The Light. (Vicksburg, Miss.), Vol. 9, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1900 Page: 4 of 4
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TH*Y HMtF 8!t.«NT.
th* Rule of 8ecr««rr In th« Roy*J
notubold-
One of the many rules hedging those
who eater to ft® v?ants and pleasures
if royalty is that a strict secrecy shall
ae maintained as to the sayings and
ioings of their royal masters and mis-
treezes. Bays the New York Herald.
Many a secret has gone to th© grave
antcld owing to the conscientiousness
sf the hearer or seer, who, bound by
the oath of office, would rather die
than divulge what the world is ever
on the qui vive to learn. It i3 said
that when Miss Ailean», who is now
Mrs. Maliett, was appointed maid of
honor in the queen's household, she
was visiting in a household where was
a well-known man of letters and wit.
"What a fine opportunity you will now
have to keep un interesting diary," ha
»aid to her. Miss Adean© responded
that, according to the queen's condi-
tions, no one was allowed to keep a
3iary when at court. But, disbeliev-
ing, the maji laughingly responded, "I
think I should keep a very sccret one,
all the same;" to which the future
maid of honor courteously replied:
"Then I am afraid you would not b6
a. maid of honer." The term ' maid oi
honor" seems to have a wider signifi-
cance than is usually applied to it. It
is to be not only a maid who is hon-
ored by her elevation to the member-
ship in the royal household, but it ij
to be a maid wIicbq honor i3 used in
Sefensc of her mistress by speech 01
silence, as may be rsauired.
Beauty Is Blooi Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin.. No
beauty without it. Caacarets, Caady Cathar-
tic cican your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im-
purities from the bodv. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotchos, blackheads,
and that sicttly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug-
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c. 23c. 50c.
The falling of a man's countenance natur-
ally lowers Ms face value.
How Are Toot- B.J«!ncF« »
Dr. Hobbs' Sparacus Pille cure nil kidney Ills. Bara.
Ble free. Add. Stcrliuc Hfexaady Co., Chicago or In. Y.
dye with Putnam Fadeless Dies. Sold by
A gratuitous falsshood naturally gives it-
self away.
The might of ignorance often discounts
that of the truth.
•i nirty minutes is all tUe time required to
dye with Pi
ill druggist?.
Worry is frequently the forerunner of in-
sanity.
A barher says a man's whiskers are always
rnt down in his youth-
EdacAte Tour Konrli Witt* Oaie»retl.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation ferever.
10c. 25c. If C. O. C. fail, druggists refund nones.
If money conld only induce people to be
good, what a jolly worid this would be.
Caian'Ji Cannot ljo Cured
With local applications, as thev cannot reaos
thp seat of tho disease. Catarrh is a blood oi
constitutional disoasu, and in order to enr<
It you must take internal remedies. Hall'i
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, anrl acts fli
recti5' on the blood and mucous surface. Hall'j
Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It \v»»
prescribed by ono of the best physicians in
this country for vearj, and is a regular pre-
scription. It is composed of the best tonics
known, combined with the best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The
perfect combination of the two insredlf nts is
what produces such wonderful results in cur-
ing catarrh. Scnrl for testimonials, free.
F. J. CriExeY & Co., Props., Toledo, O.
Sold by llruggUts, price. 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Xecessity knows no law. but lots of lawyers
know no necessity
Vitalttt low, debilitated or exhausted cu'ed
b > r Kliiio's iQYltforatln* Tonic- Free |1 trial
t>ot le for 2 week*' treatment. Dr. Kline, Ltd .
CK1 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Founded 1371.
ALL LEARNED THE SAME TEXT.
Act well your part regardless of others'
conduct.
We have notboen without PIso's Cure roi
Consumption for 25 years.—IjTZZIB FERREn,
Camp St.. Harrisburg. Pa.. Mar 4. 13'di.
Kome^eople are equally as disagreeable as
the trutt:
Jtlrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for ohildroa
tt otbipe,softens the smns.reducing inliamraa
lion,allays pain,cures wind ooiic. S£3o a botil»
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A Miss is As
Good as a Mite.
If you are not entirely Tvetl, you are SI.
