text: *.qr 7 -v A *•&*< •X It:® I $v Sr' I w1" "VVH M, W ITLPL *«fc »f V* JS'i.J'l, -v ^rS• «Sb .#24 4A HALL'S Vegetable Sicilian HAIR RENEWER Beautifies and restores Gray Hnii *o i.s original i*olor and Vitality prevents baldness euros itching and dandruff. A fine liair dressinpr It. P. ll.ill & Co., I'rons., Jv.islma N. n. 'r* 1 Sold tiy all Druggists. !vcrllill t-» lit l:icss- A:' Detroit 1'rco 1 ri itn a littlo r^i(Jrhuise .'.enise I miKht havo b?en jcov y^.i-1 nor or a srrcat state once." laughed a wlK ls s, K! h-l hc-ll ••1 t* li ft IhorouRhly out uf politics he usually foisrcis to vote. "I was i. -r-ular at home, was wl.lely known, y. several minor offices ami had 011 :ffl^aohc.or, thir invsilenc:y. I was a well oft and thought mighty *tShirt!y of mvseif. in iu.mln.Uod 7r 11:^ jjovernor •H rhll) 1 started riRlit out to help do my tin i] .! if-^n11 \yr decided to clean up th Jimtrj dlstiiets flr-,t and mass rorcon on the bis cities at the finish. *1\ 111"-t it» ms It Mlllside I called Itf.-'.iipon Several ot the local leaders not ttlnss to dind'o the bjbie* and vow that vh wn.s the handsomest little sarins I had seen in many a dav- When cam. to spf.ak there was a proodly .^ppilnklin rural maidens in the au tlnew all the admiration pos .. -flole into n:\ features, admitted the sol- Jtude oi a bachelors existence and .A j\\ (I that the reason had never mar. l1 I had never tn to .Milisid'1 b.'foie. There was Kreat hilar. „'ffiUy. and it was evident that I had made had ca.iturod the siils. and each SP'ie of tlieni could control at least a sin v-.sg:!e vote. ... But it was such a good thing that I decided to push it along in every village and hamlet where I went. I made the same assertion and secured the same evidence of approval. But there can be the day of judgment. My opponents got hold of what I had done. They told the story from the stump and through the press, charging me with insincerity toward the tender sex, and to ward everyone else, for that matter. It became notorious that I had said the same thing to all babies and all classes. The mothers and the girls were against me to a man, and I was lost under a landslide, though the remainder of the ticket won. I quit politics and the state. Couldn't Do Wrong. Detroit Free Press: "What's the matter now?" asked the leading actor as the manager tore a letter to shreds and stamped his feet. "That performance of yours is so infernally bad that this person demands that his name be stricken from the tree list." The man who overriminates himself can never be a good judge of human nature. Dr. Catarrh Cure is a constitutional cure. Price 75 cents. Clue, Rabbi Adler and Sir S. J. Coniff have sent a circular letter to all London tailors asking them to give out work daily in the week and appoint Sunday morning as pay day. To the Hebrew employees, so as to secure Saturday rest. CITU RE REMEMBERED. Nontfornierrous or after Tl 1 O rtr»t days U-MJ of lr. {m. fft 3H Kline* Nt-rvo lie- torur. Rend I- IM.K trial bottle full treatment. R. H. KLUfor.Ltd.. K'E mi At-rli Street. Philadelphia, Pa. In Japan, small children of the poor, who have the gift of straying and no nurses to look after them are safe guarded by the simple precaution of hanging labels around their necks, which tells their names and addresses. When the hair begins to fall out or turn gray, the scalp needs doctoring, and we know of no better specific than Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renower. Canada has given more than $108,000 for the relief of the plague and famine sufferers of India. A positive fact, NRTCO is the remedy of relief at the clinic in skin diseases by Gomrs Sulphur Soap. 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SIOUX CITY PRINTING CO. 685-37 Our Baby. Say Have you Been our baby? -, 'A No? so! For W W 'Sbp^iiUSk- Weil, now, maybe 8he don't take vw" Tho calce Over anything that's been this way! But wo think to. So? Yes. And we'd ought to know, we've betn there hero could see tho whole affair And I. don't care A rap What other chai Cornea to the show. Wo know Shc'Jl tuJo j. Tho cake. I*ook at those eyes! Whew! Don't they look new? lilue As the sklca. And then that nose. It shows ,• She knows What's what. And then that spot ." :.