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4&V s 1^1' CHAPTER XXV.--Continued. The, sun came on,valiantly stripped ^1 7*p5are, knowing what was to be. Still louder rose the requiem of the wire, k*-'"_"'| "SThe sky smiled on. There was no token to strike with alarm thes: hu- '4'f. .i^nan beings, their faculties diillod by thousand years of differential'on. To the north there appeared a long:. ,black cloud, haneini; low as the trail of some far-off locomotive, new upon the land. All at once the cloud sprang up. unfurling: tattered battle, flaps, and hurrvinp: to meet the sun upon the zenith battle ground. Once the wind pelted the slant snow through the interstices of the grasses upon the furry back of the cowering coyote. Now they found a new sport in driving the icy powder through the cracks of the loose board shanty, upon the stripped back of the mother hud­ dling her sobbing children against .the empty; impotent stove, perhaps wrap­ ping he." young in the worn and whit­ ened robe of the buffalo taken years ago. For it was only the buffalo, though now departed, which held the frontier for America in this unpre­ pared season, the Christmas (ft the Great Cold. The robes saved many of the children, and now and then a mother also. | The men who had no fuel did as their natures bid, some dying at the ice-bound stove and others in the oiien on their way for fuel. Mishap passed by but few of the remoter homes found unprepared with fuel, and Christmas day. deceitfully fair, dawned on many homes that were to be fatherless, motherless, or robbed of a first-born. Thus it was that from this, the hardiest and most self-re- llant population ever known on earth, there rose the heartbroken cry for comfort and for help, the frontier for the first time begging aid to hold the skirmish line. Sam Poston came into the office With perfect horsemanship Sam drove his team rapidly on to the south, five miles, ten miles, fifteen, the horses now warming up, but still restless and nervous, even on the way so familiar to them from their frequent journeyings. The steam of their breath enveloped the travelers In a wide, white cloud. The rude runners crushed into and over the packed drifts, or along the sandy grime where the wind had swept the earth bare of snow. In less than an hour they .would see the Halfway House. They would know whether or not there was smoke. But in less than two hours on that morning of deceit the sun was lost again. The winds piped up. the cold continued, ard again there came the binding snow, wrapping all things in its dancing, dizzy mist. "The wind's ' just on mv right cheek." said Sam. putting up a mit­ ten. "But v.'herc's it gor.e?" '"You're frozen, man!" cried Frank­ lin. "Pull up, atld let me rub your face." ' l js No. ho. we can't stop." said Sam, j catching up some*snow and rubbing I his white cheeks as he drove. "Keep i the wir.d on your right cheek--we're I over the Sand Run now, I think, and j on the long ridge, back of the White Woman. It can't be over two miles more. Git along, boys. Whoa! What's the matter there?" The horses had stopped plunging at something which they could not pass. "Good God!" cried Franklin, "whose fence is that? Are we at Buford's?" "No," said Sam, "this must be at old man Hancock's. He fenced across the old road, and we had to make a jog around his d d broom-corn field. It's only a couple o' miles now to Buford's." "Shall I tear down the fence?" ask­ ed Franklin. "No, it's no use; it'd only let us in SV'r-' m "Whoa, Jack! Whoa, Bill! Git out o' here!' pi • v • where Franklin sat on Christmas eve, listening to the clinking rattle of the hard snow on the pane. Sam was white from head to foot? His face was anxious, his habitual uncertainty and diffidence^ were gone. "Cap," said he, with no prelude, "the whole country below'll be froze out The blizzard's awful." "1 know it," said Franklin. "We must get out with help soon as we can. How far down do you think the danger line begins?" "Well, up to three or four miles out it's thicker settled, an' most o' the folks could git into town. As fur out as thirty mile to the south, they might git a little timber yet, over on the Smoky. The worst strip is fifteen to twenty-flye mile below." Franklin felt a tightening at his heart. "About fifteen to twenty flve miles?" he said. Sam nodded. Both were silent. }• "Look here. Cap," said the driver ^ '• presently, "you've alius told me not fbO say nuthin' 'bout the folks down to the Halfway house, an' I hain't ^ , «aid a thing. I 'low you got jarred ; .down there some. I know how