Illness docs not mean death's door. It is
a sense of 'weariness, a " tired feeling" a
life filled 'with nameless pains and suffer-
ing. In 907c of cases the blood is to blame.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is Nature's corrective
for disorders of the blood. Hfemembcr
A. woman died 111 Atchison a fe^
(rears ago who had boarded every daj
of her married life, and who never go"
Dut of bed before 9 o'clock in the morn
Ing. Still, her folks look reproachfullj
at the bereaved husband and say tha
"Poor Susan was forked to death.
Cares a Cough or Coid at once.
Conquers Croup without fail.
I __*a best for Bronchitis, Grippe, I
I Hoars^ncsg, Whoopin^-Coiigh, sqq j
I tho cure of Consumption.
I ^ Pra It. Doctors prescribe it.
1 Small doses ; quick, sure results.
Balxer'a Kape
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creea
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Spelt*—
What is it
Catslot
tell*.
r Sailer's S*«is art fftrrtsW te rrednc*. >SS
, MaUloo Lsther. E.Tr.y,p»,,aiUiniakldth.world
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I JKr™r*' If -Tl"" 'Jo"1". *'ii« them. We wi,h to saio
JOO.OOO BCW cmtomri, btace TtlllKcrt ot> 1.1.1
lO DOLLARS WORTH FOR lOc.
'2 of rtr. farm nuodl. Bait Bulk. th. S-.ared
i Corn—S«p«ltx. producing tObush. foeJ ted 4 tons hay
per aere-al**v* ©«U» aad barley. Brnan Intrata
--the grasa oa earth; 8+Ibt • 4
vrnagJ* Ueat, fca., including oar man
notja Ptast. FruitaadSo^d Catalog, telllnraJ
aboat baU.r . Cr«at Million bellar
* eta to, all atailed for 10c. p^viag. ,
Please ,
eend this
ad t. with
30c. to Salzer.
y —i»i »Wi. p"» IU
po.lttrelj werth $18 to (.ta.tart.
k"*! Potato. • 1.Sd a kbl. aad ar.
a picas earliest
" bl. fl.o«.a
Catalog
alone, 6c,
At;_
Uow a Sunday-School Class Tried to Merit a
Large Blue Card.
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W^^HTER'SINK
Kas endorsement of the U. 8. Gorem-
nient acd all the leading railroads.
DROPSY 5fflS2X5ZZ'&s
Sfea. Bo-ix "t teet:n»uoi»f» a»d lO Am.ym' Uulasul
. H. «K&xa'8 >0*a. la i. iilMU. «a.
"Xo\r, children," said the teacher of
the infant class of a Hyde Park Sun-
day school, "I told you last Sunday
that each of you who learned a verse
from the Bible and recited it to-day
would receive a large blue card. I-et
ine see how ruany of yovi have learned
a verse.
There were twenty-five or thirty boys
and girls, from four to eight years of
age, ranged around lier in a circle.
For a moment there was no response
to her question. Then a bright-look-
ing girl timidly raised a little band.
"Ah! Julia has learned a verse," the
t-?ac-her said. "I am sorry that no more
hands are raised. I had hoped that
ever so many of you would get blue
cards to-day. But I suppose your
mammas and papas have been very
busy, and some of you forgot. Well,
Julia, let us bear you recite a verse."
" 'Walk in the light,' " the little girl
repeated.
Then a boy who sat near Julia put
up a band.
"Ob:" exclaimed the teacher, "Char-
lie has a verse, too. That was very
good, Julia.
"What is your verse, Charlie?"
" 'Walk in the light,' " responded
Charlie.
"Well," said the teacher, "you
learned the same verse, didn't you?
It's a very good verse too. 'Walk In
the light.' I hope we may all do so.
Now, is there auy one else who has
learned a verse? Why. I see, five, six,
seven, eight hands raised. I am proud
of you, children. We will hear from
Arthur first,"
" 'Walk in the light,' " said Arthur.
The teacher looked rather hard at
Arthur, and said:
"Gladys next. What is your verse?"
" 'Walk in the light,' " Gladys ans-
wered.
"Now, Gertrude, you have a splendid
verse, I know," said the teacher.
"Speak up loudly, so that all the chil-
dren may hear."
" 'Walk in the light!' " shouted Ger-
trude.
