• y f o P f S O ' S C U R E F O R BEST COUNTY IN INDIANA method of treatment possesses the doa ble advantage of being much less fatal than surgical exaresls, and of preserv ing for the use of the patient, if not the entire limb, at any rate a much larger part than would be left by amputation. " 'He advocates this very conserva tive treatment oai account of the excel lent effects of hot water, which he uses freely. After the skin has been shaved and cleansed from all tatty substances .by ether, etc., in the usual way a jet of hot water 60 to 62 degrees C. (140 to 144 degrees), but not higher, is made to ir ritate ail the injured surfaces and to penetrate into all the hollows and un der the detached parts of the wound wtihout exception. This is the only way of removing all clots and to wash away all foreign bodies, together with the micro-organisms they may contain. The advantages of hot water at this high temperature are three-fold: First, hot water at this temperature is anti septic, heat greatly increases the po tency of antiseptic substances; second, it is hemostatic (blood-stancliing); third, it helps to compensate for the loss of heat resulting from the bleeding, and especially from the traumatic shock. After the "embalming" process, and tlie dead tissue lias been separated from the living, the surgeon lias notli- ing to do' except to divide the bone at a suitable spot. According to Reclus the results attained are remarkable.' ". FOLLOW1N EACH OTHEFTS WAKE. Tlan to ?ave tlie Motive Power of £ t earners. It is a wise" steamer master who knows how to handle his boat so that she will get the benefit of the power of a steamer in front of her. In old- time races this was a favorite trick, and that it has not been forgotten even in this late day was shown recently. The boat ahead Avas the larger and faster in deep water. She was going at the usual rate of speed. Another steamer of light draft, smaller and per haps a trifle faster in shallow water, bound the same way, came up on the port quarter of the other just enough out of the way to avoid the current from Hhe wheel of the oth<*r, but still close enough to get the benefit of the suction caused by her displacement as she moved through the water. Finally, the run being all the time made in river water, the stem steamer gave a spurt and slowly passed the other and beat her a short ^stance to the dock. The danger of this close proximity of the two is that should the boat ahead part her wheel chains,^take a sheer to port and drift across the bow of the other, the great speed of the stern steamer would hav» sent her crashing through the other with great loss of life and property. Still another objec tion to speeding in competition is the liability of the engineer, in his excite ment, to forget all thoughts of care of his boilers, and to shove in coal until the smokestack is red hot from base to top. By intensely bating, the boilers and other parts of the plant are weak ened and to that degree made unsafe for further use.--Detroit Free Press. * THE IDLER. ' ' • \ It in Towni and Villages that They Are the Most Dangerous. The old proverb about "J#le hands" Is Illustrated daily, in these modern times in almost every place, large or small, just as it no doiibt has been dally illustrated for several thousands of years--and yet we stupidly fail to mas ter the lesson which it conveys. A cer tain little town in New England has re cently learned It in blood and tears. One of its loveliest women has been murdered by an idler, who, with half a dozen of his mates, lounged habitually around the village corners, drinking liquor when they could get it, ogling the passers-by and making coarse re marks about them, ,«disturbing the peace of the quiet community by night, and occasionally committing more or less offensive misdemeanors. At last these have culminated in a crime so revolting that everyone who hears of It is chilled to the heart with horror. In our large cities the idlers abound, but the police usually keep them in de cent order and compel them to remain in certain quarters. It is in our towns and villages that they are most high handed and most dangerous. What village dweller does not know the slouching figures, the lack-luster eyes, the insulting laugh, of the group of Idlers near the postofttce, the saloon, the railroad station, the.hotel, the drug store? They do not rouse sufficient public indignation to cause any sort of a revolution,-'but they are, never-, thelessj a constant eyesore and men ace to the respectability of the com munity. They do no good, surely, though some philosophic mind has evolved the theory that they are creat ed for the purpose of furnishing nwful examples. It is hardly worth while to pt-eserve our knots of idlers in order to secure this doubtful benefit. Let us get rid of them. If admonition and the settled determination of the decent part of the community cannot do it, let the law be Invoked, as it may be in most of our States. Above all, let every boy be in structed, at home and at school, that an idler is but a single degree above a criminal. Let him shun idleness as a plague. If lie cannot at once get work, let him keep away from the resorts of idlers until, by incessant effort, he se cures work. Show him thpt the men who habitually hang around the streets have no social position--that they are the scum of the place. Our teachers have a false idea regarding the ethical knowledge to be conveyed In the pub lic schools. They may not teach any definite religious creed, and, therefore, they imagine that they may not teach morals. They should understand that morals is the chief thing which they are in their places to teach, and that they should seize every peg which any recitation affords on which to hang a little moral lesson. One of the great est iessons of all is that of daily indus try. These little groups of idlers are breeding places for evil thoughts, evil words, evil deeds. Profanity and, vice flourish there. They should bo broken up and banished at any cost.