- Jielow? Why! Don't you knoMt Why that's her mouth! I..ooks like a rose That had just been kissed 33y th« winrl from tho souih. And I supjxise, Wherever she KOCS. They will insist 'Twas made to be kissed. And then her ch'.n! What shiver it does pet in When things don't Just get roun I In time. W'j climb! When she begins to talk We've found It pays to walk. J-lairV Weil, she hasn't got much, But such As she has Is fair, The woman over the way Said it was red one day. Hut you can see as I hold It up to the light That gold Couldn't be more bright. lied! Huh! Well You never can tell I What folks will say, Any way. And look at those cheeks! Well, I declare! Say. put the end of your finger ther* And feel. That pperiks Well for the food she gets. Oh! Yes, sometimes she frets, Hut look at her look. And see her smile. W*o'U get her picture took After while, And I shouldn't wonder as like as not 'Twould be the prettiest waj ever got. One ot* Dcpcw'o StoriCH. Mr. Depew's reputation as a good story teller Is so well known that It is unneces sary to comment upon it. Probably one of the best stories with -which he delights his audiences Is, according to Harper's Round Table, the one Involving the question of supply and demand, and the regulation of prices solely by these two factore. In dis pute of this Mr. Deiew says that one day he was walking along a street and passed a German butcher shop. Out of curiosity he entered the place and inquired the price of sausages. "Twenty cents a pound," replied the butcher. "But," said Mr. Depew, "it seems to me I saw your sign this morning and it read 'Fresh sausages, 20c a pound. Why did you reduce your price?" "Oh, that was all right, I don't get none now, and I can't sell any. That makes me a reputation for selling shrub, and I don't lose noddings." According to this, as Mr. Depew says, "There was no demand, as I didn't want any, and there was no supply as the butcher hadn't any, and yet the price of sausages went down." Frequently the English idea of colors is startling to an American. In the description of gowns worn at a ball one girl is quoted as being "delicately gowned in sky-blue satin with touches of geranium red." The county organization order of Modern Woodmen of America yesterday held their picnic at Howland's bluff. The weather was favorable and there was a large attendance from all over the county. Several of the visiting lodges were accompanied by their "hands and a most enjoyable time was had. A WISE PHYSICIAN BROAD OF OPINION HE THROWS PREJUDICE TO THE WIND. Dr. J. L. Limes Indorses Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Because He Has Found Them Efficacious. From the Capital, St. John, Kansas. Heading that Dr. J. L. Limes, of St. John, Kan., had used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in his practice with great success, a reporter called upon and interviewed him regarding them. Regarding the matter. Your reporter found the Doctor a very pleasant and affable man of probably 50 years of age. We were much impressed with his manner, as it was kindly and dignified. When we broached the subject of our call, he became enthusiastic at once and proceeded to give us the following for publication: "My attention had been called to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People by several persons of my acquaintance who had been greatly benefited or entirely cured by their use. I determined to give them a trial, in my practice, and if they proved to be satisfactory I would adopt them and use them regularly. Since I began prescribing them I have never had cause to regret my determination. I have used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in a number of cases of nervous troubles, neurasthenia, rheumatism, etc., and in every case have been exceptionally well pleased with the results, and I can honestly and conscientiously recommend Pink Pills for the above diseases. "I shall continue to use them and recommend them to my patients, for I consider there is nothing better for the diseases they are recommended to cure. I am well known in this part of Kansas and also in Payette County, Ohio. I am secretary of the U. S. Pension Examining Surgeons' Board for Stafford County, Kansas, and chairman of the Republican County Central Committee for the above named county. Yours, faithfully, "JESSER L. LIMES, TO. D.M We also ascertained the Doctor's standing in St. John by a few interviews which..." We herewith publish, along with the Doctor's statement regarding Pink Pills: "I am well acquainted with Dr. J. L. Limes and know him to be an honorable and straightforward man, and whatever he may say can be relied upon. "E. R. BENEFIEL, "County Supt. of Schools, Stafford County, Kansas." St. John, Kansas, July 14, 1805. "I have known Dr. J. L. Limes for a number of years and can recommend him as a prominent physician, and a man well liked in this vicinity. "HOWARD GRAY, "Cashier Commercial Bank. "I have known Dr. J. L. Limes for several years, and as a physician he is very prominent, and his reputation for honor and integrity are too well known to be questioned for an instant. "H. J. CORNWELL, "Editor St. John News." