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fHE EYE OF. A SEA BATTLE. Vhat a Naval Engagement Means on a Modern Ship of War. HE following article by Lieutenant Charles Uleif, former I j of \the British Navy. Is printed In the Cbk-MKo Chronicle: A fleet of six gray battle ships is steaming rapid)/ In a Mini | ?cm. Far ahead of the fleet can be dis. tlnguished the hulls and slender masts of several cruisers. Theae are tlx? scouts, the "eyes" of the fleejt. upon I which the Admiral relies for news of the enemy's movements. Other cruis ers. out of sight of the iMittle fleet, are scouring the Mas ut?on some prear ranged plan. Let us. however, confine our attention to the battle fleet. The six great armor clads are all of one type, forming a homogeneous squad ron. Kacli is of 15.0U0 tons displace ment. of equal speed and carries sim ilar guns. To the eyes of the landsmen they are like as ualf m Joy.cn dried peas, and tiieir similarity is accentu ated by the gray paint that covers them from truck to water line. They are formed In two divisions, not as yet in order of battle. The two leading ships each llies au Admiral's flag. The divisions are six cubles apart (12U0 yards), but the space between each unit ir but 400 yards, and this interval, you will notice, is maintained with tin accuracy won by constant practice. Little smoke Issues from the tall, gray funnels. In the smooth sea the heavy ?hips have no perceptible motiou. though you can see they are making progress by the white foam at the bows and by the broad ribbon of foam churned up by the twin screws of each vessel. Presently a red and white "answer ing" pennant streams from the mast head of the flagship. One of the scouts Is signalling. 8bc begins to close with the squadron. One perceives that other and more distant cruisers are also steaming back to the fleet. We guess the reason long before our keen-eyed signalman can distinguish the message. The eueni}' has been sighted some twenty miles to the eastward. Such is the welcome news. At once the flag ship runs up a signal: "Prepare for nction; form the order of battle." For in these days of fast steaming twenty miles' interval affords but comfortable breathing tpace unless the enemy de cides to ruu awny. If he is hearing down upon us we may l>e within range of him in a quarter of an hour. Such, it seems, is his design, so our ships must form at once into single line. Let us .note what preparations are being made for tiie coming battle. The game has been rehearsed often euough ?so often, indeed, that we can hardly realize jhat this is at last the real thing, the grim vcnlity. Take any ship at random. The same preparations are being made in nil. Seven hundred men are going about their ordinary busi ness. Suddenly a bugle blares out the familiar call to "general quarters," and ere the harsh notes have died away every man begins to ruu to his appoint ed station. Some make toward the great barbettes, where the i'J-incli guns are snugly sheltered; some for the ar mored casements isolating the U-inch weapons; others run to the light, quick firers, mounted upon the superstruc ture. Others, again aud these mostlj* iioncombatants (If any such can be in a ship of war), hurry below to the ?hell rooms and magazine*;. The great shells for the barbette ?runs are being placed on the hydraulic lift*. A lever is prerscd and up they iro. Another moment and they have reaehed the hreeeb of the gun. A Kiumer closes the heavy mechanism of the hreech with one hand, "ltnn out!" orders tiie officer of the turret. An other lever does the business. The enormous \vea|M>ns glide smoothly out ward, their long necks projecting over board as the barbete Is trained. A dozen men and one officer complete the crew of this pair of heavy guns. The officer stands upon a little iron plat form, peering above the turret, with a voice tube at his ear. The captain of the turret Is peering through the | telescopic sights. Olaucc into one of the isolated case nuites. The thick, armored door is sliut now. inclosing the <?