o f Coffee,
Spices, Extracts and
no superior.
Made i
Southern
who t______________
absolute purity.
PHONE 32.
PEIGHTAL & BOOTH,
for Roofing. Gutters, Copper, Brass and
. Zine Work.
2311 Avenue A.
Clipped Oats, red rust proof seed oats,
medium oats; quality and prices to suit all
needs. HANNA & LEONARD.
Phone 703.
merely local symptoms.
The remarkable success of these tablets
in curing grip, catarrh and throat and
lung troubles is because they drive the
catarrhal poison from the system and the
nose and throat become clear of the ex-
cessive secretion of mucus, which causes
the hawking, spitting and gagging, because
the secretion is not supplied from healthy
“BUNCOMBE,”
It Doesn’t Always Pay to Be Skeptical
the leader* of the' Mormon
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Lost Manhood. Im-
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every function. Don” get despondent, a cure is at hand, Restores small, undeveloped
organs, Stimulates the brain and nerve centers. 50c a box, 6 for (2.50 by mail. MMsaM A written guarantee, to cure
«s money refunded, withe boxes, Circulars free. Adoless, DlshOP Remedy Co., San PranClSCO, Oaf-
FOR SALE BY J. J. SCHOTT. ... j . ________
Church K?rffi?^Ms?P8;ortUL?yh?u^s^hne^oUrSs? ^Waft
of self-abuse, dissipation, excesses, or cigarette-smoking. Cures I
blllty, Headache,Unfitness to Marry, Lpsj of
This is certainly a fair tale,
is swift and the tragedy is of the hair
raising sort. Pathos is plentiful and the
human heart is churned with sympathy for
the woes and loves of poor Ben Scoville.
No doubt the good people of the Christian
Alliance school are fairly burning with
sympathy for him. On the face of the re-
turns a heart of stone would be moved to
gurgitate in sadness and in sorrow.
But so far as the Galveston experiences
of the unfortunate Benjamin are con-
cerned the returns are faultj>:. No such
person held a place in the high school.
Had the good people who have taken Col.
Scoville in out of the wet consulted an
almanac they probably would have
brought about his undoing. The Septem-
ber storm occurred on Saturday, the 8th,
when high schools are not in operation.
Had they been posted on the local situa-
tion here they would have known that the
high school had been closed and tenantless
since June, as the school term was not to
open until Oct. 1, 22 days after the storm.
Incidentally the high school has not been
in operation at all since last June. So
Col. Scoville could scarcely have been
penned up there while his wife was being
drowned. If he has nothing more tangible
on which to base a claim—for sympathy
than his Galveston experiences he is work-
ing the good people of New York good and
hard. No such person is known here and
no such person was ever connected with
the high school.
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You will get more satisfaction from a cupful
of Arbuckles’ Coffee than from other coffees—
and more cupfuls to the pound. Arbuckles’
is not only better than many coffees
I that cost more, but is actually cheaper
I to use than the coffees that sell for a
/ cent less per pound. Not another firm
J in the whole world can buy coffee to bet-
ter advantage than the producers of
WONDERFUL TALE
OF A MUNCHAUSEN
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Blood Curdling Experiences of a
Storm Victim Fakir.
TALES OF SUFFERING .
TOLD FOR SYMPATHY
streets, going from.bad to worse. I believe
that a great work can be done among
actors and actresses, especially among
those that have been disappointed in the
life of the. gtage, and want to -make some-
thing of themsejve^ and get into a re-
spectable way of living before they grad-
uate down on the Bowery and Water
street. J. hop§ that God will open up the
way for me to. start this neglected good
work. And now if you know any young
men or women who are starting in on the
stage, tell'them to stay out of New York
city, for it is overrun, but if they must
seek the metropolis, let them be sure and
secure a return ticket and take good care
of it.”
to infer he was in Oregon for the
reason that many people
many, years ago..
“Finally, however, the
query was lost when
added to the question ‘He is still a'Turnip-
seed.’
“I think the war waged by that paper on
Senator Mitchell helped him to get elected
senator, for it was not so awfully long
ago when it was a touchy -question to
ask persons in that state by what name
they were known before they came west
and the people there are ever quick to
take up for a man whom they regarded as
having been insulted.”
