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Greatest of All Diamonds. When a diamond ia fonnd weighing more than a hundred carats, the news is usually herded with much ado. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, if the finding of the "Excelsior" created considerable excitement. It weighed in the rough 971 carats, and was found near Jasjersfonntain, in the Orange Free State, Africa. When examined it was found to be a white stone of the first water, but had a small flaw in the centre. The inspector of the mine, a Swede name Jorgensen, was the lucdy finder. The proprietors of the mine, Breitmayer and Bernheimer, had the stone tested aid valued by experts, who agreed that the value was $5,000,000. It is a fact that two offers of $3,000,000 and $4,250,000, respectively, have been refused by the proprietors, Upon its transfer to the coast great precautions were taken for its protection. A squadron of cavalry escorted it to the raii-way statioD. In Capetown it was placed aboard the British gunboat, H. M. S. Antelope, which bronght the precious gem to London, where it now rests in the fire and burglar-proof vaults of the Bank of England. Tho next largest diamond in the world is the one owned by the Kajah of Matan, on the Island of Borneo; this one weighs 367 carats. The handsomest of all the large diamonds known is, however, the one in the French collection of crown jewels, known as the "Kegent," which weighs 136* carats. Louis XV. paid 600,000 francs for it, but now it is valued at $2,000,000. How much the "Excelsior" will lose in cutting can only be decided by most eminent experts. As a rule, the larger diamonds lose fully one-half of their weight in this operation. Naturally the cuttiufr, which is done with a view to having as few large pieces a3 poBsiV1-* rt* +ViA moin rrOTYl mTTfif, V?A U1C VUbOlUC 1/1 IUO uiaiu carried on with the greatest care. This business is carried on mainly in Amsterdam and Antwerp. In Amsterdam there are at present five larpe concerns of diamond cutters, with 872 diamond mills or cutting wheels, and 3000 hand?, besides a large number of less important concerns. ? Philadelphia Record. TVhite Elephants. Knighthood is not an honor that yon can obtain in Siam as easily as you can in mnny other countries. Ton have to qualify for it by capturing a white elephant, which is, by all -?I- - ?mnva /liffiotllt CCUUUlDt ft guvu uccu auv4 than to write indifferent poetry. The white elephant is the National emblem of Siam, and all the specimens that can be canght are kept in the royal stables and live on the fat of the land. There are five of them at present in honorable captivity. AH the work they ever have to do is to take part twice a year in a State procession, and to snpport the King by their majestic presence whenever he has to receive a foreign Ambassador. Besides being knighted, their captors receive large money rewards. The more white elephants there are in the King's mews, the luckier does he reckon himself likely to be.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. " * *- <1.. 1>??<. r?u. I A ^apoieuuic auil! ai uic 1UU M. IUIA French engineer, M. Edonard Gras, has conceived the idea of reproducing the historic house of Longwood in which Napoleon lived at St. Helena as an attraction during the exhibition of 1900. The house, which, according to his scheme, will be an exact copy of the original, will be surrounded by panoramic canvases representing the natural surroundings.? New York Post. f Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root cures t all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Bingharnton. N. Y. Signs of a recent earthquake have been found on a desolate island in Lake Superior. Does He Chew or Smoke? If so. it is only a question of time when brieht eves crow"dim. manly steps lose firm ness, and the vigor and vitality so enjoyable now will be destroyed forever. Get a book, ' titled "Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away," and learn how NoTo-Bac.without physical or financial risk, cures the tobacco habit, brings back the -vigorous vitality that will make you both happy. No-ToBac sold and guaranteed to cure by Druggists everywhere. Book free. Ad. Sterling Bemedy Co., New York City or Chicago. The Ladles. The pleasant effect and perfect safety with which ladies may use the California liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions makes it their favorite remedy. To get the true and genuine article, look for the name of the California Fig Syrup Go? printed near*tUo bottom of the package. And Make Money At It. If you only knew it, the trouble Is with your digestion. If that was goo I you would Bleep better, wake be iter, work better, and make more money at it. How can one "get on" wbe'i the wnole system is sluggish? But people don't realize what is the trouble. A box of Ripans Tabules makes life worth living. At druggists. Aloert Burch, West Toleio, Ohio, say?: " Hall's Catarrh Cure saved ray lite." Write Mm for particulars. Sold by Druggists, Toe. _ Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the urums, reduces inflammation. allays pain, cure" wind colic. 