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ITER NOW WIFE r BRITISH ARMY dFFicfiit V-CHURCH UNION IS PROGRESSING of Federation Is De- Ameriean Consul Describes In Mush District. A story of sickness, hunger and starvation has come to the state de­ partment from Thorns,s H. Norton, the American consul at Harput, in a re­ port upon the condition of the Sassun population in the Mush district. The sloped by the JESTR their terian Commission. i anything but MEANS ECONOMY IN MISSIONS NOW MRS. CAMPBELL. The marriage of Major Colin Powys Campbell and Miss Nancy Leiter was solemnized at Washington, Nov. 29, In the presence of about a half dozen guests and the members of the imme­ diate family. Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, rector of St. John^s church, performed the ceremony-. The earl of Suffolk, whom rumor makes the fiance of Miss Daisy Leiter, was best man, and Joseph Leiter gave his sister's hand in marriage. All mourning was laid aside for the occasion, both the bride and her sister wearing conventional gpwns of white crepe de chine trimmed with illusion. Mrs. Leiter wore a gown of lusterless black silk. An^ong the guests was Lady Nina Howard, sister cf the eart of Suffolk, who is the guest of Miss Daisy Leiter. No member of the British embaSly was present and the ceremony was •old of all ostentation. There was no marriage settlements. Mrs. Campbell's fortune is settled ab­ solutely on herself and could not be diverted under the terms of her fathers wili. The income of her for­ tune she is at perfect liberty to use Argentina's Live Stock Wealth. A report from the United States cdnsul general at Buenos Ayres gives &£ interesting indication of the great live stock wealthy of Argentina and of the growth of the frozen meat trade. Last year three refrigerating com­ panies were in operation and froze 207,000 cattle and 3,428.000 sheep. Bight other refrigerating companies have been formed and the total annual capacity will now be 850,000 cattle and 12,000,000 sheep. But large as these figures are; they represent only 3 per cent of the cattle and 11 per cent of the sheep of the country. The Quality of the Argentine cattle and sheep is not at present up to the stan­ dard required in Great Britain, though apparently good enough for Italy, Spain and Portugal. It is claimed, moreover, that by the exercise o' care III breeding the value of the Argen- herds can be quintupled. as she pleases. Major Campbell is bet­ tered dowered than the majority of men who marry rich .Americans. He inherited a snug fortune from his mother and owns valuable property in Glasgow. Mrs. Leiter announced to-day that the engagement of her daughter to Major Campbell has been known to the family since the summer of 1903. The family was on the point of an­ nouncing it when Mr. Leiter's serious illness diverted their minds from any­ thing but his health. After his death they did not wish the publicity attend­ ing such statements. All the reports that either Mr. Leit­ er or Mrs. Leiter opposed the match are totally without foundation. Mrs. Leiter, thinks very highly of her new son-in-law, and had it not been for the recent bereavement, the ceremony v.ould have been attended with all the eclat which marked the wedding of Lady Cnrzon. Major and Mrs. Campbell will go to England before beginning their long honeymoon trip to India. The major's regiment, the India Horse, is now in Calcutta. Taught Need of Fire Brigade. Sir James A. Power, mayor of Wa- terford, Ireland, was the hero of a fire in Waterford about two years ago. An entire square of buildings was com­ pletely consumed. Two men were overcome in one of the upper stories" of one of the burned buildings. Sir James rushed to the rescue, but. ow­ ing to the rapid spread of the flames, was forced to abandon the stairways and carry his men to the windows. By tying bed clothes together, he succeed­ ed in lowering his . men safely to the street, but to save himself he ^vas compelled to jump. It was a thirty- foot leap and he was carried uncon­ scious to a hospital, where he re­ mained six weeks. Shortly afterward he was elected mayor of his city and one of his first official acts was to or­ ganize an efficient fire brigade. -'K ' Five Hundred Children Apiece. One of the federal judges has esti­ mated that, if the stories told in the courts by the Chinese, about being toorn in the United States were all true, every Chinese woman who was •living in the United States twenty-five :years ago must have had at least five Sumdred children. One of the wretch- ted features of this situation is that, since wives of bona fide Chinese na­ tives of the United States have been declared entitled to admission, each one of these/ fraudulently admitted Chinamen may bring over a slave girl aaasquerading as his wife. She com tnands a market price of from two thousand to three thousand dollars.