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\ [ >Aa Accurate Diagram of the Upper Cm of the Unparalleled Inundation.* ue by the Baltimore. Md, HERA." -vt~ >^ woolen mills. H?Homes of the 5,000 norHn TFbrfcs. W? Cambria City. Johnstown and 000 souls, if?Sheridan tSOO inhabitants). T : bodies carried dovcn the river. X?Continua diagram), which were completely submerged. Tne picture ia the upper left-hand earner s AFTER THE FLOOD. Heartrending Scenes in Conemaugh's Valley of Death. Horrors Witnessed During a Walk Along the Torrent's Path. Thrilling Stories and Pathetic Incidents of the Inundation A Swath of Death Thirteen Miles Long?Dead Bodies and "Wrecked Houses Everywhere?The Survivors | Sleeping on the Ground?Roughs Invade the Stricken Town?An Estimate of the Loss of Life. A correspondent of the New York World, who was among the first to reach Johnstown after the awful disaster, sent the following vivid description of what he saw: I have just come from Johnstown proper, over a rope bridge which was completed this afternoon. I reached there at 5 o'clock last night, and tell only what I did see and do know. The mighty wave that rushed through this i^uxicxxuiugu vcuucy uu rnua) cvcuuig i;ui a swath of death thirteen miles long. In its way lay one of the most thickly populated centres of the Keystone State, and within a few minutes from the time the dam at Lake Conemaugh broke houses were rolling over one another in a mad whirl as they were carried by the seething waters down the gorge between the Endless hills. At Johnstown the whole cen" ter of the city was cut as if a mammoth scythe had passed over the land. At that place was a large stone bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, one of the strongest that that company owns. The Conemaugh River is crossed by it at an angle. Into this angle houses, trees and fences that came down the left side of the river rushed and were piled one on top of another until the arches under the bridge were closed, the current of the Conemaugh was changed and the wreckage began to pile on high until rafters and timbers projected above the stone. Then the houses, nearly all crowded with people, crashed one after another until this terrible wreckage extended a half mile ud the stream. No pen can tell the horror of the shrieks of the thousands who were in the mass of floating ruin. Shortly after the blockade had formed, the dry timbers of the houses caught fire and the mass nearest the railroad bridge became a glowing furnace. Hundreds of people who naa not Deen urownea or crusned in tne mad rush downstream were burned alive. Their shrieks as the flames reached them made the most stout-hearted wring their ha.ij.ds in agony at their inability to render assistance. The wind blew from upstream. The air became filled with the gruesome odors of burning human flesh until at last the horrors to sight, hearing and smell became so great that persons in the vicinity were forced to leave the place. Meanwhile the greater bulk of houses nad gone down along the right bank. One mad rush carried away a portion of the stone bridge, and then the flood bore down upon the thousands of homes and floated them further westward in tbe Conemaugh. It was only a little after five Friday afternoon when the first warning came, and as it had been raining heavily all day the citizens of Johnstown and the neighboring hamlets thought that the slowlv rising waters only meant a light flood. Thus the inhabitants were either grouped in windows or in the open doors, watching what they expected would be an imposing spectacle, but nothing more. No one seemed to think it necessary that they should take to the hills, and so all were caught in the fearful rush. Walking in the Torrent's Path. I walked late yesterday afternoon from New Florence to a place opposite Johnstown, a distance of four miles. I describe what I actually saw. All along the way bodies were seen lying on the river banks, in one place a woman was half buried in the mud, only a limb showing. In another was a mother with a babe clasped to her breast. Further along lay a husband and wife, their arms wound arounu eacn ouier s necKS. xTODaDiy nlty bodies were seen on that side of the river, and it must be remembered that here the current was the swiftest, and consequently fewer of the dead were landed among the bushes. On the opposite side bodies could also be seen, but they were all covered with mud. Near Johnstown the wreckage became grand in its massive proportions. The scenes, as I neared Johnstown, were the most heartrending that man was ever called to look upon. Probably three thousand people were scattered in groups along the Pennsylvania Railroad track and every one of them had a relative lying dead either in the wreckage above, in the river below, or in the still burning furnace. Not a house that was left standing was in plumb. Hundreds of them were turned on their sides and in some cases three or four stood one on top of the other. Two miles from Johnstown, on the opposite side of the river from where I walked, stood onehalf of the water-works of the Cambria Iron Company, a structure that had been built of massive stone. It was filled with planks from houses, and a large abutment of wreckage was piled up fully fifty feet in front of it. A little above, on the same side, could bo seen what was left of the Cambria Iron "Works, which was one of the finest plants in the world. Some of the walls are still standing, it is true, bat not a vestige of ) iemaxigh Valley, Showing the Lake and -Secured from Pennsylvania State C CjD?See Key Below, C*0' gmen employed by iron and steel works at J< 1 Cambria Cities and Conemauah borough con ?Sting Hollow, 12 miles below Johnstown, whe> tion of the river and railroad toward Nin bowl the City of Johnstown 1% miles distant) the valuable machinery remained in sight. The t*vo upper portions of the works v.