-iucli gun and its crew in a box of steel. The gun has been cast loose, trained oil the beam, and loaded within four minutes of the bugle call, ltescrves of shot and shell are being whipped up Into the ease ment through a round aperture lead ing to the shell room below. Twenty or thirty rounds soon accumulate, and the gun's crew will stake their lives against the entry of a shell through the easement. Here, too, Is an officer waiting directions through a voice tube. The men have stripped to their flannels and trousers. A tub of lime juice stands In a corner. Down in the bowels of the ship the torpedo men are clustered around their submerged tubes. With great care they are adjusting the Whiteheads, and their movements are slower than those of the gunners, since flic chance for a shot will not come early in the flght. Yet a lucky shot from the enemy might explode the torpedo in its tube. They accept the risk, these quiet-looking men, and long for close range later on. Then they will show the gunnery branch what a Whitehead can do. The captain and the ginnery lieu tenant are in the conning tower?a cramped little structure bristling with voice tul?es. It contains a small steer lug wheel and Is in communication with both batteries, the several groups of guns, and with the engine rooms, lleports are constantly being made through these numerous voice tubes. Thus: "All watertight doors are closed, sir;" "Barbettes ready for ac tion;" "Rteam ready for eighteen knots, ?Ir," and so forth. The chief quarter master, a bearded veteran, sprucely dressed, grasps the spoke* of the steer, log wheel and keeps an attentive eye upon the captain. Not a man can now be teen upon the upper deck, but In the thinly protected top on the foremost t few hands and a middy are clustered ?round a three-pounder gun. All It now ready. The fleet increases U?d the cruisers, closing in, one after toot iter, take atatloa ta the rear. So we wait a #irii< of ijxImm u? pease. ibw* actNtlf a dooen men of the 700 can aee tW approach!us eoemy. At ia?t Um? hrelreponuder. whk-li I* oar Wot raoie Inder. rings oat with ?harp report. We know that the hour has come. The captain gives an or?lei thmti the tabes to each of the bar bette*: "Leading ship ?t the enemy on the port bow. range 4000 Tarda.** "All ready. sir?** comes the reply. ? mo ment later the two pairs of heavy gnus are simuliaueoualy fired. Thf thip quivers under the shock of the dts charge. The battle has begun. The 700 men think swiftl) of home, of mothers, wives, sweethearts, of little children. A shell from the enemy crashes through a lightly armored sec tion of the hull, hursts aud knock.t twe large boats Into matchwood. Again the ship quivers and rushes on. Home Ik now forgotteu. Tb?. men turn their mluds to the bloody work in band. DRINK BLOOD OF STEERS. *??7 l'wipln n?cli to Slaughter House* ' **ekiaK HmUth. I'vory year at tills hcmkoii the xlanKb tcr houses in Went Philadelphia are lie sieged by people who want to drink the blood of the steers Immediately after they- have been slaughtered. This cus torn has become very prevalent lately, and the slaughter houses that are or Thirtieth street, between Chestnut and Kace streets, have made especial pro vision for the invalids who call with the hope of being restored to health. It la during the spring months that the crowds who go for this pur|>os<> art greatest. The long, narrow thorough fare of Thirtieth street, which if crossed by the overhead bridges anil which is covered 011 the surface wltl? locomotive tracks, makes a most tin pleasant walk during the cold and stormy months, but when the warir j weather dries up the ground there art enough people who go to the slaughter houses to make the custom worthy of notice. Any of the proprietors of these estab lishments Is glad to accommodate peo pie .vho wish to drink blood. One has only to make arrangements with one of them and the rest lies with the invalid. There are certain days on which tli? killing is done. It is best to select one of*these, for it is claimcd that the ef fectiveness of the blood is lost unless it Is drunk while warm. Not long ago a pale young girl wan 1 dered along Thirtieth street and tim- j Idly asked one of the guards of the | railroad crossing to direct her to a place in the neighborhood where slis } could drink sonic of the warm blood. The man pointed out a nearby slaugh ter house and the young girl went in. Day after day she came to drink tb? blood. As time went 011 quite a change came about in her appearance, and there was every evidence of returning health. She con tided to one of the men about the place that the idea had come to her after she had heard her family physician tell her mother that sh? would ultimately die of consumption j She was obliged to resort to some diplo- j matlc and evasive answers as to het daily walk, but she succeeded in get ting to the slaughter house every day. and despite the gloomy predictions of the doctor, she soon became a healthy woman. People drink the fresh blood for a number