Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ ....THE.... ? < RACKET DRUG STORE < AT BEENO. I Old Dr. Poppitz never had an assistant till about six months before he died. Then Harold Updike, one of the "town boys," came back from the city a graduated, full-fledged pharmacist an $ Dr. Poppitz employed him in the drug store. "The Racket Drug Store, Beena. Ark.," that was the sign over the door, but on a little tin sign near the side entrance was the legend. "Herr Poppitz, Apotheke." The avivent of Harold Updike lent new glory to the drug store. He wore a pink shirt and silk garters to hold up ~s sleeves. He parted his hair in the middle, and kept it drooping, manelike, over his eyes after tne manner J of the college football hero, tie was the envy of all the young men in town, because he ruled the soda fountain, and every girl in town called him ? "Hal" and quit buying stamps at the postoflice. Meanwhile Dr. Poppitz. who, by the way, wasn't a doctor at all, was disabled almost entirely by accelerated diabetes. and Harold came pretty near "running things" in the store. "Would you like a cooling beverage, Miss Sue?" asked Harold one evening, when pretty Miss Clayton, who had got into long dresses within the year, had bought a box of note paper and some stamps. "With me, you know. My treat." And while she was nibbling daintily at it he eyed her admiringly and stammered: "Two years have made quite a change in you, Susie." "They've changed you, too. Hal. We're all glad to see you back?there aren't enough boys 'round, you see, and?you know Dan Attcrbury " "Oh, that's so. I forgot about Dan! Where is he?" "He hasn't come back from the army yet," she said, getting deeper into the confection, but blushing, too, "I?that is, we, have been expecting him. He said he'd be here for the Fourth, and I'm hoping " "Aha, Miss Susie," simpered Updike, "so he's been writing to you, eh? He always was a little sweet " "He was schoolmate with us, with ' von too." she said frowning, with quite a serious attempt at severity, "and I think you ought to be glad to see him too, Hal. He's been wounded and sick, and suffered ever so many things over there in the Philippines. And he was in China too!" But Updike didn't care whether his old schoolmate ever came back, for he had some plans of his own with regard to Susie, and he knew that even a pink shirt and football hair are not special advantages over a blue uniform and a bolo wound. But Dan cams back, just the same, and the girls made quite a hero of him?for a few days. He had some presents too, principally for Susie, but he proved his generosity with gifts of a Filipino mat and a Chinese ring to Updike. He brought a great carton of Manila cigars for old Dr. ; > Poppitz, and they lay open on the little table by his bed the night the good old apothecary died. After the funeral was over and the good old doctor was forgotten Harold began to cut quite a figure in Beeno circles. The store owed money to the Hot Springs wholesaler, and Hal was acting manager for its creditor. Meanwhile he was paying the most ardent court to Miss Susie. She might have bathed in costly perfumes and feasted interminably on bonbons and ice cream soda without infringing an inch upon Updike's grandiose hospitality. He sent her presents of every kind of note paper, fancy toilet articles, soaps, novelties, combs, brushes and the rest cf drug store fancy goods. Dan Atterbury's star, on the contrary, was on the descent. He had * put aside his weather-stained cam paign suit and was loafing. A soldier out of his regimentals and out of a job is not usually a heroic spectacle. Some of the good people of Beeno began to hint that "soldierin' alius did make fellers no 'count," and Atterbury vas commencing to be aware of his questionable position in the community, when at her gate one night Susie, fixing a poppy in his buttonhole, said: "Danny, what are you going to do?" 'I don't know yet, Sue," he hesitated; "I've got over two hundred saved up, I told you, and if I sell that loot I brought home I'd have a pretty good stake?perhaps eight hundred or a thousand. We could get married on less than that, Susie." "No, we couldn't, Dan. Not unless you had a position, or some business or something ahead. It doesn't take long to spend a thousand dollars, Dan." "Well, what would you do?" he asked, boylike, "I'm willing to do anything. Would you go to the city and study law, or medicine, or?or " "Pharmacy?" she laughed, helping him out, "no Dan, don't study pharmacy if it's going to make you like Hal. He's " "I don't think you ought to backbite him, Sue. You ought to send back his presents or at least tell him to stop." "Oh, I don't