--Leslie's Weekly. Confinement and Hard Work Indoors, particularly Jn the sitting posture are for more prejudicial to health than ex cessive muscular exertion In the open air Hard sedentary workers are far too weary after office hours to take much needful exer cise In the open air. They often need a. tonic. Where can they seek Invlgoratlon more certainly and agreeably than from Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a renovant par ticularly adapted to recruit the exhausted force of nature. Use also for dyspepsia, kid ney, liver and rheumatic ailments. Modern Railway Coach Worth $4f000 to $5,000. The auditing department of a great American railroad corporation rivnla in respect of its records and transac tions a governmental department. The earnings of all the lines of the Penn sylvania railroad system in a year av erage about $130,000,000, and the gross earnings of the Vaudervilt system amount to rather more--$45,000,000 from the New York Central, $21,000,000 from the Lake Shore, $10,000,000 from the West Shore and Nickel Plate, $33.- 000,000 from the Chicago and North western, $13,000,000 from the -Michi gan Central and about $15,000,000 from collateral lines or systems. , These fig ures are large, but they appear still larger when they are compared with items oof federal revenue. The total receipts of the United States govern ment from customs during the fiscal year ending in 1890 were $150,000,000, and from internal revenue taxes $146,- 000,000. The two together made up $296,000,000 of public revenue for the government of the affairs of a nation of 75.000,000 inhabitants, but the two railroad systems referred to repre sented together ̂ receipts of $275,000,000, and if a third big railroad system were added the receipts of the federal gov ernment would bp exceeded. The accounts of big railroad corpora tions require care and much hard work,'and the system of precise book- keepiug in railroad accounts (now a special branch of accounting) has been carried close to the point of perfection by the Pennsylvania railroad, which, for instance, gives to ,the fraction of a cent the expenses incident to the con struction of a car or a locomotive. There are 30,000 passenger cars in ac tual use on the railroads of the United States, and the ordinary passenger car costs anywhere from $4,000 to $5,000, the difference representing added im provements in furnishing. There has recently appeared a de tailed statement of the cost of con structing at the Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania railroad, a sample, first- class, modern, up-to-date, luxurious passenger car, and some of the items are of interest. The wheels and axles represent a cost of $332.35; the trucks upon which the car rests, cost $533.62; the air brake represents $131.75; the seat fixtures--twenty-five in number- cost $50.50; the three bronze lamps, $13.50; the two gas tanks, $84; the chandeliers, $50.72; and the item of screws, which might not appear to be an important one, $51.88. For the building of a car like the one taken in illustration 2,4S0 feet of poplar wood, 3,434 of ash, 1,100 of white pine, 2,350 of yellow pine, 450 of hickory,' 400 of cherry, 700 of Michigan pine, 500 of oak and 439 of maple veneer were re quired. To build the car there were required in addition 13 gallons of var nish. 45 pounds of glue* and nearly 3,000 pounds of iron, exclusive of 800 pounds of iron castings. For the fur nishing of the car there were required 61> yards of scarlet plush, 44 yards of green plush, 61 yards of sheeting and 243 pounds of hair. The springs on the car seats cost $43.17. The basket racks cost $77.35, the sash levers $42, the bronze window lifts $24.40 and the gold leaf for the embellishment of the woodwork $14.58. For the window fasteners $15.47 worth of material was required, two stoves cost $77.56 and the tin used on the roof of the car $41.- 44. The labor in the construction of the car represented a cost of $1,203.94, bringing up the expenditure to more than $4,400.