4 “Fame,” said Col. Daniel Belsebub Hen-
derson this morning, “is a most oppres-
sive burden to bear than are the arduous
offices of state. Just look at me,” he con-
tinued, spreading out both arms until nine
feet intervened between tips, “and listen
to my story, and if you don’t agree with
me in my assertion, I’ll buy myself a new
hat.
“You see it is this way. When Capt.
Lucas struck his drill in the terrestial oil
vein with artesian propensities, I took a
notion to make the same kind of play,
vith the result that I am now
m more digging outfits than a five weeks’
old baby could count in a month. But I
know when I have enough and have no
ambition to become so enormously wealthy
as to be an issue in a national campaign
and right here is where the rub comes.
“I have been besieged by all classes of
cranks, fools and bunco steerers to do a
little ‘promoting’ for them. It appears
to me that every man in Texas that owns
a piece of land within 400 leagues of Beau-
mont has brought out bottles of fluid, lumps
of clay and other alleged indications of
oil, which he reported as having found
on his property, with the request I fur-
nish him with the capital to bore for oil.
“A every instance I have thrown a lump
of technical phrases at the ‘oil crank,’
about specific gravity, stranded tests, dry
holes, etc., with the result I usually got
rid of them in one inning. But my expert
knowledge received a jar the other day
from an old Georgia ‘cracker,’ who was
evidently up to snuff.
“He brought me an alleged lump of clay,
which, he said, was taken from his land
and asked my opinion as to its oil prop-
erties. I swelled up, looked wise and after
looking at the ‘clay,’ said, ‘No oil there,’
“ ‘Sure of that,’ said he.
“I did not answer at once, but swelled
up again until I was 33 inches around the
chest, when I blurted out, ‘Most certain-'
ly.’
“ ‘Daniel Henderson,’ said he, ‘you are
the first man who was raised in Georgia,
growed in Florida and settled in Texas I
ever saw who didn-5t know a lump of axle
grease when he saw it.”
“Please announce for me that as an oil
expert I have been forever squelched.”
The instructor of a swimming school is
literally immersed in business.
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What the average schoolboy wants is a
history that will repeat itself.
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Phone 430.
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Central Christian church, 20th and ave-
nue—Regular services tomorrow conduct-
ed by the pastor, Rev. Jessie B. Haston.
Fourth Presbyterian church, Winnie,
between 21st and 22d streets—Sunday
school at 9.30 a. m.; J. R. Davies, superin-
tendent. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
by the pastor. Morning theme: “The
Greatest Lesson of the Creator.” In the
evening the pastor will deliver the third
sermon of the series on ‘“The Doctrines of
the Cross.’ Theme, “The Cross Glorified.”
Christian Endeavor meeting at 7 p. m.
Mid-week prayer-meeting Wednesday at
8 p. m. W. H. Mason, pastor.
St. Paul’s German Presbyterian church,
avenue H, between 16th and 17th streets—
Divine service tomorrow (Sunday) at 11
a. m. Sunday school at 9 a. m.
St. John’s Lutheran church, 39th and
avenue M.—'Sunday school at 9.15 a. m.;
divine service at 10.30 a. m.; Lenten service
Wednesday evening at 7.30 o’clock. W.
Erigelke, pastor.
New Church, chapel avenue K, between
21st and 22d—Rev. Howard C. Dunham,
pastor. Divine worship and preaching
Sunday at 11 o’clock. Subject: “The Divine
Forgiveness.” Sunday school at 9.30 a. m.
First German Lutheran church, corner
24th and Winnie—Sunday school at 9 a. m.
‘German services at 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p.
m. J. C. Roeh mand G. J. Ide, pastors.
'German Evangelical church, avenue H
and 19th street—Sunday school at 9.30 a.
m.; preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; pray-
er meeting every Wednesday at 8 p. m.;
Young Peoples’ society meets every Fri-
day at 8 p. m. and every Sunday evening
. at 7 o’clock. F. Wisman, pastor.
Central Christian church—Rev. R. D.
Shults, the new pastor, will preach both
morning and evening. Sunday school and j
Christian Endeavor at the usual hours.
