WtWfifh'i lliliitti CANAL TO mm YAZOO IN FRONT OP X X X CITY. y 1Rfc;*r Tto WiU-Kimb Kum Stitim, 6ind af Citarrb •f (to Stomch ty N-n-H. ARER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS' SUFFERING. More Evidence of Interest to the Millions of Catarrh Sufferers in the United States. HON. I. D. BOTKIN, CONGRESSM 4N-AT-LARGE FROM KANSAS. O;OJ:\O;O;O;O:OO;O.O;O;OQ;O;O;O:O;O;O;O:OX>:O:O:O' In a recent letter to Dr. Hartman, Congressman Botkln, of Wlnfleld, Kan., Whose fame is a national one, says of Peruna: My Dear Doctor:--"Itgivea too pleasure to certify to the exeellent curative qualitie» of your medicines--Peruna and Manalln. I have been afflicted more or lest for a quarter of a century with catarrh of the stomach and constipation. A residence in Washington has Increased these troubles. A few bottles of your medicine have given me almost complete relief, and I am sure that a continua tion of them will effect a permanent cure. edy tor catarrhal affections.' CONGRESSMAN BOTKIN Is one of the most influential and best known men in the State of Kan sas. Whatever he may say on any subject will be accepted by the people as the. truth. So famous a remedy as Peruna could not have well escaped the attention of so famous a man. He not only has heard of the remedy, but he has used it and was relieved of an af fliction of twenty-five years' standing. Peruna is the one internal remedy that cures chronic catarrh. It cures catarrh •wherever located. This is a fact that the people are rapidly finding out, 'but there are still a large multitude who need to know it Mr. Frank Richter, of Winona, Minn., says in a letter to The Peruna Medicine Company: "As a remedy for catarrh I take pleasure in recommending Peruna for catarrh of the stomach. I know what it is to be afflicted with this awful dis ease and consider it my duty to say a word in behalf of the remedy which gave me such relief. Peruna cured me, and I know it will cure any one else who suffers from this disease. It gives me great pleasure to testify to the cur ative effects of this medicine. Peruna is a well tested and frequently used remedy, and for catarrh of the stom ach it is unsurpassed. "My catarrh was principally located in my head and stomach. I tried many remedies without success. I tried sev eral doctors but they were unable to cure me. I read of Peruna in the pa pers and five bottles cured me."-- Frank Richter. The gastric juice is secreted by the mucous follicles of the stomach. When this juice is normal it digests (dis- : solves) the food without producing any disturbance whatever. If, however, the ' gastric juice is not normal, digestion ! causes many disagreeable symptoms. This condition Is Jcnown as indigestion. Peruna is surely a wonderful rem- D. Botkln, Congressman-at-Large. Mrs. Selina Tanner. Peruna will cure this. Mrs. Selina Tanner, AthMH a, writes: "I cannot find words to express my thanks for your kind advice, I never once thought I had ca tarrh of the sto mach. I com menced taking Peruna as you directed. My sto mach continued to hurt me for about two weeks after I began the m e d i c i n e a n d then it stopped. I now have a good a p p e t i t e w h i l e b e f o r e I w a s nearly starred." --Mrs. Selina Tanner. Mr. I* O. Marble, of Geneva, Neb., writes: "I do believe that my catarrh is en tirely cured. I have not had any trouble with my stomach for a long time. I am as well as one of my age could expect (seventy years). I have had the ca tarrh ever since I was a young man, and have doctored for it for years and got very little better, but thanks to you and your Peruna and Manalin I believe I am well of it. I can eat anything now and it doesn't hurt me, and Peruna is the only thing I have ever found that will cure the catarrh. I believe it is the only cure for catarrh, and I hope every one troubled with catarrh will try Pe runa and be cured."--L. O. Marble. If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Pe runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give yon his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, president of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. - NOTICE. On and after January 1, 1901, we will sell direct to contractors, consumers or any other parties desiring to buy lumber, lath shingles or any Kind of building mm':: material, Having them a middle- Send in your lists profit for estimates Correspondence promptly MIS- JOHN E. BURNS LCMBEB CO., 40 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ui. Long Distance Phones, Monroe 211, Monroe 290. lift OR 4 YEARS IN INDEPENDENCE ISSUED | It you take up your home In Western Can ada,the land of plenty. 