-ere ! swept away almost entirely, and under the i pieces of fallen iron and wood could be seen the bodies of more than forty workmen. At this point there is a bend in the river ana me nery iurnett: uiiumg mi a. vjum ui a mile square above the stone bridge came : into view. j "My God!" screamed a woman who was hastening up the track, "can it be that any are in there?" "Yes, over a thousand," replied a man who had just came from the neighborhood, and it is now learned that he estimated the number at one thousand too low. The scenes of misery and suffering and agony and despair can hardly be chronicled. One inan, a clerk named Woodruff, was reeling along intoxicated. Suddenly, with a frantic shout, he threw himself over the bank into the flood and would have been carried to his death had he not been caught by some persons below. "Let me die," he exclaimed, when they rescued him. "My wife and children are gone* I have no use for my life." An hour later I saw Woodruff lying on the ground entirely overcome by liquor. Persons who knew him said that he had never tasted liquor before. Toughs Invade the Stricken Town. Probably fifty barrels of whisky were washed ashore lust below Johnstown, and those men who had lost everything in this world sought solace in the fiery liquid. So it was that as early as 6 o'clock "last night the shrieks and cries of women were intermingled with drunkards' howls and curses. What was worse than anything, however, was the fact that incoming trams from Pittsburg brought hundreds of toughs who joined with the Slavs and Bohemians in rifling the bodies, stealing furniture, insulting women and endeavoring to assume control of any rescuing parties that tried to seek the bodies under the bushes and in the limbs of trees. There was no one in authority, no one to ake command of eveu a citizens' posse could it have been organized. A lawless mob seemed to control this narrow neck of land that was the only approach to the city of Johnstown. I saw persons take watches from dead men's jackets and brutally tear finger-rings from the hands of women. The ruffians also climbed into the overturned houses and ransacked the rooms, taking whatever they thought valuable. No one dared check them in this work, and consequently the scene was not as riotous as it would have been if the toughs had not had sway. In fact, they became beastly drunk after a time and were seen lying around in a stupor. The Death Scorc. The committee at Johnstown in their last bulletin plnced thcs number of lives lost at eight thousand. In doing so they are figuring the inhabitants of their own city and the towns immediately adjoining. But it must be remembered that the tidal wave swept ten miles through a populous district before it even reached the locality over which this committee has supervision. It devastated a tract the size ana shape of Manhattan Island. Here are a few facts that will show the geographical outlines of the terrible disaster: The Hotel Hurlburt, of Johnstown, a massive three-story building of 100 rooms, has vanished. There were in it seventy-five guests at the time of the flood. Two only are now known to be alive. The Merchants' Hotel is leveled. How many were inside it is not known, but as yet no one has been seen who came from there or heard of an inmate escaping. At the Conemaugh round house fortyone locomotives were swept down the stream, and before they reached the stone bridge all the iron and steel work had been torn from their boilers. It is almost impossible in this great catastrophe to go more mto details. I stood on the stone bridge at 6 o'clock and looked into the seething mass of ruin below me. At one place the blackened body of a babe was seen; in another, fourteen skulls could be counted. Further along the bones became thicker and thicker, until at last at one place it seemed as if a concourse of people who had been at a ball or entertainment, had been carried in a bunch and incinerated. At this time the smoke was still rising to the height of fifty feet, and it is expected that when it dies down the charred boaies will be seen dotting the entired mass of burned debris. Sleeping on the Ground. I walked along the hillside and saw hundreds of persons lying on the wet grass wrapped in blankets or quilts. It was growing cold and a misty rain had set in. Shelter was not to be had, and houses on the