know. He gives them to all the girls the same as to me." "I know, Sue. But he's beginning to talk like he owned you. I don't like it" And Updike wondered that Susie quit buying trifles at the store and he became quite enraged when she asked him, kindly, to send her no more gifts. "The drug store is for sale, Sue," Dan was saying one night a few weeks later. "I heard the man from Hot Springs telling Hal to look out for a purchaser. Seems it hasn't been making money, or they don't want to be bothered with it. Too bad. isn't it. Hal will lose his job." "Why don't you buy it, Danny?" It was a bold idea and they looked at each other silently in the moonlight. But he went to Hot Springs next day with all his money and a little that she had been saving since she could remember, and?he bought the Racket drug store. But when he came back to Susie with his bill of sale and the list of notes that he had agreed to pay, he was worried. "What'11 1 do with Hal. Sue?" "Let him run it for you. You can go to Chicago and study pharmacy on the profits. I'm sure he won't mind working for you, Dan." It was quite a blow to Mr. Updike, but he swallowed his chagrin and the matter was fixed. Dan went to the city and in a year, when he came back with his diploma, Hal greeted him with a stern smile and said: . "The jig is up, Dan. They're going to sell us out." And so it was. Susie wept and Dan grieved, but neither of them knew j what to say when Harold Updike ; bought the place. Where did he get \ the money? His father, who kept the | dairy, was poor. Susie supposed it i I was all right, but why had ho beep, so quiet, so sneaking about it. 'Tin going to ask him for a job.'* said Dan. sullenly. "I gave him one and he ought to do as well by me." And Harold's small soul swelled with pride when he saw Dan behind the counter pounding away with a pestle, or slobbering among the sirups. His eyes gloated over the new sign "Harold Updike, Pharmacist." which gleamed above the entrance. He bought a "stepper" and got "sporty." Sometimes he even cursed his clerk. He borrowed money from Tom Kelly, who kept the saloon, and the business went on. For a while it seemed that the place was a small mint, but at last the salesmen quit coming. Duns became frequent, the bank grew "grouchy" and. finally, a small, fat man in a brown suit, came up again from Hot Springs, "to take charge." "I don't see how it failed." growled Hal as he and Dan sat in the disordered store at midnight after the inventory was made and the dreary work was done. "I don't see how it failed when I owned it." said Dan. They were quite silent for a minute. "What are you going to do, Updike?" "?vnat are you going to do?" "AVi I'm cnincr tn 1 illV tilP KtOTC baclv again." said Dan, laughing. 'You? Where did you get the money?" "Susie's dad, Hal," answered Atterbury, "we're going to be married." There was a tap at the window and a merry voice called. "Are you there yet, Danny." But Updike la:d his hand on Dan's arm as he started for the door and said. "Will you give me back my old job. Dan?" ' N?no. Updike. Not this time. I think I'll run it myself." And afterward, as he walked home with Susie and her father, he said, "Well, my conscience is easy, anyway. Turn about is fair play."?John H. Raftery in the Chicago Record-Herald. ALL ABOUT BUTTONS. Their History Traced from Time When Wooden Molds Were Used. The original button was wholly a product of needlework, but was soon improved by the use of a wooden mold, over which a cloth covering was sewed. From this it was only a step to the brass button, which was introduced by a hardware manufacturer in Birmingham in 16S9. It took 200 year3 to improve on the method of sewing the cloth on the covered button; then an ingenious Dane invented the device of making the button in two parts and clamping them together with the cloth between. In 1750 one Caspar Wistar set up Hie manufacture of brass buttons in Philadelphia, and soon afterward Henry Witeman began making them in New York. The buttons of George Washington and most of the continental army were made in France. Connecticut presently came to the front and began making buttons of pewter and tin at Waterbury, the present center of the button industry. Buttons are now made of almost everything fromseaweed' and cattle hoofs to mcther-of-pearl and vegetible ivory. Excellent buttons are made from potatoes, which, treated chemically, become as hard as ivory. Large buttons factories make their entire product from various mixtures of gutta percha, skim milk and blood; others from celluloid and horn. The patent office has issued 1355 patents for making buttons. The most important branch of the button industry