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills Are sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents per box or six boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Sc henceady, N. Y. MOM'S CHOICE. BY MRS. ALEXANDER. It was a course I am," said Mona, smiling. She understood her cousin's dry bluntness. "But you must acknowledge I have kept out of sight and not troubled you." "Yes, it is quite true. Now I have met you, I am not certain to find you still exist. How have you managed it? Mona? "Why trouble always details? I exist, and want nothing—that is enough I tell you, tell me some news. How is your dear mother? She was always so good!" "She is exceedingly flourishing and busy, for Evelyn is got to be married—very good match—to Lord Finistoun. He is a pleasant, easy-going fellow—rather an ass, but that will suit Evelyn. She hasn't much brains herself." "She has sense enough not to think she has all the brains of the family, as you do, Bertie." "Yes, I do, and I am no great things after all. Your troubles have not taken the sharp edge off your tongue, Miss Joscelyn," he said, laughing. "There is no Miss Joscelyn now. I have resumed my poor father's name. It is more suited to my fori lines and fancy." "By Jove! And what is it? Craig? Until it was a queer notion of Mrs. Newburgh's to suppress it. I suppose you haven't heard or seen anything of Waring?" "No, of course not." "Nor anyone else either! Can't think what's become of him. Someone in a few minutes they reached Mine, Debrisay's abode, and on opening the door that individual was discovered resting in an armchair, beside a table set for tea. Her bonnet lay on the floor beside her, and her thick and undeniably disordered black hair was uncovered. "This is Bertie Everard," said Mona, quietly "Evelyn's brother." "Very pleased to see him, I'm sure," said madame, rising bravely to face the intruder, and not deigning to pick up her bonnet. "Your sister was one of my most charming pupils." "Oh, indeed!" returned Everard. "I should not have thought it." "And you find your sweet cousin looking well? I have done my best to take care of her." "My cousin?" elevating his eyebrows. "Can you tell me the exact degree, Mona? — first, second, twenty-sixth?" "Oh! a cousin removed to the vanishing point of relationship. I have not the faintest wish to claim you, Bertie." "Really, Mona, my dear, that is not the retort courteous." "If you knew Mr. Everard better, dear madame Debrisay, you would know that he despises courtesy in himself and others." "I only hate shams," said Bertie, frankly. "Let me offer you a cup of tea," said Mrs. Debrisay, rather scandalized. "Thank you: shall be glad of it, after our long, dusty walk. Really, it's not so bad, now we have gotten here," looking round with visible examination. "It is a better room than mine in the Temple. Now, tell me, how do you manage to rub along?" "Madame Debrisay and I have entered into partnership she takes the big pupils, and I take the little ones." "By George! Does the squalling and strumming pay for all this?" waving his tea-spoon comprehensively round. "It does but then you must remember it is all in the fourpenco three farthings style of expense," said Mine. Debrisay. "Gad, what heaps of money we waste!" exclaimed Everard, putting down his cup. "What sums my father gets through, I suppose you never go to parties or things of that kind, so living out here is no consequence. Why one might live for half nothing up here." "There are no rooms to let in this house, Bertie." "That is a pity. Good-morning, Mrs. Debrisay, good-bye. Mona." "Happy to see you again," said Mrs. Debrisay. "You are really quite a character." "What the denco does she mean?" asked Everard of himself, as he took up his neatly rolled umbrella, and opened the door, while Mrs. Debrisay screamed after him to turn right and go on to a large church where the city omnibuses passed every ten minutes. CHAPTER VII.—AN ACCIDENT. The variable spring, the hot dusty summer days, succeeded each other, and the partners worked steadily through all. They had gleams of diversion too. For Mme. Debrisay had friends and acquaintances of her own profession who often gave her tickets for concerts, and orders for the theatre. These were amusements of which Mona had enjoyed but little during her residence with her grandmother, whose fixed principle it was never to pay for anything of the sort. They were sources of great enjoyment, for Mona was peculiarly alive to beauty and harmony, and had something of the dramatic gift herself. A very hot July had driven away all Mme. Debrisay's pupils, save two or three. The ranks of Mona's were also thinned, and both were planting a course of needlework and reading during The approaching time of rest. Mona had been out one morning to do some small housekeeping errands as Mme. Debrisay had a headache, and on re-entering the house with a latch-key, was surprised to hear a sound of snarling and scuffling in their sitting-room, the door of which was open. Going in quickly, she beheld Mme. Debrisay, her trap slightly awry, endeavoring to drag a lace shawl from the fangs of Dandie, who, snarling and yelping, held on like grim death, stretching the shawl to its fullest length, and dancing backward, while she struck at him ineffectually with a small hearth brush. "Diable de bete!" she