of ailmenta. A beautiful young matron of this city, who had. unfor tunately, become enslaved to opium and was struggling to free herself ol the habit, was taken there by a des pairing husband and persuaded tc drink every morning a glass of tli? warm fluid. The terrible ra .agcs that had taken place in her system had de pleted her blood supply and the steer blood was thought to be a good sub stltute. The change in her whole sys tern was remarkable at once, and slm grew stouter and rosier every day Home anemic people And warm blood from cattle Just slaughtered more help ful than any kind of medicine. On the days when the animals are slaughtered the men. women and ehil* , dren who wish to drink blood stand of the s!:!limine?It re- ! quires a very strong-minded person to stand in the slaughter house Itself? | and. with tumblers in tlieir hands, they wait for the attendant to come to them with the blond. The novice hesitates a long time before drinking the fluid, ! but the old stager gulps it down hk oik would take a glass of lemonade. It li j customary for those who can to tip the butchers, and ten cents seems to 1?< the sum that most peonlc pay the em ployes for their trouble. There are doctors who encourage con. suinptlves to drink the warm blood se cured at the slaughter houses. Tliv Ideal st?te of affairs. which many cele bra ted physicians predict will come to pass, however, will come when it shaU be possible to give suffering mortal? | the blood of animal* by a method known ns transfusion?that I*. by In I sertlng a connecting tube bet wen tin | animal and the person and allowing the blood of the animal to be drained into the veins.?Philadelphia Itecord. j A* the Hlver See* the Ocean. "You may talk al>out the beauties ol the Yoscililtr. Niagara Kalis, the Alps, or any place on the top of the earth,", said a well-known gunner in the Uni ' ted States Navy a few nights ago tf j the San Francisco Call, "they are not to be compared with the beauties ol ' old ocean, particularly such 11s can bf seen from a diver's helmet." "You're right there," said another gunner "The lubbers do not know what tliej have missed. I remember once wlier 1 was a gunner's mate sitting for more J than au hour on the fluke of an aiichot 1 I had been sent down to recover and gazing with awe on a beautiful coral bank. It was really the most beautiful' thing 1 over saw. Kvery color from the rainbow was there, and aside from ( that there was enough variety in the 1 strangeness of the formation in the coral to keep one busy several hours, | cogitating 011 the wonderful things na. 1 ture hud seen tit to hide beneath the I waves. I would prohiihly have re* I inalned for several hours, gazing with rapture on .the bank, and was really thinking that down there In the depths, away from noise and strife of mother earth, would suit me for the j rest of my days when a 'soup-and* I bully' tin thrown over the side of the ! ship dropped beneath me and the coral bu,.ik. My drcan was over. It was a ; case of quick tmtfcitlon from the sub- j iime to th" ridiculous, and I Immedi ately gave the signal to be hauitd up.". Chicago has a .citixeu whose uuuir is M A. Bible. The ltuswian population of Siberia now uunibero not far from 8,000,000. The average annual contribution In Amerlcau L*rotesUut churches is $1*J per capita. letter boxes with electric hell* in tbeiu mm letter tbief tciltuleM are short If to appear iu Paris. A child of five should weigh forty - one |iouiidM and have a chest girth of twenty-three and one-half iuchcs. There an* only seventy brokers In ?tbe Paris B?ur?', aKHiuKt IIOO of New York Stock Exchange and the SJWJ of Ixindon. Tl:e rencli of a searchlight for prac tical use Ik 7?0 yards, but torpedoes ran he used effectively from 1-4)11 to ?1000 yMrds. Kilkenny Castle Is one of the oldest inhabited houses in the world, many of the rooms being iuu?h as they were 8<)0 yfcirs ago. .lapun lias onlj lialf as ir.any miles o. railroad as New York State, although it is three times as large and has six times its population. A special trail; on the Northwestern Ituilroad made eighty-one miles?be tween Tremont and Norfolk Junction. Neb.?in sixt. jiiinntes running time. At a recent meeting of the medical faculty of Queen's University, Ontario. h proposal was received from a man iu need of money to mortgage hi* body to the Institution. Tbe communication was shelved. The operating expenses of r. bank with h capital of ..HK.000 is 2.H4 pet cent, of the loans am* t.scounts. but the operating expenses are only 1 .;t:i per cent, if the bank have a capital of $1,000,000 or more. The Norwegian <*orps of skaters. >. force peculiar to the army of that coun. try. is a body of soldiers armed with ritles. who can be maueitvred upon ic? or ovet snow ticlds of the mountain* with a rapidity equal to that of the best trained cuvalry. Oil the docks of Ixtmlon in one year 70.800 rats have been destroyed, but j the medical otticer of health for the ' port is doubtful whether that was as much a? the natural increase of birth? over deaths, and more vigorous mcus ?ires are to be taken. 