that ;.i ; v I*. All the same, I reckon maybe you v , gorter have a leanin' that way still. %on may be worried some--" " Franklin groaned as he Bank into \'(j- chair, his face between his hands. :^."fh«i he sprang up. "We must go!" cried. "I know it," said Sam simply. "Get ready!" exclaimed Franklin, teaching for his coat. & "What do you mean, Cap--now?" p. ; "Yes, to-night--at once." •,]' II "You d d fool!" said Sam. ; ; i S ;'v"You coward!" cried FraDklin. *%Vhat! Are you afraid to go out vtirhen people are freezing--when--" ^ i Sam rose to his feet, his slow feat- %res working. "That ain't right, Cap," jpnid he. "I know I'm scared to do |.: x 'tome things, but I--I don't believe •$;* lf*m no coward. I ain't afraid to go ? : down there, but I won't go to-night, ' per let you go, fer it's the same as ' •, death to start now. We couldn't < maybe make it in the daytime, but fm willin' to try it then. Don't you eall no coward to me. It ain't right." Franklin again cast himself into his chair, his hand and arm smiting on t-h the table. "I beg your pardon, Sam," «aid he presently. "I know you're i not a coward. We'll start together in the morning. But it's killing me to wait* Good God! they may be freer- •• /los now, while we're here, warm and * i "that's so," said Sam sententious- ?T- We can't help it. We all got to Ajji.;." ,'tto some day." His words drove • cfV franklin again to his feet, and he £ "talked up and down, his face gone y. I";pinched and old. M,f At dawn the wind lulled. The ' M-^louds swept by and the sun shone x' tor 1311 hour over a vast landscape % juried under white. Sam was ready jfH •"> to start, having worked half the night >aaking runners for a sled at which v fcis wild team snorted in the terror ,t»f unacquaifitedness. The sled box was piled full of robes and coal and food and liquor--all things tha,t seem­ ed needful and which could hurriedly secured. . 0" his field, an' maybe we couldn't hit the trail on the fur side. We got to follow the fence a way. May God everlastingly damn any man that'll fence up the free range! Whoa. Jack! Whoa, Bill! Git out o' here! Git up!" They tried to parallel the fence, but the horses edged away from the wind continually, so that it was dif­ ficult to keep eye upon the infrequent posts of the meagre, straggling fence that this man had put upon the "pub­ lic lands." "Hold on, Sam!" cried Franklin. "Let me out." "That's right. Cap," said Sam. "Git out an' go on ahead a way, then hol­ ler to me, so'st I kin come up to you. When we git around the corner we'll be all right." But when they got around the cor­ ner they were not all right. At such times the mind of man is thrown off its balance, so that it does strange and irregular things. Both these men had agreed a moment ago that the wind should be on the right; now they disagreed, one thinking that Hancock's house. was to the left, the other to the right, their ideas as to the direction of the Buford ranch being equally at variance. The horses decided it, breaking once again down wind, and striking a low-headed, sul­ len trot, as though they would out­ march the storm. And so the two argued, and so they rode, until at last there was a lurch and a crash, and they found themselves in rough going, the sled half overturned, with no fence, no house, no landmark of any sort visible, and the snow drift­ ing thicker than before. They sprang out and righted the sled, but the horses doggedly pulled on. plunging down and down; and they followed, clinging to reins and sled as best they might. "We've lost the trail, but we done the best, we could," said Sam doggedly, going to the heads of the horses, which looked questioningly back at him, their heads drooping, their breath freezing upon their coats in spiculae of white. "Wait!" cried Franklin. "I know this hole! I've been here, before. The team's come here for shelter--" "Oh, it's the White Woman breaks --why, sure!" cried Sara in return. "Yes, that'R where it is. We're less than half a riHle from the house. Wait, now, and let me think. I've got to figure this out a while." "It's off there," said Sam, pointing across the coulee; "but we can't get there." "Yes, we can, old man; yes, we can!" insisted Franklin. "I'U tell you. Let me think. Good God! why can't I think? Yes--see here, you go down the bottom of this gully to the mouth of the coulee, and then we turn to the left--no, it's to the right--and you bear up along the side of the draw til youcget to the ridge, and then the house is right in front of you. Listen now! The wind's northwest, and the hbuse is west