--New York Sun. IS THE POSITION WHITE COUNTY IS APPROACHING. A Man Who Boneht 3,200 Acres of Her Foil and Is Ple&sed with His Investment-- What Drainasre, Cnl« tivation and Patience Will Do. The Incandescent Light It is said that singers, actors and public speakers find that since the in troduction of the. electric light they have less trouble with their voices and they are less likely to catch cold, their throats are not so parched and they feel better. This is due to the air being less vitiated and the temperature more even. Five years agQ last January Mr. L. D. Noble came here from Cerro Gordo, 111.. «nd began purchasing swamp land in Monon, Honey Creek and Princeton townships. To many it appeared an un promising investment, but he continued lus purchases until he now owns 3.200 {"•res. He has been energetic in making improvements and for three years past all his land has been under fence. Ho has -,000 acres of good pasture land, and has a good wind pump in each of his five pas tures. Three of these pastures are of the best native blue grass, and stock have «l_one well on tihem. He had a small por tion of his land farmed early and now has 1,200 acres under cul tivation, except some small pieces of timber, and a portion of it on his own account. This year he had l«tt acres of extra heavy timothy and same blue grass, raised from Kentucky f ifd. ,3 feet 5 inches high. How is that f:".v While County? These lands Are fi vjonig the best. All have' a deep soil with clay subsoil, will far exceed tile •best Illinois prairie few grasses, and; will be fully efiUal to thesn for other crops. Sir. Noble has had faith i^i White County and it is now evident that his faith will be richly rewM'ded.--Montieello (Ind.) Her ald. Aug. 12. 1897. ; ' , Greatest Tear for Copper. The statistics of mineral production In the United States during 1896 show that the amount of copper produced last year was the greatest ever report ed. It reached nearly 468,000,000 pounds. Considerably more than half of it was sent to foreign countries. The Depth of Snn-Spotd. > Within a few years the question has been raised whether sun-spOts are real ly depressions, or holes, in the sun's surface, as they have generally been considered to be by astronomers. Prof. RicCo of Catania concludes, as the re sult of a long series of observations, not only that the spots are cavities in the sun, but that, their depth can be approximately measured. He states that the average depth of twenty-three sun-spots measured by him was about. 640 miles! America's Many Langnasrc®. Dr. D. G. Brinton, the archaeologist, said in a recent lecture that in North and South America no less than 120 or 130 absolutely distinct languages exist. ,As the growth of language is very slow, he thinks the fact of the existence of so great a variety of speech on the western continents proves that the na tive red men have inhabited them for many thousands of years. Another proof of the antiquity of the American Indians, according to Doctor Brinton, Is the fact that they represent a distinct human type, and the formation of such a type requires thousands of years. The Diamond Beetle. One of the most beautiful of insects Is the "diamond beetle" of Brazil. Ac cording to the recent Investigations of Doctor Garbasso, thec sparkling colors of this beetle, which blazes with extra ordinary brilliancy in the sunshine, originate in an entirely different way from the hues of butterflies. The scales of the diamond beetle appear to con sist of two layers, separated by an ex ceedingly thin interspace, and the light falling upon them experiences the effect of interference, so that the resulting colors correspond with those of thin plates, or of the soap bubble. Murderous Bnbnon". A species of baboon inhabiting the colony of the Cape/ of Good Hope has become a pest to Alie farmers by de stroying their lambs. The baboons haunt the clumps of cactus scattered through the fields, and exhibit much cunning in keeping out of the reach of their human enemies. It is asserted that they have taken note of the fact that women do not carry firearms, and therefore need not be feared. But when a man appears the baboons instantly take to their heels. On this account the farmers have lately devised the plan of dressing in women's apparel when they set out to shoot baboons. Hall's Catarrh Core. Is a constitutional cure. Pride 75 cents. Thomas A. Edison is said to thor oughly enjoy reading trashy novels/ For lung and chest diseases, Piso's Cure is the best medicine we have used.--Mrs. J- L. Xorthcott. Windsor, Ont..' Canada. ;; ;\ Coal Miners. One million and a half men work in the coal mines of the world. Of these Great Britain has 535,000: United States, 300,000; Germany, 285,000; Bel- glum, 100,000; Russia, 44,000. The world's miners of metal number 4,000,- 000. Try Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures and prevents swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Sprains. Belladonna or iodine liniment is the best remedy to apply to sprains, and, if the sprain 5s at all severe, the part should be frequently bathed with hot water. . Insist on Having j Tjfre Kind That Never Failed You ., ' THt C«NTAUB COMPANY, TT MURRAY STRUCT, NKWf YORK CITT. There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re cently there has been placed in all the gro cery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, thai takes the place of coffee. The most deli cate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit 15c and 25c per package. Uncle Sam's official account of the rebellion is nearly finished. It will fill 120 large volumes, and it has taken nearly twenty years to prepare it. Its total cost will be about two and one- half million dollars. YOU KNOW WELL ENOUGH f • I "A Y N YEJlv