'HAMLET" WITH VARIATIONS. A l.lraerlck Perfonnauc* %Vllli Unique Features. l lio following Ik a litem 1 copy of u play 1*111 uscnI at the Kilkenny Theatre Royal. Ireland, over 100 years ago: "On Saturday, May 14, 1733/ will lie per- j formed, by command of several respec table people in this learned metropolis, for the benefit of .Mr. Kearns, tlje trag edy of 'Hamlet.' Originally written aiul composed by the celebrated I bin Hay. of Liuierick, and inserted in Shakespeare's works. 'Hamlet' by Mr Kearns (being bis first appearance in that character), who. between the acts will perforin several solos on the pat ent bagpipe, which plays two times at the same time. Ophelia by Mrs. Pr.vor who will Introduce several favorite alrr in character, especially 'The Lass of Richmond Hill* and 'We'll All Be ITn happy Together,' from Rev. Mr. 1Mb din's 'Oddities.' "The part of the king and qneen, by direction of Rev. Father O'Callaghan will be omitted as too immoral for thr stage. Polonius, the comical police man, by a young gentleman, being hie first appearance In public. The ghost, the grave digger and Laertes, by Mr Sampson, the great London cvmedian The characters to be dressed in Roman shapes. To which will be added an In | terbide. in which will be introduced several sleight-of-hand tricks by tlir j celebrated surveyor Hunt. The whole ; to conclude with a farce, 'The lin poster!' Mahomet by Mr. Kearns. tick ets to be bad of Mr. Heard, in Castlf I street. The value of the tickets a* usual, will be taken (if required) in candles, butter, bacon, cheese, soap etc.. as Mr. Kearns wishes, in every particular, to accommodate the public "Note?No person whatever will be ndmitted Into the boxes without shoes or stockings."?Hetrolt Free Press Worm's Colilml Oily. The coldest city in >he world is Yakutsk. Kastern Siberia in the em plre of the V'/jir a.id the Russians. It is the great commercial emporium of Kast Siberia, and the crpital of tlx Provlmv of Yakutsk, which, in most of its area of l.ft17.(NKt square miles Is a hare desert, the koII of which is froy.en to a great depth. Yakutsk consists of ibout 44H) houses of Furopean strue | lure, standing apart. The Intervening ?paces are occupied by winter yoorts. ?>r huts of the Northern nomads, witlr ?arthen roofs, doors covered with hair* bides and windows of Ice. f'nrltlratlon of Water. f/. Attain, of Marseilles. France, hn* levised a method for chemical purifba J tlon of water which is said to have xlven excellent results. Iodine, which 's a powerful antiseptic. Is added in proportions of one part to HIO.OOO. and n most cases destroys bacilli within a , luarter of an hour. To make the , water palatable the free Iodine is then neutralized by sodium hyposulphite. I The water is then filtered through I 'harcoal. and is claimed to come out limpid, colorless and tasteless. Training ?*?* Jap. Every soldier in the Japanese ?rmy Is taught to breathe properly, with at much care as If he were a professional tenor. At the least sign of palpitation of the heart,, he must cease his exer cises and lie on his buck to recover. In course of time his heart and lungs be come as vigorous and healthy at those If a flrit cluas athlete. NEVCH SAW A CHILD. m U "Did you ?r?r Imt of a child oc rr?r know of mo ywmlf that Wl never ocon a childf* uked a van who takes an Intersat la thf oddities to s representative of tke New,Orleans Times-Democrat. "Well. I have, knd the case Ir not a thousand miles from New Orleans, either. The chllC In this Instance had rounded Into its fifteenth yeai before it had over laid eyes on au other child. It had never heard the musical prattle of companion, other than the father and mother. The par ents settled scross tke lake a few year* ago. after a long residence on a email Island of the sea. Wkere the child was born and where It spent fourteen year* of Its life there were no children. The little fellow knew no associates but the father and mother. I have often won dered since learning