-- The World's Work. Old-Time Digestions. Now and then one hears of lamenta tion that Americans are not the sturdy race they used to be. The homespun ways of the pioneers are contrasted with the silken ways of their descend ants 4nd the conclusion is reached that the American of to-day is a crea­ ture of predigested foods and skim milk. Even out here in Oregon such a voice is sometimes heard. Let all such Jeremiahs glance at the bill of fare for Senator Piatt's recent break­ fast and be forever silenced. Here is what a lot of politicians tackled for their morning meal: Buckwheat cakes and maple syrup, venison, sweet and hard cider, and pumpkin, apple and mince pie. Think of that, ye pep1 sin swallowers--hard cider and mince pie for breakfast.--Portland Orego- nian. Britain's Strong Indian Army. A 4 . An Englishman says: "Lord Kitch­ ener was sent to India for the especial purpose of organizing a big army there,, and I am told by my cousin, *rho is a general, that Britain has 50,- ^00 men ready in India at a moment's notice. In the Chitral campaign he «ommahded a regiment of Sikhs or Jhoorkas and told me they were the nonpareil, so far as fighting was con­ cerned. They are not unlike the Japs, stockier." ^Conger May Go to Mexico. Edwin H. Conger, United States ar at Pekin, is said to expect to "•eturn home the middle of next year, . iiot to return to the Orient. It has |>een intimated that he may Ue ap- pointed to represent the -United States la Mexico. * Haa Carried Mails Many Miles. Thomas McLaughlin, the oldest mail-carrier in New Jersey, has begun his twenty-eighth year as an employe of Uncle Sam. He was appointed to carry the mail pouch between the West Jersey and Seashore railroad station and the postofflce, a distance of about a mile, twenty-eight years ago, and with the exception of one day, he has made nine round trips daily between the postofflce and sta­ tion. Altogether heghas walked some^ thing like 80,000 miles. He is so punc­ tual that people living along the route which he travels can tell the time of- day by his appearance. Religtetife Agents of th« Various Branches Will Be Enabled to Cover a Wider Field Than Under Present Conditions. Pittsburg, l*a., dispatch* : ¥he -eom- jnission representing the seven branches of the Presbyterian church in this Country meeting here, has de­ cided on a plan of federation for the various churches. The most important step yet taken toward the ultimate goal of organic union was determined, npon definitely. Rev. Dr. J. D. Steele, secretary of the commission, says the plan provide's Cor the establishment of a council, which will be called the "federal coun­ cil of reformed churches in America, aolding the Presbyterian system." This council will have no power »ver the worship, creed or government >f the churches, Which will remain 'he same as they always have been. Board of Arbitration. The council, Dr. Steele says* will be practically aboard of arbitration. It will be composed of four ministers and 'our laymen from each of the denom­ inations represented, with an addi- tionel minister and elder from each hurch for each 200,000 communicants over 300,000. According to this agree­ ment, the northern Presbyterian church with about 1,000,000 members will have sixteen representatives and the other churches will be represented In proportion. In mission work the federation will bo a powerful factor. The constant ••aim of the federation will be to guard against duplication of agencies. In­ stead of having missionaries from the Presbyterian, Union Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed churches in the same places, the federation will divide the territory and assign various parts of it to the different churches. Each church belonging to the federa­ tion will retain its own identity in all things. Seven Churches Represented. The seven churches which were rep­ resented on the commission are the Reformed Presbyterian church, general synod ; the Reformed church in Amer­ ica, the Presbyterian church in the United States, the United Presbyterian church, the Cumberland Presbyterian chruch and the Reformed church in the United States. , The plan of federation as decided on by the commission contains seventeen articles. It is the