2~>c. a bott.lt* Piso's Cure is a wonderful Cough medicine. ?Mrs. W. Hickeht. Van Mcien aiiu BiaKo | Aves., Brooklyn, K. Y., Oct. 2*5,1S94. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thorn-son's Eye-water. I imirkristMJellRt'Jjcper nnttle A Good Appetite; Indicates a healthy condition of the system and the lack of it shows that the stomach and digestive organs are weak and debilitated. Hood's Sarsaparilla has woaderful power to tone anu sirtuijiu^-ii wiw ui^aw and to create an appetite. By doing this it restores the body to haSlth an i prevents attacks of disease. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilia Is the only true blood purifier prominently before the public eye today. U/\SNri?c* Dillr the after-Uiuaer pill ami nOOQ 3 rlllb faintlv cdtiirtlo. 8Ji-t?. X Y X r?30 f DAVIS HAND BR POWER CREAM SEPARATOR One-third more butter and of hit;ht-. quality than by other knowD system* SAVES MONEY AND LABOF Bites from 1 to l.wo Cowb. Pampble Mailed Free. Apents Wantec Davis <t rankij* bldg. am* MHi CO.. Sole Mnnmacturers, Chicago. 11! , M ? CURES WHIKE AIL ?LS? FAILS- HEi 1 U Best Cough Syrup. Tanes Good. Use QJ to tiiu*. Sold by Qru^Eiet^ Kl k,y *K ' IRON AND STEEL L Br MARVELOUS GROWTH OF PITTS- mi BURG'S GREAT INDUSTRY. 18 th T> Its Numerous Blast Furnaces, Roll- _* lug Mills and Steel Work9 ? An 6 Immense Outfit?Women Work In Mills. tri nc eij SOME startling statistics regard- th ing the iron anil steel industry of of Pittsburg have just been fo: made public by the annual statistical report of the American Iron all and Steel Association. They were H< compiled by James M. Swank, the jai general manager of the association, pa and were presented to the members, sei Mr. Swank is the publisher of the Iron tri and Steel Bulletin and a recognized na authority on the matter. His figures pr may be accepted as reliable. wl Pitttsburg, says a correspondent of a ? fhp NW York Jonrnal. has now twenty- i th seven blast furnaces, twenty-nine steel va works and thirty-four rolling mills. fr< In 1892, when the iron industry wa9 sp; booming, there were produced in the an twenty-six blast furnaces (tbe number ke existing at that time) 1,775,257 gross tons of pig iron. In 1893, with one th more furnace, the total production di was 1,697,207, or only 78,050 tons sti less. as This was the panic year during which tit wages were cut lower and lower until tie the workers rebelled and long strikes gl were the result. In 1894, which was fls also hard times year, the production ur of pig iron was 1,782,079, or 6822 tons ri| more than during the boom year of m 1892. The report also shows that in 1892 til there were 6ixty-two rolling mills and bi steel works which produced 1,605,974 ni tons of crude 6teeL In the following b? year the decrease was only 15,201 cc tons, while in 1894, when the country al began to feel the beneficial effects of th tariff reform, the production was 1,- ca 893,696, or almost 300,000 tons more than in 1892. B< The total production of pig iron, lr A WOMAN AT WORK IN A PITT eteel ingote, crude Bteel, rails, Bheets, in plates, rolled iron and steel, etc., in in 1892 in this city was 7,861,397 tons, ffc In the following year there was a slight be decrease to 7,377,881 tons, which in tr 1894 jumped to 8,561,819 tons, or st 700,422 tons more than daring the big year of '92. la The origin of the iron and steel in- Hi duetry, its growth and development wi is a marvellous story. The beginning N; of the manufacture of iron in West- ca ern Pennsylvania, and the first fur- m nace built, dates back to 1790. It was ot then located in what is now the most fashionable residence section of Ritts- bi burg, Shady Side. A rolling mill on Pi a small scale was erected there in in 1811. m Tha close proximity to the inex- p] haustufe supply of soft coal fields and ^ the natural shipping facilities afford- ai ed by the Ohio, Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers, made