By that time all but a few of the
children who had not been heard from
were holding up their bands. The
teacher looked at a boy whose name
she had forgotten, and asked:
"What verse have you learned?"
" 'Walk in the light,' " replied the
whole crowd in chorus, each little one
apparently fearing that there would
not be another chance to win a blue
card.—Chicago Times-IIerald.
Boh't Stop Tobacco Suddenly
It injure* nervous system to do eo. BAro-
Ci MO i« tho only cuja tljat REALLY CURES
and notifies y.-u when ko atop. Bold with a
tuaraf u>e tfc*t three bekes will care any case.
T«0l?3n !» vegetublsaBd barmieia. It
? "J has Cured thousands, it will
Ono of Dick Turpin's Tunnels Found.
Shortly before 10 o'clock on Wed-
nesday night while returning from a
run with the well-known Highgate
Harriers, Thomas Henry Blake of
Kingsdown road, Holloway, was sud-
denly missed from the pack in South-
grove, Highgate. On his companions
going back in search of him, it was
discovered that there had been a sub-
sidence in the roadway, and that Blake
had disappeared into the cavity, which
was about six feet wide and fifteen
feet deep. Blake, who was seriously
injured about the legs, was pulled out
of the hole, and taken to the police
station close by. i)r. G.~ Fletcher, the
police divisional surgeon, attended to
his injuries, and then allowed him to
be taken home. The police informed
the local authorities of the subsidence,
and in a short time Mr. Blair, the sur-
veyor and engineer of the St. Pancras
Vestry, and other officials were upon
the scene. An examination of the cav-
ity led to the discovery that the upper
portion of a subterranean passage bad
collapsed, and on tracing the course of
this passage another was discovered.
The main tunnel, which is of consid-
erable circumference, leads on the left
to the Flask Tavern, in South Grove,
close to St. Michael's Church, and on
the right it is supposed to lead to the
open fields near Ken Wood, the seat
of the Earl of Mansfield. The Flask
Tavern, a very old house, is popularly
supposed to have been one of the
haunts of Dick Turpin, the notorious
cattle-lifter, smuggler, housebreaker
and highwayman. The house has nu-
merous and extensive cellars, with
trapdoors leading from the rooms
above, and close by is the stable which
is said to have sheltered Black Bess.
It is supposed that these subterran-
eous passages were constructed in or-
der to give a ready means of escape
from the house in times of danger.—
London Standard.
tun' you. .a ail druscelfits ot by mail prepaid,
> 1 a box ; 3 boxes £3.5J. Booklet free. Write
Fureka Chemical Co., La Croise, Wis.
Feathers W A N T E D inyaFqu ^ntit11 kl^ds
V^to<bida3r °f rec®iPt ft highest rDarket^pri^s"
N° WAlY^SfiiV N^fkVrila,a-
WHOLESAU 1848.
N«. 4 south .Hsl i street, St. Louis, Mo.
The Poor College Student.
There are hundreds of ways in which
the clever college man of to-day can
earn a reasonable income without re-
sorting to all the makeshifts of the
old charity student. The opportunities
for a shrewd business fellow to turn
liis time into money are perhaps more
numerous than in the outside world
itself. The athletic organizations—in
the way of collections on a percentage
basis—and the undergraduates' publi-
cations offer attractive fields of work.
There are advertising schemes with-
out end—books on college life, college
song-books, books of college photo-
graphs, programmes for the big athle-
tic games, and so ou. The profits that
a clever advertiser can make out of
these last will be understood when it
is stated that some years ago the mere
privilege of publication was sold for
$2.r>00. Then there are delinquent stu-
dents to be tutored and "digests'' to
be issued; newspapers to be corre-
sponded with—a fertile money-making
field. There have been known "poor
men" whose income has reached from
$3,000 to $5,000 a year during their
college course. Indeed, many have
found it so profitable that for two or
three years after graduation they have
maintained a nominal connection with
the college for the sake of the money
to be made out of it. Many a poor
man has found the utmost difficulty,
for some years after completing his
college course, in making half the in-
come earned while "working his way."
— New York Post.
the Job, because in that case ke had no
load to corry. To see him manoeuvring
to get to the front was very comical.