exclaimed. "Keep away from him, Mona. I believe he is going mad." "I believe he is only frightened and angry. Let it go, and probably he will, too." Thus diverting Mme. Debrisay's attention, she relaxed her grasp. The dog gave a vigorous pull, and trotted triumphantly with the lace in his mouth—head and tail erect—into the hall, where he proceeded to tear it vehemently. "Just look at that! The only decent thing I have to put on my shoulders when I go out. Get away with you, you cur!" —a thrust of the brush—"Call him off, Jane!" "-another thrust—"Take that"— throwing the brush at him finally. This routed the foe. He jumped back, and Mona quickly snatched up the shawl. "Me beautiful Chantilly shawl," almost wept Mme. Debrisay. "I got it at a sale the last year you were with us in Paris. Thirty-five francs seventy, and it's worth two hundred! It was as good as new. I will not live in the house with each brute!" "I am sure, ma'am," said the landlady, coming in, "I am that sorry—I don't know how to express it. I don't know what's in the dog. He is always trying to run up here, as if he knew it worried you." "I have no doubt he does," returned Mme. Debrisay, examining her face. "Look here! There's a bear for you! Here's another! It's just ruined." "I think I can mend it, dear," said Mona, sympathetically. "Now, Mrs. Pudiford," insisted Mme. Debrisay, impressively, to her landlady, "I give you your choice—either that savage brute leaves the house, or I did say he was training a colt for the Derby. I dare say he is glad enough now that you have broken with him. Can't understand why men marry—must be an awful bore." "I have no doubt he is obliged to me." "And you are deucedly sorry you gave him the chance, eh?" "You would not believe me if I denied it." "Well, no, I would not, though you are a sort of a girl, Mona. I always liked you. You say what you think, and you held your own with that grandmother of yours, who was as big a tyrant as I have met. You are a fool, too, in many ways ready to cut your own throat for an idea but there's something taking about you." I never thought St. John Lisle would lose his head as he did on your accouut. I had ft letter from him some tima ago—asked why ho had not seen your marriage an nounced—asked it in a postscript—always a bad sign of woma nish weakness. Where do you live, for Heaven's sake? We must be approacning the far west." "Donotcoino atiy further, Bertie—you will die of tatigue." "No, I will not, but you will, if it's a few miles further out let me secure a cab, be fore we l?ave tho haunts of civilization be hind us." "I think ten minutes more will bring us to our destination but to copy your own amiable candor, I would rather you did not! come." I 'Ah, but I will. I am determined, to see your lair." "Well, 1 cannot prevent you. but I do. not want you," rejoined Mona. will. Be sure you explain matters to Mr. Kigdeti this night, and let me know the result. Either! he sends away his dog—or goes away with is or is a a I is a Mona quickly snatched itv the uluiwl. "I will, ma'am!—I will!" sniffed the lit tle landlady. "I foresee a heap of trouble. Mr. Rigden—he is that obstinate and touchyl" The landlady retired, pressing tho corner of her duster to her eyes while the yelps of the dog were heard from below, where he was being tied up. Tho next day was stormy, with heavy thunder-showers, and Mme. Debrisay would not hear of Mona taking a journey to town in search of materials to repair the damage done by the delinquent Dandie. Moreover, a council of war had to be held. Mr. Rigden was observed that morning to draw his umbrella from the stand with a degree of violence which upset all the other umbrellas and sticks, and "banged" the front door with a recklessness which was in itself a casus belli, "SOU after, Mrs. Puddiford appeared with a rucful countenance. "Well, I have spoken to Mr. Rigden. He is now always inclined to hear reason!" "He wouldn't be a man if he did, unless it were on his own side!" ejaculated madame. "He spoke most disrespectful," continued the landlady, beginning to play with the corner of her apron. "He said he would stand no more damn nonsense (them were his words, ma'am), and was sorry he had just begun a month, as he would have to pay for it (he is a monthly tenant) that he would look out for rooms, and as soon as ever he found another place, free from cantankerous old women, he'd leave, if he forfeited a fortnight's rent. I am sorry to say he so far forgot himself, but them was his very words, ma'am." "I assure you, Mrs. Puddiford, it is not of the slightest consequence whether Mr. Rigden considers me old and cantankerous or not. I congratulate you on getting rid of a troublesome, ill-bred inmate!" The next day was bright and fresh after the thunder, and Mona having given a lesson in Gloucester Place early in the afternoon, went on to Regent's Circus to match the lace, intending to make