Pittsburg a ir magnet for the iron and 6teel pio- a neers, and the one rolling mill plant J( quickly spread and multiplied. fc 0] w A BLAST FUEKACE. Within a few years virgin forest trees gave way to smokestacks, and at night scores of furnace fires around which toiled brawny, half-naked men di lit up the eurrounding hills and gave th an awesome weirdness to the small vil- da lage. In In 1803 an iron and brass foundry P* was established. It afterward cast the cannon which blazed in victory from on Perry's littlo fleet on Lake Erie. Can- cli non have been made here for three th wars. During the last Civil War over in 2000 guns were made. er The "Iron City" produces one-fifth du of the entire amount of iron and steel st< made in the United States, and one- no third that of the State of Fennsylva- So nia, the production of the latter being pa over one-half of the output of the Qi country. The largest Bessemer steel mi works and the greatest crucible plant cl< are locatea Here. tu A year ago the total number of operatives was 2000. This of course in- to chides Homestead, Braddock and oth- co er towns within a few miles of the ar city, and which will be included in the tb Greater Pittsburg. Tbe employes re- bu ceive in wages in one year between to S38,000,0U0 and $10,000,000. wc The largest concern is the Carnegie tb Steel Company, which is capitalized at 825,000,000.?It employs 10,000 in men and boys. In the way of produc- cil tion it turns out 100,000 tons of pig bu iron per month, and the same number m of tons of open hearth and Bessemer or steel blooms, billets, structural shapes, or etc. The finished product aggregates w< from twenty to tweuty-five cars per nc day. At the Braddock rail mill steel wi rails thirty feet long are rolled out at At the rate of two each second, or 120 is Der minute. An average day's work is ughteen miles of single track. tb I On the opposite aide of th9 Monon- ra hela River, and three miles below Ri addock, are the Homestead works, ta ide famous by tbe strike and riots of m 92. Armor plates, beams, etc., are m e principal products of this plant, le armor mills are now practically ut down on account of no work. The company has finished its conicts for Government work, and is cq >w ready to make armor for aoy for- .. jn Power. In the structural mills e employes are getting out an order . 37,000 tons of beams and girders r the Manhattan "L" road system. ln Since the armor plate frauds it is nost as bard to break into the jmestead millu as it is to get out of il. No one is admitted without a ^ ss, a uniformed guard standing as ~~ atinel over a bridge at the main enmce. As the visitor who is fortnte enough to secure a ticket apoaches the mills from the yard the lole interior appears to be filled with shower of gold. From the mouth of e "converter," a fan-shaped flame of st proportions sweeps roofward. and )w this comes the torrent of fiery arks which sweep high in the air, d then fall on the earthen floor, Dt continuallv covered with water. On a narrow ledge at tho far side of e building, high up m the air, and rectly opposite to the "converter," ind three men, the "melter" and his Bistants. They ore ;n a cowering at;nde, as though shrinking from the > >od of fire, and the "melter," with a L as3 held to his eye, watches the 1 ime coming from the "converter," ' itil by its color he recognizes the ght moment for turning out tho olten steel into the molds. _ At his signal the "converter" is g( [ted forward, sending out metal as ei -ight as silver. Thus all day and ai ght the melter stands and makeB the nc isis of wealth for the world by the bt rntrol of living fire. Personal skill one qualifies him for his office, for a iere is no thumb rule by which he ai in control this mighty element. ej The practical process of making sh ;ssemer steel consists in putting pig p< on into the "converter" and blow- m n( 11 ""l| X \J F SBURGr TIN PLATE MILL. ei k I? the carbon out of it by means of ( lmense draughts. The sheets of ! ime one sees are incandescent car>n. Later the steel is remelted and eated with speigle iron, etc., to reore the right quantity of oarbon. Next to the Carnegie interests the rgest plant is that of JoneB & Laughas. At the head of it is B. F. Jones, ho, as Chairman of the Republican ational Committee, ran the Blame impaign. The firm employes 3500 en and treats them better than any her company. Within the past few years the iron isiness has been revolutionized, addling iron has given way to the iproved and cheaper methods