The regulation pack weigs 200 pounds,
and the mules soon learn to size it up
to a nicety, refusing to carry anything
ir ore. For that reason they are blind-
folded while being loaded, otherwise
they would be continually looking
around to see whether the pack was in-
side the limit.
"On one occasion we received a coffin
to be sent to Siboney and the old mule
I referred to was selected to carry it.
The coffin weighed only twenty-five
pounds, but the mule must have con-
cluded from its size that it weighed a
ton. and he immediately began to
groan in the most pitiful manner, ex-
actly like a human being. When the
coffin was put on his back he pretend-
ed to stagger and sagged down as if
be was carrying a ten-inch gun. At
the same time he turned his head and
looked at me with a mournful ex-
presssion that was as easily read as so
much print. We were all shrieking with
laughter and tried to make him take
his place in line, but not an inch would
helie budge. Finally, he deliberately
rolled over and knocked the coffin off.
That settled it. We let the old rascal
take the bell, and I could almost hear
him chuckling as it was looped around
his neck. Another mule was then
blindfolded and took on the coffin with-
out trouble."—New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
Vne. »r.
The Cunning of Paek Mu!cs,
"A pack mule that has seen service
gets very cunning," said the ex-soldier,
"i remember Ave had one fellow who
! had been in the army for twelve or
tjfu'fR years, and he knew ns much as
j most of the men. He was occasionally
i used as leader, and was very fond of
Kentucky Tars Serensde a Crowd. •
Far up in the military masts of the
battleship Kentucky two jackies perch-
ed and sang a midnight serenade as the
ship swung down East River from the
Brooklyn Navy Yard on her way to
Tompkinsville.
On the Brooklyn bridge the trolley
cars bad come to a standstill owing
to an accident, and hundreds of pas-
sengers alighted, and peering through
the guard rails saw the oncoming bat-
tle ship, and many observed that her
'all military masts reached nearly to
the flooring of the bridge. They did
not know her name, however, and a
passenger put his hanels to his mouth
and shouted ih sailor fashion:
"Ship ahoy, ahoy."
Scarcely had the cry been given
when back came the reply:
"Ahoy, my hearties. We're the Ken-
tucky, seaward bound, and—
"She was bred in old Kentucky,
-Where the meadow grass is blue.
There's the sunshine of the country,
In her face and manner too."
The crowd listened a moment and
then gave wild cheers. The Kentucky
passed quickly bemeath the bridge, but
the clear voices of the jackies could
be heard until the battleship was lost
sight of far down stream.—Correspon-
elence, Chicago Record.
ADVANTAGES OP P1ELD HOWITZERS.
Refrizeratioa Up to Date.
An entirely new method of domestic
refrigeration is shown among the ex-
hibits at the National Export Exposi-
tion. Instead of elelivering blocks of
ice to put into house refrigerators, the
company having the exhibit delivers a
galvanized 6ht?et iron can filled with
water and sealed up. The water is
frozen when delivered, antl the com-
pany replaces It with a similar can
the next day, taking away the first one
to be refrozen. The advantage claimed
is that the ice melts more slowly, and
that the ice water, which is retained,
inste'ael of running away as soon as
melteel, remains to keep the refrigera-
tor cool. For ice pitchers small nick-
el plateel balls or shells, like eggs, are
filled with water and frozen in like
manner anel kept in the refrigerator
until wanted for use. One advantage
claimed is that the refrigerator is kept
dry at all times. The moist air eiuickly
condenses its moisture on the surface
of the cans.—Philadelphia Exposition
Bulletin.
The Passing of the Crocodile,
To say that the crocodile has seen his
best elays is but feebly to express the
rapidity with which he is lapsing into
the class of extinct animals. As a fea-
ture of modern Egypt he is perhaps
rather a curiosity than a plague; and
the traveler has to get far beyond
the regions of the Delta before he can
begin to hope for the chance of being
introduceel to one. Crocodile stories are
no longer told; in fact, it Is safer to
trust to the sea serpent. Nothing can
make the crocodile attractive, anel even
the man with the camera is shy of
treating him as a subject—whether for
personal or artistic reasons is not quite
clear. Possibly, the crocoelile resents
being focusseel as ho formerly shrank
from confrontation with a mirror—an
ordeal whie:h often leel to his dying of
chagrin, as was supposeel, at the sight
of his own ugliness. Moreover, the
experienced photographer is wise in
' taking no risks," remembering that
tiie crocodile's tears are only a natural
solvent which the saurian applies to
the tougher form of animal food.—Lon-
don Globe.