madame's. Shawl as good as new. Having done her shopping, she crossed to the other side, and walked a little way toward Tottenham Court Road, hoping to find room in an omnibus, without having to struggle at the regular stopping-place. Presently a Royal Oak omnibus came up, and paused before she hailed it. Mona hastened to enter as soon as an elderly and somewhat decrepit-looking man had descended, with the help of a stick and a buggy umbrella. The omnibus moved on before the old gentleman had one foot clear of the step and he fell prone on the damp, profusely watered ground. The driver of a hansom, "There is my card, but I live ever so far could hardly draw up quickly enough to prevent his horse from trampling on the prostrate figure, which seemed unable to recover the perpendicular. Mona, by a natural impulse, bent down to assist him, and a burly policeman soon set him on his feet. "No bones broke," he said, cheerfully, feeling his legs and arms. "Here's your stick and umbrella. You go into the confectioner's there, and take summat. You will be as right as attempting five minutes." So saying, he proceeded on his stately march, leaving the sufferer standing, with difficulty supporting his trembling self on his stick, and looking round him with a pitiful expression of bewilderment. "I am afraid you are hurt!" said Mona, kindly. She did not like to desert him, for she felt he was not a Londoner. "I've just an awful pain in my back," he said, pantingly, "and feel dazed like. If I could sit down a bit." "Come into this shop and have a glass of water and she guided him to a pastry cook's close by, where she found a chair, and feeling A alarmed at the old man's extreme pallor, asked if he would not try a little brandy and water. "Av," he said, "I must have something to raise my heart!" His eyes closed partially, and Mona begged an attendant to bring the restorative. Her patient was a small, spare man, with thin gray hair, small whiskers, faded blue eyes, a contemptuously upturned nose, and a wide, thin-lipped mouth. He was neatly dressed in a pepper-and-salt colored suit, and though not a gentleman, was by no means of the working class, nor yet like a city clerk. "Try and take a little of this," urged Mona. "Thank you—thank you." He put the glass to his lips and drank very slowly. "The Lord be thank you," he said, placing it half emptied on the table, "for saving my life but I am sure shaken!" Again he drank. "Ow!" he uttered a strange sound between a groan and a sigh. "It was near a lower window with me! I am much beheld to you, my young lady. I must try and get away to my bed, but I can scarce stand. I had better get into a cab. I'm afraid you are more hurt than you think." "You had better rest a few minutes first," said Mona, who felt sincere compassion for him. "I am afraid you are more hurt than you think." "I am a poor frail body. Eh, but my back is twisted! What'll they ask now for a cab?" "To Camden town?" "I am not sure—eighteen pence or two shillings." "It's a cruel, costly place but," apologetically. "I can't help it, I'll just pay for the spirits and water, and gang my lane." He dived into a side pocket—he routed out his trousers pockets—his breast pocket—pail in vain. "Guld preserve us!—it's clean game! My pocket has been picked!" "Oh! that is dreadful! I hope you had not much in it?" "Too much to lose! A bit of gold, half a crown, and a spare. Now I cannot pay for my drop of specie." "That is a mere trifle—I will pay for it." Going to the counter, she said—"This poor gentleman's purse has been taken, I must pay for what he has had." "I dare say it is an accident that may happen to him again, if he finds kind young ladies to pay for him," said the buxom woman behind the desk, smiling—"sixpence, please." "Do you feel equal to go home," said Mona, who was beginning to feel a little ashamed of her quixotic attentions to this elderly waif. "I will get you a cab if you like." "Wait a bit. Where do you bide? I want to pay you what you've laid out." "Oh! never mind it does not matter." "You are not such a Scottish lassie?" "No, I never was in Scotland." "Ah! I thought you were, from your bonnie bed, heid." "Indeed!" paid Mona, laughing. "Well, I'll never leave this till I know where I'll find you." "There is my card then, but I've ever so far away. Pray do not trouble any. At me, I am very glad to." have been of any use to you." "Ah! but you were—you saved my life! If you had not stood between me and that cawb, I'd have been a dead man! I'll try and get home." Struggling to his feet, and seizing Ida umbrella, he hobbled to the door. Mona followed him. "You'll hear from me," said the old man, thrusting the card into his breast pocket, "and I'll never forget you, never. Could you find me a shut-up cab? I can't hide you things, with the driver stuck up behind." Mona hailed a passing cab, and, after some haggling, with infinite difficulty and many