hillsides that had not been swept away were literally packed from top to bottom. The bare necessities of life were soon at a premium and loaves of bread sold at fifty cents. Fortunately, however, the relief train from Pittsburg arrived at 7 o'clock. Otherwise the horrors of starvation would have been added. All provisions, however, had to be carried over a rough rocky road a distance of four miles (as I knew, who had been compelled to walk it), and in many cases they were seized by the toughs, and the people who were in need of food did not get it. It may sound strange to say muen about tne damage to property, but it must be remembered that tne living are those who now suffer and aid is asked for the thousands who are left homeless and without a change of clothing. The damages, including personal losses, cannot fall short of $40,000,000. I learned in Johnstown that the Great Chartiers Steel Works are swept away with all the valuable machinery. This alone entails a loss of $2,000,000. One million will not make the Cambria Iron "Works whole. Rich and poor were served alike by this terrible disaster. I saw a girl standing in her bare feet on the river's bank clad in a loose petticoat and with a sawl over her head. At first I thought she was an Italian woman, but her face showed that I was mistaken. She was the belle of the town?the daughter of a wealthy Johnstown banker?and this single petticoat and shawl were not only all that was left her, but all that was saved from the magnificent residence of her father. She had escaped to the hills not an instant too soon. A Thrilling Story. James M. Walters, an attorney, spent the night in Alma Hall, Johnstown, and relates a thrilling story. One of the most curious oc , .; -V . <; ; ? /.* .. '1 v ' ; Reeerrolr, Which Were the Source | Ecological Survey, and kindly loaned I 0W' wf% fr fr |Nj| i .?V / A/** if " ft* MU?i &F W>Cotefmflr **? *t AflOi ?r Tmc COOKTM Hoq CttUe#(0*r*ef*?uu?orae frt/es) T? SiAtfiy/Lce ** . KEY. {?Conemaugh Lake and Reservoir (sevI miles long and 14 mites abort Johnsit), whose broken dam flooded the valley. Toxon of South Forks (2,000 inhabitants). Mineral Point (300 inhabitants). E? insylvania Railroad Bridge, reported to swept away. D?Town of Conermauah 00 inhabitants) 10 miles below the lake. Woodvale (2,000 inhabitants). O?Large vhnstown. S?Cambria Iron end Steel tained a total population of nearly 30,"e the railroad operator counted 75 dead eveh, Lockport and Bolivar {see small as photojjrabed by the Cambria Iron Co. [ currences of the whole disaster was how Mr. 1 Walters got to the hall. He has his office on the second floor. His home is at 135 Walnut 1 street. He says he was in the house with his family when the waters struck it. All was ] carried away. Mr. Walters's family drifted on a roof in another direction. He passed down several streets and alleys, until he came ! to the hall. His dwelling struck that edifice, and he was thrown into his own office. About j 200 persons had taken refuge in the hall, and were on tBe secona, uiira tmu iuluw siuno. . The men held a meeting and drew up some rules which all were bound to respect. Sir. Walters was chosen President. The Rev. Mr. Beale was put in charge of the first fioor, A. M. Hart of the second floor, Dr. Mathews of the fourth floor. No lights were allowed, and the whole night was spent in darkness. The sick were cared for. The weaker women and children had the best accommodations that could be had, while the others had to wait. The scenes were most agonizing. Heatrending shrieks, sobs and moans pierced the gloomy darkness. I The crying of children mingled with the suppressed sobs of the women. Under the guardianship of the men all took more hope. No one slept during all the long dark night. Manv knelt for hours in prayer, their supplications mingled with the roar of the waters ana the shrieks of the dying in the surrounding houses. In all this misery two women gave premature birth children. Dr. Matthews is a hero. Several of his ribs were crushed by a falling timber and his pains were most severe, yet through all he attended the sick. When two women in a house across the street shouted for help, he with two other brave young men climbed across the drift and ministered to their wants. No one died during the night, but women and children surrendered their lives on the succeeding day as a result of terror and fatigue. Miss Rose Young, one of the young ladies in the hall, was frightfully cut ana bruised. Mrs. Young had a leg broken. All of Mr. Walters's family were saved. Pathetic Incidents. _ The sad scenes will never all be written. Une lady.toia me 01 seeing ner muiuei uusucu i to pieces just before her eyes and the mangled body carried off down the stream. William Varner lost six children and saved a babe about eighteen months old. His wife died just three weeks ago. An aged German, his wife and five daughters floated down on their house to a point below Ninevah, where the house was wrecked. The five daughters were drowned, but the old man and his wife stuck in a tree and hung there for twenty-four hours before they could be taken off. One