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Since the end of De cember more than a mile of it has been excavated, and soon steamers will be running from the Mississippi be low town to the front of the old ware house, while tiie dredges are working their way across the Centennial lake toward Iks Tasoo. It is now twenty- flvs years sines the Mississippi, cutting through a narrow neck of land near Dslta, LA,, abandoned the frowning bluffs which Pemberton's cannon had defended thirteen years earlier. The channel through which, in the face of "Whistling Dick" and other Parrot rifles Grant had run his ironclads, became a body of stagnant water-- Centennial lake--and the river, merely touching the hills two miles south of the city, coursed away through its an cient channel. At high water steamers could pass inioCentennial lake through West pass, and so by a cut at the foot of De Soto island reach the city. No strsst car line was ever built from the town to the new levee--the business ssnter remained on the shore of the lake and all communication between there and the river was by hack and by mule-hauled drays. So Vicksburg stood still, to the grsat profit of Natchez and Greenville. The Yazoo river runs into an abandoned channel known as the "Old river," and so into the Mississippi ten miles above Vicksburg. Prom Centennial lake to the nearest point of Old river is but three miles. Government engineers, therefore, conceived that by cutting a canal across there and another up the old levee front of Vicksburg--the chan nel having been already obliterated-- and by damming West pass and the mouth of the Old river they could bring the Yazoo down by Vicksburg to scour an artificial channel. The Tasoo is a river of considerable cur rent Contracts for accomplishing this work have been let from time to time during the last nine years. Companies have sent dipper dredges, removed thousands of yards of material from the canal and abandoned the task as Impossible of accomplishment. The Atlantic, Gulf ft Pacific company fin ally secured the contract, work to be begun not later than Jan. 1 ot this year, and at least 200,000 cubic yards ot material to be removed monthly thereafter until the whole was accom plished. It was estimated that 7,600,- 000 yards must be mover to oonstruct a canal nine miles long, ninety feet wide at the bottom, having sides "slop ing one foot in five, and having its bottom five feet below sero of the river gauge at VickrtSurg." The material is silt, clay and sand, and the contract price is 12 2-6 cents a yard. Included in this price is a certain amount of levee work, consisting chiefly of the West pass dam across Centennial lake, which will require 2,000,000 yards of material. To accomplish this work ths companv to Vicksburg two cen trifugal suction dredges, delivering ma terial through pipe lines. They wsrs put to work late in December. At ths same time an eight-yard dipper dredge, with a capacity of 100,000 yards a month, was begun on the spot, and is now almost completed. One dredge, known as "No. 5," is a typical mod ern sand cutter. It is equipped with a set of revolving knives at the end of a long "ladder," having a suction pipe in the ladder opening back of the knives. The latter are turned by an engine at ths head of the ladder. An eighteen-inch suction pipe leads to a centrifugal pump, driven by a triple expansion marine engine at 200 revo lutions a minute. From this leads a pipe line over a row of pontoons, where flexibility is provided by rubber Joints and then over the land to the shore of De Soto island. The dredge has two "swinging" lines running from either bow, and swings upon a "spud" aft, so as to cover the whole channel. In January this dredged 160,000 yards of material, while the other one, "No. 4," which was shut down for some time, dug out 100,000 yards. It should be understood that these dredges are cutting against a bank from one to twenty feet higher than the water they float in. It will thus be seen that these dredges earned in a single month $32,240, and they will draw this much from the government appropriation, the work having been accepted to date. In an average month these two dredges will cut 300,000 yards at no greater ex pense, earning over $37,000. This must cover levee work and all other ex- To Run 155 Miles an Hour Such Speed Proposed to be Attained on an Electric Railway In Germany. ) ®®00®®®(SXSXX)®^ Germany intends leading the way in the matter of ideal railroad transpor tation, and through the secretary of war has placed at the disposal of an electric company the military line be tween Berlin and Jossen, upon which It Is proposed to run electric cars at a rate of 155 miles an hour. There seems to be no doubt in Ger many that this enormous speed will be attained, and with full government support and endorsement the result, if possible,. will be reached. The work is to be accomplished during the pres ent year. In this country the German attempt is regarded favorably. A. M. Young, of New York, an expert electric railway constructor, says that the attainment Of a speed of 155 miles an hour would not surprise him, and he adds that he expects to see In this country electric trains running at the rate of 100 miles an hour, and that before long. Charles W. Price, editor of ths Elec trical Review, has this to say: I see no reason why 150 