groans, he scrambled in, dropping his umbrella during the process. Mona picked it up and gave it to him. He seated himself with his back to the horse, smiling and nodding to his young protectress as he drove slowly away. "What a funny adventure!" thought Mona. "I wonder if Madame Debrisay will accept me." (Continued next week.) Cultivating Osier Willows. There are a number of willows indigenous to North America that are fairly well adapted to the manufacture of fine willow ware, but the finest are those imported to this country from Europe, and carefully cultivated in congenial soil. The western willow, known as salix gracilis, produces twigs that make pretty fair baskets, but they are hardly adapted to the finest furniture manufacture. Many people have attempted to cultivate willows in this country, and while some have succeeded more have failed because of their selection of the wrong varieties. The European white willow, red ossier and similar species, can be raised with fair success in this country, and they are more truly adapted for fine willow manufacture than any of the native species. Another source of loss in the culture of ossier Willows in this country is in planting the willows near running water, or in stagnant pools and ponds. Many seem to think that the willow is an aquatic plant, while in reality nearly all of the willows, especially the cedar, willows, do better on elevated grounds. The roots and twigs become more flexible and valuable when the willows are raised on comparatively dry ground. Stagnant water prevents a healthy growth of the roots, and eventually shortens the life of the trees or shrubs. Willow planting is best done in the spring of the year just as soon as the frost is out of the ground so that the soil can be properly worked. Twigs taken last December from last year's stocks should be used for planting. The shoots are about fourteen inches long, and these are pushed in the well-worked soil until the top bud just above the surface. They are planted in rows so that one can walk conveniently between them. As the bud shoots on the earth should be drawn up around the twig. The rows should be about twenty inches apart and the rods in the rows about four inches. Most of the oars willows are shrubs instead of trees, and they are never allowed to assume great size. During the first reason the willows do not produce much of a crop, but the shoots have to be cut late in the fall after the leaves have dropped. The second year's crops will produce some valuable rods for basket making and arrangements are made to sell these rods as soon as gathered. The cutting is done the same as the first crop and in the fall of the year after the leaves have dropped. The rods want to be cut horizontally close to the stock. After the rods are cut they are peeled. In order to peel them without doing any injury, it is necessary to renew the juice of sap. To do this, the rods are tied in bunches and soaked in water until the eye buds begin to sprout, and with a little steel pincers, the bark can be stripped off at once. The peeled rods are then dried in the air and sun carefully and then tied in bundles for the market. If handled in this way, the rods will preserve their elasticity for an indefinite period, and by soaking them in the water before using them, the manufacturers can twist them to suit their needs. WOMEN WHO SMOKE. The Princess of Wales Says a Clever Thing About Them. A characteristic anecdote was lately told of the princess of Wales, says the Youngs Companion. The princess, it is well known, while she maintains the even, gentle tenor of her way, never dictating or interfering with others, always casts her powerful influence on the side of the domestic, quiet woman, showing no sympathy in dress or actions with her "advanced" sister. One evening not long ago, some of the ladies of the court wore discussing before the princess the fact that some of the fashionable Englishwomen now openly smoke cigarettes after dinner. Arguments for and against the habit were advanced, but the princess remained silent. At last one of the ladies, addressing her by the title which Englishwomen of rank only use to the queen and princess, said: "What do you think of it? If there be any pleasure or comfort in tobacco, is it fair that the men should monopolize it? Do you believe it to be as corrupting to the body and mind as Lady Blanche says it is?" The princess smiled. "I cannot decide on the medical or moral bearings of the question," she said, gently, "but I have noticed that men who use tobacco to excess always speak of themselves as slaves to the habit, and declare that it is impossible to break from it. I do not see why women who are trying to emancipate themselves from customs which they declare are tyrants, should voluntarily put on a yoke which men find intolerable." This was a new and shrewd view of the case, to which the advocates of cigarettes could find no answer. M. Velpeau, who wrote admirable letters for a French periodical, during the progress of the Columbia Exposition, upon the habits and manners of the Americans, said: "I find that tobacco is used by only three classes of American women: Fast young girls in the cities who wish to imitate the manners of a faster set in London old women in the almshouses whose pipes take the place of a stronger stimulant, and women of the 'poor white class in the south who are about." With a stick rubbed in snuff their mouths." Cigarette smokers among young girls can "see themselves as others see them" in these words. "He thinks he's a practical politician." "Pshaw! He never had more than $50 at one time in all his life."