in the United States is the making of pearl buttons, the material being obtained from shells gathered along the Mississippi river. The industry has practically grown up within the last ten years, and its introduction is due entirely to J. F. Boepple of Muscatine, Iowa, a native of Germany, who had learned the trade abroad. He saw that millions of dollaFS were going to waste in the shells known as ' niggerheads," of which tons were piled up on the banks of the river. Thousands of people are now employed in turning these shells into buttons, the little plants being found all the way from Minnesota to Missouri. Muscatine is still the * ? - r great neaaquaritrs oi uie luuiwuj-. It lias forty factories. The value of the shells has risen from 50 cents to $30 a hundredweight. And yet American buttonmaking is in its infancy, 'tis said.?Rehobotk Sunday Herald. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.?Disraeli. Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.?Lowell. , Do what you can, give what you have. Only stop not with feelings; carry your charity into deeds. Do and give what costs you something.?J. H. Thom. By rooting out our selfish desires, even when they appear to touch no one but ourselves, we are preparing a chamber of the soul where the divine presence may dwell.?Ellen Watson. No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened.? Emerson. Think of yourself, therefore, nobly, and, you will live nobly. You will realize on earth that type of character and faith which is the highest ideal alike of philosopher and hero and saint.?Charles W. Wendte. To him who has an eye to see, there can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man who combines the possession or moral beauty m ms soui wnn outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former because the same great pattern enters into both.?Plato. Progress is without doubt the law of the individual, of nations, of the whole human species. To grow towards perfection, to exist in some sort in a higher degree, this is the task which God has imposed on man, thi? is the continuation of God's own work, the completion of creation.?Demogeot. As H* n tl?e Differenc e "What is the distinction between a politician and a reformer?" "A politician," said Senator Sorghum, "is a man who is frank enough to confess that he is running for office. A reformer wants to make people believe that the office is running after him."?Washington Star. Although 125 years old. a watch owned by a man in Gloucestershire England, still keeps excellent time It was worn at Trafalgar, during tht Peninsular war, at Waterloo, through the China war in 1810, and finally ir the Indian Mutiny. OUTLAW TRACY'S CAREER MOST REMARKABLE MAN HUNT .? THE ANNALS OF CRIME. A Life and Death Chase Across Country Which Lasted Fifty-eight Days and Extended Over Two States ? A Powerful Man Though of Very Slight BullJ The death of outlaw Tracy by Sfib : own hands ends perhaps the most "e- j markable man hunt 111 the annalf wof j crime, and closes a life and death j chase wnich lasted without cessation j for 58 days and extended over the j greater part of two states. Since June 9 last Tracy, hunted by i Indian trackers, bloodhounds, hun- j dreds of authorized officers of the law. j the state troops of Washington, and i unnumbered volunteer bands of vigi- | lantcs, with a price on his head that j amounted to a fortune, traveled over | about fifteen hundred miles of wild country, and defied capture to the lastFrom the moment of his daring escape from the Oregon state peniten- j uaxy iu 111s itisi sianu 111 uie o?aiijyo of Lincoln county, near the eastern border of Washington, he killed six officers of the law, slew his fellow fugitive, David Merrill, in a duel fought while men and hounds j were on his heels, wounded nearly a dozen other officers of pursuing parties. and terrorized the people of two states. Living on the country he passed through; Tracy rode down stolen horses .without number, robbed farmers of food, clothing, and money needed for his flight; crossed and recrossed rivers, hiding when he could and fighting when too hard pressed. Six times he shot his way through pursuing parties which surrounded him, and struggled on in his desperate race against death for liberty. The criminal exploits of Frank and Jesse James. th3 Younger Bros., Murrc-11, and all the horde of desperate outlaws of the west pale beside the determined daring and reckless courage of .the Oregon convict. On the morning of June 9 Tracy, then serving a sentence of 20 years' imprisonment for robbery and shooting a sheriff's officer who had attempted to arrest him, made his successful dash for freedom from the Salem prison, aided by his fellow-criminal, David Merrill, who was serving a term of 13 years for complicity in the robbery of which Tracy was convicted. That there was aid for the two desperate men from the outside is certain, for on the morning of the day of their escape, two repeating rifles were left in the jail corridors, where Tracy and Merrill easily could reach them as they marched with the other prisoners from their cells to their day's work. Tracy believed all along that Merrill, who first was arrested for the robberies they both committed, at Portland in February. 