of the most pitiful sights of this terrible disaster came to my notice when the body of a young lady was taken out of the Conemaugh River. The woman was apparently quite young, though her features were terribly disfigured. Nearly all the clothinj* except the shoes was torn off the body. The corpse was that of a mother, for although cold in death the woman clasped a young male babe, apparently not more than a year old, tighly inner arms. The little one was huddled close up to its mother's face, who, when she realized their terrible fate, had evidently raised the babe to her lips to imprint upon its little lips the last motherly kiss it was to receive in this world. The sight was a pathetic one and turned many a stout heart to tears. Among the miraculous escapes to be recorded in connection with the great disaster is that of George J. Leas and family. He resided on Iron street, Johnstown. When the rush of water came there were eight people on the roof. The little house swung around off its moorings and floated about for nearly half an hour before it came up against the bank of drift above the stone bridge. A three-year-old girl with sunny golden hair and dimpled cheeks prayed all the while that God would save them, and it seemed that God really answered the prayer of this innocent little girl and directed the house against the drift, enabling every one of the eight to get off. Mrs. Leas carried the little girl in her arms, and how she got off she doesn't know. Every house around them, she said was crushed, and the people either killed or drowned. Harrowing Story of an Eye-Witness. A correspondent telegraphs a word-picture of Johnstown as it looked after the subsidence of the flood. He says: "The point of observation was on the hillside, midway between the woolen mills of "VVoodvale and Johnstown proper, which I reached after a journey through the portions of the city from which the waters; receding fast, are revealing scenes of unparalleled horror. From the point on the hillside referred to, an excellent view of the site of the town can be obtained. Here it can be seen that from the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad which winds along the base of Prospect Hill, to a point at which St. John's Catholic Church formerly stood, and from the stone bridge to Conemaugh, on the Conemaugh River, Dut twelve houses by actual count remain, and they are ; in such a condition as to be practically useless. To any one familiar witn the geography of the iron city of Cambria fWnhr tViiQ will cnnvev a vivid idea of a , swath averaging one-half mile in width and three miles in length. In all the length and breadth of the most peaceful and costly por- 1 tion of Johnstown not a shingle remains, ex- 1 cept those adhering to the buildings men- ' tioned. "But do not think for an instant that this comprehends in full the awfulness of tha j scene. What has just been mentioned is a waste of large territorv swept as clean as if i by a gigantic broom. Ill the other direction, along the course of Stony Creek, as far \ as Alexander Kennedy's, the President j of the town councils, some few | of the houses still remain, but they are up- j side down, piled on top of each other, and in many ways so torn asunder that not a single . one of them is available for any purpose j whatsoever. It is in this district that the ; loss of life has been heartrending. Bodies are i being dug up in every direction. "On the main street from which the waters have receded sufficiently to render access and work possible, bodies are being exhumed. They are as thick as potatoes in a field, < Those in charge seem to have the utmost j difficulty in securing the removal of bodies j after they have been found. . ' "At the public schoolhouse the 6cene beg-, < gars description. Boards have been laid firomi 1 desk to desk, and as fast as the hands of a large body of men and women can put the remains In recognizable shape, thsy are laid out for possible identification, and removed a* quickly as possible. Seventy-five still remain, although many have been taken away, and they are being brought in every moment It is something horrifying to see one portion of the huge school taken up by rows and rows of corpses, each with a clean white sheet covering it, and on the other side of the room a promiscuous heap of bodies in all sorts of shapes and conditions, looking for all the world like decaying tree trunks. Among the number identified are two beautiful young ladies named respectively Mrs. Richardson, who was a teacher in the kindergarten school, and Miss Lottie Yost, whose sister I afterward noticed at one of the corners near by, weeping as if her heart * /as broken. iNot a single acquaintance die' he count in all of the great throng who passed her by, although many of thorn tendered sincere sympathy, which was accentuated by their own losses." A Paul Revere Among the Dead. A nameless Paul Revere lies somewhere among ttie nameless aeau. vt no o? is uu; never be known, but his ride will be famous in local history. Mounted on a grand big bav horse, he came riding down the pike which passes through Conemaugh to