of the head of the cou­ lee; so the mouth js east of us, and that brings the wind on the left cheek at the mouth of the coulee, and it comes more and more on the right Pk cheek as we turn up the ridgr; and it's on the front half of the- right cheek when we face th6 house. I'm sure that's right--wait. I'll, mark it out here in the snow. God! how cold it is! It must be right. Come on; come! We must try it, anyway." "We may hit the house, Cap," said Sam calmly, "but If we miss it we'll go God knows where! Anyhow, I'm with you, an' If we don't turn up, we can't help it, an* "we done our best." "Come," cried Franklin once more. "Let's get to the mouth of the coulee. I know this place perfectly." And so, advancing and calling, and waiting while Sam fought the stub­ born horses with lasli and rein out of the shelter which they coveted, Franklin led out of the flat coulee, into the wider draw, and edged up and up to the right, agonizedly re­ peating to himseif, over and over again, the instructions he had laid down, and which the -dizzy whirl of the snow mingled evei; confusedly in his mind. At last they had the full gale again in their faces as they reached the level of the prairies, and jtast loose for what they thought was west, fearfully, tremblingly, the voy­ age a quarter of a mile, the danger infinitely great; for beyond lay only the cruel plains and the bitter storm --this double norther of a. woeful Christmastide. . Once asiain Providence aided them, by agency of brute instinct. One of the horses threw up its head and neighed, and then both pressed for­ ward eagerly. The low moan of penned cattle came (Town the wind They crashed into a fence of lath. They passed its end--a broken, rat­ tling end. that trailed and swept back and forth in the wind. "It's the chicken corral," cried Sam, "an' it's down! They've been burnin'--" "Go on! Go on--hurry!" shouted Franklin, bending down his head so that the gale might n<ft quite rob him of his breath, and Sam urged on the now willing horses. They came to the sod barn, and here they left the team that had sav ed them, not pausing to take them from the harness. They crept to the low and white-banked wall in which showed two windows, glazed with frost. They could see the chimney plainly, but it carried no smell of smoke. The stairway leading down to the door of the dugout was miss­ ing, the excavation which held it was drifted full of snow, and the snow bore no track of human foot. All was white and silent. It might have been a va^^-far* in the frozen northern A. ^ (To -be continued.) _ ±. UNCLE SAM'S OLD EMPLOYES. Gen. Ainsworth Advocates Reform in the Service. , Congressman Gillett's committee on reform in the civil service held anoth­ er interesting hearing to-day, says a Washington dispatch, at which Brig. Gen. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the rec­ ord and pension office in the war de­ partment, gave a forceful statement of his ideas, as the result of years of experiehce. Gen. Ainsworth favored security of tenure in office for govern­ ment employes and a retirement sys­ tem making it obligatory for em­ ployes to^ retire at the end of a long specified term of service, or after reaching a certain age. He said that until the civil service was placed on a similar basis to the war and navy departments, thus ridding the service of the dead wood, effective and eco­ nomical service could not be expect­ ed. He wculd have a general merit system in every branch of the serv­ ice, by which clerks would be rated, and would by this means eliminate all possibility of political influence in securing promotions for clerks. If the clerks were given the right to re­ tire at a certain time on half or three- fourths pay, they would devote their whole interest to doing good work, and not be dividing their interests in seeking employment outside by which to earn provision for old age. Gen. Ainsworth stated that the estimated cost of a retired list in the civil ser­ vice, the age of retirement being placed at 64 years, as in the army, would be, on a three-fourths pay basis, 10.19 per cent of the active list. If retired at 64 on half-pay, the cost would be 6.75 per cent of the active list. If the age of retirement should be placed at 70 years, the cost at three-fourths pay would be 5.25 per cent of the active list, and at half- pay 3.50 per cent of the active list. ADMIRAL TOGO'S CADET DAYS. Reminiscences of the Foremost Jap­ anese Admiral. A retired English naval officer, who, when a lad, was on board the train­ ing ship Worcester at the same time as the prominent