of this pecolist case what must have been tb? im pression of the youngster when lie gssed for the first time on a memliet of the human family smaller than lie was. Did he think be bad ooine u|*on a race of dwarfs? Or bad bis parents given him an Idea of tlie existence of children? I do not know tbe family and therefore cannot answer tbese questions. But 1 would like to know just how the little fellow felt when h? first beheld a child. It is tbe only case of the kind which lias come tc my knowledge. He had never bad au opportunity to play tbe little gamer which most of us knew in tbe da3~c of our childhood. He bad never g??n? through any of tbe thing* which made young life sweet to all of us fellows, and while not knowing lint there may be compensating advantages in a life of this sort. I have always felt a bit sorry for tbe youngster. Come to think of it. though, hi missed a few things one would like to forget, for I suppose most of us have felt the rap of tbe ma ternal slipper because of disobedience due directly to one's companions. At any rate, we have always -cherished tbe the idea tbat our companions were in a measure responsible for many of the raps we got. The child who never knew a child could not be led astray In this way. So we do not know but that the laek of companionship may huve something to commend it." A Lorcr of lunorali. A quaint character on the lower West Side is u young man who appar ently takes charge of tiie outside ar rangements at funerals. Standing in front of the house he signs for the carriages to come ahead, gives whis pered instructions to the drivers, is ahead of tlie procession at crossing* and holds back teams with uplifted hund.. lie has a word with the police* man on the beat, and escorts the old folks and professional mourners to a place of vantage if the dead was a popular personage. He hau a mania for attending funerals. "He's not exactly right, you see." an undertaker said. "Imagines lie's u rel stive. I've instructed my drivers to respect his orders when need be. and we've never had any trouble with him. He's pretty well known and the fami lies seldom object to him. The queer est thing about him is that he seems to have some intuition when a funeral is to take place, going from one neigh borhood to another on the same day. But I have never seen him in a house. I believe he has an aversion to a corpse."?New York Sun. Return of the Tan Shoe. An odd feature of the return of the tan shoe to popular favor is that the demand tinds the manufacturers un prepared to meet !t. With th* eominu of the crocus tlu brown shoe reap peared on feminine fret on Fifth ave nue sporadically, as the botanist-would say. after long disuse. Almost imme diately orders poured in on the dealers in such volume that in the words of one "the manufacturers were fairly swamped." The prospect seems good for the full restoration of the tan shoe to that place in sutorial esteem and usefulness which it should never have losft. Whoever the social arbiter is who has rehabilitated it. jr whether it blooms anew in response to a simul taneous general "re-recognition of its merits, its return to fashionable vogue will be welcomed. The elements of the comfortable and the ornamental are in no other form of summer foot gear so happily combined ss in the tan shoe. Witness the testimony of any neatly shod foot on any suburban lawn.?New York World. Milking American Cltlionn, In that useful little weekly paper called Charities, which very lew New York people ever see, there appeared recently about twenty articles describ ing the progress that has been mad?t by the Italians In New York City. There are nearly 4(KMMJ0 Italians In New York. Fifty thousand of them are boys and girls In the public schools. There are 115 doctors, six ty-three druggists, twenty-one lawyers, fifteen school teachers, nine architects and seven mechanical engineers. Nearly all of the Italians In Ameri ca come from three provinces in Italy. At home they were farm laborers, earning from thirty tt> forty cents a day, and living in little stone cabins. Home of the Immigrants had small farms of their own. but the land If poor and the Italians have nothing to work It with except spades. Their life was m hand to hand struggle against starvation and debt.?New York Jour nal. A Valuable Spring. The value of a spring of water on a farm mny be gathered from the fol lowing item: John K. Madden, of Lex ington. Ky., recently purchased the farm of .lames C. McCann, paying $7.V WO for eighty acres. Mr. Madden de clares that he did not want the land, but that he purchased It because It contained a never falling spring of water adjacent to his own farm. An Ambition* Youth. A bright-faced psge. about ten year* Old. was talking with Representative Rupert, of New York. "Who had yot? appointed?" Mr. Rnpert asked. "Mr. Dalzell, of Fennsylvanls," the young* ?ter answered. "I suppose when you grow up you are going to Congress to succeed Mr. Dalsell?" "Well, I'd hate to crowd Mr. Dalsell out," answered the page, hesitatingly. TWO- MINMb ON* THOUGHT. AN ?