Johnstoivnlike Bome angel of wrath of old shouting his portentous warning: "Rim for your lives to the hills.1" "Run to the hills 1" The people crowded out of their houses along the thickly settled Itreet, awestruck and wondering. Nobody knew the man, and some thought he was a maniac and laughed. On at a quick pace he rode, and shrilly rang out his awful cry. In a few moments, however, there came a cloud of ruin down the broad streets, down the narrow alleys, grinding, twisting, hurling, overturning, crashing, annihilating the weak and the strong. It was the charge of the flood, wearing its coronet of ruin and devastation, which grew at every instant of its progress. Forty feet high, some say, thirty according to others, was this sea, and it traveled wiyi a swiftness like that which lay hidden in the heels of Mercury. On and on raced the rider, and on and on rushed the wave. Dozens 01 people took heed of the warning and ran up to tne hills. Poor faithful rider; it was an unequal contest. Just as he turned across the railroad bridge the mighty wave fell upon him, and horse, rider and bridge all went out into chaos together. A few feet further on several cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad train from Pittsburgh were caught up and hurled into the cauldron, and the heart of the town reached at the hero, who turned neither to right nor left for safety for himself , but rode on to death for his townsmen. An Estimate of the Number of Dead. Adjutant-General Hastings, whose bureau at Johnstown is endeavoring to make som& thing like a complete record cf the number of bodies found, sent to Governor Beaver V*io sifttsnnl ocfn'mntA that at least 5000 deaths would bo absolutely proven This does not include the large number oi deaths that will never be known of positively, and General Hastings's own estimate of tile total is 8000. The loss of property will be far up into the millions, but no one thinks of that. The tale of the dead is bad, says a dispatch, but the tale of the living is bad, too, and it must have attention. There are as many of them as of the dead and they are hard pressed for food, clothing and all the necessaries of life. Their necessity will continue, not for a day, nor for a week, but for months. They are as destitute of all that goes to support life, except the bare breath in their bodies, as are the very dead whose half nuda bodies line the banks of the Conemaugh for miles. Their ordinary means of earning a livelihood are gone, with the rest of the town, but there is abundant work for every one. But there must be money to pay the workmen. Food for the immediate necessity of the people in Johnstown itself is coming in from every side, and there is enough to relieve their wants. A CANAL DESTROYED, A Historic Waterway Costing $12,000,000 Wrecked Beyond Repair. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, running from Cumberland, Md., to Georgetown, Dis trict of Columbia, a distance of 184 miles, ii wrecked beyond repair. President John Quincy Adams began the work in the presnnstn i\t Prtr,nrrocc T> /Wjf nOfl r 1V 812 000.000 to build. It has never been productive, and it has sunk for the State of Maryland, in principal and interest, over $15,000,000. It connected the bituminous coal regions of Maryland and Virginia with tidewater. The canal was the first great work of its kind in this country. George Washington was its projector. As early as 1774 he secured the passage of a law by the Legislature of Virginia for the opening of the Potomac to navigation, but it was not until 1820 that the work was pushed with vigor. The real commencement of the work was on the 4th of July, 1838, when President Adams broke the ground. Twenty-two years were spent in its construction. In the 184 miles it has a total rise of 609 feet. A part of it goes through a tunnel that cost $2,000,000 to construct. Among, its Presidents was Arthur P. Gorman, now United States Senator. The floods*swept away embankments that cost thousands of dollars. Most of the locks are gone, and the canal and the Potomac River for long distances are now practically one body of water. Many canal boats were swamped, and about ten thunsand tons of coal were caught en route and washed away. AtWilliamsport the canal is under twenty feet of water. It will be impossible to repair the canal, and all its officers acknowledge that it will never be used for navigation again. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mark Twain's income is $80,000 a year. Senator Farwell began life as a sur veyor. Cornelius Vanderbilt began life as a farmer. John Bright bequeathed $430,920 to his children. P. T. Barnum earned his first money as a bartender. Prince George of Greece has joined the French navy. Earl Granville, the British statesman is seventy-three. Tsui Kwo Yin is the name of the new Minister from China to the United States. Theodore Roosevelt, the new Civil Service Commissioner, is thirty-two years old. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new British Minister, says his name is pronounced "Pantsfut." Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes has been giving a course of lectures at Oberlin College, Ohio. King Alexander I., of Servia, though only thirteen years old, speaks French, German and Russian. Governor Foraker has received 164.38 from an accident insurance company for the loss of his toe-nail. General John C. Black, ex-Commissioner of Pensions, is to reside in Chicago and open a law office there. John Bay Lynch, the new fourth Auditoi of the United States Treasury, is a Louisiana mulatto, but he was born free. The baby King of Spain is going to the Paris Exposition in June. Ho will be the youngest Monarch who ever visited that city. The Countess Crosy, of the old nobility of A ??efwio ^oo rrnnA rtn fVlA TYm fl TVlt.h hfiT Cil*CllS trouper* She wiTl take it to Paris before the exposition closes. William Black, the author of "Macleod of Dare," "Green Pastures and Piccadilly," and many other fine novels, has a larger income than any living English novelist. Postmaster-General Wanamaker pays tax upon an annual business of more than 510,000,000, and pays a tax to the city of Philadelphia of nearly $50,000 a year upon real estate. President Carnot asked to bo presented to Perry Belmont iu Paris a few days ago. Be remarked that Mr. Belmont was one of the very few men in the world who had refused tne Legion of Honor. It is not generally known that Chauncey M. Depc?r had a narrow escape from becoming American Minister to Japan twenty-three pears ago. He was offered the mission by Secretary Seward in 1866 and debated over iccepting it for a whole month, when he sent n a refusal to the Secretary. Robert Louis Stevenson, the author, is completely in love with Hawaii. He has iaken a house at Wikik:, near Honolulu, and s busy with his literary work. 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Chicken feathers, however, j [particularly of white, heighted tha! icharms of the fair sex when tastily dis-; posed in their abundant frizzes, and so,, after all, these gentle birds were not jmade wholly in vain. Is It any Wonder that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery outsells all other blood and liver medicines, elnce It possesses such superior curative prop-' ?riles as to warrant its manufacturers In sup-i plying It to the people (as they are doing,| through druggists) under conditions such as no; other medicine Is sold under, viz: that it mus+l eltb er benefit or cure the patient, or the money; paid for it will be promptly returned. It cures all diseases arising from deranged, liver, ox; from impure blood, as biliousness, "liver complaint," all Bkln and scalp diseases. Bait-, rheum, tetter, scrofulous sores and swellings, (fever-sores, hip-joint disease and kindred all-1 ments, : $500 Reward for an incurable case of chronic iNesal Catarrh offered by the manufacturers of Smb's Catarrh Remedy. 50 cents, by drug gists. : Chicago covers an area of 37 square miles or ;23.690 acres, agalost 120 square miles in Philadelphia. / . Dobbins's Electric Soap has been made for24 (years. Eacb years sales have increased. In [1888 sales were 2,047,620 boxes. Superior quality, arid absolute uniformity and purity made this possible. Do you use it? Try it . The sixteen buildings of the Johns Hopkins Hcspita1, a" Baltimore, have been finished at a cost of $2,050,000. Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers. Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant crops. Best frait, grain, grass and stock country in the world. Full information free. Ad'dress Oregon Im'igrat'n Board, Portland, Ore. Dm | Vigor and Vitality are quickly given to every |part of the body by Hood's Sarsapari'la. That tired | reellns Is overcome, the Mood Is purified and vitalised, litomach strengthened, appetite restored. N Y N U?23 I 'bMriBfEBKaa In 1S831 contracted Blood Polton' of bad type, and was treated with paNrSygal mercury, potash and farsa par Ilia iH0B$BWd mixtnrea,growing worseall the time.. 1 took 7 small bottles S. S. S. which J Mr ^ cured rae entirely, and no aign of 'I-Mr ^9 A the dreadfal disease has returned. Jan. 10,'39. Eobbyville, Ind. il?3S8??5B Wy little niece had white swelling (F Ay to such an extent that ?he was con Br A 1 fined to the bed for a long time. ;l ^ jBS ? More than 20 pieces of bone came outof her leg. and the doctor* tald amputation was the only remedy to save her life. I refused the operation and put her onS.S.S. andshe is cow F gy 1 up and acflve and in a? good health as 'I W 1 any child. Miss Axxir Gn;LWo. ^ ? Feb. 11, '89. Columbus, Ga. BSMS65S69 Book on Blood Diseases tent rrte. 'gJCTiErWHM Swtrr Spicitio Co. 'pjmratiBBgi Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga, A 1 prescribe and folly dorse Blf G as the only JKar Ctmli specific for the certain cure ' JR^l TO 6 DiTl.w of this disease. (jK^unalw4 Ml M1 O. H. INGRAH AM, M. D-, JffgS ?a?i Btrtmn. Amsterdam, N. Y. Bg yri isiykjik* We have sold Big G for EUu?Wuft'S Wft ClralniiaiiJBMNi faction. _ . __ ' Wk ftkf- JmI D. B. DYCHE * CO.. : ^gCW XB Chicago, llf. 1 Sold by Dmcclsty Abaitio for Cancer Is tbo only successful treatment. After re* .moving tht! cancer we prevent reformation by eradicating cancerous poisons from the system. Write for circulars to Holland Medical and Surgical Institute, -64 DELAWARE AVE., BUFFALO, N. Y. ' Female Weakness Is successfully treated by our .eminent specialist, after all others have failed. 