—Detroit Tribune. GREAT COAL STRIKE SOON TO BE SETTLED After Conferring at Columbus Miners' Officials Will Recommend Acceptance. SIXTY-FIVE CENTS IS THE BASIS Conference of Coal Workers Called Wednesday When They Will Accept the Proposition. Columbus, O., Sept. 6.—The end of the great miners' strike is in sight. Yesterday afternoon the national executive board of the United Mine Workers agreed to recommend to the miners a proposition from the Pittsburgh operators for a straight price of 65 cents a ton, to continue in force until the end of the year. A delegate convention of all miners who have suspended work has been called to meet in Columbus September 8, at 10 a.m., to act upon the recommendation. President Hutchinson and other members of the board say there is not the slightest doubt that the miners will approve the recommendation. The proposition does not involve arbitration and in effect provides for an immediate settlement of the strike. President Ratcliffe said last night that there were special reasons for the board recommending the proposition. In the first place, it concedes the miners a material advance. Had a 69 cent rate been secured, he was confident it could not have been maintained for more than seventy days. The proposition does away with all the uncertainties of arbitration and will bring the strike to a speedy close. As soon as the miners ratify the proposition, work will be resumed in all the mines. In the second place, the proposition provides for a revival of the joint conferences for the adjustment of prices. The operators are pledged to meet with the miners prior to the termination of the agreement and determine the rate of milling for the next year. Both the members of the miners' executive board and the operators' committee are pleased over the outcome of the conference and feel that public sentiment will sustain their action. Yesterday morning the operators' committee renewed its first proposition for a 65 cent rate pending arbitration. This was again rejected by the miners' board. Then the operators' committee got together and submitted a new proposition for a straight price of 63 cents, and after a long discussion it was accepted by the miners' board, subject to the approval of the miners at large. READY TO DIVIDE MILLIONS. Sugar Trust to Dispose of All of the Greater Part of Its Surplus. New York, Sept. 6.—The hands of the same manipulators who have been forcing sugar stock to perform gymnastic feats are said to be operating in the stock of the American Tobacco company. The biggest buyer of both these trust stocks has been A. Houseman & Co. . Simultaneously with the buying by this firm were the circulation of rumors of extra dividends on the stock of both companies, industriously circulated throughout Wall Street, and, in the case of the sugar trust, generally believed. The sugar trust is known to have a surplus of fully $35,000,000. It may be in excess of this amount. A distribution of at least a portion of this surplus is imperative. A director whose name is not mentioned is said to authority for the following: "At the coming meeting of the directors we shall very likely take some important action, chief among which will be the retirement of the scrip. I cannot say as to the amount of dividends to be declared, but it is assured that it will not be at a rate lower than 5 percent. We have settled our differences with the St. Louis manufacturers." FOUND THAT THE GRAVE WAS LOADED An Accident at Osmond, Nebraska, Resulting in a Woman It is said that the accident occurred at the farm house of Arthur Brown, living one mile south of town. Miss Anna Nelson, the hired girl, has the calf of her leg shot away by the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of August Dedlow who was in the act of breaking the gun in see if it was loaded, the wife and baby of Mr. Brown narrowly escaped the fate of the hired girl by being out of range. Dr. K. J. Christal and Dr. Long have the case in charge and are unable to say at this time. What the result will be. WILL CALL IT THE NEW ERA UNION Propose to Organize a Company and Go Into All Kinds of Productive Industry. Denver, Sept. 4.