miles an hour should not be covered by an elec tric train. It is entirely feasible, and, indeed, speaking with experts some time ago on this very subject, they be said 200 miles an hour would not Impossible. Other persons In position to speak authoritatively speak well of the pro ject and predict that electricity will be the motive power of the future. Ohio . William, G. Gehrung, a farmer ot Dresden, O., has been fined $26 by his neighbors for eavesdropping over ths Independent party telephone. Some time ago the farmers organized a tel ephone company. When the telephones were put in, the party principle was employed, and half a dozen 'phones were put on the same line. This ar rangement is such that when one tele phone bell rings all ring. For weeks the subscribers have been trying to find out who was listening when they talked. Green and Brown were talk ing over the line one day when they heard another subscriber take down his 'phone. Then they heard the clear tones of a clock striking. Green and Brown knew the clock, from its pecu liar tons, and that it belonged to Geh rung.--Philadelphia Record. KAPFIR HOUSEHOLD LAWS The duties of husband and wife are distinctly defined among the Kaffirs of South Africa. The husband does not expect his wife to build the kraal, or hut. That Is his work. It takes from 800 to 1,000 young trees -to make the beehive kind ot dwelling which is in favor, and which is excellently adapted for protection. When the husband has erected the hut it is the wife's place to cut grass, carry it home and thatch the kraal once a year. She looks after all that is needed in the hut, cooks the food, gets the firewood, and makes the beer, which is not a small task, for the men drink it in immense quantities. It is made from millet and mealies, and is mild but Intoxicating. Until quite recently everything was carried on the head. A Zulu woman CHANGE THE WORLD'S MAP.' will carry 200 EM this fashion. p&r Scared the Toothache Oat of Him.' A novel cure for the toothache was inadvertently applied by Dr. Parmer- tier at Tremont, N. Y. A man, suffer ing from a raging tooth, called at ths dentist's house at night, forgot to ring the bell, found the outer door open, entered the hall, unintentionally step ped on a burglar alarm and brought the dentist to the dark hall with a pistol in his hand. The dentist threat ened to shoot and the visitor was so terrified that the ache departed from his chattering teeth. /-V "T Bsetat Kventa Bars Poiilsd Sta danta of Geogrr • phy. Why, where is Patagonia? was the astonished query recently put to me by an old schoolmate, as, carelessly turn ing the leaves of his little son's geogra phy, he suddenly came upon a recent map of South America, says a writer in Scribner's Magazine. The boundaries which we boys had once regarded as oommutable had changed, and the map, which ths vivid impression of youth had engraved firmly upon our memory, was no longer in existence. Ths experience of my friend, a man of considerable intelligence, is not an Isolated instance. The rapidity of our geographical progress within the last decades has rendered it extremely dif ficult for the layman to follow ths sourse of events. In 1825 three great continents were practically unexplored. Australia, or New Holland, as it was then called, was nothing mors than a tsrra incognita--a mere geographical idea; the vast expanse of Africa--with the exception of the Mediterranean region and the little settlement at the eape--was still ths land of wonder and conjecture, and as it had bsen in ths * Ths tooth often bites the tongue, %nd yet they keep together. days of the Romans; while Central Asia, with its millions of Inhabitants, was effectively closed to Europeans. In the south nature had reared her mighty barrier, the Himalayas, and in the east we find China immured, both in a literal and figurative sense, within that gigantic wall of exclusiveness which seemed designed to screen for ever from the prying gaxe of the civil ized world the sacred and inviolable "empire of the sun." Yet it is upon the American continent that the most mar velous changes have been wrought-- changes whose magnitude we, the liv ing witnesses, can scarcely appreciate. As the rising flood Imperceptibly but steadily advances the water line, thus constantly altering the contour of ths beach, so the swelling tide of popula tion, surging westward, has, through this entire century, surely but inces santly pushed forward that long west ern boundary line of 1,600 miles, ths outlines of which have never for a moment remained the same. The only undertaker in ths United Statss ssnats is Mr. Warren of Wyo ming, whoss pises ot business It te Cheyenne. M«at Dtos in Warm € Mm r«s. It has been generally supposed that much meat in warm cliraates is not a guod thing, but one of the ablest army surgeons now declares that under the hot suns the carbon in a white man's blood is speedily oxidised and burned up by the sun, and a great deal of meat must be eaten to supply the waste, a