of B&iug ateei. otcci utu tuncu buc ace of iron in all kinds of structural ork, and scores of paddling furnaces e idle. Steel does not wear as well as good on, and shrewd manufactures predict return to the days of puddling, jnes & Laughlins have less than oneiurth of their puddling furnaces in aeration, but will have use for them ter. The day of high wages in the iron id steel business has passed never to sturn. Up until the time when the arnegie Steel Company, after a great ss of life, succeeded in almost breakig the Amalgamated Association, lores of men who were paid accord>g to the production of the mills upon hich they worked, received from !5 per day upward. Rollers came to the mills in carages and behind fast horses, and L red on the best they could get Hun ede of men who a few years ago, if ? ey did not make from S10toS15 per di iy would have bemoaned their hard g< ck, are now working for $2 and $3 >r day. SI Notwithstanding the reduced duty fc l tin plate, which the manufacturers d< limed would compel them to close as eir mills, the tin plants are flourish- ci g. One of the odd features of the u] ection of tin plate mills is the intro- so iction of women in the iron and u] ;el trades. At the plant of the Mo- so mgahela Tin Plato Company iu se uth Pittsburg, and which is now ? rtly owned by United States Senator lay. women work on the floor of the ill alongside men. They wear coarse ithing, with heavy aprons, uod on eir hnnds thev hnvn cloves. The 'women stand fit the rolls with ugs anil catch the plates as they me out. They cut, "dip" and eepute them, and do the work belter an men. The women learned the isiness in Wales, and earn from S5 S8 per week. Husbond and wife >rk in the pame mill, tho former at e furnace and the latter at tho rolls. For years girls have been employed the bolt and nut factories of that ty, but this is the first time they ,ve actually worked on the foor of a ill with the glure of a furnace on le Bide and the whirr of heavy rolls i the other. / As it is the custom for women to / ark in tin mills in Wales, the men do I >t object to tho women. The latter J ill be taken into the Amalgamated I V ssociation, as the work they perform ; 1 covered by the scale. i w The iron and 6teel business will fur- ] er develop by the building of new ? ilroads and the Lake Erie and Ohio iver Ship Canal. The latter is a cerinty, and, when completed, will ake Pittsburg in reality the greatest anufacturing city in the world. For Shying Horses. A really remarkable device for aking any shying horse perfectly lm and tractable is the new mvenDn of Henry Small, of this city, says e Hartford Times. Properly speakg it is not a "nit," for it does not go to the horse's month at all, but is ily a simple nose-piece thut goes rer the horse's upper lip, but does >t necessarily draw on or even scarcetouch it unless the driver has a NOSE BIT FOR HOBSES. mtlepnll on it; then it tonohesthe id of the animal's nose or upper lip; id that mere touch, which should >t be increased much, does the whole lsinfis. Mr. Small's contrivance consists of simple f ead strap, properly braced id coming down between the horse's 'esaDd nostrils, to its end in the lape of a sort of little metallic up;r lip. This latter little piece of etal, only about two inches long and )t half an inch wide, is humorously .lied a "trolley bit." Its curving rle-ends, like an ordinary bit, are so :vised that a very slight, gentle pull i tho rpin? hrincrs the "trollev bit" gainst the tip of the horse's nose. In complete absorption in the study a new experience the horse may be iven right up by the side of a noisy comotive, or of a gong-banging troly car, that presents to the horse, ider ordinary circumstances, the iBter aspect of a moving, perhaps living thing, going without any visie means of compulsion ; and in his rict attention to the new sensation the tip of his nose he will take no jtice of the car of the locomotive, tie queerest thing of all is the fact iat no amount of use or familiarity ith the nose-toucher arrangement ema to lessen the horse's interest l it. JAPANESE PRAYER BAGS. Ivldences of Idolatry Found on a Lot of Coolies. The Immigration Inspectors at San wanAicAA nromiTifl^ a Inf. nf .TnrftTiPflfi Dolies a few days ago and found that ich one had strong about his neck a amisama or praying bag. These bags antain prayers written on silk or ;out paper and are specially adi?i ill JI| il TUl ww\\\ III* I i Af, V~ 5 : JAPANESE PRAYING BAG. ressed to the possessor's household 3d. The Japs pay their