J now you feel when your LIVER DON'T ACT. ' , i Bile collects in the blood, bowels become constipated, and your whole I system is poisoned* | A lazy liver is an invitation for a thousand p*«ng and acfacs to ? come and dwell with you. Your life becomes one long' measure of t irritability, despondency and bad feeling. ; ' £ < ACT DIRECTLY, and in a PE- id i » * CULIARLY HAPPY MANNER i ON ̂ LIVER and BOWELS, $ cleansing,purifying;,revitalizing ev- v ^fofcuun 0̂0̂ ̂ cry portion of the liver, driving all t the bile from the blood, as is soon v shown by INCREASED APPETITE for food, power to digest It, £ and strength to throw eff the waste. m.',' aVolcd^c.q,6sotcs/v make your liver livelym Buttercups Are Poisonous. It is not generally known that the buttercup, which is such a favorite flower with children, has poisonous qualities, yet such is the case, and an inquest has recently been held on a boy who, after eating some buttercups, died within a few hours With all the symptoms of irritant poisoning. The buttercup belongs totlieranunculaceae, and nearly all the members of .this group possess poisonous qualities, chiefly of an irritant nature, though a few narcotic principles are to be found. The virulence of the poisons varies very much, but there are very few in dividuals of this order which are inert. The various species of buttercups have all irritant properties, and in the ab sence of better drugs they have occa sionally been used as vesicatories. Cows avoid buttercups, but hogs and some other animals can eat them with Impunity. The active principle is vola tile, so that when the buttercups are dried with hay or exposed to the air they become inert. Luckily the but tercup, though pretty to look at, does uot usually tempt children to eat it wholesale, otherwise cases of poison ing might be less rare than they for tunately are at present.--The Lancet. An Eagle with a History. In no section of New York State arc eagles so numerous as among the high lands along the Hudson River. Dozens of them can be seen daily circling far tip in the air or swooping down after their prey. Probably the pioneer of them all, certainly the most inter esting, is one which was wounded over 100 years ago. His home is on Turk's Head, above Garrison's. His habit of flying sideways and the peculiar droop of his right wing makes him an easily recognized object. This droop was caused by the shot of a British soldier, who, while passing up the Hudson on a man:of-war, was ordered by his cap tain to shoot the eagle as it soared quite a distance aloft. The soldier's markmanship was good, but It cost him his life. A band of patriots, hidden in the rocks, saw the deed, and, as the ship lay well toward the shore, theii volley killed the sharpshooter. The wounded eagle was cared, for by the patriots and the bird still flies ovei Turk's Head. The AVhiskcrless Craze. The wbiskerless craze is still sweep ing over the country. It spares neither youth nor age, ignores station and takes no note of previous condition. Whiskers continue to fall on the high ways and the byways of the nation. Lip and chin and cheep, long hidden in whole or in part by hair of every hue and degree of beauty and ugliness, are laid bare before a mocking or an ad miring world, and the owner meets his friends with an expression that can only lie interpreted as meaning, What do you think of me now? Am I not ten year's younger and several times hand somer? Why don't you ask me what I have done to myself? This shaving mania constitutes one of the most cu rious of latter day concessions to fash- Ion--if fashion it bo. Men who have worn beards for forty years are shed ding them, regardless of the beauty or ugliness, the strength or weakness of mouth and chin and jaw. Why is it? Is Major McKinley, the first smooth faced President since Andrew Johnson, setting the pace? If so, a majority of men would do well to copy his charac ter rather than his method of wielding a razor.--Mail and Express. NERVOUS PK0STRATI0N, A New Jersey Woman Expresses Her Gratitude to Mrs. Pink- ham for Relief. " Will you kindly allow me," writes luiss Mary E. Saidt to Mrs. Pinkham, " the pleasure of expressing my grati tude for the wonderful relief I have experienced by taking your Compound? I suffered for a long time with nervous medicine a trial. I took two bottles and was cured. I can cheerfully state, if more ladies would only give your medicine a fair trial they would bless the day they saw the advertisement, and there would be happier homes. I mean to do a-ii I can for you in the future. I have you alone to thank for my re covery, for which I am very grateful." --Miss MARY E. SAIDT, Jobstown, N. J. An Appeal for the Elephant. Monsieur Foa, a French explorer of Africa, has recently made a strong ap peal for the protection of the elephants remaining on that continent. He de clares that the great beasts should be preserved not merely as curiosities but as animals which might become very useful under domestication. Former ly, as he points out, elephants were do mesticated in Africa, and he believes the same thing could be done again to day, and that it wopld well pay to do It. But unless protected against slaugh ter the elephant will have disappeared from Africa before civilization has reached