desire of the com­ mission that these articles shall not be published until after they have been passed on by the supreme judicatory : bodies of the various churches. IN AWFUL WANT. WILL TRY TO GRAFT LIVE RABBIT Surgeons Use Extraordinary Means jo Save Boy's Leg. New York special: In a last attempt to save the leg of Cornelius Post, 15 years old, who for nearly two years has suffered from burns, the surgeons at St. Mary's hospital, Passaic, N. J., will graft a live rabbit to the injured member. . The rabbit will be chloro­ formed, a piece of its skin will be rais­ ed and grafted to the boy's leg and the* animal will be kept bound to the limb for several days until the doc­ tors are satisfied that the skin has ad­ hered or that the operation fs a fail­ ure, when the rabbit will be killed. FATHER 8CHELL IS SUSTAINED Federal Grand Jury Reports^on Plight of Winnebago Indians. Omaha, Neb., dispatch: The United States grand jury has made an ex­ tended report on the condition of af­ fairs on the Winnebago Indian reser­ vation. The report is addressed to United States Judge Munger and re­ cites a deplorable state on the res­ ervation. It states that the report is made on the basis of testimony giv­ en by, Father Schell, the priest who has been recently to visit the presi­ dent, and to a number of other wit­ nesses called by the jury. MURDERER IS GIVEN LIFE TERM ^ftiry in Darling Case in Indiana Con­ victs Wife Slayer. Versailles, Ind., dispatch: After be­ ing out twenty minutes the jury in the trial of Clifford Darling, charged tyith the murder of his wife, whom he shot during a quarrel at the home of her father at Pierceville Thanksgiving day, returned a verdict of murder in the first degree and sentenced Darling to life imprisonment. When the ver­ dict was announced Darling displayed no emotion. His attorneys pleaded in­ sanity. LOSES 1418 ARM, BUT WILL LIVE Too Old foi* Fashion9' Leader. E. Berry Wall, formerly "glass of Cashlon" for New York, has returned ! ifrom a lengthy residence abroad. He .declares that sartorial style does not L<4laterest him any more, as hf^slfiO <old to stand the strain. j;'* No Typhoid In Ousters. y " A crusade against oyster^ waged in Paris last year, because they were said to transmit typhus and oth­ er disease germs. Prof. Giard, of the eea-fishery commission, reports that his investigations have cleared the' oyster of all charges, and expressly declares that they can be safely eaten at all seasons, as they cannot trans­ mit germ$ to human beiogs.--rCcun; try Life in America, Mangled by Corn Shredder, Farmer Takes Severed Limb to Town. Japesville, Wis., dispatch: With his severed arm lying in the bottom of the buggy James Costigan, a farmer, came to the city from a farm five miles north, where he had been horribly mangled by a corn shredder. After the accident he calmly walked to the buggy unassisted and drove to the city without exhibiting any great fear. He was weak from loss of blood, but will survive. , • Pays Penny Bank Losers. London cable: Edgar Speyer of the firm of Speyer Brothers^has given $28,500 to repay creditors, mostly poor persons, who lost their savings .in the failure of the local penny bank at Needham Market. Suffolk. •v-fv.;,rr Inaugural Chairman. Washington special: Chairman-CkMV telyou of the national Republican cou. mittee has announced the appointment of Gen. John M. Wilson, U. S. A., ?«• tired, as chairman of the iraugural committee. lives. Nearly every house in the regent was ran­ sacked and burned. "Worst of all," Mr. Norton says, "their flocks and-herds, practically the only source of food, raiment and in­ come, were swept away. These unfor­ tunates, after receiving for a short pe­ riod an allowance from the govern­ ment of 1 per cent capita and per diem for subsistence, are now without food and without a prospect of food for the coming winter. The diseases usually following upon fright, expos­ ure, exhaustion and insufficient food are rapidly becoming epidemic, es­ pecially among the children. "Progress has been made in restor­ ing the burned dwellings, so that prob­ ably the question of a bare shelter be­ fore the advent of winter will be set­ tled in most cases. Sufficient firewood can be also secured without great dif­ ficulty. , . There remain the three vital ques­ tions of warm clothing, of bedding, of food, for which no provision is made. The situation is practically identical with that of many parts of Macedo­ nia twelve months ago, although, while the number involved is less, the remoteness from the seaeoast and the Jj Map