Japanese Admiral Togo, tells the following reminis­ cences : Togo was constantly the vi&tim of all manner of chaff from the young Britishers on board, who called him "One-go-two-go-three-go." Disliked at first, perhaps because he was unlike his mates, he grew in popularity on account of his remarkably alert mind and agile body, until at length he be­ came a general favorite with officers and boys. He stood all chaff with a certain amount of bravado, unless it touched on his resemblance to the Chinese. To one fellow sailor who dubbed him a Chinaman lie said with emphasis: "Yon wait; when I am 'the' admiral I hang you on the yardarm." One day that Togo had his leave stopped for some small offense, "Lib­ erty boys to go ashore" was piped, and the boys went up to him and said, "Are you to go?" "No," he replied. Immediately the youngsters got round him and pinched him for telling lies, shouting at the same time, "You are Togo!" His Christian name being rather difficult to pronounce, Togo was told by one of the boys to shoot his god­ father and godmother on his return home. "We do not shoot gods in Japan," was his reply. Refused to Take Any Talk. Broker--What shall I do? My win won't be dictated t6! Friend--I don't blame her. Broker--But, man, I a&arrtod my stenographer. THE DANGER IN TUBERCULOSIS. ttl i^rei«w;e Frequently Unsuspected Until Too Late. "How do you know you haven't con­ sumption?" asks Eugene Wood in Everybody's Magazine. "Plenty of men have consumption and pass for having better than ordinary health. They are a little more subject to colds than other people, and their joints are sore all the time. They cough a good deal, but who coughs long, lives long. "Don't live in a fool's paradise. The worst thing about consumption is that it isn't suspected to be consumption until it gets so far along that the fight becomes a hard one to win. If you could detect it in its earlier stages before the system had become weak­ ened and worn out by the daily fever, you could easily get the Victory. In New York' the board of health will make a free microscopic examination of your sputum and tell you certainly whether it has tuberculosis germs in it or not. It ought to be so in every city, and in every village. It is the part of wisdom for a man to take stock of himself at least once a year on this point." An Ohio Notary. Salineville, O., May 23.--Mr. John W. Manning, Notary Public for Colum­ biana County, and one of the most re: spected men of the state, has [caused to be published the following letter: "About one year ago I was suffering terribly from Kidney Trouble. I saw an advertisement of a medicine called Dodd's Kidney Pills and sent for two boxes. "In the meantime, I suffered aw­ fully and as soon as I got the Pills, I began taking them according to direc­ tions and got almost immediate re­ lief and I have this further to say, that after using the two boxes, I have nev­ er been troubled with, my Kidneys since. "I have recommended Dodd's Kid­ ney Pills to others who have tried them, and everyone who used them has been cured. I think they are a great remedy and all that is claimed for them." Mr. Manning's letter Is a strong recommendation for Dodd's Kidney Pills and is worth the attention of all who suffer with Kidney troubles. Some Literary Inquiries. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Con­ gress, was for a long time connected with the Boston public library. While in Boston Mr. Putnam met with many ludicrous experiences. One day a very stern looking woman asked of the clerks for "The Recollec­ tions of a Liar." The clerk told her that he couldn't give her that book, but that he could give her "The Rec­ ollections of a Married Man." "That will do," she answered. "It's practically the same thing." Spring Fever. Spring fever is simply "that tired feel­ ing," a lassitude caused by a sluggish con­ dition of the blood. The liver and bowels need a cleaning out in the spring and noth­ ing is so effective and at the same time so pleasant to take as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Too many people make the skin do the work that the bowels and kidneys should do^ A bilious, constipated condition means a yellow skin, lusterless eyes, foul breath, and a general worn out feeling. All this can be remedied by the use of Dr. Caldwell's (Laxative) Syrup Pepsin, which is sold by all druggists and dealers iu medicine. An Unattractive Ruler. "When I saw his highness the Sul­ tan of Sulu," says J. Hogan in Every­ body's Magazine, "he was attired in tight-fitting, yellow-and-red striped