'lAf A M Every one to Investigate; $5 Tn? ffl Sj B IP 8 2 Judiciously invested will l?vaU i WW 1HB? to a fortune; an opportunity for people with limited means. Send stamp for particulars. TYLER Jc CO., Kansas City, Hio. *7K TO 1$250 A MONTH can be made working :?lw for us. Agents preferred who can furnish a horse and give their whole time to the business. 'Spare momenta may be profitably employed also. (A few vacancies in towns and cities. B. F. JOHNSON & CO., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va. N. B.? Please ita-'e age. and. business experience. Never mind about sending stamp for reply. B. F. J. <t Co. |H Plio's Remedy for Catarrh Is tha |B jB| Bea:, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. !jj|| ' Scilcl by druggist* or sent by mail. HI geoa E. T. Basel tine, Warren, Pa. m 1 for ^ire of , ^DHPTIYam o7ERMAK rt)f >IT"H.niifRETllRfJ dfE\ii). *JDHI1B?ST5 AND^EALEi\sHEpyW]lEI^ THECHASA-YOEELER CO-Baihi-MP' vnii mn itt A VU JLIUUJUT A A I "I have a huge Dicttonaiy, but it is so much work to lift it for examination that lam inclined to shirk looking out woids. although desirous of knowledge. Your "HANDY DICTIONARY" is always by me and I look out words on the instant, so the information is impressed on my mind."?Correspondent. Webster's Illustrated HSHDY DICT5GMRY ? Thousands of Words Defined. Hundreds of Pictures. Abbre- //f,l j|& vlations Explained. Ordlu- I | ary Foreign riirascs Trans- /] la ted. Metric System __t_ Weights and Measure*. Printed in small, claar type, on flue ~c jSS& laid paper; bound in handsome cloth. 820?PAGES?320 Who that reads doesn't every day come across words whose mesa in* he does not know, and which he cannot pronotinoe or spell ? Hence the demand for a moderate-si zed Dictionary which can be kept at hand always ready for reference. Such a work will be used a hundred times as much as a large unwieldy volume, and therefore iB a greater educator. As the Spelling and Pronunciation of many common words have been changed during tho last 30 years, people owning the old-f?*hioned Dictionaries needs modern one. Here it is at a trilling cost. Postpaid fcr '25c. in lc. or 2c. stamp.-. BOOK PUBLISHING? HOUSE. 134 I.conard St.i X. Y. C'it7 nr&IABA&l joHNw.moKKis, a# Ea ni D 0 I tu Lstc Principal Examiner, r E li o I u 11 Yi i^asaa p. C7, successfully prosecutes claims?orfelnal. increase, re-rating, widows', children's and dependent relatives'. Experience: 3 years in last war, 15 rears In Pension Bureau, and attorney since then. MAKE CHICKENS PAY. _ il JOU mow IH1WW|rivpii* L?lc V* W for them. For25 cento in ("tame* l'Jf , yon can procure a 100-PAGE BOOK. Is I yv Hiring the experience of a rracti- Jgf f \ cal Poultry Raiser?not an ami- * teur, buta man sorting for doi-/ \ law and cent*?during a period off 1 ? rears. It teaches you how m Detect and Cure Diseases: to Feed Vi'H" for Em? and also for Fattening; I lr which Fowls to Bare for Breeding I I Purposes: and everything, fndeeu, l>t you shcnld knew cn this subject to make It proflt able. Bent postpaid for uic. BOOR PUB HOUSE. 134 Leonard Btrteti W. Y. City FRAZERe4?M BEST IN THE WORLD Ul IS- MO L cr~ Get th? Genuine. Sold Everywhere. linilC STUDY. Book-keeping, Business Forms ff UME Psumanshlp, ArMunetlc, thort-hand, etc II thoroughly tausbt by HAIL. Clrcuiirs irec Bryant's College. 437 Main St. Buffalo, K. Y. wijuti vm ScLDirrDarooisT*, . sUpate, rather acts as a la In more^han 3000 cases, o close SO cent/ftar sample t JOSEPH. OT1 vftU X AUli factory: this protects tl;e i Inferior goods. If your dealer offers you shoes wit! and price stamped on them, and says they arc his deceiTed thereby. Dealers make more profit on u ranted by anybody; therefore do not be Induced t tion. Buy ouly those that have W. L. DOUGL, stamped on the bottom, and vou are sure to get ful Thousands of dollars arc saved annually ill this co . W. Jj. DOUGLAS' SHOES. If your dealer will not get rou the kind or strle yc direct to his factory, with tlie price enclosed, and return mall, postage free: consequently,no matter i can always get W. L,. DOUGLAS' SHOES. Be and width foil wear; if not sure, send for an ord giring full Instructions how to get a perfect fit. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, ] M|S1 ^ witmi" ' This Book contains 624 Finel Excellent Paper, and is Handsome] It gives English words with the Ger and German words with English defi and desire to know its meaning in I Book; while if the English word is into German, you look into another j It is invaluable to Germans wh English, or to Americans who wish t you can master German with the aic per day is devoted to study, how: the knowledge, and hasten to send BOOK PUB. HOUSE. 134! p*1n REJIKDY exerso *?