Showing the Location of the Fairiine-Stricken District of Which Mush is the Center. greater severity of the climate in­ crease the danger of widespread suf­ fering and mortality. "The helplessness of these motfhtain folk In their need is heightened by the enforcement of administrative meas­ ures which prevent them from leaving their ruined villages and seeking as­ sistance or work in more favored lo­ calities. "The case Is one appealing most strongly to the sympathies of the be­ nevolent Unless aid is rendered promptly few may be left to receive it. The region is bare and desolate. Cloth­ ing, blankets and food must be brought from outside before the ap­ proaches to the mountains are blocked by snow. The only persons within a short distance of the Sassun region compe­ tent to direct any measures of prompt relief are W. J. Heathcote, H. B. M.'s vice consul at Bitlis, and Rev. R. M. Cole, of the same city, missionary of the A. B. C. P. M. Both are familiar with existing conditions and with the facilities for meeting the exigency. 'It should be mentioned that sev­ eral thousand destitute villagers upon the great plain of Mush, adjoining the Sassun mountains, are in equally sore straits. Their advantage over the Sas­ sun folk lies in the fact that they are less exposed to the rigor of winter and they can at least beg from sur­ rounding villagers where the i torch has not brought destitution." } j An "Established" Business. When a "long-established business* is spoken of fifty or 100 years is con­ sidered a very respectable continuity in, this country. In Strasburg, though, they have just set about repairing a building, "The Sign of the Stag." which has been constantly occupied as a chemist's shop, although not, of course, by the same firm, ever since before 1268, in which year a document still in existence testifies to the fact that Henri Phillippi, an apothecary, carried on his business there. The old house, in the course of its present restorations, has yielded up a treas­ ure of old coins, dating, however, only «c far back as the reign of Louis XV. ° T i • ' ivi; j -- vV::'-$EVIRY- WALK IN LIFE. "'JL A. Boyce, a farmer, living three and a half miles frosa Treaton, Mo- says: "A se­ vere cold set­ tled in my kidneys and developed so quickly that I was obliged to lay work on ac­ count of the aching in my b a c k a n d sides. For a _ time I was unable to walk at all, and every make­ shift I tried and all the medicine 1 took had not the slightest effect. My back, Continued to grow weaker until I be­ gan taking Doan's Kidney Pills, and I must say I was more than surprised and gratified to notice the back ache disappearing gradually until it finally stopped." Doan's Kidney Pills sold by all dealers or mailed on receipt of price. 60 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Take Color From Surroundings. In all forms of life there is a ten? dency to adaptability to the peculiar­ ity of its surroundings. Gayly-tinted. birds are not, as » rule, found on white, sandy wastes, but in forests where there is deep coloring and the contrast is not great. The lion, the giraffe, the ostrich are forms which assimilate their surroundings. In Cal­ ifornia the horned toad is almost as invisible as the sand on which It lives. The little canyon toad mimics tie rocks on which It rests, while the frog of the East is scarcely to be dis­ tinguished from ttMi reeds among which it lives. GUARANTIED MINING INVEST­ MENTS. We are the largest mine operators in the west and cordially invite you to write for prospectus and full partic­ ulars about OUR NINE ASSOCIATED COMPANIES, which tfave joined in fbrming our INVESTORS' GUARAN­ TEE ASSOCIATION, with $5,000,000 capital. TO GUARANTEE ALL OF OUR INVESTORS AGAINST LOSS. Write for free information and be con­ vinced. ARBUCKLE-GOODB COMMISSION COMPANY, 825 Olive Street, St. Louis* Mo. . Statue of Ingalls for Gapltot. A life size marble statue of the late Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, will be placed in the capitol at Wash ington. The statue is the work of Fidardo Landi, a sculptor, whose stu­ dio is in Long Island City. The statue was ordered by the government and it took nearly a year to cut it out of a solid block of marble. l '~~' : ,±-., Real Value of Food, ^ A food must be best proportioned as to its constituents, to the body's needs, and must be most easily and entirely digested, to establish a claim "to superior health fulness; apd its greater cheapness is decided by its lesser cost per unit of nutritive value than other foods, and its