Long Ride for a Nickel
The longest ride in the worlel for 5
cents can be enjoyeel in New York
City, if one has the endurance. It
may not be exactly honest, but there
is none to object, and no one will hin-
der a trial of it, as has been provc-el by
actual experience. Get on a West Siele
"IS' car at say looth street. At the
Battery, of course, one can transfer to
the East Side without eiuestion, anel
riele to 177th street. That alone is all
an ordinary, person cares to ride for
one nickel. He who is not satisfied
with this can get off at some station on
the East Side whore the platform is
between the tracks. He can walk
ae'ross it anel board a car going in the
other direction, and. returning by way
of South Ferry, go north again on the
West Side to a place in Harlem where
the station is between the tracks.
There let him repeat his transfer, as
on the East Side, and thus ride back
and forth like a shuttle as long as he
pleases. The only eliffieulty will be to
get fooel and sleep. The moment he
sleep a guard will put him off.—New
York Mail anel Express.
lost Effective in Dislodging an Enemy from
Behind Rocks.
Several batteries of fielel-nowitzera
,vill be adeled soon, it is expecteel, to
:he artillery equipment of the United
States Army. The advantages claim-
;<1 for the howitzers are based mainly
>n the superior advantages afforded in
shrapnel fire. Only recently three full
lowitzer batteries were despatched
from England to South Africa, and
>rdnance officials here are keenly
iwaiting news of the performance of
die guns.
The English weapons have a calibre
jf about five inches. In many respects
lie English howitzer resembles the
120-millimetre field-gun of the French
irmy. It was the rapiel-fire mechanism
>f the latter gun which Dreyfus was
jliargea with having disclosed to a
foreign Power. Both the English and
French howitzers possess the short,
;tumpy barrels peculiar to weapons of
ibis type. The carriages are con-
structed with a view to rapid fire, and
ire provieled with mechanism for ab-
sorbing the recoil. Elevation and
train are effected by the usual me-
chanical gear worked under the breech
Df the gun. The British are operating
:he howitzers in full batteries, and in-
dependent of the long-calibred field-
511ns. The French follow the practice
3f distributing the howitzers among
lie field-batteries. The recent order
reducing the French field-batteries
from six to four guns will result, it is
thought, in combining the howitzers in-
to inelependent organizations.
In elisloelging an enemy from behind
rocks and light breastworks, the most
effective form of projectile known to-
lay is the shrapnel. The shrapnel shell
is burst into the air over the enemy's
position, and the small balls contained
within are projected onward anel
downward. The general trend of
shrapnel balls assumes the shape of
i cone inverted. The ordinary field-gun
:>f three-inch calibre has an effective
•shrapnel range of about 3,500 yords.
At this range the energy of shrapnel
balls in order to inflict dangerous
wounds upon horses sholud be about
282 foot-pounds. This requires for the
smallest-sized bullets, forty-two to the
pounel, a remaining velocity of about
■$74 feet per second, and which corre-
sponels to a muzzle velocity of about
1,000 foot-seconels. This latter is the
designed muzzle velocity for the now
rapid-fire field-guns of the United
States.
The howitzers, owing to their great-
er calibre, admit of using an enormous
number of small balls. The gun is
primarily a sliarpnel weapon. In point
of range and penetrating power it is
not the equal of the smaller-calibreel
but longer-barrelled field-gun. The
howitzer, orelnance officials in Wash-
ington say, has a specific part to play,
the same as the siege-gun, anel for
work such as the British have cut out
for their troops in South Africa, dis-
lejdging an enemy from behind rocks,
the howitzer has no superior. It is
noteworthy that for several years past
the Germans have been assigning one
or more howitzers jjositions o« a
number of their war-ships, it being
recognized that the high-angled how-
itzer fire cannot be equalled by the fire
of h'*rh-velocity, lower-caltbred guns.