Baddhist and tnnto priests from one to two cents ir these prayers, which serve the juble purpose of being lucky charms i well as prayers, pays the San Fransco Call. The priests bless the charm ?on receipt of the cash. TVe posses<i prays by sliding the little pouch o and down the strings and saying imething similar to "These are mv ntiments." He is very particular HAXDIC Grant Hamilton?"Plievr! This Frank Leslie's. that these prayer bags and charms shall not be profaned by the touch of a Christian forefinger and resists the 1 deputy's efforts to find letters near ] the little sacred pouch which rep"pes j on the stomach of the faithful. For i thii reason the intelligent Ja}> <loes ( not carry letters near the bag. Wuen < the Jap Is particularly anxious to have i his god answer his prayer he removes i rnvor frnm t.hfl ton of the POUCh i and prays witb the paper in his hand?. i Still another evidence of J-ipanese i superstition is shown hy the lucky stones they neorlj all (professed Christians as well) carry in their pockets. In Japan the women place locks of their hair and the men place smooth stones the size of walnuts at the feet of their idols. After a certain time these locks of hair and the 6tonefe become sacred and are either carried in their garments or worn euspended around their necks as charms to protect the wearer from evil and harm. The Japanese immigrants wear and carry the prayer bags and the sacred stones until tbey reach the missions, when they are bidden, so as to prevent white Christians from discovering these evidences of idolatry. sos-sinkable life-boat. Description of an Interentinx Craft Constructed by a Chicago Inventor. A. L. Heclberg, a Swedish inventor residing in Chicago, exhibited in the Ioter-Ocean office the model of a new life-boat which he has just patented. Made of galvanized iron?in actual service diflerent materials can be used ?the miniature looks like a large turnip, and is in two parts, cut apart /jl?\ THE NEW NON-SINKABLE BOAT. horizontally at the line of greatest girth. The halves, however, are firmly clamped together with a watertight connection, when the toy is dumped into the water, to which it takes as jauntily as a rubber feather, | and the only means of entrance and I exit then is via a little upward opening like a melon plug, and very easily made use of. as also readily rendered | watertight in its turn. At the top are I several little holes for ventilation, but which can also be closed at will.. Furthermore, there are six windows, round as portholes in the ordinary ship. Over all this is a flagstaff which 1 can be lowered and put Tip at pleasure, with waterproof connections and ventilation device, and on the top of the flagstaff is a lantern. There are two oar holes also, one on eaoh tide, similarly water-tight in the play of the pair of strong serviceable oars. And, last and most important of all, the appaiatus always rides the wave right-side-up-with-care, because of the abundant ballast in the bottom. The interior of the miniature is fitted up completely, with seats all around the wall, and there are straps for additional support in oase of storm. For practical use, the inventor proposes a "life-boat" of this description which shall be either eight feet high by six feet in diameter, at the widest girth, with a seating capacity of ten persons, or else one ten feet high and eight feet wide, seating twenty-five nerRonA. The former stvle. made wholesale, would cost only $125, and would carry 1000 pounds without sinking more than four feet in the water, riding as buoyant as a top. In the base would be plenty of room for supplies and water to last fnom {en to fifteen persons several weeks, without aDy danger from water or vitiated air. For the first-named size of boaf the circular entrance would be three feet in diameter, and tha windows one foot. Chains are attached on the outside for people out in the water to catch hold and climb up by. The lifeboat cannot possibly tip over, but simply bobs up and down like a cork. Already on Lake Calumet there is n little "life-boat" of this pattern, and the inventor expects soon to have one on Lake Michigan.?Chicago InterOcean. Solitude Made Her Insane. An insane woman was b: ought to Seattle, Wash., from a ranch in the interior of the State last week and sent to an asylum. The supposed cause of her insanity suggested by the doctor? was "the solitude of ranch life."