trousers, a jacket of red silk with small white dots, black and white tur­ ban, and Chinese slippers. From his right hand flashed a large diamond, on his left he wore a beautiful pearl. He had a squat nose, blackened teeth, betel-red lips; he was not strong in uncompromising savary, but merely repulsive; a mixture of stupidity and viclousness. Weakness and vacilla­ tion dominated his expression." A Massachusetts 8nake Story. S. C. Bradley of Rockville and W. D. Cushman of Westfield had a quite remarkable experience hunting snakes In the North Cemetery in Tolland yes­ terday. They were at work when they noticed in a lot near by some black- snakes in the high, dry grass. Mr. Cushman at once began war on the snakes, and had a very lively skirmish for a few minutes, as some of the snakes were inclined to show fight. He killed ten, and only one or two got away. The last two were killed in a tree in which they had taken refuge. Mr. Cushman brought them to Rock­ ville in a big box. Tho largest snake measured almost six f jet long and the smallest snake was 3^4 feet long.-- Springfield Republican. WHAT THE KING EATS. What's Fit for Him. A Mass. lady who has been through the mill with the trials of the usual housekeeper and mother relates an Interesting Incident that occurred not long ago. She says: "I can with all truthfulness say that Grape-Nuts is the most beneficial of all cereal foods in my family, young as well as old. .It is foo^ and medi­ cine both to us. A fe4r mornings ago at breakfast my little boy said: " 'Mamma, does the King eat Grape- Nuts every morning?' •* "I smiled and told him I did not know, but that I thought Grape-Nuts certainly made a delicious dish, fit for a King." (It's a fact that the King of England and tha German Emperor both eat Grape-Nuts.) "I find that by the constant use of Grape-Nuts not only as a morning ce- real but also in puddings, salads, etc., made after the delicious recipes found in the little book in each package It is proving to be a great nerve food for me besides having completely cured a long standing case of indiges­ tion." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There is no doubt Grape-Nuts is the most scientific food in the world. Ten days' trial of this proper food in place of Improper food will show In steady, stronger nerves, sharper brain and the power to "go" longer and further and accomplish more. There's a reason. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to WeUvMe.* *4© In the Time of Prosperous Peace Let Us Remember Those Who Died to Make It 'Possible. GENERAL SHERMAN--THE MAN By Major General O. O. Howard. (United States Army, Retired.) Gen. Sherman and myself each com­ manded a brigade in the first battle of Bull Run. I had heard much about Capt. Sherman, formerly of the artil­ lery in the regular service, but I had with him only a passing acquaintance while we were in the East. When he first came to Washington from Louisi­ ana he could not understand the ap­ parent apathy of the War department. He knew that secession was a reality and that a terrible war was upon us. In the West my first meeting with Sherman \yas at Chattanooga, in a large upper room of a private house, where, before his coming, Gen. Grant had brought together a bevy of West­ ern generals, among them Thomas, Palmer, Gordon Granger and myself. We were talking in a social way when Sherman, who had come up from Bridgeport, Ala., a distance of twenty miles from his head of column, to re­ port progress to Grant, burst in upon us. His tall, sinewy figure, never for a moment still, his high head and hand­ some brow, with a few wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and across his forehead, his keen, bright, searching look and his deep toned, melodious voice, presented a man once seen nev­ er to be forgotten. Our spring campaign of 1864, by these movements, under the untiring, indefatigable General,, was continued for 113 days, during which we were under fire of artillery or musketry every day except three. These three were occasioned by Gen. Joe Johnston, the Confederate commander, passing suddenly and unexpectedly below the Etowah River. The night before Sherman entered Atlanta in person he was near my headquarters in the vicinity of Jones- boro, Ga. He was too restless to sleep. About midnight he heard from the north "sounds of shells exploding antl other sounds like that of musketry." He walked over to a farm houso and called the farmer out "to listen to the reverberations which came from At­ lanta." The distance was twenty miles. Sherman asked the