1899, had betrayed him to the officers of the law, but nevertheless he consented to plot with Merrill to break prison, and their plans were carefully made. As they passed the guns left for them each seized a weapon and made a rush for the walls around the penitentiary. The guards aitempted to stop them, and Tracy, a dead shot, killed Guard F. B. Farrell and wounded Frank Ingraham, a life convict who attempted to aid the guards. Then, in the face of a heavy fire from other guards. Tracy and Merrill raised a ladder and escaped over the wall, stopping long enough to return the fire directed at them, a third shot from Tracy's rifle killing Guard S. B. T. Jones. Then the escaping desperadoes made a rush for the prison oiuer gate, where they encountered two other guards, whom they made prisoners, meaning to keep them as hostages should the other guards not cease firing. The latter, however, kept up the hail of bullets, and Tracy, who had compelled his captives to walk before him, shot dead B. F. Tiffany, while Merrill fired at the second captive, who dropped, and, pretending to have been hit, escaped. Then both escaped. Twenty guards from the prison were sent in pursuit, and from that beginning grew the famous chase which closed with so dramatic a setting. Eluding their pursuers, the two out laws captured an involuntary nost, J. W. S'tcwart, whom they made exchange clothes with them, and also pressed into service an expressman whosfe attire they likewise appropriated. Both Stewart and the expressman were held captive until the next day, when after having spent a comfortable night and been well fed, the fugitives stole two horses from another Salem resident and started for the-north. On the second day of the pursuit bloodhounds were pressed into service and the chase grew hot. Within a day there was set on the heads of the fugitive pair a price of $S000. Neither of the bandits was heard of for some days, till, at a place called Gervals they further altered their attire by robbing a man named Roberts of his clothing. A cordon of several hundred men were thrown around Gervais, but Tracy and his companion easily broke through after an interchange of shots. The fugitives next were heard of six days after the escape, on June 15. when they held up a boatman and compelled him to row them across the Columbia river. The impressed boatman landed the runaway convicts in Washington near Vancouver, formerly the home of Merrill, where they undoubtedly expected to find friends and shelter. Again bloodhounds were put on the trail, but., as before, the outlaws threw the dog;; off the scent by taking to the water of the swamps and doubling back on the trail. It was at this point in the man hunt that another victim fell, this time one of the pursuing party being shot by his own friends in mistake for one of the outlaws. While the pursuit still was making a dragnet search through the swamps, the fugitives, traveling with incredible swiftness. made their way 100 miles north to the line of the Northern Pacific railroad, which connects Portland with Puget Sound. " At this point in the flight Tracy and Merrill were known to have been together. but when Tracy next was heard of he was alone and in the close neighborhood of Olpmpia. A few days later the dead body of Merrill was found j further back on the trail with a bul- j let wound in his back. After this discovery, the facts of ! | the killing of Merrill came out in the j j boasting of Tr#y, who said he had | lulled him as he had suspected Mer- J ; rill of having betrayed him at Port- ! land. They had agreed, he said, to j i duel, the strange conditions of which j showed in a striking manner the na- ! ture of the outlaw, ! According to Tracy the quarrel i arose over the fact that Merrill was ! rated as his equal in newspaper re- j portsi of the escape and flight, and as he held Merrill to be the inferior, they had come to words and agreed to fight. They were to walk, back to back, a certain number of paces and then turn and fire, but Tracy, fearing treachery on 'Merrill's part, stopped shore of the agreed