The German war-ship howitzers are
designed especially for service in clear-
ing out coast pits containing disappear-
ing guns.—New York Post.
NEWS CARRIED QUICKLY.
hystericus Means of Communication of the
Natives of India and Sonth Africa.
Reward for Llt«*ry Work.
James I., on March 8, 1803, grante*
letters patent under tho great seal t«
John Stowo (London's great historian)
authorizing him to beg. The letter*
patent of Jame3 I. authorized Stowe
collect the voluntary contributions ol
the people. The letters recite that
"Whereas, our loving subject, Jahs
Stowe (a very aged and worthy mem-
ber of our city of LondonJ, this flv«
end forty years hath to his great
charge, and with neglect of his ordi-
nary means of maintenance (for th«
general good, as well of posterity as
of the present age), complied and pub-
lished diverse necessary book and
chronicles; and, therefore, we, in en-
couragement to the like, have in oui
royal inclination been pleased to grant
cur letters patent under our great sea:
of England, dated March 8, .1603, there-
by authorizing him to collect amongst
our loving subjects their voluntary
contributions and kind gratuities.'
John Stowe died on April 5, 1605. and
was buried in the parish church of St
Andrew Undershaft, where hi3 monu-
ment, erected by his widow, is still *
be seen.
"Everything comes to the man who "waite,"
but it's different with some women.
nfw cn 1>!« 1an*b.
France is absolutely dependent upon Eng.
land for news of the Transvaal war, because
the cables are under her control, and she is
ready to spend a vast sum of money to free
herself. This is like many people, who, after
allowing dyspepsia to settle upon them, spead
a fortune seeking deliverance. Save your
money a,nd try Hostettera Stomach Bitters,
tho medicine which never falls to cure dys-
pepsia, constipation, biliousness, malaria
fever and ague.
The divorce judge {lays into the hands of
the seooad-hand furniture dealer.
Pont Tooacco Spit cud Smoke Tour Lift Away*
To quit lotoaoco easily and forever, be mac
cstlc. full of ilifen nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All diruiggists, 50c or f 1. Cure guaran-
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterlina liemeiy Co., Chicago or Now York.
Hope is a bubble the unsuccessful man
blows and blows until it bursts.
To Care Conatipatlon Forever#
Take Casearets Candy Cathartic. IGoorSSc.
If C. C. C. fail to cure, druecists refuad monev.
a true love knot is snid t3 be the top-knot
of a woman's happiness-
Both South Africa and British pa-
pers refer to the keen interest taken
by the natives in the two countries
in the war between the British and
the Boers. A regular system of com-
munication is said to have been es-
tablished between stations on the west
and the northwest frontier of India
and the hill country, by which all in-
formation concerning the progress of
the war is transmitted with extraordi-
nary rapidity among the tribesmen.
How it is done is a mystery yet un-
solved; but one Indian paper affirms
that the news of the beginning of hos-
tilities in South Africa was already
known across the frontier when it was
received at Peshawur by telegraph.
The effect of it was seen in the agita-
tion that began among the tribes, and
in a call sent out by the Mullah of
Povindah for 3,000 men to assemble,
ostensibly to march against some re-
calcitrant chieftains. He also issued
a proclamation ascribing the defeats of
the tribesmen last year to the want of
harmony among them, and pointing
out that if they wanted to recover
their independence they must rise all
together. In consequence of this agita-
tion a British force has been sent to
the frontier to the point threatened.
A Ithodesian paper, in announcing
the outbreak of the *war laments the
absence of telegraphic communication
between Beira and the coast towns of
Xatal and Cape Colony, by which news
could be received of the progress of
hostilities, and says that if all other
means of communication fail, they will
have to fall back upon the native house
boys. It says that it has certainly
been more than surprising in previous
ed to possess. An instance is given
in which during the last Mashona war,
the Mashonas in the Umtali district
knew of the battle at the Shangani
River on the evening of the same day
on which it was fought. How sucb
spee<ft>f communication was secured
is still a puzzle. Whether it was done
by shouting from hill to hill, or by
fleet runners in relays, the result, the
covering of 400 miles in eight hours,
was a marvel.