the heart of the dark continent. Constant Shifting. Oculists say that oue of the common est affections of the eye Is produced by continuous riding in street cars. The seats run lengthwise, aud therein lies the difficulty. Some day as you are riding down town watch the eyes of the man across from you. He is gaz ing out of the window, possibly reading the signs of the business houses just to kill time. First his eyes glance ahead of the car, fall on the sign, and as flie ear passes by his eyes turn back. Then they shoot ahea# again. This constant shifting of the eye is very rapid if a passenger watches the people on the sidewalk. In half an hour's ride his eyes will have twitched back and forth with a continuity that brings on fa tigue. But he keeps it up to the end of the ride, and later in the afternoon wonders why his eyes are weak and tired. G-oldfish-Farminar. The raising of goldfish is a special in dustry, and one of the largest "goldfish farms" is at Spring Lake, Indiana. When young the goldfish Is said to re semble In color and general appearance an ordinary minnow. After a while they turn dark, becoming occasionally almost black. Then a reddish hue be- gine to appear, the true golden color being developed at the average age of one year or less. A few individuals, however, never change their original gilver color, and sometimes the red and gold hues make their appearance only in patches. Not infrequently goldfish develop two or more tails. A Brave Frenchman. One of the heroes of the Paris fire is a journeyman plumber named Piquet. When the conflagration was raging, he dashed in and out among the flames, always returning with a woman or child in his arms, and must have saved over twenty lives during the hour in which he worked. His face was envel oped in wet linen, and the last time he rushed into the flames a gentleman put a coat around him. He returned with a human form enveloped in a dress which was burning. As lie laid it on the ground, a charred foot remained in his hand. It was then that Piquet had to stop, so he proceeded to the work shop where he was employed. When his comrades plied him with questions about his burned face aud scorched hair, he tried to give evasive answers, but the master insisted on knowing what had happened. Then the brave man, overwhelmed with emotion at the scene lie had witnessed, burst into a paroxysm of weeping. Piquet is to be given the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Japs Changing. Some astonishing changes in the phy sical type of races as a result of inter course with foreigners have been point ed out by M. Albert G-auttard to the French Ethnographic Society. The Japanese, who, since the revolution of 1868, have been rapidly adopting Eu ropean modes of life, are losing the ec centricity of their eyes and the prom inence of their cheek bones, while re cently bom children have less flattened noses than their ancestors, with a skin not so yellow. Europeans settling in Japan, on tho other hand, gradually lose the rosy color of their skin and tend to acquire an eccentricity in the eye. Another instance is reported by Adliemar Leclere, who has observed ifl Cambodia a striking change in his countrymen, the French residents soon beginning to acquire the type and the gait of the natives. STANDARD OF THE WORLD. TO ALL ALlfcE. 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It is made of the whole skin of a pine tree, which is turned inside out, the ends being cut obliquely and drawn together in such a manner that the ves sel has a pointed ram under water at each end. Directly across the Pacific ocean from the Columbia is the River Amur in Asia. Prof. Mason thinks the fact that similar boats are found on the Amur may have a bearing on the prob lem of former emigration from Asia to North America. A Favorite Abiding Place. In a little English village there is'a baker's shop over tin? door of which is tln» following inscription: "One piece of bread, to be eaten on the premises, given to any one passing through Broughton direct until 10 p. m." This extraordinary sign-board was affixed to the shop some years ago by Sawrey Cookson, of Broughton Tower, who re coups the baker for the bread which he disposes of in this singular way. As may be expected, the shop is a favorite halting place for tramps and artisans out of work, who are making their way to the busy town twelve miles from the village. The Modern Dramatic Critic. First Nighter--The man who writes the dramatic criticisms for your paper -Joes not know a good play from a bad one. Editor--I know it, but what can we do? He is the only man on the staff Who i§ tall enough to see over the bon nets.--Tid-Bits. OPE CO., Hartford,Conn I f Columbias are not properly represented in your vicinity let us know. Dan t be fooled with a mackintosh or rubber coat. If vou Want a coat that will keep you dry in the hard est storm buy the Fish Brand Slicker. If not for sale in your town, write for catalog-ue to A. J. TOWER. Boston. Mass. Fair Face Cannot Atone An Untidy House." Use WA!¥TJE1> Man or Woman, good cnurcli si nUinjr, to learn our business, then net as M- r. ami Sta:e Correspondent here. Sala ry $:>0 V Enclose self-"< d'd st'p'd envelope. A. P. T. 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