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r v*;: ^r ^^:^:"r: : * ;""' " T v . ' / COMMODORE NICHOLSON OF OUR NAVY IV'* ' ?{'x Beeommends Pe-runa?Other Prominent Man Testify, COWMODORE*^^ y& Nicholson Commodore Somerville Nicholson, of "the United States Navy, in a letter from 1S37 R St., N. W., Washington, D. C., says: "Your Peruna has been and is nowused by so many of my friends and acquaintances as a sure cure for catarrh "that I am convinced of its curative qualities, and I unhesitatingly recom mend it to all persons suffering from that complaint."?S. Nicholson. The highest men in our nation have given Peruna a strong endorsement. Men of all classes and stations are equally represented. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman. giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his "valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of Tjfae Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. Asi Your Druggist for a free Peruna Almanac for 1904. Novel Winter "FTsHing. Men and boys of the west endi of j ra v--i? ? ! ivuwu iravcr uctra uaving a uaivcou , staring the past three or four days catching fish at Rempel's and White's ponds, west of town. During the past summer, on account of the light . rainfall, the water in these two j ponds was very low; and in fact, for the past three months there* has teen no outlet from either pond. When the freezing water of the past ten days came ice soon formed, *nd, covering every air hole, caused j the fish to come beneath the ice in ; lyopes of getting air. The boys who first tested the breaking qualities of the ice in hopes of being the first to nkate were the ones to discover the | predicament of the fish. The news soon spread, and last : Friday and Saturday 100 men and j boys were busily engaged in securing j fresh fish for the table. Hatchets i and axes were used as the death-deal- j tag implements, and when a school I of fl sh were, sighted beneath, the ice j was struck a hard blow. The fish were stunned. A hole was then chopped through the ice and the fish Several hundred nonnd? nf i I: flsb were secured, the majority of v. them being carp.?Logan (Ohio) j|p Journal. aeapolis, Minn., tells how wo. man's monthly suffering may fce permanently relieved by Lydia EPinkham'sVegetableCompound "Dear Mrs. Pinkham:?I have never before given my endorsement for any medicine, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound added so much to my life and happiness that I feel like making an I -exception in LELLS CB5C? jL1 UI l ? u j t-ui o every month I would have two days of * eevere pain, and could find no relief, but <me da7 when visiting a friend I ran across Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, ? she had used it with the best results and advised me to try it. I found that it worked wonders with me; I now experience 310 pain, and only had to use a few bottles to bring about this wonderful change. I use it occasionally now when I am exceptionally tired or worn out."? Miss Alice M. Smith, 804 Third Ave., South Minneapolis, Minn., Chairman Executive Committee, Minneapolis Study Club, ?95000forfeit if original ofalove * Setter proving genuine note cannot be produced. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable -Compound carries women safely trough the various natural - 1 crises and. is me saie-guaru ui if:' ^woman's health. The truth about this gTeat L ^medicine Is told in the letters from women being1 published in ^this oaper constantly. I Thompson'# Eyi Water ?*.' - vy <5eR56era5#5P8t5^tt?=$; v- . * " . a-.;* V.*. - ? - -S' *"* / * * -t'v - ' .'r. ' ' f SOLOMON-LIKE JUDGMENTS. Cases in .History a Local Justice Dispenser Ran Across. A Magistrate of this city said the | other day that while studying the famous lawsuits and decisions of history he had been amazed to find the judgment of Solomon paralleled in a half dozen cases. One of these cases he had come upon in the Gesta Roi manorum A eertarn traveler had died in a foreign country, and three youths had each laid claim to being the man's only son. He had had only one son, and for the judge to ascertain which of the three claimants was the rightful heir seemed an impossible task. By no means at a loss, however, the Judge ordered the dead man's body to be brought forth and bade the three | claimants to shoot at It with arrows. I Two shot; the third, with tears in his j eyes, refused; and to him. of course, the property of the (lead man was awarded. ! Another case, the Magistrate said, j was to be found in the Harleian MSS. Two babies played together by the Ganges, when an alligator swallowed one up. Two mothers then each j claimed the remaining baby as her ! own. and the Judge, even as Solomon ! had done, bade them to take hold of j the legs and pull, whereupon the true | mother's identity revealed itself, j "That risque rascal, Suetonius," the j Magistrate concluded, "says that j Claudius would, when a woman re i fused to acknowledge a youtn as ner } son, order her to be married to him, | whereupon, horror-stricken if she had j lied, she would confess the truth. i FOLLOWS THE FLAG. "Now, boys," said the teacher, "can you tell me what ,it is that follows the flag?" "I can," said one of the bright ones, j "Well, Johnny, what is it follows ! the flag?" "An auction, ma'am."