*? ClNMWtMMM HmwH tr Nlwl to a lln|lt ComIihIob. Tbsy Mt together od the sofa, nteklif the dying ember*. They had bee* silent for some time. He moved ????fly. It wm apparent that some thins was on his mind. He looked st her furtively. 8he wai a beautifu' (lrL He determined at last to mske the plunge and turned his (ace reso *utely toward hers. - "Dear." he said. "I am going to ask rou a question that I have never aske<* before. I hope It will not shock you. foo will notice by a glance at the clock that It Is nearly midnight. There Is not a sound In the house, and It W evident that your father and mother havo both gone to bed. There Is nr one else to disturb us. All Is serene The gas overhead Is turned down tc the right point, and these embers shed lust the correct glow. A soft. *entl mental feeling that I have not been able to overcome has begun to atea' over me. I' hope It has over you. Now what I want to ask you Is this: Con sldering all the circumstances I have mentioned, do yon think It would be quite proper for me to kiss you?" The beautiful creature at his side turned Impulsively and laid a delicate hand on his srm. "Do you want to know what I really think?" sho said, earnestly. "Yes." "Then, considering everything, I don't thtnk It would be proper for you not to kiss me."?Town Topics. A Pointer for Candidates. Two candidates for office In Vis sourl were stumping the northern pSrt of the state, and in one town their appearance was almost slmul taneous. The candidate last arriv ing happened to stop at a house foi the purpose of getting a drink of wat er. . To the little girl who answered his knock at the door he said, when she had given him the desired draught and he had offered her in recompense some candy: "Did the man ahead of me give you anything?" "Oh. yes. sir," replied the bright girl, "he gave me candy." "Ah!" exclaimed the candidate, "here's 5 cents for you. I don't sup pose that he gave you any money?" The youngster laughed merrily. "Yes, he did, too. He gave me 10 cents!" Not to be outdone, the candidate ga.ve the little one another nickel, and. picking her up in his arms kissed her. "Did be kiss you. too?" he asked, genially. "Indeed, he did. sir!" responded the little girl, "and he kissed ma too!"? Collier's Weeklv. The Development or rtevaaa. No state in the Union has bo long and bo badly needed an increase of population as has Nevada, says the National Geographic Magazine. Her population of 42,000 to-day is less than It was in 1870. six years after her admission as a state. It is grat ifying to know,' therefore, that she will more than double her present numbers when the vast government irrigation works begun on the True kee and Carson rivers are completed It is estimated that the works will make productive about 375,000 acres of sage brush desert in the western part of the state. These lands will furnish fertile homesteads of about eighty acres each for 4.500 families. Towns and villages will naturally spring up, so that Nevada may expect from the reclamation an increase of 60.000 at the leaat. FITS permanently cured. No flt* or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Kerveltestorer, fit rial bottle and treatise free Dr. R. K. Kuki, Ltd.. Ml Areh St.. Pbila.. Pa The population of London ha* increased eleven per cent, in fourteen years. Dm AIUb'? Foot* (Case. It Is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Feet,Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken Into the shoes. Cure* while you walk. At all Druggists and Hboe Stores, 26c. Doe'? s<*??nt any substitute. Hample sent Fax*. Address,Allen 8. Olmsted. La Roy, N.Y The average price of agricultural land in Russia is $14 an acre. Mrs.Wlnslow's Soothing by rup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion,allays pain,cures wind colic, 2ft.-.abottlo Japan has fifteen docks capable of ac commodating warships. Plso's Cure cannot l>? too highly spoken of ss a cough cure.?J. W. O'Dhikm. 