farmer if he had lived there for any length of time. He answered that he had, and that these sounds were like those of a battle. After these reverberations there was quiet till about dawn, when Sherman heard again a renewal of the explo­ sions. He could not determine in his mind whether or not there was a real battle. Not long after sunrise rumors came in that Hood had abandoned his posi­ tion and was in retreat. At last as the day wore on a dispatch came from Gen. Slocum stating that Hood had gone and that the Twentieth corps had marched into the city. As soon as this news was in his hand Sherman mounted his horse and rode back to Atlanta. Then he sent that memorable tele­ gram:--"Atlanta is ours and fairly won." To the administration at Washing­ ton and to the people at large Sher­ man had really burst from the clouds. Atlanta won!" was, indeed, a bow of promise to America and to the world that right and justice would soon pre­ vail, and that the American Union would be restored. Again on Dee. 23, 1864, Sherman, who had been away in the harbor vis­ iting the admiral of the navy there in charge, came back and joined Gen. Slocum and myself, who had entered Savannah a day before, the next morning after Hardee's evacuation of the city. j Sherman was delighted that we were not obliged to make a siege or attempt to carry Savannah by as­ sault. A siege would have taken much time, and an assault, owing to the few approaches, would have been a very costly one to' our troops. He had hardly spoken to me before he turned away to prepare a dispatch for the President. Here is the message he sent: "I beg to present to you as a Christ­ mas present the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five hundred bales of cotton." \ The armies under Sherman had a very refreshing rest for a few days. On January 1, 1865, when I was pay­ ing my respects to Gen. Frank Blair at Blair's headquarters,' Sherman came in in his usual brisk style, and, sitting down beside me with some memoranda in his hand, he said quiet­ ly, "Howard, I want you to transport your Army of the Tennessee by water over to Beaufort, S. C.; march north­ ward, cross to the main land and be at Pocataligo by the 15th of this month. Can you do it?" I did not take time to make more than a rough calculation, but said: "The time is rather short, but we will be there if it can be done." He added that Slocum would march up the Savannah, cross at Sisters' Ferry, and be at Robertsville about the same time that I should reach Pocataligoi I may remark that six divisions of the Army of the Tennes­ see were at Pocataligo at the re­ quired time. The other division went with General Slocum, who was very much delayed by the high water at Sisters' Ferry, so that we had to wait several days for the left wing to get Jnto position. 'wnn the memorable march throat Carollnas. After that dif­ ficult march, with all Its skirmishing, accidents and battles, Sherman sent us a congratulatory order which cov­ ered the whole field of operations. It seems now a little boastful, but it ex­ presses the simple truth: "So complete a success in military operations, extending over half a con­ tinent, is an achievement that entitles it to a place in the military history of the vottd." ^_At ^a later period he wrote: "I con­ sider ) this march as a means to an end and not an essential act of war. • * • The important move from Atlanta to Savannah is one step in the direction of Richmond. Were I to ex­ press my measure of the'Relative im­ portance of the march to the sea and of that from Savannah northward, I would place the former 1 and the lat­ ter 10." I venture a word regarding Sher­ man's moral and spiritual makeup. From a long and -close observation of one who allowed me to be his friend, I am sure Sherman, while I knew him, never purposed to do a wrong act. Sudden impulses sometimes clouded his judgment. While he abominated quackery and hypocrisy, he had great admiration for good men, especially for Christian men. Loyalty to# family, loyalty to friends, loyalty to society about him, loyalty to duty and country he quickly observed In another, and this was the pervading quality among the marked characteristics of his own great souL --New York Herald. N TIRED, SUFFERING WOMEN. Women run down *nd endure daily tor* tares through neg- 'lecting the kidneys. Kidney backache makes housework a burden; rest is im­ possible; sleep fit- fol; appetite gives out and you are tired all the time. Can't be well until tile kidneys are well. Use Doan's Kidney Pills, which have restored thousands of