? New York Suu Marvlaud has nn assessed valuation of S497.307.675. APPED. is the worst hill I ever tficklod. ifc:* vv>:- T li^i Valne or a MInnfe. Napoleon, -who knew the valne of time, remarked that it was the qnarter hourB that won battles. The valne of minutes has been often recognized, md any person watching a railwav clerk handing ont tickets and change during the last few minutes available must have been struck with how much , could be done in these short periods of time. At the appointed hour the train , Btarts and by and by is carrying passengers at the rate of sixty miles an hour. In a second you are carried twenty-nine yards. In one twenty- , ninth part of a second yon pass over 1 one yard. Now, c-ne yard is quite an appreciable distance, but one twenty- ( ninth of a second is a period which ( cannot be appreciated. Vnt it. nlanctorr JLGl lil 10 nucu WO UUUIO VV vi-4 J and stellar motions that the notion of the infinite divisibility of* time dawns apon ns in a new light. It wonld seem that no portion of time, however microscopic, is unavailable. Nature can perform prodigies, not certainly in less than no time, but in portions of it so minute as to be altogether inconceivable. The earth revolves on her axis in twenty-four hours. At the equator her circumference is 25,000 miles. Hence, in that part of the earth a person is being carried eastward at the rate of 509 yards per second?that is the moving over a yard, whose length ii conceivable, in the period of one five hundred and ninth part of a second, of which we san have no conception at all. But more, the orbital motion of the earth round the snn causes the former to perform a revolution of nearly 600,000,000 miles in a year, or somewhat less than 70,000 miles an hour, which is more than 1000 miles in a minute. Here, then, our second carries us the long distance of about nineteen miles. TUa U?11 iVtno flma oKnnf. a. mil a JLJLIU LLUgLlVjr UAI1 vuuo uiwa HWVW* W in the nineteenth part of a second.? Boston Advertiser. Experiments With Eyesight. Experiments have been made to decide how far spiders can see, and it has been determined that they have a range of vision of at least a foot. It is not always possible to tell, however, whether the lower animals perceive by sight or hearing or by the action air in motion has on their bodies. Experiments tend to show that mice are sensitive to motions of the air which to human ears create no sound whatever.?New York World. Highest of all in Leaveaing Pow ABSOLUT Proper Hair Cutting. The intelligent barber, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean, looked pityingly at a young man who had just gotten a shave in the next chair, and was taking his departure through the door. "Look at that gentleman's head," he remarked with indignant emphasis. "Every bump in the back and every scar he ever got there in his boyhood is as plain as the nose on your face. The trouble is that he had his hair cut by some barber who doesn't know his business. "There are dead loads of barbers," continued the speaker, whacking his razor on the strop, "who sing, 'Johnny, git your hair cut. short,' and don't know anything else in their trade. They cut away at a man's hair as long as the comb'll take hold, and don't stop till there isn't any more hair to cut. A barber should never cut a customer's hair short unless he's ordered to do so. Hair should never be cut so as to disfigure a person. A barber should be something of an artist. He should feel a customer's head and find out if it has any pronounced bumps, and the hair should be raised to see if any scars are conTi _.-i1 t Al ceaieu. AX miller ui hicdo uuiuuwc exist the hair should be cat bo as to .hide them as far as possible. The razor should never be used, ercept sparingly, on the neck. The hair should be graduated gentlj from the crown and shaded on the neck with care and patience. It makes me tired to see the work of Bome so-called barbers. Next!" The daily income of the principal rulers is said to be: Emperor of Russia, $25,000; Sultan of Turkey, $18,000; Emperoi of Austria, $10,000; Emperor of Gtrmany, $8000; King of Italy, $6400; Queen Victoria, $6300; King of Belgium, $1640; President of France, $5000; President of the United States, $137. Old Rip Van Winkle went up Into tlie Catskill mountains to take a little nap of | twenty years or so, ana when He wayeneci, he found that the "cruel war was over," the monthly magazines had " fought it over" the second time and "blown up" all the officers that had participated in it. This much is history, and it is also an historical fact that, it took the same length of time, for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to become the most celebrated, as it is the most effective. Liver, Blood and Lung Remedy of the age. In purifying the blood and in ail manner of pimples, blotches, eruptions, and other skin and scalp diseases, scrofulous sores and swellings. and kindred ailments, the "Golden Medical Discovery" manifests the uiu^t positive curative properties. Rockland Coilepta Institute, N VACK-HN-THE-HUDSON". The Cheapen! and one or tue Ilsnt HIGHRKADK -CIIOOI.