?Yonkem I Statesman. CALLED THE BLUFF. I Mrs. Newed?Mother has just wrttj ten that she will not visit us this sum! mer unless you will permit her to pay j her board. j Newed?I shall write her at once, j saying that I shall not permit her to ! do anything of the kind.?Chicago j News. j FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness a'ter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great j NerveRestorer. $2trialbottleandtreatiscfree Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. Philo., Pa. I If a man who falls in love at sight is wise he will take a second look before proposing. 10,000 Plants For 10c. This is a remarkable offer the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., makes. They will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabagcs, l 2,000 delicious Carrots, 2.000 Blanching, nutty Celery, 2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce, ' 1,000 splendid Onions. 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes, 1.000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. This great offer is made in order to induce vou to try their warranted seeds? for when you once plant them you will grow no others, and all foi: but 16C. rostace. providing you will return this notice, ar.d if you will send them 20c. in postage, they will add to the above a package of the famous Berliner Cauliflower. [A.C.L.] A woman never gets too oid to think it is dangerous for her to travel alone for fear men might speak to her. Mrs. "Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. aboltle There are two sides to every story. The victory you win means defeat for the other fellow. ! Putnam Fadeless Dyes are fast to light and washing. "Don't you find it tiresome," said Marc Antony, "to devote so much time to literature in addition to your various ways?" "Yes," replied Caesar, "but it pays. There is nothing like being your own military critic."?Washington Star. How's This? "We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward'?? any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured 0/ i Hall's Catarrh Cure, j F. J. Chenst k Co., Toledo, O. I We, theundersigned, have kao .vn F. J.CI10i ney for the last 15 years, ;ind believe him per! fectlv honorable iu all buMusss transactions and financially able to c i.ry out any obligations made by their firm. West k Truax, Wholesale Dracists,Toledo, Ohio. Waldixo, Kins an JcMartin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall'sCatarrhCurois taken internally,act j ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur| lacesof the system. Testimonials sent free. J Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists Take Hail's Family Pills for constipation. "We will never give up," said the South American military leader. "Give up what?" asked the coldly practical mau. And after a moment of reflce1 tion the military leader candidly replied: "Anything we can get our hands on."?Washington Star. Money Saved in Money Made. Dr. Win. Self, of Webster, N. C., an old practitioner of medicine, tells us that after many years experience in medicine he finds it money saved to his patients to use Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein for coughs, colds I and consumption. i At druggists. 25c.. 50c. and $1.00 a bottle. j Some women save money for men by not ! marrying them. The Oat "Wornler. j The Editor must tell its readers of this j marvel. It originated with the largest i farm seed growers in the world, the John | A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. It has stiff straw, stands up like a stone wall, is white, heavy, and has long ears, filled to the tip with* fat, plump kernels. It is a great stooler, 80 stoclcs from one kernel. IF YOU WILL SEND THIS NOTICE AND IOC. IN STAMPS to above address, you will get a sample of ! this Oat Wonder, which yielded in lyitt, m j 40 States from 250 to 310 bu. per acre, to, getner with other farm seed samples and their big catalog. [A.C.L.] Experience often provides the raw matej rial for unnecessary conversation. -v .