suffering women to health and vigor. Mrs. William Wallace, of 18 Capitol St, Concord, N. H., says: "I was in Jthe early stages of Bright's Disease, and were it not for Doan's Kidney Pills, I would not be living to-day. Pain in the back was so intense that at night I had to get out of bed until •the paroxysm of pain passed away. I was languid and tired and hadn't the strength to lift a kettle of water. I could not work, but a few doses of Doan's Kidney Pills relieved me, and two boxes cbsolutely cured me." A FRES TRIAL of this gteat kid­ ney medicine which-cured Mrs. Wal­ lace will be mailed to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Mil- burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers. Price 50 cents per box. Chamberlain Father and Son. That_ Austen Chamberlain assidu­ ously cultivates his resemblance to his father no one doubts for a mo­ ment. The monocle, the method of parting the hair and the peculiar cut of cuffs are obviously aids intended to enhance the naturally strong likeness. The attitude of the body when walk­ ing is identical in both men, though this is probably a matter of heredity. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, M nftercury will surely destroy the eenee of gmell and completely derange the whole system when entering It through the mucous surfaces. Such •rtlclea should never be used except on prescrip­ tions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you can possibly de­ rive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mer­ cury, and Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It Is taken Internally and made In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney * Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation. Modern Cupid. Some one met Cupid in a pair of goggles. "At last we find- love is really blind," they said. "Oh, I'm not blind," said Cupid, quickly. "These are automobile gog­ gles. I find more courtships in auto­ mobiles these days than ' anywhere else." Important to Mothers. Bsanlne carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a eafe and sure remedy for infanta and children, •ad see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Ths Kind Tou Have Always Bought. Never Will Cut Ice. He (during the . quarrel)--Well, I don't seem to cut any ice in this world! She--Well, it's a safe bet that you'll not be in the kind of climate where you will be able to cut any in the next. When Your Grocer Says be does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 1'2 oz. packages are sold. Defiance ' Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains lo oz. to the package and sells for same money as l'J oz. arandn. The advance of civilization into Thibet still continues. Latest statis­ tics: Thibetans, 200 killed; British, 4 killed, 21 wounded. Those Who Have Tried It waJ dm no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch baa no equal in Quantity or Qual­ ity-- 16 oz. for 10 oenta. Other brand* con­ tain only 12 oz. A temperance lecturer walked in front of a passenger train down in Ohio just the same as a man does who mixes his drinks. Why It la the Beat Is because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more for IS oenta. Even the fellow who lives in an attic may look down on his neighbors. Pise's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.--Wk. O. Endslet. Vanburen, Ind„ Feb. 10,1900. A woman Is far more heroic than a man--as any shoe dealer will tell you. A1X ITP-TO-DATK HOrSSRBEPKBS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothe* clean and sweet as when new. All grooera. THE FLAG,, A flag swung high on • rampart bold, And the soldier* saw it blows And the sun went down and the stars came out, Aq4 orer the field died the battle shout While the sentries paced to and fra A bell tolled loud in the mid-day air, And a flag fluttered over the tree, And the people gazed with proud demean On tae flag that flaunted the starry thirteen High in the midsummer breeze. The stars have grown since that far off day, And the stripes are true and bright. And over the country they sweep afar-- Gallant each stripe and gallant each star- Shining by day and by night A single bell tolled in the long ago. To rally the brave litjle band, Where many chimes now in the stiffening breez* Ring joyously over far separate seas, While flags flutter o'er a broad i*t>4 Has Stanley found Livingstone again? Straighten Up The main muscular supports of fegdy weaken and let go under Backache or Lambaco. To restore, and straighten up. 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