First Baptist church, worshiping at Ro-
senberg hall, Y. M. C. A.—Preaching to-
morrow at 11 o’clock a. m. and 7.45 p. m.
by the pastor., Rev. W. M. Harris. Sun-
day school at 9.30 a. m.
The Cathedral choir will render special
music at the High mass at 10 a., m. tomor-
row and Father Kirwin will preach. In
the evening at 7.30 o’clock there will be
vespers. Sermon on “Marriage” and ben-
ediction. Lenten devotions on Wednesday
and Friday evenings. Sermon on Wed-
nesday evening, “Communion.” The Altar
society and Third order of St. Francis
meet at 4 o’clock.
General Secretary Palmer will conduct
a Bible reading symposium at the quar-
ters o5 the Y. M. C. A. tomorrow after-
noon at 4 o’clock.
Ii’s the Method Employed "Which
Makes Success or Failure.
One man with pen, ink and paper can
produce a landscape, another man with
same pen and ink may not be able to write
his own name legibly. It is all in knowing
how. • •
It is equally true in the use of medicines.
The same remedies we have today have
existed for thousands of years, but if their
existence was known the knowledge of
how Jo use them was lacking.
They became valuable to the
race only when experiment and
showed the way to use them to
suits.
The grip is an old disease with a new
name; it is really catarrhal in character
and the usual symptoms are those of
acute catarrh, but the old time catarrh
powders, salves and sprays do not cure it,
neither does the application of antiseptics
through an inhaler give anything more
than relief for a short time.
The antiseptics are all right; they will
kill the germs of catarrh and grip if they
are applied rightly, but their local applica-
tion to the nose and throat avail little
because the germs are in the blood and
through the whole system.
Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets contain many
of these same antiseptics that are used in
sprays and inhalers, but instead of apply-
ing them to the inflamed membranes of
the nose and throat, they-are taken into
the stomach and thus reach the blood, the
real seat of the disease, and drive out the-
infectious germs through the natural
channels of the bowels and kidneys.
In other words. Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets
reach the cause of the mischief instead of
The Kansas:Cijy,Star the other day pub-
lished a stirring story of the wonderful
adventures of Ben Scoville, whom the Star
says at 30 years, of age has much to re-
member. It seems that Mr. Scoville is
now preparing himself at the Christian
Alliance school at Nyack, N. Y., for spe-
cial missionary work among stage folk.
’ The Star’s story commences with the
borning of Mr. Scoville in London, pre-
> sumably 30 years ago. His father was an
officer in the British army, whom the
: Zulus killed in Africa, possibly at the
time the young prince imperial of France
lost his life, though the story doesn’t say
SO'. Then Ben’s troubles commenced. His
mother taught elocution and through her
' musical talent supported Ben and his sis-
ter. She died suddenly, their' guardian
(^abandoned them and they took to the
streets in the Whitechapel district. There
Ben earned pennies as a newsboy, street
sleeper and bootblack, sleeping at night
in alleys, under wagons or wherever shel-
ter offered. One winter night Ben and his
sister took shelter in a hogshead and the
next morning the precocious young man
was alone in the world. His sister was
dead.
The sea had an attraction for him.
visited the wharves until he secured a
place as cabin boy..with Capt. Hoyle, on
the ship Vanguard. On this vessel he re-
mained several years and was promoted
to be cook’s assistant. The captain’s
daughter, Mary, helped him with his
studies and he grew very fond of her. One
day. while' she was playing ball on the
deck, a sudden lurch of the ship threw
her overboard. Ben plunged after her,
kept her afloat until both were hauled on
board. For this bravery, on his return to
London, he was presented with £5 by the
Royal Humane society. He had saved £2
out of his wages and at once proceeded
to gratify a long cherished desire. He had
-his sister’s body removed from the public
burial field and buried by her mother. He
then returned to the sea, this time as
steward’s assistant on the steamer Pris-
cilla. Capt. William Hughes, from Rio de
Janeiro to London.