Waller Scottfa Old Hi "Abbottsford," Walter Scott's beau tiful house, is to be let, with its 1.S00 acres of shooting. The novelist's fam ily have always found the place an expensive one to maintain. >It is now owned by his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Maxwell Scott. A Month's Test Free. It yon have Dynpepota, wrtt« Dr. Shoop Racine, Wis., Box 143, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop'a Restora tive, express paid. Sendno money. Pay SUV If cured. A woman who has no mind of her own to speak of is the first to give others a piece of it. tion't Urn* Tour Bssk by scrubbing clothes. Use Maple City Self Washing Soap. It makes washing day a pleasure. All grocers. "For my part," remarked the Chi cago woman, "I would be satisfied with a divorce." TO CURB A COLD IN ONE DAT. TAKE LAXATJCVS BBOMO QUINTS* TABLSTS. All druggists refund the money If it fails to oars. XL W. Grove's signature is on the box. 8Ba Lot's wife probably turned around to gurgle at the sinful baby that lived next door. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not spot, streak or give your goods an un evenly dyed appearance. Every man is all right in his way, but a lot of them are right in the wsy of others. Why experiment with untried rem edies for pain? Use Wizard Oil at ones and be happy. Your druggist has it. Dogs can't talk, but you always know what they mean. Boms folk are different. FITS Permanently Cured. Nofltoornervousasssaftsr lilt day's uxe of Dr. Kline's tireat Nerve Btttorar. Send for FREE S2.00 trial bottle and trsadss. Da. B. H. him, Ltd., Mi Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. The man who imagines that great wealth guarantees great happiness is a fool. W ANTETs-Men wfthrlgr to advertise and tatndaM Monarch Poultry Mixture. Straight salary <19.00 weekly and expenses. Address with staiap, Monarch Manufacturing Co., Box 689, Springfield. Illinois- It took 500,000 pounds ot candy to satisfy the Christmas demand in St. Louis. I am surs Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my lite tluee years ago.--Mrs. THOS. Bosoisa Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y.. Feb. 17,1000. 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Is it a wonder, therefore, that the doctor fails to cure the disease ? Still we cannot blame the woman, for it is very < barrassing to detail some of the symptoms of her suffering, even to her family physician. This is the reason why hundreds of thousands of women are now in corre spondents with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. To her they can give every symptom, so that when she is ready to advise them she is in possession of more facts from hear correspondence with the patient than the physician can possibly obtain through a personal interview. Following we publish a letter from a woman showing the result of a correspondence with Mrs. Pinkham. All suell letters are considered absolutely confidential by Mrs. Pinkham, and are never published in any way ipl manner without th* consent in writing of the patient: hit hundreds of women are so grateful for the health which lira. Pinkham and her medicine have been able to restore to " that they not only consent to publishing their letters, bat write asking that this be done in order that other womeb who may be benefited by their experienofe Mrs. Ella Rice, Chelsea, Wis., writes i "DEAR Mas. PINKHAM:--For two years I was troubled with tnH inflammation of the womb. 1 suffered very much with pains, headache, backache, and was not able to do anything. What 1 endured no one knows but those who have suffered as I did. I coold hardly drag myself across the floor. I doctored with the physicians of this town for three months and grew worse instead of better. My husband and friends wished me to write to you, but I had no faith in patent medi cines. At last I became so bad that I concluded to ask your advice. I received an answer at once advising me to take your Vegetable Compound, and I did so. Before I had taken two bottles I felt better, and after I had •niror, five bottles there was no happier woman on earth, for I was wall strain. I know that your Vegetable Compound cured me, and 1 wish and Mvise every woman who suffers as I did to try Lydia E. Plnkhass's VS(S» table Compound. Believe me always grateful for the recovery «t mj health."--MKS. ELLA RICE, Chelsea, Wis. $ 5000 REWARD Owing to the fact that i icople have from time to time . be genuiaaawaof tha I II H iiaiiaial bi Wis we are constantly pabliafciaf, wa kawa deposited with the National City Bank, Lrnn, Maw., fans, which will b« paid to aajr person who w31 show that the MOW testimonial is not mania*, or was publwinq before ootMUM ths writer's •pecial persuasion.--LYDIA E.PWUUM MSDICWS C*. ^5 II W. L DOUGLAS $31 $3.50 SHOES 1st The real worth of W. X. Donriu 9SAO and MM Shoes compared with other ma£«s is S4UH) to KkOa _ Our S4.00 Ollt Kdjn Line cansot be equalled at nay priee. 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