A Remarkable Woman-
"What is there so remarkable about
bei V"
"Why, she's a woman who never
kept house in her life, and yet she
doesn't think she could settle the ser-
vant-girl problem."—Chicago Post.
Deadly War Missiles.
In 1870 an ordinary shell when - it
burst broke into from nineteen to thir-
ty pieces. To-day it bursts into 240.
Shrapnel fire in 1S70 scattered only
thirty-seven death dealing missiles.
Noty it scatters 340. A bomb weighing
about seventy pounds thirty years ago
would have burst into forty-two frag
ments. To-day. when it is charged with
peroxilene, it breaks up into 1,200
pieces, each of which is hurled with
much greater velocity than the larger
lumps which were scattered by a gun-
powder explosion.—Chicaeo Democrat.
riT'n-i'T-Mltri tfiiil '
You
It's too risky, this
gambling with your
cough. You take the
chance of its wear-
ing off,. Don't 1
The first thing
you know it will be
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lungs and the game's
lost. Take some of
Ayer's Cherry Pec-
toral and stop the
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cough.
"I was given tip to die with
quick consumption. I ran down
from 138 to 98 pounds. I raised
blood, and never expected to get
off my bed alive. I then read of
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its use. I commenced to improve
at once. I am now back to my
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health." — Chas. E. Haejtman,
Gibbstown, N. Y., March 3, 1899.
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You can now get Ayer's
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Keet
The dollar size is best to
ecp
on hand, and is most economical
for long-standing cases.
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Fertilizers containing at least
8 to 10% of Potash will give
best results on all fruits. Write
for our pamphlets, which ought
to be in every farmer's library.
They are sent free.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
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years. I ran across your CASCARETS In th®
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C. H. Keitz, ltu Jones St., Sioux City, la.
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For registering th© results of a foot
/ace the human ey« and voice seem
■onetimes painfully Inadequate. Clon
contests of this kind will doubtless
end more pleasantly when the new
"judging machine," described by tho
Sol den Penny, comes into general use.
The machine, which was invented by
tn Australian, is designed to be placed
at the finish line, and consists of a
light metal frame partitioned into two
>r more divisions, each about four feet
wide. On the top of the frame stands
& small cabinet containing numbered
iivlslons corresponding to the num-
bers of the tracks. The instant the
Irst man passes through hi3 division
l shutter falls, disclosing his track
lumber. The other numbers are Im-
mediately locked, except when the ma-
chine is set for final heats. In this
>ase a small cylinder is attached to
she machine, and a hammer head
itrlkes a mark on the revolving cylin-
ler as th# men finish. Thus the exact
positions of all the competitors can be
»ld to a nicety. The sams inventor
fcas eritflnated an automatic Judging
naehlne for bicycle races. It consists
»f flae, light metal strip* placel in a
mall tre«ch about two Inches wide,
irhich is sunk across the track at the
lKlsfe. I>urlng the last lap thsse strips,
irfelcj) are coated with enamel, are
placed la position by means of a lever,
ind the first wheel to cross receives
marks. In crossing, however, it
lispiaces one of t,he strips, and the
next wfe^el. therefore, only receives
!our maxka the third three, tnd so on.
A
LAgbtlove—At In at, dear Sophia, we
are aleoe^ and I can tell you that I
lo Bopbla—Oh, please, no—Mr.
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lore—Why not? There are no witness-
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Woman
is Mrs, Pinkham. Hoi*
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under her own super"
vision.
Every wont&n oa this
continent should under*
stand that she can write
frenly i° Mrs. Pinkham
about her physical con"
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ham is
A woman
and because Mrs» Pink-
ham never violates con-
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Lydia E. Pinkham's
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Wild WitSi
ECZEMA
Hands and Limbs Covered with Blisters and
Great Red Blotches. Scratched Until Almost
Wild. Burned Like Fire. Sleep Impossible.
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f )
I was a sufferer for eighv years from that most distressing of
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were covered and would become
inflamed ; little white blisters at
first would appear, then they
would peel off, leaving a red,
smooth surface which would burn
like fire and itch; well, there is
no name for it. On the inside
ol the upper part of both my
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JOHN D. PORTE, Pittsburg, March 1, 1899.
Of JOHN D. Porte & Co., Real Estate and Insurance,
428 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburg, Fa.
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