greater ratio of availability. " ' Entire State His DiOceSe. Rev. John M. Carroll, president ot St. Joseph's college of Dubuque, la. who has just been made bishop of Montana, has for his diocese the en tire state, and the Catholic popula tion is scattered over 14«,080 square miles . • • • , •' • Had Premonition of Death. Reuben O. Small, erf Harper, was about to be operated on for appendi­ citis. Though young and strong, he felt that he would not survive the op­ eration. So he made the surgeons wait until he had summoned his family, fixed his business affairs and made his will. Then he laid down on the oper­ ating table, took chloroform and-- died. STATS or OHXO. CTTT or Tounra, r aa LUCAS CotrSTT. ( FRANK J. CUEXKY makes oath that be Is senior >artner of the Arm of F. J. CHENKY & Co., dolnff mstnesH in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the BUM of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for eacb and ever* cane of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the uaaflC HALL'S CATARRH CUM. FRANK J. CHENBT. Sworn to before me and subscribed in iny rnS- nee, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. . . A. W. GLEASON, ") B,AL F NOTARY PUBLIC. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and acta directly on the blood and mucous turlaces of the •ystern. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Drugglgts, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. To Hold Indian Award. Former President Andrew John, of the Six Nations, of New York, is in Washington, in his effort to prevent certain half-breeds from getting part of the $2,000,000 recently awarded the Indians for lands sold by the govern­ ment. The seventh annual announcement of The Blue Sky Press (Chicago) con­ tains some of the most artistic books extant, many of the works being hand lettered and printed on hand-made paper. Ella W. Peattie's "Castle Knight and Troubadour,"--a story of the elder gardens of France, of the flower of chivalry and the rose of song--Is an especially dainty volume. Insist on Getting It. grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch because tney have a stock in hand of 12 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold to a custo­ mer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same n&ney. Pie was served at Piatt's recent po­ litical breakfast. A critic wants to know whether it was proper. It is proper to serve pie anywhere at any time. Those Who Have Tried It will use no other. Defiance Cold Wa­ ter Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality--16 ox. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 os. , David Dube of Milford, N. H., will not go hatless for years to come, as he says he won no less than seven on the late election. I do not believe Piso's Cure tor Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.--JOHN F. BoYBU, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1000. OBJECTS fO TERM "AMERICAN." English Statesman Denies Right of United States to Use It. Sir Edward George Clarke, who chal­ lenges Uncle Sam's right to apprqf priate the title "American" and as­ serts that, territorially, Great Britain is a larger power on the Americai continent than the United States, is aa eminent English lawyer and states? man. He was solicitor general from 1886 to 1892 and has figured in the trials of celebrated cases, Bom ift 1841, he was educated in London eo?f leges, and in 1864 was admitted to the bar. Kji)ghthood was conferred on him in 1886. Sir Edward is set town as a man who "does not trim lis sails to catch the popular wind." THE COST OF WAR. Waste of Money About the Least of the Evils. We hear much about the' money cost of wars, past and present. And that is indeed a consideration, a most convenient and impressive measure of the penalties for indulgence in the blood madness. But it is by no means the largest item in the bill; it is a distanced second to another item. That item is character cost. To re­ move the average man from the or­ derly ^nd restrained routine of peace­ ful occupation and home influence is to release the ancient beast. Poets do not tell the story, historians hide it, orators lie about it, and even the novelists join in the miserable decep­ tion. But the character cost of war Is frightful. And the poison spreads from him who was permeated by it in the camps and fields of "glory" to his associates, to his children's children. "The wages of sin is death"--in part. But sometimes it seems that the larger part of those wages is tainted and shriveled and perverted life. And of that part is the chief penalty for violation of the unqualified mandate: "Thou shalt not kill!"