On the Priscilla was a feeble-minded
boy whom Hughes had taken to sea in re-
turn for £100 pounds, paid by the lad’s
guardians. This boy, from the time he left
London, was subjected to gross indignities
and cruelties, inflicted by the captain and
his mate. On Christmas day the outrages
approached the climax. The boy was
brought to mess and given only the bones
which the ship’s dog had gnawed. When
the little fellow reached out his hand for
some plum duff the mate struck him a
blow with a carving knife, cutting a deep
gash in his hand. The blood spurted on
Ben, who tore up his only white shirt to
stanch the flow and make bandages. On
New Year’s eve Ben and a companion saw
Capt. Hughes and the mate bring the boy
out. There was 'an altercation and loud
oaths arid the boy was struck. As he
shrieked with pain Capt. Hughes lifted
him from the deck, carried him to the rail
and hurled him into .the sea. There was
one piercing scream and then all was still,
Ben and his fellow witness of the crime
said nothing, but when they reached Lon-
don Ben promptly informed the murdered
lad’s guardians. Hughes and the mate
were arrested, tried, convicted upon Ben’s
On the night be-
in Newgate prison
, , Hughes confessed that he had acted as
interested principal or accessory in the murder of
more than 30 boys in the same way.
Once mor© Ben returned to the ocean.
He endured many hardships and on his
last voyage as a sailor was shipwrecked.
He drifted ten days in an open boat, sub-
sisting on a biscuit and a gill of water a
day. After his rescue he underwent a long
illness in the Marine hospital, London.
On being discharged from the hospital
he worked his way on a cattle steamer to
this country and struck out for Buffalo.
'There he subsisted awhile by doing odd
.jobs and by dancing hornpipes in saloons.
He then went to Cleveland, where he en-
gaged with a doctor to do chores for $1 a
week and his board, with the great added
privilege of attending school. Ben stuck
it out until he graduated from Cleveland
high school. Then he went to Birmingham.
Ala., and paid his way for a year in How-
ard college by ringing the college bell,
acting as agent for a laundry and doing
chores. From Alabama he went to Colo-
rado and secured work in Stratton’s great
Independence mine in Cripple Cfeek, earn-
ing enough tO' enable him to progress in
his studies in Colorado college, Colorado
Springs. Then came a miners’ strike and
he lost his job.
He went next to Chicago, where he sold
his watch to pay his railroad fare to
Cleveland. From Cleveland he walked to
Batavia, N.' Y., where he earned enough
by washing the windows of the Y. M. C.
jA.. building to carry "him to Lyons. At
Lyons the Rev. Mr. Ostrander became in-
terested in him and secured him a church
collection. Similar assistance was given
him in Port Byron, and from there he
went to Boston.
Full of hope, Ben then applied to Man-
ager Frank W. Hale of the New England
conservatory, and begged admission as a
student in elocution and oratory. An ar-
rangement was made whereby he could
earn his tuition fees and expenses by
working six or ten hours a day in the
model machine shops and printing depart-
ment. He applied himself closely and was
graduated with honors in December, 1895,
For a time he supported himself in Syra-
cuse as a reciter, then traveled about the
country until he met the “Sign of the
Cross” company at Pe'oria and joined it.
Wilson Barrett took him to England with
his English company, and Scoville had a
wide stage experience on the other side.
In Manchester IScoville met and fell in
love with a girl whom he married at the
termination of his engagement with Irv-
ing’s company. They came to this coun-
try and he got a position as professor of
elocution in the high school at Galveston,
Tex. On the day of the flood he was in
the high school building and with others
was penned there by the water. All the
next day he searched for his wife and in
the evening he found her body in the
ruins.
Grief stunned and without ambition,
Scoville went to> New York arid wandered
aimlessly about the city. By chance he
went into a missionary meeting, where a
former opera singer was holding special
meetings, and decided to join the mission-
ary work. He intends to work riot only
among stage folk, but among' those who
have failed to establish themselves on the
stage and are drifting or have drifted into
dissolute ways of life. Of ISiew York, the
Mecca of the stage struck, he recently
wrote to a friend: .
“New York is full of poor, ambitious
young men and women who think it great
sport to go upon the stage. Tljese become
sadly ‘left’ and stroll about the city
chewing
tobajgo
k with a
^.conscience
F behind it.
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