- - ., ,.r L .... . , - . . ' ' ' > :-\7K . ' ' . o ? ?o THE ARMY WITH WHICH JAPAN OPPOSES RUSSIA Q Q The artillery of the .Tnpnnasc Army is always considered to be the pick of the service. French and English officers who have had opportunity of RUSSIA seeing the artillery at manuevres are loud in their praises of the Japanese soldiers, and of the smartness of the way in which they carry out the various movements. They Know how to handle their guns well and to serve them quickly. For same time past the Japanese have paid particular attention to increasing the efficiency of this branch of the service. The men are the tallest in the Army, their standard of height being five feet four inches, as against five feet three inches, the standard for the engineers and cavalry, and five feet two inches, the average of the infantry. The gunner's rate of pay is in like manner the highest in the whole Army, the gunner private getting six and one-half sens a daj (about seven cents) to the five and onehalf sens (six cents) drawn by their 1 iI'" :*a A BATTE comrades, of the engineers and cavalry, and the five sens (five cents) 'of the Japanese Tommy Atkins of the line The same general proportion in the paj holds good fcr the officers of artillery as eompai - :1 with their brother officer* ! of the sappers, cavalry and line. As tt | details, the organization of the Jap | anese artillery service is divided broad ! ly into two branches, the field artillery I and the mountain artillery. The foriuei j are armed with twelve-pounder breech ! loaders, the others have four-pounders | There is also a corps ui iC j served for home defense. The held ar i tillery is like our own, in that it is | distributed into batteries 'of six ?uns ~~ JAPANESE S( i I <=i p | , -'v ' * -v V j JAPANESE ON THE I which batteries are formed in oigli regiments, divided between the in perial guards and the line. Altogethe tlie entire force has some 32C field gun - and half as many mounU.n guns. Th ' lieUl pieces are designed in Japan after a special patfern, and are made at the national arsenal and gun foundry at Osaka. They are very powerful weapons and can do good work at from 2oi)0 to 2000 yards. The uniform of the gunner is much the same as that of the cavalry?dark blue tunics and brooches with yellow collars and facings, and brown boots. The greatest care is 1 taken in the education of the officers of artillery. They are thoroughly well grounded in their work at that most flour shinir institution, the (Junnory School, of Tokio. ||WF . ...* ; . , ... . ; .-. .. ? ? - ? ?* '? T^AVT* rOTT T 1 T .N TKUUBS h>u run rim i A Strange War in Bosnia. A singular war has been waged in f Bosnia recently. Both sides to the controversy speak" the same language? 1 Croat?but they write it with different f alphabets, the Catholics with Roman letters and those of the orthodox Greek " church with Cyrillic. To simplify the 1 task of the public teacher the Austrian f government directed that the Latin alphabet should alone be used in the schools. The innovation provoked a ' luud outcry froiu the orthodox Greek partisans, who deemed it a blAw to their religion. The government had to yield. Cnriona Experiments. Dr. Baschide has made experiments to test the ability of various persons to wake up at a given time. He found RY OF RUSSIAN ARTILLERY ON . that peasants and menials more coin monly possessed this power than more educated persons, and he thinks the ' phenomenon borders on hypnotism, l>e ing a kind of raito-suggcstion. Most of ; the persons he experimented on woke > up from fifteen minutes to an hour, or even two. before the time desired. The Tor.nb of David. The tomb of David, King of Israel, -11 in T?'l 1. .1 is siui youui-u uul iu iuuu?d m . I estine, and despite its age, is in a re. markably good state of preservation. ; David died in 1015 B. C., and was , buried in the ''City of David." Ilis 3LDIEKS IN THE MOUNTAINS. .MAJLiLJJ. ,t tomb became the sepulchre of several i- subsequent kings, and one of the sar cred places of the kingdom. It stands s on Mt. Zion. at Jerusalem, just outside c oi the city wall. \ * i *"V-vi'^ * TIQERJ E/JT | RAILROAD HEN It I * "ZZZZZZIZIZZZZZZZ^ZZ^ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ j Itnilwny men in foreign lands often ; ! carry on their work under conditions i | that would appall their fellow workers i -j I ^ l. 1.1... 1VM? I I j ;n noim\ su.vs ui?; IUV n wi ?u zino. On certain- Central African I railways, for instance, ' trains have / ' ?-? fliOXT. frequently been charged by rbinocer* * oses and other large beasts; and an unhappy telegraph operator on the /Uganda Railway, on returning to the sta- 1 uon, found the stationmaster and staff * barricaded in a hut, -while two big lions patrolled the platform. He 1 promptly wired down the line for in- ? struct ions. '< The edifice seen in the cut shown * is rendered necessary by very similar t conditions. 1 It is a hut built for the pointsman t at Walayar. a jungle station on the j Madras Railway, and Is intended to < protect its occupant against the num- ' erous tigers wnieh frequent the \i* j ^inity. ( These ferocious brutes have in the ( past manifested an unholy taste for j railway men, and so it was found nee . I ^ j ! ' * - V.vV** ..;. "*' J " -A'; 3 ' .; | ( ] THE ROAD. j i ossary to place the men at isolated spots in cages. The tigers have even been known to visit the stations, causm i -life; ^^jiiwuli Af"n"iri w iaini^ I f" < < TIGER-PROOF HL"T FOP. SWirCHMBX. j ing dire Uismaj among the staff and j passengers. The Scarcity of Kaditim. At the present time we possess only { about a gram of the pure salts of ra- j < dium. However great may be the care : taken in such researches, small losses j? arc inevitable, and serious losses have ' i at times resulted from unforeseen ac- 1 ] cidents brought on by the disconcerting i , properties of radium. Itesearch in all j bran cues of experimental science? j physics, chemistry, physiology, modi- !, cine?is impeded, and a whole evolu- j ( tion in science is Retarded. by the lack ! j of this precious and unique material, i, which can now be obtained only at great expense. We must look to individual initiative to come to the aid of science, as it has so often done in the past, aud to facilitate and expedite ' by generous gifts the success of re- 1 searches the influence of which may be i) far-reaching.?Mme. Curie, in the Cen- 1 tury. British doctors are recommending cider as a remedy for gout and rheuma- \ niv\ fU/v focii 1 f Itoo Kiwn o m*no4- wa lioui, in IT i louii 11U.0 ucvu ?