* lor boys and youiu men near .New York. Full courses English. Academic. tetentitle, Commercial. College JTe|iarau>rv. tertifu-nte admits to BEST CO I, I, Mi K>. No reoiiium iiitcil student bas ever tieeu refu?e?f. CompU-to EQUESTRIAN l>El* A UT.H fcNT o Horses ami Pontes, bend for lttusirated ea alcvuo. V A t,T. JOhL VVll.SON. A. >!.. l'rin<i|?al. "The Kore Ycu Say the Les Word W %. < ' -7 . lie Will Hot IJroiTD Himself, (From tfc? Troy, JV. T., Times.) I?. W. Edwards, of Lansingturgb, was prostrated by sunstroke during the war and if has entailed on him peculiar and serious consequences. At the present writing Mr. El . is a prominent officer of Post Lyon, G. A. B.;' Colioes, and a past aid de camp on the staff of the commander-in-chief of Albany Co. la ' Ihe interview with a reporter he raid* 'I was wounded an 1 seat to the hospital S^a nt Winchester. They sent me, together with others, to Washington?a ride of about 18> miles. Having no room in the bos cars we were placed face up on the bottom of flat cars. The sun beat down upon our unpn? ; ' *'? tected heads. When I reached Washington I was insensible and was unconscious for tea days while in the hospital. An abscess gatb- ; ered in my ear and brose; it Has Deen patoering and breaking ever since. The result of this 100 mile ride and sunstroke was heart disease, nervous prostration, insomnia and rheumatism; a completely shattered system which Rave me no rest night or day. As a , last resort I took some Pink Tills and they helped me to a wonderful degree. My rheumatism is gene, my heart failure, dyspepsia and constipation are about gone, imd tne abscess in my ear has stopped discuar^og aud my head feels as clear as a bell, when before it felt as though it would burst, and my onoe ' i-,\ shattered nervous system is now nearlv ' sound. Look at those fingers," Sir. Edwarda -A said, ''do they look as if there was any rheumatism there?" He moved his fingers rapidly and freely and strode about the room like a young boy. "A year ago those fingers were : .jg {marled at the joint* and so stiff that I could not hold a pen. My knees would swell tip and I could not straighten my legs out My Joints would squeak when I moved them. That is the living truth. M9 "When I came to think that I was going: , ' Jg to be crippled with rheumatism, together with the rest of my ailments, I tell you life seemed not worth living. I suffered from V * despondency. I cannot begin to tell you.** saia Mr. Edwards, as he drew a long breatu- ?1 "what mv reeling is at present. I think it jyi you lifted ten years right off my life and left me prime and vigorous at forty-seven, I -' $ could feel no better. I was an old man and / could only drag myself painfully about the house. Now I can walk off without any trouble. That in itself," continued Sir. Edwards, "would be sufficient to give cause for rtjoicing, but when you come toconsider that I am no longer what you . might call nervous, and that my, heart is ap- *3f parently nearly healthy, and that I can sleep nights, you may realize why I may appear to. ?3? speak in extravagant praise of Pink Pills. '; '-A These pills quiet my nerves, take that awful depression from my head and at the sama time enrich my blood. There seemed to ba , vjS no circulation in my lower limbs a year ago, \ my legs being cold and clammy at times. . Now the circulation thei? is as full and as : brisk as at any other part of my body. 1 * <fi used to be so light-headed and dizzy from my neryous disorder that I freqnently fell while crossing the floor of my house. Spring is coming and I never felt better in my life, ' and I am looking forward to a busy season of work." Chauncey M. Depew Is said to be insured for 9500,000. er.?Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking I Powder 1 EK.Y PURE j * ASK YOUR DRWJCJlSf FOR * THE BEST FOOD INVALIDS -' '11 * JOHN CARLE A SONS. Ne~ j, Dad way's 1 It Pills MILD BUT EFFECTIVE. || Purely vegetable, act without nain, elegantly coated, tasteless, small ana easy to take. 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