number of steps, and, turning, deliberately shot the other lr. the back. At Olympia Tracy visited a fishing cam p in the neighborhood and held up the camp, making five men prisoners and pressing into his service a naphtha launch which lay at anchor there, leaving two of his prisoners tied up on the shore while the others were compelled to man the launch and take him out toward Tacoma. The launch crew gave the alarm as scon as he departed, and Tracy within a few hours was trailed to a clump of timber. The sheriff of the county, Edward Cudihee. a noted man-hunter, was absent. but his chief deputy. "Jack" Williams. took up the pursuit, and with a posse surrounded Tracy's retreat, only to have the outlaw slip through his fingers, after having added one more murder to the list by the killing of Detective Frank Raymond and wounding Williams himself. When Tracy renewed his flight bloodhounds again were put on his track, but the crafty outlaw had pro vided: liimself with red pepper, and this he strewed over the ground as he passed, with the result that the dogs had their noses filled with pepper and were thrown off the scent, until Tracy had. time to get to water, where he obliterated his trail effectually. Cudihee took up the hunt when he learned of the disastrous defeat of his deputies, and promptly with the return of the Sheriff. Gov. McBride of Washington ordered out the Washington National Guard and set 200 soldiers on the chase in addition to the numerous bands of county and state officers who already were hot on the murderer's heels. The story of the pursuit of the outlaw after this is a 7ong and exciting on'?, only a few incidents can be given here. Tracy was run to earth on July 10 in a thicket near Covington on Green river, but when the pursuers were sure they had him he burst through the lines, and after two interchanges of shots slipped away, leaving one wounded deputy behind him The trail then was lost for twe days, and when picked up called for another outing for the bloodhounds and Indian trackers, but with the same results. Then Tracy was lost for four days, till an old-time criminal seeking a share in the reward informed the sheriff's officers that Tracy had submitted to a surgical operation performed by one of his companions with a razor, but the nature of the wound that was so treated was not known. There was a long break in the hunt thereafter, and it was but a few days ago that he was heard from moving toward, the point in eastern Washington where he was run down at last. Tracy's real name, or at least the name of his father, is said to have been Garr. As a boy of 12 years in 11:90 he was arrested in Dillon, Mon., where he spent his boyhood for steal irg a keg of beer, and his record ever since has been criminal. In 1S97 he appeared in Cache county, Utah, in company with a robber named Dave Lant, and the two together committed many thefts, the burglary of a store in Cache county finally causing the arrest of both and their conviction and sentence to the Utah penitentiary for terms of eight years. Tracy escaped by taking a revolver away from a guard and marching the guard, out of the lines of the prison work before he released him. He next was connected with two notorious bands of young robbers in Colorado. In a fight between officers and the Robbers Roost gang, headed by George Curry. Tracy and a companion shot and killed a deputy sheriff named Valentine Day, but both were wounded and their capture followed. They were taken to Aspen, Cal., and. placed in jail, but in a few days overpowered the jailor and regained their freedom. That was in June, 1897. and for the next two years Tracy kept out of jail, though wanted in several states. His conviction to the Salem penitentiary was obtained in April., 1899, for robberies committed ia Portland in February of the same year. When - ? OA J he began bis sentence 01 lv years iu j Salem prison he was registered as 25 years of age. Tracy was a powerful man, though of rather slight build. Horse With a Taste for News. A horse feeding complacently on a diet of old papers was a sight see.i at Eleventh and Grand avenue. A stonecutter drove a horse up to the Star office and left it standing in front of one of the city's garbage cans. The horse had a well-groomed appearance. No ribs were visible or j would its appearance have attracted the attention of the humane agent. The animal moved up to the garbage can and began nosing its contentst The can was filled to the top with papers. There were newspapers, wrapping paper and paper of various other kinds. The horse began nibbling on a piece of old gray wrapping paper. It appeared to be palatable. A bite followed