83*2 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis. Minn., .Ian. 6. li>00. In Korea dog meat is in great request at ccrtain seaitoiis. Immense Circular Maw. The largest circular saw In the world has Just been made in Philadelphia. It is seven feet four Inches in diametet, and will be used to cut pine stumps loto shingle bolts. neafness Cannot He Cured by local applications as th?y ??annot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure dcafuess, and that Is by consti tutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. Whenthis tub? is In flamed you have a rumblingsound oi Imper fect hearing, and when it Is entirely closed Deafness is the rosult, and unless the inflam mation can bo taken out and this tube re Stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine oas?s out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh)that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send foi circulars free. F. J. Chcxky A Co ,Toledo,O. Hold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills fur constipation. No Milk While In Mourning. When an Arabian woman is in mourning for a no:ir relative she re fuses to drink nilk for a period of eight days, on the principle thflt the color of the liquid does not harmonize with her mental gloom. Owns Much English Land. There ar? a number of famous es tates in Kngland, but the man who probably owns more land than any other one inhabitant of that country is the duke of Sutherland, who is now In Canada and will make a tour throughout the British northwest. The duke Is said to be the largest land holder In the British islands, owning ?bout 1,355.000 acres. The coinage of gold during May was $44.'<>y,ooo; silver, $380,000. FALL OF A GRIZZLY BEAR. Without an Instant's Warning Trick abla Baast Kllla His Tralnar. Another distinct typa of a too rogue Is the beast that goes wrong owing to accidental temptation?like 8haggy. an exceedingly Intelligent, tractable Rocky Mountain grizzly who reverted to savagery and turned man-killer In a twinkling, owing to the unfortunate misstep and fall of his trainer. 8haggy was a big. handsome, gray old fellow, with a Jungle-thick coat and 1 lumbering, awkward gait, and a fun ny twinkle that made him psrtlcularly adsptable for his part of clotrn In a remsrksbly trained group of fourteen bears. He had come under the hands of his teacher when but a helpless cub. had never lost his liking for ca resses. and. although the mightiest oeast In the collection, was least sus pec ted of being dsngerous. Once, when s striped hyena hung to the ankle o* his friend, he hsd run to the rescue, and cut loose right and left with hlr ponderous fore paws, and had bitten snd torn and mangled the ugly beast to death before he could be beaten off. Among his sccomplishments were thst of turning sdmlrsbly grotesque somersaults snd the more difficult feat of balancing himself on his hind legr on a three-foot tvorden sphere. Not a scratch or a scar hsd his trainer to show f.?r the years of wor't he had put in with the hear. And yet. without an instant's warning, this same beast attacked and injured his master so that, when rescued, he war seml-demcnted, and so dreadfully cut and lacerated that the surgeons de cided It useless to try to save his life. ?McClure's Magazine. GERONIMO IN OLD AGE. He Is No Longer Looked Upon ss ? Chief by the Apaches. Gcronima was at 1 Jiwton last week The health mot the old chief is stil' good, although he is very aged. Hif home Is ten miles from Lawton, yet he usually walks to and from the place to do his trading. He is quite often asked to gi\e ar exhibition of his skill as a marks man wirtx the bow. This he readi1> consents to do provided a nickel if made the target and it becomes hir own in ease he hits it. Geronimo denies the statement ot Gen. Miles that the general captured him. The old warrior says that some where up on the mountains, when hf was on the warpath, two white mer came to him and told him that Gen Miles wanted to see him. The men accompanied him to the camp of the general and he was made a prisoner. Geionlmo says he thinks it was in Arizona, the territory of his birth. Anyway, he says it was up Id the mountains. The trihal relations of the Apaches have been dissolved, and they no long er look upon Geronimo as their chief They consider him a childish old man, who Is too senile to advise them.? wton Democrat. Not Ready for His Coffin. Engineer Minamisawa wen wounded In a sea battle, where he distinguished himself on board the Kasumi. On his arriving at Kr?ebo. 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