--Saturday Evening Post. HELD TO GRAND JURY. President of Molders* Union In Trouble at Cincinnati. Joseph Valentine, president of «»the International Molders' Union of North America, charged at Cincinnati with aiding and abetting in the malicious destruction of property, growing out of the alleged plot to blow up the Iron foundry, Richmond and Ex-Queen Lil of Hawaii has arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu. She must have run out of money again. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. Like most Paris duelists, Paul de Cassagnac died peacefully in bed. TO CURE A COtD IN ONE DAT Take Laxative Bromo yu'.ulne Tablets. AU drnf* refund the money It It falls to core. E. W. Orora's signature Is au MOh Dux. 33«. Tight trousers are coming In again --to be worn out, as heretofore. *1TC permanently cured. No fits or nerronsness aftW V*11 o Brat day's use ot Dr. Kline's Great Nerve He*to» a, Baud for 1 11K E SSt.OO trial bottl« »nrt treatta* fk^&wfl^W ArehStreat. Philadelphia, Alfred Austin says that poetry is dead. Only the poets are dead. Mrs. Window's Soothing 8ywp. J nor children teething, softens the gunis.TOiaseea ft* gatarnation, allays pain, cures wlndoolk*. Ibca Imltta. The pigskin retires just as the seal­ skin comes into prominence^ «I had Iiiflamstory Rheumatism, but t mm . well now, thanki) to Dr. I)«r!d Kennedy'* Karorlte Hem- It'tfuiy tw»t friend." G&rreit Lansing, Tro/, N. Y. A quick temper and a sore artn are very bad companions. - "National" signifies the highest quality when applied to funeral goods. Whenever stocks break they break somebody else also. ' J. T. Valentine. Harriet streets, was arraigned before Judge Lueders. He waived examina­ tion and was bound over to the grand jury, giving a new $2,000 bond. Examination in cases against others In the alleged plot, set for Dec. 14, was also waived. Plush 8eata Carry Germs. German health officers who have been investigating conditions in the tailroad trains of that country have arrived at the rather surprising con­ clusion that one riuis more risk in traveling second class on the rail­ ways of the empire than in taking third-class carriages. The reason for this is that the third-class cars have uncushioned wooden benches, which do not harbor as many germs as do the cushions provided in second-class cars. In this country there has been action taken in some of the states absolutely forbidding the use of plush or any similar material as a covering for car seats. Harvard Man for Mew Zealand. Dr. J. Mackintosh Bell, of Otttawa, an Austin instructor at Harvard, has Just been appointed geologist for the government of New Zealand. Dr. Bell, who received his Ph. D at the last Harvard commencement, was former­ ly attached to the geological survey of Canada. A few years ago while lead­ ing a government expedition in the extreme north in search of minerals he had some unsual adventures in the Arctic region. ^ , Vanderbilfs Model F>rt|^ \,t Reginald C. Vanderbilt has become one of the shrewdest and most suc­ cessful farmers on the island of Rhode Island, where farming has been a science for years. He has made an especial hit with his modern hennery, from which he gets hundreds of eggs daily. Most of them are distributed among his friends in New York city. Opals No Longer Feared. Superstition fades away in th*' . Strenuous life of the twentieth ceni..*-i tury. And the return to common sens^... has shown itself in the modern fancjf • for opals. Sir Walter Scott was chief^'-1' ly responsible for the idea of bad luck:^ t>eing connected with this stone, aS* will be remembered by readers o|& ., "Anne of Geierstein." And others de*$ Glare that, as the word opal is from the Greek ops (the eye), the gent*- - Shares evil influence with a peacock's . . feather. However, women have live(J: f • down all this and opals are the luckjr k > stone for autumn and have been worn",'i>: by recent brides. f <1 ; Every housekeeper should kqow * * that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they; *; will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.--one pound--while all other Cold Watei,'"^- Starches are put up in %-pound pack?'1 ^ ages, and the price is the same, l*i cents. Then again because Defiance; TV Starch is free from all injurious chem- -,?•> icals. If your grocer tries to sell yoqfe??^ a 12-oz. package i«. is because he ba«f , ^ a stock on hand which he wishes tq^i^ dispose of before he puts in Defiance,. He knows that Defiance Starch haqi^f| printed on every package In large let-. • ? ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand De- - fiance and save much time and money ' •' and the annoyance of the iron stick* ing. Defiance never sticks. ? 1 Cost of Ocean Cable. ^ .'-v- The original 1858 cable weighed^ ; ninety-three pounds per mile and had ; a conductor of seven copper wires o| ^ twenty-two and a half gauge; price- of deep sea wire per mile, $200; pric$, r"' of spun yarn and iron wire per mile, . v $265; cost of outside coating of tat ' and gutta percha, $25 per mile; totajp^: cost per mile, $485. At $485 per mil$. ,• the total cost of the 2,500 miles ofr ^ deep sea wire was $1,212,500. To this , add twenty-five miles of ."shore end'^j| wire, costing $1,450 per mile, and we . ; find that the first ocean cable, exclus­ ive of instruments, cost $1,250,000. Last Days of Thomas Carlyle. In the "Retrospects" of Prof. Will- lam Knight of the University of St. Andrews are some Interesting anec­ dotes. Among these is a bit from a letter by Dr. Maclagan, who attended .. Thomas Carlyle during Carlyle's last - | years: "My personal experience of; Carlyle was this. He was the most courteous man I ever met. Never once did that old man fail to rise up, to receive me, nor allow me to leave his room without walking to the doof with me, while he had strength to d% ;? ^ so. After death, all the ruggednes^ ^ and the wrinkles disappeared from** } his face. But for the beard, it wa4rf| like that of a woman, so delicate and> beautifully molded it was." - • ( Versatile English Nobleman.' Lord Eilesmere, of England, already 5 a well known writer under his peil - ' name of "Charles Granville," has just i issued his first novel bearing his fullEz^ title* This nobleman is versatile. He v is a notable figure in racing circles/ being the owner of Hampton, the sire of five Derby winners. Though the owner of some of the finest racing stables in England, Lord Eilesmere . has never made a bet. He created 4 sensation by a special breed of white pigs, he once gave 1,000 guineas for fighting game cock and he is the f owner of the finest private pictur* - gallery in London, Bridgewater hous# A boasting four Raphaels, fifteen Tefe •< nters, Titian's "Three Ages of Manf*±< and Vandyck's only attempt to pain% •The Virgin and the Child." HAPPY CHILDHOOD. New Version of Old Saying. After long reflection young Pierre Lorillard has evolved this new version of an old saying: "Never trouble trou­ ble until the woman troubles you*" elites?;7 Right Food Makes Happy Children Because They are Healthy. Sometimes milk does not agree with ^ children or adults. The same thing ^ . true of other articles of fobd. What ; agrees with one sometimes does po^#% agree with others. ^ But food can be so prepared that iti;\. will agree with the weakest stomach* As an illustration--anyone, no matte!;• V how weak the stomach, can eat, relisi and digest a nice hot cup of Postu^? coffee with a spoonful or two oj|» ' Crape-Nuts poured in. and such a cora^ bination contains nourishment to ca* ry one a number of hours, for aimos|& , every particle of it will be digestefl||i„. and taken up by the system and b||: made use of. > | A lady writes from the land of th|t •* Magnolia and the mocking bird waf -- down in Alabama and says: "I was to drink Postum because coffee. gave me sour stomach and made m^;»~,: nervous. Again PoStum was recoup mended by twb well known physician#'® for my children, and I feel especiall^E-^ grateful for the benefit derived. -Milk does not agree with either child, so to the eldest, aged four an| . " one-half years, I give Postum witlj ^ plenty of sweet cream. It agrees witH her splendidly, regulating her bowelf perfectly although she is of a constl^ pated habit. "For the youngest,' aged two and - one-half years, I use one-half PostudT'/^ and one-half skimmed milk. 1 havf : not given any medicine since thf children began using Postum, and t h e y e n j o y e v e r y d r o p o f I t . - . ' "A neighbor if mine is giving Pot)c0^ turn to her baby lately weaned, with > splendid results. The little fellow i| thriving famously." Name given bf Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Y 1 Postum agrees perfectly with cMld^y-- ren and supplies adults with the hot* invigorating beverage in place of co#» fee. Literally thousands of AmericanfCii' have been helped out of stomach and nervous diseases by leaving off cofc-: fee and using Postum Food Coffee®?;,! Look in pkg. for the little book, "Tbi. - * Boad to Wellvllle." ' «