the nibble and soon the horse was. eating the paper as voraciously as an Angora goat. A newspaper followed the wrapping paper. The horse appeared to relish the different pieces of news. When the owner finally appeared the old roan was just pulling from the bottom of the can a luncheon paper with a pink string. The driver did not seem to mind or notice the purloined meal of the horse, for he drove down the - --i- * 1? i ^ ^ Bireet W1LI1 lilt LUJiae v.ucnwg ui<; t>aper. The horse appeared 1o relish the breeze.?Kansas City Star. Hoostcr in flame**. A Minnesota paper tells of a giant buff cochin rooster, owned by a Mr. Plumason, of Luverne, Minn., says the Youth's Companion, "which has ueen trained to trot in harness, pulling a tiny cart in which rides the baby son of its owner. Golden Duke is the name of this strangest of fowls, and it is a prize winner in its class as well as a freak. The big bird was broken tc harness by the boys of the Plumason household, and now seems to enjoy its work. It wears a little harness and is guided by reins, which it carries in its bill. It is the master of several gaits, and at the word of command given by the small child who is driving it will walk, run. trot or come to a standstill. At home in the country the big rooster often pulls the cart and its occupant for half a mile or more without stopPing." Quite True. It Is well enough to take things as they come, but there are a good many of them that you might just as -well pass on.?Puck. B. B. B. SENT FREE. Cmrei Blood and 9kln Diseases. Cancers, Itching Humors, Bono Pains. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) euros Pimples, scabby, scaly, itching Eczema, Ulcers, Eating S;>res, Scrofula, Blood Poison, Bone Pains, Swellings, Itheumatlsm, Cancer. Especially advised for chronic cases that doctors, patent medicines and Hot Springs fail to euro or help. Strengthens weak kidneys. Druggists, $1 per largo bottlo. To prove it cures B. B. B. sent free by writing Blood Balm Co., 12 Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Ga. Describe froublo and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. Medicino sent at once, prepaid. All we ask is that you will speak a good word for B. B. B. When the fire of ambition turns to ashes cf despair there is but little need of hope rekindling the flame. THE~SURGEON'S KNIFE Mrs. Eekis Stevenson of Salt Lake City Tells How Operations For Ovarian Troubles May Be Avoided. "Dear Mrs. Pinkiiam:?I suffered with inflammation of the ovaries and womr> lor over six yenrs.enuuringui-nea and pains which none can drenni of but those who have had the same cxpeME8. v en SON. riehce. H undreds of dollars went to the doctor and the drug-gist. I was simply a walking medicine chest and a physical wreck. My sister residing in Ohio wrote me that she had been cured of womb trouble by using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and advised mc to try it. I then discontinued all other medicines and gave your Vegetable Compound a thorough trial. Within four weeks nearly all pain had left me; I rarely had headaches, and my nerves were in a much tetter condition, and I was cured in three months, and this avoided a terrible surgical operation."?Mrs. Eckis Stevenson, 250 So. State St., Salt Lake City, Utah.?$5000 forfeit if akooe testimonial Is not genuine. ?irftmnn is jneillt'UlMCl HV1J ? cordially invited to write to Mrs. Plnkliam if there is anything about her symptoms she does not understand. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass. Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold in balk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." ! H WHERE ALL ?LS? FAILS. Q U Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use M Crl^^Intlra&SoIdbj^nigglsti^^^Wf J HOW MOUND BUILDERS LIVED. ___ Interesting Discoveries by an Ohio Archaologlst. Dr. C. W. Mills, curator of the State Historical and Archaeological Society, has just completed the exploration of a large and Important village site of the Mound Builders near Bourneville, and has mado a number of discoveries which throw light upon the life and customs of that ancient people. These discoveries have tended to show that the mound builders did not live together hi one indiscriminate tribal group, as had been commonly supposed, but that, they lived separately in family groups, each with its own dwelling and private graveyard. The other thing which is no longer to be doubted is that the mound builders had a more or less perfectly organized system of trade which covered almost the entire. continent. In recent excavations ornaments have been discovered fashioned from ocean shells, mica and copper, all foreign to