& cat ic" ] vival of the cider trade, which is like- ( ly to benfit American fruit growers. J; - - <?5K&&'L ===== ' MINERS ENTOMBED r: i Explosion Causes Horror in i i r\a . 1 Pennsylvania Pit. i rWO HiJNDRED VICTIMS tlm M Another Deadly Tragedy of the Penr- > ^ sylvania Coal Fields is Added t? U the Already Long List?Rescuers Balked in Work. yi A special from Pittsburg, Pa., says: Nearly two hundred men were ea- jS ombed Monday by an explosion in * he shaft of the Hardwick mine of the Allegheny Coal Company, near Cresrick. I About 200 men, all told, were em>loyed at the mine, 150 working inside tnd the remainder on the tipple. The * aen on the tipple were badly burned >y the explosion. With a loud reporc t tnd an upheaval like an earthquake ;he wood work of the tipple was deitroyed. The walls of the shaft were illed with debris, rocks and earth, completely shutting off all escape for hose in the mine. From all that could be learned * . shortly after the catastrophe, between L80 and 190 men are lying dead at the leadings and passageways of the nine. Cage after cage was sent down* 4> nto the mine and came up again, out inly one miner Out of all those that vent down to work had been brougnt ;o the surface. The rescued man is >A idolph Gunia, and he was still in a semi-unconscious condition. The explosion occurred at 8:20 t. m. and the first warning was the sudden rumble underground, and then t sheet of flame followed up the deep * shaft. Both mine cages were hurled shrough the tipple, 20 feet above the andin gstage and the men working on :he tipple were thrown to the" ground. * \ mule was thrown high above the shaft and fell dead on the ground, rhe injured were carried at once to . 3 Pittsburg, where Sv.me of them hare iied since. After the expfosion the v. :rash at the pit mouth startled the ittle village. The wives and children 5f the men rushed to the scene of the iisaster, but to gain no encouragexient. There was no way to get into :he deep workings. The cages that et the men into the mines and brought them out again when the lay's work was done were both demolehed. All day long there was a jam . )f women and children waiting at the nouth of the pit There were calls :or assistance, but it was not until 4 y clock Monday afternoon that the Srst attempt to rescue was made. This was a failure, as the two men prho volunteered were driven back by 1 the foul eir. The rescuers were brought out. :.v .;J ioated with ice, drenched to the skin > and unable to walk. They reputed ?at the dead were scattered one above the other as thick as pine nee31es, and that water was fast pouring { into the mine, covering the corpse?, J and with a shroud of ice and making :he work of rescue almost impossible. E1LLS PASSED IN SENATE, Important Measures of Especial Interest to the South. A Washington dispatch savs: The senate Monday passed the following v * bills: Providing for the appropriate marking of the graves of confederate soliiers who died in northern prisons luring the civil war and appropriating ?200,000 for this purpose. , Authorizing the erection of a monument to the memory of John Paul Jones. Authorizing the use of the water of the Coosa river, Alabama^ tor me geaeration of electricity. Authorizing the construction of a light ship off the outer bar of Brunnirick, Ga., and appropriating $90,0W 'or the purpose. ' > PROMINENT MINISTER DEAD. ' f ? \ '-Si Rev. Dr. J. 0. Branch Succumbs to the Grim Reaper While cn Duty. Rev. Dr. J. O. Branch, presiding ' elder of the Valdosta district of the south Georgia conference^ the Methodist Episcopal church, south, president of the board of trustees of Wesleyan Female college of Macon, president of the board of trustees of The W'osleyan Christian Advocate, the organ of the north and south Georgia I'onferences, published in Atlanta, and one of the best known Methodist ministers in Georgia, died at Moultrie Sunday night. ' ;! Cow Causes Bad Wreck. Illinois Central passenger train No. 2, the fast mail from New Orleans to Chicago, was wrecked at Gates Tenn? Monday. One perron was killed and" two slightly injured. ?????? . Kentucky Against Panama Treaty. The Kentucky house or representatives Monuday 'practically killed a resolution offered by Black, of Knox, * endorsing the president's action in the Panama treaty.