**?? '. yi hu done mor* For SPRAINS, BRUISES, BACKACHE, PAIN In tlie CHEST or SIDES, HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE, or any other EXTERNAL PAIN, a few application# act j? Ilk* magic, earning the PAIN to IN- <- -<4 STANTLY STOP. . For CONGESTIONS,INFLAMMATIONS, SORE THROAT, BRONCHITIS, COLD In the CHEST, RHEUMATISM, HEC-. RALGIA, LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, PAINS V - &S In the Small of the Back, etc., more extended, longer continued and repeated applications are necessary to affect a care. ^wSjya All INTERNAL PAINS (In the Bowels or stomacn), uitA.urs, sriisjus. wun STOMACH. NAUSEA, VOMITING, M HEARTBURN, DIARRHOEA, COLIC, FLATULENCY, FAINTIWG SPELLS, art relieved instantly and QUICKLY CURED by taking internally as directed. Sold by Druggists. Price, 30c. DADWAYQ n pills 0 THE GreaiLiyfir&StoicIReiif ; For tho cure of all disorders of the \-.f& STOMACH, LIVER, BOWELS, KIDNEYS, BLADDER, NERVOUS DISEASES,LOSS of APPETITE, HEADACHE, (\JSJ CONSTIPATION, COSTIVENESS, INDIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS, FEVER, INFLAMMATION of the BOWELS .PILES , m and all derangements of tlie Internal Viscera. Parely Vegetable, containing no mercury, minerals, or DELETERIOUS DRUGS. PERFECT DIGESTION trill bo accomplished by taking RAD WAY'S FILLS. By so doing ' DYSPEPSIA, SICK HEADACHE, FOUL STOMACH, BILIOUSNESS, ?vill be avoided, sai the food tliat Is eaten contribute iti V; nourishing properties for the ia ppert of tho natural waste of the body. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price SBe. per box, or, on receipt of price, will be sent by mall. S boxes for (hit Dollar. RADWAY 4t Co., 33 Warren St.,N. Y? i ' lUCDKCC uun i>* ?uu ?.?.? - _ _ ^_ brated SMITH k WES80N ^ ;- ^ arms. The finest small ?rmi ( yr~vt JHmIa ever manufactured and the \J/ J) h) first choice of all experts. m Manufactured In call bres 32,88 and 44-100. Sin- MM rle or double action. Safety Hamroerlesa and V5S* Tsrpet model*. Constructed entirely or be?H?alIty Trreuirbt ateel. carefully inspected for wont* ..<3 manehip and etock, they are unrivaled for finish, durability and mccumcy. Do not be deceived by cheap ninllenble caat-lrpn Imitation* which are often sold for the ffentiine article and are not cmlv unreliable, but daEKrrotM. The SMITH k, WESSON Revolvers are all stamped upon the barrels with Arm's name, address and date* of patents and are guaranteed perfect in every detail. Insist upon having the iron nine article, and If your dealer cannot supply yon an order sent to addreea below will receive prompt and careful attention. . t Doscrptlvecatalorue and prices furnished upon ap- V/v pUcaton. SMITH & WESSON, \ gyMentlon this paper. Hyrluafleld, Mass. f'-,. AP to 98 a day. Samples worth 82.15 Free. S v A 81 Llnea not under hones' feet Write Brew* W w ster Safety Rein Holder Co., Holly,Xlch SR'S FAVORITE COLIC MIXTURE vlll cure 99 out of every 100 cases of colic, whether fatly more than 1 or 2 dosee necessary. It does not Joaxntlve and Is entirely harmless. After 10 years oftttal ur guarantee is worth something. Colic mtu?. bo pend a few cents and you have a cure on hand, mtniy aps save a valuable horse. If not at your drnggMn, en ottle, gont prepaid. KOEHLER de CO., Bethlehem, Pa. lvorlte Colic We cKeerfuOy recommend Dr. KoeKUr** svcceu. It is "FhvorUe CoUo Mixture," Would not be we ever seen, without U a* long as tee have honet. e Dealer, ISAAC HOOKS <? BRO., Nexc York. Sale and Exchange Stable*, Boston, Jh. JTER ^ -UXt1 PENSION without DELAY. N. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. Best In the world. Examine hi* ( 5.00 GENUINE HAND-SEWED SHOE. | 84.00 HAND-SEWED WELT SHOE. #3.50 POLICE AND FARMERS' SHOE. <1 2.50 EXTKA VALUE CALF SHOE. ?? ?r. wnBKTxr.WAN'S SHOE. #i!00 GOOD-WEAR SHOE. 82.00 and 81.75 BOYS' SCHOOL, SHOES. All made In Congress, Button and Lace. N. L. DOUGLAS >3 & $2 SHOES LADIES. ' J Best Material. Best Style. Best Fitting. 7. L. Douglas' 83.00 Shoe, shown In cut below, is ado of line Oil!, on l3?ts modelled for the foot; smooth islde as hand-sewed shoes, and no tacks or wax thread hurt the feet. Every pair warranted. e and the price are stamped on ^ ... J* rtlsed by fclm before leaving his QtNTLSMCN#^ wearers against high prices and Hnninf lout W. L. DOUGLAS' name shoes, or lust as good, do not be B nknown shoes that arc not war- M yi o buy shoes that have no reputa- *.Mf?W J"! AS' name and the price f/Zfrm ?: II value for your money. ,V- 939 J % iuntry by the wearers of ?jr*\ JnV rnJ* m want, send your order they will be sent you by f <S^ ..? vherc you live, you Jf v ,-c m 6ure and iifii ONLY $1.00, POSTPAID. M _______ t Ipffilonli 1 IN SPARE MOMENTS INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR TIME. v.-J A minnfsa'aapnatf afn/Jxr ftf t.hl? JCL low UULAXIUWO wiuuvuw "'" "J ? '- ? excellent work each day will result in your knowing* German. .?! tajfistanflBfistiilrM . y Printed Pages of Clear Type on y yet Serviceably Bound in Cloth, man equivalents and pronunciation, nitions. If you know a German word English, you look in one part of the known and you want to translate it part of the Book. o are not thoroughly familiar with 0 learn German, Consider how easily 1 of this Dictionary if a half hour omoh benefit can be derived fro% for this first-class book, Leonard Street. New York. ...V,