Ohio. I The village site which Dr. Mills has just explored has proved to be one of the richest ever opened by archaeologists. The skeletons, pottery, ornaments and implements found formed the basis of the archaeological exhibit at the Buffalo exhibition. This year, in completing the work, Dr. Mills found thirty skeletons packed in a space of thirty-five square feet. Others, evidently those of chieftians, were buried separately, and many of them besides the usual ornaments had at the head a bowl of beautiful pottery. There were one or more spoons of tortoise shells in each bowl and the bowls had evidently been filled with food at the time of the burial. In one of them a handful of parched rr-rn was found. NOT KEEPING UP. Mr. Upjohn?I wish you would tell Kathleen she cooks her steaks too much. Mrs. Upjohn?You are three girls late. John. The name of the present cook is Mollie.?Chicago Tribune. FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer. ?2trial bottle and treatisefree Dr.R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. A woman is better minded when she is not strong-minded. Putnam Fadeless Dyes are fast to light and washing. Loafing may he easy work, but it takes all a man's time. Mrs.Wir.slow's Soothing Syrup fof children tccthing.soften the gums, reduces inflammation,allays pain.euros wind colic. 25c. a bottle A live wire contains more death than anything else we know of. We will give ?100 reward for any case of atarrh flint aunot be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. .T. Chf.nky & Co., Props., Toledo, O. It shouldn't he difficult for the muchabused poet to write his wrongs. rifio's Cure c:inuot be to^ highly spoken ot as h cough cure.?J. W. O'Hrien, 322 Third Avenue, N\, Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6,190J The Pope has thirty-five secretaries to answer his daily average of 22.000 letters. | HOW LAKES BECOME LAND. Process of Drying Requires Years, But is Ever In Progress. This continent abounds in rich agricultural fields and meadow lands that but a few years ago were broad expanses of limpid water. How these lakes have been transformed was recently explained by Professor Gregory, of Yale. In the course of a talk to the students of his class he spoke of the-way lakes are filled on one side and drained on the other by rivers, and called attention to the rapidity with which these lakes are filled up by the bringing down of sediment of various sorts. Rivers running into lakes are quite dark, but those leading away are clear ?shewing that much lias been left behird. The Mississippi carries yearly to the gulf over 13,000,000 tons of matter. It would take about a day's portion of the burden to convert any one of the j many ordinary lakes into broad rnead; ow lands. | Some idea of the rapidity with j which lakes die under this process is | shown in the fact that seventy-three j out of 14D lakes in the Swiss region have disappeared since 1S73. .Lanes i die by either being filled up or drainj ed off. The draining off results when a river has worn a gorge back so deep that the water all runs out. The Niagara river is doing its best in this draining by cutting as fine a trench as could be made by an engineer. It is cutting back toward. Lake Erie at the rate of over four feet a year, and in time will kill the lake. Unfortunately, however, the lake is destined to bo drained through Chicago. Lake Tahoe, a beautiful lake in ihe Sierra Nevada Mountains, is also one of those destined in time to be killed as a result of the draining process. Peat is one of the greatest fillers and works more rapidly than any other form of deposits. It is estimated that one-tenth of Ireland is peat and over one-tenth of the State of Im diana was once a peat bog. The speaker called attention to the Dismal Swamp in Florida, which was once a vast lake, but is now a great area of bogs and swamp, with only a I little lake in one part. So rank is the growth of this peat in that hot land that the surface of the lake is fourteen feet higher than the level of the surrounding bogs, showing that it has been literally forced up into the air. Lakes, swamps, bogs and then garden lands represent the stages in the process of dying. Filling, draining and encroachment of vegetation represent the process that kills the lakes in warmer climes, while the forces of the air are agencies in the cooler por tions of the country. Prof Gregory closed his lecture with an interesting account of the way the lakes have disappeared in the regions of the western part of the United States where only desert land is now found.?Chicago Chronicle. THE UNGUARDED GATE. 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