—Charles W. Carlyle of this city will attend the meeting of the labor leaders in Chicago September 24 and place before them the gigantic scheme which he believes will solve the labor question quickly and easily. He submitted his plans to a meeting of representatives of labor unions here and they were received with general approval. Carlyle is a prominent mining man and it is claimed his standing with eastern capitalists has made it possible to enlist almost any desirous amount of money in enterprises in which he heretofore has been engaged. Carlyle proposes to incorporate a company with a capital of $10,000,000, which is to engage in all kinds of productive industry. Stock is to be sold at par and money is also to be raised by the sale of bonds, due in fifteen years, bearing 6 percent interest and payable in gold. Dividends on stock are to be limited to 6 percent per annum and all the net income beyond this and the interest on the bonds is to be given to the employees of the company. The Cava Dwellers. Defy God! These narrow, mouthful souls, Which mock their pride, their pity creeds— These babes from theological as hools. Who tell a throbbing world its needs. They bowl and whine of Greek and Jew, Of friends below and saints above They rave a thousand, tirades through Without a syllable of love. But creed, and creed, and creed, and creed, That stifles heart and soul and mind Out of Thy goodness and their need. Teach them the gospel of the kind. Thy myriad races mercy yne. But here and there a solemn clown Comes heaven only for the few Within his little village and town. Dear God: In that vast grace, As the Father of a host. Shall these blind zealots, And countless, loving billions, Robert Luvman. In Narrow Way. Blow, thou strong western wind. Blow far and fleet Thy forest coolness here Through the dark city street. Blow over the crowded roofs From wall to wall, Through fevered alleys swiff. In boding blessing fall, Where weary mothers wait Mow thy fresh breath. Where men have lain them down, Woeful, in love with death. Bring country pleasantness Across their dreams. Shade of great tossing boughs. And thought of flowing streams. Bring wafts of fragrance, too, From far-blown flowers Your balm, pour rest, pour life Through these despairing hours. And let some child Wake as you sing, And feel your silken touch A stooping angel's wing. -Harper's Bazar. Do We Enjoy Big Music? By no means. Persons of herculean build frequently possess a minimum of genuine vigor, and exhibit less endurance than very small people. Real vigor means the ability to digest and sleep well, and to perform a reasonable amount of daily physical and mental labor without unnatural fatigue. It is because a course of Hostetters Stomach Bitters enables the enfeebled system to resume the allotted activity of everyday life, as well as participate without discomfort in its enjoyment. ments, that is such a pre-eminently useful medicine. In France, about 20,000 widows manage to fit themselves out with new husbands every year. The Transactions between members are to be largely carried on with checks issued by the company. Carlyle has so much faith in his scheme that he proposes to incorporate a company, which he will call the New Era Union and trust to its obvious merits to enlist supporters. Bridge Collapsed Weimer, Sept. B.—During the military maneuvers a pontoon bridge collapsed while the Ninety-fourth regiment of infantry was passing over it. A number of soldiers were drowned or hit by timbers of the bridge and killed. Royalty Is There. Hamburg, Sept. 3.—The Emperor and Empress of Germany and the King and Queen of Italy are here to attend the autumn maneuvers of the German army. Vest Makers Strike. New York, Sept. 3.—Five thousand vest makers, half of them women, struck this morning for higher wages. Sixteen hundred cloak makers in four shops also struck, while as a result of settlements 1,300 returned to work in other shops. Remains Recovered. Berne, Sept. 3.—The remains of three victims of the Mount Leureur avalanche were recovered greatly mutilated. 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They are indeed NATURE'S OWN REMEDY. TO ALL ALIKE. The 5% Nickel Steel Tubing used 1897 Columbus costs more than any other steel tubing on the market. The expense incident to this construction is justified by the advantages which it enables us to offer to the rider, both in safety, stiffness of tubular parts and consequent ease of running. This is indicated by the regard which Columbus is held by all riders. 1897 Hartfords....$80 Hartford, Pattern 2 4B Hartford, Pattern 1 AO POPE MANUFACTURING CO., Hartford, Conn. It is not properly represented in your vicinity, let us know. "A Good Tale Will Bear Telling Twice." Use Sapolio Mq Ow a SAPOLIO IM a bis front with- CASTORIA AND AS OUR TALE MARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now FRY? on every bear the facsimile signature of /-cM/Ute wrapper. 